Really? are you sure? Don't base your statements of off what you see from poorly configured electronics store displays. I can see a significant difference between my Fifth Element DVD upscaled and my BD copy of it; the difference is MUCH greater than "slight." Maybe you've been looking at HD content on crappy/small HDTVs.
I can't say much for the sound quality since I don't have a sound system though.
If you want to support the NDP I hope you can contribute to something that can get them into the opposition. Otherwise they'll just be the Ralph Nader of Canada and get us into a third consecutive minority government as a large number of Canadians opt for "None of the above" and vote NDP.
Do your country a favor and vote Liberal or Conservative, unless you can do something to get NDP to replace one of those two.
You _support_ minority governments? Explain to me how 2 years of ineffective government is a good thing. All the Conservatives have done is import US policy while the Liberals have spent every waking moment trying to force an election. How is that democracy?
It'll be more work in the short term, but it'll save hundreds of hours of fixing sites for IE6, so I'm happy. The day I never hear "it's broke in IE6" will be the happiest fucking day of my life.
The insurgency in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism, The insurgents use the same methods, but it's not terrorism, it's guerrilla warfare. It's what happens when you go into a country and completely erase it's government: Power vacuum. And there's a lot of people in the middle east who would love to rule Iraq, or see it erased off the face of the earth.
Heh, this was cute in 1994 when we all smoked pot and listened to Nirvana, but it isn't getting any cuter while you smoke pot and listen to Fallout Boy.
You know what? we all sucked it up and started on the bottom rung, and you will do the same, just as we did, and our parents, and our grand parents, etc..
Enjoy it while you can, Dorothy.
It's not like this was a SURPRISE to them. They SELL the units, the have absolute control over how many units are sold. If your netgame people say the current network can support 80,000 users, you DON'T SELL 200,000 UNITS until you have upgraded your network. (numbers fabricated but you get the idea)
That's assuming that their maintenance team for Xbox Live even said there would be a problem, that's also assuming that all 200,000 of those sold units will go online. ALSO assuming that all the users on Xbox Live over the holidays were new users altogether and not a large number of people with time off and new games to play.
It's one of those "shit happens" things sadly. And all of these "paying" customers are just trying to gouge a big wallet; I pay a whopping $6/mo for my subscription, or I could've paid $50 for the whole year. I don't really have a lot of sympathy for anybody griping over Xbox Live outage over the holidays: God forbid that they should have to spend time with their family or go outside.
This was entirely their responsibility, and I cannot believe they did not see this coming. What it came down to is they wanted to do a money grab for the holidays so they made as many units as they possibly could, to hell with the network until we get past christmas then we'll divert resources from production to upgrade the net so they can USE the product.
It was their responsibility, they've acknowledged it was a problem, their compensation may be lacking but when you pay almost nothing for a basic service what do you really expect? Also, it's entirely possible that they didn't see it coming, the install base for the Xbox 360 is already pretty large so I don't think it's inappropriate for maintenance to expect proper coverage.
I love how -- since it's Microsoft -- people are crying foul that it's taking this long to get IE to render Acid2. If this article was about Firefox passing Acid2 it'd be a fanfare of excitement. Nobody seems to keep in mind that FF hasn't come close to rendering Acid2 properly until the FF3 beta.
Er, I bought the new Radiohead CD (last CD i'll be buying for a long time) and was quite shocked to find it was "Copy Controlled".
The shock soon faded when i found out that a "Copy Controlled" CD was simply one of those Enhanced CDs that have be out for years. All I had to do was download the file-writer plugin(http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/dev/fil ewrite/) for Winamp and play the CD through it. I succesfully ripped the Radiohead CD without crashing my computer as the popular myth seems to be.
Maybe this is the same case? I'm not sure how you could do this on Linux though, So I guess that guy in the article's SOL:)
Last week i was riding my bike to work around 4:30-5:00 AM PST (I live in BC, Canada) And i saw this white-blueish fireball.. it had sparks and the like flying off of it, sorta like how it's desribed in the article.
It was really cold and really clear out, when those are the conditions you can see lots of things you usually can't see here, like the Northern Lights that i think i saw too:)
What's funny is people think this kind of discriminatory nature has only occured after 9/11.
I went to see a Mariners game a few years back (when it was the Kingdome) with this youth group I was in. The van that I was riding in got to the border, they made us park at the office and they removed the Chinese kid; (He was from China, I think he was an exchange student) The officers searched his bags, asked him if he had any bombs or was planning on making any, if he was collaborating of any terrorist orginizations, crap like that.
We were stuck for 20 minutes, he was the one and only kid that was removed and searched.
We all thought it was stupid, we all wanted to say it was bullshit, but nobody really wanted to swear in front of the youth pastor:D
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I once saw a pack of wolves take over and successfully run a wendys. I once one baby giving another baby a tattoo, they were very drunk!
When the check from Apple got lost in the mail.
Really? are you sure? Don't base your statements of off what you see from poorly configured electronics store displays. I can see a significant difference between my Fifth Element DVD upscaled and my BD copy of it; the difference is MUCH greater than "slight." Maybe you've been looking at HD content on crappy/small HDTVs. I can't say much for the sound quality since I don't have a sound system though.
If you want to support the NDP I hope you can contribute to something that can get them into the opposition. Otherwise they'll just be the Ralph Nader of Canada and get us into a third consecutive minority government as a large number of Canadians opt for "None of the above" and vote NDP. Do your country a favor and vote Liberal or Conservative, unless you can do something to get NDP to replace one of those two.
You _support_ minority governments? Explain to me how 2 years of ineffective government is a good thing. All the Conservatives have done is import US policy while the Liberals have spent every waking moment trying to force an election. How is that democracy?
It'll be more work in the short term, but it'll save hundreds of hours of fixing sites for IE6, so I'm happy. The day I never hear "it's broke in IE6" will be the happiest fucking day of my life.
The insurgency in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism, The insurgents use the same methods, but it's not terrorism, it's guerrilla warfare. It's what happens when you go into a country and completely erase it's government: Power vacuum. And there's a lot of people in the middle east who would love to rule Iraq, or see it erased off the face of the earth.
Life imitates 30 Rock :( Jack Donague would be proud.
Heh, this was cute in 1994 when we all smoked pot and listened to Nirvana, but it isn't getting any cuter while you smoke pot and listen to Fallout Boy. You know what? we all sucked it up and started on the bottom rung, and you will do the same, just as we did, and our parents, and our grand parents, etc.. Enjoy it while you can, Dorothy.
I love how -- since it's Microsoft -- people are crying foul that it's taking this long to get IE to render Acid2. If this article was about Firefox passing Acid2 it'd be a fanfare of excitement. Nobody seems to keep in mind that FF hasn't come close to rendering Acid2 properly until the FF3 beta.
Er, I bought the new Radiohead CD (last CD i'll be buying for a long time) and was quite shocked to find it was "Copy Controlled". The shock soon faded when i found out that a "Copy Controlled" CD was simply one of those Enhanced CDs that have be out for years. All I had to do was download the file-writer plugin(http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/dev/fil ewrite/) for Winamp and play the CD through it. I succesfully ripped the Radiohead CD without crashing my computer as the popular myth seems to be.
Maybe this is the same case? I'm not sure how you could do this on Linux though, So I guess that guy in the article's SOL :)
the prevayler FAQ took me to goatse.cx. I'm not joking; i wish i was however. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=SystemPrev alence
Last week i was riding my bike to work around 4:30-5:00 AM PST (I live in BC, Canada) And i saw this white-blueish fireball.. it had sparks and the like flying off of it, sorta like how it's desribed in the article. It was really cold and really clear out, when those are the conditions you can see lots of things you usually can't see here, like the Northern Lights that i think i saw too :)
What's funny is people think this kind of discriminatory nature has only occured after 9/11. I went to see a Mariners game a few years back (when it was the Kingdome) with this youth group I was in. The van that I was riding in got to the border, they made us park at the office and they removed the Chinese kid; (He was from China, I think he was an exchange student) The officers searched his bags, asked him if he had any bombs or was planning on making any, if he was collaborating of any terrorist orginizations, crap like that. We were stuck for 20 minutes, he was the one and only kid that was removed and searched. We all thought it was stupid, we all wanted to say it was bullshit, but nobody really wanted to swear in front of the youth pastor :D