[...] They have found, over the years and even regions, babies find similar things to be attractive. A few of the features I remember
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Healthy weight (anorexia is not healthy, but neither is a person who is 10 lbs overweight)
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10 lbs are less than 5 kg. I would say a person that's 5 kg overweight or less is perfectly healthy.
Your MSI editing example shows the wrong reasons to drop legacy support: commercial advantages, carelessness or laziness. Instead, the burden of keeping an app compatible with several OS's, and behind held back in terms of features, performance and the like become valid reasons, sooner or later. In other words, dropping Win2K and XPSP3 "just because" seems... just stupid to me. But I'm not sure that's the case. Also, I understand MS make and sell XP, but you don't necessarily need to follow them in their forced upgrade path. We all know XP will still be around on millions of PCs when even its security updates are history. Then again, most of those PCs' users are not likely to keep Firefox extremely up-to-date, are they?
If you RTFA in its entirety, the point basically is that marriage is a form of long-term prostitution. Did they really need to study chimpanzees to find that out?
I'm still buying a "Mac Mini" as an accessory to the iPhone, but still -- this is what DRM does.
It's nice to see that you're at least learning from experience. You buy a defective by design device, hate its software requirements, official support is unhelpful and incompetent, you lose all your data and... you buy another device from the same company.
Anyway, you buy Apple, you know what you get. They're the living definition of walled garden.
The real problem here, I believe, is not the auditability of code and hardware. The problem is revenue share on fines between the public administration and the private contractor making the devices. The problem is the principle that it's acceptable to hope and possibly induce felonies and infractions because they make money.
Imagine a privately managed jail giving away guns and knives with the support of the city council, because for every convict doing a life sentence in that jail, they both get a lot of money from the central government. Far-fetched, but the principle is the same: violation of the law seen as a source of revenue.
For better or worse, KDE 4 *is* trying to do something new and different, look & feel and 3D effects aside. I agree there's no point in focusing on catching up as a winning strategy, but you need to be on par with features that are perceived as basic and granted (Linux just got CD automount, that's what I mean).
Maybe in videogames it's not quite a wall that's broken, more like a police station, suspect-identification mirror (forgot the correct name, sorry). The gamer is on the see-through side, so he always knows the character is indeed a character in a fictional world; the wall is "broken" when the characters in the game also gain awareness that there is an outer, real world beyond the mirror, and a gamer controlling them. Makes sense?
I'm not a business-minded guy at all and I'm not trolling, that's for sure. But reading the story, I couldn't help but ask myself: maybe the FOSS world is taking over proprietary software vendors' market shares, but is it also taking their revenues? Aren't most FOSS companies still struggling to find a viable, if not largely profitable, business model? And isn't the FOSS world as a whole still mainly supported by the proprietary-oriented activities of its components (from Sun to MYSQL)? I don't think FOSS is coming to an end, but - if my assumptions are true - it doesn't seem too healthy, either.
I am an eBay buyer and I always found the feedback system unbalanced in favor of the seller, so I welcome this change. But your case is a good example of how a buyer can be "not good" even if he pays valid money within minutes from the end of the auction. If you receive the wrong item, you should contact the seller anyway, even if you think it's not worth the hassle of returning and reshipping. I think you deserved at least a neutral feedback, if not negative, and it was not retaliation. What happened to you on eBay happened to me on DealExtreme two months ago. I told them, I sent them a picture of the wrong item and told them what happened (similar SKU numbers). They just sent me the right item without asking to return the wrong one. One should always at least try to settle things in a friendly way before concluding it _went bad_.
Well, you should know that there is an industry standard for MP3 length/size. It's the MTV-empty-pop-heavy-rotation-single. About 3 megabytes in size, about nil worth.
rlocate FTW! You don't even notice it's there. Also, I assume Desktop Search and Google Desktop work well together to provide a responsive, yet searchable environment.
In related news, AMD and Intel see an unexpected growth in their consumer-oriented departments.
Corporations don't behave as they are supposed to within the system. They behave in the worst possible way the system allows them, then try to bend it, then try to change it. In addition to rules, humans have ethics, and you can't just take them out of the discussion. Say tomorrow murder is made legal in your country. Would you suddenly accept someone killing your beloved ones? Don't think so.
Something I've never seen mentioned in the Hot Coffee discussions all over the net. Not only the coffee session turns into a sexual minigame, but (PC version, at least, that's what I play):
- Sometimes (haven't noticed a regular pattern, only happened with Denise thus far) when on a date and walking on the streets, if you kiss the girl, she will give you a blowjob after the kiss. Right in the open!
- On the "mission date" with the croupier girl (don't remember her name ATM) and if you date her wearing the gimp suit, you won't have straight sex with her, but spank her hard instead.
So we can add (at least) exhibitionism and BDSM to the GTA-SA checklist. Does the ESRB have a 30+ rating?:P
The "my" prefix gives the user the impression that hardware, software and data belong to him.
Considering the DRM-TCPA/Palladium fest Longhorn seems to be, this move will save MS a lot of money in lawsuits.
Because it's Your Rights Online - Or Lack Thereof!
And we should have the rights to distribute whatever we want. "Pirated" has no meaning, unless we're talking about hooks and eye patches.
Abuse. Lie. Capitalist food for the 21st century. You choose. IP is actually an oxymoron, and the Jefferson (is it really his?) sentence sums it all. So much for all those who say p2p equals theft. Digital means sharing. Fuck the greedy bastards.
As far as I'm concerned, religions are all equally bullshit. And the Raelian cult makes no exception.
But I find the engineering theory way more believable than the christian creation stuff, when it comes to the origin of life on Earth. Am I the only one?
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[...] They have found, over the years and even regions, babies find similar things to be attractive. A few of the features I remember [...] Healthy weight (anorexia is not healthy, but neither is a person who is 10 lbs overweight) [...]
10 lbs are less than 5 kg. I would say a person that's 5 kg overweight or less is perfectly healthy.
Your MSI editing example shows the wrong reasons to drop legacy support: commercial advantages, carelessness or laziness. Instead, the burden of keeping an app compatible with several OS's, and behind held back in terms of features, performance and the like become valid reasons, sooner or later. In other words, dropping Win2K and XPSP3 "just because" seems... just stupid to me. But I'm not sure that's the case. Also, I understand MS make and sell XP, but you don't necessarily need to follow them in their forced upgrade path. We all know XP will still be around on millions of PCs when even its security updates are history. Then again, most of those PCs' users are not likely to keep Firefox extremely up-to-date, are they?
Like everyone else said, you can do all that with a friend, even a male one. You are underestimating the role of sex in shaping human relationships.
If you RTFA in its entirety, the point basically is that marriage is a form of long-term prostitution. Did they really need to study chimpanzees to find that out?
I'm still buying a "Mac Mini" as an accessory to the iPhone, but still -- this is what DRM does.
It's nice to see that you're at least learning from experience. You buy a defective by design device, hate its software requirements, official support is unhelpful and incompetent, you lose all your data and... you buy another device from the same company. Anyway, you buy Apple, you know what you get. They're the living definition of walled garden.
The real problem here, I believe, is not the auditability of code and hardware. The problem is revenue share on fines between the public administration and the private contractor making the devices. The problem is the principle that it's acceptable to hope and possibly induce felonies and infractions because they make money. Imagine a privately managed jail giving away guns and knives with the support of the city council, because for every convict doing a life sentence in that jail, they both get a lot of money from the central government. Far-fetched, but the principle is the same: violation of the law seen as a source of revenue.
Go figure. Here in Italy we pay that tax and it's still illegal to share. Nice deal, eh?
For better or worse, KDE 4 *is* trying to do something new and different, look & feel and 3D effects aside. I agree there's no point in focusing on catching up as a winning strategy, but you need to be on par with features that are perceived as basic and granted (Linux just got CD automount, that's what I mean).
Maybe in videogames it's not quite a wall that's broken, more like a police station, suspect-identification mirror (forgot the correct name, sorry). The gamer is on the see-through side, so he always knows the character is indeed a character in a fictional world; the wall is "broken" when the characters in the game also gain awareness that there is an outer, real world beyond the mirror, and a gamer controlling them. Makes sense?
I'm not a business-minded guy at all and I'm not trolling, that's for sure. But reading the story, I couldn't help but ask myself: maybe the FOSS world is taking over proprietary software vendors' market shares, but is it also taking their revenues? Aren't most FOSS companies still struggling to find a viable, if not largely profitable, business model? And isn't the FOSS world as a whole still mainly supported by the proprietary-oriented activities of its components (from Sun to MYSQL)? I don't think FOSS is coming to an end, but - if my assumptions are true - it doesn't seem too healthy, either.
I am an eBay buyer and I always found the feedback system unbalanced in favor of the seller, so I welcome this change. But your case is a good example of how a buyer can be "not good" even if he pays valid money within minutes from the end of the auction. If you receive the wrong item, you should contact the seller anyway, even if you think it's not worth the hassle of returning and reshipping. I think you deserved at least a neutral feedback, if not negative, and it was not retaliation. What happened to you on eBay happened to me on DealExtreme two months ago. I told them, I sent them a picture of the wrong item and told them what happened (similar SKU numbers). They just sent me the right item without asking to return the wrong one. One should always at least try to settle things in a friendly way before concluding it _went bad_.
Well, you should know that there is an industry standard for MP3 length/size. It's the MTV-empty-pop-heavy-rotation-single. About 3 megabytes in size, about nil worth.
rlocate FTW! You don't even notice it's there. Also, I assume Desktop Search and Google Desktop work well together to provide a responsive, yet searchable environment. In related news, AMD and Intel see an unexpected growth in their consumer-oriented departments.
...this is good news, but really, like TFA says:
"Really the only "correct" solution is for folks to stop using Apple products."
iPods are crippled and overpriced. The only MP3 players that can't actually play MP3 files.
On a more mature tone, Apple sucks. And it's evil.
this is a joke. Please.It took centuries of cultural war to take the Bible out of science, and now this?
Punk rockers shouldn't use soap, anyway.
Corporations don't behave as they are supposed to within the system. They behave in the worst possible way the system allows them, then try to bend it, then try to change it. In addition to rules, humans have ethics, and you can't just take them out of the discussion. Say tomorrow murder is made legal in your country. Would you suddenly accept someone killing your beloved ones? Don't think so.
Something I've never seen mentioned in the Hot Coffee discussions all over the net. Not only the coffee session turns into a sexual minigame, but (PC version, at least, that's what I play):
:P
- Sometimes (haven't noticed a regular pattern, only happened with Denise thus far) when on a date and walking on the streets, if you kiss the girl, she will give you a blowjob after the kiss. Right in the open!
- On the "mission date" with the croupier girl (don't remember her name ATM) and if you date her wearing the gimp suit, you won't have straight sex with her, but spank her hard instead.
So we can add (at least) exhibitionism and BDSM to the GTA-SA checklist. Does the ESRB have a 30+ rating?
The "my" prefix gives the user the impression that hardware, software and data belong to him. Considering the DRM-TCPA/Palladium fest Longhorn seems to be, this move will save MS a lot of money in lawsuits.
Is this *so* funny (as in Score:5)? Oh well, my karma is bad after all.
Because it's Your Rights Online - Or Lack Thereof! And we should have the rights to distribute whatever we want. "Pirated" has no meaning, unless we're talking about hooks and eye patches.
"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on television" What's this, a quote from Joey of Friends?
Abuse. Lie. Capitalist food for the 21st century. You choose. IP is actually an oxymoron, and the Jefferson (is it really his?) sentence sums it all. So much for all those who say p2p equals theft. Digital means sharing. Fuck the greedy bastards.
Insightful, indeed.
As far as I'm concerned, religions are all equally bullshit. And the Raelian cult makes no exception. But I find the engineering theory way more believable than the christian creation stuff, when it comes to the origin of life on Earth. Am I the only one?