Actually, I used KDE for quite some time, and played around with all the various settings. It can either look like Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or like a few other Mac and 0S/2 clones. Very bad ones at that. When I looked at the new screenshots for this release, I was amused at the new 'Aero Basic' look. So suspect again.
He says that during his Live in Red Square concert, it looked like there was going to be a storm, and officials sent a bunch of fighter jets scrambling over them causing the clouds to disappear, and soon after, it was a warm, sunny day. The story was much more detailed than that. It involved some official giving him assurance that the weather would be good on the day of the concert and other bits. A lot more interesting than I am able to recall right now.
I wish I could remember when he said that, I could post a link to something.
So how long until a guy carrying a brief case and scared gets popped by a sniper and it turns out he was headed to a job interview, or a make or break business deal?
No one needs to buy a new anything. I did some reading on this last week at random, and all BD discs will have to support profile 1.0 on the main feature.
This is no different then DVDs that were evolving, and the old players were left in the dust. None of my early players could handle the advanced special features on my new discs 2 or 3 years into the DVD age, and I just didn't watch them until I got some new players down the line. There is usually a disclaimer on the box of discs with advanced features that says something along the lines of SPECIAL FEATURES MAY BE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL PLAYERS. Let's not forget that some early players also couldn't cope with dual layer discs, which are fairly common now.
I don't see how many people will even notice or care. I'm the only person I know (in real life) who actually enjoys watching all the extra content on my discs. Everyone else just completely ignores it. Which I don't understand, because that stuff is what makes me love the format.
You announce to the world that you are launching a search engine for weeks. I read this on every tech site I visit. The day comes and I try it out. 20 searches, and not any relevant results. So I see this article here and in the replies, I see people suddenly reposting all this stuff from Jimmy about how "THIS IS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE". Sorry pal. You're a day late and a dollar short. You let the cat out of the bag.
You can't handle the negative reaction to an unfinished product, so now the mountain of excuses and 'reasons' is starting to build up. Google didn't announce GMail to the world, and then release it in a state where you couldn't send basic mail back and forth, before tucking their tail between their legs, and announcing to the world on some blog that it's not ready yet, and was never supposed to function as an e-mail provider.
If it's s project to build a search engine, and not actually a search engine, why does it just present a WIKIA SEARCH logo and a spot to type in a query? I don't see 'PROJECT TO BUILD A SEARCH ENGINE' anywhere. And just a hint when it comes to your database and rankings. When I type something in, I'm looking for OFFICIAL pages. Not tripod pages made by 15 year old anti-corporate hippies who are denouncing what I'm searching for.
You launched your search engine. It's filled with garbage or bad results. Stop making excuses by telling us what it isn't, and make it work like what we all know it is.
Yeah, insightful. That story is outdated. Porn is on blue-Ray now. Most notably, Pirates. http://www.piratesxxx.com/ (hopefully that link will go through.) Obviously, NSFW
I'm not one of these hypocrites who doesn't even buy music, and then comes here to bitch about every RIAA story. I've got more CDs and DVDs than I know what to do with. Between the two, I've bought near 60 discs this year so far, and they are mine. Mine to do what I please with, and that includes copying them onto my portable devices to enjoy. Where the hell do they get off telling me what I can or can't do with my own property? When I put my money down and made the purchase, your right to dictate how use the product went out the window.
This is beyond ridiculous at this point. I was all for them waging war on the mass piracy of their products. I support IP and the protection of it. But somewhere along the line, the whole thing took a wrong turn, and they are waging jihad on everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if the next radio I purchase has a credit card reader attached to it, and requires payment for every half hour of use.
Cabbies can't play the radio anymore. Business owners can't play the radio anymore. (How do those 2 even make sense? The broadcaster has already paid the RIAA in full to publicly broadcast those songs.) They don't want people to play music in their cars because other people might hear it. The same company that sold you an MP3 player wants to throw you in jail for using it.
What's next? Is Ford going to start suing people who have a passenger on board to make up for the lost sale of an automobile? When TV started to take over in the 50s, did the RIAA sue former radio listeners for lost advertising income?
They need to learn to accept that the music business is floundering. All the music I bought this year was near 20 years old. Sabbath, The Doors, Ozzy, Crue, etc... I like new music too, but nothing compels me to buy a CD from them most of the time. It's not because I pirated it. It may very well be that every radio station plays every new single 200 times a day, and I get sick of it before I can even consider a purchase.
If Yahoo answers doesn't let them cheat all that well, than why is there a problem? The student who did the proper research still gets a passing grade, and the student who tried to 'cheat' did suffers for it.
GMail - Couldn't delete. They fixed this eventually, but everything had to archived otherwise. When they introduced chat, it was decided that it would be enabled by default, and everyone was allowed to see you. (Eventually, they let you log out, or hide).
Pages - Can't make folders, or do much else other than type in templates. They have been 'working' on bringing us the ability to make folders for 2 years now. Everything has to be in the main folder, and the main 'home page' has to be used when entering the site. You can upload html pages after that, but the sum of the parts don't add up to what geocities was in 1997.
Talk - Everyone added to my list, and has access to hear my mic 'at my convenience'. GTalk just went ahead and added everyone I ever sent an e-mail to to my contact list as soon as I clicked to run it the first time.
Google Notifier - Looks the same whether I'm online, signed in, signed out, or lost my connection.
Google products, from what I've seen, don't believe in the concept of user options, or even any user input at some points. They like to just make all the choices for you, and then make you stick to it, until enough people complain and it gets added in.
If google made a toaster, there would be one setting, and one setting only. If you wanted your toast lighter, or darker, it's just too damned bad. Because the guy who made the google toaster already decided that your toast only needs that one optimum setting. This is until they finally unveil their great new feature, the variable timer, like it's never been done before, or wasn't an obvious, expected feature from the start.
I'm sure the google techs print all those new feature releases up, and put them on their fridge. You know, the gFridge! The one where your ice cream is always rock hard, because google determined the proper gTemperature for you.
My gmail account gets almost no spam, and my real ISP account gets none. I use my yahoo and hotmail addresses when I need it to sign up for something. Like I said, yahoo handles my 'garbage' on their own dime.:)
On yahoo's dime I collect thousands of spam messages a week. I log in once every 59 days to make sure that yahoo can keep the privilege of being trusted to handle all my garbage. I wish instead of an [empty] button, there was a [forward to Eric Estrada] link.
...is when it jumped the shark. It's a silly space opera series, and that is all it was ever meant to be. But some of you had to go and turn it into a religion. Enjoy it for what it is, and then let it go. I see people writing stuff like, "They wanted to sell toys, and they brought in e-woks and Jar Jar".
No shit. That's how you turn a profit on a movie that was targeted to kids.
It's so pathetic when I'm in a department store and I see some fat ass in his 30s or 40s desperately searching through a shelf full of Star Wars dolls and telling his friend how hard it is to find a rare variant Princess Leia. Why not look on ebay, I'm sure you can get that Leia doll that has blue eyes instead of brown for only $300 (unopened!!!).
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I put my el cheapo MP3 player through the washer and dryer, and it still works like a charm.
Don't fall for this crap. They are just luring people to reveal themselves so they can go and round them all up.
Actually, I used KDE for quite some time, and played around with all the various settings. It can either look like Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or like a few other Mac and 0S/2 clones. Very bad ones at that. When I looked at the new screenshots for this release, I was amused at the new 'Aero Basic' look. So suspect again.
He says that during his Live in Red Square concert, it looked like there was going to be a storm, and officials sent a bunch of fighter jets scrambling over them causing the clouds to disappear, and soon after, it was a warm, sunny day. The story was much more detailed than that. It involved some official giving him assurance that the weather would be good on the day of the concert and other bits. A lot more interesting than I am able to recall right now.
I wish I could remember when he said that, I could post a link to something.
Because anyone who thinks KDE is crap has to be ignorant, biased, or trolling? Like I would install KDE over AERO.
Unless I want to pretend that my PC is a time machine? "Watch this. With a flick of this button, my desktop environment will go back to 1991!"
Agreed. The original post just made it seem like the authory was wound up too tight, and easily annoyed.
So how long until a guy carrying a brief case and scared gets popped by a sniper and it turns out he was headed to a job interview, or a make or break business deal?
Only until MS gets a hold of 'em. Then they'll be used as Microsoft's Orifice.
No one needs to buy a new anything. I did some reading on this last week at random, and all BD discs will have to support profile 1.0 on the main feature.
This is no different then DVDs that were evolving, and the old players were left in the dust. None of my early players could handle the advanced special features on my new discs 2 or 3 years into the DVD age, and I just didn't watch them until I got some new players down the line. There is usually a disclaimer on the box of discs with advanced features that says something along the lines of SPECIAL FEATURES MAY BE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL PLAYERS. Let's not forget that some early players also couldn't cope with dual layer discs, which are fairly common now.
I don't see how many people will even notice or care. I'm the only person I know (in real life) who actually enjoys watching all the extra content on my discs. Everyone else just completely ignores it. Which I don't understand, because that stuff is what makes me love the format.
Finally, disadvantaged students will have something to prop up their wobbly desks.
Modding you +5 funny in spirit.
You announce to the world that you are launching a search engine for weeks. I read this on every tech site I visit. The day comes and I try it out. 20 searches, and not any relevant results. So I see this article here and in the replies, I see people suddenly reposting all this stuff from Jimmy about how "THIS IS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE". Sorry pal. You're a day late and a dollar short. You let the cat out of the bag.
You can't handle the negative reaction to an unfinished product, so now the mountain of excuses and 'reasons' is starting to build up. Google didn't announce GMail to the world, and then release it in a state where you couldn't send basic mail back and forth, before tucking their tail between their legs, and announcing to the world on some blog that it's not ready yet, and was never supposed to function as an e-mail provider.
If it's s project to build a search engine, and not actually a search engine, why does it just present a WIKIA SEARCH logo and a spot to type in a query? I don't see 'PROJECT TO BUILD A SEARCH ENGINE' anywhere. And just a hint when it comes to your database and rankings. When I type something in, I'm looking for OFFICIAL pages. Not tripod pages made by 15 year old anti-corporate hippies who are denouncing what I'm searching for.
You launched your search engine. It's filled with garbage or bad results. Stop making excuses by telling us what it isn't, and make it work like what we all know it is.
Yeah, insightful. That story is outdated. Porn is on blue-Ray now. Most notably, Pirates. http://www.piratesxxx.com/ (hopefully that link will go through.) Obviously, NSFW
The FREE encyclopedia that anyone can get caught modifying.
I'm not one of these hypocrites who doesn't even buy music, and then comes here to bitch about every RIAA story. I've got more CDs and DVDs than I know what to do with. Between the two, I've bought near 60 discs this year so far, and they are mine. Mine to do what I please with, and that includes copying them onto my portable devices to enjoy. Where the hell do they get off telling me what I can or can't do with my own property? When I put my money down and made the purchase, your right to dictate how use the product went out the window.
This is beyond ridiculous at this point. I was all for them waging war on the mass piracy of their products. I support IP and the protection of it. But somewhere along the line, the whole thing took a wrong turn, and they are waging jihad on everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if the next radio I purchase has a credit card reader attached to it, and requires payment for every half hour of use.
Cabbies can't play the radio anymore.
Business owners can't play the radio anymore.
(How do those 2 even make sense? The broadcaster has already paid the RIAA in full to publicly broadcast those songs.)
They don't want people to play music in their cars because other people might hear it.
The same company that sold you an MP3 player wants to throw you in jail for using it.
What's next? Is Ford going to start suing people who have a passenger on board to make up for the lost sale of an automobile? When TV started to take over in the 50s, did the RIAA sue former radio listeners for lost advertising income?
They need to learn to accept that the music business is floundering. All the music I bought this year was near 20 years old. Sabbath, The Doors, Ozzy, Crue, etc... I like new music too, but nothing compels me to buy a CD from them most of the time. It's not because I pirated it. It may very well be that every radio station plays every new single 200 times a day, and I get sick of it before I can even consider a purchase.
If Yahoo answers doesn't let them cheat all that well, than why is there a problem? The student who did the proper research still gets a passing grade, and the student who tried to 'cheat' did suffers for it.
How is this any different than 20 years ago?
GMail - Couldn't delete. They fixed this eventually, but everything had to archived otherwise. When they introduced chat, it was decided that it would be enabled by default, and everyone was allowed to see you. (Eventually, they let you log out, or hide).
Pages - Can't make folders, or do much else other than type in templates. They have been 'working' on bringing us the ability to make folders for 2 years now. Everything has to be in the main folder, and the main 'home page' has to be used when entering the site. You can upload html pages after that, but the sum of the parts don't add up to what geocities was in 1997.
Talk - Everyone added to my list, and has access to hear my mic 'at my convenience'. GTalk just went ahead and added everyone I ever sent an e-mail to to my contact list as soon as I clicked to run it the first time.
Google Notifier - Looks the same whether I'm online, signed in, signed out, or lost my connection.
Google products, from what I've seen, don't believe in the concept of user options, or even any user input at some points. They like to just make all the choices for you, and then make you stick to it, until enough people complain and it gets added in.
If google made a toaster, there would be one setting, and one setting only. If you wanted your toast lighter, or darker, it's just too damned bad. Because the guy who made the google toaster already decided that your toast only needs that one optimum setting. This is until they finally unveil their great new feature, the variable timer, like it's never been done before, or wasn't an obvious, expected feature from the start.
I'm sure the google techs print all those new feature releases up, and put them on their fridge. You know, the gFridge! The one where your ice cream is always rock hard, because google determined the proper gTemperature for you.
I find the service to be almost useless, like a lot of other Google things. It's always missing the most basic of functionality.
How about front and back (vibrate)?
My gmail account gets almost no spam, and my real ISP account gets none. I use my yahoo and hotmail addresses when I need it to sign up for something. Like I said, yahoo handles my 'garbage' on their own dime. :)
Who didn't have a cell phone. I can't imagine why some people would need two of them for?
On yahoo's dime I collect thousands of spam messages a week. I log in once every 59 days to make sure that yahoo can keep the privilege of being trusted to handle all my garbage. I wish instead of an [empty] button, there was a [forward to Eric Estrada] link.
I'm disappointed that the images aren't censored.
...is when it jumped the shark. It's a silly space opera series, and that is all it was ever meant to be. But some of you had to go and turn it into a religion. Enjoy it for what it is, and then let it go. I see people writing stuff like, "They wanted to sell toys, and they brought in e-woks and Jar Jar".
No shit. That's how you turn a profit on a movie that was targeted to kids.
It's so pathetic when I'm in a department store and I see some fat ass in his 30s or 40s desperately searching through a shelf full of Star Wars dolls and telling his friend how hard it is to find a rare variant Princess Leia. Why not look on ebay, I'm sure you can get that Leia doll that has blue eyes instead of brown for only $300 (unopened!!!).