"live" is just the flavor of the week label at microsoft. It's the same old crap that they've always done, just now with a different name and probably a shiny new look lifted from a preschool toy. Maybe if they didn't come up with such retarded names for their brands (or maybe if they had better quality products, though that doesn't stop apple [that's right fanbois, mod me troll, I don't care]) they wouldn't have to change the names every 3 years.
Though apparently victimless isn't a word either, making the previous statement impossible while at the same time the previous statement must be true. I'll let one of you contemplate this paradox as I would hate to be responsible for the annihilation of the universe.
I think that Genesis was ahead for a little while but SNES outlasted it and came out ahead in the end. But Sega has never dominated the market. I sure do miss the days when there were two consoles breaking about even, though. Not enough to wish for a split between microsoft and anyone else, but a ~50/50 split between Sony and Nintendo wouldn't be too bad.
If you're buying a license and don't own the software then microsoft be able to provide you with as many free replacement copies as you'd like. I'm sure their CSRs will be more than happy to get those discs mailed right out to you if you just give them a call.
I think you meant to say the "latter" would be best. I don't see you rushing to have "free market competition" for your water or electricity, and I don't think you'd do better than having Internet access provided in a similar manner. Really, what service do you get more reliability and cheaper than electricity and water?
No, miguel de icaza spews all the crap needed to allow mono to happen to get it done. Don't drag Linus into that mess. He's gone on the record saying that he doesn't like gnome, so he's innocent on this one.
Let's just call it "Linux" as Linus does and we can start calling the toolchain the "GNU/Linux toolchain"? This seems the most appropriate thing to me.
Firefox sucks for integration on KDE, or really anything other than gnome and XFCE. People always try to associate Firefox with Linux, but it seems way more out of place on my desktop than it ever has in windows. There isn't even a native option to get the preferences menu where it belongs (though it's in the standard place on windows) and the file dialogs are all messed up and gnomey. At least I've never had to open a file using the dialog in Firefox, because the save one is a lot more sane and harmless.
Hell, there isn't even competition at 6mbit here! The DSL is REALLY slow and you can't get it unbundled from local phone service so the price is actually about the same as cable Internet. The performance isn't even that great, they charge a ridiculous amount of money for an install that they can't even get right the first time or show up to on time (and promise a "rebate" that never shows up), and their CSRs are dicks.
We need either one of two things (both would be best), either the government needs to step in and regulate the quality of servicing and pricing of the companies they are granting monopolies or they need to stop granting the monopolies so that there will be some competition.
Btw, for the idiots further up who were claiming that being able to get 30mbit in South Korea for $40, while I can't buy that speed at ANY price where I live, is about cost of living, then why the fuck is it that there are people with lines twice as fast as mine paying only $40/month who live in California? It might be more "overpriced" to live here (that is return on dollar), but it sure as hell isn't more expensive. There's no reason that Internet access should be.
Well it's a bit more complicated than that. The television provider doesn't produce the shows (maybe a few somewhere, I dunno, but not really), they buy them from whatever the networks are that have the shows. Most of those companies don't even produce their own shows, they license them out. This all costs a LOT more money than you would be willing to pay for subscription-supported TV without commercials. Even the subscription channels can't do what they do without ads. Have you seen how many fucking product placements they have in an episode of Weeds?
Not that I watch the ads or anything, and the laws about the number of minutes of them per hour that can be shown should be tightened down again. But you shouldn't just think it's about greed.
Now comcast charging me $50+ for 6mbit when i could get several times that for half the price in South Korea, that's about greed!
It's not really casting though, is it? I mean, if it were you'd like be running a listener or something on your computer and the tracker would contact you, not the other way around.
But maybe it'd work. Fitting "swarm" in there definitely wouldn't be a bad move.
I think the AC was saying that the "prophecies" you people claim to have come true were extremely vague and general and that after events had occurred some idiot decided that it was the event described in the "prophecy" because they were superstitious and believed in such nonsense.
As opposed to a scientific theory that makes a prediction about the way something is or the way something will behave, that is then tested to determine its accuracy.
Your "prophecies" from the bible are more of the "there will be some powerful nation and it will collapse" variety. To prove my point here's a prophecy (about cars, just for slashdot): a rich and powerful man will wreck his car. There, you'd better start worshipping me or something because I just made a prophecy that is both obvious and guaranteed to come true.
But why bother? At best the concept of "god" is completely irrelevant. Why not just put it away with all the other old junk we don't use anymore and get on with our lives?
I say you and I are along the same reasoning I am a creationist myself, however I do not rule out the idea that I may be wrong (eternity is a long time to be wrong).
You are. Enjoy all the time I just saved you from wasting on such boring fairy tales and stupid ideas.
Because GIMP is hard to use (not in the usual ways people whine about, but in ways that it actually does suck) and is developed by idiots who are always heading in the wrong direction, when they're heading anywhere at all. The worst part is that it wouldn't even take that much to make the GIMP into such a thing, or even into a rival to Photoshop. It's just that the people who can't won't and the people who care can't.
This is actually true of most market leaders in computer software, at least where the market leader doesn't just completely suck (ie everything microsoft puts out except excel, which happens to be the best of a bad bunch). Hell, Photoshop is the best of a pretty bad bunch, which is a big part of why I hate Adobe so much.
I'd also pay more attention to his opinions if he weren't so busy licensing their activation scheme and sucking on ballmer's cock. Let's see this tool put out a native version of Linux (which they could easily sell enough copies of to justify the expense) without activation (that is worthless anyway) and then maybe I'll consider listening to him.
Trust me though, you would not like microsoft taking Adobe's place in the market. I don't care how much you could ever think you hate Adobe, they're nothing compared to an extension of the microsoft monopoly.
There was an 83% increase in DVD sales the holiday season that PS2 was released. That's your statistic. How do you know it's an "actual" statistic? Why because I just made it up and told you so.
Anecdotally, I have to agree with the GP. I worked electronics at a Target when PS2 was released and there were tons of people who were buying it primarily as a DVD player that maybe they'd play games on later because there wasn't much to play at launch. I'd say it's very likely that PS2 quickened the adoption rate of DVD, but I haven't seen any hard evidence supporting or refuting that assumption, so who knows.
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"live" is just the flavor of the week label at microsoft. It's the same old crap that they've always done, just now with a different name and probably a shiny new look lifted from a preschool toy. Maybe if they didn't come up with such retarded names for their brands (or maybe if they had better quality products, though that doesn't stop apple [that's right fanbois, mod me troll, I don't care]) they wouldn't have to change the names every 3 years.
That's because scamming is a victimless crime.
Though apparently victimless isn't a word either, making the previous statement impossible while at the same time the previous statement must be true. I'll let one of you contemplate this paradox as I would hate to be responsible for the annihilation of the universe.
I think that Genesis was ahead for a little while but SNES outlasted it and came out ahead in the end. But Sega has never dominated the market. I sure do miss the days when there were two consoles breaking about even, though. Not enough to wish for a split between microsoft and anyone else, but a ~50/50 split between Sony and Nintendo wouldn't be too bad.
Well it's better than them getting it from church like so many people seem to these days.
"Pro level stuff," huh? You windows kids do realize that you sound ridiculous, right?
If you're buying a license and don't own the software then microsoft be able to provide you with as many free replacement copies as you'd like. I'm sure their CSRs will be more than happy to get those discs mailed right out to you if you just give them a call.
But is it bigger than your mom's basement? Bet you regret moving out now, huh, buddy?
I think you meant to say the "latter" would be best. I don't see you rushing to have "free market competition" for your water or electricity, and I don't think you'd do better than having Internet access provided in a similar manner. Really, what service do you get more reliability and cheaper than electricity and water?
No, miguel de icaza spews all the crap needed to allow mono to happen to get it done. Don't drag Linus into that mess. He's gone on the record saying that he doesn't like gnome, so he's innocent on this one.
Let's just call it "Linux" as Linus does and we can start calling the toolchain the "GNU/Linux toolchain"? This seems the most appropriate thing to me.
Firefox sucks for integration on KDE, or really anything other than gnome and XFCE. People always try to associate Firefox with Linux, but it seems way more out of place on my desktop than it ever has in windows. There isn't even a native option to get the preferences menu where it belongs (though it's in the standard place on windows) and the file dialogs are all messed up and gnomey. At least I've never had to open a file using the dialog in Firefox, because the save one is a lot more sane and harmless.
Hell, there isn't even competition at 6mbit here! The DSL is REALLY slow and you can't get it unbundled from local phone service so the price is actually about the same as cable Internet. The performance isn't even that great, they charge a ridiculous amount of money for an install that they can't even get right the first time or show up to on time (and promise a "rebate" that never shows up), and their CSRs are dicks.
We need either one of two things (both would be best), either the government needs to step in and regulate the quality of servicing and pricing of the companies they are granting monopolies or they need to stop granting the monopolies so that there will be some competition.
Btw, for the idiots further up who were claiming that being able to get 30mbit in South Korea for $40, while I can't buy that speed at ANY price where I live, is about cost of living, then why the fuck is it that there are people with lines twice as fast as mine paying only $40/month who live in California? It might be more "overpriced" to live here (that is return on dollar), but it sure as hell isn't more expensive. There's no reason that Internet access should be.
Well it's a bit more complicated than that. The television provider doesn't produce the shows (maybe a few somewhere, I dunno, but not really), they buy them from whatever the networks are that have the shows. Most of those companies don't even produce their own shows, they license them out. This all costs a LOT more money than you would be willing to pay for subscription-supported TV without commercials. Even the subscription channels can't do what they do without ads. Have you seen how many fucking product placements they have in an episode of Weeds?
Not that I watch the ads or anything, and the laws about the number of minutes of them per hour that can be shown should be tightened down again. But you shouldn't just think it's about greed.
Now comcast charging me $50+ for 6mbit when i could get several times that for half the price in South Korea, that's about greed!
You're right, TV has better writing and production values.
It's not really casting though, is it? I mean, if it were you'd like be running a listener or something on your computer and the tracker would contact you, not the other way around.
But maybe it'd work. Fitting "swarm" in there definitely wouldn't be a bad move.
I think the AC was saying that the "prophecies" you people claim to have come true were extremely vague and general and that after events had occurred some idiot decided that it was the event described in the "prophecy" because they were superstitious and believed in such nonsense.
As opposed to a scientific theory that makes a prediction about the way something is or the way something will behave, that is then tested to determine its accuracy.
Your "prophecies" from the bible are more of the "there will be some powerful nation and it will collapse" variety. To prove my point here's a prophecy (about cars, just for slashdot): a rich and powerful man will wreck his car. There, you'd better start worshipping me or something because I just made a prophecy that is both obvious and guaranteed to come true.
Creationism and evolution can co-exist...
But why bother? At best the concept of "god" is completely irrelevant. Why not just put it away with all the other old junk we don't use anymore and get on with our lives?
I say you and I are along the same reasoning I am a creationist myself, however I do not rule out the idea that I may be wrong (eternity is a long time to be wrong).
You are. Enjoy all the time I just saved you from wasting on such boring fairy tales and stupid ideas.
Can't be angry at something that doesn't exist, son.
Because GIMP is hard to use (not in the usual ways people whine about, but in ways that it actually does suck) and is developed by idiots who are always heading in the wrong direction, when they're heading anywhere at all. The worst part is that it wouldn't even take that much to make the GIMP into such a thing, or even into a rival to Photoshop. It's just that the people who can't won't and the people who care can't.
This is actually true of most market leaders in computer software, at least where the market leader doesn't just completely suck (ie everything microsoft puts out except excel, which happens to be the best of a bad bunch). Hell, Photoshop is the best of a pretty bad bunch, which is a big part of why I hate Adobe so much.
I'd also pay more attention to his opinions if he weren't so busy licensing their activation scheme and sucking on ballmer's cock. Let's see this tool put out a native version of Linux (which they could easily sell enough copies of to justify the expense) without activation (that is worthless anyway) and then maybe I'll consider listening to him.
Trust me though, you would not like microsoft taking Adobe's place in the market. I don't care how much you could ever think you hate Adobe, they're nothing compared to an extension of the microsoft monopoly.
Anybody want a peanut?
There was an 83% increase in DVD sales the holiday season that PS2 was released. That's your statistic. How do you know it's an "actual" statistic? Why because I just made it up and told you so.
Anecdotally, I have to agree with the GP. I worked electronics at a Target when PS2 was released and there were tons of people who were buying it primarily as a DVD player that maybe they'd play games on later because there wasn't much to play at launch. I'd say it's very likely that PS2 quickened the adoption rate of DVD, but I haven't seen any hard evidence supporting or refuting that assumption, so who knows.
Man evolved from dirt when dinosaurs ate coconuts. It says so in the bible.