I don't think you're supposed to be able to trademark a letter, but you might want to try picking that up while you're getting is(tm) and the(tm) just in case.
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.
Google is a bloody online calculator. Why the fuck would you search for one?
podcast has to be the most idiotic word EVER. It's just a fucking mp3 download!!!
Next thing will be these same idiots pizzacasting dinner from Domino's and dvdcasting a movie from Blockbuster. And don't forget to oilcast some fuel from the Texaco while you're out, morons!
I'd take it as a sign that I had "made it" and be happy. Unless they were trying to claim it was their IP, at which point I'd find who was doing it and go to their house with a shotgun rather than waste time trying to shutdown the distribution channel.
What, no mention of using "that" for people instead of "who"? It's been so long since I've seen it used properly (even in magazine and newspaper articles) that it almost looks wrong when someone doesn't make that mistake.
Probably all of them. Wavebird kicks ass. Though I always thought it was strange that no one sold a rechargeable battery pack with cradle for it like the ones made for the original GBA.
2) The Xbox 360 is using 2.4GHhz wireless controllers last I heard. Not a bad concept, but what happens when the battery dies mid-game? What about the cost of batters that add up over time? What happens if I have some other 2.4GHz device such as a phone or wireless router in the near location? I'm not the most knowledgable about wireless communications, but could this cause some interference?
Not to defend microsoft, but I don't think that wireless controllers are going to be much of a problem. If they're anything even remotely like the quality of Nintendo's Wavebird for GameCube then interference isn't going to be an issue. As for battery life, microsoft has said that there will be a rechargeable battery option that can be charged from the XBox 360 system over a USB cable and that a pair of AA batteries will give ~40 hours of playtime, which might not actually be the case but is hardly an unreasonable thing to believe.
(2) There is a daemon for precisely this purpose, see Klipper in KDE... If it's not running on your KDE desktop, it's either because you're using a godforsaken Redhat-butchered KDE, or because you turned it off (believe it or not, some people moan and complain it's too heavyweight).
Or because you run Maya and Klipper makes it crash.
I just have to ask, how much software are you people installing that it's a chore to do? Because I've never found myself feeling the need to automatic dependancy resolution or package downloading.
The CNN news room could care less about wether it goes through or not
Which is exactly what the post you were replying to was saying. They could care a lot less if they weren't part of a huge media conglomerate with a vested interest in seeing it pass.
Yes, because the voice cast can't possibly adlib while recording their lines before any animation is ever done.
Re:Microsoft has planned this for quite awhile.
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The way Spotlight transforms the computing experience is akin to Google's effect on the web, say the designers at frog, which has helped create the look and feel of hundreds of consumer products, including the Mac SE and the Windows Media Player.
So why is it we care what the designers of WMP's horrible "look and feel" think? Besides, htf would you decide where to put new files or would the OS just put them all in one monolithic "directory" that is never properly exposed to the user? Not to mention that having to create a search every time you want to find any file is ridiculous and cumbersome.
"Spotlight changes the landscape fundamentally -- how people manage and organize things on their computers," added Mark Ligameri, also a frog creative director, who formerly worked at Microsoft on the user interface of Windows XP and the forthcoming Longhorn. "Spotlight is a good alternative to the hierarchical organization of information."
It might be a good compliment to it, but it's hardly going to bring about the "death" of hierarchical organization. And if it did it would be a disaster for whoever implements it.
"ITunes and iPhoto provide immersive environments to allow users to better manage their music and photo files," Ratzlaff added. "Both of these developments are indications that the Finder is not meeting people's needs. I think and hope that the Finder as we know it will go away in the next two years, likely with Mac OS 11."
Now last time I checked, didn't iTunes offer a hierarchical organization not just for how it stores the files on the harddrive (at least when downloaded from iTMS), but also for presenting them with the search features put in alongside?
These guys are nuts and this is just stupid. Move along.
If someone decided to smuggle a weapon or bomb onto a plane using a child it wouldn't be the first time that children were used as weapons. You might recall children strapped with explosives being used during the Vietnam War.
So I don't think it's any more "silly" than any of the other bullshit that goes on with air travel these days. If you don't like it, don't fly or leave the kids at home. It really isn't that hard.
Maybe it's a clever tactic to get people to switch to Linux as a desktop? The thinking might be that if Linux needs virus protection it must be a major enough platform to be targeted since "popularity" is *obviously* the only reason windows gets exploited so often.
Can I please get an explanation of how mac is "user-friendly"? Because I've never found it particularly so and no one ever defends that position beyond saying, "it's the most user-friendly desktop EVAR!!!??!?!".
So we're now weighing the cost of a PS3 + an hdtv capable of 1080p against just buying a computer, which you would probably have anyway? This is an idiotic argument which you guys aren't going to be able to win for years, if ever.
Given that most people will have a computer anyway it is still way less expensive to just put out a little more for the PC you would have bought anyway than it is to get a PS3 (which will still require you to have a computer for the things you would have one for anyway) with a 1080p HDTV.
This crap comes up all the time (along with lines about PCs "finally catching up to consoles") whenever new console hardware is released. The PC gaming industry isn't going anywhere no matter what they put into these consoles. And definitely not if they're talking 500$ price tags like the PS3 is rumoured to carry.
Isn't the requirement that you make it available if someone askes for it? There isn't any language in teh current GPL that requires you to actively seek people to give the code to, right?
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I don't think you're supposed to be able to trademark a letter, but you might want to try picking that up while you're getting is(tm) and the(tm) just in case.
Google is a bloody online calculator. Why the fuck would you search for one?
Next thing will be these same idiots pizzacasting dinner from Domino's and dvdcasting a movie from Blockbuster. And don't forget to oilcast some fuel from the Texaco while you're out, morons!
I'd take it as a sign that I had "made it" and be happy. Unless they were trying to claim it was their IP, at which point I'd find who was doing it and go to their house with a shotgun rather than waste time trying to shutdown the distribution channel.
What, no mention of using "that" for people instead of "who"? It's been so long since I've seen it used properly (even in magazine and newspaper articles) that it almost looks wrong when someone doesn't make that mistake.
Probably all of them. Wavebird kicks ass. Though I always thought it was strange that no one sold a rechargeable battery pack with cradle for it like the ones made for the original GBA.
Not to defend microsoft, but I don't think that wireless controllers are going to be much of a problem. If they're anything even remotely like the quality of Nintendo's Wavebird for GameCube then interference isn't going to be an issue. As for battery life, microsoft has said that there will be a rechargeable battery option that can be charged from the XBox 360 system over a USB cable and that a pair of AA batteries will give ~40 hours of playtime, which might not actually be the case but is hardly an unreasonable thing to believe.
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Or because you run Maya and Klipper makes it crash.
I just have to ask, how much software are you people installing that it's a chore to do? Because I've never found myself feeling the need to automatic dependancy resolution or package downloading.
Which is exactly what the post you were replying to was saying. They could care a lot less if they weren't part of a huge media conglomerate with a vested interest in seeing it pass.
You just haven't seen a herd of boxen yet. You'll change your mind once you do.
I thought we already picked KDE and were just waiting on a QT port of GIMP and a few other applications...
Well that would certainly make some sense, after all, if anyone knows about uncool it's microsoft and sco.
It's been widely rumoured that Sony would be using OpenGL for PS3. I'm not sure if those were ever confirmed one way or the other, though.
Yes, because the voice cast can't possibly adlib while recording their lines before any animation is ever done.
So why is it we care what the designers of WMP's horrible "look and feel" think? Besides, htf would you decide where to put new files or would the OS just put them all in one monolithic "directory" that is never properly exposed to the user? Not to mention that having to create a search every time you want to find any file is ridiculous and cumbersome.
"Spotlight changes the landscape fundamentally -- how people manage and organize things on their computers," added Mark Ligameri, also a frog creative director, who formerly worked at Microsoft on the user interface of Windows XP and the forthcoming Longhorn. "Spotlight is a good alternative to the hierarchical organization of information."
It might be a good compliment to it, but it's hardly going to bring about the "death" of hierarchical organization. And if it did it would be a disaster for whoever implements it.
"ITunes and iPhoto provide immersive environments to allow users to better manage their music and photo files," Ratzlaff added. "Both of these developments are indications that the Finder is not meeting people's needs. I think and hope that the Finder as we know it will go away in the next two years, likely with Mac OS 11."
Now last time I checked, didn't iTunes offer a hierarchical organization not just for how it stores the files on the harddrive (at least when downloaded from iTMS), but also for presenting them with the search features put in alongside?
These guys are nuts and this is just stupid. Move along.
So I don't think it's any more "silly" than any of the other bullshit that goes on with air travel these days. If you don't like it, don't fly or leave the kids at home. It really isn't that hard.
Maybe it's a clever tactic to get people to switch to Linux as a desktop? The thinking might be that if Linux needs virus protection it must be a major enough platform to be targeted since "popularity" is *obviously* the only reason windows gets exploited so often.
Can I please get an explanation of how mac is "user-friendly"? Because I've never found it particularly so and no one ever defends that position beyond saying, "it's the most user-friendly desktop EVAR!!!??!?!".
Given that most people will have a computer anyway it is still way less expensive to just put out a little more for the PC you would have bought anyway than it is to get a PS3 (which will still require you to have a computer for the things you would have one for anyway) with a 1080p HDTV.
This crap comes up all the time (along with lines about PCs "finally catching up to consoles") whenever new console hardware is released. The PC gaming industry isn't going anywhere no matter what they put into these consoles. And definitely not if they're talking 500$ price tags like the PS3 is rumoured to carry.
Isn't the requirement that you make it available if someone askes for it? There isn't any language in teh current GPL that requires you to actively seek people to give the code to, right?
EA has that plug-and-play tv thing with old Madden and NHL on it.
They're not "virtual" fascists, they're actual fascists since they are seeking (and succeeding to a huge degree) to merge state and corporate power.
Is that because you don't know what it does?
They're still doing that.