He bought a new fucking monitor. All he should have to do is plug it it, he shouldn't have to go through all kinds of re-signing of content and such. And as another poster stated, I hope it's not signed through WMP11, otherwise he's SOL. DRM is bad for the consumer, period. If you change anything and everything stops working, why would I want to PAY for content that doesn't work, especially when I can get it for free and it will always work?
What a shame that people dug wells into the innocent earth and risked their lives sailing around it to prove the earth was round, when common sense tells you that it's flat... oh, wait.
I'd bet those rats have a slightly MORE humane existence than they would in the wild, idly played with and then eaten by predators, perhaps brought back live to pups/kittens in order for them to practice their hunting skills.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
You mean you have separate physical areas of your brain that are "conscious" and "unconscious", but they can both perform the same kinds of activities? Pray-tell, where did you get that information?
The subconscious is a myth. The brain has responses ranging from automatic to fully fully cognitive, but that relates very closely to how "easy" the response is (breathing) and how often you've practiced it (martial arts moves become automatic if you do them enough), so it moves slowly from fully cognitive to automatic. Low oxygen will affect full cognition more than the automatic, more "primal" actions of the brain, so it makes sense that he didn't dream.
The thing is, standard TV manufacturers have a product that's different. It takes some setup and space to use a projector as a television, and it really helps if you own your own place so you can set up a proper wall or screen to get a good picture out of a projector, whereas an HD flat-screen is easily moved, placed wherever you want, and often has many, many inputs on it, that this little thing obviously doesn't.
I'd hope that the manufacturer sees the potential of an LED or laser based display system as far as noise, heat and maintenance requirements as compared to traditional projectors, and improves the design so they can take over the projector market as a whole. Don't forget, you can get a projector for about the same as a flat-panel TV, and people still buy "normal" TV's. They aren't going anywhere.
It's not the "evil factor" so much as the "they have proven to be monopolistic opportunist that has taken 'open' standards and perverted them in the past so I don't trust them factor". When someone keeps kicking you when you aren't looking, eventually you learn to stop turning your back to them. Hopefully.
As soon as they show me a working plugin and it's an open specification, I'll trust it. Otherwise, I have no reason to use it. They want to muscle in on Adobe's territory. I seem to remember them doing the same for Netscape, trying to do it with Java, video game consoles... they're gonna have to make some major improvements before I trust them.
Damnit, I meant to hit preview... I meant to say that you also lose any FORMULAS AND formatting. Which are quite important to most Excel users who do more than keep Christmas card lists in it.
Yes, install more Microsoft software, which may or may not support formats in the future, as they've proven from their previous actions. Not to mention the management issues with getting all that software pushed out to users, which requires all the latest patches (some of which are often understandably not pushed out by IT departments until they're properly vetted). Sounds like a great idea to me. Reminds me of a quote...
Seeing as this is a manual update, people using old documents are free to convert to a newer format before installing SP3. It's pretty simple. Only if they're aware of it. Does Microsoft say in big, bold letters on the SP3 download page that it'll break old documents, and you should do the conversion before upgrading? Or is it buried in some button-initiated popup, if it's shown at all? I'm betting it's the second. Oh, wait... looks like I'm right. You aren't rationally discussing Microsoft, you're either stupid or biased, because you can't see the inherent assumptions that you make. SP3 breaking the ability to open old documents even contravenes what Microsoft has implicitly promised as far as being backwards compatible. Here's the exact quote:
Open XML, on the other hand, reflects the rich set of capabilities in Office 2007, offers a platform for exciting user productivity scenarios through user-defined schema, and was designed to be backwards compatible with billions of existing documents. If Office 2007 isn't backwards compatible, then they're welshing on their promises, not to mention responsibilities as a monopoly.
The reason people call you a shill is because you quack like a duck, smell like a duck and look like a duck.
Except that/etc is text-based and human readable in most cases, not to mention easier to back up and restore portions (if not all) of, and almost completely portable between hardware, not to mention it stores only system-wide settings. The Windows registry is none of the above. There are configuration issues with Linux in some software, but the difference between Windows and Linux is that with Windows, if the GUI ain't working, the system ain't working. With Linux, the GUI isn't essential to operation of the system, and once you fix it once, it just keeps working.
"Dude, I built my house of of straw. It's all the wolf's fault that it blew down!" I don't sympathize with Microsoft. I can understand why they made the current decision in light of previous bad decisions, but it's still their own stupid house they built, and are now having to deal with the structural integrity issues of.
That's just shutting off certain things the software does that might be dangerous with older formats, or even new formats. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR. Not the wholesale "you just can't open this document" tack that Microsoft has taken. Reading comprehension is a must in our information-based current society... please try to keep up.
Wait... so global warming will melt the ice caps, drown Panama, and Africa will be fertile again? I drive my Hummer to save the starving kids in Africa... I'm doing my part! Are you?
True. But it's also been about 7 years since they've released a decent OS, and even that one took a few years of ramp-up to start working right. They aren't going anywhere any time soon, but they will lose relevancy. It was once understood that you couldn't go wrong with buying IBM. Where is that maxim now?
Yeah. That's why Canadians come south of the border to get surgeries, because our health care system is so appalling. We must be really screwing things up. Oh, wait... you're probably going off on the fact that not everyone gets completely taken care of by the government for free over here. Wait, that's not right, otherwise the illegal immigrants wouldn't get hospital care just like everyone else... perhaps we just have a system set up so that those that contribute are best able to take advantage of the benefits of the system? I think that's about right.
So go shut off the site providing the illegal content. Don't foist the responsibility on the middleman, simply because you're too ineffectual to impose your morals on the appropriate target. Or do you want to hold the postman delivering your mail responsible for delivering something you find morally repugnant, like a Victoria's Secret catalog?
So move to the EU somewhere where the government will take care of you and everyone to make sure nothing bad ever happens to you. Here in America, we were founded more on the idea of personal responsibility and freedom. If you don't like being free, GTFO. And no, I don't think the direction our country is taking is the right one, and GWB has done more to harm American freedom than any other person in history, including King George III.
You have the freedom to go to a website without being spammed with porn. If you can't figure out how to do that, you should just not use the web, since you're obviously incompetent. Raise your kids to know when something is a bad idea, and they won't be "copycats". Really, it's all pretty easily dealt with unless you don't want to take a little bit of time to educate and protect yourself. And if you don't want to do that, go find some Socialist state to live in.
Ahhh. Fair enough... I'm used to living in Colorado here, where it's not uncommon to have a -5C day in the winter, and even -15C or so happens once a year or so. Hell, it's -5C out as I type this;) My fiancee uses a freestanding fan to sleep, since there's no way we can have a window AC unit installed in the winter here, and we don't have central air.
Yes. I was primarily referring to the detritus thrown up by the impact, though. I know that Mars' lesser mass would pull the asteroid in slower, but it will also decelerate much less through the atmosphere, so I'd say it's roughly a wash, not to mention the asteroid won't accelerate a whole lot from the current velocity delta that the two bodies have. That's from not even running any numbers, so I could be way off, but I doubt it.
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He bought a new fucking monitor. All he should have to do is plug it it, he shouldn't have to go through all kinds of re-signing of content and such. And as another poster stated, I hope it's not signed through WMP11, otherwise he's SOL. DRM is bad for the consumer, period. If you change anything and everything stops working, why would I want to PAY for content that doesn't work, especially when I can get it for free and it will always work?
Who needs joy for revenge? I certainly don't. I exact revenge because the fucker deserves it, not because I enjoy hurting people.
What a shame that people dug wells into the innocent earth and risked their lives sailing around it to prove the earth was round, when common sense tells you that it's flat... oh, wait.
I'd bet those rats have a slightly MORE humane existence than they would in the wild, idly played with and then eaten by predators, perhaps brought back live to pups/kittens in order for them to practice their hunting skills.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
You mean you have separate physical areas of your brain that are "conscious" and "unconscious", but they can both perform the same kinds of activities? Pray-tell, where did you get that information?
The subconscious is a myth. The brain has responses ranging from automatic to fully fully cognitive, but that relates very closely to how "easy" the response is (breathing) and how often you've practiced it (martial arts moves become automatic if you do them enough), so it moves slowly from fully cognitive to automatic. Low oxygen will affect full cognition more than the automatic, more "primal" actions of the brain, so it makes sense that he didn't dream.
The thing is, standard TV manufacturers have a product that's different. It takes some setup and space to use a projector as a television, and it really helps if you own your own place so you can set up a proper wall or screen to get a good picture out of a projector, whereas an HD flat-screen is easily moved, placed wherever you want, and often has many, many inputs on it, that this little thing obviously doesn't.
I'd hope that the manufacturer sees the potential of an LED or laser based display system as far as noise, heat and maintenance requirements as compared to traditional projectors, and improves the design so they can take over the projector market as a whole. Don't forget, you can get a projector for about the same as a flat-panel TV, and people still buy "normal" TV's. They aren't going anywhere.
It's not the "evil factor" so much as the "they have proven to be monopolistic opportunist that has taken 'open' standards and perverted them in the past so I don't trust them factor". When someone keeps kicking you when you aren't looking, eventually you learn to stop turning your back to them. Hopefully.
As soon as they show me a working plugin and it's an open specification, I'll trust it. Otherwise, I have no reason to use it. They want to muscle in on Adobe's territory. I seem to remember them doing the same for Netscape, trying to do it with Java, video game consoles... they're gonna have to make some major improvements before I trust them.
Depends on what $PWD is. .* will nuke your current location, rather than the system, which could be the difference between being employed and not ;)
Damnit, I meant to hit preview... I meant to say that you also lose any FORMULAS AND formatting. Which are quite important to most Excel users who do more than keep Christmas card lists in it.
You also lose any formatting. Excel doesn't just store data... you could do that in tables in Word.
Yes, install more Microsoft software, which may or may not support formats in the future, as they've proven from their previous actions. Not to mention the management issues with getting all that software pushed out to users, which requires all the latest patches (some of which are often understandably not pushed out by IT departments until they're properly vetted). Sounds like a great idea to me. Reminds me of a quote...
"Thank you sir, may I have another?"
The reason people call you a shill is because you quack like a duck, smell like a duck and look like a duck.
I don't know who you're talking about, but you'd probably do him a favor forwarding this article to him :)
Except that /etc is text-based and human readable in most cases, not to mention easier to back up and restore portions (if not all) of, and almost completely portable between hardware, not to mention it stores only system-wide settings. The Windows registry is none of the above. There are configuration issues with Linux in some software, but the difference between Windows and Linux is that with Windows, if the GUI ain't working, the system ain't working. With Linux, the GUI isn't essential to operation of the system, and once you fix it once, it just keeps working.
And people wonder why there are so many people that use KDE even though Gnome is the "standard" on so many desktops.
"Dude, I built my house of of straw. It's all the wolf's fault that it blew down!" I don't sympathize with Microsoft. I can understand why they made the current decision in light of previous bad decisions, but it's still their own stupid house they built, and are now having to deal with the structural integrity issues of.
That's just shutting off certain things the software does that might be dangerous with older formats, or even new formats. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR. Not the wholesale "you just can't open this document" tack that Microsoft has taken. Reading comprehension is a must in our information-based current society... please try to keep up.
Wait... so global warming will melt the ice caps, drown Panama, and Africa will be fertile again? I drive my Hummer to save the starving kids in Africa... I'm doing my part! Are you?
True. But it's also been about 7 years since they've released a decent OS, and even that one took a few years of ramp-up to start working right. They aren't going anywhere any time soon, but they will lose relevancy. It was once understood that you couldn't go wrong with buying IBM. Where is that maxim now?
http://myminicity.com/* fits into Adblock just like every other site ;)
Yeah. That's why Canadians come south of the border to get surgeries, because our health care system is so appalling. We must be really screwing things up. Oh, wait... you're probably going off on the fact that not everyone gets completely taken care of by the government for free over here. Wait, that's not right, otherwise the illegal immigrants wouldn't get hospital care just like everyone else... perhaps we just have a system set up so that those that contribute are best able to take advantage of the benefits of the system? I think that's about right.
So go shut off the site providing the illegal content. Don't foist the responsibility on the middleman, simply because you're too ineffectual to impose your morals on the appropriate target. Or do you want to hold the postman delivering your mail responsible for delivering something you find morally repugnant, like a Victoria's Secret catalog?
So move to the EU somewhere where the government will take care of you and everyone to make sure nothing bad ever happens to you. Here in America, we were founded more on the idea of personal responsibility and freedom. If you don't like being free, GTFO. And no, I don't think the direction our country is taking is the right one, and GWB has done more to harm American freedom than any other person in history, including King George III.
You have the freedom to go to a website without being spammed with porn. If you can't figure out how to do that, you should just not use the web, since you're obviously incompetent. Raise your kids to know when something is a bad idea, and they won't be "copycats". Really, it's all pretty easily dealt with unless you don't want to take a little bit of time to educate and protect yourself. And if you don't want to do that, go find some Socialist state to live in.
Ahhh. Fair enough... I'm used to living in Colorado here, where it's not uncommon to have a -5C day in the winter, and even -15C or so happens once a year or so. Hell, it's -5C out as I type this ;) My fiancee uses a freestanding fan to sleep, since there's no way we can have a window AC unit installed in the winter here, and we don't have central air.
Yes. I was primarily referring to the detritus thrown up by the impact, though. I know that Mars' lesser mass would pull the asteroid in slower, but it will also decelerate much less through the atmosphere, so I'd say it's roughly a wash, not to mention the asteroid won't accelerate a whole lot from the current velocity delta that the two bodies have. That's from not even running any numbers, so I could be way off, but I doubt it.