1) Figure out which media company has what media you want 2) Go to their site, figure out where it is 3) Enter your credit card details 4) Download content 5) Install protected media player, drivers, reboot system 6) On reboot, system crashes due to shoddy DRM implementation. Reboot again. 7) Start video, nothing happens. Try to get in touch with tech support. 8) Celebrate birthday and New Years while on hold 9) Get told that you need to reinstall your operating system, as it can't be their fault 10) ??????????????????? 11) Someone finds you dead of an aneurysm in front of your computer
Yes, it is. If you verbalized it, you could differentiate between the meanings of the two interpretations of the sentence by the tone and length of pause between words. It's a visual form of syntax and inflection that is most certainly part of grammar
If you don't consider anything other than Zelda and Metroid worth playing, you aren't the target market. You're a "gamer", who spends a lot of time playing games. The Wii is meant more for people who used to be gamers, or just want something they can pick up and have fun with for an hour or two, especially with friends. Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Party 8, THOSE are the killer apps, they're the games that are selling the system. Wii will continue to outpace the 360 and PS3 as long as there are non-gamers in search of entertainment, and they'll pull a number of gamers in with them.
"Critics" may like Bioshock, but my Mom likes the Wii. So does most everyone who doesn't classify themselves as a "gamer". And that is why the Wii is winning. It's fun for ANYONE to play, not just gamers. Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Party 8, they're all a lot easier to get into and fun to play, and you don't have to dedicate large chunks of time to them. They're fun games, and it fits into more people's lifestyles than the fare on the "mainstream" systems like the PS3 and 360. That's not to say I haven't enjoyed Final Fantasy XII, I'm just saying that the games do sell the systems, and they're selling them to people who wouldn't normally buy a system at all.
The 360 is also the choice of frat-boys worldwide. You know, the kind that think Halo was revolutionary, and own every edition of Madden and Tiger Woods ever released.
It may be installed, but it doesn't run by default. If it doesn't run, there's no reason to even think about it, right? Besides, nothing will really break if you remove ubuntu-standard. Try using apt-get to remove packages instead of dpkg, too.
Apple talks standard languages, and doesn't pervert them with proprietary extensions or interpretations. Apple may be a "monoculture", but they aren't a monopoly, and they play fair.
Local knowledge != moronic hippies thinking that engineering is some sort of democratic process. Yes, leverage local knowledge to it's fullest... learn where they need the water, what delivery system would be most useful, etc. But use the freakin' engineering you learned in school to make it work. That's what his friend was doing. Way to be a hippy, and not pay attention to the facts, thinking emotion is all that counts.
Dude. What kind of information are you trafficking in? I mean, the NSA might need that level of paranoia, but for surfing Youtube, and even doing online banking? There's no practical way to crack wireless security, and if you also consider that you don't really have anything that anyone really, really, really wants, there's not much to worry about.
Not so much that, as adherence to FCC (and it's analogs in other countries) mandates. Your wireless card's power levels and frequencies are controlled in software, and the manufacturer could get into big trouble if they didn't match what they were allowed to do. Now, you can do this by either: making a different physical product for each country, or making the same product and just shipping different drivers. Guess what, it's cheaper to just use the drivers to upload a binary blob every time, than even to make a custom firmware for a location. And that way, when the FCC updates it's rules, you can just push a driver update, and your card will work better/worse/still be in compliance.
Really? I find that the Gimp matches more what I want to do, especially that it doesn't have a shitty pseudo-MDI interface. I work with more than one monitor, thank you very little. And the lack of CMYK doesn't matter to me. I'm not the "default" consumer, but I am a person who has used both, and still prefer the free, powerful option over the exceptionally expensive/mis-featured option.
And then you get unmaintainable pieces of shit like Windows, that essentially randomly has bugs, and the only way to fix it is to reinstall it. I'll update a few spreadsheets if it means I can count on my computer behaving, well, like a computer. Responding properly and exactly as expected to inputs.
Wait... I thought C# was cross-platform? What do you mean "do a little more work"? That sounds exactly like a "patent minefield", where you have to implement work-arounds for all kinds of little "gotchas", which basically means Linux is a second-class citizen where things only partially work, which is just how Microsoft wants it. Windows is the default implementation. With Mono and Silverlight, MS can now claim they're "playing fair", and still keep their hand to themselves to screw whoever they feel like. Don't buy into it.
Dude. Evolution and Gnome are flaming piles of dogshit. Mono is "cross-platform" only as long as Microsoft wills it to be, and that's exactly how Microsoft likes it. If he's unwittingly aiding and abetting Microsoft's ambitions to keep their stranglehold on the market, he's witless. Microsoft has a solid history of embracing, extending and extinguishing competitors. They're 'embracing' Linux now by letting Mono and Silverlight run without contest... for now. Extend and extinguish happens when they start making things work only on Windows that don't work on other systems (Remember their Java VM? Internet Explorer bullshit that still goes on? Office formats?), and eventually competitors get extinguished. Grow a clue.
Ummm... what date exactly is "39013"? I mean, I'm not going to just type that out of the blue. I'd want to do something more like If(TODAY() = '11/02/2008', "Due Today!", "Not Due Yet") Which, I believe, you can do with most anything. A random number with no relation to how people perceive dates is not useful in a spreadsheet. Just because Excel does it doesn't make it right, and doesn't make it something we should continue to do. You don't still have a kick-start on your car, do you?
Dude. 2TB? Of shitty music you admittedly haven't listened to? And you back it up? Why? Go outside, enjoy yourself. Spending your time managing crappy media only for yourself is no way to live your life, son.
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The reporters want to see it, AMD needs to keep certain things trade secrets. As a compromise, they let the reporters in with an NDA, which lets them say "No, you can't write about that because we don't want that info getting out." AMD gets publicity, the journalists get a story, and everyone's happy. If you don't want the story, don't sign the NDA, and write an article about how "evil" AMD is for protecting it's interests. Everyone wins.
Matter doesn't have consciousness unless it's organized into life, which in turn must have a nervous system. So, plants aren't "life"? Fungi? What about bacteria? None of those have nervous systems. Those of you "of faith" should consider informing yourselves before stating retarded pseudo-scientific bullshit. This shouldn't be "+5 Interesting", it should be "-1 Talking out of ass"
Just because you're too lazy or dumb to figure out what "efficient" is for a 12 ton water-borne vehicle doesn't mean everyone is. What, you expect us to feel sorry for you or nod in agreement that 2mpg is horrible just because you can only look at efficiency in relation to a car? I can't believe that the majority of people NEED that kind of crap to tell them how to think.
You've never had a real job in a real office, have you? Welcome to Life: 101;) Some people have necessary skills, but are hard to get along with and unpopular (think of the stereotypical overweight, smelly network admin). Some people are overbearing jackasses with no real talent, they just happen to be your boss and you have to get along with them. If your network administrator doesn't show and the network is down, you're SOL. FYI, you should compare "going out for coffee" with "hey guys, let's go kill some random monsters and farm the gold". Working on a project at work needs the industrial-grade logistics to finish, just like, say, a quest/instance/dungeon/whatever.
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Legitimate media is more like:
1) Figure out which media company has what media you want
2) Go to their site, figure out where it is
3) Enter your credit card details
4) Download content
5) Install protected media player, drivers, reboot system
6) On reboot, system crashes due to shoddy DRM implementation. Reboot again.
7) Start video, nothing happens. Try to get in touch with tech support.
8) Celebrate birthday and New Years while on hold
9) Get told that you need to reinstall your operating system, as it can't be their fault
10) ???????????????????
11) Someone finds you dead of an aneurysm in front of your computer
If a corporation counts as a person to the government, it's good enough for it to be one in the grammar as well ;)
Yes, it is. If you verbalized it, you could differentiate between the meanings of the two interpretations of the sentence by the tone and length of pause between words. It's a visual form of syntax and inflection that is most certainly part of grammar
If you don't consider anything other than Zelda and Metroid worth playing, you aren't the target market. You're a "gamer", who spends a lot of time playing games. The Wii is meant more for people who used to be gamers, or just want something they can pick up and have fun with for an hour or two, especially with friends. Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Party 8, THOSE are the killer apps, they're the games that are selling the system. Wii will continue to outpace the 360 and PS3 as long as there are non-gamers in search of entertainment, and they'll pull a number of gamers in with them.
"Critics" may like Bioshock, but my Mom likes the Wii. So does most everyone who doesn't classify themselves as a "gamer". And that is why the Wii is winning. It's fun for ANYONE to play, not just gamers. Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Party 8, they're all a lot easier to get into and fun to play, and you don't have to dedicate large chunks of time to them. They're fun games, and it fits into more people's lifestyles than the fare on the "mainstream" systems like the PS3 and 360. That's not to say I haven't enjoyed Final Fantasy XII, I'm just saying that the games do sell the systems, and they're selling them to people who wouldn't normally buy a system at all.
The 360 is also the choice of frat-boys worldwide. You know, the kind that think Halo was revolutionary, and own every edition of Madden and Tiger Woods ever released.
It may be installed, but it doesn't run by default. If it doesn't run, there's no reason to even think about it, right? Besides, nothing will really break if you remove ubuntu-standard. Try using apt-get to remove packages instead of dpkg, too.
Apple talks standard languages, and doesn't pervert them with proprietary extensions or interpretations. Apple may be a "monoculture", but they aren't a monopoly, and they play fair.
Local knowledge != moronic hippies thinking that engineering is some sort of democratic process. Yes, leverage local knowledge to it's fullest... learn where they need the water, what delivery system would be most useful, etc. But use the freakin' engineering you learned in school to make it work. That's what his friend was doing. Way to be a hippy, and not pay attention to the facts, thinking emotion is all that counts.
Dude. What kind of information are you trafficking in? I mean, the NSA might need that level of paranoia, but for surfing Youtube, and even doing online banking? There's no practical way to crack wireless security, and if you also consider that you don't really have anything that anyone really, really, really wants, there's not much to worry about.
Fixed that for ya. Fixed that for ya.Ever heard of "Vonage"? Then guess what, you have heard of an SIP phone.
Not so much that, as adherence to FCC (and it's analogs in other countries) mandates. Your wireless card's power levels and frequencies are controlled in software, and the manufacturer could get into big trouble if they didn't match what they were allowed to do. Now, you can do this by either: making a different physical product for each country, or making the same product and just shipping different drivers. Guess what, it's cheaper to just use the drivers to upload a binary blob every time, than even to make a custom firmware for a location. And that way, when the FCC updates it's rules, you can just push a driver update, and your card will work better/worse/still be in compliance.
Really? I find that the Gimp matches more what I want to do, especially that it doesn't have a shitty pseudo-MDI interface. I work with more than one monitor, thank you very little. And the lack of CMYK doesn't matter to me. I'm not the "default" consumer, but I am a person who has used both, and still prefer the free, powerful option over the exceptionally expensive/mis-featured option.
And then you get unmaintainable pieces of shit like Windows, that essentially randomly has bugs, and the only way to fix it is to reinstall it. I'll update a few spreadsheets if it means I can count on my computer behaving, well, like a computer. Responding properly and exactly as expected to inputs.
That's the problem, you should have been going for a +2 funny. Eat your own dogfood and all that :)
Wait... I thought C# was cross-platform? What do you mean "do a little more work"? That sounds exactly like a "patent minefield", where you have to implement work-arounds for all kinds of little "gotchas", which basically means Linux is a second-class citizen where things only partially work, which is just how Microsoft wants it. Windows is the default implementation. With Mono and Silverlight, MS can now claim they're "playing fair", and still keep their hand to themselves to screw whoever they feel like. Don't buy into it.
Dude. Evolution and Gnome are flaming piles of dogshit. Mono is "cross-platform" only as long as Microsoft wills it to be, and that's exactly how Microsoft likes it. If he's unwittingly aiding and abetting Microsoft's ambitions to keep their stranglehold on the market, he's witless. Microsoft has a solid history of embracing, extending and extinguishing competitors. They're 'embracing' Linux now by letting Mono and Silverlight run without contest... for now. Extend and extinguish happens when they start making things work only on Windows that don't work on other systems (Remember their Java VM? Internet Explorer bullshit that still goes on? Office formats?), and eventually competitors get extinguished. Grow a clue.
Ummm... what date exactly is "39013"? I mean, I'm not going to just type that out of the blue. I'd want to do something more like
If(TODAY() = '11/02/2008', "Due Today!", "Not Due Yet")
Which, I believe, you can do with most anything. A random number with no relation to how people perceive dates is not useful in a spreadsheet. Just because Excel does it doesn't make it right, and doesn't make it something we should continue to do. You don't still have a kick-start on your car, do you?
Dude. 2TB? Of shitty music you admittedly haven't listened to? And you back it up? Why? Go outside, enjoy yourself. Spending your time managing crappy media only for yourself is no way to live your life, son.
The reporters want to see it, AMD needs to keep certain things trade secrets. As a compromise, they let the reporters in with an NDA, which lets them say "No, you can't write about that because we don't want that info getting out." AMD gets publicity, the journalists get a story, and everyone's happy. If you don't want the story, don't sign the NDA, and write an article about how "evil" AMD is for protecting it's interests. Everyone wins.
Is he an airline pilot now, too?
Just because you're too lazy or dumb to figure out what "efficient" is for a 12 ton water-borne vehicle doesn't mean everyone is. What, you expect us to feel sorry for you or nod in agreement that 2mpg is horrible just because you can only look at efficiency in relation to a car? I can't believe that the majority of people NEED that kind of crap to tell them how to think.
You've never had a real job in a real office, have you? Welcome to Life: 101 ;) Some people have necessary skills, but are hard to get along with and unpopular (think of the stereotypical overweight, smelly network admin). Some people are overbearing jackasses with no real talent, they just happen to be your boss and you have to get along with them. If your network administrator doesn't show and the network is down, you're SOL. FYI, you should compare "going out for coffee" with "hey guys, let's go kill some random monsters and farm the gold". Working on a project at work needs the industrial-grade logistics to finish, just like, say, a quest/instance/dungeon/whatever.