Huh. I just installed the Ubuntu Karmic alpha, and the boot speed is insanely quick. They're looking at 10s average boot times for the next release... spinning disks are fine if you run a properly designed OS.
Right on. Whistleblowers should have no protections, and you should always live in fear of retribution for what you have ever said from people with more money and influence in the legal system than you have. Why should we encourage people to expose corruption? Let's just keep it all swept under the rug, with the implicit threat of public unmasking and blackballing or worse as a way to keep people from getting the truth out.
Bloggers aren't journalists, not when you work at a newspaper. They're competition. Don't think for a moment that wasn't what the Times was thinking when they published this. They aren't out to make the world a better place... they're out to make a buck. And bloggers are cutting into that, so they have all kinds of incentive to make it dangerous for any reporting done by anyone that's not under their control.
But you don't know the name of the journalist's sources. Since the source IS the journalist in this case, it is entirely inappropriate to strip them of their anonymity.
The Internet is just a passing fad, too;) The iPhone may change people's expectations of gaming, but it won't become a console-replacing behemoth in the industry. It'll simply get people to expect more out of their mobile devices.
You may not now, but two years ago when I bought my 8800 Verizon had the GPS locked so you had to use their service, and their data plans prevented you from tethering, at least until you paid almost 50% more than competing carriers.
Here in Colorado they use magnesium chloride to salt the roads. That shit is like glue when it gets on your car. An automatic car wash won't get it all in one pass if you've let it dry on. Only real way to clean the car is at one of those manual washes with the foam brushes to scrub it off. I'll hit those every other week when it's snowy, and periodically hit an automatic to try to get some of it off the bottom of the car.
As an owner of a 61" DLP... get the component cables. They make the Wii a lot nicer on an high-def box, the overlays are a lot crisper and the games just look better. It's still not high-definition, but it made the Wii a lot more playable and fun for me.
Ubisoft is the company behind all the Raving Rabbids games for the Wii, which are some of the more enjoyable and popular 3rd party Wii games... I don't think they're completely on the "OMGMOARGRAFIX!!@" boat.
Get the component cables... it really does improve the Wii's output, and it will let you properly use a widescreen TV. It's still not HD, but 480p is a lot nicer than 480i
IE was decent, and it was shipped with Windows. That is what killed Netscape. If people had a computer with just an OS, and had to choose a browser at the time, they almost invariably went with Netscape. It was the bundling of IE with Windows that killed off competitors.
They haven't done it yet. But Microsoft hasn't really given most of us a good reason to trust them... why should we now? Because Freetardo Jones, who for all we know is an MS employee, says so?
I pay for the breadth of channels via cable, but at least in my area Comcast is required to send OTA HD channels unchanged over the cable, so I also have the cable plugged directly into my MythTV machine and I can record/watch anything that's aired OTA in HD, and I can still watch all the rest of the channels Comcast offers that I can't get with an antenna (mostly the History, Discovery, Food and Cartoon network channels).
I would bet that the type of people who still receive OTA signals are the many times type of people who would think their TV is broken or that they're getting ripped off seeing those black bars. There's a non-trivial portion of the population who thinks that someone is hiding video from them when they see those black bars...
Easily fabricated? Surely you jest. They recognized backgrounds and shoe styles, then traced it to online accounts to find the kitten killer woman. How in the hell is that in any way "easily fabricated"? The Internet justice movement may be a bunch of vigilantes, but it's very fucking well-informed vigilantes. If something doesn't smell right, someone will say so and there will be a huge discussion of it. I'm much less afraid of Internet vigilantes fabricating shit than I am of my government fabricating evidence of, say, WMDs.
I kid, I kid. Legged contraptions will never fully replace wheeled vehicles, but there is a huge niche that they could fill that nothing else does right now.
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There are a few places we can look at...
Huh. I just installed the Ubuntu Karmic alpha, and the boot speed is insanely quick. They're looking at 10s average boot times for the next release... spinning disks are fine if you run a properly designed OS.
Right on. Whistleblowers should have no protections, and you should always live in fear of retribution for what you have ever said from people with more money and influence in the legal system than you have. Why should we encourage people to expose corruption? Let's just keep it all swept under the rug, with the implicit threat of public unmasking and blackballing or worse as a way to keep people from getting the truth out.
Bloggers aren't journalists, not when you work at a newspaper. They're competition. Don't think for a moment that wasn't what the Times was thinking when they published this. They aren't out to make the world a better place... they're out to make a buck. And bloggers are cutting into that, so they have all kinds of incentive to make it dangerous for any reporting done by anyone that's not under their control.
But you don't know the name of the journalist's sources. Since the source IS the journalist in this case, it is entirely inappropriate to strip them of their anonymity.
The Internet is just a passing fad, too ;) The iPhone may change people's expectations of gaming, but it won't become a console-replacing behemoth in the industry. It'll simply get people to expect more out of their mobile devices.
Good luck getting any app approved for the iPhone.
The difference is you don't spread drugs accidentally to everyone you come into contact with
The word is "foolproof", as in fools can't break it. WTF is a fullproof?
You may not now, but two years ago when I bought my 8800 Verizon had the GPS locked so you had to use their service, and their data plans prevented you from tethering, at least until you paid almost 50% more than competing carriers.
Here in Colorado they use magnesium chloride to salt the roads. That shit is like glue when it gets on your car. An automatic car wash won't get it all in one pass if you've let it dry on. Only real way to clean the car is at one of those manual washes with the foam brushes to scrub it off. I'll hit those every other week when it's snowy, and periodically hit an automatic to try to get some of it off the bottom of the car.
If Nintendo came out with a fully backwards-compatible HDWii, I'd buy it right now, and give my current one to my parents or my brother.
As an owner of a 61" DLP... get the component cables. They make the Wii a lot nicer on an high-def box, the overlays are a lot crisper and the games just look better. It's still not high-definition, but it made the Wii a lot more playable and fun for me.
Ubisoft is the company behind all the Raving Rabbids games for the Wii, which are some of the more enjoyable and popular 3rd party Wii games... I don't think they're completely on the "OMGMOARGRAFIX!!@" boat.
Get the component cables... it really does improve the Wii's output, and it will let you properly use a widescreen TV. It's still not HD, but 480p is a lot nicer than 480i
Depends... how big is your friend, and how ok would he be with you doing that?
IE was decent, and it was shipped with Windows. That is what killed Netscape. If people had a computer with just an OS, and had to choose a browser at the time, they almost invariably went with Netscape. It was the bundling of IE with Windows that killed off competitors.
They haven't done it yet. But Microsoft hasn't really given most of us a good reason to trust them... why should we now? Because Freetardo Jones, who for all we know is an MS employee, says so?
You can't be from AOL... you used correct capitalization and the proper homonym of "too". I call shenanigans.
I pay for the breadth of channels via cable, but at least in my area Comcast is required to send OTA HD channels unchanged over the cable, so I also have the cable plugged directly into my MythTV machine and I can record/watch anything that's aired OTA in HD, and I can still watch all the rest of the channels Comcast offers that I can't get with an antenna (mostly the History, Discovery, Food and Cartoon network channels).
I would bet that the type of people who still receive OTA signals are the many times type of people who would think their TV is broken or that they're getting ripped off seeing those black bars. There's a non-trivial portion of the population who thinks that someone is hiding video from them when they see those black bars...
Did it occur to you that it may have grazed his hand, rather than striking it directly?
Easily fabricated? Surely you jest. They recognized backgrounds and shoe styles, then traced it to online accounts to find the kitten killer woman. How in the hell is that in any way "easily fabricated"? The Internet justice movement may be a bunch of vigilantes, but it's very fucking well-informed vigilantes. If something doesn't smell right, someone will say so and there will be a huge discussion of it. I'm much less afraid of Internet vigilantes fabricating shit than I am of my government fabricating evidence of, say, WMDs.
Scatology? Eeeewwww...
Are you sure they're more efficient? ;)
I kid, I kid. Legged contraptions will never fully replace wheeled vehicles, but there is a huge niche that they could fill that nothing else does right now.