Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.
ehehehe! Or not.
Pigs are actually very clean. Sure, they like to roll in the mud to stay cool (and they tend to get sunburns quite easily, like me), and to keep bugs under control (I don't need that, not yet.)
If they'd be given a choice, I'm sure they'd rather hang out in green fields and pastures and run naked in the woods (I know I would!:), instead of being stuck in meat-producing-pig-hell-shitholes.
And I'm sure they have a soul, try to scratch them, it makes them crazy! They know pleasure, and to enjoy pleasure is no reason to go to hell (I hope!)
Going now, the sweet and sour spare ribs are waiting!
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It's not likely Dell will get a better deal from MS if they do ship IE (oh... wait...) Still, I never quite got the grasp of it: what are the security issues with having IE installed, *if* you don't use it to browse the net at all? Ship Windows with IE as much as you like, just set the default browser to Firefox. ?
The really sad thing is that when someone needs something really bad, they make it happen. In retrospective, the current administration really needed a 9/11. (sorry, wearing my conspiracy hat...)
Call me cynic, but I don't see it happening any time soon. Why? Because all that you suggested would make fraud a whole lot more difficult to implement, and easier to catch. And any current administration wouldn't want to have that, would it?
Is it just too much to ask the average user to remember and type 4-digit PINs? I've always thought the k.i.s.s. philosophy was a good one... --------- Born stupid? Try again.
1) "How can they not? They aren't full quality sure but(...)" Sorry, I wasn't clear: not lousy as in "lousy quality", but lousy as in a 30s sample, which, if I may differ, is not adequate by far. Still, and I'm only judging the places I know, I don't really consider a place playing loud "lastest hit" music to be an adequate one to listen to a potencial acquisition. Maybe I'm just picky, but I like peace and quietness:)
2) "CD's used to be returnable at some stores(...) Indeed. They stopped doing that about 14 years ago. Still, at the time, it was though job trying to copy (ah, sorry, backup) a cd with acceptable quality with a 386SX! Best copied to tape...
"You can now, however, listen to a complete cd in the store."
Yeah, most of them, actually. Still, see 1)
Being picky as I am, I'd rather listen to them at home.
3) "advertising is almost always misleading;" Point taken. I've learned after getting burned so often.
Fine, music and movies are not physical objects that you can grasp and hold and keep, but please consider the following:
a) I want to buy a car. I am indeed allowed to try it before I buy it.
I'd very much like to listen to the whole CD or watch the entire DVD before I buy it. No, lousy.wma/.mp3 samples don't quite cut it, thank you. Trailers? I've lost the count of how many films I've paid to watch because the trailer was absolutely convincing, only to curse Hollywood (and myself, for believing...) afterwards: the bloody trailer had pretty much everything good in the movie, i.e. movie = trailer + crap. Misleading advertisement, anyone?
If I don't like it, I'd like to give it back, thank you very much.
b) I buy a cool new Radeon X1800. Ok, I can't really try it before I buy it.
Maybe it sucks, maybe it doesn't. But if it does, back it goes. And I *can* return it.
With a CD or DVD I'm pretty much stuck with it, aren't I? "But you can sell it on EBay!" Riiiight. I'd rather return it. Hell, that should even be quite useful to the publishers, they'd get a nice, noise-free, feedback from the customer. "Well, we've sold 100000 copies, 70% were returned. You know, maybe we'll have to invest in quality after all!" (as if they didn't know...)
Again, if I don't like the CD/DVD, I'd like to get my money back!
c) I go to the movies, pay 8EUR ($10?), watch Starwars The Phantom Menace. Two hours later I ask my friend to kick me in the teeth, because I know no matter how crappy the movie was, I'll never get my money back. Fair, isn't it?
"And just like medical care, the legal system only works if everyone has the best counsel available to them."
And there lies the problem, doesn't it?
Just like medical care, only those who can afford it have the best counsel available to them. I don't really see how can the system work under these conditions...
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Can it cope with 1920x1080p? I would think the CPU is just not powerful enough.
I still dream of a MacMini-sized HTPC... sigh...
Maybe the loss is less noticeable in less educated people.
Gods, what an awful "joke". And will get me bad karma...
So, I guess it was banned by those corrupt officials, eh?
They seem to have been able to get away with it with their refined-over-the-years (i.e. monopoly-blessed) business model:
1. Produce crappy OS
2. Profit!!!
No extra steps needed, really.
(...)
"It was one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me,"
This is one of the coolest things I've ever read!
Definitely "News for nerds, stuff that matters" material. Thanks!
Trying to make a game fun is the hard bit.
Still, they made it very easy for us to make fun of the game ^_^
Intelligently designed? Well, there's at least one fact against your "theory": the original XBox controller :)
What, até à vista, bébé? :)
Yes, it does sound silly
Well, at least the movies are dubbed. This is a good thing.
Why doesn't music get dubbed as well??
(yes, being ironic...)
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.
:), instead of being stuck in meat-producing-pig-hell-shitholes.
ehehehe! Or not.
Pigs are actually very clean. Sure, they like to roll in the mud to stay cool (and they tend to get sunburns quite easily, like me), and to keep bugs under control (I don't need that, not yet.)
If they'd be given a choice, I'm sure they'd rather hang out in green fields and pastures and run naked in the woods (I know I would!
And I'm sure they have a soul, try to scratch them, it makes them crazy! They know pleasure, and to enjoy pleasure is no reason to go to hell (I hope!)
Going now, the sweet and sour spare ribs are waiting!
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No debate, really. Microkernel rules.
Maybe we shouldn't take it for granted that he knows what he's talking about...
It's not likely Dell will get a better deal from MS if they do ship IE (oh... wait...) Still, I never quite got the grasp of it: what are the security issues with having IE installed, *if* you don't use it to browse the net at all?
Ship Windows with IE as much as you like, just set the default browser to Firefox. ?
Good to see that facts and testability (sp?) of theories still mean something in the land under god.
You know, the parent's comment is actually quite insightful!
The really sad thing is that when someone needs something really bad, they make it happen. In retrospective, the current administration really needed a 9/11. (sorry, wearing my conspiracy hat...)
Yes, you are :)
Call me cynic, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
Why? Because all that you suggested would make fraud a whole lot more difficult to implement, and easier to catch. And any current administration wouldn't want to have that, would it?
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Nice, here we go!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0452718/
Is it just too much to ask the average user to remember and type 4-digit PINs?
I've always thought the k.i.s.s. philosophy was a good one...
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Hi there.
:)
1) "How can they not? They aren't full quality sure but(...)"
Sorry, I wasn't clear: not lousy as in "lousy quality", but lousy as in a 30s sample, which, if I may differ, is not adequate by far.
Still, and I'm only judging the places I know, I don't really consider a place playing loud "lastest hit" music to be an adequate one to listen to a potencial acquisition. Maybe I'm just picky, but I like peace and quietness
2) "CD's used to be returnable at some stores(...)
Indeed. They stopped doing that about 14 years ago. Still, at the time, it was though job trying to copy (ah, sorry, backup) a cd with acceptable quality with a 386SX! Best copied to tape...
"You can now, however, listen to a complete cd in the store."
Yeah, most of them, actually. Still, see 1)
Being picky as I am, I'd rather listen to them at home.
3) "advertising is almost always misleading;"
Point taken. I've learned after getting burned so often.
regs
Fine, music and movies are not physical objects that you can grasp and hold and keep, but please consider the following:
.wma/.mp3 samples don't quite cut it, thank you.
:)
a) I want to buy a car. I am indeed allowed to try it before I buy it.
I'd very much like to listen to the whole CD or watch the entire DVD before I buy it.
No, lousy
Trailers? I've lost the count of how many films I've paid to watch because the trailer was absolutely convincing, only to curse Hollywood (and myself, for believing...) afterwards: the bloody trailer had pretty much everything good in the movie, i.e. movie = trailer + crap.
Misleading advertisement, anyone?
If I don't like it, I'd like to give it back, thank you very much.
b) I buy a cool new Radeon X1800. Ok, I can't really try it before I buy it.
Maybe it sucks, maybe it doesn't. But if it does, back it goes. And I *can* return it.
With a CD or DVD I'm pretty much stuck with it, aren't I? "But you can sell it on EBay!"
Riiiight. I'd rather return it. Hell, that should even be quite useful to the publishers, they'd get a nice, noise-free, feedback from the customer. "Well, we've sold 100000 copies, 70% were returned. You know, maybe we'll have to invest in quality after all!" (as if they didn't know...)
Again, if I don't like the CD/DVD, I'd like to get my money back!
c) I go to the movies, pay 8EUR ($10?), watch Starwars The Phantom Menace. Two hours later I ask my friend to kick me in the teeth, because I know no matter how crappy the movie was, I'll never get my money back. Fair, isn't it?
I know this will never change
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And there lies the problem, doesn't it?
Just like medical care, only those who can afford it have the best counsel available to them. I don't really see how can the system work under these conditions...
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Rediculous is absolutely ridiculous...!
sorry... had to say it.
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