She seems to have had a change of heart. She tries to back peddle on her record a bit. But you have to give her credit for seeing that the RIAA is on a bad course.
The only thing I'll give that soulless harpy credit for is saying things that get her paid. Sorry Hilary, you don't just get to wipe your slate clean after being the evil mouthpiece of the beast, you knew full well what you were doing at the time, and saying 'Gee, sorry, my bad' doesn't change that.
Although the concept struck me as amusing, given that carrier-grade requires 99.999 (5 nines) to 99.9999 (6 nines) percent reliability, still I couldn't imagine that MS would allow itself to be trumped by this.
Show me standard pc hardware that is five 9s before you start worrying about Microsoft.
That's interesting, they compare the popularity of thepiratebay.org (21st in Sweden by Alexa), with CNN.com (125th in Sweden, Alexa). Color me surprised: a swedish site is more popular in sweden than an american site.
I've heard that coffee begins to deteriorate after more than 15 minutes and that it is best served immediately after brewing at close to 200 degrees F.
Considering that the coffee in question comes from the house of arches (and most likely tastes like it has been brewed in Ronald's colon) does it even matter?
The US is supposed to pay 1/4 of the UN's expenses, and they get what in return?
The US is supposed to pay UN dues, just like everyone else. Pity they don't. You could always try paying your dues before complaining.
How much of the UN's work is created by the US's interventions in other sovereign nations? I'd say that you are getting a hell of a lot more than you are paying for, and certainly more than you deserve. Shame on you people!
The US is supposed to pay 1/4 of the UN's expenses, and they get what in return?
The US is supposed to pay UN dues, just like everyone else. Pity they don't. You could always try paying your dues before complaining.
How much of the UN's work is created by the US's interventions in other sovereign nations? I'd say that you are getting a hell of a lot more than you are paying for, and certainly more than you deserve. Shame on you people!
The article goes on to explain that six other countries have tried laser-enrichment schemes and failed, but this effort has succeeded, and the only possible hint at why is that this new approach is that it is more "elegant and sophisticated".
The difference is that we use a smaller shark that is found in Australian waters.
What we're seeing here is just the free market at work, re-adjusting itself to the distortion of the past 20 or so years. It's clearly obvious to many that a movie star is not worth $20 million per movie these days. They can easily be replaced by high-quality, CG actors and actresses. Thus their real value has declined significantly.
Expenses of any kind in a movie are only relevant when compared to profits. Sure, it might cost me $20 million to get an actor, but if the movie makes back it's costs and goes on to make a profit then I could care less how much I had to pay them. Do you really think that the studios would make a multi name actor picture (like X-Men for example) if they didn't think that they could make back the money? A 'successful' indie movie will rarely gross anything even approaching what an average big budget will - they make a profit by costing less to make.
Let's say you're a company. You just bought 500 workstations from Dell last year, they are Pentium IV 2.1 Ghz machines with 512 MB of Ram (plenty for your company). You need to keep up with Microsoft Operating Systems because Microsoft will drop support for the OS version you currently use....
Sorry, but the support from Microsoft argument is not going to ever make sense to me. I've never gotten any reasonable support from that company - ever! My favourite story is the time we tried to report a bug in SQL server to Microsoft and they refused to listen to anything we said until we gave them a credit card number so that they could charge us - we told them that we already had a workaround and hung up on them.
Now you have to decide to "upgrade" to the older version of the OS or this new Vista thing. But wait, Vista has more stringent hardware requirements. Now as a manager do you buy more hardware (which has no appreciable value) or do you upgrade to an OS that may drop support in under 5 years or do you switch OS vendors altogether?
What's wrong with putting your cash into a citrix server?
True, however, the reach of the FDA *is* surprisingly broad. For example contact lenses and tampons are regulated by the FDA... and they are neither food nor drugs.
I hate Yahoo search, I REALLY hate MSN search... If they had combined I may have spontaneously combusted from the new, dangerously high levels of hatred coursing through my veins. That was close.
I don't know, YaMShooN has got kind of a ring to it.
You think home pc's are expensive? You haven't seen anything til you make a corporate workstation meant for research, CAD/CAM or compile heave applications. I've made workstations capable of 4.86 teraflops, sucking all 1000 watts out of the wall, handling a minimum of 85 fps or so playing F.E.A.R.
Playing FEAR qualifies as research? Can I come and work for you? Please?
About 2 months ago, the management of Microsoft and Google testified, under oath in front of a Congressional committee, that they fully supported freedom of speech/press and that they greatly regret being "forced" by Beijing to censor their Internet content. If both companies indeed regret such censorship, then I fully expect them to fund this Canadian effort to bust the Chinese firewall.
By time you are management in a big company, who actually registers on congress's radar enough to be called before a committee, the parts of your brain involved in feeling emotions other than greed are so atrophied as to be useless. Seriously, these aren't just people who lie through their teeth, they are people who are incapable of even recognizing when they're lying anymore - they probably went straight to the Chinese embassy after the congressional committee to 'regret free speech' and report some more thought criminals.
polygraphs are worthless pseudocience, whose only merit is in their ability to trick the gullible into confessing. They can be trivially defeated, for example by tensing your anal sphincter during the control questions (the ones where they try to get you to lie), in order to set a high baseline.
Now there's a bit of info I hope I never have to use.
If the Guardian Unlimited doesn't even know what the theory is proposing, why are they reporting it?
Because (oddly enough) it's cheaper to get a staff writer to regurgitate someone else's article than to pay some scrubber to get her titties out on page 3.
Uh, okay, not quite sure what this thing actually does? Except fire neutrons at stuff... but while I'm sure that's an amusing thing to do, I doubt that would attract 2,000 international scientists annualy.
If Nintendo was in the headlines because they allegedly molested children, they would undoubtedly never sell another console or game again.
Considering the amount of people who actually *bothered* to show up outside Jackson's child rape trial to show 'support' for him then Nintendo could call their console 'Underage gangbang: Jesus juice edition' and there will still be plenty of idiots willing to buy it. Geez, turning up to any trial, let alone a child molestation trial, with your home made 'king of pop' sign, screaming 'we love you Michael' is about as tasteful as turning up to a funeral dressed as a clown and riding a unicycle.
God, imagine being the fucktard who thought up Wii? So, you're the wee guy...
I'd argue that offloading the graphic generation from the CPU/RAM to a video board and video memory might be a good thing.
I think that this would be a reasonable argument if only Microsoft wasn't programming it. Seriously, if Microsoft wants the best possible performance they should let the graphics card companies (all 2 of them) do their own binaries for the chrome. How hard would it be to send high level data to the vendors drivers and just write a software renderer for unsupported display hardware?
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The only thing I'll give that soulless harpy credit for is saying things that get her paid. Sorry Hilary, you don't just get to wipe your slate clean after being the evil mouthpiece of the beast, you knew full well what you were doing at the time, and saying 'Gee, sorry, my bad' doesn't change that.
Why exactly would a magazine targetted at PC users give a flying fuck what mac sites think? They aren't the target market.
Show me standard pc hardware that is five 9s before you start worrying about Microsoft.
In other news: tits more popular than dog crap.
Considering that the coffee in question comes from the house of arches (and most likely tastes like it has been brewed in Ronald's colon) does it even matter?
The US is supposed to pay UN dues, just like everyone else. Pity they don't. You could always try paying your dues before complaining.
How much of the UN's work is created by the US's interventions in other sovereign nations? I'd say that you are getting a hell of a lot more than you are paying for, and certainly more than you deserve. Shame on you people!
The US is supposed to pay UN dues, just like everyone else. Pity they don't. You could always try paying your dues before complaining.
How much of the UN's work is created by the US's interventions in other sovereign nations? I'd say that you are getting a hell of a lot more than you are paying for, and certainly more than you deserve. Shame on you people!
The difference is that we use a smaller shark that is found in Australian waters.
Expenses of any kind in a movie are only relevant when compared to profits. Sure, it might cost me $20 million to get an actor, but if the movie makes back it's costs and goes on to make a profit then I could care less how much I had to pay them. Do you really think that the studios would make a multi name actor picture (like X-Men for example) if they didn't think that they could make back the money? A 'successful' indie movie will rarely gross anything even approaching what an average big budget will - they make a profit by costing less to make.
Sorry, but the support from Microsoft argument is not going to ever make sense to me. I've never gotten any reasonable support from that company - ever! My favourite story is the time we tried to report a bug in SQL server to Microsoft and they refused to listen to anything we said until we gave them a credit card number so that they could charge us - we told them that we already had a workaround and hung up on them.
Now you have to decide to "upgrade" to the older version of the OS or this new Vista thing. But wait, Vista has more stringent hardware requirements. Now as a manager do you buy more hardware (which has no appreciable value) or do you upgrade to an OS that may drop support in under 5 years or do you switch OS vendors altogether?
What's wrong with putting your cash into a citrix server?
WHAT??!!! Cough splutter cough ...
I don't know, YaMShooN has got kind of a ring to it.
No, but it will look really good and you'll be able to download it for free - just like the last one. Seriously ... not ... funny.
Playing FEAR qualifies as research? Can I come and work for you? Please?
By time you are management in a big company, who actually registers on congress's radar enough to be called before a committee, the parts of your brain involved in feeling emotions other than greed are so atrophied as to be useless. Seriously, these aren't just people who lie through their teeth, they are people who are incapable of even recognizing when they're lying anymore - they probably went straight to the Chinese embassy after the congressional committee to 'regret free speech' and report some more thought criminals.
I'm not wearing a sailor suit and piloting a huge robot either, if we must concentrate on our differences.
Now there's a bit of info I hope I never have to use.
Because (oddly enough) it's cheaper to get a staff writer to regurgitate someone else's article than to pay some scrubber to get her titties out on page 3.
Well, I heard that there would be punch and pie.
Considering the amount of people who actually *bothered* to show up outside Jackson's child rape trial to show 'support' for him then Nintendo could call their console 'Underage gangbang: Jesus juice edition' and there will still be plenty of idiots willing to buy it. Geez, turning up to any trial, let alone a child molestation trial, with your home made 'king of pop' sign, screaming 'we love you Michael' is about as tasteful as turning up to a funeral dressed as a clown and riding a unicycle.
God, imagine being the fucktard who thought up Wii? So, you're the wee guy ...
The only redeeming feature of Street Fighter was the unexpected prison handjob joke.
Well thats certainly not a way to win over your demograph...
Better than saying that it will be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.
Fortunately, not all sales people want to work for the church of Scientology.
Still a dickface.
I think that this would be a reasonable argument if only Microsoft wasn't programming it. Seriously, if Microsoft wants the best possible performance they should let the graphics card companies (all 2 of them) do their own binaries for the chrome. How hard would it be to send high level data to the vendors drivers and just write a software renderer for unsupported display hardware?