Because some geeks are more in love with Apple than with Microsoft.
Apple is pretty evil too in their business practices, and anyone who denies it is just as much of a fanboy as those who deny Microsoft has ever done anything wrong either.
Apple was very smart in creating their specific dock connector and then upselling it to other companies.
There's no reason a standard USB interface couldn't have been decided upon by various media players that allowed digital playback and user interface to be exposed in both directions, but instead we have the iPhone dock connector in cars and on stereos.
Sounds like an issue with Oblivion rather than NXE. If Oblivion allows you to create so many game saves, Oblivion should offer a good UI for cleaning up it's junk.
I disagree. Saved games are universal in the sense that all games have them, and therefore managing them should be the duty of the platform, not the individual game.
First and foremost, those backbones and wires and capital were primarily paid for by taxpayers. Bell Canada is a government-created monopoly -- we needed phone service and we wanted good nation-wide phone service, so the government paid for the massive infrastructure necessary to get them going instead of having dozens of tiny incompatible services.
So while Bell Canada has a monopoly on national wiring it is ONLY because taxpayers paid for it, and as a result they are required to follow certain rules in the interests of those taxpayers.
Any or all of the above may also crash or disable your Windows PC. Enjoy that.
Webcam? Does it have Vista drivers? haha, sucker.
Or the other way; How about the printer? Whoops, not supporting old OSs, the scanner won't work on your PC running XP, upgrade to Vista.
The Game? Yeah, sorry, made for DX10, wont' run on your video card anyway.
Tax software? Why on earth would you use tax software? (never did figure that out).
I had a friend install Fedora 9 on his laptop and loved it, but wanted to install a program. I told him to go to 'add/remove programs' and search for what he wanted, then just install it. He was amazed at the amount of available free software to install directly without fear of compatibility or uninstallability (made that up). Off the shelf software becomes irrelevant quickly.
Most importantly however is the fact that most computer users don't actually know how to use their PCs for anything beyond 2 or 3 basic tasks, and they find learning how to do new tasks too tedious to be bothered.
Sitting those people in front of Linux, I find they more quickly grasp how to do things than they do with Vista, and feel more comfortable doing things because most everything acts the way they expect it to when they experiment.
The best part about sitting a Windows user in front of my Linux desktop is saying "go ahead and play around, you won't break anything."
The average Windows user is so accustomed to rebooting Windows and having driver updates, etc. screw up their system that they've become afraid to do anything new. The new users who aren't jaded yet also aren't trained enough to be afraid of change, its the power users who notice all the little tweaks and changes that make Linux not work the same as their Windows desktop.
The entire country is founded on immigration obviously, aside from the natives who got mostly wiped out that is.
Believing immigration is bad for America is just navel gazing stupidity. There are no 20th generation American Citizens, from long lines of American ancestry. There are however thousands of years of Chinese dynastic and other histories.
To cut off immigration is to say "we have enough people now" since everyone else is recently immigrated too (from a global historical perspective). There is no otherwise functional difference between the immigrant and the naturally born citizen.
Who bombed the FBI building in Oklahoma after all? A chinaman? Maybe a Russian spy? Yeah.
My freethinking is what empowers me to believe in God. Being a techy who cares about geeky science stuff should require me not to, but that would be submitting to the status quo "just because".
I'm free to think for myself, and I do so, religiously. I slam science geeks for not believing in God just because their peers don't when they haven't put any good thought into it themselves from the same angle I'd slam someone for not believing in evolution when they haven't put any good thought into it either.
The hard part isn't the 3500 Teslas, the hard part is the interconnecting of them in a functionally useful way.
Interconnecting 3500 Teslas at all isn't the hard part. Interconnecting them so that they can produce real results to real problems and be programmed for with a realistic API is the problem.
At several points, the Top 500 list's top computers have actually had less hardware than some of the lower entries, but better interconnect technology to take advantage of that hardware more efficiently.
After seeing all the naysayers reply, I had to throw my $0.02 in: I run about one Folding simulation a night on my PS3 and I'm glad to be contributing to real scientific research.
if everyone shared your attitude, no one would bother searching for a cure for AIDS, and manned flight would have been given up on long before it was even attempted.
Almost nobody funded AIDS research until it was shown to exist at all. There were almost no dollars in flight research until it was shownt o be possible either.
What's wrong exactly with funding things that are known to be possible over things that aren't until they're at the very least proven likely?
Mutually assured destruction is undermined by weapons that can be deployed covertly.
If you could deploy weapons of mass destruction to the opposing 'force' without their knowledge, they would never get to hit the 'fire' button and they'd be dead without firing back.
Mutually assured destruction is only valid because both parties were launching nukes in big ICBMs that would be seen over the oceans/northern ice sheet in time for a counter-strike to be launched.
What you need to consider is that I said "driving very nicely". That means intelligently accelerating down hills gliding to coasting up hills, allowing myself to go under the speed limit over crests if not being tail-gated, etc.
The point being, I wanted to see what kind of fuel economy I could achieve with my engine. In the interests of disclosure, I fill up with almost exclusively Sunoco Ultra 94 octane gasoline when driving (my wife may not, lol).
My typical highway driving in this car is usually around 32-34mpg, at 80+ km/h. This is the Canadian version of the car and in my experience, that can make a difference too.
I'd like to ask if you actually own a Prius, and if you've actually paid attention to their ratings.
According to even the EPA, the 40mpg rating is overstated. This reviewer got the same mileage overall that I get in my car.
The Prius does not in most cases for most people achieve more than 40mpg on the highway with non-aggressive driving, and does substantially worse if you drive aggressively due to the substantially lower power to weight ratio.
In-town driving is another issue altogether, and if that's all you do, then yay for you. Personally I drive over 30,000km a year and most of it is highway driving.
PS, I paid less than $17,000 for my GM. Want to calculate how efficient that Prius would have to be to compensate for the price difference? Didn't think so.
And what do you propose happens to such a piece of source code when the upstream no longer accepts patches or releases updates? Do you then propose to share patches between users to avoid illegally distributing your modified versions in the future?
The question is about the punishment fitting the crime, not whether the crime is a crime or not.
Tell you what, we'll pass a law that speeding results in getting your arms cut off, and we'll see a few numbnuts comments about "Why should people be allowed to speed?" after the first guy loses his arms.
Well said. It annoys me when people don't understand what Trademark protection is all about. I can (and do) use the words 'Pepsi' and 'Coke' frequently both online and in person, but if I were to start tagging photos I took of Jolt as "a Coke", that would be a potential problem.
Buying a Prius is pretty high up there on the stupid scale.
If I drive really nicely on the highway, no aggressive acceleration or passing, I get 38mpg with my stock GM 205hp V6 engine. I'm not sure why I'd pay for that much heavier of a car with all those extra parts to break on for almost no savings beyond that.
Not only is it not relevant (they could cite Trademark but not Copyright on most user-created photos), but its just anti-fan, which is a great way to alienate people.
Imagine, now the sites will have pictures of all other brands of car except Toyota. I'm sure that would make Toyota execs proud.
the long-winded and repetitive description of exactly how dead the parrot is which characterizes Monty Python's sketch.
Which also characterizes many other Monty Python sketches, from the Cheese Shop to the Bookstore (Charles Dikkkens with three k's anyone?) to a soldier having every limb hacked off and insisting he can still fight.
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Because some geeks are more in love with Apple than with Microsoft.
Apple is pretty evil too in their business practices, and anyone who denies it is just as much of a fanboy as those who deny Microsoft has ever done anything wrong either.
Apple was very smart in creating their specific dock connector and then upselling it to other companies.
There's no reason a standard USB interface couldn't have been decided upon by various media players that allowed digital playback and user interface to be exposed in both directions, but instead we have the iPhone dock connector in cars and on stereos.
You mean Google Skynet, don't you?
I disagree. Saved games are universal in the sense that all games have them, and therefore managing them should be the duty of the platform, not the individual game.
First and foremost, those backbones and wires and capital were primarily paid for by taxpayers. Bell Canada is a government-created monopoly -- we needed phone service and we wanted good nation-wide phone service, so the government paid for the massive infrastructure necessary to get them going instead of having dozens of tiny incompatible services.
So while Bell Canada has a monopoly on national wiring it is ONLY because taxpayers paid for it, and as a result they are required to follow certain rules in the interests of those taxpayers.
You've never worked in government, have you?
2005 is the modern era for a government OS review.
Any or all of the above may also crash or disable your Windows PC. Enjoy that.
Webcam? Does it have Vista drivers? haha, sucker.
Or the other way; How about the printer? Whoops, not supporting old OSs, the scanner won't work on your PC running XP, upgrade to Vista.
The Game? Yeah, sorry, made for DX10, wont' run on your video card anyway.
Tax software? Why on earth would you use tax software? (never did figure that out).
I had a friend install Fedora 9 on his laptop and loved it, but wanted to install a program. I told him to go to 'add/remove programs' and search for what he wanted, then just install it. He was amazed at the amount of available free software to install directly without fear of compatibility or uninstallability (made that up). Off the shelf software becomes irrelevant quickly.
Most importantly however is the fact that most computer users don't actually know how to use their PCs for anything beyond 2 or 3 basic tasks, and they find learning how to do new tasks too tedious to be bothered.
Sitting those people in front of Linux, I find they more quickly grasp how to do things than they do with Vista, and feel more comfortable doing things because most everything acts the way they expect it to when they experiment.
The best part about sitting a Windows user in front of my Linux desktop is saying "go ahead and play around, you won't break anything."
The average Windows user is so accustomed to rebooting Windows and having driver updates, etc. screw up their system that they've become afraid to do anything new. The new users who aren't jaded yet also aren't trained enough to be afraid of change, its the power users who notice all the little tweaks and changes that make Linux not work the same as their Windows desktop.
The entire country is founded on immigration obviously, aside from the natives who got mostly wiped out that is.
Believing immigration is bad for America is just navel gazing stupidity. There are no 20th generation American Citizens, from long lines of American ancestry. There are however thousands of years of Chinese dynastic and other histories.
To cut off immigration is to say "we have enough people now" since everyone else is recently immigrated too (from a global historical perspective). There is no otherwise functional difference between the immigrant and the naturally born citizen.
Who bombed the FBI building in Oklahoma after all? A chinaman? Maybe a Russian spy? Yeah.
My freethinking is what empowers me to believe in God. Being a techy who cares about geeky science stuff should require me not to, but that would be submitting to the status quo "just because".
I'm free to think for myself, and I do so, religiously. I slam science geeks for not believing in God just because their peers don't when they haven't put any good thought into it themselves from the same angle I'd slam someone for not believing in evolution when they haven't put any good thought into it either.
You're even understating the problem a bit there.
The hard part isn't the 3500 Teslas, the hard part is the interconnecting of them in a functionally useful way.
Interconnecting 3500 Teslas at all isn't the hard part. Interconnecting them so that they can produce real results to real problems and be programmed for with a realistic API is the problem.
At several points, the Top 500 list's top computers have actually had less hardware than some of the lower entries, but better interconnect technology to take advantage of that hardware more efficiently.
After seeing all the naysayers reply, I had to throw my $0.02 in: I run about one Folding simulation a night on my PS3 and I'm glad to be contributing to real scientific research.
Almost nobody funded AIDS research until it was shown to exist at all. There were almost no dollars in flight research until it was shownt o be possible either.
What's wrong exactly with funding things that are known to be possible over things that aren't until they're at the very least proven likely?
Luckily there's already a "-1 for enemies" and you can just mark the person as someone you don't like the comments of if they annoy you.
Personally, you're too thin-skinned to have an opinion I'd care to contemplate -- I found the response somewhat entertaining.
Mutually assured destruction is undermined by weapons that can be deployed covertly.
If you could deploy weapons of mass destruction to the opposing 'force' without their knowledge, they would never get to hit the 'fire' button and they'd be dead without firing back.
Mutually assured destruction is only valid because both parties were launching nukes in big ICBMs that would be seen over the oceans/northern ice sheet in time for a counter-strike to be launched.
What you need to consider is that I said "driving very nicely". That means intelligently accelerating down hills gliding to coasting up hills, allowing myself to go under the speed limit over crests if not being tail-gated, etc.
The point being, I wanted to see what kind of fuel economy I could achieve with my engine. In the interests of disclosure, I fill up with almost exclusively Sunoco Ultra 94 octane gasoline when driving (my wife may not, lol).
My typical highway driving in this car is usually around 32-34mpg, at 80+ km/h. This is the Canadian version of the car and in my experience, that can make a difference too.
I'd like to ask if you actually own a Prius, and if you've actually paid attention to their ratings.
According to even the EPA, the 40mpg rating is overstated. This reviewer got the same mileage overall that I get in my car.
The Prius does not in most cases for most people achieve more than 40mpg on the highway with non-aggressive driving, and does substantially worse if you drive aggressively due to the substantially lower power to weight ratio.
In-town driving is another issue altogether, and if that's all you do, then yay for you. Personally I drive over 30,000km a year and most of it is highway driving.
PS, I paid less than $17,000 for my GM. Want to calculate how efficient that Prius would have to be to compensate for the price difference? Didn't think so.
And what do you propose happens to such a piece of source code when the upstream no longer accepts patches or releases updates? Do you then propose to share patches between users to avoid illegally distributing your modified versions in the future?
The question is about the punishment fitting the crime, not whether the crime is a crime or not.
Tell you what, we'll pass a law that speeding results in getting your arms cut off, and we'll see a few numbnuts comments about "Why should people be allowed to speed?" after the first guy loses his arms.
lmao ... lmao.
Gotta love how you position your view of historical accounts by throwing 'myth' in the sentence.
That said, the Exodus is hardly the beginning of the stories foretelling of the coming of a Christ.
In fact, the Exodus itself is frequently cited as such a foretelling.
Well said. It annoys me when people don't understand what Trademark protection is all about. I can (and do) use the words 'Pepsi' and 'Coke' frequently both online and in person, but if I were to start tagging photos I took of Jolt as "a Coke", that would be a potential problem.
Buying a Prius is pretty high up there on the stupid scale.
If I drive really nicely on the highway, no aggressive acceleration or passing, I get 38mpg with my stock GM 205hp V6 engine. I'm not sure why I'd pay for that much heavier of a car with all those extra parts to break on for almost no savings beyond that.
I've seen a couple cool cars by Toyota, but to issue DMCA takedowns like this is pretty silly.
Not only is it not relevant (they could cite Trademark but not Copyright on most user-created photos), but its just anti-fan, which is a great way to alienate people.
Imagine, now the sites will have pictures of all other brands of car except Toyota. I'm sure that would make Toyota execs proud.
Which also characterizes many other Monty Python sketches, from the Cheese Shop to the Bookstore (Charles Dikkkens with three k's anyone?) to a soldier having every limb hacked off and insisting he can still fight.