Mainly because the term is flat wrong. Aquittal implies "not quilty." They didn't remove Clinton from office because it would have been a terribly bad thing for the country as a whole. He was "quilty as charged" all the way.
I'll agree with that. I don't believe that Bush Sr deserved to be impeached for anything he did. I also don't think Clinton should have been. He did lie under oath, but I'll take a lot of lying under oath to a little "trampling on your rights."
Bill Clinton was impeached, yet Hillary still shows a good chance at getting into office. Impeaching Bush Sr wouldn't have made any difference in Bush Jr getting elected.
The problem is, once you walk outside the doors of their building, their right to detain you goes out the door with you. AFAIK, They can keep you IN the store if they have suspicion, but once you're out the door they're not allowed to do ANYTHING about it. It's a job for the police after that.
I remember when I was little, I didn't know that calling the time number cost you $0.50 per call. I thought it was cool and called it 18 times in a row. My dad was pretty ticked when he saw the $9 charge on the phone bill.
On the contrary, I've spoken to many people who have used and hated Vista and a few who have sworn if off entirely. I started using Vista at the end of February. I dropped it and switched back to XP in the middle of July. The few benefits of using Vista don't come anywhere near the downsides. I liked the new look & some explorer elements, but there were some core elements that just wouldnt work the way I wanted, as well as many large issues with stability. (The computer was built in february with over the top specs.) XP runs very fast and solid as a rock on it.
I could go into details, but I don't want to become a troll. Suffice to say, I'm happy on XP, wasn't on Vista.
That probably won't happen. Linus has publically stated that the GPL3 is utter crap. I think that sends a pretty large message to a great many software projects. The linux kernel isn't going to GPL3 anyway...
While I agree with your sentiment, I do have a problem with grown-up software companies walking around acting whiny spoiled children. As much as Microsoft may deserve a "jab in the heart" on some level, Google needs to get over their emotion driven "issues" and move on to more, truly important, things.
Well, there's no point in downloading the new multiplayer maps if you can't get online and play them...unless you plan on 1v1 or something. The people who want this content are already gold subscribers.
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Funny, I've had to install it hundreds of times and I'd say my attempts per success is very close to 1:1. I've very recently encountered my first failure when building a new computer. XP (SP2 slipstreamed as well) would bluescreen on the install. Had to use Vista instead (how's that for mildly ironic? Other than that I can honestly say I've never had any issues installing Windows...
Windows is not nearly as unstable as the FUDDERS would like to make it seem.
I think his point was that it looks like it might be impossible to RUN YOUR OWN dedicated server the way so many other PC games allow you to do, assuming they stick with the traditional "Live" way of doing things. There are thousands of user-run dedicated servers out there for the HL/HL2 series, the UT series, and TONS of other games. Some of them are extremely popular in their communities.
The way live has traditionally worked, you only host a server for a single "match" at which point you can either host another one or search for a game yourself. The major hang-up in this is the added system demands coming from running a server and playing on that server at the same time.
#8 is not technically correct most of the time. Almost all ammo is copper jacketed lead now. The copper CAN spark when it hits something. Obviously it's nothing like the hollywood SHOWER of sparks that we're all used to though. You also DO see "sparks" flying out the muzzle of the gun, but they're not really casued by metal. It's more like unburned powder flying out the end of the gun still burning in little specks that resemble a metal-on-metal spark.
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Personally, I installed Vista in the first try with no problems at all. The hardest thing I had to do was put in my wireless encryption key.
I think cases of people truly having a real headache with Vista are few and far between.
The difference is, there's no downside here. Incandescent bulbs produce less light per watt, waste far more exlectricity, and they don't last near as long as their flourescent counterparts. Flourescent's are more expensive at the get-go, but that is easily made up for by their low power usage and extremely long life.
You have to take replay value and longevity into account as well. If GoW came out with a paid expansion you'd probably see the vast majority of players buy it too...
Look at history here. '95 - 1995, '98 - 1998, ME - 2000, XP - 2001, Vista - 2007. It looks to me like Vista was just a massive fluke. Their releases had been getting closer and closer together up until Vista...although many would argue that ME wasn't worth being released in the first place.
I'd honestly be VERY surprised if MS didn't release the next version a LOT faster than they released Vista. I don't know if I'd bet on 2009, but I'd bet on 2010 "or sooner."
In late 2004 they basically scrapped longhorn and started over. In essence they built all of vista between late 2004 and early 2007. There's no reason they can't design the next step in another 2 or 3 years.
"Microsoft Tax?" What do you expect? In order to use OSX you have to own apple hardware. Parents buying computers for their kids for college/hs are going to care about one thing: Price.
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy? Parents aside, what do you think MOST people are going to go with.
Apples decision to limit their OS to their hardware is what is killing their adoption rate. If I could buy OSX for my PC...i probably would, just so I could have both. But I don't want to have to spend twice as much on my computer just to run an OS that TECHNICALLY doesn't do as much as Windows does...
Linux *generally* isn't as mature enough or well known enough to land on retail PCs either.
That leaves Windows. Apple has the solution but refuses to bend over and pick it up. Linux might have it someday, but right now most people lack the technical knowledge to use it...
It's apples own fault that more people don't pick it up. If Dell were able to sell a PC and offer the users the choice of OSX or Windows...I bet with Apple's marketing you'd get LOADS of people adopting it for the first time.
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Eh, halo nights at churches are far from new. They've been going on almost since the first halo was launched...
Mainly because the term is flat wrong. Aquittal implies "not quilty." They didn't remove Clinton from office because it would have been a terribly bad thing for the country as a whole. He was "quilty as charged" all the way.
He was certainly not aquitted. He was impeached, but the vote to remove him from office failed (by a huge margin).
I'll agree with that. I don't believe that Bush Sr deserved to be impeached for anything he did. I also don't think Clinton should have been. He did lie under oath, but I'll take a lot of lying under oath to a little "trampling on your rights."
Bill Clinton was impeached, yet Hillary still shows a good chance at getting into office. Impeaching Bush Sr wouldn't have made any difference in Bush Jr getting elected.
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It's funny, this post made me think of Snow Crash which is another book by the same guy. I guess I should read Diamond Age...
The problem is, once you walk outside the doors of their building, their right to detain you goes out the door with you. AFAIK, They can keep you IN the store if they have suspicion, but once you're out the door they're not allowed to do ANYTHING about it. It's a job for the police after that.
I remember when I was little, I didn't know that calling the time number cost you $0.50 per call. I thought it was cool and called it 18 times in a row. My dad was pretty ticked when he saw the $9 charge on the phone bill.
On the contrary, I've spoken to many people who have used and hated Vista and a few who have sworn if off entirely. I started using Vista at the end of February. I dropped it and switched back to XP in the middle of July. The few benefits of using Vista don't come anywhere near the downsides. I liked the new look & some explorer elements, but there were some core elements that just wouldnt work the way I wanted, as well as many large issues with stability. (The computer was built in february with over the top specs.) XP runs very fast and solid as a rock on it.
I could go into details, but I don't want to become a troll. Suffice to say, I'm happy on XP, wasn't on Vista.
That probably won't happen. Linus has publically stated that the GPL3 is utter crap. I think that sends a pretty large message to a great many software projects. The linux kernel isn't going to GPL3 anyway...
While I agree with your sentiment, I do have a problem with grown-up software companies walking around acting whiny spoiled children. As much as Microsoft may deserve a "jab in the heart" on some level, Google needs to get over their emotion driven "issues" and move on to more, truly important, things.
Well, there's no point in downloading the new multiplayer maps if you can't get online and play them...unless you plan on 1v1 or something. The people who want this content are already gold subscribers.
Funny, I've had to install it hundreds of times and I'd say my attempts per success is very close to 1:1. I've very recently encountered my first failure when building a new computer. XP (SP2 slipstreamed as well) would bluescreen on the install. Had to use Vista instead (how's that for mildly ironic? Other than that I can honestly say I've never had any issues installing Windows...
Windows is not nearly as unstable as the FUDDERS would like to make it seem.
I think his point was that it looks like it might be impossible to RUN YOUR OWN dedicated server the way so many other PC games allow you to do, assuming they stick with the traditional "Live" way of doing things. There are thousands of user-run dedicated servers out there for the HL/HL2 series, the UT series, and TONS of other games. Some of them are extremely popular in their communities.
The way live has traditionally worked, you only host a server for a single "match" at which point you can either host another one or search for a game yourself. The major hang-up in this is the added system demands coming from running a server and playing on that server at the same time.
We'll really just have to see what comes out.
#8 is not technically correct most of the time. Almost all ammo is copper jacketed lead now. The copper CAN spark when it hits something. Obviously it's nothing like the hollywood SHOWER of sparks that we're all used to though. You also DO see "sparks" flying out the muzzle of the gun, but they're not really casued by metal. It's more like unburned powder flying out the end of the gun still burning in little specks that resemble a metal-on-metal spark.
Personally, I installed Vista in the first try with no problems at all. The hardest thing I had to do was put in my wireless encryption key.
I think cases of people truly having a real headache with Vista are few and far between.
The hole was patched on January 9th, by the way.
The difference is, there's no downside here. Incandescent bulbs produce less light per watt, waste far more exlectricity, and they don't last near as long as their flourescent counterparts. Flourescent's are more expensive at the get-go, but that is easily made up for by their low power usage and extremely long life.
Apparently they're hiding now. I get a "Page cannot be found" on the MPAA blog...
You have to take replay value and longevity into account as well. If GoW came out with a paid expansion you'd probably see the vast majority of players buy it too...
Look at history here. '95 - 1995, '98 - 1998, ME - 2000, XP - 2001, Vista - 2007. It looks to me like Vista was just a massive fluke. Their releases had been getting closer and closer together up until Vista...although many would argue that ME wasn't worth being released in the first place.
I'd honestly be VERY surprised if MS didn't release the next version a LOT faster than they released Vista. I don't know if I'd bet on 2009, but I'd bet on 2010 "or sooner."
In late 2004 they basically scrapped longhorn and started over. In essence they built all of vista between late 2004 and early 2007. There's no reason they can't design the next step in another 2 or 3 years.
You can hop on down to best buy or jump on a website and buy a windows based pc for $300....
"Microsoft Tax?" What do you expect? In order to use OSX you have to own apple hardware. Parents buying computers for their kids for college/hs are going to care about one thing: Price.
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy? Parents aside, what do you think MOST people are going to go with.
Apples decision to limit their OS to their hardware is what is killing their adoption rate. If I could buy OSX for my PC...i probably would, just so I could have both. But I don't want to have to spend twice as much on my computer just to run an OS that TECHNICALLY doesn't do as much as Windows does...
Linux *generally* isn't as mature enough or well known enough to land on retail PCs either.
That leaves Windows. Apple has the solution but refuses to bend over and pick it up. Linux might have it someday, but right now most people lack the technical knowledge to use it...
It's apples own fault that more people don't pick it up. If Dell were able to sell a PC and offer the users the choice of OSX or Windows...I bet with Apple's marketing you'd get LOADS of people adopting it for the first time.