For all devices running Windows or anything else...
If we're going to count them, I need to see how to get to a command prompt. If I can't, it doesn't matter if it's Windows, Linux, or the fictional OS on hacker and government computers in TV and movies.
If that definition doesn't work for you, here's a better one - if I can't *change* which OS the device runs, never mind choose from any, we shouldn't be counting it. Java may be in your ATMs, gas pumps, toaster, and battery operated vibrators, but it doesn't matter if someone outside of the device has to tell you this, and the same goes for the OS.
Games natively on other OSes, with support for those OSes from the game companies. Not just the good games, but all of them. I shouldn't notice the difference while playing. (And, at that, no cost to switch version. I'm not buying a new copy in the new OS.)
Everything else can be the best application in its category available for the OS, so those aren't ever going to get me to switch.
Too many comments asking this to reply to them all, and I don't want to explain it more than once.
The copyrighted image was being hosted without permission on a website. In order to force the site to remove it, one must file a DMCA takedown notice. If the radio station had, for instance, copied the image and had it published in a different magazine without credit (which would not happen because the magazine would have asked for a credit to publish, but go with the example anyway...), DMCA would not apply. In short, the radio station's lawyers tried to argue that the source was not digital (a magazine), and the DMCA didn't apply. The appeals court correctly ruled that the site's use of the photo being digital, without regard to the source format, is covered by DMCA.
The truly stupid part is that for anyone to complain about this, they have to type google.com into their browser to begin with. If you want to use another search engine, they still exist, GO TO THEM. If you use Google anyway, and search for a competing service to Google's, such as news, mail, maps, or whatever else, Google putting their own matching service at the top of the results makes it easier to ignore! The only person who could possibly be complaining is a monkey who automatically clicks on the first search result and doesn't bother checking any of the others...
...someone who read a biased article and didn't watch the video. I had the same opinion going in until I saw it - a little girl throwing a tantrum who didn't want to be touched by ANYONE until they gave her back the toy they took away to be x-rayed at the security checkpoint.
Yes, the Israelis have a better system. They rely on logic rather than "morals", and therefore have no problem profiling, like the US should still be doing in many things that it is no longer "politically correct" to do so. If you don't profile, everyone is a suspect, and that wastes a lot of damn time and pisses off a lot of people. If you profile, you get a few mouthy people with a victim mentality who embrace a culture, fashion, or attitude that matches the profile by choice, and they should generally be ignored - the trick is that you then have to let these people pass once your logic says they're not the droids you're profiling for...
(Since I was just watching the season 2 DVD again today...) Unnatural Selection, the hyper-aging virus one.
Makes me wonder about the possibility that all allergies are transmitted this way, rather than being entirely genetic. You are, after all, spending a lot of time around people to whom you are related, presumably when they are exposed to allergens. Their cells responding to the allergen may spread to you through normal exposure and contact, not entirely dissimilar to the way hormones can, and train your cells to respond similarly. This would require, of course, that the two people are predisposed to "sharing" allergen responses.
Damn, I should have gone to college for biology instead of sports commentary. You don't get to come up with fun theories like this in sports.
I thought to myself, "Windows 7 should run any piece of software written for DOS, or any version of Windows 95 through Windows 7, without having to install additional software, emulators, or configure anything specific to that program... and then, it just worked!" Windows 7 was my idea.
Sadly, none of us will ever see that commercial on TV. If an OS does not run all of my software, on the same hardware, either more reliably or faster, I have NO reason to upgrade. Hell, they won't even be able to get close to "killer app" for me, as I won't even buy new consoles until I know there are more than two titles out that I am interested in. (The only time I've broken this rule with myself was for a 360, racing wheel, and Forza 2, and that's not even a fair example as I knew more titles I would play would come out for it, in addition to the incomplete backward compatibility.) Aside from a new game genre or blend of genres, it's not like they can come up with a completely novel piece of software that everyone will want to have - everything that can possibly be done already has been done and will run on XP.
I Googled "comparison shopping" myself, to see if I'd heard of any of the results, as I never use third party comparison shopping - I go to retailers that I know carry the item I want, and do my own comparisons! (If I don't know a retailer that carries an item, I Google it, and generally get a company I already know, but didn't know carried the item.) For reference, I knew none of the sites mentioned in the article.
I recognize Bizrate, I would not use it. I recognize Forbes, but... they do comparison shopping?? comparisonshopping.com and shopping.com are to be expected, wouldn't use either of those. 20 some results down is Pricewatch, which I look at for base prices, but have never bought an item because of a listing on that site. If I were actually looking for a comparison shopping site, I would have given up at this point, and just gone back to my usual method, and having the sites mentioned in the article nearer to the top would not have gotten me to visit them, never mind use them. Maybe they should try buying some radio and TV ads and a few billboards around the US, and then complain that they still aren't getting ranked in Google in spite of their traffic. (Or... gasp and shock... PAY GOOGLE FOR AN AD!)
I guess the one site found it a better use of their money to start a non-profit that lobbies for legislating their rank in search engines rather than using it to pay for advertising. Not saying that any of this fixes his logic, but people searching for businesses of any kind in Google want the "somebodies", and you're not going to be ranking as a "nobody". Search engines aren't there to prop up your traffic, they're there for new people to find the sites that the old people are already going to.
If that were me, I'd print a hard copy of every one of those status reports, ship them to the management at that company along with a letter explaining the security risk that their replacement for you is, and that you'd be willing to come back and clean up his mess for a 25% raise plus cost of living increases. (Nothing so huge that it looks like blackmail, although you may also point out that nothing sensitive is in those reports.)
You do realize that's the default score for someone with no karma, right? Posting last and late to the discussion isn't helping your chances of being moderated up.
J-1 is the fault of the home countries requiring the US to put these restrictions on foreign students in exchange for allowing American students to go to those countries at all. They don't want their best students going to the US and staying there, so they make a visa treaty (or whatever term that agreement would have, if not "treaty") that requires them to come back for some set period where they can't apply for another visa in the US, to give them time to "share their knowledge and experience with their countrymen", as it was worded in DHS documents.
We need a new system that gives more student visas to every country, eliminating all the current types of visas, and implementing a new one that applies everywhere that makes it MUCH easier for changes in visa type, residency status, and green card applications.
Right, but the question was more "Why did it need to be transparent? Couldn't it just have been made of metal?" Presumably, you'd want to make sure the transporter didn't beam a whale in half, or so the whales could see out and not get freaked out by the fact that they were being transported...
I'm going to jump in here with the same complaint about Forza, being the game I've played most on either XBox console and the reason I got a 360 at all. Aside from the interface being too small and too blocky of fonts to be clear in SD (my 27" made in 1987 can't handle it well, while everything is clear on my 20" made in 2004, though both are SD and both have an s-video port), they try too hard to model the real life tracks as closely as possible. Even in HD, if you're not playing on a 40-50 inch or larger screen, you can't read many of the distance markers or see clearly braking markers and cones from a useful distance. The developers could fix this by slightly altering the signs and other objects as necessary, but seem to assume that everyone who will play the game has hardware at least as good as what they're using to develop the game.
Valve gets one thing right better than any other developer when it comes to this issue - they do hardware polls through Steam fairly frequently, all users can see the poll data, and they tend to develop their games to run well and be playable in the UI and framerate on the average hardware of their users, instead of assuming everyone will have high end equipment. It's very frustrating to see online games with dwindling populations get killed off because the developers constantly make "optimizations" that give a 25% increase to the top 10% of their users' systems (increase them from 200 to 250 FPS on their 80Hz displays) while giving a 25% decrease to everyone else.
In short, playtest your game on what you expect to find at the house of the kid whose parents were barely able to save the money to buy the console and game for a combined birthday and Christmas gift (when those two events are some number of months apart), and the game will look great for everyone. HD is supposed to be an upgrade, to make things look better than an already working SD version.
AOL's merger with Time Warner and wanting to increase their bottom line by selling or closing all of Time Warner's businesses that did not have large profit margins is the reason WCW was killed off and sold in 2001. (I'm sure there aren't many wrestling fans among Slashdotters, but liken it to EA swallowing up and closing or otherwise ruining game studios that you liked.) I feel bad for whichever company ends up being unfortunate enough to buy AOL, the business is likely not salvageable, and there is certainly no value left in the name.
Microsoft, the courts, the legislators, the browser developers, and just about everyone but the end users just do not get it. We're not asking for IE not to come bundled or be able to be installed because we don't like IE specifically - we want nothing bundled and nothing installed. Not IE, not Firefox (although this is what will eventually end up on my system), and not a "ballot" screen or anything else like it. When I want software, I'll go get it. I have no problem with a minimalist browser installed with the OS that facilitates downloading the full browser of choice, of course.
We're not unlike Mississippi, except that we're not in any rush to take the cameras down. Some time ago, the budget was passed that allowed the cameras to be purchased and installed, and almost every major intersection has a set of cameras in all directions. The bill that allows their use for enforcement and sets up fines, on the other hand, has failed in the state legislature every time it has come up - so we have a lot of expensive cameras that sit there collecting traffic data, and nothing else.
Got a list that contains high end models in terms of features that do not contain a camera? Blackberrys are a bit too easy, plenty of those do not. I'm thinking more of reasonably priced models with every feature except for a camera... Just playing devil's advocate with the guy's suggestion, mind you.
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For all devices running Windows or anything else...
If we're going to count them, I need to see how to get to a command prompt. If I can't, it doesn't matter if it's Windows, Linux, or the fictional OS on hacker and government computers in TV and movies.
If that definition doesn't work for you, here's a better one - if I can't *change* which OS the device runs, never mind choose from any, we shouldn't be counting it. Java may be in your ATMs, gas pumps, toaster, and battery operated vibrators, but it doesn't matter if someone outside of the device has to tell you this, and the same goes for the OS.
We'll have to plant something more profitable than wheat, and the price of wheat will go up everywhere but here.
Games natively on other OSes, with support for those OSes from the game companies. Not just the good games, but all of them. I shouldn't notice the difference while playing. (And, at that, no cost to switch version. I'm not buying a new copy in the new OS.)
Everything else can be the best application in its category available for the OS, so those aren't ever going to get me to switch.
This is just a stupid post but it took some creativity to come up with it.
Oh... don't even THINK about quoting this in its entirety, but without the CMI displayed below!
Do what now? How will anyone know if you're the real Anonymous Coward who posted that without being logged in? :)
Too many comments asking this to reply to them all, and I don't want to explain it more than once.
The copyrighted image was being hosted without permission on a website. In order to force the site to remove it, one must file a DMCA takedown notice. If the radio station had, for instance, copied the image and had it published in a different magazine without credit (which would not happen because the magazine would have asked for a credit to publish, but go with the example anyway...), DMCA would not apply. In short, the radio station's lawyers tried to argue that the source was not digital (a magazine), and the DMCA didn't apply. The appeals court correctly ruled that the site's use of the photo being digital, without regard to the source format, is covered by DMCA.
The truly stupid part is that for anyone to complain about this, they have to type google.com into their browser to begin with. If you want to use another search engine, they still exist, GO TO THEM. If you use Google anyway, and search for a competing service to Google's, such as news, mail, maps, or whatever else, Google putting their own matching service at the top of the results makes it easier to ignore! The only person who could possibly be complaining is a monkey who automatically clicks on the first search result and doesn't bother checking any of the others...
...someone who read a biased article and didn't watch the video. I had the same opinion going in until I saw it - a little girl throwing a tantrum who didn't want to be touched by ANYONE until they gave her back the toy they took away to be x-rayed at the security checkpoint.
Yes, the Israelis have a better system. They rely on logic rather than "morals", and therefore have no problem profiling, like the US should still be doing in many things that it is no longer "politically correct" to do so. If you don't profile, everyone is a suspect, and that wastes a lot of damn time and pisses off a lot of people. If you profile, you get a few mouthy people with a victim mentality who embrace a culture, fashion, or attitude that matches the profile by choice, and they should generally be ignored - the trick is that you then have to let these people pass once your logic says they're not the droids you're profiling for...
(Since I was just watching the season 2 DVD again today...) Unnatural Selection, the hyper-aging virus one.
Makes me wonder about the possibility that all allergies are transmitted this way, rather than being entirely genetic. You are, after all, spending a lot of time around people to whom you are related, presumably when they are exposed to allergens. Their cells responding to the allergen may spread to you through normal exposure and contact, not entirely dissimilar to the way hormones can, and train your cells to respond similarly. This would require, of course, that the two people are predisposed to "sharing" allergen responses.
Damn, I should have gone to college for biology instead of sports commentary. You don't get to come up with fun theories like this in sports.
I thought to myself, "Windows 7 should run any piece of software written for DOS, or any version of Windows 95 through Windows 7, without having to install additional software, emulators, or configure anything specific to that program... and then, it just worked!" Windows 7 was my idea.
Sadly, none of us will ever see that commercial on TV. If an OS does not run all of my software, on the same hardware, either more reliably or faster, I have NO reason to upgrade. Hell, they won't even be able to get close to "killer app" for me, as I won't even buy new consoles until I know there are more than two titles out that I am interested in. (The only time I've broken this rule with myself was for a 360, racing wheel, and Forza 2, and that's not even a fair example as I knew more titles I would play would come out for it, in addition to the incomplete backward compatibility.) Aside from a new game genre or blend of genres, it's not like they can come up with a completely novel piece of software that everyone will want to have - everything that can possibly be done already has been done and will run on XP.
Have you even read your other comments on this article? Does this particular reply mean you'll be taking down that shrine to Linus now?
I like sites like that, they usually are vulnerable to a simple User Agent string change...
I Googled "comparison shopping" myself, to see if I'd heard of any of the results, as I never use third party comparison shopping - I go to retailers that I know carry the item I want, and do my own comparisons! (If I don't know a retailer that carries an item, I Google it, and generally get a company I already know, but didn't know carried the item.) For reference, I knew none of the sites mentioned in the article.
I recognize Bizrate, I would not use it. I recognize Forbes, but... they do comparison shopping?? comparisonshopping.com and shopping.com are to be expected, wouldn't use either of those. 20 some results down is Pricewatch, which I look at for base prices, but have never bought an item because of a listing on that site. If I were actually looking for a comparison shopping site, I would have given up at this point, and just gone back to my usual method, and having the sites mentioned in the article nearer to the top would not have gotten me to visit them, never mind use them. Maybe they should try buying some radio and TV ads and a few billboards around the US, and then complain that they still aren't getting ranked in Google in spite of their traffic. (Or... gasp and shock... PAY GOOGLE FOR AN AD!)
I guess the one site found it a better use of their money to start a non-profit that lobbies for legislating their rank in search engines rather than using it to pay for advertising. Not saying that any of this fixes his logic, but people searching for businesses of any kind in Google want the "somebodies", and you're not going to be ranking as a "nobody". Search engines aren't there to prop up your traffic, they're there for new people to find the sites that the old people are already going to.
Be careful not to lose any hair as stuff goes flying over your head now.
If that were me, I'd print a hard copy of every one of those status reports, ship them to the management at that company along with a letter explaining the security risk that their replacement for you is, and that you'd be willing to come back and clean up his mess for a 25% raise plus cost of living increases. (Nothing so huge that it looks like blackmail, although you may also point out that nothing sensitive is in those reports.)
You do realize that's the default score for someone with no karma, right? Posting last and late to the discussion isn't helping your chances of being moderated up.
She does put fox urine around the borders of her property instead of fences, right? (Not sure what you use to ward off the foxes, though...)
J-1 is the fault of the home countries requiring the US to put these restrictions on foreign students in exchange for allowing American students to go to those countries at all. They don't want their best students going to the US and staying there, so they make a visa treaty (or whatever term that agreement would have, if not "treaty") that requires them to come back for some set period where they can't apply for another visa in the US, to give them time to "share their knowledge and experience with their countrymen", as it was worded in DHS documents.
We need a new system that gives more student visas to every country, eliminating all the current types of visas, and implementing a new one that applies everywhere that makes it MUCH easier for changes in visa type, residency status, and green card applications.
Right, but the question was more "Why did it need to be transparent? Couldn't it just have been made of metal?" Presumably, you'd want to make sure the transporter didn't beam a whale in half, or so the whales could see out and not get freaked out by the fact that they were being transported...
I'm going to jump in here with the same complaint about Forza, being the game I've played most on either XBox console and the reason I got a 360 at all. Aside from the interface being too small and too blocky of fonts to be clear in SD (my 27" made in 1987 can't handle it well, while everything is clear on my 20" made in 2004, though both are SD and both have an s-video port), they try too hard to model the real life tracks as closely as possible. Even in HD, if you're not playing on a 40-50 inch or larger screen, you can't read many of the distance markers or see clearly braking markers and cones from a useful distance. The developers could fix this by slightly altering the signs and other objects as necessary, but seem to assume that everyone who will play the game has hardware at least as good as what they're using to develop the game.
Valve gets one thing right better than any other developer when it comes to this issue - they do hardware polls through Steam fairly frequently, all users can see the poll data, and they tend to develop their games to run well and be playable in the UI and framerate on the average hardware of their users, instead of assuming everyone will have high end equipment. It's very frustrating to see online games with dwindling populations get killed off because the developers constantly make "optimizations" that give a 25% increase to the top 10% of their users' systems (increase them from 200 to 250 FPS on their 80Hz displays) while giving a 25% decrease to everyone else.
In short, playtest your game on what you expect to find at the house of the kid whose parents were barely able to save the money to buy the console and game for a combined birthday and Christmas gift (when those two events are some number of months apart), and the game will look great for everyone. HD is supposed to be an upgrade, to make things look better than an already working SD version.
AOL's merger with Time Warner and wanting to increase their bottom line by selling or closing all of Time Warner's businesses that did not have large profit margins is the reason WCW was killed off and sold in 2001. (I'm sure there aren't many wrestling fans among Slashdotters, but liken it to EA swallowing up and closing or otherwise ruining game studios that you liked.) I feel bad for whichever company ends up being unfortunate enough to buy AOL, the business is likely not salvageable, and there is certainly no value left in the name.
Microsoft, the courts, the legislators, the browser developers, and just about everyone but the end users just do not get it. We're not asking for IE not to come bundled or be able to be installed because we don't like IE specifically - we want nothing bundled and nothing installed. Not IE, not Firefox (although this is what will eventually end up on my system), and not a "ballot" screen or anything else like it. When I want software, I'll go get it. I have no problem with a minimalist browser installed with the OS that facilitates downloading the full browser of choice, of course.
We're not unlike Mississippi, except that we're not in any rush to take the cameras down. Some time ago, the budget was passed that allowed the cameras to be purchased and installed, and almost every major intersection has a set of cameras in all directions. The bill that allows their use for enforcement and sets up fines, on the other hand, has failed in the state legislature every time it has come up - so we have a lot of expensive cameras that sit there collecting traffic data, and nothing else.
Got a list that contains high end models in terms of features that do not contain a camera? Blackberrys are a bit too easy, plenty of those do not. I'm thinking more of reasonably priced models with every feature except for a camera... Just playing devil's advocate with the guy's suggestion, mind you.
Also missing were a pair of professional drivers. I'd pick rally drivers, who are generally communicating with a co-driver throughout a race.
You'll be fine until the service you buy from closes and similarly shuts down the license server.