What the fudge do the ancient greeks have to do with this? Maybe they had problems with a ten letter Greek acrostic, but that has absolutely no bearing on an English acrostic!
He did, it's a minimal embedded OS. There are a thousand and one of these out on the market, plus tens of thousands of others written from scratch in-house.
Suggestion number one: Don't. Get a real roleplaying game. Seriously. Unless of course you're the type of person who likes McDonald's hamburgers, Budweiser beer, and Microsoft operating systems.
Suggestion number two: Go to a gaming store and look for a message board with available games. Find one that isn't D&D. Join as a player.
Suggestion number three: In case you want to know what game to play instead of D&D, the answer depends on what you want. There are hundreds of quality games out there, so don't ignore them just because they're not Hasbro. GURPS, Shadowrun, Conan, Serenity, Traveller, Runequest, Rolemaster, Call of Cthulhu, HarnMaster, Heroes, etc.
she should challenge the constitutionality of the law which allows the RIAA to obtain her identity and examine her (allged) bandwith use habits WITHOUT A COURT WARRANT
While I greatly sympathize with the woman, and think the RIAA are a pack of subhuman scum, this is no different from suing someone based on phone records obtained from the phone company.
I'm not talking about hard sell. Please stay on topic. Trying to sell you a warranty is not illegal. Raising the price of the item when you say "no" to a warranty is. See the difference?
It's unusual because its, well, unusual. As in rare. I've been in retail business myself, and while this kind of behavior occurs, it doesn't happen at big firms like those you mentioned. That's because no business can get to that size with that attitude. Customers don't keep quiet about their bad experiences, they tell everyone they know.
I've never had any experience like this with any of the firms you name. A firm WILL try to sell you a warranty, but they won't pull an illegal bait-n-switch like what was described, since most businessmen don't like getting thrown in jail.
Hey, guess what? EVERY adult was once a teenager! This isn't like racism because it's discrimination against our OWN younger kind. You don't (and won't) understand it now, but in twenty years you will.
"FOREVER" is a very long time. Since you think it has now been permanently and indelibly chiselled into the bedroom of time and space, I suggest you stop worrying about it. But if not, then perhaps, just perhaps, it's not quite so FOREVER as you think it is.
Except I get both free "speech" and free "beer" with BOTH types of licenses. And before you lecture me on the finer points of Stallmanist philosophy, I also get morality AND pragmatism with both types of licenses as well.
Intel highly overcharged everyone for years until AMD starting giving them some competition. For that reason alone I buy AMD CPUs exclusively
So because Intel didn't have any competition for a few years, you've decided to punish them? I don't get it. They weren't a "monopoly" because you still had other compatible chips, but they all sucked. So what we're they supposed to do? Keep a very low price in the hopes that they would eventually get some competition so they could raise it?
Extremely bad analogy. As the other post said, it would be more like if MS sold preloaded guns that had a mail-in coupon if you wanted to send away for a safety to go with it.
I have no problem with the autorun feature, and to be honest, not that much of a problem with it being on be default. What pisses me off is that they haven't given me any immediate and convenient means to disable it.
Actually looking at OSM I find that maybe one out of one hundred stories has a XIN tag. If the Communist Chinese are funding OSM, they're a very minor player behind AP, UPI, Knight Ridder, PRN, Business Wire, etc, etc.
While having no desire whatsover to absolve Sony of any of their guilt, I'm still wondering why Microsoft isn't being sued as an accomplice for deliberately enabling the AutoRun/AutoPlay feature.
I fear them making political changes. In the orginal you had no idea if the bad guys were the Brits or the Russians or someone else. Has he been imprisoned by his former employers or his former enemies? What I fear is that they'll blurt out the answer, in some cheesy "It's Bush!" shocker in episode one.
Soon, EVERY web app will need to be an AJAX app...even if it doesn't need to be.
As a user who has had to endure every application being a web application, even if it never needed to be, you're not going to get my sympathy. You're part of the group that created this problem.
I've got no problem with distributed applications, but the idea that everything should be HTML/CSS/Javascript sitting in front of a database is just wrong.
If you do business in the US, you care. While you personally may not interact with any person or organization in the US, odds are extremely high that someone you do interact with does. Maybe you frequent a webpage that no longer uses JPEG images. Or maybe you're buying a digital camera that no longer supports JPEG. Or maybe the Linux distro you use no longer includes JPEG software by default. Etc, etc, etc.
Someone told me I would be better off if I stopped hitting my head against the brick wall. So I stopped, but then I started feeling really dizzy and disoriented and blood started dripping down my face. So now I'm back hitting my head against the wall.
Funny thing, some of the big names in eugenics are HEROES to the American left. Like Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood. Really. Today we think of eugenics as leading to the Nazis and genocide, but it was a progressive idea at the time, advocated by respected left-leaning academics.
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What the fudge do the ancient greeks have to do with this? Maybe they had problems with a ten letter Greek acrostic, but that has absolutely no bearing on an English acrostic!
Duh
It would help if you said what the OS was
He did, it's a minimal embedded OS. There are a thousand and one of these out on the market, plus tens of thousands of others written from scratch in-house.
Suggestion number one: Don't. Get a real roleplaying game. Seriously. Unless of course you're the type of person who likes McDonald's hamburgers, Budweiser beer, and Microsoft operating systems.
Suggestion number two: Go to a gaming store and look for a message board with available games. Find one that isn't D&D. Join as a player.
Suggestion number three: In case you want to know what game to play instead of D&D, the answer depends on what you want. There are hundreds of quality games out there, so don't ignore them just because they're not Hasbro. GURPS, Shadowrun, Conan, Serenity, Traveller, Runequest, Rolemaster, Call of Cthulhu, HarnMaster, Heroes, etc.
she should challenge the constitutionality of the law which allows the RIAA to obtain her identity and examine her (allged) bandwith use habits WITHOUT A COURT WARRANT
While I greatly sympathize with the woman, and think the RIAA are a pack of subhuman scum, this is no different from suing someone based on phone records obtained from the phone company.
I'm not talking about hard sell. Please stay on topic. Trying to sell you a warranty is not illegal. Raising the price of the item when you say "no" to a warranty is. See the difference?
That doesn't change the fact that he still got modded down.
What's unusual about that?
It's unusual because its, well, unusual. As in rare. I've been in retail business myself, and while this kind of behavior occurs, it doesn't happen at big firms like those you mentioned. That's because no business can get to that size with that attitude. Customers don't keep quiet about their bad experiences, they tell everyone they know.
I've never had any experience like this with any of the firms you name. A firm WILL try to sell you a warranty, but they won't pull an illegal bait-n-switch like what was described, since most businessmen don't like getting thrown in jail.
When was the last time you saw a vote so one sided in this country?
Let's see... how about back when everyone voted to invade Iraq?
Hey, guess what? EVERY adult was once a teenager! This isn't like racism because it's discrimination against our OWN younger kind. You don't (and won't) understand it now, but in twenty years you will.
"FOREVER" is a very long time. Since you think it has now been permanently and indelibly chiselled into the bedroom of time and space, I suggest you stop worrying about it. But if not, then perhaps, just perhaps, it's not quite so FOREVER as you think it is.
Except I get both free "speech" and free "beer" with BOTH types of licenses. And before you lecture me on the finer points of Stallmanist philosophy, I also get morality AND pragmatism with both types of licenses as well.
Yeah, I'm starting to feel decrepit myself as well...
As if playing in the spray of Round-Up(tm)is any safer...
Intel highly overcharged everyone for years until AMD starting giving them some competition. For that reason alone I buy AMD CPUs exclusively
So because Intel didn't have any competition for a few years, you've decided to punish them? I don't get it. They weren't a "monopoly" because you still had other compatible chips, but they all sucked. So what we're they supposed to do? Keep a very low price in the hopes that they would eventually get some competition so they could raise it?
XIN: Vietnam reports suspected bird flu fatality
Yup! Proof positive that the right wing of US politics has been coopted by the yellow horde...
Extremely bad analogy. As the other post said, it would be more like if MS sold preloaded guns that had a mail-in coupon if you wanted to send away for a safety to go with it.
I have no problem with the autorun feature, and to be honest, not that much of a problem with it being on be default. What pisses me off is that they haven't given me any immediate and convenient means to disable it.
There are no links! It's a damned GIF image! Look here: http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/OSM.gif
Actually looking at OSM I find that maybe one out of one hundred stories has a XIN tag. If the Communist Chinese are funding OSM, they're a very minor player behind AP, UPI, Knight Ridder, PRN, Business Wire, etc, etc.
While having no desire whatsover to absolve Sony of any of their guilt, I'm still wondering why Microsoft isn't being sued as an accomplice for deliberately enabling the AutoRun/AutoPlay feature.
That's the great thing about the series: while you're convinced that it was his government, I can find other people equally convinced it was not.
I fear them making political changes. In the orginal you had no idea if the bad guys were the Brits or the Russians or someone else. Has he been imprisoned by his former employers or his former enemies? What I fear is that they'll blurt out the answer, in some cheesy "It's Bush!" shocker in episode one.
Soon, EVERY web app will need to be an AJAX app...even if it doesn't need to be.
As a user who has had to endure every application being a web application, even if it never needed to be, you're not going to get my sympathy. You're part of the group that created this problem.
I've got no problem with distributed applications, but the idea that everything should be HTML/CSS/Javascript sitting in front of a database is just wrong.
Yestrday I could not spell jurnalist, now I are one!
If you do business in the US, you care. While you personally may not interact with any person or organization in the US, odds are extremely high that someone you do interact with does. Maybe you frequent a webpage that no longer uses JPEG images. Or maybe you're buying a digital camera that no longer supports JPEG. Or maybe the Linux distro you use no longer includes JPEG software by default. Etc, etc, etc.
Someone told me I would be better off if I stopped hitting my head against the brick wall. So I stopped, but then I started feeling really dizzy and disoriented and blood started dripping down my face. So now I'm back hitting my head against the wall.
Anyone ever hear of Eugenics?
Funny thing, some of the big names in eugenics are HEROES to the American left. Like Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood. Really. Today we think of eugenics as leading to the Nazis and genocide, but it was a progressive idea at the time, advocated by respected left-leaning academics.