Nah. It tried to be Golden Eye, but it wasn't. Even if RARE wanted it to be. Golden Eye didn't goofy alien technology (guns that could penetrate walls and headshot from across maps??) or guns that self destruct. I dunno. I guess I'm in the minority when I say, "No sir. I don't like it."
Nobody's screwing anyone but B. B stole things and sold them, knowing his customers would be holding stolen merchandise that would be returned to A if A can prove it's his.
If C, D, E, and F are upset, they can also take legal recourse against B.
Are you completely missing how this system is designed? If you steal shit and sell it, not only are you stealing (against the law) but you are also selling stolen goods (against the law). If we say, "Sorry A, your car got stolen, but before we found it the thief sold it to this guy for half it's market value. It's his now" we give B 1 less reason not to steal and C, D, E and F one less reason not to question a "too good to be true" situation. In effect, we're creating a larger market for B's stolen merchandise and providing no legal solvency for A. Creating a larger market will INCREASE theft, not decrease it.
You can't ever know if CDEF suspected it was stolen or not. You can argue all day about how "likely" it was they knew B was fencing, but you can't ever really know without confessions. How do you tell an idiot apart from someone who's pretending to be an idiot?
B has wronged A as well as CDEF. A should get his property back. CDEF should get their money back. All of this can only come from B.
Despite being so much larger than SS1, SS2 will still use a front nose skid, and not nose gear. Can someone please explain what a "Front nose skid" is and how it might differ from "nose gear"?
Nobody really wants them. Consumers buying big HDTVs generally have cable. Those without cable are still watching analog broadcasts. I'd venture to say most of the population doesn't yet realize they can get digital over the air.
Installing WinXP SP2 I need to hunt down drivers for network, sound, SATA, and video (video works, but it lags when scrolling text, moving windows, etc). Additionally, while not required, there are huge performance gains for installing my nForce2 chipset drivers.
On a Linux install all of this works out of box. The only drivers I've ever needed to install manually (and sometimes fight with) are the proprietary 3D driver WLan drivers, but even those have been non-eventful recently. Both the nVidia card on my desktop and the ATI built-in graphics on my Laptop work simply by ticking the box in synaptic for the driver I want. For the WLAN, I use the windows driver on a compatibility layer (ndiswrapper-gtk) which was also very uneventful.
I wish Windows handled hardware as nicely as Linux. Seriously, this is actually a major selling point for me.
We have Parallels for Mac OS X, which seems to be quite capable at running Windows programs at a decent speed, with good compatibility. You don't seem to understand what Parallels is. Parallels is the same as VMWare, kqemu, or VirtualBox... all of which run fine on Linux. Parallels still requires you run a full blown Windows virtualized and doesn't get significantly different performance than the other VM products that run on MacOSX.
To be perfectly fair, Parallels Workstation DOES run on Linux, it's just not the same product they sell for MacOSX (ie, no "Coherence" mode).
Exactly my thought, but I don't think that'll be the real outcome. The price of these boxes is already $100+, which is too much IMHO for most consumers to purchase. With the forced shutoff of analog, demand increases and prices can reflect that. However, that also leaves lots of opportunity for someone to attempt to corner the market with a discount receiver. With or without the coupon, other manufacturers still need to compete with that guy.
What the coupon REALLY does is prevent the price from dropping below $40/unit.
I've run Gnome on various distributions on my home computer for the past couple of years. My computer is now aging, but it's still less painful to use than a WinXP machine on any hardware. From what I can tell, the problem is more to do with how Windows handles memory, and it's propensity to use the page file even when there is plenty of free ram.
With 1GB ram on my desktop, I never touch the page file. Back when I had WinXP on it, it had 200+MB on the page file even though it had over 700MB free ram.
So, the DEs may be just as bloated as WinXP's desktop environment (though how would you verify that?), but the rest of the system isn't, and that makes all the difference.
Very few rapes lead to pregnancy. Rapists often wear condoms to avoid leaving evidence, and even when they don't the encounter generally doesn't occur when the woman is fertile (as a matter of pure chance).
No, the real problem with the Pro-Lifers is that they also tend to support abstinence only education, which of course just leads to more abortions. That's not saying all pro-lifers are idiots, but far too many of them are.
From the wiki page on Murphy's Law you cited:
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way" or, "Anything that can go wrong, will," or "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"). The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod's law or Finagle's law which can also be rendered as "Anything that can go wrong, will--at the worst possible moment". From the wiki page on Finagle's Law you cited:
Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives (also known as Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law) is usually rendered: Anything that can go wrong, will--at the worst possible moment These aren't mutually exclusive "laws". In fact, they're the same law under different names.
Except this is done from a file system perspective and not in some proprietary format readable only by some slow and painful restore client (I'm looking at you, WinXP Pro/Server 2003, as well as any consumer backup solution I've ever tried.) Being able to simply plug the backup drive into another machine and browse for the file I want through the finder without worrying about a backup client sounds pretty enticing.
The interface is the goofy 3d zooming through space view. The ease of use and he's referring to is that the incremental backups that are stored all appear like full backups from a file system perspective.
One can set it up once with the goofy 3d zooming thingy and then it'll happen automatically in the background. Need a file that you know was good a week ago? In term, type "cp/mnt/backup/11-01-07/path/to/file/file ~/" etc. Or browse to it in the finder. Or use the goofy 3d zooming thingy.
Most backup solutions require you use their software to restore from backup. If I interpreted the parent right, Leopard doesn't.
Where I live there is one company that owns a majority of rental properties in town. That company doesn't include cable TV, but only allows it's tenants to purchase cable TV from a particular cable company, which also happens to charge something like $50-60/mo for basic service.
Interestingly enough, unless you live in one of those apartment complexes, you can't get service from that company at all. The provider that offers cable television to everyone else in town charges something like $25 or $30 for the same level of service, which they call "life line". The "Basic" service they offer for $40 has significantly more channels than the other companies $50 service.
If both companies were allowed to compete for those apartments, either the exclusive company would go belly up, or they would compete for the rest of the customers in town as well, and we might get some really good rates. I suspect they'd go belly up, however, which would still be good for those customers.
Yeah... that's a horrible idea. Having that as an option might be nice "Export to: Zipfile containing ODF, DOC, and PDF" but there's no way in hell I want it doing anything like that by default.
Why don't you just have it automatically send everything you save to everyone in your address book?
First off, I didn't even comment on Apple, so your making up your own conversation here. Have fun with that. Secondly, what you've just quoted to use as evidence oppose the point you're trying to make. Anyways, continue trolling.
You're ability to follow a conversation is 'special'. The submitter implied that Nokia adopted openness only because of Apple and this was the discussion point the parent replied to.
As the parent points out, Nokia has been open for years. Not many other companies using open source will providecash donations to major players as Nokia did with the GNOME foundation and their work on the Maemo platform (Nokia 770 and Nokia N800) has been extremely community centric. Sure, we bitch all the time on the mailing lists that it's not open enough, but every time we do they make it more open to meet our demands.
Or course, none of this really has to do with the advertising campaign at hand. When Nokia says 'Open' in the ads, they are referring to products that are carrier unlocked and run an 'Open Platform,' which may be closed source but is still open for 3rd party developers in the same way Windows is an 'Open Platform'. This has been Nokia's strategy for many, many years and has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone's success. The only thing that's changed is Nokia's marketing strategy.
You can't buy an iPhone and use it with another company, even if you buy it direct from Apple and offer to pay more (like you can with Nokia or others), nor can you write your own software and run it on an iPhone without Apple's permission. This is the point of the campaign.
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Nah. It tried to be Golden Eye, but it wasn't. Even if RARE wanted it to be. Golden Eye didn't goofy alien technology (guns that could penetrate walls and headshot from across maps??) or guns that self destruct. I dunno. I guess I'm in the minority when I say, "No sir. I don't like it."
Bah.. Perfect Dark wanted to be GoldenEye so badly!
Nobody's screwing anyone but B. B stole things and sold them, knowing his customers would be holding stolen merchandise that would be returned to A if A can prove it's his.
If C, D, E, and F are upset, they can also take legal recourse against B.
Are you completely missing how this system is designed? If you steal shit and sell it, not only are you stealing (against the law) but you are also selling stolen goods (against the law). If we say, "Sorry A, your car got stolen, but before we found it the thief sold it to this guy for half it's market value. It's his now" we give B 1 less reason not to steal and C, D, E and F one less reason not to question a "too good to be true" situation. In effect, we're creating a larger market for B's stolen merchandise and providing no legal solvency for A. Creating a larger market will INCREASE theft, not decrease it.
You can't ever know if CDEF suspected it was stolen or not. You can argue all day about how "likely" it was they knew B was fencing, but you can't ever really know without confessions. How do you tell an idiot apart from someone who's pretending to be an idiot?
B has wronged A as well as CDEF. A should get his property back. CDEF should get their money back. All of this can only come from B.
Nobody really wants them. Consumers buying big HDTVs generally have cable. Those without cable are still watching analog broadcasts. I'd venture to say most of the population doesn't yet realize they can get digital over the air.
Installing WinXP SP2 I need to hunt down drivers for network, sound, SATA, and video (video works, but it lags when scrolling text, moving windows, etc). Additionally, while not required, there are huge performance gains for installing my nForce2 chipset drivers.
On a Linux install all of this works out of box. The only drivers I've ever needed to install manually (and sometimes fight with) are the proprietary 3D driver WLan drivers, but even those have been non-eventful recently. Both the nVidia card on my desktop and the ATI built-in graphics on my Laptop work simply by ticking the box in synaptic for the driver I want. For the WLAN, I use the windows driver on a compatibility layer (ndiswrapper-gtk) which was also very uneventful.
I wish Windows handled hardware as nicely as Linux. Seriously, this is actually a major selling point for me.
To be perfectly fair, Parallels Workstation DOES run on Linux, it's just not the same product they sell for MacOSX (ie, no "Coherence" mode).
Exactly my thought, but I don't think that'll be the real outcome. The price of these boxes is already $100+, which is too much IMHO for most consumers to purchase. With the forced shutoff of analog, demand increases and prices can reflect that. However, that also leaves lots of opportunity for someone to attempt to corner the market with a discount receiver. With or without the coupon, other manufacturers still need to compete with that guy.
What the coupon REALLY does is prevent the price from dropping below $40/unit.
Depends on which one you get.
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I've run Gnome on various distributions on my home computer for the past couple of years. My computer is now aging, but it's still less painful to use than a WinXP machine on any hardware. From what I can tell, the problem is more to do with how Windows handles memory, and it's propensity to use the page file even when there is plenty of free ram.
With 1GB ram on my desktop, I never touch the page file. Back when I had WinXP on it, it had 200+MB on the page file even though it had over 700MB free ram.
So, the DEs may be just as bloated as WinXP's desktop environment (though how would you verify that?), but the rest of the system isn't, and that makes all the difference.
Most electronic devices (and especially early ones that were more prone to bricking) are squarish in nature, such as laptops.
Of course... I can't take the batteries out of a brink and make improvised explosives, so I have to agree it's not really that similar...
Very few rapes lead to pregnancy. Rapists often wear condoms to avoid leaving evidence, and even when they don't the encounter generally doesn't occur when the woman is fertile (as a matter of pure chance).
No, the real problem with the Pro-Lifers is that they also tend to support abstinence only education, which of course just leads to more abortions. That's not saying all pro-lifers are idiots, but far too many of them are.
So is Chris Dodd, dumbass.
Except this is done from a file system perspective and not in some proprietary format readable only by some slow and painful restore client (I'm looking at you, WinXP Pro/Server 2003, as well as any consumer backup solution I've ever tried.) Being able to simply plug the backup drive into another machine and browse for the file I want through the finder without worrying about a backup client sounds pretty enticing.
The interface is the goofy 3d zooming through space view. The ease of use and he's referring to is that the incremental backups that are stored all appear like full backups from a file system perspective.
/mnt/backup/11-01-07/path/to/file/file ~/" etc. Or browse to it in the finder. Or use the goofy 3d zooming thingy.
One can set it up once with the goofy 3d zooming thingy and then it'll happen automatically in the background. Need a file that you know was good a week ago? In term, type "cp
Most backup solutions require you use their software to restore from backup. If I interpreted the parent right, Leopard doesn't.
Where I live there is one company that owns a majority of rental properties in town. That company doesn't include cable TV, but only allows it's tenants to purchase cable TV from a particular cable company, which also happens to charge something like $50-60/mo for basic service.
Interestingly enough, unless you live in one of those apartment complexes, you can't get service from that company at all. The provider that offers cable television to everyone else in town charges something like $25 or $30 for the same level of service, which they call "life line". The "Basic" service they offer for $40 has significantly more channels than the other companies $50 service.
If both companies were allowed to compete for those apartments, either the exclusive company would go belly up, or they would compete for the rest of the customers in town as well, and we might get some really good rates. I suspect they'd go belly up, however, which would still be good for those customers.
Yeah... that's a horrible idea. Having that as an option might be nice "Export to: Zipfile containing ODF, DOC, and PDF" but there's no way in hell I want it doing anything like that by default.
Why don't you just have it automatically send everything you save to everyone in your address book?
I suppose if you don't mind 3x the disk space used and 3x the file clutter.
That's the obvious example?
First off, I didn't even comment on Apple, so your making up your own conversation here. Have fun with that. Secondly, what you've just quoted to use as evidence oppose the point you're trying to make. Anyways, continue trolling.
You're ability to follow a conversation is 'special'. The submitter implied that Nokia adopted openness only because of Apple and this was the discussion point the parent replied to.
As the parent points out, Nokia has been open for years. Not many other companies using open source will providecash donations to major players as Nokia did with the GNOME foundation and their work on the Maemo platform (Nokia 770 and Nokia N800) has been extremely community centric. Sure, we bitch all the time on the mailing lists that it's not open enough, but every time we do they make it more open to meet our demands.
Or course, none of this really has to do with the advertising campaign at hand. When Nokia says 'Open' in the ads, they are referring to products that are carrier unlocked and run an 'Open Platform,' which may be closed source but is still open for 3rd party developers in the same way Windows is an 'Open Platform'. This has been Nokia's strategy for many, many years and has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone's success. The only thing that's changed is Nokia's marketing strategy.
You can't buy an iPhone and use it with another company, even if you buy it direct from Apple and offer to pay more (like you can with Nokia or others), nor can you write your own software and run it on an iPhone without Apple's permission. This is the point of the campaign.
Is there an echo in here?