It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant the linux community is. Have you not considered that most users fall into one or more of these categories: 1) Window DOES work for them just fine 2) Windows is PREFERED over another solution 3) this update will not impact them.
Na... it can only be that they're abused.
Just to throw this at you... I actually LIKE the Sony products I've purchased as well, which includes a receiver, three TVs, two laptops, a PSP and a PS3.
I know, I'm abused and deluded... because YOU don't think MS nor Sony could possibly make something people would want.
That huge backlog of ISA and AGP cards you mean? The stuff most people wouldn't want anymore if they have to pay for a computer upgrade anyway?
Sure its great for you if you don't mind running 10 year old tech, but for the most part people aren't upgrading components of their pc (including the os). They buy a whole new one.
How'd that Gmail outage work for you? I'm sure they were thrilled not hosting their own server anymore. Of course, you could have outsourced your Exchange server as well, and still given your inhouse Exchange admin the boot.
If locked in is cheaper in the long run, and works for them, who cares?
I assume they also studied ongoing support costs as well. So if staying put + support costs cost of switching + different support costs, then staying put makes more sense.
I ditched linux myself because ongoing support of it was more expensive than switching back to Windows.
Where in the Consitution does it allow for the federal government to force me to buy insurance (or any product).
And if you had any economic sense at all you would realize that a non-discrimination clause for health insurance providers IMPLIES mandatory health insurance for the populous
No it does not. It means they can't deny you for certain conditions. It doesn't mean I would HAVE to buy insurance.
I think if you want to argue context and history, the idea of United States was in fact meant to be permanent. Look at the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. I don't think the idea of Perpetual Union was abandoned when the anti-federalist ideas where abandoned in favor of federalist, just as the idea of protecting Liberty was abandoned either.
Viewed in that context, the South attempting to secede was the illegal act, and the war was to force them to keep to their agreement.
Oh really? No sympathy even though the case is bogus? What about the part where everyone involved is a WILLING participant? It might be gross, but everyone involved (including people who purchased the videos) did so of their own free will.
the problem with your theory is that you're dictating what people can and can't watch IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME.
This whole community standard nonsense to allow cenorship is wrong. My neighbors should have absolutely NO say on the content of books, movies, music, or video games I play in my own home.
Honestly.. why is censorship ok if its your neighbors deciding what to censor?
As far as your products crossing state lines goes.. that's a specious argument as well, since states are NOT allowed to favor commerce in their own state over another state. Its also Unconstitutional, just like censorship.
And this is why I will never point anyone toward free software. On one hand, OSS people say you're a sucker for paying for a closed source OS (which, btw, most people don't give a fuck if they have the source or not). Then, when someone tries it and has a ligit complain, they're told, STFU, you get what you pay for.
I'd disagree with your premise though, and argue that users DO have every right to bitch and complain about something they got for free. The reason is simple; a project without users is a waste of time, no matter how much better it is in theory. If you don't want people to bitch about your free software, by all means, DON'T RELEASE IT.
IMO there should be no health insurance companies. Get rid of them and have the government pay for your health care, and our costs (the highest in the world) will drop to where more civilized countries' costs are
IMO you are a free individual and are capable of moving to a "more civilezed country." So plesae, start packing your bags instead of trying to steal from me.
Your higher taxes will more than be made up by not having to pay insurance premiums.
Tell that to the healthy people who currently CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE INSURANCE.
We have the most expensive health care in the world, but by no metric do we have the best care.
And we have people traveling from Canada, Russia, and Europe to receive care here why again? My wife works in medical billing, there's a significant amount of people CHOOSING TO COME HERE for care.
I blame private insurance.
When the top diseases in the country ARE PREVENTABLE if life styles are changed, why do you blame insurance?
The movie was interesting in what they picked to discimate on; something which COULD be a problem. I wonder what the take would have been if the genetic problem was such that theh person was incapable of doing anything on their own, would people be as outraged? I think its a honest and valid question considering health care in this country, when 10% of the people on Medicare / Medicaid are responsible for 90% of the cost.
Its one thing if that 10% was paying for their own care; its quite another when everyone else is forced to pay instead.
Forcing people to buy health insurance is NOT a good thing. Its an affront to liberty. What right do you have to force a free individual to pay for the health care of another? Especially when the majority of health problems in the country are caused from poor lifestyle choices.
Government needs to do less, not more, especially when its taking freedom from people that doesn't benefit everyone.
I don't think insurance should charge more because something might happen. OTOH, I don't see a problem charging more or even denying coverage if someone chooses to bring a kid into the world which will instantly become a burden on society.
$50/ month? That would discourage me from getting the xbox. Basically I'd be paying for a game a month, whether or not I actually use the service. And what does it get you? Just to access the service at all? or playing coop games?
I bought things off of psn; DLC, and also rented some movies. But I wouldn't pay $50 just to be able to access it just in case i wanted a movie or dlc.
Sounds like an old battery. My laptop is a few months old, started with Vista, then upgraded to 7.
I get about four hours on a 16.5" full HD screen, high performance graphics, 7200 rpm drive, doing development work on VS 2008. I also have the high capacity battery as well, and I was suprised to actually get the performance they quoted (which was 4-5 hours of life between recharges).
Bah. Unless you're changing machines weekly, its a non-issue. Even every six months would seem acceptable.. but if you're changing machines quickly, a server is likely in order.
A server with only 20GB of space is in serious need of a new HD. Really, its trivially easy an inexpensive; even the low end crap desktops we sell come with 100GB drives.
I'd be really hard pressed to think of a job where you'd submit a resume but written communication skills aren't somehow part of the position. Even filling out an application, if you can't write properly, why would anything think that you can count change properly?
I see no problem with HR binning resumes / applications with gross language errors in them, especially now when there are probably 20 people for every one open position. You'd need to have a really good arguement as to why they SHOULD'T take this "easy way out."
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It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant the linux community is. Have you not considered that most users fall into one or more of these categories: 1) Window DOES work for them just fine 2) Windows is PREFERED over another solution 3) this update will not impact them.
Na... it can only be that they're abused.
Just to throw this at you... I actually LIKE the Sony products I've purchased as well, which includes a receiver, three TVs, two laptops, a PSP and a PS3.
I know, I'm abused and deluded... because YOU don't think MS nor Sony could possibly make something people would want.
That huge backlog of ISA and AGP cards you mean? The stuff most people wouldn't want anymore if they have to pay for a computer upgrade anyway?
Sure its great for you if you don't mind running 10 year old tech, but for the most part people aren't upgrading components of their pc (including the os). They buy a whole new one.
Because at the end of the day the Windows box still does what people want better than a linux one.
How'd that Gmail outage work for you? I'm sure they were thrilled not hosting their own server anymore. Of course, you could have outsourced your Exchange server as well, and still given your inhouse Exchange admin the boot.
If locked in is cheaper in the long run, and works for them, who cares?
I assume they also studied ongoing support costs as well. So if staying put + support costs cost of switching + different support costs, then staying put makes more sense.
I ditched linux myself because ongoing support of it was more expensive than switching back to Windows.
Where in the Consitution does it allow for the federal government to force me to buy insurance (or any product).
And if you had any economic sense at all you would realize that a non-discrimination clause for health insurance providers IMPLIES mandatory health insurance for the populous
No it does not. It means they can't deny you for certain conditions. It doesn't mean I would HAVE to buy insurance.
I think if you want to argue context and history, the idea of United States was in fact meant to be permanent. Look at the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union . I don't think the idea of Perpetual Union was abandoned when the anti-federalist ideas where abandoned in favor of federalist, just as the idea of protecting Liberty was abandoned either.
Viewed in that context, the South attempting to secede was the illegal act, and the war was to force them to keep to their agreement.
That's why its a great idea. Democracy sucks for protecting the rights of minorities. We need LESS democracy and more republic in our system.
Oh really? No sympathy even though the case is bogus? What about the part where everyone involved is a WILLING participant? It might be gross, but everyone involved (including people who purchased the videos) did so of their own free will.
Ya, you might want to re-read the article. This is a criminal case, not a civil suit.
the problem with your theory is that you're dictating what people can and can't watch IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME.
This whole community standard nonsense to allow cenorship is wrong. My neighbors should have absolutely NO say on the content of books, movies, music, or video games I play in my own home.
Honestly.. why is censorship ok if its your neighbors deciding what to censor?
As far as your products crossing state lines goes.. that's a specious argument as well, since states are NOT allowed to favor commerce in their own state over another state. Its also Unconstitutional, just like censorship.
Right, because putting up an easily found website is hiding the tools.
And this is why I will never point anyone toward free software. On one hand, OSS people say you're a sucker for paying for a closed source OS (which, btw, most people don't give a fuck if they have the source or not). Then, when someone tries it and has a ligit complain, they're told, STFU, you get what you pay for.
I'd disagree with your premise though, and argue that users DO have every right to bitch and complain about something they got for free. The reason is simple; a project without users is a waste of time, no matter how much better it is in theory. If you don't want people to bitch about your free software, by all means, DON'T RELEASE IT.
But there will be some that migrate, so it would appear to be a net plus for them.
IMO there should be no health insurance companies. Get rid of them and have the government pay for your health care, and our costs (the highest in the world) will drop to where more civilized countries' costs are
IMO you are a free individual and are capable of moving to a "more civilezed country." So plesae, start packing your bags instead of trying to steal from me.
Your higher taxes will more than be made up by not having to pay insurance premiums.
Tell that to the healthy people who currently CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE INSURANCE.
We have the most expensive health care in the world, but by no metric do we have the best care.
And we have people traveling from Canada, Russia, and Europe to receive care here why again? My wife works in medical billing, there's a significant amount of people CHOOSING TO COME HERE for care.
I blame private insurance.
When the top diseases in the country ARE PREVENTABLE if life styles are changed, why do you blame insurance?
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005110.html
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123103015
I had hopes for Obama, but his version of health care "reform" seems to me nothing but a gift to the insurance companies.
Seems more like lost freedoms to me.
The movie was interesting in what they picked to discimate on; something which COULD be a problem. I wonder what the take would have been if the genetic problem was such that theh person was incapable of doing anything on their own, would people be as outraged? I think its a honest and valid question considering health care in this country, when 10% of the people on Medicare / Medicaid are responsible for 90% of the cost.
Its one thing if that 10% was paying for their own care; its quite another when everyone else is forced to pay instead.
Forcing people to buy health insurance is NOT a good thing. Its an affront to liberty. What right do you have to force a free individual to pay for the health care of another? Especially when the majority of health problems in the country are caused from poor lifestyle choices.
Government needs to do less, not more, especially when its taking freedom from people that doesn't benefit everyone.
I don't think insurance should charge more because something might happen. OTOH, I don't see a problem charging more or even denying coverage if someone chooses to bring a kid into the world which will instantly become a burden on society.
What makes you think they don't? You've heard of WSUS, right?
$50/ month? That would discourage me from getting the xbox. Basically I'd be paying for a game a month, whether or not I actually use the service. And what does it get you? Just to access the service at all? or playing coop games?
I bought things off of psn; DLC, and also rented some movies. But I wouldn't pay $50 just to be able to access it just in case i wanted a movie or dlc.
Your battery is just old. Replace it.
Sounds like an old battery. My laptop is a few months old, started with Vista, then upgraded to 7.
I get about four hours on a 16.5" full HD screen, high performance graphics, 7200 rpm drive, doing development work on VS 2008. I also have the high capacity battery as well, and I was suprised to actually get the performance they quoted (which was 4-5 hours of life between recharges).
You can't post with even a one score, and you call me a troll? Ya, whatever.
The point is you have no legal option to run a MW2 server on your Pc, thus the fact that you can't run one on a PC is irrelevent.
Bah. Unless you're changing machines weekly, its a non-issue. Even every six months would seem acceptable.. but if you're changing machines quickly, a server is likely in order.
A server with only 20GB of space is in serious need of a new HD. Really, its trivially easy an inexpensive; even the low end crap desktops we sell come with 100GB drives.
I'd be really hard pressed to think of a job where you'd submit a resume but written communication skills aren't somehow part of the position. Even filling out an application, if you can't write properly, why would anything think that you can count change properly?
I see no problem with HR binning resumes / applications with gross language errors in them, especially now when there are probably 20 people for every one open position. You'd need to have a really good arguement as to why they SHOULD'T take this "easy way out."