This kid is not a reason to legalize pot for everyone's use, and doing so would probably be a major drain on the economy. Potheads are less productive in normal jobs, much more prone to schizophrenia with its attendant expenses, and etc etc. What proof do you have that casual use of this will cause all of these things? I've known quite a few people that have used it casually and have been very successful. In fact Bill Clinton and Obama both have used it.
If it were legalized then there would be a lot less drug related crime (both violent and non-violent) since there would no longer be a black market for the stuff.
You should not have to edit the registry to remove stuff that the uninstaller should have removed. Also you have to know that you need to hack the registry in order to know where to start and then spend time searching the registry. It's not that easy or straightforward of a process.
Also imagine driving 9 MPH over the limit from one side of town and back going through several of these speed traps. Let's say you rack up 10 offenses and receive a ticket for these whereas if you have been pulled over by a cop you would know to slow down immediately and would only get 1. The first option informs you at a later time so you don't know. Not to mention there are some streets where you don't know the speed limit/can't see it through some giant SUV, etc...
I tend to not speed but that last statement I made can happen to me or anybody really.
I've run Vista (rc 1) and OSX (10.4.8) on the same hardware and I can say that OSX runs much better than Vista. Vista is much more of a resource hog and is slower in general. Plus games (WoW) run slower in it than in OSX. This might be because I have only 1 gig of memory.
That said, Vista is a *huge* improvement over XP and actually makes me not hate windows. It is certainly more mac like than before (thank you for making a home folder under users!)
You use the file manager to put files onto your mp3 player? That's like a baby's toy.
On a (slightly) more serious note (and not a bad reference) I notice a distinct lack in ability to play AAC files on that list. I know the ipod doesn't do ogg or maybe even wmv.
"Consoles are for games that have been tried out and refined on a PC first. PCs are for anything new and inventive comes out first for a really simple, obvious, reason: there's no financial barrier."
Huh? That's not accurate at all. With the exception of FPSers on the xboxes the markets for pc games and consoles is vastly different. PCs do not really have RPGs (other than the MMO variety), racing games, sports, nor fighting games.
For the most part I keep my windows PC around for WoW and an occasional strategy game and play my gamecube, ps2, and ds for all of my other gaming. Both the PC and console games can be innovative (though I don't see any on the FPS front in the past 5-10 years). WoW for the PC is good at showing this while a large portion of the games out for the DS show it on the other side.
You clearly don't have a monitor larger than 19". I *hate* Windows for having a maximize button instead of a zoom button. I don't want firefox taking up the entirety of my 20" widescreen monitor when the content is designed to fit in a width of 768 pixels. Maximizing most windows to 1680 or more pixels wide is an INCREDIBLE waste of screen realestate. The zoom button is used to combat this and to have a button that will automatically resize a window to be the most efficient size for you. Also it is not determined at compile time. Load up many different sites in Safari and use the zoom button on them. You will find that the zoomed size will differ between different sites.
For some reason after reading the blurb on here I am reminded of the dish tv commercial with the guy standing next to the huge speakers and of course the old lady eating the 5 pound steak with the song in the background singing "Big and huge and huge and big!"
Here is one of the first lessons that you learn in the intro to proofs class:
All shooters are games, however not all games are shooters.
Therefore, shooter games are a subset of games. You can have many different types of games that are educational that do not have violence in them at all. Look at Brain Age for the Nintendo DS for a perfect example of how you can make an educational game without violence.
There is such thing as high quality beer in America. There are tons of microbreweries around the country that make beer that is the same quality that you find in Europe. Just don't go with a beer that's sold nationally (except maybe Sam Adams) and you're likely to find better beer.
Medicare is the biggest off the top of my head. Also disaster relief in the sense of replacing people's homes that didn't have home owners insurance. There have also been tons of pork projects from this senate. There are doubtlessly more and all probably a short google search away.
I have no clue what republicans you are talking about. George Bush and members of the Senate are the biggest spenders in the history of this country and it's not all to military or homeland security either. They have spent more than even Jimmy Carter. Not to mention it's liberals that have dismissed the ideas of social darwinism. Your arguements don't hold water at all. Besides we will never live to see a warm flooded world (barring an asteroid hitting antarctica). I believe that we will be off of our oil dependencies well before any major change in the earth's environment can happen.
This is the normal cycle of hurricanes. Many scientists have studied past hurricanes (dating all the way back to ancient China) and have concluded that this is a normal cycle of increasing hurricane activity and strength. There is little to no effect from global warming. The words global warming are now just used for political gain and have little scientific merit.
People want to install windows on a mac just to upset people that ask why they would do it. It has nothing to do with wanting to run games or having the occasional school/work related program that they might have to use.
If the Linux-NTFS group was truly only wanting apple to give any code changes back then they could release it under the LGPL and both parties would get what they want. Since that isn't happening, I suspect they just hate companies or people programming for a living.
Part of the point of the GPL is to open source as many things as possible in a virus-like manner. There is no reason that Linux-NTFS can't dual license with the LGPL. Apple would get what they want and any changes they make to Linux-NTFS would be given back and they wouldn't have to GPL their whole kernel.
The GPL does impose it's beliefs on people. That's the other point that it has. There is no freedom of choice for developers with the GPL.
Proprietary does not mean what you think it means. A proprietary product is a product that is marketed under a trademark. So there are already proprietary derivatives of GPL software. Ubuntu is trademarked by Canonical Ltd. which makes Ubuntu Linux a proprietary software product (and derivative of Linux which is also proprietary).
There is no reason to recall the power adapters. The number of failures is less than the average console launch (3-5%). The few people that have had problems are being rather vocal so it seems like the number of failures is much higher. Read the following article for more information:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/673/673686p1.html
Gimps interface is unnecessarily bad. I should not have to use a context menu to save with the mouse! It is the single worst interface I have ever used in my life. I don't bother to learn this application because it would take me weeks to learn how to use it as well as I know photoshop.
I personally would rather they make new games instead of release old ones. I still have FF7 and symphony of the night so I don't need them to make a rerelease of those but would love for them to make new FF and castlevania games.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecZz6Jw6ZE&NR=1
Great response by Dr Paul though.
If it were legalized then there would be a lot less drug related crime (both violent and non-violent) since there would no longer be a black market for the stuff.
You should not have to edit the registry to remove stuff that the uninstaller should have removed. Also you have to know that you need to hack the registry in order to know where to start and then spend time searching the registry. It's not that easy or straightforward of a process.
Also imagine driving 9 MPH over the limit from one side of town and back going through several of these speed traps. Let's say you rack up 10 offenses and receive a ticket for these whereas if you have been pulled over by a cop you would know to slow down immediately and would only get 1. The first option informs you at a later time so you don't know. Not to mention there are some streets where you don't know the speed limit/can't see it through some giant SUV, etc...
I tend to not speed but that last statement I made can happen to me or anybody really.
I agree. I could use some global warming here in Seattle. It's been a week of snow and ice on the ground and roads here.
I've run Vista (rc 1) and OSX (10.4.8) on the same hardware and I can say that OSX runs much better than Vista. Vista is much more of a resource hog and is slower in general. Plus games (WoW) run slower in it than in OSX. This might be because I have only 1 gig of memory.
That said, Vista is a *huge* improvement over XP and actually makes me not hate windows. It is certainly more mac like than before (thank you for making a home folder under users!)
On a (slightly) more serious note (and not a bad reference) I notice a distinct lack in ability to play AAC files on that list. I know the ipod doesn't do ogg or maybe even wmv.
Huh? That's not accurate at all. With the exception of FPSers on the xboxes the markets for pc games and consoles is vastly different. PCs do not really have RPGs (other than the MMO variety), racing games, sports, nor fighting games.
For the most part I keep my windows PC around for WoW and an occasional strategy game and play my gamecube, ps2, and ds for all of my other gaming. Both the PC and console games can be innovative (though I don't see any on the FPS front in the past 5-10 years). WoW for the PC is good at showing this while a large portion of the games out for the DS show it on the other side.
You clearly don't have a monitor larger than 19". I *hate* Windows for having a maximize button instead of a zoom button. I don't want firefox taking up the entirety of my 20" widescreen monitor when the content is designed to fit in a width of 768 pixels. Maximizing most windows to 1680 or more pixels wide is an INCREDIBLE waste of screen realestate. The zoom button is used to combat this and to have a button that will automatically resize a window to be the most efficient size for you. Also it is not determined at compile time. Load up many different sites in Safari and use the zoom button on them. You will find that the zoomed size will differ between different sites.
For some reason after reading the blurb on here I am reminded of the dish tv commercial with the guy standing next to the huge speakers and of course the old lady eating the 5 pound steak with the song in the background singing "Big and huge and huge and big!"
All shooters are games, however not all games are shooters.
Therefore, shooter games are a subset of games. You can have many different types of games that are educational that do not have violence in them at all. Look at Brain Age for the Nintendo DS for a perfect example of how you can make an educational game without violence.
There is such thing as high quality beer in America. There are tons of microbreweries around the country that make beer that is the same quality that you find in Europe. Just don't go with a beer that's sold nationally (except maybe Sam Adams) and you're likely to find better beer.
Medicare is the biggest off the top of my head. Also disaster relief in the sense of replacing people's homes that didn't have home owners insurance. There have also been tons of pork projects from this senate. There are doubtlessly more and all probably a short google search away.
PS. I am not a republican.
This is the normal cycle of hurricanes. Many scientists have studied past hurricanes (dating all the way back to ancient China) and have concluded that this is a normal cycle of increasing hurricane activity and strength. There is little to no effect from global warming. The words global warming are now just used for political gain and have little scientific merit.
People want to install windows on a mac just to upset people that ask why they would do it. It has nothing to do with wanting to run games or having the occasional school/work related program that they might have to use.
If the Linux-NTFS group was truly only wanting apple to give any code changes back then they could release it under the LGPL and both parties would get what they want. Since that isn't happening, I suspect they just hate companies or people programming for a living.
Part of the point of the GPL is to open source as many things as possible in a virus-like manner. There is no reason that Linux-NTFS can't dual license with the LGPL. Apple would get what they want and any changes they make to Linux-NTFS would be given back and they wouldn't have to GPL their whole kernel.
The GPL does impose it's beliefs on people. That's the other point that it has. There is no freedom of choice for developers with the GPL.
Proprietary does not mean what you think it means. A proprietary product is a product that is marketed under a trademark. So there are already proprietary derivatives of GPL software. Ubuntu is trademarked by Canonical Ltd. which makes Ubuntu Linux a proprietary software product (and derivative of Linux which is also proprietary).
There is no reason to recall the power adapters. The number of failures is less than the average console launch (3-5%). The few people that have had problems are being rather vocal so it seems like the number of failures is much higher. Read the following article for more information: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/673/673686p1.html
If you read his first comment, he states that he already uses Ubuntu and that it still had this problem.
Gimps interface is unnecessarily bad. I should not have to use a context menu to save with the mouse! It is the single worst interface I have ever used in my life. I don't bother to learn this application because it would take me weeks to learn how to use it as well as I know photoshop.
Ever heard of rechargeables? I don't have a wireless mouse but if I did, it would be rechargeable.
I personally would rather they make new games instead of release old ones. I still have FF7 and symphony of the night so I don't need them to make a rerelease of those but would love for them to make new FF and castlevania games.
Here is what this thing will do: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=73