I for one advocate nuking China and India back into the stone age when we start running out of IPv4. That'll free up a good two billion addresses right there, and probably a metric fuckton of bandwidth as well. It might even fix MMO economies too.
Shitty logic like this is the cancer that has killed the US political system.
"Oh, I like Badnarik, but I'm going to vote for Kerry because he's got a better chance of winning because he's NotBush(TM). I can ignore the part where I don't know anything about Kerry or wouldn't support him if I did simply because he's NotBush(TM)."
Maybe politics and software would both be much better off if assholes like you would stop supporting the lesser of two evils. Evil still wins. Try supporting a non-evil option and see how that works out instead of picking one evil over the other and bitching that you've still got evil.
I bought La Pucelle Tactics because of an ad on Penny Arcade. I ended up liking it so much that I subsequently bought Disgaea and Phantom Brave as well.
You see, that's what cable was supposed to be. You pay the cable companies a subscription fee and the cable company pays the networks they carry, so there weren't supposed to be any commercials. Everything was supposed to be funded by subscriptions.
But then people decided that they wanted more money and started double dipping.
You know, back in the golden ages of radio and television, the feature and the ads were the same beast. You see, before there were commercial breaks, companies would actually buy airtime and provide the content. The content would have the company or product name everywhere and they spent just as much time pimping product as entertaining, but you only had to deal with the advertisements from that one company and the company actually had a big investment in the show so they had to ensure quality to keep their image good.
Honestly, I'd rather we go back to that system than continue with the MORE AND MORE COMMERCIALS PER THIRTY MINUTE BLOCK EVERY TIME YOU TURN AROUND pattern that we've currently got going.
Now if only they could get around to fixing the much bigger memory issues that seem to get worse and worse with every release. I'm getting tempted to go back to IE for the first time in years.
You think videos not streaming is a problem? Given the shit people on myspace like to plaster all over those crimes against web design they call pages, one more streaming anything not loading is a good thing. Frankly, Myspace and the things that people are allowed to do with HTML and embedded media are the reason that Facebook is winning.
I can't stalk anybody these days without having to adblock the half dozen poorly chosen backgrounds that don't work with the font color and make everything unreadable and quickly kill the obnoxious music that plays the second the page loads. Then you have people posting comments with a few dozen <big> tags wrapped around them to mutilate the already cancerous page several dozen random animated images tossed in and suddenly there's no salvaging any usable content.
Sure, people can still fill their Facebooks with hundreds of applications that make the page a few fathoms from top to bottom, but Facebook doesn't allow people to commit atrocities against the general page layout.
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I for one advocate nuking China and India back into the stone age when we start running out of IPv4. That'll free up a good two billion addresses right there, and probably a metric fuckton of bandwidth as well. It might even fix MMO economies too.
Taking them out back behind the shed might work too.
Shitty logic like this is the cancer that has killed the US political system.
"Oh, I like Badnarik, but I'm going to vote for Kerry because he's got a better chance of winning because he's NotBush(TM). I can ignore the part where I don't know anything about Kerry or wouldn't support him if I did simply because he's NotBush(TM)."
Maybe politics and software would both be much better off if assholes like you would stop supporting the lesser of two evils. Evil still wins. Try supporting a non-evil option and see how that works out instead of picking one evil over the other and bitching that you've still got evil.
I bought La Pucelle Tactics because of an ad on Penny Arcade. I ended up liking it so much that I subsequently bought Disgaea and Phantom Brave as well.
You see, that's what cable was supposed to be. You pay the cable companies a subscription fee and the cable company pays the networks they carry, so there weren't supposed to be any commercials. Everything was supposed to be funded by subscriptions.
But then people decided that they wanted more money and started double dipping.
You know, back in the golden ages of radio and television, the feature and the ads were the same beast. You see, before there were commercial breaks, companies would actually buy airtime and provide the content. The content would have the company or product name everywhere and they spent just as much time pimping product as entertaining, but you only had to deal with the advertisements from that one company and the company actually had a big investment in the show so they had to ensure quality to keep their image good.
Honestly, I'd rather we go back to that system than continue with the MORE AND MORE COMMERCIALS PER THIRTY MINUTE BLOCK EVERY TIME YOU TURN AROUND pattern that we've currently got going.
Now if only they could get around to fixing the much bigger memory issues that seem to get worse and worse with every release. I'm getting tempted to go back to IE for the first time in years.
Well, unlike dividing by zero, breaking your wrist won't end the universe. It will render a multi million dollar robot useless though.
Obeying the second law would have violated the second law as well, as upon injuring its wrist it would have been unable to follow orders.
Did the orders involve proofreading?
Wait, does this mean that the Mars Lander was programmed to comply with the Three Laws?
No. The EULAs state that upon installation of the software your soul becomes property of Blizzard.
...Tom Cruise? Is that you?
Shut up! The RIAA might be reading this and getting ideas!
Not WoW. WoW, like Diablo II and Starcraft before it, runs from your soul itself, slowly filling your life until there is nothing but the game.
Oh god, don't let the RIAA find out about this.
In Tacoma, Washington cable TV and internet are already public utilities.
Who cares? They're all just lucky that they've never had to face Brock Samson.
Clearly, we need to apply the death penalty to these cases then. Lets see the dollar out weigh that risk.
Protip: You can buy engines and cars separately. In fact, the auto parts industry is just as prolific as the computer parts industry, if not more.
I use a d% and a choice table.
First they came for the spammers, and I said nothing because I was not a spammer...
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You think videos not streaming is a problem? Given the shit people on myspace like to plaster all over those crimes against web design they call pages, one more streaming anything not loading is a good thing. Frankly, Myspace and the things that people are allowed to do with HTML and embedded media are the reason that Facebook is winning.
I can't stalk anybody these days without having to adblock the half dozen poorly chosen backgrounds that don't work with the font color and make everything unreadable and quickly kill the obnoxious music that plays the second the page loads. Then you have people posting comments with a few dozen <big> tags wrapped around them to mutilate the already cancerous page several dozen random animated images tossed in and suddenly there's no salvaging any usable content.
Sure, people can still fill their Facebooks with hundreds of applications that make the page a few fathoms from top to bottom, but Facebook doesn't allow people to commit atrocities against the general page layout.
I for one welcome our new Linux overlords.