No it's not. "It's" is a contraction: A single word made from two or more words and the apostrophe is merely an indication of this.
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Precisely. Cheap and easy fulfils most people's requirements.
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Yeah, I wasn't exactly meaning that my mum would set the shit up! It was more (and I admit it's been a long time since I used Suse 6.2) that setting up Linux was a pain and the result was a machine whose focus was utterly different to Windows: i.e. it suited my computer programmer type use much more than my mum's use a mail program and browse.
My point about the Mac was that it was even nicer to use. While Linux wasn't likely to have a benny, it's not (or not in my day) really designed for the casual user.
Like I say, for the bog-standard person, XP with SP2 and constant MS updates is good and does its job. It's not hard because so many people really do use a PC for so little...
Linux is fundamentally a better OS, without a doubt, but it's not better for me as I have loads of software (music, games, etc.) that I can only run on a Windows environment, and I don't actually have any issues with it. And I'm a webby, programmery sort of guy!:-D
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Hang on, there's a big difference between a 'pretty good product' and one that is 'better'.
Personally I would say Microsoft make a good product. Not on some geeky OTT level maybe, but on a functional, "does what 90% of the population needs" level.
Linux is brutally powerful but equally would be a total nightmare to set up for (say) my mother.
A mac would be even easier than windows for her but would cost a fuck load more.
Regardless of 'fixing', if Microsoft were consistently as shit as people want to make out it wouldn't matter how much marketing muscle they had because people wouldn't WANT their software on their machines.
Or alternatively we could all just read Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival" ourselves.
Let's not kid ourselves here. Much as I hate corporate America, Stalin is vastly responsible for the buildup of weapons in the USSR post war, and indeed the regime was simply a dictatorship as fascist as any other.
The problem is that people (the U.S.) ascribe the fascism as being the result of communism in an attempt to victimise left-wing ideas...
I was a big fan of Babylon 5 but what I felt it suffered from was JMS' obsessive belief that he was right. The loss of Claudia Christian from Series 5 (which went a long way to killing it for me) seemed a lot down to problems he had with his pride and such.
Added to that, he seemed to feel he could write a whole series on his own on an episode by episode basis and that was a mistake in my view: His dialogue began to get hideously clichéd by the end of Series 3 of B5.
While I don't doubt his ideas of what to do in Star Trek would be fantastic, I don't think the result will be any good unless he can draw together a team of writers who can help write the screenplays his ideas deserve.
And they say American's don't know what irony is! Heh heh!
Personally I thought that by using the (apparently underrated) skill of reading, your comment about it going round the world made it clear you were suggesting the Smithsonian as sponsor. But then I'm from the UK so probably just as bigotted.
" I would at least want the DRM crap from a less-evil comany than MS"
Oh come one. MS happen to be huge but they're actually less evil than pretty much any company Dubya's connected with (for example).
At the end of the day Apple would act just like MS if it was in their position (and I'm not saying you would necessarily prefer Apple to be giving the 'DRM crap'). But all companies will be evil. Just the way of things.
The iPod's cool if you just want a music player and money isn't an issue. If you want a recorder on a part with the trusty MD then the world becomes murkier and you end up buying an iRiver like me.
by Omniscientist (806841)
I think its due to the fact of how aggressively marketed Microsoft's products were and are. It has almost nothing to do with the technology, but the business aspect behind it.
Given that if you watch a hollywood movie you'd be forgiven for thinking Apple products are the only ones on the market that's a fairly thin argument.
Apple market agressively. Unfortunately their products are comparitively expensive and no one buys them when they can get a cheaper option.
Bifster:
B5 I'd say would be close behind on the rating scale overall... Mostly I think for it's ambition, and intricate tapestry of dramatic plotlines.
Well it certainly wasn't for the acting of the various commanders of the station.:-D
I liked B5 a lot in Series 2 and 3, and mostly in Series 1, 4 and 5.
Hmm. I don't think a circular orbit is ever the natural type you get, but I may be wrong. The Earth's orbit is certainly elliptical but I don't think it's massively pronounced.
Off hand I'd just go with the set up being bogus. I can't really think how you'd get an incredibly long eclipse. I've seen Pitch Black - is that what you're talking about (as oppose to the sequel), because I really don't remember much more than it being at night. Hmm...
As to the distance between binary stars, I'd imagine it would be a bit more than the diameter of Mercuary!:-o
When I talked about Robocop 3 I was meaning on home computers, i.e. Amiga and Atari ST. In the UK the Nintendo was never really a market until the SNES came out. The versions I read about were on the ST or Amiga. I don't think there ever was a C64 or Spectrum 48K version of Robocop 3. There were some ultra-fine C64 games out there (Gunship, Dragon Wars if you had the 1541) but I seem to remember the shots I saw of Robocop 3 had it as a 3D game, certainly looking too nicely coloured to be an 8-bit game.
And dude? Less of the sarcasm about consoles please. Of course there was the PlayStation, which was obviously implied by my comments about the N64 'not having the games'. I expected people to read between the lines.
I read the list given by the guy above, and it's certainly true that those N64 games sold a lot: which is what I meant about there being some very good quality games but not a lot else.
The Playstation had so many games to suit so many people (and a LOT of dross), plus the games were cheaper, that you wouldn't expect that same sort of buying effect to be shown.
Regardless of the games sold by Nintendo, the Playstation is still a very popular machine, available to this day, and probably the best-known console in teh world. The N64 is not.
Not a bash on the N64, but wasn't that as much due to the number and quality of the other games on that machine? Goldeneye, Zelda and Marioworld seem to get continuous praise, but most fans of the console I know, tend to say there wasn't a lot of choice.
As to the film vs. game argument, I think it depends on how much hype the 'less good' original has. Waterworld is not a fair example since it was news simply by existing and the critics wanted failure.
I seem to remember Ocean's Robocop 3 (many years ago in the days of 16-bits) being a very well received game of an utterly terrible film. That was the first time I remember reviews saying that they had seen a great game from a movie franchise. I think the other would be Hudson Hawk...
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No it's not. "It's" is a contraction: A single word made from two or more words and the apostrophe is merely an indication of this.
Precisely. Cheap and easy fulfils most people's requirements.
Yeah, I wasn't exactly meaning that my mum would set the shit up! It was more (and I admit it's been a long time since I used Suse 6.2) that setting up Linux was a pain and the result was a machine whose focus was utterly different to Windows: i.e. it suited my computer programmer type use much more than my mum's use a mail program and browse.
:-D
My point about the Mac was that it was even nicer to use. While Linux wasn't likely to have a benny, it's not (or not in my day) really designed for the casual user.
Like I say, for the bog-standard person, XP with SP2 and constant MS updates is good and does its job. It's not hard because so many people really do use a PC for so little...
Linux is fundamentally a better OS, without a doubt, but it's not better for me as I have loads of software (music, games, etc.) that I can only run on a Windows environment, and I don't actually have any issues with it. And I'm a webby, programmery sort of guy!
Hang on, there's a big difference between a 'pretty good product' and one that is 'better'.
Personally I would say Microsoft make a good product. Not on some geeky OTT level maybe, but on a functional, "does what 90% of the population needs" level.
Linux is brutally powerful but equally would be a total nightmare to set up for (say) my mother.
A mac would be even easier than windows for her but would cost a fuck load more.
Regardless of 'fixing', if Microsoft were consistently as shit as people want to make out it wouldn't matter how much marketing muscle they had because people wouldn't WANT their software on their machines.
Or alternatively we could all just read Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival" ourselves.
Let's not kid ourselves here. Much as I hate corporate America, Stalin is vastly responsible for the buildup of weapons in the USSR post war, and indeed the regime was simply a dictatorship as fascist as any other.
The problem is that people (the U.S.) ascribe the fascism as being the result of communism in an attempt to victimise left-wing ideas...
I was a big fan of Babylon 5 but what I felt it suffered from was JMS' obsessive belief that he was right. The loss of Claudia Christian from Series 5 (which went a long way to killing it for me) seemed a lot down to problems he had with his pride and such. Added to that, he seemed to feel he could write a whole series on his own on an episode by episode basis and that was a mistake in my view: His dialogue began to get hideously clichéd by the end of Series 3 of B5. While I don't doubt his ideas of what to do in Star Trek would be fantastic, I don't think the result will be any good unless he can draw together a team of writers who can help write the screenplays his ideas deserve.
"most of you suckers use Windows even though this site is about Linux leetness"
Arse. Does that mean I have to leave now because Windows works on my PC?
but being the bigoted American cunt that I am
And they say American's don't know what irony is! Heh heh!
Personally I thought that by using the (apparently underrated) skill of reading, your comment about it going round the world made it clear you were suggesting the Smithsonian as sponsor. But then I'm from the UK so probably just as bigotted.
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" I would at least want the DRM crap from a less-evil comany than MS"
Oh come one. MS happen to be huge but they're actually less evil than pretty much any company Dubya's connected with (for example).
At the end of the day Apple would act just like MS if it was in their position (and I'm not saying you would necessarily prefer Apple to be giving the 'DRM crap'). But all companies will be evil. Just the way of things.
The iPod's cool if you just want a music player and money isn't an issue. If you want a recorder on a part with the trusty MD then the world becomes murkier and you end up buying an iRiver like me.
That's a little unfair. For people who care as much about furniture as software. ;-)
by Omniscientist (806841) I think its due to the fact of how aggressively marketed Microsoft's products were and are. It has almost nothing to do with the technology, but the business aspect behind it. Given that if you watch a hollywood movie you'd be forgiven for thinking Apple products are the only ones on the market that's a fairly thin argument. Apple market agressively. Unfortunately their products are comparitively expensive and no one buys them when they can get a cheaper option.
Hmm. I don't think a circular orbit is ever the natural type you get, but I may be wrong. The Earth's orbit is certainly elliptical but I don't think it's massively pronounced.
:-o
Off hand I'd just go with the set up being bogus. I can't really think how you'd get an incredibly long eclipse. I've seen Pitch Black - is that what you're talking about (as oppose to the sequel), because I really don't remember much more than it being at night. Hmm...
As to the distance between binary stars, I'd imagine it would be a bit more than the diameter of Mercuary!
When I talked about Robocop 3 I was meaning on home computers, i.e. Amiga and Atari ST. In the UK the Nintendo was never really a market until the SNES came out. The versions I read about were on the ST or Amiga. I don't think there ever was a C64 or Spectrum 48K version of Robocop 3. There were some ultra-fine C64 games out there (Gunship, Dragon Wars if you had the 1541) but I seem to remember the shots I saw of Robocop 3 had it as a 3D game, certainly looking too nicely coloured to be an 8-bit game. And dude? Less of the sarcasm about consoles please. Of course there was the PlayStation, which was obviously implied by my comments about the N64 'not having the games'. I expected people to read between the lines. I read the list given by the guy above, and it's certainly true that those N64 games sold a lot: which is what I meant about there being some very good quality games but not a lot else. The Playstation had so many games to suit so many people (and a LOT of dross), plus the games were cheaper, that you wouldn't expect that same sort of buying effect to be shown. Regardless of the games sold by Nintendo, the Playstation is still a very popular machine, available to this day, and probably the best-known console in teh world. The N64 is not.
Not a bash on the N64, but wasn't that as much due to the number and quality of the other games on that machine? Goldeneye, Zelda and Marioworld seem to get continuous praise, but most fans of the console I know, tend to say there wasn't a lot of choice. As to the film vs. game argument, I think it depends on how much hype the 'less good' original has. Waterworld is not a fair example since it was news simply by existing and the critics wanted failure. I seem to remember Ocean's Robocop 3 (many years ago in the days of 16-bits) being a very well received game of an utterly terrible film. That was the first time I remember reviews saying that they had seen a great game from a movie franchise. I think the other would be Hudson Hawk...