Screw that. If they try and stick GPS in my car, I'll just rip it out and let it sit in my house! This is the single most dumbest idea California has ever come up with. I used to think we were a cool state - just the fact that someone from California came up with this idea proves otherwise.
I donno if your being serious or not, so I'll post this anyways.
Linspire did used to be called "Lindows", however, they got sued by another big software manufacturing company, who shall remain nameless. Although they could have, and should have, won the suit, ("windows is a generic term, ala: X-Windows etc...) they decided to save time and money and just re-name thier product.
Sheesh, it took em this long to realize that? Consumers have known for years that if you just wait a bit the technology vastly increases while the price decreases. When we bought our Pentium 1 years back, it cost ~3-4 thousand dollars. When we bought our Pentium 4, it cost about 1 thousand dollars. Now do I even NEED to state the ammount better a P4 is than a P1? On top of that, there is no real way of upgrading a P1 to the speeds of a P4 short of completely replacing everything and just keeping the case.
Well, normally I would make a comment stating that it's a bad thing to make a deal with the devil, however in this case, we have 2 devils making deals with each other.
1. Make sure it's impossible to use. 2. Make sure it's buggy. 3. Make sure it's unsecure. 4. Market the hell out of it. (Making sure to state how great and secure it is.) 5. ??? 6. Profit!
Good Red State American's don't want freedom . . . they want super bowls, super bowl commercials, and cold beer with a born on date. This life is supposed to suck ass, and the more it sucks the bigger the reward in heaven./><br/>And oh boy, what a surprise they'll get when they wind up in hell for thinking they could get into heaven by sitting on thier asses whatching football and drinking beer!
Flag burning can't be illegal for 2 reasons: 1. It is a demonstration of free speech, which doesn't harm anyone/thing. (It may be harsh to see your own flag being burned, but hey, live with it.) 2. Burning a flag is the respectful and proper way to dispose of an old flag. Granted, the manner in which your burning it is different, but you still can't just blanket ban flag burning.
Actually the "don't have to pay income taxes" thing is something completely different. I don't understand it completely, but it has to do with the way we get payed. It's something dumb like "wages" aren't actually taxable but "income" is. I know there are 2 terms and what you make at your job technically isn't "income". Anyways, I'll continue to pay my "income" taxes because I know that it's a nessasary evil to keep this country functioning. Of course, I may not WANT it functioning in it's current condition.....
...exactly. The problem is that most people think that the 1st amendment covers everything, but in fact, it only allows for those rights as long as they don't violate someone else's rights. Many people don't realize this. (Pretty sad, as it's just common curtesy anyways.)
FYI - There isn't anything in the Constitution declaring the separation of church and state. That is an interperatation that we made up. The quote: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.... simply states that the government cannot endorse, protect, or prosecute a specific religion, not that they must remain separate. I took a very interesting course on this in college which actually encouraged religion in government, as religion is *supposed* to have higher moral standards. (No war, be nice to enviornment, etc...)
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian, but a liberal (*gasp*) one. (I apologize for our current president who claims to be Christian but doesn't follow most of Jesus' teachings.)
high school is not now nor has it ever been anything like "real life".
That's the problem though. High School SHOULD be like "real life", as it is preparing our kids to enter "real life". We have a system that doesn't prepare them and then wonder why they fail. What sort of sense does that make?
I think it all depends on what you are doing. If you are doing something simple like Solitare or word processing, then you only need 1 button. Applications like Photoshop start needing more buttons, ie: 1 to apply effect, and a second to hold and drag to move around easy. Finally, 3D stuff requires (well, doesn't require, but it's heckava lot easier with) 3 or more mouse buttons, so that you can navigate easily. For example, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (fun game, BTW) would be a pain in the arse to play if you only had 1 mouse button.
Once you start tying mouse buttons to context menu's is when things get annoying and useless. I think the burdon lies mainly on the programmers.
The problem here is that it isn't illegal to download music from the Internet if you have the rights to it. Say I own CD A, but don't have a ripper and want to listen to it on my computer, I can go online and download CD A because I own it, and playing it on my computer is withing the limits of fair use. What is illegal is the actual distrobution of the files. Because of that, a person who has links to online files is OK, as he *may* have been using those links for his own reference, or as a service to others who have rights to the content. This is another major example of the industry crossing the very fine line between legal and illegal.
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Screw Boeing, I wanna fly the Airbus A380!
Yes, but sadly it doesn't have a "talent" knob.
Screw that. If they try and stick GPS in my car, I'll just rip it out and let it sit in my house! This is the single most dumbest idea California has ever come up with. I used to think we were a cool state - just the fact that someone from California came up with this idea proves otherwise.
In related news, script kiddies have already found 27,382 new security flaws *by design* in IE7.
There is no patent, but be careful, SCO is considering legal action!
...but I don't have an Orbitz account, thus I do not nessasarily agree with their terms and conditions, thus I can link all I want to the Orbitz site!
I donno if your being serious or not, so I'll post this anyways.
Linspire did used to be called "Lindows", however, they got sued by another big software manufacturing company, who shall remain nameless. Although they could have, and should have, won the suit, ("windows is a generic term, ala: X-Windows etc...) they decided to save time and money and just re-name thier product.
Why not get it to accept 5'' floppies while your at it?
Isn't this just 1 more reason to keep/replace Hubble? What is wrong with NASA anyways?
Sheesh, it took em this long to realize that? Consumers have known for years that if you just wait a bit the technology vastly increases while the price decreases. When we bought our Pentium 1 years back, it cost ~3-4 thousand dollars. When we bought our Pentium 4, it cost about 1 thousand dollars. Now do I even NEED to state the ammount better a P4 is than a P1? On top of that, there is no real way of upgrading a P1 to the speeds of a P4 short of completely replacing everything and just keeping the case.
You seem to also forget servers. Server clusters these days hold terabytes of data.
SHHHHH!!!! Don't give them ideas! It's the RIAA, the *WILL* use them!
Hey now! I'm a fan of the classic Simpsons arcade game! You know, the one with up to 4 players that wasted an incredible amount of quarters?
Well, normally I would make a comment stating that it's a bad thing to make a deal with the devil, however in this case, we have 2 devils making deals with each other.
1. Make sure it's impossible to use.
2. Make sure it's buggy.
3. Make sure it's unsecure.
4. Market the hell out of it. (Making sure to state how great and secure it is.)
5. ???
6. Profit!
...uhm.... yeeeaaaassss.... I made the northern lights do that.... Exactly what I was planning.....
#include
int main(){
string str;
string distros[100] = googleQuerryToArray("Linux+Distros");
for(int i = 0; i < distros.length; i++;){
str = "%s sucks! Use %s!",distros[i],distros[i+1];
slashdotPost(str);
if(i == (distros.length - 1)){i = 0;}
}
return 0;
}
Good Red State American's don't want freedom . . . they want super bowls, super bowl commercials, and cold beer with a born on date. This life is supposed to suck ass, and the more it sucks the bigger the reward in heaven./><br />And oh boy, what a surprise they'll get when they wind up in hell for thinking they could get into heaven by sitting on thier asses whatching football and drinking beer!
Flag burning can't be illegal for 2 reasons:
1. It is a demonstration of free speech, which doesn't harm anyone/thing. (It may be harsh to see your own flag being burned, but hey, live with it.)
2. Burning a flag is the respectful and proper way to dispose of an old flag. Granted, the manner in which your burning it is different, but you still can't just blanket ban flag burning.
Actually the "don't have to pay income taxes" thing is something completely different. I don't understand it completely, but it has to do with the way we get payed. It's something dumb like "wages" aren't actually taxable but "income" is. I know there are 2 terms and what you make at your job technically isn't "income". Anyways, I'll continue to pay my "income" taxes because I know that it's a nessasary evil to keep this country functioning. Of course, I may not WANT it functioning in it's current condition.....
...exactly. The problem is that most people think that the 1st amendment covers everything, but in fact, it only allows for those rights as long as they don't violate someone else's rights. Many people don't realize this. (Pretty sad, as it's just common curtesy anyways.)
FYI - There isn't anything in the Constitution declaring the separation of church and state. That is an interperatation that we made up. The quote: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.... simply states that the government cannot endorse, protect, or prosecute a specific religion, not that they must remain separate. I took a very interesting course on this in college which actually encouraged religion in government, as religion is *supposed* to have higher moral standards. (No war, be nice to enviornment, etc...)
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian, but a liberal (*gasp*) one. (I apologize for our current president who claims to be Christian but doesn't follow most of Jesus' teachings.)
high school is not now nor has it ever been anything like "real life".
That's the problem though. High School SHOULD be like "real life", as it is preparing our kids to enter "real life". We have a system that doesn't prepare them and then wonder why they fail. What sort of sense does that make?
I think it all depends on what you are doing. If you are doing something simple like Solitare or word processing, then you only need 1 button. Applications like Photoshop start needing more buttons, ie: 1 to apply effect, and a second to hold and drag to move around easy. Finally, 3D stuff requires (well, doesn't require, but it's heckava lot easier with) 3 or more mouse buttons, so that you can navigate easily. For example, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (fun game, BTW) would be a pain in the arse to play if you only had 1 mouse button.
Once you start tying mouse buttons to context menu's is when things get annoying and useless. I think the burdon lies mainly on the programmers.
The problem here is that it isn't illegal to download music from the Internet if you have the rights to it. Say I own CD A, but don't have a ripper and want to listen to it on my computer, I can go online and download CD A because I own it, and playing it on my computer is withing the limits of fair use. What is illegal is the actual distrobution of the files. Because of that, a person who has links to online files is OK, as he *may* have been using those links for his own reference, or as a service to others who have rights to the content. This is another major example of the industry crossing the very fine line between legal and illegal.