GameSpot reviews games in a favourable manner? Puh-leez! I have yet to see a "fair" review on GameSpot where a game actually got a score they deserved (pretty much all games are reviewed extremely harshly on GameSpot; I don't know of any games that have received a perfect 10/10 there). Besides, you can just look at the "You Say" (GameSpot and GameFAQs users' reviews) and "They Say" (GameRankings.com scores, aggregate of a lot of gaming sites' scores) scores to get a better idea on what people actually think of the game.
Well, then make sure to vote in the primaries! Hardly anyone does, so your vote has an enormous effect, especially if you can get others to do the same. Don't want Hillary to be the Democratic candidate? Vote in the Democratic Primary in 2008 (state-specific details on the wiki). Don't want a lousy candidate running on the Republican side? Vote in the Republican Primary in 2008. Sure, third parties aren't at a level where we can hope for a president being elected from one of them, but they are at a well-known level where they can run for plenty of other political positions and win (e.g. local government, state government).
Also, if you know of a politician whom you think would be a great presidential candidate, why don't you contact him or her? The primaries aren't until early next year, so you've got plenty of time to scope out and convince more potential candidates.
It is entirely possible that selling one CD at $18 produces more profit than three CDs for $10. If it costs less than $6 per album to make (which I think it is), they'd make more profit selling three for $10. On the other hand, if it costs more than $6 per album, they get more profit from the $18 albums.
Two things worth noting: "fair use" is not part of the constitution -- in fact, the constitution doesn't say anything about how copyright law should be applied, it only says that copyright law can be applied. So the erosion of "fair use" does not fly in the face of the constitution, it possibly flies in the face of established copyright law. Sure it is. Check the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Since the rights of fair use are neither denied by the US Constitution, nor are they denied in copyright law, they're rights "granted" by the Constitution. You can't "grant" rights to people; you can only limit them. Since copyright law's fair use sections deal with exceptions to what is considered infringement, it is explicitly stating that those rights are not limited by that particular set of laws.
If you know how to copy and paste text, then you're competent enough to follow instructions on how to get some obscure thing working. To those who actually want to learn how their computer works, they will ask what the particular commands do, and they might even look into more CLI things in order to further understand how their computer works. The others that don't care will just copy and paste it into a terminal, see that it works now, and move on with their lives. Maybe they'll write it down somewhere so they know what to do if that problem happens again, but they won't look into what it does.
Besides, what's the difference between following a tutorial that gives you commands to copy and paste and a tutorial that gives screenshots of the program and tells you what to click and type? Neither are teaching what's going on, and since GUIs can and do change, it's usually a bit easier to give the instructions to the command line form (some people would be stumped if the picture of the GUI in the screenshot was different than the one they're seeing; this does not happen on the CLI).
Sun created NFS, not Linux (or any of its main companies that employ the developers).
And the security model you're speaking of: isn't that part of the POSIX standard? Once again, don't blame Linux, blame those who created the standard (which has existed quite a bit longer than the Linux kernel has).
You do know that app bundles are just directories called "ApplicationName.app", right? They are part of the file system. Also, those DMG files you get them from? Those are HFS+ (the file system format on OS X) images (similar to how ISO files are images of ISO-9660 file systems) which is why they get mounted.
In the software (or computer science) side of the story, it's far easier to deal with digital (i.e. discrete) signals than analogue ones. Besides, all the visual data is digital in the first place in these situations (unless you're using VHS or analogue OTA broadcasting), so all this DAD conversion nonsense is just that: nonsense.
Problem solved! Nowadays, most QuickTime movies are just H.264+AAC, both of which are MPEG-4 standards, so support for said media files is far more widespread than the old widely-used QuickTime audio and video codecs.
Way ahead of you. GNU libc had the timezone updates available pretty much the instant it became law. In fact, the timezone files have quite a bit of history as they include every little detail on when timezones were fucked around with in order to properly calculate the date of time of a timestamp.
Also, anyone who's using GCC to compile their code (i.e. most people) usually ends up linking to GNU libc unless they're specifically linking a minimalist C library like ulibc.
If you've been following Slashdot over the past, well, few years, you'd know that Joe Sixpack already owns an HD-DVD and Blu-ray player already along with thousands of dollars of other expensive equipment he doesn't seem to know how to use. Your point is moot.
the same thing happened with XP... it should be expected in any new Microsoft OS There, fixed for you. No other OS has suffered driver issues this badly except for Microsoft ones, and that's because they change their driver API more often than Linus does.
Well, in Halo 2, you can't have an admin who bans people he doesn't like or can't beat. No admin abuse, basically. Although, that does come at a price: to get an asshat banned, it takes more than a couple pissed off admins...
RMS has already stated that he plans to prevent any more Novell-Microsoft patent deals in GPL3, so unless Novell gets out of the patent deal pronto, they're not going to be able to distribute any GPL3-licensed software (e.g. everything from GNU, KDE, Qt, GNOME (although GTK+ and the like will be LGPL, and I heard that LGPL is combining with the GPL so that GPL3 has an option to make it effectively the LGPL), and plenty more software you'd expect in a typical Linux distro).
Jesus Christ was Christ, and those who follow in his teachings would be Christian. The current blasphemies of people like Bush are most certainly not Christian. The Puritans who burned people for being witches were certainly not Christian. Those who killed in the Crusades were certainly not Christian.
They're definitely not any worse than the 1% of the US that has 99% of all the wealth and power. We can theoretically keep the government in check; a vote is a vote is a vote. However, the only way to keep corporations in check is to have shitloads of money and for said money to be in the form of shares (i.e. stocks) in said corporations, and it has to be enough money to own a significant share of the company where your votes might actually matter (usually, the only people who own this amount of shares are the founders of said corporations).
For as much as I distrust the government, I trust them to handle money far better than any corporation whose only lawful goals are to make as much money for their shareholders as possible in accordance to their corporate charter and any laws that pertain to them.
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GameSpot reviews games in a favourable manner? Puh-leez! I have yet to see a "fair" review on GameSpot where a game actually got a score they deserved (pretty much all games are reviewed extremely harshly on GameSpot; I don't know of any games that have received a perfect 10/10 there). Besides, you can just look at the "You Say" (GameSpot and GameFAQs users' reviews) and "They Say" (GameRankings.com scores, aggregate of a lot of gaming sites' scores) scores to get a better idea on what people actually think of the game.
Well, then make sure to vote in the primaries! Hardly anyone does, so your vote has an enormous effect, especially if you can get others to do the same. Don't want Hillary to be the Democratic candidate? Vote in the Democratic Primary in 2008 (state-specific details on the wiki). Don't want a lousy candidate running on the Republican side? Vote in the Republican Primary in 2008. Sure, third parties aren't at a level where we can hope for a president being elected from one of them, but they are at a well-known level where they can run for plenty of other political positions and win (e.g. local government, state government).
Also, if you know of a politician whom you think would be a great presidential candidate, why don't you contact him or her? The primaries aren't until early next year, so you've got plenty of time to scope out and convince more potential candidates.
IANAL of course.
If you know how to copy and paste text, then you're competent enough to follow instructions on how to get some obscure thing working. To those who actually want to learn how their computer works, they will ask what the particular commands do, and they might even look into more CLI things in order to further understand how their computer works. The others that don't care will just copy and paste it into a terminal, see that it works now, and move on with their lives. Maybe they'll write it down somewhere so they know what to do if that problem happens again, but they won't look into what it does.
Besides, what's the difference between following a tutorial that gives you commands to copy and paste and a tutorial that gives screenshots of the program and tells you what to click and type? Neither are teaching what's going on, and since GUIs can and do change, it's usually a bit easier to give the instructions to the command line form (some people would be stumped if the picture of the GUI in the screenshot was different than the one they're seeing; this does not happen on the CLI).
Hey, those are the same letters from the SAMP stack in TFA! Awesome!
Sun created NFS, not Linux (or any of its main companies that employ the developers).
And the security model you're speaking of: isn't that part of the POSIX standard? Once again, don't blame Linux, blame those who created the standard (which has existed quite a bit longer than the Linux kernel has).
You do know that app bundles are just directories called "ApplicationName.app", right? They are part of the file system. Also, those DMG files you get them from? Those are HFS+ (the file system format on OS X) images (similar to how ISO files are images of ISO-9660 file systems) which is why they get mounted.
Oh, sorry, I was thinking of 16:10, disregard that.
Because it's not as wide as 16:9, but not as narrow as 4:3.
In the software (or computer science) side of the story, it's far easier to deal with digital (i.e. discrete) signals than analogue ones. Besides, all the visual data is digital in the first place in these situations (unless you're using VHS or analogue OTA broadcasting), so all this DAD conversion nonsense is just that: nonsense.
Problem solved! Nowadays, most QuickTime movies are just H.264+AAC, both of which are MPEG-4 standards, so support for said media files is far more widespread than the old widely-used QuickTime audio and video codecs.
Way ahead of you. GNU libc had the timezone updates available pretty much the instant it became law. In fact, the timezone files have quite a bit of history as they include every little detail on when timezones were fucked around with in order to properly calculate the date of time of a timestamp.
Also, anyone who's using GCC to compile their code (i.e. most people) usually ends up linking to GNU libc unless they're specifically linking a minimalist C library like ulibc.
Works for me (3.5.6-0ubuntu6).
If you've been following Slashdot over the past, well, few years, you'd know that Joe Sixpack already owns an HD-DVD and Blu-ray player already along with thousands of dollars of other expensive equipment he doesn't seem to know how to use. Your point is moot.
Pretty much every DVD player (yes, even Sony ones) have region-unlock codes. Check videohelp.com.
Well, in Halo 2, you can't have an admin who bans people he doesn't like or can't beat. No admin abuse, basically. Although, that does come at a price: to get an asshat banned, it takes more than a couple pissed off admins...
RMS has already stated that he plans to prevent any more Novell-Microsoft patent deals in GPL3, so unless Novell gets out of the patent deal pronto, they're not going to be able to distribute any GPL3-licensed software (e.g. everything from GNU, KDE, Qt, GNOME (although GTK+ and the like will be LGPL, and I heard that LGPL is combining with the GPL so that GPL3 has an option to make it effectively the LGPL), and plenty more software you'd expect in a typical Linux distro).
Real? Meets your requirements...
Which is why Windows 2000 is also known as Windows NT 5.0.
Keep up with the times, or at least tell the people who worry about such things about this...
Jesus Christ was Christ, and those who follow in his teachings would be Christian. The current blasphemies of people like Bush are most certainly not Christian. The Puritans who burned people for being witches were certainly not Christian. Those who killed in the Crusades were certainly not Christian.
They're definitely not any worse than the 1% of the US that has 99% of all the wealth and power. We can theoretically keep the government in check; a vote is a vote is a vote. However, the only way to keep corporations in check is to have shitloads of money and for said money to be in the form of shares (i.e. stocks) in said corporations, and it has to be enough money to own a significant share of the company where your votes might actually matter (usually, the only people who own this amount of shares are the founders of said corporations).
For as much as I distrust the government, I trust them to handle money far better than any corporation whose only lawful goals are to make as much money for their shareholders as possible in accordance to their corporate charter and any laws that pertain to them.