I would say that so many people have fond memories of Oregon Trail because it was a game that they were allowed to play in school. I always thought that it sucked. I have found recently that there is an entire genre of educational games for the Nintendo DS though. I just got mine for Christmas, and was suprised that Brain Age is just one of many educational games for that platform.
The next question would be... Can you put a black or cyan cartridge in the yellow slot to make the dots show up bright and clear for easier identification? If so, it would make it easier to see what these printers do. Perticularly when yellow lines are drawn through the codes.
Microsoft is not trying to indicate that copyright has value. Only that you should obey your corporate masters. They expect YOU to give your creations away for free. From the summary:
"a Web site where students can create custom ringtones, share content -- "their own content,""
Part of the problem is that the vast majority of people fall into 4 categories:
Those that don't care.
Luddites that use the environmental movement as an excuse to say that everyone should live a retro lifestyle.
Those that are looking for control of other people.
People that don't understand the issue at all, but think that being 'environmental' is cool. Even if their actions are worse than what was happening before.
The number of people that understand the issue, want to solve the problem, and still want to improve the lifestyle of humans is very small.
It seems pretty clear the guy is being sarcastic. The comment makes perfect sense as sarcasm. As a serious comment it would, as you said, be patently dumb, as well as physically impossible if you have any contact with other humans.
I let him at a default install on both patched OSes. Yes, I did send him off browsing the web. The worst place for the OS getting screwed up was from store bought software. At one point there were 4 different versions of AOL on his machine, and various other malware that was delivered on the store bought CDs that would not run without the CD being inserted as a copy protection method.
"Worth noting: Barack Obama voted against telco immunity. Hillary Clinton couldn't be bothered to show up."
That is because she is the candidate with experience. This is just part of her "Comprehensive Government Reform" agenda. Clearly she abstained from the vote as a way to show how she is going to change government, since voting against the telco immunity simply wasn't on the table.
Two and a half years ago, my son who was 1 at that time did his first OS install. He successfully installed Ubuntu with no help from me. He couldn't even read at the time. At almost 4, he still cannot do a Windows install on his own.
To make matters worse, with 3 years of computer usage under his belt, split about 50/50 between Ubuntu and Windows, he has never had his machine need a reinstall from it getting screwed up. He has had to have his Windows system reinstalled 4 times, and it should have been more, but since he doesn't have data to lose, I have let screwed up Windows installs sit on his drive longer than I normally would.
Bait and switch is when one product is advertised, and when you go to buy the product, the seller of said product refuses to sell you the product advertised and and instead tries to sell you a product that cost more, or has a higher profit margin.
If MS were to buy Intuit, I'm not sure where I would go for my personal financial software. I used MS Money for a couple of years. When I found that they add bugs that cause wrong totals to show, I spent about an hour and a half jumping through hoops to report the problem, and walk the support rep through recreating the problem on their end. 3 months later, a had a message on my answering machine that said, they were going to close the ticket without correcting it because I wasn't home when they called.
The next day, I went and bought Quicken, and haven't looked back.
I don't think that word means what most people think it means. People always call these kinds of machines "perpetual motion" machines, and say that it is impossible because of the law of thermal dynamics.
Whether this guys machine works or not, it is in no way a "perpetual motion" machine, or "free energy". It is about as "perpetual motion" as a Hummer. When you take a substance that is oozing with easily accessible energy, and put it into a motor as a way of making the motor run, it is certainly not "perpetual motion". Just because a lot of people make motors that don't work when trying to make a magnet powered motor, doesn't mean that it is inherently impossible.
By claiming that powering a motor with magnets is "perpetual motion", a person is inherently claiming that magnetism is not energy.
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I'm not saying that XML is the end all be all, but if your application blows up because someone fed it bad data in XML, your program is broken, and no data format is going to fix it. As the developer, it is your responsibility to vet the data before trying to use it.
I can do one better. I had a friend that was convinced I was pirating DirectTV because I had a ReplayTV. After all it ended in TV and let me watch shows that it got from a DirectTV box. Now this was right after the ReplayTV was released, so it was the first DVR he had heard of, but still...
Well, it is doomed. In the not too distant future, Wii sales are going to plummet. My guess is that it will happen some time after Nintendo releases it's next console. I could be wrong though, it could be after MS or Sony release a new console. This will lead Nintendo to drop production on new units, and all of the existing will eventually fail, wiping the Wii from the face of the earth. Granted, it might take a decade or two for all of this to come to completion, but...
You are correct. People are always amazed at how quickly children learn to speak. I say that if you took your average adult, put them into a fully immersive foreign language environment, where they could not get anything for themselves, they would learn the foreign language even faster than a child. Heck, to make it a fair comparison, you also would have to give the adult multiple tutors who will happily spend every day helping with identifying words and correcting pronunciation.
Depending on your definition, most kids would not be considered fluent with their first language until the age of 4 or 5, and then generally still speak it with an accent. I would say that this is not all really any different than an adult. They are actually probably a little slower.
Now your getting it. Of course you don't have to vote for someone you like in this case, since he isn't going to win anyway. The idea is that you want the two main parties to see the third party as a group they want to woo.
There are a lot of people who hate both candidates equally. There are a lot of people that are not voting at all out of some kind of protest. If these people would vote, and vote third party, they can have an influence on the candidate that wins. Heck, there are even people that don't know anything about any of the candidates, but go and vote anyway because they have been told that they are supposed to vote even if they don't have an opinion. Include that group as well.
I am still convinced that Bill Clinton did a better job as president than he would have if Ross Perot had not scared him.
You seem to be having a different discussion than what is happening in this thread. Follow it up a couple of levels, and you'll see that your response makes no sense.
That's odd. Me, and almost everyone I know, had exactly the opposite experience. The joysticks that came with the Atari for were notorious for being easy to break. The problem was the plastic 'spring' that they used inside was prone to snapping. And, unfortunately the plastic was too oily for glue to fix. Many of the third party controllers of the day were extremely durable though. The Wico bat stick, and the slick stick come to mind. The slick stick actually used auto parts in it's construction. The handle was a tire valve. The paddles were even worse. Luckily, the paddles were just a generic off the shelf potentiometer, so they were (and still are) super easy to repair.
I would agree that the doctor is should not be a middle man to drugs. My complaint is that most doctors (notice I did not say all) do not treat patients for anything that is not immediatly obviouse. I have stated in this thread what I believe causes this to happen. Notice that I also did not complain if a doctor refuses drugs anywhere in this thread. In fact, I believe that doctors tend to be a bit quick on the drug prescriptions with some symptoms. Unfortunately, the number of doctors that will honestly discuss your treatment with you is not high enough to go around.
It is also important to recognize that it is also the patient's responsibility for deciding their treatment.
"If a doctor won't discuss your treatment, or you feel he's not giving you correct treatment, go to a better doctor."
I have not only done that, but actually moved to a completely different city to get proper health care for my child. Well, the decision was 50% he had allergies in the city we were moving from, and 50% poor medical care.
Exactly. If people don't like any of the candidates, they should vote third party. The up shot of this is that if this happens in any quantity, it can scare the winning candidates into behaving a little more responsibly.
Thank You! I kept wondering why I kept thinking that the name Ron Paul sounded like the name of a transvestite. I could not figure out where I was making that connection. Ru Paul explains it.
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I would say that so many people have fond memories of Oregon Trail because it was a game that they were allowed to play in school. I always thought that it sucked. I have found recently that there is an entire genre of educational games for the Nintendo DS though. I just got mine for Christmas, and was suprised that Brain Age is just one of many educational games for that platform.
The next question would be... Can you put a black or cyan cartridge in the yellow slot to make the dots show up bright and clear for easier identification? If so, it would make it easier to see what these printers do. Perticularly when yellow lines are drawn through the codes.
I think it is the conductivity of the consumer that is the problem.
Microsoft is not trying to indicate that copyright has value. Only that you should obey your corporate masters. They expect YOU to give your creations away for free. From the summary:
"a Web site where students can create custom ringtones, share content -- "their own content,""
Part of the problem is that the vast majority of people fall into 4 categories:
Those that don't care.
Luddites that use the environmental movement as an excuse to say that everyone should live a retro lifestyle.
Those that are looking for control of other people.
People that don't understand the issue at all, but think that being 'environmental' is cool. Even if their actions are worse than what was happening before.
The number of people that understand the issue, want to solve the problem, and still want to improve the lifestyle of humans is very small.
It seems pretty clear the guy is being sarcastic. The comment makes perfect sense as sarcasm. As a serious comment it would, as you said, be patently dumb, as well as physically impossible if you have any contact with other humans.
I let him at a default install on both patched OSes. Yes, I did send him off browsing the web. The worst place for the OS getting screwed up was from store bought software. At one point there were 4 different versions of AOL on his machine, and various other malware that was delivered on the store bought CDs that would not run without the CD being inserted as a copy protection method.
Yes. Sarcasm.
Just because there was a vote called does not means that voting against corporate immunity was ever on table for Hillary Clinton.
"Worth noting: Barack Obama voted against telco immunity. Hillary Clinton couldn't be bothered to show up."
That is because she is the candidate with experience. This is just part of her "Comprehensive Government Reform" agenda. Clearly she abstained from the vote as a way to show how she is going to change government, since voting against the telco immunity simply wasn't on the table.
Two and a half years ago, my son who was 1 at that time did his first OS install. He successfully installed Ubuntu with no help from me. He couldn't even read at the time. At almost 4, he still cannot do a Windows install on his own.
To make matters worse, with 3 years of computer usage under his belt, split about 50/50 between Ubuntu and Windows, he has never had his machine need a reinstall from it getting screwed up. He has had to have his Windows system reinstalled 4 times, and it should have been more, but since he doesn't have data to lose, I have let screwed up Windows installs sit on his drive longer than I normally would.
Bait and switch is when one product is advertised, and when you go to buy the product, the seller of said product refuses to sell you the product advertised and and instead tries to sell you a product that cost more, or has a higher profit margin.
If MS were to buy Intuit, I'm not sure where I would go for my personal financial software. I used MS Money for a couple of years. When I found that they add bugs that cause wrong totals to show, I spent about an hour and a half jumping through hoops to report the problem, and walk the support rep through recreating the problem on their end. 3 months later, a had a message on my answering machine that said, they were going to close the ticket without correcting it because I wasn't home when they called.
The next day, I went and bought Quicken, and haven't looked back.
I don't think that word means what most people think it means. People always call these kinds of machines "perpetual motion" machines, and say that it is impossible because of the law of thermal dynamics.
Whether this guys machine works or not, it is in no way a "perpetual motion" machine, or "free energy". It is about as "perpetual motion" as a Hummer. When you take a substance that is oozing with easily accessible energy, and put it into a motor as a way of making the motor run, it is certainly not "perpetual motion". Just because a lot of people make motors that don't work when trying to make a magnet powered motor, doesn't mean that it is inherently impossible.
By claiming that powering a motor with magnets is "perpetual motion", a person is inherently claiming that magnetism is not energy.
Your wrong.
(See how useful that is?)
I'm not saying that XML is the end all be all, but if your application blows up because someone fed it bad data in XML, your program is broken, and no data format is going to fix it. As the developer, it is your responsibility to vet the data before trying to use it.
I can do one better. I had a friend that was convinced I was pirating DirectTV because I had a ReplayTV. After all it ended in TV and let me watch shows that it got from a DirectTV box. Now this was right after the ReplayTV was released, so it was the first DVR he had heard of, but still...
Well, it could be worse, MS could still be making OSes that completely wipe out your entire hard disk like they did back with good old DOS 6.0.
Well, it is doomed. In the not too distant future, Wii sales are going to plummet. My guess is that it will happen some time after Nintendo releases it's next console. I could be wrong though, it could be after MS or Sony release a new console. This will lead Nintendo to drop production on new units, and all of the existing will eventually fail, wiping the Wii from the face of the earth. Granted, it might take a decade or two for all of this to come to completion, but...
The Wii is DOOMED! DOOMED I tell you!!!
You are correct. People are always amazed at how quickly children learn to speak. I say that if you took your average adult, put them into a fully immersive foreign language environment, where they could not get anything for themselves, they would learn the foreign language even faster than a child. Heck, to make it a fair comparison, you also would have to give the adult multiple tutors who will happily spend every day helping with identifying words and correcting pronunciation.
Depending on your definition, most kids would not be considered fluent with their first language until the age of 4 or 5, and then generally still speak it with an accent. I would say that this is not all really any different than an adult. They are actually probably a little slower.
Now your getting it. Of course you don't have to vote for someone you like in this case, since he isn't going to win anyway. The idea is that you want the two main parties to see the third party as a group they want to woo.
There are a lot of people who hate both candidates equally. There are a lot of people that are not voting at all out of some kind of protest. If these people would vote, and vote third party, they can have an influence on the candidate that wins. Heck, there are even people that don't know anything about any of the candidates, but go and vote anyway because they have been told that they are supposed to vote even if they don't have an opinion. Include that group as well.
I am still convinced that Bill Clinton did a better job as president than he would have if Ross Perot had not scared him.
You seem to be having a different discussion than what is happening in this thread. Follow it up a couple of levels, and you'll see that your response makes no sense.
That's odd. Me, and almost everyone I know, had exactly the opposite experience. The joysticks that came with the Atari for were notorious for being easy to break. The problem was the plastic 'spring' that they used inside was prone to snapping. And, unfortunately the plastic was too oily for glue to fix. Many of the third party controllers of the day were extremely durable though. The Wico bat stick, and the slick stick come to mind. The slick stick actually used auto parts in it's construction. The handle was a tire valve. The paddles were even worse. Luckily, the paddles were just a generic off the shelf potentiometer, so they were (and still are) super easy to repair.
I would agree that the doctor is should not be a middle man to drugs. My complaint is that most doctors (notice I did not say all) do not treat patients for anything that is not immediatly obviouse. I have stated in this thread what I believe causes this to happen. Notice that I also did not complain if a doctor refuses drugs anywhere in this thread. In fact, I believe that doctors tend to be a bit quick on the drug prescriptions with some symptoms. Unfortunately, the number of doctors that will honestly discuss your treatment with you is not high enough to go around.
It is also important to recognize that it is also the patient's responsibility for deciding their treatment.
"If a doctor won't discuss your treatment, or you feel he's not giving you correct treatment, go to a better doctor."
I have not only done that, but actually moved to a completely different city to get proper health care for my child. Well, the decision was 50% he had allergies in the city we were moving from, and 50% poor medical care.
Exactly. If people don't like any of the candidates, they should vote third party. The up shot of this is that if this happens in any quantity, it can scare the winning candidates into behaving a little more responsibly.
Thank You! I kept wondering why I kept thinking that the name Ron Paul sounded like the name of a transvestite. I could not figure out where I was making that connection. Ru Paul explains it.