Ummm, actually I believe *you* used it incorrectly
Irony means, as from the link you showed me, the opposite of what is to be expected, or in their words
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1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
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1. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
2. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
Not very much since I could just bring it over to my windows computer and access it. But it'd be nice to do it from my laptop as well. How would you do it?
"The government" is just a bunch of civil servents? What about the "military" that the government employs. What if that "government" were to become oppressive and tyranical, and started using its "military" and "guns" against its civilians. What then? Would a completely unarmed country be able to protect itself like it did on this day so many years ago?
America was founded on this principle. This is why we were given the right to bear arms, not to protect us from robbers, but to protect us from the powers that sometimes becomes too corrupt to merely fix...sometimes you need to abolish them
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government" (from The Declaration of the Independence)
"Win XP saw the culimnation of MS' effort to integrate Win95/98/ME with some of the benefits of NT,"
You have it backwards. WinXP was MS's effort to integrate NT with some of the benefits of Win9x. XP is built off Win2k, hell, it essentially is Win2k with a theme engine. I'll never understand why people like to imply there's a enormous difference between the two.
Even MS doesn't call XP a major upgrade if you look at the versioning. Win2K is NT 5.0, WinXP is NT 5.1. Longhorn, however, is NT 6.0
This bill would make it illegal to discriminate against gays because they are gay, similar to how it is illegal to discriminate against women and minorities for that fact. This is state legislation in Washington (the state). I'm not sure on the status of other states and gay rights though.
No, that would be the case if they limited the resolution of the picture unless you chose their format.
What it is like, in a real analogy, is as if you bought an MP3 player that could play two formats, one that was open and available anywhere, and another that would only work if it was bought from a music store that is owned and operated by the same manufacture of the MP3 player. Sound familiar?
DISCLAIMER: I'm all for gay rights.
I'm assuming, however, that the quote is in reference to the fact that black people in America were considered 3/5th of a person until the 19th century.
Do you realize how many patents are thrown around each year by these two giants? Tons. Having the patent for something is in no way indicating that it will be used in future products.
To be honest I would highly doubt MS goes through all of Apple's patents, picks out a random one that hits its fancy and decides to make that the flagship feature of it's new OS.
Well I said it before and I got modded down as Troll, but I knew this would happen.
Regardless of the past, Microsoft announced and demo'd this feature BEFORE Apple even mentioned spotlight. I'm not saying Apple copied MS, I'm saying MS *DIDN'T* copy Apple, not this time anyway...
Right, I see a ton of college students going. "Damn I wish I could get a portable mp3 player that worked with iTunes, I just so love iTunes. I hear there's one out there, an eye...pod? Yeah that's it."
No. People want iPods for iPods, because their sleek sexy and trendy. Every *single* person I know only started using iTunes to listen to music *after* they got an ipod, not before. iPod sales drive iTunes usage, not the other way around.
ignorance.
Bits are measured normally, 1000 unit intervals. 1000 bits in a kilobit, 1000 kilobits in a megabit.
It's BYTES that use the 1024 convention for kilo, mega, giga, etc, and even then that's not technically correct, as there is another standard for that.
They immigrate illegally. Which means they are using the services I pay for with my tax money for free. For example, sidewalks, roads, public buildings. The more people that use these, they more maintence they need, the more tax money I pay. But they aren't paying anytiing. Same goes for police protection too. More people equals more crime equals more necessary police.
In fact, the rich guy down the street was born into money, I was born into a much lower economic tier.
What gives him the right to enjoy the money he was born into? Shouldn't he be giving money to me?
I think you realize that luck is the major factor here and in fact you have no god given reason to tell me why this man should not be giving me his money.
So, in conclusion, I'll rob him tonight. That's the just thing to do.
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Ummm, actually I believe *you* used it incorrectly
Irony means, as from the link you showed me, the opposite of what is to be expected, or in their words
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1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
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1. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
2. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
How in god's name is it ironic?
Not very much since I could just bring it over to my windows computer and access it. But it'd be nice to do it from my laptop as well. How would you do it?
Anyone know of any attempts to access the contents of a RAZR V3 phone on Linux?
Umm......pretty sure the Americans did pretty well against the British, which was at the time one of the most powerful militaries in the world.
The Americans were almost completely militia as well.
edit: that should be The Declaration of Independence ... :)
"The government" is just a bunch of civil servents? What about the "military" that the government employs. What if that "government" were to become oppressive and tyranical, and started using its "military" and "guns" against its civilians. What then? Would a completely unarmed country be able to protect itself like it did on this day so many years ago?
America was founded on this principle. This is why we were given the right to bear arms, not to protect us from robbers, but to protect us from the powers that sometimes becomes too corrupt to merely fix...sometimes you need to abolish them
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government" (from The Declaration of the Independence)
"Win XP saw the culimnation of MS' effort to integrate Win95/98/ME with some of the benefits of NT,"
You have it backwards. WinXP was MS's effort to integrate NT with some of the benefits of Win9x. XP is built off Win2k, hell, it essentially is Win2k with a theme engine. I'll never understand why people like to imply there's a enormous difference between the two.
Even MS doesn't call XP a major upgrade if you look at the versioning. Win2K is NT 5.0, WinXP is NT 5.1. Longhorn, however, is NT 6.0
yes they have
Are you serious? The G5 generates a ton of heat. Why do you think you haven't seen G5 powerbooks yet?
" If I had to choose between having Bushie in the White House and Saddam Hussein in the White House, I'd pick Saddam without even thinking twice."
What's interesting is that under a Saddam administration you wouldn't even be allowed to say that.
This bill would make it illegal to discriminate against gays because they are gay, similar to how it is illegal to discriminate against women and minorities for that fact. This is state legislation in Washington (the state). I'm not sure on the status of other states and gay rights though.
RTFA
The bill is about giving gays the same rights as anyone else in the work place. Nothing about race, nothing about quotas or affirmative action.
Pathetic.
None of those was anything close to a tablet PC.
And a cable ready PC isn't anything close to a Media Center PC.
No, that would be the case if they limited the resolution of the picture unless you chose their format.
What it is like, in a real analogy, is as if you bought an MP3 player that could play two formats, one that was open and available anywhere, and another that would only work if it was bought from a music store that is owned and operated by the same manufacture of the MP3 player. Sound familiar?
or........
you just save the pics as TIF/JPEG and call it a day
DISCLAIMER: I'm all for gay rights. I'm assuming, however, that the quote is in reference to the fact that black people in America were considered 3/5th of a person until the 19th century.
Do you realize how many patents are thrown around each year by these two giants? Tons. Having the patent for something is in no way indicating that it will be used in future products. To be honest I would highly doubt MS goes through all of Apple's patents, picks out a random one that hits its fancy and decides to make that the flagship feature of it's new OS.
Well I said it before and I got modded down as Troll, but I knew this would happen.
Regardless of the past, Microsoft announced and demo'd this feature BEFORE Apple even mentioned spotlight. I'm not saying Apple copied MS, I'm saying MS *DIDN'T* copy Apple, not this time anyway...
Right, I see a ton of college students going. "Damn I wish I could get a portable mp3 player that worked with iTunes, I just so love iTunes. I hear there's one out there, an eye...pod? Yeah that's it."
No. People want iPods for iPods, because their sleek sexy and trendy. Every *single* person I know only started using iTunes to listen to music *after* they got an ipod, not before. iPod sales drive iTunes usage, not the other way around.
ignorance. Bits are measured normally, 1000 unit intervals. 1000 bits in a kilobit, 1000 kilobits in a megabit. It's BYTES that use the 1024 convention for kilo, mega, giga, etc, and even then that's not technically correct, as there is another standard for that.
Wrong.
They immigrate illegally. Which means they are using the services I pay for with my tax money for free. For example, sidewalks, roads, public buildings. The more people that use these, they more maintence they need, the more tax money I pay. But they aren't paying anytiing. Same goes for police protection too. More people equals more crime equals more necessary police.
You can rob someone in more ways than one.
Or how about the inalienable right to be secure in your property and not have to worry about people taking things from you.
"Equality" can be just as dangerous as "Security" when applied wrongly as well.
Absolutely! Right on!
In fact, the rich guy down the street was born into money, I was born into a much lower economic tier.
What gives him the right to enjoy the money he was born into? Shouldn't he be giving money to me?
I think you realize that luck is the major factor here and in fact you have no god given reason to tell me why this man should not be giving me his money.
So, in conclusion, I'll rob him tonight. That's the just thing to do.
A feature that barely works and breaks your system almost every time isn't a feature.
It's a well documented bug.