Since it is the 400th anniversary, the red sky could actually be the angry villagers and clerics burning down all those awful, evil, and very non-Catholic Centers of Witchery (formerly known as schools, laboratories, observatories, etc.)
I'm not sure this will really 'get people in the door' so to speak.
Maybe the "people" referred to here are not consumers but companies that should have a vested interest in producing at the very least minimally functioning drivers. (Hello, AverMedia where is that linux driver for the M780? Hello? Hello?)
Until these companies get in the door, Microsoft wins this space by default. Also, making it simple enought to use is paramount. We are still dealing with people who never knew how to change their VCR to stop their clocks from blinking "12:00."
Yes, I was wondering if this new OS would bring my brand new system to its knees. I guess they saw that extra grand or so in my bank account and thought I would spend it on hardware instead of food and rent.
I have to say the more we rely on "foolproof" technology, the more we rely on fools to operate the machinery.
I have to admit the Germans had it nearly right. Almost nothing beat the steely-eyed glare of a Hauptsturmführer asking for your passport -- unless of course you have a John Williams musical score swelling in the background, and even then it would be a life changing, tension filled 2 minutes of your life going by you.
having parent-controlled lockout features installed in consoles by 2010
How about the feature, "Do Not Want"?
It seems to me that once again people are making laws to put the responsibility of conduct, not back on the person who should be responsible, but to the gadgets and devices we have the opportunity to use (or not use).
That's all I need, some Sir Lancelot in a can that won't let me do anything because, no, it's too perilous. It is my duty to sample as much peril as I can, you know.
Poor guy must be spinning in his grave, saying why didn't I think of this? I had a real war compared to this joker...
Charlie's not in the bush, he's hiding in the Watergate!
Note: there could have been an upside to this though. He could have sent Jane Fonda to Guantanamo and we would have been spared from all her workout tapes.
"I was a little short with him," said Thunman, who retired as a vice admiral and now lives in Springfield, Illinois. He emphasized that the mission was to study the sunken warships.
Once Ballard had completed his mission--if time was left--Thunman said, Ballard could do what he wanted, but never gave him explicit permission to search for the Titanic.
And all this time I thought Ballard was pissy because the others on the boat were making fun of his hair loss.
So you are saying that I can deduce a small child hovering around an obese parent by the way the bigger person's fat jiggles? Brilliant! Now if it only works on fat chicks, then I can discover if they have a hot, smaller female friend nearby...
I'm right and it isn't a tin foil hat conspiracy! It is true that once Ohio drivers venture out past their confines they become the assholes we have all come to dread on the highways.
Now if could just get them to admit that the Cincinnati airport is the first part of their plan to invade and take over Kentucky.
I just got burned by this stupid fucking Phenom & 780G+SB700 release
And I got burned by the 690G of last year. Why promise all the features on a card when their own drivers do not access half (or all - in Linux) its features? Pricepoint comparisons don't mean squat when you have to buy an nVidia card to output HDTV video with an ATI onboard?
It is a telling sign when Linux users would gladly welcome an ATI restricted driver over an open source driver just to get their damn mobo to work correctly.
Right now, nothing works. But as they say over in Phoronix...just give us some time and we'll have 2d solid and some beta 3d stuff for you to try out. Two years to get a damn driver out the door to use something beside MESA? Now that is poor execution on AMD/ATI's part and a big disappointment to even the diehard fanboys. Just frikken tragic.
what is preventing any of the above whacked out theories from being true
Easy peasy...if Novell drops code that infringes upon MS code, Novell can be sued for knowingly violating the GPL. Yes, the end result may be code rewrites in the kernel, but no Linus user will be held accountable for Novell's mistakes. So does Novell want to cut its own throat? Maybe someone higher up is willing to take that chance and cash out from the fire sale. But then again with Sarbanes-Oxley lurking out there, this could quickly blow up in Microsoft's face (as being the driving force of corporate malefeasance.)
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Since it is the 400th anniversary, the red sky could actually be the angry villagers and clerics burning down all those awful, evil, and very non-Catholic Centers of Witchery (formerly known as schools, laboratories, observatories, etc.)
From the OP, it's actually "curiouser and curiouser" cried Alice, not "interestinger"
Sheesh.
This is not the Sarah Conner you are looking for.
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Maybe the "people" referred to here are not consumers but companies that should have a vested interest in producing at the very least minimally functioning drivers. (Hello, AverMedia where is that linux driver for the M780? Hello? Hello?)
Until these companies get in the door, Microsoft wins this space by default. Also, making it simple enought to use is paramount. We are still dealing with people who never knew how to change their VCR to stop their clocks from blinking "12:00."
Yes, I was wondering if this new OS would bring my brand new system to its knees. I guess they saw that extra grand or so in my bank account and thought I would spend it on hardware instead of food and rent.
I blame Windex and their new, improved glass polishing formula.
But Rifftrax is a ripoff of MST3K (PriorArt! PriorArt!) So wouldn't you say Cinematic Titanic is the true follow-on?
Will Mike be the next Darl McBride?
I have to say the more we rely on "foolproof" technology, the more we rely on fools to operate the machinery.
I have to admit the Germans had it nearly right. Almost nothing beat the steely-eyed glare of a Hauptsturmführer asking for your passport -- unless of course you have a John Williams musical score swelling in the background, and even then it would be a life changing, tension filled 2 minutes of your life going by you.
However, it DOES look like a series of tubes.
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Empowering is a word for the weak. Let's be honest: no technology gives you power; it is merely an expression of the limits one accepts.
How about the feature, "Do Not Want"?
It seems to me that once again people are making laws to put the responsibility of conduct, not back on the person who should be responsible, but to the gadgets and devices we have the opportunity to use (or not use).
That's all I need, some Sir Lancelot in a can that won't let me do anything because, no, it's too perilous. It is my duty to sample as much peril as I can, you know.
Bastard stole my idea after I called his second wife "divorce 2.0"
Suck on that, fanboy.
Not only does it have the best spring action on the key, but it has the heft to kill a man.
Just trust me on that last bit.
This is not the android I was looking for!
Poor guy must be spinning in his grave, saying why didn't I think of this? I had a real war compared to this joker...
Charlie's not in the bush, he's hiding in the Watergate!
Note: there could have been an upside to this though. He could have sent Jane Fonda to Guantanamo and we would have been spared from all her workout tapes.
And all this time I thought Ballard was pissy because the others on the boat were making fun of his hair loss.
Now I know it was both!
This is not the Tron I am looking for. There should be a glowing stick somewhere in the design...
Wasn't this called the "com-pensieve"?
So you are saying that I can deduce a small child hovering around an obese parent by the way the bigger person's fat jiggles? Brilliant! Now if it only works on fat chicks, then I can discover if they have a hot, smaller female friend nearby...
I'm right and it isn't a tin foil hat conspiracy! It is true that once Ohio drivers venture out past their confines they become the assholes we have all come to dread on the highways.
Now if could just get them to admit that the Cincinnati airport is the first part of their plan to invade and take over Kentucky.
And I got burned by the 690G of last year. Why promise all the features on a card when their own drivers do not access half (or all - in Linux) its features? Pricepoint comparisons don't mean squat when you have to buy an nVidia card to output HDTV video with an ATI onboard?
It is a telling sign when Linux users would gladly welcome an ATI restricted driver over an open source driver just to get their damn mobo to work correctly.
Right now, nothing works. But as they say over in Phoronix...just give us some time and we'll have 2d solid and some beta 3d stuff for you to try out. Two years to get a damn driver out the door to use something beside MESA? Now that is poor execution on AMD/ATI's part and a big disappointment to even the diehard fanboys. Just frikken tragic.
Easy peasy...if Novell drops code that infringes upon MS code, Novell can be sued for knowingly violating the GPL. Yes, the end result may be code rewrites in the kernel, but no Linus user will be held accountable for Novell's mistakes. So does Novell want to cut its own throat? Maybe someone higher up is willing to take that chance and cash out from the fire sale. But then again with Sarbanes-Oxley lurking out there, this could quickly blow up in Microsoft's face (as being the driving force of corporate malefeasance.)