Fuckin A. I dunno who you are, but you have exquisite taste (meaning, of course, they match my own). I first discovered Ayreon on Napster when I found an mp3 of Bruce singing with them...
So let's assume these things get popular. No one really cares because they're easy to defeat.
Let them get popular until all cd's have them.... then institute one far harder, maybe impossible to crack. Then we're up shit's creek because the public has accepted copy protection already.
If you think chess actually teaches real world strategy and cunning, you haven't known many people very good at chess.
As much as the fantasy books you read would like you to believe that the great military commanders are all brilliant chess and go players, the fact is that chessmasters are no better at non-chess strategy than anyone else.
Um, yes. Slashot always has been (and I imagine it always will be) a site for Rob and friends to post stories they find interesting, review books and movies they think are worth reviewing, and just say shit they think is worth saying.
How on earth did you miss this, having a low 5 digit UIN?
And another thing.. No one was lecturing you. chrisd posted a story about a case where someone is attempting to victimize Microsoft, possibly to give a little spin to the standard Microsoft bashing. Just deal with it.
If there was a boom in coaster building it follows that there were more people riding coasters. More people riding coasters means greater chance of accident.
No, the chance would remain the same, but the number of cases would go up;)
His revision is grammatically correct - the original is a run on. The reason the title is in commas is because "Celine Dion's new CD" or whatever already exactly specifies the object iun question, rendering the actual title unnecessary. For example, I would say "Edgar Allen Poe's story The Pit and the Pendulum" because Poe wrote many stories. However, I would also say "John Candy's last film, Wagons East."
I dunno what this "change the meaning" stuff is, but the semicolon there seperates two independent clauses where there is no conjunction.
The revision is awkward, but at least the punctuation is correct.
Yes, but if he was breathing only nitrogen, he would have died of oxygen deprivation, not "exposure to nitrogen." Every dive, I'm "exposed to" up to 4 atmospheres of nitrogen;)
Four days later, Nguyen Van Set, 44, died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen.
What the hell sense does that make? As a scuba diver, I know that humans can (and do) regularly take large pressures of nitrogen... so what does that mean?
Then all the people behind that line (most users, and all people new to computers) will use something else.
That's why Windows exists. You can't sit down someone who has never touched a computer and expect them to be able to remember and type strange commands to get the computer to do something when it's possible to have a nice logical graphical menu do it for them.
Windows doesn't come with any horribly buggy, barely working applications. None.
In addition, it installs one version of each "accessory" app.. calculator, notepad, browser, file manager, etc. It even puts shortcuts to them in the same place.
I'd like to see a linux distro that includes just one stable, simple version of each type of app in a basic install. One browser, one file manager, one word processor. Having a slightly more task-oriented set of menus and shortcuts in a distro would be a cool thing to see, IMO. I remember first installing red hat 4.something.. the choices of apps confused the living daylights out of me. The way I see it, this hasn't changed all that much...
Oh yeah, having a way to just "download and select run" to install new apps would be good for linux too;)
The Linux Counter is about as inaccurate as you can get. I've registered three computers there, and no longer use linux anywhere. I've moved everything to OpenBSD and Windows XP.
Lay off the logical fallacies. That one is called "False Dilemma."
How about a third option.. c) Recognize that your company has tons of room to grow (server markets, embedded markets, e-business markets, home console markets) and continually try new things to *define* the curves? Or even a d) Be motivated by honest good faith and a real desire to create the best damn product out there because there *are* other products that may do something better than you can?
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Fuckin A. I dunno who you are, but you have exquisite taste (meaning, of course, they match my own). I first discovered Ayreon on Napster when I found an mp3 of Bruce singing with them...
Anyway, good stuff.
Dream Theater
Jawbox
Dar Williams
Heather Nova
Nevermore
:)
A case of ramen? Better make it a cord.
How is it so weak? Seems to me no one broke it until a company accidentally forgot to hide the key and someone used it.
So let's assume these things get popular. No one really cares because they're easy to defeat.
Let them get popular until all cd's have them.... then institute one far harder, maybe impossible to crack. Then we're up shit's creek because the public has accepted copy protection already.
If you think chess actually teaches real world strategy and cunning, you haven't known many people very good at chess.
As much as the fantasy books you read would like you to believe that the great military commanders are all brilliant chess and go players, the fact is that chessmasters are no better at non-chess strategy than anyone else.
And with all this opposition, MS is a monopoly?
Jesus Christ.
Maybe these schools have a hosting company instead of running their own server.
Um, yes. Slashot always has been (and I imagine it always will be) a site for Rob and friends to post stories they find interesting, review books and movies they think are worth reviewing, and just say shit they think is worth saying.
How on earth did you miss this, having a low 5 digit UIN?
And another thing.. No one was lecturing you. chrisd posted a story about a case where someone is attempting to victimize Microsoft, possibly to give a little spin to the standard Microsoft bashing. Just deal with it.
No, the chance would remain the same, but the number of cases would go up
Not quite.. my cell gets telemarketers. There are a lot of them that just cold dial numbers.
I have never given out my cell # on a web form or anything.
His revision is grammatically correct - the original is a run on. The reason the title is in commas is because "Celine Dion's new CD" or whatever already exactly specifies the object iun question, rendering the actual title unnecessary. For example, I would say "Edgar Allen Poe's story The Pit and the Pendulum" because Poe wrote many stories. However, I would also say "John Candy's last film, Wagons East."
I dunno what this "change the meaning" stuff is, but the semicolon there seperates two independent clauses where there is no conjunction.
The revision is awkward, but at least the punctuation is correct.
Actually, you're wrong.
;)
The rights ARE presumed, and then Congress is forbidden from abridging them.
Reread the Constitution
Yes, but if he was breathing only nitrogen, he would have died of oxygen deprivation, not "exposure to nitrogen." Every dive, I'm "exposed to" up to 4 atmospheres of nitrogen ;)
Don't run red lights all over town and they won't track you.
And BTW, police officers read the plates, not the cameras. They just take pics.
What the hell sense does that make? As a scuba diver, I know that humans can (and do) regularly take large pressures of nitrogen... so what does that mean?
Tit rations?
The same thing that keeps me from taping the local radio stations, burning mp3's of it, and sharing it on Kazaa.
Ban local radio!
IIRC, Bellsouth did this with its Americast TV service years ago when I lived in New Orleans.
Not a sattelite dish, it was more of a... horizontal bar on a pole with a tiny reflector. Looked kinda like a microwave antenna.
They were always horizontal pointed towards the same area of the city.. led me to believe it was local, not space based.
Anyone else know more?
Then all the people behind that line (most users, and all people new to computers) will use something else.
That's why Windows exists. You can't sit down someone who has never touched a computer and expect them to be able to remember and type strange commands to get the computer to do something when it's possible to have a nice logical graphical menu do it for them.
http://www.takaratoys.co.jp/TF/scf/mega_01.html
What's with this naming stuff? All the other names are right.. Optimus Prime (arguably the coolest damn cartoon character ever) is Convoy/Conboy?
But the article blurb made me think of it.
;)
Windows doesn't come with any horribly buggy, barely working applications. None.
In addition, it installs one version of each "accessory" app.. calculator, notepad, browser, file manager, etc. It even puts shortcuts to them in the same place.
I'd like to see a linux distro that includes just one stable, simple version of each type of app in a basic install. One browser, one file manager, one word processor. Having a slightly more task-oriented set of menus and shortcuts in a distro would be a cool thing to see, IMO. I remember first installing red hat 4.something.. the choices of apps confused the living daylights out of me. The way I see it, this hasn't changed all that much...
Oh yeah, having a way to just "download and select run" to install new apps would be good for linux too
The Linux Counter is about as inaccurate as you can get. I've registered three computers there, and no longer use linux anywhere. I've moved everything to OpenBSD and Windows XP.
Sorry, but not only are you wrong, but the substance of your comment is about style, not grammar.
"Progress" is usually an intransitive verb, but it does have an (mostly obsolete, but coming back in style as you noted) usage as a transitive verb.
Lay off the logical fallacies. That one is called "False Dilemma."
How about a third option.. c) Recognize that your company has tons of room to grow (server markets, embedded markets, e-business markets, home console markets) and continually try new things to *define* the curves? Or even a d) Be motivated by honest good faith and a real desire to create the best damn product out there because there *are* other products that may do something better than you can?