To you it's the simplest thing imaginable, yes. I like a console for power, and I always watch the info/error log when something is installing.
But, consoles scare non-techy people. My wife, for one of 'em. Show her a command line and she only remembers being annoyed at DOS when she was trying to play Oregon Trail in school. Point and click is EASY. This is an entirely different mindset, and you really have to live with somebody who has it to be able to understand it.
At a certain time about 10 years ago, my 'net connection was used by "persons unknown" to upload a binary file to a newsgroup. It was noticed, complained about--presumably by the copyright holder--and I was threatened with having my newsgroup account terminated. So yeah, the original poster gets notified, or at least did. </anecdote>
Why do people make spam out to be some kind of menace? Isn't it *our* fault for relying on such a crappy, corruptible system of communication in the first place?
Why do women make rape out to be some kind of menace? Isn't it *her* fault for wearing that low-cut top and short skirt in the first place?
You likely got joe-jobbed, and Yahoo didn't bother to determine where the spam really originated from. Then again, it could just be a corporate bureaucratic fuck-up, and I can't say it'd surprise me.
I was just thinking that. Really, a thorough understanding of language would be the first cornerstone to thoroughly understanding societies in a predictable way.
You're not having to emulate 9,000 games. Sony OWNS the PS2 in every sense of the word. They have all the developer documentation. Hell, they even have all of the source code used in the PS2. Emulation is difficult when you DON'T have access to the source code, and every new game means finding a new piece of the system that must be emulated.
Sony has all the pieces.
But, but, but, what about Microsoft? Well, Microsoft is inept. Go on, prove that wrong.
It's telling that you think saving lives of those who protect your loud mouth is a bad thing, and that the technology should, instead, be used for entertainment.
I thoroughly agree with the Coward above. What's the GP got against protecting soldiers whose only crime is being ordered into hell?
According to Google, you're wrong: Results 1 - 10 of about 4,050,000 for "better then" (your original spelling) Results 1 - 10 of about 95,000,000 for "better than"
"better than" is correct, "better then" is what you used, and it's wrong.
Alas, not completely true. The algorithm has to be correct for the GIGO rule to apply. For instance, as a mental exercise this morning, I wrote a program to solve Sudoku puzzles. Having mis-typed the starting allocated numbers for one of the advanced puzzles, I was confused when the program kept failing. After fixing the puzzle data, it still failed. Then I discovered my solving algorithm was also incorrect.
I had GIGO, followed by TIGO (truth in, garbage out).
Except for one thing: Windows is the milk crates and and plywood, it's just painted in candy-apple colors. Linux is the executive desk in the corner office with blotter, buzzer for the secretary, and video-conferencing equipment (all labeled in Cyrillic, for ease of use).
Simple and colorful is easy to use. People use Windows for the same reason my three-year old kid gets a Playskool drill, and not a power drill.
Some people can't carry a purse. Not for any real reason, but the looks you get when you're a six-foot bearded guy in a sleeveless tee-shirt carrying a little black purse... it gets a little annoying.
You're looking at the problem wrong. The difference between different distros of Linux is the same as the difference between Windows NT 3.51 and Windows 95. Same codebase (roughly speaking), but a lot of software needs to be tweaked to port between the two different operating systems. In that respect, kudos to the distributors for collaborating on a standard.
Well, there is a legitimate reason, being that a proper resale of a piece of software includes support (provided by manufacturer) and potentially future upgrades at a discount (provided by the manufacturer). Your other examples, possibly with the exception of the video game, do not include either of those.
Troll the seedier side of the web for 10 minutes, and you can find a patch that reduces the severity and impact of that anti-consumer Damned Restriction Management software. I believe they call it a "crack" and there will be a readme file with a lot of floral ASCII-art graphics in it.
And I will be among the teeming throng who never let "Windows Palladium/TPM" touch my hardware. At that point, it will be much like my stance with both of the XBoxes: They don't get my money unless I can run my software on hardware that I own. Thus why I do own an XBMC-enabled Xbox, and why I don't own an Xbox360.
I... walk in with a cold, get a... 3 week antibiotic prescription...
So, your doctor was a moron, eh? Prescribing antibiotics for a cold is dangerous and stupid. Firstly, a cold is viral, meaning antibiotics won't touch your sniffles. Second, antibiotics overuse directly creates so-called super-bacteria. So when the incurable staph infection is eating your leg 30 years from now in the hospital, remember that cold from last year. It's probably your fault.
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Those numbers are 3.2x10^-11 and 3.5x10^-11 respectively. Formatting is a bitch. Guess that's why they invented "Preview", eh Paco?
....several swing states[1 [goatse.cz].
I see what you did there. Cheeky bastard.
To you it's the simplest thing imaginable, yes. I like a console for power, and I always watch the info/error log when something is installing.
But, consoles scare non-techy people. My wife, for one of 'em. Show her a command line and she only remembers being annoyed at DOS when she was trying to play Oregon Trail in school. Point and click is EASY. This is an entirely different mindset, and you really have to live with somebody who has it to be able to understand it.
At a certain time about 10 years ago, my 'net connection was used by "persons unknown" to upload a binary file to a newsgroup. It was noticed, complained about--presumably by the copyright holder--and I was threatened with having my newsgroup account terminated. So yeah, the original poster gets notified, or at least did.
</anecdote>
Why do people make spam out to be some kind of menace? Isn't it *our* fault for relying on such a crappy, corruptible system of communication in the first place?
Why do women make rape out to be some kind of menace? Isn't it *her* fault for wearing that low-cut top and short skirt in the first place?
Clowns dead? That's pretty damn funny if you ask me.
You likely got joe-jobbed, and Yahoo didn't bother to determine where the spam really originated from. Then again, it could just be a corporate bureaucratic fuck-up, and I can't say it'd surprise me.
I was just thinking that. Really, a thorough understanding of language would be the first cornerstone to thoroughly understanding societies in a predictable way.
Here's the problem with that viewpoint.
You're not having to emulate 9,000 games. Sony OWNS the PS2 in every sense of the word. They have all the developer documentation. Hell, they even have all of the source code used in the PS2. Emulation is difficult when you DON'T have access to the source code, and every new game means finding a new piece of the system that must be emulated.
Sony has all the pieces.
But, but, but, what about Microsoft?
Well, Microsoft is inept. Go on, prove that wrong.
It's telling that you think saving lives of those who protect your loud mouth is a bad thing, and that the technology should, instead, be used for entertainment.
I thoroughly agree with the Coward above. What's the GP got against protecting soldiers whose only crime is being ordered into hell?
As far as the scratches go, any competenct CD-ripping program will utterly ignore most defects in an audio CD.
Have a fun life, I didn't bother reading your post (nor any other post you may ever make).
I thought GP's post was a very well-informed smackdown on what was clearly an idiotic attempt to defend a clear-cut case of copyright infringement.
Oh, don't worry.
To us Grammar Nazis, they blink already.
According to Google, you're wrong:
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,050,000 for "better then" (your original spelling)
Results 1 - 10 of about 95,000,000 for "better than"
"better than" is correct, "better then" is what you used, and it's wrong.
Actually, I'm pretty sure pics would lower the value of this thread into the sub-prime-mortgage-loan category.
They were, after all, self-portrait.
Alas, not completely true.
The algorithm has to be correct for the GIGO rule to apply. For instance, as a mental exercise this morning, I wrote a program to solve Sudoku puzzles. Having mis-typed the starting allocated numbers for one of the advanced puzzles, I was confused when the program kept failing. After fixing the puzzle data, it still failed. Then I discovered my solving algorithm was also incorrect.
I had GIGO, followed by TIGO (truth in, garbage out).
Except for one thing:
Windows is the milk crates and and plywood, it's just painted in candy-apple colors. Linux is the executive desk in the corner office with blotter, buzzer for the secretary, and video-conferencing equipment (all labeled in Cyrillic, for ease of use).
Simple and colorful is easy to use. People use Windows for the same reason my three-year old kid gets a Playskool drill, and not a power drill.
Some people can't carry a purse. Not for any real reason, but the looks you get when you're a six-foot bearded guy in a sleeveless tee-shirt carrying a little black purse ... it gets a little annoying.
You're looking at the problem wrong. The difference between different distros of Linux is the same as the difference between Windows NT 3.51 and Windows 95. Same codebase (roughly speaking), but a lot of software needs to be tweaked to port between the two different operating systems. In that respect, kudos to the distributors for collaborating on a standard.
Well, there is a legitimate reason, being that a proper resale of a piece of software includes support (provided by manufacturer) and potentially future upgrades at a discount (provided by the manufacturer). Your other examples, possibly with the exception of the video game, do not include either of those.
Troll the seedier side of the web for 10 minutes, and you can find a patch that reduces the severity and impact of that anti-consumer Damned Restriction Management software. I believe they call it a "crack" and there will be a readme file with a lot of floral ASCII-art graphics in it.
And I will be among the teeming throng who never let "Windows Palladium/TPM" touch my hardware. At that point, it will be much like my stance with both of the XBoxes: They don't get my money unless I can run my software on hardware that I own. Thus why I do own an XBMC-enabled Xbox, and why I don't own an Xbox360.
I've been doing my part on that particular battle front since Windows 3.0. It doesn't seem to have done us any good.
In that case, I rescind my insult. Strep throat is no joke...I've had it twice and wanted to die both times.
I ... walk in with a cold, get a ... 3 week antibiotic prescription ...
So, your doctor was a moron, eh? Prescribing antibiotics for a cold is dangerous and stupid. Firstly, a cold is viral, meaning antibiotics won't touch your sniffles. Second, antibiotics overuse directly creates so-called super-bacteria. So when the incurable staph infection is eating your leg 30 years from now in the hospital, remember that cold from last year. It's probably your fault.