Hey, I don't object to this sort of pandering. This is fine, if people want filtering give it to them. It is everything else they have done, to joining the Iraq war, to signing away our rights that I have a problem with.
Go ahead, install as many filters as you want, but please leave our basic freedoms intact.
So that is the definition that you use for a smartphone, can cut and paste? So therefore my Motorola E1000 is a smart phone, since it can cut and paste?
If you have ever held a real Apple device, and compared it to the Chinese rip-off, you will see what badly integrated means!! (hardware wise, at the very least)
Isn't the logo issue simply because they are rip-offs? So people who care about rip-offs won't buy them anyway, and people who do don't even know how big the logo is supposed to be?
I wouldn't be too quick to feel superior, there are plenty of people here who were shirts where the logo takes up the full size of it (Tommy Hilfiger anyone?).
PS2 was a huge driving factor in the final surge of DVD uptake...but DVD's were known to all by that point.
No, it wasn't. In no way is this true. Everything else you say I can agree with, but this is simply horseshit. If you can even talk about a final surge of DVD uptake at all, which is debatable and just sounds like marketing drivel, it would be DVD players for under $100.
While you might think that adverising solves everything, it clearly doesn't. Do you really think that a couple of adds, which most of the time are unclicked, somehow pay for 3-5mb download? No, it doesn't. That is why they ask for payment.
And think about it, the sort of advertising you can do is pretty limited anyway - it is going to have to be music related.
As with most things in life, the answer is to not take things to extreme. Allocate a reasonable amount of time for the design stage, and stick to it. Or do a simple design first, and add to it.
That is the difference between a Democracy and a Representative Republic. Being a republic gives huge amounts of powers to those who are elected. And minority issues like this are never really addressed.
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How? It is not that easy for the average person. If they somehow manage to find a torrent site, they search for their movie, and get a number of responses to their searches - then need to decide amoung all the acronyms which one to download. Then they get it, and it is a bunch of rar files. They finally figure out they need winrar, extract the files, and then find out it won't load in Windows media Player, and it just comes up with some weird error. After a lot more looking around, and talking to some mate at work, they finally get help from their mates mate, and download VLC - then they find out they have got the French version - wow, so much effort, for so little return.
Some people here really need to get out of their Microsoft cubicles, and deal with people who aren't experts at all things computers. Most people won't go through this. My friends have enough trouble with dealing with Word or the ordinary email.
I am a Linux user in the UK as well, and I wouldn't call people in the UK conservative about IT. I would call them lazy, incompetent, lacking in work ethic, and more. Mod me down, but this has been my experience. I have tried to explain people the benefits of using Firefox over IE, but the majority just get scared of anything new, have no interest in anything that may involve 5 seconds of learning, and will be happy as long as they can still get to their celebrity sites. And because of lack of competent workers, these people are the ones that end up in charge - and there is no way they are going to change their habits once they get to a position of responsibility. Why should they? It was their lack luster career that got them where they are now!
It's a lot cheaper to buy 20-30 regular computers than a 1million cray or IBM "supercomputer".
Or even better, set up a grid on the computers in the various pools around the department/universities. Setting up Condor on these various machines will get you a very powerful grid in very little time, the extra cost can be really small (if the computers are already left on).
Yes, I really liked this show, so it must be a great show. You do realise that everybody blames the networks/ Nielsen's rating systems whenever there show gets canceled. I mean, I know that a few guys at work watch it, and so do people on slashdot, so it must be popular.
The networks are actually experts at this, they have people who jobs it is to try to analyse all the data they have about a show, not just limited to ratings but to focus groups, interviews and online boards. But it is much easier to just attack them whenever your show gets canceled, rather than realise that you are in the minority. WHY? What is so bad about being in the minority, you are by already being on slashdot.
Is that all, I am getting a much higher resolution for Planet Earth!
But seriously, I am not buying into it, that is for sure. I couldn't care less about each of the formats. Also, I don't want to do anything to increase Microsofts dominance in this world, and I will never buy anything from Sony again. And, I am trying to watch less TV anyway!!
I must have misread this, surely you don't have to pay to go the beach. The article has an interview with someone, who finds it disgraceful that people would try to sneak onto the beach for free?? This is a joke surely. Coming from Australia, where the beaches are bountiful, beautiful and free, this is the biggest disgrace I have ever heard off.
Volume control buttons suck worse than anything else. There is no replacement for the volume control knob. I now that you are limited on a remote control, but I have started to see more and more volume control buttons on things, even stereos, and they are really no good for that at all.
Also, people like me would just vote every ad down until we didn't have to see anything
That is not what will happen, you will be just as likely to see all adds, as opposed to those ones that suit you. It is in your best interest, as it were, to only vote the ones down that will never apply to you.
There are cheaper places than Australia, you realise. A lot of Australian companies are outsourcing as well. I wouldn't feel that great if I were in your shoes, because any job that can be outsource to Australia can also be outsources to India, China, Russia, etc...
Sure, if by infinite you mean 40 songs repeated over and over again. Maybe you really like the latest top hits, but not everybody does. The ability to choose what music you can listen too is worth paying for, obviously, or we would never have anything other than the radio.
That is like saying who cares about the top speed of cars, why don't you just compare how they perform on different roads. If the AMD is faster than the intel for LAMP, then it will be faster also for a for efficient implementation.
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Hey, I don't object to this sort of pandering. This is fine, if people want filtering give it to them. It is everything else they have done, to joining the Iraq war, to signing away our rights that I have a problem with.
Go ahead, install as many filters as you want, but please leave our basic freedoms intact.
You make a good point, but the fact is that most bottled water is just filtered mains water.
So that is the definition that you use for a smartphone, can cut and paste? So therefore my Motorola E1000 is a smart phone, since it can cut and paste?
If you have ever held a real Apple device, and compared it to the Chinese rip-off, you will see what badly integrated means!! (hardware wise, at the very least)
Sorry, the only thing I like cheap is my women.
Sir, you truly are, a weasel.
Isn't the logo issue simply because they are rip-offs? So people who care about rip-offs won't buy them anyway, and people who do don't even know how big the logo is supposed to be?
I wouldn't be too quick to feel superior, there are plenty of people here who were shirts where the logo takes up the full size of it (Tommy Hilfiger anyone?).
PS2 was a huge driving factor in the final surge of DVD uptake...but DVD's were known to all by that point.
No, it wasn't. In no way is this true. Everything else you say I can agree with, but this is simply horseshit. If you can even talk about a final surge of DVD uptake at all, which is debatable and just sounds like marketing drivel, it would be DVD players for under $100.
That quite commonly happens because you are using the wrong algorithm, or slightly different version of the algorithm.
While you might think that adverising solves everything, it clearly doesn't. Do you really think that a couple of adds, which most of the time are unclicked, somehow pay for 3-5mb download? No, it doesn't. That is why they ask for payment.
And think about it, the sort of advertising you can do is pretty limited anyway - it is going to have to be music related.
As with most things in life, the answer is to not take things to extreme. Allocate a reasonable amount of time for the design stage, and stick to it. Or do a simple design first, and add to it.
Exactly!
You know that when you take most things to extremes they start to look stupid.
That is the difference between a Democracy and a Representative Republic. Being a republic gives huge amounts of powers to those who are elected. And minority issues like this are never really addressed.
How? It is not that easy for the average person. If they somehow manage to find a torrent site, they search for their movie, and get a number of responses to their searches - then need to decide amoung all the acronyms which one to download. Then they get it, and it is a bunch of rar files. They finally figure out they need winrar, extract the files, and then find out it won't load in Windows media Player, and it just comes up with some weird error. After a lot more looking around, and talking to some mate at work, they finally get help from their mates mate, and download VLC - then they find out they have got the French version - wow, so much effort, for so little return.
Some people here really need to get out of their Microsoft cubicles, and deal with people who aren't experts at all things computers. Most people won't go through this. My friends have enough trouble with dealing with Word or the ordinary email.
I am a Linux user in the UK as well, and I wouldn't call people in the UK conservative about IT. I would call them lazy, incompetent, lacking in work ethic, and more. Mod me down, but this has been my experience. I have tried to explain people the benefits of using Firefox over IE, but the majority just get scared of anything new, have no interest in anything that may involve 5 seconds of learning, and will be happy as long as they can still get to their celebrity sites. And because of lack of competent workers, these people are the ones that end up in charge - and there is no way they are going to change their habits once they get to a position of responsibility. Why should they? It was their lack luster career that got them where they are now!
Well, maybe is this was a retail site, you would be correct.
It's a lot cheaper to buy 20-30 regular computers than a 1million cray or IBM "supercomputer".
Or even better, set up a grid on the computers in the various pools around the department/universities. Setting up Condor on these various machines will get you a very powerful grid in very little time, the extra cost can be really small (if the computers are already left on).
Yes, I really liked this show, so it must be a great show. You do realise that everybody blames the networks/ Nielsen's rating systems whenever there show gets canceled. I mean, I know that a few guys at work watch it, and so do people on slashdot, so it must be popular.
The networks are actually experts at this, they have people who jobs it is to try to analyse all the data they have about a show, not just limited to ratings but to focus groups, interviews and online boards. But it is much easier to just attack them whenever your show gets canceled, rather than realise that you are in the minority. WHY? What is so bad about being in the minority, you are by already being on slashdot.
Is that all, I am getting a much higher resolution for Planet Earth!
But seriously, I am not buying into it, that is for sure. I couldn't care less about each of the formats. Also, I don't want to do anything to increase Microsofts dominance in this world, and I will never buy anything from Sony again. And, I am trying to watch less TV anyway!!
I must have misread this, surely you don't have to pay to go the beach. The article has an interview with someone, who finds it disgraceful that people would try to sneak onto the beach for free?? This is a joke surely. Coming from Australia, where the beaches are bountiful, beautiful and free, this is the biggest disgrace I have ever heard off.
Even with wifi!
Volume control buttons suck worse than anything else. There is no replacement for the volume control knob. I now that you are limited on a remote control, but I have started to see more and more volume control buttons on things, even stereos, and they are really no good for that at all.
But how do you measure something like that? What number can you give to quality? There isn't a way to do this, that would satisfy advertisers.
Also, people like me would just vote every ad down until we didn't have to see anything
That is not what will happen, you will be just as likely to see all adds, as opposed to those ones that suit you. It is in your best interest, as it were, to only vote the ones down that will never apply to you.
There are cheaper places than Australia, you realise. A lot of Australian companies are outsourcing as well. I wouldn't feel that great if I were in your shoes, because any job that can be outsource to Australia can also be outsources to India, China, Russia, etc...
Sure, if by infinite you mean 40 songs repeated over and over again. Maybe you really like the latest top hits, but not everybody does. The ability to choose what music you can listen too is worth paying for, obviously, or we would never have anything other than the radio.
That is like saying who cares about the top speed of cars, why don't you just compare how they perform on different roads. If the AMD is faster than the intel for LAMP, then it will be faster also for a for efficient implementation.