I wouldn't say that. The metro UI is an unnecessary part of the operating system. Haven't you used a framework or IDE with heaps of features that you mostly don't ever use?
I use the third party program pretty much just so the start menu search won't be full screen. Again, that was a minor annoyance that took all of a minute to correct. I just don't understand people harping on this.
End result is that it took me 10 minutes to figure out and set up windows 8 to my liking. It does exactly what I need it to do in almost the exact same manor as windows 7, but slightly faster. Not exactly worth the upgrade, but not worth the downgrade/rollback was the case with Vista. The amount of hate being expressed perplexes me.
I've been using it. I don't like the metro UI, so I installed a tiny program I found on ninite.com called Classic Start, self-explanatory. It works, I don't interact with metro, everything behaves as expected. Before that I classified it as a minor annoyance. They made some poor design decisions, but I don't understand the tantrums and hyperbole, I do all my work in the browser or in programs and there's no change there. And the desktop is virtually identical to windows 7. MMC, powershell, command line, control panel are the same.
It might be because I've always used keyboard shortcuts to navigate windows, I just don't understand the vitriol.
There was an interesting interview on Fresh Air yesterday about the racist origins of alcohol prohibition. Some of the motivations of prohibition proponents where to prevent:
Germans and Jews who owned brewing companies from profiting
Irish, polish, and other catholic immigrants from drinking
And some strange concept in the south of drunk Black people in voting booths, which is why the KKK supported prohibition
And of course the politicians only cared about money, that never changes. Before income tax one of the largest federal sources of revenue was an excise tax on alcohol. The 16th amendment allowed a federal income tax, creating an alternate source of revenue that paved the way for prohibition. And again it took the allure of taxes from alcohol, now on top of the federal income tax, to repeal prohibition. The problem now, as you mentioned, is that there is an entrenched industry relying on the continued criminalization of drugs and a stigma that outweighs potential tax revenues.
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January 1st our 15 year old security badge system started marking all badges as invalid. Couldn't fix it until we rolled back the system date.
Just 5 years ago there was a Blockbuster, Hollywood video, a local chain called Coconuts, and maybe six or seven of those small independent stores you mentioned within walking distance of my house. Every single one has since closed down. Now there is only one place that I'm aware of still renting movies - a Redbox kiosk in front of the supermarket.
I wish I could find statistics, but I'd wager there are precious few independent owners left. With digital distribution, mail distribution, and the extremely cost-efficient Redoxes, there's little room for them.
They have other revenue sources. Name changes, server transfers, now faction changes and soon race changes all cost extra, and they're not cheap. Put those and new game sales into the equation and factor in the cost of each expansion over its life cycle, and hell why not throw in merchandising and Blizzcon sales from tickets, pay-per-view, and internet streaming sales (yes they charge for each, and people pay it because it comes with a unique pet) averaged over a whole year and the figure becomes very hard to say, but could easily reach $120 million/month or higher.
HAL did not solve the problem directly. It was only by extension of creating HAL-2 that he was able to solve the problem. The fact remains that HAL-2 can accomplish a task that HAL cannot on its own, much in the same way humans can only solve certain mathematical problems by building computers.
Though your logic is sound, the statements assume some universal measure of cleverness. However, the intelligence it takes to build logic circuits is not the same as the intelligence needed to solve whatever instructions you send to those circuits. HAL-2 maybe be more clever in some areas than HAL and HAL maybe be more clever in other areas than HAL-2, and so there would be no more a logical contradiction than when humans build computers to solve problems that they cannot solve directly.
In the reverse situation, the German bombings on historical sites in Britain were extremely accurate because they were using Baedeker travel guides. A very interesting (and at the same time very boring) programme recently aired on the BBC with a history professor using a Baedeker travel guide published in 1887 to take a modern tour of Britain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hw3yr
A single satellite radio company is not really a "single, monopolistic provider of a service, nationwide" though. It's a direct competitor of traditional radio. It also competes with mp3 players and podcasts, CD's, audio books, etc. If they started any sort of monopolistic practices, people can just cancel their subscriptions and choose a multitude of other audio distribution methods. The justice department spent over a year investigating the issue and ruled that it would not in fact be a monopoly.
The two companies have lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year. At this point it may not be a question of two satellite radio companies or one, it's one company or none. And the "approval" is not a straight approval, it would require them to set aside a quarter of their bandwidth for their direct competitors. Which brings up an interesting point. Who has forced this issue to be delayed through various government agencies over the last two years? The National Association of Broadcasters. Not some consumer interest group, but an organization representing some of the largest companies in the country, who will be hurting most from this decision. Not because it's creating a monopoly, but because it has the potential to break the attempted (and FCC approved) monopolies of its clients in regional markets.
I listen to NPR to and from my local university, but within a two block radius of the campus the NPR station is drowned out by the most god awful, static-filled, low-power station imaginable. Random samplings of their content include, from what I can tell, an Italian news broadcast in Italian, east-Indian music, and my personal favorite, the battle hymn of the republic on a kazoo. I can't figure out who's broadcasting it, I just wish they were taken off the air.
I was in the airport bookshop a few days ago and found a section labeled "sci-fi" that contained nothing but fantasy books. In this light, i declare Lord of the Rings the #1 space movie.
I've seen some great arguements against nintendo's system, but all the ones modded up have been pro-nintendo or anti-sony/microsoft. Very much like apple posts. Everyone says the same thing and all get modded up for it. "Nintendo's not just for kids," "new games suck only nintendo can innovate," "you don't need fancy features, just a barebones game system," etc. There are great arguements against these, but no one seems interested.
I got news for them. Their movies are already online. Probably better versions than the ones they will "offer" as well. Best of luck to them though, way to enter the market three years too late.
It's just a flash player with the ipod design. Why are there so many slashdot articles about it. Flash players of all kinds have been out for a good while, apple is a few years too late.
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They even made a movie about it, Les Cousins Dangereux.
I like the way they think.
I wouldn't say that. The metro UI is an unnecessary part of the operating system. Haven't you used a framework or IDE with heaps of features that you mostly don't ever use? I use the third party program pretty much just so the start menu search won't be full screen. Again, that was a minor annoyance that took all of a minute to correct. I just don't understand people harping on this. End result is that it took me 10 minutes to figure out and set up windows 8 to my liking. It does exactly what I need it to do in almost the exact same manor as windows 7, but slightly faster. Not exactly worth the upgrade, but not worth the downgrade/rollback was the case with Vista. The amount of hate being expressed perplexes me.
I've been using it. I don't like the metro UI, so I installed a tiny program I found on ninite.com called Classic Start, self-explanatory. It works, I don't interact with metro, everything behaves as expected. Before that I classified it as a minor annoyance. They made some poor design decisions, but I don't understand the tantrums and hyperbole, I do all my work in the browser or in programs and there's no change there. And the desktop is virtually identical to windows 7. MMC, powershell, command line, control panel are the same. It might be because I've always used keyboard shortcuts to navigate windows, I just don't understand the vitriol.
And of course the politicians only cared about money, that never changes. Before income tax one of the largest federal sources of revenue was an excise tax on alcohol. The 16th amendment allowed a federal income tax, creating an alternate source of revenue that paved the way for prohibition. And again it took the allure of taxes from alcohol, now on top of the federal income tax, to repeal prohibition. The problem now, as you mentioned, is that there is an entrenched industry relying on the continued criminalization of drugs and a stigma that outweighs potential tax revenues.
January 1st our 15 year old security badge system started marking all badges as invalid. Couldn't fix it until we rolled back the system date.
Just 5 years ago there was a Blockbuster, Hollywood video, a local chain called Coconuts, and maybe six or seven of those small independent stores you mentioned within walking distance of my house. Every single one has since closed down. Now there is only one place that I'm aware of still renting movies - a Redbox kiosk in front of the supermarket.
I wish I could find statistics, but I'd wager there are precious few independent owners left. With digital distribution, mail distribution, and the extremely cost-efficient Redoxes, there's little room for them.
They have other revenue sources. Name changes, server transfers, now faction changes and soon race changes all cost extra, and they're not cheap. Put those and new game sales into the equation and factor in the cost of each expansion over its life cycle, and hell why not throw in merchandising and Blizzcon sales from tickets, pay-per-view, and internet streaming sales (yes they charge for each, and people pay it because it comes with a unique pet) averaged over a whole year and the figure becomes very hard to say, but could easily reach $120 million/month or higher.
HAL did not solve the problem directly. It was only by extension of creating HAL-2 that he was able to solve the problem. The fact remains that HAL-2 can accomplish a task that HAL cannot on its own, much in the same way humans can only solve certain mathematical problems by building computers.
Though your logic is sound, the statements assume some universal measure of cleverness. However, the intelligence it takes to build logic circuits is not the same as the intelligence needed to solve whatever instructions you send to those circuits. HAL-2 maybe be more clever in some areas than HAL and HAL maybe be more clever in other areas than HAL-2, and so there would be no more a logical contradiction than when humans build computers to solve problems that they cannot solve directly.
Someone needs to patent the patent troll business model and sue this guy for infringement.
In the reverse situation, the German bombings on historical sites in Britain were extremely accurate because they were using Baedeker travel guides. A very interesting (and at the same time very boring) programme recently aired on the BBC with a history professor using a Baedeker travel guide published in 1887 to take a modern tour of Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hw3yr
Strings. Science over.
I'm pretty sure they can reproduce, else there would be no risk of spreading them and they'd all die out soon after coming into being.
It's the monopolistic anti-competitive practices of the MLB that you have to blame for this.
A single satellite radio company is not really a "single, monopolistic provider of a service, nationwide" though. It's a direct competitor of traditional radio. It also competes with mp3 players and podcasts, CD's, audio books, etc. If they started any sort of monopolistic practices, people can just cancel their subscriptions and choose a multitude of other audio distribution methods. The justice department spent over a year investigating the issue and ruled that it would not in fact be a monopoly.
The two companies have lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year. At this point it may not be a question of two satellite radio companies or one, it's one company or none. And the "approval" is not a straight approval, it would require them to set aside a quarter of their bandwidth for their direct competitors. Which brings up an interesting point. Who has forced this issue to be delayed through various government agencies over the last two years? The National Association of Broadcasters. Not some consumer interest group, but an organization representing some of the largest companies in the country, who will be hurting most from this decision. Not because it's creating a monopoly, but because it has the potential to break the attempted (and FCC approved) monopolies of its clients in regional markets.
when will wee see Gauctions
i'm rolling my eyes as hard as i can. it hurts, but i dare not stop.
Durnholde Keep in Old Hillsbrad = Guantanamo Bay
Which means whenever you beat the instance, you're completing a terrorist training program to help free their leaders from US custody.
I listen to NPR to and from my local university, but within a two block radius of the campus the NPR station is drowned out by the most god awful, static-filled, low-power station imaginable. Random samplings of their content include, from what I can tell, an Italian news broadcast in Italian, east-Indian music, and my personal favorite, the battle hymn of the republic on a kazoo. I can't figure out who's broadcasting it, I just wish they were taken off the air.
Generic comment about how games should be fun and developers "aren't getting it"
Tommy Chong is now selling bongs over streaming MP3's. We must spend another $12million in anti-terrorism resources to stop him for good.
I was in the airport bookshop a few days ago and found a section labeled "sci-fi" that contained nothing but fantasy books. In this light, i declare Lord of the Rings the #1 space movie.
I've seen some great arguements against nintendo's system, but all the ones modded up have been pro-nintendo or anti-sony/microsoft. Very much like apple posts. Everyone says the same thing and all get modded up for it. "Nintendo's not just for kids," "new games suck only nintendo can innovate," "you don't need fancy features, just a barebones game system," etc. There are great arguements against these, but no one seems interested.
yes yes, but can they blow women's clothes off?
I got news for them. Their movies are already online. Probably better versions than the ones they will "offer" as well. Best of luck to them though, way to enter the market three years too late.
It's just a flash player with the ipod design. Why are there so many slashdot articles about it. Flash players of all kinds have been out for a good while, apple is a few years too late.