Meh. I'm saving my money for DoomSporeCraft: Episode 3: Source Online Game of the Year Edition, the MMOFPSRPG with the deadliest community-created horror creatures from South Korea. It'll be addictive (and so time-consuming, you'll never leave home for that job interview!).
Just think...turn-based headshots...sexy human-alien-elf hybrids with skin displacement maps and hardware breast physics...nuclear rocket launchers with onboard Steam Friends list access! It'll make your head spin and your videocard RAM heatsinks melt to goo.
(Now that I think of it, DoomSpore does sound like some sort of badass Middle-Ages plague...)
That I would rather have portraits of Osama bin Laden sewn into my underwear than portraits of US government officials should say something about the success and consciences of both.
I'd compare it to a sportscaster giving a blow-by-blow of a hockey game. If the recording of the game was copyright does that mean a sportscaster needs specific permission to describe the game step-by-step? Yes, I know they work for the arena and are hired to do their job but that's besides the point. What if joe-neighbor watched the game and posted a blog online of step-by-step action after the fact?
Often I'll watch a game (basketball, football, hockey, whatever) in the US and I'll hear someone saying roughly "This copyrighted telecast of the $SPORTS_ASSOCIATION may not be ($SUPPOSEDLY_INFRINGING_ACTION)* or any accounts disseminated (or $BLAHBLAHBLAH)* without the express written consent of the $SPORTS_ASSOCIATION" as their beautiful 3D-rendered logo spins around and neon streaks flow around it and maybe angels and fighter jets fly over it and sing the Hallelujah Chorus or whatever.
Does it affect your legal rights? Get a lawyer if you care. But clearly the big sports groups want to cover that base (pun possibly intended) of legality, if only to sell their "$SPORTS_TEAM Collector's Edition DVD"s before everyone decides joe-neighbor's fantastic account of the Target Major League Foosball McDonald's World Series at Comcast Bowling Alley sponsored by Pizza Hut is historical canon.
We can quickly destroy the evidence (and the forum servers, and you too, you traitorous alien of America) with our unmanned drones and shredders. No hassles for you!
You have 1 new invitation (25% of 3.5 MB loaded) but you must be logged in to do that!
(note the completely ambiguous use of MB that might mean million-byte or 2^20 depending on whether Murdoch and his code-slaves are RAIDophiles or TCP/IP fanatics)
I am all for scrutinizing Wiki pages, and not using unverifiable statements from them, but I will not support discrediting them on material that was not written on them in the first place.
In many Windows apps (e.g. Notepad, Eclipse), both the CUA and Mac (my easy favorite of the two) sets work. The last version of Anvil Studio I tried (which was rather long ago) was more annoying in that regard though: it supported one (or both) of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X for editing music, but Paste was solely Shift+Ins. Many awkward finger movements resulted.
I dare you to tell me Hawking doesn't secretly control a robot army!
Since Hawking's a pimp, I'm pretty sure he has a thousand-strong personal army composed entirely of Cutey Honey clones.
...which makes me think: if Cutey Honey can get a man stiff, and a thousand Honeys can get a man stiff a thousand times over, then maybe we should send a military to find Hawking's secret robot-army barracks/android-chick harem and destroy all of his Honeys to see if he can move again?
The DoD will succeed handily, partly because even those wary of downloading a Windows update know that "cyberwarfare battle attack bot" sounds way more badass than "Silverlight".
All the more reason to use Test and Safe. Keeping a detonation system active on rockets that fall into the ocean seems dangerous to fish and c^Hships (though a well-planned early detonation could allay risks if the boosters fall towards land or the aforementioned ships).
Sometimes you just have to blow 'em up on the way down, I guess.
We regard with particular concern your apparent planning to respond to a "hostile" bid by pursuing a new arrangement that would involve or lead to the outsourcing to Google of key paid Internet search terms offered by Yahoo! today. In our view, such an arrangement with the dominant search provider would make an acquisition of Yahoo! undesirable to us for a number of reasons:
First, it would fundamentally undermine Yahoo!'s own strategy and long-term viability by encouraging advertisers to use Google as opposed to your Panama paid search system. This would also fragment your search advertising and display advertising strategies and the ecosystem surrounding them. This would undermine the reliance on your display advertising business to fuel future growth.
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No need to speculate on what Ballmer has all but confirmed.:)
I'm not too worried about Comcast. The things they do (especially this and the whole guy-sleeping-on-the-job thing) would only serve to either get people moving to other (non-cable?) ISPs (if any) or revolting for fair cable-company laws; it's all shooting themselves in the foot to me.
To answer parent comment's question, I suppose people subscribe because...well, when you get email, Colbert, VoIP and such powerful, important abilities like the ability to RickRoll others and Digg the result (ugh *vomits*), who cares about silly things like fair and lawful treatment of consumers, sports fans, and competing ISPs?
Me, I'll use DSL (Verizon, which hasn't given me much, if any, throttling problems) until there's a good free wireless network or whatever, and I've already subscribed to a different TV provider that offers HD free (I don't care that much for Olbermann). To those far from good antenna coverage: good luck, and ditch cable anyway.
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Meh. I'm saving my money for DoomSporeCraft: Episode 3: Source Online Game of the Year Edition, the MMOFPSRPG with the deadliest community-created horror creatures from South Korea. It'll be addictive (and so time-consuming, you'll never leave home for that job interview!).
Just think...turn-based headshots...sexy human-alien-elf hybrids with skin displacement maps and hardware breast physics...nuclear rocket launchers with onboard Steam Friends list access! It'll make your head spin and your videocard RAM heatsinks melt to goo.
(Now that I think of it, DoomSpore does sound like some sort of badass Middle-Ages plague...)
That I would rather have portraits of Osama bin Laden sewn into my underwear than portraits of US government officials should say something about the success and consciences of both.
At least it'll get 'em a nice job in Congress.
...and while you're there, bring us back some local dancers!
...and wizard hats?
In 1989, Mac was the operating system to use if you were dependent on Microsoft Office. (Windows got the suite the next year.)
This is Fox News we're talking about.
Often I'll watch a game (basketball, football, hockey, whatever) in the US and I'll hear someone saying roughly "This copyrighted telecast of the $SPORTS_ASSOCIATION may not be ($SUPPOSEDLY_INFRINGING_ACTION)* or any accounts disseminated (or $BLAHBLAHBLAH)* without the express written consent of the $SPORTS_ASSOCIATION" as their beautiful 3D-rendered logo spins around and neon streaks flow around it and maybe angels and fighter jets fly over it and sing the Hallelujah Chorus or whatever.
Does it affect your legal rights? Get a lawyer if you care. But clearly the big sports groups want to cover that base (pun possibly intended) of legality, if only to sell their "$SPORTS_TEAM Collector's Edition DVD"s before everyone decides joe-neighbor's fantastic account of the Target Major League Foosball McDonald's World Series at Comcast Bowling Alley sponsored by Pizza Hut is historical canon.
But...b-b-but... truthiness!!!
You may as well tell Microsoft to stop using the "Vista Capable" logo.
Don't worry.
We can quickly destroy the evidence (and the forum servers, and you too, you traitorous alien of America) with our unmanned drones and shredders. No hassles for you!
--The White House
You have 1 new invitation (25% of 3.5 MB loaded) but you must be logged in to do that!
(note the completely ambiguous use of MB that might mean million-byte or 2^20 depending on whether Murdoch and his code-slaves are RAIDophiles or TCP/IP fanatics)
I saw "GE Microsoft" on my first read. That'd be a hell of a huge company.
Much appreciated. In any case, it is uncited (and now thusly-marked) and something I'd not be quick to quote anyway. :)
More importantly, where in "the Wikipedia page linked to above" did it state "that tin whisker problems 'are negligible in modern alloys'"?
I saw nothing that said that in current version, and it hasn't been edited (minor or otherwise) since June 13th. I certainly cannot find that single-quoted statement.
I am all for scrutinizing Wiki pages, and not using unverifiable statements from them, but I will not support discrediting them on material that was not written on them in the first place.
I agree, though part of me wants to replace one of the comment's words with "by".
If that ever happens I'd donate to the FCC.
--and, for my purposes, Tracy Gill would also count as Alyson Hannigan ;)
In many Windows apps (e.g. Notepad, Eclipse), both the CUA and Mac (my easy favorite of the two) sets work. The last version of Anvil Studio I tried (which was rather long ago) was more annoying in that regard though: it supported one (or both) of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X for editing music, but Paste was solely Shift+Ins. Many awkward finger movements resulted.
Since Hawking's a pimp, I'm pretty sure he has a thousand-strong personal army composed entirely of Cutey Honey clones.
...which makes me think: if Cutey Honey can get a man stiff, and a thousand Honeys can get a man stiff a thousand times over, then maybe we should send a military to find Hawking's secret robot-army barracks/android-chick harem and destroy all of his Honeys to see if he can move again?
The DoD will succeed handily, partly because even those wary of downloading a Windows update know that "cyberwarfare battle attack bot" sounds way more badass than "Silverlight".
All the more reason to use Test and Safe. Keeping a detonation system active on rockets that fall into the ocean seems dangerous to fish and c^Hships (though a well-planned early detonation could allay risks if the boosters fall towards land or the aforementioned ships).
Sometimes you just have to blow 'em up on the way down, I guess.
I remember that game! Grand Theft Amino was a hit, but became rather infamous with the "Hot 11-S-storage" mod.
Sorry, I don't trust a product that evokes "ass pee" with spam protection. :P
I'm not too worried about Comcast. The things they do (especially this and the whole guy-sleeping-on-the-job thing) would only serve to either get people moving to other (non-cable?) ISPs (if any) or revolting for fair cable-company laws; it's all shooting themselves in the foot to me.
I am far, far more sickened by my favorite evil Northeast US company, Cablevision; they do seem to provide good service (my parents get cable and my siblings get their Triple Play; I've seen no problems with service, but the "Caller ID on iO TV" spooks me a bit), at the expense of basketball teams worth rooting for (FYI, Garden owners: free food does not make up for team negligence...not that you'd care with the money you make with that Triple Play and its associated annoying ads), competing stadiums (granted, Verizon is no innocent company by any means), competing ISPs, new subway/train stations, and maybe even commuter security (Cablevision suggests otherwise, but their words are hard for me to take as told).
To answer parent comment's question, I suppose people subscribe because...well, when you get email, Colbert, VoIP and such powerful, important abilities like the ability to RickRoll others and Digg the result (ugh *vomits*), who cares about silly things like fair and lawful treatment of consumers, sports fans, and competing ISPs?
Me, I'll use DSL (Verizon, which hasn't given me much, if any, throttling problems) until there's a good free wireless network or whatever, and I've already subscribed to a different TV provider that offers HD free (I don't care that much for Olbermann). To those far from good antenna coverage: good luck, and ditch cable anyway.