See here is the problem: women give ambiguous signals, while men don't. But wait: men are the ones with the problem. For those of us men who are married, is this starting to sound at all familiar???
No, but probably because they are two totally different things.
My comment assumes there is X amount of tax dollars available; every tax dollar that goes for mars funding isn't spent on a bomber. Basic math at work.
Downloading illegal songs and movies has nothing to do with tax dollars, military funding, or mars funding.
Hey, I look at it as every dollar spent on the Mars rover is one more dollar not being spent on a new bomber or killer robots or something along those lines.
Yeah but some of us don't like people seeing us when we get out of the shower, or as we sit in our living room in our underwear. I grudgingly wear pants in public, but damn if I will in my own home!
Actually considering the number of old people in my neighborhood I am thankful they all have curtains.
Since this is Slashdot, everybody loves a car analogy.
Lets say a car company markets a gas powered car as an "electric motor ready" car. "Sweet" says I the consumer; next year when the company starts selling electric motors, I will be able to stick one in my car. Then next year rolls around, and the only electric motor that will fit in my "electric motor ready" car will only let me go 15mph; oh and the batteries will take up the rest of the car, meaning I can't carry any passengers or cargo. And not too surprisingly all of that was left off the "electric motor ready" car marketing material.
Continued proceedings here would cost Microsoft a substantial sum of money for discovery and divert key personnel from full-time tasks," said Charles Wright, an attorney for Microsoft, in the motion to suspend the case. "[It] would intrude on sensitive pricing decisions and strategies by OEMs, wholesalers, and retailers;
I.e. it would cut even further into Vista sales.
and would jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill with class members.
What does this mean in normal human language, rather than lawyerspeak???
As long as the extra flashy junk doesn't impede my ability to get useful information from a website, I will be fine with it. There have been so many sites that don't seem to understand this though (yahoo maps is a great example, among many many sites. The original "low bandwidth" version is still more useful than their "new bling improved" version, even over a high speed connection). Ebay is headed down the path of "bling overload" too. What bothers me is when a site adds rotating blinking things without considering, "what improvements does this give us or the user trying to use our website?"
Considering the likelihood that any escape system designed by the same people who made the shuttle would probably malfunction and jettison the astronauts accidentally, this is a good thing.
If it is shown in court that Pirate Bay is costing them all so much money, maybe PB can hook them up with some good torrents to cover the lawsuit rather than paying cash?
But is there any way possible Microsoft can buy Yahoo and not destroy it? Converting all of the Yahoo services to the Microsoft platform (just the red ink this will make Microsoft bleed boggles the mind), hordes of the employees being laid off or leaving, every open source project they currently support fleeing to greener pastures (hint Google, you might consider offering them a safe place to flee to?) And any service interruptions will cause viewers to go elsewhere (Google). Is there any way possible this takeover won't cause Yahoo value to take a steep nosedive, and be a huge bonus for Google?
It worked so well for Office 2003, perhaps Microsoft could create a patch that would keep the OS from opening insecure packets from other vendors and their older products?
So for names you just give them "Matlab Sucks, Matlab Sucks 2nd, Matlab Sucks 3rd, Matlab Sucks 4th, etc" with accounts matlab1-10. Or maybe "Future Sage License, Future Sage License 2nd, Future Sage License 3rd"
Actually a few of the software packages I have purchased online can only be downloaded via torrent, as well as software updates. These are typically only downloaded from a select few torrent servers, that as far as I know are only serving up said commercial software. I am planning on gathering a list and sending notes off to the various software companies, so they can express their concerns to Comcast as well.
The money is there; it is simply about priorities. Take a look at the budget to get an idea of where the money is going instead of somewhere constructive.
And here, I have the choice of DSL from Qwest or cable internet from Comcast. Dsl is cheaper, but significantly slower (since I can't get anything but the basic service due to distance issues).
Note to Comcast: I am sorely tempted to switch back to Comcast, but there is no way I will until you quit screwing with traffic; believe it or not, I use torrents to get legit software (linux distros and some commercial software that *gasp* I have paid for), and I can't afford to have this kind of traffic disrupted. So for me, slow dsl is the only viable alternative.
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See here is the problem: women give ambiguous signals, while men don't. But wait: men are the ones with the problem. For those of us men who are married, is this starting to sound at all familiar???
No, but probably because they are two totally different things.
My comment assumes there is X amount of tax dollars available; every tax dollar that goes for mars funding isn't spent on a bomber. Basic math at work.
Downloading illegal songs and movies has nothing to do with tax dollars, military funding, or mars funding.
Hey, I look at it as every dollar spent on the Mars rover is one more dollar not being spent on a new bomber or killer robots or something along those lines.
Yeah but some of us don't like people seeing us when we get out of the shower, or as we sit in our living room in our underwear. I grudgingly wear pants in public, but damn if I will in my own home!
Actually considering the number of old people in my neighborhood I am thankful they all have curtains.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, why do you have curtains on your windows?
Lets say a car company markets a gas powered car as an "electric motor ready" car. "Sweet" says I the consumer; next year when the company starts selling electric motors, I will be able to stick one in my car. Then next year rolls around, and the only electric motor that will fit in my "electric motor ready" car will only let me go 15mph; oh and the batteries will take up the rest of the car, meaning I can't carry any passengers or cargo. And not too surprisingly all of that was left off the "electric motor ready" car marketing material.
I.e. it would cut even further into Vista sales.
and would jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill with class members.
What does this mean in normal human language, rather than lawyerspeak???
As long as the extra flashy junk doesn't impede my ability to get useful information from a website, I will be fine with it. There have been so many sites that don't seem to understand this though (yahoo maps is a great example, among many many sites. The original "low bandwidth" version is still more useful than their "new bling improved" version, even over a high speed connection). Ebay is headed down the path of "bling overload" too. What bothers me is when a site adds rotating blinking things without considering, "what improvements does this give us or the user trying to use our website?"
Depends on where and how fast you want it.
Luckily we have plenty stockpiled in handy ICBM storage containers.
See the big problem here is.... oh wait gotta go, American Idol is on!!!!
Considering the likelihood that any escape system designed by the same people who made the shuttle would probably malfunction and jettison the astronauts accidentally, this is a good thing.
Perhaps the phrase, "I'm not really a rocket scientist, but I play one on Slashdot" applies here.
If it is shown in court that Pirate Bay is costing them all so much money, maybe PB can hook them up with some good torrents to cover the lawsuit rather than paying cash?
Sadly I just realized that if I got a tv for every 6 months of no sex, I could quit my day job and open my own tv store.
So the cost increased by just slightly more than the Iraq war is costing us every three days? That says magnitudes doesn't it?
But is there any way possible Microsoft can buy Yahoo and not destroy it? Converting all of the Yahoo services to the Microsoft platform (just the red ink this will make Microsoft bleed boggles the mind), hordes of the employees being laid off or leaving, every open source project they currently support fleeing to greener pastures (hint Google, you might consider offering them a safe place to flee to?) And any service interruptions will cause viewers to go elsewhere (Google). Is there any way possible this takeover won't cause Yahoo value to take a steep nosedive, and be a huge bonus for Google?
Here is the screen capture:
Maybe they could leech off open wireless connections near the coast? Certainly Starbucks Coffee has some stores close enough to the ocean??
It worked so well for Office 2003, perhaps Microsoft could create a patch that would keep the OS from opening insecure packets from other vendors and their older products?
When I took a nap at lunch today, did I wake up in a parallel universe?
So for names you just give them "Matlab Sucks, Matlab Sucks 2nd, Matlab Sucks 3rd, Matlab Sucks 4th, etc" with accounts matlab1-10.
Or maybe "Future Sage License, Future Sage License 2nd, Future Sage License 3rd"
And yeah that is hellaciously sucky licensing.
Actually a few of the software packages I have purchased online can only be downloaded via torrent, as well as software updates. These are typically only downloaded from a select few torrent servers, that as far as I know are only serving up said commercial software. I am planning on gathering a list and sending notes off to the various software companies, so they can express their concerns to Comcast as well.
The money is there; it is simply about priorities. Take a look at the budget to get an idea of where the money is going instead of somewhere constructive.
And here, I have the choice of DSL from Qwest or cable internet from Comcast. Dsl is cheaper, but significantly slower (since I can't get anything but the basic service due to distance issues).
Note to Comcast: I am sorely tempted to switch back to Comcast, but there is no way I will until you quit screwing with traffic; believe it or not, I use torrents to get legit software (linux distros and some commercial software that *gasp* I have paid for), and I can't afford to have this kind of traffic disrupted. So for me, slow dsl is the only viable alternative.