It wouldn't be in Microsoft's best interests to celebrate their best OS. People might actually start using it instead of buying the new version of Windows Codename Bloat.
2008: 10 year anniversary of Windows 98
2010: 10 year anniversary of Windows Me
2011: 10 year anniversary of Windows XP
1015: 20 year anniversary of Windows 95
2020: 20 year anniversary of Windows Me ....
I haven't even started using DVDs yet. I do everything with this computer, but it does not have a DVD-ROM drive. I have no need for it.
I honestly can't see myself using one of these disks for at least a decade. The only appeal they have to me is backing up my data, and I shudder to think how much a Blu-ray R or HD-DVD R drive would cost and how long it would take for one of them to burn 50 GB onto a disk.
And the number of people found jacking off watching their calculators dramatically increases...
Trading games on your calculator is a thing of the past. Take it one step further and trade pornos! Instead of playing Mario in class, you can watch him strip! That is, if it suits your tastes.
I was about to comment on it but I thought it would be best if I searched to make sure no one said it first.
Not that he wouldn't do it anyway. Microsoft is so keen on controlling everything in your computer... it's like they don't want you to compare Internet Explorer to other browsers. Not that other browsers exist... of course...
A lot of sites will render in Mozilla, but they won't render as the developer intended (they might be using some IE-only CSS). I haven't found too many important websites that are IE-only.
One really good example of sites that don't render in Mozilla is "Xanga" layouts. A friend of mine asked me to test out his layout and I told him that it sucked because it wouldn't render in Firefox or Opera. I ran it through the W3C validation for CSS and HTML and it came up with an assload of problems. Not only that, I checked the Javascript console in Firefox and there were an assload of errors it ran into there. I checked the code and there were these blatant coding errors that should've stopped the code from working but it didn't in IE.
How to get your local librarian fired:
1) Upload the porn to your private online server
2) View the porn on your private server at the library
3) Keep the cache intact.
4) Contact the authorities and inform them that someone has been looking at porn on library computers.
5) Laugh mirthlessly as you watch your librarian being led away in handcuffs.
Pot smoking and movie "terrorism" (*rolls eyes*) do not justify prisons. It's ridiculous. Our system is nightmarishly ridiculous.
It's not like there aren't stigmas about libertarians, and we all know how much wit it takes to list off false stigmas.
What drives these rich assholes to destroy freedom and lives? Do they just get off on being mean? What drives these fuckers!? They have everything and it's not enough?
Yes, they are being meanies, but if you got your parents went up to them and said "stop being so mean to me" I'm sure they wouldn't dare.
But seriously, if you really want to know why...
$$$
As CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, my principal concern is protecting the magic of the movies. So why should I care about a so-called broadcast flag regulation?
If you ask me about magic in movies, I'd say we're better off without it. It's about time to kill the Harry Potter franchise.
The broadcast flag does not inhibit copying, nor does it prevent redistribution of programming over a personal home network; it only restricts unauthorized redistribution of programming over the Internet and other digital networks.
Which entails the following: " Possible restrictions include inability to save a digital program to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing high-definition video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over commercials." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag).
Inability to save a digital program to a hard disk/make secondary copies: So when my TiVo hard disk runs out, the MPAA proposed solution is, of course, buy a new one!
Forceful reduction of quality when recording: Because we all know that if the quality of digital media is lowered, sharing will come to a complete standstill and everyone will rush to the stores to buy a MPAA approved DVD.
Inability to skip over commercials: Because we know that in the future, we all need to have someone prodding us to buy a product that's gone off the market ten years ago.
"Want job satisfaction? A 'careful choice of career is the key,' researchers concluded in a paper this spring in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Choosing a career based on a well-lubricated encounter at a bar, it turns out, may not be the most promising route to career satisfaction. People who choose their jobs carefully are more likely to be satisfied with them than those who take a flying leap into the great unknown."
Psychology isn't science, at least not an experiment science, which is what is implied when people use the word "science." It's a "social science" and when people refer to "sciences" in everyday speech they don't mean "social sciences." When I tell people I majored in science, they think of Physics, Biology Chemistry... not "Political Science" and "Linguistics."
I'm sure that Microsoft will sell IE7 as "cutting edge" software, especially since those ideas were implemented by TBE in Firefox before IE7 was even considered.
"Did you hear about the new IE7? It has tabs, that's like, totally, new technology. Only Bill Gates could come up with something so genius!"
OpenOffice tends to be more hard disk friendly than MSOffice too.
A 5 MB MSWord file is less than 1 MB when saved with OpenOffice.
Think of all the money they could save on disk space as well!
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It wouldn't be in Microsoft's best interests to celebrate their best OS. People might actually start using it instead of buying the new version of Windows Codename Bloat.
2008: 10 year anniversary of Windows 98
....
2010: 10 year anniversary of Windows Me
2011: 10 year anniversary of Windows XP
1015: 20 year anniversary of Windows 95
2020: 20 year anniversary of Windows Me
I honestly can't see myself using one of these disks for at least a decade. The only appeal they have to me is backing up my data, and I shudder to think how much a Blu-ray R or HD-DVD R drive would cost and how long it would take for one of them to burn 50 GB onto a disk.
And the number of people found jacking off watching their calculators dramatically increases...
Trading games on your calculator is a thing of the past. Take it one step further and trade pornos! Instead of playing Mario in class, you can watch him strip! That is, if it suits your tastes.
No? Well... now comes with complimentary free underwear!
If the number of British army enlistees suddenly skyrockets in the next month, we'll all know why.
I was about to comment on it but I thought it would be best if I searched to make sure no one said it first.
Not that he wouldn't do it anyway. Microsoft is so keen on controlling everything in your computer... it's like they don't want you to compare Internet Explorer to other browsers. Not that other browsers exist... of course...
One really good example of sites that don't render in Mozilla is "Xanga" layouts. A friend of mine asked me to test out his layout and I told him that it sucked because it wouldn't render in Firefox or Opera. I ran it through the W3C validation for CSS and HTML and it came up with an assload of problems. Not only that, I checked the Javascript console in Firefox and there were an assload of errors it ran into there. I checked the code and there were these blatant coding errors that should've stopped the code from working but it didn't in IE.
How to get your local librarian fired: 1) Upload the porn to your private online server 2) View the porn on your private server at the library 3) Keep the cache intact. 4) Contact the authorities and inform them that someone has been looking at porn on library computers. 5) Laugh mirthlessly as you watch your librarian being led away in handcuffs.
It's not like there aren't stigmas about libertarians, and we all know how much wit it takes to list off false stigmas.
What drives these rich assholes to destroy freedom and lives? Do they just get off on being mean? What drives these fuckers!? They have everything and it's not enough?
Yes, they are being meanies, but if you got your parents went up to them and said "stop being so mean to me" I'm sure they wouldn't dare.
But seriously, if you really want to know why...
$$$
If you ask me about magic in movies, I'd say we're better off without it. It's about time to kill the Harry Potter franchise.
The broadcast flag does not inhibit copying, nor does it prevent redistribution of programming over a personal home network; it only restricts unauthorized redistribution of programming over the Internet and other digital networks.
Which entails the following: " Possible restrictions include inability to save a digital program to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing high-definition video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over commercials." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag).
Inability to save a digital program to a hard disk/make secondary copies: So when my TiVo hard disk runs out, the MPAA proposed solution is, of course, buy a new one!
Forceful reduction of quality when recording: Because we all know that if the quality of digital media is lowered, sharing will come to a complete standstill and everyone will rush to the stores to buy a MPAA approved DVD.
Inability to skip over commercials: Because we know that in the future, we all need to have someone prodding us to buy a product that's gone off the market ten years ago.
"Want job satisfaction? A 'careful choice of career is the key,' researchers concluded in a paper this spring in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Choosing a career based on a well-lubricated encounter at a bar, it turns out, may not be the most promising route to career satisfaction. People who choose their jobs carefully are more likely to be satisfied with them than those who take a flying leap into the great unknown." Psychology isn't science, at least not an experiment science, which is what is implied when people use the word "science." It's a "social science" and when people refer to "sciences" in everyday speech they don't mean "social sciences." When I tell people I majored in science, they think of Physics, Biology Chemistry... not "Political Science" and "Linguistics."
I'm sure that Microsoft will sell IE7 as "cutting edge" software, especially since those ideas were implemented by TBE in Firefox before IE7 was even considered.
"Did you hear about the new IE7? It has tabs, that's like, totally, new technology. Only Bill Gates could come up with something so genius!"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/14/162624 8&tid=109
Better watch out because L.A. is turning communist, according to Bill.
OpenOffice tends to be more hard disk friendly than MSOffice too. A 5 MB MSWord file is less than 1 MB when saved with OpenOffice. Think of all the money they could save on disk space as well!
Are you kidding? I don't even see their ads. Yay for Adblock.
I concur. What sucks is that although it may be legal... the RIAA will probably use its lobbyist powers to make it illegal soon.
What are the major differences between you and Ralph Nader?