No, the purpose of a TV channel is to sell adverts, make the journalists feel important and not tell the viewers anything that might upset their world view. It's actually quite the opposite of trying to coerce opinion, I actually think there's an element of karma whoring going on.
I guess that's Journalism 2.0, in which it's the user who does the editor's job of spotting the bullshit.
Is this really a bad thing though? I first watched CNN during the first gulf war. They were kind of dumb, but they had people on the ground in Baghdad and those people stuck their cameras out of the window and sounded scared but enthusiastic. Every time there was a crisis they'd fly someone out there and broadcast anything cool they filmed. There wasn't much attempt at analysis, but it was still pretty interesting
Now when I watch CNN they seemed to have far more stuff back home. Every half our or so they run an advert for CNN "Eco Solutions" which is the opposite of journalism - they know the story before the leave the office and select reports that fit it. There are far more talking heads back in the studio repeating conventional wisdom from the US. Frankly this is boring - I don't care what middle class Americans believe is happening.
I'd much rather just see a stream of images from what is actually happening and make up my own mind. There less editorial control the better.
Describing them explicitly as "rentals" might dissipate some ire on the limited-installs thing, but it would in no way excuse the practice of PERMANENTLY installing malware on the user's machine, which is what this suit is about.
I dunno, as a Windows geek disassembling and reverse engineering the FREE root kit is often much more fun to me than the game.
Boycotting is fine if you can manage the sacrifice yourself. But if you still want the game, but you would just rather not see malware attached in future editions, a suit works out better -- hits them, potentially, in the wallet due to the settlement and negative image portrayal.
So buy the game and download the cracked version and use that instead.
Don't you have Bluetooth? Sure it sucks, but for transferring a photo from phone to laptop it's just about bearable. Assuming you're lucky enough to get a laptop and a phone where Bluetooth connections work of course.
But I have two laptops and Bluetoothing stuff from my phone works on one so I just use that.
100 questions T/F like "You can get pregnant your first time" vs all those slideshows of diseased genitalia...hmmm, tough choice. Yeah I studied real hard for that test. Not.
Rotten.com has actually built a business model out of showing people pictures of diseased genitalia.
One of my pet peeves about XP is that when I disable the search dog in the normal way, it looks at me, wags it's tail, turns around and walks away.
I just fucking told it I don't want any cute animated characters in my OS, so why should disabling it be animated?
It used to be worse in the betas. Then if you tried to disable the search dog, Rover, it would just replace him with Cujo who was larger and would sometimes go crazy and chew up your files.
My name is Adeola Hussein, son of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. I have come into the possetion of 10 North Korean Taepodong 2 ICBMs and I need your help transferring them from a warehouse in Syria to a third country.
I have been informed you were a trustworthy fellow.
In return for your help you will collect a commision of 1 Taepodong 2 missile.
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You would make a very good troll.
No, the purpose of a TV channel is to sell adverts, make the journalists feel important and not tell the viewers anything that might upset their world view. It's actually quite the opposite of trying to coerce opinion, I actually think there's an element of karma whoring going on.
Yeah, that's what people said about Windows.
Oh shit, Godwin.
Palin is a heroine. She once saved me from a moose.
I guess that's Journalism 2.0, in which it's the user who does the editor's job of spotting the bullshit.
Is this really a bad thing though? I first watched CNN during the first gulf war. They were kind of dumb, but they had people on the ground in Baghdad and those people stuck their cameras out of the window and sounded scared but enthusiastic. Every time there was a crisis they'd fly someone out there and broadcast anything cool they filmed. There wasn't much attempt at analysis, but it was still pretty interesting
Now when I watch CNN they seemed to have far more stuff back home. Every half our or so they run an advert for CNN "Eco Solutions" which is the opposite of journalism - they know the story before the leave the office and select reports that fit it. There are far more talking heads back in the studio repeating conventional wisdom from the US. Frankly this is boring - I don't care what middle class Americans believe is happening.
I'd much rather just see a stream of images from what is actually happening and make up my own mind. There less editorial control the better.
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For those who absolutely refused to read the article, here is an artist's impression
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Is your Google broken? This was more or less settled years ago, though as always the lawyaers will nibble at the corners.
Why not just link to a google search for "eula upheld in court". What does the abuse add to your argument?
Describing them explicitly as "rentals" might dissipate some ire on the limited-installs thing, but it would in no way excuse the practice of PERMANENTLY installing malware on the user's machine, which is what this suit is about.
I dunno, as a Windows geek disassembling and reverse engineering the FREE root kit is often much more fun to me than the game.
Boycotting is fine if you can manage the sacrifice yourself. But if you still want the game, but you would just rather not see malware attached in future editions, a suit works out better -- hits them, potentially, in the wallet due to the settlement and negative image portrayal.
So buy the game and download the cracked version and use that instead.
Don't you have Bluetooth? Sure it sucks, but for transferring a photo from phone to laptop it's just about bearable. Assuming you're lucky enough to get a laptop and a phone where Bluetooth connections work of course.
But I have two laptops and Bluetoothing stuff from my phone works on one so I just use that.
Do they take PayPal? Would a donation speed things up?
The world does offer you a free beard.
I hope "But think of the pedophiles!" becomes a meme in these discussions just like "But think of the children"" is.
Why not spend $40bn on other stock.
Easy, they bought stock in the best company, which just happens to be Microsoft.
That's right, the highly skilled investment professionals of the best company in the world recommend Microsoft stock.
If those marketing complaing about this change the text to "Alas" or "Woe is me"
The "read" version is definitely more common, though, for some reason.
Most computers spend more time reading than writing. I know this is insanely simple, but that is why you see more read errors.
There's a lesson here for slashdotters.
Medicine giveth and science taketh away.
100 questions T/F like "You can get pregnant your first time" vs all those slideshows of diseased genitalia...hmmm, tough choice. Yeah I studied real hard for that test. Not.
Rotten.com has actually built a business model out of showing people pictures of diseased genitalia.
One of my pet peeves about XP is that when I disable the search dog in the normal way, it looks at me, wags it's tail, turns around and walks away.
I just fucking told it I don't want any cute animated characters in my OS, so why should disabling it be animated?
It used to be worse in the betas. Then if you tried to disable the search dog, Rover, it would just replace him with Cujo who was larger and would sometimes go crazy and chew up your files.
Because it was posted by a Mac user.
Call me oldfashioned, but I still use XP with the Win2000 interface. Much cleaner and faster to me.
What about the XP Search Doggy?
- Are extroverted. Make an effort to show themselves as friendly to people in general.
Kill them. Kill them with fire.
Affect; not effect.
Man, I've seen this so many times recently it's starting to seem rediculous!!
That's ridiculous not rediculous, buddy.
Greetings,
My name is Adeola Hussein, son of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. I have come into the possetion of 10 North Korean Taepodong 2 ICBMs and I need your help transferring them from a warehouse in Syria to a third country.
I have been informed you were a trustworthy fellow.
In return for your help you will collect a commision of 1 Taepodong 2 missile.
I look forward to doing business with you.