And too much of it will cause sunburns and skin cancer.
Grandparent is right - if this causes pain, then it does have some kind of effect upon the body. At the very least it's causing nerves to fire. It would be very unusual if this had exactly one effect, at this magnitude, without any side-effects.
Honestly, I can think of very little that's more frightening than a US president with the attitude of absolutely having to be the only kid on the block, no matter what and with "embrace, extend, extinguish" as his main strategy.
Nations have to coexist, a concept that Bill apparently has never grasped.
I fixed over 50 bugs in my web-game during the past two days. Does that mean I'm less secure than windos?
These numbers mean nothing at all. First, it's the number of fixed bugs, not of existing bugs. If product A has 500 holes and fixes 5 of them, and product B has 50 holes and fixes 10 of them - these dumbwit journalists would tell you that product A is more secure.
Two, quantity alone means nothing. If product A has 5 remote root holes and product B has 20 spelling bugs - these dumbwit journalists would tell you that product A is more secure.
The worst thing is that they get paid for producing this kind of misinformation. No, wait - the worst part is that there are lots of people out there who don't know technology and actually believe that crap.
They said "no", they mean "NO". They don't want your elitist, whiny ass.
Glad to hear that. But it wasn't whether they care about my ass, I was asking if they want my elitist, whiny money. And there's a very strong correlation between me sending my money their way and them sending a Mac version my way.
Yes, the rich upper class is always the one starting revolutions.
Like it or not, other comment is almost right. It is either the middle class (if one exists) or the upper class that does. The lower class is used as cannon fodder, but never gets the power promised. Look at any of the famous revolutions in your history books, then read a few pages further and see who ended up on top when the smoke lifted. Usually it's those who were just below the ruling class (I make a difference between ruling and upper-class. If you consider the upper class to be always the ruling class, then you'll arrive at the conclusion of Fulcrum that it's the middle class).
GP was contrasting his idea to the ones used in Iraq.
Yes, on the content level. I apologize for not making it obvious that I moved to one level of abstraction. That should've been clear from the rest of my comment. The point where Iraq and these sanctions are identical is that they're trying to sell you a simple solution for a complicated problem. It won't work, simple as that. Among other things, do you really think the ruler of a country can't get stuff smuggled in? Oh, you've inconvenienced him in major ways, he'll be sooo angry that he'll have to drive (he doesn't fly, he travels in an armoured train) to China to buy his next Mercedes.
Not to say that you can count Microsoft out; they'll doubtless release improved versions. But first impressions count for a lot,
Well, maybe that's why MS has kept its name out of the zune ads? Not because MS isn't cool enough for an mp3 player, but so that they can return to the market with a new version (which will need a new name and design after this desaster), without having tainted their brand already?
The situation with Zune/iPod is no different than the situation with Office/ODF. *More* real choices = better for the consumer and lower prices by all!
True for every other competitor but microsoft. We all and even the courts by now know that their only interest in a market is owning it. MS doesn't mean more, but less choices - if not now, then later on.
the Amazon sales rank may have been thrown off by Zune sales being divided between the three colors.
You mean, like the iPod sales being divided between 14 or so models and colours?
Yes, the zune's initial week was fairly good. If you read just a little further on any mainstream press article, however, you'll see that the total failure was attributed not to first week sales, but to the fact that after all the fanboys and easy-to-fool idiots had bought one, sales dropped to almost nothing. The same Amazon sales rank that was #2 in the first week was #13 in the second if I recall correctly. Right now, it's #60, which definitely qualifies as "abysmal". The 4 GB silver nano, the lowest listed iPod model, beats it jumping on one leg with both hands tied behind its back (rank #15).
Sorry, MS fanboy, zune is as dead as a doornail and twice as hard to sell.
What we should decrease is things like automobiles, electronics & other high standard of living commodities.
In other words, you make the only people your enemies who could actually overthrow the dictator you're trying to get rid of - the rich upper-class with ambitions.
Great plan. No surprise you're doing so well in Iraq, you have all these excellent ideas.;-)
There are no easy solutions. The world is too complicated for that and anything that claims to solve a complicated problem in one paragraph or less fails the snakeoil test.
These sites are robbing the artists and companies of the revenue they are entitled to.
Without entering into the moral argument - don't forget that the artists get about $0.50 from your $19.95 CD sale. Google for Courtney Love's article about who the real pirates are, and you'll stop living in the dream world that CD sales make artists rich. They make record company CEOs rich and that's about it.
I always found it funny that the standard-issue M16s jammed semi-frequently, while the AK-47s that you can pick up from enemies never jammed
Actually, that's fairly acurate. The AK-47 is famous for its reliability. The saying goes you can throw it into the mud, drive over it with a tank, pick it up, shake the dirt out of the barrel and fire it.
People of the Mac: your machines can run Windows now. [...] reboot when you want to game.
For a selected few games (Oblivion, Guild Wars) that's what I do.
Tell you what: It's a royal pain in the ass. If a Mac version of Oblivion would ship tomorrow, I'd buy it again just so I can get rid of the constant rebooting and the endless pain that brings (half the time XP doesn't find my bluetooth mouse, and it gets horribly confused if I should dare to hibernate it while running on the external display and awaken it without that...).
Rebooting to play a game makes me hate windos more every time I have to. And any game that doesn't have a Mac version, even the top titles on my watchlist - including WAR - has a very good chance of not getting bought, even though I could dual-boot.
I'm guessing that either OS would have to attain more than 5% market share.
Excellent, then it should be out simultaneously.
If you've been living under a rock: The Mac market is still small, but it's growing strong. The MacBook Pro was the best-selling notebook this season. There's definitely more than 5% share right now, and if Vista is as bad as every evidence indicates, there'll be well over 10% by the time WAR ships.
I will be gracious and conceed that a clean install on like hardware OSX probably loads faster than XP, though the difference is less than 60 seconds.
Well, my fanboy friend(1), when the total boot time of OSX is about 20 seconds, those "just 60 or so" additional seconds are quite a lot. Yes, user widgets can add to that. Quicksilver, for examples, adds about 3-4 seconds. Still, we're talking about half the boot time.
I tend to notice, because I've got to dual-boot quite a bit. XP takes longer to re-awaken from hibernate than OSX takes to boot. XP takes 3-5 seconds to awake from sleep, OSX is there within one second or so - usually by the time the lid is fully open, the desktop is there and by the time I have my hand on the pad, it's responsive.
(1) Yes, I'm a Mac fanboy. 6 months ago I wasn't. There's nothing more convincing than an excellent product.
1. I like having my computers available instantly when I want to use them.
Which is why I'm eternally grateful to Apple for actively working on reducing the boot times. On this machine, OSX boots faster from off than either XP or Linux awake from hibernate/software suspend.
Is he sure that it wasn't because they had to remove all those features? You know, the ones the promised when it was still called "Longhorn", like with all the other aspects of the OS?
Quite frankly, Vista is well on route to becoming a term for "taking the long road around to arrive back at the same place" - as in "hey, did you Vista or what took you so long?".
If I were running Microsoft, I would stop all shipments of all products to Europe (which is within their rights), and vigorously prosecute all copyright infrigment. That'll teach the government to mess with private property.
Damn, why don't you run MS? That would be so funny to watch. For one thing, it would teach Microsoft that copyright is a government-granted limited monopoly. Whoops. That's what you get when you confuse "intellectual" with actual property.
Oh, and did I mention that in order to "vigorously prosecute all copyright infrigment (sic)", they would have use the... err.. very court system they just told to go and fuck itself?
And why should nation states and courts get involved in making other products work with Microsoft's?
Because if you take a little time out of your busy schedule to read up on monopolies and their effect on the economy, you'll find that they cause a net damage to the nation state's economy - the monopoly profit is less than the loss everyone else suffers. If you don't believe me, go and read up, what do I know, I just studied that stuff.
Microsoft's not a monopoly: you're perfectly free to create your own standard (as the OO crowd is trying to do).
Non sequitur. MS is a monopoly. The fact that you can create a competing product doesn't matter. Whether or not someone is a monopoly is not determined by the existence of a different product, but by the existence of at least one considerable competitor in the market place. Again, if you don't believe me, go and read some stuff about economic science.
The only thing that makes me feel uneasy about this whole thing is the necessity for government intervention. It would seem that things like this, in a free market, should take care of themselves...
Except that by definition a monopoly and a free market do not match. If you have a monopoly player, the market isn't a free market. That's why you need the government: To make sure the free market stays a free market.
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Light is radition, too.
And too much of it will cause sunburns and skin cancer.
Grandparent is right - if this causes pain, then it does have some kind of effect upon the body. At the very least it's causing nerves to fire. It would be very unusual if this had exactly one effect, at this magnitude, without any side-effects.
Product is better than its 5 year old predecessor. News at 11.
Honestly, I can think of very little that's more frightening than a US president with the attitude of absolutely having to be the only kid on the block, no matter what and with "embrace, extend, extinguish" as his main strategy.
Nations have to coexist, a concept that Bill apparently has never grasped.
I fixed over 50 bugs in my web-game during the past two days. Does that mean I'm less secure than windos?
These numbers mean nothing at all.
First, it's the number of fixed bugs, not of existing bugs. If product A has 500 holes and fixes 5 of them, and product B has 50 holes and fixes 10 of them - these dumbwit journalists would tell you that product A is more secure.
Two, quantity alone means nothing. If product A has 5 remote root holes and product B has 20 spelling bugs - these dumbwit journalists would tell you that product A is more secure.
The worst thing is that they get paid for producing this kind of misinformation. No, wait - the worst part is that there are lots of people out there who don't know technology and actually believe that crap.
They said "no", they mean "NO". They don't want your elitist, whiny ass.
Glad to hear that. But it wasn't whether they care about my ass, I was asking if they want my elitist, whiny money. And there's a very strong correlation between me sending my money their way and them sending a Mac version my way.
Yes, the rich upper class is always the one starting revolutions.
Like it or not, other comment is almost right. It is either the middle class (if one exists) or the upper class that does. The lower class is used as cannon fodder, but never gets the power promised. Look at any of the famous revolutions in your history books, then read a few pages further and see who ended up on top when the smoke lifted. Usually it's those who were just below the ruling class (I make a difference between ruling and upper-class. If you consider the upper class to be always the ruling class, then you'll arrive at the conclusion of Fulcrum that it's the middle class).
GP was contrasting his idea to the ones used in Iraq.
Yes, on the content level. I apologize for not making it obvious that I moved to one level of abstraction. That should've been clear from the rest of my comment. The point where Iraq and these sanctions are identical is that they're trying to sell you a simple solution for a complicated problem. It won't work, simple as that. Among other things, do you really think the ruler of a country can't get stuff smuggled in? Oh, you've inconvenienced him in major ways, he'll be sooo angry that he'll have to drive (he doesn't fly, he travels in an armoured train) to China to buy his next Mercedes.
Not to say that you can count Microsoft out; they'll doubtless release improved versions. But first impressions count for a lot,
Well, maybe that's why MS has kept its name out of the zune ads? Not because MS isn't cool enough for an mp3 player, but so that they can return to the market with a new version (which will need a new name and design after this desaster), without having tainted their brand already?
The situation with Zune/iPod is no different than the situation with Office/ODF. *More* real choices = better for the consumer and lower prices by all!
True for every other competitor but microsoft. We all and even the courts by now know that their only interest in a market is owning it. MS doesn't mean more, but less choices - if not now, then later on.
the Amazon sales rank may have been thrown off by Zune sales being divided between the three colors.
You mean, like the iPod sales being divided between 14 or so models and colours?
Yes, the zune's initial week was fairly good. If you read just a little further on any mainstream press article, however, you'll see that the total failure was attributed not to first week sales, but to the fact that after all the fanboys and easy-to-fool idiots had bought one, sales dropped to almost nothing. The same Amazon sales rank that was #2 in the first week was #13 in the second if I recall correctly. Right now, it's #60, which definitely qualifies as "abysmal". The 4 GB silver nano, the lowest listed iPod model, beats it jumping on one leg with both hands tied behind its back (rank #15).
Sorry, MS fanboy, zune is as dead as a doornail and twice as hard to sell.
What we should decrease is things like automobiles, electronics & other high standard of living commodities.
;-)
In other words, you make the only people your enemies who could actually overthrow the dictator you're trying to get rid of - the rich upper-class with ambitions.
Great plan. No surprise you're doing so well in Iraq, you have all these excellent ideas.
There are no easy solutions. The world is too complicated for that and anything that claims to solve a complicated problem in one paragraph or less fails the snakeoil test.
Read RFC 1925, especially point (8).
These sites are robbing the artists and companies of the revenue they are entitled to.
Without entering into the moral argument - don't forget that the artists get about $0.50 from your $19.95 CD sale. Google for Courtney Love's article about who the real pirates are, and you'll stop living in the dream world that CD sales make artists rich. They make record company CEOs rich and that's about it.
I always found it funny that the standard-issue M16s jammed semi-frequently, while the AK-47s that you can pick up from enemies never jammed
Actually, that's fairly acurate. The AK-47 is famous for its reliability. The saying goes you can throw it into the mud, drive over it with a tank, pick it up, shake the dirt out of the barrel and fire it.
Try that with an M16.
4.8% in July, with a strong upwards trend.
6.1 % US market
multiple sources report the share of the notebook market at 12%.
Questions?
People of the Mac: your machines can run Windows now. [...] reboot when you want to game.
For a selected few games (Oblivion, Guild Wars) that's what I do.
Tell you what: It's a royal pain in the ass. If a Mac version of Oblivion would ship tomorrow, I'd buy it again just so I can get rid of the constant rebooting and the endless pain that brings (half the time XP doesn't find my bluetooth mouse, and it gets horribly confused if I should dare to hibernate it while running on the external display and awaken it without that...).
Rebooting to play a game makes me hate windos more every time I have to. And any game that doesn't have a Mac version, even the top titles on my watchlist - including WAR - has a very good chance of not getting bought, even though I could dual-boot.
I'm guessing that either OS would have to attain more than 5% market share.
Excellent, then it should be out simultaneously.
If you've been living under a rock: The Mac market is still small, but it's growing strong. The MacBook Pro was the best-selling notebook this season. There's definitely more than 5% share right now, and if Vista is as bad as every evidence indicates, there'll be well over 10% by the time WAR ships.
I will be gracious and conceed that a clean install on like hardware OSX probably loads faster than XP, though the difference is less than 60 seconds.
Well, my fanboy friend(1), when the total boot time of OSX is about 20 seconds, those "just 60 or so" additional seconds are quite a lot. Yes, user widgets can add to that. Quicksilver, for examples, adds about 3-4 seconds. Still, we're talking about half the boot time.
I tend to notice, because I've got to dual-boot quite a bit. XP takes longer to re-awaken from hibernate than OSX takes to boot. XP takes 3-5 seconds to awake from sleep, OSX is there within one second or so - usually by the time the lid is fully open, the desktop is there and by the time I have my hand on the pad, it's responsive.
(1) Yes, I'm a Mac fanboy. 6 months ago I wasn't. There's nothing more convincing than an excellent product.
1. I like having my computers available instantly when I want to use them.
Which is why I'm eternally grateful to Apple for actively working on reducing the boot times. On this machine, OSX boots faster from off than either XP or Linux awake from hibernate/software suspend.
Yes, and in project planning it'll be "This has got to be done tomorrow, and it has to work. We have no time to Vista, let's get going."
Does Slashdot have an option for submitting a rant and getting comments? I'm sure I could go on all day.
:-)
They do book reviews, why not OS reviews? Give it a shot. If they reject, you can always publish it in some blog.
9.) Mac/Linux versions by BMonger (68213)
Has any thought been given to Mac OS X and/or Linux versions of the game?
There are no plans for a MAC or Linux version of the game at this time.
What has to happen so that you'll make a Mac version? What has to happen for a Linux version?
The next step after this tends to be, jump at any and all projects to see if anything will stick
Err... next step? Xbox, Zune, misc. hardware, media center, MSN, etc, etc, etc, ?
Is he sure that it wasn't because they had to remove all those features? You know, the ones the promised when it was still called "Longhorn", like with all the other aspects of the OS?
Quite frankly, Vista is well on route to becoming a term for "taking the long road around to arrive back at the same place" - as in "hey, did you Vista or what took you so long?".
If I were running Microsoft, I would stop all shipments of all products to Europe (which is within their rights), and vigorously prosecute all copyright infrigment. That'll teach the government to mess with private property.
Damn, why don't you run MS? That would be so funny to watch. For one thing, it would teach Microsoft that copyright is a government-granted limited monopoly. Whoops. That's what you get when you confuse "intellectual" with actual property.
Oh, and did I mention that in order to "vigorously prosecute all copyright infrigment (sic)", they would have use the... err.. very court system they just told to go and fuck itself?
And why should nation states and courts get involved in making other products work with Microsoft's?
Because if you take a little time out of your busy schedule to read up on monopolies and their effect on the economy, you'll find that they cause a net damage to the nation state's economy - the monopoly profit is less than the loss everyone else suffers. If you don't believe me, go and read up, what do I know, I just studied that stuff.
Microsoft's not a monopoly: you're perfectly free to create your own standard (as the OO crowd is trying to do).
Non sequitur. MS is a monopoly. The fact that you can create a competing product doesn't matter. Whether or not someone is a monopoly is not determined by the existence of a different product, but by the existence of at least one considerable competitor in the market place.
Again, if you don't believe me, go and read some stuff about economic science.
The only thing that makes me feel uneasy about this whole thing is the necessity for government intervention.
It would seem that things like this, in a free market, should take care of themselves...
Except that by definition a monopoly and a free market do not match. If you have a monopoly player, the market isn't a free market. That's why you need the government: To make sure the free market stays a free market.