I mean seriosly, this was not the direction that the next movie even needed to go, what part of abysmall failure did they not pick up from the enterprise series, unlike star wars, Star Trek doesn't make money when going backwardcs, what ever happened to the idea of oh I don't know a ship that not only made sence, but something with emotion, how about a story about an akira class starship with an unkown crew in the dominon war?
Just a friendly note, commas (,) are not periods (.)
Umm, I'd much rather recieve the 8% increase of MS revenue than the 75% increase in my pocketbook. Just because the % increase is higher doesn't mean the ACTUAL VALUE is higher
There is a difference there: Burger King owns (rents, etc) their property. Guess who owns my computer?
Its not like WhenU can put stuff on 1-800 Contacts domain. If there was some reason I installed this junk on purpose, whatever the hell that could be, who is 1-800 Contact to tell me differently. I dunno, maybe I wanted competition or what have you. Just remember, WhenU is not putting anything on 1-800's site, they are spying on you and offering "relevant" ads in return.
I'm not concerned with what they show being illegal or legal. I'm concerned with how they get on my computer being legal or illegal.
I should not have to dig through an install list to see if there is *anything* hidden in there. Especially anything that dials home and tells on me. If I'm downloading X, all I want is X. Period.
Screw thinking that trademark infringement is shitty- Installing a program secretely and going to great lengths to make it a bitch to remove, now that is shitty!
Once smaller, more portable devices are in use, a WiMax style infrastructure will be logisitically possible. Right now, there isn't enough demand becuase so few people have devices small enough to carry around indiscriminately.
No one wants to lug a notebook around on the off chance they might decide to go by a hotspot...
It's kinda chicken and egg though. If you wanted to go from California to Florida, and no paved roads existed, would you buy a car for your trip? If no one owns cars, why would anyone build the roads? The joys of the infrastructure & appliance relationship.
That said, I don't think the 802.11 networks will ever provide a quality muni type service given the number access points required...
Here I am feeding trolls - it has been a long day of work.
1)"I wouldn't have paid for it anyway, so it's not a lost sale"
OK, so let's say I go in to get my car's wheels rebalanced (or some other service). When they're done.. I just drive off without paying. Have I done anything wrong? Well, what if "I wouldn't have paid for it anyway"? So it's not a lost sale!
How much time would a car service center have to put in to rotate your tires? How much extra time would Company A put in when you use their software?
Compare the two and you will see why your analogy is flawed. Your car example requires a physical effort and service, software has no physical product or service involved.
Stock!= Debt. Stock = ownership. If I buy stock, I do not loan Google money, I buy a tiny part of it. No loan.
Bonds = Loans = debt. If i buy a bond, then I am buying a companys debt. Sometimes called "loanership."
Evolution will continue to happen - and it won't be the sci-fi kind. Just plain old Darwinism.
Between air pollution, climate changes, the continual population shift from rural to urban, other environmental factors, and even random error.
Evolution won't stop because it is a journey not a place. All the variables that effect are lives are not tightly controlled enough to even come close to an end.
Anytime someone says how a scientific phenomenom is going to halt, I raise an eyebrow. Maybe you should too.
What I really like about Linus, unlike the likes of RMS, Perens and many slashdotters, is that he puts technical facts way ahead of political non-sense when making decisions.
His inability to get past technical facts is exactly what led him to trouble.
We care because how this issue is sold to them originally is how they will see it for a long time. Lawmakers will institute some hasty law to further remove our rights because the statistics of the time will say that Americans are behind it.
It's a lot harder to go and remove some poor law that became part of our system than to just make a good law in the first place!
2) We've gotten "dumber." This is where the root of most of our problems begin. Go look at an application for any university. They have a section where they state their minimum SAT requirements for admission. For a University that has set their minimum requirement at 1100 (for example), there will be a fine print that reads, "or 1030 for tests prior to 1994." Why? Well, the ideal for the SAT is that the average score is 1000. Unfortunately, around the late 80's and early 90's, the scores started declining more than a normal deviation could account for. The average was closer to 920. So the SAT was made "easier." Somewhere between the 70's and the 90's, we all collectively lost an intelligence level that our prior generation had.
Thats not really true. The SAT does not measure intelligence. The only thing the SAT measures is how well you take the SAT (they will tell you that). So maybe the tests that were made in 1940, etc just weren't as applicable to students anymore.
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Just a friendly note, commas (,) are not periods (.)
ps- Longest question (phrase?) ever!
Those investors should have researched their investments. Buyer beware...
If the Wii will take less artists (= time = money), why wouldn't more developers develop specifically for the Wii?
You make an advantage sound like a detractor...
You forgot Step 7) Profit!
I believe you mean "his non-union mexican equivalent!"
Umm, I'd much rather recieve the 8% increase of MS revenue than the 75% increase in my pocketbook. Just because the % increase is higher doesn't mean the ACTUAL VALUE is higher
Your coeffecient of friction might disagree...
I'm really not looking forward to Bush filling one "for life" seat. Filling two is 2x shitty.
Its not like WhenU can put stuff on 1-800 Contacts domain. If there was some reason I installed this junk on purpose, whatever the hell that could be, who is 1-800 Contact to tell me differently. I dunno, maybe I wanted competition or what have you. Just remember, WhenU is not putting anything on 1-800's site, they are spying on you and offering "relevant" ads in return.
Your brick and mortar analogy is broken.
I should not have to dig through an install list to see if there is *anything* hidden in there. Especially anything that dials home and tells on me. If I'm downloading X, all I want is X. Period.
Screw thinking that trademark infringement is shitty- Installing a program secretely and going to great lengths to make it a bitch to remove, now that is shitty!
Kinda like that original PS2 thing. what a horrible flop that was...
No one wants to lug a notebook around on the off chance they might decide to go by a hotspot...
It's kinda chicken and egg though. If you wanted to go from California to Florida, and no paved roads existed, would you buy a car for your trip? If no one owns cars, why would anyone build the roads? The joys of the infrastructure & appliance relationship.
That said, I don't think the 802.11 networks will ever provide a quality muni type service given the number access points required...
I bet most change it and for those who don't here is the market share that is improperly indentified as IE: -.1%
1)"I wouldn't have paid for it anyway, so it's not a lost sale" OK, so let's say I go in to get my car's wheels rebalanced (or some other service). When they're done.. I just drive off without paying. Have I done anything wrong? Well, what if "I wouldn't have paid for it anyway"? So it's not a lost sale!
How much time would a car service center have to put in to rotate your tires? How much extra time would Company A put in when you use their software?
Compare the two and you will see why your analogy is flawed. Your car example requires a physical effort and service, software has no physical product or service involved.
I can't beleive you'd say Pamela Anderson has a "winning personality"
Stock!= Debt. Stock = ownership. If I buy stock, I do not loan Google money, I buy a tiny part of it. No loan. Bonds = Loans = debt. If i buy a bond, then I am buying a companys debt. Sometimes called "loanership."
You are an idiot.
Conception has no memory. It's a 50% (roughly) shot- each time, every time.
Evolution will continue to happen - and it won't be the sci-fi kind. Just plain old Darwinism.
Between air pollution, climate changes, the continual population shift from rural to urban, other environmental factors, and even random error.
Evolution won't stop because it is a journey not a place. All the variables that effect are lives are not tightly controlled enough to even come close to an end.
Anytime someone says how a scientific phenomenom is going to halt, I raise an eyebrow. Maybe you should too.
It's actually more like you buying a sandwich where some jackass wiped the bread with his shit-stained ass.
Because they expect you to:
go over your minutes
buy other features
owe them money for two years
never bother them
actually have credit
They sell you the minutes cheaper because you aren't such a risk to them.
His inability to get past technical facts is exactly what led him to trouble.
We care because how this issue is sold to them originally is how they will see it for a long time. Lawmakers will institute some hasty law to further remove our rights because the statistics of the time will say that Americans are behind it.
It's a lot harder to go and remove some poor law that became part of our system than to just make a good law in the first place!
Now I know you are lying with that "Friends" gimmick. (The imaginary girl you watch pr0n with in your parents' basement doesn't count.)
Thats not really true. The SAT does not measure intelligence. The only thing the SAT measures is how well you take the SAT (they will tell you that). So maybe the tests that were made in 1940, etc just weren't as applicable to students anymore.