Apparently, this is so in his circle, as he goes on to say.
I think you're right, but then after that he comes in with:
"Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses [sic] Microsoft's anyway."
Right. That's why all those companies make games (or most software for that matter) for Mac and Linux, then port to Windows later if they have the budget. And Microsoft developed Boot Camp to run OSX on PCs. That is what happened, right?
Well sarcasm aside, I guess Paul is trying to say that these are the trends he is observing. But if you look at the present situation, then, outside of the magical bubble he and his colleagues live in (and must never leave), there are still more than a few old grannies that use Windows.
But MS is trying has hard as possible to change that with Vista. So, Paul, maybe we'll all live in your crazy bubble some day.
Oh shit, sorry for responding to my own post, but I just realized that if everything was free, people would just take advantage of the system, not do any work whatsoever, take as much shit as they possibly can, and all of human civilization would crumble in a matter of days.
Sorry about giving so many of you guys false hope.
Or maybe, just maybe, it's because people won't spend millions of dollars producing a movie / video game / etc. just so they can distribute it for free and make no money off of it, effectively wasting the millions of dollars they spent producing it.
Just maybe.
Something to chew on.
Actually, I think all stores should just give away all of their products for free. Then we wouldn't have to worry about that pesky "money" at all, everyone will have what they want, and the world will be perfect! Damn, can you believe no one else has thought of that? I must be a genius or something.
So if a criminal matter isn't important enough for the police to invade a person's privacy and search through their house and take their property, then a civil "contract violation" is?
This barely qualifies as bug, more on an inconsistency, but...
In Firefox, when you make a new bookmark, you need to give it a name. FF grays-out the OK button until you do. This implies that bookmarks weren't meant to be nameless. Here's the "bug": if you go to rename the bookmark, you can make it blank and the OK button remains active.
So what good is a nameless bookmark? I place all of my frequently-visited bookmarks on the menu bar, to the right of the menus (it's normally wasted space). I have over 25 bookmarks marks there, and if they had names (even one-letter names), they wouldn't fit by a long-shot. The favicons are all I need, so this ability is pretty helpful, and isn't likely to be fixed.
Clearly in this case you can say whatever you want, and/.ers will listen. It's up to these same people to judge the value of your comments. You can't force someone to think your comment is great and call it "censorship" if they don't.
But really, the claim that RIAA sucks your cock, that's a well thought out and insightful post that really brought a lot into the conversation. Really made me think deeply about the whole situation and brought up a plethora of new questions. For example, did RIAA spit or swallow? And how often do they suck it? Daily? Hourly? Clearly these questions have no clear answers and must be discussed at full length. And the fact that they're extortionists, really brings up a point that hasn't been brought up in/. ever before. You really went against the grain by calling RIAA bad. Take that, censors!
Hey mods: I hate Microsoft and fucked its mother. Mod me up before or the censors win.
Seriously, it sounds like even one clogged nozzle would result in an ugly white line across the height of the page. I mean hopefully they've done their homework and made really good nozzles, or the nozzles are close enough that the surrounding ones can cover up for a broken one, but that's a serious issue to address.
"I think it could be good, but I also think it could be awful. I haven't seen anything good yet."
Exactly.
I have faith that the game will be good, but there isn't any scientific evidence to back this up yet, just the fact that I like PA. But fortunately, like any game, such faith doesn't cost any money and reviews will be out once the game becomes available.
And Monsato's agenda is making money. Something heavily associated with making money is advertising and public relations, also known as "lying".
Some would argue the exact same thing about Greenpeace. Those running Greenpeace do make a living based on its success, after all. The firm is intelligent enough to (PDF Warning) embed the costs of salaries with their campaigns so there's no way of know the % spent on salaries.
I would probably prefer Monsanto's demise to Greenpeace's though.
Microsoft execs could learn a thing or two about running an evil corporation from Monsanto. Imagine if Windows Vista automatically installed itself to nearby computers through a wireless connection, wiping out your current OS, and then you had to pay for Vista. Pure evil genius.
The voting system is designed so one feels like their wasting their vote if they vote for a third party. There are many voting systems that are almost inarguably better at promoting democracy, but since neither the Democrats nor the Republicans would benefit from such systems, and they're the ones with the power to make the change, you're stuck with "first past the post".
Same idea in most democracies around the world; those with the political power to make their democracy better would hurt their positions by doing so.
I love people who make fun of the fact that the Zune is available in brown, among many colours. Reminds me of the people who made fun of the Gamecube because it came in indigo^H^H^H^H^H^H purple, even though it was also available in black from launch.
If you don't want a brown Zune, don't buy a brown Zune. (You shouldn't buy any Zune, even if it comes in a colour never before seen by human eyes, but that's besides the point).
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"we Zune Scene editors have day jobs and are hard to spot in the wild also."
Well there's the clincher. Like there's more than one Zune fan outside of Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe core Zune development team.
Well sarcasm aside, I guess Paul is trying to say that these are the trends he is observing. But if you look at the present situation, then, outside of the magical bubble he and his colleagues live in (and must never leave), there are still more than a few old grannies that use Windows.
But MS is trying has hard as possible to change that with Vista. So, Paul, maybe we'll all live in your crazy bubble some day.
Oh shit, sorry for responding to my own post, but I just realized that if everything was free, people would just take advantage of the system, not do any work whatsoever, take as much shit as they possibly can, and all of human civilization would crumble in a matter of days.
Sorry about giving so many of you guys false hope.
Or maybe, just maybe, it's because people won't spend millions of dollars producing a movie / video game / etc. just so they can distribute it for free and make no money off of it, effectively wasting the millions of dollars they spent producing it.
Just maybe.
Something to chew on.
Actually, I think all stores should just give away all of their products for free. Then we wouldn't have to worry about that pesky "money" at all, everyone will have what they want, and the world will be perfect! Damn, can you believe no one else has thought of that? I must be a genius or something.
So if a criminal matter isn't important enough for the police to invade a person's privacy and search through their house and take their property, then a civil "contract violation" is?
This barely qualifies as bug, more on an inconsistency, but...
In Firefox, when you make a new bookmark, you need to give it a name. FF grays-out the OK button until you do. This implies that bookmarks weren't meant to be nameless. Here's the "bug": if you go to rename the bookmark, you can make it blank and the OK button remains active.
So what good is a nameless bookmark? I place all of my frequently-visited bookmarks on the menu bar, to the right of the menus (it's normally wasted space). I have over 25 bookmarks marks there, and if they had names (even one-letter names), they wouldn't fit by a long-shot. The favicons are all I need, so this ability is pretty helpful, and isn't likely to be fixed.
Clearly in this case you can say whatever you want, and /.ers will listen. It's up to these same people to judge the value of your comments. You can't force someone to think your comment is great and call it "censorship" if they don't.
/. ever before. You really went against the grain by calling RIAA bad. Take that, censors!
But really, the claim that RIAA sucks your cock, that's a well thought out and insightful post that really brought a lot into the conversation. Really made me think deeply about the whole situation and brought up a plethora of new questions. For example, did RIAA spit or swallow? And how often do they suck it? Daily? Hourly? Clearly these questions have no clear answers and must be discussed at full length. And the fact that they're extortionists, really brings up a point that hasn't been brought up in
Hey mods: I hate Microsoft and fucked its mother. Mod me up before or the censors win.
What the fuck is WTF? Is it really that hard to type those two extra words?
Corporations' lifetimes could be more than the current 50+ year rule. Pinning copyright on a single individual not always possible.
Personally, my magic number is 20 years. More than enough time to reap lots of money, IMO.
But copyright law will never change for the better in a two-party system until most people care about it.
What fun are any of those activities if you don't get drunk before doing them? (Especially wood shop).
Seriously, it sounds like even one clogged nozzle would result in an ugly white line across the height of the page. I mean hopefully they've done their homework and made really good nozzles, or the nozzles are close enough that the surrounding ones can cover up for a broken one, but that's a serious issue to address.
(I did not RTFA)
Totalitarianism.
Too early? I'll come back in six months.
"I think it could be good, but I also think it could be awful. I haven't seen anything good yet."
Exactly.
I have faith that the game will be good, but there isn't any scientific evidence to back this up yet, just the fact that I like PA. But fortunately, like any game, such faith doesn't cost any money and reviews will be out once the game becomes available.
No need, it's stated by Gabe on the Penny Arcade home page: penny-arcade.com, Ctrl+F, "voice"
That's nothing. Once, I wrote "$500 trillion" on a notepad file, and then accidentally deleted it. Boy was my face red.
Funny how Sony's PR was bashing MS's BC so recently.
Interesting that the only company with perfect last-gen BC is the company that largely keeps their mouth shut about it.
Brings new meaning to the term "firewall"
I have developed an immunity.
I would probably prefer Monsanto's demise to Greenpeace's though.
Also, this is what Zappepcs is talking out.
Microsoft execs could learn a thing or two about running an evil corporation from Monsanto. Imagine if Windows Vista automatically installed itself to nearby computers through a wireless connection, wiping out your current OS, and then you had to pay for Vista. Pure evil genius.
Would a company with a logo this pretty tell a lie?
The voting system is designed so one feels like their wasting their vote if they vote for a third party. There are many voting systems that are almost inarguably better at promoting democracy, but since neither the Democrats nor the Republicans would benefit from such systems, and they're the ones with the power to make the change, you're stuck with "first past the post".
Same idea in most democracies around the world; those with the political power to make their democracy better would hurt their positions by doing so.
They should have an "hilarious" mod that gives karma, to be reserved for truly funny posts, to counter-act that sort of thing.
I love people who make fun of the fact that the Zune is available in brown, among many colours. Reminds me of the people who made fun of the Gamecube because it came in indigo^H^H^H^H^H^H purple, even though it was also available in black from launch.
If you don't want a brown Zune, don't buy a brown Zune. (You shouldn't buy any Zune, even if it comes in a colour never before seen by human eyes, but that's besides the point).