My guess is because on a Windows computer, there are at least some AVI files that will play just because you clicked on them, while the ogg files won't. Also, I've never heard anybody complain about AVI being spoken of as a codec rather than a container. The only time I ever see people gripe about that is when "Ogg Vorbis" comes up. If it's that big of a deal then I think the Vorbis guys could improve their situation a lot by making their own container and calling it Vorbis too. Then it would just be a Vorbis file and nobody would have to go through the long explanation.
They should just release two copies of the Firefox browser, one called Firefox and the other called Netscape. Then everybody can pick the browser with the name they like and no sacrifice will be made.
If you're talking about disapearing socks, I have a hypothesis about the socks problem. I think they might be going down the drain. I think this because when asking people what they thought was wrong with a clogged washer, more than one person suggested that there might be a sock clogging the drain, based on their own personal experience with washing machines. So at least you have a possible answer to one of your questions that isn't a joke.
In the last story, which was about debate over whether a small person was a separate species, a guy repeatedly threw around the term "bible thumper", presumably to refer to Christians. It was condescending enough to be a troll and definitely off-topic but he got modded insightful. The guys making fun of a guy who may have just died and presumably did nothing wrong, are getting modded funny. Somebody's going to be disgusted with what I'm saying right now and I have no idea how it will get modded or not modded. We'll all have a reason to feel sickened by Slashdot. I don't know if it's worth fighting.
The only difference is that for Google ranking, they no longer contribute to the ranking of outside websites. This will not stop people from putting relevant external links on Wikipedia pages, it just reduces the benefit to the linked site.
I wonder how they would feel if everybody's link to Wikipedia also included a No-Follow.
A few years ago, I was telling a bunch of people I thought everybody should be able to be naked in public if they wanted to. Nobody ever told me they thought it was immoral. In fact, I think the only response I ever got was that it's a bad idea because there are some people we really won't want to see naked.
The article summary makes it seem like the device failed because of one part moving too close to another part. That seems like something that could be tested reliably in a simulation, to me. But I personally think it's more of an engineering failure, for producing the device in a way that makes it even possible for one of its parts to hit its own self-destruct button.
I think you may be able to get them to send you a free Wii system. Get an old television that doesn't work anymore. Then kick the screen in. Then tell Nintendo you had a defective adapter that caused your game system to separate from your outlet and fly into the television. It just might work.
By the way, make sure you don't get shocked by the picture tube when you kick it in.
Wouldn't they have to be stupid to ship it with no browser, or one that doesn't work, while there is one that works well? Is it more about helping children, or more about using children to promote open source?
In the case of music, other people are potentially losing money to piracy but Zune sales may actually go up if people can easily get the music they want to play on it. In the case of Windows, Microsoft is potentially losing money to piracy. So for music, DRM is bad but for software, DRM is good.
I'm not sure if it's a circle but when I was trying to install OpenOffice, the first thing I learned was there is not a single install file that handles everything. So I selected the packages that had "writer" and "calc" in the filenames. They told me they couldn't be installed because I had to install core something or other. So I selected that package too. It couldn't be installed because of core something else. There were a whole lot of these cores. Eventually I just decided to select every package in the folder. That worked. Then there was another folder that had the desktop integration and I actually had to select a particular package from this folder that matches the particular user interface I was using. I'm used to the Windows way of clicking on some license agreement to give them my children and become a sex slave for ten years or something, but after you click "I Agree" the whole process gets really easy. So unless they have some option in the RPM method for selecting options and automatically installing libraries your options depend on, I think it needs a lot of work.
Most of those things on the systems I deal with seem to spend most of their time at 0% CPU usage, with the only noticeable problem being increased startup time for the system. Then they just spend the rest of the time in some barren land in the swapfile. The big system killers I know of seem to be AOL and anything with Norton in the name. They seem to instantly slow everything down. CCAPP.EXE has got to go. Norton Antivirus seems to get less bad if you specify some file extensions it shouldn't check. While I felt like Spyware Doctor was worth paying for, I think it's a pretty good motivator to get dual cores too since it takes the CPU to 100% for a long time. But in general, the things that load at startup seem to just sit as idle processes until you click on them. Message-driven operating systems and pagefiles and all.
Throughout history, people have been using various religious faiths to justify whatever they want to do, because they can leverage the people's support for the faith to gain support for their own cause. In the case of Christianity, people have used the guise of converting people to Christianity as a justification for slavery and execution of enemies. They can justify making the people slaves because they can claim this is necessary to convert them to Christianity and save them. They can justify the execution of people by saying they are eliminating sin from the world. It doesn't matter if they have no basis in true Christianity. The practice is done by fake members of all faiths, not just fake Christians. This game probably disturbs real Christians because it makes them look bad. However, the game sounds like it is historically accurate. Accurate, not as a portrayal of true Christianity, but as a portrayal of the abuse of Christianity by early propagandists.
Well, I know of two cable guys who would disagree with that statement. They'd point out that there are probably more people who earn less than $25,000 in the inner city who own new HDTVs than you'd find in most middle-class neighborhoods.
I know some people who make less than $25,000 per year in the inner city who would disagree with your statement. A lot of disadvantaged people get screwed over by statements that start with "they probably..." or "there are probably...".
I don’t know everything about either operating system, but I’m running both of them. Everybody on the Windows side (including me) is running without Administrator access. Nobody can install software. No program can access the Internet without setting the firewall to allow that executable to have network access first. That can’t be done without Administrator access. Any program that made a change to the registry could only affect that particular user and whatever it would do would not include transmitting data over the Internet. Accessing e-mail addresses can’t happen without explicit permission from the user. Modifying installed software isn’t allowed at all. Modifying the system files is not allowed. So what pervasiveness is this?
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I think I have full body orgasms. I don't use any drugs though.
My guess is because on a Windows computer, there are at least some AVI files that will play just because you clicked on them, while the ogg files won't. Also, I've never heard anybody complain about AVI being spoken of as a codec rather than a container. The only time I ever see people gripe about that is when "Ogg Vorbis" comes up. If it's that big of a deal then I think the Vorbis guys could improve their situation a lot by making their own container and calling it Vorbis too. Then it would just be a Vorbis file and nobody would have to go through the long explanation.
They should just release two copies of the Firefox browser, one called Firefox and the other called Netscape. Then everybody can pick the browser with the name they like and no sacrifice will be made.
If you're talking about disapearing socks, I have a hypothesis about the socks problem. I think they might be going down the drain. I think this because when asking people what they thought was wrong with a clogged washer, more than one person suggested that there might be a sock clogging the drain, based on their own personal experience with washing machines. So at least you have a possible answer to one of your questions that isn't a joke.
So giving Google full access to your email is better?
In the last story, which was about debate over whether a small person was a separate species, a guy repeatedly threw around the term "bible thumper", presumably to refer to Christians. It was condescending enough to be a troll and definitely off-topic but he got modded insightful. The guys making fun of a guy who may have just died and presumably did nothing wrong, are getting modded funny. Somebody's going to be disgusted with what I'm saying right now and I have no idea how it will get modded or not modded. We'll all have a reason to feel sickened by Slashdot. I don't know if it's worth fighting.
I wonder how they would feel if everybody's link to Wikipedia also included a No-Follow.
A few years ago, I was telling a bunch of people I thought everybody should be able to be naked in public if they wanted to. Nobody ever told me they thought it was immoral. In fact, I think the only response I ever got was that it's a bad idea because there are some people we really won't want to see naked.
The article summary makes it seem like the device failed because of one part moving too close to another part. That seems like something that could be tested reliably in a simulation, to me. But I personally think it's more of an engineering failure, for producing the device in a way that makes it even possible for one of its parts to hit its own self-destruct button.
I think you may be able to get them to send you a free Wii system. Get an old television that doesn't work anymore. Then kick the screen in. Then tell Nintendo you had a defective adapter that caused your game system to separate from your outlet and fly into the television. It just might work.
By the way, make sure you don't get shocked by the picture tube when you kick it in.
I wonder how it would deal with twins or "doppelgangers".
Unless you're selling books, CD's and DVD's and somebody else puts it on the Internet.
Wouldn't they have to be stupid to ship it with no browser, or one that doesn't work, while there is one that works well? Is it more about helping children, or more about using children to promote open source?
I just want to know if it's going to be compatible with my cups.
Have you been using one of those Wii-motes?
In the case of music, other people are potentially losing money to piracy but Zune sales may actually go up if people can easily get the music they want to play on it. In the case of Windows, Microsoft is potentially losing money to piracy. So for music, DRM is bad but for software, DRM is good.
I'm not sure if it's a circle but when I was trying to install OpenOffice, the first thing I learned was there is not a single install file that handles everything. So I selected the packages that had "writer" and "calc" in the filenames. They told me they couldn't be installed because I had to install core something or other. So I selected that package too. It couldn't be installed because of core something else. There were a whole lot of these cores. Eventually I just decided to select every package in the folder. That worked. Then there was another folder that had the desktop integration and I actually had to select a particular package from this folder that matches the particular user interface I was using. I'm used to the Windows way of clicking on some license agreement to give them my children and become a sex slave for ten years or something, but after you click "I Agree" the whole process gets really easy. So unless they have some option in the RPM method for selecting options and automatically installing libraries your options depend on, I think it needs a lot of work.
Most of those things on the systems I deal with seem to spend most of their time at 0% CPU usage, with the only noticeable problem being increased startup time for the system. Then they just spend the rest of the time in some barren land in the swapfile. The big system killers I know of seem to be AOL and anything with Norton in the name. They seem to instantly slow everything down. CCAPP.EXE has got to go. Norton Antivirus seems to get less bad if you specify some file extensions it shouldn't check. While I felt like Spyware Doctor was worth paying for, I think it's a pretty good motivator to get dual cores too since it takes the CPU to 100% for a long time. But in general, the things that load at startup seem to just sit as idle processes until you click on them. Message-driven operating systems and pagefiles and all.
Throughout history, people have been using various religious faiths to justify whatever they want to do, because they can leverage the people's support for the faith to gain support for their own cause. In the case of Christianity, people have used the guise of converting people to Christianity as a justification for slavery and execution of enemies. They can justify making the people slaves because they can claim this is necessary to convert them to Christianity and save them. They can justify the execution of people by saying they are eliminating sin from the world. It doesn't matter if they have no basis in true Christianity. The practice is done by fake members of all faiths, not just fake Christians. This game probably disturbs real Christians because it makes them look bad. However, the game sounds like it is historically accurate. Accurate, not as a portrayal of true Christianity, but as a portrayal of the abuse of Christianity by early propagandists.
I know some people who make less than $25,000 per year in the inner city who would disagree with your statement. A lot of disadvantaged people get screwed over by statements that start with "they probably..." or "there are probably...".
I don’t know everything about either operating system, but I’m running both of them. Everybody on the Windows side (including me) is running without Administrator access. Nobody can install software. No program can access the Internet without setting the firewall to allow that executable to have network access first. That can’t be done without Administrator access. Any program that made a change to the registry could only affect that particular user and whatever it would do would not include transmitting data over the Internet. Accessing e-mail addresses can’t happen without explicit permission from the user. Modifying installed software isn’t allowed at all. Modifying the system files is not allowed. So what pervasiveness is this?
I bet the robot gets more sex than you.
Don't forget the mechanics who tell you, if you don't like the way the car is running then go out and build your own car.
I just know somebody is going to insist the dashboard be replaced with a command-line interface.
We already knew that.