Stocks are not virtual money. Stocks are a piece of ownership in a corporation that makes real money. So having a share of stock is actually a legitimate entitlement to money.
The 2d interface was a marked improvement in productivity and useability over the 1d command line, just like controlling computers with our thoughts would be a marked improvement over 2d interfaces. This 3d interface, while "cool," provides no tangible benefit to productivity or anything else besides the ability to impress your friends and family. Have you ever used Metisse? I have. Trust me, it was a toy.
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I am happy with X Windows, thank you very much. I see no reason, absolutely none at all, why this will improve anyone's computing experience in any way. This is just another fantastic way to waste the CPU. If anyone can point out a valid reason for this, then by all means please let me know.
No amount of swarming will ever get around the fact that a piece of something has to be in your local system before you can view it. "Skipping ahead" Will skip to a part of the clip that you may not have. This=lag. What's more, usually you cannot download one second of movie in one second of time, unless you have a crazy tricked out connection. This means that if you skip to a part you haven't seen yet, you will have to wait even longer for buffering. This is hardly worth it.
Why don't they just re-brand Firefox Oh wait, they already did that, Netscape... So why don't they just use Netscape? Or if they are dead-set on using IE's rendering engine, they should just re-brand Avant Browser, Maxthon, or one of the multitudes of other IE-based browsers with tabbed browsing and other nice features. Or they could just buy an uber-license from Opera for thousands of licences, I'm sure it would be cheaper than developing their own software.
Seriously, with all the costs of pressing those CDs, doesn't AOL need to save some money somewhere?
Why should I be forced to install *both* when I only want *one*? A lot of people (myself included) have a secondary *slow* computer that also runs Linux. 1gb of hard disk space makes every meg precious.
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try this: username: stalin60 password: stalin courtesy of bugmenot.com
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Waiting in line for 24 hours almost certainly did not get them the PSP 24 hours before anyone else did. It's the classic example of waiting for 2 hours in line for a 5 minute rollercoaster.
Firefox randomly quits when I'm doing that. I really don't expect messing with a peice of software I'm currently running to go off without a hitch anyway.
You should see the disgusting code TI-BASIC programmers produce. Anything that the system will let you get away with that saves even 1 byte, people will do. This includes mismatched quotation marks and parentheses. (The interpreter is not very strict syntactically)
"an equivalent statement is, 'Gee, living in a communist society would be great.'" It would be great, if it was done right. (SU, Cuba, China, No. Korea, were all done wrong.)
By the way there can be competition in a Communist society. If you can't figure out why, reply.
Then you would see fragmented corporations. Example: Coca-cola can't hold patents with all the money they make. So they split it into Coke, inc., Sprite, inc., Mr. Pibb, inc., etc, all owned by the same people. I thought of your idea too, but then I realized that it is really easy to get around the law in that matter.
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Stocks are not virtual money. Stocks are a piece of ownership in a corporation that makes real money. So having a share of stock is actually a legitimate entitlement to money.
(That's why stocks pay dividends BTW)
You are comparing apples and oranges.
The 2d interface was a marked improvement in productivity and useability over the 1d command line, just like controlling computers with our thoughts would be a marked improvement over 2d interfaces. This 3d interface, while "cool," provides no tangible benefit to productivity or anything else besides the ability to impress your friends and family. Have you ever used Metisse? I have. Trust me, it was a toy.
I am happy with X Windows, thank you very much.
I see no reason, absolutely none at all, why this will improve anyone's computing experience in any way. This is just another fantastic way to waste the CPU. If anyone can point out a valid reason for this, then by all means please let me know.
No amount of swarming will ever get around the fact that a piece of something has to be in your local system before you can view it. "Skipping ahead" Will skip to a part of the clip that you may not have. This=lag. What's more, usually you cannot download one second of movie in one second of time, unless you have a crazy tricked out connection. This means that if you skip to a part you haven't seen yet, you will have to wait even longer for buffering. This is hardly worth it.
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Sorry, but no. Netscape gave them the source, but they didn't use it (or hardly any.) They decided it was too bloated, and bad bad bad code.
But since they are using Trident (MSIE rendering engine) Microsoft still gets "credit" for the browser.
In that case, my bad. :)
Grandparent means superior to IE itself and superior to whatever AOL is dumping out.
I just looked at aol.com and it's not done in flash.
Why don't they just re-brand Firefox
Oh wait, they already did that, Netscape...
So why don't they just use Netscape?
Or if they are dead-set on using IE's rendering engine, they should just re-brand Avant Browser, Maxthon, or one of the multitudes of other IE-based browsers with tabbed browsing and other nice features. Or they could just buy an uber-license from Opera for thousands of licences, I'm sure it would be cheaper than developing their own software.
Seriously, with all the costs of pressing those CDs, doesn't AOL need to save some money somewhere?
Why should I be forced to install *both* when I only want *one*? A lot of people (myself included) have a secondary *slow* computer that also runs Linux. 1gb of hard disk space makes every meg precious.
NOTE TO MODS:
this guy is trolling me, when I am genuinely trying to help people.
-1:Troll shall be your moderation.
try this:
username: stalin60
password: stalin
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Username: stalin60
Password: stalin
courtesy of bugmenot.com
Yep, this kills my browser. You would think it has some kind of protection against overfrows like that.
BTW you could kill it even faster with x*=x, i imagine.
My strategy is even better:
Don't go on a saturday
Waiting in line for 24 hours almost certainly did not get them the PSP 24 hours before anyone else did. It's the classic example of waiting for 2 hours in line for a 5 minute rollercoaster.
Don't forget using lists and matrixes to fake variables... :p
run out of your allotted 27 and 100->dim(L1) gets you 100 more
Firefox randomly quits when I'm doing that. I really don't expect messing with a peice of software I'm currently running to go off without a hitch anyway.
You should see the disgusting code TI-BASIC programmers produce. Anything that the system will let you get away with that saves even 1 byte, people will do.
This includes mismatched quotation marks and parentheses. (The interpreter is not very strict syntactically)
Except when I'm doing on my Firefox build, and using it at the same time.
Isn't choice one of the core good things about Linux?
"an equivalent statement is, 'Gee, living in a communist society would be great.'"
It would be great, if it was done right.
(SU, Cuba, China, No. Korea, were all done wrong.)
By the way there can be competition in a Communist society. If you can't figure out why, reply.
Then you would see fragmented corporations.
Example: Coca-cola can't hold patents with all the money they make. So they split it into Coke, inc., Sprite, inc., Mr. Pibb, inc., etc, all owned by the same people. I thought of your idea too, but then I realized that it is really easy to get around the law in that matter.