Name one computer part that has not been manufactured in, or has parts created in, China/India/Indonesia.
If you want to ride that moral high ground, get off the internet altogether, because you're supporting the Chinese eating babies by buying their capacitors.
Get a job like the rest of us? You can't just label yourself an artist and go around whining about loss of income if you don't want to go the extra mile. I'm terribly sorry for people's overly romantic view of stardom, but it just sucks, especially if you're not a star (yet).
By the way, pretty much any artist has a side job. In my experience, the more serious the job is, the less serious the artist is about being an artist and vice versa. There is only a very limited subset of artists that can make a living from their art.
Quite right. Don't you just love it how Microsoft's perfect vendor lock-in turns around and bites it on the ass?
Because honestly, dumping backwards compatibility sometimes really is the way to go. Compare Vista and Snow Leopard (unfair, SL isn't even out yet, but still) and check out what everyone is saying about these two OS-es. Vista is considered bloatware, no-one is saying that XP didn't run faster on their hardware. Snow Leopard will run faster because it will lose a lot of weight, with the universal binaries, smaller installed foot print, etc. This is all untested of course, and it won't run any quicker on PowerPC hardware (because it won't run at all...)
Enough rambling, the point is that MS has done such a great job of locking customers to their OS that they now can't move to another one, even from the same vendor.
I think saying CPU when you're referring to the entire computer is stupid, but I even catch semi-literate users saying that. They probably feel pretty high-falutin' with their pars pro toto phrase, but I think they just sound like they don't know what they're talking about.
Yes, but that's in the very long term. We are talking about corporations here, where the bottom line counts. Short term, perhaps medium-short term profit is what we want, and sell the stock after that. Because you see, we're not in this for art, where in this for the dollar.
And if you're going to complain about it, you're living in the wrong country/planet.
Wow, I hadn't even looked at it that way. Amazing how a bunch of random guys on the internet can punch holes in most any law or regulation that includes a technical side.
These lists are usually secret. There is no way for you to check if your non-cp site is on there or not, except when it's too late. As for the wikileak: anyone can "leak" a list that is incomplete. There is no oversight, you have to trust the government agency in charge to be honest. These people aren't even elected.
Also, this transmission will not fit in the car you currently own. You might need to upgrade parts of the car. In fact, it's probably best if you buy an entirely new one. The transmission comes free with the new one! Free I tell you!
If there are enough people in the USA to vote someone into office that also supports these claims, the line between the nation and the body of people fades, especially to people from the rest of the world.
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Exactly. Downside, I now have a dead key on my keyboard, and on my particular keyboard it's even larger than the regular shift key. That's pretty inexcusable for a laptop keyboard. The regular US English one doesn't have this little annoyance, but still.
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Name one computer part that has not been manufactured in, or has parts created in, China/India/Indonesia.
If you want to ride that moral high ground, get off the internet altogether, because you're supporting the Chinese eating babies by buying their capacitors.
Get a job like the rest of us? You can't just label yourself an artist and go around whining about loss of income if you don't want to go the extra mile. I'm terribly sorry for people's overly romantic view of stardom, but it just sucks, especially if you're not a star (yet).
By the way, pretty much any artist has a side job. In my experience, the more serious the job is, the less serious the artist is about being an artist and vice versa. There is only a very limited subset of artists that can make a living from their art.
Quite right. Don't you just love it how Microsoft's perfect vendor lock-in turns around and bites it on the ass?
Because honestly, dumping backwards compatibility sometimes really is the way to go. Compare Vista and Snow Leopard (unfair, SL isn't even out yet, but still) and check out what everyone is saying about these two OS-es. Vista is considered bloatware, no-one is saying that XP didn't run faster on their hardware. Snow Leopard will run faster because it will lose a lot of weight, with the universal binaries, smaller installed foot print, etc. This is all untested of course, and it won't run any quicker on PowerPC hardware (because it won't run at all...)
Enough rambling, the point is that MS has done such a great job of locking customers to their OS that they now can't move to another one, even from the same vendor.
No, over 48 joints.
What do they mean? 49? 50? 300?
At least it's more than 48! We know that much!
You had a good argument, but I stopped reading at "Alanis Morissette."
How is that even illegal or immoral? Your mom-in-law bought the software, what more could they possibly want?
One (1) example of how online piracy has killed a person.
None? Find a new argument, please.
YEAH! That only leaves the problem of not having a budget.
Can you write an example SQL statement that does the same as
SELECT * FROM customer ORDER BY last_name LIMIT 5, 10
This shows records 6-10 from the customers table.
I think saying CPU when you're referring to the entire computer is stupid, but I even catch semi-literate users saying that. They probably feel pretty high-falutin' with their pars pro toto phrase, but I think they just sound like they don't know what they're talking about.
"Let me look that up on the CPU!"
You know, you can also be right without being a total asshole.
Apostle of Hustle, Metric, Feist, and all the other spin-off bands/solo projects off of Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, Miracle Fortress...
Loads more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Canada
(Skip the Celine and the Brian)
Yes, but that's in the very long term. We are talking about corporations here, where the bottom line counts. Short term, perhaps medium-short term profit is what we want, and sell the stock after that. Because you see, we're not in this for art, where in this for the dollar.
And if you're going to complain about it, you're living in the wrong country/planet.
And here I thought it was all for the benefit of the public. Silly me.
Wow, I hadn't even looked at it that way. Amazing how a bunch of random guys on the internet can punch holes in most any law or regulation that includes a technical side.
I believe that, but how can you be sure?
These lists are usually secret. There is no way for you to check if your non-cp site is on there or not, except when it's too late. As for the wikileak: anyone can "leak" a list that is incomplete. There is no oversight, you have to trust the government agency in charge to be honest. These people aren't even elected.
This is wrong on so many levels.
Or worse, burnt by updates which are actually downgrades, removing functionality and replacing it with DRM.
Surprised that they turned their sites on Apple with it?
I think I saw what you did there, but I'm not sure.
No but that's because blah blah blah.
It was a stupid excuse he was defended with back then and it'll be a stupid excuse this time.
43.6%
Also, this transmission will not fit in the car you currently own. You might need to upgrade parts of the car. In fact, it's probably best if you buy an entirely new one. The transmission comes free with the new one! Free I tell you!
You could also look into Sun's RAID-z:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#RAID-Z
If there are enough people in the USA to vote someone into office that also supports these claims, the line between the nation and the body of people fades, especially to people from the rest of the world.
Enough to vote GWB into office for (count 'em!) two terms.