I work in tech support for a corp desk outsource and had an interesting coversation with a top level customer about not being able to customize things in Novell Groupwise like he could in Outlook and then he sfinally tated "You know all the time I spend customizing my GUI, I could have just been doing real work."
And considering all the time I spent at my prior tech support job helping people move the start buttons back and fixing toolbars on IE makes me wonder if the majority of the world just needs to conform to whatever the programmers deemed needed.
Customization is nice for advanced and power users, but I think as default it shouldn't be needed to get functionality.
I mean DivX. On average most of DivX you will find on the net are 400-600mb. It'd be rather painful to download full DVD images even with 6.0 DSL. Not that I would do any downloading of those kinds of things *coughs*
I think it would be easier to rip it yourself. Saves the time of hunting for it and then waiting for a 400mb file to download. That and if you have the resources you can put it back to DVD-R with something like DVD Shrink and then play it on a regular DVD player.
So, the enemy is Count Dooku. The ship is owned by the Separatists. The ship has the Chancellor on it. He was "kidnapped" by General Grievous. No viewing of the Clone Wars DVD was required to understand this.
Yes, it's all there in the crawler, but it leaves some major gaps the size of the Grand Canyon about who, what, why, and when?
We know the Enemy is Count Dooku since that is all Episode II, but we don't know why or how the seperatists ships have fleet have somehow managed to defeat the entire clone army and make their way to the capital planet and take the Senetor hostage . Heck they really haven't, but with the amount of information given in the crawler we don't know if they had a space battle before or tricked the Republic forces into leaving the planet undefended. Clone Wars does answer this however...
And the question arises of "Who is General Grievous?". It's almost as if they dropped him into the plot at the speed of light. BOOM!!! Here is he is! However, I think this might be an intended effect since the start of the movie is an ongoing battle. Still feels kind of unsettling since it almost feels like starting a movie at a halfway point. IMO its still a great movie though.
If I didn't happen to crash at a friends houes after clubbing the week before and he showed us Clone Wars on his Tivo, I woulnd't have had the slightest clue what was happening in Episode 3. There was so much backstory, I think anyone who hasn't watched it will be left in the dark about a lot of things. My friend stated to me they should have made the cartoon into a live action movie and made it Episode 2, which I somewhat agree or least Episode 2.5 as a full length movie.
I'm not medical expert (or even work in the medical field as a profession), but from my understanding Cancer is just regular human cells gone awry in massive cell production.
While a virus go into a cell and uses it for reproduction and then kills the cell. And bacteria just eats the cells or nutrients floating outside the cells.
But what I really don't know if it's possible if one can tell an infected cell from a regular cell very easily other than cell counts etc.
I think they have come up with a test that can detect HIV directly, but for a long time they needed to actually do a white blood cell count.
When I worked at Earthlink, everyone's goal was to not be on the phones and to be transferred to a position not on the phones. I think that was the biggest perk of being a manager. Except they had to talk with angry people... And then they'd transfer the call to me.
Hell... I wasn't even on the "saves team".
Not like Sony's current stance of producing nothing of substance, whilst slagging off the competition.
So is this a paid ad from Microsoft or just an independant review from a third party? I don't think they are trying to sell me anything other than an informative article.
Eventually, I can see the Moon becoming a giant retirement colony, a kind of mega-Florida for old people who want to live out their days in comfort.
I dunno about that. Putting persons who sometime can't remember where or who they are, into a building with airlocks with air on one side and vacuum on the other, seems like a bad idea.
Sure, if you're the type of friend who likes to get calls at 8pm on a Sunday night saying "Hey, I bought this USB video conversion thingy and want to edit my home movies, but the software doesn't install. How can I transfer my movies from my video camera to my PC and then burn a DVD of it?"
I would be like "No Bob! For the last time I am not coming over to watch your home made porns with you and your wife again. This isn't a joke anymore! I don't care if you if you bought a $300 video transfer device. I just don't want to get that mental image anymore. For Christ sakes! Your both in your early 60's!"
Perhaps it would be better to say "Fascism, National Socialism, and Stalinism have better efficiency than a peace time democracy of a Western power."
Because obvsiously you can have a dictatorship and still have a crappy system if you let your half brother run the Ministry of Economics while you sit around in your swimming pool with a harem of women. Not that it wouldn't be bad for you...
Two things said... War Time democracy can be very efficient, albeit it's not much of a democracy other than in name since most rights are revoked during times of crisis.
And at the time and Stalinism is only form of efficent Communism because it involes shooting a lot of people when they didn't work hard enough. Communism after Kruschev was rather poorly thought out and didn't work very well and couldn't do anything much except repress a few eastern European nations and get all flustered in Afghanistan.
If you hire no one that is familiar with the system or it's workings or policies, then by default the system will have changed since no one knows what to do. Especially if the new hires have none of the old guard to ask about "how things are done"....
Or at the least will have caused a great deal of confusion and wated time, but that's still change isn't it?
"Oh, don't buy a Ford because they didn't invent the car."
Well... If MS is like Ford, then Ford not only made the car, but they sell the gas and made the roads and also sell the wiper fluids and the radio built in the car (which you can't remove btw but you can put another radio on top of it and hang it off to the side). They didn't make the engine though since you can either choose from two major brands of engines.
You also can play games with other cars via Ford Online, but watch out for those nasty car viruses you get by reading your mail in the car.
My point is that there will never be a "winner" in this debate.
We win if there are no longer members of the opposing OS, right? I mean if we happened to saaay... Got them to gather at a convention and set the building on fire and they heap all their computers into a land fill afterwards. Wouldn't the remaining OS by default win? Not that I would be planning anything like that or anything...
As it may be unethical for anyone to do it, wouldn't it be more important that one's government not to do it at all since not only are they supposed to represent the most moral aspects of society but also have responsibility of tax's payers money. (Damn I sound like a libertarian)
Secondly, saying something is FUD does not make it so just because you state it to be so. You have to explain why this is not causing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Saying that all research has similar pressures does not make his statement FUD. Mind you I voted for Bush in 2000 and used to be a Republican (I'm just calling myself a Moderate party member these days even though such a thing does not exist)
Well... If Bush keeps saying the whole global warming issue just needs to be ignored, then won't the White House and Capital Hill be below sea level around 2050? I think it's a win/win for us all!
J Allard (and Nintendos equiv) has been much more mature, raising the profile of thier own machines. Selling their machines, not slagging off competitors
Methinks, you don't remember the Sega VS Nintendo ad campaign wars in the early 1990's. I remember this because I was so influenced by the ads I wouldn't be friends with those with opposing systems. I remember my mother yelling at me one day because every time she had to baby sit one of our family friends kid, I would rag him about owning a Sega Genesis and how much better my SNES was based off information I had read in gaming magazines mostly through adverts. (Even though now looking at it I kind of wish I had a Genesis instead for Sonic.)
Yes, because PS1 and PS2 are fabulous as computers.
I may be mistaken about this, but wasn't the export of PS2 to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and North Korea banned when it first came out because of it's "computer power"? Although that could be marketing hype too...
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
Gee whiz! I'm also glad they know how to regulate technologies that didn't exist yet!
4)They're far more advanced than us and they are on their way now to put an end to all this nonsense.
After all... The noisy humans might be causing interference with the "Aliens" FCC regulations.
That or demand we convert to their religion or sell us beads for Earth and give us nasty diseases like most other advanced civilizations do when they meet less civilized societies.
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I work in tech support for a corp desk outsource and had an interesting coversation with a top level customer about not being able to customize things in Novell Groupwise like he could in Outlook and then he sfinally tated "You know all the time I spend customizing my GUI, I could have just been doing real work."
And considering all the time I spent at my prior tech support job helping people move the start buttons back and fixing toolbars on IE makes me wonder if the majority of the world just needs to conform to whatever the programmers deemed needed.
Customization is nice for advanced and power users, but I think as default it shouldn't be needed to get functionality.
I mean DivX. On average most of DivX you will find on the net are 400-600mb. It'd be rather painful to download full DVD images even with 6.0 DSL. Not that I would do any downloading of those kinds of things *coughs*
I think it would be easier to rip it yourself. Saves the time of hunting for it and then waiting for a 400mb file to download. That and if you have the resources you can put it back to DVD-R with something like DVD Shrink and then play it on a regular DVD player.
So, the enemy is Count Dooku. The ship is owned by the Separatists. The ship has the Chancellor on it. He was "kidnapped" by General Grievous. No viewing of the Clone Wars DVD was required to understand this.
Yes, it's all there in the crawler, but it leaves some major gaps the size of the Grand Canyon about who, what, why, and when?
We know the Enemy is Count Dooku since that is all Episode II, but we don't know why or how the seperatists ships have fleet have somehow managed to defeat the entire clone army and make their way to the capital planet and take the Senetor hostage . Heck they really haven't, but with the amount of information given in the crawler we don't know if they had a space battle before or tricked the Republic forces into leaving the planet undefended. Clone Wars does answer this however...
And the question arises of "Who is General Grievous?". It's almost as if they dropped him into the plot at the speed of light. BOOM!!! Here is he is! However, I think this might be an intended effect since the start of the movie is an ongoing battle. Still feels kind of unsettling since it almost feels like starting a movie at a halfway point. IMO its still a great movie though.
If I didn't happen to crash at a friends houes after clubbing the week before and he showed us Clone Wars on his Tivo, I woulnd't have had the slightest clue what was happening in Episode 3. There was so much backstory, I think anyone who hasn't watched it will be left in the dark about a lot of things. My friend stated to me they should have made the cartoon into a live action movie and made it Episode 2, which I somewhat agree or least Episode 2.5 as a full length movie.
I'm not medical expert (or even work in the medical field as a profession), but from my understanding Cancer is just regular human cells gone awry in massive cell production.
While a virus go into a cell and uses it for reproduction and then kills the cell. And bacteria just eats the cells or nutrients floating outside the cells.
But what I really don't know if it's possible if one can tell an infected cell from a regular cell very easily other than cell counts etc.
I think they have come up with a test that can detect HIV directly, but for a long time they needed to actually do a white blood cell count.
When I worked at Earthlink, everyone's goal was to not be on the phones and to be transferred to a position not on the phones. I think that was the biggest perk of being a manager. Except they had to talk with angry people... And then they'd transfer the call to me. Hell... I wasn't even on the "saves team".
Not like Sony's current stance of producing nothing of substance, whilst slagging off the competition.
So is this a paid ad from Microsoft or just an independant review from a third party? I don't think they are trying to sell me anything other than an informative article.
Eventually, I can see the Moon becoming a giant retirement colony, a kind of mega-Florida for old people who want to live out their days in comfort.
I dunno about that. Putting persons who sometime can't remember where or who they are, into a building with airlocks with air on one side and vacuum on the other, seems like a bad idea.
What? No, you say? Well... I don't really have much use of an Xbox playing music other than a novelty.
Sure, if you're the type of friend who likes to get calls at 8pm on a Sunday night saying "Hey, I bought this USB video conversion thingy and want to edit my home movies, but the software doesn't install. How can I transfer my movies from my video camera to my PC and then burn a DVD of it?"
I would be like "No Bob! For the last time I am not coming over to watch your home made porns with you and your wife again. This isn't a joke anymore! I don't care if you if you bought a $300 video transfer device. I just don't want to get that mental image anymore. For Christ sakes! Your both in your early 60's!"
You do have a point.
Perhaps it would be better to say "Fascism, National Socialism, and Stalinism have better efficiency than a peace time democracy of a Western power."
Because obvsiously you can have a dictatorship and still have a crappy system if you let your half brother run the Ministry of Economics while you sit around in your swimming pool with a harem of women. Not that it wouldn't be bad for you...
Two things said... War Time democracy can be very efficient, albeit it's not much of a democracy other than in name since most rights are revoked during times of crisis.
And at the time and Stalinism is only form of efficent Communism because it involes shooting a lot of people when they didn't work hard enough. Communism after Kruschev was rather poorly thought out and didn't work very well and couldn't do anything much except repress a few eastern European nations and get all flustered in Afghanistan.
Yes.
If you hire no one that is familiar with the system or it's workings or policies, then by default the system will have changed since no one knows what to do. Especially if the new hires have none of the old guard to ask about "how things are done"....
Or at the least will have caused a great deal of confusion and wated time, but that's still change isn't it?
So, which do you prefer? :)
A recent poll of humans found they gave either these two answers:
1.) If I am in charge, then a dictatorship.
2.) If not, then democracy is fine.
"Oh, don't buy a Ford because they didn't invent the car."
Well... If MS is like Ford, then Ford not only made the car, but they sell the gas and made the roads and also sell the wiper fluids and the radio built in the car (which you can't remove btw but you can put another radio on top of it and hang it off to the side). They didn't make the engine though since you can either choose from two major brands of engines.
You also can play games with other cars via Ford Online, but watch out for those nasty car viruses you get by reading your mail in the car.
My point is that there will never be a "winner" in this debate.
We win if there are no longer members of the opposing OS, right? I mean if we happened to saaay... Got them to gather at a convention and set the building on fire and they heap all their computers into a land fill afterwards. Wouldn't the remaining OS by default win? Not that I would be planning anything like that or anything...
As it may be unethical for anyone to do it, wouldn't it be more important that one's government not to do it at all since not only are they supposed to represent the most moral aspects of society but also have responsibility of tax's payers money. (Damn I sound like a libertarian)
Secondly, saying something is FUD does not make it so just because you state it to be so. You have to explain why this is not causing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Saying that all research has similar pressures does not make his statement FUD. Mind you I voted for Bush in 2000 and used to be a Republican (I'm just calling myself a Moderate party member these days even though such a thing does not exist)
Well... If Bush keeps saying the whole global warming issue just needs to be ignored, then won't the White House and Capital Hill be below sea level around 2050? I think it's a win/win for us all!
If that disc gets broken, lost, scratched beyond usability, well, you're SOL. DRM doesn't work.
You had had to go and buy another copy of War Craft 3? Hrm... I just don't know. Sadly, it seems like DRM is working as the company intended it to.
J Allard (and Nintendos equiv) has been much more mature, raising the profile of thier own machines. Selling their machines, not slagging off competitors
Methinks, you don't remember the Sega VS Nintendo ad campaign wars in the early 1990's. I remember this because I was so influenced by the ads I wouldn't be friends with those with opposing systems. I remember my mother yelling at me one day because every time she had to baby sit one of our family friends kid, I would rag him about owning a Sega Genesis and how much better my SNES was based off information I had read in gaming magazines mostly through adverts. (Even though now looking at it I kind of wish I had a Genesis instead for Sonic.)
Yes, because PS1 and PS2 are fabulous as computers.
I may be mistaken about this, but wasn't the export of PS2 to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and North Korea banned when it first came out because of it's "computer power"? Although that could be marketing hype too...
From fcc.gov
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
Gee whiz! I'm also glad they know how to regulate technologies that didn't exist yet!
The shiny, fancy one. Guess what? It costs money.
;)
But I thought the one that was the "shiny fancy OS" was free, but the only hardware it ran on costed a lot of money?
4)They're far more advanced than us and they are on their way now to put an end to all this nonsense. After all... The noisy humans might be causing interference with the "Aliens" FCC regulations. That or demand we convert to their religion or sell us beads for Earth and give us nasty diseases like most other advanced civilizations do when they meet less civilized societies.
BTW this is not a common pratice on Mac OS X.
Or rather... Most programs on OS X are a single file and do not need to modify the OS and if they do it's mostly a non-issue.