Maybe it proves something about nationwide polls instead?
I think pretty much any poll on this subject is going to get the same result as a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
Some day you are going to have to realize that not all arguments can be won by sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "George Bush!"
Nobody brought up the US before you, the subject in question was the reliability of Chinese press releases. If you have nothing more intelligent to add than an Ad Hominem attack then maybe you should just save bandwidth.
Steam has a bigger problem.
When you're tired of one game you can't sell it or give it away without doing the same with ALL of your Steam games, or using a separate account for each game.
Whenever possible I avoid purchasing games through Steam if they are available otherwise.
...and some people have a problem with understanding what a generalization is..
generalization (noun) A substitution for understanding, itself generally wrong in a sort of recursive intentional ignorance which leads to the production of millions upon millions of bumper stickers.
I don't know much about "The Raw Story," which describes itself as an "alternative" news source.
Unfortunately 'news source' usually translates to 'blog' and "alternative" to "alternative to the truth which fits our world view better". From what I can see reading a few stories, The Raw Story seems to be yet another alarmist rag trying to change the world by stirring up people that already agree with them anyway.
Still, I hope this turns out to be legitimate and puts the nail in the coffin for closed source voting machines.
Just because AMD is more competitive than they used to be, doesn't mean they are winning.
Nvidia has dropped the price of the 9800 GTX to the same level as the 4850, and it consistently beats the 4850 in most benches I've seen. Add to that CUDA, Physx, more overclocking headroom, and better linux drivers (at least until radeonHD has matured) and nvidia is still the better product from where I'm sitting.
The high end cards aren't as good performance per dollar, but high end cards never are and I really don't pay much attention to those price points.
Sorry, it's hard to hear you when you're speaking from atop such a high horse. That's a pretty condescending attitude on your part as well.
We may have more spammers here, but at least we have a history of prosecuting and convicting at least some of them. I don't really know whether China/Russia have ever convicting anyone of spamming, but TFA refers to a registrar that is either incompetent or complicit dealing with spammers and located in China. Sometimes it's ok to criticize a country other than the USA. Just let that sink in a little.
Yeah, I misunderstood what you meant the first time I read your post.
Still, I don't think anyone who has mentioned hard drive has meant just sticking a hard drive full of data in a shoe box and burying it.
I think you are the one missing the point.
Every physical format will be obsolete in 20 years.
The advantage of storing on a hard drives is ease of transferring to new hard drives every 5 years or so.
It's finally the time to say the bottleneck in Linux on the desktop is edging towards drivers, so very slowly. I've been using Linux since 2000 and for me it's ALWAYS been drivers.
Modem drivers when I was dual booting mandrake and win 98.
ATI drivers when I was dual booting SuSE and Win XP.
A combination of WiFi drivers and some lingering video driver problems now that I'm triple booting Ubuntu, XP, and Vista.
Virtualization, Wine, and the fact that a lot of great software has been developed on and ported to Linux has eliminated most of the other small problems.
Can they properly contain said microbes, and have their finger on a sure-fire "killswitch" to annihilate the entire population of them if something goes wrong? Yeah, there's a guy inside a mountain in colorado with a big red button that will wipe out this strain of bacteria, along with all the other potentially dangerous bacteria and virii in the world.
VLC works great. In Linux you have to specify in VLC preferences which screen you want fullscreen to taget, 0 or 1. In Windows you have to drag the player over to that screen and then go fullscreen.
As far as aspect ratios are concerned, widescreen shows up letterboxed with a small ammount of the sides truncated, maybe 5% on each side. Not noticeable until I checked just now. 4:3 ratio videos show up perfectly as you would expect.
I use TV out with my XFX 8800 GS and a standard definition TV using the supplied S-video to Component/Composite adapter.
The only real snag I've had was using an adapter other than the one supplied by XFX. I have an S-video to Composite cable with integrated 3.5mm stereo to rca audio, but that didn't work even with Force TV Detection checked.
Once I tried the adapter that came in the box I had no problems setting up TV-out in XP, Vista, and Linux.
Astroturf.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
They aren't advertising anonymously.
Google is criticizing an anti-competitive move that will hurt consumers as well as Google and pretty much everyone other than Ebay.
If they want to do so anonymously because they have advertising accounts with ebay, I don't see anything sinister about that.
I shouldn't be surprised at how far people will go to avoid questioning their beliefs, but damn.
Unemployment numbers are still low because the MASSIVE LAYOFFS you swear by are all just going home and crying?
Gee, I guess that's more likely than it being an election year and doom and gloom being the order of the day.
In my experience 90% of 'firefox' issues on linux are actually Flash issues. Flashblock and noscript sorts most of that out and makes the internet usable again to boot.
No one is going to "switch to linux" because their motherboard has a linux based diagnostic included I expect a lot of people will try linux for precisely that reason.
There is a pretty large community of hardware tinkerers and overclockers that know lots and lots about cache sizes and bus widths but fairly little about software. I have met lots of these types who convince themselves that linux is "free as in crap" so that they won't have to learn anything more powerful that windows XP.
Now if ASUS which is a darling of the hardware enthusiast community says that linux is a powerful tool I expect some of those perceptions will be changed.
This isn't strictly true. Think of a police officer facing a perp armed with a knife. In the old days, the cop would have immediately gone for his gun. Today, he has the option of using his taser instead No, he emphatically doesn't. Within medium to close range, i think 21 feet is the number, a man with a knife has a statistical advantage over a man with a gun.
My brother is a corrections officer and he says there is rarely a case where a taser is the best solution. If someone is unarmed he can take them down himself, and if they are armed they get shot, full stop. I can see them being useful for small or female officers when facing someone so much larger that technique alone isn't guaranteed to subdue them, but that's about it. I wouldn't like to see them banned because they aren't any more dangerous than a night stick, and there are still legitimate uses for them even if they are rare.
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Game controllers are terrible for anything more complicated than tetris or the original super mario bros.
Also, consoles are for children.
Maybe it proves something about nationwide polls instead?
I think pretty much any poll on this subject is going to get the same result as a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
Some day you are going to have to realize that not all arguments can be won by sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "George Bush!"
Nobody brought up the US before you, the subject in question was the reliability of Chinese press releases.
If you have nothing more intelligent to add than an Ad Hominem attack then maybe you should just save bandwidth.
Steam has a bigger problem.
When you're tired of one game you can't sell it or give it away without doing the same with ALL of your Steam games, or using a separate account for each game.
Whenever possible I avoid purchasing games through Steam if they are available otherwise.
...and some people have a problem with understanding what a generalization is..
generalization (noun)
A substitution for understanding, itself generally wrong in a sort of recursive intentional ignorance which leads to the production of millions upon millions of bumper stickers.
Keep making jokes like that and you won't have a problem with an excess of teeth.
:D
I don't know much about "The Raw Story," which describes itself as an "alternative" news source.
Unfortunately 'news source' usually translates to 'blog' and "alternative" to "alternative to the truth which fits our world view better". From what I can see reading a few stories, The Raw Story seems to be yet another alarmist rag trying to change the world by stirring up people that already agree with them anyway.
Still, I hope this turns out to be legitimate and puts the nail in the coffin for closed source voting machines.
Just because AMD is more competitive than they used to be, doesn't mean they are winning.
Nvidia has dropped the price of the 9800 GTX to the same level as the 4850, and it consistently beats the 4850 in most benches I've seen.
Add to that CUDA, Physx, more overclocking headroom, and better linux drivers (at least until radeonHD has matured) and nvidia is still the better product from where I'm sitting.
The high end cards aren't as good performance per dollar, but high end cards never are and I really don't pay much attention to those price points.
We may have more spammers here, but at least we have a history of prosecuting and convicting at least some of them.
I don't really know whether China/Russia have ever convicting anyone of spamming, but TFA refers to a registrar that is either incompetent or complicit dealing with spammers and located in China.
Sometimes it's ok to criticize a country other than the USA.
Just let that sink in a little.
Yeah, I misunderstood what you meant the first time I read your post.
Still, I don't think anyone who has mentioned hard drive has meant just sticking a hard drive full of data in a shoe box and burying it.
I think you are the one missing the point.
Every physical format will be obsolete in 20 years.
The advantage of storing on a hard drives is ease of transferring to new hard drives every 5 years or so.
Modem drivers when I was dual booting mandrake and win 98.
ATI drivers when I was dual booting SuSE and Win XP.
A combination of WiFi drivers and some lingering video driver problems now that I'm triple booting Ubuntu, XP, and Vista.
Virtualization, Wine, and the fact that a lot of great software has been developed on and ported to Linux has eliminated most of the other small problems.
Tethering is not against the TOS, they'll just charge you ANOTHER 60 dollars a month if you do it.
VLC works great. In Linux you have to specify in VLC preferences which screen you want fullscreen to taget, 0 or 1. In Windows you have to drag the player over to that screen and then go fullscreen.
As far as aspect ratios are concerned, widescreen shows up letterboxed with a small ammount of the sides truncated, maybe 5% on each side. Not noticeable until I checked just now. 4:3 ratio videos show up perfectly as you would expect.
I use TV out with my XFX 8800 GS and a standard definition TV using the supplied S-video to Component/Composite adapter.
The only real snag I've had was using an adapter other than the one supplied by XFX. I have an S-video to Composite cable with integrated 3.5mm stereo to rca audio, but that didn't work even with Force TV Detection checked.
Once I tried the adapter that came in the box I had no problems setting up TV-out in XP, Vista, and Linux.
Only if you look at the war.
On a battle by battle basis the reds won the vast majority of battles in the US civil war.
Astroturf.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
They aren't advertising anonymously.
Google is criticizing an anti-competitive move that will hurt consumers as well as Google and pretty much everyone other than Ebay.
If they want to do so anonymously because they have advertising accounts with ebay, I don't see anything sinister about that.
I shouldn't be surprised at how far people will go to avoid questioning their beliefs, but damn.
Unemployment numbers are still low because the MASSIVE LAYOFFS you swear by are all just going home and crying?
Gee, I guess that's more likely than it being an election year and doom and gloom being the order of the day.
Buy an unlocked one on newegg or ebay, pop your SIM card in. If( GSM && Unlocked or Locked to ATT && Quad band or 850/1900 mhz) Then it will work.
In my experience 90% of 'firefox' issues on linux are actually Flash issues.
Flashblock and noscript sorts most of that out and makes the internet usable again to boot.
Now if ASUS which is a darling of the hardware enthusiast community says that linux is a powerful tool I expect some of those perceptions will be changed.
Yes, it is.
Just because there isn't a clause in the constitution dealing with non-governmental censorship doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
All graphics cards accelerate 3D rendering.
My brother is a corrections officer and he says there is rarely a case where a taser is the best solution. If someone is unarmed he can take them down himself, and if they are armed they get shot, full stop.
I can see them being useful for small or female officers when facing someone so much larger that technique alone isn't guaranteed to subdue them, but that's about it.
I wouldn't like to see them banned because they aren't any more dangerous than a night stick, and there are still legitimate uses for them even if they are rare.