But it's not like these comments are showing up in the blog's themselves. They are appearing on a SEPARATE site.
It's a paid commercial endorsement. On a site clearly separate. No one should be mad at the bloggers - they should just demand that Microsoft make it clearer that the site is publicity/advertising for a product.
See, OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice both were incredibly easy installs for me, and both work incredibly well on my MacBook.
Personally, I'm confused when the article talks about problems with them, as I had absolutely no problem with them at all.
J Stor Dot Org - I'm a college student, and my University has stopped stocking most academic journals in hard copy, instead requiring me to go onto JStor.org to find them... which is fine with me, since it makes finding the articles and doing the actual research 100 time easier. But without 24/7 internet, most research papers I've written wouldn't have gotten finished.
When you have the mass media constantly scaring people about sexual predators that prey on children, is it small wonder why parents nowadays are absolutely scared about letting their children go out and play in the neighborhood? Small wonder why the only time you see children at a playground nowadays is with very strict parental supervision....
Look, I'm not saying the media isn't partially responsible - but we still make the choice to be scared. We still decide to react with fear or awareness.
Even if the media pumps out fearmongering, we still have the free will to choose NOT to be afraid. We have to break the cycle ourselves, because lord knows no one else will.
The reason that kids are growing up too quickly has to do with the parents encouraging kids to just watch TV by placing them in front of it instead of actually paying attention. This behavior becomes habit -
-also, as we over protect our children, we seperate ourselves more and more from the rest of the community. This splits our kids away from the available social networks and playmates - encouraging further isolation.
So, it's not the technology - but the fact that we don't teach or give our children any other options.
I am actually being serious - the one thing that the internet did was greatly change the way people accessed pornography. (Not to mention, the pornographic websites were the first to show a profit) You'd think that at least ONE porn site would have made the list...:P
To quote from wiki: "According to a 2003 poll, 87% of the sitting members of the United States Congress have suffered from severe head injury brought on by impacts with fire hydrants."
Of course, that's only because I just *wrote* it there...
It's not about whether or not someone has done it before, but rather whether someone has made it less intimidating before.
Grandma won't pick it up if it seems too complicated - even if it really isn't. Google has the public image to pull this off better than most. It's not about being new - it's about appearing easy.
Honestly, I can say that I'd rather see no movie be made at all than a bad one. Hopefully, if Card writes the screenplay, we have a chance at a good film, and if Card DIDN'T write the screenplay, I wouldn't bother seeing it at all.
I, in fact, loved Serenity so much that I'm okay with it being the end of the series. For me it was the emotional climax the series had been lacking, and while I would LOVE to see more from the 'verse, Serenity was enough of a finale for me to walk away satisfied.
Maybe it's just my nature, but I'm okay with stories having an end.
I just turned in a paper on the history of Hindu Nationalism in Indian Politics (I'm a poli sci major, what can I say?). If you have ever sorted through the Hindutva and RSS (The Hindu Nationalist Movement, not the syndicated standard) stuff in there you'd be banging your head against the wall regarding all of the misinformation and warped accounts. But what the articles DID do was help me find the right names and references to go plug into JStor to find legitimate articles. Until I looked at Wikipedia I was really unsure as to where to start, and while I ended up citing academic journals and other (much more legitimate) research, I would have never known how to find the research without Wikipedia.
Slashdot Mirror
But it's not like these comments are showing up in the blog's themselves. They are appearing on a SEPARATE site.
It's a paid commercial endorsement. On a site clearly separate. No one should be mad at the bloggers - they should just demand that Microsoft make it clearer that the site is publicity/advertising for a product.
See, OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice both were incredibly easy installs for me, and both work incredibly well on my MacBook. Personally, I'm confused when the article talks about problems with them, as I had absolutely no problem with them at all.
J Stor Dot Org - I'm a college student, and my University has stopped stocking most academic journals in hard copy, instead requiring me to go onto JStor.org to find them... which is fine with me, since it makes finding the articles and doing the actual research 100 time easier. But without 24/7 internet, most research papers I've written wouldn't have gotten finished.
I'm just waiting for Michael Ironside to throw that guy from Scrubs out a window by his balls...
...that Firefox 2.0 has zero problems running on my machine that has only 160 megs of RAM for days at a time.
I keep hearing about these memory problems from people - but *I* don't see it... and I've got at least 7 tabs open at any given time...
I doubt IE7 would perform so well on my 366MHz machine though.
When you have the mass media constantly scaring people about sexual predators that prey on children, is it small wonder why parents nowadays are absolutely scared about letting their children go out and play in the neighborhood? Small wonder why the only time you see children at a playground nowadays is with very strict parental supervision....
Look, I'm not saying the media isn't partially responsible - but we still make the choice to be scared. We still decide to react with fear or awareness.
Even if the media pumps out fearmongering, we still have the free will to choose NOT to be afraid. We have to break the cycle ourselves, because lord knows no one else will.
The reason that kids are growing up too quickly has to do with the parents encouraging kids to just watch TV by placing them in front of it instead of actually paying attention. This behavior becomes habit -
-also, as we over protect our children, we seperate ourselves more and more from the rest of the community. This splits our kids away from the available social networks and playmates - encouraging further isolation.
So, it's not the technology - but the fact that we don't teach or give our children any other options.
"Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should." *grin*
They are very different words.
I sPEELL jst fiyn!
OMG!!!1
For one, this does not include profits, or the fact that we have a new generation of consoles.
These consoles are pricey AND sold at a loss, and will therefore falsely increase revenues while actually DECREASING profits.
I am actually being serious - the one thing that the internet did was greatly change the way people accessed pornography. (Not to mention, the pornographic websites were the first to show a profit) You'd think that at least ONE porn site would have made the list... :P
I for one welcome our floating point overlords.
Personally I just think that nothing could turn out to be radder than my personal webpage with a black background...
I was just making a joke, and not taking a serious dig.
:)
And you'll also note, I just said I was quoting a Wiki - I never said a thing about Wikipedia.
To quote from wiki: "According to a 2003 poll, 87% of the sitting members of the United States Congress have suffered from severe head injury brought on by impacts with fire hydrants."
Of course, that's only because I just *wrote* it there...
Not to mention it was 2002 and not 2004 that the show ran.
Uh, five minutes of research would have helped this article...
It's not about whether or not someone has done it before, but rather whether someone has made it less intimidating before.
Grandma won't pick it up if it seems too complicated - even if it really isn't. Google has the public image to pull this off better than most. It's not about being new - it's about appearing easy.
I love Ender's Game, and all of the sequels.
Honestly, I can say that I'd rather see no movie be made at all than a bad one. Hopefully, if Card writes the screenplay, we have a chance at a good film, and if Card DIDN'T write the screenplay, I wouldn't bother seeing it at all.
I'm a huge fan of Firefly, and I loved Serenity.
I, in fact, loved Serenity so much that I'm okay with it being the end of the series. For me it was the emotional climax the series had been lacking, and while I would LOVE to see more from the 'verse, Serenity was enough of a finale for me to walk away satisfied.
Maybe it's just my nature, but I'm okay with stories having an end.
Can you mispell something in 1337?
I understand completely.
I just turned in a paper on the history of Hindu Nationalism in Indian Politics (I'm a poli sci major, what can I say?). If you have ever sorted through the Hindutva and RSS (The Hindu Nationalist Movement, not the syndicated standard) stuff in there you'd be banging your head against the wall regarding all of the misinformation and warped accounts. But what the articles DID do was help me find the right names and references to go plug into JStor to find legitimate articles. Until I looked at Wikipedia I was really unsure as to where to start, and while I ended up citing academic journals and other (much more legitimate) research, I would have never known how to find the research without Wikipedia.
The DreamCast debuted in Japan back in November of 1998.
It looks nice, true, but how does this qualify as a "tablet" instead of just a high end PDA?
Halo was a launch title for the first XBox. *cough*