No problem,Its not the incarnation of Evil really;) it is however the incarnation of a corporate bullying i would say. IF you wish to find out about MS evil , look into their Goat sacrificing , Virgin deflowering and church burning (that was a joke)
As someone who would consider himself a bit in the know about Tao . Having studied it for around 13 years,I can honestly say that "The Tao of Pooh" is actually a rather good light introduction to The Tao for younger readers. I totally agree with your comparison though
The w3c and other bodies were Created to standardise the web (standardise as in make equally accessible , not as in the more scary all the same connotations). Every other thing must go by them for peer review and inclusion into our standards system for the world wide web. Frequently MS has just said yah-boo sucks to the whole idea and implemented many many changes to the standards (many time totally proprietary changes) for inclusion in their systems. Which is all well and good if you a small company (at least smaller than total market dominance) , if your small your browser can become a test bed for ideas, unfortunately the case with MS is that MSIE has become a defecato standard by nature of their monopoly so their changes have become dominant throughout the internet. This causes a whole host of problems for web developers and browser makers , even the average person who uses an alternate system. It was a case of use MSs way or don't browse. Lately this is greatly alleviated due to more common acceptance of the standards( IE: more people in the know have got to positions of influence) But still , I'm sure many people have come across sites which refuse to act well on all browsers Now its dammed hard to get things to work the way you want them on all the browsers because of this (again this is far less of a problem now but still an issue)
What as i understand it MS do is this,Submit change to W3C , wait , include it in browser anyway , See browser take over market due to windows dominance and its default inclusion and peoples lack of knowledge of alternates, try to force the W3Cs hand into accepting the standard. They may have a great extension , but the way they do it is totally unacceptable. The internet can never be a democracy for the standards , but the w3c is comprised of members from through out the industry (including MS) and its the best we have to ensure fairness and equality. Many folks have a few problems with some of the ways the w3c operate (I myself have a problem with their documentation and write ups of the standards.) but it sure beats having a way forced down my throat by a convicted abusive monopoly
No disrespect taken at all , you worded it rather kindly so no stress. The reason I'm angry is MS is using their power and position yet again to force another extension upon us. I agree most likely RSS could do with a bit of extra tweaking , but their are proper channels in place to do this, even if they do totally open their custom extension (which would be a step in the right direction) i still have a problem that they are leveraging their position to impose this upon us without going through the proper channels which were created to avoid such mishaps.(like web-sites which only work on MSIE).
Wow moderated as a troll for mentioning something in more than frank language. Well . No apologies here , MS have for years continued to say a large fuck you to the standards comities around the world and have for years continued unabated , If my language is a little low brow for you then I'm sorry , but Wanker in the UK is a term used to describe people who act in a manner such as this , Continuing to irritate people and to make our lives generally a little harder unless we go along with their way of thinking. They use their position as a monopoly to foist these things on to us as the vast majority of folks who do not understand and have no reason to need to understand this , all in an effort to force their way upon people who do know and now have to spend a lot of time making concessions for their little nuances. Their is a word for that and i shall not use it for fear of invoking something. Now moderate this troll if you must , i don't give a flying monkey. This is my opinion and one i know a few people share , if you disagree with me then please rationally counter my argument , i enjoy that. Don't be a coward and mod me down because you disagree . If you think im honestly doing this for any other reason than genuine concern over the abuse of my industry then feel free to mod away.
Which sounds to me like a euphemism for masturbation , Which is quite fitting in that i think MS are a bunch of wankers for trying to abuse standards and force their own special extensions on to things.
I Agree it is not fair , it's not fair they are denied those rights. A company such as IBM can afford to treat their workers far better , yet they still outsource to save money ? The more secure people are in their employment and the more stable the local economy is the more they consume , what outsourcing does in effect is reduce the rate of consumption in your primary markets by causing insecurity , unemployment and a drain of the money outside of the country. It could be argued that by increasing employment in these new areas that you are creating a future market, we shall have to wait and see. For now though , I'm sure IBM just lost 14,000 customers or more,as I'm fairly sure those laid off (at least some of them)will be unwilling to buy from IBM again and will make sure to tell friends families and peers about it. Possibly a great business opportunity for Sun and other competitors though
Pure conjecture on my part , but its how i look at it
patience is a virtue they say , A virtue many of us are not blessed with. Lucky for them the good people at GamePal are here to help by giving you a trial of a game with a high level character which would normally take ages to build up. So instead of throwing down your 10 Currency units on the table to play the game and see if you like it , you pay a few hundred to rip out a large amount of the fun of the game and generally defeat a lot of the fun in playing them, lets be honest a lot of these games rely on the anticipation of levelling up and occasionally finding some nice loot (or lute if its got instruments and your a bard). So what you in a sense do is pretty much ruin the game for yourself , as well as spending an insane amount of money.
A rival of P.T Barnum said once that" a sucker is born every minute." What with the growth in population over the last hundred or so years , its obvious that far far more suckers are born far more frequently , and thus we have a higher number of folks out to take advantage of that .
A quantum physicist , a Developer and a systems admin were all discussing the existence of god
So the Physicist says: Right now God is a concept that is both real and unreal untill we can prove it one way or the other
The Developer says : Yes but owning to the parallels between creation of intelligent programs and the need for us to invent it , it only follows that a similar concept must of been in place to create us
"I think simply because more women are involved in the designs and development, a different kind of contribution happens. Diversity... is a good thing when making a mainstream game.'"
This is the same argument that set the course of women in politics back 20 years after Thatcher. The sims online was one of the most boring,tedious games i have ever had the misfortune of playing. I love Sim-city and its sequels , but yeuch if women Designers produce games like the Sims then we need less of them.
In all truth though , Women are equally as skilled as men in most things(Though i doubt they make very good male strippers or professional sperm donors) , the reason there are not as many is for the simple fact that not as many women are interested in Games as men are , let alone the whole alpha geek realm of making them.
We would have a problem if women were discriminated against in the industry , but from the looks of it , it just appears that there are not as many applying for the positions
I speculate that slashdot is also not a Rumour site. After all a Rumour is just an unfounded statement of fact , that hasn't been checked thoroughly by someone.We all know that slashdot has many many editors who never make msitakes like putting out unfounded or repeated storys..
Nintendo have a rather good record when it comes to graphical updates , unlike some other companies(Namco,Atari etc.) Generally i have always been rather please to play the graphical updates of some of the vintage games. Mario all-stars just been an exceptional make-over. Come to think of it though , i do really enjoy the classical look as-well and hope they keep it as an option (preferably with an option switch so you don't have to download two copys
layering your comedy is a wonderful thing, if done properly the jokes will simply whoosh straight over the children's head and give the adults a laugh(toy story and the Simpsons being good examples of this done well).;) honestly Children love toilet humour , its not offensive at all . Its very low brow and silly , but then you can't really expect a 6 year old to have a refined pallet.
Just ones from companies such as Double-click , which are consistently shoddy , irritating , Eye catching in all the wrong ways and deceptive. Text ads are fine and dandy , after all many sites are commercial ventures and need support. However if you want me or many others to pay attention to your ads , you may consider making them less contrary to my browsing. Slashdot is terrible for having horrible SWF ads , which basically means i never browse the site with flash enabled , I honestly want to support the site , but if you have ads like this that subtract from my browsing experience i am unable to do that. Sure i could get a subscription to remove the ads and most likely i will , however i am unable to do that right now .
OFcourse what witht he lack of terrorists in iraq , they would need to balance out the sides a bit , perhaps forcing new recruits to play terrorists. Actually after they got rid of sadam a number of new terrorist players did start to appear
Undeserved criticism definantly , Abiword is great. Light-weight , runs well on all my platforms , small footprint,Easy to use,great file format . Much respect
Yeah and stealing money from the bank in this version requires a shotgun, Lego houses become more expensive than actual houses,and looking at the community chest gets you slapped
I have to agree with you , it is good business sense , the only reason i agree with you is that the courts are so corrupt that they continue to do nothing about this blatant Abuses of the law
No These tests are next to useless , unless of course you want to see how well your PC does running the test in question. They are only comparable with themselves , Sure there may be some correlation between game performance and the score on these tests,but that is for very obvious reasons and give you no real idea of the actual real world (or should i say fake world)abilities. Perhaps they are of use in contemplation , but they pale in comparison to any real tests (using rl applications with purposes beyond testing alone)
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No problem ,Its not the incarnation of Evil really ;) it is however the incarnation of a corporate bullying i would say. IF you wish to find out about MS evil , look into their Goat sacrificing , Virgin deflowering and church burning (that was a joke)
As someone who would consider himself a bit in the know about Tao . Having studied it for around 13 years ,I can honestly say that "The Tao of Pooh" is actually a rather good light introduction to The Tao for younger readers.
I totally agree with your comparison though
The w3c and other bodies were Created to standardise the web (standardise as in make equally accessible , not as in the more scary all the same connotations). .
,Submit change to W3C , wait , include it in browser anyway , See browser take over market due to windows dominance and its default inclusion and peoples lack of knowledge of alternates, try to force the W3Cs hand into accepting the standard. .
Every other thing must go by them for peer review and inclusion into our standards system for the world wide web. Frequently MS has just said yah-boo sucks to the whole idea and implemented many many changes to the standards (many time totally proprietary changes) for inclusion in their systems
Which is all well and good if you a small company (at least smaller than total market dominance) , if your small your browser can become a test bed for ideas, unfortunately the case with MS is that MSIE has become a defecato standard by nature of their monopoly so their changes have become dominant throughout the internet.
This causes a whole host of problems for web developers and browser makers , even the average person who uses an alternate system. It was a case of use MSs way or don't browse.
Lately this is greatly alleviated due to more common acceptance of the standards( IE: more people in the know have got to positions of influence)
But still , I'm sure many people have come across sites which refuse to act well on all browsers
Now its dammed hard to get things to work the way you want them on all the browsers because of this (again this is far less of a problem now but still an issue)
What as i understand it MS do is this
They may have a great extension , but the way they do it is totally unacceptable
The internet can never be a democracy for the standards , but the w3c is comprised of members from through out the industry (including MS) and its the best we have to ensure fairness and equality.
Many folks have a few problems with some of the ways the w3c operate (I myself have a problem with their documentation and write ups of the standards.) but it sure beats having a way forced down my throat by a convicted abusive monopoly
No disrespect taken at all , you worded it rather kindly so no stress.
The reason I'm angry is MS is using their power and position yet again to force another extension upon us.
I agree most likely RSS could do with a bit of extra tweaking , but their are proper channels in place to do this, even if they do totally open their custom extension (which would be a step in the right direction) i still have a problem that they are leveraging their position to impose this upon us without going through the proper channels which were created to avoid such mishaps.(like web-sites which only work on MSIE).
Wow moderated as a troll for mentioning something in more than frank language . . . .
Well . No apologies here , MS have for years continued to say a large fuck you to the standards comities around the world and have for years continued unabated , If my language is a little low brow for you then I'm sorry , but Wanker in the UK is a term used to describe people who act in a manner such as this , Continuing to irritate people and to make our lives generally a little harder unless we go along with their way of thinking.
They use their position as a monopoly to foist these things on to us as the vast majority of folks who do not understand and have no reason to need to understand this , all in an effort to force their way upon people who do know and now have to spend a lot of time making concessions for their little nuances
Their is a word for that and i shall not use it for fear of invoking something
Now moderate this troll if you must , i don't give a flying monkey
This is my opinion and one i know a few people share , if you disagree with me then please rationally counter my argument , i enjoy that.
Don't be a coward and mod me down because you disagree . If you think im honestly doing this for any other reason than genuine concern over the abuse of my industry then feel free to mod away.
Which sounds to me like a euphemism for masturbation , Which is quite fitting in that i think MS are a bunch of wankers for trying to abuse standards and force their own special extensions on to things.
I Agree it is not fair , it's not fair they are denied those rights. . ,as I'm fairly sure those laid off (at least some of them)will be unwilling to buy from IBM again and will make sure to tell friends families and peers about it.
A company such as IBM can afford to treat their workers far better , yet they still outsource to save money ?
The more secure people are in their employment and the more stable the local economy is the more they consume , what outsourcing does in effect is reduce the rate of consumption in your primary markets by causing insecurity , unemployment and a drain of the money outside of the country.
It could be argued that by increasing employment in these new areas that you are creating a future market, we shall have to wait and see
For now though , I'm sure IBM just lost 14,000 customers or more
Possibly a great business opportunity for Sun and other competitors though
Pure conjecture on my part , but its how i look at it
Come on Quit with the hyperbole ,Over-exagerating the lack of SCO users is just false information and FUD .
We all know there are 3 Users Remaining
patience is a virtue they say , A virtue many of us are not blessed with. . . .
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Lucky for them the good people at GamePal are here to help by giving you a trial of a game with a high level character which would normally take ages to build up
So instead of throwing down your 10 Currency units on the table to play the game and see if you like it , you pay a few hundred to rip out a large amount of the fun of the game and generally defeat a lot of the fun in playing them, lets be honest a lot of these games rely on the anticipation of levelling up and occasionally finding some nice loot (or lute if its got instruments and your a bard)
So what you in a sense do is pretty much ruin the game for yourself , as well as spending an insane amount of money
A rival of P.T Barnum said once that" a sucker is born every minute
What with the growth in population over the last hundred or so years , its obvious that far far more suckers are born far more frequently , and thus we have a higher number of folks out to take advantage of that .
A quantum physicist , a Developer and a systems admin were all discussing the existence of god
So the Physicist says: Right now God is a concept that is both real and unreal untill we can prove it one way or the other
The Developer says : Yes but owning to the parallels between creation of intelligent programs and the need for us to invent it , it only follows that a similar concept must of been in place to create us
then The Systems admin says : Yes i do
So they don't exist unless a perpetual energy source exists ;)
"I think simply because more women are involved in the designs and development, a different kind of contribution happens. Diversity ... is a good thing when making a mainstream game.'"
,tedious games i have ever had the misfortune of playing.
This is the same argument that set the course of women in politics back 20 years after Thatcher.
The sims online was one of the most boring
I love Sim-city and its sequels , but yeuch if women Designers produce games like the Sims then we need less of them.
In all truth though , Women are equally as skilled as men in most things(Though i doubt they make very good male strippers or professional sperm donors) , the reason there are not as many is for the simple fact that not as many women are interested in Games as men are , let alone the whole alpha geek realm of making them.
We would have a problem if women were discriminated against in the industry , but from the looks of it , it just appears that there are not as many applying for the positions
I speculate that slashdot is also not a Rumour site. .We all know that slashdot has many many editors who never make msitakes like putting out unfounded or repeated storys..
After all a Rumour is just an unfounded statement of fact , that hasn't been checked thoroughly by someone
Nintendo have a rather good record when it comes to graphical updates , unlike some other companies(Namco ,Atari etc.)
Generally i have always been rather please to play the graphical updates of some of the vintage games.
Mario all-stars just been an exceptional make-over.
Come to think of it though , i do really enjoy the classical look as-well and hope they keep it as an option (preferably with an option switch so you don't have to download two copys
layering your comedy is a wonderful thing, if done properly the jokes will simply whoosh straight over the children's head and give the adults a laugh(toy story and the Simpsons being good examples of this done well). ;) honestly Children love toilet humour , its not offensive at all . Its very low brow and silly , but then you can't really expect a 6 year old to have a refined pallet .
Just ones from companies such as Double-click , which are consistently shoddy , irritating , Eye catching in all the wrong ways and deceptive. . .
Text ads are fine and dandy , after all many sites are commercial ventures and need support. However if you want me or many others to pay attention to your ads , you may consider making them less contrary to my browsing
Slashdot is terrible for having horrible SWF ads , which basically means i never browse the site with flash enabled , I honestly want to support the site , but if you have ads like this that subtract from my browsing experience i am unable to do that
Sure i could get a subscription to remove the ads and most likely i will , however i am unable to do that right now .
OFcourse what witht he lack of terrorists in iraq , they would need to balance out the sides a bit , perhaps forcing new recruits to play terrorists.
Actually after they got rid of sadam a number of new terrorist players did start to appear
Undeserved criticism definantly , Abiword is great . ,Easy to use ,great file format . Much respect
Light-weight , runs well on all my platforms , small footprint
;) wouldnt be the first thats very permeable though
Because that would defeat the point of Hasbros Publicity stunt for the new version of Monopoly
Yeah and stealing money from the bank in this version requires a shotgun, Lego houses become more expensive than actual houses ,and looking at the community chest gets you slapped
If Iraq was real life Counter strike , Then a shed load of troops would have been server banned for PKing and abusing the hostages
I have to agree with you , it is good business sense , the only reason i agree with you is that the courts are so corrupt that they continue to do nothing about this blatant Abuses of the law
Yes , exactly ;) This use of Ironic would fit perfectly
No ,but that is for very obvious reasons and give you no real idea of the actual real world (or should i say fake world)abilities.
These tests are next to useless , unless of course you want to see how well your PC does running the test in question.
They are only comparable with themselves , Sure there may be some correlation between game performance and the score on these tests
Perhaps they are of use in contemplation , but they pale in comparison to any real tests (using rl applications with purposes beyond testing alone)