I'm surprised the pedestrian's association hasn't kicked up a fuss too. I've killed far more random bystanders, mostly when swerving in order to pick up a prostitute.
If marriage means so much to these people on a personal level, why are they so concerned with what everyone else is doing with it? Why don't they keep it personal?
Or should every idea be sacrosanct and only be permitted to be used in the fashion that some arbitrary group decides on, in case the way people use it offends them?
I think people who consider getting up to turn the TV on to be such a big deal are funny. It's really not that hard to turn the TV on before you sit down, instead of afterwards.
Then again, I never use the remote, since it is always either lost or broken. Even when in a household that takes a little more care of their remote, I automatically reach for the TV itself.
That is what I'm talking about. Things like games, CAD, productivity applications like word processors, audio and video apps. Anything in the $50 range and up.
Every software publisher will decide that their tiny app is worth doing this to. The problem is that what they think the software is worth is likely not the same as what the user thinks the software is worth.
Most USB stuff works just fine if you plug it in without installing the drivers. Some even require that you plug them in and let XP autodetect it before installing the proper drivers (in those cases, the correct advice would be to tell someone to read the installation guide since everyone seems to want to do things differently), but for a large number of devices, you never need install anything at all.
That's not a viable option for consoles or handheld game devices, though. Regardless of what has been said about the state of game reviewing, I don't know of a better way to decide whether the latest console game of choice is worth spending money on.
Besides which, even if a review is blatant advertising, it is possible to read the review critically and get some amount of actual information about the game in question; you just can't get away with reading a review and not using your own critical thinking skills.
Do you really believe a company like Fox thinks it is economic to steal anything someone posts to MySpace? They'd spend more than they'd make just to find something worth stealing. I would like to know of any cases where this kind of abuse of license has actually happened.
Virtually every server that allows users to post original material has similar terms of service. It is not about trying to claim rights over the users' material, it is about preventing users from suing them.
When it comes down to it, though, if you're worried about someone stealing your work, you'd be foolish to post it anywhere online.
You could make a case for including X in the name, but everything else you mentioned is, at best, a very poor example and does nothing to support your point. They all have alternatives, and are not necessary to any particular distribution. There are no alternatives to the GNU tools for a Linux distribution. Even X is not necessary unless you want to use Linux as a desktop OS.
MSN Messenger's interface might look bloated, but the program is a lot more streamlined than any of the others. I can't speak for others, but on my machine it uses under 10MB of RAM - the others I've tried, Trillian, Gaim and Yahoo! Messenger, use over 20MB.
I've also discovered that the completely bogus hooks into OE magically go away when you start using a real email client.
I don't record music, but dad does, so I know how important latency (or lack of it) is to recording audio. That said, they are talking about a completely different latency here - response time to interrupts - and it does not help with audio recording. Audio recording really doesn't need to respond to interrupts, it just needs to do one thing with as little delay as possible.
Whoever gets there first has whatever rights they want. It's an unusual concept these days, since most of this planet is owned by someone, but the flip side must also be considered; what rights does anyone else have to stop these claims?
My graphics card already accelerates 6D graphics - it runs Doom 3 at such a high frame rate in 6D that I can only perceive 10 of those frames a second with my puny human 3D vision.
The blue book - the OpenGL Reference Manual - does contain every feature in the API. The red book is an introduction to the API, not a complete reference.
I think this is a basic misconception on what the grammar checker tool actually does. You came close with your annoyance at Word when it thinks a correct sentence is wrong - it does not find every flaw in your grammar, nor does everything it finds always indicate an error. Everyone who uses it knows this, so anyone who thinks it is a substitution for knowing grammar is being foolish.
Like you said, proof it before you send it. There's no reason an automatic tool can't be a part of that process, and a valuable part, for the same reason a spell checker is useful; but it should not be a substitute.
In the PSP vs. DS argument, many people inevitably bring up the companies that have failed against Nintendo before, like that list just there, and Nintendo's established dominance in the handheld market.
All of that will become relevant as soon as someone gives me a reason why none of that applied when Sony first entered the console market.
You mean bringing up something that is not related to either Linux or Java is somehow better reasoning? Besides, your point only has to be conceded if Windows is a piece of crap, and you have not proved that point.
I think the division of artists into those who do it for money and those who do it for love is a gross simplification. There are plenty who love to do it but don't have the time to, for example, or the money to afford the equipment they need. There are a lot who will tell you they don't do it for the money, sure, but it's a lot more than just a 'side effect' to many of them, too.
I also don't think that money is the only thing keeping crap afloat. If you extend the open source anaolgy, high-profile open source does achieve high quality, but if you look at the low-profile projects, you'll find a much greater amount of low-quality and unfinished work.
There are enough people that think their music/code/whatever is the most brilliant thing that we will always have crap, no matter whether people are paid for it or not. Crap floats on its own.
Wacom pads can switch between absolute and relative positioning for both the pen and the mouse. In fact, if you plug the pad in without installing anything and use the default drivers in WinXP, it will act only in relative mode.
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I'm surprised the pedestrian's association hasn't kicked up a fuss too. I've killed far more random bystanders, mostly when swerving in order to pick up a prostitute.
I have friends who play Diablo. I've introduced them to Nethack, etc. They keep playing Diablo. Obviously, Diablo added something important.
If marriage means so much to these people on a personal level, why are they so concerned with what everyone else is doing with it? Why don't they keep it personal?
Or should every idea be sacrosanct and only be permitted to be used in the fashion that some arbitrary group decides on, in case the way people use it offends them?
I think people who consider getting up to turn the TV on to be such a big deal are funny. It's really not that hard to turn the TV on before you sit down, instead of afterwards.
Then again, I never use the remote, since it is always either lost or broken. Even when in a household that takes a little more care of their remote, I automatically reach for the TV itself.
That is what I'm talking about. Things like games, CAD, productivity applications like word processors, audio and video apps. Anything in the $50 range and up.
Every software publisher will decide that their tiny app is worth doing this to. The problem is that what they think the software is worth is likely not the same as what the user thinks the software is worth.
Most USB stuff works just fine if you plug it in without installing the drivers. Some even require that you plug them in and let XP autodetect it before installing the proper drivers (in those cases, the correct advice would be to tell someone to read the installation guide since everyone seems to want to do things differently), but for a large number of devices, you never need install anything at all.
Because of a tiny power supply? I think your girlfriend has been less than truthful with you about the necessity of size...
That's not a viable option for consoles or handheld game devices, though. Regardless of what has been said about the state of game reviewing, I don't know of a better way to decide whether the latest console game of choice is worth spending money on.
Besides which, even if a review is blatant advertising, it is possible to read the review critically and get some amount of actual information about the game in question; you just can't get away with reading a review and not using your own critical thinking skills.
Kelvin.
Do you really believe a company like Fox thinks it is economic to steal anything someone posts to MySpace? They'd spend more than they'd make just to find something worth stealing. I would like to know of any cases where this kind of abuse of license has actually happened.
Virtually every server that allows users to post original material has similar terms of service. It is not about trying to claim rights over the users' material, it is about preventing users from suing them.
When it comes down to it, though, if you're worried about someone stealing your work, you'd be foolish to post it anywhere online.
You could make a case for including X in the name, but everything else you mentioned is, at best, a very poor example and does nothing to support your point. They all have alternatives, and are not necessary to any particular distribution. There are no alternatives to the GNU tools for a Linux distribution. Even X is not necessary unless you want to use Linux as a desktop OS.
MSN Messenger's interface might look bloated, but the program is a lot more streamlined than any of the others. I can't speak for others, but on my machine it uses under 10MB of RAM - the others I've tried, Trillian, Gaim and Yahoo! Messenger, use over 20MB. I've also discovered that the completely bogus hooks into OE magically go away when you start using a real email client.
I don't record music, but dad does, so I know how important latency (or lack of it) is to recording audio. That said, they are talking about a completely different latency here - response time to interrupts - and it does not help with audio recording. Audio recording really doesn't need to respond to interrupts, it just needs to do one thing with as little delay as possible.
Whoever gets there first has whatever rights they want. It's an unusual concept these days, since most of this planet is owned by someone, but the flip side must also be considered; what rights does anyone else have to stop these claims?
My graphics card already accelerates 6D graphics - it runs Doom 3 at such a high frame rate in 6D that I can only perceive 10 of those frames a second with my puny human 3D vision.
The blue book - the OpenGL Reference Manual - does contain every feature in the API. The red book is an introduction to the API, not a complete reference.
I think this is a basic misconception on what the grammar checker tool actually does. You came close with your annoyance at Word when it thinks a correct sentence is wrong - it does not find every flaw in your grammar, nor does everything it finds always indicate an error. Everyone who uses it knows this, so anyone who thinks it is a substitution for knowing grammar is being foolish.
Like you said, proof it before you send it. There's no reason an automatic tool can't be a part of that process, and a valuable part, for the same reason a spell checker is useful; but it should not be a substitute.
In the PSP vs. DS argument, many people inevitably bring up the companies that have failed against Nintendo before, like that list just there, and Nintendo's established dominance in the handheld market. All of that will become relevant as soon as someone gives me a reason why none of that applied when Sony first entered the console market.
Oh, that's easy. It's ass-speak for "I think obtuse words make me sound smarter than I am."
h2g2 already does that, at least for New Zealand: "Nobody pays much attention to New Zealand at the best of times."
You mean bringing up something that is not related to either Linux or Java is somehow better reasoning? Besides, your point only has to be conceded if Windows is a piece of crap, and you have not proved that point.
I think the division of artists into those who do it for money and those who do it for love is a gross simplification. There are plenty who love to do it but don't have the time to, for example, or the money to afford the equipment they need. There are a lot who will tell you they don't do it for the money, sure, but it's a lot more than just a 'side effect' to many of them, too. I also don't think that money is the only thing keeping crap afloat. If you extend the open source anaolgy, high-profile open source does achieve high quality, but if you look at the low-profile projects, you'll find a much greater amount of low-quality and unfinished work. There are enough people that think their music/code/whatever is the most brilliant thing that we will always have crap, no matter whether people are paid for it or not. Crap floats on its own.
Wacom pads can switch between absolute and relative positioning for both the pen and the mouse. In fact, if you plug the pad in without installing anything and use the default drivers in WinXP, it will act only in relative mode.
One thing we do not want is thousands of open-source aficionados making 'contributions' to pr0n. TMI, dude.