Sure, there are less accidents with nuclear power plants than conventional power plants. However, when one does occur, the accident at the nuclear plant is orders of magnitude greater than a conventional plant. I agree nuclear plants can be very safe, but it only takes one accident to render hundreds of miles of land unusable for a couple generations.
So you are saying that because badly designed board games exist, that they are a crappy form of entertainment. Why don't you give some of the classics, like Sorry, a chance? I love my techno-toys, and I am a computer geek, but I always enjoy a nice board game or some other form of entertainment that doesn't require electricity to enjoy.
There are a lot of reasons people would go for the 8 gig flash player over the 30 gig iPod. FM radio for one, smaller form factor, and more physically robust. I myself just purchased the Sandisk Sansa e280 for $170. Its a great player; it can play videos, radio, record voice and radio, and holds 2000 songs. By the time I go through 2000 songs, I'll be home from whatever trip I'm on and can swap them for new ones. I'm not interested in storing my entire music collection on an mp3 player; that's what a computer is for. I think a lot of other people think this way.
This would be bad, as it would turn wikipedia into the internets largest for-profit site advertising campaign. People would edit an article and add true information that doesn't really add a whole lot in order to get their page linked to. Think Karma-whoring for profit.
I totally agree. For a company as large as Microsoft, and as large of an install base as they have, this is a disgrace that they have some CD key issue on release of their newest operating system. If they can't get this right, how can they be trusted in designing an OS??? I'm not being mr. anti-microsoft either, I'm asking a serious question.
It can be debated whether MS has a monopoly or not, but the fact is that a majority of computer users use their OS. This gives them a responsibility to not make mistakes such as this.
I don't think I have the same definition of "hassle" that you have. Take bit torrent for instance. You use your favorite tracker site and queue up a bunch of downloads, let your computer do your thing, and you got your files. There is no assembly of multiple files, no corrupt files (this isn't the MS-DOS multi-pkzip file days).
I don't download movies off the net because the quality is crap. Its much better to get into a service like netflix and just burn and send back the same day you receive them.
Why did you replace XP? I've upgraded plenty and invalidated my copy of windows. It took an annoying 30 minute phone call to convince M$ that I was legit, but in the end they've always validated me. I even have the same copy running on two different machines, and i've never had a problem with them validating them over the phone. It seems that if you have any kind of semi-reasonable explanation they don't ask too many questions.
Right. Because you want someone else to pay for your usage instead. That's what happens with water, free roads etc. The light users or non users pay for the freeloaders.
Umm... who are these "light" users of water and roads? These are basic necessities that everyone pretty much uses equally (even if you don't drive, public transportation uses the same roads, or you ride your bike along the road, etc.) The GP is saying that internet access is becoming like a utility, and utilities are best run when regulated.
When did kids get so freaking stupid and gullible as to believe these predators? My parents taught me not to 'talk to strangers', etc. Heck, they let me know where the gun at home was in case when I was there alone and felt threatened. Did ever touch it but once? No....but, one time alone, some haggard guy wouldn't get off the front porch asking for water, etc. I didn't let him in...and I watch through the window and peephole, with the gun in my hand locked and loaded till he left.
Ok, not trying to flamebait here, but seriously what are your parents smoking? How old were you when they told you about this gun? How do they know you weren't going to show off to your friends while they were gone, and then accidentally blow one of them away, or yourself for that matter. If we're talking about parental responsibilities in this discussion, your parents showed absolutely no responsibility in allowing you access to firearms.
So... when are they gonna sue Sony et al for producing those wonderful boom boxes with tape decks from the early 90s? I mean, practically the same concept here.
Sorry, I realize my comment sounds a bit silly, but my point is that myspace gets bad press for people abusing the system. Its just like how bit torrent gets bad press for helping people download movies/music/apps/whatever. I just feel it gets treated a bit unfairly because some of the user base prefers to abuse the system.
Perhaps they shouldn't, but I doubt that good ol' Tom really thought how how far people would customize, how popular myspace would get. However, the fact is that myspace allows people to customize, and it is your choice to go to that page. Geocities has a lot of horrid pages on it, yet you don't hear nearly as much crap about geocities as you do myspace. Both services offer modest web pages for novice users, its just that myspace links them together as a network.
I agree with a previous poster that if myspace got an overhaul it would break a lot of people's pages, but I don't think it would create a mass migration to facebook or something. If people still have their myspace friends lists in order, they'll just suck it up and start over.
It's called a generation gap. I am in my 20's and admittedly use myspace. I think its a good tool for keeping in touch with old friends or getting back in touch with people you went to high school with. It is buggy, but it does a fairly decent job of sorting out those accounts so that you can find people in your school, company, or whatever. There are a lot of communication tools, like pagers in high school, cell phones in college, and even internet forums (like slashdot) that the younger crowd use and consider essential, but the older crowd takes a while to understand.
Yes, some of the sites on myspace are crap, but thats totally up to the user. The default white myspace page loads pretty quickly. Myspace hosts the content, they can't control what the pages look like. I have friends who have horrible pages, and I tell them that. But its up to them to host whatever content they want, and up to me to decide to view it.
I don't want to sound like a myspace fanboy, but I think it gets a lot of unneeded bad press because of things like child stalkers and bad page design. While these things suck, they happen because people exploit and abuse the system. Let's face it, myspace is still new and immature, but will probably get better and more polished given time and money.
Personally, if you claim to have a comp sci degree, then you should have at least moderate to expert knowledge of at least one major, industry-used programming language when you graduate. It should be enough to get you through the door at some company. Then, after you get your feet wet, make the case that it would be beneficial to the company to send you to Sun J2EE training where you can get the expensive certs for free.
I see these Sun certs as a way of keeping up to date on the most recent technology being used, and not as a full-fledged education that will land you a job after you are done.
There's a couple thousand miles of open wilderness along the US-canadian border. You don't think it would be easy to put troops in this country if canada were to turn a hostile nation?
As an aside, why is it that instead of making a valid counterpoint to my statement, you just call me an idiot? I guess it's just an insight into your intelligence.
I'm hopelessly cynical of the current (and past) administrations. I agree that the citizens of the United States would want to do the right thing, but that doesn't mean that the government will.
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No, the US would protect Canada from other potential invaders because if the invaders took over Canada, the only thing between the US and said foreign invader would be the largest non-militarized border in the world. There's no way in hell the US would tolerate anyone other than Canada to be north of use because invasion of the US would be a cakewalk.
You don't think the US would expend expensive military resources purely to do "the right thing," do you?
I would say a good way to handle this would be for the registrar to go contact said porn site and say "hey, you currently own www.wankfest2007.com, we can give you first dibs at www.wankfest2007.xxx if you give up the.com domain name."
If the automakers (American and foreign) really wanted to produce electricity powered vehicles, they can. GM proved his with the EV1. See wikipedia article on the documentary.. The fact is that the oil companies lobby both the auto companies and government to kill anything that might reduce their profits. We won't seriously be getting into electric cars until the oil derricks start making gurgling sounds and oil prices really skyrocket.
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Sure, there are less accidents with nuclear power plants than conventional power plants. However, when one does occur, the accident at the nuclear plant is orders of magnitude greater than a conventional plant. I agree nuclear plants can be very safe, but it only takes one accident to render hundreds of miles of land unusable for a couple generations.
Plants get it from the sun, where would we get it from
The sun?
You would be. I've been using my player all week for roughly 3 hours a day (roughly 15 hours for the math challenged), and still have a charge.
So you are saying that because badly designed board games exist, that they are a crappy form of entertainment. Why don't you give some of the classics, like Sorry, a chance? I love my techno-toys, and I am a computer geek, but I always enjoy a nice board game or some other form of entertainment that doesn't require electricity to enjoy.
There are a lot of reasons people would go for the 8 gig flash player over the 30 gig iPod. FM radio for one, smaller form factor, and more physically robust. I myself just purchased the Sandisk Sansa e280 for $170. Its a great player; it can play videos, radio, record voice and radio, and holds 2000 songs. By the time I go through 2000 songs, I'll be home from whatever trip I'm on and can swap them for new ones. I'm not interested in storing my entire music collection on an mp3 player; that's what a computer is for. I think a lot of other people think this way.
Pitiful this was modded as flamebait, since it is anything but. It's called sarcasm mods... look it up.
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This would be bad, as it would turn wikipedia into the internets largest for-profit site advertising campaign. People would edit an article and add true information that doesn't really add a whole lot in order to get their page linked to. Think Karma-whoring for profit.
I totally agree. For a company as large as Microsoft, and as large of an install base as they have, this is a disgrace that they have some CD key issue on release of their newest operating system. If they can't get this right, how can they be trusted in designing an OS??? I'm not being mr. anti-microsoft either, I'm asking a serious question.
It can be debated whether MS has a monopoly or not, but the fact is that a majority of computer users use their OS. This gives them a responsibility to not make mistakes such as this.
I don't think I have the same definition of "hassle" that you have. Take bit torrent for instance. You use your favorite tracker site and queue up a bunch of downloads, let your computer do your thing, and you got your files. There is no assembly of multiple files, no corrupt files (this isn't the MS-DOS multi-pkzip file days).
I don't download movies off the net because the quality is crap. Its much better to get into a service like netflix and just burn and send back the same day you receive them.
Why did you replace XP? I've upgraded plenty and invalidated my copy of windows. It took an annoying 30 minute phone call to convince M$ that I was legit, but in the end they've always validated me. I even have the same copy running on two different machines, and i've never had a problem with them validating them over the phone. It seems that if you have any kind of semi-reasonable explanation they don't ask too many questions.
Right. Because you want someone else to pay for your usage instead. That's what happens with water, free roads etc. The light users or non users pay for the freeloaders.
Umm... who are these "light" users of water and roads? These are basic necessities that everyone pretty much uses equally (even if you don't drive, public transportation uses the same roads, or you ride your bike along the road, etc.) The GP is saying that internet access is becoming like a utility, and utilities are best run when regulated.
When did kids get so freaking stupid and gullible as to believe these predators? My parents taught me not to 'talk to strangers', etc. Heck, they let me know where the gun at home was in case when I was there alone and felt threatened. Did ever touch it but once? No....but, one time alone, some haggard guy wouldn't get off the front porch asking for water, etc. I didn't let him in...and I watch through the window and peephole, with the gun in my hand locked and loaded till he left.
Ok, not trying to flamebait here, but seriously what are your parents smoking? How old were you when they told you about this gun? How do they know you weren't going to show off to your friends while they were gone, and then accidentally blow one of them away, or yourself for that matter. If we're talking about parental responsibilities in this discussion, your parents showed absolutely no responsibility in allowing you access to firearms.
So... when are they gonna sue Sony et al for producing those wonderful boom boxes with tape decks from the early 90s? I mean, practically the same concept here.
I can just see the windows update icon popping up every few days on my windows XP machine.
The following updates are available:
[ ] Windows Vista
Please click the upgrade button to download and have your credit card ready.
Sorry, I realize my comment sounds a bit silly, but my point is that myspace gets bad press for people abusing the system. Its just like how bit torrent gets bad press for helping people download movies/music/apps/whatever. I just feel it gets treated a bit unfairly because some of the user base prefers to abuse the system.
Perhaps they shouldn't, but I doubt that good ol' Tom really thought how how far people would customize, how popular myspace would get. However, the fact is that myspace allows people to customize, and it is your choice to go to that page. Geocities has a lot of horrid pages on it, yet you don't hear nearly as much crap about geocities as you do myspace. Both services offer modest web pages for novice users, its just that myspace links them together as a network.
I agree with a previous poster that if myspace got an overhaul it would break a lot of people's pages, but I don't think it would create a mass migration to facebook or something. If people still have their myspace friends lists in order, they'll just suck it up and start over.
It's called a generation gap. I am in my 20's and admittedly use myspace. I think its a good tool for keeping in touch with old friends or getting back in touch with people you went to high school with. It is buggy, but it does a fairly decent job of sorting out those accounts so that you can find people in your school, company, or whatever. There are a lot of communication tools, like pagers in high school, cell phones in college, and even internet forums (like slashdot) that the younger crowd use and consider essential, but the older crowd takes a while to understand.
Yes, some of the sites on myspace are crap, but thats totally up to the user. The default white myspace page loads pretty quickly. Myspace hosts the content, they can't control what the pages look like. I have friends who have horrible pages, and I tell them that. But its up to them to host whatever content they want, and up to me to decide to view it.
I don't want to sound like a myspace fanboy, but I think it gets a lot of unneeded bad press because of things like child stalkers and bad page design. While these things suck, they happen because people exploit and abuse the system. Let's face it, myspace is still new and immature, but will probably get better and more polished given time and money.
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How much is a Big Mac? $10.00??? Is the damn clamshell box gold plated????
Personally, if you claim to have a comp sci degree, then you should have at least moderate to expert knowledge of at least one major, industry-used programming language when you graduate. It should be enough to get you through the door at some company. Then, after you get your feet wet, make the case that it would be beneficial to the company to send you to Sun J2EE training where you can get the expensive certs for free.
I see these Sun certs as a way of keeping up to date on the most recent technology being used, and not as a full-fledged education that will land you a job after you are done.
There's a couple thousand miles of open wilderness along the US-canadian border. You don't think it would be easy to put troops in this country if canada were to turn a hostile nation?
As an aside, why is it that instead of making a valid counterpoint to my statement, you just call me an idiot? I guess it's just an insight into your intelligence.
I'm hopelessly cynical of the current (and past) administrations. I agree that the citizens of the United States would want to do the right thing, but that doesn't mean that the government will.
No, the US would protect Canada from other potential invaders because if the invaders took over Canada, the only thing between the US and said foreign invader would be the largest non-militarized border in the world. There's no way in hell the US would tolerate anyone other than Canada to be north of use because invasion of the US would be a cakewalk.
You don't think the US would expend expensive military resources purely to do "the right thing," do you?
I would say a good way to handle this would be for the registrar to go contact said porn site and say "hey, you currently own www.wankfest2007.com, we can give you first dibs at www.wankfest2007.xxx if you give up the .com domain name."
If the automakers (American and foreign) really wanted to produce electricity powered vehicles, they can. GM proved his with the EV1. See wikipedia article on the documentary.. The fact is that the oil companies lobby both the auto companies and government to kill anything that might reduce their profits. We won't seriously be getting into electric cars until the oil derricks start making gurgling sounds and oil prices really skyrocket.