Well, your math says there's about a 22.7% chance that the US "helped." I'm not really sure what you're getting at, and I'm not really sure why the US would cut undersea cables to a non-island nation, since they can just route traffic over land. Sure losing 5 cables like that is a bad thing, but you have to be a fool to believe that those billions of people accross Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia don't have any kind of redundancy set up.
So... Is this what George wants the $200 billion for? Maybe they should be buying our troops some body armor right now instead of building video games.
RTFA bud, the whole point of the article it to show how various trains could replace pondhoppers & other short flights. For example, one proposed train route is from Anaheim to Las Vegas in 90 minutes, another moves passengers from an airport 25 miles to downtown in about 10 minutes. The article isn't about long-haul rail.
You do know that they could field a military the size of the population of our entire country, right? I mean, if they wanted to they could come and take the 200,000,000,000.00...
It would be nice to be able to pay for the services I use instead of having to pay for 150 channels when I only watch 15.
While I agree, I tend to think that they would put much higher price tags on the more popular channels, effectively costing me the same amount or more for the same channels that I use now.
Thank you for mentioning this. I *hate* GIMP's UI. It's evil that it fills up my taskbar completely with buttons for every damn toolbar, and it's a bitch to find anything when half your toolbars manage to hide themselves behind another window.
The punishment is not actually $250,000 and 10 years in prison. What they meant to say was a $250,000 cell phone bill and 10 years on hold with Tech Support.
It's something they started doing 3 or 4 months ago
No, it's not. DirecWay has always done this, except the cap used to be lower than 375MB. They make it fairly clear when you sign up that this is the case. Besides, 375MB/day is not unreasonably low for the average home user. Granted, video on the web will probably force this cap to be set a bit higher.
you vote for someone based on their eyes and expressions?
Oh, certainly we do. This person will have to represent our interestes to the leaders of the world. The last thing we want is for the rest of the world to see a dishonest or disabled leader running our country. Why do you think FDR never let people see him in a wheelchair?
as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%
Yeah, but don't you think w3schools would be a bit biased? W3schools is a site full of tutorials and information for developers. Developers tend to prefer FireFox due to its robust plugin system and some of the excellent plugins for that system (Firebug, Web Tools, etc.) so I'm not surprised that FireFox has a higher rate of use on such a site. In fact, I am surprised that it's not higher!
While Google has #1 covered, #2 is still restricted by them as you do not have any idea how they are picking your results, nor what they are doing with your search terms (citation needed for the AOL Leak...)
Yes, let us not consider it because we have no reason to assume the plaintiff has been following the iPod issues for years.
Oh, but I believe we do. You see, the iPhone has been out for about a month. Nobody's battery has died due to normal usage yet. Therefore, the plaintiff must be basing his argument on a past example -- the only one known is the iPod. It certainly can't be proven that the battery will die once per year, by the way.
I'd also like to point out that if not having a user servicable battery is grounds for a lawsuit, shouldn't every auto manufacturer be sued for making changing a headlight a non-serviceable function? Honestly, a battery change is far more dangerous than a headlight change, since batteries have shown a tendancy to start fires or even explode when not handled properly.
This really is a retarded lawsuit. Quit trying to dress it up, we all know Mr. Plaintiff is just trying to make a buck. These are the same kinds of people that sue McDonalds for making them fat.
Jeez you retard -- obviously it's spelled FUCKING not "fscking".
Oh and btw, Grammar Nazi? Hell yeah, I'm all about the white (background) power! Heil Spellcheck!
I know I, along with many others, have been entertained by pay-once games for months and months before. Diablo, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Battlefield, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 (not bf2142 due to spyware BS). I also have spent plenty of my time playing MMORPGs at $10-$15 a month, usually not more than one at a time though.
I think what a raise in game prices is going to meant to me is this: I will be much more picky about what kind of game I pick up. No more buying a game because the cover art is neat or just because it's in a series that I like. I wont buy a game anymore without a GOOD demo first. $50 is already breaking my balls for that kind of thing, no way I'm going to $60+.
I should also mention that N64 games ran $60-$70 back in the day, and the generic price point for games didn't really rise as a result then.
Are you suggesting that if a carrier came out with a lower price, people wouldn't flock to it because people are okay with the prices they pay to Cingular and Sprint?
You're probably about right, but the fact that there is enough of an RMT market for 6 million farming accounts suggests that this game certainly is a hot one. I personally have tried it and can't get into it, I'm sticking to EQ2, but my wife plays WoW and enjoys it. To each his (or her) own, I guess!
No kidding, and this is why Linux is not taking off -- The terrible attitude of the community towards any commercial product, the bitter attitude towards anyone who dares mention something they'd like to see in Linux, etc.
I get flamed for this kind of comment all the time, but really linux wont take off with general users until it is pretty, and its current community stops acting like the software most users are using now makes them into PC terrorists.
Seriously, MS has the lead on the operating system market, the Internet Browser market, and enough other markets that I'm not going to list them all. Deal with it. If you want your product to be used nearly as widely, try putting in the features the USERS want (not the developers), make it pretty, MARKET IT -- and I mean really spend some $$ marketing it. Do NOT sit there complaining about MS when you should be spending your time making your product better than yours. You don't see them sitting around bitching about OSS -- on the contrary, you see them working to improve and market their products even more.
Before you click reply, please remember that you can not explain away these issues and your time would be better spent making your products better, instead of trying to convince me otherwise.
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Well, your math says there's about a 22.7% chance that the US "helped." I'm not really sure what you're getting at, and I'm not really sure why the US would cut undersea cables to a non-island nation, since they can just route traffic over land. Sure losing 5 cables like that is a bad thing, but you have to be a fool to believe that those billions of people accross Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia don't have any kind of redundancy set up.
So... Is this what George wants the $200 billion for? Maybe they should be buying our troops some body armor right now instead of building video games.
I thought that too, but then we'd have to be ruled by a dictator. Oh wait, I almost forgot about King George....
RTFA bud, the whole point of the article it to show how various trains could replace pondhoppers & other short flights. For example, one proposed train route is from Anaheim to Las Vegas in 90 minutes, another moves passengers from an airport 25 miles to downtown in about 10 minutes. The article isn't about long-haul rail.
You do know that they could field a military the size of the population of our entire country, right? I mean, if they wanted to they could come and take the 200,000,000,000.00 ...
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While I agree, I tend to think that they would put much higher price tags on the more popular channels, effectively costing me the same amount or more for the same channels that I use now.
Thank you for mentioning this. I *hate* GIMP's UI. It's evil that it fills up my taskbar completely with buttons for every damn toolbar, and it's a bitch to find anything when half your toolbars manage to hide themselves behind another window.
The punishment is not actually $250,000 and 10 years in prison. What they meant to say was a $250,000 cell phone bill and 10 years on hold with Tech Support.
The GP said "Nuclear Energy". Nice spin of your own there, eh?
Yes, but what prophet are you fighting for...?
No, if I remember right, 2 is company, 3 is a crowd, which means 4 or more must be a party.
I assume you are excluding Hiroshima and Nagasaki from your "all of human history"
Oh, certainly we do. This person will have to represent our interestes to the leaders of the world. The last thing we want is for the rest of the world to see a dishonest or disabled leader running our country. Why do you think FDR never let people see him in a wheelchair?
Yeah, but don't you think w3schools would be a bit biased? W3schools is a site full of tutorials and information for developers. Developers tend to prefer FireFox due to its robust plugin system and some of the excellent plugins for that system (Firebug, Web Tools, etc.) so I'm not surprised that FireFox has a higher rate of use on such a site. In fact, I am surprised that it's not higher!
Did you just say we can't change history until sometime in the future?
There are two definitions to the term free...
You may have heard the metaphors here:
1. Free as in Beer.
2. Free as in Speech.
While Google has #1 covered, #2 is still restricted by them as you do not have any idea how they are picking your results, nor what they are doing with your search terms (citation needed for the AOL Leak...)
I'd also like to point out that if not having a user servicable battery is grounds for a lawsuit, shouldn't every auto manufacturer be sued for making changing a headlight a non-serviceable function? Honestly, a battery change is far more dangerous than a headlight change, since batteries have shown a tendancy to start fires or even explode when not handled properly.
This really is a retarded lawsuit. Quit trying to dress it up, we all know Mr. Plaintiff is just trying to make a buck. These are the same kinds of people that sue McDonalds for making them fat.
Jeez you retard -- obviously it's spelled FUCKING not "fscking". Oh and btw, Grammar Nazi? Hell yeah, I'm all about the white (background) power! Heil Spellcheck!
I know I, along with many others, have been entertained by pay-once games for months and months before. Diablo, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Battlefield, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 (not bf2142 due to spyware BS). I also have spent plenty of my time playing MMORPGs at $10-$15 a month, usually not more than one at a time though.
I think what a raise in game prices is going to meant to me is this: I will be much more picky about what kind of game I pick up. No more buying a game because the cover art is neat or just because it's in a series that I like. I wont buy a game anymore without a GOOD demo first. $50 is already breaking my balls for that kind of thing, no way I'm going to $60+.
I should also mention that N64 games ran $60-$70 back in the day, and the generic price point for games didn't really rise as a result then.
Thank you for tagging this no1cares.... now can we get back to the stuff that matters?
You're probably about right, but the fact that there is enough of an RMT market for 6 million farming accounts suggests that this game certainly is a hot one. I personally have tried it and can't get into it, I'm sticking to EQ2, but my wife plays WoW and enjoys it. To each his (or her) own, I guess!
No kidding, and this is why Linux is not taking off -- The terrible attitude of the community towards any commercial product, the bitter attitude towards anyone who dares mention something they'd like to see in Linux, etc.
I get flamed for this kind of comment all the time, but really linux wont take off with general users until it is pretty, and its current community stops acting like the software most users are using now makes them into PC terrorists.
Seriously, MS has the lead on the operating system market, the Internet Browser market, and enough other markets that I'm not going to list them all. Deal with it. If you want your product to be used nearly as widely, try putting in the features the USERS want (not the developers), make it pretty, MARKET IT -- and I mean really spend some $$ marketing it. Do NOT sit there complaining about MS when you should be spending your time making your product better than yours. You don't see them sitting around bitching about OSS -- on the contrary, you see them working to improve and market their products even more.
Before you click reply, please remember that you can not explain away these issues and your time would be better spent making your products better, instead of trying to convince me otherwise.