...there is going to be a broadband ISP worse than Comcast. I only wonder why they are expanding the test to larger markets where they don't have significant competition from other ISPs
Dead Like Me blew. It had everything going for it (good actors, good premise, the writers did a decent job of setting up a lot of interesting conflicts for the future, etc) and they just sat there and did nothing with any of the really interesting things they had.
...people should read The Real Thing by Carolyn Ives Gilman. That story has kept me up more than a few nights, and stuff like this just make me feel like we are edging closer and closer to that horrid hell she describes.
Starter was meant to run on lower-spec machines than the full version. The 3-app limit was meant as much as a measure to ensure performance (by not bogging the system down) as it was as an actual marketing technique to make other versions of Windows more populer. Starter is probably going to end up in netbooks (cheap low-spec laptops) worldwide.
Re:The news item is rather subjective though.
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I thought colleges bought subscriptions for their students, not just promoted it.
They already do that. They just charge you more upfront if you buy the one that comes with the key for Ultimate than the one that comes with the key for Home (w/e). If you want to upgrade you just give them more money, and bam, you get upgraded.
I didn't misunderstand the plot. The GORT-killer EMP was something they only thought to use to stop GORT. Plus, it wasn't save the Earth from man's wicked ways, it was can man change, and then if no, save the Earth from man's wicked ways. We have no idea what Klaatu would have done if that Chinese guy hadn't told GORT that humanity couldn't change. Klaatu's actions show either an amazing display of functional fixedness or a belief that if humanity can't change, then taking away it's technology now would be useless because when we manage to regain it we would still be as destructive as when he arrived.
Damnit, I say we get a fund going on the off chance that this guy isn't a scammer, because what he is threatening is worse than losing a million bucks.
I'll agree that the first one sucked bad (although the majority of that was in the second half of the film, which seemed more like a hastily cobbled together amalgam of things instead of, you know, a well thought out progression), but in this one making the Earth "stand still" was more a side effect of what it took to stop Gort, it wasn't the intent of the alien's to deprive Earth of modern technology.
If you honestly want that, you can get the four disc collectors edition off of Amazon for $23, which has every cut save for the workprint cut. Don't take this as a flamepost, but can I ask how you feel the narration helped? I was more than able to follow what was happening without the narration.
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So should those who knowingly let them get away with it.
...there is going to be a broadband ISP worse than Comcast. I only wonder why they are expanding the test to larger markets where they don't have significant competition from other ISPs
Dead Like Me blew. It had everything going for it (good actors, good premise, the writers did a decent job of setting up a lot of interesting conflicts for the future, etc) and they just sat there and did nothing with any of the really interesting things they had.
You can tell amazon not to use an item you have already purchased to suggest other items.
...Microsoft already had augmented reality tech running on everything? Seems to be the only explanation for about 1/2 of everything they do/
...people should read The Real Thing by Carolyn Ives Gilman. That story has kept me up more than a few nights, and stuff like this just make me feel like we are edging closer and closer to that horrid hell she describes.
Or, in other words, is essentially useless.
Can I get a link to where you are getting that number for the conviction rate in the US?
Starter was meant to run on lower-spec machines than the full version. The 3-app limit was meant as much as a measure to ensure performance (by not bogging the system down) as it was as an actual marketing technique to make other versions of Windows more populer. Starter is probably going to end up in netbooks (cheap low-spec laptops) worldwide.
I thought colleges bought subscriptions for their students, not just promoted it.
If by incapable of learning, you mean severely mentally (and morally) handicapped, then yes.
Can I ask why that is such a big deal when you can just upgrade from within the OS?
Until she figures out what happens when you put a period at the start of a files name.
...it should have come out as the sound of a million panes of glass breaking.
They already do that. They just charge you more upfront if you buy the one that comes with the key for Ultimate than the one that comes with the key for Home (w/e). If you want to upgrade you just give them more money, and bam, you get upgraded.
Well, glad to know that they are willing to help Linux-based OSs on Netbooks.
2012! Supercomputer! It's Skynet! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Never heard of an NDA, have you?
...describes the executives at the company.
ISPs are not common carriers. ISPs are not common carriers. ISPs are not common carriers.
Everyone who thought the opposite please repeat that. The "ISP common carrier" meme needs to die.
I didn't misunderstand the plot. The GORT-killer EMP was something they only thought to use to stop GORT. Plus, it wasn't save the Earth from man's wicked ways, it was can man change, and then if no, save the Earth from man's wicked ways. We have no idea what Klaatu would have done if that Chinese guy hadn't told GORT that humanity couldn't change. Klaatu's actions show either an amazing display of functional fixedness or a belief that if humanity can't change, then taking away it's technology now would be useless because when we manage to regain it we would still be as destructive as when he arrived.
Damnit, I say we get a fund going on the off chance that this guy isn't a scammer, because what he is threatening is worse than losing a million bucks.
Not first, remake. Sorry, that is what I get for not using the preview button.
I'll agree that the first one sucked bad (although the majority of that was in the second half of the film, which seemed more like a hastily cobbled together amalgam of things instead of, you know, a well thought out progression), but in this one making the Earth "stand still" was more a side effect of what it took to stop Gort, it wasn't the intent of the alien's to deprive Earth of modern technology.
If you honestly want that, you can get the four disc collectors edition off of Amazon for $23, which has every cut save for the workprint cut. Don't take this as a flamepost, but can I ask how you feel the narration helped? I was more than able to follow what was happening without the narration.