And if I have a sound card that already does that? Will Vista delay it twice then? Going to sound pretty funny. I am also VERY impressed with Microsoft engineers figuring out a way to determine connecting cable length and placement of my speakers as well as where I am sitting from the OS. That is truly a feat of engineering. Most of the time you actually have to have some tuning device (a la Bose headsets) to accomplish this.
Sorry but I am more likely to believe they are recording activity than have managed to do the impossible. Maybe if there was someone to copy it from I would believe they did something that extraordinary.
Have you even read the articles on his executive orders here, the BBC anywhere?
How about the one where the government can now IN SECRET, presenting no evidence or holding no hearing or trial as GUARANTEED by the Constitution, seize your assets? How is that "protecting the constitution?"
Tell me how that sounds like this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Comparing the man for whom it is well known historians are planning to mark as the worst President in US history to Lincoln is a pretty far stretch. Perhaps you should get more sources than Fox News.
No, a man stands up for what he believes in and keeps his word. I seem to recall the President swears to uphold and defend this little document called the Constitution when he is sworn into office. Bush has taken a paper shredder to it.
To be a man is not to be afraid, to defend the weak and your ideals. Bush is the school bully who uses fear to get what he wants. American's should not be afraid, we should not cower and we should not give up the liberty that MEN like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin risked everything to win for us. Those were men, Bush is a coward and a bully who sells the beliefs and principles we fought so hard to gain for a bit of power.
Have you ever been to a High School that has one of those nosy people that wants to be in every bit of your business and can't stand it when you tell them to go away you want some privacy? Yeah... that is Bush if that same person was also the school bully who made you do what he wanted out of fear and intimidation and then runs to the principle to cry foul if he doesn't get what he wants. The guy who was so macho but under knew he was really weak and pathetic so he would not stand up to anyone unless 20 people where there to back him up against the one. A man stands up for himself no matter what.
Soldiers risk everything to defend what they believe in. The founding fathers of the US of A risked hanging and their homes to create this country and the rights people today so easily let go. Tell me one thing Bush has done that shows he is willing to risk ANYTHING so much as someone disagreeing with him?
A man as you say... would not use fear to control. He would not use fear to get his people to let him spy on them. He would not use fear and threats to intimidate people into doing what he wanted. A man does not do these things. Bush is a coward, a bully and an idiot that has violated his oath to the American people. Colin Powell was a man, and he would not sacrifice his own personal honor to give Bush credibility.
There is the problem... by saying "I took it to mean" you are making assumptions just as you are deriding at GP for doing. How do you KNOW that "active" for them doesn't mean "responded?"
Do they actually compare the HTML and count anything above a 95% similarity as one site? That is what they would have to do in order to be analyzing it as you assume they are. Anyone going to that trouble would, as GP suggested, provide some modicum of an explanation as to their methods if for no other reason than to say "See how cool we were?" and score geek points.
The only reason someone does not back up statistics and such, as has been pointed out here many many times, is they are meaningless if you actually say how little work went into obtaining them.
How many people a week win power ball? Only takes one. That is the point of this discussion, the odds and what they say should be vs what we have discovered thus far.
And it would not be much hassle for the bank to actually own up to their mistakes either but they don't. Why should I jump through hoops both to get them to help me AND now have it illegal for me to not jump through hoops to help them? At what point are they responsible for doing the right thing as well?
When corporations stop buying laws that screw me and turn me into a criminal just for using the things I bought and act like decent human beings, I might be inclined to treat them the same way. As long as all I am to them is a wallet and a number, guess what, they get screwed in my favor for once, yippie kiyay, I am sure as hell not going to "press 1 for blah" to try and give them their $10 back.
What do you want to bed these same banks who will put you on hold for 30 minutes and fill out 30 forms and wait a month just to fix one of their mistakes are going to suddenly find the personnel to staff a reporting line that picks up in under 5 minutes?
And what is their incentive to do so when you will buy it anyway? Why would they port it when everyone will just buy their game made for Vista subsidized by Microsoft?
A title made only for Vista and DirectX 10 needs to FLOP or at least struggle and then port and be successful before it will be a good business move. Guess who can help that happen? YOU.
Guess how you ensure the status quo continues? Do exactly what you are doing.
Want to make minor change? Write the company and say you would buy a Linux or Mac copy of their game.
You have got to be VERY young or very ignorant of history.
Read a non high school version of a US history book, you know, the ones where the civil war was about states rights not slavery little stuff like that.
Anonymous because you work for Microsoft? Academic Alliance implies you are a student which I find very hard to believe unless you are being very factious about loving UAC and DRM.
The point most people are trying to make is it was NOT an engineering marvel of its era. It is not very impressive from a design, engineering or cultural point of view. Much more impressive statues were constructed with technology that paled in comparison to what was available when this was made. The ONLY reason it is even on the list is it is on a hill which makes it stand out, and in a country of super-religious people who wanted it on the list.
But then how would the jesus freaks get their completely unimpressive statue onto the list? I mean cummon, look at when it was made and the construction techniques of the time. It is no where near a wonder of the world.
how about he reads when you do. iPhone is still in stock because they are being re-stocked daily. They have to my knowledge sold out daily. Why they did it that way who knows, screw ebayers? If so bravo.
maybe you should talk to microsoft about their 32 bit app support? it is the extra DRM in 64 bit MS OSs that trip up compatibility. Proper 64 bit os like Linux does not have this issue.
Really? Because most of the QA, Web Development, Vulnerability Signatures... hell 2/3 of engineering at my company that have given up on Windows and gone to Macs (another 1/4 use Linux) seem to be paid pretty well, at least from the cars outside the building. Maybe if you stopped smoking pot in your mom's basement long enough to get a real tech job you might see people are over windows in silicon valley, they want something that WORKS.
I am SOOOO tired of this being over used. The first amendment as much as I and many like you may wish otherwise ONLY applies to public places. Period, end of story. A private stadium holding a private game (yes it is private because you must buy a ticket to attend and it is NOT government land) invalidates any form of first amendment rights.
If you start mouthing off in my home or broadcasting my eating dinner I have EVERY right to kick you out of my house. In some states I have the right to do so physically and not just metaphorically. Same rule applies. He walked into their PRIVATE property thus giving up any first amendment protection.
Like it or no that is what the constitution protects and all it protects. Public areas as defined by government/state owned property.
That may be... but from what I can see it has the functionality I WANT. I don't care what a windows mobile phone can do I have yet to see one that behaves in a way -I WANT IT TO- which the demo of an iPhone I saw does. This has always been Microsoft's failing, trying to get me to do things their way instead of listening to how I wanted to do it. Sorry Bill, but while Apple may have less features, they have the ones I want and use which is all I care about.
I was instructed by apple care that it would be fixed faster if I picked it up from the busy store and shuttled it to a different one near by (live in the bay area near apple so stores are everywhere) and was told the same week time estimate... that is when we moved on to the 24 hour on site tech who took a week to get parts from apple to show up.
Actually I did take it in... with an apointment... waited nearly half an hour AFTER the apointment time when I was there five minutes early. After driving all the way down there ON MY WORK TIME I was told they had the parts on hand but even with pro-care it was going to take 5-7 days. I then called for on-site repair which was supposedly 24 hours... they had to ship them parts and it took a WEEK. They could not give them the parts the store had? Just bad business and poor communication which is thier problem, not mine.
End result... my department cannot buy any more Macs until they offer enterprise support, we simply cannot afford the down time.
Apple service is HORRID in reparing machines. They have nothing worthy of a respectable computer shop standards of service and repair let alone enterprise. Even thier "pro care" left me without a machine for a week for twice the cost of Dell's 4 hour on site service.
Mind you I only use Macs at work and home... I am a HUGE fan... but thier service makes them a very poor choice for IT departments.
Look at the numbers in the article... online sales more than double but overall is down 4%. What should this be telling them? People WILL purchase music online, they are willing to pay and not pirate.
What else will it tell the **AA? It says people are fed up with thier practices and are starting to vote with their wallet. Revenue goes down they cannot possibly be at fault so it must be Steve Jobs. He did it! We did not make any bad decitions we are doing what our customers want and protecting our artists.
Well... the reality is Jobs is selling the music because he is comming closer than anyone to what customers ACTUALLY want. Online sales more than doubled and who caused that? Also of note is that they never said CD sales are down... only that revenue is down. Expenses such as suing so many people might drain revenue no?
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This American happens to be a fan of that show... what few episodes trickle our way.
And if I have a sound card that already does that? Will Vista delay it twice then? Going to sound pretty funny. I am also VERY impressed with Microsoft engineers figuring out a way to determine connecting cable length and placement of my speakers as well as where I am sitting from the OS. That is truly a feat of engineering. Most of the time you actually have to have some tuning device (a la Bose headsets) to accomplish this.
Sorry but I am more likely to believe they are recording activity than have managed to do the impossible. Maybe if there was someone to copy it from I would believe they did something that extraordinary.
Have you even read the articles on his executive orders here, the BBC anywhere?
How about the one where the government can now IN SECRET, presenting no evidence or holding no hearing or trial as GUARANTEED by the Constitution, seize your assets? How is that "protecting the constitution?"
Tell me how that sounds like this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Comparing the man for whom it is well known historians are planning to mark as the worst President in US history to Lincoln is a pretty far stretch. Perhaps you should get more sources than Fox News.
No, a man stands up for what he believes in and keeps his word. I seem to recall the President swears to uphold and defend this little document called the Constitution when he is sworn into office. Bush has taken a paper shredder to it.
To be a man is not to be afraid, to defend the weak and your ideals. Bush is the school bully who uses fear to get what he wants. American's should not be afraid, we should not cower and we should not give up the liberty that MEN like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin risked everything to win for us. Those were men, Bush is a coward and a bully who sells the beliefs and principles we fought so hard to gain for a bit of power.
Have you ever been to a High School that has one of those nosy people that wants to be in every bit of your business and can't stand it when you tell them to go away you want some privacy? Yeah... that is Bush if that same person was also the school bully who made you do what he wanted out of fear and intimidation and then runs to the principle to cry foul if he doesn't get what he wants. The guy who was so macho but under knew he was really weak and pathetic so he would not stand up to anyone unless 20 people where there to back him up against the one. A man stands up for himself no matter what.
Soldiers risk everything to defend what they believe in. The founding fathers of the US of A risked hanging and their homes to create this country and the rights people today so easily let go. Tell me one thing Bush has done that shows he is willing to risk ANYTHING so much as someone disagreeing with him?
A man as you say... would not use fear to control. He would not use fear to get his people to let him spy on them. He would not use fear and threats to intimidate people into doing what he wanted. A man does not do these things. Bush is a coward, a bully and an idiot that has violated his oath to the American people. Colin Powell was a man, and he would not sacrifice his own personal honor to give Bush credibility.
Not all that useful? Have you ever tried to write a backup or sync script without it?
There is the problem... by saying "I took it to mean" you are making assumptions just as you are deriding at GP for doing. How do you KNOW that "active" for them doesn't mean "responded?"
Do they actually compare the HTML and count anything above a 95% similarity as one site? That is what they would have to do in order to be analyzing it as you assume they are. Anyone going to that trouble would, as GP suggested, provide some modicum of an explanation as to their methods if for no other reason than to say "See how cool we were?" and score geek points.
The only reason someone does not back up statistics and such, as has been pointed out here many many times, is they are meaningless if you actually say how little work went into obtaining them.
How many people a week win power ball? Only takes one. That is the point of this discussion, the odds and what they say should be vs what we have discovered thus far.
And it would not be much hassle for the bank to actually own up to their mistakes either but they don't. Why should I jump through hoops both to get them to help me AND now have it illegal for me to not jump through hoops to help them? At what point are they responsible for doing the right thing as well?
When corporations stop buying laws that screw me and turn me into a criminal just for using the things I bought and act like decent human beings, I might be inclined to treat them the same way. As long as all I am to them is a wallet and a number, guess what, they get screwed in my favor for once, yippie kiyay, I am sure as hell not going to "press 1 for blah" to try and give them their $10 back.
What do you want to bed these same banks who will put you on hold for 30 minutes and fill out 30 forms and wait a month just to fix one of their mistakes are going to suddenly find the personnel to staff a reporting line that picks up in under 5 minutes?
And what is their incentive to do so when you will buy it anyway? Why would they port it when everyone will just buy their game made for Vista subsidized by Microsoft?
A title made only for Vista and DirectX 10 needs to FLOP or at least struggle and then port and be successful before it will be a good business move. Guess who can help that happen? YOU.
Guess how you ensure the status quo continues? Do exactly what you are doing.
Want to make minor change? Write the company and say you would buy a Linux or Mac copy of their game.
I wish we had that option in the US. I would probably watch TV again if I could get it without commercials.
You have got to be VERY young or very ignorant of history. Read a non high school version of a US history book, you know, the ones where the civil war was about states rights not slavery little stuff like that.
Anonymous because you work for Microsoft? Academic Alliance implies you are a student which I find very hard to believe unless you are being very factious about loving UAC and DRM.
The point most people are trying to make is it was NOT an engineering marvel of its era. It is not very impressive from a design, engineering or cultural point of view. Much more impressive statues were constructed with technology that paled in comparison to what was available when this was made. The ONLY reason it is even on the list is it is on a hill which makes it stand out, and in a country of super-religious people who wanted it on the list.
But then how would the jesus freaks get their completely unimpressive statue onto the list? I mean cummon, look at when it was made and the construction techniques of the time. It is no where near a wonder of the world.
how about he reads when you do. iPhone is still in stock because they are being re-stocked daily. They have to my knowledge sold out daily. Why they did it that way who knows, screw ebayers? If so bravo.
maybe you should talk to microsoft about their 32 bit app support?
it is the extra DRM in 64 bit MS OSs that trip up compatibility. Proper 64 bit os like Linux does not have this issue.
Really? Because most of the QA, Web Development, Vulnerability Signatures... hell 2/3 of engineering at my company that have given up on Windows and gone to Macs (another 1/4 use Linux) seem to be paid pretty well, at least from the cars outside the building. Maybe if you stopped smoking pot in your mom's basement long enough to get a real tech job you might see people are over windows in silicon valley, they want something that WORKS.
I am SOOOO tired of this being over used. The first amendment as much as I and many like you may wish otherwise ONLY applies to public places. Period, end of story. A private stadium holding a private game (yes it is private because you must buy a ticket to attend and it is NOT government land) invalidates any form of first amendment rights.
If you start mouthing off in my home or broadcasting my eating dinner I have EVERY right to kick you out of my house. In some states I have the right to do so physically and not just metaphorically. Same rule applies. He walked into their PRIVATE property thus giving up any first amendment protection.
Like it or no that is what the constitution protects and all it protects. Public areas as defined by government/state owned property.
That may be... but from what I can see it has the functionality I WANT. I don't care what a windows mobile phone can do I have yet to see one that behaves in a way -I WANT IT TO- which the demo of an iPhone I saw does. This has always been Microsoft's failing, trying to get me to do things their way instead of listening to how I wanted to do it. Sorry Bill, but while Apple may have less features, they have the ones I want and use which is all I care about.
I was instructed by apple care that it would be fixed faster if I picked it up from the busy store and shuttled it to a different one near by (live in the bay area near apple so stores are everywhere) and was told the same week time estimate... that is when we moved on to the 24 hour on site tech who took a week to get parts from apple to show up.
Actually I did take it in... with an apointment... waited nearly half an hour AFTER the apointment time when I was there five minutes early. After driving all the way down there ON MY WORK TIME I was told they had the parts on hand but even with pro-care it was going to take 5-7 days. I then called for on-site repair which was supposedly 24 hours... they had to ship them parts and it took a WEEK. They could not give them the parts the store had? Just bad business and poor communication which is thier problem, not mine.
End result... my department cannot buy any more Macs until they offer enterprise support, we simply cannot afford the down time.
Apple service is HORRID in reparing machines. They have nothing worthy of a respectable computer shop standards of service and repair let alone enterprise. Even thier "pro care" left me without a machine for a week for twice the cost of Dell's 4 hour on site service.
Mind you I only use Macs at work and home... I am a HUGE fan... but thier service makes them a very poor choice for IT departments.
Look at the numbers in the article... online sales more than double but overall is down 4%. What should this be telling them? People WILL purchase music online, they are willing to pay and not pirate.
What else will it tell the **AA? It says people are fed up with thier practices and are starting to vote with their wallet. Revenue goes down they cannot possibly be at fault so it must be Steve Jobs. He did it! We did not make any bad decitions we are doing what our customers want and protecting our artists.
Well... the reality is Jobs is selling the music because he is comming closer than anyone to what customers ACTUALLY want. Online sales more than doubled and who caused that? Also of note is that they never said CD sales are down... only that revenue is down. Expenses such as suing so many people might drain revenue no?
Unfortunatly... and I looked at this in hopes of proving parent wrong... their stock does not show a downward trend. http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=MSFT
If I had mod points I would mod you funny in the sheer hope that was your intention.