Fines have little effect on the destitute, they only hurt those who have money or plan to get it someday. A classic example of this is the 'McLibel' case in the UK. Unless you mean debtors prison, in which case we're adding yet one more reason to throw people in jail...On a related note, my neighbor's kid is in jail again after knocking up wife#2, his 4th baby so far. He has no education and no skills to speak of, fining someone like that is laughable.
I've personally had much better luck with manufacturers offering 5 year warranties on their media. This does not include either of the manufacturers you mentioned...
Parent is of course, completely correct. Last time the christ brigade rolled out in record numbers over gay marriage, sealing the 2004 election, and now the democrats are gearing up to do it all over again. Good f*ing job guys.
and for the record, I agree that this won't stand up in court, and the author probably knows this. It's politics, as they say. (ie. politics as in a ruse to get this idiot's name in the papers, proclaiming that he 'thought of the children', in hopes of winning some votes come election time.)
So I should base my recommendations on an OS they're likely never to install? I wouldn't recommend ATI for a linux box, but sometimes ATI is the best choice (ex. if you wanted an enthusiast level card with AGP support prior to 3/06)
And what if that 5% of the market were the deciding part - like... a friend asks a geek - which one to choose, NV or ATI? Is he not going to trust the geek?
Not since the 70's. All modern cars lock the steering column, you'd need to disable that in order to steer the car you just hotwired. Unless it has a chipped key, in which case you'd need to fool the ECU as well...but I digress.
In Ubuntu I think they've done an awesome job of hiding the CLI and providing a clean UI. Configuring printers, driver updates, installing common apps/plugins, all of this is scripted for you. However, like all abstractions, it leaks. If you have a quasi-supported ATI board, it leaks badly. At which point you need some understanding of how things actually work.
Hot wiring a car only requires the ability to recognize colors and connect some wires together. But people don't expect me to know how to do that in order for me to operate my vehicle.
It wouldn't surprise me if they did. Current diagnosis rates for autism are 1:150, with 75% of all cases affecting men. Since it is well known that slashdot has no female users, that places the rate of autistic users at 1:75. Once you factor in self-selection for technical professions you can comfortably double that rate to ~1:37. This is indirectly verifiable by a number of studies showing more than double the average rate of incidence among children of engineers. Since this is a spectrum disorder, just because you have it doesn't mean you can't date or become vp of marketing, it just means your brain isn't hard-wired to detect social cues, it's hard-wired to remember crontab arguments.
Most people on Slashdot do not have Apserger's. What they have is a nice scapegoat for their own social awkwardness.
Mod parent up, Notes is a cross-platform app server that happens to have a email server + calendar embedded in it. Exchange is email + a calendar. Too bad the (Notes) UI is such a piece of crap.
Those who think Postfix is a suitable replacement for Exchange don't understand the power of Exchange. Those who think Exchange is a suitable replacement for Notes don't understand the power of Notes.
I guess you haven't tried Gothic III then. It's a hard game, players tend to die frequently, that doesn't bother me. What bothered me was getting to stare at the loading screen for another 3+ minutes every single time it happened.
I like Max Payne, but the frequent and long load times are just sucking the fun out of it. Start a level, get creamed in 10 seconds by some tough situation, then wait >45 sec to reload - repeat indefinitely - just isn't fun
Wow, I can just imagine the pain and suffering 5 months of home confinement with an electronic ankle bracelet will cause to MMOG players. Oh the humanity!
Instead of confining MMOG play, we should probably focus on confining MMOG players. * Note: I play WoW.
Such as in the dome lights of our governor's 8 hummers?
As extreme as this legislation is, I hope it goes through, as long as there are provisions so that incandescents can still be used under certain circumstances.
Not in the same sense. Manufacturers still produce VHS tape, stores still sell it, regardless of how many people worship at the altar of netflix and/or dvr. It may not be high quality, but it's simple and cheap.
On the other hand, I have a fun conversation piece in my office that's still 100% functional, but since no manufacturers have produced double-density floppies in over 20 years, it's really only useful as a doorstop or for weight training.
Well, the official death of something is long after the general public stops dealing with it. Look at VHS. That's been "dead" for years, but it's still kicking.
Perhaps not enough people who downloaded 'Glitter' liked it enough to go and buy the dvd?
Torrent download sites are generally well organised and the vast majority of movie rips are fairly good quality. If I really like the movie I generally go and buy the dvd, because the quality is better - and I hardly ever go to the cinema.
Kind of how the only single mascot anyone can associate with Xbox is Master Chief? But I digress. I fully disagree. Mario games have been, and continue to be, some of the most fun games I've played. To do away with them... Well, THAT would likely be the end of Nintendo. You could just as easily get rid of Mario as you could change "Nintendo" to something different. It just doesn't work.
I declare jihaad on Sony until they give us a fishing controller and a pair of maraccas for the PS3. After their massacre of the DC it is ours by right of sharia law.
Hey! Don't insult the Dreamcast! Not only it had many more launch titles (18) than the PS3 (5), it had far BETTER ones too... the PS3 has nothing revolutionary like Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur were back in 99.
Now now, even assuming 360k floppies you'd only need 6400 or so. Which would be tricky enough, since nobody has pressed any of those in the last 15 years. Now if I could just figure out how to install these newfangled mpeg4 codecs on my IBM XT...
someone please post the projected cost for the 15,000 floppy discs the parent poster will need to store this movie
One critical point here. An elephant gun does not traditionally fire armor piercing rounds, it fires large caliber lead slugs. Great for stopping elephants, not so great for piercing armor. I rather suspect $5 worth of FMJ ammo > stormtrooper steve.
I want to say that the rifle (an elephant gun or not) was fired straight into the chest plate. The joints might not be so well armored (and in the 40 pounds version, they are not even be protected).
This would be like finding out that Ford refuses to sell me a part for the 1998 model Ford car I own...which has already happened to me. Fortunately I was able to find a used replacement at wrecker.
Whether it's Ford or Microsoft, it boils down to the same thing...planned obsolescence.
This would be like someone finding out that the 2000 model Ford cars speedometer malfunctions once the year hits 2007, and Ford refusing to provide a simple fix that keeps the speedometer functioning.
Actually, I'd say Flash does a damn fine job in it's more recent editions. You do need a plug-in, but there's been good support for all of the major operating systems for some time now. Since you are working through a plug-in, there is a lot less to worry about when it comes to the different browsers. They all work exactly the same, and provide a far richer GUI than anything you'll get out of HTML/CSS.
As someone who has worked with DHMTL/client XML requests in the past, differences in browser support can be positively nightmarish. Only a subset of CSS/Javascript is supported across all the major browsers, and if you want more than that you'll end up writing or licensing reams of custom javascript to sniff browsers and use the hack that happens to work on that particular OS/browser rev. Active X is obviously not cross platform. Java applets are, but you'll be limited to Java 1.0/AWT if you want to support every browser. Between that and the sandbox issues, it's a non-starter for most of us.
Things like Flash, JavaApplets, Active X are good examples of a bad attempt to make the web more application like, because they all require either special browsers, 3rd party plugins from companies who own the rights to it and they are in a binary format which for many cases makes the application a lot bigger and more bandwidth. JavaScript with AJAX method actually really allows Web Based applications to work well and be used by people wether they are running Linux, OS X, Windows, FreeBSD or almost any other Operating System.
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Fines have little effect on the destitute, they only hurt those who have money or plan to get it someday. A classic example of this is the 'McLibel' case in the UK. Unless you mean debtors prison, in which case we're adding yet one more reason to throw people in jail...On a related note, my neighbor's kid is in jail again after knocking up wife#2, his 4th baby so far. He has no education and no skills to speak of, fining someone like that is laughable.
I've personally had much better luck with manufacturers offering 5 year warranties on their media. This does not include either of the manufacturers you mentioned...
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Parent is of course, completely correct. Last time the christ brigade rolled out in record numbers over gay marriage, sealing the 2004 election, and now the democrats are gearing up to do it all over again. Good f*ing job guys.
and for the record, I agree that this won't stand up in court, and the author probably knows this. It's politics, as they say. (ie. politics as in a ruse to get this idiot's name in the papers, proclaiming that he 'thought of the children', in hopes of winning some votes come election time.)
RENEW, RENEW!
In Ubuntu I think they've done an awesome job of hiding the CLI and providing a clean UI. Configuring printers, driver updates, installing common apps/plugins, all of this is scripted for you. However, like all abstractions, it leaks. If you have a quasi-supported ATI board, it leaks badly. At which point you need some understanding of how things actually work.
"Blue wizard needs dew badly"
On the other hand, I have a fun conversation piece in my office that's still 100% functional, but since no manufacturers have produced double-density floppies in over 20 years, it's really only useful as a doorstop or for weight training.
Clippy's Extreme Grammar Correction,
What about Bob?
and Steve Ballmer's Chair-Fu
(bundled with the chairmote, the revolutionary wireless motion sensitive chair)
Whether it's Ford or Microsoft, it boils down to the same thing...planned obsolescence.
As someone who has worked with DHMTL/client XML requests in the past, differences in browser support can be positively nightmarish. Only a subset of CSS/Javascript is supported across all the major browsers, and if you want more than that you'll end up writing or licensing reams of custom javascript to sniff browsers and use the hack that happens to work on that particular OS/browser rev. Active X is obviously not cross platform. Java applets are, but you'll be limited to Java 1.0/AWT if you want to support every browser. Between that and the sandbox issues, it's a non-starter for most of us.