The fact that music sales are declining is the reason the RIAA uses to "back" their egregious policies. I fail to see how furthering their point helps to solve anyone's problems.
[...] those quick on the draw with calculators will discover that, on average, the typical Windows developer has produced one thousand new lines of shipped code per year during Vista. Only a thousand lines a year.
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Lest those of you who wrote 5,000 lines of code last weekend pass a kidney stone at the thought of Windows developers writing only a thousand lines of code a year, realize that the average software developer in the US only produces around (brace yourself) 6200 lines a year. So Windows is in bad shape - but only by a constant, not by an order of magnitude.
The Windows developers coded 1000 lines per year, on average, but that number includes ALL Windows developers, even those who have not actually contributed to Vista.
The summary at the top of this article smacks of third-grade-level reading comprehension.
I didn't say I was boycotting Nike, nor did I say that all western companies should stop using sweatshops. What would be nice is if these sweatshops got some standards and treated their workers like human beings. I agree with you; putting them out of work would make them worse off than they already are. I just think your particular logic is ridiculous. "They don't know any better so we don't need to help them" doesn't make sense to me.
Also, I don't happen to own any Nike products, but that's only because I think they're too expensive. =)
I suppose this type of ignorance should be expected here, but come on. Are you serious?
So just because kids whose parents are abusive don't know a life outside of what they are exposed to means that we shouldn't attempt to help these children? Just because you do something one way means that there is no possible way that there is a better way to accomplish the same task? Just because people in poorer countries don't know what it's like to have a full stomach after a meal means that we shouldn't try to assuage world hunger?
Your viewpoint disgusts me, but who am I to call you out on it?
Are you implying that citizens of a nation can "have" any government they want at the snap of a finger?
Get real, bud. You didn't choose whatever democratic nation you were born into, and those who are born into totalitarian states have no choice but to obey their ruler.
You can rant and rave about how bad this or that type of government is, but a so-called "regime change" is a little harder to implement.
When you hover over the stock, an X appears to the right of the stock name so that you may remove it from the list. However, when your mouse gets over the X, there's nothing to click. I noticed this when the site was available weeks ago; I'm surprised they haven't fixed such simple UI flaw.
I just figured it out. It was the Google Suggest Greasemonkey script.
That script didn't even work on the google.com/ig page from the get-go; I had forgotten that it was still installed.
Problem solved by disabling the the page (used http*://*google.com/ig*) from the script.
Also, the dhtml sliding options pane on the left is nifty, but I can't help but think that it's going overboard a little bit.
For some reason, I couldn't get the new http://google.com/ig to work in Firefox. I'm using 1.0.6, and it didn't work on both OS X 10.4.2 and Win XP Pro.
I could open the sidebar and the drop down menus, but whenever I clicked the button to add content, the sidebar goes away without adding the content to my page.
I had to use IE to add new content this morning. I have been using Google's portal in Firefox since it debuted without a hitch until this morning.
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The fact that music sales are declining is the reason the RIAA uses to "back" their egregious policies. I fail to see how furthering their point helps to solve anyone's problems.
It wasn't very apparent, but this was paraphrased from Fight Club, the film. It's not real, unless Tyler Durden is your God.
From TFA:
The Windows developers coded 1000 lines per year, on average, but that number includes ALL Windows developers, even those who have not actually contributed to Vista.
The summary at the top of this article smacks of third-grade-level reading comprehension.
If you use a mobile phone in the US, this is already the case. Mobile phone calls are already twice paid for by the caller and the receiver.
I didn't say I was boycotting Nike, nor did I say that all western companies should stop using sweatshops. What would be nice is if these sweatshops got some standards and treated their workers like human beings. I agree with you; putting them out of work would make them worse off than they already are. I just think your particular logic is ridiculous. "They don't know any better so we don't need to help them" doesn't make sense to me.
Also, I don't happen to own any Nike products, but that's only because I think they're too expensive. =)
I suppose this type of ignorance should be expected here, but come on. Are you serious?
So just because kids whose parents are abusive don't know a life outside of what they are exposed to means that we shouldn't attempt to help these children? Just because you do something one way means that there is no possible way that there is a better way to accomplish the same task? Just because people in poorer countries don't know what it's like to have a full stomach after a meal means that we shouldn't try to assuage world hunger?
Your viewpoint disgusts me, but who am I to call you out on it?
Awesome! I get trolled and the post that I thought should be funny gets modded up!
Wahoo!
I got your South Park reference, but I guess Slashdot doesn't stoop to humor that low.
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Also, Soulseex. It's nothing more than a decent UI for the Soulseek network on OS X, but I love it.
Are you implying that citizens of a nation can "have" any government they want at the snap of a finger?
Get real, bud. You didn't choose whatever democratic nation you were born into, and those who are born into totalitarian states have no choice but to obey their ruler.
You can rant and rave about how bad this or that type of government is, but a so-called "regime change" is a little harder to implement.
When you hover over the stock, an X appears to the right of the stock name so that you may remove it from the list. However, when your mouse gets over the X, there's nothing to click. I noticed this when the site was available weeks ago; I'm surprised they haven't fixed such simple UI flaw.
My problem was a Greasemonkey script that was affecting the google.com/ig site.
If you are using Greasemonkey, exclude http*://*google.com/ig* from your scripts and it should solve the problem.
I just figured it out. It was the Google Suggest Greasemonkey script. That script didn't even work on the google.com/ig page from the get-go; I had forgotten that it was still installed. Problem solved by disabling the the page (used http*://*google.com/ig*) from the script.
Also, the dhtml sliding options pane on the left is nifty, but I can't help but think that it's going overboard a little bit.
For some reason, I couldn't get the new http://google.com/ig to work in Firefox. I'm using 1.0.6, and it didn't work on both OS X 10.4.2 and Win XP Pro.
I could open the sidebar and the drop down menus, but whenever I clicked the button to add content, the sidebar goes away without adding the content to my page.
I had to use IE to add new content this morning. I have been using Google's portal in Firefox since it debuted without a hitch until this morning.