Except Will Wright has already made them millions upon millions with the sims and simcity. They aren't THAT stupid to tell the guy who basically prints them money what to do.
The price your paying to live there is based on those conditions, if you want to changes those conditions argue with the landlord before you sign the lease or buy your own land and build your own house.
They have the right to impose those conditions as long as they do so before hand, thus giving you the right to accept or reject them.
How about a look at the big picture? Gates & co. are robbing the rich, and giving a fraction of this money to the poor. The alternative could be that we used Free software, and instead of the money going to Microsoft, it could go more directly towards helping the poor.
How are they robbing anyone? Just because you don't like their business model does not mean they are robbing someone.
Any you act like its mandated by god that the rich help the poor. The fact that you think big corporations will use the saved money to help the poor is beyond delusional. What they will use it for is the pad their margins, or buy them selves more expensive lunches.
Meh for that price Ill stick with my 150$ dinovo edge. Wireless,light, includes a small touch pad, and has a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 3 months.
Except that is monopolies artificially rising the price because they wont keep their infrastructure up to snuff.
Where i live my cable company and phone company are providing nearly equivalent service. As I have friends who work at the cable company they are working non stop to convert the rest of their coax to fiber(to the poll/node).
Because of this : -we get a 15mb connection with REAL unlimited bandwidth for 30-40$,.
-They use to throttle people who were causing nodes to slow, but since the new roll out, there have been nearly no reports of throttling. (And even when you were throttled, it was still faster then Time Warners service).
Society has always been this way. The fact that your anonymous on the net makes it worst.
People always tear others down to make themselves feel better. So to survive in society you either:
a)Do whatever you can to fit in, and be successfully according to the quirks of society.
b)Do what ever makes you happy and not give a rats ass about what others think.
c)flip out and/or lash out.
There are some people who can handle it and then there are those who proclaim life is horrible when they drop and break their ipod. Unless society itself changes nothing will change and considering society has always been this way... don't ever expect change.
They also made uncharted waters, which was also an extremly fun and could be somewhat educational.
Your child may not learn allot of content from video games, but they will definitely learn how to think. Strategy,simulation and maybe even RP games force you to think to win, and when you fail it requires you to figure out why you failed and how you can tackle the problem.
Unfortunately I doubt we will see games popping up much. Schools are regurgitation factories, and tools that don't aid in "teaching the tests" are considered useless.
Right now web 2.0 is the Frankenstein of codeing. -php to get dynamic data -html to see the page -css to make it look pritty -javascript to alter a current page
So for me to update a section of a page without doing a complete reload need to... create a call in javascript that grab the html from a new page that is created by php, then we use javascript again to inject it into the html tag we want.
From the geeky side it seems cool... but for someone who develops web 2.0 pages, it would be nice if one standard framework would be developed that encompassed all these things. So that coding "Web 2.0" pages would be cleaner, easier, simpler, and more efficient.
Indeed, it also seems my ISP [Cablevision(Optimum TV,Voice,Online)] knows they cant screw around either, and are putting fiber up like crazy. In fact they RAISED our cap recently, no I only pay 30$ a month for 15down/5up and this is not even their "Boost" package. I get no slowdowns (pulling 1.5 MB/s download as i type this). Now they are trying to phase analog cable out because its a huge waste of channels.
PS: I guess this is why competition is good, Verizon and Cablevison are duking it out where I live.
A desktop is just to convenient, and for the cost of one of those top grade "laptops" (they tend to be to big and heavy to bring anywhere). I can get a cheap laptop that will cover everything i need to do when im away plus 90% of what I need to do at home. Then build my own powerhouse to accomplish the rest.
Cycle of nerd idocy... 1) Booo company X, company Y is slightly more open! 2) whoo company Y is now #1! 3)WTF company Y why are you strengthening your vendor lockin! 4)X = Y, Y = new company(); 5) go to 1
Mozilla is only protecting their products credibility.
A worst case scenario: MS takes the FF source code, "patches" it to run 10X worst then IE then includes it with windows. Now when people go to use "FireFox" it will become apparent to them that IE is far superior.
Debian wants to modify the source code and doesn't want to need mozilla's approval... Just like if it was MS... Their is no one to stop them from tarnishing FireFox's name.
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Except Will Wright has already made them millions upon millions with the sims and simcity. They aren't THAT stupid to tell the guy who basically prints them money what to do.
The price your paying to live there is based on those conditions, if you want to changes those conditions argue with the landlord before you sign the lease or buy your own land and build your own house.
They have the right to impose those conditions as long as they do so before hand, thus giving you the right to accept or reject them.
How about a look at the big picture? Gates & co. are robbing the rich, and giving a fraction of this money to the poor. The alternative could be that we used Free software, and instead of the money going to Microsoft, it could go more directly towards helping the poor.
How are they robbing anyone? Just because you don't like their business model does not mean they are robbing someone.
Any you act like its mandated by god that the rich help the poor. The fact that you think big corporations will use the saved money to help the poor is beyond delusional. What they will use it for is the pad their margins, or buy them selves more expensive lunches.
Meh for that price Ill stick with my 150$ dinovo edge. Wireless,light, includes a small touch pad, and has a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 3 months.
Except that is monopolies artificially rising the price because they wont keep their infrastructure up to snuff.
Where i live my cable company and phone company are providing nearly equivalent service. As I have friends who work at the cable company they are working non stop to convert the rest of their coax to fiber(to the poll/node).
Because of this :
-we get a 15mb connection with REAL unlimited bandwidth for 30-40$,.
-They use to throttle people who were causing nodes to slow, but since the new roll out, there have been nearly no reports of throttling.
(And even when you were throttled, it was still faster then Time Warners service).
Society has always been this way. The fact that your anonymous on the net makes it worst.
People always tear others down to make themselves feel better. So to survive in society you either:
a)Do whatever you can to fit in, and be successfully according to the quirks of society.
b)Do what ever makes you happy and not give a rats ass about what others think.
c)flip out and/or lash out.
There are some people who can handle it and then there are those who proclaim life is horrible when they drop and break their ipod. Unless society itself changes nothing will change and considering society has always been this way... don't ever expect change.
They also made uncharted waters, which was also an extremly fun and could be somewhat educational. Your child may not learn allot of content from video games, but they will definitely learn how to think. Strategy,simulation and maybe even RP games force you to think to win, and when you fail it requires you to figure out why you failed and how you can tackle the problem. Unfortunately I doubt we will see games popping up much. Schools are regurgitation factories, and tools that don't aid in "teaching the tests" are considered useless.
HTML,JS,CSS,PHP,ect...
Right now web 2.0 is the Frankenstein of codeing.
-php to get dynamic data
-html to see the page
-css to make it look pritty
-javascript to alter a current page
So for me to update a section of a page without doing a complete reload need to... create a call in javascript that grab the html from a new page that is created by php, then we use javascript again to inject it into the html tag we want.
From the geeky side it seems cool... but for someone who develops web 2.0 pages, it would be nice if one standard framework would be developed that encompassed all these things. So that coding "Web 2.0" pages would be cleaner, easier, simpler, and more efficient.
By that logic, we have wasted alot of time making laws if they only apply on Government Owned property.
I cant kill,mug,or rape anyone who comes on my property... so why should I be able to search them?
Indeed, it also seems my ISP [Cablevision(Optimum TV,Voice,Online)] knows they cant screw around either, and are putting fiber up like crazy. In fact they RAISED our cap recently, no I only pay 30$ a month for 15down/5up and this is not even their "Boost" package. I get no slowdowns (pulling 1.5 MB/s download as i type this). Now they are trying to phase analog cable out because its a huge waste of channels.
PS: I guess this is why competition is good, Verizon and Cablevison are duking it out where I live.
Dell, Apple, HP, and the rest thank you for your hard earned cash.
A desktop is just to convenient, and for the cost of one of those top grade "laptops" (they tend to be to big and heavy to bring anywhere). I can get a cheap laptop that will cover everything i need to do when im away plus 90% of what I need to do at home. Then build my own powerhouse to accomplish the rest.
The fact that you probably go for the lowest bidder dosn't help, you pick the cheapest person willing to do it, and you get what you pay for.
Cycle of nerd idocy...
1) Booo company X, company Y is slightly more open!
2) whoo company Y is now #1!
3)WTF company Y why are you strengthening your vendor lockin!
4)X = Y, Y = new company();
5) go to 1
At least with Linux you don't have to reboot to patch it... just completely reinstall the whole OS! (preps to be moded down)
Mozilla is only protecting their products credibility.
A worst case scenario: MS takes the FF source code, "patches" it to run 10X worst then IE then includes it with windows. Now when people go to use "FireFox" it will become apparent to them that IE is far superior.
Debian wants to modify the source code and doesn't want to need mozilla's approval... Just like if it was MS... Their is no one to stop them from tarnishing FireFox's name.
Apple fantics assemble! Defend our faulty over priced products!