If Maker truly is for making a comment thread then the database doesn't go back that far because I swear I've started a comment thread recently (ie: within the past 6 months)
I think more directly... A lot of "news reporting organizations" get their news from the Associated Press if I'm not mistaken. How is Google any different?
The desire to create, write, express and communicate is simply larger than the capacity for consumers to consume it. With the end result that there is no scarcity to make available any financial incentives.
And with the Internet, we will either see works of literary art that is really good and deserving of popular praise, or it will be swallowed up and the poor writers will have been found out and put out of jobs. It's simply competition where competition was scarce before. Write meaningful and interesting works and people will suffer through whatever ads or subscription they deem suitable.
Well, it's the same thing as "taping a show"... recording the show to a tape. (Was it Memorex that wanted to "synonimize" their name to recording?) Xeroxing that document.
I guess that's more my point. The format/brand soon becomes commonly accepted as a synonym for the action given plenty of time...and MP3 has been given plenty of time, IMHO. Just as your Kleenex/tissue argument. You also have hot dogs, frankfurters, red hots (which I think were un-trademarked "brand names" at the time if I remember right), and in some southern areas, Coke is any brown colored soda.
Again, you/they are assuming that all power for everyone will be out for months on end. I'd like to assume that local government would work on restoring food and water services before most other resources. You can specifically target stores and water treatment services when you bring the transformers back online.
You wouldn't have to transport water for a long time. Only a brief period while some electrician wires a generator to a water pump and restores pressure to the lines providing water to the whole city. Fuel? We have fuel trucks. We might have to sanction some of the fuel for emergency purposes like water, and as they bring up crucial generators, areas will regain power.
The article makes it sound like there will be absolutely no power or water for anyone for months. It's simply not the case.
Why would they have no means of leaving? Are buses electric? Don't you think the city would have generators on the pumps or be able to bring them in? The worst that could happen is you get some people with heat stroke. Even then, people can/will buy generators, will buy water left in the stores. It's not like trucks don't work, so they could bring in water...
I think people overestimate the amount of carnage that is actually related to loss of electricity. How do tropical third world countries survive heatwaves? Do they go into an air conditioned tent and run themselves a nice cool bath?
But asteroids technically are recurring events. They are giant rocks floating through space being pulled into Earth by gravity. We get meteorites on a daily basis. We just haven't seen a really big one in a long time. Just like earthquakes.
I'm sorry, but that sounded like you cut and pasted it from Microsoft.com.
What if you don't like Vista's "visual enhancements"? There's so much cruft (visually) in Vista/7 that it manages to get in the way of me using my computer and I HATE it. Even if I try to make Win7 look and feel like classic Windows, the interface features they added in still intrude into my usability experience. For instance, I use my Windows box by launching Explorer. I navigate around, feel comfortable, and "use" my PC in this way. I disable back/forward/up and minimize the toolbar to one single row of buttons I use on a regular basis. I CANNOT do this in Win7. The back/forward/address bar seems to be a part of the window and I can't find a way to remove it. I also can't find a way to remove the "organize" bar. I don't want it. Period. The new tree view has no lines and no option to turn it on like Vista had. I can't revert it to use +/- instead of the stupid arrows, and I can't seem to disable and remove these "libraries" that are in 7. They permeate so far into the experience that they get in my way. I organize my PC and files so I know where everything is. I don't need search or help organizing it, and Microsoft doesn't understand that. They have no "power user" edition.
I think there are third party hacks to get rid of some of this, but why should I have to resort to third party apps to restore functionality a previous version had? The same applies to the new Ribbon that I hate using. There's a third party pay for application that is required if you want to get back the usable tool bars and menus.
I just wish I could disable it and use the treeview like I do in Explorer currently. The new treeview has NO option to re-enable lines like it did in Vista. I never used forward/back/up in Explorer and I removed the buttons to conserve screen space. Now I can't disable those buttons, remove the path, or make the treeview usable.
I live in the midwest... and while the recent power outage was pretty widespread, it wasn't so deep an effect on our lives that we were scavenging the streets for food or killing anyone that looked like they wanted our food.
Honestly, the power going out is never as detrimental as many people would like to proclaim. Worst case scenario, it happens in the winter or they can't get generators to the water pumping stations.
I wonder if it were possible to have the laptop generate random sounds of key presses on key down. Since the speakers on a laptop are built in, any subtle noise should be able to mess with the detection.
My experience with Stardock says no. It was with Galactic Civilization and they created a binary key file that resided in the same folder as the executable. If the game detected that your machine didn't match the key file, it prompted for re-activation.
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This is a trick. It's one of those chain comments where the spammers filter out the users and send them spam! Please don't contin... damn it!
If Maker truly is for making a comment thread then the database doesn't go back that far because I swear I've started a comment thread recently (ie: within the past 6 months)
There's an April Fools Achievement? ;)
I think more directly... A lot of "news reporting organizations" get their news from the Associated Press if I'm not mistaken. How is Google any different?
The desire to create, write, express and communicate is simply larger than the capacity for consumers to consume it. With the end result that there is no scarcity to make available any financial incentives.
And with the Internet, we will either see works of literary art that is really good and deserving of popular praise, or it will be swallowed up and the poor writers will have been found out and put out of jobs. It's simply competition where competition was scarce before. Write meaningful and interesting works and people will suffer through whatever ads or subscription they deem suitable.
The customer wins.
Well, it's the same thing as "taping a show"... recording the show to a tape. (Was it Memorex that wanted to "synonimize" their name to recording?) Xeroxing that document.
I guess that's more my point. The format/brand soon becomes commonly accepted as a synonym for the action given plenty of time...and MP3 has been given plenty of time, IMHO. Just as your Kleenex/tissue argument. You also have hot dogs, frankfurters, red hots (which I think were un-trademarked "brand names" at the time if I remember right), and in some southern areas, Coke is any brown colored soda.
Bees knees are far to easy to break. ;)
Again, you/they are assuming that all power for everyone will be out for months on end. I'd like to assume that local government would work on restoring food and water services before most other resources. You can specifically target stores and water treatment services when you bring the transformers back online.
In Windows 7, you cannot re-enable the lines. At least, I haven't found a way yet.
"...crucial transformers..." not generators
You wouldn't have to transport water for a long time. Only a brief period while some electrician wires a generator to a water pump and restores pressure to the lines providing water to the whole city. Fuel? We have fuel trucks. We might have to sanction some of the fuel for emergency purposes like water, and as they bring up crucial generators, areas will regain power.
The article makes it sound like there will be absolutely no power or water for anyone for months. It's simply not the case.
So we'd all die because we didn't have work?
Good point. Thank you. My ignorance of those points got the better of me.
Why would they have no means of leaving? Are buses electric? Don't you think the city would have generators on the pumps or be able to bring them in? The worst that could happen is you get some people with heat stroke. Even then, people can/will buy generators, will buy water left in the stores. It's not like trucks don't work, so they could bring in water...
I think people overestimate the amount of carnage that is actually related to loss of electricity. How do tropical third world countries survive heatwaves? Do they go into an air conditioned tent and run themselves a nice cool bath?
Funny, but irrelevant since birth is a one time event. Earthquakes and meteors happen daily. :)
But asteroids technically are recurring events. They are giant rocks floating through space being pulled into Earth by gravity. We get meteorites on a daily basis. We just haven't seen a really big one in a long time. Just like earthquakes.
I'm sorry, but that sounded like you cut and pasted it from Microsoft.com.
What if you don't like Vista's "visual enhancements"? There's so much cruft (visually) in Vista/7 that it manages to get in the way of me using my computer and I HATE it. Even if I try to make Win7 look and feel like classic Windows, the interface features they added in still intrude into my usability experience. For instance, I use my Windows box by launching Explorer. I navigate around, feel comfortable, and "use" my PC in this way. I disable back/forward/up and minimize the toolbar to one single row of buttons I use on a regular basis. I CANNOT do this in Win7. The back/forward/address bar seems to be a part of the window and I can't find a way to remove it. I also can't find a way to remove the "organize" bar. I don't want it. Period. The new tree view has no lines and no option to turn it on like Vista had. I can't revert it to use +/- instead of the stupid arrows, and I can't seem to disable and remove these "libraries" that are in 7. They permeate so far into the experience that they get in my way. I organize my PC and files so I know where everything is. I don't need search or help organizing it, and Microsoft doesn't understand that. They have no "power user" edition.
I think there are third party hacks to get rid of some of this, but why should I have to resort to third party apps to restore functionality a previous version had? The same applies to the new Ribbon that I hate using. There's a third party pay for application that is required if you want to get back the usable tool bars and menus.
I just wish I could disable it and use the treeview like I do in Explorer currently. The new treeview has NO option to re-enable lines like it did in Vista. I never used forward/back/up in Explorer and I removed the buttons to conserve screen space. Now I can't disable those buttons, remove the path, or make the treeview usable.
I live in the midwest... and while the recent power outage was pretty widespread, it wasn't so deep an effect on our lives that we were scavenging the streets for food or killing anyone that looked like they wanted our food.
Honestly, the power going out is never as detrimental as many people would like to proclaim. Worst case scenario, it happens in the winter or they can't get generators to the water pumping stations.
Life goes on.
Doesn't the tendency of an event recurring increase with the passage of time?
California hasn't had an earthquake recently, the chance is getting better ever day.
Earth hasn't been struck by a cataclysmic asteroid recently, the chance is getting better every day.
I'm not paranoid in any way. I'm just "actively observing." ;)
Not so interesting if you consider people make JPGs, BMPs, DOCs and PDFs as well.
I wonder if it were possible to have the laptop generate random sounds of key presses on key down. Since the speakers on a laptop are built in, any subtle noise should be able to mess with the detection.
My experience with Stardock says no. It was with Galactic Civilization and they created a binary key file that resided in the same folder as the executable. If the game detected that your machine didn't match the key file, it prompted for re-activation.
Pendants? Like those things that hang off a jewelry?
(Sorry, I had to...)