I think the internet killed porns power in this arena. The reason porn was decisive before was that marked the first time it became easily obtainable, now the interwebs have replaced VHS (maybe it hasn't killed DVD yet, but everyone I know that watched One Night in Paris downloaded it, I still have yet to see the DVD anywhere besides VH-1 shows talking about it).
I would like to point out that while Microsoft is an 800 pound gorilla it is not so in the entertainment industry. Microsoft if a huge company, as such it has many faces. The OS face is pretty evil, the research face is pretty good. Sony on the other hand has demonstrated the same tendencies across all of its divisions (movies, games, CDs, and electronics). Seeing as Microsofts goals in DRM include being able to stream media to differant areas of the house, and seem to be more in line with the consumer then Sony (who as a movie producer and record label is more in line with the **AA views). So while I may be boycotting Microsoft software for a long time yet, I still find myself supporting Microsoft's hardware (I think it would be cool to see them switch from a software to hardware company, their mice, keyboards, joysticks, and game systems have been pretty rocking).
What WM are you using? I have an old 133 mhz laptop that BeOS screams on and Windows 98 runs well. I was able to run Fluxbox off DSL, besides taking forever to load it ran fairly well.
Last time I checked OS-X can run most, if not all, of those free programs (OS-X being BSD based and all). And it's not like there aren't Linux programs you have to pay for (Cedega ring a bell?). The upgrade concern seems okay for me, but your software comments are just BS by my understanding.
Well of course as it travelled through space it also found out how to break the light barrier, so its travel was probably actually 120,200 years, but flying back at greater then the speed of light the trip was -120,000 years. Duh.
No. It is possible for people to carry HIV and never catch it (like how some people can carry strains of a virus that they themselves are immune to). Some people carry HIV until they die and never show any signs or symptoms of having it, other then a positive test (and maybe a trail of others they infected).
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I think it is a notable distinction. People don't die from having concrete poured around their feet, they die of drowning. The concrete feet greatly assists the drowning, but one may have still drowned without them. Likewise someone may have died of a disease without having AIDS, but AIDS greatly assisted the disease.
I know merch you buy at shows and such all money goes to the artist, but I've heard this isn't always the case when buying from merch from stores (but since stores will mark up prices to make a profit you are always better off buying at the shows in my experiance). Also all the money from the shows should be split between artist, venue, and oragizer (with no cut to the record industry unless they are the orginzer). I've always gone by going to shows of artists I like, buying there merch if I really like them, and only buying CDs if they are not on a major label.
seriously, I read Slashdot for the comments. I heard about this probably 36 hours ago from National Geographic (who will be featuring it in their December issue). For almost any news on slashdot I have another site I read it on first. But I have been reading slashdot for probably 2 years (and posting for a few weeks now) because I think the comments posted here and the moderation system is far more valueable then just news reports. I'm fine with dupes, slow news, and bad editors as long as there is a good amount of intelligent commentors.
was "man, Toyko is gonna be f%cked. Second thought was does this give more credability to the people that say man existed the same time as these things, citing myths containing them to be evidence. Third thought is that thing is way too freaking small to be Godzilla, I'm disappointed now. (All because of the name, if they would have just said Giant Serpent or something I would be fine).
maybe its also cause the death rate in iraq is higher than in vietnam actually
Umm... where are you getting this from? Last I checked a little over 2,000 US troops have died in Iraq, and over 25,000 died in Vietnam (11,000 in the United States Marine Core alone). I've seen articles up about the death toll being higher then the first three years of the Vietnamese war, but all those seem to be counting from when we first had "military advisors" and not from when we actually sent significant amounts of troups into the country.
What software may that be? For MS Office you have to buy that again to use it on a new PC for it to be legal (same with Windows OS). For any of the Adobe software that shouldn't be much of an expense if you actually use them for your job. Some things come on CDs that will work to install on Windows or Mac too (like Blizzard all Blizzard games since Diablo).
Because rabbi means teacher. Jesus was a teacher. He wasn't a rabbi in the modern sense of the word (maybe as someone able to interpret Jewish law which it is still sometimes used to denote, but definitely not in the sense of the ordained position it is now).
But this isn't snake oil. This is more like a person saying they know how to make snake oil and have some chemistry backing it up (maybe wrong chemistry, but complex enough and true on some levels so it's a lot harder to realize it is just a recipe for snake oil).
Stop spreading these lies! We all know the Americans did everything useful in World War II. And only the Americans captured an Enigma cipher device as you can clearly watch in this documentry.
For those of you too lazy to click the link it is to the movie U-571.
I think this is a VERY long way off. Remember how games for an extremely long time (hell some still do) say "Requires: Windows 98se, 2000, or XP". I imagine it will be at least a decade before we see many games that won't run on XP, probably longer.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (I know the word was used correctly, but I just feel hyperbole is used way too much here).
Telecommuters May Owe Extra State Texas? I was confused as hell trying to figure out who was going to get and extra state, and why the hell telecommunications was involved.
I few that reviews of I would totally accept are: Apocolypse Now, Platoon, Fahrenheit 9/11, Hotel Rwanda and American Grafiti. I would probably also accept Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings, since it seemed like Everyone And Their Mom(TM) watched those so it is good to have something you can talk about with Everyone And Their Mom(TM) (or at least know what they are talking about).
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I think the internet killed porns power in this arena. The reason porn was decisive before was that marked the first time it became easily obtainable, now the interwebs have replaced VHS (maybe it hasn't killed DVD yet, but everyone I know that watched One Night in Paris downloaded it, I still have yet to see the DVD anywhere besides VH-1 shows talking about it).
I would like to point out that while Microsoft is an 800 pound gorilla it is not so in the entertainment industry. Microsoft if a huge company, as such it has many faces. The OS face is pretty evil, the research face is pretty good. Sony on the other hand has demonstrated the same tendencies across all of its divisions (movies, games, CDs, and electronics). Seeing as Microsofts goals in DRM include being able to stream media to differant areas of the house, and seem to be more in line with the consumer then Sony (who as a movie producer and record label is more in line with the **AA views). So while I may be boycotting Microsoft software for a long time yet, I still find myself supporting Microsoft's hardware (I think it would be cool to see them switch from a software to hardware company, their mice, keyboards, joysticks, and game systems have been pretty rocking).
What WM are you using? I have an old 133 mhz laptop that BeOS screams on and Windows 98 runs well. I was able to run Fluxbox off DSL, besides taking forever to load it ran fairly well.
Last time I checked OS-X can run most, if not all, of those free programs (OS-X being BSD based and all). And it's not like there aren't Linux programs you have to pay for (Cedega ring a bell?). The upgrade concern seems okay for me, but your software comments are just BS by my understanding.
Not until they improve their HD offerings. This is high tech, we need to go with DTS HD.
Well of course as it travelled through space it also found out how to break the light barrier, so its travel was probably actually 120,200 years, but flying back at greater then the speed of light the trip was -120,000 years. Duh.
No. It is possible for people to carry HIV and never catch it (like how some people can carry strains of a virus that they themselves are immune to). Some people carry HIV until they die and never show any signs or symptoms of having it, other then a positive test (and maybe a trail of others they infected).
I think it is a notable distinction. People don't die from having concrete poured around their feet, they die of drowning. The concrete feet greatly assists the drowning, but one may have still drowned without them. Likewise someone may have died of a disease without having AIDS, but AIDS greatly assisted the disease.
I know merch you buy at shows and such all money goes to the artist, but I've heard this isn't always the case when buying from merch from stores (but since stores will mark up prices to make a profit you are always better off buying at the shows in my experiance). Also all the money from the shows should be split between artist, venue, and oragizer (with no cut to the record industry unless they are the orginzer). I've always gone by going to shows of artists I like, buying there merch if I really like them, and only buying CDs if they are not on a major label.
If this went through then I should have no problem patenting my Delorean with a flux capacitor!
seriously, I read Slashdot for the comments. I heard about this probably 36 hours ago from National Geographic (who will be featuring it in their December issue). For almost any news on slashdot I have another site I read it on first. But I have been reading slashdot for probably 2 years (and posting for a few weeks now) because I think the comments posted here and the moderation system is far more valueable then just news reports. I'm fine with dupes, slow news, and bad editors as long as there is a good amount of intelligent commentors.
was "man, Toyko is gonna be f%cked.
Second thought was does this give more credability to the people that say man existed the same time as these things, citing myths containing them to be evidence.
Third thought is that thing is way too freaking small to be Godzilla, I'm disappointed now. (All because of the name, if they would have just said Giant Serpent or something I would be fine).
Not until you give us free (as in beer) uhh... beer.
maybe its also cause the death rate in iraq is higher than in vietnam actually Umm... where are you getting this from? Last I checked a little over 2,000 US troops have died in Iraq, and over 25,000 died in Vietnam (11,000 in the United States Marine Core alone). I've seen articles up about the death toll being higher then the first three years of the Vietnamese war, but all those seem to be counting from when we first had "military advisors" and not from when we actually sent significant amounts of troups into the country.
What software may that be? For MS Office you have to buy that again to use it on a new PC for it to be legal (same with Windows OS). For any of the Adobe software that shouldn't be much of an expense if you actually use them for your job. Some things come on CDs that will work to install on Windows or Mac too (like Blizzard all Blizzard games since Diablo).
Because rabbi means teacher. Jesus was a teacher. He wasn't a rabbi in the modern sense of the word (maybe as someone able to interpret Jewish law which it is still sometimes used to denote, but definitely not in the sense of the ordained position it is now).
But this isn't snake oil. This is more like a person saying they know how to make snake oil and have some chemistry backing it up (maybe wrong chemistry, but complex enough and true on some levels so it's a lot harder to realize it is just a recipe for snake oil).
Stop spreading these lies! We all know the Americans did everything useful in World War II. And only the Americans captured an Enigma cipher device as you can clearly watch in this documentry.
For those of you too lazy to click the link it is to the movie U-571.
start to require Vista
I think this is a VERY long way off. Remember how games for an extremely long time (hell some still do) say "Requires: Windows 98se, 2000, or XP". I imagine it will be at least a decade before we see many games that won't run on XP, probably longer.
Yeah, but only the Korean Grandmas have the 100Mbit pipes to download large videos like that
I fixed your sentence for you.
Nice hyperbole
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
(I know the word was used correctly, but I just feel hyperbole is used way too much here).
Telecommuters May Owe Extra State Texas? I was confused as hell trying to figure out who was going to get and extra state, and why the hell telecommunications was involved.
This doesn't cover online purchases though.
I few that reviews of I would totally accept are: Apocolypse Now, Platoon, Fahrenheit 9/11, Hotel Rwanda and American Grafiti. I would probably also accept Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings, since it seemed like Everyone And Their Mom(TM) watched those so it is good to have something you can talk about with Everyone And Their Mom(TM) (or at least know what they are talking about).
I for one welcome our new singing mice overlords (or at least will when they figure out the answer to life, the universe, and everything).