I switched to console gaming because I didn't want to have to worry about what configuration my gaming system had in order to enjoy the optimal experience on the platform. I didn't want to worry about video/audio settings, drivers, or whatever. Even having to worry about firmware upgrades on a console is annoying. I don't want it to get worse.
They just want a very expensive, very desirable carrot, when each time it lands in your hands it can be snatched away. They want this carrot to be so desirable that you want to try and get it again anyway. It doesn't matter what this particular carrot represents, music, TV, whatever. Even if your favorite indie production became massively popular overnight, someone would pop up and try to exploit it. Once something becomes popular enough, someone will try and turn it into such a carrot.
It's easier to buy up the content producer's rights than try and control the content producer, and it's easier/cheaper to do that than to put time, effort, and thought into coming up with something people will want. It's just clear that this method of making money is reaching an extreme point.
If you just wanted to set up a content directory and distribution medium, where any of the content could disappear and show up on a competitor's directory and distribution medium if they didn't like the terms, then they would have to be truly competitive. If they can perpetually retain some exclusivity on popular content, then it's a much more stable profit bearing resource.
This is a pretty stupid idea, but I would have less of a problem with it if you can ask an attendant to drive through with your car while you sit safely out of range.
Just because you can hook into a service doesn't mean it will be available later, or available under the same terms and conditions. Better to be able to control your own destiny.
XBMC is some really great software, I'm glad support has lasted this long. It's what I use on my TV PC, it's easy to setup, and does exactly what it's supposed to do. It's got some great plugins that allow live streaming from various sources, supports any format I've thrown at it, it's a DLNA server, supports various network protocols for indexing and streaming, supports many remote control devices, it's available for all major OSes and works great on all platforms. I'm extremely happy with it.
You end up looking like a leathery smoker by the time you're 30, and if you use hair products you'll have thinning hair. Don't even tie your hair back or do cornrows/braids unless you want a receding hairline. Nothing wrong with the natural look anyway, girl or guy. Also, depending on your type of skin, lotions on your face may aggravate it and give you rashes or pimples, facial skin is especially sensitive. Just letting your skin's natural oils have a chance and only washing your face lightly with cold water is probably best. Btw if you're suffering from pimples then that's probably a good thing to try instead of all those products that just dry out your face.
Why spend all that money? Why will taxpayers want to put their cash towards a grossly mismanaged and costly project that will erroneously fuck over tons of people with no benefit whatsoever? This is really a pie in the sky idea that will never fly.
The PSP had a unique disc format, but games could be ripped to and played from the memory card. XBox 360 games can be ripped to and played from the hard drive. PS3 games as well. How would HD-DVD help with this?
I do the exact same thing as well because I am fed up with ads. They are incredibly annoying and ruin any experience they are in. Product placement also puts me off.
If the data has redundancy across multiple providers (not just mirrors based on the same software platform and managed under one vendor), then I tend to trust the cloud to make authentic free/libre source code available, but I expect the author to have a backup, and I would keep one myself if I was the author. Aside from this, such as public domain audio, video, text, images, and non-libre but gratis binaries/source, no. Takedowns, and other such methods, as well as internal disputes, threaten the availability of this data, and if a managed provider is asked to take it down, it will become scarce or not available. I make local copies and back them up whenever possible. If it's not managed by me, it can't be guaranteed to be available to me.
Actually it's thanks to Napster that I started buying CDs, before that I was listening to what my friends had and ripping the music I really liked. My friends' albums were fine, but now I could find stuff that suited my unique preferences and tastes without pretense. Radio only provided generic songs that were catchy but got old fast and had no real staying power. Napster was a way to easily listen to stuff neither my friends nor the radio could offer, but was even more suited to me. And I wanted more. So I would buy the full CDs of the artists I liked, their singles w/obscure b-sides, etc, I liked them so much I wanted to support them and collect their catalogs. I would never have found Quasi without Napster.
They hate the IT department because the users/management don't understand why they can't perform magic, because that's how they understand computers, it's a magic box. The term "Computer Wizard" stems from that kind of logic.
Why use these when you can just simulate them? Designing/training the AI would much more interesting than seeing if it can be carried out by this particular design.
Those are all qualified as out of the ordinary. Anything in excess (on either side of the scale, whether it is too much or not enough) is a problem. Of course maintenance must be performed, but I guess some data centers have a strange idea of best practices, or they do not follow them.
We already have laws to cover most of the things EULAs are concerned about, making EULAs superfluous. The rest just is contradictory to existing laws and is unenforceable, so it doesn't apply. Not to mention that it's a one-way contract (in that you can't redact, as you can with normal contracts), so maybe it's illegal in and of itself. I'm glad I don't use software that has EULAs.
That's silly. When Novell bought SuSE, they gave away kits at nearly every consumer electronics show, including those in america, that's how I got mine. They also offered to mail them out free if you couldn't find one in your local area. That was for SuSE 9. I've still got mine. Prior to that, a friend had been paying for SuSE since 7 (I'm not sure what the deal was, apparently it was hard to obtain free because of YaST, or update services, or something?). At the time though, I was getting into Fedora and had a much easier time with it. I didn't want to use SuSE because you did everything through their proprietary configuration interface (YaST), and I wanted to learn a more "standard" way of doing things that would apply to all distros. Since I was just testing the waters at that point, I didn't want to have to learn something I couldn't use elsewhere. Not only that, but many how-tos would refer to editing.conf files, and YaST would throw up errors and try to replace my manually configured file every time I wanted to do something like this. It also seemed much easier to find.rpms for RedHat, or.debs for Debian.
Ultimately I ended up using Ubuntu, because at one point there was a controversy over Fedora with regards to versions not being supported very long or at all, or being bleeding-edge-only, and I wanted something a little more stable. I also got bogged down in RPM hell because I did want to try certain packages that were not officially supported, and repositories that packaged them didn't have common dependencies, and although I tried compiling the software myself, there were compile issues I had trouble resolving for certain software.
Now I'm trying out Debian, to gain experience and progress in my knowledge of the GNU/Linux platform on something that's not too far off from what I'm using now.
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That goes for anything, but a more mature implementation will be more robust and so will the applications that support that implementation.
I switched to console gaming because I didn't want to have to worry about what configuration my gaming system had in order to enjoy the optimal experience on the platform. I didn't want to worry about video/audio settings, drivers, or whatever. Even having to worry about firmware upgrades on a console is annoying. I don't want it to get worse.
They just want a very expensive, very desirable carrot, when each time it lands in your hands it can be snatched away. They want this carrot to be so desirable that you want to try and get it again anyway. It doesn't matter what this particular carrot represents, music, TV, whatever. Even if your favorite indie production became massively popular overnight, someone would pop up and try to exploit it. Once something becomes popular enough, someone will try and turn it into such a carrot.
It's easier to buy up the content producer's rights than try and control the content producer, and it's easier/cheaper to do that than to put time, effort, and thought into coming up with something people will want. It's just clear that this method of making money is reaching an extreme point.
If you just wanted to set up a content directory and distribution medium, where any of the content could disappear and show up on a competitor's directory and distribution medium if they didn't like the terms, then they would have to be truly competitive. If they can perpetually retain some exclusivity on popular content, then it's a much more stable profit bearing resource.
This is a pretty stupid idea, but I would have less of a problem with it if you can ask an attendant to drive through with your car while you sit safely out of range.
Why aren't they releasing this on XBox 360? Seems like a missed opportunity.
Just because you can hook into a service doesn't mean it will be available later, or available under the same terms and conditions. Better to be able to control your own destiny.
They should be giving us a discount for paying online, it's much easier for them to process.
XBMC is some really great software, I'm glad support has lasted this long. It's what I use on my TV PC, it's easy to setup, and does exactly what it's supposed to do. It's got some great plugins that allow live streaming from various sources, supports any format I've thrown at it, it's a DLNA server, supports various network protocols for indexing and streaming, supports many remote control devices, it's available for all major OSes and works great on all platforms. I'm extremely happy with it.
Child's Play seems to be a good one, they help kids with severe problems suffer less and recover faster.
You end up looking like a leathery smoker by the time you're 30, and if you use hair products you'll have thinning hair. Don't even tie your hair back or do cornrows/braids unless you want a receding hairline. Nothing wrong with the natural look anyway, girl or guy. Also, depending on your type of skin, lotions on your face may aggravate it and give you rashes or pimples, facial skin is especially sensitive. Just letting your skin's natural oils have a chance and only washing your face lightly with cold water is probably best. Btw if you're suffering from pimples then that's probably a good thing to try instead of all those products that just dry out your face.
Why spend all that money? Why will taxpayers want to put their cash towards a grossly mismanaged and costly project that will erroneously fuck over tons of people with no benefit whatsoever? This is really a pie in the sky idea that will never fly.
The PSP had a unique disc format, but games could be ripped to and played from the memory card. XBox 360 games can be ripped to and played from the hard drive. PS3 games as well. How would HD-DVD help with this?
I do the exact same thing as well because I am fed up with ads. They are incredibly annoying and ruin any experience they are in. Product placement also puts me off.
If the data has redundancy across multiple providers (not just mirrors based on the same software platform and managed under one vendor), then I tend to trust the cloud to make authentic free/libre source code available, but I expect the author to have a backup, and I would keep one myself if I was the author. Aside from this, such as public domain audio, video, text, images, and non-libre but gratis binaries/source, no. Takedowns, and other such methods, as well as internal disputes, threaten the availability of this data, and if a managed provider is asked to take it down, it will become scarce or not available. I make local copies and back them up whenever possible. If it's not managed by me, it can't be guaranteed to be available to me.
I thought that was the purpose of the start menu... and desktop icons... and the system tray... and the quick launch bar... and desktop widgets...
Actually it's thanks to Napster that I started buying CDs, before that I was listening to what my friends had and ripping the music I really liked. My friends' albums were fine, but now I could find stuff that suited my unique preferences and tastes without pretense. Radio only provided generic songs that were catchy but got old fast and had no real staying power. Napster was a way to easily listen to stuff neither my friends nor the radio could offer, but was even more suited to me. And I wanted more. So I would buy the full CDs of the artists I liked, their singles w/obscure b-sides, etc, I liked them so much I wanted to support them and collect their catalogs. I would never have found Quasi without Napster.
They hate the IT department because the users/management don't understand why they can't perform magic, because that's how they understand computers, it's a magic box. The term "Computer Wizard" stems from that kind of logic.
Why use these when you can just simulate them? Designing/training the AI would much more interesting than seeing if it can be carried out by this particular design.
vigorous maintenance
excessive maintenance
poorly documented maintenance
Those are all qualified as out of the ordinary. Anything in excess (on either side of the scale, whether it is too much or not enough) is a problem. Of course maintenance must be performed, but I guess some data centers have a strange idea of best practices, or they do not follow them.
I hear more lies out of peoples' mouths which can be contested as he-said-she-said than in emails which can be cited and referenced in the future.
We already have laws to cover most of the things EULAs are concerned about, making EULAs superfluous. The rest just is contradictory to existing laws and is unenforceable, so it doesn't apply. Not to mention that it's a one-way contract (in that you can't redact, as you can with normal contracts), so maybe it's illegal in and of itself. I'm glad I don't use software that has EULAs.
That's silly. When Novell bought SuSE, they gave away kits at nearly every consumer electronics show, including those in america, that's how I got mine. They also offered to mail them out free if you couldn't find one in your local area. That was for SuSE 9. I've still got mine. Prior to that, a friend had been paying for SuSE since 7 (I'm not sure what the deal was, apparently it was hard to obtain free because of YaST, or update services, or something?). At the time though, I was getting into Fedora and had a much easier time with it. I didn't want to use SuSE because you did everything through their proprietary configuration interface (YaST), and I wanted to learn a more "standard" way of doing things that would apply to all distros. Since I was just testing the waters at that point, I didn't want to have to learn something I couldn't use elsewhere. Not only that, but many how-tos would refer to editing .conf files, and YaST would throw up errors and try to replace my manually configured file every time I wanted to do something like this. It also seemed much easier to find .rpms for RedHat, or .debs for Debian.
Ultimately I ended up using Ubuntu, because at one point there was a controversy over Fedora with regards to versions not being supported very long or at all, or being bleeding-edge-only, and I wanted something a little more stable. I also got bogged down in RPM hell because I did want to try certain packages that were not officially supported, and repositories that packaged them didn't have common dependencies, and although I tried compiling the software myself, there were compile issues I had trouble resolving for certain software.
Now I'm trying out Debian, to gain experience and progress in my knowledge of the GNU/Linux platform on something that's not too far off from what I'm using now.
While they're at it, why not have these in police cars as well?
But they have android devices to push this on. That's a big audience. Now all they need to do is put out an android-based competitor to the iPod.
So how do you get the nutrients to cultivate the lab-grown meat?