And you are missing the point of the free market, a principle under which the music is distributed, many democratic nations' economies function, and is protected jealously under law. (emphasis added)
If the market is so free, why does it have to be enforced - ultimately - at the point of a gun?
Acer are good for this. When I down/upgraded my laptop from Vista to XP I was able to get all the XP drivers in advance from the Acer support site, so was confident about making the move.
In the case of Ubuntu, one need only respond to the notification balloon on his desktop which prompts him to install the nvidia driver with a click of the mouse. Not much good if he has a black screen
Please don't talk as if you're the only person whose opinion matters. I agree with one of your points and disagree with another. Do you care which way round? 'Course not. UI preferences are very subjective, and certainly not life-or-death. Have some respect for others' points of view.
If it became part of the browser, 3 things would happen: Idiots would scream and cry about being forced to use it, it would integrate better making it more effective, and vulnerabilities like the one referenced here would be a non-issue for a much larger percentage of the user base.
Also, web developers would have to make their sites work properly with javascript turned off. Some sites do this already, but not enough, including some which supposedly take accessibility seriously. JS should *enhance* usability of a site, not be absolutely required for it to work at all.
I don't know about her mental health, but she frightens me because she has no principles... Basically, she panders to whatever interests that will give her the most money and power. That's scary!
A shotgun? Very unlikely to kill it, almost guaranteed to enrage it. Are you sure? A single shot works every time in Tomb Raider. Now if it had been a pistol in each hand, I'd have to agree with you
3 - Vista was a total bomb. There is no denying it at all. So why bother? Admit your mistake and move on quickly. All in all, this sounds like a surprisingly smart move on their part.
Has Microsoft ever admitted to making a mistake? Pretty much
I don't see how any government has any right or business telling who can cross and not cross an imaginary line.
The right comes from a mandate from the masses, who declare their support (or lack thereof) for such an action by hiring representatives who feel as they do. Well, theoretically anyway.
I may have missed this, not bing a US citizen, but which candidate is standing on an abolish-all-national-boundaries ticket?
There is certainly something very strange about these stats: nine percent are using Netscape?! I somehow doubt it. But add that to the reported 16% for FF and you get close to the healthy 26% or so other people are reporting.
I don't use Google Desktop, but if you really can browse with it, chances are it's FF in disguise.
It seems to me not so much a question of grammar, as of idiom. Where I hang out I tend to hear people say things like: "He threw a fuck-off rock at me"; haven't heard it used to qualify other adjectives - "fuck-off big" has a certain redundancy. But if it is used that way, the sentence I was originally complaining about is perfectly OK and I retract.
Might be a cultural difference, but here in the UK "fuck-off" used in this way means something like "really big", "devastatingly impressive", "winning"; as in: "That new Radiohead album comes in a fuck-off gatefold sleeve". It is an adjective not an adverb.
From what I have seen, I believe that most of the anti-Vista sentiment today is actually being generated by ignorant users posting 3rd hand rumors on sites and passing stories around from person to person. Those sound like users who are just sufficiently informed for their needs. After 4 months trying to get on with Vista, I have gone back to XP, and advise everyone I know to avoid Vista. I don't normally go into detail why - non-techies can switch off pretty quickly - but if they asked I'd say it was slow, used a lot of memory and had some unpleasant bugs.
It's a long time since I studied high school grammar, but I'm pretty sure multiple adjectives which qualify the same noun should be separated by commas:
"Give me all your money or I shall throw a fuck-off, big rock at you."
However, there is something fishy about the word order here; so ultimately I'd go for:
"Give me all your money or I shall throw a big, fuck-off rock at you."
I have the 160GB version of the Archos 605 (the large storage capacity, and my aversion to Apple, was the main reason for getting it) and managing files couldn't be simpler - it can either mount as a hard drive to be managed with the tool of your choice, or as an MTP device to be managed with WMP, MediaMonkey, etc. Or you can avoid mounting it at all and pull files off your network onto the device over Wifi (or just stream them).
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Acer are good for this. When I down/upgraded my laptop from Vista to XP I was able to get all the XP drivers in advance from the Acer support site, so was confident about making the move.
Please don't talk as if you're the only person whose opinion matters. I agree with one of your points and disagree with another. Do you care which way round? 'Course not. UI preferences are very subjective, and certainly not life-or-death. Have some respect for others' points of view.
Also, web developers would have to make their sites work properly with javascript turned off. Some sites do this already, but not enough, including some which supposedly take accessibility seriously. JS should *enhance* usability of a site, not be absolutely required for it to work at all.
I don't know about her mental health, but she frightens me because she has no principles... Basically, she panders to whatever interests that will give her the most money and power. That's scary!
So she is basically the Tony Blair candidate.I do apologise; I meant to say "American *Politicians*"
I thought Americans used money to get their name out there.
Being a Brit, I've never heard of him, but if he *were* to somehow get nominated, surely his chances of becoming President would go up somewhat.
Has Microsoft ever admitted to making a mistake?
Pretty much
The right comes from a mandate from the masses, who declare their support (or lack thereof) for such an action by hiring representatives who feel as they do. Well, theoretically anyway.
I may have missed this, not bing a US citizen, but which candidate is standing on an abolish-all-national-boundaries ticket?Using NoScript is more like an asylum allowing its inmates knives on an individual basis, according to whether they're likely to do harm with them.
In any case, a well-built site should work fine without js.
There is certainly something very strange about these stats: nine percent are using Netscape?! I somehow doubt it. But add that to the reported 16% for FF and you get close to the healthy 26% or so other people are reporting.
I don't use Google Desktop, but if you really can browse with it, chances are it's FF in disguise.
It seems to me not so much a question of grammar, as of idiom. Where I hang out I tend to hear people say things like: "He threw a fuck-off rock at me"; haven't heard it used to qualify other adjectives - "fuck-off big" has a certain redundancy. But if it is used that way, the sentence I was originally complaining about is perfectly OK and I retract.
Might be a cultural difference, but here in the UK "fuck-off" used in this way means something like "really big", "devastatingly impressive", "winning"; as in: "That new Radiohead album comes in a fuck-off gatefold sleeve". It is an adjective not an adverb.
I had a curved monitor back in the 90s. It actually worked, too. :-P
I thought OSX was written in Objective-C.
Moreover, if they only shipped them, who knows how many actually sold?
But can Microsoft actually force someone like Dell to stop selling XP?
If your web apps are crud, you really should replace them.
It's a long time since I studied high school grammar, but I'm pretty sure multiple adjectives which qualify the same noun should be separated by commas:
"Give me all your money or I shall throw a fuck-off, big rock at you."
However, there is something fishy about the word order here; so ultimately I'd go for:
"Give me all your money or I shall throw a big, fuck-off rock at you."
I have the 160GB version of the Archos 605 (the large storage capacity, and my aversion to Apple, was the main reason for getting it) and managing files couldn't be simpler - it can either mount as a hard drive to be managed with the tool of your choice, or as an MTP device to be managed with WMP, MediaMonkey, etc. Or you can avoid mounting it at all and pull files off your network onto the device over Wifi (or just stream them).
Indeed it is, and still very good (and free). Don't think they offer a Vista version yet.