What an absolute hypocrite. First you slur all Americans based on a stereotype, then you imply all Americans have a negative stereotypical view of Europeans.
By the way, this American just got back from a 3 week trip in Bulgaria. Have you been to Bulgaria by chance?
Although I have never met you it is highly probable that I have traveled more extensively across the world, not just Europe, than you have. I base this not just on my travel experience, but also on your apparent level of intellect.
While I agree that Creative is patent trolling, what is the relation between product quality and market share? Microsoft has a market dominance over linux(excluding servers), VHS eliminated Beta. What has been shown by these and other examples is that marketing not quality of products lead to market dominance.
Honestly they could call it the Nintendo Dogshit for all I care
Reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live sketch making fun of the Smuckers commercial:
With a name like 'Painful rectal itch', it's got to be good jam.
Why is this flamebait? Would someone please explain this to me. The parent simply posed analogies to support his beliefs (which coincides with mine) that the article itself is scientifically baseless.
If you, Mod, happen to disagree, then please discuss it here rather than drive-by-moderating.
Of course it's true! Sony's nebulous, future release promises to be than a currently available product? OMFG, I never would have anticipated that. By the way I hear that the Infinium Labs Phantom Game Console will be even better than the PS3. I can't wait until it comes out...
Da, I'm worried about deteto mixing languages aussi.
Just out of curiosity where do you and your family spend the summer? I've been to BG many times with my wife, but we are planning our first trip with our newborn. Her family lives near Varna and near Oryahovo, and she has a lot of friends in Plovdiv. So on previous trips we've travelled extensively throughout BG, but this time with the baby I'm thinking to stay in one area, Varna or Sunny Beach maybe.
We are trying to figure this out right now. My wife speaks Bulgarian natively and English completely fluently. I speak English natively and can moderately understand Bulgarian.
What my wife has read is that she should speak to the baby only in Bulgarian and I should speak only in English, and that way the baby can both learn/comprehend both languages and can also differentiate between the two.
It's completely anecdotal, a few people in a popular forum explained this to her, but we also personally know a child who learned Russian and Bulgarian at the same time and will answer properly in whatever language a question is asked.
That they are taking 'pre-orders' means what exactly?
The site is crawling now so I can't see what the price of this might be. The full keyboard would be an interesting device as my wife uses a cyrillic layout quite often and just types from memory. It would be nice to be able to switch the keys from cyrillic to latin, or even dvorak to qwerty.
I welcome Google, if this analyst prediction (read: guess, at best an educated one) for what Google "may" be doing turns out to be true.
Although I don't find a reason to believe them (Google analysts) anymore. GooglePC, GoogleOS, Google browser, Google some-sort-of-internet-appliance, and now iGoogleTunes.
E85 is available at a small amount (500) of stations but that number will be growing rapidly over the next few years.
GM is counting on it. Currently GM has 9 models that can run E85, and they just yesterday announced a marketing blitz to start during the Olympics advertizing this fact, and to inform people that E85 even exists. Part of the announcement was GM hoping more people become aware of E85 and demand increases and they can make more models compatable.
i watch on uk terrestrial so i'm probablly quite a bit behind you americans but i've noticed sg-1 getting far more political.
Do you mean like Dr. Who? As an American who greatly enjoys the new series broadcast on nearby CBC from Windsor, Ontario Canada (or downloaded via BT) I groan at the references, although few as they are, to the current political climate.
It's just like what was wrong with the McGann movie; traditionally the Doctor does not become romantically involved. In this case it was not the Doctor, but Rose and the 'acting Prime Minster' (Slitheen) to make overtly political statements.
Those political views seems especially odd right now as the Candaians (of whom broadcast the show for me to watch) are poised to elect a government with a conservative Prime Minster for the first time in 12 years.
And before you go trolling me, my username reveals what I believe to be the best television series of all time.
So there should be no complaints when Microsoft funds a study to show that Linux has a higher TCO and the results are surprisingly on Microsofts side?
Your argument is correct if it is a scientific experiment. This is PR for the sake of PR. And like the Microsoft studies, the results will be designed, not observed.
I'm not trying to flame here, but this appears to be a group conducting a 'study' to get the results they want. If this were a Seattle based organization I suspect the/. response would be quite negative.
And just to show I'm not an anti-gamer I loved the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight/Jedi Academy series, the Thief series and am currently playing Age of Empires 3.
I'm just saying I don't like studies where the entire purpose is to get a pre-determined result.
Reminds me of Blake's 7 when Blake risks everything, and gets Gan killed, to destroy Control. Only to find it was moved 30 years prior.
(Blake asks where Control was moved to) TRAVIS: Even I don't know that. But it's safe and secure and will remain so while those who seek to destroy us believe it's here. You see, it's the great illusion, Blake. You give substance and credibility to an empty room, and the real thing becomes undetectable, virtually invisible.
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What an absolute hypocrite. First you slur all Americans based on a stereotype, then you imply all Americans have a negative stereotypical view of Europeans.
By the way, this American just got back from a 3 week trip in Bulgaria. Have you been to Bulgaria by chance?
Although I have never met you it is highly probable that I have traveled more extensively across the world, not just Europe, than you have. I base this not just on my travel experience, but also on your apparent level of intellect.
While I agree that Creative is patent trolling, what is the relation between product quality and market share? Microsoft has a market dominance over linux(excluding servers), VHS eliminated Beta. What has been shown by these and other examples is that marketing not quality of products lead to market dominance.
In the ninth doctor episode 'Dalek' we learned that Henry van Statten controlled the internet.
Honestly they could call it the Nintendo Dogshit for all I care
Reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live sketch making fun of the Smuckers commercial:
With a name like 'Painful rectal itch', it's got to be good jam.
Are you Faulkner's Mother?
It's flamebait because you pointed out valid criticisms of a slashmind accepted 'fact'.
Why is this flamebait? Would someone please explain this to me. The parent simply posed analogies to support his beliefs (which coincides with mine) that the article itself is scientifically baseless.
If you, Mod, happen to disagree, then please discuss it here rather than drive-by-moderating.
*applauds*
Of course it's true! Sony's nebulous, future release promises to be than a currently available product? OMFG, I never would have anticipated that. By the way I hear that the Infinium Labs Phantom Game Console will be even better than the PS3. I can't wait until it comes out...
Da, I'm worried about deteto mixing languages aussi.
Just out of curiosity where do you and your family spend the summer? I've been to BG many times with my wife, but we are planning our first trip with our newborn. Her family lives near Varna and near Oryahovo, and she has a lot of friends in Plovdiv. So on previous trips we've travelled extensively throughout BG, but this time with the baby I'm thinking to stay in one area, Varna or Sunny Beach maybe.
We are trying to figure this out right now. My wife speaks Bulgarian natively and English completely fluently. I speak English natively and can moderately understand Bulgarian. What my wife has read is that she should speak to the baby only in Bulgarian and I should speak only in English, and that way the baby can both learn/comprehend both languages and can also differentiate between the two. It's completely anecdotal, a few people in a popular forum explained this to her, but we also personally know a child who learned Russian and Bulgarian at the same time and will answer properly in whatever language a question is asked.
It's just a futurama joke!
Were the French translators of the show flamebaiting when they changed the joke so that German was the dead language? No, it's just a joke.
Bite my shiny daffodil ass!
Unfortunately so far it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language.
Speaks into PSP: Konichiwa
Reply from PSP: Bonjour
Without seeing the interview I don't know the context of the remark. But I have to assume it was just a lame joke.
That they are taking 'pre-orders' means what exactly?
The site is crawling now so I can't see what the price of this might be. The full keyboard would be an interesting device as my wife uses a cyrillic layout quite often and just types from memory. It would be nice to be able to switch the keys from cyrillic to latin, or even dvorak to qwerty.
If it's free, I'd give a redundant organ or a not fully utilized limb for Google Malt Liquor!
I welcome Google, if this analyst prediction (read: guess, at best an educated one) for what Google "may" be doing turns out to be true.
Although I don't find a reason to believe them (Google analysts) anymore. GooglePC, GoogleOS, Google browser, Google some-sort-of-internet-appliance, and now iGoogleTunes.
I'll believe it when I see the beta.
It is now RMS (Rights Management Services).
By changing the name they made it less evil. Yea Microsoft!
E85 is available at a small amount (500) of stations but that number will be growing rapidly over the next few years.
GM is counting on it. Currently GM has 9 models that can run E85, and they just yesterday announced a marketing blitz to start during the Olympics advertizing this fact, and to inform people that E85 even exists. Part of the announcement was GM hoping more people become aware of E85 and demand increases and they can make more models compatable.
I've always thought my computer was interesting, I wonder if ipspotting.com does.
i watch on uk terrestrial so i'm probablly quite a bit behind you americans but i've noticed sg-1 getting far more political.
Do you mean like Dr. Who? As an American who greatly enjoys the new series broadcast on nearby CBC from Windsor, Ontario Canada (or downloaded via BT) I groan at the references, although few as they are, to the current political climate.
It's just like what was wrong with the McGann movie; traditionally the Doctor does not become romantically involved. In this case it was not the Doctor, but Rose and the 'acting Prime Minster' (Slitheen) to make overtly political statements.
Those political views seems especially odd right now as the Candaians (of whom broadcast the show for me to watch) are poised to elect a government with a conservative Prime Minster for the first time in 12 years.
And before you go trolling me, my username reveals what I believe to be the best television series of all time.
Seriously, even the highest moderated questions will be inflammatory.
Do you actually expect to sway any minds on slashdot?
So there should be no complaints when Microsoft funds a study to show that Linux has a higher TCO and the results are surprisingly on Microsofts side?
Your argument is correct if it is a scientific experiment. This is PR for the sake of PR. And like the Microsoft studies, the results will be designed, not observed.
I'm not trying to flame here, but this appears to be a group conducting a 'study' to get the results they want. If this were a Seattle based organization I suspect the /. response would be quite negative.
And just to show I'm not an anti-gamer I loved the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight/Jedi Academy series, the Thief series and am currently playing Age of Empires 3.
I'm just saying I don't like studies where the entire purpose is to get a pre-determined result.
Reminds me of Blake's 7 when Blake risks everything, and gets Gan killed, to destroy Control. Only to find it was moved 30 years prior.
(Blake asks where Control was moved to)
TRAVIS: Even I don't know that. But it's safe and secure and will remain so while those who seek to destroy us believe it's here. You see, it's the great illusion, Blake. You give substance and credibility to an empty room, and the real thing becomes undetectable, virtually invisible.