Right, which was a really dumb idea on their part. If they're trying to get marketshare against Apple I don't see why they aren't providing for those that still have serviceable analog sets. The digital switch over itself was only a couple years ago.
I hadn't heard of them, but I ended up with a Lenovo because I needed something that was going to be quite durable and I didn't want an Intel chipset. It gets really hard to avoid all the monopolists and various other misbehaving companies out there, so I ended up choosing non-Intel over not-MS.
I might have gotten a Google TV, but between the price and the only ones requiring HDMI on both sides I was looking at $500 or so to get up and running with it. I did want one, but I could have bought a laptop for that and just hooked it up to my TV for not much more.
Of course they are, it's got nothing to do with the pirates, and everything to do with an incompetent industry.
Personally, it's this sort of bullshit self entitlement that is why I don't buy CDs anymore. I'm not about to pay money when I'm being bullshitted and guilted into over paying so some fat cat execs can get their bonuses. You made a choice to sign with a label and this is the consequence. This isn't like in the past where you had to do so in order to sell albums.
Try Linux Mint, it's quite easy with sane defaults for pretty much everything. I'll probably switch from Linux Mint to Linux Mint Debian Edition as it looks to be where the development is going to be happening in the future. Not that it's official I just imagine that if Canonical keeps going the way that it is, that eventually the switch will be needed.
I like that it just works so I have it as my everyday OS when I'm not gaming or experimenting and for that it seems to work well.
No, people are abandoning the distro because it's become painfully obvious that the people running it are batshit insane. It wasn't that they moved to unity, it's that they released an alpha quality Unity with a release. But, it's more than that, have they ever fixed the bug that made it impossible to log in via bluetooth keyboard? I temporarily dropped them because of that bug. OpenSUSE isn't afflicted by that particular problem.
Unity itself probably wasn't that much of a problem it was just obvious, up front and hard to ignore, I suspect that most of the folks that dropped it afterwards had been contemplating it up until that point.
I spend most of my time in Linux Mint these days because I haven't gotten around to setting up Crashplan under FreeBSD.
EXT3 definitely has data corruption problems that I've never seen on any other filesystem. I think the only ones close are UDF on a CDRW and any filesystem on a ZIP disk.
That's not what I meant. But, yes you're correct I should have said without Windows or OSX. Paying through the nose for OSX is hardly something I'm willing to do. My current Laptop cost me $611 when all was said and done a similar Mac would have cost me over a thousand dollars after I got the upgrades needed. And that's their cheapest laptop.
Part of it is that as much as I detest MS, they at least let me do what I want with my hardware whereas Apple seems to be looking for new and innovative ways of preventing people from using their computers. We'll see where it leads with Win 8 as it looks like MS wants to copy Apple.
If you want to get a good feel for numbers then you have to use them. To an extent any tool you use is going to negatively affect ones ability to feel the numbers. I didn't start out being so good doing it, I've spent years doing math in my head and over time the ability tends to develop. I still whip out a calculator when I know the result isn't possible with sufficient precision in my head, but most of the time doing a quick back of the napkin calculation in the head is close enough anyways.
I'm guessing that if you're making a post like that and can't even bother to spell "weird" and "dumb" correctly that you probably aren't the sharpest tool in the shed. Additionally, the whole post is rubbish and you ought to be somewhat appreciative that people don't call you dumb more regularly.
As for doctors, they can't fix stupid, but they can help quite a bit with ADHD and similar neurological disorders.
Not really, you wouldn't be anywhere near as adept at parsing out or expressing the problems as formulas, but there's no reason to believe that you'd be any less capable of comprehending them. I started reading up on physics when I was 8, well before I had access to anything more than the most basic math skills. Even today most of the time when I'm trying to figure out a physics problem the numbers are largely the last thing I look at after modelling the system in my head.
To put it another way, numbers are a relatively recent invention and people had to be calculating projectile motion well before they had the physics with which to calculate the trajectory.
Except that I'm sure there will be more competition to create the HTML5 export than there was for Flash. If I were an Adobe shareholder I would not be pleased by the development.For the most part if you wanted to produce Flash you had to use their product, now it's questionable if that's going to be the case for much longer.
These days I do most of my gaming via Steam or dosbox. I bet you can guess which one doesn't work reliably on Linux or really anything outside of Windows. Codeweavers does support some Steam games, but not all of the ones I want to play.
Games and the fact that it's very difficult to buy a laptop without Windows. Most of the ones I've seen are substantially more expensive than their Windows counterparts and are often times just a Windows laptop where somebody installed Linux and did some extra QA.
The fact that it's cheaper to buy a laptop with Windows in most cases is really not right at all. Ultimately, if I pay for a copy I might as well use it, personally I'd rather not give MS any money at all.
To an extent I disagree, the iPad isn't going to be as flexible as it could be as long as Apple continues Steve's obsession with controlling how the end user uses the product. Hopefully with Steve gone they can remember who the customers are. Consequently, I'm not so sure that the Fire is going to be that much less flexible than the iPad.
Not if it was given for fraudulent reasons. An example would be theft by deception, a while back I seem to remember a woman pretending to have cancer in order to get gifts, or something along those lines, she was ultimately charged with theft by deception, I don't know where the trial on that one is going to go.
I'm not so sure that it was intentional in that example. Most of the options that will never be in the money were most likely granted before DoJ oversight when there was still belief that the share price would make the options viable. Otherwise, I doubt the employees would have accepted them.
Of course they care about people outside their country criticizing their nation, that would be a ridiculously huge loophole if they didn't care about it when you left their soil. The difference is that they have limited capacity to end it when it's not in their country.
Also, the summary suggests that the phones are being targeted at their citizens that go abroad, so there could very well be consequences for offenses that violate Chinese law while abroad.
They're more interested in corporate secrets. There's a reason why there isn't already a market for phones that work in both China and the US. If you go to China they can and do seize the phones from time to time, sometimes they give them back when you leave the country, but I'm not personally going to be taking a phone with me to China.
Information about ones family is definitely useful if one is trying to get secret information from a target. Granted most folks aren't going to have that kind of information, but I'm betting that they'll figure out who does quite quickly.
That's a bullshit straw man, if you want to go to college you can, there are tons of scholarships out there and if you work your butt off you can pay for it. There's even guaranteed loans available for those that can't otherwise pay.
As far as the military goes there's plenty of folks who haven't been eligible over the years no matter how hard they're willing to work. Sometimes it has been reasonable and other times it's just a matter of bigotry.
Also, nice appeal to emotion there, I'm not shitting on anybody's accomplishments, military personnel vary significantly in terms of what they do, many of whom are no more accomplished than somebody in the civilian world doing precisely the same job. There's already anti-discrimination laws in place, giving priority to an identical job done in the military is by its nature discriminatory against other protected classes of individuals who are not eligible for service.
No amount of bullshitting is going to change that fact. And quite frankly you ought to be apologizing for veterans for making them out to be enfeebled morons incapable of earning a job without cheating.
Because there's still enough people who listen to the radio and watch TV that it's still worthwhile. If they can conveniently reach even a third of the population in one go that's way too many people to ignore because the other 2/3 of the people don't see the message. In a case like that it would mean that they would want to add other attempts on top of those attempts.
Also, the chances are good of being able to reach enough people in urban areas to have word start to spread from many sources via word of mouth. Not ideal, but the more people that have access to accurate information.
As for the rural folks, lets be honest, they're less likely to need the information immediately if it's not already obvious that there's a zombie apocalypse on the way.
Tell that to the many gays and lesbians that weren't allowed to openly serve. Not to mention those that have too many tattoos or are missing a digit. None of those things would be grounds for a company to refuse to hire a person and yet all of those things within recent memory were grounds for the military to refuse candidates.
And that doesn't even include things like HIV status or being overweight.
Right or wrong, the military isn't an equal opportunity employer and granting additional status based upon being allowed into the club is just not right.
According the the FAQ Netflix isn't supported by Moonlight at this time. And it probably won't be for a while seeing as Moonlight doesn't support the DRM that Netflix uses.
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Right, which was a really dumb idea on their part. If they're trying to get marketshare against Apple I don't see why they aren't providing for those that still have serviceable analog sets. The digital switch over itself was only a couple years ago.
I hadn't heard of them, but I ended up with a Lenovo because I needed something that was going to be quite durable and I didn't want an Intel chipset. It gets really hard to avoid all the monopolists and various other misbehaving companies out there, so I ended up choosing non-Intel over not-MS.
Yeah, but I still need to pay for an HDMI converter or a new TV as they don't provide composite outs.
I might have gotten a Google TV, but between the price and the only ones requiring HDMI on both sides I was looking at $500 or so to get up and running with it. I did want one, but I could have bought a laptop for that and just hooked it up to my TV for not much more.
Of course they are, it's got nothing to do with the pirates, and everything to do with an incompetent industry.
Personally, it's this sort of bullshit self entitlement that is why I don't buy CDs anymore. I'm not about to pay money when I'm being bullshitted and guilted into over paying so some fat cat execs can get their bonuses. You made a choice to sign with a label and this is the consequence. This isn't like in the past where you had to do so in order to sell albums.
Try Linux Mint, it's quite easy with sane defaults for pretty much everything. I'll probably switch from Linux Mint to Linux Mint Debian Edition as it looks to be where the development is going to be happening in the future. Not that it's official I just imagine that if Canonical keeps going the way that it is, that eventually the switch will be needed.
I like that it just works so I have it as my everyday OS when I'm not gaming or experimenting and for that it seems to work well.
No, people are abandoning the distro because it's become painfully obvious that the people running it are batshit insane. It wasn't that they moved to unity, it's that they released an alpha quality Unity with a release. But, it's more than that, have they ever fixed the bug that made it impossible to log in via bluetooth keyboard? I temporarily dropped them because of that bug. OpenSUSE isn't afflicted by that particular problem.
Unity itself probably wasn't that much of a problem it was just obvious, up front and hard to ignore, I suspect that most of the folks that dropped it afterwards had been contemplating it up until that point.
I spend most of my time in Linux Mint these days because I haven't gotten around to setting up Crashplan under FreeBSD.
EXT3 definitely has data corruption problems that I've never seen on any other filesystem. I think the only ones close are UDF on a CDRW and any filesystem on a ZIP disk.
That's not what I meant. But, yes you're correct I should have said without Windows or OSX. Paying through the nose for OSX is hardly something I'm willing to do. My current Laptop cost me $611 when all was said and done a similar Mac would have cost me over a thousand dollars after I got the upgrades needed. And that's their cheapest laptop.
Part of it is that as much as I detest MS, they at least let me do what I want with my hardware whereas Apple seems to be looking for new and innovative ways of preventing people from using their computers. We'll see where it leads with Win 8 as it looks like MS wants to copy Apple.
If you want to get a good feel for numbers then you have to use them. To an extent any tool you use is going to negatively affect ones ability to feel the numbers. I didn't start out being so good doing it, I've spent years doing math in my head and over time the ability tends to develop. I still whip out a calculator when I know the result isn't possible with sufficient precision in my head, but most of the time doing a quick back of the napkin calculation in the head is close enough anyways.
I'm guessing that if you're making a post like that and can't even bother to spell "weird" and "dumb" correctly that you probably aren't the sharpest tool in the shed. Additionally, the whole post is rubbish and you ought to be somewhat appreciative that people don't call you dumb more regularly.
As for doctors, they can't fix stupid, but they can help quite a bit with ADHD and similar neurological disorders.
Not really, you wouldn't be anywhere near as adept at parsing out or expressing the problems as formulas, but there's no reason to believe that you'd be any less capable of comprehending them. I started reading up on physics when I was 8, well before I had access to anything more than the most basic math skills. Even today most of the time when I'm trying to figure out a physics problem the numbers are largely the last thing I look at after modelling the system in my head.
To put it another way, numbers are a relatively recent invention and people had to be calculating projectile motion well before they had the physics with which to calculate the trajectory.
Except that I'm sure there will be more competition to create the HTML5 export than there was for Flash. If I were an Adobe shareholder I would not be pleased by the development.For the most part if you wanted to produce Flash you had to use their product, now it's questionable if that's going to be the case for much longer.
These days I do most of my gaming via Steam or dosbox. I bet you can guess which one doesn't work reliably on Linux or really anything outside of Windows. Codeweavers does support some Steam games, but not all of the ones I want to play.
I think you mean more productive than working. Unfortunately, just because people are clueless and worthless doesn't mean they can be killed.
Games and the fact that it's very difficult to buy a laptop without Windows. Most of the ones I've seen are substantially more expensive than their Windows counterparts and are often times just a Windows laptop where somebody installed Linux and did some extra QA.
The fact that it's cheaper to buy a laptop with Windows in most cases is really not right at all. Ultimately, if I pay for a copy I might as well use it, personally I'd rather not give MS any money at all.
To an extent I disagree, the iPad isn't going to be as flexible as it could be as long as Apple continues Steve's obsession with controlling how the end user uses the product. Hopefully with Steve gone they can remember who the customers are. Consequently, I'm not so sure that the Fire is going to be that much less flexible than the iPad.
Not if it was given for fraudulent reasons. An example would be theft by deception, a while back I seem to remember a woman pretending to have cancer in order to get gifts, or something along those lines, she was ultimately charged with theft by deception, I don't know where the trial on that one is going to go.
I'm not so sure that it was intentional in that example. Most of the options that will never be in the money were most likely granted before DoJ oversight when there was still belief that the share price would make the options viable. Otherwise, I doubt the employees would have accepted them.
Of course they care about people outside their country criticizing their nation, that would be a ridiculously huge loophole if they didn't care about it when you left their soil. The difference is that they have limited capacity to end it when it's not in their country.
Also, the summary suggests that the phones are being targeted at their citizens that go abroad, so there could very well be consequences for offenses that violate Chinese law while abroad.
They're more interested in corporate secrets. There's a reason why there isn't already a market for phones that work in both China and the US. If you go to China they can and do seize the phones from time to time, sometimes they give them back when you leave the country, but I'm not personally going to be taking a phone with me to China.
Information about ones family is definitely useful if one is trying to get secret information from a target. Granted most folks aren't going to have that kind of information, but I'm betting that they'll figure out who does quite quickly.
That's a bullshit straw man, if you want to go to college you can, there are tons of scholarships out there and if you work your butt off you can pay for it. There's even guaranteed loans available for those that can't otherwise pay.
As far as the military goes there's plenty of folks who haven't been eligible over the years no matter how hard they're willing to work. Sometimes it has been reasonable and other times it's just a matter of bigotry.
Also, nice appeal to emotion there, I'm not shitting on anybody's accomplishments, military personnel vary significantly in terms of what they do, many of whom are no more accomplished than somebody in the civilian world doing precisely the same job. There's already anti-discrimination laws in place, giving priority to an identical job done in the military is by its nature discriminatory against other protected classes of individuals who are not eligible for service.
No amount of bullshitting is going to change that fact. And quite frankly you ought to be apologizing for veterans for making them out to be enfeebled morons incapable of earning a job without cheating.
Because there's still enough people who listen to the radio and watch TV that it's still worthwhile. If they can conveniently reach even a third of the population in one go that's way too many people to ignore because the other 2/3 of the people don't see the message. In a case like that it would mean that they would want to add other attempts on top of those attempts.
Also, the chances are good of being able to reach enough people in urban areas to have word start to spread from many sources via word of mouth. Not ideal, but the more people that have access to accurate information.
As for the rural folks, lets be honest, they're less likely to need the information immediately if it's not already obvious that there's a zombie apocalypse on the way.
Tell that to the many gays and lesbians that weren't allowed to openly serve. Not to mention those that have too many tattoos or are missing a digit. None of those things would be grounds for a company to refuse to hire a person and yet all of those things within recent memory were grounds for the military to refuse candidates.
And that doesn't even include things like HIV status or being overweight.
Right or wrong, the military isn't an equal opportunity employer and granting additional status based upon being allowed into the club is just not right.
According the the FAQ Netflix isn't supported by Moonlight at this time. And it probably won't be for a while seeing as Moonlight doesn't support the DRM that Netflix uses.