There are actual factual Microsoft shills now, who will just outright lie and get modded up for it.
What do you expect after years of flat out MS bashing? There was a time where any inflammatory MS story here had a number of +5 posts starting with "RTFA..." More bullshit, more resistance. Before you know it, the people that came along at the peek of that bullshit have mod-points now, and the other guys were m2'd away. (On a smaller scale, this has happened with the Star Wars prequels, too. Too many people made too big of deal about the suckiness of those movies so the other side has gotten noisy.)
It works both ways, btw. It used to be that Apple was rigorously defended. You could get modded into oblvion by the most harmless of comments. In the last year or two, the Apple worship annoyed enough people that they fought back. Now you can have fun taking pokes at Apple without your posts dipping into -1 land. I imagine Google will be the next step, although admittedly I incorrectly predicted we'd all hate Google by 2007.
So, to summarize: If you want the MS 'shills' to go away, then shaddup. Seriously. There's no way that argument's going to die if you call the guy who RTFA'd a shill. It's just a cycle of bullshit.
Also, why don't vendors include stickers for all OS' a piece of hardware will function with.
Because they don't want noisy customers calling them complaining that their obscure distro of Linux doesn't do something they want it to. "But you guys said it supports this!"
It's possible they just learned that not that many people care. I mean, how many of the 10 or so million people that purchased iPhones / iPod Touches complained?
Which is how long they estimated it would take for the rovers' solar panels to be covered in too much dust for the rover to function. Dust is why the mission was scoped at 90 days.
Right. And if they really wanted longer than 90 days, they would have done something to account for it.
My cat successfully changed my email password when I was out. I still don't know how that furry demon could have pulled it off as my email wasn't even open at the time.
My cat did that to me, too. My mistake was in using a 255 character password.
That's certainly a factor. However, there are several classes of actor. You can see it any show. Patrick Stewart, for example, is far more nuanced than any other actor in STNG. (Picture replacing him with Frakes and you get the idea.) That's the reason the stories typically orbited around him.
Actors play a huge part in attracting an audience. Frankly, this site in particular knows this, I'm not sure why this discussion's even happening. Between Mos Def as Ford Prefect and demands that Optimus Prime should get his original voice... oh brother. Yeah, actors are super inter-changable.
Right, things don't scientifically happen when you take a risk. Gee, glad we got that cleared up. Meanwhile, people like Eddie Murphy get 10's of millions for working on movies while the other actors get a fraction of that. Meanwhile, I'm still right, and we're not even in the neighborhood of the topic at hand anymore.
Faster isn't always the winner. In my case, I have a lot more USB ports than wall-outlets available. Also, wall-warts are considerably bulkier and heavier. I charge my phone at night so faster charges don't buy me anything, but USB charging definitely makes me more mobile.
Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.
That's just sick, dude. If the judge was getting kickbacks for sending people to prison, then that casts a huge doubt on the guilt of the defendent. Release or re-trial. Either way is better than an automatic assumption of guilt.
i'm not seeing how MS has done you wrong. use the app as licensed. this is like criminals whining about people putting better locks on their houses.
I admit I do not fully understand what's going on here, but doesn't the description also imply that it'd be harder to corrupt Windows? I mean, if it's punting apps because of hacked.DLLs, isn't that potentially a good thing? Even a social engineering 'hack' would have trouble with that.
So you can even give a dead person facial expressions? This technology seems to have no limits in it applications. I mean, I'll bet you could even get Keanu Reeves to display emotions.
(Un)fortunately, he has to be converted into a cadever before it'll work.
It's a relatively simple skill and anyone (okay not quite, I wouldn't scout on/.) can learn it.
Not really. It's a very difficult line of work to make a career out of.
But in principle someone else could do their job.
Bearing in mind that I was talking about the actors that actually draw a percentage of the film's in-take, no, this statement isn't true. Big names are hired just for the sake of having their big names in there. They are the face of the movie and people like familiarity. Why do you think Dreamworks pays millions of dollars to get people like Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy to be voices? They just want their names on the posters.
It has been particularly harmful in distributing copyrighted works prior to their official release. This damages sales of music at the most important time of their life cycle.
Okay, let's see the proof of this. Produce numbers, please.
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There are actual factual Microsoft shills now, who will just outright lie and get modded up for it.
What do you expect after years of flat out MS bashing? There was a time where any inflammatory MS story here had a number of +5 posts starting with "RTFA..." More bullshit, more resistance. Before you know it, the people that came along at the peek of that bullshit have mod-points now, and the other guys were m2'd away. (On a smaller scale, this has happened with the Star Wars prequels, too. Too many people made too big of deal about the suckiness of those movies so the other side has gotten noisy.)
It works both ways, btw. It used to be that Apple was rigorously defended. You could get modded into oblvion by the most harmless of comments. In the last year or two, the Apple worship annoyed enough people that they fought back. Now you can have fun taking pokes at Apple without your posts dipping into -1 land. I imagine Google will be the next step, although admittedly I incorrectly predicted we'd all hate Google by 2007.
So, to summarize: If you want the MS 'shills' to go away, then shaddup. Seriously. There's no way that argument's going to die if you call the guy who RTFA'd a shill. It's just a cycle of bullshit.
Also, why don't vendors include stickers for all OS' a piece of hardware will function with.
Because they don't want noisy customers calling them complaining that their obscure distro of Linux doesn't do something they want it to. "But you guys said it supports this!"
insightful?!?! The fact that this is modded insightful is funnier (or scarier) than the post!
This is why Insightful shouldn't be used in place of Funny. The karma bonus isn't worth the silliness it can cause.
It will also be useful for detecting incoming projectiles, i.e. chairs thrown by Steve Ballmer.
Question for the people that spent a mod point calling this funny: Do you still laugh at Lewinski jokes?
He started it!
Due to a typo the mission was programmed to land in Europe instead.
... our mission to find intelligent life continues.
It's possible they just learned that not that many people care. I mean, how many of the 10 or so million people that purchased iPhones / iPod Touches complained?
lol no. No. No. And No. lol
Well, I'll put it another way. If you acutally understood what I said like you claim to, you wouldn't have made that original post.
Wrong. But, whatever, it affects you more than me.
Thank you for responding to the first half of my post with a simplified version of the second half of my post.
Our posts weren't completely identical. There's a little nuance there that's actually quite important. Oh well.
Which is how long they estimated it would take for the rovers' solar panels to be covered in too much dust for the rover to function. Dust is why the mission was scoped at 90 days.
Right. And if they really wanted longer than 90 days, they would have done something to account for it.
Settle down, Beavis.
My cat successfully changed my email password when I was out. I still don't know how that furry demon could have pulled it off as my email wasn't even open at the time.
My cat did that to me, too. My mistake was in using a 255 character password.
They don't pay actors tens of millions to be not-Cruise.
Any more logic fail?
That's certainly a factor. However, there are several classes of actor. You can see it any show. Patrick Stewart, for example, is far more nuanced than any other actor in STNG. (Picture replacing him with Frakes and you get the idea.) That's the reason the stories typically orbited around him.
Actors play a huge part in attracting an audience. Frankly, this site in particular knows this, I'm not sure why this discussion's even happening. Between Mos Def as Ford Prefect and demands that Optimus Prime should get his original voice... oh brother. Yeah, actors are super inter-changable.
Right, things don't scientifically happen when you take a risk. Gee, glad we got that cleared up. Meanwhile, people like Eddie Murphy get 10's of millions for working on movies while the other actors get a fraction of that. Meanwhile, I'm still right, and we're not even in the neighborhood of the topic at hand anymore.
Faster isn't always the winner. In my case, I have a lot more USB ports than wall-outlets available. Also, wall-warts are considerably bulkier and heavier. I charge my phone at night so faster charges don't buy me anything, but USB charging definitely makes me more mobile.
Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.
That's just sick, dude. If the judge was getting kickbacks for sending people to prison, then that casts a huge doubt on the guilt of the defendent. Release or re-trial. Either way is better than an automatic assumption of guilt.
Am I the last person on Earth to use a phone as - I don't know - a god damn phone?
Do you have a problem with doing more with a device you're already paying a monthly fee for?
i'm not seeing how MS has done you wrong. use the app as licensed. this is like criminals whining about people putting better locks on their houses.
I admit I do not fully understand what's going on here, but doesn't the description also imply that it'd be harder to corrupt Windows? I mean, if it's punting apps because of hacked .DLLs, isn't that potentially a good thing? Even a social engineering 'hack' would have trouble with that.
...but really you could replace Tom Cruise with any of the 1000s of aspiring talented actors, save $20 million, and not affect ticket sales.
Wrong.
So you can even give a dead person facial expressions? This technology seems to have no limits in it applications. I mean, I'll bet you could even get Keanu Reeves to display emotions.
(Un)fortunately, he has to be converted into a cadever before it'll work.
Ah, so that guy who recently proved Fermat's last theorem was replaceable? Remember the theorem was around, unsolved, for 400 years?
Did half a billion dollars suddenly change hands when he solved it?
It's a relatively simple skill and anyone (okay not quite, I wouldn't scout on /.) can learn it.
Not really. It's a very difficult line of work to make a career out of.
But in principle someone else could do their job.
Bearing in mind that I was talking about the actors that actually draw a percentage of the film's in-take, no, this statement isn't true. Big names are hired just for the sake of having their big names in there. They are the face of the movie and people like familiarity. Why do you think Dreamworks pays millions of dollars to get people like Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy to be voices? They just want their names on the posters.
It has been particularly harmful in distributing copyrighted works prior to their official release. This damages sales of music at the most important time of their life cycle.
Okay, let's see the proof of this. Produce numbers, please.