I've yet to see a resume format that Rich Text Format could not handle with ease. And Word can even open them! And if the latest copy of Word can't, Wordpad can.
The american way is "are you with us, or are you against us?".
Come on that's not fair. It's the Bush way, not the American way.
Actually, he's more right than you are. That is a common American attitude. We (well, other Americans, I developed the ability to think in shades of gray) tend to have a black and white outlook on things. Thet are good or evil. Great or awful. With us or against us. Going to (our version of) Heaven or going to rot in eternal Hellfire.
It's in the very core of out beings for many Americans. It's pounded into us by our politicians, our clergy, our schools, our parents and almost every other authority figure out there.
But to learn a new interface means unlearning the old one. And a lot of people who leanred the Windows interface didn't really have much of a choice. What environment do you run into at work? Windows. School? Mostly Windows above the jr. high school / middle school grade levels.
Yes, "The Inner Light" is one of the best episodes of any series ever made, and the best Star Trek episode ever made by more miles than I can count. (The second Dr. Moriarty episode is a distant second, IMHO.)
But they really screwed the pooch by not following up on it. The expeirence shoudl have had a profound change on Picard's life. Certianly more than just leaving him with teh ability to play the recorder. It could have motivated him to get off his ass and persue Dr. Crusher. Or at least lead to him questioning what he's doing with his life.
They could have done tremendous things with Picard after that. But they didn't.
With the exception of the above mentioned Moriarty eposode and the "Two Feringi" Voyager episode, Star Trek almost never followed up on anything. Ever. (DS9 is exempt from this because long story arcs were part of that shows foundation.)
I always wanted them to do a followup episode to the Voayage meets the Romulan through a time-warped wormhole episode. They could do an entire episode of him waiting until after Voyager disapears and then working his way through the entangled mess of Romulan/Human politics to get the data sticks back to the Federation. Hell, that would have made an excelent final episode. Have the Voyager break down in orbit around some pleasant planet and have the crew decide to settle down and stay in the first half of the episode and then follow the Romulan commander in the second half.
People who actually buy video games. People like me. If the pirates get shut down the distributors, producers, coders, etc... get more money due to increased sales, or at least get compensated for every copy in use, even if sales don't go up.
A recent post I read elsewhere by George Brussoud (sp?) of 3D-Realms stated that the most important time in a game's release was the first month. Those sales will determine if a game developement house gets to do another game. And it is this sales window that is hit hardest by piracy.
Yes, the police should be putting more resources into going after dangerous criminals, but they should be going after non-dangerous criminals as well. The argument of "why go after me when that guy over there is doing worse" is self0serving crap.
There was an article in Discover Magazine a few years ago about the the electoral system that we use. As it turns out, your vote counts more in a system like this.
Utter and complete horseshit. Under the E.C. my viote gets thrown in the garbage because I don't vote with my state's 80% Republican bloc. So, my state tosses it's 3 E.C. votes in with the Republicans and my vote goes away.
Under a popular vote system my vote would be aggregated with all of the other people who vote like I do across the entire country. Under this system my vote might have made a difference. Under the current system it makes none.
And before you toss out that tired old saw about the E.C. balancing differences in power between states of different population levels remember that this a national election, not a state election. States are meaningless in this context. Only the vote of the individual citizen matters.
As for the argument that the E.C. keeps the cities from overrunning the rual areas, that's a load of festering hyena offal as well. NY City still runs roughshod over rual NY state. Why? Because NYC has all of the population and how NYC votes, the rest of the state follows due to the E.C. inhales all of thier votes. Under a popular vote all of the rual NY votes would be aggregated with the rual New Hampshire votes, rual Maine votes, rual Vermont votes, etc... and if voters in rual areas have similar opnions, their votes add up.
The E.C. was created by the landed gentry to keep the unwashed and uneducated masses away from the presidential elections. And that's exactly what it's used for now.
OOo Writer doesn't look like WinWord at all. Yes, it has a menu bar and a work area, but then so does every other windows (MS, X, Mac, etc...) application out there. And yes, with some apps there are only so many ways to get the job done, which is why all spreadsheet apps have rows and collumns) but this is too much. Look at WinAmp 5. It has many of the same features that iTunes has, but it doesn't look a thing like iTunes.
Apple puts millions of dollars into UI research and design, why not copy their work?
Why not stop stealing other people's ideas and come up with something yourself? Why not create a Linux GUI standard based on your own collaberative studies into what makes the best interface instead of just ripping off the latest trends from someone else?
Alec Guinness was quoted in an interview as saying that the script for Star Wars was the worst script he's ever seen in terms of trying to say the lines.
Apple is a *BUSINESS* and all businesses protect their assets. To Apple the Mac OS interface is one of their assets. They will protect it. The same with the DRM in iTunes.
As for C&C letters, they are no worse than any other large corporation out there. They have nothing on Microsoft in this arena.
Everything is legal and moral if it allows you to do what you want with whatever you want on Linix. Didn't you get the memo? Linix abolishes all rules and laws. It is above the laws of Man and God. Rape, murder, incest, theft, arson, nuclear war, pyrohomonecropedobestiality, polygamy and even Republicanism is all fair game if it allows you to use something under Linux.
Free tavel is a right. Operating an automobile is a priviledge. A priviledge that you have to train for and pass a test to be granted. If you lose your lisence, and not enough people do, you can always walk, bicycle, take the bus/train/etc, ride a horse, skateboard, rollerskate, job, etc...
I don't really like my white ones, actually. Sure, they sound pretty good, but they don't block noise at all. I have to crank my iPod all the way up to 11 just to hear my music over the thundering din of a snoring housecat.
FPS games are not the best selling games. Not by a long shot. The best selling games for the PC are:
1: Myst
2: Rollercoaster Tycoon
3: The Sims (and the expansion packs)
4: MS Flight Simulator
5: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
6: Riven: The Sequel to Myst
7: MS Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
8: Monopoly Game
9: Lego Island
10: Diablo
Not an FPS game in the bunch. Now, I love DOOM, Quake (1/2/3:A), etc... but I'm not most gamers.
In the 16 years I've spent playing games on the PC environment (that is, IBM PCs and their decendants, older non-upgradable systems didn't have these issues) I've had to deal with the following issues:
New games requiring RAM upgrades.
Existing games crapping out because of said RAM upgrade (I kid you not).
New games not compatible with the mix of Extended/Expanded RAM that everything else plays nice with.
Games crapping out due to a hardware upgrade, like a video card or sound card.
New games needing the newest video card drivers and those new drivers killing off older games.
Games malfunctioning due to an OS upgrade.
Games failing because of DLLs brought in from non-gaming applications.
Games becoming unplayable when the system is upgraded because said games lack internal speed controls (anyone ever try to play "Wing Cpmmander" on a Pentium 133?).
Every game I have for my three consoles (PSOne, DreamCast, XBox) still works (save for the disc I rolled my chair over and snapped, but that's not Sony's fault). Most of my PC games from the PSOne era no longer work on the beast of a computer I have.
I've given up on PC games (with the minor exception of some FPS games and those cute little Flash/Java games you play in a web browser) because I'm sick of the BS keeping my game system able to play the greatest number of games possible.
It's the inflexibility of the hardware that makes consoles able to play the games written for them. Show me ANY 733Mhz PC that can play Halo at all! Or a system with the same specs as a PS2 play any of the GTA series. It's not going to happen.
The point of the XBox (from Microsoft's perspective) is to make it easy to port console games to the PC.
I keep hearing that, but I'm not seeing the evidence to back it up. The number of XBox games ported to Windows is about the same as PS2 games ported to Windows.
That isn't the point of the XBox at all. The XBox has two points: 1: To muscle into a market they had not had a presense in before and; 2: as a testbed for their Secure Computer Platform.
Guess what, Sparky? Not everyone gives a damn about storage space. Some people actually prefer the smaller size of the unit and the *gasp* styling of it over the older models.
Having different priorities doesn't make them stupid. Not being able to understand that fact doesn't reflect too well on _your_ intelligence, however.
A lot of Slashdotter's should be getting used to the taste of crow right about now. Many people here predicted that teh iPod Mini would be a bust, that no one would buy a 4GB unit for $50.00 (US) less than a 15GB unit.
And they were 100% dead wrong. Why? Because the iPod Mini isn't aimed at the tech-savy/. market.
The lesson here: Don't predict the market based solely on your preferences.
Almost none of the games I play got ported to Windows, and those that did were not worth thr upgrade my system would need to run them. The one exception was one of the Need For Speed games and EA broke support for my steering wheel on the Windows port.
The idea that XBox games get ported to Windows is largely a myth.
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I've yet to see a resume format that Rich Text Format could not handle with ease. And Word can even open them! And if the latest copy of Word can't, Wordpad can.
DIMMs != "sticks". Why don't people understand that?
Come on that's not fair. It's the Bush way, not the American way.
Actually, he's more right than you are. That is a common American attitude. We (well, other Americans, I developed the ability to think in shades of gray) tend to have a black and white outlook on things. Thet are good or evil. Great or awful. With us or against us. Going to (our version of) Heaven or going to rot in eternal Hellfire.
It's in the very core of out beings for many Americans. It's pounded into us by our politicians, our clergy, our schools, our parents and almost every other authority figure out there.
But to learn a new interface means unlearning the old one. And a lot of people who leanred the Windows interface didn't really have much of a choice. What environment do you run into at work? Windows. School? Mostly Windows above the jr. high school / middle school grade levels.
Yes, "The Inner Light" is one of the best episodes of any series ever made, and the best Star Trek episode ever made by more miles than I can count. (The second Dr. Moriarty episode is a distant second, IMHO.)
But they really screwed the pooch by not following up on it. The expeirence shoudl have had a profound change on Picard's life. Certianly more than just leaving him with teh ability to play the recorder. It could have motivated him to get off his ass and persue Dr. Crusher. Or at least lead to him questioning what he's doing with his life.
They could have done tremendous things with Picard after that. But they didn't.
With the exception of the above mentioned Moriarty eposode and the "Two Feringi" Voyager episode, Star Trek almost never followed up on anything. Ever. (DS9 is exempt from this because long story arcs were part of that shows foundation.)
I always wanted them to do a followup episode to the Voayage meets the Romulan through a time-warped wormhole episode. They could do an entire episode of him waiting until after Voyager disapears and then working his way through the entangled mess of Romulan/Human politics to get the data sticks back to the Federation. Hell, that would have made an excelent final episode. Have the Voyager break down in orbit around some pleasant planet and have the crew decide to settle down and stay in the first half of the episode and then follow the Romulan commander in the second half.
People who actually buy video games. People like me. If the pirates get shut down the distributors, producers, coders, etc... get more money due to increased sales, or at least get compensated for every copy in use, even if sales don't go up.
A recent post I read elsewhere by George Brussoud (sp?) of 3D-Realms stated that the most important time in a game's release was the first month. Those sales will determine if a game developement house gets to do another game. And it is this sales window that is hit hardest by piracy.
Yes, the police should be putting more resources into going after dangerous criminals, but they should be going after non-dangerous criminals as well. The argument of "why go after me when that guy over there is doing worse" is self0serving crap.
I could not agree with you more on every point. I'd mod you up if I hadn't let my mod points expire.
Utter and complete horseshit. Under the E.C. my viote gets thrown in the garbage because I don't vote with my state's 80% Republican bloc. So, my state tosses it's 3 E.C. votes in with the Republicans and my vote goes away.
Under a popular vote system my vote would be aggregated with all of the other people who vote like I do across the entire country. Under this system my vote might have made a difference. Under the current system it makes none.
And before you toss out that tired old saw about the E.C. balancing differences in power between states of different population levels remember that this a national election, not a state election. States are meaningless in this context. Only the vote of the individual citizen matters.
As for the argument that the E.C. keeps the cities from overrunning the rual areas, that's a load of festering hyena offal as well. NY City still runs roughshod over rual NY state. Why? Because NYC has all of the population and how NYC votes, the rest of the state follows due to the E.C. inhales all of thier votes. Under a popular vote all of the rual NY votes would be aggregated with the rual New Hampshire votes, rual Maine votes, rual Vermont votes, etc... and if voters in rual areas have similar opnions, their votes add up.
The E.C. was created by the landed gentry to keep the unwashed and uneducated masses away from the presidential elections. And that's exactly what it's used for now.
OOo Writer doesn't look like WinWord at all. Yes, it has a menu bar and a work area, but then so does every other windows (MS, X, Mac, etc...) application out there. And yes, with some apps there are only so many ways to get the job done, which is why all spreadsheet apps have rows and collumns) but this is too much. Look at WinAmp 5. It has many of the same features that iTunes has, but it doesn't look a thing like iTunes.
Why not stop stealing other people's ideas and come up with something yourself? Why not create a Linux GUI standard based on your own collaberative studies into what makes the best interface instead of just ripping off the latest trends from someone else?
Alec Guinness was quoted in an interview as saying that the script for Star Wars was the worst script he's ever seen in terms of trying to say the lines.
If you don't like iTunes DRM, don't buy from them. Go to the store and buy the CD! Or, buy it from Amazon or some other online retailor!
As for C&C letters, they are no worse than any other large corporation out there. They have nothing on Microsoft in this arena.
Everything is legal and moral if it allows you to do what you want with whatever you want on Linix. Didn't you get the memo? Linix abolishes all rules and laws. It is above the laws of Man and God. Rape, murder, incest, theft, arson, nuclear war, pyrohomonecropedobestiality, polygamy and even Republicanism is all fair game if it allows you to use something under Linux.
I say we hang him. Hell, I'll pull the lever on the gallows.
Free tavel is a right. Operating an automobile is a priviledge. A priviledge that you have to train for and pass a test to be granted. If you lose your lisence, and not enough people do, you can always walk, bicycle, take the bus/train/etc, ride a horse, skateboard, rollerskate, job, etc...
I don't really like my white ones, actually. Sure, they sound pretty good, but they don't block noise at all. I have to crank my iPod all the way up to 11 just to hear my music over the thundering din of a snoring housecat.
1: Myst
2: Rollercoaster Tycoon
3: The Sims (and the expansion packs)
4: MS Flight Simulator
5: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
6: Riven: The Sequel to Myst
7: MS Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
8: Monopoly Game
9: Lego Island
10: Diablo
Not an FPS game in the bunch. Now, I love DOOM, Quake (1/2/3:A), etc... but I'm not most gamers.
- New games requiring RAM upgrades.
- Existing games crapping out because of said RAM upgrade (I kid you not).
- New games not compatible with the mix of Extended/Expanded RAM that everything else plays nice with.
- Games crapping out due to a hardware upgrade, like a video card or sound card.
- New games needing the newest video card drivers and those new drivers killing off older games.
- Games malfunctioning due to an OS upgrade.
- Games failing because of DLLs brought in from non-gaming applications.
- Games becoming unplayable when the system is upgraded because said games lack internal speed controls (anyone ever try to play "Wing Cpmmander" on a Pentium 133?).
Every game I have for my three consoles (PSOne, DreamCast, XBox) still works (save for the disc I rolled my chair over and snapped, but that's not Sony's fault). Most of my PC games from the PSOne era no longer work on the beast of a computer I have.I've given up on PC games (with the minor exception of some FPS games and those cute little Flash/Java games you play in a web browser) because I'm sick of the BS keeping my game system able to play the greatest number of games possible.
It's the inflexibility of the hardware that makes consoles able to play the games written for them. Show me ANY 733Mhz PC that can play Halo at all! Or a system with the same specs as a PS2 play any of the GTA series. It's not going to happen.
I keep hearing that, but I'm not seeing the evidence to back it up. The number of XBox games ported to Windows is about the same as PS2 games ported to Windows.
That isn't the point of the XBox at all. The XBox has two points: 1: To muscle into a market they had not had a presense in before and; 2: as a testbed for their Secure Computer Platform.
Guess what, Sparky? Not everyone gives a damn about storage space. Some people actually prefer the smaller size of the unit and the *gasp* styling of it over the older models.
Having different priorities doesn't make them stupid. Not being able to understand that fact doesn't reflect too well on _your_ intelligence, however.
A lot of Slashdotter's should be getting used to the taste of crow right about now. Many people here predicted that teh iPod Mini would be a bust, that no one would buy a 4GB unit for $50.00 (US) less than a 15GB unit.
/. market.
And they were 100% dead wrong. Why? Because the iPod Mini isn't aimed at the tech-savy
The lesson here: Don't predict the market based solely on your preferences.
Almost none of the games I play got ported to Windows, and those that did were not worth thr upgrade my system would need to run them. The one exception was one of the Need For Speed games and EA broke support for my steering wheel on the Windows port.
The idea that XBox games get ported to Windows is largely a myth.