Supported OS simply means Blizzard guarentees the program to run on it and if something breaks preventing people running WoW on a supported OS, they should fix it.
If you run WoW on Linux and Blizzard releases a patch that prevents it from working, you can't go to Bliz to fix it, you have to fix it yourself.
In both cases, though, you've paid for the service so they are obligated to let you use it as long as you adhere to their terms and licence.
Blizzard does not support Linux. It was great that some enterprising people got WoW working, but that doesn't mean you can complain when Blizzard does something that unintentionally breaks it.
They don't support it, fine. That's their prerogative. But there's a difference between breaking and banning. This is denial of a paid service when the customer was likely adhering to their end of the contract.
Why should you go out and buy multiple tools to do the job of one tool, it's inefficient.
Jack of all trades. Master of none.
Just because a Leatherman has screwdrivers doesn't mean you can use them on cars, or plumbing, or anything that requires high torque. You keep your Leatherman, I'll keep my 88 piece Craftsman set.
Vote for a third party is not, by definition, 'None of the Above'
Nevada has it right: Senate results... Ensign 321,186 55% Carter 237,875 41% None of These Candidates 8,192 1% Schumann 7,749 1% Trainor 5,246 1%
Governor results... Gibbons 277,855 48% Titus 254,920 44% None of These Candidates 20,619 4% Hansen 19,966 3% Bergland 6,731 1%
That's not an option for me. Until there's a candidate that actually makes me want to vote FOR them, instead of against the other guy, I'll consider re-registering. Either that or a federal law (although I'll take a state law in the interm) requiring 'None of the Above' as an entry.
If I bothered voting I'd simply turn in a blank ballot, defeating your argument anyway.
The voice I have is one of disgust and contempt at the system in general, and I feel I can express that quite well without going out to a voting station and performing in a purely symbolic gesture when the significance would be lost at the counting office as it would just get thrown away.
if you do not vote, you forfeit all right to complain about anything your government does until november 2008 (by which time, you will have learned your lesson and will vote, right?)
Please explain the logic of this. I hear this argument used every election and no one's bothered justifying it. Please back this statement up with a reason.
The problem with this "story", as that's an apt description, is that there are about 940 published peer-reviewed papers on global warming. Now out of 940 papers, guess how many of them are agin it? About 9. Guess how many totally crazy scientific papers get past the peer-review process? Maybe 1%. Hmmmmm....
Plate tectonics was laughed at by the scientific community when it was first proposed in the early 60s. By 1970 it was hailed as a breakthrough and widely accepted.
Just because the majority of papers support global warming doesn't necessairly make it so. Content is what matters.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three discs world wide is a pirate.
One in three discs is pirated. So, are you referring here to counterfeit discs produced on the black market and sold for 3 bucks in the subway? Because those are COMPLETELY different from burning a mix cd from tracks off the internet, which rarely, if ever, get sold. Want to talk unreferenced statistics? The highest downloaded tracks online are also the highest purchased CDs. Shocker.
I buy two artists these days: R.E.M. and Weird Al (Sony connections be damned, I think they just do production anyway...) Every day I listen to the radio and there's just nothing on that I'd bother plunking down my cash for. I'd rather get another DS game or another DVD.
I think people don't buy music because they found other things to be interested in. There's a gigantic amount of entertainment choices out there now. We're past the days of the walkman. Music has to compete against movies (now portable), the DS and PSP, at home there's hundreds of TV stations.
Plus I don't think many people, at least in this corner of the cyberverse, have many good things to say about the media racket.
I would like to see an actual fact that states whether their claims are true or not. For instance, maybe they weren't in electronic voting business in 2000, but that doesn't mean they didn't still tally many paper votes (the aggregate of which amounts to 40% of the votes in the election)
From quick and dirty Wiki searching, it looks like Global Election Systems counted 40% of the ballots in the 2000 election (well, Wiki says 100 mil, which seems too high to be 40% of an election return...) and Diebold purchased them in 2001.
They might have a point there...
Course if this is their ONLY point, I think the straws are being grasped at pretty hard.
Even though Foley is not running the Democrats refused to allow his name to be removed from the ballot. Not only that they will not allow signs to put in the polling places to tell people that they are not really voting for Foley! If that is not trying to manipulate the election I don't know what is.
Same with Tom DeLay, but you could also make the argument that the Republicans want to go around the laws already in place for their own benefit. The point isn't "is it fair or not," the point is that it's State law in Florida and Texas that a candidate's name cannot be changed after a certain date, and the courts upheld that law.
Ironically, that's the type of judge the Republicans want: ones that follow a strict interpretation of the law. An activist judge would probably see the illogic of it and rule in a way that would let them change the candidate's name.
Now, though, the duty falls on the legislative branch to change the existing law.
Disclaimer: I hate both parties as well, I'm just posting a counter argument.
Well, if you're making a business out of it, and are required to get a business licence, you should be guarenteed the same protections as any other business. It's part of your livelyhood. If SL crashes, you're now out of income. Can this be applied to unemployment? Can you get insurance?
Taxation is supposed to be a guarentee of protections and services from the government.
Plus, I think a FDIC insured SL bank would just be hilarious...
Are contracts made between characters in SL legally binding? If someone defaults on a payment in L$ can they be taken to court? If this comes to the US, would banks in SL have FDIC backing?
If yes, then I see no reason why it shouldn't be taxed at some point.
However, if I lose L$ through a method not of my choosing, and I have no legal recourse, they can bugger off.
The tighter you clench your fist, more bits will slip through your fingers.
Seriously, did they think this wouldn't be broken? This has become a bad joke. Big company uses software to protect their code, rag tag team of coders breaks it, big company throws a hissy fit, we all laugh at and mock the company.
How many more times must this happen before someone at one of these megalithic corporations realizes all they're doing is reinventing the wheel over...and over...and over again?
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Doing manned missions for PR purposes seems pretty silly.
You must've missed the whole Mercury - Gemini - Apollo era of NASA. Science aspects aside, it was just a cockfight with Russia.
And you know for a fact that OnTrack didn't get permission from those customers?
Supported OS simply means Blizzard guarentees the program to run on it and if something breaks preventing people running WoW on a supported OS, they should fix it.
If you run WoW on Linux and Blizzard releases a patch that prevents it from working, you can't go to Bliz to fix it, you have to fix it yourself.
In both cases, though, you've paid for the service so they are obligated to let you use it as long as you adhere to their terms and licence.
Blizzard does not support Linux. It was great that some enterprising people got WoW working, but that doesn't mean you can complain when Blizzard does something that unintentionally breaks it.
They don't support it, fine. That's their prerogative. But there's a difference between breaking and banning. This is denial of a paid service when the customer was likely adhering to their end of the contract.
Why should you go out and buy multiple tools to do the job of one tool, it's inefficient.
Jack of all trades. Master of none.
Just because a Leatherman has screwdrivers doesn't mean you can use them on cars, or plumbing, or anything that requires high torque. You keep your Leatherman, I'll keep my 88 piece Craftsman set.
I've honestly ever seen the words "robust," and "Microsoft," in the same sentence.
You don't read their marketing materials much, do you?
From what I can tell... blackbox1.org.
That's good enough for me!
PS2: Competition from Nintendo: A smaller, cheaper 'family friendly' console with a 'focus on gameplay.' released one year after the PS2
PS3: Competition from Nintendo: A smaller, cheaper 'family friendly' console with a 'focus on gameplay.' released concurrently with the PS3."
Fixed your article. Where's my co-author credit?
It's not white where the huskys go.
Vote for a third party is not, by definition, 'None of the Above'
Nevada has it right:
Senate results...
Ensign 321,186 55%
Carter 237,875 41%
None of These Candidates 8,192 1%
Schumann 7,749 1%
Trainor 5,246 1%
Governor results...
Gibbons 277,855 48%
Titus 254,920 44%
None of These Candidates 20,619 4%
Hansen 19,966 3%
Bergland 6,731 1%
That's not an option for me. Until there's a candidate that actually makes me want to vote FOR them, instead of against the other guy, I'll consider re-registering. Either that or a federal law (although I'll take a state law in the interm) requiring 'None of the Above' as an entry.
Until then, I'll be waiting.
If I bothered voting I'd simply turn in a blank ballot, defeating your argument anyway.
The voice I have is one of disgust and contempt at the system in general, and I feel I can express that quite well without going out to a voting station and performing in a purely symbolic gesture when the significance would be lost at the counting office as it would just get thrown away.
if you do not vote, you forfeit all right to complain about anything your government does until november 2008 (by which time, you will have learned your lesson and will vote, right?)
Please explain the logic of this. I hear this argument used every election and no one's bothered justifying it. Please back this statement up with a reason.
Common sense would be going to the authorities that have legal ground to stand on. You know, like, the police.
Not an ISP who's job is to provide access to content. THAT is vigilantism.
It's called due process, and it used to be a pillar of democratic-type nations.
The problem with this "story", as that's an apt description, is that there are about 940 published peer-reviewed papers on global warming. Now out of 940 papers, guess how many of them are agin it? About 9. Guess how many totally crazy scientific papers get past the peer-review process? Maybe 1%. Hmmmmm....
Plate tectonics was laughed at by the scientific community when it was first proposed in the early 60s. By 1970 it was hailed as a breakthrough and widely accepted.
Just because the majority of papers support global warming doesn't necessairly make it so. Content is what matters.
...I actually stopped reading after the line I quoted.
Now I feel bad, wearing out my keyboard like that...
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three discs world wide is a pirate.
One in three discs is pirated. So, are you referring here to counterfeit discs produced on the black market and sold for 3 bucks in the subway? Because those are COMPLETELY different from burning a mix cd from tracks off the internet, which rarely, if ever, get sold. Want to talk unreferenced statistics? The highest downloaded tracks online are also the highest purchased CDs. Shocker.
I buy two artists these days: R.E.M. and Weird Al (Sony connections be damned, I think they just do production anyway...) Every day I listen to the radio and there's just nothing on that I'd bother plunking down my cash for. I'd rather get another DS game or another DVD.
I think people don't buy music because they found other things to be interested in. There's a gigantic amount of entertainment choices out there now. We're past the days of the walkman. Music has to compete against movies (now portable), the DS and PSP, at home there's hundreds of TV stations.
Plus I don't think many people, at least in this corner of the cyberverse, have many good things to say about the media racket.
I would like to see an actual fact that states whether their claims are true or not. For instance, maybe they weren't in electronic voting business in 2000, but that doesn't mean they didn't still tally many paper votes (the aggregate of which amounts to 40% of the votes in the election)
From quick and dirty Wiki searching, it looks like Global Election Systems counted 40% of the ballots in the 2000 election (well, Wiki says 100 mil, which seems too high to be 40% of an election return...) and Diebold purchased them in 2001.
They might have a point there...
Course if this is their ONLY point, I think the straws are being grasped at pretty hard.
People are too dumb to know cigarettes are unhealthy. Taxes'll fix that!
People are too dumb to know alcohol is unhealthy. Taxes'll fix that too!
Even though Foley is not running the Democrats refused to allow his name to be removed from the ballot. Not only that they will not allow signs to put in the polling places to tell people that they are not really voting for Foley! If that is not trying to manipulate the election I don't know what is.
Same with Tom DeLay, but you could also make the argument that the Republicans want to go around the laws already in place for their own benefit. The point isn't "is it fair or not," the point is that it's State law in Florida and Texas that a candidate's name cannot be changed after a certain date, and the courts upheld that law.
Ironically, that's the type of judge the Republicans want: ones that follow a strict interpretation of the law. An activist judge would probably see the illogic of it and rule in a way that would let them change the candidate's name.
Now, though, the duty falls on the legislative branch to change the existing law.
Disclaimer: I hate both parties as well, I'm just posting a counter argument.
One might argue that if they could get the proper information about Windows, then their programs would be stable.
Then one could look at Trend Micro and AVG and wonder how they did so well without that proper information from Microsoft...
Well, if you're making a business out of it, and are required to get a business licence, you should be guarenteed the same protections as any other business. It's part of your livelyhood. If SL crashes, you're now out of income. Can this be applied to unemployment? Can you get insurance?
Taxation is supposed to be a guarentee of protections and services from the government.
Plus, I think a FDIC insured SL bank would just be hilarious...
Still...it is a true statement. Can't exactly dock him for being not factual.
Are contracts made between characters in SL legally binding? If someone defaults on a payment in L$ can they be taken to court? If this comes to the US, would banks in SL have FDIC backing?
If yes, then I see no reason why it shouldn't be taxed at some point.
However, if I lose L$ through a method not of my choosing, and I have no legal recourse, they can bugger off.
And the winner for the presidency is... Queen to King's Bishop seven?!
The tighter you clench your fist, more bits will slip through your fingers.
Seriously, did they think this wouldn't be broken? This has become a bad joke. Big company uses software to protect their code, rag tag team of coders breaks it, big company throws a hissy fit, we all laugh at and mock the company.
How many more times must this happen before someone at one of these megalithic corporations realizes all they're doing is reinventing the wheel over...and over...and over again?
Plus add another two weeks to the date Vista goes gold.