It's the same with various PC OEMs introducing gestures to their trackpads. The problem is, the trackpads are plastic garbage, the gestures are unwieldy, and it's just nothing like an Apple multitouch trackpad - at all.
I think these new tablets are going to be the same. iPod touch and the 2G iPhone were lackluster and "underwhelming" at launch, too. And then OS 2.0 came along and blew everyone else out of the water. Killer apps are on their way for the iPad, rest assured.
Spot on...AllofMP3 submitted its royalty payments to the proper Russian authority. Just because their organizations aren't insane (like our RIAA) or ridiculously greedy (like our RIAA) doesn't mean they weren't paid. Now whether RIAA got paid by this body or not (and apparently they didn't) is another matter entirely.
When I lived in Moscow I could buy pirate CDs and DVDs all day long from vendors and full-on shops on the street and only *once* in the entire year I lived there did "busting a pirate kiosk" make the news. And even then, I think that was entirely due to US/RIAA pressure on the Russian government to shut down a single website in exchange for WTO membership (why Russia actually wants to join the WTO is up for discussion, but that's another matter).
Pirate CDs usually cost between $1 and $3 and pirate DVDs usually went for $3+ (R100) from the street traders. The cops would come by, take a few movies or their cut, and move on. On the other hand, you could buy legit CDs for $3-$10. The artists got paid, the labels got paid, and no one was suing 12yr old girls. So tell me again why we don't have a similar situation here?
And before anyone thinks that Russian entertainers eke out a living in crumbling Soviet-era apartments (I lived in a crumbling Soviet block and it wasn't half bad, frankly), a good number of them (except the band Leningrad:P) are living in very nice remodeled apartments in Moscow and Petersburg -- some of the most expensive real estate anywhere in the world. Besides, and this is what I *love* about Russia, who's going to enforce it?;)
When it comes to supporting *server* hardware, there really is no argument. And this is where Linux belongs in the enterprise, currently. I'm a fairly hardcore free software advocate and I still don't think average end user should be using GNU/Linux.
But to argue that Vista supports server hardware better than Vista (I realize this isn't what you were doing) is just absurd. On the desktop it's another matter entirely...again, the fault of manufacturers, *not* of the FOSS community.
This isn't surprising at all...I've been playing 40K since 1994 and have watched GW threaten all sorts of "intellectual property" suits, all the while driving prices through the roof and driving quality through the bedrock. Yes, the models look good today, but they don't have the same sort of character as the old stuff did (Rogue Trader-era was the Golden Age of Citadel for a good reason).
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Games Workshop is the Microsoft of miniatures gaming. Fuck you, Games Workshop.
If science is going to be censored now (and that's what this amounts to) we may as well pack it in. The same sort of sad neocons that cling to the sinking cryptofascist ship that is this government (the Democrats are hardly blameless, we need to admit that) are the same sort of sad individuals who will try to either downplay or rationalize this criminal censoring of facts and truth...but then again, the manipulation of facts and truth has been the hallmark of probably the most criminal American administration of the modern era.
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What's 30% of $0 again? Why would I ever pay for Flash web content?
It's the same with various PC OEMs introducing gestures to their trackpads. The problem is, the trackpads are plastic garbage, the gestures are unwieldy, and it's just nothing like an Apple multitouch trackpad - at all. I think these new tablets are going to be the same. iPod touch and the 2G iPhone were lackluster and "underwhelming" at launch, too. And then OS 2.0 came along and blew everyone else out of the water. Killer apps are on their way for the iPad, rest assured.
Spot on...AllofMP3 submitted its royalty payments to the proper Russian authority. Just because their organizations aren't insane (like our RIAA) or ridiculously greedy (like our RIAA) doesn't mean they weren't paid. Now whether RIAA got paid by this body or not (and apparently they didn't) is another matter entirely.
:P) are living in very nice remodeled apartments in Moscow and Petersburg -- some of the most expensive real estate anywhere in the world. Besides, and this is what I *love* about Russia, who's going to enforce it? ;)
When I lived in Moscow I could buy pirate CDs and DVDs all day long from vendors and full-on shops on the street and only *once* in the entire year I lived there did "busting a pirate kiosk" make the news. And even then, I think that was entirely due to US/RIAA pressure on the Russian government to shut down a single website in exchange for WTO membership (why Russia actually wants to join the WTO is up for discussion, but that's another matter).
Pirate CDs usually cost between $1 and $3 and pirate DVDs usually went for $3+ (R100) from the street traders. The cops would come by, take a few movies or their cut, and move on. On the other hand, you could buy legit CDs for $3-$10. The artists got paid, the labels got paid, and no one was suing 12yr old girls. So tell me again why we don't have a similar situation here?
And before anyone thinks that Russian entertainers eke out a living in crumbling Soviet-era apartments (I lived in a crumbling Soviet block and it wasn't half bad, frankly), a good number of them (except the band Leningrad
When it comes to supporting *server* hardware, there really is no argument. And this is where Linux belongs in the enterprise, currently. I'm a fairly hardcore free software advocate and I still don't think average end user should be using GNU/Linux.
But to argue that Vista supports server hardware better than Vista (I realize this isn't what you were doing) is just absurd. On the desktop it's another matter entirely...again, the fault of manufacturers, *not* of the FOSS community.
This isn't surprising at all...I've been playing 40K since 1994 and have watched GW threaten all sorts of "intellectual property" suits, all the while driving prices through the roof and driving quality through the bedrock. Yes, the models look good today, but they don't have the same sort of character as the old stuff did (Rogue Trader-era was the Golden Age of Citadel for a good reason).
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Games Workshop is the Microsoft of miniatures gaming. Fuck you, Games Workshop.
Anyone interested in a huge 40K Ork army, cheap?
If science is going to be censored now (and that's what this amounts to) we may as well pack it in. The same sort of sad neocons that cling to the sinking cryptofascist ship that is this government (the Democrats are hardly blameless, we need to admit that) are the same sort of sad individuals who will try to either downplay or rationalize this criminal censoring of facts and truth...but then again, the manipulation of facts and truth has been the hallmark of probably the most criminal American administration of the modern era.