Lets be honest with ourselves. XBLIG is definitely a step in the right direction but Microsoft treats it little more than a novelty. You are required to use C#/XNA with the.NET Compact Framework, something never designed for the kind of programming you will inevitably be doing and as such you will be fighting it every step of the way. Microsoft put absolutely no thought in how people will find your games, and there's absolutely no quality control. I've dealt with XBLIG and outside of a few miracle games, it's pretty much nothing more than a festering pit. Fun to work with for your own ends, but you better not actually consider making anything from it.
If Microsoft created a system like XBox Live Arcade that was more open to indie devs like Steam, and didn't pidgeonhole you into C#/XNA with the compact framework, then the platform would be so much more appealing. One of these days, I think Microsoft will get it. I think they'll even get it before their competitors. I just hope it happens soon.
Royalty free does not mean public domain. That means they don't collect money on each performance. You can sell something royalty free. Stock photo sites do this all the time.
I can't stand Gnome anymore. Not with the unity thing, and especially not with this crap. I keep asking myself who their UI designers are really trying to please with these asinine ideas. All this maximized by default crap says to me is "wasteful". Look at all the whitespace around the application contents. Why is that preferred to having a titlebar and being able to see more than one window? It certainly isn't to me. I would very much like to be able to see more than one application at a time thank you very much. I've since moved to XFCE. Much more sane in my opinion.
Erm, most 5 year old PCs will run Windows 7 just fine, unless you purchased one that was sub-par and already on its way out when you bought it. I have Windows 7 running on an old emachines I purchased for $550 back in 2006 for my child sister and the thing runs fine. No it wont play modern games but that was never even part of the equation when it was purchased with Windows XP.
This is my opinion as well. To be honest, I've never spent more than $30 on a jacket, and they've all been able to hold copious amounts of stuff as well as being comfortable and functional.
That was my whole point; they want to use it to analyze your life. It's basically a gold mine of information regarding your potential hire. However filtering out people completely who don't have it is lazy. Not everyone wants to broadcast their life online, and it makes little sense to force them to just to save yourself some time. Facebook is not the only way to find information on potential hires.
I will never agree with a filter based on whether or not someone has Facebook or not.
If you lost potential jobs by not having a facebook account, then you did not want to work there anyway. They just wanted you to do their research for them by divulging every detail of your life on facebook so they could go through it and nitpick every little comment and picture in your account.
I think you've misunderstood me man, and that's probably my fault. I was calling into question his use of the ancient "199X called" joke as being a ridiculous comment to make while at the same time complaining about the age of a complaint.
It's not an issue who the song is sold to. The problem is how the song is used after it's purchased. The artist doesn't care if Gingrich purchased and listened to the song, the issue is using the song in public potentially without proper ASCAP licensing. If the publisher was willing to file a lawsuit (the author only brought it up to the publisher's attention, the author did not file suit), it seems to me that they may not have paid the appropriate licensing fees.
If he did pay the ASCAP licensing fees, then he's totally in the clear. We just don't have that information right now.
Using the song in political campaigns constitutes a public performance, something that simply buying the disc in a store doesn't afford you the right to do.
It's not going to be hard for people to find the non-Target branded merchandise, if they're really insistent on using Target as a showroom and shopping online. To be honest, I haven't really heard of this being a massive issue to begin with.
All this tells me is Target sets their prices high and instead of fighting for customers like every other store does, they're trying to shoehorn people into buying at their bloated prices. No thanks, Target.
You have no heart at all. We should just let everyone who has these conditions die and focus on physics instead. Got it. I mean it's not like any first world countries have to deal with things like AIDS and TB.
His quote in full, straight from that slanted site even:
The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
He wasn't talking about killing 10-15% through vaccines. He was suggesting that properly informed adults may consider the effect of popping out child after child which is what happens now. That instead of having 9 billion people, that it might be closer to ~7.6 billion instead. It's sad that I even need to explain this.
You were somewhat lucky. A friend of mine was in the ER for a stomach ache about 9 months ago. He had some kind of stomach flu or something and was in there for several hours. Couple X-Rays, medicines, and prescriptions later and his final bill came to over $13,000. He was uninsured, too, so he was stuck with the whole thing.
There is actually a number of ways to obtain Chromium for Windows the way Chromium developers intended it to be. Several respected download sites have snapshots available for download.
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He was probably just looking for a reason to justify his need to pirate modern video games.
Lets be honest with ourselves. XBLIG is definitely a step in the right direction but Microsoft treats it little more than a novelty. You are required to use C#/XNA with the .NET Compact Framework, something never designed for the kind of programming you will inevitably be doing and as such you will be fighting it every step of the way. Microsoft put absolutely no thought in how people will find your games, and there's absolutely no quality control. I've dealt with XBLIG and outside of a few miracle games, it's pretty much nothing more than a festering pit. Fun to work with for your own ends, but you better not actually consider making anything from it.
If Microsoft created a system like XBox Live Arcade that was more open to indie devs like Steam, and didn't pidgeonhole you into C#/XNA with the compact framework, then the platform would be so much more appealing. One of these days, I think Microsoft will get it. I think they'll even get it before their competitors. I just hope it happens soon.
Royalty free does not mean public domain. That means they don't collect money on each performance. You can sell something royalty free. Stock photo sites do this all the time.
Are they printed on gold?!
I can't stand Gnome anymore. Not with the unity thing, and especially not with this crap. I keep asking myself who their UI designers are really trying to please with these asinine ideas. All this maximized by default crap says to me is "wasteful". Look at all the whitespace around the application contents. Why is that preferred to having a titlebar and being able to see more than one window? It certainly isn't to me. I would very much like to be able to see more than one application at a time thank you very much. I've since moved to XFCE. Much more sane in my opinion.
Erm, most 5 year old PCs will run Windows 7 just fine, unless you purchased one that was sub-par and already on its way out when you bought it. I have Windows 7 running on an old emachines I purchased for $550 back in 2006 for my child sister and the thing runs fine. No it wont play modern games but that was never even part of the equation when it was purchased with Windows XP.
Sounds like it's even easier to set up scams now.
I do the bulk of my browsing in Chrome, but for $25, I'd inconvenience myself with Firefox for a year for my real browsing.
I wonder how many people signed up with my same mentality.
This is my opinion as well. To be honest, I've never spent more than $30 on a jacket, and they've all been able to hold copious amounts of stuff as well as being comfortable and functional.
That was my whole point; they want to use it to analyze your life. It's basically a gold mine of information regarding your potential hire. However filtering out people completely who don't have it is lazy. Not everyone wants to broadcast their life online, and it makes little sense to force them to just to save yourself some time. Facebook is not the only way to find information on potential hires.
I will never agree with a filter based on whether or not someone has Facebook or not.
Having a bad day?
If you lost potential jobs by not having a facebook account, then you did not want to work there anyway. They just wanted you to do their research for them by divulging every detail of your life on facebook so they could go through it and nitpick every little comment and picture in your account.
I think you've misunderstood me man, and that's probably my fault. I was calling into question his use of the ancient "199X called" joke as being a ridiculous comment to make while at the same time complaining about the age of a complaint.
It's not an issue who the song is sold to. The problem is how the song is used after it's purchased. The artist doesn't care if Gingrich purchased and listened to the song, the issue is using the song in public potentially without proper ASCAP licensing. If the publisher was willing to file a lawsuit (the author only brought it up to the publisher's attention, the author did not file suit), it seems to me that they may not have paid the appropriate licensing fees.
If he did pay the ASCAP licensing fees, then he's totally in the clear. We just don't have that information right now.
So in your infinite wisdom you take something old and use a joke that's even more overplayed to get your point across? Seriously?
Using the song in political campaigns constitutes a public performance, something that simply buying the disc in a store doesn't afford you the right to do.
It's not going to be hard for people to find the non-Target branded merchandise, if they're really insistent on using Target as a showroom and shopping online. To be honest, I haven't really heard of this being a massive issue to begin with.
All this tells me is Target sets their prices high and instead of fighting for customers like every other store does, they're trying to shoehorn people into buying at their bloated prices. No thanks, Target.
It is getting a bit excessive.
You have no heart at all. We should just let everyone who has these conditions die and focus on physics instead. Got it. I mean it's not like any first world countries have to deal with things like AIDS and TB.
Typical anti-vaccine drivel.
His quote in full, straight from that slanted site even:
The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
He wasn't talking about killing 10-15% through vaccines. He was suggesting that properly informed adults may consider the effect of popping out child after child which is what happens now. That instead of having 9 billion people, that it might be closer to ~7.6 billion instead. It's sad that I even need to explain this.
You were somewhat lucky. A friend of mine was in the ER for a stomach ache about 9 months ago. He had some kind of stomach flu or something and was in there for several hours. Couple X-Rays, medicines, and prescriptions later and his final bill came to over $13,000. He was uninsured, too, so he was stuck with the whole thing.
There is actually a number of ways to obtain Chromium for Windows the way Chromium developers intended it to be. Several respected download sites have snapshots available for download.
This is pretty much business as usual for Zynga.
This judge should be slapped.
Iron is a known scam. If there is a reason to use Iron, it is not for its privacy related offerings. You're better off just using Chromium.