and I have to hunt down and manually install the drivers for the network card, video card, and sound card. With the latest release of Ubuntu, ALL of my hardware is detected right out of the box. This is such a garbage and tired argument. This all depends on your hardware. There are machines for which Windows has all the drivers for, and there are machines for which Linux does not have all the drivers for. You happen to have a machine that works fine out of the box with Linux, I've got a laptop that was a bitch under FC4 (now thankfully its much better under FC5) but under Windows it worked "out of the box".
Who pays for anti-virus and anti-spyware? All the better ones are free. The point is in Windows, install McAfee and installing AVG require the same level of skill. To install the free software doesn't cost anymore or require any more skill. However in Linux it requires more skill to use apt-get, which was the whole point of the CNR system. Its still not a free alternative if part of it costs money.
No. I'm saying that the whole point of Linspire was to make a Linux distro for the village idiot. It cost a few bucks but that was a reasonable trade off as it was cheaper than Windows and generally worked as intended. Freespire is aiming to be the free alternative to Linspire while maintaining that village idiot level ease of use.
As a free alternative, it doesn't work since you still have to pay $20/year for your village idiot to be able to use it. If people know enough to use apt-get and other such things, they probably can run something esle besides Freespire.
And yet getting all that software is easy and free in windows (the non-commercial stuff). The point of CNR was to make it easy to install so that it was just like windows for the people who don't know any better. Since this is supposed to be a free alternative its not much of a free alternative if it still costs money.
I think most people who are geeks won't be using freespire or linspire, so saying you can get them via apt-get doesn't really help the target audience here which is grandma and your other family members.
I was hoping this would provide a free alternative to the CNR warehouse of Linspire. Linspire isnt' really that expensive to begin with ($50 or even cheaper last I checked). But then asking people to pay $20/year for the CNR warehouse wasn't cool. People don't want to associate some kind of yearly fee with this I don't think.
Morrowwind appeared on the xbox after the PC launch. It was not simultaneously developed like oblivion. Oblivion had lots of dumbed down gameplay (Several skills and other things missing from Morrowwind) and the AI was absolutely garbage, which after reading Chris Hecker's comments on the processors being used in the Xbox 360 (in order processing rather than out of order processing on the PC) I can only surmise the AI sucked because of that, either that or the programmer's were lazy. Neither one inspires appreciation for the product. It was very pretty crap, but crap none-the-less.
Collecting is pretty much dead and pointless. It died a long time ago. As soon as collecting becomes well known and high profile it becomes useless. The bragging rights of collecting something is being one of a few who have that item, or a complete set, etc. Being one in a million, or ten million who have it devalues your accomplishment.
I got in to magic just before it exploded into the big collection phenom it is now. I got out shortly after that happened. The person who said the Black Lotus was valued at $1000 I'm not sure when that happened but back in the late 90s it wasn't worth that much. It was $400 or $500. Moxs were around $125.
Some of the early cards may be worth something, I have a couple early sets (The Dark) but anything after that is only worth a fraction of what those are worth, both in prestige and money. I have no idea what current prices are like I haven't really dabbled in them in years, but its the same with everything.
My dad has comics from when he was a kid. Not only does he have Spiderman #1, in pretty good condition, he's got the original comic he appeared in (I'd have to check I didn't study them that thoroughly). He didn't seal them up like a collector so very few are mint, but he did take reasonable care of them and very few are ruined like you can sometimes find in old boxes. I think he had 2 boxes for a total of a hundred comics, maybe 150. Even taking out the Spiderman #1 the value and prestige of having those comics far outways 10 times that amount of modern comics. Because everyone and their dog is buying them. A lot of these people who are buying them as an investment don't realize that those days are long gone. In 40 years, there will be way too many people who did the same thing you did for it to really amount to much. A smart man in the 50s and 60s who saved those comics in good shape could probably have retired off them or at least done real well. Now its a crap shoot. You're basically hoping that maybe enough people don't collect the same thing you are or don't take care of them and that interest peaks up in that item again.
The only thing remotely collectable are things they make collectable (i.e. very limited releases of things) but those are items that have been artificially introduced as a collectable. Its just not the same kind of thing.
Its been years, but I watched Ed the Sock when he had a show in Canada.. and I mean years ago.. like 10+ I think. He had Mr T on once. I was younger then it was funny..probably not as much now.
The US army tried to get women up to the phsyical standards placed on the men for front line combat and from reading that it seems like an exercise in futility. While everyone can agree that everyone else should be treated equally, they need to snap out of it and realize that doens't mean we're all 100% equal in our abilities whether its potential or realized.
I made this point on the fedora forums a few months back when someone made a point of acknowledging some internal women's day or something such thing. By pointing out the differences you only further remind everyone that we are indeed different for pointless reasons.
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It means that on the topic of white supremecy its probably just what the user is looking for. The page rank systems doesn't judge the overall quality of a site compard to others, I believe it judges it based on the search terms used to get to it.
Except for 8 months people playing The Sims 2 couldn't update their nvidia drivers due to a problem introduced last fall that took nvidia forever to correct. Everything has its drawbacks depending on what you do with it.
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Considering people make anything and everything for The Sims 2, I can't see how Spore is going to have more than "everything".
I tried to post this last night, but alas the system was down for maintenance.
The music industry also announced their next move was to create a pay to play initiative targetting mp3 players. For too long have people been able to conveniently play our music over and over again. This type of longetivity in the digital format does not allow for breakage of the media from over-use. "We want popular songs to of course generate more income through requiring people to purchase new CDs, Cassettes, 8 tracks or vinyl" said one executive. To that end they've begun lobbying Apple and several other MP3 player vendors to include a counting system that will transmit a record of all songs played and the amount wireless to a network they intend to set up. They say users will get a bill once a month requiring them to pay for the amount of music they listened to. Customers who's accounts are not kept up to date will find their Ipods and other musical devices will cease to function. They've also announced a partnership with a man known only as Borris to help with collection.
and while many defend it as "wiring the schools and training the teachers, etc". If you bought 36,000 laptops at $650 a pop (thats retail you'd definitely get a better price buying bulk) Its only 23,040,000. thats 18,000,000 in "wiring fees". at 300 kids per middle school (rough estimate) thats 120 schools. Setting up wireless access points and 120 servers should not cost 18,000,000.
Even if HP only knocked the price down $50, thast another 1.8 million. No apple is ripping them off.
My guess is this is the same kind of thing that drove old explorers and the like. Something new like exploring a new place gave them more of a high than your average person.
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and I have to hunt down and manually install the drivers for the network card, video card, and sound card. With the latest release of Ubuntu, ALL of my hardware is detected right out of the box. This is such a garbage and tired argument. This all depends on your hardware. There are machines for which Windows has all the drivers for, and there are machines for which Linux does not have all the drivers for. You happen to have a machine that works fine out of the box with Linux, I've got a laptop that was a bitch under FC4 (now thankfully its much better under FC5) but under Windows it worked "out of the box".
Actually so you could play http://www.rasterwerks.com/game/phosphor/beta1.asp Phosphor a first person shooter that plays in your browser (and a decent one at that)
Who pays for anti-virus and anti-spyware? All the better ones are free. The point is in Windows, install McAfee and installing AVG require the same level of skill. To install the free software doesn't cost anymore or require any more skill. However in Linux it requires more skill to use apt-get, which was the whole point of the CNR system. Its still not a free alternative if part of it costs money.
No. I'm saying that the whole point of Linspire was to make a Linux distro for the village idiot.
It cost a few bucks but that was a reasonable trade off as it was cheaper than Windows and generally worked as intended.
Freespire is aiming to be the free alternative to Linspire while maintaining that village idiot level ease of use.
As a free alternative, it doesn't work since you still have to pay $20/year for your village idiot to be able to use it. If people know enough to use apt-get and other such things, they probably can run something esle besides Freespire.
And yet getting all that software is easy and free in windows (the non-commercial stuff). The point of CNR was to make it easy to install so that it was just like windows for the people who don't know any better. Since this is supposed to be a free alternative its not much of a free alternative if it still costs money.
I think most people who are geeks won't be using freespire or linspire, so saying you can get them via apt-get doesn't really help the target audience here which is grandma and your other family members.
I was hoping this would provide a free alternative to the CNR warehouse of Linspire. Linspire isnt' really that expensive to begin with ($50 or even cheaper last I checked). But then asking people to pay $20/year for the CNR warehouse wasn't cool. People don't want to associate some kind of yearly fee with this I don't think.
Morrowwind appeared on the xbox after the PC launch. It was not simultaneously developed like oblivion. Oblivion had lots of dumbed down gameplay (Several skills and other things missing from Morrowwind) and the AI was absolutely garbage, which after reading Chris Hecker's comments on the processors being used in the Xbox 360 (in order processing rather than out of order processing on the PC) I can only surmise the AI sucked because of that, either that or the programmer's were lazy. Neither one inspires appreciation for the product. It was very pretty crap, but crap none-the-less.
That's okay they're still bad:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/07/26
Collecting is pretty much dead and pointless. It died a long time ago. As soon as collecting becomes well known and high profile it becomes useless. The bragging rights of collecting something is being one of a few who have that item, or a complete set, etc. Being one in a million, or ten million who have it devalues your accomplishment.
I got in to magic just before it exploded into the big collection phenom it is now. I got out shortly after that happened. The person who said the Black Lotus was valued at $1000 I'm not sure when that happened but back in the late 90s it wasn't worth that much. It was $400 or $500. Moxs were around $125.
Some of the early cards may be worth something, I have a couple early sets (The Dark) but anything after that is only worth a fraction of what those are worth, both in prestige and money. I have no idea what current prices are like I haven't really dabbled in them in years, but its the same with everything.
My dad has comics from when he was a kid. Not only does he have Spiderman #1, in pretty good condition, he's got the original comic he appeared in (I'd have to check I didn't study them that thoroughly). He didn't seal them up like a collector so very few are mint, but he did take reasonable care of them and very few are ruined like you can sometimes find in old boxes. I think he had 2 boxes for a total of a hundred comics, maybe 150. Even taking out the Spiderman #1 the value and prestige of having those comics far outways 10 times that amount of modern comics. Because everyone and their dog is buying them. A lot of these people who are buying them as an investment don't realize that those days are long gone. In 40 years, there will be way too many people who did the same thing you did for it to really amount to much. A smart man in the 50s and 60s who saved those comics in good shape could probably have retired off them or at least done real well. Now its a crap shoot. You're basically hoping that maybe enough people don't collect the same thing you are or don't take care of them and that interest peaks up in that item again.
The only thing remotely collectable are things they make collectable (i.e. very limited releases of things) but those are items that have been artificially introduced as a collectable. Its just not the same kind of thing.
Its been years, but I watched Ed the Sock when he had a show in Canada.. and I mean years ago.. like 10+ I think. He had Mr T on once. I was younger then it was funny..probably not as much now.
Regardless of acceptance, its been long proven that men and women equally trained result in men being better physically. Men are naturally stronger and more capable in the regards and no amount of "equality" is going to change that. I found this link long ago and have kept it all this time simply to illustrate this: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:yBMaVtVEg68J:w ww.bobjust.com/womenincombat/+bob+just+women+in+co mbat&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1
(site seems to be down, this is a google cache)
The US army tried to get women up to the phsyical standards placed on the men for front line combat and from reading that it seems like an exercise in futility.
While everyone can agree that everyone else should be treated equally, they need to snap out of it and realize that doens't mean we're all 100% equal in our abilities whether its potential or realized.
I made this point on the fedora forums a few months back when someone made a point of acknowledging some internal women's day or something such thing. By pointing out the differences you only further remind everyone that we are indeed different for pointless reasons.
Just under age breasts...
It means that on the topic of white supremecy its probably just what the user is looking for. The page rank systems doesn't judge the overall quality of a site compard to others, I believe it judges it based on the search terms used to get to it.
Except for 8 months people playing The Sims 2 couldn't update their nvidia drivers due to a problem introduced last fall that took nvidia forever to correct. Everything has its drawbacks depending on what you do with it.
Considering people make anything and everything for The Sims 2, I can't see how Spore is going to have more than "everything".
their ability to learn is inversely proportional to the amount of $$$ they see in relation to any given idea.
well CBC does have that cool ZedTV show..or they used to.
Bingo. They've been threatened with cut off several times I believe.
I tried to post this last night, but alas the system was down for maintenance.
The music industry also announced their next move was to create a pay to play initiative targetting mp3 players. For too long have people been able to conveniently play our music over and over again. This type of longetivity in the digital format does not allow for breakage of the media from over-use. "We want popular songs to of course generate more income through requiring people to purchase new CDs, Cassettes, 8 tracks or vinyl" said one executive. To that end they've begun lobbying Apple and several other MP3 player vendors to include a counting system that will transmit a record of all songs played and the amount wireless to a network they intend to set up. They say users will get a bill once a month requiring them to pay for the amount of music they listened to. Customers who's accounts are not kept up to date will find their Ipods and other musical devices will cease to function. They've also announced a partnership with a man known only as Borris to help with collection.
you ever been on the subway?
A lot of those are bots, bands, movies, duplicates, etc.
He's using 41,000,000/36,000=1138 and change.
and while many defend it as "wiring the schools and training the teachers, etc". If you bought 36,000 laptops at $650 a pop (thats retail you'd definitely get a better price buying bulk) Its only 23,040,000. thats 18,000,000 in "wiring fees".
at 300 kids per middle school (rough estimate) thats 120 schools. Setting up wireless access points and 120 servers should not cost 18,000,000.
Even if HP only knocked the price down $50, thast another 1.8 million. No apple is ripping them off.
My guess is this is the same kind of thing that drove old explorers and the like. Something new like exploring a new place gave them more of a high than your average person.