So now it is my responsibility to improve infrastructure? Then what the hell are all my tax dollars used for?
Never mind the fact the the Army Corp of engineers (the supposed experts) claimed that the levees would hold, and the people of New Orleans didn't have any reason not to believe them.
So are you actually saying that the disaster in New Orleans was the fault of the people who live there, and not the massive failure in every aspect by the government?
All the technology in the world does not offer you distribution, which is about the last valuable thing a music label can offer. What good is producing your own album cheaply if you can't get any stores to sell it? This is a subject to big to expand on in this post, but getting widespread promotion and distribution is next to impossible for the little guys. How do you think the music industry has managed to maintain their monopoly for so long? It isn't by being dumb.
Sigh. Ok, here is your crash course on the music business. The bands themselves rarely (unless they are mega-stars resigning or renegotiating a contact) own the rights to the songs, and the labels can do whatever they want with them. I can guarantee you every good artist knows that suing your fans is not a great business strategy. And considering the artists will never see a dime of this money, I am sure they would all have a much different opinion of the outcome than music label executives would. Don't blame the artists for what the music labels do. The artists make the music, the music labels screw it up from that point on. If you truly want to support an artist, go to their live shows and buy merchandise, or their CD directly from the band. Most bands see less than 75 cents of profit from every $15 CD sold, and the labels have some creative bookkeeping designed to take back any profits actually made from music sales from the band. And certainly don't punish the artists for what a jury of her peers decided what Ms. Thomas has to pay. Blame the law and the music labels for letting it get to this in the first place.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One man's trash is another man's art. If we all liked and hated the same things, the world would be pretty boring, eh?
It may have to share the title with Linux. 2015 is also slated to be "The Year of Linux on the Desktop". Hopefully by then a Linux port of Duke Nukem' Forever will be done as well.
How many other companies, besides Apple use it? Enough said. I was never discussing open versus closed standards. This is about proprietary versus standard.
No, if it is non-standard port that nobody else uses that a company has designed themselves, it is proprietary. VGA, DVI are all standards which include the wiring of the pins, making them not "proprietary". Look at all the 80s computers if you want to see why proprietary ports are bad. Typically you would have to buy the cords from the company, or from the one third-party company who chose to make the cables. Let me ask you, would you really like to design and manufacture your own cables for all the ports on your computer, or would you rather be able to walk into any store and buy a "standard" cable for a reasonable price? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy those cheap, convenient products. (Well, except common sense.) If you feel the need to roll everything yourself, you are free to make your own cables - just don't force me to do the same.
All valid points. But I counter - if you get modded up or down does it really change anything in your life, or make what you think personally more or less valid? The answer is no. Mods here in Slashdot (and it doesn't matter what the definition for "moderation" is elsewhere) are merely people offering their opinions about your opinion.
Moderation is up to whomever has mod points that day, and is at their discretion. There is no "broken" or "fixed" moderation - moderation is merely opinion.
Believe it or not, Symantec Corporate AV running on Vista 64 bit has a really small footprint. I really couldn't believe it at first, because on XP 32 bit it took up a lot of memory, even when doing nothing. On Vista 64 bit, the resident apps are all mostly under 5 MB of memory. I was shocked as I had just become resigned to the fact that it usually had much more bloat. That said I would still never use anything but the corporate version - it seems to do better than the home versions with memory/CPU management.
Conservatives had a choice between two candidates, and they generally will go with the one that is more conservative. But saying one is more conservative than the other doesn't really give you an idea of how conservative they really are. Actually, I know some true conservatives that actually voted Obama because they were so sick of the republicans catering to the religious right and other more non-moderate, non-center demographics. I don't really think they agree much with Obama's policies, but as you said, they were sick of their party trying to redefine their political philosophy. So yeah, they were voting against some of their philosophies, but I doubt they were very happy about it. You can only have the wool pulled over your eyes so many times before you start to realize what you are being told and what is really happening are two very different things.
No, I read that. I just don't have any idea what it means. (None of my friends have PS3s, so I remain mostly ignorant about it's capabilities and controllers for the most part.) But I do doubt anything could be easier to play than Wii Sports - even my 5 year old cousin and 72 year old grandmother picked it up pretty quick. I bet the 5 year old could probably do that with the PS3, but wouldn't hold out much hope for grandma.
I agree. And the funny thing is, when I was in high school, we were still taught the definition of "socialism", "conservatism", and "libertarian". Seems like that may have stopped happening a while ago. Or people are just being *gasp* deliberately obtuse about their true meanings just to support their own political views.
Yes, it is a bowling game for the PS3, using the PS3 controller (that I have never played, nor have any interest in doing so). You obviously missed the "heavily intoxicated" and "still score well" parts of my initial post. Any console can have a bowling game.
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So now it is my responsibility to improve infrastructure? Then what the hell are all my tax dollars used for?
Never mind the fact the the Army Corp of engineers (the supposed experts) claimed that the levees would hold, and the people of New Orleans didn't have any reason not to believe them.
So are you actually saying that the disaster in New Orleans was the fault of the people who live there, and not the massive failure in every aspect by the government?
All the technology in the world does not offer you distribution, which is about the last valuable thing a music label can offer. What good is producing your own album cheaply if you can't get any stores to sell it? This is a subject to big to expand on in this post, but getting widespread promotion and distribution is next to impossible for the little guys. How do you think the music industry has managed to maintain their monopoly for so long? It isn't by being dumb.
Sigh. Ok, here is your crash course on the music business. The bands themselves rarely (unless they are mega-stars resigning or renegotiating a contact) own the rights to the songs, and the labels can do whatever they want with them. I can guarantee you every good artist knows that suing your fans is not a great business strategy. And considering the artists will never see a dime of this money, I am sure they would all have a much different opinion of the outcome than music label executives would. Don't blame the artists for what the music labels do. The artists make the music, the music labels screw it up from that point on. If you truly want to support an artist, go to their live shows and buy merchandise, or their CD directly from the band. Most bands see less than 75 cents of profit from every $15 CD sold, and the labels have some creative bookkeeping designed to take back any profits actually made from music sales from the band. And certainly don't punish the artists for what a jury of her peers decided what Ms. Thomas has to pay. Blame the law and the music labels for letting it get to this in the first place.
The same thing that happened to a certain former empire that used to control a large portion of the world.
I have found that the best way to "store wealth" is family and community
That didn't work out so well for the Katrina victims in New Orleans.
So only new things that no other company is doing or has ever done are useful or desireable. Got it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One man's trash is another man's art. If we all liked and hated the same things, the world would be pretty boring, eh?
-1 Too early.
Art is always entertaining, but entertainment isn't always art.
No, that's just the Swine Flu.
It may have to share the title with Linux. 2015 is also slated to be "The Year of Linux on the Desktop". Hopefully by then a Linux port of Duke Nukem' Forever will be done as well.
Again, I never brought open vs. closed into the discussion. It is proprietary vs. standard. No matter what you think, VGA and DVI are standards.
How many other companies, besides Apple use it? Enough said. I was never discussing open versus closed standards. This is about proprietary versus standard.
No, if it is non-standard port that nobody else uses that a company has designed themselves, it is proprietary. VGA, DVI are all standards which include the wiring of the pins, making them not "proprietary". Look at all the 80s computers if you want to see why proprietary ports are bad. Typically you would have to buy the cords from the company, or from the one third-party company who chose to make the cables. Let me ask you, would you really like to design and manufacture your own cables for all the ports on your computer, or would you rather be able to walk into any store and buy a "standard" cable for a reasonable price? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy those cheap, convenient products. (Well, except common sense.) If you feel the need to roll everything yourself, you are free to make your own cables - just don't force me to do the same.
Proprietary ports, whether open or closed specs, still suck.
All valid points. But I counter - if you get modded up or down does it really change anything in your life, or make what you think personally more or less valid? The answer is no. Mods here in Slashdot (and it doesn't matter what the definition for "moderation" is elsewhere) are merely people offering their opinions about your opinion.
Moderation is up to whomever has mod points that day, and is at their discretion. There is no "broken" or "fixed" moderation - moderation is merely opinion.
Isn't that more the fault of the dumb bastard than the karma whore?
Believe it or not, Symantec Corporate AV running on Vista 64 bit has a really small footprint. I really couldn't believe it at first, because on XP 32 bit it took up a lot of memory, even when doing nothing. On Vista 64 bit, the resident apps are all mostly under 5 MB of memory. I was shocked as I had just become resigned to the fact that it usually had much more bloat. That said I would still never use anything but the corporate version - it seems to do better than the home versions with memory/CPU management.
Conservatives had a choice between two candidates, and they generally will go with the one that is more conservative. But saying one is more conservative than the other doesn't really give you an idea of how conservative they really are. Actually, I know some true conservatives that actually voted Obama because they were so sick of the republicans catering to the religious right and other more non-moderate, non-center demographics. I don't really think they agree much with Obama's policies, but as you said, they were sick of their party trying to redefine their political philosophy. So yeah, they were voting against some of their philosophies, but I doubt they were very happy about it. You can only have the wool pulled over your eyes so many times before you start to realize what you are being told and what is really happening are two very different things.
No, I read that. I just don't have any idea what it means. (None of my friends have PS3s, so I remain mostly ignorant about it's capabilities and controllers for the most part.) But I do doubt anything could be easier to play than Wii Sports - even my 5 year old cousin and 72 year old grandmother picked it up pretty quick. I bet the 5 year old could probably do that with the PS3, but wouldn't hold out much hope for grandma.
I agree. And the funny thing is, when I was in high school, we were still taught the definition of "socialism", "conservatism", and "libertarian". Seems like that may have stopped happening a while ago. Or people are just being *gasp* deliberately obtuse about their true meanings just to support their own political views.
Yes, it is a bowling game for the PS3, using the PS3 controller (that I have never played, nor have any interest in doing so). You obviously missed the "heavily intoxicated" and "still score well" parts of my initial post. Any console can have a bowling game.
there's nothing Wii can do that 360 or PS3 can't
Except allowing me to bowl, while heavily intoxicated, and still score well.
A pervert has been punished. What more justice does anyone need?
The kind of justice where the prosecutors follow the established set of rules.