With Project Euler or Sudoku, I *have* to learn something in order to master the game. In more random games like ADOM or Angband, even tactical games like Battle for Wesnoth, I cheat like crazy by backing up save files at random events, in order to get further and see more of the game.
They are just not going to cede their business to Amazon.' Wal-Mart, with $405 billion in sales last year, dominates by offering affordable prices to Middle America in its 4,000 stores, while Amazon, with $20 billion in sales
'We have to put our foot down and refuse to let them grow more powerful,' says Dias. 'I applaud Wal-Mart. It's about time multichannel retailers stood up and refused to let their business go away.'"
Yes! Down with the Amazon monopoly! Give the underdog with twenty times the annual sales a chance! Preserve competition!
If you don't know how your hardware works, it wouldn't make sense to pay a premium for being allowed to hack it.
(Unless this means they get it full of viruses and ask us for support, but it's likely that as a thin client, Google OS will be less broken than Windows in that respect.)
It's more like Starbucks charging the guy on the corner you ask for directions to the nearest Starbucks franchise.
The only time I've seen something this ridiculous was when a political activist on the street tried to get me to buy one of his pamphlets. I'm not even kidding.
Folks, you *want* me to look at your content; you're not going to make me pay for the privilege.
Good thing too. If competitors spent more time actively looking for bugs in each others' software instead of paying their marketroids to spread FUD, everyone would be better off.
Yes, and I think that's pretty much what they're taking aim at. They already specifically blacklisted the add-on a while ago, causing huge cheer as well as huge backlash. It seems that with this approach they want a more flexible solution by making sure people can disable stuff they don't want.
Who the hell uses a crappy shareware version (let alone a crappy paid-for software) for zipping? I mean, Office I can barely understand if the company runs some proprietary document management server like Citrix, but there is no excuse not to use 7-zip.
What filter rules? I mean, okay, that light on dark text and background midi and blinking marquees were annoying, but still, you could just not visit...
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With Project Euler or Sudoku, I *have* to learn something in order to master the game. In more random games like ADOM or Angband, even tactical games like Battle for Wesnoth, I cheat like crazy by backing up save files at random events, in order to get further and see more of the game.
So which type would that make me?
So that's what people mean when they say the weather is murderous.
Yes! Down with the Amazon monopoly! Give the underdog with twenty times the annual sales a chance! Preserve competition!
I paid $22 for a Motorola W156 with no contract.
Of course, it isn't exactly a spiffy toy, but it beats all smart-phones on battery life and start up time...
Well, that's the sensible option for them, too.
If you don't know how your hardware works, it wouldn't make sense to pay a premium for being allowed to hack it.
(Unless this means they get it full of viruses and ask us for support, but it's likely that as a thin client, Google OS will be less broken than Windows in that respect.)
It's more like Starbucks charging the guy on the corner you ask for directions to the nearest Starbucks franchise.
The only time I've seen something this ridiculous was when a political activist on the street tried to get me to buy one of his pamphlets. I'm not even kidding.
Folks, you *want* me to look at your content; you're not going to make me pay for the privilege.
Well, they could just charge their users for searches.
I'm sure there's lots of demand for paid search engines, given there are no free alternatives at all.
Wait, isn't Google run by two white men as well?
I don't get it...
Does this mean I will have to do without Fox articles on Google News in the future?
Because that will be a COMPLETE TRAGEDY. I would be DEVASTATED, I tell you.
On the luck check needed to beat the universe. :P
Does anyone not using Windows actually use Silverlight? To me this sounds like .NET or IE have a Windows bias.
If anything, it's good that all the crap is quarantined together and doesn't spread to become a web standard.
Actually, their government does that.
Oh wait.
Good thing too. If competitors spent more time actively looking for bugs in each others' software instead of paying their marketroids to spread FUD, everyone would be better off.
He doth protest too much.
Also:
"Microsoft has denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7" [...] "the agency had worked on the operating system."
Yeah, they didn't do it, they let the NSA do it.
Yes, and I think that's pretty much what they're taking aim at. They already specifically blacklisted the add-on a while ago, causing huge cheer as well as huge backlash. It seems that with this approach they want a more flexible solution by making sure people can disable stuff they don't want.
Im in ur 'puterz, simulatins ur neurons.
That's why.
I hope they didn't remove the students who witnessed it as well.
The key word is "bad", but yes.
Goodbye, record labels.
Firing someone who can financially sink the company by reporting stuff to the BSA doesn't seem like a good idea.
Who the hell uses a crappy shareware version (let alone a crappy paid-for software) for zipping? I mean, Office I can barely understand if the company runs some proprietary document management server like Citrix, but there is no excuse not to use 7-zip.
... or your money back! :)
What filter rules? I mean, okay, that light on dark text and background midi and blinking marquees were annoying, but still, you could just not visit...
Because it's the job of car mechanics to stop car thieves. It's the same skillset!
That's because it was only just now that Microsoft has at last invented sudo! :D