I'm not arguing with you per se, but I would like to point out a subtle difference, which is that Nike is not a commonly used English word (except as a proper noun anyway). Playboy is a common word, and one I have actually used before NOT in reference to the magazine (Tho it's seldom. I admit I'm a subscriber.)
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It used to be really pretty and sleek, but then someone snapped its picture and they had to redesign from scratch with a MAJOR deadline.
Consider me wrecked. I was of the opinion that all of this style behaviour occurred well after Stan Lee was usurped as EIC of Marvel. Before that, the most homage played to DC characters like Superman was in parody, ala Gladiator (Superman ripoff, that every character in Marvel promptly spanked and sent packing.)
No. You may not have noticed, but typically, Spider-Man wears a mask, and not glasses. The glasses aren't so much part of his secret identity, per se, as he's ditched them long ago in the comics and cartoons.
The Vulture, as portrayed later in the books, was a great character. Basically he was a washed up super-villain, helpless without his costume, and all the realities that entailed. It was a well-done storyline, and one I've never seen as well done with such an obviously second-rate character.
I'd be surprised if they were deliberately alluding to Superman, as he's a DC owned character, and Spider-Man is Marvel. It's just typical comic fare, really, and something someone expects to see happen eventually.
I get what you're saying, but from how I see it, my opinion is flat wrong, but the fact that it is my opinion is clearly neither wrong nor right (though I would argue that it's more right than wrong, if at all), but I still think that someone's opinion can be wrong if it can be factually proven otherwise.
Granted, this all boils down to how much information can actually be proven, but I'm assuming proven to the point that all of our "facts" are in accordance is good enough.
I don't know that I necessarily agree with that interpretation, regardless how literal it is.
If I believe something to be wrong that can be factually proven or disproven, then that belief is wrong. I'm not saying it's a punishable offense, mind you, but it's still dead fricking wrong.
Offtopic as hell, but if it is my opinion that the sky is filled with invisible Skittle monsters that feed on Ozone and exhale oxygen, is that not wrong?
I just wanted to respond and say that yes, you're right. There are more and more user-friendly AND feature-rich Linux applications coming out now that are also GOOD. Who knew?
I just switched to Suse, from RedHat, mostly because I heard of how good the device support was, and how I'm tired of acting as a support tech for my wife when she's forgotten how to mount the camera. Not only was I impressed by the installation (I had to install XP for one of her school projects, and it went right alongside it without a hitch), but the finished product as well.
Aside from all the nice things that I wasn't used to, coming from RedHat (auto-mounting camera and placing icon on the desktop, auto-mounting the Windows NTFS drive, etc.), K3b is easily the most elegant CD/DVD burning package I've ever used in Linux. Kopete is easily the smoothest chat client I've ever used in Linux, and in my opinion, blows gAIM to bits.
These applications, as I see them, are not only the best available for Linux, but better than their Windows counterparts (at least in my opinion), and were a snap for my wife to click on and start using. XCD-Roast is by no means intuitive, so she's never been able to get a CD burn started in under 1 minute before. I can't express how pleased we both were when she clicked on K3B, grabbed a bunch of MP3 files, and then burned them onto a CD that played in our CD player... all with just a few, intuitive clicks.
I'm impressed at how good things are now, and we're definitely on the upstroke (or downstroke, whichever is better) of things to come.
I'm blowing my mod points by replying to this, but I just wanted to point out that Time Warner is not rolling out Tivo to their subscribers, but a DVR solution crafted by Scientific Atlanta. I sold my Tivo and switched, and it was the worst mistake of my life (only slight exaggeration).
The Tivo is nice, solid, and bug-free, whereas the TW DVR crashes frequently, forgets recordings, and has a host of bugs that nobody at TW seems to care to correct.
I don't know that "rarely" is the right word, but I also don't have any evidence to back that up either; however, I think you're underestimating the amount of people now using their PC to master movies off of their camcorders.
I could definitely see myself using something like this to preview the editing on my daughter's second birthday party we just had, and make sure that all my changes make sense to my wife or family before I commit it to DVD or VHS.
I don't see what you're complaining about. Mandrake offers it to paying customers first to minimize the bandwidth drain on their servers, and maximize the bandwidth available for new releases to paying customers.
Hosting said files off of their servers in no way impedes that goal, and still allows paying customers to get their stuff at top bandwidth rates.
Why exactly are you complaining? It's free software, it's meant to be given away. It isn't free for a limited time, and it isn't going to self-destruct... nor should it be withheld arbitrarily.
As long as you're getting the hot files off of torrent sites, then you aren't burdening the mandrake distribution servers one iota, and hence, are not affecting them in any way really.
At least the way I see it, the club membership is to support the bandwidth they have, and what you're really paying for isn't 0-day release time, but 0-day release time without 0-day server lag. This is the best of both worlds (I think).
Yeah, but if you just take 2 horses (male and female), then that's essentially all you ever need take. Plus, if you take an SUV, you effectively have to take a lift, replacement tires, a bunch of gasoline, and all the tools and facility access needed to service an SUV should it break.
Assuming that said planet had a good supply of nutritional food for the horses to eat, then they were self-sustaining, and even reproducing.
There were a variety of planets in Firefly, some with nothing but high-tech, and some with nothing but low, and plenty in-between. If you're migrating to a planet that has lots of grass and whatnot, and little in the way of traditional fuels, then a horse might make a lot more sense than an SUV. Besides, even if fossile-type fuels are available, you'd have to cart the equipment and materials needed to build oil-rigs and the like, just to power the SUV.
That actually isn't a terrible idea, and (to a degree), is already being done.
When a virus group defaces a website, but doesn't steal its credit card database, that's effectively a weakened form of the virus, that at the very least indicates to the site admin that there is a vulnerability that needs attention. It isn't quite as automated as it ought to be, but if Welchia had made it out before Blaster, that's effectively what we'd have.
Claiming "prove it" when referring to code quality on a closed-source operating system is probably going to be pretty difficult.
Frankly, I agree that Windows has gotten significantly better, outwardly at least, over its most recent few iterations, but that doesn't mean that the code quality has improved one iota.
Well, assuming you were in charge of Tom and Berol, congrats, you would have just incurred thousands of dollars in fines from the BSA.
Still as easy as you think? I've worked in plenty of places, large businesses, small businesses, and even run my own (small business), and I can safely say that I've never worked anywhere that wasn't at least slightly out of compliance, ever.
Actually, just to point out, in Windows 2000 at least, in the control panel, under Add/Remove Programs, it indicates the general usage of a piece of software (ie: Used: Rarely, or Used: Never, etc.)
Your "Doctor" status garners more respect in the US not because we are more respectful of authority figures, but because doctors tend to earn decent paychecks, and the sales clerks will likely rack up more in sales by pandering to them. You're treated well by service people, because they have a vested interest in appeasing you.
This is not to say that it isn't deserving, or in any way meant to indicate any distaste for doctors at all, just that there are ulterior motives that perhaps you aren't seeing.
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I'm not arguing with you per se, but I would like to point out a subtle difference, which is that Nike is not a commonly used English word (except as a proper noun anyway). Playboy is a common word, and one I have actually used before NOT in reference to the magazine (Tho it's seldom. I admit I'm a subscriber.)
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It used to be really pretty and sleek, but then someone snapped its picture and they had to redesign from scratch with a MAJOR deadline.
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I travel forward in time all day long. I'm doing it now!!!
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Read the rest of the parent post. He mentions exactly that... he's just basing things on the perspective of others.
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Huh. I always thought that the music was what made or broke a band.
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Consider me wrecked. I was of the opinion that all of this style behaviour occurred well after Stan Lee was usurped as EIC of Marvel. Before that, the most homage played to DC characters like Superman was in parody, ala Gladiator (Superman ripoff, that every character in Marvel promptly spanked and sent packing.)
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No. You may not have noticed, but typically, Spider-Man wears a mask, and not glasses. The glasses aren't so much part of his secret identity, per se, as he's ditched them long ago in the comics and cartoons.
You're thinking of the other S-Man.
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The Vulture, as portrayed later in the books, was a great character. Basically he was a washed up super-villain, helpless without his costume, and all the realities that entailed. It was a well-done storyline, and one I've never seen as well done with such an obviously second-rate character.
The fun was in the acknowledgement of his status.
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I'd be surprised if they were deliberately alluding to Superman, as he's a DC owned character, and Spider-Man is Marvel. It's just typical comic fare, really, and something someone expects to see happen eventually.
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I get what you're saying, but from how I see it, my opinion is flat wrong, but the fact that it is my opinion is clearly neither wrong nor right (though I would argue that it's more right than wrong, if at all), but I still think that someone's opinion can be wrong if it can be factually proven otherwise.
Granted, this all boils down to how much information can actually be proven, but I'm assuming proven to the point that all of our "facts" are in accordance is good enough.
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I don't know that I necessarily agree with that interpretation, regardless how literal it is.
If I believe something to be wrong that can be factually proven or disproven, then that belief is wrong. I'm not saying it's a punishable offense, mind you, but it's still dead fricking wrong.
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Offtopic as hell, but if it is my opinion that the sky is filled with invisible Skittle monsters that feed on Ozone and exhale oxygen, is that not wrong?
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I just wanted to respond and say that yes, you're right. There are more and more user-friendly AND feature-rich Linux applications coming out now that are also GOOD. Who knew?
I just switched to Suse, from RedHat, mostly because I heard of how good the device support was, and how I'm tired of acting as a support tech for my wife when she's forgotten how to mount the camera. Not only was I impressed by the installation (I had to install XP for one of her school projects, and it went right alongside it without a hitch), but the finished product as well.
Aside from all the nice things that I wasn't used to, coming from RedHat (auto-mounting camera and placing icon on the desktop, auto-mounting the Windows NTFS drive, etc.), K3b is easily the most elegant CD/DVD burning package I've ever used in Linux. Kopete is easily the smoothest chat client I've ever used in Linux, and in my opinion, blows gAIM to bits.
These applications, as I see them, are not only the best available for Linux, but better than their Windows counterparts (at least in my opinion), and were a snap for my wife to click on and start using. XCD-Roast is by no means intuitive, so she's never been able to get a CD burn started in under 1 minute before. I can't express how pleased we both were when she clicked on K3B, grabbed a bunch of MP3 files, and then burned them onto a CD that played in our CD player... all with just a few, intuitive clicks.
I'm impressed at how good things are now, and we're definitely on the upstroke (or downstroke, whichever is better) of things to come.
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I'm blowing my mod points by replying to this, but I just wanted to point out that Time Warner is not rolling out Tivo to their subscribers, but a DVR solution crafted by Scientific Atlanta. I sold my Tivo and switched, and it was the worst mistake of my life (only slight exaggeration).
The Tivo is nice, solid, and bug-free, whereas the TW DVR crashes frequently, forgets recordings, and has a host of bugs that nobody at TW seems to care to correct.
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I don't know that "rarely" is the right word, but I also don't have any evidence to back that up either; however, I think you're underestimating the amount of people now using their PC to master movies off of their camcorders.
I could definitely see myself using something like this to preview the editing on my daughter's second birthday party we just had, and make sure that all my changes make sense to my wife or family before I commit it to DVD or VHS.
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I don't see what you're complaining about. Mandrake offers it to paying customers first to minimize the bandwidth drain on their servers, and maximize the bandwidth available for new releases to paying customers.
Hosting said files off of their servers in no way impedes that goal, and still allows paying customers to get their stuff at top bandwidth rates.
Why exactly are you complaining? It's free software, it's meant to be given away. It isn't free for a limited time, and it isn't going to self-destruct... nor should it be withheld arbitrarily.
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As long as you're getting the hot files off of torrent sites, then you aren't burdening the mandrake distribution servers one iota, and hence, are not affecting them in any way really.
At least the way I see it, the club membership is to support the bandwidth they have, and what you're really paying for isn't 0-day release time, but 0-day release time without 0-day server lag. This is the best of both worlds (I think).
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Now, I'm not ordinarily one to run around calling "troll" on people, but seriously, you called PHP Cryptic. C'mon now.
It's the easiest language ever.
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Yeah, but if you just take 2 horses (male and female), then that's essentially all you ever need take. Plus, if you take an SUV, you effectively have to take a lift, replacement tires, a bunch of gasoline, and all the tools and facility access needed to service an SUV should it break.
Assuming that said planet had a good supply of nutritional food for the horses to eat, then they were self-sustaining, and even reproducing.
There were a variety of planets in Firefly, some with nothing but high-tech, and some with nothing but low, and plenty in-between. If you're migrating to a planet that has lots of grass and whatnot, and little in the way of traditional fuels, then a horse might make a lot more sense than an SUV. Besides, even if fossile-type fuels are available, you'd have to cart the equipment and materials needed to build oil-rigs and the like, just to power the SUV.
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That actually isn't a terrible idea, and (to a degree), is already being done.
When a virus group defaces a website, but doesn't steal its credit card database, that's effectively a weakened form of the virus, that at the very least indicates to the site admin that there is a vulnerability that needs attention. It isn't quite as automated as it ought to be, but if Welchia had made it out before Blaster, that's effectively what we'd have.
Bravo.
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Well, better tool does not equal better code.
Claiming "prove it" when referring to code quality on a closed-source operating system is probably going to be pretty difficult.
Frankly, I agree that Windows has gotten significantly better, outwardly at least, over its most recent few iterations, but that doesn't mean that the code quality has improved one iota.
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Well, assuming you were in charge of Tom and Berol, congrats, you would have just incurred thousands of dollars in fines from the BSA.
Still as easy as you think? I've worked in plenty of places, large businesses, small businesses, and even run my own (small business), and I can safely say that I've never worked anywhere that wasn't at least slightly out of compliance, ever.
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Actually, just to point out, in Windows 2000 at least, in the control panel, under Add/Remove Programs, it indicates the general usage of a piece of software (ie: Used: Rarely, or Used: Never, etc.)
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In the US, the liquor is free. :)
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Your "Doctor" status garners more respect in the US not because we are more respectful of authority figures, but because doctors tend to earn decent paychecks, and the sales clerks will likely rack up more in sales by pandering to them. You're treated well by service people, because they have a vested interest in appeasing you.
This is not to say that it isn't deserving, or in any way meant to indicate any distaste for doctors at all, just that there are ulterior motives that perhaps you aren't seeing.
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