If Windows Vienna is supposed to be mainly menu-less and controlled by voice recognition then I think those of us who use Windows are in trouble when Vienna comes out.
Of course it doesn't! Let's be real here. Most people buy music from groups that they really care about. I know that if a new album from any of my favorite bands comes out I go and buy it. If I were to download anything (which I am not saying that I would) it would be from groups that I would not have bought thier album anyway. Groups that maybe have one song I like and that's it. Not to mention that most people that download whole albums from groups that they like don't have the money to spend to buy the albums anyway. In these cases the music industry would never have seen that money anyhow. Not just that but piracy has always existed even in the 70's my parents would record songs from the radio to 8 tracks to listen to later. It didn't hurt the music industry then any more than id does now. The music industry has just gotten more greedy. Even as a kid I recorded songs from the radio to cassette or even dubbed whole albums from friends. You didn't see the RIAA complaning about it then. I think when I was 10 I must have had 40 or 50 cassettes that I had recorded from friends and no one came knocking on my door saying we are going to sue you for dubbing a copy of someone elses casettes. I think that all of this is really stupid. I mean really all they really would have to do to get people to start buying more music is lower the prices of CD's by like 5 or 6 bucks. Sales would sky rocket if they did that, but instead the want to piss and moan. Not just that but do they really think that they are going to get $100000 out of someone who can't afford to purchase a $18 compact disc? I mean they might see $10000 at $5 a month over several years but in the long run what good is that going to do them? Anyway I am done rambling.
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I grew up playing video games and still do play video games. I am still a very functional adult without any social problems. In fact it is video games that brought me to my current occupation which is software engineering! All of this hype about electronics and media ruining childrens childhoods is non-sense being spoken by parents that don't pay enough attention to their children!
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Are you serious? I have used both distros and Ubuntu is no way better than Mandriva! For starters the "user" that Ubuntu creates to start with has root privileges or a close approximation there of. Not just that but it auto logs in this user to the gui which is even less intelligent. I mean put first time user together with root privs in a gui environment and you are asking for trouble. Mandriva creates a root user and a non-privileged user at start and this way is secure. I mean most lazy people will not bother to create a non-root account they will just continue to use the account created on install. Secondly Mandriva's package management system is way smoother than Ubuntu's. Thirdly I just installed the new Mandriva on my laptop and I didn't have to configure anything at all. Even my wireless worked out of box. I would like to see Ubuntu do that.
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Okay People, lets really look at this. I know a lot of good responsible people that have really poor credit scores because of loosing thier job for a number of reasons(Outsourcing, Business Closed you name it...). I mean a big majority of americans live pay check to pay check because they don't make enough money to live any other way. As a result of this job loss because of outsourcing or any other reason can be fatel to ones credit score. Should a person really not be able to get a job because they were laid off a previous one? That is just stupid!!!
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Actually, this browser sucks and is really a ploy to push the browsers search engine. I mean come one no tabbed browsing and you can't change your home page. Hmm, I wonder why you can't change the home page. Maybe because it is a ploy to push the search engine. Just my opinion.
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Whether or not this is real is not the issue here. I mean let think about it for a minute.
1. I have lived in the mid-west my whole life.
2. The summers have gradually been getting longer and warmer.
3. The winters have been gradually getting shorter and not as cold.
It is quite obvious that it is real. My senses tell me that. I don't need some freaking scientist to tell me that. The problem is that there are to many people in this country, and other countries, that make thier living off of fosil fuels. (i.e. Oil) There will be a debate over this forever until these people find a way to get rich, with little overhead, off of some other type of fuel.
Really there are several, less polluting / non-polluting, alternatives already.
1. Hydrogen
2. Soy
3. Salt Water
The problem is the distribution chains for fossil fuels are already there and making the people in power money. There would be to much overhead in getting one of these fuels into use. Lets see we would only have to convert every single gas station over to the new fuel. Everyone would have to turn in their vehicle for a new less polluting one. Plus, all the production facilities would have to be retooled to make the new vehicles, and all of the fuel production facilities would have to be retooled as well. It is so much easier for all of these businesses to say, global warming, Oh well I will be dead by the time it really matters anyway. (Make a billion dollars selling fossil fuels / fossil fueled cars or save the planet. I think ill make a billion have my fun and die happy) You know that is what they are thinking.
This is exactly why our economy is going to the dogs. Companies keep exporting jobs to foreign countries because the work is cheaper. This saves them money in the short run, but what they don't see is that it is slowly killing them in the long run. For example this article is about a bank. This bank is outsourcing its tech jobs to India. Right now it saves them a few million a year, but what we know about America, which they are not thinking about, is that America imports more than it exports. You may ask how this affects the scenario. Well let me enlighten you. If we import more than we export then exporting jobs means that the money that goes to these workers in foreign countries, most likely, will not be coming back to American companies. If then the money does not come back to American companies, then it will most likely not be deposited in an American bank, thus they are putting their selves out of business slowly but surely.
The biggest thing that these businesses should try and remember is this: Yes, Americans salaries are bloated, but those bloated salaries are what drove our economy to the point where it was at before it started to go to the dogs. Do these companies really think that SUVs would cost 50, 60 even 100 thousand dollars if American's salaries were not so high that they can afford to pay those prices. I think not! would anything in this country cost what is does if American's were not getting paid? Again, I think not.
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If Windows Vienna is supposed to be mainly menu-less and controlled by voice recognition then I think those of us who use Windows are in trouble when Vienna comes out.
Remember this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ/Yeah voice wreckignition is more like it. LOL!
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Of course it doesn't! Let's be real here. Most people buy music from groups that they really care about. I know that if a new album from any of my favorite bands comes out I go and buy it. If I were to download anything (which I am not saying that I would) it would be from groups that I would not have bought thier album anyway. Groups that maybe have one song I like and that's it. Not to mention that most people that download whole albums from groups that they like don't have the money to spend to buy the albums anyway. In these cases the music industry would never have seen that money anyhow. Not just that but piracy has always existed even in the 70's my parents would record songs from the radio to 8 tracks to listen to later. It didn't hurt the music industry then any more than id does now. The music industry has just gotten more greedy. Even as a kid I recorded songs from the radio to cassette or even dubbed whole albums from friends. You didn't see the RIAA complaning about it then. I think when I was 10 I must have had 40 or 50 cassettes that I had recorded from friends and no one came knocking on my door saying we are going to sue you for dubbing a copy of someone elses casettes. I think that all of this is really stupid. I mean really all they really would have to do to get people to start buying more music is lower the prices of CD's by like 5 or 6 bucks. Sales would sky rocket if they did that, but instead the want to piss and moan. Not just that but do they really think that they are going to get $100000 out of someone who can't afford to purchase a $18 compact disc? I mean they might see $10000 at $5 a month over several years but in the long run what good is that going to do them? Anyway I am done rambling. zero
I grew up playing video games and still do play video games. I am still a very functional adult without any social problems. In fact it is video games that brought me to my current occupation which is software engineering! All of this hype about electronics and media ruining childrens childhoods is non-sense being spoken by parents that don't pay enough attention to their children! zero
Are you serious? I have used both distros and Ubuntu is no way better than Mandriva! For starters the "user" that Ubuntu creates to start with has root privileges or a close approximation there of. Not just that but it auto logs in this user to the gui which is even less intelligent. I mean put first time user together with root privs in a gui environment and you are asking for trouble. Mandriva creates a root user and a non-privileged user at start and this way is secure. I mean most lazy people will not bother to create a non-root account they will just continue to use the account created on install. Secondly Mandriva's package management system is way smoother than Ubuntu's. Thirdly I just installed the new Mandriva on my laptop and I didn't have to configure anything at all. Even my wireless worked out of box. I would like to see Ubuntu do that. zero
Okay People, lets really look at this. I know a lot of good responsible people that have really poor credit scores because of loosing thier job for a number of reasons(Outsourcing, Business Closed you name it...). I mean a big majority of americans live pay check to pay check because they don't make enough money to live any other way. As a result of this job loss because of outsourcing or any other reason can be fatel to ones credit score. Should a person really not be able to get a job because they were laid off a previous one? That is just stupid!!! zero
Actually, this browser sucks and is really a ploy to push the browsers search engine. I mean come one no tabbed browsing and you can't change your home page. Hmm, I wonder why you can't change the home page. Maybe because it is a ploy to push the search engine. Just my opinion. zero
Whether or not this is real is not the issue here. I mean let think about it for a minute.
1. I have lived in the mid-west my whole life.
2. The summers have gradually been getting longer and warmer.
3. The winters have been gradually getting shorter and not as cold.
It is quite obvious that it is real. My senses tell me that. I don't need some freaking scientist to tell me that. The problem is that there are to many people in this country, and other countries, that make thier living off of fosil fuels. (i.e. Oil) There will be a debate over this forever until these people find a way to get rich, with little overhead, off of some other type of fuel.
Really there are several, less polluting / non-polluting, alternatives already.
1. Hydrogen
2. Soy
3. Salt Water
The problem is the distribution chains for fossil fuels are already there and making the people in power money. There would be to much overhead in getting one of these fuels into use. Lets see we would only have to convert every single gas station over to the new fuel. Everyone would have to turn in their vehicle for a new less polluting one. Plus, all the production facilities would have to be retooled to make the new vehicles, and all of the fuel production facilities would have to be retooled as well. It is so much easier for all of these businesses to say, global warming, Oh well I will be dead by the time it really matters anyway. (Make a billion dollars selling fossil fuels / fossil fueled cars or save the planet. I think ill make a billion have my fun and die happy) You know that is what they are thinking.
This is exactly why our economy is going to the dogs. Companies keep exporting jobs to foreign countries because the work is cheaper. This saves them money in the short run, but what they don't see is that it is slowly killing them in the long run. For example this article is about a bank. This bank is outsourcing its tech jobs to India. Right now it saves them a few million a year, but what we know about America, which they are not thinking about, is that America imports more than it exports. You may ask how this affects the scenario. Well let me enlighten you. If we import more than we export then exporting jobs means that the money that goes to these workers in foreign countries, most likely, will not be coming back to American companies. If then the money does not come back to American companies, then it will most likely not be deposited in an American bank, thus they are putting their selves out of business slowly but surely. The biggest thing that these businesses should try and remember is this: Yes, Americans salaries are bloated, but those bloated salaries are what drove our economy to the point where it was at before it started to go to the dogs. Do these companies really think that SUVs would cost 50, 60 even 100 thousand dollars if American's salaries were not so high that they can afford to pay those prices. I think not! would anything in this country cost what is does if American's were not getting paid? Again, I think not.