God forbid the Boy Scouts teach kids how to obey the law!
Like it or not, people, pirating music, TV shows and movies is against the law. There's nothing wrong with this at all. If you want to change the law, work to change the law-- don't act as if the law doesn't exist at all.
Then what is its meaning? Does it include desert in the so-called "fertile crescent"? (Caused by human over-farming!) Lack of big-game animals in the Americas and Australia? (Caused by human hunting 10,000+ years ago!) A barren Easter Island or Greenland? (Caused by humans cutting down all the trees!)
Is a "natural" ear of corn a foot long, or an inch long? (Humans selectively bred the large ears, you know.) How big is a "natural" tomato or potato? Those crops were human-modified also. Are dingos in Australia "natural?"
If the definition of "natural" doesn't include human activities, then we have NO IDEA what "natural" means. Like it or not, we only started studying this world after the human race had spent tens of thousands of years modifying the environment and the plants and animals that lived in it. If they want to return to the "natural" world, that also means a world with no domesticated animals, no decent crops-- i.e. hunter-gatherer society, as I posted above. If it does include human activities, well, then you have to include skyscrapers also.
You might be interested in hearing that the fourth Halo book was recently released. And it's by Eric Nyland, the *good* author. (Sorry, but the novelization of the game SUCKED! The other two books were pretty good.)
Anyway, I'm disappointed, too. After seeing them in the video game, and described in the books, I'd really like to see what a million dollar budget could do with an Elite, or Hunter or Ghost or Banshee with plasma blaring. Love or hate the Halo game, you gotta love the character and vehicle designs.
Oh, I don't know, writing an entire OS with all the features of Windows Server 2003 couldn't take more than just a couple hours, right? Someone should do that!
Hey, be positive... finally an HONEST environmentalist!
We all know that what they really want is the extinction of mankind, or at least a return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. What else can explain their constant protests against corporations, governments, pretty much every energy source known to man, technologies that help farmers, etc?
I'm in a similar situation. I'm at a point in the game where:
1) It's impossible for me to get better armor/equipment. (I can't do raids because they always start at 6:00 PM PST... not just my guild, but seemingly every guild on the damned server. I can't do the.5 armor quests because I'm stuck at the point where you have to do a 45-minute Strath run, and I just don't have enough time to do that. Plus I don't have the chestpiece or helm of the set, and I've run the dungeons they drop in about 45 times each, so I've given up on getting them. I can't do the Honor armor quests because getting that much honor takes like 40 hours a week of playing, probably more.)
2) Crafting has lost any fun it once had. Every so often I log on and spent a couple hours fishing, that's about it.
3) I don't know all that many people in the game, so sitting around and chatting isn't very fun either.
So basically, the game has designed me out of playing it. If Blizzard wanted to keep me, they'd make the.5 armor quests a lot more realistic. (Isn't the entire point of the.5 quests that you can do it while still having a life? Beating Strath in 45 minutes is like a solid week's worth of work-- and that's assuming you can get the entire.0 set in the first place! I've run UBRS 45 times at least, and never seen the chestplate for my class drop. Add up those hours, that's weeks worth of play for one item drop, and I still don't have it.)
Anyway, enough griping about WOW. Back to playing Xbox 360, which is better at keeping my attention.;)
I have a crazy idea about this. It's possible-- and this is a looong shot, you understand-- but it's just possible that Apple might have their employers test the product before putting it in a box.
It's not a matter of hypocrisy, it's a matter of relying on Slashdot.org as your primary source of information. Maybe you haven't noticed, but a good percentage (probably more than 30%) of stories are either completely wrong, or horribly misleading.
If you read a Slashdot story and react instantly to it, you're going to spend your whole life crying wolf about stuff that never happens.
Aldus Superpaint 3.0 did a good job of combining "Draw" and "Paint" functions into a single program, although it did lack layers. Of course it ran in 2 MB of RAM on Mac OS 6, so you got to give them some credit there.
Yes, but in graphics editing, you can get the best results by combining vector (draw) and bitmap (photo manipulation) in the same document using different layers. Otherwise, vector-only apps are crap with bitmaps, and bitmap-only apps are crap at dealing with vectors. The best way of handling this in this case is to have both in the same application, which GIMP does not do. (But its competitors do.)
You and I know that Excel, even with its changes, still sucks for making lists compared to Word.
Hah! When word has Auto-Fill, and better import/export filters, I *might* concede this point. But at the moment, no, Word is quite inferior at creating lists. (It has decent tables, I'll give you that.)
I've tried it. It's not an improvement over GIMP's interface, at least not enough to be worthwhile. Of course, part of the problem is that it's still X11 and X11 apps look and run like crap on OS X.
With a lot of open source projects, your thinking would be embraced to make a great product. See Firefox, for instance. The problem is that the GIMP developers just don't give a flying crap about it what-so-ever, so give up now. Photoshop Elements is only $90, does everything GIMP does but better, and is about 10 times easier to use.
If I hire a person to perform a service on my behalf, they are ME. There's no difference between "Spamhaus's lawyer screwed up" and "Spamhaus screwed up." That's my exact point. It's tough luck that they hired a bad lawyer, but they have to deal with the consequences... they can't just sit here and fear-monger without addressing the court case.
I hope you set some pages aside for Viva Pinata... I hear that's the next Pokemon craze coming down the pipe. And I'm sure there are hundreds of different pinatas.
If you screw up at something, whether it be hiring bad lawyers or anything, you can't just put your hands over your ears and shout, "la la la I can't hear you!" Regardless of *why* they lost this court battle against the spammer is irrelevant, the fact is that they have to find a new legal team and make a legal defense instead of sending out doom and gloom press releases every couple days and ignoring the problem.
I've lost a lot of respect for these guys. As a neutral party, they're just looking like whiny children to me.
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At least Sarah Connor will be safe.
God forbid the Boy Scouts teach kids how to obey the law!
Like it or not, people, pirating music, TV shows and movies is against the law. There's nothing wrong with this at all. If you want to change the law, work to change the law-- don't act as if the law doesn't exist at all.
Then what is its meaning? Does it include desert in the so-called "fertile crescent"? (Caused by human over-farming!) Lack of big-game animals in the Americas and Australia? (Caused by human hunting 10,000+ years ago!) A barren Easter Island or Greenland? (Caused by humans cutting down all the trees!)
Is a "natural" ear of corn a foot long, or an inch long? (Humans selectively bred the large ears, you know.) How big is a "natural" tomato or potato? Those crops were human-modified also. Are dingos in Australia "natural?"
If the definition of "natural" doesn't include human activities, then we have NO IDEA what "natural" means. Like it or not, we only started studying this world after the human race had spent tens of thousands of years modifying the environment and the plants and animals that lived in it. If they want to return to the "natural" world, that also means a world with no domesticated animals, no decent crops-- i.e. hunter-gatherer society, as I posted above. If it does include human activities, well, then you have to include skyscrapers also.
You might be interested in hearing that the fourth Halo book was recently released. And it's by Eric Nyland, the *good* author. (Sorry, but the novelization of the game SUCKED! The other two books were pretty good.)
Anyway, I'm disappointed, too. After seeing them in the video game, and described in the books, I'd really like to see what a million dollar budget could do with an Elite, or Hunter or Ghost or Banshee with plasma blaring. Love or hate the Halo game, you gotta love the character and vehicle designs.
Until reading your post about 15 seconds ago, I'd never heard a claim that IE7 was a rewrite.
Oh, I don't know, writing an entire OS with all the features of Windows Server 2003 couldn't take more than just a couple hours, right? Someone should do that!
"Is there a virus? Is this the source? 5,000,000,000 DIE!"
That movie freaked me out.
"Have a merry Christmas!"
Hey, be positive... finally an HONEST environmentalist!
We all know that what they really want is the extinction of mankind, or at least a return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. What else can explain their constant protests against corporations, governments, pretty much every energy source known to man, technologies that help farmers, etc?
I'm in a similar situation. I'm at a point in the game where:
.5 armor quests because I'm stuck at the point where you have to do a 45-minute Strath run, and I just don't have enough time to do that. Plus I don't have the chestpiece or helm of the set, and I've run the dungeons they drop in about 45 times each, so I've given up on getting them. I can't do the Honor armor quests because getting that much honor takes like 40 hours a week of playing, probably more.)
.5 armor quests a lot more realistic. (Isn't the entire point of the .5 quests that you can do it while still having a life? Beating Strath in 45 minutes is like a solid week's worth of work-- and that's assuming you can get the entire .0 set in the first place! I've run UBRS 45 times at least, and never seen the chestplate for my class drop. Add up those hours, that's weeks worth of play for one item drop, and I still don't have it.)
;)
1) It's impossible for me to get better armor/equipment. (I can't do raids because they always start at 6:00 PM PST... not just my guild, but seemingly every guild on the damned server. I can't do the
2) Crafting has lost any fun it once had. Every so often I log on and spent a couple hours fishing, that's about it.
3) I don't know all that many people in the game, so sitting around and chatting isn't very fun either.
So basically, the game has designed me out of playing it. If Blizzard wanted to keep me, they'd make the
Anyway, enough griping about WOW. Back to playing Xbox 360, which is better at keeping my attention.
I have a crazy idea about this. It's possible-- and this is a looong shot, you understand-- but it's just possible that Apple might have their employers test the product before putting it in a box.
Nah, that's just crazy talk.
Seconded!
It's not a matter of hypocrisy, it's a matter of relying on Slashdot.org as your primary source of information. Maybe you haven't noticed, but a good percentage (probably more than 30%) of stories are either completely wrong, or horribly misleading.
If you read a Slashdot story and react instantly to it, you're going to spend your whole life crying wolf about stuff that never happens.
Aldus Superpaint 3.0 did a good job of combining "Draw" and "Paint" functions into a single program, although it did lack layers. Of course it ran in 2 MB of RAM on Mac OS 6, so you got to give them some credit there.
Are you using MS Paint? Or Paint.NET? PLEASE tell me it's Paint.NET... once you tried that, you may find that you don't miss GIMP at all.
Yes, but Photoshop Elements is cheap, has name recognition, and is a lot easier to use than GIMP.
Tell me why you need CMYK,
Never heard of a printer?
Rare than a poster on a technical site like this wouldn't be aware of such a useful invention.
Yes, but in graphics editing, you can get the best results by combining vector (draw) and bitmap (photo manipulation) in the same document using different layers. Otherwise, vector-only apps are crap with bitmaps, and bitmap-only apps are crap at dealing with vectors. The best way of handling this in this case is to have both in the same application, which GIMP does not do. (But its competitors do.)
You and I know that Excel, even with its changes, still sucks for making lists compared to Word.
Hah! When word has Auto-Fill, and better import/export filters, I *might* concede this point. But at the moment, no, Word is quite inferior at creating lists. (It has decent tables, I'll give you that.)
I've tried it. It's not an improvement over GIMP's interface, at least not enough to be worthwhile. Of course, part of the problem is that it's still X11 and X11 apps look and run like crap on OS X.
With a lot of open source projects, your thinking would be embraced to make a great product. See Firefox, for instance. The problem is that the GIMP developers just don't give a flying crap about it what-so-ever, so give up now. Photoshop Elements is only $90, does everything GIMP does but better, and is about 10 times easier to use.
If I hire a person to perform a service on my behalf, they are ME. There's no difference between "Spamhaus's lawyer screwed up" and "Spamhaus screwed up." That's my exact point. It's tough luck that they hired a bad lawyer, but they have to deal with the consequences... they can't just sit here and fear-monger without addressing the court case.
I'm calling you out on this one.
A real life Phantom lapboard? No way in hell!
I hope you set some pages aside for Viva Pinata... I hear that's the next Pokemon craze coming down the pipe. And I'm sure there are hundreds of different pinatas.
I have a cold and phoned in sick to work. What's your excuse?
Yes, but that's irrelevant to the case at hand.
If you screw up at something, whether it be hiring bad lawyers or anything, you can't just put your hands over your ears and shout, "la la la I can't hear you!" Regardless of *why* they lost this court battle against the spammer is irrelevant, the fact is that they have to find a new legal team and make a legal defense instead of sending out doom and gloom press releases every couple days and ignoring the problem.
I've lost a lot of respect for these guys. As a neutral party, they're just looking like whiny children to me.