Comment Re:Hunters.. (Score 1) 1010
For some Apple fanatics, Apple could sell them a kick in the balls and they'd stand in line for six days just to buy it.
yeah, but apple will only kick you on the left ball.
For some Apple fanatics, Apple could sell them a kick in the balls and they'd stand in line for six days just to buy it.
yeah, but apple will only kick you on the left ball.
"and probably, the music coming out of your guitar isn't super-great. not to knock you or anything."
As long as it's not the same three chords every other fucking band plays now days, I'll bet it sounds better than most.
Oh, but I'll bet you've never actually played a guitar, so you can't give ANY sort of objective opinion concerning performance.
I should've made myself clear that I consider that I'm not the best damn guitarist in the world, and the statement wasn't just directed at you. I actually come from a place where I KNOW how hard it is to be a fantastic guitarist, and I'm working hard at it.
Radiohead is pretty good. Muse is pretty good. Modest Mouse could go either way, but I'm hoping their next album is good. Menomena is awesome, and worth checking out. Listen to Deerhoof and Experimental Dental School.
My band is decent, and our recordings are okay. Please follow the link in my sig, and check us out. I'm the bald-headed fucker with the guitar.
Beta is not as good as I wish it were because Jim and I recorded Beta by ourselves, and made some recording mistakes along the way. Our intention was to get the material done so we could move ahead, and now we have 3 new band members. Gasoline Alley is pretty tight, but it's the first show we played together with the new guys, and Jim wasn't there, so there are some mistakes. Definitely more punchy, though. We'll have more recordings soon.
(-3, OT. -5, link whoring)
I want a programmable device to be re-programmable. I don't expect support if I do so I also do not want to be singled out for punishment if I do so.
Flogging a dead horse here, but dude. You can reprogram your device. If you try to connect to their pay service, they don't have to let reprogrammed devices connect. They don't want to provide support for reprogrammable devices, so they don't advertise it as such.
You're not being punished, you're being left out in the cold, and that's the deal you get with that product. Buy another product.
FTFS, "The game company said since 2008 it had pursued over 800 actions in 16 countries to stop game piracy, confiscating 'well over' half a million game copiers for the Nintendo DS."
makes it sound like they're going after commercial copiers. but i don't know. i didn't read that damn article. in any case, i support them going after people copying and selling the stuff. which just means i sit in my room by myself and silently approve.
um. i commend you for going and seeing live performances, but there are sort pretty great movies coming out all the time. just don't go to your local megamovieplex.
also, getting out your guitar and playing music as an alternative to listening to recordings means you don't listen to any dead peoples' music. and probably, the music coming out of your guitar isn't super-great. not to knock you or anything.
Puppy is faster, and by a long shot. Even though it's not as polished, it is usable, so much so that my daughter can use it. (She is six.)
I actually think a six-year old is far more qualified to use a new OS than an adult.
Looking too much like Windows is not a good thing. Since Ubuntu looks nothing like Windows, people do not expect it to behave exactly like Windows. Less questions of "Where is my Control Panel? I want to add some software!"
my assessment of linux mint v. ubuntu is that they both look substantially enough like windows for someone to wonder where their control panel is. linux mint has a control panel, though. so i think it's a slightly more windows-user-friendly OS. but factor in the community, and i vote for ubuntu.
Here's the thing about spammers, they don't play nice. They'll happily give some fake clicks to legitimate sites, causing a support nightmare trying to figure out which are legitimate and which are not.
This is a great point, and I hadn't thought of it. The asshole cloud IS working 24/7 to think up new ways to exploit the system. However...
Then there's be some false positives and people will howl over lost money and frozen accounts
This is not so much of an issue. You can implement a "report click error" button, and people can review their monthly statement summary and click off things that they don't recognize. This is somewhat mitigated by your first point, but if the spammers shotgun clicks out to legitimate sites, they will still have a point of concentration of reported errors around their account, unless they actually have useful content on their site.
Because even if I didn't flattr the onion av club, if it showed up on my statement, I wouldn't click it off, because they deserve my money. The same goes for xkcd or slashdot.
Also, you could look at the ratio of valid:invalid clicks, because someone busy gaming the system is not going to have enough time to produce valuable content.
You think maybe if they receive 10000 complaints that end users' funds went to some site they don't recognize wouldn't be enough to initiate a freeze on the site's account, pending an investigation that would probably take all of 15 minutes before refunding all the money?
Forcing users to use a government monitored service doesn't sound like something that would build trust. It sounds like a move to crush dissent.
This is to say nothing of the destabilizing effect that Windows Live Mail can have on a nation. We've experienced it stateside already.
Argh. That's exactly the misunderstanding at the root of this.
what misunderstanding? i said they have a great point. great points get you jack shit. i also said it's not actionable. i'm merely pointing out that it's clearly a nod to PKD.
i'm all for freedom of information. for example, download my album and the live show from gasoline alley: http://silenttrio.com/music
The meta meta mods, of course!
is this a GEB reference? yay!
True, but it's not even the same name. The book refers to the replicants as "Nexus-6" models. This is the "Nexus One" phone.
Would an average person think that the estate of Philip K. Dick endorses the phone based on that? Highly, highly unlikely.
While I think the case isn't actionable, I think PKD's estate has a great point. If the Nexus-6 is the 6th revision of the Androids, and Google is putting out an Android called Nexus One, it is clearly a nod to PKD.
I mean, come on. It's too great an idea for it to be an accident.
What kind of security am I lacking under the current regime? My disc + my BR player + my television. I don't see why there needs to be any "security" in that step unless I'm worried about people breaking into my house and trying to rip my collection.
Al Qaeda. You don't want the terrorists to win, do you? Just think what would happen if they got ahold of the video data from an extremely crisp and high resolution playing of The Hangover. Disaster.
relax. as long as you're not a marijuana-smoking jihadist, you have nothing to worry about. good people never go to prison!
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
