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It's not that hard to figure things out in the modern age with the huge amount of documentation, forums, how-to articles, and online communications. People are just getting lazy. It's easier to say "it's too hard" rather then to just try to figure it out. Heck, I offer to show people how to do things all the time, but in reality, they just want me to do it for them. I can guarantee my time is worth more then most people who use the "time is money" excuse, but I still am willing to try new things and even *gasp* help other people try new things. Since when did everyone decide that learning "just enough" was ok?
I need to stop before I get off on the topic of "professional students" and these idiots who think a degree makes them smarter.... This could get really long./END RANT
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"this sort of thing indicates a much deeper understanding"
Or it indicates way too much free time.
It's just outside forces wanting to push an agenda... It just doesn't work as well in the computer industry due to an overall higher intelligence level then the political arena.
I only have an XP harddrive so that I can run Visual Studio and play games... and World of Warcraft is the only game I don't have running in Linux (very well). There is no doubt that I would drop XP all together and just use my Ubuntu install if I could get WoW working better (which I will tackle again this weekend). The only reason I have Visual Studio is for work and don't work at home on the projects any more so this may not be a sticking point any longer.
From a professional stand point, there are a few things Linux lacks that I really wish I could carry over. Those programs would be Photoshop (I don't like GIMP as much), Dreamweaver, Visual Studio (It's like an STD, you don't want it, but sometimes you can't get rid of it), and simple installs in general.
Maybe ebay should just pay the guy to tell them how to fix their system and be done with it. You know that this will all end with an exploit for ebay being discovered and someone getting sued.
Don't forget, the Google system is also removing your need for email servers, spam filters, sharing plat forms, software updates, and 10GB of storage per user for $8 a month... when did MS offer storage, and I think I trust google with my files more then MS.
You're comparing people who have a religious belief in a concept to people who accept the more explained theory. It's apples and oranges, one is an agreement with a concept and the other is faith.
Now, what are you using as your basis that people who agree with evolution do not have interest in the future of their children? If the majority of the country has accepted evolution, wouldn't that suggest the majority of those that participle on school boards agree with evolution?
I'm glad a judge had common sense on MySpace's behalf. People want to shift blame to the medium used for the meeting, not the people in the real world who are at fault.
The only people to blame in this case are the parents and the guy who committed the crime. It was the parent's job to know what their child was doing and to prevent her from meeting people like this. The world is full of bad people, but it's the parent's jobs to protect their children. Of course, this in no way removes responsibility for the crime from the guy. All I'm saying is that HE is responsible for committing the crime and the parents are responsible for not preventing their child from falling victim to him.
That was quite possibly the most ignorant statement I have read on slashdot recently. I'm not particularly partial to either Firefox or IE, but exploit for exploit, your statement has no merit. What will be the deciding factor will be how fast it is patched.
It's the same with PC's, either the graphics hardware is up to the task or it isn't. There is no reason to spend more money crippling your engine to run on a specific console when you know what it will look like anyway.
When people bought the Wii, they basically bought a Game Cube with a cool controller. I'm not saying the Wii isn't entertaining, I'm just stating the fact that the hardware was not designed for good graphics quality (by today's standards). Just don't hold your breath for some stunning new engine for hardware such as the Wii.
I played the Wii for 5 hours strait alternating playing with my niece and nephew and wasn't even a little tired. If you're feeling discomfort or losing weight from just moving your arms around without resistance, you have serious issues to deal with.
Yes, the Wii makes you move, a little, but it is not an effective weight loss or exercise tool for a healthy person. Maybe if you weighted the controllers, or stretched a rubber tube around your back and connected it to each controller, you might get enough resistance to be a mile cardio... if you continued playing for a long period of time.
There are a few too many reasons animals die to speculate at one point, especially one that is so unsupported. We would need an autopsy and a few more dead frill sharks to start pointing and a wider problem then the animal specific such as infection, age, injury, dieses, abnormalities, predation, etc...
It's hard because of stupid people. I swear, users get increasingly more challenged as time goes on. An incompetent user would rather push the wrong button and see what happens then read anything.
My new system is fool proof; each button will be a color coded geometric shape....
My wifes WoW account got banned for this same reason. The interesting thing is that we had never had a problem with warnings or bans on either of our accounts until I started fiddling with different ways of getting WoW working on my Ubuntu laptop. After trying a few different ways of getting WoW working I logged in a few times to prove that I could from my laptop, but I never spent much time on due to frame rate issues with my graphics drivers.
Now, I am not saying that it's just because I'm running linux with wine, but something I did when I was getting my system to work must have made Warden angery. It would be nice to know what that was, so that if I ever play a new Blizzard game again I will not get banned again.
Good intentions? You do know the intention is to make money right? They are trying to get in on the video download market before they get boxed out. If they fail, there will be no reason for people to come to them for movies, which removes not only the movie store, but hurts the video ipod significantly.
Your talking about physical media versus a file that is downloaded. It costs them nothing but bandwidth for you to download another file. It's not really possible to draw an accurate comparison because of how new the idea of downloading movies (legally) is.
If you purchase the rights to download a movie from Apple, it should be known that you are actually paying for a single file. Of course I'm not saying that I agree with this notion, but that is how they see it. Personally I prefer the idea that if I "buy" a title, I have purchased the right to download that title as many times as I want and in whatever formats strike me at the time...... but that's what I think it should be, not the way that makes the most money.
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This is getting so off topic it hurts.
Life existed before mining, so life does not require mining. The current way of life REQUIRES mining.
The Moden Way of Life: brought to you by mining. Is that better?
/RANT It's not that hard to figure things out in the modern age with the huge amount of documentation, forums, how-to articles, and online communications. People are just getting lazy. It's easier to say "it's too hard" rather then to just try to figure it out. Heck, I offer to show people how to do things all the time, but in reality, they just want me to do it for them. I can guarantee my time is worth more then most people who use the "time is money" excuse, but I still am willing to try new things and even *gasp* help other people try new things. Since when did everyone decide that learning "just enough" was ok? I need to stop before I get off on the topic of "professional students" and these idiots who think a degree makes them smarter.... This could get really long. /END RANT
"this sort of thing indicates a much deeper understanding" Or it indicates way too much free time.
Need I say more?
It's just outside forces wanting to push an agenda... It just doesn't work as well in the computer industry due to an overall higher intelligence level then the political arena.
I only have an XP harddrive so that I can run Visual Studio and play games... and World of Warcraft is the only game I don't have running in Linux (very well). There is no doubt that I would drop XP all together and just use my Ubuntu install if I could get WoW working better (which I will tackle again this weekend). The only reason I have Visual Studio is for work and don't work at home on the projects any more so this may not be a sticking point any longer. From a professional stand point, there are a few things Linux lacks that I really wish I could carry over. Those programs would be Photoshop (I don't like GIMP as much), Dreamweaver, Visual Studio (It's like an STD, you don't want it, but sometimes you can't get rid of it), and simple installs in general.
Maybe ebay should just pay the guy to tell them how to fix their system and be done with it. You know that this will all end with an exploit for ebay being discovered and someone getting sued.
Don't forget, the Google system is also removing your need for email servers, spam filters, sharing plat forms, software updates, and 10GB of storage per user for $8 a month... when did MS offer storage, and I think I trust google with my files more then MS.
Use your stone or get a portal...
Until you bust out the hover board and ski behind the thing.... then you will get noticed.
You're comparing people who have a religious belief in a concept to people who accept the more explained theory. It's apples and oranges, one is an agreement with a concept and the other is faith. Now, what are you using as your basis that people who agree with evolution do not have interest in the future of their children? If the majority of the country has accepted evolution, wouldn't that suggest the majority of those that participle on school boards agree with evolution?
I freak out every time I hear someone talk about "ID".... it means a user is in a database again and my day just started down hill.
I'm glad a judge had common sense on MySpace's behalf. People want to shift blame to the medium used for the meeting, not the people in the real world who are at fault. The only people to blame in this case are the parents and the guy who committed the crime. It was the parent's job to know what their child was doing and to prevent her from meeting people like this. The world is full of bad people, but it's the parent's jobs to protect their children. Of course, this in no way removes responsibility for the crime from the guy. All I'm saying is that HE is responsible for committing the crime and the parents are responsible for not preventing their child from falling victim to him.
I didn't make it clear that the start of my post was directed at ewl1217's post above my own.
That was quite possibly the most ignorant statement I have read on slashdot recently. I'm not particularly partial to either Firefox or IE, but exploit for exploit, your statement has no merit. What will be the deciding factor will be how fast it is patched.
It's the same with PC's, either the graphics hardware is up to the task or it isn't. There is no reason to spend more money crippling your engine to run on a specific console when you know what it will look like anyway. When people bought the Wii, they basically bought a Game Cube with a cool controller. I'm not saying the Wii isn't entertaining, I'm just stating the fact that the hardware was not designed for good graphics quality (by today's standards). Just don't hold your breath for some stunning new engine for hardware such as the Wii.
I played the Wii for 5 hours strait alternating playing with my niece and nephew and wasn't even a little tired. If you're feeling discomfort or losing weight from just moving your arms around without resistance, you have serious issues to deal with. Yes, the Wii makes you move, a little, but it is not an effective weight loss or exercise tool for a healthy person. Maybe if you weighted the controllers, or stretched a rubber tube around your back and connected it to each controller, you might get enough resistance to be a mile cardio... if you continued playing for a long period of time.
That really would be some terrible graphics if someone stuck WOW on a Wii..... Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
You should never refer to a new piece of technology as "Max's magical machine" unless it's being sold on TV.
There are a few too many reasons animals die to speculate at one point, especially one that is so unsupported. We would need an autopsy and a few more dead frill sharks to start pointing and a wider problem then the animal specific such as infection, age, injury, dieses, abnormalities, predation, etc...
True. Never under estimate stupid people in large numbers... or people with too much time on their hands.
It's hard because of stupid people. I swear, users get increasingly more challenged as time goes on. An incompetent user would rather push the wrong button and see what happens then read anything. My new system is fool proof; each button will be a color coded geometric shape....
My wifes WoW account got banned for this same reason. The interesting thing is that we had never had a problem with warnings or bans on either of our accounts until I started fiddling with different ways of getting WoW working on my Ubuntu laptop. After trying a few different ways of getting WoW working I logged in a few times to prove that I could from my laptop, but I never spent much time on due to frame rate issues with my graphics drivers.
Now, I am not saying that it's just because I'm running linux with wine, but something I did when I was getting my system to work must have made Warden angery. It would be nice to know what that was, so that if I ever play a new Blizzard game again I will not get banned again.
Good intentions? You do know the intention is to make money right? They are trying to get in on the video download market before they get boxed out. If they fail, there will be no reason for people to come to them for movies, which removes not only the movie store, but hurts the video ipod significantly.
Your talking about physical media versus a file that is downloaded. It costs them nothing but bandwidth for you to download another file. It's not really possible to draw an accurate comparison because of how new the idea of downloading movies (legally) is. If you purchase the rights to download a movie from Apple, it should be known that you are actually paying for a single file. Of course I'm not saying that I agree with this notion, but that is how they see it. Personally I prefer the idea that if I "buy" a title, I have purchased the right to download that title as many times as I want and in whatever formats strike me at the time...... but that's what I think it should be, not the way that makes the most money.