Geek Squad is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard of. It doesn't take a geek to install a stick of RAM... Also their advertising is funny as hell, they have a GIRL on the Geek Squad!!!!
(I know, they probably only did it to look diverse, but we know female geeks don't exist, and they surely wouldn't be caught dead in a Geek Squad outfit)
I bought my Canon digital camera at Circuit City for almost $100 cheaper than was available on the website - simply because it was "already opened". Open box items are rarely posted online, and yes they are often heavily discounted because few people will buy something that has been opened. While it wasn't a horrible experience at Circuit City, it was harder than it needed to be. That being said, I did end up getting it cheaper than I would have from Newegg (only because of annoying mail in rebates). Why they couldn't just sell me what I wanted at the advertised price was beyond me.
And why my original post was modded funny is also beyond me...
Circuit City tried to pull that shit with me. Luckily, I was smart enough to go to their laptop/mobile wireless display and use their real website, order what I wanted for in store pickup and then watch the same sales guy who wouldn't give me the lower price walk over, pick the product up, and take it to the front desk, where I promply showed them my credit card I used for the purchase. Took a bit longer, and was absurd, but that's what you get for giving me free internet in your store.
I have this same qualm to some degree. I think it's stupid to put Ubuntu on desktops. Anyone who is interested in Linux will most likely be interested in building their own computer. Where it gets interesting is on the laptop. I can't build one of my own, so I am interested in buying one that supports Linux. Since I would have to buy a manufactured one anyways, the Dell is quite attractive for its compatibility. Unfortunately, I would like to see some more powerful laptops in the lineup. The current single model isn't really up to par.
I think the goal was to have good open source drivers, ATI and nVidia haven't quite stepped up to the plate on that yet. I hope this may cause them to put a little more effort into either open sourcing their drivers, or improving their closed source ones.
No one will probably read this, but it cannot go undiscussed...
Why in the hell did MS decide you needed to have a RAID driver on a floppy disk?!?!?!? There is no reason a modern operating system can't support getting the driver from a CD/USB/anything but a floppy. When I had to install XP x64 on my RAID, I had to search the whole fucking house to find an old floppy drive and thank god almighty my motherboard still had floppy disk support.
On an semi related note. Don't try to install Windows with a USB hard disk plugged in. It will assume your USB disk the primary device, and even if you specify your internal disk as the install target, it will write your MBR to the USB disk, making your system unbootable if it is removed. Another ARRRGGGHHH STUPID MS!!! moment.
And breeders aren't a perpetual motion machine. You still run out of uranium in the order of decades ro centuries. (Unless you go to thorium, in which case spallation "energy amplifiers" are a much better design. Those, and fusion, are where we should be looking to nuclear technologies.) Where did you pull that number out of? I thought there were estimates of thousands of years of fissionable uranium deposits based on current energy usage...
This won't affect illegal immigrants working. Employers know they aren't elligible to work, they choose to employ them not just because they are cheaper labor, but because they do better work than the unionized workers here in the states.
No, what's lame is people who blindly believe that the summary is 100% correct and don't RTFA or comments before posting. First post is that it runs on OSX, and numerous people have ignored that, and posting ignorant "Blizzard hates Apple users!!!" whining.
From all the screenshots and demos it looks like very little of the battlefield is visible at a time. This is one thing I didn't like about Starcraft, but I understood because it ran at such a low resolution. I hope Starcraft II supports higher resolution or different battlefield zoom levels. Scrolling around all the time can be a pain in the ass.
I got finger printed working for my local church. It's not that unreasonable to check your background. You wouldn't want to be programming with a muderer, or someone that throws chairs would you?
I'll be entertained to see how some Slashdotters twist this into being "bad for Microsoft" or something. Be entertained and enjoy these options: (1) I think MS was counting copies of XP in this count. People just ASSUMED OSs sold equalled Vista. (2) Microsoft was actually hacked to change the number. (3) This was actually the sales dollars, not the number of licenses sold! (4) That's horse crap, my grandmother could sell a billion copies of Vista with her eyes closed, and she runs LINUX!!! OMG I PWNED YOU!!11!
I'm betting they included "free upgrade to vista" offers for copies of XP sold for the year prior to vista. But how many of these people have actually claimed their free upgrade copy?
I don't think you're familiar with the point of an RPG... I think what you're looking for is called the Jedi Knight series of FPS games. What people who played SWG wanted was to be a part of the star wars universe. Unfortunately, in a realistic universe, not everyone can be a Jedi (and even less so in the timeline the game was supposed to take place). I was quite happy to be a wookiee doctor, and did not aspire to be a Jedi at all.
Then you truely haven't seen the current game. SWG was an RPG then, and probably sucked because you were a noob. It was fun when you got friends, lived in a player city, and were a master at your profession.
Now it's a role playing action game, where you'd be much more happy. You'd jump in the game and already have skills, hell you could be a jedi if you want. I think it kills the game if you don't have to earn your skills.
Oh, I forgot to mention, if you do want a stable, less often updated Ubuntu like Linux flavor, I suggest Debian (what Ubuntu is based on). Ubuntu split off from Debian because their release cycle was too slow.
Their version numbers are not sequential, so it matters not what comes after the . I quite frankly think they are quite stable, and if you don't find it so, stick to the LTS versions.
I for one, can't wait until the next version comes out.
Agreed. I have no idea how my xorg.conf file works or what the options are. I go on the Ubuntu forums, find my problem, copy and paste their xorg.conf differences into mine, save, exit, and voila... IT WORKS! I don't understand what it did, or why, but it was no harder than installing video drivers in Windows.
Yes, I can vouch for this. I run XP x64, and I use 64 bit Minefied (Firefox 3.0.0a), and Adobe does not have a flash plugin for it. If I need to use flash I have to switch to 32bit Firefox, same as in Linux.
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That's it, it must have had a kernel panic... Must have been a hardware problem.
Geek Squad is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard of. It doesn't take a geek to install a stick of RAM... Also their advertising is funny as hell, they have a GIRL on the Geek Squad!!!!
(I know, they probably only did it to look diverse, but we know female geeks don't exist, and they surely wouldn't be caught dead in a Geek Squad outfit)
And why my original post was modded funny is also beyond me...
Circuit City tried to pull that shit with me. Luckily, I was smart enough to go to their laptop/mobile wireless display and use their real website, order what I wanted for in store pickup and then watch the same sales guy who wouldn't give me the lower price walk over, pick the product up, and take it to the front desk, where I promply showed them my credit card I used for the purchase. Took a bit longer, and was absurd, but that's what you get for giving me free internet in your store.
I have this same qualm to some degree. I think it's stupid to put Ubuntu on desktops. Anyone who is interested in Linux will most likely be interested in building their own computer. Where it gets interesting is on the laptop. I can't build one of my own, so I am interested in buying one that supports Linux. Since I would have to buy a manufactured one anyways, the Dell is quite attractive for its compatibility. Unfortunately, I would like to see some more powerful laptops in the lineup. The current single model isn't really up to par.
I think the goal was to have good open source drivers, ATI and nVidia haven't quite stepped up to the plate on that yet. I hope this may cause them to put a little more effort into either open sourcing their drivers, or improving their closed source ones.
No one will probably read this, but it cannot go undiscussed...
Why in the hell did MS decide you needed to have a RAID driver on a floppy disk?!?!?!? There is no reason a modern operating system can't support getting the driver from a CD/USB/anything but a floppy. When I had to install XP x64 on my RAID, I had to search the whole fucking house to find an old floppy drive and thank god almighty my motherboard still had floppy disk support.
On an semi related note. Don't try to install Windows with a USB hard disk plugged in. It will assume your USB disk the primary device, and even if you specify your internal disk as the install target, it will write your MBR to the USB disk, making your system unbootable if it is removed. Another ARRRGGGHHH STUPID MS!!! moment.
Wait... Leprechauns don't exist?!?!?!? There goes my retirement plan of stealing their gold.
Until we finally get to "Lyre Hero: The Music of Ancient Rome"
This won't affect illegal immigrants working. Employers know they aren't elligible to work, they choose to employ them not just because they are cheaper labor, but because they do better work than the unionized workers here in the states.
No, what's lame is people who blindly believe that the summary is 100% correct and don't RTFA or comments before posting. First post is that it runs on OSX, and numerous people have ignored that, and posting ignorant "Blizzard hates Apple users!!!" whining.
I believe it was Quake 4. But don't quote me on that...
From all the screenshots and demos it looks like very little of the battlefield is visible at a time. This is one thing I didn't like about Starcraft, but I understood because it ran at such a low resolution. I hope Starcraft II supports higher resolution or different battlefield zoom levels. Scrolling around all the time can be a pain in the ass.
Sad, I read this whole comment and the only thing I'll remember is "actress having sex on the beach".
I got finger printed working for my local church. It's not that unreasonable to check your background. You wouldn't want to be programming with a muderer, or someone that throws chairs would you?
(1) I think MS was counting copies of XP in this count. People just ASSUMED OSs sold equalled Vista.
(2) Microsoft was actually hacked to change the number.
(3) This was actually the sales dollars, not the number of licenses sold!
(4) That's horse crap, my grandmother could sell a billion copies of Vista with her eyes closed, and she runs LINUX!!! OMG I PWNED YOU!!11!
I'm betting they included "free upgrade to vista" offers for copies of XP sold for the year prior to vista. But how many of these people have actually claimed their free upgrade copy?
I don't think you're familiar with the point of an RPG... I think what you're looking for is called the Jedi Knight series of FPS games. What people who played SWG wanted was to be a part of the star wars universe. Unfortunately, in a realistic universe, not everyone can be a Jedi (and even less so in the timeline the game was supposed to take place). I was quite happy to be a wookiee doctor, and did not aspire to be a Jedi at all.
Then you truely haven't seen the current game. SWG was an RPG then, and probably sucked because you were a noob. It was fun when you got friends, lived in a player city, and were a master at your profession.
Now it's a role playing action game, where you'd be much more happy. You'd jump in the game and already have skills, hell you could be a jedi if you want. I think it kills the game if you don't have to earn your skills.
Is that even possible in Ubuntu? I've tried logging in as root before, and it doesn't work. I've only been able to do superuser commands using sudo.
Oh, I forgot to mention, if you do want a stable, less often updated Ubuntu like Linux flavor, I suggest Debian (what Ubuntu is based on). Ubuntu split off from Debian because their release cycle was too slow.
Their version numbers are not sequential, so it matters not what comes after the . I quite frankly think they are quite stable, and if you don't find it so, stick to the LTS versions.
I for one, can't wait until the next version comes out.
Agreed. I have no idea how my xorg.conf file works or what the options are. I go on the Ubuntu forums, find my problem, copy and paste their xorg.conf differences into mine, save, exit, and voila... IT WORKS! I don't understand what it did, or why, but it was no harder than installing video drivers in Windows.
Yes, I can vouch for this. I run XP x64, and I use 64 bit Minefied (Firefox 3.0.0a), and Adobe does not have a flash plugin for it. If I need to use flash I have to switch to 32bit Firefox, same as in Linux.