There's a script. If you open autoexec.bat, the last line will be "win" (or, if it isn't, they don't really care about anything after that, since iirc, nothing after launching Windows runs).
What games, out of curiosity, are you running? It might be a weird interaction with your hardware and Vista, because I run Vista and almost every game I throw at it (exception: KOTOR 2) works flawlessly.
Not even close. Portal was a brilliant game, but it was about half as long as this one. $20 was an extreme rip-off for how short of a game Portal is. $20 for the Penny Arcade game is pushing it, but is at least still within the realm of reasonable.
I would have to say referring to Microsoft as "user hostile", with no explanation, is indeed a prime example of just saying "Microsoft sux". Despite the fact that it may seem so to some, "Microsoft is user hostile" isn't plain old fact. It's opinion, and you can't just state it as fact without it being taken as a needless flame.
That would like saying that I care about Britney Spears because it would be nice if she was a talented, well-adjusted person with great taste. If I had an interest in her becoming such a person, and if she were at least making strides toward becoming such a person, you really think it would be unreasonable for me to care about her efforts to reach that goal? Wow. I guess you only believe in paying any attention to goals which are a sure thing, no matter how greatly they may be of interest to you. Efficient, I suppose, but not very rewarding in my opinion.
If you are so tied to a particular language/infrastructure that you can't use anything else even if your goal requires it, you can't possibly be a good programmer Did I say that? No, I did not. I said I like.net, and consequently, I have great interest in being able to write cross-platform apps in.net. Nowhere in there did I say that if I needed a cross-platform app, I wouldn't choose another tool if.net was impossible. That's entirely fiction on your part. If you think that me wanting my tool of choice to be good at more jobs is a sign of being a bad programmer, you are an unreasonable man (or woman) indeed.
Agreed, "offtopic" is the wrong moderation for the GP post. The correct moderation would be "flamebait".
Saying "Microsoft sux" is not remotely insightful, and is just going to stir people up. Any idiot can do that. What one should do is what you did, saying "Microsoft sux" and listing why you think so. That provides something to the discussion... "Microsoft sux" by itself is just trolling/flamebaiting. (nb: I'm not the mod you're bitching at, I don't have mod points today. But if I did, that's how I would've modded it, and why.)
Having had some experience with farmers (I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin), I'd say he's either a lucky farmer or a big farmer. Large-scale farms often do well (of course, they also get extra help... took my parents ages to find a plant to buy their milk who didn't offer higher prices to big farmers just because they were producing more milk, and that's not even counting the fact that big businesses in general tend to have an easier time getting breaks from the government), but the small guy is generally just getting by. Not losing money hand over fist, but not getting rich either.
Also, that guy is a corn and soybean farmer. I'm guessing ethanol might have something to do with increased demand for corn (ie: higher profits for him).
...an unwanted Windows fingerprint on my completely FOSS system... To me, that says zealotry, but I guess I'm quibbling. If you do not, in fact, value software license above software functionality, then I apologize. It's just an attitude that's entirely too common amongst open-source advocates here, and has really got under my skin over time.
I didn't say your zealotry was anti-Microsoft. You are striving to have only FOSS software on your system, and implied that you refuse to use closed software even if it's useful to you (unless no other option is available). That's the zealotry to which I refer, and it is quite irrational (picking software on any basis more than whether it meets your needs is nothing short of idiotic, in my opinion). Thus, it calls into question your ability to discuss other things rationally, because people aren't usually irrational on just one issue.
That will never happen. I'm inclined to agree, but that wasn't what you said. You said no one outside of Novell/Microsoft cares, and I was addressing that ludicrous claim.
Not that lack of applications made by.net-only programmers would be a great loss on any platform. Nice... not only are you implying my programming skills suck (for no reason), but working under some false assumption that choice of language is in any way related to how much of a bad programmer you are! What a gem.
Bull. I, for one, care. I like.net development a great deal, and watch the mono project with a great bit of interest, because if it succeeds it'll mean that I can, if necessary, develop cross-platform apps with my preferred toolbox. Or hell, even just develop apps for my own use, with the satisfaction of knowing that any interested Linux users will also be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
And I'd bet money that I'm far from alone in thinking this.
As yet another irrational FOSS zealot, I am philosophically opposed to Mono as an unwanted Windows fingerprint on my completely FOSS system (except for my nVidia drivers; alas, I am not perfect). Fixed that for you. It's your machine, so obviously it's your right to run it how you want, but it also sort of marks you as a zealot who shouldn't be counted on for rational discussion of these matters.
You're equating "government" with "legislation", I think. Unless UK citizens have a very different concept of government than I, the judiciary and the police are both parts of the government, they just don't pass laws.
Further, I'm be curious to know his field of study, wherein "terrorist tactics" is a relevant component of his schooling. Is it really that hard to come up with something? Just off the top of my head: keeping the government honest. If we aren't at least somewhat familiar with what tactics terrorists are likely to use, then we have no way of knowing if the government is a) implementing effective measures to prevent terrorist attacks, or b) going too far. And I'm sure there are other possible reasons as well.
Yes. It is a fact. If you don't like the laws, fair enough, but it'd be ludicrous to expect the government to do any less than enforce the laws. This doesn't mean that the laws are fair, just that, while the laws are in place, it's the job of our governments to enforce them. If you disagree with the law, change is what's necessary, not a lack of enforcement.
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All of you guys have COMPLETELY missed his point. He's neither dragging religious debate into this, nor is he saying modding is stealing. He is saying that "thou shalt not steal" was a similar absolute statement, which people break all the damn time. The point is that making absolute, sweeping statements like "no one can break this encryption" is pointless.
I think some people here are just a bit too trigger-happy with their flamethrowers. Jeez.
If they could make games they wouldn't have to shill their engine. That's just laughable. Making good games, and selling your engine, are completely unrelated.
So please don't embarrass yourself and try to claim Epic can make better games than Valve. Pretty much anyone makes better games than Valve, it's not a big claim.
Hey, buddy. I'm merely saying that it's going too far to say "nothing" in the Old Testament is ethical. I'm not holding it up as this gold standard by which we must live every aspect of our lives. You're putting words in my mouth.
And as far as sex with another person's spouse, so long as you arn't raping them, there's no harm there. Bullshit.
It might piss off the spouse of the person in question... There's the harm. You're hurting another person, it just doesn't happen to be who you're performing the act with. Thus, not permissible.
I ignore this fact because good gameplay and good story are not mutually exclusive -- see Portal... Eh. I wouldn't call Portal a shining example of good story. It's a shining example of gameplay, writing, voice acting, pacing... but the plot itself was fairly weak, in my opinion. Just way too minimalistic... it needed some meat, something to add a little depth to it. In fact, I can't really think of a game where both plot and gameplay were supreme. Both are generally good, but if a game truly excels in one, it never seems to bring the other along, just leaves it at "good".
Even if we accept everything you say about Epic as fact (which is still a debate unto itself), they still, for my money, make games that are light-years better than anything Valve has ever put out. Valve's only good game, ever, was Portal... which was still entirely too short, and too expensive. At least Epic put out UT2k4 and UT3. Two good games > one good game.
And that, friend, is why it's silly for us to act like we can objectively rank these companies or designers with any degree of precision. We're talking about subjective things here, not science.
there's nothing ethical about that book. No? While you can certainly find faults, "nothing" is quite the strong word. Things in the Old Testament which are ethical, just off the top of my head:
No murder
No stealing
No lying
No fucking other people's spouses (this is ethically permissible in the case where it isn't hurting the other spouse, but often enough that isn't the case)
Natural selection in humans isn't a viable means of doing something because we humans have the ability to feel emotions to those members of our species. You know, your point is totally correct, but you'd sound a lot less like an idiot if you didn't spend your first paragraph ripping on dead people. Just saying, dead people's ethics have no bearing on the ethics of Christians today.
The Bush adminstration has been wiping its collective behind with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights since the day Dubya took office. Yes.
They stole two elections. No. Now you just sound like an idiot ranting.
The economy is in the toilet... Not the government's responsibility to police.
...our servicepeople are dying uselessly... Agreed, but on the other hand, they knew what they signed up for. I don't exactly think that soldiers dying is a crime. That's what soldiers do, they kill and die professionally.
...and yet this little asshole keeps his job. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Presumably this is why you think "Americans are weenies". What the fuck do you expect the citizens to do, march on DC and shoot the guy? Not gonna happen, buddy. He's a poor president, not a brutal, merciless dictator, and doesn't deserve that sort of treatment. We've done what we can. Just shut up, ride it out, and hope the next election goes more favorably for you.
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In a remarkable coincidence, the best way to secure any OS is to unplug the network cable. Your claim is true, but meaningless.
There's a script. If you open autoexec.bat, the last line will be "win" (or, if it isn't, they don't really care about anything after that, since iirc, nothing after launching Windows runs).
What games, out of curiosity, are you running? It might be a weird interaction with your hardware and Vista, because I run Vista and almost every game I throw at it (exception: KOTOR 2) works flawlessly.
Not even close. Portal was a brilliant game, but it was about half as long as this one. $20 was an extreme rip-off for how short of a game Portal is. $20 for the Penny Arcade game is pushing it, but is at least still within the realm of reasonable.
I would have to say referring to Microsoft as "user hostile", with no explanation, is indeed a prime example of just saying "Microsoft sux". Despite the fact that it may seem so to some, "Microsoft is user hostile" isn't plain old fact. It's opinion, and you can't just state it as fact without it being taken as a needless flame.
Saying "Microsoft sux" is not remotely insightful, and is just going to stir people up. Any idiot can do that. What one should do is what you did, saying "Microsoft sux" and listing why you think so. That provides something to the discussion... "Microsoft sux" by itself is just trolling/flamebaiting. (nb: I'm not the mod you're bitching at, I don't have mod points today. But if I did, that's how I would've modded it, and why.)
Also, that guy is a corn and soybean farmer. I'm guessing ethanol might have something to do with increased demand for corn (ie: higher profits for him).
...an unwanted Windows fingerprint on my completely FOSS system... To me, that says zealotry, but I guess I'm quibbling. If you do not, in fact, value software license above software functionality, then I apologize. It's just an attitude that's entirely too common amongst open-source advocates here, and has really got under my skin over time.I didn't say your zealotry was anti-Microsoft. You are striving to have only FOSS software on your system, and implied that you refuse to use closed software even if it's useful to you (unless no other option is available). That's the zealotry to which I refer, and it is quite irrational (picking software on any basis more than whether it meets your needs is nothing short of idiotic, in my opinion). Thus, it calls into question your ability to discuss other things rationally, because people aren't usually irrational on just one issue.
And I'd bet money that I'm far from alone in thinking this.
You're equating "government" with "legislation", I think. Unless UK citizens have a very different concept of government than I, the judiciary and the police are both parts of the government, they just don't pass laws.
Yes. It is a fact. If you don't like the laws, fair enough, but it'd be ludicrous to expect the government to do any less than enforce the laws. This doesn't mean that the laws are fair, just that, while the laws are in place, it's the job of our governments to enforce them. If you disagree with the law, change is what's necessary, not a lack of enforcement.
All of you guys have COMPLETELY missed his point. He's neither dragging religious debate into this, nor is he saying modding is stealing. He is saying that "thou shalt not steal" was a similar absolute statement, which people break all the damn time. The point is that making absolute, sweeping statements like "no one can break this encryption" is pointless.
I think some people here are just a bit too trigger-happy with their flamethrowers. Jeez.
And that, friend, is why it's silly for us to act like we can objectively rank these companies or designers with any degree of precision. We're talking about subjective things here, not science.
- No murder
- No stealing
- No lying
- No fucking other people's spouses (this is ethically permissible in the case where it isn't hurting the other spouse, but often enough that isn't the case)
Seems like more than "nothing" to me.
...our servicepeople are dying uselessly... Agreed, but on the other hand, they knew what they signed up for. I don't exactly think that soldiers dying is a crime. That's what soldiers do, they kill and die professionally.
...and yet this little asshole keeps his job. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Presumably this is why you think "Americans are weenies". What the fuck do you expect the citizens to do, march on DC and shoot the guy? Not gonna happen, buddy. He's a poor president, not a brutal, merciless dictator, and doesn't deserve that sort of treatment. We've done what we can. Just shut up, ride it out, and hope the next election goes more favorably for you.