Aha! I see what you mean now. I know the situation you mean, but not with mice... I have the same issue with my Saitek X52 joystick. Thankfully, Saitek makes wonderful software which will map joystick presses into keyboard presses, much like the drivers you mention.
Completely agreed. I also have the IntelliMouse Optical, and I wouldn't ever want another mouse. If mine ever breaks (God forbid), that's the first mouse I'll be going for.
None of these are fantasy elements. The only one that you cited that's somewhat unreasonable was Roslin's cancer going into remission. That was quite the stretch. However, it's still not a fantasy element, and was quite rooted in the realm of sci-fi, ludicrous though it might have been.
And Baltar being a religious figure? Are you serious? Since when does being the leader of a cult solely belong to the realm of fantasy?
My mouse has 4 buttons, plus the scroll wheel, and the driver packaged with Windows has always worked beautifully for me. Maybe it stops working once you have an obscene number of buttons, but I've never had mouse driver issues.
Simple. Season 3 was good, and people are just whiners.
The show has, imnsho, been extremely high quality from start to finish. I never have understood, and probably never will understand, where people get this idea that the show has gone downhill.
Yeah, we know. It's because, like damn near every other politician, he doesn't give a damn about our rights, and we knew this from the moment he voted for immunity for the government's spies.
Then you're standing on even shakier ground, because art isn't something we have any sort of meaningful metric for. Tell me: what makes good art? Why does what you say make it good art, and not what I say?
In the end, the only thing we have that can evaluate art is people's collective opinions... which isn't a meaningful evaluation in the least.
I'm confused by what you mean. Maybe I just don't understand how tips work in Europe. Isn't it a reward for good service (which is my understanding of "gratuity"), just like it is here?
isn't needed to bring staff wages to a minimum wage standard as in the US.
I've never worked in the industry, but I'm given to understand that if you don't make at least minimum wage once tips are added to your wages, your employer is required to make up the difference. This might not be in all states, just mine, and is still shitty, but not as bad as people actually getting paid less than minimum wage at the end of the day.
I have yet to come across any half-decent restaurant that didn't let you split your bill up. Even if we accept your (false, imnsho) premise that all chain restaurants are crappy, that just means all good restaurants let you split the bill, and some crappy ones do.
Agreed on Metroid, but at least they're still making 2D Metroid games. I want more 2D Mario, 3D Mario was a fscking travesty (I know they made New Super Mario Bros, but that's one game in the past 18 years. Hardly adequate.).
I don't agree that Zelda was better in 2D, though. I enjoy Zelda in 3D much more than I did in 2D.
Using the internet with a secure brower, is like looking at someone through a telescope.
Yeah, except using the internet with a secure browser isn't risk-less, as even browsers we hail as secure have vulnerabilities found on occasion. That's where the condom analogy comes in. As with use of a condom, risk is greatly mitigated, but not eliminated altogether.
Windows tends to attract the stupidest users, that's why. It's been argued over and over again, so we won't change anything here, but I maintain that the day Linux/OSX has the Windows user base, we'll still hear just as many complaints about it, because the morons out there will be mindlessly hitting "Yeah, go ahead" when sudo asks them if they're really sure they want to install that malware.
Well yeah, but I did say that the technical side shouldn't be ignored. It's just that user education is the biggest piece of the puzzle. It's not the only one.
That's the good kind of DRM for Apple for to implement, and I take no issue with that implementation, because it is good for their customers. I mean the DRM that restricts what hardware their OS can run on, which is bad for their customers, and not forced on them by anyone.
Proliferation of malware has shown time and time again that users simply keep clicking "allow" or "ok" without regard to what they're agreeing to run!
Are you trying to make a point that malware is IE's fault? Because if so, you just completely undercut it. What you said is true, and is the reason why users are the biggest threat to computer security, not the browser/OS/whatever.
Because I monitor my computer's behavior and health? I'm not a babe-in-the-woods clueless user, here, I keep an eye on how my PC is doing. It's technically possible that I could have got some sort of invisible, undetectable malware, but if we take it to that level of ridiculosity, then no one knows if their computer is clean.
This is bull. I'll make an analogy for you with sex and condoms, since you suggested it, and it is a fairly apt analogy.
Using the internet with a secure browser is like having sex with a condom. Using it with an insecure browser is like having sex without a condom. But in the end, condoms or no condoms, if you have sex with a person you know is carrying every kind of STD known to man (or is likely to be), you're the fool. And whether or not you use condoms, the best defense is being smart about your partners.
Of course you should use condoms, that's just prudence. But the first line of defense is knowing who you're having sex with.
And you'll note I said that the technical side of the issue shouldn't be ignored. The fact remains, though, that the most effective thing we can do is user training.
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If they were trying to do that, they'd have left it at SP1, because XP SP1 was rock-solid. Hell, the first few months of SP2 were worse than SP1.
Aha! I see what you mean now. I know the situation you mean, but not with mice... I have the same issue with my Saitek X52 joystick. Thankfully, Saitek makes wonderful software which will map joystick presses into keyboard presses, much like the drivers you mention.
Completely agreed. I also have the IntelliMouse Optical, and I wouldn't ever want another mouse. If mine ever breaks (God forbid), that's the first mouse I'll be going for.
None of these are fantasy elements. The only one that you cited that's somewhat unreasonable was Roslin's cancer going into remission. That was quite the stretch. However, it's still not a fantasy element, and was quite rooted in the realm of sci-fi, ludicrous though it might have been.
And Baltar being a religious figure? Are you serious? Since when does being the leader of a cult solely belong to the realm of fantasy?
My mouse has 4 buttons, plus the scroll wheel, and the driver packaged with Windows has always worked beautifully for me. Maybe it stops working once you have an obscene number of buttons, but I've never had mouse driver issues.
Simple. Season 3 was good, and people are just whiners.
The show has, imnsho, been extremely high quality from start to finish. I never have understood, and probably never will understand, where people get this idea that the show has gone downhill.
Obama doesn't want to convict anyone.
Yeah, we know. It's because, like damn near every other politician, he doesn't give a damn about our rights, and we knew this from the moment he voted for immunity for the government's spies.
Then you're standing on even shakier ground, because art isn't something we have any sort of meaningful metric for. Tell me: what makes good art? Why does what you say make it good art, and not what I say?
In the end, the only thing we have that can evaluate art is people's collective opinions... which isn't a meaningful evaluation in the least.
There's a difference between entertaining and good.
No, there actually isn't. As the purpose of the medium is, by and large, to entertain, any movie which entertains is by definition a good movie.
It's not a gratuity...
I'm confused by what you mean. Maybe I just don't understand how tips work in Europe. Isn't it a reward for good service (which is my understanding of "gratuity"), just like it is here?
isn't needed to bring staff wages to a minimum wage standard as in the US.
I've never worked in the industry, but I'm given to understand that if you don't make at least minimum wage once tips are added to your wages, your employer is required to make up the difference. This might not be in all states, just mine, and is still shitty, but not as bad as people actually getting paid less than minimum wage at the end of the day.
Here in Europe they are simple machine with a key pad.
As a rule, this is what they are in the US as well. There are plenty which are hooked into the POS system, though, so it's not guaranteed.
I have yet to come across any half-decent restaurant that didn't let you split your bill up. Even if we accept your (false, imnsho) premise that all chain restaurants are crappy, that just means all good restaurants let you split the bill, and some crappy ones do.
Agreed on Metroid, but at least they're still making 2D Metroid games. I want more 2D Mario, 3D Mario was a fscking travesty (I know they made New Super Mario Bros, but that's one game in the past 18 years. Hardly adequate.).
I don't agree that Zelda was better in 2D, though. I enjoy Zelda in 3D much more than I did in 2D.
Ask anyone who remembers how the global LFG channel went.
/shudder
And I just got done with therapy for that, too. Thanks for reminding me...
Yeah, the sexual analogy is not having sex with people you think are likely carriers, i.e., web sites that pull that kind of bullshit.
Yes, and that's why I said you should wear a condom, and in my OP, I said that the technical side of internet security should not be ignored.
Using the internet with a secure brower, is like looking at someone through a telescope.
Yeah, except using the internet with a secure browser isn't risk-less, as even browsers we hail as secure have vulnerabilities found on occasion. That's where the condom analogy comes in. As with use of a condom, risk is greatly mitigated, but not eliminated altogether.
Windows tends to attract the stupidest users, that's why. It's been argued over and over again, so we won't change anything here, but I maintain that the day Linux/OSX has the Windows user base, we'll still hear just as many complaints about it, because the morons out there will be mindlessly hitting "Yeah, go ahead" when sudo asks them if they're really sure they want to install that malware.
Well yeah, but I did say that the technical side shouldn't be ignored. It's just that user education is the biggest piece of the puzzle. It's not the only one.
Sure thing! There's this one car, which is like Firefox. And another car, which is like IE. Result? FIREFOX RULES!!!
That's the good kind of DRM for Apple for to implement, and I take no issue with that implementation, because it is good for their customers. I mean the DRM that restricts what hardware their OS can run on, which is bad for their customers, and not forced on them by anyone.
Proliferation of malware has shown time and time again that users simply keep clicking "allow" or "ok" without regard to what they're agreeing to run!
Are you trying to make a point that malware is IE's fault? Because if so, you just completely undercut it. What you said is true, and is the reason why users are the biggest threat to computer security, not the browser/OS/whatever.
I agree, but I did say that the technical side of the issue shouldn't be ignored. Both are important.
Because I monitor my computer's behavior and health? I'm not a babe-in-the-woods clueless user, here, I keep an eye on how my PC is doing. It's technically possible that I could have got some sort of invisible, undetectable malware, but if we take it to that level of ridiculosity, then no one knows if their computer is clean.
This is bull. I'll make an analogy for you with sex and condoms, since you suggested it, and it is a fairly apt analogy.
Using the internet with a secure browser is like having sex with a condom. Using it with an insecure browser is like having sex without a condom. But in the end, condoms or no condoms, if you have sex with a person you know is carrying every kind of STD known to man (or is likely to be), you're the fool. And whether or not you use condoms, the best defense is being smart about your partners.
Of course you should use condoms, that's just prudence. But the first line of defense is knowing who you're having sex with.
And you'll note I said that the technical side of the issue shouldn't be ignored. The fact remains, though, that the most effective thing we can do is user training.