Uh... I'm no artist, so I won't speak to that, but the Windows way, as you describe it, is actually how I work. I grab any tools I think I'll need, spread them out on my work area, and go to town. If I need more, I grab more, and leave those sitting on my work area as well. So, if anything, you're lending support to the statement that the Mac way is awful for the way certain people like to work.
Are we using the same internet? I'm not sure that we are,...?
Sure? I mean, it seems plausible to me, let's go with it. I specifically didn't deny the possibility that such claims could exist toward Halo, but I seriously have yet to hear anyone proclaim it to be the best FPS of all time. In fact, given the gamers I've interacted with on the intertubes, I wouldn't be willing to stake a claim that there's any consensus at all as to what the best FPS of all time is. Every other genre seems to have one or two favorites, but FPS has always seemed to be rather fractured to me.
Wow. Linking to a source that tries to break UI design down into universally applicable rules is an instant fail. UI design is like art, it's highly subjective, and what works for one person does not work for another... and better still, because of that subjectivity, no one can be wrong, and there are no universal rules.
The single menu bar, I'll say again, is terrible design in my opinion. It's highly confusing, because you work in the window, not the "window+this area at the top of the screen". It's far clearer what's going on if the window is self-contained. Apple fails, basically.
Halo is without any doubt in my mind, the most over-rated game of all time...
You've obviously never heard of Starcraft. Let me tell you about it. Starcraft was an RTS which is consistently touted as being the greatest RTS ever made, when, in fact, it did absolutely nothing special. It had a good story, that was it. Yet its fanboys will still tell you that it was the greatest RTS ever crafted (and that it wasn't just "Warcraft in space", which it most certainly was). That, my friend, is almost the very definition of "most over-rated game of all time".
Say what you want about Halo (and I do disagree that it's particularly overrated... it is to some extent, but it's a fun game with an excellent story, which is enough for me), but at least I have yet to hear anyone, even fanboys, proclaim it to be the best FPS of all time.
Not with computers it isn't. I work in end-user support, and, while I see people genuinely confused by shitty software sometimes (it does happen), many, many people who can't use a computer effectively are in that boat because they won't try. They've convinced themselves that the computer is a magic black box, and they can't learn to use it no matter what they do. These people are truly idiots, and it's a waste of time to try to hold their hand. Save your effort for the people who try to work with you.
Some people, as soon as a computer (or something else they've convinced themselves is a magic black box) enters the picture, turn off every shred of intelligence and common sense they ever had. There's simply no excuse for it, in my experience. These people aren't just ignorant, they refuse to try, because they've already convinced themselves that they can't understand $thing.
A car analogy applies well to me personally (and is obligatory on this site). I don't know cars that well. I can change my oil, and filter, and that's it. I don't pretend I understand cars, either, but I know what normal operating parameters for my car are, and when it starts acting weird, I can give a mechanic a decent description of what's going wrong. This is because even though I know I'm ignorant of how the car works, I pay fucking attention, and remember that it's just a machine like any other, and there's a cause for what's going wrong. Probably a very logical one, too!
Others can't be bothered to use the shred of intelligence required to do this. They're the kind of people who make me want to get a law passed making it legal to shoot stupid people. That, or reproduce as much as possible, so I can have smart kids, and do my part to help keep the morons from overrunning the earth.
I've never seen one during my own usage that didn't specify "read"
If you're dealing with faulty memory (the usual reason you'll see those errors come up a lot), you'll also definitely see similar errors about "the memory could not be 'written'." The "read" version is definitely more common, though, for some reason.
Er... I care on principle. I don't refuse to play games with someone who cheats at them because it affects me (it doesn't, unless you're playing for any sort of stakes, which I don't), I do it because I despise cheating for its own sake. If everyone wants to cheat, great, then everyone can cheat. As long as even one person doesn't want to cheat, then there should be no cheating (of course, the one person may find that his gaming is lonely once all his buddies game without him so that they can cheat, but that's his call).
approach to fighting terrorism. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Terrorists can easily play the system to go unnoticed (x) Too many legitimate travellers would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will terrorism for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Travellers will not put up with it ( ) Airlines will not put up with it ( ) The FBI will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from terrorists ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many airlines cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential customers ( ) Terrorists don't care about collateral damage ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for travel ( ) Airlines in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching body cavities (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing investment in hardware (x) Susceptibility of means other than air travel to attack ( ) Willingness of travellers to comply with terrorist demands when faced with hostage situations ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of terrorism ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with terrorists ( ) Dishonesty on the part of terrorists themselves ( ) Operating costs that are unaffected by airplane loading ( ) Osama bin Laden
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) Toothpaste should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (x) We should be able to talk about bombs without being detained ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Your first bag should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your henchmen? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time visas are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
it will remain an inferior interface, even compared to OS 9 -- in fact 9 beats X in a few interface aspects.
I believe the phrase that comes to mind is "lol". Mac OS 9 had the worst goddamn user interface I've ever seen. I sincerely hope that whoever designed some of those things (like the fscking drop-down menu to switch which application has its menu bar showing, not to mention that having only one menu bar is horrible UI design all by itself) never has a job doing anything with computers again.
I have never payed more than $20-$25 for a blu-ray disc at Best Buy. I'm not sure if it's the local economy, or the discs you and I look at, but there's a major factor skewing this.
No, because all that advice could be provided through in-game means. Maps, maybe not. Those are the only iffy one. But guides are merely making a process that already can happen in-game more efficient. It's not introducing new influences into the game.
Uh, no, it isn't. That's entirely within the scope of the game, and is provided for by the rules of the game. Cheating is when you start bringing outside resources into play.
Any time you use external resources to give yourself an advantage in the game, that is cheating by definition, dude. I shouldn't have to explain this. If the game's rules don't provide for it, it isn't allowed. This isn't rocket surgery!
Doesn't matter that other legal avenues would probably have ended with harsher punishments...
Actually, it matters a great deal. The goal is to teach the kid a lesson. You do what is necessary to teach said lesson, and no more. To do nothing, or to take the kid to court, would've been absolutely horrible lesson-teaching on the school's part, so this is the only reasonable option. The school absolutely did the right thing, precisely because of what you claim doesn't matter.
So, in other words, "Mercy? Fuck that shit." Seriously, where are you finding cause to complain that they gave the kid a slap on the wrist, rather than pressing criminal charges? The administration did the sensible thing here, giving out an unnecessarily harsh punishment just because it isn't technically in your power to give a lighter one isn't going to do our kids any favors. Jesus, our kids already have people wanting to cut their heads off for petty stuff, and you think we should give out harsher punishments? I think not.
Are you kidding? The school (presumably) did their due diligence and looked into the matter, and found there was nothing wrong. I'd find it a lot scarier if the student could falsely call the principal a child molester and get away with it, that sort of charge can ruin your life fast.
Besides, we don't want to let our kids just get the idea that they can say some magic accusation to deal with adults they don't like. Kids aren't stupid, and they'll pick up on the fact that it works. Remember the girls who instigated a witch hunt by saying some woman was a witch and had done something to them, but were lying through their teeth, as it turned out (I believe this had something to do with the Salem witch trials)?
It doesn't particularly bug me when a company is a monopoly, and I never said it did. I said that anti-competitive behavior is what is wrong and needs to be prevented.
...yep, you've swallowed the bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. Let me remind you of something you shouldn't have ever forgotten, friend: Obama lied. He lied, and then came up with a bullshit excuse to try to cover his ass. This doesn't surprise me terribly much, he is a politician after all. If you actually believe a word he says after that whole debacle, though, you've had the wool pulled over your eyes.
Apple is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. It's equally wrong whether or not you have a monopoly, I don't give a damn if the law agrees. Using your leverage to prevent others from competing against your products is wrong.
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Uh... I'm no artist, so I won't speak to that, but the Windows way, as you describe it, is actually how I work. I grab any tools I think I'll need, spread them out on my work area, and go to town. If I need more, I grab more, and leave those sitting on my work area as well. So, if anything, you're lending support to the statement that the Mac way is awful for the way certain people like to work.
Are we using the same internet? I'm not sure that we are,...?
Sure? I mean, it seems plausible to me, let's go with it. I specifically didn't deny the possibility that such claims could exist toward Halo, but I seriously have yet to hear anyone proclaim it to be the best FPS of all time. In fact, given the gamers I've interacted with on the intertubes, I wouldn't be willing to stake a claim that there's any consensus at all as to what the best FPS of all time is. Every other genre seems to have one or two favorites, but FPS has always seemed to be rather fractured to me.
Wow. Linking to a source that tries to break UI design down into universally applicable rules is an instant fail. UI design is like art, it's highly subjective, and what works for one person does not work for another... and better still, because of that subjectivity, no one can be wrong, and there are no universal rules.
The single menu bar, I'll say again, is terrible design in my opinion. It's highly confusing, because you work in the window, not the "window+this area at the top of the screen". It's far clearer what's going on if the window is self-contained. Apple fails, basically.
Halo is without any doubt in my mind, the most over-rated game of all time...
You've obviously never heard of Starcraft. Let me tell you about it. Starcraft was an RTS which is consistently touted as being the greatest RTS ever made, when, in fact, it did absolutely nothing special. It had a good story, that was it. Yet its fanboys will still tell you that it was the greatest RTS ever crafted (and that it wasn't just "Warcraft in space", which it most certainly was). That, my friend, is almost the very definition of "most over-rated game of all time".
Say what you want about Halo (and I do disagree that it's particularly overrated... it is to some extent, but it's a fun game with an excellent story, which is enough for me), but at least I have yet to hear anyone, even fanboys, proclaim it to be the best FPS of all time.
Whatever happened to the [+1 Prima donna] mod?
I took it away from you worthless peons, because it was too confusing for you. You can thank me later.
Calling people idiots is just a cop out.
Not with computers it isn't. I work in end-user support, and, while I see people genuinely confused by shitty software sometimes (it does happen), many, many people who can't use a computer effectively are in that boat because they won't try. They've convinced themselves that the computer is a magic black box, and they can't learn to use it no matter what they do. These people are truly idiots, and it's a waste of time to try to hold their hand. Save your effort for the people who try to work with you.
I just don't get it.
Some people, as soon as a computer (or something else they've convinced themselves is a magic black box) enters the picture, turn off every shred of intelligence and common sense they ever had. There's simply no excuse for it, in my experience. These people aren't just ignorant, they refuse to try, because they've already convinced themselves that they can't understand $thing.
A car analogy applies well to me personally (and is obligatory on this site). I don't know cars that well. I can change my oil, and filter, and that's it. I don't pretend I understand cars, either, but I know what normal operating parameters for my car are, and when it starts acting weird, I can give a mechanic a decent description of what's going wrong. This is because even though I know I'm ignorant of how the car works, I pay fucking attention, and remember that it's just a machine like any other, and there's a cause for what's going wrong. Probably a very logical one, too!
Others can't be bothered to use the shred of intelligence required to do this. They're the kind of people who make me want to get a law passed making it legal to shoot stupid people. That, or reproduce as much as possible, so I can have smart kids, and do my part to help keep the morons from overrunning the earth.
I've never seen one during my own usage that didn't specify "read"
If you're dealing with faulty memory (the usual reason you'll see those errors come up a lot), you'll also definitely see similar errors about "the memory could not be 'written'." The "read" version is definitely more common, though, for some reason.
Er... I care on principle. I don't refuse to play games with someone who cheats at them because it affects me (it doesn't, unless you're playing for any sort of stakes, which I don't), I do it because I despise cheating for its own sake. If everyone wants to cheat, great, then everyone can cheat. As long as even one person doesn't want to cheat, then there should be no cheating (of course, the one person may find that his gaming is lonely once all his buddies game without him so that they can cheat, but that's his call).
Maybe your wife just caleld to say she's leaving you for your sister. Again.
How could anyone be upset by that? That would be hot. ;)
Thank you, sir. What would we do without creative minds such as yourself?
it will remain an inferior interface, even compared to OS 9 -- in fact 9 beats X in a few interface aspects.
I believe the phrase that comes to mind is "lol". Mac OS 9 had the worst goddamn user interface I've ever seen. I sincerely hope that whoever designed some of those things (like the fscking drop-down menu to switch which application has its menu bar showing, not to mention that having only one menu bar is horrible UI design all by itself) never has a job doing anything with computers again.
I have never payed more than $20-$25 for a blu-ray disc at Best Buy. I'm not sure if it's the local economy, or the discs you and I look at, but there's a major factor skewing this.
No, because all that advice could be provided through in-game means. Maps, maybe not. Those are the only iffy one. But guides are merely making a process that already can happen in-game more efficient. It's not introducing new influences into the game.
Uh, no, it isn't. That's entirely within the scope of the game, and is provided for by the rules of the game. Cheating is when you start bringing outside resources into play.
Any time you use external resources to give yourself an advantage in the game, that is cheating by definition, dude. I shouldn't have to explain this. If the game's rules don't provide for it, it isn't allowed. This isn't rocket surgery!
Simple principle: you shouldn't cheat in online games. Buying gold is cheating, so you shouldn't be buying gold.
Doesn't matter that other legal avenues would probably have ended with harsher punishments...
Actually, it matters a great deal. The goal is to teach the kid a lesson. You do what is necessary to teach said lesson, and no more. To do nothing, or to take the kid to court, would've been absolutely horrible lesson-teaching on the school's part, so this is the only reasonable option. The school absolutely did the right thing, precisely because of what you claim doesn't matter.
So, in other words, "Mercy? Fuck that shit." Seriously, where are you finding cause to complain that they gave the kid a slap on the wrist, rather than pressing criminal charges? The administration did the sensible thing here, giving out an unnecessarily harsh punishment just because it isn't technically in your power to give a lighter one isn't going to do our kids any favors. Jesus, our kids already have people wanting to cut their heads off for petty stuff, and you think we should give out harsher punishments? I think not.
Are you kidding? The school (presumably) did their due diligence and looked into the matter, and found there was nothing wrong. I'd find it a lot scarier if the student could falsely call the principal a child molester and get away with it, that sort of charge can ruin your life fast.
Besides, we don't want to let our kids just get the idea that they can say some magic accusation to deal with adults they don't like. Kids aren't stupid, and they'll pick up on the fact that it works. Remember the girls who instigated a witch hunt by saying some woman was a witch and had done something to them, but were lying through their teeth, as it turned out (I believe this had something to do with the Salem witch trials)?
It doesn't particularly bug me when a company is a monopoly, and I never said it did. I said that anti-competitive behavior is what is wrong and needs to be prevented.
...yep, you've swallowed the bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. Let me remind you of something you shouldn't have ever forgotten, friend: Obama lied. He lied, and then came up with a bullshit excuse to try to cover his ass. This doesn't surprise me terribly much, he is a politician after all. If you actually believe a word he says after that whole debacle, though, you've had the wool pulled over your eyes.
Apple is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. It's equally wrong whether or not you have a monopoly, I don't give a damn if the law agrees. Using your leverage to prevent others from competing against your products is wrong.
prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"
So yes, if there's a law against doing something, whether it's a civil or criminal offense, that thing is illegal. I'm not confused at all.