While I like the convenience of Steam, let's not forget that if Steam goes belly up, games bought there will become unplayable.
They announced that in that case the games would be unlocked.
Let your 11 year old nephew play with your account for a few days, and he might get the account banned, and you lose access to all of your Steam games.
He can get his own steam account, that ungrateful little brat.
Around here, anyone under 25 only gets to play with gcompris and maybe ktuberling on a locked up read-only account. If a stick and a piece of string was good enough for me, it should be good enough for them.
Worth noting that the KDE handbooks tend to be decent overview of simple applications, but as far as searching for something specific, and finding related things, MS Help wins by a long shot. The KDE Handbooks tend to be more of a intro to basic usage that can be useful before using an app. The Windows help can be useful when you know what you want to do, but are stuck.
Tue, there is basically no KDE documentation (a real problem). Just as there is no Windows OS documentation.
I haven't used real application in Windows for ages so I'm not really sure what the state of things is there. Presumably, like with OOo, you can get reasonable bundled help with apps that require it.
I still long for the days of yore when you actually had docs for your stuff, even with consumer grade machines (and crates of dead tree docs for professional ones).
All they have to do is remove the icon and rename the file to something else and they've done that. I'd be more impressed if they specified that iexplore.exe was deleted and that no part of it was left, even under a different name.
Then they'd have to rewrite their help system which is based on some kind of packed HTML and read by the IE engine. I'm not certain it would be that easy to use a random library from Opera to do that.
Although from what I remember it's not as if the help system was that useful anyway. Maybe they should just write man pages.
Any time they needed to turn, they'd drop off a soldier at the intersection, and he'd then direct everyone else and get back into the last vehicle of the convoy. This would be repeated over and over until they reached their destination.
That's why the last vehicle in Soviet convoys always used to be a huge empty truck, to pick all those guys along the way.:)
And then there also were the great Trailblazers, 19200K ! Asymetric though, can't remember what the downlink speed was. We used those between UUCP nodes back in 2400 days.
For example, if you know that the CEO takes home 500k/year, then you have a much better salary bargain position than if it is merely 50k.
Unless you deal in kidnapping or extortion (or apply to be the CEO), I don't really see how that helps you. CEO paychecks have been hugely inflated for ages and have no real relation to the state the company is in.
RH started by saying that FC was to be their "free" offering and you actually had to read between the lines to figure out that you were a beta tester for the paying customers that were to come further along (which is what made me leave RH for good).
If you want to download RHEL for free, get CentOS. Identical to RHEL, but free. And, from what I hear, RedHat doesn't mind CentOS' existence.
They don't mind it because the license says they can't help it.
The issue with Ubuntu is that it's buggy as hell. RedHat at least admits that Fedora Core is an open beta; Ubuntu 8.10 is an open beta but Ubuntu didn't inform me of this fact.
That's true enough (somewhat), except that RH started by saying that FC was to be their "free" offering and you actually had to read between the lines to figure out that you were a beta tester for the paying customers that were to come further along (which is what made me leave RH for good). Nowadays they are a bit more open about the purpose of Fedora. Although "Will you be a free beta-tester for our commercial product" still doesn't feature very proeminently on their website. Granted, CentOS is there.
About Ubuntu, they suffer from the same plague that many other "desktop" distros are doomed with, namely feature creep. "Gotta have more features than the neighbour".
I've been running running Linux systems on desktop and (later) servers since 1994. I've tried all of the major distros, including Yggdrasil (at the very beginning).
Since most of my hats are brown (along with a couple black ones), I guess I'll have to run Ubuntu.
It's not that I really mind running beta software, it's this whole "you people are testing what we expect to sell as 'enterprise' for a premium later on, we're waiting for your bug reports" thing that I don't really like with the current RH. Although truthfully I haven't run RH since RH 3 or 4.
Not that distributions really matter all that much in the end, after you've been through the rounds and you're done with dicking around with your machine and you finally settle with just using it, you realise that they all ship pretty much the same stuff. And that the details really don't matter all that much. So unless you're really excited with a given logo, you can just pick one at random. They're all the same. If you're in a corporate setting pick the one that's supported by the package you need, or if you don't require anything external, the one you already know, you'll save a week of work. Doesn't matter. Basically they all mostly work (and/or are broken in the same kinds of places). Same as most operating systems really.
And honestly I really doubt one couldn't have used RH on the desktop those past years. No Gnome or KDE repositories (or XFCE, or any other desktop ? did it even have X11 ? Or was it too hard for "grandma" (who is surely glad that RH finally pandered to her needs) ?
Because your anecdote can be trumped by another anecdote..
Wait, so what you're saying is that sometimes virtualisation makes sense and sometimes it doesn't ?
So it would be a bit like that whole XML mess we had a couple years ago ? (<div type="phb" mode="i've seen it in a magazine somewhere">"I know, let's do it with XML !" </div>)
The human body contains about 100g of DNA. You're saying about 2E15 grams, or 20 trillion human body's worth, of DNA is not only released into the atmosphere but then escapes the earths gravitational pull and enters interplanetary space. Sounds unlikely.
That's because you didn't watch Stargate with as much enthusiasm as the OP obviously.
As a side note, there are a few interesting scenes in Steven King's dark tower series where a "modern" white guy is conversing with a black woman from a few decades back.
Surely you mean a modern uncoloured guy ?
Any person who has any hint of "colour" is "black" in the US. This is very strange.
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The PS3 is a flop anyway.
I thought it was a MegaFLOP which led to it being occasionally used in scientific simulations.
But then I don't really follow the console gaming scene. Of course running Sinclair or C64 games on a PS3 has a little something to it...
anyone else read "Change4Life" and immediately want to play Left4Dead?
[ Zoey killed the gamer ]
[ Francis coughing from Cheetos dust ]
[ Bill: Good shooting ! ]
I can't see why you'd need CMYK for the web...
Because some people print their webpages, duh.
You're obviously not an elite webdesigner.
those large-muscled guys at the door will promptly come over and kick the living shit out of you
Ah, I knew there had to be some kind of kinky sex involved at some point.
While I like the convenience of Steam, let's not forget that if Steam goes belly up, games bought there will become unplayable.
They announced that in that case the games would be unlocked.
Let your 11 year old nephew play with your account for a few days, and he might get the account banned, and you lose access to all of your Steam games.
He can get his own steam account, that ungrateful little brat.
Around here, anyone under 25 only gets to play with gcompris and maybe ktuberling on a locked up read-only account. If a stick and a piece of string was good enough for me, it should be good enough for them.
(waves cane)
Worth noting that the KDE handbooks tend to be decent overview of simple applications, but as far as searching for something specific, and finding related things, MS Help wins by a long shot. The KDE Handbooks tend to be more of a intro to basic usage that can be useful before using an app. The Windows help can be useful when you know what you want to do, but are stuck.
Tue, there is basically no KDE documentation (a real problem). Just as there is no Windows OS documentation.
I haven't used real application in Windows for ages so I'm not really sure what the state of things is there. Presumably, like with OOo, you can get reasonable bundled help with apps that require it.
I still long for the days of yore when you actually had docs for your stuff, even with consumer grade machines (and crates of dead tree docs for professional ones).
My sources tell me a recently leaked internal memo from microsoft spoke of a "top executive" recently "buying a 2 million dollar email machine."
Imagine the number of internets you could put in the tubes with a machine like that !
From the linked article :
6. Click OK. You will see a prompt notifying you of a reboot.
7. The machine will reboot once, configure things, and reboot again.
Upon completing the second reboot, you will notice that Internet Explorer 8's components are actually still in Windows.
So as everybody had guessed, it removes the IE binary and keeps the engine.
Which in Microsoft's grand tradition takes two reboots. Because removing a binary is, like, really complicated.
(what's with that reboot fetish with those people ?)
All they have to do is remove the icon and rename the file to something else and they've done that. I'd be more impressed if they specified that iexplore.exe was deleted and that no part of it was left, even under a different name.
Then they'd have to rewrite their help system which is based on some kind of packed HTML and read by the IE engine. I'm not certain it would be that easy to use a random library from Opera to do that.
Although from what I remember it's not as if the help system was that useful anyway. Maybe they should just write man pages.
Any time they needed to turn, they'd drop off a soldier at the intersection, and he'd then direct everyone else and get back into the last vehicle of the convoy. This would be repeated over and over until they reached their destination.
That's why the last vehicle in Soviet convoys always used to be a huge empty truck, to pick all those guys along the way. :)
Gopher RULED!
Because with Gopher you could use Veronica !
(which sounds a bit better than "Google" IMO)
And then there also were the great Trailblazers, 19200K !
Asymetric though, can't remember what the downlink speed was. We used those between UUCP nodes back in 2400 days.
Looks like less than a year.
To get something that's still mostly useless since it pretty much doesn't work. So nobody was very impressed.
For example, if you know that the CEO takes home 500k/year, then you have a much better salary bargain position than if it is merely 50k.
Unless you deal in kidnapping or extortion (or apply to be the CEO), I don't really see how that helps you. CEO paychecks have been hugely inflated for ages and have no real relation to the state the company is in.
I would like to see a noobfriendly environment with guides and linux tutorials that are written in something else than Plaintext.
Because when your machine is borked, what you really need is a video tutorial. Not plaintext. Plaintext isn't fun any more. We want dancing girls !
I suppose that the idea is to get newcomers used to getting called idiots early on.
RH started by saying that FC was to be their "free" offering and you actually had to read between the lines to figure out that you were a beta tester for the paying customers that were to come further along (which is what made me leave RH for good).
OK, I think I know what you're issue is.
Yeah, all those damn illiterate RH users.
If you want to download RHEL for free, get CentOS. Identical to RHEL, but free. And, from what I hear, RedHat doesn't mind CentOS' existence.
They don't mind it because the license says they can't help it.
The issue with Ubuntu is that it's buggy as hell. RedHat at least admits that Fedora Core is an open beta; Ubuntu 8.10 is an open beta but Ubuntu didn't inform me of this fact.
That's true enough (somewhat), except that RH started by saying that FC was to be their "free" offering and you actually had to read between the lines to figure out that you were a beta tester for the paying customers that were to come further along (which is what made me leave RH for good).
Nowadays they are a bit more open about the purpose of Fedora. Although "Will you be a free beta-tester for our commercial product" still doesn't feature very proeminently on their website. Granted, CentOS is there.
About Ubuntu, they suffer from the same plague that many other "desktop" distros are doomed with, namely feature creep. "Gotta have more features than the neighbour".
I've been running running Linux systems on desktop and (later) servers since 1994. I've tried all of the major distros, including Yggdrasil (at the very beginning).
Since most of my hats are brown (along with a couple black ones), I guess I'll have to run Ubuntu.
It's not that I really mind running beta software, it's this whole "you people are testing what we expect to sell as 'enterprise' for a premium later on, we're waiting for your bug reports" thing that I don't really like with the current RH. Although truthfully I haven't run RH since RH 3 or 4.
Not that distributions really matter all that much in the end, after you've been through the rounds and you're done with dicking around with your machine and you finally settle with just using it, you realise that they all ship pretty much the same stuff. And that the details really don't matter all that much. So unless you're really excited with a given logo, you can just pick one at random. They're all the same.
If you're in a corporate setting pick the one that's supported by the package you need, or if you don't require anything external, the one you already know, you'll save a week of work. Doesn't matter. Basically they all mostly work (and/or are broken in the same kinds of places). Same as most operating systems really.
And honestly I really doubt one couldn't have used RH on the desktop those past years. No Gnome or KDE repositories (or XFCE, or any other desktop ? did it even have X11 ? Or was it too hard for "grandma" (who is surely glad that RH finally pandered to her needs) ?
Bah.
Ah, is it still considered phishing when it's a feature enabled by default?
Just curious.
Teach one man to phish and he can feed...
Teach 20 million to phish and you have the Internet.
Because your anecdote can be trumped by another anecdote..
Wait, so what you're saying is that sometimes virtualisation makes sense and sometimes it doesn't ?
So it would be a bit like that whole XML mess we had a couple years ago ? (<div type="phb" mode="i've seen it in a magazine somewhere">"I know, let's do it with XML !" </div>)
What, the Amish use WiFi now ??
* goes check if his hotspot has reflectors
The human body contains about 100g of DNA. You're saying about 2E15 grams, or 20 trillion human body's worth, of DNA is not only released into the atmosphere but then escapes the earths gravitational pull and enters interplanetary space.
Sounds unlikely.
That's because you didn't watch Stargate with as much enthusiasm as the OP obviously.
As a side note, there are a few interesting scenes in Steven King's dark tower series where a "modern" white guy is conversing with a black woman from a few decades back.
Surely you mean a modern uncoloured guy ?
Any person who has any hint of "colour" is "black" in the US. This is very strange.
Anyway you need a 25 foot or higher antenna. Rabbit ears/loops don't cut it here in "rural" Lancaster PA.
So basically, you're saying that what you need is giraffe ears ?