It really comes down to whether you want to do the "right thing", or to actually interact with reality (our two party system).
Honestly, because of exactly what you said, I wont fault someone for voting third party-- but lets not kid ourselves, theyre dealing with reality as it SHOULD be, not as it is.
Hey, _I_ know what will make racial tensions go away! Lets excuse racism when one group does it and focus exclusively on how the OTHER race is the source of all of our problems. THAT will make everyone like each other!
Theres no such thing as reverse racism. Its not my fault I was born white, and for someone to fault me for being born white is just as racist as anything described in the article.
You have to sign into battle.net to order one, which indicates right away that you do not need one to sign into battle.net. That someone could be confused by this is absurd.
Theyre optional, and completely unnecessary if you use a good password. That they offer an ADDITIONAL paid service that competitors do not does not in any way obligate gamers to use the authenticators.
If they want to sell guides for creating strong passwords at $10 a pop, and they end up making $500 mil on it, who cares? Its a service that apparently people want. The man doesnt even seem to allege that the device was ineffective-- simply that it was unnecessary and he for some inexplicable reason bought it anyways.
Its been a while since I logged into battle.net, but I am almost POSITIVE the passwords are case sensitive, as case sensitivity has caused incorrect password entry several times.
They allow passwords to be MUCH more complex than many other websites / services. This case is complete BS.
I dont make those claims. Unless I misread your post, it was a categorical condemnation of republicans, like myself; Am I a bigot too? Did I create this polarization?
Maybe you should dial your rhetoric down a notch unless you really do mean to call all republicans-- myself included-- bigots.
The problem is that the sentiment spreads so now when people ask me about new computers, they inevitably mention that theyre thinking about going apple-- and as they are not really up to speed on specs, I can only assume its because some apple enthusaist has told them how it will solve all of their problems and balance their budget to boot. I have to stop myself from getting into an argument when a friend who otherwise knows nothing about computers gushes about how much better apples are.
My problem is the culture that the apple products represent, I suppose. If someone tells me they have a linux / unix background and have grown tired of mucking around with breakage every 6 months so they went apple, wonderful. When someone tells me how they had 8 zillion viruses before and theyre so happy that they now have a machine that is inherently immune to viruses, i start to loathe apple because of the mistruths its culture and advertising have sold to the public.
Some companies do show loyalty-- for instance, off the top of my head, I can mention that Logitech, AMD, and Antec have been awesome to me whenever I have called them about broken or missing parts. Each of them has sent me no-postage, no hassle, no cost replacements for parts that went broken or missing. In AMD's case, they replaced an OC'd processor with non-stock mods and a cracked die-- with no questions. With Logitech, they replaced 2 G9 mouses-- one had had its cord eaten by a rabbit, the other stopped clicking. The rabbit-eaten one was upgraded to a G9x, again without cost.
So I will disagree with you regarding loyalty. They had financial incentive to be loyal-- as now I highly recommend those products from a customer service standpoint-- but they treated me well which is why I treat them well.
As one who tends to be anti-apple-- though I wont deny some of their stuff is impressive-- Ill say most of my sentiment comes from the wild fanboyism. Im happy to have apple as a competitor, and producing the stuff they do. It gets me riled up when people come out of the woodworks making absurd endorsements of Apple products as if they are technically superior in all ways and a better value to boot.
If everyone was a bit more realistic and honest about their products, a lot of my issues with Apple would disappear.
They hate us, they curse us to their imagined hell and pray that their gods strike us down.
Excuse me, during the GOP convention several slashdotters repeatedly stated what a good thing it would be if the tropical storm drowned the lot of them, and this to rousing support from most.
What, exactly, do you call that?
Im sure its always been this way-- but my increasing awareness of how polarized politics is makes me absolutely sick. Why cant people accept that others differ in how they view governance without thinking we hate you? Im a republican, and simply dont think the government should be involved in much more than very rudimentary safety nets; can everyone accept that this isnt because I eat babies or hate poor people?
Basically every post so far in this thread and most of the posts to come will be wild speculation and name calling anyways, I dont even know why youre bothering with facts.
Virtualbox is a nice entry hypervisor, and certainly if youre brand new start there.... but I wouldnt do anything production on it. I have had upgrades render VMs unusable, though with a downgrade and substantial effort I was able to restore them. Virtualbox has the basics, but it has its bugs. Using it for a few years before moving to Workstation will help you to appreciate when a hypervisor works correctly:)
Its also worth mentioning that if you go to Windows 8, you have Hyper-V, which I understand has started to suck a lot less in version 3.
VMWare Workstation 9 also has a web interface, though I havent had a chance to really mess with it. Its also substantially less expensive:)
Recommendation to OP: If you decide to pony up for VMWare workstation, you may be able to get an academic discount if you are in school. They make it pretty painless to order online.
The criticism was that his post was so vague as to be applicable to anyone. Its akin to using weasel words so that you cannot easily be challenged in your argument.
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3 years is right, considering theyre about 3 generations behind AMD and Intel.
It really comes down to whether you want to do the "right thing", or to actually interact with reality (our two party system).
Honestly, because of exactly what you said, I wont fault someone for voting third party-- but lets not kid ourselves, theyre dealing with reality as it SHOULD be, not as it is.
Apparently as long as you avoid being racist yourself, you can be just as bigotted as you like about people from different locations.
Seriously, the amount of irony and hypocrisy in this discussion is unbelievable.
Hey, _I_ know what will make racial tensions go away! Lets excuse racism when one group does it and focus exclusively on how the OTHER race is the source of all of our problems. THAT will make everyone like each other!
Theres no such thing as reverse racism. Its not my fault I was born white, and for someone to fault me for being born white is just as racist as anything described in the article.
So its not racist if Im walking thru a city and some black guy calls me a stupid white cracker and looks down on me because of my heritage?
Thats an interesting position.
We're not actually sure if it was the rabbit or the dog, but the cord was certainly thoroughly destroyed.
My mind is boggling at this.
Is this new? Or has it always been this way? I swear that as of a few years ago caps-lock could cause your auth to fail.
Infinity is not a quantity.
at $26 million, that would be 4,000,000 at 100% margin, which stretches the bounds of credulity.
You have to sign into battle.net to order one, which indicates right away that you do not need one to sign into battle.net. That someone could be confused by this is absurd.
Theyre optional, and completely unnecessary if you use a good password. That they offer an ADDITIONAL paid service that competitors do not does not in any way obligate gamers to use the authenticators.
If they want to sell guides for creating strong passwords at $10 a pop, and they end up making $500 mil on it, who cares? Its a service that apparently people want. The man doesnt even seem to allege that the device was ineffective-- simply that it was unnecessary and he for some inexplicable reason bought it anyways.
Its been a while since I logged into battle.net, but I am almost POSITIVE the passwords are case sensitive, as case sensitivity has caused incorrect password entry several times.
They allow passwords to be MUCH more complex than many other websites / services. This case is complete BS.
I dont make those claims. Unless I misread your post, it was a categorical condemnation of republicans, like myself; Am I a bigot too? Did I create this polarization?
Maybe you should dial your rhetoric down a notch unless you really do mean to call all republicans-- myself included-- bigots.
The problem is that the sentiment spreads so now when people ask me about new computers, they inevitably mention that theyre thinking about going apple-- and as they are not really up to speed on specs, I can only assume its because some apple enthusaist has told them how it will solve all of their problems and balance their budget to boot. I have to stop myself from getting into an argument when a friend who otherwise knows nothing about computers gushes about how much better apples are.
My problem is the culture that the apple products represent, I suppose. If someone tells me they have a linux / unix background and have grown tired of mucking around with breakage every 6 months so they went apple, wonderful. When someone tells me how they had 8 zillion viruses before and theyre so happy that they now have a machine that is inherently immune to viruses, i start to loathe apple because of the mistruths its culture and advertising have sold to the public.
Some companies do show loyalty-- for instance, off the top of my head, I can mention that Logitech, AMD, and Antec have been awesome to me whenever I have called them about broken or missing parts. Each of them has sent me no-postage, no hassle, no cost replacements for parts that went broken or missing. In AMD's case, they replaced an OC'd processor with non-stock mods and a cracked die-- with no questions. With Logitech, they replaced 2 G9 mouses-- one had had its cord eaten by a rabbit, the other stopped clicking. The rabbit-eaten one was upgraded to a G9x, again without cost.
So I will disagree with you regarding loyalty. They had financial incentive to be loyal-- as now I highly recommend those products from a customer service standpoint-- but they treated me well which is why I treat them well.
As one who tends to be anti-apple-- though I wont deny some of their stuff is impressive-- Ill say most of my sentiment comes from the wild fanboyism. Im happy to have apple as a competitor, and producing the stuff they do. It gets me riled up when people come out of the woodworks making absurd endorsements of Apple products as if they are technically superior in all ways and a better value to boot.
If everyone was a bit more realistic and honest about their products, a lot of my issues with Apple would disappear.
They hate us, they curse us to their imagined hell and pray that their gods strike us down.
Excuse me, during the GOP convention several slashdotters repeatedly stated what a good thing it would be if the tropical storm drowned the lot of them, and this to rousing support from most.
What, exactly, do you call that?
Im sure its always been this way-- but my increasing awareness of how polarized politics is makes me absolutely sick. Why cant people accept that others differ in how they view governance without thinking we hate you? Im a republican, and simply dont think the government should be involved in much more than very rudimentary safety nets; can everyone accept that this isnt because I eat babies or hate poor people?
Basically every post so far in this thread and most of the posts to come will be wild speculation and name calling anyways, I dont even know why youre bothering with facts.
Virtualbox is a nice entry hypervisor, and certainly if youre brand new start there.... but I wouldnt do anything production on it. I have had upgrades render VMs unusable, though with a downgrade and substantial effort I was able to restore them. Virtualbox has the basics, but it has its bugs. Using it for a few years before moving to Workstation will help you to appreciate when a hypervisor works correctly :)
Its also worth mentioning that if you go to Windows 8, you have Hyper-V, which I understand has started to suck a lot less in version 3.
VMWare Workstation 9 also has a web interface, though I havent had a chance to really mess with it. Its also substantially less expensive :)
Recommendation to OP: If you decide to pony up for VMWare workstation, you may be able to get an academic discount if you are in school. They make it pretty painless to order online.
The criticism was that his post was so vague as to be applicable to anyone. Its akin to using weasel words so that you cannot easily be challenged in your argument.
I am thrilled to hear that we have a cure for cancer.
If you look carefully, I think you will find that all healthcare systems let people with cancer die.
Ditto on the motion sickness, and I cant remember having experienced it before. Gamers be warned.
Shes a rogue, we already knew that.
Thats kind of their job. Its a system of checks and balances.