I won't be getting an iPhone any time soon because it's overkill for my needs (I already have a cell phone with a camera) and underkill for my wants (My 80 gig iPod is at about 55% capacity right now and steadily filling, and why can't I write code for all of my toys?).
But I haven't had to deal with premium prices to get my iPod fixed. When our 3rd Gen started wearing out, it was long past warranty. But I was able to repair it with my debit card (to wiggle it open), a little common sense, and a bad attitude. The battery still hasn't worn out on it, but when it does I'll be using the various non-Apple online resources.
Incidentally, that old iPod has been merrily running iPodLinux for four months now, much to the amusement and consternation of my peers.
I misread that as "WWE FPS clone with 100 people," then I misinterpreted the bit about 100 people, and I had a game in my head with 100 cloned wrestling personalities shooting at each other for no good reason.
What I don't get is why blogging is where they chose to hit the brakes. They've got company reviews, customer reviews, customer images, book lists, citations, similar book listings, forums, and damned if they don't have wikis! It's A Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (Paperback) has its own wiki! God help me if I scroll down too fast, or I'll never be able to find the book description again.
So why stop at blogs? Is this like my alcoholic pothead friend with a meth problem who doesn't take aspirin because he's afraid it'll mess up his system?
You know what? I just got done tweaking a fresh Ubuntu install to my satisfaction about an hour ago. I *really* don't feel like trying another distro for at least 12 hours.
you should know how to audit your init scripts and copy your boot sector to a file you can check the md5 of at boot. If you dont know how, its your fault.
That's a little elitist, isn't it? Hell, most of the computer-owning people I know couldn't even comprehend this idea, let alone implement it. I sure as hell don't think it's my mom's fault if her machine falls prey to something like this.
On the other hand, I completely agree with you that it's the company's right to do research like this. I'm not sure that I trust what they'll do with this information, but that could just be a general distrust of MS. Any of them, really. I almost expect Apple to pursue the "we'll use this so that only our OS can be installed on this hardware" path.
Which people? Before Google, I usually used Altavista or Webcrawler, same as most of my peers. When we went to Yahoo, it was nearly always for the directory. My experience may not have been universal, but you shouldn't assume yours was either.
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Well obviously I wasn't talking about *you*, just the ones I don't like;)
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Yeah, but if it helps cut down on the number of C++ programmers and hence the amount of new C++ code, it's worth it. It's all for a higher purpose, after all.
Dude's just having a little fun. And it did the job well enough, judging by the photos. Your "What's wrong with this guy" demeanor is kinda throwing me off. Don't you understand the appeal of being an experimental cheap bastard?
I agree that ID3 is limited, but I'm not sure its limitations are as dire as you paint. ID3v2 (http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames.txt) addresses some of the "what year" concerns you mentioned.
Good point. Unfortunately, I'm not so much a hardcore, well-informed gamer as one of the unwashed masses who is attracted to bright sparkly things. I may cool off after hearing more feedback from actual players. For now, though, I'm mainly just saying that it sure looks perty and I think I want it.:-)
No, no, it really is PS3. I thought it was XBox 360 for most of the article, since Kung Fu Chaos was XBox. But then I started wondering why Sony was getting mentioned so much. Eventually I realized that PS3 was the next-gen platform they were talking about.
Yeah, I felt not smart. Now I can share the feeling of not-smartness with others. Isn't that great?
Yeah, yeah. Great reading. Inspirational stuff. I laughed, I cried, I cursed the short-sighted publishers who dragged them along until the uplifting conclusion.
But the game sounds absolutely incredible. These bastards are why I got an XBox (why are you looking at me like that? _I_ liked Kung Fu Chaos, I don't care what you thought of it), and now that I've seen the Heavenly Sword screenshots I know I'll be in line for the PS3.
Except, you know, some of us in the cities are over 30 and distinctly not cool. Not many, but we are here.
Oh yeah, TFA. Jamie Zawinski and I have this special agreement. I don't care what he does or posts to his blog, and he doesn't know who the hell I am or care what I post anywhere - ever. We haven't actually discussed this, but all evidence suggests that he is following the agreement pretty closely.
If you ask me, there will never be a year of the Linux desktop until somebody creates a Linux desktop environment that is at least as rich as Windows.
That's okay. I use Linux on my desktop and have for most of the last five years. I don't really need a "year" of the desktop. All I needed was for it work on my desktop and it's been doing that quite nicely for some time.
When is cut and paste going to be even supported across applications in KDE or GNOME?
Well, text works okay...
Oh, text works ok? Well what about a piece of a picture or a clip of a wave?
Well, um, text works okay. I haven't tried anything else so I couldn't really tell you. Then again, my only exposure to pictures or sound clips in my clipboard was when Windows tried to tell me that I had a huge lump of something in my clipboard whenever I tried to quit Photoshop. So you and I definitely don't have the same needs for this particular item.
What about drag and drop? Can I just drop any document onto a printer icon and have it spit out the result? Without configuring 20 various text files?
I never dig figure out the 20 various text files to configure, but I've been able to drag a file icon onto my printer icon and have it print (correctly, even!) since around Fedora Core 2, so yeah, that works now.
... then perhaps there will be some sort of market...
There already is a market, it's just not people stuck on waiting for Photoshop to come out for a particular platform. Besides, the words "Linux" and "market" just don't seem to go together in my mind. One doesn't really seem to need the other, and both will do quite nicely if they never meet each other. But maybe that's just me. I know Redhat and SuSE and Mandrake (and so on) must see some sort of market in Linux geeks, or they never would have bothered trying to make money from us in the first place.
But hey, I'm not going to tell you that you need to use Linux if what you really need is a platform that can run Photoshop natively. You and me, we're different markets.
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It's just another angry rant, quick to denounce anybody that disagrees. I can get those from deranged street people or by staying on slashdot.
I won't be getting an iPhone any time soon because it's overkill for my needs (I already have a cell phone with a camera) and underkill for my wants (My 80 gig iPod is at about 55% capacity right now and steadily filling, and why can't I write code for all of my toys?).
But I haven't had to deal with premium prices to get my iPod fixed. When our 3rd Gen started wearing out, it was long past warranty. But I was able to repair it with my debit card (to wiggle it open), a little common sense, and a bad attitude. The battery still hasn't worn out on it, but when it does I'll be using the various non-Apple online resources.
Incidentally, that old iPod has been merrily running iPodLinux for four months now, much to the amusement and consternation of my peers.
I misread that as "WWE FPS clone with 100 people," then I misinterpreted the bit about 100 people, and I had a game in my head with 100 cloned wrestling personalities shooting at each other for no good reason.
That wouldn't be such a bad game, would it?
How about iPhoneTVMovieBrowserThing?
Silly question: does this practice affect the consumer's price (or taxes) for beef?
Maybe, but I'm still putting my money on Philip's death scene in "Shaun of the Dead."
What I don't get is why blogging is where they chose to hit the brakes. They've got company reviews, customer reviews, customer images, book lists, citations, similar book listings, forums, and damned if they don't have wikis! It's A Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (Paperback) has its own wiki! God help me if I scroll down too fast, or I'll never be able to find the book description again.
So why stop at blogs? Is this like my alcoholic pothead friend with a meth problem who doesn't take aspirin because he's afraid it'll mess up his system?
You know what? I just got done tweaking a fresh Ubuntu install to my satisfaction about an hour ago. I *really* don't feel like trying another distro for at least 12 hours.
I didn't use the search box either until I learned the keyboard shortcut for it (Ctrl-K). Since then, I use it constantly.
That's a little elitist, isn't it? Hell, most of the computer-owning people I know couldn't even comprehend this idea, let alone implement it. I sure as hell don't think it's my mom's fault if her machine falls prey to something like this.
On the other hand, I completely agree with you that it's the company's right to do research like this. I'm not sure that I trust what they'll do with this information, but that could just be a general distrust of MS. Any of them, really. I almost expect Apple to pursue the "we'll use this so that only our OS can be installed on this hardware" path.
Guess we've all got our biased opinions.
Which people? Before Google, I usually used Altavista or Webcrawler, same as most of my peers. When we went to Yahoo, it was nearly always for the directory. My experience may not have been universal, but you shouldn't assume yours was either.
Well obviously I wasn't talking about *you*, just the ones I don't like ;)
Yeah, but if it helps cut down on the number of C++ programmers and hence the amount of new C++ code, it's worth it. It's all for a higher purpose, after all.
Dude's just having a little fun. And it did the job well enough, judging by the photos. Your "What's wrong with this guy" demeanor is kinda throwing me off. Don't you understand the appeal of being an experimental cheap bastard?
Ah, you got that ecard too?
I agree that ID3 is limited, but I'm not sure its limitations are as dire as you paint. ID3v2 (http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames.txt) addresses some of the "what year" concerns you mentioned.
I always thought Rifts was one of the best GURPS supplement lines ever made.
Good point. Unfortunately, I'm not so much a hardcore, well-informed gamer as one of the unwashed masses who is attracted to bright sparkly things. I may cool off after hearing more feedback from actual players. For now, though, I'm mainly just saying that it sure looks perty and I think I want it. :-)
No, no, it really is PS3. I thought it was XBox 360 for most of the article, since Kung Fu Chaos was XBox. But then I started wondering why Sony was getting mentioned so much. Eventually I realized that PS3 was the next-gen platform they were talking about.
Yeah, I felt not smart. Now I can share the feeling of not-smartness with others. Isn't that great?
Yeah, yeah. Great reading. Inspirational stuff. I laughed, I cried, I cursed the short-sighted publishers who dragged them along until the uplifting conclusion.
But the game sounds absolutely incredible. These bastards are why I got an XBox (why are you looking at me like that? _I_ liked Kung Fu Chaos, I don't care what you thought of it), and now that I've seen the Heavenly Sword screenshots I know I'll be in line for the PS3.
Complete and utter bastards, the lot of them.
Dude, where's my car?
And tell me who those guys are in black suits spraypainting "Teh Bush Roxxorszz!!1" on the wall. Damn kids.
Except, you know, some of us in the cities are over 30 and distinctly not cool. Not many, but we are here.
Oh yeah, TFA. Jamie Zawinski and I have this special agreement. I don't care what he does or posts to his blog, and he doesn't know who the hell I am or care what I post anywhere - ever. We haven't actually discussed this, but all evidence suggests that he is following the agreement pretty closely.
Well, sure -- the code would be a bitch to write, but maybe I could still run decent games on the hardware I own :-)
... and then, when it's all over, you can finally have a steak *this thick* for dinner.
That's okay. I use Linux on my desktop and have for most of the last five years. I don't really need a "year" of the desktop. All I needed was for it work on my desktop and it's been doing that quite nicely for some time.
When is cut and paste going to be even supported across applications in KDE or GNOME?Well, text works okay...
Well, um, text works okay. I haven't tried anything else so I couldn't really tell you. Then again, my only exposure to pictures or sound clips in my clipboard was when Windows tried to tell me that I had a huge lump of something in my clipboard whenever I tried to quit Photoshop. So you and I definitely don't have the same needs for this particular item.
I never dig figure out the 20 various text files to configure, but I've been able to drag a file icon onto my printer icon and have it print (correctly, even!) since around Fedora Core 2, so yeah, that works now.
There already is a market, it's just not people stuck on waiting for Photoshop to come out for a particular platform. Besides, the words "Linux" and "market" just don't seem to go together in my mind. One doesn't really seem to need the other, and both will do quite nicely if they never meet each other. But maybe that's just me. I know Redhat and SuSE and Mandrake (and so on) must see some sort of market in Linux geeks, or they never would have bothered trying to make money from us in the first place.
But hey, I'm not going to tell you that you need to use Linux if what you really need is a platform that can run Photoshop natively. You and me, we're different markets.