My Physics Teacher my junior year of HS did something called "Bubbles of Death". He did it as an intro to what a chemical reaction can do (heat + natural gas + O2 = flame), and was notorious for making his bubble tower large enough to create a fairly large flame cloud. In my class it was big enough to push the door open, and leave a black mark on the ceiling. I believe he was banned from doing that as it was getting annoying to continually replace ceiling tiles.
This. I was on my dad's 486 as soon as I saw him boot up snipe and rogue. Which would have put me at about 20 months. I couldn't program, but I sure as hell could get pwnt by 2nd level dungeon monsters. Huh...I just realized I learned to read playing Rogue too....imagine that.
While that may be a problem, what IT staffers need to start doing is find ways to show that once security patches for windows XP and IE6 stop rolling in, that the opportunity cost to hold onto those websites and dealing with what users inevitably drag in is far greater then simply hiring a programmer to rework all those "must have" programs into something that's a bit more future proofed.
There is one downside, and that's when you run into a vendor that refuses to use anything newer, claiming that only that really old PoS will do the job they way that it's meant to be. That's the only situation I can see where IE6 will be forced to stay.
Enough with this good enough BS, Windows XP deserves a good burial, it's lived long enough.
I'm actually glad it fills up more space on the page, because it means I can write short papers again instead of having to drone on and on (or repeat myself) in the text to meet the length requirement after I met the requirements for the paper itself 4 pages ago.
I have to mention this. D&H distribution was not involved in this at all, not sure why people keep pointing fingers at them when it was found that IPEX was the company that let this slip through.
Good thing Blizzard is managed separately from Activision, huh? The two companies only share an owner, both are independent from each other (Thank God).
I know there's a few out there putting hate on Blizzard for the 3 part SC2 thing, but it has been mentioned before that they plan to price them as expansions, not full games. People get uppity over the smallest things...
Xbox ToS states the following in Part 16, paragraph 1.
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Pretty clear to me what they intended. Even if you didn't pirate, xbox live is only meant for unmodified machines. Play at your own risk if you fussed with the innards.
If you don't have the money for rather cheap software licences, then you probably need to find a better job. Software is insanely cheap compared to other costs. Even if you're running dedicated systems that are custom fit to your enterprise, the cost of licensing is a drop in the bucket compared to say...an employee.
Not paying for software is not a right. It is cowardly, because you're refusing to reimburse a coder for their hard work, so they can continue to develop and produce software. I can understand trying something out, but to use something for profit and not pay for it is not only illegal, it's unethical.
1. Browse the internet safely from a fresh install. XP you must try to lock down before you go out, or else there's a high likelihood that you will be infected.
2. Multiple firewall setups that are easy to use.
3. Crazy good UI for smaller screens. This will be the ultimate laptop operating system. I'm running it on a dual core ASUS tablet, and I can't tell that I'm on a laptop outside of the smaller screen.
4. Deployment for enterprise. Windows XP has a very convoluted imaging process that's relying on 7 year old software. Incompatibilities are beginning to ramp up, and seeking a more elegant deployment solution has been a pretty big part of my job recently. Windows 7 is being distributed with imaging software for network deployment _built-in_, comes with the bulk enterprise license.
5. "Just Works." You experience this with Vista as well, and that's...driver hunting. From a fresh Vista or 7 install, you usually have full control of your system with newer drivers already installed, and full video/audio capabilities. XP? nope.
I can keep going....if you think XP is the endall of operating systems, get over yourself and experience some of the new stuff out there. My company is planning a mass deployment, because win7 works with all of our systems, even our older P4's, and besides a user migration headache, nearly all bumps have been ironed out.
I probably should make myself clearer. Because of Questhelper, there are many people roaming around on my server who don't know what the hell they're doing, because instead of discovering on their own where to go, they followed the damn arrow. So they get up to level 80 and lo and behold, you have a warrior who doesn't know where half the instances are because he didn't explore anything while he was leveling, he let a box point him in a direction.
I understand that a lot of stuff up to level 70 questing is mostly boring, hell, I confess to skipping a majority of the quest text myself, BUT flaunting the quest text _and_ flaunting proper exploration is what makes me hate questhelper.
I really don't mind when experienced players use questhelper, although I still mock them, but when I see brand new players use it and somehow get to level 80 without knowing where important and pertinent stuff is(I'm talking level 72-80 content, not old expansion stuff) that is where I draw line.
I'm another guy who just hates questhelper, though I've personally never used it. Why do I hate it? the reasons you stated above. When someone uses questhelper, they ignore just about _everything_ lorewise in the game. If you just want to do the XP grind and not care about the lore, go grind, don't be just following a bot to finish all the quests.
I don't care for that addon and all it's clones, because it makes too many people not learn the areas and how to be cognitive when tricky quests come up.
An ingame browser would be dandy, because it'd let me have the option of going back to full screen mode without having to worry about alt-tab issues as much, but something like questhelper? Don't use it, it breaks immersion in the game, and makes you a helpless twit.
There's no advantage here. WoW runs in windowed mode just fine in windows. Hell, that's the only way myself and a large part of my guild plays nowadays, just because it's easier to access other things during downtime between wipes.
I believe what he means is that in a safe somewhere are two or three usb keys that are able to unlock any of the company machines. These are only broken out when said user forgets his own passkey, and will override the passkey so a new one can be placed on said user.
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My Physics Teacher my junior year of HS did something called "Bubbles of Death". He did it as an intro to what a chemical reaction can do (heat + natural gas + O2 = flame), and was notorious for making his bubble tower large enough to create a fairly large flame cloud. In my class it was big enough to push the door open, and leave a black mark on the ceiling. I believe he was banned from doing that as it was getting annoying to continually replace ceiling tiles.
This. I was on my dad's 486 as soon as I saw him boot up snipe and rogue. Which would have put me at about 20 months. I couldn't program, but I sure as hell could get pwnt by 2nd level dungeon monsters. Huh...I just realized I learned to read playing Rogue too....imagine that.
While that may be a problem, what IT staffers need to start doing is find ways to show that once security patches for windows XP and IE6 stop rolling in, that the opportunity cost to hold onto those websites and dealing with what users inevitably drag in is far greater then simply hiring a programmer to rework all those "must have" programs into something that's a bit more future proofed.
There is one downside, and that's when you run into a vendor that refuses to use anything newer, claiming that only that really old PoS will do the job they way that it's meant to be. That's the only situation I can see where IE6 will be forced to stay.
Enough with this good enough BS, Windows XP deserves a good burial, it's lived long enough.
I'm actually glad it fills up more space on the page, because it means I can write short papers again instead of having to drone on and on (or repeat myself) in the text to meet the length requirement after I met the requirements for the paper itself 4 pages ago.
...I can't believe you actually tried to do something with DHMO... that's soooo 10 years go.
I have to mention this. D&H distribution was not involved in this at all, not sure why people keep pointing fingers at them when it was found that IPEX was the company that let this slip through.
Good thing Blizzard is managed separately from Activision, huh? The two companies only share an owner, both are independent from each other (Thank God).
I know there's a few out there putting hate on Blizzard for the 3 part SC2 thing, but it has been mentioned before that they plan to price them as expansions, not full games. People get uppity over the smallest things...
Mod this guy up, that's brilliant, and I hope some CS professor out there uses this method.
man I wish I could mod you up....
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Pretty clear to me what they intended. Even if you didn't pirate, xbox live is only meant for unmodified machines. Play at your own risk if you fussed with the innards.
If you don't have the money for rather cheap software licences, then you probably need to find a better job. Software is insanely cheap compared to other costs. Even if you're running dedicated systems that are custom fit to your enterprise, the cost of licensing is a drop in the bucket compared to say...an employee.
Not paying for software is not a right. It is cowardly, because you're refusing to reimburse a coder for their hard work, so they can continue to develop and produce software. I can understand trying something out, but to use something for profit and not pay for it is not only illegal, it's unethical.
1. Browse the internet safely from a fresh install. XP you must try to lock down before you go out, or else there's a high likelihood that you will be infected.
2. Multiple firewall setups that are easy to use.
3. Crazy good UI for smaller screens. This will be the ultimate laptop operating system. I'm running it on a dual core ASUS tablet, and I can't tell that I'm on a laptop outside of the smaller screen.
4. Deployment for enterprise. Windows XP has a very convoluted imaging process that's relying on 7 year old software. Incompatibilities are beginning to ramp up, and seeking a more elegant deployment solution has been a pretty big part of my job recently. Windows 7 is being distributed with imaging software for network deployment _built-in_, comes with the bulk enterprise license.
5. "Just Works." You experience this with Vista as well, and that's...driver hunting. From a fresh Vista or 7 install, you usually have full control of your system with newer drivers already installed, and full video/audio capabilities. XP? nope.
I can keep going....if you think XP is the endall of operating systems, get over yourself and experience some of the new stuff out there. My company is planning a mass deployment, because win7 works with all of our systems, even our older P4's, and besides a user migration headache, nearly all bumps have been ironed out.
I probably should make myself clearer. Because of Questhelper, there are many people roaming around on my server who don't know what the hell they're doing, because instead of discovering on their own where to go, they followed the damn arrow. So they get up to level 80 and lo and behold, you have a warrior who doesn't know where half the instances are because he didn't explore anything while he was leveling, he let a box point him in a direction.
I understand that a lot of stuff up to level 70 questing is mostly boring, hell, I confess to skipping a majority of the quest text myself, BUT flaunting the quest text _and_ flaunting proper exploration is what makes me hate questhelper.
I really don't mind when experienced players use questhelper, although I still mock them, but when I see brand new players use it and somehow get to level 80 without knowing where important and pertinent stuff is(I'm talking level 72-80 content, not old expansion stuff) that is where I draw line.
I'm another guy who just hates questhelper, though I've personally never used it. Why do I hate it? the reasons you stated above. When someone uses questhelper, they ignore just about _everything_ lorewise in the game. If you just want to do the XP grind and not care about the lore, go grind, don't be just following a bot to finish all the quests.
I don't care for that addon and all it's clones, because it makes too many people not learn the areas and how to be cognitive when tricky quests come up.
An ingame browser would be dandy, because it'd let me have the option of going back to full screen mode without having to worry about alt-tab issues as much, but something like questhelper? Don't use it, it breaks immersion in the game, and makes you a helpless twit.
There's no advantage here. WoW runs in windowed mode just fine in windows. Hell, that's the only way myself and a large part of my guild plays nowadays, just because it's easier to access other things during downtime between wipes.
I believe what he means is that in a safe somewhere are two or three usb keys that are able to unlock any of the company machines. These are only broken out when said user forgets his own passkey, and will override the passkey so a new one can be placed on said user.