docx being the default output from word 2007. And if I was talking about CREATING a document your comment would be appropriate - but when all I got was a.docx file I simply have no choice.
Just suck it up already - as much as I would want it to be otherwise, not all open source software is actually good, and open-office most definitely is not one of those projects that is. Open office really stinks, and I just so wish that were different because I certainly don't want to use microsoft products.
there is no well done DRM, especially not the DVD stuff - it's a pain in the ass to get playing on linux, or at least it used to be.
There is no "good" DRM. Make your product available and trust in people to support your work if it's any good. If you can't do that, then stop doing business, but don't pretend to provide a product if the customer can't actually use it as he wants.
I agree with your sentiment, but I will not even buy the damn game if it has DRM on it. If I really really want to play it I will get a pirate version, but usually I just completely ignore games with DRM on them.
But no matter what, if the publisher wishes to screw me with their DRM they are not going to get one cent from me. I wish gamers would get over it and actually follow through with boycots of DRM games instead of just talking about it.
1) We agree that it is sort of ok not to follow unjust laws. What about the part where pedestrians are forbidden to cross a red light? If I take a look around and see that there are absolutely no cars around, you're damn right I will cross the road even if the light is red. I may be breaking the law technically, but I still think that I am keeping with the spirit of it, since what I am doing is quite safe and I am trying to get traffic to flow better. Do you disagree with that?
2) I am not saying you should break the law for the convenience of others - but you should respect their decision if THEY want to break it and not play sheriff - this is of course only true when you think there is no danger in doing so. For example, on the highway you often get idiots who think I am going to fast, so they will demonstratively drive in the left lane and make sure I don't pass them. That's just not your job. Similar, when I decide to safely cross a pedestrian red light, you better not talk smart to me, because I'm a grown up man and I can see for myself whether the road is clear or not. If I happen to get a fine, then so be it, but that is none of your business.
I got my parents to switch to linux, and so they are now forced to use open-office (yes I know there are other alternatives).
My mom can't assign the keyboard shortcuts as she wants them to be - no OO provides a long list of available shortcuts and you can only assign a command to those shortcuts. You want a different shortcut? You're just out of luck.
Furthermore, the 64bit version of open office keeps crashing when pasting html from the internet. This bug is well known, but nobody has fixed it yet.
Finally, open office doesn't render the docx format faithfully - I had to go to an online webservice to convert to pdf before I could read it properly.
There are other gripes as well, but the three above are the worst offenders. Open office would be nice if it worked well, but if you're doing anything but writing a simple plain text note you're screwed - ok that is an exaggeration, but for christs sakes write some proper software, what we have right now is ridiculous.
"Or do you think that one can understand intentions which are neither expressed nor expressible in meaningful language?"
This would be one way to put it, but perhaps a better way of saying what I mean is "to read between the lines". It is simply impractical to cover each and every eventuality in a traffic law, so it is written the cover the most common cases as reasonable as possible. If you read between the lines however you will get some sort of understanding what the law was trying to accomplish, and from that understanding it is possible to extrapolate to special circumstances. I'm not saying everyon would get the exact same understanding when reading the law, but I don't think our disagreements would be too big.
Furthermore, I'm not saying that you should ignore the law as much as you can - but for example it is illegal to drive on one side of the road. Now suddenly a pedestrian runs across the road without looking - do you follow the law, stay on your side of the road and hit the pedestrian, or do you try to evade and use the other side of the road (assuming noone else is driving there)?
All I'm saying is that the letter of the law is not all that counts. Follow the law by all means, but be sure to also think about WHY the law is as it is and follow the spirit of the law as well. Furthermore, respect your fellow citizens and try not to be an annoyance.
If you think that the law is ALL that counts, you're an asshole, it's as simple as that really.
I may be completely wrong about you, but you come across to me as the "the law is the only important thing" type of person, which I absolutely despise.
The purpose of traffic law is to get a maximum of traffic flow (e.g. cars going through a light per hour) with a maximum of security. Of course there is some sort of tradeof or compromise, in order to increase traffic flow you have to decrease traffic security and vice versa.
My point is that the traffic law has a specific purpose, and that specific purpose is not ONLY for safety, but also to get traffic actually going. You can see that I am right about this part, because if safety was the only concern all forms of traffic would be forbidden because that would give the absolute lowest risk of traffic accidents. Since this is not the case, a part of the laws purpose must be to get traffic going.
Now why is all this important? That's simple, because what is important is the purpose of the law, not the actual written words. And this is true because it simply is impossible to write the law to take into account all the special circumstances and exceptions that happen in real life. For this reason the traffic law will at times be a suboptimal solution, and in these cases it will be a GOOD thing to ignore the traffic law IF you can keep with the spirit of it. And therefore it is important to understand the actual purpose or spirit of the law, and not only the words.
If you are acting solely based on the words of the law, you will often do the "wrong" thing regarding the spirit of the law. I ride to work on my bike, and I see all sorts of "good law abiding citizens" comply with the letter of the law, but showing absolutely no regard for their fellow citizens - for example riding very slowly while not giving space to overtake or similar things.
I absolutely fucking hate these people. Stick to whats important instead of going on about what is the law and whatnot.
Well yeah, but I got the wii in order to play games that were unique to it (or consoles in general), not to play a game that I can play much more comfortably and with better graphics on my PC.
Is there any game for the wii that matches that description? I haven't found it yet, but then again I gave up looking quite soon due to the insane amounts of shovelware.
I have a wii, and I regret getting it so far. The Only thing I play on it is Guitar Hero, and I certainly don't need a wii for that. Wii sports gets boring rather quickly.
Then I have one of the Resident evil games. This one is fun enough, but the graphics suck balls so much it's unbelievable - mostly due to the low resolution. Most of the other games I see in the stores don't look even remotely interesting, and those that do usually have very bad reviews.
"I like to call it paying attention and not giving my money to dicks."
Precisely. This is what ideally every citizen would do. If they did, there wouldn't be any more evil companies. Evil companies are supported by average joes who don't give a fuck.
When you are aware of a certain risk and it is easily possible to avoid that risk, but you decide to ignore it instead, you get what you deserve.
This is like jumping from a high cliff and complaining about getting hurt. You knew what was going to happen, so you should not have jumped off the cliff. It may be "unfair" that you can't jump off a cliff without getting hurt, and maybe the laws of nature suck. But if you KNOW you should act according to that knowledge - otherwise you deserve the outcome.
The jews probably didn't have much choice and thus cannot be blamed for what happened.
A woman who knows that certain men will behave as they do, but completely ignores that knowledge and does as she pleases and thus increases her risk - well she fucking deserves it.
This does not mean it is wrong for the rapist to rape her, but if that woman knew the risk beforehand she should have acted according to it.
It is correct that it still isn't right for EA to do what they do - nobody is denying that (I think).
But it is also correct that you are a fucking moron and deserve nothing better if you willfully ignore history and throw your money at EA regardless.
Another example is my brother, who used to ignore my warnings about the evils of DRM - he just wanted to play his games - right until he got screwed by EA who claimed that his completely legitimate copy of crysis was bad and blocked him from playing it.
If people continue to support evil companies in spite of everything and to the detriment of EVERYONE ELSE, then every time those idiots get screwed brings a smile to my lips.
The original AvP was the first 3D game I played (I think). I absolutely loved the marine campaign, because it was scary as hell. I've never been that scared in a game before or after (or pretty much in any situation).
It might not be long, graphics may be poor, there may not be a story - but I will say that this game is still bounds better than most modern FPS, because what little is there just works so incredibly well. And the lack of story was quite ok really, because similar as in half life, the entire point of it is simply to get out of there, which increases immersion quite a lot (for me anyway).
After using gentoo for maybe three years I got fed up with all its drawbacks and tried to switch to ubuntu. Ubuntu was wonderful - everything worked pretty much out of the box and all was good.
But then came 8.04, and I have had nothing but trouble with ubuntu ever since. Sound problems, network problems (and not even wifi) and all sorts of minor bothers. It's not that I ran wierd hardware - it was all highend but fairly mainstream. All other distros I tried worked well on a technical/hardware level (but I felt they were crappy for various other reasons).
My parents and brothers have had the same experience with ubuntu as me. 7.04/7.10 was nice, but the the shit started hitting the fan.
So now I have gone and switched over to chakra/arch linux. Chakra works out of the box for the most part, but there are some configuration things you have to fiddle with (if you care). And its based on arch linux so any changes I need/want to make are bound to be simple and clear.
(My point is that none of the "major" distros work out for me - even ubuntu stinks lately. It takes a DIY distro to get a proper working system (for me at least.))
Based on my experience GP is more correct than Parent.
I used to hate KDE, but since the 4.3 release I must say it does a much better job of not getting in the way and just doing what it should do. The only thing that still bothers me that it takes releatively long to start up which makes it feel bloated (but not any more than gnome does). Although with my upgrade to an 77 that is hardly noticeable anymore (but an i7 should not be required to run a desktop environment well).
I don't think that that is the way science works. You don't get to declare a default positions based on intuition alone (the important word being alone).
(note that this is only a minor nitpick about your use of the phrase "scientific default position which I think is incorrect)
What with all the embargo shit going on, cuba doesn't have a big chance to improve the economy much, do they now? Suddenly the US comes in and hands out stuff for free to only those people who are in opposition of the government.
Yes ok, so they have (or had) laws against owning a cell phone, maybe there's a good reason for that in their current situation.
I'm most definitely not a communist, but if you think cuba is the bad guy here you most certainly are deluded.
The point is that they are not abiding by any rules. Microsoft has shown often enough that they do not follow laws, are not above using bribery, abuse their status as quasi-monopoly in the OS markert to gain marketshare in related markets, spread FUD and so on.
Yes, they are only doing what they can to make money (literally) - but is that seriouly the kind of behavior you want to support?
Nobody is talking about running away crying. But if I seem something wrong I'm damn right to point it out to others and do what I can to stop it.
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docx being the default output from word 2007. And if I was talking about CREATING a document your comment would be appropriate - but when all I got was a .docx file I simply have no choice.
Just suck it up already - as much as I would want it to be otherwise, not all open source software is actually good, and open-office most definitely is not one of those projects that is. Open office really stinks, and I just so wish that were different because I certainly don't want to use microsoft products.
there is no well done DRM, especially not the DVD stuff - it's a pain in the ass to get playing on linux, or at least it used to be.
There is no "good" DRM. Make your product available and trust in people to support your work if it's any good. If you can't do that, then stop doing business, but don't pretend to provide a product if the customer can't actually use it as he wants.
I agree with your sentiment, but I will not even buy the damn game if it has DRM on it. If I really really want to play it I will get a pirate version, but usually I just completely ignore games with DRM on them.
But no matter what, if the publisher wishes to screw me with their DRM they are not going to get one cent from me. I wish gamers would get over it and actually follow through with boycots of DRM games instead of just talking about it.
ok, two more points I need to adress.
1) We agree that it is sort of ok not to follow unjust laws. What about the part where pedestrians are forbidden to cross a red light? If I take a look around and see that there are absolutely no cars around, you're damn right I will cross the road even if the light is red. I may be breaking the law technically, but I still think that I am keeping with the spirit of it, since what I am doing is quite safe and I am trying to get traffic to flow better. Do you disagree with that?
2) I am not saying you should break the law for the convenience of others - but you should respect their decision if THEY want to break it and not play sheriff - this is of course only true when you think there is no danger in doing so. For example, on the highway you often get idiots who think I am going to fast, so they will demonstratively drive in the left lane and make sure I don't pass them. That's just not your job. Similar, when I decide to safely cross a pedestrian red light, you better not talk smart to me, because I'm a grown up man and I can see for myself whether the road is clear or not. If I happen to get a fine, then so be it, but that is none of your business.
I got my parents to switch to linux, and so they are now forced to use open-office (yes I know there are other alternatives).
My mom can't assign the keyboard shortcuts as she wants them to be - no OO provides a long list of available shortcuts and you can only assign a command to those shortcuts. You want a different shortcut? You're just out of luck.
Furthermore, the 64bit version of open office keeps crashing when pasting html from the internet. This bug is well known, but nobody has fixed it yet.
Finally, open office doesn't render the docx format faithfully - I had to go to an online webservice to convert to pdf before I could read it properly.
There are other gripes as well, but the three above are the worst offenders. Open office would be nice if it worked well, but if you're doing anything but writing a simple plain text note you're screwed - ok that is an exaggeration, but for christs sakes write some proper software, what we have right now is ridiculous.
"Or do you think that one can understand intentions which are neither expressed nor expressible in meaningful language?"
This would be one way to put it, but perhaps a better way of saying what I mean is "to read between the lines". It is simply impractical to cover each and every eventuality in a traffic law, so it is written the cover the most common cases as reasonable as possible. If you read between the lines however you will get some sort of understanding what the law was trying to accomplish, and from that understanding it is possible to extrapolate to special circumstances. I'm not saying everyon would get the exact same understanding when reading the law, but I don't think our disagreements would be too big.
Furthermore, I'm not saying that you should ignore the law as much as you can - but for example it is illegal to drive on one side of the road. Now suddenly a pedestrian runs across the road without looking - do you follow the law, stay on your side of the road and hit the pedestrian, or do you try to evade and use the other side of the road (assuming noone else is driving there)?
All I'm saying is that the letter of the law is not all that counts. Follow the law by all means, but be sure to also think about WHY the law is as it is and follow the spirit of the law as well. Furthermore, respect your fellow citizens and try not to be an annoyance.
If you think that the law is ALL that counts, you're an asshole, it's as simple as that really.
No you're not always wrong!
You may have meant that as a joke, but I'm afraid this is a lot more insightful than it is funny, sadly.
Exactly. And as long as the driver/cyclist take the necessary safety precautions this should be perfectly ok.
I may be completely wrong about you, but you come across to me as the "the law is the only important thing" type of person, which I absolutely despise.
The purpose of traffic law is to get a maximum of traffic flow (e.g. cars going through a light per hour) with a maximum of security. Of course there is some sort of tradeof or compromise, in order to increase traffic flow you have to decrease traffic security and vice versa.
My point is that the traffic law has a specific purpose, and that specific purpose is not ONLY for safety, but also to get traffic actually going. You can see that I am right about this part, because if safety was the only concern all forms of traffic would be forbidden because that would give the absolute lowest risk of traffic accidents. Since this is not the case, a part of the laws purpose must be to get traffic going.
Now why is all this important? That's simple, because what is important is the purpose of the law, not the actual written words. And this is true because it simply is impossible to write the law to take into account all the special circumstances and exceptions that happen in real life. For this reason the traffic law will at times be a suboptimal solution, and in these cases it will be a GOOD thing to ignore the traffic law IF you can keep with the spirit of it. And therefore it is important to understand the actual purpose or spirit of the law, and not only the words.
If you are acting solely based on the words of the law, you will often do the "wrong" thing regarding the spirit of the law. I ride to work on my bike, and I see all sorts of "good law abiding citizens" comply with the letter of the law, but showing absolutely no regard for their fellow citizens - for example riding very slowly while not giving space to overtake or similar things.
I absolutely fucking hate these people. Stick to whats important instead of going on about what is the law and whatnot.
uh wtf? VLC allows you to de the same, at least with [SHIFT]+[R.Arrow] and [R.Arrow] - I never tried with control, but I bet it works the same.
Well yeah, but I got the wii in order to play games that were unique to it (or consoles in general), not to play a game that I can play much more comfortably and with better graphics on my PC.
Is there any game for the wii that matches that description? I haven't found it yet, but then again I gave up looking quite soon due to the insane amounts of shovelware.
I have a wii, and I regret getting it so far. The Only thing I play on it is Guitar Hero, and I certainly don't need a wii for that. Wii sports gets boring rather quickly.
Then I have one of the Resident evil games. This one is fun enough, but the graphics suck balls so much it's unbelievable - mostly due to the low resolution. Most of the other games I see in the stores don't look even remotely interesting, and those that do usually have very bad reviews.
If you know of any good games, please tell me.
"I like to call it paying attention and not giving my money to dicks."
Precisely. This is what ideally every citizen would do. If they did, there wouldn't be any more evil companies. Evil companies are supported by average joes who don't give a fuck.
Yes, and who the fuck do you think is going to do the bitchslapping if you don't do it with your wallet?
If you haven't already realized that governments are controlled by large corporations, this is going to prove my view to you (at least partially).
this does not mean it ISN'T wrong for the rapist to rape her - sorry for the mistake :(
When you are aware of a certain risk and it is easily possible to avoid that risk, but you decide to ignore it instead, you get what you deserve.
This is like jumping from a high cliff and complaining about getting hurt. You knew what was going to happen, so you should not have jumped off the cliff. It may be "unfair" that you can't jump off a cliff without getting hurt, and maybe the laws of nature suck. But if you KNOW you should act according to that knowledge - otherwise you deserve the outcome.
The jews probably didn't have much choice and thus cannot be blamed for what happened.
A woman who knows that certain men will behave as they do, but completely ignores that knowledge and does as she pleases and thus increases her risk - well she fucking deserves it.
This does not mean it is wrong for the rapist to rape her, but if that woman knew the risk beforehand she should have acted according to it.
It is correct that it still isn't right for EA to do what they do - nobody is denying that (I think).
But it is also correct that you are a fucking moron and deserve nothing better if you willfully ignore history and throw your money at EA regardless.
Another example is my brother, who used to ignore my warnings about the evils of DRM - he just wanted to play his games - right until he got screwed by EA who claimed that his completely legitimate copy of crysis was bad and blocked him from playing it.
If people continue to support evil companies in spite of everything and to the detriment of EVERYONE ELSE, then every time those idiots get screwed brings a smile to my lips.
The original AvP was the first 3D game I played (I think). I absolutely loved the marine campaign, because it was scary as hell. I've never been that scared in a game before or after (or pretty much in any situation).
It might not be long, graphics may be poor, there may not be a story - but I will say that this game is still bounds better than most modern FPS, because what little is there just works so incredibly well. And the lack of story was quite ok really, because similar as in half life, the entire point of it is simply to get out of there, which increases immersion quite a lot (for me anyway).
After using gentoo for maybe three years I got fed up with all its drawbacks and tried to switch to ubuntu. Ubuntu was wonderful - everything worked pretty much out of the box and all was good.
But then came 8.04, and I have had nothing but trouble with ubuntu ever since. Sound problems, network problems (and not even wifi) and all sorts of minor bothers. It's not that I ran wierd hardware - it was all highend but fairly mainstream. All other distros I tried worked well on a technical/hardware level (but I felt they were crappy for various other reasons).
My parents and brothers have had the same experience with ubuntu as me. 7.04/7.10 was nice, but the the shit started hitting the fan.
So now I have gone and switched over to chakra/arch linux. Chakra works out of the box for the most part, but there are some configuration things you have to fiddle with (if you care). And its based on arch linux so any changes I need/want to make are bound to be simple and clear.
(My point is that none of the "major" distros work out for me - even ubuntu stinks lately. It takes a DIY distro to get a proper working system (for me at least.))
Based on my experience GP is more correct than Parent.
I used to hate KDE, but since the 4.3 release I must say it does a much better job of not getting in the way and just doing what it should do. The only thing that still bothers me that it takes releatively long to start up which makes it feel bloated (but not any more than gnome does). Although with my upgrade to an 77 that is hardly noticeable anymore (but an i7 should not be required to run a desktop environment well).
I don't think that that is the way science works. You don't get to declare a default positions based on intuition alone (the important word being alone).
(note that this is only a minor nitpick about your use of the phrase "scientific default position which I think is incorrect)
yes yeah yeah.
What with all the embargo shit going on, cuba doesn't have a big chance to improve the economy much, do they now? Suddenly the US comes in and hands out stuff for free to only those people who are in opposition of the government.
Yes ok, so they have (or had) laws against owning a cell phone, maybe there's a good reason for that in their current situation.
I'm most definitely not a communist, but if you think cuba is the bad guy here you most certainly are deluded.
why does this stupid thing keep cropping up?
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
The point is that they are not abiding by any rules. Microsoft has shown often enough that they do not follow laws, are not above using bribery, abuse their status as quasi-monopoly in the OS markert to gain marketshare in related markets, spread FUD and so on.
Yes, they are only doing what they can to make money (literally) - but is that seriouly the kind of behavior you want to support?
Nobody is talking about running away crying. But if I seem something wrong I'm damn right to point it out to others and do what I can to stop it.