Ah you are mistaken. It is portable. All too portable.
The most frustrating thing about it is that you cannot revert to a previous save game or get your money back after your subscription has been canceled. Even if you sign up for a permanent account, you can get canceled anyway (no reason need be given) and still have to pay the monthly fees despite being banned from playing.
Everyone thinks that they are fairly intelligent.;)
While I agree that "the average person doesn't want to have to worry about damaging their system because the software they installed started a chain reaction", the average person seems to do that on a routine basis. I had to spend 12 hours ridding a machine of spy and ad ware and virii once. All this average person did was to click yes to friendly installers.
You are right, they do freak out. But they have no intention of learning how to use the thing properly either, so they will continue to freak out when the tool they have no idea how to use well does bizarre things they don't like.
You've obviously never been one of the people who hang around help forums trying to help people. Windows users come in demanding "Somebody tell me what to do. Don't point me to a FAQ. Don't tell me to read anything. Give me the right file. Give me the something to copy and paste. And give it to me right now!" And they wonder why people tell them to blow themselves.
On those occasions when a new user comes in and asks politely and is willing to learn, then he will get the advice, training wheels included and told that if he has more problems, we'll see what we can do. At least that is how the Ubuntu forums tend to work.
Perhaps not what you were expecting, but here is a thanks from an Ubuntu user. I normally just avoid printers (I have no need for one) but now that I know of a couple of companies that have Linux drivers, I will look into possibly getting one.
Ironically, my Windows partition kept shrinking because it was taking up to much space. After I bought a couple of external hard drives, I did put a small Windows partition on it, though setting up Windows to work properly was a huge pain in the butt.
Even though I've been using Linux for several years, I still don't consider myself *nix proficient. Only recently have I begun to delve into it seriously. Some very interesting things can be done when your options are not limited my a list of checkboxes.
I'm going to have to dispute most (KEYWORD: most) of what you list, at least with Ubuntu (Dapper and Edgy).
1) Removable media do automount. An icon pops up on the desktop and a Nautilus window does as well. 2) I'm on Ubuntu and Synaptic has worked out of the (what? package?) 90% of the time. The other 10% are server software, so some configuration is necessary. Your number 2 doesn't apply to Linux; neither does mine. 3) Codecs do have to be gotten, but my Windows experience with that is the same. Never had to do anything with mplayer though. 4) Mine didn't. I did have to get network-manager-applet though, for WAP to work. (Oddly, I put XP on a small partition on the laptop and I can't get WAP to work at all.) 5) Nothing we can do about that. (Sidenote: is it just me or is having a proprietary thing like flash for websites a bad idea?) 6) Wireless worked fine, WAP excepted. Suspend worked fine. Hibernate was a problem in such a way that it should not have a problem. (Why it can't write to a normal partition instead of a swap one is beyond me.) 7) This is true, but Apple has the same problem though it isn't considered a major deal breaker for them. 8) My laptop was bought from Best Buy.
Some of the stuff you listed, I would hazard to guess, are Fedora's problems. There are other distros out there.
Red Hat is the dominant Linux vendor (for some reason).
Novell is (I think) a distant number two.
Windows and Linux compete in the server market.
Microsoft made its inroads during the Unix Wars.
Machiavelli's advice: support the weaker party, they will be dependent on you for support.
Microsoft supports #2 Linux vendor Novell to take down #1 Linux vendor Red Hat. Bloodletting is entirely on the Linux side. Microsoft approaches the Novell and Red Hat's customers, lamenting how horrible it is that Linux is so fractured; "wouldn't you be better off only having one stack to support? See how we cut the price, just for you? We, of course, will never drastically increase the price. We promise."
As much of the rest of the world holds America to a different set of standards than they hold other countries or themselves to, perhaps a world wide education drive is necessary to teach the rest of the world the error of their ways.
Unreal => and the lights go dark... (that was actually the only good gameplay in the whole thing, but it was damn good.)
Aliens vs. Predator -> as the Marine... I was low on ammo, had no armor. Those things I could hear... in the air ducts... in the hallways. Sometimes a door would spontaneously open, but nothing was there. I backed myself into a corner in a large room and waited. I stayed there for half an hour of real time. And I was not bored.
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Ah you are mistaken. It is portable. All too portable.
The most frustrating thing about it is that you cannot revert to a previous save game or get your money back after your subscription has been canceled. Even if you sign up for a permanent account, you can get canceled anyway (no reason need be given) and still have to pay the monthly fees despite being banned from playing.
Its a pretty raw deal, truth be known.
Also enjoyed are dream crushing, soul destroying, havok creation, bizarre rationalization and back stabbing.
Can you taste the bitterness?
I'm thinking that they made war not love and did the whole rape and pillage thing.
Don't bother. They are uninterested in learning.
What they do know: If they break it, you will fix it.
Stop fixing it, then they might be more willing to listen.
Everyone thinks that they are fairly intelligent. ;)
While I agree that "the average person doesn't want to have to worry about damaging their system because the software they installed started a chain reaction", the average person seems to do that on a routine basis. I had to spend 12 hours ridding a machine of spy and ad ware and virii once. All this average person did was to click yes to friendly installers.
You are right, they do freak out. But they have no intention of learning how to use the thing properly either, so they will continue to freak out when the tool they have no idea how to use well does bizarre things they don't like.
You've obviously never been one of the people who hang around help forums trying to help people. Windows users come in demanding "Somebody tell me what to do. Don't point me to a FAQ. Don't tell me to read anything. Give me the right file. Give me the something to copy and paste. And give it to me right now!" And they wonder why people tell them to blow themselves.
On those occasions when a new user comes in and asks politely and is willing to learn, then he will get the advice, training wheels included and told that if he has more problems, we'll see what we can do. At least that is how the Ubuntu forums tend to work.
Perhaps not what you were expecting, but here is a thanks from an Ubuntu user. I normally just avoid printers (I have no need for one) but now that I know of a couple of companies that have Linux drivers, I will look into possibly getting one.
Ironically, my Windows partition kept shrinking because it was taking up to much space. After I bought a couple of external hard drives, I did put a small Windows partition on it, though setting up Windows to work properly was a huge pain in the butt.
Even though I've been using Linux for several years, I still don't consider myself *nix proficient. Only recently have I begun to delve into it seriously. Some very interesting things can be done when your options are not limited my a list of checkboxes.
I'm going to have to dispute most (KEYWORD: most) of what you list, at least with Ubuntu (Dapper and Edgy).
1) Removable media do automount. An icon pops up on the desktop and a Nautilus window does as well.
2) I'm on Ubuntu and Synaptic has worked out of the (what? package?) 90% of the time. The other 10% are server software, so some configuration is necessary. Your number 2 doesn't apply to Linux; neither does mine.
3) Codecs do have to be gotten, but my Windows experience with that is the same. Never had to do anything with mplayer though.
4) Mine didn't. I did have to get network-manager-applet though, for WAP to work. (Oddly, I put XP on a small partition on the laptop and I can't get WAP to work at all.)
5) Nothing we can do about that. (Sidenote: is it just me or is having a proprietary thing like flash for websites a bad idea?)
6) Wireless worked fine, WAP excepted. Suspend worked fine. Hibernate was a problem in such a way that it should not have a problem. (Why it can't write to a normal partition instead of a swap one is beyond me.)
7) This is true, but Apple has the same problem though it isn't considered a major deal breaker for them.
8) My laptop was bought from Best Buy.
Some of the stuff you listed, I would hazard to guess, are Fedora's problems. There are other distros out there.
Those same "many" people don't seem to mind relying on others to fix their spyware, virus infected computers.
That would cause an uproar.
Now, if you wished to have a game which elicited no negative commentary, create a game where you play as Communists and kill millions of people.
No one will care.
We should have a foreign legion. That is one of the best ideas ever.
"Want to be a U.S. Citizen? Join the Legion."
Is it just me is Microsoft acting more like My Little Ponies than the Borg today?
Something very bad is going to come of all this, but I am prepared.
My tinfoil helmet has arrived today.
The world will stand still watching the two titans battle it out in a duel to the death:
IBM vs Microsoft
Steel Cage Grudge Match!
Red Hat is the dominant Linux vendor (for some reason).
Novell is (I think) a distant number two.
Windows and Linux compete in the server market.
Microsoft made its inroads during the Unix Wars.
Machiavelli's advice: support the weaker party, they will be dependent on you for support.
Microsoft supports #2 Linux vendor Novell to take down #1 Linux vendor Red Hat. Bloodletting is entirely on the Linux side. Microsoft approaches the Novell and Red Hat's customers, lamenting how horrible it is that Linux is so fractured; "wouldn't you be better off only having one stack to support? See how we cut the price, just for you? We, of course, will never drastically increase the price. We promise."
You actually think that you are clever, don't you?
The internet is overpopulated! There will be millions of web servers starving for electricity! We must limit our child processes through education!
Its odd that you say that as those who could not finish grade school and high school mostly vote Democratic.
"blog" has been around long enough to have acquired a traditional sense?
Is the "web" now considered to be a mythical creature from prehistoric times?
Hmm, sounds like the Florida recount...
Vote: Bush
"Well, it has a hole punched for Bush, but I think that there might be a slight indentation somewhere else on the ballot...
Obviously this voter was the victim of Republican fraud!"
Vote: Gore
and the companies raise the price for the consumer.
NPR blames blocked signal for low audience.
Let me be the first to laugh.
As much of the rest of the world holds America to a different set of standards than they hold other countries or themselves to, perhaps a world wide education drive is necessary to teach the rest of the world the error of their ways.
The Exploding Barbwire Cage Deathmatch.
You mean to tell me that between a machine that does scribble scratch and a hot babe with rope, they couldn't see the obviously correct choice?
I guess the FBI has had problems long before anyone suspected...
Doom.
Unreal => and the lights go dark... (that was actually the only good gameplay in the whole thing, but it was damn good.)
Aliens vs. Predator -> as the Marine... I was low on ammo, had no armor. Those things I could hear... in the air ducts... in the hallways. Sometimes a door would spontaneously open, but nothing was there. I backed myself into a corner in a large room and waited. I stayed there for half an hour of real time. And I was not bored.