But we all know the truth. It's 30 year old lardballs who still live with their parents that play this game. The lack of friends and human companionship drives them to seek out online communities where they can be accepted as who they portray themselves as rather than for who they, unfortunately, are. Seeking companionship is one of the most primal of human urges.
Are you serious? This should be modded +5 Funny, not Insightful. I've played WoW for many months, and have taken long breaks 3 times already. The breaks were not forced, they were a decision I made because I was simply tired of the game, and no, I did not experience withdrawal. I'm also perfectly capable of raiding 4 hours a day 3 days a week and seeing my friends on the other nights I'm not raiding. I have no such social issues you speak of, and I play in a guild where many players are playing with their girlfriends/wives.
You seriously need to take a step back and look at the reality. The media did something to you. I'm not the only one who's playing WoW and who also has a social life. Most of the players I've played with are this way, although I have seen (mostly younger players) people doing bad in school because of their 'addiction'. It does happen, but the majority of players are not this way.
That same code completion will also embed spelling mistakes in the API because programmers are to lazy to type out the method names and so wont notice when they contain spelling errors. The background compilation process takes resources and will (in all IDE:s I have tested) increase the IDE:s latency. If you type faster than the IDE can process your input, the syntax checking soon becomes more of an annoyance than an advantage.
That same IDE also has a "Rename" button which will automatically replace every instance of the method name by its correct name, and it will work even if it is used as a variable name in other places in the code. As for the latency, it's a non-issue. There is no latency.
Right, you have to double click on the warning. When I see the warning in the shell, I press alt-tab, C-x b, M-g, enter the line number and I'm right at the line that the compiler complained about. And I can do that much faster than it takes you to reach the mouse, scroll the IDE:s compiler output window and double-click on the warning.
Not only is a double-click much faster (and I type fast), but even if it wasn't, Visual Studio also has a shortcut for direct line fetch (And it's a lot shorter than that C-bufferbly instructions manual you just wrote)
For newbies and people who cannot touch type, yes. For professional programmers, not so much.
It has nothing to do with being a "newbie" or not, that's just emacs elitism shit. There are VS newbies just like there are emacs newbies, and while you don't seem to be an emacs one, it's obvious by your post that you ARE a Visual Studio newbie, and in that case it's no wonder you think it's so slow and clunky when it's in fact faster.
Actually the instructions don't require SERIOUS HACKING. The hacking has been done for you, and it simplies requires to replace a DLL and make a registry change.
You know, I looked at the pictures on google, and they certainly aren't that bad. I can't say I would even keep a picture of a woman taken by such a device, because you can hardly see anything anyway. The colors are off, the shapes are weird, really I don't see what's the big fuss. Unless of course your google results aren't the same as mine.
Nowadays I just use the 'ftp' command in the shell no matter what operating system I'm using. Yeah, it's annoying to change directories both locally and remotely by hand (without even tab-complete!) but you know it sure beats being that guy that lost all his shit (and maybe some other people's) to something like this.
You realise FireZilla makes this 100 times easier and is just as secure, right?
Except in this case he would have to setup his favorite version of Linux, then VirtualBox, then Windows, and then instead of just setting up Windows, he'd have setup two OSes plus an additional piece of software.
It's not worth doing that just to replace an OS that works fine in the first place.
He must've changed his mind, because blocking the Ads on the author's page (using a custom filter with right-click add) does not work with latest versions of NoScript and AdBlockPlus here.
Mainly before it doesn't matter. These computers have a problems that are totally unrelated to Windows at all, such as easily guessable passwords, unpatched vulnerabilities and easily accessible passwords, unencrypted in the database.
Windows isn't the weak link here, and properly securing Windows isn't exactly rocket science.
My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago. She struggled with Ubuntu as she had never used a computer much before. I installed Windows XP and she's doing fantastic with it.
Just because you are used to Ubuntu and find it hard to transition, don't blame the OS, blame yourself.
Except we're not spying on people disagreeing with nazis, we're taking pictures of people possibly committing real crimes. They're not asking you to send videos of you badmouthing the president.
At which point superfetch will let that memory be used for Eclipse, JBoss and digiKam. It doesn't permanently hold it, preventing other applications to use it. It only keeps the ram as long as it's sitting there doing nothing.
I'm not a big fan of the "Start fast for 10 seconds, use more memory for the rest of the day" deal either, so I end up turning off OO.o starter and all that stuff also.
No, this is wrong. If you rarely use MS Office, then prefetch will simply not preload MS Office. Or it will preload it at the same hour of the day you used it last time.
It will, however, preload Firefox, Outlook, MSN, and things you actually use on a daily basis, often enough for it to make a difference.
The reason why people like prefetch on Vista is because it has been vastly improved compared to the XP one which didn't do much.
You need to look for better torrents, honestly. You can find really good quality 720p rips with 5.1 Dolby on piratebay, and that's a pretty low standard when it comes down to trackers. I personally do not pay attention to chapters, subtitles and all that stuff I don't use, so that might be harder to find, but if quality is what you're mainly looking for, it's definitely there.
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You realise C++ does exactly what you describe, with the exact same keywords as C, right?
But we all know the truth. It's 30 year old lardballs who still live with their parents that play this game. The lack of friends and human companionship drives them to seek out online communities where they can be accepted as who they portray themselves as rather than for who they, unfortunately, are. Seeking companionship is one of the most primal of human urges.
Are you serious? This should be modded +5 Funny, not Insightful. I've played WoW for many months, and have taken long breaks 3 times already. The breaks were not forced, they were a decision I made because I was simply tired of the game, and no, I did not experience withdrawal. I'm also perfectly capable of raiding 4 hours a day 3 days a week and seeing my friends on the other nights I'm not raiding. I have no such social issues you speak of, and I play in a guild where many players are playing with their girlfriends/wives.
You seriously need to take a step back and look at the reality. The media did something to you. I'm not the only one who's playing WoW and who also has a social life. Most of the players I've played with are this way, although I have seen (mostly younger players) people doing bad in school because of their 'addiction'. It does happen, but the majority of players are not this way.
That same code completion will also embed spelling mistakes in the API because programmers are to lazy to type out the method names and so wont notice when they contain spelling errors. The background compilation process takes resources and will (in all IDE:s I have tested) increase the IDE:s latency. If you type faster than the IDE can process your input, the syntax checking soon becomes more of an annoyance than an advantage.
That same IDE also has a "Rename" button which will automatically replace every instance of the method name by its correct name, and it will work even if it is used as a variable name in other places in the code. As for the latency, it's a non-issue. There is no latency.
Right, you have to double click on the warning. When I see the warning in the shell, I press alt-tab, C-x b, M-g, enter the line number and I'm right at the line that the compiler complained about. And I can do that much faster than it takes you to reach the mouse, scroll the IDE:s compiler output window and double-click on the warning.
Not only is a double-click much faster (and I type fast), but even if it wasn't, Visual Studio also has a shortcut for direct line fetch (And it's a lot shorter than that C-bufferbly instructions manual you just wrote)
For newbies and people who cannot touch type, yes. For professional programmers, not so much.
It has nothing to do with being a "newbie" or not, that's just emacs elitism shit. There are VS newbies just like there are emacs newbies, and while you don't seem to be an emacs one, it's obvious by your post that you ARE a Visual Studio newbie, and in that case it's no wonder you think it's so slow and clunky when it's in fact faster.
Actually the instructions don't require SERIOUS HACKING. The hacking has been done for you, and it simplies requires to replace a DLL and make a registry change.
http://www.google.com/search?q=multiple+remote+desktop
This is Slashdot. By 1 AM he means, "As I was furiously masturbating".
Well, I'd still rather have that than a strip search, as long as the pictures cannot be saved. Thanks for the info though.
You know, I looked at the pictures on google, and they certainly aren't that bad. I can't say I would even keep a picture of a woman taken by such a device, because you can hardly see anything anyway. The colors are off, the shapes are weird, really I don't see what's the big fuss. Unless of course your google results aren't the same as mine.
Nowadays I just use the 'ftp' command in the shell no matter what operating system I'm using. Yeah, it's annoying to change directories both locally and remotely by hand (without even tab-complete!) but you know it sure beats being that guy that lost all his shit (and maybe some other people's) to something like this.
You realise FireZilla makes this 100 times easier and is just as secure, right?
Except in this case he would have to setup his favorite version of Linux, then VirtualBox, then Windows, and then instead of just setting up Windows, he'd have setup two OSes plus an additional piece of software.
It's not worth doing that just to replace an OS that works fine in the first place.
Then I'm sure the police will be glad he left his Slashdot nickname, right?
He must've changed his mind, because blocking the Ads on the author's page (using a custom filter with right-click add) does not work with latest versions of NoScript and AdBlockPlus here.
Mainly before it doesn't matter. These computers have a problems that are totally unrelated to Windows at all, such as easily guessable passwords, unpatched vulnerabilities and easily accessible passwords, unencrypted in the database.
Windows isn't the weak link here, and properly securing Windows isn't exactly rocket science.
Vista runs fine with 2 GBs of ram too if you understand how superfetch actually works.
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My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago. She struggled with Ubuntu as she had never used a computer much before. I installed Windows XP and she's doing fantastic with it.
Just because you are used to Ubuntu and find it hard to transition, don't blame the OS, blame yourself.
Some people also do not feel like playing their games at 25 FPS because it's just dog slow. It's not about e-peen at all.
You forgot to RTFA and find out that the Killer NIC won't do it while your computer sleeps.
As opposed to what, supporting an install of XP and an install of Windows 7? Or Windows XP in a VM and Windows 7?
Just think about it.
Except we're not spying on people disagreeing with nazis, we're taking pictures of people possibly committing real crimes. They're not asking you to send videos of you badmouthing the president.
At which point superfetch will let that memory be used for Eclipse, JBoss and digiKam. It doesn't permanently hold it, preventing other applications to use it. It only keeps the ram as long as it's sitting there doing nothing.
I'm not a big fan of the "Start fast for 10 seconds, use more memory for the rest of the day" deal either, so I end up turning off OO.o starter and all that stuff also.
No, this is wrong. If you rarely use MS Office, then prefetch will simply not preload MS Office. Or it will preload it at the same hour of the day you used it last time.
It will, however, preload Firefox, Outlook, MSN, and things you actually use on a daily basis, often enough for it to make a difference.
The reason why people like prefetch on Vista is because it has been vastly improved compared to the XP one which didn't do much.
You need to look for better torrents, honestly. You can find really good quality 720p rips with 5.1 Dolby on piratebay, and that's a pretty low standard when it comes down to trackers. I personally do not pay attention to chapters, subtitles and all that stuff I don't use, so that might be harder to find, but if quality is what you're mainly looking for, it's definitely there.
Or you could scroll up. Your GUI impairment is showing.
I don't think it's newsworthy considering it happened before, if I recall correctly. It's no longer 'new'.