Well it goes through your history so if multiple people use the same pc, like say me for porn and my girlfriend for youtube, when she types "yo" a hundred porn sites pop up... She almost broke up with me and made me sware off of porn... FOREVER.
So I guess you could say Ive never been so upset at a feature as the awesome bar. I wish I could take the person that made it and torture them to death, then revive them and torture them again. I can no longer look at porn, on my own computer... *smashes screen*. My gf was respectfull enough not to ever go through my history, but hey! thanks firefox for autoupdate and change default behaviour! lets just PUSH ALL OF THE PORN at her! what a brilliant fucking feature!
I for one never found near endless "maze" type puzzles fun. You know the kind where you enter a pitch black region on a map and have to go left right forward forward right right forward left left - to reach the end and escape the maze. One wrong turn and your dead, possibly erasing an hour of progress along with it. Ditto with having 10 levers that must be pulled and pushed in the exact right sequence to activate a door. I always found those types of things tedious and generally requiring a walkthrough to avoid stress and large bouts of game stopage.
On the otherhand, I was sadend by HL2: episode 1 and 2 which have absolutely no challenging puzzles in them and are pretty much just arcade style blasting your way through for most of the game. I guess what im saying is i'd like to see some puzzles that are somewhere inbetween mind numbingly tedious "myst" puzzles and an arcade game.
Actually thinking about it a bit more, Id have to say fallout 1 and 2 have just the right amount of puzzles in them. They dont really impede gameplay and while challenging, can be interestingly poignant and funny at the same time.
"If you had 100 guys in a room, each of which with their own ideas, how do you know which of those is going to make a movie that will gross 300 million dollars?"
Isnt that the very job of studios and producers? Is that not what they are paid for and should be experts at doing?
I may be old fashioned, but I can tell the difference between a good book/story and a bad one. Are you saying that these people lack good taste? If so Id say that they are in the wrong business!
2 years ago the same thing could be said about intel. They made crappy chips ever since the first p4 rolled off the line (i know i owned one @ 1.4 ghz and it got schooled by p3 1000s and athlon xps). AMD had better designs but lately all their chips have to come with massive rebates in order to sell at all. The performance just isnt there.
The point is alot can change in 2 years. I never thought I would buy an intel machine again.
"The only relevant fact that newspapers needed to check was that it was actually the 15-year old daughter that put it up for the world to see."
So if i post that 'speedux likes little boys' on my blog and the media for whatever reason reprints it as fact, whoes fault is that? Are you saying every lie on the internet can be reprinted by "authoritative" resources like print newspapers without them being held accountable? Sounds like a great way for editors to ruin peoples lives.
The fact is that newspapers are considered to be factual authorities. Granted this case is rather small, being confined to the entertainment section, but the result is the same - newspapers reprinting slander and lies. Newspapers arent like a blog, people expect basic fact checking, like maybe calling the parent - before publishing a story about an underage child.
"companies acting in good faith to help after 9/11"
So i guess the companies that come in the next few years and round up the undesirables, incarcerate, torture -your blackwaters for instance - should also be immune because their intentions were "good"(whatever good means.. were their "hearts" in the right place or something?).
I was under the impression that in america, you have to follow the constitution or else your a traitor. But you know whats worse than traitors? Sympathizers and apologists who excuse their behavior because an illegal president gave them an illegal order. You dont just get to wash your hands of wrongdoing just because you were "following orders".
"What is the standard for flamebait here anyway? I am confused."
Im pretty sure all cowardly apologists get marked flamebait. Guess you bought your account on ebay or something. ymbnh etc..
So yeah, you ordinary person in America: go start a witch hunt, a riot, a protest, a civil war. Go do something to claim back your country from the people who have no soul.
The sad thing is the people that are able to start this "civil war" are the same people who dont give a fuck about anything except their first world comforts. These people also elected bush -TWICE-
Americans love to pretend that they are not the government and have no control over the government. To everyone else in the world this state of reasoning is a joke, for who else can effect american policies but americans? Its simply a case, as cartman said (youtube video omited), of them having their cake and eating it too.
"just so i can fuck with all the small biz NT/AD domain installs out there that doen't use a fully qualified name"
More than small businesses, I believe its standard practice in the windows world to suffix anything internal with.local. Ive been to quite a few sites where they have no shortage of FQDNs, but choose to use.local for their internal AD. Its also not hard to have both running concurrently and I believe that it is even recommended by microsoft that you do it this way.
I made the mistake of looking at a co workers pay who I thought was equal in status to me. BIG MISTAKE. After finding out he was paid several hundred dollars more than me a paycheque for doing basically the same job, I never looked at him or the company the same way again. I left that company not too long after, partly because I felt ripped off. Its very hard to unsee things sometimes.
As for internet history or watching peoples screens while their back is turned, I would never do that *TO A PEER*. Its just a respect thing. I have definitely been told to monitor subordinates internet accesses as well as various people throughout the companies I have worked for. Ive gotten people fired for looking at facebook on work hours, but thats part of the job in some corporations. I wonder if the article is talking about peers (in the IT department) or extra-departmental persons whom you could legitimately be instructed to snoop on.
Maybe if you call out to steve jobs he will save you. No?
Wheres your jobs now!!
Personally, if I was a dev, I wouldnt stop until things were actively broken on macos. No one should have to suffer through using that platform. All you macophile cultists deserve what you get
""Yeah, we're going to retire all that great farm land so we can build another cloned shopping mall with the same cookie-cutter stores.""
Why would urban centres need shopping malls? You have local businesses lining both sides of the streets to buy from. Rural/suburban areas are the ones that require malls as they seem to need to congregate to buy things safely (zombies). Its not the city folks fault you sell all your farmland to suburban developers. We dont want to live in the suburbs.
Asus motherboards have this annoying auto overclocking "feature" which can make the machine stick at a bios prompt before booting. Really annoying when it happens to servers. I mostly notice it when theres a power loss. Very nannoying. On the other side, MSI have gone out of their way to replace boards and even one time a copper videocard heatsync, with little to no trouble.
I sware by MSI hardware. So I guess my anecdote counters out yours eh...
I guess you are forgetting the really annoying "this application has stopped responding" text box, or the "not responding" bar. These are a gigantic step backwards over win2k as a program could just be busy doing something but XP tells the user that it has crashed. You XP apologists are all the same, "bbbut it has wireless NETWORKING!". Please. Win2k is solid as a rock. XP isnt. But lets drill down into your argument.
in a word? Multimedia. In more words? Security, GPO, native hardware support, support for newer versions of IE, Remote Desktop, etc. If you really don't see the myriad of ways XP improves on 2000 I'm not going to try and list them all. Besides, Wikpedia already has (more or less).
Do you know what all that spells? BLOAT. Security? what the crappy windows firewall? Thats just an illusion of security for people who dont have proper BSD hardware firewalls. GPO's can be deployed to windows 2000 clients so im not sure what your trying to say with that. Native hardware support? lol... what, a year more updated default drivers than 2k... Support for newer versions of IE? LOLOLOLOLOLOL ie, thats rich! IE being a feature, dont make me laugh. Sure a remote desktop server might be nice, but you got VNC which is much more trustworthy than any remote M$ protocol. RDP clients as im sure you know are readily available for win2k. And you biggest word, multimedia? I hope your not suggesting that WMP 1) should be run at all, period. (MPC ftw) 2) that that justifies sacrificing rock hard stability for.
The problem with people like you is that you have a useless upgrade mentality. lusers such as yourself are the reason vista will take over. Well, its ALMOST as good as xp, might as well upgrade! Its the same thing I saw 5+ years ago when XP came dragging its bloated ass across the floor.
WIN2K for life! All you need is win2k. Anyone who says different is a M$ fanboi.
Hopefully its not a windows machine, as I read last week that microsoft provides a FOB that decrypts automagically, windows partitions for law enforcement purposes.
Aside from the retnal scanners, that is exactly how most data centres are set up. The one where i previously co-located in would often let me get in with: 1) an expired badge (badge was expired for 2 years before i left the company that coloed there)
2) my fingerprint not registering. (they would give me a magic "admit anywhere" rfid card that I could use to bypass the fingerprint security)
3) My name being on a paper list that the security guards had. This list had my company name wrong (from several name changes ago), and I was asked to provide ID once in a blue moon.
The moral of this story is that the weakest link is the security guards who oftentimes are so bored that they will bend over backwards to help you. Especially if you keep a pleasant tone, ask about their day and generally act befuddled as to why their fancy security isnt authenticating you.
Have you ever tried to social engineer yourself into your fancy data centre? Id bet you'd be surprised at what access one can get.
Another problem is that if it was microscopic, future generations wouldnt even know it was there. A good solution is to combine that with redundancy. Mandate that all bricks in the world come pre stamped with important information (dna structure?, common checmicals?). Then even if every house was destroyed, you would have multiple brick copies to combine from all over the world.
"Here is my broken OSS competitor. Get cracking, it needs a LOT of work. I suggest starting by fixing whatever the bug is that prevents it from working on Windows. Then you might clean up the GUI a bit. Go on, get cracking -- you owe it to society, after all."
Well if you open source the code im sure that someone who needs* a "bingo card creator" would be happy to contribute. As for your hard work and energy, well im sure you'll be happy that someones using it instead of it just sitting on some drive atrophing. Judging for your post though, that probably wouldnt make you happy unless you could then sue the person for "stealing your ideas!!!11"
"I write software for a living. If I stop getting paid for it, I'll stop doing it. "
Oh no! and what with a worldwide programmer shortage too! Content gets made. period. Especially entertainment and tools. Society has evolved by copying entertainment and tools and it wont stop just because you want to horde knowledge and think you deserve a profit.
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Well it goes through your history so if multiple people use the same pc, like say me for porn and my girlfriend for youtube, when she types "yo" a hundred porn sites pop up... She almost broke up with me and made me sware off of porn... FOREVER.
So I guess you could say Ive never been so upset at a feature as the awesome bar. I wish I could take the person that made it and torture them to death, then revive them and torture them again. I can no longer look at porn, on my own computer... *smashes screen*. My gf was respectfull enough not to ever go through my history, but hey! thanks firefox for autoupdate and change default behaviour! lets just PUSH ALL OF THE PORN at her! what a brilliant fucking feature!
I for one never found near endless "maze" type puzzles fun. You know the kind where you enter a pitch black region on a map and have to go left right forward forward right right forward left left - to reach the end and escape the maze. One wrong turn and your dead, possibly erasing an hour of progress along with it. Ditto with having 10 levers that must be pulled and pushed in the exact right sequence to activate a door. I always found those types of things tedious and generally requiring a walkthrough to avoid stress and large bouts of game stopage.
On the otherhand, I was sadend by HL2: episode 1 and 2 which have absolutely no challenging puzzles in them and are pretty much just arcade style blasting your way through for most of the game. I guess what im saying is i'd like to see some puzzles that are somewhere inbetween mind numbingly tedious "myst" puzzles and an arcade game.
Actually thinking about it a bit more, Id have to say fallout 1 and 2 have just the right amount of puzzles in them. They dont really impede gameplay and while challenging, can be interestingly poignant and funny at the same time.
Isnt that the very job of studios and producers? Is that not what they are paid for and should be experts at doing?
I may be old fashioned, but I can tell the difference between a good book/story and a bad one. Are you saying that these people lack good taste? If so Id say that they are in the wrong business!
So is the wheel
I hope your joking, but your probably just an american. Is asbestos good for you to? what about second hand coal smoke? mercury vapors?
fucking moron.
2 years ago the same thing could be said about intel. They made crappy chips ever since the first p4 rolled off the line (i know i owned one @ 1.4 ghz and it got schooled by p3 1000s and athlon xps). AMD had better designs but lately all their chips have to come with massive rebates in order to sell at all. The performance just isnt there. The point is alot can change in 2 years. I never thought I would buy an intel machine again.
Never worked for a non profit or charity have you...
Good thing most of the world doesnt work on broken american law, or their precedents.
Dont drag us all down to your level amerika
So if i post that 'speedux likes little boys' on my blog and the media for whatever reason reprints it as fact, whoes fault is that? Are you saying every lie on the internet can be reprinted by "authoritative" resources like print newspapers without them being held accountable? Sounds like a great way for editors to ruin peoples lives.
The fact is that newspapers are considered to be factual authorities. Granted this case is rather small, being confined to the entertainment section, but the result is the same - newspapers reprinting slander and lies. Newspapers arent like a blog, people expect basic fact checking, like maybe calling the parent - before publishing a story about an underage child.
So i guess the companies that come in the next few years and round up the undesirables, incarcerate, torture -your blackwaters for instance - should also be immune because their intentions were "good"(whatever good means.. were their "hearts" in the right place or something?).
I was under the impression that in america, you have to follow the constitution or else your a traitor. But you know whats worse than traitors? Sympathizers and apologists who excuse their behavior because an illegal president gave them an illegal order. You dont just get to wash your hands of wrongdoing just because you were "following orders".
Im pretty sure all cowardly apologists get marked flamebait. Guess you bought your account on ebay or something. ymbnh etc..
I assume you install a new OS on those rented laptops too, open up the case to look for hardware keyloggers.. etc
Something you bought and secured yourself is way more trustworthy than some random laptop from a rental place.
The sad thing is the people that are able to start this "civil war" are the same people who dont give a fuck about anything except their first world comforts. These people also elected bush -TWICE-
Americans love to pretend that they are not the government and have no control over the government. To everyone else in the world this state of reasoning is a joke, for who else can effect american policies but americans? Its simply a case, as cartman said (youtube video omited), of them having their cake and eating it too.
I mean no one likes drinking little bits of goo with their sugared water. It was doomed to fail id say!
Not to mention apple computers with bonjour who seem to have their own hardcoded .local address (which already fucks with things as you mentioned)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107800
More than small businesses, I believe its standard practice in the windows world to suffix anything internal withI made the mistake of looking at a co workers pay who I thought was equal in status to me. BIG MISTAKE. After finding out he was paid several hundred dollars more than me a paycheque for doing basically the same job, I never looked at him or the company the same way again. I left that company not too long after, partly because I felt ripped off. Its very hard to unsee things sometimes.
As for internet history or watching peoples screens while their back is turned, I would never do that *TO A PEER*. Its just a respect thing. I have definitely been told to monitor subordinates internet accesses as well as various people throughout the companies I have worked for. Ive gotten people fired for looking at facebook on work hours, but thats part of the job in some corporations. I wonder if the article is talking about peers (in the IT department) or extra-departmental persons whom you could legitimately be instructed to snoop on.
Otherwise known as an EA port.
Maybe if you call out to steve jobs he will save you. No?
Wheres your jobs now!!
Personally, if I was a dev, I wouldnt stop until things were actively broken on macos. No one should have to suffer through using that platform. All you macophile cultists deserve what you get
Asus motherboards have this annoying auto overclocking "feature" which can make the machine stick at a bios prompt before booting. Really annoying when it happens to servers. I mostly notice it when theres a power loss. Very nannoying. On the other side, MSI have gone out of their way to replace boards and even one time a copper videocard heatsync, with little to no trouble.
I sware by MSI hardware. So I guess my anecdote counters out yours eh...
Sure a remote desktop server might be nice, but you got VNC which is much more trustworthy than any remote M$ protocol. RDP clients as im sure you know are readily available for win2k.
And you biggest word, multimedia? I hope your not suggesting that WMP 1) should be run at all, period. (MPC ftw) 2) that that justifies sacrificing rock hard stability for.
The problem with people like you is that you have a useless upgrade mentality. lusers such as yourself are the reason vista will take over. Well, its ALMOST as good as xp, might as well upgrade! Its the same thing I saw 5+ years ago when XP came dragging its bloated ass across the floor.
WIN2K for life! All you need is win2k. Anyone who says different is a M$ fanboi.
Aside from the retnal scanners, that is exactly how most data centres are set up. The one where i previously co-located in would often let me get in with:
1) an expired badge (badge was expired for 2 years before i left the company that coloed there)
2) my fingerprint not registering. (they would give me a magic "admit anywhere" rfid card that I could use to bypass the fingerprint security)
3) My name being on a paper list that the security guards had. This list had my company name wrong (from several name changes ago), and I was asked to provide ID once in a blue moon.
The moral of this story is that the weakest link is the security guards who oftentimes are so bored that they will bend over backwards to help you. Especially if you keep a pleasant tone, ask about their day and generally act befuddled as to why their fancy security isnt authenticating you.
Have you ever tried to social engineer yourself into your fancy data centre? Id bet you'd be surprised at what access one can get.
Another problem is that if it was microscopic, future generations wouldnt even know it was there. A good solution is to combine that with redundancy. Mandate that all bricks in the world come pre stamped with important information (dna structure?, common checmicals?). Then even if every house was destroyed, you would have multiple brick copies to combine from all over the world.
*disclaimer: no one needs this.