As some may recall Mark Rein, from Epic Games, had a hard-on for bitching about used games for awhile. Most every publisher if tired sequels has done too.
We like to talk about how big gaming is but if it's so big and well accepted now then how come they can't handle used sales like movies, books and music?
Why do they often need to make employees work long loads of overtime for free?
Why do prices have to keep increasing despite using cheaper media and having more customers?
I really do like gaming but I don't think it's any surprise I play old games only new games from very specific publishers. I think in general gaming has jumped right into that area pop music is now and in general they just churn out shit people don't value. They play it because it's something to do but they don't really value it because they know it's shit.
Someone needs to tell AC/DC that the elderly dancing around in a school boy's uniform (especially with his shirt off) is not something anyone wants to see.
This is true and this is part of the reason I think youth can win out. Yes they'll unfortunately work stupid hours but their knowledge set can often be fresher even if it's lacking experience and because it's all new to them still they will likely pick up new things happily when required. I started off painfully hacking PERL. I moved to PHP which was a bit easier, Java was even easier and I learned enough to complete what I had to do in Python within a couple hours.
I will eventually pick up more Python (unless I get distracted by Scala) but I know enough now to knock out something with a few quick glances at references. I'll never have to use it for creating GUI programs or really anything more than CLI data processing and the odd home web project but it is helpful to learn it and I also think it makes you a better programmer because it keeps you enthusiastic. Learning new languages is always more fun than bashing out the same old thing for years.
With more experience hopefully you shouldn't have to work as long as someone with little experience. Working long hours for nothing isn't all it's cracked up to be. The reason older people don't do it is because they've learned you just get treated like a slave rather than gain any meaningful reward for working hard because not every company is Google or MS and will allow you to wear wacky t-shirts and play with foam swords at work to break up those extra hours.
I still have Photoshop (version 2 I recall) which I tried using sometime ago to buy an upgraded version of PS CS or CS2 but the oldest they went back to at the time was 4 or 5.
For me though I think Photoshop 6 was the first time I really got into it and to be quite honest it's still one of my favourite versions. PS 7 was awful, imo.
The line could be more than capable of 50 Mbps but they shouldn't claim you'll always get 50Mbps that because it's simply untrue. You're still relying on the other hardware and connection outside of the ISP's control. In general (especially for newly laid fiber) I think you can say the ISP is probably giving the ability to get 50 Mbps and offering 100Mbps isn't that far off.
Now if we had a trillion dollars put into laying fiber to homes I'm pretty certain everyone could have fiber to the door, we wouldn't have pissed off a whole region that is likely to try and pay us back, we wouldn't have thrown away so many young lives and once again the US could out do other countries at something other than expanding waist sizes.
We managed to get electricity and phone lines to virtually everyone. Hell I knew people that couldn't even get proper plumbing, relying on the gravity of water coming down a mountain but they had a phone line. A lot of this was kicked off before we were the richest nation.
As someone who has lived in a rural area (though actually not that far at all from two largish towns), I know full well the phone companies pretty much despise helping but do it because they have to. You can debate all you want about whether it is correct for the government to do that but do you honestly think we would be better off leaving huge chunks of the US in the stone age?
Even in the days before wide spread broadband, we had enough people in our area to get cable run back to the area but naturally companies weren't very helpful despite the fact some people were even willing to do something of the physical labor to get the cable back there. So it's not even like we're giving the opportunity to allow rural people to do it on their own.
Those populations might not be as dense as large cities but remember it's those areas with thinner populations providing most of the food for you. It would be unwise to leave farmers in the stone age because it would holding farming back and you would end up with a situation, like the Amish, where increasingly the youth get envious of those who have and move away from farming and we'd possibly be more dependant on other nations for food. It's bad enough oil countries have us by the balls. Would we really want to be held at ransom over food?
All the money spent on the Iraq war probably could have bought everyone, to the door, fiber connection. So let's not pretend we couldn't find the money if we really wanted to. We're pissing it away on bad priorities.
But hey, who wants fiber to their home when we can piss off the whole middle east and kill young Americans for no good reason especially when we'll need as many young Americans as possible to prop up our Social Security and Medicare for the increasing elderly population.
California, on its own also has a larger economy than a lot of whole countries yet you'll find broadband isn't that great for the whole state of California, in fact it's probably awful for a lot of people.
Quite frankly the whole idea that it's too expensive to run fiber across a state for people is BS, imo. We've run fiber and big ass cable pipes across the nation and globe even already. Countries with much smaller economies had to pony up the cash to get hook up to the rest of the world. I'm sure California could manage to hook up its people if it wanted but the business do not care to do that.
The whole idea of the American dream is doing things better than everyone else yet so many people are happy to live with such a shitty communication infrastructure with, as you claim, infrastructure that's over 60 years old and soon to be a century old in the near future.
It is really any wonder why the US is falling behind?
No offense but you claimed to know be able to install Opera when Opera provides a deb package you just need to double click or you can just search for it in the package manager.
It is no wonder windows machines are so insecure. People refuse to learn how to use their PC properly and when given a machine that doesn't run as root all the time and give all the options. Crammed into one menu they freak out and act as if it's impossible.
Windows dialogs generally focus on cancel and should so you don't fuck something up by mistake. The parent was also likely talking about the confirmation box which does indeed default to cancel. I just check now.
The alt key business is better than the MS solution of having to hold control and alt. Most people on windows don't need to know that and don't but it's there because it's used. Same on Linux.
It may not be a troll but it's a sign of not knowing what you're doing. Hell, one of the first things I did when properly moving over to Linux was install Opera on Ubuntu. I don't think the process could have been any easier.
You'll need to speak to the developers of Nesticle and Stella as to why their ports may be interior.
System ->Adminitration -> System monitor will give you all sorts of stats on your CPU, memory, processes running, etc.
Not sure why the hell you need to go down to 640x480 but holding the Alt key allows you to move the window. You'll find this sort of problem on any OS. When I remote desktop into my work machine (dual screen) which is XP, if I need something that was on the second screen, it can be a nightmare to get it when Windows don't move things to fit my laptop screen.
I haven't used dial-up in ages let alone attempt to use something like Netscape ISP but searching for ubuntu netscape isp returns a few results form the wonderfully helpful ubuntu forums
Not sure about your file issue but sometimes I lose ownership of my drives when re-installing Ubuntu so I ust make my new username the owner of them and it's sorted. Look into using the cli command chown ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions ) or do it through the GUI by right clicking on the the folder, clicking properties, going to permissions and modifying permissions.
This is true. If people would actually boycott Apple and not use their product it would send a stronger message. Instead they gave Apple their money, Apple banned them and they win since they don't need to pay for any bandwidth or support to that person.
All they're doing it making a fuss and talking more about the iPhone and enforcing the idea that everyone has one which will just make more people buy one.
If you leave your car unlocked while you go back into the house to grab something is then your fault if I walk up and grab things out of it?
Someone making a mistake isn't a licence to commit a crime. I do think companies should be held responsible for their flaws but doing that doesn't involve letting people run rampant and causing damage for innocent people.
My issue is that there is a rich fat guy who had a huge fit because he was singled out. I doubt he'd have said anything if it happened to someone else on the plane.
As I said he has full access to the best healthcare in the world (unlike most people), the ability to fly first class (and avoid the issue) and pay for persona trainers. In his particular case he doesn't really have any excuse. If he wants to stay that size then fine, in all honest chubby look better than underweight but then he should live with the fact this situation comes up he may have to pay for two seats or fly first class to avoid it.
There have always been fat people and there always will be. I don't think they should be limited in what they do but if you're big enough to take up more than you seat then you should have to pay for it. It's the fair thing to do on in a vehicle that is crowded at the best of times and, if I take up more space through other means (ie more luggage) I have to pay for it so it only makes sense. Though admittedly airlines could do much better at handling the situation when it arises.
I've been known to tell nigger jokes. I don't believe that some words are ok for only some people. Simply saying nigger isn't bad. it's all about the context so using it in a joke isn't necessarily bad. Saying it in a joke at a KKK rally means there is a pretty good chance you are a racist shit.
I don't have anything against most fat people. But if you're a fat person that wants to travel and choose a form of transportation that may well involve a vehicle created in the 1970s when people were smaller and whose purpose is to make travel accessible to all by cramming as many people into a tight space as possible then you do have to deal with the fact you may have issues. It may not be fair but life is often not fair. It's not like you can't fly but quite reasonably if you are big enough to justify two seats then you should pay for two.
My problem isn't really even with fat people flying in general, it's with some rich fat guy having a complete fit because he, the famous person who must be better than the rest of us, has been picked on for his weight.
If this was such an issue for him before why wait until he's inconvenienced himself if it happens to so many people?
He doesn't care that fat people get kicked off planes. He cares only that he's been embarrassed and inconvenienced. I doubt he'd have made a sound over it if it happened to someone else on the plane rather than him.
That crossed my mind but I do believe that is a smaller percentage of the population than people would like to believe.
We didn't go from being a thin nation to one of the fattest by passing on defective genes overnight and having been born in the US and living abroad, it's very apparent that portions are bigger in the US and, along with a nearly allergic reaction to public transportation/walking would lead me to believe in most instances it isn't some sort of disorder.
True but having man tit on my side is more important than smell. With all freedom comes responsibility and fat people need to realise that just like everyone else.
I'm not even going to argue that the rules regarding luggage are fair or not. What I do know is there are people that barely fit into these seats and they aren't even close to being the fattest people on this planet but they're an inconvenience to me when I have to sit beside them. Now imagine when someone fatter is sitting there. Now why should the fat person get to take up my space as well as theirs when I paid the same price?
There are two sides to every story and it's all well and good to say that yes technically the fat guy may just squeeze into his seat and only just get his seat belt on but how does it affect the guy beside him who has paid for an equal amount of space to the fat guy?
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As some may recall Mark Rein, from Epic Games, had a hard-on for bitching about used games for awhile. Most every publisher if tired sequels has done too.
We like to talk about how big gaming is but if it's so big and well accepted now then how come they can't handle used sales like movies, books and music?
Why do they often need to make employees work long loads of overtime for free?
Why do prices have to keep increasing despite using cheaper media and having more customers?
I really do like gaming but I don't think it's any surprise I play old games only new games from very specific publishers. I think in general gaming has jumped right into that area pop music is now and in general they just churn out shit people don't value. They play it because it's something to do but they don't really value it because they know it's shit.
You don't have the right to own and play the whole Nintendo DS library on your DS for the cost of an R4 cart.
DSI only games have region protection. If the R4 is used for those then they have a point.
I think they're making assumptions. There is most likely some sort of protection on DS games but not for different regions.
The one exception is if it's a DSI specific game then it will have region protection.
Someone needs to tell AC/DC that the elderly dancing around in a school boy's uniform (especially with his shirt off) is not something anyone wants to see.
Some 40+ people must know what being a kid is like since they're writing a lot of the shit pop songs we have to put up with.
This is true and this is part of the reason I think youth can win out. Yes they'll unfortunately work stupid hours but their knowledge set can often be fresher even if it's lacking experience and because it's all new to them still they will likely pick up new things happily when required. I started off painfully hacking PERL. I moved to PHP which was a bit easier, Java was even easier and I learned enough to complete what I had to do in Python within a couple hours.
I will eventually pick up more Python (unless I get distracted by Scala) but I know enough now to knock out something with a few quick glances at references. I'll never have to use it for creating GUI programs or really anything more than CLI data processing and the odd home web project but it is helpful to learn it and I also think it makes you a better programmer because it keeps you enthusiastic. Learning new languages is always more fun than bashing out the same old thing for years.
With more experience hopefully you shouldn't have to work as long as someone with little experience. Working long hours for nothing isn't all it's cracked up to be. The reason older people don't do it is because they've learned you just get treated like a slave rather than gain any meaningful reward for working hard because not every company is Google or MS and will allow you to wear wacky t-shirts and play with foam swords at work to break up those extra hours.
I still have Photoshop (version 2 I recall) which I tried using sometime ago to buy an upgraded version of PS CS or CS2 but the oldest they went back to at the time was 4 or 5.
For me though I think Photoshop 6 was the first time I really got into it and to be quite honest it's still one of my favourite versions. PS 7 was awful, imo.
The line could be more than capable of 50 Mbps but they shouldn't claim you'll always get 50Mbps that because it's simply untrue. You're still relying on the other hardware and connection outside of the ISP's control. In general (especially for newly laid fiber) I think you can say the ISP is probably giving the ability to get 50 Mbps and offering 100Mbps isn't that far off.
Let's look at estimates on what we've pissed away on war
$1.05 trillion dollars total http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
$704 billion for Iraq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
$300 billion for Afghanistan http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-02-war-costs_N.htm
Now if we had a trillion dollars put into laying fiber to homes I'm pretty certain everyone could have fiber to the door, we wouldn't have pissed off a whole region that is likely to try and pay us back, we wouldn't have thrown away so many young lives and once again the US could out do other countries at something other than expanding waist sizes.
We managed to get electricity and phone lines to virtually everyone. Hell I knew people that couldn't even get proper plumbing, relying on the gravity of water coming down a mountain but they had a phone line. A lot of this was kicked off before we were the richest nation.
We can thank the government for this too due to the communications act of 1934. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund#Communications_Act_of_1934
As someone who has lived in a rural area (though actually not that far at all from two largish towns), I know full well the phone companies pretty much despise helping but do it because they have to. You can debate all you want about whether it is correct for the government to do that but do you honestly think we would be better off leaving huge chunks of the US in the stone age?
Even in the days before wide spread broadband, we had enough people in our area to get cable run back to the area but naturally companies weren't very helpful despite the fact some people were even willing to do something of the physical labor to get the cable back there. So it's not even like we're giving the opportunity to allow rural people to do it on their own.
Those populations might not be as dense as large cities but remember it's those areas with thinner populations providing most of the food for you. It would be unwise to leave farmers in the stone age because it would holding farming back and you would end up with a situation, like the Amish, where increasingly the youth get envious of those who have and move away from farming and we'd possibly be more dependant on other nations for food. It's bad enough oil countries have us by the balls. Would we really want to be held at ransom over food?
All the money spent on the Iraq war probably could have bought everyone, to the door, fiber connection. So let's not pretend we couldn't find the money if we really wanted to. We're pissing it away on bad priorities.
But hey, who wants fiber to their home when we can piss off the whole middle east and kill young Americans for no good reason especially when we'll need as many young Americans as possible to prop up our Social Security and Medicare for the increasing elderly population.
California, on its own also has a larger economy than a lot of whole countries yet you'll find broadband isn't that great for the whole state of California, in fact it's probably awful for a lot of people.
Quite frankly the whole idea that it's too expensive to run fiber across a state for people is BS, imo. We've run fiber and big ass cable pipes across the nation and globe even already. Countries with much smaller economies had to pony up the cash to get hook up to the rest of the world. I'm sure California could manage to hook up its people if it wanted but the business do not care to do that.
The whole idea of the American dream is doing things better than everyone else yet so many people are happy to live with such a shitty communication infrastructure with, as you claim, infrastructure that's over 60 years old and soon to be a century old in the near future.
It is really any wonder why the US is falling behind?
No offense but you claimed to know be able to install Opera when Opera provides a deb package you just need to double click or you can just search for it in the package manager.
It is no wonder windows machines are so insecure. People refuse to learn how to use their PC properly and when given a machine that doesn't run as root all the time and give all the options. Crammed into one menu they freak out and act as if it's impossible.
Windows dialogs generally focus on cancel and should so you don't fuck something up by mistake. The parent was also likely talking about the confirmation box which does indeed default to cancel. I just check now.
The alt key business is better than the MS solution of having to hold control and alt. Most people on windows don't need to know that and don't but it's there because it's used. Same on Linux.
That's one dialog. That doesn't mean windows always does that for every application because it certainly doesn't.
It may not be a troll but it's a sign of not knowing what you're doing. Hell, one of the first things I did when properly moving over to Linux was install Opera on Ubuntu. I don't think the process could have been any easier.
You'll need to speak to the developers of Nesticle and Stella as to why their ports may be interior.
System ->Adminitration -> System monitor will give you all sorts of stats on your CPU, memory, processes running, etc.
Not sure why the hell you need to go down to 640x480 but holding the Alt key allows you to move the window. You'll find this sort of problem on any OS. When I remote desktop into my work machine (dual screen) which is XP, if I need something that was on the second screen, it can be a nightmare to get it when Windows don't move things to fit my laptop screen.
I haven't used dial-up in ages let alone attempt to use something like Netscape ISP but searching for ubuntu netscape isp returns a few results form the wonderfully helpful ubuntu forums
Not sure about your file issue but sometimes I lose ownership of my drives when re-installing Ubuntu so I ust make my new username the owner of them and it's sorted. Look into using the cli command chown ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions ) or do it through the GUI by right clicking on the the folder, clicking properties, going to permissions and modifying permissions.
This is true. If people would actually boycott Apple and not use their product it would send a stronger message. Instead they gave Apple their money, Apple banned them and they win since they don't need to pay for any bandwidth or support to that person.
All they're doing it making a fuss and talking more about the iPhone and enforcing the idea that everyone has one which will just make more people buy one.
If you leave your car unlocked while you go back into the house to grab something is then your fault if I walk up and grab things out of it?
Someone making a mistake isn't a licence to commit a crime. I do think companies should be held responsible for their flaws but doing that doesn't involve letting people run rampant and causing damage for innocent people.
My issue is that there is a rich fat guy who had a huge fit because he was singled out. I doubt he'd have said anything if it happened to someone else on the plane.
As I said he has full access to the best healthcare in the world (unlike most people), the ability to fly first class (and avoid the issue) and pay for persona trainers. In his particular case he doesn't really have any excuse. If he wants to stay that size then fine, in all honest chubby look better than underweight but then he should live with the fact this situation comes up he may have to pay for two seats or fly first class to avoid it.
There have always been fat people and there always will be. I don't think they should be limited in what they do but if you're big enough to take up more than you seat then you should have to pay for it. It's the fair thing to do on in a vehicle that is crowded at the best of times and, if I take up more space through other means (ie more luggage) I have to pay for it so it only makes sense. Though admittedly airlines could do much better at handling the situation when it arises.
I've been known to tell nigger jokes. I don't believe that some words are ok for only some people. Simply saying nigger isn't bad. it's all about the context so using it in a joke isn't necessarily bad. Saying it in a joke at a KKK rally means there is a pretty good chance you are a racist shit.
I don't have anything against most fat people. But if you're a fat person that wants to travel and choose a form of transportation that may well involve a vehicle created in the 1970s when people were smaller and whose purpose is to make travel accessible to all by cramming as many people into a tight space as possible then you do have to deal with the fact you may have issues. It may not be fair but life is often not fair. It's not like you can't fly but quite reasonably if you are big enough to justify two seats then you should pay for two.
My problem isn't really even with fat people flying in general, it's with some rich fat guy having a complete fit because he, the famous person who must be better than the rest of us, has been picked on for his weight.
If this was such an issue for him before why wait until he's inconvenienced himself if it happens to so many people?
He doesn't care that fat people get kicked off planes. He cares only that he's been embarrassed and inconvenienced. I doubt he'd have made a sound over it if it happened to someone else on the plane rather than him.
You have to enable it and you can disable it. I fail to see how giving people more options is a bad thing
That crossed my mind but I do believe that is a smaller percentage of the population than people would like to believe.
We didn't go from being a thin nation to one of the fattest by passing on defective genes overnight and having been born in the US and living abroad, it's very apparent that portions are bigger in the US and, along with a nearly allergic reaction to public transportation/walking would lead me to believe in most instances it isn't some sort of disorder.
True but having man tit on my side is more important than smell. With all freedom comes responsibility and fat people need to realise that just like everyone else.
I'm not even going to argue that the rules regarding luggage are fair or not. What I do know is there are people that barely fit into these seats and they aren't even close to being the fattest people on this planet but they're an inconvenience to me when I have to sit beside them. Now imagine when someone fatter is sitting there. Now why should the fat person get to take up my space as well as theirs when I paid the same price?
There are two sides to every story and it's all well and good to say that yes technically the fat guy may just squeeze into his seat and only just get his seat belt on but how does it affect the guy beside him who has paid for an equal amount of space to the fat guy?