Regarding your last point: Yes, people will tell you "open up the terminal and run sudo apt-get install whatever". That is because they are lazy, and it's much easier to tell you to run a one-liner in a terminal than it is to type out "Go to the applications menu, click on Ubuntu Software Center, go to the search bar on the top right, search for "whatever", click on the search result, and click install."
Unlike you, I could deal with the repetitive gameplay. However, I still couldn't play through to the end. The reason is that I have a very low tolerance for controlling characters that are doing something utterly retarded. It's been several years, but I believe this was the scene that made me mutter "What the ****?", drop my controller in disgust, and remove the CD to let it gather dust on the shelf:
Good Guy A: Oh, no! There is a meteor heading towards the planet that will kill everyone! Good Guy B: The evil Shinra corporation is gathering Big Materia, in order to destroy the meteor and save the world. They may be evil, but at least they have their priorities straight. Good Guy A: Those evil bastards! Let's steal their Big Materia so we can save the world instead! Good Guys B-G: : OK Me: Did I miss a scene where my characters all suffered brain damage?
"Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absoulutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system - ever. It is just too far."
... that sounds a bit like:
"Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances."
Humanity is funny that way. Give us a goal and a guy telling us it's impossible, and we'll figure out a way to do it.
"Taking away access?"
You buy and download the game. It's yours. Forever. No matter what happens to GOG that game will still play on your PC
If Valve ever goes under, though, you're SOL. All your games will no longer work*.
*Yes, I know Valve could release DRM-removing updates on all their games if they start going under. Really think that'll be high on their list of priorities, though?
It's in preparation for a bunch of status/indicator things on the right-hand side of the title bar. Their objective is to use those to replace the space-wasting status bar in applications (search Google for "windicators" for more information). That's an idea I can get behind, since vertical screen space is at a premium on laptops, and right now Firefox is wasting about 25-30 perfectly good pixels on a status bar that just displays the word "Done" on the bottom-left and shows the NoScript icon on the bottom-right.
It's not that they ever would dick around in the guts of their software, it's that they have the ability to if they ever really wanted/needed to. Say, if they suspected that something in the guts of the software was interfering with their ability to "get shit done" (a government backdoor, for example).
More freedom is better than less, even if it most people never need to be use it.
We're seeing it at our workplace, many times over. At first, the dumbasses kept hitting "Reply All" (and sending the message to everyone) saying "I wasn't expecting anything, did you send this e-mail to the wrong person?". Now the dumbasses are hitting "Reply All" saying variations of "Don't open, it's a trojan", "I think this is a virus", and (my favorite) "Stop hitting 'Reply All', you're filling up my inbox!".
Except, unlike IBM, they can't get too cozy with open source without risking their OS and Office cash cows. Though I haven't seen any numbers, I would guess that the income from support is absolutely dwarfed by the income from sales of Windows alone.
As Microsoft has said in the past, open source does have a tendency to spread... infectiously. If Microsoft suggests using an open-source program instead of a commercial one, any smart client will notice and begin wondering what else they can get without having to pay licensing costs.
What turns people "extremist" is poverty, ignorance and religion. Since we are missing the "poverty" ingredient in the recipe here in the U.S., and the religious nuts have their own T.V. shows and just want money in most cases, we get ignorant hypocrites instead (A.K.A. Activists)
Certainly poverty, ignorance, and religion all have their contributions to extremism.
However (and I'm possibly being an ignorant hypocrite here), I imagine having half your family killed by an occupying force, for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, would turn you to extremism far more effectively. Doubly so if they tried to cover it up.
Gosh, it's as if our government doesn't appreciate it when people leak videos of our soldiers murdering civilians! You'd think they'd be grateful, since it gives them a more accurate understanding of why the civilians there are turning to extremism.
Now no politician in the US can even consider supporting it!
"Ladies and gentleman, my opponent has come out in support of policies implemented in polluting, human rights abusing, communist, totalitarian, job-stealing China! Are you going to let him bring that to our shores?"
It's still global warming. They just started calling it "climate change" to shut up the assholes who were saying "It's not getting warmer, this winter was a little colder than the last one!"
Aside: What's their response now that 2010 is shaping up to be one of the hottest years on record, I wonder?
Unfortunately, I don't remember the motherboard model, and I should also add Biostar's name to the List of Shame (not my direct experience, though, I like to think I learn faster than that). Basically, no matter what the brand, check the list of supported processors for the latest BIOS of your motherboard before you go and buy a shiny expensive new CPU that should work in it.
No, AMD's AM3 processors are potentially backwards compatible with AM2/AM2+ sockets and AM2+ processors are potentially backwards compatible with AM2 sockets. Getting a newer processor to work in an older motherboard may require the motherboard vendor to release an updated BIOS, and they might not do that.
I found this out the hard way.
Fuck you, Gigabyte.
Don't get so uptight about being called "delusional".
You're a Christian, so you are convinced the Christian religion is right, correct? Therefore, you must think that all the other, conflicting religions are wrong, meaning that the people firmly believing in those other religions are "delusional".
Atheism just takes it one step further and says that ALL religions are wrong, not just "all religions except mine".
In other words, everybody not in your religion thinks you're delusional on some level, so why focus on the atheists? This especially confuses me when coming from Christians, who have umpteen-billion different versions of the religion, all of which claim the others have got it wrong.
Hoo, boy, I can just see the next wave of Microsoft ads:
Most startups prefer to spend money on their core business instead of on Microsoft software... 90% of startups fail.
Buy from Microsoft! if you know what's good for you
Which makes you wonder if the Sony and Microsoft couldn't just both agree to not launch any new consoles since that would put them back in the position of selling at a loss again.
Which would work, for a time. But Nintendo would eventually launch a new system whose graphics capabilities were on par with or better than the 360 and PS3, begin recapturing the hardcore gamer demographic, and that would be the end of that.
You can easily change your user-agent in Opera and I would assume Chrome would be the same.
But you shouldn't, because then they'll never support Opera or Chrome "because none of their customers use it". Firefox didn't start getting support from big websites because of people changing its user-agent to IE.
Wasn't there some attempt to shut down Linux this way, by claiming that giving an OS away for free was anti-competitive? I don't remember the specifics, but I think it was laughed out of the courtroom.
Y'know what? We've reached the point where I believe that kiddie porn is actually the lesser blight on society, when compared to this relentless and incessant push to monetize everything.
To hell with the downsides. The more Freenet and TOR are used, the better.
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"Not a clue what any of this means. I'll just stick with Windows or Mac. You buy it, turn it on, and it works." - Joe Q Public
"I hope my neighbour's kid can make my damn Windows machine work again." -Joe Q Public, 2 weeks and 10 malware infections later
Regarding your last point: Yes, people will tell you "open up the terminal and run sudo apt-get install whatever". That is because they are lazy, and it's much easier to tell you to run a one-liner in a terminal than it is to type out "Go to the applications menu, click on Ubuntu Software Center, go to the search bar on the top right, search for "whatever", click on the search result, and click install."
Unlike you, I could deal with the repetitive gameplay. However, I still couldn't play through to the end. The reason is that I have a very low tolerance for controlling characters that are doing something utterly retarded. It's been several years, but I believe this was the scene that made me mutter "What the ****?", drop my controller in disgust, and remove the CD to let it gather dust on the shelf:
Good Guy A: Oh, no! There is a meteor heading towards the planet that will kill everyone!
Good Guy B: The evil Shinra corporation is gathering Big Materia, in order to destroy the meteor and save the world. They may be evil, but at least they have their priorities straight.
Good Guy A: Those evil bastards! Let's steal their Big Materia so we can save the world instead!
Good Guys B-G: : OK
Me: Did I miss a scene where my characters all suffered brain damage?
"Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absoulutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system - ever. It is just too far."
... that sounds a bit like:
"Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances."
Humanity is funny that way. Give us a goal and a guy telling us it's impossible, and we'll figure out a way to do it.
"Taking away access?"
You buy and download the game. It's yours. Forever. No matter what happens to GOG that game will still play on your PC
If Valve ever goes under, though, you're SOL. All your games will no longer work*.
*Yes, I know Valve could release DRM-removing updates on all their games if they start going under. Really think that'll be high on their list of priorities, though?
Honestly, when I saw their previous announcement, I instantly thought "Oh, they're just revamping their site".
It's in preparation for a bunch of status/indicator things on the right-hand side of the title bar. Their objective is to use those to replace the space-wasting status bar in applications (search Google for "windicators" for more information). That's an idea I can get behind, since vertical screen space is at a premium on laptops, and right now Firefox is wasting about 25-30 perfectly good pixels on a status bar that just displays the word "Done" on the bottom-left and shows the NoScript icon on the bottom-right.
It's not that they ever would dick around in the guts of their software, it's that they have the ability to if they ever really wanted/needed to. Say, if they suspected that something in the guts of the software was interfering with their ability to "get shit done" (a government backdoor, for example).
More freedom is better than less, even if it most people never need to be use it.
We're seeing it at our workplace, many times over. At first, the dumbasses kept hitting "Reply All" (and sending the message to everyone) saying "I wasn't expecting anything, did you send this e-mail to the wrong person?". Now the dumbasses are hitting "Reply All" saying variations of "Don't open, it's a trojan", "I think this is a virus", and (my favorite) "Stop hitting 'Reply All', you're filling up my inbox!".
"*sigh* ... Well, at least we still have pedophiles and crack addicts."
Now that's a Discovery channel show I'd watch.
Except, unlike IBM, they can't get too cozy with open source without risking their OS and Office cash cows. Though I haven't seen any numbers, I would guess that the income from support is absolutely dwarfed by the income from sales of Windows alone.
... infectiously. If Microsoft suggests using an open-source program instead of a commercial one, any smart client will notice and begin wondering what else they can get without having to pay licensing costs.
As Microsoft has said in the past, open source does have a tendency to spread
What turns people "extremist" is poverty, ignorance and religion. Since we are missing the "poverty" ingredient in the recipe here in the U.S., and the religious nuts have their own T.V. shows and just want money in most cases, we get ignorant hypocrites instead (A.K.A. Activists)
Certainly poverty, ignorance, and religion all have their contributions to extremism.
However (and I'm possibly being an ignorant hypocrite here), I imagine having half your family killed by an occupying force, for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, would turn you to extremism far more effectively. Doubly so if they tried to cover it up.
Gosh, it's as if our government doesn't appreciate it when people leak videos of our soldiers murdering civilians! You'd think they'd be grateful, since it gives them a more accurate understanding of why the civilians there are turning to extremism.
Now no politician in the US can even consider supporting it!
"Ladies and gentleman, my opponent has come out in support of policies implemented in polluting, human rights abusing, communist, totalitarian, job-stealing China! Are you going to let him bring that to our shores?"
It's still global warming. They just started calling it "climate change" to shut up the assholes who were saying "It's not getting warmer, this winter was a little colder than the last one!"
Aside: What's their response now that 2010 is shaping up to be one of the hottest years on record, I wonder?
Unfortunately, I don't remember the motherboard model, and I should also add Biostar's name to the List of Shame (not my direct experience, though, I like to think I learn faster than that). Basically, no matter what the brand, check the list of supported processors for the latest BIOS of your motherboard before you go and buy a shiny expensive new CPU that should work in it.
No, AMD's AM3 processors are potentially backwards compatible with AM2/AM2+ sockets and AM2+ processors are potentially backwards compatible with AM2 sockets. Getting a newer processor to work in an older motherboard may require the motherboard vendor to release an updated BIOS, and they might not do that.
I found this out the hard way.
Fuck you, Gigabyte.
Don't get so uptight about being called "delusional".
You're a Christian, so you are convinced the Christian religion is right, correct? Therefore, you must think that all the other, conflicting religions are wrong, meaning that the people firmly believing in those other religions are "delusional".
Atheism just takes it one step further and says that ALL religions are wrong, not just "all religions except mine".
In other words, everybody not in your religion thinks you're delusional on some level, so why focus on the atheists? This especially confuses me when coming from Christians, who have umpteen-billion different versions of the religion, all of which claim the others have got it wrong.
All governments are, to varying extents, bloated soul-crushing bureaucracies. They live for silly technicalities.
Hoo, boy, I can just see the next wave of Microsoft ads:
Most startups prefer to spend money on their core business instead of on Microsoft software...
90% of startups fail.
Buy from Microsoft!
if you know what's good for you
Which makes you wonder if the Sony and Microsoft couldn't just both agree to not launch any new consoles since that would put them back in the position of selling at a loss again.
Which would work, for a time. But Nintendo would eventually launch a new system whose graphics capabilities were on par with or better than the 360 and PS3, begin recapturing the hardcore gamer demographic, and that would be the end of that.
You can easily change your user-agent in Opera and I would assume Chrome would be the same.
But you shouldn't, because then they'll never support Opera or Chrome "because none of their customers use it".
Firefox didn't start getting support from big websites because of people changing its user-agent to IE.
Wasn't there some attempt to shut down Linux this way, by claiming that giving an OS away for free was anti-competitive? I don't remember the specifics, but I think it was laughed out of the courtroom.
Y'know what? We've reached the point where I believe that kiddie porn is actually the lesser blight on society, when compared to this relentless and incessant push to monetize everything.
To hell with the downsides. The more Freenet and TOR are used, the better.