Never ceases to amazes me when folk say how a service pack will make everything lovely.
That's like having a burglar alarm that doesn't go off when people break in. Would you trust that? Of course you wouldn't, you'd find a different company. Microsoft shipped Vista in a very poor state. It's like when SP2 shipped for XP. People would give me funny looks when I said I wouldn't install it and think I was mad. "But they've fixed the holes. It's secure now!" Yeah, like I'm going to trust my security to a company that showed they're incompetent in the first place.
"The [allegedly] slow adoption of Vista is not due to DRM; it's because the OS is a resource hog"
I just ordered a new Dell. Limited budget so it's only got 1 gig of ram. It ships with bloody Vista! 1 gig of ram... Jesus. First thing that'll be happening when I open the packaging is I'll be slapping in my XP Pro disk, followed by an Ubuntu disk. (Sadly I don't live in an area that can get the Dell with Linux instead of Windows.)
I was in an argument with people just the other day over Vista. Someone was bitching about it, and some responded "Well don't use it, it's not like your forced to." To which I pointed out that actually, if you buy a new computer, you are forced too if you don't have install disks, which most people likely don't due to the shitty recovery disks you get with systems rather than real install disks. You're only LEGAL option is what? Go with Linux, or stick with Vista, or you can try and find a legit copy of XP somewhere.
So the person took a new direction and started saying how all those condemning Vista are crackpots, he bought up 9/11 conspiracy theorists and lumped the anti-Vista crowd with them... Classy!
Now this article, from Louderback... I mean here's a guy who was pro-Vista, has been supportive of MS etc... And he's saying he's done.
How much more is it going to take for the drones to wake up and realise that Vista is one giant clusterfuck, with innumerable problems, not to mention crippling DRM, and who knows what else under the hood. (Like the adware that Microsoft recently patented.)
OS wars will always happen, but it seems that the defenders of Vista aren't just fanboys, they're delusional.
I'm the same really with TV ads. I can sit and watch the commercials... I can see a commercial and then have no idea what it was for. I just kinda zone out. Or I wind up wanting something else. Like I'll see an ad for plates or something and it shows a pizza and I think "Mmm... Yes... I want a pizza."
I block everything. Even Google ads if they're placed annoyingly. They can make all the claims about resource theft or whatever bollocks they want. They say "If you don't view our ads, we'll take our ball and go home", I'll just quietly wave, as honestly, the majority of sites that have that attitude wouldn't be missed if they went away.
I can only speak for my bank here in Canada, but they use Javascript. No Java crap. This is why I've surfed with Java turned off since... Well pretty much forever. I turn it on as and when I need it.
If matey can write NoScript for Javascript, I would think someone can easily do an extension to whitelist sites that use Java, and block it everywhere else. I mean really, the majority of sites out there that use Java are just hogging bandwidth and not doing anything that's actually useful.
Probably. It was leaked, remember. I still have it on disk here:)
Seriously though, I love open source, but it seems more and more of these GPL violations are occuring. Why is nobody in a position to do anything about actually DOING anything about this? I mean they can write what they want in the GPL. If nobody actually enforces it and goes after folks violating it, it's worthless, as is reporting about it. When I first read about the use of DOSBox for this yesterday my spider sense started tingling.
The GPL is a great license, but the EFF or whoever needs to start spanking people who violate it. I mean for christs sake the DMCA is used for so much evil. It's about time it was used for good, and this would be a violation of it, wouldn't it?
My cellphone is usually in my jeans pocket. All people are getting if they snoop my (deliberately low-tech, no camera etc...) phone is the sound of my balls rubbing against my underwear.
They can do whatever they want with that. The phone I have has a useless active vocal range anyway. Hold it six inches from your mouth, nobody will hear you on it.
My call history... Wow, they'd be thrilled. And my text messages. It's all to and from my wife.
Perfect solution: Everyone who suffered from that virus gets to punch him in the face, one time. Just one time. No more. The more widespread and damaging the virus, the more time they get punched. It nicely scales the punishment.
A woman is bound at the hands and feet, pushed face down into the floor with a knee in her back and is strangled until dead.
Ho ho... Yes, PMS... You fucking shithead. A mother and child were violently murdered. Show some fucking respect.
I was a fan of Benoit's for ten years. Now all I can say is fuck Chris Benoit. I don't subscribe to the notion of heaven and hell, but times like now make me hope there is such a thing, because that psychopathic piece of shit deserves everything Satan has in store for him.
NFL does that dumb message too. Bloody NASCAR has started doing it. (Are NASCAR fans even capable of speech? OH NO HE DIN'T... OH YES HE DID!!!)
I'm a baseball fan, but MLB have broken me now. First there's the MLB.TV thing. Blue Jays are blacked out for me. I am over 2000 miles away from Toronto! Somehow I'm claimed as a local market though... Strike 1.
MLB.TV, despite costing $20 a month, now includes commercials from what I've heard. Also, if you get MLB.TV and want to cancel, they make it deliberately difficult to do so... Strike 2.
Now this. If you're paying for the channel, you can watch it wherever you damn well please IMO. And surely, if Slingbox violates the broadcast deals, that's the TV networks problem, not MLB... Strike 3.
You're outta there Mister Selig... Now call the ump a cocksucker and get thrown from the game.
Linux won't be because A) nobody who buys games uses Linux anymore, and B) Linux users are all software pirates. At least that seems to be the common perception.
Serious question: What was the last title to ship with NATIVE Linux support. (Not hacked together WINE support.)
Yes... When casually writing, I quite often trip myself up like that. It pays to have a wife with an English degree as my editor for my commercial stuff.
And yes, great game. Skirmish is insanely good fun. It's also fun to set AI only (you can do it in developer mode with a particular LUA script) and watch them go at it.
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Is it me? Or are AC's not even trying anymore?
Never ceases to amazes me when folk say how a service pack will make everything lovely.
That's like having a burglar alarm that doesn't go off when people break in. Would you trust that? Of course you wouldn't, you'd find a different company. Microsoft shipped Vista in a very poor state. It's like when SP2 shipped for XP. People would give me funny looks when I said I wouldn't install it and think I was mad. "But they've fixed the holes. It's secure now!" Yeah, like I'm going to trust my security to a company that showed they're incompetent in the first place.
"The [allegedly] slow adoption of Vista is not due to DRM; it's because the OS is a resource hog"
I just ordered a new Dell. Limited budget so it's only got 1 gig of ram. It ships with bloody Vista! 1 gig of ram... Jesus. First thing that'll be happening when I open the packaging is I'll be slapping in my XP Pro disk, followed by an Ubuntu disk. (Sadly I don't live in an area that can get the Dell with Linux instead of Windows.)
I was in an argument with people just the other day over Vista. Someone was bitching about it, and some responded "Well don't use it, it's not like your forced to." To which I pointed out that actually, if you buy a new computer, you are forced too if you don't have install disks, which most people likely don't due to the shitty recovery disks you get with systems rather than real install disks. You're only LEGAL option is what? Go with Linux, or stick with Vista, or you can try and find a legit copy of XP somewhere.
So the person took a new direction and started saying how all those condemning Vista are crackpots, he bought up 9/11 conspiracy theorists and lumped the anti-Vista crowd with them... Classy!
Now this article, from Louderback... I mean here's a guy who was pro-Vista, has been supportive of MS etc... And he's saying he's done.
How much more is it going to take for the drones to wake up and realise that Vista is one giant clusterfuck, with innumerable problems, not to mention crippling DRM, and who knows what else under the hood. (Like the adware that Microsoft recently patented.)
OS wars will always happen, but it seems that the defenders of Vista aren't just fanboys, they're delusional.
I'm the same really with TV ads. I can sit and watch the commercials... I can see a commercial and then have no idea what it was for. I just kinda zone out. Or I wind up wanting something else. Like I'll see an ad for plates or something and it shows a pizza and I think "Mmm... Yes... I want a pizza."
I block everything. Even Google ads if they're placed annoyingly. They can make all the claims about resource theft or whatever bollocks they want. They say "If you don't view our ads, we'll take our ball and go home", I'll just quietly wave, as honestly, the majority of sites that have that attitude wouldn't be missed if they went away.
I can only speak for my bank here in Canada, but they use Javascript. No Java crap. This is why I've surfed with Java turned off since... Well pretty much forever. I turn it on as and when I need it.
If matey can write NoScript for Javascript, I would think someone can easily do an extension to whitelist sites that use Java, and block it everywhere else. I mean really, the majority of sites out there that use Java are just hogging bandwidth and not doing anything that's actually useful.
Probably. It was leaked, remember. I still have it on disk here:)
Seriously though, I love open source, but it seems more and more of these GPL violations are occuring. Why is nobody in a position to do anything about actually DOING anything about this? I mean they can write what they want in the GPL. If nobody actually enforces it and goes after folks violating it, it's worthless, as is reporting about it. When I first read about the use of DOSBox for this yesterday my spider sense started tingling.
The GPL is a great license, but the EFF or whoever needs to start spanking people who violate it. I mean for christs sake the DMCA is used for so much evil. It's about time it was used for good, and this would be a violation of it, wouldn't it?
My cellphone is usually in my jeans pocket. All people are getting if they snoop my (deliberately low-tech, no camera etc...) phone is the sound of my balls rubbing against my underwear.
They can do whatever they want with that. The phone I have has a useless active vocal range anyway. Hold it six inches from your mouth, nobody will hear you on it.
My call history... Wow, they'd be thrilled. And my text messages. It's all to and from my wife.
Perfect solution: Everyone who suffered from that virus gets to punch him in the face, one time. Just one time. No more. The more widespread and damaging the virus, the more time they get punched. It nicely scales the punishment.
And now it has come to pass. Who knew the Thargoid's came from mice...
"Our users will know fear, and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!!"
That may be the funniest thing I've ever read on Slashdot in my 9 years as a signed up user.
I think an AC just got pwn3d! Love it!
A woman is bound at the hands and feet, pushed face down into the floor with a knee in her back and is strangled until dead.
Ho ho... Yes, PMS... You fucking shithead. A mother and child were violently murdered. Show some fucking respect.
I was a fan of Benoit's for ten years. Now all I can say is fuck Chris Benoit. I don't subscribe to the notion of heaven and hell, but times like now make me hope there is such a thing, because that psychopathic piece of shit deserves everything Satan has in store for him.
That is wrong on so many levels... Sir, I commend you.
Self Preservation Society...
"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
NFL does that dumb message too. Bloody NASCAR has started doing it. (Are NASCAR fans even capable of speech? OH NO HE DIN'T... OH YES HE DID!!!)
I'm a baseball fan, but MLB have broken me now. First there's the MLB.TV thing. Blue Jays are blacked out for me. I am over 2000 miles away from Toronto! Somehow I'm claimed as a local market though... Strike 1.
MLB.TV, despite costing $20 a month, now includes commercials from what I've heard. Also, if you get MLB.TV and want to cancel, they make it deliberately difficult to do so... Strike 2.
Now this. If you're paying for the channel, you can watch it wherever you damn well please IMO. And surely, if Slingbox violates the broadcast deals, that's the TV networks problem, not MLB... Strike 3.
You're outta there Mister Selig... Now call the ump a cocksucker and get thrown from the game.
I live in Canada. I have nothing but sympathy for the first nations folk. They've been screwed over so many times.
However, this is just taking the piss.
I like the Faraday Cage idea. I'd gladly chip in for that, just to fuck these idiots and their claims over.
Mac will be supported.
Linux won't be because A) nobody who buys games uses Linux anymore, and B) Linux users are all software pirates. At least that seems to be the common perception.
Serious question: What was the last title to ship with NATIVE Linux support. (Not hacked together WINE support.)
So you get modded +1, and a post that amounts to "I'm getting old" gets +4 Insightful.
I love you Slashdot.
"Look at that guy dancing to his iPod..."
"He's not dancing, he's having a coronary!"
"Either way, he's got good rhythm!"
Yes... When casually writing, I quite often trip myself up like that. It pays to have a wife with an English degree as my editor for my commercial stuff.
Elite = Fantastic choice!
Make it the Amiga version so you've got filled in 3D... Perfick.
Rescue? I think not... /ignore most likely:)
I invested hundreds of hours into the original Amiga version of Settlers. Hoping the DS can replicate the experience.
Settlers was the first (only?) game on the Amiga I believe that had two player by the player plugging another mouse into the other gameport.
There ARE now dwarves in 40k.
And it's Tau, not Tao.
And yes, great game. Skirmish is insanely good fun. It's also fun to set AI only (you can do it in developer mode with a particular LUA script) and watch them go at it.