Yeah, that's about it, really. Games should be fun.
I like FPS'es. A lot. But not when the user interface makes you jump through hoops to select the correct weapon, suitmode, healing-things and whatever before you can shoot at the enemy. (Yes, Crysis, I'm looking at you, you crap game while you could be so much more!).
Give me a horde of easy to kill attackers over one giant 'over 9000 hitpoints' endboss anyday.
It would be useful if, instead of just closing the tab, there was a button that increments a counter at the site for the marketers to see, blocks the site completely and irrevocably for all eternity and thencloses the tab.
That way there is a running total of customers lost due to stupid marketing.
So do the Brits, they like it so much they named a square in their capital to it. Piccalilly Circus is one of the most visited tourist spots in London!
I'm Dutch and we also put copious amounts of mayo on our fries. And even though "we" are in friendly rivalry with those wacky Belgians (well, the Flemish anyway) I will readily admit that the Belgians have the upper hand on us with regards to fries. And mayo, and certainly beer. Oh, and waffles. And chocolate.
Although I can't imagine how drunk they must have been to invent 'tartarsauce' for on their fries...:-)
Even better is that the imagery of my part of the world has regressed! Two years ago the data was quite current. Now, however, the data seems about five years old.
If I'm not mistaken, you yourself are reading Slashdot...:-)
But as you demonstrated in your original post, you couldn't understand the concept of symbols. So, I'll put it, as requested, in small words:
All that you see, is colored by what you know. You can't see the world as it is. It is not possible. Everything is filtered by your preconceptions and delusions. So, by symbolset explaining that Microsoft is just a symbol, he/she hits te nail right on the head: it _is_ just a symbol. The meaning of that symbol is what _you_, the viewer, make of it.
And, so American Idol is a symbol. One that on this site is frequently used to denote the apathy of the general public. But that semantic seems to be lost here, as I've been modded Flamebait.
But hey, that's what you get on a site for American Idol worshippers.
And if you can't see the dripping irony of that one, you are beyond hope.
First off, I'm not the original complainer. But I'm very upset at the complete lack of quality control within KDE development. Every release in the 4.x series has been so unbelievably broken that pre-alpha doesn't begin to describe it.
In my opinion (which is obviously biased) they should revert to the 3.x source tree as the current development strategy leads to madness.
Or, the other extreme: delete what you don't need anymore.
Do you really need DownloadedSoftware v0.7 when the current version is 4.2? Do you even need that version stored locally?
Are you really going to see that movie again? Is ripping it so harddisk even worth the time? Deletion is your friend. No worries for data you don't have. Easier (smaller, faster) backups, too!
The harddisk could be read-only in this case. Not much to infect if the hardware doesn't allow writing. Even if something manages to go haywire in memory, just reboot and all is well again.
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Yeah, that's about it, really. Games should be fun.
I like FPS'es. A lot. But not when the user interface makes you jump through hoops to select the correct weapon, suitmode, healing-things and whatever before you can shoot at the enemy. (Yes, Crysis, I'm looking at you, you crap game while you could be so much more!).
Give me a horde of easy to kill attackers over one giant 'over 9000 hitpoints' endboss anyday.
A game should be fun, not masochism.
It would be useful if, instead of just closing the tab, there was a button that increments a counter at the site for the marketers to see, blocks the site completely and irrevocably for all eternity and thencloses the tab.
That way there is a running total of customers lost due to stupid marketing.
I like piccalilly.
So do the Brits, they like it so much they named a square in their capital to it. Piccalilly Circus is one of the most visited tourist spots in London!
I'm Dutch and we also put copious amounts of mayo on our fries. And even though "we" are in friendly rivalry with those wacky Belgians (well, the Flemish anyway) I will readily admit that the Belgians have the upper hand on us with regards to fries. And mayo, and certainly beer. Oh, and waffles. And chocolate.
:-)
Although I can't imagine how drunk they must have been to invent 'tartarsauce' for on their fries...
Yeah, I can see that now...
:-)
Too bad, I really liked this scheme. Guess I'm back to the Periodic Table of the Elements for matching names to numbers...
Ooh! Clever! Assigning adresses based on most important protocol on the box. I'm so going to use that one! Thanks!
Even better is that the imagery of my part of the world has regressed! Two years ago the data was quite current. Now, however, the data seems about five years old.
So what's the deal with that?
Who asked you? :-)
If I'm not mistaken, you yourself are reading Slashdot... :-)
But as you demonstrated in your original post, you couldn't understand the concept of symbols. So, I'll put it, as requested, in small words:
All that you see, is colored by what you know. You can't see the world as it is. It is not possible. Everything is filtered by your preconceptions and delusions. So, by symbolset explaining that Microsoft is just a symbol, he/she hits te nail right on the head: it _is_ just a symbol. The meaning of that symbol is what _you_, the viewer, make of it.
And, so American Idol is a symbol. One that on this site is frequently used to denote the apathy of the general public. But that semantic seems to be lost here, as I've been modded Flamebait.
But hey, that's what you get on a site for American Idol worshippers.
And if you can't see the dripping irony of that one, you are beyond hope.
Love 'm both. Maybe I'm having some vestigial alien DNA coming back to life?
Don't blame him if you can't think about larger concepts than American Idol. Also, don't interrupt the grownups when they are talking.
It's called hard encryption. Use it.
Not Nokia, not the government, not even $DEITY itself could crack that before the thermal death of the universe.
First off, I'm not the original complainer. But I'm very upset at the complete lack of quality control within KDE development. Every release in the 4.x series has been so unbelievably broken that pre-alpha doesn't begin to describe it.
In my opinion (which is obviously biased) they should revert to the 3.x source tree as the current development strategy leads to madness.
And do you keep them both in the same closet? :-(
Or, the other extreme: delete what you don't need anymore.
Do you really need DownloadedSoftware v0.7 when the current version is 4.2? Do you even need that version stored locally?
Are you really going to see that movie again? Is ripping it so harddisk even worth the time? Deletion is your friend. No worries for data you don't have. Easier (smaller, faster) backups, too!
If N=16, you lose one-sixteenth of your data. If N=1 you lose all of your data.
You are right the first scenario is sixteen times more likely to happen, so mathematically there is no difference.
For practical purposes I'd take the small dataloss...
There shouldn't be bug report for this category of obvious flaws. If you had one look on the desktop you would have seen it.
But no, it is way more cool to add another KAdapter/KProtocol/KDecorator than simply making the whole thing useable.
You and your cabal are what's wrong with KDE development. You.
Perhaps it is in your own little mental bubble, Bub.
Meanwhile, in the real world, absolute zero is -273.15 Celsius.
Your -242C might be considered balmy compared to that.
Just use parachutes. Large ones.
Continent sized parachutes, think about it!
The harddisk could be read-only in this case. Not much to infect if the hardware doesn't allow writing. Even if something manages to go haywire in memory, just reboot and all is well again.
Seems pretty secure to me.
And get the kids to learn the curriculum, not how to fake it by Wikipedi-ing the answers and surfing for porn the rest of the class.
Computers in the classroom add nothing.
If anything, use the old lab model. That way the kids aren't distracted when learning normal stuff.
Thanks for the tip!
I just fell for your sig, again! :-)
So far, there is no indication that they even have a QA process...
Thinking like this (maximizing profit, despite having enough already) is what killed our economy.
Not really kidding either.
Just enjoy the things you have and don't be so obsessed with amassing ever more.