There are a million other things that kids could be learning other than cursive - this sort of trial you value can be just as easily be created in keyboarding classes. Besides, federal and state mandates are cramming classes with more and more required information to the point that I'm surprised they're still teaching cursive (or anything removable or optional) in the first place.
Firefox isn't breaking any laws, and neither am I! I for one decided not to break into a store and steal all of their merchandise. So both me and Firefox are not breaking any laws. What a great day it is to be alive.
Something as basic as "don't change Wallpaper.jpg to Wallpaper.exe when the big flashing pop-up tells you to and then run the file as Administrator" would be a start. After that, then I think I'll trust Grandma to install an OS.
You don't release a game and then change everything about it.
You clearly haven't played Star Wars Galaxies. That thing was a fucking cultural black hole. It needed to be plugged before we lost something important.
It turns out that those guesses that Windows makes ("Five hours remaining" actually means "Five seconds remaining") are actually going to become useful! Way to go, Microsoft! The Vista users were probably used to it, so a long upgrade time will be okay.
Yeah, Stardock is really great at not being stupid. But how sad is it that we have to praise a company for not kicking their customers repeatedly in the stomach? I mean, isn't that just assumed by default that their product will not cause me pain?
I'm right there with you. I buy stuff from GOG.com almost exclusively these days, plus the occasional extra purchase (Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, or Galactic Civilizations II). No DRM.
Well, of course, the elitists are a minority that always gets the most attention. Not every Mac user goes around laughing at people who use Windows or Ubuntu like one guy on campus does around here, but you certainly remember and correlate "Mac" to "douchebag." I know Mac users who are completely normal, but that one guy sticks out in my mind, and I connect him to my stereotype. This is a lot like Linux; the guys on the PCLinuxOS forums are a bunch of jerks. On the other hand, whenever I go ask a Fedora developer for help, I usually get a nice, pleasant response. So it all depends on the perspective and who you talk to.
If anything, I've had more problems with Windows drivers than Linux ones, especially with older hardware. Some of them just plain don't work anymore. Heck, Linux supports my old Radeon where Windows 7 was shit outta luck. I've been using Ubuntu for two years (swapped to Fedora now) and I haven't used the command line or hacked any text files for at least 3/4ths of that. So...I guess your pointless guessing was just negated by my pointless anecdote! Congrats!
So basically you found a bug (in the application, not the OS), didn't actually Google to find out you can move buttons with the "Alt" button and started complaining about it Slashdot? Gotcha. I totally get the +5 Insightful here.
All your posts have been so far have all been complaining about how everyone around here thinks Microsoft is evil, and how the group mindthink is fucking you over. No wonder you got modded down.
I own a Shuffle. It's a stretch to imagine myself plugging it into a stereo. It's not really designed for something like that, and I bought it knowing that.
There used to be a point to Apple's walled garden. Now devices and software has caught up. Windows Media Player is now passable at managing players and their databases (and most people can use them pretty well - they're not as obtuse as they were a few years ago), and companies like Sandisk have made some great gizmos at half the price of Apple's usual. Maybe Apple is riding the high right now, but I can't see how that will never change in the future.
Heck, all I saw at the press conference of note was them adding all of the features the Sansa Clip and pretty much all of its peers have had for years to the Nano (aside from the video camera, which seems interestingly pointless). Apple, play catch-up? Welcome to the future. Hope you like your stay.
Genius Playlists are only about 25 songs long. Genius Mixes will keep going on forever, repeating endlessly. Both drink from Apple's well of knowledge their fans sent them.
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There are a million other things that kids could be learning other than cursive - this sort of trial you value can be just as easily be created in keyboarding classes. Besides, federal and state mandates are cramming classes with more and more required information to the point that I'm surprised they're still teaching cursive (or anything removable or optional) in the first place.
Sorry, Slashdot. I agree, that was a pretty bad post. I'll go away now.
Firefox isn't breaking any laws, and neither am I! I for one decided not to break into a store and steal all of their merchandise. So both me and Firefox are not breaking any laws. What a great day it is to be alive.
Aw goddammit.
Something as basic as "don't change Wallpaper.jpg to Wallpaper.exe when the big flashing pop-up tells you to and then run the file as Administrator" would be a start. After that, then I think I'll trust Grandma to install an OS.
No, they drink Free as in Beer.
You don't release a game and then change everything about it.
You clearly haven't played Star Wars Galaxies. That thing was a fucking cultural black hole. It needed to be plugged before we lost something important.
I'm still waiting for that big screen that you push stuff around on with your hands from Minority Report. Nethack on that thing would be AWESOME.
A small minority is making a hissy fit. Apparently that's democracy for you.
Last I checked, they're all batshit insane, the guy in the summary included.
"My precious" just got a whole new meaning.
It turns out that those guesses that Windows makes ("Five hours remaining" actually means "Five seconds remaining") are actually going to become useful! Way to go, Microsoft! The Vista users were probably used to it, so a long upgrade time will be okay.
Can't Slashdot let us mod comments higher than +5? Pleeease? Just this one time?
Yeah, Stardock is really great at not being stupid. But how sad is it that we have to praise a company for not kicking their customers repeatedly in the stomach? I mean, isn't that just assumed by default that their product will not cause me pain?
I'm right there with you. I buy stuff from GOG.com almost exclusively these days, plus the occasional extra purchase (Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, or Galactic Civilizations II). No DRM.
Gears of War PC proves your point.
Well, of course, the elitists are a minority that always gets the most attention. Not every Mac user goes around laughing at people who use Windows or Ubuntu like one guy on campus does around here, but you certainly remember and correlate "Mac" to "douchebag." I know Mac users who are completely normal, but that one guy sticks out in my mind, and I connect him to my stereotype. This is a lot like Linux; the guys on the PCLinuxOS forums are a bunch of jerks. On the other hand, whenever I go ask a Fedora developer for help, I usually get a nice, pleasant response. So it all depends on the perspective and who you talk to.
Good package managers can handle two versions of the same library. Seems like you picked the crappy one with your Python issue there.
If anything, I've had more problems with Windows drivers than Linux ones, especially with older hardware. Some of them just plain don't work anymore. Heck, Linux supports my old Radeon where Windows 7 was shit outta luck. I've been using Ubuntu for two years (swapped to Fedora now) and I haven't used the command line or hacked any text files for at least 3/4ths of that. So...I guess your pointless guessing was just negated by my pointless anecdote! Congrats!
So basically you found a bug (in the application, not the OS), didn't actually Google to find out you can move buttons with the "Alt" button and started complaining about it Slashdot? Gotcha. I totally get the +5 Insightful here.
All your posts have been so far have all been complaining about how everyone around here thinks Microsoft is evil, and how the group mindthink is fucking you over. No wonder you got modded down.
I'm using Vista against my will, and while I dislike it, I know that you are full of shit.
I own a Shuffle. It's a stretch to imagine myself plugging it into a stereo. It's not really designed for something like that, and I bought it knowing that.
There used to be a point to Apple's walled garden. Now devices and software has caught up. Windows Media Player is now passable at managing players and their databases (and most people can use them pretty well - they're not as obtuse as they were a few years ago), and companies like Sandisk have made some great gizmos at half the price of Apple's usual. Maybe Apple is riding the high right now, but I can't see how that will never change in the future.
Heck, all I saw at the press conference of note was them adding all of the features the Sansa Clip and pretty much all of its peers have had for years to the Nano (aside from the video camera, which seems interestingly pointless). Apple, play catch-up? Welcome to the future. Hope you like your stay.
Genius Playlists are only about 25 songs long. Genius Mixes will keep going on forever, repeating endlessly. Both drink from Apple's well of knowledge their fans sent them.