I wasn't replying directly to the article I was replying to a specific comment about the fragile state of the Windows registry. I guess my OP didn't contain enough MS bashing. Bill is teh suck!
A recent example: In order to get the newest Electric Sheep screensaver to work with the newest Ubuntu I had to forcibly update about 6 different dependencies (a couple of which were dependencies of a dependency) which took 2 hours. I'm not a Linux expert, but by reading and being able to understand what I was reading, it got done and I could probably do it much more quickly next time.
Since ES is such a cool screensaver, I put it on my Windows install (you know that one we keep for games. I read the articles in Playboy too.) I simply download the executable, run it, less than 5 mins, viola. And no corrupt registry and nearly no fear of breaking my system (anything's possible).
I haven't had any problems with their "brittle" registry using Win2k or XP
Typical home users aren't going to want to hear "To install this you have to download, configure and install package A thru F just to be up to date for the software you really want to run. But be careful, cuz one of those packages could F your shit up good."
I know people that can hardly grasp the concept of "double click to install". Whether they should be using a PC is for a diff. debate.
Apple has them both beat in terms of useability, but in many ways Windows can easily make Linux look like the guy who is still only an assistant manager at a Dairy Queen after 7 years.
Note how I was replying to someone who included all online scammers, virus writers, etc etc. not just this guy. Unless they all reside in Germany *Shrug*
Second, yeah like businesses need a justification that "a virus writer cost us downtime, time to jack up prices." Greedy business men have done a fine job w/o that excuse for decades.
I, for one, don't want to have my taxes used to incarcerate someone who doesn't pose a life or death threat to anyone else in society. Fine him up the ass, make him do community service for a decade, but there's no reason why we should throw essentially a social criminal who harmed no one but business into prison.
I'm amazed by the/. crowd, some super smart folks, who will quickly resort to violence over someone fucking with their geekdom.
Which, seeing as how being a devout follower of ANY religion is a personal choice, not a mandate under any law (and even prohibited from being mandated by law in the US Constitution), means you shouldn't be protected at all.
The comparison to video games and Hollywood started before that. It started when game sales began approaching the same level as Hollywoods yearly take. I think it was latched onto because it was seen as a new thing for Wallstreet to invest in. The comparison was simply to say "Look video games are raking in nearly more money than this 100 year old industry. Invest!"
No no, this isn't a dupe, it's a public service message reminding us that Windows XP N *still* isn't popular. Just like we keep hearing Apple is dying, BSD is dead, and all your base belong to us! We do it for the children!
Which would make more sense if he still had the yellow circle. The more recent movies and comics have removed it. You can barely see it in Batman Begins.
From what I heard, the reason they added it in the 70's was because DC couldn't trademark just the bat. This didn't sit well with Alex Ross when he was working on a Bat project (his words from an old Wizard interview I believe), so he left it off and over time the regular monthly comics dropped it. It was, however, left out in a few other key releases, namely the latter half of "The Dark Knight Returns" series.
This is exactly the same point I was trying to make to my roommate who is in HR. They are looking to hire people for her company but finding few "qualified" applicants. I quickly summed up that their problem was with their qualifications (and many other businesses I've seen ads for) "+5 years exp. in some obscure software we use so we don't have to spend time/money training them."
Spin it this way, I can kinda see the point they're trying to make, "Why buy a Dell for 499 that runs that unsecure Windows OS when I can buy a Mac Mini using (nearly) the same hardware running the slick as shit OSX?"
Joe Consumer likes to comparison shop and if they can get that idea in their head, Apple could start to see more Macs flying off shelves.
I wish I had mod points so I could label this correctly. Insightful? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
First of all, guarantee you that a college degree is not a good thing for 99.99% of those that even attain one. NO way is it that close to 100% who ever use their degree to a large amount of success. My friend with an economics degree is workin at a bank makin' ~12/hr. I don't have a degree and work as a electronics tech and make twice that.
Or how about a friend of my parents I knew as a kid who has a marine biology degree but works in HR for an amusement park. I could go on about countless other people I know and have met briefly.
Then censor your internet proactively as a parent, don't leave it up to a corporation and the rest of society. If you're any kind of geek you'll know that any software can be circumvented.
And as a grown adult it's up to you to censor your own life.
Requiring licensing for booze is pretty universal. The difference between how that works and how mandating ISPs creating filtering software is that usually a liqour store is a single entity inside that one state. I don't know of many national chain liqour stores, do you?
This is more akin to telling a company based on the east coast that a west coast state is requiring them to abide by certain rules based upon the customs of that western state.
Secondly, verifying a persons age in order for them to buy liqour at a physical location is far more economical than requiring a national ISP to spend alot of time and manpower on software for one state out of 50.
Be personally responsible for *yourself* and *your* kids... grife is that too much to fuckin' ask anymore?
Sounds like they are trying to uphold a part of the US Constitution that says only Congress can legistate interstate commerce.
But think about it for a second, what's the easiest way for parents to make sure their kids aren't surfing nudey sites? The parent actually goes into the room where the kid is surfing and checks or requiring ISPs all over the country (I would imagine Earthlink and AOL have some customers in Utah) to create the software you mention and educate all their Utah suscribers?
And the argument that "But I can be sure it will be blocked at the neighbor kids house too!" doesn't work here unless you know that kids parents installed the software as well. Useful tip, your kids are gonna see some boobies if they REALLY want to. Either online or by stuffing a Playboy under their mattress.
Yeah because there's been a huge bump in processor speed. That new 8Ghz chip is blazing fast!
Oh wait, some of the same top end chips for sale are the same as the ones for sale 2 years ago. As long as you can upgrade the RAM, a year old machine from Dell for 500$ will still be plenty fast for a home user and most Office stuff. Things aren't like they use to be 5+ years ago.
I quit the goin' out because it was too expensive based upon my desire to have other hobbies.
I am only trying to point out that an individuals goals, opinions of what is "professional", and what constitutes success in life aren't the same as the other 8,999,999,999 people on the planet.
Instead of trying to disrespect people who don't live up to your mold of "successful", find people that do and hang out with them and let everyone else be. That's my opinion.
Every time I hear people diss gamers, I can't help but think of this
Funny attitude coming from/. -- I would imagine a great majority of the readers have worked, even indirectly, on some big technology to "make our lives easier."
Even then, they live like bachelor slobs in Condos, not even a real house.
I'm not trying to defend the sloven, but measuring a person simply on the basis of whether or not they own a house is pretty narrow minded. I know a person that lives in a condo because it's close to their work and they rarely use their car which means they consume less gas. They are not, however, slobs.
I know a thousand people who drive from the burbs each day in their SUVs and even their Hondas and fill up one to two times a week just going to/fro work.
I mean holy shit, spending 4 hours a day playing video games is something a high-schooler does.
What else should they be doing each night? Watching TV? Reading/.? Going to the bar? Come on give me -- er -- *them* some options. I really don't want kids right now (I'm 25), I am over the drinkin' all the time thing, I read alot and get outside and do other "nerdy" shit, but yeah I play video/PC games a couple hours a day usually. It's not that hard to do.
Unless you spend each night volunteering at a homeless shelter and being a Big Brother, I don't know what hobbies you could be involved in that are any more altruistic. Although from the way it sounds, the homeless and troubled/needy kids might be below you.
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Thanks for linking directly to Gamespy's #1 worst box art and ruin it Zonk!
I wasn't replying directly to the article I was replying to a specific comment about the fragile state of the Windows registry. I guess my OP didn't contain enough MS bashing. Bill is teh suck!
kind of like seatbelt laws
I am gonna have to call bullshit here.
A recent example: In order to get the newest Electric Sheep screensaver to work with the newest Ubuntu I had to forcibly update about 6 different dependencies (a couple of which were dependencies of a dependency) which took 2 hours. I'm not a Linux expert, but by reading and being able to understand what I was reading, it got done and I could probably do it much more quickly next time.
Since ES is such a cool screensaver, I put it on my Windows install (you know that one we keep for games. I read the articles in Playboy too.) I simply download the executable, run it, less than 5 mins, viola. And no corrupt registry and nearly no fear of breaking my system (anything's possible).
I haven't had any problems with their "brittle" registry using Win2k or XP
Typical home users aren't going to want to hear "To install this you have to download, configure and install package A thru F just to be up to date for the software you really want to run. But be careful, cuz one of those packages could F your shit up good."
I know people that can hardly grasp the concept of "double click to install". Whether they should be using a PC is for a diff. debate.
Apple has them both beat in terms of useability, but in many ways Windows can easily make Linux look like the guy who is still only an assistant manager at a Dairy Queen after 7 years.
I wanna thank Rockstar for being up front about this in the first place. Way to throw fuel on the fucking fire, smacktards.
I wouldn't say they're less lethal, they just make less mess.
Note how I was replying to someone who included all online scammers, virus writers, etc etc. not just this guy. Unless they all reside in Germany *Shrug*
Second, yeah like businesses need a justification that "a virus writer cost us downtime, time to jack up prices." Greedy business men have done a fine job w/o that excuse for decades.
I, for one, don't want to have my taxes used to incarcerate someone who doesn't pose a life or death threat to anyone else in society. Fine him up the ass, make him do community service for a decade, but there's no reason why we should throw essentially a social criminal who harmed no one but business into prison.
/. crowd, some super smart folks, who will quickly resort to violence over someone fucking with their geekdom.
I'm amazed by the
Basically it says that the Jedi Mind Trick may work if you are persistent in application.
There's already WoW server emulators? I didn't read much about the EQ ones but thought that had taken a huge amount of time to accomplish.
Either I'm misinformed or is there something about WoW that made it a lot easier?
Which, seeing as how being a devout follower of ANY religion is a personal choice, not a mandate under any law (and even prohibited from being mandated by law in the US Constitution), means you shouldn't be protected at all.
The comparison to video games and Hollywood started before that. It started when game sales began approaching the same level as Hollywoods yearly take. I think it was latched onto because it was seen as a new thing for Wallstreet to invest in. The comparison was simply to say "Look video games are raking in nearly more money than this 100 year old industry. Invest!"
Don't forget the top secret replacement shuttles that we'll use to save the world. You know they're just sittin' around thinkin' shit up!
No no, this isn't a dupe, it's a public service message reminding us that Windows XP N *still* isn't popular. Just like we keep hearing Apple is dying, BSD is dead, and all your base belong to us! We do it for the children!
Just like there's nothing stopping you from setting up your own server and only giving access to friends
Which would make more sense if he still had the yellow circle. The more recent movies and comics have removed it. You can barely see it in Batman Begins.
From what I heard, the reason they added it in the 70's was because DC couldn't trademark just the bat. This didn't sit well with Alex Ross when he was working on a Bat project (his words from an old Wizard interview I believe), so he left it off and over time the regular monthly comics dropped it. It was, however, left out in a few other key releases, namely the latter half of "The Dark Knight Returns" series.
This is exactly the same point I was trying to make to my roommate who is in HR. They are looking to hire people for her company but finding few "qualified" applicants. I quickly summed up that their problem was with their qualifications (and many other businesses I've seen ads for) "+5 years exp. in some obscure software we use so we don't have to spend time/money training them."
Spin it this way, I can kinda see the point they're trying to make, "Why buy a Dell for 499 that runs that unsecure Windows OS when I can buy a Mac Mini using (nearly) the same hardware running the slick as shit OSX?"
Joe Consumer likes to comparison shop and if they can get that idea in their head, Apple could start to see more Macs flying off shelves.
I wish I had mod points so I could label this correctly. Insightful? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
First of all, guarantee you that a college degree is not a good thing for 99.99% of those that even attain one. NO way is it that close to 100% who ever use their degree to a large amount of success. My friend with an economics degree is workin at a bank makin' ~12/hr. I don't have a degree and work as a electronics tech and make twice that.
Or how about a friend of my parents I knew as a kid who has a marine biology degree but works in HR for an amusement park. I could go on about countless other people I know and have met briefly.
-1 flaming asshole is what this really deserved.
Then censor your internet proactively as a parent, don't leave it up to a corporation and the rest of society. If you're any kind of geek you'll know that any software can be circumvented.
And as a grown adult it's up to you to censor your own life.
Requiring licensing for booze is pretty universal. The difference between how that works and how mandating ISPs creating filtering software is that usually a liqour store is a single entity inside that one state. I don't know of many national chain liqour stores, do you?
This is more akin to telling a company based on the east coast that a west coast state is requiring them to abide by certain rules based upon the customs of that western state.
Secondly, verifying a persons age in order for them to buy liqour at a physical location is far more economical than requiring a national ISP to spend alot of time and manpower on software for one state out of 50.
Be personally responsible for *yourself* and *your* kids... grife is that too much to fuckin' ask anymore?
Sounds like they are trying to uphold a part of the US Constitution that says only Congress can legistate interstate commerce.
But think about it for a second, what's the easiest way for parents to make sure their kids aren't surfing nudey sites? The parent actually goes into the room where the kid is surfing and checks or requiring ISPs all over the country (I would imagine Earthlink and AOL have some customers in Utah) to create the software you mention and educate all their Utah suscribers?
And the argument that "But I can be sure it will be blocked at the neighbor kids house too!" doesn't work here unless you know that kids parents installed the software as well. Useful tip, your kids are gonna see some boobies if they REALLY want to. Either online or by stuffing a Playboy under their mattress.
Yeah because there's been a huge bump in processor speed. That new 8Ghz chip is blazing fast!
Oh wait, some of the same top end chips for sale are the same as the ones for sale 2 years ago. As long as you can upgrade the RAM, a year old machine from Dell for 500$ will still be plenty fast for a home user and most Office stuff. Things aren't like they use to be 5+ years ago.
I quit the goin' out because it was too expensive based upon my desire to have other hobbies.
I am only trying to point out that an individuals goals, opinions of what is "professional", and what constitutes success in life aren't the same as the other 8,999,999,999 people on the planet.
Instead of trying to disrespect people who don't live up to your mold of "successful", find people that do and hang out with them and let everyone else be. That's my opinion.
Every time I hear people diss gamers, I can't help but think of this
Funny attitude coming from /. -- I would imagine a great majority of the readers have worked, even indirectly, on some big technology to "make our lives easier."
/.? Going to the bar? Come on give me -- er -- *them* some options. I really don't want kids right now (I'm 25), I am over the drinkin' all the time thing, I read alot and get outside and do other "nerdy" shit, but yeah I play video/PC games a couple hours a day usually. It's not that hard to do.
Even then, they live like bachelor slobs in Condos, not even a real house.
I'm not trying to defend the sloven, but measuring a person simply on the basis of whether or not they own a house is pretty narrow minded. I know a person that lives in a condo because it's close to their work and they rarely use their car which means they consume less gas. They are not, however, slobs.
I know a thousand people who drive from the burbs each day in their SUVs and even their Hondas and fill up one to two times a week just going to/fro work.
I mean holy shit, spending 4 hours a day playing video games is something a high-schooler does.
What else should they be doing each night? Watching TV? Reading
Unless you spend each night volunteering at a homeless shelter and being a Big Brother, I don't know what hobbies you could be involved in that are any more altruistic. Although from the way it sounds, the homeless and troubled/needy kids might be below you.
Shit man that wasn't anti-MS the same could be said about any number of franchises.
/. if it bugs you that much.
And I know I'm being hypocritical when I say this but can we get over the bitchin' about MS bashers. Stop reading