Windows 7 may not come with an office suite and games, but at least the ones available are worth using. Seriously, the games installed on my Ubuntu machine are a card game, minesweeper, mahjong, and some other crappy games, all of which Windows has and more. Looking through the Ubuntu software browser I see a bunch of crappy clones of 20 year old video games I wouldn't want to play. And then there's Open Office, which does half of what I want, half as well as it should. Wow, talk about value added.
For me, the hardest part of getting Ubuntu installed was figuring out what the hell to do when it started loading and just dumped me at a command prompt with no explanation. Turns out it had trouble with my graphics card, and after finally getting it loaded, I can't install the ATI Drivers or the machine won't boot up again. This was explained to me to have something to do with the kernel and blah blah I don't care, all I know is it doesn't work right. So I have about 2 hours of battery life on that laptop because the card is running full throttle all the time (compared to 4+ in windows).
Then there's wireless. Here's what my university says about connecting to the network: "Making wireless work in Linux is non-trivial. Here are steps to make wireless work on the University's network with PEAP-MSCHAPV2 encryption for broadcom card running on a debian machine." Then there's about a page of commands and conf files to edit. In Windows I click on the connection and type in my username and password. Done.
That was a pretty basic machine. On my tablet PC, Ubuntu failed to recognize the graphics card, fingerprint reader, touch screen, capacitive digitizer, and WLAN card. Windows installed all automatically except the fingerprint reader, and that downloaded automatically from windows update.
This was all with 10.10. I couldn't even get 11.04 to install on my machine. Actually, no it installed just fine but then wouldn't start up. I just said F that and went back to 10.10.
And then how long to install the applications you need? Plus install the updates, plus install the anti-virus, plus, plus...
I spend a lot of time doing this on Ubuntu as well, except for the anti-virus. Replace that with drivers and hardware that isn't working properly, setting the resolution, configuring wifi because Ubuntu does not support your networks encryption method, etc. Just because Ubuntu comes with a ton of free stuff pre-installed doesn't mean I want to use any of it. Probably the only thing I do use is Firefox, if only to download Opera.
I see the logical conclusion as murdering all the passengers as they step through the scanner, piling their bodies on the plane, then detonating the whole damn thing on the runway. Because otherwise... we just can't be sure.
I don't know. I can get a single cable shipped to my doorstep from China, the other side of the damn planet, for $10, including shipping. You're telling me Best Buy can't make any money off a cable unless they sell it for 3x that amount? Not buying it. The markup on these cables is astronomical.
I'm not asking for a techno wizard at Best Buy. I'm just asking for a guy who knows something more than what the box says, and maybe to show a little bit of interest in the products. I think it has more to do with corporate culture than anything. When you pay your employees shit, and treat them like shit, they in return give shit. I think Best Buy could actually attract a lot of young tech guys who naturally are interested in the products they sell. No need to even train them! I know I was interested in working there when I was younger before I learned more about the job.
I've had some success before, at least with the manager of a local Staples. In the end they want to make a sale, I want to pay a good price. I don't know or care what pricing policies they have but I have no problem letting them know the price isn't right and I'll easily find it cheaper on the internet.
Didn't you read the TOS? Your friends are now Facebook's friends. Your pictures and memories.... all belong to Facebook. I believe there was something about your soul in there as well...
Actually I'm pretty sure they were using the TV as a loss leader. Haven't seen it cheaper anywhere else, which explains why they wanted me to buy so many accessories. Either way, I didn't just scream in "I know more than you, you are dumb." Of course I tried to explain the physics behind it. At that point their patience with me was probably lower than mine with them! Who wants a physics lesson at 10:00 in the morning?
I don't know, it seems that there's a great deal of people who know the whole thing is a sham. Ignorance isn't any better anyway. These are people who are supposed to be experts in what they sell. Why does best buy need sales staff if all they do is read what's on the box and parrot it back to me? I can just read it myself! Is it really so much to ask that I want some place that is knowledgeable about their products and/or won't lie to my face?
When I went to buy a new TV, Best Buy tried to sell me a HDMI cable. I actually needed one so I said sure how much? $35. I got in to an argument with the sales rep about how it would do nothing for my picture quality. I told him I'd give him $10 for it, and I knew that was about 700% profit for him so it works out for both of us.
So he told me he couldn't do that and I asked for a manager, maybe he could. Manager says he can't do that and this is an amazing HDMI cable and will make the picture better than any cheap cable I could buy. I told him I'm an electrical engineer and I know he's lying straight to my face to make a couple extra bucks. At that point I was pretty fed up so I said you can keep your $1000 TV. I guess the real mistake was thinking I'd get an honest sell at Best Buy
This doesn't change the fact that most customers are going from the Xbox/DVR/Roku to the screen, which is usually a 3 foot run. So why do these people need a $50, or even $20 HDMI cable. Does anyone even know where I can go out and buy and HDMI cable today for less than $10? It seems that getting it shipped from China is cheaper than driving down to Best Buy.
And sites that actively block anything apart from IE-Chrome-Firefox continue to be the primary bane of using Opera.
This pisses me off as well, but it's usually an artificial limitation.They basically say if(IE,FF,Chrome,Safari) then pass, else block. If you change your user agent to identify as one of the pass browsers, the site usually works fine.
It helps that Chrome has a lot of advertisements, and is featured on a site visited by a billion people a month. Firefox came out before Opera was free, so it was a much better choice at the time.
Right, as the article points out, the changelist for Firefox 5 [mozilla.com] is not much more expansive than the changelist for Firefox 3.6 [mozilla.com].
So has the version number lost all meaning? Why don't they just skip all this BS, and call it Firefox ($Google_Chrome_Ver+1) and be done with it? Google releases Chrome 13, Mozilla releases Firefox 14. Changelog: Incremented version number.
Wellll my problem isnt that ms owns skype now, but rather that they just introduced the patent to evesdrop on skype calls. I prefer my elective representatives use stronger security but hey what do i know?
Yes, what do you know? The patent was filed 2 years ago. That article was just someone with too much time connecting tangentially related dots and drawing wild conclusions.
I think of someone who is socially awkward, who also has an unnatural, maybe unhealthy knowledge of some subject in depth. Most often it is something on the outskirts of popular culture (Star Trek/Wars, Anime, 14th centuray blacksmithing techniques). I think the later part of my perception is the more important one.... passion for something not too many people really care about. I don't see why you have to be socially awkward to be a geek.
Personally, I'm well adjusted, good looking, have friends, a girlfriend, no problem performing or public speaking. Yet I program microcontrollers, buy a Kinect (or 3) just to hack it, watch anime, and here I am on Slashdot. I would absolutely consider myself a geek, and I have no problem considering someone a geek just because their unhealthy obsession isn't tech related.
Instead, it sounds like you are wanting a vocational/technical school degree, which is subpar, compared to getting a BS.
I wouldn't say sub-par; it's just for someone who wants something different in life. If all you want is a job, go to vocational school. You can earn a great living. It's apparent the submitter does not want to learn for learning's sake, so a vocational school is probably the right direction.
I've been using Opera since before it was free, since I feel it provides the most in terms of features and performance. Every update seems to get better and faster while maintaining a low footprint. I don't know how they keep adding features without it becoming a bloated mess, but they manage to. It's sad they don't have more market share.
Was TF2 a subscription based game? "Free to play" is a term used by MMOs like Guild Wars to indicate that there is no monthly fee, while you still have to actually purchase the game.
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Windows 7 may not come with an office suite and games, but at least the ones available are worth using. Seriously, the games installed on my Ubuntu machine are a card game, minesweeper, mahjong, and some other crappy games, all of which Windows has and more. Looking through the Ubuntu software browser I see a bunch of crappy clones of 20 year old video games I wouldn't want to play. And then there's Open Office, which does half of what I want, half as well as it should. Wow, talk about value added.
For me, the hardest part of getting Ubuntu installed was figuring out what the hell to do when it started loading and just dumped me at a command prompt with no explanation. Turns out it had trouble with my graphics card, and after finally getting it loaded, I can't install the ATI Drivers or the machine won't boot up again. This was explained to me to have something to do with the kernel and blah blah I don't care, all I know is it doesn't work right. So I have about 2 hours of battery life on that laptop because the card is running full throttle all the time (compared to 4+ in windows).
Then there's wireless. Here's what my university says about connecting to the network: "Making wireless work in Linux is non-trivial. Here are steps to make wireless work on the University's network with PEAP-MSCHAPV2 encryption for broadcom card running on a debian machine." Then there's about a page of commands and conf files to edit. In Windows I click on the connection and type in my username and password. Done.
That was a pretty basic machine. On my tablet PC, Ubuntu failed to recognize the graphics card, fingerprint reader, touch screen, capacitive digitizer, and WLAN card. Windows installed all automatically except the fingerprint reader, and that downloaded automatically from windows update.
This was all with 10.10. I couldn't even get 11.04 to install on my machine. Actually, no it installed just fine but then wouldn't start up. I just said F that and went back to 10.10.
And then how long to install the applications you need? Plus install the updates, plus install the anti-virus, plus, plus...
I spend a lot of time doing this on Ubuntu as well, except for the anti-virus. Replace that with drivers and hardware that isn't working properly, setting the resolution, configuring wifi because Ubuntu does not support your networks encryption method, etc. Just because Ubuntu comes with a ton of free stuff pre-installed doesn't mean I want to use any of it. Probably the only thing I do use is Firefox, if only to download Opera.
I see the logical conclusion as murdering all the passengers as they step through the scanner, piling their bodies on the plane, then detonating the whole damn thing on the runway. Because otherwise... we just can't be sure.
If I'm paying the same price for 1 as they are for 10,000 they need to do something about their purchasing people.
And there are jerks in this world. Maybe I'm one of them. I sure got a good laugh about it and some Karma to boot. We can't all just get along.
I don't know. I can get a single cable shipped to my doorstep from China, the other side of the damn planet, for $10, including shipping. You're telling me Best Buy can't make any money off a cable unless they sell it for 3x that amount? Not buying it. The markup on these cables is astronomical.
I'm not asking for a techno wizard at Best Buy. I'm just asking for a guy who knows something more than what the box says, and maybe to show a little bit of interest in the products. I think it has more to do with corporate culture than anything. When you pay your employees shit, and treat them like shit, they in return give shit. I think Best Buy could actually attract a lot of young tech guys who naturally are interested in the products they sell. No need to even train them! I know I was interested in working there when I was younger before I learned more about the job.
He's not saying that camera filters are not worth the money, but that retailers make money off the filter rather than the camera itself.
I've had some success before, at least with the manager of a local Staples. In the end they want to make a sale, I want to pay a good price. I don't know or care what pricing policies they have but I have no problem letting them know the price isn't right and I'll easily find it cheaper on the internet.
Didn't you read the TOS? Your friends are now Facebook's friends. Your pictures and memories.... all belong to Facebook. I believe there was something about your soul in there as well...
Actually I'm pretty sure they were using the TV as a loss leader. Haven't seen it cheaper anywhere else, which explains why they wanted me to buy so many accessories. Either way, I didn't just scream in "I know more than you, you are dumb." Of course I tried to explain the physics behind it. At that point their patience with me was probably lower than mine with them! Who wants a physics lesson at 10:00 in the morning?
I don't know, it seems that there's a great deal of people who know the whole thing is a sham. Ignorance isn't any better anyway. These are people who are supposed to be experts in what they sell. Why does best buy need sales staff if all they do is read what's on the box and parrot it back to me? I can just read it myself! Is it really so much to ask that I want some place that is knowledgeable about their products and/or won't lie to my face?
When I went to buy a new TV, Best Buy tried to sell me a HDMI cable. I actually needed one so I said sure how much? $35. I got in to an argument with the sales rep about how it would do nothing for my picture quality. I told him I'd give him $10 for it, and I knew that was about 700% profit for him so it works out for both of us.
So he told me he couldn't do that and I asked for a manager, maybe he could. Manager says he can't do that and this is an amazing HDMI cable and will make the picture better than any cheap cable I could buy. I told him I'm an electrical engineer and I know he's lying straight to my face to make a couple extra bucks. At that point I was pretty fed up so I said you can keep your $1000 TV. I guess the real mistake was thinking I'd get an honest sell at Best Buy
This doesn't change the fact that most customers are going from the Xbox/DVR/Roku to the screen, which is usually a 3 foot run. So why do these people need a $50, or even $20 HDMI cable. Does anyone even know where I can go out and buy and HDMI cable today for less than $10? It seems that getting it shipped from China is cheaper than driving down to Best Buy.
His biggest offense is denying the other coders credit.
Isn't that enough?
And sites that actively block anything apart from IE-Chrome-Firefox continue to be the primary bane of using Opera.
This pisses me off as well, but it's usually an artificial limitation.They basically say if(IE,FF,Chrome,Safari) then pass, else block. If you change your user agent to identify as one of the pass browsers, the site usually works fine.
It helps that Chrome has a lot of advertisements, and is featured on a site visited by a billion people a month. Firefox came out before Opera was free, so it was a much better choice at the time.
PETA believe pet ownership is slavery
It is, just not for the pet, but the human. I am a slave to my cat's will.
Right, as the article points out, the changelist for Firefox 5 [mozilla.com] is not much more expansive than the changelist for Firefox 3.6 [mozilla.com].
So has the version number lost all meaning? Why don't they just skip all this BS, and call it Firefox ($Google_Chrome_Ver+1) and be done with it? Google releases Chrome 13, Mozilla releases Firefox 14. Changelog: Incremented version number.
Wellll my problem isnt that ms owns skype now, but rather that they just introduced the patent to evesdrop on skype calls. I prefer my elective representatives use stronger security but hey what do i know?
Yes, what do you know? The patent was filed 2 years ago. That article was just someone with too much time connecting tangentially related dots and drawing wild conclusions.
I think of someone who is socially awkward, who also has an unnatural, maybe unhealthy knowledge of some subject in depth. Most often it is something on the outskirts of popular culture (Star Trek/Wars, Anime, 14th centuray blacksmithing techniques). I think the later part of my perception is the more important one.... passion for something not too many people really care about. I don't see why you have to be socially awkward to be a geek.
Personally, I'm well adjusted, good looking, have friends, a girlfriend, no problem performing or public speaking. Yet I program microcontrollers, buy a Kinect (or 3) just to hack it, watch anime, and here I am on Slashdot. I would absolutely consider myself a geek, and I have no problem considering someone a geek just because their unhealthy obsession isn't tech related.
Thank you. I can't say I'm surprised it took so long for this comment to show up. Wish I had mod points.
Instead, it sounds like you are wanting a vocational/technical school degree, which is subpar, compared to getting a BS.
I wouldn't say sub-par; it's just for someone who wants something different in life. If all you want is a job, go to vocational school. You can earn a great living. It's apparent the submitter does not want to learn for learning's sake, so a vocational school is probably the right direction.
I've been using Opera since before it was free, since I feel it provides the most in terms of features and performance. Every update seems to get better and faster while maintaining a low footprint. I don't know how they keep adding features without it becoming a bloated mess, but they manage to. It's sad they don't have more market share.
8 months now.
Was TF2 a subscription based game? "Free to play" is a term used by MMOs like Guild Wars to indicate that there is no monthly fee, while you still have to actually purchase the game.
Doesn't this insurance and the constant barrage of lawsuits contribute to the astronomical cost of health-care in the US?