This is not the only reason to hate them. I got a call from them once with regards to a subscription to their newspaper, which I did not want, but the sales lady was really the sterotype of the pushy New Yorker and would not take no for an answer.
This of course was not helped by the fact that having done phone service and support, I hate being rude to ANYONE on the phone nor did the fact that I am a mild mannered Washingtonian (The State, silly) and a pretty much stereotypical one at that (polite, coffee drinking, weather conversationalist). She would not understand how a sane civilized human being would not want to recieve the NYT on their doorstep every morning. To her is seemed unconscionable, almost to the point of negligence, that a person of my demographic would not worship the very ground that the NYT was printed on. I simply MUST read the review of books, she informed me. I must.
But I haven't and I probably won't. I haven't found them to be any more enlightening than any other news source out there.
This is not exactly true. You can set permissions so that users cannot install programs. This is commonly done in the workplace, but not so much in people's homes.
I am sure if DoCoMo was concerned they would have filed a patenet in the USA. As it is they don't really do business here so it seems kind of pointless o pay to register a patent here.
The might have been able to make a boat load of money, but I guess that is a gamble they didn't take.
It was the convergence of the two MS OS trees, which it appears will seperate again in later releases. It took most all of the things that were goods with the previous releases and made them better, nice looking, and more stable. They are no rebooting jokes with XP, there isn't much learning curve and the networking is a snap.
I would say it is a big leap forward based on the fact that it is the only consumer (think "user") geared OS Microsoft has ever released that is not a complete an utter joke.
You have disabled one of the ways. The new start menu is definatly one of them.
I am was an early adopter of XP, and at first I hated the new Start menu, over the years I have come to find it much more useful and easier on my already bad eyes.
Also I like the fact that you can lock down the start bar. No more having to try to explain to my wife's 85 year old grandpa what happened to his startbar.
I also I have noted that most everything is much easier to set up, from networking to hardware.
All in all it isn't a bad little system. It doens't allow you to get under the hood quite like linux does but you never have to worry about a dependency either.
What else would you compare it to? Mac? Linux? I still don't think linux is ready for the mainstream user's desktop. (hell it frustrates me at least once a week and I sorta know what I am doing).
I do agree that they did swipe a lot of idea's from MacOS which were good, but I still don't think they really started to do it right until X.
I was amazed to see the first comment say excatly what I thought.
XP is a pretty giant leap forward in Desktop computing, as a Linux enthusiast grudgingly decided that was true a couple years ago. Now M$ is trying to go back and fix some of the things we have been telling them is messed up with their OS. I see nothing wrong with that at all.
qw(And that, IMHO, is the root of all those sweeping generalizations about the other genre/race/social category/etc. People seeing the problem only in others, but conveniently turning a blind eye to when they do the same.)
I was actually going to addend my post by some comment about sweeping generalizations merely being stated for fun and/or profit.
I guess I am gonna have to work out that user registration system that I always wanted but was too lazy to code. I was waiting for 3 to come out so I could have it up and running and have it not cut into my UT2k4 time.
Oh well.
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My entire family is from Nebraska and what I want to know is how do they get these things to wave politely to oncoming traffic. Are there at least fail safes in place so that if someone waves to them, they don't make the grievous social faux pas of not waving back?
It's not necessarily broken and it doens't replace that item (well maybe for a time or a battle it does, it's not untill you are much higher level that you can maintain that all the time. Also there is a chance for a lower roll with the old spell.
And trust me, or DM is a sick and twisted individual who likes to cause us harm so that helps to make up for it.
Scene from last gaming session.
"Okay read down the list of your magic items."
"Ring of Protection +2"
[rolls die]
"It don't work anymore."
"Gauntlets of Ogre Strength"
[rolls die]
"Don't work no more."...
Repeat ad nausium. I think 2 items made it. ONe was a light healing potion.
I guess my group has never played conventional DnD as we are always missing memebers that might be considered crucial to a regular party. Our games are more of a calloborative fiction than a game.
I think that is why I get upset at rule changes because I try t build my charecters around their abilities, and I tend to play charecters for a long time.
i don't really get your Everquest reference as I have not played it or any game like it. Sometimes a Cleric is a tank, other times they are used to empower tanks and heal, it just depends on your style. I definatly do not play my cleric as if he were a vending machine. He is maul weilding tank, with a penchant for wrestling with his own party memebers whether they want to or not. HIs back story was started before the release of 3.5, so the rule change (if my GM were to adhere to it strictly, would definatly hurt him (as it is I can take either spell, I just have to specify it), They are low level spells, yes, but I don't see a problem with asking your god for the power to buff yourself up whenever you are awake (as I could easily do by level 8). I don't like losing a combat round to get ready. A round where I could be smashing things (which is what my charecter would do instead of spell himself up, he isn't that smart, shit he won't even try to turn undead, he prefers to smash them into tiny peices).
As far a Mage armor goes, I always thought it was a totally bard oriented spell because you could have it on and you wouldn't have to sully your fantastically dashing clothes by wearing armor over them. Or at least that is how I played it when I last played a bard. They weren't toally useless in 3.5 if you took a couple of levels of fighter with it. I had a pretty sick Bow-Bard with that combo.
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This is not the only reason to hate them. I got a call from them once with regards to a subscription to their newspaper, which I did not want, but the sales lady was really the sterotype of the pushy New Yorker and would not take no for an answer.
This of course was not helped by the fact that having done phone service and support, I hate being rude to ANYONE on the phone nor did the fact that I am a mild mannered Washingtonian (The State, silly) and a pretty much stereotypical one at that (polite, coffee drinking, weather conversationalist). She would not understand how a sane civilized human being would not want to recieve the NYT on their doorstep every morning. To her is seemed unconscionable, almost to the point of negligence, that a person of my demographic would not worship the very ground that the NYT was printed on. I simply MUST read the review of books, she informed me. I must.
But I haven't and I probably won't. I haven't found them to be any more enlightening than any other news source out there.
I certainly hope so.
"Windows does not have this extra safeguard."
This is not exactly true. You can set permissions so that users cannot install programs. This is commonly done in the workplace, but not so much in people's homes.
Were you wrapped in a blanket of smug self-indulgence?
I hear that makes all the difference.
...how do they sleep at night?
The answer however is to easy to come up with.
Very comfortably, on a big pile of money.
I am sure if DoCoMo was concerned they would have filed a patenet in the USA. As it is they don't really do business here so it seems kind of pointless o pay to register a patent here.
The might have been able to make a boat load of money, but I guess that is a gamble they didn't take.
By reboot jokes I mean...
"Dogbert Tech Support.."
"I..."
"Shut up, reboot"
Later.
"Hey it works! I..."
"Shut up, hang up."
I don't see what is so FisherPrice about the design on XP. Even if it were, I would somehow be strangely comforted by it.
I do use KDE as well on one of my machines. I feel that it doesn't have near the polish as XP does, though it has much more potential.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
It was the convergence of the two MS OS trees, which it appears will seperate again in later releases. It took most all of the things that were goods with the previous releases and made them better, nice looking, and more stable. They are no rebooting jokes with XP, there isn't much learning curve and the networking is a snap.
I would say it is a big leap forward based on the fact that it is the only consumer (think "user") geared OS Microsoft has ever released that is not a complete an utter joke.
I mean come on, did you use ME?
You have disabled one of the ways. The new start menu is definatly one of them.
I am was an early adopter of XP, and at first I hated the new Start menu, over the years I have come to find it much more useful and easier on my already bad eyes.
Also I like the fact that you can lock down the start bar. No more having to try to explain to my wife's 85 year old grandpa what happened to his startbar.
I also I have noted that most everything is much easier to set up, from networking to hardware.
All in all it isn't a bad little system. It doens't allow you to get under the hood quite like linux does but you never have to worry about a dependency either.
What else would you compare it to? Mac? Linux? I still don't think linux is ready for the mainstream user's desktop. (hell it frustrates me at least once a week and I sorta know what I am doing).
I do agree that they did swipe a lot of idea's from MacOS which were good, but I still don't think they really started to do it right until X.
I thought it only did that in program files and the windows folder, though it had been a long time since I have seen a fresh install.
That was exactly what I wanted to pipe in with.
I was amazed to see the first comment say excatly what I thought.
XP is a pretty giant leap forward in Desktop computing, as a Linux enthusiast grudgingly decided that was true a couple years ago. Now M$ is trying to go back and fix some of the things we have been telling them is messed up with their OS. I see nothing wrong with that at all.
I ALWAYS miss the subjects when there aren't very many posts.
While I agree with you on the stadium thing, I think he foot the bill for this one. I am happy he did.
And if you want to live in a city devoid of any culture I am sure we could look hard enough and find one. Detroit?
qw(And that, IMHO, is the root of all those sweeping generalizations about the other genre/race/social category/etc. People seeing the problem only in others, but conveniently turning a blind eye to when they do the same.)
I was actually going to addend my post by some comment about sweeping generalizations merely being stated for fun and/or profit.
I woudl argue that you will never get into a good relationship without being in at least a couple of bad ones.
KNowing when to quit is the important bit, for both things.
It is my experience that men and woman deal with daily life stress in different ways, ironically they are two very different non-symbiotic ways.
Women deal with their lives by talking about things that delve into the minutae of their daily existence.
Men like to get really absorbed into something that doesn't envolve talking or an excessive amount of conscious thought like a game or tv.
My wife likes the Mario Kart, but only on the 50 and 100 cc.
That is the only non-solitare/tetris game she will play.
There isn't as much difference as you might think.
I guess I am gonna have to work out that user registration system that I always wanted but was too lazy to code. I was waiting for 3 to come out so I could have it up and running and have it not cut into my UT2k4 time.
Oh well.
My entire family is from Nebraska and what I want to know is how do they get these things to wave politely to oncoming traffic. Are there at least fail safes in place so that if someone waves to them, they don't make the grievous social faux pas of not waving back?
Oh and by the way,
Your sig makes me happy.
It's not necessarily broken and it doens't replace that item (well maybe for a time or a battle it does, it's not untill you are much higher level that you can maintain that all the time. Also there is a chance for a lower roll with the old spell.
...
And trust me, or DM is a sick and twisted individual who likes to cause us harm so that helps to make up for it.
Scene from last gaming session.
"Okay read down the list of your magic items."
"Ring of Protection +2"
[rolls die]
"It don't work anymore."
"Gauntlets of Ogre Strength"
[rolls die]
"Don't work no more."
Repeat ad nausium. I think 2 items made it. ONe was a light healing potion.
I guess my group has never played conventional DnD as we are always missing memebers that might be considered crucial to a regular party. Our games are more of a calloborative fiction than a game.
I think that is why I get upset at rule changes because I try t build my charecters around their abilities, and I tend to play charecters for a long time.
i don't really get your Everquest reference as I have not played it or any game like it. Sometimes a Cleric is a tank, other times they are used to empower tanks and heal, it just depends on your style. I definatly do not play my cleric as if he were a vending machine. He is maul weilding tank, with a penchant for wrestling with his own party memebers whether they want to or not. HIs back story was started before the release of 3.5, so the rule change (if my GM were to adhere to it strictly, would definatly hurt him (as it is I can take either spell, I just have to specify it), They are low level spells, yes, but I don't see a problem with asking your god for the power to buff yourself up whenever you are awake (as I could easily do by level 8). I don't like losing a combat round to get ready. A round where I could be smashing things (which is what my charecter would do instead of spell himself up, he isn't that smart, shit he won't even try to turn undead, he prefers to smash them into tiny peices).
As far a Mage armor goes, I always thought it was a totally bard oriented spell because you could have it on and you wouldn't have to sully your fantastically dashing clothes by wearing armor over them. Or at least that is how I played it when I last played a bard. They weren't toally useless in 3.5 if you took a couple of levels of fighter with it. I had a pretty sick Bow-Bard with that combo.