Last time I pre ordered a game from gamestop I showed up on release day cause no one bothered to call me and they were sold out, they gladly offered to get me a copy as soon as it came back in stock but it wouldnt be with all the preorder swag which cost a little extra.
so I figured if this system is based around the child who may or may not work there next week writing my name down, why bother?
well that is only valid for XP with less than service pack 2, MIcrosoft makes it pretty easy you download the 300 or so MB windows XP service pack 3 redistributeable and burn that to a CD
install SP3 before getting on the internet, though again this is only required if your using a like first print of XP, like my copy of XP Home I bought at k-mart back in 2002 or something
the one and only time its happened to me was with a brand new first print of windows XP home, I installed it got on dial up (yea thats how long ago) and before I even got to the windows update page... BAM!
but of course now if I dare install that cd on a computer its instantly followed up with a sp3.exe on another cd and its half updated before it even gets network drivers that of course is connected to a firewalled router
no you get a widget which ignores other icons in folder view really fucking handy to have 2 dozen widgets sitting on top of the spreadsheet file you need to work on
and I installed the latest and greatest of mint kde, so whatever the fuck it and kbuntu are using as install, besides its not my fault your precious little desktop is an unuseable pile of garbage meant for touch screen media players I actually have more important things to do other than twist my mind around some minority desktop on some minority OS that thinks its being cute by adopting windows 3.1 conventions and more effects than a fucking xbox360 game
im sorry no its not a minor esthetic thing, I sat down with this thing and after fighting with it I had icons that you can move in boxes coved in a layer of widgets on top, and it totally broke every single thing I do to the point where I just got rid of it
I like my stuff orginized too, I dont like having someone elses perfect model of workflow in my fucking face to the point where seemingly harmless things like a folder on the desktop (and I mean the real desktop not the program manager window labeled as desktop) were just broken. Hell I gave up after spending a bunch of time trying to move icons in the folder view "activity"
yea there is a good reason, I want shit there! and no I dont want widgets launchers and whatever else goes on, I want a link with a picture
KDE on that FAIL
and sorry no this is not the desktop of the future ha lets try this? what other windows system require all your programs live in side of little boxes on a sterile and blank background, give up windows 3.1, yea your UI model is the freaking program manager with 3dfx and you expect me to buy in to this "of the future"?
you created a FUCKING WIDGET you god damed retard, do you know what the difference is? ones a FUCKING PICTURE that repersents a program the other IS A FUCKING PROGRAM to represent that picture to repersent that program
its fucking dumb and it gets in the way when icons and widgets mix, thats why they give you that stupid box for your desktop, and I dont like having my desktop in a fucking window
maybe if I was a 12 year old looser with no life I would sit down and figure this shit out like you, but you know what? when your GUI requires a manual in 2011, you fucked it up
1) no you cant, you can almost turn it off but it never goes the fuck away 2) yea I can, it does not involve a wiimote and a set top box ui 3) I dont have time to learn some fucked up specialty UI on a nieche OS only used by nerds, call me when linux is on the desktop. Oh thats right you cant even get a basic UI working anymore
no it didnt fuckwit, it created a widget, now widgets and icons do not play by the same rule so if you dare have a fucking document on there at the same time they will stack on top of eachother, if you mouse over one it has a box expand to 3 times the size of the icon and you have to dance around these fucking idiot wigets with little semitransparent boxes flashing all over the screen
god fucking damit thats so much better than a fucking icon, wouldnt you say so dipshit?
no I would like to know why I am dumb for thinking that these new GUI's cant even provide something as simple and as old as a desktop
its not an unreasonable request, I happen to like the desktop vs having to manually setup little semitransparent boxes to replicate that function with widgets
apparently its becuase I am stuck in the 90's or as I like to read it, know how to operate a computer and not force myself to use something that functions like a set top box
I havent spent a lot of time in Gnome3 admittedly, but the reason for that is most of what they tout is of little or no use to my daily personal computer
I think I would love it on my work PC but hell, thats a 1.8ghz p4 with sd ram and a 2x agp rage, so even if I could break the windows cycle at work, its not going to run it worth a crap
I dont know what your deal is, if you looked at the original comment instead of instantly going KDE Fanboi to the rescue you would notice I said gnome 2 and kde3 are fine
And I find it really fucking silly that I have to read a god damned tech doc to be able to drag an icon from the fucking start menu to the desktop, maybe I am living in the 90's, why in the hell would I want a shortcut some place convenient without making it a obnoxious widget or spending time engineering my workspace with a fucking interior designer?
no it just forced me to spend a shit ton of time searching through forum threads to figure out how to set the durn thing up where I could drag a icon from a window on to the desktop
even before all the hub bub over the years I looked at a playstation 3, and what I saw was very expensive, lack of a quality controller cause I am constantly fumbling over the trigger buttons on a 6-asses, not all that much difference in the quality of games, and there for the longest time very little games.
I looked and looked and finally it popped in my head, Oh! they turned playstation into a 3DO! and bought an XBOX360 to set next to my ps1, ps2, and psp
3DO did not invest heavily into its future system either
You like apple? fine, but historically they are constantly breaking compatibility with themselves which makes it hard for serious people who want a bit more of a long term investment than a buzz-headline.
I see stories like this and think, hunh here is some tard tossing a pile of money down a proprietary hole for what? to look "cool"? Thanks I know where not to waste my money.
Slashdot Mirror
dont be a dink, Duke Nukem 3D could barley run on a saturn and it was an old dead system well before then
ps I ended up walking into best buy moments later and got the pre-release package with no fuss and not having to waste my time preordering
Last time I pre ordered a game from gamestop I showed up on release day cause no one bothered to call me and they were sold out, they gladly offered to get me a copy as soon as it came back in stock but it wouldnt be with all the preorder swag which cost a little extra.
so I figured if this system is based around the child who may or may not work there next week writing my name down, why bother?
well that is only valid for XP with less than service pack 2, MIcrosoft makes it pretty easy you download the 300 or so MB windows XP service pack 3 redistributeable and burn that to a CD
install SP3 before getting on the internet, though again this is only required if your using a like first print of XP, like my copy of XP Home I bought at k-mart back in 2002 or something
the one and only time its happened to me was with a brand new first print of windows XP home, I installed it got on dial up (yea thats how long ago) and before I even got to the windows update page ... BAM!
but of course now if I dare install that cd on a computer its instantly followed up with a sp3.exe on another cd and its half updated before it even gets network drivers that of course is connected to a firewalled router
hey now, notepad does just fine on xp 64
please do tell, what are these business opportunities that we have not seen in the 100+ years of mass transportation of people?
just because its using a "new" technology does not instantly mean its a totally new business.
Thousands of websites that compare current celphone plans and your on slashdot asking?
no you get a widget which ignores other icons in folder view really fucking handy to have 2 dozen widgets sitting on top of the spreadsheet file you need to work on
and I installed the latest and greatest of mint kde, so whatever the fuck it and kbuntu are using as install, besides its not my fault your precious little desktop is an unuseable pile of garbage meant for touch screen media players I actually have more important things to do other than twist my mind around some minority desktop on some minority OS that thinks its being cute by adopting windows 3.1 conventions and more effects than a fucking xbox360 game
let us know how that turns out for you fanboi
im sorry no its not a minor esthetic thing, I sat down with this thing and after fighting with it I had icons that you can move in boxes coved in a layer of widgets on top, and it totally broke every single thing I do to the point where I just got rid of it
I like my stuff orginized too, I dont like having someone elses perfect model of workflow in my fucking face to the point where seemingly harmless things like a folder on the desktop (and I mean the real desktop not the program manager window labeled as desktop) were just broken. Hell I gave up after spending a bunch of time trying to move icons in the folder view "activity"
yea there is a good reason, I want shit there! and no I dont want widgets launchers and whatever else goes on, I want a link with a picture
KDE on that FAIL
and sorry no this is not the desktop of the future ha lets try this? what other windows system require all your programs live in side of little boxes on a sterile and blank background, give up windows 3.1, yea your UI model is the freaking program manager with 3dfx and you expect me to buy in to this "of the future"?
bullshit
you created a FUCKING WIDGET you god damed retard, do you know what the difference is? ones a FUCKING PICTURE that repersents a program the other IS A FUCKING PROGRAM to represent that picture to repersent that program
its fucking dumb and it gets in the way when icons and widgets mix, thats why they give you that stupid box for your desktop, and I dont like having my desktop in a fucking window
maybe if I was a 12 year old looser with no life I would sit down and figure this shit out like you, but you know what? when your GUI requires a manual in 2011, you fucked it up
1) no you cant, you can almost turn it off but it never goes the fuck away
2) yea I can, it does not involve a wiimote and a set top box ui
3) I dont have time to learn some fucked up specialty UI on a nieche OS only used by nerds, call me when linux is on the desktop. Oh thats right you cant even get a basic UI working anymore
I did not insult you, now apparently per our other conversation you dont know the difference tween an icon and a widget and I am the fucking dumb one?
no it didnt fuckwit, it created a widget, now widgets and icons do not play by the same rule so if you dare have a fucking document on there at the same time they will stack on top of eachother, if you mouse over one it has a box expand to 3 times the size of the icon and you have to dance around these fucking idiot wigets with little semitransparent boxes flashing all over the screen
god fucking damit thats so much better than a fucking icon, wouldnt you say so dipshit?
no I would like to know why I am dumb for thinking that these new GUI's cant even provide something as simple and as old as a desktop
its not an unreasonable request, I happen to like the desktop vs having to manually setup little semitransparent boxes to replicate that function with widgets
apparently its becuase I am stuck in the 90's or as I like to read it, know how to operate a computer and not force myself to use something that functions like a set top box
I havent spent a lot of time in Gnome3 admittedly, but the reason for that is most of what they tout is of little or no use to my daily personal computer
I think I would love it on my work PC but hell, thats a 1.8ghz p4 with sd ram and a 2x agp rage, so even if I could break the windows cycle at work, its not going to run it worth a crap
Care to explain or do you have an issue where you randomly insult someone without the tiniest amount of thought?
I dont know what your deal is, if you looked at the original comment instead of instantly going KDE Fanboi to the rescue you would notice I said gnome 2 and kde3 are fine
And I find it really fucking silly that I have to read a god damned tech doc to be able to drag an icon from the fucking start menu to the desktop, maybe I am living in the 90's, why in the hell would I want a shortcut some place convenient without making it a obnoxious widget or spending time engineering my workspace with a fucking interior designer?
its ok, they would have charged you 30-60 dollars for a power adapter, and another 7 or 8 for the plug tip
no it just forced me to spend a shit ton of time searching through forum threads to figure out how to set the durn thing up where I could drag a icon from a window on to the desktop
~brilliant~
is gnome 2 or kde 3, none of the new offerings can even provide you with a working desktop
was a chunk of rock worth it nasa? couldnt call it fraud and let the authorities take care of it? had to set up a "sting"?
even before all the hub bub over the years I looked at a playstation 3, and what I saw was very expensive, lack of a quality controller cause I am constantly fumbling over the trigger buttons on a 6-asses, not all that much difference in the quality of games, and there for the longest time very little games.
I looked and looked and finally it popped in my head, Oh! they turned playstation into a 3DO! and bought an XBOX360 to set next to my ps1, ps2, and psp
3DO did not invest heavily into its future system either
You like apple? fine, but historically they are constantly breaking compatibility with themselves which makes it hard for serious people who want a bit more of a long term investment than a buzz-headline.
I see stories like this and think, hunh here is some tard tossing a pile of money down a proprietary hole for what? to look "cool"? Thanks I know where not to waste my money.