I am sure there are plenty of employers who are happy with that sort of thing, and plenty who don't accept word anyway, or whatever, but you obviously haven't had much real world experience dealing with Sally Jane Rottencrotch trying to open your files.
In the world of "Office Space," you just use Word and STFU and "go along to get along." Nobody likes a James Dean.
Quit trying to circle-jerk me and step back and just accept that, for the universe of games, in toto, Windows is better. You're reaching and it makes Linux look bad.
I can get one or two games working in Linux, and I guess I could Winex emulate more, but what's the point? Windows is better for games, because that's what the game was written for. Everything else is a hack that just happens to work -- it is sufficiently good in some cases, but "games" in general "work" better in Windows.
Nah. The structure of your argument is: "Position B is antithetical to Position A. Position A is fundamentally wrong and Position B is fundamentally right."
I'm arguing sideways from that, more like a sociologist: I am describing the structures of society, the strange things monkeys do in groups, without passing judgements on the values of the positions.
In particular I do not share your views. My argument is more with the structure of the need of a group of monkeys to call some things right and some things wrong.
For instance, should the vast majority of the monkeys start to ascribe to your views, you would find the need to "punish" some law breaker who tried to charge money for something. We have historical exmamples of this after the 20th century.
I offer no solutions, just a bemused sociological interest. I certainly advocate no "cause." (at least not yours). I don't agree with you.
Like you, I once (recently) set out on this Quixotic quest to discover a set of self-consistent rules within society, whereby one can function adequately. My conclusion that, while "society" says one thing, in reality it conspires to produce "law-breakers". Societies do not care so much about producing law-abiding citizens, their primary purpose is to produce law-breakers, who they will then punish.
Since "society" cannot realize this about itself, it often leaves most criminals unpunished. Therefore it is better to be a criminal.
One of the mistakes of the young is not listening to the older people. If they say something to you, listen. Chances are they've been through something and will tell you something worth hearing.
My Dad updates his computer just fine. I'm constantly shocked when I call him and find out he's changed his passwords, updated virus defs, and downloaded patches, and all these things I assume he couldn't do, just fine without asking anybody.
I have had to drag him kicking and screaming every 3 years from Win98 -> Win2000 -> WinXP. He really hates a new O/S. But he maintains it as well as anybody.
You're welcome to your own opinion, but why "own" anything? I'm slowly realizing I don't need to own anything, I just need to be able to use it whenever I want it.
It's much better. It's somebody else's responsibility.
I use fluxbox and I run gnome-settings-daemon and kdeinit in my.xsession. All my gnome/kde apps are fully eye-candied up and it's all really, really fast, and doesn't use much memory.
Of course, there are tradeoffs. It doesn't work like windows. It's different. It's better. It's every thing you ever wanted in a beer... and less.
I used to ask questions of the workers at the "ATT Store" where I bought my phone and set up my services, and I felt like you that the services was absolutely atrocious. I was asking about the ins and outs of switching to GSM.
Finally I called phone support and got an Indian woman who read in copious details all the policies and answered every question in minutest detail, about what would be involved. I was satisfied.
Basically they've met expectations, and that's all I can ask. I have been frustrated by them occasionally but no worse than every other company these days.
So I never understood why they were "the worst." But then again, I never did their GSM. Probably t hat's it.
I'm the Bay Area, Northern California, on AT&T with a non-GSM Nokia 8260.
Three years ago I used to get dropped calls a lot but for the last two years, and currently, I am quite satisified with the reception, the price, and the features. I'm entirely satisfied with AT&T and worried about what I should do, since apparently no one else is.
You obviously are a disoragnized slob. My linear algebra professor used to come in with the notes for a 90-minute lecture on a single post-it note on his textbook.
Windows has become shackle-ware so badly (Half-Life now requires a constant highspeed internet connection to play single-player) and spyware and gagware that what you need to do is dual-boot into Linux, backup your "clean" Windows XP partition with partimage, do your stuff, and restore it every other day: just install apps as needed, let it barf all over the PC, then clean up.
It's become utterly hopeless and senile, imaging and restoring often is the only hope. Or mind imprisonment.
Somebody help me: I keep my todo/dates, todo/tasks, books/want, books/have, tidbits in a plain Unix text file and I maintain it with a text editor and print it using a2ps -2. My life fits in two columns landscape mode.
Whenever I need it, I print it, at a cost of 17 cents on my inkjet. When I need to update it, I simply use a pen and "sync" at home later.
I can fold it, put it in my pocket, access the data randomly instantly, and easily add graphics or test with a 0% error rate. However it gets expensive at 17 cents per sync.
All I need is a little bit of memory (32k) and a read-only display screen, super-tiny, and cheap as hell. If America wasn't ass-backwards, I'd just SMS the stuff to my cell phone.
As an employee at Microsoft I had TWO of the top of the line PocketPCs : I played quake on them, wrote some C programs, and put them away as toys. I need to do WORK, as a technical person, not a salesman. All I need is digital paper.
These days, most puzzles in games seem to be EXTREMELY easy. The answers are practically handed to you.
I just keep the walkthrough open in a webbrowser and windows-key out of the game if it takes more than 5 seconds to figure out a puzzle.
I work enough at work -- all I want is lots of splashy colors and it to make me feel good (kinda like life).
Feelin' good's good enough.
Pets.com anyone?
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It's official: Friendster and Instant Messaging are in a bubble. I swear to freaking god, people will fall for the same crapola time after time after time after time. Remember, people once thought pets.com was a GREAT idea!
It's times like this I'm glad Silicon Valley is being outsourced.
What a metric moron. Let him writhe in his inferior software and vaunt in his "sophisiticated" ways.
He's just trying to validate his own existence.
He's right -- you *do* have to make money, and communism sucks, but he's wrong if he thinks the work of the Closed Source community is not a total fraud. The two are not mutually exclusive.
"I haven't spoken to my father, except in an annual business-meeting context, for the past four years," he says, as matter-of-factly as possible. "My father is very angry with me - angry to the point that he never wishes to have anything to do with me again.
"He communicates with me now through his lawyer, so I have to live on the basis that he will never speak to me again as long as he lives. He will never see my children. He will never have anything to do with me." He pauses. "And I grew up thinking this was such a wonderful person."
You're right about Tolkien signing over the movie rights.
You're wrong about how C.Tolkien feels about the movies: I was quoting a story on CNN's "Paul Zahn" show 3 days ago with a Bio on Michael Tolkien. They said there was bad blood and C.Tolkien did not like the movies.
But Tolkien did sell the rights, in the late 60s. He thought it was impossible to make them.
I'm not that much a purist: I would like to see in 20 years an all photorealistic CGI version made in 6 movies, one for each "Book" (each volume is two books), and a more faithful one.
Part of the joy of Tolkien's work is knowing that this river is 20 miles from that hill. Those who have read the books hundreds of times know it that well. (And it has been emboddied in the Tolkien MUCK.) They missed the boat on the magic.
Let me get this straight: you're saying the son of the author of the book voted Best Book of the Century is less important than some fat New Zealender who bought them and ran a non-linear computer program.
Where are your values.
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This is going to be the vaguest answer you ever got:
I saw a program on PBS or The Discovery Channel or HGTV or God knows what channel...
about a hotel in Arizona or Malaysia or Australia or god knows which country
which has a water recycling system installed. They have low flow toilets, and a filtration system, and the water is in a clear acryllic case. All the water for the all the systems is mostly recycled.
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I am sure there are plenty of employers who are happy with that sort of thing, and plenty who don't accept word anyway, or whatever, but you obviously haven't had much real world experience dealing with Sally Jane Rottencrotch trying to open your files.
In the world of "Office Space," you just use Word and STFU and "go along to get along." Nobody likes a James Dean.
Sad but true.
Quit trying to circle-jerk me and step back and just accept that, for the universe of games, in toto, Windows is better. You're reaching and it makes Linux look bad.
I can get one or two games working in Linux, and I guess I could Winex emulate more, but what's the point? Windows is better for games, because that's what the game was written for. Everything else is a hack that just happens to work -- it is sufficiently good in some cases, but "games" in general "work" better in Windows.
Fanboy!
Windows is superior doing:
* OCR (gocr sucks; http://www.gutenberg.net/faq/S-17.shtml)
* PVR (ivtv hauppauge drivers stutters a lot; SageTV + working drivers rocks)
* Games (of course)
* Doing my Taxes, doing my resume.
That's about it. Linux is better at everything else.
Nah. The structure of your argument is: "Position B is antithetical to Position A. Position A is fundamentally wrong and Position B is fundamentally right."
I'm arguing sideways from that, more like a sociologist: I am describing the structures of society, the strange things monkeys do in groups, without passing judgements on the values of the positions.
In particular I do not share your views. My argument is more with the structure of the need of a group of monkeys to call some things right and some things wrong.
For instance, should the vast majority of the monkeys start to ascribe to your views, you would find the need to "punish" some law breaker who tried to charge money for something. We have historical exmamples of this after the 20th century.
I offer no solutions, just a bemused sociological interest. I certainly advocate no "cause." (at least not yours). I don't agree with you.
Like you, I once (recently) set out on this Quixotic quest to discover a set of self-consistent rules within society, whereby one can function adequately. My conclusion that, while "society" says one thing, in reality it conspires to produce "law-breakers". Societies do not care so much about producing law-abiding citizens, their primary purpose is to produce law-breakers, who they will then punish.
Since "society" cannot realize this about itself, it often leaves most criminals unpunished. Therefore it is better to be a criminal.
You'll go insane the other way.
One of the mistakes of the young is not listening to the older people. If they say something to you, listen. Chances are they've been through something and will tell you something worth hearing.
My Dad updates his computer just fine. I'm constantly shocked when I call him and find out he's changed his passwords, updated virus defs, and downloaded patches, and all these things I assume he couldn't do, just fine without asking anybody.
I have had to drag him kicking and screaming every 3 years from Win98 -> Win2000 -> WinXP. He really hates a new O/S. But he maintains it as well as anybody.
You're welcome to your own opinion, but why "own" anything? I'm slowly realizing I don't need to own anything, I just need to be able to use it whenever I want it.
It's much better. It's somebody else's responsibility.
I use fluxbox and I run gnome-settings-daemon and kdeinit in my .xsession. All my gnome/kde apps are fully eye-candied up and it's all really, really fast, and doesn't use much memory.
... and less.
Of course, there are tradeoffs. It doesn't work like windows. It's different. It's better. It's every thing you ever wanted in a beer
I used to ask questions of the workers at the "ATT Store" where I bought my phone and set up my services, and I felt like you that the services was absolutely atrocious. I was asking about the ins and outs of switching to GSM.
Finally I called phone support and got an Indian woman who read in copious details all the policies and answered every question in minutest detail, about what would be involved. I was satisfied.
Basically they've met expectations, and that's all I can ask. I have been frustrated by them occasionally but no worse than every other company these days.
So I never understood why they were "the worst." But then again, I never did their GSM. Probably t hat's it.
I'm the Bay Area, Northern California, on AT&T with a non-GSM Nokia 8260.
Three years ago I used to get dropped calls a lot but for the last two years, and currently, I am quite satisified with the reception, the price, and the features. I'm entirely satisfied with AT&T and worried about what I should do, since apparently no one else is.
Am I affected by this?
You obviously are a disoragnized slob. My linear algebra professor used to come in with the notes for a 90-minute lecture on a single post-it note on his textbook.
Very small writing.
It only takes ten minutes to back up the part and 2 minutes to restore it. Try it. You'll dig it.
Windows has become shackle-ware so badly (Half-Life now requires a constant highspeed internet connection to play single-player) and spyware and gagware that what you need to do is dual-boot into Linux, backup your "clean" Windows XP partition with partimage, do your stuff, and restore it every other day: just install apps as needed, let it barf all over the PC, then clean up.
It's become utterly hopeless and senile, imaging and restoring often is the only hope. Or mind imprisonment.
Somebody help me: I keep my todo/dates, todo/tasks, books/want, books/have, tidbits in a plain Unix text file and I maintain it with a text editor and print it using a2ps -2. My life fits in two columns landscape mode.
Whenever I need it, I print it, at a cost of 17 cents on my inkjet. When I need to update it, I simply use a pen and "sync" at home later.
I can fold it, put it in my pocket, access the data randomly instantly, and easily add graphics or test with a 0% error rate. However it gets expensive at 17 cents per sync.
All I need is a little bit of memory (32k) and a read-only display screen, super-tiny, and cheap as hell. If America wasn't ass-backwards, I'd just SMS the stuff to my cell phone.
As an employee at Microsoft I had TWO of the top of the line PocketPCs : I played quake on them, wrote some C programs, and put them away as toys. I need to do WORK, as a technical person, not a salesman. All I need is digital paper.
What can I use?
I just keep the walkthrough open in a webbrowser and windows-key out of the game if it takes more than 5 seconds to figure out a puzzle.
I work enough at work -- all I want is lots of splashy colors and it to make me feel good (kinda like life).
Feelin' good's good enough.
It's official: Friendster and Instant Messaging are in a bubble. I swear to freaking god, people will fall for the same crapola time after time after time after time. Remember, people once thought pets.com was a GREAT idea!
It's times like this I'm glad Silicon Valley is being outsourced.
I read about the coin toss not being 1:1 years ago.
What a metric moron. Let him writhe in his inferior software and vaunt in his "sophisiticated" ways.
He's just trying to validate his own existence.
He's right -- you *do* have to make money, and communism sucks, but he's wrong if he thinks the work of the Closed Source community is not a total fraud. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I don't bear "ill will" to them either -- I just don't like them and don't "wish to be involved with them," as a fan or patron.
I don't think you're a bad person for liking them, I just don't understand your tastes, and don't wish an explanation.
Edgar Allen Poe wrote some science fiction: men flying to the moon in balloons, and a couple of other pure-out Sci-Fi stories.
You guys are idiots: you are +5 informativing a liar. Here is Simon Tolkien's own website:
i le .html
http://www.simontolkien.com/final%20review/prof
"I haven't spoken to my father, except in an annual business-meeting context, for the past four years," he says, as matter-of-factly as possible. "My father is very angry with me - angry to the point that he never wishes to have anything to do with me again.
"He communicates with me now through his lawyer, so I have to live on the basis that he will never speak to me again as long as he lives. He will never see my children. He will never have anything to do with me." He pauses. "And I grew up thinking this was such a wonderful person."
You're right about Tolkien signing over the movie rights.
You're wrong about how C.Tolkien feels about the movies: I was quoting a story on CNN's "Paul Zahn" show 3 days ago with a Bio on Michael Tolkien. They said there was bad blood and C.Tolkien did not like the movies.
But Tolkien did sell the rights, in the late 60s. He thought it was impossible to make them.
I'm not that much a purist: I would like to see in 20 years an all photorealistic CGI version made in 6 movies, one for each "Book" (each volume is two books), and a more faithful one.
Part of the joy of Tolkien's work is knowing that this river is 20 miles from that hill. Those who have read the books hundreds of times know it that well. (And it has been emboddied in the Tolkien MUCK.) They missed the boat on the magic.
Let me get this straight: you're saying the son of the author of the book voted Best Book of the Century is less important than some fat New Zealender who bought them and ran a non-linear computer program.
Where are your values.
This is going to be the vaguest answer you ever got:
I saw a program on PBS or The Discovery Channel or HGTV or God knows what channel...
about a hotel in Arizona or Malaysia or Australia or god knows which country
which has a water recycling system installed. They have low flow toilets, and a filtration system, and the water is in a clear acryllic case. All the water for the all the systems is mostly recycled.
They're just dicking around up there, 50 miles up.
This *science* is not exactly like Christopher Columbus. I want my money back.