And here we see, in its natural environment, another post showing how difficult it is to tell the difference between witty, sharp commentary, and a person who just didn't RTFA.
Having gone through some of the same things, the best advice I can say is to ignore those feelings publicly. At work I'm riding the wave with the rest of them. At home I'm back on my happy train. The last thing I want is to be marginalized at work because I'm "that guy" who is a roadblock instead of a guy that moves things forward.
In the tech industry, you do NOT want to be the enemy of the executives.
Definitely point out real problems when they're there, and nix projects that are bad, but try not to let your bias lead you to make irrationally bad arguments. And who knows, you might learn to like some of the stuff, which will help you in the future as well both because you know more, and also because your attitude will be more open. It's worked for me so far at least - I just bought an iPad and a Surface Pro today for testing, will be getting a Nexus to validate very soon as well. It's actually pretty fun.
If we shouldn't have privacy from governmnt because "oh who cares it's boring", then neither should any police, fire, rescue vehicle, or any politician from the public. It is not in the public's interest to make governmnt managers a higher class of citizen who can see all but not be seen.
So you're cool if the info from all these hypothetical car, face-cam, license plate reader database, shopping discount cards, etc, becomes completely public domain for everyone, and all tied back to the individual(s) who own them? If I want to look up everything you've bought and everywhere you've been, and every website you ever visit, I can do so with a couple clicks?
I'd assume that's what you want based on your statement that people should be open about what they do.
I can't imagine what it would be like in both gender directions as we freely have access to each others browsing and chat logs.
Actually, I can - people wouldn't browse or chat about the things they want to. So, it's a great society if you're willing to give up many of the perfectly legal things that you want to do. Save a few bucks and give up your identity because you must conform to the norms or be an outcast. Aren't there already cults that people can join if they want to live like this? They're pretty cheap to live in from what I understand, maybe the author can go try one out for a while and let us know if it was worth it.
if he's wearing top end gear that includes mail and a shield, then he plays a shammy. a rogue is the worst matchup for a shaman. He's definitely *not* a "freakishly amazing pvper" if he doesnt yet realize that shammys are one of the, if not the only, truly easy matchup rogues have.
When i found out that i was getting a beta invite a few months ago, I was pretty excited until i found out this was the fantasy version as opposed to 40K. With the extreme glut of fantasy-based mmo's currently in existence, what prompted you to decide "we have a loyal 40K fanbase, and there are not many sci-fi based mmos, thus we will follow the conventional wisdom and create yet another fantasy-based game."?
I have no issue with you making whatever game you want to make, and think you can make money on. However, I really am curious as to what influenced your decision to go with fantasy over 40k.
linux based website linking to a windows article produces such a reaction? not that there's any reason linux users get a reputation as elitest zealots or anything, it's all just a misunderstanding...
I don't think so. At 640x480 the vid card can probably handle everything all by itself. You need to put a big load on it so that the work has to run on the cpu since the vid card can't do it all itself.
i know. I wish more people understood this. I'm having a bit of trouble though with the geforceMX card that I carefully modded to map into the 762 pin socket on my motherboard. The darn thing just don't wanna boot!
I mean, it has more gigaflops and bogomips than a G4, which we all know is a national security risk! o_0 so i figured it would run my computer super fast when I used it to replace my aging AthlonXP 1800.
It really pisses me off how these Microsoft zealots just wont face reality and keep bringing out crappy web apps.
Having programmed in both PHP & ASP.NET extensivly, I'll take PHP & Smarty over.NET any day.
It really pisses me off how these Linux zealots just wont face reality and keep making non-supported claims.
Having read both your reply and his, I'll take his argument with at least some supporting example over yours any day.
If my response seems over the top, overgeneralizing, and illogical, then maybe you should check your own reply from an objective viewpoint. Note, i am making the assumption that you are trying to persuade people to agree with you. If not, and you're just making an "electronic vote", so to speak, then nevermind this post.
I'm sorry to have to admit that this is all my fault. After having a paypal account for 3 years, I finally *received* a payment for the first time over the weekend.
You can obviously see the result. I only regret that my karma had to affect the rest of you:-\
why do think it has a bright future? I don't think you're wrong, but I don't think you're right either - I'm just curious as to your reasoning?
It's the same 5 frickin indoor areas over and over. No end game (though CoV will undboutably help this), and leveling is either painfully slow with ATs such as controller/defender or fairly fast as an AoE blaster, spine scrapper, burn tank, or fire/* controller.
I picked up CoH after playing 2 years of DAOC. I'd pretty much burnt out of daoc and had absolutely no desire to play it anymore. Funny thing is, after 3 weeks of CoH, I got bored enough that I've now started playing daoc again, much more than I had before, and am enjoying it a lot.
who knows, maybe Issue 2 and CoV will give the player base a reason to keep playing.
IIRC, the FX-5x series is unlocked for the purposes of overclocking. Don't know if the Opterons are or not, but you know for a fact that overclocking is available for the FX series. So, maybe you're paying a bit more for this aspect of it?
As a new linux user (exactly one week ago today, how cute, right?), sound was the least of my worries. My gfx card wouldn't provide any 3d acceleration until I found and installed the kernel source (maybe you take it for granted, but as a new user, I didn't even know at first how to find out what kernel version I was runnig). Then just run through a few jibberish terminal commands, a super friendly text-based x86config something or other which asks questions that I wasn't sure how to answer, and voila, everything was peachy!
Or installing software. Since I'm new, I still don't understand what software will work on my machine with my desktop environment with my kernel with my distro (this makes me annoyed just thinking about it). What's the difference between a redhat rpm and a SuSE rpm? Do SuSE rpms actually exist, or am I limited only to software that I want to compile myself or get through YaST? In windows, it's pretty darn easy for most programs (setup.exe).
It would be very easy to turn this post into a bitch fest, but the prior two paragraphs not withstanding, it's not what I intended. I'm frustrated but knew I would be going into it. Frustrated != writing it off. I haven't rebooted into windows since I first installed SuSE 8.1. However, I have s small bit of knowledge, patience, forgiveness, and the desire to learn that other folks may not have. The whole point of my post gets to this: it just seems silly to me to point at sound card compatability as "the one achilles heel" of linux:-\
One connected to an "unsecure" T1 (though still behind a firewall, no ports open incoming, no use of Outlook and/or Outlook express). The other computer is connected to the standard frame relay circuit that everyone else in the company is on.
A mini 2-computer KVM, and I don't have to worry about compromising one network by any actions in the other.
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And here we see, in its natural environment, another post showing how difficult it is to tell the difference between witty, sharp commentary, and a person who just didn't RTFA.
"And remember : Graveyards are full of irreplaceable people."
Man, I wish I had mod points to give today, because that's a pretty awesome quote :-)
Having gone through some of the same things, the best advice I can say is to ignore those feelings publicly. At work I'm riding the wave with the rest of them. At home I'm back on my happy train. The last thing I want is to be marginalized at work because I'm "that guy" who is a roadblock instead of a guy that moves things forward.
In the tech industry, you do NOT want to be the enemy of the executives.
Definitely point out real problems when they're there, and nix projects that are bad, but try not to let your bias lead you to make irrationally bad arguments. And who knows, you might learn to like some of the stuff, which will help you in the future as well both because you know more, and also because your attitude will be more open. It's worked for me so far at least - I just bought an iPad and a Surface Pro today for testing, will be getting a Nexus to validate very soon as well. It's actually pretty fun.
In any case, good luck, and long live lynx!
Better built-in task manager.
Vastly improved copy/paste controls and feedback.
Those two things alone would be worth the $15 upgrade price to me if they didn't come with the metro / hot-corners / charms / etc stuff.
Re: shutdown.
I could go through the who rigamarole of charms or searching or whatever, but instead I do {winkey} cmd "shutdown /s"
Is there any better response the white house could give than a simple NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What happens when the government doesn't have the privacy? They say "oh no, we need the privacy that we deny you"
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/minneapolis-police-pushing-for-more-license-plate-data-privacy/
If we shouldn't have privacy from governmnt because "oh who cares it's boring", then neither should any police, fire, rescue vehicle, or any politician from the public. It is not in the public's interest to make governmnt managers a higher class of citizen who can see all but not be seen.
So you're cool if the info from all these hypothetical car, face-cam, license plate reader database, shopping discount cards, etc, becomes completely public domain for everyone, and all tied back to the individual(s) who own them? If I want to look up everything you've bought and everywhere you've been, and every website you ever visit, I can do so with a couple clicks?
I'd assume that's what you want based on your statement that people should be open about what they do.
So now I'm a mac user and I get all that UNIX-y goodness and none of the open source drama queen bullshit.
True. Now Apple will take care of your decisions for you so that you don't have to be exposed to that "drama queen bullshit".
I can't imagine what it would be like in both gender directions as we freely have access to each others browsing and chat logs.
Actually, I can - people wouldn't browse or chat about the things they want to. So, it's a great society if you're willing to give up many of the perfectly legal things that you want to do. Save a few bucks and give up your identity because you must conform to the norms or be an outcast. Aren't there already cults that people can join if they want to live like this? They're pretty cheap to live in from what I understand, maybe the author can go try one out for a while and let us know if it was worth it.
if he's wearing top end gear that includes mail and a shield, then he plays a shammy. a rogue is the worst matchup for a shaman. He's definitely *not* a "freakishly amazing pvper" if he doesnt yet realize that shammys are one of the, if not the only, truly easy matchup rogues have.
yeah, imma dork.
When i found out that i was getting a beta invite a few months ago, I was pretty excited until i found out this was the fantasy version as opposed to 40K. With the extreme glut of fantasy-based mmo's currently in existence, what prompted you to decide "we have a loyal 40K fanbase, and there are not many sci-fi based mmos, thus we will follow the conventional wisdom and create yet another fantasy-based game."?
I have no issue with you making whatever game you want to make, and think you can make money on. However, I really am curious as to what influenced your decision to go with fantasy over 40k.
linux based website linking to a windows article produces such a reaction? not that there's any reason linux users get a reputation as elitest zealots or anything, it's all just a misunderstanding...
^^ winner
I don't think so. At 640x480 the vid card can probably handle everything all by itself. You need to put a big load on it so that the work has to run on the cpu since the vid card can't do it all itself.
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i know. I wish more people understood this. I'm having a bit of trouble though with the geforceMX card that I carefully modded to map into the 762 pin socket on my motherboard. The darn thing just don't wanna boot!
I mean, it has more gigaflops and bogomips than a G4, which we all know is a national security risk! o_0 so i figured it would run my computer super fast when I used it to replace my aging AthlonXP 1800
pls can anyone help me???? kthxbai!
Ok, I'll bite... got a good link that explains "boosting" in a Halo 2 context (or any other gaming ranking system for that matter)?
the underline appears all the way through " to make a significant breakthrough in the field of number theory with his solution "
even though the word "solution" leads to a different link than all of the preceding words.
do you specifically try to say things that are innaccurate, or are you just ignorant?
It really pisses me off how these Microsoft zealots just wont face reality and keep bringing out crappy web apps.
.NET any day.
Having programmed in both PHP & ASP.NET extensivly, I'll take PHP & Smarty over
It really pisses me off how these Linux zealots just wont face reality and keep making non-supported claims.
Having read both your reply and his, I'll take his argument with at least some supporting example over yours any day.
If my response seems over the top, overgeneralizing, and illogical, then maybe you should check your own reply from an objective viewpoint. Note, i am making the assumption that you are trying to persuade people to agree with you. If not, and you're just making an "electronic vote", so to speak, then nevermind this post.
I'm sorry to have to admit that this is all my fault. After having a paypal account for 3 years, I finally *received* a payment for the first time over the weekend.
:-\
You can obviously see the result. I only regret that my karma had to affect the rest of you
why do think it has a bright future? I don't think you're wrong, but I don't think you're right either - I'm just curious as to your reasoning?
It's the same 5 frickin indoor areas over and over. No end game (though CoV will undboutably help this), and leveling is either painfully slow with ATs such as controller/defender or fairly fast as an AoE blaster, spine scrapper, burn tank, or fire/* controller.
I picked up CoH after playing 2 years of DAOC. I'd pretty much burnt out of daoc and had absolutely no desire to play it anymore. Funny thing is, after 3 weeks of CoH, I got bored enough that I've now started playing daoc again, much more than I had before, and am enjoying it a lot.
who knows, maybe Issue 2 and CoV will give the player base a reason to keep playing.
IIRC, the FX-5x series is unlocked for the purposes of overclocking. Don't know if the Opterons are or not, but you know for a fact that overclocking is available for the FX series. So, maybe you're paying a bit more for this aspect of it?
neye
Even slashdot won't look so dreary and washed out after spending some time in front of a makeshift projector-based home theater :p
As a new linux user (exactly one week ago today, how cute, right?), sound was the least of my worries. My gfx card wouldn't provide any 3d acceleration until I found and installed the kernel source (maybe you take it for granted, but as a new user, I didn't even know at first how to find out what kernel version I was runnig). Then just run through a few jibberish terminal commands, a super friendly text-based x86config something or other which asks questions that I wasn't sure how to answer, and voila, everything was peachy!
:-\
Or installing software. Since I'm new, I still don't understand what software will work on my machine with my desktop environment with my kernel with my distro (this makes me annoyed just thinking about it). What's the difference between a redhat rpm and a SuSE rpm? Do SuSE rpms actually exist, or am I limited only to software that I want to compile myself or get through YaST? In windows, it's pretty darn easy for most programs (setup.exe).
It would be very easy to turn this post into a bitch fest, but the prior two paragraphs not withstanding, it's not what I intended. I'm frustrated but knew I would be going into it. Frustrated != writing it off. I haven't rebooted into windows since I first installed SuSE 8.1. However, I have s small bit of knowledge, patience, forgiveness, and the desire to learn that other folks may not have. The whole point of my post gets to this: it just seems silly to me to point at sound card compatability as "the one achilles heel" of linux
One connected to an "unsecure" T1 (though still behind a firewall, no ports open incoming, no use of Outlook and/or Outlook express). The other computer is connected to the standard frame relay circuit that everyone else in the company is on.
A mini 2-computer KVM, and I don't have to worry about compromising one network by any actions in the other.