Refund? Good luck with that--customer service at the store will immediately say, "we cannot prove that you did not buy this game just to copy and bring back, and it's been opened, so the most we can do is exchange with another copy of the same game."
You're fucked if you buy and then open a game, or pretty much any other piece of software. Try to explain DRM and they'd probably think you're nuts. Once opened, the most you can do is try to sell it either to a used games store that buys PC games, or to some random person you can screw second-hand by getting them to buy the DRM-infested garbage. You might be able to get a bit more money selling to some random person, if you can find someone paying, but pawning such despicable DRM onto them would just feel wrong.
I have to question when things like these happen if they are actually developers, or primarily marketers trying to force their views of how things *could* be done (ie. prototypes) onto people.
Too bad forking doesn't happen more often. On the top of my head, IMO KDE 3.5.10, GNOME 2 before they started fucking it up with the last few versions, and Firefox 2.0.0.20/3.6.18 all need forked and (key words here) actually get somewhere. Sure, there's Trinity as a continuation of KDE 3.5.10, but what support does it have? Good luck even finding a distro with it; wake me up when it's in Debian or some other major or growing distro. Firefox is also in severe need of forking... I wish I had the ability to perform such a task, but I don't.
Yeah, open source is great for allowing you to fork if you don't like the way a project is going. But, that's a hell of an undertaking that not just any person can do. Especially when you're talking something as complex as a Web browser or even a complete desktop environment.
Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and spout the useless (but inevitable) open source bragging that "the source code for Trinity is out there. Just download, compile and install it for your distribution!" But just as a reminder, not everyone is a developer/programmer and is capable of, or wants to, compile a whole damn desktop.:)
I doubt it--but ironically, she has talked about the geek squad before. She seems to see nothing wrong with them. The way she sees it--they've got a job working on computers, they must be certified. Or something like that.
My friend's aunt gladly takes her computer to the local repair shop and probably spends plenty of money to get it up and running again, after she continually fucks it up... over and over... by basically doing everything I've given her advice in the past on NOT doing. I remember she once told me something along the lines of, "you know so much about computers, you need to go to college and get a job with them, then you can fix mine for me." So yeah, there are, in fact, people who for whatever reason only "trust" you with their computers if you've got some kind of college proof.
To be honest--she's the kind of person who shouldn't be trusted even with *her own* computer because she refuses to take in any security tips I tell her, and I wouldn't offer any more advice to her or help solve a problem even if she asked me. She was constantly getting infected, despite my frequent recommendations back then to avoid IE, stop downloading and running random crap, and other things. She knows almost nothing, acts like she's listening to you, but you quickly realize she doesn't give a shit when she's bitching about another infection the next week and she's continuing to use IE6.
Most people I know are glad to have me "fix" whatever needs fixing for either nothing or a small amount of money, and I offer help to those I think deserve it. Those, specifically, I think are smart and care enough to listen to what I say and not have the same problem two weeks later.
I can't stand this President (or most of Congress for that matter) but killing them? Hell that's just dumb. Vote 'em out of office, problem solved (and it's a lot easier, and less messy).
This doesn't solve anything. The president will just be replaced by one of another few douchebag candidates, and the cycle starts all over again; more years with an asshole in office. And it will just continue, over and over, every time there is another presidential election.
My main problem with KDE4 (even up to this day) is its ridiculous memory use. If you have 1GB RAM and you use plenty of tabs in your Web browser... definitely go for Xfce or something lighter. Or hell, even GNOME 2 or KDE3.
I almost always seem to run into crashes of KDE4 system processes those random times I try it out too, and find many KDE programs to be pretty buggy and crash as well. Some distros are more prone to crashes than others. Overall, KDE4 could at the very least benefit from some bug fixing to eliminate all these crashes (Akonadi and Nepomuk... I'm especially pointing at you...).
I slammed the living hell out of KDE4 in the 4.0 and 4.1 days, and it really has become usable... to an extent. With some more work, it will truly be a good desktop, if you've got oodles of memory to waste. So I'll refrain from calling GNOME 3 an outright piece of shit (although that's what it's looking like, even more than KDE4.0 did from a usability standpoint...) and see how it develops. Who knows, it might get good. I'll just wait and see.
"System settings" a bit geeky, and should really be used for system settings (boot and session config, background services, etc).
How about: * Computer settings * Computer set-up
System... computer... you could interpret both words as meaning the same exact thing. Maybe "Desktop Settings" or "Personal Desktop Settings" if you want to distinguish between low-level "system" and higher-level "desktop" preferences. I agree that "System Settings" does not fit a user desktop preferences applet, though.
Sounds like you're not a very good driver. Good drivers anticipate and know when it's safe to, oh, look at the dashboard.
I agree... but what about the chance that you *do* get caught off-gaurd? For example, you hear a "ding, ding, ding" and look down to see that your "Check Engine Soon" or "Brakes" warning light came on, and meanwhile... some asshole decides to try to speed out into the road from a quickly-approaching intersection without waiting for a large enough time gap, causing a near-hit or an all-out wreck?
Sure, it's a little extreme, but it could damn well happen. I see people pulling this kind of shit all the time; all it takes is a very, very short distraction on your part and an impatient dickhead with poor judgment who shouldn't even be behind the wheel to cause some potentially serious damage. I'm *constantly* on the lookout for people pulling off stupid shit; if I didn't adjust for their own stupidity and dickheaded actions to prevent getting in "accidents" caused by them, I would have a hell of a crash record. Can't stop watching the morons out there on the road for a second, or you're in trouble.
*Note... the word "accident"... sorry, I don't buy it. You can't tell me someone driving drunk or driving while texting and then wrecking is an "accident". They had it coming, it's their fault, there is no "accident" about it. If they had common sense, they would know the dangers and never do it to begin with. They had the choice to pay full attention to the road and drive sober, but they didn't. Then they wreck. 100% preventable, and stupid at that. As if pulling into a parking lot and parking (if on the road) to send a text is really that big of a deal, or sending the message right when they get in the car or just before they get out of it is so hard to do.
It's already been posted that 3.0 is just an incremental upgrade to the 2.6.xx series, effectively making it just another usual update, absolutely nothing special beyond the big version number bump. So seriously, how is Linux 3.0 being delayed worthy of making the news?
I'm a big fan of a lot of the work that GNU has done... but could you pick a name closer to "Turd"?
How about bird? Sure, by the way it is spelled it is farther away from turd, but if you didn't know the spelling you'd never know. It fits them well, too, since all the motherfuckers ever do is shit all over the place, make noise, and ruin property. So yes, I think you *can* get closer to "turd".
How do you figure? Linux got 64bit binaries before Windows. Sounds like 64-bit Windows is the stepchild to me.
Only because it is open source and can be compiled by the distribution developers. Whether it can actually be called "Firefox" or not without stepping on some asshole's foot at Mozilla Corporation for making "unauthorized" changes to the source... well, that's another story.
Mozilla has to produce the Windows Firefox binaries and set up the installer, so it's just pure laziness that they didn't already start producing 64-bit Windows binaries a long time ago. Maybe the Corporation needs to spend less money on legal issues regarding how you can and cannot use the code and more on development and support.
...back when I actually gave a damn. More specifically, when I ran Windows, which was a hell of a long time ago now (in computing terms)... back before mid to late 2006. Now, I run Linux, so Firefox, or Iceweasel, or whatever spinoff is included in the distribution due to the Mozilla Corporation's bitching is often included as 64-bit by default--as long as it's a 64-bit distro.
To top it off, with all of the bullshit Mozilla has been pulling off for quite a while now (starting not long after the formation of the corporation and their increasing grasp and restrictions on the use of their products), I've been considering switching. There are a bunch of extensions that IMO are must-haves, and they make the switch more difficult, but every release, every news story of Mozilla/Firefox is making me consider jumping ship before this titanic sinks. They already seem to be so disillusioned from everything they already stood for, it's rare for them to impress me any more.
What the hell has become of the Mozilla of the Firefox 1.0 to 2.0 era? They've really jumped off the deep end. First they started wanting more control and placing more restrictions on the distribution and use of the software, then they started chasing Chrome in every way possible. And more recently, they switch to a clusterfuck of a release/versioning system, forcibly breaking extensions every couple months.
Ditching this Asa dipshit (never did like the guy) and scrapping the whole "Mozilla Corporation" idea would be a great first start. Oh, and listening to the users, instead of blatantly copying the competition's (specifically Google's) every last move... most of which of which are just bad ideas in the first place, at least in the context of Firefox. If I want Chrome, I'll use it; make Firefox actually be Firefox. Us Firefox users want Firefox, not some fucking Frankenchromeopera; if we did, we would have escaped from your increasingly controlling grasp long ago.
I forced myself into some of the changes in 3.x eventually, but with all the needless shitty changes in 4/5 and the new rapid major version releases, it looks like I've reaching the end of my use (and recommendation to others) of their products.
Actually, it's just the plugin that crashes, not the browser. You need Adobe Reader to crash the entire browser:)
Depends. Doesn't the version of Iceweasel in the latest Debian stable release (3.5.16 in Squeeze) not support out-of-process plugins? I thought this feature didn't make its way into Firefox until 3.6.something.
Pegasus Mail, although it is a Windows program, seems to run fine in Linux under Wine and is very nice, full-featured, and fast. If only there was a native version.
On a few machines that my relatives and I have, when Chrome is installed, it acts like the default browser even when it is not set to be the default browser - it happened on Windows AND Linux (Ubuntu/Xubuntu).
Yep. But the solution is... with root/su or sudo... update-alternatives --config www-browser
Then press the number for the browser you want to be set back to default. Done. Simple enough, the only problem is trying to remember that command; good luck on that though, I just have it saved in a text file.
This is a system-wide preference-based setting, and it's truly pathetic that Chrome fucks with it; it shouldn't be tampered with by anyone but the user/root user, and not behind their back by any package.
Xfce has a "Preferred Applications" settings applet that would probably work (at least within Xfce and for the current user), and I don't know about KDE3, KDE4, GNOME2, GNOME3, etc., but they probably have something similar.
Me. I don't know about you, but when typing numbers (especially several in a row), NOTHING beats the number pad. The only devices I find it acceptable to go without a numpad is when using devices that omit it for space reasons. Which would be... netbooks. I wouldn't want to use a calculator program without it... which effectively makes netbooks lousy as portable calculators.
Don't you have a Wal-Mart SuperCenter nearby? Even though the chain sucks ass and is questionable when it comes to business practices, every one of them nearby is open all night, every night. You're only screwed if you want to buy beer, due to Ohio's state alcohol laws (boo, anti-drug laws). Or what about Walgreens? Both of those are open practically 24/7 (with Christmas being one of, if not their only times closed AFAIK). Not sure if all Walgreens are open all the time, but it seems like at least all the local Wal-Marts are...
You probably need a special proprietary Sony hand, because Sony products seem to have exceptional capabilities for getting hacked. I would think our own genetics would make for some tougher hacking than anything Sony puts out or uses, which would obviously call for a third-party hand.
Cool, I don't mind minor changes, but I'd hate to see KDE start from scratch again when they've finally got KDE4 to be so decent. IMO, as long as older hardware is not being used, KDE4 still seems to have a lot of life in it.
Sorry, but I don't buy into the KDE project's new branding, nor do I buy into this superstitious mumbo-jumbo that the end of the world is near. It's still KDE to me, and the world will not end according to some crazy religious beliefs or some old loon's "calculations" based on some Christian bible text selections.
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Ah, I didn't catch the last part of his post. That clears things up.
Refund? Good luck with that--customer service at the store will immediately say, "we cannot prove that you did not buy this game just to copy and bring back, and it's been opened, so the most we can do is exchange with another copy of the same game."
You're fucked if you buy and then open a game, or pretty much any other piece of software. Try to explain DRM and they'd probably think you're nuts. Once opened, the most you can do is try to sell it either to a used games store that buys PC games, or to some random person you can screw second-hand by getting them to buy the DRM-infested garbage. You might be able to get a bit more money selling to some random person, if you can find someone paying, but pawning such despicable DRM onto them would just feel wrong.
I have to question when things like these happen if they are actually developers, or primarily marketers trying to force their views of how things *could* be done (ie. prototypes) onto people.
Too bad forking doesn't happen more often. On the top of my head, IMO KDE 3.5.10, GNOME 2 before they started fucking it up with the last few versions, and Firefox 2.0.0.20/3.6.18 all need forked and (key words here) actually get somewhere. Sure, there's Trinity as a continuation of KDE 3.5.10, but what support does it have? Good luck even finding a distro with it; wake me up when it's in Debian or some other major or growing distro. Firefox is also in severe need of forking... I wish I had the ability to perform such a task, but I don't.
Yeah, open source is great for allowing you to fork if you don't like the way a project is going. But, that's a hell of an undertaking that not just any person can do. Especially when you're talking something as complex as a Web browser or even a complete desktop environment.
Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and spout the useless (but inevitable) open source bragging that "the source code for Trinity is out there. Just download, compile and install it for your distribution!" But just as a reminder, not everyone is a developer/programmer and is capable of, or wants to, compile a whole damn desktop. :)
I doubt it--but ironically, she has talked about the geek squad before. She seems to see nothing wrong with them. The way she sees it--they've got a job working on computers, they must be certified. Or something like that.
My friend's aunt gladly takes her computer to the local repair shop and probably spends plenty of money to get it up and running again, after she continually fucks it up... over and over... by basically doing everything I've given her advice in the past on NOT doing. I remember she once told me something along the lines of, "you know so much about computers, you need to go to college and get a job with them, then you can fix mine for me." So yeah, there are, in fact, people who for whatever reason only "trust" you with their computers if you've got some kind of college proof.
To be honest--she's the kind of person who shouldn't be trusted even with *her own* computer because she refuses to take in any security tips I tell her, and I wouldn't offer any more advice to her or help solve a problem even if she asked me. She was constantly getting infected, despite my frequent recommendations back then to avoid IE, stop downloading and running random crap, and other things. She knows almost nothing, acts like she's listening to you, but you quickly realize she doesn't give a shit when she's bitching about another infection the next week and she's continuing to use IE6.
Most people I know are glad to have me "fix" whatever needs fixing for either nothing or a small amount of money, and I offer help to those I think deserve it. Those, specifically, I think are smart and care enough to listen to what I say and not have the same problem two weeks later.
I can't stand this President (or most of Congress for that matter) but killing them? Hell that's just dumb. Vote 'em out of office, problem solved (and it's a lot easier, and less messy).
This doesn't solve anything. The president will just be replaced by one of another few douchebag candidates, and the cycle starts all over again; more years with an asshole in office. And it will just continue, over and over, every time there is another presidential election.
My main problem with KDE4 (even up to this day) is its ridiculous memory use. If you have 1GB RAM and you use plenty of tabs in your Web browser... definitely go for Xfce or something lighter. Or hell, even GNOME 2 or KDE3.
I almost always seem to run into crashes of KDE4 system processes those random times I try it out too, and find many KDE programs to be pretty buggy and crash as well. Some distros are more prone to crashes than others. Overall, KDE4 could at the very least benefit from some bug fixing to eliminate all these crashes (Akonadi and Nepomuk... I'm especially pointing at you...).
I slammed the living hell out of KDE4 in the 4.0 and 4.1 days, and it really has become usable... to an extent. With some more work, it will truly be a good desktop, if you've got oodles of memory to waste. So I'll refrain from calling GNOME 3 an outright piece of shit (although that's what it's looking like, even more than KDE4.0 did from a usability standpoint...) and see how it develops. Who knows, it might get good. I'll just wait and see.
"System settings" a bit geeky, and should really be used for system settings (boot and session config, background services, etc).
How about:
* Computer settings
* Computer set-up
System... computer... you could interpret both words as meaning the same exact thing. Maybe "Desktop Settings" or "Personal Desktop Settings" if you want to distinguish between low-level "system" and higher-level "desktop" preferences. I agree that "System Settings" does not fit a user desktop preferences applet, though.
Sounds like you're not a very good driver. Good drivers anticipate and know when it's safe to, oh, look at the dashboard.
I agree... but what about the chance that you *do* get caught off-gaurd? For example, you hear a "ding, ding, ding" and look down to see that your "Check Engine Soon" or "Brakes" warning light came on, and meanwhile... some asshole decides to try to speed out into the road from a quickly-approaching intersection without waiting for a large enough time gap, causing a near-hit or an all-out wreck?
Sure, it's a little extreme, but it could damn well happen. I see people pulling this kind of shit all the time; all it takes is a very, very short distraction on your part and an impatient dickhead with poor judgment who shouldn't even be behind the wheel to cause some potentially serious damage. I'm *constantly* on the lookout for people pulling off stupid shit; if I didn't adjust for their own stupidity and dickheaded actions to prevent getting in "accidents" caused by them, I would have a hell of a crash record. Can't stop watching the morons out there on the road for a second, or you're in trouble.
*Note... the word "accident"... sorry, I don't buy it. You can't tell me someone driving drunk or driving while texting and then wrecking is an "accident". They had it coming, it's their fault, there is no "accident" about it. If they had common sense, they would know the dangers and never do it to begin with. They had the choice to pay full attention to the road and drive sober, but they didn't. Then they wreck. 100% preventable, and stupid at that. As if pulling into a parking lot and parking (if on the road) to send a text is really that big of a deal, or sending the message right when they get in the car or just before they get out of it is so hard to do.
It's already been posted that 3.0 is just an incremental upgrade to the 2.6.xx series, effectively making it just another usual update, absolutely nothing special beyond the big version number bump. So seriously, how is Linux 3.0 being delayed worthy of making the news?
I'm a big fan of a lot of the work that GNU has done... but could you pick a name closer to "Turd"?
How about bird? Sure, by the way it is spelled it is farther away from turd, but if you didn't know the spelling you'd never know. It fits them well, too, since all the motherfuckers ever do is shit all over the place, make noise, and ruin property. So yes, I think you *can* get closer to "turd".
How do you figure? Linux got 64bit binaries before Windows. Sounds like 64-bit Windows is the stepchild to me.
Only because it is open source and can be compiled by the distribution developers. Whether it can actually be called "Firefox" or not without stepping on some asshole's foot at Mozilla Corporation for making "unauthorized" changes to the source... well, that's another story.
Mozilla has to produce the Windows Firefox binaries and set up the installer, so it's just pure laziness that they didn't already start producing 64-bit Windows binaries a long time ago. Maybe the Corporation needs to spend less money on legal issues regarding how you can and cannot use the code and more on development and support.
...back when I actually gave a damn. More specifically, when I ran Windows, which was a hell of a long time ago now (in computing terms)... back before mid to late 2006. Now, I run Linux, so Firefox, or Iceweasel, or whatever spinoff is included in the distribution due to the Mozilla Corporation's bitching is often included as 64-bit by default--as long as it's a 64-bit distro.
To top it off, with all of the bullshit Mozilla has been pulling off for quite a while now (starting not long after the formation of the corporation and their increasing grasp and restrictions on the use of their products), I've been considering switching. There are a bunch of extensions that IMO are must-haves, and they make the switch more difficult, but every release, every news story of Mozilla/Firefox is making me consider jumping ship before this titanic sinks. They already seem to be so disillusioned from everything they already stood for, it's rare for them to impress me any more.
What the hell has become of the Mozilla of the Firefox 1.0 to 2.0 era? They've really jumped off the deep end. First they started wanting more control and placing more restrictions on the distribution and use of the software, then they started chasing Chrome in every way possible. And more recently, they switch to a clusterfuck of a release/versioning system, forcibly breaking extensions every couple months.
Ditching this Asa dipshit (never did like the guy) and scrapping the whole "Mozilla Corporation" idea would be a great first start. Oh, and listening to the users, instead of blatantly copying the competition's (specifically Google's) every last move... most of which of which are just bad ideas in the first place, at least in the context of Firefox. If I want Chrome, I'll use it; make Firefox actually be Firefox. Us Firefox users want Firefox, not some fucking Frankenchromeopera; if we did, we would have escaped from your increasingly controlling grasp long ago.
I forced myself into some of the changes in 3.x eventually, but with all the needless shitty changes in 4/5 and the new rapid major version releases, it looks like I've reaching the end of my use (and recommendation to others) of their products.
Actually, it's just the plugin that crashes, not the browser. You need Adobe Reader to crash the entire browser :)
Depends. Doesn't the version of Iceweasel in the latest Debian stable release (3.5.16 in Squeeze) not support out-of-process plugins? I thought this feature didn't make its way into Firefox until 3.6.something.
I'm not sure, but I'd wager it involves a plunger.
That's probably how you'd initiate the reboot process.
... the Brown Sludgy Flush of Death
Pegasus Mail, although it is a Windows program, seems to run fine in Linux under Wine and is very nice, full-featured, and fast. If only there was a native version.
On a few machines that my relatives and I have, when Chrome is installed, it acts like the default browser even when it is not set to be the default browser - it happened on Windows AND Linux (Ubuntu/Xubuntu).
Yep. But the solution is... with root/su or sudo...
update-alternatives --config www-browser
Then press the number for the browser you want to be set back to default. Done. Simple enough, the only problem is trying to remember that command; good luck on that though, I just have it saved in a text file.
This is a system-wide preference-based setting, and it's truly pathetic that Chrome fucks with it; it shouldn't be tampered with by anyone but the user/root user, and not behind their back by any package.
Xfce has a "Preferred Applications" settings applet that would probably work (at least within Xfce and for the current user), and I don't know about KDE3, KDE4, GNOME2, GNOME3, etc., but they probably have something similar.
Hey, why is this labeled funny? ...it's probably true...
Who still wants a keyboard with a numpad?
Me. I don't know about you, but when typing numbers (especially several in a row), NOTHING beats the number pad. The only devices I find it acceptable to go without a numpad is when using devices that omit it for space reasons. Which would be... netbooks. I wouldn't want to use a calculator program without it... which effectively makes netbooks lousy as portable calculators.
Don't you have a Wal-Mart SuperCenter nearby? Even though the chain sucks ass and is questionable when it comes to business practices, every one of them nearby is open all night, every night. You're only screwed if you want to buy beer, due to Ohio's state alcohol laws (boo, anti-drug laws). Or what about Walgreens? Both of those are open practically 24/7 (with Christmas being one of, if not their only times closed AFAIK). Not sure if all Walgreens are open all the time, but it seems like at least all the local Wal-Marts are...
You probably need a special proprietary Sony hand, because Sony products seem to have exceptional capabilities for getting hacked. I would think our own genetics would make for some tougher hacking than anything Sony puts out or uses, which would obviously call for a third-party hand.
Cool, I don't mind minor changes, but I'd hate to see KDE start from scratch again when they've finally got KDE4 to be so decent. IMO, as long as older hardware is not being used, KDE4 still seems to have a lot of life in it.
Sorry, but I don't buy into the KDE project's new branding, nor do I buy into this superstitious mumbo-jumbo that the end of the world is near. It's still KDE to me, and the world will not end according to some crazy religious beliefs or some old loon's "calculations" based on some Christian bible text selections.