Best post in the thread EVER. But seriously java is a bad decision because even outside of russia it JAVAS YOU. Its a mem hog, its a cpu hog. Javas not so great. . .
Regardless of the numbers of transistors and lines of code computers are inherently simple. ..and if you disagree give me something better than flamebait to go on. .. But im not sure thats the point, the overall operation of a computer is quite simple, it gets complex when you get into more complex software(which is most software I guess these days), and more complex hardware (which most of the people he mentions would not tend to have). People are scared of their computers, they never took the time to understand what a hard drive is or how it works (I could give you a basic explanation by word of mouth in under then minutes that would tell you how a hard drive works and why you should not be scared to click around in folders or remove certain files). I mean come on my mom is afraid to click on something if she doesn't know EXACTLY what it does. I even have a superior at my tech company who wont do things in linux because it intimidates her and using a command line makes her think she will cause the computer to explode. When you start driving and buy a car you learn basic upkeep, when you have a freezer you have to clean the ice out every couple of years, you empty the bag in your vaccuum (and get it service regularly if you want it to keep pulling that hair out of the carpet), well. . . COMPUTERS HAVE BASIC UPKEEP TOO. Just no one practices it, how many average users do you know that have set their windows update to automatically download critical updates and either automatically install them or prompt you for install, or have a properly configured firewall with up to date virus software. .. I set my parents up with Norton, configured the firewall on the router and change the basic login info, I set the computer to alert for updates, automatically update NAV and gave them firefox and configured it to be a bit more ssecure. They have not called me in a good 8 months for help with that computer. It used to be every 3-4 months. I also educated both my parents on the basics of what I was doing to their computer and what they had to do to keep it in that condition. ..sure they call to ask about things here and there but I have not had to service the PC at all. This is a good example of how properly practicing upkeep on your computer keeps it running, my parents now perform most of the upkeep it needs. They can do this because they now understand.
users need to be educated or educate themselves and sadly neither is being done. Even more sad is the fact that the latter is extremely easy to do. . . google is the easiest way to get help on a problem. Often faster than going through a manufacturer or retailer.
If a reviewer feels a certain way about a game I want to know why. Just because the graphics aren't perfectly polished doesn't necesarily denote a -1 from its base score of 10. What made you FEEL this way about this game? Was it that you just didn't plain like the main character and his personality? Was the story overall just uninteresting? What made you decide you would never play this game again after you reviewed it or better yet what astonished you and brought you to decide to make this game a part time job?
I feel the same way about movie reviews. A movie isn't shitty just because it has bad acting. Movies don't need a clearly defined plot to be good (napolean dynamite eh?).
I have picked up several games in the past that got astounding reviews and put the controller down 30 minutes later knowing that game would never be played again. And yet I have also picked up games that did horrible and played them for months. No one is saying a review has to be perfect, but you can't just label it as good or bad.
I honestly do believe that. I watched a show on it last week on discovery that only solidified my beliefs. Just because it was one line with a few caps its a troll? Weak.
Touche salesman. .. Thats clearly what I meant, but I have no idea what ports it uses, so they could be open for another application. Anyone know what ports?
At this time I don't think you would use it in place of a cell phone. I am considering getting VOIP service and could see myself using this phone, my cell phone has a lot of problems getting access in some areas, including where some of my friends live in bumblefuck and in my own house. But they (almost) all have wireless connections. If I do get voip this gadget could be used in my own home (where I plan on replacing standard phoen service with voip), or I can take it with me when I go and use it there. . . if I want.
Overall its not the most practical gadget ever, but if these dropped a bit in price I would hop right on even at its current state. For $100 Im not about to pounce since I am a poor-ass young guy.
When researching VOIP this weekend (I am thinking of nixing my home phone for a cell phone and a voip) I found that a call requires 90Kbps of bandwidth.
Isn't there a port or something you could block to disable VOIP services? I don't know a whole lot about it but I assume it must use a port that could be firewalled out.
When I visited a school I was applying to 4 years ago i was shown a room in which they were developing a smart kitched. . . the cabinets and the refridgerator read (what I assume are barcodes or rfid tags) from the products so you could log into the webpage from work or your desktop and get an accurate reading of what was present in the kitchen and what you needed. They even had it down to the level of telling you HOW MUCH milk was in the jug.
"Generallys speaking, their feature set is impressive, but the implementation is quite buggy. Although I'd like to try similar products released by other vendors, I wouldn't suggest this specific product."
Sounds about right for gateway to me. It seems to me they always have great ideas but do a horrible job of putting out products that reflect the ingenuity that goes into the idea. I haven't seen a Gateway product without issues since the Pentium 60 with 8mbs of ram we purchased from gateway(had to be 10 years ago). . . but it was a lot harder to screw things up back then I guess. . .
I have a windows server and a linux server sharing things up over samba shares(simple workgroupd from the windows computer, samba on the linux box)Very little extra configuration is necesarry on the x-box end. Also you can set up your xbox to boot right to x-box media center and this can be done for as cheeply as $150 bucks ($120 dollar used xbox, $20-40 modchip, no larger hard drive is needed unless you want to physically stor things on your x-box.) The only thing this thing cant do for me is DVR, but I plan on implementing a DVR on one of my servers, possibly using freevo. (freevo.sourceforge.net I believe) I hardly even turn on my digital cable box and am planning to trade it in because I use the xbox for everything. I have ripped copies of all my "episode dvds" (ie futurama, family guy, x-files) for easy access. And since I have the audio going through my reciever its GREAT for MP3s and movies as well. I don't own a standalone DVD player because its 100% unnecesary.
You make it sound like not having a removeable battery is a huge inconvinience. Its really not, see if you leave for your jog with a charged ipod it will last. Or wait even if you ipod has less than 1/4 of the battery left it should still make it. My ipod could not be the size it is if it used removeable batteries, unless they were proprietary. So for that I am thankful that I have to make the huge effort to plug my ipod in to charge at night or when i am not using or when I am using it in my car. So basically its always charged since its charged everytime I am in my car or at my computer. Because its just that easy to charge it.. . now if you are talking about a 3 day camping trip thats different. . . but why are you bringing an ipod with you anyway. . . get in touch with nature.
Slow news day. ..Its all on the OS. ..ALL ON THE OS. The os is what makes those files available for google search to find. By the way. . . maybe if the computers were cheaper people would put money into security. ..instead of spending it all on the cost of the PC.
And in that picture, you really don't need more than the current browsers offer. They already do their job just fine, and the plethora of sites are doing a fine job with those browser features already. And whatever job they don't do directly, there are plugins for that. Time to move on already.
The problem with IE are the cookies, the spyware that you get from simply navigating to a site, the cookies upon cookies.
The point is when my mom, who only uses the web for about 2 -5 hours a week max HATES internet explorer, in fact she hates it so much she requested I install firefox. It is unfortunate however that some of her travel sites that she uses requires the sidebar to be able to view, and firefox is unable to handle this.
My mom still uses firefox for everything else, she loves the fact that random pop ups no longer come out of nowhere, she likes choosing which cookies get stored on her computer. My mom is about 50 and up until a year and a half ago I had to turn the PC on for her.
People like firefox because its not an expirience it does its job and it does it BETTER than IE does. The web itself is far from an expirience but I would rather be driving a tuned up functional car than driving my brothers junker thats 3000 miles over its oilchange and about to fall apart.
He didn't say it was the first movie shot on the bluescreen, that still sets a movie apart from the norm. Most movies that incorporate digital effects these days use blue / green screens, the difference is that few are entirely shot against such a background, and for a lot of actors thats not easy to do.
He is writing/upkeeping the BTTV driver for linux that makes me able to use TVtime and (try) to use freevo on my linux box. He also has helped play a role in the success of the company I work for as his BTTV driver has helped fix a lot of issues with out TV/FM tuner cards. Thanks Gerd! (http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/bttv.html) for anyone interested in the driver
I am in the operations department for my company, one of the guys (I guess the windows "guru") in my department told me not to update my system using patches or windows update after my linux desktop died (for some screwed up reason we bought dell workstations that can't have linux installed due to hardware conflicts? I've been meaning to try myself but I don't want to prove him right AND have to ask him to put the corporate windows version we use back on.). However, he doesn't update them for us or release patches for us to use, so around the most recent virus wave I ran windows update since my system was over a year out of date.
Nothing broke, I think its just common in a company to tell people not to update so if it does fuck something up you dont have 100 people with the same problem unable to use their apps and thus wasting money, the money you are paying them, the money that is spent daily whether you work or not.
We have had issues where half the company has gone home early due to database failures, that is extremely painful to any place of business. I think it would take longer to clean up an SP2 mess across everyones workstations costi ng 1-3 days of greatly decreased productivity instead of half a day.
However apple's computers are still awesome machines, often underrated and feared by average users because they don't run windows. Classic Line: "This is a mac, I don't know how to use this. . . " Well. . . click the icon of the web browser and a web browser opens. . . imagine that. And it looks so much like a browser on windows my grandma can use it. My mind has been blown. On another note I am happy to hear my company is gonna start testing all of our code to run on the Xserve G5s instead of IBM intellistations.
Uhm actually the problem is that not enough people vote. I have friends who hollar and comlain about politics but have never stepped ina voting booth (and yes they are old enough to vote). If you didn't vote you can't complain about bush fucking things up is my opinion. It also seems a lot of these people act like they are too good to vote. "The candidates are fucking idiots" Well, one of those idiots will be running the country so choose which idiot you want and vote for him.
Its fairly widely known that billboards charts are already stacked this way. At least I think its well known, I work for a company that tracks spins on the radio and we've seen instances where the 7th single on billboards chart has spun more than the number 1 single. Its all weighted by smaller number of stations and bu the advertising.
Half of the symptoms you said were rubbish appear on MANY windows computers. You are just one of the lucky peope apparently. His directy x prroblems could be video card incompatibility issues or who knows maybe thepatches didn't install properly, something didn't get written into the registry. WHatever. SHit happens. Just because its a computer and you gave it a specific set of instructions doesn't mean it performs that way 100% of the time. Sometimes something is not right on the computer that gets in the way. This can happen with linux too, I just see it more in windows.
Its funny becuase everytime I see an ad like that it reminds me how much their products suck and I am happyy that I don't use windows or microsoft office (even when I am forced to use windows at work) they are paying to show their ads to a lot of people who will ignore them and have no itnention of buying their product.
Ironically, his balls are almost certainly getting used more than yours!
Its funny cause you are most likely the one who doesn't have any balls and can only confront people through use of aim, unlike normal people who speak to other humans, this includes women, oddly enough they are the reason we have balls in the first place.
Adulthood will call for you one day. Hopefully you will know what your balls are for when that time comes.
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Best post in the thread EVER.
But seriously java is a bad decision because even outside of russia it JAVAS YOU. Its a mem hog, its a cpu hog. Javas not so great. . .
Regardless of the numbers of transistors and lines of code computers are inherently simple. . .and if you disagree give me something better than flamebait to go on. . . . .sure they call to ask about things here and there but I have not had to service the PC at all.
But im not sure thats the point, the overall operation of a computer is quite simple, it gets complex when you get into more complex software(which is most software I guess these days), and more complex hardware (which most of the people he mentions would not tend to have).
People are scared of their computers, they never took the time to understand what a hard drive is or how it works (I could give you a basic explanation by word of mouth in under then minutes that would tell you how a hard drive works and why you should not be scared to click around in folders or remove certain files). I mean come on my mom is afraid to click on something if she doesn't know EXACTLY what it does. I even have a superior at my tech company who wont do things in linux because it intimidates her and using a command line makes her think she will cause the computer to explode.
When you start driving and buy a car you learn basic upkeep, when you have a freezer you have to clean the ice out every couple of years, you empty the bag in your vaccuum (and get it service regularly if you want it to keep pulling that hair out of the carpet), well. . . COMPUTERS HAVE BASIC UPKEEP TOO. Just no one practices it, how many average users do you know that have set their windows update to automatically download critical updates and either automatically install them or prompt you for install, or have a properly configured firewall with up to date virus software. .
I set my parents up with Norton, configured the firewall on the router and change the basic login info, I set the computer to alert for updates, automatically update NAV and gave them firefox and configured it to be a bit more ssecure. They have not called me in a good 8 months for help with that computer. It used to be every 3-4 months.
I also educated both my parents on the basics of what I was doing to their computer and what they had to do to keep it in that condition. .
This is a good example of how properly practicing upkeep on your computer keeps it running, my parents now perform most of the upkeep it needs. They can do this because they now understand.
users need to be educated or educate themselves and sadly neither is being done. Even more sad is the fact that the latter is extremely easy to do. . . google is the easiest way to get help on a problem. Often faster than going through a manufacturer or retailer.
Understanding is the key to successful operation.
If a reviewer feels a certain way about a game I want to know why. Just because the graphics aren't perfectly polished doesn't necesarily denote a -1 from its base score of 10. What made you FEEL this way about this game? Was it that you just didn't plain like the main character and his personality? Was the story overall just uninteresting? What made you decide you would never play this game again after you reviewed it or better yet what astonished you and brought you to decide to make this game a part time job?
I feel the same way about movie reviews. A movie isn't shitty just because it has bad acting. Movies don't need a clearly defined plot to be good (napolean dynamite eh?).
I have picked up several games in the past that got astounding reviews and put the controller down 30 minutes later knowing that game would never be played again. And yet I have also picked up games that did horrible and played them for months. No one is saying a review has to be perfect, but you can't just label it as good or bad.
I honestly do believe that. I watched a show on it last week on discovery that only solidified my beliefs. Just because it was one line with a few caps its a troll? Weak.
AND SO ARE ANGELS
Touche salesman. . .
Thats clearly what I meant, but I have no idea what ports it uses, so they could be open for another application. Anyone know what ports?
At this time I don't think you would use it in place of a cell phone. I am considering getting VOIP service and could see myself using this phone, my cell phone has a lot of problems getting access in some areas, including where some of my friends live in bumblefuck and in my own house. But they (almost) all have wireless connections. If I do get voip this gadget could be used in my own home (where I plan on replacing standard phoen service with voip), or I can take it with me when I go and use it there. . . if I want.
Overall its not the most practical gadget ever, but if these dropped a bit in price I would hop right on even at its current state. For $100 Im not about to pounce since I am a poor-ass young guy.
When researching VOIP this weekend (I am thinking of nixing my home phone for a cell phone and a voip) I found that a call requires 90Kbps of bandwidth.
Isn't there a port or something you could block to disable VOIP services? I don't know a whole lot about it but I assume it must use a port that could be firewalled out.
When I visited a school I was applying to 4 years ago i was shown a room in which they were developing a smart kitched. . . the cabinets and the refridgerator read (what I assume are barcodes or rfid tags) from the products so you could log into the webpage from work or your desktop and get an accurate reading of what was present in the kitchen and what you needed. They even had it down to the level of telling you HOW MUCH milk was in the jug.
It worked on me! I am crawling it and completely ignoring his robots.txt WOOOHOOOOO!
"Generallys speaking, their feature set is impressive, but the implementation is quite buggy. Although I'd like to try similar products released by other vendors, I wouldn't suggest this specific product."
Sounds about right for gateway to me. It seems to me they always have great ideas but do a horrible job of putting out products that reflect the ingenuity that goes into the idea. I haven't seen a Gateway product without issues since the Pentium 60 with 8mbs of ram we purchased from gateway(had to be 10 years ago). . . but it was a lot harder to screw things up back then I guess. . .
I have a windows server and a linux server sharing things up over samba shares(simple workgroupd from the windows computer, samba on the linux box)Very little extra configuration is necesarry on the x-box end. Also you can set up your xbox to boot right to x-box media center and this can be done for as cheeply as $150 bucks ($120 dollar used xbox, $20-40 modchip, no larger hard drive is needed unless you want to physically stor things on your x-box.) The only thing this thing cant do for me is DVR, but I plan on implementing a DVR on one of my servers, possibly using freevo. (freevo.sourceforge.net I believe)
I hardly even turn on my digital cable box and am planning to trade it in because I use the xbox for everything. I have ripped copies of all my "episode dvds" (ie futurama, family guy, x-files) for easy access. And since I have the audio going through my reciever its GREAT for MP3s and movies as well.
I don't own a standalone DVD player because its 100% unnecesary.
You make it sound like not having a removeable battery is a huge inconvinience. Its really not, see if you leave for your jog with a charged ipod it will last. Or wait even if you ipod has less than 1/4 of the battery left it should still make it. My ipod could not be the size it is if it used removeable batteries, unless they were proprietary. So for that I am thankful that I have to make the huge effort to plug my ipod in to charge at night or when i am not using or when I am using it in my car. So basically its always charged since its charged everytime I am in my car or at my computer. Because its just that easy to charge it.. . now if you are talking about a 3 day camping trip thats different. . . but why are you bringing an ipod with you anyway. . . get in touch with nature.
Slow news day. . .Its all on the OS. . .ALL ON THE OS. The os is what makes those files available for google search to find. By the way. . . maybe if the computers were cheaper people would put money into security. . .instead of spending it all on the cost of the PC.
The problem with IE are the cookies, the spyware that you get from simply navigating to a site, the cookies upon cookies.
The point is when my mom, who only uses the web for about 2 -5 hours a week max HATES internet explorer, in fact she hates it so much she requested I install firefox. It is unfortunate however that some of her travel sites that she uses requires the sidebar to be able to view, and firefox is unable to handle this.
My mom still uses firefox for everything else, she loves the fact that random pop ups no longer come out of nowhere, she likes choosing which cookies get stored on her computer. My mom is about 50 and up until a year and a half ago I had to turn the PC on for her.
People like firefox because its not an expirience it does its job and it does it BETTER than IE does. The web itself is far from an expirience but I would rather be driving a tuned up functional car than driving my brothers junker thats 3000 miles over its oilchange and about to fall apart.
He didn't say it was the first movie shot on the bluescreen, that still sets a movie apart from the norm.
Most movies that incorporate digital effects these days use blue / green screens, the difference is that few are entirely shot against such a background, and for a lot of actors thats not easy to do.
He is writing/upkeeping the BTTV driver for linux that makes me able to use TVtime and (try) to use freevo on my linux box. He also has helped play a role in the success of the company I work for as his BTTV driver has helped fix a lot of issues with out TV/FM tuner cards.
Thanks Gerd! (http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/bttv.html) for anyone interested in the driver
I am in the operations department for my company, one of the guys (I guess the windows "guru") in my department told me not to update my system using patches or windows update after my linux desktop died (for some screwed up reason we bought dell workstations that can't have linux installed due to hardware conflicts? I've been meaning to try myself but I don't want to prove him right AND have to ask him to put the corporate windows version we use back on.). However, he doesn't update them for us or release patches for us to use, so around the most recent virus wave I ran windows update since my system was over a year out of date.
Nothing broke, I think its just common in a company to tell people not to update so if it does fuck something up you dont have 100 people with the same problem unable to use their apps and thus wasting money, the money you are paying them, the money that is spent daily whether you work or not.
We have had issues where half the company has gone home early due to database failures, that is extremely painful to any place of business. I think it would take longer to clean up an SP2 mess across everyones workstations costi ng 1-3 days of greatly decreased productivity instead of half a day.
However apple's computers are still awesome machines, often underrated and feared by average users because they don't run windows.
Classic Line: "This is a mac, I don't know how to use this. . . "
Well. . . click the icon of the web browser and a web browser opens. . . imagine that. And it looks so much like a browser on windows my grandma can use it. My mind has been blown.
On another note I am happy to hear my company is gonna start testing all of our code to run on the Xserve G5s instead of IBM intellistations.
I would be wary of 50ft radius on the iTrip, I sometimes get interference from the 5 feet it needs to go to my car antenna.
Uhm actually the problem is that not enough people vote. I have friends who hollar and comlain about politics but have never stepped ina voting booth (and yes they are old enough to vote). If you didn't vote you can't complain about bush fucking things up is my opinion. It also seems a lot of these people act like they are too good to vote. "The candidates are fucking idiots" Well, one of those idiots will be running the country so choose which idiot you want and vote for him.
Its fairly widely known that billboards charts are already stacked this way. At least I think its well known, I work for a company that tracks spins on the radio and we've seen instances where the 7th single on billboards chart has spun more than the number 1 single. Its all weighted by smaller number of stations and bu the advertising.
Half of the symptoms you said were rubbish appear on MANY windows computers. You are just one of the lucky peope apparently. His directy x prroblems could be video card incompatibility issues or who knows maybe thepatches didn't install properly, something didn't get written into the registry. WHatever. SHit happens. Just because its a computer and you gave it a specific set of instructions doesn't mean it performs that way 100% of the time. Sometimes something is not right on the computer that gets in the way. This can happen with linux too, I just see it more in windows.
Its funny becuase everytime I see an ad like that it reminds me how much their products suck and I am happyy that I don't use windows or microsoft office (even when I am forced to use windows at work) they are paying to show their ads to a lot of people who will ignore them and have no itnention of buying their product.
Ironically, his balls are almost certainly getting used more than yours!
Its funny cause you are most likely the one who doesn't have any balls and can only confront people through use of aim, unlike normal people who speak to other humans, this includes women, oddly enough they are the reason we have balls in the first place.
Adulthood will call for you one day. Hopefully you will know what your balls are for when that time comes.