The Vista kernel has some cool features the other OSes don't, like network and I/O priority.
That's awesome. As soon as they release a Service Pack that introduces a big red "Shut the fuck up and do what I tell you" button I'll be sure to check it out.
And yes, I have tried Vista, and yes, it is truly awful. Not because of the resources it uses, but because it:
a) does stuff I did not tell it to do and b) refuses to do stuff I *did* tell it to do.
a) I can live with if it is beneficial and does not interfere with my use of the machine. b) is completely and utterly unacceptable.
Many of us here would agree that allowing municipalities/communities to create their own ISPs and lay their own fiber is a better solution than allowing the 800lb gorillas to maintain their monopolies by burying any homegrown networks under a flurry of lawsuits.
Why not separate the physical infrastructure and the product delivered through it? Have the pipes be owned by the municipality, and any ISP who wishes to can use them to deliver content to those connected to it. Plenty of room for competition that way.
I'm usually not someone who sides with people trying to drain a company through legal means, but in this case I'm willing to make an exception. Bleed them. Make them go bankrupt. If they go under, that's the last we'll see of EVoting, because nobody would willingly touch it again with a ten foot pole.
Bah, if there's any proof that they tampered with election results, surely that should be grounds for a criminal case, not a civil one?
Heck, as far as I'm concerned screwing with the democratic process amounts to high treason.
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LCD screens? I have 2 choices. I run my games at 1680*1050 looking great, or any other resolution looking like...total crap.
Now picture 2 of those screens hooked to the same poor machine;-)
of course, Rick Berman screwed everything up in DS9. in it Star Trek was basically brought to the level of soft sci-fi fantasy like Star Wars. the show revolved around war & violence rather than space exploration. then you have the Bajorans--a space faring theocracy that supposedly developed warp technology on their own (and long before humans did) while their entire society is still steeped in superstition and mythology, believing in prophets and wraiths--oh, and they still adhered to a caste system when they first achieved interstellar travel.
Oddly enough I enjoyed DS9 the most of the various ST incarnations, although at times the Bajorans were annoying as all heck.
Regarding superstitions, you do recall the prophets did in fact exist, right?;-)
You're forgetting another very important reason: game companies can keep up the good old "release first, make it actually work later" schedule. I haven't bought a single game this past year where the final conclusion was: "ok, it's fun to play but buggy, let's put it on the shelf till they can be bothered to patch it". Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Civ4Col, all the same thing.
Replace 'monsters' with 'pirates', and 'angry wizards' with 'Concord', and you have Eve-Online.
If you happen to be a mission runner in a noobcorp who willingly chooses to ignore about 97% of the other gameplay elements available. Do keep going though, I'll be along shortly to collect the shiny faction loot.
I would like to say that this is a rare phenomenon but look at the auto-makers.
A rare phenomenon, in 2008? Where grandma is surfing the web from her Ubuntu box and finds she's not the only one who has product X inexplicably having defect Y? Word of mouth always has been the best kind of advertising, and these days there's so many mouths right next to even more ears(about twice as many, barring Sidney Lopsides).
Western society is by now, entirely incapable of holding any form of rational discussion on the topic of abortion whatsoever. It's impossible. We can't do it. Everyone either adopts an entrenched position, or will find themselves shot down by extremists. You cannot even support something like Plan B without being labeled a "murderer" or "baby killer". You can't do it.
Please replace "Western society" with "mainly the USA" here. Religious fanatics having such a big influence is the expection, not the norm, thank you very much.
I don't have a problem with the govt. helping to build the infrastructure....BUT, once done, I want them to hand it over to private business. I don't want the feds regulating the thing...content filters, etc....let them build it, but, put clauses in the law that say it MUST stay free and unencumbered...
How about the sensible middle way, where the infrastructure remains common property, and any party who wishes to can make use of it for a fixed fee as a delivery service? Plenty countries already have asystem in place where the phone lines are under the control of party A and the services provided through those lines are offered by parties B through Z competing for customers. Same for other infrastructure that is simply too vital to leave it to the whims of public companies, such as power lines, gas pipes and water.
IANOB but in the womb at some point there is a trigger of testosterone that causes the male characteristics to appear. If that trigger fails or for some reason the testosterone doesn't do its job, the foetus remains in the default mode which is female.
Manages to stay alive and keep making hit games with no DRM.....Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 are all bona fide hits, surely making the company a big pile of money, and yet none contain DRM
Excuse me? Just because you don't need to have the cd in the drive to play doesn't mean it doesn't have DRM...they just put it in the launcher instead of the game's executable itself...so I only need to reconnect my cd-rom drive if i want to change the settings...
What the fuck, we've been a republic for more than 150 years and nobody bothered to tell us???
In any case, looking at wikipedia now it says the french were first, and even put in the constitution that all elections were to be held by secret ballot.
As someone who has been in the trenches, both on the phone and as a supervisor, I'm sorry to see your experiences haven't taught you the differences between people being stupid, people being assholes and people simply having no idea what they're talking about. Each requires different approaches, and it takes a very long time, especially for most techheads, to learn how to deal with the various stereotypes.
For the record, whether or not people act like total assholes depends largely on their culture. Dutch people are total pricks(yay for my countrymen), folks from the latin countries tend to be more laid back, the Brits are as painfully correct as they can be sarcastic, and the Germans are your worst nightmare since they know *too much* about what they're talking about. As for american stereotypes...you summed that one up quite nicely;-)
I learned my first bits of english figuring out Police Quest I....sat there with a dictionary next to me frantically trying out different commands, occasionally having to ask mom for suggestions.
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I'd agree with you completely...if it weren't for me trying the 180.48 drivers the past weekend.
Great way of rendering a perfectly stable system nigh unusable.
The Vista kernel has some cool features the other OSes don't, like network and I/O priority.
That's awesome. As soon as they release a Service Pack that introduces a big red "Shut the fuck up and do what I tell you" button I'll be sure to check it out.
And yes, I have tried Vista, and yes, it is truly awful. Not because of the resources it uses, but because it:
a) does stuff I did not tell it to do and
b) refuses to do stuff I *did* tell it to do.
a) I can live with if it is beneficial and does not interfere with my use of the machine. b) is completely and utterly unacceptable.
Many of us here would agree that allowing municipalities/communities to create their own ISPs and lay their own fiber is a better solution than allowing the 800lb gorillas to maintain their monopolies by burying any homegrown networks under a flurry of lawsuits.
Why not separate the physical infrastructure and the product delivered through it? Have the pipes be owned by the municipality, and any ISP who wishes to can use them to deliver content to those connected to it. Plenty of room for competition that way.
I'm usually not someone who sides with people trying to drain a company through legal means, but in this case I'm willing to make an exception. Bleed them. Make them go bankrupt. If they go under, that's the last we'll see of EVoting, because nobody would willingly touch it again with a ten foot pole.
Bah, if there's any proof that they tampered with election results, surely that should be grounds for a criminal case, not a civil one?
Heck, as far as I'm concerned screwing with the democratic process amounts to high treason.
LCD screens? I have 2 choices. I run my games at 1680*1050 looking great, or any other resolution looking like...total crap.
Now picture 2 of those screens hooked to the same poor machine ;-)
of course, Rick Berman screwed everything up in DS9. in it Star Trek was basically brought to the level of soft sci-fi fantasy like Star Wars. the show revolved around war & violence rather than space exploration. then you have the Bajorans--a space faring theocracy that supposedly developed warp technology on their own (and long before humans did) while their entire society is still steeped in superstition and mythology, believing in prophets and wraiths--oh, and they still adhered to a caste system when they first achieved interstellar travel.
Oddly enough I enjoyed DS9 the most of the various ST incarnations, although at times the Bajorans were annoying as all heck.
Regarding superstitions, you do recall the prophets did in fact exist, right? ;-)
You're forgetting another very important reason: game companies can keep up the good old "release first, make it actually work later" schedule. I haven't bought a single game this past year where the final conclusion was: "ok, it's fun to play but buggy, let's put it on the shelf till they can be bothered to patch it". Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Civ4Col, all the same thing.
Replace 'monsters' with 'pirates', and 'angry wizards' with 'Concord', and you have Eve-Online.
If you happen to be a mission runner in a noobcorp who willingly chooses to ignore about 97% of the other gameplay elements available. Do keep going though, I'll be along shortly to collect the shiny faction loot.
They'll no longer be able to hide behind the couch once it gets repossessed along with the house around it?
Right up to the where it furiously rips you(it) off...
I would like to say that this is a rare phenomenon but look at the auto-makers.
A rare phenomenon, in 2008? Where grandma is surfing the web from her Ubuntu box and finds she's not the only one who has product X inexplicably having defect Y? Word of mouth always has been the best kind of advertising, and these days there's so many mouths right next to even more ears(about twice as many, barring Sidney Lopsides).
Sounds like the promised land for all the free market prophets ;-)
And if someone else tries to manipulate the markets as well, you can pay people to blow him out of the sky...bit harder to do on Wall Street? :P
Western society is by now, entirely incapable of holding any form of rational discussion on the topic of abortion whatsoever. It's impossible. We can't do it. Everyone either adopts an entrenched position, or will find themselves shot down by extremists. You cannot even support something like Plan B without being labeled a "murderer" or "baby killer". You can't do it.
Please replace "Western society" with "mainly the USA" here. Religious fanatics having such a big influence is the expection, not the norm, thank you very much.
I don't have a problem with the govt. helping to build the infrastructure....BUT, once done, I want them to hand it over to private business. I don't want the feds regulating the thing...content filters, etc....let them build it, but, put clauses in the law that say it MUST stay free and unencumbered...
How about the sensible middle way, where the infrastructure remains common property, and any party who wishes to can make use of it for a fixed fee as a delivery service? Plenty countries already have asystem in place where the phone lines are under the control of party A and the services provided through those lines are offered by parties B through Z competing for customers. Same for other infrastructure that is simply too vital to leave it to the whims of public companies, such as power lines, gas pipes and water.
IANOB but in the womb at some point there is a trigger of testosterone that causes the male characteristics to appear. If that trigger fails or for some reason the testosterone doesn't do its job, the foetus remains in the default mode which is female.
Manages to stay alive and keep making hit games with no DRM.....Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 are all bona fide hits, surely making the company a big pile of money, and yet none contain DRM
Excuse me? Just because you don't need to have the cd in the drive to play doesn't mean it doesn't have DRM...they just put it in the launcher instead of the game's executable itself...so I only need to reconnect my cd-rom drive if i want to change the settings...
Naturally the hype dies after a week or two, after which you have a few thousand more young addicts. Who to blame, who to blame...
Except that in order to actually get addicted to MJ you need to try *really* hard.
What the fuck, we've been a republic for more than 150 years and nobody bothered to tell us???
In any case, looking at wikipedia now it says the french were first, and even put in the constitution that all elections were to be held by secret ballot.
As someone who has been in the trenches, both on the phone and as a supervisor, I'm sorry to see your experiences haven't taught you the differences between people being stupid, people being assholes and people simply having no idea what they're talking about. Each requires different approaches, and it takes a very long time, especially for most techheads, to learn how to deal with the various stereotypes.
For the record, whether or not people act like total assholes depends largely on their culture. Dutch people are total pricks(yay for my countrymen), folks from the latin countries tend to be more laid back, the Brits are as painfully correct as they can be sarcastic, and the Germans are your worst nightmare since they know *too much* about what they're talking about. As for american stereotypes...you summed that one up quite nicely ;-)
I'll take my chances with the one that can be foiled by, you know, stairs.
Exterminate! Exterminate!
I learned my first bits of english figuring out Police Quest I....sat there with a dictionary next to me frantically trying out different commands, occasionally having to ask mom for suggestions.
Good times indeed.
Guess you haven't played Fallout 3 yet or you'd know that any stray equipment left after a nuclear war can be turned into an awesome weapon :-)
I'm sure that call from my mom was a nice reality check at how trusting and easily led their mom/dad was.
Sounds like a good time to bring up the old "let's talk about your will, mom" discussion again, I'll be right over!
remember that these women are earning thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars a month for basically unskilled labor.
Unskilled???