begin sarcasm Because we all know there was no such thing as a "killing spree" before GTA invented the concept. Nobody had apparently ever run amok before that fateful software release.... end sarcasm
I've used mostly cheap, crappy laptops but I've had a few where the mouse was nice. My Current Compaq Presario R4000 laptop has a great two-button trackpad with H and V scroll on the pad itself. It works great; if you start your motion on the trackpad, the scroll wheels interpret that as cursor motion, not scrolling, even if your finger goes into the scrolling area. If you start your motion within the predefined scrolling area, it interprets the motion as scrolling. I also have a button right above the trackpad that disables it when I want to, if my big stupid meathooks are brushing the pad while I type.
One thing I can't attest to with the R4000 is durability; I haven't had it very long yet so I don't know.
Before that, I had an old-ass Omnibook XE3; two-button trackpad design on it was fine, too (although the pad itself did indeed suck, the buttons were well-placed).
I'm not saying Powerbook Trackpads suck, nothing wrong with them in my book as trackpads go (except the one-button thing). It's just that my experience with two-button trackpads has been that quite a few seem well-designed.
My friend, I've been a sysadmin for so long all my pride left me years ago. I grok what you're saying, but I'd hope that the admin's admin knew what they were doing, I guess. I'd also rather get some lame bleeding-edge hardware than have a non-tech manager who doesn't understand why we need to add money to the budget to replace the server we "just bought five years ago".:D
Do you really think you're the only one using your special mouse? Buddy, I learned years ago that somebody who says "I know about mouses, that's not the one I wanted" is a pain in the rear. Right now on my desk there's an Apple mouse, an MS wireless Optical mouse, and a logitech trackball. Know what? They're all pretty cool, and they're all nicer than anything I had just a few years ago.
Worry less about having the perfect 1337 mouse and more about the work. Your fingers will be fine.
I think a sysadmin can be of good use to sysadmins, in the right environment, though I must admit I've never done that. Right now I'm sysadmin for a bunch of software developers, but I've never admin-ed admins.
Anyway, I look at it like this. Part of what a sysadmin does is decide what hardware we need, and order stuff. If I had another sysadmin ordering crap for me, that would be great! I'll worry about what the clients need, you order me a copy of the new version of XXX, or roll up to my desk with a gigabit network card and a grin on your face. That'd be great.
When was the last time any of us Sysadmins came to work and somebody said "I ordered us all a sweet new mouse" or "hey the router config was horked, that's why we were having problems" or "hey, the RAID we back up to was getting kinda full, so I got us a shitload more drives". All those things, I ordered or fixed myself and *then* had to go be a sysadmin for the clients' machines.
In a lot of companies, you're ordering/configuring/maintaining licenses and hardware for somebody else's business, or somebody else's department, or whatever. In my book, if the funds are there to have soembody around to take over those duties for my own department, that's cool. Just because I *can* do something doesn't mean I have time to.
Sure, I'll fix my box when it has an issue. It's not like these sysadmins will need tech support; In the end IMHO your best use as an admin's admin isn't that much different though, aside from that. Keep stuff running smoothly so that I don't have to think about it. With users it's the same thing, except in this case the users are thinking about somebody else's network instead of shiny foil or whatever it is non-sysadmins think about.
Well, the reversal took a couple of days; they needed time to set up the scripts to shadow any mail sent to accounts having "allah", so that it will also be copied to the mcarthyites-L@cia.gov.
I think this article is basically saying that you can't learn creativity in school, and that the games industry could benefit from fresh, outside voices.
How is this any different from any other creative industry?
I had signed up for one of those new geeko-tourism packages. We had spent the last several days attached to a port, so we were excited to be nearing the CVS surrounding the galapagos, where we hoped to catch a glimpse of Darwin, or maybe a GNU.
Unfortunately our ship was soon compromised by these pirates who swooped in via the Cat5 cable. Their Captain, known as Bluetooth, just seemed to float right across to our ship, through the air; it was scary.
Anyway, they must not have known we were a civilian ship, because they kept asking to see the Colonal. I noticed that one of them had a USB key for a hand. They also tore every page out of the ship's log before they left....
The processes are easy enough that it's not a distraction, although maybe I'm just better at multitasking than most people.
No offense my friend, but I think a big part of the problem is that most people think they're better drivers than most people. Probably true for objectively determining how distracted one is, also.
Certainly, some of us have more skill at it than others, and I'm not dissing you personally; for all I know, your name is Andretti.:)
So now we have our own versions of the Muslim world's "Morality Police"?
I thought (and could be wrong) that the "morality police" you're speaking of were church-appointed, though. These guys are government-appointed agents. Given that our constitution has guarantees not common in the religiously-governed parts of the Arab League it's even lamer when these yahoos do it here, IMHO.
What man? Both of the examples I used (IBM, MS) have been scrutinized by the Feds here in the USA for their business practices. That's a far cry from "hating brand-name anything".
Heck I didn't even say I personally thought Microsoft was evil; I've used their various OS offerings since at least 1988. I just think it's overly optimistic to assume that our friends at Google will always keep their "don't be evil" philosophy. Companies change hands, stockholders intervene. I'm not "hating" anything; just being realistic. It doesn't mean Google *will* be evil, it means that their current non-evil stance doesn't make them the "good guys" either. In the end, they have to make a buck just like the rest of us do.
Who says large computer companies can't be both competent and not evil sleazebags.
As has been said before, power tends to corrupt. Microsoft didn't seem very evil at all when they were a "little guy" up against big bad IBM, back in the day.
called "I was aboard a ufo". It's absolutely perfectly insane. I used to have a nice color-illustrated PDF version I got from a buddy, but I guess I've lost the file; I suppose I'm probably cubeless stupid.
Yeah buddy, I work in IT. We bust ass when the client has work for us to do, and we screw around the rest of the time.
I agree it's not for everybody, but I like it a lot, and it helps a lot that I do everything remotely, so I don't have to leave my house to work or anything.
Plus I've been a Sysadmin for so long now (tho always in an office before) that it's just what my brain thinks about; there's really no seperation of personal/work time anymore, and I'm surprised to say that it works great. My company sees it as "if you're flexible with us when we need it, we'll be just as flexible with you". It mostly works because they're respectful of the work we put in.
I can't speak for Spork (ahem), but where I work it's sometimes work like that for awhile and then I play video games for a couple of weeks. Some clients are willing to pay us for screwing off a lot of the time, in return for busting ass when necessary.
Of course they do. I'm not saying music piracy is good or bad my friend, I'm just saying the RIAA's motives stem from the desire to continue to control their cash cow (which is the artists).
I wholeheartedly agree. They know you probably weren't gonna buy that tune you downloaded anyway. They know that tune might turn you on and get you to buy the artist's CDs (or not).
They also know that if it's that easy for consumers to get music directly, they become redundant. Their tactics are intended to retain control of the artists.
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Because we all know there was no such thing as a "killing spree" before GTA invented the concept. Nobody had apparently ever run amok before that fateful software release....
end sarcasm
I've used mostly cheap, crappy laptops but I've had a few where the mouse was nice. My Current Compaq Presario R4000 laptop has a great two-button trackpad with H and V scroll on the pad itself. It works great; if you start your motion on the trackpad, the scroll wheels interpret that as cursor motion, not scrolling, even if your finger goes into the scrolling area. If you start your motion within the predefined scrolling area, it interprets the motion as scrolling. I also have a button right above the trackpad that disables it when I want to, if my big stupid meathooks are brushing the pad while I type.
One thing I can't attest to with the R4000 is durability; I haven't had it very long yet so I don't know.
Before that, I had an old-ass Omnibook XE3; two-button trackpad design on it was fine, too (although the pad itself did indeed suck, the buttons were well-placed).
I'm not saying Powerbook Trackpads suck, nothing wrong with them in my book as trackpads go (except the one-button thing). It's just that my experience with two-button trackpads has been that quite a few seem well-designed.
I suppose I'm a product of the times I was born in, but beack in the day whenever I saw girls making those I always thought about Pacman.
My friend, I've been a sysadmin for so long all my pride left me years ago. I grok what you're saying, but I'd hope that the admin's admin knew what they were doing, I guess. I'd also rather get some lame bleeding-edge hardware than have a non-tech manager who doesn't understand why we need to add money to the budget to replace the server we "just bought five years ago". :D
LOL at the 'dogfood' comment, BTW.
Do you really think you're the only one using your special mouse? Buddy, I learned years ago that somebody who says "I know about mouses, that's not the one I wanted" is a pain in the rear. Right now on my desk there's an Apple mouse, an MS wireless Optical mouse, and a logitech trackball. Know what? They're all pretty cool, and they're all nicer than anything I had just a few years ago.
Worry less about having the perfect 1337 mouse and more about the work. Your fingers will be fine.
I think a sysadmin can be of good use to sysadmins, in the right environment, though I must admit I've never done that. Right now I'm sysadmin for a bunch of software developers, but I've never admin-ed admins.
Anyway, I look at it like this. Part of what a sysadmin does is decide what hardware we need, and order stuff. If I had another sysadmin ordering crap for me, that would be great! I'll worry about what the clients need, you order me a copy of the new version of XXX, or roll up to my desk with a gigabit network card and a grin on your face. That'd be great.
When was the last time any of us Sysadmins came to work and somebody said "I ordered us all a sweet new mouse" or "hey the router config was horked, that's why we were having problems" or "hey, the RAID we back up to was getting kinda full, so I got us a shitload more drives". All those things, I ordered or fixed myself and *then* had to go be a sysadmin for the clients' machines.
In a lot of companies, you're ordering/configuring/maintaining licenses and hardware for somebody else's business, or somebody else's department, or whatever. In my book, if the funds are there to have soembody around to take over those duties for my own department, that's cool. Just because I *can* do something doesn't mean I have time to.
Sure, I'll fix my box when it has an issue. It's not like these sysadmins will need tech support; In the end IMHO your best use as an admin's admin isn't that much different though, aside from that. Keep stuff running smoothly so that I don't have to think about it. With users it's the same thing, except in this case the users are thinking about somebody else's network instead of shiny foil or whatever it is non-sysadmins think about.
Well, the reversal took a couple of days; they needed time to set up the scripts to shadow any mail sent to accounts having "allah", so that it will also be copied to the mcarthyites-L@cia.gov.
I think this article is basically saying that you can't learn creativity in school, and that the games industry could benefit from fresh, outside voices.
How is this any different from any other creative industry?
Did I miss something?
Mod parent UP! I was there and it was awful.
I had signed up for one of those new geeko-tourism packages. We had spent the last several days attached to a port, so we were excited to be nearing the CVS surrounding the galapagos, where we hoped to catch a glimpse of Darwin, or maybe a GNU.
Unfortunately our ship was soon compromised by these pirates who swooped in via the Cat5 cable. Their Captain, known as Bluetooth, just seemed to float right across to our ship, through the air; it was scary.
Anyway, they must not have known we were a civilian ship, because they kept asking to see the Colonal. I noticed that one of them had a USB key for a hand. They also tore every page out of the ship's log before they left....
The processes are easy enough that it's not a distraction, although maybe I'm just better at multitasking than most people.
:)
No offense my friend, but I think a big part of the problem is that most people think they're better drivers than most people. Probably true for objectively determining how distracted one is, also.
Certainly, some of us have more skill at it than others, and I'm not dissing you personally; for all I know, your name is Andretti.
It's a good thing Mac users won't have app rewrites to worry about anytime soon! ;p
So now we have our own versions of the Muslim world's "Morality Police"?
I thought (and could be wrong) that the "morality police" you're speaking of were church-appointed, though. These guys are government-appointed agents. Given that our constitution has guarantees not common in the religiously-governed parts of the Arab League it's even lamer when these yahoos do it here, IMHO.
Thanks, it's been awhile but I was pretty sure more than 2000 people lived in North Dakota.
What man? Both of the examples I used (IBM, MS) have been scrutinized by the Feds here in the USA for their business practices. That's a far cry from "hating brand-name anything".
Heck I didn't even say I personally thought Microsoft was evil; I've used their various OS offerings since at least 1988. I just think it's overly optimistic to assume that our friends at Google will always keep their "don't be evil" philosophy. Companies change hands, stockholders intervene. I'm not "hating" anything; just being realistic. It doesn't mean Google *will* be evil, it means that their current non-evil stance doesn't make them the "good guys" either. In the end, they have to make a buck just like the rest of us do.
Who says large computer companies can't be both competent and not evil sleazebags.
As has been said before, power tends to corrupt. Microsoft didn't seem very evil at all when they were a "little guy" up against big bad IBM, back in the day.
How about "Mac, Mac, Sausage, Eggs, and Mac"?
Oh thanks man, I always love the Timecube guy. He sets the bar for crazy physics, in my opinion.
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If you dig that, read this book if you can:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585003522/104-1
called "I was aboard a ufo". It's absolutely perfectly insane. I used to have a nice color-illustrated PDF version I got from a buddy, but I guess I've lost the file; I suppose I'm probably cubeless stupid.
3? Oh Nooooooo! I guess I'm a robot after all!
I suppose I could see it going down just like that, except that I'm reasonably certain Jack Thompson has no homies.
with your video card, maybe.
Everybody here in Indiana knows it's "pop".
Yeah buddy, I work in IT. We bust ass when the client has work for us to do, and we screw around the rest of the time.
I agree it's not for everybody, but I like it a lot, and it helps a lot that I do everything remotely, so I don't have to leave my house to work or anything.
Plus I've been a Sysadmin for so long now (tho always in an office before) that it's just what my brain thinks about; there's really no seperation of personal/work time anymore, and I'm surprised to say that it works great. My company sees it as "if you're flexible with us when we need it, we'll be just as flexible with you". It mostly works because they're respectful of the work we put in.
I can't speak for Spork (ahem), but where I work it's sometimes work like that for awhile and then I play video games for a couple of weeks. Some clients are willing to pay us for screwing off a lot of the time, in return for busting ass when necessary.
Of course they do. I'm not saying music piracy is good or bad my friend, I'm just saying the RIAA's motives stem from the desire to continue to control their cash cow (which is the artists).
I wholeheartedly agree. They know you probably weren't gonna buy that tune you downloaded anyway. They know that tune might turn you on and get you to buy the artist's CDs (or not).
They also know that if it's that easy for consumers to get music directly, they become redundant. Their tactics are intended to retain control of the artists.