what about those of us who stupidly coded our infrastructure in ASP that uses ADO database crap? I want to get out of that but I don't want to spend the time to re-write everything. (And session awareness in Perl isn't as good as ASP, but I finally made my Perl pages aware of my ASP sessions.)
Is there somethign easy I can do without thinking to escape IIS and go to Apache on my windows box? cause that's where I'd ideally like to be.
Hahaha, you have good sportsmanship. +1. The Kindly Person thing was hilarious. I admit I am very blunt, crass, direct, in-your-face, whatever.
My basic attitude is that the state of affairs is so sad that we need more blunt, crass, direct, in-your-face people to enact any kind of positive change.
Anyway, talk to some video store clerks. It's very common for a male to rent a movie then the female to return it. Lots of couples watch porn together. I actually don't so much (my wife is bi, we can make our own porn) and am a bit disturbed by groups of my friends that view porn 4-couples-at-a-time.
But I don't buy that porn ruins marraiges at all. Dishonesty ruins marriages. If you are an honest person you would have told your wife you like to look at pornography long before you got married, you would not have gotten married with such secrets, and if she was a realistic and understanding woman, she would not care one way or the other as long as you were honest about it.
Raising the strawman of porn as a cause for everything is like saying that guns kill people. And yet, plenty of murders happened before guns were invented. It's murderous intent that kills people, not guns. They are just tools. And it's dishonest intent that kills relationships, not the tools of dishonesty (porn) used.
Actually if you check my signature you would see I don't really care about karma. Sure I'm impressed when a comment of mine scores 3... but... What does karma DO? Help me slashdot better? Give me free money and sex? Allow me to moderate more? (Like I care?)
I realize I mentioned Quake3 as my rant decended into "general dissatisfaction with the world around me", but I actually ONLY play console games at this point (and any point in the last year).
And ideally it would not be co-op, but deathmatch:)
(Yes we can chat by looking at the other side of the screen, it's akin to having telepathy.)
Unfortunately I and most people are governed by the path of least resistance, which means it's easier to click 'reply' than to go on a wild goose chase surfing around for people who i think MIGHT be influential.
Maybe since I don't know who these people are, one of them is reading slashdot, y'know?
Ironically, every couple I know who owns a playstation (about 6) all play together. But hey what do we married people know? We only constitute the bulk of the population.:)
I think "married couples who game" is not the extreme fringe that you think it is. There are more married people with income to buy a PS2 than unmarried people and the age of the average gamer has been rising for years.
But you don't hear about us, becuase, well, why would we become part of a scene that doesn't acknowledge us or give us the information we need?
Most game reviews are utterly useless to me. Why? Lack of multi-player "support".
There is not a proper focus on multiplayer gaming in ANY of the review sites. I *only* play multiplayer games (with a few exceptions).
There are some issues that simply are not touched. In Burnout2, my wife & I could race against each other using 2 forcefeedback steering wheels. In Burnout3, the same 2 wheels don't work -- only 1 is recognized.
But no reviewer out there even mentions using two wheels at once. They only care about the single-player experience.
Also: Online games. There are games that are 4player locally, and you can play online. But can 4 local players play online? No. You can play online only 1 at a time. So my choice is: Play with wife, or a complete stranger. BUT I WANT TO PLAY WITH MY WIFE *AND* A FEW COMPLETE STRANGERS (like we do when we play Quake3 online--I also wish I didn't have to purchase 2 copies of the game to do that.)
Some sites will say "1-16 players". But that is the online count. It doesn't answer the question of "Will my wife be able to join in?"
Magazines don't mention it. Gamefaqs only gives a # of players that MIGHT be online or MIGHT be in-person.
Also, gamefaqs does not have select-by-controller. For instance, i'd like to see all the Eye Toy games, or all the steering-wheel games, or all the headset games in a category. I'd also like "4 player games" to be a category.
Does anyone have ANY suggestions on a site that might give my wife and I the type of reviews *WE* want???????
Like I said... I sit 12 feet away... I don't have that problem.
Here's how you fix your situation:
1) Buy recliner.
2) Buy ATI card with s-video/dva/rca tv-out.
3) Buy wireless keyboard and mouse.
4) Buy keyboard and mouse extensions and have 2nd redundant keyboard & mouse for when batteries die.
5) Get the MX-500 or higher remote control.
6) Buy Television.
7) Hook television to computer.
At this point, your power button problems will go away and you will be as frustrated as I am about the 5-second button-holding thingee because.. well.. it's more time out of the recliner.
Thanks!
don't go thru the effort of looking it up... unless you want to. I only reboot every week or so [my windows2000 server has been up for 103 days actually], i'll probably forget about it by then anyway. I expect to remember at some random point months in the future when my computer is crashed.
Did I read your message wrong, or do you have to hit a key on the keyboard to use the power button on your case?
If so, I'm sorry, but I think that's actually worse. My computer is 12 feet away from my keyboard. I'd rather hold the button down for 5 seconds then have to walk back to my keyboard to press enter, or to carry my keyboard 12 feet there and back again. (Yes, laziness is an art.)
Really?? What option?? I go into my bios frequently but unless the title of the option sparks my mind as being the right thing, I'm not going to go thru the manual lookin for it.:)
I'm a power user who absolutely has to install about 90 programs within the first week of installing windows, just to get by my day-by-day tasks. (Don't ask: 4 computers, terabyte of HD space, i'm a junkie.)
I actually LIKE those windows. My start menu cascades to about 60 submenus, at least 20 of which cascade to about 30 submenus each. There's way too much info to look at.
I don't want to have to visually grep against every program I've ever installed (for example "that mass audio decoder I use once every six months" or "that winzip I only call from the commandline").
I'd much rather have to pick from the choices I regularly make. Computers that can detect patterns in what you do and respond to it appropriately are exactly what is needed to make machines work for us more, and to make us work for machines less.
To the people who have a problem with this -- I have a problem with you.
When I try to save it later, and it fails, I can just put the floppy back in.
What's your point? At least the eject button fuckign ejects!
I hate when a button I am pushing tries to second-guess my intentions. The whole "hold it down for 5 seconds to turn it off" trend SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS. i HATE being dragged down to that level.
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How about a URL of a tracker where we can download some torrents of these time attacks? I don't like to make 'em, but I like to watch 'em.
Is there somethign easy I can do without thinking to escape IIS and go to Apache on my windows box? cause that's where I'd ideally like to be.
http://funagain.com/
My basic attitude is that the state of affairs is so sad that we need more blunt, crass, direct, in-your-face people to enact any kind of positive change.
Anyway, talk to some video store clerks. It's very common for a male to rent a movie then the female to return it. Lots of couples watch porn together. I actually don't so much (my wife is bi, we can make our own porn) and am a bit disturbed by groups of my friends that view porn 4-couples-at-a-time.
But I don't buy that porn ruins marraiges at all. Dishonesty ruins marriages. If you are an honest person you would have told your wife you like to look at pornography long before you got married, you would not have gotten married with such secrets, and if she was a realistic and understanding woman, she would not care one way or the other as long as you were honest about it.
Raising the strawman of porn as a cause for everything is like saying that guns kill people. And yet, plenty of murders happened before guns were invented. It's murderous intent that kills people, not guns. They are just tools. And it's dishonest intent that kills relationships, not the tools of dishonesty (porn) used.
It's unfortunate that a series of random anecdotes have turned you into an asshole. Go die now, because you're fucking clueless.
You could actually find her page if you look with any slight effort at all. (scatters to place adsense code in place)
Actually if you check my signature you would see I don't really care about karma. Sure I'm impressed when a comment of mine scores 3... but... What does karma DO? Help me slashdot better? Give me free money and sex? Allow me to moderate more? (Like I care?)
I realize I mentioned Quake3 as my rant decended into "general dissatisfaction with the world around me", but I actually ONLY play console games at this point (and any point in the last year).
And ideally it would not be co-op, but deathmatch :)
(Yes we can chat by looking at the other side of the screen, it's akin to having telepathy.)
(BTW, I'm crazy in a good way.)
Maybe since I don't know who these people are, one of them is reading slashdot, y'know?
Ironically, every couple I know who owns a playstation (about 6) all play together. But hey what do we married people know? We only constitute the bulk of the population. :)
But you don't hear about us, becuase, well, why would we become part of a scene that doesn't acknowledge us or give us the information we need?
But.. you know.. she's a wild woman :)
Too bad I dont' have an x-box! But thanks for being nice, unlike the guy pointing out that I'm in a fringe.
There is not a proper focus on multiplayer gaming in ANY of the review sites. I *only* play multiplayer games (with a few exceptions).
There are some issues that simply are not touched. In Burnout2, my wife & I could race against each other using 2 forcefeedback steering wheels. In Burnout3, the same 2 wheels don't work -- only 1 is recognized.
But no reviewer out there even mentions using two wheels at once. They only care about the single-player experience.
Also: Online games. There are games that are 4player locally, and you can play online. But can 4 local players play online? No. You can play online only 1 at a time. So my choice is: Play with wife, or a complete stranger. BUT I WANT TO PLAY WITH MY WIFE *AND* A FEW COMPLETE STRANGERS (like we do when we play Quake3 online--I also wish I didn't have to purchase 2 copies of the game to do that.)
Some sites will say "1-16 players". But that is the online count. It doesn't answer the question of "Will my wife be able to join in?"
Magazines don't mention it. Gamefaqs only gives a # of players that MIGHT be online or MIGHT be in-person.
Also, gamefaqs does not have select-by-controller. For instance, i'd like to see all the Eye Toy games, or all the steering-wheel games, or all the headset games in a category. I'd also like "4 player games" to be a category.
Does anyone have ANY suggestions on a site that might give my wife and I the type of reviews *WE* want???????
Here's how you fix your situation: .. well.. it's more time out of the recliner.
1) Buy recliner. 2) Buy ATI card with s-video/dva/rca tv-out. 3) Buy wireless keyboard and mouse. 4) Buy keyboard and mouse extensions and have 2nd redundant keyboard & mouse for when batteries die. 5) Get the MX-500 or higher remote control. 6) Buy Television. 7) Hook television to computer. At this point, your power button problems will go away and you will be as frustrated as I am about the 5-second button-holding thingee because
Thanks!
don't go thru the effort of looking it up... unless you want to. I only reboot every week or so [my windows2000 server has been up for 103 days actually], i'll probably forget about it by then anyway. I expect to remember at some random point months in the future when my computer is crashed.
If so, I'm sorry, but I think that's actually worse. My computer is 12 feet away from my keyboard. I'd rather hold the button down for 5 seconds then have to walk back to my keyboard to press enter, or to carry my keyboard 12 feet there and back again. (Yes, laziness is an art.)
Really?? What option?? I go into my bios frequently but unless the title of the option sparks my mind as being the right thing, I'm not going to go thru the manual lookin for it. :)
I actually LIKE those windows. My start menu cascades to about 60 submenus, at least 20 of which cascade to about 30 submenus each. There's way too much info to look at.
I don't want to have to visually grep against every program I've ever installed (for example "that mass audio decoder I use once every six months" or "that winzip I only call from the commandline").
I'd much rather have to pick from the choices I regularly make. Computers that can detect patterns in what you do and respond to it appropriately are exactly what is needed to make machines work for us more, and to make us work for machines less.
To the people who have a problem with this -- I have a problem with you.
What's your point? At least the eject button fuckign ejects!
I hate when a button I am pushing tries to second-guess my intentions. The whole "hold it down for 5 seconds to turn it off" trend SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS. i HATE being dragged down to that level.
So... Windows:1, Mac:0.
I suggest you go watch the colorized version of Reefer Madness, and maybe listen to some of the audiocommentary, oh and get a fucking clue.
Man I wish I had mod points and you wren't AC.. that ruled..
kill me!
I think you've explained this best. Here's a cookie. :)