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Seriously, time to get some new material. Either that, or start writing for Mark and Brian, since that's only slightly less repeatative than listen to them crack the same jokes and making the same football bets every goddamn morning since 1988...
But if you're running Linux, why even bother updating software that will only ever be used from the time the power turns on to the time Grub or Lilo hand off to the kernel? Seems like a big risk of blowing that code and making a big, unbootable doorstop for absolutely zero payoff.
Why are we still using a BIOS on the motherboard patterned after the designs of 20 years ago. None of my computers come with serial, parrellel, or PS2 ports, and no more ISA.. so why are we still using old hacked together BIOS?
Probably because some crufted-over operating system of 20 years ago still doesn't know how to live without it, and even more perplexingly, is still used despite lack of a modern implementation that takes into account today's hardware and security concerns. Even you noticed modern OSs lack this problem.
Except the Macintosh. And most PCs. And any laptop you're going to come across these days. And software vendors. And media manufacturers (show me a new, shrink-wrapped box of floppies that works and I'll show you a company who didn't stop making obsolete technology and switch to selling the leftovers in the warehouse from 8 years ago).
Even corporate IT has shunned the floppy. I just realized the machine I've sat at every day for the last 4 months still has the floppy drive protector fake-floppy-disk insert thing in the drive, and that machine's been on my cubicle's desk longer than I even knew the company existed.
Telex Corporation came up with the Road King RK57 noise-cancelling radio microphone in (IIRC) 1957. They still make them new in the original design, which hasn't changed since they introduced it and it's still considered state of the art for a mobile microphone.
So just boot into Windows to play your game, and then return to Linux afterwards. It's likely to run faster this way anyway.
No. Debian system, 200GB disk, 1GB RAM, nv15 with 64MB, Athlon 2200+ running Vice City in Cedega runs cutscenes and plays the game with about twice the framerate the very same machine does running Windows.
Please actually know what you're talking about before demonstrating that you are, in fact, a moron.
Most games don't play well, or play with really annoying issues. For example, many in-game videos do not play properly in Cedega, and if you can't skip them, you might be sitting there a long time waiting for them to finish. A good example of this is Black and White, where the opening video can't be skipped, and plays at about 3fps.
Odd, the opening video can be skipped and is perfectly watchable in the current Cedega. And as for glitchiness in Cedega, this is something game developers need to take into account now. It's the third millennium, Windows is obsolete and it's time to move on.
To the average user, the notion of non-admin is abstract and obscure," said Michael Howard, a senior security program manager in Microsoft Corp.'s security business and technology unit.
And whose fault is that? Really, who made it hard to use Windows built in security? Why is it I can run GTA: San Andreas as a normal user in Linux emulating windows but I have to be Administrator to run the same damn thing on a Windows box? Games and any other user program should not EVER require root access. When everybody else got it right, why does Microsoft dare to be wrong?
(Then again, I never understood why people mow their lawns and then water them.:-)
I never understood why anybody would plant grass on their lawns. Douglas firs are nicer looking and lower maintenance. Then again, the Douglas fir lawn is an Oregonian thing, you're not expected to understand this.
Very few ad blocker programs block ads that are not attempting to do something abusive. It is about blocking intrusive and abusive ads.
Advertising, by definition, is abusive and intrusive. Nothing that stops advertising can be described as the same unless it's closed source and thus you can't tell.
Bennie Smith is entirely correct -- if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
This falsely implies that information does not want to be free, and that the audience does not demand freedom of information, and people don't do things for the sake of doing something or in the public interest. Seeing the shilling and commercialism and the same-shit-different-site-looking-for-ad-revenue homogeny out there, you seem to have made the best argument in favor of ad blocking yet.
Today, it's relatively easy to spot the advertising within the page to block it out. Eventually, advertising will become so integrated with the content that you can't automatically detect and strip it out.
You mean like how CSS was so integrated with DVD content that you couldn't watch a DVD without a cabal-blessed player, right? Oh, wait...
Sure, for the Walmart-shopping, McDonals-eating, Suburb-living, American public, there is no question IE leads the race.
Walmart shopper? Check.
McDonalds eating? Don't want to cook dinner tonight or really wait for food, either. Check.
Suburb-living? Sort of, Wood Village is a suburb of Gresham, Oregon (which is itself an exurb of Portland); whether or not you consider that American depends on whether or not you're Oregon-secessionist or wrong.
IE leads the race
Riiiiight. I fit your stereotype and even I consider IE harmful.
...how many video games have you played that have had real voice actors but someone set us up the bomb. Main screen turn on. How are you gentlemen, All your base are belong to us?
My roommate's first thought when he heard my text reader say that was that he saw a website selling devices designed to do exactly that. Who knew security devices existed for specific appendages?
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Seriously, time to get some new material. Either that, or start writing for Mark and Brian, since that's only slightly less repeatative than listen to them crack the same jokes and making the same football bets every goddamn morning since 1988...
Bootstrap doesn't count, every computer, x86 or not needs enough "BIOS" to hand off to the boot loader. Don't be obtuse.
But if you're running Linux, why even bother updating software that will only ever be used from the time the power turns on to the time Grub or Lilo hand off to the kernel? Seems like a big risk of blowing that code and making a big, unbootable doorstop for absolutely zero payoff.
Probably because some crufted-over operating system of 20 years ago still doesn't know how to live without it, and even more perplexingly, is still used despite lack of a modern implementation that takes into account today's hardware and security concerns. Even you noticed modern OSs lack this problem.
Except the Macintosh. And most PCs. And any laptop you're going to come across these days. And software vendors. And media manufacturers (show me a new, shrink-wrapped box of floppies that works and I'll show you a company who didn't stop making obsolete technology and switch to selling the leftovers in the warehouse from 8 years ago). Even corporate IT has shunned the floppy. I just realized the machine I've sat at every day for the last 4 months still has the floppy drive protector fake-floppy-disk insert thing in the drive, and that machine's been on my cubicle's desk longer than I even knew the company existed.
Telex Corporation came up with the Road King RK57 noise-cancelling radio microphone in (IIRC) 1957. They still make them new in the original design, which hasn't changed since they introduced it and it's still considered state of the art for a mobile microphone.
Sometimes you just get it right the first time.
No. Debian system, 200GB disk, 1GB RAM, nv15 with 64MB, Athlon 2200+ running Vice City in Cedega runs cutscenes and plays the game with about twice the framerate the very same machine does running Windows.
Please actually know what you're talking about before demonstrating that you are, in fact, a moron.
Odd, the opening video can be skipped and is perfectly watchable in the current Cedega. And as for glitchiness in Cedega, this is something game developers need to take into account now. It's the third millennium, Windows is obsolete and it's time to move on.
This is different from Visio in what way?
And whose fault is that? Really, who made it hard to use Windows built in security? Why is it I can run GTA: San Andreas as a normal user in Linux emulating windows but I have to be Administrator to run the same damn thing on a Windows box? Games and any other user program should not EVER require root access. When everybody else got it right, why does Microsoft dare to be wrong?
Except for one major problem: The Cube featured not laser beam one. The scene you describe was a razor-sharp screen of cyclone fence.
Only if you're dumb enough to mow down all the trees around the stand near your home. Trees need other trees to break the wind for them.
I never understood why anybody would plant grass on their lawns. Douglas firs are nicer looking and lower maintenance. Then again, the Douglas fir lawn is an Oregonian thing, you're not expected to understand this.
Advertising, by definition, is abusive and intrusive. Nothing that stops advertising can be described as the same unless it's closed source and thus you can't tell.
This falsely implies that information does not want to be free, and that the audience does not demand freedom of information, and people don't do things for the sake of doing something or in the public interest. Seeing the shilling and commercialism and the same-shit-different-site-looking-for-ad-revenue homogeny out there, you seem to have made the best argument in favor of ad blocking yet.
You mean like how CSS was so integrated with DVD content that you couldn't watch a DVD without a cabal-blessed player, right? Oh, wait...
...for peeing in the pool, then getting annoyed when proxy managers whip out the chlorine. Just another reason to use your local caching proxy...
Riiiiight. I fit your stereotype and even I consider IE harmful.
No, or it would be openly licensed instead of some closed, proprietary, sometimes adware model. Good software is it's own reward.
Have a hot dog. Be meaty. Be Frank.
What about KDE PIM and it's KPilot component? Works wonders for me...
...how many video games have you played that have had real voice actors but someone set us up the bomb. Main screen turn on. How are you gentlemen, All your base are belong to us?
No, the real test is how many people will play it and like it enough to become developers for it.
Ursine Wiki has a whole bunch of stuff including history, detailed descriptions and reviews of most of the Apple Newton line.
My roommate's first thought when he heard my text reader say that was that he saw a website selling devices designed to do exactly that. Who knew security devices existed for specific appendages?