Does no-one on/. ever go through application settings first?
Yes.
Do we even know about, let alone go through all 5,000 braindead security settings that Windows seems to have these days? Hell no. After a while, you have to assume a vendor would do SOMETHING right. This one floored me completely. I thought a dozen open network ports on a home desktop OS was stupid, but this is beyond belief.
Things like this are why I moved to Linux. It's simply impossible to keep up with every idiotic setting that needs to be changed after a default Windows install.
Microsoft is being anti-competitive if they don't automatically run CDs inserted by the user? You're joking, right? Who has EVER made this claim?
I've seen some pretty blatant anti-MS trolls in my time, but I've never seen someone get so stupid as to accuse MS of antitrust violations for NOT including a "feature" in their product.
So um, no, they wouldn't be damned if they did this.
Funny that you'd mention minigames. Again, you have to think of just who the Wii is aimed at.
Is it aimed at the guy who plays Zelda all the way through 10 times? No. Is it aimed at the gal who collects every last star, heart, bonus fish, or whatever in Mario to unlock another costume? No. The guy who races every last track down to the microsecond hoping to finally open another level? No.
Is it aimed at folks who just want to sit down and have some fun for a while? YES.
Minigame collections, to me, are exactly what the doctor ordered. Not some sprawling 100+ hours of gameplay. Not some endless quest for little reward.
I'm in the gaming middle. I play through Zelda, but ONCE. Once I'm done, it has zero lasting value to me. Minigames, on the other hand - hell, I'm STILL playing Tetris, which for all intents and purposes these days, is a minigame. Quick if you want, no story, no collecting things, nothing. You just fire it up and play for a few minutes. I find the mingame style of games are playable far longer than most modern games.
Possibly, because reasonably intelligent people will be less likely to be out in a car when they're drinking. Staying home, or staying at the bar for a while, that sort of thing. You're in a car far more on an evening of shopping than an evening with a case of beer plunked in front of the TV watching hockey.
Of course, this doesn't account for the idiots who get behind the wheel after drinking...
Fortunately, Nintendo came out with a strong enough launch lineup that I really couldn't care less if nothing new came out for another 6 months. Include stragglers like Elebits (which was a couple of weeks late) and the system already has a solid half dozen must-haves.
The Wii is an overwhelming success not because people are ga-ga over the latest and greatest, and just trying to be "first on the block" to have one. It's successful because there's already a TON of fun to be had with it. The last time people were buying a system by the million JUST TO PLAY THE PACK-IN was the NES and Super Mario Bros. We all know how that one turned out. It took a year or two for much else to happen (I'm thinking Zelda and the ensuing Nintendo-mania of the late 1980s), but in the meantime everyone was very happy just playing SMB and a few other early releases.
Other than the real hardcore types who buy 20-30 games each and every year, there's more than enough Wii goodness to last the average person for 6-12 months. Coincidentally, this is exactly the type of person who the Wii is aimed at.
I'll be happy when Slashdot can once again focus on the technical features of SuSE Linux or other Novell software, together with how well it respects the freedoms of its users.
We may not be able to do this for much longer, if any of these idiotic lawsuits actually succeed.
The thing is, I'm talking about a penny tray that is built right into the machine (yeah, I've seen a few where you supply your own pennies).
Also, I'm not talking a small plastic tray holding a dozen pennies. I'm talking hundreds of foreign pennies, and yes, I've dug through them to confirm this:)
Slashdot has never blocked URLs based on content. There have been a couple of posts removed due to legal pressure, but every single goatse post in the history of this site is available for your viewing pleasure.
I would gladly give up my own personal freedom and well being to make sure my children grow up safe.
No you wouldn't. That is a complete and utter lie.
The overwhelming majority of child abuse is committed by a parent. If you are actually willing to give up your personal freedom to keep your child safe, you should be perfectly willing to give up your child and/or incarcerate yourself, as it's far more likely that they'll suffer abuse from YOU than anyone else in the world.
Unless you've already given up your children in the name of their "safety", you're lying.
What you meant to say is "I would gladly give up everyone ELSE'S personal freedom."
Of course not. Darwinian evolution was a non-issue during much of the Soviet Era, thanks to Lysenko and his influence with the highest levels of government.
Mass starvation ensued. Ignore Mr. Darwin at your own peril, folks.
Personally, I still use Notepad pretty much every day. A raw text editor, with some minimal (read: functional copy-paste) features is EXACTLY what I want on a regular basis. Even the crippled Wordpad tries too hard to be a full-fledged word processor.
Oddly enough, Notepad is one of the few things I miss when using Linux. Most of the GUI editors in Linux are far too slow to load and full-featured (Kwrite and the like) for quick text manipulation, so I use the old fallback, vi. Which works, but it's not always the easiest way to do something simple (and I've been using vi for years now, it's not like I don't know my way around it).
Notepad is the vi of Windows in terms of "it's always there". Ever try to work with fixed-width font terminal emulators and try to paste their output into Outlook without having to muck about with fonts all day? Notepad is a dream!
Thankfully, it runs under Wine just fine - but I'd KILL for someone to write a native Notepad lookalike, and then have it available with every Linux distro by default. Much like Paint, that way...
Give Billy West credit, though. I thought NO ONE could pull off a Hartman-esque performance until seeing his Zap. West brings a lot to that role, while at the same time not just sounding like an impersonator.
What's weird is that for many years when those things came around, they had a penny tray next to them with another country's pennies in it. In Canada, you'd always find US pennies ready to be crushed, and in the US, Canadian pennies. Lately (past couple of years) I've seen this behaviour stop and it's the resident country's currency.
Was this some sort of urban myth gone haywire? I've done a tremendous amount of travelling in North America and these penny squashers have always fascinated me. It (the "wrong" country's currency) was very consistent for years.
The fact that anyone in their right mind could imagine tea being anything BUT organic demonstrates quite clearly that telling the truth is already not allowed.
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Does no-one on /. ever go through application settings first?
Yes.
Do we even know about, let alone go through all 5,000 braindead security settings that Windows seems to have these days? Hell no. After a while, you have to assume a vendor would do SOMETHING right. This one floored me completely. I thought a dozen open network ports on a home desktop OS was stupid, but this is beyond belief.
Things like this are why I moved to Linux. It's simply impossible to keep up with every idiotic setting that needs to be changed after a default Windows install.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
Yes. I mean no.
Microsoft is being anti-competitive if they don't automatically run CDs inserted by the user? You're joking, right? Who has EVER made this claim?
I've seen some pretty blatant anti-MS trolls in my time, but I've never seen someone get so stupid as to accuse MS of antitrust violations for NOT including a "feature" in their product.
So um, no, they wouldn't be damned if they did this.
Funny that you'd mention minigames. Again, you have to think of just who the Wii is aimed at.
Is it aimed at the guy who plays Zelda all the way through 10 times? No.
Is it aimed at the gal who collects every last star, heart, bonus fish, or whatever in Mario to unlock another costume? No.
The guy who races every last track down to the microsecond hoping to finally open another level? No.
Is it aimed at folks who just want to sit down and have some fun for a while? YES.
Minigame collections, to me, are exactly what the doctor ordered. Not some sprawling 100+ hours of gameplay. Not some endless quest for little reward.
I'm in the gaming middle. I play through Zelda, but ONCE. Once I'm done, it has zero lasting value to me. Minigames, on the other hand - hell, I'm STILL playing Tetris, which for all intents and purposes these days, is a minigame. Quick if you want, no story, no collecting things, nothing. You just fire it up and play for a few minutes. I find the mingame style of games are playable far longer than most modern games.
Studies whose conclusions are 'doing X may result in Y' are so meaningless.
You mean all studies?
The universe is pretty non-deterministic.
Even car crashes..?
Possibly, because reasonably intelligent people will be less likely to be out in a car when they're drinking. Staying home, or staying at the bar for a while, that sort of thing. You're in a car far more on an evening of shopping than an evening with a case of beer plunked in front of the TV watching hockey.
Of course, this doesn't account for the idiots who get behind the wheel after drinking...
Fortunately, Nintendo came out with a strong enough launch lineup that I really couldn't care less if nothing new came out for another 6 months. Include stragglers like Elebits (which was a couple of weeks late) and the system already has a solid half dozen must-haves.
The Wii is an overwhelming success not because people are ga-ga over the latest and greatest, and just trying to be "first on the block" to have one. It's successful because there's already a TON of fun to be had with it. The last time people were buying a system by the million JUST TO PLAY THE PACK-IN was the NES and Super Mario Bros. We all know how that one turned out. It took a year or two for much else to happen (I'm thinking Zelda and the ensuing Nintendo-mania of the late 1980s), but in the meantime everyone was very happy just playing SMB and a few other early releases.
Other than the real hardcore types who buy 20-30 games each and every year, there's more than enough Wii goodness to last the average person for 6-12 months. Coincidentally, this is exactly the type of person who the Wii is aimed at.
And that you can go into a store and buy one no problem right now?
:)
The biggest unreported story of this console generation is that you can, more and more, "go into a store and buy a PS3 no problem right now".
I've been offered 3 this past week alone when asking for a Wii. Yes, I do far too much xmas shopping
You know how some people mod up "funny" posts as "insightful" to help the poster get a karma boost?
Here's a case where we should have done that, but not for the karma.
It's less a fallacy and more "OMG I watched the Matirx, and like, it was deeeeeep, man!"
Amazing how many armchair philosophers come out of the woodwork when a movie has kung-fu and guns in it.
I'll be happy when Slashdot can once again focus on the technical features of SuSE Linux or other Novell software, together with how well it respects the freedoms of its users.
We may not be able to do this for much longer, if any of these idiotic lawsuits actually succeed.
Hence, the keen interest in the proceedings.
The thing is, I'm talking about a penny tray that is built right into the machine (yeah, I've seen a few where you supply your own pennies).
:)
Also, I'm not talking a small plastic tray holding a dozen pennies. I'm talking hundreds of foreign pennies, and yes, I've dug through them to confirm this
Very bizarre, at any rate.
No, it's nothing like what Slashdot does.
Slashdot has never blocked URLs based on content. There have been a couple of posts removed due to legal pressure, but every single goatse post in the history of this site is available for your viewing pleasure.
I would gladly give up my own personal freedom and well being to make sure my children grow up safe.
No you wouldn't. That is a complete and utter lie.
The overwhelming majority of child abuse is committed by a parent. If you are actually willing to give up your personal freedom to keep your child safe, you should be perfectly willing to give up your child and/or incarcerate yourself, as it's far more likely that they'll suffer abuse from YOU than anyone else in the world.
Unless you've already given up your children in the name of their "safety", you're lying.
What you meant to say is "I would gladly give up everyone ELSE'S personal freedom."
Of course not. Darwinian evolution was a non-issue during much of the Soviet Era, thanks to Lysenko and his influence with the highest levels of government.
Mass starvation ensued. Ignore Mr. Darwin at your own peril, folks.
Obligatory karma whoring Wikipedia link.
Personally, I still use Notepad pretty much every day. A raw text editor, with some minimal (read: functional copy-paste) features is EXACTLY what I want on a regular basis. Even the crippled Wordpad tries too hard to be a full-fledged word processor.
Oddly enough, Notepad is one of the few things I miss when using Linux. Most of the GUI editors in Linux are far too slow to load and full-featured (Kwrite and the like) for quick text manipulation, so I use the old fallback, vi. Which works, but it's not always the easiest way to do something simple (and I've been using vi for years now, it's not like I don't know my way around it).
Notepad is the vi of Windows in terms of "it's always there". Ever try to work with fixed-width font terminal emulators and try to paste their output into Outlook without having to muck about with fonts all day? Notepad is a dream!
Thankfully, it runs under Wine just fine - but I'd KILL for someone to write a native Notepad lookalike, and then have it available with every Linux distro by default. Much like Paint, that way...
Give Billy West credit, though. I thought NO ONE could pull off a Hartman-esque performance until seeing his Zap. West brings a lot to that role, while at the same time not just sounding like an impersonator.
Wait... it's been a while since I've seen it, so feel free to correct me.
:)
Didn't they ALREADY die in each other's arms, and then come back in that wrap-up "movie"?
I guess if you haven't seen it I might have just ruined your life
Actually it's more like you telling your buddy that you'll share YOUR car with him.
Us Canadians aren't nearly so cheap when we go out.
What's weird is that for many years when those things came around, they had a penny tray next to them with another country's pennies in it. In Canada, you'd always find US pennies ready to be crushed, and in the US, Canadian pennies. Lately (past couple of years) I've seen this behaviour stop and it's the resident country's currency.
Was this some sort of urban myth gone haywire? I've done a tremendous amount of travelling in North America and these penny squashers have always fascinated me. It (the "wrong" country's currency) was very consistent for years.
The fact that anyone in their right mind could imagine tea being anything BUT organic demonstrates quite clearly that telling the truth is already not allowed.
And just where do you think Mars is located? ;^)
Pretty much the same place Earth is located, give or take a few million miles.
I've always wanted to call myself a "space creature"!
lord mike,
No offense... but, you probably shouldn't assume Dan Brown has ever had an original idea in his life.
Thanks,
freeweed
Is that the environmental rally being held in the Olive grove?