Gah, same here, though I donated anyway. Any chance some one would be kind enough to make a balding Limey happy by scanning and publishing/e-mailing me the ad.?
Heh, funny this story should come up now, I used Knoppix to recover customer web sites from a couple of disks from a compramised machine just the other day. Saved my life (coz if Knoppix wasn't there then I'd have to use a boot disk with vi on it, and I'd rather die, than use vi).
I used Gnome since around 1.4 and am of the same disposition most people who started using it at that time are. I don't want to rant about how there's no freedom in Gnome anymore etc., that's been done. In fact I don't even have a point, just some thoughts.
I switched to KDE3 after Gnome 2.6 (I was kind of heading for the door at 2.4 but I thought I'd give their new direction a try at least). Initially KDE3 was heaven; everything was configurable. But then it was hell; everything was configurable. I went in search of an old flame, Enlightenment, but that flame had died out, I just hadn't noticed.
Then I discovered XFCE4, just the right balance of configurability and simplicity (for me at least). Now I use 10% Gnome, 60% KDE, and 30% other (rox mostly). I have the best of everything and it all fits together beautifully. XFCE4 is so unopposing that everything can live together in harmony.
Maybe people are right and there should be one common desktop, but for all the people like me out there who like neither Gnome or KDE entirely, I'd like to recommend XFCE4, it's kind of rad.
I've always marvelled at how people can be so committed to an OS (or the marketing of an OS). You just don't get this sort of thing happening with toasters or laundry soap
I'm sure you would get this sort of thing happening with toasters or laundry soap if you had to service other peoples broken toasters every other day because they made the wrong choice in which toaster to buy. Or you worked with good soap at home which cleaned everything first time, but at your job in the laundry room you had to use bad soap because the washing machines your boss bought only worked with the washing machine's brand.
Hard OCP's story was notable at the time, and was seen as a great scoop. Unfortunately, Infinium's response blows some fai
rly large holes in the credibility and journalistic integrity of that story
Hmm, how can I put this? You're a Goddamn liar. Either that or you just don't know what you're talking about (fair enough that's not a crime, but it should be). All Infinitum Labs said in that letter is "That's not true! You take that back. You take it back or I'm calling Mommy Law". They provide little to no evidence to show any untruths which may exist in the article. Saying 'you didn't look hard enough' to claims that Hard|OCP looked through "all publicly available information" is the same as saying nothing at all.
Penny Arcade, who have cultivated an inexplicable (and laughably histrionic) vendetta against Infinium Labs, for no apparent reason
I agree, Penny Arcade are pretty immature and a lot of the time this gets in the way of their providing decent content on their site, this is a sad thing. I also agree that they seem to have picked a fight with Infinitum Labs without provocation and for no reason, but this second part I couldn't care less about. So what if they want to take down this joke of a company and provide some giggles along the way? Read up on their "console" and I'm sure you won't care much either. Anybody who sues when they want some one to do something instead of just asking nicely deserves whatever they get.
What are the chances that tossing a coin 100 times would give 50% heads?
I remember in primary school we were asked to conduct this "experiment" (I put experiment in quotes because I suspect it was just a way of keeping us busy for a while, like most other things you're asked to do at primary school). We included any throws where we failed to catch the coin and had it accidentally land on the floor. Astonishingly the results were exactly 50 times heads and 50 times tails. Our teacher didn't believe us.
You do not have a monopoly simply because people have *chosen* your product over some one else's. That's the key word by the way; "chosen". There has always been competition in the handheld market and Nintendo have always won. That is competition; two or more things *competing* with each other. Just because the same one always wins you can not call it a monopoly.
If I was playing Street Fighter II in the arcade and challenged any one and everyone there, but remained on the machine because I beat all challengers, do I have a monopoly on the machine or am I just really good at Street Fighter?
Yes! I was in the same boat for a long time. Exactly the same thing, I filled out their Goddamn form, phoned, threatended, nothing got through to them. Mainly because there was no "them", I was not allowed to talk to the technicians because they saw me as an end user (unjustly). I was so annoyed that I was even considering buying a plane ticket to America just to go to their offices and speak to the charming receptionist face to face.
But don't worry you're not blacklisted forever. After about 4 months mail started going through again to yahoo's servers. But yes, I know exactly how you feel, they don't have any staff (that you can talk to) that know anything about anything.
Ammendment: Actually the first thing you do is read the documentation. That's where I started troubleshooting (and okay no it didn't help me but you learn a lot of stuff about the drivers and what you can do with them).
First thing you do is look through the nvidia message boards . It's more than likely that you can find an answer there. If that fails then post a message there with proper details about your problem (machine specs, Xfree86 conf file et al.), the above description (and bless you for trying) is not adequate.
If they fail to give you an answer, which is unlikely, then I'll even take a look at things for you (I've had far more than my fair share of problems with an Nvidia card so I've had many hours of white hair enducing troubleshooting experience).
Agreed. It was one of the only non-flamebait posts in this thread. Glad to see it's modding has been corrected now.
I tried to stay out of this because of the retarded posts evident early in the thread (which apear to have gone on). But when people are just plain wrong about something I had to post a reply. I got shot down like a scud for it. It really is amazing how childish people get over the Gnome/KDE "war". I mean I know people have their preferences but damn, grow up.
I use Gnome because I like it. I play around with every new release of KDE and sometimes others to see if I'll like them more than I like Gnome, until I do I'm not changing desktop environment and no amount of bullying or lies will make me.
IMO things like window snapping serve no purpose and are just annoying. They only become useful once they're there and you change the way you work to incorperate the feature.
A good feature doesn't make you do new things which you would never have thought of before, it allows you to do what you already want to do.
That is why he says things like window snapping are crack and that is why he's willing to introduce things like expocity. How many times before window snapping came along did you think to yourself "Gee I wish I could snap these windows together for some reason" and how many times have you thought "Damn I wish I could see all my windows at once and change between them"?
I'll be honest here, I still don't understand why anyone would want to use mouse gestures. No one seems to be able to provide a believable reason other than "but it's cool". Anyone?
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Uhm, that's not what the (babelfished) site says. Say's there that the games have "region control". And parental locking :|
I laughed out loud, so humour is subjective, so ... erm, shut up :P
I for one welcome our new puppet emperor.
Sorry, it seemd obligatory.
They apologised.
Just coz of the bad press though?
Gah, same here, though I donated anyway. Any chance some one would be kind enough to make a balding Limey happy by scanning and publishing/e-mailing me the ad.?
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Cheers
Heh, funny this story should come up now, I used Knoppix to recover customer web sites from a couple of disks from a compramised machine just the other day. Saved my life (coz if Knoppix wasn't there then I'd have to use a boot disk with vi on it, and I'd rather die, than use vi).
I used Gnome since around 1.4 and am of the same disposition most people who started using it at that time are. I don't want to rant about how there's no freedom in Gnome anymore etc., that's been done. In fact I don't even have a point, just some thoughts.
I switched to KDE3 after Gnome 2.6 (I was kind of heading for the door at 2.4 but I thought I'd give their new direction a try at least). Initially KDE3 was heaven; everything was configurable. But then it was hell; everything was configurable. I went in search of an old flame, Enlightenment, but that flame had died out, I just hadn't noticed.
Then I discovered XFCE4, just the right balance of configurability and simplicity (for me at least). Now I use 10% Gnome, 60% KDE, and 30% other (rox mostly). I have the best of everything and it all fits together beautifully. XFCE4 is so unopposing that everything can live together in harmony.
Maybe people are right and there should be one common desktop, but for all the people like me out there who like neither Gnome or KDE entirely, I'd like to recommend XFCE4, it's kind of rad.
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Don't worry if I'm not there to respond, I'll know in which order the messages came. Don't forget to include your name and e-mail address.
I got pre-special edition laser disk rips. Go on, hate me, you know you want to.
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I'm sure you would get this sort of thing happening with toasters or laundry soap if you had to service other peoples broken toasters every other day because they made the wrong choice in which toaster to buy. Or you worked with good soap at home which cleaned everything first time, but at your job in the laundry room you had to use bad soap because the washing machines your boss bought only worked with the washing machine's brand.
That would be Portable Network Graphics then (PNG).
Hmm, how can I put this? You're a Goddamn liar. Either that or you just don't know what you're talking about (fair enough that's not a crime, but it should be). All Infinitum Labs said in that letter is "That's not true! You take that back. You take it back or I'm calling Mommy Law". They provide little to no evidence to show any untruths which may exist in the article. Saying 'you didn't look hard enough' to claims that Hard|OCP looked through "all publicly available information" is the same as saying nothing at all.
I agree, Penny Arcade are pretty immature and a lot of the time this gets in the way of their providing decent content on their site, this is a sad thing. I also agree that they seem to have picked a fight with Infinitum Labs without provocation and for no reason, but this second part I couldn't care less about. So what if they want to take down this joke of a company and provide some giggles along the way? Read up on their "console" and I'm sure you won't care much either. Anybody who sues when they want some one to do something instead of just asking nicely deserves whatever they get.
What are the chances that tossing a coin 100 times would give 50% heads?
I remember in primary school we were asked to conduct this "experiment" (I put experiment in quotes because I suspect it was just a way of keeping us busy for a while, like most other things you're asked to do at primary school). We included any throws where we failed to catch the coin and had it accidentally land on the floor. Astonishingly the results were exactly 50 times heads and 50 times tails. Our teacher didn't believe us.
If I was playing Street Fighter II in the arcade and challenged any one and everyone there, but remained on the machine because I beat all challengers, do I have a monopoly on the machine or am I just really good at Street Fighter?
What's this stupid lameness filter? All I want to do is post
this link and I have to type all this crap out.
Jeesh.
Don't confuse the man with words.
apt-get install -t testing
That's all you need.
Yes! I was in the same boat for a long time. Exactly the same thing, I filled out their Goddamn form, phoned, threatended, nothing got through to them. Mainly because there was no "them", I was not allowed to talk to the technicians because they saw me as an end user (unjustly). I was so annoyed that I was even considering buying a plane ticket to America just to go to their offices and speak to the charming receptionist face to face.
But don't worry you're not blacklisted forever. After about 4 months mail started going through again to yahoo's servers. But yes, I know exactly how you feel, they don't have any staff (that you can talk to) that know anything about anything.
Heh, that's funny I was wondering exactly the same thing and came up with some startling discoveries.
Ammendment: Actually the first thing you do is read the documentation. That's where I started troubleshooting (and okay no it didn't help me but you learn a lot of stuff about the drivers and what you can do with them).
First thing you do is look through the nvidia message boards . It's more than likely that you can find an answer there. If that fails then post a message there with proper details about your problem (machine specs, Xfree86 conf file et al.), the above description (and bless you for trying) is not adequate.
If they fail to give you an answer, which is unlikely, then I'll even take a look at things for you (I've had far more than my fair share of problems with an Nvidia card so I've had many hours of white hair enducing troubleshooting experience).
I tried to stay out of this because of the retarded posts evident early in the thread (which apear to have gone on). But when people are just plain wrong about something I had to post a reply. I got shot down like a scud for it. It really is amazing how childish people get over the Gnome/KDE "war". I mean I know people have their preferences but damn, grow up.
I use Gnome because I like it. I play around with every new release of KDE and sometimes others to see if I'll like them more than I like Gnome, until I do I'm not changing desktop environment and no amount of bullying or lies will make me.
Bloody children.
(Now this is flamebait).
This is simply not true. I have GTK running on my windows partition (for Gaim) but I've never seen QT programs.
IMO things like window snapping serve no purpose and are just annoying. They only become useful once they're there and you change the way you work to incorperate the feature.
A good feature doesn't make you do new things which you would never have thought of before, it allows you to do what you already want to do.
That is why he says things like window snapping are crack and that is why he's willing to introduce things like expocity. How many times before window snapping came along did you think to yourself "Gee I wish I could snap these windows together for some reason" and how many times have you thought "Damn I wish I could see all my windows at once and change between them"?
I'll be honest here, I still don't understand why anyone would want to use mouse gestures. No one seems to be able to provide a believable reason other than "but it's cool". Anyone?