I recently got into the new Doctor Who, and was enhoying it quite a bit.
Then at the season finale when they brought the daleks into it I was disappointed. I was not a fan of the original, but I do remember it, and I never liked the look of the daleks... I like the idea of them.. but they're just old looking and cheesy.
I figure they only kept the look as to not piss off the fans, where as I thought this was one time modernizing could help it.
They look like some weird futuristic roomba or something.
I forgave the show for this, and even though I knew it would happen, was very sad to see Christopher Eccleson go, as I thought of him as a quintessential Doctor.
All in all though, it has me coming back for season 2.
You know you don't have to be sitting at the computer to download, right?
or for that matter, burning onto cd/dvd, or converting files (besides the setup which takes all of ohh... a minute), or anything like that.
a lot of people have computers/xboxs/whatever connected to their tv's so they can watch downloaded videos right on them without having to convert/burn as well.
Hell sometimes it's faster for me to download a movie/game/music then go through my collection and find it.
>> Go to distrowatch and for a couple of bucks, order a linux cd of some flavor^_^ Cheaper and it will get rid of all your spyware and malware.
Four Questions:
1. Do you think that a user who is incapable of removing spyware could install linux (especially with helpful anti-spyware programs around)? 2. Do you think that a user who is incapable of removing spyware could keep a linux installation updated and not get rooted? 3. Do you want to support all these people who are essentially computer-stupid on linux? 4. Do you want to support these people when they start having problems with the internet (and their ISP says "Sorry, Linux is not supported!")
I have too many people asking me how to do stuff, how to fix this... can I come over and fix this... with windows... imagine it when they can't get their soundcard working, or some windows-app running. Windows may not be the best solution for a lot of things, but it's not viable to be completely phased out, either.
P.S. I know some linux distributions are getting way easier to install these days, but some people can't wrap their brains around things like partitioning a drive... even if it's made real simple (windows xp for instance, or some of the *nix distribs).
>> Someone also explain to me why an online, downloadable purchase of Nortons does not INCLUDE the latest virus defs? Or at least defs in the last month? Nortons 2005 download has DECEMEBER 2004 defs in it!!! Lame.
Sounds like they're too cheap to make a new package... I don't even think that would be too difficult if it's just the same engine with new defs.
I dunno what other people have found, but honestly, since the DOS days I haven't found any Norton/Symantec products to be good, or even useful.
'tis sad really... when I did use DOS, the Norton Utilities package was very handy.
I don;t think I've seen a motherboard without ps2 ports in ages.... since the pentium days.
Pretty much every windows machine has ps2 ports... although they might choose to use usb peripherals instead.
However.. I bought a logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo not long ago (based on the mx700) and was surprised it wasn't USB (although it did come with an adapter for the keyboard).
I'm not trying to take sides here, but I have noticed on my ADSL connections (and cable when I'm somewhere else) that windows xp gets infected BEFORE I can even double click on the patches that I keep on a cd or hdd (for the RPC exploits anyways). It was taking me under 2 minutes to get infected on the machines I tried at various locations.
Only way I get around this is to not have the machine on the internet. Sure it's simple for me, but Joe Blow who just bought his spanky new laptop won't know what to do. When I first noticed this I had just bought my laptop, plugged it in and CRASH... there goes the RPC service.
One good, yet annoying thing is that if RPC crashed the system reboots in a minute (only on XP), so it's easy to tell that you've been hit. Bad thing is the minute doesn't give you enough time to patch it.
Why does RPC need internet access anyways? That was a very stupid move for them to do... in pre-SP2 is there any way short of an external firewall to block it? I've never seen one.
I have to admit I've not tried putting an unpatched system online in the last year though, so maybe these particular worms have calmed down.
We had a punch-in clock like this at my old work.. I totally disagreed with it at first, on the principle of privacy and trust.
After I thought about it I changed my mind and decided it was a good thing since it actually protected me from fuckups in accounting or whatnot. If any BS was tried to start about me not at work, I had proof I was.
However... Disney World doing this would really put me off... once again because of trust. Companies that have these crazy (IMO) policies are basically calling their clientelle "liars". I don't like to be called a liar or a thief by anyone/thing.
I try to avoid giving my business to this type of place. Disney will get away with it though... most people will just think of it as part of the cost of going there.
I just downloaded the original Fantastic Four, not this years release, but 1994's release just because I had read it was so bad. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109770/
I wonder how it will stack up for worst movie:)
How would you feel if this was a bank, and the banks NEGLECT allowed hackers to transfer funds from your account?
Now I know this isn't as serious (althouh with identity theft I guess it could have the potential to be.. (to start anyways... you'd still need a SSN/SIN #).
It's not your fault for the actions of the hackers... it's your fault for not taking procautions to secure the machines. Doesn't make the hacker any less guilty.
The same thing could be said of compiling on the same arch as target... a bug could cause the compilation to be buggy as well.
The SDK's for most consoles (and handhelds) are used with the compiler being on a different architecture then the targets. I'm not 100% sure but I don't think any console/handheld has a developer system of the same architecture as the target.
Now I know they compile different things then a computer, but the point is still valid.
How many years am I going to be hearing about electronic paper (or printable displays for that matter), before the damn things actually come out and I can buy them?
>> 1. I'd like to see SCO sued out of existance by everyone they pressured into buying one of those insurance licences against the possibility of >> future infringement that they knew didn't exist.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this statement?:)
apparently I cannot use html tags on/. today.
>> See, you *really* don't know what you're talking about. Windows is well...everything. Because you cannot remove the Windowing system, the windowing server, the shell, the included "core" freebie applications. You're stuck with it all.
You know what's fucked?
on a bunch of XP installations I've done it's put EMPTY directories in the Program Files tree, and the system will NOT let you delete these empty directories.
What the fuck is that? A system protecting... nothing?
(Note: on this machine "microsoft frontpage", and "xerox" are both empty and undeletable.
>> I'm sure there's people who like Barbie's Horse Adventure and Tomb Raider Angel Of Darkness, but there's people who like all sorts of inferior crap. That doesn't mean it's not crap.
>> Even if you're the last person to buy a PowerPC-based Mac from Apple, you aren't throwing away your money (unless it's horribly overpriced compared to other comparable machines at the time).
you know it's Apple Computers we're talking abour, right?
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I recently got into the new Doctor Who, and was enhoying it quite a bit.
Then at the season finale when they brought the daleks into it I was disappointed. I was not a fan of the original, but I do remember it, and I never liked the look of the daleks... I like the idea of them.. but they're just old looking and cheesy.
I figure they only kept the look as to not piss off the fans, where as I thought this was one time modernizing could help it.
They look like some weird futuristic roomba or something.
I forgave the show for this, and even though I knew it would happen, was very sad to see Christopher Eccleson go, as I thought of him as a quintessential Doctor.
All in all though, it has me coming back for season 2.
>> Rockstar blatantly lied.
Rockstar might not have known about it... it could be just a little bit of fun by one (or more) of the developers.
Rockstar, however, is responsible for the actions of these people when it gets included on the disk.
I think this is being blown way out of proportion, however.
How is modding the game to enable the feature against the law?
I wish I had mod points man, I'd mod you up for that one.
You know you don't have to be sitting at the computer to download, right?
or for that matter, burning onto cd/dvd, or converting files (besides the setup which takes all of ohh... a minute), or anything like that.
a lot of people have computers/xboxs/whatever connected to their tv's so they can watch downloaded videos right on them without having to convert/burn as well.
Hell sometimes it's faster for me to download a movie/game/music then go through my collection and find it.
>> Go to distrowatch and for a couple of bucks, order a linux cd of some flavor^_^ Cheaper and it will get rid of all your spyware and malware.
Four Questions:
1. Do you think that a user who is incapable of removing spyware could install linux (especially with helpful anti-spyware programs around)?
2. Do you think that a user who is incapable of removing spyware could keep a linux installation updated and not get rooted?
3. Do you want to support all these people who are essentially computer-stupid on linux?
4. Do you want to support these people when they start having problems with the internet (and their ISP says "Sorry, Linux is not supported!")
I have too many people asking me how to do stuff, how to fix this... can I come over and fix this... with windows... imagine it when they can't get their soundcard working, or some windows-app running. Windows may not be the best solution for a lot of things, but it's not viable to be completely phased out, either.
P.S. I know some linux distributions are getting way easier to install these days, but some people can't wrap their brains around things like partitioning a drive... even if it's made real simple (windows xp for instance, or some of the *nix distribs).
Palm Pilot... still sounds like a mastubatory device to me. ...and I don't care if there's no such word as mastubatory.
>> Someone also explain to me why an online, downloadable purchase of Nortons does not INCLUDE the latest virus defs? Or at least defs in the last month? Nortons 2005 download has DECEMEBER 2004 defs in it!!! Lame.
Sounds like they're too cheap to make a new package... I don't even think that would be too difficult if it's just the same engine with new defs.
I dunno what other people have found, but honestly, since the DOS days I haven't found any Norton/Symantec products to be good, or even useful.
'tis sad really... when I did use DOS, the Norton Utilities package was very handy.
I don;t think I've seen a motherboard without ps2 ports in ages.... since the pentium days.
Pretty much every windows machine has ps2 ports... although they might choose to use usb peripherals instead.
However..
I bought a logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo not long ago (based on the mx700) and was surprised it wasn't USB (although it did come with an adapter for the keyboard).
>> but the reason they charge more is because they're professionals -- people trust them and they do this sort of thing for a living.
haven't met many technicians have you?
I'm not trying to take sides here, but I have noticed on my ADSL connections (and cable when I'm somewhere else) that windows xp gets infected BEFORE I can even double click on the patches that I keep on a cd or hdd (for the RPC exploits anyways). It was taking me under 2 minutes to get infected on the machines I tried at various locations.
Only way I get around this is to not have the machine on the internet. Sure it's simple for me, but Joe Blow who just bought his spanky new laptop won't know what to do. When I first noticed this I had just bought my laptop, plugged it in and CRASH... there goes the RPC service.
One good, yet annoying thing is that if RPC crashed the system reboots in a minute (only on XP), so it's easy to tell that you've been hit. Bad thing is the minute doesn't give you enough time to patch it.
Why does RPC need internet access anyways? That was a very stupid move for them to do... in pre-SP2 is there any way short of an external firewall to block it? I've never seen one.
I have to admit I've not tried putting an unpatched system online in the last year though, so maybe these particular worms have calmed down.
We had a punch-in clock like this at my old work.. I totally disagreed with it at first, on the principle of privacy and trust.
After I thought about it I changed my mind and decided it was a good thing since it actually protected me from fuckups in accounting or whatnot. If any BS was tried to start about me not at work, I had proof I was.
However... Disney World doing this would really put me off... once again because of trust.
Companies that have these crazy (IMO) policies are basically calling their clientelle "liars". I don't like to be called a liar or a thief by anyone/thing.
I try to avoid giving my business to this type of place.
Disney will get away with it though... most people will just think of it as part of the cost of going there.
I just downloaded the original Fantastic Four, not this years release, but 1994's release just because I had read it was so bad. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109770/ I wonder how it will stack up for worst movie :)
Sorry I meant handheld gaming systems like the PSP, DS, gameboy, etc.
Wasn't even thinking of cel phones or pdas.
However, I am surprised they develop code for it on the actual system.
How would you feel if this was a bank, and the banks NEGLECT allowed hackers to transfer funds from your account?
Now I know this isn't as serious (althouh with identity theft I guess it could have the potential to be.. (to start anyways... you'd still need a SSN/SIN #).
It's not your fault for the actions of the hackers... it's your fault for not taking procautions to secure the machines. Doesn't make the hacker any less guilty.
The same thing could be said of compiling on the same arch as target... a bug could cause the compilation to be buggy as well.
The SDK's for most consoles (and handhelds) are used with the compiler being on a different architecture then the targets. I'm not 100% sure but I don't think any console/handheld has a developer system of the same architecture as the target.
Now I know they compile different things then a computer, but the point is still valid.
that wouldn't work in commodore 64 basic :)
How many years am I going to be hearing about electronic paper (or printable displays for that matter), before the damn things actually come out and I can buy them?
I started programming at 10..
:)
of course... a lot of it was stuff like..
10 print "k-mart sucks dick!"
20 goto 10
entered on a commodore 64 at a local k-mart store for all the passer bys to see
>> 1. I'd like to see SCO sued out of existance by everyone they pressured into buying one of those insurance licences against the possibility of >> future infringement that they knew didn't exist. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this statement? :)
apparently I cannot use html tags on /. today.
>> See, you *really* don't know what you're talking about. Windows is well...everything. Because you cannot remove the Windowing system, the windowing server, the shell, the included "core" freebie applications. You're stuck with it all.
You know what's fucked?
on a bunch of XP installations I've done it's put EMPTY directories in the Program Files tree, and the system will NOT let you delete these empty directories.
What the fuck is that? A system protecting... nothing?
(Note: on this machine "microsoft frontpage", and "xerox" are both empty and undeletable.
maybe learn what compiling actually does.
it generates a bunch of bits into files... the bits are the same AS LONG AS THE COMPILER IS THE SAME on all systems.
It doesn't run any of these bits so it doesn't NEED to have the build target hardware.
What you're saying is akin to saying a text file written in vi on one system won't be the same as writing a text file on a different arch system.
>> I'm sure there's people who like Barbie's Horse Adventure and Tomb Raider Angel Of Darkness, but there's people who like all sorts of inferior crap. That doesn't mean it's not crap.
Ewwww!
I'll take Barbie's Horse Adventure please.
great. now with all this talk about old cartoon themes I'm silently humming "Starblazers" to myself.
bunch of asses.
>> Even if you're the last person to buy a PowerPC-based Mac from Apple, you aren't throwing away your money (unless it's horribly overpriced compared to other comparable machines at the time).
you know it's Apple Computers we're talking abour, right?