Yeah, it's all fine when said (Americans do say a lot of things differently to us in Australia/England... sailboat instead of sailing boat, garbage instead of rubbish, airplane instead of aeroplane, gas instead of petrol, fanny means, well, the 'frontbottom' in Australia/England rather than your ass), but it's painful when written, there have been times when I've seen it written that in context it was confusing... can't remember when, but hey.
The point of writing things differently is so that you know what they are (such as there/their/they're)... but hey, English has heaps of that (she shed a tear because she didn't want to tear the book).
Of course then America does some really annoying things like spell the banking cheque as 'check' so when you ask something like "Did you check his check before banking it?" it looks really stupid.
OK... look, after watching a clip of the show I just have to say... why?
It's seems to be just like watching a kid acting out the movies, complete with 'pichoo, pichoo' gun sounds... what's entertaining about that? He even gets crucial lines wrong ("Shutdown all the garbage smashers on the detention level"? oh come on)
Oh yes, Americans are kings and queens of the business terms that sound impressive but are almost impossible to decrypt.
Take some examples from presentations I've just been going through for work: * "automate operational business processes to meet the needs of service-driven organizations" * "Fit and Agility" - For business software? * "establish the corporate value proposition"
Oh, sure, no-one will read this, least of all the enlightened person who wrote this response in the first place.
I realised I had made spelling mistakes after writing it, and if I were writing it in an email to an organisation like the PTC I would have run a spellchecker over it first.
But secondly... erm... you are indeed a fucktard... I am in no way saying this guy shouldn't write his email, I support him in fact, I hate the puritanical groups such as those he's writing too... if you'd read what I wrote you would have actually noticed that I wrote nothing to say that what he was writing was wrong at all...
Geeze... you really must calm down... have you had your medicine recently? I mean... MAN what a lot of misguided vitriol aimed at myself... people such as yourself are very much part of the problem rather than the solution, as ill thought out, hate filled attacks such as yours will not help us to remove the scary figures like George W from office will they?
Calm down, read things through twice, maybe three times before you launch attacks in the future.
Come on, what a sensational game this is... great for all movie loving geeks... not only is it a board game, but it has a DVD as well... heaps of movie clips, great questions and miny games, and the best part... the countdown timer with the Who wants to be a Millionaire like music complete with 'dadadada dum dum daaaah!' end bit.
I mean geeze, what a suprise, look what's number 1:
Joan of Arcadia - A whole series about talking to God... who'd a thunk it?
OK, let's proceed with an Australian's uneducated look at the lists!
2. Doc - Ok, don't have it in Australia... but by the description "In addition to being completely devoid of offensive language, sexual content, or violence, episodes of Doc consistently reinforce family-friendly themes such as honesty, compassion, hope, and reconciliation. " I'm happy it isn't
3. Sue Thomas F. B. Eye - Don't have this either, but is made by the same people as 2, so pretty happy there too.
4. Reba - Nope, don't have this either (Gee, wonder why we don't have all these piss boring shows?)
5. 7th Heaven - Uh Huh, we do have this, it plays during the day I think, when no-one is watching... urgh... more religious crap.
6. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Don't have this, but plenty of our own homespun versions... I like these things, so it's ok by me... harmless fun. (Extreme Makeover of the person variety though... urrrrgh)
7. Everybody Loves Raymond - Not my cup of tea, but very popular... eh.
8. American Idol - Ahh, the Christians do love a singalong. (Yes, that's one word!)
9. American Dreams - Don't have it... no idea!
10. Bernie Mac - Came and went very quickly over here...
So, I watch maybe 2 shows from that list (Renovation style shows and Australian Idol)
Onto the BAD list:
1. Everwood - Ok, we're off to a bad start here, never heard of it.
2. That '70s Show - On now in our off ratings period... watched a couple of episodes, a bit eh... I love that they have such issue with storylines such as "Donna walking in on Eric while he is masturbating in her bathroom. " Oh come on!
3. Fear Factor - Yeah, ok, this is a pretty shite show.
4. Two and a Half Men - Came here very briefly and I think has left now... It belongs in a 10 worst shows, but just because of how very, very unfunny it was.
5. C.S.I. (Crime Scene Investigation) - OH COME ON! This show is fantastic. It's not for kids, granted, but it is a supurb show for entertainment's sake.
6. The Surreal Life - Dear god... that does look like crap! (No, we don't have that)
7. Girlfriends - Don't have it, but really, sounds harmless.
8. Las Vegas - Airing reruns at present... looks pretty terrible, haven't watched it.
9. Will & Grace -" bawdy banter " Who the hell uses terms like that? I find it funny... it's pretty harmless really.
10. Cold Case - They've tried teaming this up with CSI here, and I don't think it's doing too well.
Ok, I've lost the plot on what I was doing... still, I'm always amused by these right wing groups choice of targets for anger.
It looses a lot of your intended impact due to using phrases such as "by effectively spamming the crap out of the FCC."
That will get the letter put in the 'loony left' bucket quicker than anything.
Also, using the phrasing of "Until you discover that 99.8% of all complaints..." The 'until you discover...' bit sound very amaturish and would be better worded in terms like : "However, if the statistics are investigated further it comes to light that 99.8% of all complaints..."
Quickly rushing out a poorly worded email does nothing for the cause I'm afraid.
The point is: * The VAST majority of computer users are using Windows ie... they've already paid for it, so it's not an issue (ie. it came with their computer or whatever) * They don't want to wipe it out completely to install a media center * Things like this can exist harmoniously with Windows, and can be tried before wiping it all out... or you can use the computer for both purposes (htpc and normal)
There is another free (not open source) windows based media pc solution... It's called myHTPC.
Now, it's since turned into a paid product called Meedio, however you can still get the free version and have access to a gazillion (oh yeah baby, that's a number) plugins for it.
Oh, I've done tech support... I have been the highest level tech support for the 2nd largest ISP in Australia... so yeah, I've had it all... I have just found that in general when there's some error message they will invariably read out every damn thing that's in the error box...
I have many fun stories, but I'll keep them to myself.:P
OK... Windows tells you that you should have used the disconnect thingy or whatever when you yank a USB key or a digital camera out of the machine... every time you do it... until you decide
"You know what, I am capable of knowing when I can pull these things out and when not to, and I'd rather not have to go and select 'safely remove device' or whatever EVERY time I do it"
I want to be able to just press the eject button on my CD, I want to be able to just disconnect my USB key or Digital camera... it's a thing that really gives me the irrates with Macs
"Woh there bucko... you ejected a disc but didn't tell me about it... now I'm kinda all messed up... could you put it back so I can know you're about to remove it?" (Usually you can't do that because you can only eject via software (or buttons controlling software)... but there is a way, I've managed it somehow... can't remember, but it was very annoying.
Well, yeah, has been happening well before I was even employed in the field, it was just assumed (Oh, he'll fix that).
So, I have an Aunt in another state, and she wanted to upgrade her computer (she's online and likes to look at the pictures of our bub up there, email us etc.)... so what did we do? I chose a computer for her, have bought it over here... am in the process of setting it all up AND I'm doing some video tutorials about how it all works so I get minimum heartache. Then we'll send it over to her.
Also... I'm installing VNC on it, so I will be able to remote access it (she's on ADSL, so reasonable bandwidth there) and fix any niggly issues from here without the painful...
Me: "OK, what's on your screen now?" Them: "Some box thingy with a message in it" Me: "Uh huh... ok, so what does the message say?" Them: "The Program XXX has um... encountered an error and er... will now shut down... um... error code 1...433X....3 um, dash, Seg-men-ta-tion fault at..." Me: "OK, OK, I've got it..."
OK, I could either mod you up, or comment that that is a pretty sweet little game... had to stop myself from playing it more since I'm at work... but man, bouncing those little gnomes around is a LOT of fun:D (Is that obtuse enough to get more people to download it?)
I was always of the opinion while reading the Mars Trilogy that they would largely come to pass... and look at this... we haven't even landed any people there yet and we have the 'pristine vs teraform' argument going on.
But that does not mean that not-windows users are not-targeted because of their not-dominent market share. That's a logical fallacy.
Erm, no it isn't... due to non-windows users having such a small market share, those who write exploits won't bother with them, because why spend effort writing an exploit for such a small part of the market when you could instead target the VAST marjority in one hit.
It's the same deal... you can re-download everything from Steam onto whatever drive you want... that's one of the beauties of it, you have a backup right there at the company (minus your saves of course).
You can also use the backup feature to backup the games at any time.
Admittedly that answer was a little off... but it demonstrates they don't care about where it's installed.
"Does it cost anything to have a Steam account other than the initial cost of the game?"
No: "
Is Steam really free?
At least try and find these things before bitching the information is not available... that took me longer to cut and past the hrefs than it did to find those answers....
All you had to do was go to Support and type your question.
I've had no problem with downloading all the Steam content onto my computer, then copying it over to my brothers (he only has dial up)... and that was it. He now has and is playing HL2, and when he is done with it, I just fire up Steam and away I go... it's already there for me to play.
Excellent stuff!
I know that, but emulation is not an option... why would I put on an operating system that will run my games slower than if I just left it alone with XP?
Frankly, I use Windows because it has games, Linux doesn't... until that changes, I will keep using Windows with all that entails.
There's no point trying to force Linux on those who know no better, all you're doing is creating headaches.
"Well, Bob, I gave you a great game for Christmas" "What? You can't use it... but you have windows don't you? No...? Oh"
"Hey, I just got a great digital camera which comes with some cool digital editing software... oh, I can't load it on Linux"
"Cool, I got a DVD burner and... oh, the software doesn't work"
"Excellent I just got Lego Mindstorm... oh... I can't...
You get the picture. It's fine for those who know what they're getting themselves into, but don't force it on people, you're creating unnessary pain.
"Excellent, a heavy card... might be some money or something in there... or maybe a cool music CD. Cool!" *rip, rip, fwiiip* "What the hell?" "LINUX! Oh for f*ck's sake!"
"Why the hell would I want to put this on my machine? It's got what... like 18 games out for it? Can it play HL2? No... can it play Halo2? No... Does it really improve what I'm currently doing if I'm not a nerd? Not really."
*throws it with the AOL CDs*
* Note: I actually think the idea is fairly cool.... BUT only when sent to a very select group of people who will appreciate it, ie those who are already a bit tech savy.
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Yeah, it's all fine when said (Americans do say a lot of things differently to us in Australia/England... sailboat instead of sailing boat, garbage instead of rubbish, airplane instead of aeroplane, gas instead of petrol, fanny means, well, the 'frontbottom' in Australia/England rather than your ass), but it's painful when written, there have been times when I've seen it written that in context it was confusing... can't remember when, but hey.
The point of writing things differently is so that you know what they are (such as there/their/they're)... but hey, English has heaps of that (she shed a tear because she didn't want to tear the book).
"you'll get to compete for Lego studs"
Excellent... so then there'll be plenty of this then? And hanging around in bars?
Ooooh, you mean that type of stud...
My mistake.
Of course then America does some really annoying things like spell the banking cheque as 'check' so when you ask something like "Did you check his check before banking it?" it looks really stupid.
I find things like that quite annoying.
"and he's a loser?"
Um, did I say that? No.
All I said was that I can't see that as being entertaining... geeze, talk about reading into things.
OK, I take that back... there you go... he is indeed right... I always thought that was 'shutdown all the garbage compactors on the detention level'
Huh.
I stand very corrected!
OK... look, after watching a clip of the show I just have to say... why?
It's seems to be just like watching a kid acting out the movies, complete with 'pichoo, pichoo' gun sounds... what's entertaining about that? He even gets crucial lines wrong ("Shutdown all the garbage smashers on the detention level"? oh come on)
Bah and humbug I say.
Oh yes, Americans are kings and queens of the business terms that sound impressive but are almost impossible to decrypt.
Take some examples from presentations I've just been going through for work:
* "automate operational business processes to meet the needs of service-driven organizations"
* "Fit and Agility" - For business software?
* "establish the corporate value proposition"
The dilbert mission statement creator does it brilliantly as well.
America does THAT better than anyone!
Oh, sure, no-one will read this, least of all the enlightened person who wrote this response in the first place.
I realised I had made spelling mistakes after writing it, and if I were writing it in an email to an organisation like the PTC I would have run a spellchecker over it first.
But secondly... erm... you are indeed a fucktard... I am in no way saying this guy shouldn't write his email, I support him in fact, I hate the puritanical groups such as those he's writing too... if you'd read what I wrote you would have actually noticed that I wrote nothing to say that what he was writing was wrong at all...
Geeze... you really must calm down... have you had your medicine recently? I mean... MAN what a lot of misguided vitriol aimed at myself... people such as yourself are very much part of the problem rather than the solution, as ill thought out, hate filled attacks such as yours will not help us to remove the scary figures like George W from office will they?
Calm down, read things through twice, maybe three times before you launch attacks in the future.
Plus, I don't even live in the US...
Come on, what a sensational game this is... great for all movie loving geeks... not only is it a board game, but it has a DVD as well... heaps of movie clips, great questions and miny games, and the best part... the countdown timer with the Who wants to be a Millionaire like music complete with 'dadadada dum dum daaaah!' end bit.
Love it!
Aw crap, I spelled loses incorrectly... dunce!
I mean geeze, what a suprise, look what's number 1:
Joan of Arcadia - A whole series about talking to God... who'd a thunk it?
OK, let's proceed with an Australian's uneducated look at the lists!
2. Doc - Ok, don't have it in Australia... but by the description "In addition to being completely devoid of offensive language, sexual content, or violence, episodes of Doc consistently reinforce family-friendly themes such as honesty, compassion, hope, and reconciliation. " I'm happy it isn't
3. Sue Thomas F. B. Eye - Don't have this either, but is made by the same people as 2, so pretty happy there too.
4. Reba - Nope, don't have this either (Gee, wonder why we don't have all these piss boring shows?)
5. 7th Heaven - Uh Huh, we do have this, it plays during the day I think, when no-one is watching... urgh... more religious crap.
6. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Don't have this, but plenty of our own homespun versions... I like these things, so it's ok by me... harmless fun. (Extreme Makeover of the person variety though... urrrrgh)
7. Everybody Loves Raymond - Not my cup of tea, but very popular... eh.
8. American Idol - Ahh, the Christians do love a singalong. (Yes, that's one word!)
9. American Dreams - Don't have it... no idea!
10. Bernie Mac - Came and went very quickly over here...
So, I watch maybe 2 shows from that list (Renovation style shows and Australian Idol)
Onto the BAD list:
1. Everwood - Ok, we're off to a bad start here, never heard of it.
2. That '70s Show - On now in our off ratings period... watched a couple of episodes, a bit eh... I love that they have such issue with storylines such as "Donna walking in on Eric while he is masturbating in her bathroom. " Oh come on!
3. Fear Factor - Yeah, ok, this is a pretty shite show.
4. Two and a Half Men - Came here very briefly and I think has left now... It belongs in a 10 worst shows, but just because of how very, very unfunny it was.
5. C.S.I. (Crime Scene Investigation) - OH COME ON! This show is fantastic. It's not for kids, granted, but it is a supurb show for entertainment's sake.
6. The Surreal Life - Dear god... that does look like crap! (No, we don't have that)
7. Girlfriends - Don't have it, but really, sounds harmless.
8. Las Vegas - Airing reruns at present... looks pretty terrible, haven't watched it.
9. Will & Grace -" bawdy banter " Who the hell uses terms like that? I find it funny... it's pretty harmless really.
10. Cold Case - They've tried teaming this up with CSI here, and I don't think it's doing too well.
Ok, I've lost the plot on what I was doing... still, I'm always amused by these right wing groups choice of targets for anger.
It looses a lot of your intended impact due to using phrases such as "by effectively spamming the crap out of the FCC."
..." The 'until you discover...' bit sound very amaturish and would be better worded in terms like : "However, if the statistics are investigated further it comes to light that 99.8% of all complaints..."
That will get the letter put in the 'loony left' bucket quicker than anything.
Also, using the phrasing of "Until you discover that 99.8% of all complaints
Quickly rushing out a poorly worded email does nothing for the cause I'm afraid.
The point is:
* The VAST majority of computer users are using Windows ie... they've already paid for it, so it's not an issue (ie. it came with their computer or whatever)
* They don't want to wipe it out completely to install a media center
* Things like this can exist harmoniously with Windows, and can be tried before wiping it all out... or you can use the computer for both purposes (htpc and normal)
There is another free (not open source) windows based media pc solution... It's called myHTPC.
Now, it's since turned into a paid product called Meedio, however you can still get the free version and have access to a gazillion (oh yeah baby, that's a number) plugins for it.
Oh, I've done tech support... I have been the highest level tech support for the 2nd largest ISP in Australia... so yeah, I've had it all... I have just found that in general when there's some error message they will invariably read out every damn thing that's in the error box...
:P
I have many fun stories, but I'll keep them to myself.
OK... Windows tells you that you should have used the disconnect thingy or whatever when you yank a USB key or a digital camera out of the machine... every time you do it... until you decide
"You know what, I am capable of knowing when I can pull these things out and when not to, and I'd rather not have to go and select 'safely remove device' or whatever EVERY time I do it"
I want to be able to just press the eject button on my CD, I want to be able to just disconnect my USB key or Digital camera... it's a thing that really gives me the irrates with Macs
"Woh there bucko... you ejected a disc but didn't tell me about it... now I'm kinda all messed up... could you put it back so I can know you're about to remove it?" (Usually you can't do that because you can only eject via software (or buttons controlling software)... but there is a way, I've managed it somehow... can't remember, but it was very annoying.
Well, yeah, has been happening well before I was even employed in the field, it was just assumed (Oh, he'll fix that).
:D
So, I have an Aunt in another state, and she wanted to upgrade her computer (she's online and likes to look at the pictures of our bub up there, email us etc.)... so what did we do? I chose a computer for her, have bought it over here... am in the process of setting it all up AND I'm doing some video tutorials about how it all works so I get minimum heartache. Then we'll send it over to her.
Also... I'm installing VNC on it, so I will be able to remote access it (she's on ADSL, so reasonable bandwidth there) and fix any niggly issues from here without the painful...
Me: "OK, what's on your screen now?"
Them: "Some box thingy with a message in it"
Me: "Uh huh... ok, so what does the message say?"
Them: "The Program XXX has um... encountered an error and er... will now shut down... um... error code 1...433X....3 um, dash, Seg-men-ta-tion fault at..."
Me: "OK, OK, I've got it..."
Etc. etc.
I just hope it's going to work that's all
OK, I could either mod you up, or comment that that is a pretty sweet little game... had to stop myself from playing it more since I'm at work... but man, bouncing those little gnomes around is a LOT of fun :D (Is that obtuse enough to get more people to download it?)
I was always of the opinion while reading the Mars Trilogy that they would largely come to pass... and look at this... we haven't even landed any people there yet and we have the 'pristine vs teraform' argument going on.
:D
Excellent
But that does not mean that not-windows users are not-targeted because of their not-dominent market share. That's a logical fallacy.
Erm, no it isn't... due to non-windows users having such a small market share, those who write exploits won't bother with them, because why spend effort writing an exploit for such a small part of the market when you could instead target the VAST marjority in one hit.
It's the same deal... you can re-download everything from Steam onto whatever drive you want... that's one of the beauties of it, you have a backup right there at the company (minus your saves of course).
You can also use the backup feature to backup the games at any time.
Admittedly that answer was a little off... but it demonstrates they don't care about where it's installed.
Did you even try and look for these answers? I had exactly the same ones and found them out VERY QUICKLY:
"If I download the game and my hard drive crashes, can I reinstall it via Steam to a different hard drive?"
Yes: I want to move my Steam installation to a different disk or computer, how can I do this?
"Can I install it to more than one computer if I only play one at a time (ie my desktop machine and my laptop)?"
Yes: Can I use my Steam account on other computers?
"Does it cost anything to have a Steam account other than the initial cost of the game?"
No: " Is Steam really free?
At least try and find these things before bitching the information is not available... that took me longer to cut and past the hrefs than it did to find those answers....
All you had to do was go to Support and type your question. I've had no problem with downloading all the Steam content onto my computer, then copying it over to my brothers (he only has dial up)... and that was it. He now has and is playing HL2, and when he is done with it, I just fire up Steam and away I go... it's already there for me to play. Excellent stuff!
"but he did use it as his primary desktop for a while. "
Why did he stop using it? Was it due to an issue with Linux or something else?
I know that, but emulation is not an option... why would I put on an operating system that will run my games slower than if I just left it alone with XP?
Frankly, I use Windows because it has games, Linux doesn't... until that changes, I will keep using Windows with all that entails.
There's no point trying to force Linux on those who know no better, all you're doing is creating headaches.
"Well, Bob, I gave you a great game for Christmas"
"What? You can't use it... but you have windows don't you? No...? Oh"
"Hey, I just got a great digital camera which comes with some cool digital editing software... oh, I can't load it on Linux"
"Cool, I got a DVD burner and... oh, the software doesn't work"
"Excellent I just got Lego Mindstorm... oh... I can't...
You get the picture. It's fine for those who know what they're getting themselves into, but don't force it on people, you're creating unnessary pain.
"Excellent, a heavy card... might be some money or something in there... or maybe a cool music CD. Cool!"
*rip, rip, fwiiip*
"What the hell?"
"LINUX! Oh for f*ck's sake!"
"Why the hell would I want to put this on my machine? It's got what... like 18 games out for it? Can it play HL2? No... can it play Halo2? No... Does it really improve what I'm currently doing if I'm not a nerd? Not really."
*throws it with the AOL CDs*
* Note: I actually think the idea is fairly cool.... BUT only when sent to a very select group of people who will appreciate it, ie those who are already a bit tech savy.
I really thought that was funny rather than insightful! :D
Must just be me.