Well, I was attributing 'good administrator' status to people who know not to load bad drivers, can replace failed hardware, and can diagnose the BSOD messages and fix what caused them.
That's right folks, if you get a BSOD, you shouldn't just say 'oh well', and reboot. You should fix the problem instead. I mean, how many people notice the oil light on their car is light, so they stop and restart the car to try and fix it?
Have you ever stopped to consider that you're not very good at Windows administration? If you're administering Windows 2K servers that aren't getting hundreds of days uptime per cycle, you're not very good at it.
No, but you can use VNC, or their built in remote control thingo, if it's any good.
The CLI isn't dead, but jesus, quit talking about GUI's like they're a contagious disease.
Sure, but it doesn't have to be like that. In Australia we have more ownership among the moms and dads then any other country IIRC, thanks to the privitisation of our major comms company.
I do agree that it's hard to get 'share ownership' out to the middle and lower classes. I leave that solution as an exercise to the reader! [Since I don't have one]
But given that there is still a lot of life left in the engine [ie: the next XP's, and games from bioware will probably use it], it looks promising for linux!
industry to the third world. There's more to good business than the next quarter, and once there's no reason to develop software in the US, there won't be any US software companies. That includes microsoft, oracle, and probably Sun. Never mind that I can't even go where the jobs are - India is very protectionist.
Here's an interesting point, if you have a parent company in the US and the profits are going to the country, but they have no staff, that means that more profits go to the share holders.
So you are going about this the wrong way, get 3 or 4 million dollars worth of loans and buy shares in these companies and rake in the dollars. This is the reality of the US service economy.
In a few more years, the US won't produce anything, they will just receive money from other countries producing things. However tarriffs will affect all of the little subsidiary companies lurking around the world, the dividends will shrink and your economy will tank. I read something the other day about 70 year old women having to go back to work because their superannuation collapsed.
Hmm. I bet you're one of those players who thinks that Bioware needs to tell you all about your character for you to 'roleplay' successfully.
I think you've missed the point, and in fact, the reason why it's so open ended.
Of course, having said that, the SP campaign was pretty weak. Witches Wake was much better, although I haven't heard anything about a sequel for it in a while.
Jesus, where do you think companies get the money from? They don't have a money tree out the back where the 'tax money' comes from.
I guess you'd be shocked if I told you that 100% of funds that companies use to pay things like rental, wages and yes, even taxes comes from the consumer.
Good for you. My "Designed for XP," pre-installed with XP, built by HP box, hoses all the time. Explorer crashes. DirectX hangs the machine.
Have you considered that it's you? I mean, we use OEM hardware here at 'the office', and it runs fine.
I think most of the problems people here have with 'Windows' is that they think they know what the hell they are doing. I mean, I wouldn't go out and change settings in/etc unless I knew exactly what they were for. [I know this guy who does that sort of thing for me.]
And this is all doubly true when it comes to Windows XP, I mean there was a post a few pages up about a guy who disabled the RPC service and then complained that he couldn't interact with his computer anymore.
Jesus. Don't fuck with things you don't understand.
I though AF was a bit ordinary.. a fancier version of ultima underworld with some exciting magical mouse stuff.
PC Powergames Australia gave it a fairly hefty review, and a great score, so it can't have been that bad.
But it's a good reminder that you should always try out games before you buy!
Well, if you don't show up and collect your ballot paper, you get fined.
There is nothing stopping you walking out with it tucked into a boot, or scrawling obscenities on it before you put it into the box.
You could eat it and walk out if you so desired. Every election we have about 4% informal votes, informal being where the paper was not filled in correctly, set on fire, voting for George Bush, etc.
No, a better analogy would be a washing machine vendor making a waching machine that refuses to wash ThinkGeek t-shirts. And then includes a sign that says 'This machine won't wash think-geek t-shirts'.
The difference is subtle, but in your scenario, 'the man' is keeping you down, but in mine the man is making a product to their own specification. That you can buy. If you want to.
Pretty transparent attempt at spindoctoring sadly.
The informal vote rate is about 4% or so from election to election. I prefer mandatory voting, since it means any 'lunatic fringe' is diluted by common sense.
Of course, having said that, I have no excuse for Pauline Hanson.
Yeah, and people weren't rolling out the early IE's in the corporate world either, the first IE I saw in the corporate/acadaemic world was IE4. Before that it was Netscape.
Nah, the fault lies with 'Guy' for being a retard and, instead of removing the infringing material, takes his ball and goes home.
Trying to draw parallels between this guy and 'the open source movement' is a grave mistake, because it dilutes the good work that is done by 'Open Source Advocates'
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Change some hardware? Suse catches that on boot and prompts you to configure it. Very unlike windows.
You mean like the plug and play thing they've had since Windows 95? The one that's actually worked really well since Windows 2000? The one that not only detects hardware but configures it AUTOMATICALLY without you having to do a thing?
Yeah, very unlike windows.
Sifn't suse 0wned by pnp.
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That's right folks, if you get a BSOD, you shouldn't just say 'oh well', and reboot. You should fix the problem instead. I mean, how many people notice the oil light on their car is light, so they stop and restart the car to try and fix it?
Have you ever stopped to consider that you're not very good at Windows administration? If you're administering Windows 2K servers that aren't getting hundreds of days uptime per cycle, you're not very good at it.
No, but you can use VNC, or their built in remote control thingo, if it's any good. The CLI isn't dead, but jesus, quit talking about GUI's like they're a contagious disease.
It unloads DOS after it has finished loading itself, so you're not quite right in that respect.
Still, you do need some way of getting the system into memory, this way works as good as any other.
Well, in Australia it's only .47 AUD, which is about 25 cents US.. we also don't pay to receive cellular calls..
You also ignore the fact that the GNU javac is ass.
Sure, but it doesn't have to be like that. In Australia we have more ownership among the moms and dads then any other country IIRC, thanks to the privitisation of our major comms company. I do agree that it's hard to get 'share ownership' out to the middle and lower classes. I leave that solution as an exercise to the reader! [Since I don't have one]
You mean, like Sun?
But given that there is still a lot of life left in the engine [ie: the next XP's, and games from bioware will probably use it], it looks promising for linux!
Here's an interesting point, if you have a parent company in the US and the profits are going to the country, but they have no staff, that means that more profits go to the share holders.
So you are going about this the wrong way, get 3 or 4 million dollars worth of loans and buy shares in these companies and rake in the dollars. This is the reality of the US service economy.
In a few more years, the US won't produce anything, they will just receive money from other countries producing things. However tarriffs will affect all of the little subsidiary companies lurking around the world, the dividends will shrink and your economy will tank. I read something the other day about 70 year old women having to go back to work because their superannuation collapsed.
That sucks.
Because, well.. the guy asked for the first.. and you gave him the second.
I think you've missed the point, and in fact, the reason why it's so open ended.
Of course, having said that, the SP campaign was pretty weak. Witches Wake was much better, although I haven't heard anything about a sequel for it in a while.
Jesus, where do you think companies get the money from? They don't have a money tree out the back where the 'tax money' comes from.
I guess you'd be shocked if I told you that 100% of funds that companies use to pay things like rental, wages and yes, even taxes comes from the consumer.
What the hell is wrong with you?
Have you considered that it's you? I mean, we use OEM hardware here at 'the office', and it runs fine.
I think most of the problems people here have with 'Windows' is that they think they know what the hell they are doing. I mean, I wouldn't go out and change settings in /etc unless I knew exactly what they were for. [I know this guy who does that sort of thing for me.]
And this is all doubly true when it comes to Windows XP, I mean there was a post a few pages up about a guy who disabled the RPC service and then complained that he couldn't interact with his computer anymore.
Jesus. Don't fuck with things you don't understand.
Unless you're saying that there are enough people out there who love being managers that companies don't need to entice people into taking them>
I though AF was a bit ordinary.. a fancier version of ultima underworld with some exciting magical mouse stuff. PC Powergames Australia gave it a fairly hefty review, and a great score, so it can't have been that bad. But it's a good reminder that you should always try out games before you buy!
There is nothing stopping you walking out with it tucked into a boot, or scrawling obscenities on it before you put it into the box.
You could eat it and walk out if you so desired. Every election we have about 4% informal votes, informal being where the paper was not filled in correctly, set on fire, voting for George Bush, etc.
The difference is subtle, but in your scenario, 'the man' is keeping you down, but in mine the man is making a product to their own specification. That you can buy. If you want to.
Pretty transparent attempt at spindoctoring sadly.
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The informal vote rate is about 4% or so from election to election. I prefer mandatory voting, since it means any 'lunatic fringe' is diluted by common sense. Of course, having said that, I have no excuse for Pauline Hanson.
Yeah, and people weren't rolling out the early IE's in the corporate world either, the first IE I saw in the corporate/acadaemic world was IE4. Before that it was Netscape.
Trying to draw parallels between this guy and 'the open source movement' is a grave mistake, because it dilutes the good work that is done by 'Open Source Advocates'
You mean like the plug and play thing they've had since Windows 95? The one that's actually worked really well since Windows 2000? The one that not only detects hardware but configures it AUTOMATICALLY without you having to do a thing?
Yeah, very unlike windows. Sifn't suse 0wned by pnp.
Honestly, it's not 'free'. It will cost you X hundred thousand dollars to licence the Quake 3 engine..
y / says it costs 250K to licence the Q3A engine.
Seriously. I'm not making this up. http://www.idsoftware.com/business/home/technolog
I think you'll find that it's 'open', not 'free'.