> more sense than... all user programs and software packages being in C:\Program Files...
Personally I kind of like that, as opposed to trying to guess whether they installed themselves in/opt,/usr,/usr/local,/usr/share, or/usr/X11R6.
> Not to mention the fact that all of C: has to be on the same partition; if there's a way to have System32 on C: and Documents and Settings on D:, I've never figured it out.
Windows 2000 and better let you mount partitions in folders. My Windows box only has one "drive" (C:), but that uses three separate partitions.
> To each his own.
Ah, at last a genuinely insightful comment. I note you haven't been modded up for it, but that's Slashdot for you.
> Ask yourself what it says about an Operating System if an application or device driver can bring the entire system down. Why is that possible? I've still never (knock wood) had all of Linux actually crash on me. I've had X freeze once or twice (that's what control-alt-backspace is for) and obviously several application crashes.
You obviously never used the Notorious NVidia Driver of Doom, which is quite capable of freezing Linux to the extent where it cannot be recovered without a reboot (I admit I never tried Magic SysRq).
It tells you it's installing an application which will let you access the WMA files of the CD. This is reasonable. It DOESN'T tell you it's installing a device driver which will prevent you from accessing the audio tracks on the CD. This is questionable.
> The users thinks the problems is with opera/mozilla/ns when they can't use sites they've always been able to access with their beloved explorer.
In a sense, they're correct. Conforming to a standard is worthless unless everybody does. Claiming that IE is 'inferior' because it provides incompatible extensions is rather like labelling a human 'inferior' because they say "could of" instead of "could have".
Tell me, is the job of a web browser (a) to conform to the official HTML standards, or (b) to display web sites?
Hint: if you answered (a), you're not going to get much online banking done.
Would someone like to explain why Americans keep calling # "pound"?
I'd print a real pound sign for comparison, but/. doesn't seem to like ISO-8859-1 (hey, it's only the standard character encoding for Western text!). It's U+00a3.
> Ink, on the other hand, is not much different whether it is expensive or cheap. And if you use cheap ink, nothing bad will happen. Maybe some parts of the printer get clogged up (quite unlikely), but they can be cleaned and noone will die.
But what if the inkjet printer was being used to print a last-minute reprieve for an innocent prisoner on Death Row, whose execution went ahead after all because the nozzles blocked?
Er... okay, give me a few hours and I'll try to come up with a better example...
Look at it this way. Consider Bill Gates (the archetypal/. bogeyman). Bill Gates adds an immortal soul clause to the Microsoft EULA: EVIL. Bill Gates donates a billion dollars to help protect starving third-world AIDS orphans from RIAA lawsuits: GOOD.
These corporations get some things right and other things wrong. They're run by humans, you know. Even Darl McBride has more than 81% of his DNA in common with us.
Well, I suppose it's just about plausible that you might want to play one of the vast majority of computer games which are released only for the Windows platform?
> I would really like to see a Linux port, is anyone working on it yet?:)
Not going to happen.
There might be going to be a Linux server, but I doubt you'll enjoy the gameplay on it much. The likelihood of the game itself being ported to Linux is roughly on a par with the Pope converting to Islam.
Your best bet for a Linux version is to donate vast sums of money to WineX, but frankly it'd be cheaper to grit your teeth and pick up a copy of Windows.
If you'd been looking forward for most of the year to the release of one of the most hyped games ever, and then someone leaked the source code, making it pretty likely that the game's release will be pushed back several months - wouldn't you be, oh, mildly irritated?
Crackers are happy. A lot of legit hackers and coders are happy as well, because you don't get to see this sort of code every day. But gamers? Gamers don't want source code, they want the damn finished product!
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> What is also flawed is how the MS operating system will execute any file if the name ends with .exe, .bat, or .com.
What, like the way Unix-like operating systems will execute any file if it has the executable bit set?
> Clippy has been dead for almost 6 years...
Tell me - did SCO get away with it? I'm sure their case must've come to trial long before you posted that message in 2007.
> EVER SINCE WINDOWS 95 you *double* click the clock to get a calendar.
Ah, but since that's also the way you change the system date and time, many paranoid control-freak admins make a policy of disabling the feature.
> more sense than ... all user programs and software packages being in C:\Program Files...
/opt, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/share, or /usr/X11R6.
Personally I kind of like that, as opposed to trying to guess whether they installed themselves in
> Not to mention the fact that all of C: has to be on the same partition; if there's a way to have System32 on C: and Documents and Settings on D:, I've never figured it out.
Windows 2000 and better let you mount partitions in folders. My Windows box only has one "drive" (C:), but that uses three separate partitions.
> To each his own.
Ah, at last a genuinely insightful comment. I note you haven't been modded up for it, but that's Slashdot for you.
> Where did you get Office for $10?
Singapore?
> Ask yourself what it says about an Operating System if an application or device driver can bring the entire system down. Why is that possible? I've still never (knock wood) had all of Linux actually crash on me. I've had X freeze once or twice (that's what control-alt-backspace is for) and obviously several application crashes.
You obviously never used the Notorious NVidia Driver of Doom, which is quite capable of freezing Linux to the extent where it cannot be recovered without a reboot (I admit I never tried Magic SysRq).
Dunno about that, but I'm probably the only person here who regularly uses Windows Notepad. :p
Try something like the Daemon Tools game database, for example.
It tells you it's installing an application which will let you access the WMA files of the CD. This is reasonable. It DOESN'T tell you it's installing a device driver which will prevent you from accessing the audio tracks on the CD. This is questionable.
Expecting news? You must be, etc.
You obviously never warez'd Pokemon, then.
> The users thinks the problems is with opera/mozilla/ns when they can't use sites they've always been able to access with their beloved explorer.
In a sense, they're correct. Conforming to a standard is worthless unless everybody does. Claiming that IE is 'inferior' because it provides incompatible extensions is rather like labelling a human 'inferior' because they say "could of" instead of "could have".
Tell me, is the job of a web browser (a) to conform to the official HTML standards, or (b) to display web sites?
Hint: if you answered (a), you're not going to get much online banking done.
Well... you might be in trouble if you're caught listening to music after making a statement like that. :)
I suggest you read The Fable of the Keys, which does a rather nice job of debunking this popular myth.
Would someone like to explain why Americans keep calling # "pound"?
/. doesn't seem to like ISO-8859-1 (hey, it's only the standard character encoding for Western text!). It's U+00a3.
I'd print a real pound sign for comparison, but
> C# is a very good language.
If you're used to Visual C++ or Visual Basic, I suppose it is... in the same way that losing a finger is "very good" compared to losing an arm.
> If HL2 can't get itself into shape in time for Christmas, then no one will buy it.
...do you really believe that?
Because, of course, nobody EVER buys games except at Christmas.
Most of their choices are good, but I can't say I think much of the journalism. For example, the claim that there are no more
Or the claim that the voice acting in Valkyrie Profile was "excellent" (this for the one game that actually had me longing for the days of plain text!).
Oh, and the frequent comments that such-and-such a game was very popular in Europe and/or Japan. Um, doesn't that kind of disqualify it from being considered one of the most underrated games of all time?
> Ink, on the other hand, is not much different whether it is expensive or cheap. And if you use cheap ink, nothing bad will happen. Maybe some parts of the printer get clogged up (quite unlikely), but they can be cleaned and noone will die.
But what if the inkjet printer was being used to print a last-minute reprieve for an innocent prisoner on Death Row, whose execution went ahead after all because the nozzles blocked?
Er... okay, give me a few hours and I'll try to come up with a better example...
I know you're joking, but *sigh*.
/. bogeyman). Bill Gates adds an immortal soul clause to the Microsoft EULA: EVIL. Bill Gates donates a billion dollars to help protect starving third-world AIDS orphans from RIAA lawsuits: GOOD.
Look at it this way. Consider Bill Gates (the archetypal
These corporations get some things right and other things wrong. They're run by humans, you know. Even Darl McBride has more than 81% of his DNA in common with us.
> No software is perfect - ever.
I don't know about you, but I haven't noticed many bugs in "cat" recently.
> Why would I want to use Windows at home?
Well, I suppose it's just about plausible that you might want to play one of the vast majority of computer games which are released only for the Windows platform?
> Look at the XBox, a big fat console with black and green colour scheme (not cool).
Look at the Matrix, a movie series featuring big fat computers with a black and green colour scheme (cool).
Interesting one, that.
> I would really like to see a Linux port, is anyone working on it yet? :)
Not going to happen.
There might be going to be a Linux server, but I doubt you'll enjoy the gameplay on it much. The likelihood of the game itself being ported to Linux is roughly on a par with the Pope converting to Islam.
Your best bet for a Linux version is to donate vast sums of money to WineX, but frankly it'd be cheaper to grit your teeth and pick up a copy of Windows.
If you'd been looking forward for most of the year to the release of one of the most hyped games ever, and then someone leaked the source code, making it pretty likely that the game's release will be pushed back several months - wouldn't you be, oh, mildly irritated?
Crackers are happy. A lot of legit hackers and coders are happy as well, because you don't get to see this sort of code every day. But gamers? Gamers don't want source code, they want the damn finished product!