As a sometimes lazy person in college, I can say that a lot of the tedious/annoying things that needed to be done were much aided by the college network. Like, if I had to go to the library to look up some little fact, I just wouldn't have done it.
Also, it means you can sometimes get things done in off hours that normally you would have to do during the day, like signing up for classes, turning in assignments, asking a prof/student a question, etc.
And as a language student, I can say that a few really decent sites dealing with your language can make life much easier. For example, dict.leo.org has definitions and grammatical information for almost any German word or phrase, including common slang and very new words. Going through this site instead of a dictionary makes things go so much faster and I can keep my thoughts flowing. Also, reading German news and keeping up cultural stuff is so much easier and *cheaper*. And keeping in touch with friends abroad (and meeting new ones) is of course almost immeasurably easier with the Internet. There is no comparison.
And being able to email a professor that you aren't feeling well and can't come to class, instead of having to call and sound sick, is also a nice thing.
Don't worry, they'll all meet up and realize every single one of them is a 40 year old pedophile, while all the real 12 year old boys are busy pretending to be 15-18 year olds.
I mean, look at it. The player carefully selects the phallic video game, then thrusts it into the waiting receptacle. The game console cannot object to this treatment, cannot have any say in what is done to it.
I don't know about you, but my old NES seemed to object to me playing a game as often as it damn well pleased! I had to use more coersion to make that console do what I wanted than I have ever had to with a girl.
Man, of all things out there, talk about a really weak example of something being needlessly phallic. Water Pistols? If there is an object that is attempting to do almost the exact same thing that a penis does (projectile squirt liquid out of it), and the penis has evolved and been honed to do the job well... then why the fuck would you NOT make something similar! Nobody would complain that an airplane is overtly avian, or that lamps are blatantly solar, or something like that, they would recognize it is mimicking what nature does well.
You know what I find odd? Why in the world would it be male sexism that would lead to a phallic joystick? I thought the problem was that men like playing with and looking at girl parts, not something that reminds them of a schlong. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Besides, can't something be longer than it is wide and not be compared to a penis every time?
Also, isn't the cartridge slot in my video game system pretty vaginal?
I think there is absolutely a market for characters who are not hulking über-men like that. There is a definite logic behind playing a character similar to you, but in a situation that is totally unreal and/or insurmountable, and then overcoming it.
Do I want to play a short hairy balding character? Depends on the game. I do know that I have loved playing characters like Guybrush Threepwood, King Graham, Cait Sith, Abe from Oddworld, Link, and so on... there is plenty of room for strange, non-idealized, or "average" characters... and then it is the situation or special powers or whatever that makes the game an escape.
If given the choice, I believe 99.99% of Americans would rather let an FBI agent rummage through their underwear drawer than die.
Hell, I'd rather have that FBI agent fuck me in the ass with a flagpole than die. But I don't know that either of these options is going to stop me from dying so I'd really rather not have either of them.
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The Chooser for file sharing was a hacked together piece of shit. Even when they were still in OS 8 and 9, they made an app to replace the network part of it. If someone spends 5 minutes with the new Connect to Server dialog they will be used to it. Sure, if you're looking for something like the Chooser, you might not know what you *should* be looking for, but that is the case for anything that is changed between 9 and X. The Chooser was probably one of the more embarrassing things about the Mac OS, and bringing it on into OS X would have been like putting a rotary dial on a cell phone.
Honestly, if Apple *had* ported the Chooser to OS X, I think a lot of people would have pointed to that as an indicator that the Mac OS was doomed.
If someone had gone in and taken out Hitler before he had a chance to really gain steam would you have been against that too?
Someone went and took out Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and that's what started World War I. Do you think it was a good idea that *that* happened?
Any major action can result in any number of different outcomes.
What we do know, however, is that the backlash in the Arab world of what we are doing now can be potentially disastrous and the precident for pre-emptive strike it sets up for other countries who feel threatened is downright scary.
The short answer is no, it won't do anything horrible at all. The "sudo" at the beginning of the command means you want to execute the command with administrator priveleges, which is required if you want to add anything with ifconfig. "sudo" can be dangerous if you use it recklessly, because it lets you do things that would be off-limits to the normal user. Also, "Respect the privacy of others" refers to the fact that if you use the "sudo" command in a multi-user environment, you would have the privileges to access the data in anyone's home directory.
I don't know how to prove that this particular command is harmless, except to say that it wouldn't have been modded up on Slashdot if it was a troll that was meant to do damage.
It's called economics, do they make enough money on those copies of WinXXX to justify the expense of keeping VPC in the product mix.
Ahhhh, "economics"! I do believe I've heard of it! Thanks:P
I know that there is a cost-to-benefit ratio here, but you and I can only speculate blindly exactly how that really works out, so there's not much point. I was only pointing out that a copy of VPC does not equal a user who MS can't get at, and the legal repurcussions of buying VPC for Mac and killing it might not be good either. Also the number of VPC users and the number who get a bundled copy of Windows is also totally speculating, and there's no point in making up numbers on it.
Even more the case that a purchase of VPC most likely does not translate into a copy of any other M$ software (Office for instance).
No, not Office, but what about all of their business-related software? What about MS Access and Outlook? What about all the database stuff? And so on.
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They don't care about the Mac version (not primarily anyway). Unfortunately we are at their whim here, if they are feeling generous then we _may_ benefit. If however they decide that it's not worth their time, then they can deprive Mac users of a very useful and hard to replace app.
I don't see why they are being generous to keep it going. I would imagine that significant majority of the copies of VPC that are sold are the ones that are bundled with Windows. Microsoft isn't a hardware company, so to them, this is as good as the person owning an x86 box.
In my opinion, MS would see it like: "we could keep this app going, and keep selling Windows and other MS products to Mac users, or we could kill it off, add more fuel to the abusive monopoly fire, and *possibly* have some of those VPC users go buy a PC with Windows."
Yes, but most people don't seem to know how to do it. Connectix supports using MS Loopback Adapter for the Windows version of Virtual PC, but for some reason doesn't have a Mac equivalent.
You can make your own by mapping some IP (say, 192.168.111.1) to 127.0.0.1. Just do this in the terminal:
sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 192.168.111.1
Then you add this to the ethernet port as well:
sudo ifconfig en0 alias 192.168.111.1
Now anytime VPC tries to get to that IP address, it will be like going to localhost.
Now if you just set the Windows side to a static IP like 192.168.111.2 with the gateway 192.168.111.1, the two machines can talk, even if you are not hooked up to any network.
Oh, and make sure you set the Windows side to "Virtual Switch" in VPC... the default is "Shared Networking".
(To get rid of those customizations, just execute this command: sudo ifconfig lo0 -alias 192.168.111.1, and then the same with with en0).
I really didn't expect the ad hominem to start until later but I guess you only possess so many weapons before you must resort to the last refuge of the truly weak- personal attacks.
Remember when we were talking about porn, and instead of responding to what I said, you acted like putting in the word "wrong" was a trick, and I was "fooled" because I said that I disagree with your opinion? At that point, there is no ad hominem attack. An ad hominem attack would be if I were attacking you personally in order to weaken or disprove your arguments on the subject. But there are no arguments because that debate ended. In fact, if you really want to consider the whole discussion, your first comment implying that I fell for your "wrong" trap *was* the first ad hominem attack.
I guess it's back to the drudgery now. Thanks for providing the entertainment.
Hey, if this is what you need to feel cool, it's no skin off my back. I noticed that you alienated several people during the course of your entertainment in this thread, but I'm sure you're used to that at this point in your life.
BTW, my next guess is that you're one of those last-word types......
I bet my cube-mate $20 that you would try to weasel your way out by saying that I would try to get the last word. You TOTALLY fell for it!
Oh my....too much to believe. I told him the next comment would be something calling us pathetic or something about not having a life.
This is blowing my mind. Soon you're going to be pretend-rich!
The last refuge of Slashdotters is to imply that someone is either young or won't grow up.
Sorry to imply that you were young. It is obvious you aren't young. I know you're probably some loser in his thirties, and your social life consists mostly of some tech-related club. How does it feel to be so damned predictable?
How does it feel to be so damned predictable?
Your predictions were in pretend-world, so they don't count.
Holy smokes dude, this is fun! I bet another $10 that your response would be: "I doubt that happened" Close enough, I won more bucks.
Thanks for providing my buds and I with entertainment.
Okay, this might be funny to a 14 year old, or someone in their 30s with the social maturity of a 14 year old.
If you and your "buds" really made bets that someone would make a mundane comment on a message board, that would of course be a very sad form of entertainment.
If you just made that up to entertain yourself or feel cool, then even your imaginary life is extremely sad.
I mean, honestly, are you going to respond to this comment saying you again knew that I would say this? That would totally "burn" me.
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Yes, and then when Apple ceased to exist a couple years later because of the clone market, just how well off would all involved be then?
As a sometimes lazy person in college, I can say that a lot of the tedious/annoying things that needed to be done were much aided by the college network. Like, if I had to go to the library to look up some little fact, I just wouldn't have done it.
Also, it means you can sometimes get things done in off hours that normally you would have to do during the day, like signing up for classes, turning in assignments, asking a prof/student a question, etc.
And as a language student, I can say that a few really decent sites dealing with your language can make life much easier. For example, dict.leo.org has definitions and grammatical information for almost any German word or phrase, including common slang and very new words. Going through this site instead of a dictionary makes things go so much faster and I can keep my thoughts flowing. Also, reading German news and keeping up cultural stuff is so much easier and *cheaper*. And keeping in touch with friends abroad (and meeting new ones) is of course almost immeasurably easier with the Internet. There is no comparison.
And being able to email a professor that you aren't feeling well and can't come to class, instead of having to call and sound sick, is also a nice thing.
Don't worry, they'll all meet up and realize every single one of them is a 40 year old pedophile, while all the real 12 year old boys are busy pretending to be 15-18 year olds.
Yes, and the special edition version will have black bars on the top and bottom 10% of the viewing area.
Yeah and we could finally make those Japanese imitation see-through skirts really work!
Man, of all things out there, talk about a really weak example of something being needlessly phallic. Water Pistols? If there is an object that is attempting to do almost the exact same thing that a penis does (projectile squirt liquid out of it), and the penis has evolved and been honed to do the job well... then why the fuck would you NOT make something similar! Nobody would complain that an airplane is overtly avian, or that lamps are blatantly solar, or something like that, they would recognize it is mimicking what nature does well.
Jeez, maybe it was a really good troll.
You know what I find odd? Why in the world would it be male sexism that would lead to a phallic joystick? I thought the problem was that men like playing with and looking at girl parts, not something that reminds them of a schlong. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Besides, can't something be longer than it is wide and not be compared to a penis every time?
Also, isn't the cartridge slot in my video game system pretty vaginal?
I think there is absolutely a market for characters who are not hulking über-men like that. There is a definite logic behind playing a character similar to you, but in a situation that is totally unreal and/or insurmountable, and then overcoming it.
Do I want to play a short hairy balding character? Depends on the game. I do know that I have loved playing characters like Guybrush Threepwood, King Graham, Cait Sith, Abe from Oddworld, Link, and so on... there is plenty of room for strange, non-idealized, or "average" characters... and then it is the situation or special powers or whatever that makes the game an escape.
The Chooser for file sharing was a hacked together piece of shit. Even when they were still in OS 8 and 9, they made an app to replace the network part of it. If someone spends 5 minutes with the new Connect to Server dialog they will be used to it. Sure, if you're looking for something like the Chooser, you might not know what you *should* be looking for, but that is the case for anything that is changed between 9 and X. The Chooser was probably one of the more embarrassing things about the Mac OS, and bringing it on into OS X would have been like putting a rotary dial on a cell phone.
Honestly, if Apple *had* ported the Chooser to OS X, I think a lot of people would have pointed to that as an indicator that the Mac OS was doomed.
I can't think of a worse idea.
The guy who eats hamburgers is Wimpy.
Hmm, that should have been the symbol for "pi", whoops!
What about "M" and "?"? At best, it is the co-shortest.
Actually, now that I think about it...
? could be considered the shortest, or the longest (infinite!)
"We're at war" is the justification for what's going on in the US? Yeah, the infringement on our liberties just started last week...
Besides, I thought the UK was in on this too.
Any major action can result in any number of different outcomes.
What we do know, however, is that the backlash in the Arab world of what we are doing now can be potentially disastrous and the precident for pre-emptive strike it sets up for other countries who feel threatened is downright scary.
The short answer is no, it won't do anything horrible at all. The "sudo" at the beginning of the command means you want to execute the command with administrator priveleges, which is required if you want to add anything with ifconfig. "sudo" can be dangerous if you use it recklessly, because it lets you do things that would be off-limits to the normal user. Also, "Respect the privacy of others" refers to the fact that if you use the "sudo" command in a multi-user environment, you would have the privileges to access the data in anyone's home directory.
I don't know how to prove that this particular command is harmless, except to say that it wouldn't have been modded up on Slashdot if it was a troll that was meant to do damage.
I know that there is a cost-to-benefit ratio here, but you and I can only speculate blindly exactly how that really works out, so there's not much point. I was only pointing out that a copy of VPC does not equal a user who MS can't get at, and the legal repurcussions of buying VPC for Mac and killing it might not be good either. Also the number of VPC users and the number who get a bundled copy of Windows is also totally speculating, and there's no point in making up numbers on it.
No, not Office, but what about all of their business-related software? What about MS Access and Outlook? What about all the database stuff? And so on.
In my opinion, MS would see it like: "we could keep this app going, and keep selling Windows and other MS products to Mac users, or we could kill it off, add more fuel to the abusive monopoly fire, and *possibly* have some of those VPC users go buy a PC with Windows."
Yes, but most people don't seem to know how to do it. Connectix supports using MS Loopback Adapter for the Windows version of Virtual PC, but for some reason doesn't have a Mac equivalent.
You can make your own by mapping some IP (say, 192.168.111.1) to 127.0.0.1. Just do this in the terminal:
sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 192.168.111.1
Then you add this to the ethernet port as well:
sudo ifconfig en0 alias 192.168.111.1
Now anytime VPC tries to get to that IP address, it will be like going to localhost.
Now if you just set the Windows side to a static IP like 192.168.111.2 with the gateway 192.168.111.1, the two machines can talk, even if you are not hooked up to any network.
Oh, and make sure you set the Windows side to "Virtual Switch" in VPC... the default is "Shared Networking".
(To get rid of those customizations, just execute this command: sudo ifconfig lo0 -alias 192.168.111.1, and then the same with with en0).
In fact, if you really want to consider the whole discussion, your first comment implying that I fell for your "wrong" trap *was* the first ad hominem attack.
Hey, if this is what you need to feel cool, it's no skin off my back. I noticed that you alienated several people during the course of your entertainment in this thread, but I'm sure you're used to that at this point in your life.
I bet my cube-mate $20 that you would try to weasel your way out by saying that I would try to get the last word. You TOTALLY fell for it!
Sorry to imply that you were young. It is obvious you aren't young. I know you're probably some loser in his thirties, and your social life consists mostly of some tech-related club. How does it feel to be so damned predictable?
Your predictions were in pretend-world, so they don't count.
If you and your "buds" really made bets that someone would make a mundane comment on a message board, that would of course be a very sad form of entertainment.
If you just made that up to entertain yourself or feel cool, then even your imaginary life is extremely sad.
I mean, honestly, are you going to respond to this comment saying you again knew that I would say this? That would totally "burn" me.
I listen to lots of German music, and Amazon.de has worked pretty well for me. You can get Nena there no problem.
I get German DVDs from there, and I get die Ärzte, Fanta Vier, Toten Hosen, etc. It's pretty good, IMO.
If you are looking for something popular like Nena, amazon.de should work well.