OpenOffice is a super fat bastard anyway, what's the issue of shipping it with all of it's dependencies and having it run out of a specific location? Yeah, it's ugly, but it's effective, and size is already a bygone issue with it.
I've had great success with Symantec Corporate Antivirus in the workplace and on some home machines. In managed mode, there's really nothing better. It catches everything that my users have thrown its way. Keep in mind this is the older version of corporate; I hear the latest versions are bloated and slow.
Well, he was intentionally stupid as a slapstick, stepinfetchit character with ill manners and a stupid method of locomotion. Notice none of his other kind was nearly as retarded in other scenes.
Strangely enough he couldn't eat with manners at the table but he can keep his foolishness under wraps for the 5 seconds he's in a funeral parade in RotS.
"I think the SW Episode III lines are the geek equivalent to the Gay Parade"
While people in line dressed as their favorite character is kinda gay, it pales in comparison to a real Gay Parade. I mean, what's a parade without leather dudes with the asses cut out of their chaps?
Microsoft releasing x86 Mac Windows will never happen. People buy Macs for the OS and the simple to use applications, not for the hardware. The hardware is just a necessary part of the equation and just happens to win design awards all the time and look cool on your desk.
Both of those scenarios sound really boring to me, and it must be to others who value their time, because people are willing to pay real money for items in games like those to avoid the mind-numbing repetition. No +35 Orc Killer sword is worth whacking the same monsters 10 million times in one spot.
NPC's exist because they take on jobs nobody could possibly find fun or entertaining. Being a blacksmith or an inn keeper would be dead boring. You sit in one spot and make do one task. Yay.
Then again some people don't get enough repetitive button pushing in everyday life. Who am I to judge?
I believe with all of Apple's recent, sexy-looking upscale hardware introductions, the majority of purchases haven't been from existing Mac users. The user base is growing from new users. There's a certain cachet to owning a Mac these days, just like having the latest and greatest Blackberry.
Then again, I heard someone comment the other day that 'each release of MacOS actually speeds up my old G4, why should I replace it?'. So Apple does a reverse Microsoft, making each OS release a little more fine tuned, giving users more longevity out of their hardware rather than bloating their OS with each release requiring their users to upgrade out of necessity. Apple doesn't lose because their upgrade treadmill is software instead of hardware and those.1 updates make a killing (compare development costs to sales).
I think the poster earlier was trying to say that MS was exploiting the end user by charging more for a Pro version that is identical to the Home version except for a few bytes in the installer.
It's similar to Nvidia selling Ultras that didn't pass the test as GT models, while a few tweaks can unlock it. It's also similar to AMD having a few jumpers unbridged on the chip that a pencil can bridge. I understand why hardware manufacturers take shortcuts like this and ultimately it benefits the company as well as the end user. However, for a software company to do this is questionable.
Eh, not really what I'd consider a Kubrick film. Don't even mention Eyes Wide Shut either, it was the same Kubrick-ish debauchery as AI was.
When you say Kubrick, people think of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, etc. The most recent films with the Kubrick stamp on them are junk that he never finished. They both got 'Spielberged'.
Rest in peace, old friend, and pray that your film making legacy isn't tainted by the last two stinkers.
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Hey, don't knock it, it worked for the dude in Fight Club. He even got a 16 month paycheck deal with his boss to work as an outside consultant.
I think it'd be cool if they had a contest to design alternate endings for the film. Possibly from different directors as well.
Bruckheimer ending: Robot boy goes to the bottom of the ocean, the fairy ends up being a Navy SEAL team, and he takes a rocket in the face, KABOOM!
Woody Allen ending: Robot boy goes to the bottom of the ocean where he recites 15 minutes of neurotic dialog while the audience walks out. The New York audience stays for the duration and stages a parade after the film is over.
Kubrick ending: Robot boy goes to the bottom of the ocean where he ends up deactivating himself after realizing the fairy story was bullshit.
Disney ending: yada yada boy actually meets the fairy who is a hologram projection from Robocorp. The fairy instructs him to return to the lab where a cloned human body awaits. His memory is transferred into the clone and he's reunited with the family, happily ever after etc.
Lucas ending: boy meets fairy, fairy turns out to be his father. Epic battle commences, father sacrifices himself to save the boy at the hands of the Overlordbot. Robot boy loses a hand in the battle, replaces it with a human hand. To be continued.
It burnt the shit out of Darth Vader and formatted his c:\ also, because the hard drive activity lights on his chest box quit blinking. He was all wheezing and nearly dead in RotJ after an extensive shocking.
Then again, I guess being burned alive is old hat to Vader.
I just threw that in there for all of the Windows apologists/defenders that would bring up the opposing argument. Lately they've been coming out of the woodwork. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.
Depends on the OS really. If it's a Windows environment, the spyware would probably 'root' the boxen and hose whatever it could. OTOH, in a Linux or MacOSX environment, the worst that would happen is that the user's settings get lost or wiped.
Privilege separation is a nice thing to have by default. Most Windows installs don't separate the Admin from the user. I know it's an option at any time during or post-install, but I'm going by defaults.
If I found out my users were installing Free Porn programs on their work machines, I'd make sure they were fired on the spot. No second guesses _at all_.
I guess you could make it a 'free kittens and puppies background picture' program. I see alot of that crapware installed on people's machines (but not at work).
Thank god they did away with it. When the filesystem took a shit on a file and the file itself remained intact, but the data and res forks got hosed, you ended up having to use 3rd party software to fix it. It wasn't a guaranteed fix either.
Ask any Mac user if they remember data and resource forks and watch their eyes roll back in their heads.
"Can you do it without shutting down X, and all running X applications? Is that really so different than than a reboot?"
It's very much different than a reboot. My system keeps running, but the 'paint job' stops. You could have other processes in the background doing their job (like copying files in another shell or whatever) while you do the update. You unload the old kernel driver, load the new one, start X back up.
You may be right, while splitting a fine hair. Maybe I was unclear.
When going from the default Windows driver to the 'real' Nvidia display drivers, there is a reboot required, no ifs ands or buts. Subsequent upgrades may not require this (as I don't constantly upgrade nvidia drivers on windows machines).
My original point still stands, installing drivers requires a Windows reboot (under certain circumstances).
Jeez, this is/., where did all these Windows defenders come from anyway?
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OpenOffice is a super fat bastard anyway, what's the issue of shipping it with all of it's dependencies and having it run out of a specific location? Yeah, it's ugly, but it's effective, and size is already a bygone issue with it.
I've had great success with Symantec Corporate Antivirus in the workplace and on some home machines. In managed mode, there's really nothing better. It catches everything that my users have thrown its way. Keep in mind this is the older version of corporate; I hear the latest versions are bloated and slow.
Well, he was intentionally stupid as a slapstick, stepinfetchit character with ill manners and a stupid method of locomotion. Notice none of his other kind was nearly as retarded in other scenes.
Strangely enough he couldn't eat with manners at the table but he can keep his foolishness under wraps for the 5 seconds he's in a funeral parade in RotS.
"I think the SW Episode III lines are the geek equivalent to the Gay Parade"
While people in line dressed as their favorite character is kinda gay, it pales in comparison to a real Gay Parade. I mean, what's a parade without leather dudes with the asses cut out of their chaps?
Microsoft releasing x86 Mac Windows will never happen. People buy Macs for the OS and the simple to use applications, not for the hardware. The hardware is just a necessary part of the equation and just happens to win design awards all the time and look cool on your desk.
Both of those scenarios sound really boring to me, and it must be to others who value their time, because people are willing to pay real money for items in games like those to avoid the mind-numbing repetition. No +35 Orc Killer sword is worth whacking the same monsters 10 million times in one spot.
NPC's exist because they take on jobs nobody could possibly find fun or entertaining. Being a blacksmith or an inn keeper would be dead boring. You sit in one spot and make do one task. Yay.
Then again some people don't get enough repetitive button pushing in everyday life. Who am I to judge?
But the benefits to grazing land are nullified by the enormous amount of methane gases the cattle release on a daily basis. Vegetarians are gassy. ;)
Well you can always irrigate the Mojave. Then again, crops don't like sand too much, they like rich topsoil.
I believe with all of Apple's recent, sexy-looking upscale hardware introductions, the majority of purchases haven't been from existing Mac users. The user base is growing from new users. There's a certain cachet to owning a Mac these days, just like having the latest and greatest Blackberry.
.1 updates make a killing (compare development costs to sales).
Then again, I heard someone comment the other day that 'each release of MacOS actually speeds up my old G4, why should I replace it?'. So Apple does a reverse Microsoft, making each OS release a little more fine tuned, giving users more longevity out of their hardware rather than bloating their OS with each release requiring their users to upgrade out of necessity. Apple doesn't lose because their upgrade treadmill is software instead of hardware and those
I think the poster earlier was trying to say that MS was exploiting the end user by charging more for a Pro version that is identical to the Home version except for a few bytes in the installer.
It's similar to Nvidia selling Ultras that didn't pass the test as GT models, while a few tweaks can unlock it. It's also similar to AMD having a few jumpers unbridged on the chip that a pencil can bridge. I understand why hardware manufacturers take shortcuts like this and ultimately it benefits the company as well as the end user. However, for a software company to do this is questionable.
"...the PS3 and Nintendo Revolution will both be backwards-compatible, apparently all back to the console's origin."
Awesome! So I can dust off those original NES cartridges right? Right?
Eh, not really what I'd consider a Kubrick film. Don't even mention Eyes Wide Shut either, it was the same Kubrick-ish debauchery as AI was.
When you say Kubrick, people think of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, etc. The most recent films with the Kubrick stamp on them are junk that he never finished. They both got 'Spielberged'.
Rest in peace, old friend, and pray that your film making legacy isn't tainted by the last two stinkers.
Hey, don't knock it, it worked for the dude in Fight Club. He even got a 16 month paycheck deal with his boss to work as an outside consultant.
I think it'd be cool if they had a contest to design alternate endings for the film. Possibly from different directors as well.
Bruckheimer ending: Robot boy goes to the bottom of the ocean, the fairy ends up being a Navy SEAL team, and he takes a rocket in the face, KABOOM!
Woody Allen ending: Robot boy goes to the bottom of the ocean where he recites 15 minutes of neurotic dialog while the audience walks out. The New York audience stays for the duration and stages a parade after the film is over.
Kubrick ending: Robot boy goes to the bottom of the ocean where he ends up deactivating himself after realizing the fairy story was bullshit.
Disney ending: yada yada boy actually meets the fairy who is a hologram projection from Robocorp. The fairy instructs him to return to the lab where a cloned human body awaits. His memory is transferred into the clone and he's reunited with the family, happily ever after etc.
Lucas ending: boy meets fairy, fairy turns out to be his father. Epic battle commences, father sacrifices himself to save the boy at the hands of the Overlordbot. Robot boy loses a hand in the battle, replaces it with a human hand. To be continued.
That's not a look of being unimpressed. That's the look of confusion over just what he has in his hands.
"Will this stuff help me and Daddy rid the world of the terrorist scourge?" "What would happen if I mixed this with a Tequila Sunrise?"
There's a big difference between donating out of the kindness of your own heart, and donating to glean massive tax write offs.
Remember, Microsoft is a company in this order.
1. Marketing/PR firm
2. Law firm
3. Software company
4. Hardware company
It burnt the shit out of Darth Vader and formatted his c:\ also, because the hard drive activity lights on his chest box quit blinking. He was all wheezing and nearly dead in RotJ after an extensive shocking.
Then again, I guess being burned alive is old hat to Vader.
I just threw that in there for all of the Windows apologists/defenders that would bring up the opposing argument. Lately they've been coming out of the woodwork. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.
Depends on the OS really. If it's a Windows environment, the spyware would probably 'root' the boxen and hose whatever it could. OTOH, in a Linux or MacOSX environment, the worst that would happen is that the user's settings get lost or wiped.
Privilege separation is a nice thing to have by default. Most Windows installs don't separate the Admin from the user. I know it's an option at any time during or post-install, but I'm going by defaults.
Hey, that's good business. It's like buying a Jaguar car and later buying a fire extinguisher and a powder to soak up leaking oil from the dealership.
If I found out my users were installing Free Porn programs on their work machines, I'd make sure they were fired on the spot. No second guesses _at all_.
I guess you could make it a 'free kittens and puppies background picture' program. I see alot of that crapware installed on people's machines (but not at work).
Thank god they did away with it. When the filesystem took a shit on a file and the file itself remained intact, but the data and res forks got hosed, you ended up having to use 3rd party software to fix it. It wasn't a guaranteed fix either.
Ask any Mac user if they remember data and resource forks and watch their eyes roll back in their heads.
"Can you do it without shutting down X, and all running X applications? Is that really so different than than a reboot?"
It's very much different than a reboot. My system keeps running, but the 'paint job' stops. You could have other processes in the background doing their job (like copying files in another shell or whatever) while you do the update. You unload the old kernel driver, load the new one, start X back up.
You may be right, while splitting a fine hair. Maybe I was unclear.
/., where did all these Windows defenders come from anyway?
When going from the default Windows driver to the 'real' Nvidia display drivers, there is a reboot required, no ifs ands or buts. Subsequent upgrades may not require this (as I don't constantly upgrade nvidia drivers on windows machines).
My original point still stands, installing drivers requires a Windows reboot (under certain circumstances).
Jeez, this is