I'll risk offtopicness to respond to this..with excellent karma, I can risk it.
While some may consider win2k/xp a quantum leap from win9x/me, you need to think about one thing: disaster recovery. With the older series of Windows, if something went batshit, 9 times out of 10 you could coax it into safe mode or make some repairs by booting from a win98 or dos boot disk. These days you're practically fucked if you have a major problem with xp or 2k. Please don't mention the worthless recovery console, it takes a manual 100 pages long to accomplish anything with it, and heaps of cryptic commands. It's not as simple as booting from a floppy, editing a file or deleting/copying/moving something and rebooting. I guess with progress comes complexity.
Case in point: winxp on my dual boot machine. Upgraded motherboard and processor, plugged the ide cables in for all the drives in the same order. Result? Linux booted, Winxp completely lost it's mind, an instant bluescreen followed by an instant reboot. The BSOD was so fast that it was literally 1 frame for.005 seconds. I didn't even get a chance to work on it. I ended up doing myself a favor and converting those wasted partitions into linux partitions. Winxp was just there for me to toy with once a week...and now it's gone. No tears, just a smile.:)
Oh, and I bet the guys on the mplayer mailing list would have a FIELD day with this guy.;)
I use the commandline exclusively for Mplayer as well. Sure, it takes some time to learn, but it makes sense. Spacebar=pause, F to toggle fullscreen, arrow keys to rewind/ff. Not real tricky, and it definitely doesn't need a gui. This guy needs to spend 5 seconds RTFM and get on with his life, because mplayer is the best player on any platform, period.
I don't think it's the sole reason people *use* linux, but it's probably one of the biggest reasons people *try* linux. Since there are no hard numbers it's all speculation anyway, but from my experience with linux and with others who have tried it, getting away from Windows instability/frustration factor has always been the primary motivator. Your mileage, and that of others, will vary.
Bah, for every fantasy Windows install like this guy's, there are hundreds of thousands of disasters. If Windows worked as well for everyone as it did for you, linux wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is now. Consider yourself blessed, lucky, or magical, because your experience is truly one in a million.
If it's Miyamoto, the games will degrade in complexity if anything. You could probably fit him on a 64kb rom chip, that cat's a one-trick pony.
Yeah, he's a great designer, but so is the guy who made Tetris. They both recycled the hell out of the dynamics of their games until they just refused to be interesting. There's only so many Marios one can play in a lifetime, or so many ways to manipulate falling blocks into solid rows. Ultimately I think Miyamoto is overrated, and he's lost his touch.
All you Nintendoids can chime in and flame me now, but consider carefully what Nintendo has done at the hands of Miyamoto. He's killing the company slowly...people want something new, something exciting...new worlds and new gameplay styles, and he just can't do it like he used to. Maybe it's time to retire, Miyamoto.
Hmm, it looks suspiciously like those wacky little dragons the Chinese have been crazy about forever. Maybe there's some truth to the whole dragon thing after all. A wise man once said there's a grain of truth in every bushel of myth.
And who invented the telephone? Yeah, that's right, an American, Alexander Graham Bell. Who invented electrical lighting? Some might say Tesla with his wacky DC lights that never caught on, but for now let's say Edison.
The UK has been the follower since the Industrial revolution, using tech invented by Americans. Don't pride yourself on ignorance, pride yourself on facts.:)
I totally agree. I guess the moderators are smoking some good sticky nuggets today to give the parent so many points.
Cost IS an issue here. It's literally impossible to match the Xbox feature for feature for $200 or less. It's cheap because Microsoft mass produced them and got massive discounts on the hardware. Once again, for those of you with ADD, you CANNOT build a pc with all the features the Xbox has for anywhere near the same price.
I thought all the bathrooms at City Bites (the sub shop) were like that. At least the one in NW Oklahoma City is. You can take a leak and smile at everyone through the 2-way mirror. Sometimes when someone goes in I'll mess with their minds by standing in front of the glass and smiling.
Er, they never said the window goes black, they just said it goes 'opaque'. Most likely it goes white.
This tech is nothing new. An art house exists in Europe that uses solar power and is full of windows like this. It's lcd-embedded glass. The house itself is on rails and rotates to face the sun (it's a circular house on tracks).
One cool feature the house has is everchanging antique mirrors. You know those old mirrors with random black patterns in them? These actually MOVE and change over time. There's a thin layer of bacteria that eat the substrate and move from place to place. Crazy, but interesting.
1. Screw Mandrake, I've never used it. 2. I love it, let's keep it alive. Can I sell my liver to donate cash? 3. Debian, gonk gak Slackware. 4. Goatse.cx 5. Bla bla bla pontification of free software, soapbox sermon on business and management tactics, waste of space. 6. Why should I support free software? I don't use it. Wait..I do run linux but...nevermind. Debian. 7. Mandrake is for noobs, I'd never be caught dead with it on my computer. Gentoo arg ack ports system. 8. In Soviet Russia, Mandrakes attack people. 9. Some nonsense from a non-native english speaker that leaves everyone scratching their head.
Well that about sums it up. Keep this in mind next time you see a mandrake announcement and save yourself the time of reading the redundant posts on it.
Great, now even blind people can spend way too many hours getting killed in various stupid ways after levelling up.
I loved Falconseye-Nethack before, but sometimes it just forces you to give up. After 3 hours of wandering through dungeons and getting bum rushed by 30 creatures in a single room and killed instantly, it kinda pisses you off. In old-school nintendo-speak, I'd call it a true controller thrower.
I suggest next time you're about to enter a turn at 100mph, you back it off _before_ you get into the turn. Late apex braking is cool and all but I wouldn't risk it in a RWD car. I guess you can always look like a hero exiting the turn in a monstrous powerslide with smoke pouring from your back tires, but I imagine it'd hurt your times.
Anyway, I really hope nobody ever finds a Microsoft logo on their cars..except BMW.:)
Sweet. IIRC when I had one of these as a kid (after I mastered it), if I squeezed it a certain way near the module that plugs in, I could get it to act up. They looked tough but were actually kinda delicate.
testing, testing, one two three...for some reason all my posts are coming up as '1' instead of '2' like they usually do. My karma is marked excellent so wtf?! Also I noticed that the box near the bottom is marked 'no karma bonus' now, so something has definitely changed.
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I'll risk offtopicness to respond to this..with excellent karma, I can risk it.
.005 seconds. I didn't even get a chance to work on it. I ended up doing myself a favor and converting those wasted partitions into linux partitions. Winxp was just there for me to toy with once a week...and now it's gone. No tears, just a smile. :)
While some may consider win2k/xp a quantum leap from win9x/me, you need to think about one thing: disaster recovery. With the older series of Windows, if something went batshit, 9 times out of 10 you could coax it into safe mode or make some repairs by booting from a win98 or dos boot disk. These days you're practically fucked if you have a major problem with xp or 2k. Please don't mention the worthless recovery console, it takes a manual 100 pages long to accomplish anything with it, and heaps of cryptic commands. It's not as simple as booting from a floppy, editing a file or deleting/copying/moving something and rebooting. I guess with progress comes complexity.
Case in point: winxp on my dual boot machine. Upgraded motherboard and processor, plugged the ide cables in for all the drives in the same order. Result? Linux booted, Winxp completely lost it's mind, an instant bluescreen followed by an instant reboot. The BSOD was so fast that it was literally 1 frame for
Oh, and I bet the guys on the mplayer mailing list would have a FIELD day with this guy. ;)
I use the commandline exclusively for Mplayer as well. Sure, it takes some time to learn, but it makes sense. Spacebar=pause, F to toggle fullscreen, arrow keys to rewind/ff. Not real tricky, and it definitely doesn't need a gui. This guy needs to spend 5 seconds RTFM and get on with his life, because mplayer is the best player on any platform, period.
I don't think it's the sole reason people *use* linux, but it's probably one of the biggest reasons people *try* linux. Since there are no hard numbers it's all speculation anyway, but from my experience with linux and with others who have tried it, getting away from Windows instability/frustration factor has always been the primary motivator. Your mileage, and that of others, will vary.
Bah, for every fantasy Windows install like this guy's, there are hundreds of thousands of disasters. If Windows worked as well for everyone as it did for you, linux wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is now. Consider yourself blessed, lucky, or magical, because your experience is truly one in a million.
Don't ever bother trying to find out the logic behind moderation, and for god's sake never post about it. It's a guaranteed -1 offtopic every time.
If it's Miyamoto, the games will degrade in complexity if anything. You could probably fit him on a 64kb rom chip, that cat's a one-trick pony.
Yeah, he's a great designer, but so is the guy who made Tetris. They both recycled the hell out of the dynamics of their games until they just refused to be interesting. There's only so many Marios one can play in a lifetime, or so many ways to manipulate falling blocks into solid rows. Ultimately I think Miyamoto is overrated, and he's lost his touch.
All you Nintendoids can chime in and flame me now, but consider carefully what Nintendo has done at the hands of Miyamoto. He's killing the company slowly...people want something new, something exciting...new worlds and new gameplay styles, and he just can't do it like he used to. Maybe it's time to retire, Miyamoto.
Hmm, it looks suspiciously like those wacky little dragons the Chinese have been crazy about forever. Maybe there's some truth to the whole dragon thing after all. A wise man once said there's a grain of truth in every bushel of myth.
And who invented the telephone? Yeah, that's right, an American, Alexander Graham Bell. Who invented electrical lighting? Some might say Tesla with his wacky DC lights that never caught on, but for now let's say Edison.
:)
The UK has been the follower since the Industrial revolution, using tech invented by Americans. Don't pride yourself on ignorance, pride yourself on facts.
I totally agree. I guess the moderators are smoking some good sticky nuggets today to give the parent so many points.
Cost IS an issue here. It's literally impossible to match the Xbox feature for feature for $200 or less. It's cheap because Microsoft mass produced them and got massive discounts on the hardware. Once again, for those of you with ADD, you CANNOT build a pc with all the features the Xbox has for anywhere near the same price.
Hey, you must play urban terror too! It's improving..but there are still heaps of cheaters out there.
I doubt she needs to collect unemployment for awhile. She got paid around $1mil US per year for being the spokeslesbian for the RIAA.
;)
You'll be lucky if she stops her Mercedes long enough for you to ask her for a dollar.
I thought all the bathrooms at City Bites (the sub shop) were like that. At least the one in NW Oklahoma City is. You can take a leak and smile at everyone through the 2-way mirror. Sometimes when someone goes in I'll mess with their minds by standing in front of the glass and smiling.
Er, they never said the window goes black, they just said it goes 'opaque'. Most likely it goes white.
This tech is nothing new. An art house exists in Europe that uses solar power and is full of windows like this. It's lcd-embedded glass. The house itself is on rails and rotates to face the sun (it's a circular house on tracks).
One cool feature the house has is everchanging antique mirrors. You know those old mirrors with random black patterns in them? These actually MOVE and change over time. There's a thin layer of bacteria that eat the substrate and move from place to place. Crazy, but interesting.
1. Screw Mandrake, I've never used it.
2. I love it, let's keep it alive. Can I sell my liver to donate cash?
3. Debian, gonk gak Slackware.
4. Goatse.cx
5. Bla bla bla pontification of free software, soapbox sermon on business and management tactics, waste of space.
6. Why should I support free software? I don't use it. Wait..I do run linux but...nevermind. Debian.
7. Mandrake is for noobs, I'd never be caught dead with it on my computer. Gentoo arg ack ports system.
8. In Soviet Russia, Mandrakes attack people.
9. Some nonsense from a non-native english speaker that leaves everyone scratching their head.
Well that about sums it up. Keep this in mind next time you see a mandrake announcement and save yourself the time of reading the redundant posts on it.
Great, now even blind people can spend way too many hours getting killed in various stupid ways after levelling up.
I loved Falconseye-Nethack before, but sometimes it just forces you to give up. After 3 hours of wandering through dungeons and getting bum rushed by 30 creatures in a single room and killed instantly, it kinda pisses you off. In old-school nintendo-speak, I'd call it a true controller thrower.
I suggest next time you're about to enter a turn at 100mph, you back it off _before_ you get into the turn. Late apex braking is cool and all but I wouldn't risk it in a RWD car. I guess you can always look like a hero exiting the turn in a monstrous powerslide with smoke pouring from your back tires, but I imagine it'd hurt your times.
:)
Anyway, I really hope nobody ever finds a Microsoft logo on their cars..except BMW.
Hopefully one made out of asbestos, or with some good old-fashioned don't-start-a-fire circuitry built in.
Underpants Gnome is on the scene!
1. Buy faulty UPS unit.
2. Start fire under UPS.
3. Burn whole house/office down.
4. ???
5: Sue. PROFIT!!!
Sweet. IIRC when I had one of these as a kid (after I mastered it), if I squeezed it a certain way near the module that plugs in, I could get it to act up. They looked tough but were actually kinda delicate.
They have lots of those at the Planet' Arium. Usually 'ictures of 'pace.
Well, at least you can get rid of Jon Katz in your preferences, that kills about 75% of the bad journalism.
7. Profit!!!
Damn. That post read like the back of a shampoo bottle. Where was USDA RED#5? I kinda miss that one.
testing, testing, one two three...for some reason all my posts are coming up as '1' instead of '2' like they usually do. My karma is marked excellent so wtf?! Also I noticed that the box near the bottom is marked 'no karma bonus' now, so something has definitely changed.
You forgot to mention half the price as well. :)