The only reason I (still) use W10 is games (more than 300, in Steam only). I have every second of using it. As soon as there are enough high budgets games running on Linux, I'll finally get rid of it for a systemd-free linux (Manjaro-openrc comes to mind). I've good hopes that SteamOS will lead us outside of the Windows era. Microsoft was right : Windows 10 is the last Windows version... ever.
The fight against the invasion of the minds has not started yesterday.
Ads utter to you in not always subtle ways the same message. To try to fix your miserable existence and be happy you need to spend more, own more, bigger, shinier. It's an aggression, an unrelenting crime against humanity.
A while ago, when I only disliked advertising, there is a nice game I used to play:
If I saw or heard an ad more than a couple of time on a single day (radio/TV), I used to ban the product for a few months/years. I was kind of happy to know that in retaliation to their indelicacy towards myself, they would at least lose the few tens or thousands I may well have given them otherwise.
Later I ended up stopping watching TV altogether (how about that, it was roughly 20 years ago), and started buying tapes, then DVDs then Blu-rays. It was a bit more expensive but so much better than TV, and no ads. Then with the year more and more of the discs started to display hard-to-skip ads even before the menu, so I stopped buying. I'm now on a popular (legal, paid, ad-free) streamer for TV and another for music (They shall remain nameless of course).
I guess I'm still vulnerable to product placement, but that's usually subtle enough... so far.
Today the rule of the game with advertisers is simple : if I notice an ad, I cut the medium.
I cannot speak for the original poster, but I discarded Ubuntu for the desktop because of Unity. And now I'll discard it for the servers because of systemd.
If we were 20 years ago, I'd joke about systemd being a pet project of Microsoft to ruin the Linux ecosystem.
If needs to be, I'll go so far as making my distro myself to avoid systemd.
Are you kidding ? It's very easy to remember. The original meaning of my reply is: it's not an impossible exaggeration. That's why I replied "true" to the comment that said it would take more than 30 seconds. (Besides, you don't need to know nor read "megabytes" of a program. You just need to look for (all the) the right pattern(s))
You do realize that your #5 should not be in that list ? It's true than less and less developers have a perfect knowledge of various CPU assembly languages, their opcodes encoding and ASCII representations, but (successfully) debugging on hex and/or text dumps was not uncommon on C64, CPC, Amiga,... It still happens on x86 architectures but it's true it's seldom needed nowadays given the profusion of tools.
I personally know a handful of people able to do that on various architectures (yours truly included). All around or above 40 years old and slowly losing that particular skill per lack of usage.
I think what should happen is that we should streamline OUR lives and be rid of Sony.
Sony is on my no-buy list already.
Got a PS4, didn't used it much and it still broke after 14 months (the fan doesn't start anymore). They ask for 200EUR for the fix. It was so ridiculous I could not help but laugh. Be it phone, camera, gaming console or computer : never Sony again.
Among them, Cabu was particularly well known by French and Belgian people of my generation (1975). He was, among other things, a caricaturist on a widely watched children/teenagers show that started in 1978, with the kind of lasting impression you can imagine on our young minds.
A friend sent me a link to the video. Every second I expected to see the logo of a prankster. When I saw the idiotic lightsaber with a guard... I was almost laughing. And then it ends with a release date. Really ? This piece of crap is supposed to be the next Star Wars movie ?
Ah well...
I guess I can forget about it and wait for an eventual release of the "original" 4 5 6 in BluRay.
I would not say Ubisoft is worse than EA. EA buy good games companies and destroy their soul. Origin Systems, Bullfrog, Westwood, Maxis,... What became of their games?
Ubisoft made lots of bad decisions but it's hard to top EA's damage.
I got all the way up to $100 (and a bit more) before getting good food. By comparison in Japan (2006) I could get healty food for about $7. Where I live I'm used to more or less 35€ so about $47 for a good meal.
And the other thing about T.H. : I did not expect to get very healty food on what I assumed was a "café" but that unhealthy ? I'm not sure where you have to go "here" to get the same kind of bad food. Mc Donald and its likes ?
You are right about the value of the skin of a potato. But this mostly matters if the potato is cooked whole (Steamed, boiled or in the oven). When you cut it to fry it you lose most of the advantage of the skin.
It's not only the lazyness or whatever you call it. It's also about what's available and how accessible it is.
I'm an European. I've made a trip to Canada & the U.S.A. a few week ago. (Mostly around Montreal and New York) Everything was great and marvelous (the people are very nice, everything is huge and there are many cultural differences and things to see...).
Except for... the food. Too much on a plate and burnt, too greasy, too sweet, too salty. It mush wreak havoc with the taste buds. "French" fries, fried with their skin ? Burnt, brown color like if they had been cooked in the same oil more than a couple of times ? Burned (black) meat but not cooked in the middle. Burned bread. Burned pizza. Coffee that tastes like watered moka. Pastries were so greasy I suspected them to be flammable and felt sick for a day after couple of them. (from Tim Horton, and to my surprise the food & service there is relatively better than Starbucks, at least in the few places I sampled it). High-fructose-corn-syrup in many products (which makes you eat more by tricking your brain)
I had a few good meals too but it looked that to can only expect a good healthy dish from about $100 taxes and tip included (which I find quite expensive).
It's not difficult to make tasty AND healthy food. As long as you get fresh products (not OGM, not these mostly-water tomatos,...).
Lazy: 150g brown rice, water, 200 vegetables, salt, olive oil. Steam-cook in an inox cooker (never any plastic) for 27 minutes (no need to watch) and voilÃf. Less lazy: a bit of olive oil in a saucepan with a bit of oignons, cook them a bit (middle power), add peas, carrots, a bit of thym and a pinch of salt, cook and watch a few minutes, and eat that with a bit of fresh (home made?) bread. (I'm drooling.) Bread (hand made) is very easy too.
Why ? Do you really remember his voice ? Most of players last played it with the Orange Box when it got out, a while ago now. (although hl2dm is still played by a few thousands, but there is no Gordon voice in there) Episode 2 was about 5 year ago. Episode 1 was about 9 years ago.
I do not even remember how Episode 2 ended...
Episodic content... get out short parts of the game faster so gamers don't have to wait so much... right.
Lets' just hope it doesn't go the Duke Nukem way...
Here at least, I've heard about the game in the "News" again and again. (Belgium)
Such or such shop exceptionnaly opened at 22:00 so people could queue and buy the game at 00:00 (here shops are usually closed at 18:30). Such or such "expert" speaking about the influence on the children of such "an incredibely well done game, so realistic and with such an incredible level of freedom...".
Is it so amazing that, with so much coverage, people not knowing anything about games would have an incentive, an urge, to put their hands on that "phenomenon" ?
I only remember that GTA IV was so boring, so repetitive and so identical to the previous ones that I put it aside for some other game. Still, GTA IV was also highly rated and heavily advertised/covered by "journalists".
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The only reason I (still) use W10 is games (more than 300, in Steam only). I have every second of using it. ... ever.
As soon as there are enough high budgets games running on Linux, I'll finally get rid of it for a systemd-free linux (Manjaro-openrc comes to mind).
I've good hopes that SteamOS will lead us outside of the Windows era.
Microsoft was right : Windows 10 is the last Windows version
The way I see it, a big part of the problem here is the Window 10 bloatware.
The fight against the invasion of the minds has not started yesterday.
Ads utter to you in not always subtle ways the same message. To try to fix your miserable existence and be happy you need to spend more, own more, bigger, shinier. It's an aggression, an unrelenting crime against humanity.
A while ago, when I only disliked advertising, there is a nice game I used to play:
If I saw or heard an ad more than a couple of time on a single day (radio/TV), I used to ban the product for a few months/years. I was kind of happy to know that in retaliation to their indelicacy towards myself, they would at least lose the few tens or thousands I may well have given them otherwise.
Later I ended up stopping watching TV altogether (how about that, it was roughly 20 years ago), and started buying tapes, then DVDs then Blu-rays. It was a bit more expensive but so much better than TV, and no ads.
Then with the year more and more of the discs started to display hard-to-skip ads even before the menu, so I stopped buying.
I'm now on a popular (legal, paid, ad-free) streamer for TV and another for music (They shall remain nameless of course).
I guess I'm still vulnerable to product placement, but that's usually subtle enough ... so far.
Today the rule of the game with advertisers is simple : if I notice an ad, I cut the medium.
That's not even funny anymore.
I've got it disabled for a while now, but for a lot of people it's not an option.
Let's get rid of it!
If only I had mod points ...
I think the first time I got angry at systemd was trying to debug what was going wrong on a test system.
I cannot speak for the original poster, but I discarded Ubuntu for the desktop because of Unity.
And now I'll discard it for the servers because of systemd.
If we were 20 years ago, I'd joke about systemd being a pet project of Microsoft to ruin the Linux ecosystem.
If needs to be, I'll go so far as making my distro myself to avoid systemd.
Are you kidding ? It's very easy to remember.
The original meaning of my reply is: it's not an impossible exaggeration. That's why I replied "true" to the comment that said it would take more than 30 seconds.
(Besides, you don't need to know nor read "megabytes" of a program. You just need to look for (all the) the right pattern(s))
True ^_^
To be treasured, for sure.
And now I need to listen to Delta ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You do realize that your #5 should not be in that list ? ...
It's true than less and less developers have a perfect knowledge of various CPU assembly languages, their opcodes encoding and ASCII representations, but (successfully) debugging on hex and/or text dumps was not uncommon on C64, CPC, Amiga,
It still happens on x86 architectures but it's true it's seldom needed nowadays given the profusion of tools.
I personally know a handful of people able to do that on various architectures (yours truly included). All around or above 40 years old and slowly losing that particular skill per lack of usage.
I think what should happen is that we should streamline OUR lives and be rid of Sony.
Sony is on my no-buy list already.
Got a PS4, didn't used it much and it still broke after 14 months (the fan doesn't start anymore).
They ask for 200EUR for the fix. It was so ridiculous I could not help but laugh.
Be it phone, camera, gaming console or computer : never Sony again.
Virtually everybody knew these guys.
Among them, Cabu was particularly well known by French and Belgian people of my generation (1975).
He was, among other things, a caricaturist on a widely watched children/teenagers show that started in 1978, with the kind of lasting impression you can imagine on our young minds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
"Only" is already too much, especially for the victim and his family and friends.
A friend sent me a link to the video. Every second I expected to see the logo of a prankster. When I saw the idiotic lightsaber with a guard ... I was almost laughing.
And then it ends with a release date.
Really ? This piece of crap is supposed to be the next Star Wars movie ?
Ah well ...
I guess I can forget about it and wait for an eventual release of the "original" 4 5 6 in BluRay.
I would not say Ubisoft is worse than EA. ... What became of their games?
EA buy good games companies and destroy their soul.
Origin Systems, Bullfrog, Westwood, Maxis,
Ubisoft made lots of bad decisions but it's hard to top EA's damage.
Or are they still following religiously the Caveat Emptor principle ?
I got all the way up to $100 (and a bit more) before getting good food. By comparison in Japan (2006) I could get healty food for about $7. Where I live I'm used to more or less 35€ so about $47 for a good meal.
And the other thing about T.H. : I did not expect to get very healty food on what I assumed was a "café" but that unhealthy ? I'm not sure where you have to go "here" to get the same kind of bad food. Mc Donald and its likes ?
You are right about the value of the skin of a potato. But this mostly matters if the potato is cooked whole (Steamed, boiled or in the oven). When you cut it to fry it you lose most of the advantage of the skin.
It's not only the lazyness or whatever you call it. It's also about what's available and how accessible it is.
I'm an European. I've made a trip to Canada & the U.S.A. a few week ago. (Mostly around Montreal and New York) ...).
Everything was great and marvelous (the people are very nice, everything is huge and there are many cultural differences and things to see
Except for ... the food. Too much on a plate and burnt, too greasy, too sweet, too salty. It mush wreak havoc with the taste buds.
"French" fries, fried with their skin ? Burnt, brown color like if they had been cooked in the same oil more than a couple of times ? Burned (black) meat but not cooked in the middle. Burned bread. Burned pizza.
Coffee that tastes like watered moka.
Pastries were so greasy I suspected them to be flammable and felt sick for a day after couple of them. (from Tim Horton, and to my surprise the food & service there is relatively better than Starbucks, at least in the few places I sampled it).
High-fructose-corn-syrup in many products (which makes you eat more by tricking your brain)
I had a few good meals too but it looked that to can only expect a good healthy dish from about $100 taxes and tip included (which I find quite expensive).
It's not difficult to make tasty AND healthy food. As long as you get fresh products (not OGM, not these mostly-water tomatos, ...).
Lazy: 150g brown rice, water, 200 vegetables, salt, olive oil. Steam-cook in an inox cooker (never any plastic) for 27 minutes (no need to watch) and voilÃf.
Less lazy: a bit of olive oil in a saucepan with a bit of oignons, cook them a bit (middle power), add peas, carrots, a bit of thym and a pinch of salt, cook and watch a few minutes, and eat that with a bit of fresh (home made?) bread. (I'm drooling.)
Bread (hand made) is very easy too.
If they were smart, they would not need to pay for being told they are (especially given that the tests are mostly rehashes)
And now they know EVERYTHING about you.
Joke aside, how much time did these sessions last, in years ?
Why ? Do you really remember his voice ?
Most of players last played it with the Orange Box when it got out, a while ago now. (although hl2dm is still played by a few thousands, but there is no Gordon voice in there)
Episode 2 was about 5 year ago.
Episode 1 was about 9 years ago.
I do not even remember how Episode 2 ended ...
Episodic content ... get out short parts of the game faster so gamers don't have to wait so much ... right.
Lets' just hope it doesn't go the Duke Nukem way ...
Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks fahrbot-bot
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Here at least, I've heard about the game in the "News" again and again. (Belgium)
Such or such shop exceptionnaly opened at 22:00 so people could queue and buy the game at 00:00 (here shops are usually closed at 18:30). ...".
Such or such "expert" speaking about the influence on the children of such "an incredibely well done game, so realistic and with such an incredible level of freedom
Is it so amazing that, with so much coverage, people not knowing anything about games would have an incentive, an urge, to put their hands on that "phenomenon" ?
I only remember that GTA IV was so boring, so repetitive and so identical to the previous ones that I put it aside for some other game.
Still, GTA IV was also highly rated and heavily advertised/covered by "journalists".
History repeats itself. Deal with it.
Tell that to Jack O'Neill