"typical suburban neighborhood"... "You say your kid is 7 and can't play outside by himself??"
Do you even lock your doors? Do you realize that most cities are not like this, and statistically, most humans live in cities?
I dont think anyone who lives in the country has anything to worry about letting their kids play out side. You do realize you are the exception here dont you? Im not sure how it is in USA but here you need to be 12+ to be left home alone, legally. A kid playing in the parking lot of my condo tower is quite far away from my home indeed.
Do you think people want to live in cities? do you think they want to live in condos??? with a family? You are living a charmed life so dont be hating. hell you get to work from HOME...
The freedom of corporations from contributing to our tax money? The freedom to be forced to pay for more useless prisions? (and the anti freedom laws that come with them) The freedom to go to war with iraq as harper wanted in 2003? The freedom to be held in contempt due to fixing elections? The freedom to put arbritrary spending timelimits on stimulus money to encourage waste through overtime and poor planning? The freedom to pay 5x the amount fighter jets should cost just to have a bigger e peen?
- Symlinks - native HD decoding using direct x 10 or 11 (good for multimedia machines with like pentium ds where they cant render 720p well) - USB and network deployment and image based installers - SSD trim - installs fast - good default driver support - useful 64 bit (many drivers exsist now) - excellent video card crash recovery, perhaps other hardware failures. Had much fewer BSOD with troublesome video cards say..
negatives: - ever increasing windows folder, multiple DLL copy thing - windows differential file compression - areo lag (ok on a media centre or whatever\, but turn off for responsiveness) - install is like 10 gb and grows FAST ( 1 month later on one machine and i am at 15gb - all undeleteable installer cache crap) - some bugs still, such as explorer crashing, problems with folder refresh, not able to handle some old programs - older drivers not necessarily available
So in the end i upgraded from 2k to windows 7. Its OK, and actually runs pretty decent on a pentium D that i have and runs real sweet with an ssd and a quad core cpu.
"Campaign finance laws attack the wrong part of the problem."
Are you arguing FOR corporate donations to political parties?
Are you seriously and i believe naively, objecting to the fact that money = power? Are you saying there should be no rules on campaign donations, that anyone should be able to buy any person or law? and you call this free?
"If you can make a law limiting someone's use of money to promote their views, then you can make a law limiting any kind of speech. "
I think you missed the part where it says free speech for ALL, not just the ones who have the most in a rigged game (which they themselves have rigged). Infact one would argue that you are denying the moneyless from their free speech and freedom of expression. Campaign finance laws are about leveling the playingfield and not making elections purely about money. One would think that everyone knows that OBVIOUSLY money in politics leads to CORRUPTION!!
"Either she loses the race for the GOP or the rest of the world has incontrovertible proof that the US has become a nation that worships morons."
You obviously dont remember the 2000 election then. Many people laughed at bush and said the usa would get what they deserved if they put another chip into the idiot bush dynasty. I personally knew many people that followed american politics and thought "nah they arent stupid enough to elect bush, no one is that stupid!", and yet... Then in 2004, many people said the same thing, that americans wouldnt be stupid enough to RE ELECT bush. Are you starting to see a pattern?
Americanw ARE stupid. They WILL elect sarah palin in 2012. Nothing matters as long as shes positive about the "good" americans, and negative about the "bad" americans. She doesnt even really have to define them. Good americans have american values and BAD americans live in the eastcoast and westcoast cities. Everyone, even non americans know the rhetoric by now. It has been repeatedly proven that these stereotypes exist in america. Just look at how the repubs are now blocking EVERYTHING because they arent getting a tax cut for american who make more than 250k/yr!!!! two hundred and fifty k!!! your country is fucking fucked.
"There are plenty of people still using Windows 98."
I seriously doubt this un cited statistic. Unless you live ina very poor town where people dont even have p4s. I personally havent seen more than a few windows 98 machines in years, and i fix alot of computers. I just dont believe it.
"Okay, I'll make a car analogy. Those of us who learned to drive, learned it once. We don't have to re-learn it every time a new generation of automobiles comes out"
You may need to learn the quirks of your new automobile though. You need to think more basic about what "learnign to use a computer" really means. These people probably do know how to use computers. They know what the concept of a network is, printers, clicking on things, storing and retrieving files, finding a word processor, and a hundred other what i would call BASIC computer skills. You are giving people not enough credit. What people complain about are interface changes which people DO complain about when they buy a new car. In a few weeks they get used to them and move on. Perhaps they phone the dealership if the cars interface is so poorly designed that a few minutes of thinking about ti doesnt do the job.
The point is that you are acting as if windows 7's UI is so alien, that people will not take the few days or weeks to grow accustomed to it? come on! Sure it can be fear of change, but dont pretend that that is a logical or rational fear.
"I have friends that had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into Windows 2000 because "the icons were all different", and I can't face the thought of trying to get them to go to Window XP, much less Windows 7. Just not worth the effort,"
Well i used windows 2k till 2009 when they stopped releasing security fixes for it. The killer feature that finaly made me upgrade was good inbuilt wireless support which 2k lacked. HOpefully you remember that 98 - 2k was a switch that everyone wanted to make, when they simply saw how stable 2k ran. 95 to 98 happened quick iirc, because 95 was a pile of shit till close to when 98 came out (95 OSR2 i think was the stable version, again iirc).
So there are always little reasons. My guess at the problem with windows 7 adoption? not a good enough crack for its crazy key based activation, people scared of horror stories of vista, and not an easy way to switch the whole UI back to XP "mode". You can do it, but there are alot of complicated (for end user) steps, such as restoring the quick launch, disable uac, disable areo, differential file compression, etc... So i am sure adoption will generally follow the new computer update cycle. I think that is the most reliable barometer that we can use, if you want to be broad about predicting these kinds of things.
Wow get off yer high horse... Kids bring home germs. If you had a kid or really, spent any time with kids, you would know that they are filthy and stick everything everywhere.
"I think the term you EVE toughguys are looking for is "casual player" not "pussy"."
Let me translate what hes saying for you:
Casual Player = Wife and kid, plays a few hours a week. Very capable of being hardcore.
Pussy = Someone who gives up at eve.
Eve is hardcore. You will have an adreneline rush the first time you need to fight for your life. You will feel the fight or flight response and you will get a kick from it. The kick is why people play eve. Real pvp, real consequences. fo reals. You dont have to be a tough guy to get in a fight, or avoid one.
"You could have some fool moving over a million dollars worth of in game plex and have them get blown up - and theres only chance that any of the loot is recoverable - meaning 1 Million dollars worth of money ends up in CCP's pockets without anyone gaining anything out of it"
If there is a possibility that the pirate can get that 1 million as well, then I am reconfirmed in my thinking that eve online is the most hard core mmo available right now. This is nothing but publicity for how hardcore eve is. Again.
I think you are just speaking about consoles my friend and it shows.
A) Most random people on the internet.. Xbox live... complete assholes.... playing online against random people a pain.
a) most people that own consoles are maladjusted? well obviously or they would be gaming on a pc! a real gaming platform has a mute player or squelch/ignore whatever. thats what makes it a proper online gaming system. So this point is based solely on your flawed experience of what online "gaming" is.
B) The difficulty. It takes a lot longer to learn how to efficiently play an online game than it is to learn to play a single player game. Even worse is if you are in a team-style game and have to endure abuse... And difficulty can't be accurately chosen unlike a single player game,...
b) The difficulty? the DIFFICULTY? what do you think the ENTIRE point of playing with other real thinking human minds is? Sure there is nothing wrong with playing single player, but dont hate multi player because its DIFFICULT! i think you are missing the point. Abuse? oh well welcome to the internet! Better start to grow some tolerance... for reals G.
C) Cheating/Lag, few things are more frustrating than trying to snipe on a laggy connection.
c) lag? what game has lag? games hosted on consoles. Unless you mean your lag, and well then what can i say? get off the wireless?
"D) Badly managed servers. For example, on Team Fortress 2, you will have people who decide to make everyone be engineers, then suddenly allow for one spy, then make everyone be engineers once someone on their team is the spy."
d) Im no TF2 player, but one of the freedoms of running your own server is that I get to run shit the way mama likes. Dont like that? well then LEAVE THE SERVER. it sounds much like you are complaining about something like zombie mod for counter strike. Yes, it forces you to play as a zombie, but um, thats the fucking point of the server!
Ive never heard so many ridiculous attacks on multiplayer online gaming in my life. First step for you, get a mouse and keyboard and join the rest of the civilized world.
I agree. A thermaltake armor can take theoretically 11x 2tb drives....
and with the fans its easy to keep cool. it costs 150 or so, but it solved all my problems. i was looking into port multipliers in 2007 or so and it was far cheaper to just buy a high quality case. It is the best case i have ever owned and i fully expect to have it for 10 years or until they kill atx.
Personally i have about 9 hard drives in it currently and its nice and cool.
Well it is limited to your country, and also your home. License simply means to give someone rights, and they are giving you at least two rights, on condition, on the back of (probably) every dvd. *(disclaimer, i do not buy dvds so cant say for sure)
For reference, take a look at the back of one of these fine dvds right here: Examples
Well not to discredit you, but a "high profile" family member can hardly be expected to speak on behalf of the average working person. Of which the country is mostly made up of...
well maybe a bit to discredit you, AC...
Banning shit that doesnt hurt anyone is of course tyranny. BUT I am sure they have their reasons, as the USA also does when talking about weed and other drugs. They all have their reasons...
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Do you even lock your doors? Do you realize that most cities are not like this, and statistically, most humans live in cities?
I dont think anyone who lives in the country has anything to worry about letting their kids play out side. You do realize you are the exception here dont you? Im not sure how it is in USA but here you need to be 12+ to be left home alone, legally. A kid playing in the parking lot of my condo tower is quite far away from my home indeed.
Do you think people want to live in cities? do you think they want to live in condos??? with a family? You are living a charmed life so dont be hating. hell you get to work from HOME...
The freedom of corporations from contributing to our tax money?
The freedom to be forced to pay for more useless prisions? (and the anti freedom laws that come with them)
The freedom to go to war with iraq as harper wanted in 2003?
The freedom to be held in contempt due to fixing elections?
The freedom to put arbritrary spending timelimits on stimulus money to encourage waste through overtime and poor planning?
The freedom to pay 5x the amount fighter jets should cost just to have a bigger e peen?
Oh and also these things (only up till 2009):
http://www.canadaka.net/forums/canadian-politics-f17/thread-for-compilation-of-conservative-scandals-and-misdeeds-t63234-630.html
But yeah I guess they are doing a heckuva job! amiright?
i bet in the future ipv4 domainnames will seem quaint and easily memorizable compared to ipv6 numbers.
It very well could be a status symbol to have an ipv4 domain name in not too many years...
- Symlinks
- native HD decoding using direct x 10 or 11 (good for multimedia machines with like pentium ds where they cant render 720p well)
- USB and network deployment and image based installers
- SSD trim
- installs fast
- good default driver support
- useful 64 bit (many drivers exsist now)
- excellent video card crash recovery, perhaps other hardware failures. Had much fewer BSOD with troublesome video cards say..
negatives:
- ever increasing windows folder, multiple DLL copy thing
- windows differential file compression
- areo lag (ok on a media centre or whatever\, but turn off for responsiveness)
- install is like 10 gb and grows FAST ( 1 month later on one machine and i am at 15gb - all undeleteable installer cache crap)
- some bugs still, such as explorer crashing, problems with folder refresh, not able to handle some old programs
- older drivers not necessarily available
So in the end i upgraded from 2k to windows 7. Its OK, and actually runs pretty decent on a pentium D that i have and runs real sweet with an ssd and a quad core cpu.
Are you arguing FOR corporate donations to political parties?
Are you seriously and i believe naively, objecting to the fact that money = power?
Are you saying there should be no rules on campaign donations, that anyone should be able to buy any person or law?
and you call this free?
I think you missed the part where it says free speech for ALL, not just the ones who have the most in a rigged game (which they themselves have rigged). Infact one would argue that you are denying the moneyless from their free speech and freedom of expression. Campaign finance laws are about leveling the playingfield and not making elections purely about money. One would think that everyone knows that OBVIOUSLY money in politics leads to CORRUPTION!!
You obviously dont remember the 2000 election then. Many people laughed at bush and said the usa would get what they deserved if they put another chip into the idiot bush dynasty. I personally knew many people that followed american politics and thought "nah they arent stupid enough to elect bush, no one is that stupid!", and yet... Then in 2004, many people said the same thing, that americans wouldnt be stupid enough to RE ELECT bush. Are you starting to see a pattern?
Americanw ARE stupid. They WILL elect sarah palin in 2012. Nothing matters as long as shes positive about the "good" americans, and negative about the "bad" americans. She doesnt even really have to define them. Good americans have american values and BAD americans live in the eastcoast and westcoast cities. Everyone, even non americans know the rhetoric by now. It has been repeatedly proven that these stereotypes exist in america. Just look at how the repubs are now blocking EVERYTHING because they arent getting a tax cut for american who make more than 250k/yr!!!! two hundred and fifty k!!! your country is fucking fucked.
well you can still sell it so not all would be lost. Infact that would be the thing to do!
what when you hack your iphone? OH MY SLIPPERY SLOPE
Like vernor vinge's localizers perhaps?
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1137
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1138
I seriously doubt this un cited statistic. Unless you live ina very poor town where people dont even have p4s. I personally havent seen more than a few windows 98 machines in years, and i fix alot of computers. I just dont believe it.
You may need to learn the quirks of your new automobile though. You need to think more basic about what "learnign to use a computer" really means. These people probably do know how to use computers. They know what the concept of a network is, printers, clicking on things, storing and retrieving files, finding a word processor, and a hundred other what i would call BASIC computer skills. You are giving people not enough credit. What people complain about are interface changes which people DO complain about when they buy a new car. In a few weeks they get used to them and move on. Perhaps they phone the dealership if the cars interface is so poorly designed that a few minutes of thinking about ti doesnt do the job.
The point is that you are acting as if windows 7's UI is so alien, that people will not take the few days or weeks to grow accustomed to it? come on!
Sure it can be fear of change, but dont pretend that that is a logical or rational fear.
Well i used windows 2k till 2009 when they stopped releasing security fixes for it. The killer feature that finaly made me upgrade was good inbuilt wireless support which 2k lacked. HOpefully you remember that 98 - 2k was a switch that everyone wanted to make, when they simply saw how stable 2k ran. 95 to 98 happened quick iirc, because 95 was a pile of shit till close to when 98 came out (95 OSR2 i think was the stable version, again iirc).
So there are always little reasons. My guess at the problem with windows 7 adoption? not a good enough crack for its crazy key based activation, people scared of horror stories of vista, and not an easy way to switch the whole UI back to XP "mode". You can do it, but there are alot of complicated (for end user) steps, such as restoring the quick launch, disable uac, disable areo, differential file compression, etc...
So i am sure adoption will generally follow the new computer update cycle. I think that is the most reliable barometer that we can use, if you want to be broad about predicting these kinds of things.
to the sky
Wow get off yer high horse... Kids bring home germs. If you had a kid or really, spent any time with kids, you would know that they are filthy and stick everything everywhere.
Let me translate what hes saying for you:
Casual Player = Wife and kid, plays a few hours a week. Very capable of being hardcore.
Pussy = Someone who gives up at eve.
Eve is hardcore. You will have an adreneline rush the first time you need to fight for your life. You will feel the fight or flight response and you will get a kick from it. The kick is why people play eve. Real pvp, real consequences. fo reals. You dont have to be a tough guy to get in a fight, or avoid one.
Picture fight club, in space....
and mining.
If there is a possibility that the pirate can get that 1 million as well, then I am reconfirmed in my thinking that eve online is the most hard core mmo available right now. This is nothing but publicity for how hardcore eve is. Again.
I think you are just speaking about consoles my friend and it shows.
a) most people that own consoles are maladjusted? well obviously or they would be gaming on a pc! a real gaming platform has a mute player or squelch /ignore whatever. thats what makes it a proper online gaming system. So this point is based solely on your flawed experience of what online "gaming" is.
b) The difficulty? the DIFFICULTY? what do you think the ENTIRE point of playing with other real thinking human minds is? Sure there is nothing wrong with playing single player, but dont hate multi player because its DIFFICULT! i think you are missing the point. Abuse? oh well welcome to the internet! Better start to grow some tolerance... for reals G.
c) lag? what game has lag? games hosted on consoles. Unless you mean your lag, and well then what can i say? get off the wireless?
d) Im no TF2 player, but one of the freedoms of running your own server is that I get to run shit the way mama likes. Dont like that? well then LEAVE THE SERVER. it sounds much like you are complaining about something like zombie mod for counter strike. Yes, it forces you to play as a zombie, but um, thats the fucking point of the server!
Ive never heard so many ridiculous attacks on multiplayer online gaming in my life. First step for you, get a mouse and keyboard and join the rest of the civilized world.
Not if you fly southwest, read the contract you now need to agree to.
Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?
it's that lumberjack rata-tat cuttin through the woods
please!
I agree. A thermaltake armor can take theoretically 11x 2tb drives....
and with the fans its easy to keep cool. it costs 150 or so, but it solved all my problems. i was looking into port multipliers in 2007 or so and it was far cheaper to just buy a high quality case. It is the best case i have ever owned and i fully expect to have it for 10 years or until they kill atx.
Personally i have about 9 hard drives in it currently and its nice and cool.
Well it is limited to your country, and also your home. License simply means to give someone rights, and they are giving you at least two rights, on condition, on the back of (probably) every dvd.
*(disclaimer, i do not buy dvds so cant say for sure)
For reference, take a look at the back of one of these fine dvds right here: Examples
Well not to discredit you, but a "high profile" family member can hardly be expected to speak on behalf of the average working person. Of which the country is mostly made up of...
well maybe a bit to discredit you, AC...
Banning shit that doesnt hurt anyone is of course tyranny. BUT I am sure they have their reasons, as the USA also does when talking about weed and other drugs.
They all have their reasons...
well played sir.
Death to teh apple tree! Stunted to retardation in its gilded cage.
its a blaspheme!
Good thing pfsense supports fallover to redundant machines and installs nicely of a CF card.
of course the better machine you put it on the better the performance. And anyone can fix a pc, not everyone can fix a $10000 cisco router!