Raising a group of children to think that as long as they have enough money they can do whatever they please... Sounds like humanity to me. What's the issue here? Is it that we're teaching them this lesson too soon instead of letting them figure it out for themselves the first time they have to buy their way out of trouble as an adult? I guess that's a big turning point in the life of any financially successful "bad" person, and we shouldn't take that sense of discovery away from them.
The people who rate things in the WINE AppDB have no standards. It seems to me that if you can get an application to launch that gets it Gold status, if you can get it to do anything after it launches, that's Platinum. Pardon me for being picky, but if it doesn't run just as well as it does under Windows, that's not a great accomplishment, and certainly not deserving of the highest rating available.
Some Steam Game Works perfectly, but only if you disable the Steam Overlay: Platinum. What Works: Installing (with a laundry list of tricks and hacks, see notes). What Does Not: Moving your character, interacting with the game world or game interface, chat.
Yes, great. Platinum indeed. Just check the Top 10 Platinum list and really look at how broken the best running things are.
If I ever completely give up on gaming, or if developers pull their heads out of their ass, I'll be rid of Windows.
Development, file management, general usability, I'd take GNU/Linux any day. But I still want to play StarCraft II, Diablo III, Borderlands, etc. and it's just not happening under WINE.
i mean most computers are bought at retail with real licenses. how many people really pirate windows compared to microsoft's cost to implement this?
I imagine most enthusiasts/gamers don't purchase PCs - they build them. I know I have no real interest in adding another $100+ to my build costs with no hardware improvements.
I've been forever waiting to see what would happen to the software world if game developers released official versions of their games for GNU/Linux (instead of, or in addition to, Windows).
This happens all the time in film, but I've never seen it happen in real life. I know a few people who use passwords that have some sort of personally important bit of information nested in it, but having known the passwords of various friends and family members throughout my life the creation methods have never been related to what's around their desks.
I can't speak for the parent, but I live in Myrtle Beach (not exactly a ghost town) and it's unbelievably hard to find metal albums here. Same thing in the upstate of South Carolina. Stores stock what the majority of their customers demand - pop, rap, classic rock, country, top 40 type stuff. If they can't move Pantera albums what do you think the chances of them stocking the shelves with some of the more obscure European power metal bands are?
Anyone who has different tastes from the majority of the other patrons is going to have a hard time finding music. Yes, there are probably roads near him, but if he has to drive to a different city (likely not very nearby) to purchase an album I can't say I'm in the least bit surprised he wouldn't be willing to.
I frequently find myself working for the IT department wherever I am, but not high enough up the food chain to know anything about policies or what is "officially" supported - not caring may also be a factor. I man a help desk, people approach me with a question/problem, I answer/fix it and then send them away. I, personally, support Windows, Linux, Mac stuff, and the occasional smart phone. Only one of us worked that desk at a time, so I have no idea what the others did.
Does your university/college provide support for Linux/BSD/etc users to connect to the on-campus wireless? At my old university you were fine as long as you could handle WPA2 Enterprise. At my new university, Windows users are required to use the Cisco Clean Access Agent and everyone else just gets to connect (for both wired and wireless).
How does IT support Linux users generally? At my old university the best route to Linux support was to go bug the guys in the Clemson Linux Users Group. At my new university they seem pretty clueless, but there are a lot of people I haven't met yet.
Have IT staff ever ridiculed you for asking questions about Linux? I've never had a reason to ask the IT staff for help with anything, but it seems more practical to ridicule the Windows users who can't find where they saved an e-mail attachment than the Linux users who are having trouble with what always seems to be a more technical issue.
Because making a goat.ce.cx popup spammer is just blatant cyber assult in my opinion for the average population.
I think it would be more reasonable to make unsolicited pop-ups illegal than offensive images. Pop-ups with offensive images would then be handled, as would many scams and sources of malware. This is clearly the better solution.
Coming out of high school I was a computer geek with all the street cred but knowledge of programming. I thought computer science would be interesting. I took it. I passed it. I changed majors to it (from chemistry). I don't know about everywhere, but they did a good job of teaching us things in the first few semesters of computer science at Clemson. A lot of the 400 level courses were more along the lines of, "Here's an assignment. Figure it out." I'm pretty sure that's what documentation is for, though.
The elderly can't even handle most CD players, I really don't think design has anything to do with it. They're unwilling to attempt to use things, so they just ask for help.
My grandmother had no music in her car for over a month because she put a CD in upside down and never bothered to press the eject button. It didn't work, so she assumed it was broken and didn't think it was worth getting fixed.
My fiancee's grandmother constantly asks how to make her standalone CD player... play. Never, has she put a CD in and pressed the double-sized button in the center that says "Play" under a big single forward arrow. However, she can work a cassette player that has identical buttons (with slightly different text on FF/RW instead of Skip and the like).
In the case of "adding an alarm" and how terribly confusing that must be: if there's only one button, press it. Also, isn't this exactly the market Samsung makes the Jitterbug for?
It's crazy how many of us Americans experienced things that happened in America. You're right, we should really open our eyes and experience things that happened on the other sides of the oceans which separate us from most of the rest of the world.
I feel like the odd man out here. Maybe the rest of you are lucky enough that all your friends are reasonably tech-savvy, but I find that we're rather the rare breed in the southern part of the United States. In the '90s AOL was one of the largest service providers in the US. If you were on AOL, you had a screen name. Nearly all my classmates and a large portion of my relatives had AOL (and so did my household). I added my friends and family to my buddy list so I could chat with them. The small handful of people in my age group that didn't have AOL downloaded the AIM client so they could still chat with the rest of us. It really didn't seem practical to ask all my friends to find an IRC client, learn how to use it, decide on a server where we would chat and hope that they could get their nick registered there when I could instead ask simply, "What's your screen name?" and be able to chat with them whenever they were online.
So far as presence goes, they're talking about away messages. When you put an away message up on IRC, it doesn't broadcast it to the entire channel (thankfully), people have to go slightly out of their way to retrieve it. With AIM, you might send someone an IM while they were away and were answered with a little blurb that would (sometimes) let you know what they were up to. As we gained the ability to set not just away messages, but status messages, people typically kept them more relevant to what they were doing. Mousing over a friend's name to see what they're doing is certainly more straightforward for the typical PC user than anything on IRC.
What's killing me is that my friends are now scattered all over the place. I used to be able to talk to almost everyone I knew on AIM. Now, a lot of them don't run a chat client anymore and I only see them (online) when they log into Facebook. Those that do run a chat client have largely moved to Skype because web-cams are just the coolest. I'm by no means an AOL/AIM fanboy, but those of you protesting so vehemently were apparently just not in the right place (the US) at the right time (the '90s) to know just how ubiquitous it really was in the general populous.
I think another key issue is that StarCraft is one of the more frustrating games to lose for some people. When I play a game of Ultimate and my team loses, I can usually understand what mistakes we made, what plays we let go that we should have stopped and where we were outplayed. It's still disappointing to lose, but it's readily understood when it happens.
SC2, in particular, has a lot of information asymmetry between the individual players, not just the spectators and players. When I lose a match in SC2 I feel dumb. I still know there's something I should have scouted, a change I should have made in my build order, somewhere I could have had some better micro, or even when I fell behind on my macro, etc, but I don't really know what, at the moment of my defeat, I should have done differently. So I go back, and I watch, and I see all my mistakes, and I see my opponent's mistakes, and I think, "Why didn't I push then? Why did I leave this point undefended for so long? Why did I make unit x instead of unit y?"
One figures out why one lost, but one has to go through the process of watching it all over again, and watching all one's chances to win just stroll on by.
Having just spent a dismal semester at a technical college, I have to disagree with you about schools educating rather than training. Really, there's just a distinction to be made: Good schools educate students, bad schools train them - and there's an upsetting number of bad schools.
I'm sorry your memory sucks and all, but having a really unique or unusual word to add to a search is amazing. If you search for the name of your distro, an application name, and a version number you'll get decent results. If you search for your distro, an application title, and a unique identifier that tons of people have thankfully adopted and put in their articles and posts, you get much improved search results. You need to learn/remember one new adjective every six months, and it will always start with the next letter in the English alphabet relative to the last one.
Maybe I'm the odd man out here, but my roommate and I were averaging 2 TBs/month for roughly a year. Between gaming, video streaming, BitTorrent, and file transfer and software development on the computer science departmental machines at our university this didn't seem like a big deal. After doing the math, though, I am much happier with our service than I was before. Turns out we were, in fact, getting roughly 6 Mbps all the time.
A lot of good points have been made, but nobody seems to have said much about the picture itself.
Yes, the cat is visible in the shot, but where is the camera actually focused? The cat is at the top of a picture of a building. Chances are the photographer didn't even notice it. I understand that there's a lot more to this and it raises other issues, etc. What's bothering me is that so many people are saying that Google is taking pictures of people like they're targets or subjects when they're actually just taking pictures of areas and people happen to inhabit them.
My school requires nearly all majors to have a laptop. We still have labs with desktops, but most of the students get by just fine with their laptops. As for expensive software, there are tons of student licensed apps that you get for free until you graduate or get to keep forever with a very small fee, etc. etc.
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Raising a group of children to think that as long as they have enough money they can do whatever they please... Sounds like humanity to me. What's the issue here? Is it that we're teaching them this lesson too soon instead of letting them figure it out for themselves the first time they have to buy their way out of trouble as an adult? I guess that's a big turning point in the life of any financially successful "bad" person, and we shouldn't take that sense of discovery away from them.
The people who rate things in the WINE AppDB have no standards. It seems to me that if you can get an application to launch that gets it Gold status, if you can get it to do anything after it launches, that's Platinum. Pardon me for being picky, but if it doesn't run just as well as it does under Windows, that's not a great accomplishment, and certainly not deserving of the highest rating available.
Some Steam Game
Works perfectly, but only if you disable the Steam Overlay: Platinum.
What Works: Installing (with a laundry list of tricks and hacks, see notes).
What Does Not: Moving your character, interacting with the game world or game interface, chat.
Yes, great. Platinum indeed. Just check the Top 10 Platinum list and really look at how broken the best running things are.
If I ever completely give up on gaming, or if developers pull their heads out of their ass, I'll be rid of Windows.
Development, file management, general usability, I'd take GNU/Linux any day. But I still want to play StarCraft II, Diablo III, Borderlands, etc. and it's just not happening under WINE.
i mean most computers are bought at retail with real licenses. how many people really pirate windows compared to microsoft's cost to implement this?
I imagine most enthusiasts/gamers don't purchase PCs - they build them. I know I have no real interest in adding another $100+ to my build costs with no hardware improvements.
I've been forever waiting to see what would happen to the software world if game developers released official versions of their games for GNU/Linux (instead of, or in addition to, Windows).
This happens all the time in film, but I've never seen it happen in real life. I know a few people who use passwords that have some sort of personally important bit of information nested in it, but having known the passwords of various friends and family members throughout my life the creation methods have never been related to what's around their desks.
How is this different from current meat substitutes?
I can't speak for the parent, but I live in Myrtle Beach (not exactly a ghost town) and it's unbelievably hard to find metal albums here. Same thing in the upstate of South Carolina. Stores stock what the majority of their customers demand - pop, rap, classic rock, country, top 40 type stuff. If they can't move Pantera albums what do you think the chances of them stocking the shelves with some of the more obscure European power metal bands are?
Anyone who has different tastes from the majority of the other patrons is going to have a hard time finding music. Yes, there are probably roads near him, but if he has to drive to a different city (likely not very nearby) to purchase an album I can't say I'm in the least bit surprised he wouldn't be willing to.
I don't like having to explain to people that they didn't understand their own post, but...
Ah, you'll figure it out.
...the grammatical and spelling errors could cause a total systems meltdown, let alone the logical fallacies.
FTFY.
I frequently find myself working for the IT department wherever I am, but not high enough up the food chain to know anything about policies or what is "officially" supported - not caring may also be a factor. I man a help desk, people approach me with a question/problem, I answer/fix it and then send them away. I, personally, support Windows, Linux, Mac stuff, and the occasional smart phone. Only one of us worked that desk at a time, so I have no idea what the others did.
Does your university/college provide support for Linux/BSD/etc users to connect to the on-campus wireless?
At my old university you were fine as long as you could handle WPA2 Enterprise. At my new university, Windows users are required to use the Cisco Clean Access Agent and everyone else just gets to connect (for both wired and wireless).
How does IT support Linux users generally?
At my old university the best route to Linux support was to go bug the guys in the Clemson Linux Users Group. At my new university they seem pretty clueless, but there are a lot of people I haven't met yet.
Have IT staff ever ridiculed you for asking questions about Linux?
I've never had a reason to ask the IT staff for help with anything, but it seems more practical to ridicule the Windows users who can't find where they saved an e-mail attachment than the Linux users who are having trouble with what always seems to be a more technical issue.
Because making a goat.ce.cx popup spammer is just blatant cyber assult in my opinion for the average population.
I think it would be more reasonable to make unsolicited pop-ups illegal than offensive images. Pop-ups with offensive images would then be handled, as would many scams and sources of malware. This is clearly the better solution.
I don't think it would ruin the story for the developer to just bump the age by one year.
Coming out of high school I was a computer geek with all the street cred but knowledge of programming. I thought computer science would be interesting. I took it. I passed it. I changed majors to it (from chemistry). I don't know about everywhere, but they did a good job of teaching us things in the first few semesters of computer science at Clemson. A lot of the 400 level courses were more along the lines of, "Here's an assignment. Figure it out." I'm pretty sure that's what documentation is for, though.
The elderly can't even handle most CD players, I really don't think design has anything to do with it. They're unwilling to attempt to use things, so they just ask for help.
My grandmother had no music in her car for over a month because she put a CD in upside down and never bothered to press the eject button. It didn't work, so she assumed it was broken and didn't think it was worth getting fixed.
My fiancee's grandmother constantly asks how to make her standalone CD player... play. Never, has she put a CD in and pressed the double-sized button in the center that says "Play" under a big single forward arrow. However, she can work a cassette player that has identical buttons (with slightly different text on FF/RW instead of Skip and the like).
In the case of "adding an alarm" and how terribly confusing that must be: if there's only one button, press it. Also, isn't this exactly the market Samsung makes the Jitterbug for?
I can't speak for everyone, but the big ad at the bottom of my Skype contact list really makes me not want to run it.
It's crazy how many of us Americans experienced things that happened in America. You're right, we should really open our eyes and experience things that happened on the other sides of the oceans which separate us from most of the rest of the world.
I feel like the odd man out here. Maybe the rest of you are lucky enough that all your friends are reasonably tech-savvy, but I find that we're rather the rare breed in the southern part of the United States. In the '90s AOL was one of the largest service providers in the US. If you were on AOL, you had a screen name. Nearly all my classmates and a large portion of my relatives had AOL (and so did my household). I added my friends and family to my buddy list so I could chat with them. The small handful of people in my age group that didn't have AOL downloaded the AIM client so they could still chat with the rest of us. It really didn't seem practical to ask all my friends to find an IRC client, learn how to use it, decide on a server where we would chat and hope that they could get their nick registered there when I could instead ask simply, "What's your screen name?" and be able to chat with them whenever they were online.
So far as presence goes, they're talking about away messages. When you put an away message up on IRC, it doesn't broadcast it to the entire channel (thankfully), people have to go slightly out of their way to retrieve it. With AIM, you might send someone an IM while they were away and were answered with a little blurb that would (sometimes) let you know what they were up to. As we gained the ability to set not just away messages, but status messages, people typically kept them more relevant to what they were doing. Mousing over a friend's name to see what they're doing is certainly more straightforward for the typical PC user than anything on IRC.
What's killing me is that my friends are now scattered all over the place. I used to be able to talk to almost everyone I knew on AIM. Now, a lot of them don't run a chat client anymore and I only see them (online) when they log into Facebook. Those that do run a chat client have largely moved to Skype because web-cams are just the coolest. I'm by no means an AOL/AIM fanboy, but those of you protesting so vehemently were apparently just not in the right place (the US) at the right time (the '90s) to know just how ubiquitous it really was in the general populous.
I think another key issue is that StarCraft is one of the more frustrating games to lose for some people. When I play a game of Ultimate and my team loses, I can usually understand what mistakes we made, what plays we let go that we should have stopped and where we were outplayed. It's still disappointing to lose, but it's readily understood when it happens.
SC2, in particular, has a lot of information asymmetry between the individual players, not just the spectators and players. When I lose a match in SC2 I feel dumb. I still know there's something I should have scouted, a change I should have made in my build order, somewhere I could have had some better micro, or even when I fell behind on my macro, etc, but I don't really know what, at the moment of my defeat, I should have done differently. So I go back, and I watch, and I see all my mistakes, and I see my opponent's mistakes, and I think, "Why didn't I push then? Why did I leave this point undefended for so long? Why did I make unit x instead of unit y?"
One figures out why one lost, but one has to go through the process of watching it all over again, and watching all one's chances to win just stroll on by.
What would they do with all those iPads?
Blinded and forced to watch?
And how many times do you think their family can be killed?
I'm all for elaborate torture scenarios, but you're just being impractical.
...Schools don't train , they educate...
Having just spent a dismal semester at a technical college, I have to disagree with you about schools educating rather than training. Really, there's just a distinction to be made: Good schools educate students, bad schools train them - and there's an upsetting number of bad schools.
I'm sorry your memory sucks and all, but having a really unique or unusual word to add to a search is amazing. If you search for the name of your distro, an application name, and a version number you'll get decent results. If you search for your distro, an application title, and a unique identifier that tons of people have thankfully adopted and put in their articles and posts, you get much improved search results. You need to learn/remember one new adjective every six months, and it will always start with the next letter in the English alphabet relative to the last one.
You'll just be opening yourself up to a lawsuit from Motorola.
With razor edges he may just be opening himself up...
Maybe I'm the odd man out here, but my roommate and I were averaging 2 TBs/month for roughly a year. Between gaming, video streaming, BitTorrent, and file transfer and software development on the computer science departmental machines at our university this didn't seem like a big deal. After doing the math, though, I am much happier with our service than I was before. Turns out we were, in fact, getting roughly 6 Mbps all the time.
A lot of good points have been made, but nobody seems to have said much about the picture itself.
Yes, the cat is visible in the shot, but where is the camera actually focused? The cat is at the top of a picture of a building. Chances are the photographer didn't even notice it. I understand that there's a lot more to this and it raises other issues, etc. What's bothering me is that so many people are saying that Google is taking pictures of people like they're targets or subjects when they're actually just taking pictures of areas and people happen to inhabit them.
My school requires nearly all majors to have a laptop. We still have labs with desktops, but most of the students get by just fine with their laptops. As for expensive software, there are tons of student licensed apps that you get for free until you graduate or get to keep forever with a very small fee, etc. etc.