Quit your whining. It is a game. People don't get all excited when a girl in a movie is married off, or forced to undergo female circumsicion (topics I have seen in several movies recently). This game sounds to be slightly RPGish. The GM was playing the role of the character. Sounds like he had some good wares to sell, and some girl players were bitter they couldn't get them.
Hey I applied for a job once, and I was told this at my second interview. "Your refereces are great, and we'd really like to hire you, we really need someone with expierence. Unfortunatly we do not have an opening for any men at this time."
Hey that wasn't a game, that was real life. I walked out and took my skills elsewhere.
The lesson? You are playing on this guys game. If you do not like how he runs the game, stop playing it. How hard is that?
Stripped, Mirrored. If you can play in Solaris land, disk suite makes things way easy to manage, and way easy to recover from. Haveing hotspares is VERY handy. So is the ability to remove a disk from the array on the fly, fsck/format/wahtever it, and add it back on the fly, and have it auto synced to where it should be.
Those sorts of things I think are a wee bit more handy than jsut knowing 'what raid level to use'.
I don't think linux is/should be 'ready for the desktop'. As has been said, if your mom wants to 'surf the intarweb' then get her OS X or Windows. If your mom wants to code, get her linux. I do not see why so many people are bent on linux on the desktop. It was not designed for desktop use. I already find the amount of userfriendlyness appaling. Urpmi, apt-get, emerge. Hogwash, all of it. If you don't care to configure it, if you don't care to understand it's dependancies (as many do not) then you don't care to use linux. Nuff said.
Nothing can be too user friendly, most people don't even realise that an electronic device needs to be plugged in to operate. I work tech support and believe me that is not an exaggeration. I agree that people should try to figure something else out before saying it was made to confusing, or blaming the tech people. I can't speak for else where but I know that in america most of our citizens are of the "quick fix generation" basicly meaning if they don't get it in 10 seconds the intrest is lost, blame is displaced to hide thier own ignorance from them selves and the unstable perfection which is america continues on uninterrupted. Except for Grandpa who can't get the damn thing to work and will now miss Matlock at 7 in the evening. There is only so much one can do to make something "user friendly". I have written several custom apps for people. A fair amount of non-tech people see it as self explanitory, as where almost just as many see it as "technical" and beyond thier understanding (which it isn't if they would just take a second to look at it and understand what it is they are trying to do.) Most people are smart enough to handle most tech stuff, they just don't bother trying. If it doesn't work automaticly forget it.
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Quit your whining. It is a game. People don't get all excited when a girl in a movie is married off, or forced to undergo female circumsicion (topics I have seen in several movies recently). This game sounds to be slightly RPGish. The GM was playing the role of the character. Sounds like he had some good wares to sell, and some girl players were bitter they couldn't get them.
Hey I applied for a job once, and I was told this at my second interview.
"Your refereces are great, and we'd really like to hire you, we really need someone with expierence. Unfortunatly we do not have an opening for any men at this time."
Hey that wasn't a game, that was real life. I walked out and took my skills elsewhere.
The lesson?
You are playing on this guys game. If you do not like how he runs the game, stop playing it.
How hard is that?
Stripped, Mirrored. If you can play in Solaris land, disk suite makes things way easy to manage, and way easy to recover from. Haveing hotspares is VERY handy. So is the ability to remove a disk from the array on the fly, fsck/format/wahtever it, and add it back on the fly, and have it auto synced to where it should be.
Those sorts of things I think are a wee bit more handy than jsut knowing 'what raid level to use'.
I don't think linux is/should be 'ready for the desktop'. As has been said, if your mom wants to 'surf the intarweb' then get her OS X or Windows. If your mom wants to code, get her linux. I do not see why so many people are bent on linux on the desktop. It was not designed for desktop use. I already find the amount of userfriendlyness appaling. Urpmi, apt-get, emerge. Hogwash, all of it. If you don't care to configure it, if you don't care to understand it's dependancies (as many do not) then you don't care to use linux. Nuff said.
Nothing can be too user friendly, most people don't even realise that an electronic device needs to be plugged in to operate. I work tech support and believe me that is not an exaggeration. I agree that people should try to figure something else out before saying it was made to confusing, or blaming the tech people. I can't speak for else where but I know that in america most of our citizens are of the "quick fix generation" basicly meaning if they don't get it in 10 seconds the intrest is lost, blame is displaced to hide thier own ignorance from them selves and the unstable perfection which is america continues on uninterrupted. Except for Grandpa who can't get the damn thing to work and will now miss Matlock at 7 in the evening. There is only so much one can do to make something "user friendly". I have written several custom apps for people. A fair amount of non-tech people see it as self explanitory, as where almost just as many see it as "technical" and beyond thier understanding (which it isn't if they would just take a second to look at it and understand what it is they are trying to do.) Most people are smart enough to handle most tech stuff, they just don't bother trying. If it doesn't work automaticly forget it.
There I've ranted.- Korth