Just kidding of course, if you searched everything I've ever posted and didn't find an overwhelming number of typos I'd be stunned.
And your right. My users can't find things they just had open and (since I work in a completely Windows 2000/Office 2000 type of shop) think that the way you find a file is first open Word (?) and then browse for it that way....regardless of what kind of file you are looking for. Then they get upset when Word won't open that AutoCAD drawing and call me. Knuckleheads the lot of them.
You're quite incorrect. Your opinion of the final product (or my opinion for that matter) doesn't mean anything. TRYING to do something good is hard. If they didn't succeed then fine. They attempted something ambitious and appear to have please a fair number of people with the outcome.
I haven't seen it yet so I can't say a thing about the quality of their attempt but obviously from the part of the teaser I was able to download they put some hard work in it.
You may have learned to be more discerning in your viewing habits in the past 30 years but you've learned very little about people or what matters to them
See, I think there's an answer to this entire question stuck in that DS9 episode right in plain sight.
You got old (real old) Klingons like your thousand year old Keh-Less (sp? who knows?) and then your hundred year before TOS Klingon from the Enterprise series and they're bumpy looking. Then right in the middle of it you got the TOS Klingons with their smooth foreheads and human looking hair with very perfect teeth to match. The answer is obvious.
The Klingons obviously went through a "fad" of sorts where they indulged in things like plastic surgery, hair implants of some sort, and dental work. Maybe they wanted to look more like the Terrans, Vulcans, and Romulans or something, who knows? Regardless we only saw a handful of Klingons relative to the entire species.
Anyway the decadent and superficious Klingons who were running the show during Kirks time were obviously overthrown or simply fell out of favor and the Klingons returned to the "old ways".
That or we just accept the fact that the budgets sucked and they're "the same" but that's the best we could manage in the 60's/
I don't think you are that far out of the loop. I went over that site a couple of times and completely failed to find anything amusing about it. I love parody and I spend a lot of time looking for it online. The internet is a friggin godsend to humor and some of the best is out there to be found. I just think this one didn't quite pan out.
Actually I was. It was an admittedly stupid comment cause it was the first thing that entered my mind. Sarcasm often doesn't translate at all in here. Anyway you are very correct.
Excellent question Puu since my one, admittedly rather weak smart assed comment somehow managed to generate this bunch of replies.
Not knocking any of them (all well thought out and good replies for the most part) but it was a wisecrack that started it and nothing more. It says something about the focus of Slashdot and you hit it right on the head.
Ok, I can grasp the idea that someone might be prescribed pain killers by a doctor and then, with a lack of understanding and information, find themselves addicted to said painkillers but the "driven to drink" thing I simply can't deal with. The addicted to video games thing is right up there with it too.
"Driven to drink"? Give me a friggin break. Things are bad huh? Deal with it for crying out loud. If your life reaches a point where you want to go crawl in a bottle and wait it out then you're a sorry sack of useless crap and it's your own damned fault. I don't think you generally get a lot of doctors prescribing a fifth for what ails you.
People crying about being addicted to video games are pathetic. I like games. I tend to get very involved when I play a game and I sometimes go overboard. The first computer game I ever touched was Empire and I spent 16 hours playing that game without getting up. I played it till my contacts lenses started bothering me and then I took them out and played it with my face ten inches from the screen.
Eventually though I got my fill and walked away. Had to go to work you know. Had to eat and sleep and pay bills. Had a girlfriend who wasn't interested in dating a zombie sitting in front of a computer for the rest of his life.
Anyone claiming to be addicted to video games deserves the same boot up their ass that's usually reserved for people claiming Beanie Baby addiction. You aren't addicted, you're just an idiot. One more mouth breathing example of why the gene pool needs a new filter.
Well, in my experience VMWare is a pretty darned good piece of software provided you understand going in what it's limitations are inside of the actual computer you plan on running it on. If you got the speed and memory to give it some breathing room and aren't trying to do anything too ridiculously complicated you're in business.
Bochs on the other hand, again in my experience, is a useless piece of shit on a stick and not worth the trouble to set up much less use.
Not about to claim you've never used one. I don't even know you so how could I claim that? I do know that in several years of working on and with G3's this is the first time I've ever heard of anyone have a problem with data becoming corrupt because they have two drives on the IDE controller.
Not saying you aren't telling the truth mind you, just that I've never heard of that happening.
Your user who "usually uses a Mac" but now needs to get some work done obviously doesn't actually know how to use a Mac or you would be sitting comfortable at your PC right now. You need to work on them. What is it that they need to get done that they can't do on a Mac? Just idle curiosity.
Ahhh Slashdot, where everyone gets to speak his piece even if he has nothing worth saying. Don't agree with me and your a Microsoft dolt eh? What it lacks in content it makes up for in brevity at least. Your obviously out of real reasons to state your case. Now I am sorry.
I don't happen to be an end user either, I support close to 300 people. Sure they all use Windows but that's not my decision and I work with what I'm given. I can have Linux servers but I couldn't get that mess approved for their desktops and wouldn't even consider trying.
Everyone in my department would crucify my if they lost MS Office and considering the state of Open Office they would be right to do so. My Engineers and Architects using AutoCAD would be pretty pissed off about losing that as well.
Real world situation for the guy trying to get stuff done on his computer at work is that Linux has NOTHING he wants or needs.
I'd have them on Macs but can't get one of those through the front door either and for the CAD people they would still be out of luck.
Only a downside if you aren't bright enough to see the obvious. It's simply better than anything else out there.
I can't condone Microsofts business practices (hence they get none of my money) and I don't want to tweak my friggin kernal or work in butt ugly Gnome or KDE. Looks like Windows and Linux are out.
I just want to get something done. Looks like OS X is the best choice out there for me.
That he did. An amazingly stupid fuck up considering the relative common knowledge that Apple comes after you like the mob in cases like this. They're friggin relentless about these sort of things.
And for what really? How do you reason that it's worth the risk to do this? I don't get it. All to leak information about a system that's sporting a bunch of things that could already be found in most PC's? Taking one for the team to announce the amazing, never before seen 1.25GHZ proc?
It's nice that they've finally moved past PC133 memory but I don't think it's worth the ensuing shit storm to be the first kid on my block to tell about it.
Porn always leads the way. Whenever man creates a new way of distributing information one of the first things he does with it is use it to make some porn. Sure all you ever hear about is the Guttenberg (sp?) Bible but at the same time those were being cranked out of the press someone, somewhere was printing up some porn. Bank on it.
I'd waste my sole remaining mod point on this one but someone beat me to the "Troll" and frankly I don't think it would be worth it since there isn't a way to mod it "-1 dumbfuck"
Mac users get to claim all these Mac converts and UNIX users get to point to all these UNIX converts and everyone gets something out of the deal. Hell, even Microsoft. At least their captives aren't going anywhere right?
I mean, Tux looks pretty lame. On the other hand the Apple logo looks attractive. It's simple and elegant and when done in an Aqua like manner looks really shiny. How's Tux gonna compete with that?
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Dude! I had that chip! It was toasty :)
I think it's still running somewhere right now keeping a family of seven warm.
brun them? At the stake? Horrible!
Just kidding of course, if you searched everything I've ever posted and didn't find an overwhelming number of typos I'd be stunned.
And your right. My users can't find things they just had open and (since I work in a completely Windows 2000/Office 2000 type of shop) think that the way you find a file is first open Word (?) and then browse for it that way....regardless of what kind of file you are looking for. Then they get upset when Word won't open that AutoCAD drawing and call me. Knuckleheads the lot of them.
You're quite incorrect. Your opinion of the final product (or my opinion for that matter) doesn't mean anything. TRYING to do something good is hard. If they didn't succeed then fine. They attempted something ambitious and appear to have please a fair number of people with the outcome.
I haven't seen it yet so I can't say a thing about the quality of their attempt but obviously from the part of the teaser I was able to download they put some hard work in it.
You may have learned to be more discerning in your viewing habits in the past 30 years but you've learned very little about people or what matters to them
See, I think there's an answer to this entire question stuck in that DS9 episode right in plain sight.
You got old (real old) Klingons like your thousand year old Keh-Less (sp? who knows?) and then your hundred year before TOS Klingon from the Enterprise series and they're bumpy looking. Then right in the middle of it you got the TOS Klingons with their smooth foreheads and human looking hair with very perfect teeth to match. The answer is obvious.
The Klingons obviously went through a "fad" of sorts where they indulged in things like plastic surgery, hair implants of some sort, and dental work. Maybe they wanted to look more like the Terrans, Vulcans, and Romulans or something, who knows? Regardless we only saw a handful of Klingons relative to the entire species.
Anyway the decadent and superficious Klingons who were running the show during Kirks time were obviously overthrown or simply fell out of favor and the Klingons returned to the "old ways".
That or we just accept the fact that the budgets sucked and they're "the same" but that's the best we could manage in the 60's/
I don't think you are that far out of the loop. I went over that site a couple of times and completely failed to find anything amusing about it. I love parody and I spend a lot of time looking for it online. The internet is a friggin godsend to humor and some of the best is out there to be found. I just think this one didn't quite pan out.
Actually I was. It was an admittedly stupid comment cause it was the first thing that entered my mind. Sarcasm often doesn't translate at all in here. Anyway you are very correct.
Excellent question Puu since my one, admittedly rather weak smart assed comment somehow managed to generate this bunch of replies.
Not knocking any of them (all well thought out and good replies for the most part) but it was a wisecrack that started it and nothing more. It says something about the focus of Slashdot and you hit it right on the head.
Cause in this day and age it wouldn't even begin to surprise me.
Ok, I can grasp the idea that someone might be prescribed pain killers by a doctor and then, with a lack of understanding and information, find themselves addicted to said painkillers but the "driven to drink" thing I simply can't deal with. The addicted to video games thing is right up there with it too.
"Driven to drink"? Give me a friggin break. Things are bad huh? Deal with it for crying out loud. If your life reaches a point where you want to go crawl in a bottle and wait it out then you're a sorry sack of useless crap and it's your own damned fault. I don't think you generally get a lot of doctors prescribing a fifth for what ails you.
People crying about being addicted to video games are pathetic. I like games. I tend to get very involved when I play a game and I sometimes go overboard. The first computer game I ever touched was Empire and I spent 16 hours playing that game without getting up. I played it till my contacts lenses started bothering me and then I took them out and played it with my face ten inches from the screen.
Eventually though I got my fill and walked away. Had to go to work you know. Had to eat and sleep and pay bills. Had a girlfriend who wasn't interested in dating a zombie sitting in front of a computer for the rest of his life.
Anyone claiming to be addicted to video games deserves the same boot up their ass that's usually reserved for people claiming Beanie Baby addiction. You aren't addicted, you're just an idiot. One more mouth breathing example of why the gene pool needs a new filter.
How did that saying go about never arguing with an idiot? Something about bringing you down to their level and then beating you with experience.
Priceless.
Well, in my experience VMWare is a pretty darned good piece of software provided you understand going in what it's limitations are inside of the actual computer you plan on running it on. If you got the speed and memory to give it some breathing room and aren't trying to do anything too ridiculously complicated you're in business.
Bochs on the other hand, again in my experience, is a useless piece of shit on a stick and not worth the trouble to set up much less use.
Not about to claim you've never used one. I don't even know you so how could I claim that? I do know that in several years of working on and with G3's this is the first time I've ever heard of anyone have a problem with data becoming corrupt because they have two drives on the IDE controller.
Not saying you aren't telling the truth mind you, just that I've never heard of that happening.
Your user who "usually uses a Mac" but now needs to get some work done obviously doesn't actually know how to use a Mac or you would be sitting comfortable at your PC right now. You need to work on them. What is it that they need to get done that they can't do on a Mac? Just idle curiosity.
Ahhh Slashdot, where everyone gets to speak his piece even if he has nothing worth saying. Don't agree with me and your a Microsoft dolt eh? What it lacks in content it makes up for in brevity at least. Your obviously out of real reasons to state your case. Now I am sorry.
I don't happen to be an end user either, I support close to 300 people. Sure they all use Windows but that's not my decision and I work with what I'm given. I can have Linux servers but I couldn't get that mess approved for their desktops and wouldn't even consider trying.
Everyone in my department would crucify my if they lost MS Office and considering the state of Open Office they would be right to do so. My Engineers and Architects using AutoCAD would be pretty pissed off about losing that as well.
Real world situation for the guy trying to get stuff done on his computer at work is that Linux has NOTHING he wants or needs.
I'd have them on Macs but can't get one of those through the front door either and for the CAD people they would still be out of luck.
Only a downside if you aren't bright enough to see the obvious. It's simply better than anything else out there.
I can't condone Microsofts business practices (hence they get none of my money) and I don't want to tweak my friggin kernal or work in butt ugly Gnome or KDE. Looks like Windows and Linux are out.
I just want to get something done. Looks like OS X is the best choice out there for me.
That he did. An amazingly stupid fuck up considering the relative common knowledge that Apple comes after you like the mob in cases like this. They're friggin relentless about these sort of things.
And for what really? How do you reason that it's worth the risk to do this? I don't get it. All to leak information about a system that's sporting a bunch of things that could already be found in most PC's? Taking one for the team to announce the amazing, never before seen 1.25GHZ proc?
It's nice that they've finally moved past PC133 memory but I don't think it's worth the ensuing shit storm to be the first kid on my block to tell about it.
Dan! I was the first post. How the hell did that happen?
So there.
You know.....it just might work!
I'll give it a try. What's to lose?
Porn always leads the way. Whenever man creates a new way of distributing information one of the first things he does with it is use it to make some porn. Sure all you ever hear about is the Guttenberg (sp?) Bible but at the same time those were being cranked out of the press someone, somewhere was printing up some porn. Bank on it.
I'd waste my sole remaining mod point on this one but someone beat me to the "Troll" and frankly I don't think it would be worth it since there isn't a way to mod it "-1 dumbfuck"
But if there was...
"Fuck Mickey Mouse! Fuck him in his asshole with a big rubber dick! Then break it off and beat him to death with the rest of it!"
I think George pretty much covered it.
Mac users get to claim all these Mac converts and UNIX users get to point to all these UNIX converts and everyone gets something out of the deal. Hell, even Microsoft. At least their captives aren't going anywhere right?
Ok, not enough of them to matter at least.
I mean, Tux looks pretty lame. On the other hand the Apple logo looks attractive. It's simple and elegant and when done in an Aqua like manner looks really shiny. How's Tux gonna compete with that?
Funny how some of us see that the other way around. I look at Windows users and see people too stupid to know not to use Windows.
Sterotypes. Get past them and your post makes sense. Stick with them and you tempt your readers to throw out the good points with the pointless.