Bullshit. Some people are great at both. Some people are great at design. Some are great at programming. Some suck at one or both. Some are mediocre at one or both.
Even within the art realm, some are great at design but not drawing or painting. Others can draw a picture really well but can't ever seem to do a print layout or web page. Some can do both.
Some people can act. Others can sing. Others dance. Some can do it all, and are the leads in musicals.
Some people can shoot. Some can blow stuff up. Some can swim really well. Some can skydive. Some are Navy Seals.
Some people act really well. Some people are really funny. Some people write really well. Some people are good improv comedy actors.
See a pattern? In short, any practitioner of one discipline saying that to shift to another discipline is much easier than the opposite is likely either in the wrong field to start or is just pumping up an ego like a balloon.
Damn your academic elitism. It doesn't take listening to a dozen old men in tweed and mohair blather on about their opinions on a topic for an intelligent person to read up on it and form his or her own informed opinion. Your post is alluding to psychology, law enforcement, and illusionist stage acts. In which of these fields do you hold degrees?
Yes, a focused and intense education helps quite a bit when you're trying to become an expert in a field. No, you don't necessarily need to have a Ph.D. in every field of endeavor to understand the basics of it.
Sometimes the "experts" are dead wrong themselves, too. Freud arguably never cured a patient, and his best friend is said to have died of a cocaine addiction and overdose from Freud's prescription of it. Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famed parenting doctor, had a son commit suicide. Heisenberg thought it would takes tons of uranium to make a nuclear fission bomb as opposed to the kilograms Frisch and Peierl found it would take. Charles Goodyear died broke trying to sell rain slickers, furniture, and everything else made out of his vulcanized rubber.
Other world-famous people worked in fields different from their field of study -- sometimes very different. Sam Walton was an economics major, not business. Bill Gates dropped out of a pre-law program (but it was at Harvard), and was actually making $20,000 a year at the age of 14. Paul Revere was a silversmith, Ben Franklin a publisher, and George Washington a farmer. Betty Williams won a Nobel prize and was an office receptionist. Harry S Truman -- the man who desegregated the U.S. armed forces, helped get Israel acknowledged by the U.N., approved the Berlin Air Lift, and signed the National Security Act -- never completed his degree. H. Ross Perot, founder of EDS and Perot Systems, founder of a somewhat successful political party, and venture capitalist, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy.
So please, stop implying people are uninformed morons if they don't meet your standards for education in a particular field. This is Slashdot, and people are voicing their opinions, concerns, and points of view. They are not applying for jobs or trying to get you to publish their books. Please start judging comments by what is said in them and not by how you've prejudged the poster.
Phase-change optical drives were also on the market about ten years ago. Heck, recordable CDs and DVDs are largely based on earlier phase-change (both Write-Once, Read-Many -- or WORM drives, as well as rewritable disks) technology.
The lights and siren are warning devices. If the police cruiser is operated at what is considered to be above safe limits for traffic and there are other drivers on the roadway who may be in danger by the excess speed, those drivers should be protected by using the warning lights and/or siren. That said, whether or not a car being operated a few miles over the speed limit by a well-trained driver is endangering anyone is a judgment call. The officer's judgment, usually.
If an officer actually causes an accident because he wasn't using his warning devices, that's a different matter of course. I absolutely agree that in many cases the "no lights, no speeding" idea many civilians have is silly. OTOH, some police officers could do a bit more legal driving than they do on the way to non-emergency situations. In some areas 20+ miles over the limit without lights seems like the normal trip home at the end of a shift.
IANAPO, and IANAL, but if I have to give anyone benefit of the doubt, it's usually going to be a police officer in good standing despite the fact that many police officers are total dicks.
I'm not sure of current prices in the UK. In the US, though, the iMac is cheaper than an equivalently equipped Dell. By about $300.
Then there's the Mac Mini if anyone really needs a sub-$1000 Mac. A G4 PowerMac can be had used for hundreds, too, if someone's desperate for a computer.
Systems preloaded with Linux and KDE, Gnome, or Xfce tend to work just fine for people accustomed to Windows 9x/2000/XP. They don't know how to administer them, but most people don't know how to administer Windows, either. My Dad, who won't even install his own games on his PC, sat down once at a Mandrake system of mine with KDE on it and proceeded to play solitaire and Doom. The only thing he asked was why the start button looked different.
Don't forget, too, that in the US it's a crime under the DMCA to bypass the DRM for the purposes of making illegal copies in addition to the copyright issue itself. So DRM makes people prosecutable for another offense, which they probably think is further deterrent.
The poster seems to be the global warming messenger Scientologist love child of Isaac Hayes and Al Gore... just don't ask me how they mated, considering they're both AFAICT male.
We have the same in the U.S., but most people just throw the little paper that comes with consumer electronics in the bin. I've seen some phones that don't even list the REN on the little paper, too.
Since the homeowner is (for the last couple of decades now) responsible for their inside wiring, there's no guarantee that everyone's phone wiring is carrying the full signal at every jack, either.
Fortunately, there are ring voltage amplifiers for sale which should solve this problem. I haven't tried them with the system in question, so YMMV.
1% is an astounding success if your goal is 0.01%.
Yes, it'd be nice to see more Linux on the desktop. I run two desktops at work -- one XP, one Linux. I run XP, OS X, and two Linux desktops at home. So for me personally, it's 50% of the machines I use on a regular basis.
As for accounting specifically, that's one area that's less suited to OSS than other areas. The IRS doesn't look kindly on "well, there's a bug report filed". Your accounting needs to work 100% of the time. Accounting software could very well be Open Source, but it's a bit more liability than if the GIMP crashes. Lots of business owners won't feel comfortable with accounting software without some guarantees.
Indeed, if you're using the Perl DBI or one of the better PHP DB libraries along with SQL that's not in a nonstandard dialect, you can pretty much edit the config to say 'MySQL' or 'Postgres'. I'm sure the other languages approach this if not matching it.
The war itself was due to states seceding from the Union and attacking Fort Sumter. A large part of the secession was, in fact, due to pressure to do away with slavery. A big part of the reasoning behind the secession was that Lincoln, a well-known anti-slavery advocate, was elected President. Economic disparity between the rich Northern states and the poorer Southern states was also a factor. Cultural differences between the North and the South were a factor as well. The fact that the North was growing in population faster than the South and that the House would favor Northern interests was an issue.
Now don't get me wrong, I think every President since WWII has held too much power. I do not think Lincoln necessarily held too much, though. A somewhat powerful central government is important. Too powerful is bad, but too weak is bad too. The 13 original states had tried a loose confederation before, and it failed to perform so badly that we got our current Constitution.
No, I don't understand that the Civil War had very little to do with slavery. I believe it had quite a bit to do with slavery, but not to the exclusion of other issues. So yeah, call me an idiot.
Do you understand that believing that slavery was a minor issue in the 1860's in the United States puts you in a very small minority? Still an asshole.
When the issue is taxation without representation, the American Revolution comes to mind. When you cast it as a "States Rights" issue and tie a war to it, the Civil War brings up issues of economic disparity between North and South and whether or not slavery should be legal.
I see no arguments about economic disparity nor slavery here. I see a state refusing to allow other state governments to help set that state's taxation of its citizens and their businesses. It could be argued either way, I suppose, but as I see it there are more parallels here to the Revolution than to the Civil War.
That particular war is most often considered to be about a triumph for human rights. Yes, state's rights were a big part of it. The most important part of the cause of that war was slavery, though, and it's not really any state's right to allow slavery. It's not anyone's right to allow slavery.
Citizens of the Confederate states were not technically American citizens since they had seceded. The Confederacy then lost, and the citizens of the Confederacy had to be treated as wartime enemies for a time before they were assimilated back into the Union.
Freeing blacks was making sure the ideals of the founding fathers about ALL men being created equal was progressing. We still had segregation until the 1960s, so it's not eighty years to undo the Revolution, but 190 to finish it.
OTOH, a good friend of mine, his wife, and the two oldest of four kids (well, four surviving out of six -- God rest the souls of the two they lost) are all pretty hardcore gamers. A boy, about 12, and a girl, about a year younger. The boy especially. He plays all manner of FPS, tactical, and strategy games. The littler ones probably will start soon enough.
My parents raised us playing lots of board games and especially card games when my sister and I were young. My wife's a big card player and plays lots of gambling-related, maze, puzzle, and action computer games. We'll raise our kids playing cards and computer games. I'm not sure at what age she'll let me introduce them to FPS, but if I start with milder ones like Blake Stone and Wolfenstein 3D, I imagine it'll be fairly young.
He does say it's worthless. He says it's like a lame party where you drink alone and dance alone. He says that local multiplayer is the only good way to play multiplayer. The author is a tool. Go ahead, call me a moron and tell me I don't understand what I just read. You've already done it to someone else.
Guess what? In-person gaming is full of cheaters, too. Sure, you can kick a cheater out of your house, but you can kick a cheater off of a private game server, too. You can complain in a video arcade or casino, and you can complain on any decent multiplayer site online.
Lots of online games have ladder systems. Most MMORPGs have low-level character areas safe from PK. Some games have direct connect multiplayer and some really fun ones have free server software (like Team Fortress Classic). Other people will be less skilled than you. Other people will be more skilled than you. If you don't want to play in a non-handicapped environment, that's fine. Just don't whine about getting beat when you play. It's undignified and juvenile. I like playing poker, but I'm not going to put my mortgage payment up against Chris Moneymaker or Daniel Negreanu. If I did, I wouldn't whine about losing.
When I'm playing Total Annihilation or Mechwarrior 4 against my friend without driving an hour each way, it's a tradeoff. We get to bond a little less, but we get two hours more playing time and I save some gas. How can you or the author of TFA argue that for my life that's a bad deal? I'd rather walk next door and sit down with my friend, but he doesn't live next door. I see that making online multiplayer priceless, because we can still play games together even when we can't make it to see each other. And we've been doing it since we had to dial each other direct on modems to play.
And when he doesn't agree with you, you call him a moron and say he doesn't understand what he just read. Great job understanding that people think differently.
1776 was a little more than a century and a half ago. It's more like 231 years ago. So you're a little off on the history yourself, but I'm not sure how you were trolling. Some moderator seems to have gotten overzealous.
I happen to agree that states other than my own trying to control my state's tax rate is taxation without representation, and that was a primary cause for the American Revolution.
One of my wife's friends from work was having a horrible time with her system. The lady's son gave her his old system for Christmas, complete with the contents of her old, non-functioning system's hard drive. Perfect, right?
Well, he also wanted to make sure his mom had bells and whistles, and was protected. So he installed some additional software including a copy of the AV software he used. He even made a nice bootable restore CD set with all the installed software ready to go. He then went out of state back home after Christmas.
Well, the system wouldn't boot. It'd hang sometimes. It'd get caught in a partial-boot, reboot cycle most of the time. My wife asked me to go over and take a look. I looked for spyware. I looked for adware. I looked for viruses. I looked for memory problems. I looked for Windows problems. I finally got around to going through everything in the load and run statements, in the startup group, and in services one by one.
Well, it was third-party software causing the problem all right -- but not just one program. See, she already had antivirus installed. Both programs were configured to do boot-time checks, to become memory resident scanners, and to scan email. From what I could tell the reboot loop was the two antivirus packages checking each other out and getting very, very confused. I uninstalled one (Norton), and the system runs fine with just the other.
I can't have an emotional attachment to him when we play games online? So I had no emotional attachment to my wife when she and I were engaged and she lived 1400 miles away? That's a pretty peculiar idea.
Sure, it's often more fun to have a LAN party than to jump on a server together remotely. Just because something's not quite as fun as something else doesn't mean it's not fun. The world, even for computer geeks, is not binary in every respect. There's no switch that flips from "fun" to "not fun".
I guess the author of TFA thinks that playing a game and losing isn't fun because playing an winning is more fun. That winning $10,000 in the lottery isn't a nice surprise because winning $10,000,000 would be nicer... That having sex with one woman isn't fun because it's not a threesome...
I would guess it's because when it's in a window on a 3d windowing system you're asking the graphics system to calculate the whole game screen, then to calculate the whole 3d window system besides. Just a guess.
Unfortunately 0-day when applied to exploits is coming to mean something completely different from what zero-day means when applied to everything else.
People are calling an exploit zero-day when it's released zero (or negative) days after the vulnerability announcement, and sometimes even so long as it's zero (or negative) days after the official patch. This probably has to do with so many Windows exploits being written based on reverse-engineered security patches.
It used to be that a zero-day customer bought or downloaded something the day it hit shelves, that a zero-day warez site carried copyright-infringed works from the day they were released, that zero-day delivery meant you pre-ordered something to get it on the day it was released, and that a zero-day exploit meant that someone could crack a system the day it hit the street. I liked this definition, and it's bothersome that script kiddies, bloggers, and trade rag writers don't use it.
Zero-day should mean zero days from product release, period. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Now the meaning is context-sensitive, and I guess we'll just have to get used to that. The whole hacker/cracker/script kiddie and IT helpdesk/"support engineer" debacles should teach us not to waste too much energy quarreling with usages we dislike. At least we still have 'geek' as somewhat distinct from 'nerd', and most people in the general public now have some understanding that there's a difference between reinstalling Windows and programming.
Build me a home computer that supports five to forty times the memory of all its competitors and then make fun of the PC.
Seriously, when IBM and Microsoft released the IBM 5100 PC and MS-DOS/PC-DOS, the Apple II+ had 48k expandable to 64k, the Atari 600XL had 16k and the 800XL had 64k, Commodore hadn't yet released the Commodore 64 leaving them with the 5k VIC-20, and the Tandy Color Computer 1 had 32k. Most of these systems have 6800-series processors in the one megahertz range. The IBM had a processor which did similar work per clock as the Motorola chip, and was 4.77 Mhz.
Sure, IBM and Microsoft could have had the foresight to support 16 megabytes or even 64 gigabytes of memory using the same software as their 256k and 512k offerings that were upgradeable to 640k. I doubt they knew how successful the platform would be. At the time, computers leapfrogged each other and people bought whole new platforms from completely different companies. Data was moved from one system to another by floppy or cassette tape if you were lucky, or by hand if you weren't. IBM probably had no idea the same platform would be overhauled so many times back in 1981.
IBM was probably mostly interested in getting companies using their mainframes and midrange systems to stick with the brand anyway. It's like Harley Davidson and John Deere selling golf carts or like Ralph Lauren making bedsheets. Those companies want you to think of them whenever you think of anything related to their core business. I'm betting Harley Davidson doesn't make a lot of money on golf carts, but even at break-even it's better than seeing a Kawasaki golf cart owner go and buy a Kawasaki motorcycle.
IBM had the right product at the right time in the 5100, and it took off. The 640k limit seemed silly when people knew what EMS and XMS were. Since OS2, Windows, Linux, and most other operating systems put the processor into protected mode and don't use the BIOS after they finish loading, it's no longer an issue. Now it's two or four cores, 32 or 64 bits, 100Mb or 1000Mb networking, and hundreds of gigabytes on your hard drive. It's Windows XP vs. Vista vs. Linux vs. OS X vs. BSD vs. whatever. It's no longer 64k vs. 640k, twin 360k floppies vs. single 160k floppies, 40 columns vs. 80 columns, RS-232 vs. RS-485 serial ports (with many manufacturers not doing either), 4 colors vs. 16, and a 5-meg hard drive being an expensive option.
So please, can we give some credit where it's due, and get over a bit of shortsightedness on a product that's five years older than Blake Ross?
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Bullshit. Some people are great at both. Some people are great at design. Some are great at programming. Some suck at one or both. Some are mediocre at one or both.
Even within the art realm, some are great at design but not drawing or painting. Others can draw a picture really well but can't ever seem to do a print layout or web page. Some can do both.
Some people can act. Others can sing. Others dance. Some can do it all, and are the leads in musicals.
Some people can shoot. Some can blow stuff up. Some can swim really well. Some can skydive. Some are Navy Seals.
Some people act really well. Some people are really funny. Some people write really well. Some people are good improv comedy actors.
See a pattern? In short, any practitioner of one discipline saying that to shift to another discipline is much easier than the opposite is likely either in the wrong field to start or is just pumping up an ego like a balloon.
Damn your academic elitism. It doesn't take listening to a dozen old men in tweed and mohair blather on about their opinions on a topic for an intelligent person to read up on it and form his or her own informed opinion. Your post is alluding to psychology, law enforcement, and illusionist stage acts. In which of these fields do you hold degrees?
Yes, a focused and intense education helps quite a bit when you're trying to become an expert in a field. No, you don't necessarily need to have a Ph.D. in every field of endeavor to understand the basics of it.
Sometimes the "experts" are dead wrong themselves, too. Freud arguably never cured a patient, and his best friend is said to have died of a cocaine addiction and overdose from Freud's prescription of it. Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famed parenting doctor, had a son commit suicide. Heisenberg thought it would takes tons of uranium to make a nuclear fission bomb as opposed to the kilograms Frisch and Peierl found it would take. Charles Goodyear died broke trying to sell rain slickers, furniture, and everything else made out of his vulcanized rubber.
Other world-famous people worked in fields different from their field of study -- sometimes very different. Sam Walton was an economics major, not business. Bill Gates dropped out of a pre-law program (but it was at Harvard), and was actually making $20,000 a year at the age of 14. Paul Revere was a silversmith, Ben Franklin a publisher, and George Washington a farmer. Betty Williams won a Nobel prize and was an office receptionist. Harry S Truman -- the man who desegregated the U.S. armed forces, helped get Israel acknowledged by the U.N., approved the Berlin Air Lift, and signed the National Security Act -- never completed his degree. H. Ross Perot, founder of EDS and Perot Systems, founder of a somewhat successful political party, and venture capitalist, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy.
So please, stop implying people are uninformed morons if they don't meet your standards for education in a particular field. This is Slashdot, and people are voicing their opinions, concerns, and points of view. They are not applying for jobs or trying to get you to publish their books. Please start judging comments by what is said in them and not by how you've prejudged the poster.
Phase-change optical drives were also on the market about ten years ago. Heck, recordable CDs and DVDs are largely based on earlier phase-change (both Write-Once, Read-Many -- or WORM drives, as well as rewritable disks) technology.
The lights and siren are warning devices. If the police cruiser is operated at what is considered to be above safe limits for traffic and there are other drivers on the roadway who may be in danger by the excess speed, those drivers should be protected by using the warning lights and/or siren. That said, whether or not a car being operated a few miles over the speed limit by a well-trained driver is endangering anyone is a judgment call. The officer's judgment, usually.
If an officer actually causes an accident because he wasn't using his warning devices, that's a different matter of course. I absolutely agree that in many cases the "no lights, no speeding" idea many civilians have is silly. OTOH, some police officers could do a bit more legal driving than they do on the way to non-emergency situations. In some areas 20+ miles over the limit without lights seems like the normal trip home at the end of a shift.
IANAPO, and IANAL, but if I have to give anyone benefit of the doubt, it's usually going to be a police officer in good standing despite the fact that many police officers are total dicks.
I'm not sure of current prices in the UK. In the US, though, the iMac is cheaper than an equivalently equipped Dell. By about $300.
Then there's the Mac Mini if anyone really needs a sub-$1000 Mac. A G4 PowerMac can be had used for hundreds, too, if someone's desperate for a computer.
Systems preloaded with Linux and KDE, Gnome, or Xfce tend to work just fine for people accustomed to Windows 9x/2000/XP. They don't know how to administer them, but most people don't know how to administer Windows, either. My Dad, who won't even install his own games on his PC, sat down once at a Mandrake system of mine with KDE on it and proceeded to play solitaire and Doom. The only thing he asked was why the start button looked different.
Don't forget, too, that in the US it's a crime under the DMCA to bypass the DRM for the purposes of making illegal copies in addition to the copyright issue itself. So DRM makes people prosecutable for another offense, which they probably think is further deterrent.
The poster seems to be the global warming messenger Scientologist love child of Isaac Hayes and Al Gore... just don't ask me how they mated, considering they're both AFAICT male.
We have the same in the U.S., but most people just throw the little paper that comes with consumer electronics in the bin. I've seen some phones that don't even list the REN on the little paper, too.
Since the homeowner is (for the last couple of decades now) responsible for their inside wiring, there's no guarantee that everyone's phone wiring is carrying the full signal at every jack, either.
Fortunately, there are ring voltage amplifiers for sale which should solve this problem. I haven't tried them with the system in question, so YMMV.
1% is an astounding success if your goal is 0.01%.
Yes, it'd be nice to see more Linux on the desktop. I run two desktops at work -- one XP, one Linux. I run XP, OS X, and two Linux desktops at home. So for me personally, it's 50% of the machines I use on a regular basis.
As for accounting specifically, that's one area that's less suited to OSS than other areas. The IRS doesn't look kindly on "well, there's a bug report filed". Your accounting needs to work 100% of the time. Accounting software could very well be Open Source, but it's a bit more liability than if the GIMP crashes. Lots of business owners won't feel comfortable with accounting software without some guarantees.
Indeed, if you're using the Perl DBI or one of the better PHP DB libraries along with SQL that's not in a nonstandard dialect, you can pretty much edit the config to say 'MySQL' or 'Postgres'. I'm sure the other languages approach this if not matching it.
The war itself was due to states seceding from the Union and attacking Fort Sumter. A large part of the secession was, in fact, due to pressure to do away with slavery. A big part of the reasoning behind the secession was that Lincoln, a well-known anti-slavery advocate, was elected President. Economic disparity between the rich Northern states and the poorer Southern states was also a factor. Cultural differences between the North and the South were a factor as well. The fact that the North was growing in population faster than the South and that the House would favor Northern interests was an issue.
Now don't get me wrong, I think every President since WWII has held too much power. I do not think Lincoln necessarily held too much, though. A somewhat powerful central government is important. Too powerful is bad, but too weak is bad too. The 13 original states had tried a loose confederation before, and it failed to perform so badly that we got our current Constitution.
No, I don't understand that the Civil War had very little to do with slavery. I believe it had quite a bit to do with slavery, but not to the exclusion of other issues. So yeah, call me an idiot.
Do you understand that believing that slavery was a minor issue in the 1860's in the United States puts you in a very small minority? Still an asshole.
OK, the two other posters seem to be upset that their families don't own black people, but I just wanted to let you know that you're an asshole.
When the issue is taxation without representation, the American Revolution comes to mind. When you cast it as a "States Rights" issue and tie a war to it, the Civil War brings up issues of economic disparity between North and South and whether or not slavery should be legal.
I see no arguments about economic disparity nor slavery here. I see a state refusing to allow other state governments to help set that state's taxation of its citizens and their businesses. It could be argued either way, I suppose, but as I see it there are more parallels here to the Revolution than to the Civil War.
That particular war is most often considered to be about a triumph for human rights. Yes, state's rights were a big part of it. The most important part of the cause of that war was slavery, though, and it's not really any state's right to allow slavery. It's not anyone's right to allow slavery.
Citizens of the Confederate states were not technically American citizens since they had seceded. The Confederacy then lost, and the citizens of the Confederacy had to be treated as wartime enemies for a time before they were assimilated back into the Union.
Freeing blacks was making sure the ideals of the founding fathers about ALL men being created equal was progressing. We still had segregation until the 1960s, so it's not eighty years to undo the Revolution, but 190 to finish it.
OTOH, a good friend of mine, his wife, and the two oldest of four kids (well, four surviving out of six -- God rest the souls of the two they lost) are all pretty hardcore gamers. A boy, about 12, and a girl, about a year younger. The boy especially. He plays all manner of FPS, tactical, and strategy games. The littler ones probably will start soon enough.
My parents raised us playing lots of board games and especially card games when my sister and I were young. My wife's a big card player and plays lots of gambling-related, maze, puzzle, and action computer games. We'll raise our kids playing cards and computer games. I'm not sure at what age she'll let me introduce them to FPS, but if I start with milder ones like Blake Stone and Wolfenstein 3D, I imagine it'll be fairly young.
He does say it's worthless. He says it's like a lame party where you drink alone and dance alone. He says that local multiplayer is the only good way to play multiplayer. The author is a tool. Go ahead, call me a moron and tell me I don't understand what I just read. You've already done it to someone else.
Guess what? In-person gaming is full of cheaters, too. Sure, you can kick a cheater out of your house, but you can kick a cheater off of a private game server, too. You can complain in a video arcade or casino, and you can complain on any decent multiplayer site online.
Lots of online games have ladder systems. Most MMORPGs have low-level character areas safe from PK. Some games have direct connect multiplayer and some really fun ones have free server software (like Team Fortress Classic). Other people will be less skilled than you. Other people will be more skilled than you. If you don't want to play in a non-handicapped environment, that's fine. Just don't whine about getting beat when you play. It's undignified and juvenile. I like playing poker, but I'm not going to put my mortgage payment up against Chris Moneymaker or Daniel Negreanu. If I did, I wouldn't whine about losing.
When I'm playing Total Annihilation or Mechwarrior 4 against my friend without driving an hour each way, it's a tradeoff. We get to bond a little less, but we get two hours more playing time and I save some gas. How can you or the author of TFA argue that for my life that's a bad deal? I'd rather walk next door and sit down with my friend, but he doesn't live next door. I see that making online multiplayer priceless, because we can still play games together even when we can't make it to see each other. And we've been doing it since we had to dial each other direct on modems to play.
And when he doesn't agree with you, you call him a moron and say he doesn't understand what he just read. Great job understanding that people think differently.
1776 was a little more than a century and a half ago. It's more like 231 years ago. So you're a little off on the history yourself, but I'm not sure how you were trolling. Some moderator seems to have gotten overzealous.
I happen to agree that states other than my own trying to control my state's tax rate is taxation without representation, and that was a primary cause for the American Revolution.
Me too. And naturally large areolas, too.
One of my wife's friends from work was having a horrible time with her system. The lady's son gave her his old system for Christmas, complete with the contents of her old, non-functioning system's hard drive. Perfect, right?
Well, he also wanted to make sure his mom had bells and whistles, and was protected. So he installed some additional software including a copy of the AV software he used. He even made a nice bootable restore CD set with all the installed software ready to go. He then went out of state back home after Christmas.
Well, the system wouldn't boot. It'd hang sometimes. It'd get caught in a partial-boot, reboot cycle most of the time. My wife asked me to go over and take a look. I looked for spyware. I looked for adware. I looked for viruses. I looked for memory problems. I looked for Windows problems. I finally got around to going through everything in the load and run statements, in the startup group, and in services one by one.
Well, it was third-party software causing the problem all right -- but not just one program. See, she already had antivirus installed. Both programs were configured to do boot-time checks, to become memory resident scanners, and to scan email. From what I could tell the reboot loop was the two antivirus packages checking each other out and getting very, very confused. I uninstalled one (Norton), and the system runs fine with just the other.
I can't have an emotional attachment to him when we play games online? So I had no emotional attachment to my wife when she and I were engaged and she lived 1400 miles away? That's a pretty peculiar idea.
Sure, it's often more fun to have a LAN party than to jump on a server together remotely. Just because something's not quite as fun as something else doesn't mean it's not fun. The world, even for computer geeks, is not binary in every respect. There's no switch that flips from "fun" to "not fun".
I guess the author of TFA thinks that playing a game and losing isn't fun because playing an winning is more fun. That winning $10,000 in the lottery isn't a nice surprise because winning $10,000,000 would be nicer... That having sex with one woman isn't fun because it's not a threesome...
What a tool.
I would guess it's because when it's in a window on a 3d windowing system you're asking the graphics system to calculate the whole game screen, then to calculate the whole 3d window system besides. Just a guess.
In this particular case, I think the ?????? step is superfluous.
Unfortunately 0-day when applied to exploits is coming to mean something completely different from what zero-day means when applied to everything else.
People are calling an exploit zero-day when it's released zero (or negative) days after the vulnerability announcement, and sometimes even so long as it's zero (or negative) days after the official patch. This probably has to do with so many Windows exploits being written based on reverse-engineered security patches.
It used to be that a zero-day customer bought or downloaded something the day it hit shelves, that a zero-day warez site carried copyright-infringed works from the day they were released, that zero-day delivery meant you pre-ordered something to get it on the day it was released, and that a zero-day exploit meant that someone could crack a system the day it hit the street. I liked this definition, and it's bothersome that script kiddies, bloggers, and trade rag writers don't use it.
Zero-day should mean zero days from product release, period. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Now the meaning is context-sensitive, and I guess we'll just have to get used to that. The whole hacker/cracker/script kiddie and IT helpdesk/"support engineer" debacles should teach us not to waste too much energy quarreling with usages we dislike. At least we still have 'geek' as somewhat distinct from 'nerd', and most people in the general public now have some understanding that there's a difference between reinstalling Windows and programming.
Build me a home computer that supports five to forty times the memory of all its competitors and then make fun of the PC.
Seriously, when IBM and Microsoft released the IBM 5100 PC and MS-DOS/PC-DOS, the Apple II+ had 48k expandable to 64k, the Atari 600XL had 16k and the 800XL had 64k, Commodore hadn't yet released the Commodore 64 leaving them with the 5k VIC-20, and the Tandy Color Computer 1 had 32k. Most of these systems have 6800-series processors in the one megahertz range. The IBM had a processor which did similar work per clock as the Motorola chip, and was 4.77 Mhz.
Sure, IBM and Microsoft could have had the foresight to support 16 megabytes or even 64 gigabytes of memory using the same software as their 256k and 512k offerings that were upgradeable to 640k. I doubt they knew how successful the platform would be. At the time, computers leapfrogged each other and people bought whole new platforms from completely different companies. Data was moved from one system to another by floppy or cassette tape if you were lucky, or by hand if you weren't. IBM probably had no idea the same platform would be overhauled so many times back in 1981.
IBM was probably mostly interested in getting companies using their mainframes and midrange systems to stick with the brand anyway. It's like Harley Davidson and John Deere selling golf carts or like Ralph Lauren making bedsheets. Those companies want you to think of them whenever you think of anything related to their core business. I'm betting Harley Davidson doesn't make a lot of money on golf carts, but even at break-even it's better than seeing a Kawasaki golf cart owner go and buy a Kawasaki motorcycle.
IBM had the right product at the right time in the 5100, and it took off. The 640k limit seemed silly when people knew what EMS and XMS were. Since OS2, Windows, Linux, and most other operating systems put the processor into protected mode and don't use the BIOS after they finish loading, it's no longer an issue. Now it's two or four cores, 32 or 64 bits, 100Mb or 1000Mb networking, and hundreds of gigabytes on your hard drive. It's Windows XP vs. Vista vs. Linux vs. OS X vs. BSD vs. whatever. It's no longer 64k vs. 640k, twin 360k floppies vs. single 160k floppies, 40 columns vs. 80 columns, RS-232 vs. RS-485 serial ports (with many manufacturers not doing either), 4 colors vs. 16, and a 5-meg hard drive being an expensive option.
So please, can we give some credit where it's due, and get over a bit of shortsightedness on a product that's five years older than Blake Ross?