Around here, Taxi companies are run and worked at by some of the worst assholes of all. Show up when they want, take detours and pretend not to understand you, gouge you as much as possible. I'm glad someone is undercutting them.
Oracle management is too busy picking which employees to lay off this quarter to keep the others living in fear to give a shit about a few poor people.
IBM doesn't even make i86/ia64/etc compatible computers anymore. They sold that off to the Chinese company that bought Lenovo YEARS ago. IBM used to love OS/2, aka CONCENTRATED EVIL. I think I'll forgo IBM's opinion on the matter.
I use my non-work PC to play games. I'm not going to limit myself to only the games that will run by one manner of hackery or another on Linux. I'm not going to "hold out" and "show publishers that they should port to Linux" because the only one that loses out there is ME. I don't get to engage in one of my primary forms of enjoyment, and the publishers that aren't already at least SteamOS friendly, will NEVER come around.
The main reason I block (some) ads is that they are a potential vector for malware. I refuse to trust ANY ad broker, because too often you read of them getting compromised and infecting visitors "accidentally". I'll be damned if I let any ad source run scripts in my browser.
The truly effective method would include not only banning lots that carry it, but publicly identifying the source, and after a couple such lots, dropping that supplier permanently (and announcing it). Once supplying infected stock becomes a business-ending practice, suppliers will become a lot more careful themselves, which is what is truly needed here.
Apple also doesn't have a dead dog in the race, with frequent outages of service due to a single point of email and message failure controlled by their proprietary network. Apple also innovated the hell out of their products. RIM has not done this. It's a "me too" effort at best, and not a very good one.
Outside of organizations married to its corp-friendly proprietary nonsense, RIM has zero reputation right now.
As a developer, I wouldn't spare a thought towards porting my applications to that platform. It's a non-starter.
I've never had that experience with the nvidia hardware. "Carefully calibrate the distance"? sounds like the description of parallax filter montiors that I've read.
what do you mean by "Vaporware"? 3d LCDs for shutter glasses have been around for a while. Just because this isn't on shelves today (near as I can find) doesn't make it "vaporware".
They've very much fixed that issue. The integrated driver packs now upgrade everything properly. I haven't had driver issues in over a year with my first-gen 3d vision stuff. Very much looking forward to this new kit. The 27" monitor will also be a great improvement.
We really don't. The article summary was skewed, and the title is just plain incorrect. Title should be
"Tenn. Governor pushes for National Internet Sales Tax" with a note in the summary he's discussing it with Amazon. Discussion does not equate to agreement.
Eh. I'm not going to let that keep me from owning a car that I want. What I DID do is disconnect the coax to the satellite and cell antenna. Now it just has a red "I can't talk to the mothership" telltale in the rearview mirror frame.
Agreed. I had high hopes, but their insistence upon re-inventing EVERYTHING and going against common MMO UI elements (screwed up movement, no way to put things the way you want them) made the game unplayable at best. Last I heard PC and PS3 players weren't on the same servers, so why bother making the game interface dumbed down for the PC? Chat interface was ABSOLUTELY THE WORST one ever created for an MMO. I've played early beta versions of stuff like LOTRO where stuff wasn't completely baked when players were let into the world, and the release chat system in DCU was completely useless.
I'm a huge comic book fan, but the superhero MMOs so far have been disappointing. CoH made endgame play impossible without a group AT ALL TIMES. Champions Online managed to sort of capture the flavor of the P&P game that I loved in the 80s and 90's but then fell into the RMT store crap. DCU Online, for all of it's great license potential, is the biggest crapfest of the lot. After the first two days trying to play it, I never logged in again. Didn't even play out my first "free" Month.
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Around here, Taxi companies are run and worked at by some of the worst assholes of all. Show up when they want, take detours and pretend not to understand you, gouge you as much as possible. I'm glad someone is undercutting them.
As he said then. You're clearly not the target demographic.
Oh fuck OFF. Seriously. What are you, 12 years old?
Oracle management is too busy picking which employees to lay off this quarter to keep the others living in fear to give a shit about a few poor people.
IBM doesn't even make i86/ia64/etc compatible computers anymore. They sold that off to the Chinese company that bought Lenovo YEARS ago. IBM used to love OS/2, aka CONCENTRATED EVIL. I think I'll forgo IBM's opinion on the matter.
" And if you really need windows for some program or so, start it in a VM, not connected to the internet. Problem solved."
Yes. That works really well for A-list games. Oh wait. It doesn't work at all.
Try a solution that Richard Stallman wouldn't suggest. Hmm?
I use my non-work PC to play games. I'm not going to limit myself to only the games that will run by one manner of hackery or another on Linux. I'm not going to "hold out" and "show publishers that they should port to Linux" because the only one that loses out there is ME. I don't get to engage in one of my primary forms of enjoyment, and the publishers that aren't already at least SteamOS friendly, will NEVER come around.
I use Linux for work. Nothing more.
Gee, I don't know. Can you survive being punched, stabbed or shot in retaliation?
Sometimes random tough guy violence has consequences.
Just saying.
The main reason I block (some) ads is that they are a potential vector for malware. I refuse to trust ANY ad broker, because too often you read of them getting compromised and infecting visitors "accidentally". I'll be damned if I let any ad source run scripts in my browser.
and then kill them. They offer nothing to society and the faster this kind of bullshit is seen to be fatal the beter.
Along with Compaq and DEC due to mergers. She's not qualified to manage a Burger King.
True, it is a village full of Village Idiots.
Town is definitely not the right term.
The truly effective method would include not only banning lots that carry it, but publicly identifying the source, and after a couple such lots, dropping that supplier permanently (and announcing it). Once supplying infected stock becomes a business-ending practice, suppliers will become a lot more careful themselves, which is what is truly needed here.
How will the Patriots use this to cheat?
Apple also doesn't have a dead dog in the race, with frequent outages of service due to a single point of email and message failure controlled by their proprietary network. Apple also innovated the hell out of their products. RIM has not done this. It's a "me too" effort at best, and not a very good one.
Outside of organizations married to its corp-friendly proprietary nonsense, RIM has zero reputation right now.
As a developer, I wouldn't spare a thought towards porting my applications to that platform. It's a non-starter.
I've never had that experience with the nvidia hardware. "Carefully calibrate the distance"? sounds like the description of parallax filter montiors that I've read.
what do you mean by "Vaporware"? 3d LCDs for shutter glasses have been around for a while. Just because this isn't on shelves today (near as I can find) doesn't make it "vaporware".
Don't strain your shift key finger there, genius.
They've very much fixed that issue. The integrated driver packs now upgrade everything properly. I haven't had driver issues in over a year with my first-gen 3d vision stuff. Very much looking forward to this new kit. The 27" monitor will also be a great improvement.
Yep. Worst headline skewing I've seen in a while.
We really don't. The article summary was skewed, and the title is just plain incorrect. Title should be
"Tenn. Governor pushes for National Internet Sales Tax" with a note in the summary he's discussing it with Amazon. Discussion does not equate to agreement.
and whoever they gave them to just might. Screw that. destroy them.
Yea that dude got his social skills the same place Hans Reiser did, apparently.
Yep, Tomato VPN is fantastic. I've been running on an ASUS router for quite a while now.
Eh. I'm not going to let that keep me from owning a car that I want. What I DID do is disconnect the coax to the satellite and cell antenna. Now it just has a red "I can't talk to the mothership" telltale in the rearview mirror frame.
Agreed. I had high hopes, but their insistence upon re-inventing EVERYTHING and going against common MMO UI elements (screwed up movement, no way to put things the way you want them) made the game unplayable at best. Last I heard PC and PS3 players weren't on the same servers, so why bother making the game interface dumbed down for the PC? Chat interface was ABSOLUTELY THE WORST one ever created for an MMO. I've played early beta versions of stuff like LOTRO where stuff wasn't completely baked when players were let into the world, and the release chat system in DCU was completely useless.
I'm a huge comic book fan, but the superhero MMOs so far have been disappointing. CoH made endgame play impossible without a group AT ALL TIMES. Champions Online managed to sort of capture the flavor of the P&P game that I loved in the 80s and 90's but then fell into the RMT store crap. DCU Online, for all of it's great license potential, is the biggest crapfest of the lot. After the first two days trying to play it, I never logged in again. Didn't even play out my first "free" Month.