They don't know what to do with the options "Back,Next,Cancel" Either.
I cannot even BEGIN To tell you how many call's i've taken that have gone something like this:
Them - "Yeah i'm trying to install Foobar2000, and it says 'blah blah yadda wibbley boo yoo boo hoo blah, back, next, cancel' , what should I do next?"
Me -........ "Hit next"
Then - "Ok, now it says blah biddy woo hibbely yamma ramma toucan Sam ah, back, next, cancel. - What should I do?"
Me -........ "hit... next"
Them - "Ok, now it says woohey doo nibby iffity wee nee cow tow, back, next, cancel - what should I do?"
Me -........"hit......next"
Them - "Oh, I hit cancel"
/Me commits suicide.
Seriously, when the lay person can't handle "back,next, cancel", can anyone honestly expect apt-get to mean a fuck to them?
I wouldn't call that "Extremely healthy", but the Professional Mental Health Community does recognize that sexual attraction to post-pubescent Adolescents is completely normal, so long as it is not the primary attraction nor to the exclusion of attraction to sexually matured adults.
this is cited in the wikipedia article on Ephebophilia and in many other places as well
it's almost kind of ironic when you think about it...
The typical "answer" to induced hearing loss is...
Wait for it...
AMPLIFICATION!
I wonder if this jackass you went to see would think any differently if you'd have pointed out that a hearing aid is, on a very basic level does exactly the same thing your earbuds do.
"Also, many 4th graders I know think that the *monitor* is the computer. They point at it and say, "That's the computer, isn't it? Why are you fiddling with that other box?" I know that sounds crazy, but that's the way many 9 year olds think."
In my own experiences, this is sadly what most adults think too.
Windows (at least vista and XP) will not grow the page file size until page file demand grows to 150% of current total available page file.
If you are having problems with running out of pagefile space in windows, you have either artificially set it extremely low, or your pc is insanely low on RAM, you're beating the crap out of it and are too cheap to buy more RAM.
For every one of you, there are a THOUSAND more that have ZERO problems.
You have every right to spend, or not spend, your money as you see fit. You're free to not like the DRM either. None of that however, justifies your theft.
Personally if you ask me, it was probably your own ineptitude that led to your supposed DRM "problems" anyway.
do I really need to explain this?
Stop thinking like a scientist and think like a regular shlub.
How many planets do we know of that have even a FRACTION of the water we have here on Earth?
None?
Exactly.
Yes I know water is out there, yes I know there's tons of ice, ice vapor, blah blah blah. none of that means a THING to the purposes of life, if it's not liquid, relatively free of impurities and in a (or was in a) state similar to what we have here on earth.
no, I was talking about liquid water in abundant amounts such as we have here on Earth and ready to gestate life.
I don't think life is going to sprout on any asteriod, no matter how much of it might be ice, any time soon.
Introduce it to some hot young planet and maybe we'll see some action then
elements that make up water != water.
an ice crystal here or there != water
water vapour in any nonsubstantive amount != water.
Yes I was talking about liquid. Did I really need to specify that?
course I did, this is karmawhoresincaaaahhh slashdot after all.
Seriously are we really that surprised we found water on Mars? Considering most of our galaxy is made up of the same compounds here on Earth, I wouldn't doubt if we found water on nearly all our planets, in one form or another.
from our perspective here on earth we might seem to have an overabundance of water, but on a universal scale it's a fairly rare compound. After all, water can only exist in a limited number of states under a limited number of conditions.
"As for the quality of components, it's well known that Dell - and many others - use shit components."
Really? the Inspiron 1720 laptop I bought recently had Hynix memory modules in it. You know who they are right?
They, among other oem's, source parts from many different vendors. Micron's a huge OEM supplier for example. you'll find their RAM populating almost every major PC brand.
had cheap, no-name brand BS boards, bargain-basement RAM
Most OEM's have their boards produced by major label manufacturer's. I can't speak for Dell, but I can tell you for a fact that Asus produced a great many boards in a variety of Compaq/HP machines, and MSI produced boards for Gateway.
Just because a part doesn't have a brand name slapped on it doesn't mean it's a "generic" made part.
While longer recording time WAS one noted reason, it sacrificed quality to do so. Beta was superior in image quality, but consumers didn't care. the longer recording time was perceived as being of more value.
The primary reason was that JVC chose to give the standard away. Wider availability at a cheaper price is what won them the consumer market. However, Sony and Beta completely owned the professional market.
"Teenagers don't care about value, because they have no concept of what value is."
What? This has got to be one of the stupidest things I have ever read.
Of COURSE Teenagers have a value system. They value what is "cool" and "in", and they value those things that fulfill their desires. Are these desires frivolous and impulsive? Well sure, they are, but that's part of being a teenager.
Still, I don't at all see how you conclude that this is somehow an indication that Microsoft is "out of touch" with the younger generation's desires. As a matter of fact i'd say that it's a pretty safe bet that if the typical 13 year old sees Vista and goes "ooh Shiny" then they are indeed "in touch" with at ~least~ that part of their demographic.
If anyone is "out of touch" with anything it's the older generations that refuse to (or are incapable of) understanding and embracing upcoming technologies.
"Most people think it's some horrible complicated process that they need to pay the people at CompUSA $50 to do."
If you buy it there, you don't have to pay them anything to install it - they will do so for free.
I can't find anything on the website that specifically outlines the free installation guidelines, but trust me, they will install most stuff purchased there for no charge in store. I know because I work there.
"The doctors said it's a part of life almost - if you live long enough you're basically guaranteed to get Alhzeimers, Parkinson's Disease, or both."
That's not true. Yes, as you age your motor and mental functions slow down, the brain no longer creates new nerve connections are readily or easily as it did, but Alzheimer's isn't a natural occurance, it's a degenerative DISEASE in which the brain can no longer correctly build new nerve connections and existing ones break down as the cells begin to die off (leading to the loss of memory).
although the risk for developing alzheimers grows as a person ages, there are established patterns of family history that can increase individual risks.
The appeal to animation is that the only limitation is in the writer and animator's imagination. You can do and visualize things with animation in order to more readily suspend disbelief than you can accomplish in a live action movie in a badly done effect can ruin said suspension of disbelief.
I believe that it was the Spawn movie that first used CG in a well stated and obvious manner - and they did some amazing things with that cloak of his, but it still somehow looked "out of place" because of the unrealistically bright shading used in the coloring.
and really, anime isn't about the drawings, it's about the story and the charecters. It's those same basic elements that drive the appeal of the movie, it's just that using animation removes all restrictions on visuals because you can make whatever you want look however you want without having to make any sacrifices in trying to find a location or actor that fits the director's vision - they can simply DRAW exactly what they want to show.
Animation in movies is beginning to become very widespread in the past few years now that computers are capable of producing some very realistic looking renders. you didn't actually thing that was Toby Macguire or a stuntman doing all those amazing acrobatics did you? Even only a few years ago, you could not have readily achieved those effects on a believable level.
Even if you prefer live action, and that's your perrogative if you do, you're still seeing the effects of animation in live action.
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"Some of the ones Sun has been selling for the past few years have been rebranded Fujitsu SPARC64s"
The Mx000 series are not "rebranded", they're co-developed by Sun and Fujitsu
They don't know what to do with the options "Back,Next,Cancel" Either. ........ "Hit next"
........ "hit... next"
........"hit......next"
/Me commits suicide.
I cannot even BEGIN To tell you how many call's i've taken that have gone something like this:
Them - "Yeah i'm trying to install Foobar2000, and it says 'blah blah yadda wibbley boo yoo boo hoo blah, back, next, cancel' , what should I do next?"
Me -
Then - "Ok, now it says blah biddy woo hibbely yamma ramma toucan Sam ah, back, next, cancel. - What should I do?"
Me -
Them - "Ok, now it says woohey doo nibby iffity wee nee cow tow, back, next, cancel - what should I do?"
Me -
Them - "Oh, I hit cancel"
Seriously, when the lay person can't handle "back,next, cancel", can anyone honestly expect apt-get to mean a fuck to them?
I wouldn't call that "Extremely healthy", but the Professional Mental Health Community does recognize that sexual attraction to post-pubescent Adolescents is completely normal, so long as it is not the primary attraction nor to the exclusion of attraction to sexually matured adults.
this is cited in the wikipedia article on Ephebophilia and in many other places as well
The typical "answer" to induced hearing loss is...
Wait for it...
AMPLIFICATION!
I wonder if this jackass you went to see would think any differently if you'd have pointed out that a hearing aid is, on a very basic level does exactly the same thing your earbuds do.
It's served by a Sun Enterprise T5220 with 65GB of ram and 64 Virtual cores that's located in Texas.
it's not fast, it absolutely cannot do streaming video, but it's perfectly usable for general desktop work.
the 1G is an old dog though, newer SunRays i'm sure would perform better.
"Also, many 4th graders I know think that the *monitor* is the computer. They point at it and say, "That's the computer, isn't it? Why are you fiddling with that other box?" I know that sounds crazy, but that's the way many 9 year olds think."
In my own experiences, this is sadly what most adults think too.
Have you ever tried racking a 4U rackmount server? Alone? In the top rails? Believe me, it is not NEARLY as much much as Actual Lego's.
Windows (at least vista and XP) will not grow the page file size until page file demand grows to 150% of current total available page file. If you are having problems with running out of pagefile space in windows, you have either artificially set it extremely low, or your pc is insanely low on RAM, you're beating the crap out of it and are too cheap to buy more RAM.
WoW doesn't need disc DRM, it's an online only game. You can't play it unless you have an active online account anyway.
For every one of you, there are a THOUSAND more that have ZERO problems. You have every right to spend, or not spend, your money as you see fit. You're free to not like the DRM either. None of that however, justifies your theft. Personally if you ask me, it was probably your own ineptitude that led to your supposed DRM "problems" anyway.
"Would be nice if this was more geared towards the server end of things"
in that case what you want is Solaris 10, not OpenSolaris
If all that were true, wouldn't it be alot easier for them to just pick a new name?
do I really need to explain this? Stop thinking like a scientist and think like a regular shlub. How many planets do we know of that have even a FRACTION of the water we have here on Earth? None? Exactly. Yes I know water is out there, yes I know there's tons of ice, ice vapor, blah blah blah. none of that means a THING to the purposes of life, if it's not liquid, relatively free of impurities and in a (or was in a) state similar to what we have here on earth.
no, I was talking about liquid water in abundant amounts such as we have here on Earth and ready to gestate life. I don't think life is going to sprout on any asteriod, no matter how much of it might be ice, any time soon. Introduce it to some hot young planet and maybe we'll see some action then
elements that make up water != water. an ice crystal here or there != water water vapour in any nonsubstantive amount != water. Yes I was talking about liquid. Did I really need to specify that? course I did, this is karmawhoresincaaaahhh slashdot after all.
Seriously are we really that surprised we found water on Mars? Considering most of our galaxy is made up of the same compounds here on Earth, I wouldn't doubt if we found water on nearly all our planets, in one form or another.
from our perspective here on earth we might seem to have an overabundance of water, but on a universal scale it's a fairly rare compound. After all, water can only exist in a limited number of states under a limited number of conditions.
"As for the quality of components, it's well known that Dell - and many others - use shit components."
Really? the Inspiron 1720 laptop I bought recently had Hynix memory modules in it. You know who they are right?
They, among other oem's, source parts from many different vendors. Micron's a huge OEM supplier for example. you'll find their RAM populating almost every major PC brand.
had cheap, no-name brand BS boards, bargain-basement RAM
Most OEM's have their boards produced by major label manufacturer's. I can't speak for Dell, but I can tell you for a fact that Asus produced a great many boards in a variety of Compaq/HP machines, and MSI produced boards for Gateway. Just because a part doesn't have a brand name slapped on it doesn't mean it's a "generic" made part.
While longer recording time WAS one noted reason, it sacrificed quality to do so. Beta was superior in image quality, but consumers didn't care. the longer recording time was perceived as being of more value. The primary reason was that JVC chose to give the standard away. Wider availability at a cheaper price is what won them the consumer market. However, Sony and Beta completely owned the professional market.
"unbearably slow/512 MB of RAM"
recommended Min is 1GB. nuff said.
Why in the world do people continue to be surprised when software runs like crap on hardware below recommended min specs?
"Teenagers don't care about value, because they have no concept of what value is."
What? This has got to be one of the stupidest things I have ever read.
Of COURSE Teenagers have a value system. They value what is "cool" and "in", and they value those things that fulfill their desires. Are these desires frivolous and impulsive? Well sure, they are, but that's part of being a teenager.
Still, I don't at all see how you conclude that this is somehow an indication that Microsoft is "out of touch" with the younger generation's desires. As a matter of fact i'd say that it's a pretty safe bet that if the typical 13 year old sees Vista and goes "ooh Shiny" then they are indeed "in touch" with at ~least~ that part of their demographic.
If anyone is "out of touch" with anything it's the older generations that refuse to (or are incapable of) understanding and embracing upcoming technologies.
or you could have bought a 50 dollar set top DVD player from Walmart and saved yourself ALOT of time AND trouble with the same end effect.
Jesus just because something is rendered out of CGI doesn't mean it HAS to be photo realistic quality, or even push the envelope of model complexity.
It's a Stylistic Design choice, it's got nothing to do with technical capability.
If you buy it there, you don't have to pay them anything to install it - they will do so for free.
I can't find anything on the website that specifically outlines the free installation guidelines, but trust me, they will install most stuff purchased there for no charge in store. I know because I work there.
Yes.. i know.. shut up, it pays the bills.
That's not true. Yes, as you age your motor and mental functions slow down, the brain no longer creates new nerve connections are readily or easily as it did, but Alzheimer's isn't a natural occurance, it's a degenerative DISEASE in which the brain can no longer correctly build new nerve connections and existing ones break down as the cells begin to die off (leading to the loss of memory).
although the risk for developing alzheimers grows as a person ages, there are established patterns of family history that can increase individual risks.
I believe that it was the Spawn movie that first used CG in a well stated and obvious manner - and they did some amazing things with that cloak of his, but it still somehow looked "out of place" because of the unrealistically bright shading used in the coloring.
and really, anime isn't about the drawings, it's about the story and the charecters. It's those same basic elements that drive the appeal of the movie, it's just that using animation removes all restrictions on visuals because you can make whatever you want look however you want without having to make any sacrifices in trying to find a location or actor that fits the director's vision - they can simply DRAW exactly what they want to show.
Animation in movies is beginning to become very widespread in the past few years now that computers are capable of producing some very realistic looking renders. you didn't actually thing that was Toby Macguire or a stuntman doing all those amazing acrobatics did you? Even only a few years ago, you could not have readily achieved those effects on a believable level.
Even if you prefer live action, and that's your perrogative if you do, you're still seeing the effects of animation in live action.