My first mac was an PM8500, I skipped the G3,s and had a G4, now currently I use a Dual G5, which I will probably still use for another year or two before I really need to switch to an Intel based one or whatever they come out with next. But either way I never used Appleworks/Clarisworks and I don't use iWork or whatever their new one is. I guess I'm an MS Whore, but that's what my work always used and maybe that is why I always used that at home too.
I just went to the verizon wireless website and see tons of phones that are $9.99 when you sign up. I don't know if they have a camera or mp3 player on them, but who cares if they do?
Download the DVD Rip? Really, a good quality Movie can find it's way to anyones hard drive as a nice 700mb-1g Quicktime *.Mov File. I see no reason to waste my time/money on purchasng DVD media all the time. I only use my burner for making music CDs for my car.
Sure I guess this won't let me use the best HDTV features or some such thing as someone will point out, but the movies still look fine to me via my s-video cable and non-HD tv.
Honestly I've never been a big fan of the keyboard. I use my mouse whenever I can over the keyboard, whether it's at work or at home for games. I can see why this person does value the keyboard though from the article he states "I challenge you to find a hundredth as many IT professionals who prefer the mouse as who prefer the keyboard when either will perform a given action." And there you have it - he's thoughts and opinions are coming from the point of someone who's job really doesn't require much in the way of mouse. Now let's replace a word here and there...
"I challenge you to find a hundredth as many Graphic Artists who prefer the keyboard as who prefer the mouse when either will perform a given action."
In actuallity their are a lot of different mice/trackballs out on the market that are cheep inexpensive and can have their buttons mapped to do a lot of tasks. While I may still use Apple+S to save my work, I'll always use my mouse to click the center text icon, rather than hit Shft+Apple+C - but that's just me and what I like.
Over a decade ago when I used to work at CompUSA the tech department did the same thing. If someone brought in their system to be worked on, the tech goes through it and sees what the problem is. Along he way if the person has a collection of porn, music or videos that we found interesting for whatever reason we would always copy them over to our jazz drives or external hard drives.
Oh and if they had child porn - we'd call the police.
How dare you post this silly piece of trash article. I'm gonna use my e-thuggery to beat the living snot out of you Mr. Slashdot you cry baby pansy. Why don't you go back into your room and listen to The Killers new album you Grand Emo Queen of Sandy-Vaj from Tearland. You disgust me.
At MS it is our commitment to better our security on all our applications. In 2006 we spent over 284 days researching and developing a series of bug fixes for our IE product line. This gave us over 98 days where IE was impenetrable to attackers and didn't require the need for any patches. Mozilla would like to claim that there product is safer than ours, yet they admit themselves that they had a period of 9 days where their browser was highly vulnerable to hackers and exploits. IE offers a web experience unsurpassed by any other browsers, compatible with every major website online today. If you choose to use an alternative browser it will still have flaws, but MS Windows allows you to choose, and having choices is what MS is all about. Would you really not want to have a choice in web browsers? Would you really want to only have Firefox and that be the end all be all to browsers? People need to have a choice, that's part of why this great country of America was founded.
Really, "If PINs can be compromised, the almost 8 billion transactions per year they handle may be in danger. Not to mention all the transaction at retail stores." take a breath and calm down. It's not like any kid off the street with basic knowledge of a computer is going to be able to walk into radio shack and hack his way into your bank account. This isn't the movies, it's reality in order to pull this off you would have to have someone working in a bank and monitoring the transactions who would leak, reroute, or copy this information. All activities which would almost instantly flag him or at least have him arrested the next day.
Hay guess what, that 16 year old who helped you in the washington mutual, when she pulled up your account info she had access to see how much funds you have, the type of accounts you have, and even your personal information like address and SS# - you want to know why she doesn't steal your info and cash? Cause she'd get found out very quickly arrested.
Hell I'd vote for any successful business man who could get backed by either the Donkeys or Elephants. Course if he flew under any of the smaller parties it'd just be a wasted vote.
I know I was thinking of starting my own nuclear weapons program here in my basement, but shit, if I won't be able to buy a new plasma tv next year then fuck this shit, it's so not worth it.
My terabyte storage device I got at fry's electronics can't even hold all my tv shows, movies, porn and homemade video clips. The iPod and storage in general has a long, long, long way to go before we can boast of anything, especially a small device that clips on to ones shirt or jacket, being able to hold the entire worlds videos. Of course then the world's videos will be increasing too as more and more people take more video.
Sure I suppose the point they were trying to make was that the iPod in 10 years time will be even more uber popular crazy sexy cool than it is now, but really there are better ways to go about saying it. Maybe I'm just being moody today.
My work had some ergonomics person come in and monitor us for a few minutes and ask us questions about our chairs and desks. Apparently someone at my work must have developed some sort of carpal tunnel or something because in the 6 years I've been here this was the first time I was ever asked about how I liked my desk or chair. Anyway I don't actually sit in my chair, I tend to curl up into it, and essentially I sit on one leg at a time and lean to the left or right depending on which leg is under me. I also am a big fan of occasionally placing both feet up on the APC under the desk and leaning from side to side.
In addition to this I don't stay in any one position very long, but rather am constantly shifting or moving from time to time. The lady interviewing me told me that this was actually good and that only people who confine themselves to one given position for a very long time (read entire work day) are the ones who generally have trouble or develop problems with their joints.
So slither and fidget in your chair, it's good for you.
For starters I feel that I have enough friends. I live with my fiancé, have about 6 reliable friends I can depend on for anything and our chinchilla. As for my neighbors, why would I want to know them? As I said I have enough friends and don't want anymore. However I can tell you their names and even how much their home costs thanks to sites like Google and Zillow.
If I want to know what the temperature is like outside I open my dashboard on my Mac, but really who cares because I have central air and can adjust the temperature in my home to the degree I feel is perfect for me.
As far as the socializing goes, well, although my circle may play MMO's together we also get together to play P&P type games. Why do I need to go outside to a bar or club again? Oh yeah that's right, I'm supposed to be a consumer whore like good old BO.
Spending 40 hours a week playing a game is fine, but it's what you do during that 40 hours is what makes things either fun or tedious. If I play 8 hours a day 5 days a week grouping with guildies/linkshell or random players slaying beasts, completing quests etc. That's fun and great. But if I have to spend that time playing solo killing the same creatues over and over so that I can play with people again next week...well whats the point of the game being a "Massive Multiplayer"?
But you don't have to be a crafter for the story to progress in FFXI. True, instead you have to complete missions and quests which delevel you, so if in the future you wish to help another person do them you have to have the levels appropriate gear, which means you are constantly having to spend gil for various equipment or keep every set of gear you ever aquire. Tedious.
Things like crafting are not for the casual players that only want to kill things. Casual players have nothing to do with my post. But I have met some who say they enjoy crafting in games and the social aspect more than leveling and killing things.
I happen to think the crafting in FFXI is awesome, in how many other games are there crafted items that only like ten people on any given server has? The availability of ingredients and the "difficulty" of crafting ensures that some recipies succeed very rarely. I think having limited availability for items is great. I know in WoW there are a few epic items and enchants that only a few people on each server have. For example a particular caster friendly sword called a sageblade is only craftable by a total of 3 people on the server I play on. As far as the difficulty of getting items, I did bone crafting in FFXI and none of the items were difficult to obtain. It just required me to get the items from various parts of the world. The slow down was more of a travel issue than a hard to find issue. As for failure in crafting, failing is one thing, losing materials when you fail is just plain not fun.
Casual players that want to see the storyline of a game should not be playing mmos. Pick another game, one that you enjoy playing. People need to stop whining about how games are implemented and start playing games they like instead of trying to change the games they play. Just because you don't like spending hours in game doing pointless things doesn't mean you have to ruin the game for everyone else. Again my post has nothing to do with casual players, but isn't the point of playing role playing games making online friends and following a story line?. As far as people whining about game changes, well in EQ/FFXI I didn't realize what I was getting into, WoW on the other hand was marketed entirely different, and is still very fun for all player types from levels 1 to 60. However over the couple years the game has changed very dramatically, they changed the end game dungeons to 15 then to 10 then to 5 players only and introduced new dungeons that were only 40 and 20 man dungeons. The new content coming out now is definately impressive looking and fun, but it's not what the original game was marketed as or what it played like for the first year and a half of it's life.
The current issue I have with WoW is that I don't think the developers know what they want to do, they will change a class ability, then change it back, my class the warlock has had major changes to it since the beginning of release, and not like minor changes, but class breaking/overpowering changes done, as have many others. The other issue is quest objectives get changed all the time as well. The AV battleground was changed dramatically to allow for various quests to be completed in the zone then to no quests completed in the zone, then random mobs were introduced, then they took them away but introduced more npcs, now they are saying next patch they will take out all the npcs. It makes for an ever changing world in the worse possible way imo.
I couldn't agree more. After several years of playing MMO's from EQ, to FFXI and now about to quit WoW, I find that each complained about farmers. But the reason why farmers existed was because the choice for players was:
A) Spend a combination of 40 hours playing a game killing creatures to buy a sword so you can continue following the game's story line, quests, and continue playing with others B) Pay some dude $20 and buy the sword so you can continue following the game's story line, quests, and continue playing with others.
I think the worst example of poor game design was FFXI. In it you had crafting skills which required pieces from all over the world. You could literally spend an entire weekend aquiring the materials and spend 2 hours watching the materials critically fail and now you are out the items you spent 40 hours worth of WORK in addition to into and haven't gained much progression for your character. MMO's are all about playing with other people and advancing, yet developers purposefully create time boring sinks which cause people to rely on farmers in order to get back to the fun parts of the game.
In my opinion if an MMO came out that modeled Diablo or FF in the sense that would allow soloability (the option of playing with others is better than having to play with others - see WoW's user base) as well as by the time you reached max level you're character could easily afford anything he wanted or needed without having to "farm" you'd have a solid game and one that could potential be the end all be all of MMO's.
But unfortunately no one wants to make one. All the companies hire designers who enjoy forcing people to play variable classes in certain ways, farm for greater amounts of time than playing with others, and insist on making MMO's more tedious and annoying. Why? Because the longer it takes you to achieve your goals, the longer you have to pay them a monthly fee.
Seriously, you'd think after seeing what GTA went through a couple years ago gaming companies would realize that if someone can figure out a way to access nude pixels from your game (and they will) then you will get slapped with a Mature rating.
There are so many people who rave about Buffy and Firefly and sometimes I feel like I am not understanding why these people still feel these are good shows. THEY SUCK. The writing is mediocre the plots are cliche and the actors are B at best. What the hell is wrong with you people?! Am I the only nerd who sees that some people are seriously misguided and insane?
I feel like the bad guy in zoolander who was the only one who realized that all the "looks" were the FUCKING SAME....
Why not just forget about time zones, day light savings and create a new universal global time. So what if it makes my 8am-5pm job change to 1am-9am or if it means I eat lunch during the night. It just seems like we are slowly outgrowing the need for this, as many people work normal hours that used to be considered odd (such as graveyard shifts)
Actually we need to outlaw the internet because that encourages trafficing of Pornography, Offensive Violent Material, SOFTWARE PIRACY, MUSIC PIRACY, MOVIE PIRACY, and baby eating alien molesters from California.
The guy they had running the.iq addresses was arrested for funneling money to terrorists. Instead of just finding a replacement from another official they chose to run it themselves - and by that I mean not let anyone use it. Now that the US is pretending to show people they care about the Iraq citizens by giving them back their internet and supplying McDonalds we need to have ICANN place another palestinian in control of the.iq's.
I think the problem is that ICANN is NOT an independant body nor "quasi-independant" as the article suggests....
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My first mac was an PM8500, I skipped the G3,s and had a G4, now currently I use a Dual G5, which I will probably still use for another year or two before I really need to switch to an Intel based one or whatever they come out with next. But either way I never used Appleworks/Clarisworks and I don't use iWork or whatever their new one is. I guess I'm an MS Whore, but that's what my work always used and maybe that is why I always used that at home too.
I was about to reply to this blurb and saw your post - you summed up everything I was gonna rant on perfectly.
Congrats for finding multiple tutorials on keyboard shortcuts?
I just went to the verizon wireless website and see tons of phones that are $9.99 when you sign up. I don't know if they have a camera or mp3 player on them, but who cares if they do?
Download the DVD Rip? Really, a good quality Movie can find it's way to anyones hard drive as a nice 700mb-1g Quicktime *.Mov File. I see no reason to waste my time/money on purchasng DVD media all the time. I only use my burner for making music CDs for my car.
Sure I guess this won't let me use the best HDTV features or some such thing as someone will point out, but the movies still look fine to me via my s-video cable and non-HD tv.
Honestly I've never been a big fan of the keyboard. I use my mouse whenever I can over the keyboard, whether it's at work or at home for games. I can see why this person does value the keyboard though from the article he states "I challenge you to find a hundredth as many IT professionals who prefer the mouse as who prefer the keyboard when either will perform a given action." And there you have it - he's thoughts and opinions are coming from the point of someone who's job really doesn't require much in the way of mouse. Now let's replace a word here and there...
"I challenge you to find a hundredth as many Graphic Artists who prefer the keyboard as who prefer the mouse when either will perform a given action."
In actuallity their are a lot of different mice/trackballs out on the market that are cheep inexpensive and can have their buttons mapped to do a lot of tasks. While I may still use Apple+S to save my work, I'll always use my mouse to click the center text icon, rather than hit Shft+Apple+C - but that's just me and what I like.
Over a decade ago when I used to work at CompUSA the tech department did the same thing. If someone brought in their system to be worked on, the tech goes through it and sees what the problem is. Along he way if the person has a collection of porn, music or videos that we found interesting for whatever reason we would always copy them over to our jazz drives or external hard drives.
Oh and if they had child porn - we'd call the police.
How dare you post this silly piece of trash article. I'm gonna use my e-thuggery to beat the living snot out of you Mr. Slashdot you cry baby pansy. Why don't you go back into your room and listen to The Killers new album you Grand Emo Queen of Sandy-Vaj from Tearland. You disgust me.
At MS it is our commitment to better our security on all our applications. In 2006 we spent over 284 days researching and developing a series of bug fixes for our IE product line. This gave us over 98 days where IE was impenetrable to attackers and didn't require the need for any patches. Mozilla would like to claim that there product is safer than ours, yet they admit themselves that they had a period of 9 days where their browser was highly vulnerable to hackers and exploits. IE offers a web experience unsurpassed by any other browsers, compatible with every major website online today. If you choose to use an alternative browser it will still have flaws, but MS Windows allows you to choose, and having choices is what MS is all about. Would you really not want to have a choice in web browsers? Would you really want to only have Firefox and that be the end all be all to browsers? People need to have a choice, that's part of why this great country of America was founded.
Really, "If PINs can be compromised, the almost 8 billion transactions per year they handle may be in danger. Not to mention all the transaction at retail stores." take a breath and calm down. It's not like any kid off the street with basic knowledge of a computer is going to be able to walk into radio shack and hack his way into your bank account. This isn't the movies, it's reality in order to pull this off you would have to have someone working in a bank and monitoring the transactions who would leak, reroute, or copy this information. All activities which would almost instantly flag him or at least have him arrested the next day.
Hay guess what, that 16 year old who helped you in the washington mutual, when she pulled up your account info she had access to see how much funds you have, the type of accounts you have, and even your personal information like address and SS# - you want to know why she doesn't steal your info and cash? Cause she'd get found out very quickly arrested.
Hell I'd vote for any successful business man who could get backed by either the Donkeys or Elephants. Course if he flew under any of the smaller parties it'd just be a wasted vote.
I know I was thinking of starting my own nuclear weapons program here in my basement, but shit, if I won't be able to buy a new plasma tv next year then fuck this shit, it's so not worth it.
My terabyte storage device I got at fry's electronics can't even hold all my tv shows, movies, porn and homemade video clips. The iPod and storage in general has a long, long, long way to go before we can boast of anything, especially a small device that clips on to ones shirt or jacket, being able to hold the entire worlds videos. Of course then the world's videos will be increasing too as more and more people take more video.
Sure I suppose the point they were trying to make was that the iPod in 10 years time will be even more uber popular crazy sexy cool than it is now, but really there are better ways to go about saying it. Maybe I'm just being moody today.
No seriously, that's what I was told, kinda.
My work had some ergonomics person come in and monitor us for a few minutes and ask us questions about our chairs and desks. Apparently someone at my work must have developed some sort of carpal tunnel or something because in the 6 years I've been here this was the first time I was ever asked about how I liked my desk or chair. Anyway I don't actually sit in my chair, I tend to curl up into it, and essentially I sit on one leg at a time and lean to the left or right depending on which leg is under me. I also am a big fan of occasionally placing both feet up on the APC under the desk and leaning from side to side.
In addition to this I don't stay in any one position very long, but rather am constantly shifting or moving from time to time. The lady interviewing me told me that this was actually good and that only people who confine themselves to one given position for a very long time (read entire work day) are the ones who generally have trouble or develop problems with their joints.
So slither and fidget in your chair, it's good for you.
For starters I feel that I have enough friends. I live with my fiancé, have about 6 reliable friends I can depend on for anything and our chinchilla. As for my neighbors, why would I want to know them? As I said I have enough friends and don't want anymore. However I can tell you their names and even how much their home costs thanks to sites like Google and Zillow.
If I want to know what the temperature is like outside I open my dashboard on my Mac, but really who cares because I have central air and can adjust the temperature in my home to the degree I feel is perfect for me.
As far as the socializing goes, well, although my circle may play MMO's together we also get together to play P&P type games. Why do I need to go outside to a bar or club again? Oh yeah that's right, I'm supposed to be a consumer whore like good old BO.
Spending 40 hours a week playing a game is fine, but it's what you do during that 40 hours is what makes things either fun or tedious. If I play 8 hours a day 5 days a week grouping with guildies/linkshell or random players slaying beasts, completing quests etc. That's fun and great. But if I have to spend that time playing solo killing the same creatues over and over so that I can play with people again next week...well whats the point of the game being a "Massive Multiplayer"?
But you don't have to be a crafter for the story to progress in FFXI.
True, instead you have to complete missions and quests which delevel you, so if in the future you wish to help another person do them you have to have the levels appropriate gear, which means you are constantly having to spend gil for various equipment or keep every set of gear you ever aquire. Tedious.
Things like crafting are not for the casual players that only want to kill things.
Casual players have nothing to do with my post. But I have met some who say they enjoy crafting in games and the social aspect more than leveling and killing things.
I happen to think the crafting in FFXI is awesome, in how many other games are there crafted items that only like ten people on any given server has? The availability of ingredients and the "difficulty" of crafting ensures that some recipies succeed very rarely.
I think having limited availability for items is great. I know in WoW there are a few epic items and enchants that only a few people on each server have. For example a particular caster friendly sword called a sageblade is only craftable by a total of 3 people on the server I play on. As far as the difficulty of getting items, I did bone crafting in FFXI and none of the items were difficult to obtain. It just required me to get the items from various parts of the world. The slow down was more of a travel issue than a hard to find issue. As for failure in crafting, failing is one thing, losing materials when you fail is just plain not fun.
Casual players that want to see the storyline of a game should not be playing mmos. Pick another game, one that you enjoy playing. People need to stop whining about how games are implemented and start playing games they like instead of trying to change the games they play. Just because you don't like spending hours in game doing pointless things doesn't mean you have to ruin the game for everyone else.
Again my post has nothing to do with casual players, but isn't the point of playing role playing games making online friends and following a story line?. As far as people whining about game changes, well in EQ/FFXI I didn't realize what I was getting into, WoW on the other hand was marketed entirely different, and is still very fun for all player types from levels 1 to 60. However over the couple years the game has changed very dramatically, they changed the end game dungeons to 15 then to 10 then to 5 players only and introduced new dungeons that were only 40 and 20 man dungeons. The new content coming out now is definately impressive looking and fun, but it's not what the original game was marketed as or what it played like for the first year and a half of it's life.
The current issue I have with WoW is that I don't think the developers know what they want to do, they will change a class ability, then change it back, my class the warlock has had major changes to it since the beginning of release, and not like minor changes, but class breaking/overpowering changes done, as have many others. The other issue is quest objectives get changed all the time as well. The AV battleground was changed dramatically to allow for various quests to be completed in the zone then to no quests completed in the zone, then random mobs were introduced, then they took them away but introduced more npcs, now they are saying next patch they will take out all the npcs. It makes for an ever changing world in the worse possible way imo.
I couldn't agree more. After several years of playing MMO's from EQ, to FFXI and now about to quit WoW, I find that each complained about farmers. But the reason why farmers existed was because the choice for players was:
A) Spend a combination of 40 hours playing a game killing creatures to buy a sword so you can continue following the game's story line, quests, and continue playing with others
B) Pay some dude $20 and buy the sword so you can continue following the game's story line, quests, and continue playing with others.
I think the worst example of poor game design was FFXI. In it you had crafting skills which required pieces from all over the world. You could literally spend an entire weekend aquiring the materials and spend 2 hours watching the materials critically fail and now you are out the items you spent 40 hours worth of WORK in addition to into and haven't gained much progression for your character. MMO's are all about playing with other people and advancing, yet developers purposefully create time boring sinks which cause people to rely on farmers in order to get back to the fun parts of the game.
In my opinion if an MMO came out that modeled Diablo or FF in the sense that would allow soloability (the option of playing with others is better than having to play with others - see WoW's user base) as well as by the time you reached max level you're character could easily afford anything he wanted or needed without having to "farm" you'd have a solid game and one that could potential be the end all be all of MMO's.
But unfortunately no one wants to make one. All the companies hire designers who enjoy forcing people to play variable classes in certain ways, farm for greater amounts of time than playing with others, and insist on making MMO's more tedious and annoying. Why? Because the longer it takes you to achieve your goals, the longer you have to pay them a monthly fee.
Seriously, you'd think after seeing what GTA went through a couple years ago gaming companies would realize that if someone can figure out a way to access nude pixels from your game (and they will) then you will get slapped with a Mature rating.
GG Noobs.
There are so many people who rave about Buffy and Firefly and sometimes I feel like I am not understanding why these people still feel these are good shows. THEY SUCK. The writing is mediocre the plots are cliche and the actors are B at best. What the hell is wrong with you people?! Am I the only nerd who sees that some people are seriously misguided and insane?
I feel like the bad guy in zoolander who was the only one who realized that all the "looks" were the FUCKING SAME....
Why not just forget about time zones, day light savings and create a new universal global time. So what if it makes my 8am-5pm job change to 1am-9am or if it means I eat lunch during the night. It just seems like we are slowly outgrowing the need for this, as many people work normal hours that used to be considered odd (such as graveyard shifts)
Thanks you made me laugh with this article.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
The key cards at hotels don't hold anything but the room number and number of nights it needs to work.
Hay since I can check out in the mornings using the television does that mean the TV holds all my CC info too?
Read up and use some common sense before posting an article. kthx bye.
Actually we need to outlaw the internet because that encourages trafficing of Pornography, Offensive Violent Material, SOFTWARE PIRACY, MUSIC PIRACY, MOVIE PIRACY, and baby eating alien molesters from California.
wow...I can't help but feel News Corp got ripped off...now if it were $650 Million pennies....maybe....but even thats a little high to pay for IGN. :P
The guy they had running the .iq addresses was arrested for funneling money to terrorists. Instead of just finding a replacement from another official they chose to run it themselves - and by that I mean not let anyone use it. Now that the US is pretending to show people they care about the Iraq citizens by giving them back their internet and supplying McDonalds we need to have ICANN place another palestinian in control of the .iq's.
I think the problem is that ICANN is NOT an independant body nor "quasi-independant" as the article suggests....