I need people to pour my coffee, pick up my garbage, and scrub the toilets I use each day.
I applaud their decision to opt out of education. We need to nurture people like this. We should provide them with additional distractions beyond their phone. Once they've shown a disinterest in education and the disdain for authority to go with it, we should issue them a portable game unit and a headset.
I bought Warhammer Online, signed up, played for most of the first month, cancelled, and haven't been back since.
That game brought my machine to it's knees, and I have an Intel Q6600-based quad-core machine with 4GB memory with an nVidia 8800GTS video card. It wasn't bad in most of the world, but when I was in the chaos city it became completely unusable.
When I first logged in, there were some people in the beginning areas. Then I didn't log in for a couple days, and those areas were completely deserted. I couldn't find anybody to do the group quests in. I was also getting tired of being one-shotted from a ridiculous distance if I happened to stray to close to an order town.
In the end I was completely underwhelmed with the gameplay, disgusted by the performance, perplexed at the unbelievable linearity of the game, and simply unwilling to waste any more time on it.
...on the shelf beside all the other great Russian software I own. With all the Russian furniture, electronics, vehicles, and other products I've purchased, I'm in danger of becoming an all-Russian household. Combined with their awesome entertainment exports and their domination in popular music, plus their nearly complete lock as the language of hip urban slang I'm sure they'll have no problem at all making their Russian version of linux become a worldwide success.
"The next generation doesn't start until we start it." - Kaz Hirai, Sony
Okay, so he meant this last generation. And, of course, he was wrong. I think Sony would prefer to have the next generation pushed far enough in the future that they can eventually eclipse the 360's sales and claim to have dominated this generation. Otherwise they get to start the next generation as (shudder!) the underdog.
I installed Ubuntu a month ago. When it installed the nVidia driver (at my request), it gave me a status bar that never updated, and then the bar just vanished. It gave no indication anything at all had happened, and no message to restart my X session. Of course it was done - it just never told me.
Then I used the control panel to adjust my settings. Next time I logged in, it was back to defaults. Found out I had to execute the control panel with sudo in order for the change to be permanent, rather than from the menu.
Now that those problems are fixed I would LOVE to know why it takes about ten minutes to shut the system down. In the meantime I stare at a blinking cursor. If I reset it Ubuntu insists an unclean shutdown was done, so it takes forever to boot next time.
I've got an Asus P5B with 4GB memory, and quad core Q6600 this time. You know, in 15-odd years of installing linux once every year or two I have NEVER had a smooth installation, no matter how many HCL's I check, or how much prep work I do. I always end up searching high and low for solutions to ridiculous little problems. This time was far better than last time, but just once I would like a basic install to work properly right after installation.
In order to determine something to be irreducibly complex, all one has to do is find an evaluator with absolutely no analytical ability or imagination.
"I don't see why anyone would pay the fee, just remove it yourself."
Let's say last week I bought the album "Nothing's Free", by "The Capitalists". I paid $9.99. I can buy it this week, for $9.99, and it will be playable on every device I own right out of the gate.
If I want that same freedom for my week-old purchase(assuming I'm a non-technical user), I have to pay $3.
It's a straight up cash grab on Apple's part. They're willing to stick it to the client base that already paid.
I bought three albums on iTunes this past weekend. At least one of them is DRM-laden. Colour me unimpressed, but I'm not really surprised. I don't have rose-coloured glasses on when it comes to Apple. I sometimes use iTunes when it's 3:00 a.m. and I'm hankering for new music. I fire up the Bands Under the Radar podcast and poke around until something catches my fancy. They made it convenient, so I put up with the conversion process to other drm-free formats.
"It's also easy to upgrade your iTunes library to iTunes Plus. You don't have to buy the song or album again. Just pay the 30 per song upgrade price. (Music video upgrades are 60 and entire albums can be upgraded for 30 percent of the album price.)"
" What's so wrong with expressing that opinion neatly in a single character change?"
Nothing is really wrong with it, unless you count that it stopped being funny, witty, or even appreciated many years ago.
It's the equivalent of starting your horror novel with, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Can't you come up with something that isn't just a regurgitation of something a child would do in grade school? It's no more mature than calling somebody 'Smelly' when their real name is 'Kelly'.
"I would say that Inserting a ROW is a FUNDAMENTAL Spreadsheet option, done (by me) more frequently than EVERY ONE OF THOSE options combined! But where is it?
Then you'll be thrilled to know they thought of you.
Select a row, right-click, "insert". No need to go to the menu at all.
Guess how it works for columns? Yep. The same way.
I didn't know it's location on the main menu was problematic. Of course, that's because I found it right away in the most intuitive spot of all - the context-sensitive drop-down menu.
"There are currently 4 cooking recipes missing. They are unobtainable, yet they are required for the Northrend Gourment achievement in which you need to cook 45 of the 46 Northrend recipes. Additionally, you need at least 1 of those recipes to learn 160 recipes for an achievement."
Cooking is useful throughout, recipes are plentiful, and it's apparently enjoyable enough for you to get all the way to the end of the crafting. You're complaining about the "tick" that is the achievement. What you have here, sir, is a nitpick - not a "glaring hole".
"Unfortunately they spent all the time making the game look very very pretty (which, I must admit, it is), and none of it creating anything for any of the professions. There are glaring holes in most of the professions, not to mention the things that have been broken since the launch of the expansion (and let's be fair, in one case, for the last four years), and don't seem to be on the "Fix anytime soon" list."
I may regret asking, but can you elaborate on this claim? I don't see the holes, and the people I know who craft seem to be happy. My main character is an alchemist, and it's been useful throughout.
"Anyone who has played this game more than a few hours knows that Murlocs are not fan favorites. In fact, they are nearly universally detested; Murlocs are one of the most irritating mobs in the game."
A quick poll of the six friends I generally play WoW with reveals that the most irritating mob in the game is the hyena. Four (including me) are indifferent to murlocs, and two would play them as a character race if they could.
"The google service is designed to minimize privacy leaks. It downloads a coarse-hashcheck database (so Google learns nothing). And then if something hits, it queries a detailed hash."
In Apple's defense, they've never promised to do no evil. Their goal is to instill such unswerving devotion in their customer base that when they actually do some evil, it's here and gone in the news, and nothing has to change.
I'd rather have a pragmatist than an idealist any day.
I also don't want to hear never-ending whining from an open source evangelical. If I ask your opinion, and you say Microsoft sucks, that's fine. I asked. But after that, if Microsoft is part of the job, I want to know I don't have to listen to you bitch about it.
In fact, you might describe the environments/toolsets and ask the candidates how they feel about them.
"...but this is yet another case where we see regulations, that are supposedly put in place to improve things for consumers, do the exact opposite."
What, in heaven's name, gives you the idea that regulations are put there to improve things for consumers? Some may, but many are about protecting corporations and industries, and many are about maintaining fovernment control.
Improving things for consumers is somewhere near the bottom of the "why there are regulations" list.
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I need people to pour my coffee, pick up my garbage, and scrub the toilets I use each day.
I applaud their decision to opt out of education. We need to nurture people like this. We should provide them with additional distractions beyond their phone. Once they've shown a disinterest in education and the disdain for authority to go with it, we should issue them a portable game unit and a headset.
I bought Warhammer Online, signed up, played for most of the first month, cancelled, and haven't been back since.
That game brought my machine to it's knees, and I have an Intel Q6600-based quad-core machine with 4GB memory with an nVidia 8800GTS video card. It wasn't bad in most of the world, but when I was in the chaos city it became completely unusable.
When I first logged in, there were some people in the beginning areas. Then I didn't log in for a couple days, and those areas were completely deserted. I couldn't find anybody to do the group quests in. I was also getting tired of being one-shotted from a ridiculous distance if I happened to stray to close to an order town.
In the end I was completely underwhelmed with the gameplay, disgusted by the performance, perplexed at the unbelievable linearity of the game, and simply unwilling to waste any more time on it.
Hyperinflation will do that for you.
...turned Fannie Mae into a financial failure.
...on the shelf beside all the other great Russian software I own. With all the Russian furniture, electronics, vehicles, and other products I've purchased, I'm in danger of becoming an all-Russian household. Combined with their awesome entertainment exports and their domination in popular music, plus their nearly complete lock as the language of hip urban slang I'm sure they'll have no problem at all making their Russian version of linux become a worldwide success.
"The next generation doesn't start until we start it." - Kaz Hirai, Sony
Okay, so he meant this last generation. And, of course, he was wrong. I think Sony would prefer to have the next generation pushed far enough in the future that they can eventually eclipse the 360's sales and claim to have dominated this generation. Otherwise they get to start the next generation as (shudder!) the underdog.
I installed Ubuntu a month ago. When it installed the nVidia driver (at my request), it gave me a status bar that never updated, and then the bar just vanished. It gave no indication anything at all had happened, and no message to restart my X session. Of course it was done - it just never told me.
Then I used the control panel to adjust my settings. Next time I logged in, it was back to defaults. Found out I had to execute the control panel with sudo in order for the change to be permanent, rather than from the menu.
Now that those problems are fixed I would LOVE to know why it takes about ten minutes to shut the system down. In the meantime I stare at a blinking cursor. If I reset it Ubuntu insists an unclean shutdown was done, so it takes forever to boot next time.
I've got an Asus P5B with 4GB memory, and quad core Q6600 this time. You know, in 15-odd years of installing linux once every year or two I have NEVER had a smooth installation, no matter how many HCL's I check, or how much prep work I do. I always end up searching high and low for solutions to ridiculous little problems. This time was far better than last time, but just once I would like a basic install to work properly right after installation.
"OMFG! And is "keyboarding" even a word?"
It appears that "keyboarding" is, in fact, a word.
Perhaps the college in question offers a course on using an online dictionary.
If I eat two pieces in a single bite it gives me a headache. I feel like I taste it over and over and over and over...
In order to determine something to be irreducibly complex, all one has to do is find an evaluator with absolutely no analytical ability or imagination.
Thankfully, those people are everywhere.
"I don't see why anyone would pay the fee, just remove it yourself."
Let's say last week I bought the album "Nothing's Free", by "The Capitalists". I paid $9.99. I can buy it this week, for $9.99, and it will be playable on every device I own right out of the gate.
If I want that same freedom for my week-old purchase(assuming I'm a non-technical user), I have to pay $3.
It's a straight up cash grab on Apple's part. They're willing to stick it to the client base that already paid.
If you want to upgrade your old purchases to DRM-free status, though, you can pay the "upgrade" price.
I bought three albums on iTunes this past weekend. At least one of them is DRM-laden. Colour me unimpressed, but I'm not really surprised. I don't have rose-coloured glasses on when it comes to Apple. I sometimes use iTunes when it's 3:00 a.m. and I'm hankering for new music. I fire up the Bands Under the Radar podcast and poke around until something catches my fancy. They made it convenient, so I put up with the conversion process to other drm-free formats.
"It's also easy to upgrade your iTunes library to iTunes Plus. You don't have to buy the song or album again. Just pay the 30 per song upgrade price. (Music video upgrades are 60 and entire albums can be upgraded for 30 percent of the album price.)"
" What's so wrong with expressing that opinion neatly in a single character change?"
Nothing is really wrong with it, unless you count that it stopped being funny, witty, or even appreciated many years ago.
It's the equivalent of starting your horror novel with, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Can't you come up with something that isn't just a regurgitation of something a child would do in grade school? It's no more mature than calling somebody 'Smelly' when their real name is 'Kelly'.
"I would say that Inserting a ROW is a FUNDAMENTAL Spreadsheet option, done (by me) more frequently than EVERY ONE OF THOSE options combined! But where is it?
Then you'll be thrilled to know they thought of you.
Select a row, right-click, "insert". No need to go to the menu at all.
Guess how it works for columns? Yep. The same way.
I didn't know it's location on the main menu was problematic. Of course, that's because I found it right away in the most intuitive spot of all - the context-sensitive drop-down menu.
"There are currently 4 cooking recipes missing. They are unobtainable, yet they are required for the Northrend Gourment achievement in which you need to cook 45 of the 46 Northrend recipes. Additionally, you need at least 1 of those recipes to learn 160 recipes for an achievement."
Cooking is useful throughout, recipes are plentiful, and it's apparently enjoyable enough for you to get all the way to the end of the crafting. You're complaining about the "tick" that is the achievement. What you have here, sir, is a nitpick - not a "glaring hole".
"Unfortunately they spent all the time making the game look very very pretty (which, I must admit, it is), and none of it creating anything for any of the professions. There are glaring holes in most of the professions, not to mention the things that have been broken since the launch of the expansion (and let's be fair, in one case, for the last four years), and don't seem to be on the "Fix anytime soon" list."
I may regret asking, but can you elaborate on this claim? I don't see the holes, and the people I know who craft seem to be happy. My main character is an alchemist, and it's been useful throughout.
"Anyone who has played this game more than a few hours knows that Murlocs are not fan favorites. In fact, they are nearly universally detested; Murlocs are one of the most irritating mobs in the game."
A quick poll of the six friends I generally play WoW with reveals that the most irritating mob in the game is the hyena. Four (including me) are indifferent to murlocs, and two would play them as a character race if they could.
"Is there any particular reason this is modded +5 Insightful?"
Don't worry. Apple's minions will take care of that shortly!
"Firefox has disclosed jack shit to me. So where's your problem with that?"
I'd have the same problem with them. Of course, I use neither Safari nor Firefox.
"The google service is designed to minimize privacy leaks. It downloads a coarse-hashcheck database (so Google learns nothing). And then if something hits, it queries a detailed hash."
The problem is the lack of disclosure.
In Apple's defense, they've never promised to do no evil. Their goal is to instill such unswerving devotion in their customer base that when they actually do some evil, it's here and gone in the news, and nothing has to change.
So far, so good.
I'd rather have a pragmatist than an idealist any day.
I also don't want to hear never-ending whining from an open source evangelical. If I ask your opinion, and you say Microsoft sucks, that's fine. I asked. But after that, if Microsoft is part of the job, I want to know I don't have to listen to you bitch about it.
In fact, you might describe the environments/toolsets and ask the candidates how they feel about them.
"...but this is yet another case where we see regulations, that are supposedly put in place to improve things for consumers, do the exact opposite."
What, in heaven's name, gives you the idea that regulations are put there to improve things for consumers? Some may, but many are about protecting corporations and industries, and many are about maintaining fovernment control.
Improving things for consumers is somewhere near the bottom of the "why there are regulations" list.
"The problem is that drug laws and enforcement (particulary in the US) are insanely draconian."
Compared to what? There are many places in Asia where possession carries life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
Check this out.
Community service, court-ordered rehab, even a couple of years in jail hardly seems draconian.
In two years I'll be able to pick it up for $149.
That's the great thing about video cards. Even a card that's two generations old is a terrific card, and they're fantastically cheap.