because IE is part of the OS, and what makes spyware such a fucking pain to remove is that hell that we all know and love, the registry. Example: you'd think simply whacking the browser helper object key would remove spyware that loads as a BHO. Well sir, you'd be wrong. There's plenty of other places a BHO can hide out (that don't involve running processes or run keys, just crap related to a BHO).
Any spyware that gets installed in mozilla is as easy to remove as a rm -rf.mozilla. If you plan on installing it system wide, plan on cracking my root password (or asking me for it, which gives a really easy way to let people know spyware is trying to install). Tell me, where in windows can I do a deltree and get rid of all the user specific IE extentions (and not wreck my system)?
I mean, if I got to stop what I'm running just to run Doom 3, why not just reboot to Windows (yeah, I know, we don't all run Windows. There are still _very_ few people without a Windows partition that game).
I can't run UT2003 under slack 9.1. If I'm running a 2.6 kernel, it won't mount and read the CDs no matter what I try. I can installed with a 2.4 kernel, but then I can't update (and consequently join servers). It drives me nuts, especially since if I could just get the damn thing installed once I could copy the whole install dir to a DVD and be done with it (I've been too lazy to put RH 8 or 9 or something on my computer just to install UT2003).
Nor is this for lack of trying. I've been through the faq (thought I had it licked when I compiled joliet into my kernel, no dice). I've googled for what it's worth and tried installing 5 or 6 ways from various combinations of rpms and tar.gz's and with the auto updater (which I've tinkered with too) to no avail. It seems to be a problem with the Manifest.ini not being created right (the file isn't there, and I haven't managed to build it myself).
So no, linux gaming is nowhere's near simple and problem free.
Way back in the 1800's capitalists figured out slavery wasn't nearly as effective or profitable as just manipulating supposed 'free' workers. This folks is why slavery died off, and not any crap spouted by Abe Lincoln. Why go to all the trouble taking care of a slave, which is a pretty big and risky investment, when you can just seize control of society's resources and dole them out as needed to keep the populace in check. The trick is to have a ton of poor, and a small struggling middle class. That way the poor are busy surviving and the middle class are busy getting buy. See, class warfare's fun if you know how to use it:).
WWII mucked all that up for a bit, since there wasn't enough human cattle to go around. But you can thank the Baby Boomers for fucking thier way back to an unecessary surplus population and dooming us all to a life of toil and misery for thier own selfish desires.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day
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and I've been reading a lot of/. . Come on, Walmart has been caught before subsidizing losses in one department with profit from another to put local competitors out of business (I'm too lazy to back this up right now, but they got caught selling cosmetics at a loss and had to pay a fine). Then there's Vlasic Pickles, which was more or less driven out of business trying to keep up with Walmart's demands.
I'll agree, Walmart does have some advantages. But the system they create was _way_ too many disadvangates. None of this matters though, since there's plenty of short sighted or lazy fellows like you (and hell, me too) to keep things going down hill.
What planet are you from?
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Businesses are always looking for _any_ way to increase profits. It doesn't matter how. It's because that's the CEO/management's job, and if they don't do it every chance they get then the short-term thinkin' fucks who drive the stock market will replace them damn fast. Think of it this way, if I'm a CEO and I save the company 100 million a year by outsourcing, chances are good I'll pocket serveral million as a bonus. 'Strong and stable business'? What do I care, I just pocketed 10 million bucks!
Moreover, companies (and CEOs) are increasigly global entities. They move and operatate on a global scale, and can therefor skirt localized nastiness like recessions in one country or bloody revolutions in another. Marx predicted this, but all anyone can remember from him is that Stalin and Mao used his books for rhetoric.
comunities who let Walmart's in see a dramatic rise in the number of people claiming government benefits (medicare/caid, welfare, child care, etc). Walmart pays so little and their benefits suck so much that just about anyone who works there qualifies. They're nothing but a leech on the communities they move in on. Yeah, you're getting low prices now, but they long term impact sucks.
they can do whatever the hell they want. They've got a monopoly. Scratch that, what they've got is even better. They control all the important distribution channels, but since there are plenty of small (mostly inconsequencial) channels available nobody prosecutes them. It's the best of both worlds. So yes, suing is good for them.
Moreover, most people know what they're doing is illegal, and therefore think it's morally wrong. Nevermind who fscked up the whole system is. So when the shit hits the fan and people start getting sued, there isn't a lot of sympathy out there for them.
Finally, people are lazy and dumb and don't care about anything until it affects them directly (and noticably). Get 100 people in a room and see how many know what copyright is, let alone that people are being sued over it. Most people I talk to only know downloading is illegal because they know the stuff is sold in stores and they're smart enough to know that if they're getting it free, something's wrong. I'm met tons of people paying a monthly fee to some 3rd rate Kazaa knockoff who think everything they download is perfectly legal because they 'pay' for it.
No lawsuits, they just tell you to take it up with the Manufacturer. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the Manufacturer is required to accept returns in those curcumstances. Now if we could just get a couple tens of thousands of gaming nerds to buy Blizzard software and then return it right to the manufacturer. This would really fuck them over since they'd have to pay for a) their cost on the game and b) the retailer's profit margin. Oh well, people are lazy, this is not going to happen.
but I don't see anything wrong with associating games and development houses. In fact, I like it. When I buy a game made by Treasure or Tri-Ace, I know exactly what I'm getting (Same for Acclaim, it goes both ways:) ). If it's teams of people building them games, the only sensible way to identify who makes what is by team, and teams are usually broken up by publisher.
It's the same for anime actually. I don't worry about who directed Evangelion or FLCL, I just know it's Gainex, so it'll rock.
The fact that we focus so heavily on the Director of a movie here in the States is the result of some _very_ clever marketing by the Director's Guild (it that way they call themselves?).
these machines aren't being used to run linux in most cases. It means Linux isn't making as many Desktop converts as it seems/we'd like to see. This of course sucks. We're gonna need lots of regular joe linux users for when Microsoft starts trying to kill it with patents. Otherwise noone's gonna care (noone that matters, anyway), when that happens.
Here in Tucson Arizona We've got a used Book/Game store called Bookmans. Try selling _any_ microsoft stuff there (save Xbox games) and they won't buy it. Microsoft threatened to sue them for buying and selling OEM copies of Windows (98 at the time, but it applies to all OS's now). They won't even buy boxed retail Microsoft software. I tried to sell a copy of Dungeon Seige for Christ's sake and they wouldn't take it.
It's not that they couldn't win, it's that they couldn't afford the lawsuit.
be one of the first things you get done in the game? I know, beating a dead horse and all... I gave up on DNF when the big headed morons took the Jetpack out because they didn't want to risk me missing one second of their fantastic level design. Here's a hint idiots, if it's that good, I'll go back and play it with and without the jetpack, like I did for the first Duke Nukem 3D.
Mantango's suppose to be a classic. It's actually a Toho monster movie(one of the few non-Kaiju flicks). I imagine the dub leaves something to be desired though. They probably tried too hard to Americanize the thing...
and untill AMD has something comparable, I don't care what they've got. Well, I guess AMD might kick butt in the highend workstation market for a while, but elsewhere where the need for performance isn't so great that you don't see impressionable idiots making IT decisions they're still gonna get spanked. I mean, come on, who came up with 'AMD me'? It sounds either silly, stupid or dirty, depending on your mood/social background.
They're not a 'hive mind', they just have a 'hive mentality'. The difference is, they're individuals, but their insect nature makes it basically impossible for them to function outside the hive. They get scared, kinda like super agoraphobia. This is why they make such good workers, you can treat them as bad as you want and they'll take it from fear of being kicked out of the hive.
Along with every other PC vender. Besides, why sell one copy of Longhorn when you can sell two (XBox + PC).
And I don't recommend you get too chummy with Microsoft. Right now they're coddling their developers to compete with Sony. After all, the real money's in license fees. Ignoring that's what killed the Saturn.
99% of viruses drop themselves in the Windows registry run keys. If these are clean, I really doubt you've got a virus. Oh, and linux not having a registry helps too:).
Or Operation Wolf. Or any of the dozens of Arcade games from the 80's/90's that had force feed back. How the hell did Sony lose this one? Did they give up hoping this company would charge patent fees to competitors and drive 'em out of business? Seems pretty far fetched, but not as far fetched as Sony droping the ball on this one.
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because IE is part of the OS, and what makes spyware such a fucking pain to remove is that hell that we all know and love, the registry. Example: you'd think simply whacking the browser helper object key would remove spyware that loads as a BHO. Well sir, you'd be wrong. There's plenty of other places a BHO can hide out (that don't involve running processes or run keys, just crap related to a BHO). .mozilla. If you plan on installing it system wide, plan on cracking my root password (or asking me for it, which gives a really easy way to let people know spyware is trying to install). Tell me, where in windows can I do a deltree and get rid of all the user specific IE extentions (and not wreck my system)?
Any spyware that gets installed in mozilla is as easy to remove as a rm -rf
I mean, if I got to stop what I'm running just to run Doom 3, why not just reboot to Windows (yeah, I know, we don't all run Windows. There are still _very_ few people without a Windows partition that game).
I can't run UT2003 under slack 9.1. If I'm running a 2.6 kernel, it won't mount and read the CDs no matter what I try. I can installed with a 2.4 kernel, but then I can't update (and consequently join servers). It drives me nuts, especially since if I could just get the damn thing installed once I could copy the whole install dir to a DVD and be done with it (I've been too lazy to put RH 8 or 9 or something on my computer just to install UT2003).
Nor is this for lack of trying. I've been through the faq (thought I had it licked when I compiled joliet into my kernel, no dice). I've googled for what it's worth and tried installing 5 or 6 ways from various combinations of rpms and tar.gz's and with the auto updater (which I've tinkered with too) to no avail. It seems to be a problem with the Manifest.ini not being created right (the file isn't there, and I haven't managed to build it myself).
So no, linux gaming is nowhere's near simple and problem free.
Way back in the 1800's capitalists figured out slavery wasn't nearly as effective or profitable as just manipulating supposed 'free' workers. This folks is why slavery died off, and not any crap spouted by Abe Lincoln. Why go to all the trouble taking care of a slave, which is a pretty big and risky investment, when you can just seize control of society's resources and dole them out as needed to keep the populace in check. The trick is to have a ton of poor, and a small struggling middle class. That way the poor are busy surviving and the middle class are busy getting buy. See, class warfare's fun if you know how to use it :).
WWII mucked all that up for a bit, since there wasn't enough human cattle to go around. But you can thank the Baby Boomers for fucking thier way back to an unecessary surplus population and dooming us all to a life of toil and misery for thier own selfish desires.
and I've been reading a lot of /. . Come on, Walmart has been caught before subsidizing losses in one department with profit from another to put local competitors out of business (I'm too lazy to back this up right now, but they got caught selling cosmetics at a loss and had to pay a fine). Then there's Vlasic Pickles, which was more or less driven out of business trying to keep up with Walmart's demands.
I'll agree, Walmart does have some advantages. But the system they create was _way_ too many disadvangates. None of this matters though, since there's plenty of short sighted or lazy fellows like you (and hell, me too) to keep things going down hill.
Businesses are always looking for _any_ way to increase profits. It doesn't matter how. It's because that's the CEO/management's job, and if they don't do it every chance they get then the short-term thinkin' fucks who drive the stock market will replace them damn fast. Think of it this way, if I'm a CEO and I save the company 100 million a year by outsourcing, chances are good I'll pocket serveral million as a bonus. 'Strong and stable business'? What do I care, I just pocketed 10 million bucks!
Moreover, companies (and CEOs) are increasigly global entities. They move and operatate on a global scale, and can therefor skirt localized nastiness like recessions in one country or bloody revolutions in another. Marx predicted this, but all anyone can remember from him is that Stalin and Mao used his books for rhetoric.
comunities who let Walmart's in see a dramatic rise in the number of people claiming government benefits (medicare/caid, welfare, child care, etc). Walmart pays so little and their benefits suck so much that just about anyone who works there qualifies. They're nothing but a leech on the communities they move in on. Yeah, you're getting low prices now, but they long term impact sucks.
they can do whatever the hell they want. They've got a monopoly. Scratch that, what they've got is even better. They control all the important distribution channels, but since there are plenty of small (mostly inconsequencial) channels available nobody prosecutes them. It's the best of both worlds. So yes, suing is good for them.
Moreover, most people know what they're doing is illegal, and therefore think it's morally wrong. Nevermind who fscked up the whole system is. So when the shit hits the fan and people start getting sued, there isn't a lot of sympathy out there for them.
Finally, people are lazy and dumb and don't care about anything until it affects them directly (and noticably). Get 100 people in a room and see how many know what copyright is, let alone that people are being sued over it. Most people I talk to only know downloading is illegal because they know the stuff is sold in stores and they're smart enough to know that if they're getting it free, something's wrong. I'm met tons of people paying a monthly fee to some 3rd rate Kazaa knockoff who think everything they download is perfectly legal because they 'pay' for it.
but if this gives you a woody, you have issues. Now this on the other hand...
No lawsuits, they just tell you to take it up with the Manufacturer. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the Manufacturer is required to accept returns in those curcumstances. Now if we could just get a couple tens of thousands of gaming nerds to buy Blizzard software and then return it right to the manufacturer. This would really fuck them over since they'd have to pay for a) their cost on the game and b) the retailer's profit margin. Oh well, people are lazy, this is not going to happen.
they've tried to patent charging people money. Still, I don't see how that'll stand, the IRS so has prior art...
but I don't see anything wrong with associating games and development houses. In fact, I like it. When I buy a game made by Treasure or Tri-Ace, I know exactly what I'm getting (Same for Acclaim, it goes both ways :) ). If it's teams of people building them games, the only sensible way to identify who makes what is by team, and teams are usually broken up by publisher.
It's the same for anime actually. I don't worry about who directed Evangelion or FLCL, I just know it's Gainex, so it'll rock.
The fact that we focus so heavily on the Director of a movie here in the States is the result of some _very_ clever marketing by the Director's Guild (it that way they call themselves?).
these machines aren't being used to run linux in most cases. It means Linux isn't making as many Desktop converts as it seems/we'd like to see. This of course sucks. We're gonna need lots of regular joe linux users for when Microsoft starts trying to kill it with patents. Otherwise noone's gonna care (noone that matters, anyway), when that happens.
Here in Tucson Arizona We've got a used Book/Game store called Bookmans. Try selling _any_ microsoft stuff there (save Xbox games) and they won't buy it. Microsoft threatened to sue them for buying and selling OEM copies of Windows (98 at the time, but it applies to all OS's now). They won't even buy boxed retail Microsoft software. I tried to sell a copy of Dungeon Seige for Christ's sake and they wouldn't take it.
It's not that they couldn't win, it's that they couldn't afford the lawsuit.
cats aren't better, just superior. There is a difference, and the cat knows it.
they work for peanuts, you know?
be one of the first things you get done in the game? I know, beating a dead horse and all... I gave up on DNF when the big headed morons took the Jetpack out because they didn't want to risk me missing one second of their fantastic level design. Here's a hint idiots, if it's that good, I'll go back and play it with and without the jetpack, like I did for the first Duke Nukem 3D.
Mantango's suppose to be a classic. It's actually a Toho monster movie(one of the few non-Kaiju flicks). I imagine the dub leaves something to be desired though. They probably tried too hard to Americanize the thing...
No joke. These could make nice 'break mes' for when I'm studying for Certs (which in turn provides a convient excuse to buy an Xbox :) ).
and untill AMD has something comparable, I don't care what they've got. Well, I guess AMD might kick butt in the highend workstation market for a while, but elsewhere where the need for performance isn't so great that you don't see impressionable idiots making IT decisions they're still gonna get spanked. I mean, come on, who came up with 'AMD me'? It sounds either silly, stupid or dirty, depending on your mood/social background.
WarioWare Inc. 2 to 10 seconds is plenty.
They're not a 'hive mind', they just have a 'hive mentality'. The difference is, they're individuals, but their insect nature makes it basically impossible for them to function outside the hive. They get scared, kinda like super agoraphobia. This is why they make such good workers, you can treat them as bad as you want and they'll take it from fear of being kicked out of the hive.
Along with every other PC vender. Besides, why sell one copy of Longhorn when you can sell two (XBox + PC).
And I don't recommend you get too chummy with Microsoft. Right now they're coddling their developers to compete with Sony. After all, the real money's in license fees. Ignoring that's what killed the Saturn.
99% of viruses drop themselves in the Windows registry run keys. If these are clean, I really doubt you've got a virus. Oh, and linux not having a registry helps too :).
Or Operation Wolf. Or any of the dozens of Arcade games from the 80's/90's that had force feed back. How the hell did Sony lose this one? Did they give up hoping this company would charge patent fees to competitors and drive 'em out of business? Seems pretty far fetched, but not as far fetched as Sony droping the ball on this one.