I have my account, that predates Google taking YouTube over. I've resisted all these years going to G+ or giving them more information....but for that, Ihad to give up being able to post comments and replies not only to other peoples' videos, but even to my own.
You CAN post YouTube comments using the old pre google+ identity. You have to manually switch it to the old identity in settings. See that little icon with your name attached on the upper right of the YouTube main page? Click it and you can tell it to use the old identity. Every once in a while in the past they'd switch it back but they haven't done it in a while.
And what is your problem with gaming with windows that isn't 1000 times worse on Sony?
Microsoft IS worse than Sony, always has been. Some divisions of Sony might have a "minor" in evil, but Microsoft has a Double-major in evil, a Minor in evil and is professional chair throwing extend embrace extinguish brand evil.
And as to exclusives, those are just games that are arbitarily held hostage by corporations.
So PC centric developers are holding games hostage as well, right?
As to paying less... you're right... we do... we're less stupid.
You don't pay less, you "spend" less, there's a difference. PC gaming is some Ian in the UK or Ivan in Russia spending all his quid or rubles on a PC, and then pirating all his stuff instead of paying less for hardware and then having money for games.
Or you have the guys playing nothing but one map in something like CS/LoL over and over and over and then BRAGGING that they don't buy games.
And then some people wondering why the PC release of multi-platform releases is an afterthought.
Here, let me give you an anecdote, do you know how Gaijin the developers of war thunder finish funding that game's development? They did a console game that was basically a pre-test of War Thunder:
They openly said that without that game, there would have been no War Thunder.
We also have more control over our platform.
That's right you do, but it leads to:
We have mods.
Mods exist because BRICers and Second Worlders are too cheap to buy games. Gamers who play nothing but free mods are why the PC is an afterthought. Sure there may be a few patches as well, but mods are the favorite of gamers who care more about free-as-in-beer than anything else.
We don't have to pay for multiplayer like complete fucktards. I can't believe you console nitwits pay for MP. That's fucking hilarious.
Servers are a continuing expense that cost money to run don't they? PC gamers pay for WoW or EVE subscriptions, right? So they're idiots too because all games should have free multiplayer? PS+ isn't just multiplayer, there are other benefits as well, besides, it's less than one game a year. $49.95. Yeah yeah, spend $$$ on an overpriced video card but $49.95 a year is too much to help pay for server costs.
You keep lusting after shooters that don't work properly on you consoles because you're using the wrong interface.
What interface is that? Who gets to say an interface is wrong? Isn't choice of UI a good thing? Some people might prefer a certain UI some might prefer something different. After all there are mods that change the UI in PC games, isn't there? And if it's controls that you're actually referring to, who says I can't use different controls?
You endlessly talk about how much better console X looks than console Y...
I don't do that, only idiot shooter and sports game only dudebro gamers do that.
The sony and MS consoles are stupid machines for stupid people.
While I wouldn't say that Windows is an OS for stupid people. I do think that just because one can game on a badly designed general purpose OS like Windows...doesn't mean one should.
The PS4 and the XboxOne are just limited PCs. There's no reason to own one besides caving to corporate hostage taking techniques and ignorance.
Sure there's a reason. Gaming without Microsoft/Windows, at least if you go Sony or Nintendo. There's also the console exclusive games that have never had a PC release. And the consoles are designed specifically for gaming, you don't have to worry about AVG or whatever deciding it wants to run a scan when you're playing, you don't have to worry about the OS monitoring a print spooler, and all the other things Windows does that isn't gaming.
Console gaming is gaming without the hassle.
Besides, PC gamers only "think" they are the master race. PC gamers are actually the cheapskate piracy lovin bourgeois scum of gaming. Filthy PC gamers right there at the bottom with phone gamers and those filthy dudebro console gamers who only play shooters and sports games
This is not even in the same REALM as what Sony did with the PS3. Sony had absolutely no reason to remove the functionality
They thought they had a reason, they were worried about a Linux exploit leading to easy piracy. Sure there was only "proof of concept" stuff, but they were worried about what "might" happen and took preventative steps.
There were also issues with trying to keep OtherOS working properly, after they let their maintainer go. There was a video output compatibility issue with Linux in one of firmwares just prior to 3.21 . IIRC it was 3.10. And we mustn't forget that the partition schemes weren't optimal in the first place. Either you have 10GB of OtherOS and the rest for GameOS (which somewhat cripples Linux) or you have 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux (which seriously cripples GameOS)
and it wasn't optional.
It most certainly was optional. You could keep the older firmware and Linux if you wanted, however since your PS3 was no longer "trusted", you lost access to PSN.
Typing in "screen" and having GNU Screen come up is scary, because that means they are building search results based on your personal information.
Or they might be tailoring the results depending on the User-Agent, in my case: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
I figure they do something like: "If User has Linux Browser User Agent then give priority to Linux related search results"
Explaining why GNU Screen is the first result when I search for "screen"
The article refers to a "Commodore 64 games console." There's no such thing.
Considering the basic hardware design that became the C64 was originally envisioned as a game console, there are TWO game consoles based on C64 technology.
The first being the Commodore Max/Ultimax of 1982 (that's right, it was released BEFORE the C64), basically a C64 with less RAM, no serial or user port, and a membrane keyboard. It was Japan only, but apparently at one time they were planning on releasing the thing more widely. What probably happened is that manufacturing costs of what became the full C64 came down and brought the machine into the price range of MAX. The C64 is fully compatible with MAX cartridges since it has an "Ultimax" mode.
Unlike the MAX it has the full RAM of a C64. This machine was Europe only, probably because Commodore survived longer in Europe thanks to the EU/UK protectionism that made it harder for Nintendo and Sega to sell their consoles at competitive prices. Thats probably also the reason this PET phone is Europe only for now. The current "commodore" being seen as European.
It's Finland, a land where an aspie former pirate that isn't actually a good programmer (I mean really, making a game in Java....that STILL requires Java, rather than writing it in something proper like C), blatantly copies and modifies someone elses game (infiniminer) and becomes a millionaire. Is proven to be lazy and incompetent as a developer and hands over the real work to other people while he does 64K game jams and makes grandiose statements about his next game....written in Java, that he stops developing because he has no real skills and has the attention span of a gnat.
Admits that his company is basically bankrolled by Americans who are actually willing to pay for the software his company makes. His company turns out to be a one hit wonder that is then bought out by a monopolist OS maker.
Finland, land of "Pirate Parties" and "Information wants to be free types" who really don't care about freedom, they just want free games and media
Hey, perhaps Finland would have a "Real" game/media industry instead of a bunch of piddling little crappy phone devs like King (that said Aspie worked for) who make their money from F2P IAP crap sold to Americans, if you all stopped coddling and enabling pirates, hackers and other techno-thugs.
who get a hardon at the idea of changing gaming culture, even if that culture neither wants nor needs to be changed to match the fever swamps of neomarxist feminist ideology.
#define gaming culture. You do know that It's not just guys like you, playing LoL or CoD.
No one is trying to change gaming culture, they're just trying to make the definition more broad, because gamers are a diverse group. But guys like you refuse to acknowledge that and try to make the term "gamer", exclusive, not inclusive.
I also suspected someone would correct my use of the trans-gendered phrase but I am not so good at remembering which one is which and worrying about it.
Dont' worry, no offense taken on my part, when actual transpeople can't remember all the gender-whatever terminology. Especially for the non-binary stuff. Close enough to figure out. I'm one of those who thinks we (transgendered people) shouldn't go postal about terminology use by people who mean well, but just can't keep track of it all.
Hermaphroditic would work I think?
Not anymore, the "intersex" community frowns upon the h-word. that would only be used in the past for those who are physically intersexed. The Intersexed folks can be "very" prickly about terminology. Worse than the transcommunity I'd say. Technically I'm also IS, but the visible part of my condition was relatively minor so I don't identify as IS.
I was kind of shocked that *I* remembered it after all these years. I was a bit older then and had a younger sister so that is where I heard it from.
The song sticks in you head that's for sure, heard background music in a commercial recently that reminded me of it and I had "the letter people song" in my head all day after that. I think I was maybe 10 or 11 when I first heard it, home sick from school, couldn't find anything good on TV, flipped around the few channels we had and it was on PBS. I actually liked it, it had a bit of an actual storyline, even though I was not in the age group for the show. I may have been high on cough syrup something.
I suppose Schoolhouse Rocks is next on the list.
Thank you! That reminds me that I should add "Interplanet Janet" to the spotify playlist for No Man's Sky when it comes out.
Only if you use something like Slack or Gentoo. Install something like Fedora and Gnome is installed by default.
I personally run XFCE and getting the interface the way I like it (panel on the bottom with application menu, quick launch items, window buttons, notification area and clock) doesn't require a third party download.
Here's your first hint: a grey-on-grey list of star, clipboard, privates' stripe, arrow, and doghouse could either be a status display of several inactive features, all disabled, or it could an iconic menu. It's exactly as usable as a list of "M B P D H," meaning useful only as a mnemonic after you know what each button does.
Don't forget the "paper airplane" for "share" What is with "all the flat and grey" these days?
Seriously: 3 horizontal lines - WTF is someone supposed to know that means the same as down-caret (unless the down-caret just toggles between horizontal caret) or as "solar eclipse" (unless "solar eclipse" means run calculations)? Modern GUIs are more about fashion than function, and if you haven't been following the fashion, then you may not realize that "Menu" has changed from a set of nested horizontal lines to just three identical horizontal lines.
I think the 3 horizontal lines comes from the Android "Menu" button.
she uses Yahoo mail.... every few months I get a call from her about not being able to figure out how to get the mail client into the right 3 pane view.
You could try switching her to an actual e-mail client and use Yahoo over POP/IMAP, but that comes with it's own quirks.
I've been running Redhatty distros for 13 years and I haven't had too much trouble with any of those. Well, not until Gnome 3 anyway.
RPM: If you're using RPM to install your RPM's instead of yum or dnf, you're doing it wrong.
PulseAudio: Was a bit quirky a few versions ago, now it just works. It can do things that Alsa/OSS can't
NetworkManager: It's always just worked for me, but I have heard that it had issues with wifi in it's early days. I didn't have that trouble since I used wired with it.
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I have my account, that predates Google taking YouTube over. I've resisted all these years going to G+ or giving them more information....but for that, Ihad to give up being able to post comments and replies not only to other peoples' videos, but even to my own.
You CAN post YouTube comments using the old pre google+ identity. You have to manually switch it to the old identity in settings. See that little icon with your name attached on the upper right of the YouTube main page? Click it and you can tell it to use the old identity. Every once in a while in the past they'd switch it back but they haven't done it in a while.
But we shouldn't have had to do that.
And what is your problem with gaming with windows that isn't 1000 times worse on Sony?
Microsoft IS worse than Sony, always has been. Some divisions of Sony might have a "minor" in evil, but Microsoft has a Double-major in evil, a Minor in evil and is professional chair throwing extend embrace extinguish brand evil.
And as to exclusives, those are just games that are arbitarily held hostage by corporations.
So PC centric developers are holding games hostage as well, right?
As to paying less... you're right... we do... we're less stupid.
You don't pay less, you "spend" less, there's a difference. PC gaming is some Ian in the UK or Ivan in Russia spending all his quid or rubles on a PC, and then pirating all his stuff instead of paying less for hardware and then having money for games.
Or you have the guys playing nothing but one map in something like CS/LoL over and over and over and then BRAGGING that they don't buy games.
And then some people wondering why the PC release of multi-platform releases is an afterthought.
Here, let me give you an anecdote, do you know how Gaijin the developers of war thunder finish funding that game's development? They did a console game that was basically a pre-test of War Thunder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They openly said that without that game, there would have been no War Thunder.
We also have more control over our platform.
That's right you do, but it leads to:
We have mods.
Mods exist because BRICers and Second Worlders are too cheap to buy games. Gamers who play nothing but free mods are why the PC is an afterthought. Sure there may be a few patches as well, but mods are the favorite of gamers who care more about free-as-in-beer than anything else.
We don't have to pay for multiplayer like complete fucktards. I can't believe you console nitwits pay for MP. That's fucking hilarious.
Servers are a continuing expense that cost money to run don't they? PC gamers pay for WoW or EVE subscriptions, right? So they're idiots too because all games should have free multiplayer? PS+ isn't just multiplayer, there are other benefits as well, besides, it's less than one game a year. $49.95. Yeah yeah, spend $$$ on an overpriced video card but $49.95 a year is too much to help pay for server costs.
You keep lusting after shooters that don't work properly on you consoles because you're using the wrong interface.
What interface is that? Who gets to say an interface is wrong? Isn't choice of UI a good thing? Some people might prefer a certain UI some might prefer something different. After all there are mods that change the UI in PC games, isn't there? And if it's controls that you're actually referring to, who says I can't use different controls?
You endlessly talk about how much better console X looks than console Y...
I don't do that, only idiot shooter and sports game only dudebro gamers do that.
The sony and MS consoles are stupid machines for stupid people.
While I wouldn't say that Windows is an OS for stupid people. I do think that just because one can game on a badly designed general purpose OS like Windows...doesn't mean one should.
The PS4 and the XboxOne are just limited PCs. There's no reason to own one besides caving to corporate hostage taking techniques and ignorance.
Sure there's a reason. Gaming without Microsoft/Windows, at least if you go Sony or Nintendo. There's also the console exclusive games that have never had a PC release. And the consoles are designed specifically for gaming, you don't have to worry about AVG or whatever deciding it wants to run a scan when you're playing, you don't have to worry about the OS monitoring a print spooler, and all the other things Windows does that isn't gaming.
Console gaming is gaming without the hassle.
Besides, PC gamers only "think" they are the master race. PC gamers are actually the cheapskate piracy lovin bourgeois scum of gaming. Filthy PC gamers right there at the bottom with phone gamers and those filthy dudebro console gamers who only play shooters and sports games
This is not even in the same REALM as what Sony did with the PS3. Sony had absolutely no reason to remove the functionality
They thought they had a reason, they were worried about a Linux exploit leading to easy piracy. Sure there was only "proof of concept" stuff, but they were worried about what "might" happen and took preventative steps.
There were also issues with trying to keep OtherOS working properly, after they let their maintainer go. There was a video output compatibility issue with Linux in one of firmwares just prior to 3.21 . IIRC it was 3.10. And we mustn't forget that the partition schemes weren't optimal in the first place. Either you have 10GB of OtherOS and the rest for GameOS (which somewhat cripples Linux) or you have 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux (which seriously cripples GameOS)
and it wasn't optional.
It most certainly was optional. You could keep the older firmware and Linux if you wanted, however since your PS3 was no longer "trusted", you lost access to PSN.
Was slashdot actually fast enough in the past that it published news rather than olds?
It was, at least some of the time, on some topics. You'd see "new distro release" posts within a couple hours of a new release.
As for why Slashdot isn't as timely you can blame either:
1. Dice
2. VA
3. Beta
4. The lack of a CowboyNeal option in polls.
5. the reduced number of Soviet russia, Natalie Portman and ??? Profit!, and "you must be new here" jokes.
Scully would never wear pink! Her robe's probably dark "suit blue" or black.
try:
"graphics card review -shop -buy"
But I just slapped "Evga GT750 review" into google and the first 3 sites are actual reviews, the 4th being Evga's own site.
Typing in "screen" and having GNU Screen come up is scary, because that means they are building search results based on your personal information.
Or they might be tailoring the results depending on the User-Agent, in my case: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
I figure they do something like: "If User has Linux Browser User Agent then give priority to Linux related search results"
Explaining why GNU Screen is the first result when I search for "screen"
Spotify is streaming a 320K ogg file.
Only if you pay for the premium service. If not you get 160K, or 96K on mobile.
Amongst The C64GS's weaponry are, games, obscurity, no-keyboard, a Europe only release and fanatical devotion to Jack Tramiel.
The article refers to a "Commodore 64 games console." There's no such thing.
Considering the basic hardware design that became the C64 was originally envisioned as a game console, there are TWO game consoles based on C64 technology.
The first being the Commodore Max/Ultimax of 1982 (that's right, it was released BEFORE the C64), basically a C64 with less RAM, no serial or user port, and a membrane keyboard. It was Japan only, but apparently at one time they were planning on releasing the thing more widely. What probably happened is that manufacturing costs of what became the full C64 came down and brought the machine into the price range of MAX. The C64 is fully compatible with MAX cartridges since it has an "Ultimax" mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Other being the C64GS of 1990 that was mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Unlike the MAX it has the full RAM of a C64. This machine was Europe only, probably because Commodore survived longer in Europe thanks to the EU/UK protectionism that made it harder for Nintendo and Sega to sell their consoles at competitive prices. Thats probably also the reason this PET phone is Europe only for now. The current "commodore" being seen as European.
even now I can here one hooting out in the forest and probably hunting my cat
More likely it's the other way around.
General Kala, Flash Object approaching.
What do you mean Flash Object approaching, open fire, all weapons. Send out HTML5 with AJAX to bring back its body.
I stand corrected, but the "computer culture" of Sweden is pretty much the same as Finland, pirate parties and whatnot.
I wonder where I got the idea Notch and mojang was Finnish? Ahhh, his father's a Finn, must have seen that on wikipedia.
It's Finland, a land where an aspie former pirate that isn't actually a good programmer (I mean really, making a game in Java....that STILL requires Java, rather than writing it in something proper like C), blatantly copies and modifies someone elses game (infiniminer) and becomes a millionaire. Is proven to be lazy and incompetent as a developer and hands over the real work to other people while he does 64K game jams and makes grandiose statements about his next game....written in Java, that he stops developing because he has no real skills and has the attention span of a gnat.
Admits that his company is basically bankrolled by Americans who are actually willing to pay for the software his company makes. His company turns out to be a one hit wonder that is then bought out by a monopolist OS maker.
Finland, land of "Pirate Parties" and "Information wants to be free types" who really don't care about freedom, they just want free games and media
Hey, perhaps Finland would have a "Real" game/media industry instead of a bunch of piddling little crappy phone devs like King (that said Aspie worked for) who make their money from F2P IAP crap sold to Americans, if you all stopped coddling and enabling pirates, hackers and other techno-thugs.
who get a hardon at the idea of changing gaming culture, even if that culture neither wants nor needs to be changed to match the fever swamps of neomarxist feminist ideology.
#define gaming culture. You do know that It's not just guys like you, playing LoL or CoD.
No one is trying to change gaming culture, they're just trying to make the definition more broad, because gamers are a diverse group. But guys like you refuse to acknowledge that and try to make the term "gamer", exclusive, not inclusive.
I also suspected someone would correct my use of the trans-gendered phrase but I am not so good at remembering which one is which and worrying about it.
Dont' worry, no offense taken on my part, when actual transpeople can't remember all the gender-whatever terminology. Especially for the non-binary stuff. Close enough to figure out. I'm one of those who thinks we (transgendered people) shouldn't go postal about terminology use by people who mean well, but just can't keep track of it all.
Hermaphroditic would work I think?
Not anymore, the "intersex" community frowns upon the h-word. that would only be used in the past for those who are physically intersexed. The Intersexed folks can be "very" prickly about terminology. Worse than the transcommunity I'd say. Technically I'm also IS, but the visible part of my condition was relatively minor so I don't identify as IS.
I was kind of shocked that *I* remembered it after all these years. I was a bit older then and had a younger sister so that is where I heard it from.
The song sticks in you head that's for sure, heard background music in a commercial recently that reminded me of it and I had "the letter people song" in my head all day after that. I think I was maybe 10 or 11 when I first heard it, home sick from school, couldn't find anything good on TV, flipped around the few channels we had and it was on PBS. I actually liked it, it had a bit of an actual storyline, even though I was not in the age group for the show. I may have been high on cough syrup something.
I suppose Schoolhouse Rocks is next on the list.
Thank you! That reminds me that I should add "Interplanet Janet" to the spotify playlist for No Man's Sky when it comes out.
Bi-gendered or non-binary, not transgendered! Transgendered would be a consonant transitioning to a vowel.
"Come and meet the letter people....."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Only if you use something like Slack or Gentoo. Install something like Fedora and Gnome is installed by default.
I personally run XFCE and getting the interface the way I like it (panel on the bottom with application menu, quick launch items, window buttons, notification area and clock) doesn't require a third party download.
Remember how you used to be able to right click on a network connection and go 'properties' from the system tray?
Yep, right cllick, edit connections.
Those were the days.
Those ARE the days my friend, I hope they'll never end.
[CronoCloud ~]$ cat
Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two)
a kick in the nuts? I sometimes thinnk the Hanover Fiste approach would be better:
Hanging's too good for them. Burning's too good for them! They should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
Here's your first hint: a grey-on-grey list of star, clipboard, privates' stripe, arrow, and doghouse could either be a status display of several inactive features, all disabled, or it could an iconic menu. It's exactly as usable as a list of "M B P D H," meaning useful only as a mnemonic after you know what each button does.
Don't forget the "paper airplane" for "share" What is with "all the flat and grey" these days?
Seriously: 3 horizontal lines - WTF is someone supposed to know that means the same as down-caret (unless the down-caret just toggles between horizontal caret) or as "solar eclipse" (unless "solar eclipse" means run calculations)?
Modern GUIs are more about fashion than function, and if you haven't been following the fashion, then you may not realize that "Menu" has changed from a set of nested horizontal lines to just three identical horizontal lines.
I think the 3 horizontal lines comes from the Android "Menu" button.
she uses Yahoo mail.... every few months I get a call from her about not being able to figure out how to get the mail client into the right 3 pane view.
You could try switching her to an actual e-mail client and use Yahoo over POP/IMAP, but that comes with it's own quirks.
You'd think that Slashdot editors would try to include that kind of link in the summary as if there's anything worth reading it's the source itself.
Double checks that your UID is newer than mine so that I can give that classic Slashdot response:
You must be new here.
I've been running Redhatty distros for 13 years and I haven't had too much trouble with any of those. Well, not until Gnome 3 anyway.
RPM: If you're using RPM to install your RPM's instead of yum or dnf, you're doing it wrong.
PulseAudio: Was a bit quirky a few versions ago, now it just works. It can do things that Alsa/OSS can't
NetworkManager: It's always just worked for me, but I have heard that it had issues with wifi in it's early days. I didn't have that trouble since I used wired with it.
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