My only complaint is that e-filing should be free software provided by the government and not commercial entities.
That was the plan. Some years ago, the IRS thought: "Hey! It would save a lot of time and paperwork if we could get everyone to file electronically. Lets start working on that and give away the software."
The tax preparation services caught wind of that and put an end to it. First by restricting who could originally e-file to licensed preparers (so that back in the early days e-filing could cost hundreds of dollars or more, putting out of reach of lower income folks) Eventually the IRS got pissed and had enough congressional allies to get a compromise.
Seems like that's the prerogative of the Feds, but those under a certain income bracket do get free filing and software.
Lower income and younger people get free-filing, in exchange for the tax preparers getting the middle and upper income folks and people over 52 so they don't lose their revenue stream. Course, the tax preparation/tax software companies do major advertising to sell their non-free boxed software and services and try to make people think they need them.
However some states were able to implement their own systems separately...which is why sites like HR block don't offer free filing in Illinois. Illinois hosts it's own solution, on it's own website, very easy and totally free and no upsell.
That's a new card, and a lot of people don't do upgrades...at...all. To a lot of people spending $150 on something to put IN their computer is something they don't do. External devices are different.
Never heard of anyone in my age group wanting a console system. Every adult gamer I know does PC gaming.
Selection bias, if you're a "PC Gamer master race" kind of guy you probably self-select friends of a similar sort.
I find it strange that a grown man would want to play online console games with a bunch of kids... That's just creepy...
The majority of console gamers are adults, it's been that way since the PSone days. What makes you think they're kids? Haven't you seen all the PS4 and Xbox One ads featuring adult gamers?
Besides, being young, you're probably a bit to concerned with appearing "adult". Let me quote CS Lewis:
âoeCritics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.â
and probably a new power supply...most $150 cards will require one...most basic desktops won't have a power supply with the additional PCI-E power connector.
But most people aren't comfortable doing that. They don't open their machine's case.
You'd think they'd have another bundle that included that DVD-RW, HDD, and Win 7 for 299.
I'm not a PC gamer, bout the only things I do on a PC that needs a video card are Second Life and STO, but I have a similar box purchased back in 2010 (dual-core).
So anybody that says gaming can only be done on some $1200 monster is frankly full of bull.
While I agree, some PC enthusiasts and some of the PC gamer oriented media tend to think that $1200 is a baseline rig and to be a "real" PC gamer you should spend more.
Which tells you to use system-config-samba, which is the standard GUI Samba configuration tool, not a third party "hack". You can still do it manually, but you don't have to.
The users won't be able to do this themselves. ("After editing/etc/samba/smb.conf, restart Samba for the changes to take effect." - Ubuntu documentation)
I don't know why it says to edit smb.conf directly when the easy button way to set up Samba is with "system-config-samba"
While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.
Then again, it is not ugly.
Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.
I'm surprised that they haven't put some kind of DTSS/BASIC system up for people to shell into to see what it was like. I know there's a simulator, but they could put up a system with that XYZ and other things I've seen in this discussion. I had heard about DTSS before, but never got to experience anything like that...unlike some other lucky Slashdotters with high schools privileged enough to have a terminal connected to some university system.
You think Catch-22 style entry barriers improve quality of available applications.
I think it'll keep the riff-raff like Bob Pelloni and others like them out, that's a good thing.
. Finally, you think people who want to enter any of several industries should prepare to relocate. With this I agree. But preparation for a such a major life event is not immediate. It takes time to hone a portfolio and save up income from a day job to cover relocation costs.
Perhaps I haven't made this point clear. You don't need to relocate until you have the job. You can send resumes/portfolios/interviews while you're where you're at. You don't move until you have the offer, and you don't take the offer unless they offer to subsidize your relocation expenses.
Also there's nothing stopping you from Google Play...RIGHT NOW....got anything up there? No? Why not?
Besides, isn't King famous for a puzzle game clone?
Yep, just an example though because Notch worked there and most wannabe-indies worship the guy.
What I ALSO see is that we are having the coldest winter in years and yet LEFT WING MORONS are still harping on about global warming.
A Cold winter is "localized weather", regional
Global warming is "global climate", meaning global averages.
You can have global warming and still have a cold winter in the US. We will just have fewer of them and they'll tend to be less and less cold. Which is what has been happening. Used to have winters like this more often. I'm old enough to remember when snow before Halloween wasn't uncommon.
Eventually over time, the localized climate shifts to the climate type that was to the south of you. Say Chicago becoming more like Louisville Kentucky, or worse.. Vicksburg Mississippi or even Worse...Mexico City. It'll still have lake effect, but it's averages will be more similar to Louisville, or Vicksburg, or Mexico City
This supposed bad winter was NOTHING compared to the ones of the late 70's.
Which is what you would expect, right? And the sort of games Slashdotters mention when talking about how much they love their keyboards and mice for gaming.
The truth is, I don't know how many console games have mouse/keyboard support because I haven't even tested all of mine. Support is often not listed on the game box or documentation, the PS2 port of Deus Ex is an example of that. Doesn't mention it at all. Support also sometimes exists where you don't expect it, the PSN Gauntlet II port is one, you can play it with a keyboard.
Bob's game is your reference? Bob Pelloni was a flake, you don't think Nintendo couldn't figure that out?
The day of a single guy in a basement is over. If you don't want to deal with the gatekeepers find another platform. If you want to do a game on a specific platform, you deal with the gatekeepers for it.
I agree on the chill, but the fake uber-nerd on NCIS is actually...a nerd. Pauley Perrette was a grad student in criminal science when she got into acting.
Now Kristen Vangsness (Garcia on Criminal Minds), as far as I know...is not a geek.
Hmmm, I wonder if there's any Abby/Penelope slash fic.
Perhaps people would want to play more substantial Android games on a portable device if only stores would sell a portable device with a directional control and discrete action buttons.
Why would they do that when the the DS and Vita are right on the shelves with better quality games. Hell the upcoming Vita version of Minecraft is utterly superior to the Android version because the Vita version is based on the console versions code, not the PE edition.
Unlike Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo platforms, they make it easy for a small business to become an authorized developer.
Fuck indies and fuck whiny wannabe developers. I'm tired of you grinding this axe. They are not the be-all of gaming any more than EA or Activision is. You want to be a game developer? Then DO THE FUCKING WORK and quit whining because you can't publish whatever puzzle game clone you want to do on the Wii because Nintendo doesn't want to let aspie wannabe's on their console without proven ability.
Go sign on with some phone game developer already, Gameloft, King, whatever. That's where Markus Persson got his start, working for hated King.
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My only complaint is that e-filing should be free software provided by the government and not commercial entities.
That was the plan. Some years ago, the IRS thought: "Hey! It would save a lot of time and paperwork if we could get everyone to file electronically. Lets start working on that and give away the software."
The tax preparation services caught wind of that and put an end to it. First by restricting who could originally e-file to licensed preparers (so that back in the early days e-filing could cost hundreds of dollars or more, putting out of reach of lower income folks) Eventually the IRS got pissed and had enough congressional allies to get a compromise.
Seems like that's the prerogative of the Feds, but those under a certain income bracket do get free filing and software.
Lower income and younger people get free-filing, in exchange for the tax preparers getting the middle and upper income folks and people over 52 so they don't lose their revenue stream. Course, the tax preparation/tax software companies do major advertising to sell their non-free boxed software and services and try to make people think they need them.
However some states were able to implement their own systems separately...which is why sites like HR block don't offer free filing in Illinois. Illinois hosts it's own solution, on it's own website, very easy and totally free and no upsell.
That's a new card, and a lot of people don't do upgrades...at...all. To a lot of people spending $150 on something to put IN their computer is something they don't do. External devices are different.
I've got a rev2 GK208-based GT640 myself, 49 watts IIRC. this one:
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeF...
It is NOT listed on EVGA's site, not even in the support section.
Never heard of anyone in my age group wanting a console system. Every adult gamer I know does PC gaming.
Selection bias, if you're a "PC Gamer master race" kind of guy you probably self-select friends of a similar sort.
I find it strange that a grown man would want to play online console games with a bunch of kids... That's just creepy...
The majority of console gamers are adults, it's been that way since the PSone days. What makes you think they're kids? Haven't you seen all the PS4 and Xbox One ads featuring adult gamers?
Besides, being young, you're probably a bit to concerned with appearing "adult". Let me quote CS Lewis:
âoeCritics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.â
and probably a new power supply...most $150 cards will require one...most basic desktops won't have a power supply with the additional PCI-E power connector.
But most people aren't comfortable doing that. They don't open their machine's case.
I thought you ran Linux and thusly ran nVidia?
You'd think they'd have another bundle that included that DVD-RW, HDD, and Win 7 for 299.
I'm not a PC gamer, bout the only things I do on a PC that needs a video card are Second Life and STO, but I have a similar box purchased back in 2010 (dual-core).
So anybody that says gaming can only be done on some $1200 monster is frankly full of bull.
While I agree, some PC enthusiasts and some of the PC gamer oriented media tend to think that $1200 is a baseline rig and to be a "real" PC gamer you should spend more.
Agreed. Consoles are something parents buy for their kids and teenagers who don't have full computer permission.
That may be the case outside of the Anglophone countries and Japan...but in the Anglophone countries and Japan consoles are for EVERYONE.
Me either. But that's what the manual says.
Lucid Lynx...2010. Hmm.
The Fedora docs from that same period are these:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/...
Which tells you to use system-config-samba, which is the standard GUI Samba configuration tool, not a third party "hack". You can still do it manually, but you don't have to.
The users won't be able to do this themselves. ("After editing /etc/samba/smb.conf, restart Samba for the changes to take effect." - Ubuntu documentation)
I don't know why it says to edit smb.conf directly when the easy button way to set up Samba is with "system-config-samba"
Because DCUO isn't and FreeRealms wasn't?
Cryptic with STO and SOE with DCUO as well.
Yep, I feel the same way about STO, I'd play it more except it doesn't work very well under Wine now.
I'm experiencing the symptoms descibed in the Performance Degradation subthread:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...
A couple of months ago, I was getting annoyed by the ugliness of my "golf ball" Olympic Research Science Vessel,
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Resea...
so I ponied up some cash for some points to get a Nebula.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advan...
While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.
Then again, it is not ugly.
Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Long_...
Course, everyone loves the Intrepid.
IIRC I thought the army already had tested one of these on a modified Abrams?
Or a laser version of same, which IIRC they are also working on.
That's a myth, look it up. Besides the GAU-8 cannon has always been off center with the firing barrel being at centerline.
I'm surprised that they haven't put some kind of DTSS/BASIC system up for people to shell into to see what it was like. I know there's a simulator, but they could put up a system with that XYZ and other things I've seen in this discussion. I had heard about DTSS before, but never got to experience anything like that...unlike some other lucky Slashdotters with high schools privileged enough to have a terminal connected to some university system.
You think Catch-22 style entry barriers improve quality of available applications.
I think it'll keep the riff-raff like Bob Pelloni and others like them out, that's a good thing.
. Finally, you think people who want to enter any of several industries should prepare to relocate. With this I agree. But preparation for a such a major life event is not immediate. It takes time to hone a portfolio and save up income from a day job to cover relocation costs.
Perhaps I haven't made this point clear. You don't need to relocate until you have the job. You can send resumes/portfolios/interviews while you're where you're at. You don't move until you have the offer, and you don't take the offer unless they offer to subsidize your relocation expenses.
Also there's nothing stopping you from Google Play...RIGHT NOW....got anything up there? No? Why not?
Besides, isn't King famous for a puzzle game clone?
Yep, just an example though because Notch worked there and most wannabe-indies worship the guy.
What I ALSO see is that we are having the coldest winter in years and yet LEFT WING MORONS are still harping on about global warming.
A Cold winter is "localized weather", regional
Global warming is "global climate", meaning global averages.
You can have global warming and still have a cold winter in the US. We will just have fewer of them and they'll tend to be less and less cold. Which is what has been happening. Used to have winters like this more often. I'm old enough to remember when snow before Halloween wasn't uncommon.
Eventually over time, the localized climate shifts to the climate type that was to the south of you. Say Chicago becoming more like Louisville Kentucky, or worse.. Vicksburg Mississippi or even Worse...Mexico City. It'll still have lake effect, but it's averages will be more similar to Louisville, or Vicksburg, or Mexico City
This supposed bad winter was NOTHING compared to the ones of the late 70's.
Which is what you would expect, right? And the sort of games Slashdotters mention when talking about how much they love their keyboards and mice for gaming.
The truth is, I don't know how many console games have mouse/keyboard support because I haven't even tested all of mine. Support is often not listed on the game box or documentation, the PS2 port of Deus Ex is an example of that. Doesn't mention it at all. Support also sometimes exists where you don't expect it, the PSN Gauntlet II port is one, you can play it with a keyboard.
I've done that and it hasn't worked yet!
Bob's game is your reference? Bob Pelloni was a flake, you don't think Nintendo couldn't figure that out?
The day of a single guy in a basement is over. If you don't want to deal with the gatekeepers find another platform. If you want to do a game on a specific platform, you deal with the gatekeepers for it.
I can name 6 PS2 games off the top of my head that support both.
Unreal Tournament
FFXI
Deus Ex
Dirge of Cerberus
Half Life.
EQOA
There's more besides these.
More than 2, I have several within 10 feet of me that support one or the other, or both.
Every PS3 game that uses the standard PS3 text input widget for any reason supports USB keyboard for text input.
I agree on the chill, but the fake uber-nerd on NCIS is actually...a nerd. Pauley Perrette was a grad student in criminal science when she got into acting.
Now Kristen Vangsness (Garcia on Criminal Minds), as far as I know...is not a geek.
Hmmm, I wonder if there's any Abby/Penelope slash fic.
Perhaps people would want to play more substantial Android games on a portable device if only stores would sell a portable device with a directional control and discrete action buttons.
Why would they do that when the the DS and Vita are right on the shelves with better quality games. Hell the upcoming Vita version of Minecraft is utterly superior to the Android version because the Vita version is based on the console versions code, not the PE edition.
Unlike Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo platforms, they make it easy for a small business to become an authorized developer.
Fuck indies and fuck whiny wannabe developers. I'm tired of you grinding this axe. They are not the be-all of gaming any more than EA or Activision is. You want to be a game developer? Then DO THE FUCKING WORK and quit whining because you can't publish whatever puzzle game clone you want to do on the Wii because Nintendo doesn't want to let aspie wannabe's on their console without proven ability.
Go sign on with some phone game developer already, Gameloft, King, whatever. That's where Markus Persson got his start, working for hated King.