Nazis were in the dinner scene in Hong Kong. Same with the archaeologist. Snakes are at the big feast in India. I'll give you the last one...the stone was not world famous.
...everyone in the office has been using windows for the last 15 years and needs to be completely retrained.
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I have an undergrad degree in CS. I own both an xbox and a good gaming computer. I enjoy playing games on both. FPS's are harder to control on the xbox, but Bungie does a good job making it work with their Halo games. I don't know how they do it, it just works. The original Halo in coop mode was more fun for me than any FPS game I've played on the computer. Yes, more fun than Deux Ex, more fun than Half Life, more fun than Doom 2. The Halo games are just extremely well designed and polished games, things you will never see in a PC game because of the release it now, patch it later mentality. When it comes down to it, I don't like a game because it has great graphics, great sound, or great controls...I like a game because its fun to play. Halo is damn fun to play!
He's such an exaggerator and liar...I heard from Rush that he gave an interview and claimed to have "Invented the Internet..." Yeah, and I invented the paperclip!
Well, I don't know if Cox gave any of my information out. It looks like the MPAA (or someone similar) notified Cox that a specific IP address was uploading copyrighted content, and Cox shut down the address. If I get a letter from the MPAA though, I'm going to be extremely pissed that Cox gave my info out.
I downloaded a popular recent movie off of a suprnova bittorrent link, and the next day my internet connection was down. I called up the Cox customer support and they gave me another number to call but wouldn't tell me who I was calling. I called the other number and the guy on the other end knew the exact movie I had downloaded, explained politely that I was not supposed to be "uploading" that movie (which bittorrent automatically does), and then turned my internet connection back on.
I asked the guy if Cox was monitoring my usage, and he said no, that "someone else" had called them to complain. I assume this someone else was the MPAA or somebody working for them.
America is both a Democracy and a Republic. We are not a direct democracy, we do not make every decisions purely through a popular vote, which is what you may be alluding to. We vote democratically for our representatives, making our government an indirect democracy. The word "Republic" is pretty much synonymous with "Indirect Democracy" as far as how they are used to describe the United States government (Both just mean a government where the people elect their representatives). So, we are both a democracy and a republic.
This means that anyone can connect to their network with full administrative control by logging in to 192.168.1.1 with no username and the password "admin" as published in the Linksys manuals
So it was only a passing interest. That's fine by me. (Of course you realize the hardware support issues are due to market size and vendors not releasing specs, not any misgivings of the Open Source community.)
I suppose it was a passing interest. I'm a programmer and was considering doing some of my development in Linux. Basically just trying to "test the waters." Turns out the water was freezing cold and I stepped on a stingray. Oh, and I never said anything about the open source community. I think you are taking my criticisms of Linux a little too personally. Anyways, I don't care whose fault it is that my hardware doesn't have support. If it doesn't have support, I'm going to use an OS where it does have support...especially if the hardware in question is something expensive like a video card or motherboard.
Thats great that Linux works fine for you. You probably know all the ins and outs of how to use it correctly. I don't. I tried to learn but it got too frustrating and was taking too much time for it to be worth it to me.
Meanwhile I've installed Linux on probably around 30 different hardware combinations since 1995 with very few problems. And I'm very happy to be using a system that doesn't have any of the standard MS issues regarding stability and security.
Try getting a system with an nvidia2 mainboard chip to run a 3d game. You're going to have to do some hacking. I'm a gamer, and if I can't use my video card correctly without knowing how to patch a kernel...forget it. As far as MS issues of stability and security, stability hasn't been an issue since W2k, and security is handled the same way you handle it when you use Linux: don't be stupid and you'll be fine. Install a firewall and antivirus program, and you can stop 99.9 percent of attacks.
Hmmm. So you let a hardware issue with your particular system shape your entire opinion of the operating system, pushing you away from further interest.
Ummm...yes. Linux was a horrible bitch for me to get working. I have mainstream hardware that Windows has no problem with, and Linux choked on it. I honestly don't think most everyday users would have put as much effort as I did into getting Linux to work as easily as Windows.
Supported hardware abounds, and it is relatively cheap and much less stressful to replace a piece of unsupported hardware than to curse the situation.
Well, the hardware that I could not get working was a mainstream, 3 year old webcam and my mainstream, 1 year old motherboard chipset (nvidia2). I'm not about to go out and spend a couple hundred dollars and a day of setup time when I can just switch back to Windows XP which I have no problems with.
That is, of course, if you truly have an interest in using a new environment.
I did have an interest, probably more of an interest than your average user who Linux people are trying to convert to their OS. That interest quickly faded when I realized I had to recompile the freakin kernel to get 3d acceleration working. The most windows has ever asked me to do to solve ANY problem as been to install the latest driver of whatever hardware I am having a problem with. Point, click, done. I like that windows is going to get competition for the desktop sometime in the future from Linux, but I can admit that that time is definitely not now.
Morrowind just didn't do it for me. I like the open-endedness, and I don't mind not having specific goals, but the world just didn't pull me in. Sure, there was lots to do. You could go clear out dungeons, join and advance in guilds, aimlessly explore, but I never really got the feeling that this was a living, breathing world. Virtually all the wildlife creatures you encountered would attack you (by essentially making a beeline right at you once you got within a certain range), townpeople would have no real lives aside from waiting for you to trigger a conversation, things felt too small. Yes, I do mean small...I know morrowind was large but it felt like a huge world scaled down into a bunch o sub-areas...like ohhh, heres the volcanic area, walk for ten minutes and now you are in the swamp area...walk into a town and its like ten houses all packed together with one of each kind of shop, and a bunch of people standing around doing nothing. It just didn't feel like a real world at all.
The gameplay all consisted of going on quests to either kill someone or retrieve an item for someone. The dialog system was terrible, and it never made you feel like you were actually talking to anyone, just probing them like encyclopedias for information on specific topics.
Thats just my opinion, but I've talked to others that have these problems with the Elder Scrolls series. Too much focus on making a big world, and not enough on making that world engrossing.
Mandrake 9.2 was the last one I attempted. My ATI graphics card could not do 3d acceleration without recompiling a patch into the kernel (never figured out how to do this but what I did learn was very obscure shell commands), and the fonts in mozilla were horrible looking. There was some weird way of getting antialiased fonts to work, but I couldn't figure it out. Oh, and installing firefox as a non-root user was extremely painful and required lots of newsgroup scouring.
I'll come back to Linux when I don't have to deal with these issues. I simply don't have the time to learn the intricacies.
Calling things "stories" is another example of the latest tech marketing speak. I swear to god if I hear that buzzword again, this story is not going to have a very happy ending...
I haven't had to reboot my windows 2000 machine for weeks.
no intrusive update process ie: Windows Update popping up messages asking me stuff while I try and work
How often does this happen? Maybe once a week? You can turn this feature off, you know...
no downtime due to viruses
I use a virus scanner (AVG). I have never had a virus cause any problems of my PC. I have gotten viruses before off the internet, but the virus scanner catches them and gets rid of them. This happens maybe once a month.
no wasted web browsing sessions due to popups
I use firefox. No popups. Some of my friends use IE with popup blockers. This isn't really a problem anymore except for completely clueless users (who wouldn't be able to use Linux anyways).
no wasted email time due to spam
This has nothing to do with you operating system. You can run spam blockers/filters on any decent email program.
worrying about if my keystrokes are being logged when I buy stuff online
It sounds like you are talking about a trojan...Virus scanners catch these.
Its not hard to set up a simple virus scanner and firewall. Its certainly easier than setting up a Linux box. Linux is only an option if you have gobs of time on your hands to learn all kinds of obscure shell commands and other garbage than a normal everyday user should never have to know.
I'm too busy to have to do battle with my PC when all I really want to do is get my work done then kick back with a beer and chill
This was not my experience with Linux. I had to constantly battle my PC to get drivers to work, make sure kernels were compiled with bug fixes, get fonts to appear correctly, etc...It took days and days of scouring the internet and man pages to get many basic things like 3d acceleration working. Linux has quite a ways to go before its ready for the everyday user in my opinion...
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I don't need nor want some dumbass "I'm smarter than you, and doing this for your own good" 1337 prick trying to install SP4 for me
A worm like this would only be able to get into computers that are unprotected, so assuming you're a security concious fellow, you wouldn't have to worry about it. Now, if your computer was vulnerable, wouldn't it be better that your computer gets patched (and possibly screws up your dvd player) than having an unprotected machine waiting to get hosed by some hacker?
I'm actually sypathetic to the belief that a vulnerable computer connected to the internet is a hazard to the internet as a whole, as it can easily become a DDOS/Spam zombie, and therefore somebody is in the right to patch the hole, through nefarious means if necessary.
Option 4:
Realize that no nation would risk its own destruction by using a nuclear weapon against another nuclear power (Formerly known as M.A.D), and help the North Korean economy as much as possible (by supporting capitalistic experiments such as the Kaesong Industrial Region), therefore helping the nation become self sufficient. Oh, and also nix the whole "Axis of Evil" label to make them think they are at risk of invasion.
Conservative thinking is intellectual. The Republican party, as it stands now, is anti-intellectual. The party is led right now by a small, militaristic, and very scary faction called the Neoconservatives. Their ideals appeal to dumb people who have kneejerk reactions to complex problems. Frankly, I see them, and what they stand for, as evil.
The ends certainly justify the means in the situation of getting these guys out of power. I support using every trick in the book to do it.
If personal attacks is what it takes to get Bush out of office, I'm all for them. Republicans use dirty tricks all the time, and the party that is nice will lose this one. If the Democrats are going to win this one, they've got to get mean. I know its against an intellectual mindset to do this, but now is the time to fight, and fight dirty.
No, I think they were all given memories. All of the replicants would have failed that test. Remember, Rachel failed the test at the beginning, and she was given the memories of Tyrell's niece. When Deckard explains this to her, she freaks out.
Its also hinted that Deckard is a replicant himself, and doesn't know it. This is only one interpretation of the movie, though. Another point is that Tyrell explains that the goal of his company is to make replicants "more human than human." (No, White Zombie didn't come up with this). This goal would have been defeated by making replicants look non human in any way.
The replicants could not know they were not human or they would have severe emotional problems. This is why they were given human memories...to trick them. It would not be possible to trick them if there was some obvious thing showing that they were replicants, like having green skin.
Laws of capitalism disagree with you. If what you are saying is correct, then the game companies that do this will just pocket the difference, making bigger profits. This is impossible to maintain as a competitor will take the difference, pump it into making a better product, and gain a larger market share.
Given consumer knowledge of alternatives, competitors working against each other to maximize profit is a good thing(tm).
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Nazis were in the dinner scene in Hong Kong. Same with the archaeologist. Snakes are at the big feast in India. I'll give you the last one...the stone was not world famous.
-Nazis
-A girl that just gets in the way the whole time but Indy falls in love with for some reason
-A comicbookly evil anti-Indy archaeologist.
-Snakes
-Racial steriotypes of at least one culture
-A scene where you think Indy is definitely dead but it turns out he's not dead
-A famous artifact that has some ridiculously un-historic killing power
and finally...
-Its the most entertaining movie of the year.
Hmm... and the TOC of Linux is higher because...?
...everyone in the office has been using windows for the last 15 years and needs to be completely retrained.
I have an undergrad degree in CS. I own both an xbox and a good gaming computer. I enjoy playing games on both. FPS's are harder to control on the xbox, but Bungie does a good job making it work with their Halo games. I don't know how they do it, it just works. The original Halo in coop mode was more fun for me than any FPS game I've played on the computer. Yes, more fun than Deux Ex, more fun than Half Life, more fun than Doom 2. The Halo games are just extremely well designed and polished games, things you will never see in a PC game because of the release it now, patch it later mentality. When it comes down to it, I don't like a game because it has great graphics, great sound, or great controls...I like a game because its fun to play. Halo is damn fun to play!
He's such an exaggerator and liar...I heard from Rush that he gave an interview and claimed to have "Invented the Internet..." Yeah, and I invented the paperclip!
Well, I don't know if Cox gave any of my information out. It looks like the MPAA (or someone similar) notified Cox that a specific IP address was uploading copyrighted content, and Cox shut down the address. If I get a letter from the MPAA though, I'm going to be extremely pissed that Cox gave my info out.
I downloaded a popular recent movie off of a suprnova bittorrent link, and the next day my internet connection was down. I called up the Cox customer support and they gave me another number to call but wouldn't tell me who I was calling. I called the other number and the guy on the other end knew the exact movie I had downloaded, explained politely that I was not supposed to be "uploading" that movie (which bittorrent automatically does), and then turned my internet connection back on.
I asked the guy if Cox was monitoring my usage, and he said no, that "someone else" had called them to complain. I assume this someone else was the MPAA or somebody working for them.
Here we go again...
America is both a Democracy and a Republic. We are not a direct democracy, we do not make every decisions purely through a popular vote, which is what you may be alluding to. We vote democratically for our representatives, making our government an indirect democracy. The word "Republic" is pretty much synonymous with "Indirect Democracy" as far as how they are used to describe the United States government (Both just mean a government where the people elect their representatives). So, we are both a democracy and a republic.
You've got a virus!
This means that anyone can connect to their network with full administrative control by logging in to 192.168.1.1 with no username and the password "admin" as published in the Linksys manuals
Actually, its 192.168.0.1
Nitpick.
Thats great that Linux works fine for you. You probably know all the ins and outs of how to use it correctly. I don't. I tried to learn but it got too frustrating and was taking too much time for it to be worth it to me.
Try getting a system with an nvidia2 mainboard chip to run a 3d game. You're going to have to do some hacking. I'm a gamer, and if I can't use my video card correctly without knowing how to patch a kernel...forget it. As far as MS issues of stability and security, stability hasn't been an issue since W2k, and security is handled the same way you handle it when you use Linux: don't be stupid and you'll be fine. Install a firewall and antivirus program, and you can stop 99.9 percent of attacks.
Well, the hardware that I could not get working was a mainstream, 3 year old webcam and my mainstream, 1 year old motherboard chipset (nvidia2). I'm not about to go out and spend a couple hundred dollars and a day of setup time when I can just switch back to Windows XP which I have no problems with. I did have an interest, probably more of an interest than your average user who Linux people are trying to convert to their OS. That interest quickly faded when I realized I had to recompile the freakin kernel to get 3d acceleration working. The most windows has ever asked me to do to solve ANY problem as been to install the latest driver of whatever hardware I am having a problem with. Point, click, done. I like that windows is going to get competition for the desktop sometime in the future from Linux, but I can admit that that time is definitely not now.
Morrowind just didn't do it for me. I like the open-endedness, and I don't mind not having specific goals, but the world just didn't pull me in. Sure, there was lots to do. You could go clear out dungeons, join and advance in guilds, aimlessly explore, but I never really got the feeling that this was a living, breathing world. Virtually all the wildlife creatures you encountered would attack you (by essentially making a beeline right at you once you got within a certain range), townpeople would have no real lives aside from waiting for you to trigger a conversation, things felt too small. Yes, I do mean small...I know morrowind was large but it felt like a huge world scaled down into a bunch o sub-areas...like ohhh, heres the volcanic area, walk for ten minutes and now you are in the swamp area...walk into a town and its like ten houses all packed together with one of each kind of shop, and a bunch of people standing around doing nothing. It just didn't feel like a real world at all.
The gameplay all consisted of going on quests to either kill someone or retrieve an item for someone. The dialog system was terrible, and it never made you feel like you were actually talking to anyone, just probing them like encyclopedias for information on specific topics.
Thats just my opinion, but I've talked to others that have these problems with the Elder Scrolls series. Too much focus on making a big world, and not enough on making that world engrossing.
Mandrake 9.2 was the last one I attempted. My ATI graphics card could not do 3d acceleration without recompiling a patch into the kernel (never figured out how to do this but what I did learn was very obscure shell commands), and the fonts in mozilla were horrible looking. There was some weird way of getting antialiased fonts to work, but I couldn't figure it out. Oh, and installing firefox as a non-root user was extremely painful and required lots of newsgroup scouring.
I'll come back to Linux when I don't have to deal with these issues. I simply don't have the time to learn the intricacies.
Calling things "stories" is another example of the latest tech marketing speak. I swear to god if I hear that buzzword again, this story is not going to have a very happy ending...
Its not hard to set up a simple virus scanner and firewall. Its certainly easier than setting up a Linux box. Linux is only an option if you have gobs of time on your hands to learn all kinds of obscure shell commands and other garbage than a normal everyday user should never have to know.
This was not my experience with Linux. I had to constantly battle my PC to get drivers to work, make sure kernels were compiled with bug fixes, get fonts to appear correctly, etc...It took days and days of scouring the internet and man pages to get many basic things like 3d acceleration working. Linux has quite a ways to go before its ready for the everyday user in my opinion...
I'm actually sypathetic to the belief that a vulnerable computer connected to the internet is a hazard to the internet as a whole, as it can easily become a DDOS/Spam zombie, and therefore somebody is in the right to patch the hole, through nefarious means if necessary.
Option 4: Realize that no nation would risk its own destruction by using a nuclear weapon against another nuclear power (Formerly known as M.A.D), and help the North Korean economy as much as possible (by supporting capitalistic experiments such as the Kaesong Industrial Region), therefore helping the nation become self sufficient. Oh, and also nix the whole "Axis of Evil" label to make them think they are at risk of invasion.
Just my opinion.
33% of 0 is...?
Conservative thinking is intellectual. The Republican party, as it stands now, is anti-intellectual. The party is led right now by a small, militaristic, and very scary faction called the Neoconservatives. Their ideals appeal to dumb people who have kneejerk reactions to complex problems. Frankly, I see them, and what they stand for, as evil.
The ends certainly justify the means in the situation of getting these guys out of power. I support using every trick in the book to do it.
If personal attacks is what it takes to get Bush out of office, I'm all for them. Republicans use dirty tricks all the time, and the party that is nice will lose this one. If the Democrats are going to win this one, they've got to get mean. I know its against an intellectual mindset to do this, but now is the time to fight, and fight dirty.
No, I think they were all given memories. All of the replicants would have failed that test. Remember, Rachel failed the test at the beginning, and she was given the memories of Tyrell's niece. When Deckard explains this to her, she freaks out.
Its also hinted that Deckard is a replicant himself, and doesn't know it. This is only one interpretation of the movie, though. Another point is that Tyrell explains that the goal of his company is to make replicants "more human than human." (No, White Zombie didn't come up with this). This goal would have been defeated by making replicants look non human in any way.
The replicants could not know they were not human or they would have severe emotional problems. This is why they were given human memories...to trick them. It would not be possible to trick them if there was some obvious thing showing that they were replicants, like having green skin.
Laws of capitalism disagree with you. If what you are saying is correct, then the game companies that do this will just pocket the difference, making bigger profits. This is impossible to maintain as a competitor will take the difference, pump it into making a better product, and gain a larger market share.
Given consumer knowledge of alternatives, competitors working against each other to maximize profit is a good thing(tm).