As the remaining stock of 60 gigs get sold the 80 gig will come down to the same price as the current 60 gig model.
What makes you think that?
As you note, the price of the 60 gig drives hasn't gone down, so that isn't why the price dropped. The price of the 60 GB model dropped because they want to clear out the inventory to make room for the 80 GB model. The 80 GB drives will cost the same as current 60 GB drives. So Sony doesn't get to make cheaper PS3s, the only reason the 60 GB model was discounted is to clear inventory, so on what basis do you think the 80GB drive is going to drop to $499 in the near future?
Your faith is based on the assumption that the majority of people are intellectually honest enough to change their opinion in the face of new evidence.
I have no idea about majority, but a lot of people are, even if they are reluctant to do so. After Bush started his second term, support for Bush and the War was hovering at around 60%. Now it's more like 25%. So a majority of those who supported the war were able to change their minds about it, with the result that the Republicans lost control of Congress and next year perhaps the Presidency if they don't put forward an anti-war candidate (sorry McCain).
I just wish they had changed their mind before giving Bush another four years to fuck things up. I've been reading Iraq-related news constantly, and while sure the upswing in sectarian violence starting the with mosque bombing in early 2006 was a bad sign, overall the picture doesn't really look any worse to me than it did in 2004 -- a mismanaged clusterfuck quagmire that at best ends in civil war after we leave and the puppet government collapses. But I do suppose that even if you support the war you can only hear "stay the course" so many times before you wonder when this course is actually going to get you somewhere.
But better late than never, right? People change their minds, but most of us are hesitant to admit we were wrong, and BOY were they wrong.
I wouldn't hold your breath. Not because its not possible that the PATRIOT Act hasn't been used to do what it was sold to do but simply because anyone who's in the know isn't likely to publicly publish anything about it. Consider that this is all about Intelligence and much of the handling of that involves "need to know" practices. Even vague details about what was collected or how it was collected can betray far too much information.
Actually, at least a Congressional committee did hear of examples where USAPATRIOT* powers were used to prevent terrorist (and other non-terrorist criminal) activities.
However that same committee was not told about known abuses of USAPATRIOT, Att. General Gonzales said that as far as he knew there had been none. Of course as should be no suprise by now he was lying.
The government is going to trump every success story they possibly can to justify their policies. It's their failures they are going to try to cover up as best as possible.
* I always use the full name just to emphasize how retarded it is. Honestly, could they have come up with a dumber acronym? I guess they couldn't think of enough words to make USAPATRIOTBASEBALLANDAPPLEPIE. As "Get Your War On" said, "Always remember: Grown-ups did this".
This is been known for months. The game is gonna be horrible. But I'll still buy it, obviously. Along with a lot of pot that i will be needing to make this game enjoyable.
Maybe the publisher should consider some kind of bundle to boost sales of the game.
If you dislike Microsoft due to illegal monopoly practices, that's one thing, but what is it with about hating Windows itself that makes it hypocritical to enjoy a 360?
Well I don't like Microsoft's monopoly practices, but they don't have a monopoly in hardware. In fact, I've always been a fan of Microsoft's hardware division -- their mice, keyboards, and especially the Sidewinder line of gamepads and joysticks have always been top notch. And I'm not afraid to admit that part of my liking for MS HW is their (possibly abandoned now due to xbox) insistance that they "are not a hardware company". I know, which is why your hardware doesn't suck like your software! Heh.
Frankly if MS got out of operating systems and started making game consoles and games full time I think that'd be great, and I'd support them 100%:)
That they adhere to that philosophy is a blatant lie, of course, but how was I supposed to know that?
See, and this is exactly the kind of BS posturing that I'm talking about, that your every thread on this subject is full of. An ubuntu installation does not require proprietary hardware. For fixing your problem with what you claimed you had available a piece of proprietary software may have been necessary. Would you rather they said "you could fix your problem with a windows CD, but that would require using proprietary software so screw off"? No, then you'd bitch about them refusing to help you.
See you keep saying you got no help, but you did, it just wasn't good enough for you based on a set of criterion that nobody on the forum could have guessed, that nobody thinking you were serious about fixing the problem would expect you to object to. Nobody thought that "ubuntu doesn't need proprietary software" would get translated in your head to "once ubuntu touches a computer, proprietary software is never again useful for anything, including diagnostics of problems with said computer".
I supposed when I debugged a friend's windows install using a suse live CD, I "proved" Microsoft lies when they say windows doesn't need free software. Or maybe that's not the situation they're talking about. Naw, better to be unreasonable. That would have fixed my friends problem.
Are we looking at the same thread, liar?
Yes, liar, the one where you refused to answer questions asked of you. Yes you provided some diagnostics, but when that wasn't enough, and they wanted more, you refused. Because suddenly it wasn't about fixing your problem (as if it ever was), it was about you ranting about how unhelpful they were at magically fixing your problem for you based on secret criterion.
They wanted me to post my menu.1st. I couldn't get to the OS that had it. They suggested I try some commands. I did, and posted those results. NO ONE FOLLOWED UP to that.
Because they turned out to not be interesting. Diagnosis of a problem is a process. It involves trying things, seeing the results, and then doing other things. Getting upset because after the first bout of attempts nothing comes up and getting bitchy is not part of the process of actually fixing things.
They wanted to know what version of Windows I had. Sorry, not going to give you a target for ridicule. It doesn't even get to the point where you load an OS, so obviously it can't be relevant. No one to this day has suggested even a remote possibility how that could result in GRUB error 25.
If you're so smart you know that "obviously it can't be relevent" then why are you asking for help in the first place? It's your "that couldn't help so I'm not answering" attitude that just shows how little this had to do with fixing anything and how much to do with your posturing. And you know what? If the machine reached POST, then the OSes on the system can be relevent. As a direct cause to Error 25? I don't know, I'm not a grub expert, but lets assume not. If the bug was so simple and direct that "Win 95 == grub error 25" then it would have been found. Software problems though are not usually so simple, a problem in one place can cause a problem in another and end up causing an unexpected bug somewhere else that doesn't seem like it could be related. But you stopped the process before it could happen, and just assume the search would have been fruitless.
Target for ridicule my ass. How many linux users dual-boot into windows? You were just mad your problem hadn't been magically fixed already and were being difficult. Because your posturing was more important than fixing the problem.
Any my problem was fixable without the CD they were telling me to download and burn, which would have taken me miles out of my way.
Well I thought you said that a live CD was in fact how you fixed it. Okay, so how did you fix it? Posted it anywhere? And if it would have been so hard to fix your problem the burned CD way by going miles out of your way, I would think it would have been worth being a little more patient on the forums, then.
Evaded the diagnosis? You evaded the diagnosis by refusing to answer questions, to help out in any way on your end by providing information. You made it into a little game where they had to guess what was going on, and their correct solutions to your problem were inadequate, but you wouldn't do anything to help find the better solution. It's not just that you didn't like that one specific suggestion, you refused any suggestion. Nothing was good enough for you unless it was "press the secret button underneath your keyboard to magically fix your computer", assuming you wouldn't have responded "Why should I have to push a button?! I thought Ubuntu worked!!!"
Would "buy a new computer" be a reasonable response? No. Unless the problem was that your hardware was broken, in which case you demanding they somehow un-break your hardware over the internet is what would be unreasonable. How's that for consistancy?
But that wasn't the response you were given, now was it? So who's posturing? Stop talking about "serious" when your reply to every suggestion was "I shouldn't have to do that, i'm not doing it, ubuntu is crap." Posturing indeed.
Yes, yes I do consider the solution that in fact you have admitted you used to fix the problem to be the solution, because it fixed the problem.
If you followed the advice given in that thread, you would not be getting GRUB error 25 anymore. So it was solved.
In your mind, it seems, the solution was inadequate because the problem was different. The problem wasn't getting a working Ubuntu install with no grub error, it was somehow fixing your unbootable install using the unbootable install itself without you doing anything to help them at all, like it was some kind of game show challenge. Sorry if everyone else was more focused on the realistic problem of fixing your computer than your little brain-teaser "boot the unbootable" challenge for the Ubuntu forums.
Your problem was fixed. Stop acting like it wasn't. If you go to the mechanic with a blown head gasket, do you complain that they replaced the gasket instead of somehow un-breaking it? Do you complain that your car had to be out for 3 days, when you wanted it magically unbroken instantly? You should some day, because the look you'll get from the mechanic is the look your posts are getting now.
Are you still bitter over that one Ubuntu support thread where you acted like a jerk and people didn't magically fix your problem?
And just for the record, the 2nd reply to him contained the solution to his problem. It wasn't "magical" in that the necessary Ubuntu live disc didn't spontaneously appear in his hand, but he has repeatedly claimed he didn't get an answer to his problem, which is false.
Antibiotic resistance has been strongly linked to inadequate dosing (killing only the susceptible bugs, while letting the borderline-resistant clones reinforce themselves), as well as to courses too short or patient noncompliance.
I didn't used to understand this well, thinking that basically you're still going to leave some bacteria alive, and they're going to be the most-uber-resistant bacteria of them all. But someone pointed out what may be obvious, which is that after the full regiment there are going to be few enough of these bacteria left that the human immune system can finish the job of wiping them out completely, leaving no antibiotic-resistant bacteria at all. Is this accurate?
Now if we could only get the idiots who lace animal feed with antibiotics to do the same. Ever wonder where resistant strains start? Hint: it ain't just in the hospitals.
Hormones and antibiotics in livestock has got to be the one of the worst abuses of public health I can think of at this time.
It's very hard to convince someone of this, though, when it's their party in power.
Especially when they think their elected leader was largely chosen by God.
I hope I'm not being too specific here.
Hehe. But there's a good way to get around it -- point out the possibility of the other party being in power in the future!
That's what Republican Senator Larry Craig did on the Rush Limbaugh show. Craig was promoting a bill to add more civil rights safeguards and actual oversight into the USAPATRIOT Act. Rush was asking why such a thing was necessary, and was Craig claiming that civil liberties had been violated by George Bush's administration, and did he have any proof that it had happened. Rather than delving into that trap of pre-prepared talking point responses, Larry Craig pulled a wonderful switch. He said no, he thought Bush was doing a great job respecting liberties, but what if Hillary Clinton became the next President?!
Like magic, Rush was stopped in his tracks. He couldn't possibly argue that Hillary Clinton, Card-Carrying-Commie could be trusted to respect civil liberties based simply on her word! Coming from Rush, that'd practically be like an endorsement for her candidacy! No, suddenly the terrible spectre of a dictatorial Executive run amok with too much power was palpable.
This was a while ago, when the probability of Democratic president didn't seem quite so high. Now I think it should be relatively easy to get the my-party-is-fine-your-party-is-evil Republican types to see the danger. I should hope the same people on the Democrat side should be able to see the truth of the argument quite clearly already. But to actually get results, they'd both have to agree at the same time, and I'm not sure that will happen.
Glad to be of service. I feel better too after venting my spleen. But lets not either feel too good -- you're still posting on slashdot, and responding to a flamewar.;)
Can you seriously think you're taking the high-ground by accusing me of failing to make an argument I wasn't making while at the same time accusing me of doing the same to you?
But you were. You explicitly called me a fanboy, said I was pretending the competition was better, and so on. You offer no justification for how those exact words which I can quote for you again if you want were anything other than what they appear. You can't because you'd look retarded doing so. "When I said 360 fanboy, I meant... uh... not a 360 fanboy".
At least I can stand by what I wrote as meaning what I wrote, and you're only problem understanding me was that you can't handle profanity.
You have yet to stop focusing on the fact that I thought you were flying off the handle to actually read the substance of my original content, which was that there aren't any PS3s using hardware emulation anymore...
Yeah, strangely after being called a 360 fanboy for stating a simple fact I didn't care much about your opinion on whether sacrificing a degree of backward compatability was worth being able to upscale old games. Why would I start caring now?
You can use that term colloquially amongst your friends because they understand that you're being ironic.
If you think Chris Rock, or black people in general, only use the word "nigger" ironically, then you're just an idiot with no experience. They don't use it in the same way as the racists who coined the term, either. Those aren't the only two options. You see when you're in a group where nobody is racist against anybody in the group, you can use words in different ways without them being offensive, and without having to grandstand behind being "ironic". Hanging out with Asians who use "fanboi" interchangeably with "fanboy" leads to not being uptight about it. Sorry you aren't in the group, and sorry if my spelling error based on having hung out in that group offended you because you're so fragile.
assuming you really weren't making a "huge issue" when you started using such strong language
I explained exactly how big an issue it was: "I'm not saying the software emulation is crap, and if the games you want to play are well supported according to the compatability list then you should be good to go. I am saying that the switch from hardware compatability to software emulation has hurt backward compatability. That's not FUD, it's a fucking fact."
What part of that did you not understand? Can you actually disagree with that in any substantive way, seeing as how it is very much true according to Sony themselves? Or are you just such a sheltered wimp that a single use of the word "fucking" sends you into a tizzy at "such strong language"? If that's the case, you should get off the internet because you aren't cut out for it.
But at least you admitted that you actually said what you actually said. Your connection to reality is improving.
It seems to me that the line you pasted confirms what I said, not what you are asserting.
Yes, it confirms that you called me a fanboy, that you accused me of making a huge issue out of it, and of pretending that the competition was better. Because that's what it explicitly says: "360 Fanboy". Oh, and you also by extension called all of Slashdot 360 fanboys too using the famous "generalize one comment into representing slashdot's mythical group-think".
I am sure it will be hilarious hearing you explain how what you wrote actually meant the opposite. But you're right, reading comprehension is difficult when the writer is an insane idiot. When there's no connection between your brain and your words, how could anyone possible tell what you meant?
Also, the term "fanboi" is used by two types of people: Those who wish to make derogatory comments about young Asian people who are overly passionate about something, and stupid idiots who think they're cool because they copied what somebody else said without actually understanding what it means.
It's also used by Asians who aren't uptight pricks and who have a sense of humor, often to describe themselves. I hang out with them a lot. I picked up a spelling affectation for a word as a result. You don't even hang out with enough Asians to justify your mock outrage or you'd have a clue. I do. I also have lots of black friends, so the word "nigger" isn't so offensive to me that I can't find Blazing Saddles or a Chris Rock routine hilarious, and you're as pathetic as a white boy telling Mel Brooks he's racist or that Chris shouldn't use that word. Sorry if my offhand use offended you, but you really, really need to lighten up. And more importantly, you need to stop fooling yourself into thinking that being uptight means you're mature. It doesn't. It means your are poorly adjusted. You need to grow up, and that means getting exposed to language you don't like and learning to cope with it.
Hey, buddy, you're the one who used the term fanboi, and I brought it up because it disgusts me, and because it's only ever used by people who are swinging low.
No, it's used by a lot of people who simply aren't uptight asswipes desperately trying to score points.
I urge you to go back and find where I ever accused you of saying anything other than "fuck" and "fanboi".
Sure thing, and it'll be easy too. Your first post: "But you should swear about it, and turn it into a huge issue, and pretend that it's worse than the competition, etc... Go right ahead. It's what we expect from the Slashdot 360 Fanboy, Slashdot Games section."
"Huge issue", "worse than the competition" -- i.e. FUD -- and "360 fanboy", everything I said you were calling me. Now shut up, idiot.
You don't care to repeat yourself, but you do accuse people of saying things even though you are fully aware that they did not say them? Honestly, what is wrong with you? I never pretended the 360 was better like you claimed I did, you know it, but I still get slapped with the 360 fanboy monicker? And you're telling me that's sane?
And then you try to play the racism card in a desperate attempt to grab the moral high ground. That's pathetic. If I have a spelling affectation from hanging out with the people that I'm supposedly being racist against, well tough crap. Oh yeah, and if you can't handle some fucking swearing, then you need to grow a pair. I didn't get modded down for swearing because nobody with a brain gives a shit, and you got modded down even though you didn't swear because you were the one being a troll calling people fanboys for no reason.
Sheesh. Your UID says you're almost 30, and your behavior suggests you're almost 12.
Just like your assumption that my telling the factual truth about the problems of software emulation in general meant I was a 360 fanboy, thus revealing your own fanboism, this comment here does a fantastic job of inadvertantly revealing your true (psychological at least) age.
But you should swear about it, and turn it into a huge issue, and pretend that it's worse than the competition, etc... Go right ahead. It's what we expect from the Slashdot 360 Fanboy, er.... Slashdot Games section.
Oh shut the fuck up. I didn't even mention the competition, comparing only the PS3 with Emotion Engine to PS3 with software PS2 emulation, and I'm not making it a bigger issue than it is, in fact I linked to the website where Sony describes exactly how big an issue it is for each game. Is Sony spreading FUD about themselves now?
Just because I pointed out the un-arguable truth -- software emulation is inferior to the original hardware for backward compatability -- doesn't make me a 360 fanboy. You're assuming such just shows how you think, fanboi.
Software emulation on the PS3 works just as well as the hardware emulation!!
Not according to Sony's own compatability list for the EU PS3. While many games work fine, there are also a significant number in the lowest-score "noticeable issues" category. Also note the caveats, like how you should skip optional FMV sequences and how you shouldn't use network modes due to graphical corruption.
The fact is without even the specifics it should be obvious that software emulation will not work just as well as hardware emulation. Which isn't emulation at all, it's hardware compatability, it's physically utilizing the original PS2 hardware that the game was originally designed to run on. With the hardware "emulation", you basically have an actual PS2 to run your PS2 games on. The Emotion Engine is not simple, and creating a perfectly compatible software version that exactly matches not only every bit of functionality but also the relative timing of operations which many games depend on is very difficult and not something that is going to be made perfect. They will necessarily have to go on a case-by-case basis finding games that depend on a particular quirk of the Emotion Engine and fix them and issue patches.
I'm not saying the software emulation is crap, and if the games you want to play are well supported according to the compatability list then you should be good to go. I am saying that the switch from hardware compatability to software emulation has hurt backward compatability. That's not FUD, it's a fucking fact. Which should be obvious, because before the EU PS3 release they didn't even have a compatability list because there was no point.
You have no idea where Universidad de Granada is, do you? Hint: Granada, Spain, a "First World" NATO country. TFA even says it's the medical branch in Madrid. You know where that is? Hint: also Spain.
Well, no technical trouble, anyway -- I doubt Oracle would like to have its performance compared to two free-as-in-beer competitors. Even if it comes out on top, people will still be tempted to think "Jeez, with the money I save on Oracle licenses, I can buy a faster server and make up the speed difference"...
Well yeah, especially since the primary metric for TPC-C isn't TPM (transactions per minute) but TPM/$. If the cost of Oracle means you could throw more hardware at the free DBs and get better overall performance, it'd be reflected right there in the scores.
I think you're conflating the word conflation with some other word, since you never pointed out what I'm conflating "the fact that the conflation he was pointing out (i.e., that the article conflates HIV with AIDS) is a serious conflation and is a little more significant than a layman's conflation which would not conflate the specifics to non-laymen who would understand and appreciate such a conflation" with.
Um, maybe because it's easier to learn basic social skills from an infinitely patient unflappable robot, then apply and refine those skills with finite-patience irritable humans, than it would be to try to learn social skills from the irritable human in the first place?
It's the same concept as learning to throw and catch with your dad just by tossing the ball back and forth just for fun, then practicing with a team, then playing in a little league game, rather than trying to learn to throw and catch by playing little league games where if you make an error you get yelled at by your team and coach.
It's all about the progession of learning. First teach what social responses are expected, then learn how to use them in the environment with people. By decreasing the amount of patience granted you increase the functional level of the autistic person -- from the infinite patience of a robot, to the nearly infinite patience of a parent, to the extensive patience of a teacher or friend, to the very limited patience of a human. That itself is learning, and it isn't counterproductive to lower the bar at the beginning, any more than it is counterproductive to teach kindegartners to only read books accompanied by pictures.
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As the remaining stock of 60 gigs get sold the 80 gig will come down to the same price as the current 60 gig model.
What makes you think that?
As you note, the price of the 60 gig drives hasn't gone down, so that isn't why the price dropped. The price of the 60 GB model dropped because they want to clear out the inventory to make room for the 80 GB model. The 80 GB drives will cost the same as current 60 GB drives. So Sony doesn't get to make cheaper PS3s, the only reason the 60 GB model was discounted is to clear inventory, so on what basis do you think the 80GB drive is going to drop to $499 in the near future?
Your faith is based on the assumption that the majority of people are intellectually honest enough to change their opinion in the face of new evidence.
I have no idea about majority, but a lot of people are, even if they are reluctant to do so. After Bush started his second term, support for Bush and the War was hovering at around 60%. Now it's more like 25%. So a majority of those who supported the war were able to change their minds about it, with the result that the Republicans lost control of Congress and next year perhaps the Presidency if they don't put forward an anti-war candidate (sorry McCain).
I just wish they had changed their mind before giving Bush another four years to fuck things up. I've been reading Iraq-related news constantly, and while sure the upswing in sectarian violence starting the with mosque bombing in early 2006 was a bad sign, overall the picture doesn't really look any worse to me than it did in 2004 -- a mismanaged clusterfuck quagmire that at best ends in civil war after we leave and the puppet government collapses. But I do suppose that even if you support the war you can only hear "stay the course" so many times before you wonder when this course is actually going to get you somewhere.
But better late than never, right? People change their minds, but most of us are hesitant to admit we were wrong, and BOY were they wrong.
I wouldn't hold your breath. Not because its not possible that the PATRIOT Act hasn't been used to do what it was sold to do but simply because anyone who's in the know isn't likely to publicly publish anything about it. Consider that this is all about Intelligence and much of the handling of that involves "need to know" practices. Even vague details about what was collected or how it was collected can betray far too much information.
Actually, at least a Congressional committee did hear of examples where USAPATRIOT* powers were used to prevent terrorist (and other non-terrorist criminal) activities.
However that same committee was not told about known abuses of USAPATRIOT, Att. General Gonzales said that as far as he knew there had been none. Of course as should be no suprise by now he was lying.
The government is going to trump every success story they possibly can to justify their policies. It's their failures they are going to try to cover up as best as possible.
* I always use the full name just to emphasize how retarded it is. Honestly, could they have come up with a dumber acronym? I guess they couldn't think of enough words to make USAPATRIOTBASEBALLANDAPPLEPIE. As "Get Your War On" said, "Always remember: Grown-ups did this".
This is been known for months. The game is gonna be horrible. But I'll still buy it, obviously. Along with a lot of pot that i will be needing to make this game enjoyable.
Maybe the publisher should consider some kind of bundle to boost sales of the game.
Only if you use a retarded definition of "fix". His problem was actually fixed, as in his computer worked. Therefore it was the right solution.
If you dislike Microsoft due to illegal monopoly practices, that's one thing, but what is it with about hating Windows itself that makes it hypocritical to enjoy a 360?
:)
Well I don't like Microsoft's monopoly practices, but they don't have a monopoly in hardware. In fact, I've always been a fan of Microsoft's hardware division -- their mice, keyboards, and especially the Sidewinder line of gamepads and joysticks have always been top notch. And I'm not afraid to admit that part of my liking for MS HW is their (possibly abandoned now due to xbox) insistance that they "are not a hardware company". I know, which is why your hardware doesn't suck like your software! Heh.
Frankly if MS got out of operating systems and started making game consoles and games full time I think that'd be great, and I'd support them 100%
That they adhere to that philosophy is a blatant lie, of course, but how was I supposed to know that?
See, and this is exactly the kind of BS posturing that I'm talking about, that your every thread on this subject is full of. An ubuntu installation does not require proprietary hardware. For fixing your problem with what you claimed you had available a piece of proprietary software may have been necessary. Would you rather they said "you could fix your problem with a windows CD, but that would require using proprietary software so screw off"? No, then you'd bitch about them refusing to help you.
See you keep saying you got no help, but you did, it just wasn't good enough for you based on a set of criterion that nobody on the forum could have guessed, that nobody thinking you were serious about fixing the problem would expect you to object to. Nobody thought that "ubuntu doesn't need proprietary software" would get translated in your head to "once ubuntu touches a computer, proprietary software is never again useful for anything, including diagnostics of problems with said computer".
I supposed when I debugged a friend's windows install using a suse live CD, I "proved" Microsoft lies when they say windows doesn't need free software. Or maybe that's not the situation they're talking about. Naw, better to be unreasonable. That would have fixed my friends problem.
Are we looking at the same thread, liar?
Yes, liar, the one where you refused to answer questions asked of you. Yes you provided some diagnostics, but when that wasn't enough, and they wanted more, you refused. Because suddenly it wasn't about fixing your problem (as if it ever was), it was about you ranting about how unhelpful they were at magically fixing your problem for you based on secret criterion.
They wanted me to post my menu.1st. I couldn't get to the OS that had it.
They suggested I try some commands. I did, and posted those results. NO ONE FOLLOWED UP to that.
Because they turned out to not be interesting. Diagnosis of a problem is a process. It involves trying things, seeing the results, and then doing other things. Getting upset because after the first bout of attempts nothing comes up and getting bitchy is not part of the process of actually fixing things.
They wanted to know what version of Windows I had. Sorry, not going to give you a target for ridicule. It doesn't even get to the point where you load an OS, so obviously it can't be relevant. No one to this day has suggested even a remote possibility how that could result in GRUB error 25.
If you're so smart you know that "obviously it can't be relevent" then why are you asking for help in the first place? It's your "that couldn't help so I'm not answering" attitude that just shows how little this had to do with fixing anything and how much to do with your posturing. And you know what? If the machine reached POST, then the OSes on the system can be relevent. As a direct cause to Error 25? I don't know, I'm not a grub expert, but lets assume not. If the bug was so simple and direct that "Win 95 == grub error 25" then it would have been found. Software problems though are not usually so simple, a problem in one place can cause a problem in another and end up causing an unexpected bug somewhere else that doesn't seem like it could be related. But you stopped the process before it could happen, and just assume the search would have been fruitless.
Target for ridicule my ass. How many linux users dual-boot into windows? You were just mad your problem hadn't been magically fixed already and were being difficult. Because your posturing was more important than fixing the problem.
Any my problem was fixable without the CD they were telling me to download and burn, which would have taken me miles out of my way.
Well I thought you said that a live CD was in fact how you fixed it. Okay, so how did you fix it? Posted it anywhere? And if it would have been so hard to fix your problem the burned CD way by going miles out of your way, I would think it would have been worth being a little more patient on the forums, then.
Evaded the diagnosis? You evaded the diagnosis by refusing to answer questions, to help out in any way on your end by providing information. You made it into a little game where they had to guess what was going on, and their correct solutions to your problem were inadequate, but you wouldn't do anything to help find the better solution. It's not just that you didn't like that one specific suggestion, you refused any suggestion. Nothing was good enough for you unless it was "press the secret button underneath your keyboard to magically fix your computer", assuming you wouldn't have responded "Why should I have to push a button?! I thought Ubuntu worked!!!"
Would "buy a new computer" be a reasonable response? No. Unless the problem was that your hardware was broken, in which case you demanding they somehow un-break your hardware over the internet is what would be unreasonable. How's that for consistancy?
But that wasn't the response you were given, now was it? So who's posturing? Stop talking about "serious" when your reply to every suggestion was "I shouldn't have to do that, i'm not doing it, ubuntu is crap." Posturing indeed.
Yes, yes I do consider the solution that in fact you have admitted you used to fix the problem to be the solution, because it fixed the problem.
If you followed the advice given in that thread, you would not be getting GRUB error 25 anymore. So it was solved.
In your mind, it seems, the solution was inadequate because the problem was different. The problem wasn't getting a working Ubuntu install with no grub error, it was somehow fixing your unbootable install using the unbootable install itself without you doing anything to help them at all, like it was some kind of game show challenge. Sorry if everyone else was more focused on the realistic problem of fixing your computer than your little brain-teaser "boot the unbootable" challenge for the Ubuntu forums.
Your problem was fixed. Stop acting like it wasn't. If you go to the mechanic with a blown head gasket, do you complain that they replaced the gasket instead of somehow un-breaking it? Do you complain that your car had to be out for 3 days, when you wanted it magically unbroken instantly? You should some day, because the look you'll get from the mechanic is the look your posts are getting now.
Are you still bitter over that one Ubuntu support thread where you acted like a jerk and people didn't magically fix your problem?
And just for the record, the 2nd reply to him contained the solution to his problem. It wasn't "magical" in that the necessary Ubuntu live disc didn't spontaneously appear in his hand, but he has repeatedly claimed he didn't get an answer to his problem, which is false.
Antibiotic resistance has been strongly linked to inadequate dosing (killing only the susceptible bugs, while letting the borderline-resistant clones reinforce themselves), as well as to courses too short or patient noncompliance.
I didn't used to understand this well, thinking that basically you're still going to leave some bacteria alive, and they're going to be the most-uber-resistant bacteria of them all. But someone pointed out what may be obvious, which is that after the full regiment there are going to be few enough of these bacteria left that the human immune system can finish the job of wiping them out completely, leaving no antibiotic-resistant bacteria at all. Is this accurate?
Now if we could only get the idiots who lace animal feed with antibiotics to do the same. Ever wonder where resistant strains start? Hint: it ain't just in the hospitals.
Hormones and antibiotics in livestock has got to be the one of the worst abuses of public health I can think of at this time.
It's very hard to convince someone of this, though, when it's their party in power.
Especially when they think their elected leader was largely chosen by God.
I hope I'm not being too specific here.
Hehe. But there's a good way to get around it -- point out the possibility of the other party being in power in the future!
That's what Republican Senator Larry Craig did on the Rush Limbaugh show. Craig was promoting a bill to add more civil rights safeguards and actual oversight into the USAPATRIOT Act. Rush was asking why such a thing was necessary, and was Craig claiming that civil liberties had been violated by George Bush's administration, and did he have any proof that it had happened. Rather than delving into that trap of pre-prepared talking point responses, Larry Craig pulled a wonderful switch. He said no, he thought Bush was doing a great job respecting liberties, but what if Hillary Clinton became the next President?!
Like magic, Rush was stopped in his tracks. He couldn't possibly argue that Hillary Clinton, Card-Carrying-Commie could be trusted to respect civil liberties based simply on her word! Coming from Rush, that'd practically be like an endorsement for her candidacy! No, suddenly the terrible spectre of a dictatorial Executive run amok with too much power was palpable.
This was a while ago, when the probability of Democratic president didn't seem quite so high. Now I think it should be relatively easy to get the my-party-is-fine-your-party-is-evil Republican types to see the danger. I should hope the same people on the Democrat side should be able to see the truth of the argument quite clearly already. But to actually get results, they'd both have to agree at the same time, and I'm not sure that will happen.
Glad to be of service. I feel better too after venting my spleen. But lets not either feel too good -- you're still posting on slashdot, and responding to a flamewar. ;)
Can you seriously think you're taking the high-ground by accusing me of failing to make an argument I wasn't making while at the same time accusing me of doing the same to you?
But you were. You explicitly called me a fanboy, said I was pretending the competition was better, and so on. You offer no justification for how those exact words which I can quote for you again if you want were anything other than what they appear. You can't because you'd look retarded doing so. "When I said 360 fanboy, I meant... uh... not a 360 fanboy".
At least I can stand by what I wrote as meaning what I wrote, and you're only problem understanding me was that you can't handle profanity.
You have yet to stop focusing on the fact that I thought you were flying off the handle to actually read the substance of my original content, which was that there aren't any PS3s using hardware emulation anymore...
Yeah, strangely after being called a 360 fanboy for stating a simple fact I didn't care much about your opinion on whether sacrificing a degree of backward compatability was worth being able to upscale old games. Why would I start caring now?
You can use that term colloquially amongst your friends because they understand that you're being ironic.
If you think Chris Rock, or black people in general, only use the word "nigger" ironically, then you're just an idiot with no experience. They don't use it in the same way as the racists who coined the term, either. Those aren't the only two options. You see when you're in a group where nobody is racist against anybody in the group, you can use words in different ways without them being offensive, and without having to grandstand behind being "ironic". Hanging out with Asians who use "fanboi" interchangeably with "fanboy" leads to not being uptight about it. Sorry you aren't in the group, and sorry if my spelling error based on having hung out in that group offended you because you're so fragile.
assuming you really weren't making a "huge issue" when you started using such strong language
I explained exactly how big an issue it was: "I'm not saying the software emulation is crap, and if the games you want to play are well supported according to the compatability list then you should be good to go. I am saying that the switch from hardware compatability to software emulation has hurt backward compatability. That's not FUD, it's a fucking fact."
What part of that did you not understand? Can you actually disagree with that in any substantive way, seeing as how it is very much true according to Sony themselves? Or are you just such a sheltered wimp that a single use of the word "fucking" sends you into a tizzy at "such strong language"? If that's the case, you should get off the internet because you aren't cut out for it.
But at least you admitted that you actually said what you actually said. Your connection to reality is improving.
It seems to me that the line you pasted confirms what I said, not what you are asserting.
Yes, it confirms that you called me a fanboy, that you accused me of making a huge issue out of it, and of pretending that the competition was better. Because that's what it explicitly says: "360 Fanboy". Oh, and you also by extension called all of Slashdot 360 fanboys too using the famous "generalize one comment into representing slashdot's mythical group-think".
I am sure it will be hilarious hearing you explain how what you wrote actually meant the opposite. But you're right, reading comprehension is difficult when the writer is an insane idiot. When there's no connection between your brain and your words, how could anyone possible tell what you meant?
Also, the term "fanboi" is used by two types of people: Those who wish to make derogatory comments about young Asian people who are overly passionate about something, and stupid idiots who think they're cool because they copied what somebody else said without actually understanding what it means.
It's also used by Asians who aren't uptight pricks and who have a sense of humor, often to describe themselves. I hang out with them a lot. I picked up a spelling affectation for a word as a result. You don't even hang out with enough Asians to justify your mock outrage or you'd have a clue. I do. I also have lots of black friends, so the word "nigger" isn't so offensive to me that I can't find Blazing Saddles or a Chris Rock routine hilarious, and you're as pathetic as a white boy telling Mel Brooks he's racist or that Chris shouldn't use that word. Sorry if my offhand use offended you, but you really, really need to lighten up. And more importantly, you need to stop fooling yourself into thinking that being uptight means you're mature. It doesn't. It means your are poorly adjusted. You need to grow up, and that means getting exposed to language you don't like and learning to cope with it.
Hey, buddy, you're the one who used the term fanboi, and I brought it up because it disgusts me, and because it's only ever used by people who are swinging low.
No, it's used by a lot of people who simply aren't uptight asswipes desperately trying to score points.
I urge you to go back and find where I ever accused you of saying anything other than "fuck" and "fanboi".
Sure thing, and it'll be easy too. Your first post: "But you should swear about it, and turn it into a huge issue, and pretend that it's worse than the competition, etc... Go right ahead. It's what we expect from the Slashdot 360 Fanboy, Slashdot Games section."
"Huge issue", "worse than the competition" -- i.e. FUD -- and "360 fanboy", everything I said you were calling me. Now shut up, idiot.
I don't care to repeat myself, so here's a link: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=248053&cid=198 15989
You don't care to repeat yourself, but you do accuse people of saying things even though you are fully aware that they did not say them? Honestly, what is wrong with you? I never pretended the 360 was better like you claimed I did, you know it, but I still get slapped with the 360 fanboy monicker? And you're telling me that's sane?
And then you try to play the racism card in a desperate attempt to grab the moral high ground. That's pathetic. If I have a spelling affectation from hanging out with the people that I'm supposedly being racist against, well tough crap. Oh yeah, and if you can't handle some fucking swearing, then you need to grow a pair. I didn't get modded down for swearing because nobody with a brain gives a shit, and you got modded down even though you didn't swear because you were the one being a troll calling people fanboys for no reason.
Sheesh. Your UID says you're almost 30, and your behavior suggests you're almost 12.
Just like your assumption that my telling the factual truth about the problems of software emulation in general meant I was a 360 fanboy, thus revealing your own fanboism, this comment here does a fantastic job of inadvertantly revealing your true (psychological at least) age.
But you should swear about it, and turn it into a huge issue, and pretend that it's worse than the competition, etc... Go right ahead. It's what we expect from the Slashdot 360 Fanboy, er.... Slashdot Games section.
Oh shut the fuck up. I didn't even mention the competition, comparing only the PS3 with Emotion Engine to PS3 with software PS2 emulation, and I'm not making it a bigger issue than it is, in fact I linked to the website where Sony describes exactly how big an issue it is for each game. Is Sony spreading FUD about themselves now?
Just because I pointed out the un-arguable truth -- software emulation is inferior to the original hardware for backward compatability -- doesn't make me a 360 fanboy. You're assuming such just shows how you think, fanboi.
Software emulation on the PS3 works just as well as the hardware emulation!!
Not according to Sony's own compatability list for the EU PS3. While many games work fine, there are also a significant number in the lowest-score "noticeable issues" category. Also note the caveats, like how you should skip optional FMV sequences and how you shouldn't use network modes due to graphical corruption.
The fact is without even the specifics it should be obvious that software emulation will not work just as well as hardware emulation. Which isn't emulation at all, it's hardware compatability, it's physically utilizing the original PS2 hardware that the game was originally designed to run on. With the hardware "emulation", you basically have an actual PS2 to run your PS2 games on. The Emotion Engine is not simple, and creating a perfectly compatible software version that exactly matches not only every bit of functionality but also the relative timing of operations which many games depend on is very difficult and not something that is going to be made perfect. They will necessarily have to go on a case-by-case basis finding games that depend on a particular quirk of the Emotion Engine and fix them and issue patches.
I'm not saying the software emulation is crap, and if the games you want to play are well supported according to the compatability list then you should be good to go. I am saying that the switch from hardware compatability to software emulation has hurt backward compatability. That's not FUD, it's a fucking fact. Which should be obvious, because before the EU PS3 release they didn't even have a compatability list because there was no point.
You have no idea where Universidad de Granada is, do you? Hint: Granada, Spain, a "First World" NATO country. TFA even says it's the medical branch in Madrid. You know where that is? Hint: also Spain.
Are you sure you aren't conflating recursion and fire? I did once, and my attempts to pop the stack did no good.
I didn't read your post, but "sound-bite society" is a catchy sound-bite.
Well, no technical trouble, anyway -- I doubt Oracle would like to have its performance compared to two free-as-in-beer competitors. Even if it comes out on top, people will still be tempted to think "Jeez, with the money I save on Oracle licenses, I can buy a faster server and make up the speed difference"...
Well yeah, especially since the primary metric for TPC-C isn't TPM (transactions per minute) but TPM/$. If the cost of Oracle means you could throw more hardware at the free DBs and get better overall performance, it'd be reflected right there in the scores.
I think you're conflating the word conflation with some other word, since you never pointed out what I'm conflating "the fact that the conflation he was pointing out (i.e., that the article conflates HIV with AIDS) is a serious conflation and is a little more significant than a layman's conflation which would not conflate the specifics to non-laymen who would understand and appreciate such a conflation" with.
Um, maybe because it's easier to learn basic social skills from an infinitely patient unflappable robot, then apply and refine those skills with finite-patience irritable humans, than it would be to try to learn social skills from the irritable human in the first place?
It's the same concept as learning to throw and catch with your dad just by tossing the ball back and forth just for fun, then practicing with a team, then playing in a little league game, rather than trying to learn to throw and catch by playing little league games where if you make an error you get yelled at by your team and coach.
It's all about the progession of learning. First teach what social responses are expected, then learn how to use them in the environment with people. By decreasing the amount of patience granted you increase the functional level of the autistic person -- from the infinite patience of a robot, to the nearly infinite patience of a parent, to the extensive patience of a teacher or friend, to the very limited patience of a human. That itself is learning, and it isn't counterproductive to lower the bar at the beginning, any more than it is counterproductive to teach kindegartners to only read books accompanied by pictures.