Because it adds nothing but another layer of kruft to fail. Yes, I could jump through the hoops and overcome 15 years of habit to no good end, or I could just sudo apt-get uninstall resolvconf every time, and after every upgrade, just in case it tries to put it back again (and it has, at times).
At least, I can just do that until I get the time to do some research and see if this is ubuntu-specific suckage, or if it comes from debian. If the former, then I'll start using the latter.
You suggested it was crippled, it's up to you to point how it is.
Actually, I wasn't the one who originally did. I only did so in response.
Explain how they're bad
Servers, almost by definition, don't move around much, and those that do will need a slightly more robust configuration by an intelligent operator, rather than having the static (or semi-static) configurations clobbered by a "helpful" utility. NM isn't much the issue anymore, but they replaced it with resolvconf, which makes a glorious pain in the ass out of itself by deciding it's smarter than you when it comes to your/etc/resolv.conf config file -- Even on workstations, but it's delightfully obnoxious on servers.
Except firefox is functionally retarded in this aspect. It's not uncommon for it to prompt you multiple times (or even seemingly infinitely) for the same goddamn cookie, even if you do choose to apply your decision for the entire domain.
How about now? Really, who's shocked that advertisers are outed as planning to pull scummy shit? They're not going to play nice, since that runs counter to their whole scheme.
I ask this genuinely (not to make a political point or snarky comment, since I honestly don't have a horse in this race):
Did those murder stats include the executions? (depending on who compiled them and which side they were on, it doesn't seem impossible that they would, for the sake of the sound bite).
Or was it attributed more to that, when faced with the possibility of the death penalty, criminals opted to leave fewer witnesses around to tell tales?
Except there's still the creepers to contend with to make said swords. And with all the lawyers out of work, I expect the former will experience a huge breeding surge...
I played Galaxy. It was fun, but all it really added to the Mario 64 "recipe" was motion-sickness. When you said "everyone followed the recipe after that" you weren't wrong. Nintendo did, too.
Nintendo has introduced some great new titles and franchises in the past ten years or so - so don't ditch the platform just to spite the software.
As for the new titles... none of them appeal to me. Not even a little. So why would I stay with the platform if the software is worthless to me? Hell, even if the software was good, I'd be giving this one a pass, based on Nintendo's ongoing "War on Ergonomics."
Which makes your original claim that it's in their interest to honor DNT even more pointless. The advertisers and their clients are crying about things like ABP et al, even though, if what you claimed was true, they should be all FOR them, since they make sure that only the people who see the ads are the ones who WANT to.
If that were true, THAT would be "defeating the purpose of advertising."
. If you are mad about the ads you will feel antipathy towards the things being advertised, which is contrary to the purposes of advertising
Bullshit. If that was the logic, the advertising-supported web would have failed as a business model over a decade ago. Even before we had ABP and noscript, we had Privoxy, Proximitron, Internet Junkbuster... ads have been pissing people on the internet off for a long time now (and people not on the internet for even longer than that).
The advertisers' take on the situation you describe is "if they're angry enough to be mad at the product, at least they still remember it. Mission accomplished."
I'm sad that Sega is giving them the only release of Bayonetta 2, but that's all I've lost. I won't be buying a Wii U until I can get one for $50 behind the counter at Publix, if even then[0].
They've managed to not just "milk into boredom" but actually antagonize me into abandoning their core franchises that I've been a fan of since The First Days. First, the abomination that was Metroid: Other M, which took all of the "cool points" that the prime trilogy had earned for itself and flushed them down the crapper.
Then Twilight Princess with it's stupid gimmicky motion control scheme[1] was bad enough, but the new one which had not only more of the same crap, but required me to buy a new controller, too? It became the first Zelda game in 25 years (except for one of the CDi games) that I didn't play. I'm thirty-*mumble* years old, work on a keyboard for 8-12 hours a day, and the last thing I want to do in my relaxation time is flip my aching arms, hands, and wrists around like I'm having some sort of fit.
Of course, Mario's been sort of "meh" for years. Mario 64 made a nice comeback for it, and then down it went again. The only Kid Icarus since 1991 is so stupidly designed that it requires you to have a stand for your portable game system, since the guy who came up with the control scheme apparently had 3 hands. Star Fox and Mario Kart haven't had a decent iteration since the 64, either, and DKC's hope left with Rare.
I don't speak for all "core" gamers, or even all of the old school demographic, and don't claim to, but IMO, they'd BETTER court the casuals, and not half-ass it this time, since they've burned most of the goodwill they earned in the 80s and 90s.
[0] Which isn't meant to imply that I will buy either or both of the XBox360+1 or the PS3+1. But those are different rants, and I'm trying to keep on topic.:)
[0] Which was COMPLETELY unnecessary (as evidenced by the fact that it was also released on the Gamecube), which makes it a textbook example of a "gimmick," lest I be accused of fanboying.
A slight diversion from topic, but what exactly is that genre of game called, anyway? I usually see them referred to as "Devil May Cry"-style, which doesn't seem like an actual genre, just a way to express what it is in comparison to a well-known game so that you don't have to say what the genre is and then explain it...
The problem was Nintendo never put any quality control on third party software
That's not true at all. Remember the "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality?" In fact, that was one of the reason so many developers were happy to jump ship to the other options when they became available, since Nintendo's "quality control" crossed the line and wandered deep into the category of "censorship" in the NES/SNES days.
Minor nitpick: In the US, I beleive only T-mobile offers a (small) discount on the service charge if you bring your own device.
So really, you mean a $700 phone + $89/month (no contract) or $99 phone + $89/month 24-month contract, or $700 phone + $69/month service + shitty coverage...
CyanogenMod balked at it because they didn't want to piss off the developers (boo fucking hoo), but PDroid solves the "neutered apps crash" problem by feeding it bogus data.
Five will get you ten that your "right to refuse it" is the exact same "right to refuse" that you've had since the shitstorm started: don't buy the phone. Otherwise, consent is implied.
These are cell phone carriers we're talking about. There's nothing too scummy for them.
I know I probably shouldn't feed the political trolls, but... Are you shitting me. I doubt anyone with two neurons to not-rub-together could argue that the Rs and Ds have fucked things up to a point that they're nearly beyond redemption.
And your "solution" to this is to vote for the Randroid, "let the corps do whatever they want", "slavery is legal if it's in the contract" Libertarians? Are you HIGH?
then they deserve to have there fucking identities stolen, specially since there using a fucking wysiwyg tool to build a fucking webpage. go anonymous, obliterate godaddy and there fucktarded customers that are to fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a computer.
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Because it adds nothing but another layer of kruft to fail. Yes, I could jump through the hoops and overcome 15 years of habit to no good end, or I could just sudo apt-get uninstall resolvconf every time, and after every upgrade, just in case it tries to put it back again (and it has, at times).
At least, I can just do that until I get the time to do some research and see if this is ubuntu-specific suckage, or if it comes from debian. If the former, then I'll start using the latter.
You suggested it was crippled, it's up to you to point how it is.
Actually, I wasn't the one who originally did. I only did so in response.
Explain how they're bad
Servers, almost by definition, don't move around much, and those that do will need a slightly more robust configuration by an intelligent operator, rather than having the static (or semi-static) configurations clobbered by a "helpful" utility. NM isn't much the issue anymore, but they replaced it with resolvconf, which makes a glorious pain in the ass out of itself by deciding it's smarter than you when it comes to your /etc/resolv.conf config file -- Even on workstations, but it's delightfully obnoxious on servers.
how Ubuntu will be crippled such that it can't do what it can do today
Amusing, the implication that it's not crippled today.
Seriously, networkmanager and resolvconf on the fucking server editions?
Except firefox is functionally retarded in this aspect. It's not uncommon for it to prompt you multiple times (or even seemingly infinitely) for the same goddamn cookie, even if you do choose to apply your decision for the entire domain.
Question is: when/if we organize?
How about now? Really, who's shocked that advertisers are outed as planning to pull scummy shit? They're not going to play nice, since that runs counter to their whole scheme.
If you've got the code, chummer, let it out.
I ask this genuinely (not to make a political point or snarky comment, since I honestly don't have a horse in this race):
Did those murder stats include the executions? (depending on who compiled them and which side they were on, it doesn't seem impossible that they would, for the sake of the sound bite).
Or was it attributed more to that, when faced with the possibility of the death penalty, criminals opted to leave fewer witnesses around to tell tales?
Except there's still the creepers to contend with to make said swords. And with all the lawyers out of work, I expect the former will experience a huge breeding surge...
No, because this universe was generated before Mojang tweaked the chunk-creation code to stop producing so many life-supporting worlds.
Goddamn nerfs...
I played Galaxy. It was fun, but all it really added to the Mario 64 "recipe" was motion-sickness. When you said "everyone followed the recipe after that" you weren't wrong. Nintendo did, too.
Nintendo has introduced some great new titles and franchises in the past ten years or so - so don't ditch the platform just to spite the software.
As for the new titles... none of them appeal to me. Not even a little. So why would I stay with the platform if the software is worthless to me? Hell, even if the software was good, I'd be giving this one a pass, based on Nintendo's ongoing "War on Ergonomics."
Which makes your original claim that it's in their interest to honor DNT even more pointless. The advertisers and their clients are crying about things like ABP et al, even though, if what you claimed was true, they should be all FOR them, since they make sure that only the people who see the ads are the ones who WANT to.
If that were true, THAT would be "defeating the purpose of advertising."
. If you are mad about the ads you will feel antipathy towards the things being advertised, which is contrary to the purposes of advertising
Bullshit. If that was the logic, the advertising-supported web would have failed as a business model over a decade ago. Even before we had ABP and noscript, we had Privoxy, Proximitron, Internet Junkbuster... ads have been pissing people on the internet off for a long time now (and people not on the internet for even longer than that).
The advertisers' take on the situation you describe is "if they're angry enough to be mad at the product, at least they still remember it. Mission accomplished."
I'm sad that Sega is giving them the only release of Bayonetta 2, but that's all I've lost. I won't be buying a Wii U until I can get one for $50 behind the counter at Publix, if even then[0].
They've managed to not just "milk into boredom" but actually antagonize me into abandoning their core franchises that I've been a fan of since The First Days. First, the abomination that was Metroid: Other M, which took all of the "cool points" that the prime trilogy had earned for itself and flushed them down the crapper.
Then Twilight Princess with it's stupid gimmicky motion control scheme[1] was bad enough, but the new one which had not only more of the same crap, but required me to buy a new controller, too? It became the first Zelda game in 25 years (except for one of the CDi games) that I didn't play. I'm thirty-*mumble* years old, work on a keyboard for 8-12 hours a day, and the last thing I want to do in my relaxation time is flip my aching arms, hands, and wrists around like I'm having some sort of fit.
Of course, Mario's been sort of "meh" for years. Mario 64 made a nice comeback for it, and then down it went again. The only Kid Icarus since 1991 is so stupidly designed that it requires you to have a stand for your portable game system, since the guy who came up with the control scheme apparently had 3 hands. Star Fox and Mario Kart haven't had a decent iteration since the 64, either, and DKC's hope left with Rare.
I don't speak for all "core" gamers, or even all of the old school demographic, and don't claim to, but IMO, they'd BETTER court the casuals, and not half-ass it this time, since they've burned most of the goodwill they earned in the 80s and 90s.
[0] Which isn't meant to imply that I will buy either or both of the XBox360+1 or the PS3+1. But those are different rants, and I'm trying to keep on topic. :)
[0] Which was COMPLETELY unnecessary (as evidenced by the fact that it was also released on the Gamecube), which makes it a textbook example of a "gimmick," lest I be accused of fanboying.
A slight diversion from topic, but what exactly is that genre of game called, anyway? I usually see them referred to as "Devil May Cry"-style, which doesn't seem like an actual genre, just a way to express what it is in comparison to a well-known game so that you don't have to say what the genre is and then explain it...
The problem was Nintendo never put any quality control on third party software
That's not true at all. Remember the "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality?" In fact, that was one of the reason so many developers were happy to jump ship to the other options when they became available, since Nintendo's "quality control" crossed the line and wandered deep into the category of "censorship" in the NES/SNES days.
Cowards hide behind ad hominem attacks when they can't make real arguments.
Fixed that for you, troll.
Minor nitpick: In the US, I beleive only T-mobile offers a (small) discount on the service charge if you bring your own device.
So really, you mean a $700 phone + $89/month (no contract) or $99 phone + $89/month 24-month contract, or $700 phone + $69/month service + shitty coverage...
Fuck that. Don't even play THAT nice.
CyanogenMod balked at it because they didn't want to piss off the developers (boo fucking hoo), but PDroid solves the "neutered apps crash" problem by feeding it bogus data.
Five will get you ten that your "right to refuse it" is the exact same "right to refuse" that you've had since the shitstorm started: don't buy the phone. Otherwise, consent is implied.
These are cell phone carriers we're talking about. There's nothing too scummy for them.
I know I probably shouldn't feed the political trolls, but... Are you shitting me. I doubt anyone with two neurons to not-rub-together could argue that the Rs and Ds have fucked things up to a point that they're nearly beyond redemption.
And your "solution" to this is to vote for the Randroid, "let the corps do whatever they want", "slavery is legal if it's in the contract" Libertarians? Are you HIGH?
"Plutonium and Uranium walk into a bar...?"
Good gods, how big of one could they possibly build?
then they deserve to have there fucking identities stolen, specially since there using a fucking wysiwyg tool to build a fucking webpage. go anonymous, obliterate godaddy and there fucktarded customers that are to fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a computer.
You tell 'em, Scrappy.
It's not that their premium DNS server is all that robust.
You just can't have secondary slave DNS servers without it...
That is not, perhaps, the effective justification that you may have hoped to express.
All the cable providers are scummy (that whole "conflict of interest" thing), but Comcast is the EA of ISP world.
That's not true. We know exactly what it is. How else could we manage to avoid it so adroitly?