I used to work for a Cable backend company that would refuse to pin down their timeframes for dispatches any closer than 2 business days. 5 in some areas. While never told directly the reasons for this, in the lowly tech support drone position I was in, one gathered the feeling that the local staff were a) incompetent and b) usually understaffed.
Ehh. I have an LCD monitor setup where a TV would be in my living room. It's used as a computer when I'm alone, generally. And as a TV when guests are over. Or when I want to watch something from the couch. Just move the damn desk chair.:P
You don't need a remote to have a TV, you couch potatos.:P And in any case, you can buy them for PC.
1 William Gates 2 Warren Buffett 3 Carlos Slim Helú 4 Ingvar Kamprad 5 Lakshmi Mittal 6 Paul Allen 7 Bernard Arnault 8 Prince Alwaleed 9 Kenneth Thomson 10 Li Ka-shing
Let's see. Install DD-WRT. Start up a few torrents. Watch while all connectivity dies.
Install any other WRT54G firmware(Stock, wifi-box, etc)... Start up a few torrents. Watch while things work perfectly fine...
I don't care enough to diagnose the problem. DD-WRT doesn't work properly on a default install. Other things do. Which will I choose?
And if DD-WRT didn't suck horribly, people might run it... I'm not really a fan of routers that like to shit themselves simply due to a semi-heavy load being placed upon them.
IANAB(I Am Not A Biologist.), but this seems applicable in the case the child involved is male(XY). Y chromosomes carry far fewer genes than X chromosomes. A female(XX) child, one the other hand, seems more of a 50/50 split.
It's a moot point either way; that particular point in the grandparent's post is just him being a dick.:P Rest of it stands, though.
Try the Elder Scrolls series sometime. Probably some of the more complex PC RPGs around. Albet still bent on the whole "level up, level up, level up, omfg shoot me already, level up" gameplay concept. You can overlook that nicely with how detailed the world is; and as it's single-player, there's no urge to compete as in an MMORPG; so you can just ignore the levelling and enjoy the quests.
Serious gamers who look at a game and see Direct-this, Microsoft-that, in the requirements, and go "Gee. Looks like the coders were too incompetant to port this to another OS. I bet it has instability issues, probably weird bugs. And what the hell. If it actually IS any good, I might want to run it on linux in future, and they're obviously against my doing so. Screw this. Let's find something more flexible and well-thought-out instead of the gaming equivalent of mass-media trash."
Just because it's a game doesn't mean there's an excuse to throw good software development practices to the winds. There's a lot of fun games out there, and given the choice between two that are equally fun, I will choose the cross-platform game hands down over the MS-lockin game.
I don't know an awful lot about the subject, but it seems to me, with MOST of the world using metric for other measurements, it's probably about time that we incorporate a metric measurement for time, too. Sure, it'd probably mess a lot of things up initially, but in the long run, wouldn't it be better? Seconds, minutes, and hours are all arbitrary. Years and months are about the only thing that has some basis on reality--and those measurements are KNOWN to be wrong(see leap years)... And besides, we use base 10 for most everything else, currently. What's with this 60/60/24/~30/356 stuff?
Hotswapped a 3 1/4" floppy drive back and forth between two operating computers, as the place I was at had no NICs, and only the one floppy drive.
Worked perfectly in both machines for about 15-20 swaps, then was plugging it back in to one of them and it fried. Computer was fine, drive was dead.
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I used to work for a Cable backend company that would refuse to pin down their timeframes for dispatches any closer than 2 business days. 5 in some areas. While never told directly the reasons for this, in the lowly tech support drone position I was in, one gathered the feeling that the local staff were a) incompetent and b) usually understaffed.
Ehh. I have an LCD monitor setup where a TV would be in my living room. It's used as a computer when I'm alone, generally. And as a TV when guests are over. Or when I want to watch something from the couch. Just move the damn desk chair. :P
You don't need a remote to have a TV, you couch potatos. :P And in any case, you can buy them for PC.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/03/07/06billionai res_worlds-richest-people_land.html
1 William Gates
2 Warren Buffett
3 Carlos Slim Helú
4 Ingvar Kamprad
5 Lakshmi Mittal
6 Paul Allen
7 Bernard Arnault
8 Prince Alwaleed
9 Kenneth Thomson
10 Li Ka-shing
Not interested. Ports were forwarded. I'll stick with wifi-box, kthxbai. Zealot some other piece of shit firmware, to someone else.
Let's see. Install DD-WRT. Start up a few torrents. Watch while all connectivity dies. Install any other WRT54G firmware(Stock, wifi-box, etc)... Start up a few torrents. Watch while things work perfectly fine... I don't care enough to diagnose the problem. DD-WRT doesn't work properly on a default install. Other things do. Which will I choose?
And if DD-WRT didn't suck horribly, people might run it... I'm not really a fan of routers that like to shit themselves simply due to a semi-heavy load being placed upon them.
Because "America"--the US of A part of it--sucks. kthxbai.
Book is "Pattern Recognition" and for those who haven't read it, is an excellent read.
Considering the number of people who scream into their phones on every other sort of public transit around, this would surprise very little.
IANAB(I Am Not A Biologist.), but this seems applicable in the case the child involved is male(XY). Y chromosomes carry far fewer genes than X chromosomes. A female(XX) child, one the other hand, seems more of a 50/50 split. It's a moot point either way; that particular point in the grandparent's post is just him being a dick. :P Rest of it stands, though.
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Try the Elder Scrolls series sometime. Probably some of the more complex PC RPGs around. Albet still bent on the whole "level up, level up, level up, omfg shoot me already, level up" gameplay concept. You can overlook that nicely with how detailed the world is; and as it's single-player, there's no urge to compete as in an MMORPG; so you can just ignore the levelling and enjoy the quests.
Serious gamers who look at a game and see Direct-this, Microsoft-that, in the requirements, and go "Gee. Looks like the coders were too incompetant to port this to another OS. I bet it has instability issues, probably weird bugs. And what the hell. If it actually IS any good, I might want to run it on linux in future, and they're obviously against my doing so. Screw this. Let's find something more flexible and well-thought-out instead of the gaming equivalent of mass-media trash." Just because it's a game doesn't mean there's an excuse to throw good software development practices to the winds. There's a lot of fun games out there, and given the choice between two that are equally fun, I will choose the cross-platform game hands down over the MS-lockin game.
I don't know an awful lot about the subject, but it seems to me, with MOST of the world using metric for other measurements, it's probably about time that we incorporate a metric measurement for time, too. Sure, it'd probably mess a lot of things up initially, but in the long run, wouldn't it be better? Seconds, minutes, and hours are all arbitrary. Years and months are about the only thing that has some basis on reality--and those measurements are KNOWN to be wrong(see leap years)... And besides, we use base 10 for most everything else, currently. What's with this 60/60/24/~30/356 stuff?
Probably the same movie that set the precedent of there being sound in space.
Hotswapped a 3 1/4" floppy drive back and forth between two operating computers, as the place I was at had no NICs, and only the one floppy drive. Worked perfectly in both machines for about 15-20 swaps, then was plugging it back in to one of them and it fried. Computer was fine, drive was dead.
Actually, I would. Would anyone happen to know where to find such?