I am a part of #4. Currently living in Japan. A few weeks back, I tried to buy Bioshock on steam. Turns out it's "not available in my region". Nor is it available at any of the nearby game shops (but erotic anime games are overflowing, so whatever). So, I had an American friend of mine buy it for me and gift it, and then did a quick paypal to him. While they got my money eventually, the point is that, was I unable to do this, they simply wouldn't have, despite me wanting to. I honestly don't see how they think this isn't a problem.
can we all just agree that in this case "college isn't for everyone?"
As simple as college classes have been made these days (insert comparison of highschool-level classes from progressively older timeperiods), I'm surprised they're not to the "for everyone" level yet. Then again, as the GP pointed out, she could have asked a computer-knowledgeable friend. Or made one. Sounds like your average attention whore, honestly. "It didn't work, everybody look at ME! I'm on television because I'm important enough to show those geeks who's right!".
And, also, Firefox cannot necessarily handle all of her "browsing needs". It's not always Firefox's fault, but there's a reason I have IE Tab set up for a handful of sites and it's not because I'm a web developer.
I wonder how those Mac and Linux people even get around the web these days... Or does Safari and Konqueror fill the gap that IE leaves? For consumer-space internet, I haven't run into an IE-only website since... well, Maplestory used to be IE only...
Unless you're running some archaic banking software that uses ActiveX (or something like it), there's simply no reason to claim that.
Is He willing to prevent evil but not able? Then is he impotent?
Is He able but not willing? Then is He malevolent?
Is He both able and willing? Whence then is evil? Not that I agree with straight-up bashing of religion for bashing's sake, but there's logically nothing in favor of the Faith side besides, well, blind faith. For the record, I'm agnostic, because I hope there is a God, because that would make things more exciting.
What do games even use for their video codecs these days? I can't even remember the last time I saw an in-game video, and I'm certain it was Bink. When, excatly, was the consumer able to use Bink for anything? Never? Naturally, they'll be using the best thing they can. Just because Piracy happens to use it also doesn't mean it's popular BECAUSE of piracy.
Yes, that and things like having to activate Windows Audio and DirectX 3d acceleration. It's more hassle than it's worth - a simple registry file is far easier than making Server '03 a proper desktop.
You know what 98 did right? Ctrl-Alt-Del brought up a window that FROZE the system. (almost) Nothing could take over from that box, because that box was the only thing given priority at that moment. Since XP, we've had to deal with the "task manager" being largely unable to take control of processes and unable to minimize full-screen games in certain cases. One step forward, two steps back.
Yuh. The industry had a standard for audio recording called "ASIO", that allowed me to get something like 2ms delay on my mediocre audio hardware. With Vista, they decided to say "Fuck that!" and pretty much do whatever they felt like with their new "awesome audio stack", basically remaking ASIO as WaveRT, which is barely supported by anything. Good job!
One problem is that "runs faster" and "feels faster" can be viewed as a subjective situation.
Windows Server 2003, while not scoring any higher than XP in almost all benchmarks, has been seen as "faster" by a large portion of the Windows enthusiast community simply because it defaults to a menu-delay of zero.
When WinSXS decided it would take up 10GB of hard drive space of copies of absolutely every DLL, several times, instead of fixing underlying problems. This IS an issue for those of us who don't have hard drive space flowing out our ears.
(Cue "hard drives are so cheap, SPEND MONEY and UPGRADE to make the OS work" comments)
I'm going to be completely honest here: I have no idea what you just said, and I fear that expanding your acronyms would push your post to multiple pages.
This whole idea is nothing new. I recommend anyone interested in this track down a copy of Georg Simmel's, "The Metropolis and Mental Life". Let's just say that, in 1950, he was saying pretty much all of this.
3. That people will still buy (or not buy) Mac's based on a fashion over function idea (despite the fact the actual Mac offering isn't too bad functionally).
Very true. A friend of mine "obtained" the latest beta of Windows 7, and was showing it to me. I pointed out that pinning the items to the taskbar was just like what's been in OSX for a long time now, and he replied (quite seriously), "Yes, but this isn't pretentious."
Just so you know, I went to google to look up "gilling" and was even more confused. It thought I meant "grilling", even though gilling is apparently both a mythological monster and a place.
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*thinks* No, really. What? BIOS passwords? Scraping data from the RAM? Locking the harddrive? What?
I am a part of #4. Currently living in Japan. A few weeks back, I tried to buy Bioshock on steam. Turns out it's "not available in my region". Nor is it available at any of the nearby game shops (but erotic anime games are overflowing, so whatever). So, I had an American friend of mine buy it for me and gift it, and then did a quick paypal to him. While they got my money eventually, the point is that, was I unable to do this, they simply wouldn't have, despite me wanting to. I honestly don't see how they think this isn't a problem.
Here's a solution to all your problems. Right click on the taskbar and hit "properties" to see it.
I prefer Windows 7, even at this beta stage, over XP - direct comparison.
Well, I prefer Windowx XP over Windows 7 - direct comparison. And I backed up my opinion just as well as you.
Your quote says soundtrack... I don't remember Spike singing.
Hint: Don't post the exact same thing in multiple places. If I had mod points, both your posts would be modded redundant.
can we all just agree that in this case "college isn't for everyone?"
As simple as college classes have been made these days (insert comparison of highschool-level classes from progressively older timeperiods), I'm surprised they're not to the "for everyone" level yet. Then again, as the GP pointed out, she could have asked a computer-knowledgeable friend. Or made one. Sounds like your average attention whore, honestly. "It didn't work, everybody look at ME! I'm on television because I'm important enough to show those geeks who's right!".
...maybe that was a bit harsh. But maybe not.
And, also, Firefox cannot necessarily handle all of her "browsing needs". It's not always Firefox's fault, but there's a reason I have IE Tab set up for a handful of sites and it's not because I'm a web developer.
I wonder how those Mac and Linux people even get around the web these days... Or does Safari and Konqueror fill the gap that IE leaves?
For consumer-space internet, I haven't run into an IE-only website since... well, Maplestory used to be IE only...
Unless you're running some archaic banking software that uses ActiveX (or something like it), there's simply no reason to claim that.
This is what I think of you.
You ignored the complete idea of the Devil. Which, you know, shows up in the same collection of books that claim he's all powerful and loving.
Is He willing to prevent evil but not able? Then is he impotent?
Is He able but not willing? Then is He malevolent?
Is He both able and willing? Whence then is evil?
Not that I agree with straight-up bashing of religion for bashing's sake, but there's logically nothing in favor of the Faith side besides, well, blind faith.
For the record, I'm agnostic, because I hope there is a God, because that would make things more exciting.
What do games even use for their video codecs these days? I can't even remember the last time I saw an in-game video, and I'm certain it was Bink. When, excatly, was the consumer able to use Bink for anything? Never? Naturally, they'll be using the best thing they can. Just because Piracy happens to use it also doesn't mean it's popular BECAUSE of piracy.
DivX certified players still exist? Where do you live? Some backwater country like America?*
*This asterisk inserted for the humor impaired. Laugh.
Yes, that and things like having to activate Windows Audio and DirectX 3d acceleration. It's more hassle than it's worth - a simple registry file is far easier than making Server '03 a proper desktop.
You know what 98 did right? Ctrl-Alt-Del brought up a window that FROZE the system. (almost) Nothing could take over from that box, because that box was the only thing given priority at that moment. Since XP, we've had to deal with the "task manager" being largely unable to take control of processes and unable to minimize full-screen games in certain cases. One step forward, two steps back.
Yuh. The industry had a standard for audio recording called "ASIO", that allowed me to get something like 2ms delay on my mediocre audio hardware. With Vista, they decided to say "Fuck that!" and pretty much do whatever they felt like with their new "awesome audio stack", basically remaking ASIO as WaveRT, which is barely supported by anything. Good job!
One problem is that "runs faster" and "feels faster" can be viewed as a subjective situation.
Windows Server 2003, while not scoring any higher than XP in almost all benchmarks, has been seen as "faster" by a large portion of the Windows enthusiast community simply because it defaults to a menu-delay of zero.
WHY DON'T YOU TRY TO TELL HIM LOUDER!? I don't think there's ENOUGH CAPS for him to HEAR YOU!
DLL hell? When was the last time it affected you?
When WinSXS decided it would take up 10GB of hard drive space of copies of absolutely every DLL, several times, instead of fixing underlying problems. This IS an issue for those of us who don't have hard drive space flowing out our ears.
(Cue "hard drives are so cheap, SPEND MONEY and UPGRADE to make the OS work" comments)
Are you secretly a magic 8-ball?
I'm going to be completely honest here: I have no idea what you just said, and I fear that expanding your acronyms would push your post to multiple pages.
This whole idea is nothing new. I recommend anyone interested in this track down a copy of Georg Simmel's, "The Metropolis and Mental Life". Let's just say that, in 1950, he was saying pretty much all of this.
3. That people will still buy (or not buy) Mac's based on a fashion over function idea (despite the fact the actual Mac offering isn't too bad functionally).
Very true. A friend of mine "obtained" the latest beta of Windows 7, and was showing it to me. I pointed out that pinning the items to the taskbar was just like what's been in OSX for a long time now, and he replied (quite seriously), "Yes, but this isn't pretentious."
Just so you know, I went to google to look up "gilling" and was even more confused. It thought I meant "grilling", even though gilling is apparently both a mythological monster and a place.
Then I realized you just misspelled giggling.
The Socratic method also generally doesn't work and makes you look like a douchebag, because you probably could have just told them the answer.