See, I use Firefox all day, every day, and I have yet to have an issue with it. So you aren't reporting "showstopper" bugs, that NEED to be fixed in the current version. You're reporting "nice to have" bugs that will be fixed in a future version. And as soon as FF3.0 is out, you'll have to shell out an arm and a leg to get it, so you're locked into their upgrade path... wait, what? It's free you say? Well shit, they're taking your suggestions seriously, incorporating it into a world-class product, and giving it to you for free!?! Those bastards!
I'd have no problem with them acting in an advisory role, saying "Yeah, it's a bad idea to let the back door there unlocked" or whatever. Same kind of thing.
Why isn't this modded up? That was my first thought when reading this. "Hmm, when I get stressed, I start losing, which makes me more stressed..." doesn't seem like a negative feedback loop is what they'd want. How about make the game easier as I get stressed? That would only work with single-payer games, but it's still a better loop. Encourages people to find a middle-ground of stress, rather than requiring zen-like meditation to keep performance at it's peak.
Try society in general: It's frowned upon for any man to hit a woman, same with insulting her, etc. Guys lose a lot of their aggression when it's directed towards a woman rather than a man. They're no longer in "competition". Whether that's fair or not, that's another thing, but it's not limited to IT. My default argument is "If you want to be equal, expect to be treated like an equal. That includes pro's AND con's"
The same? Same inflection on every word of every sentence, same body language, same posturing? I'm sorry, I call bullshit on your "research". There's a HUGE difference between someone being a bitch/asshole and someone being a natural leader, though both will share many of the same behaviors and actions. You can't just "pretend" to be a leader, and cry foul when your actions are construed as being bitchy. You've got to BE a leader. It's a very hard thing to do, though, and it does require aggression of a sort. But if you use the aggression wrong, you turn into an asshole/bitch to people around you. I'd wager that it's just a by-product of men being more aggressive in general, that more of them end up understanding the right balance, whereas women have to learn to be aggressive AND learn the balance.
It's not so much the IT field as society in general. Almost all jobs require politicking, unfortunately. IT is actually one of the fields that is LEASE affected by it, but it's still a major force. The engineers themselves may work in a meritocracy, but their managers don't necessarily. You will have more problem than with an open-source project because the political assumptions are different going into it. Whether you want to deal with that or not, that's your call. But realize that you won't get away from "personal reasons" entering into your job. Ever. So your best bet is to learn how to deal with it, and learn how to at least make people think that they're getting what they want, while you go on and do what you want. It takes work, but it's the only way to deal with the shallow, petty, illogical people that make up ~80% of the world (a rough number completely out of my ass), and unfortunately often have significant influence over what happens to you professionally and otherwise. Politics == society, except in smallish sub-cultures like the open-source world, which attracts people purely BECAUSE it's a meritocracy.
I mean, it's not like when we get excited we lift up a flag to let anyone looking at us know that we're excited. And unfortunately guys have no choice BUT to life up a flag(or maybe call it a 'tent') when we get excited;)
The tweaks are (relatively) trivial. The important bit is getting the tech working first. After that, let the designers/artists have at it. The lighting and such he has set in the demos is designed to show off what the code will do, NOT to be a highly-polished, finished game.
It's now more popular to be a nerd, rather than just a state of being for people who are truly drawn to it, so you start getting a lot of wannabe's who can't hack it intellectually, but are still drawn to the "lifestyle", or more the perks of being known as a nerd. For example, look at Apple users;)
The only thing that qualifies something as a weapon is how it's used. A hammer can be either a weapon or a tool. I think the same can be said of dynamite, and by extension, nuclear explosives.
Same here. But I don't think it's luck... I used to pwn people in UT because I had superior tactics, and learned their patterns, which made up for the fact that I couldn't hit the broad side of a tower on CTF-Face from 10' away with the flak cannon;)
The main problem with Fedora is that it's very hard to get media and such working. I've used Fedora... it just feels clumsy all the time, whereas Ubuntu doesn't. But that's just my opinion. Fedora is still a good distro, it just doesn't have the flash or the user friendliness in the places where people think it's important. Face it... most people use their computers to IM, watch stupid videos and listen to music. Fedora makes it much harder to set up media codecs and such than Ubuntu does, so people go to Ubuntu. Not to mention that.deb packages just work better than rpm's.
So... you're basically annoyed that Calc doesn't work exactly like Excel? I've never found Calc to get in my way of using it... Excel isn't exactly "intuitive" itself, either. Sounds more like you're proficient in Excel, and want a free replacement with no learning curve.
I don't have a fibrechannel connector on my machine right now. And USB3 is backwards compatible, so I could either get a USB3 drive and know it'll work on my USB2 ports, or get a USB3 based machine and know my current USB2 devices will still function. Basically, USB3 is a lot more useful than fibrechannel because it's general-purpose and ubiquitous.
Thank you for stating what I thought would be obvious to most people. Not all thieves are caught, which means that not all of them are dumb;) Most are, true, but not all, and the ones that aren't are the ones you have to look out for.
Win2K certainly did replace a lot of Win98 installs. It was the first NT-based OS that was passable on the desktop. I know I used it rather than deal with all the DOS based crap of the Win9X editions, as did many of my friends and family.
It doesn't make you more vulnerable to violent theft, but if I were looking at two laptops sitting side by side in a cafe and was planning on stealing one, I'd take the one without a name engraved on it. It will help a fair bit against that kind of theft, and it'll make it slightly harder to pawn (hopefully), and easier to find when calling pawn shops.
"Come on up to Eureka and leave your laptop, and camera in your car unattended for a few minutes and I guarantee you before the night's out it paid for someone's meth."
Linus Torvalds owns the trademark for Linux. He has copyright on large portions of the kernel code as well, but that's a different matter entirely. Anyone who has code in the Linux kernel has a partial copyright for it, even though it's released under the GPL. There's no assigning of copyright to Linus when you submit code to the kernel.
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See, I use Firefox all day, every day, and I have yet to have an issue with it. So you aren't reporting "showstopper" bugs, that NEED to be fixed in the current version. You're reporting "nice to have" bugs that will be fixed in a future version. And as soon as FF3.0 is out, you'll have to shell out an arm and a leg to get it, so you're locked into their upgrade path... wait, what? It's free you say? Well shit, they're taking your suggestions seriously, incorporating it into a world-class product, and giving it to you for free!?! Those bastards!
Why not switch to Linux? "Man, there's a chair with no back there, a chair with no seat there, and a chair with both. Which one do I choose?!?!?!"
"You replaced the radio in your car, and then your transmission broke? Sorry, no warranty coverage."
I'd have no problem with them acting in an advisory role, saying "Yeah, it's a bad idea to let the back door there unlocked" or whatever. Same kind of thing.
Why isn't this modded up? That was my first thought when reading this. "Hmm, when I get stressed, I start losing, which makes me more stressed..." doesn't seem like a negative feedback loop is what they'd want. How about make the game easier as I get stressed? That would only work with single-payer games, but it's still a better loop. Encourages people to find a middle-ground of stress, rather than requiring zen-like meditation to keep performance at it's peak.
Try society in general: It's frowned upon for any man to hit a woman, same with insulting her, etc. Guys lose a lot of their aggression when it's directed towards a woman rather than a man. They're no longer in "competition". Whether that's fair or not, that's another thing, but it's not limited to IT. My default argument is "If you want to be equal, expect to be treated like an equal. That includes pro's AND con's"
The same? Same inflection on every word of every sentence, same body language, same posturing? I'm sorry, I call bullshit on your "research". There's a HUGE difference between someone being a bitch/asshole and someone being a natural leader, though both will share many of the same behaviors and actions. You can't just "pretend" to be a leader, and cry foul when your actions are construed as being bitchy. You've got to BE a leader. It's a very hard thing to do, though, and it does require aggression of a sort. But if you use the aggression wrong, you turn into an asshole/bitch to people around you. I'd wager that it's just a by-product of men being more aggressive in general, that more of them end up understanding the right balance, whereas women have to learn to be aggressive AND learn the balance.
It's not so much the IT field as society in general. Almost all jobs require politicking, unfortunately. IT is actually one of the fields that is LEASE affected by it, but it's still a major force. The engineers themselves may work in a meritocracy, but their managers don't necessarily. You will have more problem than with an open-source project because the political assumptions are different going into it. Whether you want to deal with that or not, that's your call. But realize that you won't get away from "personal reasons" entering into your job. Ever. So your best bet is to learn how to deal with it, and learn how to at least make people think that they're getting what they want, while you go on and do what you want. It takes work, but it's the only way to deal with the shallow, petty, illogical people that make up ~80% of the world (a rough number completely out of my ass), and unfortunately often have significant influence over what happens to you professionally and otherwise. Politics == society, except in smallish sub-cultures like the open-source world, which attracts people purely BECAUSE it's a meritocracy.
The tweaks are (relatively) trivial. The important bit is getting the tech working first. After that, let the designers/artists have at it. The lighting and such he has set in the demos is designed to show off what the code will do, NOT to be a highly-polished, finished game.
It's now more popular to be a nerd, rather than just a state of being for people who are truly drawn to it, so you start getting a lot of wannabe's who can't hack it intellectually, but are still drawn to the "lifestyle", or more the perks of being known as a nerd. For example, look at Apple users ;)
The only thing that qualifies something as a weapon is how it's used. A hammer can be either a weapon or a tool. I think the same can be said of dynamite, and by extension, nuclear explosives.
Same here. But I don't think it's luck... I used to pwn people in UT because I had superior tactics, and learned their patterns, which made up for the fact that I couldn't hit the broad side of a tower on CTF-Face from 10' away with the flak cannon ;)
You should be able to add an
Option "Rotate" "UD"
To your device section to show the display upside down by default. It'll work with most X.org drivers.
The main problem with Fedora is that it's very hard to get media and such working. I've used Fedora... it just feels clumsy all the time, whereas Ubuntu doesn't. But that's just my opinion. Fedora is still a good distro, it just doesn't have the flash or the user friendliness in the places where people think it's important. Face it... most people use their computers to IM, watch stupid videos and listen to music. Fedora makes it much harder to set up media codecs and such than Ubuntu does, so people go to Ubuntu. Not to mention that .deb packages just work better than rpm's.
"Janus"? "Frosting"? "Wolfpack"? "Hydra"? How about "Sixpack"? "Ides of Buster"? "Pigs in Space"? You're either a troll or an imbecile, I can't decide which. The codenames for Ubuntu are no more or less "weird" than they are for any other company, and all things considered, significantly less weird than many.
How about "Porn, Blogs and P2P", so we keep with the same theme as Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll? ;)
So... you're basically annoyed that Calc doesn't work exactly like Excel? I've never found Calc to get in my way of using it... Excel isn't exactly "intuitive" itself, either. Sounds more like you're proficient in Excel, and want a free replacement with no learning curve.
I don't have a fibrechannel connector on my machine right now. And USB3 is backwards compatible, so I could either get a USB3 drive and know it'll work on my USB2 ports, or get a USB3 based machine and know my current USB2 devices will still function. Basically, USB3 is a lot more useful than fibrechannel because it's general-purpose and ubiquitous.
Thank you for stating what I thought would be obvious to most people. Not all thieves are caught, which means that not all of them are dumb ;) Most are, true, but not all, and the ones that aren't are the ones you have to look out for.
Win2K certainly did replace a lot of Win98 installs. It was the first NT-based OS that was passable on the desktop. I know I used it rather than deal with all the DOS based crap of the Win9X editions, as did many of my friends and family.
It doesn't make you more vulnerable to violent theft, but if I were looking at two laptops sitting side by side in a cafe and was planning on stealing one, I'd take the one without a name engraved on it. It will help a fair bit against that kind of theft, and it'll make it slightly harder to pawn (hopefully), and easier to find when calling pawn shops.
Fixed that for you. Fixed that for you.
Linus Torvalds owns the trademark for Linux. He has copyright on large portions of the kernel code as well, but that's a different matter entirely. Anyone who has code in the Linux kernel has a partial copyright for it, even though it's released under the GPL. There's no assigning of copyright to Linus when you submit code to the kernel.
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