Huh. I love my DS and my Wii. I can play the old Final Fantasy's, Zelda, all kinds of things. And then I get the best party games there are to boot with the Wii. Really, people like coming over and playing Mario Party for hours, and it's something my girlfriend and I love to do together. They aren't PREVENTING hardcore gaming, but they aren't actively catering to it. There's a difference.
And btw, I've put almost 50 hours into Zelda, just dicking around. It's not completely non-hardcore.
The only problem with that is that the 360 is also a money sink. I mean, they have to allocate $1 billion just to repair defective units that can't handle small power fluctuations. WTF? Microsoft isn't making money on the 360, they're still taking a bath, even if they are selling more than the PS3. Besides, as evil as Sony is, I'd rather buy a PS3 than a 360. Only frat boys, "hardcore" gamers and 12 year old squeakers buy 360's (or the original XBox's).
That's mostly because ATI's drivers just suck donkey balls through a straw. If you want to run Linux, don't get ATI, it's really that simple. Do you try to install OSX on your Dell? The hardware isn't compatible. Same thing here.
Running a toy webserver on a single-user box is different than running a real one. A real one actually does take a fair bit of tuning and configuration. If you run something more than that, you shouldn't need the graphical handholding, because if you do you're the type of person that has a rooted warez-serving IIS zombie, rather than a secure web server doing it's job.
That's a better rate than I get with Windows. Half the time I have to go to some site and install some crappy driver. Or, say, a USB card reader creates 5 drives in the system, one of which actually has my CF card in it, and I get to guess until I find it. Ubuntu? Plug it in, it shows up on the desktop. Same with my scanner... I plug it in, it shows up and is used by any scanning app under Linux. They don't even make XP drivers for it, and it's a NICE hp flatbed scanner. Go figure.
You forgot the biggest part: you can always opt-out of it. You don't have to install ingimp. There's no such thing with closed source software aside from firewalling off the machine entirely. But I believe that the GPP of this is a troll;)
Basically, people are stupid, bitch about it, and you have to jump? Gotta love the new America, where it's your right and God-given duty to be offended by everything without even thinking about trying to understand it.
1) Just because it's the way Photoshop does it doesn't mean it's right. I hate MDI applications with a passion. They're a bad design, period.
2) The point of creating FLOSS is to scratch the developer's itch, and hopefully help other people along the way. Notice the order I put those priorities in. I don't want market share for my apps, I want them to do what I expect them to do, and solve my problems for me.
But they travel faster than the speed of sound IN WATER. Hence, supersonic. Read the article before you start blathering about things you don't know about.
So, if a guy finds you passed out in the street, you don't want him looking through your wallet to see who you are until he gets your permission? All these guys should theoretically do is open a random file or two to test the integrity of the copy. If it works, sweet. If they see your wife's tits, guess you should have backed those up or hidden them better. When I fix a PC, especially a drive and non-booting or filesystem issue, I will open a random file or two to make sure they do what I expect them to. If I can accidentally browse to your porn while doing so, so be it. Either way, I will never take a copy of it unless you ask me to, and then I delete it when you have everything you need.
It's not an invasion of privacy if someone asks you to do the work. The invasion of privacy happens when you take a copy for yourself without having permission, and especially knowing that you probably would not be welcome to even know of it.
There is however a LARGE difference between examining data making sure that it's valid during the process of recovery, and making copies to take home with you. Just because you see it doesn't mean you keep a copy of it. I've seen shit on computers I wish I could un-see (and some stuff that was very, very nice), but I didn't keep copies of any of it. It was their stuff, no matter how hot their wife was. But then again, that's why I'm working at a much better job than Geek Squad... I have morals and a few more brains.
Vinyl primarily sounds "better" because they can't mix it to have all levels hitting the top cutoff. The needle would pop out of the groove. No such limitation with CD's, and there's no "distortion" at those high levels, so often the vinyl version of an album does sound better than the CD lately, especially on pop and more mainstream music. CD's are great for things like jazz and classical because they don't overmix those.
I know I've only had to change 2-5 lines to get a multi-thousand line Qt app that was developed on Linux to compile and run identically under Windows. Qt does work on ANY platform, not just any Linux platform.
So... how portable are your apps? They're not, you say?
You could have at least picked GTK and had Windows and Linux compatibility. Seems like you guys threw out the baby with the bathwater. Your OSX widget library cost $0, but how much does each development-grade Mac cost? Or are you doing all your work on Mac mini's?
Wait... we killed all those people? And here it was me thinking that it was sectarian terrorism operating in a newly non-brutal regime creating the majority of deaths at bazaars and other public areas.
Americans are responsible for a number of deaths over there, but the senseless ones are entirely on the heads of the uneducated religious and tribalist zealots.
Bitter much? I'm plenty intelligent, yet I can still play many sports with quite a bit of competency. I know many other "geeks" who are the same way. And my intellectual girlfriend laments that she didn't play sports when she was younger, because she really enjoys them and needs a lot of practice and work to catch up to where the rest of our softball team is. A kid should be forced to keep their mind AND body in decent shape, because neither part works independently of the other.
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Huh. I love my DS and my Wii. I can play the old Final Fantasy's, Zelda, all kinds of things. And then I get the best party games there are to boot with the Wii. Really, people like coming over and playing Mario Party for hours, and it's something my girlfriend and I love to do together. They aren't PREVENTING hardcore gaming, but they aren't actively catering to it. There's a difference.
And btw, I've put almost 50 hours into Zelda, just dicking around. It's not completely non-hardcore.
The only problem with that is that the 360 is also a money sink. I mean, they have to allocate $1 billion just to repair defective units that can't handle small power fluctuations. WTF? Microsoft isn't making money on the 360, they're still taking a bath, even if they are selling more than the PS3. Besides, as evil as Sony is, I'd rather buy a PS3 than a 360. Only frat boys, "hardcore" gamers and 12 year old squeakers buy 360's (or the original XBox's).
Man, I wish I hadn't posted in this thread already.
I just want to add... "ditto".
Get some friends, then. If you're looking to just play with yourself, get something with the standard "joystick" interface.
That's mostly because ATI's drivers just suck donkey balls through a straw. If you want to run Linux, don't get ATI, it's really that simple. Do you try to install OSX on your Dell? The hardware isn't compatible. Same thing here.
Running a toy webserver on a single-user box is different than running a real one. A real one actually does take a fair bit of tuning and configuration. If you run something more than that, you shouldn't need the graphical handholding, because if you do you're the type of person that has a rooted warez-serving IIS zombie, rather than a secure web server doing it's job.
Mandriva: Open a console, and type in "urpmi --auto-select"
Ubuntu: A little thing in the system tray flashes at you when it needs updating.
New user's verdict goes to: Ubuntu
It's always Gutsy Gibbon. It's just easier to abbreviate it as Gutsy. Stop reading too much into it ;)
That's a better rate than I get with Windows. Half the time I have to go to some site and install some crappy driver. Or, say, a USB card reader creates 5 drives in the system, one of which actually has my CF card in it, and I get to guess until I find it. Ubuntu? Plug it in, it shows up on the desktop. Same with my scanner... I plug it in, it shows up and is used by any scanning app under Linux. They don't even make XP drivers for it, and it's a NICE hp flatbed scanner. Go figure.
You forgot the biggest part: you can always opt-out of it. You don't have to install ingimp. There's no such thing with closed source software aside from firewalling off the machine entirely. But I believe that the GPP of this is a troll ;)
Basically, people are stupid, bitch about it, and you have to jump? Gotta love the new America, where it's your right and God-given duty to be offended by everything without even thinking about trying to understand it.
1) Just because it's the way Photoshop does it doesn't mean it's right. I hate MDI applications with a passion. They're a bad design, period.
2) The point of creating FLOSS is to scratch the developer's itch, and hopefully help other people along the way. Notice the order I put those priorities in. I don't want market share for my apps, I want them to do what I expect them to do, and solve my problems for me.
But they travel faster than the speed of sound IN WATER. Hence, supersonic. Read the article before you start blathering about things you don't know about.
So, if a guy finds you passed out in the street, you don't want him looking through your wallet to see who you are until he gets your permission? All these guys should theoretically do is open a random file or two to test the integrity of the copy. If it works, sweet. If they see your wife's tits, guess you should have backed those up or hidden them better. When I fix a PC, especially a drive and non-booting or filesystem issue, I will open a random file or two to make sure they do what I expect them to. If I can accidentally browse to your porn while doing so, so be it. Either way, I will never take a copy of it unless you ask me to, and then I delete it when you have everything you need.
It's not an invasion of privacy if someone asks you to do the work. The invasion of privacy happens when you take a copy for yourself without having permission, and especially knowing that you probably would not be welcome to even know of it.
There is however a LARGE difference between examining data making sure that it's valid during the process of recovery, and making copies to take home with you. Just because you see it doesn't mean you keep a copy of it. I've seen shit on computers I wish I could un-see (and some stuff that was very, very nice), but I didn't keep copies of any of it. It was their stuff, no matter how hot their wife was. But then again, that's why I'm working at a much better job than Geek Squad... I have morals and a few more brains.
Getting it up the hill in the first place is a bitch, though. Marketing will just gloss over that fact ;)
That`s only for déjà vu
That's only for déjà vu
Vinyl primarily sounds "better" because they can't mix it to have all levels hitting the top cutoff. The needle would pop out of the groove. No such limitation with CD's, and there's no "distortion" at those high levels, so often the vinyl version of an album does sound better than the CD lately, especially on pop and more mainstream music. CD's are great for things like jazz and classical because they don't overmix those.
They did? Make sure you tell Gamestop, because they're still selling nonexistent systems.
I know I've only had to change 2-5 lines to get a multi-thousand line Qt app that was developed on Linux to compile and run identically under Windows. Qt does work on ANY platform, not just any Linux platform.
So... how portable are your apps? They're not, you say?
You could have at least picked GTK and had Windows and Linux compatibility. Seems like you guys threw out the baby with the bathwater. Your OSX widget library cost $0, but how much does each development-grade Mac cost? Or are you doing all your work on Mac mini's?
Wait... we killed all those people? And here it was me thinking that it was sectarian terrorism operating in a newly non-brutal regime creating the majority of deaths at bazaars and other public areas.
Americans are responsible for a number of deaths over there, but the senseless ones are entirely on the heads of the uneducated religious and tribalist zealots.
Bitter much? I'm plenty intelligent, yet I can still play many sports with quite a bit of competency. I know many other "geeks" who are the same way. And my intellectual girlfriend laments that she didn't play sports when she was younger, because she really enjoys them and needs a lot of practice and work to catch up to where the rest of our softball team is. A kid should be forced to keep their mind AND body in decent shape, because neither part works independently of the other.
So that old Ford Pinto must be better than my new Toyota Corolla by that metric, right?
Car analogy FTW!