But back on topic, I actually do a game night with my girlfriend and a few friends about once a week, and we just play board games. Cranium, Uno, Phase 10, all kinds of stuff that's not electronic. We all work with computers, so we don't want to spend all of our free time staring at a screen, too.
It has cut into my Final Fantasy XII time, though... oh well
Just because you know big words doesn't make you any more of an expert than he is. Why would the lungs be static and collapse? Wouldn't they fill with water rather than gas at the bottom of a pool, and use the water as a medium of oxygen exchange rather than air? But that'd make sense and be obvious to most people...
You mean Windows is usable right out of the box? Or do you not have to configure it when you start it, getting rid of all the crapware and such that is shipped in droves on those cheapo machines? I call shenanigans. Just because you use FreeBSD doesn't make this any less of a troll.
Because, you know, academic freedom is bullshit. Why be allowed to think and teach freely without fear of reprisal? It's much easier to just teach what is government approved goodthink.
Without memory protection? I agree with them. Any program crashing could bring down the whole system, and could access any other memory address in the system. It allowed for some nifty hacks, but it was a glass house of a system, throwing stones back and forth with every program execution.
Paying for people's NON-work (Elvis is dead. No one who makes money from his work now has contributed anything significant to the art) is antithetical to a healthy society. It's a social malaise.
Aren't puns by definition supposed to be terrible? With Novell's moves lately, Citroën may very well have bought a lemon, and the visual similarity between the words... the pun's funny on multiple levels. Just because you don't get it...
Or you could realize that a laptop is often a delicate tool, and should be treated as such. Or do you regularly drop and sit on your glasses as well? There are some cases where a Toughbook is a good investment, especially when it's needed to be used outdoors or in very mobile situations, things like firefighters and police work, or field engineers. If you just use a laptop when it's at a desk or in a controlled indoor environment, and only for portability? Stop abusing your equipment. Or pay through the nose for lower performance because you're lazy and clumsy. Not my money.
Well, we had our Symantec server DDOS us from inside our network by periodically sending ARP requests for every address in a/16 (or larger... I can't remember the details. It was at least a/16). Had to use Ethereal to figure that out. Switching off of Kaspersky won't help;)
...dimmers should only ever be hooked directly to light sockets. What kind of retarded electrical wiring puts a dimmer on a socket? That can't be up to code... either that, or the UK is more backwards than I thought.
The 50V limit was actually put into law by telecom lobbyists. Under 50V, you don't need an electricians license, and they wanted to be able to do telecom work without electricians. 50V, and even 25V can be quite dangerous if you don't pay attention.
LiveCD's bud. They won't touch the hard drive unless you tell 'em to, and they work very well. Even got my laptop's wireless running without interaction and automatically connected to an open WAP nearby. I used the kubuntu 6.10 LiveCD.
Versus the half-assed MDI interface of all Office 2003 applications? Where each document has it's own entry on the taskbar, but it's really not a separate window, it's part of the main office application's Window, so I can't have two Excel documents open side-by-side, or Word documents? I can have a Word and an Excel document open, but not two of the same type. Open-Source is not the only offender in the "Bad Interfaces" camp.
If no one pirated it, no one would be using Windows now because they wouldn't have the mind share. They looked the other way when piracy made them popular, now they want to profit. I'd pay for Windows if they didn't make it a pain in the ass to run it.
The go back to Econ 101 and pay attention this time. It's easy to compete with free, especially when free is illegal. Add value over the "free", make it easier than free, make the content worth watching at it's asking price. If DVD's were $5-$10 they'd sell better, because it's more convenient and worth it to buy one. When they're $20-$40? People would rather waste the time downloading to get something.
The current pricing structure CANNOT compete with free. I'll agree with that. What makes you entitled to that pricing structure, though? You price it at what the market can bear, or go out of business. It's really that simple. Technology changes, and you're arguing that the Buggy Whip and the French Button manufacturers were right.
And if you're being snide, at least find the shift key first.
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I agree! I love DFA, aka Lawn Dart to the Head.
But back on topic, I actually do a game night with my girlfriend and a few friends about once a week, and we just play board games. Cranium, Uno, Phase 10, all kinds of stuff that's not electronic. We all work with computers, so we don't want to spend all of our free time staring at a screen, too.
It has cut into my Final Fantasy XII time, though... oh well
You never played with the course builder on ExciteBike and made the bike wrap the screen then, did you? ;)
Radio Shack seems to have them. I'm thinking I want one, too ;)
Just because you know big words doesn't make you any more of an expert than he is. Why would the lungs be static and collapse? Wouldn't they fill with water rather than gas at the bottom of a pool, and use the water as a medium of oxygen exchange rather than air? But that'd make sense and be obvious to most people...
You mean Windows is usable right out of the box? Or do you not have to configure it when you start it, getting rid of all the crapware and such that is shipped in droves on those cheapo machines? I call shenanigans. Just because you use FreeBSD doesn't make this any less of a troll.
Because, you know, academic freedom is bullshit. Why be allowed to think and teach freely without fear of reprisal? It's much easier to just teach what is government approved goodthink.
Yes
VLC breaks the law in the good 'ol US of A. Specifically the DMCA's restrictions against circumventing copyright. Please, try to keep up.
Without memory protection? I agree with them. Any program crashing could bring down the whole system, and could access any other memory address in the system. It allowed for some nifty hacks, but it was a glass house of a system, throwing stones back and forth with every program execution.
Paying for people's NON-work (Elvis is dead. No one who makes money from his work now has contributed anything significant to the art) is antithetical to a healthy society. It's a social malaise.
In the 1980's
Aren't puns by definition supposed to be terrible? With Novell's moves lately, Citroën may very well have bought a lemon, and the visual similarity between the words... the pun's funny on multiple levels. Just because you don't get it...
For holding out? I'm proud of him, too :)
Or you could realize that a laptop is often a delicate tool, and should be treated as such. Or do you regularly drop and sit on your glasses as well? There are some cases where a Toughbook is a good investment, especially when it's needed to be used outdoors or in very mobile situations, things like firefighters and police work, or field engineers. If you just use a laptop when it's at a desk or in a controlled indoor environment, and only for portability? Stop abusing your equipment. Or pay through the nose for lower performance because you're lazy and clumsy. Not my money.
Well, we had our Symantec server DDOS us from inside our network by periodically sending ARP requests for every address in a /16 (or larger... I can't remember the details. It was at least a /16). Had to use Ethereal to figure that out. Switching off of Kaspersky won't help ;)
...dimmers should only ever be hooked directly to light sockets. What kind of retarded electrical wiring puts a dimmer on a socket? That can't be up to code... either that, or the UK is more backwards than I thought.
The 50V limit was actually put into law by telecom lobbyists. Under 50V, you don't need an electricians license, and they wanted to be able to do telecom work without electricians. 50V, and even 25V can be quite dangerous if you don't pay attention.
LiveCD's bud. They won't touch the hard drive unless you tell 'em to, and they work very well. Even got my laptop's wireless running without interaction and automatically connected to an open WAP nearby. I used the kubuntu 6.10 LiveCD.
Versus the half-assed MDI interface of all Office 2003 applications? Where each document has it's own entry on the taskbar, but it's really not a separate window, it's part of the main office application's Window, so I can't have two Excel documents open side-by-side, or Word documents? I can have a Word and an Excel document open, but not two of the same type. Open-Source is not the only offender in the "Bad Interfaces" camp.
www.vmware.com ?
Of all the times to want mod points... parent is the first one with a clue in this thread
If no one pirated it, no one would be using Windows now because they wouldn't have the mind share. They looked the other way when piracy made them popular, now they want to profit. I'd pay for Windows if they didn't make it a pain in the ass to run it.
They already have a game tailor-made for you
Looks like you need to go shopping more often
The go back to Econ 101 and pay attention this time. It's easy to compete with free, especially when free is illegal. Add value over the "free", make it easier than free, make the content worth watching at it's asking price. If DVD's were $5-$10 they'd sell better, because it's more convenient and worth it to buy one. When they're $20-$40? People would rather waste the time downloading to get something.
The current pricing structure CANNOT compete with free. I'll agree with that. What makes you entitled to that pricing structure, though? You price it at what the market can bear, or go out of business. It's really that simple. Technology changes, and you're arguing that the Buggy Whip and the French Button manufacturers were right.
And if you're being snide, at least find the shift key first.