1) First off, Chernobyl exploded because of idiocy in the Ukraine. You do not conduct an experiment on a nuclear power plant and turn all the safeties off. That is asking for trouble. However, NO FALLOUT WAS EVER RELEASED FROM THE FACILITY. The facility was 100% lost, but everyone was safe that was not inside the plant.
Um... NO. Not only no, but hell fucking no, you're wrong. You're probably thinking about Three Mile Island. How this shit got modded up, I'll never know. That half-assed link of yours also glossed over Chernobyl, which was actually a quite major event. I'm not saying nuke plants aren't much, much better than Chernobyl was, but we need to be continually cognizant of the dangers inherent in things like nuclear power. That being said, the greater the risk, often the greater the reward. We just need to make sure the risk is managed.
There are already ass-loads of games that are Direct3D only. But most good developers keep a couple code-paths, so things like Doom3 and so on can all be ported to Linux/OSX/whatever with minimal fuss. Besides, Apple moving to faster hardware and their increasing adoption rates will do nothing but make the OpenGL market more attractive to game developers who want to target users across platforms.
So, what you're basically saying is that to get the benefits of OpenGL accelerated desktops, you need a supported card?
Well slap me down and call me Shirley. I never would have thunk it.
He say that French not so forefront in computers. I think this racist.
You have no idea what the term racist means, do you? The French are a race just as much Nazi's were a "race" (whoo Godwin!)
Or I'm just feeding a troll. Whatever.
No, not everyone is a mouth-breathing moron. But there are a lot of them out there who lie on their resumes, and just throw in buzz-words they've heard once upon a time whether they actually know it or not. Just as many as there are employers who want 10 years experience with Windows 2000.
You've never taken a math class then. People get used to just putting numbers in calculators and writing down the results. They have no concept of whether it's correct or not because they've never seen it calculated. You should have seen some of the crap that came out in my engineering courses from other students because they couldn't think past their calculators.
And Latin has afforded you a better grasp of what real grammar is, and it's relation to language. Many people don't understand that because they have never been exposed to another language, especially strongly structured one.
I agree with the rest of what you said, though.
It's because they don't READ enough that's correctly written. They can't recognize it because they've never been exposed to it. They watch the TV or play games instead of reading.
Amen.
And I'll keep calling people who can't take the time to spell and punctuate correctly retarded muppets. They offend me with their disrespect when trying to communicate with me, I'll offend them by telling them the truth.
Well, considering that it IS being used, and seems to be quite effective, I'd think that the answer to your comment is that it's not just the point of impact.
Maybe this is why people don't like hanging out with geeks... no fucking common sense.
I don't like reading manuals, because it's sometimes really hard to find what I want. Gotta filter through a lot, and sometimes I'm not sure how to exactly describe what I want in terms that the help manual writer was using. What I have found is an invaluable thing, and something I wish I saw more of, is context-sensitive help. Getting a tooltip on a mouseover, or hitting F1 on a certain screen gets you help about what's going on in that one place.
Than != then. Pay fucking attention.
I think that you may have meant "Fucking pay attention" or "Pay the fuck attention." Spelling's all well and good, but it doesn't do anything without somewhat correct grammar, especially when cursing. Otherwise, you just sound like an inbred Tourette's kid.
You're talking about MythTV, and it's quite good. It's difficult to get working in many cases, but most people who like it put up with that because of the flexibility it allows. One backend, multiple frontends, so your TV upstairs can watch shows recorded on the main machine in the living room, for example. It also has great IMDB lookups for existing video files, no DRM (media center edition definitely doesn't have either of those). Best thing I can recommend is to try it. You can always install Media Center edition too, if you think it's bad. Not like it'll take anything but a bit of time, and it's free, so the price is much better than Media Center.
But the number of people who'd like to be able to dual-boot to play games would be REALLY big. Please, think outside the Mac box you've put yourself in. Isn't that what you people are supposed to be good at?
Access makes a nice front-end to a database. Connect it's data stores to MSSQL or another SQL server, and it's actually quite good for just a quick DB interface maker.
I think the word you were looking for was averse. But what you say is spot-on in many companies. That whole "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" bit.
But Linux DOES have extensions. All my jpeg's end with.jpg or.jpeg, and I can tell they're jpegs by that. It's just that executable files by default don't have (or need) the extension. You can just about assume that any file without an extension in Linux is executable. But like other people in this thread have said, you can just use the file command, or look up the properties in your file manager. OSX, I'll let others speak for it. I've used it a bit, still don't like it.
The problem is that so many people think that their macs are unassailable, so they don't think twice about typing in their password. This wouldn't be seen in the wild if they didn't.
"The 150ft long deep sea generator with a four-blade turbine inside would cut Belco's dependency on oil"
And I didn't even RTFA. I just RTF blurb. Jesus, how lazy can you get?
So, you're saying it was a B movie, just like he said? It had great action, great effects, and a story that a muppet could follow, yet was still cohesive and somewhat interesting. It did absolutely no justice to Heinlein's book, but as a movie, it's the kind of thing that Doom should have been. Doom never had a story, either. It would have fit perfectly.
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1) First off, Chernobyl exploded because of idiocy in the Ukraine. You do not conduct an experiment on a nuclear power plant and turn all the safeties off. That is asking for trouble. However, NO FALLOUT WAS EVER RELEASED FROM THE FACILITY. The facility was 100% lost, but everyone was safe that was not inside the plant.
Um... NO . Not only no, but hell fucking no, you're wrong. You're probably thinking about Three Mile Island. How this shit got modded up, I'll never know. That half-assed link of yours also glossed over Chernobyl, which was actually a quite major event. I'm not saying nuke plants aren't much, much better than Chernobyl was, but we need to be continually cognizant of the dangers inherent in things like nuclear power. That being said, the greater the risk, often the greater the reward. We just need to make sure the risk is managed.
There are already ass-loads of games that are Direct3D only. But most good developers keep a couple code-paths, so things like Doom3 and so on can all be ported to Linux/OSX/whatever with minimal fuss. Besides, Apple moving to faster hardware and their increasing adoption rates will do nothing but make the OpenGL market more attractive to game developers who want to target users across platforms.
So, what you're basically saying is that to get the benefits of OpenGL accelerated desktops, you need a supported card?
Well slap me down and call me Shirley. I never would have thunk it.
He say that French not so forefront in computers. I think this racist.
You have no idea what the term racist means, do you? The French are a race just as much Nazi's were a "race" (whoo Godwin!)
Or I'm just feeding a troll. Whatever.
"To be fair"? Because, you know, Jesus advocated killing people because they didn't agree with him :rolleyes:
You should have submitted him an invoice afterwards for training him on how to do his damn job :)
No, not everyone is a mouth-breathing moron. But there are a lot of them out there who lie on their resumes, and just throw in buzz-words they've heard once upon a time whether they actually know it or not. Just as many as there are employers who want 10 years experience with Windows 2000.
Why work when spam can get you contacts? Respect for yourself an others is an archaic concept... oh
You've never taken a math class then. People get used to just putting numbers in calculators and writing down the results. They have no concept of whether it's correct or not because they've never seen it calculated. You should have seen some of the crap that came out in my engineering courses from other students because they couldn't think past their calculators.
And Latin has afforded you a better grasp of what real grammar is, and it's relation to language. Many people don't understand that because they have never been exposed to another language, especially strongly structured one.
I agree with the rest of what you said, though.
It's because they don't READ enough that's correctly written. They can't recognize it because they've never been exposed to it. They watch the TV or play games instead of reading.
Amen.
And I'll keep calling people who can't take the time to spell and punctuate correctly retarded muppets. They offend me with their disrespect when trying to communicate with me, I'll offend them by telling them the truth.
Well, considering that it IS being used, and seems to be quite effective, I'd think that the answer to your comment is that it's not just the point of impact.
Maybe this is why people don't like hanging out with geeks... no fucking common sense.
"Pay fucking attention" and "Pay the fuck attention" got nearly the same results in google (pay the fuck attention got more). "Fucking pay attention" got near double either of those.
I stand by my statement. Perhaps you need more fucking schooling in the usage of the word fuck?
I don't like reading manuals, because it's sometimes really hard to find what I want. Gotta filter through a lot, and sometimes I'm not sure how to exactly describe what I want in terms that the help manual writer was using. What I have found is an invaluable thing, and something I wish I saw more of, is context-sensitive help. Getting a tooltip on a mouseover, or hitting F1 on a certain screen gets you help about what's going on in that one place.
Than != then. Pay fucking attention.
I think that you may have meant "Fucking pay attention" or "Pay the fuck attention." Spelling's all well and good, but it doesn't do anything without somewhat correct grammar, especially when cursing. Otherwise, you just sound like an inbred Tourette's kid.
You're talking about MythTV, and it's quite good. It's difficult to get working in many cases, but most people who like it put up with that because of the flexibility it allows. One backend, multiple frontends, so your TV upstairs can watch shows recorded on the main machine in the living room, for example. It also has great IMDB lookups for existing video files, no DRM (media center edition definitely doesn't have either of those). Best thing I can recommend is to try it. You can always install Media Center edition too, if you think it's bad. Not like it'll take anything but a bit of time, and it's free, so the price is much better than Media Center.
Not to mention that MythTV doesn't deal with all that DRM bull. It just encodes it so you can use it as you like.
But the number of people who'd like to be able to dual-boot to play games would be REALLY big. Please, think outside the Mac box you've put yourself in. Isn't that what you people are supposed to be good at?
Even easier: MS just set this up as a shell company. That way there's not even bribing going on, just fucking the consumer like Microsoft loves to do.
Access makes a nice front-end to a database. Connect it's data stores to MSSQL or another SQL server, and it's actually quite good for just a quick DB interface maker.
I think the word you were looking for was averse. But what you say is spot-on in many companies. That whole "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" bit.
But Linux DOES have extensions. All my jpeg's end with .jpg or .jpeg, and I can tell they're jpegs by that. It's just that executable files by default don't have (or need) the extension. You can just about assume that any file without an extension in Linux is executable. But like other people in this thread have said, you can just use the file command, or look up the properties in your file manager. OSX, I'll let others speak for it. I've used it a bit, still don't like it.
The problem is that so many people think that their macs are unassailable, so they don't think twice about typing in their password. This wouldn't be seen in the wild if they didn't.
"The 150ft long deep sea generator with a four-blade turbine inside would cut Belco's dependency on oil"
And I didn't even RTFA. I just RTF blurb. Jesus, how lazy can you get?
So, you're saying it was a B movie, just like he said? It had great action, great effects, and a story that a muppet could follow, yet was still cohesive and somewhat interesting. It did absolutely no justice to Heinlein's book, but as a movie, it's the kind of thing that Doom should have been. Doom never had a story, either. It would have fit perfectly.