Wait, so why do you and everyone else I can think of know that it's an addictive narcotic, if they're keeping it a secret? I mean, the damn things already tell you that they can kill you. I'd think that is a bit more important than telling me that they're a narcotic, or addictive.
But everyone has to bitch about something, right?
Wonder if there could be a tooltip that changed dynamically... that would be a relatively simple solution. And a lot less consternation than a modal box that said "Sorry, try again". Fewer clicks.
I agree. I am a programmer professionally, but I actually know what the hell is going on in my computer. I just remember my classmates... in the whole CS department, there were about 2 or 3 people that I can name that I would trust having root access. The rest were just totally clueless. I took an operating systems course... it's amazing the questions that got asked. You'd think these 3rd year students would at least have a better grasp of how stuff is stored on a disk, stuff like that...
I've never considered CD's/DVD's as archival quality. Very few things are. Every year or two I make a copy of the CD's I have/need just to keep it "fresh". It also lets me get rid of old stuff that I don't need any more.
It is sad that some people actually manage, even nowadays, to get through their entire working life doing one thing, it must be very boring after the first 30 years, and a waste of undeveloped talent.
What I have actually found is that it's not really undeveloped talent... some people just cannot cope with change. I would go crazy if I did one thing for the rest of my life, but I also know people who cannot and will not learn different things. They're happy just existing.
Actually, capitalism in it's purest form depends on the consumer having infinite knowledge of products, and companies having infinite access to resources. Both of which are flawed assumptions. So we get capitalism-like experiments like we have here in the US, with theoretical limits thrown in to keep people/companies/etc. from abusing the system. They don't always work.
But you get Linux with the assumption that it will take some configuring. But even default installs of Redhat/Mandrake or other common distros are actually quite secure AND they work quite well out of the box. The thing I've run into with most people is not that Linux doesn't work, it's just that it just doesn't work like Windows, and people expect it to.
He's talking about trying to get it updated. Stop being an elitist prick.
He's doing what most people would do. Actually, more than most people would do, which is update Windows. Many people don't have multiple machines, or even a physical firewall/router to separate their machine from the 'net. And Win2k doesn't come with a firewall, either. Which is completely Microsoft's failing. A base install of the system can be infected in minutes of being connected to a network. I don't know of ANY other system that is that broken out of the box. And they still get people to pay for it.
"Here's your car. I wouldn't go anywhere in it though... we still have some stuff to do to make it not blow up when you try to turn left. Just make right turns until next month when we get the part in."
I'd take issue with your Mac users comment. More of them have no clue what's going on in their computers because "It just works!"
You don't know pain until you've tried to tell a mac user on the phone how to delete a file and replace it with a newer version...
That's not to say that Linux ISN'T that system, either. The thing with not allowing someone to shoot themselves in the foot, you have to either a) not give them a gun or b) not let them point it at themselves. You can theoretically do both of these, but it's a major inconvenience to most users. They whine, so they shoot themselves in the foot because it's just easier that way.
If you have to disable a feature to get correct operation, it's pretty much counter-productive and indicative that it is in fact, NOT the best one out there, isn't it?
You might get a bit more respect for your opinion if you spelled things like "defense" and "cavalry" correctly.
Either way, it was a lot of action. Sieges are not action. They're not fun. They were usually months of nothing. Bombardments and nothing else are also not fun. They lost appeal after about 60 seconds. They're not what movie-goers want. Besides, the orcs had the advantage of overwhelming numbers. Who cares if a lot of them died, as long as enough of them didn't?
Because they're idealistic, and want to make things better? Seriously, what has the world come to? "I like my toys, and I don't want to get hurt, becuase then I couldn't play with them", never mind the people that died so that you could have them.
It's actually a very nice machine. I'm typing this on one of them right now, running Linux and XP in a dual boot. Does everything I want, nothing I don't, comes with a virtually standard Windows install, very fast, seems solid construction (I haven't dropped, don't want to test it, either). eMachines has changed their quality. Hell, my mom has an old eMachines celery 600 that's running great for her for the last 2 or 3 years, since we got it used. Of course, as with everything, YMMV.
Damn. All this innovation from Microsoft...
You DO realize that *nix has been able to do this for a very, very long time? As an aside, Win2k was also able to do this, but you had to dig pretty deep to find it IIRC.
Because it's impossible for anyone to enjoy solving hard problems, or enjoy praise or just the good feeling that comes from doing something to help someone else. I promise. Everyone in the world would only sit around and masturbate if they could still get paid for it.
Yes, I know it's an obvious troll. I'll still bite.
I think his main point is that the whole system has many double standards set up, all in order to benefit the industry, through leveraging legal power. The point is not that it's not legal, but that it's not RIGHT that this happens.
It didn't take 17 years for the communication to get across there. It was just that the enforcement of the law was spotty at best. It's like those people that go 100 down a back road. The speed limit is probably 55, but you aren't going to get caught, so they did/do it anyway.
Yeah. I have a similar story. One of my friends friends' had a broken computer. DVD's wouldn't play right, it would shut down all by itself sometimes (RPC service died).
Apparently a tech came out and looked at it, said the only thing he could do was reload Windows, which would take 4 hours of his time, and by the time she paid for that, it would be cheaper to get a new computer. She related his diagnosis to me, and I got admonished for saying "He's full of shit" in front of the young'uns.
Long story somewhat shorter, I went over to her place and spent a total of an hour and a half, getting some firmware updates, removing the stupid trojan that kept killing the RPC service, some other random updates for the computer (downloaded over a 56k modem) and EATING DINNER. Yes, you heard me. A meal and a fixed computer in less than 1.5 hours, when the original 'estimate' was for over 4, and it would have destroyed all her data
That's why I tell all my friends to ask me first, and not to do anything without checking with me, because they know I won't feel too sorry for them if they get the wrong thing or someone takes them for a ride on repair costs.
Because I don't want 3 different Playstations to play each iteration of the game? I don't want 2 XBoxes? It may work for you in your geekfest of a residence, but I have other furniture and such, and don't want to have to make a lot of special room for a gaming system, let alone multiple.
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Wait, so why do you and everyone else I can think of know that it's an addictive narcotic, if they're keeping it a secret? I mean, the damn things already tell you that they can kill you. I'd think that is a bit more important than telling me that they're a narcotic, or addictive.
But everyone has to bitch about something, right?
Because knowing other people is scary. You can only meet them through approved means, like the internet.
Wonder if there could be a tooltip that changed dynamically... that would be a relatively simple solution. And a lot less consternation than a modal box that said "Sorry, try again". Fewer clicks.
I agree. I am a programmer professionally, but I actually know what the hell is going on in my computer. I just remember my classmates... in the whole CS department, there were about 2 or 3 people that I can name that I would trust having root access. The rest were just totally clueless. I took an operating systems course... it's amazing the questions that got asked. You'd think these 3rd year students would at least have a better grasp of how stuff is stored on a disk, stuff like that...
I've never considered CD's/DVD's as archival quality. Very few things are. Every year or two I make a copy of the CD's I have/need just to keep it "fresh". It also lets me get rid of old stuff that I don't need any more.
It is sad that some people actually manage, even nowadays, to get through their entire working life doing one thing, it must be very boring after the first 30 years, and a waste of undeveloped talent.
What I have actually found is that it's not really undeveloped talent... some people just cannot cope with change. I would go crazy if I did one thing for the rest of my life, but I also know people who cannot and will not learn different things. They're happy just existing.
Actually, capitalism in it's purest form depends on the consumer having infinite knowledge of products, and companies having infinite access to resources. Both of which are flawed assumptions. So we get capitalism-like experiments like we have here in the US, with theoretical limits thrown in to keep people/companies/etc. from abusing the system. They don't always work.
But you get Linux with the assumption that it will take some configuring. But even default installs of Redhat/Mandrake or other common distros are actually quite secure AND they work quite well out of the box. The thing I've run into with most people is not that Linux doesn't work, it's just that it just doesn't work like Windows, and people expect it to.
He's talking about trying to get it updated. Stop being an elitist prick.
He's doing what most people would do. Actually, more than most people would do, which is update Windows. Many people don't have multiple machines, or even a physical firewall/router to separate their machine from the 'net. And Win2k doesn't come with a firewall, either. Which is completely Microsoft's failing. A base install of the system can be infected in minutes of being connected to a network. I don't know of ANY other system that is that broken out of the box. And they still get people to pay for it.
"Here's your car. I wouldn't go anywhere in it though... we still have some stuff to do to make it not blow up when you try to turn left. Just make right turns until next month when we get the part in."
I'd take issue with your Mac users comment. More of them have no clue what's going on in their computers because "It just works!"
You don't know pain until you've tried to tell a mac user on the phone how to delete a file and replace it with a newer version...
That's not to say that Linux ISN'T that system, either. The thing with not allowing someone to shoot themselves in the foot, you have to either a) not give them a gun or b) not let them point it at themselves. You can theoretically do both of these, but it's a major inconvenience to most users. They whine, so they shoot themselves in the foot because it's just easier that way.
Not the preview pane itself, the auto-executing ability of OE. I have never found anyone who actually needed to have that 'feature'
If you have to disable a feature to get correct operation, it's pretty much counter-productive and indicative that it is in fact, NOT the best one out there, isn't it?
That's a hell of a freudian slip... I believe you meant Preview "Pane", but "Pain" is still quite apt...
You might get a bit more respect for your opinion if you spelled things like "defense" and "cavalry" correctly.
Either way, it was a lot of action. Sieges are not action. They're not fun. They were usually months of nothing. Bombardments and nothing else are also not fun. They lost appeal after about 60 seconds. They're not what movie-goers want. Besides, the orcs had the advantage of overwhelming numbers. Who cares if a lot of them died, as long as enough of them didn't?
Because they're idealistic, and want to make things better? Seriously, what has the world come to? "I like my toys, and I don't want to get hurt, becuase then I couldn't play with them", never mind the people that died so that you could have them.
It's actually a very nice machine. I'm typing this on one of them right now, running Linux and XP in a dual boot. Does everything I want, nothing I don't, comes with a virtually standard Windows install, very fast, seems solid construction (I haven't dropped, don't want to test it, either). eMachines has changed their quality. Hell, my mom has an old eMachines celery 600 that's running great for her for the last 2 or 3 years, since we got it used. Of course, as with everything, YMMV.
I've seen that happen with more than computer parts. Drive 10 miles out of their way to go get some lawn chairs that were $2 cheaper.
As far as I'm concerned, "idiot" and "admin" have no place in the same sentence, unless the admin is calling someone else an idiot.
Damn. All this innovation from Microsoft...
You DO realize that *nix has been able to do this for a very, very long time? As an aside, Win2k was also able to do this, but you had to dig pretty deep to find it IIRC.
Because it's impossible for anyone to enjoy solving hard problems, or enjoy praise or just the good feeling that comes from doing something to help someone else. I promise. Everyone in the world would only sit around and masturbate if they could still get paid for it.
Yes, I know it's an obvious troll. I'll still bite.
I think his main point is that the whole system has many double standards set up, all in order to benefit the industry, through leveraging legal power. The point is not that it's not legal, but that it's not RIGHT that this happens.
It didn't take 17 years for the communication to get across there. It was just that the enforcement of the law was spotty at best. It's like those people that go 100 down a back road. The speed limit is probably 55, but you aren't going to get caught, so they did/do it anyway.
Yeah. I have a similar story. One of my friends friends' had a broken computer. DVD's wouldn't play right, it would shut down all by itself sometimes (RPC service died).
Apparently a tech came out and looked at it, said the only thing he could do was reload Windows, which would take 4 hours of his time, and by the time she paid for that, it would be cheaper to get a new computer. She related his diagnosis to me, and I got admonished for saying "He's full of shit" in front of the young'uns.
Long story somewhat shorter, I went over to her place and spent a total of an hour and a half, getting some firmware updates, removing the stupid trojan that kept killing the RPC service, some other random updates for the computer (downloaded over a 56k modem) and EATING DINNER. Yes, you heard me. A meal and a fixed computer in less than 1.5 hours, when the original 'estimate' was for over 4, and it would have destroyed all her data
That's why I tell all my friends to ask me first, and not to do anything without checking with me, because they know I won't feel too sorry for them if they get the wrong thing or someone takes them for a ride on repair costs.
Because I don't want 3 different Playstations to play each iteration of the game? I don't want 2 XBoxes? It may work for you in your geekfest of a residence, but I have other furniture and such, and don't want to have to make a lot of special room for a gaming system, let alone multiple.