I thought it was a funny way of pointing out the decline of paper media. If I hadn't wasted my mod points of that damned Google article I would have modded the parent +1 Funny.
I really don't understand all the hype with del.icio.us. The site itself is extremely boring and lacks creativity. It's just a collection of links on various subjects or did I miss something?
You're missing the fact that content is king, not flashy designs. I think the design is clean and functional, as opposed to "boring and lacking creativity". The same goes for digg.com and even slashdot.
The parent was modded +5 Funny, but the point he made is valid. If you look on the official WoW forums, you will see lots of debate between so-called "casual" and "hardcore" players. I agree that it's easy to waste 8 hours in Molten Core in one night, but I also realize hardcore players don't want to put hundreds of hours into raiding only to get the same gear and abilities as casual players.
Although smaller 20-man raids like Zul'Gurub are available, they too require a large investment of time. When you hit level 60, the game changes dramatically, and I don't think casual players realized that when they signed up for their subscription. Gone are the days of questing for experience. Life past 60 is all about grinding for gear. A family member of mine asked if I thought he might like WoW, and I told him he would like it until he hit level 50-60. He has a full-time job and simply can't put 5-6 hours per night into WoW. I don't think Blizzard will significantly change their strategy any time soon, so casual gamers (like my family member) may be out of luck for now.
Installing software didn't require the usual "Next, Next, uncheck every checkbox, delete desktop and quicklaunch icons, uninstall additional software installed along with the software I actually wanted, check for hidden startup items, make sure program doesn't phone home"
Plenty of Linux users will tell you Linux needs a standardized installation utility, not the collection of package managers out there now. Many times I am forced to use the command line to install applications. Come on... that just screams "hard-to-use".
when I started my PC I wasn't greeted by millions of splash screens, applications that couldn't make a connection popping up and letting me know
A good program won't do that, so apparently you were installing bad programs. Even popular programs are bad in that respect. Norton nags you freqeuntly, and so do a lot of spyware blocking tools like SpySweeper. I get ZERO popup messages from programs on startup. Zero. I haven't done anything special. I just chose to run something other than Norton, other than SpySweeper, etc.
I didn't have to readjust settings that kept resetting for some reason (volume levels, icon positions on the quicklaunch)
Volume levels can be changed by rogue applications in Linux too, and as far as quick launch buttons are concerned... I doubt it happened very often, certainly not often enough to justify a switch to Linux.
GNU/Linux is about using your PC and not just working around problems to get what you want... and then I realized that upon discovering all this I didn't even have to worry about viruses at all, and I had no problems with crashes at all!
Plenty of people have complained about crashes with Linux systems. Sure, it's rock solid in its command line form, but the X system is by no means 100% stable. As for viruses, things like Blaster are tough. In general however, the same rules still apply to Linux. Viruses in Linux can still delete your documents, they just can't completely blow the OS out of the water. I've run at least one Windows box at all times for the past 10 years, and have I ever gotten a virus? No. Claiming "I didn't even have to worry about viruses at all" is very foolish.
Even if programs didn't behave in a way I expected I found it simple to find solutions, the error messages meant something and I could see exceptions thrown if I launched an application from a terminal, etc...
So you're saying unexpected things happened and required effort on your part to find a solution? Oh, I'll just disregard your entire message now.
Whether you meant to or not, you ended up sounding like a Linux fanboy, and that takes so much punch from your argument. Neither Linux nor Windows are perfect, yet you are basically claiming Linux is a field of daisies compared to the hellish swamp of Windows. Grow up.
When did they build a Neutrino Detector at the South Pole? More junk is being built there all the time. Why not the North Pole region of Canada, the US or Russia?
Santa's invisible workshop is already there. Since it is such a large operation, it takes up most of the real estate up there.
While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that the advertisement of a GLBT friendly guild is very likely to result in harassment for players that may not have existed otherwise. If you will look at our policy, you will notice the suggested penalty for violating the Sexual Orientation Harassment Policy is to be temporarily suspended from the game. However, as there was clearly no malicious intent on your part, this penalty was reduced to a warning.
That reminds me of a notice I received from the East Cracktown Police Department:
"While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that parking your bright red 2006 Ferrari F430 Spider is very likely to result in the theft or vandalism of a car that may not have occured otherwise. If you look at our local and state laws, you will notice the suggested penalty for parking bright red sports cars in seedy neigborhoods is to temporarily jail you. However, as you are just an arrogant, rich prick, this penalty has been reduced to parole and 1000 hours of community services."
Seriously though, this situation is ridiculous. Blizzard is punishing the wrong people here. Harassment of any player (gays, lesbians, straights, americans, canadians, jews, muslims, etc) should not be tolerated. Blizzard apparently has a "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy when it comes to diversity.
1. Buy Pixar for $10 million
2. Build it into a great animation studio
3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse)
4. Personal profit of $3.5 million!
Great work, Steve Jobs! See, this time I didn't even need to include the mysterious "..." step. Amazing!
I heard from someone that the Pentium-M is better than any of AMD's offerings for mobile CPUs; is there any truth to this?
Yes
I know that the new MacBook is running on the Core Duo line, and I understand that's a whopper of a mobile CPU, but I thought that AMD had a strong competitor to the Pentium-M?
This means we can look forward to terms like "ultrabroadband", "superbroadband", "megabroadband" and "bukkakebroadband" in the future (where "bukkake", meaning "to splash" in Japanese, will refer to a newer form of "spread spectrum").
The word "bukakke" means something very different where I live, and it isn't something that's suitable for a mass-marketing campaign.
TechTV didn't die; it just changed into a series of IPTV shows and podcasts. I stopped watching G4TV when The Screen Savers was cancelled, because that was the last show I really liked on that network. A while after that, I started wondering what the old TechTV crew was doing with their time. I was impressed with what I found.
A short circuit between two spark plug wires on an engine which causes a cylinder to fire at the wrong time, or causes more than one cylinder to fire at a time. It is a BAD THING (tm).
Wrong! It's quite clear they are referring to the semi-popular circa 1989 board game "Crossfire". Surely you remember the commercial where two kids are battling each other in Crossfire. The theme song was very 80's and very cool. I went something like "Crossfire! You'll get caught up in the... CROSSFIRE! You'll get caught up in the... crossFIRE... CROSSfire.. crossfire... CROSSFIRRRRRRRRRRE!"
Oh yeah, and they are Wal-Marting a bunch of small local businesses like newspapers and craigslist.
Newspapers Wal-Marted "for sale" signs on telephone poles. Craigslist Wal-Marted newspaper classifieds. Microsoft Base Wal-Marted Craigslist (which is partially owned by eBay now, FYI). Soon, Wal-Mart will Wal-Mart Microsoft Base, making Wal-Mart the number one online classifieds provider. Wal-Mart, left with no competitors to defeat, will then be forced to Wal-Mart itself, resulting in a collapse of the world's economy and death to all mankind. The future is looking grim...
Now if they could only make it so I don't have to restart Firefox every time I install a new extension.
Oops, wrong company...
But seriously, why do people criticize Microsoft so much for requiring occasional reboots when a much simpler application, Firefox, requires a restart every time an extension is installed. It seems like a browser extension would be much easier to load on-the-fly than an update to a core part of an operating system, so why not harp on Firefox? Is it because it isn't a Microsoft product? There are plenty of threads in this story's comments bashing Microsoft, saying it's about time they got their act together regarding reboots, etc. But what if Mozilla suddenly announced Firefox 1.5.1 would be able to load extensions on-the-fly? Everyone would cheer for Firefox and sing praises of such an innovative new feature. This story just reminded me of the double standard regarding Microsoft and, well, everyone that isn't Microsoft.
This new Windows feature sounds cool and it doesn't. I don't really care about rebooting, to be honest. It takes 30 seconds of my time (big deal). Stop adding things like this to Vista and just get it done and shipped. I'm still not going to use Vista for moral (DRM) reasons, but still... there must be some people who want it done sooner rather than later.
I was all excited about the virus protection in GMail until you pointed that out.
Don't worry, NanoGator! The purpose of the offending sentence was merely to point out that Google has rolled out virus protection because ("for") it is web based (as opposed to desktop based) email service. So, in conclusion, all is right with the world.
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Flamebait? I laughed.
I thought it was a funny way of pointing out the decline of paper media. If I hadn't wasted my mod points of that damned Google article I would have modded the parent +1 Funny.
The parent was modded +5 Funny, but the point he made is valid. If you look on the official WoW forums, you will see lots of debate between so-called "casual" and "hardcore" players. I agree that it's easy to waste 8 hours in Molten Core in one night, but I also realize hardcore players don't want to put hundreds of hours into raiding only to get the same gear and abilities as casual players.
Although smaller 20-man raids like Zul'Gurub are available, they too require a large investment of time. When you hit level 60, the game changes dramatically, and I don't think casual players realized that when they signed up for their subscription. Gone are the days of questing for experience. Life past 60 is all about grinding for gear. A family member of mine asked if I thought he might like WoW, and I told him he would like it until he hit level 50-60. He has a full-time job and simply can't put 5-6 hours per night into WoW. I don't think Blizzard will significantly change their strategy any time soon, so casual gamers (like my family member) may be out of luck for now.
Whether you meant to or not, you ended up sounding like a Linux fanboy, and that takes so much punch from your argument. Neither Linux nor Windows are perfect, yet you are basically claiming Linux is a field of daisies compared to the hellish swamp of Windows. Grow up.
"While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that parking your bright red 2006 Ferrari F430 Spider is very likely to result in the theft or vandalism of a car that may not have occured otherwise. If you look at our local and state laws, you will notice the suggested penalty for parking bright red sports cars in seedy neigborhoods is to temporarily jail you. However, as you are just an arrogant, rich prick, this penalty has been reduced to parole and 1000 hours of community services."
Seriously though, this situation is ridiculous. Blizzard is punishing the wrong people here. Harassment of any player (gays, lesbians, straights, americans, canadians, jews, muslims, etc) should not be tolerated. Blizzard apparently has a "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy when it comes to diversity.
1. Buy Pixar for $10 million
2. Build it into a great animation studio
3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse)
4. Personal profit of $3.5 million!
Great work, Steve Jobs! See, this time I didn't even need to include the mysterious "..." step. Amazing!
...if this story has anything to do with my favorite tracker, Torrent Finder, being taken offline. http://www.digg.com/technology/Torrent-Finder_gone _
...of the time I loaded Apache on one of those pens with a digital clock on it.
Seriously, come on... who really needs a web server on their phone? Great! New holes for cell phone virus writers to exploit!
...obligatory "holiday quickies" joke here.
These quotes are taken from your reply. They suggest a rather obvious problem with evaluating articles the way you do.
*BEEP*
Please take an introductory economics course and try again. Thank you, and have a nice day, Anonymous Coward.
You lost me at the phrase "Internet blogger".
I still watch TechTV, just without the TV part. I like it better the way it is now.
Ok, so maybe it was cooler in the 80's.
As any self-respecting Slashdotter will tell you:
Print is dead.*
* They reserve the right to add the word "silly" to the end of their statement.
Now if they could only make it so I don't have to restart Firefox every time I install a new extension.
Oops, wrong company...
But seriously, why do people criticize Microsoft so much for requiring occasional reboots when a much simpler application, Firefox, requires a restart every time an extension is installed. It seems like a browser extension would be much easier to load on-the-fly than an update to a core part of an operating system, so why not harp on Firefox? Is it because it isn't a Microsoft product? There are plenty of threads in this story's comments bashing Microsoft, saying it's about time they got their act together regarding reboots, etc. But what if Mozilla suddenly announced Firefox 1.5.1 would be able to load extensions on-the-fly? Everyone would cheer for Firefox and sing praises of such an innovative new feature. This story just reminded me of the double standard regarding Microsoft and, well, everyone that isn't Microsoft.
This new Windows feature sounds cool and it doesn't. I don't really care about rebooting, to be honest. It takes 30 seconds of my time (big deal). Stop adding things like this to Vista and just get it done and shipped. I'm still not going to use Vista for moral (DRM) reasons, but still... there must be some people who want it done sooner rather than later.