Then they'll eventually go away and, unlike Edison, won't be remembered for actually inventing anything. After all, I look around the room, and much of what I see, Edison had a hand in shaping. What has the RIAA had a hand in? What is their redeeming quality? Britney Spears and boy bands? Edison invented modern invention, among other things; thus I can forgive his lack of business tact.
SSH client, X11Forwarding yes, Mozilla, and (if required) Cygwin Xwin. There is no way of stopping you without completely shutting you off from the Internet (at least that I can see).
The last few versions of Mandrake and RH I've tried do seem to be a bit bloated.
This is what is best about Linux and OSS. You don't have to use Mandrake or Red Hat. If it's too bloated for you, go with Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, or any number of distros.
You are free to modularized to your heart's content. If something isn't to your taste, replace it with something else. Usually with no financial cost and only a minimal to moderate time and effort cost.
It's shouldn't matter if it's valid HTML or not. The browser still shouldn't crash. It should take all input, regardless of the input's validity, and not die. Perhaps an error message, but not crash.
From the article: We asked the question: "Microsoft users are getting fed up. They're battered by worms, viruses, security patches and increasing enterprise licensing costs. Aggravation has users talking about switching from Microsoft software to something else. We're trying to figure out how much of that talk is just talk, and how much is serious action. Do you seriously plan to dump Microsoft software?"
As much as I hate MS, I do think that this sort of poll question is unfair. It leads the answerer to an anti-MS position. If you're going to do something like this, at least ask the question fairly.
[It']s quite useful. Whenever Word flags a word as misspelled, I can just tap the arrow about twice and press the context menu key.
Why can't they assign a regular key combo to these functions? Will it turn out too much like Emacs?
<flamebait> I think that regular users can't handle compound keystrokes. Everything needs to be done through the GUI. It's as though Ctrl and Alt don't exist. Damn lusers... </flamebait>
OK, it was added along with the Windows key. It's usually to the right of the right Win key and the left of the right Control. It looks like a dropdown menu. It mostly works like a right click in 'dows.
Why is it there? Was MS trying to cater to Mac users, accustomed to one mouse button? It makes no sense.
.NET will disappear once Microsoft starts pushing their next initiative and forces upgrades and rewrites. It's all about the $$$, never about the product. The product is just a conduit for money.
This is why OSS is so great. Most of the time, it's not about the money; it's about the product. Therefore, it's not about getting sales, it's about getting users.
You can't infect a normal system executable from a normal user on a normal UNIX-like system which, IIRC, is how most true viruses work on Windows. There are security holes; but then again, there are security holes in all software.
(Disclaimer: I have no hard evidence for any statements made in this post; it is conjecture. You are free to disagree at your discretion.)
Given:
at least one of a game's protagonists is an anthropomorphic animal,
the game contains an evolving storyline, and
the game is marketed to American consumers,
then:
the game will be hyped, everyone will buy it, but the gameplay will suck;
most will think the game will suck, and it will not sell; or
the game will actually be good; but since everyone will expect the game will suck, no one will buy it.
Cases in point:
The first two Sonic games sold very well, since they were pure gameplay. When, however, Sega began to flesh Sonic out as a "full" character, American gamers rejected him (e.g., the Sonic Adventure series).
Starfox was a great game for the NES. As Nintendo added more storyline, fewer people bought the game, which was not too bad as far as gameplay. Then look at the Dinosaur Planet/Starfox Adventures fiasco: Nintendo forces one of its franchises upon Rare's newest game. This game, once moved to the Gamecube, was looking wonderful. By the time it's done, however, it's more of an "interactive movie"; it's downright beautiful, it has a rich storyline (if a little hokey at times), but it's not deep in the gameplay area. People bought the game but were disappointed.
For the last condition, look at Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonius: good storyline, great gameplay, perhaps too toony look for most. Underrated and underbought, because of Sly and his world. I guarantee, you make the characters human, change a few names, and call it Thief, it sells.
Anybody have additional examples/counter-examples?
whatever I find on the ground. It may not work well in a work environment, but at a school, kids are always losing writing utensils. Of course, it's not always great. One time, I almost had to take an exam in gold pen...
Except that when I read screen sizes, it almost always lists the viewable size of the screen nearby. And when I see hard drive sizes, I almost always see 1M = 1,000,000 bytes or something like this. I have never seen specs indicate high- or full-speed, though. Has anybody actually seen this on spec sheets, either in manuals or on ads?
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Huhwhat? Joke? What joke?
Hmm... we learn something new each and every day...
Then they'll eventually go away and, unlike Edison, won't be remembered for actually inventing anything. After all, I look around the room, and much of what I see, Edison had a hand in shaping. What has the RIAA had a hand in? What is their redeeming quality? Britney Spears and boy bands? Edison invented modern invention, among other things; thus I can forgive his lack of business tact.
SSH client, X11Forwarding yes, Mozilla, and (if required) Cygwin Xwin. There is no way of stopping you without completely shutting you off from the Internet (at least that I can see).
The last few versions of Mandrake and RH I've tried do seem to be a bit bloated.
This is what is best about Linux and OSS. You don't have to use Mandrake or Red Hat. If it's too bloated for you, go with Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, or any number of distros.
You are free to modularized to your heart's content. If something isn't to your taste, replace it with something else. Usually with no financial cost and only a minimal to moderate time and effort cost.
It's shouldn't matter if it's valid HTML or not. The browser still shouldn't crash. It should take all input, regardless of the input's validity, and not die. Perhaps an error message, but not crash.
From the article: We asked the question: "Microsoft users are getting fed up. They're battered by worms, viruses, security patches and increasing enterprise licensing costs. Aggravation has users talking about switching from Microsoft software to something else. We're trying to figure out how much of that talk is just talk, and how much is serious action. Do you seriously plan to dump Microsoft software?"
As much as I hate MS, I do think that this sort of poll question is unfair. It leads the answerer to an anti-MS position. If you're going to do something like this, at least ask the question fairly.
Don't use system(), and be careful with buffers.
Most people's experience with Java is waiting forever for some applet to load on a web page only to discover it tells them what time it is.
Most people probably couldn't match Java's issues with the name. To them, it's just another faceless technology.
Also, these are the same people who put up with endless crashes and reboots in the Win9x series...
[It']s quite useful. Whenever Word flags a word as misspelled, I can just tap the arrow about twice and press the context menu key.
Why can't they assign a regular key combo to these functions? Will it turn out too much like Emacs?
<flamebait>
I think that regular users can't handle compound keystrokes. Everything needs to be done through the GUI. It's as though Ctrl and Alt don't exist. Damn lusers...
</flamebait>
OK, it was added along with the Windows key. It's usually to the right of the right Win key and the left of the right Control. It looks like a dropdown menu. It mostly works like a right click in 'dows.
Why is it there? Was MS trying to cater to Mac users, accustomed to one mouse button? It makes no sense.
Only on /. does an idealistic opinion get called a troll.
Certainly when C# was introduced I was like, "yeah, whatever" who's going to swap from Java to this?
I believe that in a year or two, when the next "new thing" is introduced, you'll be going, "Yeah, whatever. Who's going to swap from C# to this?"
.NET will disappear once Microsoft starts pushing their next initiative and forces upgrades and rewrites. It's all about the $$$, never about the product. The product is just a conduit for money.
This is why OSS is so great. Most of the time, it's not about the money; it's about the product. Therefore, it's not about getting sales, it's about getting users.
increasingly "dumbed down" distros will make it a good platform virus writers.
You'll need to distribute the virus in several versions of rpm....
You can't infect a normal system executable from a normal user on a normal UNIX-like system which, IIRC, is how most true viruses work on Windows. There are security holes; but then again, there are security holes in all software.
There have been more mods down (15) for this story than mods up (6). Pathetic.
So just remember, kiddies: *BSD is alive and well: AC trolls are a part of this BSD daemon's balanced breakfast...
Bingo, sir.
Given:
- at least one of a game's protagonists is an anthropomorphic animal,
- the game contains an evolving storyline, and
- the game is marketed to American consumers,
then:- the game will be hyped, everyone will buy it, but the gameplay will suck;
- most will think the game will suck, and it will not sell; or
- the game will actually be good; but since everyone will expect the game will suck, no one will buy it.
Cases in point:- The first two Sonic games sold very well, since they were pure gameplay. When, however, Sega began to flesh Sonic out as a "full" character, American gamers rejected him (e.g., the Sonic Adventure series).
- Starfox was a great game for the NES. As Nintendo added more storyline, fewer people bought the game, which was not too bad as far as gameplay. Then look at the Dinosaur Planet/Starfox Adventures fiasco: Nintendo forces one of its franchises upon Rare's newest game. This game, once moved to the Gamecube, was looking wonderful. By the time it's done, however, it's more of an "interactive movie"; it's downright beautiful, it has a rich storyline (if a little hokey at times), but it's not deep in the gameplay area. People bought the game but were disappointed.
- For the last condition, look at Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonius: good storyline, great gameplay, perhaps too toony look for most. Underrated and underbought, because of Sly and his world. I guarantee, you make the characters human, change a few names, and call it Thief, it sells.
Anybody have additional examples/counter-examples?whatever I find on the ground. It may not work well in a work environment, but at a school, kids are always losing writing utensils. Of course, it's not always great. One time, I almost had to take an exam in gold pen...
Except that when I read screen sizes, it almost always lists the viewable size of the screen nearby. And when I see hard drive sizes, I almost always see 1M = 1,000,000 bytes or something like this. I have never seen specs indicate high- or full-speed, though. Has anybody actually seen this on spec sheets, either in manuals or on ads?
The Ask Slashdot article Live CD for PC Games?
more time for pr0n. Because there's never enough time for pr0n...
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