I'd pay for fully supported video codec's open source or not. I just want my crap to work, preferably in 64bit. The only thing currently keeping me in 32bit is the lack of video codecs and flash in 64bit.
I love open source, but I have no problem with binary blobs. Some of my favorite applications are closed source. I would prefer open source, but I am not going to let my productivity suffer in exchange for my ideals.
I train in high cardio sports for 2-3 hours a day 4-5 times a week.
I'm 5'9" 160 pounds. Sure I've lost about 40 pounds in the last year, but I still have a spare tire around my waist. I know guys who started with me who are still the same weight they started at. I know a guy who is at least 210 and my height, very flabby, does all the drills, running,pushups, situps, sparing, etc. And he is still fat.
The wii is the first system to get a group of my friends (who don't own gaming systems and in some cases computers) on a level playing field, laughing, drinking beer and playing golf.
"I never said theres no skill to sport, I said it's a trivial skill that doesn't produce any tangible benefits. I could learn how to throw cards into a hat, but it serves no useful purpose other than to entertain - this is why it should not be valued more highly than if I had learned something more practical."
Let's see. Things I had to learn that I find practical and useful in order to be good at the sport I play (judo and brazilian jiu jitsu).
Fitness - Before sports I was overweight due to fear of what people thought of me in gyms, and the fact that there was no goal to working out, other than working out.
Self defense - I now know a lot of ways to throw, choke or break a limb on a resisting foe. Having competed and won in these sports, I also have the confidence that comes with wining. I also have validated my self defense skills, giving me more confidence in personal conflict issues. Before sports, I would shy away from a bully, or back down to a guy in the street, now I will stand and hold my ground if I feel I am in the right.
Friendship - Before sports, all my friends were people online. This is because I moved to another city, was big in MMO games, and never got out to meet anyone. Now I have lots of very good friends that I almost confider to be brothers. I have sweat with them, and I have bleed with them. When one of us loses, we all feel his pain. We constantly go out and hang, watch UFC, Pride, etc. This has improved my general self image and sense of self worth. I no longer have depression that comes from being alone.
So I now have something I can do for the rest of my life, that: 1) brings me joy. 2) keeps me from getting type 2 diabetes. 3) Keeps me from being fat. 4) Keeps me from being alone. 5) Boosts my self worth. 6) Teaches me how to defend myself. 7) Teaches me how to deal with loss and hardship though losing. 8) Teaches me the value of committing to a goal and what can be acquired with hard work. This has helped me try harder in other area's of my life. 9) Prevents other problems due to lack of fitness and poor diet. 10) Can possibly be a suplimental source of income as I get older. 11) Gives me a skill I can pass on to others to help them grow in life.
You have to look to find benefits in anything. You could say a sports shooter has no tangible benefits, until you need someone good with a gun. You could say basketball has no tangible benefits, until you are too fat to walk on a treadmill.
"I never said theres no skill to sport, I said it's a trivial skill that doesn't produce any tangible benefits. I could learn how to throw cards into a hat, but it serves no useful purpose other than to entertain - this is why it should not be valued more highly than if I had learned something more practical."
Let's see. Things I had to learn that I find practical and useful in order to be good at the sport I play (judo and brazilian jiu jitsu).
Fitness - Before sports I was overweight due to fear of what people thought of me in gyms, and the fact that there was no goal to working out, other than working out.
Self defense - I now know a lot of ways to throw, choke or break a limb on a resisting foe. Having competed and won in these sports, I also have the confidence that comes with wining. I also have validated my self defense skills, giving me more confidence in personal conflict issues. Before sports, I would shy away from a bully, or back down to a guy in the street, now I will stand and hold my ground if I feel I am in the right.
Friendship - Before sports, all my friends were people online. This is because I moved to another city, was big in MMO games, and never got out to meet anyone. Now I have lots of very good friends that I almost confider to be brothers. I have sweat with them, and I have bleed with them. When one of us loses, we all feel his pain. We constantly go out and hang, watch UFC, Pride, etc. This has improved my general self image and sense of self worth. I no longer have depression that comes from being alone.
So I now have something I can do for the rest of my life, that:
1) brings me joy.
2) keeps me from getting type 2 diabetes.
3) Keeps me from being fat.
4) Keeps me from being alone.
5) Boosts my self worth.
6) Teaches me how to defend myself.
7) Teaches me how to deal with loss and hardship though losing.
8) Teaches me the value of committing to a goal and what can be acquired with hard work. This has helped me try harder in other area's of my life.
9) Prevents other problems due to lack of fitness and poor diet.
10) Can possibly be a suplimental source of income as I get older.
11) Gives me a skill I can pass on to others to help them grow in life.
You have to look to find benefits in anything. You could say a sports shooter has no tangible benefits, until you need someone good with a gun. You could say basketball has no tangible benefits, until you are too fat to walk on a treadmill.
IS CoD3 better than red steel? I can't look/turn left in red steel, I can only look/turn right. The guy just jumps around like an idiot when I try to go left. I think it's funny that I get pixel perfect accuracy in zelda, but red steel is impossible to aim for shit.
I woke up at 6:45am, got in car, drove to target, stood in line for 10 minutes, got a ticket, came back at 9am and picked up my wii, 2 games, SD card, and extra controler.
Man I'm a dork hu?
You can not complain. Our college only supports IPLANET web based mail. It can't filter messages to folders. It can not search all folders (you must search on folder at a time). And it is very slow, with really weird dialog options (to attach a file you have to click attach, browse, ok, add then attach.)
It sucks, and we are not allowed to use any clients but this web based PoS
My point is that you read the system requirements. I'm sure it didn't say xp64. I understand your point, but it is silly to expect them to support something that was in beta at the time. And it is silly to expect them to patch it now when almost no one uses 64bit windows.
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I'd pay for fully supported video codec's open source or not. I just want my crap to work, preferably in 64bit. The only thing currently keeping me in 32bit is the lack of video codecs and flash in 64bit. I love open source, but I have no problem with binary blobs. Some of my favorite applications are closed source. I would prefer open source, but I am not going to let my productivity suffer in exchange for my ideals.
Religion, ruining the world, one idiot at a time.
This is exactly why we should legalize weed, crack, pcp, prostitution etc.
I had good luck using the nspluginwrapper to use 64bit firefox and 32bit plugins.
Good job google. I liked the kit before. I'm sure I will like it better now.
I have a linux machine and a mac. If there is no client for either, then I'm SoL. WoW has a mac client.
NO mac, no linux, guess i'm gonna be playing wow.
I train in high cardio sports for 2-3 hours a day 4-5 times a week.
I'm 5'9" 160 pounds. Sure I've lost about 40 pounds in the last year, but I still have a spare tire around my waist. I know guys who started with me who are still the same weight they started at. I know a guy who is at least 210 and my height, very flabby, does all the drills, running,pushups, situps, sparing, etc. And he is still fat.
The wii is the first system to get a group of my friends (who don't own gaming systems and in some cases computers) on a level playing field, laughing, drinking beer and playing golf.
I thought that, but the thing is that I have no problems at all with zelda bow/boomerang targeting... But I'll keep screwing with it.
Damn it, I forgot to select text instead of HTML
"I never said theres no skill to sport, I said it's a trivial skill that doesn't produce any tangible benefits. I could learn how to throw cards into a hat, but it serves no useful purpose other than to entertain - this is why it should not be valued more highly than if I had learned something more practical."
Let's see. Things I had to learn that I find practical and useful in order to be good at the sport I play (judo and brazilian jiu jitsu).
Fitness - Before sports I was overweight due to fear of what people thought of me in gyms, and the fact that there was no goal to working out, other than working out.
Self defense - I now know a lot of ways to throw, choke or break a limb on a resisting foe. Having competed and won in these sports, I also have the confidence that comes with wining. I also have validated my self defense skills, giving me more confidence in personal conflict issues. Before sports, I would shy away from a bully, or back down to a guy in the street, now I will stand and hold my ground if I feel I am in the right.
Friendship - Before sports, all my friends were people online. This is because I moved to another city, was big in MMO games, and never got out to meet anyone. Now I have lots of very good friends that I almost confider to be brothers. I have sweat with them, and I have bleed with them. When one of us loses, we all feel his pain. We constantly go out and hang, watch UFC, Pride, etc. This has improved my general self image and sense of self worth. I no longer have depression that comes from being alone.
So I now have something I can do for the rest of my life, that:
1) brings me joy.
2) keeps me from getting type 2 diabetes.
3) Keeps me from being fat.
4) Keeps me from being alone.
5) Boosts my self worth.
6) Teaches me how to defend myself.
7) Teaches me how to deal with loss and hardship though losing.
8) Teaches me the value of committing to a goal and what can be acquired with hard work. This has helped me try harder in other area's of my life.
9) Prevents other problems due to lack of fitness and poor diet.
10) Can possibly be a suplimental source of income as I get older.
11) Gives me a skill I can pass on to others to help them grow in life.
You have to look to find benefits in anything. You could say a sports shooter has no tangible benefits, until you need someone good with a gun. You could say basketball has no tangible benefits, until you are too fat to walk on a treadmill.
"I never said theres no skill to sport, I said it's a trivial skill that doesn't produce any tangible benefits. I could learn how to throw cards into a hat, but it serves no useful purpose other than to entertain - this is why it should not be valued more highly than if I had learned something more practical." Let's see. Things I had to learn that I find practical and useful in order to be good at the sport I play (judo and brazilian jiu jitsu). Fitness - Before sports I was overweight due to fear of what people thought of me in gyms, and the fact that there was no goal to working out, other than working out. Self defense - I now know a lot of ways to throw, choke or break a limb on a resisting foe. Having competed and won in these sports, I also have the confidence that comes with wining. I also have validated my self defense skills, giving me more confidence in personal conflict issues. Before sports, I would shy away from a bully, or back down to a guy in the street, now I will stand and hold my ground if I feel I am in the right. Friendship - Before sports, all my friends were people online. This is because I moved to another city, was big in MMO games, and never got out to meet anyone. Now I have lots of very good friends that I almost confider to be brothers. I have sweat with them, and I have bleed with them. When one of us loses, we all feel his pain. We constantly go out and hang, watch UFC, Pride, etc. This has improved my general self image and sense of self worth. I no longer have depression that comes from being alone. So I now have something I can do for the rest of my life, that: 1) brings me joy. 2) keeps me from getting type 2 diabetes. 3) Keeps me from being fat. 4) Keeps me from being alone. 5) Boosts my self worth. 6) Teaches me how to defend myself. 7) Teaches me how to deal with loss and hardship though losing. 8) Teaches me the value of committing to a goal and what can be acquired with hard work. This has helped me try harder in other area's of my life. 9) Prevents other problems due to lack of fitness and poor diet. 10) Can possibly be a suplimental source of income as I get older. 11) Gives me a skill I can pass on to others to help them grow in life. You have to look to find benefits in anything. You could say a sports shooter has no tangible benefits, until you need someone good with a gun. You could say basketball has no tangible benefits, until you are too fat to walk on a treadmill.
IS CoD3 better than red steel? I can't look/turn left in red steel, I can only look/turn right. The guy just jumps around like an idiot when I try to go left. I think it's funny that I get pixel perfect accuracy in zelda, but red steel is impossible to aim for shit.
Lets look at local numbers in my town.
Target:
PS3 - 5 units
Wii - 60 units
Best Buy:
PS3 - 12 units
Wii - 90 units
Who had better availability?
I woke up at 6:45am, got in car, drove to target, stood in line for 10 minutes, got a ticket, came back at 9am and picked up my wii, 2 games, SD card, and extra controler. Man I'm a dork hu?
What are you talking about? YOu have never woken up to find your chair stuck in the middle of a wall?
I found this amusing.
You can not complain. Our college only supports IPLANET web based mail. It can't filter messages to folders. It can not search all folders (you must search on folder at a time). And it is very slow, with really weird dialog options (to attach a file you have to click attach, browse, ok, add then attach.) It sucks, and we are not allowed to use any clients but this web based PoS
My point is that you read the system requirements. I'm sure it didn't say xp64. I understand your point, but it is silly to expect them to support something that was in beta at the time. And it is silly to expect them to patch it now when almost no one uses 64bit windows.
SC3 came out before winxp 64bit. I know cause I had beaten it before xp 64bit was on msdn.
does he really?
"We found child porn on his computer"
"But but, it was an email someone sent me with out my consent."
Jury: "Yea....right."
What do you do when there is no good choice? How do you choose between a douche and a turd?
It's not like he didn't tell you how to fix this "memory leak" yourself.
56k is not an option if I want to keep my job. So I have no options.
I would switch, but I can not find a alternative in my area. I live too far for DSL, and nothing else compares in speed. I guess they own my service.