dude.. have you been to OUR prisons? I'm sorry.. I don't particularly wanna talk about other countries prisons and their legal/judicial system when we have such a F-ed system here. To be frank, I'm almost certain the Chinese legal system is very similar to ours.. more $ -> less chance to be jailed. Of course there's that thin line of "opposing the state/disrupt the peace etc".. but then again.. our government can detain, imprison you, me or anyone w/o cause by branding us enemy combatant of the state..
so really.. what's the difference?
PS. Sure some may say.. "but here.. we got free speech!" Yeah, have you tried to overthrow the US government with your speech? Try it. I'm not saying US is = to China at the moment.. but it's close...
1 take away though: it's not the Chinese government that has a policy that stated: all prisoners must do physical labor during day and gold farm at night. I'm sorry, but the summary made it seem that way. Horrible title if you ask me.
That's like saying if an American prison guard raped a prisoner, the title would be "USA Raped a Prisoner". Misleading.. right?
yup.. linux is definitely ready for primetime. -_-
"The Gentoo install really isn't that bad." - can you tell me what's worse?
for those of you that preach how easy to use ubuntu is.. please help this n00b out on installing a wireless usb adapter into 6.10. i've spent almost 20 hours going through every fucking site/how-to that i can find with no luck.
1) yes, i think we are talking about the same thing here. i haven't gotten any problems since upgrading to xp on my laptop and forgetting to "safely remove the usb HD" and just pull out my usb key. with windows 2k, i just had a "delay write error" yesterday.
but also, i've had problems with my dell inspiron 7500 going hibernate (frequent problems) or going into standby (sometimes) when i have an external usb HD. i remember when i had installed xp on it, that problem finally went away.
2) there are programs that i don't need to know is running but is always there. as an example, the synaptic touchpad drivers, without the drivers i won't be able to do the "vertial/horizontal scroll areas". but the drivers occupies an icon in the tray.
3) yeah, i was VERY much surprised and asked my mother about it a couple times. what she said was basically, it allows her to get to things like "run" if she ever wants to use that, or control panel, etc. but since she mostly uses 5-6 applications (IE, word, excel, freecell, and something) (haven't been able to convince her to use firefox yet..). anyways, these 5 icons are right there as soon as you click on start.
for someone like me, i have a bunch of folders setup above "Programs" (in the classic menu), so for me to start firefox, it's ctrl-esc, I, then F. I really like that setup. but i believe there are enough people like my mother out there that it warrants a mention. this is from talking to other non techie friends of hers at her work, anyway.
4) i recently installed windows 2000 (about 3 weeks ago, on that old inspiron 7500 for me, to set it up as a fileserver). it took me a total of 13 restarts (every 3-4 critical updates it's asking me to do a restart). i started counting on like #4 or 5. i shit you not.
in comparison, i JUST bought a Inspiron E1405, a core 2 duo and as i am writing here, it's going through the windows update. i've selected about 73 updates, including windows media player 11 and IE7, that's 1 restart. i've had to restart a few times for application installs, but that's not entirely MS's fault, the windows update so far has asked em restart twice and I believe I am done after this batch of updates. pretty big differences, wouldn't you say?
the differences between windows 2000 and xp was easy upgrade decision for me:
1) USB 2) better UI (it does look prettier, and i like the ability to hide tray icons) 3) i still use the old style start menu but it appears that my parents REALLY like the new start menus. esp my mother, she has about 5-6 different applications that she runs (including freecell), and they are all right there as soon as you click on start). 4) i was pretty sure that there were some UI changes that made the network portions better but i can only remember a few:
a) you can now "name" your connections, so it's no longer lan connection #1, #2, #3, etc.. i don't think you could do that w/ win2k.
b) didn't win2k force you to restart your computer if you change from dynamic assigned IP to fixed IP, or something like that?
c) i seem to remember the DNS settings also caused a reboot, now they don't.
d) the windows update has been improved DRAMATICALLY. and i think it's only for XP.. (but maybe i'm wrong)
anyways, there were enough reasons for me to buy it as soon as i saw the changes on a friend's laptop.
if your company stock price's been flat for the previous six months, and the backdating took place so that the options are now considered from late 2005 (example), you'd be making $, right?
obviously you don't take it THAT personally. all you are doing is bitching on a fucking website.
grow up, get some balls and take some action. what actions you say? try to eliminate the spam and crack attacks. if you can't? make it publicly known in YOUR circles (not on/. that's for damn sure).
you sound like some god damn democrat that i know who bitches about bush or whatever the fuck that they bitch about but don't vote.
Oh, I totally applaud Blizzard's decision to include both PC and Mac client(at release right? that was such a distant past at this point in time, or so it seems..). However, I have to say that Mythic must've done SOME homework on the viability of supporting two clients, two platforms and decided that it wasn't in their best interest to do so.
While one may disagree with Mythic's decision, one has to hope that Mythic did at least thought about the mac platform and made a conscious decision not to support it.
I also resent the fact that one of the other posters' attitude toward mac gaming. I forgot who, but it seems to me (based on his comment) that he viewed mac gaming as a god given right. Reality check here.. when you bought a mac, you either:
A) are completely clueless and thought that you could run most/all windows games, SOMEHOW. B) made a conscious decision about foregoing some of the gaming abilities and get the beautiful hardware, more stable OS, etc etc.
As it stands, Mac gaming isn't a god given right, it's a luxury -> and this is why even though I've quit playing WoW, I have a whole truckload of respect to their developers and managers. They've managed to make a game that is both financially successful AND platform independent (windows, mac and some linux)
while the # of people who play WoW on a mac might be significant, you have to take that into context. It's entirely possible that a decent % of people who play games on Mac play WoW, but if you were to look at the # of such players when compared to the OVERALL player base, it might not be enough to Mythic to warrant a mac client.
I wish the opposite is true, that'd be one more reason for me to buy a mac.. and DAMN do they look good.
if it does what i think it does, then once this config setting is changed, if FF crashes, then it wouldn't restore the sessions that i was in. right? that's also not what i(and most users, i imagine) want.
what we want is the following: 1) during a shutdown/restart, FF should be aware and properly SHUTDOWN. 2) after a crash, FF should retain its current functionality and offer the option to resume the sessions that it had.
since FF is open source, i don't feel right about bitching. but if it was a commercial software, then i'd be wondering where the QA was on this one. you could've witnessed this if you restarted your computer ONCE.
actually, after reading that summary, not gonna bother. why? cuz it sounds like the UI is not intuitive at all. i don't wanna waste my time downloading it and just to find out about its horrendous UI. i mean.. if you are trying to "sell me" into using the openoffice 2.0, that's definitely not the way to do it.
love oss, i just think you guys could do a little more on the marketing end..
we use sharepoint on our webserver. it's great for the average users to upload specifications for change control. it shows who made changes too.
now, i haven't dived into the thing at all. but, from the feedback that i've gotten, it's really nice for them. this is from programmers and business users alike.
i think MSSQL is a fine DB, however, the true power of MSSQL is not its DB, but it's DTS. If you don't know what it is.. google it.
Every single Oracle and MS DBA that I know of install MSSQL at least for the flexibility and power of DTS.
XLS is great as a output tool for the analysts, the new version promising having more than 65k rows is even better.
While i personally haven't really used word aside from the VERY basic documentation functionalities, i've used XLS extensively and i must say, it's a great product, i'd even say it's the best out there.. bar none.
btw, have fun w/ crystal. i've managed to convince the company that i work for to remove crystal completely, a release cycle of 6 months (maybe 10) and forcing its users to upgrade to a newer version to fix security is absurd.. even MS is better than that.
we are deploying MSRS in phases right now, so far so good.
MS office compatibility is the -one- reason i'm not using openoffice at home.
I've got MSDN subscription, so i have a choice of running either ms office or the openoffice. There's a policy of using MS office in the office and if i'm doing work at home, it must be 100% compatible. If it's -anything- less than 100%, i'm not going to risk it by sending an XLS file to an EVP of a client and have him/her go: "i can't read the file because it has gibberish."
On the other hand, i've tried multiple times to have my SO to use OO, she's okay with the interface, but a few times that she tried to use OO's equation editor, once we open the file in MS word, it also displayed gibberish. this happened in 1.2.x and in one of the 2.0 RC versions (not sure which RC version, just one of them). She made the mistake of sending that as part of her semester project. It took me calling the professor and literally 30 minutes to convince the professor that she actually used openoffice instead of MS office and thus the equation didn't look right. After this incident, she has de-installed any openoffice app and will no longer use anything BUT MS office. She has also told all of my buddies wives/GFs to stay away from OO. If anything, this incompatibility is the downfall of OO, at least in my household and amongst my friends.
I don't have a solution for the openoffice folks, unfortunately.
1) sue the guy giving out the duct tape hack. 2) sue the guy that posted on a blog about a guy giving out the duct tape hack. (./!) -> he aided in the DMCA violation 3) sue the ISP that hosted the blog from the guy who made a blog about a guy giving out the duct tape hack. -> they aided in the DMCA violation 4) sue the backbone carrier that the ISP uses to stay connected to the rest of the net -> they indirectly aided the DMCA violation 5) sue the computer manufacturer that the backbone carrier is using to provide connectivity to the ISP that host the blogs for the user that reported the duct tape hack. -> they indirectly aided in the DMCA violation . . . 10) sue everybody. 11) profit!
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dude.. have you been to OUR prisons? I'm sorry.. I don't particularly wanna talk about other countries prisons and their legal/judicial system when we have such a F-ed system here. To be frank, I'm almost certain the Chinese legal system is very similar to ours.. more $ -> less chance to be jailed. Of course there's that thin line of "opposing the state/disrupt the peace etc".. but then again.. our government can detain, imprison you, me or anyone w/o cause by branding us enemy combatant of the state..
so really.. what's the difference?
PS. Sure some may say.. "but here.. we got free speech!" Yeah, have you tried to overthrow the US government with your speech? Try it. I'm not saying US is = to China at the moment.. but it's close...
1 take away though: it's not the Chinese government that has a policy that stated: all prisoners must do physical labor during day and gold farm at night. I'm sorry, but the summary made it seem that way. Horrible title if you ask me.
That's like saying if an American prison guard raped a prisoner, the title would be "USA Raped a Prisoner". Misleading.. right?
yup.. linux is definitely ready for primetime. -_-
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"The Gentoo install really isn't that bad." - can you tell me what's worse?
for those of you that preach how easy to use ubuntu is.. please help this n00b out on installing a wireless usb adapter into 6.10. i've spent almost 20 hours going through every fucking site/how-to that i can find with no luck.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3964
god damn.. please mod the parent up. why is it that i never seem to have any mod points when i really want to moderate an intelligent comment?
1) yes, i think we are talking about the same thing here. i haven't gotten any problems since upgrading to xp on my laptop and forgetting to "safely remove the usb HD" and just pull out my usb key. with windows 2k, i just had a "delay write error" yesterday.
but also, i've had problems with my dell inspiron 7500 going hibernate (frequent problems) or going into standby (sometimes) when i have an external usb HD. i remember when i had installed xp on it, that problem finally went away.
2) there are programs that i don't need to know is running but is always there. as an example, the synaptic touchpad drivers, without the drivers i won't be able to do the "vertial/horizontal scroll areas". but the drivers occupies an icon in the tray.
3) yeah, i was VERY much surprised and asked my mother about it a couple times. what she said was basically, it allows her to get to things like "run" if she ever wants to use that, or control panel, etc. but since she mostly uses 5-6 applications (IE, word, excel, freecell, and something) (haven't been able to convince her to use firefox yet..). anyways, these 5 icons are right there as soon as you click on start.
for someone like me, i have a bunch of folders setup above "Programs" (in the classic menu), so for me to start firefox, it's ctrl-esc, I, then F. I really like that setup. but i believe there are enough people like my mother out there that it warrants a mention. this is from talking to other non techie friends of hers at her work, anyway.
4) i recently installed windows 2000 (about 3 weeks ago, on that old inspiron 7500 for me, to set it up as a fileserver). it took me a total of 13 restarts (every 3-4 critical updates it's asking me to do a restart). i started counting on like #4 or 5. i shit you not.
in comparison, i JUST bought a Inspiron E1405, a core 2 duo and as i am writing here, it's going through the windows update. i've selected about 73 updates, including windows media player 11 and IE7, that's 1 restart. i've had to restart a few times for application installs, but that's not entirely MS's fault, the windows update so far has asked em restart twice and I believe I am done after this batch of updates. pretty big differences, wouldn't you say?
the differences between windows 2000 and xp was easy upgrade decision for me:
1) USB
2) better UI (it does look prettier, and i like the ability to hide tray icons)
3) i still use the old style start menu but it appears that my parents REALLY like the new start menus. esp my mother, she has about 5-6 different applications that she runs (including freecell), and they are all right there as soon as you click on start).
4) i was pretty sure that there were some UI changes that made the network portions better but i can only remember a few:
a) you can now "name" your connections, so it's no longer lan connection #1, #2, #3, etc.. i don't think you could do that w/ win2k.
b) didn't win2k force you to restart your computer if you change from dynamic assigned IP to fixed IP, or something like that?
c) i seem to remember the DNS settings also caused a reboot, now they don't.
d) the windows update has been improved DRAMATICALLY. and i think it's only for XP.. (but maybe i'm wrong)
anyways, there were enough reasons for me to buy it as soon as i saw the changes on a friend's laptop.
i'd say that depends on how you look at it
if your company stock price's been flat for the previous six months, and the backdating took place so that the options are now considered from late 2005 (example), you'd be making $, right?
obviously you don't take it THAT personally. all you are doing is bitching on a fucking website.
/. that's for damn sure).
/rant
grow up, get some balls and take some action. what actions you say? try to eliminate the spam and crack attacks. if you can't? make it publicly known in YOUR circles (not on
you sound like some god damn democrat that i know who bitches about bush or whatever the fuck that they bitch about but don't vote.
and i am a democrat.
oh, i didn't mean you as one of the posters. I was referring to someone else but couldn't find that post anymore. in any case..
Oh, I totally applaud Blizzard's decision to include both PC and Mac client(at release right? that was such a distant past at this point in time, or so it seems..). However, I have to say that Mythic must've done SOME homework on the viability of supporting two clients, two platforms and decided that it wasn't in their best interest to do so.
While one may disagree with Mythic's decision, one has to hope that Mythic did at least thought about the mac platform and made a conscious decision not to support it.
I also resent the fact that one of the other posters' attitude toward mac gaming. I forgot who, but it seems to me (based on his comment) that he viewed mac gaming as a god given right. Reality check here.. when you bought a mac, you either:
A) are completely clueless and thought that you could run most/all windows games, SOMEHOW.
B) made a conscious decision about foregoing some of the gaming abilities and get the beautiful hardware, more stable OS, etc etc.
As it stands, Mac gaming isn't a god given right, it's a luxury -> and this is why even though I've quit playing WoW, I have a whole truckload of respect to their developers and managers. They've managed to make a game that is both financially successful AND platform independent (windows, mac and some linux)
anyways, rant off.
while the # of people who play WoW on a mac might be significant, you have to take that into context. It's entirely possible that a decent % of people who play games on Mac play WoW, but if you were to look at the # of such players when compared to the OVERALL player base, it might not be enough to Mythic to warrant a mac client.
I wish the opposite is true, that'd be one more reason for me to buy a mac.. and DAMN do they look good.
but in this case, it's not a "crash".
if it does what i think it does, then once this config setting is changed, if FF crashes, then it wouldn't restore the sessions that i was in. right? that's also not what i(and most users, i imagine) want.
what we want is the following:
1) during a shutdown/restart, FF should be aware and properly SHUTDOWN.
2) after a crash, FF should retain its current functionality and offer the option to resume the sessions that it had.
since FF is open source, i don't feel right about bitching. but if it was a commercial software, then i'd be wondering where the QA was on this one. you could've witnessed this if you restarted your computer ONCE.
well, hope they fix it in a patch.
net neutrality had clogged her filters.
CLEARLY.. ivan256 got it right outta his ass.
she chose to play the game. it's not like blizzard forced her to cough up her credit card to play the game.
we use MS livemeeting. it works just fine. i also have webex, while not as "interactive", it also works fine for presentation purposes.
actually, after reading that summary, not gonna bother. why? cuz it sounds like the UI is not intuitive at all. i don't wanna waste my time downloading it and just to find out about its horrendous UI. i mean.. if you are trying to "sell me" into using the openoffice 2.0, that's definitely not the way to do it.
love oss, i just think you guys could do a little more on the marketing end..
that's funny. that is the exact sentiment that i have after trying to play w/ various distros on my dell inspiron 9300 laptop -> fedora, ubuntu, suse.
none of them would connect to my wireless router using my internal wireless card.
as much as i -like- to think linux is mature, it's not. i'm happy with windows xp and looking forward to windows vista.
we use sharepoint on our webserver. it's great for the average users to upload specifications for change control. it shows who made changes too.
now, i haven't dived into the thing at all. but, from the feedback that i've gotten, it's really nice for them. this is from programmers and business users alike.
i think MSSQL is a fine DB, however, the true power of MSSQL is not its DB, but it's DTS. If you don't know what it is.. google it.
Every single Oracle and MS DBA that I know of install MSSQL at least for the flexibility and power of DTS.
XLS is great as a output tool for the analysts, the new version promising having more than 65k rows is even better.
While i personally haven't really used word aside from the VERY basic documentation functionalities, i've used XLS extensively and i must say, it's a great product, i'd even say it's the best out there.. bar none.
btw, have fun w/ crystal. i've managed to convince the company that i work for to remove crystal completely, a release cycle of 6 months (maybe 10) and forcing its users to upgrade to a newer version to fix security is absurd.. even MS is better than that.
we are deploying MSRS in phases right now, so far so good.
i love it.. a response w/ ctrl-E gets "off-topic", a response with "apple-e" gets "informative."
gotta love the slashdot crowd.
yup, one of the requirements -> doc file only.
wrong. we use office products to send documents to other people. if it was just for myself, i'd never use word. excel maybe.
MS office compatibility is the -one- reason i'm not using openoffice at home.
I've got MSDN subscription, so i have a choice of running either ms office or the openoffice. There's a policy of using MS office in the office and if i'm doing work at home, it must be 100% compatible. If it's -anything- less than 100%, i'm not going to risk it by sending an XLS file to an EVP of a client and have him/her go: "i can't read the file because it has gibberish."
On the other hand, i've tried multiple times to have my SO to use OO, she's okay with the interface, but a few times that she tried to use OO's equation editor, once we open the file in MS word, it also displayed gibberish. this happened in 1.2.x and in one of the 2.0 RC versions (not sure which RC version, just one of them). She made the mistake of sending that as part of her semester project. It took me calling the professor and literally 30 minutes to convince the professor that she actually used openoffice instead of MS office and thus the equation didn't look right. After this incident, she has de-installed any openoffice app and will no longer use anything BUT MS office. She has also told all of my buddies wives/GFs to stay away from OO. If anything, this incompatibility is the downfall of OO, at least in my household and amongst my friends.
I don't have a solution for the openoffice folks, unfortunately.
Sony suing strategy:
1) sue the guy giving out the duct tape hack.
2) sue the guy that posted on a blog about a guy giving out the duct tape hack. (./!) -> he aided in the DMCA violation
3) sue the ISP that hosted the blog from the guy who made a blog about a guy giving out the duct tape hack. -> they aided in the DMCA violation
4) sue the backbone carrier that the ISP uses to stay connected to the rest of the net -> they indirectly aided the DMCA violation
5) sue the computer manufacturer that the backbone carrier is using to provide connectivity to the ISP that host the blogs for the user that reported the duct tape hack. -> they indirectly aided in the DMCA violation
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10) sue everybody.
11) profit!