Actually, what I've noticed about FreeBSD people is that they are mostly very utilitarian. Ussually they aren't religious about FreeBSD. The ones I know use whatever works to get the job done in whatever fashion they consider to be most appropriate for that specific situation. Sometimes FreeBSD is the best solution, sometimes it is not. I doubt any FreeBSD user would argue against this point.
Linux users will religiously try to force Linux to do everything even when other options are easier, better, faster, or "more free". Mac users are the same way. Even Windows-Exclusive users are like this at times.
So in some sense, I suppose you could say the FreeBSD people truely are the least religious. After all, they DO have a little devil as their mascot.
3rd degree burns, while painful for a few days, normally don't even require a trip to the doctor.
Learn your burns. 3rd degree burns can often require serious medical treatment, and in the case of this elderly victim, skin grafting was required.
Further more, she only asked for the cost of medical expenses. Reasonable, I'd say. The lawyer on the other hand saw the potential to get much more, and apparently the judge fully agreed.
People love to quote the "Stupid Person Getting Burned by Coffee at McDonalds" as an example of a stupid lawsuit, when in fact they haven't got a damned clue as to what really happened.
If someone ordered a coffee and got a cup full of molten metal instead, everyone would think the lawsuit was warrented. But when what the elderly woman was in fact given might as well have been molten coffee beans it suddenly becomes trivial.
You are right, this should not be illegal just because it is annoying. There are already laws against misleading people with advertising. Some of the pop-ups are already made illegal by those laws, and they should be strictly enforced.
The rest of them, well, we can just block those ads.:D
Must I point out that the Video Game Industry isn't really doing so hot right now? Yes, the winners win really big. The loser fold, get bought out, merge, and end up forgotten.
Interplay for instance, is in trouble. Infogrames, is taking major losses. Capcom is taking major losses. Big companies, big losses, with different base countries of operations.
The fact of the matter is, the industry really --IS-- sucking right now, and probably for the same reason all of the other industries are. The economic downturn hasn't helped, but look at the high level of pure trash they're selling.
I buy video games frequently. Every week, even. But when so many titles come out that even I can't keep up with all of them (and I'm something of a fanatic) then you know there is a lot of them out there. And many of them, even big name ones, are pure shit.
Of course, there are some great titles, too. I watched many times as a wonderfully done title hardly sells, while recycled garbage soars to the top of the charts and it shows me that the industry is going to hell. Then the company that's selling the recycled garbage folds anyway and then everybody loses out.
We're going to end up with just a few major studios in the end, just as everyone has been predicting for years. Games are getting so costly to make, and only the really big names can afford to make them. To make matters worse, margins are shrinking, start up investment costs are now higher than they've ever been, and there's a really huge used-game market now that every new title must compete with.
Once upon a time a single title could easily sell into profitability just because a system had reached critical mass. Now days, even top-chart titles still make publishers nervous because trade-ins can dramatically cut the sales figures. Piracy is also a much worse problem now than it's ever been. Esspecially on the Playstation and Playstation 2, the two most popular video game consoles going at the moment.
Now, articles such as the one that started this whole discussion can talk all the shit they want about how much money video games made this year, or how much a single title such as Grand Theft Auto Vice sold, but in reality those are the rare top-chart winners, and for every title in the top 40, there are several more by the same publishers doing horribly.
Don't believe me? Electronic Arts knows it's true. They've known it longer than most publishers. That's why it doesn't break their heart to re-sell big names such as the SIMS, or anything from the EA Sports line. They know they can turn heavy profits on something that's relatively inexpensive to make because the majority of developement costs have already been spent. Everytime they make changes to an old game and call it something new it's pure profit, even if it doesn't sell as well as the original. And if it sells better, that's wonderful.
And while people who normally don't play a lot of games fork over cash for the latest Madden or the SIMS expansion, we have publishers of entirely better games struggling to stay afloat.
Has it become business? Yes. It's become a whole lot like the movie industry, and it's not better for the gamers in the least bit. In fact, you want proof that the video game industry has now gone to shit? Take one look at the people buying Playstations and you'll see.
You see mostly uneducated average joes that don't read much, they watch a lot of TV, and can't be bothered to play deep and involved games. And while there are some shallow yet fun games, and there are some mega-hits that both the main-stream AND the die-hard gamers can enjoy, the rest of the crap is pure rubbish. Just like the rest of pop culture.
And we're all guilty of it, even the die-hards amoung us. Have any of you ever played a Pokemon game? Do you truely, HONESTLY know what it's about? Do you care? Probably not. Given a choice between being given the next Pokemon game for free, or BUYING the next installment of Grand Theft Auto most of our minds are already made up. It doesn't matter if the Pokemon games are fun or not. I wouldn't know, personally, and I doubt many of you do, either. That just illustrates my point further.
There is something seriously wrong with the video game industry, and to the post I'm replying, no it's not going to thrive. It's going to survive, it's going to change, and it's going to destroy much of the things we once loved about video games. In doing so, it's going to become just another segment of Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry.
Having said that, the Video Game Industry isn't going to Thrive. It's already on it's way to being dead.
Hmm? Are you suggesting everybody be given everything for free? I'm not sure I exactly get what you are trying to say.
Sure, the system we live with right now isn't perfect, but if you're suggesting we do away with money entirely and everybody should just take wahtever they want, I can't be bothered to take you very seriously.
We (sort of) have enough for everybody willing to do some work for what they have, true. We would NEVER have enough for everyone to just take whatever they wanted. For starters, nobody would do any work and when all was said and done everything would be horded and consumed so fast by the gluttons that the plenty you think we have would instantly turn into a shortage.
Apple is one of the few vendors that's actually worse than Microsoft, if you look past the hype.
You won't be able to ever convince anyone of this though. It'll take Apple becoming large enough to do some real damage to the industry before Mac Zealots will see this, and some never will.
Microsoft for all of their shortcomings, do have some positive things about them, just as Apple does. I think the real lesson here is that the larger a business gets, the more evil it becomes. Apple has a rotten core. Fortunately for us, they're not big enough (yet) to spread the disease very far.
or does the emulator just pick up x86 instructions and translate them to IA64 instructions?
As I understand it, AMD's 64-Bit processors actually have hardware for supporting the previous 32-Bit instructions. I could be misunderstanding, but if I'm not this will naturally mean that with 32-Bit instructions the AMD chip will outperform Intel's emulation.
Intel is banking heavily on people finally ditching x86 for good. There are good reasons for people to ditch x86, but there is one good reason to keep it: Legacy Support. How important that is will depend on the person and their needs.
unless you can justify it through lower support costs.
Except that it might not always mean lower support costs...
USER: I've logged into DOS but I still can't figure out the problem... even DIR doesn't work... TECH: The problem is, you're not in DOS. USER: But I am! It's all text everywhere and I have no pointer! TECH: Sir, that's BASH... USER: I've done that, too...
They'd laugh at their victory and then move on to others just like the little girl. They could give a shit less.
After all, this girl's minimum wage working class parents weren't doing too bad. The girl had a computer, didn't she? If she has a computer, she can afford CDs even if it means she has to save for them.
Not being able to pay is not a valid reason to steal. So your example girl that is stealing music is in a sense "wrong", if there is such a thing as right and wrong anyway.
On the other hand, being greedy cocksuckers isn't a valid reason for the RIAA to steal from artists, either.
The basic rule here is that if a person isn't good at a game, they aren't going to like it. Likewise, if they don't like games very much to begin with, they're not going to put forth the effort to be good at them. The result is circular.
A real game player plays all kinds of games and generally gets good at most of them.
A casual gamer finds a few types of games that they like, and fail to truely ever master any of them.
The rest of the game players aren't game players at all, they just happen to play games once in a while.
NERO isn't complicated for me. Perhaps if I didn't know what all the options did, yes, it would be complicated. Since a more advanced program that lets me have greater control over the burning process is more useful for me than a "put it in and burn it" solution, I would prefer deal with a more in depth interface than a simple "would you like to burn it now?" prompt.
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Actually, what I've noticed about FreeBSD people is that they are mostly very utilitarian. Ussually they aren't religious about FreeBSD. The ones I know use whatever works to get the job done in whatever fashion they consider to be most appropriate for that specific situation. Sometimes FreeBSD is the best solution, sometimes it is not. I doubt any FreeBSD user would argue against this point.
Linux users will religiously try to force Linux to do everything even when other options are easier, better, faster, or "more free". Mac users are the same way. Even Windows-Exclusive users are like this at times.
So in some sense, I suppose you could say the FreeBSD people truely are the least religious. After all, they DO have a little devil as their mascot.
*VERY EVIL GRIN*
http://mozamiga.mozdev.org
Keep your eyes on that.
personally liked the end of Contact, where a bitmap of a circle is found somewhere deep in pi.
I loved that little tid-bit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was one of the many things left out of the movie, no?
I don't seem to recall it having been mentioned.
We would have either found the end by now or discovered a pattern.
heh.
That was "Sathar"...
Greenies want to keep the earth from changing.
Would you call people who want to keep Mars from changing either Reddies or Brownies?
3rd degree burns, while painful for a few days, normally don't even require a trip to the doctor.
Learn your burns. 3rd degree burns can often require serious medical treatment, and in the case of this elderly victim, skin grafting was required.
Further more, she only asked for the cost of medical expenses. Reasonable, I'd say. The lawyer on the other hand saw the potential to get much more, and apparently the judge fully agreed.
This is off topic, but I have to agree with you.
People love to quote the "Stupid Person Getting Burned by Coffee at McDonalds" as an example of a stupid lawsuit, when in fact they haven't got a damned clue as to what really happened.
If someone ordered a coffee and got a cup full of molten metal instead, everyone would think the lawsuit was warrented. But when what the elderly woman was in fact given might as well have been molten coffee beans it suddenly becomes trivial.
Plus you have to pay.
Some of the biggest Lan Parties I've been to had admission charges, though they were for the entire weekend.
Oh, and seeing Halo matches on networked XBoxes isn't uncommon at some Lan Parties.
Somebody explain to me how a $6K fuel-cell backup power system is better than...
The batteries in that APC are evil nasty horrible little beasts when it comes to disposal after they've reached the end of their life.
Sure, your APC is cheaper, but the Fuel Cell Idea is cleaner.
I just hope that the casting is done right.
Is this going to be a comedy or is Will Smith making another attempt at being taken as a serious actor?
You are right, this should not be illegal just because it is annoying. There are already laws against misleading people with advertising. Some of the pop-ups are already made illegal by those laws, and they should be strictly enforced.
:D
The rest of them, well, we can just block those ads.
Must I point out that the Video Game Industry isn't really doing so hot right now? Yes, the winners win really big. The loser fold, get bought out, merge, and end up forgotten.
Interplay for instance, is in trouble. Infogrames, is taking major losses. Capcom is taking major losses. Big companies, big losses, with different base countries of operations.
The fact of the matter is, the industry really --IS-- sucking right now, and probably for the same reason all of the other industries are. The economic downturn hasn't helped, but look at the high level of pure trash they're selling.
I buy video games frequently. Every week, even. But when so many titles come out that even I can't keep up with all of them (and I'm something of a fanatic) then you know there is a lot of them out there. And many of them, even big name ones, are pure shit.
Of course, there are some great titles, too. I watched many times as a wonderfully done title hardly sells, while recycled garbage soars to the top of the charts and it shows me that the industry is going to hell. Then the company that's selling the recycled garbage folds anyway and then everybody loses out.
We're going to end up with just a few major studios in the end, just as everyone has been predicting for years. Games are getting so costly to make, and only the really big names can afford to make them. To make matters worse, margins are shrinking, start up investment costs are now higher than they've ever been, and there's a really huge used-game market now that every new title must compete with.
Once upon a time a single title could easily sell into profitability just because a system had reached critical mass. Now days, even top-chart titles still make publishers nervous because trade-ins can dramatically cut the sales figures. Piracy is also a much worse problem now than it's ever been. Esspecially on the Playstation and Playstation 2, the two most popular video game consoles going at the moment.
Now, articles such as the one that started this whole discussion can talk all the shit they want about how much money video games made this year, or how much a single title such as Grand Theft Auto Vice sold, but in reality those are the rare top-chart winners, and for every title in the top 40, there are several more by the same publishers doing horribly.
Don't believe me? Electronic Arts knows it's true. They've known it longer than most publishers. That's why it doesn't break their heart to re-sell big names such as the SIMS, or anything from the EA Sports line. They know they can turn heavy profits on something that's relatively inexpensive to make because the majority of developement costs have already been spent. Everytime they make changes to an old game and call it something new it's pure profit, even if it doesn't sell as well as the original. And if it sells better, that's wonderful.
And while people who normally don't play a lot of games fork over cash for the latest Madden or the SIMS expansion, we have publishers of entirely better games struggling to stay afloat.
Has it become business? Yes. It's become a whole lot like the movie industry, and it's not better for the gamers in the least bit. In fact, you want proof that the video game industry has now gone to shit? Take one look at the people buying Playstations and you'll see.
You see mostly uneducated average joes that don't read much, they watch a lot of TV, and can't be bothered to play deep and involved games. And while there are some shallow yet fun games, and there are some mega-hits that both the main-stream AND the die-hard gamers can enjoy, the rest of the crap is pure rubbish. Just like the rest of pop culture.
And we're all guilty of it, even the die-hards amoung us. Have any of you ever played a Pokemon game? Do you truely, HONESTLY know what it's about? Do you care? Probably not. Given a choice between being given the next Pokemon game for free, or BUYING the next installment of Grand Theft Auto most of our minds are already made up. It doesn't matter if the Pokemon games are fun or not. I wouldn't know, personally, and I doubt many of you do, either. That just illustrates my point further.
There is something seriously wrong with the video game industry, and to the post I'm replying, no it's not going to thrive. It's going to survive, it's going to change, and it's going to destroy much of the things we once loved about video games. In doing so, it's going to become just another segment of Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry.
Having said that, the Video Game Industry isn't going to Thrive. It's already on it's way to being dead.
Its not like we don't have enough for everyone.
Hmm? Are you suggesting everybody be given everything for free? I'm not sure I exactly get what you are trying to say.
Sure, the system we live with right now isn't perfect, but if you're suggesting we do away with money entirely and everybody should just take wahtever they want, I can't be bothered to take you very seriously.
We (sort of) have enough for everybody willing to do some work for what they have, true. We would NEVER have enough for everyone to just take whatever they wanted. For starters, nobody would do any work and when all was said and done everything would be horded and consumed so fast by the gluttons that the plenty you think we have would instantly turn into a shortage.
As funny as this is, there is a tiny bit of truth in it.
Not exactly the Amiga of course, but old/used computers in general.
Many jobs can be performed on obsolete hardware. Many businesses would do well to pick up old crap, provided you have staff on hand that can use it.
Apple is one of the few vendors that's actually worse than Microsoft, if you look past the hype.
You won't be able to ever convince anyone of this though. It'll take Apple becoming large enough to do some real damage to the industry before Mac Zealots will see this, and some never will.
Microsoft for all of their shortcomings, do have some positive things about them, just as Apple does. I think the real lesson here is that the larger a business gets, the more evil it becomes. Apple has a rotten core. Fortunately for us, they're not big enough (yet) to spread the disease very far.
or does the emulator just pick up x86 instructions and translate them to IA64 instructions?
As I understand it, AMD's 64-Bit processors actually have hardware for supporting the previous 32-Bit instructions. I could be misunderstanding, but if I'm not this will naturally mean that with 32-Bit instructions the AMD chip will outperform Intel's emulation.
Intel is banking heavily on people finally ditching x86 for good. There are good reasons for people to ditch x86, but there is one good reason to keep it: Legacy Support. How important that is will depend on the person and their needs.
unless you can justify it through lower support costs.
Except that it might not always mean lower support costs...
USER: I've logged into DOS but I still can't figure out the problem... even DIR doesn't work...
TECH: The problem is, you're not in DOS.
USER: But I am! It's all text everywhere and I have no pointer!
TECH: Sir, that's BASH...
USER: I've done that, too...
Neither of them were ugly. Didn't you get it?
They were quite nice looking Ogres. It's all those humans that were ugly.
You're kidding, right?
They'd laugh at their victory and then move on to others just like the little girl. They could give a shit less.
After all, this girl's minimum wage working class parents weren't doing too bad. The girl had a computer, didn't she? If she has a computer, she can afford CDs even if it means she has to save for them.
Not being able to pay is not a valid reason to steal. So your example girl that is stealing music is in a sense "wrong", if there is such a thing as right and wrong anyway.
On the other hand, being greedy cocksuckers isn't a valid reason for the RIAA to steal from artists, either.
Well, it's not quite 50,000, but if a half-dozen or so will do you, there is always Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball for the Xbox? :P
The basic rule here is that if a person isn't good at a game, they aren't going to like it. Likewise, if they don't like games very much to begin with, they're not going to put forth the effort to be good at them. The result is circular.
A real game player plays all kinds of games and generally gets good at most of them.
A casual gamer finds a few types of games that they like, and fail to truely ever master any of them.
The rest of the game players aren't game players at all, they just happen to play games once in a while.
NERO isn't complicated for me. Perhaps if I didn't know what all the options did, yes, it would be complicated. Since a more advanced program that lets me have greater control over the burning process is more useful for me than a "put it in and burn it" solution, I would prefer deal with a more in depth interface than a simple "would you like to burn it now?" prompt.
One or two degrees in the case can equate to one or two more degrees in the case
This was meant to be one or two degrees in the room can eqaute to many more degrees more in the case...
That should clear up what I meant by a lot of that post. GRRR --
Doesn't XP do something like that?
I seem to remember it asking if you want to burn the contents at some point, but I can't remember if it's while ejecting, or at some other point.
Either way, as other people have mentioned, I'm not very fond of that method of doing things. I prefer to use NERO.