Because all instant messenging (i hate that term) clients are n00bs compared to ICQ. Seriously, why the hell were they even developed? to steal marketshare thats all.. All you need is icq. Icq 2001b is the best client ever produced for instant messenging. No one needs any more features or anything better than this. Infact, there is no better client than icq 2001b and its been downhill ever since then. I remember icqing (the proper term) from my packard bell on a 14.4 back when most of the people who use "instant messenging" now, were not even sperm. All other clients will die and icq will remain.
Man case sensetivity is probably the most annoying thing about linux files. What are you getting having case sensetive files? What benefit could that possibly have. Why should TPSreports.txt be different than tpsreports.txt . A file name is for you, and the first filename is alot easier to read than having them all lower case. So because its more visually apealing to a human the linux machine croaks as it cant wrap its head around the fact that wow its the same file.
If i search for TPSreports.txt will tpsreports.txt evern come up? People have a hard enough time remembering what they named something and you would ad another level of complexity above that? I always thought this was a very big linux flaw.
"But frankly I don't see the problem. I guess I have always had a soft spot for scammers. They are such nice evidence of evolution in action. If you been infected by spyware that is natures way of telling you are to stupid to breed."
are you high? You condescending elitest asshole. News flash *EVERYONE* who is not a knowledgable computer user gets spyware. It doesnt matter where you go or what you do, all it takes is one misclick and BAM. owned. Calling people who get spyware stupid is like calling people who get sick because they went to the mall stupid. IT HAPPENS. How dare you take the side of spyware companies and spammers. You can't honestly say youve never gotten any spyware, no family members or friends have gotten spyware, and that your some kind of a master for running linux. OOO yeah your so fucking special arent you. God damn it people like you need to be punched in the face. Soft spot for scammers indicates to me that you probably are a scammer. And i hate spammers and scammers so much it boils my blood... They have no honour.
"But even worse then the people that install this crap hoping to get something for nothing"
Sort of like when i download a file from sourceforge?
"Pity is that in our society it is the stupid who breed the most."
Translation: I think im smart and thats why i dont get laid
god damn spyware apologists... * awaits -1 troll* i dont care because it had to be said.
BBC is a good news service, but the programs are complete shit.
Well perhaps you missed:
Shameless Black Books Ideal Dr Who BBC documentaries (some of the best in the world: Private life of plants, string theory, etc) Battlestar Galactica IT Crowd The office (UK) Ali G Alan Partridge That show about the priest who lives on the island that i forget the name of... And im sure ive forgotten a few. Even their shitty sitcoms (read little britian) are way funnier than the popular ones in the us (eg friends).
The only worthwhile american tv is from HBO and PBS. Unless you like watching 'CSI: please kill us now' editions interspursed with reality tv and dating shows.
Um thats reported rapes isnt it. Would you be so naieve to believe the government statistics when it comes to something like this? You think prison guards really care if their populace is being abused? i doubt it.
I would assume it is only to pay ebay, like for listing fees and such. Im sure if you mailed a bunch of canadian tire money to some american with a note that said "ebay says you take this!" you would not recieve your item. The seller as i understand it, can choose whichever of the payment methods they want to take. I cannot see how ebay could force the seller to accept canadian tire money. That would be nuts.
Youd have to be dealing multiple pounds a week to make $3500 profit. Anyone who thinks there is big money in drug dealing - espeically street dealing - has never done it. And most weed dealers have nothing to do with gangs and are not badass. Dont get into dealing drugs its not worth it. Now growing on the otherhand...
"If the Anglosphere could promulgate a change in spelling,"
HAHA! got you! I hate it when people use big words when a small one will do, so i was going to write that your not smarter for using promulgate in a sentance. It was then that i actually looked up the word, and discovered you used it wrong!
promulgate:
1. To make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially. See synonyms at announce.
2. To put (a law) into effect by formal public announcement.
"If the alnglosphere could announce a change in spelling..." Um no that doesnt make any sense. The word you *thought* it meant was probably along the lines of accept or tollerate or really any word that sees change in a positive light.
"people judge your intelligence and content based on spelling."
People dont do this, lazy critics who cannot refute your arguments do. I'm never hung up on peoples spelling because it doesnt matter. Perhaps my brain is just more adept at parsing text than other peoples. Everytime someone points out a stupid spelling mistake or something, i usually wouldnt have noticed it if they hadn't. We arent machines that get hung up on syntax errors. I think picking out peoples spelling does so well as a critique here on slashdot because alot of people are programmers and react violently to small errors.
The last few cd/dvd drives ive had will not spin up if they detect more than one cd in the drive. I have nothing but anecdotal evidence to support this claim, but i very often put two cds in the same tray and all i get is "please insert disc" -- IE the drive doesnt even spin the disc to try and read it. It just thinks that there isnt a disc in there. Not sure if its by design or what.
"The Soviets stole the atomic bomb from the US before you were even born."
Did they? They up and took a bomb? how did they get it out of the USA? Those old school nuclear weapons were pretty big. Im curious becuase i never heard this story before. Unless you actually meant they COPIED the usa's PLANS for the bomb, in which case they havent actually deprived the usa of anything. Its not even wrong for them to do this! Unless you somehow think that the USA has the only rights to make nuclear bombs...
"Downloading the shows is different because (ready?) IT'S ILLEGAL. "
Because you know, everything thats ILLEGAL is wrong right? Good thing all laws are made by god and there are no unjust laws. Otherwise we might have to THINK FOR OURSELVES and determine what's right and wrong with our own moral compass. Imagine how sick that would be!
"if you can't see how downloading something without the commercials could hurt a business who makes money selling ad space on the idea that you might view it, then you're pretty dim"
Do I care about the poor spammers whoes business are hurt by my spam filters? Why do you think these business have a god given right to make money? OFF OF ME no less!!! This is a new world. I get to say who makes money off of me. Im not a prostitute and the advertising companies are not my pimps.
"So, they (advertisers) buy your time during the viewing of a program, and in exchange, you get to watch the show for the mere cost of a TV and a few kilowatt-hours."
Um maybe if your mother pays your cable bill its free. Last time i checked, that $50-100 a month most people pay for cable is actual real money. I dont give a flying fuck if advertisers are deprived of revenue. FUCK THEM. Its a war. They turn up the volume on the comercial breaks that i have to watch every like 8 minutes with constant repetition? I strip their commercials.
Anyone who thinks the current model of advertising everywhere is a good thing and should be preserved can lick a nut. Pardon my french but i hate advertising so much. It ruined TV, Movies, Video Games, EVERYTHING. Its spam garbage for the eyes and ill be damned if i ever let anyone convince me its societally nessecary.
They didnt want him talking. They were probably stringing him along the entire way saying things like, "its ok lay my boy, well get you out of this mess!"... "Why dont you take a nice vacation to colorado and well arange everything!"
The first thing i thought when i saw this this morning was CIA. Its wayyy too convienient. Kinda funny it made slashdot though, wasnt expecting that.
"In a war, the two essential objectives are to preserve your resources (such as soldiers lives) and to neutralize the enemy, with preference going towards the latter. As such, any technology that aids in either of these objectives is moral,"
So.. Anthrax bombs are OK then by you eh? what about 747's full of passengers? its war right? anything goes! WP grenades, tactical nuclear weapons, mustard gas.. And people wonder why american soldiers have their balls cut off and their eyes extracted by so called "savages"....
"But this does not make them immoral in the context in which they are meant to be used."
Well i would say that when your objective is to torture the enemy horribly with biological weapons before they ultimately die, then yes i would say thats pretty fucking immoral you sick fuck.
Switch from wow to uo? bwahaha.. Uo is a sinking ship. Its been sinking for years and wow put the last cannonball through their hold. EA killed that game. UO2 was designed like over 5 years ago and scrapped. It was so horrible that they just rolled some of the better features it into the current game and made a 3d client out of it. A 3d client where you could stack things on the 2d client and then not see them on the 3d one. That was great fun. Lots of little bugs like that. I remember reading something that no more than like 2% of the playerbase actually used the 3d client for any length of time. Personally i always thought they should have improved ship travel. The fact that ships were the biggest dupe/leveling tool in the game probably made them shy away from introducing features there. Still some massive ship to ship battles with pirates and shit could have really saved that game.
No ones moving back to UO. Uo was an amazing game 8 years ago but people generally like to move forward in technology not backwards. The only things EA EVER added to that game were stupid little trinkets (holliday bags, fake rares etc) and overpowered weaponry ( i remember when invulnerable meant something ) just so people think its changing. It isnt. No one wants a crappy 3d client bolted onto a 2d mmorpg. Or to put it another way - hey EA, 1997 called, they want their mmorpg back.
I dont get why everyones so afraid of the dentist. Do the dentists in america like try and hurt you or something? It seems to be a common theme here with one person even syaing that the drill is the most ominous fearful sound in america. Perhaps its because ive never had a cavity, but the worst thing i ever had a dentist do to me was make me bite down onto those stupid floride cups that taste like shit. Ive had my wisdom teeth removed and that didnt hurt at all - even a few hours after when the anesthetic wore off. They do give you anesthetic right? or does that cost extra in america?
"That's why in NH we don't have laws that require you to wear your seat belt"
Speaking as someone who would be dead without seatbelts i would argue that your an idiot. You can go too far with freedom you know. I dont have the freedom to masturbate in public but i damn well am glad of that. Your basically masturbating smoke all over everyone around you and that should deservedly be banned in all but private residences.
You want to cover yourself in discusting slimey smoke cum in your own house, thats fine with me. Dont take it to the bar, or go outside and smoke. Its not not like smokers are some oppressed minority. If people came up and spit in my face id be just as insulted. Your actions hurt others and therefor you cannot be trusted to control your own behavior. Enter ban.
"but Linux got to be very good as a desktop system and MS saw absolutely no loss of market"
Wow i guess i missed that. When exactly did it "get very good" as a desktop system? Ill give you that servers, for absolute 100% sure, are more reliable running linux, but theres nothing like a windows machine for games that just work(tm). But dont just take my word for it - From wow linux wiki troubleshooting section:
Problems with sound
If you're having glitches/choppy sound, you can either nicen the wine process by starting wow in the command line with:
nice -n 19 wine WoW.exe -opengl Warning: o rly?
I think nice -n 19 will reduce the priority of the process and likely increase performance problems. nice -n -19 would increase the priority, but normally a non-root user can not increate the priority of a process. Perhaps sudo nice -n -19 su username -c "wine WoW.exe -opengl" will have the effect you want.
or edit the WoW configuration file (~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf) with your favourite editor, adding this line:
Code: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf
SET SoundBufferSize "70"
This is a millisecond delay count. You're free to play with it to get it just right, but be sure to not set it too high or you will notice delays between action on the screen and sound actually occuring.
Ok so maybe *I* could figure out wtf that paragraph means but come on. Even still, ive never used the command nice before in my life. Your telling me its acceptable for a program to need this level of tweaking to just get the sound working? I work all day fixing computers. When i come home, i dont want to RTFM and haxor to get my game to work i just want to relax and have a beer and play the fucking game. Sorry i guess im too pedestrian for desktop linux...
"I bitched loudly over that one and they removed me from the proxy list but it was enough to make me take control of my surfing via a SSH tunnel to the servers I operate."
So are they hosted with bell too?:)
But yeah. WOW you have an ssh tunnel, you do know you need somewhere to tunnel to right? so your basicaly doing what, making the government think your surfing porn at work instead of at home? you cant ssh tunnel to every server on the internet. its going to go over unencypted links sooner or later.
"These aren't hypotheticals, this is actual person experience. That you're so anxious to grind your witless anti-American axe in this way - especially given the context - says plenty about how distorted your view is."
I think the issue for most people in other countries is that to most people, crazy drug users beating down your door and threatening your family is not really a concern. In america i assume these types of incidents are commonplace, so i can see the need for domestic assault rifles. I doubt his worldview is distorted - he just doesnt understand how likely it is for an american to be savagely beaten to a pulp in a home invasion. Considering no one i know and no one ive ever known, has been involved in a home invasion, i think that its safe to say that my "view" would be distorted based on the experiences i have had. America is a violent society. I would never argue against gun ownership in somalia and i should probably stop arguing against it in america.
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Because all instant messenging (i hate that term) clients are n00bs compared to ICQ. Seriously, why the hell were they even developed? to steal marketshare thats all.. All you need is icq. Icq 2001b is the best client ever produced for instant messenging. No one needs any more features or anything better than this. Infact, there is no better client than icq 2001b and its been downhill ever since then. I remember icqing (the proper term) from my packard bell on a 14.4 back when most of the people who use "instant messenging" now, were not even sperm. All other clients will die and icq will remain.
"pn001.exe has encountered an error and needs to close"
Perhaps all games are really 96k and the rest is error handiling? this seems to be optional with this version.
excelent post. i nominate it for post of the day.
Man case sensetivity is probably the most annoying thing about linux files. What are you getting having case sensetive files? What benefit could that possibly have. Why should TPSreports.txt be different than tpsreports.txt . A file name is for you, and the first filename is alot easier to read than having them all lower case. So because its more visually apealing to a human the linux machine croaks as it cant wrap its head around the fact that wow its the same file.
If i search for TPSreports.txt will tpsreports.txt evern come up? People have a hard enough time remembering what they named something and you would ad another level of complexity above that? I always thought this was a very big linux flaw.
are you high? You condescending elitest asshole. News flash *EVERYONE* who is not a knowledgable computer user gets spyware. It doesnt matter where you go or what you do, all it takes is one misclick and BAM. owned. Calling people who get spyware stupid is like calling people who get sick because they went to the mall stupid. IT HAPPENS. How dare you take the side of spyware companies and spammers. You can't honestly say youve never gotten any spyware, no family members or friends have gotten spyware, and that your some kind of a master for running linux. OOO yeah your so fucking special arent you. God damn it people like you need to be punched in the face. Soft spot for scammers indicates to me that you probably are a scammer. And i hate spammers and scammers so much it boils my blood... They have no honour.
Sort of like when i download a file from sourceforge?
Translation: I think im smart and thats why i dont get laid
god damn spyware apologists...
* awaits -1 troll* i dont care because it had to be said.
Well perhaps you missed:
Shameless
Black Books
Ideal
Dr Who
BBC documentaries (some of the best in the world: Private life of plants, string theory, etc)
Battlestar Galactica
IT Crowd
The office (UK)
Ali G
Alan Partridge
That show about the priest who lives on the island that i forget the name of...
And im sure ive forgotten a few. Even their shitty sitcoms (read little britian) are way funnier than the popular ones in the us (eg friends).
The only worthwhile american tv is from HBO and PBS. Unless you like watching 'CSI: please kill us now' editions interspursed with reality tv and dating shows.
Um thats reported rapes isnt it. Would you be so naieve to believe the government statistics when it comes to something like this? You think prison guards really care if their populace is being abused? i doubt it.
I would assume it is only to pay ebay, like for listing fees and such. Im sure if you mailed a bunch of canadian tire money to some american with a note that said "ebay says you take this!" you would not recieve your item. The seller as i understand it, can choose whichever of the payment methods they want to take. I cannot see how ebay could force the seller to accept canadian tire money. That would be nuts.
Wow your motors section doesnt let me search for canadian cars, only US zipcodes. Same as ebay. I guess you fail it.
Youd have to be dealing multiple pounds a week to make $3500 profit. Anyone who thinks there is big money in drug dealing - espeically street dealing - has never done it. And most weed dealers have nothing to do with gangs and are not badass.
Dont get into dealing drugs its not worth it. Now growing on the otherhand...
HAHA! got you! I hate it when people use big words when a small one will do, so i was going to write that your not smarter for using promulgate in a sentance. It was then that i actually looked up the word, and discovered you used it wrong!
promulgate:
1. To make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially. See synonyms at announce.
2. To put (a law) into effect by formal public announcement.
"If the alnglosphere could announce a change in spelling..."
Um no that doesnt make any sense. The word you *thought* it meant was probably along the lines of accept or tollerate or really any word that sees change in a positive light.
People dont do this, lazy critics who cannot refute your arguments do. I'm never hung up on peoples spelling because it doesnt matter. Perhaps my brain is just more adept at parsing text than other peoples. Everytime someone points out a stupid spelling mistake or something, i usually wouldnt have noticed it if they hadn't. We arent machines that get hung up on syntax errors. I think picking out peoples spelling does so well as a critique here on slashdot because alot of people are programmers and react violently to small errors.
The last few cd/dvd drives ive had will not spin up if they detect more than one cd in the drive. I have nothing but anecdotal evidence to support this claim, but i very often put two cds in the same tray and all i get is "please insert disc" -- IE the drive doesnt even spin the disc to try and read it. It just thinks that there isnt a disc in there. Not sure if its by design or what.
Did they? They up and took a bomb? how did they get it out of the USA? Those old school nuclear weapons were pretty big. Im curious becuase i never heard this story before. Unless you actually meant they COPIED the usa's PLANS for the bomb, in which case they havent actually deprived the usa of anything. Its not even wrong for them to do this! Unless you somehow think that the USA has the only rights to make nuclear bombs...
Because you know, everything thats ILLEGAL is wrong right? Good thing all laws are made by god and there are no unjust laws. Otherwise we might have to THINK FOR OURSELVES and determine what's right and wrong with our own moral compass. Imagine how sick that would be!
Do I care about the poor spammers whoes business are hurt by my spam filters? Why do you think these business have a god given right to make money? OFF OF ME no less!!! This is a new world. I get to say who makes money off of me. Im not a prostitute and the advertising companies are not my pimps.
Um maybe if your mother pays your cable bill its free. Last time i checked, that $50-100 a month most people pay for cable is actual real money.
I dont give a flying fuck if advertisers are deprived of revenue. FUCK THEM. Its a war. They turn up the volume on the comercial breaks that i have to watch every like 8 minutes with constant repetition? I strip their commercials.
Anyone who thinks the current model of advertising everywhere is a good thing and should be preserved can lick a nut. Pardon my french but i hate advertising so much. It ruined TV, Movies, Video Games, EVERYTHING. Its spam garbage for the eyes and ill be damned if i ever let anyone convince me its societally nessecary.
The CIA's favourite techniques are:
1) Plane/car crashes.
2) Heart attacks.
They didnt want him talking. They were probably stringing him along the entire way saying things like, "its ok lay my boy, well get you out of this mess!"... "Why dont you take a nice vacation to colorado and well arange everything!"
The first thing i thought when i saw this this morning was CIA. Its wayyy too convienient. Kinda funny it made slashdot though, wasnt expecting that.
So.. Anthrax bombs are OK then by you eh? what about 747's full of passengers? its war right? anything goes! WP grenades, tactical nuclear weapons, mustard gas.. And people wonder why american soldiers have their balls cut off and their eyes extracted by so called "savages"....
Well i would say that when your objective is to torture the enemy horribly with biological weapons before they ultimately die, then yes i would say thats pretty fucking immoral you sick fuck.
"a good PVP game would definitely make me switch"
Switch from wow to uo? bwahaha.. Uo is a sinking ship. Its been sinking for years and wow put the last cannonball through their hold. EA killed that game. UO2 was designed like over 5 years ago and scrapped. It was so horrible that they just rolled some of the better features it into the current game and made a 3d client out of it. A 3d client where you could stack things on the 2d client and then not see them on the 3d one. That was great fun. Lots of little bugs like that. I remember reading something that no more than like 2% of the playerbase actually used the 3d client for any length of time. Personally i always thought they should have improved ship travel. The fact that ships were the biggest dupe/leveling tool in the game probably made them shy away from introducing features there. Still some massive ship to ship battles with pirates and shit could have really saved that game.
No ones moving back to UO. Uo was an amazing game 8 years ago but people generally like to move forward in technology not backwards. The only things EA EVER added to that game were stupid little trinkets (holliday bags, fake rares etc) and overpowered weaponry ( i remember when invulnerable meant something ) just so people think its changing. It isnt. No one wants a crappy 3d client bolted onto a 2d mmorpg. Or to put it another way - hey EA, 1997 called, they want their mmorpg back.
I dont get why everyones so afraid of the dentist. Do the dentists in america like try and hurt you or something? It seems to be a common theme here with one person even syaing that the drill is the most ominous fearful sound in america. Perhaps its because ive never had a cavity, but the worst thing i ever had a dentist do to me was make me bite down onto those stupid floride cups that taste like shit. Ive had my wisdom teeth removed and that didnt hurt at all - even a few hours after when the anesthetic wore off. They do give you anesthetic right? or does that cost extra in america?
WOW.. putting Angel Boris into google image search is very very NSFW!!!
"That's why in NH we don't have laws that require you to wear your seat belt"
Speaking as someone who would be dead without seatbelts i would argue that your an idiot. You can go too far with freedom you know. I dont have the freedom to masturbate in public but i damn well am glad of that. Your basically masturbating smoke all over everyone around you and that should deservedly be banned in all but private residences.
You want to cover yourself in discusting slimey smoke cum in your own house, thats fine with me. Dont take it to the bar, or go outside and smoke. Its not not like smokers are some oppressed minority. If people came up and spit in my face id be just as insulted. Your actions hurt others and therefor you cannot be trusted to control your own behavior. Enter ban.
Dont get me wrong, i would love to use linux on the desktop. I just dont think its quite as there as you seem to think it is.
Wow i guess i missed that. When exactly did it "get very good" as a desktop system?
Ill give you that servers, for absolute 100% sure, are more reliable running linux, but theres nothing like a windows machine for games that just work(tm). But dont just take my word for it - From wow linux wiki troubleshooting section:
Ok so maybe *I* could figure out wtf that paragraph means but come on. Even still, ive never used the command nice before in my life. Your telling me its acceptable for a program to need this level of tweaking to just get the sound working? I work all day fixing computers. When i come home, i dont want to RTFM and haxor to get my game to work i just want to relax and have a beer and play the fucking game. Sorry i guess im too pedestrian for desktop linux...
not your bitch?
i recognize the name hitler as well
"I bitched loudly over that one and they removed me from the proxy list but it was enough to make me take control of my surfing via a SSH tunnel to the servers I operate."
:)
So are they hosted with bell too?
But yeah. WOW you have an ssh tunnel, you do know you need somewhere to tunnel to right? so your basicaly doing what, making the government think your surfing porn at work instead of at home? you cant ssh tunnel to every server on the internet. its going to go over unencypted links sooner or later.
I think the issue for most people in other countries is that to most people, crazy drug users beating down your door and threatening your family is not really a concern. In america i assume these types of incidents are commonplace, so i can see the need for domestic assault rifles. I doubt his worldview is distorted - he just doesnt understand how likely it is for an american to be savagely beaten to a pulp in a home invasion. Considering no one i know and no one ive ever known, has been involved in a home invasion, i think that its safe to say that my "view" would be distorted based on the experiences i have had. America is a violent society. I would never argue against gun ownership in somalia and i should probably stop arguing against it in america.