Thats a pretty bad example in the end (winmodem) and you did sware an awful lot. Its kinda like asking why some windows program wont work on linux, well, it wasnt designed to.
Not saying that didnt happen the way you said it did, but for god sakes its a win modem. Next youll be complaining that the KIA you just baught doesnt have the acceleration of a big block 454. You did after all, initally buy a WINMODEM right? whoes fault is that? sony's? you becuase you didnt know what you were buying? microsoft for inventing such a thing?
And for the record i have a USB floppy drive from an imac and it does work in linux out of the box (although it is activated in the bios becuase it also works in dos) so maybe it was your issue. Did you try turning it off, and then on again?
You know what? I would love to be able to pay more for metered bandwidth, or have it based on use (liek electricity) but ISP's would NEVER do that. Then they try and charge you 4x the amount for a business connection instead (see parent). The reason they would never do it is the rely on people wasting their bandwidth. They sell uber fast highspeed! to everyone, but they count on people using it less. If people use less electricity, they pay less. Its metered. You only pay for what you use. So you would have a situation where most of the users would have an isp bill of less than $10 (they just check email right), instead of the regular $50 a month flat. Obviously this is not in the interests of the isp.
The charging people flat rate cuts both ways. Would you want a flat rate monthly gas charge? its for POWER drivers! the only catch is you can only drive a car with less than 50hp or your an abuser of the system.. Did you not realize that 'power' and 'unlimited' actually mean the oposite of their classical meanings? shame on you...
I watched a documentary about banking and the federal reserve and they claimed that for every $1 that a person puts into a bank, the bank, through various invisible hands, counts it as $1000 to lend out/invest or whatever. I firmly believe that if everyone knew how little actual real money is in the system there would be a massive collapse of society.
"I have had to resort to blocking popular bittorrent ports on my linksys router just to keep the 5MBit cable connection from choking."
wow your crappy off the shelf router cant handle many concurrent connections so you blame the protocol. Funny, my smoothwall handles 1000s of connections fine. I know for a fact that alot of Dlink products are capped at about 50 concurrent connections im sure linksys has a similar restriction. A friend of mine who used to work a dlink tech support told me this. What your describing is probably not bandwidth related, unless of corse they are simply using all the bandwidth. If that was the case, perhaps a program like netlimiter on their PC's would do it. Otherwise you have to get some sort of traffic shaping/qos device.
Those crappy soho routers arent meant to do anything that a power user or business would do. Thats why you gotta go pro ($$$) or roll your own (smoothwall, dubbele, etc).
"I was enjoying walking around killing low level creatures when two idiots (who I did report)"
wow. I guess you dont see the irony of posting that. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. If people didnt report others, then this kind of stupid shit wouldnt happen. Were those people really bothering you? Are words -not even specifically directed at you - a reason to get someone suspended or banned? There is a reason you have the/ignore command. People who report are like jail house snitches and should be the ones who are banned. If you cant deal with someone in the context of the game, dont go whining to the GMs and have their accounts closed. Thats very juvenile and im really glad your not part of the game world. Most reporters get weeded out by 60 anyways as they get known to be the whiney little bitches that they are.
"but I think that there are significantly more than 0.2% of WOW accounts involved in "gold farming and cheating in general"."
Really? how much evidence do you have? where are the hard numbers? whats that? you have no numbers? you just pulled that statement out of your ass?
Sure there are farmers in wow - but thinking that they are some measureable menace on the system is just fearmongering. people (especially on american servers ive noticed) LOVE to claim that the immigrants/farmers/non english speakers, are exploiting and farming and are the cause of everyones money problems.
There is a noticeable amount of hypocracy built into this idea. When an english speaker grinds for days to get some ultra rare drop, hes a hardcore game player and should be looked upon as someone who worked really hard for something that they wanted. But, when a non english speaker does the same, hes a farmer. Blizzard is racist and overly cruel to its users. If you ever had to deal with GMs you would have realized this long ago. There is no farming conspiracy that is destroying wow. its all in peoples heads.
"your employer has the right, actually the responsibility, to make demands of you."
Im my country, taxes that fund scientific research are payed into by me and my fellow citizens. Who is the employer of your public servants? not the public?
"We really need to start working to educate these governments about pollution, and the environment. If only a few western countries cut back on pollution where will it get us if China is belching out billions of tons of pollution every day?"
That will be in 10 years when americans realize that there is real æffects from global warming and try to get the new usa (china) to cut their emissions. China will cry that it will "hurt their economy" and continue poluting. Then america will have come full circle and hopefully this irony will not be lost on the american people.
I think what he was trying to get at was that this study is really fuckign stupid.
Did they ask them whether they thought it was ok for gays to marry? or whether pre marital sex is an ok choice?
i dont see why not since they seem to be linking all sorts of random shit together. this whole article is sensationalist nothing trying to be meaningful something. Its like asking people to play a game of basketball and then getting their opinion on the italian election. These things are so far removed from having anything to do with eachother that you wonder what the creators were smoking. Was the creator of this study really high? that usually makes you link together all sorts of random concepts so it seems quite likely...
Thats retarded. Spam you should get 50 years but virus writing?
parent is obviously scared by computers and computer crime. news flash, all computers have some sort of security problem. you cant lock people up and think that will solve all the computer security problems so you can sleep well at night. people who are clueless about computers advocate such hard line policies. its ignorance and fear and wanting to do something -anything- no matter how completely irrelevant and meaningless that action is.
I was going to say yay! I can watch lost when it airs instead of the next day off of the torrents! Ill definately use this even with commercials!
Then i read:
"will allow web surfers to watch full episodes of programs such as Lost, Desperate Housewives, and others starting the morning after they air on ABC"
Hmm, so my high quality HDTV rips finish downloading at the same time their low quality flash/rm/wmv video files are "available" for streaming*, and they have commercials?
Sorry abc, your not quite there yet. good try though.
*i would never believe they would let me download and archive the copies. if thats true ill eat my hat.
"Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass "Halo killer." It's next-gen Duck Hunt. "
I cant be the only one thought that duck hunt owned, and that halo was just a scripted version of counterstrike, can i? whats with all this duck hunt hate? that game was AWESOME... when was the last time you played a light gun FPS? SNES? its about time another one came along. just like the arcades, except you dont have to pay 2$ for 5 minutes of play.
slashdot is a site for internet people. people on the internet love to laugh at stupid things. its really not some big moral issue. its just some stupid fat kid with a light saber.
so heres some reflections on this topic from my perspective: 1. starwars is lame, and will always be lame. i never liked starwars and dont get what the hell people see in it. there are many far far greater scifi stories. 2. fat people need to exercise. genetics or lazyness is an excuse. if you get made fun of because your fat YOU DESERVE IT. get in shape or start wearing hiwaian shirts - in other words DEAL - 3. dont VIDEOTAPE yourself doing something if you dont want to watch it again someday. 4. suing people for mental anguish is really lame. be a man like the columbine kids and shoot them in the face.
it would be nice if the groupthink was along those lines but im not holding my breath.
"Vapourous water = Clouds More clouds = Less sunlight getting through Less sunlight = lower temperature"
Thats well and good but you need particulate matter to form clouds. If the theory of global dimming (why isnt this mentioned more?) is correct, the more we clean the environment the hotter it gets. This is the same reason that there was percieved to be an ice age upon us in the 70s. Lots of big block engines pouring out crap, reflecting/blocking the sun.
I agree 100%. The americans are taking our money and harper, if he had any balls, would slap them down. Money that could be put into the canadian economy. Everyone who voted for harper that i knew thought that he would fight the americans. They almost had me convinced. A few more episodes like this and we will see how spineless the conservatives really are. Oh well. We'll have the last laugh when they are paying us $200/bbl for oil (or water depending on the mystical futar!).
Oh i had no idea that all laws were exactly EQUAL and we have to follow every law no matter what or we are basically morally bankrupt souls.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. Here i was using my own sets of morals instead of ones mandated to me by the state. I have seen the error of my ways now and will only do what the corporate backed plutocracy tells me i can do.
Yeah wow nice troll buddy but it more likely will go like this:
Anti-**AA lawyer "Your Honor, These *.AA people are threatening lawsuits all up in here. They have no evidence. They should make their peace.." Judge - "Wow.. your right. Case dismisssed!" *.AA - " but but PIRATES!!" Judge - "Pirates sail the sea son, now take your extortion racket and leave town" *.AA - * whine whine lumbering dinosuar of the old world noises * Judge - "Thats it motherfuckers, you going down!!" *Judge pulls out sawed off shotty and jumps up on his bench* Judge - " Pistol grip pump motherfuckers!! " * *.AA lawyers head asplode * * Lawyer falls down, a crimson fountain coats everything in recently depreasureized blood. A leather satchel falls to the floor * Judge - "Well now you dirty slime-yer, whats this?" * Judge opens the satchel and a small white kitten tumbles out* Kitten - "mew!" Judge - " Those evil bastards, they were going to eat that kitten " * Anti-**AA lawyer steps onto the severed skull of *.AA lawyer crushing it to dust* Judge - " your kitten eating hording culture days are over. Set my people free! " * all the peoples of the world get together and share their collective culture and world peace is declared (also bu$h gets cancer and dies)*
"You know all those "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS" signs you see all over? What do you think they mean, numbnuts?"
i dunno cockfucker because ive never seen one of those signs. you see i drive in a city not the backwoods trash one lane highways that you drive on. if its a 2 and up lane highway the fast lane is the left lane and the right lane is the slow lane, motherfucker!
"Social Security (might not be worried about that if congress had not borrowed money from it.)"
You do realize that the reason bushitler wants everyone to privately invest is to dump a large number of inexperienced investors ($$$) into the market. Wide eyed dreamers with fistfulls of cash, ready to be ravaged by the ones who play the game for a living. He has sold it by giving you "personal responsibility" which is a very empowering phrase, especially to americans. They will be ripe to practically give their money to the more experienced folk, thus making the rich richer in advance of the coming collapse of the US dollar. This is also why he has made it harder to declare bankruptcy. They see what is coming and are positioning their resources. The common man simply hasn't a clue, or a chance.
"This means that if something I install causes problems, I have to resolve them or have my box re-imaged. I'm fine with that."
DEvelopers... oh im sure you are perfectly FINE with it, but its not you who has to waste his time re imaging a machine now is it>?
We had one developer join a few months ago. The first day his machine was owned. I said ok, your a dev you have admin rights, be careful, etc.. Reimaged his machine.
2 days later, owned again. So owned it just bluescreens on startup. I say, Ok sorry have to lock down the machine now. Developer complains he cant install shit. Management directs me to give him admin access again. I do and his machine is again owned within a week.
After that i had a talk with management about how much time he was wasting me and now they dont listen to him anymore. Moral? dont just assume 'lalala ill do whatever i want' because when you DO fuck it up (which you will) who has to fix it? me.
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brilliant post.
Thats a pretty bad example in the end (winmodem) and you did sware an awful lot.
Its kinda like asking why some windows program wont work on linux, well, it wasnt designed to.
Not saying that didnt happen the way you said it did, but for god sakes its a win modem. Next youll be complaining that the KIA you just baught doesnt have the acceleration of a big block 454. You did after all, initally buy a WINMODEM right? whoes fault is that? sony's? you becuase you didnt know what you were buying? microsoft for inventing such a thing?
And for the record i have a USB floppy drive from an imac and it does work in linux out of the box (although it is activated in the bios becuase it also works in dos) so maybe it was your issue.
Did you try turning it off, and then on again?
Your only reward need be the smile on small childrens faces.
You know what? I would love to be able to pay more for metered bandwidth, or have it based on use (liek electricity) but ISP's would NEVER do that. Then they try and charge you 4x the amount for a business connection instead (see parent). The reason they would never do it is the rely on people wasting their bandwidth. They sell uber fast highspeed! to everyone, but they count on people using it less. If people use less electricity, they pay less. Its metered. You only pay for what you use. So you would have a situation where most of the users would have an isp bill of less than $10 (they just check email right), instead of the regular $50 a month flat. Obviously this is not in the interests of the isp.
The charging people flat rate cuts both ways. Would you want a flat rate monthly gas charge? its for POWER drivers! the only catch is you can only drive a car with less than 50hp or your an abuser of the system.. Did you not realize that 'power' and 'unlimited' actually mean the oposite of their classical meanings?
shame on you...
I watched a documentary about banking and the federal reserve and they claimed that for every $1 that a person puts into a bank, the bank, through various invisible hands, counts it as $1000 to lend out/invest or whatever. I firmly believe that if everyone knew how little actual real money is in the system there would be a massive collapse of society.
"I have had to resort to blocking popular bittorrent ports on my linksys router just to keep the 5MBit cable connection from choking."
wow your crappy off the shelf router cant handle many concurrent connections so you blame the protocol. Funny, my smoothwall handles 1000s of connections fine. I know for a fact that alot of Dlink products are capped at about 50 concurrent connections im sure linksys has a similar restriction. A friend of mine who used to work a dlink tech support told me this. What your describing is probably not bandwidth related, unless of corse they are simply using all the bandwidth. If that was the case, perhaps a program like netlimiter on their PC's would do it. Otherwise you have to get some sort of traffic shaping/qos device.
Those crappy soho routers arent meant to do anything that a power user or business would do. Thats why you gotta go pro ($$$) or roll your own (smoothwall, dubbele, etc).
"I was enjoying walking around killing low level creatures when two idiots (who I did report)"
/ignore command. People who report are like jail house snitches and should be the ones who are banned. If you cant deal with someone in the context of the game, dont go whining to the GMs and have their accounts closed. Thats very juvenile and im really glad your not part of the game world. Most reporters get weeded out by 60 anyways as they get known to be the whiney little bitches that they are.
wow. I guess you dont see the irony of posting that. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. If people didnt report others, then this kind of stupid shit wouldnt happen. Were those people really bothering you? Are words -not even specifically directed at you - a reason to get someone suspended or banned? There is a reason you have the
"but I think that there are significantly more than 0.2% of WOW accounts involved in "gold farming and cheating in general"."
Really? how much evidence do you have? where are the hard numbers? whats that? you have no numbers? you just pulled that statement out of your ass?
Sure there are farmers in wow - but thinking that they are some measureable menace on the system is just fearmongering. people (especially on american servers ive noticed) LOVE to claim that the immigrants/farmers/non english speakers, are exploiting and farming and are the cause of everyones money problems.
There is a noticeable amount of hypocracy built into this idea. When an english speaker grinds for days to get some ultra rare drop, hes a hardcore game player and should be looked upon as someone who worked really hard for something that they wanted. But, when a non english speaker does the same, hes a farmer.
Blizzard is racist and overly cruel to its users. If you ever had to deal with GMs you would have realized this long ago. There is no farming conspiracy that is destroying wow. its all in peoples heads.
"I would really like to see a free Windows OS "Core" kernal system"
That already exsists. Its called win2k.
"your employer has the right, actually the responsibility, to make demands of you."
Im my country, taxes that fund scientific research are payed into by me and my fellow citizens. Who is the employer of your public servants? not the public?
"We really need to start working to educate these governments about pollution, and the environment. If only a few western countries cut back on pollution where will it get us if China is belching out billions of tons of pollution every day?"
That will be in 10 years when americans realize that there is real æffects from global warming and try to get the new usa (china) to cut their emissions. China will cry that it will "hurt their economy" and continue poluting. Then america will have come full circle and hopefully this irony will not be lost on the american people.
Um no he was addicted to Meth.
he was having like multiple daily injections from his private doctor and THATS why he lost the war.
I think what he was trying to get at was that this study is really fuckign stupid.
Did they ask them whether they thought it was ok for gays to marry? or whether pre marital sex is an ok choice?
i dont see why not since they seem to be linking all sorts of random shit together. this whole article is sensationalist nothing trying to be meaningful something. Its like asking people to play a game of basketball and then getting their opinion on the italian election. These things are so far removed from having anything to do with eachother that you wonder what the creators were smoking. Was the creator of this study really high? that usually makes you link together all sorts of random concepts so it seems quite likely...
Thats retarded. Spam you should get 50 years but virus writing?
parent is obviously scared by computers and computer crime. news flash, all computers have some sort of security problem. you cant lock people up and think that will solve all the computer security problems so you can sleep well at night. people who are clueless about computers advocate such hard line policies. its ignorance and fear and wanting to do something -anything- no matter how completely irrelevant and meaningless that action is.
Then i read:
Hmm, so my high quality HDTV rips finish downloading at the same time their low quality flash/rm/wmv video files are "available" for streaming*, and they have commercials?
Sorry abc, your not quite there yet. good try though.
*i would never believe they would let me download and archive the copies. if thats true ill eat my hat.
it stripped my greater than sign further down as well.. weird.
"Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass "Halo killer." It's next-gen Duck Hunt. "
I cant be the only one thought that duck hunt owned, and that halo was just a scripted version of counterstrike, can i?
whats with all this duck hunt hate? that game was AWESOME...
when was the last time you played a light gun FPS? SNES? its about time another one came along. just like the arcades, except you dont have to pay 2$ for 5 minutes of play.
what the fuck is a nerd?
jesus everyone on slashdot is NOT THE SAME
slashdot is a site for internet people. people on the internet love to laugh at stupid things.
its really not some big moral issue. its just some stupid fat kid with a light saber.
so heres some reflections on this topic from my perspective:
1. starwars is lame, and will always be lame. i never liked starwars and dont get what the hell people see in it. there are many far far greater scifi stories.
2. fat people need to exercise. genetics or lazyness is an excuse. if you get made fun of because your fat YOU DESERVE IT. get in shape or start wearing hiwaian shirts - in other words DEAL -
3. dont VIDEOTAPE yourself doing something if you dont want to watch it again someday.
4. suing people for mental anguish is really lame. be a man like the columbine kids and shoot them in the face.
it would be nice if the groupthink was along those lines but im not holding my breath.
"Vapourous water = Clouds
More clouds = Less sunlight getting through
Less sunlight = lower temperature"
Thats well and good but you need particulate matter to form clouds. If the theory of global dimming (why isnt this mentioned more?) is correct, the more we clean the environment the hotter it gets. This is the same reason that there was percieved to be an ice age upon us in the 70s. Lots of big block engines pouring out crap, reflecting/blocking the sun.
I agree 100%. The americans are taking our money and harper, if he had any balls, would slap them down. Money that could be put into the canadian economy. Everyone who voted for harper that i knew thought that he would fight the americans. They almost had me convinced. A few more episodes like this and we will see how spineless the conservatives really are. Oh well. We'll have the last laugh when they are paying us $200/bbl for oil (or water depending on the mystical futar!).
Oh i had no idea that all laws were exactly EQUAL and we have to follow every law no matter what or we are basically morally bankrupt souls.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. Here i was using my own sets of morals instead of ones mandated to me by the state. I have seen the error of my ways now and will only do what the corporate backed plutocracy tells me i can do.
thanks tex!
Yeah wow nice troll buddy but it more likely will go like this:
Anti-**AA lawyer "Your Honor, These *.AA people are threatening lawsuits all up in here. They have no evidence. They should make their peace.."
Judge - "Wow.. your right. Case dismisssed!"
*.AA - " but but PIRATES!!"
Judge - "Pirates sail the sea son, now take your extortion racket and leave town"
*.AA - * whine whine lumbering dinosuar of the old world noises *
Judge - "Thats it motherfuckers, you going down!!"
*Judge pulls out sawed off shotty and jumps up on his bench*
Judge - " Pistol grip pump motherfuckers!! "
* *.AA lawyers head asplode *
* Lawyer falls down, a crimson fountain coats everything in recently depreasureized blood. A leather satchel falls to the floor *
Judge - "Well now you dirty slime-yer, whats this?"
* Judge opens the satchel and a small white kitten tumbles out*
Kitten - "mew!"
Judge - " Those evil bastards, they were going to eat that kitten "
* Anti-**AA lawyer steps onto the severed skull of *.AA lawyer crushing it to dust*
Judge - " your kitten eating hording culture days are over. Set my people free! "
* all the peoples of the world get together and share their collective culture and world peace is declared (also bu$h gets cancer and dies)*
-FIN-
"You know all those "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS" signs you see all over? What do you think they mean, numbnuts?"
i dunno cockfucker because ive never seen one of those signs. you see i drive in a city not the backwoods trash one lane highways that you drive on. if its a 2 and up lane highway the fast lane is the left lane and the right lane is the slow lane, motherfucker!
"Social Security (might not be worried about that if congress had not borrowed money from it.)"
You do realize that the reason bushitler wants everyone to privately invest is to dump a large number of inexperienced investors ($$$) into the market. Wide eyed dreamers with fistfulls of cash, ready to be ravaged by the ones who play the game for a living. He has sold it by giving you "personal responsibility" which is a very empowering phrase, especially to americans. They will be ripe to practically give their money to the more experienced folk, thus making the rich richer in advance of the coming collapse of the US dollar. This is also why he has made it harder to declare bankruptcy. They see what is coming and are positioning their resources. The common man simply hasn't a clue, or a chance.
"This means that if something I install causes problems, I have to resolve them or have my box re-imaged. I'm fine with that."
DEvelopers... oh im sure you are perfectly FINE with it, but its not you who has to waste his time re imaging a machine now is it>?
We had one developer join a few months ago. The first day his machine was owned. I said ok, your a dev you have admin rights, be careful, etc.. Reimaged his machine.
2 days later, owned again. So owned it just bluescreens on startup. I say, Ok sorry have to lock down the machine now. Developer complains he cant install shit. Management directs me to give him admin access again. I do and his machine is again owned within a week.
After that i had a talk with management about how much time he was wasting me and now they dont listen to him anymore. Moral? dont just assume 'lalala ill do whatever i want' because when you DO fuck it up (which you will) who has to fix it? me.