I hate to be one of those nit-picking jerks, but Odin hanged himself for nine days, as in:
I know that I hung on a high windy tree for nine long nights; I had a spear wound -- that was my work -- I struck myself... They brought me no bread, no horn to drink from... Crying aloud, I seized the runes; finally I fell... Thus I learned the secret lore, prospered and waxed in wisdom...
And I agree, a great many of the epic myths and sagas would make for awesome games.... but knowing the game companies, there'd be an advert for shoes in the middle of the Trojan War ("Are your shoes more comfortable than these?" -- points to soldiers' sandals -- "If not, maybe you should try our brand!").
Not if I'm paying for it -- then the part I'm paying for is mine. It's bullshit excuses like "it's their network/content/whatever" that makes sure that the people paying for it have no rights whatsoever, not even the right to get what they're paying for.
It really needs to be able to actually play videos better. Many non-HD videos look very pixellated playing Miro, whereas they look smooth as butter playing in Media Player Classic. Since MPC is open source nowadays, why can't the Miro devs incorporate its video-playing capabilities into Miro?
How are end-users to blame for ActiveX? Or the.wmf vulnerability? Or just the general fact that Windows allows remote computers to put settings in the registry without the user's consent? Oh, sure, there's plenty that can be done about these flaws, and MS finally patched the.wmf vulnerability after several years, but the fact that these "features" are there in the first place show that security was way down the list of priorities for a long time. If security had been a priority at all, at the very least allowing registry changes, running Active X or a.wmf would have required the user to input the admin password, just like in the entire world of Unix years before Dos even existed.
Dunno about elk, but it sure reminds me of Slashdot. I've sometimes seen as many thirty-five comments arguing over the tiniest detail in a parent post. Needless to say, I didn't bother reading many of them, I just counted for the sake of amusement at other peoples' anal-retentiveness.
Exactly. Don't get me wrong, I love Debian, but I've sen them do the same thing more than once. Remeber ProgenyDebian? Can't recall what it's called now. More recently there was GenieOS, originally called DebianPure. And if I'm not mistaken, there was something about another project using Debian's genie logo; I'm surprised they haven't decided that GenieOS's genie logo is too similar to theirs as well. They've got no room to be griping if they do.
The "Easy Bake Oven" case mod may be the problem with your frequent hard drive problems.
Amusingly phrased, but possibly true. I got a huge case running with 5 fans in it right now and have no overheating problems. As the posters above me, said, cooling is very important. But some cases are bad when it comes to coolig; you don't just need more fans, you need something roomy enough for the air to circulate. As another said though, getting a good PSU is also important. A bad PSU can fuck your hard drive, motherboard, you name it. If it's bad enough to be screwing parts up like that it could also catch fire -- Sony batteries aren't the only dangerous power supplies.
Agreed -- you're having a terrible run of bad luck with drives. But I wouldn't say the warranties are worthless. I once got a DeskStar drive with bad sectors. I returned it, got a replacement in three weeks and the replacement is still working fine. This was in 2003 and DeskStars are supposed to suck. I have a 20 gig Seagate from 2001 that is also still working fine. My neighbhor has me beat on that; she has an OLD 7 gig Seagate that still works perfectly. These days, I mostly get Western Digital drives and I've yet to have a problem with any of them (knocks on wooden desk).
Considering the bad luck you're having, I recommend you buy from Newegg.com and avoid any drives marked with a 30-day warranty only. You might even consider getting the service plan with it ($14.99 for 1 year & $19.99 for 2 years). I'm not a schill for Newegg though, so if anyone knows of a place that beats them, please post it. I'd really love to know.
Damn, I didn't know that was what/. was for. I need to get new batteries for my vibrator. Uh, btw, where is there anything worth masturbating to on this site? I don't see any tied-up, helpless pretty boys or anything....
(Just because I like Linux doesn't mean I think everything Torvalds says is golden. Also, I only bothered to read this because I'm that bored while I wait for the liquor store to open -- for some stupid reason they don't open on Saturday until noon.)
A person's ethics don't change a whole lot after their childhood
You need to get to know more people. I personally know no less than 4 who definitely changed their behavior in the ethical sense since childhood; I'm not exaggerating. Two of tem are a couple, in fact -- having a little girl made all the difference in the world with them. The other two simply grew up. Some people actually do grow up. People who say people don't change from childhood are often those who didn't themselves.
Get into a project that you want to do. Where what you're working on is your work. Even if you're not being paid for it and can only do a few hours worth on the weekends, when you finish the first project you might feel a lot better about what you do. Then the job is what keeps you where you are so you can do the work you love; it may suck, but then it becomes worth it.
Same here, our new box is a socket 939 with a 3800+. We could have gotten an AM2, but there were three reasons not to. Firstly, price; the 939 processor was much cheaper. Secondly, because AM2 is still pretty new, there weren't as many choices. Thirdly, customer reviews matter a lot to us and there weren't that many reviews for the new AM2, so we went with the platform that had proven itself reliable rather than going with the new platform which hadn't yet.
Thanks for the pics. I didn't see that show, as I rarely watch TV nowadays.
As a KDE fan, what strikes me about it is how little the setup has been personalized; that appears to be a straight out of the box install. The first thing I do is resize the bottom panel (but I do leave it on the bottom). After I apt-get the other apps I want, I set up a secondary panel on the left side with my favorite shortcuts and put it on auto-hide. Then I get rid of the icons on the desktop. I think they're missing the point of KDE in a way: customizability. It's too bad, because I don't think this really helps KDE in any way. If they had shown her setting up her workspace to her preference, at least just a little bit, that would've been a better pat on the back to the KDE team and shown why some of us love it so much.
Btw, I'm a woman too. But I'll leave the "hot" judgment to my husband, who doesn't post on/. I'm the nerd, he's the gamer.
The average Windows user isn't caring about or using what XP TRULY does different than 98SE except it looks better.
That's not true. What I heard more than anything else from the people using XP when it was new was that it wasn't crashing all the time and didn't need rebooting so often. (Of course, all that is true of 2000 as well, but these people were upgrading from 98.) Looks came in about third; stability was what experienced Windows people talked about the most. Believe me, I remember it well, as I was considering upgrading from 98 then myself as I was sick of its instability and everyone encouraged me to, but then I upgraded to 2000 -- after which, my response was, meh, cutesy interface, so what.
Nevertheless, we wound up getting XP early this year because there are a few high-powered games that require XP that my husband just had to have *rolleyes*. (I mainly use the computer for graphics & picture editing; imagine my surprise when I found that some of my favorite apps work better with 2000 than XP, even though those apps came out after XP!) But that brings up another point in the anti-Vista argument -- look how long it was after XP came out that there were XP-only games from game companies besides MS itself. People say only Vista will have DX10, but any game company would have to be out of their minds to trade the XP user base for the new Vista user base. And frankly, posts you see on every forum show how little interest there is in Vista; it's not just/., it's everywhere. Vista just doesn't offer enough compelling features to make XP users want to upgrade. Of course, new pre-made computers will come with Vista, but more people already have computers than in the XP days, so widespread adoption of Vista is definitely going to be slower than it was for XP.
I haven't gotten a new cd since Christmas last year, and that was a gift to me, not one I bought myself. Nor have I traded songs. I never needed to -- I already had almost all the music I wanted when I got internet access in 2001. I like blues and classic rock, so most of the artists I want to listen to are dead. Sure, since 2001 I've bought a few cds at Amazon.com, but that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 in 5 years, I guess. All of the music files on my computer were ripped from my cds. They claim that makes me a thief, ripping files from cds I legally purchased? Tough. I'd have to be an absolute fool to give a damn about pleasing them since they're not doing anything for me.
So this is an issue that pretty much doesn't apply to me. But with their draconiuan tactics, even if a blues-rock guitarist as good as Hendrix were to suddenly be singed by a company in the RIAA I wouldn't buy his or her cds. Just because they want to screw me doesn't mean I'm going to bend over for it. That's the RIAA's real problem -- they want to screw people over for as much as possible and keep saying they're losing money, but who in their right mind cares about them? They've made it blatantly clear that they're going to screw you over even more if you support them; they're not offering you anything in return for supporting them in any way.
There was a time when I would've agreed that was a possibility but I think those days are over. There's a great deal of tension between MS and Symantec right now, with Symantec being in a tizzy over Vista's security center. No, this is just self-serving; IE has more critical vulnerabilities than any other browser, yet they publish a misleading lower number of known vulnerabilities to get people to use it instead.
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I hate to be one of those nit-picking jerks, but Odin hanged himself for nine days, as in:
I know that I hung on a high windy tree for nine long nights;
I had a spear wound -- that was my work -- I struck myself...
They brought me no bread, no horn to drink from...
Crying aloud, I seized the runes; finally I fell...
Thus I learned the secret lore, prospered and waxed in wisdom...
And I agree, a great many of the epic myths and sagas would make for awesome games.... but knowing the game companies, there'd be an advert for shoes in the middle of the Trojan War ("Are your shoes more comfortable than these?" -- points to soldiers' sandals -- "If not, maybe you should try our brand!").
It really needs to be able to actually play videos better. Many non-HD videos look very pixellated playing Miro, whereas they look smooth as butter playing in Media Player Classic. Since MPC is open source nowadays, why can't the Miro devs incorporate its video-playing capabilities into Miro?
How are end-users to blame for ActiveX? Or the .wmf vulnerability? Or just the general fact that Windows allows remote computers to put settings in the registry without the user's consent? Oh, sure, there's plenty that can be done about these flaws, and MS finally patched the .wmf vulnerability after several years, but the fact that these "features" are there in the first place show that security was way down the list of priorities for a long time. If security had been a priority at all, at the very least allowing registry changes, running Active X or a .wmf would have required the user to input the admin password, just like in the entire world of Unix years before Dos even existed.
That's what I wondered... at the end of May, so it's old news now. And yes, I submitted it as a story, but it was rejected.
Btw, bye.
Someone painted him?
Dunno about elk, but it sure reminds me of Slashdot. I've sometimes seen as many thirty-five comments arguing over the tiniest detail in a parent post. Needless to say, I didn't bother reading many of them, I just counted for the sake of amusement at other peoples' anal-retentiveness.
Exactly. Don't get me wrong, I love Debian, but I've sen them do the same thing more than once. Remeber ProgenyDebian? Can't recall what it's called now. More recently there was GenieOS, originally called DebianPure. And if I'm not mistaken, there was something about another project using Debian's genie logo; I'm surprised they haven't decided that GenieOS's genie logo is too similar to theirs as well. They've got no room to be griping if they do.
Amusingly phrased, but possibly true. I got a huge case running with 5 fans in it right now and have no overheating problems. As the posters above me, said, cooling is very important. But some cases are bad when it comes to coolig; you don't just need more fans, you need something roomy enough for the air to circulate. As another said though, getting a good PSU is also important. A bad PSU can fuck your hard drive, motherboard, you name it. If it's bad enough to be screwing parts up like that it could also catch fire -- Sony batteries aren't the only dangerous power supplies.
Agreed -- you're having a terrible run of bad luck with drives. But I wouldn't say the warranties are worthless. I once got a DeskStar drive with bad sectors. I returned it, got a replacement in three weeks and the replacement is still working fine. This was in 2003 and DeskStars are supposed to suck. I have a 20 gig Seagate from 2001 that is also still working fine. My neighbhor has me beat on that; she has an OLD 7 gig Seagate that still works perfectly. These days, I mostly get Western Digital drives and I've yet to have a problem with any of them (knocks on wooden desk).
Considering the bad luck you're having, I recommend you buy from Newegg.com and avoid any drives marked with a 30-day warranty only. You might even consider getting the service plan with it ($14.99 for 1 year & $19.99 for 2 years). I'm not a schill for Newegg though, so if anyone knows of a place that beats them, please post it. I'd really love to know.
Damn, I didn't know that was what /. was for. I need to get new batteries for my vibrator. Uh, btw, where is there anything worth masturbating to on this site? I don't see any tied-up, helpless pretty boys or anything....
(Just because I like Linux doesn't mean I think everything Torvalds says is golden. Also, I only bothered to read this because I'm that bored while I wait for the liquor store to open -- for some stupid reason they don't open on Saturday until noon.)
Same here, our new box is a socket 939 with a 3800+. We could have gotten an AM2, but there were three reasons not to. Firstly, price; the 939 processor was much cheaper. Secondly, because AM2 is still pretty new, there weren't as many choices. Thirdly, customer reviews matter a lot to us and there weren't that many reviews for the new AM2, so we went with the platform that had proven itself reliable rather than going with the new platform which hadn't yet.
Most Slashdotters are knowledgable enough to use ad-blockers with a browser like Firefox. Have you heard anything about CowboyNeal going broke?
Hmmm, some people might wonder why you want to know...
(j/k)
Thanks for the pics. I didn't see that show, as I rarely watch TV nowadays.
As a KDE fan, what strikes me about it is how little the setup has been personalized; that appears to be a straight out of the box install. The first thing I do is resize the bottom panel (but I do leave it on the bottom). After I apt-get the other apps I want, I set up a secondary panel on the left side with my favorite shortcuts and put it on auto-hide. Then I get rid of the icons on the desktop. I think they're missing the point of KDE in a way: customizability. It's too bad, because I don't think this really helps KDE in any way. If they had shown her setting up her workspace to her preference, at least just a little bit, that would've been a better pat on the back to the KDE team and shown why some of us love it so much.
Btw, I'm a woman too. But I'll leave the "hot" judgment to my husband, who doesn't post on /. I'm the nerd, he's the gamer.
You don't think that OS X runs only on Apple hardware (without hacking it) has anything to do with that?
That's not true. What I heard more than anything else from the people using XP when it was new was that it wasn't crashing all the time and didn't need rebooting so often. (Of course, all that is true of 2000 as well, but these people were upgrading from 98.) Looks came in about third; stability was what experienced Windows people talked about the most. Believe me, I remember it well, as I was considering upgrading from 98 then myself as I was sick of its instability and everyone encouraged me to, but then I upgraded to 2000 -- after which, my response was, meh, cutesy interface, so what.
Nevertheless, we wound up getting XP early this year because there are a few high-powered games that require XP that my husband just had to have *rolleyes*. (I mainly use the computer for graphics & picture editing; imagine my surprise when I found that some of my favorite apps work better with 2000 than XP, even though those apps came out after XP!) But that brings up another point in the anti-Vista argument -- look how long it was after XP came out that there were XP-only games from game companies besides MS itself. People say only Vista will have DX10, but any game company would have to be out of their minds to trade the XP user base for the new Vista user base. And frankly, posts you see on every forum show how little interest there is in Vista; it's not justOf reported cases. How many have went unreported? I know I've had to deal with a couple that weren't reported.
I haven't gotten a new cd since Christmas last year, and that was a gift to me, not one I bought myself. Nor have I traded songs. I never needed to -- I already had almost all the music I wanted when I got internet access in 2001. I like blues and classic rock, so most of the artists I want to listen to are dead. Sure, since 2001 I've bought a few cds at Amazon.com, but that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 in 5 years, I guess. All of the music files on my computer were ripped from my cds. They claim that makes me a thief, ripping files from cds I legally purchased? Tough. I'd have to be an absolute fool to give a damn about pleasing them since they're not doing anything for me.
So this is an issue that pretty much doesn't apply to me. But with their draconiuan tactics, even if a blues-rock guitarist as good as Hendrix were to suddenly be singed by a company in the RIAA I wouldn't buy his or her cds. Just because they want to screw me doesn't mean I'm going to bend over for it. That's the RIAA's real problem -- they want to screw people over for as much as possible and keep saying they're losing money, but who in their right mind cares about them? They've made it blatantly clear that they're going to screw you over even more if you support them; they're not offering you anything in return for supporting them in any way.
There was a time when I would've agreed that was a possibility but I think those days are over. There's a great deal of tension between MS and Symantec right now, with Symantec being in a tizzy over Vista's security center. No, this is just self-serving; IE has more critical vulnerabilities than any other browser, yet they publish a misleading lower number of known vulnerabilities to get people to use it instead.