I didn't mean to structure my first sentence to read that my Warcraft reference was the addiction I had, and for that I apologize. This second post of yours is exactly what I am trying to say, but you had originally said that calling warcraft an addiction was an insult to addicts.
Continuing to play when your world falls apart around you, and you know the cause is your WoW playing: Addiction.
Actually WoW was just an example so that I remained on topic, but since you're so willing to try to discredit me rather than discuss the topic at hand, I'll bite. I have been addicted to other things (including cigarettes, second only to heroin in addictive properties and difficulty to quit), and the truth of the matter is YOU CANNOT BECOME "ADDICTED" TO SOMETHING until you do it enough to the point your body begins to be dependent on it (by your description of addiction). You can be habituated to using, and you can tell yourself you need more because it's sooo gooood, but that doesn't mean you are addicted to it.
You were unable to limit yourself until you were physically addicted, but before that point it was no different than warcraft (of course the feeling is different, but if someone hasn't fixed, maybe being lost in warcraft is the best escape they've had). A lack of moderation will lead to addiction faster, but even applying moderation so that you only shoot up once a day, or smoke one cigarette a day, will absolutely lead to addiction.
All the bad shit you did to get more junk after that point is your own problem - it isn't the heroin's fault. Also, doing that evil shit doesn't make it an addiction - some people do all that anyway, plus you don't see as many smokers breaking and entering to support their habit. How can gambling be an addiction if warcraft isn't? Are trying to say someone can't be addicted to gambling? It is a case-by-case basis, and people can be addicted to anything, including jerking off. People cannot become physically addicted to gambling, warcraft, or beating the meat, but that doesn't make them any less of an addiction. Self control is the problem, NOT the warcraft or the junk.
I disagree. I play warcraft, and I know about addiction. It's not like you think to yourself every 10 minutes "Hey... I'm still playing but should stop!" You look up after 3 hours and go "WTF? I thought it had only been an hour!" Part of that is due to the fact that it takes a long time (sometimes) to get even simple things done, thanks to having to run around and fly here/there, etc. Addiction to other substances like alcohol is no different. Based on what you've said, you could say "Why not just avoid pouring another drink?" Being an addict IS being unable to limit yourself. It's mostly about having a problem with reality/sobriety in the first place. It doesn't matter what you are addicted to - be it sex, drugs, or rock'n'roll, baby.
Please leave politics out of this. This has nothing to do with right/left, red/blue, evil/good, etc. As an outside observer, I can honestly and easily say republicans messed up your country most, and your reputation with all other coutries just as much, so don't be so quick to blame your least-favorite of the lying political parties. This has to do with whatever the hell has been crawling up most of the baby-boomers' asses (red or blue) over the past few years...
Michael Guido: '... peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property...'
No they're not. Stealing IP would mean they are ripping the tunes off and claiming they wrote it, like with software. They are simply stealing copies of the recording, which (to some) isn't wrong - not all artists want their music to come with an EULA and hefty price tag. Get the music free, and come pay for a concert ticket if you like what you hear! Now THAT'S the way to go. Copyright-obsessed idiots.
Yep, I agree. I have a MacBook Pro 2Ghz and 256MB VRAM PCI-X Video (with 2GB RAM mind you) but it plays tons of games really well, and has this kind of screen. No windows in sight...
I had less problems with 2k than previous windows, but I would NEVER go so far as to say it's a "rock solid OS" - unless you're not using it on the internet. If you are, it just a matter of time before the problems arise (and if you have a firewall and anti-virus, it will take a lot longer to get messed up, but it will eventually.)
That being said, I understand you are stating that you've had 0 minutes of unscheduled downtime. While I'm not choosing to reply to flame you based on this claim, if you run *nix (mac os, linux, bsd, etc) for a while, you may find you'll redefine "rock solid OS". I have run many different OS's, for many years, and I am not saying this because I hate microsoft's shady businesses practices or their shoddy software, but because it was only after I gave *nix a chance (a fair, fighting chance of more than a month use) that I realized I was letting windows problems completely pass me by because I had grown so accustomed to them. Why pay $300 for a copy of win2k when a free OS can do it with less hassle? (I realize some don't have the technical know how to make a *nix do anything without hassle, so your mileage may vary.) This is meant to be a friendly post urging you to try other things... you may be happy you did as I am!
As a musician, let me explain something. In the rock or underground world, you get paid next to nothing for your CD sales. The record company knows bands are hit-or-miss, so keep all the dough to themselves, letting the band make their money from live shows *if they are widely accepted. This is in contrast to the pop industry, who knows that the pop groups are close to one-hit-wonders, and the "artist" gets paid for their CD and tour as a lump sum. The record company rakes in the profits from the CDs and shows. In most cases, the pop groups are built by the industry for this very rea$on, vs rock groups who create themselves.
I don't think PCs are only good for MMO's. I have 7.1 surround for my PC (cheaper than 5.1 surround for my living room, too) and I like the graphics and mouse/kb better for more than just MMOs. First-person games, of which shooters may be the best known but not the only kind, are much easier and more fun for me at my PC. In fact, I only like consoles better for having people over and playing multiplayer - all other games that I play, even if it's multiplayer, I prefer on the PC.
Do marketing people ever realize that hype can't help a really shitty-looking movie? Like ones with a crap-ass plot, where the laughable CGI snakes (that somehow make it onto a plane, and subsequently get loose) look even worse than the effects in low-budget 80's movies? Do they clue in that adding someone like Samuel L Jackson, a great (if not slightly type-cast) actor, doesn't "up" the movie's rep so much as lower his?? WTF was anyone connected to this bomb thinking? Snakes on a motherf#(ing plane, b|itch!
I used to have this attitude, until I realized you can configure it any way you like - so as long as it's new enough (within 3 years or so), even if you don't *see any buttons, you can actually right-click...
I've been thinking about if George A. Romero were to make an MMO. Imagine one where player characters were few and far between, and there were zombies everywhere. Once in a while you meet a living person (another player) and try to get supplies and/or better weapons, maybe from a mall or something, but then your friend has to log and you're alone and terrified again! It could be cool. Oh, and you don't keep your character. You start as someone trying to survive, and you build up what you have - and if you die, you simply start as someone else at the bottom (it would be easier to live once you have better weapons and more friends, God forbid you run out of ammo with no backup plan - so the longer you play one character the more likely you are to keep them for a lot longer). None of this "death doesn't mean much" crap like most MMO's.
You are correct for some of those more obscure cases, even though in most cases it isn't that hard to port some of those capabilities over. For a single server, I stand by my statement in terms of security. I, like the OpenBSD team, value security and stability over the latest available features.
As I said in another reply, this will be in my room with little airflow, always on, and I want it silent. It will serve SSH/SFTP, Doom 3, Quake 3 & 4, Unreal Tournament 2004, Armagetron Advanced, and a few other things. My room isn't a server farm or a datacenter that needs a storage area network setup, so I feel strongly that OpenBSD can't be beat. Obviously every OS has different features that can be used as ammo in a flame-war over the most useful OS (windows included, sadly), but in reality it's whichever is most useful to you. So I should have said "In My Opinion, you simply cannot beat OpenBSD as a server." But I thought, this being slashdot, it would be assumed that any such quotes are one's opinion in a post.
Awesome! Thanks for the informative reply. Some of this I suspected but wasn't sure, and other points make a lot of sense. I think you've changed my mind on the Y-split!
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I didn't mean to structure my first sentence to read that my Warcraft reference was the addiction I had, and for that I apologize. This second post of yours is exactly what I am trying to say, but you had originally said that calling warcraft an addiction was an insult to addicts.
Continuing to play when your world falls apart around you, and you know the cause is your WoW playing: Addiction.
Exactly.
Actually WoW was just an example so that I remained on topic, but since you're so willing to try to discredit me rather than discuss the topic at hand, I'll bite. I have been addicted to other things (including cigarettes, second only to heroin in addictive properties and difficulty to quit), and the truth of the matter is YOU CANNOT BECOME "ADDICTED" TO SOMETHING until you do it enough to the point your body begins to be dependent on it (by your description of addiction). You can be habituated to using, and you can tell yourself you need more because it's sooo gooood, but that doesn't mean you are addicted to it.
You were unable to limit yourself until you were physically addicted, but before that point it was no different than warcraft (of course the feeling is different, but if someone hasn't fixed, maybe being lost in warcraft is the best escape they've had). A lack of moderation will lead to addiction faster, but even applying moderation so that you only shoot up once a day, or smoke one cigarette a day, will absolutely lead to addiction.
All the bad shit you did to get more junk after that point is your own problem - it isn't the heroin's fault. Also, doing that evil shit doesn't make it an addiction - some people do all that anyway, plus you don't see as many smokers breaking and entering to support their habit. How can gambling be an addiction if warcraft isn't? Are trying to say someone can't be addicted to gambling? It is a case-by-case basis, and people can be addicted to anything, including jerking off. People cannot become physically addicted to gambling, warcraft, or beating the meat, but that doesn't make them any less of an addiction. Self control is the problem, NOT the warcraft or the junk.
I disagree. I play warcraft, and I know about addiction. It's not like you think to yourself every 10 minutes "Hey... I'm still playing but should stop!" You look up after 3 hours and go "WTF? I thought it had only been an hour!" Part of that is due to the fact that it takes a long time (sometimes) to get even simple things done, thanks to having to run around and fly here/there, etc. Addiction to other substances like alcohol is no different. Based on what you've said, you could say "Why not just avoid pouring another drink?" Being an addict IS being unable to limit yourself. It's mostly about having a problem with reality/sobriety in the first place. It doesn't matter what you are addicted to - be it sex, drugs, or rock'n'roll, baby.
Please leave politics out of this. This has nothing to do with right/left, red/blue, evil/good, etc. As an outside observer, I can honestly and easily say republicans messed up your country most, and your reputation with all other coutries just as much, so don't be so quick to blame your least-favorite of the lying political parties. This has to do with whatever the hell has been crawling up most of the baby-boomers' asses (red or blue) over the past few years...
Michael Guido: '... peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property ...'
No they're not. Stealing IP would mean they are ripping the tunes off and claiming they wrote it, like with software. They are simply stealing copies of the recording, which (to some) isn't wrong - not all artists want their music to come with an EULA and hefty price tag. Get the music free, and come pay for a concert ticket if you like what you hear! Now THAT'S the way to go. Copyright-obsessed idiots.
Yeah really. "Land of the Free" my ass. The kids aren't allowed to play tag?! TAG!!?
Yep, I agree. I have a MacBook Pro 2Ghz and 256MB VRAM PCI-X Video (with 2GB RAM mind you) but it plays tons of games really well, and has this kind of screen. No windows in sight...
Yep. Don't forget that you get MUCH faster load times too!
I had less problems with 2k than previous windows, but I would NEVER go so far as to say it's a "rock solid OS" - unless you're not using it on the internet. If you are, it just a matter of time before the problems arise (and if you have a firewall and anti-virus, it will take a lot longer to get messed up, but it will eventually.)
That being said, I understand you are stating that you've had 0 minutes of unscheduled downtime. While I'm not choosing to reply to flame you based on this claim, if you run *nix (mac os, linux, bsd, etc) for a while, you may find you'll redefine "rock solid OS". I have run many different OS's, for many years, and I am not saying this because I hate microsoft's shady businesses practices or their shoddy software, but because it was only after I gave *nix a chance (a fair, fighting chance of more than a month use) that I realized I was letting windows problems completely pass me by because I had grown so accustomed to them. Why pay $300 for a copy of win2k when a free OS can do it with less hassle? (I realize some don't have the technical know how to make a *nix do anything without hassle, so your mileage may vary.) This is meant to be a friendly post urging you to try other things... you may be happy you did as I am!
What about the magnetic field's effect on us? Can we withstand it, or would this be causing massive tumors or something?
As a musician, let me explain something. In the rock or underground world, you get paid next to nothing for your CD sales. The record company knows bands are hit-or-miss, so keep all the dough to themselves, letting the band make their money from live shows *if they are widely accepted. This is in contrast to the pop industry, who knows that the pop groups are close to one-hit-wonders, and the "artist" gets paid for their CD and tour as a lump sum. The record company rakes in the profits from the CDs and shows. In most cases, the pop groups are built by the industry for this very rea$on, vs rock groups who create themselves.
He said pro-patent REFORM, meaning for the change of the current broken patent system
This is kinda off topic, but with regards to the title: Is "pipe-dream" a crack reference?!
I don't think PCs are only good for MMO's. I have 7.1 surround for my PC (cheaper than 5.1 surround for my living room, too) and I like the graphics and mouse/kb better for more than just MMOs. First-person games, of which shooters may be the best known but not the only kind, are much easier and more fun for me at my PC. In fact, I only like consoles better for having people over and playing multiplayer - all other games that I play, even if it's multiplayer, I prefer on the PC.
Marijuana Prohibition is the Alcohol Prohibition of the 21st Century.
Actually, most Angel episodes kick serious ass if you like vampire fiction.
Do marketing people ever realize that hype can't help a really shitty-looking movie? Like ones with a crap-ass plot, where the laughable CGI snakes (that somehow make it onto a plane, and subsequently get loose) look even worse than the effects in low-budget 80's movies? Do they clue in that adding someone like Samuel L Jackson, a great (if not slightly type-cast) actor, doesn't "up" the movie's rep so much as lower his?? WTF was anyone connected to this bomb thinking? Snakes on a motherf#(ing plane, b|itch!
I used to have this attitude, until I realized you can configure it any way you like - so as long as it's new enough (within 3 years or so), even if you don't *see any buttons, you can actually right-click...
lol. (In Brainy Smurf's voice) Technically a spelling mistake has nothing to do with grammer...
I've been thinking about if George A. Romero were to make an MMO. Imagine one where player characters were few and far between, and there were zombies everywhere. Once in a while you meet a living person (another player) and try to get supplies and/or better weapons, maybe from a mall or something, but then your friend has to log and you're alone and terrified again! It could be cool. Oh, and you don't keep your character. You start as someone trying to survive, and you build up what you have - and if you die, you simply start as someone else at the bottom (it would be easier to live once you have better weapons and more friends, God forbid you run out of ammo with no backup plan - so the longer you play one character the more likely you are to keep them for a lot longer). None of this "death doesn't mean much" crap like most MMO's.
You are correct for some of those more obscure cases, even though in most cases it isn't that hard to port some of those capabilities over. For a single server, I stand by my statement in terms of security. I, like the OpenBSD team, value security and stability over the latest available features.
As I said in another reply, this will be in my room with little airflow, always on, and I want it silent. It will serve SSH/SFTP, Doom 3, Quake 3 & 4, Unreal Tournament 2004, Armagetron Advanced, and a few other things. My room isn't a server farm or a datacenter that needs a storage area network setup, so I feel strongly that OpenBSD can't be beat. Obviously every OS has different features that can be used as ammo in a flame-war over the most useful OS (windows included, sadly), but in reality it's whichever is most useful to you. So I should have said "In My Opinion, you simply cannot beat OpenBSD as a server." But I thought, this being slashdot, it would be assumed that any such quotes are one's opinion in a post.
Nice NetBSD sig, btw. And I'm the fanboy?
Awesome! Thanks for the informative reply. Some of this I suspected but wasn't sure, and other points make a lot of sense. I think you've changed my mind on the Y-split!
Actually, pissant, it's going in a closet next to my bed. It will have no airflow, and I want it silent while I sleep.
Oooooooo!! Now THAT'S a whoop-ass idea! Any thoughts on how to accomplish this?!
I already have a MacBook Pro. I love it. You simply cannot beat OpenBSD as a server though.