I'm a huge fan of HL and its mods, but I get bored quickly with single player games... I want multiplayer.
I'm the other way around. I don't like multiplayer games; I prefer single player games. That's largely due to the fact that when I play a game, I want to immerse myself in a story, in an adventure and -most importantly- detach from the rest of the world for a while. I don't want to have to search for servers that have players on them that aren't immature/idiots/jerks, I just want to be able to turn on the game and GO. Also, in multiplayer scenarios like CS:Source, there's no story to follow whatsoever. There's nowhere to go...just run around and frag each other. For me that gets boring very quickly. One of the things I enjoy most about games are the varied environments and the adventure of finding out what's around the next corner, behind the next door or in the next town.
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I don't think that Gentoo is a "pure geek-OS" at all however I will admit that there are a lot of "geeks" who use Gentoo. That is neither here nor there, though, as everyone has a right to their own opinion.
It was not my intention to provide false information about Mandrake at all, I was simply relating my experience with it and since it was my direct experience, I fail to see how what I said was false in any way. I tried Mandrake, Suse, Fedora and finally Gentoo (which I stuck with) and found Mandrake to be the slowest of them all. Perhaps I should have said "YMMV"?
I highly doubt that Mandrake has been the fastest since 1998...perhaps the fastest of the rpm based distros? Or maybe there is some other voodoo that makes it so in your world that I am unaware of...?
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I tried out Mandrake and I found it to be rather slow even on a 2.4 GHz P4. Having gone to Mandrake straight from FreeBSD, I thought maybe it was just that Linux in general was slower, but then I found Gentoo which had none of the speed problems of Mandrake. I've heard from others that Mandrake is just slow in general so I don't think it was just me.
This is what I've always thought for myself. I can function in the "normal" 9-5 day but definitely not at my peak. Whenever I don't have to go to work the next day, my natural schedule begins to immediately revert to being awake from roughly 2 or 3pm until 4 or 5am. It just happens and I'm not sure why. People have said that I would one day get used to getting up early once my internal clock readjusts itself, but I've had this job for almost five years and I'm no more used to getting up at 7am now than I was then! It still sucks. Even if I can manage to get to sleep by 11 or so.
I function best in the afternoons and the evenings. The early am hours are "me time" where I can write music, write, read in peace and quiet, etc. Maybe it's just that I prefer the peacefulness of the night time rather than a biological quirk but it's hard to tell.
It seems to me that relationships that are purely online are destined to fail (same as long-distance relationships) over time. "Damaged" may be a harsh term, but I have to wonder about the sanity of anyone that would date someone who is obsessed as this man obviously is. He clearly has no concern for his own health and if he has so little concern for himself, how can he properly care for another person? Obsession in any form is not a healthy thing which leads me to question his sanity and, by proxy, hers.
But take all this with a bag of salt because it is just my view and it takes all kinds to make the world go around.
"After about four stores, the coffee loses all taste," says Winter, who's unconcerned about any long-term effects of so much coffee. "It doesn't taste good at all--I'm not enjoying drinking it. After an extreme number of stores, I have to wash out the taste with water after every sip because it's starting to make me sick."
He's acting just like a drug addict but in his case his drug of choice just happens to be legal. He sleeps in his car in parking lots, he zips from dealer to dealer all day long in order to get his next fix which he doesn't even enjoy and he works just enough to support his habit. Yup, sounds like druggie behavior to me (i.e. "gotta go work more so I can make more money to buy more drugs so I can work more and make more money to buy drugs so I can work more", etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum).
The thing that stuns me is that he has a girlfriend that's dated him online for six months! What the hell must be her damage and what the hell is wrong with him that he'd rather keep visiting these sterile shops peddling their mediocre coffee than spend time with her?! This man needs an intervention to help him get his priorities in order.
What keeps me off Windows? It's simple really, and has nothing to do with the cost or the politics or any of that sort of thing. I simply prefer the environment that I get with *nix systems (not being specific because I sometimes switch around to see what other releases/distributions are about). I like to know what's going on under the hood of my os. Windows machines are too obfuscated and it is often too difficult to tell what is going on with them. I'm a tinkerer and I like to learn how things work. Windows makes this very difficult. Since I began to leave the world of Windows behind a few years ago, I've learned much more about computers and how they work than I ever did using Windows for several years. Overall, I just find the BSD/Linux world to be more fun, more interesting and much more educational.
That said, I do still have one lonely box running Windows XP that I keep around for games and sequencing software and I actually do like it. It's pretty simple to use and is my most stable Windows yet (although I suppose that's something on the order of being the valedictorian of summer school, I'll admit).
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I'm a huge fan of HL and its mods, but I get bored quickly with single player games... I want multiplayer.
I'm the other way around. I don't like multiplayer games; I prefer single player games. That's largely due to the fact that when I play a game, I want to immerse myself in a story, in an adventure and -most importantly- detach from the rest of the world for a while. I don't want to have to search for servers that have players on them that aren't immature/idiots/jerks, I just want to be able to turn on the game and GO. Also, in multiplayer scenarios like CS:Source, there's no story to follow whatsoever. There's nowhere to go...just run around and frag each other. For me that gets boring very quickly. One of the things I enjoy most about games are the varied environments and the adventure of finding out what's around the next corner, behind the next door or in the next town.
I don't think that Gentoo is a "pure geek-OS" at all however I will admit that there are a lot of "geeks" who use Gentoo. That is neither here nor there, though, as everyone has a right to their own opinion.
It was not my intention to provide false information about Mandrake at all, I was simply relating my experience with it and since it was my direct experience, I fail to see how what I said was false in any way. I tried Mandrake, Suse, Fedora and finally Gentoo (which I stuck with) and found Mandrake to be the slowest of them all. Perhaps I should have said "YMMV"?
I highly doubt that Mandrake has been the fastest since 1998...perhaps the fastest of the rpm based distros? Or maybe there is some other voodoo that makes it so in your world that I am unaware of...?
I tried out Mandrake and I found it to be rather slow even on a 2.4 GHz P4. Having gone to Mandrake straight from FreeBSD, I thought maybe it was just that Linux in general was slower, but then I found Gentoo which had none of the speed problems of Mandrake. I've heard from others that Mandrake is just slow in general so I don't think it was just me.
This is what I've always thought for myself. I can function in the "normal" 9-5 day but definitely not at my peak. Whenever I don't have to go to work the next day, my natural schedule begins to immediately revert to being awake from roughly 2 or 3pm until 4 or 5am. It just happens and I'm not sure why. People have said that I would one day get used to getting up early once my internal clock readjusts itself, but I've had this job for almost five years and I'm no more used to getting up at 7am now than I was then! It still sucks. Even if I can manage to get to sleep by 11 or so.
I function best in the afternoons and the evenings. The early am hours are "me time" where I can write music, write, read in peace and quiet, etc. Maybe it's just that I prefer the peacefulness of the night time rather than a biological quirk but it's hard to tell.
It seems to me that relationships that are purely online are destined to fail (same as long-distance relationships) over time. "Damaged" may be a harsh term, but I have to wonder about the sanity of anyone that would date someone who is obsessed as this man obviously is. He clearly has no concern for his own health and if he has so little concern for himself, how can he properly care for another person? Obsession in any form is not a healthy thing which leads me to question his sanity and, by proxy, hers.
But take all this with a bag of salt because it is just my view and it takes all kinds to make the world go around.
"After about four stores, the coffee loses all taste," says Winter, who's unconcerned about any long-term effects of so much coffee. "It doesn't taste good at all--I'm not enjoying drinking it. After an extreme number of stores, I have to wash out the taste with water after every sip because it's starting to make me sick."
He's acting just like a drug addict but in his case his drug of choice just happens to be legal. He sleeps in his car in parking lots, he zips from dealer to dealer all day long in order to get his next fix which he doesn't even enjoy and he works just enough to support his habit. Yup, sounds like druggie behavior to me (i.e. "gotta go work more so I can make more money to buy more drugs so I can work more and make more money to buy drugs so I can work more", etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum).
The thing that stuns me is that he has a girlfriend that's dated him online for six months! What the hell must be her damage and what the hell is wrong with him that he'd rather keep visiting these sterile shops peddling their mediocre coffee than spend time with her?! This man needs an intervention to help him get his priorities in order.
What keeps me off Windows? It's simple really, and has nothing to do with the cost or the politics or any of that sort of thing. I simply prefer the environment that I get with *nix systems (not being specific because I sometimes switch around to see what other releases/distributions are about). I like to know what's going on under the hood of my os. Windows machines are too obfuscated and it is often too difficult to tell what is going on with them. I'm a tinkerer and I like to learn how things work. Windows makes this very difficult. Since I began to leave the world of Windows behind a few years ago, I've learned much more about computers and how they work than I ever did using Windows for several years. Overall, I just find the BSD/Linux world to be more fun, more interesting and much more educational.
That said, I do still have one lonely box running Windows XP that I keep around for games and sequencing software and I actually do like it. It's pretty simple to use and is my most stable Windows yet (although I suppose that's something on the order of being the valedictorian of summer school, I'll admit).