Well... Last summer was one of the hottest and most summer-like summers in Poland in a couple of decades. Two years back we had a 100-year winter. Right now it's day 10 of -20C temperatures, which is cold - even for Poland.
Hell, even my friends from Finland (-34C) are complaining.
If you mean 'funner' than I'll take issue with you. Counterstrike/Tactical-Ops: AoT are totally different games. Sure, you run and you shoot, but that's about where the similarity ends. Completely different strategies, completely different gameplay. No rocket launchers, jump pads, power ups, respawns, etc. If it was all the same, deathmatch killers should rule the CS/TO:AoT worlds - and they don't.
Lastly, just as this Christmas was hijacked by a consumption fever, so too in 2050, Christmas will be all about presents.
Whatever. This christmas eve was like many a christmas eve before it at my home: lots of people (14) - some I see only on christmas eve, others I see every day, others I hadn't met before; lots of different food (candided beets, herring salad, baked fish, poppyseed cake, etc); a christmas tree; christmas carols.
It lasted about seven hours, from 6pm to 1am, like it usually does. Sure, we had presents, but they sure as hell weren't the centerpiece. Sure, when I was a kid it was mostly about the loot, now it's totally about the love. It's about having a couple of days when nobody needs to make an excuse to get away from everyday chores, and spend time with they people who they want to.
So lay off the bullshit, for a lot of us christmas is much more than presents.
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People are far to paranoid.
To paraphrase Henry Kissinger, 'even the paranoid have enemies'. In every government on earth, people are paid to know. They're paid to know what's going on in their country and in other countries. It's because they make decissions, and knowledge is needed to be able to make good decisions.
It's their job, it what they're paid to do. It's what we, as taxpayers, pay them to do. Could you imagine the outcry if New York got nuked because someone decided that checking out other countries' space travel wasn't important?
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Advertising agencies, media houses - anyone who profits as a go between the sites and advertisers.
Yeah... my two year old, $250 8x4x24 SCSI drive died, so I replaced it with a $55 32x10x40 LG IDE drive. I burned about 800 discs in the SCSI drive and about 300 discs in the IDE drive so far. Even if it craps out tomorrow, I'll still be ahead on my 'high quality' Yamaha drive. And if it doesn't... well, all the better.
One coaster on my LG so far: my computer crashed because of a faulty RAM chip (replaced) while I was burning some backups. The Yamaha gave me quite a few coasters, all thanks to seriously defragmented disc drives and 'great' ideas like doing NLE while I was burning.
First, the Mac looks good - which is important - hell PCs look downright square when placed next to a Mac.
Except for the few times I've burned a CD over the past year, I haven't even seen my computer. Even then I just see its front. I don't give a flying fuck what my computer looks like, just like a whole lot of other people. It's like a boiler or a piece of pipe: it needs to work, work well and be cost effective.
I used to love Macs, envy Macs.
What you forgot to put in your list of differences is stability. MacOS 9.2, that latest before X (only 15% of Mac users have switched) is like Windows 95, before OSR2. It's flaky, has horrible virtual memory managment, trashy networking and is unstable like I couldn't belive. Hell, I managed to crash 2 Macs (a brand new G4 and a G3 Powerbook) 4 times in 15 minutes, so hard they had to be hard reset.
I worked a couple weeks at a Mac shop on a POS Dell celeron-based notebook. Not only did my software (PS, AI, Flash) run with fewer hicups, I didn't have a single crash (Win2k) over those 5-6 weeks. I remember them saving all their work before switching to a mail or ftp program, they'd had so many hang ups and crashes that they were terrified of losing more work.
Right now I own a PC, built totally from comodity parts, upgraded when I could get a good price for something. Right now it has an uptime of 16 days, the last time it went offline was when I removed a broken DVD-ROM drive. All of the parts in this machine (140gb of HDD, x32 burner, SB Live, etc, etc) cost me less than half of what I would have paid for a *USED* G4-833, about a fourth of the price of a new bottom barrel G4.
I make webpages, do animations, produce movies, make music, watch movies, write letters, do professional quality DTP - all on this machine. It works without a hitch, is stable as a rock and quick as a jackrabbit. My friends can't say the same about their Macs, even though they should be able to. See, I wouldn't be mad if my Pinto was breaking down each week, but I'd be pissed if my new Mercedes-Benz had to go in every other day for a tune up.
After ordering and waiting a couple of days sorta contradicts It was cheap, fast and I didnt have to go outside.
Don't get me wrong, when I order something like a TV or DVDs or whatever, I can wait the few days/weeks they take to deliver. On the other hand, when I'm ordering *food* I want it here within 2-3 hours, tops.
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The deathmatch syndrome is a curious thing. People don't play in teams... until the other side plays as a team. I play TO:AoT, which is to Unreal Tournament what CS is to Halflife, and I've seen teams made up of weak players take out crews of *great* individual players. All it takes is strategy, teamwork and training (which is actually quite a lot.)
Wow... I remember when only a few years ago my CD burner cost $200 (Yamaha 8x4x24) and I was paying up to $3-4/blank CD. Good thing nobody bought those! They where too expensive and slow to be of any practical use in the near future!
Yeah... that's exactly why a lot of people refuse to use Redhat x.0, waiting for x.1 or x.2 instead. That's why a lot of people wait months after a new kernel version comes out. And that has to be why we waited forever for the Slashdot engine to be released. Or why Redhat decided to release a beta version of GCC with one of their releases.
And how the hell do you count three years for each release? I remember installing Win2k soon after it's release, at the begining of 2000, now it's nearing the end 2002 and we're on it's third release. Wow, that's one release *per year*, not every three years. And that's not counting WindowsXP.
It's not like there's been a team sitting around since the first implementation of the DVD standard. The CSS key is 40-bit, and that is small enough to brute force. Besides, if they weren't able to get it out of the Xing player, they could've decompiled any of few dozen DVD players out there.
Wow... and to think that I was doing the impossbile by burning CDs while working in Photoshop and Homesite while watching divx compressed movies with a couple of putty, kazaa, edonkey, mirc and bpftp sessions in the background on my P3-866.
Time to call the Weekly World News, we gots a miracle on our hands.
The ONLY thing this will do is prevent Joe Gamer from making a copy for his nephew. Pirate groups break copy protection, no matter if it's SecureRom, SafeDisc or whatever. It's a matter for honor for these guys to break the protection. The harder the protection, the bigger the challenge, the more 'fun' it is. If a crack is lacking someone will make a fix, either from the original group are a competitor.
Generally, the competitive nature of scene makes sure that if something can get cracked and distributed, it will. And the quicker, the better. If these guys think that this will block more than casual and CloneCD piracy, then they need to wake up. Software publishers: stop fucking with your regular users investing truckloads of cash into copy protection, just make software worth buying.
Right now WinXP supports virtual desktops (well, with a M$ Power Toy) and movie editing right out of the box. It can also support 4 users on four machines (1 at each machine) so... what are you complaining about?
Actually... I had RH and dropped it in the name of Debian. I don't need the graphical installer, what I do need is a good packet system and for my money,.deb cannot be beat. I can't remember how much software I couldn't get working from source or rpms that I just apt-geted. Replacing the kernel took me like 3 minutes.
I liked the graphical installers in Mandrake and RH too, but when it comes to actually running the machine (masq/fw/ftp/mail server) Debian is just so much easier.
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Well... Last summer was one of the hottest and most summer-like summers in Poland in a couple of decades. Two years back we had a 100-year winter. Right now it's day 10 of -20C temperatures, which is cold - even for Poland.
Hell, even my friends from Finland (-34C) are complaining.
If you mean 'funner' than I'll take issue with you. Counterstrike/Tactical-Ops: AoT are totally different games. Sure, you run and you shoot, but that's about where the similarity ends. Completely different strategies, completely different gameplay. No rocket launchers, jump pads, power ups, respawns, etc. If it was all the same, deathmatch killers should rule the CS/TO:AoT worlds - and they don't.
Lastly, just as this Christmas was hijacked by a consumption fever, so too in 2050, Christmas will be all about presents.
Whatever. This christmas eve was like many a christmas eve before it at my home: lots of people (14) - some I see only on christmas eve, others I see every day, others I hadn't met before; lots of different food (candided beets, herring salad, baked fish, poppyseed cake, etc); a christmas tree; christmas carols.
It lasted about seven hours, from 6pm to 1am, like it usually does. Sure, we had presents, but they sure as hell weren't the centerpiece. Sure, when I was a kid it was mostly about the loot, now it's totally about the love. It's about having a couple of days when nobody needs to make an excuse to get away from everyday chores, and spend time with they people who they want to.
So lay off the bullshit, for a lot of us christmas is much more than presents.
People are far to paranoid.
To paraphrase Henry Kissinger, 'even the paranoid have enemies'. In every government on earth, people are paid to know. They're paid to know what's going on in their country and in other countries. It's because they make decissions, and knowledge is needed to be able to make good decisions.
It's their job, it what they're paid to do. It's what we, as taxpayers, pay them to do. Could you imagine the outcry if New York got nuked because someone decided that checking out other countries' space travel wasn't important?
Advertising agencies, media houses - anyone who profits as a go between the sites and advertisers.
Yeah, I don't need to try - I've been doing it over the last couple of months under Windows 2000.
Yeah... my two year old, $250 8x4x24 SCSI drive died, so I replaced it with a $55 32x10x40 LG IDE drive. I burned about 800 discs in the SCSI drive and about 300 discs in the IDE drive so far. Even if it craps out tomorrow, I'll still be ahead on my 'high quality' Yamaha drive. And if it doesn't... well, all the better.
One coaster on my LG so far: my computer crashed because of a faulty RAM chip (replaced) while I was burning some backups. The Yamaha gave me quite a few coasters, all thanks to seriously defragmented disc drives and 'great' ideas like doing NLE while I was burning.
The machine sitting next to me is running Debian with a custom kernel. I set it up all by myself.
On the other hand, I could *never* get OS/2 installed.
First, the Mac looks good - which is important - hell PCs look downright square when placed next to a Mac.
Except for the few times I've burned a CD over the past year, I haven't even seen my computer. Even then I just see its front. I don't give a flying fuck what my computer looks like, just like a whole lot of other people. It's like a boiler or a piece of pipe: it needs to work, work well and be cost effective.
I used to love Macs, envy Macs.
What you forgot to put in your list of differences is stability. MacOS 9.2, that latest before X (only 15% of Mac users have switched) is like Windows 95, before OSR2. It's flaky, has horrible virtual memory managment, trashy networking and is unstable like I couldn't belive. Hell, I managed to crash 2 Macs (a brand new G4 and a G3 Powerbook) 4 times in 15 minutes, so hard they had to be hard reset.
I worked a couple weeks at a Mac shop on a POS Dell celeron-based notebook. Not only did my software (PS, AI, Flash) run with fewer hicups, I didn't have a single crash (Win2k) over those 5-6 weeks. I remember them saving all their work before switching to a mail or ftp program, they'd had so many hang ups and crashes that they were terrified of losing more work.
Right now I own a PC, built totally from comodity parts, upgraded when I could get a good price for something. Right now it has an uptime of 16 days, the last time it went offline was when I removed a broken DVD-ROM drive. All of the parts in this machine (140gb of HDD, x32 burner, SB Live, etc, etc) cost me less than half of what I would have paid for a *USED* G4-833, about a fourth of the price of a new bottom barrel G4.
I make webpages, do animations, produce movies, make music, watch movies, write letters, do professional quality DTP - all on this machine. It works without a hitch, is stable as a rock and quick as a jackrabbit. My friends can't say the same about their Macs, even though they should be able to. See, I wouldn't be mad if my Pinto was breaking down each week, but I'd be pissed if my new Mercedes-Benz had to go in every other day for a tune up.
And for this, because of Mozilla's open nature, we have Multizilla.
After ordering and waiting a couple of days sorta contradicts It was cheap, fast and I didnt have to go outside.
Don't get me wrong, when I order something like a TV or DVDs or whatever, I can wait the few days/weeks they take to deliver. On the other hand, when I'm ordering *food* I want it here within 2-3 hours, tops.
The deathmatch syndrome is a curious thing. People don't play in teams... until the other side plays as a team. I play TO:AoT, which is to Unreal Tournament what CS is to Halflife, and I've seen teams made up of weak players take out crews of *great* individual players. All it takes is strategy, teamwork and training (which is actually quite a lot.)
I bought my Yamaha a couple of years after I started buying clean CDs for my friends to burn. I was paying 12-16zl ($3-4) for BASF gold cds back then.
Wow... I remember when only a few years ago my CD burner cost $200 (Yamaha 8x4x24) and I was paying up to $3-4/blank CD. Good thing nobody bought those! They where too expensive and slow to be of any practical use in the near future!
Yeah... that's exactly why a lot of people refuse to use Redhat x.0, waiting for x.1 or x.2 instead. That's why a lot of people wait months after a new kernel version comes out. And that has to be why we waited forever for the Slashdot engine to be released. Or why Redhat decided to release a beta version of GCC with one of their releases.
And how the hell do you count three years for each release? I remember installing Win2k soon after it's release, at the begining of 2000, now it's nearing the end 2002 and we're on it's third release. Wow, that's one release *per year*, not every three years. And that's not counting WindowsXP.
I see that FUD works both ways.
The Fujifilm Finepix 6800 3.3mpx digital camera is another F.A. Porsche desgin. There's even a label on the lens cover.
It wasn't so long ago that an 800x600 15" CRT cost more than that.
By 'long ago' you're talking ~10 years, right?
from what I can see when I read at -1, good trolls are even rarer than intelligent posts on Slashdot.
Because they're all at +5.
I didn't know Oracle was getting into the hard drive business.
It's not like there's been a team sitting around since the first implementation of the DVD standard. The CSS key is 40-bit, and that is small enough to brute force. Besides, if they weren't able to get it out of the Xing player, they could've decompiled any of few dozen DVD players out there.
Wow... and to think that I was doing the impossbile by burning CDs while working in Photoshop and Homesite while watching divx compressed movies with a couple of putty, kazaa, edonkey, mirc and bpftp sessions in the background on my P3-866.
Time to call the Weekly World News, we gots a miracle on our hands.
The ONLY thing this will do is prevent Joe Gamer from making a copy for his nephew. Pirate groups break copy protection, no matter if it's SecureRom, SafeDisc or whatever. It's a matter for honor for these guys to break the protection. The harder the protection, the bigger the challenge, the more 'fun' it is. If a crack is lacking someone will make a fix, either from the original group are a competitor.
Generally, the competitive nature of scene makes sure that if something can get cracked and distributed, it will. And the quicker, the better. If these guys think that this will block more than casual and CloneCD piracy, then they need to wake up. Software publishers: stop fucking with your regular users investing truckloads of cash into copy protection, just make software worth buying.
I always thought that inflation is the rise in the consumer price index. How about quoting a source for your statement?
Right now WinXP supports virtual desktops (well, with a M$ Power Toy) and movie editing right out of the box. It can also support 4 users on four machines (1 at each machine) so... what are you complaining about?
Actually... I had RH and dropped it in the name of Debian. I don't need the graphical installer, what I do need is a good packet system and for my money, .deb cannot be beat. I can't remember how much software I couldn't get working from source or rpms that I just apt-geted. Replacing the kernel took me like 3 minutes.
I liked the graphical installers in Mandrake and RH too, but when it comes to actually running the machine (masq/fw/ftp/mail server) Debian is just so much easier.