Also, as added feature, it marks many Windows Network tools like Angry IP Scanner, Blues Port Scanner and Ethereal as "Hacking tools" or other such garbage. Makes diagnosing problems with users PC quite entertaining as I get to box with Virus Scanner on top of everything else.
Cripes, I hate that! I finally had to replace my USB keychain with one that has a write-protect switch so the stupid AV software would quit trashing my programs.
"Oh, your car's not starting? Let's pop the hood and take a look." *Watches as robot emerges from under hood and fires laser blasts, reducing my toolbox to slag.*
* AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single computer use only. The use of AVG Free within any organization or for commercial purposes is prohibited.
Forget organizing the Start menu. Install Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/ It indexes your start menu, so any program you want, hit Alt-Space, type a few characters of the program name, and hit Enter.
To be honest, in the early days of XP, it was a lot less stable. 3 service packs later, most of the problems are ironed out, and hardware manufacturers have improved their XP drivers. I can't remember anyone ever complaining that XP was less stable than 98, though.
Also, when XP was released, it was much slower on the hardware of the day than 98 was. I don't think I was reading/. 7 years ago, but based on comments I'm still seeing, I'm guessing the complaints about XP were that it was more bloated than Windows 2000, they moved everything around again, and the damn Fisher-Price interface with the default Teletubby wallpaper.
No, you're not. I also really like the default color scheme, including the coffee stain/cave painting wallpaper that defaults on Intrepid Ibex. (I really didn't care for the Heron background, though.)
I agree. I'd love it if ABC would figure that out, or better yet, sign on with Hulu themselves. With the exception of playing Wii with my daughter, I haven't turned on my TV in weeks. But I'm on Hulu almost every other night.
With Hulu, I can watch shows like Battlestar Galactica at my convenience, instead of trying to remember to put in a tape so I don't miss part of it during "Daddy, will you read me a story?" time. It also means I've started watching shows that I probably wouldn't have otherwise, and even lets me watch great TV from before my time. (Check out I Spy, by the way. And if anyone from Hulu is reading this, bring back the 3 Stooges!)
Instead of using you and Vinny, what if I rigged up a shotgun (with a hair trigger, of course), through a pulley, to the cat's collar? At the time an intended victim was in front of the shotgun, I call the cat, and it shoots. I don't think there's a jury in the world that would go for the "Oh no, the cat did it." defense.
Of course not. Everyone knows that cats don't come when you call.
You'd think so, but I've successfully re-used snap traps. Mice will brave death for peanut butter.
Not only that, but they will - as their last conscious act - *finish* eating the peanut butter. We have twice had a mouse get into our house. Both times he apparently laid there in the trap with a broken neck and finished eating the peanut butter, as there wasn't any left on the trigger.
I considered that it might have been a second mouse, but both times, we left baited traps out for a couple of weeks and never got anything.
Yep. If evolution is going to do its work, we will see soon coming from this guy "campus" rats that are high-voltage resistant, can't be poisoned, can live eating only rubber cables, and are smart enough to figure out the guy's passwords. So, let's brace ourselves for the super-internet-mega-rats...
Despite the name, WebOS stores its apps locally on the Pre. The name comes from the fact that the apps are built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the like.
Consider yourself lucky that the cable was already installed. The idiot that ran cable into my house damn near drilled through a water pipe. And I don't mean, "Another inch over and he would have hit it," I mean there's a pvc pipe in my basement with a rough spot where the idiot's drill bit was rubbing up against it.
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Similarly terrible are gun scenes where the actors ignore every single safety rule in the book, have limitless magazines, hhit anything while shooting from the hip, cock hammers on guns without them, repeatedly rack the slide/pump the action for dramatic effect, hear perfectly fine after blasting away in small rooms, use suppressors that make pew sounds (or that muffle revolvers), and blatantly violate safety rules.
Aaaa! Don't get me started! My personal favorite is when you hear a shotgun pumped to announce that someone has just managed to sneak up on somebody else. Were you sneaking up on that guy with an empty gun? Or did you just jack a shell out onto the ground for no good reason?
BTW, Apple, by definition, can't "sell out". Thanks for playing though.
Care to elaborate on this statement? Not to wildly throw out accusations of fanboyism here, but my initial interpretation reads, "Apple is so inherently cool that whatever they do, for whatever reason, has got to be great!"
What is so magical about Apple that they are fundamentally incapable of selling out?
I do have to say that I'm loving the new Sam & Max games. They certainly have the classic Sam & Max humor. Just finished Episode 4 and it's my favorite so far. It features Max running for president against a giant animatronic Abraham Lincoln, and you get to start a war between North, South, and West Dakota.
Don't know if it's still on sale, but Steam had Season 1 for $15 a few weeks ago.
By the way, in your list of classic point-and-click adventures, you forgot to mention Full Throttle and The Dig.
Kids break stuff because they are kids, not because they are idiots.
Some kids break stuff accidentally by being careless - in other words, because they are kids. Some kids break stuff deliberately because they are destructive little shits with no respect for other people - in other words, because their parents are idiots.
I can easily see needing to replace the control stick on a regular basis because of the first type, though. I know if I had been in an Apollo capsule at age 6, I would have jerked the crap out of that thing. I think that the idea of a kid-friendly, hands-on space capsule is great, but might have to sacrifice a bit of authenticity in exchange for durability.
Speaking on behalf of all midwestern/.ers, I hope one ends up in the Kansas Cosmosphere Probably won't happen, though. They're affiliated with the Smithsonian institute, and, while they'll probably get one for the Air and Space Museum in DC, they probably won't buy 2.
Now, let's say you know you want some sort of drawing program. You don't quite know which one, you just want something. In Ubuntu, you head over to the Applications thing (can't recall what it's called, always use synaptic), browse to the right category, check the short descriptions for something that seems interesting, double click. How would this process go in Windows?
Depends. For most people, it involves a trip to Best Buy. The rest usually open up a browser, type in "piratebay.org" and hit enter, then type in "Photoshop" because it's the only drawing program they know of.
Slightly off-topic side note 1: I think Photoshop's piracy rate would plummet if more people knew about http://www.getpaint.net./ I still haven't found a Linux drawing program I like as much. (Suggestions gladly accepted)
Slightly off-topic side note 2: Ubuntu's "Applications thing" you mentioned is actually labeled "Add/Remove Applications" Kinda like the one under Windows, except this one really can add programs.
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Also, as added feature, it marks many Windows Network tools like Angry IP Scanner, Blues Port Scanner and Ethereal as "Hacking tools" or other such garbage. Makes diagnosing problems with users PC quite entertaining as I get to box with Virus Scanner on top of everything else.
Cripes, I hate that! I finally had to replace my USB keychain with one that has a write-protect switch so the stupid AV software would quit trashing my programs.
"Oh, your car's not starting? Let's pop the hood and take a look." *Watches as robot emerges from under hood and fires laser blasts, reducing my toolbox to slag.*
You aren't supposed to use AVG Free in *any* work environment, even non-profit. Copy and paste from http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
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True. That's why they invented vodka.
Forget organizing the Start menu. Install Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/ It indexes your start menu, so any program you want, hit Alt-Space, type a few characters of the program name, and hit Enter.
I've already posted in the thread. Would someone with mod points please mod parent up. I can't see how anyone could see this as trolling.
To be honest, in the early days of XP, it was a lot less stable. 3 service packs later, most of the problems are ironed out, and hardware manufacturers have improved their XP drivers. I can't remember anyone ever complaining that XP was less stable than 98, though.
Also, when XP was released, it was much slower on the hardware of the day than 98 was. I don't think I was reading /. 7 years ago, but based on comments I'm still seeing, I'm guessing the complaints about XP were that it was more bloated than Windows 2000, they moved everything around again, and the damn Fisher-Price interface with the default Teletubby wallpaper.
No, you're not. I also really like the default color scheme, including the coffee stain/cave painting wallpaper that defaults on Intrepid Ibex. (I really didn't care for the Heron background, though.)
I agree. I'd love it if ABC would figure that out, or better yet, sign on with Hulu themselves. With the exception of playing Wii with my daughter, I haven't turned on my TV in weeks. But I'm on Hulu almost every other night.
With Hulu, I can watch shows like Battlestar Galactica at my convenience, instead of trying to remember to put in a tape so I don't miss part of it during "Daddy, will you read me a story?" time. It also means I've started watching shows that I probably wouldn't have otherwise, and even lets me watch great TV from before my time. (Check out I Spy, by the way. And if anyone from Hulu is reading this, bring back the 3 Stooges!)
Instead of using you and Vinny, what if I rigged up a shotgun (with a hair trigger, of course), through a pulley, to the cat's collar? At the time an intended victim was in front of the shotgun, I call the cat, and it shoots. I don't think there's a jury in the world that would go for the "Oh no, the cat did it." defense.
Of course not. Everyone knows that cats don't come when you call.
You mean, "Snakes in a dealership"!
I think we just found the next Samuel L. Jackson movie.
You'd think so, but I've successfully re-used snap traps. Mice will brave death for peanut butter.
Not only that, but they will - as their last conscious act - *finish* eating the peanut butter. We have twice had a mouse get into our house. Both times he apparently laid there in the trap with a broken neck and finished eating the peanut butter, as there wasn't any left on the trigger.
I considered that it might have been a second mouse, but both times, we left baited traps out for a couple of weeks and never got anything.
Yep. If evolution is going to do its work, we will see soon coming from this guy "campus" rats that are high-voltage resistant, can't be poisoned, can live eating only rubber cables, and are smart enough to figure out the guy's passwords.
So, let's brace ourselves for the super-internet-mega-rats...
I think you just described 4chan.
Despite the name, WebOS stores its apps locally on the Pre. The name comes from the fact that the apps are built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the like.
Hey, Anonymous Coward is a great guy! I see him posting here all the time.
Granted, he seems a bit unstable. Some of his posts have been a bit odd, to say the least.
I would say the transition from " " to "thermorectal cryptanalysis" was quite a jarring one.
Consider yourself lucky that the cable was already installed. The idiot that ran cable into my house damn near drilled through a water pipe. And I don't mean, "Another inch over and he would have hit it," I mean there's a pvc pipe in my basement with a rough spot where the idiot's drill bit was rubbing up against it.
Similarly terrible are gun scenes where the actors ignore every single safety rule in the book, have limitless magazines, hhit anything while shooting from the hip, cock hammers on guns without them, repeatedly rack the slide/pump the action for dramatic effect, hear perfectly fine after blasting away in small rooms, use suppressors that make pew sounds (or that muffle revolvers), and blatantly violate safety rules.
Aaaa! Don't get me started! My personal favorite is when you hear a shotgun pumped to announce that someone has just managed to sneak up on somebody else. Were you sneaking up on that guy with an empty gun? Or did you just jack a shell out onto the ground for no good reason?
Man, I miss Hunted so bad. The payload maps are fun - some of my favorites, in fact - but I still want Hunted.
Er... this may seem like a stupid question, but what did they actually improve -- if not the things people were complaining about?
Windows 7 Beta: Now with more hookers.*
*Hookers available for tech journalists and reviewers only.
Uh, no thanks. I've gotten enough viruses from Windows.
BTW, Apple, by definition, can't "sell out". Thanks for playing though.
Care to elaborate on this statement? Not to wildly throw out accusations of fanboyism here, but my initial interpretation reads, "Apple is so inherently cool that whatever they do, for whatever reason, has got to be great!"
What is so magical about Apple that they are fundamentally incapable of selling out?
I do have to say that I'm loving the new Sam & Max games. They certainly have the classic Sam & Max humor. Just finished Episode 4 and it's my favorite so far. It features Max running for president against a giant animatronic Abraham Lincoln, and you get to start a war between North, South, and West Dakota.
Don't know if it's still on sale, but Steam had Season 1 for $15 a few weeks ago.
By the way, in your list of classic point-and-click adventures, you forgot to mention Full Throttle and The Dig.
Not necessary. If Jobs died, most of his followers would probably commit suicide voluntarily anyway.
Not all of them. Some would chose to be interred alive in his iCrypt.
> Some kids are idiots, and will break stuff.
Kids break stuff because they are kids, not because they are idiots.
Some kids break stuff accidentally by being careless - in other words, because they are kids. Some kids break stuff deliberately because they are destructive little shits with no respect for other people - in other words, because their parents are idiots.
I can easily see needing to replace the control stick on a regular basis because of the first type, though. I know if I had been in an Apollo capsule at age 6, I would have jerked the crap out of that thing. I think that the idea of a kid-friendly, hands-on space capsule is great, but might have to sacrifice a bit of authenticity in exchange for durability.
Speaking on behalf of all midwestern /.ers, I hope one ends up in the Kansas Cosmosphere Probably won't happen, though. They're affiliated with the Smithsonian institute, and, while they'll probably get one for the Air and Space Museum in DC, they probably won't buy 2.
Now, let's say you know you want some sort of drawing program. You don't quite know which one, you just want something. In Ubuntu, you head over to the Applications thing (can't recall what it's called, always use synaptic), browse to the right category, check the short descriptions for something that seems interesting, double click. How would this process go in Windows?
Depends. For most people, it involves a trip to Best Buy. The rest usually open up a browser, type in "piratebay.org" and hit enter, then type in "Photoshop" because it's the only drawing program they know of.
Slightly off-topic side note 1: I think Photoshop's piracy rate would plummet if more people knew about http://www.getpaint.net./ I still haven't found a Linux drawing program I like as much. (Suggestions gladly accepted)
Slightly off-topic side note 2: Ubuntu's "Applications thing" you mentioned is actually labeled "Add/Remove Applications" Kinda like the one under Windows, except this one really can add programs.