I'm an admin at a University and we STILL are finding XP machines out in the wild. I don't forsee us (or most businesses) moving up to 10 when it launches because everyone just moved to 7 after XP ended its extended life support. When 7 reaches the end of extended support, then we'll see if people flock to 11 or 12 or whatever's out by then.
I wouldn't say it's irrelevant in the least. IE is still the leading browser, and it's kind of a big deal when the industry leader has a major release, especially one that addresses many of the issues the 91% of Slashdotters using it has. I'm not a big IE fan either, but I tried the 9 beta and it's a hell of a lot better than I remember IE being. Hell, I honestly think IE9 is a much better browser than Firefox is nowadays, and it's my #2 browser to go to when crap doesn't work in Chrome.
Once upon a time, 4chan was inhabited by a bunch of nerds who sat around watching anime and posting funny images and some shock images from LUE. Then, one day, in 2006 or so, someone told someone else that 4chan existed, and it snowballed into this terrible site that exists today. It's full of nothing but malware, child pornography, and hate speech by 12-14 year olds calling people "newfags" when they've been on the site since 2008.
Most of its original userbase has migrated to/a/ or offsite entirely because of how terrible that site has become nowadays, and SharpFang is the perfect example of that. "Attacks" on people/sites/whatever is just stupid, and all these 14 year old internet cool kids have no idea how easy it is to prosecute them for it.
I know the guy who is in jail for the Scientology ddos right now, he used to hang out in the same IRCs I do, and he was around about a week before the conviction. Needless to say, he wishes he had never even found 4chan.
I have only ever accessed my WoW account from my gaming PC, which has Firefox and a hardware firewall. I don't share my account info, and I'm a stickler for having strong passwords. My account was hacked back in November, and everything cleaned out. The only person who knows my credentials are my best friend, and I'm the only person who knows his credentials. He uses a Mac and the same stringent security lengths, and he was ALSO hacked just two days ago. I'm assuming there's a security breach somewhere that Blizzard can't patch up, so this would be a way to fix it. Way, way too many accounts are being compromised as of late. Out of our 30 or so constant raiders, well over half have had account security breaches in the last year. Something's going down at Blizzard, and I for one welcome the mandatory Authenticator.
Memory manufacturers use binary. 4 gigs of ram reports as 4096 megabytes, as it should. I think it's pretty silly of Apple to essentially instantly change over to Metric from SI in one service pack, but on the other hand, Apple's the most capable of doing this because their userbase isn't anywhere near as "in the know" of these inner workings as *nix/Windows users. They'll probably see that their hard drive sizes are actually what's written on the box and think that Apple fixed something.
That's silly, though. Valve is in control of fixing things and releasing DLC on consoles, not EA. Valve has REPEATEDLY stated they have NO intention of EVER patching or releasing DLC for the PS3 version of the Orange Box, and will likely never release another PS3 game again. The reason they haven't done so for the 360 are technical limitations with regards to storage (just look at the size of your TF2 folder today compared to on release day - and remember that most 360 users have a 20gb hard drive, some don't have one at all). It's not EA's fault that Valve simply has no interest in the PS3 or technical means to patch TF2 on the 360.
In my 17 years of online Windows computing, I've gotten a total of 2 infections, all within the last ~5 or so years. Every time on a clean install of Windows, pirating software with no AV installed. The first time, I was trying to pirate MagicISO. The last time back in 2007, when I was actually trying to pirate AVG Pro and ended up infecting myself. It sounds stupid to pirate anything without AV protection, I know. I'm an idiot. I thought I didn't need AV software for a long time, but now the first thing I install is Avast.
Is it really so hard to believe that people just want something that works? Sure, people could relearn to use Linux, but why? They already know how to use windows, and learning how to use Linux would take time away from them doing other things. A lot of people simply use the computer for checking email and browsing Facebook/MySpace, why sit there and relearn how to do that when you can just do it in Windows without the hassle/time investment?
People are lazy. Those who aren't have other things to do with their time than learn a new OS, which is why I honestly don't think Linux will ever be desktop ready. OSX is so user-friendly that it's a nonissue there, but Linux breaks easily and requires a lot of knowledge when shit DOES break. Windows is just easier, more accessible, and everyone knows how to use it already.
Did you really expect them to? ISPs will obviously not show up to discuss their shady business practices, the only way we can make them do anything is with our wallets.
I stopped posting to/. when I finally realized, after years of using it, it was nothing but a bunch of *nix nerds complaining about how bad Microsoft is. I get the RSS feeds of both Digg and Slash, but I usually reply much more often on Digg than Slashdot because trolling there is a lot more fun. I'm just an oldschool/b/tard who thinks all this shit is stupid and too far away from the stuff we used to do./b/ used to be about trolling furries (even though 99% of/b/ was furries), praising the GNAA, and watching DashBillions and SovietRussia troll all day. It's not the/b/ we built, newfags destroyed it./b/ is dead, why do you think moot doesn't even care about 4chan anymore? When Lulznet (now partyvan) took the domain he couldn't care less, 4chan has become something not even he really wants to be associated with, but he makes so much money off of it, how can't he? He tried making it like the old days and removing forced anon, but newfags cried too much because they can't stand the thought of oldfags being there.
The massive amount of/i/nsurgents/7channers/Raidfags posting here telling people it's the Church of Scientology makes it pretty obvious who it is. Stop BAWWing about being scapegoats and just say you did it, it's blatantly obvious you did. Are you going to stop saying ebaums did everything and blame it all on the CoS now?
So glad I stopped going to the *chans when it started being overrun by newfags a couple years ago, 4chan is literally a completely different site from back when thrust vectoring owned the skies and Snacks kept/b/ awesome.
Haha, that is the 7chan thread in question. But no, they didn't do it! Scientology is trying to smear them by making epileptics have seizures and blaming it on ebaumsworld!
I'm not a Scientologist, I just don't support all this retarded crap against Scientology. Standing outside is not a "raid" as those Raidchan/insurgents call it. It's a bunch of nerds standing outside a building. It's not bothering anyone most likely. Why would a religion have a reason to be scared of a bunch of kids who think being on 4chan since 2006 makes them an "oldfag" and intentionally making epileptics, who have done NOTHING TO YOU, have seizures? You're saying this like my IRC network wasn't linked to Partyvan for what, 2 months? With all of 7chan/Raidchan/Insurgency.
Go back to standing outside of CoS buildings and thinking they care in the least, but leave people with disabilities alone. That is genuinely disgusting, not even the GNAA went that far.
Stop blaming this on the CoS. The CoS doesn't care enough to go through all this. You all know who this was, I saw the 7chan thread when it was posted in WTFux IRC. I said the same thing then as I'll say now: It's fucking disgusting to actually attack people with disabilities for no good reason. I'm so glad WTFux delinked from 7chan IRC, because they're the lowest of the low. It's an insult to plankton to call them scum.
I guess I think with the old school mentality of old platformers, where you had an ice world, a fire world, a desert world, etc. That's how the original NiGHTS was, making it match whatever's going on outside would just break that. Unless they mean simply weather effects, and not the world itself.
Their intention has been clear for a long time now: take down the Japanese-dominated gaming market and make it their own. Whether you like it or not, they seem to be doing a great job at it right now.
I don't know about you, but my dreams don't exactly match the weather outside. NiGHTS had the Snow world, the Sunny Field world, etc. Those match something you'd have a dream about, especially the type of dream found in the game. Maybe I'm just being picky.
I'll hold off on judgement until I try it. Being an avid player of the original NiGHTS, however, I don't like the idea of adding "gimmicks" to the game like this. NiGHTS took place in a dream world, adding stuff like this would make the whole "Dream World" thing kinda pointless. The mask thing doesn't bother me since the original NiGHTS had basically the same thing, you'd transform at different parts of the level to suit the environment. Depends on what they do with it, I guess.
I'd be extremely surprised to find Halo 3 on any Sony system as long as Microsoft is still making hardware and publishing software. Comparing software in the PC world to software in the console world is totally apples (lol) to oranges. Microsoft can do Mac software all they want, since people typically will stick to one format, PC or Mac. Not to mention that they make no money off hardware, and that Macs can already run Windows. There's no real competition out there for them on the Mac, so it's free money essentially.
In the console world, their direct competitor is also making money off the hardware and software. Typically, most gamers don't limit themselves to only one console, so there's no reason to extend yourself to a competitor's console to try and get the software sales you'd already miss out on. It'd be dumb to release an exclusive on a competitor's console if you're a first party developer, because it creates no incentive to buy your hardware in the first place.
Would the Xbox 360 even be here if not for the Dead or Alive or Halo series? Would Sony have ever become the powerhouse they are now without Squaresoft's massive contributions? Would Nintendo be in business at all if they decided to publish games on every console, plus continue manufacturing their own consoles?
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Here's hoping they can do this with Empire and Jedi, too.
I'm an admin at a University and we STILL are finding XP machines out in the wild. I don't forsee us (or most businesses) moving up to 10 when it launches because everyone just moved to 7 after XP ended its extended life support. When 7 reaches the end of extended support, then we'll see if people flock to 11 or 12 or whatever's out by then.
Brilliant tactic, but dumb enough to use it 42 times? He had to know he was pressing his luck the FIRST time, why would he keep going?
Because it has a moon, does that mean Bruce Willis will need a sidekick to take it out?
This being a GSM AT&T phone might be a big roadblock in you activating it on Sprint's CDMA network
It ran WebOS because HP bought Palm FOR WebOS. It was their shot at the mobile market, and they failed miserably.
I wouldn't say it's irrelevant in the least. IE is still the leading browser, and it's kind of a big deal when the industry leader has a major release, especially one that addresses many of the issues the 91% of Slashdotters using it has. I'm not a big IE fan either, but I tried the 9 beta and it's a hell of a lot better than I remember IE being. Hell, I honestly think IE9 is a much better browser than Firefox is nowadays, and it's my #2 browser to go to when crap doesn't work in Chrome.
Once upon a time, 4chan was inhabited by a bunch of nerds who sat around watching anime and posting funny images and some shock images from LUE. Then, one day, in 2006 or so, someone told someone else that 4chan existed, and it snowballed into this terrible site that exists today. It's full of nothing but malware, child pornography, and hate speech by 12-14 year olds calling people "newfags" when they've been on the site since 2008. Most of its original userbase has migrated to /a/ or offsite entirely because of how terrible that site has become nowadays, and SharpFang is the perfect example of that. "Attacks" on people/sites/whatever is just stupid, and all these 14 year old internet cool kids have no idea how easy it is to prosecute them for it.
I know the guy who is in jail for the Scientology ddos right now, he used to hang out in the same IRCs I do, and he was around about a week before the conviction. Needless to say, he wishes he had never even found 4chan.
I have only ever accessed my WoW account from my gaming PC, which has Firefox and a hardware firewall. I don't share my account info, and I'm a stickler for having strong passwords. My account was hacked back in November, and everything cleaned out. The only person who knows my credentials are my best friend, and I'm the only person who knows his credentials. He uses a Mac and the same stringent security lengths, and he was ALSO hacked just two days ago. I'm assuming there's a security breach somewhere that Blizzard can't patch up, so this would be a way to fix it. Way, way too many accounts are being compromised as of late. Out of our 30 or so constant raiders, well over half have had account security breaches in the last year. Something's going down at Blizzard, and I for one welcome the mandatory Authenticator.
Memory manufacturers use binary. 4 gigs of ram reports as 4096 megabytes, as it should. I think it's pretty silly of Apple to essentially instantly change over to Metric from SI in one service pack, but on the other hand, Apple's the most capable of doing this because their userbase isn't anywhere near as "in the know" of these inner workings as *nix/Windows users. They'll probably see that their hard drive sizes are actually what's written on the box and think that Apple fixed something.
That's silly, though. Valve is in control of fixing things and releasing DLC on consoles, not EA. Valve has REPEATEDLY stated they have NO intention of EVER patching or releasing DLC for the PS3 version of the Orange Box, and will likely never release another PS3 game again. The reason they haven't done so for the 360 are technical limitations with regards to storage (just look at the size of your TF2 folder today compared to on release day - and remember that most 360 users have a 20gb hard drive, some don't have one at all). It's not EA's fault that Valve simply has no interest in the PS3 or technical means to patch TF2 on the 360.
In my 17 years of online Windows computing, I've gotten a total of 2 infections, all within the last ~5 or so years. Every time on a clean install of Windows, pirating software with no AV installed. The first time, I was trying to pirate MagicISO. The last time back in 2007, when I was actually trying to pirate AVG Pro and ended up infecting myself. It sounds stupid to pirate anything without AV protection, I know. I'm an idiot. I thought I didn't need AV software for a long time, but now the first thing I install is Avast.
Is it really so hard to believe that people just want something that works? Sure, people could relearn to use Linux, but why? They already know how to use windows, and learning how to use Linux would take time away from them doing other things. A lot of people simply use the computer for checking email and browsing Facebook/MySpace, why sit there and relearn how to do that when you can just do it in Windows without the hassle/time investment? People are lazy. Those who aren't have other things to do with their time than learn a new OS, which is why I honestly don't think Linux will ever be desktop ready. OSX is so user-friendly that it's a nonissue there, but Linux breaks easily and requires a lot of knowledge when shit DOES break. Windows is just easier, more accessible, and everyone knows how to use it already.
Did you really expect them to? ISPs will obviously not show up to discuss their shady business practices, the only way we can make them do anything is with our wallets.
I stopped posting to /. when I finally realized, after years of using it, it was nothing but a bunch of *nix nerds complaining about how bad Microsoft is. I get the RSS feeds of both Digg and Slash, but I usually reply much more often on Digg than Slashdot because trolling there is a lot more fun. I'm just an oldschool /b/tard who thinks all this shit is stupid and too far away from the stuff we used to do. /b/ used to be about trolling furries (even though 99% of /b/ was furries), praising the GNAA, and watching DashBillions and SovietRussia troll all day. It's not the /b/ we built, newfags destroyed it. /b/ is dead, why do you think moot doesn't even care about 4chan anymore? When Lulznet (now partyvan) took the domain he couldn't care less, 4chan has become something not even he really wants to be associated with, but he makes so much money off of it, how can't he? He tried making it like the old days and removing forced anon, but newfags cried too much because they can't stand the thought of oldfags being there.
The massive amount of /i/nsurgents/7channers/Raidfags posting here telling people it's the Church of Scientology makes it pretty obvious who it is. Stop BAWWing about being scapegoats and just say you did it, it's blatantly obvious you did. Are you going to stop saying ebaums did everything and blame it all on the CoS now?
So glad I stopped going to the *chans when it started being overrun by newfags a couple years ago, 4chan is literally a completely different site from back when thrust vectoring owned the skies and Snacks kept /b/ awesome.
Haha, that is the 7chan thread in question. But no, they didn't do it! Scientology is trying to smear them by making epileptics have seizures and blaming it on ebaumsworld!
I'm not a Scientologist, I just don't support all this retarded crap against Scientology. Standing outside is not a "raid" as those Raidchan/insurgents call it. It's a bunch of nerds standing outside a building. It's not bothering anyone most likely. Why would a religion have a reason to be scared of a bunch of kids who think being on 4chan since 2006 makes them an "oldfag" and intentionally making epileptics, who have done NOTHING TO YOU, have seizures? You're saying this like my IRC network wasn't linked to Partyvan for what, 2 months? With all of 7chan/Raidchan/Insurgency. Go back to standing outside of CoS buildings and thinking they care in the least, but leave people with disabilities alone. That is genuinely disgusting, not even the GNAA went that far.
Stop blaming this on the CoS. The CoS doesn't care enough to go through all this. You all know who this was, I saw the 7chan thread when it was posted in WTFux IRC. I said the same thing then as I'll say now: It's fucking disgusting to actually attack people with disabilities for no good reason. I'm so glad WTFux delinked from 7chan IRC, because they're the lowest of the low. It's an insult to plankton to call them scum.
I guess I think with the old school mentality of old platformers, where you had an ice world, a fire world, a desert world, etc. That's how the original NiGHTS was, making it match whatever's going on outside would just break that. Unless they mean simply weather effects, and not the world itself.
Their intention has been clear for a long time now: take down the Japanese-dominated gaming market and make it their own. Whether you like it or not, they seem to be doing a great job at it right now.
I don't know about you, but my dreams don't exactly match the weather outside. NiGHTS had the Snow world, the Sunny Field world, etc. Those match something you'd have a dream about, especially the type of dream found in the game. Maybe I'm just being picky.
I'll hold off on judgement until I try it. Being an avid player of the original NiGHTS, however, I don't like the idea of adding "gimmicks" to the game like this. NiGHTS took place in a dream world, adding stuff like this would make the whole "Dream World" thing kinda pointless. The mask thing doesn't bother me since the original NiGHTS had basically the same thing, you'd transform at different parts of the level to suit the environment. Depends on what they do with it, I guess.
You all know full well you'd just format and reinstall it the way YOU wanted it installed, anyway.
I'd be extremely surprised to find Halo 3 on any Sony system as long as Microsoft is still making hardware and publishing software. Comparing software in the PC world to software in the console world is totally apples (lol) to oranges. Microsoft can do Mac software all they want, since people typically will stick to one format, PC or Mac. Not to mention that they make no money off hardware, and that Macs can already run Windows. There's no real competition out there for them on the Mac, so it's free money essentially.
In the console world, their direct competitor is also making money off the hardware and software. Typically, most gamers don't limit themselves to only one console, so there's no reason to extend yourself to a competitor's console to try and get the software sales you'd already miss out on. It'd be dumb to release an exclusive on a competitor's console if you're a first party developer, because it creates no incentive to buy your hardware in the first place.
Would the Xbox 360 even be here if not for the Dead or Alive or Halo series? Would Sony have ever become the powerhouse they are now without Squaresoft's massive contributions? Would Nintendo be in business at all if they decided to publish games on every console, plus continue manufacturing their own consoles?