Ever look through Hijack This logs?
BHOs are also a nice way to attach spyware to IE. Not that FF couldn't have the same thing done, with bad plugins. However, FF makes a bigger deal over installing a plugin, compared to surf-by BHOs.
Wrong 100 meg reference.
I was refering to his web host.
So, while all that you posted might be right, it doesn't really affect what I was going off of.
But the point is, why pay that $120 a month when you can have as much space as you want and many many times that in bandwidth (If you were running at the theoretical max of 2 MBps per second (250 KBps max theoretical, probably ending up at around 200 KBps), I get ~5184 Gb a month, or 648 GB a month (Note, please don't be vague on bit or byte))?
How often do you think that 100 meg (bit, probably) connection is going to be maxed out? Likely never.
With the sort of connection mentioned in grandparent, the only time you would have an issue with speedy connection is 6-7+ downloaders (Bringing each one down to about today's max for residential DSL upload) or a few hundred surfers.
For a smell site, the former situation is maybe likely (But, again, the download speed each will get is still respectable) but the latter situation is not likely. So... Why pay the $120?
"Just see OpenOffice for an example of software that's underutilized for its lack of an effective Mac GUI."
Of course, NeoOffice/J being a resource hog and running things in X11 sucks has NOTHING to do with it, whatsoever.
I am running a lower end iBook (1 GhZ and 256 MB RAM), to be fair. Bottom of the barrel of what apple is releasing now, but there are many G3s running OSX that would still balk at either program.
I use AbiWord for word processing, and I believe Gnumeric can be run under Fink (But I've not used Fink, issues with getting it installed).
Wrong.
Some quick searching didn't come up with the year he left, but I do remember that he worked on FF:The Spirits Within, which came out in 2001. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/) FF8 came out in 1999. He left after 10, I believe.
Indeed. Those truly motivated CAN learn things outside of school. My school doesn't offer programming courses. So what am I doing? Taking classes online through the state's online course program. Hell, aside from slashdot breaks, that's what I'm doing right now.
If a one wants to learn, they can; regardless of if the person is in school or not.
However, the average student would not devote nearly as much time to learning.
Hahah.
Florida represent.
Yeah... Florida schools are hell bent on teaching the FCAT. At my school, if you get a 1-3 (3 being passing, 5 being highest you can achieve), you must take a class for the subject that you got a 1-3 in. Even if you passed both math and reading, you could end up taking a course in both. That means an hour and a half a day year round or 3 hours a day for a semester.
All of this mostly because school funding is based on how well students do. The schools with the best scores get the most money. Anyone ELSE see something incredibly wrong with that?
I'm lucky in that I can pass this junk with my eyes closed, but the process is still bunk.
Now, even worse, is that the superintedent of my district was trying to cut out all but academic electives for all students. Stuff like foreign lanugages and writing courses would be all that students could take. The rest of the time would have been put to more academics and - you guessed it - FCAT preparation. This got shot down, but that it would even be proposed is scary.
Does communism matter to what you quoted? No.
China DOES have repressive government. Repressive government =/= Communism. Don't make assumptions on what others think.
"Furthermore, that box for MS Office that you bought says explicticly on it that it requires windows, unless of course you bought the Mac version, which you guessed it, requires a Mac."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but under this logic, couldn't they also drop support for Crossover Office? Crossover Office is still run on Linux. According to what you said, MS could make a check for Crossover Office and not let you run updates. Would you be fine with that? No?
What would you do in response? Bitch at Codeweavers? The only difference between running it in WINE and CO is that you paid for CO and CO support. If MS' way of blocking CO was completely sound, you'd be screwed out of running Office in the OS that, according to you, it doesn't have to run in, regardless of how it is run. I suppose this would probably annoy you, as it wouldn't take any extra effort from getting the working in CO than getting it to working if the person had Windows. Same situation here.
"it's been impossible to get an x86 machine without MS-Windows. Yes, it is now theoretically possible, but hardly practical unless you go Apple or Pegasos etc." .... Uhhhh.... Apple sells X86 machines?
Last time I checked, Apple machines run on PPC processors. Research shows that Pegasos is PPC based ALSO also.
So, what X86 machines are we talking about, again?
Furthermore, you can get Linux machines from WALMART. They aren't easy to get from the major OEMs, true, but they are findable.
However, I suppose most places would want to charge you for the installation cost of the OS. It wouldn't be cost effective to make machines with Linux unless a decent amount of sales of whatever distro they put on could be guaranteed. For anyone that would want to install Linux, if one of the grandoffspring of the parent is correct, you can just get a blank PC sans cost of Windows.
Damn.
I've always wanted to copy and paste between computers.
This could be a dream come true for people that have to work on a large number of computers for a short amount of time...
"Is it cheating when I put more money in the arcarde games so I can get extra lives and beat the high score?"
Depends on who you ask and about what type of game.
I'd consider it cheating for a shoot em up.
Many shoot em up players would.
And nLite allows you to do it totally for free (I believe, at least.)
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancement s/nLite.shtml
Alas, their main site is done at the time of posting this. You have to burn a CD of the OS without the components, though.
And some things ARE broken without IE. (I've not done anythign with it, just heard about second hand experiences)
MMO Players have noticed and complained for months because of the game economies being ruined because of the sweat shops and whatnot... Or at least my MMO playing friends have, anyway.
We could make planets into recordable surfaces... Just make the entire surface even and burn holes into the surface with a laser...
CDs on a scale billions of times larger. Now all we have to do is figure out how to stop erosion/volcanic motion/etc.
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This only seems to be a bunch of quotes from MMORPG players with a blurb of explanation and some quizzes... Boring?
Ever look through Hijack This logs?
BHOs are also a nice way to attach spyware to IE. Not that FF couldn't have the same thing done, with bad plugins. However, FF makes a bigger deal over installing a plugin, compared to surf-by BHOs.
Damnit.
His, as in the person who posted about his web host.
Not his, as in the guy who wants to run a server off of FttP.
Wrong 100 meg reference.
I was refering to his web host.
So, while all that you posted might be right, it doesn't really affect what I was going off of.
But the point is, why pay that $120 a month when you can have as much space as you want and many many times that in bandwidth (If you were running at the theoretical max of 2 MBps per second (250 KBps max theoretical, probably ending up at around 200 KBps), I get ~5184 Gb a month, or 648 GB a month (Note, please don't be vague on bit or byte))?
How often do you think that 100 meg (bit, probably) connection is going to be maxed out? Likely never.
With the sort of connection mentioned in grandparent, the only time you would have an issue with speedy connection is 6-7+ downloaders (Bringing each one down to about today's max for residential DSL upload) or a few hundred surfers.
For a smell site, the former situation is maybe likely (But, again, the download speed each will get is still respectable) but the latter situation is not likely. So... Why pay the $120?
Not even 5 minutes after the post and already the site is /.ed.
"Just see OpenOffice for an example of software that's underutilized for its lack of an effective Mac GUI."
Of course, NeoOffice/J being a resource hog and running things in X11 sucks has NOTHING to do with it, whatsoever.
I am running a lower end iBook (1 GhZ and 256 MB RAM), to be fair. Bottom of the barrel of what apple is releasing now, but there are many G3s running OSX that would still balk at either program.
I use AbiWord for word processing, and I believe Gnumeric can be run under Fink (But I've not used Fink, issues with getting it installed).
Does anyone else find it a little funny that the icon for this story is a Gameboy? Even if it does have a dual shock below it.
Killing in general, normally in reference to First PErson Shooters
Wrong.
Some quick searching didn't come up with the year he left, but I do remember that he worked on FF:The Spirits Within, which came out in 2001. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/) FF8 came out in 1999. He left after 10, I believe.
Not to mention Mozilla Sunbird for the OSS and Linux crowd.h tml
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.
Indeed. Those truly motivated CAN learn things outside of school. My school doesn't offer programming courses. So what am I doing? Taking classes online through the state's online course program. Hell, aside from slashdot breaks, that's what I'm doing right now.
If a one wants to learn, they can; regardless of if the person is in school or not.
However, the average student would not devote nearly as much time to learning.
Hahah.
Florida represent.
Yeah... Florida schools are hell bent on teaching the FCAT. At my school, if you get a 1-3 (3 being passing, 5 being highest you can achieve), you must take a class for the subject that you got a 1-3 in. Even if you passed both math and reading, you could end up taking a course in both. That means an hour and a half a day year round or 3 hours a day for a semester.
All of this mostly because school funding is based on how well students do. The schools with the best scores get the most money. Anyone ELSE see something incredibly wrong with that?
I'm lucky in that I can pass this junk with my eyes closed, but the process is still bunk.
Now, even worse, is that the superintedent of my district was trying to cut out all but academic electives for all students. Stuff like foreign lanugages and writing courses would be all that students could take. The rest of the time would have been put to more academics and - you guessed it - FCAT preparation. This got shot down, but that it would even be proposed is scary.
Schools are broken? Hell yeah.
Does communism matter to what you quoted? No.
China DOES have repressive government. Repressive government =/= Communism. Don't make assumptions on what others think.
"Furthermore, that box for MS Office that you bought says explicticly on it that it requires windows, unless of course you bought the Mac version, which you guessed it, requires a Mac."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but under this logic, couldn't they also drop support for Crossover Office? Crossover Office is still run on Linux. According to what you said, MS could make a check for Crossover Office and not let you run updates. Would you be fine with that? No?
What would you do in response? Bitch at Codeweavers? The only difference between running it in WINE and CO is that you paid for CO and CO support. If MS' way of blocking CO was completely sound, you'd be screwed out of running Office in the OS that, according to you, it doesn't have to run in, regardless of how it is run.
I suppose this would probably annoy you, as it wouldn't take any extra effort from getting the working in CO than getting it to working if the person had Windows. Same situation here.
"it's been impossible to get an x86 machine without MS-Windows. Yes, it is now theoretically possible, but hardly practical unless you go Apple or Pegasos etc."
.... Uhhhh.... Apple sells X86 machines?
Last time I checked, Apple machines run on PPC processors. Research shows that Pegasos is PPC based ALSO also.
So, what X86 machines are we talking about, again?
Furthermore, you can get Linux machines from WALMART. They aren't easy to get from the major OEMs, true, but they are findable.
However, I suppose most places would want to charge you for the installation cost of the OS. It wouldn't be cost effective to make machines with Linux unless a decent amount of sales of whatever distro they put on could be guaranteed. For anyone that would want to install Linux, if one of the grandoffspring of the parent is correct, you can just get a blank PC sans cost of Windows.
Works just fine for me, and I got it about 6-7 minutes ago. Downloaded damn fast, too.
Seen it. In the sitation I'm thinking of, it couldn't be done. I REALLY flipping wish, though.
Damn. I've always wanted to copy and paste between computers. This could be a dream come true for people that have to work on a large number of computers for a short amount of time...
This, of course, implies that the person has actually procreated... Given the MMORPG basis...
"Is it cheating when I put more money in the arcarde games so I can get extra lives and beat the high score?" Depends on who you ask and about what type of game. I'd consider it cheating for a shoot em up. Many shoot em up players would.
And nLite allows you to do it totally for free (I believe, at least.) http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancement s/nLite.shtml
Alas, their main site is done at the time of posting this. You have to burn a CD of the OS without the components, though.
And some things ARE broken without IE. (I've not done anythign with it, just heard about second hand experiences)
MMO Players have noticed and complained for months because of the game economies being ruined because of the sweat shops and whatnot... Or at least my MMO playing friends have, anyway.
Awww, damn. I was thinking that was a unique idea.... Oh well.
We could make planets into recordable surfaces... Just make the entire surface even and burn holes into the surface with a laser... CDs on a scale billions of times larger. Now all we have to do is figure out how to stop erosion/volcanic motion/etc.