I think my favorite call was from a guy wondering why his DSL wasn't working. He was calling from Houston DURING Hurricane Rita - I could hear the background noise and his wife yelling at him to "come down here" - and I have no idea how his phone was working at that point.
After I explained that sometimes DSL can experience downtime during a hurricane, he then demanded I send a tech out that evening.
Actually, on WinXP, what he describes is exactly what happens. You select the first folder and drag it onto the second one and you get this prompt. Selecting "Yes" merges the parent folder and prompts again for any nested folder, selecting "Yes to all" merges the parent folder and all nested folders. No prompts for individual files, and no shift-clicking involved. Are you sure he's the one who is using outdated info here?
They also allow people to defend themselves against opponents who would otherwise be able to overpower them. A 120 lb woman stands very little chance against a 220 lb male mugger, for instance, but that same woman can easily use a 14 oz handgun to level the playing field and protect herself.
I have two separate x servers so I actually can run a game fullscreen (not maximized in a window) on one and move my mouse over to the other for gaim/firefox/amarok etc. That's clever. I'll have to figure out how to try that whenever I go back - Thanks for the tip.
And I never hear about my friends on Linux being able to play games so effortlessly as you make it sound - I guess that makes you a magical exception too!
Just saying you hear a lot of complaining about crashing from Windows users of WoW is a given - probably 95% of WoW players use Windows, and of those players, chances are good that many of them are clueless users whose systems are crashing from the 10 million other crapware programs they have installed - which, I suppose, you could argue is a fault of Windows in general, but does little to back your view up on Windows gaming.
For the record... I know about Cedega. But why would I pay an additional monthly fee to play games on an OS that has already given me gaming issues when I could play them on Windows for free? Unless you consider the other advantages of Linux worth the cost of convenient gaming plus five bucks a month, it is not a compelling argument.
Also, your assumption of ignorance on my part does little to persuade me of your views - if anything, it would make people more hostile. Perhaps more people would be "informed" if the "informers" were a bit more polite and less presumptuous..
I've tried switching to Linux 3 times... each time end up sticking with Windows just for the games =/ I'll try again soon, I'm sure, but every time I try there's something that goes wrong, and I don't even play the latest games. (Right now most of my time is spent in World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, and Oblivion.)
I don't think lack of choice is being toted as a good thing. But right now, for those of us who enjoy PC gaming, Linux just can't compare from what I've seen.
(side note: I run dual monitors and have WoW in windowed-maximized mode, usually browsing the web and/or IMing in between pulls while raiding. have yet to get a crash from that game.)
tortuous (adj):
1. full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
2. not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech; intricate; circuitous: tortuous negotiations lasting for months.
3. deceitfully indirect or morally crooked, as proceedings, methods, or policy; devious.
I use OOo at home and sometimes at work and I notice a horrible slowdown when using Calc. I've no complaints about Write, but Calc needs to speed up. When I can load the same large spreadsheet in 30 seconds in Excel vs. 2-3 minutes in Calc, it's a deal-breaker - and I'm not including application load time here, just the opening of the document. I've also noticed that Calc is much slower at loading information from other spreadsheets than Excel is.
Answer me this, Microsoft fan boys, why do I have to buy a computer with an O/S I will never use? Not a Microsoft fanboy, but shouldn't you be asking the hardware manufacturers who aren't selling Linux-based computers this question? Seems kind of odd to go up to a software manufacturer and yell, "Why is everyone using your product?!"
Not sure if it's the case with Comcast, but with AT%T the setup page where you create your account (which is needed if you ever want to authenticate and connect) also downloads a package of nasty crapware onto your computer that's not obviously optional.
So then why does the article say "Christians," and not "Fundamentalist Protestants?" It's naive to say that all Christians aren't immediately lumped in with the wackos by this kind of headline.
I keep hearing these things, and every few months I go "Okay, I'm gonna sit down and install Linux and learn how all this stuff works." So I go to some board, ask what a good distro to use is, since I'm a total Linux n00b, install said distro, proceed to bang my head into a wall as I try to work through endless problems, then give up and go back to Windows. This is the reason that I've never gotten into Linux.
So what's my problem? I know computers, I'm a geek, I use free software over proprietary whenever I can, I should fit the bill for a potential Linux user, right?. So please, tell me how the hell I can get Linux running and playing my games and my music. And for once, make it at least somewhat simple.
Exactly. When I saw they'd be ceasing support for 98 and ME I rejoiced, because I can't think of a way that even our managers will be able to come up with a justification to support software the VENDOR won't even touch.
exactly. So if I'm tired of the game, I could sell my copy of the game to my neighbor so he doesn't have to buy a new copy from the store - I'd just have to delete my characters first.
ID covers only the beginning of things... i.e, where it came from. Comparing ID to evolution is comparing apples to oranges... ID is better compared to, say, abiogenesis, or the Big Bang, etc... after that, ID uses the same science everyone else does. Evolution's starting points aren't any more testable than ID's.
Just wondering... how does this disprove ID? I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible or in ID theory that says that there's no such thing as a lungfish, eel-fish, amphibian, or anything else this remarkable...
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Perhaps... Jonathan Coulton? He recently stated that he is now making more money off his music annually than he did working as a software engineer.
I think my favorite call was from a guy wondering why his DSL wasn't working. He was calling from Houston DURING Hurricane Rita - I could hear the background noise and his wife yelling at him to "come down here" - and I have no idea how his phone was working at that point. After I explained that sometimes DSL can experience downtime during a hurricane, he then demanded I send a tech out that evening.
Actually, on WinXP, what he describes is exactly what happens. You select the first folder and drag it onto the second one and you get this prompt. Selecting "Yes" merges the parent folder and prompts again for any nested folder, selecting "Yes to all" merges the parent folder and all nested folders. No prompts for individual files, and no shift-clicking involved. Are you sure he's the one who is using outdated info here?
They also allow people to defend themselves against opponents who would otherwise be able to overpower them. A 120 lb woman stands very little chance against a 220 lb male mugger, for instance, but that same woman can easily use a 14 oz handgun to level the playing field and protect herself.
Did you see the alternative?
Isn't that what we all assumed about "unlimited" bandwidth as recently as three or four years ago?
And I never hear about my friends on Linux being able to play games so effortlessly as you make it sound - I guess that makes you a magical exception too!
Just saying you hear a lot of complaining about crashing from Windows users of WoW is a given - probably 95% of WoW players use Windows, and of those players, chances are good that many of them are clueless users whose systems are crashing from the 10 million other crapware programs they have installed - which, I suppose, you could argue is a fault of Windows in general, but does little to back your view up on Windows gaming.
For the record... I know about Cedega. But why would I pay an additional monthly fee to play games on an OS that has already given me gaming issues when I could play them on Windows for free? Unless you consider the other advantages of Linux worth the cost of convenient gaming plus five bucks a month, it is not a compelling argument.
Also, your assumption of ignorance on my part does little to persuade me of your views - if anything, it would make people more hostile. Perhaps more people would be "informed" if the "informers" were a bit more polite and less presumptuous..
I don't think lack of choice is being toted as a good thing. But right now, for those of us who enjoy PC gaming, Linux just can't compare from what I've seen.
(side note: I run dual monitors and have WoW in windowed-maximized mode, usually browsing the web and/or IMing in between pulls while raiding. have yet to get a crash from that game.)
tortuous (adj):
1. full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
2. not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech; intricate; circuitous: tortuous negotiations lasting for months.
3. deceitfully indirect or morally crooked, as proceedings, methods, or policy; devious.
Maybe he did mean tortuous.
Where are mod points when you need them? This is the best reply I've seen in this thread.
I use OOo at home and sometimes at work and I notice a horrible slowdown when using Calc. I've no complaints about Write, but Calc needs to speed up. When I can load the same large spreadsheet in 30 seconds in Excel vs. 2-3 minutes in Calc, it's a deal-breaker - and I'm not including application load time here, just the opening of the document. I've also noticed that Calc is much slower at loading information from other spreadsheets than Excel is.
Do you have a copy of the contract being broken? I'd like to see what its exact terms were.
Not sure if it's the case with Comcast, but with AT%T the setup page where you create your account (which is needed if you ever want to authenticate and connect) also downloads a package of nasty crapware onto your computer that's not obviously optional.
So... the SUVs the dinosaurs drove brought about their extinction, then?
So then why does the article say "Christians," and not "Fundamentalist Protestants?" It's naive to say that all Christians aren't immediately lumped in with the wackos by this kind of headline.
Agreed, I picked up my first tech support job at 18 and went from there. I learned a hell of a lot in that environment.
I keep hearing these things, and every few months I go "Okay, I'm gonna sit down and install Linux and learn how all this stuff works." So I go to some board, ask what a good distro to use is, since I'm a total Linux n00b, install said distro, proceed to bang my head into a wall as I try to work through endless problems, then give up and go back to Windows. This is the reason that I've never gotten into Linux. So what's my problem? I know computers, I'm a geek, I use free software over proprietary whenever I can, I should fit the bill for a potential Linux user, right?. So please, tell me how the hell I can get Linux running and playing my games and my music. And for once, make it at least somewhat simple.
Exactly. When I saw they'd be ceasing support for 98 and ME I rejoiced, because I can't think of a way that even our managers will be able to come up with a justification to support software the VENDOR won't even touch.
exactly. So if I'm tired of the game, I could sell my copy of the game to my neighbor so he doesn't have to buy a new copy from the store - I'd just have to delete my characters first.
I don't see what's contradictory about that.
ID covers only the beginning of things... i.e, where it came from. Comparing ID to evolution is comparing apples to oranges... ID is better compared to, say, abiogenesis, or the Big Bang, etc... after that, ID uses the same science everyone else does. Evolution's starting points aren't any more testable than ID's.
Just wondering... how does this disprove ID? I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible or in ID theory that says that there's no such thing as a lungfish, eel-fish, amphibian, or anything else this remarkable...
What are you talking about? He drops an epic robe and trinket.