It's nice to see the voice of reason. I can't count the number of tree-hugging hippies I hear complaints from in Alaska, land of wolf slaughtering, logging, and hunting/fishing. Many people seem to think that by simply not polluting we can save the planet, but there are far more difficult logistics involved. Everything is a tradeoff, and personally, I'm willing to accept the pollution we have accrued in exchange for the biomedical technology and overall longer lifespans and higher quality of life that we have recieved. Show me a caveman at "one" with mother nature that lives to 90 and maybe I'll change my mind.
This is probably the most logical solution, but what would happen to all those famous songs like "Working 9 to 5"? Working 14:00 to 22:00 just doesn't have the same ring.
it's almost to the point where you can only accept cash these days, but you gotta check that with a money pen or check it to be legit. you got stolen checks, fake checks, counterfiet money, everything.. what's the world coming to?
It's the same as the world has always been. There will always be evil and/or immoral people circumventing the system. This isn't new, but every generation seems to think it is. There is a reason that doors, locks, guard dogs, clubs, guns, and home/business security systems were invented, and there's a reason there'll always be a need for honorable people to defend themselves against dishonorable people. Retail is no different.
I think this is more an issue of awareness and education than age. There are plenty of "old-fart" gamers and techies. The problem is that the average person simply doesn't understand the technology that their children are playing on. Anyone can learn to use a computer (and I mean ANYONE). The problem is, people are too lazy to learn new tricks, and lash out against something they have ABSOLUTELY no idea about (i.e., Hot Coffee and how accessible it is) As users become more educated, this will change, but for the most part people don't care to learn.
...Law Enforcement officers are trained never to rationalise, never to second guess, and to always assume that they're right.
Someone needs to stop watching T.V. Yes, there are dirty, lazy cops out there. The majority, however, are not. They follow the rules, because if they don't, criminals get off on technicalities. If anything, in my experience working closely with law enforcement personnel in the past, they are more apt to be sticklers for the rules and far less involved with gut instinct. Unfortunately, the majority of people think they know how it works because of the number of T.V. shows they've watched.
But the debate is about what is taught in schools. Teaching should rely on known facts, not every wild thought coming out of someones head. If Christianity was the minority in the U.S., and a directly opposing view was the majority, would YOU want it to be taught in schools? It's not just about only teaching evolution, it's about not taking sides in religion. To be fair, they must all be avoided in school, and focused in their respective place of worship.
I really don't see this as an issue at all. Most children that play MMORPG's play on their parent's accounts, or on their own account with their parents. MMORPG's are surprisingly more familay inclusive than other genre's. Because of this, I don't see there being a huge decline, as many of the parents will still play.
Additionally, with 3.5 million players, losing even 500,000 minors isn't going to crush Blizzard. Hell, they are having a hard enough time hiring enough people to keep their servers up in the first place due to such high demand. It might be a nice break for the admins.
Because a main window can be wrapped around a program easily enough, and provide fullscreen, resolution, and basic control. Then, the code is portable to another platform without alterations. It would be a very minimal learning curve, and not require them to learn win, *nix, or mac based api's.
Depends on the complexity of the game. There's a certain amount of speed loss involved, and if they're working in 3D it may not be an option. However, if it is a basic shareware low graphic game, it's a good solution.
For running a cross platform API, I'd suggest Qt. It is free for OSS dev's and a license for commercial is like 1500 USD if I remember correctly. It's very quick to learn and also supports OpenGL addons etc. Ports code to Mac, Win, and *nix.
I have to agree. The benefits of 9.3 are very nice. Overall SuSE is a very stable distro with a lot of simplicity. Yes, I could use Slackware, Gentoo, etc, and have, but making life a little easier isn't always a bad thing. Especially if you know how to do it the hard way already.
This is probably one of the best moves Novell can make for both themselves and the OSS community. As Linux gains popularity, corporations are wanting to move to open source apps, but want corporate backing and support. This gives Novell the flexibility of both tracks, and offers another stable solution for enterprise level business.
I think you missed the point. The phrase referred to the current release build of DOS from Microsoft not being finished until they had broken Lotus 123 compatibility. TFA had nothing to do with the obsolescence of DOS.
Yes, ONE textbook is cheaper than a PDA. But 2-3 and you've passed the margin. The big deal here is that these Pocket PC's can hold far more knowledge than a single textbook, and the cost becomes more and more beneficial as more e-books are added.
If anything, I think that WoW has shown that the PC gaming industry is alive and well. The real thing that has diminished PC games has been the lack of good games recently as opposed to the slightly older and easily moddables. Games can last quite a while, provided they have a good modding community. There just haven't been that many games out recently that were worth the 50 bucks and have taken advantage of the PC's differences.
But we here at/. are not average users. The masses, however ignorant or educated, are what determine the future of goods, and as we all know, the masses are easily decieved.
That's where the I belive came in. I apologize for the mistake on the UK. Blame my ignorant Americanized views (no sarcasm intended). I do know that different versions were released to support local laws, but apparently the locale I remembered was off. Please forgive me, it's been a few years since Fallout.
Not giving further choice means less headache for us when it comes to supporting our product.
And this is precisely the reason that there is a problem. Coding to Microsoft's vision of standards continues to propagate compatibility issues. The simple fact is that Firefox is growing, and growing fast. Making the shift before it's too late is a lot less likely to anger those over you than saying "We just felt it was too much of a headache to bother before." It's these decisions that often determine future employment.
Ok, I see the humor was missed, but seriously... The only time I reboot is at power outtages (And only long ones where my UPS is used up). How is this a superior feature?
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It's nice to see the voice of reason. I can't count the number of tree-hugging hippies I hear complaints from in Alaska, land of wolf slaughtering, logging, and hunting/fishing. Many people seem to think that by simply not polluting we can save the planet, but there are far more difficult logistics involved. Everything is a tradeoff, and personally, I'm willing to accept the pollution we have accrued in exchange for the biomedical technology and overall longer lifespans and higher quality of life that we have recieved. Show me a caveman at "one" with mother nature that lives to 90 and maybe I'll change my mind.
This is probably the most logical solution, but what would happen to all those famous songs like "Working 9 to 5"? Working 14:00 to 22:00 just doesn't have the same ring.
it's almost to the point where you can only accept cash these days, but you gotta check that with a money pen or check it to be legit. you got stolen checks, fake checks, counterfiet money, everything.. what's the world coming to?
It's the same as the world has always been. There will always be evil and/or immoral people circumventing the system. This isn't new, but every generation seems to think it is. There is a reason that doors, locks, guard dogs, clubs, guns, and home/business security systems were invented, and there's a reason there'll always be a need for honorable people to defend themselves against dishonorable people. Retail is no different.
I think this is more an issue of awareness and education than age. There are plenty of "old-fart" gamers and techies. The problem is that the average person simply doesn't understand the technology that their children are playing on. Anyone can learn to use a computer (and I mean ANYONE). The problem is, people are too lazy to learn new tricks, and lash out against something they have ABSOLUTELY no idea about (i.e., Hot Coffee and how accessible it is) As users become more educated, this will change, but for the most part people don't care to learn.
...Law Enforcement officers are trained never to rationalise, never to second guess, and to always assume that they're right.
Someone needs to stop watching T.V. Yes, there are dirty, lazy cops out there. The majority, however, are not. They follow the rules, because if they don't, criminals get off on technicalities. If anything, in my experience working closely with law enforcement personnel in the past, they are more apt to be sticklers for the rules and far less involved with gut instinct. Unfortunately, the majority of people think they know how it works because of the number of T.V. shows they've watched.
But the debate is about what is taught in schools. Teaching should rely on known facts, not every wild thought coming out of someones head. If Christianity was the minority in the U.S., and a directly opposing view was the majority, would YOU want it to be taught in schools? It's not just about only teaching evolution, it's about not taking sides in religion. To be fair, they must all be avoided in school, and focused in their respective place of worship.
I use Yahoo Music Unlimited (beta); it's $5.00/month (or $0.79/song), which I believe is the cheapest service out there right now.
Well, allofmp3 is pretty cheap at ~ $0.02/MB, even if it does take advantage of current international law.
I really don't see this as an issue at all. Most children that play MMORPG's play on their parent's accounts, or on their own account with their parents. MMORPG's are surprisingly more familay inclusive than other genre's. Because of this, I don't see there being a huge decline, as many of the parents will still play.
Additionally, with 3.5 million players, losing even 500,000 minors isn't going to crush Blizzard. Hell, they are having a hard enough time hiring enough people to keep their servers up in the first place due to such high demand. It might be a nice break for the admins.
That's true though. Trying to use the video in side running WinXP in VMWare was fairly difficult, and not worth it.
Because a main window can be wrapped around a program easily enough, and provide fullscreen, resolution, and basic control. Then, the code is portable to another platform without alterations. It would be a very minimal learning curve, and not require them to learn win, *nix, or mac based api's.
Sorry, by not being an option I meant "so slow it isn't worth it." Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Depends on the complexity of the game. There's a certain amount of speed loss involved, and if they're working in 3D it may not be an option. However, if it is a basic shareware low graphic game, it's a good solution.
For running a cross platform API, I'd suggest Qt. It is free for OSS dev's and a license for commercial is like 1500 USD if I remember correctly. It's very quick to learn and also supports OpenGL addons etc. Ports code to Mac, Win, and *nix.
You could try booting SuSE and VM'ing Windows. Works great for me :D
I have to agree. The benefits of 9.3 are very nice. Overall SuSE is a very stable distro with a lot of simplicity. Yes, I could use Slackware, Gentoo, etc, and have, but making life a little easier isn't always a bad thing. Especially if you know how to do it the hard way already.
This is probably one of the best moves Novell can make for both themselves and the OSS community. As Linux gains popularity, corporations are wanting to move to open source apps, but want corporate backing and support. This gives Novell the flexibility of both tracks, and offers another stable solution for enterprise level business.
I think you missed the point. The phrase referred to the current release build of DOS from Microsoft not being finished until they had broken Lotus 123 compatibility. TFA had nothing to do with the obsolescence of DOS.
Yes, ONE textbook is cheaper than a PDA. But 2-3 and you've passed the margin. The big deal here is that these Pocket PC's can hold far more knowledge than a single textbook, and the cost becomes more and more beneficial as more e-books are added.
If anything, I think that WoW has shown that the PC gaming industry is alive and well. The real thing that has diminished PC games has been the lack of good games recently as opposed to the slightly older and easily moddables. Games can last quite a while, provided they have a good modding community. There just haven't been that many games out recently that were worth the 50 bucks and have taken advantage of the PC's differences.
But we here at /. are not average users. The masses, however ignorant or educated, are what determine the future of goods, and as we all know, the masses are easily decieved.
That's where the I belive came in. I apologize for the mistake on the UK. Blame my ignorant Americanized views (no sarcasm intended). I do know that different versions were released to support local laws, but apparently the locale I remembered was off. Please forgive me, it's been a few years since Fallout.
That's because the projects they work on are cpu hogs.
And this is precisely the reason that there is a problem. Coding to Microsoft's vision of standards continues to propagate compatibility issues. The simple fact is that Firefox is growing, and growing fast. Making the shift before it's too late is a lot less likely to anger those over you than saying "We just felt it was too much of a headache to bother before." It's these decisions that often determine future employment.
I don't run windows, so no.
Ok, I see the humor was missed, but seriously... The only time I reboot is at power outtages (And only long ones where my UPS is used up). How is this a superior feature?