E-Paper has been in the works for a long time now and hasn't delivered on the promises. I doubt we'll have paper-quality E-Paper anytime soon. Besides, the print industry plants more trees than it cuts down and uses lots of recycled paper:)
When demand for power drives it price up, smart investors will look into cheaper alternatives to power-hungry CPUs. Of course that will never happen until full deregulation is allowed to bring a free market to life.
Lots of sarcasm and no point. Hmm... Fanboi much?
PP asked what point there is in having multiple standards; I exemplified the first 3 things that came to my mind as "stuff" that comes in varying shapes and forms and whose availability in said different forms is a good thing.
What's "the" standard programming language?
What's "the" standard webserver?
What's "the" standard OS?
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I'd like to add that there is a forth party involved and it's the one all we sysadmins hate - the cracker who's hired by the spammer to root boxen left and right. I believe most people trying to break into my server are looking for a compromisable host to set up a mail server.
On an unrelated note, has anyone else noticed a huge drop in the effectiveness of greylisting as a spam countermeasure? I used to receive close to zero spam messages up until 2-3 weeks ago and suddenly they're flooding me! Any hint?
Aw come on, how can you be offended by somebody *realizing* you're a foreigner? There's nothing wrong with not being a native speaker, as long as you make an effort to learn the language of the culture that's hosting you (ok, a bit of a stretch in the case of a web board). And of course I have experienced it, I wasn't born speaking English:) and I still speak with an accent. If anybody notices that and makes fun of it, well, I'll laugh along because to their ears it IS funny! I'll do the same when they try to speak my language. All in good fun, really.
Of course, people nitpicking while you speak and only considering you an error-spewing machine are dicks but, I believe that was not going on here.
You are visting an English-speaking board and as such you are expected to speak decent English. I am not a native English speaker but I do the best I can to pass off as one. On an Italian board I'd expect visitors to speak decent Italian. What's wrong with that?
Besides, PP was innocently making fun of GP and I don't think anybody but you, not even GP himself, was offended by the mockery. Maybe you could try to be a little less PC and have a bit more fun?
There is such a humungous difference between this "second world" and the third world that they don't really compare - it just doesn't make sense, they're not even in the same league. Unless I misunderstand you and by second world you do not mean most countries in Eastern Europe and some in South America.
Well that's just flat out wrong. This story is about people playing Halo. They were doing it with console controllers. Halo is an FPS. There for, playing an FPS on a controller is clearly possible. You might think a keyboard and mouse is better, that hardly means that using a controller is impossible. It is not possible and they are not *playing* an FPS. They're taking part in a make-believe marketing move by MS or Sony.
Now lots of people play FPSs on consoles, and they seem to be enjoying themselves, so I don't think theres anything wrong with using a controller. I do think using a keyboard and mouse is better, if by better we mean provides faster response times. In any multiplayer game, where half the players were using K/M and half controllers, the K/M guys would win every time, all other things being equal. Exactly! So whay the hell are you still arguing? K/M is superior, end of discussion.
On the other hand, I think controllers have some advantages over K/M. My consoles are all in my living room, and I play games sitting on my couch. I don't have a desk in front of my TV, so there's nowhere to put a K/M. Try balancing a keyboard on your lap and running you mouse on the cushion next to you. Comfortable? Thought not. I also prefer a thumbstick to WASD. What does that have to do with gaming? I thought it was all about, you know, playing rather than choosing what to sit on.
But really, why does it matter? As the OP said, why do we have to keep having this stupid argument? You like the K/M, dislike the controller. OP likes controllers. I'm happy with either. Why does each side feel the need to not only say "I like x" but to also insist "because y is inferior"? I feel like I'm back in the playground arguing about C64s and Spectrums. Because I wouldn't like X more, if Y were superior. The reason I use X rather than Y is *precisely* that it is superior.
AH, so you are the final arbiter of who is and isn't a gamer? Wow. Am I a gamer? I've been playing video games for twenty years, but I like some console FPSs, so I might fail your test. Perhaps you mean he isn't a PC gamer? Are PC gamers the one true gamer clan, to whom all others are inferior? Are those who are unwilling or unable to drop stupid amounts of cash on new graphics cards and processors supposed to keep quiet and never offer an opinion? Should they just kneel in supplication and reverence before their PC gaming overlords? A-yup, you fail.
I'm not even sure what this means? Where exactly did he say he was trying to be like you? He said that when he whined because real gamers consider him inferior. Which is the same thing you're doing.
No, we really, really do NOT need to stop explaining why it's impossible to play an FPS with a console controller. I'm sorry, but the fact that it makes you feel bad does not mean it's not true. Aiming with such controller basically means waiting while your weapon travels towards the point you want it to be. Using a mouse makes you jump to the desired point. Yeah technically it still travels all the way to the destination but it's instantaneous if you know how to play.
Which you obviously do not know, because *you* *are* *not* *a* *gamer*. Deal with it. Besides, if you dislike us so much, as you say, then why the hell do you strive to be just like us?
Uhm no, no we don't. If you don't vote for guy X how can you be held responsible for his actions? Besides, elections bear no relevance as to what will actually happen once someone is in power.
I concur wholeheartedly and I have to add that I've been TV free for a few years at least by now. Sometimes I can't join a conversation where recent TV-related stuff is being discussed but that kind of conversation is lame anyway, so I don't care. Something unpleasant that has happened, however, is that over time I have lost the ability to tune out TVs in the environment; every time I go somewhere where a big TV is on, I keep gazing over to it and back. It's like I am way more sensitive to moving pictures in the background now. Pretty annoying!
WOAH there don't you dare call me pro-EU ever again! *All for it*?! What are you on? Quite a few people strongly oppose this unionistic crap. All we wanted was a unified currency and easier circulation - in short, the EC + the Euro. What happened after that is definitely not our fault.
No, the real, original meaning was to kill 1 out of every 10 soldiers, usually after grave misconduct on their part, and using a *stick* if I'm not wrong. Oh and you would be killed by the other 9 guys in your group.
No, he was referring to Goedel's theorem whereby any sufficiently complex system is unable to describe itself. Thus, being able to understand/describe ourselves completely would mean that we are not very complex. I hold the opposite view, i.e. we will not be able to describe ourselves fully precisely because we are too complex, but Goedel's theroem might be proven wrong in the future. That'd be great news for transhumanists.
Actually, I believe that in China https traffic must be authorized and your keys deposited at some gov't-controlled entity. It is then possible to detect unauthorized encrypted traffic (because it can't be decrypted) and ban *that* specifically. Not in real time, of course.
What the heck would you use this for? I doubt you're going to burn 45Gb while on the move, and for backup purposes HDs are way cheaper. Of course you need to rotate them, but then again I wouldn't expect a consumer-grade BR-W (sp?) to last longer than a couple of years.
Oh, so basically "what you want them to do" is somehow "right", I see. That of course is reason enough to force people into doing it, against their wishes.
I have no idea what went on between the US gov't and this MaBell you speak of, but I would have opposed it if it involved regulating a private company.
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E-Paper has been in the works for a long time now and hasn't delivered on the promises. I doubt we'll have paper-quality E-Paper anytime soon. Besides, the print industry plants more trees than it cuts down and uses lots of recycled paper :)
When demand for power drives it price up, smart investors will look into cheaper alternatives to power-hungry CPUs. Of course that will never happen until full deregulation is allowed to bring a free market to life.
Lots of sarcasm and no point. Hmm... Fanboi much?
PP asked what point there is in having multiple standards; I exemplified the first 3 things that came to my mind as "stuff" that comes in varying shapes and forms and whose availability in said different forms is a good thing.
What's "the" standard programming language?
What's "the" standard webserver?
What's "the" standard OS?
I'd like to add that there is a forth party involved and it's the one all we sysadmins hate - the cracker who's hired by the spammer to root boxen left and right. I believe most people trying to break into my server are looking for a compromisable host to set up a mail server.
On an unrelated note, has anyone else noticed a huge drop in the effectiveness of greylisting as a spam countermeasure? I used to receive close to zero spam messages up until 2-3 weeks ago and suddenly they're flooding me! Any hint?
Aw come on, how can you be offended by somebody *realizing* you're a foreigner? There's nothing wrong with not being a native speaker, as long as you make an effort to learn the language of the culture that's hosting you (ok, a bit of a stretch in the case of a web board). And of course I have experienced it, I wasn't born speaking English :) and I still speak with an accent. If anybody notices that and makes fun of it, well, I'll laugh along because to their ears it IS funny! I'll do the same when they try to speak my language. All in good fun, really.
Of course, people nitpicking while you speak and only considering you an error-spewing machine are dicks but, I believe that was not going on here.
+1 The Warriors reference!
You are visting an English-speaking board and as such you are expected to speak decent English. I am not a native English speaker but I do the best I can to pass off as one. On an Italian board I'd expect visitors to speak decent Italian. What's wrong with that?
Besides, PP was innocently making fun of GP and I don't think anybody but you, not even GP himself, was offended by the mockery. Maybe you could try to be a little less PC and have a bit more fun?
There is such a humungous difference between this "second world" and the third world that they don't really compare - it just doesn't make sense, they're not even in the same league. Unless I misunderstand you and by second world you do not mean most countries in Eastern Europe and some in South America.
Thanks for proving you had no point to begin with.
Fuckwit? Cute! Aaaaaaaaand back to anonymous nothingness you go, asshole!
No, we really, really do NOT need to stop explaining why it's impossible to play an FPS with a console controller. I'm sorry, but the fact that it makes you feel bad does not mean it's not true. Aiming with such controller basically means waiting while your weapon travels towards the point you want it to be. Using a mouse makes you jump to the desired point. Yeah technically it still travels all the way to the destination but it's instantaneous if you know how to play.
Which you obviously do not know, because *you* *are* *not* *a* *gamer*. Deal with it. Besides, if you dislike us so much, as you say, then why the hell do you strive to be just like us?
Uhm no, no we don't. If you don't vote for guy X how can you be held responsible for his actions? Besides, elections bear no relevance as to what will actually happen once someone is in power.
I concur wholeheartedly and I have to add that I've been TV free for a few years at least by now. Sometimes I can't join a conversation where recent TV-related stuff is being discussed but that kind of conversation is lame anyway, so I don't care. Something unpleasant that has happened, however, is that over time I have lost the ability to tune out TVs in the environment; every time I go somewhere where a big TV is on, I keep gazing over to it and back. It's like I am way more sensitive to moving pictures in the background now. Pretty annoying!
WOAH there don't you dare call me pro-EU ever again! *All for it*?! What are you on? Quite a few people strongly oppose this unionistic crap. All we wanted was a unified currency and easier circulation - in short, the EC + the Euro. What happened after that is definitely not our fault.
Hotmail runs on BSD. I thought everybody knew it.
No, the real, original meaning was to kill 1 out of every 10 soldiers, usually after grave misconduct on their part, and using a *stick* if I'm not wrong. Oh and you would be killed by the other 9 guys in your group.
No, he was referring to Goedel's theorem whereby any sufficiently complex system is unable to describe itself. Thus, being able to understand/describe ourselves completely would mean that we are not very complex. I hold the opposite view, i.e. we will not be able to describe ourselves fully precisely because we are too complex, but Goedel's theroem might be proven wrong in the future. That'd be great news for transhumanists.
Actually, I believe that in China https traffic must be authorized and your keys deposited at some gov't-controlled entity. It is then possible to detect unauthorized encrypted traffic (because it can't be decrypted) and ban *that* specifically. Not in real time, of course.
What the heck would you use this for? I doubt you're going to burn 45Gb while on the move, and for backup purposes HDs are way cheaper. Of course you need to rotate them, but then again I wouldn't expect a consumer-grade BR-W (sp?) to last longer than a couple of years.
They should ignore it. Happy now? And do you seriously expect a foreigner to be well versed in such issues as some trial against an American company?
Oh, so basically "what you want them to do" is somehow "right", I see. That of course is reason enough to force people into doing it, against their wishes.
I have no idea what went on between the US gov't and this MaBell you speak of, but I would have opposed it if it involved regulating a private company.