Off topic, I know, but does anyone know how to get Opera's tabs to behave like Firefox's with the tabbed browser preferences plugin? Opera's tab behavior is the only think keeping me from switching completely.
I guess I'm in the minority here -- but I don't agree at all.
Movies are too loud for me, and concerts are DEFINITELY too loud. I hate to go to one without earplugs. It's like the music is so loud I can't hear it. It would sound great if it were more quiet.
On my windows machine, I used to switch between IE and Firefox. I liked FF a lot better, but some pages just wouldn't display in it properly. However! Then I found Opera! So far for me, everything renders just fine in Opera. In fact, with just a sturdy hosts file, Opera blocks a lot of ads, and runs great. If I could figure out how to make its tabs behave like FF I would have switched over to Opera completely.
That said, it would make A LOT of sense for MS to buy Opera, but I'd hate to see them do it. It'd be perfect, really. Seperate IE totally, and bundle opera. I'd just hate to see them implement active x, or god knows what else.
You bet. First thing I do on a windows machine is un-hide file extentions, system files, and hidden files. And also stop caching thumbnails -- but that's a different problem.
I didn't mean to insinuate that a game could only be artistic in a visual or aural way... but sometimes videogames qualify as art based on those criteria. I think that anytime someone puts something human in a peice of work, something genuine, it can be art. In Tetris' case, it's an intuitive and fun game that appeals to most everyone and is fun to play. I would call that art as well.
I just think that even when based on the criteria of a movie, book, picture, or peice of music video games frequently succede in being art. To quote Ebert directly:
"to my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers."
What makes art worthy? That could largely be a matter of opinion, and in my opinion he is wrong about that. I know of some beautiful and artisitic videogames. I wasn't saying that art can only be defined by those terms, but that some video games certainly are art according to Ebert's criteria.
I agree. While there's nothing artistic about Burnout 3, and there's nothing artistic about countless Diablo 2 runs, some games contain sweeping scenary, beautiful music, timeless storytelling, and wonderful character developement. Sure, those games that integrate all those factors are few and far between, but they're still there.
I think on you surface, you're definitely right. I don't really care if people know what I'm doing. I don't think most people care specifically about that. What they care about is what can be done with the information. When it comes to things like genetic screening for health care, or political sanctions for religous beliefs the problems people have with lack of privacy become apparent. When it's something mundane like if microsoft knows you're playing a video game it becomes harder to present an actual scenario where that might be a problem.
I think, however, it might be fair to say that when it comes to invasion of privacy it turns sour so often and so easily that people are bitter and cynical about it in general. Sure, it doesn't matter if microsoft knows what I'm doing on my X-Box, but that begs the question, why do they need to know and what will they be doing with that information?
Indeed. It's only the home versions that are terrible. McAfee Enterprise 8 is just plain wonderful, and symantec corporate 10 is pretty good too. However norton internet security, and mcafee security center are just plain worthless. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the corporate and enterprise versions don't really cost anything more than the home versions. Why do they even sell the home versions? they're worthless.
Yeah. It's no fun to simulate the drudgery of real life. Work all day just to barely have enough time to sleep. Weee, what a fun game. Why clean my sim's house, when I could just clean my real house and improve myself.
I'm really not sure what the difference is, but the music CDs I made back when CDRs were expensive ($10 for 5) still work great for me... that's like back in 99 - 00. Now, newer CDs seem to go bad in a 3-6 months. Not sure why.
There are many who argue that art is what makes us human. Art, in at least some form, is crucial to life, I would say. Also, I've never stolen any music -- I've just violated copyright many times.
People say "the world is a rough place, get used to it."
That's bullshit. The world doesn't have to a tough place. Sure everyone will face terrible hardhips, but that's not what you're talking about. You're talking about flat out misanthropy. The truth of the world doesn't have to be a bad place. People that give up, or become too cynical are the ones that help make it a bad place. To me, this is totally unacceptable.
Your comment isn't so much racist as it is hateful. Does someone deserve to suffer because they were born unlucky, or because they're uneducated and poor? I'm not saying socialism or capitalism have the answer, and I don't know what the answer is, but the answer is certainly not callous disregard.
"According to checks with Apple Store Specialists, Wolf also said a larger than expected percentage of Windows to Mac converts appear to be purchasing Apple's higher-end systems and that their transition is fueled by the epidemic of viruses and malware on the Windows platform."
I work at my college's computer help desk, we see ruined windows machines all the time. At my college, at lot of kids are switching because of adware, spyware, malware, viruses, etc. Honestly, people who are relatively computer illiterate really can't seem to use windows without ruining it. I'm not suggesting it's their fault, but it's really gotten so bad that if a person's getting a new computer and they're not really good with computers I always reccomend a Mac to them.
Not only that, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to fix windows XP machines these days. A year and a half ago, it seemed just a few scans would fix them right up, now we're reformatting many machines simply because it's much easier and much quicker than try to fix them.
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Off topic, I know, but does anyone know how to get Opera's tabs to behave like Firefox's with the tabbed browser preferences plugin? Opera's tab behavior is the only think keeping me from switching completely.
Movies are too loud for me, and concerts are DEFINITELY too loud. I hate to go to one without earplugs. It's like the music is so loud I can't hear it. It would sound great if it were more quiet.
Indeed. I've got a friend who crammed 10.3.9 onto an old 300 mhz, 128 mb Ram clamshell, and while it wasn't quick by any measure, it still ran ok.
Is anyone here good at math? I'm not.
That said, it would make A LOT of sense for MS to buy Opera, but I'd hate to see them do it. It'd be perfect, really. Seperate IE totally, and bundle opera. I'd just hate to see them implement active x, or god knows what else.
My bank actually just recently migrated away from supporting only IE. Yours, and others will hopefully have to follow suit.
Abortion clinic bombing!
I thought they were both bad?
You bet. First thing I do on a windows machine is un-hide file extentions, system files, and hidden files. And also stop caching thumbnails -- but that's a different problem.
I just think that even when based on the criteria of a movie, book, picture, or peice of music video games frequently succede in being art. To quote Ebert directly:
"to my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers."
What makes art worthy? That could largely be a matter of opinion, and in my opinion he is wrong about that. I know of some beautiful and artisitic videogames. I wasn't saying that art can only be defined by those terms, but that some video games certainly are art according to Ebert's criteria.
I agree. While there's nothing artistic about Burnout 3, and there's nothing artistic about countless Diablo 2 runs, some games contain sweeping scenary, beautiful music, timeless storytelling, and wonderful character developement. Sure, those games that integrate all those factors are few and far between, but they're still there.
I think, however, it might be fair to say that when it comes to invasion of privacy it turns sour so often and so easily that people are bitter and cynical about it in general. Sure, it doesn't matter if microsoft knows what I'm doing on my X-Box, but that begs the question, why do they need to know and what will they be doing with that information?
Indeed. It's only the home versions that are terrible. McAfee Enterprise 8 is just plain wonderful, and symantec corporate 10 is pretty good too. However norton internet security, and mcafee security center are just plain worthless. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the corporate and enterprise versions don't really cost anything more than the home versions. Why do they even sell the home versions? they're worthless.
Yeah. It's no fun to simulate the drudgery of real life. Work all day just to barely have enough time to sleep. Weee, what a fun game. Why clean my sim's house, when I could just clean my real house and improve myself.
Really? Says who? I certainly don't think that.
NoScript is great. I wouldn't surf without it again. Also, what the hell is this site supposed to do? 'Cause it didn't do a thing for me.
I'm really not sure what the difference is, but the music CDs I made back when CDRs were expensive ($10 for 5) still work great for me ... that's like back in 99 - 00. Now, newer CDs seem to go bad in a 3-6 months. Not sure why.
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I'm not talking about sales, just my personal opinion.
There are many who argue that art is what makes us human. Art, in at least some form, is crucial to life, I would say. Also, I've never stolen any music -- I've just violated copyright many times.
Final Fantasy's really gone downhill anyhow. Who cares?
People say "the world is a rough place, get used to it."
That's bullshit. The world doesn't have to a tough place. Sure everyone will face terrible hardhips, but that's not what you're talking about. You're talking about flat out misanthropy. The truth of the world doesn't have to be a bad place. People that give up, or become too cynical are the ones that help make it a bad place. To me, this is totally unacceptable.
Your comment isn't so much racist as it is hateful. Does someone deserve to suffer because they were born unlucky, or because they're uneducated and poor? I'm not saying socialism or capitalism have the answer, and I don't know what the answer is, but the answer is certainly not callous disregard.
"According to checks with Apple Store Specialists, Wolf also said a larger than expected percentage of Windows to Mac converts appear to be purchasing Apple's higher-end systems and that their transition is fueled by the epidemic of viruses and malware on the Windows platform."
I work at my college's computer help desk, we see ruined windows machines all the time. At my college, at lot of kids are switching because of adware, spyware, malware, viruses, etc. Honestly, people who are relatively computer illiterate really can't seem to use windows without ruining it. I'm not suggesting it's their fault, but it's really gotten so bad that if a person's getting a new computer and they're not really good with computers I always reccomend a Mac to them.
Not only that, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to fix windows XP machines these days. A year and a half ago, it seemed just a few scans would fix them right up, now we're reformatting many machines simply because it's much easier and much quicker than try to fix them.
Hooray!