copy of Windows XP has the latest hardware drivers for nVidia packaged in it every time you reinstall?
No. When you boot Gutsy with that card you get a black screen. When you boot XP with it, you don't. When you install the latest drivers for it in Gutsy, you have use a terminal. In XP you don't. Sorry about the profanity.
I'm not complaining, I use XP and it's not a big deal for me to continue to use it; all I'm doing is listing my own experiences in response to the parent. I like my nice hardware and I have no problem at all editing a grub.conf every six months to use it with Ubuntu. I don't run a GUI on my servers, I spend hours a day in bash and vim and I'm comfortable at a terminal, but not everybody is. I would be complaining if I said "I can't stand editing config files to make my hardware work." But the way the parent phrased his comment made it sound like he thought the GP was fucking crazy, like it's unheard of to have to go into a terminal to use a graphics card, and I was backing him up. The big bold letters are to highlight shit that an ordinary... we'll go with "gamer," shouldn't have to do were they to try out Ubuntu for the first time, or wanted to finally make the plunge and give up Windows. Or gamer has a sick nasty new GPU and they want to try out this new compiz shit that they've read so much about. Bull shit that the sutff bold was complaining, it's called supporting an argument.
if only 9% of gamers (not people)
Point taken, I guess it would probably be a much smaller percentage of general users who would have hardware like that, even though you're the one who originally said "people." I think you're just not getting my point, though, which is that it's a dick move to make comments like "if you have to edit config files when you set up Ubuntu, then you're an idiot." I'm sick of people making statements like "I've never ever had to edit a config file and I've been using Ubuntu for a year!" which is where the thread went after the parent's post. People do different things with different SW and HW, and if you have no problems then good for you, but other people do, and they're not idiots for stating that.
Not complaining, it's me who gets the bleeding-edge hardware, but just because you don't have to use the command line on your rig doesn't mean that tons of other people don't have an easier time just booting XP.
I don't think there is any possible way you could say that's not a reasonable argument against what the parent said, and with your quoted stats of one out of every ten people having the latest and greatest, it's certainly a valid support of the GP, which was the whole point of my post. You are talking to yourself.
That's funny because I had to wait for 8.04 before I could boot Ubuntu on my EVGA 8800GTS 640M without manually fucking editing the grub config to disable framebuffer. Every time I get a new graphics card I have to wait for Ubuntu to catch up if I don't want to edit config files or use the command line. Not complaining, it's me who gets the bleeding-edge hardware, but just because you don't have to use the command line on your rig doesn't mean that tons of other people don't have an easier time just booting XP.
That sounds like a great setup; I too have onboard sound but I don't like switching out the four analog (ugh, I need digital speakers!) cables every time.
Maybe I'm a tool for having one of these cards (Ok, probably I'm a tool), but the giant amount of bullshit I have to go through to get it working in Ubuntu is really the only remaining things keeping me from booting into it more than a couple times a week. With the free Codeweavers SW and this in the pipeline, I can't imagine a need to boot into Windows too often anymore.
I think the point was to show that there could arise situations which are completely beyond human control. The ending highlights that fact by showing that humanity was completely helpless with regards to both the problem and the solution.
I agree; I was going to forward this to one of our devs, but after a couple of paragraphs I can't help wondering if it wasn't written by a high-schooler.
they had video ads apparently, and those were pulled (as I understand it).
Videos... in Metro Center? What, on the little time-till-next train LED screens? I think that you are misunderstanding something.
Red line platform is still decked out with "Vault Life"
"Decked out" indeed. It was shocking, the first time I was in there with the ads, when I finally realized that every single ad in the entire station was for Fallout 3, in addition to the abnormal banners they had hung against some walls.
We won phase 1, clearing the country of (alas, nonexistent) WMD and ousting a brutal dictator.
Phase 2 is trying to stamp out the hatred and violence that phase 1 fomented.
I agree. I even tried Russinovich's new version and it still didn't offer anywhere close to the reliability or usability of an X-based implementation. I mean, no ability to open a Firefox window on more than one desktop? Fuck that.
It doesn't feel like a qualified UI expert sat down to really improve thing.
Really? When I read through the article I thought to myself "wow, it looks like they actually sat down and thought really hard about how to improve usability by responding directly to users, OEMs and the IT field. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but care to cite some specifics?
Yeah, that big "K" in the bottom left hand corner of KDE doesn't remind me at all of a Windows logo with "Start" next to it. Oh and Time Machine doesn't resemble, in every single way besides interface, Volume Shadow Services.
Get the fuck over it, they all draw influence and ideas from each other, in all directions. If Jazz wasn't founded on "stealing," as you put it, then it wouldn't be the foundation of modern music, and in the same way it's a good thing for good ideas to be implemented across multiple platforms.
Yeah, now that I'm going back and reading the OP and your posts, I do realize that I was misinterpreting both of you, and I'm sorry for being kinda rude in my post; you do make a good point.
I like how this is tagged "whatcouldpossiblygowrong," as if building a better radio antenna is going to bring about the end of the world. Oh, wait, I forgot that the movie "Pulse" was a documentary...
AD is an LDAP-capable directory. A very weak, vendor-locked, OS-version-specific, poorly performing directory that in many ways compensates for corresponding weaknesses in the Windows OS, so that together AD and Windows add up to a reasonably usable system, almost as capable as a standards-compliant system.
I really don't mean to be a dick, but it really aggravates me when people say that AD=LDAP. LDAP is the protocol used to access AD, and then beyond that there is the actual Active Directory system, which is way fucking more than just an LDAP server. Have you worked with group policy, which is possibly the main feature of AD? It's just a protocol used to access and structure Active Directory, and if you think that just implementing LDAP in a Linux environment brings you anywhere even close to the functionality of AD, then I'm sorry, but you just don't know what you're talking about. eDirectory is comparable to AD, LDAP is not.
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copy of Windows XP has the latest hardware drivers for nVidia packaged in it every time you reinstall?
No. When you boot Gutsy with that card you get a black screen. When you boot XP with it, you don't. When you install the latest drivers for it in Gutsy, you have use a terminal. In XP you don't. Sorry about the profanity.
if only 9% of gamers (not people)
Point taken, I guess it would probably be a much smaller percentage of general users who would have hardware like that, even though you're the one who originally said "people."
I think you're just not getting my point, though, which is that it's a dick move to make comments like "if you have to edit config files when you set up Ubuntu, then you're an idiot." I'm sick of people making statements like "I've never ever had to edit a config file and I've been using Ubuntu for a year!" which is where the thread went after the parent's post. People do different things with different SW and HW, and if you have no problems then good for you, but other people do, and they're not idiots for stating that.
Not complaining, it's me who gets the bleeding-edge hardware, but just because you don't have to use the command line on your rig doesn't mean that tons of other people don't have an easier time just booting XP.
I don't think there is any possible way you could say that's not a reasonable argument against what the parent said, and with your quoted stats of one out of every ten people having the latest and greatest, it's certainly a valid support of the GP, which was the whole point of my post. You are talking to yourself.
That's funny because I had to wait for 8.04 before I could boot Ubuntu on my EVGA 8800GTS 640M without manually fucking editing the grub config to disable framebuffer. Every time I get a new graphics card I have to wait for Ubuntu to catch up if I don't want to edit config files or use the command line. Not complaining, it's me who gets the bleeding-edge hardware, but just because you don't have to use the command line on your rig doesn't mean that tons of other people don't have an easier time just booting XP.
That sounds like a great setup; I too have onboard sound but I don't like switching out the four analog (ugh, I need digital speakers!) cables every time.
Maybe I'm a tool for having one of these cards (Ok, probably I'm a tool), but the giant amount of bullshit I have to go through to get it working in Ubuntu is really the only remaining things keeping me from booting into it more than a couple times a week. With the free Codeweavers SW and this in the pipeline, I can't imagine a need to boot into Windows too often anymore.
I think the point was to show that there could arise situations which are completely beyond human control. The ending highlights that fact by showing that humanity was completely helpless with regards to both the problem and the solution.
The 1971 is perhaps the most accurate book-to-movie conversion i've seen.
How about 2001? They changed a moon in that, and the sex of a character in Andromeda, I'd say maybe they tie.
I agree; I was going to forward this to one of our devs, but after a couple of paragraphs I can't help wondering if it wasn't written by a high-schooler.
Next are we going to complain that you can't poop in game?
Damn it, now games are going to suck until you can poop in them. Thanks for throwing that out there, jerk.
they had video ads apparently, and those were pulled (as I understand it).
Videos... in Metro Center? What, on the little time-till-next train LED screens? I think that you are misunderstanding something.
Red line platform is still decked out with "Vault Life"
"Decked out" indeed. It was shocking, the first time I was in there with the ads, when I finally realized that every single ad in the entire station was for Fallout 3, in addition to the abnormal banners they had hung against some walls.
We won phase 1, clearing the country of (alas, nonexistent) WMD and ousting a brutal dictator. Phase 2 is trying to stamp out the hatred and violence that phase 1 fomented.
No, actually, obligatorily it is:
Phase 1: Mission Accomplished!
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
I agree. I even tried Russinovich's new version and it still didn't offer anywhere close to the reliability or usability of an X-based implementation. I mean, no ability to open a Firefox window on more than one desktop? Fuck that.
It doesn't feel like a qualified UI expert sat down to really improve thing.
Really? When I read through the article I thought to myself "wow, it looks like they actually sat down and thought really hard about how to improve usability by responding directly to users, OEMs and the IT field. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but care to cite some specifics?
Yeah, that big "K" in the bottom left hand corner of KDE doesn't remind me at all of a Windows logo with "Start" next to it. Oh and Time Machine doesn't resemble, in every single way besides interface, Volume Shadow Services.
Get the fuck over it, they all draw influence and ideas from each other, in all directions. If Jazz wasn't founded on "stealing," as you put it, then it wouldn't be the foundation of modern music, and in the same way it's a good thing for good ideas to be implemented across multiple platforms.
Yeah, now that I'm going back and reading the OP and your posts, I do realize that I was misinterpreting both of you, and I'm sorry for being kinda rude in my post; you do make a good point.
I like how this is tagged "whatcouldpossiblygowrong," as if building a better radio antenna is going to bring about the end of the world. Oh, wait, I forgot that the movie "Pulse" was a documentary...
Pshhhh, in the "pre-internet" days your GPU didn't need a 12V rail, and didn't run Crysis. Welcome to the sad, fractured world of 2008.
Hah, yeah whoops, sometimes I just kinda... you know, drift into Old English from time to time. Doesn't everyone?
Ah, no, I haven't, pretty scary shit!
rsyncd, baby!
It seems rather ironic that Aldrin himself was involved in analysis of the cycler approach, but is now advocating a one-way trip.
I feel like that adds more wight to his current opinion...
Free Luna!
AD is an LDAP-capable directory. A very weak, vendor-locked, OS-version-specific, poorly performing directory that in many ways compensates for corresponding weaknesses in the Windows OS, so that together AD and Windows add up to a reasonably usable system, almost as capable as a standards-compliant system.
I've never seen that put so intelligently before!
I really don't mean to be a dick, but it really aggravates me when people say that AD=LDAP. LDAP is the protocol used to access AD, and then beyond that there is the actual Active Directory system, which is way fucking more than just an LDAP server. Have you worked with group policy, which is possibly the main feature of AD? It's just a protocol used to access and structure Active Directory, and if you think that just implementing LDAP in a Linux environment brings you anywhere even close to the functionality of AD, then I'm sorry, but you just don't know what you're talking about. eDirectory is comparable to AD, LDAP is not.