I have data points that indicate this to be correct at least some of the time. There may be just a little more to it of course, but I'm sure future physics papers will give us some more hints.
The dumb thing about Ubuntu though, is that they actually made me prefer Windows 7 because of simple little details like being able to move the system menu around where I want it. Strangely enough I've tried having my taskbar all over the place over the years. I have it at the top or the right in my VMs, bottom on the host OS for example. The left hand side is the only one that I really dislike - probably because I swing all the way over to the left to select text, as I have done for something like 25 years (whoah.. have I been using computers for that long? I guess so..).
The fact that Unity wouldn't let me move their dock, or change the hotkeys to ones that I'd been using for years, is what put me off. I liked everything else Ubuntu had changed up until that point.
This isn't me being a "depressed hipster". This is me expecting some very basic configuration options that both Windows and Linux have had for decades. Unity had nothing on docks like Avant or Docky. And in fact I'm now perfectly happy with Mint's default settings without even installing a dock..
Calling it spyware seemed to me to be FUD. As far as I could tell, it's just getting search results from Amazon and other places. Which I would consider a pretty useful feature. If there's no way to turn it off then that would be a bit weird, but it's being blown way out of proportion.
It's all a pretty moot point anyway, because anyone who cares about having a usable OS probably dropped Ubuntu as soon as they made Unity the default.
Well, I haven't been following what they've been saying or anything, I was doing the majority of my gaming on PS3 for the last few years (back onto PC again now), but I'm saying that the capability is there for people to connect into any server they want. That's an important distinction from games where you can *only* play if the publisher or developer is still running servers.
I didn't say that, you're putting words in my mouth. I did imply that there are already tools to crack the DRM. You can backup/crack all your game content as you buy it if you are really so concerned about them reneging on their promises.
Because the Quake engine had it, Half-Life (based on Quake Engine) had it, and the Source engine has it. I used to use it to connect to LAN and internet games alike. All of Valve's games have been based on continual evolution of this engine. Valve always let you access the console in PC versions of your games. Maybe the console versions too, I'm not sure there. They also actively encourage modding of their games.
Just because you're a fuckwit who has poured money into Steam and therefore, since you see yourself as NOT a fuckwit, it can't have been a fuckwit decision?
Money doesn't mean that much to me at this point in my life, and so doesn't really come into what I think of Steam.
I see Steam as more of a delivery mechanism. Pretty much all games on Steam have been designed to be able to run separately. If you really want to, you can strip out the DRM and run them standalone.
Take it from me: you're a fuckwit.
I'm not sure you're qualified to make that assumption in this context. Anyone who has been paying the slightest attention to the PC gaming scene over the last 20 years can see that Valve have been one of the best companies out there in terms of making good games, and encouraging the community to modify them to make them even better.
I'll give you being wary of EA/Origin, but Valve/Steam haven't shown any signs of being douches so far, so I give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm pretty sure all Source based games have the option to connect directly to a server if you have the IP at least, and with other games these days you basically know that you're not getting eternal support. I find it crazy that so many people are willing to buy a new Call Of Duty every year or two when it's basically the same game just with new maps, but that's the way of it these days.. when I started online gaming, I got years of fun out of free Half-Life mods and free maps. I still have a lot of respect for Valve and the way they foster community.
It's not the only thing, but how can you do any "living" if you only have 3 days holiday a year? How can you get ahead when there are so many idiots willing to work jobs with such crappy conditions? What's the point in having a high pay rate if you don't have any free time to use it?
Presumably you meant to say "UK"? Just because those in decent jobs in the US have better benefits than people in other countries, does not make it okay for those in the shittiest jobs to have an atrocious quality of life.
I only found out last night (because a friend is applying for jobs in the US right now) that the US doesn't even have a statutory minimum holiday time for workers.
Employees in sweatshop countries like China and Taiwan have better vacation time than some US employees.t's atrocious, and people being fired for being sick is horrible too. Just another reason for me to dislike the US government. I just can't believe that a supposedly "developed" country would have such a policy, on top of things like no real national healthcare. The US must be an awful place to live if you're poor.
Being deported to the US would obviously be way worse. We don't have anything like Guantanamo Bay. And in fact a lot of our CCTV is privately owned.. the Police often have to request CCTV from the company I work for because in fact they don't have cameras "everywhere". There are certainly some around the city centres I guess. I don't see the problem. These are public areas, and it's an efficient way to spot trouble. You can't have Police everywhere, every moment. That really would be a "Police state".
Well, technically our "dedicated phones" here are VoIP too.. I guess the way I really think of the question is "do you guys still feel the need to have dedicated devices with a dialing pad hooked up to the legacy global phone protocol".
She's actually way better than the previous ones in that she asks rather than just passing the calls through. In some cases I do actually want to speak to the person that calls up. I think when she hears that for example someone is phoning from "Microsoft" she usually thinks it must be important computer related business, when really it's just a Microsoft Certified Partner or some shit. I have no reason I'd want to speak directly to anyone from Microsoft either..
Sure if you link it up to a phone system then it acts like a phone, but Skype by default doesn't do that. I have Skype credit and can phone and text outside numbers if I really want to - but I haven't set up a Skype number for other people to contact me on.
Because it doesn't require dedicated hardware in the form of analog lines or a PBX system. It just requires installing whatever software you want to communicate via. That makes it much cheaper than traditional phonecalls, and also has the awesome benefit that nobody can interrupt your day unless you have chosen for them to be on your contacts list.
You did. It was specifically about do we need dedicated desk phones, not "do we need to communicate with one another". The summary even mentioned VoIP.
95% of my incoming calls are reception asking if I want to speak to somebody trying to sell me something. My coworkers and bosses can already mail or Skype IM me. I'd love to get rid of my phone, but I'm not sure I can justify it quite yet.
For most it's not all abut the money. Seeing something you worked hard to build be taken and thrown in a bin never to see the light of day sucks. This thing you worked so hard on will never get the chance to show how awesome of an idea it really was.
Isn't the obvious answer in that situation to not sell your business?
I don't know much about LastPass tbh. I only found out about the auto-login capability today, which is convenient. I only really use Keypass for my internet banking details, everything else I do in my head using various passwords with variations that depend on which site I'm using. I'm aware that's a potential weakness, so maybe using LastPass with completely random passwords is something to look into.
At work I also use keypass to store various network admin credentials. I don't think storing those on the cloud would make much sense. When it comes to something as sensitive as passwords I'd prefer to keep it more under company control. This file isn't uploaded to any external servers.
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I have data points that indicate this to be correct at least some of the time. There may be just a little more to it of course, but I'm sure future physics papers will give us some more hints.
The dumb thing about Ubuntu though, is that they actually made me prefer Windows 7 because of simple little details like being able to move the system menu around where I want it. Strangely enough I've tried having my taskbar all over the place over the years. I have it at the top or the right in my VMs, bottom on the host OS for example. The left hand side is the only one that I really dislike - probably because I swing all the way over to the left to select text, as I have done for something like 25 years (whoah.. have I been using computers for that long? I guess so..).
The fact that Unity wouldn't let me move their dock, or change the hotkeys to ones that I'd been using for years, is what put me off. I liked everything else Ubuntu had changed up until that point.
This isn't me being a "depressed hipster". This is me expecting some very basic configuration options that both Windows and Linux have had for decades. Unity had nothing on docks like Avant or Docky. And in fact I'm now perfectly happy with Mint's default settings without even installing a dock..
Calling it spyware seemed to me to be FUD. As far as I could tell, it's just getting search results from Amazon and other places. Which I would consider a pretty useful feature. If there's no way to turn it off then that would be a bit weird, but it's being blown way out of proportion.
It's all a pretty moot point anyway, because anyone who cares about having a usable OS probably dropped Ubuntu as soon as they made Unity the default.
If you're not using one, you just aren't a power user. That's all there is to it.
So what you're saying that it's a more matter of pride rather than anything particularly relevant?
Well, I haven't been following what they've been saying or anything, I was doing the majority of my gaming on PS3 for the last few years (back onto PC again now), but I'm saying that the capability is there for people to connect into any server they want. That's an important distinction from games where you can *only* play if the publisher or developer is still running servers.
I didn't say that, you're putting words in my mouth. I did imply that there are already tools to crack the DRM. You can backup/crack all your game content as you buy it if you are really so concerned about them reneging on their promises.
Why?
Because the Quake engine had it, Half-Life (based on Quake Engine) had it, and the Source engine has it. I used to use it to connect to LAN and internet games alike. All of Valve's games have been based on continual evolution of this engine. Valve always let you access the console in PC versions of your games. Maybe the console versions too, I'm not sure there. They also actively encourage modding of their games.
Just because you're a fuckwit who has poured money into Steam and therefore, since you see yourself as NOT a fuckwit, it can't have been a fuckwit decision?
Money doesn't mean that much to me at this point in my life, and so doesn't really come into what I think of Steam.
I see Steam as more of a delivery mechanism. Pretty much all games on Steam have been designed to be able to run separately. If you really want to, you can strip out the DRM and run them standalone.
Take it from me: you're a fuckwit.
I'm not sure you're qualified to make that assumption in this context. Anyone who has been paying the slightest attention to the PC gaming scene over the last 20 years can see that Valve have been one of the best companies out there in terms of making good games, and encouraging the community to modify them to make them even better.
I'll give you being wary of EA/Origin, but Valve/Steam haven't shown any signs of being douches so far, so I give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm pretty sure all Source based games have the option to connect directly to a server if you have the IP at least, and with other games these days you basically know that you're not getting eternal support. I find it crazy that so many people are willing to buy a new Call Of Duty every year or two when it's basically the same game just with new maps, but that's the way of it these days.. when I started online gaming, I got years of fun out of free Half-Life mods and free maps. I still have a lot of respect for Valve and the way they foster community.
Well yeah, the alternative choice being their family starving to death. What a great choice!
Thanks for the info, I've passed it on to my friend :)
It's not the only thing, but how can you do any "living" if you only have 3 days holiday a year? How can you get ahead when there are so many idiots willing to work jobs with such crappy conditions? What's the point in having a high pay rate if you don't have any free time to use it?
Sheesh.
Presumably you meant to say "UK"? Just because those in decent jobs in the US have better benefits than people in other countries, does not make it okay for those in the shittiest jobs to have an atrocious quality of life.
I only found out last night (because a friend is applying for jobs in the US right now) that the US doesn't even have a statutory minimum holiday time for workers.
Employees in sweatshop countries like China and Taiwan have better vacation time than some US employees.t's atrocious, and people being fired for being sick is horrible too. Just another reason for me to dislike the US government. I just can't believe that a supposedly "developed" country would have such a policy, on top of things like no real national healthcare. The US must be an awful place to live if you're poor.
Being deported to the US would obviously be way worse. We don't have anything like Guantanamo Bay. And in fact a lot of our CCTV is privately owned.. the Police often have to request CCTV from the company I work for because in fact they don't have cameras "everywhere". There are certainly some around the city centres I guess. I don't see the problem. These are public areas, and it's an efficient way to spot trouble. You can't have Police everywhere, every moment. That really would be a "Police state".
A very good point :p
Well, technically our "dedicated phones" here are VoIP too.. I guess the way I really think of the question is "do you guys still feel the need to have dedicated devices with a dialing pad hooked up to the legacy global phone protocol".
You should be a little more respectful. The security of the local sheep herding and bungee jumping trades is of the utmost importance.
She's actually way better than the previous ones in that she asks rather than just passing the calls through. In some cases I do actually want to speak to the person that calls up. I think when she hears that for example someone is phoning from "Microsoft" she usually thinks it must be important computer related business, when really it's just a Microsoft Certified Partner or some shit. I have no reason I'd want to speak directly to anyone from Microsoft either..
Sure if you link it up to a phone system then it acts like a phone, but Skype by default doesn't do that. I have Skype credit and can phone and text outside numbers if I really want to - but I haven't set up a Skype number for other people to contact me on.
Because it doesn't require dedicated hardware in the form of analog lines or a PBX system. It just requires installing whatever software you want to communicate via. That makes it much cheaper than traditional phonecalls, and also has the awesome benefit that nobody can interrupt your day unless you have chosen for them to be on your contacts list.
Maybe I misunderstood the original question.
You did. It was specifically about do we need dedicated desk phones, not "do we need to communicate with one another". The summary even mentioned VoIP.
95% of my incoming calls are reception asking if I want to speak to somebody trying to sell me something. My coworkers and bosses can already mail or Skype IM me. I'd love to get rid of my phone, but I'm not sure I can justify it quite yet.
For most it's not all abut the money. Seeing something you worked hard to build be taken and thrown in a bin never to see the light of day sucks. This thing you worked so hard on will never get the chance to show how awesome of an idea it really was.
Isn't the obvious answer in that situation to not sell your business?
I don't know much about LastPass tbh. I only found out about the auto-login capability today, which is convenient. I only really use Keypass for my internet banking details, everything else I do in my head using various passwords with variations that depend on which site I'm using. I'm aware that's a potential weakness, so maybe using LastPass with completely random passwords is something to look into.
At work I also use keypass to store various network admin credentials. I don't think storing those on the cloud would make much sense. When it comes to something as sensitive as passwords I'd prefer to keep it more under company control. This file isn't uploaded to any external servers.
I keep my Keypass database in Dropbox. That way it's synched to all my machines, or I can download it to my phone, or access it via a web browser.
but don't printers usually come with underfilled cartridges?