On my windows system I've never seen that. Running countless programs, running games pushing my graphics card and CPU into 70 degrees plus temperatures (I know that's not impressive, I've got better cooling than I used to have), visiting lot of dodgy websites, I've currently got uptime of a month or so. This system is about 3 years old, with a new graphics card 6 months ago or so. I just leave it on in the winter... in the summer, I object to it heating my house when I'm not there.
Uptime is not an achievement for home computers, especially when they can boot to desktop in 20 seconds or so.
Gold does have inherent value. If it was not used so widely as an investment or adornment, it would be cheaper, and thus used more widely industrially.
That being said, there are alternatives to gold - it's not something we can't so without. It's just better at certain applications than other things, even at its inflated price.
Your idealism is impressive, but useless. The point of copyright was to end a situation in which everything was kept secret except to a select few. Now it's spawned into a monster which completely defeats its original intention. However, reverting to a situation in which there is no protection for information will cause more problems than it will solve. Companies will become more secretive, loads of stuff produced, whether good or bad, will never see the light of day. The public will lose out, DRM will become mandatory and more intrusive.
Copyrights and patents are a _good_ think IMO. The current implentation of copyrights and patents is obviously broken in quite a few ways.
That's all I use my PC for that requires Windows. E-mail, web, I can get by with almost anything... The only reason I upgraded to Vista was games... I was perfectly happy with win2k as a desktop PC. I don't need, nor care about a polished UI, I just want it functional.
I bought my current PC with the intention of dual booting Linux. However, I went with a fakeraid stripe setup (which resulted in Vista booting to usable in 15 seconds from bootmenu, I kept my old win2k partition), and at that time none of the Linux distros supported it without lots of tinkering. I've not got round to installing it since, since I don't need it (though I have bought another HD for it).
I never saw an issue with it myself, actually. Seemed no more irritating than going sudo on Linux or OSX's own authentication prompt. Unlike many, I actually really quite liked Vista, although I use OSX most of the time.
Seconded. I see it about once a week, when running something that needs access to the internals, or installing something new. It's only annoying on a new installation, and that's understandable.
You can't. I'm a risky user... I've been to plenty of "dodgy" sites in my time. In my entire history of PC use, mostly running win2k and Vista, 99% of the time running no antivirus, I've had one virus infection that I noticed almost immediately and cleaned with no problems. I've got no idea how people accumulate so much crud on their PC.
I'm way from perfect, but I never, ever run anything that I don't deliberately download, and I make sure where I download from. If there's something I'm a little iffy about I'll online scan it, but I do that very rarely. It's served me well..... so far.
The US installed regimes (ousting democracies) that killed thousands when in power. Just because a regime is corrupt and brutal doesn't mean that the west does not consider it stable. It's up to you to decide the morality of that, but your point that the Iranian government killed 36 people pales into insignificance compared to the brutality the west's allies have meted out in the past (and most of the west itself for that matter).
Iran is not crazy. I'm not sure where you got that idea from. The government is pretty hard line in some instances, but the populace isn't generally. In my opinion crazy is starting wars.
Crap... mod me down to oblivion O/T. This is what comes from posting while drunk.
On topic : Correlation _always_ implies something. Most of the time, correlation and causation go hand in hand, which is why some people cite it as a common fallacy. Correlation without obvious alterior similarities _does_ imply causation.
I'm a former cocaine and other substance user.... I got caught with cocaine, got a caution, and decided not to do it again (though I may have transgressed once or twice). I switched to mephedrone when it was legal (which is a very good drug, no matter what anyone says. No one has died because of it, the media circus around it was flat out wrong). I've dropped back to alcohol more since mephedrone was made illegal, and it's killing me. The only drug that has done me serious long term harm is alcohol...
The only drug I've abused is alcohol. That's entirely my own problem, I know. The point I want to make is that I've used other drugs to have a good time, and not abused them at all. Weekend is weekend, once every so often harms no one.
half the battle is just looking at your watch and the sun to figure out where north, south, east and west are
Heh, good luck with that in England... Sun?
It does remind me of one time I had to go via back roads (main road was closed), with no sat nav. When I was asked how I navigated back, I just told my boss I'd followed the rainbow (which was conveniently present for about an hour). I knew I wanted to go NE, and I knew the sun was W/SW. It's not rocket science...
Don't always blame the truckers. I'd guess 95% of roads unsuitable for HGV access are not marked as such. I've come close to failure twice, both times when the main road was closed, and all traffic was just diverted off of it with no further directions. One of those times I spent about half the time moving branches from the road where previous truckers had been. Unless you know the area really well, you could be pretty much screwed.
Personally I play all my PC games at native resolution... 1920 * 1200. People often complain about their PC games running slowly in comparison to console games, not realising that in many cases they're running at 1/4 the resolution.
Seriously? You do know what the point of these websites is, right, their raison d'etre? Everyone else is on them. Facebook would be 100% useless if other people were not on it (it could be argued that it is 100% useless now, but that's another issue). If you make your own website, and chat to yourself on it, not only do you look like an idiot, you are an idiot.
Admittedly my facebook page is just a holder so that people can get in touch with me if needed... but it's useful even just for that.
Just to support your point somewhat... I'm a truck driver, and car driver of 15 years. I recently got in a 20 tonne rigid truck, and had no idea how to drive it. I had to ask someone before I set off.
I personally basically exclusively used the internet for porn back then. alt.sex groups, etc, with text editors and uuencode/decode. Loads of posters used non-standard starts and stops, so you had to manually edit them. This was back when I was 14 or so.
I didn't use email, because no one I knew was on it.... the web was listless generally in its infancy. I only really loved MUDs, and I discovered them when they were on their wane. Everything since has become everyday for me...
On a seperate but similarly stupid note, I've got a book from the early 80s which denigrates mice as control mechanisms...
Have Amazon got exclusivity in their contract? If not, surely the best thing to do would be to find the app you like the look of on Amazon, google it, then buy for much less elsewhere.
These. That being said, I only own 2 of them, GT5 and GTA4, (or maybe 3 - I bought a pre-owned PS3 60gb from Game, and it had the entire previous user's account and games on it... Tekken of some sort is on it).
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Really? How long does this take to show itself? Becauce I've run Windows systems for months with no degredation in performance.
On my windows system I've never seen that. Running countless programs, running games pushing my graphics card and CPU into 70 degrees plus temperatures (I know that's not impressive, I've got better cooling than I used to have), visiting lot of dodgy websites, I've currently got uptime of a month or so. This system is about 3 years old, with a new graphics card 6 months ago or so. I just leave it on in the winter... in the summer, I object to it heating my house when I'm not there.
Uptime is not an achievement for home computers, especially when they can boot to desktop in 20 seconds or so.
Seriously? You're trying to goad an AC with juvenile insults and threats that he'll be modded down?
You're only making yourself look bad here.... AC's always win idiot contests.
Gold does have inherent value. If it was not used so widely as an investment or adornment, it would be cheaper, and thus used more widely industrially.
That being said, there are alternatives to gold - it's not something we can't so without. It's just better at certain applications than other things, even at its inflated price.
Your idealism is impressive, but useless. The point of copyright was to end a situation in which everything was kept secret except to a select few. Now it's spawned into a monster which completely defeats its original intention. However, reverting to a situation in which there is no protection for information will cause more problems than it will solve. Companies will become more secretive, loads of stuff produced, whether good or bad, will never see the light of day. The public will lose out, DRM will become mandatory and more intrusive.
Copyrights and patents are a _good_ think IMO. The current implentation of copyrights and patents is obviously broken in quite a few ways.
4) Games.
That's all I use my PC for that requires Windows. E-mail, web, I can get by with almost anything... The only reason I upgraded to Vista was games... I was perfectly happy with win2k as a desktop PC. I don't need, nor care about a polished UI, I just want it functional.
I bought my current PC with the intention of dual booting Linux. However, I went with a fakeraid stripe setup (which resulted in Vista booting to usable in 15 seconds from bootmenu, I kept my old win2k partition), and at that time none of the Linux distros supported it without lots of tinkering. I've not got round to installing it since, since I don't need it (though I have bought another HD for it).
I never saw an issue with it myself, actually. Seemed no more irritating than going sudo on Linux or OSX's own authentication prompt. Unlike many, I actually really quite liked Vista, although I use OSX most of the time.
Seconded. I see it about once a week, when running something that needs access to the internals, or installing something new. It's only annoying on a new installation, and that's understandable.
ps. What's happened to italics :P
You can't. I'm a risky user... I've been to plenty of "dodgy" sites in my time. In my entire history of PC use, mostly running win2k and Vista, 99% of the time running no antivirus, I've had one virus infection that I noticed almost immediately and cleaned with no problems. I've got no idea how people accumulate so much crud on their PC.
I'm way from perfect, but I never, ever run anything that I don't deliberately download, and I make sure where I download from. If there's something I'm a little iffy about I'll online scan it, but I do that very rarely. It's served me well..... so far.
The US installed regimes (ousting democracies) that killed thousands when in power. Just because a regime is corrupt and brutal doesn't mean that the west does not consider it stable. It's up to you to decide the morality of that, but your point that the Iranian government killed 36 people pales into insignificance compared to the brutality the west's allies have meted out in the past (and most of the west itself for that matter).
Iran is not crazy. I'm not sure where you got that idea from. The government is pretty hard line in some instances, but the populace isn't generally. In my opinion crazy is starting wars.
Anonymity is essentially non-existant on the internet. You can make it difficult for people, but you'll never be 100% anonymous.
You know, using P2P is not illegal, and has many non-copyright infringing uses...
Crap... mod me down to oblivion O/T. This is what comes from posting while drunk.
On topic : Correlation _always_ implies something. Most of the time, correlation and causation go hand in hand, which is why some people cite it as a common fallacy. Correlation without obvious alterior similarities _does_ imply causation.
I'm a former cocaine and other substance user.... I got caught with cocaine, got a caution, and decided not to do it again (though I may have transgressed once or twice). I switched to mephedrone when it was legal (which is a very good drug, no matter what anyone says. No one has died because of it, the media circus around it was flat out wrong). I've dropped back to alcohol more since mephedrone was made illegal, and it's killing me. The only drug that has done me serious long term harm is alcohol...
The only drug I've abused is alcohol. That's entirely my own problem, I know. The point I want to make is that I've used other drugs to have a good time, and not abused them at all. Weekend is weekend, once every so often harms no one.
half the battle is just looking at your watch and the sun to figure out where north, south, east and west are
Heh, good luck with that in England... Sun?
It does remind me of one time I had to go via back roads (main road was closed), with no sat nav. When I was asked how I navigated back, I just told my boss I'd followed the rainbow (which was conveniently present for about an hour). I knew I wanted to go NE, and I knew the sun was W/SW. It's not rocket science...
Don't always blame the truckers. I'd guess 95% of roads unsuitable for HGV access are not marked as such. I've come close to failure twice, both times when the main road was closed, and all traffic was just diverted off of it with no further directions. One of those times I spent about half the time moving branches from the road where previous truckers had been. Unless you know the area really well, you could be pretty much screwed.
Personally I play all my PC games at native resolution... 1920 * 1200. People often complain about their PC games running slowly in comparison to console games, not realising that in many cases they're running at 1/4 the resolution.
Make your own website
Seriously? You do know what the point of these websites is, right, their raison d'etre? Everyone else is on them. Facebook would be 100% useless if other people were not on it (it could be argued that it is 100% useless now, but that's another issue). If you make your own website, and chat to yourself on it, not only do you look like an idiot, you are an idiot.
Admittedly my facebook page is just a holder so that people can get in touch with me if needed... but it's useful even just for that.
Just to support your point somewhat... I'm a truck driver, and car driver of 15 years. I recently got in a 20 tonne rigid truck, and had no idea how to drive it. I had to ask someone before I set off.
I'm from England, and it was an automatic.
I personally basically exclusively used the internet for porn back then. alt.sex groups, etc, with text editors and uuencode/decode. Loads of posters used non-standard starts and stops, so you had to manually edit them. This was back when I was 14 or so.
I didn't use email, because no one I knew was on it.... the web was listless generally in its infancy. I only really loved MUDs, and I discovered them when they were on their wane. Everything since has become everyday for me...
On a seperate but similarly stupid note, I've got a book from the early 80s which denigrates mice as control mechanisms...
Obligatory you wouldn't steal a car. (for some reason /. seems to be refusing to put my link in, so : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg ).
Anything that makes piracy analogies on Slashdot more interesting is good by me.
You're not good at this communicating thing, are you. Nor reading comprehension, nor thread viewing.
Parent was mistaken. I responded to him.
Now sit down.
And your consumer will pay five times what you think your app is worth, with Amazon raking in the cash.
Have Amazon got exclusivity in their contract? If not, surely the best thing to do would be to find the app you like the look of on Amazon, google it, then buy for much less elsewhere.
These. That being said, I only own 2 of them, GT5 and GTA4, (or maybe 3 - I bought a pre-owned PS3 60gb from Game, and it had the entire previous user's account and games on it... Tekken of some sort is on it).