Well, it might have somehting to do with the fact that those bits are part of the movie. You don't get to rent Old Yeller and then just turn it off while it's all pretty. If you want to see a film, then see it. if you're too big a priss or a wimp to watch the grown up bits then go watch somehting else. Being sheltered is sad. Sheltering yourself is pathetic.
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I am not a witch. They dressed me like this.
The mentality of someone (associated with the police) who compares terrirists to witches and devil worshipers cares me terribly. Leave the devil worshipers and witches alone and go after territorists and street gangs, eh?
To count that's two groups that are actually dangerous and two groups whose existance is clearly protected by the costitution. I now return you to your regularly scheduled geekery.
word.
My official position is that I don't nessisarily believe the vast majority of the conspiracies about this event, but neither do I believe the official story as presented to us (because it violates the laws of physics in several places).
I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Moore's law has not thing one to say about your processor. It's about processor technology and it's still holding up quite well for the time being. The fact that the more powerful chips are really a) more than any home user needs and b) too expensive anyway is not relevant to Moore's law.
True. People seems to forget the learning curve they had for Windows as well, because it happened a long time ago, but anyone who's been using computers since 1990 has been constantly learning new things. If he thinks he can pick up and switch to another OS after 16 years of learning, he's probably a fool. However, the switch from windows to linux IS really easy if you're willing to dedicate even a little time ot actually doing it (without time reserved for backpedaling and bitching) and if you're willing to do it the right way. Tools like this who expect to boot another OS and be able to do everyhting the same are fools. If it worked that way, there would be no other OS's in the first place.
I have to agree pretty much entirely with this article. I've been playing D&D for years. I've constructed multiple gaming worlds, some of which are alive and bustling with other people having taken over the running of games in them. I played in Eberron from the onset and I like it. I playtested DDO for these reasons and I thik they thought my experience with D&D and other RPG's was a good thing.
And that's why I didn't like it.
I like roleplaying. I like it a lot. But what I like about it is the roleplaying, not the hitting an ogre with my sword. I want to care about the other characters, the NPC's, the world, and I want to have an impact and this game lacks that entirely.
Also, there's nothing to do but dungeon crawl and I hate dungeon crawls. Bummer. Overall, while this is the single best looking MMORPG ever and I really wish that I loved it, I was so bored I stopped the playtesting a few weeks in and went back to WoW. Dissapointing, because I was really into this game from the word go on all the boards and what not. I was relly excited.
It seems ot me that every time somehting somes out with teh D&D name on it that isn't an RPG, I get very excited and hopeful and then it blows. Oh well.
Actually, windows is a really crappy OS and if MS had made this problem despite the fact that they put out an OS with nothing approaching half the software that ubuntu has and nowhere near half the expandability or security, then yes, I'd be upset.
If you have 1 job and you screw it up you get hit harder than the guy who made the same mistaken but who does a dozen jobs.
Agreed. I've been saying for a while, though, that the best thing that ubuntu could do wouldbe to have an "unofficual" script to be run after the distro is installed to make for for gaps like this. Such a script would be a cakewalk.
wow, that was a lod of half educated crap if I've ever heard it.
Check any online review you like. Openoffice is just as full featured as MSoffice and in many ways it is more full features (try writing a math paper in office sometime).
It also has the added benefit of containing a lot of free software that MS would be charging you about a thousand dollars for. And let's be clear . . . I work in business . . . we use open office . . . works just fine. I'd love to see some of these theoretical horror stories.
You're right, firefox is a fine browser. And go take a look at the numbers. the number of people who make the switch is hardley that small a fraction. Further, if IE were removed from every windows computer in existance today and replaces with firefox, the same number of people who have NOT switched would never notice. I fail to see, then, how you have made a point there.
And excel macros work just fine in openoffice. If you're doing somehting particularly complicated with it then you might have to do it a different way, but it is still somehting you can do. Anyone who can learn one complicated macro can learn another.
People forget that the reason windows is so familiar is because it's all most people have ever seen. If you walk into the office on day one and sit down at a linux machine you'll learn it and it will be every bit as intuitive as wondows is for most of the button pushing monkeys out there. Really. Any claim made to the contrary is outright childish. Any OS is easy if you learn it, it's as simple as that. the fact that you don't remember your windows learning curve doesn't mean it wasn't there. it just means that you didn't know what you didn't know.
check wine and crossover office. Linux already does this.
For that matter, there are almost no windows programs that do not have (better) linux counterparts, save video games. And I've seen plenty of games run on linux.
Now, I agree that it could be easier to do in most distros, but that's a different complaint.
Apart from having some of the best programmers in the world at their disposal, not to mention the ability to pay a lot of people a large amount of money to perfect this distro (something ubuntu does not currently do. though some of the ubuntu programmers may be on payroll, it will be small potatoes next to a google salary)? And apart from having one of hte biggest names in computing?
Having used ubuntu for quite a while now (since it came out) I think it's the single best chance linux has against either mac or windows. It's solid and easy to use and operate. If my mother can use it, anyone can. I've seen ubuntu shut up naysayers for a while now.
Also, now to come off like a fanboy, but are we actually going to say that we think there's somehting google can't accomplish? I have yet to see that proved.
Also, do we know which linux distros they were using? Because while there's 2, maybe 3 types of Windows, tops, there are countless linux distros. I can understand counting redhat, fedora, suse, ubuntu, slack . . . but bill's linux funhouse might be stretching it. I didn't see any indication that they were differentiating between linux distros that people use and linux distros that take up space.
People (like me) would laugh their asses off, but we'd have no right to. Really, a mobile office suite IS innovative. I'd make fun of MS for doing it because I hate them, but I wouldn't have a leg to stand on. it may not be particularly inventive, i guess . . . mobility is all the rage now, but actually making it happen is a big deal.
Right. Nothing useful about an office suite that can handle it's own formats plus the formats of all major office suites (includinghte competition) AND fits in your pocket AND it's free AND. Did I mention that it runs on all major operating systems? Which is to say you'd have a hard time finding an OS that it can't run on.
Yeah. I can't imagine a situation in which that might be useful.
I love this logic.
A) ubuntu is painfully easy to install. I just did it yesterday and for the average user you hit enter about 12 times and you're done. That's it. Easy as pie.
B) The "average" user never installs windows at all and would probably kill themselves if they had to.
C) lots of linux distros, esspecially ubuntu, are painfully easy to use. Ubuntu is more intuitive than windows, if you asked me.
The only difference (and people love to forget this) is that we all know how to use windows. Because we grew up on it, for the most part. That isn't the case in other countries where people have not nessisarily been using Windows since they came out of the womb, and MS will have to understand that. This isn't a country making irrational demends of MS. This is a country telling MS that if they want to do business in their country here are the rules, take them or leave them. Personally, I suspect they'll leave them, which would be the best thing for both the country in question and for whatever solution they end up with (odds are good that it will be linux).
What's more, any ideot who thinks that windows wasn't hard ot learn obviously has a recklessly short attention span. I use windows just fine now after 15+ years of use. And I use linux even better after 3. It's not as if human beings are born with innate knowledge of using windows. You have to learn it just like anyhting else. the fact that you don't remember the learning process doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just means you were so ignorant that you didn't know how much you didn't know.
Hang on, you're saying you believe that you would trust a FSF or OSDL-funded study to be impartial? You're saying that if the FSF funded a study comparing GNU to Windows, and the study came back saying "Windows saves you money in the long term, and Microsoft's Shared Source is as good as Free Software for 99% of users", that the FSF would then be happy to publish that study?
I don't think so, and I suspect you won't either, if you pause to think about it.
Don't be silly, of course it's more valid.
a) anytime hte goal is not to maintain the bottom line of your money making company you can be more trustworthy period.
b) the goal of the open source community as a whole is not to overthrow MS, but to make quality computing software. A bad review helps us to make better software, bottom line.
While nobody likes to see a bad review of their stuff the open source community as a whole is more willing to receive such a review.
hmm . . . that is possible. But then again all it would take is a quick install of some shell programs to get access. Sure your average user probably can't do that, but our average user doesn't want shell access either.
Still, it would only hurt them not to provide it.
Sure they have. You hear about killer beez all the time.
Remember how the killer bees were going to wipe out whole cities? What do they do now? basically they make honey.
Killer bees were the result of a slow news day plain and simple.
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Weak logic. By that logic cancer and heart disease don't kill poeple either, they just facilitate a lack of oxygen to the brain, which causes death.
Bullet's don't kill people. Gaping holes in the abdomed often caused by bullets kill people.
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Well, it might have somehting to do with the fact that those bits are part of the movie. You don't get to rent Old Yeller and then just turn it off while it's all pretty. If you want to see a film, then see it. if you're too big a priss or a wimp to watch the grown up bits then go watch somehting else. Being sheltered is sad. Sheltering yourself is pathetic.
I am not a witch. They dressed me like this. The mentality of someone (associated with the police) who compares terrirists to witches and devil worshipers cares me terribly. Leave the devil worshipers and witches alone and go after territorists and street gangs, eh? To count that's two groups that are actually dangerous and two groups whose existance is clearly protected by the costitution. I now return you to your regularly scheduled geekery.
You're just mad because you didn't get to post it yourself.
I know I am.
Nothing can kill Chuck Norris. . . . or the Grimmace.
word. My official position is that I don't nessisarily believe the vast majority of the conspiracies about this event, but neither do I believe the official story as presented to us (because it violates the laws of physics in several places). I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Moore's law has not thing one to say about your processor. It's about processor technology and it's still holding up quite well for the time being. The fact that the more powerful chips are really a) more than any home user needs and b) too expensive anyway is not relevant to Moore's law.
True. People seems to forget the learning curve they had for Windows as well, because it happened a long time ago, but anyone who's been using computers since 1990 has been constantly learning new things. If he thinks he can pick up and switch to another OS after 16 years of learning, he's probably a fool. However, the switch from windows to linux IS really easy if you're willing to dedicate even a little time ot actually doing it (without time reserved for backpedaling and bitching) and if you're willing to do it the right way. Tools like this who expect to boot another OS and be able to do everyhting the same are fools. If it worked that way, there would be no other OS's in the first place.
I have to agree pretty much entirely with this article. I've been playing D&D for years. I've constructed multiple gaming worlds, some of which are alive and bustling with other people having taken over the running of games in them. I played in Eberron from the onset and I like it. I playtested DDO for these reasons and I thik they thought my experience with D&D and other RPG's was a good thing. And that's why I didn't like it. I like roleplaying. I like it a lot. But what I like about it is the roleplaying, not the hitting an ogre with my sword. I want to care about the other characters, the NPC's, the world, and I want to have an impact and this game lacks that entirely. Also, there's nothing to do but dungeon crawl and I hate dungeon crawls. Bummer. Overall, while this is the single best looking MMORPG ever and I really wish that I loved it, I was so bored I stopped the playtesting a few weeks in and went back to WoW. Dissapointing, because I was really into this game from the word go on all the boards and what not. I was relly excited. It seems ot me that every time somehting somes out with teh D&D name on it that isn't an RPG, I get very excited and hopeful and then it blows. Oh well.
Actually, windows is a really crappy OS and if MS had made this problem despite the fact that they put out an OS with nothing approaching half the software that ubuntu has and nowhere near half the expandability or security, then yes, I'd be upset. If you have 1 job and you screw it up you get hit harder than the guy who made the same mistaken but who does a dozen jobs.
Agreed. I've been saying for a while, though, that the best thing that ubuntu could do wouldbe to have an "unofficual" script to be run after the distro is installed to make for for gaps like this. Such a script would be a cakewalk.
wow, that was a lod of half educated crap if I've ever heard it. Check any online review you like. Openoffice is just as full featured as MSoffice and in many ways it is more full features (try writing a math paper in office sometime). It also has the added benefit of containing a lot of free software that MS would be charging you about a thousand dollars for. And let's be clear . . . I work in business . . . we use open office . . . works just fine. I'd love to see some of these theoretical horror stories. You're right, firefox is a fine browser. And go take a look at the numbers. the number of people who make the switch is hardley that small a fraction. Further, if IE were removed from every windows computer in existance today and replaces with firefox, the same number of people who have NOT switched would never notice. I fail to see, then, how you have made a point there. And excel macros work just fine in openoffice. If you're doing somehting particularly complicated with it then you might have to do it a different way, but it is still somehting you can do. Anyone who can learn one complicated macro can learn another. People forget that the reason windows is so familiar is because it's all most people have ever seen. If you walk into the office on day one and sit down at a linux machine you'll learn it and it will be every bit as intuitive as wondows is for most of the button pushing monkeys out there. Really. Any claim made to the contrary is outright childish. Any OS is easy if you learn it, it's as simple as that. the fact that you don't remember your windows learning curve doesn't mean it wasn't there. it just means that you didn't know what you didn't know.
check wine and crossover office. Linux already does this. For that matter, there are almost no windows programs that do not have (better) linux counterparts, save video games. And I've seen plenty of games run on linux. Now, I agree that it could be easier to do in most distros, but that's a different complaint.
Apart from having some of the best programmers in the world at their disposal, not to mention the ability to pay a lot of people a large amount of money to perfect this distro (something ubuntu does not currently do. though some of the ubuntu programmers may be on payroll, it will be small potatoes next to a google salary)? And apart from having one of hte biggest names in computing? Having used ubuntu for quite a while now (since it came out) I think it's the single best chance linux has against either mac or windows. It's solid and easy to use and operate. If my mother can use it, anyone can. I've seen ubuntu shut up naysayers for a while now. Also, now to come off like a fanboy, but are we actually going to say that we think there's somehting google can't accomplish? I have yet to see that proved.
Speaking of which, did we notice that Bones was moved opposite Lost? Now THERE'S an effort to kill a program. David Boreanas can't catch a break.
Right. because movies that bomb never get sequels made. Never seen that happen, no sir.
Also, do we know which linux distros they were using? Because while there's 2, maybe 3 types of Windows, tops, there are countless linux distros. I can understand counting redhat, fedora, suse, ubuntu, slack . . . but bill's linux funhouse might be stretching it. I didn't see any indication that they were differentiating between linux distros that people use and linux distros that take up space.
People (like me) would laugh their asses off, but we'd have no right to. Really, a mobile office suite IS innovative. I'd make fun of MS for doing it because I hate them, but I wouldn't have a leg to stand on. it may not be particularly inventive, i guess . . . mobility is all the rage now, but actually making it happen is a big deal.
I already have one. The best way to slashdot-proof a webserver, I hear, is to unplug it.
Right. Nothing useful about an office suite that can handle it's own formats plus the formats of all major office suites (includinghte competition) AND fits in your pocket AND it's free AND. Did I mention that it runs on all major operating systems? Which is to say you'd have a hard time finding an OS that it can't run on. Yeah. I can't imagine a situation in which that might be useful.
I love this logic. A) ubuntu is painfully easy to install. I just did it yesterday and for the average user you hit enter about 12 times and you're done. That's it. Easy as pie. B) The "average" user never installs windows at all and would probably kill themselves if they had to. C) lots of linux distros, esspecially ubuntu, are painfully easy to use. Ubuntu is more intuitive than windows, if you asked me. The only difference (and people love to forget this) is that we all know how to use windows. Because we grew up on it, for the most part. That isn't the case in other countries where people have not nessisarily been using Windows since they came out of the womb, and MS will have to understand that. This isn't a country making irrational demends of MS. This is a country telling MS that if they want to do business in their country here are the rules, take them or leave them. Personally, I suspect they'll leave them, which would be the best thing for both the country in question and for whatever solution they end up with (odds are good that it will be linux).
What's more, any ideot who thinks that windows wasn't hard ot learn obviously has a recklessly short attention span. I use windows just fine now after 15+ years of use. And I use linux even better after 3. It's not as if human beings are born with innate knowledge of using windows. You have to learn it just like anyhting else. the fact that you don't remember the learning process doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just means you were so ignorant that you didn't know how much you didn't know.
Hang on, you're saying you believe that you would trust a FSF or OSDL-funded study to be impartial? You're saying that if the FSF funded a study comparing GNU to Windows, and the study came back saying "Windows saves you money in the long term, and Microsoft's Shared Source is as good as Free Software for 99% of users", that the FSF would then be happy to publish that study? I don't think so, and I suspect you won't either, if you pause to think about it. Don't be silly, of course it's more valid. a) anytime hte goal is not to maintain the bottom line of your money making company you can be more trustworthy period. b) the goal of the open source community as a whole is not to overthrow MS, but to make quality computing software. A bad review helps us to make better software, bottom line. While nobody likes to see a bad review of their stuff the open source community as a whole is more willing to receive such a review.
hmm . . . that is possible. But then again all it would take is a quick install of some shell programs to get access. Sure your average user probably can't do that, but our average user doesn't want shell access either. Still, it would only hurt them not to provide it.
Sure they have. You hear about killer beez all the time. Remember how the killer bees were going to wipe out whole cities? What do they do now? basically they make honey. Killer bees were the result of a slow news day plain and simple.
Weak logic. By that logic cancer and heart disease don't kill poeple either, they just facilitate a lack of oxygen to the brain, which causes death. Bullet's don't kill people. Gaping holes in the abdomed often caused by bullets kill people.