You cannot access Opera Unite from, say, a web browser without explicitly opening the port. You have to go through Opera. And, frankly, fuck them. It's a blatant play to attempt to become relevant in social networking, and they suck at it. I hope somebody (I mentioned Google below, but anyone works) comes out with a clone and relegates Opera to the bottom-feeding bullshit that they've ended up in for the last...uh...ever, when it comes to desktops. Not because I think it's a good idea--I don't--but because anything that makes Opera's devs get their panties in a wad is fine by me.
Without a domain name, this sort of thing is basically useless.
It's great that it uses UPnP. Woo! Awesome! Gold star! But it's still essentially useless for damn near anything.
Setting up a web server really is trivial. Like this. And it actually gives you something worth a flying fuck.
And using "keeping your files local" as a reason for some stupid boondoggle like this is absolutely silly.
This is Opera trying very, very had to remain relevant by replacing MySpace, Facebook, et al. by encouraging traffic through their servers, becoming a hub of traffic. Great idea--but nobody gives a damn because nobody uses Opera and this is certainly no killer app.
(I'd love to see the impotent nerd rage on the faces of Opera devs if Google came out with Google Sites-On-Your-Computer in the next six months and obliterate what little buzz this stupid, stupid feature has. Not because I think it's a good feature, but because the Opera folks have a history of doing more whining than marketing and have the success to show for it.)
See, I simply don't believe this. I categorically reject these "high-minded" reasons to pirate. It boils down to this: you are as dishonest as they are. You are out solely to get free stuff. If you could get other stuff for free, you would. You will not pay for it because you can get it for free, no matter the reason or where the money would actually go.
And without a domain name, who's going to do that? In any case, NAT (which basically everyone has or should have!) makes this silly and meaningless. Anybody savvy enough--and with an ISP terms-of-use agreement liberal enough--to set up Opera Unite as their web server on a private account can probably set up a real web server running Wordpress or whatever.
Or just spend $5/month for shared hosting and do it that way.
I don't much care for the RIAA, but everything brought in as evidence was against her, and she couldn't come up with shit-all that might even bring a shred of reasonable doubt (let alone the much greater amount that they'd need to win a civil case).
If you actually think she's innocent, you're out of your mind. She did it. Is the punishment just? Hell, no. But I don't see how any intellectually honest person can take her defense as anything but the most pathetic thing around.
Standing there doing nothing is not being patient, it is being stupid. Pulling out an iphone or the like for a quick video game is no different from picking up a book and reading in line (which I have done)--it adds activity to an otherwise inactive section of the day.
I'd rather be talking to people, but people look at you funny if you smile and say 'hi,' let alone try to strike up a conversation.
Nonsense. I knew ahead of time that a calculus class would offer me very little of value, because it isn't what interests me and isn't what I need for what I'm going to do. But it's a mindless requirement for my degree, so I had to take it.
And you can sneer that I "dilute the value" of other people's degrees--but I'm the one who actually can do, and I'm still better than they are at going through the motions of what that lot thinks is important. I'm better at playing their own game than they are, and better at parts of the game they don't even understand. So with all due respect, I'm pretty sure they're diluting the value of my degree.:)
How about selling the knowledge that you like gay goat porn? American cars is one thing, a proclivity for watching a goat cornhole a dude would probably not reflect well on you if people knew.
This. I have a machine running Vista Home Basic that's a 1.5GHz Pentium M with 512MB of RAM. It's as snappy as XP SP2 was on the same machine. (I'm probably going to pave it and install Linux, or see if I can use it for Hackintosh purposes. Probably too old for that, and I need something that can at least run the iPhone SDK...)
Which version of XP are we talking about? XP RTM actually ran pretty well on 256MB of RAM. XP SP2, with its raft of new features and 'stuff', chugged at less than 512MB.
Don't be a moron. Vista (yes, and applications, you idiot) runs perfectly fine with 2GB of RAM. I wouldn't want to use it with less than 1GB, but 2GB is plenty of headroom, even for software development, Photoshop, etc.
Does OS X actually recognize modern mice with *more* than three buttons? I use a Logitech MX518 with two thumb buttons (which Firefox on Windows thoughtfully maps to forward and back), and I don't think I'd ever want to do without that.
Two-finger click is a terrible solution on a trackpad, for me at least. I don't put my hand directly over the touchpad the way Apple seems to think people should; I rotate my hand from where it rests on the front plate of the laptop, do my trackpaddery, and then rotate it back. Using my middle finger to two-finger-click is so much more annoying than my thumb to press buttons any day of the weel.
And the desktop machines have the right mouse button disabled by default. FAIL.
I have personally given $300 to individuals who have worked to raise furry articles [wikipedia.org] to good article status [wikipedia.org]. I see nothing wrong with this.
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You cannot access Opera Unite from, say, a web browser without explicitly opening the port. You have to go through Opera. And, frankly, fuck them. It's a blatant play to attempt to become relevant in social networking, and they suck at it. I hope somebody (I mentioned Google below, but anyone works) comes out with a clone and relegates Opera to the bottom-feeding bullshit that they've ended up in for the last...uh...ever, when it comes to desktops. Not because I think it's a good idea--I don't--but because anything that makes Opera's devs get their panties in a wad is fine by me.
Clearly you can't read.
Without a domain name, this sort of thing is basically useless.
It's great that it uses UPnP. Woo! Awesome! Gold star! But it's still essentially useless for damn near anything.
Setting up a web server really is trivial. Like this. And it actually gives you something worth a flying fuck.
And using "keeping your files local" as a reason for some stupid boondoggle like this is absolutely silly.
This is Opera trying very, very had to remain relevant by replacing MySpace, Facebook, et al. by encouraging traffic through their servers, becoming a hub of traffic. Great idea--but nobody gives a damn because nobody uses Opera and this is certainly no killer app.
(I'd love to see the impotent nerd rage on the faces of Opera devs if Google came out with Google Sites-On-Your-Computer in the next six months and obliterate what little buzz this stupid, stupid feature has. Not because I think it's a good feature, but because the Opera folks have a history of doing more whining than marketing and have the success to show for it.)
See, I simply don't believe this. I categorically reject these "high-minded" reasons to pirate. It boils down to this: you are as dishonest as they are. You are out solely to get free stuff. If you could get other stuff for free, you would. You will not pay for it because you can get it for free, no matter the reason or where the money would actually go.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
A Phenom II system will cost roughly the same as an Intel Core 2 Duo system and be vastly worse in terms of performance. Nice try.
The alternative is the woefully unsupported IPv6. Next question!
And without a domain name, who's going to do that? In any case, NAT (which basically everyone has or should have!) makes this silly and meaningless. Anybody savvy enough--and with an ISP terms-of-use agreement liberal enough--to set up Opera Unite as their web server on a private account can probably set up a real web server running Wordpress or whatever.
Or just spend $5/month for shared hosting and do it that way.
I don't much care for the RIAA, but everything brought in as evidence was against her, and she couldn't come up with shit-all that might even bring a shred of reasonable doubt (let alone the much greater amount that they'd need to win a civil case).
If you actually think she's innocent, you're out of your mind. She did it. Is the punishment just? Hell, no. But I don't see how any intellectually honest person can take her defense as anything but the most pathetic thing around.
Or they'll just keep pirating because now it's even easier.
The equivalency is so false that I have no recourse but to call you a mouthbreathing fucktard and suggest that you stop using computers.
New England, yeah. I have noticed it's much more common when I go visit family in the D.C. area to actually be...you know. Personable.
If people want it, it's a decent product.
Apple's devkit distribution cost: $99.
Nintendo's: dunno, because unless you're a large-scale incorporated developer they won't talk to you.
The $99 fee from Apple is just high enough to keep out (most of) the idiots and is recouped quickly by any decent product.
Standing there doing nothing is not being patient, it is being stupid. Pulling out an iphone or the like for a quick video game is no different from picking up a book and reading in line (which I have done)--it adds activity to an otherwise inactive section of the day.
I'd rather be talking to people, but people look at you funny if you smile and say 'hi,' let alone try to strike up a conversation.
Thanks for playing, fuckbean.
The ACLs are blocking some people in Iran, though. :/
Because civil rights protesters did something important. Hippies, not so much.
Nonsense. I knew ahead of time that a calculus class would offer me very little of value, because it isn't what interests me and isn't what I need for what I'm going to do. But it's a mindless requirement for my degree, so I had to take it.
And you can sneer that I "dilute the value" of other people's degrees--but I'm the one who actually can do, and I'm still better than they are at going through the motions of what that lot thinks is important. I'm better at playing their own game than they are, and better at parts of the game they don't even understand. So with all due respect, I'm pretty sure they're diluting the value of my degree. :)
Yeah, but without a name on it. Bob Jones might have some trouble getting a job (fair or not) if it's going around that he buys gay goat porn.
How about selling the knowledge that you like gay goat porn? American cars is one thing, a proclivity for watching a goat cornhole a dude would probably not reflect well on you if people knew.
This. I have a machine running Vista Home Basic that's a 1.5GHz Pentium M with 512MB of RAM. It's as snappy as XP SP2 was on the same machine. (I'm probably going to pave it and install Linux, or see if I can use it for Hackintosh purposes. Probably too old for that, and I need something that can at least run the iPhone SDK...)
Which version of XP are we talking about? XP RTM actually ran pretty well on 256MB of RAM. XP SP2, with its raft of new features and 'stuff', chugged at less than 512MB.
Don't be a moron. Vista (yes, and applications, you idiot) runs perfectly fine with 2GB of RAM. I wouldn't want to use it with less than 1GB, but 2GB is plenty of headroom, even for software development, Photoshop, etc.
Does OS X actually recognize modern mice with *more* than three buttons? I use a Logitech MX518 with two thumb buttons (which Firefox on Windows thoughtfully maps to forward and back), and I don't think I'd ever want to do without that.
Two-finger click is a terrible solution on a trackpad, for me at least. I don't put my hand directly over the touchpad the way Apple seems to think people should; I rotate my hand from where it rests on the front plate of the laptop, do my trackpaddery, and then rotate it back. Using my middle finger to two-finger-click is so much more annoying than my thumb to press buttons any day of the weel.
And the desktop machines have the right mouse button disabled by default. FAIL.
It wasn't a good joke, to be fair.
Furries are though.
I have personally given $300 to individuals who have worked to raise furry articles [wikipedia.org] to good article status [wikipedia.org]. I see nothing wrong with this.
I do.