Jobs #&@%ing told you. He told you that iOS was the way his computers were going to shift, but you said "not on the desktop, that's what Mac OS X is for". In five years time, he'll be running iOS on xserves and calling it a revolution in server security "never run untested code! Turn daemons on and off with the flick of a finger on your dedicated iPad (dedication license fees per iPad/xserve connection apply).
I just think they're single-game players, meaning the guys that buy ONE game and then play it forever.
ding ding ding ding! Or single-player gamers, no need for other people shouting profanity. I still play Civ1 on occasion, and MOO rocks. Sierra games. I love playing MW2, Merc, and MW3. I don't play new PC games though. I own a Wii and a second hand Xbox for new games. As long as I'm good to the hardware, I can play those games "forever". No online activation hoping the company's still around BS. Because you _know_ the company is going to be gone at some point. The gaming industry is fickle, and many a company has gone all-in on a string of duds, to find themselves bought out and their IP tarnished by the new owner.
Ironically, this game is now free so now the guy gets to play it.
Ten years later, they fixed it. Hooray! Sorry, not good enough.
It's your loss. Steam DRM is about as good as it gets. The real issue is when you buy a game that doesn't work on your PC. You just have to read the requirements before you impulse buy.
I _did_ read the box. In fact, I read it several times after finding out why the game wouldn't work. My computer at the time was top of the line; matched all the specs except the hidden DRM one. Steam is a purchasing method good for fast-food style purchases. If they sold games at 20% cost, I might think about it, but I can't justify a "it might not work, and definitely won't work six years from now" purchase.
when you walk in and the guys doing the hiring have Macs.
If HR is using Macs, then I'm leery about even interviewing. Sure, there's a chance that IT is using a nice puppet/ARD/filewave/ssh/whatever combo to administer end users' machines, but it's more likely that the scenario is one where end users are admins of their own boxes and they've installed every trojan under the sun, and the "admins" choose xserves because all they know is Mac OS X. *shiver*
Like we're talking about gaming computers. I'll take a chance at better OpenGL performance on a Linux machine than on Mac OS X any day (unless the Linux machine is a Mac). The graphics cards in any Mac except Mac Pros are rinky dink.
I like free stuff as much as the next guy... And I'm not a big fan of DRM in general... But I can at least accept that game developers need to eat, and that I'm not entitled to their games for free, and that Steam is a relatively reasonable platform.
A lot of folks here on Slashdot disagree with me. A lot of folks here on Slashdot think Steam is an absolutely horrible thing. They wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. They sure as hell wouldn't install it on their Linux system and purchase games through it.
I'm one of those people. Steam, or any "online activation" DRM like it, is like a sysadmin making a network in such a way that only he can administer it, and when the time comes for him to be fired, he keeps the passwords locked in his head. It's wrong, and in some jurisdictions (San Fransisco), apparently illegal. Oh, sure, they "promise" (not contractually guarantee) that they'll unlock the games if the company folds, but who pays for the bandwidth to host the official crack files if the company has folded? I'll pay up to $80 for a good game that doesn't have mega-evil-DRM, because I expect to get hundreds of hours of good entertainment from it over the next 15-20 years, just like I have from FRUA, CIV, UFO/XCOM, MOM, MOO, etc. It would be nice if the DRM budget got shifted back into the feelies budget again. You can never have enough nice game maps. Heck, turn the feelies into the DRM again, just like the old days. I'm much happier turning the spin-wheel and typing some nonsense at the beginning of a game than I am finding out that I can never play it again because the company that sold it is gone.
Sure. Hiking with GPS is like driving a car with an electric starter. You don't have to hand-crank it to start the motor, but it enables people who don't understand car mechanics to drive.
How many times in the past had someone said "Damn, I wish there was a way to call for help out here" when they're stranded in the wilderness? Now that we have Sat phones, they _can_ call. Sure, there might be a few more people venturing places they shouldn't because they think the phone is an Aegis, but if they're in over their heads, it's your job to help them, Ranger. You don't just get to contemplate your navel in a watch tower. Every new electronic device we add to our lives gives us a new way to burn our houses down, but you don't hear Firemen whining.
I stopped getting tense after MechWarrior4. When that stupid game didn't work in any CDROM drive I owned due to DRM, I stopped buying new games for PC. I only play old games or open source games, both of which I have plenty.
People are paying $80 a photo to get a joke photo. Something they can show a friend and say "look, blag showed up atcomic con. What a desperate loser." and that coming from comic con goers is mighty damning.
What if I want to read web sites without sitting at a desk in front of a computer?
Then you display them on a TV screen and read them from across the room, or you have your secretary print them out. If you're using an iPad, iPod, iPhone, or a netbook, you're using a computer.
Occam's Razor is good for hunches, but it says nothing about the truth. For example, insert a little more info: What if Assange is a tried and true boy-scout, or maybe he's a flaming homosexual? Number five suddenly becomes the most unlikely scenario. But even in that case, it still might be true.
Members of the public have a very limited scope of privacy rights when they are in public places.
can almost always be photographed lawfully from public places:
The two bold sections are not equal. Which trumps which: photographing private places from public places, or privacy in non-public places?
I actually like my mail provider to mark what he considers spam. However I wouldn't want him to delete the message without my consent.
They do it all the time. End users think Google is great because they never see any SPAM. They're bound to be missing some HAM or HAMMY-SPAM, but what they don't know apparently doesn't hurt.
if everybody on the planet each got a knife made out of recycled glass and used it carefully to murder a neighbour, then the whole problem would be halved over night.
If everybody went next door to murder a neighbor, no one would be next door to be a victim.
Ahhh, so that's why it took till my early twenties before someone even thought of looking in that direction.
No, it's because Asperger Syndrome wasn't "official" with the APA until the mid-nineties, so most doctors either disregarded it as a possible diagnosis or had never heard of it other than a mention in a medical journal.
With Autism being so prevalent in humans you do have to wonder if it is really a disease or mistake, or perhaps either a previous evolutionary step or our next evolutionary step.
This isn't Marvel comics. Evolution doesn't work that way.
I had an facebook account just to see what it was and got even to the point of having 100 people as 'friends'. Basically people I have no idea of what to say to in real life. So I had no idea why I had them as 'friends'. I guess the number of people on your list is like a pissing contest.
That's really kind of sad. According to your ID number, you're probably my age or just a little younger, but I have a couple hundred friends on FB, and they've been judiciously chosen as _real_ friends (and family) that I want to stay in contact with. And I would consider myself to be closer to the hermit side of the social-scale. Get out of the house, have a beer with your kids' friends' parents, join a local organization of some sort.
That said, the number of friends is a pissing contest for youngsters, and they need to learn that it's not a good idea to add random friends just to score "points".
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discussions about upcoming tests and school work, [...] It worked
No it didn't. What they really learned was standard teacher gossip: which teachers were having affairs with other teachers, etc.
MSNBC is telling us how the Tea Party is raciest and the designated tours of Washington DC are designed to avoid black areas.
If the Tea Party is really raciest, they're just focusing on the red-light districts.
Jobs #&@%ing told you. He told you that iOS was the way his computers were going to shift, but you said "not on the desktop, that's what Mac OS X is for". In five years time, he'll be running iOS on xserves and calling it a revolution in server security "never run untested code! Turn daemons on and off with the flick of a finger on your dedicated iPad (dedication license fees per iPad/xserve connection apply).
I just think they're single-game players, meaning the guys that buy ONE game and then play it forever.
ding ding ding ding! Or single-player gamers, no need for other people shouting profanity. I still play Civ1 on occasion, and MOO rocks. Sierra games. I love playing MW2, Merc, and MW3. I don't play new PC games though. I own a Wii and a second hand Xbox for new games. As long as I'm good to the hardware, I can play those games "forever". No online activation hoping the company's still around BS. Because you _know_ the company is going to be gone at some point. The gaming industry is fickle, and many a company has gone all-in on a string of duds, to find themselves bought out and their IP tarnished by the new owner.
Ironically, this game is now free so now the guy gets to play it.
Ten years later, they fixed it. Hooray! Sorry, not good enough.
It's your loss. Steam DRM is about as good as it gets. The real issue is when you buy a game that doesn't work on your PC. You just have to read the requirements before you impulse buy.
I _did_ read the box. In fact, I read it several times after finding out why the game wouldn't work. My computer at the time was top of the line; matched all the specs except the hidden DRM one. Steam is a purchasing method good for fast-food style purchases. If they sold games at 20% cost, I might think about it, but I can't justify a "it might not work, and definitely won't work six years from now" purchase.
when you walk in and the guys doing the hiring have Macs.
If HR is using Macs, then I'm leery about even interviewing. Sure, there's a chance that IT is using a nice puppet/ARD/filewave/ssh/whatever combo to administer end users' machines, but it's more likely that the scenario is one where end users are admins of their own boxes and they've installed every trojan under the sun, and the "admins" choose xserves because all they know is Mac OS X. *shiver*
Like we're talking about servers.
Like we're talking about gaming computers. I'll take a chance at better OpenGL performance on a Linux machine than on Mac OS X any day (unless the Linux machine is a Mac). The graphics cards in any Mac except Mac Pros are rinky dink.
I like free stuff as much as the next guy... And I'm not a big fan of DRM in general... But I can at least accept that game developers need to eat, and that I'm not entitled to their games for free, and that Steam is a relatively reasonable platform. A lot of folks here on Slashdot disagree with me. A lot of folks here on Slashdot think Steam is an absolutely horrible thing. They wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. They sure as hell wouldn't install it on their Linux system and purchase games through it.
I'm one of those people. Steam, or any "online activation" DRM like it, is like a sysadmin making a network in such a way that only he can administer it, and when the time comes for him to be fired, he keeps the passwords locked in his head. It's wrong, and in some jurisdictions (San Fransisco), apparently illegal. Oh, sure, they "promise" (not contractually guarantee) that they'll unlock the games if the company folds, but who pays for the bandwidth to host the official crack files if the company has folded? I'll pay up to $80 for a good game that doesn't have mega-evil-DRM, because I expect to get hundreds of hours of good entertainment from it over the next 15-20 years, just like I have from FRUA, CIV, UFO/XCOM, MOM, MOO, etc. It would be nice if the DRM budget got shifted back into the feelies budget again. You can never have enough nice game maps. Heck, turn the feelies into the DRM again, just like the old days. I'm much happier turning the spin-wheel and typing some nonsense at the beginning of a game than I am finding out that I can never play it again because the company that sold it is gone.
Can we get that in a car analogy?
Sure. Hiking with GPS is like driving a car with an electric starter. You don't have to hand-crank it to start the motor, but it enables people who don't understand car mechanics to drive.
uh, no. More like 5-6000 feet at the max,
5280ft=1mile, and 1mile is just under 2miles...
How many times in the past had someone said "Damn, I wish there was a way to call for help out here" when they're stranded in the wilderness? Now that we have Sat phones, they _can_ call. Sure, there might be a few more people venturing places they shouldn't because they think the phone is an Aegis, but if they're in over their heads, it's your job to help them, Ranger. You don't just get to contemplate your navel in a watch tower. Every new electronic device we add to our lives gives us a new way to burn our houses down, but you don't hear Firemen whining.
I stopped getting tense after MechWarrior4. When that stupid game didn't work in any CDROM drive I owned due to DRM, I stopped buying new games for PC. I only play old games or open source games, both of which I have plenty.
of North Korea drinking it up with China and Cuba on a Friday night. Or better yet, people will start tagging goatse as NK.
People are paying $80 a photo to get a joke photo. Something they can show a friend and say "look, blag showed up atcomic con. What a desperate loser." and that coming from comic con goers is mighty damning.
What if I want to read web sites without sitting at a desk in front of a computer?
Then you display them on a TV screen and read them from across the room, or you have your secretary print them out. If you're using an iPad, iPod, iPhone, or a netbook, you're using a computer.
-it's live, not regurgitated, reprocessed video from days gone by
Puppet shows are the height of regurgitated content, unless there's ad libbing, which is usually shouted down by the crowd.
5. Assange is a creep and is guilty as charged.
Occam's Razor, anyone?
Occam's Razor is good for hunches, but it says nothing about the truth. For example, insert a little more info: What if Assange is a tried and true boy-scout, or maybe he's a flaming homosexual? Number five suddenly becomes the most unlikely scenario. But even in that case, it still might be true.
"The Joke's on you! We don't have any readership anyway, so your boycott does nothing!"
Members of the public have a very limited scope of privacy rights when they are in public places.
can almost always be photographed lawfully from public places:
The two bold sections are not equal. Which trumps which: photographing private places from public places, or privacy in non-public places?
I actually like my mail provider to mark what he considers spam. However I wouldn't want him to delete the message without my consent.
They do it all the time. End users think Google is great because they never see any SPAM. They're bound to be missing some HAM or HAMMY-SPAM, but what they don't know apparently doesn't hurt.
if everybody on the planet each got a knife made out of recycled glass and used it carefully to murder a neighbour, then the whole problem would be halved over night.
If everybody went next door to murder a neighbor, no one would be next door to be a victim.
About the guy carrying a Sandisk SSD and postal stamp in his pocket who
gets asked "Is that a postage stamp sized SSD in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" This is /. after all.
Ahhh, so that's why it took till my early twenties before someone even thought of looking in that direction.
No, it's because Asperger Syndrome wasn't "official" with the APA until the mid-nineties, so most doctors either disregarded it as a possible diagnosis or had never heard of it other than a mention in a medical journal.
With Autism being so prevalent in humans you do have to wonder if it is really a disease or mistake, or perhaps either a previous evolutionary step or our next evolutionary step.
This isn't Marvel comics. Evolution doesn't work that way.
I had an facebook account just to see what it was and got even to the point of having 100 people as 'friends'. Basically people I have no idea of what to say to in real life. So I had no idea why I had them as 'friends'. I guess the number of people on your list is like a pissing contest.
That's really kind of sad. According to your ID number, you're probably my age or just a little younger, but I have a couple hundred friends on FB, and they've been judiciously chosen as _real_ friends (and family) that I want to stay in contact with. And I would consider myself to be closer to the hermit side of the social-scale. Get out of the house, have a beer with your kids' friends' parents, join a local organization of some sort.
That said, the number of friends is a pissing contest for youngsters, and they need to learn that it's not a good idea to add random friends just to score "points".