Heh, I already get asked all the time how I keep my laptop so worm-free. I just close the lid and show 'em the glowing apple on the top of the shiny aluminum case. =)
This is all well and good, but the PHBs still need to be made aware of the ramifactions of their addiction to 'doze in the simplest terms possible. I've been trying to migrate some of my clients off of 'doze for months now and it's a slow painstaking process as they stop me every step of the way and ask why they need to give up their outlook, or their "really easy integration with their iPaq". So, I'm stuck doing part time admin on windowboxen.
I'm not there often enough to make sure they patch their systems every time they should (they don't want to shell out the cash for a full-time IT guy) So the best I can do is email them the reports I get from eEye and bugtraq and just send an all points to patch and hope they do. (They don't of course, I just spent the last four hours rooting out the crap on a machine that hadn't been updated since mid March.) There needs to be maybe a "Windows Patching for Dummies" or something that will get the point across to these guys that the price of a secure 'doze box is eternal vigilance.
But hey, if they want to shell out the extra cash for my emergency services and the lost productivity incurred, who am I to argue?
Well said. I just got off the phone with a client whose systems I've frozen on Jaguar because certain companies *cough* Kodak *cough* have decided to stop updating their film scanner drivers past 10.2.8. Other than the lack of Expose, he's suffering no ill effects from not having the latest and greatest. He's quite happy with his systems the way they are.
Therein lies the problem. There are no more, "hardline capitalists" running things anymore. It's a bunch of short-sighted, " I-only-look-at-the-projections-from- quarter-to-q uarter-because-I-plan-to-bail-inside-t hree-years", types that are running things now. Foresight is in truly short supply in corporate America these days because there's no immediate gain from it.
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Plus it won't burn your nuts after about 20 minutes!!
Marathon and Portal were alike only in the AI angle. Though portal was a great game (and an even better book), Marathon kicked your ass on a really visceral level because it was a shooter that talked to you. Back in the days of ID's, "you're in hell, get out" storylines, it was truly amazing. And like others have said, people are still piecing out the story. (And also trying to connect it to Halo, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish...)
Jango's robcop move with putting his blaster away.
Which Robocop stole from countless pulp western flicks...
The Anakin/Amadala "hills are alive with the sound of music" shot on the hill
Which has been aped in may other movies as well...
The "Chicken Run I am going to crush you" factory sequence.
Seen before chicken run in movies like Galaxy Quest and going at least as far back as the Harold Lloyd films of the 20s
The gladatior fight sequence
Stolen itself from films like Spartacus and Ben Hur.
If you can't do it better, do something different.
Why? with the exception of The Sound of Music, all of your examples were done better in earlier films than the ones you cite too. Not to defend Lucas, because most of the dialogue in Ep II was excerable, but this is Hollywood, everybody steals. Sometimes with mixed results. Ep II wasn't spectacular, but it was no better or worse than a dozen other flicks unless you were going in with raised expectations.
Apple has a 3 year unlimited parts and labor plan too. Sent my Tibook in to them overnight after dropping it at a funny andle and popping the display open. Got it back two days later, new mobo and display all covered under warranty. No muss, no fuss.
I dig it. It's a fairly comprehensive FPS experience with a lot of nice extras. The only real problem I have with PS is how often the nerf bat comes flying out every time one empire or another thinks their prime exclusive weapon or vehicle is underpowered compared to the other empire's weapon or vehicle. And yes, the whining flies fast and furious on the PS forums.
There must be some kind of scaleability limitation though because Jedi Academy only supports about 30 players or so at a time in an area that is far smaller than a play area in an MMORPG.
You hit the nail on the head with the scalability issue. Unless you're playing a game like Planetside where there's no significant penalty for dying, (other than just having to respawn and grab more gear) you're going to have a lot of unhappy players who get 0wned by the LPB twitch freaks.
I think that if someone could design an MMORPG that played like an FPS, but had all of the depth and breadth of one of these not-so-real-time MMORPGs, it would be ideal.
I agree, it would be spectacular. But as it is, there're a ton of people playing SWG who'll just spam damage on players as they load into new zones. Unless everyone in the world is on the same footing connection-wise and the ganeworlds are seamless; a real-time implementation of a combat system would only compound this kind of grief play.
When tell people I prefer working on a Mac than on anything else, people look at me as if I were a perfect ass. Some of my friends don't speak of computers with me anymore, they just think I've become some kind of extremist who can't see how Macs are doomed.
Sounds to me like your friends are the extremists if the simple mention of a Mac makes them stop talking to you. Jobs has done a bunch of dumb things, sure. To hold him responsible for your friends not talking computers with you is kinda silly though.
Not to go too far offtopic, but yeah, that too. Especially if you consider the fact that the plan puts more money in the hands of the drug companies. Special interest pork runs rampant.
it is too risky, why do it when they're going to send up another hubble thats better
Maybe. Or maybe they'll pull the plug on sending the next one up due to lack of funding. Nothing's certain in these days of $87 billion war costs. Hubble is being killed not because it's too dangerous to service but because it doesn't fit into the current administration's space agenda.
Now you back away from that claim, saying, "free as speech was never my argument in the first place."
Do you people intentionally drown out the parts of an argument that qualify statements? My original reply to him was, once again, that he qualify, "free". With the added caveat that speech is not necessarily free.
e already tried to discuss free software with you, saying, "Want to take a look inside the Quartz Compositor? Sorry, you're SOL." The guy is into graphic's I suppose, and free (as in speech) software is so valuable to him that he's willing to give up an OS he "essentially" paid for (in purchasing Mac hardware) in order to have the freedom to tweak and learn with his OS's windowing engine.
That's what you took away from his statement, your supposition on the basis of one sentence is adding a lot of meaning that might not be there. Again, I asked that he clarify. He didn't do so, but a lot of FSF dogmatics came out and did instead.
You're obviously just trolling and trying to start a flame war.
Obviously, because I've got nothing better to do than troll slashdot. Try again, sport.
His original point in response to your question, "why should anyone in their right mind want to run Linux on a Mac?," was that OS X isn't totally free (as in open). You have yet to respond to this point of his. Either your knowledge of four different languages has effected your ability to communicate consistently in this one, or you're just posting flamebait.
Orrrrr, perhaps, just maybe... he didn't define "free (as in speech)" to my satisfaction. Could that be it? Someone else in this thread did and I thanked him for it. Perhaps in your haste to have me modded down, you missed that exchange.
That had to be the least dogma-loaded statement for free software I've seen tonight. Thank you for that. If only people could boil down the rhetoric to that level more often.
I think that your problem (besides the obvious lack of an ability to debate in a rational manner) is that you are confused about what the word "free" means in this context. Thus, "free as in speech" is to explain that "free, in this context, means as it does in ''free speech''".
Uh, no. I'm quite clear on what free means in this context and I reiterate that my position is still correct. OSX may not be as free as "speech", but that was never my argument in the first place. I suggest you reread all the comments that preceeded your rather arrogant assumption.
As far as your list goes, in the three languages other than English that I do speak, the words are equally empty without a proper contextual backdrop to place them against. Now, if you would care to discuss the freedom of both speech and software please feel free to, since you seem to have such a handle on both.
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Heh, I already get asked all the time how I keep my laptop so worm-free. I just close the lid and show 'em the glowing apple on the top of the shiny aluminum case. =)
This is all well and good, but the PHBs still need to be made aware of the ramifactions of their addiction to 'doze in the simplest terms possible. I've been trying to migrate some of my clients off of 'doze for months now and it's a slow painstaking process as they stop me every step of the way and ask why they need to give up their outlook, or their "really easy integration with their iPaq". So, I'm stuck doing part time admin on windowboxen.
I'm not there often enough to make sure they patch their systems every time they should (they don't want to shell out the cash for a full-time IT guy) So the best I can do is email them the reports I get from eEye and bugtraq and just send an all points to patch and hope they do. (They don't of course, I just spent the last four hours rooting out the crap on a machine that hadn't been updated since mid March.) There needs to be maybe a "Windows Patching for Dummies" or something that will get the point across to these guys that the price of a secure 'doze box is eternal vigilance.
But hey, if they want to shell out the extra cash for my emergency services and the lost productivity incurred, who am I to argue?
Two words.
Clippy's back.
Could be because you stopped at 10.1. They didn't optimize for speed 'til 10.2
Don't chuck your PB, just shell out the 90 bucks or so for a version of the OS that's been released since the end of the Clinton administration.
when are they going to run out of cats to name their operating system after.
I have it on good authority that they'll stop using Cats when all your base are belong to them. So I'm guessing some time around 2101 or so...
Yeah, that was stupid, mod it into oblivion...
Well said. I just got off the phone with a client whose systems I've frozen on Jaguar because certain companies *cough* Kodak *cough* have decided to stop updating their film scanner drivers past 10.2.8. Other than the lack of Expose, he's suffering no ill effects from not having the latest and greatest. He's quite happy with his systems the way they are.
Therein lies the problem. There are no more, "hardline capitalists" running things anymore. It's a bunch of short-sighted, " I-only-look-at-the-projections-from-q uarter-because-I-plan-to-bail-inside-t hree-years", types that are running things now. Foresight is in truly short supply in corporate America these days because there's no immediate gain from it.
quarter-to-
Plus it won't burn your nuts after about 20 minutes!!
That kinda depends on the pr0n, don't it?
Marathon and Portal were alike only in the AI angle. Though portal was a great game (and an even better book), Marathon kicked your ass on a really visceral level because it was a shooter that talked to you. Back in the days of ID's, "you're in hell, get out" storylines, it was truly amazing. And like others have said, people are still piecing out the story. (And also trying to connect it to Halo, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish...)
Jango's robcop move with putting his blaster away.
Which Robocop stole from countless pulp western flicks...
The Anakin/Amadala "hills are alive with the sound of music" shot on the hill
Which has been aped in may other movies as well...
The "Chicken Run I am going to crush you" factory sequence.
Seen before chicken run in movies like Galaxy Quest and going at least as far back as the Harold Lloyd films of the 20s
The gladatior fight sequence
Stolen itself from films like Spartacus and Ben Hur.
If you can't do it better, do something different.
Why? with the exception of The Sound of Music, all of your examples were done better in earlier films than the ones you cite too. Not to defend Lucas, because most of the dialogue in Ep II was excerable, but this is Hollywood, everybody steals. Sometimes with mixed results. Ep II wasn't spectacular, but it was no better or worse than a dozen other flicks unless you were going in with raised expectations.
Ah, I love the smell of shenanigans in the morning.
Smells like...victory.
You're in luck then, because if you vote Bush, you get Dick for free!
Apple has a 3 year unlimited parts and labor plan too. Sent my Tibook in to them overnight after dropping it at a funny andle and popping the display open. Got it back two days later, new mobo and display all covered under warranty. No muss, no fuss.
Why are you nervous? Think of the implications! We could stamp out terror with a single patch! United Nations XP, Service Pack 1, here we come!
Yeah, but people are buying the MuVo to rip out the CF card 'cause it's cheaper than springing for a 4gig card by itself. Ingenious buggers. =D
I dig it. It's a fairly comprehensive FPS experience with a lot of nice extras. The only real problem I have with PS is how often the nerf bat comes flying out every time one empire or another thinks their prime exclusive weapon or vehicle is underpowered compared to the other empire's weapon or vehicle. And yes, the whining flies fast and furious on the PS forums.
There must be some kind of scaleability limitation though because Jedi Academy only supports about 30 players or so at a time in an area that is far smaller than a play area in an MMORPG.
You hit the nail on the head with the scalability issue. Unless you're playing a game like Planetside where there's no significant penalty for dying, (other than just having to respawn and grab more gear) you're going to have a lot of unhappy players who get 0wned by the LPB twitch freaks.
I think that if someone could design an MMORPG that played like an FPS, but had all of the depth and breadth of one of these not-so-real-time MMORPGs, it would be ideal.
I agree, it would be spectacular. But as it is, there're a ton of people playing SWG who'll just spam damage on players as they load into new zones. Unless everyone in the world is on the same footing connection-wise and the ganeworlds are seamless; a real-time implementation of a combat system would only compound this kind of grief play.
When tell people I prefer working on a Mac than on anything else, people look at me as if I were a perfect ass. Some of my friends don't speak of computers with me anymore, they just think I've become some kind of extremist who can't see how Macs are doomed.
Sounds to me like your friends are the extremists if the simple mention of a Mac makes them stop talking to you. Jobs has done a bunch of dumb things, sure. To hold him responsible for your friends not talking computers with you is kinda silly though.
Not to go too far offtopic, but yeah, that too. Especially if you consider the fact that the plan puts more money in the hands of the drug companies. Special interest pork runs rampant.
it is too risky, why do it when they're going to send up another hubble thats better
Maybe. Or maybe they'll pull the plug on sending the next one up due to lack of funding. Nothing's certain in these days of $87 billion war costs. Hubble is being killed not because it's too dangerous to service but because it doesn't fit into the current administration's space agenda.
Now you back away from that claim, saying, "free as speech was never my argument in the first place."
Do you people intentionally drown out the parts of an argument that qualify statements? My original reply to him was, once again, that he qualify, "free". With the added caveat that speech is not necessarily free.
e already tried to discuss free software with you, saying, "Want to take a look inside the Quartz Compositor? Sorry, you're SOL." The guy is into graphic's I suppose, and free (as in speech) software is so valuable to him that he's willing to give up an OS he "essentially" paid for (in purchasing Mac hardware) in order to have the freedom to tweak and learn with his OS's windowing engine.
That's what you took away from his statement, your supposition on the basis of one sentence is adding a lot of meaning that might not be there. Again, I asked that he clarify. He didn't do so, but a lot of FSF dogmatics came out and did instead.
You're obviously just trolling and trying to start a flame war.
Obviously, because I've got nothing better to do than troll slashdot. Try again, sport.
His original point in response to your question, "why should anyone in their right mind want to run Linux on a Mac?," was that OS X isn't totally free (as in open). You have yet to respond to this point of his. Either your knowledge of four different languages has effected your ability to communicate consistently in this one, or you're just posting flamebait.
Orrrrr, perhaps, just maybe... he didn't define "free (as in speech)" to my satisfaction. Could that be it? Someone else in this thread did and I thanked him for it. Perhaps in your haste to have me modded down, you missed that exchange.
That had to be the least dogma-loaded statement for free software I've seen tonight. Thank you for that. If only people could boil down the rhetoric to that level more often.
Heh, completely missed the Astaire reference... I must be slipping. Thanks for the heads up! =D
Yeah, but Glenn Quinn's kinda dead, so that could be a problem...
I think that your problem (besides the obvious lack of an ability to debate in a rational manner) is that you are confused about what the word "free" means in this context. Thus, "free as in speech" is to explain that "free, in this context, means as it does in ''free speech''".
Uh, no. I'm quite clear on what free means in this context and I reiterate that my position is still correct. OSX may not be as free as "speech", but that was never my argument in the first place. I suggest you reread all the comments that preceeded your rather arrogant assumption.
As far as your list goes, in the three languages other than English that I do speak, the words are equally empty without a proper contextual backdrop to place them against. Now, if you would care to discuss the freedom of both speech and software please feel free to, since you seem to have such a handle on both.