Well, mostly not. Except for Firefox zealots. And people who refuse to consider anything but Linux. Oh, and don't forget distro wars. Should I be using KDE or Gnome? Vi or Emacs?
I own the book, and it's absurdly condensed. It's laid out well, with several topics listed under their own header and from there referenced back to an earlier section. (Example: Recursive querying is covered under "hierarchical queries" but both have a spot in the TOC). For a pocket guide, it's great, especially with the comparison across all of the major SQL flavors (don't get me started on the Linux Pocket Guide, which is tailored to Fedora). It even makes some notices between different versions of databases (often when certain features PostgreSQL will support should appear). In short, it's nice to have the book on-hand as a paper reference--finding what I need to know is just as fast as Google. Even better that I don't have to open another browser window/tab.
One 'gripe' is that the author changed the structure of his website since the book was published, so all of the book urls are broken.
Excuse me whilst I go grumble about that game only getting its rerelease on the PSP... because I loved it on the PSX. Would it have killed Square-Enix to rerelease the PSX version? Frickin' $100-200 on eBay.
"Wireless everything" is about the same as "flying car": it's a purely technical point with gross impracticality. In short, it's a pipe dream for the borderline geeks to fantasize (and wank) over. I like my wired periphials because they're more convenient--no dealing with battery replacements (the rechargable ones have a limited # of charge cycles)--and have lower latency.
If Jobs is going to attempt to package eyecandy (in the form of a clone of a celebrity that's allegedly attactive and/or sexy) with the eyecandy he calls a computer, he owes it to his marketing people to at least have decent eyecandy.
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And let's not forget how MySpace and a few other sites have adopted the latest-and-greatest Flash player, thus alienating (for the time being) their Linux constituency. I'm glad YouTube hasn't made the 'leap forward' yet.
You're saying that that's a bad thing? What kind of/.er are you?
Christ, Jobs could announce that from now on every single Mac would ship with a free Natalie Portman clone, and you people would be complaining that it was a disappiontment because the rumors sites said it would ship with two free Natalie Portman clones, each holding ice creame sundaes!
Bad analogy--Natalie Portman a) can't act b) isn't good eyecandy.
Oh, God. I bought the set that Interplay had released, years ago.
Basically all of their 2nd Ed Forgotten Realms games from Pool of Radiance (damn trolls!) up to just before Baldur's Gate. A couple days ago, I started playing Tales of Phantasia remake for the GBA, and it's great.
Unfortunately, the things that sell the most homogenized corporate papers and magazines these days usually mention "Brangelina" picking something out of their teeth or Britney Spears drop-kicking another baby while driving. Average Joe Sixpack doesn't want to be bothered with anything more than whether his favorite useless overpaid sports team won, who his favorite useless overpaid movie stars are getting it on with, and possibly a feel-good local piece about Granny Gums Magillicuddy who turns 103 years young this week and swears it's all thanks to a lifelong diet of yogurt and aquarium gravel.
That strikes fear into my heart. Damn you and your +5 Insightfulness.
I still can't understand most of the voyeurism that permeates the popular (anecdotal reference, don't have any numbers handy) channels/networks such as E! and MTV2. I didn't realize how such garbage could survive until I met my roommate of last year (male), who had both offending channels on 24/7 (if it's anything, he had it on often for the background noise; his example probably skews things as he also is an avid (and stereotypical, unfortunately) WoW player, with Neopets if he can't get WoW).
That such shows find commercial success strikes me like a dagger in the back--what has happened to our countrymen?
Beyond this, the best items in the game can not even be purchased with gold. All of it has to be done through farming the dungeons for hours and hours and hours on end. This is really where the game begins. Whacking a few bunnies at low level isn't going to show you anything.
Fixed.
WoW is basically built around farming/grinding, whether it be for gold, items, "reputation", "honor" (to get said items, this is probably one of the more aggrivating farming deals I know of -- one particular mount--a bluish cat--requires about a month of PURE FARMING just to get the option to buy it). And for an entry-level MMOG, that's likely fine. It doesn't need a deep economy (like EVE's), or any stiffer penalty for death than a slap on the wrist (Death sucks on most other MMOGs) and a smidgen of time. What it does need is "Endgame" content to keep the high-level people there (bigger dungeons to farm, longer timesinks [see Zul'Gurub rewards as an example]). Even then, the 'casual players' are screwed--such endgame content is effectively barred from them by the sheer logistics (has a Molten Core pickup group ever gotten anywhere?)--meaning that if you want to have the 'phat loot', you MUST find a guild that runs a high-level instance like Molten Core (which is the general example) and farm it with them (oh, and most of said guilds are tailored to the more 'hardcore' players).
But what about PVP? Can't someone just blunder onto the world and start offing people? Isn't there a set of gear for the people who only want to PVP? Yes and no. The PVP gear requires no less of a time committment (heck, it likely requires more), and the irony here is that the players screw themselves in their race for the top (as the ranking system is all relative). To reach the higher echelons of the PVP rankings, substantial farming of the battleground instances are *required* (say, 8-10 hours a day for a few weeks). On top of that, the top PVP equipment (which is purchased) is still inferior to the high-end equipment acquired through dungeon farming (and to make the climb to the PVP top with any sort of efficency, you need most of the dungeon gear anyway). World PVP... hrm... Blizzard is apparently doing something to "fix" this (although I have a feeling it won't be nearly enough), although they have already pretty much committed to the Battlegrounds being the IN thing when you want to PVP.
What has really been pissing me off lately is when looking up common programming issues or error messages I get links to dozens of sites that just link to common, or link to parts of the actual result I am looking for - stolen from a legit site - but no usable answer.
Oh, you mean like this site? I hate that place. Really do.
I don't know that a law is the right fix for this, but yeah I could see some of the less scrupulous sites putting up "barbie+pony+furby" metatags and farming for banner views/clicks, and perhaps some repercussions should be available.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most "less scrupulous" sites hosted in, well, places like Russia, Brazil, and other such countries who couldn't care less about the USA's attempts to regulate a series of tubes?
Oh, so you mean LFS? I did that a few times myself.
Gentoo approximates LFS with a package installer tacked on. REAL masochists run./configure && make && make install for every package (and twice for gcc, binutils, and glibc!)
I just converted my home server from Sarge to Dapper because I needed a couple of more current things (Python 2.4.3).
Now why exactly did you swap out the entire distro when all you needed was a few packages? Just curious. Why not double-check the dependencies on what you wanted and compile/install them yourself? It'd would've saved you a reconfiguration (at the very least). I believe you can upgrade any package you please. Well, except maybe for glibc. Upgrading glibc is pain.
My Linux install started life as Slackware 10.2 (2.4 kernel), but it sure doesn't look like it anymore.
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
Armies of the night
Evil taking flight
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
No where to run
No where to hide
Panic spreading far and wide
Who can turn the tide?
GI Joe- (A real American hero) Yo Joe!
GI Joe is there
Fighting for freedom
Wherever there's trouble
over land and sea and air
GI Joe is there
Ex-WoW player here. Can't say I'm surprised. Nor can I say that it'll end ANY whining. Heck, it'll give people new causes to complain. Now the Alliance people can complain that the Horde pallies are overpowered, and the Horde people can complain that the Alliance shamans are overpowered. And thus, we have balance. Until the "nerfbats" come out (which everyone but the warriors really bitch about... because the warriors can always find better gear).
The primary 'good' thing I can see coming out of this is that Horde warriors will (eventually) have competition for their platemail drops (because there will always be idiot paladins on both sides who want the warrior armor).
And if people keep getting PoS loot (shaman/pallie when there aren't any), might as well shard it all. Really sucks for the people who've been raiding for 3-5 hours though.
Then again, I dropped WoW when I decided that I was tired of dungeon/PvP grinding/farming. Because that's all it is--one big farmfest. You work your ass off for the 'high end' gear, which takes multiple hours to achieve (at which point you're just sick of the dungeons), then you go over and do the PvP farming for rank/rep (after which you're also sick of all of the battlegrounds). Little wonder why people are leaving. (I now play EVE Online)
So, in my feelings, all this DRM and copyprotection bullshit really encroaches on fair use. It's not just an opinion, it's a fact. It's lame that they make it so hard to print frames from your favourite movie. It's lame that they make it so hard to convert movies into a format that you can watch on the devices that you want to watch them on. Next thing you know, they're going to try to prevent you from inviting your friends over to watch a movie at your place (RFID tags embedded in everyone's skin to make sure that you paid to be able to view the content on the screen).
It doesn't encroach on fair use, it tramples over it with the subtlety of a panzer division. Blitzkrieg isn't just for the military, you know!
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Vi, obviously. Emacs is the tool of the devil.
THE DEVIL, I TELL YOU!
I still want one when it's commercially available. Especially when it's integrated into a device the size/power of our average PocketPC PDA.
I own the book, and it's absurdly condensed. It's laid out well, with several topics listed under their own header and from there referenced back to an earlier section. (Example: Recursive querying is covered under "hierarchical queries" but both have a spot in the TOC).
For a pocket guide, it's great, especially with the comparison across all of the major SQL flavors (don't get me started on the Linux Pocket Guide, which is tailored to Fedora). It even makes some notices between different versions of databases (often when certain features PostgreSQL will support should appear). In short, it's nice to have the book on-hand as a paper reference--finding what I need to know is just as fast as Google. Even better that I don't have to open another browser window/tab.
One 'gripe' is that the author changed the structure of his website since the book was published, so all of the book urls are broken.
Excuse me whilst I go grumble about that game only getting its rerelease on the PSP... because I loved it on the PSX.
Would it have killed Square-Enix to rerelease the PSX version? Frickin' $100-200 on eBay.
C'mon, the guy was using AOL and the world knows it now! Isn't that enough humiliation?
"Wireless everything" is about the same as "flying car": it's a purely technical point with gross impracticality. In short, it's a pipe dream for the borderline geeks to fantasize (and wank) over. I like my wired periphials because they're more convenient--no dealing with battery replacements (the rechargable ones have a limited # of charge cycles)--and have lower latency.
If Jobs is going to attempt to package eyecandy (in the form of a clone of a celebrity that's allegedly attactive and/or sexy) with the eyecandy he calls a computer, he owes it to his marketing people to at least have decent eyecandy.
Bad analogy--Natalie Portman
a) can't act
b) isn't good eyecandy.
Well, damn. Google's "Don't be Evil" policy went right out the window.
Oh, God. I bought the set that Interplay had released, years ago.
Basically all of their 2nd Ed Forgotten Realms games from Pool of Radiance (damn trolls!) up to just before Baldur's Gate. A couple days ago, I started playing Tales of Phantasia remake for the GBA, and it's great.
I still can't understand most of the voyeurism that permeates the popular (anecdotal reference, don't have any numbers handy) channels/networks such as E! and MTV2. I didn't realize how such garbage could survive until I met my roommate of last year (male), who had both offending channels on 24/7 (if it's anything, he had it on often for the background noise; his example probably skews things as he also is an avid (and stereotypical, unfortunately) WoW player, with Neopets if he can't get WoW).
That such shows find commercial success strikes me like a dagger in the back--what has happened to our countrymen?
Fixed.
WoW is basically built around farming/grinding, whether it be for gold, items, "reputation", "honor" (to get said items, this is probably one of the more aggrivating farming deals I know of -- one particular mount--a bluish cat--requires about a month of PURE FARMING just to get the option to buy it). And for an entry-level MMOG, that's likely fine. It doesn't need a deep economy (like EVE's), or any stiffer penalty for death than a slap on the wrist (Death sucks on most other MMOGs) and a smidgen of time. What it does need is "Endgame" content to keep the high-level people there (bigger dungeons to farm, longer timesinks [see Zul'Gurub rewards as an example]). Even then, the 'casual players' are screwed--such endgame content is effectively barred from them by the sheer logistics (has a Molten Core pickup group ever gotten anywhere?)--meaning that if you want to have the 'phat loot', you MUST find a guild that runs a high-level instance like Molten Core (which is the general example) and farm it with them (oh, and most of said guilds are tailored to the more 'hardcore' players).
But what about PVP? Can't someone just blunder onto the world and start offing people? Isn't there a set of gear for the people who only want to PVP? Yes and no. The PVP gear requires no less of a time committment (heck, it likely requires more), and the irony here is that the players screw themselves in their race for the top (as the ranking system is all relative). To reach the higher echelons of the PVP rankings, substantial farming of the battleground instances are *required* (say, 8-10 hours a day for a few weeks). On top of that, the top PVP equipment (which is purchased) is still inferior to the high-end equipment acquired through dungeon farming (and to make the climb to the PVP top with any sort of efficency, you need most of the dungeon gear anyway). World PVP... hrm... Blizzard is apparently doing something to "fix" this (although I have a feeling it won't be nearly enough), although they have already pretty much committed to the Battlegrounds being the IN thing when you want to PVP.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most "less scrupulous" sites hosted in, well, places like Russia, Brazil, and other such countries who couldn't care less about the USA's attempts to regulate a series of tubes?
Oh, so you mean LFS? I did that a few times myself. Gentoo approximates LFS with a package installer tacked on. REAL masochists run ./configure && make && make install for every package (and twice for gcc, binutils, and glibc!)
My Linux install started life as Slackware 10.2 (2.4 kernel), but it sure doesn't look like it anymore.
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
Armies of the night
Evil taking flight
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
COBRA!! (Cobra!)
No where to run
No where to hide
Panic spreading far and wide
Who can turn the tide?
GI Joe- (A real American hero)
Yo Joe!
GI Joe is there
Fighting for freedom
Wherever there's trouble
over land and sea and air
GI Joe is there
Ex-WoW player here. Can't say I'm surprised. Nor can I say that it'll end ANY whining. Heck, it'll give people new causes to complain.
Now the Alliance people can complain that the Horde pallies are overpowered, and the Horde people can complain that the Alliance shamans are overpowered. And thus, we have balance. Until the "nerfbats" come out (which everyone but the warriors really bitch about... because the warriors can always find better gear).
The primary 'good' thing I can see coming out of this is that Horde warriors will (eventually) have competition for their platemail drops (because there will always be idiot paladins on both sides who want the warrior armor).
And if people keep getting PoS loot (shaman/pallie when there aren't any), might as well shard it all. Really sucks for the people who've been raiding for 3-5 hours though.
Then again, I dropped WoW when I decided that I was tired of dungeon/PvP grinding/farming. Because that's all it is--one big farmfest. You work your ass off for the 'high end' gear, which takes multiple hours to achieve (at which point you're just sick of the dungeons), then you go over and do the PvP farming for rank/rep (after which you're also sick of all of the battlegrounds). Little wonder why people are leaving. (I now play EVE Online)
I, for one, welcome our Chobits overlords... and I'll take a Chii model.
I. for one, do not welcome our new News Corp. overlords.
It doesn't encroach on fair use, it tramples over it with the subtlety of a panzer division.
Blitzkrieg isn't just for the military, you know!
I had all the .NET form stuff floating through my head when I asked that.
welcome our BSD-using ODF plugin overlords...
Well, I would if I wasn't already using OpenOffice.