I used to be a manager at Westlakes when it was Regal, then Cinemark, and finally Sanikos theaters. I left before it became the drafthouse. I would have stayed if I had know it was going to turn into something cool.
Why don't you want your kid watching a "random R rated movie?"/joking - I was expecting to see that troll response so I figured I'd start it myself.
I actually think that this is one of the better analogies I have seen on slashdot and other online forums.
***even further of topic, has anyone else noticed how much better google's search spellchecker is compared to the one built into chromium? I mispelled analogies as anologies and the spellchecker was way off base on its suggestions but plugging in the word to the search engine gave the correct spelling under "Did you mean..."
Your problem with Windows could be fixed in UNDER 30 minutes, and that is giving you extra time. For the "no sound" you simply use SIW which will tell you who makes the sound card, then Google does the rest. If you are talking about a laptop the OEMs never bother updating those, which means you have to go straight to the source. as for WinXP? XP ISO Builder which is also free like SIW will have you a custom XP disc with drivers in under 10 minutes, and is so simple my 15 year old made his own XP disc.
Now let me ask you a question, and be honest: How much CLI did you have to do to set up those "clueless relatives" of yours?
I don't have windows installed so I can use that program. In order to you SIW or XP Iso Builder, I have to install xp. I wasted a lot of time trying to install XP and Vista where as with ubuntu or sidux, I pop in a live cd and it works.
As far as CLI time spent, none. I installed linux mint on both my mom's machine and my in-laws with no issues.
You see it is quite easy to have clueless relatives on Linux...if you are willing to be unpaid tech support for life. MY time costs $50 an hour, and I don't do freebies, which means just TWO hours of hunting forums or dealing with CLI hoops costs me MORE than a copy of windows Home.
I don't spend any time supporting them (other than reminding them to turn on the damn num locks key over the phone (which I should have just set to auto-on but I didn't expect that to be such an issue>) The reason I switched them, in fact, was because I was tired of fixing their XP and later vista install (which took 2-6 hours since they ignored every virus update warning they would get and then when they would run across an web site that told them they had viruses, they would install whatever software was on that site that offered to fix it.) I tried setting them to auto-update, but they would turn off their machines and kept missing the update windows. (They are retired and have inconsistent hours.)
As to how much I charged, I don't charge family because they are my family. My family has also been their to help using their skill sets that I lack. And even if they weren't, they are family.
I switched everyone to linux because my time is not worthless and when they were running XP and Vista, I had days (not hours) of my life wasted.
For the most part, I come to slashdot to read what random readers say on generic topics. The interesting comments usually stray from whatever the article is about anyways. I will then find articles past on what the users wrote. A lot of times, a whole new world is opened for me.
Just someone who spent nearly two years trying to get Linux to work well enough to sell it to the common man, only to watch it fall down like a house of cards over and over again.
It works for my wife, mom, brother, and in-laws. And my in-laws are the types of people that assume their online banking is not working because they have the num lock keys turned off.
It also worked on the laptop I randomly bought off amazon.
That said, Windows 7 does not work on my computer for my sound card and XP wants me to use a floppy disk (no floppy drive) to install whatever drivers my hard drive needs. I cannot get XP to install on my laptop (except in VirtualBox.) The windows problems could have been avoided if I had researched before buying, but the same is true for linux.
Does anyone know any good non-bot servers for ET-Wolf? I have been itching to play this again but most servers I hit have no human players.
Also, please keep in mind that I am in the US. I don't mind playing people from other parts of the world, but I have noticed that many European servers block based on pings.
Hopefully, we will see a lot more open up once this game starts hitting our distro's repositories.
I don't fault ID for this but it was sure annoying having get a working chroot just to play these games back before debian and unbuntu started packing ia32-libs. Networking was easy, but 3d acceleration with binary drivers and sound were always a hassle.
These are two of my favorite linux games. I have high hopes on what others will do with this. (Fingers crossed on a 64 bit client.)
It will be nice to be able to install these games (minus game data) through apt. And I am sure people will quickly be working on open source game artwork and maps. Heck, there may already be a lot of that out there for Enemy Territory already since people have been modding it for many years.
I can't install the recent versions of FF or Safari on a version of the Mac OS (OS 10.3) that is much more recent than XP. It seems that MS does a better (if not perfect) job of supporting its older OSs than others.
The latest version of IE on Mac OS is 5.0. Firefox dropped support long after MS did
SickBeard + SABnzbd + Server in the closet... It's like having my own Awesome 12.5TB PVR. I'm so far behind on most shows I don't really care if I watch them the night they come out. The automation is amazing. Much better than the manual or RSS only feed I was doing earlier.
This is what I use as well. In fact, I just had to move files around to make room for the new seasons of shows starting.
I really need to invest in a dedicated server since I plan on setting xbmc+TV in the bed room once we get a new TV (our old tv doesn't have a pc or hdmi connection.) I have 4.5TB and am down to 500GB left and am out of room in my case for more hardrives (not to mention how hot it already is with the hardrives currently in there.)
I could free up some space by deleting shows as I buy the physical medium every summer, but that kills the beauty of my library.
Chrome agenda is both. They are trying to "advance the web" by pushing "to open the web."
There is a reason that they almost exclusively chose open protocols and standards for their products and browsers.
They are large supporters of HTML 5, they pushed an open codec to give a viable alternative to h.264, they support imap and pop for gmail even though it allows you to bypass their adds, and they use jabber for their IM protocol instead of coming up with something new and closed like Mypsace, MS, Yahoo, Facebook, and Skype did.
Secret 1: Outsource everything. Secret 2: Employees are interchangeable. Secret 3: Good enough is probably too expensive. Secret 4: There is still at least enough good will for the HP name to milk another five years.
Where I work, someone inadvertently emailed emailed a spreadsheet of the 3000+ employees social security numbers, addresses, salaries, and our date of births.
Their solution was to disable access to our personal email so that one one could leak that info to anyone else. It has been half a week and our personal emails are still blocked.
The funny part is that I just plugged in my usb drive and windows popped up asking if I wanted to "open folders to view files" and sure enough, I can access my data on it and move information from my computer to it without the cyber trail.
And I work at a "hippa complainant" medical equipment company.
Funny thing is, since the person who sent the email is high enough on the food chain, they are still here while IT is checking to see if anyone emailed or copied it and threatening action against those employees.
Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
Perhaps my father was killed by VC, does that mean that nobody should make historically accurate Vietnam games? What if my grandfather was killed by a German, does that put ww2 games in bad taste?
Sure the time scale is greater, but its just being fucking 'PC stupid' to go to lengths like this. I think if I was killed in Afghanistan, I would be pissed off by politically correct assholes who want to sweep everything under a rug, 'out of respect for the survivors'.
What the HELL is wrong with a factually depicted game? Telling an accurate story is very respectful of those who served.
Nowhere did the post that you quoted and replied to state that the game should not be made.
I doubt many waiters or waitresses could afford the union dues.
Unions can be overrated anyways. My mom was the leading person organizing the county hospital nurses in San Antonio to unionize. She succeeded and the union then ignored the nurses but took their money and used it to protest bases closings because they made more money from base employees (Kelly) than they did from the nurses.
Sooner or later, the Iranian government too will learn how to use phrases like "war is peace!", "for freedom!", etc.
I think they already know that game
"The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship," said Ahmadinejad at the inauguration ceremony
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Based on this, I think it is clear that it is your fault they are shutting this down.
You just had to use it, didn't you?
I used to be a manager at Westlakes when it was Regal, then Cinemark, and finally Sanikos theaters. I left before it became the drafthouse. I would have stayed if I had know it was going to turn into something cool.
I have lots of fond memories from there.
Why don't you want your kid watching a "random R rated movie?" /joking - I was expecting to see that troll response so I figured I'd start it myself.
I actually think that this is one of the better analogies I have seen on slashdot and other online forums.
***even further of topic, has anyone else noticed how much better google's search spellchecker is compared to the one built into chromium? I mispelled analogies as anologies and the spellchecker was way off base on its suggestions but plugging in the word to the search engine gave the correct spelling under "Did you mean..."
Your problem with Windows could be fixed in UNDER 30 minutes, and that is giving you extra time. For the "no sound" you simply use SIW which will tell you who makes the sound card, then Google does the rest. If you are talking about a laptop the OEMs never bother updating those, which means you have to go straight to the source. as for WinXP? XP ISO Builder which is also free like SIW will have you a custom XP disc with drivers in under 10 minutes, and is so simple my 15 year old made his own XP disc.
Now let me ask you a question, and be honest: How much CLI did you have to do to set up those "clueless relatives" of yours?
I don't have windows installed so I can use that program. In order to you SIW or XP Iso Builder, I have to install xp. I wasted a lot of time trying to install XP and Vista where as with ubuntu or sidux, I pop in a live cd and it works.
As far as CLI time spent, none. I installed linux mint on both my mom's machine and my in-laws with no issues.
You see it is quite easy to have clueless relatives on Linux...if you are willing to be unpaid tech support for life. MY time costs $50 an hour, and I don't do freebies, which means just TWO hours of hunting forums or dealing with CLI hoops costs me MORE than a copy of windows Home.
I don't spend any time supporting them (other than reminding them to turn on the damn num locks key over the phone (which I should have just set to auto-on but I didn't expect that to be such an issue>) The reason I switched them, in fact, was because I was tired of fixing their XP and later vista install (which took 2-6 hours since they ignored every virus update warning they would get and then when they would run across an web site that told them they had viruses, they would install whatever software was on that site that offered to fix it.) I tried setting them to auto-update, but they would turn off their machines and kept missing the update windows. (They are retired and have inconsistent hours.)
As to how much I charged, I don't charge family because they are my family. My family has also been their to help using their skill sets that I lack. And even if they weren't, they are family.
I switched everyone to linux because my time is not worthless and when they were running XP and Vista, I had days (not hours) of my life wasted.
I usually skip steps 3 and 4.
For the most part, I come to slashdot to read what random readers say on generic topics. The interesting comments usually stray from whatever the article is about anyways. I will then find articles past on what the users wrote. A lot of times, a whole new world is opened for me.
Just someone who spent nearly two years trying to get Linux to work well enough to sell it to the common man, only to watch it fall down like a house of cards over and over again.
It works for my wife, mom, brother, and in-laws. And my in-laws are the types of people that assume their online banking is not working because they have the num lock keys turned off.
It also worked on the laptop I randomly bought off amazon.
That said, Windows 7 does not work on my computer for my sound card and XP wants me to use a floppy disk (no floppy drive) to install whatever drivers my hard drive needs. I cannot get XP to install on my laptop (except in VirtualBox.) The windows problems could have been avoided if I had researched before buying, but the same is true for linux.
Same here. I ordered an HDMI cable from newegg and DHL delivered it to my local post office who placed it in my mailbox.
Funny how a 10 ft HDMI cable costs $5.99 on newegg and $30 from BestBuy and WalMart.
Does anyone know any good non-bot servers for ET-Wolf? I have been itching to play this again but most servers I hit have no human players.
Also, please keep in mind that I am in the US. I don't mind playing people from other parts of the world, but I have noticed that many European servers block based on pings.
Hopefully, we will see a lot more open up once this game starts hitting our distro's repositories.
That is because ID actually makes new products :)
Hopefully we see a 64 bit client now.
I don't fault ID for this but it was sure annoying having get a working chroot just to play these games back before debian and unbuntu started packing ia32-libs. Networking was easy, but 3d acceleration with binary drivers and sound were always a hassle.
These are two of my favorite linux games. I have high hopes on what others will do with this. (Fingers crossed on a 64 bit client.)
It will be nice to be able to install these games (minus game data) through apt. And I am sure people will quickly be working on open source game artwork and maps. Heck, there may already be a lot of that out there for Enemy Territory already since people have been modding it for many years.
I have no idea what Maya is. I can look it up, but that just makes MBGMorden's point.
The only reason I know what quicken is is because my credit union offers to export my records to quicken.
Twitter is know simply because of mass usage. Same with Excel. The name Excel doesn't produces mental images of spreadsheets.
I think OpenOffice did a better job naming their sub-products.
So it is more about isolationism than global warming?
I can't install the recent versions of FF or Safari on a version of the Mac OS (OS 10.3) that is much more recent than XP. It seems that MS does a better (if not perfect) job of supporting its older OSs than others.
The latest version of IE on Mac OS is 5.0. Firefox dropped support long after MS did
SickBeard + SABnzbd + Server in the closet ... It's like having my own Awesome 12.5TB PVR. I'm so far behind on most shows I don't really care if I watch them the night they come out. The automation is amazing. Much better than the manual or RSS only feed I was doing earlier.
This is what I use as well. In fact, I just had to move files around to make room for the new seasons of shows starting.
I really need to invest in a dedicated server since I plan on setting xbmc+TV in the bed room once we get a new TV (our old tv doesn't have a pc or hdmi connection.) I have 4.5TB and am down to 500GB left and am out of room in my case for more hardrives (not to mention how hot it already is with the hardrives currently in there.)
I could free up some space by deleting shows as I buy the physical medium every summer, but that kills the beauty of my library.
Chrome agenda is both. They are trying to "advance the web" by pushing "to open the web."
There is a reason that they almost exclusively chose open protocols and standards for their products and browsers.
They are large supporters of HTML 5, they pushed an open codec to give a viable alternative to h.264, they support imap and pop for gmail even though it allows you to bypass their adds, and they use jabber for their IM protocol instead of coming up with something new and closed like Mypsace, MS, Yahoo, Facebook, and Skype did.
Secret 1: Outsource everything.
Secret 2: Employees are interchangeable.
Secret 3: Good enough is probably too expensive.
Secret 4: There is still at least enough good will for the HP name to milk another five years.
I think my job stole HP trade secrets!
Citation
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/kci_working_to_contain_employee_data_breach_102106769.html
Where I work, someone inadvertently emailed emailed a spreadsheet of the 3000+ employees social security numbers, addresses, salaries, and our date of births.
Their solution was to disable access to our personal email so that one one could leak that info to anyone else. It has been half a week and our personal emails are still blocked.
The funny part is that I just plugged in my usb drive and windows popped up asking if I wanted to "open folders to view files" and sure enough, I can access my data on it and move information from my computer to it without the cyber trail.
And I work at a "hippa complainant" medical equipment company.
Funny thing is, since the person who sent the email is high enough on the food chain, they are still here while IT is checking to see if anyone emailed or copied it and threatening action against those employees.
Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
Perhaps my father was killed by VC, does that mean that nobody should make historically accurate Vietnam games? What if my grandfather was killed by a German, does that put ww2 games in bad taste?
Sure the time scale is greater, but its just being fucking 'PC stupid' to go to lengths like this. I think if I was killed in Afghanistan, I would be pissed off by politically correct assholes who want to sweep everything under a rug, 'out of respect for the survivors'.
What the HELL is wrong with a factually depicted game? Telling an accurate story is very respectful of those who served.
Nowhere did the post that you quoted and replied to state that the game should not be made.
The worst are those who type the whole email in the subject line.
From: Boss
To: Team
Subject: Who wants to work on this project? Respond ASAP or I will assign it to everyone
Body: (long signature to look important)
If they decide that, it will have exactly the same effect as those who decided to shut down bitTorrent.
That is why people are saying it is pointless.
I doubt many waiters or waitresses could afford the union dues.
Unions can be overrated anyways. My mom was the leading person organizing the county hospital nurses in San Antonio to unionize. She succeeded and the union then ignored the nurses but took their money and used it to protest bases closings because they made more money from base employees (Kelly) than they did from the nurses.
Sooner or later, the Iranian government too will learn how to use phrases like "war is peace!", "for freedom!", etc.
I think they already know that game
"The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship," said Ahmadinejad at the inauguration ceremony
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/22/world/main6794753.shtml
Yes they did. The modders have done some real cool thinks even to the point where it is almost a new game.
http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?c=273,278,281