As proof of fact that culture changed since 1995 I present the following evidence:
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Compare and contrast those for me would you?
Exactly what I was going to recommend. I also find it interesting that of nearly 200 comments this is the only one I know of with the surefire way to not lose your stuff.
Seriously, I have to cover my modem with a shirt!
I like to know when my modem has fail-ed and when my net goes down, i take the shirt off of it to see where the problem lies.
Joe Schmoe has a problem with his new Windows installation, he cannot get it to do a windows update. He says to himself "Why not try the Help System?" and therefore hits F1. The fancy looking new window pops up saying "How may I help you?" Joe thinks for a moment and types 'windows update' into the search box. A few moments later a list of topics appears which include, 'How to perform a Windows Update' and 'Troubleshooting your Internet Connection' along with 'Using your mouse'
Joe thinks to himself for a moment and decides that 'Troubleshooting your Internet Connection' is the best option, and clicks it. The Help System leads him through some simple configurations and tests, making sure his ip address is set correctly and he can get to the internet. It then states that there is no problem with his internet connection. "Thats not right," Joe says to himself as he goes back to the list to try the 'How to perform a Windows Update' option.
It leads him through opening Internet Explorer, going to 'Tools' and then clicking 'Windows Update.' The help system then tells him to follow directions on the screen.
By this time, Joe is becoming increasingly infuriated and picks up and slams his mouse on the desk a few times, rendering it useless. During his raging fury, it seems Joe had clicked on 'Using your mouse,' as the Help System is awaiting prompt after instructing Joe to make sure it is plugged in correctly. Joe proceeds to rummage through the drawers of his desk. "At last!" he proclaims as he takes his treasure from the bottom left drawer. Moments later there is a large bang and the gun falls to the floor released from Joe's grip.
true that... ive been trying off and on to switch to linux over the past 2 years, and every time i try a diffrent distro, and every time i cant do something that is essential to me switching.
First i cant use my wifi, then i cant use my 5.1 sound card (well it works in stereo mode anyway), then i cant get wine to run at all, then i get wine running and it crashes and dumps the whole harddrive, then i get everything cept the wifi working...
oy its an endless loop! and no amount of reading has solved it. i feel as if im stuck working with tech support from dell or something.
My computer is dual booting WINXP and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
I run it in windows 95% of the time.
The reasons i run it in windows are as follows:
1. For the life of me I cannot get my sound card to do a bass-redirect at 160hz in Ubuntu, therefore all of my music is tinny and sounds like shit and none of it comes out of my sub.
2. I cannot get my PC-ONLY (read: Windows) games to run under Ubuntu. some of this is due to my not understanding how to make wine run correctly even after following so many howtos by the word. the other half is some weird glitch that i cannot get figured out that wont let wine configure itself or run the gui in x
3. Music management. simple as that, i use winamp to play, run, organise and "everything" my music. no *nux based program i have tried is as good at doing this that winamp is.
4. Wireless network. This one is big. so what if i cannot/will not buy an $80 wlan card? i NEED my computer to connect to the internet and at the moment wireless is my only option. wether its for gaming, surfing, or just getting new updates/packages, i kind of have to get on the net.
I suppose that if i could get WoW, BF2142, CS:S, BF2 and a various list of other games to work, and work with full functionality (including 5.1 sound which i cannot get to work anyway) and without bugs, i would switch to using linux most of the time.
I don't dislike linux and i don't dislike windows. I just have problems with linux getting the software i use on a daily basis ported over for general use. I do dislike the instability of windows and all the shit that goes wrong with it seemingly at random, and i would like to go to linux.
Until i can get these things worked out, i guess im stuck being a windows fanboi.
Because uTorrent has a very small footprint on your system ~400kb or less IIRC... And you do not have to install it.
wheras azureus may have more feature, some of which i like about it, it also requires Java and has a quite large footprint... again IIRC its around 18mb on a fresh install, not including the seprate java install required.
It benefits alot of folks. Defense contractors, the banking/investment industry, oil companies, independent civilian contractors
So the only people it benefits are people whose SOLE purpose being in Iraq is to make money?
Sounds like a load of bullshit to me. Corporatism in America and abroad at its finest in my not-so-very-humble opinion.
If anyone seriously things that our soldiers are only there to benefit these "money making" persons and companies, they need to do a reality check and look at the whole picture.
Take a step back from it all and check out what we are REALLY doing in Iraq for a minute.
But then, what the hell do I know... I'm on/.
I hope more people start using linux, and that people like you spend some of that energy on improving it so that we gamers can some day in the future run linux instead of windows
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I do not know enough about linux. I'll admit: I can't even install my sound card without following a tutorial step-by-step. But hey, if youse guys can get me a stable linux distro that will run CS:S, NWN2, BF2, WoW, GW and some others (easily without a pain-in-the-ass configuration process that takes 700 ungodly hours to complete, especially when you do not know the 1st thing about linux), I'll convert me and all my friends to linux.
That being said. I use Windows (XP SP2), and I use Linux (Ubuntu 6.0.6). I think they are both good. They have their uses, and as of now Linux just cannot replace Windows for gaming.
The thing about these ants... is it was proven that they only 'remembered' how many steps they tookhttp://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060629_ ant_pedometers.html. they didnt remember the path they took. and as far as i know... remembering an amount of steps takes a hell of a lot less information space than remembering the whole path.
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As proof of fact that culture changed since 1995 I present the following evidence: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) Compare and contrast those for me would you?
Exactly what I was going to recommend. I also find it interesting that of nearly 200 comments this is the only one I know of with the surefire way to not lose your stuff.
Duly noted. For the future, I will take this into consideration.
Seriously, I have to cover my modem with a shirt! I like to know when my modem has fail-ed and when my net goes down, i take the shirt off of it to see where the problem lies.
Joe Schmoe has a problem with his new Windows installation, he cannot get it to do a windows update. He says to himself "Why not try the Help System?" and therefore hits F1. The fancy looking new window pops up saying "How may I help you?" Joe thinks for a moment and types 'windows update' into the search box. A few moments later a list of topics appears which include, 'How to perform a Windows Update' and 'Troubleshooting your Internet Connection' along with 'Using your mouse'
Joe thinks to himself for a moment and decides that 'Troubleshooting your Internet Connection' is the best option, and clicks it. The Help System leads him through some simple configurations and tests, making sure his ip address is set correctly and he can get to the internet. It then states that there is no problem with his internet connection. "Thats not right," Joe says to himself as he goes back to the list to try the 'How to perform a Windows Update' option.
It leads him through opening Internet Explorer, going to 'Tools' and then clicking 'Windows Update.' The help system then tells him to follow directions on the screen.
By this time, Joe is becoming increasingly infuriated and picks up and slams his mouse on the desk a few times, rendering it useless. During his raging fury, it seems Joe had clicked on 'Using your mouse,' as the Help System is awaiting prompt after instructing Joe to make sure it is plugged in correctly.
Joe proceeds to rummage through the drawers of his desk. "At last!" he proclaims as he takes his treasure from the bottom left drawer. Moments later there is a large bang and the gun falls to the floor released from Joe's grip.
First i cant use my wifi, then i cant use my 5.1 sound card (well it works in stereo mode anyway), then i cant get wine to run at all, then i get wine running and it crashes and dumps the whole harddrive, then i get everything cept the wifi working...
oy its an endless loop! and no amount of reading has solved it. i feel as if im stuck working with tech support from dell or something.
That was the first thing to catch my eye in TFA!
Thats pretty sad when they are reporting on an 'eye-catching' product imo.
What Future Tech are you up to? I haven't even discovered refrigeration! Who needs that when Dictatorship allows me to war with anyone?
I'll stick to my old NES/SNES and handheld cart games tyvm, with the occasional PSOne for some FFT/MGS action!
leads me to think that if you 'do a favor' for a mob leader, you are in the right because you are not getting paid for it.
lets take this further... remember WWII? all those german soldiers that were 'just following orders'? hmm... they were in the right.
and further...
If i kill your children because you stole money from my friend, then im free to go because im not getting paid.
i could go further... but then it'd become a tl;dr article.
I love anonymous cowards.
On second thought... im just crazy and id kill your children if you flipped me off... heh. must have brainz
I run it in windows 95% of the time.
The reasons i run it in windows are as follows:
1. For the life of me I cannot get my sound card to do a bass-redirect at 160hz in Ubuntu, therefore all of my music is tinny and sounds like shit and none of it comes out of my sub.
2. I cannot get my PC-ONLY (read: Windows) games to run under Ubuntu. some of this is due to my not understanding how to make wine run correctly even after following so many howtos by the word. the other half is some weird glitch that i cannot get figured out that wont let wine configure itself or run the gui in x
3. Music management. simple as that, i use winamp to play, run, organise and "everything" my music. no *nux based program i have tried is as good at doing this that winamp is.
4. Wireless network. This one is big. so what if i cannot/will not buy an $80 wlan card? i NEED my computer to connect to the internet and at the moment wireless is my only option. wether its for gaming, surfing, or just getting new updates/packages, i kind of have to get on the net.
I suppose that if i could get WoW, BF2142, CS:S, BF2 and a various list of other games to work, and work with full functionality (including 5.1 sound which i cannot get to work anyway) and without bugs, i would switch to using linux most of the time.
I don't dislike linux and i don't dislike windows. I just have problems with linux getting the software i use on a daily basis ported over for general use. I do dislike the instability of windows and all the shit that goes wrong with it seemingly at random, and i would like to go to linux.
Until i can get these things worked out, i guess im stuck being a windows fanboi.
wheras azureus may have more feature, some of which i like about it, it also requires Java and has a quite large footprint... again IIRC its around 18mb on a fresh install, not including the seprate java install required.
Sounds like a load of bullshit to me. Corporatism in America and abroad at its finest in my not-so-very-humble opinion.
If anyone seriously things that our soldiers are only there to benefit these "money making" persons and companies, they need to do a reality check and look at the whole picture.
Take a step back from it all and check out what we are REALLY doing in Iraq for a minute. But then, what the hell do I know... I'm on /.
Last I checked, my pages weren't all made up of 1% porn.
It is more like 82%, but thats beside the point.
Also, this site is not 1% porn either, or if it is, you are pretty ill.
2 suggestions for you... Firefox + Adblock Now in 2 easy to click links!
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I do not know enough about linux. I'll admit: I can't even install my sound card without following a tutorial step-by-step. But hey, if youse guys can get me a stable linux distro that will run CS:S, NWN2, BF2, WoW, GW and some others (easily without a pain-in-the-ass configuration process that takes 700 ungodly hours to complete, especially when you do not know the 1st thing about linux), I'll convert me and all my friends to linux.
That being said. I use Windows (XP SP2), and I use Linux (Ubuntu 6.0.6). I think they are both good. They have their uses, and as of now Linux just cannot replace Windows for gaming.
Not many of the Slashdotters thats for sure!
The thing about these ants... is it was proven that they only 'remembered' how many steps they tookhttp://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060629_ ant_pedometers.html. they didnt remember the path they took. and as far as i know... remembering an amount of steps takes a hell of a lot less information space than remembering the whole path.
coming from this cooperation, many things like integrated ads and other deeds that have been done by real may be seeped into FF.... its not good imo
truly and wholly.....