Hmm, I think it's a bit more tragic than that. Let's see:
- no need for roads - this takes care of people who build the streets
- no need for cars - this takes care of all the people who work at autoplants, most oil and gas, garbage people, delivery people, etc...
- no need for airplanes or mass public transit - all airlines would go out of business, greyhound, etc...
- Since commuting isn't an issue anymore, outsourcing to India will become a thing of the past. They can just commute to American companies.
This would almost ruin the economy. Millions would be out of jobs, luckily they would be able to work anywhere but every place in the world would be having the same jobless problem.
The only problem I have with Opera is the "lack" of support for Flash for Opera on Linux (not really Opera's fault though is it)
Actually I believe is their fault. Instead of taking a build it and they will come approach, perhaps they should be rallying for support from the larger vendors such as Adobe. If not, they could always try to rework some of their code to work with what Adobe has already done. Perhaps I will build a browser and expect everyone to make their software compatible with it, yes... that will work.
"free" pizza is hardly the term for it. You wasted a day of your time, I guess it all comes down to how much your time is worth. In Canada we have free tech recycling so I can spend an hour clearing out my old stuff and taking it in. The additional hours you are spending doing this may be worth a pizza but more times than not you could have something better to do with your time.
Disclaimer: I usually end up asking my friends if they want/need the older computer I have no use for and set it up for them, it gives them something they need and gets it out of my basement. The rest just goes to the recycling place.
Getting the video game turned off without your consent is not going to make you go to your room and study -- it will make you very, very angry. Being the stubborn bastard that I was (and still am), I would not do my homework out of principle just to spite "the system". I would find a million-and-one other time wasters to avoid having to do homework.
I didn't read the article but I wouldn't exactly chalk this up to "make kids do homework." It's more of a thing to get kids off the video games and do something else. If you can find a million-and-one other time wasters, it's better than you planting yourself in front of the tv playing some game. You might find yourself watching day to day programming but then it becomes an exercise of limiting another thing... Sooner or later it will hopefully boil down to you not becoming some fatty.
I don't mean to make this out to be a great thing, I still believe parents should be responsible. Unfortunately some parents aren't and those aren't the ones that are going to be setting this extra option. Perhaps it should be set by default. Once again, I'm not sticking up for the decision to remove personal responsibility but it will come at some point where a parent sues some gaming company because their kid is useless. I will use McDonalds as an example. I choose to eat their burgers, I know they aren't healthy but I will sue them when I am 400lbs... same situation.
**disclaimer: I support personal responsibility unfortunately the law doesn't. I don't believe people should be limited to something based on some arbitrary number set by a third party. I also don't believe someone should be able to become rich because they did something that they chose to do even though it was unhealthy.
Actually, she doesn't mention the exact reason why she went back to XP from Vista. She just says that it was tough to implement which could be anything from a driver issue to being an idiot.
What I'm wondering is where this lady was when I was a kid. Come running home, "Hey mom, hey dad! I saw something that looks really neat. I must have it." I would have been laughed at, something along the lines of "ha! your computer does everything you need it to. Why would I pay $300 just to make it pretty?"
I think YOU are missing the point. You mention that it is a problem with "my" company that we are MS reliant. Ummmm, no. I work for a company that deals with other companies... I know, go figure. We have to create documents, diagrams and whatever else to send to clients; on the flip side, they do the same. I suppose given your argument then, all companies have a shitty IT architecture.
So lets look at the apps I run on a daily basis:
- Outlook to connect to the Exchange server (yes, I can use thunderbird and some other apps for the calendar functionality but why use two or three when I just need to use one... you can also say that we don't have to use Exchange, fair enough)
- visio (we can't get away from it, it is the industry standard and asking other companies to use "Draw" is not an option.
- cisco vpn (could probably find a linux variant and it isn't really something required to communicate with other organizations)
- web presentation (I haven't really researched linux variants but the one that we use, also very cost effective, relies on windows)
- blackberry (need I say more? I have read some information on using multiple apps or having a vm for windows but not really a solution for moving away from windows)
- etc...
I could go on and on and on for things that I have to use because MS is the defacto standard. There is no moving away from it anytime soon and the sooner people realize this, perhaps better solutions will be created for moving away from MS. Unfortunately, my job requires me to be able to communicate with any and every company/person and asking them to use OSS applications so they can view documents/diagrams and the like is not an option.
I find that a lot of the people that say they can use Linux day to day without touching Windows just don't have the communication outside of the company that some do. Don't get me wrong, I would say at least 60% of our organization could go without Windows but moving over 60% just doesn't make sense when you have to train, administer them and also worry about the other 40% still on Windows.
I am not an MS pusher, I just don't see it as an option in my job. Once it is an option, I will try it out but I'll be damned if I run two OS' just to try and slowly move over to an open source solution when it just doesn't make sense. What I have now, works. Plain and simple.
Do you think there is a specific reason the PS3 isn't selling as well as the PlayStation 2 did, or is the market just a different place than it was 7 years ago?
If this isn't a setup for a flame war, I don't know what is.
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Date today = new Date();
calendar.setDate(today);
calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
Should return 31 (it is March), please keep in mind that I haven't actually tested this so the above may not compile correctly but I do know there is something similar to the above.
so yeah, I can definitely see how they are holding back on production given that the system has been out for 4 months now and selling 1.5M a month. Could you imagine if they weren't holding back?
Nevermind, it says in the article 220,000... I don't know where I got the million figure, probably a million sitting on North American shelves or something...
Not trying to look like a fanboy here but is it really all that impressive? Didn't they have a million available for launch or something? So they sold 15% of what they had available... Mission Accomplished?
okay, so then it comes down to why the parent wasn't watching their seven year old child on the internet. How many times has the argument come up that parents should actually watch what their children are doing?
Not that I think they should be taking the child to court, I think they should be taking the parent... Not that I support the reign of terror, just saying that if anyone should be taken to court, it is the mother.
thank you for saying it... seriously! I went to a technical school for financial reasons, four years later I am now in a position to say that the company really can't do without me. I didn't go to a "gaming" school, I went to a school that taught development, OOP, OOA, SA in two years. Some of the people that came out of there were shit, I agree. I was one of the people who came out bitching about the people that just floated through... it is still fucking me over, everone asks for a degree when I could run circles around a person with a degree.
I wanted to be the exception to the rule, but now I am thinking I kind of have to get the degree just to "prove" that I am worth it.
Is it just me or is everyone getting sick of the piracy argument?
I remember back in the day before the internet was huge and you could find out whatever you wanted about a game, you paid a buck for a demo, if you liked it, you bought the full version.
so the execs are saying, "here is an idea!" Lets stop releasing demos but blame our plight on piracy, lets jump on the bandwagone of having everyone say our game is shit on the net but say that it is piracy that is fucking us over. Hell, it is working for movies, it is piracy that is releasing shit movies, not producers.
as a side note, anyone else looking out for spiderman 3? Looks awesome, something I will definitely pay for.... mostly because it's piracy that's fucking over the franchise....
I don't know about anyone else, I just find google really easy to type in my browser. The sad thing is, I open up a browser intending to go somewhere else, I will start typing www.goo right away... just habit? I really don't know.
Looking at some of the other search engines in the link, I can see some of them being quite hideous to type. For instance, www.boxxet.com. I know, doesn't look hard but I have a hard time with x sometimes.
Disclaimer: Some people would just say to use favorites.... I can type quicker than I can find a site in my favorites and google has never really led me astray in what I have been looking for.
When will people quit trying to remove responsibility from themselves?
- lock up M rated games where the eye can't see it because parents shouldn't have to monitor what their children do
- sue McDonalds because they are making people fat, can't blame the people for eating there all the time, it makes perfect sense that eating hamburgers day in day out is going to help keep you lean and trim.
- blame the os because god knows that it isn't the users fault for downloading an unknown piece of software and installing it on their own machine.
It could have happened on any os, but to be fair, it makes far more sense to target users of the dominant os. Even with Vista requiring admin access to install programs this still would have happened because they wanted to install the program. They physically clicked on the link to download the program, they physically double clicked it to install.
For my next trick, I am going to hand a random person on the street my bank card, tell him my password then I am going to publish an article about how ATM security is shxt.
1. Long installation process
How is this a critique of the actual os? 2. Takes long to install applications since they have to be compiled from source
This is definitely a critique, I don't see how it helps a new person with linux though. While small, it just appears to be another hoop he/she has to jump through to learn about the actual os. 3. Difficult for anyone new to Linux since they get overwhelmed with all the stuff given to them.
Then why the hell are you giving it to someone who doesn't know anything about Linux. Your friend comes to you for advice and you give him poor advice as to what to use, nice friend. I hope your friend is monitoring this topic on \. just so he can see you get flamed over and over again for choosing gentoo
I remember being reluctant to even going over to dvd... I can't remember why but I just was. Really the only thing that shifted me over was when they started releasing movies for dvd a month or two before they came out on vhs. I was content with vhs at the time but now I really don't want to go back, still do every now and then to watch some older movies that I have mostly because I refuse to just rebuy something with no additional content.
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Perhaps you haven't been here: http://www.lolcats.com/. Kittens are anything but safe.
Hmm, I think it's a bit more tragic than that. Let's see:
- no need for roads - this takes care of people who build the streets - no need for cars - this takes care of all the people who work at autoplants, most oil and gas, garbage people, delivery people, etc... - no need for airplanes or mass public transit - all airlines would go out of business, greyhound, etc...
- Since commuting isn't an issue anymore, outsourcing to India will become a thing of the past. They can just commute to American companies. This would almost ruin the economy. Millions would be out of jobs, luckily they would be able to work anywhere but every place in the world would be having the same jobless problem.
I could also improve efficiency with a rainbow table, but this needs a large database which I didn't have.
As for the rest of your post... heh, touche...
Actually I believe is their fault. Instead of taking a build it and they will come approach, perhaps they should be rallying for support from the larger vendors such as Adobe. If not, they could always try to rework some of their code to work with what Adobe has already done. Perhaps I will build a browser and expect everyone to make their software compatible with it, yes... that will work.
"free" pizza is hardly the term for it. You wasted a day of your time, I guess it all comes down to how much your time is worth. In Canada we have free tech recycling so I can spend an hour clearing out my old stuff and taking it in. The additional hours you are spending doing this may be worth a pizza but more times than not you could have something better to do with your time.
Disclaimer: I usually end up asking my friends if they want/need the older computer I have no use for and set it up for them, it gives them something they need and gets it out of my basement. The rest just goes to the recycling place.
I didn't read the article but I wouldn't exactly chalk this up to "make kids do homework." It's more of a thing to get kids off the video games and do something else. If you can find a million-and-one other time wasters, it's better than you planting yourself in front of the tv playing some game. You might find yourself watching day to day programming but then it becomes an exercise of limiting another thing... Sooner or later it will hopefully boil down to you not becoming some fatty.
I don't mean to make this out to be a great thing, I still believe parents should be responsible. Unfortunately some parents aren't and those aren't the ones that are going to be setting this extra option. Perhaps it should be set by default. Once again, I'm not sticking up for the decision to remove personal responsibility but it will come at some point where a parent sues some gaming company because their kid is useless. I will use McDonalds as an example. I choose to eat their burgers, I know they aren't healthy but I will sue them when I am 400lbs... same situation.
**disclaimer: I support personal responsibility unfortunately the law doesn't. I don't believe people should be limited to something based on some arbitrary number set by a third party. I also don't believe someone should be able to become rich because they did something that they chose to do even though it was unhealthy.
There, that's better.
Actually, she doesn't mention the exact reason why she went back to XP from Vista. She just says that it was tough to implement which could be anything from a driver issue to being an idiot.
What I'm wondering is where this lady was when I was a kid. Come running home, "Hey mom, hey dad! I saw something that looks really neat. I must have it." I would have been laughed at, something along the lines of "ha! your computer does everything you need it to. Why would I pay $300 just to make it pretty?"
I think YOU are missing the point. You mention that it is a problem with "my" company that we are MS reliant. Ummmm, no. I work for a company that deals with other companies... I know, go figure. We have to create documents, diagrams and whatever else to send to clients; on the flip side, they do the same. I suppose given your argument then, all companies have a shitty IT architecture.
So lets look at the apps I run on a daily basis:
- Outlook to connect to the Exchange server (yes, I can use thunderbird and some other apps for the calendar functionality but why use two or three when I just need to use one... you can also say that we don't have to use Exchange, fair enough)
- visio (we can't get away from it, it is the industry standard and asking other companies to use "Draw" is not an option.
- cisco vpn (could probably find a linux variant and it isn't really something required to communicate with other organizations)
- web presentation (I haven't really researched linux variants but the one that we use, also very cost effective, relies on windows)
- blackberry (need I say more? I have read some information on using multiple apps or having a vm for windows but not really a solution for moving away from windows)
- etc...
I could go on and on and on for things that I have to use because MS is the defacto standard. There is no moving away from it anytime soon and the sooner people realize this, perhaps better solutions will be created for moving away from MS. Unfortunately, my job requires me to be able to communicate with any and every company/person and asking them to use OSS applications so they can view documents/diagrams and the like is not an option.
I find that a lot of the people that say they can use Linux day to day without touching Windows just don't have the communication outside of the company that some do. Don't get me wrong, I would say at least 60% of our organization could go without Windows but moving over 60% just doesn't make sense when you have to train, administer them and also worry about the other 40% still on Windows.
I am not an MS pusher, I just don't see it as an option in my job. Once it is an option, I will try it out but I'll be damned if I run two OS' just to try and slowly move over to an open source solution when it just doesn't make sense. What I have now, works. Plain and simple.
If this isn't a setup for a flame war, I don't know what is.
really?
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Date today = new Date();
calendar.setDate(today);
calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
Should return 31 (it is March), please keep in mind that I haven't actually tested this so the above may not compile correctly but I do know there is something similar to the above.
heh, it is kinda getting old: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070 326
Lets look at the numbers, depending on who you go through:
http://nexgenwars.com/
360 - 10.8M
PS3 - 2.3M
Wii - 5.3M
http://www.vgcharts.org/ngwars.php
360 - 9.8M
PS3 - 2.8M
Wii - 6.3M
so yeah, I can definitely see how they are holding back on production given that the system has been out for 4 months now and selling 1.5M a month. Could you imagine if they weren't holding back?
Nevermind, it says in the article 220,000... I don't know where I got the million figure, probably a million sitting on North American shelves or something...
Not trying to look like a fanboy here but is it really all that impressive? Didn't they have a million available for launch or something? So they sold 15% of what they had available... Mission Accomplished?
okay, so then it comes down to why the parent wasn't watching their seven year old child on the internet. How many times has the argument come up that parents should actually watch what their children are doing?
Not that I think they should be taking the child to court, I think they should be taking the parent... Not that I support the reign of terror, just saying that if anyone should be taken to court, it is the mother.
thank you for saying it... seriously! I went to a technical school for financial reasons, four years later I am now in a position to say that the company really can't do without me. I didn't go to a "gaming" school, I went to a school that taught development, OOP, OOA, SA in two years. Some of the people that came out of there were shit, I agree. I was one of the people who came out bitching about the people that just floated through... it is still fucking me over, everone asks for a degree when I could run circles around a person with a degree.
I wanted to be the exception to the rule, but now I am thinking I kind of have to get the degree just to "prove" that I am worth it.
Is it just me or is everyone getting sick of the piracy argument?
I remember back in the day before the internet was huge and you could find out whatever you wanted about a game, you paid a buck for a demo, if you liked it, you bought the full version.
so the execs are saying, "here is an idea!" Lets stop releasing demos but blame our plight on piracy, lets jump on the bandwagone of having everyone say our game is shit on the net but say that it is piracy that is fucking us over. Hell, it is working for movies, it is piracy that is releasing shit movies, not producers.
as a side note, anyone else looking out for spiderman 3? Looks awesome, something I will definitely pay for.... mostly because it's piracy that's fucking over the franchise....
I don't know about anyone else, I just find google really easy to type in my browser. The sad thing is, I open up a browser intending to go somewhere else, I will start typing www.goo right away... just habit? I really don't know.
Looking at some of the other search engines in the link, I can see some of them being quite hideous to type. For instance, www.boxxet.com. I know, doesn't look hard but I have a hard time with x sometimes.
Disclaimer: Some people would just say to use favorites.... I can type quicker than I can find a site in my favorites and google has never really led me astray in what I have been looking for.
When will people quit trying to remove responsibility from themselves?
- lock up M rated games where the eye can't see it because parents shouldn't have to monitor what their children do
- sue McDonalds because they are making people fat, can't blame the people for eating there all the time, it makes perfect sense that eating hamburgers day in day out is going to help keep you lean and trim.
- blame the os because god knows that it isn't the users fault for downloading an unknown piece of software and installing it on their own machine.
It could have happened on any os, but to be fair, it makes far more sense to target users of the dominant os. Even with Vista requiring admin access to install programs this still would have happened because they wanted to install the program. They physically clicked on the link to download the program, they physically double clicked it to install.
For my next trick, I am going to hand a random person on the street my bank card, tell him my password then I am going to publish an article about how ATM security is shxt.
Funk indeed...
They will spin it into a great win for DRM, if it weren't for DRM there never would have been a record.....
I was kinda with Gore until he went into how his family owns a cattle ranch, one of the most inefficient sources of food that we have.
To continue on with this... the criticisms
1. Long installation process
How is this a critique of the actual os?
2. Takes long to install applications since they have to be compiled from source
This is definitely a critique, I don't see how it helps a new person with linux though. While small, it just appears to be another hoop he/she has to jump through to learn about the actual os.
3. Difficult for anyone new to Linux since they get overwhelmed with all the stuff given to them.
Then why the hell are you giving it to someone who doesn't know anything about Linux. Your friend comes to you for advice and you give him poor advice as to what to use, nice friend. I hope your friend is monitoring this topic on \. just so he can see you get flamed over and over again for choosing gentoo
I remember being reluctant to even going over to dvd... I can't remember why but I just was. Really the only thing that shifted me over was when they started releasing movies for dvd a month or two before they came out on vhs. I was content with vhs at the time but now I really don't want to go back, still do every now and then to watch some older movies that I have mostly because I refuse to just rebuy something with no additional content.