I always wanted to make a Thundarr The Barbarian fan site, so I bought the domain... but I never got around to making the site. A couple of years ago, I got an offer to buy it from one of the employees of Raven Software, so I ended up selling it for $100 and a copy of Soldier Of Fortune Platinum that came on CD-R. Heh.
Thats what you'll spend most of your 4 hours doing- trying to figure out whats in your box and getting it to work.
Or you could just go to Dell's website, type in your computer's model and number, and just download them. But if you want to spend 4 hours hunting all over, be my guest.
... except that qualified people to implement open source solutions cost more than those qualified to implement Windows solutions. Sure, the software's free, but the labor goes sky-high.
What makes this paragraph-less rant "Interesting?"
Not only is it pretty much utterly off-topic, but we've all seen it before here on Slashdot about a billion times. Yes, a lot of Slashdot Games posters have tons of nostalgia for 2D games, we get it already. Stop posting it.
HL2 is a pale comparison to Halo 2, as far as I'm concerned. Sure it sets up tons of questions, but where are the answers? At least it's better than Half-Life 1, which was basically "repair a generator. Now repair another generator." Generator Repairman: The Game!
I prefer my story Halo 2-style, with cut-scenes that almost bring you to tears, and when it ends you jump off the couch and run around the room because it's so, just... great. And of course it's from the company that brought you Marathon, perhaps the best story a FPS game has ever had.
That's all you can think of? What about all the Tombraider games? What about Spyro the Dragon? What about the PS2 game with that raccoon who steals stuff, Sly Cooper? There are tons and tons of 3D platformers out. Heck, there's a 3D platformer version of Pac-Man and Frogger out right now.
As for the 2D renaissance, there was a rather critically acclaimed game called Viewtiful Joe out a couple years ago, although I didn't personally play it. Also one called Alien Hominid.
"Generation" is a tough term when it comes to consoles. Arguably, the Dreamcast was its own generation, since it was more or less dead and gone before Gamecube and Xbox joined the PS2.
Wikipedia claims 7 generations, with the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii being the 7th, so we can go with that.
Ok, I live in Washington State and I've never heard them called "Stanley Knives." I've heard "Box-cutter" and "X-acto Knives" (X-acto being a specific brand name.)
So I go to my package manager and I find a program named "Happy Joy Game 2." It looks fun; so I hit install. The package manager does its thing, and a few minutes later I get a nice little green checkmark next to "Happy Joy Game 2" in the list. Great! Let's play!
Open my GNOME menu, select games... it's not listed. Oh, ok. That's a shame, but I'll just use the Find command like some joker on Slashdot recommended to me! Open the Find dialog, type in, "Happy Joy Game 2"... no results. Ok, let's try "Game"... some results, but none of them relevant.
Look at that, it turns out the executable filename for "Happy Job Game 2" is actually "gkgam2" or something equally obtuse.... so tell me again how the Find command is supposed to help?
On Mac OS, if I install a program named "Sam's FTP Client", I can hit "Find", search for "Sam's FTP Client" and it'll pop up in the list before I'm even to the word "client."
The problem is that the two are fundamentally incompatible, from a user's perspective. Are "ok" and "cancel" good button labels, or should they be "yes" and "no?" What side of the dialog should "yes" be on? The Mac-ish side, or the Window-ish side? Does the Start menu equivalent belong on the top or bottom of the screen? Should there be a shortcut bar at the top of the screen? Etc.
You can't combine the two in their current form because KDE apps behave entirely differently from GNOME apps. And yes, I'm sure the programming code is very similar, etc, but I'm talking about the user experience.
On your note about directories, Apple also kind of deprecated the Unix-style directories in favor of a set of more, but very clearly labeled, directories all in the same place. The system, and each user, has their own/Library, and inside there it's clearly obvious where things go. System logs go in/Library/Logs, user logs in ~/Library/Logs, user settings go in ~/Library/Preferences, etc. It's all very simple and clearly marked.
That old Unix directory structure, IMO, should be one of the first things to go. Or at the very least, use more than 3 letters to describe what the directory is supposed to hold.
I tried it. It didn't support my Netgear 802.11g USB key, my ATI Radeon 9600xt, or my Hauppauge Win-PVR 250 video capture card. Cue the standard replies about how this is Netgear, ATI and Hauppauge's fault. But I rely on the 802.11 USB key for my Internet connection, so it was a complete no-go with me.
Iomega Rev drives? External HDs? Those cute little NAT boxes LaCie and other companies make now? There's tons of options for people wanting to back stuff up other than optical drives and tape drives.
Just FYI, you can buy an Iomega Rev drive right now that stores 35 GB about 40 times quicker than burning a DVD/Blu-Ray would take, *and* is rewritable. Or you can buy a 250+ GB external HD for about $150 right now if you find a deal, and it also will write data a hell of a lot quicker than an optical drive and is rewritable.
You talk as if there's no alternatives to optical drives.
So we have an unproved allegation from Novell, an anonymous posting, and Ralph Nader saying it *could* be done.
Where's the proof? You said it mostly took place before the Internet was mature; fine. Where's the proof in newspapers and periodicals at the time? Surely Microsoft wasn't screwing over WordPerfect before the printing press was invented.
Sorry, I don't buy it. I think it's just another Slashdot FUD meme that's repeated its way into "fact." The "Office doesn't work with a limited user account!" or "Office versions aren't compatible with each other!"
As long as the employer realizes that people change over time and is savvy enough to, for instance, ignore the rabid Mac-zealot blog posting I made in 2000 which ended up somehow becoming the first result for my name, but there's absolutely nothing I can do to remove it from Google.
A big part of this problem is that some blog like (ahem) Slashdot only show the month and day in Google results, not the year. So if you Googled for my Slashdot responses, you wouldn't immediately know if I wrote that posting last month, or 4 years ago last month.
I used to be a rabic Mac-zealot when I was a teen and, unfortunately, posted a stupid comment on some blog using my real name. Because that blog's been running for years and years and years, if you Google for my name, it's the first result... but I posted it in, what, 2000? I don't feel that way anymore, and if there was a way to remove it from Google, I would in a flash.
Point is, I think judging job applicants by Google searches is patently unfair. You're not seeing the person as they are now, you're seeing them when they were younger and more stupid.
The last few groups of Dell Dimensions we bought all came with Google Desktop and, if I'm not mistaken, the installer for Google Toolbar. Is this news? Did we get rogue machines or something?
How about some evidence for your claim that Office doesn't run in a limited user account, buddy? Before you get too far ahead of yourself. I have it on 250 computers, all running as a limited user account (and no, no domain-- we're Netware), and I've never encountered any problems related to permissions.
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I always wanted to make a Thundarr The Barbarian fan site, so I bought the domain... but I never got around to making the site. A couple of years ago, I got an offer to buy it from one of the employees of Raven Software, so I ended up selling it for $100 and a copy of Soldier Of Fortune Platinum that came on CD-R. Heh.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
You will understand that quote when you solve "what daddy is doing."
Too obscure?
Thats what you'll spend most of your 4 hours doing- trying to figure out whats in your box and getting it to work.
Or you could just go to Dell's website, type in your computer's model and number, and just download them. But if you want to spend 4 hours hunting all over, be my guest.
... except that qualified people to implement open source solutions cost more than those qualified to implement Windows solutions. Sure, the software's free, but the labor goes sky-high.
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What makes this paragraph-less rant "Interesting?"
Not only is it pretty much utterly off-topic, but we've all seen it before here on Slashdot about a billion times. Yes, a lot of Slashdot Games posters have tons of nostalgia for 2D games, we get it already. Stop posting it.
(Assuming "shooters" is a typo for "stories"...)
Don't forget the Marathon series, perhaps one of the best FPS stories ever. And Bungie's previous game, Pathways Into Darkness.
HL2 is a pale comparison to Halo 2, as far as I'm concerned. Sure it sets up tons of questions, but where are the answers? At least it's better than Half-Life 1, which was basically "repair a generator. Now repair another generator." Generator Repairman: The Game!
I prefer my story Halo 2-style, with cut-scenes that almost bring you to tears, and when it ends you jump off the couch and run around the room because it's so, just... great. And of course it's from the company that brought you Marathon, perhaps the best story a FPS game has ever had.
That's all you can think of? What about all the Tombraider games? What about Spyro the Dragon? What about the PS2 game with that raccoon who steals stuff, Sly Cooper? There are tons and tons of 3D platformers out. Heck, there's a 3D platformer version of Pac-Man and Frogger out right now.
As for the 2D renaissance, there was a rather critically acclaimed game called Viewtiful Joe out a couple years ago, although I didn't personally play it. Also one called Alien Hominid.
"Generation" is a tough term when it comes to consoles. Arguably, the Dreamcast was its own generation, since it was more or less dead and gone before Gamecube and Xbox joined the PS2.
Wikipedia claims 7 generations, with the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii being the 7th, so we can go with that.
Ok, I live in Washington State and I've never heard them called "Stanley Knives." I've heard "Box-cutter" and "X-acto Knives" (X-acto being a specific brand name.)
Oh, the Find command.
... so tell me again how the Find command is supposed to help?
So I go to my package manager and I find a program named "Happy Joy Game 2." It looks fun; so I hit install. The package manager does its thing, and a few minutes later I get a nice little green checkmark next to "Happy Joy Game 2" in the list. Great! Let's play!
Open my GNOME menu, select games... it's not listed. Oh, ok. That's a shame, but I'll just use the Find command like some joker on Slashdot recommended to me! Open the Find dialog, type in, "Happy Joy Game 2"... no results. Ok, let's try "Game"... some results, but none of them relevant.
Look at that, it turns out the executable filename for "Happy Job Game 2" is actually "gkgam2" or something equally obtuse.
On Mac OS, if I install a program named "Sam's FTP Client", I can hit "Find", search for "Sam's FTP Client" and it'll pop up in the list before I'm even to the word "client."
The problem is that the two are fundamentally incompatible, from a user's perspective. Are "ok" and "cancel" good button labels, or should they be "yes" and "no?" What side of the dialog should "yes" be on? The Mac-ish side, or the Window-ish side? Does the Start menu equivalent belong on the top or bottom of the screen? Should there be a shortcut bar at the top of the screen? Etc.
You can't combine the two in their current form because KDE apps behave entirely differently from GNOME apps. And yes, I'm sure the programming code is very similar, etc, but I'm talking about the user experience.
On your note about directories, Apple also kind of deprecated the Unix-style directories in favor of a set of more, but very clearly labeled, directories all in the same place. The system, and each user, has their own /Library, and inside there it's clearly obvious where things go. System logs go in /Library/Logs, user logs in ~/Library/Logs, user settings go in ~/Library/Preferences, etc. It's all very simple and clearly marked.
That old Unix directory structure, IMO, should be one of the first things to go. Or at the very least, use more than 3 letters to describe what the directory is supposed to hold.
They are thoroughly a wacky-ass cult, and a new wacky-ass cult with political leanings would not be allowed to become powerful in any Western Country
Look into Scientology.
I tried it. It didn't support my Netgear 802.11g USB key, my ATI Radeon 9600xt, or my Hauppauge Win-PVR 250 video capture card. Cue the standard replies about how this is Netgear, ATI and Hauppauge's fault. But I rely on the 802.11 USB key for my Internet connection, so it was a complete no-go with me.
Iomega Rev drives? External HDs? Those cute little NAT boxes LaCie and other companies make now? There's tons of options for people wanting to back stuff up other than optical drives and tape drives.
Just FYI, you can buy an Iomega Rev drive right now that stores 35 GB about 40 times quicker than burning a DVD/Blu-Ray would take, *and* is rewritable. Or you can buy a 250+ GB external HD for about $150 right now if you find a deal, and it also will write data a hell of a lot quicker than an optical drive and is rewritable.
You talk as if there's no alternatives to optical drives.
Well, there's not much you can say in response to that, except, "1 more googgo googgo ggggoogoogooogogoooggoogoogogog kekekeke"
Oh please! Photoshop Elements is $100 and it does everything a home user would use Photoshop CS for.
So we have an unproved allegation from Novell, an anonymous posting, and Ralph Nader saying it *could* be done.
Where's the proof? You said it mostly took place before the Internet was mature; fine. Where's the proof in newspapers and periodicals at the time? Surely Microsoft wasn't screwing over WordPerfect before the printing press was invented.
Sorry, I don't buy it. I think it's just another Slashdot FUD meme that's repeated its way into "fact." The "Office doesn't work with a limited user account!" or "Office versions aren't compatible with each other!"
As long as the employer realizes that people change over time and is savvy enough to, for instance, ignore the rabid Mac-zealot blog posting I made in 2000 which ended up somehow becoming the first result for my name, but there's absolutely nothing I can do to remove it from Google.
A big part of this problem is that some blog like (ahem) Slashdot only show the month and day in Google results, not the year. So if you Googled for my Slashdot responses, you wouldn't immediately know if I wrote that posting last month, or 4 years ago last month.
I used to be a rabic Mac-zealot when I was a teen and, unfortunately, posted a stupid comment on some blog using my real name. Because that blog's been running for years and years and years, if you Google for my name, it's the first result... but I posted it in, what, 2000? I don't feel that way anymore, and if there was a way to remove it from Google, I would in a flash.
Point is, I think judging job applicants by Google searches is patently unfair. You're not seeing the person as they are now, you're seeing them when they were younger and more stupid.
The last few groups of Dell Dimensions we bought all came with Google Desktop and, if I'm not mistaken, the installer for Google Toolbar. Is this news? Did we get rogue machines or something?
Bah! More like Fahrenheit 451! Brave New World indeed...
How about some evidence for your claim that Office doesn't run in a limited user account, buddy? Before you get too far ahead of yourself. I have it on 250 computers, all running as a limited user account (and no, no domain-- we're Netware), and I've never encountered any problems related to permissions.