Just as an FYI, MacOS X did this before Ubuntu did. I don't know exactly what OS did it *first*, but anyway.
But part of the point here is that Sudo is hard to use. If I don't know the commandline, and I want to do something that requires admin access with a GUI program, how do I run it with escalated privileges? Well, a Unix geek will say "you just open a terminal and do sudo ", but they know the system. For the average user, if there's no GUI for it, it doesn't exist... and there's no GUI for sudo in any Linux distro I've tried. (Windows XP, however, does have 'Run As...' which has an easily found GUI, so in my opinion, Windows is already ahead in this field.)
He *did* answer the question. He can't hand-hold all 60,000 employees and Microsoft (and God-knows how many project managers), so he told the employee with the problem to contact him confidentially so that he can look into the issue. How is that not an answer? What exactly did you expect him to say?
Besides, there's a decent chance that the question was a fake anyway. Who knows with Slashdot?
If I could put a little flag on the text file that stores all my passwords for different services so that it was utterly useless on any computer other than mine, of course I'd do it. Who wouldn't?
That's the kind of situation he's talking about. If Microsoft really makes it easy to use, I could see this taking off.
I don't think anybody (rational) denies that global warming exists. The question mark is whether global warming is caused by human activity or not. So by saying, "no such thing as global warming," you're setting up a strawman that's really easy to knock down.
I think that "he's taken the red one" gag was a riff on how, in cartoons, the hero characters always have a unique vehicle and the enemies chasing them always look exactly alike and are in the exact same vehicles. Maybe that wasn't what was intended, but it made me laugh, especially when you think about it: Why would a starship have hundreds of identical police cruisers in blue, and one SINGLE one in red? I like movies that point out that the screenwriters are at least aware of the cliches, even if they're still using them.
Apologies if everyone else got that joke instantly and I'm a jerk for explaining it.
No, for good semantically-sensible comments, you should be using the blockquote tag for the remarks of those to whom you are replying, as I have done here.
I quote with italics because it's a ton quicker to type.
Stupid question: I have a website I'm building, and I though it would look nice to have the user's names appear vertically on the left-hand size of their avatar image. (Hopefully this diagram avoids the lame filter:)
B ------- l |.....| a |.AVA.| k |.TAR.| e |.....| y -------
How do I accomplish that without using a br tag after each letter? The last time my HTML knowledge was current was 1998, to give you an idea of where I stand here. (I'm sorry; I don't get paid to do web development, and keeping up with the huge amount of HTML, XHTML, CSS, JS, etc is just too hard.)
Ditto on Emporer's New Groove. Excellent movie. Lilo and Stitch is another under-appreciated strange and hilarious movie from Disney, except it sticks a little bit closer to the Disney formula than New Groove does.
Incidentally, Emporer's New Groove was co-written by Chris Williams, whose Intelligent Humor comic strip is (in part) available online at:
Probably some guy at Fox just realized after all these years that it's cheaper to use ACTUAL computers when filming without bothering to have the prop department (or whatever) mock-up a fake GUI.
The local EB here takes maybe 3-4 copies out of the box to use as displays, and when you purchase they ask (if they have one they took out of the box) if you don't mind taking it, otherwise they get you an unopened box. I kind of assumed that was standard policy at all game stores everywhere.
Not to mention startup times. It takes my DishNetwork decoder probably 4-5 minutes just to connect to the satellite signal, and that's not counting the other 5 minutes needed to download the channel guide. (Now, given, it can do that in the background if you hit cancel, but the point is that if I go and turn on my TV right now, I want to watch it right now, which means I need to know what's on right now, which means I need my channel guide right now.)
I think the only device in my entire entertainment center that I can turn off cleanly without any sort of standby mode is my 5.1 decoder. Except the rocker switch for it is in the back where I can't reach it, and the power button in front only does the 'standby' mode power off. So nevermind.
The Blizzard developers do NOTHING all day except spending it thinking about WOW. 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, they're running over stuff about WOW in their heads. To them, considering that, a 4-hour dungeon *is* casual.
Also, the hard-core players are (generally) the ones who post on the forums. I tried once, but the forums move too quickly for me to keep up with and, like you, I have a life and a job. When your topic goes from the front page to page 13 in like two hours, who can possibly have any kind of meaningful discussion on those forums?
But anyway, yes, I left WOW for the same reason. They don't give a crap about casual players. Sadly, the other post is right... probably one of the best games for casual players right now is EVE Online. Too bad EVE is so boring when you start.
Well, this is Slashdot, so the easiest way to get karma in this discussion would be to answer:
Duh! Of course! It's Nintendo! Nintendo dominates EVERY generation, man! Who cares about graphics or networking when you got Mario? Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Super Mario Brothers 17: The Revenge of Goomba, etc. You can't go wrong. The GameCube was just misunderstood.
You know, you can change the text of those three options to be more descriptive (like the gransparent suggests) without any coding at all, and it would make Slashdot better, quicker.
Start with that, then work on rewriting the code later.
A government agency *recommended* it be shut down and the owner of the site did so. Nowhere does it say the government agency forcibly shut the service down, or ran into their offices with attack dogs and shotguns or anything like that. There's nothing illegal about a government representative saying, "might be a good idea to shut this down" and the site owner doing it.
I think you're being more than a little paranoid. Save the rant for when our rights *really are* in danger.
I'm a Mac user, and I do take security seriously. I'm sure there are tons of Unix/Linux people who don't. The reason the article is offensive is because it paints everyone with a broad brush and decrees that *all* Mac users are smug and irresponsible, and that's plain not true.
And to be the stereotypical Mac user, I'll also point out that "MAC" is a Media Access Controller, not a computer. Learn the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation.
I did try for a long time. I still don't shop at Wal-Mart, and try to avoid other stores that basically carry nothing but Chinese goods. But you can't avoid it.
Remember after 9/11 that study that showed that no companies in the US still made US flags? If you bought a US flag, it came from China. Well, it's not just flags, it's millions of different products, some of which come embedded in other products. It's impossible to boycott China and still live a normal life.
Well one big difference is that the number of people in American society who dress up for Star Trek Conventions is smaller by many orders of magnitudes than the number of people who dress up for Fotoball games.
I bet it's about the exact same. I don't have any evidence either way but, then again, I'm betting you don't either.
Remember, of the 30,000 who GO to the game, it's usually a few dozen at most who dress up for it.
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And how does that help me?
"Hey, I want to run this install program, but it keeps saying permission denied."
"kdesu!"
"Gesundheit. Now about that program..."
"gksu!"
"Hey! There's no need to be rude, I'm just asking a question."
I used GNOME for months and I never found a UI for "gksu." Where is it?
Just as an FYI, MacOS X did this before Ubuntu did. I don't know exactly what OS did it *first*, but anyway.
But part of the point here is that Sudo is hard to use. If I don't know the commandline, and I want to do something that requires admin access with a GUI program, how do I run it with escalated privileges? Well, a Unix geek will say "you just open a terminal and do sudo ", but they know the system. For the average user, if there's no GUI for it, it doesn't exist... and there's no GUI for sudo in any Linux distro I've tried. (Windows XP, however, does have 'Run As...' which has an easily found GUI, so in my opinion, Windows is already ahead in this field.)
He *did* answer the question. He can't hand-hold all 60,000 employees and Microsoft (and God-knows how many project managers), so he told the employee with the problem to contact him confidentially so that he can look into the issue. How is that not an answer? What exactly did you expect him to say?
Besides, there's a decent chance that the question was a fake anyway. Who knows with Slashdot?
If I could put a little flag on the text file that stores all my passwords for different services so that it was utterly useless on any computer other than mine, of course I'd do it. Who wouldn't?
That's the kind of situation he's talking about. If Microsoft really makes it easy to use, I could see this taking off.
I don't think anybody (rational) denies that global warming exists. The question mark is whether global warming is caused by human activity or not. So by saying, "no such thing as global warming," you're setting up a strawman that's really easy to knock down.
I think that "he's taken the red one" gag was a riff on how, in cartoons, the hero characters always have a unique vehicle and the enemies chasing them always look exactly alike and are in the exact same vehicles. Maybe that wasn't what was intended, but it made me laugh, especially when you think about it: Why would a starship have hundreds of identical police cruisers in blue, and one SINGLE one in red? I like movies that point out that the screenwriters are at least aware of the cliches, even if they're still using them.
Apologies if everyone else got that joke instantly and I'm a jerk for explaining it.
Font tags are easy to include, even an HTML idiot like me can do it, and they work in all browsers. Why do you hate them so much?
No, for good semantically-sensible comments, you should be using the blockquote tag for the remarks of those to whom you are replying, as I have done here.
I quote with italics because it's a ton quicker to type.
Ditto on Emporer's New Groove. Excellent movie. Lilo and Stitch is another under-appreciated strange and hilarious movie from Disney, except it sticks a little bit closer to the Disney formula than New Groove does.
Incidentally, Emporer's New Groove was co-written by Chris Williams, whose Intelligent Humor comic strip is (in part) available online at:
http://www.ccma.ca/inthumor/
Read a few of those strips, and you can easily see where the oddball humor in Emporer's New Groove came from.
And remember: Pudge controls the weather!
I guess the kid could ride the school bus. Unless you have to get your iris scanned before the kid can get off the bus as well.
Probably some guy at Fox just realized after all these years that it's cheaper to use ACTUAL computers when filming without bothering to have the prop department (or whatever) mock-up a fake GUI.
The local EB here takes maybe 3-4 copies out of the box to use as displays, and when you purchase they ask (if they have one they took out of the box) if you don't mind taking it, otherwise they get you an unopened box. I kind of assumed that was standard policy at all game stores everywhere.
I didn't have any fun either. I'm just saying that it's ideal for the casual gamer for a couple reasons:
1) Your skills are learned in real-time, so even while logged off, your character is improving.
2) You can play in 15-minute sessions and still make an impact.
3) Hardware requirements won't break the bank.
Not to mention startup times. It takes my DishNetwork decoder probably 4-5 minutes just to connect to the satellite signal, and that's not counting the other 5 minutes needed to download the channel guide. (Now, given, it can do that in the background if you hit cancel, but the point is that if I go and turn on my TV right now, I want to watch it right now, which means I need to know what's on right now, which means I need my channel guide right now.)
I think the only device in my entire entertainment center that I can turn off cleanly without any sort of standby mode is my 5.1 decoder. Except the rocker switch for it is in the back where I can't reach it, and the power button in front only does the 'standby' mode power off. So nevermind.
The Blizzard developers do NOTHING all day except spending it thinking about WOW. 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, they're running over stuff about WOW in their heads. To them, considering that, a 4-hour dungeon *is* casual.
Also, the hard-core players are (generally) the ones who post on the forums. I tried once, but the forums move too quickly for me to keep up with and, like you, I have a life and a job. When your topic goes from the front page to page 13 in like two hours, who can possibly have any kind of meaningful discussion on those forums?
But anyway, yes, I left WOW for the same reason. They don't give a crap about casual players. Sadly, the other post is right... probably one of the best games for casual players right now is EVE Online. Too bad EVE is so boring when you start.
Well, this is Slashdot, so the easiest way to get karma in this discussion would be to answer:
Duh! Of course! It's Nintendo! Nintendo dominates EVERY generation, man! Who cares about graphics or networking when you got Mario? Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Super Mario Brothers 17: The Revenge of Goomba, etc. You can't go wrong. The GameCube was just misunderstood.
You know, you can change the text of those three options to be more descriptive (like the gransparent suggests) without any coding at all, and it would make Slashdot better, quicker.
Start with that, then work on rewriting the code later.
A government agency *recommended* it be shut down and the owner of the site did so. Nowhere does it say the government agency forcibly shut the service down, or ran into their offices with attack dogs and shotguns or anything like that. There's nothing illegal about a government representative saying, "might be a good idea to shut this down" and the site owner doing it.
I think you're being more than a little paranoid. Save the rant for when our rights *really are* in danger.
What sounds more impressive?
This show has 10 million viewers.
This show has 20 million eyeballs.
See? One's twice as many as the other. Go with the eyeballs.
I don't dislike the current administration.
I'm a Mac user, and I do take security seriously. I'm sure there are tons of Unix/Linux people who don't. The reason the article is offensive is because it paints everyone with a broad brush and decrees that *all* Mac users are smug and irresponsible, and that's plain not true.
And to be the stereotypical Mac user, I'll also point out that "MAC" is a Media Access Controller, not a computer. Learn the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation.
I did try for a long time. I still don't shop at Wal-Mart, and try to avoid other stores that basically carry nothing but Chinese goods. But you can't avoid it.
Remember after 9/11 that study that showed that no companies in the US still made US flags? If you bought a US flag, it came from China. Well, it's not just flags, it's millions of different products, some of which come embedded in other products. It's impossible to boycott China and still live a normal life.
Well one big difference is that the number of people in American society who dress up for Star Trek Conventions is smaller by many orders of magnitudes than the number of people who dress up for Fotoball games.
I bet it's about the exact same. I don't have any evidence either way but, then again, I'm betting you don't either.
Remember, of the 30,000 who GO to the game, it's usually a few dozen at most who dress up for it.
Wow, in your world, disabled people don't exist! Amazing.