A) Users don't know what command to use to (say) copy stuff off their floppy.
B) There's an apropos (fucking stupid name, BTW, why not 'guide' or 'question' or 'help?') command that lets the user search for a command based on what task they want done.
But given A, how is the user supposed to know B? If B was named "help" or "?" instead of Apropos then you might have an argument here, but what you're saying is pure nonsense.
That simple change would make ALL of these problems disappear. Look at MacOS for example. MacOS has always been lauded as easy to use, and has always had extrodinarily easy "drag into application folder, click to run" software installs. Why? Because MacOS didn't even HAVE shared libraries for a very long time, and after that their use was discouraged. Shared libraries cause NOTHING but problems. If you get rid of the shared libraries and staticly link programs, you've solved about 80% of the software installation gripes about Linux.
The point's not that it's not true, but that we've seen that joke like 70,000 times before and it's NOT FUCKING FUNNY ANYMORE.
Shit, the GNAA stuff that gets modded down as "Troll" is at least twice as funny as the stuff that gets moderated up as "funny" every damn time.
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People always post this crap and it's never a good idea.
Look, here's an example of something you CAN'T do with a boot disk game:
Bob: "Hey, Joe, let's play some Return to Castle Wolfenstein." Joe: "Cool. Wanna do the voicecomm?" Bob: "Sure. Let's use Roger Wilco, my IP's 127.0.0.1" Joe: "Rock, see you there."
(Or whatever those wacky kids are using these days for voicecomm in games.)
Here's another little skit:
Joe: "I just bought a new ATIVidia SuperCard that has 20 times the performance of older cards!" Bob: "Awesome! Boot up 'Super Linux Brothers' and let's see how it runs!" Joe inserts Linux CD that boots into game. Joe: "Screen's just black." Bob: "Shit, must be missing the driver..." Joe: "How the hell do you put a driver on a already-burnt CD?!? This game sucks!"
And here's a third:
Joe: "Here, try my copy of 'Super Linux Brothers.'" Bob: "Ok." Bob runs game. Bob: "These controls are really awkward." Joe: "I know, it took me like three hours to get controls I liked... just use my control set." Bob: "Where is it?" Joe: "Shit, it's saved on my HD at home! I forgot to bring it! Goddamned."
I hope I've demonstrated that having a boot disk for a game is a BAD idea, and why nobody will buy a game distributed that way. There's a reason we haven't done that since the 80s, you know.
The thing he forgets is that there's no draft in this country. If poor people have more sons in the military, that's because those sons *VOLUNTARILY SIGNED UP* to join the military... in my opinion, that invalidates his entire documentary. Now, if he were talking about Vietnam where the soldiers had no choice, then that's a different story. But you can't say that "poor end up paying when it comes to military service" when EVERYBODY in the military, rich or poor, is there voluntarily.
Did you just send email, or did you write an actual letter?
I'd get a lawyer to write an actual letter (on paper!) to their legal department about it and see what kind of results that gets you. Email is disposable; assuming your message wasn't blacklisted as spam, it's really really easy to hit "delete" and get rid of it for good. To get results, you need paper.
Let me ask you this: DID YOU ASK PERMISSION BEFORE YOU STARTED?
Why are people on the internet so rude? If you took one of my programs and decided to write a 'remake' or 'sequel' of it, I would HOPE you'd at least pop me an email. It's common courtesy if nothing else.
Plus if they DO say no, you haven't wasted those years of work for a product you can't release.
X can probably do everything that Windows can... except copy and paste correctly.;)
And it's still years behind Aqua in OS X. But since Linux users mostly compare things to Windows and not Aqua, X11 needs to get its butt moving to compete with some of the advancements Microsoft is making in Longhorn.
1) You have a few buddies and you want to make a rename of Chrono Trigger for PC. You send a politely-worded request to the legal department at Square-Enix asking about the legal status of the game and for permission to re-use some of its assets in a way that is harmless to future Square-Enix games. The lawyer at the company reads this politely-worded email.
2) You have a few buddies and you go ahead and start making a clone of Chrono Trigger without asking permission from anyone. You steal all the art, music, and sound effects assets. You create trailers for your clone and promote it all over the Internet. The lawyer at the company, tipped off by someone, sees this all happening.
Which situation do you think would make Square-Enix happier? If these guys didn't ask permission, then it's GOOD they were shut down because they're idiots anyway. On the other hand, if they did ask permission, were granted it, and now Square-Enix is pulling a 180, then the company certainly has its head way up its ass.
So, in summary, I need more information to judge for sure. I'd wager these guys never asked permission in the first place.
You wouldn't, don't be silly. Just *ONE SERVER* like I put in my first post. MMORPGS (all except EVE Online, which seems to only have 2 servers) run between 5-10 servers for players. Just because one of those is age limited doesn't mean they ALL should be, just as half of Horizon's are RP and the other half are not. (Not that anyone RPs, since there's no one to enforce it, but the thought is nice.)
That's BS. That might be a good reason if, say, Atari died out in 1920, but there are a HUGE number of people who had an Atari when they were kids-- a much larger number of people remember Atari than know about abandonware sites in other words.
Abandonware *is* against the law, and all the effort put into making these nice websites and populating them should instead be put into campaigning companies like Epyx (or what's left of them) to release their Commodore 64 games for free.
To improve teachers, you need to improve teacher unions. I think the only way to do that is by disbanding them, which is pretty much impossible. Right now, however, the unions are so corrupt you can't even place blame on individual teachers.
What "secret law?" Seriously, how do you know there is a "secret law" at all? Because some random employee for United Airlines said there was? It's entirely impossible that the employee made it up to get this nutcase out of the airport so he could continue with his business?
Read this very slowly, and make sure you understand every word:
1) This guy claims that there is a "secret law" that prohibits people from travelling without showing ID. His confirmation is some unnamed airline employee.
2) San Francisco airport allowed him to fly without ID.
Why is this even a Slashdot story? He negates his own claim! If there was a "secret law," why was he able to fly without ID? If you think there's a "secret law" based on the evidence this guy has given, then yeah, you are paranoid. Period.
I don't give a crap what you "support" or don't, if you make a dubious claim like that you need to cite a reference. It's plain netiquette. If he actually DID say that, then surely a simple Google search would bring it up, right? But I can't find it, so I find it quite likely that you're making up bullshit.
This is a stupid question, don't waste an interview question on something like this.
The answer is as follows:
To compete with Napster 2.0, MSN Music and iTunes, Real needs to have a similar amount of music available to them, and a similar amount of big names.
The big names are, for the most part, only available through labels that are members of the RIAA. You can gripe about this if you want, but the fact is that the artists *signed* the form to grant the label distribution rights, and that's exactly what the label is doing.
For Real to get these big names, they need to deal with the RIAA. The RIAA has shown in the past that it will not endorse any music that is not restricted in some fashion... either streaming, or DRM. If the best Steve Jobs could do was 7 playlist burns, you can bet that Real can't do any better.
There. I just answered the question and I'm not even CEO of anything at all. Poof.
My Dell 64 MB key has gone through the wash 3 times and it still works flawlessly. I'm going to replace it, though, not because it doesn't work but because I want one that does USB2 and has a bit more than 64 MB.
Yeah, do you have a reference for that or are you just pulling shit out of your ass?
"Yeah, and he said that the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't happen and that the Berlin Wall would never come down because it would be too expensive to replace and then he said that the helicopter was actually invented by Mozart."
To be fair, though, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force and the sequel are really good FPS games. I'm not saying they're original, but they were a fun play with just the right length and good polish.
I want an MMORPG try age-enforced servers. You can't join server "Enterprise" until you're 21 years old, period. Your ID has to be verified with some kind of government document or something.
I admin a MUD, and 99% of the problem people like this are in middle school. If you get rid of the middle school people, you could have a much nicer game.
What makes you think the IT manager/director knows any more about computers than that stupid sysadmin? How would they even KNOW that there were better people out there if they didn't have good computer skills to start out with?
In Hogan's Heros, the humor was based around the fact that the Germans never knew what was going on while the American prisoners had already figured out the prison and were doing more for the war effort by being in prison then they could have been with a rifle on the front lines. It wasn't making light of the war, it was basically just "ain't those Nazi's stupid and those Americans with-it?" propaganda made after the war.
I've never played Battlefield 1942, so I can't speak for it.
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Welcome to the chicken and egg problem.
A) Users don't know what command to use to (say) copy stuff off their floppy.
B) There's an apropos (fucking stupid name, BTW, why not 'guide' or 'question' or 'help?') command that lets the user search for a command based on what task they want done.
But given A, how is the user supposed to know B? If B was named "help" or "?" instead of Apropos then you might have an argument here, but what you're saying is pure nonsense.
Why is shipping static binaries so bad?
That simple change would make ALL of these problems disappear. Look at MacOS for example. MacOS has always been lauded as easy to use, and has always had extrodinarily easy "drag into application folder, click to run" software installs. Why? Because MacOS didn't even HAVE shared libraries for a very long time, and after that their use was discouraged. Shared libraries cause NOTHING but problems. If you get rid of the shared libraries and staticly link programs, you've solved about 80% of the software installation gripes about Linux.
The point's not that it's not true, but that we've seen that joke like 70,000 times before and it's NOT FUCKING FUNNY ANYMORE.
Shit, the GNAA stuff that gets modded down as "Troll" is at least twice as funny as the stuff that gets moderated up as "funny" every damn time.
People always post this crap and it's never a good idea.
Look, here's an example of something you CAN'T do with a boot disk game:
Bob: "Hey, Joe, let's play some Return to Castle Wolfenstein."
Joe: "Cool. Wanna do the voicecomm?"
Bob: "Sure. Let's use Roger Wilco, my IP's 127.0.0.1"
Joe: "Rock, see you there."
(Or whatever those wacky kids are using these days for voicecomm in games.)
Here's another little skit:
Joe: "I just bought a new ATIVidia SuperCard that has 20 times the performance of older cards!"
Bob: "Awesome! Boot up 'Super Linux Brothers' and let's see how it runs!"
Joe inserts Linux CD that boots into game.
Joe: "Screen's just black."
Bob: "Shit, must be missing the driver..."
Joe: "How the hell do you put a driver on a already-burnt CD?!? This game sucks!"
And here's a third:
Joe: "Here, try my copy of 'Super Linux Brothers.'"
Bob: "Ok."
Bob runs game.
Bob: "These controls are really awkward."
Joe: "I know, it took me like three hours to get controls I liked... just use my control set."
Bob: "Where is it?"
Joe: "Shit, it's saved on my HD at home! I forgot to bring it! Goddamned."
I hope I've demonstrated that having a boot disk for a game is a BAD idea, and why nobody will buy a game distributed that way. There's a reason we haven't done that since the 80s, you know.
The thing he forgets is that there's no draft in this country. If poor people have more sons in the military, that's because those sons *VOLUNTARILY SIGNED UP* to join the military... in my opinion, that invalidates his entire documentary. Now, if he were talking about Vietnam where the soldiers had no choice, then that's a different story. But you can't say that "poor end up paying when it comes to military service" when EVERYBODY in the military, rich or poor, is there voluntarily.
Did you just send email, or did you write an actual letter?
I'd get a lawyer to write an actual letter (on paper!) to their legal department about it and see what kind of results that gets you. Email is disposable; assuming your message wasn't blacklisted as spam, it's really really easy to hit "delete" and get rid of it for good. To get results, you need paper.
God people are stupid.
Let me ask you this: DID YOU ASK PERMISSION BEFORE YOU STARTED?
Why are people on the internet so rude? If you took one of my programs and decided to write a 'remake' or 'sequel' of it, I would HOPE you'd at least pop me an email. It's common courtesy if nothing else.
Plus if they DO say no, you haven't wasted those years of work for a product you can't release.
X can probably do everything that Windows can ... except copy and paste correctly. ;)
And it's still years behind Aqua in OS X. But since Linux users mostly compare things to Windows and not Aqua, X11 needs to get its butt moving to compete with some of the advancements Microsoft is making in Longhorn.
How are they technically superior to RunAs? Could you elaborate on that?
I'll start with this much: RunAs is certainly a hell of a lot easier to use.
Yeah, but did they even ask?
Here's two scenarios:
1) You have a few buddies and you want to make a rename of Chrono Trigger for PC. You send a politely-worded request to the legal department at Square-Enix asking about the legal status of the game and for permission to re-use some of its assets in a way that is harmless to future Square-Enix games. The lawyer at the company reads this politely-worded email.
2) You have a few buddies and you go ahead and start making a clone of Chrono Trigger without asking permission from anyone. You steal all the art, music, and sound effects assets. You create trailers for your clone and promote it all over the Internet. The lawyer at the company, tipped off by someone, sees this all happening.
Which situation do you think would make Square-Enix happier? If these guys didn't ask permission, then it's GOOD they were shut down because they're idiots anyway. On the other hand, if they did ask permission, were granted it, and now Square-Enix is pulling a 180, then the company certainly has its head way up its ass.
So, in summary, I need more information to judge for sure. I'd wager these guys never asked permission in the first place.
You wouldn't, don't be silly. Just *ONE SERVER* like I put in my first post. MMORPGS (all except EVE Online, which seems to only have 2 servers) run between 5-10 servers for players. Just because one of those is age limited doesn't mean they ALL should be, just as half of Horizon's are RP and the other half are not. (Not that anyone RPs, since there's no one to enforce it, but the thought is nice.)
That's BS. That might be a good reason if, say, Atari died out in 1920, but there are a HUGE number of people who had an Atari when they were kids-- a much larger number of people remember Atari than know about abandonware sites in other words.
Abandonware *is* against the law, and all the effort put into making these nice websites and populating them should instead be put into campaigning companies like Epyx (or what's left of them) to release their Commodore 64 games for free.
To improve teachers, you need to improve teacher unions. I think the only way to do that is by disbanding them, which is pretty much impossible. Right now, however, the unions are so corrupt you can't even place blame on individual teachers.
Yes, but in his very statement he says that he could fly without ID from San Francisco airport.
So if there IS a secret law, and I highly doubt there is, it's not enforced anyway.
He's just being paranoid, and all of Slashdot is being paranoid with him. Slashdot loves to be paranoid.
What "secret law?" Seriously, how do you know there is a "secret law" at all? Because some random employee for United Airlines said there was? It's entirely impossible that the employee made it up to get this nutcase out of the airport so he could continue with his business?
Read this very slowly, and make sure you understand every word:
1) This guy claims that there is a "secret law" that prohibits people from travelling without showing ID. His confirmation is some unnamed airline employee.
2) San Francisco airport allowed him to fly without ID.
Why is this even a Slashdot story? He negates his own claim! If there was a "secret law," why was he able to fly without ID? If you think there's a "secret law" based on the evidence this guy has given, then yeah, you are paranoid. Period.
I don't give a crap what you "support" or don't, if you make a dubious claim like that you need to cite a reference. It's plain netiquette. If he actually DID say that, then surely a simple Google search would bring it up, right? But I can't find it, so I find it quite likely that you're making up bullshit.
This is a stupid question, don't waste an interview question on something like this.
The answer is as follows:
To compete with Napster 2.0, MSN Music and iTunes, Real needs to have a similar amount of music available to them, and a similar amount of big names.
The big names are, for the most part, only available through labels that are members of the RIAA. You can gripe about this if you want, but the fact is that the artists *signed* the form to grant the label distribution rights, and that's exactly what the label is doing.
For Real to get these big names, they need to deal with the RIAA. The RIAA has shown in the past that it will not endorse any music that is not restricted in some fashion... either streaming, or DRM. If the best Steve Jobs could do was 7 playlist burns, you can bet that Real can't do any better.
There. I just answered the question and I'm not even CEO of anything at all. Poof.
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My Dell 64 MB key has gone through the wash 3 times and it still works flawlessly. I'm going to replace it, though, not because it doesn't work but because I want one that does USB2 and has a bit more than 64 MB.
Yeah, do you have a reference for that or are you just pulling shit out of your ass?
"Yeah, and he said that the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't happen and that the Berlin Wall would never come down because it would be too expensive to replace and then he said that the helicopter was actually invented by Mozart."
To be fair, though, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force and the sequel are really good FPS games. I'm not saying they're original, but they were a fun play with just the right length and good polish.
I want an MMORPG try age-enforced servers. You can't join server "Enterprise" until you're 21 years old, period. Your ID has to be verified with some kind of government document or something.
I admin a MUD, and 99% of the problem people like this are in middle school. If you get rid of the middle school people, you could have a much nicer game.
What makes you think the IT manager/director knows any more about computers than that stupid sysadmin? How would they even KNOW that there were better people out there if they didn't have good computer skills to start out with?
Uh, they have a blogger already. Blogger.com. The people doing this project are just stupid or something.
In Hogan's Heros, the humor was based around the fact that the Germans never knew what was going on while the American prisoners had already figured out the prison and were doing more for the war effort by being in prison then they could have been with a rifle on the front lines. It wasn't making light of the war, it was basically just "ain't those Nazi's stupid and those Americans with-it?" propaganda made after the war.
I've never played Battlefield 1942, so I can't speak for it.