Are you kidding me? I trust the people pirating the software for me more than the people that made the software. The pirates don't let people down nearly as much. Their hacks allow people to use the software easier than the people who bought it. Especially with Microsoft software. You'd have to be pretty bad at it to actually get a copy of something with a virus in it or something. Seriously.
Seriously? Ever time I load a story with a lot of replies, my browser damn near freezes while I wait. And I'm posting from a Core 2 Duo machine with 4gb of RAM. That's fucking retarded no matter how you look at it. And OMFG like that other guy said...the lag between hitting preview and seeing the preview is ridiculous.
I'm not normally one to hate new stuff, but this is completely insane. Digg did the same damn thing. You can't load up a page with 100's of replies with AJAX ffs. It doesn't work. It runs like SHIT and makes browsing the site so very painful.
Why do people insist upon breaking down Evolution into 2 separate theories as if that was some sort of a valid axoim? There is no such thing as Micro or Macro Evolution. This stupid dichotomy came from Creationists who wanted to make their arguments seem more valid by attacking the harder to grasp concepts of evolution over time.
As for Darwin being a racist or whatever, that's frankly all irrelevant.
Pretty much the same here for me. All I see from the guy at wired is a bunch of gushing over more shovelware. Microsoft's conference was ho-hum and I guess the camera thing is cool but I think Sony really kicked ass.
There's a difference between having lesser quality stuff and not having it at all. Think about that. If we for whatever reason were to go to war with countries that are currently propping up some very important industry, we're kind of screwed aren't we? Yeah, why would we go to war and why is it needed, etc., not getting into that debate.
On the other hand I completely see what you're saying. GM fucking sucks. Period. If they want to give someone money (which they shouldn't) give it to Ford if it's that important to have an American Manufacturer. At least they aren't completely fucking retarded. They're actually *gasp* not on the verge of completely failing. Hell just let Ford buy all the old GM factories or something.
I just have to ask, why do you want free things to go away? And furthermore, what about websites that aren't actually trying to do anything than make just enough money to run the site? I'm running a website right now with ads, but I only aim to make enough money to pay for my server at this point. Am I being greedy or are you just being difficult? I very specifically took off the obnoxious flashing ads, popups, etc because they irritate me too, so really what's the problem? I had a firm belief in not putting things on my site that would annoy me if I were a visitor and I think that seems fair enough. I'm not being obnoxious, I'm not stuffing them everywhere on the page, between page loads, having them yell shit at you...I don't have to make the website you visit either, but I'd at least like to be compensated to the point that I don't have to pay a server bill for people to leech from me.
If you don't want to look at ads, that's great, but don't try to make it some retarded crusade against injustice. You're trying to justify this as some moral obligation and it is just stupid. Yes, you can just not visit the sites with ads...but you are...aren't you? I use adblock too, but I don't view it as some stick it to the man deal (I just find ads annoying sometimes...though when I really think about it, they don't bother me all that much). There are plenty of websites that use those ads just to pay their server bills and aren't really looking for a profit.
This isn't just a problem on OSX. It drives me INSANE on Linux. I came from using Office and even this extremely basic right-click-to-spellcheck functionality that even FIREFOX has does not exist in OpenOffice.
Come on now. If they could do this, I might actually be able to use OpenOffice. This speaks loudly for what the rest of the program is like. Join the rest of us in the 21st century, please. I'd like a post 1990 interface and features. Yeah, I can't do it any better myself, but so many other people have and it just seems retarded that they can't in such basic functionality. It's extremely frustrating as I try to move away from Windows and have to deal with stuff like this...it's like a gaping hole in what should be a relatively easy to implement feature. It's like someone just forgot to do it or something.
Just maybe, mind you, they should just teach their employees how a computer works. I imagine that would help a great deal more. Why don't we stop babying everyone and if we REALLY want to do something, teach them how to use the software that they've got in a way that they don't have it scan their entire computer for everything all the time.
I simply cannot fathom this kind of stupidity. Don't tell your P2P software to scan places with sensitive things in it and don't put those sensitive things in your shared folders. You don't see me putting a text file with my credit card numbers in my share folder so why would anyone put anything sensitive anywhere near their shared files? I guess I'll just never be able to completely understand things from the perspective of someone that not only knows nothing about computers but does not actually care to learn. It's beyond my comprehension. Even if you knew nothing...wouldn't you at least be curious to know what the hell your programs are doing?
Me too. Been quite a while for me. This distro seems pretty much irrelevant nowadays. It's never been more than a slightly friendlier Redhat and nowadays I don't even think they can lay claim to that.
And furthermore, where the hell does this "non-proprietary" product even exist? When I bought my MP3 player and wanted a hard drive player...my options were either an old player, a Zune, or an iPod. I hate iPods and I wanted something new so guess what? I'm screwed every way...even if I DID get an iPod. No one makes this fabled "non-proprietary" MP3 playing device...you need special software for ALL of them or you need software that breaks through the bullshit to support your player.
My version of synching my Zune in Linux is use Virtualbox and I imagine it'd be the same for an iPod...which is completely ridiculous. Why the hell do they care what program syncs my music ffs?
I first used Linux when an uncle gave me a copy of Mandrake Linux. I also tried Redhat around the same time. I have to say...I did not like them. Installing software from source was a REAL bitch. I never had any idea what I was doing. I didn't have internet in my room at home (keep in mind this was when I was about maybe 14 or 15. There was no particularly obvious way of doing anything. Nothing made sense to me...even with a book about USING Linux...I could never find out where the hell things installed and they never appeared on the menus afterwards.
You know what really drove me nuts, though? RPMHell. REAL fun to deal with that crap when you have no internet...let me tell you. Trying to track down all the damn dependencies was frustrating as hell. RPMs are what kept me from using Linux much for probably another 5 years after that. Nothing was easy on Linux, nothing made sense, and EVERYTHING was a pain in the ass. Nowadays things can STILL be a pain in the ass, but having internet makes things a little easier to figure out. I will say the Ubuntu would have been damned nice to have back then as a starting point...maybe I wouldn't have ended up being so pissed off trying to play with things even if I DIDN'T have the interwebs.
After a few dual boot installs of Linux, I pretty much reserved to install it inside of a VM from then on and pretty much only played around with it just for kicks. I always loved the whole concept of Open Source. I wrote my senior paper on it (GNU, Linux, etc. etc.) even if I didn't use it as my primary OS. It's nice to see things have shaped up since then...its at the point where I actually consider it nearly on par with Windows from the nerd perspective of "I can use it and do the shit I want without much hassle." The only real issues are when I want to upgrade something...that can turn into a real witch hunt, but you know...I can deal with that now and again. Beyond a few pretty gaping holes in software such as web development tools like Dreamweaver (before you call me a noob, I use them primarily for tables and quite frankly doing things I don't really WANT to code by hand and don't need to, though I've found Kompozer recently), REAL video encoding tools (most around now can't even hold a candle to tools I use on Windows as the ones in Linux are a pain in the ass and I would like something easy that doesn't need 8 billion things set up from a command line first, though I've found avidemux2), and the random oddball thing, I can pretty much accomplish anything in Linux that I need to now...except transfer to my Zune. Have to run Virtualbox for that or just boot into Windows that I still have installed so I can play games.
Now I've got Gentoo up and I've even gotten to the point where I can help OTHER people fix shit. Of course, most of that has to do with the fact that no one can use a search engine for shit anymore. Seriously, how is it that I can find things for people when I don't even know what they are and yet...they come up with nothing?
This kind of sucks and all, but how the hell do you even brick your Wii installing Homebrew? Are there any actual cases of this happening or do most of the mod makers say it is possible and all that just to CYA? I mean seriously, I've done this a few times and I have to say...it's pretty well idiot proof unless I guess...your Wii gets powered off in the middle of something?
Doing it on my XBOX back when was a little scarier but the Wii mods seem like child's play to be quite honest.
I guess I'm just wondering how common this actually is and how screwed people are getting with their Wii's bricking for one reason or another and Nintendo finding the Homebrew channel on there and charging them. Then again, I can't really think of many reasons why your Wii would get bricked in the first place.:p
Woman huh? Yeah, when you describe that scenario that's about the number of women I would guess would have happened by. I imagine most women would look at those screens, get a glossy eyed look and wander off. It's okay, that was me too.:p
I found a damn easy way to keep bots out. In IPB, you can add a custom field that will ask a question while registering. I've made this question "Are you a bot? Answer 'N'" but what I found on the web is that most bots try to put in something entirely different there (birth date or age or something). I let the line support multiple characters and I have yet to see a single bot since I did this. I HAVE seen bots that registered beforehand get through obviously, but that is quite easily solved.:)
So screw all the CAPTCHAs, those are a pain in the butt and are hackable. My way works far better.:)
Yup, they clearly aren't biased or retarded at all. A very nice and upstanding establishment.:p I mean, Joe the Plumber definitely wasn't a gimmick or something.
This is a pretty poor example. Your software not working doesn't really have anything to do with Vista. It's a new OS...every single new OS from Microsoft has problems like this and you know why? Because no one follows the specs. They do shit wrong and utilize bugs in the OS instead of programming shit properly and up to spec. That's what happens when your OS has such ridiculous mass appeal. Lots of idiots end up making software for it. When these problems come about, people blame Windows, but the only other solution is to FORCE people to program right and how exactly do you do that?
Furthermore, I hear people bitch a lot about the hardware requirements, but I just built a computer for 300 bucks that runs Vista quite well. What kind of expensive pieces of shit are people buying? Seriously, what?
Dexpot is totally awesome. I use it at work all the time. I'm surprised more people have not heard of it...it is the least buggy of all the apps I've used and I've tried quite a few.
Except that if I remember correctly, that investment was made by the American people via tax dollars. That's kind of important to remember. So they're not really entitled to quite that much profit so much as they're entitled to keep the tubes open and free and charge for access.
No kidding. At least if you don't RTFA read the fucking comments. People run into here to bitch without reading anything other than the title itself and even that they apparently don't read very well.
Just because your cell phone transmits the signal, doesn't make it okay to pick up on it. Just because old cordless phones didn't have scramblers did not make it legal for the government to listen in. Why would this be much different from that? It's a privacy issue regardless. The "who cares anyway" mentality is why we have London and their paranoid CCTV system going. I mean who cares if they watch me when I'm not doing anything right? That could never screw me over.
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Are you kidding me? I trust the people pirating the software for me more than the people that made the software. The pirates don't let people down nearly as much. Their hacks allow people to use the software easier than the people who bought it. Especially with Microsoft software. You'd have to be pretty bad at it to actually get a copy of something with a virus in it or something. Seriously.
Seriously? Ever time I load a story with a lot of replies, my browser damn near freezes while I wait. And I'm posting from a Core 2 Duo machine with 4gb of RAM. That's fucking retarded no matter how you look at it. And OMFG like that other guy said...the lag between hitting preview and seeing the preview is ridiculous.
I'm not normally one to hate new stuff, but this is completely insane. Digg did the same damn thing. You can't load up a page with 100's of replies with AJAX ffs. It doesn't work. It runs like SHIT and makes browsing the site so very painful.
Yours takes hours or just in general? Because I compile it pretty often on Gentoo and it most certainly does not take hours. :p
Of course, if they're using Linux without access to IETab...how exactly do they have access to IE in the first place? Kind of a moot point isn't it?
Why do people insist upon breaking down Evolution into 2 separate theories as if that was some sort of a valid axoim? There is no such thing as Micro or Macro Evolution. This stupid dichotomy came from Creationists who wanted to make their arguments seem more valid by attacking the harder to grasp concepts of evolution over time.
As for Darwin being a racist or whatever, that's frankly all irrelevant.
Pretty much the same here for me. All I see from the guy at wired is a bunch of gushing over more shovelware. Microsoft's conference was ho-hum and I guess the camera thing is cool but I think Sony really kicked ass.
There's a difference between having lesser quality stuff and not having it at all. Think about that. If we for whatever reason were to go to war with countries that are currently propping up some very important industry, we're kind of screwed aren't we? Yeah, why would we go to war and why is it needed, etc., not getting into that debate.
On the other hand I completely see what you're saying. GM fucking sucks. Period. If they want to give someone money (which they shouldn't) give it to Ford if it's that important to have an American Manufacturer. At least they aren't completely fucking retarded. They're actually *gasp* not on the verge of completely failing. Hell just let Ford buy all the old GM factories or something.
I just have to ask, why do you want free things to go away? And furthermore, what about websites that aren't actually trying to do anything than make just enough money to run the site? I'm running a website right now with ads, but I only aim to make enough money to pay for my server at this point. Am I being greedy or are you just being difficult? I very specifically took off the obnoxious flashing ads, popups, etc because they irritate me too, so really what's the problem? I had a firm belief in not putting things on my site that would annoy me if I were a visitor and I think that seems fair enough. I'm not being obnoxious, I'm not stuffing them everywhere on the page, between page loads, having them yell shit at you...I don't have to make the website you visit either, but I'd at least like to be compensated to the point that I don't have to pay a server bill for people to leech from me.
If you don't want to look at ads, that's great, but don't try to make it some retarded crusade against injustice. You're trying to justify this as some moral obligation and it is just stupid. Yes, you can just not visit the sites with ads...but you are...aren't you? I use adblock too, but I don't view it as some stick it to the man deal (I just find ads annoying sometimes...though when I really think about it, they don't bother me all that much). There are plenty of websites that use those ads just to pay their server bills and aren't really looking for a profit.
This isn't just a problem on OSX. It drives me INSANE on Linux. I came from using Office and even this extremely basic right-click-to-spellcheck functionality that even FIREFOX has does not exist in OpenOffice.
Come on now. If they could do this, I might actually be able to use OpenOffice. This speaks loudly for what the rest of the program is like. Join the rest of us in the 21st century, please. I'd like a post 1990 interface and features. Yeah, I can't do it any better myself, but so many other people have and it just seems retarded that they can't in such basic functionality. It's extremely frustrating as I try to move away from Windows and have to deal with stuff like this...it's like a gaping hole in what should be a relatively easy to implement feature. It's like someone just forgot to do it or something.
Just maybe, mind you, they should just teach their employees how a computer works. I imagine that would help a great deal more. Why don't we stop babying everyone and if we REALLY want to do something, teach them how to use the software that they've got in a way that they don't have it scan their entire computer for everything all the time.
I simply cannot fathom this kind of stupidity. Don't tell your P2P software to scan places with sensitive things in it and don't put those sensitive things in your shared folders. You don't see me putting a text file with my credit card numbers in my share folder so why would anyone put anything sensitive anywhere near their shared files? I guess I'll just never be able to completely understand things from the perspective of someone that not only knows nothing about computers but does not actually care to learn. It's beyond my comprehension. Even if you knew nothing...wouldn't you at least be curious to know what the hell your programs are doing?
Me too. Been quite a while for me. This distro seems pretty much irrelevant nowadays. It's never been more than a slightly friendlier Redhat and nowadays I don't even think they can lay claim to that.
And furthermore, where the hell does this "non-proprietary" product even exist? When I bought my MP3 player and wanted a hard drive player...my options were either an old player, a Zune, or an iPod. I hate iPods and I wanted something new so guess what? I'm screwed every way...even if I DID get an iPod. No one makes this fabled "non-proprietary" MP3 playing device...you need special software for ALL of them or you need software that breaks through the bullshit to support your player.
My version of synching my Zune in Linux is use Virtualbox and I imagine it'd be the same for an iPod...which is completely ridiculous. Why the hell do they care what program syncs my music ffs?
I first used Linux when an uncle gave me a copy of Mandrake Linux. I also tried Redhat around the same time. I have to say...I did not like them. Installing software from source was a REAL bitch. I never had any idea what I was doing. I didn't have internet in my room at home (keep in mind this was when I was about maybe 14 or 15. There was no particularly obvious way of doing anything. Nothing made sense to me...even with a book about USING Linux...I could never find out where the hell things installed and they never appeared on the menus afterwards.
You know what really drove me nuts, though? RPMHell. REAL fun to deal with that crap when you have no internet...let me tell you. Trying to track down all the damn dependencies was frustrating as hell. RPMs are what kept me from using Linux much for probably another 5 years after that. Nothing was easy on Linux, nothing made sense, and EVERYTHING was a pain in the ass. Nowadays things can STILL be a pain in the ass, but having internet makes things a little easier to figure out. I will say the Ubuntu would have been damned nice to have back then as a starting point...maybe I wouldn't have ended up being so pissed off trying to play with things even if I DIDN'T have the interwebs.
After a few dual boot installs of Linux, I pretty much reserved to install it inside of a VM from then on and pretty much only played around with it just for kicks. I always loved the whole concept of Open Source. I wrote my senior paper on it (GNU, Linux, etc. etc.) even if I didn't use it as my primary OS. It's nice to see things have shaped up since then...its at the point where I actually consider it nearly on par with Windows from the nerd perspective of "I can use it and do the shit I want without much hassle." The only real issues are when I want to upgrade something...that can turn into a real witch hunt, but you know...I can deal with that now and again. Beyond a few pretty gaping holes in software such as web development tools like Dreamweaver (before you call me a noob, I use them primarily for tables and quite frankly doing things I don't really WANT to code by hand and don't need to, though I've found Kompozer recently), REAL video encoding tools (most around now can't even hold a candle to tools I use on Windows as the ones in Linux are a pain in the ass and I would like something easy that doesn't need 8 billion things set up from a command line first, though I've found avidemux2), and the random oddball thing, I can pretty much accomplish anything in Linux that I need to now...except transfer to my Zune. Have to run Virtualbox for that or just boot into Windows that I still have installed so I can play games.
Now I've got Gentoo up and I've even gotten to the point where I can help OTHER people fix shit. Of course, most of that has to do with the fact that no one can use a search engine for shit anymore. Seriously, how is it that I can find things for people when I don't even know what they are and yet...they come up with nothing?
This kind of sucks and all, but how the hell do you even brick your Wii installing Homebrew? Are there any actual cases of this happening or do most of the mod makers say it is possible and all that just to CYA? I mean seriously, I've done this a few times and I have to say...it's pretty well idiot proof unless I guess...your Wii gets powered off in the middle of something?
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Doing it on my XBOX back when was a little scarier but the Wii mods seem like child's play to be quite honest.
I guess I'm just wondering how common this actually is and how screwed people are getting with their Wii's bricking for one reason or another and Nintendo finding the Homebrew channel on there and charging them. Then again, I can't really think of many reasons why your Wii would get bricked in the first place.
Unfortunately the Wayback Machine will still be slower than hell. :p
Woman huh? Yeah, when you describe that scenario that's about the number of women I would guess would have happened by. I imagine most women would look at those screens, get a glossy eyed look and wander off. It's okay, that was me too. :p
I found a damn easy way to keep bots out. In IPB, you can add a custom field that will ask a question while registering. I've made this question "Are you a bot? Answer 'N'" but what I found on the web is that most bots try to put in something entirely different there (birth date or age or something). I let the line support multiple characters and I have yet to see a single bot since I did this. I HAVE seen bots that registered beforehand get through obviously, but that is quite easily solved. :)
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So screw all the CAPTCHAs, those are a pain in the butt and are hackable. My way works far better.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pro-joe-plumbers-trip-to-israel-scares-the-establishment-media/
:p I mean, Joe the Plumber definitely wasn't a gimmick or something.
Yup, they clearly aren't biased or retarded at all. A very nice and upstanding establishment.
This is a pretty poor example. Your software not working doesn't really have anything to do with Vista. It's a new OS...every single new OS from Microsoft has problems like this and you know why? Because no one follows the specs. They do shit wrong and utilize bugs in the OS instead of programming shit properly and up to spec. That's what happens when your OS has such ridiculous mass appeal. Lots of idiots end up making software for it. When these problems come about, people blame Windows, but the only other solution is to FORCE people to program right and how exactly do you do that?
Furthermore, I hear people bitch a lot about the hardware requirements, but I just built a computer for 300 bucks that runs Vista quite well. What kind of expensive pieces of shit are people buying? Seriously, what?
Dexpot is totally awesome. I use it at work all the time. I'm surprised more people have not heard of it...it is the least buggy of all the apps I've used and I've tried quite a few.
And to think I was hoping to come in here to see an article about Michael Jackson...
Except that if I remember correctly, that investment was made by the American people via tax dollars. That's kind of important to remember. So they're not really entitled to quite that much profit so much as they're entitled to keep the tubes open and free and charge for access.
No kidding. At least if you don't RTFA read the fucking comments. People run into here to bitch without reading anything other than the title itself and even that they apparently don't read very well.
:p
Can't say I'm exactly surprised though.
Even more to the point, if he himself had learned to read, he would have seen that exact quote further down the page.
"I got a Ph.D in pain and a master's in disaster, / the mighty Stephen Hawking is a fucking Quake master." â" from "QuakeMaster"
Just because your cell phone transmits the signal, doesn't make it okay to pick up on it. Just because old cordless phones didn't have scramblers did not make it legal for the government to listen in. Why would this be much different from that? It's a privacy issue regardless. The "who cares anyway" mentality is why we have London and their paranoid CCTV system going. I mean who cares if they watch me when I'm not doing anything right? That could never screw me over.