Thank you. I was thinking the exact same thing and looked around for a similar comment. I've been going to Fry's all my life and I'll be damned if they don't have the best deals AND knowledgeable staff. You know what else? They pay commission in some areas and somehow they don't screw me. They get kind of irritating with their damn Fry's card stuff sometimes but I can deal with that. I ask them what I want and I get a real answer instead of the stream of bullshit I get from someone at Best Buy. I mean, I have heard some truly ridiculous shit to the point that I've walked up to people after a BB sales rep left and explained to them why what they just heard was complete bullshit. I'm not a particularly vocal person about these things most of the time but just...damn. The Frys sales people don't seem to be anywhere near as scummy as the people I deal with at Best Buy and Fry's actually has good prices. Not okay prices or decent prices...GOOD prices. I've bought many things on sale and if I need some weird ass cable or part, I know I can go and get it at Fry's.
I will say though that if I'm buying a video game and I want to go in town, I'd much prefer Best Buy/Fry's over Gamestop. Gamestop is even worse than Best Buy. At least I can walk into a damn Best Buy and 90% of the time I can buy a brand new game on release day without a preorder.
You usually see this on forums and other places where you would post things on the internet. I think Joomla and the CMS of the like use it too. Think of making a post on Slashdot with all the formatting showing up the way it will look when you post it (you see bolded text instead of a bold tag) or as the other guy said, a WYSIWYG editor.
To be fair, most of the things that would break would be addons doing things you couldn't do in other browsers anyway, I'd bet. You can tinker with a considerably larger number of things in Firefox than you can with any other browser.
What are all these addons everyone says are broken on each update anyway? Serious question here. I haven't really had that issue with my Firefox and I have a fair number of extensions. I went to use my Firefox again and got an update and all my stuff still worked (I'd been using Chrome) and everything seemed fine. Some extensions on the addon site said they wouldn't be compatible but I downloaded, installed them, and they worked anyway.
So what if they sue? People sue for stupid shit all the time and trying to counteract it with this kind of stupidity doesn't help at all. It would make me want to sue them for suspending my kid over something retarded. Zero tolerance policies are for morons who can't think critically about a situation and apply the appropriate reaction. If you cannot read and understand the intent of a rule and enforce it accordingly then you shouldn't be in charge of enforcing rules. If the kid making death threats and telling people to go fuck themselves gets to court, I have a hard time believing the little shit is going to get a lot of sympathy.
We're going to waste tax payer money on this either way so they might as well just go back to being reasonable rather than pissing everyone with their zero tolerance idiocy.
All issues of who own what aside, honestly, who gives a fuck what the kid said unless it was like...death threats? Seriously...why would you expel someone for using profanity in the first place? A stern talking to, perhaps, but expulsion for this? Good lord.
You actually bring up some good points. So then issue me a patch after 2 weeks that disables all the DRM. Or the people working at these companies are real people...when they see pirated copies show up, the gig is up, release the patch then. I think I would be willing to put up with some of this shit for a few weeks but to have to deal with it forever urks me.
I think this would be the best compromise. If your DRM is cracked then really...fuck it. What's the point anymore other than frustrating your customers?
I highly doubt this and I'll tell you why. If they tried to charge for XBOX Live while the PC players were literally using the exact same OS, they'd probably have some really pissed off customers. Are you really going to pay for XBL to watch Netflix if you can just open up IE? Also, they don't want you running all kinds of weird shit on your console and screwing things up. That's the only advantage of consoles...because they're locked down, everything always works. The trade off is that you basically can't do anything except what they say you can.
Or drug tests, while you're at it. None of your business what I'm doing outside of work. My Canadian counterparts didn't even realize that people did that and I thought we were insane (which we are).
THANK YOU. I KNEW that was it too. Waahhh, fragmentation. No. If you're designing your application based on one screen resolution, you are a moron of a UI designer. This is like the first tenant of web page design and I have grasped this since the age of like 12. You design your UI so that it flows properly across all displays. Make it so that it can grow and shrink OR set the fixed width to something that works on the smallest of displays (that really is only for web pages and not apps). This isn't a difficult concept, it just takes a little more thought and work. It's not exactly a leap to apply this game logic to a phone application.
Like here is my question though...would it be SO hard to have you choose Tablet or Desktop interface on first boot? Seriously. Would it? Like I completely understand Metro and the tablet stuff...I honestly do. But to force that on desktop users just seems SO stupid. Why can't it just be a simple toggle on first boot and something you could switch later in the Control Panel later on? Same thing with GNOME really...I don't understand why you would FORCE you users to deal with this. It seems really stupid.
Windows Key + Left or Right is SO awesome on my PC for that. I love it. 2 SSH terminals? 2 browser windows? Browser window and an SSH terminal?!?! Filezilla, Browser, and then Dreamweaver on the 2nd screen...I'm in heaven.
If you went to actually RTFA and didn't know what it was, there is a menu at the top that says "About" for fuck's sake. Yes, they could have explained, but you could also stop being an indignant shit head for no reason. Just saying.
I really don't see the appeal of installing it on a computer.
And that XBOX was what? A fluffy kitty?:p
Computers are used for the same things people used XBOXes for (gaming, playing media, random stupid apps). I used to use the program on my XBOX back in the day and that was the first program in my mind when I built my Media Center PC because it is a damn well made program. There's nothing out there as good as XBMC. I've been using the damn thing for like 10 years.
If only they had a Netflix plugin that wasn't an IE window implementation. One of the biggest reasons I use XBMC is for the remote so having it launch an IE window to play Netflix is kind of pointless because I can't control anything. I just end up using my PS3 instead.:-/
Before anyone mentions it, yes, I have tried Plex and they have their plugin is a piece of shit. It either freezes and never plays my content or it crashes and never plays my content. I don't understand why Netflix doesn't put out their own program or something so I can just have XBMC launch that...a program that has Media Center Remote support. *sigh* Maybe some day. You'd think that if they could make Android and iOS apps for their damn service that they could make a Windows/Linux program too. But no, instead I'm forced into a shitty browser plugin. Great.
Good lord, people still use K-Lite? That overblown piece of crap...I haven't used that in at least 5 years. Try out the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) as it is a much leaner and cleaner implementation of the same idea. It also registers all the filters, codecs, etc in the system for you all nicely which allows WMC to use it AND it has its own control panel for messing around with the settings.
This is stupid. There is nothing wrong with a new law if it's a good law. That's where people make the mistake...we're used to seeing so many shitty laws that we forget sometimes we do need a few good ones. I'd say a law protecting my privacy rights falls under the "good law" category because quite frankly, these employers can go fuck themselves.
If I can choose whether or not I give out the information, I don't really see the problem. Maybe I actually do want them to email me coupons from time to time. Also, I never remember how I got my haircut (I go like once or twice a year) and it's really handy for them to be able to look it up. Plus I don't really give a shit if someone has my email. If they spam me, I mark it as spam and I will never see it again.
I use Dexpot and I love it. Basically everything you said...especially the keyboard shortcuts. Those are extremely helpful. Also the little icon in your taskbar tray will show the desktop you're on.
Also the window rules. You can setup rules so that certain windows go to a certain desktop or are even copied to them and all kinds of fun stuff like that. I would, for example, have a virtual desktop for work and another for playing around but I'd copy all my IM windows to both desktops automatically.
I've tried a lot of those other programs too and a lot of them were buggy or didn't do as much. The Sysinternals one was actually insanely buggy which is kind of retarded since that's supposed to be the MS one. I used that for quite some time but it caused all kinds of quirks on my system.
He is still right. It doesn't really matter what they were talking about because it is wrong. On the other hand, I cringe when I see that but don't generally correct grammar on the internet. Personally, I wouldn't care but most people get irrationally angry when you point out the mistake.
It actually has an entire paragraph about Linux support right in the summary and how impressive it is that they immediately had support in the OSS driver. I don't think anyone is going to be making that claim unless they are retarded.
Troll AC, I know, but still...quit being a dumb ass.
You know what else I wonder about though? What about all the pollution? No one seems to mention that. How about everyone take a trip down to Los Angeles? Or even better...drive into LA. You tell me that thick fucking cloud of disgusting pollution you can see, smell, and feel on you as you drive in doesn't make you want to do things a little differently. I live in Phoenix and while we're already starting to get bad, I'm disgusted every time I drive into LA. It LITERALLY burns your eyes a bit at first as you're driving in. My first thoughts driving in to LA the first time were "jesus look at the brown cloud floating up there...the fuck is that?" They have a pollution advisory basically in permanent effect. We get those now and again in Phoenix (they tell you to carpool today because the pollution is bad) but not like LA. I can't think of a more perfect example to illustrate how much we're harming our environment.
Global warming is bad too but shouldn't that go hand in hand with the pollution we're making? Isn't it getting bad enough to address?
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Hey, at least I could buy some decently priced groceries at Walmart. All he could find at Best Buy was an expensive shitty keyboard and mouse. :p
Thank you. I was thinking the exact same thing and looked around for a similar comment. I've been going to Fry's all my life and I'll be damned if they don't have the best deals AND knowledgeable staff. You know what else? They pay commission in some areas and somehow they don't screw me. They get kind of irritating with their damn Fry's card stuff sometimes but I can deal with that. I ask them what I want and I get a real answer instead of the stream of bullshit I get from someone at Best Buy. I mean, I have heard some truly ridiculous shit to the point that I've walked up to people after a BB sales rep left and explained to them why what they just heard was complete bullshit. I'm not a particularly vocal person about these things most of the time but just...damn. The Frys sales people don't seem to be anywhere near as scummy as the people I deal with at Best Buy and Fry's actually has good prices. Not okay prices or decent prices...GOOD prices. I've bought many things on sale and if I need some weird ass cable or part, I know I can go and get it at Fry's.
I will say though that if I'm buying a video game and I want to go in town, I'd much prefer Best Buy/Fry's over Gamestop. Gamestop is even worse than Best Buy. At least I can walk into a damn Best Buy and 90% of the time I can buy a brand new game on release day without a preorder.
You usually see this on forums and other places where you would post things on the internet. I think Joomla and the CMS of the like use it too. Think of making a post on Slashdot with all the formatting showing up the way it will look when you post it (you see bolded text instead of a bold tag) or as the other guy said, a WYSIWYG editor.
To be fair, most of the things that would break would be addons doing things you couldn't do in other browsers anyway, I'd bet. You can tinker with a considerably larger number of things in Firefox than you can with any other browser.
What are all these addons everyone says are broken on each update anyway? Serious question here. I haven't really had that issue with my Firefox and I have a fair number of extensions. I went to use my Firefox again and got an update and all my stuff still worked (I'd been using Chrome) and everything seemed fine. Some extensions on the addon site said they wouldn't be compatible but I downloaded, installed them, and they worked anyway.
No kidding. If they can do it fine with Chrome then what is the hold up for Firefox exactly?
So what if they sue? People sue for stupid shit all the time and trying to counteract it with this kind of stupidity doesn't help at all. It would make me want to sue them for suspending my kid over something retarded. Zero tolerance policies are for morons who can't think critically about a situation and apply the appropriate reaction. If you cannot read and understand the intent of a rule and enforce it accordingly then you shouldn't be in charge of enforcing rules. If the kid making death threats and telling people to go fuck themselves gets to court, I have a hard time believing the little shit is going to get a lot of sympathy.
We're going to waste tax payer money on this either way so they might as well just go back to being reasonable rather than pissing everyone with their zero tolerance idiocy.
All issues of who own what aside, honestly, who gives a fuck what the kid said unless it was like...death threats? Seriously...why would you expel someone for using profanity in the first place? A stern talking to, perhaps, but expulsion for this? Good lord.
You actually bring up some good points. So then issue me a patch after 2 weeks that disables all the DRM. Or the people working at these companies are real people...when they see pirated copies show up, the gig is up, release the patch then. I think I would be willing to put up with some of this shit for a few weeks but to have to deal with it forever urks me.
I think this would be the best compromise. If your DRM is cracked then really...fuck it. What's the point anymore other than frustrating your customers?
I highly doubt this and I'll tell you why. If they tried to charge for XBOX Live while the PC players were literally using the exact same OS, they'd probably have some really pissed off customers. Are you really going to pay for XBL to watch Netflix if you can just open up IE? Also, they don't want you running all kinds of weird shit on your console and screwing things up. That's the only advantage of consoles...because they're locked down, everything always works. The trade off is that you basically can't do anything except what they say you can.
Or drug tests, while you're at it. None of your business what I'm doing outside of work. My Canadian counterparts didn't even realize that people did that and I thought we were insane (which we are).
THANK YOU. I KNEW that was it too. Waahhh, fragmentation. No. If you're designing your application based on one screen resolution, you are a moron of a UI designer. This is like the first tenant of web page design and I have grasped this since the age of like 12. You design your UI so that it flows properly across all displays. Make it so that it can grow and shrink OR set the fixed width to something that works on the smallest of displays (that really is only for web pages and not apps). This isn't a difficult concept, it just takes a little more thought and work. It's not exactly a leap to apply this game logic to a phone application.
Like here is my question though...would it be SO hard to have you choose Tablet or Desktop interface on first boot? Seriously. Would it? Like I completely understand Metro and the tablet stuff...I honestly do. But to force that on desktop users just seems SO stupid. Why can't it just be a simple toggle on first boot and something you could switch later in the Control Panel later on? Same thing with GNOME really...I don't understand why you would FORCE you users to deal with this. It seems really stupid.
Windows Key + Left or Right is SO awesome on my PC for that. I love it. 2 SSH terminals? 2 browser windows? Browser window and an SSH terminal?!?! Filezilla, Browser, and then Dreamweaver on the 2nd screen...I'm in heaven.
If you went to actually RTFA and didn't know what it was, there is a menu at the top that says "About" for fuck's sake. Yes, they could have explained, but you could also stop being an indignant shit head for no reason. Just saying.
I really don't see the appeal of installing it on a computer.
And that XBOX was what? A fluffy kitty? :p
Computers are used for the same things people used XBOXes for (gaming, playing media, random stupid apps). I used to use the program on my XBOX back in the day and that was the first program in my mind when I built my Media Center PC because it is a damn well made program. There's nothing out there as good as XBMC. I've been using the damn thing for like 10 years.
If only they had a Netflix plugin that wasn't an IE window implementation. One of the biggest reasons I use XBMC is for the remote so having it launch an IE window to play Netflix is kind of pointless because I can't control anything. I just end up using my PS3 instead. :-/
Before anyone mentions it, yes, I have tried Plex and they have their plugin is a piece of shit. It either freezes and never plays my content or it crashes and never plays my content. I don't understand why Netflix doesn't put out their own program or something so I can just have XBMC launch that...a program that has Media Center Remote support. *sigh* Maybe some day. You'd think that if they could make Android and iOS apps for their damn service that they could make a Windows/Linux program too. But no, instead I'm forced into a shitty browser plugin. Great.
Good lord, people still use K-Lite? That overblown piece of crap...I haven't used that in at least 5 years. Try out the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) as it is a much leaner and cleaner implementation of the same idea. It also registers all the filters, codecs, etc in the system for you all nicely which allows WMC to use it AND it has its own control panel for messing around with the settings.
This is stupid. There is nothing wrong with a new law if it's a good law. That's where people make the mistake...we're used to seeing so many shitty laws that we forget sometimes we do need a few good ones. I'd say a law protecting my privacy rights falls under the "good law" category because quite frankly, these employers can go fuck themselves.
If I can choose whether or not I give out the information, I don't really see the problem. Maybe I actually do want them to email me coupons from time to time. Also, I never remember how I got my haircut (I go like once or twice a year) and it's really handy for them to be able to look it up. Plus I don't really give a shit if someone has my email. If they spam me, I mark it as spam and I will never see it again.
I use Dexpot and I love it. Basically everything you said...especially the keyboard shortcuts. Those are extremely helpful. Also the little icon in your taskbar tray will show the desktop you're on.
Also the window rules. You can setup rules so that certain windows go to a certain desktop or are even copied to them and all kinds of fun stuff like that. I would, for example, have a virtual desktop for work and another for playing around but I'd copy all my IM windows to both desktops automatically.
I've tried a lot of those other programs too and a lot of them were buggy or didn't do as much. The Sysinternals one was actually insanely buggy which is kind of retarded since that's supposed to be the MS one. I used that for quite some time but it caused all kinds of quirks on my system.
He is still right. It doesn't really matter what they were talking about because it is wrong. On the other hand, I cringe when I see that but don't generally correct grammar on the internet. Personally, I wouldn't care but most people get irrationally angry when you point out the mistake.
It actually has an entire paragraph about Linux support right in the summary and how impressive it is that they immediately had support in the OSS driver. I don't think anyone is going to be making that claim unless they are retarded.
Troll AC, I know, but still...quit being a dumb ass.
You know what else I wonder about though? What about all the pollution? No one seems to mention that. How about everyone take a trip down to Los Angeles? Or even better...drive into LA. You tell me that thick fucking cloud of disgusting pollution you can see, smell, and feel on you as you drive in doesn't make you want to do things a little differently. I live in Phoenix and while we're already starting to get bad, I'm disgusted every time I drive into LA. It LITERALLY burns your eyes a bit at first as you're driving in. My first thoughts driving in to LA the first time were "jesus look at the brown cloud floating up there...the fuck is that?" They have a pollution advisory basically in permanent effect. We get those now and again in Phoenix (they tell you to carpool today because the pollution is bad) but not like LA. I can't think of a more perfect example to illustrate how much we're harming our environment.
Global warming is bad too but shouldn't that go hand in hand with the pollution we're making? Isn't it getting bad enough to address?
Sometimes it appears on Usenet before the show airs. That always made me giggle when I used to watch Lost and they aired it super early in Canada.
So you want...Reddit? :p