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Gaming / Re: What the hell is wrong with PC games these days

« on: March 02, 2011, 10:37:02 pm »

I haven't even played the game yet because I was so angry I had to find somewhere to complain about it. I've basically been held hostage by WoW for about 6 years so I didn't realize how much everything has turned to absolute shit in the mean time. I keep hearing about ridiculous DRM breaking stuff, is this shit really so common in PC games these days? It is completely unfathomable to me that a developer would release a product in this state. What would someone who doesn't know shit about computers do when it tries to update and they can't get out of the game?

Yes, all games are like this. They call tech support, complain, get $50 off their next purchase, and keep the company's pockets filled.

This is why I don't buy or play most video games anymore.

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General Discussion / Interesting sandbox hypothetical

« on: February 24, 2011, 07:21:23 pm »

Let's say you have a binary that "phones home". The machine on which it resides you have SSH access to, but cannot log in via root [or sudo]. How would you sandbox it so that all outgoing network traffic from the executable gets blocked?

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General Discussion / Re: Windows 7 Multiple Desktops

« on: February 24, 2011, 06:55:47 pm »

Did anyone have any luck finding this? I like to have lots of desktops, too! It makes me feel like I have more monitors than I can afford.

Nope. PowerToys is for XP and is pretty sweet.

For Win7 the most recommended I found on the googles is Dexpot. I have no idea to its merits, which is partly why I asked.

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JavaOp Board / Re: Git Repository Information

« on: February 24, 2011, 06:53:58 pm »

Ooh! I like.

Yeah. Git is ridiculously powerful. Just has funny syntax.
svn update === git svn rebase

and to commit you do the usual
"git add"
"git commit" [or git commit -m]
"git dcommit" to submit things on your local branch to the master.

Branching with git/svn is much more a PITA and usually not worthwhile, in my experience

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JavaOp Board / Re: Git Repository Information

« on: February 24, 2011, 01:27:25 am »

I found that to be particularly neat. All the commits were saved from Google Code.

You're misunderstanding. The syntax is "git svn init <svn-url>"  and then you can use git without making a new repository. It's pretty handy because you can work it with both svn and git.

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JavaOp Board / Re: Git Repository Information

« on: February 23, 2011, 02:57:11 pm »

You can also use git to clone an SVN repo..

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General Discussion / Windows 7 Multiple Desktops

« on: February 19, 2011, 03:58:19 pm »

I run Win7-x64-Professional, and I'm hating that Win7 still does not support multiple desktops natively. I googled and there are a few solutions I found, but I don't know which ones are trustworthy and which ones are fully functional. For reference, I just need something that supports multiple desktops like XFCE has. Nothing pointless like Gnome's "animate while switching between desktops" stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: February 16, 2011, 10:56:36 pm »

I remember when you used to be cool.

"China still cool. You pay later; later!"

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General Discussion / Re: Laptop won't boot

« on: February 06, 2011, 01:35:50 pm »

Do any lights / the heatsink fan turn on? Sounds like a fried mobo.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: February 06, 2011, 03:35:52 am »

were you mean to your mommy?

The emote sells this post.

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General Discussion / Re: Egypt

« on: February 01, 2011, 01:56:40 pm »

I do not believe it is possible for America to have a revolution.

Truth. The government has all the big guns and would not be afraid to use it (see: Civil War 1) to make sure shit doesn't happen. Add to this a passive population that would rather watch stories about Britney Shithead than about politics that affect their lives and you now have ignorance. Nothing is going to happen anytime soon.

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General Discussion / Re: Tea Party

« on: January 28, 2011, 02:47:45 am »

I hope that's not really your position.  I'm not a fan, and I make fun of my dad because he thinks she's totally hot. 

That said, two things about the statement are completely illogical:

1.) Associating one person's deficiencies to an entire group based on common beliefs is illogical.
2.) Hating someone with such passion (expressed by hyperbole like "anywhere near it") whom you've never met.  To quote Church from Red vs. Blue, "It's not about hating the guy on the other side because someone told you to. I mean, you should hate someone because they're an asshole or a pervert or a snob, or they're lazy or arrogant or an idiot or a know-it-all. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to; you have to despise people on a personal level, not because they're red or because they're blue, but because you know them and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking douchebag."

In some cases, I vehemently disagree with both statements. To invoke Godwin's law for the lulz, most Germans never met Hitler. But obviously some (such as Herr Schindler) hated what he was doing and tried to circumvent his killings.

I know you're a Republican, but I hope you're not delusional enough to think that Sarah Palin's increasingly extremist and idiotic viewpoints are doing this country any benefit. If she does, in deed, represent the views of the Tea Party, logically that means they agree with the majority of her stances on political issues. Therefore, if one disagrees with Palin, one can say that he or she will most definitely hate Tea Partiers.

Whether or not she represents Tea Partiers in actuality depends on whom you ask, though.

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General Discussion / Re: the new slashdot

« on: January 27, 2011, 02:24:02 pm »

I find myself reading the headline and saying, usually out loud, "Oh look, someone's doing this!", then I read the article for more information and find out the headline was misleading.

The quality of /. posts have declined by an obscene amount in the past few years.

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General Discussion / Re: the new slashdot

« on: January 26, 2011, 01:28:40 pm »

There's an overabundance of white space, for which there really isn't a fix unless they change the stylesheet. Everything goes vertically instead of horizontally wrt to the article. I don't care about firehose and the stupid tagging system, just let me read the article and easily get to the comments without unnecessary scrolling. And the fixed header/sidebar... whose idea was that?

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General Discussion / the new slashdot

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:47:27 am »

is everything wrong with webdesign today. ew.