While you have a point, over-simplification is not good either. Drop shadows make it easier to distinguish which windows are in front of other windows, usually making computing a little bit easier on the eyes. Did you notice that I inadvertently used terms about being 3d to describe why 2d drop shadows are nice? Shadows are usually reserved for 3d objects is a 3d space, but yet on a 2d monitor they are enjoyable and useful. I don't think that drop shadows are the only technique that could be useful on a 2d monitor.
Thank you! When I moved away from my Mac to Linux, that has been one of the things that has been bugging me for the last few years. I would have never thought to have looked in the BIOS of all places.
It seems like it would be a handy feature to implement a startup timer in the OS itself, but Mac OS seems to be the only one to do this for some reason. Is it a technical problem I wonder? I mean seriously. People wouldn't have any excuse not to turn off their computers at least when they are normally asleep.
If it is torture, it should be called torture. It becomes a lot easier to regulate it if the word is not always being avoided. If the people of the United States feel torture is required, at least this would help keep things in line. Given how many Americans likely still feel we should wipe all those Iraqis off the earth for the world trade center incident, I don't think this should be a problem.
But please, I do not want the government lie about it. I already have enough distrust from reading the conspiracy theories on slashdot. Worse yet, lying will also bring more global distrust on the United States which I do not think any more is needed of.
Constant loud music wears people down phycologically. 16 hours mean that just about every waking hour is filled with this music. When they try to sleep, all there is is ringing.
Have you even heard of people who lost their hearing by shooting guns through the years without any kind of ear protection? A subset of this group end up killing themselves because they can't take the severe tinnitus ringing anymore.
Now come on. You may not think it's torture when idly thinking about it. But there must be SOME reason they are doing it.
I thought they were supposed to be the kinds of people who research something a little before spouting random facts. They are in a position where doing such things can probably make them liable to slander.
I seriously don't think loading Java memory into startup would provide any real speedups (if it isn't already). It's the work required to prepare the Java byte code for execution for every individual program that causes the problems. Things like recompiling it using just in time compilers and such. There is another poster around here that details it better than myself.
Whipper snapper! You think you have it bad? Safari had Command-Shift-Left and Command-Shift-Right, and Camino has cmd-shift-[ and cmd-shift-]. It's like preforming a little dance with your fingers every time you want to switch a tab.
I think that is what presidential campaigns aim for in general though. Have you seen the supporters at the rallies? When people start carrying signs that say McCain or Obama or whoever, my ears tend to close because that means the campaign is becoming more about the superstar than the (real) issues.
As for this article talking about the internet and stopping Hitler...I dunno. It's a bit like a fire. If it's small, it would probably put it out like blowing out a candle. But if it somehow gets big enough, wouldn't it be just like fanning a fire?
I'm coming back and replying to an old article. But if there is a chance you see this, omega_dk, it was worth it. Thanks to you, I figured out I could look on youtube to figure out exactly what is possible with Wii Music.
The most interesting thing was that it's entirely possible to do a horrible job playing. In other words, some skill is actually involved. It's also possible to do something very interesting and original, like an acapella Mario Brothers theme.
I don't see how making a script of this sort is cheating. If they don't want to allow scripting that is their problem to try and stop but anyone with the knowhow will realize that spending 30 min writing a script is much better then spending 24 hrs/day hitting refresh on the same search.
Way to go shitting on anyone's cornflakes who were playing fair. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. There is a difference between following the rules and following the spirit of the rules. It's things like this that destroys the fun for everyone else.
For other examples, research mmoglider, moving the chess pieces while the other person isn't looking, and using a dictionary during scrabble.
But graphics do matter, to some extent. How many games have been developed for the Xbox 360 and/or PS3, but not for the Wii (or maybe a PS2/watered down port was released on the Wii instead)? I only have a Wii (have thought about getting a 360 or PS3, but nothing more as of yet), and there have been quite a few games that I would like to play, but can't, since they haven't been ported to the Wii.
There is a lovely chicken and egg problem here that most people don't realize. Even if Nintendo released a more conventional system, they would still have problems getting mature games on their system. Further complicating the problem, development costs are much more expensive for HD games and Nintendo hardware was growing less popular at the time. I don't think a lot of the popular Xbox 360 and PS3 would have made it to Nintendo's console either way.
I don't care about standards at all, just one company's interpretation of them.
It's not the interpretation of one company. Do you know what W3C stands for? World Wide Web Consortium. Do you know what consortium means? "An association of companies for some definite purpose."
Yes, that means that people from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apples' Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, and Opera's Opera all take part in it. Many of the features that are introduced and later get standardized start as propriety features of one browser. Examples are the rounded CSS borders in Mozilla, Text field resizing in Safari, and a lot of DHTML stuff from Internet Explorer. Firefox is now trying to push for OGM support in the HTML 5 spec by putting it into their browser now.
The standards that W3C publish do not impede on creativity. They just create a baseline for compatibility.
To install a firefox addon without the gui, all you have to do is insert the extension (unzipped) into the correct folder. I know this because I do it to quickly test extensions during development by using a symbolic link to the actual folder.
I suppose the crackers would still have to crack into the user's computer some other way first.
...MySpace? I especially like the embedded video clips.
Seriously, teaching someone how to do an operation through text messages will do the opposite of instilling trust in patients. I wonder if he came out of the operating room and said to the worried family, "Mrs Robinson, The operation went great, just like was written in the text message! I am going to stay at my Holiday in Express now."
Games that defined my view of the races in my youth:
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Street Fighter series
As a side note - my first American television show was Dukes of Hazzard. Followed, I think, by a re-run of Jeopardy. I was confused.
The irony about this post? Both games mentioned have a character modeled to look like Mike Tyson. Not a great example of how either stereotype black people. In the Japanese version of Street Fighter, Mike is actually called Mike to boot.
Very true. Macs are PCs. PCs are real PCs. I know you didn't even insinuate this in your post, but somewhere in your subconscience, you wanted to.;-) The Macs and PCs thing are a carry over from previous times. Apple is just running with it like a bitch nowadays.
A better description would be it makes new hardware run faster. But if you are seeing that screen to begin with, you are most likely installing it on old hardware. It's a bit like a kick to the sack if you think about it.
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While you have a point, over-simplification is not good either. Drop shadows make it easier to distinguish which windows are in front of other windows, usually making computing a little bit easier on the eyes. Did you notice that I inadvertently used terms about being 3d to describe why 2d drop shadows are nice? Shadows are usually reserved for 3d objects is a 3d space, but yet on a 2d monitor they are enjoyable and useful. I don't think that drop shadows are the only technique that could be useful on a 2d monitor.
Here you go, I got some open firmware tutorials for you.
http://blandname.com/2006/09/20/wheres-my-mac-bios-how-to-get-into-openfirmware-easily/
http://www.dialectronics.com/Words/OF_Part_I.shtml
If you can figure out how to change the automatic startup time using it, I'll give you a cookie. ;-)
Obvious to a PC user. A lot of it comes from your background is, and that changes your expectations.
Thank you! When I moved away from my Mac to Linux, that has been one of the things that has been bugging me for the last few years. I would have never thought to have looked in the BIOS of all places.
It seems like it would be a handy feature to implement a startup timer in the OS itself, but Mac OS seems to be the only one to do this for some reason. Is it a technical problem I wonder? I mean seriously. People wouldn't have any excuse not to turn off their computers at least when they are normally asleep.
For those interested, you can read IGNs article on The Top 10 Games That Might Make You Inadvertently Whack Your Friends in the Nuts. It only just came out last month.
If it is torture, it should be called torture. It becomes a lot easier to regulate it if the word is not always being avoided. If the people of the United States feel torture is required, at least this would help keep things in line. Given how many Americans likely still feel we should wipe all those Iraqis off the earth for the world trade center incident, I don't think this should be a problem.
But please, I do not want the government lie about it. I already have enough distrust from reading the conspiracy theories on slashdot. Worse yet, lying will also bring more global distrust on the United States which I do not think any more is needed of.
Constant loud music wears people down phycologically. 16 hours mean that just about every waking hour is filled with this music. When they try to sleep, all there is is ringing.
Have you even heard of people who lost their hearing by shooting guns through the years without any kind of ear protection? A subset of this group end up killing themselves because they can't take the severe tinnitus ringing anymore.
Now come on. You may not think it's torture when idly thinking about it. But there must be SOME reason they are doing it.
I thought they were supposed to be the kinds of people who research something a little before spouting random facts. They are in a position where doing such things can probably make them liable to slander.
I seriously don't think loading Java memory into startup would provide any real speedups (if it isn't already). It's the work required to prepare the Java byte code for execution for every individual program that causes the problems. Things like recompiling it using just in time compilers and such. There is another poster around here that details it better than myself.
Whipper snapper! You think you have it bad? Safari had Command-Shift-Left and Command-Shift-Right, and Camino has cmd-shift-[ and cmd-shift-]. It's like preforming a little dance with your fingers every time you want to switch a tab.
Fine then. Build Java into the underlying OS platform like Mac OS X. Take that.
I think that is what presidential campaigns aim for in general though. Have you seen the supporters at the rallies? When people start carrying signs that say McCain or Obama or whoever, my ears tend to close because that means the campaign is becoming more about the superstar than the (real) issues.
As for this article talking about the internet and stopping Hitler...I dunno. It's a bit like a fire. If it's small, it would probably put it out like blowing out a candle. But if it somehow gets big enough, wouldn't it be just like fanning a fire?
I'm coming back and replying to an old article. But if there is a chance you see this, omega_dk, it was worth it. Thanks to you, I figured out I could look on youtube to figure out exactly what is possible with Wii Music.
The most interesting thing was that it's entirely possible to do a horrible job playing. In other words, some skill is actually involved. It's also possible to do something very interesting and original, like an acapella Mario Brothers theme.
Nice post. You phrased it better than I could.
I don't see how making a script of this sort is cheating. If they don't want to allow scripting that is their problem to try and stop but anyone with the knowhow will realize that spending 30 min writing a script is much better then spending 24 hrs/day hitting refresh on the same search.
Way to go shitting on anyone's cornflakes who were playing fair. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. There is a difference between following the rules and following the spirit of the rules. It's things like this that destroys the fun for everyone else.
For other examples, research mmoglider, moving the chess pieces while the other person isn't looking, and using a dictionary during scrabble.
But graphics do matter, to some extent. How many games have been developed for the Xbox 360 and/or PS3, but not for the Wii (or maybe a PS2/watered down port was released on the Wii instead)? I only have a Wii (have thought about getting a 360 or PS3, but nothing more as of yet), and there have been quite a few games that I would like to play, but can't, since they haven't been ported to the Wii.
There is a lovely chicken and egg problem here that most people don't realize. Even if Nintendo released a more conventional system, they would still have problems getting mature games on their system. Further complicating the problem, development costs are much more expensive for HD games and Nintendo hardware was growing less popular at the time. I don't think a lot of the popular Xbox 360 and PS3 would have made it to Nintendo's console either way.
I don't care about standards at all, just one company's interpretation of them.
It's not the interpretation of one company. Do you know what W3C stands for? World Wide Web Consortium. Do you know what consortium means? "An association of companies for some definite purpose."
Yes, that means that people from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apples' Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, and Opera's Opera all take part in it. Many of the features that are introduced and later get standardized start as propriety features of one browser. Examples are the rounded CSS borders in Mozilla, Text field resizing in Safari, and a lot of DHTML stuff from Internet Explorer. Firefox is now trying to push for OGM support in the HTML 5 spec by putting it into their browser now.
The standards that W3C publish do not impede on creativity. They just create a baseline for compatibility.
To install a firefox addon without the gui, all you have to do is insert the extension (unzipped) into the correct folder. I know this because I do it to quickly test extensions during development by using a symbolic link to the actual folder.
I suppose the crackers would still have to crack into the user's computer some other way first.
...MySpace? I especially like the embedded video clips.
Seriously, teaching someone how to do an operation through text messages will do the opposite of instilling trust in patients. I wonder if he came out of the operating room and said to the worried family, "Mrs Robinson, The operation went great, just like was written in the text message! I am going to stay at my Holiday in Express now."
Look at the parent poster's name. I should have written HungWeiLo MaiAss.
Games that defined my view of the races in my youth: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out Street Fighter series As a side note - my first American television show was Dukes of Hazzard. Followed, I think, by a re-run of Jeopardy. I was confused.
The irony about this post? Both games mentioned have a character modeled to look like Mike Tyson. Not a great example of how either stereotype black people. In the Japanese version of Street Fighter, Mike is actually called Mike to boot.
I hope that helped you, Liu Kang HungWeiLo.
Very true. Macs are PCs. PCs are real PCs. I know you didn't even insinuate this in your post, but somewhere in your subconscience, you wanted to. ;-) The Macs and PCs thing are a carry over from previous times. Apple is just running with it like a bitch nowadays.
if PETA made it. Just sayin'.
Holy crap! My prof said that comments should make no difference in the speed that the program runs at, but your code is blazing fast!
A better description would be it makes new hardware run faster. But if you are seeing that screen to begin with, you are most likely installing it on old hardware. It's a bit like a kick to the sack if you think about it.