Um, citation needed? Everyone I know right now is still on a 32-bit system, including someone who downgraded to 32 bit from their older 64-bit computer because of precisely the phenomenon you're describing. I also see a lot more pre-built 32-bit systems on the market than 64.
I'm surprised the billboard hasn't *caused* accidents as people take their eyes off the road to stare at the bleeding billboard and try to puzzle out what's going on. That's at least what I would have expected...
Mod parent up. I've put down games before because of one particularly difficult part that I was tired of beating on. That's where I am on both of the DS castlevania games I have (those bosses don't screw around!) I'd be there right now on the Slash battle in Guitar Hero 3 if the game didn't - guess what? - let you win that after a few tries.
I just have better things to do with my time than get frustrated over a local maximum of difficulty. Some of those things are play other games that I can actually get through.
As I understand it (though I'm not a psychologist) a mental disorder is classified as such when it detrimentally affects the life of the person who suffers from it. So not all people who seem to be bitter a lot would necessarily have this, but if it causes them to start losing or cutting off friends, or impacts their decision making in a negative way, it would be classified as a disorder.
So it's no surprise that excessive bitterness can be a disorder. So can excessive happiness - ever heard of manics?
All well and good, but I'll lament the loss of ability to watch someone else play, which can be fun in its own right (and is essential in a large family with only one console!). With head tracking, the visuals don't make much sense unless you're the person playing the game..
...apple/AT&T decides that running web servers from iPhones is taking up too much of the network's bandwidth and they flip the kill switch on this app though? I guess as long as people are just using it for personal file storage...
Adaptations of Philip K Dick books are notorious for being put in development hell. Scanner Darkly, IIRC, went through several attempted treatments before we got the rotoscoped version. And there's been attempts off and on to bring us Ubik on the big screen, though the last I heard of that was a few years ago and it was just being written.
...not to say that I'm not still cautiously excited!
Smash Brothers Melee, I believe, had trophies that also functioned as achievements before the idea got big. Or did the achievement-based trophies only show up in Brawl and I'm remembering incorrectly?
Planet X was the name given to a hypothetical fifth gas giant that could influence the orbit of Neptune and account for the discrepancies between the computed orbit and the observed orbit. It later turned out that one of the two (though I forget which) was slightly off, and when corrected the theory matched the observations exactly, and no Planet X was needed.
Then don't. Besides, given that knowing something is a kind of power in and of its self ("knowledge is power" and all that), omniscience could be considered a subset of omnipotence. Your correction is tautological given the original statement.
Presumably, though not necessarily in law school. When it comes down to whether or not a contract is enforceable and what the applicable laws are, it's that background, and not one in CS or engineering, that counts.
Can't be Red Matter. I already got a bunch of that all over my floor when I stepped on the pen I use to grade papers with. I'm taking fire safety much more seriously these days though.
Don't get me wrong, I love the KDE 4 desktop (though lets not start that debate...), but one thing that has been plaguing KDE is the introduction of new "revolutionary" desktop paradigms that no one actually uses.
Nepomuk, for example, was supposed to launch us into the era of the semantic desktop, with everything tagged with all sorts of metadata andd actually searchable. The problem is, applications don't use it. Developers for Amarok and Digikam, two major KDE apps, have both stated that they have no interest in integrating with Nepomuk for the time being.
It gives me hope that there are already ideas on how to use this (Plasmoids, or desktop widgets for those of you who don't speak KDE), but those strike me as the moral equivalent of being able to tag things in Dolphin (the file browser) but not being able to make use of those tags elsewhere.
So until I see commitment from developers, I'm not excited.
I often wonder how easy a time people who are new to computing can have with Linux. It seems to me that re-learning can in many cases be a harder barrier to cross than learning.
I wouldn't fall for that "aren't making it a priority" thing. I don't know about the feds, but here in Missoula the city passed a "resolution" asking the police officers to deprioritize marijuana enforcement.
Well guess what? There are now more marijuana busts than ever because people who are doing it are bolder about it because they think "deprioritize" means "legalize."
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Yeah, but if you try to put a new mouse on the mousepad or take your old mouse off User Account Control pops up....
Um, citation needed? Everyone I know right now is still on a 32-bit system, including someone who downgraded to 32 bit from their older 64-bit computer because of precisely the phenomenon you're describing. I also see a lot more pre-built 32-bit systems on the market than 64.
As opposed to all the higher level players being thoroughly addicted WoW players?
I'm surprised the billboard hasn't *caused* accidents as people take their eyes off the road to stare at the bleeding billboard and try to puzzle out what's going on. That's at least what I would have expected...
Wow, someone on the Internet said he would kill you! This is a death threat to take seriously, all right.
I find the moderation on this comment particularly ironic!
"Streisand Effect"?
Mod parent up. I've put down games before because of one particularly difficult part that I was tired of beating on. That's where I am on both of the DS castlevania games I have (those bosses don't screw around!) I'd be there right now on the Slash battle in Guitar Hero 3 if the game didn't - guess what? - let you win that after a few tries.
I just have better things to do with my time than get frustrated over a local maximum of difficulty. Some of those things are play other games that I can actually get through.
As I understand it (though I'm not a psychologist) a mental disorder is classified as such when it detrimentally affects the life of the person who suffers from it. So not all people who seem to be bitter a lot would necessarily have this, but if it causes them to start losing or cutting off friends, or impacts their decision making in a negative way, it would be classified as a disorder.
So it's no surprise that excessive bitterness can be a disorder. So can excessive happiness - ever heard of manics?
All well and good, but I'll lament the loss of ability to watch someone else play, which can be fun in its own right (and is essential in a large family with only one console!). With head tracking, the visuals don't make much sense unless you're the person playing the game..
...apple/AT&T decides that running web servers from iPhones is taking up too much of the network's bandwidth and they flip the kill switch on this app though? I guess as long as people are just using it for personal file storage...
Adaptations of Philip K Dick books are notorious for being put in development hell. Scanner Darkly, IIRC, went through several attempted treatments before we got the rotoscoped version. And there's been attempts off and on to bring us Ubik on the big screen, though the last I heard of that was a few years ago and it was just being written.
...not to say that I'm not still cautiously excited!
Smash Brothers Melee, I believe, had trophies that also functioned as achievements before the idea got big. Or did the achievement-based trophies only show up in Brawl and I'm remembering incorrectly?
Too bad slashdot doesn't have a "-1 Godwin" mod...
Planet X was the name given to a hypothetical fifth gas giant that could influence the orbit of Neptune and account for the discrepancies between the computed orbit and the observed orbit. It later turned out that one of the two (though I forget which) was slightly off, and when corrected the theory matched the observations exactly, and no Planet X was needed.
I don't mean to be a grammar Nazi
Then don't. Besides, given that knowing something is a kind of power in and of its self ("knowledge is power" and all that), omniscience could be considered a subset of omnipotence. Your correction is tautological given the original statement.
He is educated, isn't he?
Presumably, though not necessarily in law school. When it comes down to whether or not a contract is enforceable and what the applicable laws are, it's that background, and not one in CS or engineering, that counts.
Or scribble a fake signature, for that matter
Can't be Red Matter. I already got a bunch of that all over my floor when I stepped on the pen I use to grade papers with. I'm taking fire safety much more seriously these days though.
its neither news for nerds or stuff that matters...
Apparently you didn't notice the "idle" tag...
Seriously? Didn't this sort of thing get shot down, oh, twenty years ago?
Don't get me wrong, I love the KDE 4 desktop (though lets not start that debate...), but one thing that has been plaguing KDE is the introduction of new "revolutionary" desktop paradigms that no one actually uses.
Nepomuk, for example, was supposed to launch us into the era of the semantic desktop, with everything tagged with all sorts of metadata andd actually searchable. The problem is, applications don't use it. Developers for Amarok and Digikam, two major KDE apps, have both stated that they have no interest in integrating with Nepomuk for the time being.
It gives me hope that there are already ideas on how to use this (Plasmoids, or desktop widgets for those of you who don't speak KDE), but those strike me as the moral equivalent of being able to tag things in Dolphin (the file browser) but not being able to make use of those tags elsewhere.
So until I see commitment from developers, I'm not excited.
This. If I had been able to legitimately watch Lost on Linux this season I would have. Instead, it was torrent time.
I often wonder how easy a time people who are new to computing can have with Linux. It seems to me that re-learning can in many cases be a harder barrier to cross than learning.
I wouldn't fall for that "aren't making it a priority" thing. I don't know about the feds, but here in Missoula the city passed a "resolution" asking the police officers to deprioritize marijuana enforcement.
Well guess what? There are now more marijuana busts than ever because people who are doing it are bolder about it because they think "deprioritize" means "legalize."