The scary thing here is asking yourself what the dividing line is between one computer and the next. If you replace the parts in that computer one by one over the course of a few years, is it still the same computer? At what point does upgrading your computer void your contract?
The BSA contends that small businesses are most often targeted because small businesses most often use unlicensed software. But of course it's not the fact that the small businesses don't have a legal team. That wouldn't have anything to do with it.
What we don't realize is all this study into quantum mechanics is falling right into Schrodinger's cat's hands. It wants us to make him an undead kitty so it can open a hole in the universe and let the infinite number of possibilities of it all flow into this one, and thus will take over the world. The only way we'll win this future battle is if we observe it enough that it goes away.
...and in unrelated news, Reynolds America Inc. ( http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RAI ) reported a rise in their stock price following record sales in their aluminium and tin foil divisions.
This is one of those things that I'm glad I didn't know about at the time. Lest I run and hide in my basement with a tin foil hat on for the next undefined number of years.
...that a large amount of their userbase doesn't even know that there are alternatives. It's a shame really. Because I guarantee if Microsoft had less of a market share they would focus more on these details like optimization and straight up good code because if they didn't they wouldn't survive. Now it just seems they do only the amount of work required to keep the train rolling and their riders complacent.
I'm in a workplace where 99% of the computers run Windows XP, and the sad thing is that it's a technology company that deals with security and networking. You'd expect that a large majority of them would have heard of linux or even unix for God's sake, but hardly any have. It's a Windows world and Microsoft knows it. They'll do the bare minimum amount of work possible.
our children won't be watching cartoons like Captain Planet, which reflects the hippy nature of the 70's. Rather they'll be watching something subtly using themes of the goodness of sharing, and the evils of the RIAA.
"Linus Torvalds with the power of Open Source!"
*cut scene to Linus and a team of ninja penguins stopping a kid from cracking a program and giving him an open source alternative*
"Mark Shuttleworth with the power of Benevolence!"
*cut to Mark in a space shuttle signing a contract to pour money into a new open source development*
"Bram Cohen with the power of File Sharing Protocols!"
*Just show him solving one of his many rubiks cubes. It's awesome enough.*
FSF with the power of Legal Aid!
*Show a personified version of FSF smacking down a court order against an innocent mother*
By their powers combined, they form internet's greatest hero! Captain 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!
Kickass.
Now it may be that I'm either crazy, or that I've been using Photoshop for the last 10 years or so, but I find the interface to be fine. The redesign that was done in CS3 was amazing, and Photoshop should stick with that style. If you find the UI to be cluttered, then chances are you aren't using all of the tools in photoshop, and it's too advanced of a program for what you're trying to accomplish. That's why Adobe released Photoshop Elements, which incorporates a much more simple UI with reduced functionality for those people who find Photoshop's interface (and price tag) daunting.
This isn't just in Photoshop though people. Whenever you have a program that is tailored to do very complex things while also allowing many things to be done, you are going to have an interface that seems daunting and "cluttered" by those that don't know/use all the features.
Take Maya or 3DS Max for example. If you don't know what a NURB is, then you're going to find the menu that deals with them excess clutter that should be eliminated. However if you're a 3D modeler that requires extremely high detail and fluid shapes, then the NURB menu, and all the other menus, are going to be a godsend.
If anything, the only revisions Photoshop needs in my opinion are native linux support, the ability to open a.ps and other vector based formats while retaining the vector data (i.e. not having to rasterize it upon import), and icon support without the use of third party plugins.
Great, now all the kids in third world countries are going to think that western cities are subject to alien attacks if you type "cass" more than 3 times.
I just want to put this out there, but I find it humorous and touching that the aggregate of slashdot users are more emotional and opinionated about toys over anything anything else today on the frontpage. Just shows how much we valued our learning through toys as children, how important it was for our development, and how important it will be for the future generations as well. Hopefully the US will revoke their attempt to ban chemistry sets and let kids be kids.
It is somewhat saddening that they have to put that disclaimer there that "The waves shown in this image were added for visual effect, and are not part of the original microscope image".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but lets say theoretically you had verizon's new 20/20 Fios service. Assuming 5GB is you cap limit per month, and you can transfer 2.5GB downstream and 2.5GB upstream ( for a total of 5GB transfered ) in approximately ( 2,500MB / 2.5MB/sec ) = 1000 seconds = 16 minutes and 40 seconds; that means that you can only use your connection at max speed for
Actually it's not that great. Usually after the first few days of being in the smoke (which in the 2003 fire lasted for about 3 weeks after all the fires were out if I remember correctly [I had to play football the day after thanksgiving and it was still raining ash]), you start to get really bad headaches. Because of this, LAN style gaming is actually at its worse. Loud noises irritate the hell out of you, the smoke burns your eyes which makes it hard to focus on a single object for a long time, there are frequent power outages, and the ash in the air gets into your computer.
Not fun, trust me.
Bad for the end-user, champagne and fine chocolates for the big name telcoms. Reason being the ISP's no longer have to share their telcom lines, whether those be fiber, phone, or coaxial. Which means for the most part, if you want internet/phone/tv you are stuck with the company that owns the cables going to your house.
I've tried this actually. It doesn't really work at all. Almost all Christians have it burnt into their mind that D&D is SATAN OMG DEMONS POSSES IT!
Which is odd really; because all of my Christian pals that I've tried to get to play it play games like Oblivion, which is essentially just a videogameorized version of D&D.
Halo seems to be pretty successful though in getting young peeps to come to a youth group or other church function. My church did this for a while (it certainly got me to come), but stopped it after some tightass parent complained.
I recently bought a "friend" for a friend of mine as a joke (I thought nothing would be better than him getting a friend request from a man named keith who's wearing nothing but a cowboy hat). However today I recieved an email from the site saying that it is closing down due to legal action taken. I quote from the email,
"Due to legal issues FakeYourSpace has been shut down. We apologize for the inconvenience and have refunded your purchase in whole."
Apparently the myspace flock will have to buy their friends elsewhere.
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The scary thing here is asking yourself what the dividing line is between one computer and the next. If you replace the parts in that computer one by one over the course of a few years, is it still the same computer? At what point does upgrading your computer void your contract?
What we don't realize is all this study into quantum mechanics is falling right into Schrodinger's cat's hands. It wants us to make him an undead kitty so it can open a hole in the universe and let the infinite number of possibilities of it all flow into this one, and thus will take over the world. The only way we'll win this future battle is if we observe it enough that it goes away.
...and in unrelated news, Reynolds America Inc. ( http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RAI ) reported a rise in their stock price following record sales in their aluminium and tin foil divisions.
This is one of those things that I'm glad I didn't know about at the time. Lest I run and hide in my basement with a tin foil hat on for the next undefined number of years.
...that a large amount of their userbase doesn't even know that there are alternatives. It's a shame really. Because I guarantee if Microsoft had less of a market share they would focus more on these details like optimization and straight up good code because if they didn't they wouldn't survive. Now it just seems they do only the amount of work required to keep the train rolling and their riders complacent. I'm in a workplace where 99% of the computers run Windows XP, and the sad thing is that it's a technology company that deals with security and networking. You'd expect that a large majority of them would have heard of linux or even unix for God's sake, but hardly any have. It's a Windows world and Microsoft knows it. They'll do the bare minimum amount of work possible.
our children won't be watching cartoons like Captain Planet, which reflects the hippy nature of the 70's. Rather they'll be watching something subtly using themes of the goodness of sharing, and the evils of the RIAA. "Linus Torvalds with the power of Open Source!" *cut scene to Linus and a team of ninja penguins stopping a kid from cracking a program and giving him an open source alternative* "Mark Shuttleworth with the power of Benevolence!" *cut to Mark in a space shuttle signing a contract to pour money into a new open source development* "Bram Cohen with the power of File Sharing Protocols!" *Just show him solving one of his many rubiks cubes. It's awesome enough.* FSF with the power of Legal Aid! *Show a personified version of FSF smacking down a court order against an innocent mother* By their powers combined, they form internet's greatest hero! Captain 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0! Kickass.
Now it may be that I'm either crazy, or that I've been using Photoshop for the last 10 years or so, but I find the interface to be fine. The redesign that was done in CS3 was amazing, and Photoshop should stick with that style. If you find the UI to be cluttered, then chances are you aren't using all of the tools in photoshop, and it's too advanced of a program for what you're trying to accomplish. That's why Adobe released Photoshop Elements, which incorporates a much more simple UI with reduced functionality for those people who find Photoshop's interface (and price tag) daunting. This isn't just in Photoshop though people. Whenever you have a program that is tailored to do very complex things while also allowing many things to be done, you are going to have an interface that seems daunting and "cluttered" by those that don't know/use all the features. Take Maya or 3DS Max for example. If you don't know what a NURB is, then you're going to find the menu that deals with them excess clutter that should be eliminated. However if you're a 3D modeler that requires extremely high detail and fluid shapes, then the NURB menu, and all the other menus, are going to be a godsend. If anything, the only revisions Photoshop needs in my opinion are native linux support, the ability to open a .ps and other vector based formats while retaining the vector data (i.e. not having to rasterize it upon import), and icon support without the use of third party plugins.
You can easily do this is photoshop as well. Just press "f" twice to make photoshop fullscreen, then press "tab" to hide all of the floating windows.
Great, now all the kids in third world countries are going to think that western cities are subject to alien attacks if you type "cass" more than 3 times.
Duke Nukem Forever exists in a lab somewhere.
And yet still no flying cars
I just want to put this out there, but I find it humorous and touching that the aggregate of slashdot users are more emotional and opinionated about toys over anything anything else today on the frontpage. Just shows how much we valued our learning through toys as children, how important it was for our development, and how important it will be for the future generations as well. Hopefully the US will revoke their attempt to ban chemistry sets and let kids be kids.
It is somewhat saddening that they have to put that disclaimer there that "The waves shown in this image were added for visual effect, and are not part of the original microscope image".
...on people losing these things. "Damnit, where's my radio? Did I lose it again!? Oh wait here it is... no... that's pocket lint."
Actually it's not that great. Usually after the first few days of being in the smoke (which in the 2003 fire lasted for about 3 weeks after all the fires were out if I remember correctly [I had to play football the day after thanksgiving and it was still raining ash]), you start to get really bad headaches. Because of this, LAN style gaming is actually at its worse. Loud noises irritate the hell out of you, the smoke burns your eyes which makes it hard to focus on a single object for a long time, there are frequent power outages, and the ash in the air gets into your computer. Not fun, trust me.
Bad for the end-user, champagne and fine chocolates for the big name telcoms. Reason being the ISP's no longer have to share their telcom lines, whether those be fiber, phone, or coaxial. Which means for the most part, if you want internet/phone/tv you are stuck with the company that owns the cables going to your house.
I have gotta download that package. Is it in the synaptic package manager? Foods are needed.
If they're half human though I might feel bad eating it.
I've tried this actually. It doesn't really work at all. Almost all Christians have it burnt into their mind that D&D is SATAN OMG DEMONS POSSES IT! Which is odd really; because all of my Christian pals that I've tried to get to play it play games like Oblivion, which is essentially just a videogameorized version of D&D. Halo seems to be pretty successful though in getting young peeps to come to a youth group or other church function. My church did this for a while (it certainly got me to come), but stopped it after some tightass parent complained.
Now they just need to sell the puzzle version of the map in airplane magazines.
I recently bought a "friend" for a friend of mine as a joke (I thought nothing would be better than him getting a friend request from a man named keith who's wearing nothing but a cowboy hat). However today I recieved an email from the site saying that it is closing down due to legal action taken. I quote from the email, "Due to legal issues FakeYourSpace has been shut down. We apologize for the inconvenience and have refunded your purchase in whole." Apparently the myspace flock will have to buy their friends elsewhere.