If I recall correctly, he falls down a hill at the end of the book, breaks his leg, and gets eaten alive by those cute little chicken sized dinosaurs. It's been a while since I read it though.
M$ is really trying hard, and I'll give them that.
So is the Special Needs guy who cleans the tables at my local Burger King, but that doesn't mean the deep fryer he made out of plastic grocery bags is a good idea.
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I hate our government, seriously. Maybe I should forward the following list to the CPSC. I'm pretty sure most of the items on the list have caused more than 12 cases of choking and/or surgery since November. They've got a lot of banning to do!
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the following items are common choking hazards:
Hot dogs and sausages Chunks of meat Grapes Hard candy Popcorn Peanuts and other nuts Raw carrots Fruit seeds Apple chunks Coins Toys with small parts Small balls and marbles Balloons Arts and crafts materials Ballpoint pen caps Watch batteries Jewelry
Not to defend the ban... but those items are WAY different than magnets that will pinch and perforate the intestines due to the magnetic attraction and small size.
In other words something with the power of a One X or Galaxy S3, without the big screen.
The main reason those phones need that much processing power is to push pixels around those large displays. With the much smaller screen you don't/need/ that kind of power at all, it's a waste.
Why is that supposed to be hard to fathom? Just picture Earth becoming more like Mars, or totally like Mars if obliteration of all life on Earth was somehow possible.
I can picture earth becoming more like the surface of the sun, that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
isn't the advice to have rather less than 2mm paste between the chip and heatsink?
2mm of thermal paste is WAY too much and will most likely be less effective than no paste at all. Ideally there should be no visible paste at all after the heat sink is applied. The paste's job is only to fill in the tiny air gaps made by the imperfections in the "flat" contact areas.
"...the first portable computer with a briefcase-like case with a keyboard on one side of the interior, a flat screen on the other, and a hinge in the middle..." The osborne doesn't fit this definition. From the wikipedia pictures I don't see the hinge joining the keyboard to the rest of the system.
But aren't retailers that sell the device "acting in concert" with them?
I'f I buy 1000 widgets from you, then 1 month later turn around and sell those widgets in my store, how am I acting in concert with you? Our transaction ended completely as soon as I handed you the money and you handed me the widgets.
Both the Kindle and Nexus 7 assumes that you are consuming media from the net.
Because when my phone / tablet dies I would still like to be able to get the data off of it by removing the memory card. This also makes swapping devices trivial because you can just move your memory card around.
A new MMO has launched, The Secret World. In the game you have an inventory WINDOW. In help one player asked how you could resize it... hint, it is a window. SAME WAY YOU DO IT IN EVERY OS!
You have to wonder how that person even manages to turn on a computer.
But people like this are not "stupid" in that they don't know things, they just lack or are to lazy to put two and two together. "If I have seen furthest, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants".
These people stand on the ground. They can't link experiences from the past into the present. That user I mentioned might well have resized windows on windows but he couldn't make the connection that the inventory window looks and behaves as a window too. Lazyness comes into it since a non-lazy person would have tried something. For instance, dealing with chat windows. Right-click to change settings. How lazy do you got to be to not be able to even TRY that before asking?
A quest button is on the right, if clicked you can select a different quest to track. Yet people ask how to do that because it doesn't occur to them to simply try some stuff.
Manuals, message of the day are useless for these people.
The person from the article probably did see some video of metal in a microwave. Probably knows it is not an oven. Knows that plastic melts and just didn't put it together. For every person who pulls a radio apart to see how it looks inside, there is another person who never "learns" the power icon because it never occurs to them that there might be a reason for that image on the button.
When you do design, you sadly got to take these people into account.
Another example? Well, if one user was on slashdot, they would ask how you can preview a post. Clothes in the cash shop have preview button right there in your face and she couldn't see it and bitched they should have included a preview option. A button labelled preview and you miss it. Those people would microwave a phone to dry it.
The ability to link ideas and put 2 and 2 together is pretty much the basis of intelligence.
What you are suggesting is that someone that rents a room from a hotel can dictate how that hotel is run, how much they are allowed to charge for a room, and what its pet policy is allowed to be.
I swear, this damn site if chalk full of socialists hell bent on regulating us all into hell.
If the hotel is built on public property, is the only hotel legally allowed to operate in the area, and was built with tax money paid by the renters, then yes, the renters should have some say over those things.
Jelly Bean forces 60fps throughout and lets the GPU, CPU and display run independently, so it at least feels smoother and more responsive.
What is the difference between feeling "smoother and more responsive" and being "smoother and more responsive"?
I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm asking seriously.
Here is a good example. A swipe animation that takes 1 second to complete, rendered with 4 frames of animation. vs A swipe animation that takes 1.15 seconds to complete, rendered with 30 frames of animation.
The first example will ACTUALLY be more responsive, while the seconds one will FEEL more response to most people.
Lack of mana pool removes some of the complexity and resource management. Without the mana pool it just becomes "click this button as soon as your cooldown timer clears." Combine that with some of the other things they mentioned, like every class getting a healing spell, makes ever character feel the same. If everyone has the same basic abilities that just differ in the animation they play, whats the point? There is also GW's signature skill system where skills can be swapped out at any time, which always left me without a feeling of progression, and makes every character feel even more alike. Taken individually these aren't a big deal, but combine them all and it just leaves me feeling all "meh" about the game.
I'll certainly take another look at the game once it's actually released, but reading this guys story just destroyed a lot of my interest.
Those things that annoy us in other games are simply banished here..
What are they to you ? that wasn't mentioned and I'm curious to know what they are
I stopped reading after he mentioned that there was no concept of a Mana pool for spells, just cooldown timers. I was actually looking forward to this game, but not any more.
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They even copied the plum bob! They could have at least come up with a different "Active" indicator icon.
Remember when the income tax was 7%, and only on the highest incomes?
No I don't. And I doubt there are many 97 year olds reading slashdot.
That was beautiful. It actually made me read it in the proper voice and everything.
I think the eccentric billionaire came out okay.
If I recall correctly, he falls down a hill at the end of the book, breaks his leg, and gets eaten alive by those cute little chicken sized dinosaurs. It's been a while since I read it though.
M$ is really trying hard, and I'll give them that.
So is the Special Needs guy who cleans the tables at my local Burger King, but that doesn't mean the deep fryer he made out of plastic grocery bags is a good idea.
DNS is not the Internet.
Unless you use this.
http://analogbit.com/tcp-over-dns_howto
I hate our government, seriously. Maybe I should forward the following list to the CPSC. I'm pretty sure most of the items on the list have caused more than 12 cases of choking and/or surgery since November. They've got a lot of banning to do!
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the following items are common choking hazards:
Hot dogs and sausages
Chunks of meat
Grapes
Hard candy
Popcorn
Peanuts and other nuts
Raw carrots
Fruit seeds
Apple chunks
Coins
Toys with small parts
Small balls and marbles
Balloons
Arts and crafts materials
Ballpoint pen caps
Watch batteries
Jewelry
Not to defend the ban... but those items are WAY different than magnets that will pinch and perforate the intestines due to the magnetic attraction and small size.
So, "typographically rich" is the new buzzword, yes?
The have hardware accelerated CAPITALIZING ALL THE TEXT IN MENUS.
What happened with the license server mechanism they added? I thought that would work more or less.
It does work well, but it requires developers to actually understand it and know what they are doing.
In other words something with the power of a One X or Galaxy S3, without the big screen.
The main reason those phones need that much processing power is to push pixels around those large displays. With the much smaller screen you don't /need/ that kind of power at all, it's a waste.
Why is that supposed to be hard to fathom? Just picture Earth becoming more like Mars, or totally like Mars if obliteration of all life on Earth was somehow possible.
I can picture earth becoming more like the surface of the sun, that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
I would carry around a cinder-block if it had everything I want in a smart phone.
isn't the advice to have rather less than 2mm paste between the chip and heatsink?
2mm of thermal paste is WAY too much and will most likely be less effective than no paste at all. Ideally there should be no visible paste at all after the heat sink is applied. The paste's job is only to fill in the tiny air gaps made by the imperfections in the "flat" contact areas.
"First commercially successful portable computer" according to the almighty wiki, launched in 1981.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
"...the first portable computer with a briefcase-like case with a keyboard on one side of the interior, a flat screen on the other, and a hinge in the middle..."
The osborne doesn't fit this definition. From the wikipedia pictures I don't see the hinge joining the keyboard to the rest of the system.
But aren't retailers that sell the device "acting in concert" with them?
I'f I buy 1000 widgets from you, then 1 month later turn around and sell those widgets in my store, how am I acting in concert with you? Our transaction ended completely as soon as I handed you the money and you handed me the widgets.
Why the obsession with physical media?
Both the Kindle and Nexus 7 assumes that you are consuming media from the net.
Because when my phone / tablet dies I would still like to be able to get the data off of it by removing the memory card. This also makes swapping devices trivial because you can just move your memory card around.
"$165 a month"
Dude - you can't possibly watch $165 worth of television in a month. There just isn't that much time in the month.
If I were hurt tomorrow, and was to be laid up in bed, and the television played 24/7 - the whole month wouldn't be worth five bucks.
Give me my internet, and you can keep every channel, every program, every reality show, and every run-of-the-mouth host.
$165 for TRIPLE PLAY; that's Cable, phone and internet.
A new MMO has launched, The Secret World. In the game you have an inventory WINDOW. In help one player asked how you could resize it... hint, it is a window. SAME WAY YOU DO IT IN EVERY OS!
You have to wonder how that person even manages to turn on a computer.
But people like this are not "stupid" in that they don't know things, they just lack or are to lazy to put two and two together. "If I have seen furthest, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants".
These people stand on the ground. They can't link experiences from the past into the present. That user I mentioned might well have resized windows on windows but he couldn't make the connection that the inventory window looks and behaves as a window too. Lazyness comes into it since a non-lazy person would have tried something. For instance, dealing with chat windows. Right-click to change settings. How lazy do you got to be to not be able to even TRY that before asking?
A quest button is on the right, if clicked you can select a different quest to track. Yet people ask how to do that because it doesn't occur to them to simply try some stuff.
Manuals, message of the day are useless for these people.
The person from the article probably did see some video of metal in a microwave. Probably knows it is not an oven. Knows that plastic melts and just didn't put it together. For every person who pulls a radio apart to see how it looks inside, there is another person who never "learns" the power icon because it never occurs to them that there might be a reason for that image on the button.
When you do design, you sadly got to take these people into account.
Another example? Well, if one user was on slashdot, they would ask how you can preview a post. Clothes in the cash shop have preview button right there in your face and she couldn't see it and bitched they should have included a preview option. A button labelled preview and you miss it. Those people would microwave a phone to dry it.
The ability to link ideas and put 2 and 2 together is pretty much the basis of intelligence.
Maybe it could just redirect them to a page that tells them they should contact their Internet Service Provider for assistance fixing their DNS.
Yes, it did. Racists got less money. Why do you want racists to have more money?
Care to elaborate?
I always hate to be blunt, but you are an idiot.
What you are suggesting is that someone that rents a room from a hotel can dictate how that hotel is run, how much they are allowed to charge for a room, and what its pet policy is allowed to be.
I swear, this damn site if chalk full of socialists hell bent on regulating us all into hell.
If the hotel is built on public property, is the only hotel legally allowed to operate in the area, and was built with tax money paid by the renters, then yes, the renters should have some say over those things.
Why do people always think "more laws and more regulations will make everything better", when it never does?
Because NOT having laws protecting civil rights worked so well in the past.
What is the difference between feeling "smoother and more responsive" and being "smoother and more responsive"?
I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm asking seriously.
Here is a good example.
A swipe animation that takes 1 second to complete, rendered with 4 frames of animation.
vs
A swipe animation that takes 1.15 seconds to complete, rendered with 30 frames of animation.
The first example will ACTUALLY be more responsive, while the seconds one will FEEL more response to most people.
Lack of mana pool removes some of the complexity and resource management. Without the mana pool it just becomes "click this button as soon as your cooldown timer clears." Combine that with some of the other things they mentioned, like every class getting a healing spell, makes ever character feel the same. If everyone has the same basic abilities that just differ in the animation they play, whats the point? There is also GW's signature skill system where skills can be swapped out at any time, which always left me without a feeling of progression, and makes every character feel even more alike. Taken individually these aren't a big deal, but combine them all and it just leaves me feeling all "meh" about the game.
I'll certainly take another look at the game once it's actually released, but reading this guys story just destroyed a lot of my interest.
Those things that annoy us in other games are simply banished here..
What are they to you ? that wasn't mentioned and I'm curious to know what they are
I stopped reading after he mentioned that there was no concept of a Mana pool for spells, just cooldown timers. I was actually looking forward to this game, but not any more.