I've seen plenty of modern apps that offer "distraction free writing". Even most full-featured word processors have a full screen mode that hides the UI. Plus, you get nice extras like proportional fonts, bold, italic, and underline, simple copy and paste, and so on.
Also, modern CPUs are so powerful that even a graphical word processor should leave the processor idling most of the time. Unless your GUI word processor is incredibly bloated and inefficient (*cough* Word *cough*) there isn't really a practical performance or battery life benefit to switching to a command line editor.
But hey, you're writing a novel, so whatever fuels your creative process is fine by me. After all, some authors use antique typewriters, or pen and paper. I've even been known to use a stylus and clay tablet, but only when I'm writing Sumerian viruses.
It doesn't. And that's why enterprise computers are so good at spreading worms; as soon as one PC behind the firewall gets infected they all fall.
Seems like a rather silly article, as most medium-large business I've encountered already shut off desktop firewalls since the hassle of managing a firewall on every machine often outweighs the risks.
Most controllers require a similar amount of dexterity from each hand. If the NES had put the buttons on the left and the d-pad on the right, we'd think that was "normal" and "right-handed" today. I think this is less about left-handed gamers and more about a guy who had personally become used to one control layout having to switch to another (and writing a rant about the harrowing ordeal).
Yeah, I hope more bands start realizing this is the right message to give to their fans. A lot of big artists would rather tell you to go stick your head in a pig.
Do you think gamers 30 years ago expected photorealistic games? If the game was well written, the screens became more than just a smattering of blocky pixels, in the same way that a cardboard box could become an impenetrable castle.
I love modern technology, but it seems to be feeding a growing segment of the population with no desire for creativity or imagination. Read a book, people!
Me again - sorry, I misread the word "create" in your post and thought you were claiming the right to *have* that service.
But yes, you can definitely create an alternative disposal service. As long as you follow the local environmental regulations, I don't think the city would have a problem with it.
Yes, and the people running the disposal service have rights too, including the right to run their service they way they wish.
It's funny how the people who claim oppression are always so willing to tread on the rights of others. "Everyone has to give me what I want, how I want, when I want, for the price I want, because I have rights!"
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I've seen plenty of modern apps that offer "distraction free writing". Even most full-featured word processors have a full screen mode that hides the UI. Plus, you get nice extras like proportional fonts, bold, italic, and underline, simple copy and paste, and so on.
Also, modern CPUs are so powerful that even a graphical word processor should leave the processor idling most of the time. Unless your GUI word processor is incredibly bloated and inefficient (*cough* Word *cough*) there isn't really a practical performance or battery life benefit to switching to a command line editor.
But hey, you're writing a novel, so whatever fuels your creative process is fine by me. After all, some authors use antique typewriters, or pen and paper. I've even been known to use a stylus and clay tablet, but only when I'm writing Sumerian viruses.
Well, he can dream...
Or via Grooveshark.
Obligatory DS9.
It doesn't. And that's why enterprise computers are so good at spreading worms; as soon as one PC behind the firewall gets infected they all fall.
Seems like a rather silly article, as most medium-large business I've encountered already shut off desktop firewalls since the hassle of managing a firewall on every machine often outweighs the risks.
So they can keep working after the sun sets?
Take $89 million...buy a Falcon 9 launch...pocket the difference.
Uh, buy them?
I finally found a video of it, though you'll have to skip 16 minutes in...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8wpku_fahrenheit451-v0-1_tech
How this could possibly be considered novel and non-obvious is beyond me.
Linda, you're absolutely fantastic!
(google it)
...which is another good idea that's bad in practice.
Most controllers require a similar amount of dexterity from each hand. If the NES had put the buttons on the left and the d-pad on the right, we'd think that was "normal" and "right-handed" today. I think this is less about left-handed gamers and more about a guy who had personally become used to one control layout having to switch to another (and writing a rant about the harrowing ordeal).
Is there a difference?
You should really make more money.
Yeah, I hope more bands start realizing this is the right message to give to their fans. A lot of big artists would rather tell you to go stick your head in a pig.
The Russians were faced with the same dilemma.
They used a mirror.
Sheesh, if you'd cracked open a history book, Leonardo da Vinci was designing the things back in the early 1500s.
That's the trouble with kids these days: They think everything—helicopters, astronauts, digital watches—came from the last century!
According to a NASA review of the subject, falconry for bird control at airports dates back to the 1940s.
I must say this article amused me; I mean, /. regularly gives us "news" from two or three years ago... but seventy?
2. Find some neighbors' kids that need to be actively denied.
Neither had I, and then this happened.
Do you think gamers 30 years ago expected photorealistic games? If the game was well written, the screens became more than just a smattering of blocky pixels, in the same way that a cardboard box could become an impenetrable castle.
I love modern technology, but it seems to be feeding a growing segment of the population with no desire for creativity or imagination. Read a book, people!
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If I could have fixed Vista with half an inch of duct tape, I wouldn't have minded it so much.
Me again - sorry, I misread the word "create" in your post and thought you were claiming the right to *have* that service.
But yes, you can definitely create an alternative disposal service. As long as you follow the local environmental regulations, I don't think the city would have a problem with it.
Yes, and the people running the disposal service have rights too, including the right to run their service they way they wish.
It's funny how the people who claim oppression are always so willing to tread on the rights of others. "Everyone has to give me what I want, how I want, when I want, for the price I want, because I have rights!"
Why? You're giving it to them already, aren't you?
If you're concerned about privacy, buy a shredder.
If the though of the e-e-evil city gub'mint having your trash bothers you, dispose of it yourself.
I'm fairly sure that an unrestricted anonymous waste disposal service wasn't guaranteed in the constitution.