As someone who studies videogames, I feel like I have to read the gaming mags to stay current and there occasionally are some interesting articels in them. However, if it weren't for magazine subscriptions on ebay, I wouldn't dream of subscribing to them. When you can get a year of EGM for less than $10, why not? For any magazine subscriptions ebay is definitly one of the first places to look.
I'm not a programmer, but I am a person with a hyphen in my name and it would be nice if google recognized that there is a difference between "Bryan-Mitchell" and "Bryan Mitchell." Maybe I spend too much time vanity searching though...
While somewhat in jest, this raises some interesting issues regarding authorial intent in games which are meant to be highly moddable by the gaming community. Is there a line where we, as players, should not cross? Is it less "sacraligous" to make holesale changes in a game such as making Counter-Strike from the base of Half-Life than it is to make smaller more subtle changes to the very fabric of the game such as perhaps giving Gordan Greeman a voice? Is changing the grammar and spelling in Oblivion more "offensive" than creating your own entire quest? Of course, one can always take the opinion that it is just a game and if people don't like the changes, they won't download and install them, so it doesn't really matter in the long run...
Don't bother paying a premium for a domain name. If you have a good service or website, people will find it. Did a wierd name or unusual spelling hurt google or flickr or deliscious (however it is spelled)? Remember you are asking this question on a site that is probably one of the hardest to say and get people who haven't heard of it to understand what you are saying "slash dot dot org" but people seem to find the site ok. Getting people to your site is the hardest part no matter what the domain name is. Once you get them there, then the battle is half won. If they find your site, people will either a)bookmark it, b)remember the url and type it in again, c)remember how they got there, and the wosrt case senario d)not be able to remember the name or how they got there in which case a "valuable" domain name won't be all that usefull because there is no accounting for what people will or will not remember. Regardless, once again all that depends on people actually getting to the site in teh first place. The days of people randomly typing in urls is over if it ever existed in the first place (sure my firends and I used to type in things just to see if that existed, but we were just curious, not looking to use the sites we found). It is a cliche, but there is a great deal of truth to it too: "If you build it, they will come."
Last summer when I took intro to programming we did both. We started off using DrJava and then eventually learned to use vi. It was better at first to use the program because as an introductory course, it was incredibly frustrating to try to make a very basic program run when you hadn't yet learned the little things. Using DrJava made it easier and better to get a sence of achivement when something actually worked. Plus it gave us a bit of a sandbox to mess around in without having to compile every single time when we just wanted to see what would happen if we changed one little bit of the code. Once we got the basics down, then we gradually stopped using DrJava.
Endnote is the hugest pile of crap ever. I like to think I'm a computer expert, but Endnote is just ponderous. Other programs at least show an error or at least tell you that it can't do that when you try to do something that the program can't do. Endnote just sits there and because it is so slow you never know if it did something and you just have to wait, or if it did something in the background, or if you are just trying to do soemthing that it can't do. I find it hard to beleive that I'm just that dumb in this one area. If you can't import this kind of file thingy, then at lesat tell me. Don't just sit there making me try every single option untill I just give up and realize that I could have entered all this stuff by hand much quicker. I can't beleive that it is so incredibly hard to make a program for references that isn't better than Endnote.
Sure there are repositories which do an excellent job for 90% of things, but when it comes to those other 10% of programs that aren't in the repositories, there is trouble. My experience with Ubuntu is that by the time many people feel like they are ready to try linux they are windows power users and have started to use some obscure programs. In windows, all you have to do is download an oddball program and doubleclick. On linux? I've no idea. I've looked up instructions before and I've installed things from the terminal before, but I just cut and pasted commands. Why can't you just double click and install every program? So that and the fact that I play a lot of games means that although I'm dual booting Ubuntu and Windows, I haven't booted into Ubuntu in months. I really like the idea of using Linux as my main operating system, but I can't devote the time and energy to make that dream a reality. Life gets in the way.
I have totally had the click a link in the dropdown adress bar and it only reloads the page you are on. Frustrating as hell. I've had it happen on two different computers so either it is something in firefox or one of the extensions i have on both machines.
I don't see any reason why they couldn't do it online. Actually, as someone in the States, I would kill for an online version even if it was a drmed pdf or something similar. The current subscription prices are astronomical. Barnes and Nobles has started carrying it and buying it off the rack at $9 a month is more palatable than the current price of $116.55 for a subscription and basically the same price.
I"m using it. THe service itself is fine and I've had no technical problems with the service or any of the games I've played on it. The problem, however, is that the selection of games is very console centric with tons of older games I've never heard of. For some, that may be interesting, but I'm not much of a console fan and if I've never heard of random side scroller #481, I'm not likely to want to play it. While there are some recent computer games on it(I played Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and there is Splinter Cell), there are odd lapses such as not one FPS game. If they can get more companies to sign on, it will be a fine service. As for this original (non-game) content they talk about in the commercials, don't bother. It is mostly pretty lame and mainly just something they use to play while you wait for the game to download.
It doesn't matter how many people online write about how big of a troll Jack Thompson is, that won't stop people in the media from giving him airtime. Just look at search results for Jack Thompson and many of the hits on the first page will tell you that this guy is an unreliable source and yet he still gets on things like 60 Minutes. The mainstream media is more interested in creating and perpetrating moral panics than investigative journalism. It is sad when professional journalists won't even take the time to put their source's name into a search engine to see how reliable the person is.
Sizes of text files is one of my little peeves/obsessions. I usually just work with files that are pure text without any features fancier than occasional italics or footnotes. Even Word's rtf files are often bloated. I often open them up and save them with another program like Atlantis Word Processor and the file will regularly be half as big. If I then open it with Word, do nothing, and then save it, Word will regularly add 10-20K to the file size of the rtf file.
From my perspective, you point out the reason why we don't need them -- we already have state ids so what good would national ids be? Sure there are additional privacy concerns with a national id, but lets put on our rose-colored glasses and pretend there won't be any problems caused by national ids. What problems will be SOLVED by national ids that state ids don't? I'm no expert, but every state I've lived in also have state issued "identification cards" that are not driver's licences that you can get if you need id but don't have a licence. I also had a friend when I was 19 who took all of her older sister's information to the licence branch and got a licence in her sister's name so that she could go to bars. All she had to do was claim she lost her licence and show the licence branch her sister's bills and social security card and she got a real driver's licence saying that she was her sister. So while the system is a reliable method of verifying id, there is no indication that it is a valid method of doing so. How would a national id be any different?
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Yes, lets have another domain because.biz and.info have worked so well... Are there any.biz or.info domains that aren't just spam/scam sites or simple redirects to the.com? (I'm sure there are, but the vast, vast majority of them are spam/scam sites.)
you cant use multidisc or upgrade versions (or even win2k!) I'll wait for the 'hacker' releases thanks Apple!
I don't have an upgrade version (Microsoft has a sweetheart deal with the school so xp pro is only $10) but is there a reason you couldn't slipstream windows and use that?
I know this is a crazy idea, but maybe you could call up some police departments or FBI offices and, I don't know, maybe ask them? Not to be a smart ass, but it seems like the obvious answer is to go ask the people that have those jobs. Don't be afraid to talk to people. Especially when you aren't a criminal or complaining, most law enforcement people are more than happy to talk to people.
You are correct, but not for the reasons you state. As others have said, MDs are now 1gig (and when those came out Sony said they could bump them up to 5gig... of course Sony says a lot of things...) and while Sony has said lots of things about mp3, the new MD players do in fact play mp3s.
That being said, minidisc is an example of how the corporate people killed a great tech. Minidiscs have been around for a decade and when they came out, they were superior to anything else but the restrictions Sony put on it killed it.
I have one for recording and I love it. When I bought it harddrive recorders with mic inputs were still way too expensive. They are probably cheaper now, but my minidisc recorder does everything I need it to do and I'm not looking for anything right now.
OR, as the article states, they were freshmen and were probably surfing the net on teh university wireless the entire time. As a grad student I soemtimes take my laptop to class, but I use the wireless internet to look things up (if a book is in google print or amazon's look inside, for example, you can search every word in the book much more quickly and thoroughly than any index). As a grad student, I also teach and I know that some undergrads, particularly freshmen since they generally aren't yet used to the lack of supervision typical in college, like to surf the web, im, email, play games during class. As a grad student, it is unusual to have classes of more than 15, and you frequently see the prof at department function and in the halls of the department building, so you are a) less likely to piss off the prof because you are going to see that person at least once a week untill you graduate or b) the prof will know all of the students well enough that the prof would have little problem working the situation out with the class. Of course the university is paying me to teach classes for them rather than me paying for classes, so the situation may be different in some grad program where you had to pay your own way.
Name a non-Microsoft-owned site that Firefox can handle that Opera can't? Hell, there are times when I open Opera because something on a site doesn't work with Firefox. I mainly use Firefox, but there isn't any reason to go badmouthing Opera.
If someone would make one of those old clamshell style handheld pc's with a 3/4 size keyboard, wifi, and a decent sized hardrive, I would snap it up in a minute. Something like the NEC 900 with the current windows mobile os on it would be a killer app for college students. The ability to have an instant on device you could easilly type on to take notes in class and be online with (hell, throw in mp3 player and video too) and it would be a nice alternative to lugging around a heavy laptop that takes forever to boot up and shut down.
I've got a small hp1012 (1112? 1011? I'm not home now so i can't look at it to tell specifically) that has manual duplex. I never use it, however, because I almost always use scrap paper that has already been printed on one side. I'm sure that the people at the university library think I'm weird but whenever I'm low on paper I just grab handfuls of paper out of the big pile of printouts that people never picked up.
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I liked Minerva eps one and two quite a bit. Best amateur Half-Life action since Neil Manke's They Hunger. Nine Thumbs up!
As someone who studies videogames, I feel like I have to read the gaming mags to stay current and there occasionally are some interesting articels in them. However, if it weren't for magazine subscriptions on ebay, I wouldn't dream of subscribing to them. When you can get a year of EGM for less than $10, why not?
For any magazine subscriptions ebay is definitly one of the first places to look.
I'm not a programmer, but I am a person with a hyphen in my name and it would be nice if google recognized that there is a difference between "Bryan-Mitchell" and "Bryan Mitchell." Maybe I spend too much time vanity searching though...
While somewhat in jest, this raises some interesting issues regarding authorial intent in games which are meant to be highly moddable by the gaming community. Is there a line where we, as players, should not cross? Is it less "sacraligous" to make holesale changes in a game such as making Counter-Strike from the base of Half-Life than it is to make smaller more subtle changes to the very fabric of the game such as perhaps giving Gordan Greeman a voice? Is changing the grammar and spelling in Oblivion more "offensive" than creating your own entire quest?
Of course, one can always take the opinion that it is just a game and if people don't like the changes, they won't download and install them, so it doesn't really matter in the long run...
Don't bother paying a premium for a domain name. If you have a good service or website, people will find it. Did a wierd name or unusual spelling hurt google or flickr or deliscious (however it is spelled)? Remember you are asking this question on a site that is probably one of the hardest to say and get people who haven't heard of it to understand what you are saying "slash dot dot org" but people seem to find the site ok. Getting people to your site is the hardest part no matter what the domain name is. Once you get them there, then the battle is half won. If they find your site, people will either a)bookmark it, b)remember the url and type it in again, c)remember how they got there, and the wosrt case senario d)not be able to remember the name or how they got there in which case a "valuable" domain name won't be all that usefull because there is no accounting for what people will or will not remember.
Regardless, once again all that depends on people actually getting to the site in teh first place. The days of people randomly typing in urls is over if it ever existed in the first place (sure my firends and I used to type in things just to see if that existed, but we were just curious, not looking to use the sites we found). It is a cliche, but there is a great deal of truth to it too: "If you build it, they will come."
Last summer when I took intro to programming we did both. We started off using DrJava and then eventually learned to use vi. It was better at first to use the program because as an introductory course, it was incredibly frustrating to try to make a very basic program run when you hadn't yet learned the little things. Using DrJava made it easier and better to get a sence of achivement when something actually worked. Plus it gave us a bit of a sandbox to mess around in without having to compile every single time when we just wanted to see what would happen if we changed one little bit of the code. Once we got the basics down, then we gradually stopped using DrJava.
So sales are the most accurate mesurement of quality? Who knew that Kelly Clarkson and the Black Eyed Peas were so awesome?
Endnote is the hugest pile of crap ever. I like to think I'm a computer expert, but Endnote is just ponderous. Other programs at least show an error or at least tell you that it can't do that when you try to do something that the program can't do. Endnote just sits there and because it is so slow you never know if it did something and you just have to wait, or if it did something in the background, or if you are just trying to do soemthing that it can't do. I find it hard to beleive that I'm just that dumb in this one area. If you can't import this kind of file thingy, then at lesat tell me. Don't just sit there making me try every single option untill I just give up and realize that I could have entered all this stuff by hand much quicker. I can't beleive that it is so incredibly hard to make a program for references that isn't better than Endnote.
Sure there are repositories which do an excellent job for 90% of things, but when it comes to those other 10% of programs that aren't in the repositories, there is trouble. My experience with Ubuntu is that by the time many people feel like they are ready to try linux they are windows power users and have started to use some obscure programs. In windows, all you have to do is download an oddball program and doubleclick. On linux? I've no idea. I've looked up instructions before and I've installed things from the terminal before, but I just cut and pasted commands. Why can't you just double click and install every program? So that and the fact that I play a lot of games means that although I'm dual booting Ubuntu and Windows, I haven't booted into Ubuntu in months. I really like the idea of using Linux as my main operating system, but I can't devote the time and energy to make that dream a reality. Life gets in the way.
I have totally had the click a link in the dropdown adress bar and it only reloads the page you are on. Frustrating as hell. I've had it happen on two different computers so either it is something in firefox or one of the extensions i have on both machines.
I don't see any reason why they couldn't do it online. Actually, as someone in the States, I would kill for an online version even if it was a drmed pdf or something similar. The current subscription prices are astronomical. Barnes and Nobles has started carrying it and buying it off the rack at $9 a month is more palatable than the current price of $116.55 for a subscription and basically the same price.
I"m using it. THe service itself is fine and I've had no technical problems with the service or any of the games I've played on it. The problem, however, is that the selection of games is very console centric with tons of older games I've never heard of. For some, that may be interesting, but I'm not much of a console fan and if I've never heard of random side scroller #481, I'm not likely to want to play it. While there are some recent computer games on it(I played Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and there is Splinter Cell), there are odd lapses such as not one FPS game. If they can get more companies to sign on, it will be a fine service.
As for this original (non-game) content they talk about in the commercials, don't bother. It is mostly pretty lame and mainly just something they use to play while you wait for the game to download.
It doesn't matter how many people online write about how big of a troll Jack Thompson is, that won't stop people in the media from giving him airtime. Just look at search results for Jack Thompson and many of the hits on the first page will tell you that this guy is an unreliable source and yet he still gets on things like 60 Minutes. The mainstream media is more interested in creating and perpetrating moral panics than investigative journalism. It is sad when professional journalists won't even take the time to put their source's name into a search engine to see how reliable the person is.
Sizes of text files is one of my little peeves/obsessions. I usually just work with files that are pure text without any features fancier than occasional italics or footnotes. Even Word's rtf files are often bloated. I often open them up and save them with another program like Atlantis Word Processor and the file will regularly be half as big. If I then open it with Word, do nothing, and then save it, Word will regularly add 10-20K to the file size of the rtf file.
From my perspective, you point out the reason why we don't need them -- we already have state ids so what good would national ids be? Sure there are additional privacy concerns with a national id, but lets put on our rose-colored glasses and pretend there won't be any problems caused by national ids. What problems will be SOLVED by national ids that state ids don't? I'm no expert, but every state I've lived in also have state issued "identification cards" that are not driver's licences that you can get if you need id but don't have a licence.
I also had a friend when I was 19 who took all of her older sister's information to the licence branch and got a licence in her sister's name so that she could go to bars. All she had to do was claim she lost her licence and show the licence branch her sister's bills and social security card and she got a real driver's licence saying that she was her sister. So while the system is a reliable method of verifying id, there is no indication that it is a valid method of doing so. How would a national id be any different?
Too obvious?
By "this woman," whom do you mean? Carol Clover?
Yes, lets have another domain because .biz and .info have worked so well... Are there any .biz or .info domains that aren't just spam/scam sites or simple redirects to the .com? (I'm sure there are, but the vast, vast majority of them are spam/scam sites.)
you cant use multidisc or upgrade versions (or even win2k!) I'll wait for the 'hacker' releases thanks Apple!
I don't have an upgrade version (Microsoft has a sweetheart deal with the school so xp pro is only $10) but is there a reason you couldn't slipstream windows and use that?
I know this is a crazy idea, but maybe you could call up some police departments or FBI offices and, I don't know, maybe ask them? Not to be a smart ass, but it seems like the obvious answer is to go ask the people that have those jobs.
Don't be afraid to talk to people. Especially when you aren't a criminal or complaining, most law enforcement people are more than happy to talk to people.
You are correct, but not for the reasons you state. As others have said, MDs are now 1gig (and when those came out Sony said they could bump them up to 5gig... of course Sony says a lot of things...) and while Sony has said lots of things about mp3, the new MD players do in fact play mp3s.
That being said, minidisc is an example of how the corporate people killed a great tech. Minidiscs have been around for a decade and when they came out, they were superior to anything else but the restrictions Sony put on it killed it.
I have one for recording and I love it. When I bought it harddrive recorders with mic inputs were still way too expensive. They are probably cheaper now, but my minidisc recorder does everything I need it to do and I'm not looking for anything right now.
Sony killed the minidisc. the end.
OR, as the article states, they were freshmen and were probably surfing the net on teh university wireless the entire time. As a grad student I soemtimes take my laptop to class, but I use the wireless internet to look things up (if a book is in google print or amazon's look inside, for example, you can search every word in the book much more quickly and thoroughly than any index). As a grad student, I also teach and I know that some undergrads, particularly freshmen since they generally aren't yet used to the lack of supervision typical in college, like to surf the web, im, email, play games during class.
As a grad student, it is unusual to have classes of more than 15, and you frequently see the prof at department function and in the halls of the department building, so you are a) less likely to piss off the prof because you are going to see that person at least once a week untill you graduate or b) the prof will know all of the students well enough that the prof would have little problem working the situation out with the class.
Of course the university is paying me to teach classes for them rather than me paying for classes, so the situation may be different in some grad program where you had to pay your own way.
Name a non-Microsoft-owned site that Firefox can handle that Opera can't? Hell, there are times when I open Opera because something on a site doesn't work with Firefox. I mainly use Firefox, but there isn't any reason to go badmouthing Opera.
If someone would make one of those old clamshell style handheld pc's with a 3/4 size keyboard, wifi, and a decent sized hardrive, I would snap it up in a minute. Something like the NEC 900 with the current windows mobile os on it would be a killer app for college students. The ability to have an instant on device you could easilly type on to take notes in class and be online with (hell, throw in mp3 player and video too) and it would be a nice alternative to lugging around a heavy laptop that takes forever to boot up and shut down.
I've got a small hp1012 (1112? 1011? I'm not home now so i can't look at it to tell specifically) that has manual duplex.
I never use it, however, because I almost always use scrap paper that has already been printed on one side. I'm sure that the people at the university library think I'm weird but whenever I'm low on paper I just grab handfuls of paper out of the big pile of printouts that people never picked up.