In WoW, as you fly, you see monsters/characters popping into existence below you. In Second Life, you can run into objects before you see them. "Seamless" loading doesn't make sense for many first person shooters because of the need for correctness. In WoW you cannot interact with your environment, so it doesn't matter overly much.
Also, WoW's graphics are not of highest quality. LOD pops, limited numbers of models at one time, etc.
It's like people who ask you to run an ActiveX control because it is "more secure". They're obviously idiots and you should take your business elsewhere.
In the past (I don't know about present day), all internet banking in South Korea was ActiveX based, as well as numerous government sites. Yes, it did require the whole country to run Internet Explorer, but was done because ActiveX was deemed a more secure alternative. I don't understand all the technical reasons, but I do know that South Korea has some very savvy IT guys, so I wouldn't dismiss their concept out of hand.
I don't understand why people leave a computer running for days at a time, especially Win98, with its built in application autorunning.
Close windows when you are done for the day... That does help with the memory usage issue.[editor's note: removed several sentences about the various way to reload web pages. I will consider this analogous to reopening an application.]
What are the reasons for leaving it running while you are asleep?
I'm anti-double standards. Truth be told, I run Opera. I never close my browser. Yes, if I close Opera and reopen it, other than refreshing the cache (which is an option I set), I cannot tell that it ever closed. And? AJAX applications, Flash thin clients on real time software, and streaming media I use consistantly throughout the day. If you are going to tell me that Firefox is only useful for loading an occasional static page and rebooting, fine. But I need a browser to do more than that, as do most people.
Lastly, as a developer, the first question I ask when there are memory problems is "are you running FireFox." More often than not, shutting that down solves the issue.
They're given out to mainstream games (GTA for instance) that the console makers are perfectly happy to see on their machines - why do the same companies think differently about the issue in the US?
Because of the inversion of pronography and violence being the hot-button issues in Europe and America. In America, the highest ratings imply pornography (which Nintendo and Sony don't want to be associated with... cue Betamax). In Europe (generalizing becuase I have never been to England), typically nudity is more acceptable than violence.
So, to answer your question, Sony and Nintendo are fine being associated with violence (Nintendo typically cartoon), but not pornography. So, to make up for the fact that people rarely learn why the ratings are the way they are, anything with a pornographic sounding rating is a no-no.
Really, blame the American consumer or ESRB for not having a Violence/Sexuality/Language/Choose a few more categories complex rating and not a simple categorization.
GuI interfaces are usually done horribly in Java, because its easy to screw them up. The unresponsive Gui (see zend framework) often makes people think that Java is slow.
Unresponsive is slow. From a user's (and my) POV, I don't care if code executes in 10ms or 299ms if the GUI refreshes every 300ms. Why, because I use a program to do things, not to marvel at the effiency of the algorithim (unless I'm examining the code).
Additionally, a lack of progress bars leads to killing processes and restarting them, making them slower in reality.
What's worse is accidental use of the stupid touch pad. You're typing along and zoom your cursor goes flying somewhere crazy and you've just deleted something important or done something equally as horrible.
My boss just got a new Compaq laptop. It has a little button above the touchpad that toggles the pad on and off. It allows for an external use of a mouse in the office and the use of the laptop on a plane/train/whatever. Brilliant.
I made several soon-to-be profitable arrangements to help various African princes get cash out of their country's banks after a military uprising. The rep I got with one convinced all his brothers to go through me as well. Soon, riches!
Lawsuit evidence discovery was the actual reason they gave.
And it is a good reason. Lawyers have careers because the law is not cut-and-dried and it seems doubtful that anything exculpatory could be in an e-mail. So it is a liability in that sense. Why retain it, kill away.
The difference is that federal law says that those e-mails are to be preserved because of their historical value.
We may as well argue about who has the nicer cufflinks.
Okay, I have a lovely platinum set of cufflinks. They are round and have a bias relief of an eagle. The eagle's eye is made out of a small (don't know the carat offhand) diamond.
Would you call him a hero and his act (though imaginary) a great achievement?
I found it "great" in the terms of scope. I found Ramius's strength of will impressive, and nobility in his trying to avenge his wife's death. However, mostly, I found him to be a more sympathetic and successful version of Ahab.
Would I call him a hero if I worked for the CIA and needed to make him feel better about himself? Absolutely. Otherwise? Absolutely not.
Your argument makes a false dichotomy, the absence of a monopoly of force does not need to translate into civil war. There is no global monopoly of force, yet there is not constant war on the borders.
That is because there is a monopoly within each geographic region. In some areas of the world, non-governmental gangs essentially control parts of cities. Where the boundaries of the monopoly are well defined, there is no fighting because no one seeks to upset the status quo. But the fact of the matter remains, you would be hard pressed to find an example (even a theoretical one) where one geographic region had multiple people allowed to use force that was not unstable. You end up with a Hatfield/McCoy problem eventually.
But if a US cop shot someone in Mexico, there would be no legal reason not to punish him.
Unfortunately the government is armed and willing to attack people to enforce those law.
Why is this unfortunate. I would rather any government (but especially one at purportedly operating at the behest of the citizenry) have a monopoly on force than live in a constant civil war.
The translation was flawed as Babelfish confused 'ha'im', the Hebrew word for 'if', with 'ha'ima', which means 'mother'.
"ha'ima" actually means "the mother". So, while bablefish may produce errors, apparently so do reporters... Also, IIRC, in non-transliterated Hebrew, the two words are homonyms.
You sound like a middle manager at a failing company. You want to intentionally hire people based on obedience rather than intelligence. That's a really good way to destroy a company, a country, or a society.
Yes, but he wants to preserve his species dominating over the company, country and society. So while the world may make less progress, it will be better for humans.
And you can bet this will be used by parents anyway, giving poor timmy 1 hour of gametime a week for example.
Fixed that for you. 1 hour is not a long time, but honestly, if the hybernate/restore function works well, that's not excessively evil. That's basically 2 games a year. More than I make it through (although fewer than I buy...). If I had 1 hour a week when I could play games I would be a lot happier. As is, the generic chores of life keep me busy.
The information is better. I was just commenting on the technical quality of the writing. You know the typical "did the editors read this submission" or "I may be a geek, but what does that acronym mean" thing that pops up frequently. Your local paper may be erronous factually, but I bet stylistically it is inferior. That said, the facts are obviously more important and I was being facitious in pretending otherwise.
Possibly, I know facts, dates and numbers. For some reason, names are interchangable in my brain. But whichever of the two is a comedian from the 20's and not a sci-fi character.
...40 years ago when Pat Paulson did it the first time.
...88 years ago when Buck Rogers did it for the real first time. Even Paulson's slogan (If elected, I will win) was a takeoff of Rogers's (If elected, I will resign.)
If you wanna play the game boy, you better learn to play it right.
A LOT of folks liked Nader, but he was kept out of the debates and marginalized by the Dems and Reps.
A lot more people liked Perot, and he got into the debates. Nader was a fringe candidate. Perot was almost mainsteam (and if had not been insane, might have actually won). Money was the primary difference between how mainstream the candidates was money.
Actually, it's exactly (9/19)^13, or 1/2.1111^13, or 0.4737^13. (American roulette wheels use both 0 and 00.) 1/.48 to any non-negative power means a 100% (or greater, but you cannot go higher than 100% in reality) likelyhood.
Give me one good reason that someone with a press pass deserves rights that you don't have without it.
The only rights it would make sense to have is access, and that is more due to either 1) generousity from a company for publicity or 2) cause only so many people can get into a white house briefing room,etc.
The former is just that a press pass makes it easy for a company to come up with a policy and people to implement it, and the latter more related to connections than a slip of paper.
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In WoW, as you fly, you see monsters/characters popping into existence below you. In Second Life, you can run into objects before you see them. "Seamless" loading doesn't make sense for many first person shooters because of the need for correctness. In WoW you cannot interact with your environment, so it doesn't matter overly much.
Also, WoW's graphics are not of highest quality. LOD pops, limited numbers of models at one time, etc.
In the past (I don't know about present day), all internet banking in South Korea was ActiveX based, as well as numerous government sites. Yes, it did require the whole country to run Internet Explorer, but was done because ActiveX was deemed a more secure alternative. I don't understand all the technical reasons, but I do know that South Korea has some very savvy IT guys, so I wouldn't dismiss their concept out of hand.
I'm anti-double standards. Truth be told, I run Opera. I never close my browser. Yes, if I close Opera and reopen it, other than refreshing the cache (which is an option I set), I cannot tell that it ever closed. And? AJAX applications, Flash thin clients on real time software, and streaming media I use consistantly throughout the day. If you are going to tell me that Firefox is only useful for loading an occasional static page and rebooting, fine. But I need a browser to do more than that, as do most people.
Lastly, as a developer, the first question I ask when there are memory problems is "are you running FireFox." More often than not, shutting that down solves the issue.
Because of the inversion of pronography and violence being the hot-button issues in Europe and America. In America, the highest ratings imply pornography (which Nintendo and Sony don't want to be associated with... cue Betamax). In Europe (generalizing becuase I have never been to England), typically nudity is more acceptable than violence.
So, to answer your question, Sony and Nintendo are fine being associated with violence (Nintendo typically cartoon), but not pornography. So, to make up for the fact that people rarely learn why the ratings are the way they are, anything with a pornographic sounding rating is a no-no.
Really, blame the American consumer or ESRB for not having a Violence/Sexuality/Language/Choose a few more categories complex rating and not a simple categorization.
Unresponsive is slow. From a user's (and my) POV, I don't care if code executes in 10ms or 299ms if the GUI refreshes every 300ms. Why, because I use a program to do things, not to marvel at the effiency of the algorithim (unless I'm examining the code).
Additionally, a lack of progress bars leads to killing processes and restarting them, making them slower in reality.
My boss just got a new Compaq laptop. It has a little button above the touchpad that toggles the pad on and off. It allows for an external use of a mouse in the office and the use of the laptop on a plane/train/whatever. Brilliant.
The same group has published other interesting studies about teen behavior.
I made several soon-to-be profitable arrangements to help various African princes get cash out of their country's banks after a military uprising. The rep I got with one convinced all his brothers to go through me as well. Soon, riches!
And it is a good reason. Lawyers have careers because the law is not cut-and-dried and it seems doubtful that anything exculpatory could be in an e-mail. So it is a liability in that sense. Why retain it, kill away.
The difference is that federal law says that those e-mails are to be preserved because of their historical value.
Okay, I have a lovely platinum set of cufflinks. They are round and have a bias relief of an eagle. The eagle's eye is made out of a small (don't know the carat offhand) diamond.
You are up.
I found it "great" in the terms of scope. I found Ramius's strength of will impressive, and nobility in his trying to avenge his wife's death. However, mostly, I found him to be a more sympathetic and successful version of Ahab.
Would I call him a hero if I worked for the CIA and needed to make him feel better about himself? Absolutely. Otherwise? Absolutely not.
That is because there is a monopoly within each geographic region. In some areas of the world, non-governmental gangs essentially control parts of cities. Where the boundaries of the monopoly are well defined, there is no fighting because no one seeks to upset the status quo. But the fact of the matter remains, you would be hard pressed to find an example (even a theoretical one) where one geographic region had multiple people allowed to use force that was not unstable. You end up with a Hatfield/McCoy problem eventually.
But if a US cop shot someone in Mexico, there would be no legal reason not to punish him.
Why is this unfortunate. I would rather any government (but especially one at purportedly operating at the behest of the citizenry) have a monopoly on force than live in a constant civil war.
Really? My garage startup porn company (GreatToOgle) has its first actress! Yes!
Time to get out the directors chair.
"ha'ima" actually means "the mother". So, while bablefish may produce errors, apparently so do reporters... Also, IIRC, in non-transliterated Hebrew, the two words are homonyms.
Other brilliant revolations offered by the experts:
More parts == more places things can go wrong == more vulnerable.
Yes, but he wants to preserve his species dominating over the company, country and society. So while the world may make less progress, it will be better for humans.
Fixed that for you. 1 hour is not a long time, but honestly, if the hybernate/restore function works well, that's not excessively evil. That's basically 2 games a year. More than I make it through (although fewer than I buy...). If I had 1 hour a week when I could play games I would be a lot happier. As is, the generic chores of life keep me busy.
The information is better. I was just commenting on the technical quality of the writing. You know the typical "did the editors read this submission" or "I may be a geek, but what does that acronym mean" thing that pops up frequently. Your local paper may be erronous factually, but I bet stylistically it is inferior. That said, the facts are obviously more important and I was being facitious in pretending otherwise.
Possibly, I know facts, dates and numbers. For some reason, names are interchangable in my brain. But whichever of the two is a comedian from the 20's and not a sci-fi character.
...88 years ago when Buck Rogers did it for the real first time. Even Paulson's slogan (If elected, I will win) was a takeoff of Rogers's (If elected, I will resign.)
If you wanna play the game boy, you better learn to play it right.
A lot more people liked Perot, and he got into the debates. Nader was a fringe candidate. Perot was almost mainsteam (and if had not been insane, might have actually won). Money was the primary difference between how mainstream the candidates was money.
Actually, it's exactly (9/19)^13, or 1/2.1111^13, or 0.4737^13. (American roulette wheels use both 0 and 00.) 1/.48 to any non-negative power means a 100% (or greater, but you cannot go higher than 100% in reality) likelyhood.
The only rights it would make sense to have is access, and that is more due to either 1) generousity from a company for publicity or 2) cause only so many people can get into a white house briefing room,etc.
The former is just that a press pass makes it easy for a company to come up with a policy and people to implement it, and the latter more related to connections than a slip of paper.
Yes, but the newspaper is often easier to read, if only for the correct spelling/grammar/technical clarity.