I'm skeptical their products would get any cheaper no matter how much money they save. People have shown how much they're willing to pay, why charge less?
I use AbiWord because gedit/wordpad just don't quite cut it sometimes.
What? Some people need to type things to be printed out, occasionally but don't give a rat's ass about fucking presentations, spreadsheets or all that other bullshit nonsense business people desperately require for their organization.
The current model needs to be brutally eliminated and rebuilt from the ground up. Outlook is a demon with no master and email are its hatred, incarnate.
This brings to mind the discussions in the commentary mode in Half Life 2 and company. A big issue with testing was keeping the players focus on something without forcing them to look a certain way, usually by some obvious event in a direction not encumbered with dull scenery.
Another focus, and I've seen this in a lot of games, is never to tell you what to do but make figuring out that the solution easy the first time in a simple form, then being given a much more complex form of it to work with sometime later. Throughout the game, you're given more 'tools' for solutions and they stack up into greater puzzles but never anything so incredibly complicated it'll piss the player off.
Research is the most important part of these massive efforts and contenders like Valve put a Hell of a lot of money into it. In this case I would suggest some of your own research applied to the already improved methods.
You are throwing stones about compliance? You fucking hypocrite. You are sitting on/. typing your rant on a computer that was largely made with Chinese parts/labor, probably wearing shoes/clothing that were made in China and god knows what else. I'm sorry but you don't get to throw stones when you live in a glass house.
These aren't logically related arguments. Though China's method and source of labor is largely tied to the government, one does not definitely rely on the other.
People also fail to understand the many layers and the sheer number of people that make up China's typically oppressive government. Mandates from the "top" can very much take immediate action but within the lesser structure decisions can be met with confusion, disorder and lead to unsightly results. This is probably what caused the mess at Tiananman Square.
Of course, as a very effective whole, PRC will never admit to the problems that plague the system. Minorities will often wreak havoc to the image of the government with their indiscretions for years to come.
Though I'm no fan of Communism at this extreme, they could have a very good thing going if they weren't squeezing so much blood from stones.
5000 connections are a lot of connections and statistically significant. It probably wasn't lack of insight or effort; in fact, it being so consistently prone to a certain error it's reasonable to assume the design fault is mankind's general experience with a voltage high enough to literally high enough to power a lightbulb on the other side of the planet regardless of voltage drop.
Even fixing the damn thing over and over is teaching someone something important. After all the effort it would be downright stupid to give up on it now.
Now highway cops will have these handy-dandy devices that will also detect legal drugs but will still try to arrest you for being "influenced".
If you're not having problems driving, communicating or making rational decisions then the drug isn't harmful, some people need things like amphetamines to be rational.
Maybe this is a fair weapon against irresponsible driving, but all I can see on the surface is another tool for abuse.
This is bullshit, but it's one person who made himself obvious. As much as I'd love to see these awful laws overturned, it's easier to make breaking them a natural habit for everyone so that one day the laws will be forgotten to all but the most pragmatic.
Of course, that won't actually work, because we all know that Orwell was right and the government is destined to have the all-seeing eye and will eventually have the resources to pacify every thought-criminal. Instead we should focus on la revolution.
I used to eat the Hell out of chocolate, trying every new candy bar I saw, getting it as a present a lot, it just being plain available. In the last few years I'm not so interested, kind of worn out on it. I like a good piece of really, strikingly, of my god my glands are swelling dark chocolate, but I don't gobble it up the way I used to.
This is probably just an attempt to boost the market for dark chocolate. Some people who just read about this study before it's even conducted may be lead to assume that dark chocolate is a healthy alternative to a well-balanced diet and maybe exercise, or believe chocolate is somehow good for diabetes, or any number of other negative effects.
Worse, due to the desire to have a healthier lifestyle and the target audience being social, this false belief may get disseminated further.
I do hope that for the sake of ethics these people are honestly in the belief that dark chocolate will have a positive effect on this group are not just trying to sell more chocolate.
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I found it interesting, though it would have been a little easier in larger doses.
Shut up and start Thinking Differently, asshole!
Cell phones are such a bitch to take apart these days, though... sometimes they're even glued together at some parts!
I'm skeptical their products would get any cheaper no matter how much money they save. People have shown how much they're willing to pay, why charge less?
(and for goodness sake, make sure FF doesn't include ad blocking by default)
For longest time, popup blocking was ad-blocking and it has long been default in Firefox.
If somehow I suddenly had to pay for all news on the internet, I probably would stop reading news.
Appreciated.
I use AbiWord because gedit/wordpad just don't quite cut it sometimes.
What? Some people need to type things to be printed out, occasionally but don't give a rat's ass about fucking presentations, spreadsheets or all that other bullshit nonsense business people desperately require for their organization.
The current model needs to be brutally eliminated and rebuilt from the ground up. Outlook is a demon with no master and email are its hatred, incarnate.
Open Office is to Microsoft Office as Microsoft Windows is to ...
Everything else?
I like the ribbon, it's helped me convince people to use Open Office.
Wait, what? Ah, shit...
This brings to mind the discussions in the commentary mode in Half Life 2 and company. A big issue with testing was keeping the players focus on something without forcing them to look a certain way, usually by some obvious event in a direction not encumbered with dull scenery.
Another focus, and I've seen this in a lot of games, is never to tell you what to do but make figuring out that the solution easy the first time in a simple form, then being given a much more complex form of it to work with sometime later. Throughout the game, you're given more 'tools' for solutions and they stack up into greater puzzles but never anything so incredibly complicated it'll piss the player off.
Research is the most important part of these massive efforts and contenders like Valve put a Hell of a lot of money into it. In this case I would suggest some of your own research applied to the already improved methods.
You impress me with your pretty words and brainy thinking, eldavojohn.
Wrong country, right joke. Still delightfully offensive.
You are throwing stones about compliance? You fucking hypocrite. You are sitting on /. typing your rant on a computer that was largely made with Chinese parts/labor, probably wearing shoes/clothing that were made in China and god knows what else. I'm sorry but you don't get to throw stones when you live in a glass house.
These aren't logically related arguments. Though China's method and source of labor is largely tied to the government, one does not definitely rely on the other.
People also fail to understand the many layers and the sheer number of people that make up China's typically oppressive government. Mandates from the "top" can very much take immediate action but within the lesser structure decisions can be met with confusion, disorder and lead to unsightly results. This is probably what caused the mess at Tiananman Square.
Of course, as a very effective whole, PRC will never admit to the problems that plague the system. Minorities will often wreak havoc to the image of the government with their indiscretions for years to come.
Though I'm no fan of Communism at this extreme, they could have a very good thing going if they weren't squeezing so much blood from stones.
PvP? Sounds more like he got banned for failure to follow an ever-changing ToS.
You're telling me there's a difference between electromotive force pushing electrons through conductors and what is discussed here?
I hope you fight it to the Supreme Court when they arrest you for failure to cooperate.
5000 connections are a lot of connections and statistically significant. It probably wasn't lack of insight or effort; in fact, it being so consistently prone to a certain error it's reasonable to assume the design fault is mankind's general experience with a voltage high enough to literally high enough to power a lightbulb on the other side of the planet regardless of voltage drop.
Even fixing the damn thing over and over is teaching someone something important. After all the effort it would be downright stupid to give up on it now.
Now highway cops will have these handy-dandy devices that will also detect legal drugs but will still try to arrest you for being "influenced".
If you're not having problems driving, communicating or making rational decisions then the drug isn't harmful, some people need things like amphetamines to be rational.
Maybe this is a fair weapon against irresponsible driving, but all I can see on the surface is another tool for abuse.
This is bullshit, but it's one person who made himself obvious. As much as I'd love to see these awful laws overturned, it's easier to make breaking them a natural habit for everyone so that one day the laws will be forgotten to all but the most pragmatic.
Of course, that won't actually work, because we all know that Orwell was right and the government is destined to have the all-seeing eye and will eventually have the resources to pacify every thought-criminal. Instead we should focus on la revolution.
Just because it's all in someone's head doesn't mean they aren't suffering from it.
I used to eat the Hell out of chocolate, trying every new candy bar I saw, getting it as a present a lot, it just being plain available. In the last few years I'm not so interested, kind of worn out on it. I like a good piece of really, strikingly, of my god my glands are swelling dark chocolate, but I don't gobble it up the way I used to.
This is probably just an attempt to boost the market for dark chocolate. Some people who just read about this study before it's even conducted may be lead to assume that dark chocolate is a healthy alternative to a well-balanced diet and maybe exercise, or believe chocolate is somehow good for diabetes, or any number of other negative effects.
Worse, due to the desire to have a healthier lifestyle and the target audience being social, this false belief may get disseminated further.
I do hope that for the sake of ethics these people are honestly in the belief that dark chocolate will have a positive effect on this group are not just trying to sell more chocolate.
I wish I had a car, a boat, a hot tub, and four friends!