It's also probably not different enough from his real job. It is a good suggestion though, I have an app that is making me a decent amount of pocket money:)
I never understood it either. I got ICQ in 97 (6 digit number) but I think all my friends started to swap to MSN, or use it for IM for the first time, around 2001. At the time I was like - what the hell. I mean it didn't even have offline messaging, and still didn't until maybe 2 years ago. I never did see the reason for the switch - I presume it was simply because Windows XP started to come with Windows Messenger by default, and people were just discovering IM. And if you know a lot of people on a certain protocol, you start using that one.
Remember the 'talk to random people' function? Haha, I don't think you could ever get away with that these days. Anyone know if that is still a feature?
I do this but it has its downsides. Very few games can mix 5.1 over spdif so you won't get surround in games this way. Works fine for movies and sounds great even on on-board sound though.
I think digital cameras started it. More mega pixels = better! (even if the lense is a piece of ****). But now it has spread to TV's and games.
I have a HD projector and I play games on a 95" screen and do you think I really cared that halo3 used a 640 line frame buffer? Hell no, because it still looked damn fine. Only the end result is what matters, but that is subjective and hard to quantify. Saying I have more pixels than you is much easier:)
Total FUD. New versions of the Live Maps API come with a completely different javascript and a different url to reach the javascript - the old one remains available though.
What is the first thing you want to do with a music player? Put some music on it. Well, there's no easy way to do this in iTunes. You have to build a music library by searching disk. What do you do if you move from one storage network to another? Uninstall iTunes, reinstall, and search the new disk space? What do you do if you add some tracks to disk? There's no obvious incremental search. Drag-n-drop did nothing. Searching menus was fruitless.
Uh you can just drag files and folders from explorer onto the "Library" heading on the left side of the program.
Ugh, Psygnosis becoming SCE Studio Liverpool makes me sad. Under the SCE Liverpool name they haven't really produced anything great other than Wipeout Pure for PSP. Just the same Formula 1 Playstation game over and over and over...
Uh, this is all forgetting that most HD movies come from film which run at 24 frames per second, so you aren't losing any temporal resolution if you run it at 1920x1080i @ 60hz, *and* you get more detail. Unless your displays de-interlacer is absolute shite.
The reason that quest item drop rates are particularly inaccurate is because it counts ALL kills of that mob - yet only people killing the mob WITH the quest have a shot at getting the item. Therefore the drop rates reported on thottbot are much lower than what they are in reality. How much lower depends on how popular that mob is to kill (while not having a quest to do so).
Well if you're an AV nerd it has to be Front or Rear Projection surely. Either DLP or a sony SXRD or other LCoS style sets.
LCD? You've got to be kidding. They look great in the store but in a dark room? Wheres the black? I quite like plasma but to get the size of projection you will have to sell your soul. Plus if youre into home theatre the flat panels save you exactly 0 space over RPTV because you still need somewhere to put your amp and floor standing speakers and what not.
It does an OK job at seperating the text content from the presentation but for layout it totally blows. Complex column 3 layouts in CSS are about 20x harder to understand and maintain than tables ever were. Yay negative margins.
That's a very common layout task, and it's dead simple to do with a table, but so difficult with CSS that (the last time I checked) it was considered a difficult problem even for authors of CSS books! (I haven't tried your link to the Holy Grail on A List Apart, but you must admit that a layout solution that relies on negative margins is the very definition of a kludge.)
Lol. It's true.. CSS is garbage at layout. You can however achieve column layouts pretty easily now with floated divs using negative margins. The position of all the divs are all tied in together with the widths of the other columns though and you end up with a bunch of CSS width etc values that all have to be edited at the same time for your layout to work. I'm not really sure how this is supposed to be better than just using tables.
Seperating layout from content isn't such a big deal either IMO because a) 99% of the time your html has to be in a very specific order for your layout to work, not to mention the 8000 wrapper divs and what not you have. b) Most websites run off a scripted/coded backend where most of the content is pulled from a database anyways
Who says 'reality' (whatever that is?) is better. How is going bowling with Aunt Sally and her annoying hellbrood better than Warcraft? You're still playing a game (bowling vs wow) only in that situation you're with people you don't really like. I fail to see how that is any better.
Too much of ANYTHING is bad but World of Warcraft is surely 'better' than a lot of real life activities (for them), otherwise people wouldn't enjoy playing
A friend of mine who is a teacher said to me a few weeks ago that this was common at the secondary school he teaches at now. Infact, some kids are trying to make their teacher lose their temper on purpose just so they can record it and put it on youtube later. Doing this of course makes the kids who did it a hero among their peers, and the teacher very embarassed.
2x Explorer 1x Thunderbird (email) 1x SQL Server Management Studio 2x Microsoft Visual Studio 1x Opera (browsing, 14 tabs) 2x Internet Explorer (asp.net app testing) 1x GAIM (slacking off)
Sometimes I find myself playing 20-25 hours in a week and I think to myself 'wtf' and cut back or stop completely for a while. Generally I average 10hours a week - 2x 4hr 40man raids + some organisational time before them. My guild sets pretty strict time limits on when we end a raid. Im decked out in BWL gear too with only that much time investment. I don't really see 10hours as a problem, and it's pretty cheap entertainment.
I think my guild is a bit of an exception among raiding guilds, though.
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It's also probably not different enough from his real job. It is a good suggestion though, I have an app that is making me a decent amount of pocket money :)
I never understood it either. I got ICQ in 97 (6 digit number) but I think all my friends started to swap to MSN, or use it for IM for the first time, around 2001. At the time I was like - what the hell. I mean it didn't even have offline messaging, and still didn't until maybe 2 years ago. I never did see the reason for the switch - I presume it was simply because Windows XP started to come with Windows Messenger by default, and people were just discovering IM. And if you know a lot of people on a certain protocol, you start using that one.
Remember the 'talk to random people' function? Haha, I don't think you could ever get away with that these days. Anyone know if that is still a feature?
Most people can easily see the difference between 30 and 60 fps, and possibly higher. If you're suggesting 30 is all that anyone needs, you are wrong.
I do this but it has its downsides. Very few games can mix 5.1 over spdif so you won't get surround in games this way. Works fine for movies and sounds great even on on-board sound though.
I think digital cameras started it. More mega pixels = better! (even if the lense is a piece of ****). But now it has spread to TV's and games.
:)
I have a HD projector and I play games on a 95" screen and do you think I really cared that halo3 used a 640 line frame buffer? Hell no, because it still looked damn fine. Only the end result is what matters, but that is subjective and hard to quantify. Saying I have more pixels than you is much easier
Total FUD. New versions of the Live Maps API come with a completely different javascript and a different url to reach the javascript - the old one remains available though.
PS3 uses an emulator now too, at least for PAL machines.
Uh you can just drag files and folders from explorer onto the "Library" heading on the left side of the program.
Weird. I can run Azureus (Windows XP SP2) and I can't even tell its running. Task manager currently says that it is using 1% cpu.
I know someone with the gamertag 'al qaeda airlines' so that seems to be OK :)
Ugh, Psygnosis becoming SCE Studio Liverpool makes me sad. Under the SCE Liverpool name they haven't really produced anything great other than Wipeout Pure for PSP. Just the same Formula 1 Playstation game over and over and over...
I agree. Wow is cheap as hell for the hours of entertainment it provides. Anybody who thinks its expensive must be unemployed or something :P
Uh, this is all forgetting that most HD movies come from film which run at 24 frames per second, so you aren't losing any temporal resolution if you run it at 1920x1080i @ 60hz, *and* you get more detail. Unless your displays de-interlacer is absolute shite.
The reason that quest item drop rates are particularly inaccurate is because it counts ALL kills of that mob - yet only people killing the mob WITH the quest have a shot at getting the item. Therefore the drop rates reported on thottbot are much lower than what they are in reality. How much lower depends on how popular that mob is to kill (while not having a quest to do so).
Get a set of these:
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I never go to clubs/raves/live music events without them. It makes it heaps easy to talk to people when wearing them too
WinDVD? Why when windows media player will play them.
Unfortunately, here in Australia you *do* need a phone service on your line to get an ADSL connection, because Telstra are idiots.
Lets give this guys shitty blog more hits.
1) Write article where apple is getting hard done by
2) Dis microsoft
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Well if you're an AV nerd it has to be Front or Rear Projection surely. Either DLP or a sony SXRD or other LCoS style sets.
LCD? You've got to be kidding. They look great in the store but in a dark room? Wheres the black? I quite like plasma but to get the size of projection you will have to sell your soul. Plus if youre into home theatre the flat panels save you exactly 0 space over RPTV because you still need somewhere to put your amp and floor standing speakers and what not.
It does an OK job at seperating the text content from the presentation but for layout it totally blows. Complex column 3 layouts in CSS are about 20x harder to understand and maintain than tables ever were. Yay negative margins.
Lol. It's true.. CSS is garbage at layout. You can however achieve column layouts pretty easily now with floated divs using negative margins. The position of all the divs are all tied in together with the widths of the other columns though and you end up with a bunch of CSS width etc values that all have to be edited at the same time for your layout to work. I'm not really sure how this is supposed to be better than just using tables.
Seperating layout from content isn't such a big deal either IMO because
a) 99% of the time your html has to be in a very specific order for your layout to work, not to mention the 8000 wrapper divs and what not you have.
b) Most websites run off a scripted/coded backend where most of the content is pulled from a database anyways
Who says 'reality' (whatever that is?) is better. How is going bowling with Aunt Sally and her annoying hellbrood better than Warcraft? You're still playing a game (bowling vs wow) only in that situation you're with people you don't really like. I fail to see how that is any better.
Too much of ANYTHING is bad but World of Warcraft is surely 'better' than a lot of real life activities (for them), otherwise people wouldn't enjoy playing
A friend of mine who is a teacher said to me a few weeks ago that this was common at the secondary school he teaches at now. Infact, some kids are trying to make their teacher lose their temper on purpose just so they can record it and put it on youtube later. Doing this of course makes the kids who did it a hero among their peers, and the teacher very embarassed.
I have 10.
2x Explorer
1x Thunderbird (email)
1x SQL Server Management Studio
2x Microsoft Visual Studio
1x Opera (browsing, 14 tabs)
2x Internet Explorer (asp.net app testing)
1x GAIM (slacking off)
Sometimes I find myself playing 20-25 hours in a week and I think to myself 'wtf' and cut back or stop completely for a while. Generally I average 10hours a week - 2x 4hr 40man raids + some organisational time before them. My guild sets pretty strict time limits on when we end a raid. Im decked out in BWL gear too with only that much time investment. I don't really see 10hours as a problem, and it's pretty cheap entertainment.
I think my guild is a bit of an exception among raiding guilds, though.