was that the Downloads window took an insane amount of memory and time to pop up, usually requiring a tweak in config to a 15 second delay before it pops up (so that small jpg downloads en masse wouldn't freeze it up). Unfortunately, it still was required for really large downloads and was easily the most annoying thing in 2.0. Having tested out this release, the download window is absolutely perfect. That in itself is enough to make me switch over completely from 2.0.
This whole thing is about free speech online, Anonymous does not in reality give a damn about the abuses committed by Scientology, as bad as they are, it's just a ploy to get more on board. Anonymous does what it wants, and the goals tend to gravitate toward removal of censorship on the tubes. Scientology has attempted to suppress its "leaked documents" so that they could scam more suckers out of their lunch money to read about Xenu and friends, as well as gone postal over any time it is portrayed negatively in the media (look at the threats against YTMND and the issue with South Park).
It may seem like this stunt and the "hackers on steroids" are necessarily incompatible, but when you understand the reason behind this entire thing it makes a lot more sense.
Why do you think broadband is somehow different from other public utilities? Saying "oh gee we can just break up the monopolies" is all well and good but that's not really a solution as they'll just re-form with time. Companies are not going to go around laying fiber on a whim, there needs to be some sort of financial incentive. Utah has shown this through their UTOPIA program where municipal governments have installed the fiber themselves and then leased it out to a multitude of service providers (with a MANDATED minimum of 100mbps). The free market is great for harnessing existing infrastructure but it really sucks when it comes to building up the basics and that's what we're seeing now. Add in the fact that to lay fiber the companies have to dig up public roads adding another layer of complexity to the mix and the whole lolbertarian "let the market figure it all out" solution just isn't practical.
Obama has an amazingly detailed plan of how to fix America's broadband situation which/.ers might find interesting (I didn't know about it until I was linked elsewhere). Clinton just says "blah blah tax incentives", and other candidates like Romney don't even discuss it, but Obama seems to really care about the issue (for example, discussing raising the minimum speed that can be called "broadband" from 200kbps which is indeed amazingly low). I think he's probably the only candidate who doesn't put the Internet on the back burner, and from the debates it seems like it's not just a bunch of interns writing this stuff up, he actually knows what he's talking about. It's a shame a lot of other candidates don't seem to care, because Internet access ties in very strongly with education issues and restoring America's technological and scientific place in the world.
I imagine that if you can't get such fancy infrastructure as "power" and "water" working that Iraq would be the source of a lot of trouble tickets.
Clearly, the only real alternative is North Korea.
A lot of real quality mods didn't come to light in the Unreleased, which is a shame. More of the same stuff we always see, more of the same mechanics and scenarios. Still a lot of "hey we have a lot of models" with no actual new code or gameplay being shown off. Zombie Panic had an absolutely awful launch and I still prefer Zombie Master. Insurgency is a snoozefest, I really tried to like it, though. Project Reality is fine if you can find a populated server: good luck! Empires is really the best one out of the picks gameplay wise as the customizable tank thing and the amazingly well done RTS/FPS hybrid system makes it shine. It's still imperfect though.
Also, the narrator wasn't so great, sounds like they just hired some random teenager or something. This sort of production should have a more professional tone IMO.
The iMac is $1199. For that price you could get a good gaming computer with a Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 8800GT, and additionally buy a suite with video editing programs to get the software that comes standard with a Mac. Comparing a $1200 computer with a "cheap" PC is not a fair comparison.
They're not going to clone the animals they kill for meat. They'll clone a bunch of copies of a healthy cow/bull with good genetic stock then have it reproduce and use the offspring for meat. Way more cost-efficient.
Oh wow, talk about forgetting to change it to "plain old text". Let's try that again.
Obviously, not all of these (okay, most) can be done with the power of the executive, but I'm confident with Bush's legacy in mind at least quite a few can be.
- Pull troops out of Iraq ASAP, send UN peacekeeping forces. During the interim period, not only loosen but remove the restrictions on Baathists (who knew how to run a secular government) serving in public office. Focus on building infrastructure, aid programs, microlending.
- Take a hard-line stance on Pakistan. Press Musharraf to allow a limited-scope special forces operation in limited areas of Pakistan in an attempt to track down Osama bin Laden. Call him on the bullshit regarding the assassination of Bhutto. It wasn't a bloody sunroof lever.
- Focus on combating the Taliban in Afghanistan. As with Iraq, build infrastructure and microlending to encourage startups, especially ones ravaged by the war.
- Get Congress to pass legislation forbidding unlabeled "supplements" from being marketed as a treatment of any disease (not just OK with a stupid little label and no bite), aggressively shutting down and jailing fraudsters like Kevin Trudeau. "Alternative medicine" needs to be leashed and if any of its various claims do not meet a minimum double-blind study proving effectiveness, not just that it won't kill you, anyone who practices them needs to be stripped of their medical license and jailed for fraud.
- Work on national education regarding obesity, specifically the ways that it can be fought (through exercise and diet changes). Possibly some sort of program where the government matches private funds for programs like Weight Watchers, dietitians, or personal trainers. We could let the stupid be stupid or we could stop the drain on our health care dollars by doing something about it. In a perfect world, those who become obese by their own free will would simply accept the consequences of their actions (and probably die at 25 of a heart attack), but that's not how it works now.
- Carbon tax.
- Subsidize nuclear power plant construction across the country. We need clean power, and we need it now. Manhattan Project-like R&D for superconductors, hydrogen as a energy storage mechanism, better and cleaner batteries, anything that can take the US from a petrochemical economy to an electric economy. We can't slack on either the storage or production aspects - we have to have storage mechanisms that are largely free of heavy metals and don't require dumping all sorts of crap into the atmosphere, and we need to have efficient and clean power production. Solar isn't efficient enough; we can worry about improving it later.
- Federal funding for those who stand in elections, both local and possibly national. Restrict viable candidates to a set budget which they may provide themselves or have provided for them. Ordinary Americans would be able to run for office just like anyone else. - Legalize marijuana. Up the tobacco-buying age to 21. Alcohol can be used responsibly, as can marijuana. Tobacco is a classy way to kill yourself, as Vonnegut noted. Do more research on harmful effects of drugs and possibly legalize (with medical supervision) LSD and "magic mushrooms". At the same time, education programs for meth, heroin, cocaine, and other clearly harmful substances. Stop spouting BS about weed and start teaching the facts about drugs. They're bad enough, they don't need more exaggeration.
- Death penalty needs to go.
- Prison reform. We need to not only treat the effect but the cause - this means we need to really dive into the root causes of crime and fix them one by one.
- Like was said in another comment:
The first and only thing I can think of right now is get rid of this whole enemy combatant thing. Tell the directors of the CIA and any armed forces involved "You have 30 days to reclassify all the enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay and wherever else they're being held. 30 days from
Obviously, not all of these (okay, most) can be done with the power of the executive, but I'm confident with Bush's legacy in mind at least quite a few can be.
- Pull troops out of Iraq ASAP, send UN peacekeeping forces. During the interim period, not only loosen but remove the restrictions on Baathists (who knew how to run a secular government) serving in public office. Focus on building infrastructure, aid programs, microlending.
- Take a hard-line stance on Pakistan. Press Musharraf to allow a limited-scope special forces operation in limited areas of Pakistan in an attempt to track down Osama bin Laden. Call him on the bullshit regarding the assassination of Bhutto. It wasn't a bloody sunroof lever.
- Focus on combating the Taliban in Afghanistan. As with Iraq, build infrastructure and microlending to encourage startups, especially ones ravaged by the war.
- Get Congress to pass legislation forbidding unlabeled "supplements" from being marketed as a treatment of any disease (not just OK with a stupid little label and no bite), aggressively shutting down and jailing fraudsters like Kevin Trudeau. "Alternative medicine" needs to be leashed and if any of its various claims do not meet a minimum double-blind study proving effectiveness, not just that it won't kill you, anyone who practices them needs to be stripped of their medical license and jailed for fraud.
- Work on national education regarding obesity, specifically the ways that it can be fought (through exercise and diet changes). Possibly some sort of program where the government matches private funds for programs like Weight Watchers, dietitians, or personal trainers. We could let the stupid be stupid or we could stop the drain on our health care dollars by doing something about it. In a perfect world, those who become obese by their own free will would simply accept the consequences of their actions (and probably die at 25 of a heart attack), but that's not how it works now.
- Carbon tax.
- Subsidize nuclear power plant construction across the country. We need clean power, and we need it now. Manhattan Project-like R&D for superconductors, hydrogen as a energy storage mechanism, better and cleaner batteries, anything that can take the US from a petrochemical economy to an electric economy. We can't slack on either the storage or production aspects - we have to have storage mechanisms that are largely free of heavy metals and don't require dumping all sorts of crap into the atmosphere, and we need to have efficient and clean power production. Solar isn't efficient enough; we can worry about improving it later.
- Federal funding for those who stand in elections, both local and possibly national. Restrict viable candidates to a set budget which they may provide themselves or have provided for them. Ordinary Americans would be able to run for office just like anyone else.
- Legalize marijuana. Up the tobacco-buying age to 21. Alcohol can be used responsibly, as can marijuana. Tobacco is a classy way to kill yourself, as Vonnegut noted. Do more research on harmful effects of drugs and possibly legalize (with medical supervision) LSD and "magic mushrooms". At the same time, education programs for meth, heroin, cocaine, and other clearly harmful substances. Stop spouting BS about weed and start teaching the facts about drugs. They're bad enough, they don't need more exaggeration.
- Death penalty needs to go.
- Prison reform. We need to not only treat the effect but the cause - this means we need to really dive into the root causes of crime and fix them one by one.
- Like was said in another comment:
The first and only thing I can think of right now is get rid of this whole enemy combatant thing. Tell the directors of the CIA and any armed forces involved "You have 30 days to reclassify all the enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay and wherever else they're being held. 30 days from now, they will ALL be either charged with a crime and given legal representation, classified prisoners of war and allowed visits by the Red Cross, or set free
Are we so vain as to think that our first purpose is to keep some slim vestige of humanity in existance?
We've been doing it for millions of years, why stop now? It's not really vanity, just a natural outgrowth of reproductive fitness in a modern society (one where the threat to humanity is no longer disease or starvation, at least in developed countries). To think that humanity has somehow escaped the evolutionary need to keep the species alive just because we have fancy people-transporting machines and a understanding of our own origins is more vain, IMO.
Well, um, sort of - depending on your definition of "run". World in Conflict and a few other DX10 titles support dual monitors, and seem to work well on my paired 1440x900 displays, so I can't imagine it being much different all in one - so technically it can support the fill rate, and they're designed to run at that res.
Of course that's using one monitor as a separate sort of display - a minimap or other useful feature. "normal" games would most likely have their UIs stretched beyond recognition if they attempted to add the extra width "normally". So it's not really a technical issue but an issue of "how can we make this work both 1. as a completely non-standard resolution and 2. as one display without cheating and making half the screen our inventory or something".
Problem (pretty much) solved. Anything that doesn't take over 10 seconds to completely download will never pop up that blasted box and you won't get the chugging.
One problem I've had with it is that it takes a hell of a long time to go from save to download window. It sits there for up to fifteen seconds then pops up the download window, even if it was minimized. I set my delay time in about.config to a long time so that most images don't even prompt the window to pop up, which has helped.
I happen to remember Obama saying that nuclear power had a place in solving the global warming dilemma on one of those C-SPAN debates. I don't think he's vehemently anti-nuke at all, and Internet seems to agree. But I think it's fishy none of the candidates are taking sides one way or the other on such an important issue.
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*GLONASS satellite explodes* "Haha, you thought you could buzz over our carrier and get away with it..err..I mean..sorry about the miss."
was that the Downloads window took an insane amount of memory and time to pop up, usually requiring a tweak in config to a 15 second delay before it pops up (so that small jpg downloads en masse wouldn't freeze it up). Unfortunately, it still was required for really large downloads and was easily the most annoying thing in 2.0. Having tested out this release, the download window is absolutely perfect. That in itself is enough to make me switch over completely from 2.0.
This whole thing is about free speech online, Anonymous does not in reality give a damn about the abuses committed by Scientology, as bad as they are, it's just a ploy to get more on board. Anonymous does what it wants, and the goals tend to gravitate toward removal of censorship on the tubes. Scientology has attempted to suppress its "leaked documents" so that they could scam more suckers out of their lunch money to read about Xenu and friends, as well as gone postal over any time it is portrayed negatively in the media (look at the threats against YTMND and the issue with South Park). It may seem like this stunt and the "hackers on steroids" are necessarily incompatible, but when you understand the reason behind this entire thing it makes a lot more sense.
Why do you think broadband is somehow different from other public utilities? Saying "oh gee we can just break up the monopolies" is all well and good but that's not really a solution as they'll just re-form with time. Companies are not going to go around laying fiber on a whim, there needs to be some sort of financial incentive. Utah has shown this through their UTOPIA program where municipal governments have installed the fiber themselves and then leased it out to a multitude of service providers (with a MANDATED minimum of 100mbps). The free market is great for harnessing existing infrastructure but it really sucks when it comes to building up the basics and that's what we're seeing now. Add in the fact that to lay fiber the companies have to dig up public roads adding another layer of complexity to the mix and the whole lolbertarian "let the market figure it all out" solution just isn't practical.
Obama has an amazingly detailed plan of how to fix America's broadband situation which /.ers might find interesting (I didn't know about it until I was linked elsewhere). Clinton just says "blah blah tax incentives", and other candidates like Romney don't even discuss it, but Obama seems to really care about the issue (for example, discussing raising the minimum speed that can be called "broadband" from 200kbps which is indeed amazingly low). I think he's probably the only candidate who doesn't put the Internet on the back burner, and from the debates it seems like it's not just a bunch of interns writing this stuff up, he actually knows what he's talking about. It's a shame a lot of other candidates don't seem to care, because Internet access ties in very strongly with education issues and restoring America's technological and scientific place in the world.
I will sign no nuclear treaty!
I imagine that if you can't get such fancy infrastructure as "power" and "water" working that Iraq would be the source of a lot of trouble tickets. Clearly, the only real alternative is North Korea.
A lot of real quality mods didn't come to light in the Unreleased, which is a shame. More of the same stuff we always see, more of the same mechanics and scenarios. Still a lot of "hey we have a lot of models" with no actual new code or gameplay being shown off. Zombie Panic had an absolutely awful launch and I still prefer Zombie Master. Insurgency is a snoozefest, I really tried to like it, though. Project Reality is fine if you can find a populated server: good luck! Empires is really the best one out of the picks gameplay wise as the customizable tank thing and the amazingly well done RTS/FPS hybrid system makes it shine. It's still imperfect though.
Also, the narrator wasn't so great, sounds like they just hired some random teenager or something. This sort of production should have a more professional tone IMO.
Nah, the whole thing was all one big System Restore.
Menhart, what have you done? You've changed the future! You've created a time paradox!
Does Slashdot contract them out for the comments section or something?
...co-exist peacefully..within the same egg.
Uh..from the name I would assume a microphone that attempts to isolate the speaker's voice and reduce noise?
The iMac is $1199. For that price you could get a good gaming computer with a Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 8800GT, and additionally buy a suite with video editing programs to get the software that comes standard with a Mac. Comparing a $1200 computer with a "cheap" PC is not a fair comparison.
They're not going to clone the animals they kill for meat. They'll clone a bunch of copies of a healthy cow/bull with good genetic stock then have it reproduce and use the offspring for meat. Way more cost-efficient.
Obviously, not all of these (okay, most) can be done with the power of the executive, but I'm confident with Bush's legacy in mind at least quite a few can be.
- Pull troops out of Iraq ASAP, send UN peacekeeping forces. During the interim period, not only loosen but remove the restrictions on Baathists (who knew how to run a secular government) serving in public office. Focus on building infrastructure, aid programs, microlending.
- Take a hard-line stance on Pakistan. Press Musharraf to allow a limited-scope special forces operation in limited areas of Pakistan in an attempt to track down Osama bin Laden. Call him on the bullshit regarding the assassination of Bhutto. It wasn't a bloody sunroof lever.
- Focus on combating the Taliban in Afghanistan. As with Iraq, build infrastructure and microlending to encourage startups, especially ones ravaged by the war.
- Get Congress to pass legislation forbidding unlabeled "supplements" from being marketed as a treatment of any disease (not just OK with a stupid little label and no bite), aggressively shutting down and jailing fraudsters like Kevin Trudeau. "Alternative medicine" needs to be leashed and if any of its various claims do not meet a minimum double-blind study proving effectiveness, not just that it won't kill you, anyone who practices them needs to be stripped of their medical license and jailed for fraud.
- Work on national education regarding obesity, specifically the ways that it can be fought (through exercise and diet changes). Possibly some sort of program where the government matches private funds for programs like Weight Watchers, dietitians, or personal trainers. We could let the stupid be stupid or we could stop the drain on our health care dollars by doing something about it. In a perfect world, those who become obese by their own free will would simply accept the consequences of their actions (and probably die at 25 of a heart attack), but that's not how it works now.
- Carbon tax.
- Subsidize nuclear power plant construction across the country. We need clean power, and we need it now. Manhattan Project-like R&D for superconductors, hydrogen as a energy storage mechanism, better and cleaner batteries, anything that can take the US from a petrochemical economy to an electric economy. We can't slack on either the storage or production aspects - we have to have storage mechanisms that are largely free of heavy metals and don't require dumping all sorts of crap into the atmosphere, and we need to have efficient and clean power production. Solar isn't efficient enough; we can worry about improving it later.
- Federal funding for those who stand in elections, both local and possibly national. Restrict viable candidates to a set budget which they may provide themselves or have provided for them. Ordinary Americans would be able to run for office just like anyone else. - Legalize marijuana. Up the tobacco-buying age to 21. Alcohol can be used responsibly, as can marijuana. Tobacco is a classy way to kill yourself, as Vonnegut noted. Do more research on harmful effects of drugs and possibly legalize (with medical supervision) LSD and "magic mushrooms". At the same time, education programs for meth, heroin, cocaine, and other clearly harmful substances. Stop spouting BS about weed and start teaching the facts about drugs. They're bad enough, they don't need more exaggeration.
- Death penalty needs to go.
- Prison reform. We need to not only treat the effect but the cause - this means we need to really dive into the root causes of crime and fix them one by one.
- Like was said in another comment:
Well, um, sort of - depending on your definition of "run". World in Conflict and a few other DX10 titles support dual monitors, and seem to work well on my paired 1440x900 displays, so I can't imagine it being much different all in one - so technically it can support the fill rate, and they're designed to run at that res.
Of course that's using one monitor as a separate sort of display - a minimap or other useful feature. "normal" games would most likely have their UIs stretched beyond recognition if they attempted to add the extra width "normally". So it's not really a technical issue but an issue of "how can we make this work both 1. as a completely non-standard resolution and 2. as one display without cheating and making half the screen our inventory or something".
No, we're still waiting on the space robots. These ones don't know the terrible secret of space, so how could they protect us from it?
A Beowulf cluster of bicycle-laden MIT students.
I feel suddenly dirty.
browser.download.manager.openDelay 10000
Problem (pretty much) solved. Anything that doesn't take over 10 seconds to completely download will never pop up that blasted box and you won't get the chugging.
One problem I've had with it is that it takes a hell of a long time to go from save to download window. It sits there for up to fifteen seconds then pops up the download window, even if it was minimized. I set my delay time in about.config to a long time so that most images don't even prompt the window to pop up, which has helped.
I happen to remember Obama saying that nuclear power had a place in solving the global warming dilemma on one of those C-SPAN debates. I don't think he's vehemently anti-nuke at all, and Internet seems to agree. But I think it's fishy none of the candidates are taking sides one way or the other on such an important issue.
DON'T PANIC!