Logic doesn't work on both, unless your copy is older than 2002. Apple bought eMagic around then, and made it mac only. That's the reason I have a mac. I've grown increasingly annoyed with OSX over the years:-(
I have both a Sidstation (one of the last ones they made) and Quadrasid, and to be honest I use Quadrasid more even though it's technically a bit less authentic. Quadrasid is great:-D I have the Rob Hubbard expansion pack as well. You may also be interested in Chip32.
Also, for USians who are paying attention at all, it is not confusing. I live in California, and I was surprised anyone made the mistake. (Let alone the number of commenters who made the same mistake...)
I love my n800. I just wish the n900 were more of a step up tech-wise, or it had come out a couple years ago. (Also, I wish Nokia would learn how to make better touch screens, though what they've got is fine for my purposes.)
It came out on Windows at the same time as Wii, according to Wikipedia. The Linux version, which is what I got, came a few months later. I recommend it for people who want to play games but don't want to buy Windows (or a Wii!). I thought it was a really good game for the price.
I always thought there was sort of an unpleasant middle range. At 640x480 and 800x600, everything looks kind of meh and unattractive, where at 320x200 (or 240 and so on) there's a sort of quaint charm to it, even if it's primitive. Past 1024x768, things start to look a bit better again IMO, though my eyes just aren't good enough to keep up with high DPI. (It's really sad how unscalable UI is in 2010, though we've made some progress at least.)
Sure, I realize this. But you could give the same response if the headline were "FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of Google's Image Search Page", and that headline is clearly inaccurate. The only difference is in a the degree of inaccuracy, not whether it's inaccurate.
In general media it's forgivable, but can't we make an effort at technical accuracy on Slashdot? I didn't see anything in the summary or in the article itself about "the Web".
Ugh, "an LED". As marketroid-speak for "an LCD display which happens to use LED backlights", it is somewhat annoying, because there exist actual LED displays (meaning two-dimensional arrays of LEDs), even if they are not on the market at present. I prefer to avoid using the marketing term, because it is misleading and implies they are not LCD displays.
This is still stereoscopy. Specifically, it's called autostereoscopy (sometimes "auto-stereoscopy" with a hyphen). I don't know why the article fails to include the common term that has been used to refer to this technology for decades (that is, since the mid-80s when it was invented).
Reading the word "blogosphere" doesn't bother me, but I don't think I could say it with a straight face. In fact, I felt compelled to put scare quotes around it in this post. "Tweet", on the other hand, is annoying to me, but maybe that's because I find Twitter annoying;-)
I personally found it much easier to quit drinking soda (and I drank a ton, like you) when I switched to *only* drinking water. I don't know why, but I had a really hard time getting myself to drink any water at first, but it didn't take too long to get used to it. Eventually the opposite happens, and the thought of soda sounds really gross, while water sounds nice.
It can also help if you take the opportunity to do more exercise. Water will sound more attractive than soda after exercise, generally speaking. And the combination of more exercise with quitting soda will help a lot:-)
It said my score was 43. Now, I feel I'm a fairly empathetic person, and I do try to be even-handed (which doesn't mean "there's two sides to every issue", what kind of stupid question was that?) but even-handedness does not imply empathy, and can often work against it.
Reading several questions, I got the feeling a lot of people would think "yeah, yeah, I'm a good guy, I'm like that", when in fact they aren't. I have no evidence of this bias if it exists, but that'd be my guess for how so many people scored as high or higher than 51.
I recall the term "climate change" from the 90s, when I first learned about the IPCC in high school (it's the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"). I've looked up the IPCC to sanity check my memory, and it has existed in that name since 1988. I've also checked your claim about Frank Luntz; it appears that he did decide to use the term "climate change" for political reasons, as you say. But he definitely did not invent the term, as it was around and in common use long before the Bush administration.
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Logic doesn't work on both, unless your copy is older than 2002. Apple bought eMagic around then, and made it mac only. That's the reason I have a mac. I've grown increasingly annoyed with OSX over the years :-(
The word (and concept) of "unobtainium" goes back to the 50s at least, actually.
I have both a Sidstation (one of the last ones they made) and Quadrasid, and to be honest I use Quadrasid more even though it's technically a bit less authentic. Quadrasid is great :-D I have the Rob Hubbard expansion pack as well. You may also be interested in Chip32.
Also, for USians who are paying attention at all, it is not confusing. I live in California, and I was surprised anyone made the mistake. (Let alone the number of commenters who made the same mistake...)
The article is bad. They're actually attacking the HMAC, not the cleartext password. http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-security/2010-July/001156.html
I love my n800. I just wish the n900 were more of a step up tech-wise, or it had come out a couple years ago. (Also, I wish Nokia would learn how to make better touch screens, though what they've got is fine for my purposes.)
It came out on Windows at the same time as Wii, according to Wikipedia. The Linux version, which is what I got, came a few months later. I recommend it for people who want to play games but don't want to buy Windows (or a Wii!). I thought it was a really good game for the price.
I always thought there was sort of an unpleasant middle range. At 640x480 and 800x600, everything looks kind of meh and unattractive, where at 320x200 (or 240 and so on) there's a sort of quaint charm to it, even if it's primitive. Past 1024x768, things start to look a bit better again IMO, though my eyes just aren't good enough to keep up with high DPI. (It's really sad how unscalable UI is in 2010, though we've made some progress at least.)
Sure, I realize this. But you could give the same response if the headline were "FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of Google's Image Search Page", and that headline is clearly inaccurate. The only difference is in a the degree of inaccuracy, not whether it's inaccurate.
In general media it's forgivable, but can't we make an effort at technical accuracy on Slashdot? I didn't see anything in the summary or in the article itself about "the Web".
Ah, I was not trying debate your main point. I was just bringing up a matter of terminology, which I think is important :-)
Ugh, "an LED". As marketroid-speak for "an LCD display which happens to use LED backlights", it is somewhat annoying, because there exist actual LED displays (meaning two-dimensional arrays of LEDs), even if they are not on the market at present. I prefer to avoid using the marketing term, because it is misleading and implies they are not LCD displays.
This is still stereoscopy. Specifically, it's called autostereoscopy (sometimes "auto-stereoscopy" with a hyphen). I don't know why the article fails to include the common term that has been used to refer to this technology for decades (that is, since the mid-80s when it was invented).
Reading the word "blogosphere" doesn't bother me, but I don't think I could say it with a straight face. In fact, I felt compelled to put scare quotes around it in this post. "Tweet", on the other hand, is annoying to me, but maybe that's because I find Twitter annoying ;-)
It's pretty obvious this award-winning journalist hasn't "avoided selling out".
I personally found it much easier to quit drinking soda (and I drank a ton, like you) when I switched to *only* drinking water. I don't know why, but I had a really hard time getting myself to drink any water at first, but it didn't take too long to get used to it. Eventually the opposite happens, and the thought of soda sounds really gross, while water sounds nice.
It can also help if you take the opportunity to do more exercise. Water will sound more attractive than soda after exercise, generally speaking. And the combination of more exercise with quitting soda will help a lot :-)
As much as I love your rant AND your coinage, I can't help but feel Emophilia should be love of Emo Philips. Man, I love that guy.
It said my score was 43. Now, I feel I'm a fairly empathetic person, and I do try to be even-handed (which doesn't mean "there's two sides to every issue", what kind of stupid question was that?) but even-handedness does not imply empathy, and can often work against it.
Reading several questions, I got the feeling a lot of people would think "yeah, yeah, I'm a good guy, I'm like that", when in fact they aren't. I have no evidence of this bias if it exists, but that'd be my guess for how so many people scored as high or higher than 51.
Ah, until you part ways and both move out, and your stuff goes missing :-( (happened to me)
Different human actors? How silly! You could simply limit sales of each movie to one copy. Much less work!
Doesn't have to be friends. Just people you know. Possibly people you knew a decade or two ago, actually.
What do you mean? MicroApple has always been at war with Oceania!
Sure. I wasn't trying to take a side in the debate, though personally I'm on your side. I was only fact checking.
I recall the term "climate change" from the 90s, when I first learned about the IPCC in high school (it's the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"). I've looked up the IPCC to sanity check my memory, and it has existed in that name since 1988. I've also checked your claim about Frank Luntz; it appears that he did decide to use the term "climate change" for political reasons, as you say. But he definitely did not invent the term, as it was around and in common use long before the Bush administration.
Occasionally this is helpful for me. "Oh, there's a new book by such-and-such? Didn't know."