One thing that does it for me is when the eyelids look like they rest directly on top of the eyeball or are fully detached, rather than hover slightly on top of it so they can slide along the surface. Dolls rarely get this properly right. The eyes are always either sunken or flush.
My Amiga was a computer that was equally comfortable with CLI and GUI interfaces, and may programs with GUIs had plenty of shell commands with the same executable. I'm not sure why the rest of the computer industry turned it into a religious war that continues to this day.
Some planning and thought are all that's required to make a balanced interface that handles both methods well.
While working in a retail store, I once scanned through some promotional material for new machinery. One of the products was named, "The Profitmaker."
I supposed if you're bombarded all day by BS that shameless, you tend to tune out the warning flags after a while. Not that it makes any more sense, of course.
It would at least make it easier for web site operators to keep tabs on what the advertisers are doing. I don't think admins are too happy to find out after-the-fact that their ad services are dishing out mal-ware.
pirates may not realise that the problems they are experiencing are a result of antipiracy meausres.
They might as well. If a game dumped me to the desktop with no error message within the first 30 seconds, I automatically assumed the copy protection on my legally purchased game failed. First thing to do was get a NoCD crack and retry. Almost every time, that fixed the problem right away.
If I get an error message, then I assume it's a hardware compatibility bug or some other kind of glitch.
Personally, I'd prefer that height adjustable seats be made standard. It shocks me how many cars have awful seats (including no lumbar support), no matter what the cost of the vehicle. I never realized how bad the seats are in a standard car until I got a Subaru WRX (a car with sport trim, but without the cramped interior and low seating position).
bigger bumpers
Or actual bumpers, instead of grills with a small hump at the bottom. Also, matching bumper heights across all vehicles sizes.
Lower speed limit (like 45)
I'm sure plenty of other people will comment on this.
Tougher driving tests
They still don't use simulators? Cost effective sims have been around since Hard Drivin'.
Taking away licenses more aggressively
And hopefully, compensate with more public transportation. As it stands, even in my small hometown, owning a car is a necessity if you can't carpool.
Mandating disc brakes (probably more effective at safety)
ABS is better.
Or just some public safety commercial.
The people who will respond to safety commercials generally aren't the ones causing the problems.
I've tried installing a number of different anti-virus utilities over the years to check my system from time to time, but never used to have any permanent anti-virus protection in the background. In the 12 years I've been using Windows, I've never gotten a virus. Earlier this year, I tried Security Essentials and liked it, so I started using it permanently. Visiting a web site will occasionally warn that the site is trying to set a tracking cookie, but that's it.
The only real difference in my system usage is that I favor open source apps, I don't run any games newer than 8 years old, I never use Internet Explorer, and I have JavaScript support disabled in my PDF reader.
I also fix other people's computers. It's very rare that I find a virus, but common that I find multiple anti-virus programs fighting with each other, or massive amounts of bloatware installed. I usually replace the bloatware with open source apps, use "Autoruns" to disable the crap, and replace the mess of security suites with Security Essentials (largely because it doesn't nag about updates and fees, and updates silently). Reinstallation of Windows is almost never required. Amazingly, most people already know that they should avoid IE. I see a lot of people using Firefox, and haven't seen much of Chrome or Opera.
Frankly, the only time I saw viruses in the wild was at the class computers at my college campus. Those machines were overrun with crap. PCs are almost always unstable due to bad drivers, unnecessary background tasks, or mal-ware that must be explicitly installed.
My experience is that Windows is far superior with multimedia tasks but much worse with "real" work. Every time I try a new Linux distro (with proper video drivers), it always feels sluggish. OSX also feels like a dog even on a high-end Mac. I may not be opening a folder with thousands of files, but I am just surfing the system to see what menus are available, looking at the file structure, rapidly opening and closing browser windows, etc.
Then again, I use a retail copy of Windows, haven't used anti-virus software until just a year ago, and don't play any games that require kernel-mode DRM drivers. My WindowsXP machine is a helll of a lot faster and more responsive than, say, my mother's. Boots in 18 seconds after POST, with Apache and MySQL, no less.
Now that it's clear it can mean potential death, the passengers who wildly outnumber the terrorists can almost certainly stop him.
I would like to believe this, but then there's all those people who, when faced with a public crisis, just stand around taping the whole thing on their cell phones, content in not doing anything at all, whether personal risk is an issue or not.
It's really quite shocking how common apathy is, even when a person's own life may be in jeopardy. Not like that stops them from voting for politicians who pledge increased safety.
It's already bad enough that the lifeless basement-dwellers ruin the game for anyone else coming on to play for fun, now they get an extra advantage in more body armor and deadlier weapons too?
Threat the items like XP and match people based on how much stuff they've acquired.
Not that I know anything about online multiplayer. The last time I did that was when Quake3 was in beta on the Mac. Yeah, it's been a while.
If I'm not able to set my own prices and run my business as I please, and I have to worry about the government taking my things from me for whatever reason they choose, that is the ultimate 'fuck you'.
Does that make the new device more legally hostile? If a battery-powered device is attached to my car, I could complain about tracking. If the device hooks directly into my car battery, I could complain about damages and vandalism.
I can clearly see that the WebP images are more red/magenta than the JPEG files. I'd like to see the source images to see which format is causing more color shifts, and at what primary color intensity. Primary colors are what cause most of the artifacts because of how these lossy image formats separate the luminance from the color during compression.
Overall, it looks like the image formats are visually comparable, with WebP being a bit blurrier in detail areas, but showing much improvement in flat areas. I would like to have seen visual comparisons at the same file size. Making things smaller is nice, but bandwidth and storage get cheaper every day. How much quality improvement can I get for the same storage space?
I have probably around 50 free apps installed on my android, but only 2 or 3 paid apps. You think that if developers stopped giving away apps for free I'd have 53 paid apps on my phone? No way!
I'm sure that developers are quite aware of supply and demand curves. If free apps are good enough to keep you happy, there's not much point targeting people like you.
You think that if developers stopped giving away apps for free I'd have 53 paid apps on my phone? No way! I'd probably have even less.
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Either that, or spit... or dump cups of water from the sink... or something else stupid.
Then again, this is Japan we're talking about.
All things in moderation. Avoiding what your fans have to say is no better an idea than trying to satisfy their every whim.
I thought all good developers knew that.
One thing that does it for me is when the eyelids look like they rest directly on top of the eyeball or are fully detached, rather than hover slightly on top of it so they can slide along the surface. Dolls rarely get this properly right. The eyes are always either sunken or flush.
My Amiga was a computer that was equally comfortable with CLI and GUI interfaces, and may programs with GUIs had plenty of shell commands with the same executable. I'm not sure why the rest of the computer industry turned it into a religious war that continues to this day.
Some planning and thought are all that's required to make a balanced interface that handles both methods well.
While working in a retail store, I once scanned through some promotional material for new machinery. One of the products was named, "The Profitmaker."
I supposed if you're bombarded all day by BS that shameless, you tend to tune out the warning flags after a while. Not that it makes any more sense, of course.
No worries. By then, I doubt we'll be the species, anyway.
Linux still isn't a big target market.
It would at least make it easier for web site operators to keep tabs on what the advertisers are doing. I don't think admins are too happy to find out after-the-fact that their ad services are dishing out mal-ware.
But, jail is a safe house! Thank goodness people are restricting what I can do, so that malicious reality doesn't get me.
Plus they are usually cheaper, and most definitely more disposable. Of course they will be sold more often.
pirates may not realise that the problems they are experiencing are a result of antipiracy meausres.
They might as well. If a game dumped me to the desktop with no error message within the first 30 seconds, I automatically assumed the copy protection on my legally purchased game failed. First thing to do was get a NoCD crack and retry. Almost every time, that fixed the problem right away.
If I get an error message, then I assume it's a hardware compatibility bug or some other kind of glitch.
Personally, I'd prefer that height adjustable seats be made standard. It shocks me how many cars have awful seats (including no lumbar support), no matter what the cost of the vehicle. I never realized how bad the seats are in a standard car until I got a Subaru WRX (a car with sport trim, but without the cramped interior and low seating position).
bigger bumpers
Or actual bumpers, instead of grills with a small hump at the bottom. Also, matching bumper heights across all vehicles sizes.
Lower speed limit (like 45)
I'm sure plenty of other people will comment on this.
Tougher driving tests
They still don't use simulators? Cost effective sims have been around since Hard Drivin'.
Taking away licenses more aggressively
And hopefully, compensate with more public transportation. As it stands, even in my small hometown, owning a car is a necessity if you can't carpool.
Mandating disc brakes (probably more effective at safety)
ABS is better.
Or just some public safety commercial.
The people who will respond to safety commercials generally aren't the ones causing the problems.
Hogwash.
I've tried installing a number of different anti-virus utilities over the years to check my system from time to time, but never used to have any permanent anti-virus protection in the background. In the 12 years I've been using Windows, I've never gotten a virus. Earlier this year, I tried Security Essentials and liked it, so I started using it permanently. Visiting a web site will occasionally warn that the site is trying to set a tracking cookie, but that's it.
The only real difference in my system usage is that I favor open source apps, I don't run any games newer than 8 years old, I never use Internet Explorer, and I have JavaScript support disabled in my PDF reader.
I also fix other people's computers. It's very rare that I find a virus, but common that I find multiple anti-virus programs fighting with each other, or massive amounts of bloatware installed. I usually replace the bloatware with open source apps, use "Autoruns" to disable the crap, and replace the mess of security suites with Security Essentials (largely because it doesn't nag about updates and fees, and updates silently). Reinstallation of Windows is almost never required. Amazingly, most people already know that they should avoid IE. I see a lot of people using Firefox, and haven't seen much of Chrome or Opera.
Frankly, the only time I saw viruses in the wild was at the class computers at my college campus. Those machines were overrun with crap. PCs are almost always unstable due to bad drivers, unnecessary background tasks, or mal-ware that must be explicitly installed.
guess what - we are being conditioned and paralized by fear.
People aren't afraid. They're just too lazy and apathetic to question authority.
My experience is that Windows is far superior with multimedia tasks but much worse with "real" work. Every time I try a new Linux distro (with proper video drivers), it always feels sluggish. OSX also feels like a dog even on a high-end Mac. I may not be opening a folder with thousands of files, but I am just surfing the system to see what menus are available, looking at the file structure, rapidly opening and closing browser windows, etc.
Then again, I use a retail copy of Windows, haven't used anti-virus software until just a year ago, and don't play any games that require kernel-mode DRM drivers. My WindowsXP machine is a helll of a lot faster and more responsive than, say, my mother's. Boots in 18 seconds after POST, with Apache and MySQL, no less.
Now that it's clear it can mean potential death, the passengers who wildly outnumber the terrorists can almost certainly stop him.
I would like to believe this, but then there's all those people who, when faced with a public crisis, just stand around taping the whole thing on their cell phones, content in not doing anything at all, whether personal risk is an issue or not.
It's really quite shocking how common apathy is, even when a person's own life may be in jeopardy. Not like that stops them from voting for politicians who pledge increased safety.
So, what are his ideas?
It's already bad enough that the lifeless basement-dwellers ruin the game for anyone else coming on to play for fun, now they get an extra advantage in more body armor and deadlier weapons too?
Threat the items like XP and match people based on how much stuff they've acquired.
Not that I know anything about online multiplayer. The last time I did that was when Quake3 was in beta on the Mac. Yeah, it's been a while.
If I'm not able to set my own prices and run my business as I please, and I have to worry about the government taking my things from me for whatever reason they choose, that is the ultimate 'fuck you'.
Does that make the new device more legally hostile? If a battery-powered device is attached to my car, I could complain about tracking. If the device hooks directly into my car battery, I could complain about damages and vandalism.
But which one is easier to remember? The graphical ones.
Until they change the GUI. Thankfully, the shell doesn't change too often.
I can clearly see that the WebP images are more red/magenta than the JPEG files. I'd like to see the source images to see which format is causing more color shifts, and at what primary color intensity. Primary colors are what cause most of the artifacts because of how these lossy image formats separate the luminance from the color during compression.
Overall, it looks like the image formats are visually comparable, with WebP being a bit blurrier in detail areas, but showing much improvement in flat areas. I would like to have seen visual comparisons at the same file size. Making things smaller is nice, but bandwidth and storage get cheaper every day. How much quality improvement can I get for the same storage space?
I have probably around 50 free apps installed on my android, but only 2 or 3 paid apps. You think that if developers stopped giving away apps for free I'd have 53 paid apps on my phone? No way!
I'm sure that developers are quite aware of supply and demand curves. If free apps are good enough to keep you happy, there's not much point targeting people like you.
You think that if developers stopped giving away apps for free I'd have 53 paid apps on my phone? No way! I'd probably have even less.
Yeah... more than 2 or 3.
Browsers do not excite people.
Firefox Download Day.
I don't recall Apple explicitly putting a ban on the floppy drive.
What did USB floppy drives sell for back then... over $80?