You have bought a product that is advertised explicitly work with only a single piece of software. Hardware and software are usually tied together. Or did you not notice that all the whizbang control features of say a Canon printer aren't necessarily accessible from the drivers/software for an HP? Stop whining and if you want to use whatever peice of software you want, don't buy an iPod. I have absolutely no sympathy for Linux users that buy iPods and then complain when they don't work.
I've found MPG ratings are not entirely inaccurate. Sometimes I do worse than the marked, but this is counterbalanced that occasionally I actually do better than the listed MPG on the highway. YMMV depending on your make/model.
I don't necessarily agree with you about AOE III. Granted, I've never played AOE II, but I've found that even though all the races share a number of units they all have unique ones that lend themselves to different strategies. And the shared units have different strengths that really come out in the later units with upgrades. If I remember correctly for instance the Russian Veteran Musketeer has fewer hp than a basic British one. I enjoy it, although in some ways it is taking a cheap route in that most of the balancing only needs to be done once and can be shared across all races.
I read somewhere that one of the things MS was doing was removing all those drivers from the default installation in order to cut down on disk footprint. Can't make everyone happy I guess.
I will believe that you speak the truth when you have designed an effective NLP input layer for a computer.
Humans are visually oriented creatures. It may not be easiest to click to command a computer, but it is the easiest to remember.
Maybe you've missed out on this teensie fact, but it is tremendously easy to install applications into user folders. I can think of at least 2 linux solutions that allow users to install applications per user using package management and everything. It also doesn't help that a ton of configuration files are also world readable.
I agree that it makes sense that standby and hibernate too probably puts less wear on the disk. Coming out of standby just probes the peripherals again. I never notice much of any I/O when waking back up. Hibernate is probably not as pleasant either, but since all that has to happen is reading the RAM back off the disk (which is hopefully more or less contiguous) there probably is less disk activity than reading all the disparate binaries to start services.
I seem to remember there was an Outer Limits episode with a similar plot as well. Some kind of artificial structure that caused water to freeze at 45 degrees and melt somewhere around 80, so the world was immediately plunged into an ice age.
I think Office Depot/Max have started to expand into the electronics area. They don't really carry TVs, but they do have computers, printers, cables and other things. Between that and Walmart (a great deal of people probably turn to them first these days), which does have some intriguing selections of high end electronics, I wouldn't say competition is dead, it just doesn't look quite the same.
I'm not sure that is true. With all of the soundbites we hear about "bad earmarks" I'm sure a politician could claim that his opponent, by voting for the bill, was also voting to earmark a giant hole to be dug all the way to China for more efficient import of products by Walmart. I agree that the unwashed masses can't comprehend anything in detail, but you can still make your point with another soundbite back, particularly since our government lacks the ability to actually restrict a bill to limited topics.
As a sidenote, I think that a fabulous constitutional amendment would be something like "All passed bills must restrict themselves to a single relevant topic" with perhaps exceptions for the annual budget, although, even then, it would be intriguing to see what happens when parts of a budget got voted down. That, and I think it would be amusing to videotape the president scribbling furiously for 3 hours trying to sign all the different peices of the budget.
Or, politicians could suck it up and realize that a solid bill with utter B.S. attached is just an utter B.S. bill. Oh wait, we're talking about politicians.
Intriguing. I had thought it was always on, and you had to disable it yourself. You are correct then, that if it works transparently, there is no reason for it to not be installed out of the box.
Yes. This is why expanded government (in any sense) is bad. Its like The Nothing, once it touches something, its gone forever. Or in this case, forever under the shadow of government power.
Guess you didn't read the first part of the article, where it talks about making trade offs. Out of the box OTR is pointless, because I personally know of no one who actually uses it. So, why bother. The rare soul who actually wants it can figure out how to set it up without too much trouble.
You clearly are new here. As a subscriber to a technology that has both DRM and Microsoft attached to it, you are mandated to be (at a minimum) morally outraged.
This is true. Almost all major languages have the ability to call into C code. And, most of the dynamic languages have the ability to allow C code to embed their interpreters in C code. Thus, my conclusion would be, write in whatever languages you want and use little bit of C glue to tie it all together.
Intruigingly, capitalism is an excellent way of increasing resource producing (assuming increased production is possible). Because people see a need and feel they can reward themselves by filling it, everyone benefits. There is nothing inherently wrong with enlightened self-interest, and there are many "greedy" actions, which while they benefit one disproportionately, are better for everyone in general.
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You have bought a product that is advertised explicitly work with only a single piece of software. Hardware and software are usually tied together. Or did you not notice that all the whizbang control features of say a Canon printer aren't necessarily accessible from the drivers/software for an HP? Stop whining and if you want to use whatever peice of software you want, don't buy an iPod. I have absolutely no sympathy for Linux users that buy iPods and then complain when they don't work.
I've found MPG ratings are not entirely inaccurate. Sometimes I do worse than the marked, but this is counterbalanced that occasionally I actually do better than the listed MPG on the highway. YMMV depending on your make/model.
I don't necessarily agree with you about AOE III. Granted, I've never played AOE II, but I've found that even though all the races share a number of units they all have unique ones that lend themselves to different strategies. And the shared units have different strengths that really come out in the later units with upgrades. If I remember correctly for instance the Russian Veteran Musketeer has fewer hp than a basic British one. I enjoy it, although in some ways it is taking a cheap route in that most of the balancing only needs to be done once and can be shared across all races.
I read somewhere that one of the things MS was doing was removing all those drivers from the default installation in order to cut down on disk footprint. Can't make everyone happy I guess.
I will believe that you speak the truth when you have designed an effective NLP input layer for a computer. Humans are visually oriented creatures. It may not be easiest to click to command a computer, but it is the easiest to remember.
Do we need to? We've already beaten the too it by roughly half a century.
You've been brainwashed by the Dalai Lama?
It could be argued that North Vietnam harbored imperialist ambitions and we were merely protecting an ally.
Maybe you've missed out on this teensie fact, but it is tremendously easy to install applications into user folders. I can think of at least 2 linux solutions that allow users to install applications per user using package management and everything. It also doesn't help that a ton of configuration files are also world readable.
Careful, the raptors might eat your data.
I agree that it makes sense that standby and hibernate too probably puts less wear on the disk. Coming out of standby just probes the peripherals again. I never notice much of any I/O when waking back up. Hibernate is probably not as pleasant either, but since all that has to happen is reading the RAM back off the disk (which is hopefully more or less contiguous) there probably is less disk activity than reading all the disparate binaries to start services.
I seem to remember there was an Outer Limits episode with a similar plot as well. Some kind of artificial structure that caused water to freeze at 45 degrees and melt somewhere around 80, so the world was immediately plunged into an ice age.
Not necessarily, it never looks good when a company liquidates under your leadership.
I think Office Depot/Max have started to expand into the electronics area. They don't really carry TVs, but they do have computers, printers, cables and other things. Between that and Walmart (a great deal of people probably turn to them first these days), which does have some intriguing selections of high end electronics, I wouldn't say competition is dead, it just doesn't look quite the same.
I'm not sure that is true. With all of the soundbites we hear about "bad earmarks" I'm sure a politician could claim that his opponent, by voting for the bill, was also voting to earmark a giant hole to be dug all the way to China for more efficient import of products by Walmart. I agree that the unwashed masses can't comprehend anything in detail, but you can still make your point with another soundbite back, particularly since our government lacks the ability to actually restrict a bill to limited topics.
As a sidenote, I think that a fabulous constitutional amendment would be something like "All passed bills must restrict themselves to a single relevant topic" with perhaps exceptions for the annual budget, although, even then, it would be intriguing to see what happens when parts of a budget got voted down. That, and I think it would be amusing to videotape the president scribbling furiously for 3 hours trying to sign all the different peices of the budget.
Or, politicians could suck it up and realize that a solid bill with utter B.S. attached is just an utter B.S. bill. Oh wait, we're talking about politicians.
Intriguing. I had thought it was always on, and you had to disable it yourself. You are correct then, that if it works transparently, there is no reason for it to not be installed out of the box.
Yes. This is why expanded government (in any sense) is bad. Its like The Nothing, once it touches something, its gone forever. Or in this case, forever under the shadow of government power.
Guess you didn't read the first part of the article, where it talks about making trade offs. Out of the box OTR is pointless, because I personally know of no one who actually uses it. So, why bother. The rare soul who actually wants it can figure out how to set it up without too much trouble.
I did mean it that way.
You clearly are new here. As a subscriber to a technology that has both DRM and Microsoft attached to it, you are mandated to be (at a minimum) morally outraged.
Did the old WMP version?
Raise money and buy it for open source. It worked for Blender in ages past when whatever company originally wrote it went bankrupt.
This is true. Almost all major languages have the ability to call into C code. And, most of the dynamic languages have the ability to allow C code to embed their interpreters in C code. Thus, my conclusion would be, write in whatever languages you want and use little bit of C glue to tie it all together.
Intruigingly, capitalism is an excellent way of increasing resource producing (assuming increased production is possible). Because people see a need and feel they can reward themselves by filling it, everyone benefits. There is nothing inherently wrong with enlightened self-interest, and there are many "greedy" actions, which while they benefit one disproportionately, are better for everyone in general.