Or, as mentioned above, you set windows update to notify you w/o installing when an update is downloaded. Windows update made me lose work ONE (which, agreed, is one too many) time. Then I changed the settings.
Nintendo games costing about $50 (an AWFUL lot of money in the late 1980s)
somebody else that was young back then man up with me and admit to going into your room and crying when you bought a new nintendo game and then slowly...horribly...realized that it sucked after 20 minutes or so of playing it. $50 was a LOT of money for me to come up with then, and my parents were only gonna buy me 2, maybe 3 games a year.
(dana carvey grumpy old man voice) and we played it anyway! we liked that it sucked!(/dcgomv)
Valve's Steam has shown it can work well (especially with being able to download locked games before they're released that unlock at a certain time)
That Peter North sized upstream phatpipe they seem to have helps also. Glad I don't live where the bandwidth is metered (yet), I get anything I can on steam.
I've never been angry with how long I had to wait for a game to dl thru steam. Although I'm more than willing to be the exception to the rule there.
Like playing ball and stick or bouncing ball in hoop is worth 24 million.
There's a bit of a difference there. (oh say 30-90K live audience that is willing to drop a decent amount of money on a ticket, and some seriously overpriced concessions...not to mention the TV take, which is where the NFL/NBA/MLB really make their money)
The market( you and me ) decide what is worth what.
Which is why "playing ball and stick" or "bounching ball in hoop" pays significantly more than playing "guns of shooting" or "weapons of blasting" or whatever of whatever the latest fps is (I love video games too).
And, I know it was just hyperbole, but Shaq has been much better on his FT's this year, 61%. Give the big Aristotle a break.
it's more of an auto-complete than a spellchecker...and it works better than any others I've used (admittedly not many, but I HATE T9)....but yeah, it's annoying when it doesn't work.
I could be imagining this, but I think it stopped replacing 'fuck' with 'duck' after I x'd it out several times.
yeah...I agreed with him too. The post was more about the forums here than the actual situation in Japan...since this is the 2nd time I've had to explain it further I'm willing to accept that it was obviously poorly written.
I think that the forums here have conclusively proven that only Americans could be so crass. Are you suggesting that acting that way is just part of the human condition for some people? A bold statement sir.
Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's illegal to buy it, it's legal to own it but, if you're the proprietor of a kampf bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause â" get a load of this â" if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you.
I think the phrase "close enough for government work" predates Ronnie "50 megatons hurts bad" Raygun. Which suggests to me that he didn't inspire the feeling.
an interesting aside to this aside...I googled that phrase to see when it first started to be used. There seems to be some sentiment that it used to mean 'work of the highest quality' but got changed to mean shoddy work somewhere along the way. Either way, it's had the negative connotation since at least the '60's.
there's an RDP client for the iphone for $15 (last I checked). I have no use for it, but I almost bought it anyway just to see how well it worked (yes, I'm a sucker like that).
Sounds more like a waste of money considering the cost of the hardware (CPU, screen, keyboard, etc..) and software (the OS and games) in comparison to just buying a dedicated games console.
You are kinda insinuating that all PC gaming is a waste of money there...It's still more than a sold-at-a-loss console, but you can build a pretty nice gaming rig relatively cheaply.
not usability, functionality, or the end user satisfaction
well, if the guy just wants to play video games there isn't really any other choice for OS that would perform any better on those three. You can probably make a compelling argument for XP, but I don't think that you in particular would be interested in that. Vista uses outrageous amounts of system resources, no argument there...but if you (today) want to play crysis/farcry2/(insert eye candy here) with high settings then you already have the horsepower to run it (although, per my own experience I admit that you'll get a few more fps on an XP machine for the same game/settings...wasn't enough for me to care, might be for you).
I don't solely use my PC as a console, but that is what it mainly gets used for.
How about typing, is it even possible to blind type with a touch-screen keyboard?
I am getting shockingly good at typing on my iphone. I can't type totally blind (although I think that I could get there with enough practice), and I obviously can't go as fast as I could on a full size keyboard, but I can type pretty fast.
The predictive text works really well for me, and will only get better as tech. advances.
I don't use my thumbs BTW, I anchor my thumb on the bottom corner and my pinky/ring fingers on the opposite edge about an inch up. I type with my index and middle fingers. I was hopeless when trying to use my thumbs (same problem a lot of men have, they are just too fat). It's a little odd at first, but seems the definite way to go IMO.
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Or, as mentioned above, you set windows update to notify you w/o installing when an update is downloaded. Windows update made me lose work ONE (which, agreed, is one too many) time. Then I changed the settings.
I know . My point was at the bottom
and, of course, that more roads just make more traffic :)
Nintendo games costing about $50 (an AWFUL lot of money in the late 1980s)
somebody else that was young back then man up with me and admit to going into your room and crying when you bought a new nintendo game and then slowly...horribly...realized that it sucked after 20 minutes or so of playing it. $50 was a LOT of money for me to come up with then, and my parents were only gonna buy me 2, maybe 3 games a year.
(dana carvey grumpy old man voice) and we played it anyway! we liked that it sucked!(/dcgomv)
Valve's Steam has shown it can work well (especially with being able to download locked games before they're released that unlock at a certain time)
That Peter North sized upstream phatpipe they seem to have helps also. Glad I don't live where the bandwidth is metered (yet), I get anything I can on steam.
I've never been angry with how long I had to wait for a game to dl thru steam. Although I'm more than willing to be the exception to the rule there.
Like playing ball and stick or bouncing ball in hoop is worth 24 million.
There's a bit of a difference there. (oh say 30-90K live audience that is willing to drop a decent amount of money on a ticket, and some seriously overpriced concessions...not to mention the TV take, which is where the NFL/NBA/MLB really make their money)
The market( you and me ) decide what is worth what.
Which is why "playing ball and stick" or "bounching ball in hoop" pays significantly more than playing "guns of shooting" or "weapons of blasting" or whatever of whatever the latest fps is (I love video games too).
And, I know it was just hyperbole, but Shaq has been much better on his FT's this year, 61%. Give the big Aristotle a break.
Central Europe is being kept warm by the Sun.
Heresy!
I want Nimoy....but only if he calls me captain.
This drives me crazy as well, and I'm almost certain that it didn't always do that.
it's more of an auto-complete than a spellchecker...and it works better than any others I've used (admittedly not many, but I HATE T9)....but yeah, it's annoying when it doesn't work.
I could be imagining this, but I think it stopped replacing 'fuck' with 'duck' after I x'd it out several times.
I'm also curious, as I've had zero exchange issues also.
I have a hard time seeing this comment as insightful. It's actually just as ignorant as the post quoted.
yeah...I agreed with him too. The post was more about the forums here than the actual situation in Japan...since this is the 2nd time I've had to explain it further I'm willing to accept that it was obviously poorly written.
"the forums here" was the joke. But to answer your questions, sorta and no.
It's all about the bling (TM)
I think that the forums here have conclusively proven that only Americans could be so crass. Are you suggesting that acting that way is just part of the human condition for some people? A bold statement sir.
This is the same reson I got it. And I haven't been disappointed at all...and I just paid the bill about 2 minutes ago.
http://www.ansi.org/
They already standardized the electronic file for just about everything else involving the medical industry. And did a good job of it, IMO.
Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's illegal to buy it, it's legal to own it but, if you're the proprietor of a kampf bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause â" get a load of this â" if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you.
From the GP:
I don't know how the US hopes to enforce it's laws in INTERNATIONAL waters.
It's called a carrier battle group.
I think the phrase "close enough for government work" predates Ronnie "50 megatons hurts bad" Raygun. Which suggests to me that he didn't inspire the feeling.
an interesting aside to this aside...I googled that phrase to see when it first started to be used. There seems to be some sentiment that it used to mean 'work of the highest quality' but got changed to mean shoddy work somewhere along the way. Either way, it's had the negative connotation since at least the '60's.
I know, also see the resonable answer below his that got modded flamebait. Bad form mods, bad form.
there's an RDP client for the iphone for $15 (last I checked). I have no use for it, but I almost bought it anyway just to see how well it worked (yes, I'm a sucker like that).
don't worry...I'm sure his computer burst into flames when he hit submit
Sounds more like a waste of money considering the cost of the hardware (CPU, screen, keyboard, etc..) and software (the OS and games) in comparison to just buying a dedicated games console.
You are kinda insinuating that all PC gaming is a waste of money there...It's still more than a sold-at-a-loss console, but you can build a pretty nice gaming rig relatively cheaply.
not usability, functionality, or the end user satisfaction
well, if the guy just wants to play video games there isn't really any other choice for OS that would perform any better on those three. You can probably make a compelling argument for XP, but I don't think that you in particular would be interested in that. Vista uses outrageous amounts of system resources, no argument there...but if you (today) want to play crysis/farcry2/(insert eye candy here) with high settings then you already have the horsepower to run it (although, per my own experience I admit that you'll get a few more fps on an XP machine for the same game/settings...wasn't enough for me to care, might be for you).
I don't solely use my PC as a console, but that is what it mainly gets used for.
How about typing, is it even possible to blind type with a touch-screen keyboard?
I am getting shockingly good at typing on my iphone. I can't type totally blind (although I think that I could get there with enough practice), and I obviously can't go as fast as I could on a full size keyboard, but I can type pretty fast.
The predictive text works really well for me, and will only get better as tech. advances.
I don't use my thumbs BTW, I anchor my thumb on the bottom corner and my pinky/ring fingers on the opposite edge about an inch up. I type with my index and middle fingers. I was hopeless when trying to use my thumbs (same problem a lot of men have, they are just too fat). It's a little odd at first, but seems the definite way to go IMO.