It could be for the people who have aggressive heating settings in their office building because it's 40 degrees outside, and they have a need to emulate mid-summer Florida weather?:)
Nah.
That'd have happened last (North American) winter, since the E series line came out last August, if memory serves me well.
I just select the crop tool, select the area, and hit the crop button. Or, I can use any of the select tools, select the area(s), and choose to crop from a menu (not sitting in front of the app at the moment, so harder for me to name the menu, sorry).
This makes me wonder how it would handle a person who, in a novel moment, takes an antiperspirant and applies it everywhere that they could possibly sweat just an hour or two before they go through a fear detector.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Wear deodorant, #@&&^!"
I was perfectly happy in the back seat of the car for our forever-hour drive from home to our destination. All I had were those little die-cast cars and conversation with mom and dad. This was nearing the end of an age where people didn't have a hissyfit because your kid is sprawled out, laying on the backseat of the car, asleep, with no seatbelt. (Looking back at that, and imagining a kid asleep like that in cars built in the last couple of years scares the everloving snot out of me. Cars back then seemed to be so much more durable, I should add.)
The scenario I cooked a little while ago is one of those "adapted to our current day and age" scenarios. I don't have children or anyone who would bear children for me.
(By the way, that swat to the ass? Dad drove. Mom hit when I misbehaved.:))
Assume for a moment that we have a family - a mother, a father, two and a half kids, and the dog. We're on a vacation (as opposed to staycation), and we're driving to [popular tourist destination] because it's cheaper than flying, even if it takes 19 hours of non-stop driving to get there.
This family has a netbook for the children in the backseat to play their little saved games (perhaps you stuck an emulator on there and are letting them get acquainted with the golden age of gaming). The father has a mobile broadband card that is plugged into his laptop so that he can get at email.
The kids get bored eventually of playing whatever game it is (Earthbound, perhaps), and want to log on to neopets to check on their zafara and their shoyru. You're at hour 8 of the drive.
Decision time! Do you: * Hand dad's much more expensive laptop to the kids in the back seat and hope they don't screw it up? * Drop the mobile broadband card into a device designed to share the connection, and connect the kids this way over their netbook? * Powder your hands and recite the Pimp's Prayer, then reach back and smack a bottom or two, telling them to settle down and keep playing those emulated games you got them, even though they [barely understand how to play them|are bored by your choice of games]?
I'd not hand the kids dad's laptop. That's just a no-go. That's why they got the netbook, so they can stay off the big computer. It's a little hard to reach back and slap that kid on his ass when you're doing 70. It's easiest to tell the wifey to drop the card into the mobile router and share the connection. Maybe she'll stop paying as much attention to Facebook and actually, y'know... talk to you while you're driving.
(there are other scenarios that are similar to this, as well.)
Folders in the traditional sense feel relatively useless once you've adjusted to labels.
I use Gmail to check a few different email accounts. I'm a member of a couple of different sites that serve similar purposes, and registered under two different email addresses. They go to their primary labels for the accounts I check, but also get an additional label according to what they are. So I can look in either the label for the account I'm checking, or look in the label for the relevant content. For me, this feels faster, because I can get right to things I'm interested to first, and check the rest of the stuff I receive later
Example: I get emails from Jamendo, Magnatune, and Amie Street, all from different email addresses. Amie.st and Magnatune arrive via the pop3 account labeled [Prime], Jamendo arrives via [Unchain]. All three of them get an additional label, [Musics], so when I log in, all I have to do is look at the [Musics] label to see that there's something new that interests me there. The mail I get looks like this as a result:
Amie Street - Get 50% off when you reload credits - [Musics][Prime] Jamendo - Stop HADOPI now! - [Musics][Unchain] Amie Street - New in Hip-Hop - [Musics][Prime]
Having both labels is relatively important for me, since it's part of the way I remember my login information for each of the sites. Else, I'm likely to try the wrong login repeatedly and get myself locked out when I really don't want to be locked out.:)
I have to admit, high speed audio sounds like it might be interesting, but at the same time, the few times I tried it a number of years back, it drove me mad -- to compare what it sounded like to something more people may recognize, it sounded like a mashup of the 'voice' samples of Star Fox's Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad, and Falco Lombardi, played at 150% of normal speed.
Interestingly enough, my reading speed, when it was last tested, was about 1150 words per minute (down a bit from my teenaged peak of 1400 wpm, 80% comprehension, or perhaps closer to accurate, since the prior number was 100%).
I'm guessing that there's more to it than listening to words that sound like they've been through a blender, like finding a speed that keeps the words sounding like words, but isn't so slow that it feels like I'm having a one-sided conversation.
Since I'm coming back to the concept nearly a decade later than when I first tried, I'm not sure what is out there that will reliably make these conversions at minimal cost. It's not that I mind paying for software, but I would rather like to try things out before making a monetary investment for something I may only use once and hate. My Google-fu is weak this evening, and I'm not turning up anything that appears to be useful to try this out with.
I would normally make a "You must be young here" joke, but...:)
I explicitly remember the days when AOL was 20 hours for $20 or so. I also remember a few BBSes that were long distance, so because you had to direct dial them to get in, if you didn't have long distance then (my family didn't), you certainly did pay by the minute for being dialed in.
Then AOL started offering unlimited internets, and the need for those dialing numbers to BBSes started dropping.
Of course, without a credit card, AOL was a non-option to a barely pubescent geek. Coupled with the flipping out that the family did, on seeing these long distance charges... I got hooked on a bicycle floppy 'modem', with an 'uplink' to the public library that offered a half hour of free internet per session (and less family yelling).
Feel free to calculate this for bandwidth: Distance traveled in each direction: 1.9 miles Mode of personal transport: bicycle Time consumed per direction: 15 minutes Mode of data transport: floppy disk, 10 units Volume of data transport: 1.38 MB per unit, formatted as FAT32 Number of discs that could be filled, average, per session: 4 Number of sessions per trip: 2
Sprint may not be the best, but as long as you don't have to talk to them, the service is rather good. Only dropped calls I get are from MetroPCS users ("Hello, hello, hello" is not just their catchphrase, but the sound of their users trying to see if anyone's still on the line).
I do know and understand that not everyone gets good coverage on Sprint, and can only speak from my personal experiences, but I'm happy the Pre is at least offered on Sprint. Too many half-decent or better phones aren't (see: G1).
I thought I was the only person who had the issue of wanting to explore a new area, but getting slaughtered by the first thing [popping out of the ground|falling from the sky|warping in out of nowhere] was a major irritant.
I'd love to see an MMO that allows one to explore, with some logical limits. Like a real person, you can't just run all over the world in 5 minutes. You actually need to build up your endurance (hooray for stat gaining without a level, preferably -- someone who explores a lot and carries lots of stuff would likely have more endurance than a flabby something or other that's just wandering around the outskirts of town), buy equipment for exploring some areas (mountain climbing means you need pitons, rope, carabiners, etc; safari exploration means you might need some type of insect repellent, a machete, and a prayer to protect you from [insert random creature here]) and make money by bringing things back from your explorations to sell.
Of course, this kind of an idea would be hard to apply adaptive skill levels to, honestly.
I'm not a fan of paying as much for a video card as I did the computer I'm using (for the record: $288), just to get all the extra glowing and ultra-realistic explosions, and all that.
I've actually set a limit for myself, stating I won't buy a video card that costs more than a fourth of what I paid for the PC I use at home.
To date, I'm still looking for a half decent card at a price point under $72.:)
Until then, I trundle along using onboard graphics, which will either perform decently until the shared video memory eats a gig of RAM in a system that has two gigs in it, or look like someone slapped it in the face.
I'm slightly repulsed by your hard-on, but damn, that idea IS attractive.
Hell, let me hook up two of them and have them be independently recognized by the OS and any software I want to use 'em with, and I'll be one hell of a happy puppy.
Yeah. Metformin is already the generic. The trade name is usually Glucophage in my region, and may be one of a few others depending on where on the third rock you go.
Problem with that is, I think it'll go up more than just a little, and we diabetics might be encouraged to use diet and exercise to moderate our blood sugar, or a different med altogether.
Fortunately, I wouldn't be affected by it all that much, since diet and exercise have done their part in moderating my glucose.:)
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For EVE?
Hell, I have one if you need it.
It could be for the people who have aggressive heating settings in their office building because it's 40 degrees outside, and they have a need to emulate mid-summer Florida weather? :)
Nah.
That'd have happened last (North American) winter, since the E series line came out last August, if memory serves me well.
At least when the Optiplex GX620 power supplies all failed a few years ago
Fixed that.
The part failure in the GX2x0 range was the Motherboard, with a capacitor issue.
You don't want to know.
Trust me, I'm from the Internet.
Um, I've never had to add a layer just to crop.
I just select the crop tool, select the area, and hit the crop button.
Or, I can use any of the select tools, select the area(s), and choose to crop from a menu (not sitting in front of the app at the moment, so harder for me to name the menu, sorry).
WTF is There! Fixed That For You?! Google has no answer O.o
FTFY. :)
you can easily see
Now that I've got my glasses on... :)
I see what you did there.
This makes me wonder how it would handle a person who, in a novel moment, takes an antiperspirant and applies it everywhere that they could possibly sweat just an hour or two before they go through a fear detector.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Wear deodorant, #@&&^!"
(It's called SpeedStick, it's not expensive.)
Didn't we have this app in an article last week?
It's not news. It's olds at best.
I know it can be done.
I was perfectly happy in the back seat of the car for our forever-hour drive from home to our destination. All I had were those little die-cast cars and conversation with mom and dad.
This was nearing the end of an age where people didn't have a hissyfit because your kid is sprawled out, laying on the backseat of the car, asleep, with no seatbelt. (Looking back at that, and imagining a kid asleep like that in cars built in the last couple of years scares the everloving snot out of me. Cars back then seemed to be so much more durable, I should add.)
The scenario I cooked a little while ago is one of those "adapted to our current day and age" scenarios.
I don't have children or anyone who would bear children for me.
(By the way, that swat to the ass? Dad drove. Mom hit when I misbehaved. :))
Mmh, I did miss that. I usually don't think of it, so yeah.
But I rather do like the idea of a dedicated device handling that.
I see exactly one use for the device.
Assume for a moment that we have a family - a mother, a father, two and a half kids, and the dog. We're on a vacation (as opposed to staycation), and we're driving to [popular tourist destination] because it's cheaper than flying, even if it takes 19 hours of non-stop driving to get there.
This family has a netbook for the children in the backseat to play their little saved games (perhaps you stuck an emulator on there and are letting them get acquainted with the golden age of gaming). The father has a mobile broadband card that is plugged into his laptop so that he can get at email.
The kids get bored eventually of playing whatever game it is (Earthbound, perhaps), and want to log on to neopets to check on their zafara and their shoyru. You're at hour 8 of the drive.
Decision time!
Do you:
* Hand dad's much more expensive laptop to the kids in the back seat and hope they don't screw it up?
* Drop the mobile broadband card into a device designed to share the connection, and connect the kids this way over their netbook?
* Powder your hands and recite the Pimp's Prayer, then reach back and smack a bottom or two, telling them to settle down and keep playing those emulated games you got them, even though they [barely understand how to play them|are bored by your choice of games]?
I'd not hand the kids dad's laptop. That's just a no-go. That's why they got the netbook, so they can stay off the big computer.
It's a little hard to reach back and slap that kid on his ass when you're doing 70.
It's easiest to tell the wifey to drop the card into the mobile router and share the connection. Maybe she'll stop paying as much attention to Facebook and actually, y'know... talk to you while you're driving.
(there are other scenarios that are similar to this, as well.)
You didn't get the memo?
Congratulations! You've puked your brains out because you picked up a beautiful case of food crud.
Now get back to work!!
Folders in the traditional sense feel relatively useless once you've adjusted to labels.
I use Gmail to check a few different email accounts. I'm a member of a couple of different sites that serve similar purposes, and registered under two different email addresses. They go to their primary labels for the accounts I check, but also get an additional label according to what they are. So I can look in either the label for the account I'm checking, or look in the label for the relevant content.
For me, this feels faster, because I can get right to things I'm interested to first, and check the rest of the stuff I receive later
Example:
I get emails from Jamendo, Magnatune, and Amie Street, all from different email addresses.
Amie.st and Magnatune arrive via the pop3 account labeled [Prime], Jamendo arrives via [Unchain].
All three of them get an additional label, [Musics], so when I log in, all I have to do is look at the [Musics] label to see that there's something new that interests me there. The mail I get looks like this as a result:
Amie Street - Get 50% off when you reload credits - [Musics][Prime]
Jamendo - Stop HADOPI now! - [Musics][Unchain]
Amie Street - New in Hip-Hop - [Musics][Prime]
Having both labels is relatively important for me, since it's part of the way I remember my login information for each of the sites. Else, I'm likely to try the wrong login repeatedly and get myself locked out when I really don't want to be locked out. :)
That's ok.
We still love you. :)
Nah. Sora's too busy chasing after Riku in some fangirl's yaoi lemon to be bothered with that keychest.
I have to admit, high speed audio sounds like it might be interesting, but at the same time, the few times I tried it a number of years back, it drove me mad -- to compare what it sounded like to something more people may recognize, it sounded like a mashup of the 'voice' samples of Star Fox's Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad, and Falco Lombardi, played at 150% of normal speed.
Interestingly enough, my reading speed, when it was last tested, was about 1150 words per minute (down a bit from my teenaged peak of 1400 wpm, 80% comprehension, or perhaps closer to accurate, since the prior number was 100%).
I'm guessing that there's more to it than listening to words that sound like they've been through a blender, like finding a speed that keeps the words sounding like words, but isn't so slow that it feels like I'm having a one-sided conversation.
Since I'm coming back to the concept nearly a decade later than when I first tried, I'm not sure what is out there that will reliably make these conversions at minimal cost.
It's not that I mind paying for software, but I would rather like to try things out before making a monetary investment for something I may only use once and hate.
My Google-fu is weak this evening, and I'm not turning up anything that appears to be useful to try this out with.
The day entry level broadband costs less than a tank of gas, I'll take ten of 'em!
:))
Right now, my broadband costs me about thirty-six tanks of gas.
(Of course, $1.75 US usually overflows my gas tank...
I would normally make a "You must be young here" joke, but... :)
I explicitly remember the days when AOL was 20 hours for $20 or so.
I also remember a few BBSes that were long distance, so because you had to direct dial them to get in, if you didn't have long distance then (my family didn't), you certainly did pay by the minute for being dialed in.
Then AOL started offering unlimited internets, and the need for those dialing numbers to BBSes started dropping.
Of course, without a credit card, AOL was a non-option to a barely pubescent geek. Coupled with the flipping out that the family did, on seeing these long distance charges... I got hooked on a bicycle floppy 'modem', with an 'uplink' to the public library that offered a half hour of free internet per session (and less family yelling).
Feel free to calculate this for bandwidth:
Distance traveled in each direction: 1.9 miles
Mode of personal transport: bicycle
Time consumed per direction: 15 minutes
Mode of data transport: floppy disk, 10 units
Volume of data transport: 1.38 MB per unit, formatted as FAT32
Number of discs that could be filled, average, per session: 4
Number of sessions per trip: 2
I must be olde.
I've used worse carriers.
See: MetroPCS, AT&T.
Sprint may not be the best, but as long as you don't have to talk to them, the service is rather good. Only dropped calls I get are from MetroPCS users ("Hello, hello, hello" is not just their catchphrase, but the sound of their users trying to see if anyone's still on the line).
I do know and understand that not everyone gets good coverage on Sprint, and can only speak from my personal experiences, but I'm happy the Pre is at least offered on Sprint. Too many half-decent or better phones aren't (see: G1).
I thought I was the only person who had the issue of wanting to explore a new area, but getting slaughtered by the first thing [popping out of the ground|falling from the sky|warping in out of nowhere] was a major irritant.
I'd love to see an MMO that allows one to explore, with some logical limits. Like a real person, you can't just run all over the world in 5 minutes. You actually need to build up your endurance (hooray for stat gaining without a level, preferably -- someone who explores a lot and carries lots of stuff would likely have more endurance than a flabby something or other that's just wandering around the outskirts of town), buy equipment for exploring some areas (mountain climbing means you need pitons, rope, carabiners, etc; safari exploration means you might need some type of insect repellent, a machete, and a prayer to protect you from [insert random creature here]) and make money by bringing things back from your explorations to sell.
Of course, this kind of an idea would be hard to apply adaptive skill levels to, honestly.
Sounds about right for me, really.
I'm not a fan of paying as much for a video card as I did the computer I'm using (for the record: $288), just to get all the extra glowing and ultra-realistic explosions, and all that.
I've actually set a limit for myself, stating I won't buy a video card that costs more than a fourth of what I paid for the PC I use at home.
To date, I'm still looking for a half decent card at a price point under $72. :)
Until then, I trundle along using onboard graphics, which will either perform decently until the shared video memory eats a gig of RAM in a system that has two gigs in it, or look like someone slapped it in the face.
"By the way, it's the minister that was sucked."
Well played.
(:
I'm slightly repulsed by your hard-on, but damn, that idea IS attractive.
Hell, let me hook up two of them and have them be independently recognized by the OS and any software I want to use 'em with, and I'll be one hell of a happy puppy.
Yeah. Metformin is already the generic. The trade name is usually Glucophage in my region, and may be one of a few others depending on where on the third rock you go.
Problem with that is, I think it'll go up more than just a little, and we diabetics might be encouraged to use diet and exercise to moderate our blood sugar, or a different med altogether.
Fortunately, I wouldn't be affected by it all that much, since diet and exercise have done their part in moderating my glucose. :)