We all hate DRM, or at least we should if we don't...
Broken Audio API/etc... agreed, thats my ONLY problem with Vista (as far as general "does it work?" goes) thats just flatout retardation on Microsofts part in the age of MP3 Players, YouTube, MediaCenter, etc.
Too many versions?... completely agree, infact even XP with its 2 versions (Home/Pro) I find redundant, the OS shouldnt have versions, it should have options, Disable This, Don't Install That, Enable This, especially since they all (XP and Vista) asks you "What/Where Will You Be Using This Computer For?" during the setup process, just have that answer do an auto-configure...
Those points I agree with.
Old Computers (Drivers/RAM)... when XP first came out, did you really expect it to run on a machine that was designed for Win95?.. it's been roughly the same amount of years between XP and Win95, as Vista and XP... huge advancements, and expectations have come in the meantime, if you have old equipement, then run an older OS... "the thing I hate about gasoline automobiles, is, where do I put the water and coal?"...
512MB was pretty much the "Standard" amount of RAM that came with new PC's when XP was released (as far as consumer/home PC's go)... thats now generally at least 1536, and usually 2048 now with new computers, XP or otherwise...
And what the hell does SP1 being released just recently have to do with it? I suppose you meant that it was "slow" in coming... which, I for the most part agree with, but considering they have XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/Win7/Office 2003/2007/OOXML/Lawsuits/whatever else that are all in pretty high demand for support/interest/attention... their workload is pretty high, 50,0000 or whatever employees or not...
And the last points, SP3 could have been released anytime in the last 2 (maybe 3 years) considering not all that much has been done in that time to/for it... but did they have to? there really isnt any major changes in SP3, its just a plain old SP, not some grand "wow this comes in an SP?" that was SP2... most of its major changes are compatability with Vista/Server2008/IIS and new networking related stuff, anyone with an internet connection could have gotten all the minor updates at any point through MSUpdate/MSDN/KnowledgeBase for free...
Personally, I almost wish they had procrastinated a bit longer, because the longer they did so, the longer XP will be maintained and the more is in the SP...
Final point... Microsoft has always been bad for Beta Testing, mainly because they basically dont... its more of a "selected" beta test... fairly useless, they generally just release it, hope for the best, and rely on the feedback from "Send This Error Report" and forums/KB/etc...
Which, isnt any different from most other "user friendly" OSs, they are all adopting the "Send Report" method, which means they are getting lazy...
You just typed out about 50 words using what you "don't need"...
Granted, nothing ground breaking as far as font creation goes is going to come of this website... but if anyone is serious about making typography isn't going to be using some web-based font creating tool... as the original/first poster said, this is great for younger people/inexperienced users as an introduction to typography...
Besides, since the actual site is slashdotted (at this moment) maybe it can handle more advanced typesets... I watched the little video, and I was impressed that it wasn't just 1-0, A-Z, a-z but what seemed to be the full set...
However, I do find this sort of disturbing, or "cheap" because it desregards the hundreds (thousands?) of years that have gone into designing fonts... and that it is still rather limited until its vector-based...
As a side note: http://www.helveticafilm.com/ is an interesting documentary on the history of a single font (at least i found it interesting)
True enough, but I consider anyone born in the US, as from the US... even if their parents were born in another country, what I meant was fully grown adults that have already gone through schooling/training/etc in another country and then hired/bought/brought to the US to work for NASA.
The Russians invented Space travel... with dogs... they were also the first in human orbit/flight...
NASA does have the first human to visit and return from another (tries to find the word)...the moon...
They do have an impressive roster though, the Saturn V, the Shuttle, etc... but most of their accomplishments can't really even be claimed as "American" (as in the 'United States Of') because most of their key employees were/are form other countries... they are kind of like Microsoft (or any other large company) in that way, we'll buy them so we can say its ours...
"We're going to burn all the coal and oil eventually anyway."
No, because the earth is constantly re-making it... even if its a slower rate then we consume it...it will always exist. (aslong as the earth has a core + high enough gravity)
"What difference does it really make how fast we do it?"
The faster we do it, the harder it is for the earth (ecosystem, etc) to equalize the imbalance.
"If we can shove some of the carbon back underground where we got it, that's a good thing."
Perhaps, but I don't think its a very good solution (Geo-Sequestration), CO2 turns into liquid at somewhere around 5 atmospheres, and I would imagine there could potentially be geysers of the crap escaping during an earthquake or volcano smothering/killing any animal/plants in the area... and creating instantaneous greenhouse effects... who knows what other underground reactions it could create (ie: carbonic acid)
I think a better solution is finding ways of combining CO2 with other gases/minerals/etc to make something we can use again... or, at least mineral storage (turning it back into rock)
I believe it... but to a certain point, and then it becomes redundant... for instance a good soundcard helps (ie: stereo, instead of mono)... an optical mouse is better than a ball, a silent and/or small motion motion keyboard helps... but as for FPS/MMO there really isnt any need to pay more than about $140 for your mouse & keyboard... most of these 15 button mice are useless because only the standard 5 buttons can normally be mapped without having to run some special software in the background which impeeds the performance... there's basically 2 things that I find really "help"... a good surface for the mouse to slide on... and the chair im in... if the mouse is constantly losing its grip or sight, or I have to constantly change position to keep comfortable... gaming is pointless because it will just make me angry...
Mhmm... what about dial-up users? and what about ISP's that have a free-floating range of IP's for a single modem... BAN RANGES...oh yes... then when thats not good enough, ban the ISP...w00t... ban the country!
They have the option of idling down some, but they dont have to... they can keep on pumping out as much juice as they want to, if nowhere in the US is using the power...it'l tricle (up) to Canada, or down to Mexico...or whatever...
When the wind isn't blowing, they'l have to pick up the slack to make up for the loss... and when it is, they might be able to use that time for maintenance, etc.
3720 / 1,321,851,888 = 0.0000028% chance of getting EV71... thats probably less than the risk of the plane you (don't) get there by crashing... which, will kill you, your kids, friends, that girl you bumped into in the line-up...
According to the article ("Adults' well-developed immune systems usually can fend off the virus, but children are vulnerable to it, according to the CDC.") seems to only effect children...
Wouldn't consider it conspiracy worthy, but definitely propaganda ("icky don't go there - stay in the US where its 'safe") sort material...
Ive been using Slackware since 7.0 (1999)... and I never had to use a boot disk (other than the CD itself)
And to redundantly answer the question, a Floppy Drive is not a "requirement"... more of a suggestion, but you can (usually) replace "Floppy" with "USB" or "External HD" or anything else... mainly just for backup purposes, or if you want to leave another bootloader and keep LILO/GRUB on the floppy/usb/etc...
While in redundancy... although I do tend to lean more towards hand-holding OS's (lately)... whenever the newest flashiest bloated OS im testing out fails... it's back to Slackware, which, in the decade ive been using it... has never let me down, not once...
It's not because of laziness that Gnome is missing... its because they don't like Gnome... and they wont offer it just because its "popular" because it goes against the principles of Slackware... or even Linux as a whole if you go by what Torvalds says...
Agreed, and also, who says that it hasnt already happened?... Just because there wasnt 2 million people dead on the news over the weekend, maybe the poison was incrimental... maybe it's purpose was to simply increase the cancer rate, or lower IQ's, etc...
"...but do we REALLY need to use HTML inside our posts just to get some line breaks?"
I suggest you take a glance at the option just under "50 for the column variable"
Slashdot still defaults to "HTML Formatted" for new users I think... but if you switch to "Plain Text"... you can type "normally" (ie: enter = new line) while still being able to use bold and italics and also
Yeah, thats exactly it... an additiona checkbox... and another IF statement...
if (option) {
auto-resize shit } }
If they really wanted to try and force people into using the auto-resize... have it turned on by default...thats like 66% of of the users right there... and maybe have the option in an "Advanced" area of Options...
Stuart Smalley: "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"
Picking an "attractive" avatar can lead to more/better confidence, it depends on how much you personify yourself as the avatar... if you believe that the avatar looks a lot like you, but a little better looking, then you start believing you are more attractive, and thus more confident (with your appearance at least)...
However, just simply saying "im good at math" will get you nowhere except usually making you lie to people... "are you good at math?"... "yes"... when you havent actually studied/applied it... however saying you are "good at math" means that your might be less prone to giving up on an equasion, thereby eventually you will become better at math because you have actually done it more...
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We all hate DRM, or at least we should if we don't...
... agreed, thats my ONLY problem with Vista (as far as general "does it work?" goes) thats just flatout retardation on Microsofts part in the age of MP3 Players, YouTube, MediaCenter, etc.
... completely agree, infact even XP with its 2 versions (Home/Pro) I find redundant, the OS shouldnt have versions, it should have options, Disable This, Don't Install That, Enable This, especially since they all (XP and Vista) asks you "What/Where Will You Be Using This Computer For?" during the setup process, just have that answer do an auto-configure...
... when XP first came out, did you really expect it to run on a machine that was designed for Win95?.. it's been roughly the same amount of years between XP and Win95, as Vista and XP... huge advancements, and expectations have come in the meantime, if you have old equipement, then run an older OS... "the thing I hate about gasoline automobiles, is, where do I put the water and coal?"...
Broken Audio API/etc
Too many versions?
Those points I agree with.
Old Computers (Drivers/RAM)
512MB was pretty much the "Standard" amount of RAM that came with new PC's when XP was released (as far as consumer/home PC's go)... thats now generally at least 1536, and usually 2048 now with new computers, XP or otherwise...
And what the hell does SP1 being released just recently have to do with it? I suppose you meant that it was "slow" in coming... which, I for the most part agree with, but considering they have XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/Win7/Office 2003/2007/OOXML/Lawsuits/whatever else that are all in pretty high demand for support/interest/attention... their workload is pretty high, 50,0000 or whatever employees or not...
And the last points, SP3 could have been released anytime in the last 2 (maybe 3 years) considering not all that much has been done in that time to/for it... but did they have to? there really isnt any major changes in SP3, its just a plain old SP, not some grand "wow this comes in an SP?" that was SP2... most of its major changes are compatability with Vista/Server2008/IIS and new networking related stuff, anyone with an internet connection could have gotten all the minor updates at any point through MSUpdate/MSDN/KnowledgeBase for free...
Personally, I almost wish they had procrastinated a bit longer, because the longer they did so, the longer XP will be maintained and the more is in the SP...
Final point... Microsoft has always been bad for Beta Testing, mainly because they basically dont... its more of a "selected" beta test... fairly useless, they generally just release it, hope for the best, and rely on the feedback from "Send This Error Report" and forums/KB/etc...
Which, isnt any different from most other "user friendly" OSs, they are all adopting the "Send Report" method, which means they are getting lazy...
But, i'll shut up now...
Who is "we"?...
You just typed out about 50 words using what you "don't need"...
Granted, nothing ground breaking as far as font creation goes is going to come of this website... but if anyone is serious about making typography isn't going to be using some web-based font creating tool... as the original/first poster said, this is great for younger people/inexperienced users as an introduction to typography...
Besides, since the actual site is slashdotted (at this moment) maybe it can handle more advanced typesets... I watched the little video, and I was impressed that it wasn't just 1-0, A-Z, a-z but what seemed to be the full set...
However, I do find this sort of disturbing, or "cheap" because it desregards the hundreds (thousands?) of years that have gone into designing fonts... and that it is still rather limited until its vector-based...
As a side note: http://www.helveticafilm.com/ is an interesting documentary on the history of a single font (at least i found it interesting)
True enough, but I consider anyone born in the US, as from the US... even if their parents were born in another country, what I meant was fully grown adults that have already gone through schooling/training/etc in another country and then hired/bought/brought to the US to work for NASA.
The Russians invented Space travel... with dogs... they were also the first in human orbit/flight...
NASA does have the first human to visit and return from another (tries to find the word)...the moon...
They do have an impressive roster though, the Saturn V, the Shuttle, etc... but most of their accomplishments can't really even be claimed as "American" (as in the 'United States Of') because most of their key employees were/are form other countries... they are kind of like Microsoft (or any other large company) in that way, we'll buy them so we can say its ours...
http://quake.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/CO2/index.html
"Dr. Alan Weston, who previously invented bungee jumping"
Yeah, and I invented bicycle jumping... and I was a mere 7 years old...
He may have helped (along with some others) re-invent it, or modernize it... but he did not invent it...
"We're going to burn all the coal and oil eventually anyway."
No, because the earth is constantly re-making it... even if its a slower rate then we consume it...it will always exist. (aslong as the earth has a core + high enough gravity)
"What difference does it really make how fast we do it?"
The faster we do it, the harder it is for the earth (ecosystem, etc) to equalize the imbalance.
"If we can shove some of the carbon back underground where we got it, that's a good thing."
Perhaps, but I don't think its a very good solution (Geo-Sequestration), CO2 turns into liquid at somewhere around 5 atmospheres, and I would imagine there could potentially be geysers of the crap escaping during an earthquake or volcano smothering/killing any animal/plants in the area... and creating instantaneous greenhouse effects... who knows what other underground reactions it could create (ie: carbonic acid)
I think a better solution is finding ways of combining CO2 with other gases/minerals/etc to make something we can use again... or, at least mineral storage (turning it back into rock)
I believe it... but to a certain point, and then it becomes redundant... for instance a good soundcard helps (ie: stereo, instead of mono)... an optical mouse is better than a ball, a silent and/or small motion motion keyboard helps... but as for FPS/MMO there really isnt any need to pay more than about $140 for your mouse & keyboard... most of these 15 button mice are useless because only the standard 5 buttons can normally be mapped without having to run some special software in the background which impeeds the performance... there's basically 2 things that I find really "help"... a good surface for the mouse to slide on... and the chair im in... if the mouse is constantly losing its grip or sight, or I have to constantly change position to keep comfortable... gaming is pointless because it will just make me angry...
Although my initial reaction was "blah blah blah"...
Dave was simply answering with the obvious answer... wether you are against copyrights or not... that is why they use DRM...
However, for all I know, maybe DaveV1.0 is just another Twitter/Gnutoo/etc account and he's talking to himself again...
Mhmm... what about dial-up users? and what about ISP's that have a free-floating range of IP's for a single modem... BAN RANGES...oh yes... then when thats not good enough, ban the ISP...w00t... ban the country!
They have the option of idling down some, but they dont have to... they can keep on pumping out as much juice as they want to, if nowhere in the US is using the power...it'l tricle (up) to Canada, or down to Mexico...or whatever...
When the wind isn't blowing, they'l have to pick up the slack to make up for the loss... and when it is, they might be able to use that time for maintenance, etc.
...oh wait... nevermind...
People who haven't given Visual Studio much of a chance often think Visual Studio is a piece of crap.
http://xkcd.com/37/
\m/
I don't, that would make him a martyr, and basically prove his (invalid) point...
ie: incapacitated
3720 / 1,321,851,888 = 0.0000028% chance of getting EV71... thats probably less than the risk of the plane you (don't) get there by crashing... which, will kill you, your kids, friends, that girl you bumped into in the line-up...
According to the article ("Adults' well-developed immune systems usually can fend off the virus, but children are vulnerable to it, according to the CDC.") seems to only effect children...
Wouldn't consider it conspiracy worthy, but definitely propaganda ("icky don't go there - stay in the US where its 'safe") sort material...
Ive been using Slackware since 7.0 (1999)... and I never had to use a boot disk (other than the CD itself)
And to redundantly answer the question, a Floppy Drive is not a "requirement"... more of a suggestion, but you can (usually) replace "Floppy" with "USB" or "External HD" or anything else... mainly just for backup purposes, or if you want to leave another bootloader and keep LILO/GRUB on the floppy/usb/etc...
While in redundancy... although I do tend to lean more towards hand-holding OS's (lately)... whenever the newest flashiest bloated OS im testing out fails... it's back to Slackware, which, in the decade ive been using it... has never let me down, not once...
It's not because of laziness that Gnome is missing... its because they don't like Gnome... and they wont offer it just because its "popular" because it goes against the principles of Slackware... or even Linux as a whole if you go by what Torvalds says...
Agreed, and also, who says that it hasnt already happened?... Just because there wasnt 2 million people dead on the news over the weekend, maybe the poison was incrimental... maybe it's purpose was to simply increase the cancer rate, or lower IQ's, etc...
I suggest you take a glance at the option just under "50 for the column variable"
Slashdot still defaults to "HTML Formatted" for new users I think... but if you switch to "Plain Text"... you can type "normally" (ie: enter = new line) while still being able to use bold and italics and also
Paragraphs
Yeah, thats exactly it... an additiona checkbox... and another IF statement...
if (option)
{
auto-resize shit
}
}
If they really wanted to try and force people into using the auto-resize... have it turned on by default...thats like 66% of of the users right there... and maybe have the option in an "Advanced" area of Options...
Stuart Smalley: "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"
Picking an "attractive" avatar can lead to more/better confidence, it depends on how much you personify yourself as the avatar... if you believe that the avatar looks a lot like you, but a little better looking, then you start believing you are more attractive, and thus more confident (with your appearance at least)...
However, just simply saying "im good at math" will get you nowhere except usually making you lie to people... "are you good at math?"... "yes"... when you havent actually studied/applied it... however saying you are "good at math" means that your might be less prone to giving up on an equasion, thereby eventually you will become better at math because you have actually done it more...
So... you could say that these families are modern day "where wolfs"...
/joking
"...meaning the young man was most likely Wolf as well."
Geezus... and they are hyping up the DNA as the amazing thing here? come on!...