Don't confuse advances in usability with signs of imminent elimination of hardware form-factors. The benefit of a desktop is in its ability to run 24x7 without overheating or running out of battery, not mentioning the relative performance increase that most any desktop will have over any other form factor, at half the price. The fact that it's harder to use than an iPad, has nothing to do with the fact that it's desktop, that's a problem of the available operating system and it will be solved sooner than someone develops a tablet capable of longevity and performance of a desktop computer. I personally switched to laptops at home, but there isn't a week where I wish I still had the same desktop powerhouse I still use at work, to run a few VMs or a permanent web-cam security program on, without having to worry about all of the above hardware issues.
The claim that there will be no desktop in 5 years is a very popular marketing slideware these days, seemingly next thing after the "cloud" buzzword has been overused, but it's at the very least an optimistic oversimplification. At best - you will see more creative laptop designs (likes of Asus Transformer), but the desktop isn't going anywhere, any time soon.
The story in an MMO should never require reading any quest text. Story is great - but it needs to be what I do, not what I read. So called "second person storytelling" (not that that excuses Charlie Stross's bad game-related books actuallly written in second person).
I agree. And I would expand it to cinematic sequences as well...
I've never played any videogames for their stories... thank god WoW had quest goals highlighted (in green I think) so you could just scroll through to find the item you had to look for an be on your way, killing things. Stories are for books and movies.
Frustrated and stressed by my own failure, I began distancing myself from my wife and children. After a few days, I began verbally abusing them, and it eventually escalated into physical abuse. I was slowly losing what remaining sanity I had left. If this had continued for much longer, it is highly probable that I would have committed suicide. A mere shell of what I once was, I barricaded myself in my bedroom and cried myself to sleep for days on end.
oh yeah ? then why did they launch without fixing the problem ?
Probably due to some stupid bureaucratic reason like, if they didn't use up all the money in this year's budget - they would get less money in the next year's budget... Now they get to build a new and improved version!
teach them the theory, and only after that make them practice it
This. Also, nothing prevents you from "doing" creative things with your kids outside of school. If you want to teach your kids cool creative things - spend some time with them doing just that, don't try to delegate parenting to public education systems... slackers.
Well, then, when you have kids - remove them from public education system and get them to launch some rockets for MIT. I'm sure it won't at all lead to them living in your basement well into their 40s.
Problem with public education (and post-secondary education, actually) isn't that it follows a defined program and scoring systems, it's that those are designed for the lowest denominator. There should be more tests, and they should be hard enough for kids to fail, and be afraid of repercussions of failing - that's the real life context for you... not playing with rockets, on tax-payer's buck... that would provide a "wasting taxpayers dollars in NASA", not "real world" context:)
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Yes, and I f@#$%ing hate that. I don't want Google show up on my freaking start page when the address bar is the freaking Google search field. Speed Dial all the way! Those dial tabs are a must have too.
Arguably, real world context should be provided in post-secondary education... when middle school and high school have enough trouble laying theoretical ground work for that. Of course in reality university education is purely theoretical, with graduates being absolutely clueless when it comes to being employed in the real world... if anything, technical colleges is where the real world context is provided.
I guess my point is - Dale Dougherty is an idiot who obviously haven't tried teaching algebra to teenager, so he/she can get into a post-secondary institution later. Or he thinks they could launch some rockets during their entrance exams...
Bahahahha. I'm not denying that nVidia has had driver bugs, but complaining about AMD having to emulate nVidia's driver bugs is like complaining that Intel had to implement AMD64. nVidia is so much better at drivers than AMD that your comment looks like the insane rantings of a madman.
I have to agree. AMD video drivers sucked even before they were AMD video drivers. Starting out as a minimum-wage "techie" whose sole responsibility was to put together new workstations at a mom-and-pap computer store almost 10 years ago, I remember praying "please not ATI" every time a new build was shoved through the trap door.
Doesn't every chemical have to go through thorough tests before deemed safe for human consumption?
IKR? I'd think that the whole thing was white-list based to begin with... how do you end up with a whack-a-mole situation in a white-list based system?
Seriously? You can't investigate objectively because the people involved were in your organisation?
Sure you can, but there would be a billion internet trolls yelling about subjectivity of any such investigation, if it did happen... using words like "Seriously" and "Sheesh" nonetheless.
In Canada we pretty much have 2 ISPs (that differ slightly between east and west coast). Everyone else is reselling. Not much to chose from to be honest. They both suck.
I'm curious about this Dropbox score... didn't they get implicated in their staff having access to everyone's files "for troubleshooting" at one point?
Someone mod parent up. Their requirements clearly indicate the need to repeatedly access same content. Which means that you could cut your bandwidth usage by 999 times when that content, accessed by 1,000 students, is cached locally when the first student accesses it. Can you imagine the cost savings of such a responsible solution instead of knee-jerk response resulting in head-on capacity accommodation?
Yeah, what the hell Microsoft and Nokia! We paid for Motorola patents to be able to use them in court... where do you get off trying to that, without publically shelling out the cash!?
Not with an Olfa cutter... that's what I use to open these at home and all it takes is 1-2 seconds to slice the two sides and peel the package open. The only tricky parts is around corners, but once you've gotten a hang of turning the knife instead of pushing it along those - it's a breeze. Having said that: #firstworldproblems
In Vancouver there are microphones on all stations and new trains on Skytrain (the above-ground subway system) that are being actively monitored by Translink Police. You can listen to the Translink radio communications on a number of free applications and hear them spot people sneaking alcohol on the train or talking about vandalizing ad posters for the cops. I think you may have to invent your own language these days, to even maintain an illusion of privacy anymore.
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Take the job, then use the title to leave and get the same job at another company for the pay you deserve.
My nation, which actually put men on the moon
Allegedly.
Don't confuse advances in usability with signs of imminent elimination of hardware form-factors. The benefit of a desktop is in its ability to run 24x7 without overheating or running out of battery, not mentioning the relative performance increase that most any desktop will have over any other form factor, at half the price. The fact that it's harder to use than an iPad, has nothing to do with the fact that it's desktop, that's a problem of the available operating system and it will be solved sooner than someone develops a tablet capable of longevity and performance of a desktop computer. I personally switched to laptops at home, but there isn't a week where I wish I still had the same desktop powerhouse I still use at work, to run a few VMs or a permanent web-cam security program on, without having to worry about all of the above hardware issues.
The claim that there will be no desktop in 5 years is a very popular marketing slideware these days, seemingly next thing after the "cloud" buzzword has been overused, but it's at the very least an optimistic oversimplification. At best - you will see more creative laptop designs (likes of Asus Transformer), but the desktop isn't going anywhere, any time soon.
Right. Foleo is more like a Playbook, than this.
The story in an MMO should never require reading any quest text. Story is great - but it needs to be what I do, not what I read. So called "second person storytelling" (not that that excuses Charlie Stross's bad game-related books actuallly written in second person).
I agree. And I would expand it to cinematic sequences as well...
boring story full of holes
I've never played any videogames for their stories... thank god WoW had quest goals highlighted (in green I think) so you could just scroll through to find the item you had to look for an be on your way, killing things. Stories are for books and movies.
Frustrated and stressed by my own failure, I began distancing myself from my wife and children. After a few days, I began verbally abusing them, and it eventually escalated into physical abuse. I was slowly losing what remaining sanity I had left. If this had continued for much longer, it is highly probable that I would have committed suicide. A mere shell of what I once was, I barricaded myself in my bedroom and cried myself to sleep for days on end.
Funniest spam I have ever read on Slashdot :D
oh yeah ? then why did they launch without fixing the problem ?
Probably due to some stupid bureaucratic reason like, if they didn't use up all the money in this year's budget - they would get less money in the next year's budget... Now they get to build a new and improved version!
.corn looks more passable, although I do appreciate the irony behind the "con" of it all.
teach them the theory, and only after that make them practice it
This. Also, nothing prevents you from "doing" creative things with your kids outside of school. If you want to teach your kids cool creative things - spend some time with them doing just that, don't try to delegate parenting to public education systems... slackers.
Well, then, when you have kids - remove them from public education system and get them to launch some rockets for MIT. I'm sure it won't at all lead to them living in your basement well into their 40s.
:)
Problem with public education (and post-secondary education, actually) isn't that it follows a defined program and scoring systems, it's that those are designed for the lowest denominator. There should be more tests, and they should be hard enough for kids to fail, and be afraid of repercussions of failing - that's the real life context for you... not playing with rockets, on tax-payer's buck... that would provide a "wasting taxpayers dollars in NASA", not "real world" context
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Yes, and I f@#$%ing hate that. I don't want Google show up on my freaking start page when the address bar is the freaking Google search field. Speed Dial all the way! Those dial tabs are a must have too.
The context that's missing is the real world.
Arguably, real world context should be provided in post-secondary education... when middle school and high school have enough trouble laying theoretical ground work for that. Of course in reality university education is purely theoretical, with graduates being absolutely clueless when it comes to being employed in the real world... if anything, technical colleges is where the real world context is provided.
I guess my point is - Dale Dougherty is an idiot who obviously haven't tried teaching algebra to teenager, so he/she can get into a post-secondary institution later. Or he thinks they could launch some rockets during their entrance exams...
Damn. Must be nice to have all that tar sands oil money to throw at your infrastructure.
Bahahahha. I'm not denying that nVidia has had driver bugs, but complaining about AMD having to emulate nVidia's driver bugs is like complaining that Intel had to implement AMD64. nVidia is so much better at drivers than AMD that your comment looks like the insane rantings of a madman.
I have to agree. AMD video drivers sucked even before they were AMD video drivers. Starting out as a minimum-wage "techie" whose sole responsibility was to put together new workstations at a mom-and-pap computer store almost 10 years ago, I remember praying "please not ATI" every time a new build was shoved through the trap door.
Doesn't every chemical have to go through thorough tests before deemed safe for human consumption?
IKR? I'd think that the whole thing was white-list based to begin with... how do you end up with a whack-a-mole situation in a white-list based system?
Seriously? You can't investigate objectively because the people involved were in your organisation?
Sure you can, but there would be a billion internet trolls yelling about subjectivity of any such investigation, if it did happen... using words like "Seriously" and "Sheesh" nonetheless.
In Canada we pretty much have 2 ISPs (that differ slightly between east and west coast). Everyone else is reselling. Not much to chose from to be honest. They both suck.
I'm curious about this Dropbox score... didn't they get implicated in their staff having access to everyone's files "for troubleshooting" at one point?
I'd be looking at huge caching servers first.
Christine Fox: "What's that?"
Someone mod parent up. Their requirements clearly indicate the need to repeatedly access same content. Which means that you could cut your bandwidth usage by 999 times when that content, accessed by 1,000 students, is cached locally when the first student accesses it. Can you imagine the cost savings of such a responsible solution instead of knee-jerk response resulting in head-on capacity accommodation?
Yeah, what the hell Microsoft and Nokia! We paid for Motorola patents to be able to use them in court... where do you get off trying to that, without publically shelling out the cash!?
Oh good, another religious/political flame magnet on Slashdot.
Not with an Olfa cutter... that's what I use to open these at home and all it takes is 1-2 seconds to slice the two sides and peel the package open. The only tricky parts is around corners, but once you've gotten a hang of turning the knife instead of pushing it along those - it's a breeze. Having said that: #firstworldproblems
You think they'd at least get that part right (when they link to the website).
Linking to things and reading them are two entirely different things. Especially on Slashdot.
Companies selling SIM card converters make millions!
In Vancouver there are microphones on all stations and new trains on Skytrain (the above-ground subway system) that are being actively monitored by Translink Police. You can listen to the Translink radio communications on a number of free applications and hear them spot people sneaking alcohol on the train or talking about vandalizing ad posters for the cops. I think you may have to invent your own language these days, to even maintain an illusion of privacy anymore.