They are welcome to swap jobs with me. I'd be more that happy with $150,000 a year.
Currently, I'm unemployed. I've written a Google Android app and uploaded it to the Market. I'm not in a country where I can charge for my app, so I have ads in it to try to generate some revenue. The app has been on the market place for 17 days so far, and I've made $2.65. That equates to about 15.5c/day, or $56.90 a year. I had to pay $25 to create my account, so that makes it $31.90 for the year!
So only too happy to swap, guys.
(for those interested, the app is on the market here: market://details?id=org.thetomahawk.spreadsheet )
If I'm reading something, I move the mouse out of the way. So, if Google want to track what I'm interested in, they'll need to look at what the mouse is _not_ hovering over, or certainly not stopped over.
If sarcasm is done right, as a previous poster mentioned, then it should be obvious, and thus a symbol is not needed.
If the inventor of the sarcasm symbol needs help understand sarcasm, why should the rest of us point it out to him? And, for that matter, why should we pay him for the privilege of point it out to him.
Anyway, there is already a well know symbol that doesn't require any addition to the Unicode standard, nor any addition to any existing fonts.:-p
Easy as that, really!
Reminds me of a joke where an American actually 'got' sarcasm for the first time. It was raining outside, and his non-American friend says 'Isn't the weather just great!'. The American bloke realises that his buddy just said the exact opposite to what he meant. Wow! What an amazing thing. He then went on to use this device himself... The following week in work, a friend closed a filing cabinet on his finger. Our friend, now endowed with his new found sense of sarcasm, pounced on the opportunity to put this into practise... "Isn't the weather great!", says he.
1st, who in their right minds leaves a loaded gun on a table? 2nd, who leaves a loaded gun on a table with a 3 year old in the house? 3rd, who lets a 3 old play shooting games? 4th, who lets that 3 old play shooting games with a gun-shaped controller? 5th, who makes a gun shaped controller for a Wii?! It's a platform mainly aimed at KIDS!!!
This points to a real issue with the 2nd amendment (rights to bear arms bit) - maybe people like this step-dad should no longer be legally a person, and thus not allowed to bear arms. Let's legally call him a Retard, or something. Seems fitting.
One major ilk I have about laptop keyboard is the positioning of the CTRL and Fn keys.
I was in a shop recently that sold laptops of many different brands. All of them, except Lenovo, had the CTRL key as the first key in the row, with the Fn key to the right of it. This, IMHO, is the correct position for it - it's where my little finger automatically goes for CTRL, and where it is located on a 'normal' keyboard.
Lenovo had the Fn key first, with the CTRL key to the right, meaning that when you go to hit CTRL-, I hit Fn instead. This, for me, is a major factor is choosing what laptop to buy - if the CTRL key is in the wrong place, it's marked off the list immediately.
funny story: Several years ago, for work, I got a Compaq Evo N620c (which I still use for work). While the Fn and CTRL keys are in the wrong place, at least they have the forethought to allow you to swap them in the BIOS, which I naturally did. Now, the laptop was to be reburned, so the Service Desk took it in. When I went to pick it up the next day, they had a normal keyboard plugged into the PS/2 socket. I asked them why, and they told me that the CTRL key was broken and they couldn't use CTRL-ALT-DEL (yes, it's Windows. *sigh*) So firstly I explained to them that the CTRL and Fn keys were swapped in the BIOS, and then asked the question "Why didn't you just use the CTRL key on the other side of the keyboard?" (which, when tried, worked perfectly). *sigh*
Personally, I'll still be using (and updating) my TomTom. While I may use the Android GPS software on occasion, it does require having an active internet connection. Here, 3G connections are expensive - while you pay up front for 1GB a month, using something like this would use up that 1GB quite quickly, and the price per MB after that is high.
The search mechanism will be useful, though - I like that "Bring me to the museum where the King Tut exhibition is in San Fran". But I'll probably do that at home (on WiFi) and still just set the destination into my TomTom...
The problem is that everyone ships software with known bugs. The bigger the software, the more bugs.
A handy case in point is Windows - MS will release a version of Windows, knowing that they will be releasing hotfixes before it get's installed onto a single machine.
Any software company is going to release software knowing that bugs are in it.
Why is that, as screens are getting bigger and we can see more of our documents at a glance, that they have to use up more on-screen real estate, thus giving us less view of the documents in question than we had on a 14" monitor.
I suppose these ribbons are options, so you can turn them off. But certainly with Office 2007, it's the default.
I, for one, like to maximise the amount of usable screen space - I even have my Windows* Start bar on Auto-hide to give me those extra few pixels!
T.
* Yep, I use Windows most of the time. Vista, at that! Sorry, folks. But I do duel boot to Ubuntu!
I know that my car manual tells me that the most fuel efficient speed is in my car - 57mph. It varies from car to car, although (I'm told) more cars are around this figure.
Having a 6th gear would help, of course. Driving a manual (properly!) instead of an automatic is better again. Engine size is a big factor (and US engine sizes tend to be much larger then European engine sizes). The type of fuel used is another factor (here, we only get 95 octane - we don't get the 85octane 'water' that it used in the US).
The car manufacturor would have taken everything into account to give the optimal fuel efficiency. So check the manual.
Driving slow definately does not help fuel efficiency! However, accelerating hard to up to certain speed causes your car to just drink fuel! Accelerate at a lower rate, and change gear at the right point (between 1800 and 2000 rpm on my car). Drive in the highest gear you can for the speed you are going, and never, ever, floor the throttle!
You don't need facebook. You can play at http://www.scrabulous.com/ - there's even an email version, which will email you when your opponent has played his/her move.
Scrabulous was the reason I originally joined Facebook. When I found that I could play without having a Facebook account, I had my account deleted (mailed them and told them to delete everything!) and I play exclusively using the email version of the game.
No matter what monitor I use, I always configure my colours to remove a white background, and replace it with light grey instead.
Reading on a white monitor is like looking at a light bulb. It stresses the eyes as they try to compensate for the brightness, while still trying to be able to read the black.
When you change to a light grey, you can feel your eyes relax.
My standard is black on light-grey, or light-grey on black (on an xterm type window).
Even now, I'm typing into a box with is light grey, but the/. background is white, and I can feel it on my eyes.
Another thing is to ensure you have adequate light in the room. Coding in a dark room with a bright monitor also places additional strain on the eyes. Having a light turned on will also reduce the strain.
Oh, and use an LCD monitor instead of a CRT. Less radiation and magnetic fields to interfere with the eyes.
Ensure the refresh rate is also optimal (60Hz on an LCD, as high as possible on a CRT)
But we are not talking Microsoft here, who make a minor change and then sell it for megabucks.
Opera 6 was very different to Opera 5. Opera 7 was very different again. And the minor releases weren't just bug fixes - they often introduced new features.
There isn't really much of a difference between Opera and Firefox, especially when you use the plugins with Firefox. But Opera had a lot of these first. Most users of Opera are old users, using it since before Mozilla and Firefox.
I like Opera. It does everything that I want it to do. One the rare occasion when someone write a page specifically for IE (and they are become more rare now!), I still have IE. I also have Firefox installed so that I can use it from time to time.
But a browser is a browser - I can see the web pages I want to see using anything. I'm used to Opera, so I'll continue to use it. I know the shortcut keys for it. I know where certain preferences are located, should I need to change them.
It's a good product, and is well written. OK, I paid for it, but only because I thought it was worth paying for - I even bought a Linux licence, although I rarely use it on Linux (I rarely use Linux itself, unfortunately).
Before you can start saying that a product isn't worth trying or using, you need to try it out. Opera 5 and Opera 8 are not comparable, so try out Opera 8 (you can do it for free) and see what you think.
I won't have a problem if you prefer Firefox, but it would be nice to know that you actually tried the product.
That would be more fair, especially to the casual gamer.
You would probably find that, in the long run, they would make more money, as more people would become addicted to the online game and would then shell out the extra money to play online.
I still think a charge per day, as opposed to per month, would be better too.
Personally, if I had to fork out about 40 quid for a game, and then pay by the month to play it online, I don't think I'd be forking out the 40 quid in the first place.
Also, like the writer said, I don't get much online play time. If I had to pay my the month to play online, I'd be paying more per game hour than someone with a lot more time on their hands.
Access to the servers should remain free. Either that, or the game should be a lot cheaper (free even), and a cost per hour or cost per day model setup for online play.
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Wow, a comment suddenly becomes me bitching. Even with a :-P in there.
Maybe that SarcMark is required after all... (insert SarcMark here, 'cos you obviously need it)
Indeed. Easier to calculate if it's linear - it's only for the purposes of showing that I'm not going to make $150,000 a year from it! ;-P
They are welcome to swap jobs with me. I'd be more that happy with $150,000 a year.
Currently, I'm unemployed. I've written a Google Android app and uploaded it to the Market. I'm not in a country where I can charge for my app, so I have ads in it to try to generate some revenue. The app has been on the market place for 17 days so far, and I've made $2.65. That equates to about 15.5c/day, or $56.90 a year. I had to pay $25 to create my account, so that makes it $31.90 for the year!
So only too happy to swap, guys.
(for those interested, the app is on the market here: market://details?id=org.thetomahawk.spreadsheet )
If I'm reading something, I move the mouse out of the way. So, if Google want to track what I'm interested in, they'll need to look at what the mouse is _not_ hovering over, or certainly not stopped over.
If sarcasm is done right, as a previous poster mentioned, then it should be obvious, and thus a symbol is not needed.
If the inventor of the sarcasm symbol needs help understand sarcasm, why should the rest of us point it out to him? And, for that matter, why should we pay him for the privilege of point it out to him.
Anyway, there is already a well know symbol that doesn't require any addition to the Unicode standard, nor any addition to any existing fonts. :-p
Easy as that, really!
Reminds me of a joke where an American actually 'got' sarcasm for the first time. It was raining outside, and his non-American friend says 'Isn't the weather just great!'.
The American bloke realises that his buddy just said the exact opposite to what he meant. Wow! What an amazing thing.
He then went on to use this device himself...
The following week in work, a friend closed a filing cabinet on his finger. Our friend, now endowed with his new found sense of sarcasm, pounced on the opportunity to put this into practise...
"Isn't the weather great!", says he.
*sigh*
Was is just me, or does it appear that the water the came out was cleaner than the water be used (before mixing it with the oil)?
Would this be a valid way of cleaning up other (non-oil) polluted water supplies? :( )
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I have some questions here
1st, who in their right minds leaves a loaded gun on a table?
2nd, who leaves a loaded gun on a table with a 3 year old in the house?
3rd, who lets a 3 old play shooting games?
4th, who lets that 3 old play shooting games with a gun-shaped controller?
5th, who makes a gun shaped controller for a Wii?! It's a platform mainly aimed at KIDS!!!
This points to a real issue with the 2nd amendment (rights to bear arms bit) - maybe people like this step-dad should no longer be legally a person, and thus not allowed to bear arms. Let's legally call him a Retard, or something. Seems fitting.
He was the step-dad - says so in the article. So it wasn't actually _his_ child.
Em, what?
One major ilk I have about laptop keyboard is the positioning of the CTRL and Fn keys.
I was in a shop recently that sold laptops of many different brands. All of them, except Lenovo, had the CTRL key as the first key in the row, with the Fn key to the right of it. This, IMHO, is the correct position for it - it's where my little finger automatically goes for CTRL, and where it is located on a 'normal' keyboard.
Lenovo had the Fn key first, with the CTRL key to the right, meaning that when you go to hit CTRL-, I hit Fn instead. This, for me, is a major factor is choosing what laptop to buy - if the CTRL key is in the wrong place, it's marked off the list immediately.
funny story:
Several years ago, for work, I got a Compaq Evo N620c (which I still use for work). While the Fn and CTRL keys are in the wrong place, at least they have the forethought to allow you to swap them in the BIOS, which I naturally did.
Now, the laptop was to be reburned, so the Service Desk took it in. When I went to pick it up the next day, they had a normal keyboard plugged into the PS/2 socket. I asked them why, and they told me that the CTRL key was broken and they couldn't use CTRL-ALT-DEL (yes, it's Windows. *sigh*)
So firstly I explained to them that the CTRL and Fn keys were swapped in the BIOS, and then asked the question "Why didn't you just use the CTRL key on the other side of the keyboard?" (which, when tried, worked perfectly).
*sigh*
T.
Personally, I'll still be using (and updating) my TomTom. While I may use the Android GPS software on occasion, it does require having an active internet connection. Here, 3G connections are expensive - while you pay up front for 1GB a month, using something like this would use up that 1GB quite quickly, and the price per MB after that is high.
The search mechanism will be useful, though - I like that "Bring me to the museum where the King Tut exhibition is in San Fran". But I'll probably do that at home (on WiFi) and still just set the destination into my TomTom...
T.
Just point a webcam at the lecture's overhead board and take a photo...
You can tie it into the notes, and add it using an equation editor later on.
T.
The problem is that everyone ships software with known bugs. The bigger the software, the more bugs.
A handy case in point is Windows - MS will release a version of Windows, knowing that they will be releasing hotfixes before it get's installed onto a single machine.
Any software company is going to release software knowing that bugs are in it.
So, are the going to sue everyone?
T.
Why is that, as screens are getting bigger and we can see more of our documents at a glance, that they have to use up more on-screen real estate, thus giving us less view of the documents in question than we had on a 14" monitor.
I suppose these ribbons are options, so you can turn them off. But certainly with Office 2007, it's the default.
I, for one, like to maximise the amount of usable screen space - I even have my Windows* Start bar on Auto-hide to give me those extra few pixels!
T.
* Yep, I use Windows most of the time. Vista, at that! Sorry, folks. But I do duel boot to Ubuntu!
I know that my car manual tells me that the most fuel efficient speed is in my car - 57mph. It varies from car to car, although (I'm told) more cars are around this figure.
Having a 6th gear would help, of course. Driving a manual (properly!) instead of an automatic is better again. Engine size is a big factor (and US engine sizes tend to be much larger then European engine sizes). The type of fuel used is another factor (here, we only get 95 octane - we don't get the 85octane 'water' that it used in the US).
The car manufacturor would have taken everything into account to give the optimal fuel efficiency. So check the manual.
Driving slow definately does not help fuel efficiency! However, accelerating hard to up to certain speed causes your car to just drink fuel! Accelerate at a lower rate, and change gear at the right point (between 1800 and 2000 rpm on my car). Drive in the highest gear you can for the speed you are going, and never, ever, floor the throttle!
T.
You don't need facebook. You can play at http://www.scrabulous.com/ - there's even an email version, which will email you when your opponent has played his/her move.
Scrabulous was the reason I originally joined Facebook. When I found that I could play without having a Facebook account, I had my account deleted (mailed them and told them to delete everything!) and I play exclusively using the email version of the game.
T.
No matter what monitor I use, I always configure my colours to remove a white background, and replace it with light grey instead.
Reading on a white monitor is like looking at a light bulb. It stresses the eyes as they try to compensate for the brightness, while still trying to be able to read the black.
When you change to a light grey, you can feel your eyes relax.
My standard is black on light-grey, or light-grey on black (on an xterm type window).
Even now, I'm typing into a box with is light grey, but the /. background is white, and I can feel it on my eyes.
Another thing is to ensure you have adequate light in the room. Coding in a dark room with a bright monitor also places additional strain on the eyes. Having a light turned on will also reduce the strain.
Oh, and use an LCD monitor instead of a CRT. Less radiation and magnetic fields to interfere with the eyes.
Ensure the refresh rate is also optimal (60Hz on an LCD, as high as possible on a CRT)
T.
Oooh. Wasn't aware of that. Thanks.
I puchased Opera a long time ago when you did only purchase the licence for the OS you were using at the time.
T.
I mean the Opera licence for Linux.
When you register Opera, you only register it for one platform - your code will only work on Windows is you purchased a Windows Opera licence.
I purchased a Windows and a Linux Opera licence.
So no, it's not a SCO 'licence' I'm talking about.
T.
But we are not talking Microsoft here, who make a minor change and then sell it for megabucks.
Opera 6 was very different to Opera 5. Opera 7 was very different again. And the minor releases weren't just bug fixes - they often introduced new features.
There isn't really much of a difference between Opera and Firefox, especially when you use the plugins with Firefox. But Opera had a lot of these first. Most users of Opera are old users, using it since before Mozilla and Firefox.
I like Opera. It does everything that I want it to do. One the rare occasion when someone write a page specifically for IE (and they are become more rare now!), I still have IE. I also have Firefox installed so that I can use it from time to time.
But a browser is a browser - I can see the web pages I want to see using anything. I'm used to Opera, so I'll continue to use it. I know the shortcut keys for it. I know where certain preferences are located, should I need to change them.
It's a good product, and is well written. OK, I paid for it, but only because I thought it was worth paying for - I even bought a Linux licence, although I rarely use it on Linux (I rarely use Linux itself, unfortunately).
Before you can start saying that a product isn't worth trying or using, you need to try it out. Opera 5 and Opera 8 are not comparable, so try out Opera 8 (you can do it for free) and see what you think.
I won't have a problem if you prefer Firefox, but it would be nice to know that you actually tried the product.
T.
The phrase 'great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ' springs to mind here. Not sure why? hmmm
T.
That would be more fair, especially to the casual gamer.
You would probably find that, in the long run, they would make more money, as more people would become addicted to the online game and would then shell out the extra money to play online.
I still think a charge per day, as opposed to per month, would be better too.
T.
Personally, if I had to fork out about 40 quid for a game, and then pay by the month to play it online, I don't think I'd be forking out the 40 quid in the first place.
Also, like the writer said, I don't get much online play time. If I had to pay my the month to play online, I'd be paying more per game hour than someone with a lot more time on their hands.
Access to the servers should remain free. Either that, or the game should be a lot cheaper (free even), and a cost per hour or cost per day model setup for online play.
But they can't have it both ways.
T.
The T5 does all that for you...