he's been doing his bit to _contribute_ to the problem, and that is not excusable. at a time when your govt should refrain from further debt and drastically curb expenses, he wants to borrow even more money to pay off existing debt! as an analogy, consider that you have fallen into a debt vortex and owe 1 million dollars and have no way to pay them back. do you: a) get a new credit card, put it into an atm and borrow cash at ridiculous interest rates to pay off existing debt? or b) cut up all your credit cards and spend significantly less, saving money to pay off debt?
so far, obama seems to prefer (a), just like all his predecessors. i am not an expert in economics, but this policy looks suicidal to me. also, i care about this because a collapse in us economy means devaluation of my assets and decrease in my standard of living, even though i am not an american.
i don't gt it. the budget of nasa in 2011 is 19 billion $. if you adjust for 2007 dollars, this is quite low considering 1991 had 19 billion, and every year in the '60s had considerably more. as a % of budget, the nasa budget has been close to 1%, and 3-4% during the '60s. in 2011: 19B/3.8T=0.5%. this is the LOWEST ever in nasa's history. how can you expect greater things if you just don't give them money? spacex has done some things for cheap. but those things are just that: cheap. not groundbreaking, not furthering research, just plain cheap ways to do what has been surpassed many times by what nasa has repeatedly done.
I think the bigger problem with microtransactions is that games that utilize them have a strong tendency of virtually everything revolving around microtransactions to the point where it's completely impossible to play without buying something every 5 seconds. I hate the concept of buying your way through a game, I mean, what's the point? Sure, I could actually try and enjoy this game, or I could dump $100 into it stretched over a few weeks so I can spend less time playing it. But aren't games supposed to be enjoyable? Spending less time playing them seems to defeat the purpose.
Personally, I think if a game offers something something in exchange for real money (aside from possibly the game itself), it should not affect gameplay itself. Maybe someone really wants a slightly different looking avatar, and if they want to pay a few dollars for it, so be it, it doesn't hinder anyone else's enjoyment of the game. Regardless, that's why you won't find any microtransactions (or macrotransactions, for that matter) in Game!, as it focuses on being fun to play, apparently a novel concept these days.
i think a good example of this was portal 2 hats. but people still got extra angry at them.
I haven't seen an application that doesn't get its own fader no matter what audio model it uses
An app can request/get exclusive access to the audio card, and bypass everything including the volume control. But that's only used by audio authoring software.
My favorite Win7 audio feature in any case is the ability to redirect live audio. I can now watch a movie and while it's playing switch the audio to/from my headphones painlessly (earlier I would have to restart the movie, and sometimes the whole app). I don't have headphone jacks I can easily reach, so it saves me a bit of trouble.
Ubuntu does not maintains Long Term releases that long. Apple is notorious for dropping support for previous OS X versions (um, talk to the people trapped on OS X 10.4 due to the intel switch).
MS has an obligation just a little bigger than Ubuntu's or Apple's. Keep in mind:
(Ubuntu install base * OS X install base) < MS Windows install base
you probably want to add that, not multiply. otherwise its not comparison, its just random numbers.
Ubuntu does not maintains Long Term releases that long.
Nor does Canonical charge for operating system upgrades. Nor does Canonical drop all support for older yet paid for and still working PC hardware as quickly; Ubuntu 11.04 needs less than half the RAM of Windows 7.
yet it DOES less than a quarter of the things that win 7 can.
this is all bullshit. science will never advance if it does not produce awe within the people who matter. the space shuttle did produce that awe. capsules are just...lame. i don't care what the bean counters say. why not ask nasa to develop some entirely new tech like rail gun or laser pulse launches?
the fact right now is, space shuttle was the most advanced space craft the human civilization has ever had. and now it has been retired, without any replacement, without any PLAN for a replacement. similarly, the concorde was the fastest passenger airliner the human civilization ever had. it was retired years ago, and there has been no plane that can match its awesomeness.
hari seldon said it decades ago: the galactic empire is dying.
i love the idea of panorama, but it lost 50-60 of my tabs cumulatively when i had upgraded to ff4. and then it also got horribly slow for me. and stupid design like resizing only from one corner made me to ditch it in favor of the much more stable tree style tabs. but i'd love it if moz devs eliminate all the bugs in panorama and make it a bit faster. it will change the way i browse;)
i think ie9 and chrome will both work nicely for you. ie9 is a bit faster than chrome at things like opening, tab management, etc but rendering speed looks to be identical. ie9 has this built in feature called 'tracking protection' which is quite nice. but chrome has loads of addons that work very nicely, and it has almost all the major addons firefox has (adblock, ghostery, noscript, etc).
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he's been doing his bit to _contribute_ to the problem, and that is not excusable. at a time when your govt should refrain from further debt and drastically curb expenses, he wants to borrow even more money to pay off existing debt! as an analogy, consider that you have fallen into a debt vortex and owe 1 million dollars and have no way to pay them back. do you:
a) get a new credit card, put it into an atm and borrow cash at ridiculous interest rates to pay off existing debt?
or
b) cut up all your credit cards and spend significantly less, saving money to pay off debt?
so far, obama seems to prefer (a), just like all his predecessors. i am not an expert in economics, but this policy looks suicidal to me. also, i care about this because a collapse in us economy means devaluation of my assets and decrease in my standard of living, even though i am not an american.
i don't gt it. the budget of nasa in 2011 is 19 billion $. if you adjust for 2007 dollars, this is quite low considering 1991 had 19 billion, and every year in the '60s had considerably more.
as a % of budget, the nasa budget has been close to 1%, and 3-4% during the '60s. in 2011: 19B/3.8T=0.5%. this is the LOWEST ever in nasa's history. how can you expect greater things if you just don't give them money? spacex has done some things for cheap. but those things are just that: cheap. not groundbreaking, not furthering research, just plain cheap ways to do what has been surpassed many times by what nasa has repeatedly done.
I think the bigger problem with microtransactions is that games that utilize them have a strong tendency of virtually everything revolving around microtransactions to the point where it's completely impossible to play without buying something every 5 seconds. I hate the concept of buying your way through a game, I mean, what's the point? Sure, I could actually try and enjoy this game, or I could dump $100 into it stretched over a few weeks so I can spend less time playing it. But aren't games supposed to be enjoyable? Spending less time playing them seems to defeat the purpose.
Personally, I think if a game offers something something in exchange for real money (aside from possibly the game itself), it should not affect gameplay itself. Maybe someone really wants a slightly different looking avatar, and if they want to pay a few dollars for it, so be it, it doesn't hinder anyone else's enjoyment of the game. Regardless, that's why you won't find any microtransactions (or macrotransactions, for that matter) in Game!, as it focuses on being fun to play, apparently a novel concept these days.
i think a good example of this was portal 2 hats. but people still got extra angry at them.
i don't think anything can crack a nice password with wpa2+aes. not in a reasonable amount of time, anyway. it'd take years!
i think it is quite self-evident.
looks like mine does not :(
serves me right for buying cheap acer.
most of the public need a fucking ipad. do you WANT to be most of the public?
I haven't seen an application that doesn't get its own fader no matter what audio model it uses
An app can request/get exclusive access to the audio card, and bypass everything including the volume control. But that's only used by audio authoring software.
My favorite Win7 audio feature in any case is the ability to redirect live audio. I can now watch a movie and while it's playing switch the audio to/from my headphones painlessly (earlier I would have to restart the movie, and sometimes the whole app). I don't have headphone jacks I can easily reach, so it saves me a bit of trouble.
how do you do that?
support==patches
you don't want your non-techie friend to RUN ubuntu.
Ubuntu does not maintains Long Term releases that long. Apple is notorious for dropping support for previous OS X versions (um, talk to the people trapped on OS X 10.4 due to the intel switch).
MS has an obligation just a little bigger than Ubuntu's or Apple's. Keep in mind:
(Ubuntu install base * OS X install base) < MS Windows install base
you probably want to add that, not multiply. otherwise its not comparison, its just random numbers.
Ubuntu does not maintains Long Term releases that long.
Nor does Canonical charge for operating system upgrades. Nor does Canonical drop all support for older yet paid for and still working PC hardware as quickly; Ubuntu 11.04 needs less than half the RAM of Windows 7.
yet it DOES less than a quarter of the things that win 7 can.
if win7 works on your setup, it will work better than xp. you might even see a minor improvement in fps. that's a significant 'if', though.
the high end expensive CPUs are still increasing in power per core, Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 990x is 27,000 Dhrystone MIPS per core.
the next one is called Ultra Xtra Xtreme Edition 666x
lol!
its rare that something on the innernet results in a literal lol.
unity has nothing radical about it. its just a cheap imitation of osx.
sent you an invite! looks like i can invite any number of people!!
got it. sorry. i'm a bit slow sometimes ;)
i did read the whole thing. i still can't figure out what i'm missing?
fuck apple!
this is all bullshit. science will never advance if it does not produce awe within the people who matter. the space shuttle did produce that awe. capsules are just...lame. i don't care what the bean counters say. why not ask nasa to develop some entirely new tech like rail gun or laser pulse launches?
the fact right now is, space shuttle was the most advanced space craft the human civilization has ever had. and now it has been retired, without any replacement, without any PLAN for a replacement. similarly, the concorde was the fastest passenger airliner the human civilization ever had. it was retired years ago, and there has been no plane that can match its awesomeness.
hari seldon said it decades ago: the galactic empire is dying.
i love the idea of panorama, but it lost 50-60 of my tabs cumulatively when i had upgraded to ff4. and then it also got horribly slow for me. and stupid design like resizing only from one corner made me to ditch it in favor of the much more stable tree style tabs. but i'd love it if moz devs eliminate all the bugs in panorama and make it a bit faster. it will change the way i browse ;)
like windows 98 and 2000?
i think ie9 and chrome will both work nicely for you. ie9 is a bit faster than chrome at things like opening, tab management, etc but rendering speed looks to be identical. ie9 has this built in feature called 'tracking protection' which is quite nice. but chrome has loads of addons that work very nicely, and it has almost all the major addons firefox has (adblock, ghostery, noscript, etc).