This is actually very true of some games that are so good the first time through that replay value is less of a factor. Off the top of my head, the Phoenix Wright series' success can back this up. So can any of the more successful story-based adventure games.
A very few of the simpler ones are alright. Anything sufficiently minimalistic. I like the Canucks one, and the Mahjong one isn't bad for instance. But yes, most of them try to treat it like a wallpaper, and plaster the browser with gaudy colours, making things on the menu bar, tab bar and/or status bar unreadable.
Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it.
I've worked for a call centre under a few contracts. That's pretty much the standard everywhere. First thing we were told before getting access to the CS tools was that yes, you could access pretty much anyone's account info you wanted, and that if you did so for any reason other than it being necessary for your work you would be fired on the spot. Only information such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers was not readily available. On one contract, we could log into anyone's account on the website and take any actions with it the user could (and then some), though this was done very rarely.
Honestly, it doesn't stress me out all that much; I put nothing on Facebook that I wouldn't want getting into others' hands. I expect that the things I set to "friends only" won't be available to the average Joe who happens by my profile, but at the same time it doesn't surprise or annoy me that Facebook employees can see it. Of course they can.
64-bit can also crunch larger numbers at once, which can reduce the number of equations running through the processor if a lot of math with huge values is being performed, but only if the code was written for 64-bit specifically, making it at best a really minor advantage.
I don't know, that is probably fading slowly with time. When I bought my laptop it had Vista on it, and rather than downgrade to XP to get the most out of my system, I just installed Ubuntu to speed things up instead. It's probably not all that uncommon of a solution (at least among those who would consider changing their OS in the first place).
I suppose if you use Ctrl-Backspace (delete last word) a lot it's only one extra key. But that said, I do, and I don't recall having ever accidentally killed X.
The comments given by one rep in customer service doesn't really equate to eBay as a company blaming users. Clearing cache and cookies is pretty much an eBay rep's cookie cutter response for any such problems, and if that doesn't work they try other things. Or it could be the rep was just bad, didn't get a memo, or that they hadn't filed a bug yet.
Trust me, I'm no fan of eBay, but I don't think it's valid to say the company is blaming users for the description errors based on that one rep's comment alone.
Good Lord, I agree wholeheartedly. The ribbon is nigh-incomprehensible to first time users. I just had to use a version of Office with the ribbon for the first time a few weeks ago, and I had a hard time with it.
Now, I don't know what it's like once you're used to it, but it didn't seem like a step forward in intuitiveness compared to the old Office menus. I don't think that I can chock that up just to me getting older and being used to the old ways.
I had to use MS Office 2007 a lot at work (over half a year at least, probably not a full year, and mainly Excel and Outlook, not so much Word), and so I got pretty used to the ribbon. My verdict is that I still didn't like it even after getting used to where everything was. Some of the options on the ribbon are hidden completely until you select them in the options. (It was 2 weeks before I learned how to get directly to the vbasic editor again lol.) And hotkeys for menus aren't as quick, requiring extra strokes to get to a function (Alt, then the letter for the tab, then the letter for the section on the tab, then the letter for the function, if my memory serves).
I preferred Office 2003 by far, and certainly prefer the existing versions of OOO to 2007, so I really hope they don't go ahead with this emulation, or at the very least make it optional (developing two versions of the menus however would rather seem like a waste of effort -- doubly so if everyone switched off of the new version!).
Keep in mind though eBay didn't need to pay large sums of money for their sellers (or buyers for that matter) to be able to use Skype. In fact, it may have made more sense to try to strike up an advertising deal with Skype if that was their only concern.
Actually, if people actually experienced/knew the differences between the browsers, I would have to wonder how many of those casuals would switch to Chrome. We're talking about average joes who aren't into all the extensions and features, maybe don't care about ad blocking, but just want to get on Facebook or email or what have you. Chrome does that fastest.
So I think it's safe to say that if people were not ignorant about other browsers and their installation, they may choose another (be it FireFox, Chrome or otherwise) more often than they do now. Of course, that relies on them knowing the difference... which, as you say, they won't.
The same goes for paper money unless you can survive on a paper diet. At least with a giant pile of gold you know I'm not just running a printing press in the basement--it takes a lot more work to mine more gold.
I think that's kind of the point everyone's trying to make though. Basically, gold is the same as every other currency, just as you say. So if a paper currency can collapse, it's entirely possible for gold as a currency to collapse as well. If people are desperate enough for necessities, they won't be willing to trade them for something that they know may not acquire them anything they need any more, be it gold or paper money.
Now on the opposite end of the scale, the one difference between paper currency and gold is that gold is something that has a finite amount, which guards it against some of the economic tactics that have damaged our existing economy. (Not all of them, mind, but some. Loans as an example are still totally possible with a finite currency.) All that said, if our existing economy suffered a total collapse, other economies tied in with it (both international currencies as well as gold) are going to be affected.
Just how they may be affected, I'll leave to people better than I at economics to discuss.
Not entirely true. It is possible to find legally purchasable published works elsewhere, including DRM-free versions (from some publishers anyway) that will work on any device.
This is pretty true of gaming in general these days. Many old games had the threat of failure (take a look at the list of challenging NES games), and you'd have to start over. Some old greats simply got harder until they beat youâ"like Tetris for example. Now of course it's a foregone conclusion that the end user will eventually win simply by persisting long enough.
It's not nearly on the same scale as Nethack versus modern RPGs of course, but the drop in difficulty is certainly not limited to the RPG genre.
I have to wonder if the shift toward online multiplayer (such as in the FPS genre) is at least in some small part due to people wanting to find the difficulty and challenge that no longer exists in most single-player games.
Windows users can go to "Help > Check for updates..." in FireFox now to find the 3.5 update. It also has a button to test which extensions will need to be disabled before you actually run the update on that page.
I'd personally recommend avoiding more extreme terms like "police state" in such emails or letters, as you might be more likely to be disregarded or passed off as an outlier.
That said, I agree that all Canadian/.ers should be sending letters or emails such as this to their MPs. The points you make in your email are well described.
Keep in mind also that those updates can often be actual upgrades -- new features for example -- and not have anything to do with bugs or security flaws. While MS occasionally does this as well, the article above specifically refers to 31 vulnerabilities.
I do agree, and always make an effort to pay for what I use, but it's not just about loss either, but also restrictions. I want to be able to use my media on whatever computer and device I own.
Eventually I just quit buying anything with significant/restrictive DRM. If I find something DRM-free I like I will always buy it that way. Certainly no encrypted songs, ebooks, etc.
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Ugh, what a terrible way of handling that. >.<
I mean, the function should obviously be boolean.
This is actually very true of some games that are so good the first time through that replay value is less of a factor. Off the top of my head, the Phoenix Wright series' success can back this up. So can any of the more successful story-based adventure games.
A very few of the simpler ones are alright. Anything sufficiently minimalistic. I like the Canucks one, and the Mahjong one isn't bad for instance. But yes, most of them try to treat it like a wallpaper, and plaster the browser with gaudy colours, making things on the menu bar, tab bar and/or status bar unreadable.
Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it.
I've worked for a call centre under a few contracts. That's pretty much the standard everywhere. First thing we were told before getting access to the CS tools was that yes, you could access pretty much anyone's account info you wanted, and that if you did so for any reason other than it being necessary for your work you would be fired on the spot. Only information such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers was not readily available. On one contract, we could log into anyone's account on the website and take any actions with it the user could (and then some), though this was done very rarely.
Honestly, it doesn't stress me out all that much; I put nothing on Facebook that I wouldn't want getting into others' hands. I expect that the things I set to "friends only" won't be available to the average Joe who happens by my profile, but at the same time it doesn't surprise or annoy me that Facebook employees can see it. Of course they can.
64-bit can also crunch larger numbers at once, which can reduce the number of equations running through the processor if a lot of math with huge values is being performed, but only if the code was written for 64-bit specifically, making it at best a really minor advantage.
I don't know, that is probably fading slowly with time. When I bought my laptop it had Vista on it, and rather than downgrade to XP to get the most out of my system, I just installed Ubuntu to speed things up instead. It's probably not all that uncommon of a solution (at least among those who would consider changing their OS in the first place).
Off the top of my head, DFTBA Records is truly independant afaik. They're rather small of course.
I suppose if you use Ctrl-Backspace (delete last word) a lot it's only one extra key. But that said, I do, and I don't recall having ever accidentally killed X.
The comments given by one rep in customer service doesn't really equate to eBay as a company blaming users. Clearing cache and cookies is pretty much an eBay rep's cookie cutter response for any such problems, and if that doesn't work they try other things. Or it could be the rep was just bad, didn't get a memo, or that they hadn't filed a bug yet.
Trust me, I'm no fan of eBay, but I don't think it's valid to say the company is blaming users for the description errors based on that one rep's comment alone.
Good Lord, I agree wholeheartedly. The ribbon is nigh-incomprehensible to first time users. I just had to use a version of Office with the ribbon for the first time a few weeks ago, and I had a hard time with it.
Now, I don't know what it's like once you're used to it, but it didn't seem like a step forward in intuitiveness compared to the old Office menus. I don't think that I can chock that up just to me getting older and being used to the old ways.
I had to use MS Office 2007 a lot at work (over half a year at least, probably not a full year, and mainly Excel and Outlook, not so much Word), and so I got pretty used to the ribbon. My verdict is that I still didn't like it even after getting used to where everything was. Some of the options on the ribbon are hidden completely until you select them in the options. (It was 2 weeks before I learned how to get directly to the vbasic editor again lol.) And hotkeys for menus aren't as quick, requiring extra strokes to get to a function (Alt, then the letter for the tab, then the letter for the section on the tab, then the letter for the function, if my memory serves).
I preferred Office 2003 by far, and certainly prefer the existing versions of OOO to 2007, so I really hope they don't go ahead with this emulation, or at the very least make it optional (developing two versions of the menus however would rather seem like a waste of effort -- doubly so if everyone switched off of the new version!).
Keep in mind though eBay didn't need to pay large sums of money for their sellers (or buyers for that matter) to be able to use Skype. In fact, it may have made more sense to try to strike up an advertising deal with Skype if that was their only concern.
Maybe grandparent meant that + should have been used? I mean, in the current wording > resolves before && like so:
A laser diode is much more robust than a laser diode and the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals.
(A laser diode > a laser diode) && the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals.
If it had been worded as "plus" instead of "and" it would have resolved correctly, like so:
A laser diode is much more robust than a laser diode plus the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals.
A laser diode > (a laser diode + the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals).
Actually, if people actually experienced/knew the differences between the browsers, I would have to wonder how many of those casuals would switch to Chrome. We're talking about average joes who aren't into all the extensions and features, maybe don't care about ad blocking, but just want to get on Facebook or email or what have you. Chrome does that fastest.
So I think it's safe to say that if people were not ignorant about other browsers and their installation, they may choose another (be it FireFox, Chrome or otherwise) more often than they do now. Of course, that relies on them knowing the difference... which, as you say, they won't.
So is every other currency.
The same goes for paper money unless you can survive on a paper diet. At least with a giant pile of gold you know I'm not just running a printing press in the basement--it takes a lot more work to mine more gold.
I think that's kind of the point everyone's trying to make though. Basically, gold is the same as every other currency, just as you say. So if a paper currency can collapse, it's entirely possible for gold as a currency to collapse as well. If people are desperate enough for necessities, they won't be willing to trade them for something that they know may not acquire them anything they need any more, be it gold or paper money.
Now on the opposite end of the scale, the one difference between paper currency and gold is that gold is something that has a finite amount, which guards it against some of the economic tactics that have damaged our existing economy. (Not all of them, mind, but some. Loans as an example are still totally possible with a finite currency.) All that said, if our existing economy suffered a total collapse, other economies tied in with it (both international currencies as well as gold) are going to be affected.
Just how they may be affected, I'll leave to people better than I at economics to discuss.
3.5" diagonal display (roughly 3"x2"), 480x320px resolution.
Apple lists it starting from $229 for the 8GB version.
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Not entirely true. It is possible to find legally purchasable published works elsewhere, including DRM-free versions (from some publishers anyway) that will work on any device.
This is pretty true of gaming in general these days. Many old games had the threat of failure (take a look at the list of challenging NES games), and you'd have to start over. Some old greats simply got harder until they beat youâ"like Tetris for example. Now of course it's a foregone conclusion that the end user will eventually win simply by persisting long enough.
It's not nearly on the same scale as Nethack versus modern RPGs of course, but the drop in difficulty is certainly not limited to the RPG genre.
I have to wonder if the shift toward online multiplayer (such as in the FPS genre) is at least in some small part due to people wanting to find the difficulty and challenge that no longer exists in most single-player games.
Windows users can go to "Help > Check for updates..." in FireFox now to find the 3.5 update. It also has a button to test which extensions will need to be disabled before you actually run the update on that page.
So the Internet is a series of tubes in the air somewhere...?
OMG... the Internet is in the Mushroom Kingdom!
so you want to teach math using base-1 ... that's... insane.
Maybe he works in the school supplies industry?
I'd personally recommend avoiding more extreme terms like "police state" in such emails or letters, as you might be more likely to be disregarded or passed off as an outlier.
That said, I agree that all Canadian /.ers should be sending letters or emails such as this to their MPs. The points you make in your email are well described.
Headshot.
Keep in mind also that those updates can often be actual upgrades -- new features for example -- and not have anything to do with bugs or security flaws. While MS occasionally does this as well, the article above specifically refers to 31 vulnerabilities.
I did a search for:
se x
And got all the results for 'sex'
I do agree, and always make an effort to pay for what I use, but it's not just about loss either, but also restrictions. I want to be able to use my media on whatever computer and device I own.
Eventually I just quit buying anything with significant/restrictive DRM. If I find something DRM-free I like I will always buy it that way. Certainly no encrypted songs, ebooks, etc.