Lost Pride from their Ignorance. I think that's about all they can claim!
I mean, the Pentium 4 is shit, I think, but at least I've done my homework and I know better than to just look at the number listed before "GHz" as the basis for buying my computer......had these people just taken a few minutes to actually learn something before they bought their computer, maybe they'd be a little brighter, a little wiser....but, hey...this way, they can steal money from Intel...and since I'm rooting for AMD, I'm all for that!
duh...that one was proven to be a fake...it was rendered with some software package...I think HardOCP posted about the fakes the other day...go find it yourself, though!
You seem to forget that there is already a Java version of Star Office....if it's not available to the masses (haven't checked in a while), it certainly does exist, as before Sun bought StarOffice, the company had a Java version, Windows, Linux, and Solaris version of Star Office 5.0.
So if there's any *huge amount* of work required at all, it would simply be to get the Java version up to the 6.0 level, if it hasn't already been done (probably has).
Is that Linux has grown in popularity over the past year, taking even more market share away from windows......do you think the script kiddies have any idea what OS the server they're "attacking" is running?!
And, as someone already pointed out...who had more successful attacks...Windows, I'm sure...
Back in the day, just after K-Mart relaunched their site as "bluelight.com," if you searched for the product "All Your Base" you would be treated to the flash animation of All Your Base Are Belong to Us...
Quite funny indeed...some months later, it no longer worked...I honestly believe the web master was fired for it or something, but who knows?!
It could also be that your provider filters out junk mail for you......either way, I have no doubts that you are in the minority...especially among those who have used the same email address for so long...
Well, scratch that, it's been out of hand...I get many, many more junk emails to my inbox every day than legitimate emails...and I'm getting sick of it. Unfortunately, the email address is the one I've been using for years. This creates a dual problem. On one hand, everyone has it, so it would be a pain to tell everyone I've changed it. But also, since I've been using it for so long (6 years at least) it's been exposed to every single spammer on the planet.
What I want to know is where the hell are the lawmakers and the courts on this one? The senate's too busy going outside to say the pledge...get the hell back in the building and vote on some anti-spam laws!
Also, in an election year (such as this one...hey!), I'm still surprised an enterprising poltician hasn't brought this up in tech-heavy districts...I'd go out and vote if someone running for congress would at least make it sort of an issue...just give me something!
I bet you this thing, sadly, is going to become some sort of rare ultra-expensive collector's item stateside in the very near future......and this is a shame. I for one don't read the Harry Potter books, but even I have respect for J.K Rowling and her story (not referring to Harry Potter here)...so to turn something as fake as this "new" book is quite the shame, and I think I'd be upset if I were Ms. Rowling.
Pretty much everything in the UI is very intuitive, or at least it was for me.
But that's part of my point...it was easy for you...and even if you're not terribly bright (which doesn't mean I'm saying you aren't bright), there are others out there who are even more stupid then you are!
Further, I doubt very much your mother could actually use the phone to its full capabilities. Granted, she might not need to, but without help coming from somewhere (you, the manual, etc.), she probably never would learn all of the phone's functions...
You seem quite a bit hotile to the everyday stupid, lazy person! Let me guess, you majored in Human-Computer Interaction?!:-)
Seriously though, I can't say I blame you...we are too lazy to read a manual...or possibly just to prideful. At the same time, I remember a Slashdot article a few weeks ago about manuals in other countries and how users there actually read them...
So while I understand your point, I think a truly good interface needs no manual. At the same time, I also believe that the possibility exists that such a thing isn't possible.
People designing the interface just have to face facts that they can't please everyone...and I think we'd all be better off if people would stop buying devices they have no intention of taking the time to learn...I mean, it's great that we live in a country where you can buy anything you want...just don't bitch when you're too lazy to learn how to use it properly...
yes, this might be true, but I'm fairly sure you can't get very good cell phone reception for the parts of Australia where there isn't anyone!
Further, Europe as a whole might be larger, but their are many nations in it, all largely responsible for their own success with cellular technology...that and they only have one standard for the whole continent!
Well, most of you bring up interesting points about population density, but don't forget...in many parts of the country, the population isn't all that dense...yet to get nationwide coverage, you still have to build cell towers/stations every couple of miles...thus, we're back to the sheer size of the United States being a large problem...
Everytime I read how behind the United States is compared to Finland, Japan, etc., it upsets me that one simple concept is rarely, if ever, mentioned..
The United States has a very, very, very large land mass compared to Japan or Finland, or any other country in Europe that has cooler cell phone technology than we do.
It's simply very, very expensive and time consuming for companies to roll out services that *might* get the public interested...
So while I would very much like to have video on my phone or simply be able to buy a Dr Pepper out of a soda machine, the sheer size of the United States makes it difficult for such widespread agreements on standards or progress in new technology...
How do you fit 500 pictures in 25 pages? Seems kinda hard to do!
At any rate, the point is well taken about a conventional photo album, but I'm a computer geek! I'm at my computer all the time, so guess where I want my photos to be?!:-)
And, another point that should be mentioned, is that it's only good for 100 years if it's safe. Should a fire, hurricane, etc. strike, they're gone.
I have several backups of my digital photos in various places...if the original photos and negatives get destroyed, it sucks...but it's not a huge loss...
A little over a year ago, I took all my photos from various years at camp and decided I wanted them digitized.
I had over 200 photos to scan on my newly purchased, but definitely consumer-level Umax Astra 3400.
Over the course of a month, I would lay 3 or 4 photos at a time on the scanner, and scan them in 600dpi so I would never have to scan them again! Then I spent many hours sepearting the pictures and removing dust, spots, etc. that my have cropped up on the photo anywhere between flaws in the object in frame to possilbe dust lying on the scanner, and saved them individually, one-by-one.
Further, I used a Photoshop action to convert and save the photos at various other resolutions, so I could just quickly look over photos if I wanted to but didn't need all the detail available with the original scanned pictures.
Again, this took a little over a month, working mostly on weekends, and I was pretty burned out, as far as scanning stuff goes, for a very, very long time after, but it was well worth it...and soon after I bout a digital camera! I'll never have to do that again!
I do honestly think the key though was to take the time and scan at a very high resolution in the firstplace. Not only will this offer the same or (sorta) better quality (depending on how you look at it) than the original print, but it should also withstand time...at least to the point of whatever better equipment comes out won't matter a whole lot because you've already scanned your photos at "more than adequate" resolution.
Why do I get the feeling the client's not going to be the easiest thing in the world to install?!??!
It'll be like:
To install the Linux NWN client:
1. install NWN in windows (do'h) 2. transfer files from windows computer to linux box 3. delete windows partition you just created soley to install NWN on a real operating system. 4. curse at BioWare until game starts...then, you will thank them!
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Does anyone have any screenshots they can post (of this release, not the older v2 test releases)?
son, in the old days (and by old, I of course mean 6 or 7 months ago), we didn't have little scams going to get karma, we had to work for it, plain and simple!
I swear, you kids these days. So soft with your karma! Giving it out freely like it's...free. Makes me sick!
yeah...4 or less is responisble for dcemulation.com, the effort to make a home-grown RPG for the Dreamcast, hacks on it to make it, among other things, work with a hard drive...
yeah...3 or 4 of 'em have been sold for hacking...at most.
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Lost Pride from their Ignorance. I think that's about all they can claim!
...had these people just taken a few minutes to actually learn something before they bought their computer, maybe they'd be a little brighter, a little wiser. ...but, hey...this way, they can steal money from Intel...and since I'm rooting for AMD, I'm all for that!
I mean, the Pentium 4 is shit, I think, but at least I've done my homework and I know better than to just look at the number listed before "GHz" as the basis for buying my computer...
The link I gave doesn't require one.
The folks here managed to record the audio of carmack's speech despite the "no audio, no video" policy (who knows how they snuck it in!).
enjoy!
This product (or one exactly like it) has been on the market for years now!
How is this "News for Nerds?!"
This could be great for people too ugly to be on camera...and by this I of course mean voice actors! :-)
duh...that one was proven to be a fake...it was rendered with some software package...I think HardOCP posted about the fakes the other day...go find it yourself, though!
You seem to forget that there is already a Java version of Star Office. ...if it's not available to the masses (haven't checked in a while), it certainly does exist, as before Sun bought StarOffice, the company had a Java version, Windows, Linux, and Solaris version of Star Office 5.0.
So if there's any *huge amount* of work required at all, it would simply be to get the Java version up to the 6.0 level, if it hasn't already been done (probably has).
This makes IBM look bad (well, even worse)...haven't they been working on holographic storage for years and years and years?!
Is that Linux has grown in popularity over the past year, taking even more market share away from windows... ...do you think the script kiddies have any idea what OS the server they're "attacking" is running?!
And, as someone already pointed out...who had more successful attacks...Windows, I'm sure...
Back in the day, just after K-Mart relaunched their site as "bluelight.com," if you searched for the product "All Your Base" you would be treated to the flash animation of All Your Base Are Belong to Us...
Quite funny indeed...some months later, it no longer worked...I honestly believe the web master was fired for it or something, but who knows?!
I guess you're just really, really lucky!
...either way, I have no doubts that you are in the minority...especially among those who have used the same email address for so long...
It could also be that your provider filters out junk mail for you...
Well, scratch that, it's been out of hand...I get many, many more junk emails to my inbox every day than legitimate emails...and I'm getting sick of it. Unfortunately, the email address is the one I've been using for years. This creates a dual problem. On one hand, everyone has it, so it would be a pain to tell everyone I've changed it. But also, since I've been using it for so long (6 years at least) it's been exposed to every single spammer on the planet.
What I want to know is where the hell are the lawmakers and the courts on this one? The senate's too busy going outside to say the pledge...get the hell back in the building and vote on some anti-spam laws!
Also, in an election year (such as this one...hey!), I'm still surprised an enterprising poltician hasn't brought this up in tech-heavy districts...I'd go out and vote if someone running for congress would at least make it sort of an issue...just give me something!
I bet you this thing, sadly, is going to become some sort of rare ultra-expensive collector's item stateside in the very near future... ...and this is a shame. I for one don't read the Harry Potter books, but even I have respect for J.K Rowling and her story (not referring to Harry Potter here)...so to turn something as fake as this "new" book is quite the shame, and I think I'd be upset if I were Ms. Rowling.
Pretty much everything in the UI is very intuitive, or at least it was for me.
But that's part of my point...it was easy for you...and even if you're not terribly bright (which doesn't mean I'm saying you aren't bright), there are others out there who are even more stupid then you are!
Further, I doubt very much your mother could actually use the phone to its full capabilities. Granted, she might not need to, but without help coming from somewhere (you, the manual, etc.), she probably never would learn all of the phone's functions...
You seem quite a bit hotile to the everyday stupid, lazy person! Let me guess, you majored in Human-Computer Interaction?! :-)
Seriously though, I can't say I blame you...we are too lazy to read a manual...or possibly just to prideful. At the same time, I remember a Slashdot article a few weeks ago about manuals in other countries and how users there actually read them...
So while I understand your point, I think a truly good interface needs no manual. At the same time, I also believe that the possibility exists that such a thing isn't possible.
People designing the interface just have to face facts that they can't please everyone...and I think we'd all be better off if people would stop buying devices they have no intention of taking the time to learn...I mean, it's great that we live in a country where you can buy anything you want...just don't bitch when you're too lazy to learn how to use it properly...
yes, this might be true, but I'm fairly sure you can't get very good cell phone reception for the parts of Australia where there isn't anyone!
Further, Europe as a whole might be larger, but their are many nations in it, all largely responsible for their own success with cellular technology...that and they only have one standard for the whole continent!
Well, most of you bring up interesting points about population density, but don't forget...in many parts of the country, the population isn't all that dense...yet to get nationwide coverage, you still have to build cell towers/stations every couple of miles...thus, we're back to the sheer size of the United States being a large problem...
Everytime I read how behind the United States is compared to Finland, Japan, etc., it upsets me that one simple concept is rarely, if ever, mentioned..
The United States has a very, very, very large land mass compared to Japan or Finland, or any other country in Europe that has cooler cell phone technology than we do.
It's simply very, very expensive and time consuming for companies to roll out services that *might* get the public interested...
So while I would very much like to have video on my phone or simply be able to buy a Dr Pepper out of a soda machine, the sheer size of the United States makes it difficult for such widespread agreements on standards or progress in new technology...
How do you fit 500 pictures in 25 pages? Seems kinda hard to do!
:-)
At any rate, the point is well taken about a conventional photo album, but I'm a computer geek! I'm at my computer all the time, so guess where I want my photos to be?!
And, another point that should be mentioned, is that it's only good for 100 years if it's safe. Should a fire, hurricane, etc. strike, they're gone.
I have several backups of my digital photos in various places...if the original photos and negatives get destroyed, it sucks...but it's not a huge loss...
A little over a year ago, I took all my photos from various years at camp and decided I wanted them digitized.
I had over 200 photos to scan on my newly purchased, but definitely consumer-level Umax Astra 3400.
Over the course of a month, I would lay 3 or 4 photos at a time on the scanner, and scan them in 600dpi so I would never have to scan them again! Then I spent many hours sepearting the pictures and removing dust, spots, etc. that my have cropped up on the photo anywhere between flaws in the object in frame to possilbe dust lying on the scanner, and saved them individually, one-by-one.
Further, I used a Photoshop action to convert and save the photos at various other resolutions, so I could just quickly look over photos if I wanted to but didn't need all the detail available with the original scanned pictures.
Again, this took a little over a month, working mostly on weekends, and I was pretty burned out, as far as scanning stuff goes, for a very, very long time after, but it was well worth it...and soon after I bout a digital camera! I'll never have to do that again!
I do honestly think the key though was to take the time and scan at a very high resolution in the firstplace. Not only will this offer the same or (sorta) better quality (depending on how you look at it) than the original print, but it should also withstand time...at least to the point of whatever better equipment comes out won't matter a whole lot because you've already scanned your photos at "more than adequate" resolution.
Why do I get the feeling the client's not going to be the easiest thing in the world to install?!??!
It'll be like:
To install the Linux NWN client:
1. install NWN in windows (do'h)
2. transfer files from windows computer to linux box
3. delete windows partition you just created soley to install NWN on a real operating system.
4. curse at BioWare until game starts...then, you will thank them!
Does anyone have any screenshots they can post (of this release, not the older v2 test releases)?
Thanks!
son, in the old days (and by old, I of course mean 6 or 7 months ago), we didn't have little scams going to get karma, we had to work for it, plain and simple!
I swear, you kids these days. So soft with your karma! Giving it out freely like it's...free. Makes me sick!
yeah...4 or less is responisble for dcemulation.com, the effort to make a home-grown RPG for the Dreamcast, hacks on it to make it, among other things, work with a hard drive...
yeah...3 or 4 of 'em have been sold for hacking...at most.