lolcats, long-standing tradition of "invisible X" where X is the activity it looks like the cat is performing. Quick GIS should find you plenty of examples. Just searching for lolcat and invisible gets me the bike as the second image.
well, as long as you didn't need to type and mouse at the same time, you could just use the keyboard surface as your flat area. Most netbook/laptop keyboards are flat enough that you could fairly easily move your hand over them in a mousing gesture, just have an extra button to switch between typing and mousing.
Hey, lemme introduce you to something. It's called a "period." It's a punctuation mark to separate thoughts expressed in text. You might want to learn a bit more about it on your own, since your own time in academia seemed to fail you so thoroughly.
Did you notice they said right in the summary "once the display's contribution to the measurement was removed"? That means it's on top of the standard input lag, and your second link is about motion controls. No one's legitimately expecting motion controls for something like an FPS beyond novelty. Look at MS's line up. It's basically a clone of Nintendo's casual motion titles. So, 150ms lag, plus the 50+ms from the lag your system already generates. You're now a fifth of a second behind what you're doing, and that's in a *best* case scenario.
I dunno if anyone else has mentioned this, but not all composers are musicians. By that, I mean they write the music, but they don't go and record it. Thus, sheet music is not a byproduct. It's an enabling product. One composer's work can allow anyone with the ability to play the correct instrument to play a song. It's the increasing value of the hierarchy of skills. Anyone can press play for an mp3. No skill required. A musician who can play competently is more rare, so you pay more than the cost of a CD for that person to play live. But not every musician can write a song worth playing, thus you need to pay more to them than to a musician, since they're more rare yet.
It's the same way that anyone can play in the local chuckleheads' hockey league, but they don't get paid. It takes more talent to play in the minors, so they get paid, but not wonderfully, because there's a reasonable amount of people who can play to that standard, but you pay the professional a lot more because they're a noticeable step above everyone else.
The rarer a skill, the more valuation it can have. It doesn't always translate that way, but it's why sheet music's more expensive than an mp3. Any musician can play sheet music given a little practice. It's creating the music that's the hard part. I agree though, if he's seeing too many sales lost to downloading, lessen the price or make it easier to purchase. I just don't agree it should be cheaper than the mp3 of the song.
Yeah, I realize this is more in reply to some of your other stuff, but this is more an aggregate reply.
How odd. I don't use mouse gestures, so I cannot speak to that one. As for the rest, I've never had autoscroll stop on me before. I've had some lag in it stopping when I wanted it to, though. Opera Link does seem to randomly take the older version, you're right there. Not sure that's part of the browser, and more the secondary service (not that it makes a functional difference, I'll admit).
Opposite problem with text boxes. It'll jump to them when a new page loads, even when there's lots of other content, so that's kind of annoying. As for hotmail, I've noticed improvements. It used to be that I couldn't even log in to the service (around 9.7). About the only thing broken in there is that I can't tab around an email message I'm composing.
My biggest issue with the 10.X series is the flashblocker. There used to be a nice UserJS for that, but 10.X broke it some how, and the built-in one doesn't have a white-list that I've found.
Maybe the reason they've not fixed these issues isn't that they're not trying, but that it's more difficult than it seems, since we're having near opposite issues on some points.
Closed source software may have some virtues, but taking constructive criticism is definitely a major weakness.
*snerk* Usually that old "replace the keyword with the opposite side" works well, but this is bullshit. Closed source takes feedback all the time. After all, they want people to buy the next version. They do beta testing, market research, all that shit that takes money that FOSS can't afford to do on as large a scale.
Having used both Photoshop and GIMP, on both Windows and Mac platforms, I can tell you that yes, GIMP is harder to learn. I spent more than half an hour in GIMP trying to figure out why, when removing the white to transparency in a picture, it made the whole thing translucent. I still don't know why or how it happened, since all I did was use the "colour to alpha" tool, which is supposed to turn that specific colour to transparent. Also, trying to manipulate text boxes is a bitch and a half.
Since this was turned in to a massive, YouTube-wide trolling effort, it's being fixed nearly immediately. What if 4chan hadn't gotten a hold of it though? What if some scammers/spammers did? And used it for weeks? It would have been more subtle, and with YouTube's traffic, it could have been massively successful. Who knows what effect that could have had if this wasn't caught quickly. Did 4chan just do a good thing?
Slashdot rails against DMCA, censorship, walled gardens, etc, and you expect the Chinese government to get a free pass? What a joke.
Because most people understand the difference between railing against local laws and companies, and being a foreign national in another country and needing to follow their laws and regulations. Yeah, it'll be a hardship for those few weeks, but if he can't handle it, the asker shouldn't be going to China if he can't keep his nose clean for those few weeks.
I think you're not familiar with what a "port" really is in gaming. It's taking the assets from one version, and using it on another system. If he's creating it from scratch, it's not a port. Since the entire issue is the use of assets (art and maps), if he recreated them, it's not a port, and it's not a problem.
No, their claim rests on the fact that they published the Lemmings games, or licenced out the ability to publish them, and this is a port of one such licenced product. The trademark is within that context of video games. Even if they couldn't trademark it within that narrow context, that still leaves the first part of "he's created a port of a licenced product." The trademark infringement is a separate part of it.
Hey, if you didn't understand what I was saying, you just had to ask someone to explain it to you. No need to get all hostile. Geez, someone's a little hot under the colander.
That's like each a commuter on a train deciding when the train will leave the station....
A commuter can't make it leave early, but sticking your arm in the door will certainly make it late, since safety features won't allow the train to move with an open door. Is it possible that this metaphor also applies to the iPhone? It somehow "sticks its arm" in the handoff?
How about this? A 20 year moratorium on introducing any new rules/regulations on the internet.
My problem with this is government has already proven it doesn't know much about advanced technology. If you take it away from them for 20 years, they're going to know even less, because you just know that they won't bother learning about it in the mean time, and if some wacky shit crops up that makes that 20 years unfeasible, it'd be nice if they had some kind of clue about what was going on, not to mention if laws about "real" cybercrime (hacking for identity theft, data theft, etc) become stale and inapplicable in some way, it'd be nice if they could be updated.
It'd be nice if bills in general were subjected to something like greater review periods, and must be reviewed by no fewer than 2 independent lawyers in the concerned field, and 4 subject matter experts, none affiliated to each other, and then bills would need to be modified to remove abuse potentials (or mitigate as much as possible) that the lawyers note, and address technical concerns raised by the subject matter experts. And every recommendation must be posted publicly, on an easily accessible website, you can get copies mailed to you if you don't have 'net access. I think if bills were forced to address concerns raised by subject matter experts, it'd help curtail a lot of issues, and having it all publicly available would help keep subject matter experts more honest.
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lolcats, long-standing tradition of "invisible X" where X is the activity it looks like the cat is performing. Quick GIS should find you plenty of examples. Just searching for lolcat and invisible gets me the bike as the second image.
well, as long as you didn't need to type and mouse at the same time, you could just use the keyboard surface as your flat area. Most netbook/laptop keyboards are flat enough that you could fairly easily move your hand over them in a mousing gesture, just have an extra button to switch between typing and mousing.
Hey, lemme introduce you to something. It's called a "period." It's a punctuation mark to separate thoughts expressed in text. You might want to learn a bit more about it on your own, since your own time in academia seemed to fail you so thoroughly.
Did you notice they said right in the summary "once the display's contribution to the measurement was removed"? That means it's on top of the standard input lag, and your second link is about motion controls. No one's legitimately expecting motion controls for something like an FPS beyond novelty. Look at MS's line up. It's basically a clone of Nintendo's casual motion titles. So, 150ms lag, plus the 50+ms from the lag your system already generates. You're now a fifth of a second behind what you're doing, and that's in a *best* case scenario.
Portage. It's not just for birchbark canoes.
It's Germany that has the laws restricting sale of memorabilia of, and media mentioning, the Nazis.
If your password is "!!Hell0Kitty77KeRt*?Captain"
HEY! Where'd you get my password?! Dammit. I knew I should have gone for Sailor Moon instead of Hello Kitty.
Liar. If you were the Queen, you'd say "WE are not amused." Faker.
I dunno if anyone else has mentioned this, but not all composers are musicians. By that, I mean they write the music, but they don't go and record it. Thus, sheet music is not a byproduct. It's an enabling product. One composer's work can allow anyone with the ability to play the correct instrument to play a song. It's the increasing value of the hierarchy of skills. Anyone can press play for an mp3. No skill required. A musician who can play competently is more rare, so you pay more than the cost of a CD for that person to play live. But not every musician can write a song worth playing, thus you need to pay more to them than to a musician, since they're more rare yet.
It's the same way that anyone can play in the local chuckleheads' hockey league, but they don't get paid. It takes more talent to play in the minors, so they get paid, but not wonderfully, because there's a reasonable amount of people who can play to that standard, but you pay the professional a lot more because they're a noticeable step above everyone else.
The rarer a skill, the more valuation it can have. It doesn't always translate that way, but it's why sheet music's more expensive than an mp3. Any musician can play sheet music given a little practice. It's creating the music that's the hard part. I agree though, if he's seeing too many sales lost to downloading, lessen the price or make it easier to purchase. I just don't agree it should be cheaper than the mp3 of the song.
Yeah, I realize this is more in reply to some of your other stuff, but this is more an aggregate reply.
How odd. I don't use mouse gestures, so I cannot speak to that one. As for the rest, I've never had autoscroll stop on me before. I've had some lag in it stopping when I wanted it to, though. Opera Link does seem to randomly take the older version, you're right there. Not sure that's part of the browser, and more the secondary service (not that it makes a functional difference, I'll admit).
Opposite problem with text boxes. It'll jump to them when a new page loads, even when there's lots of other content, so that's kind of annoying. As for hotmail, I've noticed improvements. It used to be that I couldn't even log in to the service (around 9.7). About the only thing broken in there is that I can't tab around an email message I'm composing.
My biggest issue with the 10.X series is the flashblocker. There used to be a nice UserJS for that, but 10.X broke it some how, and the built-in one doesn't have a white-list that I've found.
Maybe the reason they've not fixed these issues isn't that they're not trying, but that it's more difficult than it seems, since we're having near opposite issues on some points.
Fine, assume it was. If this hadn't happened, how much *longer* would it have gone on. My main point still stands, trolling expedited the bug fix.
Closed source software may have some virtues, but taking constructive criticism is definitely a major weakness.
*snerk* Usually that old "replace the keyword with the opposite side" works well, but this is bullshit. Closed source takes feedback all the time. After all, they want people to buy the next version. They do beta testing, market research, all that shit that takes money that FOSS can't afford to do on as large a scale.
Having used both Photoshop and GIMP, on both Windows and Mac platforms, I can tell you that yes, GIMP is harder to learn. I spent more than half an hour in GIMP trying to figure out why, when removing the white to transparency in a picture, it made the whole thing translucent. I still don't know why or how it happened, since all I did was use the "colour to alpha" tool, which is supposed to turn that specific colour to transparent. Also, trying to manipulate text boxes is a bitch and a half.
No, Photoshop's easier, even if it's expensive.
Since this was turned in to a massive, YouTube-wide trolling effort, it's being fixed nearly immediately. What if 4chan hadn't gotten a hold of it though? What if some scammers/spammers did? And used it for weeks? It would have been more subtle, and with YouTube's traffic, it could have been massively successful. Who knows what effect that could have had if this wasn't caught quickly. Did 4chan just do a good thing?
Physical age doesn't necessarily correspond to mental age. Personally, I've been getting more immature as years pass.
Slashdot rails against DMCA, censorship, walled gardens, etc, and you expect the Chinese government to get a free pass? What a joke.
Because most people understand the difference between railing against local laws and companies, and being a foreign national in another country and needing to follow their laws and regulations. Yeah, it'll be a hardship for those few weeks, but if he can't handle it, the asker shouldn't be going to China if he can't keep his nose clean for those few weeks.
I think you're not familiar with what a "port" really is in gaming. It's taking the assets from one version, and using it on another system. If he's creating it from scratch, it's not a port. Since the entire issue is the use of assets (art and maps), if he recreated them, it's not a port, and it's not a problem.
No, their claim rests on the fact that they published the Lemmings games, or licenced out the ability to publish them, and this is a port of one such licenced product. The trademark is within that context of video games. Even if they couldn't trademark it within that narrow context, that still leaves the first part of "he's created a port of a licenced product." The trademark infringement is a separate part of it.
She can't bitch at you while her mouth is full, duh. :p
There's the issue. You assume that he's cheating. Nowhere is that implication beyond your own mind. Thanks for demonstrating why this is an issue.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17300_6-ways-that-porn-runs-world.html
There's your citation.
Hey, if you didn't understand what I was saying, you just had to ask someone to explain it to you. No need to get all hostile. Geez, someone's a little hot under the colander.
That's like each a commuter on a train deciding when the train will leave the station....
A commuter can't make it leave early, but sticking your arm in the door will certainly make it late, since safety features won't allow the train to move with an open door. Is it possible that this metaphor also applies to the iPhone? It somehow "sticks its arm" in the handoff?
Yes, and I wondered what spies had to do with Kill Bill to boot.
How about this? A 20 year moratorium on introducing any new rules/regulations on the internet.
My problem with this is government has already proven it doesn't know much about advanced technology. If you take it away from them for 20 years, they're going to know even less, because you just know that they won't bother learning about it in the mean time, and if some wacky shit crops up that makes that 20 years unfeasible, it'd be nice if they had some kind of clue about what was going on, not to mention if laws about "real" cybercrime (hacking for identity theft, data theft, etc) become stale and inapplicable in some way, it'd be nice if they could be updated.
It'd be nice if bills in general were subjected to something like greater review periods, and must be reviewed by no fewer than 2 independent lawyers in the concerned field, and 4 subject matter experts, none affiliated to each other, and then bills would need to be modified to remove abuse potentials (or mitigate as much as possible) that the lawyers note, and address technical concerns raised by the subject matter experts. And every recommendation must be posted publicly, on an easily accessible website, you can get copies mailed to you if you don't have 'net access. I think if bills were forced to address concerns raised by subject matter experts, it'd help curtail a lot of issues, and having it all publicly available would help keep subject matter experts more honest.