Isn't this a cartoon already?
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Maybe it's just my opinion, but havent the Zelda games in the past been cartoons? Look at other popular PC and console games like Resident Evil, Diablo 2, and stuff like that. They try to realistically portray the human form. I've never seen Zelda try to accomplish that. I mean, for God's sakes, the characters are for the most part elfin. Of course it looks cartoonish.
Re:Who truly needs a dictionary...
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but what the hell is 3l337. i can't figure it out.
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Blah blah blah --- two wrongs don't make a right --- blah blah blah
I would love to by a TiBook. They look great,and I prefer to run Photoshop and my other graphics applications on Mac. Only one problem: all my software is for PC. I can't justify spening $4K on a loaded notebook plus another couple grand for all my Adobe software. And my company sure as hell won't do it. I wonder how much of a barrier this is to others switching to the Mac platform?
Yep. Sure did. We had to show that our product worked using SSL. We had it implemented on our test server, but not the production ones. So when my boss had to demo it to the committee, he just went to the test url instead of the production one. They never caught on. They gave us our approval, and congratulated us on being one of the first groups at the installation to be SSL complient.
I whole-heartedly agree. Commercials these days suck. They insult my intelligence, or are just plain irrelevant. I have no need for diapers, feminine hygeine products, or Miss frigging Cleo, and a ton of other products. Why should they care if I watch their commerical? It's not like I need those products. Now, if they were advertising golf clubs, and I wanted to choose between two manufacturers, that's where it matters what I view. And then, there are the exceptions to the rule. That commercials that are just plain entertaing. The (early) Bud frog and lizard commercials, Sportscenter, and Pemican beef jerky. The ones I watch just because they're damn funny.
Adobe is kind of right on this. As generic as 'illustrator' is, the context in which it is used is the reason they don't like it being used. Using the term illustrator is one thing, but Adobe Illustrator is the preeminent vector graphics program. So when someone makes a vector graphics program called KIllustrator, I can see were they would claim it's infringement.
Excellent point. As long as your are using the computer as a tool to create the images yourself, rather than having it do the work and creating for you, then its art. There needs to be interaction from the person sitting at the computer is what I guess I'm saying. BigCat79
1. It's made for lefties. A lot more people are right handed than left. Scientific American lists most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed, a minority (say 5 percent to 30 percent) are left-handed, and a few as ambidexterous. That immediatelly dwindles your potential user base, since most people's non-dominant are useless for skills that require more dexiterity, and they don't want to try to learn a new way to type with a weak hand, which brings me to the second reason.
2. You have to fundamentally change the way you type. You have to learn a completely new method of typing. People who have been typing for years are familiar with the two-handed touch method, using the shift only for a few certain functions. Now you have to use the space bar for half the alphabet. Not intuitive.
3. Using the space bar as the shift will lead to more errors. Utilizing the space as the shift for the other letters is going to cause problems. You hit the space bar, maybe a little to hard or long, then go to type an S, and end up with an L. That would annoy anybody.
4. The competition from folding keyboards will keep it down. For the same price as this half keyboard, you can get a folding one that let's you type the same as you do on your laptop or your PC. Nothing new to learn. (Of course, not that many people really need to imput a ton of text into PDA's anyway, but I digress.)
Wouldn't count on the Family Guy being around for a while though. Fox is going to bury it on Thursday's at 8, which of course puts it up against Survivor and Friends. Seems like they are setting them up for failure. BigCat79
I am not at all saying that teamwork isn't important. It's absolutely vital. It's not as though I am a new student. I've already got a BS in CS and a BA in Art Design. I've done my time as an undergrad, found a job, and have been in the workforce. I learned a lot more from on the job teamwork than through the classroom. In the classroom, everyone gets a grade. Some want A's, some are satisfied with B's or C's, so long as they get their degree. In the office though, you don't preform, you get fired. That's life. Because people in college have varying expectations, it ruins the group dynamic. BigCat79
Group projects in general are worthless. Whenever I have one assigned, I wait for the option to do it yourself. If that option isn't given, I wait for the end of class to ask the prof to let me do it on my own anyway. The extra work is usually worthwhile. Every group project I ever got stuck with, some one slacks. That's the rule. And I don't want my grade to suffer for it. What makes it worse is that I'm doing my Master's at night. I live 1 1/2 from the campus. It's a real pain to 1)make it to class once a week after working a 10 hour day, and 2) finding one or two nights or weekend-days to get together with your group to work on the damn thing.There are alot better ways to foster teamwork than group assignments in college. BigCat79
Now that our facilities people have banned space heaters (despite the building being freezing all day long) because they are a 'fire hazard', I guess I can put my inspiron under my desk so I don't loose my toes to frost bite. Roast some marshmellows too. BigCat79
I just saw an article about this. Its an email hoax. The email said if at least 8,000 people listed Jedi as their religion, it would be an official choice on the next census. It got repeated in the UK as needing 10,000 people needed. A UK census official listed it as complete nonsense.
How can you blame a movie(s) that includes 7' tall hairy creatures, swords made of lights, some kind of octopi as an Admiral, etc., etc., etc. for war-mongering? That is absurd. It's science fiction. To me, it's closer to fantasy. Some how I just don't see George the I watching The Empire Strikes Back and deciding to go bomb Baghdad. What utter BS.
Quick rant. I want to know why every one thinks that the US government can hide everything? China can. Their government runs the media. But in the US the president can't keep it quiet that he got a BJ from an intern? How the hell do they expect the government to hide alien landings for over 50 years and the 'CIA conspiracy to kill JFK' for almost 40? It just blows my mind. End Rant.
Also, NBC Nightly News reported on Saturday that the CIA had been running a profile on the Chinese pilot Wang Wei for months and thought him to be overly aggressive and quite possibly schizophrenic.
Yeah, some people do. They are called corporate buyers. AMD, technically speaking, is right up on par with Intel and probably better. I love my 1st generation 1GHz Athlon. But until Dell and a couple other major players make AMD an option, and when corporate buyers will use them in the enterprise, they probably will be a "second-class citizen" BigCat79
I'm an Earthlink user, and it isn't required that you install the Sandbox software. You just have to be able to set-up a Dial-up networking connection in Windows. Which, even for slightly novice users, isn't particuraly difficult between the Dial-up networking wizard and Earthlink's instructions. My fiance uses the Sandbox stuff. The only thing I see that she gets from using it is a prettier display while the modem is dialing up.
As far as the potential unique serial number not being true, I'm not surprised. Earthlink did stand up against the FBI when it came to installing Carnivore. BigCat79
Which infriges on my copyright of the knot used to tie the noose. BigCat79
How do you assign phone numbers?
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The thing that bothers me is how will they be able to provide all the new phone numbers? The article said they wanted to manufacture a hunderd million of them. Even spread across the 50 states and globably, as they produce more and more, how are they going to accomidate the need for all those numbers? BigCat79
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Maybe it's just my opinion, but havent the Zelda games in the past been cartoons? Look at other popular PC and console games like Resident Evil, Diablo 2, and stuff like that. They try to realistically portray the human form. I've never seen Zelda try to accomplish that. I mean, for God's sakes, the characters are for the most part elfin. Of course it looks cartoonish.
I know this is going to sound stupid, but what the hell is 3l337. i can't figure it out.
Blah blah blah --- two wrongs don't make a right --- blah blah blah
I would love to by a TiBook. They look great,and I prefer to run Photoshop and my other graphics applications on Mac. Only one problem: all my software is for PC. I can't justify spening $4K on a loaded notebook plus another couple grand for all my Adobe software. And my company sure as hell won't do it. I wonder how much of a barrier this is to others switching to the Mac platform?
Yep. Sure did. We had to show that our product worked using SSL. We had it implemented on our test server, but not the production ones. So when my boss had to demo it to the committee, he just went to the test url instead of the production one. They never caught on. They gave us our approval, and congratulated us on being one of the first groups at the installation to be SSL complient.
More Gratoutitous Simpsons Reference: "Come here collector. Xena needs xexxxx!
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I whole-heartedly agree. Commercials these days suck. They insult my intelligence, or are just plain irrelevant. I have no need for diapers, feminine hygeine products, or Miss frigging Cleo, and a ton of other products. Why should they care if I watch their commerical? It's not like I need those products. Now, if they were advertising golf clubs, and I wanted to choose between two manufacturers, that's where it matters what I view. And then, there are the exceptions to the rule. That commercials that are just plain entertaing. The (early) Bud frog and lizard commercials, Sportscenter, and Pemican beef jerky. The ones I watch just because they're damn funny.
BigCat79
Adobe is kind of right on this. As generic as 'illustrator' is, the context in which it is used is the reason they don't like it being used. Using the term illustrator is one thing, but Adobe Illustrator is the preeminent vector graphics program. So when someone makes a vector graphics program called KIllustrator, I can see were they would claim it's infringement.
BigCat79
Excellent point. As long as your are using the computer as a tool to create the images yourself, rather than having it do the work and creating for you, then its art. There needs to be interaction from the person sitting at the computer is what I guess I'm saying.
BigCat79
This thing is bound to fail for several reasons.
1. It's made for lefties. A lot more people are right handed than left. Scientific American lists most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed, a minority (say 5 percent to 30 percent) are left-handed, and a few as ambidexterous. That immediatelly dwindles your potential user base, since most people's non-dominant are useless for skills that require more dexiterity, and they don't want to try to learn a new way to type with a weak hand, which brings me to the second reason.
2. You have to fundamentally change the way you type. You have to learn a completely new method of typing. People who have been typing for years are familiar with the two-handed touch method, using the shift only for a few certain functions. Now you have to use the space bar for half the alphabet. Not intuitive.
3. Using the space bar as the shift will lead to more errors. Utilizing the space as the shift for the other letters is going to cause problems. You hit the space bar, maybe a little to hard or long, then go to type an S, and end up with an L. That would annoy anybody.
4. The competition from folding keyboards will keep it down. For the same price as this half keyboard, you can get a folding one that let's you type the same as you do on your laptop or your PC. Nothing new to learn. (Of course, not that many people really need to imput a ton of text into PDA's anyway, but I digress.)
This thing is going to bomb.
BigCat79
Wouldn't count on the Family Guy being around for a while though. Fox is going to bury it on Thursday's at 8, which of course puts it up against Survivor and Friends. Seems like they are setting them up for failure.
BigCat79
I am not at all saying that teamwork isn't important. It's absolutely vital. It's not as though I am a new student. I've already got a BS in CS and a BA in Art Design. I've done my time as an undergrad, found a job, and have been in the workforce. I learned a lot more from on the job teamwork than through the classroom. In the classroom, everyone gets a grade. Some want A's, some are satisfied with B's or C's, so long as they get their degree. In the office though, you don't preform, you get fired. That's life. Because people in college have varying expectations, it ruins the group dynamic.
BigCat79
Group projects in general are worthless. Whenever I have one assigned, I wait for the option to do it yourself. If that option isn't given, I wait for the end of class to ask the prof to let me do it on my own anyway. The extra work is usually worthwhile. Every group project I ever got stuck with, some one slacks. That's the rule. And I don't want my grade to suffer for it. What makes it worse is that I'm doing my Master's at night. I live 1 1/2 from the campus. It's a real pain to 1)make it to class once a week after working a 10 hour day, and 2) finding one or two nights or weekend-days to get together with your group to work on the damn thing.There are alot better ways to foster teamwork than group assignments in college.
BigCat79
You mean my roommate's term paper isn't open source? Somebody call the police!
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Now that our facilities people have banned space heaters (despite the building being freezing all day long) because they are a 'fire hazard', I guess I can put my inspiron under my desk so I don't loose my toes to frost bite. Roast some marshmellows too.
BigCat79
I just saw an article about this. Its an email hoax. The email said if at least 8,000 people listed Jedi as their religion, it would be an official choice on the next census. It got repeated in the UK as needing 10,000 people needed. A UK census official listed it as complete nonsense.
BigCat79
How can you blame a movie(s) that includes 7' tall hairy creatures, swords made of lights, some kind of octopi as an Admiral, etc., etc., etc. for war-mongering? That is absurd. It's science fiction. To me, it's closer to fantasy. Some how I just don't see George the I watching The Empire Strikes Back and deciding to go bomb Baghdad. What utter BS.
BigCat79
Thank you Agent Johson.
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Quick rant. I want to know why every one thinks that the US government can hide everything? China can. Their government runs the media. But in the US the president can't keep it quiet that he got a BJ from an intern? How the hell do they expect the government to hide alien landings for over 50 years and the 'CIA conspiracy to kill JFK' for almost 40? It just blows my mind. End Rant.
BigCat79
Also, NBC Nightly News reported on Saturday that the CIA had been running a profile on the Chinese pilot Wang Wei for months and thought him to be overly aggressive and quite possibly schizophrenic.
BigCat79
No, no, no. The pilot's name is 'Wang Wei' (as in Wrong Way in case some of you have yet to have the caffeine kick in) which is even worse.
BigCat79
Yeah, some people do. They are called corporate buyers. AMD, technically speaking, is right up on par with Intel and probably better. I love my 1st generation 1GHz Athlon. But until Dell and a couple other major players make AMD an option, and when corporate buyers will use them in the enterprise, they probably will be a "second-class citizen"
BigCat79
I'm an Earthlink user, and it isn't required that you install the Sandbox software. You just have to be able to set-up a Dial-up networking connection in Windows. Which, even for slightly novice users, isn't particuraly difficult between the Dial-up networking wizard and Earthlink's instructions. My fiance uses the Sandbox stuff. The only thing I see that she gets from using it is a prettier display while the modem is dialing up.
As far as the potential unique serial number not being true, I'm not surprised. Earthlink did stand up against the FBI when it came to installing Carnivore.
BigCat79
Which infriges on my copyright of the knot used to tie the noose.
BigCat79
The thing that bothers me is how will they be able to provide all the new phone numbers? The article said they wanted to manufacture a hunderd million of them. Even spread across the 50 states and globably, as they produce more and more, how are they going to accomidate the need for all those numbers?
BigCat79