I like the idea of 4 groups of 3 buttons. If I'm not looking at the screen, feeling for the key I want would be just a little more simple.
As for the center cluster, they've been made more useful. In Windows, the Insert key is almost never used anymore. The Delete key is quite often used, and makes more sense to an inexperienced user than the Backspace key. I, and probably the majority of others, use Home more often than End. In the new arrangement, Page Up and Down are one key-width closer.
How many people would ride it? The proposed link from Sacramento through the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles and San Diego might actually get enough use to make it worthwhile. Commuters might use it, as well as travelers. I-5 is slow going on holidays, and widening the Grapevine would be a royal pain.
how nice you don't have a job where you might get fired for chronic lateness. no sympathy for you. get up the 15 minutes earlier. rollerblade and it'll take 7 minutes. you'll have more fun doing it too. no you don't have to wear a helmet since that'll mess up your hair. you already have a rain jacket, buy some rain pants to match.
If I could click on things more accurately than others, I could make up some of the deficency created because I'm level twenty and my opponent is level thirty but not as good clicking. I'm guessing you don't like most golf games because you have to time your shots or movements? I'd like to see a MMORPG where my sword battles and parries were driven by my mouse movements. May the best swords/mouseman win. Ever play "Pirates! Gold"? The swashbuckling used the numpad and was quite fun for me. I didn't have to draw every slash with the mouse, but my timing and the patterns of how I attacked helped determine if I won a battle.
I agree that games should tell stories. Sadly as far as I know none of the popular MMORPGS actually do in any meaningful way. I don't consider a new horde of monsters spawning in new places to be an invasion. They're not being driven off or back to where they came from, just killed again and again.
Where is the fun factor in spending an hour to analyze the character creation system, design a character, spend hours playing, then realize that the character is gimped in some way and start all over again? I'd like to see MMORPGs move away from stats being all-important. Not that I want there to be less skills in the world, just not require I put exactly so many points in this skill to gain this other one. If I'm deficient in an area, allow me to improve without having a gimped character later on.
I think swinging a hammer to forge my own sword instead of relying on some percentages would be awesome.
its called jitter. i haven't investigated what causes it but i suspect its because the film is constantly moving.
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Tim Allen was able to make fun of prison, and he was there. He did not make light of prison rape, but prison can be funny. Anything can be funny to some people. I was infuriated when some asshat posted about driving by a bicyclist and yelling into his ear to make him crash. The comment just wasn't funny because it wasn't phrased into a joke. Despite personally being startled on purpose by passengers driving by me on my bike, I could yet laugh at that were it a joke. Instead it was as funny as "drive by and knock down mail boxes with a bat, its fun!"
I imagine the free version could be destributed. If enough people run servers with the data for two or three friends away from themselves, it would work. A few servers could keep master lists so anyone logging in from anywhere could be directed to a server with their info on it. When one server didn't contain the complete information, it would direct the client to related servers with it. A system that would check servers periodically would prevent servers from having their data tampered with. If data from two servers didn't match, more servers would be found to compare to. The anomalous server would be sent warning messages and its data devalued as a source. Assuming correct data on some people was available, it would be used only as a last resort.
It would be similar to Gnutella, and because it won't have to connect to as many people, or return as many responses, it could work without slowing networks and itself to a halt. Once an initial search happens its likely the next searches will stem from the first. Data from the first will make up part of the second search, reducing load.
Friendster is in beta right now, and in several months anyone wishing to browse profiles or send messages will have to pay $8 a month. It will still be free to make a profile for others to browse. The fee is why I'm not taking the site seriously. Friendster will end up just another dating site. I expect free open source versions to appear in its place though that could be worthwhile if they reach a level of popularity similar to Kazaa.
the sound wall will last for decades, or until the highway gets widened again. how much more or less long will the highway last when paved with asphalt mixed with rubber? repeated repavings is a cost that needs to be considered too.
from the FAQ Insightful -- An Insightful statement makes you think, puts a new spin on a given story (or aspect of a story). An analogy you hadn't thought of, or a telling counterexample, are examples of Insightful comments.
Informative -- Often comments add new information to explain the circumstances hinted at by a particular story, fill in "The Other Side" of an argument, provide specifications to a product described too vaguely elsewhere, etc. Such comments are Informative.
Your comment was not insightful or informative. you offered your opinion but nothing to back it up. Here's what the FAQ says about a troll comment: Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
You may be too new to have observed this, but just tossing your opinion out without anything to back it up may cause many people to spend their time offering corrections. You said it was flimsy, as a troll comment, it could cause some to type up many paragraphs defending their position that the ship is quite strong. I feel like I've been trolled into spending all this time replying, which is why I don't give much of a damn about grammar in this entry. Like I said before, you shouldn't just post your opinion here without reasons. Make your words worth reading.
Suppose you'd said 'I won't use Mac OS 10.2.xx until it looks professional, all the pictures on the linked-to-site look like candy cartoons.'
Without knowing enough, and making snap judgements, you'd get many people pointing out all the customizations you didn't know about, didn't research.
of course the moderator was on crack, because its a troll, not flamebait. why flamebait? because he based his decision on it LOOKING flimsy. how he figures its flimsy is beyond me. a sphere is a very strong shape, he doesn't know how thick the walls are. he didn't offer qualifications for knowing the wings might get ripped off.
supposing he is just ignorant, he deserves to be modded down for not saying anything worthwhile. he's adding more noise which interferes with the signal, and he needs to learn not to do that. his post has all the quality of something out of a small message board and belongs in a/. journal comment, or not here at all. that's just my opinion.
I think I know what you mean, like fire thrusters/rockets against the direction of orbit, but also angled downward towards the earth? That way the craft would slow and wouldn't fall quite as fast. Or just fire dead ahead and slow as much as possible before the atmosphere thickens too much. I'd like to know too.
All my CD and mp3 players in the past have let me change tracks and adjust volume, even turn them off, just by touch through my jacket pocket. Will the ipod do these things as well if I get used to the feel of how much to slide along the non-moving dial? Or will I have to look at the display to see what I'm doing?
If a robot replaces five workers, and only four jobs open up to design, install, trouble-shoot, and maintain that robot, the fifth worker has been displaced entirely. There is now one less job available in the world. Its entirely possible robots will replace more jobs than they create. That causes the economy to shrink, but it could still stabilize, and many people will not be a part of the new economy.
Higher productivity is good for the economy. If productivity does not increase universally, not everyone benefits. If 50x bank tellers are replaced, but only 5x new jobs designing robots appear, 45x bank tellers are screwed. If 45x bank tellers go back to school to learn new skills, 5x new jobs in education appear but the bank tellers aren't the ones who fill those jobs because they don't have the skills. I'm suggesting that if enough jobs are replaced by robots, there may not be enough jobs to go around for humans. Then only people with jobs can afford products and services. The economy will stabilize at some point, and those without jobs won't be a part of it.
The rich might still stop by Burger King if they don't have time for their usual meal at a nice restaurant. The robot designers may still stop at Washington Mutual. There will be a market for the automated industries, but only the rich will be able to afford them. The poor will be left with relatively little.
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Because this is a broadband service presumably, I may have to upload mp3s of my CD collection to snapster. I dont' remember what the court said in the mp3.com case about that.
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I like the idea of 4 groups of 3 buttons. If I'm not looking at the screen, feeling for the key I want would be just a little more simple.
As for the center cluster, they've been made more useful. In Windows, the Insert key is almost never used anymore. The Delete key is quite often used, and makes more sense to an inexperienced user than the Backspace key. I, and probably the majority of others, use Home more often than End. In the new arrangement, Page Up and Down are one key-width closer.
They should listen to SOME feedback. Next braindead question.
How many people would ride it? The proposed link from Sacramento through the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles and San Diego might actually get enough use to make it worthwhile. Commuters might use it, as well as travelers. I-5 is slow going on holidays, and widening the Grapevine would be a royal pain.
how nice you don't have a job where you might get fired for chronic lateness. no sympathy for you. get up the 15 minutes earlier. rollerblade and it'll take 7 minutes. you'll have more fun doing it too. no you don't have to wear a helmet since that'll mess up your hair. you already have a rain jacket, buy some rain pants to match.
how long until SCO gets the shit kicked out of them legally?
If I could click on things more accurately than others, I could make up some of the deficency created because I'm level twenty and my opponent is level thirty but not as good clicking. I'm guessing you don't like most golf games because you have to time your shots or movements? I'd like to see a MMORPG where my sword battles and parries were driven by my mouse movements. May the best swords/mouseman win. Ever play "Pirates! Gold"? The swashbuckling used the numpad and was quite fun for me. I didn't have to draw every slash with the mouse, but my timing and the patterns of how I attacked helped determine if I won a battle.
I agree that games should tell stories. Sadly as far as I know none of the popular MMORPGS actually do in any meaningful way. I don't consider a new horde of monsters spawning in new places to be an invasion. They're not being driven off or back to where they came from, just killed again and again.
Where is the fun factor in spending an hour to analyze the character creation system, design a character, spend hours playing, then realize that the character is gimped in some way and start all over again? I'd like to see MMORPGs move away from stats being all-important. Not that I want there to be less skills in the world, just not require I put exactly so many points in this skill to gain this other one. If I'm deficient in an area, allow me to improve without having a gimped character later on.
I think swinging a hammer to forge my own sword instead of relying on some percentages would be awesome.
I suppose you'd like hunting fish in a barrel too, huh? Not a lot of sport in hunting melons.
You also can't get how to spell Philips apparently.
correct, its rarely a laughing matter, but sometimes it is, just like murder or rape.
its called jitter. i haven't investigated what causes it but i suspect its because the film is constantly moving.
Tim Allen was able to make fun of prison, and he was there. He did not make light of prison rape, but prison can be funny. Anything can be funny to some people. I was infuriated when some asshat posted about driving by a bicyclist and yelling into his ear to make him crash. The comment just wasn't funny because it wasn't phrased into a joke. Despite personally being startled on purpose by passengers driving by me on my bike, I could yet laugh at that were it a joke. Instead it was as funny as "drive by and knock down mail boxes with a bat, its fun!"
I imagine the free version could be destributed. If enough people run servers with the data for two or three friends away from themselves, it would work. A few servers could keep master lists so anyone logging in from anywhere could be directed to a server with their info on it. When one server didn't contain the complete information, it would direct the client to related servers with it. A system that would check servers periodically would prevent servers from having their data tampered with. If data from two servers didn't match, more servers would be found to compare to. The anomalous server would be sent warning messages and its data devalued as a source. Assuming correct data on some people was available, it would be used only as a last resort.
It would be similar to Gnutella, and because it won't have to connect to as many people, or return as many responses, it could work without slowing networks and itself to a halt. Once an initial search happens its likely the next searches will stem from the first. Data from the first will make up part of the second search, reducing load.
Friendster is in beta right now, and in several months anyone wishing to browse profiles or send messages will have to pay $8 a month. It will still be free to make a profile for others to browse. The fee is why I'm not taking the site seriously. Friendster will end up just another dating site. I expect free open source versions to appear in its place though that could be worthwhile if they reach a level of popularity similar to Kazaa.
the sound wall will last for decades, or until the highway gets widened again. how much more or less long will the highway last when paved with asphalt mixed with rubber? repeated repavings is a cost that needs to be considered too.
your post was not a flame, lets get past that
from the FAQ
Insightful -- An Insightful statement makes you think, puts a new spin on a given story (or aspect of a story). An analogy you hadn't thought of, or a telling counterexample, are examples of Insightful comments.
Informative -- Often comments add new information to explain the circumstances hinted at by a particular story, fill in "The Other Side" of an argument, provide specifications to a product described too vaguely elsewhere, etc. Such comments are Informative.
Your comment was not insightful or informative. you offered your opinion but nothing to back it up. Here's what the FAQ says about a troll comment:
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
You may be too new to have observed this, but just tossing your opinion out without anything to back it up may cause many people to spend their time offering corrections. You said it was flimsy, as a troll comment, it could cause some to type up many paragraphs defending their position that the ship is quite strong. I feel like I've been trolled into spending all this time replying, which is why I don't give much of a damn about grammar in this entry. Like I said before, you shouldn't just post your opinion here without reasons. Make your words worth reading.
Suppose you'd said 'I won't use Mac OS 10.2.xx until it looks professional, all the pictures on the linked-to-site look like candy cartoons.'
Without knowing enough, and making snap judgements, you'd get many people pointing out all the customizations you didn't know about, didn't research.
of course the moderator was on crack, because its a troll, not flamebait. why flamebait? because he based his decision on it LOOKING flimsy. how he figures its flimsy is beyond me. a sphere is a very strong shape, he doesn't know how thick the walls are. he didn't offer qualifications for knowing the wings might get ripped off.
/. journal comment, or not here at all. that's just my opinion.
supposing he is just ignorant, he deserves to be modded down for not saying anything worthwhile. he's adding more noise which interferes with the signal, and he needs to learn not to do that. his post has all the quality of something out of a small message board and belongs in a
I think I know what you mean, like fire thrusters/rockets against the direction of orbit, but also angled downward towards the earth? That way the craft would slow and wouldn't fall quite as fast. Or just fire dead ahead and slow as much as possible before the atmosphere thickens too much. I'd like to know too.
All my CD and mp3 players in the past have let me change tracks and adjust volume, even turn them off, just by touch through my jacket pocket. Will the ipod do these things as well if I get used to the feel of how much to slide along the non-moving dial? Or will I have to look at the display to see what I'm doing?
If a robot replaces five workers, and only four jobs open up to design, install, trouble-shoot, and maintain that robot, the fifth worker has been displaced entirely. There is now one less job available in the world. Its entirely possible robots will replace more jobs than they create. That causes the economy to shrink, but it could still stabilize, and many people will not be a part of the new economy.
Higher productivity is good for the economy. If productivity does not increase universally, not everyone benefits. If 50x bank tellers are replaced, but only 5x new jobs designing robots appear, 45x bank tellers are screwed. If 45x bank tellers go back to school to learn new skills, 5x new jobs in education appear but the bank tellers aren't the ones who fill those jobs because they don't have the skills. I'm suggesting that if enough jobs are replaced by robots, there may not be enough jobs to go around for humans. Then only people with jobs can afford products and services. The economy will stabilize at some point, and those without jobs won't be a part of it.
The rich might still stop by Burger King if they don't have time for their usual meal at a nice restaurant. The robot designers may still stop at Washington Mutual. There will be a market for the automated industries, but only the rich will be able to afford them. The poor will be left with relatively little.
nicely done
How many years are you talking about here? 10 years? 20? The wood was bigger than just 2x4s. It looked way overbuilt to me.
Because this is a broadband service presumably, I may have to upload mp3s of my CD collection to snapster. I dont' remember what the court said in the mp3.com case about that.