Yes. I know better than anyone else what I find useable. A good UI should have sane defaults and be customizable to what I need. Once I configure it properly, it should not change. UI designers should focus on giving us as many options as possible, and setting them to sane defaults.
In any case, horribly broken defaults that can be customized to something I like is far, far better than moderately acceptable defaults that cannot be customized at all.
You have a lot of faith in the emulator scene. Todays consoles are much more complicated, and much harder to emulate. If that weren't enough, they're encumbered by all sorts of DRM emulator authors will have to crack. I don't think we'll be seeing PS3/360 emulators for a long, long time.
Have any westerners ever actually been punished for circumventing the firewall? I think instead the Chinese government regularly goes out of its way to appear more open to westerners, and will even open up the firewall for them on special occasions. I doubt they would want to cause an international incident over a foreign worker who just wants to read/. unfettered.
Actually, this is what I was thinking about. You get an actual entry in ifconfig, and with a little routing it should be entirely transparent to all applications.
SSH tunneling with SSH -D is trivial to set up. Make sure you forward DNS with network.proxy.socks_remote_dns set to true if you're using Firefox.
I think I read that SSH can even create a virtual network device that forwards all traffic over a tunnel. Haven't had time to play with that though. That would be a great solution for every app, even those that don't support SOCKS proxies.
As long as you trust the manufacturer to deliver quality drivers, there's no problem with that.
The problem comes when they don't. We've been waiting for Xrandr 1.2 support from Nvidia for 3 years. Everyone else has it by now, but Nvidia users are out of luck. So if you want independent rotation of monitors under one X display without breaking acceleration, you can't do that with nvidia.
I mean how many variations of "Person with a variety of weapons shoots, blows up, or otherwise destroys various entities intent on destroying the world" have there been in the last 20 years?
How many variations of "nude female" or "pastoral landscape" have there been in the last 100 years? Sure, not all of them are fine art, but that doesn't mean a nude or landscape can't be fine art.
That's a pretty bad thing to do to a kid. The abstract is there to help a person decide whether they need to read the article. It does not substitute for the article in any way. A much better exercise would be to read the introduction and discussion of any one article. That's where they actually explain why they did what they did, and what it means. You can't explain anything in the extremely constrained abstract form.
Oh certainly. 8-bits are a ton of fun, I have several. Still, the early x86s hold the most nostalgia for me. I just picked up a Tandy 1000ex, and I'm dying to check out the old Sierra games I played in hi-res Tandy mode. Great fun.
Thank you very much. Science is hard. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't understand it. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't. That's not the scientist's fault.
In general, though, I'd discard (= recycle properly) stuff that's been significantly superseded in terms of electricity consumption - if a new one saves its price in one year's electricity bill, there's no point in keeping the old one.
It won't. I have a dual 450mhz P3 box doing light web browsing/music duty. I got a Kill-A-Watt device and calculated how much it was costing me to keep it running 24/7. Even if I assumed an Atom based replacement used 0W, it would have taken 2 years for a cheap Atom box to pay for itself. Electricity is cheap. Buying new stuff when the old stuff is functional isn't doing a damn thing for the environment either.
I'm a tech dumpster-diver and even I had to up my standards regarding equipment. With computers, I won't take anything less than 1Ghz++ AMD XP or P-IV, preferably with DDR RAM, but I'm not all that picky since usually you have decide on the spot and can't just open the machine up first.
On the other hand I won't take anything greater than a 486. Older computers are just more fun.
Wikileaks IS an anti-establishment propaganda group. As such they provide a very important counterbalance to all the pro-establishment propaganda we are saturated with on a daily basis. Why is it that no one complains when the US government deliberately omits information (or flat out lies) to win public opinion?
The amount of force required to pop the 2 liter soda bottle is not powerful enough to propel a projectile to a significant amount of speed to cause any real damage.
Let's see your math. How much force is necessary to pop a 2 liter bottle?
It should be a simple experiment. Simply add increasing masses of CO2 to 2 liter bottles until they pop. Since you know the mass and the volume it's simple HS chemistry to figure out the pressures involved.
Once you know the pressure, find the mass of the cap, and it's area to get the speed at which it could be propelled. Then we can rig up a little gun to shoot bottlecaps at you at that speed, and see if it does any real damage.
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I think you have the causation backwards. They put the most useful button in the upper left because that's where it's easier to find it.
Yes. I know better than anyone else what I find useable. A good UI should have sane defaults and be customizable to what I need. Once I configure it properly, it should not change. UI designers should focus on giving us as many options as possible, and setting them to sane defaults.
In any case, horribly broken defaults that can be customized to something I like is far, far better than moderately acceptable defaults that cannot be customized at all.
You have a lot of faith in the emulator scene. Todays consoles are much more complicated, and much harder to emulate. If that weren't enough, they're encumbered by all sorts of DRM emulator authors will have to crack. I don't think we'll be seeing PS3/360 emulators for a long, long time.
Have any westerners ever actually been punished for circumventing the firewall? I think instead the Chinese government regularly goes out of its way to appear more open to westerners, and will even open up the firewall for them on special occasions. I doubt they would want to cause an international incident over a foreign worker who just wants to read /. unfettered.
Actually, this is what I was thinking about. You get an actual entry in ifconfig, and with a little routing it should be entirely transparent to all applications.
SSH tunneling with SSH -D is trivial to set up. Make sure you forward DNS with network.proxy.socks_remote_dns set to true if you're using Firefox.
I think I read that SSH can even create a virtual network device that forwards all traffic over a tunnel. Haven't had time to play with that though. That would be a great solution for every app, even those that don't support SOCKS proxies.
As long as you trust the manufacturer to deliver quality drivers, there's no problem with that.
The problem comes when they don't. We've been waiting for Xrandr 1.2 support from Nvidia for 3 years. Everyone else has it by now, but Nvidia users are out of luck. So if you want independent rotation of monitors under one X display without breaking acceleration, you can't do that with nvidia.
All you really need is one within walking distance of home.
all I've seen is ever increasing eye candy and bling at the expense of a world that at least follows its own logic.
If you value internal game logic over eye candy, just play nethack. That is a truly immersive game.
I mean how many variations of "Person with a variety of weapons shoots, blows up, or otherwise destroys various entities intent on destroying the world" have there been in the last 20 years?
How many variations of "nude female" or "pastoral landscape" have there been in the last 100 years? Sure, not all of them are fine art, but that doesn't mean a nude or landscape can't be fine art.
That's a pretty bad thing to do to a kid. The abstract is there to help a person decide whether they need to read the article. It does not substitute for the article in any way. A much better exercise would be to read the introduction and discussion of any one article. That's where they actually explain why they did what they did, and what it means. You can't explain anything in the extremely constrained abstract form.
Oh certainly. 8-bits are a ton of fun, I have several. Still, the early x86s hold the most nostalgia for me. I just picked up a Tandy 1000ex, and I'm dying to check out the old Sierra games I played in hi-res Tandy mode. Great fun.
Thank you very much. Science is hard. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't understand it. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't. That's not the scientist's fault.
In general, though, I'd discard (= recycle properly) stuff that's been significantly superseded in terms of electricity consumption - if a new one saves its price in one year's electricity bill, there's no point in keeping the old one.
It won't. I have a dual 450mhz P3 box doing light web browsing/music duty. I got a Kill-A-Watt device and calculated how much it was costing me to keep it running 24/7. Even if I assumed an Atom based replacement used 0W, it would have taken 2 years for a cheap Atom box to pay for itself. Electricity is cheap. Buying new stuff when the old stuff is functional isn't doing a damn thing for the environment either.
I was at a salvation army last weekend. 10 CRT monitors for the price of 1.
I'm a tech dumpster-diver and even I had to up my standards regarding equipment. With computers, I won't take anything less than 1Ghz++ AMD XP or P-IV, preferably with DDR RAM, but I'm not all that picky since usually you have decide on the spot and can't just open the machine up first.
On the other hand I won't take anything greater than a 486. Older computers are just more fun.
I can think of some doofuses who got a whole bunch of soldiers killed. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and yes Barack Obama.
That's why every kid needs a BB gun, to deal with situations like this.
Wikileaks IS an anti-establishment propaganda group. As such they provide a very important counterbalance to all the pro-establishment propaganda we are saturated with on a daily basis. Why is it that no one complains when the US government deliberately omits information (or flat out lies) to win public opinion?
So it gets safer over time. That's even better.
And a dry ice bomb doesn't start building pressure until you cap it.
Dry ice bombs have fuses. It takes a known amount of time for a known mass of CO2 to turn into gas at a known temperature. There's your fuse.
The amount of force required to pop the 2 liter soda bottle is not powerful enough to propel a projectile to a significant amount of speed to cause any real damage.
Let's see your math. How much force is necessary to pop a 2 liter bottle?
It should be a simple experiment. Simply add increasing masses of CO2 to 2 liter bottles until they pop. Since you know the mass and the volume it's simple HS chemistry to figure out the pressures involved.
Once you know the pressure, find the mass of the cap, and it's area to get the speed at which it could be propelled. Then we can rig up a little gun to shoot bottlecaps at you at that speed, and see if it does any real damage.
Yes, that is the traditional left-right axis. What else do you think "leftist" means?
The only moderate democrat is Dennis Kucinich. Every one else is right wing.