KDE 4.0 is about cleaning up the backend all the way (or whatever).
The big improvements for the users are to be added in point releases (which should be pretty big, like in gnome), with all of the KDE 4 promises to be built on the better backend which is getting finished up now.
Yes, but when it comes down to it 1/100th of a percent of the voting population in a single state was the difference between our current deadlock, and possible sweeping reforms.
I am not saying either is good, but a very small amount of votes amplified signifigantly the power balance, and I think that is a fairly unique setup (for good or for bad)
In Europe minority votes count for something and you have more than 2 credible parties. That makes rigging an election far less valuable.
In the US just a few thousand votes in a key are brings your party from a lot of control (president) to very little (Democrats in the Senate and House can't get shit done).
With razor thin margins and 49% of the vote counting for nothing it is possible to subtly change the votes and drastically alter the political landscape.
In 2000 Florida was withing 1/100th of 1% (0.01%) and would have made Gore the president. I doubt there is many places in the rest of the world where so few people in such a small area could cause such a dramatic shift. This makes the risk/reward analysis in the US much different than other places with your minority reresentation and 3+ parties.
I won't say it's perfect, but it has quite low overhead (relative to private insurance) and if there was no debate about who was allowed on and who wasn't it could be streamlined further.
Very few people want a single source of healthcare providing everything.
I would base my opinion of it working based on the fact that it happens (the rods pointing backwards) to everyone whom I've seen do it in the same place and if you know where a pipe is it happens along the pipe, and then hand it over to someone who doesn't know where the pipe is (or even about the technique at all, or what to expect) it happens to them too.
I strongly encourage you to try it instead of being a douche though.
I don't know what they used but I can say for sure that 2 pieces of wire (may need to be copper, or it may work with hangers) bent into an "L" and held by the short end will find things under ground.
I strongly encourage any skeptics to try it. Hold rods with long parts pointing forward, when you step over something buried and of sufficient size they will point sideways and then backwards as you cross over.
I could definetly see this working to find a pipe, after perhaps a few failures digging up large rocks.
"On top of that it has me 3D reel on it so whenever a potential client asks, I have it on me and they can see it right then. It makes me look pretty spiffy."
That's genius, but I would call it a business expense then (Hurray for tax deductions).
Expect it to be abouther few months before the real good non-wiimote games start coming (or mildly using it).
When did NSMB come out? It used 2 screens and touch, but both were expendable, I would expect to see games that use the wiimote because it is comfortable (I love beiong able to keep my arms apart), maybe some other minor uses, but primarily use it like a traditional controller (if 5 easy access buttons, (A, B, C, Z, Down), and 3 less easy (Left, Right. Up) is enough buttons for the game.
Compiz does a pretty good job of setting up ¨fake¨ monitors. I imagine it could be used to create fake ¨monitors¨. I imagine you could set up your fake monitors to be parts of a big display for maximizing or other stuff.
For idea/thought seperation though, I doubt there is any substitute for 3+ inches of air though.
What is it that you use the iPod for if not listening tio music?
Or are you valuing the music hardware more than the content? and in doing so deciding not to buy music? Or are you concuring that the iTunes price (8-10/album) is the correct one? Or did you have such a large music library in 1999 you felt you could miss out on everything since?
I got the Wii because it was cheap enough and appealing enough for me to convince my wife ti was worth buying. I would love Assasin's Creed and COD4, and would buy the first on day one (assuming of course it plays well, and isn't gimped in gamplay (lower graphics are fine). I don't know if it is possibly to match gameplay depth from 360 to Wii, especially for a sanbox style game, but if it were I would be all-over it.
There has to be a lot of one gamer families that got a Wii (of course maybe 360 is cheap enough now that they have that too).
COD4 I would be less excited about but pick up when it was a "classic hit" or what not.
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I really like the Nokia fold out keyboards like the 6820 (older phone I think).
This allows me to hold it with my arms wide and thumbs coming fromt he left and right, instead of narrow with thumbs from the bottom (like a Blackberry/Sidekick for example). I find it much more comfortable. The screen size does suffer some, and it is fairly bulky (though the bulk is probably close to a side-kick).
I will say that in the mid 90's on IRC and AIM, I used to let typos slip because it was a conversational form of speaking, and slowing it down to correct typos broke the flow of conversation.
Some programs that alerted you when the other side was typing made this less imperitive.
I do try to keep things on track in emails and even/. posts and text messages to a point. This post though is an example of what can happen when focussing on speed and not correctness (usually I would at least correct "imperitive" and "focussing".
In the mid 90's when I was less of a typer, speller, and (less) intelligent things would have been even worse.
The XO is not a substitute for a computer. It is a substitute for a text book and somewhat word processor/typewriter (keys are small though).
It allows techers to send notes home to illiterate parents, and parents to respond back (camera/microphone). It allows for reading off of the internet, an ebook, or teachers notes.
The cost of text books can be crippling, event he cost of printing could allow one of these to pay for itself with enough use. Simply as a monochrome e-book reader with a pull cord for power it has quite a bit of value, the logic based games and other computer-like funtionality are a bonus. Internet access (where available is also great, but I expect the receiving of reading materials over the mesh is where this will shine. Everything else is just extra.
I hope we will see efforts for K-12 level text books that are free and open like the reading one recently posted here.
For half the price of a laptop this is a tool for educating, not a tool for computing. And it probably does a better job of educating in environments where dusk and dirt (Africa etc.) and spills (classroom) are a regular part of the day.
The problem is that once a lot (or eve a few more) people do it this way the I want more people to do this demographic is not guaranteed (works the same way with Linux games I imagine, the developers of cross platform games probably get a large (more than the 1-3% of users) Linux base, but because we want to encourage them (at least I know I've purchased over priced and old games for $30+ instead of the $10 bargin bin it would have been).
Radiohead reaped massive publicity that noone the next person will get half as much of, and soon no publicity will come with it.
That being said, magnatunes is awesome and has a lot of artists with name your price ($5 minimum) if you want to encourage more).
I purchased the album at $9.00 (I wanted to do $8.00, but the fee got me). I have always believes $5-$10 was the correct price for an album, and when given the choice I figured I should do it. Magnatunes says their average sale is about $7.50 so my theory bears out to point.
Magnatunes gives 50% to the artist, and keeps the rest for themself, which is a decent deal for both (magnatunes I assume incurs all costs). They also vet the bands so as a customer you aren't wading through shit to get the goodsm thewy also stream full tracks (my current amarok playlist is all streamed magnatunes.
I am simply a happy magnatunes customer, not a employee BTW.
I'm pretty sure you were supoosed to get that disk when you placed the pre-order (they were being touted as limited availability first come first serve).
As a place that probably doesn't pre-order many video games, they probably didn't get any at any point.
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KDE 4.0 is about cleaning up the backend all the way (or whatever).
The big improvements for the users are to be added in point releases (which should be pretty big, like in gnome), with all of the KDE 4 promises to be built on the better backend which is getting finished up now.
Yes, but when it comes down to it 1/100th of a percent of the voting population in a single state was the difference between our current deadlock, and possible sweeping reforms.
I am not saying either is good, but a very small amount of votes amplified signifigantly the power balance, and I think that is a fairly unique setup (for good or for bad)
In Europe minority votes count for something and you have more than 2 credible parties. That makes rigging an election far less valuable.
In the US just a few thousand votes in a key are brings your party from a lot of control (president) to very little (Democrats in the Senate and House can't get shit done).
With razor thin margins and 49% of the vote counting for nothing it is possible to subtly change the votes and drastically alter the political landscape.
In 2000 Florida was withing 1/100th of 1% (0.01%) and would have made Gore the president. I doubt there is many places in the rest of the world where so few people in such a small area could cause such a dramatic shift. This makes the risk/reward analysis in the US much different than other places with your minority reresentation and 3+ parties.
Or maybe examine medicare.
I won't say it's perfect, but it has quite low overhead (relative to private insurance) and if there was no debate about who was allowed on and who wasn't it could be streamlined further.
Very few people want a single source of healthcare providing everything.
I don't know.
I think it's pretty funny, and I am probably what the poster would call a lib-tard.
That is extraordinary.
I am simply amazed, this is half the population of the UK. What an amazingly mind bogglingly large number to loose at once.
Where do you work that Wikipedia'ing body parts is a safe activity with or without pictures?
I would base my opinion of it working based on the fact that it happens (the rods pointing backwards) to everyone whom I've seen do it in the same place and if you know where a pipe is it happens along the pipe, and then hand it over to someone who doesn't know where the pipe is (or even about the technique at all, or what to expect) it happens to them too.
I strongly encourage you to try it instead of being a douche though.
I don't know what they used but I can say for sure that 2 pieces of wire (may need to be copper, or it may work with hangers) bent into an "L" and held by the short end will find things under ground.
I strongly encourage any skeptics to try it. Hold rods with long parts pointing forward, when you step over something buried and of sufficient size they will point sideways and then backwards as you cross over.
I could definetly see this working to find a pipe, after perhaps a few failures digging up large rocks.
"On top of that it has me 3D reel on it so whenever a potential client asks, I have it on me and they can see it right then. It makes me look pretty spiffy."
That's genius, but I would call it a business expense then (Hurray for tax deductions).
Expect it to be abouther few months before the real good non-wiimote games start coming (or mildly using it).
When did NSMB come out? It used 2 screens and touch, but both were expendable, I would expect to see games that use the wiimote because it is comfortable (I love beiong able to keep my arms apart), maybe some other minor uses, but primarily use it like a traditional controller (if 5 easy access buttons, (A, B, C, Z, Down), and 3 less easy (Left, Right. Up) is enough buttons for the game.
Compiz does a pretty good job of setting up ¨fake¨ monitors. I imagine it could be used to create fake ¨monitors¨. I imagine you could set up your fake monitors to be parts of a big display for maximizing or other stuff.
For idea/thought seperation though, I doubt there is any substitute for 3+ inches of air though.
What is it that you use the iPod for if not listening tio music?
Or are you valuing the music hardware more than the content? and in doing so deciding not to buy music? Or are you concuring that the iTunes price (8-10/album) is the correct one? Or did you have such a large music library in 1999 you felt you could miss out on everything since?
I got the Wii because it was cheap enough and appealing enough for me to convince my wife ti was worth buying. I would love Assasin's Creed and COD4, and would buy the first on day one (assuming of course it plays well, and isn't gimped in gamplay (lower graphics are fine). I don't know if it is possibly to match gameplay depth from 360 to Wii, especially for a sanbox style game, but if it were I would be all-over it.
There has to be a lot of one gamer families that got a Wii (of course maybe 360 is cheap enough now that they have that too).
COD4 I would be less excited about but pick up when it was a "classic hit" or what not.
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I really like the Nokia fold out keyboards like the 6820 (older phone I think).
This allows me to hold it with my arms wide and thumbs coming fromt he left and right, instead of narrow with thumbs from the bottom (like a Blackberry/Sidekick for example). I find it much more comfortable. The screen size does suffer some, and it is fairly bulky (though the bulk is probably close to a side-kick).
I will say that in the mid 90's on IRC and AIM, I used to let typos slip because it was a conversational form of speaking, and slowing it down to correct typos broke the flow of conversation.
/. posts and text messages to a point. This post though is an example of what can happen when focussing on speed and not correctness (usually I would at least correct "imperitive" and "focussing".
Some programs that alerted you when the other side was typing made this less imperitive.
I do try to keep things on track in emails and even
In the mid 90's when I was less of a typer, speller, and (less) intelligent things would have been even worse.
How about to turn pages when the eyboard isn't exposed (as e-book)?
One reason to buy AMD is that if they go out of business Intel may stop innovating.
Even if you are getting a worse deal in the short run, an upgrade cycle or two in the future may be much worse (comparatively) if everyone goes Intel.
The XO is not a substitute for a computer. It is a substitute for a text book and somewhat word processor/typewriter (keys are small though).
It allows techers to send notes home to illiterate parents, and parents to respond back (camera/microphone). It allows for reading off of the internet, an ebook, or teachers notes.
The cost of text books can be crippling, event he cost of printing could allow one of these to pay for itself with enough use. Simply as a monochrome e-book reader with a pull cord for power it has quite a bit of value, the logic based games and other computer-like funtionality are a bonus. Internet access (where available is also great, but I expect the receiving of reading materials over the mesh is where this will shine. Everything else is just extra.
I hope we will see efforts for K-12 level text books that are free and open like the reading one recently posted here.
For half the price of a laptop this is a tool for educating, not a tool for computing. And it probably does a better job of educating in environments where dusk and dirt (Africa etc.) and spills (classroom) are a regular part of the day.
The XO is:
1) Same price (4GB w/ camera, less after tax deduction)
2) includes a donation.
Does the better CPU and RAM beet the low power usage reflective mode? I would have to see it to know.
Also, pull chord is a very compelling extra (don't know if it will be available though).
The spill-proof design also has some value to me (business part is in screen and keyboard is sealed).
I personally can't wait to see what the XO gets for it in the hands of hackers (either in the form of full distros or addons to sugar OS).
We all know how sturdy the cheap Dells and Acers are going to be. I bet they will get great battery life too.
Probably about 62% based on the article.
"b) want more acts to release music this way."
The problem is that once a lot (or eve a few more) people do it this way the I want more people to do this demographic is not guaranteed (works the same way with Linux games I imagine, the developers of cross platform games probably get a large (more than the 1-3% of users) Linux base, but because we want to encourage them (at least I know I've purchased over priced and old games for $30+ instead of the $10 bargin bin it would have been).
Radiohead reaped massive publicity that noone the next person will get half as much of, and soon no publicity will come with it.
That being said, magnatunes is awesome and has a lot of artists with name your price ($5 minimum) if you want to encourage more).
I purchased the album at $9.00 (I wanted to do $8.00, but the fee got me). I have always believes $5-$10 was the correct price for an album, and when given the choice I figured I should do it. Magnatunes says their average sale is about $7.50 so my theory bears out to point.
Magnatunes gives 50% to the artist, and keeps the rest for themself, which is a decent deal for both (magnatunes I assume incurs all costs). They also vet the bands so as a customer you aren't wading through shit to get the goodsm thewy also stream full tracks (my current amarok playlist is all streamed magnatunes.
I am simply a happy magnatunes customer, not a employee BTW.
I'm pretty sure you were supoosed to get that disk when you placed the pre-order (they were being touted as limited availability first come first serve).
As a place that probably doesn't pre-order many video games, they probably didn't get any at any point.