How about in Opera when I accidently did one and got a pop-up saying I did a mouse gesture, would I like to enable them. And a link to a list of gestures.
I clicked the link and got the important ones down instantly (change browser windows, foward, backward).
I can't do the ones the involve moving with more then a 95% accuracy so I don't use them anyway.
Granted, I consider myself at least somewhat of a power user, but I think they are there to be stumbled on by people who want to learn them. People who don;t want to or don't care will not learn anyway. Try telling someone who doesn't care about the mouse wheel, useless.
Sigh. Everyone *knows* that exist wounds are the ones that cause the real damage! Nice neat hole in your forhead, gaping crevace at the base of your skull...
well, I imagine the no exist wounds arn't a problem at all.
If it did I will concede that it means nothing, but I would imagaine that if a game gets best in show it should be relativly good if it comes out int he next year or so.
The article felt like a first impression, so he probably didn't try out any yet.
They are all in the same part in Mandrake's menu, so he probably assumed they were all the same thing. My guess is that after dealing with a few things like this he writes a fallow up. "Linux, too much confusion in the menu with all the 1000 apps I was excited about".
This article was about the feeling he had right after and install, not about actually using the beast. I say "beast" affectionatly, I use Linux at home almost exclusivly.
Also, I don't know if this guy has ever installe windows or not, but 1 hour to find and get a driver installed is not too bad. It has taken me that long to find all my drivers dowload and install them on windows with practivaly every install. And it is a pain in the ass opening the case to identify what brand components you have.
I know it is not quite the same level of not resource intesive but it runs on what now is a fairly old system. And can be found new in a tin on ebay for under 10.00 including shipping.
I find that un modded, or on a server where you get insane reload rates etc. it is great for a pop in and play 5 minutes scenario. My biggest problem with it is that it takes about a minute to get started so unless I have 5 or ten minutes it's not worth the time.
Of course I find I need about that much time to get into Frozen Bubble so it is really not that far off.
Also Sim City 3000 is fun and sub 15.00 on ebay(including shipping). I find games like that an addiction though, and cannot just pop in for 5 - 10 minutes. I always end up for at least an hour but YMMV.
I would say the QuakeIII was the best invetment I ever made in gaming. With the mods it covers a broad spectrum of feels (of FPS so a narrow spectrum overall). And it is great to jump in frag a few people, get fragged a few dozen times and then go to bed (I suck).
The problem is this small step will be leaned on and never updated.
Senetors will look good and this law will do squat.
This just formalizes unlimmited copyrights.
Now the extension is permanant, no new laws required just 2Â a year and everything is covered forever.
I agree with the people who say "fuck the Berne convention" and make things reasonable. I want to see my countries blatent disregard for international treaties be used for good, not evil.
Essentially all copyrighted works run their course or are proffitable after 10 years. So make the law 50 years or 10 years after publication.
Then let their be an extension that costs a decent chunk of change and requires a clean copy to be submitted (source code, unprotected copy etc. Use this fee to pay for archiving that copy. The fee can even be based on the diffaculty to archive.
This extension should be for like 20 more years and that should be plenty.
Anything that is of any interest after 30 years is proffitable. That is why we have copyright, so that things can be proffitable, but once they have been reasonably so there is no reason not to make them public domain.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was reading the questions thinking the more autistic you are the the harder it would be to answer some of those things.
I got a 35 and consider myself on the normal side of geek, not really even a very good geek.
I think it is a crappy test. It seems to weight the slightly agree desagree as much as the strongly. But O well.
Getting a Tattoo somewhere where you won't be able to cover it with work clothing will have a negative impact with some employers and others will not care.
So you may have a little bit harder time finding a job, but once you settle in there is no reason to think it will put you on the chopping block or hurt your promote-ability. I would still say that you are probably best off not getting facial piercings or hand/lower arm tattoos or you are probably cutting your pool of employers by 25 to 50 percent. Once you have a job for a few months you are probably pretty safe (if you are good).
I know for a fact that with some system you could (I don't use any of the stuff because I spend all my computer time Gaming and Using/.. I am too lazy to burn CDs off of MP3s and have 50+ CDs that are solidly of songs I want to listen too, with another 75+ that I like over half the tracks). But I had a friend that used to talk about all the cool stuff he found when he copied a whole bunch of shit from someone elses colection that had similar tastes based on the bands reconized.
Of course he will never buy a CD again, so his new discovery didn't help said band at all.
Also does anyone besides me think full speed sounds quicker then high speed?
Lastly USB 1.1 ports can support USB 2 devices according to the thing on Iomega.
This means that most people will probably just think that external drives in general suck, and will not blame it on the manufacturer changing the name.
And When I recycle an old box to give to a family member for "email and web" it get Linux.
I do not foist Windows on anyone, I simply think for most people it is the right solution. Mostly for interoperability with the rest of the world, and in transfering knowledge from work and friends.
When my Grandfathers friend finds a mildly lewd yet charming screensaver and he likes it, I want his friend to be able to tell him how to install it, not for him to be disapointed that he can't. This is the type of thing a lot of elderly people do, they trade lewd yet charming jokes, have similar desktops and all that. I do not want a right click on the desktop to come up with configure desktop (KDE) instead of settings (WIN). Then he will be either disapointed, or call me. It is these people who want web and email and the feeling they can do more (but not really the desire to do so) that need WIN the most.
Also Greeting Card makers and Family Tree software is a MUST for Linux for this segment.
yeah,
Because these same people will really quickly adapt to a gear or a foot instead of START.
And they really like to call me with questions when they buy a new printer and the install CD doesn't work, and then I find out that it is incompatable.
But their favorite thing is when they decide to make the family tree the family tree maker they buy doesn't run.
Links in Windows (9x anyway) cause all sorts of confuision too, like when copying the whole start menu to a floppy does not allow them to pirate all of their programs to someone else.
No, that just points to the program it is not the real program. Really the easiest thing to do is buy another copy and give it to them (we are talking playing card games, not $300 office packages).
I like and use Linux nearly exclusivly at home (I have SanctionII installed at home on Windows for work reasons), but I do not like to foist it upon my relatives. That is just rude, I like having a huge library of decent slightly less pretty slightly harder to use apps for free (in every sense). Most people like having easier to install (if you don't know anything), cheap and ubiquitose apps and hardware. And I can respect that.
ummm, FAT 32 has enormous cluster sizes for large drives. That does affect the normal user.
Fat 16 was limited to 2GB partitions, that affects the normal users.
Now, the fact that if the database file system works the way I imagine it would it will be a bad thing for the normal user's more tech savy friend.
I have spent years explaining to relatives that the same file name in 2 places is 2 different files.
Now I must spend time explaining that if you brows, documents, taxes, and edit file blah it will effect important stuff, file blah and what not.
People will be confused by this I believe. And I also think the the techies saying it is stupid would benifit from this greatly, I know I would love to organize things with tons of logical ways to browse there.
But I am not some overpaid market researcher so what do I know.
ADD is far less treatable medicaly, and my doctor recomended against any medicine except for school (at work I should cope).
I am a very good worker in general I believe, but I do spend about 30 minutes of my 8 hour workday trying to find stuff I misplaced. Stupid little things like tape and pens.
If I work a 12 hour shift I probably waste another 30 minutes in my last 4 hours.
I do my best to kick ass and get through as much work as possible. Since a lot of people flat out don't give work their all while they are working I more than make up for my disadvantages.
So my advice is to be likable and work hard.
Also as a warning, there have been some studies that found brain chemistry changes similar to long term cocaine use in long term ritalin use (duh, it kinda is the same). here
I took ritalin when there were no other options and I was speedin hard core on a minimum dose (again ADD, not ADHD).
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no no no no.
If it tests negativly you realease the alpha as a finished product, DUH.
How about in Opera when I accidently did one and got a pop-up saying I did a mouse gesture, would I like to enable them. And a link to a list of gestures.
I clicked the link and got the important ones down instantly (change browser windows, foward, backward).
I can't do the ones the involve moving with more then a 95% accuracy so I don't use them anyway.
Granted, I consider myself at least somewhat of a power user, but I think they are there to be stumbled on by people who want to learn them. People who don;t want to or don't care will not learn anyway. Try telling someone who doesn't care about the mouse wheel, useless.
Sigh. Everyone *knows* that exist wounds are the ones that cause the real damage! Nice neat hole in your forhead, gaping crevace at the base of your skull...
well, I imagine the no exist wounds arn't a problem at all.
Did Daikatana ever get best in show at E3?
If it did I will concede that it means nothing, but I would imagaine that if a game gets best in show it should be relativly good if it comes out int he next year or so.
It was BSD web servers with a Solaris back end for the DB.
So there.
The article felt like a first impression, so he probably didn't try out any yet.
They are all in the same part in Mandrake's menu, so he probably assumed they were all the same thing. My guess is that after dealing with a few things like this he writes a fallow up. "Linux, too much confusion in the menu with all the 1000 apps I was excited about".
This article was about the feeling he had right after and install, not about actually using the beast. I say "beast" affectionatly, I use Linux at home almost exclusivly.
Also, I don't know if this guy has ever installe windows or not, but 1 hour to find and get a driver installed is not too bad. It has taken me that long to find all my drivers dowload and install them on windows with practivaly every install. And it is a pain in the ass opening the case to identify what brand components you have.
Do I get a physical Mr Clippy?
I think I may just kill myself now instead.
QuakeIII
I know it is not quite the same level of not resource intesive but it runs on what now is a fairly old system. And can be found new in a tin on ebay for under 10.00 including shipping.
I find that un modded, or on a server where you get insane reload rates etc. it is great for a pop in and play 5 minutes scenario. My biggest problem with it is that it takes about a minute to get started so unless I have 5 or ten minutes it's not worth the time.
Of course I find I need about that much time to get into Frozen Bubble so it is really not that far off.
Also Sim City 3000 is fun and sub 15.00 on ebay(including shipping). I find games like that an addiction though, and cannot just pop in for 5 - 10 minutes. I always end up for at least an hour but YMMV.
I would say the QuakeIII was the best invetment I ever made in gaming. With the mods it covers a broad spectrum of feels (of FPS so a narrow spectrum overall). And it is great to jump in frag a few people, get fragged a few dozen times and then go to bed (I suck).
If I am not mistaken even O'Riely said that the more he looked into it the more he felt it was innovative.
But also the more he felt that allowing a patent on software was a bad idea.
I read it on slashdot (an interview maybe) so it must be true.
The problem is this small step will be leaned on and never updated.
Senetors will look good and this law will do squat.
This just formalizes unlimmited copyrights.
Now the extension is permanant, no new laws required just 2Â a year and everything is covered forever.
I agree with the people who say "fuck the Berne convention" and make things reasonable. I want to see my countries blatent disregard for international treaties be used for good, not evil.
Essentially all copyrighted works run their course or are proffitable after 10 years. So make the law 50 years or 10 years after publication.
Then let their be an extension that costs a decent chunk of change and requires a clean copy to be submitted (source code, unprotected copy etc. Use this fee to pay for archiving that copy. The fee can even be based on the diffaculty to archive.
This extension should be for like 20 more years and that should be plenty.
Anything that is of any interest after 30 years is proffitable. That is why we have copyright, so that things can be proffitable, but once they have been reasonably so there is no reason not to make them public domain.
If you add the number pad it makes the Keyboard off center.
Do you really want your keyboard not lined up with your monitor when it is only 2 inches away?
I know I wouldn't and the designers at apple didn't either. That is why they settles on the design.
Of course if I wanted a laptop I would not want a 17" monstrosity.
There is an ambitious wing of the project to redo the artwork themselves, thus making Blizzard redundant.
Well actually I would say FreeCraft is redundant, but oh well.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was reading the questions thinking the more autistic you are the the harder it would be to answer some of those things.
I got a 35 and consider myself on the normal side of geek, not really even a very good geek.
I think it is a crappy test. It seems to weight the slightly agree desagree as much as the strongly. But O well.
The toolset is hardly part of the game client is it?
I always kind of thought that is was like, you no, an editor and not the game client, am I wrong?
As for the cutscenes? I grant you that one even if they suck.
Thank you. I too bad you can't retro activly warned me before hand, I never seam to be able to remember witch won I am supposed to use.
I will try to remember there not interchangable in the future though.
That is probably not a valid question.
I know the WarcraftIII beta had WAY higher requirments then the game once it was released.
The final release required half the CPU and 1/4 the VRAM of the beta to run smothly
(400 from 800 Mhz and 16 from 64MB)
ArjFolder works great for me.
.zip file and copy files out like it was a folder.
It is freeware (not free software) and has a right click menue to extract here or extract into subfolder.
it also lets you double click a
Lastly is has a less useful feature to let you convert a zip file to a folder (still compressed). But that sucks.
I think you can right click a folder and make it a zip too, but that may be a pay feature, I so rarly make zips I dson't really remember.
Getting a Tattoo somewhere where you won't be able to cover it with work clothing will have a negative impact with some employers and others will not care.
So you may have a little bit harder time finding a job, but once you settle in there is no reason to think it will put you on the chopping block or hurt your promote-ability. I would still say that you are probably best off not getting facial piercings or hand/lower arm tattoos or you are probably cutting your pool of employers by 25 to 50 percent. Once you have a job for a few months you are probably pretty safe (if you are good).
Can't you browse other files person X has?
/.. I am too lazy to burn CDs off of MP3s and have 50+ CDs that are solidly of songs I want to listen too, with another 75+ that I like over half the tracks). But I had a friend that used to talk about all the cool stuff he found when he copied a whole bunch of shit from someone elses colection that had similar tastes based on the bands reconized.
I know for a fact that with some system you could (I don't use any of the stuff because I spend all my computer time Gaming and Using
Of course he will never buy a CD again, so his new discovery didn't help said band at all.
That was the point of the statement.
Nobody is going to lose from confusion except for the USB people.
oops I guess.
I read it, I have a correction:
Firewire is 400Mb/s not 400 MB/s
Also does anyone besides me think full speed sounds quicker then high speed?
Lastly USB 1.1 ports can support USB 2 devices according to the thing on Iomega.
This means that most people will probably just think that external drives in general suck, and will not blame it on the manufacturer changing the name.
I agree entirly.
And When I recycle an old box to give to a family member for "email and web" it get Linux.
I do not foist Windows on anyone, I simply think for most people it is the right solution. Mostly for interoperability with the rest of the world, and in transfering knowledge from work and friends.
When my Grandfathers friend finds a mildly lewd yet charming screensaver and he likes it, I want his friend to be able to tell him how to install it, not for him to be disapointed that he can't. This is the type of thing a lot of elderly people do, they trade lewd yet charming jokes, have similar desktops and all that. I do not want a right click on the desktop to come up with configure desktop (KDE) instead of settings (WIN). Then he will be either disapointed, or call me. It is these people who want web and email and the feeling they can do more (but not really the desire to do so) that need WIN the most.
Also Greeting Card makers and Family Tree software is a MUST for Linux for this segment.
yeah,
Because these same people will really quickly adapt to a gear or a foot instead of START.
And they really like to call me with questions when they buy a new printer and the install CD doesn't work, and then I find out that it is incompatable.
But their favorite thing is when they decide to make the family tree the family tree maker they buy doesn't run.
Links in Windows (9x anyway) cause all sorts of confuision too, like when copying the whole start menu to a floppy does not allow them to pirate all of their programs to someone else.
No, that just points to the program it is not the real program. Really the easiest thing to do is buy another copy and give it to them (we are talking playing card games, not $300 office packages).
I like and use Linux nearly exclusivly at home (I have SanctionII installed at home on Windows for work reasons), but I do not like to foist it upon my relatives. That is just rude, I like having a huge library of decent slightly less pretty slightly harder to use apps for free (in every sense). Most people like having easier to install (if you don't know anything), cheap and ubiquitose apps and hardware. And I can respect that.
ummm, FAT 32 has enormous cluster sizes for large drives. That does affect the normal user.
Fat 16 was limited to 2GB partitions, that affects the normal users.
Now, the fact that if the database file system works the way I imagine it would it will be a bad thing for the normal user's more tech savy friend.
I have spent years explaining to relatives that the same file name in 2 places is 2 different files.
Now I must spend time explaining that if you brows, documents, taxes, and edit file blah it will effect important stuff, file blah and what not.
People will be confused by this I believe. And I also think the the techies saying it is stupid would benifit from this greatly, I know I would love to organize things with tons of logical ways to browse there.
But I am not some overpaid market researcher so what do I know.
I have ADD and no hyperactivity.
ADD is far less treatable medicaly, and my doctor recomended against any medicine except for school (at work I should cope).
I am a very good worker in general I believe, but I do spend about 30 minutes of my 8 hour workday trying to find stuff I misplaced. Stupid little things like tape and pens.
If I work a 12 hour shift I probably waste another 30 minutes in my last 4 hours.
I do my best to kick ass and get through as much work as possible. Since a lot of people flat out don't give work their all while they are working I more than make up for my disadvantages.
So my advice is to be likable and work hard.
Also as a warning, there have been some studies that found brain chemistry changes similar to long term cocaine use in long term ritalin use (duh, it kinda is the same).
here
I took ritalin when there were no other options and I was speedin hard core on a minimum dose (again ADD, not ADHD).
whatever blah.