There's that word..."probably."
A favourite of the pro-censorship crowd, it allows you to make an assumption about the situation, and then ban it based on the assumption......
Of course they can. That isn't a video game so it's perfectly acceptable.
Come on, don't you know it's *only* video games that could possibly affect children's minds?
On the world's political stage, the US Democrats are moderately right wing. The Republicans are batshit-insane extreme right wing. As far as world politics go, I'm somewhat conservative. The US Democrat party is slightly outside of my comfort zone to the right on a lot of things. There *is* no left wing party in th US.
No, he took down JSTOR servers with excess traffic by running an overly aggressive and efficient web crawler against them,
If JSTOR's servers can be brought down by a single laptop, those servers are crap.
I don't care how fast the connection is between them, a single laptop should not have the processing power to bring down a server.
With a rooted phone this is no longer a problem. There's an app called Link2SD in the Play Store, and among other things, it allows you to integrate those system app updates into the original system, overwriting the older, unused one. There are other space saving things it does, most of which only work if your phone is rooted. I'm also working on a little app myself that will save a lot of space on the internal storage, but it's pretty low on my priority list right now.
Elsewhere, cheating is so unusual we have to read Indian textbooks to understand what it means.
No...that wouldn't work, either. After all, all the Indian textbooks are copied from good, upstanding, published-in-the-good-old-USofA books, so they won't have anything about cheating in them, either... </sarcasm>
Weird. Chrome here, and it works fine. Of course, I'm not on Rogers, the ISP that packet inspects your traffic, to perform the "service" of telling you your computer is infected with malware before they ever get any complaints....
It would prevent them from seeing that you're a returning visitor, and while you were looking at computers last time, this time you're in sporting goods, looking at baseball bats to use on said computer. I'd imagine that would be the major benefit to these types of a system like this, rather than what you do within any given visit, which makes it a significant help against this type of system. Since it would also fill their databases with noise, it would make it much harder for them to get any useful information out of their system, making it beneficial not just to you, but to everyone who visits that store.
I've got a friend that used to be in the Army. He buried a Jeep once. Ran perfectly. He even drove it into the hole. Of course, I suppose it was the other guy with the bulldozer that didn't know it was there that *technically* did the burying... My buddy was actually just trying to hide it as a practical joke.......
Since this gun regulation conversation is overwhelmingly about firearms - as in, projectile weapons - I think it's fairly safe to assume that that's what the GP was talking about, rather than nuclear....
APK has multiple personalities. And they're all mentally unstable, and *desperate* for approval from a bunch of people who he claims to be better than.
It's other people that also think you're an irrational fuckhead that are modding you down, not me.
"My name's APK!!. I'm a compUTER GOD!!! I lost AN ARGUMENT really Badly over a YEAR AND A HALF AGO, and now I FEEL the need to troll and POST OFFTOPIC shit to current threads referencing WHAT HAPPENED in a thread from 2010, --> changing BITS TO suit my WARPED WORLDVIEW, and pReTeNd I didn't ---> LOSE. ---> but YOU SHOULD ALL MOD ME UP because I'm a compUTER GOD!!!"
Of course you're going to get modded down by everybody with more brainpower than you. (But I repeat myself...)
100 Watts in standby?! What the heck do you use for desktops? Hairdryers? Virtually *any* computer, regardless of age, shouldn't be using mpre than 10 Watts in standby. If it's using more than that, either its standby mode is broken by design, or it's just a broken computer.
So in order to start a second program in windowed mode, I have to get out of windowed mode, find the tile for the program I want to start, which is a much bigger pain in the Win 8 start screen* than it was in the start menu of Win 7, and start it, only to go back into windowed mode. Sure. That's an improvement.
*Why is it a bigger pain to find an app in the start screen? Because, while it's categorized in the same was as the Win 7 start menu was with folders, all the categories are fully expanded, with no way to collapse them. With Win 7, if I didn't want something in Accessories, I could leave the Accessories folder collapsed, and not deal with anything in it. With Win 8, I have to scroll through everything in the Accessories category before I can find the next category, lather, rinse, repeat, until I get to the folder/category I want.
Most pre-Win8 full screen applications don't make sense to run windowed. The one that's usually brought up by Metro proponents as an example is games. Ok...how often do I need to work on a Word document while I'm also killing pixels in Call of Duty? The attention required to not die in CoD means that I can't do anything else anyway, so running any less than full screen doesn't make sense. Image and Fax Viewer, OTOH, doesn't make any sense at all to be full screen, unless you're using it to display a slideshow, but it's a Metro app in Win8. I can't remember exactly what other included applications have been changed to apps in Win8, but I know there are a few.
I have no problem with using, or managing Windows.
However, the changes to the UI for Windows 8 are not for the better. They are a significant cause of lost productivity for any user who uses more than one program at once. As an example, the Image and Fax Viewer in Win 7 was a windowed component, just like every other component of Win 7. In Windows 8, it's a full screen Metro app. Now imagine the following use case: You're to look at an image, and type up a description of it. In Windows 7, you open the image in Image and Fax Viewer on one side of the screen, and your word processor on the other side, and type up your description, while looking at the image. In Windows 8, you open the image in Image and Fax Viewer, look at it for a while, swap to your word processor, type some, swap back to the image, look at it some more, swap back to your word processor, type some more, think "Crap...what direction was that piece facing," swap back to the image, check what you needed to, swap back to your word processor, etc.etc.etc.
See the problem? Windows 8 requires the installation of third party software to not be unreasonably inefficient, whereas Windows 7 (and virtually all other windowing OSs) can efficiently do the task without third party software.
Changing something to improve efficiency is fine. Changing it for purely marketing reasons that have a detrimental effect on efficiency for a large number of use cases is a bad thing. That's exactly what has happened with Windows 8.
Putting up with someone's poorly thought out, authoritarian design decisions, simply because using it is possible, even though less efficient than the past, says much more about you than it does about Windows, too.
I did, right here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3319303&cid=42307263 Now, read the subject-line of YOUR POST NOW, you illiterate ignoramus! What post is PARENT to yours & gave it its subject-line?? Mine/that very one!
You really have trouble following a thread, don't you? The parent post to mine was not your question. It didn't even claim to be you, although, I think it was yours; you just didn't put your name on it, as you wanted it to appear to be someone else who was supporting your asinine arguments.
The post I responded to was this:
The meaning's explicit directed at poster apk replied to. Obviously a question. You're obviously stupid or trolling.
Do you see your name at the end of that post? I don't. I'm pretty sure nobody else does, either. Well...maybe you do, but that would be your reality distortion field at work again.
In fact, it specifically refers to you in the third person, pretty definitively stating that it was NOT written by you.
Regardless of most of the world's opinion of your lack of mental capacity, incoherence, and incessant ramblings, every post in a thread that you've "contributed" to is neither a direct response to you, or a direct attack on you. Sometimes, responses are to people other than you. That's right. I know it's shocking to your ego, but not all human interaction on the planet has you as one of the parties. In fact, the vast, vast majority of it does not involve you at all, despite your best efforts.
Really? How does that "prove" anything, other than you do a lot of acid before you post? Your barely coherent ramblings cannot possibly prove or disprove anything that goes on outside your own little reality distortion field.
Explain it to the rest of us: How does that post of yours prove that I "ran?" Don't get into all sorts of other irrelevant, unrelated crap, just answer that simple question.
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There's that word..."probably."
A favourite of the pro-censorship crowd, it allows you to make an assumption about the situation, and then ban it based on the assumption......
You're both wrong. Everybody on here knows it should be:
In USA, they are teh suck!
Of course they can. That isn't a video game so it's perfectly acceptable.
Come on, don't you know it's *only* video games that could possibly affect children's minds?
"Spectacular" does not necessarily imply good or bad.
It's just something that's sensational or eye-catching.
I think this qualifies.
Obama? Leftist?
Errr...no.
On the world's political stage, the US Democrats are moderately right wing.
The Republicans are batshit-insane extreme right wing.
As far as world politics go, I'm somewhat conservative. The US Democrat party is slightly outside of my comfort zone to the right on a lot of things.
There *is* no left wing party in th US.
No, he took down JSTOR servers with excess traffic by running an overly aggressive and efficient web crawler against them,
If JSTOR's servers can be brought down by a single laptop, those servers are crap.
I don't care how fast the connection is between them, a single laptop should not have the processing power to bring down a server.
Choosing your freedom is *always* more dangerous. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, though.....
With a rooted phone this is no longer a problem. There's an app called Link2SD in the Play Store, and among other things, it allows you to integrate those system app updates into the original system, overwriting the older, unused one.
There are other space saving things it does, most of which only work if your phone is rooted.
I'm also working on a little app myself that will save a lot of space on the internal storage, but it's pretty low on my priority list right now.
Elsewhere, cheating is so unusual we have to read Indian textbooks to understand what it means.
No...that wouldn't work, either. After all, all the Indian textbooks are copied from good, upstanding, published-in-the-good-old-USofA books, so they won't have anything about cheating in them, either...
</sarcasm>
Weird. Chrome here, and it works fine. Of course, I'm not on Rogers, the ISP that packet inspects your traffic, to perform the "service" of telling you your computer is infected with malware before they ever get any complaints....
It would prevent them from seeing that you're a returning visitor, and while you were looking at computers last time, this time you're in sporting goods, looking at baseball bats to use on said computer.
I'd imagine that would be the major benefit to these types of a system like this, rather than what you do within any given visit, which makes it a significant help against this type of system.
Since it would also fill their databases with noise, it would make it much harder for them to get any useful information out of their system, making it beneficial not just to you, but to everyone who visits that store.
I've got a friend that used to be in the Army.
He buried a Jeep once. Ran perfectly. He even drove it into the hole.
Of course, I suppose it was the other guy with the bulldozer that didn't know it was there that *technically* did the burying...
My buddy was actually just trying to hide it as a practical joke.......
Since this gun regulation conversation is overwhelmingly about firearms - as in, projectile weapons - I think it's fairly safe to assume that that's what the GP was talking about, rather than nuclear....
APK has multiple personalities.
And they're all mentally unstable, and *desperate* for approval from a bunch of people who he claims to be better than.
Weird how that works, isn't it?
Hi, APK. Nice to see you.
That wound must really smart, for you to still be licking it after 18 months.......
You can't mod and post in the same thread, moron.
It's other people that also think you're an irrational fuckhead that are modding you down, not me.
"My name's APK!!. I'm a compUTER GOD!!!
I lost AN ARGUMENT really Badly over a YEAR AND A HALF AGO,
and now I FEEL the need to troll and POST OFFTOPIC shit to current threads referencing
WHAT HAPPENED in a thread from 2010, --> changing BITS TO
suit my WARPED WORLDVIEW, and pReTeNd I didn't ---> LOSE .
---> but YOU SHOULD ALL MOD ME UP because I'm a compUTER GOD!!!"
Of course you're going to get modded down by everybody with more brainpower than you.
(But I repeat myself...)
Big, freaking Whoooosh!
No.
"Your company"
100 Watts in standby?!
What the heck do you use for desktops? Hairdryers?
Virtually *any* computer, regardless of age, shouldn't be using mpre than 10 Watts in standby. If it's using more than that, either its standby mode is broken by design, or it's just a broken computer.
So in order to start a second program in windowed mode, I have to get out of windowed mode, find the tile for the program I want to start, which is a much bigger pain in the Win 8 start screen* than it was in the start menu of Win 7, and start it, only to go back into windowed mode. Sure. That's an improvement.
*Why is it a bigger pain to find an app in the start screen? Because, while it's categorized in the same was as the Win 7 start menu was with folders, all the categories are fully expanded, with no way to collapse them. With Win 7, if I didn't want something in Accessories, I could leave the Accessories folder collapsed, and not deal with anything in it. With Win 8, I have to scroll through everything in the Accessories category before I can find the next category, lather, rinse, repeat, until I get to the folder/category I want.
Most pre-Win8 full screen applications don't make sense to run windowed. The one that's usually brought up by Metro proponents as an example is games.
Ok...how often do I need to work on a Word document while I'm also killing pixels in Call of Duty? The attention required to not die in CoD means that I can't do anything else anyway, so running any less than full screen doesn't make sense.
Image and Fax Viewer, OTOH, doesn't make any sense at all to be full screen, unless you're using it to display a slideshow, but it's a Metro app in Win8. I can't remember exactly what other included applications have been changed to apps in Win8, but I know there are a few.
I have no problem with using, or managing Windows.
However, the changes to the UI for Windows 8 are not for the better. They are a significant cause of lost productivity for any user who uses more than one program at once.
As an example, the Image and Fax Viewer in Win 7 was a windowed component, just like every other component of Win 7.
In Windows 8, it's a full screen Metro app.
Now imagine the following use case:
You're to look at an image, and type up a description of it.
In Windows 7, you open the image in Image and Fax Viewer on one side of the screen, and your word processor on the other side, and type up your description, while looking at the image.
In Windows 8, you open the image in Image and Fax Viewer, look at it for a while, swap to your word processor, type some, swap back to the image, look at it some more, swap back to your word processor, type some more, think "Crap...what direction was that piece facing," swap back to the image, check what you needed to, swap back to your word processor, etc.etc.etc.
See the problem? Windows 8 requires the installation of third party software to not be unreasonably inefficient, whereas Windows 7 (and virtually all other windowing OSs) can efficiently do the task without third party software.
Changing something to improve efficiency is fine. Changing it for purely marketing reasons that have a detrimental effect on efficiency for a large number of use cases is a bad thing. That's exactly what has happened with Windows 8.
Putting up with someone's poorly thought out, authoritarian design decisions, simply because using it is possible, even though less efficient than the past, says much more about you than it does about Windows, too.
So why would the tablet companies bother putting in a feature (dual screen) that 99% of users wouldn't even know CAN be used, let alone want to?
For the same reason that Microsoft puts the security policy MMC console into every version of Windows?
I did, right here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3319303&cid=42307263 Now, read the subject-line of YOUR POST NOW, you illiterate ignoramus! What post is PARENT to yours & gave it its subject-line?? Mine/that very one!
You really have trouble following a thread, don't you?
The parent post to mine was not your question. It didn't even claim to be you, although, I think it was yours; you just didn't put your name on it, as you wanted it to appear to be someone else who was supporting your asinine arguments.
The post I responded to was this:
The meaning's explicit directed at poster apk replied to. Obviously a question. You're obviously stupid or trolling.
from here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3319303&cid=42308455
Do you see your name at the end of that post? I don't. I'm pretty sure nobody else does, either. Well...maybe you do, but that would be your reality distortion field at work again.
In fact, it specifically refers to you in the third person, pretty definitively stating that it was NOT written by you.
Regardless of most of the world's opinion of your lack of mental capacity, incoherence, and incessant ramblings, every post in a thread that you've "contributed" to is neither a direct response to you, or a direct attack on you. Sometimes, responses are to people other than you. That's right. I know it's shocking to your ego, but not all human interaction on the planet has you as one of the parties. In fact, the vast, vast majority of it does not involve you at all, despite your best efforts.
"I didn't run." - by cbiltcliffe (186293) on Thursday December 20, @08:55PM (#42355183) Homepage
This proves QUITE otherwise -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3319303&cid=42360301
Really? How does that "prove" anything, other than you do a lot of acid before you post?
Your barely coherent ramblings cannot possibly prove or disprove anything that goes on outside your own little reality distortion field.
Explain it to the rest of us: How does that post of yours prove that I "ran?"
Don't get into all sorts of other irrelevant, unrelated crap, just answer that simple question.