I remember Mozilla and its slowness and seemingly hundreds of configuration options that I didn't care about. It was like they were trying to fit every possible feature into the software. Then I tried Phoenix and it was so much more pleasant to use, even at that young stage. I'm happy to see Firefox has survived this long and remains, for the most part, as great to use now as those early days.
According to the article it is the "jumping onto water without sinking" which was baffling, not the walking part, which, as you pointed out, has been understood for some time.
Well, unlike the other folks here, I agree with you. The "Black Box" was the set that contained only the three games you mentioned. Valve eliminated it because stores apparently didn't want two SKUs for basically the same thing. The list price for the three we don't have is $80, but consider that Episode 2 is priced $10 (50%!) higher than Episode 1, and the other two games are arguably $5-$10 higher than similar products in the past. I probably won't play TF2 much just because I don't have time for multiplayer anymore. Who knows how much of a game Portal is. I've prepurchased all the new Valve games in the past, but this time it's just a little hard for me to swallow. I may actually wait for reviews this time before purchasing. If someone else feels like they get the value out of it, then fine, but I'm not sure I will.
Argh, you've hit it on the head: "Good enough." I have to admit I was entertained by the movie, but it definitely is not at the same level as the original. I feel like Disney makes this mistake all the time; they'll occasionally hit on a great movie, but then they reduce it to a formula and produce sequels or imitations with the formula. I can just imagine the Disney producers sitting down with a bunch of kids and asked them what they thought of the movie. They said, "oh the CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow things was funny" or "I really liked the whole 'rum is gone' thing" or whatever, and they just wrote all these little jokes or gags into the DMC and expect people to eat it up. I could stand a few of them, but the recycled stuff made up a majority of the movie. Unfortunately Disney is just trying to make money, and I don't think the people making the decisions truly understand what makes a good movie. PoTC:DMC was entertaining, but it could have been SO much better. Is that franchise not successful enough to take a little risk?
Agreed. It was the first gaming mag I found whose reviews mirrored my own opinions, so I always felt I could trust them. They also had (have?) good writing.
It's not stopping these people. Their first game may be a good test of the market. They've pulled in some talented people to make the game (creative content) so they're above amateurs, but....well, I can't bring myself to download the 234MB demo for a 640x480 adventure game. Maybe it's worth it and I should just give it a try.
Wow, good point. Though I suppose it's possible they would pay for Oracle licensing, though I wonder if it works with the Oracle personal edition database in order to try it out.
Sorry if it wasn't clear...The vote numbers I posted were from the authorization to use force in Iraq approved by Congress on Oct 11, 2002 which I thought was an unfair comparison to the Kyoto vote.
What about this: 0 extremely critical of 22 vulnerabilities and 4 still unpatched for Firefox versus 10 extremely critical of 69 vulnerabilities and 19 still unpatched for IE 6.
I'm not saying Firefox doesn't have its issues, but be careful with statistics.
You're totally right dude. I'm sorry you got marked a troll. I think the "enlighted" slashdot crowd gets blinded too easily by hatred of Bush that they don't think through what actually happened.
73 mph winds are nothing? Is that why "mere" 55-63 mph winds "uproot trees" and "cause considerable structural damage? New Orleans experienced 140 mph winds. Flooding indeed caused the most destruction in New Orleans, because much of the city is below sea level and because the levees broke. But they broke because of the strain from the rain and winds and storm surge. Caused by being hit by a hurricane. Cloud cover for Katrina was as large as Mississippi and Alabama combined, and there was a lot of rain in all of that. A direct result is flooding, which is just as much a part of the hurricane as the storm center. Several of your points about the flooding are mostly fine, it just really bugs me that an "Interesting" and "Insightful" comment begins with "New Orleans wasn't hit by a hurricane"--that simply is not true.
They DID get hit with a hurricane! They didn't get hit by the eye (though it came fairly close), nor did they get the most powerful northeast quarter of the storm, but this made landfall as a Cat 4 storm. That's incredibly powerful, and hurricane force winds could be felt in New Orleans and across three states! So it did not 'pass safely by' I'm afraid.
I'm no electrical expert either...but yeah, you're right, there would be big losses. The problem with a *laser* printer is not the motors, but the damn fuser. It's an electric heater. I've seen references to a laser printer drawing 5 amps when the heater kicks on. Even if you could somehow wire a battery to run the fuser (possible?) and avoid AC-DC conversion, how long could it run the fuser's heater (and up to 395 deg F)?? The printer wouldn't run if the fuser's not up to temp either.
Plugging a laser printer into a typical UPS and somehow "hiding" a battery inside the laser printer are two completely different things.
They aren't quite the same, but if a UPS battery can't handle it, then I doubt some kind of internal battery could. You talking about AC vs DC as the biggest difference?
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check out this Slashdot story about Phoenix 0.2: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/10/07/1739241.shtml
I remember Mozilla and its slowness and seemingly hundreds of configuration options that I didn't care about. It was like they were trying to fit every possible feature into the software. Then I tried Phoenix and it was so much more pleasant to use, even at that young stage. I'm happy to see Firefox has survived this long and remains, for the most part, as great to use now as those early days.
According to the article it is the "jumping onto water without sinking" which was baffling, not the walking part, which, as you pointed out, has been understood for some time.
Well, unlike the other folks here, I agree with you. The "Black Box" was the set that contained only the three games you mentioned. Valve eliminated it because stores apparently didn't want two SKUs for basically the same thing. The list price for the three we don't have is $80, but consider that Episode 2 is priced $10 (50%!) higher than Episode 1, and the other two games are arguably $5-$10 higher than similar products in the past. I probably won't play TF2 much just because I don't have time for multiplayer anymore. Who knows how much of a game Portal is. I've prepurchased all the new Valve games in the past, but this time it's just a little hard for me to swallow. I may actually wait for reviews this time before purchasing. If someone else feels like they get the value out of it, then fine, but I'm not sure I will.
Argh, you've hit it on the head: "Good enough." I have to admit I was entertained by the movie, but it definitely is not at the same level as the original. I feel like Disney makes this mistake all the time; they'll occasionally hit on a great movie, but then they reduce it to a formula and produce sequels or imitations with the formula. I can just imagine the Disney producers sitting down with a bunch of kids and asked them what they thought of the movie. They said, "oh the CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow things was funny" or "I really liked the whole 'rum is gone' thing" or whatever, and they just wrote all these little jokes or gags into the DMC and expect people to eat it up. I could stand a few of them, but the recycled stuff made up a majority of the movie. Unfortunately Disney is just trying to make money, and I don't think the people making the decisions truly understand what makes a good movie. PoTC:DMC was entertaining, but it could have been SO much better. Is that franchise not successful enough to take a little risk?
Agreed. It was the first gaming mag I found whose reviews mirrored my own opinions, so I always felt I could trust them. They also had (have?) good writing.
It's not stopping these people. Their first game may be a good test of the market. They've pulled in some talented people to make the game (creative content) so they're above amateurs, but....well, I can't bring myself to download the 234MB demo for a 640x480 adventure game. Maybe it's worth it and I should just give it a try.
Wow, good point. Though I suppose it's possible they would pay for Oracle licensing, though I wonder if it works with the Oracle personal edition database in order to try it out.
Have a look at Compiere ERP. I haven't used it, but it's a very active project on Sourceforge, and it's free.
I was thinking the same thing. Good point.
Well, I guess it already is out. Guess they got their announcement mixed up.
The security update will be available at 2:00 pm PT as MS06-001. In any case, I'm glad to see Microsoft listening to customers and security advocates to release before the regular monthly patch date.
Sorry if it wasn't clear...The vote numbers I posted were from the authorization to use force in Iraq approved by Congress on Oct 11, 2002 which I thought was an unfair comparison to the Kyoto vote.
77-23 in Senate and 296-133 in House is as one-sided as 100-0 or 99-1?? That's a clear majority, but not quite "one-sided."
ConTEXT!! Of course, it's not text mode.
Do the pillows look like this?
Then we send out the exploding whales to take out the robot sharks.
And we all know what happens then, right?
What about this:
0 extremely critical of 22 vulnerabilities and 4 still unpatched for Firefox
versus
10 extremely critical of 69 vulnerabilities and 19 still unpatched for IE 6.
I'm not saying Firefox doesn't have its issues, but be careful with statistics.
You're totally right dude. I'm sorry you got marked a troll. I think the "enlighted" slashdot crowd gets blinded too easily by hatred of Bush that they don't think through what actually happened.
73 mph winds are nothing? Is that why "mere" 55-63 mph winds "uproot trees" and "cause considerable structural damage? New Orleans experienced 140 mph winds.
Flooding indeed caused the most destruction in New Orleans, because much of the city is below sea level and because the levees broke. But they broke because of the strain from the rain and winds and storm surge. Caused by being hit by a hurricane.
Cloud cover for Katrina was as large as Mississippi and Alabama combined, and there was a lot of rain in all of that. A direct result is flooding, which is just as much a part of the hurricane as the storm center.
Several of your points about the flooding are mostly fine, it just really bugs me that an "Interesting" and "Insightful" comment begins with "New Orleans wasn't hit by a hurricane"--that simply is not true.
They DID get hit with a hurricane! They didn't get hit by the eye (though it came fairly close), nor did they get the most powerful northeast quarter of the storm, but this made landfall as a Cat 4 storm. That's incredibly powerful, and hurricane force winds could be felt in New Orleans and across three states! So it did not 'pass safely by' I'm afraid.
Ah, the Wire.
This suggests first usage in that way in 1701.
I'm no electrical expert either...but yeah, you're right, there would be big losses.
The problem with a *laser* printer is not the motors, but the damn fuser. It's an electric heater. I've seen references to a laser printer drawing 5 amps when the heater kicks on. Even if you could somehow wire a battery to run the fuser (possible?) and avoid AC-DC conversion, how long could it run the fuser's heater (and up to 395 deg F)?? The printer wouldn't run if the fuser's not up to temp either.
Plugging a laser printer into a typical UPS and somehow "hiding" a battery inside the laser printer are two completely different things.
They aren't quite the same, but if a UPS battery can't handle it, then I doubt some kind of internal battery could. You talking about AC vs DC as the biggest difference?
Uh, why don't you try plugging a laser printer into a a typical UPS and tell me what happens.