It doesn't matter whether man-made warming is real. It does get warmer, and the other riders of the apocalypse, namely storm, water and drought, are riding in in its wake. And oh, will they ever bring along the biblical set. With this in mind, it is our (as in mankind's) responsibility as a whole, to at least minimise our part in it, however small it may be. It is a fact that the enormous quantities of pollutants we release need to go somewhere, and that they do something, wherever they go. Those effects pose an incalculable risk to life on the planet.
So, no matter what lobbyists from either side of the fence may say, ignoring the problem (which is pretty real) is, as always, not the way to go. Governments and individuals are denying the greenhouse effect on various pretenses, which may even be valid in some ways. But when looking at The Big Picture, everyone who has not taken the short bus with the leaky exhaust, will clearly see a not so pleasant future that we may avoid by doing something, but that will definitely make life a lot less pleasant in the forseeable future if ignored.
I, personally, just hope that I will have a gun handy the day it gets too bad.
So EA/Dice has a really unstable, memory- and processor time-hogging bastard of an engine that'd barely run well even if it had exclusive hardware access, now they want to run more and really nasty stuff too? They just could have made a new game instead of an overhyped, overpriced and unnecessary mod. That's one more copany I won't be buying from anymore.
This crash was brought to you by Dodge. Buy bigger cars.
... is zero. And until some video components fail and are replaced by components that happen to have one or more, that's not gonna change. The same goes for the HD prefix alone. Simply put, I don't need HD for watching my Babylon 5 DVDs, and the absolute crap that's available in HD isn't really an argument either. And I'm also pretty sure that we will see a new "standard" connector that's incompatible with HDMI hit the market before 2009, making all those precious HDMI devices useless.
A nice thing is that ATI's solution could do a lot of stuff with existing chips and PCBs, but with less chips on them. You don't need DVI transmitters, no RAMDACs, no display connectors. All you need is a really stripped-down card, which gets you a physics accelerator with a somewhat "open" interface. That would also mean a lot of aftermarket cooling solutions, which is obviously a plus for a lot of "enthusiasts" (well, I'd say "lunatics in a good way").
I remember seeing a movie FX specialist shortly after the thing, saying that they could never have used stuff like that in even a crummy TV series. He said that the effects just weren't credible. (I also remember Tom Clancy saying the first sensible thing in the CNN coverage.)
It could mean that Blizzard is expecting a rather massive drop in player numbers and may need to reduce the number of servers. They will transfer characters to other servers at random and then need that feature to let people get back together with their guildmates. Of course, it needs not be Free Beer, but that's probably just my paranoia speaking.
If you have no patience for n00bs, at least don't let anyone else know it as it might discourage a n00b from asking someone who is patient enough to answer the really basic questions.
I have patience for noobs, just not for the really lazy ones.
Not OK: "I am new to all this, could you please tell me what I have to do?"
That's how everyone begins the journey into the Linux world. Or in any other world, for that matter. You know the old saying: if you want loyalty and respect from others, you have to give it.
Yes, but.
Fact is that, for most "new" things, ther's already a boatload of tutorials, HOWTOs and discussions out there that aren't that hard to find. If you ask for pointers to those, you will get your share of justfuckinggoogleit links, but decent people use the query function of that site. There is little to no need to ask for the n+1(st|nd|rd|th) reincarnation of an existing document. If you have questions after reading that stuff, then ask them intelligently. That will earn you some respect. If people see that you invested time to try and understand what's already there, they'll flame you on a much more advanced level. They will start dropping hints between expletives. That doesn't go for Linux or other seemingly advanced OSs alone. Ask stupid questions (and yes, those do exist), and you will get stupid answers. Ask not-so-stupid questions, and you will get stupid answers as well, but you will also get insightful ones.
Hell, if you want to see a somewhat dated rant of mine on a similar topic, have a look at my homepage.
OK: "In TFM, it says that I have to "put the desired screen resolution into the configuration file". Does that refer to the file/etc/foo/bar.conf, where I should put 'Resolution 800x600' in the section [screen], which was the only thing I could find but which does not seem to do anything?"
Not OK: "I am new to all this, could you please tell me what I have to do?"
At least act as if you had made a little effort to solve the problem yourself, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time.
Hell, I try not to be a snob, but by now every dimwit who apparently can't even understand error messages with possible solutions in plain human language in them makes me want to shoot people.
Some people just deserve to be STFU'd out of discussion threads, but sadly they're also really good at raising a stink about it, and sadly someone will spoonfeed them even the last detail. There's nothing wrong with asking questions, not even partly stupid ones, but if someone expects to get cuddled through clicking "OK" five times in a row (yes, some programs are there) because they're too lazy to read what's on the screen and at least try to look up the parts they don't understand, that's wasting everyone's time.
Perhaps you can think of it as some kind of initiation ritual. If you ask a question, and get "Hi jackass, RTFM and stop wasting our time trying to help you children learn." as an answer, you can think of that in several ways:
You can start crying, turn away and never look back
You can keep up the siprit, and reply with "Up yours, buttface."
You can think about whether your question is indeed answered in TFM.
In case the answer to that last point is "yes", then you can still go with option 2, and be done with it. There are jerks everywhere, and if you can't handle it you might as well get your rifle, climb up a tower and start the spree. If the answer is "no", then you can still go with option 2, add that buttface doesn't know what he's talking about and see if there is with half a brain left on the list. Perhaps send buttface a more elaborate personal message on the subject, since people could find that stuff in the archives otherwise (a "buttface" neutralizes a "jackass", your goal should be an overall flaming score of zero or lower).
This is kind of paranoid. It's like saying that after looking at, say, the Linux source for some drivers, you can never write a closed-source driver, or that you can never, ever write a game after having your hands at the TuxRacer source (or even after downloading the source, it's the thought that counts).
Try this page. Firefox et al. give the intended result, with the grey box only around the "Menu / Menu entry" lines and the Heading line on white background with a grey border at its bottom. The IE7 beta extends the grey background to the first heading.
This seems to be the result of an "empty" div element with only a newline in it (lines 18/19 in the page source), which is inside the block with the dark background color. If its not there, at least that looks fine.
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That does not matter. Just because a bad trend has natural causes doesn't mean that we need to support it.
Without reading TFA:
It doesn't matter whether man-made warming is real. It does get warmer, and the other riders of the apocalypse, namely storm, water and drought, are riding in in its wake. And oh, will they ever bring along the biblical set. With this in mind, it is our (as in mankind's) responsibility as a whole, to at least minimise our part in it, however small it may be. It is a fact that the enormous quantities of pollutants we release need to go somewhere, and that they do something, wherever they go. Those effects pose an incalculable risk to life on the planet.
So, no matter what lobbyists from either side of the fence may say, ignoring the problem (which is pretty real) is, as always, not the way to go. Governments and individuals are denying the greenhouse effect on various pretenses, which may even be valid in some ways. But when looking at The Big Picture, everyone who has not taken the short bus with the leaky exhaust, will clearly see a not so pleasant future that we may avoid by doing something, but that will definitely make life a lot less pleasant in the forseeable future if ignored.
I, personally, just hope that I will have a gun handy the day it gets too bad.
So EA/Dice has a really unstable, memory- and processor time-hogging bastard of an engine that'd barely run well even if it had exclusive hardware access, now they want to run more and really nasty stuff too? They just could have made a new game instead of an overhyped, overpriced and unnecessary mod. That's one more copany I won't be buying from anymore.
This crash was brought to you by Dodge. Buy bigger cars.
... is zero. And until some video components fail and are replaced by components that happen to have one or more, that's not gonna change. The same goes for the HD prefix alone. Simply put, I don't need HD for watching my Babylon 5 DVDs, and the absolute crap that's available in HD isn't really an argument either. And I'm also pretty sure that we will see a new "standard" connector that's incompatible with HDMI hit the market before 2009, making all those precious HDMI devices useless.
Still no inline-block, and broken XMLHttpRequest. (Bugzilla links, so block those referrers.)
What's up Amy? Have you swallowed your cellphone again?
That would mean that I could actually fight those ssh bruteforce zombies that apparently make up 95% of KorNET.
A nice thing is that ATI's solution could do a lot of stuff with existing chips and PCBs, but with less chips on them. You don't need DVI transmitters, no RAMDACs, no display connectors. All you need is a really stripped-down card, which gets you a physics accelerator with a somewhat "open" interface. That would also mean a lot of aftermarket cooling solutions, which is obviously a plus for a lot of "enthusiasts" (well, I'd say "lunatics in a good way").
Consider it outside the context.
"NUJ advises boycott of 'unethical' Yahoo!"
It sounds to me like they were offended by some yokel publically masturbating in his front yard.
OTOH, so is asking most slashdot readers for their opinion on politics. Or emotions.
I remember seeing a movie FX specialist shortly after the thing, saying that they could never have used stuff like that in even a crummy TV series. He said that the effects just weren't credible. (I also remember Tom Clancy saying the first sensible thing in the CNN coverage.)
Well, it doesn't seem like they were paying too much for server upkeep... ;-)
It could mean that Blizzard is expecting a rather massive drop in player numbers and may need to reduce the number of servers. They will transfer characters to other servers at random and then need that feature to let people get back together with their guildmates. Of course, it needs not be Free Beer, but that's probably just my paranoia speaking.
Am I the only one who's getting a broken USAF flash ad that "leaks" over a part of the article due to borked transparency?
It seems that they're really pulling off the "still no CSS" stunt. Too bad. Also, IE7 still tries to download properly served XHTML. What a failure.
I have patience for noobs, just not for the really lazy ones.
Yes, but.
Fact is that, for most "new" things, ther's already a boatload of tutorials, HOWTOs and discussions out there that aren't that hard to find. If you ask for pointers to those, you will get your share of justfuckinggoogleit links, but decent people use the query function of that site. There is little to no need to ask for the n+1(st|nd|rd|th) reincarnation of an existing document. If you have questions after reading that stuff, then ask them intelligently. That will earn you some respect. If people see that you invested time to try and understand what's already there, they'll flame you on a much more advanced level. They will start dropping hints between expletives. That doesn't go for Linux or other seemingly advanced OSs alone. Ask stupid questions (and yes, those do exist), and you will get stupid answers. Ask not-so-stupid questions, and you will get stupid answers as well, but you will also get insightful ones.
Hell, if you want to see a somewhat dated rant of mine on a similar topic, have a look at my homepage.
Congratulations, you completely missed the point.
OK: "In TFM, it says that I have to "put the desired screen resolution into the configuration file". Does that refer to the file /etc/foo/bar.conf, where I should put 'Resolution 800x600' in the section [screen], which was the only thing I could find but which does not seem to do anything?"
Not OK: "I am new to all this, could you please tell me what I have to do?"
At least act as if you had made a little effort to solve the problem yourself, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time.
Hell, I try not to be a snob, but by now every dimwit who apparently can't even understand error messages with possible solutions in plain human language in them makes me want to shoot people.
Some people just deserve to be STFU'd out of discussion threads, but sadly they're also really good at raising a stink about it, and sadly someone will spoonfeed them even the last detail. There's nothing wrong with asking questions, not even partly stupid ones, but if someone expects to get cuddled through clicking "OK" five times in a row (yes, some programs are there) because they're too lazy to read what's on the screen and at least try to look up the parts they don't understand, that's wasting everyone's time.
Perhaps you can think of it as some kind of initiation ritual. If you ask a question, and get "Hi jackass, RTFM and stop wasting our time trying to help you children learn." as an answer, you can think of that in several ways:
In case the answer to that last point is "yes", then you can still go with option 2, and be done with it. There are jerks everywhere, and if you can't handle it you might as well get your rifle, climb up a tower and start the spree. If the answer is "no", then you can still go with option 2, add that buttface doesn't know what he's talking about and see if there is with half a brain left on the list. Perhaps send buttface a more elaborate personal message on the subject, since people could find that stuff in the archives otherwise (a "buttface" neutralizes a "jackass", your goal should be an overall flaming score of zero or lower).
But only if they find someone to contest the patent...
Bug 9458 (referrer block for links from slash), "Implement inline-block in layout" hast its 7th birthday coming up.
This is kind of paranoid. It's like saying that after looking at, say, the Linux source for some drivers, you can never write a closed-source driver, or that you can never, ever write a game after having your hands at the TuxRacer source (or even after downloading the source, it's the thought that counts).
A properly cooled SLI rig would use four slots... Those thin stock coolers are (1) loud as hell and (2) don't work.
Why that would be a bad idea? Well, Apple would lose its iDentity.
SCNR.
Try this page. Firefox et al. give the intended result, with the grey box only around the "Menu / Menu entry" lines and the Heading line on white background with a grey border at its bottom. The IE7 beta extends the grey background to the first heading.
This seems to be the result of an "empty" div element with only a newline in it (lines 18/19 in the page source), which is inside the block with the dark background color. If its not there, at least that looks fine.
Damn cut&paste. The h1 is inside a div with a different class.