SupCom had an ok implementation for a second monitor. Instead of normal RTS games with a tiny mini-map, your second monitor essentially functioned as a full-screen mini-map. That you could zoom in on. And give orders on. You couldn't do everything on the second monitor that you could on the main, but it was a huge leap forward from traditional RTS mini-maps.
In addition to what other commenters said about the passing lane only being used for passing, it is possible to get a ticket for going too slow even if you're exceeding the speed limit - it all depends on the flow of traffic
I was stopped at a traffic light during my morning commute when I watched a woman in the lane next to me slowly roll into the Lexus in front of her, then back off. The Lexus (male driver) then reversed and gently bumped into her. I can only hope they at least knew each other, but even then I wouldn't be playing gentle bumper cars given how touchy some airbag sensors can be.
Around here, it's mostly Lexus and Prius owners that are total dicks. BMW owners are a mixed bag depending which suburb you're in. Newer Buick owners tend to just be horrible drivers, but that may be because they remember when flint was discovered.
The same could be said of naturally bred horses. If you have enough money, you can just keep breeding the best together, weed out the unsuccessful ones and still have a whole lot of very good stock to train with plenty of "spares".
That's the way I understand it - as long as there's no genetic engineering going on, just a direct copy, then it's still no different than any other horse.
If it's malware that could spread and infect other PCs, then the government may need to intervene above and beyond simply notifying people. It's not too different than doing something "for the public health". I'm usually all for the government being hands-off, but if they can help stop malware from spreading to my machines (or worse yet, my mother's) and it doesn't cost me too much more as a taxpayer, then I'm all for them. However, I'd rather see them take the Obamacare approach here and "tax" people who choose to let their machine potentially harm others.
"Taking the Cornficker virus as another recent example of computer malware, Vixie predicts an uncertain future where computer users don't understand or simply don't care about the risks involved."
Cornficker is related to the Conficker malware, but prefers to fick it's victims with vegetables instead. Many vicitms did not mind.
I just bought a smartphone with a slideout keyboard seven months ago. It has great tactile feedback, as I mostly got it for email (the only 'smart' thing I really got the phone for anyway). And yes, you can dial numbers from the slideout keypad - the learning curve is only a tiny bit sharper than a traditional 'dumb' phone for making calls on tactile feedback alone. It sounds like you just suck at shopping around to find exactly what you want.
6,901 + unstated number of Pioneer Laseractive and PC-FX.
Let's assume 7,000 in total. If you spent just 30 minutes on each game and played 8 hours a day, every day, it would take approximately 62.5 weeks to play them all.
I'll gladly go to a site with 50 comments making a quality discussion and just read without commenting rather than going to a site with 5000 comments, most of which are people that never read the article or are completely offtopic.
That said, I don't know why the hell I'm on Slashdot.
He did three semesters for a Bachelors and Masters degree together. If my experience in getting a Bachelors is the same as his, then that sounds about right for taking all the courses necessary to learn research and critical thinking - the rest were pretty much just "here's the information, now regurgitate it!" courses. Besides, if the tests were any good, they'd evaluate his critical thinking skills - so if he already had those skills, then yes, he could test out of those courses too.
That was how my college viewed the laptops purchased through the school. They were supposed to be paid along with the tuition bill over four semesters, but nearly half of the freshmen didn't make it past the second semester but still kept the laptop. The school would send a letter to them saying to return the laptop, pay the money or possibly face legal action. It usually didn't work, but the school made up for it by charging everyone $2500 for a laptop that would have been around $1500 retail (including three year warranty).
"This story really hits home because the same thing happened to me. I finished early, yet was still expected to pay the full fee. In fairness, I should point out it was with a hooker instead of a University. But it's kind of the same thing... right?"
Not sure about Germany, but around here they charge by the credit hour for part time (typically under 12 credit hours per semester), and anything considered "full time" (12+ credits/semester) is under a flat "full time" tuition rate. However, at least at my college, we had to get special permission to take more than 18 credits per semester (15 was considered normal, but I know this varies a lot from college to college). I wanted to get my degree is four semesters, but my advisor made me do it in six (eight is the "ideal" for a four-year degree).
Not to mention that XP, Vista and 7, Office, etc all had features that were copied by competitors. Just because the final product isn't OMFGAMAZING!!! doesn't mean it didn't contain some good innovations.
I've always wondered if this is why my last two "American made" cars had a weird mix of imperial and metric bolts. My current car is a Hyundai that was built in Alabama and it also has a mix of Imperial and metric bolts, although mostly metric.
A somewhat valid point. At what point do we consider something "made"? Google is going with the final assembly. However, if we go a step back to all of the final parts, just before they're put together as one, then they're from all over. And I'm sure those individual parts have smaller parts that were either partially made elsewhere yet, or else the raw materials are from all over the place.
I use multiple monitors at once, so it's nice to have Netflix playing on one monitor while I'm working on the others. I don't like to fullscreen it (either through Netflix or through F11 with Chrome) because I like having the browser controls there just in case I need to move it to a different monitor, close it, etc quickly so Chrome's natural minimalist UI gives Netflix plenty of screen space. It's not my main browser (I'm an Opera guy... possibly the only one in the state), so I don't have it open all the time. Chrome's really quick load time and quick video load time make it great for opening to watch a quick video on Netflix, fire up Pandora, etc. In my personal experience, it also has the least issues with videos not playing properly, crashing, etc. It's really all personal preference based partially on how I use my PC's different monitors.
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SupCom had an ok implementation for a second monitor. Instead of normal RTS games with a tiny mini-map, your second monitor essentially functioned as a full-screen mini-map. That you could zoom in on. And give orders on. You couldn't do everything on the second monitor that you could on the main, but it was a huge leap forward from traditional RTS mini-maps.
In addition to what other commenters said about the passing lane only being used for passing, it is possible to get a ticket for going too slow even if you're exceeding the speed limit - it all depends on the flow of traffic
I was stopped at a traffic light during my morning commute when I watched a woman in the lane next to me slowly roll into the Lexus in front of her, then back off. The Lexus (male driver) then reversed and gently bumped into her. I can only hope they at least knew each other, but even then I wouldn't be playing gentle bumper cars given how touchy some airbag sensors can be.
Around here, it's mostly Lexus and Prius owners that are total dicks. BMW owners are a mixed bag depending which suburb you're in. Newer Buick owners tend to just be horrible drivers, but that may be because they remember when flint was discovered.
The same could be said of naturally bred horses. If you have enough money, you can just keep breeding the best together, weed out the unsuccessful ones and still have a whole lot of very good stock to train with plenty of "spares".
That's the way I understand it - as long as there's no genetic engineering going on, just a direct copy, then it's still no different than any other horse.
If it's malware that could spread and infect other PCs, then the government may need to intervene above and beyond simply notifying people. It's not too different than doing something "for the public health". I'm usually all for the government being hands-off, but if they can help stop malware from spreading to my machines (or worse yet, my mother's) and it doesn't cost me too much more as a taxpayer, then I'm all for them. However, I'd rather see them take the Obamacare approach here and "tax" people who choose to let their machine potentially harm others.
"Taking the Cornficker virus as another recent example of computer malware, Vixie predicts an uncertain future where computer users don't understand or simply don't care about the risks involved."
Cornficker is related to the Conficker malware, but prefers to fick it's victims with vegetables instead. Many vicitms did not mind.
I just bought a smartphone with a slideout keyboard seven months ago. It has great tactile feedback, as I mostly got it for email (the only 'smart' thing I really got the phone for anyway). And yes, you can dial numbers from the slideout keypad - the learning curve is only a tiny bit sharper than a traditional 'dumb' phone for making calls on tactile feedback alone. It sounds like you just suck at shopping around to find exactly what you want.
Most of them are older games, so even 7,000 games would probably fit on a modest sized thumb drive.
6,901 + unstated number of Pioneer Laseractive and PC-FX.
Let's assume 7,000 in total. If you spent just 30 minutes on each game and played 8 hours a day, every day, it would take approximately 62.5 weeks to play them all.
I hear one of them was given a Surface tablet to use in place of his newspaper. The fly never saw it coming.
They have their cake, now they'd just like to eat it.
But which one had better quality?
I'll gladly go to a site with 50 comments making a quality discussion and just read without commenting rather than going to a site with 5000 comments, most of which are people that never read the article or are completely offtopic.
That said, I don't know why the hell I'm on Slashdot.
He did three semesters for a Bachelors and Masters degree together. If my experience in getting a Bachelors is the same as his, then that sounds about right for taking all the courses necessary to learn research and critical thinking - the rest were pretty much just "here's the information, now regurgitate it!" courses. Besides, if the tests were any good, they'd evaluate his critical thinking skills - so if he already had those skills, then yes, he could test out of those courses too.
That was how my college viewed the laptops purchased through the school. They were supposed to be paid along with the tuition bill over four semesters, but nearly half of the freshmen didn't make it past the second semester but still kept the laptop. The school would send a letter to them saying to return the laptop, pay the money or possibly face legal action. It usually didn't work, but the school made up for it by charging everyone $2500 for a laptop that would have been around $1500 retail (including three year warranty).
Best comment from the original article:
"This story really hits home because the same thing happened to me. I finished early, yet was still expected to pay the full fee. In fairness, I should point out it was with a hooker instead of a University. But it's kind of the same thing... right?"
Not sure about Germany, but around here they charge by the credit hour for part time (typically under 12 credit hours per semester), and anything considered "full time" (12+ credits/semester) is under a flat "full time" tuition rate. However, at least at my college, we had to get special permission to take more than 18 credits per semester (15 was considered normal, but I know this varies a lot from college to college). I wanted to get my degree is four semesters, but my advisor made me do it in six (eight is the "ideal" for a four-year degree).
Not to mention that XP, Vista and 7, Office, etc all had features that were copied by competitors. Just because the final product isn't OMFGAMAZING!!! doesn't mean it didn't contain some good innovations.
They were confused by a Led Zeppelin mp3. Besides, too much digital music can lead to deaf leopards.
I've always wondered if this is why my last two "American made" cars had a weird mix of imperial and metric bolts. My current car is a Hyundai that was built in Alabama and it also has a mix of Imperial and metric bolts, although mostly metric.
Designed in California, Assembled in Wisconsin, Parts from Asia, Raw Materials from All Over The Fscking Place
A somewhat valid point. At what point do we consider something "made"? Google is going with the final assembly. However, if we go a step back to all of the final parts, just before they're put together as one, then they're from all over. And I'm sure those individual parts have smaller parts that were either partially made elsewhere yet, or else the raw materials are from all over the place.
I use multiple monitors at once, so it's nice to have Netflix playing on one monitor while I'm working on the others. I don't like to fullscreen it (either through Netflix or through F11 with Chrome) because I like having the browser controls there just in case I need to move it to a different monitor, close it, etc quickly so Chrome's natural minimalist UI gives Netflix plenty of screen space. It's not my main browser (I'm an Opera guy... possibly the only one in the state), so I don't have it open all the time. Chrome's really quick load time and quick video load time make it great for opening to watch a quick video on Netflix, fire up Pandora, etc. In my personal experience, it also has the least issues with videos not playing properly, crashing, etc. It's really all personal preference based partially on how I use my PC's different monitors.
Like... Google Reader?