Perhaps the supermarket has access to the same sort of computers as they use on CSI, NCIS etc.
They probably have 3d models of the family, reconstructed based on DNA obtained by enhancing the Facespace photo and zooming in to the atomic level.
If you don't know what Air France Flight 447 is then you should probably pay a bit more attention to the world at large.
That said, the summary has nothing to do with Air France flight 447 other than using it as a convenient jumping off point for his diatribe. At the current time there very little known about what happened to the plane so blaming it on the autopilot is ridiculous.
I'm not sure Opera's even a consideration for them, which makes passing the test all the easier if the ACID authors aren't writing things specifically to throw a wrench in your browser.
As I understand it the tests were largely created/coordinated by Ian Hickson who worked for Opera during the time and whose duties included QA and test development.
As such I'd suggest that Opera was very much a consideration for "them".
My point is the three options are still there with the start menu, they are just hidden one click away.
The start menu doesn't help those people get further, it just means they have an extra click before they get stuck. Indeed after clicking start they are likely confronted by a dauntingly huge number of choices.
The "Start" click is pointless. From a useability perspective it makes as much sense as moving your File, Edit, View etc menu items in an application to under a single "Start" menu item.
Where the "Start" menu does make some sense is as a way to handle limited screen real estate. Screens are bigger (especially wider) now and the top and bottom bars in GNOME provide an alternate way to avoid being too cramped.
Realistically the GNOME menus are light-years in front of what you'll find in a Windows Start menu. A large part of that is because hierarchy is shallow and free from the curse of individual apps installing their own sub menu.
The reason that the Start menu has worked is because it gives users/one/ path to get to the things they want. Instead, using gnome/ubuntu, users are immediately faced with a choice - they have to categorize the task they want to do, before they can do it. Every single time, as they learn the system.
Are you seriously suggesting that it's better for a user to have to click a button before being presented with essentially same choice?
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I did some calculations once and it certainly seemed like public transport would be cheaper than owning and running a car, even allowing for a reasonable number of taxi trips.
By concentrating as much sucktitude in one place as possible to stop it spreading throughout the rest of the sector.
That's why when Mozilla started showing signs that it might actually deliver something worthwhile it was set free to avoid breaking from AOL's aim of "sucking big time".
I think it's certainly an event worth trying to convey.
Whether they'd have pulled it off with appropriate levels of gravitas is unknown at this stage and ultimately open to interpretation in any case but it's a shame if people who choose to be offended by the idea alone have caused it to be shut down.
Radio waves are just a type of electromagnetic wave right?
So they would be called photochromics too.
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How many newbies are going to be bitten by the
On rereading the notes I see I may be wrong on that bit. The environment not starting or being unusable seems to be a result of manually changing the conf file to work around another problem, so "newbies" probably won't be hit as they won't be making such changes.
Users of Intel video chipsets have reported performance regressions in Ubuntu 8.10 compared with previous releases (252094). Many of the issues have been resolved in Ubuntu 9.04, but some remain.
Some users have found improved performance by using the "greedy" migration heuristic. This can be done by running "sudo gedit/etc/X11/xorg.conf", and adding Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" to the Device section of your xorg.conf.
Alternatively, a new experimental acceleration architecture option, "DRI2/UXA", is available for Intel graphics users which our testing has found provides significant performance improvements in some cases, but has also shown risk of severe stability problems. You can opt-in to enable this by running "sudo gedit/etc/X11/xorg.conf", and adding Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" to the Device section of your xorg.conf. Users wishing to maximize stability should stay with the standard default acceleration method, "EXA".
In some cases this will lead to the graphical environment not starting at all or becoming entirely unusable. In that case, start into rescue mode or press Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log into the text console, and use sudo nano/etc/X11/xorg.conf to revert the UXA option.
If none of the above helps, some users reported success with using an older driver version.
Display freezes with Intel graphics cards
Users of various Intel video chipsets reported freezes under various conditions (e. g. a few minutes after suspend on the i945, see 339091). In many cases, switching off desktop effects in System â' Preferences â' Appearance was reported to help.
If it still happens without desktop effects, you can add Option "DRI" "off" to the Device section of/etc/X11/xorg.conf, as described above. This will disable 3D acceleration and desktop effects, but makes suspend work reliably again and also avoid many types of crashes.
These freezes happen particularly often on the i965 chips (359392). For that reason, desktop effects were disabled by default on this chipset in the final release. They will be re-enabled in a 9.04 Update once the problem has been fixed.
It's things like this that must make vendors question the value of opening their drivers. Despite the (perhaps theoretical) advantages you'd expect from being as open as Intel is with their graphics hardware the end result in this particular version of Ubuntu seems well short.
The PS3 was probably slightly different in that Sony were also using it to win the HD format war so there was more strategic advantage to them (and profit down the road) than merely hoping to sell a lot of games at some point.
That alone is probably enough to mean that the PS3 won't be a failure in an absolute sense.
It's unlikely there'll be such a circumstance for the next generation though.
I don't know how much a PSP costs to make but I think the days of hardware manufacturers subsidising their consoles must be on the way out.
When there's a significant amount of piracy it means you are not only subsidising the pirates but have to charge your actual game-buying customers more (or pay developers less) to try and recoup that money.
I think Nintendo have a sensible idea in selling reasonable hardware at a reasonable profit.
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Perhaps the supermarket has access to the same sort of computers as they use on CSI, NCIS etc. They probably have 3d models of the family, reconstructed based on DNA obtained by enhancing the Facespace photo and zooming in to the atomic level.
It means they have flashbacks to 'nam and start engaging in strafing runs.
If you don't know what Air France Flight 447 is then you should probably pay a bit more attention to the world at large. That said, the summary has nothing to do with Air France flight 447 other than using it as a convenient jumping off point for his diatribe. At the current time there very little known about what happened to the plane so blaming it on the autopilot is ridiculous.
That is a very astute observation.
As I understand it the tests were largely created/coordinated by Ian Hickson who worked for Opera during the time and whose duties included QA and test development. As such I'd suggest that Opera was very much a consideration for "them".
There's more than one good picture of Summer Glau.
Please enjoy your stay.
My point is the three options are still there with the start menu, they are just hidden one click away.
The start menu doesn't help those people get further, it just means they have an extra click before they get stuck. Indeed after clicking start they are likely confronted by a dauntingly huge number of choices.
The "Start" click is pointless. From a useability perspective it makes as much sense as moving your File, Edit, View etc menu items in an application to under a single "Start" menu item.
Where the "Start" menu does make some sense is as a way to handle limited screen real estate. Screens are bigger (especially wider) now and the top and bottom bars in GNOME provide an alternate way to avoid being too cramped.
Realistically the GNOME menus are light-years in front of what you'll find in a Windows Start menu. A large part of that is because hierarchy is shallow and free from the curse of individual apps installing their own sub menu.
Are you seriously suggesting that it's better for a user to have to click a button before being presented with essentially same choice?
Why not just have a "Flashblock" style placeholder which a user can "show", "always show" or "never show" or just ignore?
Repairs
Insurance
Vehicle Depreciation/Cost
Consumables
Renting out my car spot
I did some calculations once and it certainly seemed like public transport would be cheaper than owning and running a car, even allowing for a reasonable number of taxi trips.
It would, however, be somewhat less convenient.
At least Drepper wasn't being koi about it.
If high school kids can't read then I think it's a bit much to expect a sperm to be able to check the all the paperwork is in order.
By concentrating as much sucktitude in one place as possible to stop it spreading throughout the rest of the sector. That's why when Mozilla started showing signs that it might actually deliver something worthwhile it was set free to avoid breaking from AOL's aim of "sucking big time".
I think it's certainly an event worth trying to convey. Whether they'd have pulled it off with appropriate levels of gravitas is unknown at this stage and ultimately open to interpretation in any case but it's a shame if people who choose to be offended by the idea alone have caused it to be shut down.
Radio waves are just a type of electromagnetic wave right? So they would be called photochromics too.
On rereading the notes I see I may be wrong on that bit. The environment not starting or being unusable seems to be a result of manually changing the conf file to work around another problem, so "newbies" probably won't be hit as they won't be making such changes.
It's things like this that must make vendors question the value of opening their drivers. Despite the (perhaps theoretical) advantages you'd expect from being as open as Intel is with their graphics hardware the end result in this particular version of Ubuntu seems well short.
The PS3 was probably slightly different in that Sony were also using it to win the HD format war so there was more strategic advantage to them (and profit down the road) than merely hoping to sell a lot of games at some point.
That alone is probably enough to mean that the PS3 won't be a failure in an absolute sense.
It's unlikely there'll be such a circumstance for the next generation though.
I don't know how much a PSP costs to make but I think the days of hardware manufacturers subsidising their consoles must be on the way out.
When there's a significant amount of piracy it means you are not only subsidising the pirates but have to charge your actual game-buying customers more (or pay developers less) to try and recoup that money.
I think Nintendo have a sensible idea in selling reasonable hardware at a reasonable profit.
I think you could quite comfortably argue the opposite.
The danger with a company "making things" is that the patent is used to enforce a monopoly.
With a research organisation at least they have motivation to get the patent used as widely as possible, albeit for a fee.
What do you mean by "populating the data properly"?
Can be found here.
Well done Ice TV.
Perhaps something like a linked article!
Fuckwit.
You we're probably right.
The real purpose of the "solar panels" is to provide shade for all the albinos while they pedal .