Amen Brother!! I was just about to post that very phrase! Eat your own dog food.
I don't know why people bother releasing products they themselves won't use... In almost all cases, the inventors/producers should be the champions of their own products.
From what I understand about StarCraft (and probably WarCraft) is that the AI scripts lack any sort of scouting abilities or just the notion of trying to look for players, in the way that human players do. Instead, what they have is "strength" detection. A computer controlled player in StarCraft would continually guage the "strength" of your base and your army at any given time. If the conditions were right, and the AI felt up to it, it would rush you. This is how the AI sometimes seems so good at taking expansions (they are physically much weaker than the starting base).
There was also a condition coded into StarCraft that after a while of silence (i.e. no script triggered attacks), the AI would just attack anyway, no matter what it was facing, just to keep the player engaged at least every 20 min or so.
While I hate user anecdotes as much as the next guy, I gotta say, as a former web designer (I still am, but the current hat I wear limits my design in the workplace), the use of CSS does not exclusivise (?, make exclusive) one from the use of Photoshop. Photoshop is an excellent program that the vast majority of web designers use, usually as a precursor to hammering out designs by hand (the web is still primarily a visual medium in terms of what it delivers to end users). Rapid prototyping in a 2D layout is way easier in Photoshop.
If anything, CSS has enforced better mark-up and a ton of consistency in otherwise poor design. But it's no silver bullet, you can still have sucky CSS. And Photosthop will always be around, to help or hinder.
Ruby on Rails is actually a generalized/modularized version of the production code used by 37signals, authors of Basecamp. That's how it came to be. Their developer, David Heinemeier Hansson, chose Ruby as their primary development language (gutsy, I have no idea why). As a course of building all of their products, he abstracted the framework he created and released it to the public as Ruby on Rails.
(apologies on any inaccuracies on the story. this is how i understand it, corrections welcome)
With (what sounds like) so much emotional investment in the game, I bet you're like me. A listen to any track from the game's score makes me think of exactly where I was, what I did, who I was fighting, and how I felt at that point in time. As an example, try listening to (I think) Forever Rachel (the theme of Locke's girlfriend) from FF6. It'd probably tear you up some.
But anyway, this is precisely the reason why I love racing (F-Zero) or battle (FF/CT/CC) music. It's just great to listen to because it's all action-packed (in memory).
It sounds like you think Ajax is something exclusive of web standards. Really good Ajax is just like good DHTML, it degrades gracefully. So no, they're not incompatible.
Here's the numero uno reason to use Ajax over whatever else there is in the world (Java...): light-weight asychronous data transfer, used towards tightening user interaction and feedback.
PS - While I make no claims to my personal ability to do the same, your website doesn't give me a lot of confidence as your to your ability to *design* websites.
Your mention of analyzing semen just totally threw me off... But I digress.
In regards to the whole jock-geek flip over, I've read a similar situation regarding obesity in America. As the percentage of obese, American children rises, it slowly becomes the norm. Then, suddenly, the thinner, not-so-fat kids are being picked on for being abnormal.
I've actually heard that Google's initial search interface was so simple or bare due mostly to its founders not being very adept at HTML and design. So simple it is.
Really sorry to interrupt everyone's groove... But parent's post title. Where is that from? I've heard that a bajillion times and I don't know what the canonical version is.
To my (limited) knowledge, this is true. I've had a couple international friends, or at least friends of friends, and the consensus seems to be that AIM is never used outside of America. MSN and Y! seem to dominate, so to extrapolate (?) and say that AIM is used everywhere across teh Intraweb would be incorrect. Unless America *is* the Internet.
Actually, while the link to the original story was provided, I think there was something after that which clarified the results.
As other posters have recognized, simply following just this rule isn't sufficient. From what I remember of the original topic/article/meme that followed after the article, it's more the "shape" of the word that you recognize.
There are usually three types of letters (can't really think of any others). Square, tall, and hanging. Square letters would be like xmenau, tall letters would be like lbdh, and hanging letters would be like jqy.
So, combined with sentence context, keeping in the general shape, and spelling (first and last letters), the brain seems to be very tolerant of spelling mistakes and able to interpret whole phrases.
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I think the third one is (barely) easier to ready, because it matches the shape of the original word.
Admittedly this is a one-two punch, but if you're into organizing your life on Windows, you should already be here.
Taskline is a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. One of the deficiencies, some users say, of Outlook is it's inability to properly express the time needed to complete tasks versus your actual scheduled appointments. So I'm guessing Taskline works just as your system works now, and that it's what you want.
I love it. It helps me see if projects are actually feasible, and it helps me make better educated guesses as to how much time a project will take. I know when to do certain things, and I can prioritize them, etc... It's great. Completely integrated between the Calendar and Tasks folders and completely removable too. Very neat. It's one of those... Gems of the Internet that I wish I had found years ago. So here it is. Enjoy.
Slightly OT... But does anybody know what Radio Free is? There seems to be a lot of mention of the phrase, but I can't seem to type the right thing into google... radio free this, radio free that, what does it actually mean? free radio?
So, overall, after 2 days of SP2 experience, I can only recommend it to people who still use XP.
Umm, what? You're making it sound like SP2 was released at a moment where all the XP users are critically thinking of whether or not to switch away from XP... I mean, yeah, some people do it, but... I know I use XP. And am still. using. it.
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And IT folks often require the "right" decision, says Gerry McCartney, CIO at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia. "[They] have difficulty between shades of gray," he says. "Sometimes there are a lot of 'rightish' answers," and insisting that there's just one can be annoying.
I'm a big personality types guy and this to me screams J (as in judging, where judging types like things decided soon). Some say that fields like IT also cater to the conceptualist type, which is NT. And, if we were to run with the geek stereotype, we might as well add in I for introvert.
What do we have? INTJ. The most stubborn, self-centered, self-righteous, logical type of them all.
INTJs are one of if not the rarest personality type in America. To me, the article sounded like these thinking, judging, intuitors should be more sensitive to the rest of the population, which is the majority. But, if the INTJs are the minority, shouldn't the majority be mindful of them and their communication styles?
I'm an INTJ, so I'm inclined to say that my view makes perfect sense and is right even if you say it's not. But it doesn't seem too illogical to me to have the rest of the world be aware of how others communicate. Maybe I like my IT departments cold, decisive, and geeky.
I'm just trying to stick up for the minority, because just like the general geek persona, INTJs are often stomped upon for others who just don't "get" them. They don't mean to be cold or unclear. Far from it, actually. Being an NT, they value utility more than a whole lot of other socially positive attributes. But at the same time, some users just aren't being clear themselves or aren't being useful, so that in itself is frustrating, especially for a person who already has communication problems from the get go.
Have you ever tried or heard of Dynasty Tactics? It's like Dynasty Warriors (never heard of it before this) meets Final Fantasy Tactics... Basically Tactics a la Chinese spin. I'd say its pretty challenging... Never really sat down and beat it. It's a bit goofy and not-so-obvious to understand...
How does Front Mission 4 look and feel? I'm looking at the screenshots on RPGamer and they're terrible... All I see is pixelation everywhere, so I'm wonder what happened to Square's trademark production quality... Visible pixelation on a PS2 = unforgivable...
Who told you that Windows 2000 was a suitable upgrade from Windows 98? They're based on different architectures, so of course their drivers aren't guaranteed to work. And a greater degree of incompatibility wouldn't be in favor of Longhorn's adoption rate, so that doesn't even make sense for Microsoft's success.
As for incompatibilities and software not working, why don't you try running them in compatibility mode or sticking to "Made For XP"-branded software. It sounds like you're just making stuff up.
So what is it? Make your apps work for longhorn or make longhorn work with existing apps? A little bit of contradiction there.
You're making a false dichotomy. Who says that in this fantastic world of software you can't build something that works with *gasp* both platforms at the same time?
Having said that you can bet your bottom dollar that "certain applications" Office perhaps ? will offer a reduced experience on longhorn requiring you to purchase a newer longhorn version.
I don't really get what you mean by this... Microsoft has by and large been about backwards compatibility. So minus anything written to the metal (like linking Outlook 2002 and Word 2002 and then upgrade only to Outlook 2003 and having Word no longer integrate), Longhorn should be a super set of XP, and all XP apps should work just fine with Longhorn.
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Maxthon isn't all that new. Long time users know it as MyIE2.
If you've ever wondered what a browser with an IE-engine and tabs that didn't suck is like, try Maxthon. It's really lightweight.
For development purposes and sometimes just pure speed (IE feels faster than Firefox sometimes), I keep a copy on my machines alone Firefox.
Amen Brother!! I was just about to post that very phrase! Eat your own dog food.
I don't know why people bother releasing products they themselves won't use... In almost all cases, the inventors/producers should be the champions of their own products.
Mod parent up!
From what I understand about StarCraft (and probably WarCraft) is that the AI scripts lack any sort of scouting abilities or just the notion of trying to look for players, in the way that human players do. Instead, what they have is "strength" detection. A computer controlled player in StarCraft would continually guage the "strength" of your base and your army at any given time. If the conditions were right, and the AI felt up to it, it would rush you. This is how the AI sometimes seems so good at taking expansions (they are physically much weaker than the starting base).
There was also a condition coded into StarCraft that after a while of silence (i.e. no script triggered attacks), the AI would just attack anyway, no matter what it was facing, just to keep the player engaged at least every 20 min or so.
Life is never black & white.
Ahh! A clear delineation! *head explodes*
While I hate user anecdotes as much as the next guy, I gotta say, as a former web designer (I still am, but the current hat I wear limits my design in the workplace), the use of CSS does not exclusivise (?, make exclusive) one from the use of Photoshop. Photoshop is an excellent program that the vast majority of web designers use, usually as a precursor to hammering out designs by hand (the web is still primarily a visual medium in terms of what it delivers to end users). Rapid prototyping in a 2D layout is way easier in Photoshop.
If anything, CSS has enforced better mark-up and a ton of consistency in otherwise poor design. But it's no silver bullet, you can still have sucky CSS. And Photosthop will always be around, to help or hinder.
Zooming in on any part of the desktop while still being able to interact with it (for the visually impared, this is HUGE)
Did anyone else find this punny? =P
Ruby on Rails is actually a generalized/modularized version of the production code used by 37signals, authors of Basecamp. That's how it came to be. Their developer, David Heinemeier Hansson, chose Ruby as their primary development language (gutsy, I have no idea why). As a course of building all of their products, he abstracted the framework he created and released it to the public as Ruby on Rails.
(apologies on any inaccuracies on the story. this is how i understand it, corrections welcome)
With (what sounds like) so much emotional investment in the game, I bet you're like me. A listen to any track from the game's score makes me think of exactly where I was, what I did, who I was fighting, and how I felt at that point in time. As an example, try listening to (I think) Forever Rachel (the theme of Locke's girlfriend) from FF6. It'd probably tear you up some.
But anyway, this is precisely the reason why I love racing (F-Zero) or battle (FF/CT/CC) music. It's just great to listen to because it's all action-packed (in memory).
It sounds like you think Ajax is something exclusive of web standards. Really good Ajax is just like good DHTML, it degrades gracefully. So no, they're not incompatible.
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Here's the numero uno reason to use Ajax over whatever else there is in the world (Java...): light-weight asychronous data transfer, used towards tightening user interaction and feedback.
Read the original article if you still don't get it. http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/a
PS - While I make no claims to my personal ability to do the same, your website doesn't give me a lot of confidence as your to your ability to *design* websites.
Do you have a screenshot to back up that claim?
Your mention of analyzing semen just totally threw me off... But I digress.
In regards to the whole jock-geek flip over, I've read a similar situation regarding obesity in America. As the percentage of obese, American children rises, it slowly becomes the norm. Then, suddenly, the thinner, not-so-fat kids are being picked on for being abnormal.
Gross.
I've actually heard that Google's initial search interface was so simple or bare due mostly to its founders not being very adept at HTML and design. So simple it is.
Really sorry to interrupt everyone's groove... But parent's post title. Where is that from? I've heard that a bajillion times and I don't know what the canonical version is.
To my (limited) knowledge, this is true. I've had a couple international friends, or at least friends of friends, and the consensus seems to be that AIM is never used outside of America. MSN and Y! seem to dominate, so to extrapolate (?) and say that AIM is used everywhere across teh Intraweb would be incorrect. Unless America *is* the Internet.
I'm sorry... I don't get it. =( Inside joke? Obligatory reference?
Actually, while the link to the original story was provided, I think there was something after that which clarified the results.
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As other posters have recognized, simply following just this rule isn't sufficient. From what I remember of the original topic/article/meme that followed after the article, it's more the "shape" of the word that you recognize.
There are usually three types of letters (can't really think of any others). Square, tall, and hanging. Square letters would be like xmenau, tall letters would be like lbdh, and hanging letters would be like jqy.
So, combined with sentence context, keeping in the general shape, and spelling (first and last letters), the brain seems to be very tolerant of spelling mistakes and able to interpret whole phrases.
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I think the third one is (barely) easier to ready, because it matches the shape of the original word.
Admittedly this is a one-two punch, but if you're into organizing your life on Windows, you should already be here.
Taskline is a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. One of the deficiencies, some users say, of Outlook is it's inability to properly express the time needed to complete tasks versus your actual scheduled appointments. So I'm guessing Taskline works just as your system works now, and that it's what you want.
I love it. It helps me see if projects are actually feasible, and it helps me make better educated guesses as to how much time a project will take. I know when to do certain things, and I can prioritize them, etc... It's great. Completely integrated between the Calendar and Tasks folders and completely removable too. Very neat. It's one of those... Gems of the Internet that I wish I had found years ago. So here it is. Enjoy.
Slightly OT... But does anybody know what Radio Free is? There seems to be a lot of mention of the phrase, but I can't seem to type the right thing into google... radio free this, radio free that, what does it actually mean? free radio?
So, overall, after 2 days of SP2 experience, I can only recommend it to people who still use XP.
Umm, what? You're making it sound like SP2 was released at a moment where all the XP users are critically thinking of whether or not to switch away from XP... I mean, yeah, some people do it, but... I know I use XP. And am still. using. it.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
And IT folks often require the "right" decision, says Gerry McCartney, CIO at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia. "[They] have difficulty between shades of gray," he says. "Sometimes there are a lot of 'rightish' answers," and insisting that there's just one can be annoying.
I'm a big personality types guy and this to me screams J (as in judging, where judging types like things decided soon). Some say that fields like IT also cater to the conceptualist type, which is NT. And, if we were to run with the geek stereotype, we might as well add in I for introvert.
What do we have? INTJ. The most stubborn, self-centered, self-righteous, logical type of them all.
INTJs are one of if not the rarest personality type in America. To me, the article sounded like these thinking, judging, intuitors should be more sensitive to the rest of the population, which is the majority. But, if the INTJs are the minority, shouldn't the majority be mindful of them and their communication styles?
I'm an INTJ, so I'm inclined to say that my view makes perfect sense and is right even if you say it's not. But it doesn't seem too illogical to me to have the rest of the world be aware of how others communicate. Maybe I like my IT departments cold, decisive, and geeky.
I'm just trying to stick up for the minority, because just like the general geek persona, INTJs are often stomped upon for others who just don't "get" them. They don't mean to be cold or unclear. Far from it, actually. Being an NT, they value utility more than a whole lot of other socially positive attributes. But at the same time, some users just aren't being clear themselves or aren't being useful, so that in itself is frustrating, especially for a person who already has communication problems from the get go.
Have you ever tried or heard of Dynasty Tactics? It's like Dynasty Warriors (never heard of it before this) meets Final Fantasy Tactics... Basically Tactics a la Chinese spin. I'd say its pretty challenging... Never really sat down and beat it. It's a bit goofy and not-so-obvious to understand...
I loved Tactics so much...
How does Front Mission 4 look and feel? I'm looking at the screenshots on RPGamer and they're terrible... All I see is pixelation everywhere, so I'm wonder what happened to Square's trademark production quality... Visible pixelation on a PS2 = unforgivable...
Who told you that Windows 2000 was a suitable upgrade from Windows 98? They're based on different architectures, so of course their drivers aren't guaranteed to work. And a greater degree of incompatibility wouldn't be in favor of Longhorn's adoption rate, so that doesn't even make sense for Microsoft's success.
As for incompatibilities and software not working, why don't you try running them in compatibility mode or sticking to "Made For XP"-branded software. It sounds like you're just making stuff up.
So what is it? Make your apps work for longhorn or make longhorn work with existing apps? A little bit of contradiction there.
You're making a false dichotomy. Who says that in this fantastic world of software you can't build something that works with *gasp* both platforms at the same time?
Having said that you can bet your bottom dollar that "certain applications" Office perhaps ? will offer a reduced experience on longhorn requiring you to purchase a newer longhorn version.
I don't really get what you mean by this... Microsoft has by and large been about backwards compatibility. So minus anything written to the metal (like linking Outlook 2002 and Word 2002 and then upgrade only to Outlook 2003 and having Word no longer integrate), Longhorn should be a super set of XP, and all XP apps should work just fine with Longhorn.