The excessive brightness is only a small part of the problem. While in theory the picture in a LCD displays should be clearer and steadier than that of a CRT, in practice various problems (such as FRC - Frame rate control to make a 6 bit display look like it has more colors), backlight flicker, the backlight itself (in practice you are staring at a fluorescent light) end up making most LCD displays harder on your eyes than a CRT. If someone knows of a specific LCD or another PC display technology that doesn't have this problems please post about it.
That's what I'm thinking about right now. I've gone from Debian Testing to Fedora Core 4 to 8, Ubuntu, and now I intend to go back to Debian Testing and close the circle!
I have a DVD recorder, much more practical and with better quality. It's affordable and it can record on rewritable discs. The reliability of the rw discs varies a lot, some will stand only 2 or 3 re-writes, but some others will last much more.
And besides, who sponsors firefox? Various google "features" creep into the browser, and it takes some effort to disable them. I still use firefox though (what else is there, really?).
In my opinion it's much worse than that. We are not that good at creating new things, but are extremely good at learning and adapting existing things. By enforcing excessive restrictions on copying we are limiting progress, and I think it goes against what we normally would do. While I think there should be some provision to reward the original creator(s) of the works (such as a limited time copyright) the present system goes WAY too far and is clearly excessive.
I'd like that the community elements would work in Linux (so you could be online in their chat/community thingy), and perhaps a game or two. Given the size and fragmentation of the linux community this is unlikely to happen.
It's not that easy, I've had mixed experiences with bug reporting, from bugs being fixed almost immediately or in a day or two after I reported it on the developers mailing list, to being a mostly ignored bugzilla ticket that will be eventually purged (firefox). It's always easier when a clear test case can be presented, such as a minimal script that reproduces the problem. However not all bugs can be that easily reproduced.
Of course it's still easier and more effective to report bugs of open source programs that closed source. It's hard to even bother reporting closed source programs bugs, you won't even get past the first line tech support...
There's one thing that goes against the internet philosophy: Geographic restrictions. I can't buy amazon.mp3s, can't watch Hulu, etc. It's getting more and more annoying.
Mat 24:35-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Well the whole point is that, without cookies if you type google.com in the address bar you should get the english version of google, but if you go to google.[countrycode] you'd get that localized version. What really happens is if you are in a country that has a local version of google you'll get redirected from google.com to the country's version unless you click "google in english" and accept a cookie.
Visit http://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect) and google will no longer use your geolocation to determine what pages you want to see. Cookies required
The hardest part of building a crystal radio is finding a suitable headset. But you can build a simple "radio" with just a 741 or two. A simple amplifier with a wire as an antenna will pick up some transmissions, no need for a tuner.
but seriously, like we actually need 8 cores and 6GB of memory to run the OS, an Office suite and a browser? Please.
Well duh. Games have been my main reason to upgrade to a new computer. I first installed windows 95 to play Comix Zone. I keep windows on my computer to play games. It is certainly nice to have everything else run faster, but the other programs still worked.
Very funny... do those things annoy me. I BOUGHT the damn DVD, stop annoying me and show me the damn movie! If I had downloaded it I'd get a better service. But I don't, and I have to endure their brainwashing. I always think, if they are so worried that someone will steal their movie they should have better backups, it would be pretty stupid to have a single copy. And anyway, the movie has been released already, they can always get another DVD from a store...
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And stop using firefox too
I thought it meant Escape Meta Alt Control Shift :)
The excessive brightness is only a small part of the problem. While in theory the picture in a LCD displays should be clearer and steadier than that of a CRT, in practice various problems (such as FRC - Frame rate control to make a 6 bit display look like it has more colors), backlight flicker, the backlight itself (in practice you are staring at a fluorescent light) end up making most LCD displays harder on your eyes than a CRT. If someone knows of a specific LCD or another PC display technology that doesn't have this problems please post about it.
That's what I'm thinking about right now. I've gone from Debian Testing to Fedora Core 4 to 8, Ubuntu, and now I intend to go back to Debian Testing and close the circle!
I have a DVD recorder, much more practical and with better quality. It's affordable and it can record on rewritable discs. The reliability of the rw discs varies a lot, some will stand only 2 or 3 re-writes, but some others will last much more.
And besides, who sponsors firefox? Various google "features" creep into the browser, and it takes some effort to disable them. I still use firefox though (what else is there, really?).
In my opinion it's much worse than that. We are not that good at creating new things, but are extremely good at learning and adapting existing things. By enforcing excessive restrictions on copying we are limiting progress, and I think it goes against what we normally would do. While I think there should be some provision to reward the original creator(s) of the works (such as a limited time copyright) the present system goes WAY too far and is clearly excessive.
I'd like that the community elements would work in Linux (so you could be online in their chat/community thingy), and perhaps a game or two. Given the size and fragmentation of the linux community this is unlikely to happen.
It's not that easy, I've had mixed experiences with bug reporting, from bugs being fixed almost immediately or in a day or two after I reported it on the developers mailing list, to being a mostly ignored bugzilla ticket that will be eventually purged (firefox). It's always easier when a clear test case can be presented, such as a minimal script that reproduces the problem. However not all bugs can be that easily reproduced.
Of course it's still easier and more effective to report bugs of open source programs that closed source. It's hard to even bother reporting closed source programs bugs, you won't even get past the first line tech support...
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
Why don't they sell CDs with proper artwork, booklets, etc. then?
Good call! The first MDK has a great ending, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAL9fwNX8B0
There's one thing that goes against the internet philosophy: Geographic restrictions. I can't buy amazon .mp3s, can't watch Hulu, etc. It's getting more and more annoying.
Read this: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-b12-and-depression/AN01543
Mat 24:35-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
You should read I Samuel 8 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20Sam%208&version=NIV).
Well the whole point is that, without cookies if you type google.com in the address bar you should get the english version of google, but if you go to google.[countrycode] you'd get that localized version. What really happens is if you are in a country that has a local version of google you'll get redirected from google.com to the country's version unless you click "google in english" and accept a cookie.
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Exactly.
+1 on lyx. Just learn the shortcuts (alt+m key) and a few latex symbols and you're set.
I did that. It's big. And loud. Uses about the same amount of power as a small space heater. I still like it though :)
The hardest part of building a crystal radio is finding a suitable headset. But you can build a simple "radio" with just a 741 or two. A simple amplifier with a wire as an antenna will pick up some transmissions, no need for a tuner.
Well duh. Games have been my main reason to upgrade to a new computer. I first installed windows 95 to play Comix Zone. I keep windows on my computer to play games. It is certainly nice to have everything else run faster, but the other programs still worked.
yep, 32 of them, if I remember correctly.
Very funny... do those things annoy me. I BOUGHT the damn DVD, stop annoying me and show me the damn movie! If I had downloaded it I'd get a better service. But I don't, and I have to endure their brainwashing. I always think, if they are so worried that someone will steal their movie they should have better backups, it would be pretty stupid to have a single copy. And anyway, the movie has been released already, they can always get another DVD from a store...
Somewhat unrelated, but you might enjoy this video of some low passes of an Airbus A310 at an air show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfhC9ft_hk