No, because nobody put a rhetorical gun to the sellers head and told him to sell the car or go to jail.
Do you assume that nobody ever had to sell their car, because they couldn't pay their debts? They'd have a miserable live (maybe jail depending on the law) if they don't give away their property.
True, but Snow Leopard has even more drawing issues with it than Leopard had (which was close to not having any at all). Seems like they're actually moving away from it. A real shame.
Well, you could analyze the data dependencies and put them into a dependency graph, and then figure out what can be parallelized without having too much synchronization overhead. However, that's probably something for a theoretical scientific paper, and I'd be surprised if you could paralellize most algorithms to split to more threads than you could count on one hand...
As soon as you're doing linear I/O (like network access), you've hit a barrier anyways.
3) It won't succeed until an Apple-like company makes it so stunningly easy to use and manage that its advantages are clear. A cellphone and a smart cellphone are quite similar, so the idea of an iPhone/Treo (a general purpose computer that happens to be a cell phone) was not so hard to get accepted. A tablet-like device has no commonly existing parellel right now, and the existing examples are weak, to put it mildly. It will have to be wildly simple and pleasant to use...
Well, you can already have exactly the device you're describing, and it's called... iPhone. I've been using my iPhone (with the app Stanza) for reading books while commuting for a while now, and it's much better than printed books (I've tried that as well, didn't work out, since carrying a heavy book around doesn't fly in public transport while standing, and having to switch vehicle every now and then). The downsides are of course battery (have to recharge every other day) and the small display, but to solve the latter you'd need a foldable or rollable display, since I certainly won't carry around a larger device than I'm already doing.
Right now, getting material to read is very hard though, because ebooks usually cost four times as much as the printed book version on Amazon (yeah, wtf?). Nearly all PDFs don't work either, because they're typeset for larger paper sizes.
If you just make up a million house rules there's a huge chance you won't get the balancing right. You know, the people writing those handbooks don't just sit at home, make up some spells and then send that straight to the printer, they do heavy playtesting and balancing.
When you have to do all of that yourself, it's no longer a game, it's actual work (the job is called "game designing" btw).
Yes, plus that any locking code (no matter whether it locked information in a database or a door) was broken within seconds. What kind of engineers would create such easily disabled mechanisms? Why bother at all with passwords, when they don't lock anybody out?
That was by choice rather than a technical limitation (alcohol on a military ship is a bad idea in any case). However, you're right that the TNG replicators weren't that perfect, there was still a market for delicacies (mostly served by the Ferengi).
There are some nature paintings from color-blind people. Those are very enlightening, they don't look like nature at all for non-color blind people like me.
Creationism isn't tied to Christianity, there are several religions that teach it. In Spore, you're taught that you created a species a few minutes/hours ago and that all improvements are due to Your Holy Hand applying them in the creature editor. That's very similar to the way it is taught in Christianity, just the variables are different (time, number of species, etc.). I agree though that it's a rather satirical implementation, the question is just whether this can actually add something to biology classes.
Uh, you do realize that Spore is as creationist as you can get? It's intelligent design (well, mostly semi-intelligent), because you're doing the designing yourself.
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Stealing from a stupid person is still stealing. And yes, those people do exist in the so-called first world.
Well, if you have to choice to either eat and have shelter or have no financial obligation, what would you choose?
No, because nobody put a rhetorical gun to the sellers head and told him to sell the car or go to jail.
Do you assume that nobody ever had to sell their car, because they couldn't pay their debts? They'd have a miserable live (maybe jail depending on the law) if they don't give away their property.
Where's the XMPP interface they promised years ago?
True, but Snow Leopard has even more drawing issues with it than Leopard had (which was close to not having any at all). Seems like they're actually moving away from it. A real shame.
Well, if you're looking for a way to receive money from your customers, there's always esellerate.
(I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.)
Agreed, although it's still a human error, since the user interface designer is human, too (supposedly).
Well, you could analyze the data dependencies and put them into a dependency graph, and then figure out what can be parallelized without having too much synchronization overhead. However, that's probably something for a theoretical scientific paper, and I'd be surprised if you could paralellize most algorithms to split to more threads than you could count on one hand...
As soon as you're doing linear I/O (like network access), you've hit a barrier anyways.
Actually, some algorithms (like fluid simulation and a very large neural net) are not that hard to parallelize to run on a million cores.
I'll be setting up a Wave server as soon as google releases the source.
Uh, Google is already publishing the source for it: "wave-protocol" on Google code. I don't think it's production-ready yet though.
3) It won't succeed until an Apple-like company makes it so stunningly easy to use and manage that its advantages are clear. A cellphone and a smart cellphone are quite similar, so the idea of an iPhone/Treo (a general purpose computer that happens to be a cell phone) was not so hard to get accepted. A tablet-like device has no commonly existing parellel right now, and the existing examples are weak, to put it mildly. It will have to be wildly simple and pleasant to use...
Well, you can already have exactly the device you're describing, and it's called ... iPhone. I've been using my iPhone (with the app Stanza) for reading books while commuting for a while now, and it's much better than printed books (I've tried that as well, didn't work out, since carrying a heavy book around doesn't fly in public transport while standing, and having to switch vehicle every now and then). The downsides are of course battery (have to recharge every other day) and the small display, but to solve the latter you'd need a foldable or rollable display, since I certainly won't carry around a larger device than I'm already doing.
Right now, getting material to read is very hard though, because ebooks usually cost four times as much as the printed book version on Amazon (yeah, wtf?). Nearly all PDFs don't work either, because they're typeset for larger paper sizes.
If you just make up a million house rules there's a huge chance you won't get the balancing right. You know, the people writing those handbooks don't just sit at home, make up some spells and then send that straight to the printer, they do heavy playtesting and balancing.
When you have to do all of that yourself, it's no longer a game, it's actual work (the job is called "game designing" btw).
Yes, plus that any locking code (no matter whether it locked information in a database or a door) was broken within seconds. What kind of engineers would create such easily disabled mechanisms? Why bother at all with passwords, when they don't lock anybody out?
That was by choice rather than a technical limitation (alcohol on a military ship is a bad idea in any case). However, you're right that the TNG replicators weren't that perfect, there was still a market for delicacies (mostly served by the Ferengi).
My Chumby disagrees. Qt with Webkit doesn't fit on its internal storage, but its USP is a flash player.
D) They only had the hash values and used a dictionary attack on them. That's kinda the point why those passwords are weak after all.
Watching something happen is not a game.
Usually, I'm about 100 years old on those web pages, in order to get rid of age restrictions.
There are some nature paintings from color-blind people. Those are very enlightening, they don't look like nature at all for non-color blind people like me.
Creationism isn't tied to Christianity, there are several religions that teach it. In Spore, you're taught that you created a species a few minutes/hours ago and that all improvements are due to Your Holy Hand applying them in the creature editor. That's very similar to the way it is taught in Christianity, just the variables are different (time, number of species, etc.). I agree though that it's a rather satirical implementation, the question is just whether this can actually add something to biology classes.
Uh, you do realize that Spore is as creationist as you can get? It's intelligent design (well, mostly semi-intelligent), because you're doing the designing yourself.
Fluorescent lights don't work for places where the light is switched on/off frequently, like toilets or corridors at home. LEDs are perfect for those.
He's the first person I've heard of bringing the old art of doublethink to perfection, being both a Microsoft shill and Linux developer...
As far as full screen, have the user press F11. All browsers I'm aware of use this same binding.
Uh, I guess you've never tested this on a Mac.
How's that relevant to the third point? When you add more players to Poker, you also have more money to be shifted around, which keeps the game going.