A somewhat more salient question: how can a game turn from '...one of the best...' on a system to a 2 out of 5 review in a matter of two-and-a-half months between preview and review? "
Easy. If all the games on the console are shit, and this is one of the best, it could easily rate 2 out of 5 and still be one of the best on that console.
Yahoo is actually doing the right thing here, from a technical point of view. The worst thing you can do is have an MX that accepts connections but is not responsive enough to actually handle accepting a message at that point -- it's far better to stop accepting SMTP connections when you detect you're at your maximum capacity.
This is because SMTP clients who fail to get a connection will immediately try the next MX. If they get a connection, but can't send the message, they may back off and try again later, delaying the message further.
Surely the question isn't totally unreasonable. For example, say you have a 3072 x 2048 photo of a storefront that you'd like to have on a page. What's a good size for that to be reduced to?
As large as it needs to be, and no larger:
If that picture is not providing any useful information to the user (i.e., it's window-dressing, pun intended) and is merely a logo or other fluff, make it a few hundred pixels wide (200-400) and be done with it.
On the other hand, if this picture is intended to show how meticulous your building-exterior-cleaning service is, it would make perfect sense to to default it to 800 pixels wide so that is has sufficient detail. A little clever CSS can even show a smaller version to viewers with smaller viewports than that.
Some of your users will have huge 1600x1200 LCDs. Others will be running old hand-me-down 640x480 VGA monitors, or nice monitors with that stupid default resolution of Win95/98.
But it doesn't matter. What you do is design your site in standards-compliant XHTML, using CSS for formatting (not tables), and let the user's browser render it however is best for that particular platform.
Web designers (and I am one) should not be paying/any/ attention to "resolution".
After five flushes on a low flush, you've wasted like 3 times the water to accomplish what a regular toilet would have done in a single flush.
No, you haven't. Low-flow toilets use approximately one gallon per flush. Standard-flow toilets use approximately 3.5 gallons per flush. After three flushes on the low-flow toilet, you're still saving water over a standard-flow toilet.
Low-tech is often a faster and more efficient way to find these sorts of problems. For surveillance and diagnosis, I recommend walking around and watching over students' shoulders. For corrective measures, a couple of taps with a ball-peen hammer usually suffices.
At somepoint, the networks need to realize that WE WANT OUR PROGRAMMING OUR WAY.
You're confused. You appear to be thinking that the networks need to satisfy your desires because you're the customer -- but you're not. You're the product. The customer are the ad-buyers. As long as you watch, giving them product to sell, the networks don't care whether you're happy or irritated.
but will Bush and Kerry debate if they have to face a third candidate?
Of course not -- they signed a contract specifically excluding all third-party candidates. To do otherwise might risk breaking the hegemony of the current two-party system.
I hope it's better than some of the stuff I've heard about being good, which wasn't, i.e. Young Einstein and Blair Witch.
Who told you Young Einstein was good?
I think perhaps he misremembered what someone told him. It must have been Young Frankenstein that was recommended as good. Yahoo Serious fucking sucks.
Larry McVoy designed BitKeeper with the specific aim of doing this. I believe they also offer special single-user free licenses for this; you may want to check the BitKeeper documentation to see if there are any Linux distributions who actually took him up on this.
There are several reasons; one is that the necessary paperwork to get the package through customs is a pain in the ass for the seller. They don't want the hassle.
Another reason is that many sellers only have permission to sell products in the U.S.A. -- i.e., they haven't bought the rights to sell the product in Canada. You need to find another distributor who has bought those rights, but sometimes that's difficult because the (smaller) Canadian distributor isn't nearly as well-known.
My wife has what I call the pro-aesthetic theory of organization; if a room or place appears to be neat, it's organized -- even if the stuff is put away without any regard to an organizational structure (eg, related items aren't in the same cabinet or closet). It's important for the room to look clean, even if in reality its a highly user unfriendly mode of organization.
Oh. My.$DEITY.
Thank you for so concisely expressing exactly what my wife does as well. I've tried to come up with a good way of describing it in the past and failed -- but I'll never lack for this again.
It drives me nuts, sometimes -- I go to look for something, and it isn't where I remember it being. Then I think hmmm, it was visible -- maybe she put it somewhere to get it out of sight and I have to start rooting through drawers, cupboards, etc. In most cases, it hasn't gone far, because it goes in the first hidey-hole that comes to hand instead of the most sensible place it might go, which might be in another room or even on another floor.
Hear, hear! The other strength of Poleconomy was that it did not treat economics in isolation -- there was a political factor as well, and the two influenced each other strongly. i.e. the Prime Minister set the direction for interest rates, which affected the economy.
1) degraded video quality. some cables / switches were better than others, but all of them caused some degredation past about 1024x768.
You're aware, of course, that the poster is asking about KVMs which support DVI, which is a digital video connection? He therefore does not have to worry about analog signal quality problems such as you describe.
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Uh - yes. Please.
Yahoo is actually doing the right thing here, from a technical point of view. The worst thing you can do is have an MX that accepts connections but is not responsive enough to actually handle accepting a message at that point -- it's far better to stop accepting SMTP connections when you detect you're at your maximum capacity.
This is because SMTP clients who fail to get a connection will immediately try the next MX. If they get a connection, but can't send the message, they may back off and try again later, delaying the message further.
Try resetting the circuit breaker on your "strips".
As large as it needs to be, and no larger:
If that picture is not providing any useful information to the user (i.e., it's window-dressing, pun intended) and is merely a logo or other fluff, make it a few hundred pixels wide (200-400) and be done with it.
On the other hand, if this picture is intended to show how meticulous your building-exterior-cleaning service is, it would make perfect sense to to default it to 800 pixels wide so that is has sufficient detail. A little clever CSS can even show a smaller version to viewers with smaller viewports than that.
Some of your users will have huge 1600x1200 LCDs. Others will be running old hand-me-down 640x480 VGA monitors, or nice monitors with that stupid default resolution of Win95/98.
/any/ attention to "resolution".
But it doesn't matter. What you do is design your site in standards-compliant XHTML, using CSS for formatting (not tables), and let the user's browser render it however is best for that particular platform.
Web designers (and I am one) should not be paying
Low-tech is often a faster and more efficient way to find these sorts of problems. For surveillance and diagnosis, I recommend walking around and watching over students' shoulders. For corrective measures, a couple of taps with a ball-peen hammer usually suffices.
USB is limited to 2.5W of power. If a device needs more power than that, you can't run it from USB power.
Larry McVoy designed BitKeeper with the specific aim of doing this. I believe they also offer special single-user free licenses for this; you may want to check the BitKeeper documentation to see if there are any Linux distributions who actually took him up on this.
There are several reasons; one is that the necessary paperwork to get the package through customs is a pain in the ass for the seller. They don't want the hassle.
Another reason is that many sellers only have permission to sell products in the U.S.A. -- i.e., they haven't bought the rights to sell the product in Canada. You need to find another distributor who has bought those rights, but sometimes that's difficult because the (smaller) Canadian distributor isn't nearly as well-known.
Oh. My. $DEITY.
Thank you for so concisely expressing exactly what my wife does as well. I've tried to come up with a good way of describing it in the past and failed -- but I'll never lack for this again.
It drives me nuts, sometimes -- I go to look for something, and it isn't where I remember it being. Then I think hmmm, it was visible -- maybe she put it somewhere to get it out of sight and I have to start rooting through drawers, cupboards, etc. In most cases, it hasn't gone far, because it goes in the first hidey-hole that comes to hand instead of the most sensible place it might go, which might be in another room or even on another floor.
Again, thanks.
Hear, hear! The other strength of Poleconomy was that it did not treat economics in isolation -- there was a political factor as well, and the two influenced each other strongly. i.e. the Prime Minister set the direction for interest rates, which affected the economy.
Great game.
That's degauss, actually. To de-gauze something would be to remove an outer covering or wrapping made of thin, absorbent silk or cotton material.
Spelling is important.