Actually, I'm curious if any racing people/fans will actually get excited over this.
Actually not at all. We got exited about the G25 wheel, but another game that simply charges for what others do for free (rFactor doesn't charge for subscriptions or online competition) is meh.
I'm not sure why anybody thinks Google is different.
Because they hire most of the smart people.
Not because the smart people at Google will make the perfect search engine, but because they will NOT make a competitive search engine with the competition.
When smart people start going to other companies instead of Google, and avoid Google like the plague, then we will be sure that Google is not different. But now they are.
Poor usability? Is there really anybody who thinks that Internet Explorer 7's user interface is better than Firefox 3's?
So is Microsoft the only company in the world that makes commercial software?
It is not, and I think Opera 9.5 user interface is better than Firefox 3's. May be I'm just used to the interface, or whatever, but I can't stand Firefox 3 in some aspects like the back/forward buttons, mid-button scrolling speed, tab switch behaviour, mouse gestures and file save dialogues.
I can do stuff much faster and comfortable in Opera than in firefox for those reasons.
And who really believes that removing config options adds to usability?
I love the extra config options in Opera!
In fact, I would like a little more config options, like per-domain zoom settings.
Well, I actually mean that the software has to do the compilation behind the scenes, and conserve the internal data structures (parse trees or whatever) and do a total recompilation of the minimum possible part of the document required to update the output with optimal kerning/layout/etc.
So it possibly needs to recompile the whole page I am writing, or just the last paragraph, but never the whole document. With today's computers it should be fast enough to have WYSIWYG.
Thanks for the info, when I was trying to use RoR on IIS in W2k3, I installed the ISAPI filter the RoR tutorial suggested and it totally crashed my server.
I don't think they should just throw away all that Knuth did.
They need to: refactor TeX to use Unicode internally instead of other encodings (XeTeX), make the algorithm lazy or progressive or something so that if you write just one letter, the rendering of the document only changes for that letter (WYSIWYG) and write something more flexible and powerful than LaTeX.
Or they could put something like mod_rewrite natively in IIS, so windows users are not FORCED to use Apache just for the lack of features.
mod_rewrite is not that important for intranet or corporate sites, but it's fundamental for any web site that needs to be found via Google or other search engines.
The problem is that kids will find ways around stuff that their parents restrict, no matter how clever you are with tech they'll be more clever than that.
How about: People will find ways around stuff that other people restrict (such as cops), no matter how clever the restrictors are with tech, they'll be more clever than that.
My point is: Real life-Adult world, is a world full of rules and regulations. I doesn't matter that not everybody follows the rules. Everybody knows there are rules and act based on that. So the kids can (and should) get used to a world with rules, if they choose to follow the rules that's their call. Childhood should be a carefree simulation of reality, not a simulation of barbieland or cybertron.
Otherwise you simply get spoiled children having a really hard time adjusting to reality when turning 18.
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Actually, I'm curious if any racing people/fans will actually get excited over this.
Actually not at all. We got exited about the G25 wheel, but another game that simply charges for what others do for free (rFactor doesn't charge for subscriptions or online competition) is meh.
Actually, Console simulations are the only dead ones.
In the PC arena they are very alive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_racing_simulators
Disclaimer: I use and prefer rFactor over the others.
I believe some people are doing that since 2006.
They are simply trying to compete against the established players in the online racing simulation arena:
Live For Speed, GTR and rFactor.
Just check here.
It's nothing NEW, really.
And NFS sucks big time.
What about rFactor?
It has more cars and tracks than any other racing simulator out there.
I'm not sure why anybody thinks Google is different.
Because they hire most of the smart people.
Not because the smart people at Google will make the perfect search engine, but because they will NOT make a competitive search engine with the competition.
When smart people start going to other companies instead of Google, and avoid Google like the plague, then we will be sure that Google is not different. But now they are.
If a game is made by EA, no matter how good or bad, I will pirate it.
No way those suckers will get my hard earned money.
Tag it 'free mount'.
That way we can have a 'free fsck' next year.
Opera already has voice recognition.
Internet Explorer: Where do you want to go today?
Firefox: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
Opera: Are you guys coming or what?
Accent is the key here.
With fake acute signs, the accents would look like this:
Nova : Nóva
No va: Nová
The two sound totally different to a Spanish speaker.
Poor usability? Is there really anybody who thinks that Internet Explorer 7's user interface is better than Firefox 3's?
So is Microsoft the only company in the world that makes commercial software?
It is not, and I think Opera 9.5 user interface is better than Firefox 3's. May be I'm just used to the interface, or whatever, but I can't stand Firefox 3 in some aspects like the back/forward buttons, mid-button scrolling speed, tab switch behaviour, mouse gestures and file save dialogues.
I can do stuff much faster and comfortable in Opera than in firefox for those reasons.
And who really believes that removing config options adds to usability?
I love the extra config options in Opera!
In fact, I would like a little more config options, like per-domain zoom settings.
Well, I actually mean that the software has to do the compilation behind the scenes, and conserve the internal data structures (parse trees or whatever) and do a total recompilation of the minimum possible part of the document required to update the output with optimal kerning/layout/etc.
So it possibly needs to recompile the whole page I am writing, or just the last paragraph, but never the whole document. With today's computers it should be fast enough to have WYSIWYG.
Thanks for the info, when I was trying to use RoR on IIS in W2k3, I installed the ISAPI filter the RoR tutorial suggested and it totally crashed my server.
May be this one works.
I don't think they should just throw away all that Knuth did.
They need to: refactor TeX to use Unicode internally instead of other encodings (XeTeX), make the algorithm lazy or progressive or something so that if you write just one letter, the rendering of the document only changes for that letter (WYSIWYG) and write something more flexible and powerful than LaTeX.
The problem with mathematicians is that they (or at least all my teachers) wanted to be the machine too, and do all calculations themselves.
So they are really really bad writing a software spec.
Or they could put something like mod_rewrite natively in IIS, so windows users are not FORCED to use Apache just for the lack of features.
mod_rewrite is not that important for intranet or corporate sites, but it's fundamental for any web site that needs to be found via Google or other search engines.
And it's fundamental for RoR.
There's some Javascript that does that in Opera.
Just use Opera, fixes both things:
-Opera remembers form data in history
-Has undo for closed tabs
It's because each movie actually inherits the reviews of the last one.
Batman begins had a bad weekend because people still had Batman and Robin in mind.
Batman the Dark Knight got a great weekend because Batman begins was good, not only because of Ledger's death.
Spiderman 3 got a undeserved great weekend because Spiderman 2.
Even if Spiderman 4 is the best movie ever filmed, it will do bad, because Spiderman 3.
Critics reviews only really count after that first weekend.
That's the hard way dude.
svnadmin dump -r 0:500
(asumming 501 is the bad and last revision)
You have a very valid point.
This should be easier in SVN.
However, I have done it, and it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes.
It just requires some command-line fu.
I mean, information.
In this case, I prefer to read that information than the joke.
I know of /. official policy about jokes, but no useful informacion should be sacrificed because of that.
The problem is that kids will find ways around stuff that their parents restrict, no matter how clever you are with tech they'll be more clever than that.
How about: People will find ways around stuff that other people restrict (such as cops), no matter how clever the restrictors are with tech, they'll be more clever than that.
My point is: Real life-Adult world, is a world full of rules and regulations. I doesn't matter that not everybody follows the rules. Everybody knows there are rules and act based on that. So the kids can (and should) get used to a world with rules, if they choose to follow the rules that's their call. Childhood should be a carefree simulation of reality, not a simulation of barbieland or cybertron.
Otherwise you simply get spoiled children having a really hard time adjusting to reality when turning 18.
Nevermind that's easier to get people for a Counterstrike match than for Team Fortress 2.
Not that TF2 is bad in any way, but as it requires a bigger machine, the number of players gets smaller.