Face it - abstract computing on gadgets is for geeks only. "Could" without much of subsequent "would". Functionality of gadget is predesigned - hard to beat it. If something can beat it today - it is door to the web.
And this was just another solid design choice (unlike Safari on Windows?).
No, I do not see place for sarcasm in the issue, at all. This must be western "culture" of speaking opposite things to express something, developing cynicism in yourself, praising same-sex relations as achievements of kinds, exporting peace by weapons, values by shallow seduction, etc. I am not following it, and even feel very good about that. If you had separate planet, I would feel even better. Sorry, you maybe are good guy overall, and this site used to be more informative.
I settled with La Pavoni lever machine Europiccola Professional PLH half year ago. Previously toyed with italian Pratica (correct?) made percolator (not aluminium, of course), but there is huge difference in what can be achieved. Never before was I enjoying that thick crema, nor pleasures of milk froth in coffee. Absolutely recommend La Pavoni for one, who wants to control process himself and have quality coffee making (and gorgeous cocoa).
For those, who have heart problems, caused by coffee, I'd recommend trying different beans or toying with milk. Having some sweets or cake or similar also could soften impact. To me first bag of italian Chico D'oro for that machine was clearly making me irritated after cups (making feel unrest, nervous). Dutch Bravissimo roast beans were of excellent taste and impact, instead. Now I got bag of Paulig Espresso, which was slightly cheaper, that look gorgeous visually (dark, big and oily surface beans), and result in enormous amount of crema from one-cup filter. Coffee is good, sound. My current behavior with 1 kg bag after purchase is to split it in half, and place one part into sealed container, filled as much as possible. I heard it is no good to keep coffee in refridgerator, so we no longer do it. The rest is left in the bag, and consumed until finished. That way I get fresher beans in whole - contact with air is biggest enemy of theirs. Having fresh beans, of course, is also important (date is stated on bag, some local big-store resellers have nerve of offering coffee with date either nearly ending, or hardly readable, which amounts to the same, beware, this coffee can even smell bad).
Single serious health impact, I currently experience from coffee, is it's tendency to wash out vitamines, which results in tired eyes while at computer for big part of day. Well, this is something I sacrifice at chosen pace.
For grinding coffee I chose very simple Braun grinder, where you can control how fine grinding is (at or near finest setting, beans and chosen filter bottom size dependant), that did not cost nearly second coffee machine, and is fine for me. There are seriously expensive grinders, but I did not buy into that need.
There are excellent resources for coffee geeks (like coffeegeek.com) elsewhere online, too.
You are wrong, they materialise energy first of all. You start with energy, you end with material wood. From wich you can extract and apply energy, when locally needed. Until you behave so, energy is captured. There are no myths in that, are there?
Speaking of plain surface colour - I would not concentrate on that, as this does not appear most important.
Studies by Roland Ennos, University of Manchester UK, state, that, places in cities, where groups of trees are growing, have down to 12C less warmth, than nearby centers without plants there. Not impressive? They explain it as plants behaving similar way to human's sweat - evarporating water cools down surfaces (me adds: they are 3d structures growing on plain square surface, and have capillary systems to extract water from depth, it would not evarporate from naturally). The guidlines of this research say, that by expanding green areas (to the roofs, as example) could compensate up to 4C globally.
Finally, thinking along your lines deforestation would be HELPFUL, which is what, actually, now happens and is not only wrong thing, but also of no help at all, I'd say.
I would wish people express at list instinctive thoughts on subjects as important as this - even then they would be more correct, that coming with ungrounded statements.
I can well recognize situation - however yet managed to get my recommendation chosen. One reason for that to happen is, of course, certain track record where what I formerly have said, turned to be true. That is trust, you have to be build to be trusted, not questioned in the first place. It comes with time, naturally.
Another thing is providing clear summary information about possible choises: come down to several of the most obvious solutions to problem, describe each by understandible strengths and weak sides (one performs better, another costs more to use, being safe choice in terms of being popular solution, third has best cost/performance/engineering balance). I do obviously state what my choice would be in this set. If there are additional questions - have them answered, and I do not see how decision maker could deviate far from my recommendation, me being expert in my field. Of course he could, if basing on something, that he considers critically important - like cheapest purchase is best. But, then, what future this business will have is well worth of considering seriously.
From myths to truths: if planet population and comfortability expectations grow constantly against deforestation and miserable energy economy, what else can be got?
Respect to EU for coming up with deserved enforcing of market quality. Silly, how weak or non-existant were efforts of US institutions to do something along that. Netscape or Real vs MS cases were irrelevant by the time they even started, not to say they didn't solve much for the industry and market as such. US once had thriving software and computing sector. While there is some action in HW, persuasive "partnering" of MS with makers of most consumer products led to minimal inventiveness in SW. While Vista is mostly surprising by how much of it can be so similar to Mac OS/X, it was shocking to see Office 2007 - what, innovation?!
well, sorry, wasn't it about K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D. If not even about layout - what funky drivers are for that thing? Boot anything, check, if typing is well happening, and if not, safely ship to service center.
Really surprised by that much of inventiveness in discussing particular issue...
Do you really find name of that OS in hardware warranty terms? As that seems very unlikely, person, that was speaking in the name of the company, must have got something wrong, and you could hope his management is more informed about those terms.
I was employed for a while by U.S. company/enterpreneur, who seemed to be walking along thin line of ethics in engineering, as we'd understand it. Those were attempts to make graspable profit from online presence. Lucky I was not to be exposed to the parts, that would make me uncomfortable in my jobs. But there were more people hired, and at least half of them should have been not residents of U.S. (just as I am not) - some of them should have been doing parts, that were crossing into the darker side, I suspect.
As those were rather short - term profitability efforts (better name it speculation), I doubt any success is still with that business. Wish better luck and models to net enterpreneurs! Garbage of the net is destined to rot.
Linus is right, and god bless freedom of speach. Gnome people are doing whatever they wish, but what they do IMHO, watching linux for over 10 years now, didn't help much spread of opensource (except gimp, because it is still useful, especially without having close replacement). KDE is making better experience, as do Mac OS/X and even Windows. And experience of user is most important. To add to that, dispersing of efforts in free software is not only benefitting, but we are past point where it is damaging and keeping all those endless varieties in their eternal, never finishing childhood. Which, probably, is not exactly what was intended.
I second parent post - you should be looking into specialist game publisher, (neither Hasbro nor Mattel are likely to be your supporters), probably in Europe, who would help you polish and promote your product, if it is really somewhat promising. Before you do that, it might be beneficial to test and strenghten very idea of your game, if still possible, best would be to have actual group of people trying to enjoy gameplay, watching them. Excellent idea, quality publishing and promotion means, that publisher would help you with - those would be essential, I believe.
"Cheap oil is the backbone of the world's economy."
I would blame exactly direction, thing, named by that last word, is taking. There is in it something you see and maybe even like. There are, not so obvious, things, you will not like at all, as you will experience them more and more in their certainty.
I believe, basing on your previous experience, you tend to underestimate scale of CHANGES this brings along - it is not easy imaginable, though, so you have your excuses.
It is not that much about what form of energy is being extracted and disposed as heat (oil or atom), rather why critically more of it is disposed (partially, because we still haven't learned to collect and materialize leftovers). I drive car (better designed), that eats half the amount of one, I drove before, and do not drive twice as much. Why this pattern doesn't matter?
My sincere believe is, that we dispose more, than we used to before - firsthand. This is overwhelming pattern. We give jobs (global "economy") to more people from lands, that had before lesser comfort expectations and have overwhelming plenty of population, still growing fast. We became accustomed to disposeful way of living without looking back at what is wrong with it, and bring this garbage generating "modern times" fashion as flag of the future to an increasingly "liberated" world.
And isn't time running away to think all this over?
Actually, I find strength of my small personal IT services business in being gentle and frank with users - as a result, we stick for longest terms possible, I do even occasionally think it goes too well. Looking back - those long long years of working together still have to stand for something.
"Microsoft, which had 501.7 million visitors" - those are passive MSN page loads, that should not be counted as visits. I often notice this default left at my clients, but have yet to see somebody using it. As well as Media player forceful "rich" interface horror.
Besides, google start page often is used for similar purpose - just because it loads fast, is probably useful, and looks more attractive than about:blank.
"Reflective dust in the stratosphere" - first of all, we should focus on energy, that was accumulated during long, long time, and also that, encapsulated in the form of potential (nuclear, etc.). Isolation from incoming (more-less stable) energy is not the point, perhaps. Breaking incoming quantity may, even, damage those established forms, that depend on exactly that.
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Face it - abstract computing on gadgets is for geeks only.
"Could" without much of subsequent "would".
Functionality of gadget is predesigned - hard to beat it.
If something can beat it today - it is door to the web.
And this was just another solid design choice (unlike
Safari on Windows?).
No, I do not see place for sarcasm in the issue, at all. This must be western "culture" of speaking opposite things to express something, developing cynicism in yourself, praising same-sex relations as achievements of kinds, exporting peace by weapons, values by shallow seduction, etc. I am not following it, and even feel very good about that. If you had separate planet, I would feel even better. Sorry, you maybe are good guy overall, and this site used to be more informative.
I settled with La Pavoni lever machine Europiccola Professional PLH half year ago. Previously toyed with italian Pratica (correct?) made percolator (not aluminium, of course), but there is huge difference in what can be achieved. Never before was I enjoying that thick crema, nor pleasures of milk froth in coffee. Absolutely recommend La Pavoni for one, who wants to control process himself and have quality coffee making (and gorgeous cocoa).
For those, who have heart problems, caused by coffee, I'd recommend trying different beans or toying with milk. Having some sweets or cake or similar also could soften impact. To me first bag of italian Chico D'oro for that machine was clearly making me irritated after cups (making feel unrest, nervous). Dutch Bravissimo roast beans were of excellent taste and impact, instead. Now I got bag of Paulig Espresso, which was slightly cheaper, that look gorgeous visually (dark, big and oily surface beans), and result in enormous amount of crema from one-cup filter. Coffee is good, sound. My current behavior with 1 kg bag after purchase is to split it in half, and place one part into sealed container, filled as much as possible. I heard it is no good to keep coffee in refridgerator, so we no longer do it. The rest is left in the bag, and consumed until finished. That way I get fresher beans in whole - contact with air is biggest enemy of theirs. Having fresh beans, of course, is also important (date is stated on bag, some local big-store resellers have nerve of offering coffee with date either nearly ending, or hardly readable, which amounts to the same, beware, this coffee can even smell bad).
Single serious health impact, I currently experience from coffee, is it's tendency to wash out vitamines, which results in tired eyes while at computer for big part of day. Well, this is something I sacrifice at chosen pace.
For grinding coffee I chose very simple Braun grinder, where you can control how fine grinding is (at or near finest setting, beans and chosen filter bottom size dependant), that did not cost nearly second coffee machine, and is fine for me. There are seriously expensive grinders, but I did not buy into that need.
There are excellent resources for coffee geeks (like coffeegeek.com) elsewhere online, too.
Have thick crema!
You are wrong, they materialise energy first of all. You start with energy, you end with material wood. From wich you can extract and apply energy, when locally needed. Until you behave so, energy is captured. There are no myths in that, are there?
Speaking of plain surface colour - I would not concentrate on that, as this does not appear most important.
Studies by Roland Ennos, University of Manchester UK, state, that, places in cities, where groups of trees are growing, have down to 12C less warmth, than nearby centers without plants there. Not impressive? They explain it as plants behaving similar way to human's sweat - evarporating water cools down surfaces (me adds: they are 3d structures growing on plain square surface, and have capillary systems to extract water from depth, it would not evarporate from naturally). The guidlines of this research say, that by expanding green areas (to the roofs, as example) could compensate up to 4C globally.
Finally, thinking along your lines deforestation would be HELPFUL, which is what, actually, now happens and is not only wrong thing, but also of no help at all, I'd say.
I would wish people express at list instinctive thoughts on subjects as important as this - even then they would be more correct, that coming with ungrounded statements.
I can well recognize situation - however yet managed to get my recommendation chosen. One reason for that to happen is, of course, certain track record where what I formerly have said, turned to be true. That is trust, you have to be build to be trusted, not questioned in the first place. It comes with time, naturally.
Another thing is providing clear summary information about possible choises: come down to several of the most obvious solutions to problem, describe each by understandible strengths and weak sides (one performs better, another costs more to use, being safe choice in terms of being popular solution, third has best cost/performance/engineering balance). I do obviously state what my choice would be in this set. If there are additional questions - have them answered, and I do not see how decision maker could deviate far from my recommendation, me being expert in my field. Of course he could, if basing on something, that he considers critically important - like cheapest purchase is best. But, then, what future this business will have is well worth of considering seriously.
From myths to truths: if planet population and comfortability expectations grow constantly against deforestation and miserable energy economy, what else can be got?
IMHO, the only quick remedy is TREES.
everything is destined to experience the terror of absolutism of THE BUCK
Respect to EU for coming up with deserved enforcing of market quality. Silly, how weak or non-existant were efforts of US institutions to do something along that. Netscape or Real vs MS cases were irrelevant by the time they even started, not to say they didn't solve much for the industry and market as such. US once had thriving software and computing sector. While there is some action in HW, persuasive "partnering" of MS with makers of most consumer products led to minimal inventiveness in SW. While Vista is mostly surprising by how much of it can be so similar to Mac OS/X, it was shocking to see Office 2007 - what, innovation?!
Go, Europe!
> I'm really surprised at how bad your German to English translation software is.
bombed I must feel. That level of phantasms! Stunning.
well, sorry, wasn't it about K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D. If not even about layout - what funky drivers are for that thing? Boot anything, check, if typing is well happening, and if not, safely ship to service center.
Really surprised by that much of inventiveness in discussing particular issue...
If replication ever could mean the same, as innovation. How much different things could be...
Me Too - doesn't it already speak for itself?
Do you really find name of that OS in hardware warranty terms? As that seems very unlikely, person, that was speaking in the name of the company, must have got something wrong, and you could hope his management is more informed about those terms.
I was employed for a while by U.S. company/enterpreneur, who seemed to be walking along thin line of ethics in engineering, as we'd understand it. Those were attempts to make graspable profit from online presence. Lucky I was not to be exposed to the parts, that would make me uncomfortable in my jobs. But there were more people hired, and at least half of them should have been not residents of U.S. (just as I am not) - some of them should have been doing parts, that were crossing into the darker side, I suspect.
As those were rather short - term profitability efforts (better name it speculation), I doubt any success is still with that business. Wish better luck and models to net enterpreneurs! Garbage of the net is destined to rot.
Linus is right, and god bless freedom of speach. Gnome people are doing whatever they wish, but what they do IMHO, watching linux for over 10 years now, didn't help much spread of opensource (except gimp, because it is still useful, especially without having close replacement). KDE is making better experience, as do Mac OS/X and even Windows. And experience of user is most important. To add to that, dispersing of efforts in free software is not only benefitting, but we are past point where it is damaging and keeping all those endless varieties in their eternal, never finishing childhood. Which, probably, is not exactly what was intended.
I second parent post - you should be looking into specialist game publisher, (neither Hasbro nor Mattel are likely to be your supporters), probably in Europe, who would help you polish and promote your product, if it is really somewhat promising. Before you do that, it might be beneficial to test and strenghten very idea of your game, if still possible, best would be to have actual group of people trying to enjoy gameplay, watching them. Excellent idea, quality publishing and promotion means, that publisher would help you with - those would be essential, I believe.
Good luck!
"Cheap oil is the backbone of the world's economy."
I would blame exactly direction, thing, named by that last word, is taking. There is in it something you see and maybe even like. There are, not so obvious, things, you will not like at all, as you will experience them more and more in their certainty.
So, water is in there for a while - what then with the heat, evaporation from those surfaces? How much additional heat you dispose making this true?
I believe, basing on your previous experience, you tend to underestimate scale of CHANGES this brings along - it is not easy imaginable, though, so you have your excuses.
It is not that much about what form of energy is being extracted and disposed as heat (oil or atom), rather why critically more of it is disposed (partially, because we still haven't learned to collect and materialize leftovers). I drive car (better designed), that eats half the amount of one, I drove before, and do not drive twice as much. Why this pattern doesn't matter?
My sincere believe is, that we dispose more, than we used to before - firsthand. This is overwhelming pattern. We give jobs (global "economy") to more people from lands, that had before lesser comfort expectations and have overwhelming plenty of population, still growing fast. We became accustomed to disposeful way of living without looking back at what is wrong with it, and bring this garbage generating "modern times" fashion as flag of the future to an increasingly "liberated" world.
And isn't time running away to think all this over?
Actually, I find strength of my small personal IT services business in being gentle and frank with users - as a result, we stick for longest terms possible, I do even occasionally think it goes too well. Looking back - those long long years of working together still have to stand for something.
Google was great for quite a while. Don't you find first positions in search result suspicious nowadays?
"Microsoft, which had 501.7 million visitors" - those are passive MSN page loads, that should not be counted as visits. I often notice this default left at my clients, but have yet to see somebody using it. As well as Media player forceful "rich" interface horror.
Besides, google start page often is used for similar purpose - just because it loads fast, is probably useful, and looks more attractive than about:blank.
you
yep, because aim of project itself was pretty shitty - why not to write nicely designed letter to Oracle before THIS THING anniversary?
Peace,
"Reflective dust in the stratosphere" - first of all, we should focus on energy, that was accumulated during long, long time, and also that, encapsulated in the form of potential (nuclear, etc.). Isolation from incoming (more-less stable) energy is not the point, perhaps. Breaking incoming quantity may, even, damage those established forms, that depend on exactly that.