It's nice twice as small- it's the same dimensions more or less except it's not as wide- i.e. the width of the keyboard is less. The screen is proper aspect ratio though, which the C1XX were not.
Maybe, but all the apostrophes are in the right places as far as I can tell, which marks it as being in the top 1% of all/. posts for punctuation/grammar/spelling correctness...
You seem to not realize that the only reason why you don't care about.pro, but would about.com is that for years now everyone has been using.com, even though it is supposed to be for companies.
If it weren't for.com, we would probably have to know which country every site was in, which would peel back a layer of the "global internet", which should remain invisisble.
No way! Then, dude, you need to lighten up a bit. Seriously, violent video games or films will not turn your kid(s) into a killer. Before violent video games kids made up their own violent games for play. I remember particularly that when kids used to play "6 million dollar man" they would have plots involving Steve Austin ripping people's arms off and other such things that would never get into the tv show. Kids are just violent anyway....
But they can and do easily distinguish real-life violence from video game/film violence. True Story.
enjoying your 40s are you ? Outside and peer interaction are grossly overrated. Just look at all the nasty accidents and crime that can happen to your child outside, and add in peer interaction and you have the makings of teen-pregnancy...
I bet if you had been 8 when Doom came out, and your parents had told you that they had some twisted, hysterical philosophy that didn't include you getting to play FPS you would have told them to fuck right off.
Most kids get their games through piracy anyway, as they can't afford to shell out for every half-way decent game that's released, so it won't affect them.
I know, I know, it's the principle of the thing, but I dunno, I mean it's not like letting this become law will corrupt our virgin body of sensible laws which contain no fascist nonsense already.
Unlike Spider-man they haven't turned it into a video game yet. Maybe they should. Would a video game depicting (courts ruling that games depicting (courts ruling that games depicting (courts ruling that games depicting...
"On 1st January, 2050, it will start rather cloudy with outbreaks of rain, mainly in the north. These will clear up by late afternoon, leaving it warm with mild breezes in most of the country."
dude, I read your name as "Cybersex", and the start of your post: "My girlfriend graduated from high school just over a year ago, and I got to see how this works first hand." ...just sounded like the start of one of those "no, really, it's true" sex story posts.
I still wonder why in this modern day and age we don't have cars that work like arcade game cars, i.e. brake, accelerator (gas), steering.
You turn on the car, the engine idles, you press down on the accelerator, it goes forward; gear-shifting is done completely automatically: no clutch, no selector; no-one knows or cares what gear they are in.
Sure, there will always be purists who say that you get better performance with manual gearbox cars the way we have them now, but I just think that for the sort of driving that 99% of people do today, my solution is better, easier to learn and so on. The current system requires you to know more about how the car works than you need to know.
In programming terms we need better encapsulation- a simplified public interface.
I always thought they should have had a M. Beacon zombie in Typing of the Dead.
On a semi-related note there are hundreds of typing games for the PC in Japan: 2 Evangelion ones, gunbuster, space adventure cobra, gundam etc- it's quite the niche market.
Typing of the Dead really helped me make the transition to Dvorak though, because it doesn't low-level scan the keycodes, so re-mapped keyboards work fine with it.
step 1: microsoft start charging people for any software that performs an "equivalent" function to their own.
step 2: microsoft realize that the more shit they make the products the more money they make since the more software there is that does the same job
step 3: microsoft release only icon editors, tools for learning hiragana, currency converters and text editors and become the richest corporation in the multiverse
1) That the RAD IDE of Visual Basic allows an almost CAD-like programming experience. (There are completely visual programming languages, but they are experimental and non-mainstream).
2) That C# is only for writing subsciption-based software. While this may be the sorry-ass future of commercial programming, most c# programming right now has nothing to do with subscription at all.
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"since when is a copy/paste insightful?"
when it's a translation
graspee
It's nice twice as small- it's the same dimensions more or less except it's not as wide- i.e. the width of the keyboard is less. The screen is proper aspect ratio though, which the C1XX were not.
graspee
Maybe, but all the apostrophes are in the right places as far as I can tell, which marks it as being in the top 1% of all /. posts for punctuation/grammar/spelling correctness...
graspee
first post for ibm
I say we get rid of TLDs altogether.
Why can't they just be unregulated, like usenet?
Anyone have a theory or knowledge?
Also, why can't we have all unicode chars in the domain name ? This would rule for Japanese et al.
graspee
You seem to not realize that the only reason why you don't care about .pro, but would about .com is that for years now everyone has been using .com, even though it is supposed to be for companies.
.com, we would probably have to know which country every site was in, which would peel back a layer of the "global internet", which should remain invisisble.
If it weren't for
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No way! Then, dude, you need to lighten up a bit. Seriously, violent video games or films will not turn your kid(s) into a killer. Before violent video games kids made up their own violent games for play. I remember particularly that when kids used to play "6 million dollar man" they would have plots involving Steve Austin ripping people's arms off and other such things that would never get into the tv show. Kids are just violent anyway....
But they can and do easily distinguish real-life violence from video game/film violence. True Story.
graspee
There are billions of Japanese games where you can rape people. There's even a new 3D beat-em-up for the PC called "Battle Raper".
And yet Japan has the lowest level of rape of any developed country.
Food for thought.
graspee
enjoying your 40s are you ? Outside and peer interaction are grossly overrated. Just look at all the nasty accidents and crime that can happen to your child outside, and add in peer interaction and you have the makings of teen-pregnancy...
graspee
I bet if you had been 8 when Doom came out, and your parents had told you that they had some twisted, hysterical philosophy that didn't include you getting to play FPS you would have told them to fuck right off.
graspee
Most kids get their games through piracy anyway, as they can't afford to shell out for every half-way decent game that's released, so it won't affect them.
I know, I know, it's the principle of the thing, but I dunno, I mean it's not like letting this become law will corrupt our virgin body of sensible laws which contain no fascist nonsense already.
graspee
Unlike Spider-man they haven't turned it into a video game yet. Maybe they should. Would a video game depicting (courts ruling that games depicting (courts ruling that games depicting (courts ruling that games depicting ...
?
graspee
The end result of the project:
"On 1st January, 2050, it will start rather cloudy with outbreaks of rain, mainly in the north. These will clear up by late afternoon, leaving it warm with mild breezes in most of the country."
graspee
Such an intelligent and interesting post would make an excellent basis for an "Ask Slashdot" story.
graspee
Actually, although rarer in useage, "affect" is also a noun, and "effect" is a verb.
Doctor: She is showing a distinct lack of affect
He wanted to effect a change in local government.
graspee
dude, I read your name as "Cybersex", and the start of your post:
/. affecting my brain ?
"My girlfriend graduated from high school just over a year ago, and I got to see how this works first hand."
...just sounded like the start of one of those "no, really, it's true" sex story posts.
Am I sick, or is
graspee
"Windows comes with no languages preinstalled"
Not true, Windows comes with the WSH (Windows Scripting Host) supporting VBScript and JScript.
You indeed can just create a new text document, name it "whatever.vbs", write vbscript in it, then double-click it to run it.
graspee
I still wonder why in this modern day and age we don't have cars that work like arcade game cars, i.e. brake, accelerator (gas), steering.
You turn on the car, the engine idles, you press down on the accelerator, it goes forward; gear-shifting is done completely automatically: no clutch, no selector; no-one knows or cares what gear they are in.
Sure, there will always be purists who say that you get better performance with manual gearbox cars the way we have them now, but I just think that for the sort of driving that 99% of people do today, my solution is better, easier to learn and so on. The current system requires you to know more about how the car works than you need to know.
In programming terms we need better encapsulation- a simplified public interface.
graspee
I always thought they should have had a M. Beacon zombie in Typing of the Dead.
On a semi-related note there are hundreds of typing games for the PC in Japan: 2 Evangelion ones, gunbuster, space adventure cobra, gundam etc- it's quite the niche market.
Typing of the Dead really helped me make the transition to Dvorak though, because it doesn't low-level scan the keycodes, so re-mapped keyboards work fine with it.
graspee
"Ya know, it doesn't suprise me that much that politicians are for sale. But I never cease to be amazed at how low their prices seem to be."
Yeah, but pretty soon if you buy American politicians in the UK you will have to pay 17.5% VAT on them.
graspee
ever heard of faking your browser ident string ?
graspee
step 1: microsoft start charging people for any software that performs an "equivalent" function to their own.
step 2: microsoft realize that the more shit they make the products the more money they make since the more software there is that does the same job
step 3: microsoft release only icon editors, tools for learning hiragana, currency converters and text editors and become the richest corporation in the multiverse
graspee
Quake-C: The dog kicks your ass, then claims to 0wn j00.
C: the dog runs around incredibly fast but falls over a lot and crashes (into things)
Fortran77: your dog knows pi to 5 million places but can't interface with windows.
graspee
You seem to think two incorrect things:
1) That the RAD IDE of Visual Basic allows an almost CAD-like programming experience. (There are completely visual programming languages, but they are experimental and non-mainstream).
2) That C# is only for writing subsciption-based software. While this may be the sorry-ass future of commercial programming, most c# programming right now has nothing to do with subscription at all.
graspee
Sorry for any offense caused
(let's feed the trolls)
if you hadn't bothered to make your post, hundreds of smileys could have retained their noses!
Slashdot, slashdot, My smiley has no nose!
How does it smell ?
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