It didn't take me as long as you, but my first sitting with Office 2007 was a question of, apart from ctrl-o, how on earth do I open a document? I found it on my second sitting, but if you do a google on that issue, you'll find you're far from alone. Most unintuitive interface I've ever come across.
Apple has been using EFI in its intel based Macs since 2006. The EFI firmware allows the use of emulation modules so that, as an example, Mac EFI has a BIOS emulator allowing Macs to boot into Windows. On Macs the BIOS emulator is not perfect as there is no way you can actually edit or modify it without running the risk of bricking your machine after damaging the firmware, but there is an open source EFI interface for Macs called rEFIt that allows you to boot to a boot menu from where you can boot into Mac, Windows or Linux for example.
Amit Singh has written a book on prgramming the EFI interface on Macs which, for anyone considering getting into EFI programming is a good point to start with. Armed with a second hand Intel Mac Mini from ebay, you could get a head start by the time MSI release their motherboards.
I cannot imagine who on earth would want Flash content in PDFs. I imagine it is still some brainless marketing fuck at Adobe who thinks PDfs will trump Powerpoint for presentation and so they have to cram in just as much useless shit as can be crammed into a pptx/pps file.
What truly fucking bothers me is that the "fix" they offer is not a fix at all. Installing a release candidate Flash player across a company will not be easy in many cases and who the fuck is going to go searching for craptasticadobeshit.dll on all their machines. Sadly, this is such a problem that you have no choice, unless you want to block all Flash content and in many industries, such as media or design, that's simply impossible.
Adobe is so fucking lost it's not funny. Their Flash player is a buggy, unsecure piece of shit. Their Acrobat PDF Reader is even worse, slow to start up, full of utterly useless shit that easily 99% of people who need to view a pdf don't need, and regularly an opportunity for malware authors to get at your machine. On top of this, Adobe is so choking on their shit that they coded almost all the dialogs in the new CS5 suite in fucking Flash, leaving previously satisified customers seething with anger because dialogs that were already pretty unstandard in the last two version of the CS ballsup are now more often than not, simply not working anymore.
For the love of God, please someone, anyone, make a decent alternative to the CS suite so we don't have to put up with Adobe's increasingly bizarre attempt to remain relevant by shovelling ever more shit into what were previously perfectly good apps!
It is only his immense wealth that saved Steve Jobs' life after the liver transplant. He runs a very high risk of getting a cancer relapse, especially with his very obvious job intensity leading to heightened stress levels. If Steve Jobs does die, Apple will fold. Not immediately but it will fold within ten years or so, max. Despite all the crap with Windows and Linux, I kind of like to think the OS I'm using isn't dependent on the well-being of one man.
I like the idea very much, having had similar ideas myself some years ago to bridge the gap of communicating with people whose languages I don't know. The problem is that the grammar of different languages can be different enough to make direct transcription using these symbols more difficult than simply using Google's translate or a dictionary (or even learning the basics of the language itself).
For example: The basic word order in English is Subject Verb Object. In Turkish, it is Subject Object Verb. So, if a Turk writes I Water Want, you would probably understand but would almost certainly run into difficulties as soon as the phrase becomes more complex. If the Turk makes the previous sentence a little more complex, (I want water with sugar), it becomes "I water sugar with want". Turkish uses a different system of asking questions, for instance, so "Do I want water with sugar" becomes "I water sugar with want(question form)".
This carries over into many languages (some languages have no direct word for "to be", other have two or more forms, such as Spanish).
That makes this symbolic language useful only for very, very simple sentences, and glancing through the icons, it's also pretty obvious that it was developed by English speakers. For anything more complex, you're going to have to use a translator or, you know, actually learn the language.
I think that there will be time to do blaming AFTER the fucking well has been closed up, you fucking bastard. You and your crazy arse right wing tea-baggers are more concerned with having a black liberal president than saving god knows how many thousands of people's livelihoods from the biggest environmental disaster that the gulf has ever experienced.
I'm not a construction, geological or civil engineer, but one thing has been seriously bothering me ever since BP started with their rather strange schemes to plug the well, and that is, why not bury the well under several million tons of rock and mud? Yes, it would be expensive to excavate so much rock and sand (and place the sand into cloth bags to prevent it from drifting away under water, and yes it would be expensive to transport all that rock and sand to the area, but a)BP's paying (fuckers) and b)this neanderthal method would eventually work, even if one had to cap the well with a 200meter high mountain of rock and sand.
Given SE's habit of being somewhat less open about mods to their devices than almost anyone else except Motorola, I would wait for the Nokia N8 before deciding. Nokia has always been more flexible in this regard.
It might be news to you, but Google employs local lawyers, as do most large corporations, and the lawyers know the laws concerning data privacy. Making a butt stupid analogy about peering into windows is about as useful as the braindead fucks who make a car analogy about computer products. The courts will decide this matter here, and I suspect that Google will not get off lightly.
The European market is pretty big, bigger than the US and both Google and Microsoft make an enormous amount of money here. If they didn't they would surely cut their losses and leave.
He's talking about EU jurisdictions. And it is the law here, rightly or wrongly. You and I may not like it, but the people here are by and large happy with it, as are their elected governments.
According to the news reports, Google has been recording actual unencrypted data transmitted, be it email, web requests, chats etc. This is highly illegal in most places and would probably not go down well even in the US where the data privacy laws are less strict.
You, personally, Mr. Rophuine, may object to the EU data privacy laws, which is your right, and you wouldn't be alone, because ISPs are required by law in most EU nations to record internet connections and protocols for up to 6 months and many are unhappy with that, but it is their law, not yours. Not only that, but those governments are elected governments and by and large, people are happy with those laws. Until the courts decide on the case, Google is innocent, but if they do decide that Google is guilty, then Google should accept the punishment if it wants to continue to do business in the EU in general and Germany in particular.
For anything outside media production or CAD, there is almost no point in comparing machines of similar hardware specs these days. You will find that vendor guarantee coverage and time-spans, and response times and quality are all more important in terms of TCO, at least in my experience.
Until now, it has always been a toss up whether to blitz missions or to salvage them and loot them. Well, obviously, in future the looting bit will no longer be worth it in terms of isk/hour so players will simply be enticed to use Marauders even more than they do now, so as to speed up the process.
Personally, I think it's nice for miners and t1 industrialists, who will finally make a bit of money.
Eve is a very hard game to play. There are almost no other games with a learning curve as steep as Eve's, and certainly no MMOs. This has as a consequence that Eve has a relatively small player base. A further consequence of the small player base is that CCP, the company that makes Eve, needs to make sure that they can retain as many players as possible and not run the risk of making the player base so angry with any mistake so as to lose a significant amount of players. In a bigger MMO, this would perhaps be less consequential, but in Eve it would seriously damage the game.
The CSM (player voted representatives) came about as a consequence of the discovery by an Eve player that Eve devs were seriously cheating in game, aiding their own side with expensive items. The player reaction to that one, in a game which is already very hard, threatened to torpedo the game. So CCP created the CSM to represent player issues to CCP.
However, CCP never took the CSM seriously, resulting in the current lack of trust in CCP's willingness to take its customers seriously (CCP actually told the last CSM that they were not actually interested in the majority of the players but only in a subsection that lived in a specific "elite" part of Eve space). The resulting lack of belief in CCP and the CSM has led to widespread protests against voting for the CSM and CCP has once again relented by now making the CSM a "stakeholder" in the game.
This is, however, cosmetic, as there have been no commitments by CCP to actually take the player wishes any more seriously than they currently do. I personally would not hold my breath to see if anything positive comes of this. CCP has downgraded the CSM before (from its original oversight function to a merely representative one) and will very likely do so again once the current bad PR dies down again.
I think you should read, and barring that, at least watch the news a bit more. Arizona's immigration laws certainly target minorities in spirit if not not in letter.
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It didn't take me as long as you, but my first sitting with Office 2007 was a question of, apart from ctrl-o, how on earth do I open a document? I found it on my second sitting, but if you do a google on that issue, you'll find you're far from alone. Most unintuitive interface I've ever come across.
Hopefully sooner than later. bye.
Apple has been using EFI in its intel based Macs since 2006. The EFI firmware allows the use of emulation modules so that, as an example, Mac EFI has a BIOS emulator allowing Macs to boot into Windows. On Macs the BIOS emulator is not perfect as there is no way you can actually edit or modify it without running the risk of bricking your machine after damaging the firmware, but there is an open source EFI interface for Macs called rEFIt that allows you to boot to a boot menu from where you can boot into Mac, Windows or Linux for example.
Amit Singh has written a book on prgramming the EFI interface on Macs which, for anyone considering getting into EFI programming is a good point to start with. Armed with a second hand Intel Mac Mini from ebay, you could get a head start by the time MSI release their motherboards.
You could just register like the rest of us, you know?
I always thought that the trolls on facebook were actually Taliban texting on their mobiles from the middle of the Afghan desert!
I cannot imagine who on earth would want Flash content in PDFs. I imagine it is still some brainless marketing fuck at Adobe who thinks PDfs will trump Powerpoint for presentation and so they have to cram in just as much useless shit as can be crammed into a pptx/pps file.
What truly fucking bothers me is that the "fix" they offer is not a fix at all. Installing a release candidate Flash player across a company will not be easy in many cases and who the fuck is going to go searching for craptasticadobeshit.dll on all their machines. Sadly, this is such a problem that you have no choice, unless you want to block all Flash content and in many industries, such as media or design, that's simply impossible.
Adobe is so fucking lost it's not funny. Their Flash player is a buggy, unsecure piece of shit. Their Acrobat PDF Reader is even worse, slow to start up, full of utterly useless shit that easily 99% of people who need to view a pdf don't need, and regularly an opportunity for malware authors to get at your machine. On top of this, Adobe is so choking on their shit that they coded almost all the dialogs in the new CS5 suite in fucking Flash, leaving previously satisified customers seething with anger because dialogs that were already pretty unstandard in the last two version of the CS ballsup are now more often than not, simply not working anymore.
For the love of God, please someone, anyone, make a decent alternative to the CS suite so we don't have to put up with Adobe's increasingly bizarre attempt to remain relevant by shovelling ever more shit into what were previously perfectly good apps!
"Go screw yourself" as you said to Apple.
It is only his immense wealth that saved Steve Jobs' life after the liver transplant. He runs a very high risk of getting a cancer relapse, especially with his very obvious job intensity leading to heightened stress levels. If Steve Jobs does die, Apple will fold. Not immediately but it will fold within ten years or so, max. Despite all the crap with Windows and Linux, I kind of like to think the OS I'm using isn't dependent on the well-being of one man.
1. Dig up a mountain
2. Carry rocks and sand to coast and load up on ships
3. Dump all that on the leak
4. No profit, only a closed leak.
It could also be a pearl necklace...
I like the idea very much, having had similar ideas myself some years ago to bridge the gap of communicating with people whose languages I don't know. The problem is that the grammar of different languages can be different enough to make direct transcription using these symbols more difficult than simply using Google's translate or a dictionary (or even learning the basics of the language itself).
For example: The basic word order in English is Subject Verb Object. In Turkish, it is Subject Object Verb. So, if a Turk writes I Water Want, you would probably understand but would almost certainly run into difficulties as soon as the phrase becomes more complex. If the Turk makes the previous sentence a little more complex, (I want water with sugar), it becomes "I water sugar with want". Turkish uses a different system of asking questions, for instance, so "Do I want water with sugar" becomes "I water sugar with want(question form)".
This carries over into many languages (some languages have no direct word for "to be", other have two or more forms, such as Spanish).
That makes this symbolic language useful only for very, very simple sentences, and glancing through the icons, it's also pretty obvious that it was developed by English speakers. For anything more complex, you're going to have to use a translator or, you know, actually learn the language.
So what's the pay at BP like?
I think that there will be time to do blaming AFTER the fucking well has been closed up, you fucking bastard. You and your crazy arse right wing tea-baggers are more concerned with having a black liberal president than saving god knows how many thousands of people's livelihoods from the biggest environmental disaster that the gulf has ever experienced.
I'm not a construction, geological or civil engineer, but one thing has been seriously bothering me ever since BP started with their rather strange schemes to plug the well, and that is, why not bury the well under several million tons of rock and mud? Yes, it would be expensive to excavate so much rock and sand (and place the sand into cloth bags to prevent it from drifting away under water, and yes it would be expensive to transport all that rock and sand to the area, but a)BP's paying (fuckers) and b)this neanderthal method would eventually work, even if one had to cap the well with a 200meter high mountain of rock and sand.
Given SE's habit of being somewhat less open about mods to their devices than almost anyone else except Motorola, I would wait for the Nokia N8 before deciding. Nokia has always been more flexible in this regard.
It might be news to you, but Google employs local lawyers, as do most large corporations, and the lawyers know the laws concerning data privacy. Making a butt stupid analogy about peering into windows is about as useful as the braindead fucks who make a car analogy about computer products. The courts will decide this matter here, and I suspect that Google will not get off lightly.
The European market is pretty big, bigger than the US and both Google and Microsoft make an enormous amount of money here. If they didn't they would surely cut their losses and leave.
He's talking about EU jurisdictions. And it is the law here, rightly or wrongly. You and I may not like it, but the people here are by and large happy with it, as are their elected governments.
According to the news reports, Google has been recording actual unencrypted data transmitted, be it email, web requests, chats etc. This is highly illegal in most places and would probably not go down well even in the US where the data privacy laws are less strict.
You, personally, Mr. Rophuine, may object to the EU data privacy laws, which is your right, and you wouldn't be alone, because ISPs are required by law in most EU nations to record internet connections and protocols for up to 6 months and many are unhappy with that, but it is their law, not yours. Not only that, but those governments are elected governments and by and large, people are happy with those laws. Until the courts decide on the case, Google is innocent, but if they do decide that Google is guilty, then Google should accept the punishment if it wants to continue to do business in the EU in general and Germany in particular.
For anything outside media production or CAD, there is almost no point in comparing machines of similar hardware specs these days. You will find that vendor guarantee coverage and time-spans, and response times and quality are all more important in terms of TCO, at least in my experience.
Until now, it has always been a toss up whether to blitz missions or to salvage them and loot them. Well, obviously, in future the looting bit will no longer be worth it in terms of isk/hour so players will simply be enticed to use Marauders even more than they do now, so as to speed up the process.
Personally, I think it's nice for miners and t1 industrialists, who will finally make a bit of money.
Eve is a very hard game to play. There are almost no other games with a learning curve as steep as Eve's, and certainly no MMOs. This has as a consequence that Eve has a relatively small player base. A further consequence of the small player base is that CCP, the company that makes Eve, needs to make sure that they can retain as many players as possible and not run the risk of making the player base so angry with any mistake so as to lose a significant amount of players. In a bigger MMO, this would perhaps be less consequential, but in Eve it would seriously damage the game.
The CSM (player voted representatives) came about as a consequence of the discovery by an Eve player that Eve devs were seriously cheating in game, aiding their own side with expensive items. The player reaction to that one, in a game which is already very hard, threatened to torpedo the game. So CCP created the CSM to represent player issues to CCP.
However, CCP never took the CSM seriously, resulting in the current lack of trust in CCP's willingness to take its customers seriously (CCP actually told the last CSM that they were not actually interested in the majority of the players but only in a subsection that lived in a specific "elite" part of Eve space). The resulting lack of belief in CCP and the CSM has led to widespread protests against voting for the CSM and CCP has once again relented by now making the CSM a "stakeholder" in the game.
This is, however, cosmetic, as there have been no commitments by CCP to actually take the player wishes any more seriously than they currently do. I personally would not hold my breath to see if anything positive comes of this. CCP has downgraded the CSM before (from its original oversight function to a merely representative one) and will very likely do so again once the current bad PR dies down again.
I think you should read, and barring that, at least watch the news a bit more. Arizona's immigration laws certainly target minorities in spirit if not not in letter.
You said it.