The entire article is misleading with regards to 135 degrees being optimum. They only tested 3 positions: hunched forward, straight up (90 degrees), and reclining (135 degrees). Not surprisingly, 135 degrees was better than the other two. But it's hardly optimum. They didn't test 95 degrees, 100 degrees, 130 degrees, etc., to find a true optimum. That's a study I'd like to see.
For the geometrically challenged, such as myself, the 135-degree thigh-back angle they mention can be more simply explained as reclining at a 45-degree angle. Isn't that easier to understand? They could have said that to begin with.
If that law were passed in the USA, I doubt he'd be saying "Oh well, I'll just smuggle my code out of the country and host it on foreign servers. No biggie."
Amen! I spent a great deal of time configuring Miranda, and for the most part I was able to get something fairly nice--as long as I didn't actually message anyone. Making the mess of plugins cooperate long enough to have a modern and featureful message window was far too much trouble.
That's not proprietary. That's just lousy. There is a difference.
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I can answer that even without a mythbusting license...equal and opposite reaction. The concussive force couldn't be any worse than the kick from the gun, and therefore of no concern whatsoever.
Is Ajax a big mess compared to what it could be? Sure. Am I glad we have it? You bet.
If we had to wait for all the browser makers to come together to design, from scratch, an entirely new web architecture that has all the features we want, and that does it simply and elegantly, we'd still be waiting in 2040, using IE 6 features.
Ajax gives the web a big shot in the arm at a time when it sorely needs it, and it gives it to us now.
mikkom wrote: all you submit belongs to Google....one of the main problems of the service
No it doesn't.
From their TOS: Google claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google Base. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Google Base and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate.
Geomon wrote: "I remember getting Teamspeak to contact my family and friends....Now Teamspeak charges for their service....it was sad to see it go subscription only."
Teamspeak is not subscription only, and does not charge for their service. Unless you are a business or charge people to access your server.
For your stated purpose, talking to your family and friends, it's as free as it ever was, for up to 100 people per machine. I use it every day.
Nice Guy Bob innocently invites Spammer Jim via a GMail spool site. Spammer Jim creates 50 sub-accounts for his spam operation, and 50 more under each of them. Now he has 2500 accounts.
Spammer Jim starts sending spam. Google gets thousands of spam complaints regarding 800 of Spammer Jim's sub-accounts. A simple view of the invitation tree shows that the 800 accounts were invited from 22 of Jim's top-level accounts. Jim is obviously involved in spam, since he spawned 22 spammers. Delete Jim and his entire tree from Gmail. Problem solved. As for Nice Guy Bob, he only invited 1 spammer, and is clearly an innocent user.
They undoubtedly have various algorithms to monitor the tree and find the problem branches. They'll need to take into account a power-user who has invited hundreds or thousands of users, accidently including 18 spammers, but who is still a good branch. Whereas someone else who has sent only 3 invites, but all 3 to spammers, is a bad branch.
Has anyone ever been terminated for inviting too many spammers?
The research had absolutely nothing to do with people exaggerating eyewitness accounts. It showed that your visual coretex stops processing input for a split second after seeing an image that causes an emotional response.
So instead of, "He was an football player with a gun," you'd have, "What guy?" Assuming the guy only hung around for 1/10th of a second.
The predicted mass conversion to Firefox is flawed reasoning. IE 6 users aren't going to say, "Oh my gosh, IE 7 for XP is out! My IE 6 on 98 is now worthless! Oh horrors! I'd better download Firefox pronto!"
They'll just ignore the announcement and keep on using IE 6.0, 5.5, and 5.0, just as they have been for years.
I can see it now...we spend $18.2 billion dollars to send a death-row inmate to Mars, and when he gets there, he says, "Screw you," and plays solitaire until his oxygen runs out.
If it was truly a few 5 MB transfers per person per day, life would go on. But that isn't the case. It's a hundred students sending MP3s and warez to hundreds or thousands of people a day, each. Out of your dorm. On your hall. So that it's faster to walk to the next room with a floppy.
Until my wife's university blocked file-stealing, their external connection was only fractionally as responsive as my 56k modem.
Ah...I still have my Model 100, and it works perfectly, other than sticky keys. It was my first computer, and I learned to program on it. Many hundreds of hours were spent writing Choose Your Own Adventure-style games, Adventure games, and with time, lots of peek & poke video games.
It had 24 KB of ram, and when I ran out, I wrote programs to cassette tape. Years later, when I first used a modem (we didn't have a phone back then), my first thought was that it sounded just like those cassette tapes.
I still remember the "edit" trick...you could only edit a limited amount of program code at once, and if you wrote too much while in Edit mode, it wouldn't let you exit without deleting it. But if you did a Cut, then exited Edit mode, you could Paste it, and still keep your code.
Why do published writers write? There is fame and fortune. And the desire to entertain, to make readers happy. To feel that you have given someone a chance, for a few hours, to live another life, to be another person.
If, after my death, the publication of my unfinished work makes even one person happy, I will rest in peace.
There's a setting in the Options/Game Options menu for a Low Quality Sky. Change it to No, and you'll get your starry night back.
Then click on System, and make sure your Lighting is set to Light Map (high) and not Vertex (low). The latter gives the walls a false brightness, which may be your problem. It will also reduce your FPS. Finish by clicking Apply.
I don't like the new look either. It seems like a different, and less realistic, game. And the icons are harder to decipher. But I suppose I'll get used to it, and not like the old way.
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The entire article is misleading with regards to 135 degrees being optimum. They only tested 3 positions: hunched forward, straight up (90 degrees), and reclining (135 degrees). Not surprisingly, 135 degrees was better than the other two. But it's hardly optimum. They didn't test 95 degrees, 100 degrees, 130 degrees, etc., to find a true optimum. That's a study I'd like to see. For the geometrically challenged, such as myself, the 135-degree thigh-back angle they mention can be more simply explained as reclining at a 45-degree angle. Isn't that easier to understand? They could have said that to begin with.
This is a +5 informative?
If that law were passed in the USA, I doubt he'd be saying "Oh well, I'll just smuggle my code out of the country and host it on foreign servers. No biggie."
I agree. It's an interesting and potentially great idea to separate the system from the desktop, but poorly designed & implemented.
Amen! I spent a great deal of time configuring Miranda, and for the most part I was able to get something fairly nice--as long as I didn't actually message anyone. Making the mess of plugins cooperate long enough to have a modern and featureful message window was far too much trouble.
That's not proprietary. That's just lousy. There is a difference.
I can answer that even without a mythbusting license...equal and opposite reaction. The concussive force couldn't be any worse than the kick from the gun, and therefore of no concern whatsoever.
Not a problem. You're completely anonymous to the advertiser. Google doesn't give them your number and blocks caller ID.
Is Ajax a big mess compared to what it could be? Sure. Am I glad we have it? You bet.
If we had to wait for all the browser makers to come together to design, from scratch, an entirely new web architecture that has all the features we want, and that does it simply and elegantly, we'd still be waiting in 2040, using IE 6 features.
Ajax gives the web a big shot in the arm at a time when it sorely needs it, and it gives it to us now.
If you think that the speed of your mouse cursor is a good judge of operating system speed...
mikkom wrote: all you submit belongs to Google....one of the main problems of the service
No it doesn't.
From their TOS: Google claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google Base. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Google Base and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate.
Geomon wrote: "I remember getting Teamspeak to contact my family and friends....Now Teamspeak charges for their service....it was sad to see it go subscription only."
Teamspeak is not subscription only, and does not charge for their service. Unless you are a business or charge people to access your server.
For your stated purpose, talking to your family and friends, it's as free as it ever was, for up to 100 people per machine. I use it every day.
This is just an airplane. Nothing at all do with a car. Those three piddly wheels would fall off on the first pothole.
The only interesting thing about it is that it is VTOL (vertical take-off and landing).
That's the beauty of the invitation system.
Nice Guy Bob innocently invites Spammer Jim via a GMail spool site. Spammer Jim creates 50 sub-accounts for his spam operation, and 50 more under each of them. Now he has 2500 accounts.
Spammer Jim starts sending spam. Google gets thousands of spam complaints regarding 800 of Spammer Jim's sub-accounts. A simple view of the invitation tree shows that the 800 accounts were invited from 22 of Jim's top-level accounts. Jim is obviously involved in spam, since he spawned 22 spammers. Delete Jim and his entire tree from Gmail. Problem solved. As for Nice Guy Bob, he only invited 1 spammer, and is clearly an innocent user.
They undoubtedly have various algorithms to monitor the tree and find the problem branches. They'll need to take into account a power-user who has invited hundreds or thousands of users, accidently including 18 spammers, but who is still a good branch. Whereas someone else who has sent only 3 invites, but all 3 to spammers, is a bad branch.
Has anyone ever been terminated for inviting too many spammers?
Read the article!
The research had absolutely nothing to do with people exaggerating eyewitness accounts. It showed that your visual coretex stops processing input for a split second after seeing an image that causes an emotional response.
So instead of, "He was an football player with a gun," you'd have, "What guy?" Assuming the guy only hung around for 1/10th of a second.
It won't work for me either (FF 1.0.6). It's dropping my login whenever I try to save changes.
I disabled all Google-oriented extensions, no help.
The predicted mass conversion to Firefox is flawed reasoning. IE 6 users aren't going to say, "Oh my gosh, IE 7 for XP is out! My IE 6 on 98 is now worthless! Oh horrors! I'd better download Firefox pronto!"
They'll just ignore the announcement and keep on using IE 6.0, 5.5, and 5.0, just as they have been for years.
I can see it now...we spend $18.2 billion dollars to send a death-row inmate to Mars, and when he gets there, he says, "Screw you," and plays solitaire until his oxygen runs out.
Certified mail is thoroughly sealed with special tape at every envelope seam by the Post Office before it is accepted. Or at least my mail was.
If it was truly a few 5 MB transfers per person per day, life would go on. But that isn't the case. It's a hundred students sending MP3s and warez to hundreds or thousands of people a day, each. Out of your dorm. On your hall. So that it's faster to walk to the next room with a floppy.
Until my wife's university blocked file-stealing, their external connection was only fractionally as responsive as my 56k modem.
I'd rather have my friends and family alive and forever in debt to the drug companies, than dead and unburdened by such silly worries as money.
Ah...I still have my Model 100, and it works perfectly, other than sticky keys. It was my first computer, and I learned to program on it. Many hundreds of hours were spent writing Choose Your Own Adventure-style games, Adventure games, and with time, lots of peek & poke video games.
It had 24 KB of ram, and when I ran out, I wrote programs to cassette tape. Years later, when I first used a modem (we didn't have a phone back then), my first thought was that it sounded just like those cassette tapes.
I still remember the "edit" trick...you could only edit a limited amount of program code at once, and if you wrote too much while in Edit mode, it wouldn't let you exit without deleting it. But if you did a Cut, then exited Edit mode, you could Paste it, and still keep your code.
Be happy. (c:
Why do published writers write? There is fame and fortune. And the desire to entertain, to make readers happy. To feel that you have given someone a chance, for a few hours, to live another life, to be another person.
If, after my death, the publication of my unfinished work makes even one person happy, I will rest in peace.
It's the Light Map that will reduce your FPS, not the Vertex, sorry.
There's a setting in the Options/Game Options menu for a Low Quality Sky. Change it to No, and you'll get your starry night back.
Then click on System, and make sure your Lighting is set to Light Map (high) and not Vertex (low). The latter gives the walls a false brightness, which may be your problem. It will also reduce your FPS. Finish by clicking Apply.
I don't like the new look either. It seems like a different, and less realistic, game. And the icons are harder to decipher. But I suppose I'll get used to it, and not like the old way.