Does MLB get a cut of the profits from the devices?
Would these baseballs, when tossed into debris, distract the search dogs?
Do these baseballs work in conjunction with MLB's spy satellite? If so, would a tinfoil hat prevent them from finding me?
Do these baseballs have RFID tags, and if so, shouldn't we protest their use?
Can they help me find my car keys?
If I whistle in the rubble, will the baseball beep so I can find it if _it_ gets lost?
What would happen if terrorists got ahold of these baseballs? Think of the children!
Can a swallow carry such a baseball by gripping it's "husk"? Perhaps by two swallows flying in tandem? African or European?
Can these baseballs be used with bats? If so, wooden or aluminium?
If they're networked together within a field of debris, would that mean you'd have a Beowulf cluster of them? Would that find people faster?
Do these run on BSD? If so, they're dead (along with Apple).
Do these use any GPL code? If so, GNU/Baseball!
Has the design of these been put out under any particular Open Sores License yet? If so, which one, if not, why not? If not now, when? If not me, who? What? Why? Where? When? Whatever.
Duuude, yer gettin' a baseball! (Sweeeeet.)
Go get it, Lycos! (arf! arf!) ((Good boy, Ubu.))
Can you tell how much soda I've already had today?
Okay, from their web page comparing the two, they say that TextWrangler has "Syntax coloring and function navigation for ANSI C, C++, and Objective-C", but only BBEdit has that for web stuff like HTML, etc.
Isn't that a little backward? You'd think the little brother would have the HTML stuff and only the big brother would have the stuff for "programming".
I also wonder about the name - shouldn't it have been something more similar to BBEdit? Like babyBBEdit? Or BabyBB? Maybe (BB^2)Edit? Or just go with all lowercase - bbedit. And on a related note, what do the two B's in 'BB' (the little metal projectiles) stand for, anyway?
Like Linux is standard? Please. Which interface do you develop for? Gnome? KDE? Motif? ncurses? Gimme a break.
FreeBSD & OpenBSD are all over the place, and that's not even counting Apple's OS X, which is basically a BSD variant. BSD has not failed commercially any more than Linux has, and it's just as "standard" as Linux is.
Well all I know is that light on dark makes my eyes hurt _much_ less. Keep in mind that not all studies are perfect, and that study you mentioned may have been old enough to not be valid with modern displays - they may have misinterpreted what was causing problems. Also, note that the ambient lighting would also change those results _drastically_. Test out both methods, and with alternate lighting, to find out what's best for YOU, and don't rely on information you've read elsewhere.
Look, I have a sub-$100 (US) videocard (GeForce 2mx) that I got a few _years_ ago that lets me run at 1600x1200 32-bit colour at 85Hz, which oughta be plenty for anyone. That kind of thing shouldn't be a problem anymore.
But refresh rate IS a good point to watch out for. People need to learn to configure their freaking computers.
You know, I've long found that using light text on a black background relieves much eyestrain - so much less radiation hitting your eyeball, plus a nice high contrast. If you run at really high resolution (and up your font size), the letters are really well-formed, too.
Using a sans serif font also helps readability on computer screens (the opposite of readability on paper - apparently this is accredited to the low dpi on computer screens).
Try changing settings to suit your own preferences, and don't _ever_ just blindly accept any program's default settings - especially for how things are displayed - everybody's pattern recognition psychology is unique in one way or another. Change fonts and font sizes, change screen resolution, vary the contrast (light on dark, dark on light), etc. Make sure you're using proper lighting in the room you have your computer in. These things all make a big difference, and each can vary a fair amount for each individual.
> I only created this account to go around pointing out stupid sigs.
Uh huh. You should get a job, you obviously have too much free time on your hands.:)
As for my sig, it's not a troll (and you were the first one to ever say anything about it). And please to note - you're the only one in the discussion you spawned to disagree with it (though that ratio is perhaps not too surprising considering the venue). As a "spiritual but non-religious" person, when I see terrorism around the world, it's almost always based in religion, rightly or not. The drawbacks of religion seem to me to outweigh any benefit it once had. Even religious charitable works (here in the U.S., anyway) seem to me to be more like recruitment than true charity.
Not only was the lastest match a tie, Kasparov actually made a stupid (for him) mistake in one of the earlier games which he might've won. The human element, it'll getcha every time. If Kasparov could always play at his best like Deep Junior can, then he could quite likely have beaten it this time around, too. Still, Deep Junior was an impressive, sexy bitch, as Kasparov says in this article. If _Kasparov_ is impressed, you should be, too!
I think that if MS were to go open source, they'd almost certainly "pull an Apple," and go with BSD, due to the licensing issues involved. And that'd be fine with me - all is not Linux, you know.
Clearly we should extend the "War on Terror" to the planet Mars - they keep shooting down our probes. Time to implement a "No Orbit" zone around the Communist Red Planet Menace!
I mean, really, think about it - their moons (Phobos and Deimos) - those are clearly suspicious names. (translate them for more info)
Don't worry, the Company has equipment that can terraform that biyatch planet in no time! Just make sure there's no live fire inside there - flame-units only, please.
SAFT & rsyc - why aren't these implemented into browsers and NNTP clients? Freaking ridiculous that we have these excellent methods available (for YEARS - they both predate the web, in fact), but noone knows about them as they've not been mainstreamed into appropriate places. *sigh*
And if you want to do a distributed thing, check out 'BitTorrent' - seems very interesting (though new and unproved).
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Solid.
SHOGUN OF HARLEM!!!
:)
You rawk! I've always wondered where the other person was who saw that brilliant movie.
A true must-have for geeks everywhere...
Does MLB get a cut of the profits from the devices?
Would these baseballs, when tossed into debris, distract the search dogs?
Do these baseballs work in conjunction with MLB's spy satellite? If so, would a tinfoil hat prevent them from finding me?
Do these baseballs have RFID tags, and if so, shouldn't we protest their use?
Can they help me find my car keys?
If I whistle in the rubble, will the baseball beep so I can find it if _it_ gets lost?
What would happen if terrorists got ahold of these baseballs? Think of the children!
Can a swallow carry such a baseball by gripping it's "husk"? Perhaps by two swallows flying in tandem? African or European?
Can these baseballs be used with bats? If so, wooden or aluminium?
If they're networked together within a field of debris, would that mean you'd have a Beowulf cluster of them? Would that find people faster?
Do these run on BSD? If so, they're dead (along with Apple).
Do these use any GPL code? If so, GNU/Baseball!
Has the design of these been put out under any particular Open Sores License yet? If so, which one, if not, why not? If not now, when? If not me, who? What? Why? Where? When? Whatever.
Duuude, yer gettin' a baseball! (Sweeeeet.)
Go get it, Lycos! (arf! arf!) ((Good boy, Ubu.))
Can you tell how much soda I've already had today?
Okay, from their web page comparing the two, they say that TextWrangler has "Syntax coloring and function navigation for ANSI C, C++, and Objective-C", but only BBEdit has that for web stuff like HTML, etc.
Isn't that a little backward? You'd think the little brother would have the HTML stuff and only the big brother would have the stuff for "programming".
I also wonder about the name - shouldn't it have been something more similar to BBEdit? Like babyBBEdit? Or BabyBB? Maybe (BB^2)Edit? Or just go with all lowercase - bbedit. And on a related note, what do the two B's in 'BB' (the little metal projectiles) stand for, anyway?
And why am I in this handbasket?
Like Linux is standard? Please. Which interface do you develop for? Gnome? KDE? Motif? ncurses? Gimme a break.
FreeBSD & OpenBSD are all over the place, and that's not even counting Apple's OS X, which is basically a BSD variant. BSD has not failed commercially any more than Linux has, and it's just as "standard" as Linux is.
Doesn't gcc now have the ability to compile Java into assembly?
I thought it came from Opera first?
> Did any of you actually watch the State of the Union Address?
Do you actually _believe_ everything Bush said in his State of the Union address?
Well all I know is that light on dark makes my eyes hurt _much_ less. Keep in mind that not all studies are perfect, and that study you mentioned may have been old enough to not be valid with modern displays - they may have misinterpreted what was causing problems. Also, note that the ambient lighting would also change those results _drastically_. Test out both methods, and with alternate lighting, to find out what's best for YOU, and don't rely on information you've read elsewhere.
Look, I have a sub-$100 (US) videocard (GeForce 2mx) that I got a few _years_ ago that lets me run at 1600x1200 32-bit colour at 85Hz, which oughta be plenty for anyone. That kind of thing shouldn't be a problem anymore.
But refresh rate IS a good point to watch out for. People need to learn to configure their freaking computers.
You know, I've long found that using light text on a black background relieves much eyestrain - so much less radiation hitting your eyeball, plus a nice high contrast. If you run at really high resolution (and up your font size), the letters are really well-formed, too.
Using a sans serif font also helps readability on computer screens (the opposite of readability on paper - apparently this is accredited to the low dpi on computer screens).
Try changing settings to suit your own preferences, and don't _ever_ just blindly accept any program's default settings - especially for how things are displayed - everybody's pattern recognition psychology is unique in one way or another. Change fonts and font sizes, change screen resolution, vary the contrast (light on dark, dark on light), etc. Make sure you're using proper lighting in the room you have your computer in. These things all make a big difference, and each can vary a fair amount for each individual.
Have a day.
Yeah, but Dell is evil(tm). Evil is always cheap - that way you get hooked.
If it's 480p, then it's legitimately HDTV. HDTV is not one resolution, but a whole mess of them:
480p
720i
720p
1080i
And higher for the newer specs. The latest Star Wars films (bleh) were recorded in 1080p.
I'd rather have a 720p picture than a 1080i one. Interlacing is the work of the Devil!
> I only created this account to go around pointing out stupid sigs.
:)
Uh huh. You should get a job, you obviously have too much free time on your hands.
As for my sig, it's not a troll (and you were the first one to ever say anything about it). And please to note - you're the only one in the discussion you spawned to disagree with it (though that ratio is perhaps not too surprising considering the venue). As a "spiritual but non-religious" person, when I see terrorism around the world, it's almost always based in religion, rightly or not. The drawbacks of religion seem to me to outweigh any benefit it once had. Even religious charitable works (here in the U.S., anyway) seem to me to be more like recruitment than true charity.
Just an observation.
Strike a little too close to home, perhaps? Somebody call the wahmbulance.
I thought whitehouse.com was for renting out the Lincoln Bedroom, and for other PAC commercial activities? :)
Not only was the lastest match a tie, Kasparov actually made a stupid (for him) mistake in one of the earlier games which he might've won. The human element, it'll getcha every time. If Kasparov could always play at his best like Deep Junior can, then he could quite likely have beaten it this time around, too. Still, Deep Junior was an impressive, sexy bitch, as Kasparov says in this article. If _Kasparov_ is impressed, you should be, too!
I think that if MS were to go open source, they'd almost certainly "pull an Apple," and go with BSD, due to the licensing issues involved. And that'd be fine with me - all is not Linux, you know.
Clearly we should extend the "War on Terror" to the planet Mars - they keep shooting down our probes. Time to implement a "No Orbit" zone around the Communist Red Planet Menace!
I mean, really, think about it - their moons (Phobos and Deimos) - those are clearly suspicious names. (translate them for more info)
Don't worry, the Company has equipment that can terraform that biyatch planet in no time! Just make sure there's no live fire inside there - flame-units only, please.
SAFT & rsyc - why aren't these implemented into browsers and NNTP clients? Freaking ridiculous that we have these excellent methods available (for YEARS - they both predate the web, in fact), but noone knows about them as they've not been mainstreamed into appropriate places. *sigh*
And if you want to do a distributed thing, check out 'BitTorrent' - seems very interesting (though new and unproved).
> Apple HIG
:)
What did you call me?!
> But I need tabs. I cannot work without tabs.
Gosh, you didn't use the Web until browsers had tabs?! Amazing...
Please to note there is already at least one person/group making a program to extend tab functionality to Safari, so stop yer bitchin'.
>>A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.
>I love this one. I first saw it as a tagline on Slashdot, do you know who to credit for it?
Nope, that's likely where I got it, too.