I tried the RC, and the tabs aren't truly on top. So, if the window is maximized, I can't just toss my mouse cursor to the top of the screen and have it sitting amongst all the tabs.
Instead, they put a little 'Firefox' dropdown at the top. The dropdown should be somewhere else-- the tabs need to be on top so they are a 'million pixels high'.
I don't have a problem with cyclists who obey traffic laws.
But I would like someone to comment on this:
If, as a car driver, I pass a cyclist, and then reach a red light, why does the cyclist always ride along the right-hand side of all the cars in the line and go straight to the front of the line?
This to me seems strange. In a car, I don't try to get around the other cars in front of me at an intersection.
In the past, when I used to do my commute on a bike, I'd always maintain my correct position in line at an intersection (once a driver has successfully passed me, he or she shouldn't need to pass me again, in my opinion. To most drivers, it's actually *stressful* to pass a cyclist, because they are worried now about traffic both to their left and their right).
So, what is the recommended course of action at intersections-- should the cyclist maintain their place in line or go all the way to the front. And if the answer is to go all the way to the front-- why is that?
I would like to believe this, but it hasn't been my experience.
I can tell you this: Vista (!!!) appears to run smoother and with a more-responsive UI on my laptop than when I try a default ubuntu install on the thing (for example, flash just crawls when I am viewing it thru firefox in ubuntu).
It has been my experience in the past that every time I install linux, it runs slower (or at least appears to run slower) than the windows install on the same machine.
I'm not trying to troll. Maybe someone could explain this phenomenon to me. I actually *want* to switch, but I can't if the alternative is providing a degraded experience.
Digital distribution is fine, as long as these guarantees are in place:
1) I can transfer my rights to the game to some 3rd party (ie, selling it on the 'used game market') 2) I can play the game without it needing to 'phone home' (so I can play it offline, and I can play it even if the activation servers go away). 3) I can play my game on any other device (eg, my wii breaks down and I buy a new one-- i should be able to play all my purchased games on the new one). 4) If the next generation console is backwards-compatible, I can transfer all my old games onto it and play them there (again, hopefully this would work even if the old activation servers no longer exist).
wrap it all up in drm if you want, but it needs to walk and talk like physical media, including all the freedoms (rights) i have now with my physical media.
It is worth noting that Facebook violates privacy of more than just its members.
The summary does not mention this, but one of the things the Canadian study found was that users of Facebook can post photos and Tag the names of each person in the photo (whether they are on Facebook or not).
I believe there are good reasons why a non-Facebook user would not want their images posted, and for that matter, have a searchable Tag posted against that image.
Presently, I can't 'opt-out' of images of myself being posted by members, even though I am not on Facebook.
And on the same subject-- should I even need to 'opt-out'? Maybe they should require 'opt-in'?
Along with this is that anyone who begins a statement with 'in this post-9/11 world...' is about to try to convince you to give up some sort of freedom.
I feel that I owe Mr Sweeney quite a lot. I was one of the people who ordered the full version of ZZT and Super ZZT back in the golden days, and I have to say that those two 'games' had a direct impact on me.
I always thought it would be nice to have a game editor that was similar in concept to ZZT, but with graphical capabilities. So, that's what I did (http://rpgtoolkit.com).
And I wonder who else owes him the same thanks for the inspiration he sent out on those 3.5 inch disks
I'm not an atheist, but I also don't believe in an immortal or external soul. So, I'm not trying to explain this in some spiritual way.
I simply think that the physical process behind our consciousness is, by design, likely one of the more complex processes in our universe (this would also apply to animal consciousness, too, since the mammalian brain is similar from species to species).
I've sometimes thought that maybe our brains work on a quantum mechanical level. This may explain the near infinite storage capacity we seem to have.
It stands to reason that the most complicated biological process we have observed so far may make use of a very complicated underlying physical phenomenon.
I once bought a macintosh a few years ago. I'll never buy another one.
While I really like the platform itself, I find that apple has too much planned obsolescence built into their stuff.
Windows, on the other hand, has excellent backwards-compatibility. If I were still running win2k, I'm certain that it would still run 98% of the apps out in the wild. Try taking the equivalent MacOSX from the same year and try that.
So, if Microsoft breaks backwards compatibility, I won't have much reason to want to stick with Windows. In such a situation, compatibility becomes just as much as hassle as it is with the Mac and with Linux.
Faced with that, I'd take Linux just because of the prince tag.
Imagine a world where you can go hook yourself into a robotic control chamber and somewhere on the other side of the world, your robotic counterpart begins to walk around, talk, do things, all based on your brainwaves.
Meanwhile, video from teh robot's 'eye' are transmitted to a 3d viewer in front of your face.
Forget star-rek transporters. Thisi s the next best (and plausible) thing.
Very bad implications for crime and terrorism, though.
As far as understand, this will still require a court order from a judge.
This isn't much different from what's there now-- it's just forcing ISPs to make implementing the court order easier.
And it doesn't mean that the RCMP can just randomly wiretap your internet communications whenever they feel like it-- they still have to go see a judge first, just like if they wanted to wiretap your phone.
Most would likely agree that this mission has been more 'eventful' than many in the past. And I'm sure most would agree that the general public (if they care at all) are getting more and more of a feeling that the shuttle 'just isn't doing it for me anymore'.
And that may be exactly the point.
Now, granted, NASA wants a safe mission. But several of these problems may have simply been overlooked in the past because space exploration is inherently dangerous anyway, so some risks are accepable.
There is actual politcal value in a mission that seems plagued with problems. I'm getting the general feeling from the media that it's almost all NASA can do to get this thing up in the air one more time.
If enough people get the same feeling, NASA could seem very justifiable to request mroe money for a shuttle replacement. And maybe that's the real goal of this mission.
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The fact is, our culture has been privatized.
When has that ever happened at all in history?
Tabs on top are fun, but work better in chrome.
I tried the RC, and the tabs aren't truly on top. So, if the window is maximized, I can't just toss my mouse cursor to the top of the screen and have it sitting amongst all the tabs.
Instead, they put a little 'Firefox' dropdown at the top. The dropdown should be somewhere else-- the tabs need to be on top so they are a 'million pixels high'.
Evidently, it will be available on vinyl...
I don't have a problem with cyclists who obey traffic laws.
But I would like someone to comment on this:
If, as a car driver, I pass a cyclist, and then reach a red light, why does the cyclist always ride along the right-hand side of all the cars in the line and go straight to the front of the line?
This to me seems strange. In a car, I don't try to get around the other cars in front of me at an intersection.
In the past, when I used to do my commute on a bike, I'd always maintain my correct position in line at an intersection (once a driver has successfully passed me, he or she shouldn't need to pass me again, in my opinion. To most drivers, it's actually *stressful* to pass a cyclist, because they are worried now about traffic both to their left and their right).
So, what is the recommended course of action at intersections-- should the cyclist maintain their place in line or go all the way to the front. And if the answer is to go all the way to the front-- why is that?
I would like to believe this, but it hasn't been my experience.
I can tell you this: Vista (!!!) appears to run smoother and with a more-responsive UI on my laptop than when I try a default ubuntu install on the thing (for example, flash just crawls when I am viewing it thru firefox in ubuntu).
It has been my experience in the past that every time I install linux, it runs slower (or at least appears to run slower) than the windows install on the same machine.
I'm not trying to troll. Maybe someone could explain this phenomenon to me. I actually *want* to switch, but I can't if the alternative is providing a degraded experience.
I hate replaying to my own posts...
Although an interesting side effect is in play:
the used market would have a limited supply of used games
the first party would have an infinite supply.
never saw that scenario in economics class...
Allowing the resale of your license for a digital-only game would provide a stop-gap against price fixing.
Even if there is only one 'first party', they would still need to compete with the used market, which would regulate prices.
Now, if we could only convince them to let us re-sell those games...
Digital distribution is fine, as long as these guarantees are in place:
1) I can transfer my rights to the game to some 3rd party (ie, selling it on the 'used game market')
2) I can play the game without it needing to 'phone home' (so I can play it offline, and I can play it even if the activation servers go away).
3) I can play my game on any other device (eg, my wii breaks down and I buy a new one-- i should be able to play all my purchased games on the new one).
4) If the next generation console is backwards-compatible, I can transfer all my old games onto it and play them there (again, hopefully this would work even if the old activation servers no longer exist).
wrap it all up in drm if you want, but it needs to walk and talk like physical media, including all the freedoms (rights) i have now with my physical media.
It is worth noting that Facebook violates privacy of more than just its members.
The summary does not mention this, but one of the things the Canadian study found was that users of Facebook can post photos and Tag the names of each person in the photo (whether they are on Facebook or not).
I believe there are good reasons why a non-Facebook user would not want their images posted, and for that matter, have a searchable Tag posted against that image.
Presently, I can't 'opt-out' of images of myself being posted by members, even though I am not on Facebook.
And on the same subject-- should I even need to 'opt-out'? Maybe they should require 'opt-in'?
The article mentions OS X and the fact that they will be running out of cat names pretty soon.
My prediction: as soon as they run out of cat names, they'll go to 'OS 11'
Steve Jobs will market it by saying 'this one goes to eleven... It's one better, isn't it?'
Along with this is that anyone who begins a statement with 'in this post-9/11 world...' is about to try to convince you to give up some sort of freedom.
We still have about 5 and a half years to fully set up the back to the future 2 future.
i know i'm saving up for my hoverboard right now.
the fact that he refers to the 'information superhighway' is telling as regards to how out of touch he is.
1995 wants its catch-phrase pack.
I feel that I owe Mr Sweeney quite a lot. I was one of the people who ordered the full version of ZZT and Super ZZT back in the golden days, and I have to say that those two 'games' had a direct impact on me.
I always thought it would be nice to have a game editor that was similar in concept to ZZT, but with graphical capabilities. So, that's what I did (http://rpgtoolkit.com).
And I wonder who else owes him the same thanks for the inspiration he sent out on those 3.5 inch disks
Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark...
"all your database are belong to us"
The pacific ocean is a big, empty space.
Full disclosure:
I'm not an atheist, but I also don't believe in an immortal or external soul. So, I'm not trying to explain this in some spiritual way.
I simply think that the physical process behind our consciousness is, by design, likely one of the more complex processes in our universe (this would also apply to animal consciousness, too, since the mammalian brain is similar from species to species).
Not sure if this is related or not...
I've sometimes thought that maybe our brains work on a quantum mechanical level. This may explain the near infinite storage capacity we seem to have.
It stands to reason that the most complicated biological process we have observed so far may make use of a very complicated underlying physical phenomenon.
Goofy was a dog.
Pluto was a dog.
Goofy was Mickey's friend.
Pluto was Mickey's pet.
Does anyone else see anything unusual about that little triangle?
I once bought a macintosh a few years ago. I'll never buy another one.
While I really like the platform itself, I find that apple has too much planned obsolescence built into their stuff.
Windows, on the other hand, has excellent backwards-compatibility. If I were still running win2k, I'm certain that it would still run 98% of the apps out in the wild. Try taking the equivalent MacOSX from the same year and try that.
So, if Microsoft breaks backwards compatibility, I won't have much reason to want to stick with Windows. In such a situation, compatibility becomes just as much as hassle as it is with the Mac and with Linux.
Faced with that, I'd take Linux just because of the prince tag.
Imagine a world where you can go hook yourself into a robotic control chamber and somewhere on the other side of the world, your robotic counterpart begins to walk around, talk, do things, all based on your brainwaves.
Meanwhile, video from teh robot's 'eye' are transmitted to a 3d viewer in front of your face.
Forget star-rek transporters. Thisi s the next best (and plausible) thing.
Very bad implications for crime and terrorism, though.
As my grandfather always used to say:
"Gravity? We've got plenty of that already! Now, make me some anti-gravity, and I'll say you've got something!"
Ph.D. Physics, Indiana Unversity, 2001
And this guy should know what he's talking about-- somehow he's managed to make his post travel 5 years into the future.
As far as understand, this will still require a court order from a judge.
This isn't much different from what's there now-- it's just forcing ISPs to make implementing the court order easier.
And it doesn't mean that the RCMP can just randomly wiretap your internet communications whenever they feel like it-- they still have to go see a judge first, just like if they wanted to wiretap your phone.
Most would likely agree that this mission has been more 'eventful' than many in the past. And I'm sure most would agree that the general public (if they care at all) are getting more and more of a feeling that the shuttle 'just isn't doing it for me anymore'.
:)
And that may be exactly the point.
Now, granted, NASA wants a safe mission. But several of these problems may have simply been overlooked in the past because space exploration is inherently dangerous anyway, so some risks are accepable.
There is actual politcal value in a mission that seems plagued with problems. I'm getting the general feeling from the media that it's almost all NASA can do to get this thing up in the air one more time.
If enough people get the same feeling, NASA could seem very justifiable to request mroe money for a shuttle replacement. And maybe that's the real goal of this mission.
that's my conspiracy theory for the day