Overall though, if you ignore the name, and change your theme around to something a bit more pleasant, it's really pretty slick. If anything has a chance to get people adopt Linux for general usage, Ubuntu is it.
Either that or LinuxMint, which is effectively "Ubuntu with the ugly removed".
Kubuntu is a little bit prettier with it's KDE interface and still has the same polish, but I don't think anyone who is trying Linux for the first time would grab it over Ubuntu (as it's not that well advertised, I'm sure partially to not confuse first time users).
League of Legends rewards 45 minutes of farming, and then seeing whoever is the better Ashe player.
This reeks of a player who hasn't gotten into the higher brackets of LoL's ELO system and probably has tried a few low level games. At higher ELO levels (which essentially is the rating system that LoL's matchmaking system uses to ensure that matches are as even as possible), the gameplay becomes very competitive and most of the teams you fight are premade teams with voice comms and everything.
-This gives all heroes certain roles, it allows for different strategies that must be executed right or you will lose the game.
The thing about HoN is exactly what the parent said -- the strategies must be executed right or you will lose the game (which is a lot like DoTA). LoL on the other hand has a lot of different strategies and you can be flexible on how you play each character -- you can build a lot of tanks as DPS, you can build some support characters as tanks or DPS, etc. The metagame in LoL definitely helps that part out.
DoTA and HoN snowball much quicker than LoL games typically, and there's a completely different dynamic in the 5v5 matches and 3v3 matches in LoL.
Oh yeah, did I mention having a real community rather than one filled up with a bunch of ragers and elitists helps?
Because instead of a single person suing gamestop, you might have gamestop suing the video game publisher... which i'm sure is a legal fight they don't want to take on...
Yeah, but behind what? How fast is fast enough? What are we trying to win? Frankly, I doubt that I'd ever make good use of 100Mbit myself, except in rare circumstances but maybe I'm outside of 'geek' norm (which is highly likely).
"First, we don't think the customer wants that. Secondly, if (Google has) invented some technology, we'd love to partner with them,"
Almost sounds like a troll to me. I think most consumers would love a 100Mbps connection -- assuming it was reasonably priced. That being said, Verizon already offers FiOS at speeds up to 50Mbps, so 100Mbps isn't that much of a stretch.
Sadly, I'm stuck in an area where it's either ADSL1.x or cable.
This is funny -- as its called "cheating" in the CS world, but in the EE world it's "working in a study group."
Of course, having impossibly hard EE homework at my university probably didn't help. It was not uncommon (and actually, quite frequent) that I encounter midterms/finals with average grades of 40% or less.
But that being said, most of the people who didn't learn the material didn't stay in the EE field after graduation.
You mean the viruses for those people who were stupid enough to leave OpenSSH running on their iphone, with the default login/pw?
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Except that newer LCDs have LED backlighting which is no longer constant, but flashed (WHY? WHY? WHY? Just to save some power? Please, computer manufacturers, let *me* make that decision!), so the experience is somewhat more like a CRT.
The reasoning between flashed LEDs is so that manafacturers can advertise a greater dynamic range and color gamut. It's kinda like a pissing contest between manufacturers. However, many of those features can be at least partially disabled by disabling dynamic contrast on your set (which is highly recommended on the CFL backlit sets, as an overall dark scene with a very bright spot will cause some nasty image quality issues).
Also do note that the flashed LEDs do switch significantly faster than the LCD pixels update, so although there is flicker, it "should" be past the perceivable threshold.
Sadly, this is like the FCC complaints on indecency. There are a few special interest groups that generate hundreds or thousands of complaints that don't accurately represent consumers. That way, the FCC acts, and those special interest groups get their agenda pushed, even though the actual number of consumers complaining are minimal or none.
Ozone is really bad for you -- it's an irritant and a powerful oxidizer. Imagine what that does to your lungs. OSHA has pretty tight standards on ozone exposure.
Squaretrade first tries to repair the item, and if it's not repairable, they will reimburse you up to the cost of the item (assuming no repairs have been made so far). Note that repetitive repair attempts diminishes the total value of your warranty, so the most they can spend is the cost of the item (so if it's repaired and breaks unrepairable, you only get the remaining balance).
As for this SquareTrade article, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple fell a few points behind other manufacturers, though I cannot possibly imagine why someone would buy a new Mac and get a SquareTrade warranty instead of Apple's excellent 3-year warranty. Makes me wonder if the Macs covered by SquareTrade are largely used? You can't buy them at Target.
Because Squaretrade's warranty is about half the cost of Applecare?
For example, the Department of Energy (i.e. the National Labs) are part of the defense industry, but they are not part of the military.
National Labs work on a variety of things, from military-related activities (i.e. nuclear weapons) to scientific-related activities (for instance, physics research, projects similar to the NHC). For instance, traceroute, libpcap, and tcpdump were originally developed at a National Lab.
The firmware probably does not affect the bootstrapping code, so that if a bad flash goes through, the modem can just be reset, and booted up again to receive and attempt a new firmware flash.
My Volkswagen GTI is drive by wire, and actually when both the accelerator and brake are held down at the same time, power is cut to the engine. I would expect most (properly built) drive by wire systems to have such a safety feature.
It means you can't left foot brake, but most people don't left foot brake in daily driving.
The vast majority of people just want a computer that WORKS.
VERY few people are willing to tinker around *AT ALL*.
Actually, this is precisely why Vista (and especially Vista x64) has stumbled.
When people discovered that driver support was questionable, and a number of their old devices would no longer work (and some of which didn't even have new drivers written), there was this mass outcry of "Vista is terrible." That along with the fact that they needed hardware upgrades in order to run it...
Oh yeah, how about the poor native driver support for printers in Windows? I've actually only used one printer in Windows that didn't require a driver download from a 3rd party (and some of those 3rd party driver packages are horribly bloated, especially with HP printers). Oddly, the only printer that worked with the built in driver package from Windows was an Apple Laserwriter.
I think it's more along the lines of: "People want a computer that just works, out of the box, with minimal setup." If there were good computers that came pre-installed with Linux and everything worked properly (and people had their Microsoft equivalent applications all setup and easily accessed) the reception might be a little bit better. You know, the Asus eee netbooks with Linux had a pretty warm reception...
RTFA -- they hijacked the domains where the drive-by download exploits were stored, not the botnet itself.
Also, they were emulating a browser, because the javascript based "drive-by" is 100% browser based (ie, you don't get infected if you're not browsing a compromised website).
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Overall though, if you ignore the name, and change your theme around to something a bit more pleasant, it's really pretty slick. If anything has a chance to get people adopt Linux for general usage, Ubuntu is it.
Either that or LinuxMint, which is effectively "Ubuntu with the ugly removed".
Kubuntu is a little bit prettier with it's KDE interface and still has the same polish, but I don't think anyone who is trying Linux for the first time would grab it over Ubuntu (as it's not that well advertised, I'm sure partially to not confuse first time users).
League of Legends rewards 45 minutes of farming, and then seeing whoever is the better Ashe player.
This reeks of a player who hasn't gotten into the higher brackets of LoL's ELO system and probably has tried a few low level games. At higher ELO levels (which essentially is the rating system that LoL's matchmaking system uses to ensure that matches are as even as possible), the gameplay becomes very competitive and most of the teams you fight are premade teams with voice comms and everything.
-This gives all heroes certain roles, it allows for different strategies that must be executed right or you will lose the game.
The thing about HoN is exactly what the parent said -- the strategies must be executed right or you will lose the game (which is a lot like DoTA). LoL on the other hand has a lot of different strategies and you can be flexible on how you play each character -- you can build a lot of tanks as DPS, you can build some support characters as tanks or DPS, etc. The metagame in LoL definitely helps that part out.
DoTA and HoN snowball much quicker than LoL games typically, and there's a completely different dynamic in the 5v5 matches and 3v3 matches in LoL.
Oh yeah, did I mention having a real community rather than one filled up with a bunch of ragers and elitists helps?
Because instead of a single person suing gamestop, you might have gamestop suing the video game publisher... which i'm sure is a legal fight they don't want to take on...
WoW CD Keys don't travel with the game...
Their passports have not been stolen, they still have the originals in their possession. The passports used for the assassination were counterfeits.
Actually, some of the involved passports were fraudulently obtained from their respective governments.
So your botnet on average only have links that go up to 100kbps? That's a pretty slow bot net.
Yeah, but behind what? How fast is fast enough? What are we trying to win? Frankly, I doubt that I'd ever make good use of 100Mbit myself, except in rare circumstances but maybe I'm outside of 'geek' norm (which is highly likely).
640kb ought to be enough for anybody...
From the article:
"First, we don't think the customer wants that. Secondly, if (Google has) invented some technology, we'd love to partner with them,"
Almost sounds like a troll to me. I think most consumers would love a 100Mbps connection -- assuming it was reasonably priced. That being said, Verizon already offers FiOS at speeds up to 50Mbps, so 100Mbps isn't that much of a stretch.
Sadly, I'm stuck in an area where it's either ADSL1.x or cable.
This is funny -- as its called "cheating" in the CS world, but in the EE world it's "working in a study group."
Of course, having impossibly hard EE homework at my university probably didn't help. It was not uncommon (and actually, quite frequent) that I encounter midterms/finals with average grades of 40% or less.
But that being said, most of the people who didn't learn the material didn't stay in the EE field after graduation.
Most people who play board games really don't sit around and play Scrabble and Monopoly all the time.
They play games like:
Settlers of Catan
Power Grid
Runewars
Puerto Rico
Dominion
etc
All of those are not cheap at all.
You mean the viruses for those people who were stupid enough to leave OpenSSH running on their iphone, with the default login/pw?
Except that newer LCDs have LED backlighting which is no longer constant, but flashed (WHY? WHY? WHY? Just to save some power? Please, computer manufacturers, let *me* make that decision!), so the experience is somewhat more like a CRT.
The reasoning between flashed LEDs is so that manafacturers can advertise a greater dynamic range and color gamut. It's kinda like a pissing contest between manufacturers. However, many of those features can be at least partially disabled by disabling dynamic contrast on your set (which is highly recommended on the CFL backlit sets, as an overall dark scene with a very bright spot will cause some nasty image quality issues).
Also do note that the flashed LEDs do switch significantly faster than the LCD pixels update, so although there is flicker, it "should" be past the perceivable threshold.
Sadly, this is like the FCC complaints on indecency. There are a few special interest groups that generate hundreds or thousands of complaints that don't accurately represent consumers. That way, the FCC acts, and those special interest groups get their agenda pushed, even though the actual number of consumers complaining are minimal or none.
Ozone is really bad for you -- it's an irritant and a powerful oxidizer. Imagine what that does to your lungs. OSHA has pretty tight standards on ozone exposure.
Actually, speaking from someone who works in a related field, using the prefix-less format is the accepted way of writing these numbers:
MeV (1,000,000), GeV (1,000,000,000), TeV (1,000,000,000,000), etc
As a fyi, TeV is actually tetra-electron volts.
Sounds like a tech geek's way of looking at it.
Most people would say -- having a sizable amount of compressed air storage in one's house is great all around -- for your pneumatic power tools.
Squaretrade first tries to repair the item, and if it's not repairable, they will reimburse you up to the cost of the item (assuming no repairs have been made so far). Note that repetitive repair attempts diminishes the total value of your warranty, so the most they can spend is the cost of the item (so if it's repaired and breaks unrepairable, you only get the remaining balance).
As for this SquareTrade article, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple fell a few points behind other manufacturers, though I cannot possibly imagine why someone would buy a new Mac and get a SquareTrade warranty instead of Apple's excellent 3-year warranty. Makes me wonder if the Macs covered by SquareTrade are largely used? You can't buy them at Target.
Because Squaretrade's warranty is about half the cost of Applecare?
For example, the Department of Energy (i.e. the National Labs) are part of the defense industry, but they are not part of the military.
National Labs work on a variety of things, from military-related activities (i.e. nuclear weapons) to scientific-related activities (for instance, physics research, projects similar to the NHC). For instance, traceroute, libpcap, and tcpdump were originally developed at a National Lab.
I can't figure out if this is a troll or if this is genuine confusion.
Defense != military, just FYI. Our military budget is tiny compared to our defense budget.
Not that i'm not against decreasing the amount that we spend on defense as well as what we spend on military.
The firmware probably does not affect the bootstrapping code, so that if a bad flash goes through, the modem can just be reset, and booted up again to receive and attempt a new firmware flash.
My Volkswagen GTI is drive by wire, and actually when both the accelerator and brake are held down at the same time, power is cut to the engine. I would expect most (properly built) drive by wire systems to have such a safety feature.
It means you can't left foot brake, but most people don't left foot brake in daily driving.
The vast majority of people just want a computer that WORKS.
VERY few people are willing to tinker around *AT ALL*.
Actually, this is precisely why Vista (and especially Vista x64) has stumbled.
When people discovered that driver support was questionable, and a number of their old devices would no longer work (and some of which didn't even have new drivers written), there was this mass outcry of "Vista is terrible." That along with the fact that they needed hardware upgrades in order to run it...
Oh yeah, how about the poor native driver support for printers in Windows? I've actually only used one printer in Windows that didn't require a driver download from a 3rd party (and some of those 3rd party driver packages are horribly bloated, especially with HP printers). Oddly, the only printer that worked with the built in driver package from Windows was an Apple Laserwriter.
I think it's more along the lines of: "People want a computer that just works, out of the box, with minimal setup." If there were good computers that came pre-installed with Linux and everything worked properly (and people had their Microsoft equivalent applications all setup and easily accessed) the reception might be a little bit better. You know, the Asus eee netbooks with Linux had a pretty warm reception...
RTFA -- they hijacked the domains where the drive-by download exploits were stored, not the botnet itself.
Also, they were emulating a browser, because the javascript based "drive-by" is 100% browser based (ie, you don't get infected if you're not browsing a compromised website).