One issue I run into often enough is a CD that won't eject through the UI. I have to open a terminal and type "eject cdrom". That's the kind of thing that would stop a novice in their tracks.
I use Perforce version control at home to sync documents and pictures between 4 computers. It's free for up to 2 user accounts and 5 client specs (I only use 1 account). It has worked well for several years and handles small and large files easily.
Note: I'm not affiliated with Perforce but I do use it at work.
They may claim what IE8 is better than Firefox/Opera/Safari/Chrome put together...
They didn't even do a side-by-side comparison of Safari. Chrome is still a bit player so I'm wondering why they chose to compare that browser over Safari, other than the fact that they can't stand Google. Then again I'm sure they're sick and tired of being accused of ripping off Apple designs so they probably hate Apple, too? Oracle should create a browser... hehe what a scary thing that would be: - 19 install modules, each taking 30 minutes to install and configure - 10 browser login credentials - minimum 2 GB free RAM - 5 GB free disk space - all written in Java
I've played Burnout Paradise on the Xbox 360 in single-player and multiplayer mode. The graphics are really great and the game is challenging. Scenery is interesting. Not something I'd buy myself, unfortunately. My biggest gripe is that in multiplayer mode something about the way the graphics are done is different and gives me and my friend a headache. I noticed this on a bunch of Xbox original titles and am surprised that some games still have that problem.
My favourite Burnout game was Burnout Revenge on the Xbox (not the 360). Furious fast pace, great soundtrack, spent many hours playing that one!
I pay $0.20 per blank CD in Canada to cover copyright infringement. Until that levy is gone I can legally download all I want. Don't label me a blasted pirate, ya lily livered sea dog!
There may be more to it. I'll bet a lot of men soldiers would be more demoralized to see a women get killed or tortured than another man. Obviously, they'd hate to see either one get hurt. Just a thought.
1. Look up the definition of the word instantaneous. Then see how it matches up with human activities which require instantaneous decisions and reflexes.
2. It boils down to the implementation, doesn't it? The best automated foosball game I've seen can't beat expert human players (at least not reliably). Care to build a machine that can out-perform a martial arts expert? Balance, strategy, maneuvering, predicting, etc.. all handled simultaneously and instantaneously.
It's essentially a question of what do you trust most: a human being's ingenuity or a computer's infinitely faster access and reaction to information.
Assuming they meant "vastly" rather than "infinitely", I still take issue with that comparison. Humans can react instantaneously to complex information that a computer would have difficulty dealing with. Of course, in certain situations computers do react much more quickly, but I say it depends on the context. It also depends on how you present the information to the human for them to process and react to.
I don't use read/write medium for long term storage as they don't seem to last as long as write-once medium. Maybe it's because R/W are handled more? Or the dyes are made for being changed over and over, not for staying the some over a very long period?
As far as brands go, I've got CDRs from 1995 that still read fine from Verbatim and Sony. I've also had good luck with Maxell. I avoid Memorex like the plague because I've lost a lot of stuff saved on that brand of CDR.
Anything I really value I save at least 2 copies of and often upload it off-site.
On a related note, I've got lots of 3-1/2" disks that still work fine as well (one brand was BASF). The no-name brands had a pretty high error rate.
I foresee a slant against stories that don't bring in ad revenue. And how could anyone ever prove it, with scads of data-driven logic making the decision of what you see and what you don't. At least if I'm doing the filtering myself, I know what I've chosen not to read.
âoeHer assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,â the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, âoeonly that she was never caught.â
Yeah, what the fuck. So I guess everybody's a perp, it's just a matter of time till they slip up and get caught. Time to put the fucking glue away, Ms. Redding.
How can you have an argument and encourage critical thinking and independent thinking when you only teach the one socially acceptable "truth".
Whether creationism is true or not is moot. There _needs_ to be another side to this story taught to children. Let them reason it out.
Finally, you can't argue the power of faith. Real or not, having faith in something is powerful and can be life changing. Pretending this isn't so is like pretending love doesn't exist.
I don't have all the answers and I'm not going to pretend to, unlike many others.
What kind of cash burn are Mozilla going through anyway? Sounds like it must be high. Is there a way to significantly lower this figure? Is it mostly advertising?
Maybe the default search engine should be randomly chosen when a new window is created. If you want to be on the list, throw in some amount of money. The percentage of times your search comes up depends on your percentage of cash donated.
I also want to state that Mozilla should have user's best interests at heart and should be wary of Google's recent anti-privacy 'brow raising.
I've been using ixquick as my main search engine and it usually gives good results. The odd time it doesn't I break down and use google, but it's cut my google usage by 80%.
I think this is partly why Apple has done so well with OS X on Intel. Apple has been coding for relatively slower CPUs for years (Power PC) and now that they finally have fast CPUs their operating system and applications fly. I hope they keep up this trend but based on iTunes performance I'm not holding my breath, unfortunately.
Has anyone here ever considered using an adventure game as a software tool in the office? I was thinking something around workflow management.
Basically, people, departments and documents could be depicted in the game. Decisions you make would have a bearing on reality and could trigger actions such as an email notification being sent, etc.
A decision requiring multiple parties could be materialized as you gathering all the people together to defeat a boss that depends on all your skills.
Of if you need an override to make a decision that person with that capability could wear a wizard outfit.
Could be a lot of fun. Anyone have thoughts on this?
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My theory is there is a relationship between butts and breasts:
Women with the nicest butts have smaller breasts.
Women with larger breasts have pudgier butts.
Women with larger breasts *and* the nicest butts have fake breasts.
My guess on the outcome of the study is that all straight men like looking at women's butts.
That'll be 20k please. :)
One issue I run into often enough is a CD that won't eject through the UI. I have to open a terminal and type "eject cdrom". That's the kind of thing that would stop a novice in their tracks.
Think about how online tax returns are handled.
I use Perforce version control at home to sync documents and pictures between 4 computers. It's free for up to 2 user accounts and 5 client specs (I only use 1 account). It has worked well for several years and handles small and large files easily.
Note: I'm not affiliated with Perforce but I do use it at work.
You will die an honorable death, dishonored and labelled a terrorist.
Worse: you will live the rest of your days in a jail cell, obscure and insignificant, just a number.
Want to flush your life down the drain for that?
They may claim what IE8 is better than Firefox/Opera/Safari/Chrome put together...
They didn't even do a side-by-side comparison of Safari. Chrome is still a bit player so I'm wondering why they chose to compare that browser over Safari, other than the fact that they can't stand Google. Then again I'm sure they're sick and tired of being accused of ripping off Apple designs so they probably hate Apple, too? Oracle should create a browser... hehe what a scary thing that would be:
- 19 install modules, each taking 30 minutes to install and configure
- 10 browser login credentials
- minimum 2 GB free RAM
- 5 GB free disk space
- all written in Java
*shudder*
Can someone please mod parent "funny"? Calling it "insightful" is a tad disturbing.
I've played Burnout Paradise on the Xbox 360 in single-player and multiplayer mode. The graphics are really great and the game is challenging. Scenery is interesting. Not something I'd buy myself, unfortunately. My biggest gripe is that in multiplayer mode something about the way the graphics are done is different and gives me and my friend a headache. I noticed this on a bunch of Xbox original titles and am surprised that some games still have that problem.
My favourite Burnout game was Burnout Revenge on the Xbox (not the 360). Furious fast pace, great soundtrack, spent many hours playing that one!
I pay $0.20 per blank CD in Canada to cover copyright infringement. Until that levy is gone I can legally download all I want. Don't label me a blasted pirate, ya lily livered sea dog!
There may be more to it. I'll bet a lot of men soldiers would be more demoralized to see a women get killed or tortured than another man. Obviously, they'd hate to see either one get hurt. Just a thought.
... and the Slashdot mob's credibility spirals downward...
Responding to your points:
1. Look up the definition of the word instantaneous. Then see how it matches up with human activities which require instantaneous decisions and reflexes.
2. It boils down to the implementation, doesn't it? The best automated foosball game I've seen can't beat expert human players (at least not reliably). Care to build a machine that can out-perform a martial arts expert? Balance, strategy, maneuvering, predicting, etc.. all handled simultaneously and instantaneously.
It's essentially a question of what do you trust most: a human being's ingenuity or a computer's infinitely faster access and reaction to information.
Assuming they meant "vastly" rather than "infinitely", I still take issue with that comparison. Humans can react instantaneously to complex information that a computer would have difficulty dealing with. Of course, in certain situations computers do react much more quickly, but I say it depends on the context. It also depends on how you present the information to the human for them to process and react to.
I don't use read/write medium for long term storage as they don't seem to last as long as write-once medium. Maybe it's because R/W are handled more? Or the dyes are made for being changed over and over, not for staying the some over a very long period?
As far as brands go, I've got CDRs from 1995 that still read fine from Verbatim and Sony. I've also had good luck with Maxell. I avoid Memorex like the plague because I've lost a lot of stuff saved on that brand of CDR.
Anything I really value I save at least 2 copies of and often upload it off-site.
On a related note, I've got lots of 3-1/2" disks that still work fine as well (one brand was BASF). The no-name brands had a pretty high error rate.
I want something that cancels street noise inside my home. Is such a device available?
I foresee a slant against stories that don't bring in ad revenue. And how could anyone ever prove it, with scads of data-driven logic making the decision of what you see and what you don't. At least if I'm doing the filtering myself, I know what I've chosen not to read.
âoeHer assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,â the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, âoeonly that she was never caught.â
Yeah, what the fuck. So I guess everybody's a perp, it's just a matter of time till they slip up and get caught. Time to put the fucking glue away, Ms. Redding.
How can you have an argument and encourage critical thinking and independent thinking when you only teach the one socially acceptable "truth".
Whether creationism is true or not is moot. There _needs_ to be another side to this story taught to children. Let them reason it out.
Finally, you can't argue the power of faith. Real or not, having faith in something is powerful and can be life changing. Pretending this isn't so is like pretending love doesn't exist.
I don't have all the answers and I'm not going to pretend to, unlike many others.
I remember Novell documentation being inadequate as well. If my experience was typical, that could've had something to do with it.
What kind of cash burn are Mozilla going through anyway? Sounds like it must be high. Is there a way to significantly lower this figure? Is it mostly advertising?
Maybe the default search engine should be randomly chosen when a new window is created. If you want to be on the list, throw in some amount of money. The percentage of times your search comes up depends on your percentage of cash donated.
I also want to state that Mozilla should have user's best interests at heart and should be wary of Google's recent anti-privacy 'brow raising.
Good point, and Firefox can't touch IE in terms of damage caused by becoming infected with a trojan.
Mod parent up!
I've been using ixquick as my main search engine and it usually gives good results. The odd time it doesn't I break down and use google, but it's cut my google usage by 80%.
I think this is partly why Apple has done so well with OS X on Intel. Apple has been coding for relatively slower CPUs for years (Power PC) and now that they finally have fast CPUs their operating system and applications fly. I hope they keep up this trend but based on iTunes performance I'm not holding my breath, unfortunately.
WOW. Utterly ridiculous.
What especially ticks me off is using non-recyclable plastic or styrofoam in packaging.
Is there really any need to use stuff that _has_ to go to the land fill?
A product-specific comment: 'flash' memory cards have a crazy packaging to product ratio.
Has anyone here ever considered using an adventure game as a software tool in the office? I was thinking something around workflow management.
Basically, people, departments and documents could be depicted in the game. Decisions you make would have a bearing on reality and could trigger actions such as an email notification being sent, etc.
A decision requiring multiple parties could be materialized as you gathering all the people together to defeat a boss that depends on all your skills.
Of if you need an override to make a decision that person with that capability could wear a wizard outfit.
Could be a lot of fun. Anyone have thoughts on this?