How about the tons of widget developers for Konfabulator? Now they can get their project to *way* more people instead of the small segment of users who bought Konfabulator.
Are you trying to say that we didn't do bombing runs during the Vietnam war? We did tons of them. What everyone *in the military* knows is that you can't win a war by bombing the hell out of it (WWII in Japan notwithstanding).
1. Just because the cars handle differently doesn't mean the handle realistically. 2. I don't ever remember being able to play in the rain, but that's not what I was talking about anyway. Real roads have varying surfaces. Cement, blacktop, recycled blacktop, and so on, and they change on the fly. They also have obstacles like manhole covers, tar patches, and puddles. GT has none of this. 3. You got me on the analog controls, but in my defense they're difficult to use because of their position on the controller.
Atari games. Hard drivin' was probably the closest for how a truly acts in a given situation. They also had pedals and force feedback.
For instance, if you went into a long sweeper and started accelerating too early, the rear end would kick out and you'd go into a spin. I've never seen anything like that in Turismo, and I've played way more than 100 hours worth of GT.
I totally agree with this. I played it a lot when I was in my late teens and learned a pretty big appreciation for what happens when you go into a corrner too fast. Unfortunately it's probably outside the price range of the poster.
Driving in Gran Turismo is nothing like driving in real life, race or otherwise.
- The car behavior (oversteer, understeer, etc.) is hugely exaggerated and simplified. There's virtually no weight shift when cornering. In my many hours playing the game I don't recall any torque steer from FWD or all too common counter skid from overcorrecting in a RWD car.
- Real streets have varying road surfaces and obstacles that affect traction.
- Most importantly, car controls (gas, brakes, steering, etc.) are not on/off switches like most gaming controls.
The biggest reason I have to use ClamAV is because almost no one else supports OS X. I didn't find any besides ClamAV that weren't a all-in-one mail server, which I'm not going to bother with.
If Vexira would have supported OS X when I was looking, I would have bought it.
No, she didn't come close to finishing the race in less than eight hours, but she didn't use it continuously anyway. Granted that you can't just switch out a couple batteries (she would have it recharged between various checkpoints), she wanted it instead of her flashmem mp3 player because it held far more songs.
I know numerous marathon runners who do just fine with iPods. One of them just borrowed my mom's iPod for a 100 mile race she did a few months ago, and she had no complaints.
Yep. Most people who are in or close to the deaf community are assigned a namesign at some point. Personal namesigns, like nicknames, are only useful to people who know the person well, but a lot of proper nouns have common namesigns (like Coca Cola or cities).
In one of the companies I work for, the brokers each control about 150 clients. When they e-mail all of them at once, Mozilla takes damn near forever to move those e-mail addresses from the address book to the mail client.
Between that and Mozilla not being able to lie about what it is to IE-only sites, that company is Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.
Then there's the Mac OS 9 based print/pre-press company. Mozilla dropped support for OS 9, yet we can't make the switch to OS X because of Quark.
Maybe if employers wouldn't require every employee to have such mass amounts of experience, there would be a few younger admins around. You know, almost like a junior admin... "Well, he knows how to admin a system, so we can teach him the specifics."
I think being a mainframe admin would be a blast (maybe I just don't know better), but in my eight years of sysadmin work, I've never touched a mainframe. Every job posting I recall coming across required previous experience.
My company uses RAV with Sendmail, and it works pretty good. No viruses in the year I've had it running, which is a considerable change from the multiple infections every two months we had before. Two problems, though:
1. The anti-spam locks up sendmail on my system, so I just shut it down.
2. When they say two domains, they mean two fully-qualified domains. For example, say you have three servers... smtp.yourdomain.org and imap.yourdomain.org will be protected, but mail.yourdomain.org is screwed. Of course, the licensing is pretty cheap, so whatever.
The supposed benefit of using Ask Slashdot is to get a wide range of opinions on a matter. Granted that a person may run into some stories of experience in the newsgroups, they won't find nearly as much.
I'm sure they know of ldap, kerberos, blah, blah, blah... but which should they use? What do their peers think? What have their peers experienced?
Nothing like Unix geeks. We bitch at all the horrible sys admins (mostly Windows, of course;^), then we redicule them when they ask for our help.
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How about the tons of widget developers for Konfabulator? Now they can get their project to *way* more people instead of the small segment of users who bought Konfabulator.
Are you trying to say that we didn't do bombing runs during the Vietnam war? We did tons of them. What everyone *in the military* knows is that you can't win a war by bombing the hell out of it (WWII in Japan notwithstanding).
1. Just because the cars handle differently doesn't mean the handle realistically.
2. I don't ever remember being able to play in the rain, but that's not what I was talking about anyway. Real roads have varying surfaces. Cement, blacktop, recycled blacktop, and so on, and they change on the fly. They also have obstacles like manhole covers, tar patches, and puddles. GT has none of this.
3. You got me on the analog controls, but in my defense they're difficult to use because of their position on the controller.
For instance, if you went into a long sweeper and started accelerating too early, the rear end would kick out and you'd go into a spin. I've never seen anything like that in Turismo, and I've played way more than 100 hours worth of GT.
I totally agree with this. I played it a lot when I was in my late teens and learned a pretty big appreciation for what happens when you go into a corrner too fast. Unfortunately it's probably outside the price range of the poster.
- The car behavior (oversteer, understeer, etc.) is hugely exaggerated and simplified. There's virtually no weight shift when cornering. In my many hours playing the game I don't recall any torque steer from FWD or all too common counter skid from overcorrecting in a RWD car.
- Real streets have varying road surfaces and obstacles that affect traction.
- Most importantly, car controls (gas, brakes, steering, etc.) are not on/off switches like most gaming controls.
The biggest reason I have to use ClamAV is because almost no one else supports OS X. I didn't find any besides ClamAV that weren't a all-in-one mail server, which I'm not going to bother with.
If Vexira would have supported OS X when I was looking, I would have bought it.
I've been using the linux version of the software they bought-out, and it works great.
No, she didn't come close to finishing the race in less than eight hours, but she didn't use it continuously anyway. Granted that you can't just switch out a couple batteries (she would have it recharged between various checkpoints), she wanted it instead of her flashmem mp3 player because it held far more songs.
I know numerous marathon runners who do just fine with iPods. One of them just borrowed my mom's iPod for a 100 mile race she did a few months ago, and she had no complaints.
Maybe you need softer shoes. :^)
Yep. Most people who are in or close to the deaf community are assigned a namesign at some point. Personal namesigns, like nicknames, are only useful to people who know the person well, but a lot of proper nouns have common namesigns (like Coca Cola or cities).
He was being sarcastic.
Naw. Lakewood, WA. Cops was filmed there a number of times when I lived there.
Between that and Mozilla not being able to lie about what it is to IE-only sites, that company is Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.
Then there's the Mac OS 9 based print/pre-press company. Mozilla dropped support for OS 9, yet we can't make the switch to OS X because of Quark.
That company is also IE/Outlook Express.
I'd switch if I could, but I can't so I won't.
I think being a mainframe admin would be a blast (maybe I just don't know better), but in my eight years of sysadmin work, I've never touched a mainframe. Every job posting I recall coming across required previous experience.
Here is a sorta technical document about accented and special characters...
Netscape
Here is a pretty layout of what buttons to press...
Harvard
right-click = control-click = brings up a menu about the object
middle-click (wheel) = command(apple)-click = opens a new tab in the background
Obviously, the wheel scrolls.
It's not like 7 came out, then 8, then 7.(123). Red Hat didn't fill in the point versions after the fact.
Shells
Switching from the default Microsoft "Dell" to "Dell Mobile" driver stopped the constant crashing.
Then I just said to hell with it and switched to ATI, which is installed on my Mac.
Whatever happened to this kinda great stuff?
Of course he can't tell the difference. In Windows, a browser crash typically takes the OS with it. :^)
I don't know whether to mod this +1 Funny or +1 Insightful.
1. The anti-spam locks up sendmail on my system, so I just shut it down.
2. When they say two domains, they mean two fully-qualified domains. For example, say you have three servers... smtp.yourdomain.org and imap.yourdomain.org will be protected, but mail.yourdomain.org is screwed. Of course, the licensing is pretty cheap, so whatever.
I'm sure they know of ldap, kerberos, blah, blah, blah... but which should they use? What do their peers think? What have their peers experienced?
Nothing like Unix geeks. We bitch at all the horrible sys admins (mostly Windows, of course ;^), then we redicule them when they ask for our help.