I've found that I can get more work done by obsessively checking for new stories constantly. That way, there aren't too many comments for any one story...
Without the smilies, I can't really tell if you're joking.
In any case, my employer (school), being a large organization, is always developing common images and rolling them out late. I'm not even sure we get Tiger this fall...
"Meanwhile every version of OS X has been faster than the predecessor."
OK, I AM an apple fanboi, and that's just not really my experience. Yes, 10.1 was faster than 10.0, and 10.2 was faster than 10.1 (and 10.3 was, maybe, snappier than 10.2). But aren't these really optimizations that weren't yet completed in a massive rewrite?
In my experience, 10.4 is NOT faster than 10.3 on the same hardware (Mac Mini G4 and iBook G4 - really the same computers). At my employment (school), we use approx. 4 yr-old iMacs. These babies were truly suffering under the load of 10.3 last year. I shudder to think of their responsiveness under Tiger this fall.
I did a simpler comparison yesterday between Amazon's prices on laundry detergents, fabric softener, and dishwashing soap vs. Target's prices on the same items.
Specifically, I checked the prices on All ultra-concentrated liquid laundry detergent, Method's ultra-concentrated liquid laundry detergent, Method liquid fabric softener, and Method dishwashing detergent cubes.
I compared the non-sale Target prices with Amazon's prices, and Target's prices were cheaper. Any sales or coupon usage would increase the price differential.
Dude, that's a seriously long post. I read "I haven't used iTunes, but", and then there was a lot of text that couldn't possibly be meaningful.
I have burnt and re-encoded, and I can't tell the difference between my re-encoded MP3s and the original AAC. YMMV, of course. But to say "unacceptable" is definitely not true for me.
Sorry if it sounded pedantic. I was just trying to be explanatory. Didn't just want to say "No. You didn't read it right." without reasoning behind it.
Opera also introduced tabbed browsing and other cool features since adopted by Firefox but not, as yet, implemented by Microsoft. I'm not sure if it is his poor sentence structure or if he is trying to imply that Opera copied Firefox's tabs. Opera was the first to have tabs in Opera 6.0 (many years ago). --
Yes, Dvorak is a tool, albeit a highly amusing one on the TWiT podcast. However, his sentence structure above is fine, if complex. Opera is the subject of the sentence. Introduced is the verb, reflecting that Opera did the introducing. (Introducing conveys an implication of being the first to the party.) The fact that these tabs were since adopted by Firefox , denotes the fact that the Firefox inclusion of tabs came AFTER their introduction in Opera. (Moreover, the word "adopt" conveys the idea that such inclusion was later.)
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
I know Google is now competing with MSFT, YHOO, and AOL. But when did they take on EA?
I am sick of seeing white, pink, and green. WTF was apple thinking.
Only how to actually sell these ridiculously-expensive toys to women! You know, half the world's (not/.'s) population?
My wife immediately wanted (and got) a pink mini when they came out. As a high school teacher, I see those colors (mostly pink, but some others too) in female hands all day long. Guys tend to go for the white (i.e., bit bigger but much more capacity).
Of course, apple has made some piss-poor color choices in the past - Flower Power imac, anyone?
In the same regard, we all benefit from the MPAA exercising its rights to sue when it perceives copyright infringement on its copyrighted works. So then we should support them as well. Donations, anyone?
I know step 3 is normally ???, but it wasn't this time. Read it, and I believe you'll see he's saying it is a good thing that a well-funded organization (MPAA) must actually go to court and not win by default because their lawyers are bigger bullies.
Fair enough. Not much info in the summary. One could read the article(s), of course. Or, one could, on a whim, type www.craigslist.com and see what pops up...
If you're too lazy for that: Massive online classified ads/community website. Organized based on metropolitan region. Most postings are free. Help Wanted postings in (I think) SF, LA, and NY are the only ones that cost money.
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Gamespy continues to suck.
Maybe, but...
Look at their 2004 Gamer's Choice awards (voted by site visitors). Totally predictable. PS2=GTA:SA. XBox=Halo2, PC=HL2,Doom3,WoW. Whatever. Gamers are lemmings, I guess.
Now, look at their top 10 games (the story referenced by Slashdot). Yes, yes, the usual suspects are all there. Yes, Halo 2 is #1, followed by HL2 and other, predictable, console-oriented titles. But, wait, what do I see: at number 10 is Katamari Damacy, which only got 3% of the Gamer vote for PS2 alone. (And, it was the only odd-ball on that list.)
Yeah, yeah. Flash-based ads, silly meaningless "previews" and all. But I sense the editors are crying for the freedom to publish original opinions to enlighten the masses.
There are no ads until you're looking at a message. Thus, the quicker you get into your mail (not just looking at the list of messages, but reading an actual message), the quicker Google gets paid.
Others have said that the 3rd party notifiers probably aren't "efficient" with Google's servers. That I believe.
I don't think those URL's are meant to be common knowledge. I've had (and given away) invites, and I don't know how those URLs are being generated. Gmail doesn't make it obvious to their user.
Besides, "Gina" is probably some 85-year old guy in a federal prison somewhere...
Still, I wish a game with hyped-up offense to get realistic scores and a faster-than-normal clock would at least have a cheat code so that the clock shows 5 minutes "real time" instead of 15 minutes of "game time"...
Don't the current round of (American) football games do this by default? I never played them as a kid, but Madden 2004 and ESPN NFL 2k5 both default to 5 min. quarters and take me almost exactly an hour to play. One-third the game time, one-third the real time...
I figured the NFL network (like the NBA network) would be hard-up for actual programming content. But, I never thought they'd be so desperate as to rebroadcast pre-season games. Wow.
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it's sad the mods don't get the joke .
Exactly.
I've found that I can get more work done by obsessively checking for new stories constantly. That way, there aren't too many comments for any one story...
You can.
Without the smilies, I can't really tell if you're joking.
In any case, my employer (school), being a large organization, is always developing common images and rolling them out late. I'm not even sure we get Tiger this fall...
"Meanwhile every version of OS X has been faster than the predecessor."
OK, I AM an apple fanboi, and that's just not really my experience. Yes, 10.1 was faster than 10.0, and 10.2 was faster than 10.1 (and 10.3 was, maybe, snappier than 10.2). But aren't these really optimizations that weren't yet completed in a massive rewrite?
In my experience, 10.4 is NOT faster than 10.3 on the same hardware (Mac Mini G4 and iBook G4 - really the same computers). At my employment (school), we use approx. 4 yr-old iMacs. These babies were truly suffering under the load of 10.3 last year. I shudder to think of their responsiveness under Tiger this fall.
I did a simpler comparison yesterday between Amazon's prices on laundry detergents, fabric softener, and dishwashing soap vs. Target's prices on the same items.
Specifically, I checked the prices on All ultra-concentrated liquid laundry detergent, Method's ultra-concentrated liquid laundry detergent, Method liquid fabric softener, and Method dishwashing detergent cubes.
I compared the non-sale Target prices with Amazon's prices, and Target's prices were cheaper. Any sales or coupon usage would increase the price differential.
Dude, that's a seriously long post. I read "I haven't used iTunes, but", and then there was a lot of text that couldn't possibly be meaningful.
I have burnt and re-encoded, and I can't tell the difference between my re-encoded MP3s and the original AAC. YMMV, of course. But to say "unacceptable" is definitely not true for me.
But, it is a PITA.
Sounds like the dark lord Sauron is up to his evil tricks again. Probably firing up Mount Doom to forge some new rings that will bind people to Vista.
But, Mt. St. Helens is about half as far from Portland as it is from Seattle. Last I checked, Linus lived in a suburb of Portland....
Sorry if it sounded pedantic. I was just trying to be explanatory. Didn't just want to say "No. You didn't read it right." without reasoning behind it.
Opera also introduced tabbed browsing and other cool features since adopted by Firefox but not, as yet, implemented by Microsoft.
I'm not sure if it is his poor sentence structure or if he is trying to imply that Opera copied Firefox's tabs. Opera was the first to have tabs in Opera 6.0 (many years ago).
--
Yes, Dvorak is a tool, albeit a highly amusing one on the TWiT podcast. However, his sentence structure above is fine, if complex. Opera is the subject of the sentence. Introduced is the verb, reflecting that Opera did the introducing. (Introducing conveys an implication of being the first to the party.) The fact that these tabs were since adopted by Firefox , denotes the fact that the Firefox inclusion of tabs came AFTER their introduction in Opera. (Moreover, the word "adopt" conveys the idea that such inclusion was later.)
Want a bet on this? Any service can run on any port.
You mean, like when GP said:
Then someone would make filesharing that used those ports.
I understand that reading multiple paragraphs or TFA is too much to ask. But, you couldn't read the next sentence in the same paragraph?
Bad form....
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
I know Google is now competing with MSFT, YHOO, and AOL. But when did they take on EA?
21 years later, the mouse is opitcal-tracking.
:-)
Please, give them a bit of credit for innovation
I am sick of seeing white, pink, and green. WTF was apple thinking.
/.'s) population?
Only how to actually sell these ridiculously-expensive toys to women! You know, half the world's (not
My wife immediately wanted (and got) a pink mini when they came out. As a high school teacher, I see those colors (mostly pink, but some others too) in female hands all day long. Guys tend to go for the white (i.e., bit bigger but much more capacity).
Of course, apple has made some piss-poor color choices in the past - Flower Power imac, anyone?
In the same regard, we all benefit from the MPAA exercising its rights to sue when it perceives copyright infringement on its copyrighted works. So then we should support them as well. Donations, anyone?
I know step 3 is normally ???, but it wasn't this time. Read it, and I believe you'll see he's saying it is a good thing that a well-funded organization (MPAA) must actually go to court and not win by default because their lawyers are bigger bullies.
Fair enough. Not much info in the summary. One could read the article(s), of course. Or, one could, on a whim, type www.craigslist.com and see what pops up...
If you're too lazy for that:
Massive online classified ads/community website. Organized based on metropolitan region. Most postings are free. Help Wanted postings in (I think) SF, LA, and NY are the only ones that cost money.
Gamespy continues to suck.
Maybe, but...
Look at their 2004 Gamer's Choice awards (voted by site visitors). Totally predictable. PS2=GTA:SA. XBox=Halo2, PC=HL2,Doom3,WoW. Whatever. Gamers are lemmings, I guess.
Now, look at their top 10 games (the story referenced by Slashdot). Yes, yes, the usual suspects are all there. Yes, Halo 2 is #1, followed by HL2 and other, predictable, console-oriented titles. But, wait, what do I see: at number 10 is Katamari Damacy, which only got 3% of the Gamer vote for PS2 alone. (And, it was the only odd-ball on that list.)
Yeah, yeah. Flash-based ads, silly meaningless "previews" and all. But I sense the editors are crying for the freedom to publish original opinions to enlighten the masses.
Yeah, but then we'd get a new one each year. Think of the roster update possibilities - Italy would never be the same twice. :-)
"In Soviet Union..."
It's "In Soviet Russia," you insensitive clod!
I teach HS math, and I used to do things like that.
Then I remembered the point of the test wasn't my own amusement...
Nope.
There are no ads until you're looking at a message. Thus, the quicker you get into your mail (not just looking at the list of messages, but reading an actual message), the quicker Google gets paid.
Others have said that the 3rd party notifiers probably aren't "efficient" with Google's servers. That I believe.
I don't think those URL's are meant to be common knowledge. I've had (and given away) invites, and I don't know how those URLs are being generated. Gmail doesn't make it obvious to their user.
Besides, "Gina" is probably some 85-year old guy in a federal prison somewhere...
Hey now, X-Wing came out for the Mac! I used to fight it on my Powerbook 520c (no good), and had a blast on a PMac 8500.
:-(
I don't think TIE Fighter ever was ported, though
Still, I wish a game with hyped-up offense to get realistic scores and a faster-than-normal clock would at least have a cheat code so that the clock shows 5 minutes "real time" instead of 15 minutes of "game time"...
Don't the current round of (American) football games do this by default? I never played them as a kid, but Madden 2004 and ESPN NFL 2k5 both default to 5 min. quarters and take me almost exactly an hour to play. One-third the game time, one-third the real time...
I figured the NFL network (like the NBA network) would be hard-up for actual programming content. But, I never thought they'd be so desperate as to rebroadcast pre-season games. Wow.