When I played NWN, I played it in a window on XP all the time. Ditto for Quake, way back when. Its my preferred "goofing off when I should be working" setup.
The roads are in no condition to handle much more traffic. As it was, _I_ was wanting a bicycle. The way I see it, in five years the only thing a car will get you is air conditioning.
Another note, about coal-powered plants v. cars and their pollution. It is far easier to update a few dozen plants than it is to update a few million vehicles.
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Erm,/. wouldn't be the first outlet to reprint press releases. The editors are under no obligation to choose a controversial write-up - they catch heck for that, too.
It would be nice if they identified press releases as such, rather than making us figure it out on our own, but again, they are under no obligation to do so.
And hey, it's Open Source! If you don't like it, start your own site, blah, blah, blah...
So, that's what happened with ReBoot. That's too bad, the most recent episodes were actually quite good, in an anime kind of way. There was a bit of shark-jumping to get to the new storyline, but it was worth it, IMO - it was still kid-oriented, without being so childish.
Carry a notepad around. When someone starts talking on their mobile, very obviously take notes. Move closer to them, and even ask them to repeat stuff.
If they don't like it, tell 'em to take their private conversation out of the public. If they get really pushy, close up the notepad, tell them you'll add to your notes later, and keep listening.
You know, based exclusively on your comments, I'd have to say that Windows is much easier. Fortunately, I know better.
1. Installing a program is much harder. "emerge"? "apt-get"? You left out a critical component there: the command line. I would much rather send a link than go through the whole "e as in echo, m as in Mary, e as in echo - yeah, again, there's another one coming up later - r as in radio..." bullshit.
2. "Search" for your answer? What if you don't even know the question? "I can't connect to the internet" is what Joe Blow will query, and how much help is that going to be? At least a call to the manufacturer may get you going in the right direction (and, sometimes, very occasionally - the right answer the first time)
3. Gawdz. I won't even touch this one. This is so wrong for Joe Blow it isn't even funny, until they get configuring the kernel to be a lot more automatic (with better dependency checking, etc).
4. Sorry you've had such problems with Plug and Play. I can't say that I've shared them. I can't say that Mom or Dad or Grandmother or any of a half-dozen other people consider me "tech support" has had much of a problem getting things installed. I should note that they're all on Win2K Pro or WinXP - since I refuse to help anyone on the Win9x series (and not because of hardware, because of software).
Frankly, neither Linux, nor Windows, nor even Macs are that easy to use. "Easy", to me, means not thinking about what I'm doing, just doing it. I'm pretty sure that's what it means to most people, and the bar is much higher for those who have no desire to learn a single acronym about their machine.
If Linux (or Windows, or BeOS, or anything) is so easy, why do I have to learn so much in order to do something new? The knobs and switches available in any OS, if consolidated, would make the cockpit of a 747 look like a Fisher-Price toy.
I for one hope to never see the end of "this desktop sucks" articles. Because they do. Everybody criticizes Microsoft's efforts to have the OS "figure out" what you want. I have no objection to it figuring me out, I just object to how horribly wrong the implementations have been. If I could count on my desktop (and apps) accurately judging my preferences with minimal input from me (and fewer inane questions, please), then that's what I would call "easy".
Voice is the most natural and effective way we communicate...
Psht. And wrong, too. The most natural and effective way we communicate is through body language.
Give me a ring when they invent a web browser that scrolls down when it sees my eyes get to a certain part of the page, or clicks "back" when it sees my jaw slack in boredom.
Or, better yet, automatically browses to another, non-porn, page while the girlfriend/boss is still walking down the hall...
Here's another number: 50 billion. That's how much money MS has in the bank.
Their days may be numbered, but it's still a pretty big number.
Maybe, hopefully, they'll end up in a position where they have to play nice instead of being bullies, but don't expect them to leave the playground anytime soon.
For me, it's come down to how busy I am. When I'm doing the same ole thang, it collects dust. I don't need to be reminded to go to work in the morning.
But when my schedule is fairly tight (travel, for instance, or a new project), it is invaluable. I'm lost without it at those times: I not only forget what it is I'm supposed to do next, I forget to get the stuff I need to do it.
I could say the same of scheduling software, in general. If life is simple enough that you don't need to "schedule" things, then a PDA won't change anything. If it is, then not having to move stuff from the computer to a notepad is a big gain.
This is more useful than it would seem. I've read a bunch of posts that talk about keeping the wedding pictures in a folder called "Wedding", and that's the extent of the organization.
Except it doesn't work that way. If I dig around a little, I see that I have the same images in several places: in the folder called "Vacation", another folder called "work" where I did some touchups, another folder called "staging" where I laid things out before putting them on the server, and again on the server, where my family can view them on the web.
If I follow the suggestion of putting them all into a single folder, then I've created a logistical headache. The _only_ thing I've gained is the ability to find all the files at once. Using metadata, I would no longer have that restriction - I could put files where they made the most sense, and still find all the files at once.
No doubt. Just recently I was shopping for printers, and they had a dotmatrix model available. It cost more than many of the inkjet printers on display...
Spammers like valid return addresses. Exim (and others, I'm sure) will do a reverse lookup. When a piece of mail comes in from "blah@fooblah.com", the email server sends a request to the "fooblah.com" mail server, and checks to see if "blah" is a valid address.
You'd be surprised at how much mail gets rejected because spammers don't use valid addresses in the from field.
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If you're going through the trouble of finding the same content some place else, then that content must have some value to you.
There's a lot of info that's worth more in time than the half-penny I'd save looking for it elsewhere.
It's a little more straightforward to regulate a dozen powerplants than it is to regulate ten thousand cars.
Becuase it shows, without a shadow of a doubt, how much cooler^W geekier I am than yoo^Hu are.
It's a fuckin BMW. An iPod doesn't really add much to it, no matter where it's mounted.
When I played NWN, I played it in a window on XP all the time. Ditto for Quake, way back when. Its my preferred "goofing off when I should be working" setup.
Cornell has used Windows in HPC clusters since NT4.
The only thing new about this is the marketing push. The technology has been there, and been used, for a long time.
MPI and friends aren't that hard to implement. Now, implementing something using MPI is another story altogether...
I was in Shanghai for a few weeks last year.
The roads are in no condition to handle much more traffic. As it was, _I_ was wanting a bicycle. The way I see it, in five years the only thing a car will get you is air conditioning.
Another note, about coal-powered plants v. cars and their pollution. It is far easier to update a few dozen plants than it is to update a few million vehicles.
Erm, /. wouldn't be the first outlet to reprint press releases. The editors are under no obligation to choose a controversial write-up - they catch heck for that, too.
It would be nice if they identified press releases as such, rather than making us figure it out on our own, but again, they are under no obligation to do so.
And hey, it's Open Source! If you don't like it, start your own site, blah, blah, blah...
So, that's what happened with ReBoot. That's too bad, the most recent episodes were actually quite good, in an anime kind of way. There was a bit of shark-jumping to get to the new storyline, but it was worth it, IMO - it was still kid-oriented, without being so childish.
Even more fun.
Carry a notepad around. When someone starts talking on their mobile, very obviously take notes. Move closer to them, and even ask them to repeat stuff.
If they don't like it, tell 'em to take their private conversation out of the public. If they get really pushy, close up the notepad, tell them you'll add to your notes later, and keep listening.
They fixed it, it just took them about nine versions.
(MS Outlook 2003 disables HTML content quite well.)
You know, based exclusively on your comments, I'd have to say that Windows is much easier. Fortunately, I know better.
1. Installing a program is much harder. "emerge"? "apt-get"? You left out a critical component there: the command line. I would much rather send a link than go through the whole "e as in echo, m as in Mary, e as in echo - yeah, again, there's another one coming up later - r as in radio..." bullshit.
2. "Search" for your answer? What if you don't even know the question? "I can't connect to the internet" is what Joe Blow will query, and how much help is that going to be? At least a call to the manufacturer may get you going in the right direction (and, sometimes, very occasionally - the right answer the first time)
3. Gawdz. I won't even touch this one. This is so wrong for Joe Blow it isn't even funny, until they get configuring the kernel to be a lot more automatic (with better dependency checking, etc).
4. Sorry you've had such problems with Plug and Play. I can't say that I've shared them. I can't say that Mom or Dad or Grandmother or any of a half-dozen other people consider me "tech support" has had much of a problem getting things installed. I should note that they're all on Win2K Pro or WinXP - since I refuse to help anyone on the Win9x series (and not because of hardware, because of software).
Frankly, neither Linux, nor Windows, nor even Macs are that easy to use. "Easy", to me, means not thinking about what I'm doing, just doing it. I'm pretty sure that's what it means to most people, and the bar is much higher for those who have no desire to learn a single acronym about their machine.
If Linux (or Windows, or BeOS, or anything) is so easy, why do I have to learn so much in order to do something new? The knobs and switches available in any OS, if consolidated, would make the cockpit of a 747 look like a Fisher-Price toy.
I for one hope to never see the end of "this desktop sucks" articles. Because they do. Everybody criticizes Microsoft's efforts to have the OS "figure out" what you want. I have no objection to it figuring me out, I just object to how horribly wrong the implementations have been. If I could count on my desktop (and apps) accurately judging my preferences with minimal input from me (and fewer inane questions, please), then that's what I would call "easy".
If they'd said NetBSD, I never would've figured out it was a joke.
Voice is the most natural and effective way we communicate...
Psht. And wrong, too. The most natural and effective way we communicate is through body language.
Give me a ring when they invent a web browser that scrolls down when it sees my eyes get to a certain part of the page, or clicks "back" when it sees my jaw slack in boredom.
Or, better yet, automatically browses to another, non-porn, page while the girlfriend/boss is still walking down the hall...
That's okay. I'm not really an 19-year old Professional Dominatrix living in the DC area.
I like to think the guys at the WP wait with baited breath for me to log in.
This might interest you: "Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten," from The Straight Dope.
I concur, but will continue trying, anyway. ;-)
Oh, I thought all those jobs were going out of the country, or something. I guess I'll move to Maryland for a job.
Why didn't someone tell me?
Here's another number: 50 billion. That's how much money MS has in the bank.
Their days may be numbered, but it's still a pretty big number.
Maybe, hopefully, they'll end up in a position where they have to play nice instead of being bullies, but don't expect them to leave the playground anytime soon.
For me, it's come down to how busy I am. When I'm doing the same ole thang, it collects dust. I don't need to be reminded to go to work in the morning.
But when my schedule is fairly tight (travel, for instance, or a new project), it is invaluable. I'm lost without it at those times: I not only forget what it is I'm supposed to do next, I forget to get the stuff I need to do it.
I could say the same of scheduling software, in general. If life is simple enough that you don't need to "schedule" things, then a PDA won't change anything. If it is, then not having to move stuff from the computer to a notepad is a big gain.
This is more useful than it would seem. I've read a bunch of posts that talk about keeping the wedding pictures in a folder called "Wedding", and that's the extent of the organization.
Except it doesn't work that way. If I dig around a little, I see that I have the same images in several places: in the folder called "Vacation", another folder called "work" where I did some touchups, another folder called "staging" where I laid things out before putting them on the server, and again on the server, where my family can view them on the web.
If I follow the suggestion of putting them all into a single folder, then I've created a logistical headache. The _only_ thing I've gained is the ability to find all the files at once. Using metadata, I would no longer have that restriction - I could put files where they made the most sense, and still find all the files at once.
For a long time, I told people I fixed broken windows. I even got a couple of jobs fixing panes of glass because of it.
No doubt. Just recently I was shopping for printers, and they had a dotmatrix model available. It cost more than many of the inkjet printers on display...
That's because physics is different over there. A lot easier than American physics. ;-)
Spammers like valid return addresses. Exim (and others, I'm sure) will do a reverse lookup. When a piece of mail comes in from "blah@fooblah.com", the email server sends a request to the "fooblah.com" mail server, and checks to see if "blah" is a valid address.
You'd be surprised at how much mail gets rejected because spammers don't use valid addresses in the from field.