Yeah I don't understand the branding. People have heard of Asus. On seeing me carry a tiny tiny laptop around, a common response has been "who makes that? Oh, Asus! I know them". People find it reassuring it comes from a known company.
Whenever I'm in Europe and see a bottle of Ceske Budejovice Budweiser, I just think it's incredibly lame. It's as lame as naming your beer Pilsner. Pilsner is a type of beer like that made in Pilsen, and budweiser is a type of beer like that made in Budweis. Using it as a brand name is just dumb, and Budvar would never have bothered to do so if some American company hadn't already been dumb enough to do so, and if that American company wasn't huge enough to have attracted attention to the name.
Budweiser shouldn't be a brand at all, but a type of beer, as pilsner is. Budvar only made it their brand to capitalize on ABs stupid, previously established brand. Should that brand be revoked, since it just describes a type of beer? Perhaps. But why the hell should it be given to Budvar? Should pilsner only be allowed to be sold as such by breweries in Pilsen?
Such is how it appears to me, and perhaps to others. If my views contain inaccuracies (wouldn't surprise me) view them as an insight into why not everyone automatically supports Budvar, and use them as motiviation to better make their case. I still think the whole thing's dumb though.
Sarcasm (or at least recognizing sarcasm) is a lost art.
I'm really sure the GP intended to portray Mac users in a positive light with the picture of a unique artistic type licking a foot. - sarcasm
The secretaries in my father's orthopaedic office believe that all input needs to be in caps lock. Of course, if I turnoff caps lock and enter lowercase letters, the prog converts them to uppercase. That continues to escape them, with explanations, and it seems it always will, forcing me to turn off caps lock every time I need to work on those machines.
Point being, your medical billing software may not actually require uppercase at all. At least if it doesn't suck.
If they don't want to put in new desktop software? Like KDE 3.5.4, the very latest release? Sounds like another one of the "if there's no Gnome, there should be no KDE either, it's only fair" crowd. Sheesh, the DEs aren't children, they don't need to be babied. They won't be offended if one gets left out. The users on the other hand..
Limewire is open source, which is nice. In this case, maybe not so much though, as there is at least one example in their code proving they had sharing of copyrighted music in mind.
Searches shorter than 3 letters are dropped, unless that search is for 'u2'. Something like (horrible pseudocode follows) if (search.length() 3 && search.contents() != "u2") search.discard();
Even if it's been removed, It's sure to be seen somewhere in the CVS revisions. If I really cared I could track down the specific file. That surely can't help their case.
"The problem with eBay is that people treat it as a conventional bid, believing for some reason that you should bid over and over again, just above the opposition. This is actually bad for the buyer, because it tends to draw people into bidding higher than they would originally peg as their maximum."
Which is exactly why you shouldn't outbid them until the very end. Less time for them to put in more conventional bids, driving up the cost of your winning bid (up to your max).
Linguists are fond of asking if the form of Spanish spoken in Mexico shouldn't be considered "standard Spanish" since it is spoken by more people than there are in Spain. They'd say if the overwhelming majority uses a phrase "incorrectly," it actually signifies that the meaning of the word has changed. Get it through your head that for most people (and thus for linguists), the phrase "begs the question" means something other than what it used to. Linguistics is descriptive, you're thinking of something else, something prescriptive.
Bought my current machine in Sep '01 and it runs Quake4 acceptably *. Which only means I agree with you;) Desktop boxes seem to have longer legs nowadays. That's what I was hoping for when I bought it.
Right around then computers shot up in speed. Just a couple years before that I had a pII 300 mhz, so the 1.4 ghz athlon was amazing, and seemed like it would be able to stay ahead of games for quite some time. Up until doom3 and half life 2 or so it did. It lags a bit now, but still runs things.
I've almost made it to the five years I thought it would be good for. I'm hoping if I buy a new machine now it can last even longer. The diminishing of Moore's law (as it is misunderstood re: doubling processing speed) is doing wonders for not obsoleting my investments so fast.
*granted, I've upgraded/replaced the RAM, PSU, GPU and HDs.
Agreed on the exploration bonuses.
I'm not convinced though by your reason for liking Steam. In fact, it is my reason for not liking steam. Post bit rot, I'd rather load in a CD and reinstall than log in to steam and wait for several gigabytes to download.
Then again, It would be nice to have it all automated. After the CDs, one would have to install patches etc. With a fat connection, the Steam way would be more fire-and-forget. beh. Lost an argument with myself.
Combining interactive art and gaming, xBlocks delivers a unique experience to say the least. Its currently on display at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy. Video after the jump.
Sounds like vaporware to me. They might want to rethink that name.
> Dumping is merely selling below the cost of production and can happen in a Free Marketplace for a variety of reasons, only a couple of which are deemed illegal by current laws.
One example being the xbox 360. Or playsation 3 (eventually)
OK, this tired example gets dragged up so often, it defeats the purpose. Every mac user knows to repeat this one, which tells me every mac user knows that the shutdown function is under the start button, which tells me it isn't actually all that confusing.
If you really have a problem with the word "start," either wait for Vista's pearl, or tell yourself you are starting the shutdown procedure. sheesh.
That is amusing, and I assume a joke. If you are serious though (and because it's interesting), here goes.
The apes from which we are descended would not be baptised by proxy because they are, as you said, apes (not humans, though I'm not sure where the line would be drawn. A liberal mormon theologist might say that the line is right before the first ape/man/missingLink [Adam] was given a human soul, take it to mean what you will).
So why no baptism for apes? Apes and other animals, not having the higher brain functions we do and the ability to reason and decide what is right and wrong (generalizing here, who knows what Koko the gorilla was thinking) are not capable of sin, and have no need to be redeemed.
That is similar to the reason the church doesn't believe babies who die before being baptised go to hell. Babies are innocent, and haven't yet learned the difference between right and wrong (define it as you will) and therefore have nothing from which they need to be redeemed. "We believe that men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression." -article of faith number something.
Moving on, the concept of differing beliefs in what is right and wrong leads us to the reason the church doesn't believe adults of other faiths and cultures are damned for not joining the church. It is the church's belief that humans will be judged by how well they did according to what they believes was right. Someone who died 300 years ago in the Amazon isn't damned. Someone who never joins a church or believes in God because he never saw a reason to isn't damned (provided he did what he thought was right).
There's some weird stuff about mormonism, no doubt. I just wanted to point out that it is not the same as the Black and White fundamentalism of the Bible Belt, where it's their way or the highway. There's room for science and other cultures and religions, and truth is to be found in many places. "We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." - article of faith number 13
The original blog is meant as parody, the Kos diary surely saw it that way. Parody, however, is often good at pointing out the truth, or things that could be true.
I don't think anyone is dumb enough to believe that someone was advising the saudi government via a blog. Doesn't mean the ideas therein are completely baseless though.
I've played around with glx and glxcompmgr in kubuntu and debian a bit. It is nice to see stuff moved to the gpu of course, but in my short expecience it is still very sensitive to busy cpus.
I'm still using a single core processor unfortunately, dual core may alleviate it some, but if some program is using most of the CPU, the glx effects slow way down and it looks quite bad.
Hopefully the updated stuff and compiz can do it better, but from what I've seen so far, it only succeeds in looking nice as long as nothing is putting any significant load on the cpu.
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Yeah I don't understand the branding. People have heard of Asus. On seeing me carry a tiny tiny laptop around, a common response has been "who makes that? Oh, Asus! I know them". People find it reassuring it comes from a known company.
Hell with the bedroom. What about the bathroom?
I'm pretty sure at least one of the Splinter Cell games on Xbox-something does that.
Whenever I'm in Europe and see a bottle of Ceske Budejovice Budweiser, I just think it's incredibly lame. It's as lame as naming your beer Pilsner. Pilsner is a type of beer like that made in Pilsen, and budweiser is a type of beer like that made in Budweis. Using it as a brand name is just dumb, and Budvar would never have bothered to do so if some American company hadn't already been dumb enough to do so, and if that American company wasn't huge enough to have attracted attention to the name. Budweiser shouldn't be a brand at all, but a type of beer, as pilsner is. Budvar only made it their brand to capitalize on ABs stupid, previously established brand. Should that brand be revoked, since it just describes a type of beer? Perhaps. But why the hell should it be given to Budvar? Should pilsner only be allowed to be sold as such by breweries in Pilsen? Such is how it appears to me, and perhaps to others. If my views contain inaccuracies (wouldn't surprise me) view them as an insight into why not everyone automatically supports Budvar, and use them as motiviation to better make their case. I still think the whole thing's dumb though.
I can't decide whether or not you are making a joke about how hard drives work.
Sarcasm (or at least recognizing sarcasm) is a lost art. I'm really sure the GP intended to portray Mac users in a positive light with the picture of a unique artistic type licking a foot. - sarcasm
The secretaries in my father's orthopaedic office believe that all input needs to be in caps lock. Of course, if I turnoff caps lock and enter lowercase letters, the prog converts them to uppercase. That continues to escape them, with explanations, and it seems it always will, forcing me to turn off caps lock every time I need to work on those machines. Point being, your medical billing software may not actually require uppercase at all. At least if it doesn't suck.
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If they don't want to put in new desktop software? Like KDE 3.5.4, the very latest release? Sounds like another one of the "if there's no Gnome, there should be no KDE either, it's only fair" crowd. Sheesh, the DEs aren't children, they don't need to be babied. They won't be offended if one gets left out. The users on the other hand..
So can the military bypass the no-military clause by invoking the zeroth law?
Limewire is open source, which is nice. In this case, maybe not so much though, as there is at least one example in their code proving they had sharing of copyrighted music in mind.
Searches shorter than 3 letters are dropped, unless that search is for 'u2'. Something like (horrible pseudocode follows)
if (search.length() 3 && search.contents() != "u2") search.discard();
Even if it's been removed, It's sure to be seen somewhere in the CVS revisions. If I really cared I could track down the specific file. That surely can't help their case.
"The problem with eBay is that people treat it as a conventional bid, believing for some reason that you should bid over and over again, just above the opposition. This is actually bad for the buyer, because it tends to draw people into bidding higher than they would originally peg as their maximum." Which is exactly why you shouldn't outbid them until the very end. Less time for them to put in more conventional bids, driving up the cost of your winning bid (up to your max).
Linguists are fond of asking if the form of Spanish spoken in Mexico shouldn't be considered "standard Spanish" since it is spoken by more people than there are in Spain. They'd say if the overwhelming majority uses a phrase "incorrectly," it actually signifies that the meaning of the word has changed. Get it through your head that for most people (and thus for linguists), the phrase "begs the question" means something other than what it used to. Linguistics is descriptive, you're thinking of something else, something prescriptive.
Someone should inform the Socceroos.
Bought my current machine in Sep '01 and it runs Quake4 acceptably *. Which only means I agree with you ;) Desktop boxes seem to have longer legs nowadays. That's what I was hoping for when I bought it.
Right around then computers shot up in speed. Just a couple years before that I had a pII 300 mhz, so the 1.4 ghz athlon was amazing, and seemed like it would be able to stay ahead of games for quite some time. Up until doom3 and half life 2 or so it did. It lags a bit now, but still runs things.
I've almost made it to the five years I thought it would be good for. I'm hoping if I buy a new machine now it can last even longer. The diminishing of Moore's law (as it is misunderstood re: doubling processing speed) is doing wonders for not obsoleting my investments so fast.
*granted, I've upgraded/replaced the RAM, PSU, GPU and HDs.
Wow.. so was the saying "as slow as molasses in January" originally sarcastic, a reference to the Boston incident? ;)
More importantly, where does it leave warez sites that only let you in if you agree not to be a law enforcement officer?
Agreed on the exploration bonuses. I'm not convinced though by your reason for liking Steam. In fact, it is my reason for not liking steam. Post bit rot, I'd rather load in a CD and reinstall than log in to steam and wait for several gigabytes to download. Then again, It would be nice to have it all automated. After the CDs, one would have to install patches etc. With a fat connection, the Steam way would be more fire-and-forget. beh. Lost an argument with myself.
Combining interactive art and gaming, xBlocks delivers a unique experience to say the least. Its currently on display at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy. Video after the jump.
Sounds like vaporware to me. They might want to rethink that name.
> Dumping is merely selling below the cost of production and can happen in a Free Marketplace for a variety of reasons, only a couple of which are deemed illegal by current laws.
One example being the xbox 360. Or playsation 3 (eventually)
OK, this tired example gets dragged up so often, it defeats the purpose. Every mac user knows to repeat this one, which tells me every mac user knows that the shutdown function is under the start button, which tells me it isn't actually all that confusing.
If you really have a problem with the word "start," either wait for Vista's pearl, or tell yourself you are starting the shutdown procedure. sheesh.
That is amusing, and I assume a joke. If you are serious though (and because it's interesting), here goes.
The apes from which we are descended would not be baptised by proxy because they are, as you said, apes (not humans, though I'm not sure where the line would be drawn. A liberal mormon theologist might say that the line is right before the first ape/man/missingLink [Adam] was given a human soul, take it to mean what you will).
So why no baptism for apes? Apes and other animals, not having the higher brain functions we do and the ability to reason and decide what is right and wrong (generalizing here, who knows what Koko the gorilla was thinking) are not capable of sin, and have no need to be redeemed.
That is similar to the reason the church doesn't believe babies who die before being baptised go to hell. Babies are innocent, and haven't yet learned the difference between right and wrong (define it as you will) and therefore have nothing from which they need to be redeemed. "We believe that men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression." -article of faith number something.
Moving on, the concept of differing beliefs in what is right and wrong leads us to the reason the church doesn't believe adults of other faiths and cultures are damned for not joining the church. It is the church's belief that humans will be judged by how well they did according to what they believes was right. Someone who died 300 years ago in the Amazon isn't damned. Someone who never joins a church or believes in God because he never saw a reason to isn't damned (provided he did what he thought was right).
There's some weird stuff about mormonism, no doubt. I just wanted to point out that it is not the same as the Black and White fundamentalism of the Bible Belt, where it's their way or the highway. There's room for science and other cultures and religions, and truth is to be found in many places. "We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." - article of faith number 13
The original blog is meant as parody, the Kos diary surely saw it that way. Parody, however, is often good at pointing out the truth, or things that could be true. I don't think anyone is dumb enough to believe that someone was advising the saudi government via a blog. Doesn't mean the ideas therein are completely baseless though.
I've played around with glx and glxcompmgr in kubuntu and debian a bit. It is nice to see stuff moved to the gpu of course, but in my short expecience it is still very sensitive to busy cpus. I'm still using a single core processor unfortunately, dual core may alleviate it some, but if some program is using most of the CPU, the glx effects slow way down and it looks quite bad. Hopefully the updated stuff and compiz can do it better, but from what I've seen so far, it only succeeds in looking nice as long as nothing is putting any significant load on the cpu.