So what? The 'Penguin Classics' translation of 'Crime and Punishment' is just as bad a translation. It's clearly written by someone who doesn't speak English natively. At least with Gutenberg you don't have the priveledge of paying for it.
They're probably not reading very involved books. Probably pulp fiction or fan-fiction, or children's books. Written by people who aren't that good at writing, so the language is very simplistic, and the dialogue largely non-consequential, so you can get by just by skimming over the main plot points. The plots are often very simple so don't take much time to consider and think about.
6 pages a minute is a page in ten seconds. There's no way anyone can read that fast unless they're reading junk, or not paying much attention.
Hmm lets see, at the rate I read (which is about 150-300 pages an hour (depends on difficulity of the material to gain comprehension) or 3-6 pages a minute
What the hell are you reading? "Spot goes to the Park"? Seriously though, I usually spend about a minute or so at least on each page. Do you scan it, or thoroughly read and digest it? What sort of books do you read?
It's called 'Firefly'. I'd give it 1 out of 10. Hideously expensive (£20/month), constant cut-offs, low speed (Currently connected at 31.2kbps), and they bitch about using it for too many hours. I suppose it's my own fault for living somewhere with no broadband.
All my other ISPs have cut me off for using them too much. Apparently not content with giving me a shitty dialup service for a price approaching broadband, they want me to use it for barely a few minutes a day.
Yes, it allows you to do more things in a limited account. Except install software. When you need root access in Linux, I can't think a way of doing it without using the command line. Perhaps root could be renamed to something more intuitive like 'admin'. You know that 'root' is Australian for 'fuck'? Does Linus Torvalds think that 'fuck' is an appropriate term to use on a computer? Do you want to install Linux on your grandmother's computer just for it to say 'fuck' to her?
It's not just Windows either. When using Linux I often have to run as root to install software or change simple system settings. I think the whole 'admin/normal user' paridigm isn't very useful. A computer should just be a tool, you shouldn't need to know several passwords and a security system just to run a computer, write e-mails and letters and install some applications now and again. Computers (both hardware and software) are made from the prospective of geeks who like to play with the technical aspects, and as a result they're needlessly complex for what they do.
Of course there is, always has been. You didn't think life was precious and sacred did you? If it was, there'd be a world-wide state-funded health service rather than corporations lining their pockets profiteering from death and misery.
When your browser crashes, and you open it again, if it uses tabs it can open all your pages again. It's as if it never went away. You can't do that with IE.
I dunno, maybe in 1984 that was relatively decent entertainment. But when you think about it, the game consists of flying up and down selling things just to get enough money to buy a couple of missiles because they're the only way of killing pirates, because despite the technology for inter-steller travel, your space-ship can only shoot directly ahead, and has no way of easily-aiming the laser at an opponent. Although your opponents have no problem hitting you every single time no matter where you are. And it's five against one. And the help files make it as simple as aiming at them and pressing 'fire', and then spiralling to avoid them, even though it doesn't work. Damnit!
The differance between a person and a computer is people can learn. A computer can not
Computers are getting better and better. AI is advancing constantly. Humans aren't getting any cleverer. Give it a hundred years, and we'll be obsolete.
80 degrees is only about 27C centigrade. If that's pure torture, you have problems. Try opening a window or turning on a fan. This week it was 40C (104F) in the factory I work in. On top of this, I was wearing a thick protective suit and a full helmet, and doing hard labour. Yet I didn't complain about it. I think you're just soft. You're probably an office worker who loses his erection if the ambient conditions aren't absolutely perfect.
Well, I don't think word of mouth marketing will work. Slashdot is hardly a huge market force. There is the potential for this film to crash and burn. Badly. This could end Firefly full-stop, which is unfortuanate if it's as good as the fanboys say.
I'm afraid I don't know any fanboys or geeks, they don't seem to exist in the real world, just this web site.
Literally just before reading this story, I was playing 'Elite II' and trying to navigate to Mercury. If course Elite II isn't the best game in the world, and the task was impossible, as I flew up and down, each time missing and ending up 1+ AU on the other side. Apparently the designers didn't think to give you proper control over your accelerators, nor to give you your speed relative to your destination, but instead to some arbitrary object. So when going to Mercury, my speed was relative to Jupiter, making both the speed controller and indicator completely worthless. At one point, the flow of the stars were showing me going forwards, but Mercury right in front of me was moving AWAY from me! And sometimes I could deccelerate almost instantly, and some times it would take ages until I was right back where I started, making reaching other planets a complete impossibility.
I suppose that's what happens when game designers let technical aspects and graphics get in the way of the interface and playability. The documentation only mentions using the autopilot, but my ship doesn't come with an autopilot! And even when it does, it often crashes me right into planets!
Actually come to think of it, when is someone going to make a PROPER space game? Like Elite, but done properly so it's actually enjoyable to play?
Good point. There's no point marketing to the fanboys who'll go and see it a dozen times anyway, you need to market it to people who've never heard of it.
I've NEVER heard of Firefly/Serenity outside of Slashdot. The marketing/publicity is non-existant.
Whether it's any good or not it's hard to tell, I'll have to wait for a review from a non-fanboy. I'd get it off bittorrent but my 30,200bps modem won't take it, but I suppose that's what I deserve for living in the arsehole of the universe.
Because they have 2-3% market share on the desktop and need more customers.
They're not going to get more customers by supporting Open Office. They already have a decent office suite. Linux has Open Office and it's hardly tearing up trees, because people want MS Office.
A good implementation would put it on equal footing with Carbon, OpenGL, and Cocoa as another choice.
Why? For even more inconsistency? May as well keep using the same APIs rather than having a whole pile of them. That's why Linux is a shitty desktop, all sorts of protocols and libraries all doing the same thing, and the result is a big mess. Apple know how to make a UI and don't make the same mistakes Linux do. That's why even when Linux is free and Mac OS is expensive, Linux still can't beat its market share.
It's not just the accuracy, it's the interface. Excel is really quick and easy to use, the keyboard shortcuts are a lot better than gnumeric. It makes putting in numbers and copy/pasting equations all over the place much simpler. And it looks better too. The graphs are clearly and more consistent, and they open in their own tabs rather than as a floating image over your spreadsheet.
Not all of us use spreadsheets for important calculations, I use it as a way of organising data, the actual calculations are simple and not too important.
And why does X11 on OS X work like crap? Because Apple has no interest in fixing it:
Why would they? They already have a great, consistent, good-looking GUI, no point clogging it up with the trainwreck that is the X Window System. I can't think of anything more inefficient and pointless than running a GUI on top of another GUI. Programs should use the native GUI, there's no reason not to other than laziness and arrogance. And who wants to run a server just to get an office program working? X11 should have been put to sleep a long time ago.
Because Linux doesn't fit my needs. It doesn't play many media types, it doesn't run most of my software, it doesn't run any of my games, it doesn't work with my modem. I hate open office. Why would I need more RAM? I have 512MB and have NEVER filled it.
Now what they need to figure out is how to fix the pollution in LA. The moon is red until it gets above the smog.
I dunno about that, I saw an orange moon the other day over the horizon and found it rather aesthetically pleasing. Better than the normal yellow/white moon.
Yeah. I can't believe ran his car into a bus full of children. Oh wait. He didn't do that.
Not yet. It probably wasn't the first time he'd driven drunk, it was only a matter of time before he caused an accident. It's incredibly fortuanate he didn't kill anyone, he was lucky to get 24 days.
Why is a bystander more innocent than his friend?
His friend presumably knew he was drunk when he got into the car. And allowed him to drive.
Condoms for instance have about a 98% success rate if used properly.
So every 50 times it fails? So if you have sex once a day, it's going to fail seven times a year. Like I said, abstinence is the way.
I wouldn't be suprised if abstenance actually had a lower success rate at preventing pregnancy than abstenance.
I'm sorry, Are you a retard?
So you're saying that people shouldn't take risks?
When the result of said risk is bringing an unwanted child into the world or murdering it, or propagating a lethal disease which kills millions, then yes the risk is not worth a brief bit of physical pleasure.
Replace the word Mars with America and set our time back to 1500. Take a look around. Not much worth seeings except some trees and the Natives
Room to live for people who didn't like the Old World. Not really the same as the Moon. The Americas could support life. Vast tracts of land, grassy plains, hills, forests, lakes, rivers, everything you need to build a new life. On the moon, you have rocks and corrosive dust. On Mars, you have rocks and dust storms. You'd have to live inside bio-domes, and you can do that on Earth, but with other perks like contact with everyone else, and proper gravity and sunlight.
If you want to simulate life on another planet, go and live at an antarctic research station. Want to simulate space travel? Go and live on a submarine for several years without ever leaving it.
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So what? The 'Penguin Classics' translation of 'Crime and Punishment' is just as bad a translation. It's clearly written by someone who doesn't speak English natively. At least with Gutenberg you don't have the priveledge of paying for it.
They're probably not reading very involved books. Probably pulp fiction or fan-fiction, or children's books. Written by people who aren't that good at writing, so the language is very simplistic, and the dialogue largely non-consequential, so you can get by just by skimming over the main plot points. The plots are often very simple so don't take much time to consider and think about.
6 pages a minute is a page in ten seconds. There's no way anyone can read that fast unless they're reading junk, or not paying much attention.
Hmm lets see, at the rate I read (which is about 150-300 pages an hour (depends on difficulity of the material to gain comprehension) or 3-6 pages a minute
What the hell are you reading? "Spot goes to the Park"? Seriously though, I usually spend about a minute or so at least on each page. Do you scan it, or thoroughly read and digest it? What sort of books do you read?
It's called 'Firefly'. I'd give it 1 out of 10. Hideously expensive (£20/month), constant cut-offs, low speed (Currently connected at 31.2kbps), and they bitch about using it for too many hours. I suppose it's my own fault for living somewhere with no broadband.
All my other ISPs have cut me off for using them too much. Apparently not content with giving me a shitty dialup service for a price approaching broadband, they want me to use it for barely a few minutes a day.
Yes, it allows you to do more things in a limited account. Except install software. When you need root access in Linux, I can't think a way of doing it without using the command line. Perhaps root could be renamed to something more intuitive like 'admin'. You know that 'root' is Australian for 'fuck'? Does Linus Torvalds think that 'fuck' is an appropriate term to use on a computer? Do you want to install Linux on your grandmother's computer just for it to say 'fuck' to her?
It's not just Windows either. When using Linux I often have to run as root to install software or change simple system settings. I think the whole 'admin/normal user' paridigm isn't very useful. A computer should just be a tool, you shouldn't need to know several passwords and a security system just to run a computer, write e-mails and letters and install some applications now and again. Computers (both hardware and software) are made from the prospective of geeks who like to play with the technical aspects, and as a result they're needlessly complex for what they do.
Of course there is, always has been. You didn't think life was precious and sacred did you? If it was, there'd be a world-wide state-funded health service rather than corporations lining their pockets profiteering from death and misery.
When your browser crashes, and you open it again, if it uses tabs it can open all your pages again. It's as if it never went away. You can't do that with IE.
I dunno, maybe in 1984 that was relatively decent entertainment. But when you think about it, the game consists of flying up and down selling things just to get enough money to buy a couple of missiles because they're the only way of killing pirates, because despite the technology for inter-steller travel, your space-ship can only shoot directly ahead, and has no way of easily-aiming the laser at an opponent. Although your opponents have no problem hitting you every single time no matter where you are. And it's five against one. And the help files make it as simple as aiming at them and pressing 'fire', and then spiralling to avoid them, even though it doesn't work. Damnit!
The differance between a person and a computer is people can learn. A computer can not
Computers are getting better and better. AI is advancing constantly. Humans aren't getting any cleverer. Give it a hundred years, and we'll be obsolete.
You're a cunt.
80 degrees is only about 27C centigrade. If that's pure torture, you have problems. Try opening a window or turning on a fan. This week it was 40C (104F) in the factory I work in. On top of this, I was wearing a thick protective suit and a full helmet, and doing hard labour. Yet I didn't complain about it. I think you're just soft. You're probably an office worker who loses his erection if the ambient conditions aren't absolutely perfect.
Well, I don't think word of mouth marketing will work. Slashdot is hardly a huge market force. There is the potential for this film to crash and burn. Badly. This could end Firefly full-stop, which is unfortuanate if it's as good as the fanboys say.
I'm afraid I don't know any fanboys or geeks, they don't seem to exist in the real world, just this web site.
It's not just that, it's every planet. The whole game's unplayable. But I suppose that's what happens when you write something in assembly.
Literally just before reading this story, I was playing 'Elite II' and trying to navigate to Mercury. If course Elite II isn't the best game in the world, and the task was impossible, as I flew up and down, each time missing and ending up 1+ AU on the other side. Apparently the designers didn't think to give you proper control over your accelerators, nor to give you your speed relative to your destination, but instead to some arbitrary object. So when going to Mercury, my speed was relative to Jupiter, making both the speed controller and indicator completely worthless. At one point, the flow of the stars were showing me going forwards, but Mercury right in front of me was moving AWAY from me! And sometimes I could deccelerate almost instantly, and some times it would take ages until I was right back where I started, making reaching other planets a complete impossibility.
I suppose that's what happens when game designers let technical aspects and graphics get in the way of the interface and playability. The documentation only mentions using the autopilot, but my ship doesn't come with an autopilot! And even when it does, it often crashes me right into planets!
Actually come to think of it, when is someone going to make a PROPER space game? Like Elite, but done properly so it's actually enjoyable to play?
Good point. There's no point marketing to the fanboys who'll go and see it a dozen times anyway, you need to market it to people who've never heard of it.
I've NEVER heard of Firefly/Serenity outside of Slashdot. The marketing/publicity is non-existant.
Whether it's any good or not it's hard to tell, I'll have to wait for a review from a non-fanboy. I'd get it off bittorrent but my 30,200bps modem won't take it, but I suppose that's what I deserve for living in the arsehole of the universe.
Because they have 2-3% market share on the desktop and need more customers.
They're not going to get more customers by supporting Open Office. They already have a decent office suite. Linux has Open Office and it's hardly tearing up trees, because people want MS Office.
A good implementation would put it on equal footing with Carbon, OpenGL, and Cocoa as another choice.
Why? For even more inconsistency? May as well keep using the same APIs rather than having a whole pile of them. That's why Linux is a shitty desktop, all sorts of protocols and libraries all doing the same thing, and the result is a big mess. Apple know how to make a UI and don't make the same mistakes Linux do. That's why even when Linux is free and Mac OS is expensive, Linux still can't beat its market share.
It's not just the accuracy, it's the interface. Excel is really quick and easy to use, the keyboard shortcuts are a lot better than gnumeric. It makes putting in numbers and copy/pasting equations all over the place much simpler. And it looks better too. The graphs are clearly and more consistent, and they open in their own tabs rather than as a floating image over your spreadsheet.
Not all of us use spreadsheets for important calculations, I use it as a way of organising data, the actual calculations are simple and not too important.
And why does X11 on OS X work like crap? Because Apple has no interest in fixing it:
Why would they? They already have a great, consistent, good-looking GUI, no point clogging it up with the trainwreck that is the X Window System. I can't think of anything more inefficient and pointless than running a GUI on top of another GUI. Programs should use the native GUI, there's no reason not to other than laziness and arrogance. And who wants to run a server just to get an office program working? X11 should have been put to sleep a long time ago.
Because Linux doesn't fit my needs. It doesn't play many media types, it doesn't run most of my software, it doesn't run any of my games, it doesn't work with my modem. I hate open office. Why would I need more RAM? I have 512MB and have NEVER filled it.
Now what they need to figure out is how to fix the pollution in LA. The moon is red until it gets above the smog.
I dunno about that, I saw an orange moon the other day over the horizon and found it rather aesthetically pleasing. Better than the normal yellow/white moon.
Yeah. I can't believe ran his car into a bus full of children. Oh wait. He didn't do that.
Not yet. It probably wasn't the first time he'd driven drunk, it was only a matter of time before he caused an accident. It's incredibly fortuanate he didn't kill anyone, he was lucky to get 24 days.
Why is a bystander more innocent than his friend?
His friend presumably knew he was drunk when he got into the car. And allowed him to drive.
Condoms for instance have about a 98% success rate if used properly.
So every 50 times it fails? So if you have sex once a day, it's going to fail seven times a year. Like I said, abstinence is the way.
I wouldn't be suprised if abstenance actually had a lower success rate at preventing pregnancy than abstenance.
I'm sorry, Are you a retard?
So you're saying that people shouldn't take risks?
When the result of said risk is bringing an unwanted child into the world or murdering it, or propagating a lethal disease which kills millions, then yes the risk is not worth a brief bit of physical pleasure.
Condoms for instance have about a 98% success rate if used properly.
So every 50 times it fails? So if you have sex once a day, it's going to fail seven times a year. Like I said, abstinence is the way.
I wouldn't be suprised if abstenance actually had a lower success rate at preventing pregnancy than abstenance.
I'm sorry, Are you a retard?
Replace the word Mars with America and set our time back to 1500. Take a look around. Not much worth seeings except some trees and the Natives
Room to live for people who didn't like the Old World. Not really the same as the Moon. The Americas could support life. Vast tracts of land, grassy plains, hills, forests, lakes, rivers, everything you need to build a new life. On the moon, you have rocks and corrosive dust. On Mars, you have rocks and dust storms. You'd have to live inside bio-domes, and you can do that on Earth, but with other perks like contact with everyone else, and proper gravity and sunlight.
If you want to simulate life on another planet, go and live at an antarctic research station. Want to simulate space travel? Go and live on a submarine for several years without ever leaving it.