99% of my use of MS word is as a spell checker, I'll type a comment (like this one) on a web form then quickly copy and paste in to word and back for spellchecking goodness.
OO.o's spellchecker just isn't as good as Word's. It works the same way, but the suggestions just aren't as good.
I'd also love a simple, notepad-like text editor that gave me online spellchecking and word line number. Anything like that out there?
If Nintendo can stay afloat financially until 2020, when all the GBA-toting kids of today are in THEIR twenties and have piles of disposable income (and I think they will survive until then), they're going to dominate the industry. Again.
Well, what about the previous generation of GBA sporting kids? what about the SNES and NES ones? They all grew up and realized that brand loyalty is idiotic.
Sigh. Read what you wrote..."bought YOU". I'm talking about 30 year olds earning 40k+ buying shit for themselves. These folks grew up on gaming and aren't going to stop. Most want the likes of GTA and Resident Evil.
Oh please. 30 year olds don't want GTA and Resident Evil. Just pre-teen boys. 30 year old boys want gameplay value, not mindless violence. "Gangsters and Zombies" arn't something that real adults find compelling.
Nintendo need to grow up a bit if they want to stay at the forefront of home gaming, especially as the market grows up even more. 30 year olds don't care much for Mario etc.
How old are you?
I'm 25 and I'd be a lot more intrested in playing a Mario game then some mindless shoot-em-up with tons of blood and gore. People in the game industry are immature. They think "adult" means "14 year old boy". 30 year olds want fun games that they can play with their kids.
I worked at a phone center for a month or so, doing polling (before the election) and telemarketing. I think anyone who ever read any 'real' sci-fi involving space travel would have some understanding of orbits, etc.
That's what bothers you about ep III? Not the fact, if the jedi has any kind of health care, none of this would have ever happened? (Elder care for Anakin's mom (heck, just buy her out of slavery, give her a job mopping floors at jedi school) or prenatal care for Natalie)
Well, that was the first glaring flaw I noticed. Of course the whole "dying during childbirth" thing seemed ridiculous as well, but at least that inconsistency had a purpose.
Hmm, well. I promised myself that I would not see ep.3, however it got good reviews. I enjoyed it somewhat, it was definetly better then the first two. But it had a lot of problems.
Just because the movie did well dosn't mean most people liked it, they're just invested in the universe.
The worst part of the whole thing, was that during the "climactic" battles, we know exactly what the result is. Yoda and Palpatane survive, Anikin and Obi-won survive and anikin gets disfigured. There's no tension there at all.
Well, I guess if it was in the "Cannon" books, it might be true, but. If you already had a 'prototype' death star, why not just slap a shell on it, rather then building a whole new one?
20 years is an easy-to belive time-frame for something that big, and you could argue that the newer deathstar was built when the empire was much more powerful and centralized.
They were awkward, sure. But they were also very unrealistic and stupid. They wern't awkward in a realistic way. if you're sick of "Hollywood bliss" maybe you should stop watching shitty movies. Check out Lost in Translation for example, or Monster's Ball.
Lucas is just an idiot. Look at the scene at the beginning of ep III (which I swore I wouldn't see, then good reviews came out) where the ship tilts 90s. The gravity inside the ship also changes direction 90 degrees. Why? Is the ship just hovering in space, with no orbit? Then why does it start to "burn up" as it enters the atmosphere? If the ship is in orbit, using artificial gravity, why does the direction change?
I mean, this is high school physics stuff. The most basic 'science' stuff in sci-fi and Lucas fucks it up.
To begin with, software these days is quite complex and it really is impossible to have a full-blown operating system with all the applications people expect and not have some sort of issues.
Sure, but on the other hand it is possible to write software that just 'works' most of the time. I'm willing to bet Apple gets far fewer support calls about OSX then RedHat would if they had a desktop OS. (don't get me wrong, I hate Apple).
Look at the example of Sourceforge. They intentionally made the installer hard to use so they could sell the "pro" version. Even though their software was just a hodgepodge of other people's work.
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First of all, I don't think innovation will go to "zero", that's just ridiculous. Innovation will go down, and that may not be a bad thing, here's why:
The software world is jam-packed with features no one really needs and a ton of it doesn't work properly or securely.
The whole reason for that is that companies create 'features' that they can tout over their competition, even if it they're not properly implemented, or needed. So we end up with tons and tons of pointless code.
There is innovation in the OSS world; one example (off the top of my head) would be Gnutella. Gnutella wasn't that great, but everyone was able to alter it, and fix it, and make it suck less. That doesn't happen in the closed source world. OSS innovation is just less frequent and more esoteric. Less "customer focused" and more "what's interesting" focused.
The sensible thing to do, for humanity as a whole, is to focus our energy on making things perfect before we go on to the next whatever.
Here's my answer to the WinTel problem: We need an open Simple Operating System (SOS) that meets the needs of the majority of people who buy PCs for everyday home and enterprise tasks. Get rid of the complexity and simplify the interface between SOS, BIOS and hardware. In other words, KISS. You know what it means. KISS SOS.
Here's my answer to the WinTel problem: We need an open Simple Operating System (SOS) that meets the needs of the majority of people who buy PCs for everyday home and enterprise tasks. Get rid of the complexity and simplify the interface between SOS, BIOS and hardware. In other words, KISS. You know what it means. KISS SOS.
I think it's called "The Linux Kernel".
I once sold a backup solution to a company who decided to go with DVD's rather than tape for the cost of the media alone. Three months later someone moving the dvd platter dropped it on the way to the vault...a Company that had been in business 20 years was out of business because of one mistake and cheap media.
If it was on the way to the vault, why didn't they just do anther backup? Why didn't they just restore from an older backup?
Also, DVD's do have protection against scratches, the layer of accrylic covering the data layer. If that part gets scratched, it dosn't really matter, because the laser dosn't focus on that part. Scraches and imperfections 'dissapear' from the POV of the DVD player.
They also put a lot of redundant data on the disk, so that if some of the bits are lost, the disk is still readable.
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That's a damn shitty wage to be paying a teacher. And you still have to pay benifits. They can probably hire 2 teachers on the money they saved.
In particular you can get McCafee AV for Linux.
99% of my use of MS word is as a spell checker, I'll type a comment (like this one) on a web form then quickly copy and paste in to word and back for spellchecking goodness.
OO.o's spellchecker just isn't as good as Word's. It works the same way, but the suggestions just aren't as good.
I'd also love a simple, notepad-like text editor that gave me online spellchecking and word line number. Anything like that out there?
I really liked Eternal Sunshine as well.
If Nintendo can stay afloat financially until 2020, when all the GBA-toting kids of today are in THEIR twenties and have piles of disposable income (and I think they will survive until then), they're going to dominate the industry. Again.
Well, what about the previous generation of GBA sporting kids? what about the SNES and NES ones? They all grew up and realized that brand loyalty is idiotic.
but "zombies" don't scream "grown up" to most people over the age of 12.
Sigh. Read what you wrote..."bought YOU". I'm talking about 30 year olds earning 40k+ buying shit for themselves. These folks grew up on gaming and aren't going to stop. Most want the likes of GTA and Resident Evil.
Oh please. 30 year olds don't want GTA and Resident Evil. Just pre-teen boys. 30 year old boys want gameplay value, not mindless violence. "Gangsters and Zombies" arn't something that real adults find compelling.
Like I said: how old are you?
Nintendo need to grow up a bit if they want to stay at the forefront of home gaming, especially as the market grows up even more. 30 year olds don't care much for Mario etc.
How old are you?
I'm 25 and I'd be a lot more intrested in playing a Mario game then some mindless shoot-em-up with tons of blood and gore. People in the game industry are immature. They think "adult" means "14 year old boy". 30 year olds want fun games that they can play with their kids.
Later NES games, including SMB3 included extra chips to improve the NES's performance. games on CD, obviously, can't do this.
Actualy, I've heard that eating suggary snacks actualy improves long-term memory formation. Might not be good for the rest of your body, of course...
I worked at a phone center for a month or so, doing polling (before the election) and telemarketing. I think anyone who ever read any 'real' sci-fi involving space travel would have some understanding of orbits, etc.
That's what bothers you about ep III? Not the fact, if the jedi has any kind of health care, none of this would have ever happened? (Elder care for Anakin's mom (heck, just buy her out of slavery, give her a job mopping floors at jedi school) or prenatal care for Natalie)
Well, that was the first glaring flaw I noticed. Of course the whole "dying during childbirth" thing seemed ridiculous as well, but at least that inconsistency had a purpose.
Hmm, well. I promised myself that I would not see ep.3, however it got good reviews. I enjoyed it somewhat, it was definetly better then the first two. But it had a lot of problems.
Just because the movie did well dosn't mean most people liked it, they're just invested in the universe.
The worst part of the whole thing, was that during the "climactic" battles, we know exactly what the result is. Yoda and Palpatane survive, Anikin and Obi-won survive and anikin gets disfigured. There's no tension there at all.
Many praise to Peter Jackson built his trilogy with true genius.
Uh, Jackson just directed the movies. He didn't write the screenplay, let alone the story...
Well, I guess if it was in the "Cannon" books, it might be true, but. If you already had a 'prototype' death star, why not just slap a shell on it, rather then building a whole new one?
20 years is an easy-to belive time-frame for something that big, and you could argue that the newer deathstar was built when the empire was much more powerful and centralized.
I thought the exact same thing in the theater watching ep III. "This is the only movie that really needed to be made." The other three were pointless.
They were awkward, sure. But they were also very unrealistic and stupid. They wern't awkward in a realistic way. if you're sick of "Hollywood bliss" maybe you should stop watching shitty movies. Check out Lost in Translation for example, or Monster's Ball.
You can't reuse characters by name, bu themes, ideas, and concepts are fine. OTOH, you can be accused of plagiarism, which is not a crime.
Lucas is just an idiot. Look at the scene at the beginning of ep III (which I swore I wouldn't see, then good reviews came out) where the ship tilts 90s. The gravity inside the ship also changes direction 90 degrees. Why? Is the ship just hovering in space, with no orbit? Then why does it start to "burn up" as it enters the atmosphere? If the ship is in orbit, using artificial gravity, why does the direction change?
I mean, this is high school physics stuff. The most basic 'science' stuff in sci-fi and Lucas fucks it up.
To begin with, software these days is quite complex and it really is impossible to have a full-blown operating system with all the applications people expect and not have some sort of issues.
Sure, but on the other hand it is possible to write software that just 'works' most of the time. I'm willing to bet Apple gets far fewer support calls about OSX then RedHat would if they had a desktop OS. (don't get me wrong, I hate Apple).
Look at the example of Sourceforge. They intentionally made the installer hard to use so they could sell the "pro" version. Even though their software was just a hodgepodge of other people's work.
First of all, I don't think innovation will go to "zero", that's just ridiculous. Innovation will go down, and that may not be a bad thing, here's why:
The software world is jam-packed with features no one really needs and a ton of it doesn't work properly or securely.
The whole reason for that is that companies create 'features' that they can tout over their competition, even if it they're not properly implemented, or needed. So we end up with tons and tons of pointless code.
There is innovation in the OSS world; one example (off the top of my head) would be Gnutella. Gnutella wasn't that great, but everyone was able to alter it, and fix it, and make it suck less. That doesn't happen in the closed source world. OSS innovation is just less frequent and more esoteric. Less "customer focused" and more "what's interesting" focused.
The sensible thing to do, for humanity as a whole, is to focus our energy on making things perfect before we go on to the next whatever.
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Here's my answer to the WinTel problem: We need an open Simple Operating System (SOS) that meets the needs of the majority of people who buy PCs for everyday home and enterprise tasks. Get rid of the complexity and simplify the interface between SOS, BIOS and hardware. In other words, KISS. You know what it means. KISS SOS.
I think it's called "The Linux Kernel".
Here's my answer to the WinTel problem: We need an open Simple Operating System (SOS) that meets the needs of the majority of people who buy PCs for everyday home and enterprise tasks. Get rid of the complexity and simplify the interface between SOS, BIOS and hardware. In other words, KISS. You know what it means. KISS SOS. I think it's called "The Linux Kernel".
I once sold a backup solution to a company who decided to go with DVD's rather than tape for the cost of the media alone. Three months later someone moving the dvd platter dropped it on the way to the vault...a Company that had been in business 20 years was out of business because of one mistake and cheap media.
If it was on the way to the vault, why didn't they just do anther backup? Why didn't they just restore from an older backup?
Also, DVD's do have protection against scratches, the layer of accrylic covering the data layer. If that part gets scratched, it dosn't really matter, because the laser dosn't focus on that part. Scraches and imperfections 'dissapear' from the POV of the DVD player.
They also put a lot of redundant data on the disk, so that if some of the bits are lost, the disk is still readable.