I'm talking about the original XBox--and it is capable of more than just being a mail server. As for the 360, by the time it's at all easy to run Linux on it, they hopefully will have come down in price, and would make for a significantly powerful computing platform for its low price.
Well, Linux runs fine on a normal XBox (with a little tweakinga), and have you seen how cheaply you can get them for now? Really cheap mail server, if nothing else.
Ah, so that explains it. At least sort of. I was trying to go to http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ to find out what's up, but it's currently unreachable for me:P
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I thought that was in The Critic, when Jay Sherman goes to Iraq...
Exactly. To get Firefox to even come close to working the way Opera does out of the box, I have to install no less than 5 extensions. And yet, FF still comes in a smaller install package. Also, UserJavascript has thus far been sorely underrated and underused, though it is a relatively new feature.
This isn't a bash on FF--I support it too. But most non-Opera users don't even know what they're talking about.
I've never heard of this band Switchfoot. Would it be worth it to me to buy their album as a way of showing my support for their being awesome? As much as I like this gesture on their part, I'm not gonna buy this album if I think it sucks.
I'm sure I could just go download it and find out, but it's nearly 5 in the morning and I should be getting to bed.
1) It's just a power button for the controller, like on a wavebird. This is no problem then, as it's not really in a position that it would likely be hit accidentally during gameplay. And just to be safe, you might have to hold it down for a couple seconds.
2) It is a power button for the console. Here there a few possibilities. First of all, as with the previous possibility, I don't think it's that likely to get pressed accidentally, and would probably have to be held down anyways.
In the case of multiplayer games, there might be a requirement for all players to be pressing the power button simultaneously for it to work. That way nobody can be an ass.
Finally, it may not completely power down the console, but instead put it in a suspend to RAM standby mode. Of course, I have no idea of the Revolution actually does such a thing, but I wish it did, 'cause that's a feature I'd like to see on all consoles.
I would agree that he still blows away the entire article.
Whether the game has the "realistic" style or the "stylized" style doesn't even really matter. Windwaker was a classic Zelda and had all the gameplay elements there. The new one will be exactly the same, that is, most of the same old Zelda gameplay mechanics will be there. Even if it had the cel-shaded graphics the game would be exactly the same.
By one critical measure, the impact on populations, statistics show the planet to be increasingly unsafe. More than 2.5 billion people were affected by floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters between 1994 and 2003, a 60 percent increase over the previous two 10-year periods, U.N. officials reported at a conference on disaster prevention in January.
I wonder how true this really is relatively speaking. I mean, first of all, the population has grown enormously in the past twenty years. Not to mention, our ability to estimate the sizes of populations, and the number of people affected by natural disasters has no doubt improved in the last twenty years. There are problably other factors as well.
There are no doubt more people at risk of natural disasters than before, but that's probably just because there's so many more people. And the fact is, this planet is having trouble sustaining this many people as it is, so it's no wonder that the more the population grows, the harder it is to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Advent Children was supposed to come out last summer. Then it was supposed to come out this summer. Now it's coming out this Winter.
Clearly Squenix has been having trouble with meeting release dates lately. Doesn't mean they'd completely give up and redo it for the next generation. FFIX came out towards the end of the PSX's lifespan, but still did fine.
Yes, that sounds like how biology should be taught. As you say, in most US high school biology curriculums, Evolution is pretty much ignored until the teacher gets to the "Evolution" unit in the curriculum. After that it just kinda goes away again and isn't connected to anything else. It's just kinda there.
What they're not doing in biology, that they do do in other classes, is to teach the actual science of biology, as you described in your example. Instead of teaching kids to think like a biologist--to "think critically" as the ID proponents so amusingly promote--most biology classes involve memorization of lots of facts without any basis for understanding why anything works. This turns lots of American kids off from studying or taking interest in biology, myself included.
C'mon, sombody *please* mod this guy down. Just because he didn't specifically say he supports "equal time" he did say that he supports the ID idea. I think that he's just been realizing that he doesn't have as much "political capital" as he once thought he did, so he knows he has to be careful about where to spend it.
Why lump Bush with other religious leaders who condemn evolution? Because he listens to those very people, closely, and is very much with them on all their other top issues, like anti-gay rights, anti-stem cell research, pro-school prayer, etc...
If you seriously think that this president's thinking is not heavily swayed by religious fundamentalism, you're seriously delusional yourself.
Apple's point with the mouse buttons has always been that they convolute UI, giving sloppy developers an excuse to drop loads of "the menus we didn't make easy enough to reach"
But then Apple's "sloppy" developers didn't make the menus I need easy enoug to reach either. Or at least they didn't make them fast enough to reach. Apple programs still have menus along the top of the screen just like anything else--which to me is a perfectly logical arrangement. Without right-click, there is no context menu. And context menus are what they were talking about when they were talking about making menus easy enough to reach. Sure, there are other ways to access a context menu, but as far as user-friendliness goes, another big shiny button is a lot easier than Control-click.
But sometimes one has little choice buy to use a computer with one hand. People with sex drives have always known that one can only use a computer for porn effectively with one hand.
A kinda unfair blanket statement, don't you think? Sure a lot of game makers are going to focus more on graphical tricks and less on gameplay, but that's almost always been the case, regardless of the level of technology. It's unfair to those who can balance good gameplay and graphics without compromising either. And yes, they do still exist, and there are plenty of them.
GTA, which is packed to the brim with blasting heads off with sniper rifles and running over cops, leaving bloody smears gets an M rating. Fine. But as soon as you throw in some cheesy videogame softcore porn it's suddenly horribly offensive and in need of an investigation? Right.
Have you ever actually used Opera? All downloads are displayed in a single 'Transfers' window.
It would be easy to modify this to show a download and an upload speed, as well as a share ratio for bt downloads, and by default it could remain sharing until removed from the transfer window.
Hey, I know all about it, and personally I love it--especially when he sticks in some of the death threats he got from psycho fanboys. But there isn't any way editing it would make it "better." It just is what it is.
Well, to be clear about this, the anime came first, and was purely Hideaki Anno's vision. The manga didn't come out until after the series had already run, and was written by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer for the series.
He wanted to present the story from a slightly different perspective, and does introduce several new plot points. But he also worked closely with Anno to make sure it didn't conflict with his own version, and thus it's considered canon.
Why do you say this thigs *should* be removed? Now, I've (somewhat) come to terms with the mainstreaming of anime, but the whole reason that this particularly sucks is the fact that they would rape it so badly.
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You beat me to it. Did the editors even RTFA? I did. It was interesting and had some value, but it had nothing to do with MythTV...
I'm talking about the original XBox--and it is capable of more than just being a mail server. As for the 360, by the time it's at all easy to run Linux on it, they hopefully will have come down in price, and would make for a significantly powerful computing platform for its low price.
Well, Linux runs fine on a normal XBox (with a little tweakinga), and have you seen how cheaply you can get them for now? Really cheap mail server, if nothing else.
I know I'm way late to this party, but seriously, you win.
Ah, so that explains it. At least sort of. I was trying to go to http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ to find out what's up, but it's currently unreachable for me :P
I thought that was in The Critic, when Jay Sherman goes to Iraq...
Exactly. To get Firefox to even come close to working the way Opera does out of the box, I have to install no less than 5 extensions. And yet, FF still comes in a smaller install package. Also, UserJavascript has thus far been sorely underrated and underused, though it is a relatively new feature.
This isn't a bash on FF--I support it too. But most non-Opera users don't even know what they're talking about.
Wow, a random screenshot, probably from a beta, makes such a convincing argument.
I've had Opera crash before, but tell me, what piece of complex consumer software doesn't crash.
And for the record, Opera has always been a lot more stable for me than Firefox, even on my older computers on which FF is almost unusably slow.
I've never heard of this band Switchfoot. Would it be worth it to me to buy their album as a way of showing my support for their being awesome? As much as I like this gesture on their part, I'm not gonna buy this album if I think it sucks.
I'm sure I could just go download it and find out, but it's nearly 5 in the morning and I should be getting to bed.
Possibilities for the power button:
1) It's just a power button for the controller, like on a wavebird. This is no problem then, as it's not really in a position that it would likely be hit accidentally during gameplay. And just to be safe, you might have to hold it down for a couple seconds.
2) It is a power button for the console. Here there a few possibilities. First of all, as with the previous possibility, I don't think it's that likely to get pressed accidentally, and would probably have to be held down anyways.
In the case of multiplayer games, there might be a requirement for all players to be pressing the power button simultaneously for it to work. That way nobody can be an ass.
Finally, it may not completely power down the console, but instead put it in a suspend to RAM standby mode. Of course, I have no idea of the Revolution actually does such a thing, but I wish it did, 'cause that's a feature I'd like to see on all consoles.
I would agree that he still blows away the entire article.
Whether the game has the "realistic" style or the "stylized" style doesn't even really matter. Windwaker was a classic Zelda and had all the gameplay elements there. The new one will be exactly the same, that is, most of the same old Zelda gameplay mechanics will be there. Even if it had the cel-shaded graphics the game would be exactly the same.
By one critical measure, the impact on populations, statistics show the planet to be increasingly unsafe. More than 2.5 billion people were affected by floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters between 1994 and 2003, a 60 percent increase over the previous two 10-year periods, U.N. officials reported at a conference on disaster prevention in January.
I wonder how true this really is relatively speaking. I mean, first of all, the population has grown enormously in the past twenty years. Not to mention, our ability to estimate the sizes of populations, and the number of people affected by natural disasters has no doubt improved in the last twenty years. There are problably other factors as well.
There are no doubt more people at risk of natural disasters than before, but that's probably just because there's so many more people. And the fact is, this planet is having trouble sustaining this many people as it is, so it's no wonder that the more the population grows, the harder it is to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Advent Children was supposed to come out last summer. Then it was supposed to come out this summer. Now it's coming out this Winter. Clearly Squenix has been having trouble with meeting release dates lately. Doesn't mean they'd completely give up and redo it for the next generation. FFIX came out towards the end of the PSX's lifespan, but still did fine.
Not to nitpick, but FFXII is coming out on PS2 :P
Yes, that sounds like how biology should be taught. As you say, in most US high school biology curriculums, Evolution is pretty much ignored until the teacher gets to the "Evolution" unit in the curriculum. After that it just kinda goes away again and isn't connected to anything else. It's just kinda there.
What they're not doing in biology, that they do do in other classes, is to teach the actual science of biology, as you described in your example. Instead of teaching kids to think like a biologist--to "think critically" as the ID proponents so amusingly promote--most biology classes involve memorization of lots of facts without any basis for understanding why anything works. This turns lots of American kids off from studying or taking interest in biology, myself included.
C'mon, sombody *please* mod this guy down. Just because he didn't specifically say he supports "equal time" he did say that he supports the ID idea. I think that he's just been realizing that he doesn't have as much "political capital" as he once thought he did, so he knows he has to be careful about where to spend it.
Why lump Bush with other religious leaders who condemn evolution? Because he listens to those very people, closely, and is very much with them on all their other top issues, like anti-gay rights, anti-stem cell research, pro-school prayer, etc...
If you seriously think that this president's thinking is not heavily swayed by religious fundamentalism, you're seriously delusional yourself.
Yeah, it's a USB-powered Fleshlight with a 512MB memory chip built-in.
Apple's point with the mouse buttons has always been that they convolute UI, giving sloppy developers an excuse to drop loads of "the menus we didn't make easy enough to reach"
But then Apple's "sloppy" developers didn't make the menus I need easy enoug to reach either. Or at least they didn't make them fast enough to reach. Apple programs still have menus along the top of the screen just like anything else--which to me is a perfectly logical arrangement. Without right-click, there is no context menu. And context menus are what they were talking about when they were talking about making menus easy enough to reach. Sure, there are other ways to access a context menu, but as far as user-friendliness goes, another big shiny button is a lot easier than Control-click.
But sometimes one has little choice buy to use a computer with one hand. People with sex drives have always known that one can only use a computer for porn effectively with one hand.
Gee, how did I know someone would say that?
A kinda unfair blanket statement, don't you think? Sure a lot of game makers are going to focus more on graphical tricks and less on gameplay, but that's almost always been the case, regardless of the level of technology. It's unfair to those who can balance good gameplay and graphics without compromising either. And yes, they do still exist, and there are plenty of them.
GTA, which is packed to the brim with blasting heads off with sniper rifles and running over cops, leaving bloody smears gets an M rating. Fine. But as soon as you throw in some cheesy videogame softcore porn it's suddenly horribly offensive and in need of an investigation? Right.
Have you ever actually used Opera? All downloads are displayed in a single 'Transfers' window. It would be easy to modify this to show a download and an upload speed, as well as a share ratio for bt downloads, and by default it could remain sharing until removed from the transfer window.
Hey, I know all about it, and personally I love it--especially when he sticks in some of the death threats he got from psycho fanboys. But there isn't any way editing it would make it "better." It just is what it is.
Well, to be clear about this, the anime came first, and was purely Hideaki Anno's vision. The manga didn't come out until after the series had already run, and was written by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer for the series.
He wanted to present the story from a slightly different perspective, and does introduce several new plot points. But he also worked closely with Anno to make sure it didn't conflict with his own version, and thus it's considered canon.
Why do you say this thigs *should* be removed? Now, I've (somewhat) come to terms with the mainstreaming of anime, but the whole reason that this particularly sucks is the fact that they would rape it so badly.