Our perception of value is distorted anyway. Example- It takes about 100 days to raise a chicken to the point where it's slaughtered, plucked, driven to your supermarket and refrigerated. It'll cost 5 GBP. At that price, 5p/day per chicken, someone manages to feed the chicken, clean after it, vaccinate it, transport it, keep it cold and apparently still make a profit on it. But don't expect to be getting premium stuff at that price.
What other remakes of old adventure games are floating around out there?
Why, all the Scott Adams classics of course: Mission impossible, Pirate's adventure, Voodoo Castle...
Most *definitely* won't be pleasing to the young'uns graphics-wise;)
Basically this technology turns the browser from a platform-independent, architecture-independent development platform into an architecture-dependent one.
Wrong. The NEXE files are OS independent. You will need a recompile for ARM though. Why don't you at least read the FAQ [google.com]?
Before shouting "Wrong" to people maybe you should read what they've written first? NEXE may be OS independent, but not architecture independent. Native client is x86 only. So unless your browser runs on a machine with an Intel-compatible CPU, NEXE won't run. All the hard-won abstraction layers of hardware just go *whooosh* down the drain. Bad idea.
Basically this technology turns the browser from a platform-independent, architecture-independent development platform into an architecture-dependent one. That is, if somebody developed their little app for Intel and I'm on a Mac or Arm, the app won't work for me.
From where I stand, that's no better than being forced to VNC into a Windows box just so that I can access an ActiveX based site which will only run on Explorer.
ActiveX also is a nice case study to show what the tech would be used for- which is, about 50% of the time to exploit security holes, and 49% of the time, to do stuff that could just as well have been accomplished through W3C standards or (much more portable) Java.
but speaking is slower than using the keyboard and mouse like a pro and always will
Voice input is nice, but I'd rather replacing the mouse with an eyeball tracker. When moving the mouse, my eyes focus on the target first- before my hands and thus the mouse cursor catch up. Also, if accurate enough, it could make a pretty decent alternative for keyboards- Perhaps not attractive for skilled touch typists, but I'd expect it would be great for those who are paralyzed from the neck down.
No need. As a parent, it's probably much more fun to bring the GPS with you to work.
Your child will be thankful for being on their side (even if you do reprimand them) and might even take responsibility from that point on. School will need to spend some time figuring out what on earth their student is doing at Acme corp all day. Once they find out, you've passed a clear message that you don't accept school bullying your children.
Now it's no longer school vs. child; suddenly it's school vs parents. That's such a pity for the school, because students are so much easier to intimidate! But let's say the worst case is true- school is prepared to sue for your childs behaviour (not likely- just imagine the red tape that goes with that for them!). I'd be seriously surprised if you'd lose if you state you don't consent to the school snooping on your children. In all seriousness, not being under invasive government surveillance is freedom worth fighting for.
many of you who aren't American like to bash on us because it's been fairly fashionable since we became less useful to you following the Cold War.
Let's be real for a minute indeed. I suppose you're talking about the "protection" the USA offered to other countries against the evil USSR, even though both countries had enough cumulative fire power to blow up the planet ten times over. How much do you think such a promise was worth? Sorry, but "In case of a global thermonuclear war we'll make sure the planet will be blown up only twice over" still doesn't sound very safe to me.
Rest assured, the real reason it became fashionable to bash the US is all the freedom people lost worldwide due to the politics of W. post 9/11. USA may get a thumbs up from me for finally ending the cold war, but two thumbs down for the 9/11 aftermath.
Unless you're a teacher yourself, you have no idea just how much balls it takes to fight this battle.
Why? The USA have separation of religion and state, why should separation between religion and the educational system be any harder? Religion should be taught in church, sciences at school. End of story.
Next time I see a teacher teach creationism at school, I swear I'm going to find a way to teach quantum mechanics in church.
You don't make teachers teach about abortion, so why make them teach other difficult subjects?
Yeah. Because we should *never* make teachers teach difficult subjects. *rolls eyes*
But seriously, perhaps teachers chose teaching as a career, and as such should just suck it up and abide by the national curriculum. If they don't agree with teaching up to the standards dictated by the curriculum, perhaps they shouldn't have chosen teaching as a career at all.
These people just keep going on about a room that may or may not carry plasmodium. And about a yard that may or may not have a bad odour when wet. Stop it already!
Remove enough mass from the moon and it'll escape Earth's orbit;
That might happen if you shoot the mass into outer space. But in moon mining, mass is being transported from the moon to earth, so the total amount of mass shared by earth and moon would stay roughly the same (even if there would be some losses in mass-to-energy conversion for transport), and so would gravity between the two. In fact you might wonder if the opposite wouldn't happen- it's easy for a big fat earth to attract a body mined down to the size of a golf ball.
So which is true? I'll leave it as a an exercise to the reader (warning: geek snipe!)
I am pretty sure most dating services are scams. The fact that they're populating their profile database with harvested data only confirms that. Remind me, they're charging for memberships, right? Do you reckon they'll advertise the service "We've got twenty million profiles on our dating site! Did we mention 99% of those profiles were harvested from the net and unavailable for dating?" Anyone willing to bet they'll just mention how many profiles they have?
Everyone knows that if you leave your key under the doormat and you tell nobody, your house is *far* more secure than when you install a drawbridge, dig a moat around it, put alligators in the moat and then give out blueprints for the drawbridge, moat and alligators. And that, my fellow Slashdotters, is why nobody uses drawbridges anymore.
Chang claimed that the iPhone is more secure than Android because being an open-source platform lets attackers know more about the underlying architecture.
Counter-example. I reverse engineered part of a device to permit me to write my own software to interact with it. The results were useful to a community of a few thousand people. In return, some people sent me information they had for the device. I now have access to data sheets of its components, OS dumps, interface definitions, the results of various other bits of reverse engineering efforts, even full schematics of all the hardware.
Now remind me again, how does being closed source make a product more secure again?
Have you tried reading the status bar? I quote: "Click to paint (try Shift for a straight line, Ctrl to pick a color)"
Actually, no I haven't. I don't recall ever having seen that message before though- how long has it been in there?
When I first started using GIMP (a good while ago) I was expecting to find a line tool but it wasn't there. Little did I know, at the time, that the pencil tool (which is used for freehand drawings in other graphics programs I'd seen) served the same purpose. I used Google to find out how to draw a line and haven't looked back since.
In all fairness, now that I've gotten used to how things work, I can now see and appreciate the power of the way things are currently done- but I think a "line" icon would been more obvious than hiding the line drawing functionality under the other tools. "Stroke selection" allows you to choose which tool you want to use to draw an outline; I don't see any reason why a line tool couldn't have worked in the same way, and I think it would have made the program more intuitive for starting users, just as keeping "home" button on a phone would.
Not off-topic, bear with me. People whine about drawing with GIMP. To draw a line, all you need to do is to press the shift button while moving the mouse. The problem is, it's not *obvious* to most people that the shift key has that magical effect. One of the first thing many people want to do when using a new drawing program is to draw a line - not to dive into a manual to find out how to do it. The problem, of course, is that GIMP does not provide any visual clues that assist people in drawing a line- so in that respect it is not user friendly.
Five finger pinch instead of a home button? Same problem. You "just need to know" but if you happen not to, you won't have a home button. If there's no visual clue to certain parts of using a GUI, it's not user friendly.
I don't care that it's simple to press shift three times followed by caps lock twice and the computer enables its "Do what I want, not what I tell you" interface- if it's not obvious enough that people intuitively guess that key combination, it's useless.
Now what was that about the side effects of the vaccine again?
I think you're faking it. Had you really been affected by a vaccine and developed autism, you'd have mentioned Celcius, Fahrenheit or Kelvin. You'd also have memorized that sugar (sucrose) melts at 186C, 367F, 459.15K.
Also, had you really developed autism, you'd definitely fail at spotting a sense of humour and take things literally instead.
Yes, "supernatural" means "cannot be explained by currently known laws of physics". But people claim they *saw* a ghost. Or they *heard* one. Or they saw a chair move all by itself. If ghosts would exist, then reportedly there would be physical manifestations of such.
If a ghost can be heard, this means it must be able to make air vibrate. You can make recordings of vibrating air (sound), film optical manifestations etc. even if you don't know or understand what *caused* these physical manifestations of the presence of a ghost.
And yet, people claiming that ghosts exist have never come up with any such evidence, despite wanting to prove it? "There was no film in my camera", suuuuuure.
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Our perception of value is distorted anyway. Example- It takes about 100 days to raise a chicken to the point where it's slaughtered, plucked, driven to your supermarket and refrigerated. It'll cost 5 GBP. At that price, 5p/day per chicken, someone manages to feed the chicken, clean after it, vaccinate it, transport it, keep it cold and apparently still make a profit on it. But don't expect to be getting premium stuff at that price.
I told those car manufacturers time and time again not to use water colours to paint those cars but they wouldn't listen.
Why, all the Scott Adams classics of course: Mission impossible, Pirate's adventure, Voodoo Castle... Most *definitely* won't be pleasing to the young'uns graphics-wise ;)
Before shouting "Wrong" to people maybe you should read what they've written first? NEXE may be OS independent, but not architecture independent. Native client is x86 only. So unless your browser runs on a machine with an Intel-compatible CPU, NEXE won't run. All the hard-won abstraction layers of hardware just go *whooosh* down the drain. Bad idea.
Basically this technology turns the browser from a platform-independent, architecture-independent development platform into an architecture-dependent one. That is, if somebody developed their little app for Intel and I'm on a Mac or Arm, the app won't work for me.
From where I stand, that's no better than being forced to VNC into a Windows box just so that I can access an ActiveX based site which will only run on Explorer.
ActiveX also is a nice case study to show what the tech would be used for- which is, about 50% of the time to exploit security holes, and 49% of the time, to do stuff that could just as well have been accomplished through W3C standards or (much more portable) Java.
Bad idea. *flush*
When they have the 4 last digits of the SSN, they just apply the principle of explosion to derive the rest.
That's a shame. Now children will have to get back to their regular scheduled gambling- and drinking games.
No need. As a parent, it's probably much more fun to bring the GPS with you to work.
Your child will be thankful for being on their side (even if you do reprimand them) and might even take responsibility from that point on. School will need to spend some time figuring out what on earth their student is doing at Acme corp all day. Once they find out, you've passed a clear message that you don't accept school bullying your children.
Now it's no longer school vs. child; suddenly it's school vs parents. That's such a pity for the school, because students are so much easier to intimidate! But let's say the worst case is true- school is prepared to sue for your childs behaviour (not likely- just imagine the red tape that goes with that for them!). I'd be seriously surprised if you'd lose if you state you don't consent to the school snooping on your children. In all seriousness, not being under invasive government surveillance is freedom worth fighting for.
Let's be real for a minute indeed. I suppose you're talking about the "protection" the USA offered to other countries against the evil USSR, even though both countries had enough cumulative fire power to blow up the planet ten times over. How much do you think such a promise was worth? Sorry, but "In case of a global thermonuclear war we'll make sure the planet will be blown up only twice over" still doesn't sound very safe to me.
Rest assured, the real reason it became fashionable to bash the US is all the freedom people lost worldwide due to the politics of W. post 9/11. USA may get a thumbs up from me for finally ending the cold war, but two thumbs down for the 9/11 aftermath.
Repeat after me: "Download from". "Upload to". Next time I catch you saying "download to", I'll have your geek card confiscated.
Why? The USA have separation of religion and state, why should separation between religion and the educational system be any harder? Religion should be taught in church, sciences at school. End of story.
Next time I see a teacher teach creationism at school, I swear I'm going to find a way to teach quantum mechanics in church.
Yeah. Because we should *never* make teachers teach difficult subjects. *rolls eyes*
But seriously, perhaps teachers chose teaching as a career, and as such should just suck it up and abide by the national curriculum. If they don't agree with teaching up to the standards dictated by the curriculum, perhaps they shouldn't have chosen teaching as a career at all.
These people just keep going on about a room that may or may not carry plasmodium. And about a yard that may or may not have a bad odour when wet. Stop it already!
That might happen if you shoot the mass into outer space. But in moon mining, mass is being transported from the moon to earth, so the total amount of mass shared by earth and moon would stay roughly the same (even if there would be some losses in mass-to-energy conversion for transport), and so would gravity between the two. In fact you might wonder if the opposite wouldn't happen- it's easy for a big fat earth to attract a body mined down to the size of a golf ball. So which is true? I'll leave it as a an exercise to the reader (warning: geek snipe!)
I am pretty sure most dating services are scams. The fact that they're populating their profile database with harvested data only confirms that. Remind me, they're charging for memberships, right? Do you reckon they'll advertise the service "We've got twenty million profiles on our dating site! Did we mention 99% of those profiles were harvested from the net and unavailable for dating?" Anyone willing to bet they'll just mention how many profiles they have?
Everyone knows that if you leave your key under the doormat and you tell nobody, your house is *far* more secure than when you install a drawbridge, dig a moat around it, put alligators in the moat and then give out blueprints for the drawbridge, moat and alligators. And that, my fellow Slashdotters, is why nobody uses drawbridges anymore.
Counter-example. I reverse engineered part of a device to permit me to write my own software to interact with it. The results were useful to a community of a few thousand people. In return, some people sent me information they had for the device. I now have access to data sheets of its components, OS dumps, interface definitions, the results of various other bits of reverse engineering efforts, even full schematics of all the hardware.
Now remind me again, how does being closed source make a product more secure again?
Actually, no I haven't. I don't recall ever having seen that message before though- how long has it been in there?
When I first started using GIMP (a good while ago) I was expecting to find a line tool but it wasn't there. Little did I know, at the time, that the pencil tool (which is used for freehand drawings in other graphics programs I'd seen) served the same purpose. I used Google to find out how to draw a line and haven't looked back since.
In all fairness, now that I've gotten used to how things work, I can now see and appreciate the power of the way things are currently done- but I think a "line" icon would been more obvious than hiding the line drawing functionality under the other tools. "Stroke selection" allows you to choose which tool you want to use to draw an outline; I don't see any reason why a line tool couldn't have worked in the same way, and I think it would have made the program more intuitive for starting users, just as keeping "home" button on a phone would.
Not off-topic, bear with me. People whine about drawing with GIMP. To draw a line, all you need to do is to press the shift button while moving the mouse. The problem is, it's not *obvious* to most people that the shift key has that magical effect. One of the first thing many people want to do when using a new drawing program is to draw a line - not to dive into a manual to find out how to do it. The problem, of course, is that GIMP does not provide any visual clues that assist people in drawing a line- so in that respect it is not user friendly.
Five finger pinch instead of a home button? Same problem. You "just need to know" but if you happen not to, you won't have a home button. If there's no visual clue to certain parts of using a GUI, it's not user friendly.
I don't care that it's simple to press shift three times followed by caps lock twice and the computer enables its "Do what I want, not what I tell you" interface- if it's not obvious enough that people intuitively guess that key combination, it's useless.
So Steve, just keep that home button, OK?
I think you're faking it. Had you really been affected by a vaccine and developed autism, you'd have mentioned Celcius, Fahrenheit or Kelvin. You'd also have memorized that sugar (sucrose) melts at 186C, 367F, 459.15K.
Also, had you really developed autism, you'd definitely fail at spotting a sense of humour and take things literally instead.
Yes, "supernatural" means "cannot be explained by currently known laws of physics". But people claim they *saw* a ghost. Or they *heard* one. Or they saw a chair move all by itself. If ghosts would exist, then reportedly there would be physical manifestations of such.
If a ghost can be heard, this means it must be able to make air vibrate. You can make recordings of vibrating air (sound), film optical manifestations etc. even if you don't know or understand what *caused* these physical manifestations of the presence of a ghost.
And yet, people claiming that ghosts exist have never come up with any such evidence, despite wanting to prove it? "There was no film in my camera", suuuuuure.
Haven't we discussed this topic extensively before?
start it from the commandline with --enable-webgl to see the pretty pictures.
Im not surprised. 26.43 people per household is just too much.