For some reason TF2 attracts people who make a huge deal out of absolute non-issues, stuff that they are virtually alone in caring about. Recently a guy in the official forums was being abusive about the voice of the announcer, of all things, saying it was so annoying he had to turn off the sound. Mind you the announcer speaks about 4 times during a match... In the end he got so enraged, he got banned from the forums. So yeah, I think we have other things to complain about the game, although they seem to have the class balance figured out surprisingly well, judging by the approximate equal number of nerf/improve posts for every class.
Not that I disagree with your general sentiment that the author is an idiot, but it does say translate phrase for Gmail UI in the screenshot, so it seems likely this is, in fact, for GMail and not Google Scholar or whatever.
An alternate reply to your post would have looked like this:
It could be a new version of Google Calendar or a new version of Google Scholar.
OMG there'll be a new Google Calendar UI?! How exciting, I'd love to get my hands on some screen. Quick, somebody post this on a blog.
From the Rockbox mailing list: "What is the progress with figuring out the iPod battery life? I think using Rockbox, it cuts the battery life to about 1/2." That sounds great!
Yup, I was assuming the iPod has about a 10% market share, globally. It might be much higher in the US, but what about the rest of the world? I know a lot of people with iPods, but most casual users I know have opted for cheaper thumbstick-type players.
Apple has sold 100 million iPods, so, no, 1 million Zunes don't make up 10% of the market. More like 0.1%, I guess. Linux desktop market share is a lot more than that...
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That's the first time I'm hearing that. Wikipedia says a German engineer invented it in 1918 and sold it commercially. Neither the article history nor the discussion seems to argue against that.
Opera doesn't do much better. I doubt IE does. My current Opera session - currently three open tabs, but running for a few days now - has a virtual size (shared + private, both in memory and in swap) of nearly 500 MB, and a working set of 135 MB. That is, it's using 135 MB of actual physical RAM while only showing three tabs. This is with memory cache set to automatic. IE has a virtual size of 150 MB immediately after starting it. After some light surfing activity, >200MB, with a working set 60 MB. This is after being open for less than two minutes, with three tabs and a very few clicks in them.
But who the hell cares? I've got plenty of RAM, I want the applications I use at the moment to get lots of it if it helps them run faster. I've also got an OS that manages the memory, trying to swap out memory of apps that don't currently use it. For instance, I have an open instance of a game running in the background, which has a virtual size of a whopping 850 MB, but it's only using 20 megs of physical RAM right now, so who cares.
Maybe RAR includes special features for multi-part archives: seeing the archive contents when you only have a single archive, or even extracting as much as possible from only a subset of the archives. Or even something like PAR, letting you get all of the data when you are missing one or two archives by adding error correction data. I don't know that RAR has any of these features, though, except for the first one.
Many European power plugs are symmetrical, so one similar support advice for devices which aren't powering up is to rotate the power plug 180 and plug it back in. Of course this does exactly nothing (being AC and all), but it seems like a reasonable solution to some people and less ridiculous than "Is the device plugged in?"
See for example http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=53 6123. You are right, though, I was referring to animal biomass, plants aren't included and I guess neither are bacteria. And apparently neither are aquatic animals. My original source (which I lost) wasn't so specific; it also said that termites make up another 10%...
Why would anybody be proud that his or her car can go fast? It's not exactly a great achievement. I mean, I'd be happy if I had such a car, but proud? Nah.
I'm pretty sure the growth within single a single series holds true for most manufacturers. I might be wrong. I'm also pretty sure that the average new car has grown accordingly in the last 10, 20 and 50 years. Again, I might be wrong and I'd be happy to be shown wrong!
I can still remember my very first forays onto the real net, way back then, using my older brother's Compuserve account. I had lots of experience with local Apple BBS, but Compuserve was a whole different beast. Horribly expensive, too, mostly because there was no local dial in port, so I was limited to a few 10 minute sessions. It was tantalising, only just enough time to see there was so much out there, but far too short to have any idea how to really use the medium. I think all I did apart from clicking around with wide eyes was download two or three really small shareware games.
Hello hysterical internet person! I never proposed any such radical changes, I am not the GP or some other poster in this thread you might be thinking of. I very deliberately referred to arrangements because I did not want to specify what kind of measures are sensible. In fact I am personally leaning to what you propose - monetary benefits for using clean cars; or rather, (harsh) monetary drawbacks for driving gas guzzlers. Eating "good" also affects other people - I never said it didn't since that clearly would be absurd, nearly every action affects other people in some way - but eating good in the sense used earlier in this thread certainly doesn't affect (or: limit, infringe on) other people in the same, permanent way as wasting enormous amounts of energy. But, whatever, if eating "good" had a similar unwanted impact on other people then, yeah, I'd also say there's a need for some sort of arrangement and that still does not mean I'd want to ban "good" food.
New cars aren't smaller, they are bigger. Take two of VW's "compact" models, the Polo and the Golf. The Polo started out being approx 3.5m long, it's currently approx 4m long. The Golf started out at 3.7m and is now at 4.2m. (According to Wikipedia anyway.)
Unlike some other things, where you live - for the rich Western minority - really is a life choice. Of course I'm sure you've got a host of reasons why you can't or don't want to move.
Easy. Driving monster cars affects other people in a significant kind of way, eating good food doesn't. If its impact is significant enough to limit their own basic human rights, some kind of arrangement has to be made.
That's your opinion. The ITU and the EU disagree. Here's the ITU, my emphasis: "Intellectual property rights (IPRs) IPRs essential to implement the standard to be licensed to all applicants on a worldwide, non-discriminatory basis, either (1) for free and under other reasonable terms and conditions or (2) on reasonable terms and conditions (which may include monetary compensation)." (Wikipedia)
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For some reason TF2 attracts people who make a huge deal out of absolute non-issues, stuff that they are virtually alone in caring about. Recently a guy in the official forums was being abusive about the voice of the announcer, of all things, saying it was so annoying he had to turn off the sound. Mind you the announcer speaks about 4 times during a match... In the end he got so enraged, he got banned from the forums.
So yeah, I think we have other things to complain about the game, although they seem to have the class balance figured out surprisingly well, judging by the approximate equal number of nerf/improve posts for every class.
Not that I disagree with your general sentiment that the author is an idiot, but it does say translate phrase for Gmail UI in the screenshot, so it seems likely this is, in fact, for GMail and not Google Scholar or whatever.
An alternate reply to your post would have looked like this:
It could be a new version of Google Calendar or a new version of Google Scholar.
OMG there'll be a new Google Calendar UI?! How exciting, I'd love to get my hands on some screen. Quick, somebody post this on a blog.
Yes. Clearly, Putin is a great democrat at heart and it's entirely inappropriate to react to his politics with sarcasm.
Maybe AMD/ATI should have used XML!
From the Rockbox mailing list: "What is the progress with figuring out the iPod battery life? I think using Rockbox, it cuts the battery life to about 1/2." That sounds great!
Guess they forgot ice can melt and freeze many times throughout a single day.
Right, they must have forgot. Somebody really should explain that to them.
Um, there are other MP3 players besides the iPod. See above. Maybe I should have been more clear...
Yup, I was assuming the iPod has about a 10% market share, globally. It might be much higher in the US, but what about the rest of the world? I know a lot of people with iPods, but most casual users I know have opted for cheaper thumbstick-type players.
Apple has sold 100 million iPods, so, no, 1 million Zunes don't make up 10% of the market. More like 0.1%, I guess. Linux desktop market share is a lot more than that...
That's the first time I'm hearing that. Wikipedia says a German engineer invented it in 1918 and sold it commercially. Neither the article history nor the discussion seems to argue against that.
Opera doesn't do much better. I doubt IE does. My current Opera session - currently three open tabs, but running for a few days now - has a virtual size (shared + private, both in memory and in swap) of nearly 500 MB, and a working set of 135 MB. That is, it's using 135 MB of actual physical RAM while only showing three tabs. This is with memory cache set to automatic. IE has a virtual size of 150 MB immediately after starting it. After some light surfing activity, >200MB, with a working set 60 MB. This is after being open for less than two minutes, with three tabs and a very few clicks in them.
But who the hell cares? I've got plenty of RAM, I want the applications I use at the moment to get lots of it if it helps them run faster. I've also got an OS that manages the memory, trying to swap out memory of apps that don't currently use it. For instance, I have an open instance of a game running in the background, which has a virtual size of a whopping 850 MB, but it's only using 20 megs of physical RAM right now, so who cares.
Maybe RAR includes special features for multi-part archives: seeing the archive contents when you only have a single archive, or even extracting as much as possible from only a subset of the archives. Or even something like PAR, letting you get all of the data when you are missing one or two archives by adding error correction data. I don't know that RAR has any of these features, though, except for the first one.
Many European power plugs are symmetrical, so one similar support advice for devices which aren't powering up is to rotate the power plug 180 and plug it back in. Of course this does exactly nothing (being AC and all), but it seems like a reasonable solution to some people and less ridiculous than "Is the device plugged in?"
See for example http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=53 6123. You are right, though, I was referring to animal biomass, plants aren't included and I guess neither are bacteria. And apparently neither are aquatic animals. My original source (which I lost) wasn't so specific; it also said that termites make up another 10%...
Considering that 10% of our planet's biomass is ants I think this isn't the best of all metrics for success. ;)
Why would anybody be proud that his or her car can go fast? It's not exactly a great achievement. I mean, I'd be happy if I had such a car, but proud? Nah.
I'm pretty sure the growth within single a single series holds true for most manufacturers. I might be wrong. I'm also pretty sure that the average new car has grown accordingly in the last 10, 20 and 50 years. Again, I might be wrong and I'd be happy to be shown wrong!
I can still remember my very first forays onto the real net, way back then, using my older brother's Compuserve account. I had lots of experience with local Apple BBS, but Compuserve was a whole different beast. Horribly expensive, too, mostly because there was no local dial in port, so I was limited to a few 10 minute sessions. It was tantalising, only just enough time to see there was so much out there, but far too short to have any idea how to really use the medium. I think all I did apart from clicking around with wide eyes was download two or three really small shareware games.
Hello hysterical internet person! I never proposed any such radical changes, I am not the GP or some other poster in this thread you might be thinking of. I very deliberately referred to arrangements because I did not want to specify what kind of measures are sensible. In fact I am personally leaning to what you propose - monetary benefits for using clean cars; or rather, (harsh) monetary drawbacks for driving gas guzzlers. Eating "good" also affects other people - I never said it didn't since that clearly would be absurd, nearly every action affects other people in some way - but eating good in the sense used earlier in this thread certainly doesn't affect (or: limit, infringe on) other people in the same, permanent way as wasting enormous amounts of energy. But, whatever, if eating "good" had a similar unwanted impact on other people then, yeah, I'd also say there's a need for some sort of arrangement and that still does not mean I'd want to ban "good" food.
New cars aren't smaller, they are bigger. Take two of VW's "compact" models, the Polo and the Golf. The Polo started out being approx 3.5m long, it's currently approx 4m long. The Golf started out at 3.7m and is now at 4.2m. (According to Wikipedia anyway.)
Unlike some other things, where you live - for the rich Western minority - really is a life choice. Of course I'm sure you've got a host of reasons why you can't or don't want to move.
"And if so, what makes you right?"
Easy. Driving monster cars affects other people in a significant kind of way, eating good food doesn't. If its impact is significant enough to limit their own basic human rights, some kind of arrangement has to be made.
That's your opinion. The ITU and the EU disagree. Here's the ITU, my emphasis: "Intellectual property rights (IPRs) IPRs essential to implement the standard to be licensed to all applicants on a worldwide, non-discriminatory basis, either (1) for free and under other reasonable terms and conditions or (2) on reasonable terms and conditions (which may include monetary compensation)." (Wikipedia)
Cool feature, not so cool side effects.
Hey thanks, I didn't expect much, but that really was quite detailed and interesting. Will remember it the next time I apply the stuff.