Aren't there any better options for you? I always figured Holland to be some sort of internet heaven, you always seemed to get the good stuff some time before we did. If I can get 6 Mbit and no cap for 50 Euros, so can you! No? Maybe moving wasn't such a good idea.;)
It's not just the busses. Hard drives, RAM, none of it has kept up with the CPU speed increase. CPU/memory performance gap - old story, but very present problem.
Indeed it is. Very nice. In fact you can drop the "in days" from that query. Too bad it's not documented very well, complicated queries end up being a lot of trial and error, and sometimes Google doesn't parse math queries for mysterious reasons.
Sweet. I just posted basically the same thing (should have read on before posting, oh well), but I couldn't figure out how to get Google to use the "right" g and had to write it out myself. Very nice.
Google Calculator actually deals with the different distance units, so that wouldn't be a problem. His query totally doesn't work, though. This one does: c/(9.81m/(s^2)) = 353.702356 days (Too bad I couldn't find a Google constant to replace 9.81 m/s^2... g and G aren't it.)
Not that I disagree, but you have to do stuff like server side collision detection which probably is a great deal more difficult in WOW than it is in EVE, although of course EVE also has solids flying through space.
An internal BitTorrent client is included for the same reason Opera already includes an email client, a news reader and an IRC client. I probably won't use the BT client, but for the couple times a year I hit IRC, Opera is fine, and since I'm only a relatively casual user of email, so is the internal email client. (It's actually fairly powerful, so even heavy users of email will probably be okay with it.)
Listen, I'm not opposed to people sticking computers in every conceivable container - but that's not creative anymore. In fact, whenever a geek is faced with a generic item he (or she, hah!) doesn't have any immediate use for, the first thought is now always "Hey, I could stick a computer in there".
Worried in West Springfield writes "There was a horrific crash in Toronto yesterday.... Dole's Pineapples were found in the grocery bag on the back seat. Police are investigating the possibility that the racing and subsequent crash was connected with the exotic fruits." From the article: "The pineapples police found in the car are delicous, but contain a large amount of fruit sugar (fructose), Det. Lobsinger said. 'You have these fruits that are all juicy and healthy. It's actually really ironic,' he said, nonsensically. Alexander Ryazanov, a York University student, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and desertion of fruit, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison on conviction. Wang-Piao Dumani Ross, a Ryerson University student, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and failing to stop after the accident."
Wrong. The iPods are actually really, really rugged. They scratch easily, but they don't easily break from falling. I've dropped my iPod mini a dozen times or more - during playback -, including one or two kind of scary drops, it's still working. Still looks fairly good, too, the metal casing really helps. The nano is probably even more sturdy since it doesn't have any moving parts, although the fragility of HDDs is over-emphasised, since they are parked/off most of the time, and can stand a lot of (de)acceleration while parked. For the record, I'm sure Creative's and everybody else's players are similarly realiable.
Like the grandparent says: It supports DHT, but the mainline version and not the one Azureus uses. Sometimes you'd like the be able to reach all those Azureus clients, since they make up a significant percentage of all users. I think it's still easily the best client, and from what I can tell a growing number of people seem to agree.
I admit I have never designed an LCD. But nevertheless, the article is wrong, even if LCDs do need to be refreshed, they do not flicker, or only as much as the backlight does. That was my main point.
Wired writes: "There's no flicker, because the pixels are completely static (in an LCD or a cathode-ray tube display, by contrast, pixels need to be "refreshed" 60 times per second or more)."
LCD pixels don't need to be refreshed, ever. LCD panels are typically updated at 60 Hz, but this is just new data being sent from the computer, and mostly just due to how things were done before. Incidently, CRTs are typically refreshed at at least 80 Hz to make the flickering less obvious and less straining. Electronic ink does have the distinct advantage of not having to look basically directly into a lamp all the time. But anyway, if your LCD flickers, you should return it because the backlight is damaged.
I've been using computers since I was 6 or 7... I'm 24 now. Personally, I've always felt that files and folders were intuitive.
Now that you mention it... You're right, I can't recall ever having a problem with filesystem hierarchies on the likes of the Atari ST. Strange. I guess it's just a matter of being introduced to it at that age. Or maybe my recollection of those days is just flawed.
Okay. You have explained to me how you can have a flat directory structure. Now explain how you can have folders in folders in folders in folders. I think the recursiveness is part of the problem. To their credit, I think it took the geeks quite a while to come up with the concept of fully hierarchical filesystems - mostly because they didn't need them at first. Well, many normal people don't need them even now.
To see OS X crash, I would have to have a machine that OS X will run on.
Never fear, I'm sure there are a number of guys working hard on radically increasing the number of machines that run OS iX to every current x86 machine.;) And considering the hardware compatibility problems that will ensue you're sure to see the multi-language screen of death ever so often.:)
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Good for you. Great to see you waving the losing flag with so much conviction.
"They just have to be careful to note that while the top screen is RGB order, the bottom is BGR."
Really? How odd.
Aren't there any better options for you? I always figured Holland to be some sort of internet heaven, you always seemed to get the good stuff some time before we did. If I can get 6 Mbit and no cap for 50 Euros, so can you! No? Maybe moving wasn't such a good idea. ;)
It's not just the busses. Hard drives, RAM, none of it has kept up with the CPU speed increase. CPU/memory performance gap - old story, but very present problem.
No.
Indeed it is. Very nice. In fact you can drop the "in days" from that query. Too bad it's not documented very well, complicated queries end up being a lot of trial and error, and sometimes Google doesn't parse math queries for mysterious reasons.
Sweet. I just posted basically the same thing (should have read on before posting, oh well), but I couldn't figure out how to get Google to use the "right" g and had to write it out myself. Very nice.
Google Calculator actually deals with the different distance units, so that wouldn't be a problem. His query totally doesn't work, though. This one does: c/(9.81m/(s^2)) = 353.702356 days (Too bad I couldn't find a Google constant to replace 9.81 m/s^2... g and G aren't it.)
Not that I disagree, but you have to do stuff like server side collision detection which probably is a great deal more difficult in WOW than it is in EVE, although of course EVE also has solids flying through space.
An internal BitTorrent client is included for the same reason Opera already includes an email client, a news reader and an IRC client. I probably won't use the BT client, but for the couple times a year I hit IRC, Opera is fine, and since I'm only a relatively casual user of email, so is the internal email client. (It's actually fairly powerful, so even heavy users of email will probably be okay with it.)
I've never seen an auto-focus camera that doesn't have this focus lock feature... I don't see how it accomplishes what he wants to, though.
Listen, I'm not opposed to people sticking computers in every conceivable container - but that's not creative anymore. In fact, whenever a geek is faced with a generic item he (or she, hah!) doesn't have any immediate use for, the first thought is now always "Hey, I could stick a computer in there".
Keywords. That is all.
Seriously - OIDS? That's pretty awesome. I played that on the Atari. Too bad there's apparently no version for x86.
Worried in West Springfield writes "There was a horrific crash in Toronto yesterday. ... Dole's Pineapples were found in the grocery bag on the back seat. Police are investigating the possibility that the racing and subsequent crash was connected with the exotic fruits." From the article: "The pineapples police found in the car are delicous, but contain a large amount of fruit sugar (fructose), Det. Lobsinger said. 'You have these fruits that are all juicy and healthy. It's actually really ironic,' he said, nonsensically. Alexander Ryazanov, a York University student, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and desertion of fruit, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison on conviction. Wang-Piao Dumani Ross, a Ryerson University student, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and failing to stop after the accident."
the things are not very rugged
Wrong. The iPods are actually really, really rugged. They scratch easily, but they don't easily break from falling. I've dropped my iPod mini a dozen times or more - during playback -, including one or two kind of scary drops, it's still working. Still looks fairly good, too, the metal casing really helps. The nano is probably even more sturdy since it doesn't have any moving parts, although the fragility of HDDs is over-emphasised, since they are parked/off most of the time, and can stand a lot of (de)acceleration while parked. For the record, I'm sure Creative's and everybody else's players are similarly realiable.
Like the grandparent says: It supports DHT, but the mainline version and not the one Azureus uses. Sometimes you'd like the be able to reach all those Azureus clients, since they make up a significant percentage of all users. I think it's still easily the best client, and from what I can tell a growing number of people seem to agree.
I admit I have never designed an LCD. But nevertheless, the article is wrong, even if LCDs do need to be refreshed, they do not flicker, or only as much as the backlight does. That was my main point.
Wired writes: "There's no flicker, because the pixels are completely static (in an LCD or a cathode-ray tube display, by contrast, pixels need to be "refreshed" 60 times per second or more)."
LCD pixels don't need to be refreshed, ever. LCD panels are typically updated at 60 Hz, but this is just new data being sent from the computer, and mostly just due to how things were done before. Incidently, CRTs are typically refreshed at at least 80 Hz to make the flickering less obvious and less straining. Electronic ink does have the distinct advantage of not having to look basically directly into a lamp all the time. But anyway, if your LCD flickers, you should return it because the backlight is damaged.
And sadly, the largest factorial Google Calculator responds to is 170! = 7.25741562 × 10^306...
Strange. A HTML course to prep them for Canadian employment? How likely is it that they will start out their career creating web sites?
I've been using computers since I was 6 or 7... I'm 24 now. Personally, I've always felt that files and folders were intuitive.
Now that you mention it... You're right, I can't recall ever having a problem with filesystem hierarchies on the likes of the Atari ST. Strange. I guess it's just a matter of being introduced to it at that age. Or maybe my recollection of those days is just flawed.
Okay. You have explained to me how you can have a flat directory structure. Now explain how you can have folders in folders in folders in folders. I think the recursiveness is part of the problem. To their credit, I think it took the geeks quite a while to come up with the concept of fully hierarchical filesystems - mostly because they didn't need them at first. Well, many normal people don't need them even now.
To see OS X crash, I would have to have a machine that OS X will run on.
;) And considering the hardware compatibility problems that will ensue you're sure to see the multi-language screen of death ever so often. :)
Never fear, I'm sure there are a number of guys working hard on radically increasing the number of machines that run OS iX to every current x86 machine.
Which I guess is why the Mac exiting dialog box says "save", "don't save" and "cancel."
;)
I think I read somewhere that it's better UI design to have verbs on the buttons instead of yes and no...
Um, yes, the Apple HIG say that. Duh!