Oh, ew. 4200 rpm HDD and small RAM capacity makes for a terrible combination. But then those are the two components you can relatively easily replace. At least the HDD has got 8 megs of cache.
For what it's worth, Windows XP does that - and really quite well - out of the box. The image viewer (which might be based on the MS app you mention) is really a standalone application but seamlessly integrated into the explorer. Does everything from scaling and rotating to fit a full page to printing a folder's contents as thumbnails. Quite convenient especially since I only print photos/images every once in a while, spending time on getting a standalone solution would be overkill.
Whenever thy needed a way "out" he was there to whisk away the problem.
You make it sound like every other episode contained Q. There aren't that many, really - less than 10? Not to mention that he typically didn't whisk away any problems but create them or be part of them, so he really doesn't qualify for deus ex machina.
Would make a "Save Enterprise" campaign? It is horrible, awful, and bad.
That's the level of most posts bashing Enterprise I've seen so far on this story. Maybe better ones will come later, who knows. For what it's worth, virtually all SciFi shows I know are pretty horrible by many standards, and Enterprise isn't as bad an offender in many regards. (For instance, Stargate just is unbeatable wrt to plot holes and usage of deus ex machina solutions. Suspension of disbelief is hard work in some SG-1 episodes.) This includes all former Star Trek series, especially TOS and also TNG. I always thought TNG was better, but having seen most episodes again recently that were just rose-tinted glasses, I conveniently forgot many of the terrible TNG episodes.
Anyway, I genuinely like many things about Enterprise. I love the giant story arches of the third and fourth seasons, I like the characters ("What's that s'pposed to mean?"), I like the setting. I don't mind seeing "yet another transporter episode" especially considering that I'm now seeing episodes of Stargate that totally mirror stuff I've seen in TNG 10 years ago. (A case of "Simpsons did it!") Heck, I even like the theme tune - at least they tried something else, and it's easily better music than for instance the Voyager theme, which really doesn't qualify as music in the sense that there are a significant number of people who would listen to it standalone.
You can't blame the Gnome guys for this, though, nor the submitter - nowhere in the article does it refer to Gnome 10. It only turns up in the Slashdot headline. Seems like it was timothy's idea...
My main issue with the Carbon is that the display is tiny, especially compared to the very nice displays the Micro and especially the mini has. There are also some complaints regarding the music organisation, apparently it only works with the ID3 tags, with no regards to the file name. Apart from that it does seem very nice.
The battery life of the Zen Micro is actually worse than the iPod mini's. I'm aware that they claim a longer life, but apparently that's not true, at least not to a test (German mobile computing website) Xonio published a week ago: http://www.xonio.com/features/feature_12585175.htm l
It's in German, but there isn't a whole lot of text anyway, mostly just data. Festplatte translates to hard drive, in case you're wondering. The iPod mini plays for 8:17, the Zen Micro stops at 7:10. The model with the best battery life-time in the iPod mini form factor is the TEAC MP-1000 (17:39), but then it only sports 1.5 GB so it might as well be flash based. The best hard drive based is the iriver iHP-100 at 18:28.
That said, they don't seem to say anything at all about their testing methods. Granted, it's not that difficult: they probably just took a new-ish player, connected it to AC as long as it wants to be, and then played some music - the same music for all players, obviously, to take into account different power usage at different bit rates and such. But who knows if that's what they did, they don't say. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, though, since their previous reviews always seemed to be quite good.
If anybody has got more battery longevity tests that indicate different results be my guest. I'm on the market for another mp3 player (my old mini-CD based Philips one is just about dead now), and I fell in love with the mini-HD form factor when I saw the first models and now it comes to down to either the iPod mini or the Zen Micro. Currently, I leaning heavily towards the iPod mini - especially due to the fact that it seems to be cheaper in these parts.
Buy from all of them at once. Create a price based on all the prices of the shops part of the program (maybe the mean - not the sum!;) ), subtract the costs for credit card payment and the MPAA and pool the profits among the shops. Not going to happen, though.
How's that? I'd certainly be terrified if my business were in jeopardy due to some hijacker.
And I'd certainly be terrified if I saw Britney Spears live. That doesn't make it terrorism. Many people are terrified by dentists - or mice! - that doesn't make either terrorists.
If you deliberately make yourself look guilty regardless of actual guilt, then it should come as no surprise when you are approached because of it.
Approached, maybe. Served with C&D, subpoenas? Being sued? No. If the authorities automatically sued everyone running around on the street with a bag of flour, doing just that would be a perfectly valid form of protesting against this automatic process. It would also get people fairly outraged, except for a few dicks at work saying that this is all perfectly fine.;)
The fact is that guys like TWU are not "making themselves look guilty". They just trigger a blatant and critical error in the (previous) automated systems of the **AAs. They aren't looking guilty to anyone with half a brain, and it's not their fault that the industry often doesn't seem to have even that. Note that the system the article refers to actually would be smart enough.
How would they know that before you retrieve the page?
We're going in circles here; I already answered that. In my opinion the situation isn't ideal, but considering what's possible I'd (much!) rather err on the side of using a relative layout and having lines that are too long. I don't think I'm taking a minority position.
What would you suggest to put in that space that marketing would agree with?
I really don't care what marketing says, or whatever is involved in the internal decision process. If marketing leads to people designing bad web sites, that sucks, but that doesn't stop the web sites from being badly designed.
That's dynamite. Except that 60% of my window isn't too wide, my window isn't too large, and they wasted a large part of it they could have used, and that's bad or at least lazy design. Which was the point I was making.
Would you rather have that space filled with blinking advertisements?
So what if, say, 60% is too wide to read comfortably?
I don't think that's really an issue with most web sites - in those rare cases where it is, I'll just use your very own workaround: resize your browser. Except that it actually makes sense here, because if 60% of the window width is too wide then most likely your window is just too large for most webbrowsing. Nevertheless, like I said, the technology people have to use doesn't make it very easy, and in fact this specifically is one of those things I direly miss when using CSS: the ability to use relative spacing but with absolute constraints, that is an easy way to say "this column should be about 60% of the window's width, but at least 100 px and no more than 1000".
And as you mention, images are another problem for relative layouts. Even better resampling methods won't solve that, most likely nothing will except for vactor graphics. Maybe in the meantime using fewer images is the right way to go. Of course, try telling that to the marketing department, which leads over to the next issue...
Web developers merely follow the layouts set by marketing.
Yes, well, whoever is to blame, layouts that blank out half of the screen real estate they could use suck.
Most web sites are designed to fill an 800- to 1024-pixel window.
Most web sites are not designed very well. Which is all right because most web sites aren't visited that often. I'm glad that most web sites I visit regularly (including, oddly, Slashdot) seem to work fine with mostly any resolution.
How would you suggest that the sites automatically adapt their stylesheets to anything from 640x480 to 1600x1200? If you were coding CSS for a site, what would you make it do?
Use relative spacing instead of absolute spacing. Or use less custom formatting in the first place. I agree that HTML/CSS2 doesn't really make this as easy as it should be.
Okay, but newspapers don't just print one column and leave the other space white, now do they? Because that's what they're doing, and they're doing it out of laziness and not for the reasons you mention.
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Okay, this is really kind of amazing. It's like you have whole websites dedicated to all kinds of various topics created overnight. Complete with news posts, discussion, images and links for more in-depth discussion. Groups of volunteers who don't even necessarily know about another all contribute to these thematic websites (or portals, whatever).
What's not so amazing? Obviously, quality control and assurance becomes a problem. Maybe they ought to have some moderation or karma system. And gee they really need to fix their layout - instead of using the whole width of my window it's limited to (I guess) 800 pixels. Ew.
There's Escape Velocity. That should be enough for a couple of years. Well, maybe not anymore, but it used to be, back when I was still more patient with my games. Of course, since like a year ago, EV is available for Windows as well.
I'd like to see where you've seen another single card SLI solution. Even though, as usual for slashdot, this is actually old news, Gigabyte is innovating here.
I haven't read this article, but this isn't the first dual-6600 card, and others claimed to have a higher performance than a single 6800. So more performance, roughly the same cost, more heat.
The trees in Wish were the best I have ever seen in any computer game, full stop. Something of a pet peeve to me, I think I'd pay for a game that'd just allow me to walk through Wish's forests.:P
Hm? There is no problem with the grammar in those phrases, at least I don't see any. It's also not really difficult to understand - I'm not a native speaker, and I parsed the sentence without any problem whatsoever. It's arguably one sentence, as evidenced by the fact that is just one full stop, but there are other punctuation marks that clearly seperate the clauses, ie. the colons and the semi-colon. Granted, I didn't exactly understand the meaning, but that was simply and solely due to the fact that I lacked the background knowledge he presupposed. I checked out one of the numerous links; acquiring the necessary knowledge took me, oh, 20 seconds.
What we can see here is the reaction by many folks in the Slashdot crowd when confronted with an unfamiliar topic: bitch and moan instead of spending some time to find out what it's all about. Pathetic. I mean, I agree that the story should have been a bit more explanatory, obviously a lot of people have no clue what it's all about, but this kind of verbal abuse is not warranted.
BTW: Your final sentence is longer (ie has more words) than any of the clauses in the paragraph you quoted, and is a lot more difficult to understand. "Bullshit made up trends" is one long compound noun.
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Oh, ew. 4200 rpm HDD and small RAM capacity makes for a terrible combination. But then those are the two components you can relatively easily replace. At least the HDD has got 8 megs of cache.
For what it's worth, Windows XP does that - and really quite well - out of the box. The image viewer (which might be based on the MS app you mention) is really a standalone application but seamlessly integrated into the explorer. Does everything from scaling and rotating to fit a full page to printing a folder's contents as thumbnails. Quite convenient especially since I only print photos/images every once in a while, spending time on getting a standalone solution would be overkill.
Whenever thy needed a way "out" he was there to whisk away the problem.
You make it sound like every other episode contained Q. There aren't that many, really - less than 10? Not to mention that he typically didn't whisk away any problems but create them or be part of them, so he really doesn't qualify for deus ex machina.
Would make a "Save Enterprise" campaign? It is horrible, awful, and bad.
That's the level of most posts bashing Enterprise I've seen so far on this story. Maybe better ones will come later, who knows. For what it's worth, virtually all SciFi shows I know are pretty horrible by many standards, and Enterprise isn't as bad an offender in many regards. (For instance, Stargate just is unbeatable wrt to plot holes and usage of deus ex machina solutions. Suspension of disbelief is hard work in some SG-1 episodes.) This includes all former Star Trek series, especially TOS and also TNG. I always thought TNG was better, but having seen most episodes again recently that were just rose-tinted glasses, I conveniently forgot many of the terrible TNG episodes.
Anyway, I genuinely like many things about Enterprise. I love the giant story arches of the third and fourth seasons, I like the characters ("What's that s'pposed to mean?"), I like the setting. I don't mind seeing "yet another transporter episode" especially considering that I'm now seeing episodes of Stargate that totally mirror stuff I've seen in TNG 10 years ago. (A case of "Simpsons did it!") Heck, I even like the theme tune - at least they tried something else, and it's easily better music than for instance the Voyager theme, which really doesn't qualify as music in the sense that there are a significant number of people who would listen to it standalone.
I can't believe he's 30 years old in those photos. He looks like the PFY.
You can't blame the Gnome guys for this, though, nor the submitter - nowhere in the article does it refer to Gnome 10. It only turns up in the Slashdot headline. Seems like it was timothy's idea...
My main issue with the Carbon is that the display is tiny, especially compared to the very nice displays the Micro and especially the mini has. There are also some complaints regarding the music organisation, apparently it only works with the ID3 tags, with no regards to the file name. Apart from that it does seem very nice.
If anything, you should get a letter for downloading VCD Telesyncs. Eugh.
The battery life of the Zen Micro is actually worse than the iPod mini's. I'm aware that they claim a longer life, but apparently that's not true, at least not to a test (German mobile computing website) Xonio published a week ago:m l
http://www.xonio.com/features/feature_12585175.ht
It's in German, but there isn't a whole lot of text anyway, mostly just data. Festplatte translates to hard drive, in case you're wondering. The iPod mini plays for 8:17, the Zen Micro stops at 7:10. The model with the best battery life-time in the iPod mini form factor is the TEAC MP-1000 (17:39), but then it only sports 1.5 GB so it might as well be flash based. The best hard drive based is the iriver iHP-100 at 18:28.
That said, they don't seem to say anything at all about their testing methods. Granted, it's not that difficult: they probably just took a new-ish player, connected it to AC as long as it wants to be, and then played some music - the same music for all players, obviously, to take into account different power usage at different bit rates and such. But who knows if that's what they did, they don't say. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, though, since their previous reviews always seemed to be quite good.
If anybody has got more battery longevity tests that indicate different results be my guest. I'm on the market for another mp3 player (my old mini-CD based Philips one is just about dead now), and I fell in love with the mini-HD form factor when I saw the first models and now it comes to down to either the iPod mini or the Zen Micro. Currently, I leaning heavily towards the iPod mini - especially due to the fact that it seems to be cheaper in these parts.
Buy from all of them at once. Create a price based on all the prices of the shops part of the program (maybe the mean - not the sum! ;) ), subtract the costs for credit card payment and the MPAA and pool the profits among the shops. Not going to happen, though.
How's that? I'd certainly be terrified if my business were in jeopardy due to some hijacker.
And I'd certainly be terrified if I saw Britney Spears live. That doesn't make it terrorism. Many people are terrified by dentists - or mice! - that doesn't make either terrorists.
If you deliberately make yourself look guilty regardless of actual guilt, then it should come as no surprise when you are approached because of it.
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Approached, maybe. Served with C&D, subpoenas? Being sued? No. If the authorities automatically sued everyone running around on the street with a bag of flour, doing just that would be a perfectly valid form of protesting against this automatic process. It would also get people fairly outraged, except for a few dicks at work saying that this is all perfectly fine.
The fact is that guys like TWU are not "making themselves look guilty". They just trigger a blatant and critical error in the (previous) automated systems of the **AAs. They aren't looking guilty to anyone with half a brain, and it's not their fault that the industry often doesn't seem to have even that. Note that the system the article refers to actually would be smart enough.
How would they know that before you retrieve the page?
We're going in circles here; I already answered that. In my opinion the situation isn't ideal, but considering what's possible I'd (much!) rather err on the side of using a relative layout and having lines that are too long. I don't think I'm taking a minority position.
What would you suggest to put in that space that marketing would agree with?
I really don't care what marketing says, or whatever is involved in the internal decision process. If marketing leads to people designing bad web sites, that sucks, but that doesn't stop the web sites from being badly designed.
Which is the point I was trying to make with you.
That's dynamite. Except that 60% of my window isn't too wide, my window isn't too large, and they wasted a large part of it they could have used, and that's bad or at least lazy design. Which was the point I was making.
Would you rather have that space filled with blinking advertisements?
False Dichotomy.
So what if, say, 60% is too wide to read comfortably?
I don't think that's really an issue with most web sites - in those rare cases where it is, I'll just use your very own workaround: resize your browser. Except that it actually makes sense here, because if 60% of the window width is too wide then most likely your window is just too large for most webbrowsing.
Nevertheless, like I said, the technology people have to use doesn't make it very easy, and in fact this specifically is one of those things I direly miss when using CSS: the ability to use relative spacing but with absolute constraints, that is an easy way to say "this column should be about 60% of the window's width, but at least 100 px and no more than 1000".
And as you mention, images are another problem for relative layouts. Even better resampling methods won't solve that, most likely nothing will except for vactor graphics. Maybe in the meantime using fewer images is the right way to go. Of course, try telling that to the marketing department, which leads over to the next issue...
Web developers merely follow the layouts set by marketing.
Yes, well, whoever is to blame, layouts that blank out half of the screen real estate they could use suck.
Most web sites are designed to fill an 800- to 1024-pixel window.
Most web sites are not designed very well. Which is all right because most web sites aren't visited that often. I'm glad that most web sites I visit regularly (including, oddly, Slashdot) seem to work fine with mostly any resolution.
How would you suggest that the sites automatically adapt their stylesheets to anything from 640x480 to 1600x1200? If you were coding CSS for a site, what would you make it do?
Use relative spacing instead of absolute spacing. Or use less custom formatting in the first place. I agree that HTML/CSS2 doesn't really make this as easy as it should be.
Okay, but newspapers don't just print one column and leave the other space white, now do they? Because that's what they're doing, and they're doing it out of laziness and not for the reasons you mention.
Okay, this is really kind of amazing. It's like you have whole websites dedicated to all kinds of various topics created overnight. Complete with news posts, discussion, images and links for more in-depth discussion. Groups of volunteers who don't even necessarily know about another all contribute to these thematic websites (or portals, whatever).
What's not so amazing? Obviously, quality control and assurance becomes a problem. Maybe they ought to have some moderation or karma system. And gee they really need to fix their layout - instead of using the whole width of my window it's limited to (I guess) 800 pixels. Ew.
There's Escape Velocity. That should be enough for a couple of years. Well, maybe not anymore, but it used to be, back when I was still more patient with my games. Of course, since like a year ago, EV is available for Windows as well.
Apparently, with windows at least, the cpu processes all the io for IDE, USB, and I think also firewire.
Hmm. Even if I enable DMA for my IDE channels? Isn't that the whole point of DMA?
I'd like to see where you've seen another single card SLI solution. Even though, as usual for slashdot, this is actually old news, Gigabyte is innovating here.
You're right, I probably haven't. The previous stories on Slashdot dealt with the technology in general and the Gigabyte card in particular, that is, the same card this story is on. (Dupe?) Sorry about that.
I haven't read this article, but this isn't the first dual-6600 card, and others claimed to have a higher performance than a single 6800. So more performance, roughly the same cost, more heat.
The trees in Wish were the best I have ever seen in any computer game, full stop. Something of a pet peeve to me, I think I'd pay for a game that'd just allow me to walk through Wish's forests. :P
True, I should have just called you guys pathetic and left it at that.
Hm? There is no problem with the grammar in those phrases, at least I don't see any. It's also not really difficult to understand - I'm not a native speaker, and I parsed the sentence without any problem whatsoever. It's arguably one sentence, as evidenced by the fact that is just one full stop, but there are other punctuation marks that clearly seperate the clauses, ie. the colons and the semi-colon.
Granted, I didn't exactly understand the meaning, but that was simply and solely due to the fact that I lacked the background knowledge he presupposed. I checked out one of the numerous links; acquiring the necessary knowledge took me, oh, 20 seconds.
What we can see here is the reaction by many folks in the Slashdot crowd when confronted with an unfamiliar topic: bitch and moan instead of spending some time to find out what it's all about. Pathetic. I mean, I agree that the story should have been a bit more explanatory, obviously a lot of people have no clue what it's all about, but this kind of verbal abuse is not warranted.
BTW: Your final sentence is longer (ie has more words) than any of the clauses in the paragraph you quoted, and is a lot more difficult to understand. "Bullshit made up trends" is one long compound noun.