Has anyone seen Demolition Man? That movie predicted that jingles like this would be the rage well into 21st century. They surely can be cheesy at times, but it's better than a lot of crap that's otherwise 'free'
Good old Windows Exploder (typo?) always there to be annoying and ultimately circumvented. That must be the biggest thing Microsoft has done to insult people's intelligence.
You said it. I used to be able to get real radio stations over the 'net just as though I had a really big antenna, but then people whine about unlimited advertising, and they can't have that, oh, no, as though somebody gets hurt by pushing their local stuff to a handful of extra people outside the local broadcast radius. Total B.S.
hehe! I have to agree with you there. Clearly, it is less efficient than the almighty quick sort routine. At least on paper. There are a few CS teachers who insist that bubble has some practical advantages over QS. If anyone finds out what these are, please post them, I have yet to figure it out!;)
Whoa, there. I'm not saying that all the best games are written in ASM, but are optimized for each specific processor. A number of great games were written in ASM, however (10 years ago at least!), but how many all-time favorites don't have ASM snippets in them? This whole platform-independence thing will never support those games at that level of performance.
This is an interesting idea. It certainly could not be a bad thing for such games as tic-tac-toe and mastermind and the like, maybe even sokoban;), but but this high-level abstraction can cause limitations on things that demand the high performance inherent in state-of-the-art video games. ASM is king of the gaming domain, and I don't see that ever changing.
I'd say that statement is true. Cigarettes are harmless until you smoke them!
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TV cannot compare to the Internet in any way. Sure, the Internet can be used to download episodes of TV shows, but then you don't have to compromise your social life if you absolutely have to watch that show, because the Internet lets you set your own schedule. The Internet allows people to chat with family and friends all over the world. Mobile Internet connections provide all the necessary freedom of travel. The Internet allows people to vote in elections, donate to charitable organizations, buy things that can only be found in stores abroad, or buy things that are not available in stores at all.
If you want to learn something, odds are there will be many web pages all about any subject anywhere on the Internet. You don't have to settle on reruns of shows that The Discovery Channel thinks will boost its viewership. The Internet allows users to be unique, in stark contrast to the forced conformity of television.
If you live in a small town, how many of your neighbors are going to share your interests, whatever they may be? If you go on the Internet, you're bound to meet up with many people who share your interests. As for stereotypical antisocial technogeeks, they are that way because they are so few and far between. Internet brings them together, bridging thousands of miles.
Too often these surveys and studies include AOL users, and I don't mean the people who abuse those free offers; I mean the people that are dumb enough to pay outrageous prices for abominable service and spam, to get cheated out of most of what the Internet has to offer. AOL may enable users with some Internet capability, but it should not be equated with the Internet in general.
The point: remove habitual AOL users from the equation, and the outlook of the Internet's impact on humanity will look much brighter.:)
How is this new to the world scene? France shamelessly committed some abominations of Internet freedom when some things on eBay pissed them off. I think that eBay caved into their demands, however. That was all too weird. I hope that never happens in the U.S. of A. If it does, I'm getting the hell out.
Can you post a picture? I don't think I've ever seen an asymmetrical CD. Of course, doesn't your CD drive documentation say on the front page not to do that? Oh, well, I'd just like to see one.
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Has anyone seen Demolition Man? That movie predicted that jingles like this would be the rage well into 21st century. They surely can be cheesy at times, but it's better than a lot of crap that's otherwise 'free'
Good old Windows Exploder (typo?) always there to be annoying and ultimately circumvented. That must be the biggest thing Microsoft has done to insult people's intelligence.
You said it. I used to be able to get real radio stations over the 'net just as though I had a really big antenna, but then people whine about unlimited advertising, and they can't have that, oh, no, as though somebody gets hurt by pushing their local stuff to a handful of extra people outside the local broadcast radius. Total B.S.
hehe! I have to agree with you there. Clearly, it is less efficient than the almighty quick sort routine. At least on paper. There are a few CS teachers who insist that bubble has some practical advantages over QS. If anyone finds out what these are, please post them, I have yet to figure it out! ;)
Without binary search, life as we know it would not exist.
Thanks for thinking before replying!
Whoa, there. I'm not saying that all the best games are written in ASM, but are optimized for each specific processor. A number of great games were written in ASM, however (10 years ago at least!), but how many all-time favorites don't have ASM snippets in them? This whole platform-independence thing will never support those games at that level of performance.
This is an interesting idea. It certainly could not be a bad thing for such games as tic-tac-toe and mastermind and the like, maybe even sokoban ;), but but this high-level abstraction can cause limitations on things that demand the high performance inherent in state-of-the-art video games. ASM is king of the gaming domain, and I don't see that ever changing.
I'd say that statement is true. Cigarettes are harmless until you smoke them!
TV cannot compare to the Internet in any way. Sure, the Internet can be used to download episodes of TV shows, but then you don't have to compromise your social life if you absolutely have to watch that show, because the Internet lets you set your own schedule. The Internet allows people to chat with family and friends all over the world. Mobile Internet connections provide all the necessary freedom of travel. The Internet allows people to vote in elections, donate to charitable organizations, buy things that can only be found in stores abroad, or buy things that are not available in stores at all. If you want to learn something, odds are there will be many web pages all about any subject anywhere on the Internet. You don't have to settle on reruns of shows that The Discovery Channel thinks will boost its viewership. The Internet allows users to be unique, in stark contrast to the forced conformity of television. If you live in a small town, how many of your neighbors are going to share your interests, whatever they may be? If you go on the Internet, you're bound to meet up with many people who share your interests. As for stereotypical antisocial technogeeks, they are that way because they are so few and far between. Internet brings them together, bridging thousands of miles. Too often these surveys and studies include AOL users, and I don't mean the people who abuse those free offers; I mean the people that are dumb enough to pay outrageous prices for abominable service and spam, to get cheated out of most of what the Internet has to offer. AOL may enable users with some Internet capability, but it should not be equated with the Internet in general. The point: remove habitual AOL users from the equation, and the outlook of the Internet's impact on humanity will look much brighter. :)
How is this new to the world scene? France shamelessly committed some abominations of Internet freedom when some things on eBay pissed them off. I think that eBay caved into their demands, however. That was all too weird. I hope that never happens in the U.S. of A. If it does, I'm getting the hell out.
Should there be anything in my \tmp directory when I first install?
Can you post a picture? I don't think I've ever seen an asymmetrical CD. Of course, doesn't your CD drive documentation say on the front page not to do that? Oh, well, I'd just like to see one.