The definition of “game” includes it being fun. Else it’s not a game. Even if others tell you it is. Else it is just simulated work. And bad work too. (Since good work is also fun.)
Tabbed windows? Isn’t that called a two-level task bar?
If you are like me, you start thinking outside of the box. I completely removed any task bar from my system. There’s no point in it. I use corner clicks for everything. Which corner does not matter. Right click: Compiz zoom overview of all windows. Thumb click: Overview over all desktops (expo)....and finally... Left click: Toggle the KDE4 dashboard, which includes the K menu, the.xsession-errors log, calculator, clock, calendar, weather, system information, system tray, minimized windows (as big icons), and whatever else I need in there.
The rest is all different keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Like Win+LMB = drag, Win+RMB = resize, or Win+End = end program / close window, etc. So I don’t even need window title bar buttons.
Works very nicely. Unfortunately the dashboard is pretty slow, and gets slower when you add more stuff. But it’s bearable. And I filed a bug, since I think it’s caused by one.
Interesting, how they struggle to stay important, by judging others, and sucking the cattle into their reality. Unfortunately, in actual reality, they are long fallen into irrelevance. Or has anyone of you ever bought a issue of the Time magazine? I honestly don’t know a single person. And I don’t know a reason why I should. (Hello Time marketing? *nudgenudge*)
It’s not that I don’t wish them all the best. It’s just, that maybe finding a new business model and purpose would be a good idea.:)
Does your definition of “the world” only include “Geeks, mostly only from the US” again?
I don’t think in all of Europe more than a few geeks have ever heard of Penny Arcade. I used to create web pages that were (willfully) read by 13 million people every day. So am I now also influencing the world? (Hint: No.) ^^
Solar thermal power plants. Cheap as hell, nearly exclusively out of abundant and renewable materials, can be placed in any desert, and 300 km^2 of them would provide all the energy all of humanity would need. Any 3rd world country could do with them.
Of course they won’t work in the night, and be weaker where there is less sun. But we have enough energy storage solutions. The best of those are hydroelectric dams in colder regions, where you use the excess energy to pump water upwards, and can release it with very little loss later. And generating hydrogen and oxygen, that can later be used by fuel cells in mobile vehicles. Normal batteries of course work too, but they are not as clean.
The wiring should be high-voltage DC to minimize losses.
And finally, if all that doesn’t suffice, you can still shoot lasers that pass the atmosphere with little loss into space, onto satellite mirrors, and back to earth again. (Use multiple mirrors, so you always pass the atmosphere using the shortest path.)
Also it would look fuckin’ cool and futuristic, to have such a circle of mirrors, with a “tower of light” in the middle, shooting a huge laser out of its top.:)
Welcome to the real world. Now with shades of gray between the “share nothing and to nobody“ and “shave everything to everybody” absolutes! Enjoy your day!
P.S.: Learn what the following words mean: “trust”, “privacy”, “trustworthiness”, “individuality”, etc. Because the amount shared is a function of the trust you have in someone.
Article 5937.13a, section 55z part 2, sentence 50395 now reads: “THOSE WHO LEAD FACEBOOK, ARE FACEBOOK LEADERS, OR ARE CURRENTLY IN THE POSITION OF LEADING FACEBOOK, WHERE LEADING MEANS ANY OF “BEING THE BOSS/CEO/MANAGER/KING/MASTER/KHAN/CHIEF/DIRECTOR/WARLORD OR OTHER COMMONLY POSITION WITH POINTY HAIRSTYLE”, AND WAS, IS, OR WILL BE EXISTENT OR THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE IN ANY TIME FRAME, UNIVERSE OR REALITY, SHALL RECEIVE 1 (ONE [“YE ONETH” {LIM (X->0) ((SIN X) / X)}]) WEEKLY PENETRATION OF AT LEAST 40 CM BY A HEAVY INDUSTRIAL STEEL PUNCHING MACHINE OF 5 INCH DIAMETER, FOLLOWED BY A DONKEY PUNCH TO THE DIRTY SANCHEZED HEAD.”
Why? No. Comedians are excellent social critics. After all that’s half their job. And their other half is excelling in diplomatics, by even making people laugh when you call out their failures. I’d say they are much better than having any lawyer in the government.:)
From a letter about the theory of general relativity to Hermann Weyl, from 1916-11-23. Here is my amateurish translation:
“While the theory has many enemy [sic] for the time being, I take comfort in the following circumstance: the otherwise determined mean thinking strength of the supporters outmatches that of the opponents by a tremendous amount.” (“Wenn die Theorie einstweilen noch viel [sic] Gegner hat, so tröstet mich der folgende Umstand: die anderweitig ermitte mittlere Denkstärke der Anhänger übertrifft diejenige der Gegner um ein Gewaltiges!”)
(I dug this one out myself. The letters are available online. And: Yes, I added the “[sic]”.:)
There is no point in concepts like “fair use”, since the base concept that you couldn’t use known information is absurd and physically impossible in the first place. If you know it, you can always and without exception use it. If you don’t you can’t prove it even exists (without revealing it).
It seems that: In western culture the parody is the LAW.;))
Put yourself is the shoes of a Iraqi business man, who want to produce and sell goods. Are you going to shoot him down and control him like an animal, just because some idiot that in a remote way has some similarities, is a dick?
This would be just like the TSA uses the same “logic”, to justify searching everyone of us. And just like TCPA shutting down everyone with a specific graphics card, when one was able to use it to crack DRM. The logic is, that because one of you could be a criminal, we will fuck up the lives of everyone of you.
Can I assume you have a penis? Then I will now classify you as a rapist.
You mean by the same logic that in a tense situation would make every man a potential threat because he has a penis, and would likely end up with a lot of innocent women being raped?
Please learn the concepts of intention and motivation. And lay of the propaganda crack pipe. TYVM.
Those countries have as little interest in crazy people bombing their ships & co, as we have. But that does’t make good propaganda, does it?
Why does this “article” make one feel the urge to exclaim “Sieg Heil America!“?;) I wonder how this article would have read, if it were written by a peace-loving Iraqi, about a US weapon system...
Can we just stop the “us vs. them” mentality? That’s so 60s. And we know what that resulted in... Hippies!;) If you want an “us vs. them“, then how about a “us (the people) vs. them (the crazy evil people, whether they are official [“governments”] or unofficial [“terrorists”] small groups)”!
Uuum, that slide would be very easy to understand. If someone there would know what a graph is, and how to handle it. First that thing lacks any edge descriptions. (I’m guessing they are “next step” actions.) Because if you’d have those, you could simply do the following: 1. “Grab” a starting node related to the question you are asking. 2. Let the rest of the nodes “hang down” from it by the property (=edge type) that you are interested in. (Or if the edge type has a concrete direction, also up from it.) 3. For all edges that are of a type that is uninteresting for answering your question: Cut them and make them references. If they are irrelevant, you can also filter the graph. Repeat until you are left with a normal tree.
Now you can walk the graph to answer a part of your question. And at will “grab” a node and choose another property to order the graph by.
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The definition of “game” includes it being fun. Else it’s not a game. Even if others tell you it is.
Else it is just simulated work. And bad work too. (Since good work is also fun.)
Tabbed windows? Isn’t that called a two-level task bar?
If you are like me, you start thinking outside of the box. I completely removed any task bar from my system. There’s no point in it. ...and finally... .xsession-errors log, calculator, clock, calendar, weather, system information, system tray, minimized windows (as big icons), and whatever else I need in there.
I use corner clicks for everything. Which corner does not matter.
Right click: Compiz zoom overview of all windows.
Thumb click: Overview over all desktops (expo).
Left click: Toggle the KDE4 dashboard, which includes the K menu, the
The rest is all different keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Like Win+LMB = drag, Win+RMB = resize, or Win+End = end program / close window, etc. So I don’t even need window title bar buttons.
Works very nicely. Unfortunately the dashboard is pretty slow, and gets slower when you add more stuff. But it’s bearable. And I filed a bug, since I think it’s caused by one.
Or the joke just flew right over his head.
What do you think is more likely, with 4channers and Applehuggers flooding /.? ;)
You need an Australian keyboard. One of those that also has reverse “b”s (d).
Interesting, how they struggle to stay important, by judging others, and sucking the cattle into their reality.
Unfortunately, in actual reality, they are long fallen into irrelevance. Or has anyone of you ever bought a issue of the Time magazine? I honestly don’t know a single person. And I don’t know a reason why I should. (Hello Time marketing? *nudgenudge*)
It’s not that I don’t wish them all the best. It’s just, that maybe finding a new business model and purpose would be a good idea. :)
Does your definition of “the world” only include “Geeks, mostly only from the US” again?
I don’t think in all of Europe more than a few geeks have ever heard of Penny Arcade. I used to create web pages that were (willfully) read by 13 million people every day. So am I now also influencing the world? (Hint: No.) ^^
Surely you mean Chuck Norris! Who will kill Bruce Willis with his patented two-point roundhouse stare of death.
By the way: Why do I always have the exact same typo, where I type “Chick Norris” instead of “Chuck Norris”? (Non-standard layout here!)
Solar thermal power plants. Cheap as hell, nearly exclusively out of abundant and renewable materials, can be placed in any desert, and 300 km^2 of them would provide all the energy all of humanity would need. Any 3rd world country could do with them.
Of course they won’t work in the night, and be weaker where there is less sun. But we have enough energy storage solutions. The best of those are hydroelectric dams in colder regions, where you use the excess energy to pump water upwards, and can release it with very little loss later. And generating hydrogen and oxygen, that can later be used by fuel cells in mobile vehicles. Normal batteries of course work too, but they are not as clean.
The wiring should be high-voltage DC to minimize losses.
And finally, if all that doesn’t suffice, you can still shoot lasers that pass the atmosphere with little loss into space, onto satellite mirrors, and back to earth again. (Use multiple mirrors, so you always pass the atmosphere using the shortest path.)
Also it would look fuckin’ cool and futuristic, to have such a circle of mirrors, with a “tower of light” in the middle, shooting a huge laser out of its top. :)
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
Welcome to the real world. Now with shades of gray between the “share nothing and to nobody“ and “shave everything to everybody” absolutes! Enjoy your day!
P.S.: Learn what the following words mean: “trust”, “privacy”, “trustworthiness”, “individuality”, etc. Because the amount shared is a function of the trust you have in someone.
Ok, I’m altering my side of the deal too.
Article 5937.13a, section 55z part 2, sentence 50395 now reads:
“THOSE WHO LEAD FACEBOOK, ARE FACEBOOK LEADERS, OR ARE CURRENTLY IN THE POSITION OF LEADING FACEBOOK, WHERE LEADING MEANS ANY OF “BEING THE BOSS/CEO/MANAGER/KING/MASTER/KHAN/CHIEF/DIRECTOR/WARLORD OR OTHER COMMONLY POSITION WITH POINTY HAIRSTYLE”, AND WAS, IS, OR WILL BE EXISTENT OR THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE IN ANY TIME FRAME, UNIVERSE OR REALITY, SHALL RECEIVE 1 (ONE [“YE ONETH” {LIM (X->0) ((SIN X) / X)}]) WEEKLY PENETRATION OF AT LEAST 40 CM BY A HEAVY INDUSTRIAL STEEL PUNCHING MACHINE OF 5 INCH DIAMETER, FOLLOWED BY A DONKEY PUNCH TO THE DIRTY SANCHEZED HEAD.”
No problem, right? ;)
OMG. Me too! We should totally hang out sometime!
Any chance you also like sex and money?
Why? No. Comedians are excellent social critics. After all that’s half their job. And their other half is excelling in diplomatics, by even making people laugh when you call out their failures. :)
I’d say they are much better than having any lawyer in the government.
From a letter about the theory of general relativity to Hermann Weyl, from 1916-11-23. Here is my amateurish translation:
“While the theory has many enemy [sic] for the time being, I take comfort in the following circumstance: the otherwise determined mean thinking strength of the supporters outmatches that of the opponents by a tremendous amount.”
(“Wenn die Theorie einstweilen noch viel [sic] Gegner hat, so tröstet mich der folgende Umstand: die anderweitig ermitte mittlere Denkstärke der Anhänger übertrifft diejenige der Gegner um ein Gewaltiges!”)
(I dug this one out myself. The letters are available online. And: Yes, I added the “[sic]”. :)
Or your mom. Breathing in and farting at the same time. Nothing ever gets out of that black hole again. /ducks :D
Hmm... sounds like the Super Adventure Club from South Park...
No thanks. ^^
What? Not Xe Services? ;)
There is no point in concepts like “fair use”, since the base concept that you couldn’t use known information is absurd and physically impossible in the first place. If you know it, you can always and without exception use it. If you don’t you can’t prove it even exists (without revealing it).
It seems that: In western culture the parody is the LAW. ;))
But this one requires nuking from orbit. It’s the only way to be safe! ;)
Put yourself is the shoes of a Iraqi business man, who want to produce and sell goods. Are you going to shoot him down and control him like an animal, just because some idiot that in a remote way has some similarities, is a dick?
This would be just like the TSA uses the same “logic”, to justify searching everyone of us.
And just like TCPA shutting down everyone with a specific graphics card, when one was able to use it to crack DRM.
The logic is, that because one of you could be a criminal, we will fuck up the lives of everyone of you.
Can I assume you have a penis?
Then I will now classify you as a rapist.
Same logic.
You mean by the same logic that in a tense situation would make every man a potential threat because he has a penis, and would likely end up with a lot of innocent women being raped?
Please learn the concepts of intention and motivation. And lay of the propaganda crack pipe. TYVM.
Those countries have as little interest in crazy people bombing their ships & co, as we have.
But that does’t make good propaganda, does it?
Why does this “article” make one feel the urge to exclaim “Sieg Heil America!“? ;)
I wonder how this article would have read, if it were written by a peace-loving Iraqi, about a US weapon system...
Can we just stop the “us vs. them” mentality? That’s so 60s. And we know what that resulted in... Hippies! ;)
If you want an “us vs. them“, then how about a “us (the people) vs. them (the crazy evil people, whether they are official [“governments”] or unofficial [“terrorists”] small groups)”!
Simple solution. ;)
Wait for MS to simply not offer IE6 anymore. Done.
Uuum, that slide would be very easy to understand. If someone there would know what a graph is, and how to handle it.
First that thing lacks any edge descriptions. (I’m guessing they are “next step” actions.)
Because if you’d have those, you could simply do the following:
1. “Grab” a starting node related to the question you are asking.
2. Let the rest of the nodes “hang down” from it by the property (=edge type) that you are interested in. (Or if the edge type has a concrete direction, also up from it.)
3. For all edges that are of a type that is uninteresting for answering your question: Cut them and make them references. If they are irrelevant, you can also filter the graph. Repeat until you are left with a normal tree.
Now you can walk the graph to answer a part of your question. And at will “grab” a node and choose another property to order the graph by.
I found this extremely useful for complex graphs.
There are necessary Powerpoint presentations? When did MS do that complete rewrite? ;)