The GC controller was OK, save for one fatal flaw: the z-button was worthless and annoying. The controller was also a bit on the small side, (of course, my hands are on the large side of average.) You also couldn't do button-mash combinations very easily. Try pushing the b-button at the same time as either the y or x - it was damn near impossible.
I've heard that our heavy dependence on corn as an additive (e.g., corn syrup) is one main contributor to the lack of affordable, healthful food options in grocery stores. Might this work to reverse that trend?
What I've found interesting is that I've been reading a lot of news about upcoming PS3 releases recently, (not necessarily releases coming this month of course.) Conversely, it seems that news about the Wii have been tapering off - certainly from what the volume when it was first released. xbox360 news seems to have been holding steady.
This is, of course, an entirely subjective observation. Anyone care to corroborate or counter what I've noticed?
You're right. It took awhile for it for me to download (slow connection.) It appears as though you can use the interface like a normal touch screen but, if you want to click in a very controlled manner, you press, hold, and wait for a small, circular window to pop up showing you what your're trying to press. You can use that to make sure you're getting the exact region you want. Very impressive, actually.
The article says that lifting your finger from the screen selects the item (even more counter-intuitive in my opinion).
Yeah, I agree - this implies a dragging type motion is taking place. When I want to push a single button, I don't want to have to touch the screen, locate this little cursor with my eye, drag it into place, and then lift. I just want to push the button:P
So if I see a button the screen, I don't press the button; I press below the button. That seems rather counterintuitive, no? And how do I push stuff at the bottom of the screen?
Yes, there are certainly private sector spammers, but there are also plenty of private sector spam detectors. The reason that I would suggest leaving it to the private sector is that they have strong motivation to improve and evolve their detection methods.
On a side note, you need to spare the ad-hominem attacks. I never said I was libertarian (I am not). I simply stated that my belief in this area might be comparable with a libertarians beliefs. Insults do no one any good.
It's technically what I could do if I printed out my SPAMs and went to the local police station, except they'd never do anything about it.
I guess this is my question. I have no problems with sending my spam to a government run central location (as long as its actually spam that I reviewed and sent by hand.) I'm more wondering if sending it to the authorities in this manner will give them motivation or ease in prosecuting.
This is where the libertarian in me comes out and wonders if these things aren't better left to the private sector. On the other hand, perhaps having this information sent directly to authorities will result in more prosecutions (or more successful prosecutions) under laws similar to CAN-SPAM, (or maybe that's just wishful thinking.)
Suddenly my sig seems strangely relevant. I actually made the site before the latest HD-DVD fiasco. (yes you can buy (for free) numbers. no you can not buy 128bit numbers.)
What's funny is that I was thinking along the same lines. I much prefer coding. It is quite a stress reliever and, because you can really code whatever you want, it's always changing. Who needs a campaign editor when you have a text editor!
I know it comes as a surprise to no one that Mother Nature has some truly incredible engineering at work. I still, however, find it fascinating and amazing when examples like this come to light; I feel we will continue to see a lot more discoveries like this for the foreseeable future
I have two questions for Slashdot: Are there any other unique examples of learning from nature that you'd like to bring to light? And on a different note, do you think nature has perfected certain tasks and that its engineering can not be surprassed (at least in some areas), or are there things that even nature hasn't perfected?
How does larger block sizes result in better reliability? Intuitively, I would almost think the opposite, since a single byte corruption means a much larger block is now erroneous. I obviously am missing something though.
I need to second Gentoo-Wiki as a wiki done right. When I need to get something working, 99% of the time, Gentoo-Wiki has me covered. As far as formal documentation is concerned, no, it is not the best perhaps. But as far as useful documentation is concerned, it does a great job.
There are weak spots in some smaller sections that I've found, but it's generally enough to get me started. Furthermore, once I figure out some more details about what I am trying to accomplish, I just update the wiki;)
Each browser has its own quirks (incorrectness?) in dealing with things like CSS transparency, and DIVs, etc...
Just a note about this: I've found the only browser that has any serious quirks anymore is IE, frustratingly enough. I usually design in FF and Opera, make a few small but compatible adjustments for Safari and everything works great. Then I undertake the beast that is IE - it's like designing for a whole different standard.
On the other hand, you are right about, "the lowest common denominator for the vast majority of people browsing the web is, Internet Explorer," but I would never use this as an excuse to exclude the other browsers.
I suppose I should specify that I was referring content providers relying on embedded WMP based content - can't use Winamp for that. I never used WMP for playing my media files either. Good call on Winamp.
With most online videos using flash based video players, who really cares that they even released this plug-in?
I would bet this is partly in response to that shift. For a little while at least, WMP was doing quite well on the web - it certainly beat out Real Player. Now that Flash has mature video capabilities and works/worked better in Firefox (and will in other browsers), many people have moved away from WMP.
"It's for your own good." just doesn't suffice, in my opinion. Who's determining what's "my own good" again? Oh, you want to. Right. It's called 'responsibility' and it comes with living so let the students have a helping of it.
Just because a few people complain doesn't mean that blocking is good. Furthermore, to say that sites like MySpace have no educational value is to imply that no student will ever have a need to research and report on them - them being a huge, culture-changing phenomenon. Sure, I'll agree as much as the next that MySpace and FaceBook aren't, at face value, educational, but who am I to say that others won't learn something from them?
It works, but it's not standards-compliant - it's not required to work.
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As an aside, I think the industry should really standardize on something to be a 'universal' interface, like USB or Firewire for desktop systems. Let's just remove all other types of interfaces, even VGA/DVI/HDMI cables and maybe even Ethernet.
By keeping different cord types, they prevent different communications protocols from plugging into the wrong ports. For instance, the ethernet protocol and the USB protocol are not compatible. Therefore, the layman user won't accidentally plug their mouse port into the wall.
Also, different cables have different qualities, allowing different data rates across them for different prices. Imagine the price of a 100 foot hdmi cable vs. the prices of 100 feet of cat 5!
In generaly, I do agree that we could do a much better job than we are currently doing - one type for video, one type for audio (hdmi can carry both video and audio of course), one type for network, and one type for other peripherals (i.e. usb). Expansion cards could then be purchased for specialty needs, such as serial ports, ps2, and firewire.
I run gnome actually. It's great. The comment in particular was towards Compiz & Beryl, however. They suffer from many shortcomings which I am sure are being worked on as speak.
I have both installed. Yes, it blows them away. Its fun, stylish, and some of the features even increase my productivity. However they're both horribly unstable. Lots of blank windows, crashes, freezes, and random quirks. They have a ways to go before they actually surpass windows and mac for production environments.
1) Simple Hardware Support. I know this moves beyond the desktop environment and into kernel type stuff, but I want the desktop to pop up and say "You have new hardware" and then guide me along the correct path towards setting it up. This is really more of a service, perhaps one provided through a closesly monitored and updated website.
2) Better QA for all end products. Most of the time, I'm quite happy with gnome. Its the features and addons and enhancements that I add that don't always play nice. Perhaps a documented UI standard that other developers can adhere to, and a simple set of interface libraries that make desktop environment integration brainless for basic tasks. Maybe this stuff already, but for whatever reason, a lot of OS desktop software seems to be of poor quality and stability (major players excluded.)
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The GC controller was OK, save for one fatal flaw: the z-button was worthless and annoying. The controller was also a bit on the small side, (of course, my hands are on the large side of average.) You also couldn't do button-mash combinations very easily. Try pushing the b-button at the same time as either the y or x - it was damn near impossible.
I've heard that our heavy dependence on corn as an additive (e.g., corn syrup) is one main contributor to the lack of affordable, healthful food options in grocery stores. Might this work to reverse that trend?
What I've found interesting is that I've been reading a lot of news about upcoming PS3 releases recently, (not necessarily releases coming this month of course.) Conversely, it seems that news about the Wii have been tapering off - certainly from what the volume when it was first released. xbox360 news seems to have been holding steady.
This is, of course, an entirely subjective observation. Anyone care to corroborate or counter what I've noticed?
It's worth noting that they did not prove that they were lying. Rather, they simply proved that they were wrong in their original analysis.
This reminds me of a particular xkcd comic.
You're right. It took awhile for it for me to download (slow connection.) It appears as though you can use the interface like a normal touch screen but, if you want to click in a very controlled manner, you press, hold, and wait for a small, circular window to pop up showing you what your're trying to press. You can use that to make sure you're getting the exact region you want. Very impressive, actually.
Yeah, I agree - this implies a dragging type motion is taking place. When I want to push a single button, I don't want to have to touch the screen, locate this little cursor with my eye, drag it into place, and then lift. I just want to push the button :P
So if I see a button the screen, I don't press the button; I press below the button. That seems rather counterintuitive, no? And how do I push stuff at the bottom of the screen?
Yes, there are certainly private sector spammers, but there are also plenty of private sector spam detectors. The reason that I would suggest leaving it to the private sector is that they have strong motivation to improve and evolve their detection methods.
On a side note, you need to spare the ad-hominem attacks. I never said I was libertarian (I am not). I simply stated that my belief in this area might be comparable with a libertarians beliefs. Insults do no one any good.
This is where the libertarian in me comes out and wonders if these things aren't better left to the private sector. On the other hand, perhaps having this information sent directly to authorities will result in more prosecutions (or more successful prosecutions) under laws similar to CAN-SPAM, (or maybe that's just wishful thinking.)
Suddenly my sig seems strangely relevant. I actually made the site before the latest HD-DVD fiasco. (yes you can buy (for free) numbers. no you can not buy 128bit numbers.)
What's funny is that I was thinking along the same lines. I much prefer coding. It is quite a stress reliever and, because you can really code whatever you want, it's always changing. Who needs a campaign editor when you have a text editor!
</nerd>I know it comes as a surprise to no one that Mother Nature has some truly incredible engineering at work. I still, however, find it fascinating and amazing when examples like this come to light; I feel we will continue to see a lot more discoveries like this for the foreseeable future
I have two questions for Slashdot: Are there any other unique examples of learning from nature that you'd like to bring to light? And on a different note, do you think nature has perfected certain tasks and that its engineering can not be surprassed (at least in some areas), or are there things that even nature hasn't perfected?
How does larger block sizes result in better reliability? Intuitively, I would almost think the opposite, since a single byte corruption means a much larger block is now erroneous. I obviously am missing something though.
I need to second Gentoo-Wiki as a wiki done right. When I need to get something working, 99% of the time, Gentoo-Wiki has me covered. As far as formal documentation is concerned, no, it is not the best perhaps. But as far as useful documentation is concerned, it does a great job.
There are weak spots in some smaller sections that I've found, but it's generally enough to get me started. Furthermore, once I figure out some more details about what I am trying to accomplish, I just update the wiki ;)
Just a note about this: I've found the only browser that has any serious quirks anymore is IE, frustratingly enough. I usually design in FF and Opera, make a few small but compatible adjustments for Safari and everything works great. Then I undertake the beast that is IE - it's like designing for a whole different standard.
On the other hand, you are right about, "the lowest common denominator for the vast majority of people browsing the web is, Internet Explorer," but I would never use this as an excuse to exclude the other browsers.
I suppose I should specify that I was referring content providers relying on embedded WMP based content - can't use Winamp for that. I never used WMP for playing my media files either. Good call on Winamp.
It works, but it's not standards-compliant - it's not required to work.
By keeping different cord types, they prevent different communications protocols from plugging into the wrong ports. For instance, the ethernet protocol and the USB protocol are not compatible. Therefore, the layman user won't accidentally plug their mouse port into the wall.
Also, different cables have different qualities, allowing different data rates across them for different prices. Imagine the price of a 100 foot hdmi cable vs. the prices of 100 feet of cat 5!
In generaly, I do agree that we could do a much better job than we are currently doing - one type for video, one type for audio (hdmi can carry both video and audio of course), one type for network, and one type for other peripherals (i.e. usb). Expansion cards could then be purchased for specialty needs, such as serial ports, ps2, and firewire.
I run gnome actually. It's great. The comment in particular was towards Compiz & Beryl, however. They suffer from many shortcomings which I am sure are being worked on as speak.
I have both installed. Yes, it blows them away. Its fun, stylish, and some of the features even increase my productivity. However they're both horribly unstable. Lots of blank windows, crashes, freezes, and random quirks. They have a ways to go before they actually surpass windows and mac for production environments.
1) Simple Hardware Support. I know this moves beyond the desktop environment and into kernel type stuff, but I want the desktop to pop up and say "You have new hardware" and then guide me along the correct path towards setting it up. This is really more of a service, perhaps one provided through a closesly monitored and updated website.
2) Better QA for all end products. Most of the time, I'm quite happy with gnome. Its the features and addons and enhancements that I add that don't always play nice. Perhaps a documented UI standard that other developers can adhere to, and a simple set of interface libraries that make desktop environment integration brainless for basic tasks. Maybe this stuff already, but for whatever reason, a lot of OS desktop software seems to be of poor quality and stability (major players excluded.)