The "good enough" border does raise tho. At first all MP3s on the net were 128kbit. Now no group does under 192kbit, and many go for the full fledged 320kbit.
Why is the parent modded funny and not insightful?
This is also a "small modification you can download from the internet".
What about pornographic games? What about actual hardcore porn? Just like the games, it's marked as not for children.
What's the big controversy about this one game, which is marked not for children on the box?!
I think they are trying to nail Rockstar for everything, and use this as the reason. Just like Al Capone was convicted for a minor crime they could prove and not the full deal. Clearly Rockstar aren't even guilty of any crime, but it feels like they are targetted like this.
Exactly. Not only that, but the window manager in XP is pretty damn weak. Who heard of a system where the choise of a window being always-on-top or not is left solely to the application and not the window manager. I don't know how many times i've thanked the various devs of windowmanagers that let me choose that myself.
A friend of mine introduced me to Enlightenment (the WM), and it seems much more functional than the windows WM. For example, you don't need to reach to the end of the window to resize it. Just press some key and drag the mouse on the window to resize it.
But really. A friend of mine switched to linux exlusively. His dad plays all the tiny games and his mom does all office stuff she needs to do. No complaints.
Windows is not easier to use than various linux windowmanagers. It's just the switch which is tough. Also, for a standard USER, the difference is really small, considering the one maintaining the system knows what s/he does.
Well there's that Guardian story about the transportation company suing 10 cleaning women for carpooling instead of using their overpriced and horrible service.
You know what? They should not mark it AO or M or whatever. They should place the "No Kids" symbol. You know, the symbol they put in the corner of the screen in movies. A letter means nothing to them.
"Even ignoring that, though, I'm not convinced the Xbox 360 has overcome all of the original Xbox's issues. It is still big. It is still not styled the way the Japanese expect a console to be styled. (Painting the thing white does not automatically make it look like a Japanese product.) The PS3 has some issues too, but Sony's brand loyalty can overcome that. MS is not operating from that position of strength there so they really had to nail the design of the system, and they didn't. At least not for Japan, despite all their best efforts (including consulting with a Japanese design studio - who they seem to have totally ignored)."
I think what the GP was referring to is the "what? that's all?" feeling you get in some games. Games that actually have this start-progress-interlude-progress-finale, but it feels artificial. It feels that they had to stick it in like that so it'll be "epic", but eventually it turns out boring, short and generally not satisfying. Maybe simply because it's the same formula over and over. It was fun the first time around, it was fun even the 10 times afterwards. But at the 20th time, the formula just doesn't work anymore.
The easiest framework to write simulations of this type is Netlogo. It's free, it's easy and quite powerful.
Skim through the models library (File->Models Library) for a large selection of simulations written. Almost every model you open, while it seems to be very complex when run, the code is usually no more than 50 lines.
For example try Biology->Ants. It shows a simulation of ants searching for food and when they find it, they will spread feromones to attract others.
Small, indy games exist and are a lot of fun... For example the games here (free): Aba games Hizoka Chi's games Or Cave Story, japanese indy game translated by fans.
Ofcourse, hardly anyone ever heard about these games, but it doesn't mean they don't rock. Just download the demos and see for yourself. None of these games are "GTA, Halo or Everquest clones", but rather truly original ideas (playing a ball??) or fun ideas that somewhere disappeared (shooters, platformers)...
Thanks for showing at least one person knows how BT was meant to be used...
BT wasn't meant to be completely P2P with all peers on small pipes. BT was meant to aid BIG sites in order to avoid flash crowds when a new big thing comes (new distro, new game patch, new vid).
The sites have huge pipes, for normal use, but when the number of users triples, even the huge pipe isn't enough. This is where BT comes in to play.
But the WiFi network publishes itself and tells you to come in.
What if someone bought a 1-click inflatable restaurant for his family. He opens the restaurant, with flashing lights saying: "This is a restaurant!!!!" A person comes by the shop, and asks: "Is this restaurant free???" The inflatable waiter says: "Sure! Come in and eat". The person comes in and eats, leaves and gets arrested for theft.
Regardless if the person went around looking for free restaurants, is it really that wrong for him to go and get his free food?
Now, if the building said: "I'm a restaurant, but i'm not open for everyone" or just not reply to anything, then obviously it's wrong. Now, because people are generally stupid, the companies decided to have open wifi as the default config for the APs, instead of wasting hours of configurations on the phone to "make the network work".
If they placed their garden hose on MY lawn, with a note on it saying: "you can use this if you want". Then I'll go ahead and use it.
Same thing with WiFi. For some reason, the default behaviour is an open network, which reaches my house and quite explicitly tels me I can use it.
If all garden hoses came by default with a sign that lets others use it and a system that puts itself on others' lawns, will you still say it's wrong to use it???
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The first I do on a fresh XP install is REMOVE THE FUCKING FISHER PRICE LOOK.
Functionality comes before looks. The gray theme has high contrast and clear lines so I can tell where something ends and another one starts.
Moreover, desktop realestate is really important to me. The less clutter from the "basic interface", the better. That's why I use OpenBox when i'm on Linux. That's why I love MPlayer's interfaces and that's why i've moved my bookmarks toolbar onto the menu one, allowing me to remove it, while retaining functionality.
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The "good enough" border does raise tho.
At first all MP3s on the net were 128kbit. Now no group does under 192kbit, and many go for the full fledged 320kbit.
Why is the parent modded funny and not insightful?
This is also a "small modification you can download from the internet".
What about pornographic games?
What about actual hardcore porn? Just like the games, it's marked as not for children.
What's the big controversy about this one game, which is marked not for children on the box?!
I think they are trying to nail Rockstar for everything, and use this as the reason.
Just like Al Capone was convicted for a minor crime they could prove and not the full deal.
Clearly Rockstar aren't even guilty of any crime, but it feels like they are targetted like this.
Damn you and your efficient code.
Look on this piece of code, from The Daily WTF.
Exactly.
Not only that, but the window manager in XP is pretty damn weak.
Who heard of a system where the choise of a window being always-on-top or not is left solely to the application and not the window manager. I don't know how many times i've thanked the various devs of windowmanagers that let me choose that myself.
A friend of mine introduced me to Enlightenment (the WM), and it seems much more functional than the windows WM.
For example, you don't need to reach to the end of the window to resize it. Just press some key and drag the mouse on the window to resize it.
But really. A friend of mine switched to linux exlusively. His dad plays all the tiny games and his mom does all office stuff she needs to do. No complaints.
Windows is not easier to use than various linux windowmanagers. It's just the switch which is tough.
Also, for a standard USER, the difference is really small, considering the one maintaining the system knows what s/he does.
Don't forget it's a P4 we're talking about here. So by "blazing" speeds they refer to how fast it catchs on fire. :P
Well there's that Guardian story about the transportation company suing 10 cleaning women for carpooling instead of using their overpriced and horrible service.
I meant on TV.
And it's only there for the first 30 secs and for 30 secs after commercial breaks.
Fact is, letters don't say a lot. Seeing a clear symbol "NO KIDS" might steer it up.
You know what?
They should not mark it AO or M or whatever. They should place the "No Kids" symbol. You know, the symbol they put in the corner of the screen in movies.
A letter means nothing to them.
Quoting another poster:
"Even ignoring that, though, I'm not convinced the Xbox 360 has overcome all of the original Xbox's issues. It is still big. It is still not styled the way the Japanese expect a console to be styled. (Painting the thing white does not automatically make it look like a Japanese product.) The PS3 has some issues too, but Sony's brand loyalty can overcome that. MS is not operating from that position of strength there so they really had to nail the design of the system, and they didn't. At least not for Japan, despite all their best efforts (including consulting with a Japanese design studio - who they seem to have totally ignored)."
This parent post is also a dupe, word-for-word. ^_^
Yea, about 10 seconds on my WinXP box is so long. And that's when I don't even close the various open progs.
Considering i'm running near the bare minimum in services it's pretty fine.
Indeed. This crashes using Firefox aswell ^_^
I think what the GP was referring to is the "what? that's all?" feeling you get in some games.
Games that actually have this start-progress-interlude-progress-finale, but it feels artificial. It feels that they had to stick it in like that so it'll be "epic", but eventually it turns out boring, short and generally not satisfying. Maybe simply because it's the same formula over and over. It was fun the first time around, it was fun even the 10 times afterwards. But at the 20th time, the formula just doesn't work anymore.
I'm sorry.
I just find it hard to believe Microsoft can make anything in a portable size.
I present you Exhibit A
The easiest framework to write simulations of this type is Netlogo.
It's free, it's easy and quite powerful.
Skim through the models library (File->Models Library) for a large selection of simulations written. Almost every model you open, while it seems to be very complex when run, the code is usually no more than 50 lines.
For example try Biology->Ants. It shows a simulation of ants searching for food and when they find it, they will spread feromones to attract others.
Eventually I got +5, informative and interesting, but not insightful :-P
Small, indy games exist and are a lot of fun...
For example the games here (free):
Aba games
Hizoka Chi's games
Or Cave Story, japanese indy game translated by fans.
Or various other indy games such as Ballance or Chronic Logic's games, or CrimsonLand.
Ofcourse, hardly anyone ever heard about these games, but it doesn't mean they don't rock. Just download the demos and see for yourself. None of these games are "GTA, Halo or Everquest clones", but rather truly original ideas (playing a ball??) or fun ideas that somewhere disappeared (shooters, platformers)...
Thanks for showing at least one person knows how BT was meant to be used...
BT wasn't meant to be completely P2P with all peers on small pipes. BT was meant to aid BIG sites in order to avoid flash crowds when a new big thing comes (new distro, new game patch, new vid).
The sites have huge pipes, for normal use, but when the number of users triples, even the huge pipe isn't enough. This is where BT comes in to play.
But the WiFi network publishes itself and tells you to come in.
What if someone bought a 1-click inflatable restaurant for his family.
He opens the restaurant, with flashing lights saying: "This is a restaurant!!!!"
A person comes by the shop, and asks: "Is this restaurant free???"
The inflatable waiter says: "Sure! Come in and eat".
The person comes in and eats, leaves and gets arrested for theft.
Regardless if the person went around looking for free restaurants, is it really that wrong for him to go and get his free food?
Now, if the building said: "I'm a restaurant, but i'm not open for everyone" or just not reply to anything, then obviously it's wrong.
Now, because people are generally stupid, the companies decided to have open wifi as the default config for the APs, instead of wasting hours of configurations on the phone to "make the network work".
If they placed their garden hose on MY lawn, with a note on it saying: "you can use this if you want". Then I'll go ahead and use it.
Same thing with WiFi. For some reason, the default behaviour is an open network, which reaches my house and quite explicitly tels me I can use it.
If all garden hoses came by default with a sign that lets others use it and a system that puts itself on others' lawns, will you still say it's wrong to use it???
The first I do on a fresh XP install is REMOVE THE FUCKING FISHER PRICE LOOK.
Functionality comes before looks. The gray theme has high contrast and clear lines so I can tell where something ends and another one starts.
Moreover, desktop realestate is really important to me. The less clutter from the "basic interface", the better. That's why I use OpenBox when i'm on Linux. That's why I love MPlayer's interfaces and that's why i've moved my bookmarks toolbar onto the menu one, allowing me to remove it, while retaining functionality.
More like a virtual crack pot.
English is one of the only languages in which the spelling an pronounciation of words have nothing to do with eachother.
A like in Art.
NI like in NIck.
ME like in MErmaid.
No it's not.