Crack dealers are easily solved. Just create fixing houses where users can get their fix in a controlled environment like in Holland and you are good to go. Of course that means that quite a lot of drug enforcement people are in a bit of a job trouble.
Perhaps they should be reallocated to BEA (B=bandwidth)?
Patents on non obvious algorithms and Math are very valid and do give a great deal of advantage (plus it keeps a line of jobs for the true geeks). Patents on simple concepts however should be forbidden (not just for software)
but it is learned behaviour - I don't look at the address bar, slashdot has been s and arrow down for the last 5-6 years for me in all browsers.
To me it is like someone deciding Dvorak should be the new defacto layout - suddenly I'm back having to look at what the computer is doing rather than expecting it to do as I want.
Just like the sibling AC comment you are telling me that I need to change my behavior to adjust for what the FF team think is right. This is just like the Pidgin team telling the world that the behavior all have learned is wrong and the new way is the right way. It's the wrong way around - programs has to help the user optimize his or her work flow, while this is what they wanted with the feature, changing behavior means the user has to relearn everything from scratch - my way of doing it was fast, reliable and worked for me.
This is by no means a unique incident, someone comes up with some thing they think is nicer, but always forget that they have taught hordes of people to do it the other way - you have to leave in options for going "old school" rather than alienating your most devote supporters - and it shouldn't be buried somewhere in the internals of the system.
Oh and to the mods, get a life - I'm stating the facts as they are from my point of view, developers needs to keep users work flow in mind when adding features.
Don't get me wrong I love FF, but the added features has alienated me from it and too much bloating could lead to switching to others like Konquerer/Opera.
The awesome bar is pretty fucking annoying to say the least. In the last 8-10 years when I've been surfing I've been typing the first part of the domain I wanted to visit and the auto complete would show it. So if I wanted to go to slashdot I just type s and arrow down and slashdot would be the first link since its my most visited site with S in the beginning. If I wanted to go to sinfest I'd go si and arrow down - this behavior has to change with FF3, now the browser will popup the most visited site with S in it - and that isn't necessarily slashdot.
Yes this might be a nifty feature for some, but seriously, please stop changing interface behavior! Windows does it all the time and it is driving hordes of supporters nuts. Keep it consistent and let people with special needs enable it - or at least do it the WinZip way; ask the user what he or she wants! (FF3 is default browser with hardy heiron - thats why I'm actually using it, downgrading a package usually leads to nightmares and I just want an OS that isn't in the way of my work - All other OS I got is running FF 2 and is staying that way till I figure out how to make FF3 behave like FF2)
One thing that really annoys me about elections (not just the US but in general) is the 50% mark and you got "majority". Yes, mathematically you have the upper hand, but by only winning with a small margin you are really not representing what we socially could call the majority - when you only manage to get half the population with you it means that what ever you do will most likely be reversed when the other half gets to play leader in a few years (and they will get that position). A much healthier way of doing business would be to require at least 2/3 of the votes behind whoever is in charge - that means you can't win by only being red or blue (or whatever color you represent the sides with), the smaller parties will get a saying in the decision making process - or you will have to concede some parts of your programs to get anything through.
Now often I get countered with "this will make everything come to a grinding halt" Well yes, but that would also prevent the warmongering half of the country to go into war, getting 66% to say yes on war is downright hard, if not impossible. It will force people to approach each other along the middle and generally help us move forward.
(Denmark is up for election soon(ish) and we are probably gonna have a new government who will do their darndest to reverse what has been going on for the last 8-10 years, so instead of going forward we are going to start with going 8 years back)
Disclaimer - from Denmark, not exactly how smaller parties work in the US (if you got them at all)
Well the trick is to use QAZ for stuff where you you aren't moving about - for instance when I play counter strike, Q is buy menu, W activates hostages etc. A chooses knife, Z is for ventrillo, R reloads, T chooses main weapon, G chooses pistol, XCV is for radio commands - this way I don't have to move my hand when playing - everything is within reach. (ok technically you are usually moving about when pulling the knife out - but its an activation command, not something you have to keep pressed.)
Same here, always wondered why the heck anyone would want wasd over esdf for fps - there are quite a lot more buttons to be used from esdf - and you got the added benefit of being able to find the damned keys in the dark (the little thing on f).
But I guess we just don't subscribe to the right 31337 letters, I also missed the one about VIP and hostage maps in CS were teh suxors.
Back when it launched it wasn't without hitches, but it sure has come a long way since then.
However, a major issue I got with steam is its not possible to control the amount of information they publish about your activities if you use the friends system. A coworker persuaded me to activate friends so we could play together, thats fine - but suddenly the amount of time I play, when I play and what games was available to anyone who knew my login/alias.
To me privacy is very important and I sure as heck don't like any information about me available unless I specifically put it there - now activating fiends does tell you this, however like any other windows monkey I just hit next till it was active, didn't seriously expect a company to retain and publish private information without the possibility of getting it removed (officially). Steam to their credit did remove it immediately when I wrote them and told them that their practice was illegal in Denmark.
Indeed, some types of light can make me feel ill - $5000 on proper light is much less than the cost of having a worker only doing 25-50% of his or her capabilities because they aren't feeling good.
To me theres no doubt windows 7 is a nice toy, however, the biggest issue is another version, a totally new gui which means retraining of all users (again).
I can't find my way around Vista yet and have pretty much given up, I want stable predictable and fast. Add all the eye candy you can as long as you don't move the stuff around we have gotten so used to.
Well the article actually explains why they can archive that kind of density. Instead of trying to force cold air up through raised floors which air doesn't want to do they have build it so each rack of servers deliver their hot air into duct and sucks in cold air from the other side. (Isle between racks are cold, backs of racks are hot).
On top of that the desert is actually a pretty frigging cold place to be at night - which they again can use to their advantage. They talk about 4 different options for cooling what works in different types of conditions during the day/night.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed, in most countries in the EU the target audience does speak a fair amount of English anyways.
Crack dealers are easily solved. Just create fixing houses where users can get their fix in a controlled environment like in Holland and you are good to go. Of course that means that quite a lot of drug enforcement people are in a bit of a job trouble.
Perhaps they should be reallocated to BEA (B=bandwidth)?
No you are talking about hippies.
You go live of the land while the rest of us pay off our mortgages and put food on the table of our children.
and right back at you mr. +3 insightful.
No!
Patents on non obvious algorithms and Math are very valid and do give a great deal of advantage (plus it keeps a line of jobs for the true geeks). Patents on simple concepts however should be forbidden (not just for software)
but it is learned behaviour - I don't look at the address bar, slashdot has been s and arrow down for the last 5-6 years for me in all browsers.
To me it is like someone deciding Dvorak should be the new defacto layout - suddenly I'm back having to look at what the computer is doing rather than expecting it to do as I want.
Just like the sibling AC comment you are telling me that I need to change my behavior to adjust for what the FF team think is right. This is just like the Pidgin team telling the world that the behavior all have learned is wrong and the new way is the right way. It's the wrong way around - programs has to help the user optimize his or her work flow, while this is what they wanted with the feature, changing behavior means the user has to relearn everything from scratch - my way of doing it was fast, reliable and worked for me.
This is by no means a unique incident, someone comes up with some thing they think is nicer, but always forget that they have taught hordes of people to do it the other way - you have to leave in options for going "old school" rather than alienating your most devote supporters - and it shouldn't be buried somewhere in the internals of the system.
Oh and to the mods, get a life - I'm stating the facts as they are from my point of view, developers needs to keep users work flow in mind when adding features.
Don't get me wrong I love FF, but the added features has alienated me from it and too much bloating could lead to switching to others like Konquerer/Opera.
The awesome bar is pretty fucking annoying to say the least. In the last 8-10 years when I've been surfing I've been typing the first part of the domain I wanted to visit and the auto complete would show it. So if I wanted to go to slashdot I just type s and arrow down and slashdot would be the first link since its my most visited site with S in the beginning. If I wanted to go to sinfest I'd go si and arrow down - this behavior has to change with FF3, now the browser will popup the most visited site with S in it - and that isn't necessarily slashdot.
Yes this might be a nifty feature for some, but seriously, please stop changing interface behavior! Windows does it all the time and it is driving hordes of supporters nuts. Keep it consistent and let people with special needs enable it - or at least do it the WinZip way; ask the user what he or she wants! (FF3 is default browser with hardy heiron - thats why I'm actually using it, downgrading a package usually leads to nightmares and I just want an OS that isn't in the way of my work - All other OS I got is running FF 2 and is staying that way till I figure out how to make FF3 behave like FF2)
Well the whole point of maglev is no moving parts, so sand should actually be less of a problem.
And you should probably hand in your geek card and go back to literature and get acquainted with The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
why Microsoft insists on changing user interface on each and every release - they are doing it to protect us! My heroes!
One thing that really annoys me about elections (not just the US but in general) is the 50% mark and you got "majority". Yes, mathematically you have the upper hand, but by only winning with a small margin you are really not representing what we socially could call the majority - when you only manage to get half the population with you it means that what ever you do will most likely be reversed when the other half gets to play leader in a few years (and they will get that position). A much healthier way of doing business would be to require at least 2/3 of the votes behind whoever is in charge - that means you can't win by only being red or blue (or whatever color you represent the sides with), the smaller parties will get a saying in the decision making process - or you will have to concede some parts of your programs to get anything through.
Now often I get countered with "this will make everything come to a grinding halt" Well yes, but that would also prevent the warmongering half of the country to go into war, getting 66% to say yes on war is downright hard, if not impossible. It will force people to approach each other along the middle and generally help us move forward.
(Denmark is up for election soon(ish) and we are probably gonna have a new government who will do their darndest to reverse what has been going on for the last 8-10 years, so instead of going forward we are going to start with going 8 years back)
Disclaimer - from Denmark, not exactly how smaller parties work in the US (if you got them at all)
Microsoft might have a comment on that...
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
$1 would be an undisclosed sum of money...
You probably don't want to hit a 1000 page document when going around at 300 Km/h.
Well the trick is to use QAZ for stuff where you you aren't moving about - for instance when I play counter strike, Q is buy menu, W activates hostages etc. A chooses knife, Z is for ventrillo, R reloads, T chooses main weapon, G chooses pistol, XCV is for radio commands - this way I don't have to move my hand when playing - everything is within reach. (ok technically you are usually moving about when pulling the knife out - but its an activation command, not something you have to keep pressed.)
Not true.
You must always provide an opt out for stuff like this when you are selling to Danish residents.
Same here, always wondered why the heck anyone would want wasd over esdf for fps - there are quite a lot more buttons to be used from esdf - and you got the added benefit of being able to find the damned keys in the dark (the little thing on f).
But I guess we just don't subscribe to the right 31337 letters, I also missed the one about VIP and hostage maps in CS were teh suxors.
Back when it launched it wasn't without hitches, but it sure has come a long way since then.
However, a major issue I got with steam is its not possible to control the amount of information they publish about your activities if you use the friends system. A coworker persuaded me to activate friends so we could play together, thats fine - but suddenly the amount of time I play, when I play and what games was available to anyone who knew my login/alias.
To me privacy is very important and I sure as heck don't like any information about me available unless I specifically put it there - now activating fiends does tell you this, however like any other windows monkey I just hit next till it was active, didn't seriously expect a company to retain and publish private information without the possibility of getting it removed (officially). Steam to their credit did remove it immediately when I wrote them and told them that their practice was illegal in Denmark.
In the words of Gaye Marvin:
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you
Indeed, some types of light can make me feel ill - $5000 on proper light is much less than the cost of having a worker only doing 25-50% of his or her capabilities because they aren't feeling good.
To me theres no doubt windows 7 is a nice toy, however, the biggest issue is another version, a totally new gui which means retraining of all users (again).
I can't find my way around Vista yet and have pretty much given up, I want stable predictable and fast. Add all the eye candy you can as long as you don't move the stuff around we have gotten so used to.
They are already planning on introducing it to soccer games (not passport information though) for purpose of tracking violent fans in Denmark.
WTO does not enforce the patents, software patents are worth less than the paper they are written on in EU.
Well its a software patent so it doesn't apply in this neck of the woods (EU).
Well the article actually explains why they can archive that kind of density. Instead of trying to force cold air up through raised floors which air doesn't want to do they have build it so each rack of servers deliver their hot air into duct and sucks in cold air from the other side. (Isle between racks are cold, backs of racks are hot).
On top of that the desert is actually a pretty frigging cold place to be at night - which they again can use to their advantage. They talk about 4 different options for cooling what works in different types of conditions during the day/night.
Theres nothing fishy about it - its all science.