Of course it's not just Ubuntu doing it. It all started when they decided everyone needed Desktop Environments instead of Window Managers, and its basically gone downhill from there.
Really, claiming you're scared of the wings just falling off is rather absurd. Some sorts of mechanical things we simply build robustly enough.
I'm not scared the wings will fall off. I'm scared the repulsor coil fails and the car just FALLS OUT OF THE SKY.
OK, maybe you could fit two repulsor coils... might as well fit redundant fusion generators too, that would work. Wow, you're right - engineering can solve everything!
In small general aviation craft... a competent pilot is very likely to survive a rather large subset of such failures - basically anything excluding "wings fall off"
That's the problem; a flying cars don't have wings.
Thats not a trick question, and can be easily answered:
Socialism holds that the interests of the people outweigh the rights of the individual (or, by looking after the people first, the individual benefits).
Fascism holds the interests of the State outweigh the rights of the individual (or, by looking after the State first, the individual benefits).
I was right with you there. Up until the bit where the world WANTS the US acting as is it's police force; I sorry, but are you NUTS? What planet do you live on?
We don't lower our standards on human rights to compete economically with the lowest common denominator, this amounts to the same kind of thinking. Declaring "I'm not doing the right thing till THEY do it" just leads to a race to the bottom.
Considering the technology to really "go green" does not yet exist, its not surprising that China is not using it. Someone needs to man up and start working on it.
This kind of innovation will not occur without legislation that is going to hurt. Tough. Once the technology is actually mature and AVAILABLE I would expect the rest of the world to jump on it.
I've got a killer app for ya. Debian. You should have seen the faces of my iphone-handicapped workmates when I first demonstrated ssh'ing into my phone. To a geek, nothing Apple can offer is as eat-your-own-face cool as running a complete debian stack on your phone. On my G1 I have: ssh, ftp, and web servers; pen testing tools; nethack - NETHACK PEOPLE!
Seriously, Android is huge. Anyone who doesn't get that, just does not get it.
Oh, the other thing that makes co-workers curse their pretty slave-pod? Chrono Trigger. Well, emulators in general, but Chrono Trigger really kicks 'em where it hurts. SUCK IT!
Well, yeah... but that point could be made of just about any aspect of life, so is kind of moot. To say we shouldn't be concerned about X because of Y is a popular logical fallacy, or just subtle trolling:P
People get pretty pissed when you cheat in multiplayer - this includes RL games as well. If you actually publish a MMO, you would be pretty bloody concerned about it too. If the impression that your game was wide open to abuse spread, you would find yourself without players. For a one-trick pony like CCP that would be the end of the story.
CCP have successfully structured the "rules" of the "game" to make traditional gold farming uncompetitive. This is interesting from a sociological point of view as much as from the perspective of a gamer.
I will directly quote from the parent's link for those who don't click through...
The authenticity of Trohan's article (which elicited no editorial notice or re-publication in any other major U.S. newspaper), was never challenged by the White House. Former President Herbert Hoover personally queried General MacArthur on the Tribune's story and the general acknowledged its accuracy in every detail.
According to Harry Elmer Barnes, Truman was aware of the January surrender offer by the Japanese and privately confessed that both atomic warfare as well as further conventional military operations were unnecessary for concluding the war in the Pacific.
It wasn't until after the war when popular opinion became that there was no WMDs. You can't rewrite history.
The fact is that the UN believed that there was not enough evidence to support an invasion. When the US invaded (unilaterally), surprise, surprise, there was no evidence that the invasion was warranted either. Nobody is trying to rewrite history here, you are ignoring it
It is only a indisputable fact if you accept that the only way to end the war was to bomb Japan into submission. This viewpoint is a legacy of propaganda (and public will) of the time.
The reason a more peaceful resolution was not on the table (or being seriously pursued) was that ending the war was a secondary objective. Teaching the Japan a lesson it would never forget was primary.
Worth it indeed. The fact that he has accumulated more wealth then you could spend in 100 lifetimes; so deigns to donate a fraction of it on his pet-charities, speaks volumes of the chronic failure of our economic system.
So the only purpose of the wireless functionality is to delete books? Surely not.
Wouldn't the same thing happen when you sync your kindle via USB? Even if this is not the case - disabling wireless would severely limit the device and remove functionality you paid for. You can't seriously suggest that is a reasonable option.
Well you wouldn't - nobody will bother to develop a site with these features if the majority of their users can't use them.
All this 'innovation' talk put about (by all vendors by the way, not just MS) is so much crap. Everyone would be better off if they just Implemented. The. Standard.
Getting sidetracked here, but are you aware you can group your modules so they can be activated with a single shortcut?
I normally have my guns configured in two banks of three, so I can split my fire for smaller ships, but bring all of them to bear quickly on larger ones.
That doesn't help with targeting, but I normally fight zoomed out so all ships are visible at once. At this viewing range often you have to rely on the HUD, as ships are not actually visible with the naked eye, but it makes selecting targets with the mouse trivial, and gives you better situational awareness
"The concept of actually flying your ship over selecting targets on the objects list and being auto piloted there is pointless."
Good pilots won't do this, it lowers your transversal velocity and makes you easier to hit.
"The flight sim aspect of EVE is a waste."
It is not supposed to be a flight sim, it is a corporate/tycoon type sim. The "pew-pew" is just a game mechanic, conflict drives the economy. Sounds like you are just after a different game.
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Of course it's not just Ubuntu doing it. It all started when they decided everyone needed Desktop Environments instead of Window Managers, and its basically gone downhill from there.
I think the intended meaning is closer to "externalizing".
Really, claiming you're scared of the wings just falling off is rather absurd. Some sorts of mechanical things we simply build robustly enough.
I'm not scared the wings will fall off. I'm scared the repulsor coil fails and the car just FALLS OUT OF THE SKY.
OK, maybe you could fit two repulsor coils... might as well fit redundant fusion generators too, that would work. Wow, you're right - engineering can solve everything!
In small general aviation craft... a competent pilot is very likely to survive a rather large subset of such failures - basically anything excluding "wings fall off"
That's the problem; a flying cars don't have wings.
Thats not a trick question, and can be easily answered:
Socialism holds that the interests of the people outweigh the rights of the individual (or, by looking after the people first, the individual benefits).
Fascism holds the interests of the State outweigh the rights of the individual (or, by looking after the State first, the individual benefits).
And look! not hyperbolae!
I was right with you there. Up until the bit where the world WANTS the US acting as is it's police force; I sorry, but are you NUTS? What planet do you live on?
We don't lower our standards on human rights to compete economically with the lowest common denominator, this amounts to the same kind of thinking. Declaring "I'm not doing the right thing till THEY do it" just leads to a race to the bottom.
Considering the technology to really "go green" does not yet exist, its not surprising that China is not using it. Someone needs to man up and start working on it.
This kind of innovation will not occur without legislation that is going to hurt. Tough. Once the technology is actually mature and AVAILABLE I would expect the rest of the world to jump on it.
I've got a killer app for ya. Debian. You should have seen the faces of my iphone-handicapped workmates when I first demonstrated ssh'ing into my phone. To a geek, nothing Apple can offer is as eat-your-own-face cool as running a complete debian stack on your phone. On my G1 I have: ssh, ftp, and web servers; pen testing tools; nethack - NETHACK PEOPLE!
Seriously, Android is huge. Anyone who doesn't get that, just does not get it.
Oh, the other thing that makes co-workers curse their pretty slave-pod? Chrono Trigger. Well, emulators in general, but Chrono Trigger really kicks 'em where it hurts. SUCK IT!
...I also think that stealing (yep, that's the word)
Nope, no its not. But if you can't tell the difference between copyright infringement and theft by now, then there is really no hope for you.
Well, yeah... but that point could be made of just about any aspect of life, so is kind of moot. To say we shouldn't be concerned about X because of Y is a popular logical fallacy, or just subtle trolling :P
People get pretty pissed when you cheat in multiplayer - this includes RL games as well. If you actually publish a MMO, you would be pretty bloody concerned about it too. If the impression that your game was wide open to abuse spread, you would find yourself without players. For a one-trick pony like CCP that would be the end of the story.
CCP have successfully structured the "rules" of the "game" to make traditional gold farming uncompetitive. This is interesting from a sociological point of view as much as from the perspective of a gamer.
A good operating system is discoverable and user-centric
No, a good operating system is flexible and operator-friendly. You are thinking of a MARKETABLE operating system - real men call them "toys".
Truly inspired. Best idea I have seen in the whole discussion. Thank you.
Wait... that WAS supposed to be funny, right? Like, a math joke or something?
The authenticity of Trohan's article (which elicited no editorial notice or re-publication in any other major U.S. newspaper), was never challenged by the White House. Former President Herbert Hoover personally queried General MacArthur on the Tribune's story and the general acknowledged its accuracy in every detail.
According to Harry Elmer Barnes, Truman was aware of the January surrender offer by the Japanese and privately confessed that both atomic warfare as well as further conventional military operations were unnecessary for concluding the war in the Pacific.
It wasn't until after the war when popular opinion became that there was no WMDs. You can't rewrite history.
The fact is that the UN believed that there was not enough evidence to support an invasion. When the US invaded (unilaterally), surprise, surprise, there was no evidence that the invasion was warranted either. Nobody is trying to rewrite history here, you are ignoring it
It is only a indisputable fact if you accept that the only way to end the war was to bomb Japan into submission. This viewpoint is a legacy of propaganda (and public will) of the time.
The reason a more peaceful resolution was not on the table (or being seriously pursued) was that ending the war was a secondary objective. Teaching the Japan a lesson it would never forget was primary.
"Proportion" a 20-foot, 30,000-lb bomb
"Perspective" American
If you think about it carefully, I think you will find that you missed hnangelo's point.
Worth it indeed. The fact that he has accumulated more wealth then you could spend in 100 lifetimes; so deigns to donate a fraction of it on his pet-charities, speaks volumes of the chronic failure of our economic system.
So the only purpose of the wireless functionality is to delete books? Surely not.
Wouldn't the same thing happen when you sync your kindle via USB? Even if this is not the case - disabling wireless would severely limit the device and remove functionality you paid for. You can't seriously suggest that is a reasonable option.
Well you wouldn't - nobody will bother to develop a site with these features if the majority of their users can't use them.
All this 'innovation' talk put about (by all vendors by the way, not just MS) is so much crap. Everyone would be better off if they just Implemented. The. Standard.
Surely the problem was that the update changed the default browser, not that it upgraded the non-default one.
Usually Microsoft's actions are fairly transparent, but I really can't understand what they are trying to achieve with this policy
Getting sidetracked here, but are you aware you can group your modules so they can be activated with a single shortcut?
I normally have my guns configured in two banks of three, so I can split my fire for smaller ships, but bring all of them to bear quickly on larger ones.
That doesn't help with targeting, but I normally fight zoomed out so all ships are visible at once. At this viewing range often you have to rely on the HUD, as ships are not actually visible with the naked eye, but it makes selecting targets with the mouse trivial, and gives you better situational awareness
Good pilots won't do this, it lowers your transversal velocity and makes you easier to hit.
"The flight sim aspect of EVE is a waste."
It is not supposed to be a flight sim, it is a corporate/tycoon type sim. The "pew-pew" is just a game mechanic, conflict drives the economy. Sounds like you are just after a different game.
hmm, point there. This used to frustrate me, but I'd just stopped noticing. There are shortcuts for most combat-related tasks though.
Yes, if they catch you, they will.