And the thing is, other than enormous breasts and perfect skin, Playboy models have body shapes much closer to that of a healthy, 'normal' woman than those stick-thin models that fashion designers love to put on catwalks and splash across the pages of women's magazines.
I've always found it strange and a bit sad that women seem to put up even more unobtainable goals for themselves than men even want them to.
Playboy isn't whats turning women into anorexics, its Cosmo.
Going way OT now, but I find that this is a symptom of tabbed browsing for me. I love tabbed browsing, but I do have a tendency to middle-click on far more links than I ever intend to read...
Just yesterday I saw someone in a post who had mirrored some data across three servers and put up links to each of them, saying afterwards "three mirrors, to combat slashdotting" & somebody responded: "Sorry dude, I opened all three links in Mozilla before I read the rest of your post..."
Um, and to say at least something on topic, my personal feelings about this is that this would be something that would be intended to be carried under one's arm, rather than in a bag or backpack like a laptop, but would be too heavy to carry for too long... but maybe I've got the wrong mental picture of these things, which I can't correct b/c the server is slashdotted.... =)
AP style guides require that in a list, there can be no comma before the "and", no matter that it can mean a big semantic difference, as shown in cases like this. I wouldn't be surprised if the Register was just following the proper newspaper style.
IANA Professional Reporter, but I Am An Editor For My COllege Newspaper Which Has An Anal Head Copy Editor
Haven't looked at my old copies of The Amazing Spiderman in a long time, but didn't Mary Jane have huge boobs in the comic books? Maybe the developers were honoring the original, rather than the movies?
Oh, and to be slightly on topic: my only problem with all those google adsense banners on people's pages is that sometimes the google color scheme really clashes with other website's colors. Especially when they have black backgounds with lots of colors, regular, colorful add banners seem less out of place than the (usually wonderful) spase, white google ads...
1) Install Mandrake (9.1 I believe) 2) Plug in speakers, turn on, etc. 3) Wonder why there isn't any sound. 4) Root around in the KDE menu system looking at arcane (to me) program names. 5) Find volume control - don't remember the name, but it starts with a "K":) 6) Discover that, by default, all sound is muted. 7) Un-mute sound. Sound now works. 8) Scratch head in confusion.
Obviously a simple solution, one that probably only took me five minutes to fix -- but why? I love linux, but this is a -- admittably petty -- example of why its not quite ready "for the desktop".
Just to another voice to the complexity sliding scale: I used to get all the big-name RTS titles like Warcraft II & III, TA, Homeworld, etc., but would always find that about half-way to 2/3s through most games the complexity of the games got to high -- too many units to manage, to many avenues of attack -- that the games became no longer fun, either because I was losing all the time, or contantly pausing (Homeworld became a pretty, 3D turn-based game soon after the Gardens of Kadesh for me, even though its a game that many consider to be 'easy').
Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is that not only are there many differences between people for their tolerances for complexity, but people themselves frequently have ranges of tolerances that can change over time. I've recently gotten very much into Morrowind after nearly giving up RPGs a few years ago, and I love the open-ended 'choose-your-own-adventure' feeling of it. Of course, the last game I really enjoyed was Call of Duty, which is so linear and focused that the game even tells you "You cannot open this door. You will never have to open a door in this game." the first time you attempt the cliched FPS "try every door to find the one that opens to the next room" technique.
The most important thing, when it comes to complexity, is interface design. Homeworld had incredible interface design for the first true-3D RTS, but apparently it still wasn't enough for me, as I would frequently lose entire squadrons of fighters that could only be found with frequent use of the 'pause' button. But I don't want to go off into a rant, so I'll leave this comment off now.
Oh I get out of those by being stupid/weird. Sometimes my answer is perfectly legitimate - "We're doing a survey. Can you tell me how much radio and television you watch in a week?" "Um, a normal week? Well, none. Yep, none at all."
Other times I have to act stupid: "Oh, we elect presidents now? Wait until the king hears about this." or "Yeah, I always write-in 'Chef Boy-ar-dee' when I vote."
If you still get telemarketing calls, at least you can have fun with them...
I also find that sometimes that non-geeks annoy me when I'm looking over their shoulder and they have to read every word of every message that pops up. After some time with Windows, every geek gets to know what the general information and warning messages are and if they're important or not...
Wait, now France is evil? When did this happen? I thought that as an American I was supposed to consider the French as snooty and insulting, but now they're evil? Neat.
Of course Linux and even Mandrakelinux (my distro of choice, good job Mandrake!) is not developed by one country, and recieve contributions by hackers in countries of that cover the whole spectrum of evilness...
I use the All-in-One Mouse Gestures extension for Firefox 0.8 and the gesture down-up opens a new window with the current window's contents loaded. I don't know how to do this without the extension, but I assume that it must be a regular function that the extension hooks onto... I'd poke around the settings but I'm at work right now.
A valid reason for this that I use: sometimes I come across a page that I no I'm going to be opening a lot tabs from but I already have a large number of tabs open in my current window.
I still think its another cost of permitting companies to sell products via unsolicited email. If that was stopped, then the only spams we would get would be for Nigeria-style scams. It would then take a little while, but eventually enough people would have been burned by those emails, or would know someone who had been burned, that the spammers would stop. Make spam unprofitable and the spammers will stop.
If the ruling goes into effect before the appeal is concluded, and if Microsoft wins with the appeal, will we be seeing Microsoft suing the EU for revenues lost during that time? I can see them borrowing the RIAA's calculator and racking up a very high bill for the EU...
Your use of the word "formula" is interesting, as movies that are primarily focused on a "formula" (and I mean in a positive way) are the ones that are most likely to have a good sequels of the sort games have. The best example would be the James Bond series: we don't want anything stunning or new from these movies, because they have a winning, well-honed formula (read: gameplay). We'll accept a new James Bond movie every couple of years that may be very similar to its predecessor with minor technological upgrades (cooler gadgets, bigger effects, better film quality) (and no Sean Connery vs. the rest flames, please). The James Bond series is of course an extreme example, but you'll find that many of the best mainstream sequels are ones which have a very popular, repeatable formula. (which is why, in hindsight, the Matrix sequels were doomed. we all thought that the formula for the first film was the kick-ass action or the philosophical underpinnings, when it really was that sense of awe and discovery that the others were unable to repeat).
Hell, I don't even see why he needs winex. What's the matter with dual-booting? If he's got windows already, then he can play games on that. He can also write/edit his resume in OO.org and when he's finished, he can fire up Windows to check that it will display properly if he's that worried.
I actually find using windows for games and linux to do my work results in less wasted time. It doesn't take very long to reboot if I've got some free time and want a game of BF:V or GTA3, but it is just long enough to be a deterrent against those just-five-minute-breaks-that-inevitably-turn-into- two-hour-breaks...
Yeah, I know that I'm one of the reasons that gaming on Linux growing so slowly, but for me, personally, its actually better that I can't get many games working under Linux.
I second the Textpad recommendation, but I'm going to have to check out jEdit as the sibling suggests as I have the same switching from Windows/Linux problem.
Damn, this a great Ask Slashdot, I'm getting all these awesome programs!
Also those of us who think that iPods are really expensive. "Oooh, but its all shiny and small, look at that!" Shit, I don't care, as there are plenty of other more utilitarian-looking players with similar features going for sometimes over $100 less.
On the cross-platform compatibility side, I do feel that if any DRMed music format will eventually be playable natively on Linux, then it will be Apple's offering. Microsoft ain't ever going to go near their growing competitor, and Real is shit.
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I prefer to use the standard "metric buttload" to measure my large amounts.
And the thing is, other than enormous breasts and perfect skin, Playboy models have body shapes much closer to that of a healthy, 'normal' woman than those stick-thin models that fashion designers love to put on catwalks and splash across the pages of women's magazines.
I've always found it strange and a bit sad that women seem to put up even more unobtainable goals for themselves than men even want them to.
Playboy isn't whats turning women into anorexics, its Cosmo.
Going way OT now, but I find that this is a symptom of tabbed browsing for me. I love tabbed browsing, but I do have a tendency to middle-click on far more links than I ever intend to read...
Just yesterday I saw someone in a post who had mirrored some data across three servers and put up links to each of them, saying afterwards "three mirrors, to combat slashdotting" & somebody responded: "Sorry dude, I opened all three links in Mozilla before I read the rest of your post..."
Um, and to say at least something on topic, my personal feelings about this is that this would be something that would be intended to be carried under one's arm, rather than in a bag or backpack like a laptop, but would be too heavy to carry for too long... but maybe I've got the wrong mental picture of these things, which I can't correct b/c the server is slashdotted.... =)
AP style guides require that in a list, there can be no comma before the "and", no matter that it can mean a big semantic difference, as shown in cases like this. I wouldn't be surprised if the Register was just following the proper newspaper style.
IANA Professional Reporter, but I Am An Editor For My COllege Newspaper Which Has An Anal Head Copy Editor
... and blame it on Microsoft.
Haven't looked at my old copies of The Amazing Spiderman in a long time, but didn't Mary Jane have huge boobs in the comic books? Maybe the developers were honoring the original, rather than the movies?
Don't know if that was joke or not, but:
Wikipedia
and dumb pic.
Also, you could have googled it.
Have a good day, and, um, word to your mother. =)
I'll take an invite if you really have too many:
jezztorrent (AT) hotmail
Thanks.
Oh, and to be slightly on topic: my only problem with all those google adsense banners on people's pages is that sometimes the google color scheme really clashes with other website's colors. Especially when they have black backgounds with lots of colors, regular, colorful add banners seem less out of place than the (usually wonderful) spase, white google ads...
Reading your post "damaged" me and my productivity -- during that time I could have gone and bought a instant scratch-off lottery ticket and won.
I'll be expecting your $20 million in the mail if you don't want to be sued.
Or (true story, first time installing linux):
:)
1) Install Mandrake (9.1 I believe)
2) Plug in speakers, turn on, etc.
3) Wonder why there isn't any sound.
4) Root around in the KDE menu system looking at arcane (to me) program names.
5) Find volume control - don't remember the name, but it starts with a "K"
6) Discover that, by default, all sound is muted.
7) Un-mute sound. Sound now works.
8) Scratch head in confusion.
Obviously a simple solution, one that probably only took me five minutes to fix -- but why? I love linux, but this is a -- admittably petty -- example of why its not quite ready "for the desktop".
Just to another voice to the complexity sliding scale: I used to get all the big-name RTS titles like Warcraft II & III, TA, Homeworld, etc., but would always find that about half-way to 2/3s through most games the complexity of the games got to high -- too many units to manage, to many avenues of attack -- that the games became no longer fun, either because I was losing all the time, or contantly pausing (Homeworld became a pretty, 3D turn-based game soon after the Gardens of Kadesh for me, even though its a game that many consider to be 'easy').
Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is that not only are there many differences between people for their tolerances for complexity, but people themselves frequently have ranges of tolerances that can change over time. I've recently gotten very much into Morrowind after nearly giving up RPGs a few years ago, and I love the open-ended 'choose-your-own-adventure' feeling of it. Of course, the last game I really enjoyed was Call of Duty, which is so linear and focused that the game even tells you "You cannot open this door. You will never have to open a door in this game." the first time you attempt the cliched FPS "try every door to find the one that opens to the next room" technique.
The most important thing, when it comes to complexity, is interface design. Homeworld had incredible interface design for the first true-3D RTS, but apparently it still wasn't enough for me, as I would frequently lose entire squadrons of fighters that could only be found with frequent use of the 'pause' button. But I don't want to go off into a rant, so I'll leave this comment off now.
Oh I get out of those by being stupid/weird. Sometimes my answer is perfectly legitimate - "We're doing a survey. Can you tell me how much radio and television you watch in a week?" "Um, a normal week? Well, none. Yep, none at all."
Other times I have to act stupid: "Oh, we elect presidents now? Wait until the king hears about this." or "Yeah, I always write-in 'Chef Boy-ar-dee' when I vote."
If you still get telemarketing calls, at least you can have fun with them...
I also find that sometimes that non-geeks annoy me when I'm looking over their shoulder and they have to read every word of every message that pops up. After some time with Windows, every geek gets to know what the general information and warning messages are and if they're important or not...
Wait, now France is evil? When did this happen? I thought that as an American I was supposed to consider the French as snooty and insulting, but now they're evil? Neat.
Of course Linux and even Mandrakelinux (my distro of choice, good job Mandrake!) is not developed by one country, and recieve contributions by hackers in countries of that cover the whole spectrum of evilness...
And here is the extension that allows window cloning with keyboard commands. Enjoy!
I use the All-in-One Mouse Gestures extension for Firefox 0.8 and the gesture down-up opens a new window with the current window's contents loaded. I don't know how to do this without the extension, but I assume that it must be a regular function that the extension hooks onto... I'd poke around the settings but I'm at work right now.
A valid reason for this that I use: sometimes I come across a page that I no I'm going to be opening a lot tabs from but I already have a large number of tabs open in my current window.
I still think its another cost of permitting companies to sell products via unsolicited email. If that was stopped, then the only spams we would get would be for Nigeria-style scams. It would then take a little while, but eventually enough people would have been burned by those emails, or would know someone who had been burned, that the spammers would stop. Make spam unprofitable and the spammers will stop.
If the ruling goes into effect before the appeal is concluded, and if Microsoft wins with the appeal, will we be seeing Microsoft suing the EU for revenues lost during that time? I can see them borrowing the RIAA's calculator and racking up a very high bill for the EU...
Whoa, totally off-topic, but Battle Royale was based off a book? Hmm, maybe I should look into that...
Your use of the word "formula" is interesting, as movies that are primarily focused on a "formula" (and I mean in a positive way) are the ones that are most likely to have a good sequels of the sort games have. The best example would be the James Bond series: we don't want anything stunning or new from these movies, because they have a winning, well-honed formula (read: gameplay). We'll accept a new James Bond movie every couple of years that may be very similar to its predecessor with minor technological upgrades (cooler gadgets, bigger effects, better film quality) (and no Sean Connery vs. the rest flames, please). The James Bond series is of course an extreme example, but you'll find that many of the best mainstream sequels are ones which have a very popular, repeatable formula. (which is why, in hindsight, the Matrix sequels were doomed. we all thought that the formula for the first film was the kick-ass action or the philosophical underpinnings, when it really was that sense of awe and discovery that the others were unable to repeat).
Hell, I don't even see why he needs winex. What's the matter with dual-booting? If he's got windows already, then he can play games on that. He can also write/edit his resume in OO.org and when he's finished, he can fire up Windows to check that it will display properly if he's that worried.
- two-hour-breaks...
I actually find using windows for games and linux to do my work results in less wasted time. It doesn't take very long to reboot if I've got some free time and want a game of BF:V or GTA3, but it is just long enough to be a deterrent against those just-five-minute-breaks-that-inevitably-turn-into
Yeah, I know that I'm one of the reasons that gaming on Linux growing so slowly, but for me, personally, its actually better that I can't get many games working under Linux.
I second the Textpad recommendation, but I'm going to have to check out jEdit as the sibling suggests as I have the same switching from Windows/Linux problem.
Damn, this a great Ask Slashdot, I'm getting all these awesome programs!
Is this from somewhere? If not, you're a witty writer, T&K.
>> Top Ramen, 10 for $1
> I guess you can dilute it with some Pabst Blue Ribbon, tho.
In other words, the college student's diet.
Also those of us who think that iPods are really expensive. "Oooh, but its all shiny and small, look at that!" Shit, I don't care, as there are plenty of other more utilitarian-looking players with similar features going for sometimes over $100 less.
On the cross-platform compatibility side, I do feel that if any DRMed music format will eventually be playable natively on Linux, then it will be Apple's offering. Microsoft ain't ever going to go near their growing competitor, and Real is shit.