Blizzard still supports and patches Starcraft. It was released in 1998, and the last patch was July 2006. They may patch again if they find any issues with the game. It only costed $50, and now costs about $10-$20. 9 years of support.
Actually, the government derives its power from its monpoly on violence. The people may have put it in place, but it's the fear of the police officer's gun that keeps the government in power.
Why not the size of a credit card? After all, wallets are designed to fit them already, so it would be quite convinient and have less chance of someone loosing the thing than a postange stamp sized device.
I use Kee pass for storing the random passwords. The database is secure enough, and I only have to remember one password (well, I keep a few fast to type insecure passwords for use in things I don't care about, like one-time-use stuff.) N64ÞEm¢f:]&ÆqfNP8Q_- is a nice password, and not THAT hard to memorize... N64 ALT+0222 capital-E m ALT+5787 f:]& ALT+5778 qf capital-N capital-P 8 capital-Q _- It would probably take me about half an hour to memorize it, a few days of use to get perfectly consistent. Writing it down until then works, then destroy the paper it was written down on. After that, all my passwords can be random junk and I'll be able to memorize them.
Also, keepass allows attatching files. One could have many password databases, each embedded into another. wheeeeeee
Also, there is ALREADY an alphabet used all over for phonetic spelling. The International Phonetic Alphabet. A mapping to english should be a sufficent start. Using this would normalize both spelling and pronunciation. IPA isn't that hard to learn, it can be used to write any language that a human can pronounce, it's great!
The problem is that very few non-linguists will ever see it. Even those who are interested in spelling reform don't seem to notice that their work has been done for them by linguists.
At my college (and most pupblic places) there is a place people can lock their bikes up.
If the bike companies came along and locked up everyone's bike and requested that they pay a fee to unlock them, would that be a proper use of a lock?
THAT is DRM. You don't have the lock for the property you own.
I just erase the EULA and rebuild the disk. I've never agreed to the EULA yet, and so if they can revise contract terms on the fly then so can I. Just normal copyright law binds you until such time as you agree to the EULA. So don't agree.
Play one of the versions that has some basic graphics. ANSI terminal is great and all, but some of the prettier ones make it easier to see what's going on and just focus on the playing. It eases up the learning curve.
Make it look like the main headlines, and also have a small upward facing arrow either on the left or right. Clicking on the arrow should make it face down, and expand the story. pehraps something like TiddlyWiki's ability to close and open articles from the sidebar as well. So when you click on a section link, all of its articles expand onto the main page, or close if they are already displayed.
It's either Sony or Gateway, but one of the two puts WeatherBug on new installs. Gateway inclueds WildTangent games... etc.
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It's not about flash being abused, it's about flash being used for navigation. Flash won't work with a screenreader. Flash can't be printed.
XML with CSS can specify different stylesheets for different uses. Flash can't. SVG is supposed to add flash like technology to this XML. Sadly it is rather unsupported.
Javascript IS horribly abused, but the language itself isn't particularly bad at destroying usability. Making popups isn't a problem with the language itself. It may make me turn javascript off for some sites, but the language is not incapable of producing proper code. Flash is incapible.
Well, mabey not perfect.
Gentoo. With a graphical installer. And default choices. Stage 3 defaults (fast install.) Prebuilt binaries for a default install. You want to hack, you can compile. You don't want to compile, don't hack. Call "emerge" "install". Choose everything.
At the start of the installation, have 2 radio buttons: Standard and Expert. Standard does the above. Expert does a normal gentoo install. Put a nice warning in big red letters if you choose expert.
People want to be able to choose, but they don't want to make the choice. Give them the ability to choose KDE or Gnome or XFCE, but don't MAKE them choose. Choose for them and let them change the default choice.
You get all the great things of choosing, combined with the candy-coating of having your system dictated to you in a way that will probably work with the least amount of effort.
Maximal choices with maximal standards, THAT should be the goal for Linux. That leads to ease of use.
And why the HELL can a war outside the US affect the STATE'S national guard? Those are supposed to be for the state's defense, not wars in other countries!
I got strep throat. This could have been deadly, and often was, but the doctor performed a miracle and gave me small round things to eat. After eating them, I got better!
Clearly divine intervention.
Just because it can be explained does not mean it is not a miracle. The discovery of penicillin saved millions of lives, yet people write it off to science. True faithful belive that God gives us the power to help ourselves. THOSE are the real miracles, not some guy prancing around replicating fish.
The achivements of humanity are far more significant than the achivements of any God.
Ya know, typing with the one handed (left) Dvorak layout really can be a pleasure....
Well, it's not the typing that does it, but the layout is useful.
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I find it's better if you OFTEN have to switch, but are never switching back and forth quickly. I use Dvorak at home and qwerty at work. I'm faster at dvorak, but because of the constant use of qwerty for long periods I am pefectly capible of typing on it. You have to keep practicing both to be good at both.
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Thermaltake has had a memory liquid cooling heatsink for a while now.
Go to /b/ and call Rule 34 on it. It shall appear for you soon.
Blizzard still supports and patches Starcraft. It was released in 1998, and the last patch was July 2006. They may patch again if they find any issues with the game. It only costed $50, and now costs about $10-$20. 9 years of support.
It's called a
Pretty much only in european cars, in the US look for a tiptronic or similar (that's an automatic with some manual control.)
Actually, the government derives its power from its monpoly on violence. The people may have put it in place, but it's the fear of the police officer's gun that keeps the government in power.
Why not the size of a credit card? After all, wallets are designed to fit them already, so it would be quite convinient and have less chance of someone loosing the thing than a postange stamp sized device.
I use Kee pass for storing the random passwords. The database is secure enough, and I only have to remember one password (well, I keep a few fast to type insecure passwords for use in things I don't care about, like one-time-use stuff.)
N64ÞEm¢f:]&ÆqfNP8Q_- is a nice password, and not THAT hard to memorize... N64 ALT+0222 capital-E m ALT+5787 f:]& ALT+5778 qf capital-N capital-P 8 capital-Q _-
It would probably take me about half an hour to memorize it, a few days of use to get perfectly consistent. Writing it down until then works, then destroy the paper it was written down on.
After that, all my passwords can be random junk and I'll be able to memorize them.
Also, keepass allows attatching files. One could have many password databases, each embedded into another. wheeeeeee
Also, there is ALREADY an alphabet used all over for phonetic spelling. The International Phonetic Alphabet. A mapping to english should be a sufficent start. Using this would normalize both spelling and pronunciation. IPA isn't that hard to learn, it can be used to write any language that a human can pronounce, it's great! The problem is that very few non-linguists will ever see it. Even those who are interested in spelling reform don't seem to notice that their work has been done for them by linguists.
At my college (and most pupblic places) there is a place people can lock their bikes up. If the bike companies came along and locked up everyone's bike and requested that they pay a fee to unlock them, would that be a proper use of a lock? THAT is DRM. You don't have the lock for the property you own.
The Zero Day Initiative is what you're looking for.
On your sig, terminate process? I feel older than I am. And like more of a geek.
I just erase the EULA and rebuild the disk. I've never agreed to the EULA yet, and so if they can revise contract terms on the fly then so can I. Just normal copyright law binds you until such time as you agree to the EULA. So don't agree.
Play one of the versions that has some basic graphics. ANSI terminal is great and all, but some of the prettier ones make it easier to see what's going on and just focus on the playing. It eases up the learning curve.
Make it look like the main headlines, and also have a small upward facing arrow either on the left or right. Clicking on the arrow should make it face down, and expand the story. pehraps something like TiddlyWiki's ability to close and open articles from the sidebar as well. So when you click on a section link, all of its articles expand onto the main page, or close if they are already displayed.
What about anonymity? If everyone has a permanent static IP address, wouldn't groups like the RIAA have a much easier time tracking people down?
It's either Sony or Gateway, but one of the two puts WeatherBug on new installs. Gateway inclueds WildTangent games... etc.
It's not about flash being abused, it's about flash being used for navigation. Flash won't work with a screenreader. Flash can't be printed.
XML with CSS can specify different stylesheets for different uses. Flash can't. SVG is supposed to add flash like technology to this XML. Sadly it is rather unsupported.
Javascript IS horribly abused, but the language itself isn't particularly bad at destroying usability. Making popups isn't a problem with the language itself. It may make me turn javascript off for some sites, but the language is not incapable of producing proper code. Flash is incapible.
Linux! The virus tries to run. The virus goes to dependency hell. Virus free!
Well, mabey not perfect. Gentoo. With a graphical installer. And default choices. Stage 3 defaults (fast install.) Prebuilt binaries for a default install. You want to hack, you can compile. You don't want to compile, don't hack. Call "emerge" "install". Choose everything. At the start of the installation, have 2 radio buttons: Standard and Expert. Standard does the above. Expert does a normal gentoo install. Put a nice warning in big red letters if you choose expert. People want to be able to choose, but they don't want to make the choice. Give them the ability to choose KDE or Gnome or XFCE, but don't MAKE them choose. Choose for them and let them change the default choice. You get all the great things of choosing, combined with the candy-coating of having your system dictated to you in a way that will probably work with the least amount of effort. Maximal choices with maximal standards, THAT should be the goal for Linux. That leads to ease of use.
And why the HELL can a war outside the US affect the STATE'S national guard? Those are supposed to be for the state's defense, not wars in other countries!
Dark matter is far, far too large an error (around 90% of the universe's mass is "missing") for it to be accounted for by these few black holes.
Many scientists believe that there is no missing matter, and that the theory which predicts it is simply wrong.
Qwerty for WoW? Why? I play it just fine with Dvorak... I rebound the keys, of course, but I rebind most things anyway.
I believe in miracle healing.
I got strep throat. This could have been deadly, and often was, but the doctor performed a miracle and gave me small round things to eat. After eating them, I got better!
Clearly divine intervention.
Just because it can be explained does not mean it is not a miracle. The discovery of penicillin saved millions of lives, yet people write it off to science. True faithful belive that God gives us the power to help ourselves. THOSE are the real miracles, not some guy prancing around replicating fish.
The achivements of humanity are far more significant than the achivements of any God.
Ya know, typing with the one handed (left) Dvorak layout really can be a pleasure.... Well, it's not the typing that does it, but the layout is useful.
I find it's better if you OFTEN have to switch, but are never switching back and forth quickly. I use Dvorak at home and qwerty at work. I'm faster at dvorak, but because of the constant use of qwerty for long periods I am pefectly capible of typing on it. You have to keep practicing both to be good at both.