Only a fifth of those who took part in an online survey conducted by advertising agency JWT between Sept 7 and 11 said they could go for a week...
would it be too much to ask that before posting a sory like this a Geek give some passing thought to the construction and testing of a valid statistical model?
Whoever arranged the procurement of those aircraft in the first place wasn't terribly smart. Who would spend Millions of AU$'s on something that in effect doesn't work
There are export controls on military hardware and crypto. News at eleven. You buy the plane. You adapt it to your needs.
I don't plan on getting credit until I purchase a house.
Why should a lender trust you to repay the $60K loan - the $100K loan - when you have no history of managing debt on a much smaller scale?
The mortgage market is getting very tight for borrowers who can't demonstrate that they have both the experience and the resources to meet their commitments.
I wonder if this will be the next iteration of the Taser problem, specifically, the fact that it leaves no marks and is designed not to permanently injure ends up lowering the threshold for using it.
I would like to see a show of proof that the threshold for the use of force has been lowered.
The Geek has no long-term memory - no sense of history - but the institutional memory of your local police force is likely to go back a century or more.
A good place to begin, if you want to gain some perspective, are the archives of American Heritage.com Fifty years of the best writing by historians of the caliber of Bruce Catton and David McCullough.
This time next year, Vista will have 25% of the market.
In the W3Schools stats, Vista at about 4% is in a statistical dead heat with OSX and Linux. But Vista got there in about six months.
It is discouraging that talk about Id inevitably centers on talk about the latest tech demo from Carmack, Direct X vs OGL, Linux support and so on. It has been a long time since an Id game generated any such excitement.
There was a time when Lucas made games of striking individuality and imagination. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Grim Fandango. The spaghetti western shooter Outlaws. There is a generation of gamers coming of age - already of age - whose fantasies have been shaped by J.K. Rowling. The Phoenix Wand and the Deathstick.
The commercial "community" doesn't exactly have the best track record developing complex GUI intensive applications. There is Photoshop, which is not affordable for 99% of potential market
Photoshop's target is the professional photographer, the production house, where it has for all practical purposes a 100% share of the market.
The GIMP competes at the level of Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Paint.NET, etc.
Windows and OSX both have... issues... in particular the fact that there are two desktops fragmenting application development and massively duplicating effort.
Mac OSX is a sophisticated - but narrowly defined - hardware and software platform. You'll find MSDOS and Windows everywhere from the shop room floor to the executive suite.
In hundreds if not thousands of custom configurations.
You want an off-the-shelf MIL-STD laptop for extreme environments? No problem.
You want the ultimate in a quad core gaming machine? Liquid cooled and plutonium powered with a DeLorean case mod? Again, no problem.
The stereotype of the Mac user and the Mac app hasn't changed much since 1984.
There isn't - and never has been - a massive duplication of effort - which is why Apple needs Boot Camp and Microsoft doesn't.
f you need environmental audio, you can use OpenAL, or roll your own as I gather Id did for Doom3 and not just on Linux, on Windows as well - you need a patch for hardware audio. Anyone doing a PS3 version is already doing an OpenGL version anyway, so a Linux port is actually quite easy at that point.
Anyone doing a project for the XBox 360 gets the Windows market as a bonus.
Why do you need EAX when the lowliest entry-level motherboard has multichannel digital audio output as standard?
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Most gamers I know are "Windows experts". They've got their Windows desktop super customized with skins and slick themes etc etc. They are probably the worst candidate for adopters of Linux. They think they understand something about computers and operating systems, but it comes down to they kinda understand how Windows works on the front end, and it's a HUGE blow to them when they have to start over.
Gamers game.
They are not technical hobbyists as the Geek understands it.
The Windows OS is simply another platform like the PS3 - The basics of Windows is all they need to know and all they want to know.
So we have the core of the application and then if you want a feature you add it through extensions
The office manager wants a standard configuration that a temp that comes in on Tuesday and leaves on Thursday can recognize immeadiately and be productive.
The feature set of an office suite is defined by the fact that it has as to be as serviceable to an employer with 15,000 clerical workers in a dozen departments as it is to the employer with a full-time staff of five.
Before you start posting on slashdot advocating vigilante justice I suggest you think about the consequences of being a vigilante. You aren't dog the bounty hunter and this isn't A&E.
You will have noticed, of course, how O.J. Simpson made it back into the headlines.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Just curious, but how can some of you so callously be willing to deprive someone of the rights that so many people fought and died for? Because he was causing a scene? Big deal, its his right.
It is not his right.
You seem to have glossed over the part about the people's right to meet in peace.
Free speech - meaningful political debate - cannot exist without formal or informal Rules of Order. The freedom to remove from the hall the disruptive and abusive.
I can agree that he was resisting arrest, but in this case there was no need for the arrest in the first place. Have we lost all touch with our freedoms that we think we are living in a police state that one can be arrested and detained for a non-threatening reason?
He was disrupting a public forum - denying others their right to speak.
He would not surrender the microphone, he would not leave quietly - and in a crowded auditorium he chose a fight with the police.
But four officers couldn't remove one college student without using a taser? Give me a fucking break! How did they manage police work before they had tasers?
With the Nightstick. The Billy Club.
The essence of a successful take-down - the one that is least dangerous to bystanders, the officer, the suspect - is speed.
Get him down and you keep him down until you have him secured.
The question is not whether video games are or aren't art.
The question is why, oh why, are artists in other genres so utterly threatened by the concept that it might be.
What makes you think they are threatened?
You have as much as said that a video game is collaborative effort like a movie.
You need people who think in terms of narrative, dramatic structure, pacing. People who can script dialog and action that is persuasive and entertaining.
You need production designers, art designers, animators, composers, musicians, specialists in audio and video effects --- and so on, endlessly.
But seriously, just about every problem he's mentioned is fixable and just a Google search away.
Computers are not a magic, mind reading, fix everything in one click device. This guy expects everything to work out of the box perfectly and to his specs.
That is what he is paying for.
How many Google queries return answers that are just plain wrong?
The "vast majority of computer users" need to learn how to use these complicated machines.
The user expects the engineer to make the machine easier and safer for him to use. That is why the electric starter replaces the hand crank on the Model T Ford.
it takes a $45 software add-on for people to view commercial DVDs on XP (haven't tried on Vista) -- which is more expensive than a low-end set-top hardware DVD player.
Ubuntu has EVERYTHING that the average Joe Offthestreet needs for basic internet and home needs: A web browser, an office suite, a mail client and lots of games and the like.
I have heard this mantra repeated a thousand times on Slashdot and I remain unconvinced.
Allow me to suggest an experiment:
Ask Joe to open Linspire's CNR Warehouse. Let him select the programs he thinks worth downloading - and paying for if that is required. Subtract the number that are available for Windows or OSX.
Then let him run riot on Amazon.com, IGN, Download.com, The Underdogs, etc. If Bioshock is too demanding for his PC, perhaps he'll find the Fallout Collection to his liking, at $15 plus S&H.
Don't slip past iTunes, and subscription services like Rhapsody, Live365 and Y! Unlimited.
When he is finished, put the lists side by side and see which excites him more.
Good point. We should be talking about Vista not XP. I can assure you a whole HOST of stuff needs Vista drivers
We should be talking about the Dell's OEM system bundles.
The guy who buys the package deal - with the large screen LCD monitor, the color printer-scanner, and so on. His Vista system will be up and running in a little more time than it takes to unpack the boxes and connect the cables.
Why are they baffled? They use the word "unlimited". To most people that means "without limit". They like the sound of the word in their advertising. They just don't like to have to live up to that definition.
As much as the Geek would like to have it otherwise, "unlimited" residential broadband has never meant anything more than "always-on" access at a flat monthly rate.
As opposed to the $8-12 an hour you paid for dial-up in the Compuserve era.
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would it be too much to ask that before posting a sory like this a Geek give some passing thought to the construction and testing of a valid statistical model?
There are export controls on military hardware and crypto. News at eleven. You buy the plane. You adapt it to your needs.
It would be my big worry. Smoke can disorient, disable, and kill long before you are at any risk of being burned.
Why should a lender trust you to repay the $60K loan - the $100K loan - when you have no history of managing debt on a much smaller scale?
The mortgage market is getting very tight for borrowers who can't demonstrate that they have both the experience and the resources to meet their commitments.
I would like to see a show of proof that the threshold for the use of force has been lowered.
The Geek has no long-term memory - no sense of history - but the institutional memory of your local police force is likely to go back a century or more.
A good place to begin, if you want to gain some perspective, are the archives of American Heritage.com Fifty years of the best writing by historians of the caliber of Bruce Catton and David McCullough.
In the W3Schools stats, Vista at about 4% is in a statistical dead heat with OSX and Linux. But Vista got there in about six months.
It is discouraging that talk about Id inevitably centers on talk about the latest tech demo from Carmack, Direct X vs OGL, Linux support and so on. It has been a long time since an Id game generated any such excitement.
There was a time when Lucas made games of striking individuality and imagination. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Grim Fandango. The spaghetti western shooter Outlaws. There is a generation of gamers coming of age - already of age - whose fantasies have been shaped by J.K. Rowling. The Phoenix Wand and the Deathstick.
Photoshop's target is the professional photographer, the production house, where it has for all practical purposes a 100% share of the market.
The GIMP competes at the level of Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Paint.NET, etc.
Windows and OSX both have ... issues ... in particular the fact that there are two desktops fragmenting application development and massively duplicating effort.
Mac OSX is a sophisticated - but narrowly defined - hardware and software platform. You'll find MSDOS and Windows everywhere from the shop room floor to the executive suite.
In hundreds if not thousands of custom configurations.
You want an off-the-shelf MIL-STD laptop for extreme environments? No problem.
You want the ultimate in a quad core gaming machine? Liquid cooled and plutonium powered with a DeLorean case mod? Again, no problem.
The stereotype of the Mac user and the Mac app hasn't changed much since 1984.
There isn't - and never has been - a massive duplication of effort - which is why Apple needs Boot Camp and Microsoft doesn't.
For projects on this scale, "eventually" is the key word here.
How much time and how much money has Sun spent to gain Star Office / Open Office minimum credibility as an alternative office suite?
Anyone doing a project for the XBox 360 gets the Windows market as a bonus.
Why do you need EAX when the lowliest entry-level motherboard has multichannel digital audio output as standard?
Gamers game.
They are not technical hobbyists as the Geek understands it. The Windows OS is simply another platform like the PS3 - The basics of Windows is all they need to know and all they want to know.
The office manager wants a standard configuration that a temp that comes in on Tuesday and leaves on Thursday can recognize immeadiately and be productive.
The feature set of an office suite is defined by the fact that it has as to be as serviceable to an employer with 15,000 clerical workers in a dozen departments as it is to the employer with a full-time staff of five.
You will have noticed, of course, how O.J. Simpson made it back into the headlines.
Just curious, but how can some of you so callously be willing to deprive someone of the rights that so many people fought and died for? Because he was causing a scene? Big deal, its his right.
It is not his right.
You seem to have glossed over the part about the people's right to meet in peace.
Free speech - meaningful political debate - cannot exist without formal or informal Rules of Order. The freedom to remove from the hall the disruptive and abusive.
He was disrupting a public forum - denying others their right to speak.
He would not surrender the microphone, he would not leave quietly - and in a crowded auditorium he chose a fight with the police.
With the Nightstick. The Billy Club.
The essence of a successful take-down - the one that is least dangerous to bystanders, the officer, the suspect - is speed.
Get him down and you keep him down until you have him secured.
The question is why, oh why, are artists in other genres so utterly threatened by the concept that it might be.
What makes you think they are threatened?
You have as much as said that a video game is collaborative effort like a movie.
You need people who think in terms of narrative, dramatic structure, pacing. People who can script dialog and action that is persuasive and entertaining.
You need production designers, art designers, animators, composers, musicians, specialists in audio and video effects --- and so on, endlessly.
That is what he is paying for.
How many Google queries return answers that are just plain wrong?
The user expects the engineer to make the machine easier and safer for him to use. That is why the electric starter replaces the hand crank on the Model T Ford.
No it doesn't. PowerDVD SE $15.
As if any XP system hasn't shipped with a third-party DVD player since August of 2001.
I have heard this mantra repeated a thousand times on Slashdot and I remain unconvinced.
Allow me to suggest an experiment:
Ask Joe to open Linspire's CNR Warehouse. Let him select the programs he thinks worth downloading - and paying for if that is required. Subtract the number that are available for Windows or OSX.
Then let him run riot on Amazon.com, IGN, Download.com, The Underdogs, etc. If Bioshock is too demanding for his PC, perhaps he'll find the Fallout Collection to his liking, at $15 plus S&H.
Don't slip past iTunes, and subscription services like Rhapsody, Live365 and Y! Unlimited.
When he is finished, put the lists side by side and see which excites him more.
We should be talking about the Dell's OEM system bundles.
The guy who buys the package deal - with the large screen LCD monitor, the color printer-scanner, and so on. His Vista system will be up and running in a little more time than it takes to unpack the boxes and connect the cables.
As much as the Geek would like to have it otherwise, "unlimited" residential broadband has never meant anything more than "always-on" access at a flat monthly rate.
As opposed to the $8-12 an hour you paid for dial-up in the Compuserve era.
that's the proper geek response.
but it doesn't sell boot camp or the mac mini to home users with many other demands on their time and money.
If the users aren't German, then the users can be ignored. The geek seems to favor local authority only when it is convenient.