in short, people are idiots and don't know what a good picture looks like. They think lots of red + high white level + high black level (no shadow detail & oversaturation) = looks good. TV manufacturers adjust according. People seem to think 'vivid' is superior to real.
That mobile browsers will automatically check for a.mobi for the site your trying to reach before requesting the real site and butchering the hell out of it. and it is only one fucking character
That's incredibly interesting because for shits and giggles I decided to load the entire adobe cs2 suite into memory and see just how many cpu cycles it hogs? Less than 1% with the gui drawn or sent to the taskbar. PROGRAMS DONT ARBITRARILY EAT CPU AND IO TIME UNLESS THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING MORON. If you have pdf's set to load in a new window you can merrily continue about your work. I don't know if your an idiot or just a fraud but I suspect a bit of both.
I guess the worms have had a feast on your appled brain.
I'm curious what you define as 'real' cpu cycles or "hogging the ram"? I'm also interested in why it should be the operating system's responsibility to prioritize tasks based on whether their pretty gui is painted on the screen? If you don't want an application to eat up cpu cycles have it stop what it's doing, I suspect the same is true for the vaunted 'os x' although you would liken it to some magical and mystifying force that automatically detects your intent when a gui is either occluding by another app painting to the screen or minimized. It's an interesting world, but unfortunately it just doesn't correspond with reality. Why you think it's particularly useful to be able to have all those applications running and play a game at the same time is quite beyond my grasp. Sure you can do it, but performance will suffer, regardless of what you say. An application has a memory footprint regardless of whether its pretty gui is up and paging all of that out of ram would be pathetically inefficient, not to mention as slow or slower than just closing and resuming the application when you need it. But you use the shiny white stuff, so what do i know.
I also have a Samsung 997 DF and it looks wonderful. Sure it doesn't have the footprint of an lcd, but in every other aspect (with the exception of geometry and power consumption) It trumps lcd displays 3x its price. Most LCDs you can pick up for under $500 US are either a.) 17" with a mediocre lifespan and gray - to gray response time (black to white is often double or greater) or b.) a total piece of shit 19".
I only paid 130 shipped for mine, so I'd say I made off well. You can still get these units from most retail outlets but you'll notice that they are pretty much hidden from view because lcds are where the money is at nowadays.
It's an interesting argument that I suppose has been raised before but to me it seems like a poorly disguised 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc' fallacy variant. Just because most (all?) of them were saudi's doesn't mean it was intentional on the terrorists part. Further the point should be raised that terrorists don't really assume a national identity? Are all saudi's terrorists, how about afghanis?
And, continuing on your own chain of logic, shouldn't an 'attack' be coming down the pipe on the homeland since things still haven't rolled their way. That way they can 'provoke' us into attacking Saudi Arabia?
the more powerful your motor is (in respect to your car's weight) the taller your gearing has to be so actually the converse of what your saying is true to an extent. A lot of commuters have tall gearing for fuel efficiency so I guess comparing a commuter that has like 60hp/ton vs. a race car that has 60hp/ton the gearing is definitely going to have higher ratios but say a race car with 120 hp/ton is going to have as tall or even taller gearing than a commuter. Otherwise the power is wasted because you don't have enough tread to put the power to the ground.
"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
"If I have seen further [than Descartes], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
If windows has 90% of the userbase AND complaints of having an additional mouse button obfusicating things are limited to anecdote / not statistically significant number of tech support calls then it follows that a second mouse button is not an impediment to computer usability. The hidden premise was there, very clearly implied, you just chose to ignore it to make it a straw man. +1 to asinine apple user.
I mean, I don't think anyone shit themselves when 'windows' keys started getting added to keyboards.
I feel you are being overly optimistic in your forecasting of the rise of OSS to market dominance. Suppose you are at least right that Linux's emergence as an alternative in the market has forced Microsoft to make some changes under the hood. So what? In the grand scheme of things how do they lead to the conclusion "MS is going to have a very difficult time in coming years?" To an uninitiated such as myself none of these changes seem significant. Wake me up when microsoft posts an unusually bad year and oss posts a good one.
I'd be more inclined to agree with something reasonable...
'It seems likely Microsoft will be giving up some market share to Open source software in coming years.' Being dramatic lends nothing to this conclusion.
As far as refresh rate, contrast ratio and colour accuracy their is no comparison between lcd and crt. About the only advantages lcd have over crt are size and geometric accuracy. Flat Screen CRT displays pretty much eliminate the geometry issue.
I've never really caught onto the "laptop-harddrive-with-audio-decoder-and-built-in- battery" craze. 40.00 bucks for a cd player or 300 for an i-pod? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. I think penny arcade ran an article on this. The improved flexibility doesn't really fit in with my music listening style I guess; I prefer to listen to albums entirely opposed to just picking one or two tracks off them. Maybe when they're cheaper...
I think its fair to point out that the majority of the U.S. public voted for the man who engineered said destroying and rebuilding in light of this. The 200 billion in 20 months or ~ $2300/sec doesn't bother me so much as the 100,000 + killed in a region with 22 million residents. Apparently apathy is the best way to approach the physical rather than fiscal losses at home and abroad.
Sol needs to get its' head out of its' ass and stop creating so much f&CKing lag on my connection. Where does the sun get the balls to think it can go around lagging up internet cafe connections in remote parts of the world. Why doesn't it do something useful, like make some grass grow here in Kuwait
It actually takes a considerable amount of skill to extract the maximum potential from high powered automobiles. I can see where your coming from, however, as your 1.5 litre honda motor really doesn't put out much juice.
If the child has VERY LITTLE chance of living another 10 - 11 years, what point does continuing their life have? Perhaps if they had a social identity one could feasibly see point in continuing her life, somewhat like how most HIV+ individuals continue to struggle on after diagnosis. You could also argue "for science" but that doesn't seem very p/maternal to me.
I just don't think you can soak up enough information to possibly give yourself a value of life in the first 10-12 years. Some may seem better than nothing, but extending failing organism's life will come at great cost to many.
My intuition tells me to let nature take its brutal course, at the loss of medical science.
engine knock is the result of premature fuel detonation. Higher octane fuel= harder to burn = eliminates detonation. Turbocharged vehicles have to use high octane fuel because compressing air raises its temperature thus raising intake temps and making it a very good environment for fuel burning before the valve closes completely.
it's not "good" on your motor but it certainly isn't going to cause it to spontaneously explode. just run like a geo metro.
whatever you use more, IMO. Not necessarily what you learn first. I also agree, it's the opposite for me, when I see an analog face I conevert it to numeric form. I don't need a graphical representation to tell me that 18:00 is 3/4 the way through the day:)
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post hoc, ergo propter hoc
in short, people are idiots and don't know what a good picture looks like. They think lots of red + high white level + high black level (no shadow detail & oversaturation) = looks good. TV manufacturers adjust according. People seem to think 'vivid' is superior to real.
That mobile browsers will automatically check for a .mobi for the site your trying to reach before requesting the real site and butchering the hell out of it. and it is only one fucking character
That's incredibly interesting because for shits and giggles I decided to load the entire adobe cs2 suite into memory and see just how many cpu cycles it hogs? Less than 1% with the gui drawn or sent to the taskbar. PROGRAMS DONT ARBITRARILY EAT CPU AND IO TIME UNLESS THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING MORON. If you have pdf's set to load in a new window you can merrily continue about your work. I don't know if your an idiot or just a fraud but I suspect a bit of both.
I guess the worms have had a feast on your appled brain.
I'm curious what you define as 'real' cpu cycles or "hogging the ram"? I'm also interested in why it should be the operating system's responsibility to prioritize tasks based on whether their pretty gui is painted on the screen? If you don't want an application to eat up cpu cycles have it stop what it's doing, I suspect the same is true for the vaunted 'os x' although you would liken it to some magical and mystifying force that automatically detects your intent when a gui is either occluding by another app painting to the screen or minimized. It's an interesting world, but unfortunately it just doesn't correspond with reality. Why you think it's particularly useful to be able to have all those applications running and play a game at the same time is quite beyond my grasp. Sure you can do it, but performance will suffer, regardless of what you say. An application has a memory footprint regardless of whether its pretty gui is up and paging all of that out of ram would be pathetically inefficient, not to mention as slow or slower than just closing and resuming the application when you need it. But you use the shiny white stuff, so what do i know.
I also have a Samsung 997 DF and it looks wonderful. Sure it doesn't have the footprint of an lcd, but in every other aspect (with the exception of geometry and power consumption) It trumps lcd displays 3x its price. Most LCDs you can pick up for under $500 US are either a.) 17" with a mediocre lifespan and gray - to gray response time (black to white is often double or greater) or b.) a total piece of shit 19".
I only paid 130 shipped for mine, so I'd say I made off well. You can still get these units from most retail outlets but you'll notice that they are pretty much hidden from view because lcds are where the money is at nowadays.
It's an interesting argument that I suppose has been raised before but to me it seems like a poorly disguised 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc' fallacy variant. Just because most (all?) of them were saudi's doesn't mean it was intentional on the terrorists part. Further the point should be raised that terrorists don't really assume a national identity? Are all saudi's terrorists, how about afghanis?
And, continuing on your own chain of logic, shouldn't an 'attack' be coming down the pipe on the homeland since things still haven't rolled their way. That way they can 'provoke' us into attacking Saudi Arabia?
WHAMMY
(Insert picture of father lecturing his child)
the more powerful your motor is (in respect to your car's weight) the taller your gearing has to be so actually the converse of what your saying is true to an extent. A lot of commuters have tall gearing for fuel efficiency so I guess comparing a commuter that has like 60hp/ton vs. a race car that has 60hp/ton the gearing is definitely going to have higher ratios but say a race car with 120 hp/ton is going to have as tall or even taller gearing than a commuter. Otherwise the power is wasted because you don't have enough tread to put the power to the ground.
"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
"If I have seen further [than Descartes], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Now what of this theoretical 'my team'?
There are windows applications that "emulate" this functionality, it's called desktop sidebar.. not exactly revolutionary.. or useful imo
Alright asshat;
If windows has 90% of the userbase AND complaints of having an additional mouse button obfusicating things are limited to anecdote / not statistically significant number of tech support calls then it follows that a second mouse button is not an impediment to computer usability. The hidden premise was there, very clearly implied, you just chose to ignore it to make it a straw man. +1 to asinine apple user.
I mean, I don't think anyone shit themselves when 'windows' keys started getting added to keyboards.
Apple, simply snobbery....
I feel you are being overly optimistic in your forecasting of the rise of OSS to market dominance. Suppose you are at least right that Linux's emergence as an alternative in the market has forced Microsoft to make some changes under the hood. So what? In the grand scheme of things how do they lead to the conclusion "MS is going to have a very difficult time in coming years?" To an uninitiated such as myself none of these changes seem significant. Wake me up when microsoft posts an unusually bad year and oss posts a good one.
I'd be more inclined to agree with something reasonable...
'It seems likely Microsoft will be giving up some market share to Open source software in coming years.' Being dramatic lends nothing to this conclusion.
As far as refresh rate, contrast ratio and colour accuracy their is no comparison between lcd and crt. About the only advantages lcd have over crt are size and geometric accuracy. Flat Screen CRT displays pretty much eliminate the geometry issue.
And lcds cost more.. boo
I've never really caught onto the "laptop-harddrive-with-audio-decoder-and-built-in- battery" craze. 40.00 bucks for a cd player or 300 for an i-pod? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. I think penny arcade ran an article on this. The improved flexibility doesn't really fit in with my music listening style I guess; I prefer to listen to albums entirely opposed to just picking one or two tracks off them. Maybe when they're cheaper...
I think its fair to point out that the majority of the U.S. public voted for the man who engineered said destroying and rebuilding in light of this. The 200 billion in 20 months or ~ $2300/sec doesn't bother me so much as the 100,000 + killed in a region with 22 million residents. Apparently apathy is the best way to approach the physical rather than fiscal losses at home and abroad.
Sol needs to get its' head out of its' ass and stop creating so much f&CKing lag on my connection. Where does the sun get the balls to think it can go around lagging up internet cafe connections in remote parts of the world. Why doesn't it do something useful, like make some grass grow here in Kuwait
or just drill out the i-bolt and re tap and die the hole. depending on its location this could prove to be a real PITA though.
It actually takes a considerable amount of skill to extract the maximum potential from high powered automobiles. I can see where your coming from, however, as your 1.5 litre honda motor really doesn't put out much juice.
If the child has VERY LITTLE chance of living another 10 - 11 years, what point does continuing their life have? Perhaps if they had a social identity one could feasibly see point in continuing her life, somewhat like how most HIV+ individuals continue to struggle on after diagnosis. You could also argue "for science" but that doesn't seem very p/maternal to me.
I just don't think you can soak up enough information to possibly give yourself a value of life in the first 10-12 years. Some may seem better than nothing, but extending failing organism's life will come at great cost to many.
My intuition tells me to let nature take its brutal course, at the loss of medical science.
engine knock is the result of premature fuel detonation. Higher octane fuel= harder to burn = eliminates detonation. Turbocharged vehicles have to use high octane fuel because compressing air raises its temperature thus raising intake temps and making it a very good environment for fuel burning before the valve closes completely.
it's not "good" on your motor but it certainly isn't going to cause it to spontaneously explode. just run like a geo metro.
Why did you post anonymous? Most insightful post in this entire topic.
the answer to life, the universe, and everything
one would think that you'd be suspect of a nice crisp piece of 1980s tender...
whatever you use more, IMO. Not necessarily what you learn first. I also agree, it's the opposite for me, when I see an analog face I conevert it to numeric form. I don't need a graphical representation to tell me that 18:00 is 3/4 the way through the day :)