We'll just go back to every artist having a patron who pays them money to do their art thing. You can't tell me art has improved since that went out of style!
I see two situations here: 1) Google is caching pages that are marked to not be cached. 2) Those pages that "shouldn't be cached" aren't marked that way.
The former should be fixed obviously. On the other hand, it's doubtful they can do anything about the latter. If it looks like a regular page, smells like a regular page, how the heck do they know there's a difference?
It's very simple: if you don't want to deal with bugs, don't use beta software. Calling it a beta is acknowledging that there are most likely problems with it. So if that bothers you, don't use it.
Not a big deal actually. You say, hey, I'm *here*. Don't they already provide 911 if you ask for it?
Besides, this is already the case with internet relay. If you can't tell them where you are, you're just screwed. Hell, if you can't tell the operator what city you're in you're screwed anyway cause they can't just dial "911."
Isn't it a part of trademark law that you have to defend it when you know someone is infringing? This would be logical since then you can't sit on a trademark while someone infringes on it and 10 years later slap them with a multimillion dollar lawsuit. I realize this isn't quite such a timeframe, but I can't imagine them being able to argue they didn't know about it until now.
In high school computer lit class, they used Works to teach word processing, spreadsheet, etc. All the same basic concepts apply now, even though I haven't used Works in years (cause it sucks?). I say teach kids to use old versions of WordPerfect (or other somewhat obscure WP) and emphasize the basics behind it rather than the menus. Even better, teach them in one, test them in another!:)
"Perhaps direct democracy's profound effect, however, is on the California Constitution, a document that most Californians probably have never seen. Ten times the length of the U.S. Constitution, California's fundamental law has been amended about 500 times by referendum and about 40 times by initiatives since its adoption in 1879. By contrast, the U.S. Constitution has been amended only 27 times in 210 years. The amendments to California's Constitution have specified such grave matters as a fee schedule for permits during the three-year phase-out of gill-net fishing. As a result, our state Constitution is a small book -- a very bizarre, ill-digested, unimpressive book."
I think that's kind of the point in this case. He wants to fork Gnome 3 so that they can finalize 2. Then they can go hog wild with 3 and add all the cool new stuff while keeping 2 as a stable product.
If a municipality decides to censor anything because a large contingent of its taxpayers think it should be that way, then so be it. You're not entitled to say anything that the majority objects to.
Sorry, that's what popped into my head when I read your comment.
I guess the way I think of it is like this: should the government be able to censor what I say on the telephone? Even if it were a publicly funded service? Obviously not because it's my constitutional right to say it. Are pictures of naked women free speech? Maybe it should be free expression instead.
Same here, the only drive I've had fail is the one in my laptop, everything else I've built and had no problems. Well, except Creative cd-roms don't like to be dropped.
If I'm reading a magazine/newspaper etc., am I obligated to look at all the ads? Am I breaking a social contract if I choose to completely ignore them? I don't see how this would be any different, other than it being automated. Besides, I could always pay the neighbor kid to cut all the ads out of the paper for me for a small fee. Then I don't ever see them at all. I think I'm well within my rights (and not breaking any social contracts either).
I think the only reason people think there is a social contract to view advertising in exchange for services is because previously we had no choice. You couldn't fast forward through tv commercials before VCRs and Tivo. Now those who have been spoiled by the fact they could force you to view the advertising, are crying foul when it no longer works that way. Had there always been a way to skip advertising, it would never have developed as a viable revenue stream, and wouldn't be an issue.
Try $100-$150/hour at reasonable times of day during the week, and $200-$300/hour any other time for on call stuff. When they're losing money and you're indispensible, they get to pay out the nose.
Well, you're not supposed to be counting anyway! Cheater! (j/k of course)
Seriously though, an experienced dealer can tell when you're counting, most likely better than any computer algorithm. That is unless you're really really good at covering it up, in which case you're also probably not winning a whole lot.
This just reminded me of something my dad uses a lot. If a company gives him the runaround long enough, he'll start asking questions about the CEO, like "hey, I went to college with so and so, I'm sure he works for your company, do you know him?" Mentioning personal connections to executives can friendly people up immensely.
I guess I'm just lucky, because I've only had one harddrive ever develop problems, and that was one of the problem deskstars. I haven't had to retire any machine due to physical problems, only old age (and only after fighting it tooth and nail finding other uses for them).
In fact, one of my computers came from a company my dad worked for since it had gotten too old to be useful to them. I'm sure the conditions there were the same as you're describing. Again, retired due to old age and sent off to a school in a 3rd world country to be useful.
As for monitors, I'd have to get in touch with a few people since they're now spread all around friends and family. When they left they were all working well after years of abuse with very few signs of getting old.
It'll be dead from daily power cycling in less than a year.
You're joking right? You don't actually believe this do you? Please tell me you don't. Either that or go try to convice all my family's computers they shouldn't be working anymore. Should have stopped working long ago...
I disagree with you. I feel that if developers see a large enough number of people playing their game using a less than optimal solution, they'll come to the logical conclusion that there are even more who aren't playing because of lack of support. Once the number of people using cedega is large enough, a developer will start to consider linux a profitable enough segment to spend the time/money/effort to improve the experience, and thus keep them buying that developer's games. Their smartest route is most likely to make a linux port rather than rely on another company to make their games function.
I'm certain that what you suggest is a smart route to go. If every linux user refuses to play games unless they're supported natively, then developers don't see a market waiting for their games to be ported, they see a total lack of interest. They have no way to gauge whether spending the resources to make a linux port will be profitable. I wonder if any of the games out for linux now (Unreal Tournament is the big one that comes to mind) would have been ported if no one had shown interest in getting it and other games working through "emulation." I think when you say "Everyone using cedega or wine are just giving the devs reasons NOT to make native ports of their games," that the opposite is the case. Cedega and wine give developers lots of reasons to make native ports, and those reasons are each and every customer. Once they have you as a customer, they'll be more likely to want to make you happy, and spend the money to do so.
At first I thought maybe you were in the same dorm I was. One of the guys down the hall wanted a new computer, but wasn't experienced enough to build it from scratch, so he paid my roommate to build him one. So my roommate buys all the components online, and a couple weeks later we assemble it to make sure everything works before we put it in the case. Everything works fine, so we stick it in the case. Turn it on. Nothing. We pulled out all the extra cards. Nothing. Swapped video cards. Nothing. Processor. Nothing. My roommate goes out and buys a new motherboard, assuming this is the problem. 3 returns later, the system still doesn't work. Worst part is, all the components work when they're not together (after further testing, none of the "broken" motherboards were in fact broken).
Eventually he just called it a loss and sold all the parts to other people in the dorm (I still use that sound card too!). Later I discovered that the case itself was cursed. Not even kidding! Nothing would run out of it, ever. It has the amazing ability to render any setup inoperable, even with a new PSU. Discovering this, I of course did the logical thing and gave it to a guy I didn't like very much who was building a computer himself.
There's an excerpt linked from the article but I think it's slashdotted already. It's been reposted in other comments. I suggest you read it before making any statements about how it could NOT be considered bad writing.
My old discman used to do this all the time, pretty much every day after school in the summer. I haven't seen one do it recently though, is it possible that newer lcds have a higher temperature tolerance? Or maybe a colored lcd doesn't because of different construction.
Back to the point, in my case it was only temporary and would go away within a minute or so of the temperature dropping when I rolled down the windows. I guess it would depend on where he lives, color of his car etc.
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We'll just go back to every artist having a patron who pays them money to do their art thing. You can't tell me art has improved since that went out of style!
But then we'd have to find another way to compensate for our small anatomy!
I see two situations here:
1) Google is caching pages that are marked to not be cached.
2) Those pages that "shouldn't be cached" aren't marked that way.
The former should be fixed obviously. On the other hand, it's doubtful they can do anything about the latter. If it looks like a regular page, smells like a regular page, how the heck do they know there's a difference?
So anything with the beta tag is magically allowed to do anything it wants?
In a word: yes.
It's very simple: if you don't want to deal with bugs, don't use beta software. Calling it a beta is acknowledging that there are most likely problems with it. So if that bothers you, don't use it.
Not a big deal actually. You say, hey, I'm *here*. Don't they already provide 911 if you ask for it?
Besides, this is already the case with internet relay. If you can't tell them where you are, you're just screwed. Hell, if you can't tell the operator what city you're in you're screwed anyway cause they can't just dial "911."
Isn't it a part of trademark law that you have to defend it when you know someone is infringing? This would be logical since then you can't sit on a trademark while someone infringes on it and 10 years later slap them with a multimillion dollar lawsuit. I realize this isn't quite such a timeframe, but I can't imagine them being able to argue they didn't know about it until now.
Are you sure that's not the commercial defrag program? I've never seen that option in the basic xp install.
In high school computer lit class, they used Works to teach word processing, spreadsheet, etc. All the same basic concepts apply now, even though I haven't used Works in years (cause it sucks?). I say teach kids to use old versions of WordPerfect (or other somewhat obscure WP) and emphasize the basics behind it rather than the menus. Even better, teach them in one, test them in another! :)
Law or Amendment, I'm not sure the people here in California knows the difference. Seems like they stick everything in the constitution.
Interesting article here.
"Perhaps direct democracy's profound effect, however, is on the California Constitution, a document that most Californians probably have never seen. Ten times the length of the U.S. Constitution, California's fundamental law has been amended about 500 times by referendum and about 40 times by initiatives since its adoption in 1879. By contrast, the U.S. Constitution has been amended only 27 times in 210 years. The amendments to California's Constitution have specified such grave matters as a fee schedule for permits during the three-year phase-out of gill-net fishing. As a result, our state Constitution is a small book -- a very bizarre, ill-digested, unimpressive book."
I think that's kind of the point in this case. He wants to fork Gnome 3 so that they can finalize 2. Then they can go hog wild with 3 and add all the cool new stuff while keeping 2 as a stable product.
If a municipality decides to censor anything because a large contingent of its taxpayers think it should be that way, then so be it. You're not entitled to say anything that the majority objects to.
Sorry, that's what popped into my head when I read your comment.
I guess the way I think of it is like this: should the government be able to censor what I say on the telephone? Even if it were a publicly funded service? Obviously not because it's my constitutional right to say it. Are pictures of naked women free speech? Maybe it should be free expression instead.
Same here, the only drive I've had fail is the one in my laptop, everything else I've built and had no problems. Well, except Creative cd-roms don't like to be dropped.
If I'm reading a magazine/newspaper etc., am I obligated to look at all the ads? Am I breaking a social contract if I choose to completely ignore them? I don't see how this would be any different, other than it being automated. Besides, I could always pay the neighbor kid to cut all the ads out of the paper for me for a small fee. Then I don't ever see them at all. I think I'm well within my rights (and not breaking any social contracts either).
I think the only reason people think there is a social contract to view advertising in exchange for services is because previously we had no choice. You couldn't fast forward through tv commercials before VCRs and Tivo. Now those who have been spoiled by the fact they could force you to view the advertising, are crying foul when it no longer works that way. Had there always been a way to skip advertising, it would never have developed as a viable revenue stream, and wouldn't be an issue.
Try $100-$150/hour at reasonable times of day during the week, and $200-$300/hour any other time for on call stuff. When they're losing money and you're indispensible, they get to pay out the nose.
Well, you're not supposed to be counting anyway! Cheater! (j/k of course)
Seriously though, an experienced dealer can tell when you're counting, most likely better than any computer algorithm. That is unless you're really really good at covering it up, in which case you're also probably not winning a whole lot.
This just reminded me of something my dad uses a lot. If a company gives him the runaround long enough, he'll start asking questions about the CEO, like "hey, I went to college with so and so, I'm sure he works for your company, do you know him?" Mentioning personal connections to executives can friendly people up immensely.
I guess I'm just lucky, because I've only had one harddrive ever develop problems, and that was one of the problem deskstars. I haven't had to retire any machine due to physical problems, only old age (and only after fighting it tooth and nail finding other uses for them).
In fact, one of my computers came from a company my dad worked for since it had gotten too old to be useful to them. I'm sure the conditions there were the same as you're describing. Again, retired due to old age and sent off to a school in a 3rd world country to be useful.
As for monitors, I'd have to get in touch with a few people since they're now spread all around friends and family. When they left they were all working well after years of abuse with very few signs of getting old.
Maybe you just have bad luck?
It'll be dead from daily power cycling in less than a year.
You're joking right? You don't actually believe this do you? Please tell me you don't. Either that or go try to convice all my family's computers they shouldn't be working anymore. Should have stopped working long ago...
I disagree with you. I feel that if developers see a large enough number of people playing their game using a less than optimal solution, they'll come to the logical conclusion that there are even more who aren't playing because of lack of support. Once the number of people using cedega is large enough, a developer will start to consider linux a profitable enough segment to spend the time/money/effort to improve the experience, and thus keep them buying that developer's games. Their smartest route is most likely to make a linux port rather than rely on another company to make their games function.
I'm certain that what you suggest is a smart route to go. If every linux user refuses to play games unless they're supported natively, then developers don't see a market waiting for their games to be ported, they see a total lack of interest. They have no way to gauge whether spending the resources to make a linux port will be profitable. I wonder if any of the games out for linux now (Unreal Tournament is the big one that comes to mind) would have been ported if no one had shown interest in getting it and other games working through "emulation." I think when you say "Everyone using cedega or wine are just giving the devs reasons NOT to make native ports of their games," that the opposite is the case. Cedega and wine give developers lots of reasons to make native ports, and those reasons are each and every customer. Once they have you as a customer, they'll be more likely to want to make you happy, and spend the money to do so.
At first I thought maybe you were in the same dorm I was. One of the guys down the hall wanted a new computer, but wasn't experienced enough to build it from scratch, so he paid my roommate to build him one. So my roommate buys all the components online, and a couple weeks later we assemble it to make sure everything works before we put it in the case. Everything works fine, so we stick it in the case. Turn it on. Nothing. We pulled out all the extra cards. Nothing. Swapped video cards. Nothing. Processor. Nothing. My roommate goes out and buys a new motherboard, assuming this is the problem. 3 returns later, the system still doesn't work. Worst part is, all the components work when they're not together (after further testing, none of the "broken" motherboards were in fact broken).
Eventually he just called it a loss and sold all the parts to other people in the dorm (I still use that sound card too!). Later I discovered that the case itself was cursed. Not even kidding! Nothing would run out of it, ever. It has the amazing ability to render any setup inoperable, even with a new PSU. Discovering this, I of course did the logical thing and gave it to a guy I didn't like very much who was building a computer himself.
No no no!
"OMG! I spilled beer in my laptop!" and send it back to the manufacturer for free warranty repair. I knew standard warranties were good for something!
There's an excerpt linked from the article but I think it's slashdotted already. It's been reposted in other comments. I suggest you read it before making any statements about how it could NOT be considered bad writing.
There's a lot of creative expression out there. Only problem is 99.999% of it is still crap.
My old discman used to do this all the time, pretty much every day after school in the summer. I haven't seen one do it recently though, is it possible that newer lcds have a higher temperature tolerance? Or maybe a colored lcd doesn't because of different construction.
Back to the point, in my case it was only temporary and would go away within a minute or so of the temperature dropping when I rolled down the windows. I guess it would depend on where he lives, color of his car etc.