I think that ideally the level of "configurability" itself should be configurable.
This means that experienced users have more power over the looks, while novices can still play with some things without risking to mess things up ("where did Solitaire go?").
And I'm not only thinking an "admin/user" difference, there may be many levels... for example, one level allows only to change colors, another the desktop theme, and yet another level lets you change how the menus behave. And so on... It *should* be possible with a good integration of UIs, although coming up with something effective and not bloaty will be a real challenge. Not to mention that you need to set a standard... and that can be fight:)
But I think Apple machines are going there. Everytime I touch OS X I get the feeling that everybody sets it up to their own taste, while in XP things are much more standardized. [Linux is of course free-for-all as you can code your own whatever.:-)]
Since you can get a free Linux for any PC, you have to consider the extra hardware benefit that you get with this laptop.
- For $200 more, you can buy a new entry-level P4 laptop or an iBook.
- For almost the same price you can build a Mini-ITX system running at 933 Mhz with a 15" flatscreen monitor. With this option, you can further reduce the price if you have some spare parts (Hard Drive, DDR Ram, USB/Firewire CD drive, etc).
Of course the second choice is not as "portable" (no working on bus/trains/planes), but if you're broke and need a solid PC, it's a good entry-level choice.:-) I just built one instead of buying a laptop and saved $400 by reusing old parts. And yes, it fits in my backpack:-)
After that story with the RIAA claims about number of seized CD burners, I'm seriously wondering whether this "dangerous cracker" is not in fact some script kiddie who stumbled upon a computer that stored 275,000 CC#s, and the data is mirrored in 7 other computers...;-)
It seems to me that Nvidia is going to go for another product, superior to the announced GeforceFX, in order to compete with the announced Radeon successor. Of course this is pure speculation, but I don't see the point of filling pre-orders only if the product is merely "delayed".
Clifford D. Simak wrote an excellent set of novels, but I don't know what their name are in English. The French edition has them in a book called "Demain les chiens" ("Tomorrow, Dogs"). I read it long ago but I highly recommend it.
Genetically modified animals become creative and evolve to/past human level?......but I wouldn't worry so much as Disney will have all talking mice executed out of copyright.:-)
thusly, if you have a DS3 that's not flat-rate, as it probably isn't, you aren't going to pay as much if it's not fully used. I guess it depends on your ISPs infrastructure design.
If I understand your post well, this means that you pay a given fee for your network line, but then if you pass a certain treshold of usage (GB/month?) you have to pay more...
...wouldn't that make matters worse? Who would sell their bandwidth when they have to pay for transfer? It would be like submitting your site to/. when your server is on payphone dial-up;-)
Please note that your local bakery takes up shelf space to sell their excess production at a lower price, rather than looking for a smaller rental space. In fact, they over produce a bit on purpose just so they can do this.
This is a good analogy, but I think you are confusing the product and "shelf space". A company (that is not an ISP of course) will rather keep unused "shelf space" to fill with their own production, rather than giving it out to other people.
In other words (and IMHO) you buy extra "shelf space" only if you see a possibility that you will need it and have it available when it happens. Reselling it would not be the best solution, especially when their ISP (whose business IS selling/mass-marketing bandwidth) may be very unhappy as a result.
I don't remember who it was (probably somebody here does), but there was once this company suing another for stealing their source.
Of course the defendants blatantly denied everything and asked for proof. So in front of the judge and the rest of the audience, one of the programmers nonchalantly typed a sequence of keys on the defendant's software and... a huge easter egg showing the name of the original programmers appeared on the screen.:-)
Too bad they changed the function signatures, such a definite victory may not be obtainable in court this time. But I sure hope a good precedent comes out of this.
What many people may not realize at first thought is that keeping your game rated G is the best move you can make. If you start inserting "adult" themes, you are most likely to insert "male fantasy" themes. Not only this alienates the kids, but also most of the potential female players.
But if you stay with the common lowest denominator, a "General" audience, then you are targeting the whole market. Of course this pressuposes that you are not targeting exclusively to kids by inserting repetitive old jokes (barney style), but instead focus on larger storytelling (zelda style) that people of all ages can relate to.
Then if your game is of superior quality, it will prevail. But designing these games are much harder than inserting "male fantasy", and that's why we get things such as BMX-XXX...
The pay phones are so cool, they don't take change, only cards, and they have lcd screens.[...] I thought I saw a cat5 plug in the wall, but I was wrong. It was the telephone.
France has also very advanced phones, and they even invented the calling card with a chip for it. ^^ But in this case the technology quickly rose because the government had a monopoly on telecommunications until recently.
And that's a mixed blessing. At the beginning of the 80's France Telecom introduced the Minitel, which was an unexpensive mini computer terminal, using teletext but allowing user input via an integrated keyboard. The problem is that it became such a cash cow that they NEVER updated the technology.
People from all ages still use it today, and at first sight it's hard to understand why they haven't updated it to offer a small computer terminal that can access the internet. My theory is that it's because of their revenues: the Minitel relies on company servers (like BBSes) and since what you pay depends on each connection (much more expensive depending where you log in). The Internet, on the other hand, cannot be billed in the same way... you can bill per time usage but not per site. It's sad to see that even a government company can have a great technology wasted to maximize profit.
The U.S. has more competition, so a technology like the Minitel could have worked and would be updated faster. Meanwhile (around 1995), France Telecom was still trying to convince people to stay on the Minitel for e-mail (and thus pay much more)...
It's strange that nobody (afaik) is planning to redesign the launchers to include cheaper parts. The technology is very specific, but there may be other uses for it that would (hopefully) allow mass production, reducing the total unit cost.
A standard does not mean that everybody is forced to do it that way. It's merely a common "language" that people agree upon. Defining a standard will therefore enable distros to concentrate their efforts while being able to keep their own way of doing things. Of course, if the standard lifts offs and everybody accepts it, then the distros will start dropping old features over time. But even with a standard, it remains open source. So theoretically anybody could try to propose a new standard (as long as it is backwards compatible).;-)
My college only offers residence to undergraduate students. So if they did offer this and you're graduate, then not only you can't get a cheaper (erm...) roof, but also you can't get a free version of OS X. No switch from me...
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pr0n: have you fed your computer today?
:-)
Mix that with a DRM genetic profiling OS and we're all in big trouble.
I think that ideally the level of "configurability" itself should be configurable.
:)
:-)]
This means that experienced users have more power over the looks, while novices can still play with some things without risking to mess things up ("where did Solitaire go?").
And I'm not only thinking an "admin/user" difference, there may be many levels... for example, one level allows only to change colors, another the desktop theme, and yet another level lets you change how the menus behave. And so on... It *should* be possible with a good integration of UIs, although coming up with something effective and not bloaty will be a real challenge. Not to mention that you need to set a standard... and that can be fight
But I think Apple machines are going there. Everytime I touch OS X I get the feeling that everybody sets it up to their own taste, while in XP things are much more standardized. [Linux is of course free-for-all as you can code your own whatever.
Since you can get a free Linux for any PC, you have to consider the extra hardware benefit that you get with this laptop.
:-) I just built one instead of buying a laptop and saved $400 by reusing old parts. And yes, it fits in my backpack :-)
- For $200 more, you can buy a new entry-level P4 laptop or an iBook.
- For almost the same price you can build a Mini-ITX system running at 933 Mhz with a 15" flatscreen monitor. With this option, you can further reduce the price if you have some spare parts (Hard Drive, DDR Ram, USB/Firewire CD drive, etc).
Of course the second choice is not as "portable" (no working on bus/trains/planes), but if you're broke and need a solid PC, it's a good entry-level choice.
That mascot is probably reserved for voodoo rituals :-) Geek or not, it's still MS... :-)
After that story with the RIAA claims about number of seized CD burners, I'm seriously wondering whether this "dangerous cracker" is not in fact some script kiddie who stumbled upon a computer that stored 275,000 CC#s, and the data is mirrored in 7 other computers... ;-)
1. send vial of stuff to Mars ...
:-)
2. send Accelera-Grow (TM) Evil inc.
3.
4. sell tickets to Disneyland Mars
of course after 30 minutes of running time the movie follows by:
5. send exoskeleton-enhanced soldiers to kill all human-eating giant bacterias
Now wait this sounds familiar...
It seems to me that Nvidia is going to go for another product, superior to the announced GeforceFX, in order to compete with the announced Radeon successor.
Of course this is pure speculation, but I don't see the point of filling pre-orders only if the product is merely "delayed".
Clifford D. Simak wrote an excellent set of novels, but I don't know what their name are in English. The French edition has them in a book called "Demain les chiens" ("Tomorrow, Dogs"). I read it long ago but I highly recommend it.
Genetically modified animals become creative and evolve to/past human level?... ...but I wouldn't worry so much as Disney will have all talking mice executed out of copyright. :-)
thusly, if you have a DS3 that's not flat-rate, as it probably isn't, you aren't going to pay as much if it's not fully used. I guess it depends on your ISPs infrastructure design.
...wouldn't that make matters worse? Who would sell their bandwidth when they have to pay for transfer? It would be like submitting your site to /. when your server is on payphone dial-up ;-)
If I understand your post well, this means that you pay a given fee for your network line, but then if you pass a certain treshold of usage (GB/month?) you have to pay more...
Please note that your local bakery takes up shelf space to sell their excess production at a lower price, rather than looking for a smaller rental space. In fact, they over produce a bit on purpose just so they can do this.
This is a good analogy, but I think you are confusing the product and "shelf space". A company (that is not an ISP of course) will rather keep unused "shelf space" to fill with their own production, rather than giving it out to other people.
In other words (and IMHO) you buy extra "shelf space" only if you see a possibility that you will need it and have it available when it happens. Reselling it would not be the best solution, especially when their ISP (whose business IS selling/mass-marketing bandwidth) may be very unhappy as a result.
I would expect a company with excess bandwidth to downgrade their lines and save money, not to give it to somebody else for a lower sum.
;-)
I don't think even incompetent managers get T3 lines to look "cool" when several T1 will do.
Haw! Now that you mention it, I remember who made Olympic Decathlon... MICROSOFT!
:-)
I don't remember any blue screens back then, but you had to change your keyboard every other month. They obviously had a deal with keyboard makers.
You figure they somehow retroactively changed the signatures on copies already distributed?
:-)
;)
If it's only the OS, an "important security patch" may be all it takes.
But no doubt that there are other ways to prove the wrongdoing. It's just not as spectacular.
I don't remember who it was (probably somebody here does), but there was once this company suing another for stealing their source.
:-)
Of course the defendants blatantly denied everything and asked for proof. So in front of the judge and the rest of the audience, one of the programmers nonchalantly typed a sequence of keys on the defendant's software and... a huge easter egg showing the name of the original programmers appeared on the screen.
Too bad they changed the function signatures, such a definite victory may not be obtainable in court this time. But I sure hope a good precedent comes out of this.
What many people may not realize at first thought is that keeping your game rated G is the best move you can make.
If you start inserting "adult" themes, you are most likely to insert "male fantasy" themes. Not only this alienates the kids, but also most of the potential female players.
But if you stay with the common lowest denominator, a "General" audience, then you are targeting the whole market. Of course this pressuposes that you are not targeting exclusively to kids by inserting repetitive old jokes (barney style), but instead focus on larger storytelling (zelda style) that people of all ages can relate to.
Then if your game is of superior quality, it will prevail. But designing these games are much harder than inserting "male fantasy", and that's why we get things such as BMX-XXX...
The pay phones are so cool, they don't take change, only cards, and they have lcd screens.[...] I thought I saw a cat5 plug in the wall, but I was wrong. It was the telephone.
France has also very advanced phones, and they even invented the calling card with a chip for it. ^^ But in this case the technology quickly rose because the government had a monopoly on telecommunications until recently.
And that's a mixed blessing. At the beginning of the 80's France Telecom introduced the Minitel, which was an unexpensive mini computer terminal, using teletext but allowing user input via an integrated keyboard. The problem is that it became such a cash cow that they NEVER updated the technology.
People from all ages still use it today, and at first sight it's hard to understand why they haven't updated it to offer a small computer terminal that can access the internet. My theory is that it's because of their revenues: the Minitel relies on company servers (like BBSes) and since what you pay depends on each connection (much more expensive depending where you log in). The Internet, on the other hand, cannot be billed in the same way... you can bill per time usage but not per site. It's sad to see that even a government company can have a great technology wasted to maximize profit.
The U.S. has more competition, so a technology like the Minitel could have worked and would be updated faster. Meanwhile (around 1995), France Telecom was still trying to convince people to stay on the Minitel for e-mail (and thus pay much more)...
It's strange that nobody (afaik) is planning to redesign the launchers to include cheaper parts. The technology is very specific, but there may be other uses for it that would (hopefully) allow mass production, reducing the total unit cost.
Ok now where's my rocket engine powered car?
...all international flights have updated their menus to include massive amounts of beans.
A standard does not mean that everybody is forced to do it that way. It's merely a common "language" that people agree upon. ;-)
Defining a standard will therefore enable distros to concentrate their efforts while being able to keep their own way of doing things.
Of course, if the standard lifts offs and everybody accepts it, then the distros will start dropping old features over time.
But even with a standard, it remains open source. So theoretically anybody could try to propose a new standard (as long as it is backwards compatible).
What about a young-person simulator for the older folks?
it's called viagra
I have to do a research paper for next week! ^^
My college only offers residence to undergraduate students. So if they did offer this and you're graduate, then not only you can't get a cheaper (erm...) roof, but also you can't get a free version of OS X. No switch from me...
it looked like the title read:
"The Heterophobe Unpublished Letters of Ernest Glitch"
...that you didn't went to see LoTR opening night.