Oh god... i love the word "pummeled". It reminds me endless hours with Quake 3 Arena. In this case, very appropriate, since Sony really railgunned consumers rights (and other...).
Wasn't the Sony president to say "Microsoft is on the wrong side of history?". As far as I'm seeing, they are on the same crappy side. Truly indecent. Ps3 will wait soooooo long my money.
Ok, your use of the words "dumb" and "smart" there are *really* insulting to people who may be extremely smart in the general case, but just have no desire to learn computers.
I'm not a native english speaker. Probably I have a different interpretation of what "dumb" means in my context.
Thanks for the shortcuts... I almost have the same configuration, but I have to point out that "expose' corners" scale very badly with the screen size. With a dual screen it's a pain. Ok... keyboard and mighty mouse are made for this...
The only thing I hate is that I can't switch to focus follows pointer (not as big a deal on the smaller screen of the laptop, but I'd be very angry about it on a desktop)
Another annoying problem is the impossibility to access menubar icons when the application has too many items. This is an interface nazism to force a reduced number of entries in the menubar, but it is also critically bound to the screen size and resolution.
and the fact that sometimes my current window loses focus when something else starts to whine about something is annoying. Nothing should ever steal my focus.
completely agree. Indeed, as i said in another post, OSX _has_ usability problems.
I agree... I meant dumb in terms of "sit down, don't ask, we deal with the details for you". The vast majority of users are dumb, not in the sense of stupidity, but of needs. Their needs are dumb.
It does not have any sense to put an utility to configure the kernel in the configuration panels of KDE. I'm not a fan of GNOME, and I largely preferred KDE in the past. I'm not a Mac zealot, and I spot usability problems also in OSX, but the OSX interface largely _does_ what it claims.
Of course, _if_ you need to configure the OSX firewall in advanced ways, you are SOL (but you can start a terminal and go figure).
Gnome went in the Mac direction. Sit down, don't ask. This _imposes_ HIG nazism. If you look at the Mac interface, it's full of HIG nazism. This nazism makes the interface pleasant, predictable, and clean. Gnome tried to do the same, but unfortunately, as far as I had the opportunity to use Gnome, they are still far from a good usability.
KDE followed the smart path, but being smart and talking smart, leaving too much freedom in configuration and presenting a complex and rich interface introduces problems for non power-users.
I'm _highly_ confident that the MacOSX interface could be made even more minimalistic without a single complain from the average users.
I think Torvalds is the prototype of power-user. A large part of gimmicks and interface nazism in today interfaces aims at the average or lower-than-average user. As a long time kde user switched to apple, I quickly realized that most of the use-cases I was used to were difficult to obtain with the OSX interface.
Is that a real problem? Dumb people want dumb interfaces. Smart people want smart interfaces. Give a dumb interface to a smart guy, and you obtain the Torvalds situation. Give a smart interface to a dumb guy and all you'll obtain is whining about its complexity.
1) shut down lyrics sites 2) sales dropping more due to the problem you reported 3) RIAA complains to the government 4) government provide more draconian and consumer-bashing laws 5) consumers are forced to pay (much more) exploited by new laws, even non actually buying the product 6) profit
I think the more pertinent point is that its not knowledge that fuels the game, it is imagination.
i strongly agree.
People no longer play games for the simple purpose of entertainment, or even just the benefit of spending time with friends... Why does everything have to come to some kind of competition that requires years of training and focus? Can't we just play games and have fun without all the hype?
I'm a interpreting player. I like interpretation and all my characters have a fine background story and a long term mission. I don't care of fighting with monster, or to level up my character in efficient ways. Unfortunately, I'm not the average player. Most of the D&D players are constantly looking for optimization, higher and powerful classes, and they don't care on how their character behaves. They just want to kill monsters. gain experience. level up.
The problem, imho, is twofold: first, the game engine. D&D core rulebook is focused on this gamestyle. You fight monster and you gain experience by defeating them. Also, there's absolutely no need to do interpretation in order to play. Last but not least, most of the expansions to the core books provide new prestige classes (some of them are really powerful) and also the campaigns are mostly focused on defeating some entity by direct fight. Players went along this guideline focusing on how to kill the next monster, rather on how to produce a good gaming experience trying to obtain a permission from the King to have a big party with all the citizens in the city square.
second, average players grow up with the computer RPG model, that again enhances a XP-per-kill point of view. So, Wizard of the Coast(TM) simply gives people what people want, and since you can't play D&D alone, most of the time I'm forced to play with people who don't like interpretation, considering it almost a waste of time. Very frustating, but since i like fantasy I can't drop the ball and go playing something else.
D&D is becoming more and more commercial. Attracting more people, this is the result: you need to be great, you need to fight and defeat, everything else is useless. Probably interpretative people will move to the GURPS engine, but as far as i saw the engine is quite tricky and you have no Forgotten Realms(TM) for GURPS. And as usual, you can't play all by yourself.
what about interpreting a Int 22 Level 20 archmage ?
i'm not kidding... i have a level 19 cleric. I renounced to play her at epic levels. When you are a low level character, you can administer pretty well everything, but as the level becomes higher, using all the feats, spells, magical object, all the modifiers and prestige class feats become really complex to manage at the right moment, even for a long time player like me.
Get the order of magnitude optimization first, then quibble about individual instructions (i.e. make a dirty hack) only if you really, really need to.
Exactly, but quibbling is almost a waste of time if you can go down further by changing the algorithm... I mean, it's a waste of time trying to optimize the code for a bubblesort when you can implement a quicksort.
- if your function is small enough and your compiler smart enough, it can inline the routine, removing overhead preserving readability
- nobody can say where the time-critical code is without profiling. Most of the (fortran) code I handle spends 80% of the time zeroing arrays. There's not so much to optimize in this procedure, and optimizing the remaining 20% by filling the code with gotos is only a waste of time
- if the algorithm is slow, optimize. If it's still slow, change algorithm.
- last but not least. If you optimize the code to save some hour of computational cost but you obtain code which needs an additional month to debug, you are doomed to have a very bad time.
There are no inhibitors. Simply stated, the production of nitroglycerine is a reaction that needs the elimination of water. The reaction does not happen if you have water in your reaction environment, and you need to eliminate the water created by the reaction itself. To do this, you need to work with a mixture of nitric acid and sulphuric acid + SO_3. The sulphuric acid is greedy of water, and the SO_3 reacts with water giving more sulphuric acid which in turn removes more water.
You cannot perform the reaction without this mixed nitric/sulphuric/SO_3 environment. To buy sulhuric/SO_3 mixture you need an authorization.
apart from the consideration made by the sibling post, do you really think that all of these are not war-inducing problems?
1) leaving all the OPEC countries with no request for their main product will reduce the chances of a war, or rather increase the general poverty in those countries creating more problems?
2) do you think that oil is only used for vehicles? most of it, yes. but what about plastic, drugs, reactants? all of these produce pollution, and in case of low quantities of oil, it will trigger war (are we really able to live without plastic today?)
3) most of the pollution comes from other sources. even breathing pollutes. removing trees pollutes.
Are they kidding? such a system was already implemented in Bozo's Night out, a commodore 64 game where a drunk guy see pink elephants and other strange stuff depending on the number of beer pints he consumed. The higher the pints, the lower the control and strangeness will pop up more frequently.
Theater: - better audio, better feelings, larger screen, full immersion in what you are doing (watching a movie you paid for, in this very moment). - Public place, so you can take a look to hordes of nice girls. - A perfect evening with friends: pizza, cinema and beer in a pub. - Movies are first in theaters, then in DVD. - Summer theaters are sooooo beautiful.
In my lifestyle, theater still has something better than home.
to have some moon dweller putting a wireless connection somewhere into a canyon or a crater, and use it from the earth as a proxy for anonymous peer to peer. Go find it *AA!
This is an improvement of bittorrent. I'm behind firewall, and my download rate sucks because i can only receive, but not send. Using C as a bridge, like Skype does, allow bittorrent to work even in this situation.
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A terrible news. If DNF will be finally released, all the jokes on /. of the kind "it will happen when DNF is released" are going to become true.
This will lead to the end of the world as we know it.
I'm scared, really scared....
Those who are unable to understand the difference between a game and the reality are doomed to die.
:(
It's called natural selection.
Too bad these idiots do not kill themselves. they kill other people.
Aw man... You just made me LOL and ROTFL :D...
seeing Sony getting repeatedly pummeled
Oh god... i love the word "pummeled". It reminds me endless hours with Quake 3 Arena. In this case, very appropriate, since Sony really railgunned consumers rights (and other...).
Wasn't the Sony president to say "Microsoft is on the wrong side of history?". As far as I'm seeing, they are on the same crappy side. Truly indecent. Ps3 will wait soooooo long my money.
Ok, your use of the words "dumb" and "smart" there are *really* insulting to people who may be extremely smart in the general case, but just have no desire to learn computers.
I'm not a native english speaker. Probably I have a different interpretation of what "dumb" means in my context.
Thanks for the shortcuts... I almost have the same configuration, but I have to point out that "expose' corners" scale very badly with the screen size. With a dual screen it's a pain. Ok... keyboard and mighty mouse are made for this...
The only thing I hate is that I can't switch to focus follows pointer (not as big a deal on the smaller screen of the laptop, but I'd be very angry about it on a desktop)
Another annoying problem is the impossibility to access menubar icons when the application has too many items. This is an interface nazism to force a reduced number of entries in the menubar, but it is also critically bound to the screen size and resolution.
and the fact that sometimes my current window loses focus when something else starts to whine about something is annoying. Nothing should ever steal my focus.
completely agree. Indeed, as i said in another post, OSX _has_ usability problems.
It's about payoff, not intelligence.
I agree... I meant dumb in terms of "sit down, don't ask, we deal with the details for you". The vast majority of users are dumb, not in the sense of stupidity, but of needs. Their needs are dumb.
It does not have any sense to put an utility to configure the kernel in the configuration panels of KDE. I'm not a fan of GNOME, and I largely preferred KDE in the past. I'm not a Mac zealot, and I spot usability problems also in OSX, but the OSX interface largely _does_ what it claims.
Of course, _if_ you need to configure the OSX firewall in advanced ways, you are SOL (but you can start a terminal and go figure).
Gnome went in the Mac direction. Sit down, don't ask. This _imposes_ HIG nazism. If you look at the Mac interface, it's full of HIG nazism. This nazism makes the interface pleasant, predictable, and clean. Gnome tried to do the same, but unfortunately, as far as I had the opportunity to use Gnome, they are still far from a good usability.
KDE followed the smart path, but being smart and talking smart, leaving too much freedom in configuration and presenting a complex and rich interface introduces problems for non power-users.
I'm _highly_ confident that the MacOSX interface could be made even more minimalistic without a single complain from the average users.
I think Torvalds is the prototype of power-user.
A large part of gimmicks and interface nazism in today interfaces aims at the average or lower-than-average user. As a long time kde user switched to apple, I quickly realized that most of the use-cases I was used to were difficult to obtain with the OSX interface.
Is that a real problem? Dumb people want dumb interfaces. Smart people want smart interfaces. Give a dumb interface to a smart guy, and you obtain the Torvalds situation. Give a smart interface to a dumb guy and all you'll obtain is whining about its complexity.
Shut that down and you're gonna lose my sales.
Exactly what they want.
1) shut down lyrics sites
2) sales dropping more due to the problem you reported
3) RIAA complains to the government
4) government provide more draconian and consumer-bashing laws
5) consumers are forced to pay (much more) exploited by new laws, even non actually buying the product
6) profit
I think the more pertinent point is that its not knowledge that fuels the game, it is imagination.
i strongly agree.
People no longer play games for the simple purpose of entertainment, or even just the benefit of spending time with friends... Why does everything have to come to some kind of competition that requires years of training and focus? Can't we just play games and have fun without all the hype?
I'm a interpreting player. I like interpretation and all my characters have a fine background story and a long term mission. I don't care of fighting with monster, or to level up my character in efficient ways. Unfortunately, I'm not the average player. Most of the D&D players are constantly looking for optimization, higher and powerful classes, and they don't care on how their character behaves. They just want to kill monsters. gain experience. level up.
The problem, imho, is twofold: first, the game engine. D&D core rulebook is focused on this gamestyle. You fight monster and you gain experience by defeating them. Also, there's absolutely no need to do interpretation in order to play. Last but not least, most of the expansions to the core books provide new prestige classes (some of them are really powerful) and also the campaigns are mostly focused on defeating some entity by direct fight. Players went along this guideline focusing on how to kill the next monster, rather on how to produce a good gaming experience trying to obtain a permission from the King to have a big party with all the citizens in the city square.
second, average players grow up with the computer RPG model, that again enhances a XP-per-kill point of view. So, Wizard of the Coast(TM) simply gives people what people want, and since you can't play D&D alone, most of the time I'm forced to play with people who don't like interpretation, considering it almost a waste of time. Very frustating, but since i like fantasy I can't drop the ball and go playing something else.
D&D is becoming more and more commercial. Attracting more people, this is the result: you need to be great, you need to fight and defeat, everything else is useless. Probably interpretative people will move to the GURPS engine, but as far as i saw the engine is quite tricky and you have no Forgotten Realms(TM) for GURPS. And as usual, you can't play all by yourself.
Forrest Gump could figure it out.
what about interpreting a Int 22 Level 20 archmage ?
i'm not kidding... i have a level 19 cleric. I renounced to play her at epic levels. When you are a low level character, you can administer pretty well everything, but as the level becomes higher, using all the feats, spells, magical object, all the modifiers and prestige class feats become really complex to manage at the right moment, even for a long time player like me.
Get the order of magnitude optimization first, then quibble about individual instructions (i.e. make a dirty hack) only if you really, really need to.
Exactly, but quibbling is almost a waste of time if you can go down further by changing the algorithm... I mean, it's a waste of time trying to optimize the code for a bubblesort when you can implement a quicksort.
Yes, functions impose overhead. however:
- if your function is small enough and your compiler smart enough, it can inline the routine, removing overhead preserving readability
- nobody can say where the time-critical code is without profiling. Most of the (fortran) code I handle spends 80% of the time zeroing arrays. There's not so much to optimize in this procedure, and optimizing the remaining 20% by filling the code with gotos is only a waste of time
- if the algorithm is slow, optimize. If it's still slow, change algorithm.
- last but not least. If you optimize the code to save some hour of computational cost but you obtain code which needs an additional month to debug, you are doomed to have a very bad time.
The best innovation in human usability
http://www.sidetalkin.com/
i guess it's not completely unrelated to the bad results of this cellphone
There are no inhibitors. Simply stated, the production of nitroglycerine is a reaction that needs the elimination of water. The reaction does not happen if you have water in your reaction environment, and you need to eliminate the water created by the reaction itself. To do this, you need to work with a mixture of nitric acid and sulphuric acid + SO_3. The sulphuric acid is greedy of water, and the SO_3 reacts with water giving more sulphuric acid which in turn removes more water.
You cannot perform the reaction without this mixed nitric/sulphuric/SO_3 environment. To buy sulhuric/SO_3 mixture you need an authorization.
> Please give me something else to beleive in !
SCO licensing
I have a code in Fortran 77, with a first comment:
this code has no comments. It was hard to write, it must be hard to understand
followed by ten thousands lines of a single, not indented main, full of goto's and undecryptable variable names.
thanks god I never had to put my hands on it.
apart from the consideration made by the sibling post, do you really think that all of these are not war-inducing problems?
1) leaving all the OPEC countries with no request for their main product will reduce the chances of a war, or rather increase the general poverty in those countries creating more problems?
2) do you think that oil is only used for vehicles? most of it, yes. but what about plastic, drugs, reactants? all of these produce pollution, and in case of low quantities of oil, it will trigger war (are we really able to live without plastic today?)
3) most of the pollution comes from other sources. even breathing pollutes. removing trees pollutes.
4) drinkable water is the next oil, stay tuned.
With all the "personal interpretations" of statistics out there in favour of microsoft products, who cares?
If apache have a marketing appearence why we should consider to normalize it?
They don't, we don't.
Are they kidding? such a system was already implemented in Bozo's Night out, a commodore 64 game where a drunk guy see pink elephants and other strange stuff depending on the number of beer pints he consumed. The higher the pints, the lower the control and strangeness will pop up more frequently.
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just a link to remember this great game
http://www.classicgaming.com/area64/games/images/
Theater:
- better audio, better feelings, larger screen, full immersion in what you are doing (watching a movie you paid for, in this very moment).
- Public place, so you can take a look to hordes of nice girls.
- A perfect evening with friends: pizza, cinema and beer in a pub.
- Movies are first in theaters, then in DVD.
- Summer theaters are sooooo beautiful.
In my lifestyle, theater still has something better than home.
to have some moon dweller putting a wireless connection somewhere into a canyon or a crater, and use it from the earth as a proxy for anonymous peer to peer. Go find it *AA!
Sublimating chubby black beetles in three... two... one...
This is an improvement of bittorrent. I'm behind firewall, and my download rate sucks because i can only receive, but not send. Using C as a bridge, like Skype does, allow bittorrent to work even in this situation.
The *AA condemn the practice, and demands a tax on reproduction (since a new brain is a new hard disk).
Downloaded brains are illegal copies of movies and song seen and heard, and thus infringe the copyright.