So, what you're saying is that graphic designers and UI designers are greedy, self-serving bastards, while open source programmers are benevolent, generous people with their free time? I'll agree with that.
Or maybe it's just that UI and graphic design is hard. A lot of open source is actually designed quite well. Just not intuitive, or what you'd expect from your previous experiences. Takes a moment to see the brilliance of how KDE's ioslaves are hooked up. They seem like a toy, a useless feature until you've actually used them.
I'm sure IE seems nice, but it's "features" are shit like the blink tag, and ActiveX, and opening your system to anyone who can code some nasty JavaScript. That's a real win over Firefox there. Not to mention that Firefox is user extensible, whereas IE isn't, not even to the same degree.
And I'm not sure the vaunted "tabbed" interface will help a lot in Office. Especially if they organize things like they do in the rest of Windows (Why the fuck is the computer network identification info under the My Computer settings? Everything else network related is under My Network Places!)
Wait, what? WTF is that misdirection? So what if the computer that was used for it was tiny. That has nothing to do with rocket and habitation design. And Mars may be "VERY close", but it's still 78,340,000km from the earth. The moon is 385,000km away. That's a factor of 203 difference in just plain distance. Not a small feat, especially considering how much work it was just to land on the moon. And what, it took them 4 days to get to the moon? Let's be generous and give them 3. That's 606 days. A year and a half. Just to get there. They have to have food, fuel, not die of muscle atrophy, all kinds of things.
And I'm just an armchair scientist. Get your head out of your ass.
BTW, that tax money spent on bombs is because other people spend theirs on bombs. We wouldn't have scientists free to think about things like space without bombs, because there are many groups willing to censor and kill to constrain such thought. It's the old book they believe in or you die.
Actually, I just remember replying to it. Only reason it even crossed my radar. Hehe. I got the joke. I just keep forgetting to suffix my posts with a:) so people get that I get it.
The problem is that extroverts score much higher with people that they only have a passing acquaintance of than introverts. This gives them power in a larger society because they're more notorious and visible. They're seen as powerful go-getters and so on even if they are annoying to those near them or, quite often, self-serving scum.
It does mean that you can yell at the house "Hey, I can show you how to install locks." Seeing an open door and walking through it are two totally different things. Gallant just saw the open door, he didn't walk through it. Goofus walked through it.
But nice try. Thanks for playing, please engage your brain before the next round. It makes things go that much smoother for everyone.
Why not? Just keep sending the signal out, and you're starting to catch civilizations that are just going over the cusp of understanding. No one said they only had to send it once. Cycle the whole thing over, say, 5 years. You'll obliterate every nascent curious civilization:P
Why should I have to do all that work, I just paid $400 for a damn machine. Now I have to make the whole entertainment center look like ass with foamcore, or a piece of wood? The point is that it was a horrible design choice they made. You pay $400 to play games, not to jump through hoops just to get the damn thing to work.
[blockquote]Do not block any ventilation openings on the console or power supply. Do not place the console or power supply on a bed, sofa, or other soft surface that may block ventilation openings. Do not place the console or power supply in a confined space, such as a bookcase, rack, or stereo cabinet, unless the space is well ventilated.
Do not place the console or power supply near any heat sources, such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or amplifiers.[/blockquote]
So where do I put it? Not everyone has a concrete pad with air conditioning running over it to play their games. This is an applicance like your stereo, like your tv, like most of the stuff people stuff into an entertainment center. It's insane that you have to have so much ventilation for a game system like that.
Why in the HELL is this modded up? This guy wears tinfoil hats and sees black helicopters!
If it were anything other than standard CD audio, it wouldn't play in a normal CD player. The DRM'd versions aren't compressed with LAME. How could they be played then? Or WMA? The parent is smoking some serious crack.
Thinking bad! Consume good! Me go watch tripe on NBC they tell me what think. Then I talk with friends about what fictional character slept with what fictional character, and live worthless existence.
And she doesn't understand when you say "Yes, but with IE it will let people take control of the computer, steal our information, and possibly cause lots of damage to other people's computers"?
How's it feel being married to an idiot? Even my mom and dad get it, and my dad still types with two fingers.
I'm appalled that no one else thought it was funny.
Sheesh... what's wrong with you people? I don't think it's Americans that don't get humor... it's geeks in general.
And for the parent, a well-deserved LMAO.
You don't think "differently", but you do percieve things differently because of the nuances of yoru culture, which are often exposed in language. It's not a cause, it's a correlation.
Unless you're talking graphics where you want a single, solid color and all. Not a photograph type range of colors, but just a few indexed colors. Those are rather common.
Short: Use the best tool for the job. Jpeg for photos, PNG for most other images.
And keep the viruses, spyware, user-hostile and expensive software? No thanks, I'll jump a few hurdles to have a fully functional OS that doesn't go out of its way to hamstring me in the name of some corporate interest.
Meh. Make your own Internet with your own tax and defense dollars then.
It's not purely national pride. It's shit like Libya being elected chair of Human Rights. The UN drafting a resolution where every country has an equal say, then expecting the US and the bigger countries to shoulder an unequal burden in carrying it out. The UN is broken as far as we're concerned. We'll kowtow to it a bit, but Americans (imho, rightly) don't trust the UN any further than we could throw them.
Research into Gigantopithecus blackii began in 1935, when the Dutch paleontologist G.H. von Koenigswald discovered a yellowish molar among the "dragon bones" for sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy.
w00t!!shift+1!
You know, Coors does just that here in Colorado. Funny part? The water they put back in the stream is cleaner than the water they take out.
replacing A hundred year old tree with A sapling may be a bit off-kilter... but what about replacing a hundred year old tree with 2 saplings? 3? Do those saplings do nothing for the environment? Does the big tree do significantly more? I'll bet that there's a lot more growth of other species encouraged by not having that behemoth towering over them, sucking up all the available light.
Environmentalism is a grey area. Don't be so snide.
c'mon, don't you like, need a media player that's capable of playing all the porn vids you can find, though? That's what college is, right?
Not to mention installing a backdoor dialer to Uzbekistan on every other page, or a ActiveX rootkit. Where would college students be without Windows as a "grown-up" OS?
I just bought a 512MB Samsung YP-F1X. I love it... tiny, got an internal rechargable battery that charges off the USB connection, good sound. Best part is that it just mounts as a standard USB storage device, so you can use it under Linux as well. Plays ogg, mp3, wma, etc.
Just my $0.02
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So, what you're saying is that graphic designers and UI designers are greedy, self-serving bastards, while open source programmers are benevolent, generous people with their free time? I'll agree with that.
Or maybe it's just that UI and graphic design is hard. A lot of open source is actually designed quite well. Just not intuitive, or what you'd expect from your previous experiences. Takes a moment to see the brilliance of how KDE's ioslaves are hooked up. They seem like a toy, a useless feature until you've actually used them.
I'm sure IE seems nice, but it's "features" are shit like the blink tag, and ActiveX, and opening your system to anyone who can code some nasty JavaScript. That's a real win over Firefox there. Not to mention that Firefox is user extensible, whereas IE isn't, not even to the same degree.
And I'm not sure the vaunted "tabbed" interface will help a lot in Office. Especially if they organize things like they do in the rest of Windows (Why the fuck is the computer network identification info under the My Computer settings? Everything else network related is under My Network Places!)
Wait, what? WTF is that misdirection? So what if the computer that was used for it was tiny. That has nothing to do with rocket and habitation design. And Mars may be "VERY close", but it's still 78,340,000km from the earth. The moon is 385,000km away. That's a factor of 203 difference in just plain distance. Not a small feat, especially considering how much work it was just to land on the moon. And what, it took them 4 days to get to the moon? Let's be generous and give them 3. That's 606 days. A year and a half. Just to get there. They have to have food, fuel, not die of muscle atrophy, all kinds of things.
And I'm just an armchair scientist. Get your head out of your ass.
BTW, that tax money spent on bombs is because other people spend theirs on bombs. We wouldn't have scientists free to think about things like space without bombs, because there are many groups willing to censor and kill to constrain such thought. It's the old book they believe in or you die.
Actually, I just remember replying to it. Only reason it even crossed my radar. Hehe. I got the joke. I just keep forgetting to suffix my posts with a :) so people get that I get it.
Couldn't get enough of Goofus and Gallant the first time, eh?
And this is what happens to your children when they use Macs... please, parents, don't allow your kids to become like this.
Mac. Just say NO(tm).
The problem is that extroverts score much higher with people that they only have a passing acquaintance of than introverts. This gives them power in a larger society because they're more notorious and visible. They're seen as powerful go-getters and so on even if they are annoying to those near them or, quite often, self-serving scum.
It does mean that you can yell at the house "Hey, I can show you how to install locks." Seeing an open door and walking through it are two totally different things. Gallant just saw the open door, he didn't walk through it. Goofus walked through it.
But nice try. Thanks for playing, please engage your brain before the next round. It makes things go that much smoother for everyone.
Why not? Just keep sending the signal out, and you're starting to catch civilizations that are just going over the cusp of understanding. No one said they only had to send it once. Cycle the whole thing over, say, 5 years. You'll obliterate every nascent curious civilization :P
Why should I have to do all that work, I just paid $400 for a damn machine. Now I have to make the whole entertainment center look like ass with foamcore, or a piece of wood? The point is that it was a horrible design choice they made. You pay $400 to play games, not to jump through hoops just to get the damn thing to work.
[blockquote]Do not block any ventilation openings on the console or power supply. Do not place the console or power supply on a bed, sofa, or other soft surface that may block ventilation openings. Do not place the console or power supply in a confined space, such as a bookcase, rack, or stereo cabinet, unless the space is well ventilated.
Do not place the console or power supply near any heat sources, such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or amplifiers.[/blockquote]
So where do I put it? Not everyone has a concrete pad with air conditioning running over it to play their games. This is an applicance like your stereo, like your tv, like most of the stuff people stuff into an entertainment center. It's insane that you have to have so much ventilation for a game system like that.
Gamespot doesn't pay for stories like other sites/posters
Why in the HELL is this modded up? This guy wears tinfoil hats and sees black helicopters!
If it were anything other than standard CD audio, it wouldn't play in a normal CD player. The DRM'd versions aren't compressed with LAME. How could they be played then? Or WMA? The parent is smoking some serious crack.
Thinking bad! Consume good! Me go watch tripe on NBC they tell me what think. Then I talk with friends about what fictional character slept with what fictional character, and live worthless existence.
And she doesn't understand when you say "Yes, but with IE it will let people take control of the computer, steal our information, and possibly cause lots of damage to other people's computers"?
How's it feel being married to an idiot? Even my mom and dad get it, and my dad still types with two fingers.
I'm appalled that no one else thought it was funny.
Sheesh... what's wrong with you people? I don't think it's Americans that don't get humor... it's geeks in general.
And for the parent, a well-deserved LMAO.
Your dishes won't get very clean with barely above freezing water... maybe they need to rethink their design
/armchair_sarcastic_engineer
You don't think "differently", but you do percieve things differently because of the nuances of yoru culture, which are often exposed in language. It's not a cause, it's a correlation.
Unless you're talking graphics where you want a single, solid color and all. Not a photograph type range of colors, but just a few indexed colors. Those are rather common.
Short: Use the best tool for the job. Jpeg for photos, PNG for most other images.
Totally off topic, but that stuff about lemmings is completely wrong ;)
And keep the viruses, spyware, user-hostile and expensive software? No thanks, I'll jump a few hurdles to have a fully functional OS that doesn't go out of its way to hamstring me in the name of some corporate interest.
Meh. Make your own Internet with your own tax and defense dollars then.
It's not purely national pride. It's shit like Libya being elected chair of Human Rights. The UN drafting a resolution where every country has an equal say, then expecting the US and the bigger countries to shoulder an unequal burden in carrying it out. The UN is broken as far as we're concerned. We'll kowtow to it a bit, but Americans (imho, rightly) don't trust the UN any further than we could throw them.
You know, Coors does just that here in Colorado. Funny part? The water they put back in the stream is cleaner than the water they take out.
replacing A hundred year old tree with A sapling may be a bit off-kilter... but what about replacing a hundred year old tree with 2 saplings? 3? Do those saplings do nothing for the environment? Does the big tree do significantly more? I'll bet that there's a lot more growth of other species encouraged by not having that behemoth towering over them, sucking up all the available light.
Environmentalism is a grey area. Don't be so snide.
c'mon, don't you like, need a media player that's capable of playing all the porn vids you can find, though? That's what college is, right?
Not to mention installing a backdoor dialer to Uzbekistan on every other page, or a ActiveX rootkit. Where would college students be without Windows as a "grown-up" OS?
I just bought a 512MB Samsung YP-F1X. I love it... tiny, got an internal rechargable battery that charges off the USB connection, good sound. Best part is that it just mounts as a standard USB storage device, so you can use it under Linux as well. Plays ogg, mp3, wma, etc.
Just my $0.02