It happens in good games too. In Counterstrike 1.x, a real headshot from highly explosive grenade is an extremely rare occurrence, I've seen it happen exactly once! It's not just a grenade hitting your face (or head in general), detonation needs to happen at the same time. Enemy player maybe needs to be injured beforehand, as there may be no specific damage value for a grenade headshot. I'm doubting my memory, but I'm pretty sure it happened.
I now like tabs on top, it makes the URL bar easier to reach (and the search bar for occasional lusers who use my browser) It helps that Firefox comes with the "File edit view.." menu bar intact and title bar intact by default, on the OSes I use.
Isn't there liquid water in the first place because of tidal heating? Tidal forces move some things around. Lack of sunlight including ultraviolets is the problem I think of, especially if the ocean is pretty much sealed from the surface as you speculate though there is cryvolcanism.
I was well aware that my Mozilla colleagues cover a wide spectrum; this has never been an issue either at work or in our extra-curricular interactions.
But here it became an issue that spiraled out, or mothballed. The "controversy" is parasitic, or "viral". Regardless of moral opinion on this or that, the off-topic debate is a poison, I'll be more interested in end user reception of the new Firefox GUI, privacy or Firefox phones than about sticking a penis into a non-vaginal part in a monogamy context.
A laptop with A4-5000 and two slots can technically take 32GB.. but the 16GB DIMMs are a bit special and unobtainable. Someone should make a laptop that takes four registered DIMMs, Opteron or Xeon. You would have been able to have 64GB on a laptop yesterday. Good for several niches of users.
Funnily I've switched from 1024x768 to 960x720 and I don't suffer from it that much. Slightly inaquate web pages stay slightly inadequate and the completely resolution agnostic ones stay good. At least I don't suffer from the "bug" of webpages displaying kilometer-long lines of text when the width is something from 1600 to 1920, that's the big issue with "old style" pages.
Yes using that res is inane, except I found it's a good thing to use on low end CRT, I created myself a mode at 90Hz. yay!
There's about a thousand comments in this slashdot discussion, which points at how much the issue is distracting. If he apologized and stayed CEO I bet the issue would still come up every time, this time with meta-debate about why did he rescind his position, is it pressure from Mozilla, is Mozilla infested with political correctness etc. and whatever trolls and crap still coming up.
I think the resignation is a pretty honorable act from the guy, he simply can't serve as a CEO anyway. His role as a figurehead was ruined already. Just get another figurehead. Mozilla is not a $50 billion megacorp or a swift-boating presidential campaign, I don't think they can afford the media pollution.
Learn how to drink great quantities of alcohol without incurring headaches. Water-flavoured "beer" doesn't cut it, you'd have to drink many liters of the thing which means too many bottles or cans around and you have to take a piss too often, and end up overworking your kidneys. That isn't healthy. Booze and other spirits is expensive and toxic. Have to keep a glass of water around else your mouth, body and eventually brain will dry.. not good. Red wine is great, and exponentially healthier when you don't get the worst products. The better the wine, the less sulfur dioxide in it (and red wine has a ton less of it than white wine). Which gets me to the bottle. Know what? it was conceived as a container for a daily dose of wine. What's more, it's the working man's daily dose. So one bottle can last for the duration of a workday, but you can have another one after work. Of course friends, coworkers and acquaintances might drink from your bottle in which case a third one is needed. If you need to wash your mouth or you feel like it, have great beer, such as micro-brews and similar, beers that are not sterilized and alcohol content typically 5% to 10%.
Once you get it going, never give up. Depression is a serious topic, lifestyle, culinary and drink habits play a good part in curbing it. You want a stable, healthy life with reliably recurring elements in it.
No real experience apart from trying quick stuff like getting the list of running processes.. It just seems rather useless and unfathomable as an end user shell for everyday common use, the way cmd.exe and bash can be used by beginners and even computer illiterate people learning the command line. It seems made for writing admin scripts instead, replacing.vbs, similar role to using perl scripts to administrate unix machines. It's just alien and hard and you don't know why you would use unless you're a professional Windows admin.. It's here on Windows XP, 7 and later but no one ever use it.. If you want to ping stuff and run short sequences of commands etc. there's still old cmd and batch, so why care?
Search doesn't even make sense if you don't know what's installed on the computer or don't remember every detail of what you have installed or not installed, or removed. Using the menu is also the default thing on major linux desktop environments : gnome 2, mate, xfce, lxde, even mere window managers like Openbox have a menu.
Maybe search is more useful on a laptop where the built-in pointing device is inferior to a mouse. As a desktop user on a desktop PC I find it more of a hassle, it slows the PC down a bit too. If I know the program's name I can use an auto-completing runbox anyway, from either alt-f2 or a shortcut on a panel.
It is hard to do horizontal scrolling, and the interface is non standard. It takes all screen, which a huge area to read on a low end desktop 1080p monitor. Features are seemingly hidden - the little arrow or its purpose is hard to discover. Lack of buttons to click on - why not have buttons that do what the magical shortcuts do? Search feature to compensate for the difficulty of launching stuff the regular way - Windows 7 was a bit like that already, having implemented the worst iteration of the start menu.
Good old start menu is alphabetically arranged (or right-click and sort), can be navigated by hovering the mouse so no need for four clicks, and is keyboard navigable as well. The good ones even allow you to add folders to it such as an 'apps' folder which contain software you care about and a 'games' folder that launches games very quickly (with command line options or via a.bat file if needed)
Some (most? all?) hard drives sold in enclosures have USB soldered-on, no SATA interface ; I find that a bit evil and would rather be able to reuse the hard drive or enclosure any way I see fit as well as choosing the precise color scheme and look/physical features of the enclosure.
USB-to-SATA docks or e-SATA or even hot-swap SATA dock in a desktop's drive bay are other options.
A friend told me he wishes for the crapper's flush to be linked to the coffee pot. Smart algorithms will detect his habit of taking a crap on the morning and then preparing coffee, so flushing the toilet should trigger coffee brewing on the right hour ranges, and if the pot is not full of coffee already. Taking a dump is a proxy for presence detection, but also for the intent of drinking coffee. I suggested that the powers-that-be will spy on him by detecting droppings falling into the water as well as analyzing the shit and storing detailed, minute-precise reports for decades.
You would have to cook your meal before leaving or at the least prepare it and leave it to cook ; check it when you're away to see that it doesn't get burned or not cooked enough, you can adjust time or temperature. Then let it sit and cool off for hours.. Just before you come back you can turn on low heat to make it warm again. Pretty limited.. Remote control can be used at home too but really, why not walk to the friggin'g oven!
On the plus side, I will spy on your oven's content, remotely deactivate your alarms and unlock your door, activate presence simulation so the neighbors think everything is fine and then rush to your home and proceed to steal your delicious turkey or whatever.
It's a shame, as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is almost out and I was ready to give a try. I know a few people using 12.04, it dumbs you down and encourages a browser-only use (due to difficulty of finding any but the most basic installed apps), but is decent when used in that role.
Ubuntu One was maybe a good fit (and usable on other platforms too) and especially, I have no trust in other "cloud" stuff. I don't want google or microsoft stuff, and as for dropbox I don't know who they are, what laws they obey, who they give access to your files to (NSA? Law enforcement? Dictatorships?). I thought I would try Ubuntu One one day.. It's not stuff that should go out, right?, Ubuntu has been out there for about a decade, and Long Term Support meant everything is alright till april 2017? Well, no.
Five year support is a good incentive. Having wifi after installing without an internet connection is another one, though I guess Mint Debian fixes that. I'll be installing Mint Debian edition 32bit some, but after that Mint 17 (Ubuntu based) is probably a proposition I can't pass.. Fully works till 2019 and subsequent Ubuntu-based Mint versions are to be based on the LTS (with updated kernel and Xorg support, and updated Mate and Cinnamon environments). See linuxmint blog.
I cleaned up after Dropbox on a computer (Ubuntu 11.04).. Someone decided to install a dropbox package.. which is an extension for the Nautilus file manager, except the only GUI installed was LXDE (file manager is pcmanfm). So, what a funny situation.. Doesn't work and the user has no clue. I don't care as I don't use Dropbox and I guess the user could use a web interface to get his/her files.
On my current installation I have a choice of caja-dropbox, nemo-dropbox and nautilus-dropbox so that's better (but still doesn't include pcmanfm).
Windows RT is a locked down version of the real Windows 8 (fine) but it comes with a consumer version of Office without Access and other stuff, and can't join a domain (and can't share files like Windows home editions are able to) and can't get GPOs applied.
They're using the Chromebooks as thin clients anyway. Windows runs on the server farm. If web browsing is allowed on the Chrome boxen, using the Chrome browser for your errands and looking up stuff etc. is pretty elegant, as the big strain on CPU and RAM resources that can entail is on the local machine and not the server that streams desktop to dozens users.
The upside is you know you have Power Delivery, USB 3.1 and whatever just by looking at the connector. With a random USB type A, I know fuck all about how many amps it support or not even if it is USB 1 or USB 2. It is a benefit to have both USB C on host and device as well.
I watch DS9 (I'm new to it and am about half way), I have great fun trying to figure out what is Dax's job exactly. Most times she's sitting or standing around, pushes a button sometimes, says stuff but it's extremely obvious she just pretends to work. I guess she wanders around the station when not on screen, doing errands and leisure activities.
Worf somehow made fun of himself in TNG. "I suggest we launch a photon torpedo at [this utterly unknown and undescriptible phenomenon hanging around in deep space]" ROFL. Picard and the whole crew were extremely dumb too in that episode where they come across a mysterious "hole" in space. Let's look at it, but be careful, not too fast, not too close. Let's get a bit closer. Damn, we still can't see or understand anything about it. Just a little bit closer, we'll be fine I guess? OH SHI- we're trapped! Hadn't seen that coming, I promise!
They save some physical space and importantly power. It depends on how much RAM the old PC have too.. A nice trick is to make the PCs diskless workstations, that makes them reliable (no hard drive) and replaceable on a whim. But if you're going to do everything on a browser having at least 2GB memory is nice, especially if you have no swap.
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I've just read that in a wiki ; for old CS (1.5 and 1.6) grenades never do damage on impact.
It happens in good games too. In Counterstrike 1.x, a real headshot from highly explosive grenade is an extremely rare occurrence, I've seen it happen exactly once!
It's not just a grenade hitting your face (or head in general), detonation needs to happen at the same time. Enemy player maybe needs to be injured beforehand, as there may be no specific damage value for a grenade headshot. I'm doubting my memory, but I'm pretty sure it happened.
I now like tabs on top, it makes the URL bar easier to reach (and the search bar for occasional lusers who use my browser)
It helps that Firefox comes with the "File edit view.." menu bar intact and title bar intact by default, on the OSes I use.
Isn't there liquid water in the first place because of tidal heating? Tidal forces move some things around.
Lack of sunlight including ultraviolets is the problem I think of, especially if the ocean is pretty much sealed from the surface as you speculate though there is cryvolcanism.
I was well aware that my Mozilla colleagues cover a wide spectrum; this has never been an issue either at work or in our extra-curricular interactions.
But here it became an issue that spiraled out, or mothballed. The "controversy" is parasitic, or "viral". Regardless of moral opinion on this or that, the off-topic debate is a poison, I'll be more interested in end user reception of the new Firefox GUI, privacy or Firefox phones than about sticking a penis into a non-vaginal part in a monogamy context.
A laptop with A4-5000 and two slots can technically take 32GB.. but the 16GB DIMMs are a bit special and unobtainable.
Someone should make a laptop that takes four registered DIMMs, Opteron or Xeon. You would have been able to have 64GB on a laptop yesterday. Good for several niches of users.
Funnily I've switched from 1024x768 to 960x720 and I don't suffer from it that much. Slightly inaquate web pages stay slightly inadequate and the completely resolution agnostic ones stay good. At least I don't suffer from the "bug" of webpages displaying kilometer-long lines of text when the width is something from 1600 to 1920, that's the big issue with "old style" pages.
Yes using that res is inane, except I found it's a good thing to use on low end CRT, I created myself a mode at 90Hz. yay!
There's about a thousand comments in this slashdot discussion, which points at how much the issue is distracting. If he apologized and stayed CEO I bet the issue would still come up every time, this time with meta-debate about why did he rescind his position, is it pressure from Mozilla, is Mozilla infested with political correctness etc. and whatever trolls and crap still coming up.
I think the resignation is a pretty honorable act from the guy, he simply can't serve as a CEO anyway. His role as a figurehead was ruined already. Just get another figurehead.
Mozilla is not a $50 billion megacorp or a swift-boating presidential campaign, I don't think they can afford the media pollution.
Learn how to drink great quantities of alcohol without incurring headaches. Water-flavoured "beer" doesn't cut it, you'd have to drink many liters of the thing which means too many bottles or cans around and you have to take a piss too often, and end up overworking your kidneys. That isn't healthy. Booze and other spirits is expensive and toxic. Have to keep a glass of water around else your mouth, body and eventually brain will dry.. not good.
Red wine is great, and exponentially healthier when you don't get the worst products. The better the wine, the less sulfur dioxide in it (and red wine has a ton less of it than white wine). Which gets me to the bottle. Know what? it was conceived as a container for a daily dose of wine. What's more, it's the working man's daily dose. So one bottle can last for the duration of a workday, but you can have another one after work. Of course friends, coworkers and acquaintances might drink from your bottle in which case a third one is needed. If you need to wash your mouth or you feel like it, have great beer, such as micro-brews and similar, beers that are not sterilized and alcohol content typically 5% to 10%.
Once you get it going, never give up. Depression is a serious topic, lifestyle, culinary and drink habits play a good part in curbing it. You want a stable, healthy life with reliably recurring elements in it.
No real experience apart from trying quick stuff like getting the list of running processes.. .vbs, similar role to using perl scripts to administrate unix machines.
It just seems rather useless and unfathomable as an end user shell for everyday common use, the way cmd.exe and bash can be used by beginners and even computer illiterate people learning the command line.
It seems made for writing admin scripts instead, replacing
It's just alien and hard and you don't know why you would use unless you're a professional Windows admin.. It's here on Windows XP, 7 and later but no one ever use it.. If you want to ping stuff and run short sequences of commands etc. there's still old cmd and batch, so why care?
Shit tons of embedded device with a user facing or operator facing display run on Windows XP embedded. They do have that market already.
Search doesn't even make sense if you don't know what's installed on the computer or don't remember every detail of what you have installed or not installed, or removed. Using the menu is also the default thing on major linux desktop environments : gnome 2, mate, xfce, lxde, even mere window managers like Openbox have a menu.
Maybe search is more useful on a laptop where the built-in pointing device is inferior to a mouse. As a desktop user on a desktop PC I find it more of a hassle, it slows the PC down a bit too. If I know the program's name I can use an auto-completing runbox anyway, from either alt-f2 or a shortcut on a panel.
It is hard to do horizontal scrolling, and the interface is non standard. It takes all screen, which a huge area to read on a low end desktop 1080p monitor. Features are seemingly hidden - the little arrow or its purpose is hard to discover. Lack of buttons to click on - why not have buttons that do what the magical shortcuts do? Search feature to compensate for the difficulty of launching stuff the regular way - Windows 7 was a bit like that already, having implemented the worst iteration of the start menu.
Good old start menu is alphabetically arranged (or right-click and sort), can be navigated by hovering the mouse so no need for four clicks, and is keyboard navigable as well. The good ones even allow you to add folders to it such as an 'apps' folder which contain software you care about and a 'games' folder that launches games very quickly (with command line options or via a .bat file if needed)
Tip : install Classic Shell in Windows 7, it's needed there too.
As opposed to taking time customizing the Start screen?
Some (most? all?) hard drives sold in enclosures have USB soldered-on, no SATA interface ; I find that a bit evil and would rather be able to reuse the hard drive or enclosure any way I see fit as well as choosing the precise color scheme and look/physical features of the enclosure.
USB-to-SATA docks or e-SATA or even hot-swap SATA dock in a desktop's drive bay are other options.
A friend told me he wishes for the crapper's flush to be linked to the coffee pot. Smart algorithms will detect his habit of taking a crap on the morning and then preparing coffee, so flushing the toilet should trigger coffee brewing on the right hour ranges, and if the pot is not full of coffee already. Taking a dump is a proxy for presence detection, but also for the intent of drinking coffee.
I suggested that the powers-that-be will spy on him by detecting droppings falling into the water as well as analyzing the shit and storing detailed, minute-precise reports for decades.
You would have to cook your meal before leaving or at the least prepare it and leave it to cook ; check it when you're away to see that it doesn't get burned or not cooked enough, you can adjust time or temperature. Then let it sit and cool off for hours.. Just before you come back you can turn on low heat to make it warm again. Pretty limited..
Remote control can be used at home too but really, why not walk to the friggin'g oven!
On the plus side, I will spy on your oven's content, remotely deactivate your alarms and unlock your door, activate presence simulation so the neighbors think everything is fine and then rush to your home and proceed to steal your delicious turkey or whatever.
It's a shame, as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is almost out and I was ready to give a try. I know a few people using 12.04, it dumbs you down and encourages a browser-only use (due to difficulty of finding any but the most basic installed apps), but is decent when used in that role.
Ubuntu One was maybe a good fit (and usable on other platforms too) and especially, I have no trust in other "cloud" stuff. I don't want google or microsoft stuff, and as for dropbox I don't know who they are, what laws they obey, who they give access to your files to (NSA? Law enforcement? Dictatorships?). I thought I would try Ubuntu One one day.. It's not stuff that should go out, right?, Ubuntu has been out there for about a decade, and Long Term Support meant everything is alright till april 2017? Well, no.
Five year support is a good incentive. Having wifi after installing without an internet connection is another one, though I guess Mint Debian fixes that.
I'll be installing Mint Debian edition 32bit some, but after that Mint 17 (Ubuntu based) is probably a proposition I can't pass.. Fully works till 2019 and subsequent Ubuntu-based Mint versions are to be based on the LTS (with updated kernel and Xorg support, and updated Mate and Cinnamon environments). See linuxmint blog.
I cleaned up after Dropbox on a computer (Ubuntu 11.04).. Someone decided to install a dropbox package.. which is an extension for the Nautilus file manager, except the only GUI installed was LXDE (file manager is pcmanfm). So, what a funny situation.. Doesn't work and the user has no clue. I don't care as I don't use Dropbox and I guess the user could use a web interface to get his/her files.
On my current installation I have a choice of caja-dropbox, nemo-dropbox and nautilus-dropbox so that's better (but still doesn't include pcmanfm).
Windows RT is a locked down version of the real Windows 8 (fine) but it comes with a consumer version of Office without Access and other stuff, and can't join a domain (and can't share files like Windows home editions are able to) and can't get GPOs applied.
They're using the Chromebooks as thin clients anyway. Windows runs on the server farm. If web browsing is allowed on the Chrome boxen, using the Chrome browser for your errands and looking up stuff etc. is pretty elegant, as the big strain on CPU and RAM resources that can entail is on the local machine and not the server that streams desktop to dozens users.
The upside is you know you have Power Delivery, USB 3.1 and whatever just by looking at the connector. With a random USB type A, I know fuck all about how many amps it support or not even if it is USB 1 or USB 2. It is a benefit to have both USB C on host and device as well.
I watch DS9 (I'm new to it and am about half way), I have great fun trying to figure out what is Dax's job exactly.
Most times she's sitting or standing around, pushes a button sometimes, says stuff but it's extremely obvious she just pretends to work. I guess she wanders around the station when not on screen, doing errands and leisure activities.
Worf somehow made fun of himself in TNG. "I suggest we launch a photon torpedo at [this utterly unknown and undescriptible phenomenon hanging around in deep space]" ROFL. Picard and the whole crew were extremely dumb too in that episode where they come across a mysterious "hole" in space. Let's look at it, but be careful, not too fast, not too close. Let's get a bit closer. Damn, we still can't see or understand anything about it. Just a little bit closer, we'll be fine I guess? OH SHI- we're trapped! Hadn't seen that coming, I promise!
They save some physical space and importantly power. It depends on how much RAM the old PC have too.. A nice trick is to make the PCs diskless workstations, that makes them reliable (no hard drive) and replaceable on a whim. But if you're going to do everything on a browser having at least 2GB memory is nice, especially if you have no swap.