Definitely true. My aunt and (female) cousin can play The Sims for hours on end. It suddenly made sense when I realized that it's an electronic version of playing with dolls. And the difference between dolls and action figures is playing at life versus playing at war, which I think is the difference (generally) between games that appeal to women and games that appeal to men.
Since when is "The Union" the be-all and end-all? How about blaming the union for hamstringing GM, and unions in general for making it better and easier to build things anywhere but the US?
They'll come up with that later. USB 1 had two data rates: "low speed", 1.5Mbits/s, and "full speed", 12Mbits/s. USB 2.0 added "high speed" at 480Mbits/s. No idea what superlative they'll reach for this time.
It's certainly true that it's cheaper, HVAC-wise, to run a CPU in the winter, that heat isn't necessarily free. There are much cheaper ways to get heat in the apartment than by running electricity through a resistor, such as a heat pump, or if you're in a really cold area, burning natural gas.
The other posters are right; the halt instruction is executed by all modern browsers and OSs, and dramatically decreases CPU power use (as well as A/C required to move the heat out, much of the time).
Also, by the way, cycles (Hz) are never base 2 units, they're always base 10, so 2GHz is 2000000000Hz.
There are certainly ways to perform key exchanges and begin encrypted communication without being vulnerable to eavesdropping.
My understanding (which may be wrong) of the main problem with these RFID devices is that there is in fact no handshaking or encryption, and that the device will happily spill its guts to anything that asks.
I became a FLAC fan in early 2001. Being able to put music on the hard drive without sacrificing quality was awesome. Back then, IIRC, the compression ratio was getting significantly better with each (pre-)release, and the coolness of transcoding from lossless to lossless became apparent. Thanks for all your work on making this great format available to all.
First off, I disagree that browser default font sizes are too big (as I mentioned before, I like large fonts). Interesting article about that.
But that doesn't really matter. The problem is that designers, having specified whatever size they like, then assume that that's exactly how it will be rendered, and position everything else based on that assumption. Some people crank up the fonts, and that should not break the page, no matter what.
If your design depends on fonts being a particular size in order to lay out other elements or to have things "above the fold", you're doing it wrong.
I normally browse in Firefox with the minimum font size set to 20. Well-designed pages handle this just fine, and poorly-designed pages (mostly the bigger-budget ones) handle it badly.
My understanding (and this Wikipedia article seems to back it up) is that they tried to put that genie back in the bottle. And the article says that even now they can't be used to "add value" to a commercial product.
So it looks to me like they're trying to create a new set of must-have fonts that they won't allow people to use on Linux.
If it's encrypted, thanks to the DMCA. The DMCA is the first law in the entire history of copyright that restricts access, not just copying. That's what makes it evil.
They obviously believe that anything they say is the law when it comes to content they produce. That's complete baloney. They can say whatever they want; it doesn't make it so.
My original complaint was about Flash video and video wrapped in Flash controls. I can't even get so far as to tell the format of this video. Thanks for the tip, though, about grabbing the ones that are Flash. I have Windows in a VM so I can install Safari.
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Definitely true. My aunt and (female) cousin can play The Sims for hours on end. It suddenly made sense when I realized that it's an electronic version of playing with dolls. And the difference between dolls and action figures is playing at life versus playing at war, which I think is the difference (generally) between games that appeal to women and games that appeal to men.
Except that one, of course. ...whoa
Apparently the "article" is a response to a comment (the only comment, mind you) attached to this "article", which is similarly content-free.
n/t
Since when is "The Union" the be-all and end-all? How about blaming the union for hamstringing GM, and unions in general for making it better and easier to build things anywhere but the US?
Neat little device
They'll come up with that later. USB 1 had two data rates: "low speed", 1.5Mbits/s, and "full speed", 12Mbits/s. USB 2.0 added "high speed" at 480Mbits/s. No idea what superlative they'll reach for this time.
It's certainly true that it's cheaper, HVAC-wise, to run a CPU in the winter, that heat isn't necessarily free. There are much cheaper ways to get heat in the apartment than by running electricity through a resistor, such as a heat pump, or if you're in a really cold area, burning natural gas.
The other posters are right; the halt instruction is executed by all modern browsers and OSs, and dramatically decreases CPU power use (as well as A/C required to move the heat out, much of the time).
Also, by the way, cycles (Hz) are never base 2 units, they're always base 10, so 2GHz is 2000000000Hz.
There are certainly ways to perform key exchanges and begin encrypted communication without being vulnerable to eavesdropping.
My understanding (which may be wrong) of the main problem with these RFID devices is that there is in fact no handshaking or encryption, and that the device will happily spill its guts to anything that asks.
Interesting thought... And therefore, would the RIAA/MPAA have to prove that somebody's unlicensed copy was not made in Antigua?
I became a FLAC fan in early 2001. Being able to put music on the hard drive without sacrificing quality was awesome. Back then, IIRC, the compression ratio was getting significantly better with each (pre-)release, and the coolness of transcoding from lossless to lossless became apparent. Thanks for all your work on making this great format available to all.
Are you sure it's plugged in?
I happened to see that episode the day after my 7-year-old dog died suddenly. I can do without "entertainment" like that.
Yes... Because you're hungry again right afterwards.
Could you explain what's spam-supporting about callbacks?
...on the newcomers.
First off, I disagree that browser default font sizes are too big (as I mentioned before, I like large fonts). Interesting article about that.
But that doesn't really matter. The problem is that designers, having specified whatever size they like, then assume that that's exactly how it will be rendered, and position everything else based on that assumption. Some people crank up the fonts, and that should not break the page, no matter what.
If your design depends on fonts being a particular size in order to lay out other elements or to have things "above the fold", you're doing it wrong.
I normally browse in Firefox with the minimum font size set to 20. Well-designed pages handle this just fine, and poorly-designed pages (mostly the bigger-budget ones) handle it badly.
My understanding (and this Wikipedia article seems to back it up) is that they tried to put that genie back in the bottle. And the article says that even now they can't be used to "add value" to a commercial product.
So it looks to me like they're trying to create a new set of must-have fonts that they won't allow people to use on Linux.
You know the key you use to make this symbol: "? Try pushing that one without holding down Shift.
If it's encrypted, thanks to the DMCA. The DMCA is the first law in the entire history of copyright that restricts access, not just copying. That's what makes it evil.
They obviously believe that anything they say is the law when it comes to content they produce. That's complete baloney. They can say whatever they want; it doesn't make it so.
My original complaint was about Flash video and video wrapped in Flash controls. I can't even get so far as to tell the format of this video. Thanks for the tip, though, about grabbing the ones that are Flash. I have Windows in a VM so I can install Safari.
Does it work for this one? If so it may be worth buying a Mac. :-)
Seriously, please let me know... Baseball is one of the worst offenders on this. Even their subscription audio streams require Flash!!