For me, about.5 seconds. I know everyone has different speed thresholds (my wife makes fun of me because she doesn't mind a 5 second delay between right clicking something and seeing the properties menu, but a 2 second delay drives me crazy), but for most people of this world, half a second to see the next 50 THREADS of email is pretty reasonable.
But google tends to do a better job of at least one of these things:
1. Making it free 2. Hosting it themselves 3. Integrating it with all the other free services they provide
If you can show me a free web-based email with 2-3 gigs of space, a UI better than gmail's, integrating with a better web based calendar, web-based word processor, and web-based spreadsheet, I'll agree with you.
I just use KeyTweak to swap my left windows key and my caps lock key. Then I use AutoHotkey to make up all sorts of exciting and time-saving key combinations using the left windows key. (left windows + f brings firefox to the front. leftwin + e brings my email client to the front, checks for new messages, and moves to the next new message, etc).
And really, the sad truth of it is that over 99% of the market doesn't care at all about running homebrew or small developer games. They just want to play Madden 2011 and GTA:Salt Lake City IV.
The "we" you speak of is a different "we" that the parent was speaking of, I believe.
The nice thing about Coax was that you could chain things. You didn't have to have switches or 37 different jacks to plug your 37 things into. You just chained the antenna, atari, nintendo, vcr, etc all together, and it would work.
Speaking of Yellow Dog, does anyone have a copy of that hilarious Yellow Dog ad video that came out a few years back, with the young attractive college girl lounging around on the lawn of her campus talking about why she uses Yellow Dog Linux? That cracked me up....
Until you try to get your laptop's built-in wireless card working, or hook up your digital camera that Ubuntu isn't familiar with. (I tried this about 6 months ago, and still had no luck) Or try to do anything but use the 27 applications that come with it.
Linux is fine for the desktop for grandma who only wants a web-browser and email. It's fine for us geeks. It's not fine for windows users who want to do quite a number of things with their computer, but aren't smart enough to edit text files and dig through forums to figure out how to configure kernel modules.
According to a survey done by Durex (the condom company), married people on average have sex about 100 times per year. Now how much sex do you have to have BEFORE marriage to make that math add up? I got married at age 24. If I hit puberty at age 14, that's just 10 years of sex possible. If I had sex EVERY DAY during that time, that would put me at about 30 years of marriage (if I was the average) to empty the jar. And most people don't have sex EVERY DAY from puberty till marriage.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Sure, it's a funny cheesy line. But it just propogates that stupid lie that married people don't have sex.
All blog sites were always unavailable. Google groups was always unavailable. Friggin gbadev.org was censored.
The funniest was the television censorship.
We were near the hong kong border, so we got 2 Hong Kong stations on our local cable. Hong Kong, which is still pretty free, would have news stories about the mainland. But as soon as they started to say ANYTHING bad about the mainland, it would cut, mid-word, to a commercial.
This was just a few months ago -- not like things have changed much.
The article is a little short on details. In Boy Scouts, the official things you work towards are Merit Badges, which are determined by the National Boy Scouts of America organization. The L.A. council/district/whatever doesn't, as far as I know, have the authority to create a new Merit Badge.
What this article makes it sound like is that it's just a patch. Anybody and their uncle can make up a patch and make up their own requirements for it. We had patches made for activities only our troop would do. It sounds like this is just one of those, which if so, is no reason for anyone to get worked up about it. Sure, they're trying to brainwash Scouts, but there's nothing official or magical about it.
I believe it. After living in Shenzhen, China, for 2 years, I saw the truth. There's an illegal cd salesman on almost every street corner. And many small shops (clothes, etc) also have a room in the back where they sell bootleg cds. The best are electronics bizarres. It's a whole building, similar to a flea market, with lots of little stalls selling wares. Most of these stalls will also sell you illegal dvds.
When once the new console is realease, the old is worthless and collects dust.
Are you serious? I play my older consoles as much or more as my newer ones. Just because a newer one is out doesn't mean you don't still want to play the games from the old ones. I have as much fun with my NES and SNES as I do with my dreamcast. And I have as much fun with my dreamcast as I did my Xbox.
True, but most of google's ads are NOT about mindshare. They are small companies trying to get you to go to their webpage and buy something. Not notice a new product.
yeah, are subscribers independant people? I have multiple accounts for each service, for different reasons. 1 personal account in each, at least 1 work account in each, a work account from an old job that I still turn on to stay in contact with old coworkers, etc.
I think I count for at least 7 or 8 of those 350 million.:)
Rune was actually really good at this. It was a 3rd person view, right behind your guy. It wasn't incredibly realistic, but there was enough skill in knowing what sword strokes you would do depending on how you were moving, combined with turning your shield side or blade to the enemy when their attacks were coming in.
You could button mash it and get by, but you definitely do a lot better knowing how to use your sword and shield.
Quite fun, really.
Re:Honestly... what is so great about this?
on
Retro Gaming Hacks
·
· Score: 1
Partially nostalgia, and related to that, they were the first games of their kind, so they were particularly interesting as they hadn't been repeated or superceded and spun-off quite so much as now.
But some of the old games really do have great gamplay? How can I say that objectively? Some old games I'm just now playing for the first time, and they are FUN.
If only it always worked like that. That's the basic theory, but when your demand goes down, the supply ends up going down to match, and pretty soon, what you want is a specialized product.
And specialized products are expensive.
For example, right now, almost everyone in the world wants a nice plastic toothbrush. And you know what? They mass produce them, so they are cheap as anything. As an excersize, let's estimate that the supply is double the world's population.
Now, if you and 50 random guys from Norway are the only people on earth that want a toothbrush, nobody is going to be mass producing them. So to custom-build a nice plastic toothbrush is EXPENSIVE (somebody's gotta design, engineer, mold it, etc). Even if they make 2000 of them, so the supply/demand ratio is better than the real world picture, the price per unit will still be higher because it's a customized product.
So, yes, according to theory, the price of broadband will drop. And in the short run, it probably will. But once all these broadband companies go out of business, and it becomes a niche, get ready to pay out the wazoo.
By the way, what's the with the other Microsoft key - the "right click" one that's usually between the right Windows key and the right CRTL key? That's a useless key if I've ever seen one.
Whatever. I use that key ALL THE TIME. I take it you enjoy being chained to your mouse?
Yes, this is annoying. Yes, this means the average consumer PC will be filled with unwanted DRM crap.
But I don't believe for a second that the big companies will be able to fully lock down 3rd party or FOSS software. Why? There are a LOT of businesses out there using Linux and Apache and other things. The hardware industry cannot ignore these companies.
So while the machines targetted for a home market might end up being locked down nice and nastily, there is no way that they will make it impossible to get computers that don't have these restrictions.
How does every article that mentions science turn out anti-Christian posts?
Two reasons: 1. There are a lot of loud, pushy, ignorant, obnoxious, or offensive Christians who cause the general public to look down upon Christians 2. Thus, those who don't believe in things of a spiritual nature thend to view all Christians as loud, pushy, ignorant, and obnoxious 3. Unfortunately, a lot of people with purely political agendas claim to be Christians (to get support from the Bible Belt? because they really believe? I don't know)
Now, let's look at this whole Big Bang/ID thing reasonably and logically.
First, let's talk about science. Science is based on the scientific method. Study a problem, make a hypothesis, test your theory. Great. How does that apply to the origins of the world? Well, the problem is that it's a bit harder to test our theories. That doesn't mean they are wrong, but it makes it much harder to prove/disprove anything. So instead, we have to formulate theories based on evidence at hand.
Scientific theories such as the Big Bang base their evidence on the general knowledge and previous science that has been built up over the years. And you know what? Scientists make a lot of mistakes, but they are generally, and often, on the right track. So what can we assume from this? That probably, the theory of the Big Bang, while very hard to make experiments on, is probably somewhat accurate.
Now, let's look at the Christian side of things. (could be religion in general, but for the sake of discussion, we'll use Christianity). Christians base their "evidence" upon an ancient book. Non-christians will often say "that's stupid! why belive a book instead of science?" But I think there's a reasonable explanation. Let's say theoretically that everything else in the Bible had been proven as true. Would it make sense believe the creation story? Well, maybe. If everything else turned out to be true, it makes it a whole lot more likely.
But realistically, everything else in the Bible hasn't been proven true. A lot of it has, through newer archeology, but a lot of it is either unprovable (spritual natures of things), or appears to have inaccuracies/misinterpretations. Now a Christian will look at these unprovable things, and compare them to his experience. (Yes, experience and feelings is very relative, and thus not suitable for science, but basing your thoughts and beliefs on your own experience is unreasonable). A Christian often experiences feelings and events which confirm many of the spritual aspects of the Bible. So a thoughtful Christian could logically say "Many things in the Bible are known to be true. Others, I have experienced to be true. So it seems quite probable that the creation story is true."
Now the reason non-christians think this is stupid is because either: a. they don't care about the Bible, and believe only Science matters b. their personal experience regarding the Bible or spiritual things contradicts the bible, so logically, they would believe the Bible to NOT be true (another reasonable conclusion)
Now, let's back up and look at some common debates:
1. should ID be taught in school? Not in science class, no. ID is not science. Should students learn that it exists? Maybe....education shouldn't hide facts (the fact being that people belive in ID, not that ID is fact itself) just because they somehow involve religion.
2. Why don't Christians accept science, instead of this creation view? Either they aren't educated, or they find the Biblical/Experiential evidence (and chances of being correct) to be higher than the scientific evidence, or in fact, many are looking at the evidence on both sides, and, seeing that independantly, both would be considered likely to be true, wonders if they could somehow both be mostly true, but with a few minor inaccuracies (ID itself and the Big Bang are not at odds with each other)
3. So why do Christians make such a big deal about forcing everyo
Slashdot Mirror
For me, about .5 seconds. I know everyone has different speed thresholds (my wife makes fun of me because she doesn't mind a 5 second delay between right clicking something and seeing the properties menu, but a 2 second delay drives me crazy), but for most people of this world, half a second to see the next 50 THREADS of email is pretty reasonable.
But google tends to do a better job of at least one of these things:
1. Making it free
2. Hosting it themselves
3. Integrating it with all the other free services they provide
If you can show me a free web-based email with 2-3 gigs of space, a UI better than gmail's, integrating with a better web based calendar, web-based word processor, and web-based spreadsheet, I'll agree with you.
Until then, keep trying.
I just use KeyTweak to swap my left windows key and my caps lock key. Then I use AutoHotkey to make up all sorts of exciting and time-saving key combinations using the left windows key. (left windows + f brings firefox to the front. leftwin + e brings my email client to the front, checks for new messages, and moves to the next new message, etc).
And really, the sad truth of it is that over 99% of the market doesn't care at all about running homebrew or small developer games. They just want to play Madden 2011 and GTA:Salt Lake City IV.
The "we" you speak of is a different "we" that the parent was speaking of, I believe.
The nice thing about Coax was that you could chain things. You didn't have to have switches or 37 different jacks to plug your 37 things into. You just chained the antenna, atari, nintendo, vcr, etc all together, and it would work.
I miss those days.
Speaking of Yellow Dog, does anyone have a copy of that hilarious Yellow Dog ad video that came out a few years back, with the young attractive college girl lounging around on the lawn of her campus talking about why she uses Yellow Dog Linux? That cracked me up....
Until you try to get your laptop's built-in wireless card working, or hook up your digital camera that Ubuntu isn't familiar with. (I tried this about 6 months ago, and still had no luck) Or try to do anything but use the 27 applications that come with it.
Linux is fine for the desktop for grandma who only wants a web-browser and email. It's fine for us geeks. It's not fine for windows users who want to do quite a number of things with their computer, but aren't smart enough to edit text files and dig through forums to figure out how to configure kernel modules.
I don't buy that crap.
According to a survey done by Durex (the condom company), married people on average have sex about 100 times per year. Now how much sex do you have to have BEFORE marriage to make that math add up? I got married at age 24. If I hit puberty at age 14, that's just 10 years of sex possible. If I had sex EVERY DAY during that time, that would put me at about 30 years of marriage (if I was the average) to empty the jar. And most people don't have sex EVERY DAY from puberty till marriage.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Sure, it's a funny cheesy line. But it just propogates that stupid lie that married people don't have sex.
And the internet was definitely censored.
All blog sites were always unavailable.
Google groups was always unavailable.
Friggin gbadev.org was censored.
The funniest was the television censorship.
We were near the hong kong border, so we got 2 Hong Kong stations on our local cable. Hong Kong, which is still pretty free, would have news stories about the mainland. But as soon as they started to say ANYTHING bad about the mainland, it would cut, mid-word, to a commercial.
This was just a few months ago -- not like things have changed much.
And they claim they don't censor things.
You must not live in Shenzhen.
I saw plenty of Xboxen for sale. They came modchipped and preloaded with plenty of games on a big harddrive.
I know plenty of people that are in to them.
The article is a little short on details. In Boy Scouts, the official things you work towards are Merit Badges, which are determined by the National Boy Scouts of America organization. The L.A. council/district/whatever doesn't, as far as I know, have the authority to create a new Merit Badge.
What this article makes it sound like is that it's just a patch. Anybody and their uncle can make up a patch and make up their own requirements for it. We had patches made for activities only our troop would do. It sounds like this is just one of those, which if so, is no reason for anyone to get worked up about it. Sure, they're trying to brainwash Scouts, but there's nothing official or magical about it.
Unless you get one of the smaller $20 1Gb players out there from a generic chinese brand. That's cheaper, and smaller.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Thank you for some common sense. I lived down in Shenzhen for a couple years, and agree with you wholeheartedly.
He's talking about music (volume) compression, not data compression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_level_compresshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_data_compressi
I believe it. After living in Shenzhen, China, for 2 years, I saw the truth. There's an illegal cd salesman on almost every street corner. And many small shops (clothes, etc) also have a room in the back where they sell bootleg cds. The best are electronics bizarres. It's a whole building, similar to a flea market, with lots of little stalls selling wares. Most of these stalls will also sell you illegal dvds.
I don't think 500,000 seems big at all.....
When once the new console is realease, the old is worthless and collects dust.
Are you serious? I play my older consoles as much or more as my newer ones. Just because a newer one is out doesn't mean you don't still want to play the games from the old ones. I have as much fun with my NES and SNES as I do with my dreamcast. And I have as much fun with my dreamcast as I did my Xbox.
True, but most of google's ads are NOT about mindshare. They are small companies trying to get you to go to their webpage and buy something. Not notice a new product.
yeah, are subscribers independant people? I have multiple accounts for each service, for different reasons. 1 personal account in each, at least 1 work account in each, a work account from an old job that I still turn on to stay in contact with old coworkers, etc.
:)
I think I count for at least 7 or 8 of those 350 million.
Rune was actually really good at this. It was a 3rd person view, right behind your guy. It wasn't incredibly realistic, but there was enough skill in knowing what sword strokes you would do depending on how you were moving, combined with turning your shield side or blade to the enemy when their attacks were coming in.
You could button mash it and get by, but you definitely do a lot better knowing how to use your sword and shield.
Quite fun, really.
Partially nostalgia, and related to that, they were the first games of their kind, so they were particularly interesting as they hadn't been repeated or superceded and spun-off quite so much as now.
But some of the old games really do have great gamplay? How can I say that objectively? Some old games I'm just now playing for the first time, and they are FUN.
If only it always worked like that. That's the basic theory, but when your demand goes down, the supply ends up going down to match, and pretty soon, what you want is a specialized product.
And specialized products are expensive.
For example, right now, almost everyone in the world wants a nice plastic toothbrush. And you know what? They mass produce them, so they are cheap as anything. As an excersize, let's estimate that the supply is double the world's population.
Now, if you and 50 random guys from Norway are the only people on earth that want a toothbrush, nobody is going to be mass producing them. So to custom-build a nice plastic toothbrush is EXPENSIVE (somebody's gotta design, engineer, mold it, etc). Even if they make 2000 of them, so the supply/demand ratio is better than the real world picture, the price per unit will still be higher because it's a customized product.
So, yes, according to theory, the price of broadband will drop. And in the short run, it probably will. But once all these broadband companies go out of business, and it becomes a niche, get ready to pay out the wazoo.
Whatever. I use that key ALL THE TIME. I take it you enjoy being chained to your mouse?
The point of the study isn't to persuade anybody. It's to do a study to LEARN and scientifically find out things.
If I thought the point was to persuade, I would immediately dismiss this as being from a biased source, and ignore it.
Yes, this is annoying. Yes, this means the average consumer PC will be filled with unwanted DRM crap.
But I don't believe for a second that the big companies will be able to fully lock down 3rd party or FOSS software. Why? There are a LOT of businesses out there using Linux and Apache and other things. The hardware industry cannot ignore these companies.
So while the machines targetted for a home market might end up being locked down nice and nastily, there is no way that they will make it impossible to get computers that don't have these restrictions.
How does every article that mentions science turn out anti-Christian posts?
Two reasons:
1. There are a lot of loud, pushy, ignorant, obnoxious, or offensive Christians who cause the general public to look down upon Christians
2. Thus, those who don't believe in things of a spiritual nature thend to view all Christians as loud, pushy, ignorant, and obnoxious
3. Unfortunately, a lot of people with purely political agendas claim to be Christians (to get support from the Bible Belt? because they really believe? I don't know)
Now, let's look at this whole Big Bang/ID thing reasonably and logically.
First, let's talk about science. Science is based on the scientific method. Study a problem, make a hypothesis, test your theory. Great. How does that apply to the origins of the world? Well, the problem is that it's a bit harder to test our theories. That doesn't mean they are wrong, but it makes it much harder to prove/disprove anything. So instead, we have to formulate theories based on evidence at hand.
Scientific theories such as the Big Bang base their evidence on the general knowledge and previous science that has been built up over the years. And you know what? Scientists make a lot of mistakes, but they are generally, and often, on the right track. So what can we assume from this? That probably, the theory of the Big Bang, while very hard to make experiments on, is probably somewhat accurate.
Now, let's look at the Christian side of things. (could be religion in general, but for the sake of discussion, we'll use Christianity). Christians base their "evidence" upon an ancient book. Non-christians will often say "that's stupid! why belive a book instead of science?" But I think there's a reasonable explanation. Let's say theoretically that everything else in the Bible had been proven as true. Would it make sense believe the creation story? Well, maybe. If everything else turned out to be true, it makes it a whole lot more likely.
But realistically, everything else in the Bible hasn't been proven true. A lot of it has, through newer archeology, but a lot of it is either unprovable (spritual natures of things), or appears to have inaccuracies/misinterpretations. Now a Christian will look at these unprovable things, and compare them to his experience. (Yes, experience and feelings is very relative, and thus not suitable for science, but basing your thoughts and beliefs on your own experience is unreasonable). A Christian often experiences feelings and events which confirm many of the spritual aspects of the Bible. So a thoughtful Christian could logically say "Many things in the Bible are known to be true. Others, I have experienced to be true. So it seems quite probable that the creation story is true."
Now the reason non-christians think this is stupid is because either:
a. they don't care about the Bible, and believe only Science matters
b. their personal experience regarding the Bible or spiritual things contradicts the bible, so logically, they would believe the Bible to NOT be true (another reasonable conclusion)
Now, let's back up and look at some common debates:
1. should ID be taught in school? Not in science class, no. ID is not science. Should students learn that it exists? Maybe....education shouldn't hide facts (the fact being that people belive in ID, not that ID is fact itself) just because they somehow involve religion.
2. Why don't Christians accept science, instead of this creation view? Either they aren't educated, or they find the Biblical/Experiential evidence (and chances of being correct) to be higher than the scientific evidence, or in fact, many are looking at the evidence on both sides, and, seeing that independantly, both would be considered likely to be true, wonders if they could somehow both be mostly true, but with a few minor inaccuracies (ID itself and the Big Bang are not at odds with each other)
3. So why do Christians make such a big deal about forcing everyo