Save from the stupid name, and about a second or two of delay it takes to "wake up" after not being used for something like a hour, I must say I love it. Bluetooth means no range problems ever, which is absolutely abysmal with "normal wireless" mice (I had both IR and radio and both sucked totally). It has a very decent optical system. It's big, rather heavy but ergonomic (for righties, thumb space very comfortable but right-hand only.) It has two extra assignable buttons (though downloading some 50MB of drivers to do that that is somewhat silly). The wheel moves very lightly but not too lightly. A pair of some 2000mAh accumulators lasts about a week until recharge (I keep two sets, one always in the charger, one in the mouse.)
BTW, the mouse is suboptimal for gaming, because it has pretty low resolution and minimally delayed response time, but I found these not to matter the least bit with normal usage - web, programming etc. The delay and resolution problem is noticeable only when sniping, doesn't affect normal usage.
Then try to get to the center of Warsaw from east. After circling the same block for the third time, following the set of 4 signs, you'll change your opinion.
Never heard of it, but I don't believe in two kilobytes per one fiber of cellulose. OTOH "Paperdisk" was very real commercial software with about 4MB per A4 page printed in real 600DPI. Lower densities (300K/page) could be even sent by fax.
Human brain has some awesome lossy compression mechanisms though. Visual images get vectorized with weight assigned to various features. Audio undergoes a split into tracks and then wavelengths and sequencing are recorded. Textual gets mnemonic tokens (words), token linking (common phrases), linking heuristics (grammar), and visual mnemonic hinting. Many others are hashes that can only be compared against - try to recall taste of strawberries now - not quite possible, you can describe features of the taste but you can't recall the taste - but once you taste something strawberry-flavored you recognize the taste immediately. Also, most of the data gets recorded in analog format, which is more or less lossy for given data type (non-precise images, size/distance estimates etc) which additionally degrades over time Sure stored "uncompressed" like bitmaps, waveforms, ascii text, the data could amount to many gigabytes or more, but in fact you may get only several megabytes of actual memory storage.
Yep, and all variations like YYYY.MM.DD hh:mm:ss or YYYY/MM/DD or the like are okay - alpha-sort will set them in the right order. Except of spring DST changes. ARGH, I can stand time being non-linear or non-continuous, but damn, what kind of retard it took to make it non-monotonic?!
And NTFS is not an alternative. If the mp3 player has a simple 8-bit CPU with 64K RAM, implementing NTFS is pretty much impossible, and anything else likely won't be readable from Windows. Besides, most common flash media (SD cards etc) use FAT,
I wonder, what is there to stop me from getting a US-based friend to mail me a boxed US version of Windows 7? Are there any restrictions against me installing the US version (bought for the US price) on a computer in Europe?
Trying to live on some other planet or some moon without having a "real" space station seems like trying to jump before even being able to stand unsupported.
To me, it looks more like trying to jump (rise in air, fly a little, then land) before mastering levitation (just rise and fly).
A good UI is not one that limits options of the user, but one that has sensible defaults, and options tiered by theme and frequency of use. A bad UI is either too stuffed with options to navigate, or simply has no good defaults. A lame UI is one that purposely limits options "because the user could be confused". (an unchecked checkbox "[ ] advanced options" won't confuse an inexperienced user, but lack of it will irk advanced user to no end. Yes, Gnome, I'm looking at you!)
If you know your UI is bad, but have no clue how to make it good, simply make it so customizable that the blame of "not making it good" can be passed on the user.
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" The physics engine drives objects to fly and fall exactly as one would expect."
And that's what breaks the suspense of disbelief. I mean, in real life things never fall where I intend/expect them to fall as I throw them.
so you mean the wine yeast is an extinct species?
They will, but only after Mythbusters actually land on the Moon.
Different noise levels = Not same image.
yeah, the average salary for example.
If the average salary was a median, we'd be able to see how ridiculously little most people earn.
You underestimate the human stupidity, as usual.
At least 5% of dumbest Internet users have not responded to spam. Because they didn't know how.
Save from the stupid name, and about a second or two of delay it takes to "wake up" after not being used for something like a hour, I must say I love it.
Bluetooth means no range problems ever, which is absolutely abysmal with "normal wireless" mice (I had both IR and radio and both sucked totally). It has a very decent optical system. It's big, rather heavy but ergonomic (for righties, thumb space very comfortable but right-hand only.) It has two extra assignable buttons (though downloading some 50MB of drivers to do that that is somewhat silly). The wheel moves very lightly but not too lightly. A pair of some 2000mAh accumulators lasts about a week until recharge (I keep two sets, one always in the charger, one in the mouse.)
BTW, the mouse is suboptimal for gaming, because it has pretty low resolution and minimally delayed response time, but I found these not to matter the least bit with normal usage - web, programming etc. The delay and resolution problem is noticeable only when sniping, doesn't affect normal usage.
It's DRAM that gets refreshed only when used...
Then try to get to the center of Warsaw from east.
After circling the same block for the third time, following the set of 4 signs, you'll change your opinion.
Never heard of it, but I don't believe in two kilobytes per one fiber of cellulose.
OTOH "Paperdisk" was very real commercial software with about 4MB per A4 page printed in real 600DPI. Lower densities (300K/page) could be even sent by fax.
I think that's an overestimate by far.
Human brain has some awesome lossy compression mechanisms though. Visual images get vectorized with weight assigned to various features. Audio undergoes a split into tracks and then wavelengths and sequencing are recorded. Textual gets mnemonic tokens (words), token linking (common phrases), linking heuristics (grammar), and visual mnemonic hinting. Many others are hashes that can only be compared against - try to recall taste of strawberries now - not quite possible, you can describe features of the taste but you can't recall the taste - but once you taste something strawberry-flavored you recognize the taste immediately. Also, most of the data gets recorded in analog format, which is more or less lossy for given data type (non-precise images, size/distance estimates etc) which additionally degrades over time
Sure stored "uncompressed" like bitmaps, waveforms, ascii text, the data could amount to many gigabytes or more, but in fact you may get only several megabytes of actual memory storage.
Considering the other thread that gave us energetic equivalent of 1 LoC = 14,770 gigajoules, at 20TB, we get 12 bits per joule.
Yep, and all variations like YYYY.MM.DD hh:mm:ss or YYYY/MM/DD or the like are okay - alpha-sort will set them in the right order. Except of spring DST changes. ARGH, I can stand time being non-linear or non-continuous, but damn, what kind of retard it took to make it non-monotonic?!
there's a documentary "Deep Throat" about the porn movie "Deep Throat" and events that surrounded it.
And NTFS is not an alternative. If the mp3 player has a simple 8-bit CPU with 64K RAM, implementing NTFS is pretty much impossible, and anything else likely won't be readable from Windows. Besides, most common flash media (SD cards etc) use FAT,
I wonder, what is there to stop me from getting a US-based friend to mail me a boxed US version of Windows 7?
Are there any restrictions against me installing the US version (bought for the US price) on a computer in Europe?
What non-Mac computer?
Mac is precisely one of these options.
Vista is another.
No! Not "Sweet Gangsta".
"Smooth Criminal".
http://whatdoestheinternetthink.net/index.php?s=microsoft&st=google
http://whatdoestheinternetthink.net/index.php?s=microsoft&st=bing
Trying to live on some other planet or some moon without having a "real" space station seems like trying to jump before even being able to stand unsupported.
To me, it looks more like trying to jump (rise in air, fly a little, then land) before mastering levitation (just rise and fly).
If you still have any doubts what brand of compact camera to choose check out http://chdk.wikia.com/
A good UI is not one that limits options of the user, but one that has sensible defaults, and options tiered by theme and frequency of use.
A bad UI is either too stuffed with options to navigate, or simply has no good defaults.
A lame UI is one that purposely limits options "because the user could be confused". (an unchecked checkbox "[ ] advanced options" won't confuse an inexperienced user, but lack of it will irk advanced user to no end. Yes, Gnome, I'm looking at you!)
If you know your UI is bad, but have no clue how to make it good, simply make it so customizable that the blame of "not making it good" can be passed on the user.
how about the hardware and software people get to gether and have a std for web pages
It happened already. It's called MySpace and most pages indeed look like they had some STD.
waitwaitwait.
Win95 had real, genuine multitasking. It was win3.11 that had the "task switching" tech where the foreground window was running.
If I can fit it in my wallet (or even the inner anorak pocket), I'd care. But if it has 10+" screen, thickness is moot.