Unfortunately, my ability to compensate for GUI changes does not reflect on the general population.
Yes, I miss 'reveal codes'... and its a feature Word could use some days.
That said, when even I can't find the feature I want quickly in the GUI, a feature I know exists but is now hidden by silly ribbons instead of being categorized in the menus the way it was before, I get very annoyed and it slows my progress.
Being able to translate thought into product quickly and easily is hindered by these repeated interface changes, not aided.
Cursive writing isn't taught in grade schools here anymore. My daughter asked to be taught at home and we picked her up a couple books to work through because she was annoyed she wouldn't learn how to read or write handwriting. Welcome to the keyboard.
The number of scary things the US military and CIA have done in the last 50 years is well-documented and not tinfoil-hat material. Sure, Assange may or may not have been set up, but the point remains that a lot of what was going on then that we know about now would have been assumed to be paranoia by those who thought it to be true at the time too.
In sixty or seventy years, when the truth is declassified about now, you might not be around for the "i told you so"... so do yourself a favour and assume a zebra doesn't change its stripes much.
I think you'll find that's not even remotely true.
Here's a better chart too -- Tom's Hardware Gaming CPU for the money.
Under $100: AMD Best at $115: AMD Phenom II X4 955 After $150, Intel starts being on the chart instead.
PS...
CPUs priced over $220 offer rapidly diminishing returns when it comes to game performance. As such, we have a hard time recommending anything more expensive than the Core i5-2500K, especially since this multiplier-unlocked processor can be overclocked to great effect if more performance is desired. Even at stock clocks, it meets or beats the $1000 Core i7-990X Extreme Edition when it comes to gaming.
I believed not so long ago that CPUs were way over the speeds the average consumer needs, that is until I watched processor usage on a modern laptop doing live high resolution video chat.
For people who want to do face to face teleconferencing, high speed real-time video encoding at good resolutions and framerates will really eat up your CPU power. Its not an edge-case anymore either as more and more people expect to be able to do high quality video calls (and not the crap MSN pawned off on people for years).
And when Intel began integrating the math chips on all future processors, I was sad because the IIT math chips I'd had in my previous systems was much more capable than those integrated by Intel. See all about x87s here.
People who have the attitude you seem to portray confuse me. You believe its your right to purchase a gaming device which happens to be quite capable as a computer with some modifications and hope the company that sold it will support you doing so despite having lost money on the sale?
If you really want to do that, go buy PS3 devkits. They're basically the same hardware, sold at a profit. Or buy some blade servers from IBM with Cell chips on them. Those are also sold at a profit for good old fashioned computing usage.
The PS3 was released, like many gaming consoles, at a loss, because they were sold on the presumption that the consumer would buy games to play on their gaming device, which would compensate for said loss. As someone outside that standard circle of gaming users, I don't see how you believe your specific needs should be met.
Sony, who offered any form of Linux ever on two of its consoles, who allows you to rip CDs to your PS3 hard drive without DRM, who allows open outside connections from the PSN (such as to Steam) and who allows importing of mods from the PC (Unreal Tournament), is the closed platform?
Pop quiz, which console shipped with industry standard HDMI, industry standard USB, industry standard SATA user-replaceable hard drives, and previously chose to offer industry standard Firewire (PS2)? Sony's not a closed shop. You're confused and think Sony Music is the world.
This is why I chose a Dell 5" Streak personally. It fits in my pocket and its very slim too. With Android 2.2 its still lacking the ability to use its front-facing camera in many chat programs (sigh) but its a great device I get asked frequently about.
Unfortunately, Dell stopped selling them but Sony's doing a 5.5" clamshell tablet so that'll be interesting.
Canadian corporations like the CBC and previously Petro Canada have always been considered actual corporations, no less that the British or Chinese equivalent. Just because some people have a problem with state-owned corporations doesn't change their status.
Yes, the readable logic in rpn is much simpler I find. Push things on stack, then do things to stack. Its not unlike how we do math on some cash registers. Two items with 13% margin added:
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Unfortunately, my ability to compensate for GUI changes does not reflect on the general population.
Yes, I miss 'reveal codes' ... and its a feature Word could use some days.
That said, when even I can't find the feature I want quickly in the GUI, a feature I know exists but is now hidden by silly ribbons instead of being categorized in the menus the way it was before, I get very annoyed and it slows my progress.
Being able to translate thought into product quickly and easily is hindered by these repeated interface changes, not aided.
You mean 4?
Cursive writing isn't taught in grade schools here anymore. My daughter asked to be taught at home and we picked her up a couple books to work through because she was annoyed she wouldn't learn how to read or write handwriting. Welcome to the keyboard.
Its not trolling, its a consistent message; Microsoft can't innovate in the UI -- they either copy or fail.
The massive overhaul of the interface with an application is not minor.
Proud to be Canadian again :)
You're assuming the person doesn't know how to fool the switching equipment into staying connected.
There's a lot of old phreaking tricks that aren't so common now, but with computerized switching equipment, anything's possible.
The number of scary things the US military and CIA have done in the last 50 years is well-documented and not tinfoil-hat material. Sure, Assange may or may not have been set up, but the point remains that a lot of what was going on then that we know about now would have been assumed to be paranoia by those who thought it to be true at the time too.
In sixty or seventy years, when the truth is declassified about now, you might not be around for the "i told you so" ... so do yourself a favour and assume a zebra doesn't change its stripes much.
I think you'll find that's not even remotely true.
Here's a better chart too -- Tom's Hardware Gaming CPU for the money.
Under $100: AMD
Best at $115: AMD Phenom II X4 955
After $150, Intel starts being on the chart instead.
PS ...
I've never seen a modern PC that off-loads video chat encoding to the GPU. Mind citing one? Skype? MSN? ooVoo? etc.
As opposed to the "oh crap we gambled your money on bad debts and lost it all" system?
Non-redistribution hasn't worked either (cf. Monarchy)
I believed not so long ago that CPUs were way over the speeds the average consumer needs, that is until I watched processor usage on a modern laptop doing live high resolution video chat.
For people who want to do face to face teleconferencing, high speed real-time video encoding at good resolutions and framerates will really eat up your CPU power. Its not an edge-case anymore either as more and more people expect to be able to do high quality video calls (and not the crap MSN pawned off on people for years).
Would you care to do the math on FLOPS per dollar? Because if you care about money at all, AMD has been winning the performance game for a while now.
And when Intel began integrating the math chips on all future processors, I was sad because the IIT math chips I'd had in my previous systems was much more capable than those integrated by Intel. See all about x87s here.
People who have the attitude you seem to portray confuse me. You believe its your right to purchase a gaming device which happens to be quite capable as a computer with some modifications and hope the company that sold it will support you doing so despite having lost money on the sale?
If you really want to do that, go buy PS3 devkits. They're basically the same hardware, sold at a profit. Or buy some blade servers from IBM with Cell chips on them. Those are also sold at a profit for good old fashioned computing usage.
The PS3 was released, like many gaming consoles, at a loss, because they were sold on the presumption that the consumer would buy games to play on their gaming device, which would compensate for said loss. As someone outside that standard circle of gaming users, I don't see how you believe your specific needs should be met.
Shall I feed the troll? Maybe.
Sony, who offered any form of Linux ever on two of its consoles, who allows you to rip CDs to your PS3 hard drive without DRM, who allows open outside connections from the PSN (such as to Steam) and who allows importing of mods from the PC (Unreal Tournament), is the closed platform?
Pop quiz, which console shipped with industry standard HDMI, industry standard USB, industry standard SATA user-replaceable hard drives, and previously chose to offer industry standard Firewire (PS2)? Sony's not a closed shop. You're confused and think Sony Music is the world.
You've been drinking the koolaid I see. Give that back to the xbot fanbois and do some research.
Aside from the obviously-secondary-use of the OtherOS feature, what on earth are you talking about?
This is why I chose a Dell 5" Streak personally. It fits in my pocket and its very slim too. With Android 2.2 its still lacking the ability to use its front-facing camera in many chat programs (sigh) but its a great device I get asked frequently about.
Unfortunately, Dell stopped selling them but Sony's doing a 5.5" clamshell tablet so that'll be interesting.
LaTeX would make an excellent format for court decisions. Maybe I should propose a $1billion overhaul of the system ;-)
I'll help you out -- the next thing you do is build a refinery in space too :)
Canadian corporations like the CBC and previously Petro Canada have always been considered actual corporations, no less that the British or Chinese equivalent. Just because some people have a problem with state-owned corporations doesn't change their status.
Yes, the readable logic in rpn is much simpler I find. Push things on stack, then do things to stack. Its not unlike how we do math on some cash registers. Two items with 13% margin added:
8.50
1.13 multiply
9.25
1.13 multiply
add
I much prefer actual RPN such as in the 'dc' command-line tool or Postscript.
Your example infix becomes something a lot like: 5 2 * 4 4 * + 3 * 5 2 * 4 3 * + + 6 3 * 5 + /
Or that they already knew everything they needed to about Akamai from other sources :)
An ounce or two of thermite is easier to arrange, get onto the plane, and ignite.