Unfortunately, I also hold the shame of belonging to that age group, myself being 16. They, on the whole, are a group of not-so-intelligent people, who are completely incapable of coherent thought on the internet.
In person, they are somewhat better (as speaking badly is more difficult to do than typing - due to being around people who speak, more or less, correctly most of one's life), but not that much, sadly. It does vary more from person-to-person than on the internet, however.
And I certainly agree with them not having a clue how to use correct grammar, spelling, or design sense on the internet. I work on my school's website and when I asked several people what they thought would be good elements for such a design, the most common responses were...
Bright colours
Music
Videos/animated images
Those listed items are some of the most idiotic ideas one could possibly place on a serious web page. Plain colours (black/white/grey, with some colour on a logo, and similar colours to the logo for links), few images (just a logo is generally fine, with maybe one or two small ones more), no videos (not on a main web page - a page of videos if that's something useful for the content), no animated GIFs (major annoyance and distracts from the content), and certainly no background music (I'll listen to my own music, thank you).
Don't even get me started on how they cannot use spelling or grammar... Seriously, how difficult is it to type in an extra letter or two on words such as "you", "are", "your", "you're" (they get those last two mixed up, in addition to bad spelling), "what", "why", and so forth... Most annoying thing ever. And unfortunately all the people my age I know at school, and around where I live act and type like that, no matter what they're like in 'real life'.
Definitely is scary that these are the people who will be running the world in twenty years.
The best way is to take your time estimate (1 week), strip the units from it (1), double it (2), and finally add the unit back in, using one larger a unit (2 months).
Some more examples: 3 hours -> 3 -> 6 -> 6 days 10 weeks -> 10 -> 20 -> 20 months;-)
Sure, no fancy smilies, but who needs miniature pixmaps when you have text? And we should beat proper grammar and spelling into their heads while we're at it, so we don't get 15000 people on IRC saying "OMG WTFLOL!!11!"...
Crushing is a telekinetic skill. It's just the application of pushing and pulling in the right places at the right times.
And then there's also the theory implied by some SW novels that force powers aren't really inherently good or bad, only the way they are used is good/bad. Of course some (such as lightning) are harder to find 'good' applications for. And, as noted in the Thrawn trilogy (by Zahn), the confusion you note as a "light" power, could be used for evil (Luke uses it to confuse and even control the minds of TIE pilots, and he feels as if it's a 'dark' use of the power).
So really it seems to depend on how it's used, not what it is.
Unfortunately the competition (HD-DVD) isn't better by much. Maybe worse. I haven't been keeping up much beyond the obvious points of how chock-full of DRM they'll be.
So, thank you very much, I'll be sticking with regular old DVDs... Sure, they're encrypted, but CSS was cracked ages ago... No problems there.
Nintendo has a lot of first party games, remember. They could be easily getting those ready to go. If memory serves, the Gamecube launched on mainly first-party titles, and it did pretty well.
And the one thing that we don't know anything about for the Revolution is the controller. Which, again if memory serves, Nintendo said they wanted to keep very, very secret. Xbox360 controller? Slightly-less-massive than Xbox controller. PS3 controller? Looks like it'd make a good sex toy and/or boomerang. Revolution controller? Don't know yet...
The other thing is, Nintendo is not overhyping the Revolution, which could be a great benefit. If it launches with features no one heard any rumours about, people could easily be quite stunned and surprised, and that surprise could turn into purchases. Compared to an overhyped product, which doesn't have rumoured features - PS3/Xbox360 could easily loose sales because of overhyping...
Why can't they, at least, make all the music available in one region available in all the rest?
There's some Japanese music I wouldn't mind being able to buy (particularly some soundtracks from animes - I'm an anime junkie, I admit it! - but some other things, as well), but, until they get all the music in all the regions, I'm going to be stuck using Bittorrent to get the music I want...
And don't mention importing to me, please...;/ It's a bit too expensive for me.
I avoid Firefox on my Mac. As you said, it's much slower than Safari, and I try to keep my Mac as "clutter-free" as possible. Only apps I use get put onto it. And I don't need more than one browser. =)
When I get a chance I'll try it out in Firefox on my Linux box.
Then it's supposed to only be a blank page with with a blue "start" image and a search field?
Because if that's not what it's supposed to be, then it doesn't like Safari as well. Apparently altering the user agent doesn't change anything either...
OZ does have major issues. Especially with any of the 'less-used' Zaurui. Anything other than the 5500, C760, and C860 has major issues with OZ from my readings and experiences...
That's the reason I maintain my own ROM for the 5600. And I'm currently working on cross-compiling Opie and getting that running on the 5600 with a generally Sharp-style ROM image (GCC 2.95, symlinks all over the filesystem, etc.) for compatibility... If everything goes well, I'll have it so it can run any app you'd normally be able to run on a vanilla 5600 ROM.
And... How were you planning on booting if it didn't write a bootloader (I think Ubunbtu uses grub) to the master boot record? If you were planning to swap drives, then maybe you should have taken out the drive you didn't want touched?
And for the mime type association, that's not (wholey) the fault of Ubuntu - the mime-types are handled by the desktop environment, Gnome in plain Ubuntu. If you tried normal Ubuntu, then maybe you should try Kubuntu. It uses KDE, not Gnome, and I find KDE's mime-type handling system to be easier to manage, personally.
I think the point the grandparent is trying to make is that IE7 is a beta product.
As the original poster stated, why did this take so long to make? Even if it's a beta, can't they have made it a bit nicer looking in the about-4 years since the last IE release?
Tales of Symphonia, Baten Kaitos, Paper Mario... Soul Calibur II is pretty good, too, and Link is better than the other 'exclusive' characters, in my mind.
Mario Kart is pretty fun, if you're going for multiplayer. The single player is ok, but not *that* much fun.
If you buy a good game, it's actually worth the ~$50 spent, in my opinion. Some ones I suggest looking at for the Gamecube are Tales of Symphonia, Baten Kaitos, Metroid Prime (both), and some of the old staples - Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, etc. Paper Mario is pretty damn fun too. =)
It seems the second screen has become the gimmick that the touchscreen was thought to be. It's the superfluous thing, although it does make some touchscreen games easier. For example, you can keep playing while glancing at the map, instead of moving your hand from the touchscreen to hit the start button (or another button).
4Kids actually has begun to release Yu-Gi-Oh uncut as well, after much complaints from the fans who hate how much of the story was butchered. Unfortunately, these are incredibly hard to find...
Making one seriously doubt whether it's worth to complain over butchered series when you can't get the uncuts even if they're available.
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Unfortunately, I also hold the shame of belonging to that age group, myself being 16. They, on the whole, are a group of not-so-intelligent people, who are completely incapable of coherent thought on the internet.
In person, they are somewhat better (as speaking badly is more difficult to do than typing - due to being around people who speak, more or less, correctly most of one's life), but not that much, sadly. It does vary more from person-to-person than on the internet, however.
And I certainly agree with them not having a clue how to use correct grammar, spelling, or design sense on the internet. I work on my school's website and when I asked several people what they thought would be good elements for such a design, the most common responses were...
Those listed items are some of the most idiotic ideas one could possibly place on a serious web page. Plain colours (black/white/grey, with some colour on a logo, and similar colours to the logo for links), few images (just a logo is generally fine, with maybe one or two small ones more), no videos (not on a main web page - a page of videos if that's something useful for the content), no animated GIFs (major annoyance and distracts from the content), and certainly no background music (I'll listen to my own music, thank you).
Don't even get me started on how they cannot use spelling or grammar... Seriously, how difficult is it to type in an extra letter or two on words such as "you", "are", "your", "you're" (they get those last two mixed up, in addition to bad spelling), "what", "why", and so forth... Most annoying thing ever. And unfortunately all the people my age I know at school, and around where I live act and type like that, no matter what they're like in 'real life'.
Definitely is scary that these are the people who will be running the world in twenty years.
The best way is to take your time estimate (1 week), strip the units from it (1), double it (2), and finally add the unit back in, using one larger a unit (2 months).
;-)
Some more examples:
3 hours -> 3 -> 6 -> 6 days
10 weeks -> 10 -> 20 -> 20 months
Along with torrents, DVD, DIVX, VHS, Beta, a flip book, and a sequence of stone carvings... ;-)
We must educate the children about using IRC!
Sure, no fancy smilies, but who needs miniature pixmaps when you have text? And we should beat proper grammar and spelling into their heads while we're at it, so we don't get 15000 people on IRC saying "OMG WTFLOL!!11!"...
Crushing is a telekinetic skill. It's just the application of pushing and pulling in the right places at the right times.
And then there's also the theory implied by some SW novels that force powers aren't really inherently good or bad, only the way they are used is good/bad. Of course some (such as lightning) are harder to find 'good' applications for. And, as noted in the Thrawn trilogy (by Zahn), the confusion you note as a "light" power, could be used for evil (Luke uses it to confuse and even control the minds of TIE pilots, and he feels as if it's a 'dark' use of the power).
So really it seems to depend on how it's used, not what it is.
Unfortunately the competition (HD-DVD) isn't better by much. Maybe worse. I haven't been keeping up much beyond the obvious points of how chock-full of DRM they'll be.
So, thank you very much, I'll be sticking with regular old DVDs... Sure, they're encrypted, but CSS was cracked ages ago... No problems there.
I normally don't do this, but parent has a good point.
Port 5223 seems to work with SSL when port 5222 doesn't work. (On iChat, right now, SSL + port 5223.)
Nintendo has a lot of first party games, remember. They could be easily getting those ready to go. If memory serves, the Gamecube launched on mainly first-party titles, and it did pretty well.
And the one thing that we don't know anything about for the Revolution is the controller. Which, again if memory serves, Nintendo said they wanted to keep very, very secret. Xbox360 controller? Slightly-less-massive than Xbox controller. PS3 controller? Looks like it'd make a good sex toy and/or boomerang. Revolution controller? Don't know yet...
The other thing is, Nintendo is not overhyping the Revolution, which could be a great benefit. If it launches with features no one heard any rumours about, people could easily be quite stunned and surprised, and that surprise could turn into purchases. Compared to an overhyped product, which doesn't have rumoured features - PS3/Xbox360 could easily loose sales because of overhyping...
Oh well... I guess I'll just be sticking with bittorrent then. ;/
Why can't they, at least, make all the music available in one region available in all the rest?
;/ It's a bit too expensive for me.
There's some Japanese music I wouldn't mind being able to buy (particularly some soundtracks from animes - I'm an anime junkie, I admit it! - but some other things, as well), but, until they get all the music in all the regions, I'm going to be stuck using Bittorrent to get the music I want...
And don't mention importing to me, please...
I avoid Firefox on my Mac. As you said, it's much slower than Safari, and I try to keep my Mac as "clutter-free" as possible. Only apps I use get put onto it. And I don't need more than one browser. =)
When I get a chance I'll try it out in Firefox on my Linux box.
Then it's supposed to only be a blank page with with a blue "start" image and a search field?
Because if that's not what it's supposed to be, then it doesn't like Safari as well. Apparently altering the user agent doesn't change anything either...
OZ does have major issues. Especially with any of the 'less-used' Zaurui. Anything other than the 5500, C760, and C860 has major issues with OZ from my readings and experiences...
That's the reason I maintain my own ROM for the 5600. And I'm currently working on cross-compiling Opie and getting that running on the 5600 with a generally Sharp-style ROM image (GCC 2.95, symlinks all over the filesystem, etc.) for compatibility... If everything goes well, I'll have it so it can run any app you'd normally be able to run on a vanilla 5600 ROM.
That's Ubuntu, not Umbuntu.
And... How were you planning on booting if it didn't write a bootloader (I think Ubunbtu uses grub) to the master boot record? If you were planning to swap drives, then maybe you should have taken out the drive you didn't want touched?
And for the mime type association, that's not (wholey) the fault of Ubuntu - the mime-types are handled by the desktop environment, Gnome in plain Ubuntu. If you tried normal Ubuntu, then maybe you should try Kubuntu. It uses KDE, not Gnome, and I find KDE's mime-type handling system to be easier to manage, personally.
I think the point the grandparent is trying to make is that IE7 is a beta product.
As the original poster stated, why did this take so long to make? Even if it's a beta, can't they have made it a bit nicer looking in the about-4 years since the last IE release?
When you start trying to peek up Princess Peach's dress, rather than actually playing the game? ;)
Play Paper Mario.
(If you've played it, you'll get this.)
I'll add a bit to the list of good games...
Tales of Symphonia, Baten Kaitos, Paper Mario... Soul Calibur II is pretty good, too, and Link is better than the other 'exclusive' characters, in my mind.
Mario Kart is pretty fun, if you're going for multiplayer. The single player is ok, but not *that* much fun.
If you buy a good game, it's actually worth the ~$50 spent, in my opinion. Some ones I suggest looking at for the Gamecube are Tales of Symphonia, Baten Kaitos, Metroid Prime (both), and some of the old staples - Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, etc. Paper Mario is pretty damn fun too. =)
It seems the second screen has become the gimmick that the touchscreen was thought to be. It's the superfluous thing, although it does make some touchscreen games easier. For example, you can keep playing while glancing at the map, instead of moving your hand from the touchscreen to hit the start button (or another button).
Well, that was a somewhat-insightful post, at least...
Although I do wonder exactly how much alcohol was consumed before making it.
4Kids actually has begun to release Yu-Gi-Oh uncut as well, after much complaints from the fans who hate how much of the story was butchered. Unfortunately, these are incredibly hard to find...
Making one seriously doubt whether it's worth to complain over butchered series when you can't get the uncuts even if they're available.
Mirror? ;/ Seems to fail for me...
I don't think that means anything bad, actually...
More info here.
From reading that, I'm guessing the page just has a really long perl filename accessed from, perhaps, the ad script or similar.
Surprisingly, it's holding up. The mirror seems to have died though. But not the original! ;-)
/.ing" club?
And that's the original main page, and the original video! Quite stunning. I wonder if there's a "I survived a
Which should be set-able in user prefs to be either a + or - value...
/. is a safe assumption.
Although I think defaulting it to + on
Offtopic: "It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"
Since when have we had to wait more than four minutes?!