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"Casual" is only an insult because you're making it one. All the GP post actually said was that it only works for people who play the game casually. In other words, those who don't take it too seriously or spend a significant amount of time on it.
Give the Opera 10 Turbo mode a try. This is basically exactly what it's been made for. I tested it on my 2mbps connection, but it (at least in the alpha) showed the exact savings in traffic it made. On average, I'd say you could expect 50-60%* less data transferred for a given page, though of course this depends on the content.
Or, even better, a new layout with hexagon keys. This apprears to be the best option for stylus/finger based input, according to an IBM research paper. They used the Metropolis algorith to come up with the following layout:
.KWMUQ'
CHTOFZ JIEsNGB
VRSAD[ret] ,XPITY[shift]
s == space. It looks much neater in the paper, on page 7.
The performance of this layout is estimated at 43wpm, vs 38 for OPTI II and 30 for QWERTY. The paper also mentions the FITALY layout (36wpm), which I've actually used on my PDA. It works, though it's hard to say what kind of improvemetn I was seeing (if any), since it obviously requires some time to get used to the new layout.
This might not actually be the best layout if people are using two fingers/thumbs at the same time, but this should be farily easy to change now in the simulation.
Yep, another good source is always the Angry Nintendo Nerd. The Moonwalker video is pretty good and of cousre there's plenty more in the archive somewhere.
The TV show did not suck. At least, not as much as the new movie.
The show was far from perfect, but, perhaps with the exception of the sleep clinic episode, very entertaining. I wouldn't call it very deep and meditative (or whatever the last story here called it), but S2 was pretty interesting plot-wise. Plus, Summer Glau in her underwear and speculations of possilbe robot-sex.
I'm glad Vodafone here offers tiered data plans. I get 100MB/month for around 8 bucks, and that's more than enough for mail, RSS, maps, chatting, light browsing, some online radio or a few youtube videos. Going over the limit doesn't cost me anything, but the network is supposed to be throttled, though it never happened to me.
They also have an unlimited (== throttled after 3GB) plan for about $32, and a flexible one which scales from $8-37 depending on your monthly usage. With this one, I'd normally pay what I do, except if I transfer more data it switches to the next step (300mb) and so on.
Of course I'd like them to offer more, but their 3G coverage sucks here anyway so this structure is perfectly fine for now, IMO. I could dig up my past payments if I had more time, but IIRC I usually got up to around 80-85mb or so.
42 mpg is too high. That's about 5.6 l/100 km, so just about 0.6l more than what a TDI Golf might use, and this is supposed to be the average for all cars sold? Obviously, there are smaller cars than the Golf, but decreasing the size further doesn't make much of an improvement to the efficiency, as for instance the gutless 51kW 1.4TDI in the Polo only manages 4.7 l/100km vs 4.9 for the more powerful 80kW 2.0TDI in the larger Golf. The story is pretty much the same for the petrol engines.
I'm not a particularly big fan of taxing everything, but that just might be a better way than pushing through regulations like this. Slowly raising the gas prices will gently change the consumer preference and the car makers will have to adapt, vs the hard top-down approach like this. As a benefit, it doesn't completely destroy all the good cars in the process (see the 70s).
It amazes me that people are still complaining about the ribbon, especially with arguments such as these. Tough I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise here on slashdot.
The ribbon is not dynamic. At least, not in the way you suggest it is. It doesn't attempt to guess what the user is trying to do, the key tabs stay exactly the same no matter what you do and only the individual groupings or buttons are expanded if there is sufficient screen space.
If your main complaint is regarding the additional tabs which appear when the user selects a certain element, again Office is hardly guessing the user's intent. Simply, when the user clicks on an embedded image, a tab with image manipulation options which would otherwise be hidden in menus or a modal dialog somewhere appears to the right of the default ones. This happens every time the user selects an image, so it's not inconsistent. So if you still have a problem with that, you also probably have an issue with context menus, after all, they also change depending on the type of object the user right-clicks on!
This is not to say that the UI in Office 2007 is perfect, but it's a great improvement over the terrible mess of menus and toolbars which we had in the previous versions. It's hard to say if anything else has been changed in the tech preview release based just on the screenshots, but thankfully they didn't dump the ribbon.
I'm not a big fan of Keanu either, but his "Whoa, I don't know what the fuck is going on" talent works perfectly for the completely confused/high/mental Bob Arctor.
Not only that, but all kinds of servers have been available for other smartphones/PDAs for ages now, including web, ftp, and even sql and probably a few more obscure ones as well. This reminds me of Fark's tagline: "It's not news, it's iphone!".
As a current resident of Prague, I can confirm that the predominant smell in the city is indeed beer in any of its three forms: the hops-scented beverage, vomit, and piss.
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No but wait, his Iphone lets him make phone calls (and apparently supports 802.11a), so it's as good or better than any other product on the market, no mater what that device does.
With a loss of $204m on $172m of revenue, my guess would be that they don't do much of anything nowadays.
It's rather sad really, as I, like many others here, have fond memories of Borland's old IDEs. I still use Delphi 7 for Windows GUI projects, though maybe it's time to have a look at what CodeGear's (or is it Embarcadero?) been up to. I also use VisualStudio'08 for WM apps, and while it's also quite nice, Delphi just seems to be so much... better.
There's nothing wrong with people coming together and building an alternative network if the commercial ISPs aren't good enough for whatever reasons. This is pretty common here in the Czech Republic, and wile I can't find any general info pages in english, there's a map that outlines the major network nodes in Prague, and similar are available for other locations. These networks are nonprofit organizations which depend solely on their members and volunteers to survive and provide service. You buy your own equipment and connect to the nearest point for free, a nominal fee, or whatever additional equipment is needed on the AP's side.
This network, however, clearly shows that some of the arguments on the "internet wants to be free" side are bullshit. I pay about $15-20 a month for a 2mb connection which is throttled after ~150mb is transferred in an hour to about 1/3 of the full speed. And while it's not a bannable offence, torrents are discouraged, especially during peak usage times (basically, 10-22 hours). Public IPs are subject to availability, otherwise you're stuck with the private one. If the costs are almost nothing, as per the first post in this thread, than why the hell is a non-profit organization incapable of delivering a better than adequate service for a great than zero amount of money?
Meanwhile, 16mb DSL+ service with no caps, throttling, or any fair-use policies costs less than twice that price, while 8mb is comparable. Cable pricing is similar, though I'm not sure if you have to get any of the TV channels. T-mobile and other phone companies also offers mobile connections of course, but similarly priced services have a (low) transfer cap.
The problem is that the startup from the article is government-owned. It might be turning a profit now, but it could be a budget hole next year when new subscriptions dry up. If it's profitable for the city, then why doesn't it lower the prices for the citizens to the break-even point? I can't tell of course without seeing their books, but this isn't really the only concern, there are plenty other problems including competition, freedom of speech, surveillance, etc. Also, $100 for internet + some shitty cable TV doesn't sound like such a good deal to me.
PS. Government provided cable TV: circuses for the 21 century!
You seem to have no idea what you're talking about. Still, I'll save a point-by-point reply for when it's not 2:40 in the morning, so here's a qucik solution to all your problems: this feature is entirely optional. If you feel this feature is not useful for your large enterprise for whatever made up reaons, simply don't install, enable, or use it.
That's it, there's no way to check if it matches the real user as long as the number/birthdays themselves match to the DB. There's no phone bill, you buy a prepaid card for X pesos at any kiosk when you run out of money. At least, that's how prepaid SIM cards work everywhere else in the world. Also, where do you propose you check the box that says it's not your phone?
I also find it hilarious that, with the corruption levels as ridiculous as they are in Mexico, the criminals are supposed to be stopped by this. It's possible to buy out whole police departments, getting a clerk to accept an ID with a mismatched photo is going to be trevial.
>Since pre-paid anonymous cell phones are almost always used for no good and legal purpose this sounds like a great idea for that kind of phone.
You've got to be fucking kidding. Where's the evidence for this?
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"Casual" is only an insult because you're making it one. All the GP post actually said was that it only works for people who play the game casually. In other words, those who don't take it too seriously or spend a significant amount of time on it.
Give the Opera 10 Turbo mode a try. This is basically exactly what it's been made for. I tested it on my 2mbps connection, but it (at least in the alpha) showed the exact savings in traffic it made. On average, I'd say you could expect 50-60%* less data transferred for a given page, though of course this depends on the content.
*This is very rough and IIRC, of course
If they had been making the EV-1 instead of the Hummers all this time, they would have probably gone bankrupt ten years ago. So... no.
Or, even better, a new layout with hexagon keys. This apprears to be the best option for stylus/finger based input, according to an IBM research paper. They used the Metropolis algorith to come up with the following layout:
CHTOFZ
JIEsNGB
VRSAD[ret]
s == space. It looks much neater in the paper, on page 7.
The performance of this layout is estimated at 43wpm, vs 38 for OPTI II and 30 for QWERTY. The paper also mentions the FITALY layout (36wpm), which I've actually used on my PDA. It works, though it's hard to say what kind of improvemetn I was seeing (if any), since it obviously requires some time to get used to the new layout.
This might not actually be the best layout if people are using two fingers/thumbs at the same time, but this should be farily easy to change now in the simulation.
How appropriate that the Jesus Phone would have such a feature.
That's not obvious at all. In fact, our airport here in Prague has some pretty good food.
There's even a small KFC franchise!
Yep, another good source is always the Angry Nintendo Nerd. The Moonwalker video is pretty good and of cousre there's plenty more in the archive somewhere.
The TV show did not suck. At least, not as much as the new movie.
The show was far from perfect, but, perhaps with the exception of the sleep clinic episode, very entertaining. I wouldn't call it very deep and meditative (or whatever the last story here called it), but S2 was pretty interesting plot-wise. Plus, Summer Glau in her underwear and speculations of possilbe robot-sex.
I'm glad Vodafone here offers tiered data plans. I get 100MB/month for around 8 bucks, and that's more than enough for mail, RSS, maps, chatting, light browsing, some online radio or a few youtube videos. Going over the limit doesn't cost me anything, but the network is supposed to be throttled, though it never happened to me.
They also have an unlimited (== throttled after 3GB) plan for about $32, and a flexible one which scales from $8-37 depending on your monthly usage. With this one, I'd normally pay what I do, except if I transfer more data it switches to the next step (300mb) and so on.
Of course I'd like them to offer more, but their 3G coverage sucks here anyway so this structure is perfectly fine for now, IMO. I could dig up my past payments if I had more time, but IIRC I usually got up to around 80-85mb or so.
42 mpg is too high. That's about 5.6 l/100 km, so just about 0.6l more than what a TDI Golf might use, and this is supposed to be the average for all cars sold? Obviously, there are smaller cars than the Golf, but decreasing the size further doesn't make much of an improvement to the efficiency, as for instance the gutless 51kW 1.4TDI in the Polo only manages 4.7 l/100km vs 4.9 for the more powerful 80kW 2.0TDI in the larger Golf. The story is pretty much the same for the petrol engines.
I'm not a particularly big fan of taxing everything, but that just might be a better way than pushing through regulations like this. Slowly raising the gas prices will gently change the consumer preference and the car makers will have to adapt, vs the hard top-down approach like this. As a benefit, it doesn't completely destroy all the good cars in the process (see the 70s).
It amazes me that people are still complaining about the ribbon, especially with arguments such as these. Tough I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise here on slashdot.
The ribbon is not dynamic. At least, not in the way you suggest it is. It doesn't attempt to guess what the user is trying to do, the key tabs stay exactly the same no matter what you do and only the individual groupings or buttons are expanded if there is sufficient screen space.
If your main complaint is regarding the additional tabs which appear when the user selects a certain element, again Office is hardly guessing the user's intent. Simply, when the user clicks on an embedded image, a tab with image manipulation options which would otherwise be hidden in menus or a modal dialog somewhere appears to the right of the default ones. This happens every time the user selects an image, so it's not inconsistent. So if you still have a problem with that, you also probably have an issue with context menus, after all, they also change depending on the type of object the user right-clicks on!
This is not to say that the UI in Office 2007 is perfect, but it's a great improvement over the terrible mess of menus and toolbars which we had in the previous versions. It's hard to say if anything else has been changed in the tech preview release based just on the screenshots, but thankfully they didn't dump the ribbon.
may I suggest that you try the goggles?
I'm not a big fan of Keanu either, but his "Whoa, I don't know what the fuck is going on" talent works perfectly for the completely confused/high/mental Bob Arctor.
Not only that, but all kinds of servers have been available for other smartphones/PDAs for ages now, including web, ftp, and even sql and probably a few more obscure ones as well. This reminds me of Fark's tagline: "It's not news, it's iphone!".
As a current resident of Prague, I can confirm that the predominant smell in the city is indeed beer in any of its three forms: the hops-scented beverage, vomit, and piss.
No but wait, his Iphone lets him make phone calls (and apparently supports 802.11a), so it's as good or better than any other product on the market, no mater what that device does.
>He was talking about good file managers.
Yeah, but then he contradicted himself by using Nautilus as an example.
>[...] they are rather unfriendly to pedestrians when colliding with them.
Well that's the whole point, isn't it? :)
With a loss of $204m on $172m of revenue, my guess would be that they don't do much of anything nowadays.
It's rather sad really, as I, like many others here, have fond memories of Borland's old IDEs. I still use Delphi 7 for Windows GUI projects, though maybe it's time to have a look at what CodeGear's (or is it Embarcadero?) been up to. I also use VisualStudio'08 for WM apps, and while it's also quite nice, Delphi just seems to be so much... better.
If driving tanks in Norway is in any way similar to how it's done in Sweden, I'd definitely think about signing up right now!
>Yes, but he was using a Mac, not running Linux ;p
So he's gay, and the girl is just his sister or cousin.
There's nothing wrong with people coming together and building an alternative network if the commercial ISPs aren't good enough for whatever reasons. This is pretty common here in the Czech Republic, and wile I can't find any general info pages in english, there's a map that outlines the major network nodes in Prague, and similar are available for other locations. These networks are nonprofit organizations which depend solely on their members and volunteers to survive and provide service. You buy your own equipment and connect to the nearest point for free, a nominal fee, or whatever additional equipment is needed on the AP's side.
This network, however, clearly shows that some of the arguments on the "internet wants to be free" side are bullshit. I pay about $15-20 a month for a 2mb connection which is throttled after ~150mb is transferred in an hour to about 1/3 of the full speed. And while it's not a bannable offence, torrents are discouraged, especially during peak usage times (basically, 10-22 hours). Public IPs are subject to availability, otherwise you're stuck with the private one. If the costs are almost nothing, as per the first post in this thread, than why the hell is a non-profit organization incapable of delivering a better than adequate service for a great than zero amount of money?
Meanwhile, 16mb DSL+ service with no caps, throttling, or any fair-use policies costs less than twice that price, while 8mb is comparable. Cable pricing is similar, though I'm not sure if you have to get any of the TV channels. T-mobile and other phone companies also offers mobile connections of course, but similarly priced services have a (low) transfer cap.
The problem is that the startup from the article is government-owned. It might be turning a profit now, but it could be a budget hole next year when new subscriptions dry up. If it's profitable for the city, then why doesn't it lower the prices for the citizens to the break-even point? I can't tell of course without seeing their books, but this isn't really the only concern, there are plenty other problems including competition, freedom of speech, surveillance, etc. Also, $100 for internet + some shitty cable TV doesn't sound like such a good deal to me.
PS. Government provided cable TV: circuses for the 21 century!
You seem to have no idea what you're talking about. Still, I'll save a point-by-point reply for when it's not 2:40 in the morning, so here's a qucik solution to all your problems: this feature is entirely optional. If you feel this feature is not useful for your large enterprise for whatever made up reaons, simply don't install, enable, or use it.
No, here's how it's going to work:
Users SMS in a CURP.
That's it, there's no way to check if it matches the real user as long as the number/birthdays themselves match to the DB. There's no phone bill, you buy a prepaid card for X pesos at any kiosk when you run out of money. At least, that's how prepaid SIM cards work everywhere else in the world. Also, where do you propose you check the box that says it's not your phone?
I also find it hilarious that, with the corruption levels as ridiculous as they are in Mexico, the criminals are supposed to be stopped by this. It's possible to buy out whole police departments, getting a clerk to accept an ID with a mismatched photo is going to be trevial.
>Since pre-paid anonymous cell phones are almost always used for no good and legal purpose this sounds like a great idea for that kind of phone.
You've got to be fucking kidding. Where's the evidence for this?