What's wrong with Gnome's "regedit"? Would you prefer a text file with pretty much the same layout (one option per line) but where options are missing and you have to read the documentation to find out if they even exist? It is Ok to me.
Man taps your car's window with a 9mm.
Being clever you pull out your bigger handgun to tap it on the window.
Carjacker shoots you in the head and you die.
Of course, since guns are going to exist anyway, and criminals will have them, maybe us non-criminals should too. But I'd rather pay insurance than risk my life.
How about weight differences? From a book I skimmed on brazilian jiujitsu, it seemed like you'd be pretty fucked in a fight against a mugger if he had 80 pounds on you, and wasn't a completely klutz.
You can probably watch CSPAN for free online - I know I can watch CPAC (the canadian CSPAN, unless I'm confusing it with something else) online. It's less convenient though unless you have a second monitor, if you're the sort of person who likes CPAC running in the background.
My thesis in a recent english class was on videogame violence, and while I don't think I convinced the teacher (I'm not a great writer though I'm not bad) after reading through all the relavent material I could find, it was pretty clear that there was no evidence that videogames alone caused violence. If videogames cause violence, it's because of the presence of other problems in an individual. But in typical nerds with good families, for example, violence won't be caused so easily.
In the copy of Fahrenheit 451 I had, the author points out the censorship of the book in some places. The issues were to do with swears (and maybe sexuality) and their suitability for some school audiences.
Good viewing in direct sunlight (or so they claim)
The display contains a bunch of cells with differently charge, coloured particles. So it really should be just like reading paper: light just bounces off the particles (or doesn't) like normal paper. I get annoying glare on my glossy textbooks though...
The only problem is, if it costs more than $200 it will probably be a tough sell.
I really hope and expect these things are less than that! They don't need nearly as much processing power as any Pocket PC, but maybe they would be like the m105 Palms ($130CAD maybe).
I can get a lot of books (especially used) for that, and not have to change to batteries.
(There is a tonne of content free available in digital formats.) I hope they use some USB chargable cell or something in the future models rather than AAAs.
Roughly:
$2000CAD for an Athlon 64.
$4000CAD for a comparable G5.
Not to mention the Apple is lagging a little behind on software and community at the moment (because of the sheer numbers difference between x86 users and Apple users).
Hmmm, no thanks.:(
I played the game, but it wasn't great. I played for a day or two almost straight in the single player and it was Ok, but nothing special. It seemed kind of boring - run through the corridors and kill the baddies, get the key, etc (though you get the opportunity to sneak around sometimes).
Multiplayer might be worth it for some. I didn't get a chance to play.
With Far Cry and Unreal Tournament 2004 out, I wouldn't spend my money on CS:CZ.
Want to make a fake mock-up to impress investors? Take your stylish case, put a mini-itx board with a P4 in it, install the games you will be demo'ing, and use a custom frontend (visual basic even) with Windows running in the background.
This reminds me of the free energy scams that have gone on forever. Yeah, they may one day release a product, but why risk any money on them when there are thousands of better companies. I know I won't.
There was a study about this in Nature. Some people measured how well gamers tracked multiple objects, counted quickly, etc, versus non-gamers. The gamers did better of course, but what practical use those skills have is less obvious.
I don't know his intent, but citing a stat such as 95% or 99% or 99.9% is sometimes just used to indicate a large majority, not any actual specific value. 99% of linguists agree with me.:)
So people are mistaken if they refer to the GNU system as "Linux".
Don't care. In this context it's pretty obvious to anyone what I'm talking about.
But please, try not to, and try to understand the difference.
Yeah really complicated. Is this a troll?
What about having Free games? Developed by hackers on the internet, with focus on gameplay and writing instead of millions of dollars worth of eye candy?
I love gameplay. I play Jumpman Zero all day long. I played Nethack until the YASD that was also my best game ever. But, the writing isn't any better in free games. There probably is no writing, and the concepts are usually ripped off. Any writing is cliche anyway so I don't care as long as the game is fun.
Proprietry software, including games, hurts society. Please do not support it. Don't trade your Freedom for the convenience of playing a Proprietry game.
That's bullshit. That doesn't even make sense. From your nonsensical post, nit-picks, and name, you smell like a troll.
I thought you referring to maybe wine-x (which is why I wrote 'without hassle'), but if my sibling is correct:
Welcome to the wonderful world of linguistics.
It takes companies years, millions, and hundreds of megabytes to create successful games, and the success to linux is a game that actually runs on linux? No, I say linux needs to be able to run PC games (well and without hassle).
But I think if you are talking to an audience completely ignorant of science then quotes with complex terms might help. If talking to scientists or even regular people under today's education who are ignorant of some term you wouldn't want the quotes. But imagine someone who came from england, 1700, or say the whitehouse. Quotes might reassure the reader you aren't making things up.
There was one Ok usage:
"...choline "super-charged" the..."
The rest (aside from speech quotes) were terrible.
'..."methyl group" of atoms..."
However, it really depends on his regular audience, if they are appropriate. Does his audience know what a methyl group is? Or even roughly? It's a science blog though...
Don't be too ambitious there. I don't know much about child development, but kids can only do so much. I was 5-8 years old playing frogger and I don't think I got to the third level once. Still fun and I must have played it for months, while doing other things (may dad had a boot menu for dos to start a bunch of games automatically).
Otherwise, a good general idea. Child rearing takes time and effort.
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Yeah but how often do you need to send the thousands of terrabytes to make this worthwhile? Once a year? Effectively horrible latency....
What's wrong with Gnome's "regedit"? Would you prefer a text file with pretty much the same layout (one option per line) but where options are missing and you have to read the documentation to find out if they even exist? It is Ok to me.
Boot from the cd-rom.
Hypothetical story not told:
Man taps your car's window with a 9mm.
Being clever you pull out your bigger handgun to tap it on the window.
Carjacker shoots you in the head and you die.
Of course, since guns are going to exist anyway, and criminals will have them, maybe us non-criminals should too. But I'd rather pay insurance than risk my life.
How about weight differences? From a book I skimmed on brazilian jiujitsu, it seemed like you'd be pretty fucked in a fight against a mugger if he had 80 pounds on you, and wasn't a completely klutz.
You can probably watch CSPAN for free online - I know I can watch CPAC (the canadian CSPAN, unless I'm confusing it with something else) online. It's less convenient though unless you have a second monitor, if you're the sort of person who likes CPAC running in the background.
My thesis in a recent english class was on videogame violence, and while I don't think I convinced the teacher (I'm not a great writer though I'm not bad) after reading through all the relavent material I could find, it was pretty clear that there was no evidence that videogames alone caused violence. If videogames cause violence, it's because of the presence of other problems in an individual. But in typical nerds with good families, for example, violence won't be caused so easily.
In the copy of Fahrenheit 451 I had, the author points out the censorship of the book in some places. The issues were to do with swears (and maybe sexuality) and their suitability for some school audiences.
Good viewing in direct sunlight (or so they claim)
The display contains a bunch of cells with differently charge, coloured particles. So it really should be just like reading paper: light just bounces off the particles (or doesn't) like normal paper. I get annoying glare on my glossy textbooks though...
The only problem is, if it costs more than $200 it will probably be a tough sell.
I really hope and expect these things are less than that! They don't need nearly as much processing power as any Pocket PC, but maybe they would be like the m105 Palms ($130CAD maybe).
I can get a lot of books (especially used) for that, and not have to change to batteries.
(There is a tonne of content free available in digital formats.) I hope they use some USB chargable cell or something in the future models rather than AAAs.
Whoops that's the price for the dual G5. Can probably knock of $1000.
Roughly:
:(
$2000CAD for an Athlon 64.
$4000CAD for a comparable G5.
Not to mention the Apple is lagging a little behind on software and community at the moment (because of the sheer numbers difference between x86 users and Apple users). Hmmm, no thanks.
I played the game, but it wasn't great. I played for a day or two almost straight in the single player and it was Ok, but nothing special. It seemed kind of boring - run through the corridors and kill the baddies, get the key, etc (though you get the opportunity to sneak around sometimes).
Multiplayer might be worth it for some. I didn't get a chance to play.
With Far Cry and Unreal Tournament 2004 out, I wouldn't spend my money on CS:CZ.
I think that's just the proof-of-concept one, because the second one on the page looks less thick to me.
Want to make a fake mock-up to impress investors? Take your stylish case, put a mini-itx board with a P4 in it, install the games you will be demo'ing, and use a custom frontend (visual basic even) with Windows running in the background.
This reminds me of the free energy scams that have gone on forever. Yeah, they may one day release a product, but why risk any money on them when there are thousands of better companies. I know I won't.
There was a study about this in Nature. Some people measured how well gamers tracked multiple objects, counted quickly, etc, versus non-gamers. The gamers did better of course, but what practical use those skills have is less obvious.
I don't know his intent, but citing a stat such as 95% or 99% or 99.9% is sometimes just used to indicate a large majority, not any actual specific value. 99% of linguists agree with me. :)
So people are mistaken if they refer to the GNU system as "Linux".
Don't care. In this context it's pretty obvious to anyone what I'm talking about.
But please, try not to, and try to understand the difference.
Yeah really complicated. Is this a troll?
What about having Free games? Developed by hackers on the internet, with focus on gameplay and writing instead of millions of dollars worth of eye candy?
I love gameplay. I play Jumpman Zero all day long. I played Nethack until the YASD that was also my best game ever. But, the writing isn't any better in free games. There probably is no writing, and the concepts are usually ripped off. Any writing is cliche anyway so I don't care as long as the game is fun.
Proprietry software, including games, hurts society. Please do not support it. Don't trade your Freedom for the convenience of playing a Proprietry game.
That's bullshit. That doesn't even make sense. From your nonsensical post, nit-picks, and name, you smell like a troll.
It's a matter of context.
I thought you referring to maybe wine-x (which is why I wrote 'without hassle'), but if my sibling is correct:
Welcome to the wonderful world of linguistics.
It takes companies years, millions, and hundreds of megabytes to create successful games, and the success to linux is a game that actually runs on linux? No, I say linux needs to be able to run PC games (well and without hassle).
Slang, definately.
But I think if you are talking to an audience completely ignorant of science then quotes with complex terms might help. If talking to scientists or even regular people under today's education who are ignorant of some term you wouldn't want the quotes. But imagine someone who came from england, 1700, or say the whitehouse. Quotes might reassure the reader you aren't making things up.
Maybe not, but that's what I suspect.
Too many commas by me though :)
There was one Ok usage:
"...choline "super-charged" the..."
The rest (aside from speech quotes) were terrible.
'..."methyl group" of atoms..."
However, it really depends on his regular audience, if they are appropriate. Does his audience know what a methyl group is? Or even roughly? It's a science blog though...
Don't be too ambitious there. I don't know much about child development, but kids can only do so much. I was 5-8 years old playing frogger and I don't think I got to the third level once. Still fun and I must have played it for months, while doing other things (may dad had a boot menu for dos to start a bunch of games automatically).
Otherwise, a good general idea. Child rearing takes time and effort.