Most Chrome ad blocking extensions seem to hide ads after downloading —not much use, in other words.
AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper works much more like AdBlock for Firefox, though — I've been using it for several weeks and am happy with it so far.
The Guardian is indeed an excellent source of free news, but with pre-tax losses of nearly $134m last year, it's anyone's guess how long that will last.
The BBC isn't in the same boat, of course, since it's funded by British licence fee payers, but should the Conservatives win the next general election, its operation also looks set to be scaled back considerably.
I think the poster is talking about servo-assisted brakes that amplify the pedal pressure to apply sufficient force with the brake pads. This means that when the engine is running, little pressure on the pedal is required to lock the wheels (ABS aside), whereas with the engine off (when being towed, for example), pushing the brake pedal through the floor has little effect on speed.
The fact is, a consumer retailer like Apple can stock and sell whatever products to choose to its customers. What they don't stock is really none of your business, and if you don't like, take your products and have someone else carry it.
This is just another non-issue. The problem with Apple is that they are too successful, they need to keep out the riff raff.
Hm, I'm not so sure about that. Schiller has already intimated that Apple is now operating a cartel with certain app developers when responding to a question about why Sports Illustrated's and Playboy's apps are not banned:
“The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format”.
I also suspect that Apple's App Store practices will lead to an antitrust investigation at some point. The iPhone is gaining dominance in the smartphone market and if its capricious App Store behaviour continues, accusations of monopolistic behaviour are bound to crop up.
As for experts-exchange, I share your disgust. Their business model is an abomination. Sometimes, however, I find the solutions posted there by poor ignorant souls useful. As long as you block their cookies you can see all the answers without registering simply by jumping to the bottom of their pages. Use AdBlock to make sure they don't get any ad revenue from your page views. This way you benefit from them and help to accelerate their death at the same time. It's a clear win-win!
So, you hate the service, but still make use of it — and yet actively try to circumvent its mechanism for generating income? Hm...
+1 to R-Studio here, too. The NTFS edition has saved my bacon a few times, though the company's refusal to resupply the reg key for my purchased copy (after I lost the email with the original) sent me elsewhere.
Aside from the fact that I like my line and paragraph spacing set up a certain way (a personal nuance), I need a word count and I'm not aware of any raw text editor that offers that. I've settled on Scrivener for day-to-day writing since it offers a few nifty built-in versioning tools. But you're dead-on â" NeoOffice and Word are sledgehammers for my (and most people's) needs.
Apple Pages may be fantastic at page layout, but it sucks at word processing.
It's a page-centric application, which is great if you want DTP features for little money, but the lack of any kind of text-centric view makes it hopeless for mere word processing.
If you're a writer who just wants to bash out words and leave the layout to someone else, then Pages' inability to hide margins and page breaks is severely limiting. Which is why Word (or NeoOffice, or Scrivener) is much better-suited to writing./rant
Cordd kyboards ar the most rliabl kind and thr's vry littl than can go wrong with thm. I'v bn using this old Chrry modl for yars and it's still as good as nw.
Untrue -- or at least it used to be. I toured both Logitech's Swiss and Microsoft's Seattle mice/keyboard facilities five years ago and can assure you that there is (or at least, was) no rebranding going on.
I suspect that the margins are so low on a $200 'netbook' (which is how these devices are being pitched) that the temptation is to slip in a few more features and nudge up the price in order to make a little more money.
It's not quite quite the boiling frog analogy, but it's not far off -- 7" screen too small? Why for only $50 more you can get 8.9"! And there's even a bigger keyboard for just another $30!
Before you know it we'll be at the Eee PC 1200 netbook with a 12.1in screen for $700 - or a 'laptop', as such things are more commonly known...
Imagine you get to 99% of the speed of light. You launch a ship. It would hardly be impossible for 25 years to go by and we have another physics revolution, where we understand how to go faster than light (or at least appear to) and to build a ship that arrives at the destination years before the first ship does.
As happens in the AE Van Vogt short, Far Centaurus. It's about three men's experiences of suspended animation on the first journey to a nearby star system with inhabitable planets.
The thing is, it takes them so long to get there that by the time they arrive, Earth has already fully colonised the planets (now named after the travellers) and can flit between stars like crossing the street. In fact society has developed so much that the travellers can't adapt and end up heading back into space. Not Van Vogt's best, but certainly interesting.
It's been a while since I played and I can't really be bothered to go into the nitty gritty, but essentially, they changed the way that enhancements affect a character's powers.
Unlike WoW, the only real 'drops' in CoX are enhancements - tokens that you can drop into the six slots that can be created (one at a time, at level-up time) in every power in order to improve its effectiveness. Enhancements do things like boost attack damage and accuracy, increase the rate at which powers recharge, reduce the amount of energy ('Stamina', IIRC) they use, and so on. This verisimilitude of enhancements, slots and powers is one of the games strengths, IMO.
Pre-nerf, enhancements were straight multipliers -- one damage meant an attack did Damage x N, two meant Damage x 2N, and so on, all the way to six. You could mix enhancements, of course -- four damage and two accuracy in an attack, for example -- but it was personal preference.
As with any MMORPG, this lead to ideal 'builds' and certain tricks were possible. For example, six recharge enhancements in the 'Hasten' power (which itself increased the recharge time of certain powers) created 'Permahasten' -- the Hasten power that normally had a down-time between uses would instead be permanently active.
The change alluded to by the previous poster was Enhanced Diversification (ED), which was introduced under the guise of creating more varied characters by de-emphasising ideal 'builds'. How so? With ED, if you 'slotted' up to three enhancements of the same type in a power, you still got the standard multiplier effect, but more use than three and the gains were drastically reduced. So, it was pointless to six-slot enhancements of the same time -- 'enhanced diversity'. This meant the end of Permahasten and other (what were arguably) exploits.
The big complaint was that this wasn't a device to improve gameplay, but a massive nerf and it upset lots of players. It doesn't really seem like that big a deal now, but then there are only about 50 people playing in the UK*.
I'm holding one in my hand right now (well, not *right* now...). It's lovely -- tiny, tactile and very well made. But the shiny new features consist of nothing more than a clever program launcher that sits on WM6. Once you get past it, you're dumped into whatever WM app you prodded with your finger and since there are no buttons on the device, there's no way to quit it when you've finished, or use even use it, unless you whip out the microscopic stylus and tap away on the screen. So, nice idea, terrible implementation, but it's all WM6's fault.
Where PCs are concerned, it goes back to the manufacturer since it's often part of a loan pool. Review sites/magazines usually only accumulate hardware that a) is uneconomic for the sender to collect (i.e. too cheap), b) so crap that they can't be bothered collecting it or c) the PR company has lost track of. So, there are usually lots of 256Mb MP3 players and DVD writers kicking around, but few PCs and fancy graphics cards. This usually then piles up until it gets thrown out or given away.
That's exactly how the SlingBox works -- only one client can connect at any one time, and the transmission is now encrypted (thanks to a recent firmware & software update).
This raises an interesting point. By awaking from a 19 year coma, this man's mind has effectively travelled forward in time by 19 years -- assuming that he has no memory of the intervening years, of course (which is suggested by the article). Of course his body has aged accordingly, but even so, disregarding the considerable health problems he will no doubt face after being comatose for such a length of time, he must be having a rare, if not unique, experience.
It's also important to remember that the brain is not ALL just undifferentiated mush, but has all sort of specialized areas that cannot be replaced by other specialized areas.
Apparently not, as this piece on hemimegalencephaly amply illustrates. The brain is siginificantly more adaptable than anyone imagined, or so it would seem.
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Most Chrome ad blocking extensions seem to hide ads after downloading —not much use, in other words. AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper works much more like AdBlock for Firefox, though — I've been using it for several weeks and am happy with it so far.
The Guardian is indeed an excellent source of free news, but with pre-tax losses of nearly $134m last year, it's anyone's guess how long that will last.
The BBC isn't in the same boat, of course, since it's funded by British licence fee payers, but should the Conservatives win the next general election, its operation also looks set to be scaled back considerably.
I think the poster is talking about servo-assisted brakes that amplify the pedal pressure to apply sufficient force with the brake pads. This means that when the engine is running, little pressure on the pedal is required to lock the wheels (ABS aside), whereas with the engine off (when being towed, for example), pushing the brake pedal through the floor has little effect on speed.
The fact is, a consumer retailer like Apple can stock and sell whatever products to choose to its customers. What they don't stock is really none of your business, and if you don't like, take your products and have someone else carry it.
This is just another non-issue. The problem with Apple is that they are too successful, they need to keep out the riff raff.
Hm, I'm not so sure about that. Schiller has already intimated that Apple is now operating a cartel with certain app developers when responding to a question about why Sports Illustrated's and Playboy's apps are not banned:
“The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format”.
I also suspect that Apple's App Store practices will lead to an antitrust investigation at some point. The iPhone is gaining dominance in the smartphone market and if its capricious App Store behaviour continues, accusations of monopolistic behaviour are bound to crop up.
Replying to remove erroneously applied mode point (not a 'funny' comment at all). My bad.
As for experts-exchange, I share your disgust. Their business model is an abomination. Sometimes, however, I find the solutions posted there by poor ignorant souls useful. As long as you block their cookies you can see all the answers without registering simply by jumping to the bottom of their pages. Use AdBlock to make sure they don't get any ad revenue from your page views. This way you benefit from them and help to accelerate their death at the same time. It's a clear win-win!
So, you hate the service, but still make use of it — and yet actively try to circumvent its mechanism for generating income? Hm...
Asus Origami dual-screen prototype laptop Fixed that for you...
+1 to R-Studio here, too. The NTFS edition has saved my bacon a few times, though the company's refusal to resupply the reg key for my purchased copy (after I lost the email with the original) sent me elsewhere.
Oscar Wilde pretty much nailed it: âoeMan can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbableâ.
Aside from the fact that I like my line and paragraph spacing set up a certain way (a personal nuance), I need a word count and I'm not aware of any raw text editor that offers that. I've settled on Scrivener for day-to-day writing since it offers a few nifty built-in versioning tools. But you're dead-on â" NeoOffice and Word are sledgehammers for my (and most people's) needs.
Apple Pages may be fantastic at page layout, but it sucks at word processing. It's a page-centric application, which is great if you want DTP features for little money, but the lack of any kind of text-centric view makes it hopeless for mere word processing. If you're a writer who just wants to bash out words and leave the layout to someone else, then Pages' inability to hide margins and page breaks is severely limiting. Which is why Word (or NeoOffice, or Scrivener) is much better-suited to writing. /rant
Cordd kyboards ar the most rliabl kind and thr's vry littl than can go wrong with thm. I'v bn using this old Chrry modl for yars and it's still as good as nw.
Untrue -- or at least it used to be. I toured both Logitech's Swiss and Microsoft's Seattle mice/keyboard facilities five years ago and can assure you that there is (or at least, was) no rebranding going on.
I suspect that the margins are so low on a $200 'netbook' (which is how these devices are being pitched) that the temptation is to slip in a few more features and nudge up the price in order to make a little more money. It's not quite quite the boiling frog analogy, but it's not far off -- 7" screen too small? Why for only $50 more you can get 8.9"! And there's even a bigger keyboard for just another $30! Before you know it we'll be at the Eee PC 1200 netbook with a 12.1in screen for $700 - or a 'laptop', as such things are more commonly known...
As happens in the AE Van Vogt short, Far Centaurus . It's about three men's experiences of suspended animation on the first journey to a nearby star system with inhabitable planets.
The thing is, it takes them so long to get there that by the time they arrive, Earth has already fully colonised the planets (now named after the travellers) and can flit between stars like crossing the street. In fact society has developed so much that the travellers can't adapt and end up heading back into space. Not Van Vogt's best, but certainly interesting.
So "irony" isn't a synonym of "metallic", then? Hm.
UK readers may be interesting to read something similar for Vodafone & T-Mobile here: http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080423438/vodafone-mobile-connect-t-mobile-usb-stick-iii-7.2mbit/s-mobile-broadband-modems.html. That page also has a link to a look at the deals offered by all UK mobile broadband providers.
And yes, Typoman was my character...
It's been a while since I played and I can't really be bothered to go into the nitty gritty, but essentially, they changed the way that enhancements affect a character's powers.
Unlike WoW, the only real 'drops' in CoX are enhancements - tokens that you can drop into the six slots that can be created (one at a time, at level-up time) in every power in order to improve its effectiveness. Enhancements do things like boost attack damage and accuracy, increase the rate at which powers recharge, reduce the amount of energy ('Stamina', IIRC) they use, and so on. This verisimilitude of enhancements, slots and powers is one of the games strengths, IMO.
Pre-nerf, enhancements were straight multipliers -- one damage meant an attack did Damage x N, two meant Damage x 2N, and so on, all the way to six. You could mix enhancements, of course -- four damage and two accuracy in an attack, for example -- but it was personal preference.
As with any MMORPG, this lead to ideal 'builds' and certain tricks were possible. For example, six recharge enhancements in the 'Hasten' power (which itself increased the recharge time of certain powers) created 'Permahasten' -- the Hasten power that normally had a down-time between uses would instead be permanently active.
The change alluded to by the previous poster was Enhanced Diversification (ED), which was introduced under the guise of creating more varied characters by de-emphasising ideal 'builds'. How so? With ED, if you 'slotted' up to three enhancements of the same type in a power, you still got the standard multiplier effect, but more use than three and the gains were drastically reduced. So, it was pointless to six-slot enhancements of the same time -- 'enhanced diversity'. This meant the end of Permahasten and other (what were arguably) exploits.
The big complaint was that this wasn't a device to improve gameplay, but a massive nerf and it upset lots of players. It doesn't really seem like that big a deal now, but then there are only about 50 people playing in the UK*.
*Source: Out of my ass.
Perhaps not quite what you're looking for, but I've had some success with VolumeLogic for listening via iTunes.
I'm holding one in my hand right now (well, not *right* now...). It's lovely -- tiny, tactile and very well made. But the shiny new features consist of nothing more than a clever program launcher that sits on WM6. Once you get past it, you're dumped into whatever WM app you prodded with your finger and since there are no buttons on the device, there's no way to quit it when you've finished, or use even use it, unless you whip out the microscopic stylus and tap away on the screen. So, nice idea, terrible implementation, but it's all WM6's fault.
Where PCs are concerned, it goes back to the manufacturer since it's often part of a loan pool. Review sites/magazines usually only accumulate hardware that a) is uneconomic for the sender to collect (i.e. too cheap), b) so crap that they can't be bothered collecting it or c) the PR company has lost track of. So, there are usually lots of 256Mb MP3 players and DVD writers kicking around, but few PCs and fancy graphics cards. This usually then piles up until it gets thrown out or given away.
That's exactly how the SlingBox works -- only one client can connect at any one time, and the transmission is now encrypted (thanks to a recent firmware & software update).
This raises an interesting point. By awaking from a 19 year coma, this man's mind has effectively travelled forward in time by 19 years -- assuming that he has no memory of the intervening years, of course (which is suggested by the article). Of course his body has aged accordingly, but even so, disregarding the considerable health problems he will no doubt face after being comatose for such a length of time, he must be having a rare, if not unique, experience.