(Personally, I'm still thinking a couple of degrees warmer will be a net benefit; one should not analyse merely the costs without considering the benefits, and surprise surprise, that's exactly what twitchy, panicky, screamy environmentalists do. Sure, we lose a couple of inches of coastline, but we get a lot more arable land and perhaps more rain will help roll some deserts back.
I'm sure there are some people in Niue who would disagree with you. A rise of only 2 degrees will raise the sea level enough from simple thermal expansion to wipe out Niue and a number of other island nations in the Pacific. Not to mention low-lying coastal areas (five degrees, and we lose Florida).
I'm not looking for someone to sue. I'm looking to find out if the community thinks that this is an important issue or not. I'm looking to find out if I can bring pressure to the industry to tighten the labelling of games up. I'm looking to make sure that this doesn't happen to my son again. I'm lucky - I was playing the game with him at the time. What if I hadn't been?
The problem is figuring out where to draw the line between games that need it, and games that don't. Clearly, a game like Civilization that has no high-speed graphics changes doesn't need a label, and a game like Tetris for the Nintendo, with its black-and-white "lightning" effect every time you clear four lines at once does. But what about the games in between those two extremes?
Can't you do all the same things via a man-in-the-middle attack, in which case there is NO way for the web site developer to guard against it?
You can, but it's a hell of a lot easier to sneak tainted data into a form than it is to set up a man-in-the-middle attack. Further, XSS can guarantee you information on everyone who views the tainted page, while a MITM attack can't.
But isn't this precisely a form of security through obscurity? And is it really going to work? Adding another layer of a similar sort of security (where you have to know a password of sorts) is just delaying invasion and likely (slightly, at least) burdening legitimate traffic.
It's like adding a second metal detector at the airport. If you make it past the first metal detector, then you'll probably make it past the second metal detector also (it'll just take longer), and you slow down all the legitimate non-terrorists in the process.
Actually, it's more like adding an x-ray machine to the metal detector. They're both looking for the same thing (in the case of the airport, weapons; in the case of port knocking, secret information), but they do it in different ways. As a result, even if you get past one, you've got a good chance of being tripped up by the other.
That said there's no reason you can't figure out direction with digital watches, if you already understand how that works. (also many digital watches have compasses in them)
Do they have built-in correction for magnetic deviation? The analog watch technique gives you true north.
g at), and fancy ringtones (my self-esteem is so low that I need some fancy song to play when my phone rings so everyone thinks I'm cool),
There's a purpose to all the variation in ringtones, apart from any ego boost: if you've got an unusual ringtone, you know it's your phone that's ringing, and not someone else's.
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Your 'bastardisation' of the word free shows that the world of advertising has been a complete success. "Buy one get one free!" No, you get two for the price of one, but one is not free. You still have to pay. Anything which requires an exchange of something is not free.
There's a technical difference between "buy one, get one free" and "two for the price of one": "two for the price of one" means you can get one for half price, while "buy one, get one free" means if you buy one, it's full price.
So, your desktop-usage consists mostly of starting, restarting, restasting and restarting you GUI over and over again? You can't wait for few seconds for the GUI to start?
Under Windows, it sure feels like it. I built my current computer one year and eight months ago. During that time, I've used it mostly under Linux. Even so, there are over four hundred entries in the Scandisk log, which works out to two crashes for every day that I've used Windows. With a track record like that, the two-and-a-half minutes it takes to start up is significant.
The slashdot article title is very poorly chosen. A game can be extremely logical and yet have absolutely nothing to do with realism. Tic-tac-toe is a great example. The rules are simple, very consistent, and very logical decisions can be made within the framework of the game, but it doesn't have anything to do with reality.
"The only way to win, is not to play" -- War Games
A 9.1 gig hard drive - just one - costs $10 shipped from a reputable seller.
I'd hardly classify those guys as a "reputable seller". Their lifetime rating on ResellerRatings is only 6.48, putting them just above the bottom quarter for ratings. For comparison, half of all sellers were rated above 8.27, and the top quarter are above 9.42.
They are no more wasteful than plastic bottles and aluminium cans. The disc is recyclable. The problem (just like plastic and aluminium) is to get people to actually recycle them.
And passing laws won't help... It hasn't done anything for aluminium cans in Raleigh (NC). It's illegal to dispose of them in the county landfill. However, the law only makes it illegal to dump them in the landfill; there's nothing stopping people from throwing them in their trash. It's the trash collectors that dump them in the landfill.
Passing laws can help -- you just need to pass the right ones. In Michigan, there's a ten-cent deposit on every soft-drink can, and you get that money back if you return the can for recycling. This results in rather impressive recycling rates.
don't be a tool, RTFM. Taskman has a base priority of HIGH so it takes precedence over all those buggy windoze apps.
Assuming by that you mean "high priority class, normal priority", that only puts it at a base priority of 13. It can be blocked by foreground applications with "normal priority class, normal priority" under some circumstances, and can be blocked by applications of any priority class with "time-critical priority". Ideally, Taskman should be running at either "high priority class, time-critical priority" to be on a par with other time-critical priority threads, or be running as a "realtime priority class" application with its own keyboard driver, in order to be at a higher priority than anything else.
I don't have carpal tunnel, but I've got a guess as to why laptop keyboards aren't as bad.
I've got both a desktop and a laptop here at my desk, and comparing my typing positions for the two, my wrists are much straighter when typing on the laptop than on the desktop, because the laptop keyboard is a good foot farther from me than the desktop keyboard.
This whole "cultural difference" thing is so overblown.
I live in Europe and American GUIs are fine with me. My girlfriend is South African and American GUIs are fine with her.
Are you using "cultural differences" as a euphemism for "racial differences"?
I'm using "cultural differences" as a euphemism for "cultural differences". Is it really so hard to take people's writing at face value?
To address your specific examples, the US and South Africa both have very strong European cultural influences. Places like India and China have not been as strongly influenced by European culture, so I expect you'll have a harder time using GUIs designed there.
Could it just be that because of America's prosperity has created a "bubble" in the american labor market over the past decades?
Maybe all americans are simply overpaid and we're in for a BIG correction in the coming years?
It's called "deflation", and it's probably the worst thing that can happen to an economy short of nuclear war. Once an economy goes into deflation, there's almost no way to get it out again.
When an economy is going through deflation, it always makes more sense to spend as little money as possible, since prices will be lower in the future. But everyone holding on to their money just decreases the amount in circulation further, so prices continue to drop, so people hold on to more money, so prices drop further, and so on. In the mean time, since no-one's buying anything but the essentials, jobs are being lost left and right.
Corporate managers are paid to cut costs. That may not fit into your ideal lifestyle choices
My "ideal lifestyle" includes such concepts as "eating" and "a place to sleep". If I don't have another concept known as "a job", those are kind of hard to come by.
I'd say you were talking through your racist hat on this one.
I wouldn't have an outsourced Indian firm do the human interface design on a project either, and it has nothing to do with racism.
India has a different culture than the United States, so interface design assumptions that seem perfectly obvious to someone in India might be completely incomprehensible to someone from the US, and vice versa.
For example, consider that a user interface designed by programmers for programmers will have as many options as the programmers could shoehorn in. That UI will seem too complicated to use for the typical J. Random User, while a UI for J. Random will seem too constrained for the liking of a programmer. Now, multiply that sort of thing tenfold, and factor in things like the meanings of colors (red for danger/stop, etc.). That's what can happen if the human interface is designed in one culture, but used by another.
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I think they should just do away with anonymous ballots.
as if there is any real need for this anymore. i've never understood why people want to still keep this secret.
In Soviet Russia, they shot people who voted against the wishes of the Party.
(Personally, I'm still thinking a couple of degrees warmer will be a net benefit; one should not analyse merely the costs without considering the benefits, and surprise surprise, that's exactly what twitchy, panicky, screamy environmentalists do. Sure, we lose a couple of inches of coastline, but we get a lot more arable land and perhaps more rain will help roll some deserts back.
I'm sure there are some people in Niue who would disagree with you. A rise of only 2 degrees will raise the sea level enough from simple thermal expansion to wipe out Niue and a number of other island nations in the Pacific. Not to mention low-lying coastal areas (five degrees, and we lose Florida).
I'm not looking for someone to sue. I'm looking to find out if the community thinks that this is an important issue or not. I'm looking to find out if I can bring pressure to the industry to tighten the labelling of games up. I'm looking to make sure that this doesn't happen to my son again. I'm lucky - I was playing the game with him at the time. What if I hadn't been?
The problem is figuring out where to draw the line between games that need it, and games that don't. Clearly, a game like Civilization that has no high-speed graphics changes doesn't need a label, and a game like Tetris for the Nintendo, with its black-and-white "lightning" effect every time you clear four lines at once does. But what about the games in between those two extremes?
Can't you do all the same things via a man-in-the-middle attack, in which case there is NO way for the web site developer to guard against it?
You can, but it's a hell of a lot easier to sneak tainted data into a form than it is to set up a man-in-the-middle attack. Further, XSS can guarantee you information on everyone who views the tainted page, while a MITM attack can't.
But isn't this precisely a form of security through obscurity? And is it really going to work? Adding another layer of a similar sort of security (where you have to know a password of sorts) is just delaying invasion and likely (slightly, at least) burdening legitimate traffic.
It's like adding a second metal detector at the airport. If you make it past the first metal detector, then you'll probably make it past the second metal detector also (it'll just take longer), and you slow down all the legitimate non-terrorists in the process.
Actually, it's more like adding an x-ray machine to the metal detector. They're both looking for the same thing (in the case of the airport, weapons; in the case of port knocking, secret information), but they do it in different ways. As a result, even if you get past one, you've got a good chance of being tripped up by the other.
That said there's no reason you can't figure out direction with digital watches, if you already understand how that works. (also many digital watches have compasses in them)
Do they have built-in correction for magnetic deviation? The analog watch technique gives you true north.
Scandisk? Fat drive? Eish, and what version of windows are you using?
Since I dual-boot Linux and Windows, I can't use NTFS for the Windows drives if I want them to be read/write accessible from Linux.
g at), and fancy ringtones (my self-esteem is so low that I need some fancy song to play when my phone rings so everyone thinks I'm cool),
There's a purpose to all the variation in ringtones, apart from any ego boost: if you've got an unusual ringtone, you know it's your phone that's ringing, and not someone else's.
Your 'bastardisation' of the word free shows that the world of advertising has been a complete success. "Buy one get one free!" No, you get two for the price of one, but one is not free. You still have to pay. Anything which requires an exchange of something is not free.
There's a technical difference between "buy one, get one free" and "two for the price of one": "two for the price of one" means you can get one for half price, while "buy one, get one free" means if you buy one, it's full price.
So, your desktop-usage consists mostly of starting, restarting, restasting and restarting you GUI over and over again? You can't wait for few seconds for the GUI to start?
Under Windows, it sure feels like it. I built my current computer one year and eight months ago. During that time, I've used it mostly under Linux. Even so, there are over four hundred entries in the Scandisk log, which works out to two crashes for every day that I've used Windows. With a track record like that, the two-and-a-half minutes it takes to start up is significant.
The slashdot article title is very poorly chosen. A game can be extremely logical and yet have absolutely nothing to do with realism. Tic-tac-toe is a great example. The rules are simple, very consistent, and very logical decisions can be made within the framework of the game, but it doesn't have anything to do with reality.
"The only way to win, is not to play" -- War Games
A 9.1 gig hard drive - just one - costs $10 shipped from a reputable seller.
I'd hardly classify those guys as a "reputable seller". Their lifetime rating on ResellerRatings is only 6.48, putting them just above the bottom quarter for ratings. For comparison, half of all sellers were rated above 8.27, and the top quarter are above 9.42.
More on point - if FreeBSD is dying - why is everyone so determined to point out that it is dying (which it isn't)? Wishful thinking?
I think that, these days, the "BSD is dying" posts are more a traditional thing to do on Slashdot than any sort of expression of fact or desire.
Of course ( and no offense ) the same applies to deer hunters.
2.a. deer-hunters are seen by the rest of society as lazy and dumb... so are naturally good targets.
I wouldn't describe them as good targets -- after all, more deer hunters die each year from heart attacks than from being shot by fellow hunters!
They are no more wasteful than plastic bottles and aluminium cans. The disc is recyclable. The problem (just like plastic and aluminium) is to get people to actually recycle them.
And passing laws won't help... It hasn't done anything for aluminium cans in Raleigh (NC). It's illegal to dispose of them in the county landfill. However, the law only makes it illegal to dump them in the landfill; there's nothing stopping people from throwing them in their trash. It's the trash collectors that dump them in the landfill.
Passing laws can help -- you just need to pass the right ones. In Michigan, there's a ten-cent deposit on every soft-drink can, and you get that money back if you return the can for recycling. This results in rather impressive recycling rates.
don't be a tool, RTFM. Taskman has a base priority of HIGH so it takes precedence over all those buggy windoze apps.
Assuming by that you mean "high priority class, normal priority", that only puts it at a base priority of 13. It can be blocked by foreground applications with "normal priority class, normal priority" under some circumstances, and can be blocked by applications of any priority class with "time-critical priority". Ideally, Taskman should be running at either "high priority class, time-critical priority" to be on a par with other time-critical priority threads, or be running as a "realtime priority class" application with its own keyboard driver, in order to be at a higher priority than anything else.
Forget corporate proxies, this is a way to bypass the Great Firewall of China! There's a reason China blocked access to Google for a while.
I don't have carpal tunnel, but I've got a guess as to why laptop keyboards aren't as bad.
I've got both a desktop and a laptop here at my desk, and comparing my typing positions for the two, my wrists are much straighter when typing on the laptop than on the desktop, because the laptop keyboard is a good foot farther from me than the desktop keyboard.
This whole "cultural difference" thing is so overblown.
I live in Europe and American GUIs are fine with me. My girlfriend is South African and American GUIs are fine with her.
Are you using "cultural differences" as a euphemism for "racial differences"?
I'm using "cultural differences" as a euphemism for "cultural differences". Is it really so hard to take people's writing at face value?
To address your specific examples, the US and South Africa both have very strong European cultural influences. Places like India and China have not been as strongly influenced by European culture, so I expect you'll have a harder time using GUIs designed there.
If they remove all the code SCO has ever laid claim to, the source could be written on your thumbnail with a felt-tip pen, with room left over.
I'm 23. I worked on C64s in my youth. Apart from six years of odd-jobs programming, my "career" so far has lasted all of five months.
I think there's a flaw in your logic.
Could it just be that because of America's prosperity has created a "bubble" in the american labor market over the past decades?
Maybe all americans are simply overpaid and we're in for a BIG correction in the coming years?
It's called "deflation", and it's probably the worst thing that can happen to an economy short of nuclear war. Once an economy goes into deflation, there's almost no way to get it out again.
When an economy is going through deflation, it always makes more sense to spend as little money as possible, since prices will be lower in the future. But everyone holding on to their money just decreases the amount in circulation further, so prices continue to drop, so people hold on to more money, so prices drop further, and so on. In the mean time, since no-one's buying anything but the essentials, jobs are being lost left and right.
Corporate managers are paid to cut costs. That may not fit into your ideal lifestyle choices
My "ideal lifestyle" includes such concepts as "eating" and "a place to sleep". If I don't have another concept known as "a job", those are kind of hard to come by.
I can live comfortably off $11,000 a year. I can't support a family off that $11,000.
I'd say you were talking through your racist hat on this one.
I wouldn't have an outsourced Indian firm do the human interface design on a project either, and it has nothing to do with racism.
India has a different culture than the United States, so interface design assumptions that seem perfectly obvious to someone in India might be completely incomprehensible to someone from the US, and vice versa.
For example, consider that a user interface designed by programmers for programmers will have as many options as the programmers could shoehorn in. That UI will seem too complicated to use for the typical J. Random User, while a UI for J. Random will seem too constrained for the liking of a programmer. Now, multiply that sort of thing tenfold, and factor in things like the meanings of colors (red for danger/stop, etc.). That's what can happen if the human interface is designed in one culture, but used by another.