Is the player community mature (in spirit, I mean) and intent on team work, or are players more likely to be childish nuisances by repeatedly spawn-killing noobs and such? Is it a pain to get up and running in a non-Ubuntu Linux flavour (say, PCLinux)?
I ask because, years ago when Half Life (1) was in, I was a big fan of Day of Defeat. But then I switched away from Windows, and DoD got bought up and rolled into Steam, and that was more or less the end of that for me. The community then was really great, players were helpful and goal-oriented and the gameplay was relatively realistic; the like of which I haven't been able to find anywhere since.
Well, but then you have to factor in the speed of the train itself. Mostly, cars don't move as fast, so your overall speed will be correspondingly slower.;-)
I can't find it now, but there's a PDF link in one of the posts above that describes official county policy, and apparently states *explicitly* that one of the things you shouldn't do is to give the password to your direct manager.
Actually, the worlds' deepest mine is just under *4* kilometres deep, so you're off by a bit there. The miners are being extra vigilant for tectonics, and their biggest challenge (apart from fresh air to breathe) is heat coming off the tunnel walls.
'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.'
If that quote had any actual truth to it, politics across the globe would be a lot different. It isn't, so it probably isn't.:-(
I have a Samsung Galaxy, and at first it appears quite nice, but then you have to enter text somewhere -- oy veh! Either you get 1/3rd of your UI plus a teeny tiny keyboard, or if you try landscape, you get a larger (though still 3-row, no digits) keyboard and NO UI whatsoever, just a text box.
Coming from PalmOS, with its (transparent full-screen) handwriting recognition, I did not fully realize how big a problem this would be. Oh, how I miss handwriting recognition, or at least a physical keyboard.
If the Galaxy and the Droid weren't both so expensive, and were for sale where I am, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Good news: That's basically what vlm's suggestion (kpager + unchecked option) gets you.
Using virtual desktops (or "pages" or "screens" or whatever), each having a separate task bar that shows only the apps on that desktop, you can easily have this:
Screen 1: Text editor: file 1, browser: some related tabs, other app X Screen 2: Text editor: file 2, browser: some related tabs, other app Y Screen n: Text editor: file n, browser: some related tabs, other app Z
The task bar of each screen would then show three tabs: the text editor, the browser (which is handling its tabs internally), and the other app.
I use this all the time; I have my email on one screen, my fun and games on another, and system stuff (current compilation etc) on yet another. For browsing (in Firefox), I often keep a number of slashdot articles on tabs in one window, while I have my work stuff in another window -- it even doubles as a quick "boss key".:-)
Now, please know I don't mean this in any personal way, because obviously I don't know who or where you, in particular, are.
But the thing that makes me go hmm in all this is, have people really no sense of morality?
For the pirates and their countrymen that question is very complicated, in view of their local economy, government, et cetera. For that reason, I think the answer is going to be very long and complex, and I won't go into that here.
But for "western" (not to say "civilized") people to be even tempted by this, I find that outright despicable. We have so many other ways to make (granted, less) money that does not involve violence, terror (as in: extreme anxiety and fear, as opposed to terrorism), hostage-taking, and what is essentially simple theft of property.
I agree, though, at some point it will either expand its scope, loop the playlist, or just stop (saying it ran out of appropriate stuff to stream). Frankly, though, if given a narrow topic (and a finite music library), what else could it do?
Last.fm isn't exactly radio the way you describe. You give it a few seeds, [...] and it can play related music.
Yes, but no. You can 'tune' it to anything, hot or obscure as it may be. It'll play something that sounds like your seed, then something that sounds like that, then something that sounds like that, which unfortunately sounds nothing like your original seed.
The upshot is that I do listen to Last.fm, but too frequently I need to skip and block and my few well-used stations don't ever seem to learn. Pandora does this very much better but, again unfortunately, they offer even less international access (without trickery).
While you're at Paul Graham's, the article "The Hundred-Year Language" seems rather pertinent. Apart from providing that one link, I have nothing more to add to this entire Slashdot story.
On day one, any old fool could write a stub, and it'd be an improvement. These days, so much has already been documented that you really need to get out into the fringes, or into the details, or possess specialist knowledge, to add a valuable contribution.
To me, that's a sign of maturity, not obsolescence.
Hmm, I wonder if this is more a publicity stunt in relation with their current funds drive?
At least, "Wikipedia shows signs of stalling as number of volunteers falls sharply" should probably have been "Wikipedia shows signs of maturity as number of new volunteers falls slighly".
Maybe not finished, but certainly quite aways toward it.
“If you don’t have enough people to take care of the project it could vanish quickly" That's an odd thing to say. For a game such as an MMO, it would be detrimental to have all the players leave; but a reference is a different kind of game: even with no new contributions and no more editing, there is still a vast mass of articles on historical (history up until today, at least) subjects, and they're not likely to disappear just because the contributors do.
Sennheiser is the only company that sells a complete line of replacement parts for their headphones
Link please!
I have a pair of HDR30's that are hanging on for dear life, but I can find no parts. I got a pair of HDR120's as a present, and they suck (too heavy + no grip = look down and they fall off).
Note: these are for home casual (wireless) use, pc games and night-time telly. I'll soon be moving office and will need a good set of keep-noise-out headphones, and could use a bit of advice. For instance, are Etymotic ER-6'es as good as they say?
The problem is, all these critics are a teeny bit right when they say it's not going to work. Alas.
Not so very many years ago, there was an initiative to grow flowers whose petals turn red if they hit a mine. A lot more practical than bacteria, and it seemed to work very well, too -- but they got booted out of that African country they were testing in rather rough-handedly. It's a sad tale, but the fact is there are more warmongers than do-gooders and these things are immensely difficult to see to fruition.
You can, could, and still will be able to block cookies in your browser, so whatever web site operators are doing with them, it isn't going to affect your privacy or "trackability".
But, it sounds as if this new law requires the web site operators to show you screen after screen of "permissions" to continue. These permission requests are stupid as EULA dialogs, Vista-like "admin authorisation" dialogs, etc, because they (a) don't offer a meaningful change in values (be it trackability or privacy), and (b) annoy the hell out of users. I won't go into how (c) these crap warnings numb users to real warnings, which they will also mindlessly click through.
I can't decide whether this is Brazil-style bureaucracy galore, or Eastern Standard Tribe-style anti-productivity warfare.
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That sounds interesting.
Is the player community mature (in spirit, I mean) and intent on team work, or are players more likely to be childish nuisances by repeatedly spawn-killing noobs and such? Is it a pain to get up and running in a non-Ubuntu Linux flavour (say, PCLinux)?
I ask because, years ago when Half Life (1) was in, I was a big fan of Day of Defeat. But then I switched away from Windows, and DoD got bought up and rolled into Steam, and that was more or less the end of that for me. The community then was really great, players were helpful and goal-oriented and the gameplay was relatively realistic; the like of which I haven't been able to find anywhere since.
If Futurama is your muse, I'd hate to be the one to debug your code!
I kid, I kid, I'm a big fan (of the show and the method).
Well, but then you have to factor in the speed of the train itself. Mostly, cars don't move as fast, so your overall speed will be correspondingly slower. ;-)
What official policy would that be?
I can't find it now, but there's a PDF link in one of the posts above that describes official county policy, and apparently states *explicitly* that one of the things you shouldn't do is to give the password to your direct manager.
Actually, the worlds' deepest mine is just under *4* kilometres deep, so you're off by a bit there. The miners are being extra vigilant for tectonics, and their biggest challenge (apart from fresh air to breathe) is heat coming off the tunnel walls.
Scary stuff, if you ask me.
'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.'
If that quote had any actual truth to it, politics across the globe would be a lot different. It isn't, so it probably isn't. :-(
Good statement, though.
I'm right with you on this.
I have a Samsung Galaxy, and at first it appears quite nice, but then you have to enter text somewhere -- oy veh! Either you get 1/3rd of your UI plus a teeny tiny keyboard, or if you try landscape, you get a larger (though still 3-row, no digits) keyboard and NO UI whatsoever, just a text box.
Coming from PalmOS, with its (transparent full-screen) handwriting recognition, I did not fully realize how big a problem this would be. Oh, how I miss handwriting recognition, or at least a physical keyboard.
If the Galaxy and the Droid weren't both so expensive, and were for sale where I am, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Good news: That's basically what vlm's suggestion (kpager + unchecked option) gets you.
Using virtual desktops (or "pages" or "screens" or whatever), each having a separate task bar that shows only the apps on that desktop, you can easily have this:
Screen 1: Text editor: file 1, browser: some related tabs, other app X
Screen 2: Text editor: file 2, browser: some related tabs, other app Y
Screen n: Text editor: file n, browser: some related tabs, other app Z
The task bar of each screen would then show three tabs: the text editor, the browser (which is handling its tabs internally), and the other app.
I use this all the time; I have my email on one screen, my fun and games on another, and system stuff (current compilation etc) on yet another. For browsing (in Firefox), I often keep a number of slashdot articles on tabs in one window, while I have my work stuff in another window -- it even doubles as a quick "boss key". :-)
Now, please know I don't mean this in any personal way, because obviously I don't know who or where you, in particular, are.
But the thing that makes me go hmm in all this is, have people really no sense of morality?
For the pirates and their countrymen that question is very complicated, in view of their local economy, government, et cetera. For that reason, I think the answer is going to be very long and complex, and I won't go into that here.
But for "western" (not to say "civilized") people to be even tempted by this, I find that outright despicable. We have so many other ways to make (granted, less) money that does not involve violence, terror (as in: extreme anxiety and fear, as opposed to terrorism), hostage-taking, and what is essentially simple theft of property.
I liked it more when you could specify two or three artists. That would give you a bit of more breadth on the pool of music to listen.
But you can:
http://www.last.fm/listen#pane=multiArtistTab
I agree, though, at some point it will either expand its scope, loop the playlist, or just stop (saying it ran out of appropriate stuff to stream). Frankly, though, if given a narrow topic (and a finite music library), what else could it do?
Last.fm isn't exactly radio the way you describe. You give it a few seeds, [...] and it can play related music.
Yes, but no. You can 'tune' it to anything, hot or obscure as it may be. It'll play something that sounds like your seed, then something that sounds like that, then something that sounds like that, which unfortunately sounds nothing like your original seed.
The upshot is that I do listen to Last.fm, but too frequently I need to skip and block and my few well-used stations don't ever seem to learn. Pandora does this very much better but, again unfortunately, they offer even less international access (without trickery).
No more so than "Final Fantasy XVII", I suppose.
While you're at Paul Graham's, the article "The Hundred-Year Language" seems rather pertinent.
Apart from providing that one link, I have nothing more to add to this entire Slashdot story.
Now there's a post that should be marked informative. Unfortunately, your link is broken.
webmonkey (January 22, 2007): Wikipedia Adds NOFOLLOW Attribute To Outbound Links
webmonkey (January 26, 2007): Wikipedia to Web: "Stop Following Me!"
Oh certainly, but it's not exactly dying. There's a long way down from 89.000 users to nothing.
As pointed out elsewhere, this looks more like a natural slowing down on account of there not being so many gaps left to have an easy go at.
That's exactly my point.
On day one, any old fool could write a stub, and it'd be an improvement. These days, so much has already been documented that you really need to get out into the fringes, or into the details, or possess specialist knowledge, to add a valuable contribution.
To me, that's a sign of maturity, not obsolescence.
Har har har. How very funny.
Actually, the Wikipedia:Statistics page gets you all the stats there's to be had.
Also, Wikimedia:Statistics is showing a steady influx of New Wikipedians and Active Wikipedians, albeit not quite as many as previously.
Hmm, I wonder if this is more a publicity stunt in relation with their current funds drive?
At least, "Wikipedia shows signs of stalling as number of volunteers falls sharply" should probably have been "Wikipedia shows signs of maturity as number of new volunteers falls slighly".
Maybe not finished, but certainly quite aways toward it.
“If you don’t have enough people to take care of the project it could vanish quickly"
That's an odd thing to say. For a game such as an MMO, it would be detrimental to have all the players leave; but a reference is a different kind of game: even with no new contributions and no more editing, there is still a vast mass of articles on historical (history up until today, at least) subjects, and they're not likely to disappear just because the contributors do.
What voice do you read my signature in?
Sorry, couldn't resist! :-p
I thought Genesis was done by Sega...?
I kid, I kid.
Sennheiser is the only company that sells a complete line of replacement parts for their headphones
Link please!
I have a pair of HDR30's that are hanging on for dear life, but I can find no parts. I got a pair of HDR120's as a present, and they suck (too heavy + no grip = look down and they fall off).
Note: these are for home casual (wireless) use, pc games and night-time telly. I'll soon be moving office and will need a good set of keep-noise-out headphones, and could use a bit of advice. For instance, are Etymotic ER-6'es as good as they say?
No, you're right -- it is a very good idea.
The problem is, all these critics are a teeny bit right when they say it's not going to work. Alas.
Not so very many years ago, there was an initiative to grow flowers whose petals turn red if they hit a mine. A lot more practical than bacteria, and it seemed to work very well, too -- but they got booted out of that African country they were testing in rather rough-handedly. It's a sad tale, but the fact is there are more warmongers than do-gooders and these things are immensely difficult to see to fruition.
I do wish them luck, though.
Do what you're told. Look for another job. Inform the BSA.
"There, fixed that for you."
Mod parent up. Your post is so much good news, and certainly seems to be more well-informed than mine.
I love your tirade on implied consent, and agree that (fundamental handling of) cookies belongs on the (long) list of flaws of the Internet.
The stupidity is this:
You can, could, and still will be able to block cookies in your browser, so whatever web site operators are doing with them, it isn't going to affect your privacy or "trackability".
But, it sounds as if this new law requires the web site operators to show you screen after screen of "permissions" to continue. These permission requests are stupid as EULA dialogs, Vista-like "admin authorisation" dialogs, etc, because they (a) don't offer a meaningful change in values (be it trackability or privacy), and (b) annoy the hell out of users. I won't go into how (c) these crap warnings numb users to real warnings, which they will also mindlessly click through.
I can't decide whether this is Brazil-style bureaucracy galore, or Eastern Standard Tribe-style anti-productivity warfare.