Whydoweneedspacesinbetweenwordseven? The lameness filter ruined my joke. If you couldn't read the above sentence, it's for the same reason that I can't read a book without chapters. Because the text just goes on and on and on and on without any space that says "Hey, stop reading! Think about what just happened!" Look at the last part. Did I say "even," or "seven?" How do I know when a meaningful element of the string of letters has just passed? How do I know when a meaningful element of the story has just passed?
Actually, this guy and I share about the same outlook. I've searched Sourceforge for a neat OSS project to use and found that 90% of the projects I find have no source code available, and don't look like they're at all active. There's a neat description which is what originally lured me to the project, but there's no software or source of any kind available.
There's no 100% perfect way to create software. Closed-source methods have turned out software that is just as good as open-source.
I'd consider myself less of an advocate and more of a "tool for the job" guy.
You should question the cop in your speeding ticket hearing about how the radar gun works, because you can often reveal him as a non-expert as to the use of that item. This, in turn, makes it easy to argue that he was in error in giving you a ticket. If he doesn't know how the radar gun works, how does he know that it was you he measured? Furthermore, how does he know the gun wasn't functioning erroneously?
Make a slipstream disc for your particular computer. It's possible to download all the patches and roll them into an XP install so that the installer dumps an updated version of XP to your disc. You can even install drivers and software from that same disc without any human intervention whatsoever. There's about 150MB of free space on the SP2 CD, and it's even possible to install XP from a DVD meaning that you can roll some games and all of your software and drivers and patches into your install without running out of space.
I'm having trouble finding the non-shitty hotfix guide that I used for this install, but there's a program called nLite which can integrate hotfixes and drivers with the installer. There are also some good tools in one of the directories on your XP install disc which can write basic unattended setup files for you.
If that's true, than it's very interesting how many students would give up their right to vote for a full ride through university. Personally, I'm one of those students. Maybe for most students, finishing school is a matter of life or death. I know that all the people I know who haven't been through college are working dead-end jobs and struggling to make ends meet. You could say that, to be unable to pay for schooling means the loss of a comfortable and interesting life.
Actually, the way the skill system is designed, at 3 or 4 million SP, you could be on par with a guy who has 15 or 20 million SP. It's more complicated than SP directly translating into ability to kick serious ass. Even T2 equipment is no guarentee that you'll be able to achieve something.
The game is more complicated than setting your guns to autofire and sitting back and waiting for the pop. You have to manage your capacitor and make sure your drones aren't getting blown up. In PvP, it's even more complex and nerve-wracking because of the unpredictability of human players. We can spend hours discussing what to fit and who's going to take what role based on fitting and ship type. And the Pvp system is very rewarding. We've gotten starbase structures in battle before. People drop their equipment after you've killed them. Often you can take this equipment and use it yourself. And it's possible to be effective in these fights with T1 frigates, provided you fit them out correctly.
Just think of Empire space as levels 1-30 in WoW. You're not actually playing the game at that point, you're just being introduced to the mechanics.
And the enjoyable thing about character development is that I can train skills and advance my character without needing to be online the whole time. I like the way that pans out, so that it's not about me hacking away at the giant skeletons for six hours so I can collect enough bones to make a wicked sword of the boner which will give me a 4% increase over my current stats. Instead, I can skip all that time wasting farming for stat bonuses and go straight to actually playing the game. The Social Darwinistic idea that I am only as strong as my mind allows me to be is something which no game I've seen can duplicate. If you're an idiot, EVE is unplayable because you can't figure out how to properly fit your ships, when you should activate certain modules, or even where you should be in combat. There's a huge numbers game lurking underneath the surface that you're missing out on.
For example, in combat my Micro-warp drive adds a 525% increase to my signature radius while in use, translating into making it easy for a battleship to hit me with guns. But in exchange for this increase I can get close enough to the battleship that its guns can't track me as I'm orbiting it. When I turn the MWD off, I've eliminated the signature radius increase but not the radial velocity increase that this tactic bought me. This means that now the guns both can't track me and can't resolve my ship well enough that they can hit me.
However, to negate this tactic the Battleship pilot can fit a smartbomb, which deals damage in a small radius around the ship. This prevents me from moving to an extremely close range, giving him more of a fighting chance. A stasis webifier can directly reduce my radial velocity, making it much easier to hit me.
EVE is less a traditional hack and slash RPG, and more of a CCG, where you assemble your options in battle by fitting your ship. Just because you have turret slots, it does not follow that you must fit turrets. Some really effective PvP setups do not use guns at all.
This brings to mind another Red Dwarf episode, the one where Kryten gets a prosthetic penis. Unfortunately it gets away from him, setting up the joke "My penis has a mind of its own!"
My favorite switch is the one on those big tree grinders. Basically, it's a big red bar attached to the table into which you feed wood. Presumably your knee or foot trips it if you get caught up in something that you're feeding in. It's nice to know that the equipment I'm working with has been engineered to not require me to use my arm to pull an off switch in the event that one or both of my appendages is caught in it.
I can use Linux with the expectation that the buttons I used in Windows actually work with it. I can't do the same on the Macintosh. I've had numerous experiences using a one-button mouse where it will either simulate a right click or just single-click apparently at random. I've also had issues with the gadgets popping up at random intervals, yet not popping up at all when I try to get them to appear. In Windows and Linux the Ctrl combinations for copying, pasting, and saving are the same across all the programs I've tried.
On the Macintosh they are instead done using the Alt button. This is very annoying. Also, when I press the home key it bounces to the beginning or end of the entire document and not just the end of a line. It's a big turnoff for me that I have to relearn every hotkey and deal with some very unpredictable behavior on something that's supposed to be a highly simplified platform.
If I had a choice, I would not be using OSX, because it's difficult for me to be productive in an environment that doesn't even attempt to understand where I'm coming from.
Just because a standard is De Facto, it does not mean that the standard isn't a standard.
Expecting one behavior and getting another perfectly describes every experience I've ever had on the Macintosh. Apple didn't just design a computer for people who can't use computers, they've designed a computer that I can't use.
You're misusing statistics by assuming that they give any information at all about a sample size of one. Furthermore, just because 50% of people are filesharers, it does not hold that there is a 50% chance that any one person is a filesharer. It holds only that, if 100 people are selected at random there is a significant chance that 50 of them will be filesharers. However, only 1, or 25 or 33 of them could actually be filesharers.
Actually, as you go back the education system does not change appreciably. Look at pictures of 19th century classrooms and you'll see essentially what I mean. And I would disagree that teachers are getting less talented. What you'll find is that they're just as talented as they were back in the day, but those talents are being expended in a less focused manner as the demands of a modern school must be met.
The reason schools today are obsessed with testing is because it gives them statistics that they can use to justify funding. "Look, Jimmy here knows the Pythagorean Theorem now when yesterday he didn't! We're actually being successful." It's the idea that we can apply scientific values to educational methods.
Amusingly, the schools that are the worst performing by the NCLB metrics are also the ones that should be getting the best funding under NCLB.
Bullshit that that television is a cutting-edge use of OLED. My phone has an OLED display, as does my MP3 player, and both of them are 2 or 3 years old. It's pretty tried and true now.
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Whydoweneedspacesinbetweenwordseven?
The lameness filter ruined my joke. If you couldn't read the above sentence, it's for the same reason that I can't read a book without chapters. Because the text just goes on and on and on and on without any space that says "Hey, stop reading! Think about what just happened!" Look at the last part. Did I say "even," or "seven?" How do I know when a meaningful element of the string of letters has just passed? How do I know when a meaningful element of the story has just passed?
Actually, this guy and I share about the same outlook. I've searched Sourceforge for a neat OSS project to use and found that 90% of the projects I find have no source code available, and don't look like they're at all active. There's a neat description which is what originally lured me to the project, but there's no software or source of any kind available.
There's no 100% perfect way to create software. Closed-source methods have turned out software that is just as good as open-source.
I'd consider myself less of an advocate and more of a "tool for the job" guy.
You should question the cop in your speeding ticket hearing about how the radar gun works, because you can often reveal him as a non-expert as to the use of that item. This, in turn, makes it easy to argue that he was in error in giving you a ticket. If he doesn't know how the radar gun works, how does he know that it was you he measured? Furthermore, how does he know the gun wasn't functioning erroneously?
Make a slipstream disc for your particular computer. It's possible to download all the patches and roll them into an XP install so that the installer dumps an updated version of XP to your disc. You can even install drivers and software from that same disc without any human intervention whatsoever. There's about 150MB of free space on the SP2 CD, and it's even possible to install XP from a DVD meaning that you can roll some games and all of your software and drivers and patches into your install without running out of space.
I'm having trouble finding the non-shitty hotfix guide that I used for this install, but there's a program called nLite which can integrate hotfixes and drivers with the installer. There are also some good tools in one of the directories on your XP install disc which can write basic unattended setup files for you.
Hang on, I'll go get the crowbar and the hazmat suit.
These are RAM drives with a battery backup. They aren't flash drives. RTFA.
So far I haven't met a single person who doesn't rely on financial aid to get through school. Where's your proof?
If that's true, than it's very interesting how many students would give up their right to vote for a full ride through university. Personally, I'm one of those students. Maybe for most students, finishing school is a matter of life or death. I know that all the people I know who haven't been through college are working dead-end jobs and struggling to make ends meet. You could say that, to be unable to pay for schooling means the loss of a comfortable and interesting life.
Actually, the way the skill system is designed, at 3 or 4 million SP, you could be on par with a guy who has 15 or 20 million SP. It's more complicated than SP directly translating into ability to kick serious ass. Even T2 equipment is no guarentee that you'll be able to achieve something.
The game is more complicated than setting your guns to autofire and sitting back and waiting for the pop. You have to manage your capacitor and make sure your drones aren't getting blown up. In PvP, it's even more complex and nerve-wracking because of the unpredictability of human players. We can spend hours discussing what to fit and who's going to take what role based on fitting and ship type. And the Pvp system is very rewarding. We've gotten starbase structures in battle before. People drop their equipment after you've killed them. Often you can take this equipment and use it yourself. And it's possible to be effective in these fights with T1 frigates, provided you fit them out correctly.
Just think of Empire space as levels 1-30 in WoW. You're not actually playing the game at that point, you're just being introduced to the mechanics.
And the enjoyable thing about character development is that I can train skills and advance my character without needing to be online the whole time. I like the way that pans out, so that it's not about me hacking away at the giant skeletons for six hours so I can collect enough bones to make a wicked sword of the boner which will give me a 4% increase over my current stats. Instead, I can skip all that time wasting farming for stat bonuses and go straight to actually playing the game. The Social Darwinistic idea that I am only as strong as my mind allows me to be is something which no game I've seen can duplicate. If you're an idiot, EVE is unplayable because you can't figure out how to properly fit your ships, when you should activate certain modules, or even where you should be in combat. There's a huge numbers game lurking underneath the surface that you're missing out on.
For example, in combat my Micro-warp drive adds a 525% increase to my signature radius while in use, translating into making it easy for a battleship to hit me with guns. But in exchange for this increase I can get close enough to the battleship that its guns can't track me as I'm orbiting it. When I turn the MWD off, I've eliminated the signature radius increase but not the radial velocity increase that this tactic bought me. This means that now the guns both can't track me and can't resolve my ship well enough that they can hit me.
However, to negate this tactic the Battleship pilot can fit a smartbomb, which deals damage in a small radius around the ship. This prevents me from moving to an extremely close range, giving him more of a fighting chance. A stasis webifier can directly reduce my radial velocity, making it much easier to hit me.
EVE is less a traditional hack and slash RPG, and more of a CCG, where you assemble your options in battle by fitting your ship. Just because you have turret slots, it does not follow that you must fit turrets. Some really effective PvP setups do not use guns at all.
This brings to mind another Red Dwarf episode, the one where Kryten gets a prosthetic penis. Unfortunately it gets away from him, setting up the joke "My penis has a mind of its own!"
Wait, my pecs are superficial?
My favorite switch is the one on those big tree grinders. Basically, it's a big red bar attached to the table into which you feed wood. Presumably your knee or foot trips it if you get caught up in something that you're feeding in. It's nice to know that the equipment I'm working with has been engineered to not require me to use my arm to pull an off switch in the event that one or both of my appendages is caught in it.
Let me know if you need a secretary of education or a vice president. I wholeheartedly agree with you.
Isn't that just an appeal to authority?
Big deal, indeed.
And I'm saying that this sticking to their personal convention is what makes their computers difficult for me to use.
I can use Linux with the expectation that the buttons I used in Windows actually work with it. I can't do the same on the Macintosh. I've had numerous experiences using a one-button mouse where it will either simulate a right click or just single-click apparently at random. I've also had issues with the gadgets popping up at random intervals, yet not popping up at all when I try to get them to appear. In Windows and Linux the Ctrl combinations for copying, pasting, and saving are the same across all the programs I've tried.
On the Macintosh they are instead done using the Alt button. This is very annoying. Also, when I press the home key it bounces to the beginning or end of the entire document and not just the end of a line. It's a big turnoff for me that I have to relearn every hotkey and deal with some very unpredictable behavior on something that's supposed to be a highly simplified platform.
If I had a choice, I would not be using OSX, because it's difficult for me to be productive in an environment that doesn't even attempt to understand where I'm coming from.
Just because a standard is De Facto, it does not mean that the standard isn't a standard.
Expecting one behavior and getting another perfectly describes every experience I've ever had on the Macintosh. Apple didn't just design a computer for people who can't use computers, they've designed a computer that I can't use.
Heh. In my school's electronics lab, one of the stories we have is about the one time we decided to vaporize a paperclip using a wall outlet.
...but how does it taste?
You're misusing statistics by assuming that they give any information at all about a sample size of one. Furthermore, just because 50% of people are filesharers, it does not hold that there is a 50% chance that any one person is a filesharer. It holds only that, if 100 people are selected at random there is a significant chance that 50 of them will be filesharers. However, only 1, or 25 or 33 of them could actually be filesharers.
Don't chargebacks wreck your credit rating?
We also don't ever see them on the market, so your point does have merit. I disagree with the me posting at midnight.
Actually, as you go back the education system does not change appreciably. Look at pictures of 19th century classrooms and you'll see essentially what I mean. And I would disagree that teachers are getting less talented. What you'll find is that they're just as talented as they were back in the day, but those talents are being expended in a less focused manner as the demands of a modern school must be met.
The reason schools today are obsessed with testing is because it gives them statistics that they can use to justify funding. "Look, Jimmy here knows the Pythagorean Theorem now when yesterday he didn't! We're actually being successful." It's the idea that we can apply scientific values to educational methods.
Amusingly, the schools that are the worst performing by the NCLB metrics are also the ones that should be getting the best funding under NCLB.
Bullshit that that television is a cutting-edge use of OLED. My phone has an OLED display, as does my MP3 player, and both of them are 2 or 3 years old. It's pretty tried and true now.