Likewise, I have some concerns about Steam, but I will praise it. I'll never ever own an Apple product, but I will give the company credit where it is due (they opened up the mp3 market like no one else could.)
Agreed. While our freedoms have not been completely stripped, making us the frog in the slowly boiling water, we have been contented with our current freedoms and, more especially, our conveniences to be able to do anything about anything. Half of us vote, sometimes. Fewer than that know why they are voting for whom they vote. Fewer than that are actually properly informed about the candidates for whom they are voting for and against.
Still, there is a slow momentum of dissatisfaction with the US government and the current state of social affairs. It is being shown in various ways - the rise of the TEA party. Even though Pelosi, et al, may think this is not a grass roots movement, it is. The back and forth issue with Prop 8 in California. The rise in CCW licenses and survivalist purchases (food storage and other things). Roaming, violent flash mobs. The growing popularity of libertarianism. All these things say to me that there is a movement afoot.
None of the sides have been able to grab the populace's attention long enough to make a sustained effort to gain control and move this ship in one direction or another. The Dems made strides in 2006 because of massive dissatisfaction with Bush and his policies. Obama was elected on this wave. He was such an atrociously bad leader the Dems were thrown out in 2010 and Obama will likely (hopefully) be thrown out in 2012. But who's to say that even if the Repubs gain any control in the House, that the tide won't shift back to the Dems in 2014? It seems this pendulum is swinging farther in either direction instead of slowing down to a centrist point so that our leaders can agree on some things and make our society progress.
I've never had any luck with the big online career sites. Monster was the worst with me receiving offers of sales to something that sounded better than what it was - envelope stuffing.
In my market city, it seems that recruiting is about the only way to go if you wish to work for one of the big companies or one of the many small-medium sized companies.
Once you stop caring, it's fairly trivial to opt-out again... at least for legitimate services. Groupon would most certainly comply with an opt-out request.
I like the statement about not everyone should go to college. It seems in the US we grab onto a whim and ride it till it falters under its own weight, housing and higher education come to mind.
I agree. It really is sad to see the communication skills of the freshman and sophomores in college. Yes, they do get better as they get older. High school should not only be educational training but also life skills training. Home Economy and shop classes for both boys and girls. So they know how to balance a checkbook, cook food, and change the oil in their car.
It's not the educators being demonized, it's the teachers unions that are rightly demonized. And, yes, politicians love to punch the education bag. They've pounded that thing too much and too long. Education doesn't need more money, it needs to better spend its current funding. Reduce the administrator to teacher ratio, allow performance based pay increases for teachers (no tenure after 3 years, that's crazy), and allow the truly bad teachers to be fired.
What planet are you living in? Zynga made $850 million last year, not because they were holding their users hostage, not because of a lack of choice or information, not because of some mandate, and not because Zynga holds a monopoly on online games with micro-transactions. In fact, a person can play a Zynga game without spending a dime (time and personal information not-withstanding).
Free Market: an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.
The problem with data is context. Illegally obtained data may still have a slant towards one opinion or another. Yet, legally obtained data may not be complete. It would be up to the researcher to give the data a full perusing and background check.
Perhaps they can go the console gaming route: Sell at a loss to gain critical mass, sell development packages. Or, perhaps, create their own app store and skim profits from the sales of 3rd party software. Maybe these will be enough to make up total costs, maybe not (I'm no accountant), but it seems to work for others out there.
Another car analogy. Having a user change a text file in an xpi using a zipfile program is about as intuitive as asking them to change their brakes or change out a seat.
I am a techie, but I'm not going to go through the trouble of modifying someone else's xpi file. I want to trust it to work out of the box. I'm still on FF3 because of it (one extension that doesn't work on FF4+).
I would consider my wife a typical web user. 12 tabs open at once. Gmail, facebook, frontierville and/or farmville, several blog sites, some with CBox (an embedded chat app), perhaps a news site or two, and maybe a youtube page open, not to mention Netflix having been used and closed previously.
Obviously, Flash is a big suck of memory, but the problem is that even with plugincontainer.exe sucking 800MB of memory, Firefox is also sucking 800+MB of memory. Even after closing tabs and seeing plugincontainer.exe dropping from the processes list, Firefox doesn't release memory. (I have her on FF 4.0) This is about the time I come down, kill firefox, wait the minute or so for it to shutdown and close any dependent processes and open firefox again.
To each his own, but I thought she was pleasing to look at. Sure, if I was in my early 20's I'd think, "She's old and not attractive." But now that I'm in my 30's she's actually done herself a lot of good keeping in physical shape. Oh, and if you check out Danielle Rayne's website, you'll learn that she's a stunt actress. (I didn't have enough time to see what works she has been in.)
Oh, good grief. The situation doesn't have to be black and white. Why can't both modes be implemented? (Just as long as the single window mode is NOT default.)
Tell me, how many graphics artists are out there that have only a single display? I hope not very many. For example, every "extras" I've seen on DVD movies that show the graphics artist doing his work shows that person with at least 2 displays (sometimes 3).
Dabblers have to learn somehow. Once they figure out cool technique, they can then modify the steps to their flavor. The problem I have with the tutorials is that they are mostly written for older to much older versions of the GIMP. The latest version has changed its menu names and some options - so finding the function from the tutorial is not as easy as it used to be.
I suppose you don't have a dual monitor setup then. Being able to put the tools on one screen while leaving the workspace on the main screen is very, very nice. Having a one window UI breaks that ability. Hopefully, this one window paradigm is not the default setting in the new GIMP.
The thing I would like fixed, at least for the MS Windows version is that the image window is always popped under all other applications, but it is focused. Therefore, I have to go through clicking on another window and then back to the image frame to get it on top.
We have received unprecedented orders as a result of the tremendous discount offered. This is clear confirmation to HP there is huge interest in building a webOS community. We apologize for any difficulty you may have had in ordering on the web or through the phone this weekend; it was as a result of selling out of our current inventory.
I'm not sure if that is confirmation of building the webOS community or people knowing that one cannot get such a capable tablet for less than $300... and they sold it for $99/$149! If they had sold it for $199/$249, I imagine it would still have been a fire sale and I know I still would have picked one up. (I missed it, though, because I suppose I'm not on the right mailing lists.)
It sounds like HP *might* revisit the webOS, but I wonder how they will implement it in the future. I doubt they would use the console gaming style of economy (sell hardware at a loss for higher costs on the software/dev tools). It's possible, I guess - they've not shown a lot of smarts. I think the best way to promote webOS at this point is not to overprice dev tools.
Perhaps your lack of reading comprehension missed his point of "Forced Education to the 6th grade". But for a less snarky response, he makes a good point - require HS equivalent education for a driver's license and some of the other benefits of society. The kids who don't want to be in school really are gumming up the works for those who do want to be there.
Punishments don't always solve the problem - 198x - I was paddled 5 times (5th grade) with a wooden paddle for not turning in homework on time too many times. (I got plenty of warning - I was also used as an example - but I think it was the only time they used that.) The problem was it didn't solve my lack of turning in homework on time. I have a good laugh about that now. I now turn in my work assignments on time - but it wasn't due to any punishment received previous to high school.
But it is an adult court they are going, to isn't it? And if the parent's are liable for costs, as the parent I would request a trial. But the third page of the article describes the problem of that - guilty until proven innocent. Even if you are innocent, the parents are still footing the legal bill.
And that's what this article boils down to, I think, a Perry hit piece. Why release this article now, Washington Post? Why hasn't this been reported years ago? Why have they let this little pot simmer - the students are already boiling now.
There is a lot against Perry, at least from a Conservative point of view, that he is not likely to get the nomination. But this police state school system is not a political problem or a political party problem, it is a societal problem. This report should have been made public a long time ago.
And, seriously, a single-mother having to spend $400 for a child's court appearance and anger management classes for a school bus disagreement? That's just silly.
I second the MajorGeeks suggestion. They have a lot of very useful utilities and such, even applications that are old or archived. Then they present you with a main link or alternative links (sometimes to third parties). Pages are clean, utilities are ranked, screenshots (if any) are linked. It's just a nice site.
true, but for what my family would use it for, I think it would be $100 well spent. We'll get an Android device on a Christmas sale, which we were planning to do anyway. My economic status is firmly middle class - not a lot of extra to spend, but some. (It's in priorities - we don't buy tobacco or alcohol, so we save over other families there.)
True, but this is after a $50 price drop and then a $100 price drop. With Android devices selling at ~$300 with better hardware features (better cases, GPS), I'm not surprised that these aren't selling even at $400. Woot.com put these on sale and moved only ~650 of them.
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Likewise, I have some concerns about Steam, but I will praise it. I'll never ever own an Apple product, but I will give the company credit where it is due (they opened up the mp3 market like no one else could.)
you want to eat female dogs?
Agreed. While our freedoms have not been completely stripped, making us the frog in the slowly boiling water, we have been contented with our current freedoms and, more especially, our conveniences to be able to do anything about anything. Half of us vote, sometimes. Fewer than that know why they are voting for whom they vote. Fewer than that are actually properly informed about the candidates for whom they are voting for and against.
Still, there is a slow momentum of dissatisfaction with the US government and the current state of social affairs. It is being shown in various ways - the rise of the TEA party. Even though Pelosi, et al, may think this is not a grass roots movement, it is. The back and forth issue with Prop 8 in California. The rise in CCW licenses and survivalist purchases (food storage and other things). Roaming, violent flash mobs. The growing popularity of libertarianism. All these things say to me that there is a movement afoot.
None of the sides have been able to grab the populace's attention long enough to make a sustained effort to gain control and move this ship in one direction or another. The Dems made strides in 2006 because of massive dissatisfaction with Bush and his policies. Obama was elected on this wave. He was such an atrociously bad leader the Dems were thrown out in 2010 and Obama will likely (hopefully) be thrown out in 2012. But who's to say that even if the Repubs gain any control in the House, that the tide won't shift back to the Dems in 2014? It seems this pendulum is swinging farther in either direction instead of slowing down to a centrist point so that our leaders can agree on some things and make our society progress.
I've never had any luck with the big online career sites. Monster was the worst with me receiving offers of sales to something that sounded better than what it was - envelope stuffing.
In my market city, it seems that recruiting is about the only way to go if you wish to work for one of the big companies or one of the many small-medium sized companies.
If your University doesn't require a semester or 3 of internship, what do they expect their students to do after University? Teach?
Once you stop caring, it's fairly trivial to opt-out again... at least for legitimate services. Groupon would most certainly comply with an opt-out request.
I like the statement about not everyone should go to college. It seems in the US we grab onto a whim and ride it till it falters under its own weight, housing and higher education come to mind.
I agree. It really is sad to see the communication skills of the freshman and sophomores in college. Yes, they do get better as they get older. High school should not only be educational training but also life skills training. Home Economy and shop classes for both boys and girls. So they know how to balance a checkbook, cook food, and change the oil in their car.
It's not the educators being demonized, it's the teachers unions that are rightly demonized. And, yes, politicians love to punch the education bag. They've pounded that thing too much and too long. Education doesn't need more money, it needs to better spend its current funding. Reduce the administrator to teacher ratio, allow performance based pay increases for teachers (no tenure after 3 years, that's crazy), and allow the truly bad teachers to be fired.
Hmm, according to a previous article listed on /., we should be overrunning with older engineers that no one wants to hire.
Free Market: an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.
The problem with data is context. Illegally obtained data may still have a slant towards one opinion or another. Yet, legally obtained data may not be complete. It would be up to the researcher to give the data a full perusing and background check.
Perhaps they can go the console gaming route: Sell at a loss to gain critical mass, sell development packages. Or, perhaps, create their own app store and skim profits from the sales of 3rd party software. Maybe these will be enough to make up total costs, maybe not (I'm no accountant), but it seems to work for others out there.
Wait, cars have spark plugs?
Another car analogy. Having a user change a text file in an xpi using a zipfile program is about as intuitive as asking them to change their brakes or change out a seat.
I am a techie, but I'm not going to go through the trouble of modifying someone else's xpi file. I want to trust it to work out of the box. I'm still on FF3 because of it (one extension that doesn't work on FF4+).
I would consider my wife a typical web user. 12 tabs open at once. Gmail, facebook, frontierville and/or farmville, several blog sites, some with CBox (an embedded chat app), perhaps a news site or two, and maybe a youtube page open, not to mention Netflix having been used and closed previously.
Obviously, Flash is a big suck of memory, but the problem is that even with plugincontainer.exe sucking 800MB of memory, Firefox is also sucking 800+MB of memory. Even after closing tabs and seeing plugincontainer.exe dropping from the processes list, Firefox doesn't release memory. (I have her on FF 4.0) This is about the time I come down, kill firefox, wait the minute or so for it to shutdown and close any dependent processes and open firefox again.
To each his own, but I thought she was pleasing to look at. Sure, if I was in my early 20's I'd think, "She's old and not attractive." But now that I'm in my 30's she's actually done herself a lot of good keeping in physical shape. Oh, and if you check out Danielle Rayne's website, you'll learn that she's a stunt actress. (I didn't have enough time to see what works she has been in.)
Oh, good grief. The situation doesn't have to be black and white. Why can't both modes be implemented? (Just as long as the single window mode is NOT default.)
Tell me, how many graphics artists are out there that have only a single display? I hope not very many. For example, every "extras" I've seen on DVD movies that show the graphics artist doing his work shows that person with at least 2 displays (sometimes 3).
Dabblers have to learn somehow. Once they figure out cool technique, they can then modify the steps to their flavor. The problem I have with the tutorials is that they are mostly written for older to much older versions of the GIMP. The latest version has changed its menu names and some options - so finding the function from the tutorial is not as easy as it used to be.
I suppose you don't have a dual monitor setup then. Being able to put the tools on one screen while leaving the workspace on the main screen is very, very nice. Having a one window UI breaks that ability. Hopefully, this one window paradigm is not the default setting in the new GIMP.
The thing I would like fixed, at least for the MS Windows version is that the image window is always popped under all other applications, but it is focused. Therefore, I have to go through clicking on another window and then back to the image frame to get it on top.
We have received unprecedented orders as a result of the tremendous discount offered. This is clear confirmation to HP there is huge interest in building a webOS community. We apologize for any difficulty you may have had in ordering on the web or through the phone this weekend; it was as a result of selling out of our current inventory.
I'm not sure if that is confirmation of building the webOS community or people knowing that one cannot get such a capable tablet for less than $300 ... and they sold it for $99/$149! If they had sold it for $199/$249, I imagine it would still have been a fire sale and I know I still would have picked one up. (I missed it, though, because I suppose I'm not on the right mailing lists.)
It sounds like HP *might* revisit the webOS, but I wonder how they will implement it in the future. I doubt they would use the console gaming style of economy (sell hardware at a loss for higher costs on the software/dev tools). It's possible, I guess - they've not shown a lot of smarts. I think the best way to promote webOS at this point is not to overprice dev tools.
Perhaps your lack of reading comprehension missed his point of "Forced Education to the 6th grade". But for a less snarky response, he makes a good point - require HS equivalent education for a driver's license and some of the other benefits of society. The kids who don't want to be in school really are gumming up the works for those who do want to be there.
Punishments don't always solve the problem - 198x - I was paddled 5 times (5th grade) with a wooden paddle for not turning in homework on time too many times. (I got plenty of warning - I was also used as an example - but I think it was the only time they used that.) The problem was it didn't solve my lack of turning in homework on time. I have a good laugh about that now. I now turn in my work assignments on time - but it wasn't due to any punishment received previous to high school.
But it is an adult court they are going, to isn't it? And if the parent's are liable for costs, as the parent I would request a trial. But the third page of the article describes the problem of that - guilty until proven innocent. Even if you are innocent, the parents are still footing the legal bill.
And that's what this article boils down to, I think, a Perry hit piece. Why release this article now, Washington Post? Why hasn't this been reported years ago? Why have they let this little pot simmer - the students are already boiling now.
There is a lot against Perry, at least from a Conservative point of view, that he is not likely to get the nomination. But this police state school system is not a political problem or a political party problem, it is a societal problem. This report should have been made public a long time ago.
And, seriously, a single-mother having to spend $400 for a child's court appearance and anger management classes for a school bus disagreement? That's just silly.
If I had mod points...
I second the MajorGeeks suggestion. They have a lot of very useful utilities and such, even applications that are old or archived. Then they present you with a main link or alternative links (sometimes to third parties). Pages are clean, utilities are ranked, screenshots (if any) are linked. It's just a nice site.
true, but for what my family would use it for, I think it would be $100 well spent. We'll get an Android device on a Christmas sale, which we were planning to do anyway. My economic status is firmly middle class - not a lot of extra to spend, but some. (It's in priorities - we don't buy tobacco or alcohol, so we save over other families there.)
True, but this is after a $50 price drop and then a $100 price drop. With Android devices selling at ~$300 with better hardware features (better cases, GPS), I'm not surprised that these aren't selling even at $400. Woot.com put these on sale and moved only ~650 of them.