Gnome 3 is trying it's best to be a tablet's GUI. The desktop users are being tasked with beta testing that in lieu of maintaining a more traditional and usable interface.
I hadn't worn a watch since I bought my first cell phone in 2000 or so. About a year ago I finally made the jump to a Droid X. Anticipating the potential for power loss and knowing my Droid X is only good for 10 hours or so of average use, I dug a 15-year-old Ironman Triathlon out of my desk drawer a few months ago in preparation for Hurricane Irene. Cheap, waterproof, years of battery life and difficult to damage - it's certainly a better timepiece for a potential emergency scenario. It's still on my wrist now. It's handy to know the time and date without fishing the massive brick of a smartphone out of my pocket.
That said, while these wrist-droids are cool, they are useless without significantly better battery life and a much lower price point.
You just reminded me of an anomaly from my youth. As a teenager, I had 4 speakers setup around my room and the aux port of a stereo fed from my SoundBlaster Pro. At some point I altered this setup and found that my modem would only connect at 19.2k. As soon as I plugged the SB Pro back to the stereo, I could once again connect at 26.4k and 28.8k.
I've tossed a number of systems over the years, but I have this silly collection I've kept. In the original cardboard retail box for Spear of Destiny, I have every processor I've ever owned.
All things considered, I don't think any of them have brought me more enjoyment or let me learn more than the 486 DX4. I got that at my peak of my ability to learn and when I still had the free time to fool around with stuff. I wonder how many hours I spent copying and pasting codes to make batch file program menus with ACSII boxes and ANSI colors and keyboard controls?
I feel the same way. Many of our freedoms are best protected from the government, not by the government. There is no need for a kill switch for the internet, TV, radio or phones. We've lost of some of these mediums already. True net neutrality will keep the governments filthy hands off our interwebs. ISPs would do well to remember this.
That was a nicely written and well-worded comment but the fact of the matter is that most people don't want to run ethanol. It is but one path to a greener source of energy. It's not the best option by a long shot. It just happens that it was successfully lobbied into the wallets of taxpayers and forced on consumers. You can have the shit. I'll keep my corn on the cob, in the can and pouring from the bottle. I have no use for it in my gas tank costing me more at the pump and sacrificing my power, mileage and fuel stability.
Where I live, everybody feels safe because the cops park in front of a statue next to a local college in the middle of downtown. What the cops are actually doing is getting on the school's wi-fi and checking out the college girls coming and going.
Cops are people too and often they're looking for a way to fuck off and make it look like they're working. They probably just thought the RC plane was cool and talked to the guy about it because of that.
The best part was it was a great game designed to run on baseline systems. Now all games that come out are made for the hardware that won't be affordable for another year or two. Anybody can look at the Steam hardware results and see what kind of machines the average gamer is running. Pushing the envelope is fine but by the time I can afford the Nvidia card that will finally give me 30+ fps on my 32" LCD, I've forgotten about the game I wanted to play back when I had a 6800 and a 19" CRT.
How can they tell if it's pirated? Most people (outside Slashdot, of course) have no idea how to use a software firewall to control the programs they have installed on their machines. The pirated copy phones home and they're busted.
Companies exist to make a profit, not to prop up an overextended government. This should be an obvious lesson to the US government as well. Their abuse of the corporate tax base is what sent so many companies overseas to begin with.
At this point in the US there is a shrinking line between taxes and government extortion. These obscene rates are the reason so many companies have located the headquarters overseas.
The only reason it makes financial sense for Google is because of the amount of money the company makes yet somehow for the average user the services provided are free. It's truly remarkable.
Instead of complaining about how someone else or some other company isn't paying what you think it should in taxes, you should spend that time figuring out how to reduce your own tax burden.
A 35% corporate tax is absolutely ridiculous. What does the government provide Google that it should be entitled to 35% of their profits?
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Gnome 3 is trying it's best to be a tablet's GUI. The desktop users are being tasked with beta testing that in lieu of maintaining a more traditional and usable interface.
It is an option but the font rendering is on par with FVWM so everything looks like Windows 95. LXDE is a better choice.
How about zDoom? Doom plus mouse-look, jumping and support for modern resolutions is win.
I hadn't worn a watch since I bought my first cell phone in 2000 or so. About a year ago I finally made the jump to a Droid X. Anticipating the potential for power loss and knowing my Droid X is only good for 10 hours or so of average use, I dug a 15-year-old Ironman Triathlon out of my desk drawer a few months ago in preparation for Hurricane Irene. Cheap, waterproof, years of battery life and difficult to damage - it's certainly a better timepiece for a potential emergency scenario. It's still on my wrist now. It's handy to know the time and date without fishing the massive brick of a smartphone out of my pocket.
That said, while these wrist-droids are cool, they are useless without significantly better battery life and a much lower price point.
That's only in public. Unless summoned to court, you don't really have to appear in public any longer.
Thanks for reminding me about this game! I'm digging out my CD and installing it when I get home tonight!
You just reminded me of an anomaly from my youth. As a teenager, I had 4 speakers setup around my room and the aux port of a stereo fed from my SoundBlaster Pro. At some point I altered this setup and found that my modem would only connect at 19.2k. As soon as I plugged the SB Pro back to the stereo, I could once again connect at 26.4k and 28.8k.
We always used the cracked copy and, at least for DOS games, odds were we edited the hex ourselves.
I've tossed a number of systems over the years, but I have this silly collection I've kept. In the original cardboard retail box for Spear of Destiny, I have every processor I've ever owned.
All things considered, I don't think any of them have brought me more enjoyment or let me learn more than the 486 DX4. I got that at my peak of my ability to learn and when I still had the free time to fool around with stuff. I wonder how many hours I spent copying and pasting codes to make batch file program menus with ACSII boxes and ANSI colors and keyboard controls?
I feel the same way. Many of our freedoms are best protected from the government, not by the government. There is no need for a kill switch for the internet, TV, radio or phones. We've lost of some of these mediums already. True net neutrality will keep the governments filthy hands off our interwebs. ISPs would do well to remember this.
That was a nicely written and well-worded comment but the fact of the matter is that most people don't want to run ethanol. It is but one path to a greener source of energy. It's not the best option by a long shot. It just happens that it was successfully lobbied into the wallets of taxpayers and forced on consumers. You can have the shit. I'll keep my corn on the cob, in the can and pouring from the bottle. I have no use for it in my gas tank costing me more at the pump and sacrificing my power, mileage and fuel stability.
"And the US prison systems is the largest growing US government service to date."
It's because we've allowed the government to make almost everything illegal.
Where I live, everybody feels safe because the cops park in front of a statue next to a local college in the middle of downtown. What the cops are actually doing is getting on the school's wi-fi and checking out the college girls coming and going.
Cops are people too and often they're looking for a way to fuck off and make it look like they're working. They probably just thought the RC plane was cool and talked to the guy about it because of that.
The best part was it was a great game designed to run on baseline systems. Now all games that come out are made for the hardware that won't be affordable for another year or two. Anybody can look at the Steam hardware results and see what kind of machines the average gamer is running. Pushing the envelope is fine but by the time I can afford the Nvidia card that will finally give me 30+ fps on my 32" LCD, I've forgotten about the game I wanted to play back when I had a 6800 and a 19" CRT.
Thanks, Anony Cow!
They tried that in the second and third installments of the Matrix trilogy and it put us to sleep.
How can they tell if it's pirated? Most people (outside Slashdot, of course) have no idea how to use a software firewall to control the programs they have installed on their machines. The pirated copy phones home and they're busted.
Companies exist to make a profit, not to prop up an overextended government. This should be an obvious lesson to the US government as well. Their abuse of the corporate tax base is what sent so many companies overseas to begin with.
I'm still waiting for a good game for the original Wii.
I admit I clicked very rapidly but I was pretty sure I saw the shadow of a nipple.
The B&W chapter 1 preview PDF on the author's site is NSFW.
At this point in the US there is a shrinking line between taxes and government extortion. These obscene rates are the reason so many companies have located the headquarters overseas.
The only reason it makes financial sense for Google is because of the amount of money the company makes yet somehow for the average user the services provided are free. It's truly remarkable.
Instead of complaining about how someone else or some other company isn't paying what you think it should in taxes, you should spend that time figuring out how to reduce your own tax burden.
A 35% corporate tax is absolutely ridiculous. What does the government provide Google that it should be entitled to 35% of their profits?
Slashdot - thanks for removing the Cents symbol from above post. That helped clarify my point greatly.
The ability to comprehend the difference between $0.001 and 0.001 ?
How many people exist that are too immature and not evolved enough to have the sense not to swallow the entire content?
If the shit was legal, there would be dosages listed on the back of the plastic container it came in, just like any other OTC substance you can buy.