We actually recently hired a developer that does this. He asked for help when he couldn't figure out how to type capital letters on my keyboard (with caps lock remapped to control). Raised an alarm or two for me...
You misunderstand. All single phone pledge levels are the same product (aside from the $10k level), just different prices. The original plan was to have 5000 phones at $600, then the rest at $830. It hit a brick wall after the $600 level ran out, so they decided to add a bunch of other tiers with slowly increasing prices. It's actually pretty neat to look at how linear the funding rates were at the different prices (link).
I often do this, and I'm an experienced user. I know exactly where the address bar is and what it does.
If you were paying by the minute for your ISDN again, would you rather take 10 additional seconds to load Google and click the appropriate link, or would you prefer to take an extra minute or two to figure out that they sprung for www.store-name-us.com rather than www.storename.com? Most large sites will have all the common variations redirect to the correct URL, but it's pretty easy to run into a situation where googling is faster and easier than trying to figure out what domain they decided to pick.
You're twisting the meaning of DRM to make a business model you don't like look bad. There are valid reasons for disliking Blizzard, or WoW, or even any pay per month MMO, but DRM isn't one of them in this case.
If you want to get into technicalities, DRM is Digital Rights Management. I don't think the EULA qualifies as a digital restriction.
You're not paying a licensing fee, you're paying a subscription fee. The former lets you use your software while the latter lets you use Blizzard's servers. Big difference. WoW keeps working just fine if your subscription expires, you're able to log on to private servers without any issues (admittedly, Blizzard would love to stop that too, but they haven't been able to sue the private server projects out of existence). The only thing you lose is access to the official Blizzard servers.
I think I'm somewhat unusual, but at least in WoW I much prefer WSAD because of the easy access to Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and 1-5. I've got spells bound to 1-5, Alt+1-5, Shift+1-5, Ctrl+1-5, Shift+Ctrl+1-5, Shift+Alt+1-5, Ctrl+Alt+1-5, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1-5. Most of the people I've talked to about hot keys find that too confusing, but I'd like to see you find another spot on the keyboard where you have access to 40 spells in addition to all your movement and targeting controls without having to move your hand.
As for hitting the wrong key, I just don't do that. The only thing that messes me up on occasion is when one of the modifier keys doesn't quite get pressed all the way, and the wrong spell comes out.
And what video card manufacture would you rather we use? ATI? Surely you know about how incredibly horrible the ATI Linux drivers are. From what I've seen, there's about a 50% performance drop (varies greatly from card to card, I think) AND it's a royal pain in the ass to get working at all.
Until there's an actual alternative, nVidia is the only choice for anybody sane using Linux.
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And you'd be right. What you left out is that Linux has been getting much, much better at a much faster rate than Windows has. Go take a look at KDE 2.0 (released the year before XP). Now go take a look at KDE 3.4 and compare it to MS's latest (by which I mean XP. KDE 4.0 will be out long before Vista). Now guess who's making more progress.
If that's not enough for you, consider that Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 compared to 1994 for the 1.0 Linux kernel. Regardless of your opinion of Linux, it is not 10 years behind Windows in any sense.
3) creating a new tab doesn't copy the history like it does in IE. In IE, when you spawn a new window you get the history of the old window. This is really, really handy.
Assuming you mean that a second copy of the page is loaded in the new tab, that's one of the main reasons I hate IE. When I start a new tab, I expect a clean slate that loads instantly. I don't want some massive page to tie up the CPU for a few seconds (and possibly spawn a few popups or something) before I can type the URL in. Also, making a new tab can often be a good way to hide something you may not want other people to see.
In fact, in WW2, far more people were killed in single nightly raids over cities than any single nuclear strike.
Only because there have only been two nukes dropped on an actual target. The bombs we dropped on Japan were a tiny fraction of the size of modern bombs (well under 30 kilotons vs. up to about 100 megatons).
Also, think about what would happen when you started carpet bombing with nukes.
People with an IQ of 110 add up the prices and notice that a ready-built computer is cheaper.
People with an IQ of 115 figure out that Best Buy is a terrible place to buy PC parts.
Check out Pricewatch. You can almost always build a PC for less than an equivalent prebuilt system. You just have to be careful when selecting which vendor you buy from.
It was 4:30 AM here when I posted that, so I wasn't quite thinking as clearly as I should have been
Of course the hydrogen would at least burn if it were superheated and came into contact with the atmosphere. I was somehow thinking you were referring to the atmosphere exploding...
Vaporising the solid core (if it can even be vaporised at all at that pressure) wouldn't change the fact that there's a massive ball of gas in your way.
What makes you think that superheated hydrogen would be flung towards Yavin IV? Even if it were, why would the atmosphere explode? Do you see the entire planet catching on fire every time you strike a match?
About the only thing firing at Yavin might accomplish that I can think of would be to turn it into a small star.
I guess I wasn't aware of that. I almost exclusively use IBM model M keyboards that lack a Windows key, so I've never bothered to look into those shortcuts.
Because sometimes it's just the best way to do something. I always keep at least one terminal window open, so if I want to find a file I just switch to it and type 'locate file'. In Windows, you'd have to click Start->Find->Files, then beat the clippy equivalent into submission, and then type in your search term.
The same is true of most Start Button based things. If I want to install a new program, I just type 'emerge package'. Want to start an app? Just type the name. Check for wireless? 'iwlist scanning'. Obviously you have to have gotten used to the CLI and memorized the commands, but it's much easier for many things once you do.
There are some things that a GUI is better suited for (browsing, word processing, etc), but the CLI is just the easiest way to do a huge number of things.
Games. As far as I know, there aren't any VMWare type things that have any 3D card support. Games are the one and only reason I ever boot into Windows. Wine/WineX/Cedega and VMWare do a good job covering the popular/old games, but sometimes there's just no substitute for the native OS.
Now, what I'm really keen on is a version of OOo for PalmOS. That would be sweet. Why doesn't Sun cook that up while they're at it. Of course then they'll have to create a JVM for PalmOS as well. Also, we'll need Ghostscript, ghostview, xpdf, and a few other goodies to round out the Palm offerings. But with 600Mh processors, gigabyte-plus storage, and larger RAM, how hard can all this be to achieve?
First of all, that 600 MHz CPU is far worse than a 600 MHz P3. I'd say it's closer to a 150 - 200 MHz P1.
Also, the PalmOS is a real pain in the ass to program for. I spent far more time trying to get the damn OS to do what I want than actually programming when I wrote Gem Heist.
I think people follow links in sigs because it's coming from an individual that's promoting something that actually means something to them instead of some corporation that's just trying to squeeze more cash from people. I completely ignore all web ads (text or otherwise), but I followed your sig.
I currently have 500 MB of space and 5 GB/month free for 3 years through 1and1, but I'll probably check your site out again when that expires.
You seem to be unaware of what keyboard shortcuts can do in Linux. You can set it up to send any keyboard input you want to any window(s) you want with a single key press. Right now I have various key combinations set up to control XMMS from anywhere in X. I've also remapped win + left and win + right to home and end since my laptop has them awkwardly placed. Just about anything can be mapped to a key combination (in KDE, anyway. Don't know much about GNOME).
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think messing with shortcut properties can do anything even remotely like that.
You seem to have missed the point. I'm pretty sure the grandparent was saying that you'd get dial-up speeds with cable if everybody tried to use it at once, which is quite true.
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We actually recently hired a developer that does this. He asked for help when he couldn't figure out how to type capital letters on my keyboard (with caps lock remapped to control). Raised an alarm or two for me...
You misunderstand. All single phone pledge levels are the same product (aside from the $10k level), just different prices. The original plan was to have 5000 phones at $600, then the rest at $830. It hit a brick wall after the $600 level ran out, so they decided to add a bunch of other tiers with slowly increasing prices. It's actually pretty neat to look at how linear the funding rates were at the different prices (link).
I often do this, and I'm an experienced user. I know exactly where the address bar is and what it does.
If you were paying by the minute for your ISDN again, would you rather take 10 additional seconds to load Google and click the appropriate link, or would you prefer to take an extra minute or two to figure out that they sprung for www.store-name-us.com rather than www.storename.com? Most large sites will have all the common variations redirect to the correct URL, but it's pretty easy to run into a situation where googling is faster and easier than trying to figure out what domain they decided to pick.
You're twisting the meaning of DRM to make a business model you don't like look bad. There are valid reasons for disliking Blizzard, or WoW, or even any pay per month MMO, but DRM isn't one of them in this case.
If you want to get into technicalities, DRM is Digital Rights Management. I don't think the EULA qualifies as a digital restriction.
You're not paying a licensing fee, you're paying a subscription fee. The former lets you use your software while the latter lets you use Blizzard's servers. Big difference. WoW keeps working just fine if your subscription expires, you're able to log on to private servers without any issues (admittedly, Blizzard would love to stop that too, but they haven't been able to sue the private server projects out of existence). The only thing you lose is access to the official Blizzard servers.
I think I'm somewhat unusual, but at least in WoW I much prefer WSAD because of the easy access to Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and 1-5. I've got spells bound to 1-5, Alt+1-5, Shift+1-5, Ctrl+1-5, Shift+Ctrl+1-5, Shift+Alt+1-5, Ctrl+Alt+1-5, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1-5. Most of the people I've talked to about hot keys find that too confusing, but I'd like to see you find another spot on the keyboard where you have access to 40 spells in addition to all your movement and targeting controls without having to move your hand.
As for hitting the wrong key, I just don't do that. The only thing that messes me up on occasion is when one of the modifier keys doesn't quite get pressed all the way, and the wrong spell comes out.
And what video card manufacture would you rather we use? ATI? Surely you know about how incredibly horrible the ATI Linux drivers are. From what I've seen, there's about a 50% performance drop (varies greatly from card to card, I think) AND it's a royal pain in the ass to get working at all.
Until there's an actual alternative, nVidia is the only choice for anybody sane using Linux.
And you'd be right. What you left out is that Linux has been getting much, much better at a much faster rate than Windows has. Go take a look at KDE 2.0 (released the year before XP). Now go take a look at KDE 3.4 and compare it to MS's latest (by which I mean XP. KDE 4.0 will be out long before Vista). Now guess who's making more progress.
If that's not enough for you, consider that Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 compared to 1994 for the 1.0 Linux kernel. Regardless of your opinion of Linux, it is not 10 years behind Windows in any sense.
3) creating a new tab doesn't copy the history like it does in IE. In IE, when you spawn a new window you get the history of the old window. This is really, really handy.
Assuming you mean that a second copy of the page is loaded in the new tab, that's one of the main reasons I hate IE. When I start a new tab, I expect a clean slate that loads instantly. I don't want some massive page to tie up the CPU for a few seconds (and possibly spawn a few popups or something) before I can type the URL in. Also, making a new tab can often be a good way to hide something you may not want other people to see.
In fact, in WW2, far more people were killed in single nightly raids over cities than any single nuclear strike.
Only because there have only been two nukes dropped on an actual target. The bombs we dropped on Japan were a tiny fraction of the size of modern bombs (well under 30 kilotons vs. up to about 100 megatons).
Also, think about what would happen when you started carpet bombing with nukes.
People with an IQ of 110 add up the prices and notice that a ready-built computer is cheaper.
People with an IQ of 115 figure out that Best Buy is a terrible place to buy PC parts.
Check out Pricewatch. You can almost always build a PC for less than an equivalent prebuilt system. You just have to be careful when selecting which vendor you buy from.
D'oh.
It was 4:30 AM here when I posted that, so I wasn't quite thinking as clearly as I should have been
Of course the hydrogen would at least burn if it were superheated and came into contact with the atmosphere. I was somehow thinking you were referring to the atmosphere exploding...
Vaporising the solid core (if it can even be vaporised at all at that pressure) wouldn't change the fact that there's a massive ball of gas in your way.
What makes you think that superheated hydrogen would be flung towards Yavin IV? Even if it were, why would the atmosphere explode? Do you see the entire planet catching on fire every time you strike a match?
About the only thing firing at Yavin might accomplish that I can think of would be to turn it into a small star.
As I recall, Yavin was a gas giant. What good is vaporising vapor going to do?
Two words: tab completion. It makes your life far, far easier when using the CLI.
I guess I wasn't aware of that. I almost exclusively use IBM model M keyboards that lack a Windows key, so I've never bothered to look into those shortcuts.
My other examples still stand, though.
Because sometimes it's just the best way to do something. I always keep at least one terminal window open, so if I want to find a file I just switch to it and type 'locate file'. In Windows, you'd have to click Start->Find->Files, then beat the clippy equivalent into submission, and then type in your search term.
The same is true of most Start Button based things. If I want to install a new program, I just type 'emerge package'. Want to start an app? Just type the name. Check for wireless? 'iwlist scanning'. Obviously you have to have gotten used to the CLI and memorized the commands, but it's much easier for many things once you do.
There are some things that a GUI is better suited for (browsing, word processing, etc), but the CLI is just the easiest way to do a huge number of things.
Why dual boot when you can virtualize?
Games. As far as I know, there aren't any VMWare type things that have any 3D card support. Games are the one and only reason I ever boot into Windows. Wine/WineX/Cedega and VMWare do a good job covering the popular/old games, but sometimes there's just no substitute for the native OS.
No problems here.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Now, what I'm really keen on is a version of OOo for PalmOS. That would be sweet. Why doesn't Sun cook that up while they're at it. Of course then they'll have to create a JVM for PalmOS as well. Also, we'll need Ghostscript, ghostview, xpdf, and a few other goodies to round out the Palm offerings. But with 600Mh processors, gigabyte-plus storage, and larger RAM, how hard can all this be to achieve?
First of all, that 600 MHz CPU is far worse than a 600 MHz P3. I'd say it's closer to a 150 - 200 MHz P1.
Also, the PalmOS is a real pain in the ass to program for. I spent far more time trying to get the damn OS to do what I want than actually programming when I wrote Gem Heist.
I think people follow links in sigs because it's coming from an individual that's promoting something that actually means something to them instead of some corporation that's just trying to squeeze more cash from people. I completely ignore all web ads (text or otherwise), but I followed your sig.
I currently have 500 MB of space and 5 GB/month free for 3 years through 1and1, but I'll probably check your site out again when that expires.
Nothing here.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
You seem to be unaware of what keyboard shortcuts can do in Linux. You can set it up to send any keyboard input you want to any window(s) you want with a single key press. Right now I have various key combinations set up to control XMMS from anywhere in X. I've also remapped win + left and win + right to home and end since my laptop has them awkwardly placed. Just about anything can be mapped to a key combination (in KDE, anyway. Don't know much about GNOME).
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think messing with shortcut properties can do anything even remotely like that.
For the Linux users out there, this might work a little better:
kbranch@kbranch kbranch $ cat fuckultracade.sh
#!/bin/bash
while [ 0 ]
do
wget -r http://www.ultracade.com
done
You seem to have missed the point. I'm pretty sure the grandparent was saying that you'd get dial-up speeds with cable if everybody tried to use it at once, which is quite true.