I do have set up Netvibes as well, but I still go back to iGoogle everyday. It just seems the layout is much better there, or at least the default layout is. Plus on iGoogle I can just have a widget for my Gmail that displays my last x mails, not the top x unread emails (which for me at least is useless).../sigh
That said, Netvibes does indeed look to be a very worthy "successor" to iGoole, and yeah, I can recommend it as well.
That might be because of HD Audio instead of AC97. I recently built a new desktop PC with a new case, and installed the latest Realtek drivers from their website (instead of the version from the Asus mainboard cd). I then experienced the behaviour you described - whenever I plug in my headphones, the sound from the speakers stops. Infuriating. I want to turn the speakers on and off when I do not want to use them, but now I manually have to unplug the headphones as well? Yeah, I twiddled with older Realtek drivers etc., until I found out that it is a "feature" of the HD Audio extension boards. Great, I thought, just install the AC97 board for the case... except I cannot find it anymore, a month after building the machine. I know I saw it somewhere in the boxes...;) But seriously, check that out.
That is actually what I have begun to think as well. That and the fact that I actually have to select circles to share with for every post. On Facebook, I simply set a relatively sane default (all friends minus the people from work who are just coworkers, not friends). Anybody who should see even less than that I put into the aforementioned coworkes group for a week so they think I accepted them, then I silently delete them again. At the very worst, some not so good friend suddenly sees I play WoW, am an atheist, like the Suicide Girls or drink beer. Well. I can live with that, as at least my boss knows 2 of the 4 and probably suspects the other 2 and wouldn't give a damn. My parents, they know all 4. But on Google+ I have to think who exactly shall read whatever I post every fricking time. Sounds good on paper, in practice, not so much. I for one am waiting how this pans out...
I don't own a Wii myself, I own a Xbox 360, on which I rarely play though. One of my best friends owns a Wii though, and of course we throw in a game or two when we are at their place. And everytime, after some minutes, I am at the point where the graphics really get to me. Not that it doesn't have the latest whatchamacallit-shaders, huge textures, hardware geometry tesselation and all that, no, but that that it simply does not do antialiasing and / or HD. It is just all so freaking jaggy it is a pain to look at (on a 52" LCD in this case). I personally might buy a Wii HD if it came out if it added nothing to the feature list but a very good upscaling algorithm to 1080p and HDMI. That's all.
(Hardcore) porn may not be distributed to minors, and "Yes I am over 18!" links on the homepage have been found not enough to make sure the minors don't see it, it has to be "real" age verification. Even services that you had to enter our personalausweis number (personal id card) which has the birthdate encoded into it were verboten, since the algorith was rather trivial to fool...
I am with you on this one, and I was in the group of people that did not even down Illidan in TBC before 3.0 (and never even set foot into SWP), and never went into AQ or Naxx in vanilla either. Still I liked the endgame more back then. Sure, there are some niceties now, such as tier tokens, and yeah, to an extend badge gear as well, but the removal of attunements and the tuning of the raids to be cleared by casuals with additional hard modes just isn't the same.
Trying to down a boss for weeks and then getting epics for it is something completely different than clearing the boss in week one or two, and then proceeding to down the same boss, but slightly harder (yes, I have done lots of hard modes in Ulduar, but not all). You already did the boss, and know the encounter, and after a time signups go down since people say "yeah, we downed that boss, no point wiping on him for epeen-ness", next week maybe". TotC doesn't feel like a raid at all, because yeah, trash is important. Trash respawn timing in SSC was bad, yeah, but I still fondly remember many trash groups from TK, or BT. Trash pulls in Ulduar? Mostly boring, even if you have to sometimes tank two mobs out of LOS or so. No challenge makes it dull. Artificial challenge (by enabling hardmodes) turns of too many raiders to make it much harder to keep on bringing together quality groups for raiding. Epics don't make it better. The rewards from heroics are fine for every content but raiding, and if you don't cnsider yourself a raider, then why do you need Ulduar-quality gear? You don't.
So please, bring back some short attunement quests (short is fine, doesn't have to be 30+ steps), make raids progressively harder without having to resort to hardmodes. There is enough for casuals, hell, there was enough for them / us in TBC already, really. I was never as bored in TBC as I am now in Wrath, even though officially I should have much more to do right now...
Haven't seen this posted, so here we go... this list was "leaked" or whatever before TBC, AFAIK remember...
- Draenor Set
Azuremyst Isle - 1 to 10 Bloodmyrk Isle - 10 to 20
Eversong Forest - 1 to 10 Quel'thalas - 10 to 20 Hellfire Peninsula - 58 to 62 Zangarmarsh - 60 to 64 Terokkar Forest - 61 to 65 The Deadlands - 63 to 67 Nagrand - 64 to 68 Blade's Edge Mountains - 66 to 70 Netherstorm - 67 to 70 Shadowmoon Valley - 69 to 70
- Northrend Set
Borean Tundra - 67 to 70 Howling Fjord - 67 to 70 Dragonblight - 69 to 72 Grizzly Hills - 70 to 73 Crystalsong Forest - 72 to 75 Zul'drak - 73 to 76 Sholazar Basin - 75 to 79 Storm Peaks - 76 to 80 Icecrown Glacier - 78 to 80
- Maelstrom Set
Gilneas - 77 to 80 Grim Batol - 78 to 81 Kul Tiras - 79 to 82 Kezan - 81 to 86 Tel Abim - 83 to 85 Zandalar - 84 to 87 Plunder Isle - 86 to 88 The Broken Isles - 87 to 90 The Maelstrom - 89 to 90
- Plane Set
Pandaria - 1 to 10 Hiji - 10 to 20
Wolfenhold - 1 to 10 Xorothian Plains - 10 to 20
The Green Lands - 88 to 91 The Dying Paradise - 91 to 94 The Emerald Nightmare - 94 to 97 The Eye of Ysera - 97 to 100
Deephome - 88 to 91 Skywall - 91 to 94 The Abyssal Maw - 94 to 97 The Firelands - 97 to 100
- Legion Set
K'aresh - 96 to 99 Argus Meadowlands - 97 to 100 Mac'Aree - 99 to 100 Maw of Oblivion - 100+
Hollywood is better at this? Most of the movies of the last decade were just unfunny, mostly for being over the top. I cringed in my seat when I watched the last Transformers movie because of the really bad, unfunny jokes. Good action, good effects, but humor? Not in the big mainstream movies...
Sheez, driver over to Bielefeld once in a while. I live there, and sometimes work in Gütersloh (for Miele as a consultant). Yeah, Gütersloh itself is pretty bad, none of the people who works there wants to live in the town, but well, it is half an hour drive to Bielefeld, and there is at least a little night life;) And gorram Slashdot, grow some Unicode support...
Yeah, especially now that even the original story does not show the OMG PONIES style anymore. Someone at Slashdot should rebuild that one just for giggles and link it to the original post. As in, I wanted to see it again just now to remind me how awesum etc it was, and found the story, but well, it didn't make sense. "We changed our layout to attract more females", and it just looks like always... meh.
Yep, really just lolcats, just checked, not blocked here at work. Of course, there are pictures like "Oh mai god, ceiling cat is watching me masturbate" (a cat with a surprised face), so there is your sex. And oh, a wet cat that looks like it really enjoyed their owner bathing them, so there is your animal cruelty...
(And yes, I am now in the habit of shutting down Opera before starting World Of Warcraft on my Mac, I get better frame rate that way).
I actually solved that problem by going from 2 to 4 gb ram on my Vista64 machine. Before that e.g. landing in Dalaran made the game basically unplayable for a minute or so, and alttabbing to a Firefox window that was open in the background with 20 Wowhead tabs opened was taking somewhere in the 2 to 5 minutes range - seriously. By adding the additional 2 gb of ram (actually I swapped the ram, to a faster CL setting as well, but that's a minor detail, I guess) I was able to boost my framerate from typically 1-15 fps in Northrend to 10-40 fps, and be able to alttab to Firefox in 1 to 2 seconds, and landing in Dalaran now doesn't cause hiccups at all.
So you might actually just be at the limit of your hardware as well?
To get back to the original topic, though: I felt a much bigger performance hit when going from TBC to WotLK then when going from XP32 to Vista64, all on the same hardware.
The difference here is that astronomers call a lot more elements "metals" than chemists do, it seems to be a convention for this specific field of work. So in that context that quote is not really wrong. At least that is what I have heard, I am neither;)
Yeah, well, except that with advance payment you (usually) have no way at all to get your money back in case of fraud. Both CC and Lastschrift (the "give the retailer your account details" thing) is much safer (yes, I am German) than simply wiring some money and hoping the goods are delivered some day... Going to the bank and telling them you want some money charged back where you yourself initiated the exchange (Überweisung) is always an exercise in fun, and if you even find a bank employee who knows it is possible and legal, you have only a 14 days window instead of 6 weeks with CC and Lastschrift. If the retailer initiated the transaction it should more or less work like with your CC institution - talk to them about it, and it should get charged back right away.
And goddamit, Slashdot, it really is 2008, get your Unicode fixed, for crying out loud.
In terms of free speech in Europe this is very minor, people are jailed for analyses of Nazi treatment of Jews during World War II that don't follow a set pattern.
I think you are missing the point here. With the GPL kind of open source software, there will always be a company who sees they can profit or at least not spend as much if they simply take available open source offerings and continue developing them instead of forking over some pile of cash to another company. In reality this is also what happened to the examples you mentioned, in a way - these companies did not suddenly create a new OSS product out of thin air, but started participating, bought other companies, employed developers etc. So while the basic idea of your thought has merit, in reality the situation will probably never really comeup where suddenly no company is behind the big OSS projects anymore...
By "get eaten last", I take it you mean "get eaten first".
(Read the "Chick" comic, aptly titled "Who will be eaten first?", again! Would you want to be alive and forced to watch while the Great Old Ones eat everyone around you?)
As some other people have already replied above, if that was the nation or city I lived in I would get the heck out of it. The rest of the world really pities people who live in these civil war countries and the US.
As a side note: one of my friends was robbed while home a few months ago. The criminals broke in, held them at gunpoint, and discussed raping his girlfriend, which they decided not to do because they didn't want to risk hanging around too long. At least some criminals aren't particularly afraid of head-to-head confrontation. Nice anecdote, and I am sure as hell not even implying that it is not true - but you did not once even hint at how your friend could have solved that particular incident by possessing a gun. So, the are some criminals breaking in, and your friend has a gun in the cupboard in the living room, but the criminals break in at night and surprise him in bed. Or, he has a gun in the drawer next to his bed, but the criminals surprise him while he is in the living room. How big is the chance that the victim actually has the gun in his hand (i.e. ready to use it even just to point, not necessarily shoot) within 2 or 3 seconds? Everything longer is more or less useless, unless the criminals are morons who makes lots of noise coming into the apartment in some other room, and leave the victim a clear and silent path to the gun...
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Yes, thanks for showing that there are fringe cases, like the one with the armadillo you posted. Too bad that Leo doesn't sort by usage or even knowledge of the usage in the general populace, as all the other entries in that list are really not something most people know...
To simply work on that list that Leo comes up with: shell and biological shield are technical terms from very specific fields, casing would usually be translated as Gehäuse no matter how hard/armored it is, an insect's carapace or shell might indeed be called Panzer or Panzerung or Schale, but IMO that is also a rather technical term seeing the manifold discussions about insects carapaces in peoples daily life, and what the heck is a loricate, or steel jacket? Hard to judge without further explanation, but to get from jacket to Panzer seems rather far fetched to me, as a German, yes indeed - try to understand the impressum on my very much out of date homepage.
As a side note: the new reply feature makes it hard to use German umlauts, had to resort to using HTML and using ä
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Err, no. I am german, and it is clearly Panzer = Tank. While, say, a piece of a medieval plate armor that goes to the chest can be called Brustpanzer (with brust = chest), and the word Panzerung means armor, the word Panzer itself just plain and simple means tank. Caveat: I do not know what the correct military bureaucrat term is for that, since they tend to have a word no one outside of the military uses, but in general german that is what it means.
Hm, article contains word blogosphere. Stopped reading there. And up to that word, I did not really get what "JZ" wanted to say anyway, it sounded more like an incoherent ramble by TFA's author. Anyone care to elaborate?
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I do have set up Netvibes as well, but I still go back to iGoogle everyday. It just seems the layout is much better there, or at least the default layout is. Plus on iGoogle I can just have a widget for my Gmail that displays my last x mails, not the top x unread emails (which for me at least is useless)... /sigh
That said, Netvibes does indeed look to be a very worthy "successor" to iGoole, and yeah, I can recommend it as well.
That might be because of HD Audio instead of AC97. I recently built a new desktop PC with a new case, and installed the latest Realtek drivers from their website (instead of the version from the Asus mainboard cd). I then experienced the behaviour you described - whenever I plug in my headphones, the sound from the speakers stops. Infuriating. I want to turn the speakers on and off when I do not want to use them, but now I manually have to unplug the headphones as well? Yeah, I twiddled with older Realtek drivers etc., until I found out that it is a "feature" of the HD Audio extension boards. Great, I thought, just install the AC97 board for the case... except I cannot find it anymore, a month after building the machine. I know I saw it somewhere in the boxes... ;) But seriously, check that out.
That is actually what I have begun to think as well. That and the fact that I actually have to select circles to share with for every post. On Facebook, I simply set a relatively sane default (all friends minus the people from work who are just coworkers, not friends). Anybody who should see even less than that I put into the aforementioned coworkes group for a week so they think I accepted them, then I silently delete them again. At the very worst, some not so good friend suddenly sees I play WoW, am an atheist, like the Suicide Girls or drink beer. Well. I can live with that, as at least my boss knows 2 of the 4 and probably suspects the other 2 and wouldn't give a damn. My parents, they know all 4. But on Google+ I have to think who exactly shall read whatever I post every fricking time. Sounds good on paper, in practice, not so much. I for one am waiting how this pans out...
The fun thing about that game is, you never even know how many levels there are! Also, you don't have to beat a level to proceed to the next one...
Huh? At least in Europe we have three phase running to our houses, and you even attach, say, electric kitchen stoves directly to this...
I don't own a Wii myself, I own a Xbox 360, on which I rarely play though. One of my best friends owns a Wii though, and of course we throw in a game or two when we are at their place. And everytime, after some minutes, I am at the point where the graphics really get to me. Not that it doesn't have the latest whatchamacallit-shaders, huge textures, hardware geometry tesselation and all that, no, but that that it simply does not do antialiasing and / or HD. It is just all so freaking jaggy it is a pain to look at (on a 52" LCD in this case). I personally might buy a Wii HD if it came out if it added nothing to the feature list but a very good upscaling algorithm to 1080p and HDMI. That's all.
(Hardcore) porn may not be distributed to minors, and "Yes I am over 18!" links on the homepage have been found not enough to make sure the minors don't see it, it has to be "real" age verification. Even services that you had to enter our personalausweis number (personal id card) which has the birthdate encoded into it were verboten, since the algorith was rather trivial to fool...
The post by PRMan was sarcasm... you can store lyrics and additional art in mp3s...
I am with you on this one, and I was in the group of people that did not even down Illidan in TBC before 3.0 (and never even set foot into SWP), and never went into AQ or Naxx in vanilla either. Still I liked the endgame more back then. Sure, there are some niceties now, such as tier tokens, and yeah, to an extend badge gear as well, but the removal of attunements and the tuning of the raids to be cleared by casuals with additional hard modes just isn't the same.
Trying to down a boss for weeks and then getting epics for it is something completely different than clearing the boss in week one or two, and then proceeding to down the same boss, but slightly harder (yes, I have done lots of hard modes in Ulduar, but not all). You already did the boss, and know the encounter, and after a time signups go down since people say "yeah, we downed that boss, no point wiping on him for epeen-ness", next week maybe". TotC doesn't feel like a raid at all, because yeah, trash is important. Trash respawn timing in SSC was bad, yeah, but I still fondly remember many trash groups from TK, or BT. Trash pulls in Ulduar? Mostly boring, even if you have to sometimes tank two mobs out of LOS or so. No challenge makes it dull. Artificial challenge (by enabling hardmodes) turns of too many raiders to make it much harder to keep on bringing together quality groups for raiding. Epics don't make it better. The rewards from heroics are fine for every content but raiding, and if you don't cnsider yourself a raider, then why do you need Ulduar-quality gear? You don't.
So please, bring back some short attunement quests (short is fine, doesn't have to be 30+ steps), make raids progressively harder without having to resort to hardmodes. There is enough for casuals, hell, there was enough for them / us in TBC already, really. I was never as bored in TBC as I am now in Wrath, even though officially I should have much more to do right now...
Haven't seen this posted, so here we go... this list was "leaked" or whatever before TBC, AFAIK remember...
- Draenor Set
Azuremyst Isle - 1 to 10
Bloodmyrk Isle - 10 to 20
Eversong Forest - 1 to 10
Quel'thalas - 10 to 20
Hellfire Peninsula - 58 to 62
Zangarmarsh - 60 to 64
Terokkar Forest - 61 to 65
The Deadlands - 63 to 67
Nagrand - 64 to 68
Blade's Edge Mountains - 66 to 70
Netherstorm - 67 to 70
Shadowmoon Valley - 69 to 70
- Northrend Set
Borean Tundra - 67 to 70
Howling Fjord - 67 to 70
Dragonblight - 69 to 72
Grizzly Hills - 70 to 73
Crystalsong Forest - 72 to 75
Zul'drak - 73 to 76
Sholazar Basin - 75 to 79
Storm Peaks - 76 to 80
Icecrown Glacier - 78 to 80
- Maelstrom Set
Gilneas - 77 to 80
Grim Batol - 78 to 81
Kul Tiras - 79 to 82
Kezan - 81 to 86
Tel Abim - 83 to 85
Zandalar - 84 to 87
Plunder Isle - 86 to 88
The Broken Isles - 87 to 90
The Maelstrom - 89 to 90
- Plane Set
Pandaria - 1 to 10
Hiji - 10 to 20
Wolfenhold - 1 to 10
Xorothian Plains - 10 to 20
The Green Lands - 88 to 91
The Dying Paradise - 91 to 94
The Emerald Nightmare - 94 to 97
The Eye of Ysera - 97 to 100
Deephome - 88 to 91
Skywall - 91 to 94
The Abyssal Maw - 94 to 97
The Firelands - 97 to 100
- Legion Set
K'aresh - 96 to 99
Argus Meadowlands - 97 to 100
Mac'Aree - 99 to 100
Maw of Oblivion - 100+
Hollywood is better at this? Most of the movies of the last decade were just unfunny, mostly for being over the top. I cringed in my seat when I watched the last Transformers movie because of the really bad, unfunny jokes. Good action, good effects, but humor? Not in the big mainstream movies...
Sheez, driver over to Bielefeld once in a while. I live there, and sometimes work in Gütersloh (for Miele as a consultant). Yeah, Gütersloh itself is pretty bad, none of the people who works there wants to live in the town, but well, it is half an hour drive to Bielefeld, and there is at least a little night life ;) And gorram Slashdot, grow some Unicode support...
Yeah, especially now that even the original story does not show the OMG PONIES style anymore. Someone at Slashdot should rebuild that one just for giggles and link it to the original post. As in, I wanted to see it again just now to remind me how awesum etc it was, and found the story, but well, it didn't make sense. "We changed our layout to attract more females", and it just looks like always... meh.
Yep, really just lolcats, just checked, not blocked here at work. Of course, there are pictures like "Oh mai god, ceiling cat is watching me masturbate" (a cat with a surprised face), so there is your sex. And oh, a wet cat that looks like it really enjoyed their owner bathing them, so there is your animal cruelty...
(And yes, I am now in the habit of shutting down Opera before starting World Of Warcraft on my Mac, I get better frame rate that way).
I actually solved that problem by going from 2 to 4 gb ram on my Vista64 machine. Before that e.g. landing in Dalaran made the game basically unplayable for a minute or so, and alttabbing to a Firefox window that was open in the background with 20 Wowhead tabs opened was taking somewhere in the 2 to 5 minutes range - seriously. By adding the additional 2 gb of ram (actually I swapped the ram, to a faster CL setting as well, but that's a minor detail, I guess) I was able to boost my framerate from typically 1-15 fps in Northrend to 10-40 fps, and be able to alttab to Firefox in 1 to 2 seconds, and landing in Dalaran now doesn't cause hiccups at all.
So you might actually just be at the limit of your hardware as well?
To get back to the original topic, though: I felt a much bigger performance hit when going from TBC to WotLK then when going from XP32 to Vista64, all on the same hardware.
The difference here is that astronomers call a lot more elements "metals" than chemists do, it seems to be a convention for this specific field of work. So in that context that quote is not really wrong. At least that is what I have heard, I am neither ;)
Yeah, well, except that with advance payment you (usually) have no way at all to get your money back in case of fraud. Both CC and Lastschrift (the "give the retailer your account details" thing) is much safer (yes, I am German) than simply wiring some money and hoping the goods are delivered some day... Going to the bank and telling them you want some money charged back where you yourself initiated the exchange (Überweisung) is always an exercise in fun, and if you even find a bank employee who knows it is possible and legal, you have only a 14 days window instead of 6 weeks with CC and Lastschrift. If the retailer initiated the transaction it should more or less work like with your CC institution - talk to them about it, and it should get charged back right away.
And goddamit, Slashdot, it really is 2008, get your Unicode fixed, for crying out loud.
In terms of free speech in Europe this is very minor, people are jailed for analyses of Nazi treatment of Jews during World War II that don't follow a set pattern.
Citation please?
I think you are missing the point here. With the GPL kind of open source software, there will always be a company who sees they can profit or at least not spend as much if they simply take available open source offerings and continue developing them instead of forking over some pile of cash to another company. In reality this is also what happened to the examples you mentioned, in a way - these companies did not suddenly create a new OSS product out of thin air, but started participating, bought other companies, employed developers etc. So while the basic idea of your thought has merit, in reality the situation will probably never really comeup where suddenly no company is behind the big OSS projects anymore...
By "get eaten last", I take it you mean "get eaten first".
(Read the "Chick" comic, aptly titled "Who will be eaten first?", again! Would you want to be alive and forced to watch while the Great Old Ones eat everyone around you?)
As some other people have already replied above, if that was the nation or city I lived in I would get the heck out of it. The rest of the world really pities people who live in these civil war countries and the US.
Yes, thanks for showing that there are fringe cases, like the one with the armadillo you posted. Too bad that Leo doesn't sort by usage or even knowledge of the usage in the general populace, as all the other entries in that list are really not something most people know...
To simply work on that list that Leo comes up with: shell and biological shield are technical terms from very specific fields, casing would usually be translated as Gehäuse no matter how hard/armored it is, an insect's carapace or shell might indeed be called Panzer or Panzerung or Schale, but IMO that is also a rather technical term seeing the manifold discussions about insects carapaces in peoples daily life, and what the heck is a loricate, or steel jacket? Hard to judge without further explanation, but to get from jacket to Panzer seems rather far fetched to me, as a German, yes indeed - try to understand the impressum on my very much out of date homepage.
As a side note: the new reply feature makes it hard to use German umlauts, had to resort to using HTML and using ä
Err, no. I am german, and it is clearly Panzer = Tank. While, say, a piece of a medieval plate armor that goes to the chest can be called Brustpanzer (with brust = chest), and the word Panzerung means armor, the word Panzer itself just plain and simple means tank. Caveat: I do not know what the correct military bureaucrat term is for that, since they tend to have a word no one outside of the military uses, but in general german that is what it means.
Hm, article contains word blogosphere. Stopped reading there. And up to that word, I did not really get what "JZ" wanted to say anyway, it sounded more like an incoherent ramble by TFA's author. Anyone care to elaborate?