Thanks. I got the gist of it, just not all the details.
P.S. Firefox 2's HTML forms, real-time spelling checking is great. I was going to spell it "jist".
I think the idea of America being #1 in everything has become a national myth, especially after the breakup of the USSR. Just as most people aren't getting especially upset about the NSA spying--America, by defintion, they think, is a free, just country--so too no one can even start to think of an America that isn't on top. In short, we believe our own propaganda, and since it starts with young kids, it will probably take awhile for us to stop believing these myths.
I saw COD 1 on sale at the local EB Games for 19.99, so I picked it up. What a waste. It had basically the same engine as Medal of Honor: Allied Assault but it was significantly less fun. One person on an Amazon review described it aptly: it's like you're playing "on rails". You're directed on a set path and don't have much freedom or creativity in attacking the targets. Moreover, there were plenty of times when your team members got shot but didn't die (e.g. on the securing the bridge level where you run back to the big tank-dispatching gun).
I shoulda put my money toward the Unreal Tournament 2004 DVD that's on sale at Amazon right now. The *demo* of that game has given me a lot more pleasure than COD 1.
But, that being said, maybe COD 2 is way different.
While I think the gaming/geek crowd could be a vocal threat to dumb legislation (just look at the response any time DRM, RIAA, etc. stuff is posted here), but I just don't trust voting and think maybe there's a much simpler solution.
If there are concerns about sex, violence, or language in games being sold, maybe publishers could release a santized version to stores that could be unlocked (with some kind of low-hassle age verification, like a $1 credit card charge) online later. I know, it wouldn't work well for consoles that aren't as network friendly as PCs and probably for other reasons I'm missing... but it's a thought.
I thought you were using "gerrymander" as a generic synonym for "to muck with" or whatever, but I had to look it up and it turns out that it's a real term:
"Gerrymandering is a controversial form of redistricting in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are manipulated for an electoral advantage. The word "gerrymander" is named for the American politician Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 - November 23, 1814)[1], and is a portmanteau of his name and the word "salamander," which was used to describe the appearance of a tortuous electoral district Gerry created in order to disadvantage his electoral opponents."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
I use their blogspot.com for my web comic just becaues it's fast and easy, but it definitely lacked (until now maybe) some features that you'd expect. For example, if you want to use an image in your template, they recommend you post it and then reference the post. In other words, you don't have true web space you can upload to use freely, so it can be annoying to, for example, make header/footer graphics.
It's interesting to see the hype and everyone excited about upcoming products lately. For Microsoft, I think it's because they're a de facto "standard" in the desktop and office products spaces. For Apple, it is more like they are known for coming out with very sexy, sleek products that are also easy to use. Too bad some of the free and open source projects don't benefit from this kind of free publicity. I guess you could almost count Firefox as being among the hype machines, but I would bet most of that is user-generated -- people who are fans of Firefox -- as opposed to pundits, industry people, etc.
Definitely layoffs are not fun; I was laid off from a web firm during 2001 and faced a stressful job search.
However, I wonder if this news isn't necessarily as bad as it sounds. I suspect a good percentage of AOL jobs involve call centers, and I know from personal experience that these can be terrible jobs. Granted, (almost) everyone just needs a job sometimes... all I'm saying is that losing a really crappy job isn't as painful as losing a good one.
It's been quite some time since I've tried Debian, but I remember the installer being pretty difficult. Does anyone know if this has been improved, and how it compares to other medium-difficulty distributions?
Has anyone else noticed that Vista is stripping away some of the old keyboard shortcuts? Maybe it's just a beta thing, but I've noticed, for example... you used to be able to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and then "T" for Task Manager. Now it seems you have to add at least an extra ALT (ALT-T) to get it. Also tabbing within Explorer windows is bringing up the menus for me instead of tabbing through panes.
Especially for people that suffer from RSI--i.e. the mouse is best avoided--this is a real pain.
I work as a tester at a large, well-known tech company. I started using Vista back in February of this year, and I've used one of the latest versions, 5474, recently. Here are the changes I've seen:
Improved graphics (more complete icon set, fancier installation and login graphics, nicer titlebar look on non-3D capable systems)
More stability in general (some blue screen bugs I've reported have gone away with later versions)
More gadgets in the sidebar
A bit faster for file copies, file searches work a lot better -- file searching wasn't working at all at one point
So... I'm still skeptical of their early 2007 predicted time frame, but it's definitely been getting more polished over the months.
Years ago at a sports psychologist's office I had these skin-response devices (among other things) attached to me while I was told to close my eyes and imagine being in a relaxing natural setting. It was neat to see my brain activity mapped out on a monitor and change drastically because of those thoughts. So not only do real places affect us, but imagined ones as well.
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I hate to break it to you, but any close contact with that region and your hands are going to be near fecal bacteria. Urine itself is sterile when it leaves the body.
I know it'd be obnoxious (what advertising isn't?), but you know those bars they'll but on the bottom or side of a show that's rolling credits? The network will advertise upcoming shows, etc. before the current one even ends. There could be something similar... a "banner ad" approach so to speak, so the game wouldn't be interrupted by changing the whole screen to a commercial. Food for thought.
If that single argument was sound, and I happened to have held an erroneous position, then, yes, I'd change my mind. The number of arguments I'm presented with and the degree to which I know the speaker has nothing to do with how true or false the idea in question is.
But they're not capable of fixing it for free. Since it's a commercial software company, they're not employing volunteers. Every hour spent debugging is an hour that could have been spent adding a marketable new feature, i.e. that'd make more money. No company can produce bug-free software, and a publicly-traded company with pressures to get products out the door fast is even less likely to have bugless code. So it makes sense to me that they'd charge for a patch system.
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Thanks. I got the gist of it, just not all the details. P.S. Firefox 2's HTML forms, real-time spelling checking is great. I was going to spell it "jist".
It's official... I don't understand your post. :-) Thanks, though.
I think the idea of America being #1 in everything has become a national myth, especially after the breakup of the USSR. Just as most people aren't getting especially upset about the NSA spying--America, by defintion, they think, is a free, just country--so too no one can even start to think of an America that isn't on top. In short, we believe our own propaganda, and since it starts with young kids, it will probably take awhile for us to stop believing these myths.
Yeah, and we'll all be scooting around in flying cars too, right?
...to flesh out the end of a very long tail. ;-)
I saw COD 1 on sale at the local EB Games for 19.99, so I picked it up. What a waste. It had basically the same engine as Medal of Honor: Allied Assault but it was significantly less fun. One person on an Amazon review described it aptly: it's like you're playing "on rails". You're directed on a set path and don't have much freedom or creativity in attacking the targets. Moreover, there were plenty of times when your team members got shot but didn't die (e.g. on the securing the bridge level where you run back to the big tank-dispatching gun).
I shoulda put my money toward the Unreal Tournament 2004 DVD that's on sale at Amazon right now. The *demo* of that game has given me a lot more pleasure than COD 1.
But, that being said, maybe COD 2 is way different.
While I think the gaming/geek crowd could be a vocal threat to dumb legislation (just look at the response any time DRM, RIAA, etc. stuff is posted here), but I just don't trust voting and think maybe there's a much simpler solution.
If there are concerns about sex, violence, or language in games being sold, maybe publishers could release a santized version to stores that could be unlocked (with some kind of low-hassle age verification, like a $1 credit card charge) online later. I know, it wouldn't work well for consoles that aren't as network friendly as PCs and probably for other reasons I'm missing... but it's a thought.
I thought you were using "gerrymander" as a generic synonym for "to muck with" or whatever, but I had to look it up and it turns out that it's a real term: "Gerrymandering is a controversial form of redistricting in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are manipulated for an electoral advantage. The word "gerrymander" is named for the American politician Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 - November 23, 1814)[1], and is a portmanteau of his name and the word "salamander," which was used to describe the appearance of a tortuous electoral district Gerry created in order to disadvantage his electoral opponents." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
I use their blogspot.com for my web comic just becaues it's fast and easy, but it definitely lacked (until now maybe) some features that you'd expect. For example, if you want to use an image in your template, they recommend you post it and then reference the post. In other words, you don't have true web space you can upload to use freely, so it can be annoying to, for example, make header/footer graphics.
It's interesting to see the hype and everyone excited about upcoming products lately. For Microsoft, I think it's because they're a de facto "standard" in the desktop and office products spaces. For Apple, it is more like they are known for coming out with very sexy, sleek products that are also easy to use. Too bad some of the free and open source projects don't benefit from this kind of free publicity. I guess you could almost count Firefox as being among the hype machines, but I would bet most of that is user-generated -- people who are fans of Firefox -- as opposed to pundits, industry people, etc.
Is it just me, or does it sound like CC is doing exactly that, double-dipping? If someone buys the DVD at CC and then pays *again* to rip the DVD...
Definitely layoffs are not fun; I was laid off from a web firm during 2001 and faced a stressful job search. However, I wonder if this news isn't necessarily as bad as it sounds. I suspect a good percentage of AOL jobs involve call centers, and I know from personal experience that these can be terrible jobs. Granted, (almost) everyone just needs a job sometimes... all I'm saying is that losing a really crappy job isn't as painful as losing a good one.
Just a quick note... Nietzsche was actually opposed to aspects of Buddhism and actively criticized them: http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/buddhism.htm
It's been quite some time since I've tried Debian, but I remember the installer being pretty difficult. Does anyone know if this has been improved, and how it compares to other medium-difficulty distributions?
Has anyone else noticed that Vista is stripping away some of the old keyboard shortcuts? Maybe it's just a beta thing, but I've noticed, for example... you used to be able to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and then "T" for Task Manager. Now it seems you have to add at least an extra ALT (ALT-T) to get it. Also tabbing within Explorer windows is bringing up the menus for me instead of tabbing through panes. Especially for people that suffer from RSI--i.e. the mouse is best avoided--this is a real pain.
- Improved graphics (more complete icon set, fancier installation and login graphics, nicer titlebar look on non-3D capable systems)
- More stability in general (some blue screen bugs I've reported have gone away with later versions)
- More gadgets in the sidebar
- A bit faster for file copies, file searches work a lot better -- file searching wasn't working at all at one point
So... I'm still skeptical of their early 2007 predicted time frame, but it's definitely been getting more polished over the months.I live in a city, which means the post office does not collect outgoing mail, so Netflix is inconvenient
I think we've just discovered the first black hole in the USPS system!
Years ago at a sports psychologist's office I had these skin-response devices (among other things) attached to me while I was told to close my eyes and imagine being in a relaxing natural setting. It was neat to see my brain activity mapped out on a monitor and change drastically because of those thoughts. So not only do real places affect us, but imagined ones as well.
...is there video of Stallman throwing a chair?
"...he has also been a physics teacher, television producer, science writer and goat herder."
If you hosted the material in question, archive.org can remove it. I did this for a *.edu homepage which had years of my stuff on it.
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I hate to break it to you, but any close contact with that region and your hands are going to be near fecal bacteria. Urine itself is sterile when it leaves the body.
I know it'd be obnoxious (what advertising isn't?), but you know those bars they'll but on the bottom or side of a show that's rolling credits? The network will advertise upcoming shows, etc. before the current one even ends. There could be something similar... a "banner ad" approach so to speak, so the game wouldn't be interrupted by changing the whole screen to a commercial. Food for thought.
If that single argument was sound, and I happened to have held an erroneous position, then, yes, I'd change my mind. The number of arguments I'm presented with and the degree to which I know the speaker has nothing to do with how true or false the idea in question is.
But they're not capable of fixing it for free. Since it's a commercial software company, they're not employing volunteers. Every hour spent debugging is an hour that could have been spent adding a marketable new feature, i.e. that'd make more money. No company can produce bug-free software, and a publicly-traded company with pressures to get products out the door fast is even less likely to have bugless code. So it makes sense to me that they'd charge for a patch system.