Have you ever considered the possibility that some people actually *value* a walled garden? Like nearly everyone who isn't a tech geek? Which is like 99% of the people buying these devices?
No, because false is false is false. There is no value, period. If it looks like there is, your perspective is wrong.
1. Pirated Windows 2. Did not appreciate any extra 'fluff' sucking performance or responsiveness
Had they the option, they would toss Windows in the trash in a heartbeat. Now, that said these same people would pirate games if it was easy for them to do so safely, so... yea. Not all of them, but a lot would have.
File Manager is a task, "Explorer" is a name. "Network Neighborhood" is a concept for a LAN relationship, "Net" is the LAN itself. "Box" was never an official term, and "My Computer" describes exactly what it is. "innie files" are INI files, not innie, and it's short for initialization and not "config."
Hold down shift, alt, and/or control as you scroll to scale the interval, finest being per-pixel.
Do it a few times and it's second nature. This kind of scaling is used in DAWs a lot (though usually for click-and-drags and not the scroll wheel, but there's no reason it couldn't work there too)
Sure they have thousands of titles but they distribute games months after they are available from the other portals. They have tons of indy games but most of they are absolute garbage.
Try again. Tons of excellent games are available on release-day and a large amount of pre-orders too.
You know, unless you consider things like Skyrim to be garbage or an indy game.
I can't wait for developers to realize there's room for more than glorified webapp frontends and touchy-feely "share with friends" stuff. You could get actual work done if the applications were present.
The first drug is supposed to put you out, so you are not aware of the rest of it.
This is done because the drug that stops your heart is painful (your blood vessels supposedly feel like fire)
You can disagree with the idea of a death penalty, it's not my place to argue against you there. However, lethal injection is at least a damn good attempt at making it humane.
Voter turnout doesn't matter, because we are not the electoral college and our presidential votes mean approximately nothing. It's just a big fucking waste of time money and energy. Just about the only thing we vote on that DOES matter are our senators and representatives, and since they all lie anyway to get elected it doesn't really matter either.
Very naive. Sure, we elect our senators and House of Reps members, but we do not elect the president, do not elect Judges, do not elect police officers etc.
In fact, the only people we DO elect are only a part of the legislative branch. The executive and judicial branches - eg the people that can shoot you or make your life miserable, are all appointees.
Keep that in mind.
(of course if I'm wrong and you can do more to prove it than just say "nuh uh!" please correct me. I'm not willfully ignorant and I don't dislike constructive criticism. i feel it's best to point this out in these kinds of discussions, otherwise it just devolves into a bunch of ninnies insulting each other. Hell, that happens anyway!)
It's not hard to pull them tight with a finger in there to make it snug enough to function without restricting bloodflow.
I think you mean to say "Only real assholes use them incorrectly."
Anyways I wasn't trying to say they should be used. I'm actually asking if it's illegal for those mall cops to carry them, since they aren't technically anything but zipties. (or is the law written generically, with a word like "restraints?")
Or they can pull them so tight you're in danger of losing a fingertip... cuffs can do that too, but I think it's easier to accidentally do that with ties.
You've a lot there so I'll take these one by one in the order you gave them. I'll be honest where I've had to look things up. You're being courteous and bothered to write up a serious reply and so deserve the same in return.
I know of a few philosophers. Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle etc. In fact, I happen to have a few written works from Plato on my Kindle from a few courtesy of Project Gutenberg. I've also got some Homer. I've actually managed to get mostly through the Iliad, and was not requested to do so by a class (it was my own choice to pick it up). I've also got some Tacitus on my bookshelf.
I admit that I know ofAvogadro's number, but I do not know what it is. Looking it up reveals why I missed this - I've had no chemistry classes. During high-school, I had the choice to take half my senior year for vocational training, and I had to choose two between Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus. I chose Calculus and Physics. I am vaguely aware of what a mole is, but my knowledge is focused elsewhere. I know how a Mass Spectrometer works. (a note: that vocational training got me out of retail and into a 'real' job. Had I not gone that route, I likely would have been stuck working in a paper mill). I have several years of college under my belt but I never did finish (too much transferring around as I move, and the last two jobs have been terribly energy-sucking and time consuming). Unfortunately, IT being what it is, what college I have is business-focused (eg no chance to fill that Chemistry hole). I do plan to go back once I'm certain I'll be in an area long enough. I'm still finding home, if you know what I mean. Only been on my own for about... 6 years now.
I did not know what was significant about 1066, as that is a segment of history that I just don't care about. Things I care about seem to be after 1700 and near/before 0. I've not had too many history classes outside of High School (math and IT specific fun, such as disaster recovery/response) so what I have learned of this has been self-directed.
I did read Beowulf in of my own volition. It was a difficult read (certainly not the original language but it was a very old translation. The English was more archaic than Shakespeare.) however I did manage to understand what was going on. It's been a while, so while I couldn't quote you anything I can at least say "yea, I've been there."
I know only one language, but not for lack of trying to learn several. I don't think I've got the 'wiring' for it though - I simply cannot retain anything beyond the basic pronunciation and grammar structure (eg no vocabulary).
I know that Rome was certainly more colorful than people think, and I know the old Roman and Greek statues used to be painted. I've even been in the ruins of Pompeii and have seen what is left of some of their murals.
I know all sorts of things about acoustics. I feel at home in front of a synthesizer and could actually explain to you what the different knobs do, instead of blindly tweaking until a good sound is found. I can design antennas, understand the difference between phase modulation and frequency modulation (they accomplish the same thing, but the difference is how you look at the numbers). I know how things like SSBSC allow you to send information with only about 50% the energy requires otherwise, and of data encoding schemes that let you send and receive information even though your signal is below the noise floor.
So, after all that, what's your honest assessment? I'd like to think I'm "smarter than the average bear" but of course I can't objectively determine that.
Why the hell should the user suffer with resource expansion taken up by X.
You really are clueless aren't you?
X takes up almost nothing. It's KDE/gnome and all that other stuff that sucks up the resources you are thinking of. These things are completely unnecessary in this context.
Seriously, running a web browser idle at about:blank takes up more resources than running a second X display barebones would.
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When they find your stash does that really matter?
Probably something between the two.
They should take some HDR multi-exposures and show that off :)
Have you ever considered the possibility that some people actually *value* a walled garden? Like nearly everyone who isn't a tech geek? Which is like 99% of the people buying these devices?
No, because false is false is false. There is no value, period. If it looks like there is, your perspective is wrong.
I wouldn't say that.
What I would say is the rats are being pushed out from overcrowding...
This is anecdotal, so keep that in mind.
Most serious gamers that I've met:
1. Pirated Windows
2. Did not appreciate any extra 'fluff' sucking performance or responsiveness
Had they the option, they would toss Windows in the trash in a heartbeat. Now, that said these same people would pirate games if it was easy for them to do so safely, so... yea. Not all of them, but a lot would have.
Still, anything to trim back the Windows herd.
Pretty bad. 5 inches or so of ice on power lines, people were without power for a month.
One of the trees in the front yard exploded from the cold as well. It was.... terrible.
Some photos for you.
1998 called, it wanted to remind you about that Ice Storm.
Just because 90% of the gaming market is (for their output... hint hint) does not mean the remaining 10% is not a significant market.
File Manager is a task, "Explorer" is a name. "Network Neighborhood" is a concept for a LAN relationship, "Net" is the LAN itself. "Box" was never an official term, and "My Computer" describes exactly what it is. "innie files" are INI files, not innie, and it's short for initialization and not "config."
Hell, in such a place I want to pick two points to form a horizon and have it rotate that way. Fuck manually tweaking the angle... Click click done.
Hold down shift, alt, and/or control as you scroll to scale the interval, finest being per-pixel.
Do it a few times and it's second nature. This kind of scaling is used in DAWs a lot (though usually for click-and-drags and not the scroll wheel, but there's no reason it couldn't work there too)
Sure they have thousands of titles but they distribute games months after they are available from the other portals. They have tons of indy games but most of they are absolute garbage.
Try again. Tons of excellent games are available on release-day and a large amount of pre-orders too.
You know, unless you consider things like Skyrim to be garbage or an indy game.
Tablets do have some cool uses.
I can't wait for developers to realize there's room for more than glorified webapp frontends and touchy-feely "share with friends" stuff. You could get actual work done if the applications were present.
Can we start with you?
The first drug is supposed to put you out, so you are not aware of the rest of it.
This is done because the drug that stops your heart is painful (your blood vessels supposedly feel like fire)
You can disagree with the idea of a death penalty, it's not my place to argue against you there. However, lethal injection is at least a damn good attempt at making it humane.
Voter turnout doesn't matter, because we are not the electoral college and our presidential votes mean approximately nothing. It's just a big fucking waste of time money and energy. Just about the only thing we vote on that DOES matter are our senators and representatives, and since they all lie anyway to get elected it doesn't really matter either.
Very naive. Sure, we elect our senators and House of Reps members, but we do not elect the president, do not elect Judges, do not elect police officers etc.
In fact, the only people we DO elect are only a part of the legislative branch. The executive and judicial branches - eg the people that can shoot you or make your life miserable, are all appointees.
Keep that in mind.
(of course if I'm wrong and you can do more to prove it than just say "nuh uh!" please correct me. I'm not willfully ignorant and I don't dislike constructive criticism. i feel it's best to point this out in these kinds of discussions, otherwise it just devolves into a bunch of ninnies insulting each other. Hell, that happens anyway!)
It's not hard to pull them tight with a finger in there to make it snug enough to function without restricting bloodflow.
I think you mean to say "Only real assholes use them incorrectly."
Anyways I wasn't trying to say they should be used. I'm actually asking if it's illegal for those mall cops to carry them, since they aren't technically anything but zipties. (or is the law written generically, with a word like "restraints?")
Or they can pull them so tight you're in danger of losing a fingertip... cuffs can do that too, but I think it's easier to accidentally do that with ties.
You've a lot there so I'll take these one by one in the order you gave them. I'll be honest where I've had to look things up. You're being courteous and bothered to write up a serious reply and so deserve the same in return.
I know of a few philosophers. Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle etc. In fact, I happen to have a few written works from Plato on my Kindle from a few courtesy of Project Gutenberg. I've also got some Homer. I've actually managed to get mostly through the Iliad, and was not requested to do so by a class (it was my own choice to pick it up). I've also got some Tacitus on my bookshelf.
I admit that I know ofAvogadro's number, but I do not know what it is. Looking it up reveals why I missed this - I've had no chemistry classes. During high-school, I had the choice to take half my senior year for vocational training, and I had to choose two between Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus. I chose Calculus and Physics. I am vaguely aware of what a mole is, but my knowledge is focused elsewhere. I know how a Mass Spectrometer works. (a note: that vocational training got me out of retail and into a 'real' job. Had I not gone that route, I likely would have been stuck working in a paper mill). I have several years of college under my belt but I never did finish (too much transferring around as I move, and the last two jobs have been terribly energy-sucking and time consuming). Unfortunately, IT being what it is, what college I have is business-focused (eg no chance to fill that Chemistry hole). I do plan to go back once I'm certain I'll be in an area long enough. I'm still finding home, if you know what I mean. Only been on my own for about... 6 years now.
I did not know what was significant about 1066, as that is a segment of history that I just don't care about. Things I care about seem to be after 1700 and near/before 0. I've not had too many history classes outside of High School (math and IT specific fun, such as disaster recovery/response) so what I have learned of this has been self-directed.
I did read Beowulf in of my own volition. It was a difficult read (certainly not the original language but it was a very old translation. The English was more archaic than Shakespeare.) however I did manage to understand what was going on. It's been a while, so while I couldn't quote you anything I can at least say "yea, I've been there."
I know only one language, but not for lack of trying to learn several. I don't think I've got the 'wiring' for it though - I simply cannot retain anything beyond the basic pronunciation and grammar structure (eg no vocabulary).
I know that Rome was certainly more colorful than people think, and I know the old Roman and Greek statues used to be painted. I've even been in the ruins of Pompeii and have seen what is left of some of their murals.
I know all sorts of things about acoustics. I feel at home in front of a synthesizer and could actually explain to you what the different knobs do, instead of blindly tweaking until a good sound is found. I can design antennas, understand the difference between phase modulation and frequency modulation (they accomplish the same thing, but the difference is how you look at the numbers). I know how things like SSBSC allow you to send information with only about 50% the energy requires otherwise, and of data encoding schemes that let you send and receive information even though your signal is below the noise floor.
So, after all that, what's your honest assessment? I'd like to think I'm "smarter than the average bear" but of course I can't objectively determine that.
How 'bout zip ties? Faster to employ and easier to carry than cuffs.
Our voting does not matter and campaigning is just a gigantic waste of time and resources. Hence movements like this.
You say it like "us assholes" want it the way it is.
Why the hell should the user suffer with resource expansion taken up by X.
You really are clueless aren't you?
X takes up almost nothing. It's KDE/gnome and all that other stuff that sucks up the resources you are thinking of. These things are completely unnecessary in this context.
Seriously, running a web browser idle at about:blank takes up more resources than running a second X display barebones would.
Then there is something wrong with the VT switching process, or the drivers.