Well, how often do you shower compared to how often you shit?
How long do you wait between a shit and a shower?
It's going to be effective because you aren't in the shower scraping dried crap-funk off your ass, you're gently washing away the fresh crap-funk that hasn't had a chance to get ingrained into the landscape. Simple, really.
I'd go one step further and say that you really meant:
* Install itself to start up with user privileges when the user logs in after a reboot (by modifying the users configuration files)
Also, cron jobs would make it so the user doesn't have to log in.
I think a large part of the problem is that video games aren't usually designed with spectators in mind. You can sit down at a ball game and focus on any particular player, or keep an eye on how the game is going from an overview stance. With most video games, if you're watching a friend play that's just what you're doing - watching him, almost from his point of view, and you can't move your focus over to the other characters or what have you in the game. There's no freedom to watch a video game how you would watch sports. Taking a game like EVE, rig it up with spectator-style views, and I think you have something there. Have you ever watched a movie that had an epic star battle, or even just watched televised sports? You'll find that while the camera spends some time focusing on the key players, a lot of time is spent giving an overview of game as a whole and how things have progressed. Unreal Tournament has a spectator view that allows you to move freely through the arena and watch the action. That's a little awkward in practice, but say you added to that fixed position cameras that would show the action in various locations from good vantage points. The key to making televised video game sporting events a success is to provide a view of the action that works, they already have all the excitement you need for a successful sporting event.
The key is presentation. That's all there is to it.
WGA only affects Windows XP and 2003. It says so in the docs for WGA. If you went and found those to be false claims...then I guess we're both screwed.
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Onward and Upward.
"This episode was originally written for the original series' second season. It was conceived as an answer to the fans who wrote to Spümcø, wanting to see an episode made purely out of gross-out gags, but not originally as "adult" as this version became."
While it doesn't say whether That Scene was in the original cut... it doesn't say it wasn't. I'm afraid this may not have been them fucking it up - just letting us know how bad it would have been if Nickelodeon had let it.
Precisely! I was just thinking before I read your post, "They say it's been this hot before we even had any of the technology that's making it hotter. Why is it a problem?"
It's simply not an issue. Environmentalists should understand it best of all - that the climate changing is what it is supposed to do. But anything people can find to bitch about they will, and a perceived threat to humanity is a pretty easy thing to bitch about.
The most important feature in a laptop is portability. I don't want a fucking iBook. I want the smallest fully-featured PowerBook imaginable, and, ideally, I want it to have 1600x1200 even on a 12" screen (OK, perhaps that's hyperbole. But 1280x1024 at minimum. Fuck 1024x768.)
Fuck anything above 1024x768. You know what I want? I want software developers to stop designing their applications to take up the most screen real estate they possibly can. Back in my day I had a Mac IIci running at 640x480x8 and I never had any trace of a problem with an application wanting more - unless I was trying to run Word 6 with all the toolbars enabled, god. These days, most computers won't even let you set the resolution below 800x600x16, and even if you can the programs simply won't squeeze into the space anymore. It's fucking ridiculous, they're not displaying MORE data, they're displaying the SAME AMOUNT of data but making LARGER so it won't be so small in high resolutions. It's nothing more than a damned vicious circle of making everything bigger to accomodate other things that are doing the same thing.
That article is not only old and outdated, but wrong. In order to support any popular media format, codecs are required. The windows media codecs for version 9 and up from a windows install are required in order to play windows media files on Linux, and it takes quite a bit of trickery to do so. VLC and MPlayer are the primary media players that have the wizardly bits to make use of windows binary codecs, and perhaps we'll see some of that same wizardry applied to MacOS X on Intel sometime soon, but there are no true cross-platform solutions to playing windows media files.
It is a great idea, and I would have loved to participate before 1.5 was released. Unfortunately, my experience with Firefox 1.5 was terrible. It ate up RAM like nobody's business, much moreso than previous versions, and ignored the settings to help keep it from doing that. I was upset when I noticed that it was using error pages instead of the trusty error dialog. It also would slow to a crawl when it was loading, something it's done to a much lesser extent in every version I've used. I didn't see anything that I could recognize as an improvement - it's just got more flashy bullshit, more resource usage, and less useability. I can no longer in good faith endorse Firefox to my friends and family.
The GPL does not contain any restriction that keeps you from selling a piece of software for a huge profit. It merely makes you give source code access to those who you sell it to.
So I have one small question:
Out of your entire pool of participants, how many had some form of (visible to the naked eye) brain lesions?
Also, can you link me to the results of your studies so that I can review them for myself?
Statistics are meaningless, it's how you present them.
Well, to further the line, I would think that "entering a password" to gain access is equivilent to having the key to the apartment you're entering.
If you're entering a building you're not authorized to, but are doing so by unlocking the door with the key to the building, is it trespassing? Is it breaking and entering if you aren't *breaking* to enter?
The PSP would be rather unsuitable for use as a PocketPC due to the lack of stylus/touch screen, that's what really makes the DS a candidate. The PSP does have more potential for XBOX-style modding, and homebrew games.
I was under the impression that the PDF standard is NOT freely published, making it so those who wish to support it in third party applications had to jump through hoops to do so.
XML is not a Microsoft format, it's a markup language. RTF is closed, and txt is ASCII standard.
Sure they can export to other formats, but the point is that the reason you want to use the native format to begin with is the markup and formatting. If you're just going to export to text, why use Word at all?
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Well, how often do you shower compared to how often you shit?
How long do you wait between a shit and a shower?
It's going to be effective because you aren't in the shower scraping dried crap-funk off your ass, you're gently washing away the fresh crap-funk that hasn't had a chance to get ingrained into the landscape. Simple, really.
You seem to have missed something. All of the words are spelled correctly, they are simply the wrong words. Why are you telling him he can't spell?
the Renesis Wankel engine in Mazda RX-8 is a 1.3L engine that puts out 247HP.
I'd go one step further and say that you really meant:
* Install itself to start up with user privileges when the user logs in after a reboot (by modifying the users configuration files)
Also, cron jobs would make it so the user doesn't have to log in.
I think a large part of the problem is that video games aren't usually designed with spectators in mind. You can sit down at a ball game and focus on any particular player, or keep an eye on how the game is going from an overview stance. With most video games, if you're watching a friend play that's just what you're doing - watching him, almost from his point of view, and you can't move your focus over to the other characters or what have you in the game. There's no freedom to watch a video game how you would watch sports. Taking a game like EVE, rig it up with spectator-style views, and I think you have something there. Have you ever watched a movie that had an epic star battle, or even just watched televised sports? You'll find that while the camera spends some time focusing on the key players, a lot of time is spent giving an overview of game as a whole and how things have progressed. Unreal Tournament has a spectator view that allows you to move freely through the arena and watch the action. That's a little awkward in practice, but say you added to that fixed position cameras that would show the action in various locations from good vantage points. The key to making televised video game sporting events a success is to provide a view of the action that works, they already have all the excitement you need for a successful sporting event.
The key is presentation. That's all there is to it.
WGA only affects Windows XP and 2003. It says so in the docs for WGA. If you went and found those to be false claims...then I guess we're both screwed.
Onward and Upward. ... it doesn't say it wasn't. I'm afraid this may not have been them fucking it up - just letting us know how bad it would have been if Nickelodeon had let it.
"This episode was originally written for the original series' second season. It was conceived as an answer to the fans who wrote to Spümcø, wanting to see an episode made purely out of gross-out gags, but not originally as "adult" as this version became."
While it doesn't say whether That Scene was in the original cut
Precisely! I was just thinking before I read your post, "They say it's been this hot before we even had any of the technology that's making it hotter. Why is it a problem?" It's simply not an issue. Environmentalists should understand it best of all - that the climate changing is what it is supposed to do. But anything people can find to bitch about they will, and a perceived threat to humanity is a pretty easy thing to bitch about.
Only if Lisa's mother was a future version of Lisa that went back in time to become her own mother.
The most important feature in a laptop is portability. I don't want a fucking iBook. I want the smallest fully-featured PowerBook imaginable, and, ideally, I want it to have 1600x1200 even on a 12" screen (OK, perhaps that's hyperbole. But 1280x1024 at minimum. Fuck 1024x768.)
Fuck anything above 1024x768. You know what I want? I want software developers to stop designing their applications to take up the most screen real estate they possibly can. Back in my day I had a Mac IIci running at 640x480x8 and I never had any trace of a problem with an application wanting more - unless I was trying to run Word 6 with all the toolbars enabled, god. These days, most computers won't even let you set the resolution below 800x600x16, and even if you can the programs simply won't squeeze into the space anymore. It's fucking ridiculous, they're not displaying MORE data, they're displaying the SAME AMOUNT of data but making LARGER so it won't be so small in high resolutions. It's nothing more than a damned vicious circle of making everything bigger to accomodate other things that are doing the same thing.
My apologies for this rant.
That article is not only old and outdated, but wrong. In order to support any popular media format, codecs are required. The windows media codecs for version 9 and up from a windows install are required in order to play windows media files on Linux, and it takes quite a bit of trickery to do so. VLC and MPlayer are the primary media players that have the wizardly bits to make use of windows binary codecs, and perhaps we'll see some of that same wizardry applied to MacOS X on Intel sometime soon, but there are no true cross-platform solutions to playing windows media files.
Well it's simple! It was 6 years away last year, and it will be 4 years away next year. Why must it be spelled out?
It is a great idea, and I would have loved to participate before 1.5 was released. Unfortunately, my experience with Firefox 1.5 was terrible. It ate up RAM like nobody's business, much moreso than previous versions, and ignored the settings to help keep it from doing that. I was upset when I noticed that it was using error pages instead of the trusty error dialog. It also would slow to a crawl when it was loading, something it's done to a much lesser extent in every version I've used. I didn't see anything that I could recognize as an improvement - it's just got more flashy bullshit, more resource usage, and less useability. I can no longer in good faith endorse Firefox to my friends and family.
The GPL does not contain any restriction that keeps you from selling a piece of software for a huge profit. It merely makes you give source code access to those who you sell it to.
which means that at some point in the future, they will be at least attempting to levy the artificial cost of bandwith.
So I have one small question:
Out of your entire pool of participants, how many had some form of (visible to the naked eye) brain lesions?
Also, can you link me to the results of your studies so that I can review them for myself?
Statistics are meaningless, it's how you present them.
I feel the need to mention Magnatune.
Well, to further the line, I would think that "entering a password" to gain access is equivilent to having the key to the apartment you're entering. If you're entering a building you're not authorized to, but are doing so by unlocking the door with the key to the building, is it trespassing? Is it breaking and entering if you aren't *breaking* to enter?
The PSP would be rather unsuitable for use as a PocketPC due to the lack of stylus/touch screen, that's what really makes the DS a candidate. The PSP does have more potential for XBOX-style modding, and homebrew games.
That was Vogsphere, not Magrathea.
I think you meant Word vs Wordperfect.
I was under the impression that the PDF standard is NOT freely published, making it so those who wish to support it in third party applications had to jump through hoops to do so.
That would be the Shared Source Initiative, but just look at the stink they made when that partial leak of the Windows 2000 source got out.
Given the current state of this vast intar-web, I'm inclined to think that not having web/html like we have today isn't necessarily a bad thing.
XML is not a Microsoft format, it's a markup language. RTF is closed, and txt is ASCII standard. Sure they can export to other formats, but the point is that the reason you want to use the native format to begin with is the markup and formatting. If you're just going to export to text, why use Word at all?