Sometimes I can even type faster than I can say something.
I'm substantially faster typing than speaking, every time. I attribute this to having taken a weekend, switched to dvorak and learnt to touch-type, a course of action I highly recommend to anyone who does a lot of typing. (I did it because I was having an RSI scare rather than to speed me up, but it's worked very well for that as well)
It looks pretty as a rendered image, but functionally I'd never own a computer for regular use that didn't have a normal keyboard - unless you could speak to the computer as you would in Star Trek land.
Not even then, in my book. I've tried voice recognition and given it up, not because it was inaccurate, but because it was slower and more tiring than just typing what I wanted to.
Someone posted here that they'd written a product with an EULA including rights to the user's firstborn, and necessary action for the creation of such, and it had gone unnoticed.
If you've ever played such a thing you'd realise that's bullshit. vs. zombies is probably to up the strategy and make running speed less important, but it doesn't by any means remove the usefulness of running as fast as you damn well can. For anyone taking it seriously, it'll be as physical as anything you could come up with.
You think you're arguing against him, but interest in chess went way down once the computers got better than the humans at it (and, before my time, I hear the same thing happened with Checkers). Many players moved on to Go, where computers are still quite sucky relative to even a moderately skilled human.
As for the others, humans still own computers at scrabble last I knew. Monopoly...yeah, why the hell would you play Monopoly? Do people still actually play it other than to avoid talking to each other at family gatherings?
Now, I realize that Opera zealotry is as fervent as the worst Mac fans, and loses nothing to the Nikon/Canon camps; but really - the installed base is tiny. When I look at my site stats, Opera doesn't even show up (and even Netscape 4.x still has a tiny sliver of the pie)
Are you sure you're testing properly, and picking up opera-identifying-as-IE? Opera use *is* low, but worse than netscape 4 seems utterly implausible.
*considers*...nah, I suspect they're just pissing about.
More seriously, I suspect the mountain of cruft that firefox inherited from its netscape origins is dragging them down. Coding cleanly slows you down at the start, but eventually you'll soar ahead.
You've contradicted yourself. People generally buy the hardware first, paying no attention to whether it's Appley or not. And once they've done that there's no choice to be made - you get OSX if your choice hardware happens to be apple, and not OSX if it isn't.
An actual IBM PC (with sound blaster- and NE2K-compatibles) will run a lot more - all the older or niche systems like BeOS or OS/2 which simply don't have drivers for the fancy modern hardware.
What's the harm in it though, really? As long as you're not polluting the namespace overmuch, would the inclusion of that information actually harm wikipedia any? I say let everything in.
Well yes, but the Acid Tests can't and won't test *all* standards. So it's a question of whether and how much you prioritize those particular standards over other, possibly more important (whatever that means) ones.
And maybe it's just my perception but we seem to have moved away from using aliens as targets and use humans more often in video games.
It's a lot easier to make humans look good, and interesting, in the age of modern graphics; probably cheaper too. Aliens was fine when it was sprites drawn pixel-by-pixel, but it's hard enough to find decent skin textures even for humans.
Do they have enough upload capacity to deal with the initial "surge" before anyone has enough to seed? Do they have the technical expertise to set up the torrent? Are they set up to handle user support requests?
They're not an internet specialist, so it's entirely sensible for them to pay a modest sum to someone who is rather than try and do it all for themselves.
It's entirely measurable; we know what radiation does. I believe the British plan measured the average cost as 1/10 of a person dying early from cancer for each launch, if we go from the Earth's surface. Sad that this would still be enough to make it politically impossible.
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I'm substantially faster typing than speaking, every time. I attribute this to having taken a weekend, switched to dvorak and learnt to touch-type, a course of action I highly recommend to anyone who does a lot of typing. (I did it because I was having an RSI scare rather than to speed me up, but it's worked very well for that as well)
Not even then, in my book. I've tried voice recognition and given it up, not because it was inaccurate, but because it was slower and more tiring than just typing what I wanted to.
Someone posted here that they'd written a product with an EULA including rights to the user's firstborn, and necessary action for the creation of such, and it had gone unnoticed.
I'd take a big bad bow myself. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
(I know you're joking, but I had to answer)
If you've ever played such a thing you'd realise that's bullshit. vs. zombies is probably to up the strategy and make running speed less important, but it doesn't by any means remove the usefulness of running as fast as you damn well can. For anyone taking it seriously, it'll be as physical as anything you could come up with.
As for the others, humans still own computers at scrabble last I knew. Monopoly...yeah, why the hell would you play Monopoly? Do people still actually play it other than to avoid talking to each other at family gatherings?
Are you sure you're testing properly, and picking up opera-identifying-as-IE? Opera use *is* low, but worse than netscape 4 seems utterly implausible.
More seriously, I suspect the mountain of cruft that firefox inherited from its netscape origins is dragging them down. Coding cleanly slows you down at the start, but eventually you'll soar ahead.
You've contradicted yourself. People generally buy the hardware first, paying no attention to whether it's Appley or not. And once they've done that there's no choice to be made - you get OSX if your choice hardware happens to be apple, and not OSX if it isn't.
For the record, Konqueror works fine (by which I mean it's still fairly buggy, but basically ok) on windows, without needing to install anything else.
We already have a perfectly good name for this sort of thing: spyware. Let's not beat around the bush.
Curiosity is always rare. The difference is that in the older generation, only the curious bothered to learn about computers at all.
KOffice fixes at least 2) and 3); I'm surprised it doesn't get more attention. It might be worth a look, at least for some things.
I hope to god you're trolling.
An actual IBM PC (with sound blaster- and NE2K-compatibles) will run a lot more - all the older or niche systems like BeOS or OS/2 which simply don't have drivers for the fancy modern hardware.
What's the harm in it though, really? As long as you're not polluting the namespace overmuch, would the inclusion of that information actually harm wikipedia any? I say let everything in.
Well yes, but the Acid Tests can't and won't test *all* standards. So it's a question of whether and how much you prioritize those particular standards over other, possibly more important (whatever that means) ones.
It's a lot easier to make humans look good, and interesting, in the age of modern graphics; probably cheaper too. Aliens was fine when it was sprites drawn pixel-by-pixel, but it's hard enough to find decent skin textures even for humans.
They're not an internet specialist, so it's entirely sensible for them to pay a modest sum to someone who is rather than try and do it all for themselves.
In all seriousness, how would you tell?
For what it's worth, I did just that at my university and they did it. *shrug*
Well maybe people will start asking for an actual internet connection. No, who am I kidding?
We will never get any better at sending people until we start actually doing it.
It's entirely measurable; we know what radiation does. I believe the British plan measured the average cost as 1/10 of a person dying early from cancer for each launch, if we go from the Earth's surface. Sad that this would still be enough to make it politically impossible.