Actually, my family just purchased a new Compaq "Refurbished" PC at about $150 less then what appeared to be an equivalent model sitting next to it. When asked the salesman if "Refurbished" meant "Used", he replied that it was were likely a reject because of a mixup with branding or something. But no. When I booted it up to install Ubuntu, I discovered that a bit less then half of the 100GB hard disk was unallocated space. I'm not talking about free space on the windows filesystem, I mean the windows partition was only 60GB. 40GB were completely unformatted. A cheaper PC with a huge chunk of the hard disk free to insert an Ubuntu partition. I can live with that.
That's because the more easy-to-use "http://www.searchmash.com/search/foo" works instead. I just changed keyword.URL in Firefox's about:config to http://www.searchmash.com/search/
Now, I can just type the search in the address bar, no prefixes, and it works great.
Actually, the Warcraft III Total Conversion is still alive and kicking. It's now known as Project Revolutions.
Blizzard has known about them for at least a year and hasn't sent a C&D yet. The PR folks are trying to make sure it won't happen. For starters, you'll need WC3:ROC, WC3:TFT, StarCraft, and BroodWar to even install the mod. It's not like people are going to be able to grab it for free instead of buying StarCraft. And it's not as if Blizzard has anything to loose by letting people translate StarCraft into 3D by using the WC3 engine. I mean, even if/when StarCraft 2 comes out, it's not going to be a simple 3D conversion. I mean, it better not be.
Video games are art. Anyone who disagrees with that statement should check out Seiklus or the Johnny fan-games made by Clysm. link
The haunting music in the first level of "Johnny's Odyssey", the silhouettes of your dead bodies in "Johnny's Nightmare", and the deaded piano room in Seiklus, they all simply drip with art.
Here's my take on it:
The normal "my computer is hard to use" person only uses maybe 10% of the features available in Word. Heck, I use the supposedly underpowered OpenOffice.org a ton and I seriously doubt I've actually used more then 30% of the available features.
The ribbon took the most popular features, the 10% or so that your normal person uses, and made them easier to get to. Menus are really, really slow to navigate. And everyone knows how to use tabs.
I mean, yes, Word 2007 would have probably annoyed a lot of old-timers, but the ribbon was well-designed. It was, imho, a step in the right direction. I'm saddened that it has been dropped.
If I used this, I'd probably end up using tags as categories. I mean, you can't exactly have sub-categories, but it seems to me that if you picked seven tags or so and used them consitantly, it would be about the same thing.
Just as soon as the Judge's computer finishes decoding it. It's slow going but - as an unexpected side effect - we are also getting the complete Library of Babel.
When I was a kid, we didn't have cellphones and certainly not in the classroom. If we wanted to "secretly communicate", we wrote little notes, and passed them on. If the teacher intercepted one, well.. I couldn't claim my privacy was being violated.
Did they demand to read through the pad of paper in your pocket that you might, in theory, write notes on? That's essentially what's going on here. Even if they have the rights to do it, you have to admit that it's extremely over the top.
This ad was meant to be offensive. Seriously. There are many, many ways to get the point across without stooping to something this low. They could have just had those two leaning back to back, each playing on a different colored PSP. Or arm wrestling.
Sure, you might claim that people are only claiming racism out of their insecurities or whatever, but Sony had to have known that this series of ads would stir up controversy.
This explains far, far too much. The last time I was at BestBuy was when my parents were shopping for a new computer. We found a decent model and went to get the sales guy, who was sitting in a little booth looking very bored. We went through the usual sales stuff, "Don't you want a better model?", etc. Then, he's all like, "Hey, do you have a battery backup?" Dad: "Yes, yes we do." Salesman (Disappointed): "Oh... Well, how old is it?" Dad: "It's about year old." Salesman: "What sort of computer will this be replacing?" Dad: "A five year old HP running Windows 98" Salesman (brightens up): "Oh, well, you see, the battery backup you currently have is not compatible with Windows XP."
Now, this was before battery backups that notified the computer of a power failure and automatically shut it down became big. The model he was trying to see us didn't have this feature. And my dad is not dumb. He worked as an electrical engineer for a while. He used to *build* batteries.
Dad: "..." Salesman: "So, yeah. Your old APC battery won't work with this thing." Dad: "It's a BATTERY. The computer doesn't care where the power comes from!" Salesman: "No, no, no-"
At this point, my mother and I started cracking up. The salesman looked a bit puzzled, unaware of the grave he was digging himself, but my Mom assured him it was fine. He thing continued to tell Dad how wrong he was about this whole battery backup thing, until it was revealed what sort of job my father formally had. A dead silence fell across the room, broken only by the snickers emitting from Mom and myself. "Shall I ring this PC up for you then?", inquired the salesman (Whose manager had been observing him for the past five minutes, without interference.)
What was really annoying was not just that the salesman was talking complete rot, but the fact that his manager was just standing there letting him try to get away with it. He didn't even apologize when it came out that the salesman was flat out lying.
It's also freaking slow. I did a comperison between a bunch of low-requirement browsers a few years ago and MyIE2 (aka, Maxathon) was quite clearly the fastest of the lot.
The order of slowness goes something like this:
MyIE2 Netscape 3 Opera K-Meleon Off-by-one Mozilla
(However, keep in mind that this was a while back and continued development on most of the browsers listed has probably rendered this obsolete)
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USB printing worked out of the box for me. I don't know what kind of printer you have, but my Grandfather's HL-1240 works great with Ubuntu. I didn't even have to download any additional drivers.
My Touchpad also was set up, no fuss. The side scrolls and tapping the bottom right corner actives a right click menu.
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Actually, my family just purchased a new Compaq "Refurbished" PC at about $150 less then what appeared to be an equivalent model sitting next to it. When asked the salesman if "Refurbished" meant "Used", he replied that it was were likely a reject because of a mixup with branding or something. But no. When I booted it up to install Ubuntu, I discovered that a bit less then half of the 100GB hard disk was unallocated space. I'm not talking about free space on the windows filesystem, I mean the windows partition was only 60GB. 40GB were completely unformatted.
A cheaper PC with a huge chunk of the hard disk free to insert an Ubuntu partition. I can live with that.
That's because the more easy-to-use "http://www.searchmash.com/search/foo" works instead. I just changed keyword.URL in Firefox's about:config to http://www.searchmash.com/search/
Now, I can just type the search in the address bar, no prefixes, and it works great.
I believe you mean "Kongratulations".
Blizzard has known about them for at least a year and hasn't sent a C&D yet. The PR folks are trying to make sure it won't happen. For starters, you'll need WC3:ROC, WC3:TFT, StarCraft, and BroodWar to even install the mod. It's not like people are going to be able to grab it for free instead of buying StarCraft. And it's not as if Blizzard has anything to loose by letting people translate StarCraft into 3D by using the WC3 engine. I mean, even if/when StarCraft 2 comes out, it's not going to be a simple 3D conversion. I mean, it better not be.
The haunting music in the first level of "Johnny's Odyssey", the silhouettes of your dead bodies in "Johnny's Nightmare", and the deaded piano room in Seiklus, they all simply drip with art.
The normal "my computer is hard to use" person only uses maybe 10% of the features available in Word. Heck, I use the supposedly underpowered OpenOffice.org a ton and I seriously doubt I've actually used more then 30% of the available features.
The ribbon took the most popular features, the 10% or so that your normal person uses, and made them easier to get to. Menus are really, really slow to navigate. And everyone knows how to use tabs.
I mean, yes, Word 2007 would have probably annoyed a lot of old-timers, but the ribbon was well-designed. It was, imho, a step in the right direction. I'm saddened that it has been dropped.
If I used this, I'd probably end up using tags as categories. I mean, you can't exactly have sub-categories, but it seems to me that if you picked seven tags or so and used them consitantly, it would be about the same thing.
Just as soon as the Judge's computer finishes decoding it. It's slow going but - as an unexpected side effect - we are also getting the complete Library of Babel.
Obviously you haven't looked at the mockups yet.
Hmm. Maybe I'm just lucky, but it seems to work quite effectively. A lot better then Evolution, at any rate.
Dang. Must have been some openbox window manager fans who entered.
The best CEOs, in any industry, don't actually make fewer mistakes then everyone else. The difference is, they make them faster and move on.
...However, I'd be willing to forgive their grave offenses if two 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz SDRAM sticks showed up in my mailbox tomorrow...
Please?
What is the security model like? Is this thing going to inherit all the viruses, spyware and adware that normal Windows users have to put up with?
God heve mercy on us all.
Did they demand to read through the pad of paper in your pocket that you might, in theory, write notes on? That's essentially what's going on here. Even if they have the rights to do it, you have to admit that it's extremely over the top.
Sure, you might claim that people are only claiming racism out of their insecurities or whatever, but Sony had to have known that this series of ads would stir up controversy.
My Mom still has two or three that her roommate sewed for her in college after seeing that episode. They even make little squeeking noises.
You just discribed a lot of people who live in nursing homes. I take it you don't feel like living that long?
You forgot Plasma. I'm pretty sure thats in there someplace, too.
This explains far, far too much.
The last time I was at BestBuy was when my parents were shopping for a new computer. We found a decent model and went to get the sales guy, who was sitting in a little booth looking very bored.
We went through the usual sales stuff, "Don't you want a better model?", etc.
Then, he's all like, "Hey, do you have a battery backup?"
Dad: "Yes, yes we do."
Salesman (Disappointed): "Oh... Well, how old is it?"
Dad: "It's about year old."
Salesman: "What sort of computer will this be replacing?"
Dad: "A five year old HP running Windows 98"
Salesman (brightens up): "Oh, well, you see, the battery backup you currently have is not compatible with Windows XP."
Now, this was before battery backups that notified the computer of a power failure and automatically shut it down became big. The model he was trying to see us didn't have this feature. And my dad is not dumb. He worked as an electrical engineer for a while. He used to *build* batteries.
Dad: "..."
Salesman: "So, yeah. Your old APC battery won't work with this thing."
Dad: "It's a BATTERY. The computer doesn't care where the power comes from!"
Salesman: "No, no, no-"
At this point, my mother and I started cracking up. The salesman looked a bit puzzled, unaware of the grave he was digging himself, but my Mom assured him it was fine. He thing continued to tell Dad how wrong he was about this whole battery backup thing, until it was revealed what sort of job my father formally had. A dead silence fell across the room, broken only by the snickers emitting from Mom and myself.
"Shall I ring this PC up for you then?", inquired the salesman (Whose manager had been observing him for the past five minutes, without interference.)
What was really annoying was not just that the salesman was talking complete rot, but the fact that his manager was just standing there letting him try to get away with it. He didn't even apologize when it came out that the salesman was flat out lying.
Needless to say, I haven't been there since.
Oh, yeah. Stuff like Damn Small Linux, Beatrix and (formally) Knoppix? They don't help anyone.
...Thank goodness!
It's also freaking slow. I did a comperison between a bunch of low-requirement browsers a few years ago and MyIE2 (aka, Maxathon) was quite clearly the fastest of the lot.
The order of slowness goes something like this:
MyIE2
Netscape 3
Opera
K-Meleon
Off-by-one
Mozilla
(However, keep in mind that this was a while back and continued development on most of the browsers listed has probably rendered this obsolete)
USB printing worked out of the box for me. I don't know what kind of printer you have, but my Grandfather's HL-1240 works great with Ubuntu. I didn't even have to download any additional drivers.
:-)
My Touchpad also was set up, no fuss. The side scrolls and tapping the bottom right corner actives a right click menu.
I suggest you file some bug reports.