That show completely makes the point that this guy misses. The male leads on this show are all completely stereotyped. They're completely nerdy and totally bonkers about comic books. And who cares? I don't. I think the show is funny. It does throw some of the stereotypes to the wind (some of the characters do get laid), but otherwise I like it for the fact that it makes fun of nerdy/geeky/whatever-your-favourite-label-is people, in a way that doesn't degrade them.
What a bunch of whiny idiosyncratic losers we are if we fail to laugh at ourselves once in a while... Go watch a Chris Rock standup or something, realize that sometimes laughing at your own stereotypes can be a good thing. Maybe if you stop bitching about it, people would like you more.
Once or twice I've taken a 20-30min nap in my car during lunch. I found I was very alert and productive in the afternoon on those occasions. Our company was getting a new office building and was fielding suggestions for conveniences we'd like as developers. I had two suggestions: Tiny, private offices for developers, as suggested by Joel Spolsky (even cited the article). And a bed.
Both suggestions had the managers in stitches, and that was that.
You can of course, run Krusader locally and browse your remote box via SSH by supplying the path as: fish://user@myserver
Yes I know not the same as having full console access. But to me, a very nice in between, esp for copying lots of scattered files from one box to the other.
I'm sure there are purists out there who don't want the KDE libs on their machines or aren't into this newfangled GUI stuff. Who want that horrible looking interface on a console. But me, I think Krusader is way slicker than MC.
They couldn't have fucked this up better if they tried. I am outraged by the whole thing.
First they patently drop support for a perfectly good (I ran it with a 100Hz CRT), cheap 3D solution, very blatantly doing everything they can to kill 3D. Then they get to a point where you have to buy their buddies' high-priced 3D LCD monitors. Now they're making their own hugely expensive solution, once again forcing you to go out and buy a special special LCD when most old CRT's are more than up to the job. That doesn't smell like a rat?
And the old support that they already had, that already worked, is still MIA. They're not trying to bring 3D mainstream. I refuse to believe it. Mainstream means cheap. Not "you have to go buy the most expensive LCD you can find".
There's nothing new or great about their solution. What they're doing sucks balls and they know it.
You bring up an interesting point.... how many BMW drivers become aggressive assholes after being repeatedly treaded badly on the road because of what they drive?
Then we have to think about the chicken-and-egg of it. What came first, aggression towards these drivers or their aggression.
Others here seem to think the more affluent person is a dickhead. I see it differently. I associate it with someone who's grown out of youthful aggression and is in charge of their finances and carreer. But of course I'm probably talking from a very different geographical standpoint, maybe in places there's lots of young second generation wealth driving these cars.
Maybe we should note next time the psychological reaction we have when a Mercedes pulls up behind us, vs. Something like a BMW or even Subaru (which I immediately associate with a ricer)
When I moved from a rather ordinary looking ford to a BMW, I noticed a sudden and drastic change in the way traffic around me responded.
The biggest of this is, when I'm cuising down the fast lane (my driving habits didn't change all that much, actually these days I tend to cruise a bit slower), people tend to get out of my way much quicker.
From the get-go I've suspected that this is because my car looks "angrier" and that people somehow feel that the guy sitting behind the wheel is exuding that same aggressiveness, and thus just want to get out of the way.
However another theory I have is that people assume BMW == asshole and expect me to be excessively aggressive because of that.
The again, I've thought much about how certain cars (like my poor BMW) get a bad rap for having "asshole" drivers... if a BMW driver doesn't signal, he's a f&^% bmw driver, if another driver does the same, he's just a f&%^ idiot. Maybe it'll turn out to be based more on the cars' looks than anything else. The car looks angry, therefore the driver must be angry, therefore he must be an asshole.
> IMO, EVE really gives a lot to the gamer who has to balance his gaming life with his work and social lives. --
Look, EVE is also the only MMO I like, but joining a player run corp is usually almost like applying for a real-life job.
People ask for leave, get kicked out when they don't participate enough or are not online "enough". Then you have corp. operations that get scheduled, usually over weekends, when I'm at my least available, out there having a life. So actually, I find it quite hard to play EVE casually.
I have a set of glasses but nVidia has seemed quite keen on ruining it for me, rather than trying to "save" them.
Last I checked, at least on XP (no way I'm installing Vista), the 3D driver only worked with cards from the 7 series and down (I still have a 6 series card because of this). Something that has fans of the technology quite despondent and upset.
Yes playing with them is awesome, may be gimmicky, but the software support out there is dismal. And as parent states most games do the overlays in a way that doesn't work well at all.
Other than proper driver support, the #2 thing I'd like to see in shutter glasses is more opaque LCD panels to limit the ghosting. Which is acceptable most of the time, but can be distracting at others. This would go a long way to bringing the kind of quality you get with polarized glasses to the masses.
My car is driven about once a week since I've decided my second vehicle won't be a new car, but a Motorbike. Now there's something that makes economic sense. It's so much cheaper than a second car, the fuel consumption is pityful, the maintenance is much less, and I've realized that 99% of the time, I travel alone anyway, and my backpack is more than sufficient for luggage.
Added bonus: It's so much fun to drive, chicks dig it, and the morning traffic has become a total non-event.
Hybrids might be cool for soccer moms, but I've changed my mind about whether I really need a car half the time... Even the gf is happier jumping on the back than taking the car, so the car is REALLY only necessary if I'm transporting something bulky or taking more than 2 people. That doesn't happen all that often, but then i don't have kids yet.
It's environmental, cheap, saves me time, and fun. The downside being I would be more exposed in an accident, which is why I focus on not driving through traffic like a hot headed superbike racer and rather focus on not dying.
> It's not newbie friendly at all, in that it takes literally years of paying CCP your monthly fee in order to reach the point where you can fly the big ships that bring in the massive profits.
I've seen pilots of a couple of weeks flying in gangs in non-secure space engaging in PVP. At any time a gang of small ships can take out one of aforementioned big ships.
EVE's dynamics means a small ship can hit a big ship easier than the other way around, etc. etc.
Oh, and who said this game is about making "massive profits". I've been playing for 2 years and last weekend I fitted the cheapest, smallest ship available and went out on a 4 hour pvp session. You know what, it was really fun. It's all about learning to throw away your risk-aversion and embracing the fact that you will die, and have fun in that context.
I still wouldn't dream of trying to fly a slow, expensive, big ship solo through unsecure space. Those ships may make new players feel safe, but it's a good way to have a bad evening.
> But when the shit hits the fan, the staff want a backup plan
In my experience, it's management that demand this, insisting that having in-house support is not sufficient. They want someone to sue if things go really tits-up, and their customers sue THEM. (Whether they actually could is apparently not of importance)
My grandmother suffered extreme bursts of anger towards the family, it was horrible trying to deal with it. At times she believed that we were constantly trying to trick her by moving things around, lying to her about our identities, etc. When she passed away we were almost relieved, not having seen the worst of what was to come... I guess that goes a long way to describing how horrible this disease really is.
I cannot explain how relieved I am that I may never have to experience it myself, and hopefully not with my parents.
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Hmm. I just realized that's a copyrighted image... Taking it down sorry.
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Didn't think of that. Of course in general the above still applies to colour images that are R/B.
My photoshop skills aren't that great so the two sides ended up not having the same luminosity for some reason, whatever it works.
You'll notice the red channel (right for the left eye) looks quite full of artifacts when compared to the cyan (left for the right eye) image.
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So many places make these shitty R/B images available and not the seperate image pairs. There are many ways to display a 3D image, you've mentioned one. There's also free-viewing, where you cross your eyes and actually get a much better result than viewing with R/B glasses (no colour augmentation, no ghosting). And then there's my personal favourite, LCD shutter glasses (some ghosting, but no need to strain your eye muscles, and you can view a full screen).
Of course, you can create the R/B image from pairs, but not the other way around, at the very least, places that want to make 3D content available should provide both options.
I've noted the item earlier this week about a standard emerging sometime soon for 3D broadcasting. I can't wait.
Damn! Foiled again! I think we should ban the internet. And CD-R media, and tapes, and pens and printing presses.... for the children. I mean, you're patriotic right?
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It's amazing. Sony are so bad at format wars that, even when they win, they lose.
That show completely makes the point that this guy misses. The male leads on this show are all completely stereotyped. They're completely nerdy and totally bonkers about comic books. And who cares? I don't. I think the show is funny. It does throw some of the stereotypes to the wind (some of the characters do get laid), but otherwise I like it for the fact that it makes fun of nerdy/geeky/whatever-your-favourite-label-is people, in a way that doesn't degrade them.
What a bunch of whiny idiosyncratic losers we are if we fail to laugh at ourselves once in a while... Go watch a Chris Rock standup or something, realize that sometimes laughing at your own stereotypes can be a good thing. Maybe if you stop bitching about it, people would like you more.
Once or twice I've taken a 20-30min nap in my car during lunch. I found I was very alert and productive in the afternoon on those occasions. Our company was getting a new office building and was fielding suggestions for conveniences we'd like as developers. I had two suggestions: Tiny, private offices for developers, as suggested by Joel Spolsky (even cited the article). And a bed.
Both suggestions had the managers in stitches, and that was that.
But, of course, it must have a silly cutesey name like the "Dukey".
Is a handful of photons?
Sounds like a frikkin lot of photons to me. I would've thought a human could see much less than a whole hand filled with photons.
Great. Now we can sue Rockstar games.
You can of course, run Krusader locally and browse your remote box via SSH by supplying the path as:
fish://user@myserver
Yes I know not the same as having full console access. But to me, a very nice in between, esp for copying lots of scattered files from one box to the other.
Krusader. It's the KDE based MC clone.
I'm sure there are purists out there who don't want the KDE libs on their machines or aren't into this newfangled GUI stuff. Who want that horrible looking interface on a console. But me, I think Krusader is way slicker than MC.
And did I say TABS? Sweeet.
They couldn't have fucked this up better if they tried. I am outraged by the whole thing.
First they patently drop support for a perfectly good (I ran it with a 100Hz CRT), cheap 3D solution, very blatantly doing everything they can to kill 3D. Then they get to a point where you have to buy their buddies' high-priced 3D LCD monitors. Now they're making their own hugely expensive solution, once again forcing you to go out and buy a special special LCD when most old CRT's are more than up to the job. That doesn't smell like a rat?
And the old support that they already had, that already worked, is still MIA. They're not trying to bring 3D mainstream. I refuse to believe it. Mainstream means cheap. Not "you have to go buy the most expensive LCD you can find".
There's nothing new or great about their solution. What they're doing sucks balls and they know it.
You bring up an interesting point.... how many BMW drivers become aggressive assholes after being repeatedly treaded badly on the road because of what they drive?
Then we have to think about the chicken-and-egg of it. What came first, aggression towards these drivers or their aggression.
Others here seem to think the more affluent person is a dickhead. I see it differently. I associate it with someone who's grown out of youthful aggression and is in charge of their finances and carreer. But of course I'm probably talking from a very different geographical standpoint, maybe in places there's lots of young second generation wealth driving these cars.
Maybe we should note next time the psychological reaction we have when a Mercedes pulls up behind us, vs. Something like a BMW or even Subaru (which I immediately associate with a ricer)
When I moved from a rather ordinary looking ford to a BMW, I noticed a sudden and drastic change in the way traffic around me responded.
The biggest of this is, when I'm cuising down the fast lane (my driving habits didn't change all that much, actually these days I tend to cruise a bit slower), people tend to get out of my way much quicker.
From the get-go I've suspected that this is because my car looks "angrier" and that people somehow feel that the guy sitting behind the wheel is exuding that same aggressiveness, and thus just want to get out of the way.
However another theory I have is that people assume BMW == asshole and expect me to be excessively aggressive because of that.
The again, I've thought much about how certain cars (like my poor BMW) get a bad rap for having "asshole" drivers... if a BMW driver doesn't signal, he's a f&^% bmw driver, if another driver does the same, he's just a f&%^ idiot. Maybe it'll turn out to be based more on the cars' looks than anything else. The car looks angry, therefore the driver must be angry, therefore he must be an asshole.
> IMO, EVE really gives a lot to the gamer who has to balance his gaming life with his work and social lives.
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Look, EVE is also the only MMO I like, but joining a player run corp is usually almost like applying for a real-life job.
People ask for leave, get kicked out when they don't participate enough or are not online "enough". Then you have corp. operations that get scheduled, usually over weekends, when I'm at my least available, out there having a life. So actually, I find it quite hard to play EVE casually.
I have a set of glasses but nVidia has seemed quite keen on ruining it for me, rather than trying to "save" them.
Last I checked, at least on XP (no way I'm installing Vista), the 3D driver only worked with cards from the 7 series and down (I still have a 6 series card because of this). Something that has fans of the technology quite despondent and upset.
Yes playing with them is awesome, may be gimmicky, but the software support out there is dismal. And as parent states most games do the overlays in a way that doesn't work well at all.
Other than proper driver support, the #2 thing I'd like to see in shutter glasses is more opaque LCD panels to limit the ghosting. Which is acceptable most of the time, but can be distracting at others. This would go a long way to bringing the kind of quality you get with polarized glasses to the masses.
Some quick googling tells me a Honda CBR125R can get 94mpg and 100 if you push it. I did say big bikes.
I actually had to go look... around 40mpg for big bikes. Depends a lot on the bike of course.
My car is driven about once a week since I've decided my second vehicle won't be a new car, but a Motorbike. Now there's something that makes economic sense. It's so much cheaper than a second car, the fuel consumption is pityful, the maintenance is much less, and I've realized that 99% of the time, I travel alone anyway, and my backpack is more than sufficient for luggage.
Added bonus: It's so much fun to drive, chicks dig it, and the morning traffic has become a total non-event.
Hybrids might be cool for soccer moms, but I've changed my mind about whether I really need a car half the time... Even the gf is happier jumping on the back than taking the car, so the car is REALLY only necessary if I'm transporting something bulky or taking more than 2 people. That doesn't happen all that often, but then i don't have kids yet.
It's environmental, cheap, saves me time, and fun. The downside being I would be more exposed in an accident, which is why I focus on not driving through traffic like a hot headed superbike racer and rather focus on not dying.
Wouldn't work, if you go around in away-team gear all the time you'd be dead long before having the chance to procreate.
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> It's not newbie friendly at all, in that it takes literally years of paying CCP your monthly fee in order to reach the point where you can fly the big ships that bring in the massive profits.
I've seen pilots of a couple of weeks flying in gangs in non-secure space engaging in PVP. At any time a gang of small ships can take out one of aforementioned big ships.
EVE's dynamics means a small ship can hit a big ship easier than the other way around, etc. etc.
Oh, and who said this game is about making "massive profits". I've been playing for 2 years and last weekend I fitted the cheapest, smallest ship available and went out on a 4 hour pvp session. You know what, it was really fun. It's all about learning to throw away your risk-aversion and embracing the fact that you will die, and have fun in that context.
I still wouldn't dream of trying to fly a slow, expensive, big ship solo through unsecure space. Those ships may make new players feel safe, but it's a good way to have a bad evening.
> But when the shit hits the fan, the staff want a backup plan
In my experience, it's management that demand this, insisting that having in-house support is not sufficient. They want someone to sue if things go really tits-up, and their customers sue THEM. (Whether they actually could is apparently not of importance)
Sadly I understand.
My grandmother suffered extreme bursts of anger towards the family, it was horrible trying to deal with it. At times she believed that we were constantly trying to trick her by moving things around, lying to her about our identities, etc. When she passed away we were almost relieved, not having seen the worst of what was to come... I guess that goes a long way to describing how horrible this disease really is.
I cannot explain how relieved I am that I may never have to experience it myself, and hopefully not with my parents.
Hmm. I just realized that's a copyrighted image... Taking it down sorry.
Didn't think of that. Of course in general the above still applies to colour images that are R/B.
My photoshop skills aren't that great so the two sides ended up not having the same luminosity for some reason, whatever it works.
You'll notice the red channel (right for the left eye) looks quite full of artifacts when compared to the cyan (left for the right eye) image.
http://bayimg.com/HAJjPAABp
So many places make these shitty R/B images available and not the seperate image pairs. There are many ways to display a 3D image, you've mentioned one. There's also free-viewing, where you cross your eyes and actually get a much better result than viewing with R/B glasses (no colour augmentation, no ghosting). And then there's my personal favourite, LCD shutter glasses (some ghosting, but no need to strain your eye muscles, and you can view a full screen).
Of course, you can create the R/B image from pairs, but not the other way around, at the very least, places that want to make 3D content available should provide both options.
I've noted the item earlier this week about a standard emerging sometime soon for 3D broadcasting. I can't wait.
Damn! Foiled again! I think we should ban the internet. And CD-R media, and tapes, and pens and printing presses.... for the children. I mean, you're patriotic right?