Hey! I like MSN.com and have had it as my start page for a few years now. If you configure it to the way you want to use it, it provides you a sufficient dose of pointless anecdotes to get you started in your web adventures.
I'm just saying, I remember alot of hubub about how powerful and amazing the last round of SONY hardware was, and how it would be the new standard for high performance processing... when was the last time you saw an emotion chip in anything besides a PS2?
Not to mention, even if you have the time to give a game company an extra 18 months to work... you can't necessarily afford to give a game company an extra 18 months to work.
That's completely incorrect. Unlike Office, Microsoft loses money on each console sold. If everyone threw out their old Xbox 360 and bought an xbox 360.5 when the new edition came out, Microsoft would lose obscene amounts of cash with 0 return. If microsoft had it's way, you would only buy one console and share it with like 10 friends who all still bought games. Everyone seems to think microsoft is out to sell Xboxes... they aren't, they just happen to have to sell them in order to charge license fees from developers.
Well that would sort of guarantee it wouldn't make any money wouldn't it? If customers are asking for linux editions, I would have to guess there is a market.
Hmmm, get a few bucks off of shareware or make no money off of open source. Tough one.
Also it should be noted, that many open source projects don't get enough volunteers and end up half finished on source forge rotting with some Alpha.03 release. If you pay people to finish it, I can almost guarantee you they'll keep working until it's done.
Considering for every web developer there are usually well over 200 users, I'm sorry to say, that most of the population doesn't give shit what the hell you do as long as they can browse amazon.
Ask Joe Schmoe "Is your web browser comliant with all the latest standards?" And he'll say "What the fuck is a web standard?"
At least you aren't one of those growing minority who is actually blocking pages that function perfectly well in IE just because you can. I ran across a page the other day, which didn't even give me the option of viewing it in IE. I loaded up the source in Firefox, Lo and Behold, they didn't even use CSS, it was just a plain old HTML, but they just decided to make a point. Well the average web user's reaction is "fuck you and your pretentious web standards I don't want to spend time to view your page" *close*.
Sometimes we just forget these things inside of the insular propaganda orgy for Open Source also known as the Slashdot Forums.
...because
A) Firefox doesn't pass the Acid 2 test.
B) The Acid 2 test isn't a strict CSS 2 page, and as such just as microsoft described is really a wish list.
IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!! Why the HELL! are you people still argueing about who's responsible for this bill? Did anybody actually READ what the bill was about? It wasn't censorship it was a tax to help the government fight CHILD pornography. You know that act where small children are molested on camera, abused, exploited by nasty old men.
I'm sure it can be tricky business to weed out who is using underage models and who isn't, especially with children becoming more mature at younger ages, so it makes reasonable sense, that if the government has to spend money reviewing your business, your industry will pay the tab.
As to this somehow reducing children going to XXX sites, I'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to help, but then again thanks to slashdot's "throw it out and see what they say" policy with regarding to editing news stories, I may never know the rationale behind it reducing children visiting XXX sites as well. But even if it doesn't do that, it's not the GOAL of the bill! He just listed it as a possible side effect.
Let's see... what will we use HD-DVD for... Oh yeah.. Movies!
So if you want to watch movies in HD at no extra cost when buying a new Xbox 360 do it. If you already have an Xbox 360 and want to watch HD-DVDs, Buy an HD-DVD player! Everyone wins!
It wasn't that we said we would never fill CDs. we just didn't see it being an issue for a while. As I see it games have really leveled off in size, we saw a pretty exponential growth when the CD came out just because we weren't using ASCII anymore, and we could you know... include real music and stuff. But at this point, I don't see us needing more than 10GB for a game in 3 years. 3 years ago games were on 2 CDs, now they're on 6 at the most. Most games now adays are still around 1.5 gigs, I don't see us all of a sudden needing 10. Not to mention, we can always release 2 DVD games!
This isn't a feature split, this is a free perk later down the road.
OH NO!!! More copyrights on technology this will slow innovation, stop creativity and bring an end to the computer industry! Not another patent! Run for the hills.
Oh sorry I didn't notice that the corporation's name was Google, I guess we don't bitch about their patents do we?
Actually my system had an issue a few weeks ago, where I had to run games and watch movies using this exact method or else they would stutter every minute or so. I ran system restore to a time before the last windows 'out of my control' I mean automatic update, and it worked fine again, but it was interesting having to run high performance applications using run.
If they decided to stop all trade with the US, they wouldn't have a customer. Hence the "Net-importing economy". We're net importing thanks to huge amounts of asian importation, I know china can't afford to stop selling to the US, Japan would struggle, and Europe probably doesn't even make a sizeable export to the US, if anything I would guess there is a positive net export ratio to Europe from the US.
They can only scan it when you come and go. Over the top? You are aware that they already are fully aware of these two simple activities if you enter and leave through a legitimate border gate.
Whine, bitch moan that's what I hear. Apperantly in privacy issues what you don't know isn't tracking you. If they want to find you, they could track credit card purchases, hotel reservations, interview your aunt, follow you, take your pet ransom, the government is perfectly able of tracking an individual if it really wants to, your privacy isn't being infringe by the fact that they know when you *LEFT* their country. "Oh but they could have a helicopter following my car tracking my RFID tag..." Please.. you think you're that special?
The largest flaw in most privacy advocate's logic is the concept that the government cares about what you do. That it's willing to take the time to watch Little Mr. You. The government is so incompetant and bloated it couldn't track the president if he decided to walk over to Canada.
I agree completely. You can't get around it. I will buy the excuse that you wouldn't have purchased it anyway, most people who just want to play with, say Maya, aren't costing Alias any money since they aren't really potential customers. But the fact is the theft is still happening, there is no moral ground to stand on, but there is a sort of dingy you can sit in and be ignored.
Ok so a game has sex in it now. The Ratings board said hmmm... Sex might deserve an 18+ rating. The Movie industry made this move decades ago.
This isn't censorship, this isn't legal action. This is reclassification! If anything this is a victory.
If number munchers had an ultragore mode accessable via cheat codes, I would say it would need to be reclassified.
How long will it last? Will it come with a 10 year warrantee? What if a key breaks? Can I buy replacement screen keys for an affordable price?
How much does it weight? I want a light keyboard since it usually is on my lap.
Is the key rebound right? Some keyboards just to ratatatta correctly.
Are the F and J key bumped for touch typists?
While it definetely has a WOW factor and will probably sell a good number on release... why would I want one of these over say... a sharpie and silver ink. Or one of the already existing program specific covers or keyboards. I have used an AVID keyboard before. All of the keys were color coded and labeled.
Most importantly... Who ACTUALLY ever looks at their keyboard while it's in use? Are we still hunting and pecking in quake?
Like I said it's cool, but why not release an econo version where the only addition is those fancy little Taskbar buttons on the left are added and the keys that will essentially always be QWERTY or AOEUI.
The best place to find free hardware is dumpsters outside of Girls' College Dorms. Of course that's also the worst place possible to be seen, so it's better to try someone else's Girls' College Dorm.
It's like a technology treasure stash. I have several friends that have gotten brand new laptops, perfectly functioning CPUs and a wealth of high value electronics.
Once again Open Source proponents give Microsoft Users the Big Finger. Just because they can. "...if there is demand..." I don't know I would call more than 80% of the internet populace sufficient demand to implement a very small nugget of code to give full functionality. This doesn't exactly look like a breakthrough code snippet anyways, The idea of a drop down box on hover for several options is clever but doesn't really involve more than about 15 lines of CSS, plus another 15 for IE support, matter of fact I guarantee you that IE support could be added, without the creator even having to write any code on his own.
I live a within sight of one of the nation's largest wind producing farms. I have been up and around them. I have done research for my environmental science classes. I've talked to the people who do all of the repairs and maintanance on them. In the 5 odd years they've been operating, I could only find one person who can remember seeing a dead bird, and they've been looking pretty hard.
In that same timeframe I've probably killed 2 with my car. I can't comment on whether they're getting lost, but they definietely aren't spontaneously dieing around them enmass.
From my experience Dvorak is incredibly fast, however like you I learned QWERTY as a small child and have in the mean time become quite effective in its use.
I can clearly SEE the advantages of Dvorak when its flowing, (just type "THE" for instance). But I just can't compete with my brute force QWERTY speed. I think I can type as fast as QWERTY will allow, DVORAK would in the long run allow me to probably eek out an extra couple words per minute, but I don't think my brain can go any faster thinking up words to be typed.
As to switchability. I've never gotten confused which was which. I've forgotten dvorak now and then when I don't use it for long extensions, but I tend to use Dvorak only for half-keyboard applications.
Breathing tends to work pretty well for me. As such I would say that breathing air is my best form of respiration. I've never found water "Right" for my breathing needs.
Better for an individual is a completely subjective concept. What is 'best' for me? I want an OS that is easy to install, maintain and use. I want something that is familiar, mostly automatic so that I never have to touch it. I don't really want to spend any time on my OS at all. In my mind windows is like BIOS, it's just a program that I install to make everything I want work. I've used all 3 OSes for notable amounts of time, and to me Windows fits that bill perfectly.
To me the perfect OS would be able to function needing nothing more than a row of icons and a control panel for customizing how I want said Icons to open software. Oh yeah and some form of switching between said icons when they're open.
Ironically this is where Linux could shine best. Some boot stripped of everything peripheral, tucked out of view. A big desktop with a "DO" button. But said Linux distro is sadly non existant, I feel like I have to reprogram my keyboard drivers every time I boot the system.
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Oooo! Ooooo!!! Do me! I love a good privacy roast.
Hey! I like MSN.com and have had it as my start page for a few years now. If you configure it to the way you want to use it, it provides you a sufficient dose of pointless anecdotes to get you started in your web adventures.
A little bird told me.
I'm just saying, I remember alot of hubub about how powerful and amazing the last round of SONY hardware was, and how it would be the new standard for high performance processing... when was the last time you saw an emotion chip in anything besides a PS2?
Not to mention, even if you have the time to give a game company an extra 18 months to work... you can't necessarily afford to give a game company an extra 18 months to work.
The Cell processor is going to replace all of their servers and desktop PCs running on the emotion engine.
That's completely incorrect. Unlike Office, Microsoft loses money on each console sold. If everyone threw out their old Xbox 360 and bought an xbox 360.5 when the new edition came out, Microsoft would lose obscene amounts of cash with 0 return. If microsoft had it's way, you would only buy one console and share it with like 10 friends who all still bought games. Everyone seems to think microsoft is out to sell Xboxes... they aren't, they just happen to have to sell them in order to charge license fees from developers.
Well that would sort of guarantee it wouldn't make any money wouldn't it? If customers are asking for linux editions, I would have to guess there is a market.
.03 release. If you pay people to finish it, I can almost guarantee you they'll keep working until it's done.
Hmmm, get a few bucks off of shareware or make no money off of open source. Tough one.
Also it should be noted, that many open source projects don't get enough volunteers and end up half finished on source forge rotting with some Alpha
Considering for every web developer there are usually well over 200 users, I'm sorry to say, that most of the population doesn't give shit what the hell you do as long as they can browse amazon.
Ask Joe Schmoe "Is your web browser comliant with all the latest standards?" And he'll say "What the fuck is a web standard?"
At least you aren't one of those growing minority who is actually blocking pages that function perfectly well in IE just because you can. I ran across a page the other day, which didn't even give me the option of viewing it in IE. I loaded up the source in Firefox, Lo and Behold, they didn't even use CSS, it was just a plain old HTML, but they just decided to make a point. Well the average web user's reaction is "fuck you and your pretentious web standards I don't want to spend time to view your page" *close*.
Sometimes we just forget these things inside of the insular propaganda orgy for Open Source also known as the Slashdot Forums.
...because
A) Firefox doesn't pass the Acid 2 test.
B) The Acid 2 test isn't a strict CSS 2 page, and as such just as microsoft described is really a wish list.
IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!! Why the HELL! are you people still argueing about who's responsible for this bill? Did anybody actually READ what the bill was about? It wasn't censorship it was a tax to help the government fight CHILD pornography. You know that act where small children are molested on camera, abused, exploited by nasty old men.
I'm sure it can be tricky business to weed out who is using underage models and who isn't, especially with children becoming more mature at younger ages, so it makes reasonable sense, that if the government has to spend money reviewing your business, your industry will pay the tab.
As to this somehow reducing children going to XXX sites, I'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to help, but then again thanks to slashdot's "throw it out and see what they say" policy with regarding to editing news stories, I may never know the rationale behind it reducing children visiting XXX sites as well. But even if it doesn't do that, it's not the GOAL of the bill! He just listed it as a possible side effect.
Let's see... what will we use HD-DVD for... Oh yeah.. Movies!
So if you want to watch movies in HD at no extra cost when buying a new Xbox 360 do it. If you already have an Xbox 360 and want to watch HD-DVDs, Buy an HD-DVD player! Everyone wins!
It wasn't that we said we would never fill CDs. we just didn't see it being an issue for a while. As I see it games have really leveled off in size, we saw a pretty exponential growth when the CD came out just because we weren't using ASCII anymore, and we could you know... include real music and stuff. But at this point, I don't see us needing more than 10GB for a game in 3 years. 3 years ago games were on 2 CDs, now they're on 6 at the most. Most games now adays are still around 1.5 gigs, I don't see us all of a sudden needing 10. Not to mention, we can always release 2 DVD games!
This isn't a feature split, this is a free perk later down the road.
OH NO!!! More copyrights on technology this will slow innovation, stop creativity and bring an end to the computer industry! Not another patent! Run for the hills.
Oh sorry I didn't notice that the corporation's name was Google, I guess we don't bitch about their patents do we?
Actually my system had an issue a few weeks ago, where I had to run games and watch movies using this exact method or else they would stutter every minute or so. I ran system restore to a time before the last windows 'out of my control' I mean automatic update, and it worked fine again, but it was interesting having to run high performance applications using run.
If they decided to stop all trade with the US, they wouldn't have a customer. Hence the "Net-importing economy". We're net importing thanks to huge amounts of asian importation, I know china can't afford to stop selling to the US, Japan would struggle, and Europe probably doesn't even make a sizeable export to the US, if anything I would guess there is a positive net export ratio to Europe from the US.
They can only scan it when you come and go. Over the top? You are aware that they already are fully aware of these two simple activities if you enter and leave through a legitimate border gate.
Whine, bitch moan that's what I hear. Apperantly in privacy issues what you don't know isn't tracking you. If they want to find you, they could track credit card purchases, hotel reservations, interview your aunt, follow you, take your pet ransom, the government is perfectly able of tracking an individual if it really wants to, your privacy isn't being infringe by the fact that they know when you *LEFT* their country. "Oh but they could have a helicopter following my car tracking my RFID tag..." Please.. you think you're that special?
The largest flaw in most privacy advocate's logic is the concept that the government cares about what you do. That it's willing to take the time to watch Little Mr. You. The government is so incompetant and bloated it couldn't track the president if he decided to walk over to Canada.
I agree completely. You can't get around it. I will buy the excuse that you wouldn't have purchased it anyway, most people who just want to play with, say Maya, aren't costing Alias any money since they aren't really potential customers. But the fact is the theft is still happening, there is no moral ground to stand on, but there is a sort of dingy you can sit in and be ignored.
Ok so a game has sex in it now. The Ratings board said hmmm... Sex might deserve an 18+ rating. The Movie industry made this move decades ago. This isn't censorship, this isn't legal action. This is reclassification! If anything this is a victory. If number munchers had an ultragore mode accessable via cheat codes, I would say it would need to be reclassified.
How long will it last? Will it come with a 10 year warrantee? What if a key breaks? Can I buy replacement screen keys for an affordable price? How much does it weight? I want a light keyboard since it usually is on my lap. Is the key rebound right? Some keyboards just to ratatatta correctly. Are the F and J key bumped for touch typists? While it definetely has a WOW factor and will probably sell a good number on release... why would I want one of these over say... a sharpie and silver ink. Or one of the already existing program specific covers or keyboards. I have used an AVID keyboard before. All of the keys were color coded and labeled. Most importantly... Who ACTUALLY ever looks at their keyboard while it's in use? Are we still hunting and pecking in quake? Like I said it's cool, but why not release an econo version where the only addition is those fancy little Taskbar buttons on the left are added and the keys that will essentially always be QWERTY or AOEUI.
The best place to find free hardware is dumpsters outside of Girls' College Dorms. Of course that's also the worst place possible to be seen, so it's better to try someone else's Girls' College Dorm. It's like a technology treasure stash. I have several friends that have gotten brand new laptops, perfectly functioning CPUs and a wealth of high value electronics.
Sorry for the double post... but I just found this too funny.
The developer's slogan is:
"Good Design, Good work."
Now if that isn't catchy I don't know what is.
Once again Open Source proponents give Microsoft Users the Big Finger. Just because they can. "...if there is demand..." I don't know I would call more than 80% of the internet populace sufficient demand to implement a very small nugget of code to give full functionality. This doesn't exactly look like a breakthrough code snippet anyways, The idea of a drop down box on hover for several options is clever but doesn't really involve more than about 15 lines of CSS, plus another 15 for IE support, matter of fact I guarantee you that IE support could be added, without the creator even having to write any code on his own.
I live a within sight of one of the nation's largest wind producing farms. I have been up and around them. I have done research for my environmental science classes. I've talked to the people who do all of the repairs and maintanance on them. In the 5 odd years they've been operating, I could only find one person who can remember seeing a dead bird, and they've been looking pretty hard.
In that same timeframe I've probably killed 2 with my car. I can't comment on whether they're getting lost, but they definietely aren't spontaneously dieing around them enmass.
I'm not sure how this might help you with RSI...
From my experience Dvorak is incredibly fast, however like you I learned QWERTY as a small child and have in the mean time become quite effective in its use.
I can clearly SEE the advantages of Dvorak when its flowing, (just type "THE" for instance). But I just can't compete with my brute force QWERTY speed. I think I can type as fast as QWERTY will allow, DVORAK would in the long run allow me to probably eek out an extra couple words per minute, but I don't think my brain can go any faster thinking up words to be typed.
As to switchability. I've never gotten confused which was which. I've forgotten dvorak now and then when I don't use it for long extensions, but I tend to use Dvorak only for half-keyboard applications.
Perhaps it shall be used as a manual for CRobots?
http://www.geocities.com/crobots32/index.html
Breathing tends to work pretty well for me. As such I would say that breathing air is my best form of respiration. I've never found water "Right" for my breathing needs. Better for an individual is a completely subjective concept. What is 'best' for me? I want an OS that is easy to install, maintain and use. I want something that is familiar, mostly automatic so that I never have to touch it. I don't really want to spend any time on my OS at all. In my mind windows is like BIOS, it's just a program that I install to make everything I want work. I've used all 3 OSes for notable amounts of time, and to me Windows fits that bill perfectly.
To me the perfect OS would be able to function needing nothing more than a row of icons and a control panel for customizing how I want said Icons to open software. Oh yeah and some form of switching between said icons when they're open.
Ironically this is where Linux could shine best. Some boot stripped of everything peripheral, tucked out of view. A big desktop with a "DO" button. But said Linux distro is sadly non existant, I feel like I have to reprogram my keyboard drivers every time I boot the system.