A mouse is near perfect as aiming device, much faster and more accurate than a light gun. The only other control method with any hope of being as accurate is mouse + trackball, and as most people learn with mouse it is not popular. If two equally skilled player compete, one with mouse+keys and one with console controller, the mouse+keys player will dominate.
Headphones + sub is not enough. You need headphones + sub + fast head tracking hardware + complicated software + lots of CPU power, otherwise the virtual sound sources will move when you move your head. The multiple speakers approach is much simpler.
No, because the human eye sees brightness on a log scale, so we have a very large brightness sensitivity range. The contrast ratio of staring directly at the sun: the dimmest light we can see is about 1e13:1, so this display has a long way to go to duplicate contrasts visible IRL.
References? It certainly can be neurotoxic, but current research suggests it is harmless below a low threshold dosage, and other drugs can protect from methamphetamine induced brain damage. Remember that meth can legally be prescribed for ADD.
No, it's just text, it means exactly the same no matter what medium it's in. You are emotionally attached to an obsolete medium, but I'm saying that is the mark of a dying generation.
Ebooks can have multiple bookmarking, and the fast forward/reverse functionality is superior.
Ebooks are far more portable, as I can carry several GBs of books in one hand, bits are far lighter than paper.
Ebooks support much more flexible markup than paper, as there is no space limitation (theoretically possible with paper, but do you really disassemble books, add new pages and rebind them?).
Paper books need more energy to transport, and DRM isn't possible (if you can read it you can crack it).
It makes no sense to buy a computer for one book, but I have thousands of books. I don't have space to store those in paper, and paper is harder to read (lower contrast).
The only advantage of paper is archiving, but once a book is digitised it will inevitably spread all over the internet, so the risk of completely losing any book is minimal.
I'm 22 years old and I can't remember the last book I read on paper. Pages are so much hassle, and paper has far too low contrast ratio. I'm more comfortable with reading off a screen, and I imagine this is even more true for younger people. Physical book fans are dying out.
Also, ebooks don't take up any space, are searchable, and are usually free (legally or otherwise).
But they've been in ALSA long enough, and used professionally for long enough, that any bugs remaining are probably not serious. This is a case where using third party drivers is very low risk.
He redirected, not hotlinked. If you hotlink (ie. link to something that was never meant to be linked directly) it is no problem for the site owner to change it to goatse/tubgirl/lemonparty/etc. If you redirect to the main page as you are supposed to, it is not possible to change it without also harming all the legitimate users.
There is nothing wrong with hotlinking, but there is also nothing wrong with changing content on your own web site without notice. If you hotlink and get goatsed, it is your own fault.
How do you know it was the aspartame, and not all the acids overwhelming his body's pH buffering? Or even the water screwing up the electrolyte balance?
It's an accurate description IMO. Modafinil is the best work drug I've ever tried. Lots of online pharmacies sell it, but Americans should be careful, it's illegal to possess without a prescription.
Ardour is the equal of Windows pro level apps. It might not look as flashy, but it is very powerful.
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I'd agree, and I hate GTK 1.x. The old file selector allowed you to filter file lists, so you could type "*.mp3" then hit tab so only mp3 files would be shown. This is not possible in the new file selector, and the Mozzila style searching is not an acceptable substitute.
This regression is probably a result of the GNOME developers simplicity-at-all-costs attitude, and they probably want filtering to be done by the application, eg. the mp3 player shows only mp3s, and using the MIME type system instead of extension. This might seem a superior solution, but actually it is not. The old file selector allowed any combination of wildcards in the search, so you could do things like "*report*" or "Track??.mp3". I think it even allowed regular expressions. This is a much more powerful system, and it didn't confuse newbies because they didn't know it existed.
Insects are a much more energy efficient source of meat. Sure, people might be squeamish now, but sell them ground up, give them a fancy name, and pay some celebrities to publicly eat them, and you've got the meat of the future.
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Not going to happen until we legalize all drugs. If you can make Tamiflu you can make pretty much any recreational drug.
A mouse is near perfect as aiming device, much faster and more accurate than a light gun. The only other control method with any hope of being as accurate is mouse + trackball, and as most people learn with mouse it is not popular. If two equally skilled player compete, one with mouse+keys and one with console controller, the mouse+keys player will dominate.
Headphones + sub is not enough. You need headphones + sub + fast head tracking hardware + complicated software + lots of CPU power, otherwise the virtual sound sources will move when you move your head. The multiple speakers approach is much simpler.
Nonsense. Democracy is a fantasy, the law follows the will of the elite. A law may be immormal, in which case it is immoral *not* to break it.
No, because the human eye sees brightness on a log scale, so we have a very large brightness sensitivity range. The contrast ratio of staring directly at the sun: the dimmest light we can see is about 1e13:1, so this display has a long way to go to duplicate contrasts visible IRL.
References? It certainly can be neurotoxic, but current research suggests it is harmless below a low threshold dosage, and other drugs can protect from methamphetamine induced brain damage. Remember that meth can legally be prescribed for ADD.
Drugs are just tools, and any tool can be used or abused. We wouldn't have all of Philip K. Dick's novels without meth.
No, it's just text, it means exactly the same no matter what medium it's in. You are emotionally attached to an obsolete medium, but I'm saying that is the mark of a dying generation.
Ebooks can have multiple bookmarking, and the fast forward/reverse functionality is superior.
Ebooks are far more portable, as I can carry several GBs of books in one hand, bits are far lighter than paper.
Ebooks support much more flexible markup than paper, as there is no space limitation (theoretically possible with paper, but do you really disassemble books, add new pages and rebind them?).
Paper books need more energy to transport, and DRM isn't possible (if you can read it you can crack it).
It makes no sense to buy a computer for one book, but I have thousands of books. I don't have space to store those in paper, and paper is harder to read (lower contrast).
The only advantage of paper is archiving, but once a book is digitised it will inevitably spread all over the internet, so the risk of completely losing any book is minimal.
I'm 22 years old and I can't remember the last book I read on paper. Pages are so much hassle, and paper has far too low contrast ratio. I'm more comfortable with reading off a screen, and I imagine this is even more true for younger people. Physical book fans are dying out. Also, ebooks don't take up any space, are searchable, and are usually free (legally or otherwise).
VSTs/VSTis are supported only through WINE, so it's not totally reliable. The others are not supported.
But they've been in ALSA long enough, and used professionally for long enough, that any bugs remaining are probably not serious. This is a case where using third party drivers is very low risk.
Hardware: http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hammer/ (with stable third party drivers in ALSA) Software: http://ardour.org/ (still in beta but very useable)
Not a problem, as you can design the filesystem to spread writes evenly throughout the memory.
He linked (to a main page designed to be linked to), they hotlinked (to an item not designed to be linked to).
He redirected, not hotlinked. If you hotlink (ie. link to something that was never meant to be linked directly) it is no problem for the site owner to change it to goatse/tubgirl/lemonparty/etc. If you redirect to the main page as you are supposed to, it is not possible to change it without also harming all the legitimate users. There is nothing wrong with hotlinking, but there is also nothing wrong with changing content on your own web site without notice. If you hotlink and get goatsed, it is your own fault.
I'd always thought the bricklayer's tool icon was supposed to be a wire coathanger. The correct explanation makes about the same amount of sense.
Yes, we mean something different by "pint". One UK (Imperial) pint = 1.2 US pints = 0.568l.
His mp3s are only 112kbps, so they are only useful as previews.
Who modded this "interesting"? LSD does not cause any physical brain damage at all, this was obviously meant to be a joke.
How do you know it was the aspartame, and not all the acids overwhelming his body's pH buffering? Or even the water screwing up the electrolyte balance?
It's an accurate description IMO. Modafinil is the best work drug I've ever tried. Lots of online pharmacies sell it, but Americans should be careful, it's illegal to possess without a prescription.
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Ardour is the equal of Windows pro level apps. It might not look as flashy, but it is very powerful.
I'd agree, and I hate GTK 1.x. The old file selector allowed you to filter file lists, so you could type "*.mp3" then hit tab so only mp3 files would be shown. This is not possible in the new file selector, and the Mozzila style searching is not an acceptable substitute.
This regression is probably a result of the GNOME developers simplicity-at-all-costs attitude, and they probably want filtering to be done by the application, eg. the mp3 player shows only mp3s, and using the MIME type system instead of extension. This might seem a superior solution, but actually it is not. The old file selector allowed any combination of wildcards in the search, so you could do things like "*report*" or "Track??.mp3". I think it even allowed regular expressions. This is a much more powerful system, and it didn't confuse newbies because they didn't know it existed.
Insects are a much more energy efficient source of meat. Sure, people might be squeamish now, but sell them ground up, give them a fancy name, and pay some celebrities to publicly eat them, and you've got the meat of the future.