Not only is QWERTY slower than modern layouts. It is also physically awkward. A lot of words are typed using only the left or right hand, preventing an even use of left-right hand. This, in addition to the "gymnastics" we have to do to type some words increase hand strain.
I have been typing in QWERTY all my life. And although I have tried going to DVORAK I have never mastered it (it is very difficult to unlearn); nevertheless every time I take a couple of hours for writing in DVORAK I really enjoy the left-right hand alternation feeling.
For home use, they build the shutter into the glasses, which have to then synchronize with the player so that your shutter switches at the same time your player does; that's what costs $99/pair (a year or so ago, it was about $200/pair).
I think you are about 10 years late. Shure, the Shutter glasses have been used for home 3D for quite some time. But nowadays, the new screens being sold use Polarized 3D technology.
It helped Coraline because it made it feel like you were looking through a window, rather than looking at a flat surface.
THIS, a thousand times this. IMHO Coraline has been the *only* good film in 3D. Having seen several films in 3D*, only Coraline had an effect that pleased my eyes. In Coraline, the 3D effect is used to simulate a "theater-like" scenario. As such, watching the movie is like watching a play (e.g. like in a puppet theater).
For me, Avatar was just OK (a *meh* movie with typical -in-your-face- 3D effects), and the other were very average.
The problem with *filming* in 3D is that the in-focus/out-focus images destroys the advantage of 3D because you still can *only* always focus on one image (which seems closer or further away from the screen).
* (Final Destination 4, Avatar, Coraline, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Monsters vs Aliens and Alice in Wonderland)
Definitely, in addition you could say that you cleaned of dust the inside "as a free gift" (and even do it... so that they are not suspicious) and the guys will be glad.
I think everyone can think of a webpage (might not be Geocites) that has valuable information that has since closed. Plus, Geocites was a publishing service, these weren't like grocery lists but rather like little novels. Yeah, the content might be crap but it contains valuable information which shouldn't simply be deleted.
This! Back when geocities was cool, everybody wanted to put a page there. At those times, this included people with interesting knowledge on technical stuff.
I remember entering a page on Geocities (after Yahoo bought it) which had info on electronic circuits. I have not been able to get the same info again, mainly because it was *very* niche.
IMHO Geocities defines the first wave of "web culture", and as such it should be preserved.
I hate to break it to the incompetent. Oh wait. I don't. I hate when people giving misleading advice get upmodded.
But I was sniffing traffic on a switched network in 1999. With tools that were already written. It was easy then (script kiddy easy), and it's even easier now.
Switches solve half the problem and very little more. The only switch I've seen you can't sniff off of runs so far upstream it's not worth talking about.
I know you like to pretend as a sysadmin you know how the internets work. And you're right. But you only know half. Networks fail. Predictably. They fail open. Without logs.
Stop the myth that switches 'protect' against packet sniffing. They mitigate it. Against the most trivial and basic wireshark attack that existed...god...probably 30 years ago...I wasn't even born then. And the tools that circumvent switches' mitigation have been common knowledge for at least 15 years among any sort of hacker, or anyone who can take a decent guess at how networks behave under remotely interesting conditions.
Here in Germany you are actually expected to pay something when going to the toilet. Either when entering or when leaving.
In almost every toilet entrance there is a small plate with some coins, you are supposed to put from 20 to 50 Euro cents as payment. Supposedly that goes to the lady that cleans the toilet.
I wouldn't be so fast to mock these newspaper guys.
If you're not having fun, you probably suck[at the game].
I'm very willing to accept that I suck[at the game]
If a game gets boring and frustrating because the player does not dominate it, then such a game is wrongly designed.
The game should have the mechanism to provide the appropriate difficulty level (via intelligent match-making, AI levelling, etc) for each player.
Shit, I sucked a lot in Hitman, nevertheless I had a lot of fun shooting the shit out of everyone. My mom was terrible in Mario Kart (SNES) but still had good fun and got first (sometimes) in the mushroom cups.
I agree with the original summary. But the main problem I see is that a lot of today's games are heavily focused to online multiplayer. Thus, the single-player storyline is really weak and short.
That sucks for the bunch of us who want to play offline. Fortnately, companies like Nintendo are still doing good games with good gameplay for single player... unfortunately they keep rehashing the old stupid stories of the pointy-ear-gnome and the plumber saving the princes.
I doubt that Oracle will be able to do anything with it except bury it. Too bad.
Wait a sec. Still we have OpenSolaris don't we?
Even after dying such a terrible death, I love Sun. They took an arduous way to share the majority of their work with the community before being bought.
(yeah I know some people here disagree with the type of open licenses, but for me it does not matter, it is available for free and it is open enough to use it and develop it)
That's Adobe's fault, although still Windows problem. You can create a RAM drive and set swap to that partition as a fix.
Don't know how easy is to do that in Seven. That's one of the reasons I like XP... it is really easy to abuse (i.e., make things work MY way, instead of Ballmer's way)
What I would like is some way to "quick save" and restore the state of single applications.
For example, if I am working with R or with Word (or openoffice), I would like to be able to press a button that will save a snapshot of the application memory plus all the data it is using (including accessed files). Subsequently, I should be able to restore the exact state of the application.
The closest (in the architecture only) I have seen is sandboxie... but the app has a different focus.
I wish there was something like that for Linux or Windows.
That reminds me of the questions asked by the USA immigration office (in the form of the immigration form), something like: Have you been a member of a terrorist group? Do you plan to make a terrorist attack in the USA? Do you plan to introduce illegal drugs to the USA?
I have always wondered why to they aim to achieve with these sort of questions...
Jeez, that is actually what they show in The S.N. movie! Even, the way they paint it, Zuckerberg stopped his friends ambitions of putting advertising for a long time!
Hey, I do not hate Zuckerberg (yup, that's the man himself in slashdot!.
As always, there is a vocal majority in Slashdot that gets their panties in a bunch about public web pages making public information that people willfully upload.
I even find it funny how (if you see/. as a whole) the same site that bitches about Facebook publishing data, gets all crazy when a lady wants to maintain some information published in her webpage as private.
Linux still has (and has ALWAYS had) a lot of problems with hardware. A lot of the leading edge stuff does not work. This problem is as old as WinModems if not older (that was the first time I stumbled with a Linux hardware issue)
In addition as others pointed out, there's really no software in Linux which is equivalent to say iLife and the like. Every time someone mention a Linux (open source) equivalent, said program is 2 or 3 years away (e.g., F-spot, showtell, kino, etc).
Now, the typical answer to these criticisms is that is that the problem lies within hardware manufacturers or software developers (not providing software/firmware for the Linux platform); nevertheless in reality even if it is not Linux fault, it is still its problem.
That's nostalgia talking, there was plenty of crap on the NES, and plenty of great games on the PSone.
Note that GP is not saying otherwise. Oh how I hated those wrestling games (where nothing happened as you pressed the buttons).
What GP is referring to IMHO is some of the good games that are so classic (SMB1, SMB3, chip'n'dale rescure rangers, Ninja Gaiden2 [IMO] etc) which a lot of people still play and enjoy.
I am sure there should be some of those in other consoles, but even in Nintendo consoles, games (for me) became use-and-throw. I skipped 1 generation (N64) and when I finally got it, I tried playing Mario 64, Golden Eye and all that... but it was boring. (because the main appeal of the game were the graphics... and when I played them there were games with muuuch better graphics)
Bah... the confidentiality of those decisions is nothing new and nothing specially applied to Assange.
My wife was denied a work permit in Germany (I have a full time work there, and she was offered anther job, but the auslanderbehörde denied the permit). When she asked the reasons they also said that they won't share the decisions made by the immigration office.
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In a dream world I'd have Apple do my marketing and OS development, Microsoft do my tools and services development and business negotiations, and Google do my infrastructure development.
This.
In my dream world Steve Jobs would be CEO of Microsoft.
Now, wait just a second. No, I am not an Apple Fanboy (shit, I do not own any Apple product nor do I plan to buy one... as I am a poor bastard).
Nevertheless, I know Steve Jobs is a marketing genius and one of the *best* CEO a consumer technology company could get.
Remember when Mozilla organized to publish an ad in a news paper? I think Canonical should organize something like that (what about a video on the superbowl!). I would certainly donate!
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Thanks for the technicality trivia.
Not only is QWERTY slower than modern layouts. It is also physically awkward. A lot of words are typed using only the left or right hand, preventing an even use of left-right hand. This, in addition to the "gymnastics" we have to do to type some words increase hand strain.
I have been typing in QWERTY all my life. And although I have tried going to DVORAK I have never mastered it (it is very difficult to unlearn); nevertheless every time I take a couple of hours for writing in DVORAK I really enjoy the left-right hand alternation feeling.
Yup, Facebook allows me to stay in contact with friends of the 5 cities (in 3 different countries) in which I have lived.
It is good to know there is a way to "feel" in contact with the people, even if I don't check daily the site.
For home use, they build the shutter into the glasses, which have to then synchronize with the player so that your shutter switches at the same time your player does; that's what costs $99/pair (a year or so ago, it was about $200/pair).
I think you are about 10 years late. Shure, the Shutter glasses have been used for home 3D for quite some time. But nowadays, the new screens being sold use Polarized 3D technology.
It helped Coraline because it made it feel like you were looking through a window, rather than looking at a flat surface.
THIS, a thousand times this. IMHO Coraline has been the *only* good film in 3D. Having seen several films in 3D*, only Coraline had an effect that pleased my eyes. In Coraline, the 3D effect is used to simulate a "theater-like" scenario. As such, watching the movie is like watching a play (e.g. like in a puppet theater).
For me, Avatar was just OK (a *meh* movie with typical -in-your-face- 3D effects), and the other were very average.
The problem with *filming* in 3D is that the in-focus/out-focus images destroys the advantage of 3D because you still can *only* always focus on one image (which seems closer or further away from the screen).
* (Final Destination 4, Avatar, Coraline, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Monsters vs Aliens and Alice in Wonderland)
The magic words are "this will make it faster"
Definitely, in addition you could say that you cleaned of dust the inside "as a free gift" (and even do it... so that they are not suspicious) and the guys will be glad.
I think everyone can think of a webpage (might not be Geocites) that has valuable information that has since closed. Plus, Geocites was a publishing service, these weren't like grocery lists but rather like little novels. Yeah, the content might be crap but it contains valuable information which shouldn't simply be deleted.
This!
Back when geocities was cool, everybody wanted to put a page there. At those times, this included people with interesting knowledge on technical stuff.
I remember entering a page on Geocities (after Yahoo bought it) which had info on electronic circuits. I have not been able to get the same info again, mainly because it was *very* niche.
IMHO Geocities defines the first wave of "web culture", and as such it should be preserved.
I hate to break it to the incompetent. Oh wait. I don't. I hate when people giving misleading advice get upmodded.
But I was sniffing traffic on a switched network in 1999. With tools that were already written. It was easy then (script kiddy easy), and it's even easier now.
Switches solve half the problem and very little more. The only switch I've seen you can't sniff off of runs so far upstream it's not worth talking about.
I know you like to pretend as a sysadmin you know how the internets work. And you're right. But you only know half. Networks fail. Predictably. They fail open. Without logs.
Stop the myth that switches 'protect' against packet sniffing. They mitigate it. Against the most trivial and basic wireshark attack that existed ...god...probably 30 years ago...I wasn't even born then. And the tools that circumvent switches' mitigation have been common knowledge for at least 15 years among any sort of hacker, or anyone who can take a decent guess at how networks behave under remotely interesting conditions.
For the non-believers..
Here in Germany you are actually expected to pay something when going to the toilet. Either when entering or when leaving.
In almost every toilet entrance there is a small plate with some coins, you are supposed to put from 20 to 50 Euro cents as payment. Supposedly that goes to the lady that cleans the toilet.
I wouldn't be so fast to mock these newspaper guys.
I knew it was fake after looking at the first picture.
Basically because the shown device does not have an analog stick.
If you're not having fun, you probably suck[at the game].
I'm very willing to accept that I suck[at the game]
If a game gets boring and frustrating because the player does not dominate it, then such a game is wrongly designed.
The game should have the mechanism to provide the appropriate difficulty level (via intelligent match-making, AI levelling, etc) for each player.
Shit, I sucked a lot in Hitman, nevertheless I had a lot of fun shooting the shit out of everyone. My mom was terrible in Mario Kart (SNES) but still had good fun and got first (sometimes) in the mushroom cups.
No,
I agree with the original summary. But the main problem I see is that a lot of today's games are heavily focused to online multiplayer. Thus, the single-player storyline is really weak and short.
That sucks for the bunch of us who want to play offline. Fortnately, companies like Nintendo are still doing good games with good gameplay for single player... unfortunately they keep rehashing the old stupid stories of the pointy-ear-gnome and the plumber saving the princes.
I doubt that Oracle will be able to do anything with it except bury it. Too bad.
Wait a sec. Still we have OpenSolaris don't we?
Even after dying such a terrible death, I love Sun. They took an arduous way to share the majority of their work with the community before being bought.
(yeah I know some people here disagree with the type of open licenses, but for me it does not matter, it is available for free and it is open enough to use it and develop it)
That's Adobe's fault, although still Windows problem. You can create a RAM drive and set swap to that partition as a fix.
Don't know how easy is to do that in Seven. That's one of the reasons I like XP... it is really easy to abuse (i.e., make things work MY way, instead of Ballmer's way)
What I would like is some way to "quick save" and restore the state of single applications.
For example, if I am working with R or with Word (or openoffice), I would like to be able to press a button that will save a snapshot of the application memory plus all the data it is using (including accessed files). Subsequently, I should be able to restore the exact state of the application.
The closest (in the architecture only) I have seen is sandboxie... but the app has a different focus.
I wish there was something like that for Linux or Windows.
They used it to buy this bridge I was selling in the middle of...
The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap, not that Linux is in any way incomplete.
Yup, that's 100% Adobe's fault... and also 100% Linux problem.
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Shit... these kernel level nomenclatures and intricacies are so over my head.
That reminds me of the questions asked by the USA immigration office (in the form of the immigration form), something like:
Have you been a member of a terrorist group?
Do you plan to make a terrorist attack in the USA?
Do you plan to introduce illegal drugs to the USA?
I have always wondered why to they aim to achieve with these sort of questions...
Jeez, that is actually what they show in The S.N. movie! Even, the way they paint it, Zuckerberg stopped his friends ambitions of putting advertising for a long time!
Hey, I do not hate Zuckerberg (yup, that's the man himself in slashdot!.
As always, there is a vocal majority in Slashdot that gets their panties in a bunch about public web pages making public information that people willfully upload.
I even find it funny how (if you see /. as a whole) the same site that bitches about Facebook publishing data, gets all crazy when a lady wants to maintain some information published in her webpage as private.
You raise a really good point.
Linux still has (and has ALWAYS had) a lot of problems with hardware. A lot of the leading edge stuff does not work. This problem is as old as WinModems if not older (that was the first time I stumbled with a Linux hardware issue)
In addition as others pointed out, there's really no software in Linux which is equivalent to say iLife and the like. Every time someone mention a Linux (open source) equivalent, said program is 2 or 3 years away (e.g., F-spot, showtell, kino, etc).
Now, the typical answer to these criticisms is that is that the problem lies within hardware manufacturers or software developers (not providing software/firmware for the Linux platform); nevertheless in reality even if it is not Linux fault, it is still its problem.
That's nostalgia talking, there was plenty of crap on the NES, and plenty of great games on the PSone.
Note that GP is not saying otherwise. Oh how I hated those wrestling games (where nothing happened as you pressed the buttons).
What GP is referring to IMHO is some of the good games that are so classic (SMB1, SMB3, chip'n'dale rescure rangers, Ninja Gaiden2 [IMO] etc) which a lot of people still play and enjoy.
I am sure there should be some of those in other consoles, but even in Nintendo consoles, games (for me) became use-and-throw. I skipped 1 generation (N64) and when I finally got it, I tried playing Mario 64, Golden Eye and all that... but it was boring. (because the main appeal of the game were the graphics... and when I played them there were games with muuuch better graphics)
Bah... the confidentiality of those decisions is nothing new and nothing specially applied to Assange.
My wife was denied a work permit in Germany (I have a full time work there, and she was offered anther job, but the auslanderbehörde denied the permit). When she asked the reasons they also said that they won't share the decisions made by the immigration office.
In a dream world I'd have Apple do my marketing and OS development, Microsoft do my tools and services development and business negotiations, and Google do my infrastructure development.
This.
In my dream world Steve Jobs would be CEO of Microsoft.
Now, wait just a second. No, I am not an Apple Fanboy (shit, I do not own any Apple product nor do I plan to buy one... as I am a poor bastard).
Nevertheless, I know Steve Jobs is a marketing genius and one of the *best* CEO a consumer technology company could get.
So true.
Remember when Mozilla organized to publish an ad in a news paper? I think Canonical should organize something like that (what about a video on the superbowl!). I would certainly donate!