The human eye cannot adjust to two different brightness levels at the same time. So the brightness of the display must be similar to the environment. If someone has to sit in a dim room, then, and only then, it is correct to use dark background. But working in a dim room is a bad idea to begin with.
That's way faster to read than anything on a bleed-your-yeys white background.
You should 1. setup good lighting 2. adjust your monitor to the lighting
and then you won't want to go back to black background. There is a reason why we use white paper and dark ink. There are a few people who indeed need dark background, but that is related to serious eye disorders.
There seems to be a way to screw the three-strike scheme: At least a third of the adult internet subscribers of a country starts to illegally download a song, then they report themself to the police. The author of that song guarantees that he will not seek any damages. Neither the police is able to handle so many cases, nor it is acceptable for the government to disconnect millions of Internet subscribers.
I bought the basic kit of Cambridge BrainBox to my son at 5, and this was the most successful gift to date. He played with it for nearly 2 years. He got the advanced kits of the Cambridge BrainBoxand, then later breadboards, discrete components and digital ICs. But it holds out so long time only if you have some knowledge in electronics and you are willing to spend an hour almost each day to help him.
I found that the most important is to choose a language which you know well. My son was 6 years old when his grandfather teached him C++ using the free Turbo C++. I regularly coded in C++ several years ago, but frequently it took me an hour to answer a simple question. This doesn't work in the long run.
The second important experience was that these children live in a different world, they are motivated by different things then we were interested decades ago. They see windowed applications and 3D games. Therefore my son is not interested in command line programs and old games. He likes to write a Notepad clone or a music recorder.
Disclaimer: the best way to help a 14 years old boy may and likely be completely different.
You should admit that you need a prebuilt machine, and custom built machines are not for you anymore.
If somebody does want a custom machine then he also has to select a power supply which best suits his particular needs and which has an appropriate price point. For example even if you have a specific goal, like building a silent machine, you have to select between completely passive and low noise power supplies - both type has their advantage.
I have been using side tabs for at least a year in Opera for exactly the same reasons you wrote. It does work very well, especially if you like to open and leave tabs for days. I have 40 tabs now, I can read the title of all, and I still have enough space to read pages from one and a half meters in 180% zoom.
You don't have to be good in assembly but I find it strange that a university doesn't demand some knowledge about it, e.g. a 1000 instructions small project written in assembly.
You should even go deeper at the same time and learn simple things about digital circuits.
Then you will have some feelings about what actually happens when you write something like
int a = 1;
I can imagine that somebody can be very good coder without this - but I have't seen such a case:) And it really doesn't require significant effort compared to the timescale of graduating in a univerity.
well, maybe skydiving was a wrong example. However, I know quite a few hang-glider and paraglider pilots, including myself, who have more problems with standing on a table then with hanging under their wing at 2000 meters. I was surprised how many pilots have similar feelings about these situations.
You fear of instability. An aircraft is stable. If you sit in it in a seat you are in a stable situation. I haven't tried it but I guess even if you jump out of it with a parachute you feel safe, because the parachute and you together make a stable system (you can assume that you eventually open it, it opens successfully etc.).
On the other hand if you stand on a 1 meter tall table you fear because you are in a physically instable position.
The problem is that the laws of two countries are different but you can be the subject of both laws. And the laws may contradict. I talked with a friend today, he is a lawyer, and he said that you can be arrested in the USA if you don't comply with the USA law (assuming that you travel to there), on the other hand if you do comply then you will be punished in your own country. One of their clients were in such a situation recently, and I was also in a similar situation this week. This was a friendly conversation only, and not legal advice, so I may be wrong, but it can be said that the current rules are not well defined in an internatinal context.
I would join but only if there is an NTP server implemented in Java. I do have a few windows servers but I am not a professional admin and don't know much about ntp servers, so I don't trust any native program. If it would run on a Java virtual machine than it is OK.
Corruption cannot be excluded, but the mentioned government office successfully defended its resolutions quite a few times against large regional corporations. If there is a problem with Hungarian judges it is not corruption but that they are almost always on the side of the government offices, even if that side is obviously wrong. This behaviour is working against Microsoft now.
Open technologies/standards should be licensed in such a way that the license can be revoked if a licensee patents something using that technology. So if Amazon patents a storage system which uses web services then they are not allowed to use web services anymore. However this doesn't help against patent troll companies as they are not interested in creating any useful thing. Hopefully these trolls will sue Amazon for a few billion dollars very soon.
3 years ago Kodak extorted $98 million from Sun, using worthless software patents related to Java. At the same time Sun - with the help of many other people and comapny - gives Java for mostly free. For me this was the most infamous known abuse of the broken US patent system.
Therefore it is somehow unlikely that I ever purchase something which has the smalllest relation for Kodak, but I am glad to hear that they will have smaller income from cartridges.
if the emulator itself runs on x86 then the just in time compiler of the Java runtime may optimize the code enough that we get back almost the original assembly code... but without any buffer overflows and other security problems - theoretically.
In Hungary (an EU member) I read almost every week about serious penalties inflicted on local companies by the government institute responsible for the competitive business environment. And these companies frequently do less harm then Microsoft and none of them are nearly as arrogant. Despite these facts the EU threats Microsoft quite carefully.
moreover, it really doesn't matter how did you become a monopoly. If you are then you have to play very nicely, like a non-monopoly.
Otherwise the government must restore the competitive environment or control the monopoly, e.g. define its prices.
Here EU wants to create the possibility of some competition, not to help other competitors (although that is a necessary side-effect).
The advice to turn off anti-virus and firewall may indicate that those "security" products are frequently flawed and difficult to use for a typical casual gamer. I remember a Symantec product modified our html pages on the fly and rendered them completely useless. In that particular case even switching off of these security product didn't help, because the browser cached the modified files.
We haven't measured the effect of ad-blocking yet on our site, but it may not be as simple. If ad-blocking is turned on by default or by almost default (e.g. a "security" software asks the user if he doesn't want to see ads during setup) then ad-blocking can indeed cause problems. For example we knew about a custom made software designed specifically for our site (because the usual ad-blockers don't work here) spreading in our user community. Btw. paying subscribers don't get ads, and it is very cheap, but very few people subscribe even from those who spend an hour every day here. It seems that the ad-blocking people are the ones who don't want ads but don't like to pay either.
Sellers must be from the USA too, and "Country: USA" is actually hard coded HTML on the vendor signup form... Btw. PayPal still don't accept vendors from the new EU member countries. You can buy but not sell if you live there. Considering that the percentage of credit card fraud is significantly lower in these countries then in the old member countries I feel this diffenentiation is quite unashamed. Not that it makes too much difference, in our shop customers can pay using about 6-7 different payment services depending on their country (including Paypal although indirectly), but 90% of the purchases are done using credit cards. Anyway, PayPal made me so angry that I intended to integrate Google's payment service as soon as possible.
maybe you don't remember the DOS filesystem case. They have at least four patents on it, and when each and every digital camera used DOS (to be compatible) they started to demand license fee from camera vendors. That is indeed a very good example on submarine patents - by Microsoft.
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Personally I don't trust in any native apps. Not even in the OS. However, I agree with you on the legal state of Mono.
The human eye cannot adjust to two different brightness levels at the same time. So the brightness of the display must be similar to the environment. If someone has to sit in a dim room, then, and only then, it is correct to use dark background. But working in a dim room is a bad idea to begin with.
That's way faster to read than anything on a bleed-your-yeys white background.
You should
1. setup good lighting
2. adjust your monitor to the lighting
and then you won't want to go back to black background. There is a reason why we use white paper and dark ink.
There are a few people who indeed need dark background, but that is related to serious eye disorders.
There seems to be a way to screw the three-strike scheme:
At least a third of the adult internet subscribers of a country starts to illegally download a song, then they report themself to the police. The author of that song guarantees that he will not seek any damages. Neither the police is able to handle so many cases, nor it is acceptable for the government to disconnect millions of Internet subscribers.
I bought the basic kit of Cambridge BrainBox to my son at 5, and this was the most successful gift to date. He played with it for nearly 2 years. He got the advanced kits of the Cambridge BrainBoxand, then later breadboards, discrete components and digital ICs. But it holds out so long time only if you have some knowledge in electronics and you are willing to spend an hour almost each day to help him.
We are not Yahoo but we are using applets to serve about 1 000 000 unique users per month. E.g. for chess.
I found that the most important is to choose a language which you know well. My son was 6 years old when his grandfather teached him C++ using the free Turbo C++. I regularly coded in C++ several years ago, but frequently it took me an hour to answer a simple question. This doesn't work in the long run.
The second important experience was that these children live in a different world, they are motivated by different things then we were interested decades ago. They see windowed applications and 3D games. Therefore my son is not interested in command line programs and old games. He likes to write a Notepad clone or a music recorder.
Disclaimer: the best way to help a 14 years old boy may and likely be completely different.
You should admit that you need a prebuilt machine, and custom built machines are not for you anymore. If somebody does want a custom machine then he also has to select a power supply which best suits his particular needs and which has an appropriate price point. For example even if you have a specific goal, like building a silent machine, you have to select between completely passive and low noise power supplies - both type has their advantage.
I have been using side tabs for at least a year in Opera for exactly the same reasons you wrote. It does work very well, especially if you like to open and leave tabs for days. I have 40 tabs now, I can read the title of all, and I still have enough space to read pages from one and a half meters in 180% zoom.
You don't have to be good in assembly but I find it strange that a university doesn't demand some knowledge about it, e.g. a 1000 instructions small project written in assembly. You should even go deeper at the same time and learn simple things about digital circuits. Then you will have some feelings about what actually happens when you write something like int a = 1; I can imagine that somebody can be very good coder without this - but I have't seen such a case :) And it really doesn't require significant effort compared to the timescale of graduating in a univerity.
well, maybe skydiving was a wrong example. However, I know quite a few hang-glider and paraglider pilots, including myself, who have more problems with standing on a table then with hanging under their wing at 2000 meters. I was surprised how many pilots have similar feelings about these situations.
You fear of instability. An aircraft is stable. If you sit in it in a seat you are in a stable situation. I haven't tried it but I guess even if you jump out of it with a parachute you feel safe, because the parachute and you together make a stable system (you can assume that you eventually open it, it opens successfully etc.). On the other hand if you stand on a 1 meter tall table you fear because you are in a physically instable position.
The problem is that the laws of two countries are different but you can be the subject of both laws. And the laws may contradict. I talked with a friend today, he is a lawyer, and he said that you can be arrested in the USA if you don't comply with the USA law (assuming that you travel to there), on the other hand if you do comply then you will be punished in your own country. One of their clients were in such a situation recently, and I was also in a similar situation this week. This was a friendly conversation only, and not legal advice, so I may be wrong, but it can be said that the current rules are not well defined in an internatinal context.
I would join but only if there is an NTP server implemented in Java. I do have a few windows servers but I am not a professional admin and don't know much about ntp servers, so I don't trust any native program. If it would run on a Java virtual machine than it is OK.
Well, there is at least one legal copy of XP in Hungary. But hopefully this was the last time I paid the Microsoft tax.
Corruption cannot be excluded, but the mentioned government office successfully defended its resolutions quite a few times against large regional corporations. If there is a problem with Hungarian judges it is not corruption but that they are almost always on the side of the government offices, even if that side is obviously wrong. This behaviour is working against Microsoft now.
Open technologies/standards should be licensed in such a way that the license can be revoked if a licensee patents something using that technology. So if Amazon patents a storage system which uses web services then they are not allowed to use web services anymore. However this doesn't help against patent troll companies as they are not interested in creating any useful thing. Hopefully these trolls will sue Amazon for a few billion dollars very soon.
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Therefore it is somehow unlikely that I ever purchase something which has the smalllest relation for Kodak, but I am glad to hear that they will have smaller income from cartridges.
if the emulator itself runs on x86 then the just in time compiler of the Java runtime may optimize the code enough that we get back almost the original assembly code... but without any buffer overflows and other security problems - theoretically.
In Hungary (an EU member) I read almost every week about serious penalties inflicted on local companies by the government institute responsible for the competitive business environment. And these companies frequently do less harm then Microsoft and none of them are nearly as arrogant. Despite these facts the EU threats Microsoft quite carefully.
moreover, it really doesn't matter how did you become a monopoly. If you are then you have to play very nicely, like a non-monopoly. Otherwise the government must restore the competitive environment or control the monopoly, e.g. define its prices. Here EU wants to create the possibility of some competition, not to help other competitors (although that is a necessary side-effect).
The advice to turn off anti-virus and firewall may indicate that those "security" products are frequently flawed and difficult to use for a typical casual gamer. I remember a Symantec product modified our html pages on the fly and rendered them completely useless. In that particular case even switching off of these security product didn't help, because the browser cached the modified files.
We haven't measured the effect of ad-blocking yet on our site, but it may not be as simple. If ad-blocking is turned on by default or by almost default (e.g. a "security" software asks the user if he doesn't want to see ads during setup) then ad-blocking can indeed cause problems. For example we knew about a custom made software designed specifically for our site (because the usual ad-blockers don't work here) spreading in our user community. Btw. paying subscribers don't get ads, and it is very cheap, but very few people subscribe even from those who spend an hour every day here. It seems that the ad-blocking people are the ones who don't want ads but don't like to pay either.
Sellers must be from the USA too, and "Country: USA" is actually hard coded HTML on the vendor signup form...
Btw. PayPal still don't accept vendors from the new EU member countries. You can buy but not sell if you live there. Considering that the percentage of credit card fraud is significantly lower in these countries then in the old member countries I feel this diffenentiation is quite unashamed.
Not that it makes too much difference, in our shop customers can pay using about 6-7 different payment services depending on their country (including Paypal although indirectly), but 90% of the purchases are done using credit cards.
Anyway, PayPal made me so angry that I intended to integrate Google's payment service as soon as possible.
maybe you don't remember the DOS filesystem case. They have at least four patents on it, and when each and every digital camera used DOS (to be compatible) they started to demand license fee from camera vendors. That is indeed a very good example on submarine patents - by Microsoft.