Language is just being able to communicate, right? I lived in China for 6 years and one of my best buddies was an Australian dude that couldnt speak a lick of Chinese. We'd be out at a restaurant and he would order beers by pointing at his nose, then his beer, and then hold up some fingers to indicate how many he wanted. It never failed. My chinese got pretty decent so I could ask for 2 beers in Chinese but sometimes the locals don't expect a white dude to be speaking chinese so they just looked at me like a fool 20% of the time. He had 100% success rate. So who was better at the language?
What I'm curious about is how will different algorithms from different manufacturers all react to each other? Is there a standard set of rules that Google/Tesla/etc are all working together on? i.e. What happens when one mfgr's car does something mfgr B's car doesn't recognize or "agree" to?
Further, if the rules states "minimum distance is 3 car lengths" then how does it know when the brakes have worn out and 3 car lengths is no longer a safe distance? Is the onus on the car or the owner at that point? Will the car just refuse to turn on if it senses that work needs to be done?
What happens when a tire blows and the car goes into a spin? (I've seen this a number of times). Has Google's autonomous car blown a tire at highway speeds?
If you are in classic UI, hit the windows key and then start typing.
Searching for apps is actually faster now if you are already in the Metro interface and EXACTLY the same as Win7 if you are not. I know we like to bash on Windows 8 but at least bash with something useful.
or people that actually used the system decided that having 16 small icons on 1/4-1/3 of the screen was actually more useful than pinning all of them to the taskbar. and that hitting a single icon would get them back to where they were used to (or even boot directly into).
yes, some of the settings are obfuscated in win8 but by no means worse than the current generation of ubuntu or mint. i run all 3 currently. one of my biggest gripes about ubuntu right now (unity, to be fair) is that when i RCE to my win7 pc, and hit the start key, the unity search app also loads. i also absolutely cannot alt+tab between windows of the same app. i have to alt-`. talk about a change from the norm. way more annoying than anything ive ever faced with win8.
you sound like the guy earlier who took 5 years to get a "stable" win7 system. im 99% sure you've never even used a win8 system and just mock it according to slashdot trolls who hate change. you mocked win3 to win95. you mocked win95 to win98. you mocked 98 to me (rightly so). even though nt was stable, you mocked that too. let's hate microsoft. vista? f vista! even though it was stable as crap a year after release and device manufacturers actually got around to producing quality drivers. but lets all hate on microsoft because why the hell not? my surface pro 2 is probably the best piece of hardware i've ever purchased. and that includes an alienware m17rx3 that likely still outperforms (or damn close) current gen macbook pros.
what is inherently wrong with a single OS philosophy? google just threw it in our face at google i/o a few days ago. i don't see you complaining about that. but it's google isn't it? they steal our privacy and we love them for it. apple locks us in to the app store and we couldn't be more happy. at least microsoft is putting out products that we can (mostly) do what we want with.
And this exact same thing didn't happen before facebook? Before the Internet? Are you out of your mind?
Kids -can be- freaking dumb.... they don't fully understand the world yet and what their actions actually mean. Hence, the term kids. How much have you changed and realized from 14 to 30, to 40, to 50? Every day now (I'm in my early 30s), I deal with something that I would have handled differently as little as 6 months ago.
Facebook is not the problem. One could argue it's the parents problems for not "raising" their kids properly and to some extent I would agree. However, think about what you did when you were a teenager. Did you ever lie to your parents and say you were going to your best friends house for a sleepover while you were really going to a party to get drunk? I did. If you were a happy, successful kid, why would you parents not believe you? I exploited that in my parents and most of us have.
This is a sad, sad story. I hate reading about stuff like this. But this is not FB causing problems. If FB did not exist, a simple email with the video file to the entire school does exactly the same if not even more damage. If the Internet didn't exist, a USB drive would have gone around the school. End result? Same.
0) I don't live in Shanghai (100km west of shanghai) so this is only my observations.
1) Yes, they are 2 person scooters. Problem is, everyday (multiple times a day) you will see 3-4 people on the same e-bike and a lot of times with a CHILD riding backwards across the driver.
2) Half of Shanghai's population? doubtful. You obviously didn't ride in a car while in Shanghai. My home is Atlanta which is notoriously bad for traffic. Atlanta has nothing on Shanghai.
3) Lessons from the Chinese regarding e-bikes vs. cars? I've been in China for almost 5 years. Just today, I was getting out of a taxi and I looked out the window to see if I was clear to open the door (right side of car, they drive on the right side of the road). No one was visible so I opened the door. Some Chinese guy on a e-bike decided to jet out of the shopping center in between 2 cars stopped very close to one another and I almost took his head off. This is not an uncommon occurrence. Chinese people driving cars OR e-bikes just don't look/care where they are going. They automatically have the right of way (in their mind) and nothing could possibly go wrong (in their mind).
Now, I've lived here in China for almost of 5 years. I've only seen a handful of car accidents. Way less than in the States. Part of that is that I'm not in a car much myself (I don't drive - quick trips in taxis) and part of that is that cars in general drive much slower than in America. However, I have seen significantly more gruesome e-bike accidents on a bi-weekly basis. They don't wear helmets, they don't look AT ALL, and they drive like they own the road. Guess what? When a taxi stops and u try to fly by it, the door WILL open and you WILL get knocked on your ass at some point because you are not paying attention and generally being a d-bag.
As much as I dislike (not used to) the Win8 interface, I can't disagree with you more.
Win3 "FORCED" a new interface onto users. Win95 "FORCED" a new interface onto users. Vista/7 "FORCED" a new interface onto users. Guess what? Did you stay with the old style or adapt? You adapted.
Like it or not, -everything- will have touch capabilities in the near future. Kudos to MS for trying something different.
How can you "grow" into a metro-style interface? It's either there or it isn't. If you boot into the Win7 style and make metro an option, no one will do it (not what they are used to blah blah blah - why even code a new OS then anyways). However, if you make metro the default and make the old-style desktop an option, people will have less desire/need to go to the desktop. I agree that metro is currently not refined nearly enough but that will change soon enough. And I will say that I believe that metro is refined enough for the majority of users who would not be considered "power users."
Define "played faster." Sorry, but no one really gives two piles of dung if the game runs at 270 fps or 303 fps.
Crashed less? I haven't had a game crash on me since Vista. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones where Vista actually had solid drivers for everything or maybe I was one of the smart ones who did research and found 100% compatible products to buy. Since Win7, more of the same. I've played WoW through Wine (same hardware).. I've played D2 through Wine (same hardware)... and you're trying to spout this nonsense that games run faster and don't crash in wine? Seriously? I seriously doubt you've ever played any game through Wine.
Don't get me wrong.. it's an amazing product and has gotten better over the years but there is no comparison for running natively than running through an API emulator.
I'd be curious to see numbers running the same tests on the same games with Win7 and OpenGL vs. Linux OpenGL on the same hardware. Why are we comparing OpenGL vs. DirectX? Not apples vs. apples.
I'm pretty sure that I've never been able to access piratebay from China. Even now, I don't even get redirected to Baidu. Nothing comes up in the browser at all. The "to"s below are timeouts *s that slashdot said I had too many junk characters;)
tracert -d thepiratebay.org
Tracing route to thepiratebay.org [83.140.65.11] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.1
2 to to to Request timed out.
3 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 221.224.243.169
4 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 222.92.175.74
5 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 202.97.27.110
6 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms 202.97.39.165
7 9 ms 9 ms 14 ms 202.97.44.58
8 to to to Request timed out.
9 to to to Request timed out.
10 to to to Request timed out.
11 to ^C
I've been back and forth to China a few times over the last 6 months and have had no issues bringing 2 laptops with me (personal and work) and getting them back to the states unchecked.
I've also heard the stories on the news and it is a bit disheartening but again, I've had zero problems myself.
lag really really helps on the Razoregore fight... but right after him is Vael - good luck beating him with any type of lag at all. There's plenty of guilds on my server that have had Vael on farm status for months but took 8 tries to kill him the past couple weeks because of ridiculous lag.
If you have never killed Razoregore before, it's a VERY good idea to go in there with the lag. You see the mob come up to you and you have time to run away before they ever get a swing off. Compare that with no lag and by the time you see them, it's too late and they 3 hit you for 1500 dmg with a daze effect. lag = good for razore so do it while you can.
The Cylons were created by Man. They Rebelled. They Evolved. They Look and Feel Human. Some are programmed to think they are Human. There are many copies. And they have a Plan.
Prompt patching, migrating users, and adding new servers have *not* fixed the problem as many realms are unplayable at peak hours. Many servers also have large queues (30+ minutes) on a nightly basis. Once you login, find an instance group and get halfway through, the server dies. You wait for an hour, the server comes back up. If you're lucky, you get right in and wait on your team to show back up. If you're unlucky, you wait another 30 minutes in queue. You finally get back in and voila, you are now sitting in a freshly reset instance - all progress lost.
I had seen BT as a place to snag nothing but rips of movies, and I've stayed away. The legal-usese BT community needs to do a better job of promoting the positive and allowable uses of BT and P2P sharing tools. They have a way to negative stigma right now.
Well, there are plenty of "legal" uses that are quite popular and widely used. For example, Blizzard distributes all of its patches to World of Warcraft over the BT protocol. If this doesn't show how the community is promoting legal uses of the protocol, I'm not sure what would.
The negative stigma you speak of seems to be a personal issue you have with what you have "heard" and not what you have "researched."
This looks really nice. I had to get rid of my Danger Hiptop (TMobile Sidekick) because of the incredible bulk. This looks like a great replacement for it, although lacking the nifty keypad and "cool" swivel-screen. And of course, the PDA functions of it should be a lot more refined than the Hiptop.
I don't see any specifics stating it will be GPRS capable. Anyone have any insight?
I'm glad to see that they are still making headway with Mozilla. However, I recently installed MozillaFirebird, and I won't be looking back anytime soon. I suggest you give it a try. Also, check out MozillaThunderbird for your mail needs.
I doubt you will even read my comment but I'm going to have to agree with you on this. I took a class in college that dealt with UI design and the the fundamental lesson we learned was that manuals are bad. If you design something and the user can not operate it without turning to a manual, then you've failed.
I don't see why this is much different with OS's. However, I actually enjoy sitting down and trying to learn something new. Something that may not be completely intuitive. It often gives me a sense of accomplishment and I feel it contributes to my overall understanding of how things work. I'm also not your joe-user either.
Not trying to be funny here, but aren't cell phones tracking devices anyways? 80% of the time when someone calls my cell, they ask "Where are you" or "What are you doing?"
Not all that different than a "real" tracking system if you ask me.
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Language is just being able to communicate, right? I lived in China for 6 years and one of my best buddies was an Australian dude that couldnt speak a lick of Chinese. We'd be out at a restaurant and he would order beers by pointing at his nose, then his beer, and then hold up some fingers to indicate how many he wanted. It never failed. My chinese got pretty decent so I could ask for 2 beers in Chinese but sometimes the locals don't expect a white dude to be speaking chinese so they just looked at me like a fool 20% of the time. He had 100% success rate. So who was better at the language?
I can never remember what directory mein.conf is located in.
What I'm curious about is how will different algorithms from different manufacturers all react to each other? Is there a standard set of rules that Google/Tesla/etc are all working together on? i.e. What happens when one mfgr's car does something mfgr B's car doesn't recognize or "agree" to?
Further, if the rules states "minimum distance is 3 car lengths" then how does it know when the brakes have worn out and 3 car lengths is no longer a safe distance? Is the onus on the car or the owner at that point? Will the car just refuse to turn on if it senses that work needs to be done?
What happens when a tire blows and the car goes into a spin? (I've seen this a number of times). Has Google's autonomous car blown a tire at highway speeds?
ctrl + f5 does wonders...
If you are in Metro, just start typing.
If you are in classic UI, hit the windows key and then start typing.
Searching for apps is actually faster now if you are already in the Metro interface and EXACTLY the same as Win7 if you are not. I know we like to bash on Windows 8 but at least bash with something useful.
or people that actually used the system decided that having 16 small icons on 1/4-1/3 of the screen was actually more useful than pinning all of them to the taskbar. and that hitting a single icon would get them back to where they were used to (or even boot directly into).
yes, some of the settings are obfuscated in win8 but by no means worse than the current generation of ubuntu or mint. i run all 3 currently. one of my biggest gripes about ubuntu right now (unity, to be fair) is that when i RCE to my win7 pc, and hit the start key, the unity search app also loads. i also absolutely cannot alt+tab between windows of the same app. i have to alt-`. talk about a change from the norm. way more annoying than anything ive ever faced with win8.
you sound like the guy earlier who took 5 years to get a "stable" win7 system. im 99% sure you've never even used a win8 system and just mock it according to slashdot trolls who hate change. you mocked win3 to win95. you mocked win95 to win98. you mocked 98 to me (rightly so). even though nt was stable, you mocked that too. let's hate microsoft. vista? f vista! even though it was stable as crap a year after release and device manufacturers actually got around to producing quality drivers. but lets all hate on microsoft because why the hell not? my surface pro 2 is probably the best piece of hardware i've ever purchased. and that includes an alienware m17rx3 that likely still outperforms (or damn close) current gen macbook pros.
what is inherently wrong with a single OS philosophy? google just threw it in our face at google i/o a few days ago. i don't see you complaining about that. but it's google isn't it? they steal our privacy and we love them for it. apple locks us in to the app store and we couldn't be more happy. at least microsoft is putting out products that we can (mostly) do what we want with.
laughable. 5 years since win7 has been released and it took you this long to get a "reliable" system? do some research before you buy shit hardware.
And this exact same thing didn't happen before facebook? Before the Internet? Are you out of your mind?
Kids -can be- freaking dumb.... they don't fully understand the world yet and what their actions actually mean. Hence, the term kids. How much have you changed and realized from 14 to 30, to 40, to 50? Every day now (I'm in my early 30s), I deal with something that I would have handled differently as little as 6 months ago.
Facebook is not the problem. One could argue it's the parents problems for not "raising" their kids properly and to some extent I would agree. However, think about what you did when you were a teenager. Did you ever lie to your parents and say you were going to your best friends house for a sleepover while you were really going to a party to get drunk? I did. If you were a happy, successful kid, why would you parents not believe you? I exploited that in my parents and most of us have.
This is a sad, sad story. I hate reading about stuff like this. But this is not FB causing problems. If FB did not exist, a simple email with the video file to the entire school does exactly the same if not even more damage. If the Internet didn't exist, a USB drive would have gone around the school. End result? Same.
Blame FB if you want, but you're dumb.
yea because the 1% of the market that belongs to linux users will definitely hurt WD's bottom line.
0) I don't live in Shanghai (100km west of shanghai) so this is only my observations.
1) Yes, they are 2 person scooters. Problem is, everyday (multiple times a day) you will see 3-4 people on the same e-bike and a lot of times with a CHILD riding backwards across the driver.
2) Half of Shanghai's population? doubtful. You obviously didn't ride in a car while in Shanghai. My home is Atlanta which is notoriously bad for traffic. Atlanta has nothing on Shanghai.
3) Lessons from the Chinese regarding e-bikes vs. cars? I've been in China for almost 5 years. Just today, I was getting out of a taxi and I looked out the window to see if I was clear to open the door (right side of car, they drive on the right side of the road). No one was visible so I opened the door. Some Chinese guy on a e-bike decided to jet out of the shopping center in between 2 cars stopped very close to one another and I almost took his head off. This is not an uncommon occurrence. Chinese people driving cars OR e-bikes just don't look/care where they are going. They automatically have the right of way (in their mind) and nothing could possibly go wrong (in their mind).
Now, I've lived here in China for almost of 5 years. I've only seen a handful of car accidents. Way less than in the States. Part of that is that I'm not in a car much myself (I don't drive - quick trips in taxis) and part of that is that cars in general drive much slower than in America. However, I have seen significantly more gruesome e-bike accidents on a bi-weekly basis. They don't wear helmets, they don't look AT ALL, and they drive like they own the road. Guess what? When a taxi stops and u try to fly by it, the door WILL open and you WILL get knocked on your ass at some point because you are not paying attention and generally being a d-bag.
As much as I dislike (not used to) the Win8 interface, I can't disagree with you more.
Win3 "FORCED" a new interface onto users. Win95 "FORCED" a new interface onto users. Vista/7 "FORCED" a new interface onto users. Guess what? Did you stay with the old style or adapt? You adapted.
Like it or not, -everything- will have touch capabilities in the near future. Kudos to MS for trying something different.
How can you "grow" into a metro-style interface? It's either there or it isn't. If you boot into the Win7 style and make metro an option, no one will do it (not what they are used to blah blah blah - why even code a new OS then anyways). However, if you make metro the default and make the old-style desktop an option, people will have less desire/need to go to the desktop. I agree that metro is currently not refined nearly enough but that will change soon enough. And I will say that I believe that metro is refined enough for the majority of users who would not be considered "power users."
Define "played faster." Sorry, but no one really gives two piles of dung if the game runs at 270 fps or 303 fps.
Crashed less? I haven't had a game crash on me since Vista. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones where Vista actually had solid drivers for everything or maybe I was one of the smart ones who did research and found 100% compatible products to buy. Since Win7, more of the same. I've played WoW through Wine (same hardware).. I've played D2 through Wine (same hardware)... and you're trying to spout this nonsense that games run faster and don't crash in wine? Seriously? I seriously doubt you've ever played any game through Wine.
Don't get me wrong.. it's an amazing product and has gotten better over the years but there is no comparison for running natively than running through an API emulator.
I'd be curious to see numbers running the same tests on the same games with Win7 and OpenGL vs. Linux OpenGL on the same hardware. Why are we comparing OpenGL vs. DirectX? Not apples vs. apples.
I'm pretty sure that I've never been able to access piratebay from China. Even now, I don't even get redirected to Baidu. Nothing comes up in the browser at all. The "to"s below are timeouts *s that slashdot said I had too many junk characters ;)
tracert -d thepiratebay.org
Tracing route to thepiratebay.org [83.140.65.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.1
2 to to to Request timed out.
3 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 221.224.243.169
4 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 222.92.175.74
5 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 202.97.27.110
6 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms 202.97.39.165
7 9 ms 9 ms 14 ms 202.97.44.58
8 to to to Request timed out.
9 to to to Request timed out.
10 to to to Request timed out.
11 to ^C
I've been back and forth to China a few times over the last 6 months and have had no issues bringing 2 laptops with me (personal and work) and getting them back to the states unchecked.
I've also heard the stories on the news and it is a bit disheartening but again, I've had zero problems myself.
lag really really helps on the Razoregore fight... but right after him is Vael - good luck beating him with any type of lag at all. There's plenty of guilds on my server that have had Vael on farm status for months but took 8 tries to kill him the past couple weeks because of ridiculous lag.
If you have never killed Razoregore before, it's a VERY good idea to go in there with the lag. You see the mob come up to you and you have time to run away before they ever get a swing off. Compare that with no lag and by the time you see them, it's too late and they 3 hit you for 1500 dmg with a daze effect. lag = good for razore so do it while you can.
I don't need federal protection from that Night Elf who keeps /chickening my Orc.
Reroll on a PvP server plzkthxbai.
Didn't these guys see what happened on BSG? /sigh
The Cylons were created by Man.
They Rebelled.
They Evolved.
They Look and Feel Human.
Some are programmed to think they are Human.
There are many copies.
And they have a Plan.
Prompt patching, migrating users, and adding new servers have *not* fixed the problem as many realms are unplayable at peak hours. Many servers also have large queues (30+ minutes) on a nightly basis. Once you login, find an instance group and get halfway through, the server dies. You wait for an hour, the server comes back up. If you're lucky, you get right in and wait on your team to show back up. If you're unlucky, you wait another 30 minutes in queue. You finally get back in and voila, you are now sitting in a freshly reset instance - all progress lost.
What exactly are you doing to fix these problems?
I had seen BT as a place to snag nothing but rips of movies, and I've stayed away. The legal-usese BT community needs to do a better job of promoting the positive and allowable uses of BT and P2P sharing tools. They have a way to negative stigma right now.
Well, there are plenty of "legal" uses that are quite popular and widely used. For example, Blizzard distributes all of its patches to World of Warcraft over the BT protocol. If this doesn't show how the community is promoting legal uses of the protocol, I'm not sure what would.
The negative stigma you speak of seems to be a personal issue you have with what you have "heard" and not what you have "researched."
This looks really nice. I had to get rid of my Danger Hiptop (TMobile Sidekick) because of the incredible bulk. This looks like a great replacement for it, although lacking the nifty keypad and "cool" swivel-screen. And of course, the PDA functions of it should be a lot more refined than the Hiptop.
I don't see any specifics stating it will be GPRS capable. Anyone have any insight?
Because more time than not, the application-specific programs (not suites) do the job better and more reliable.
I'm glad to see that they are still making headway with Mozilla. However, I recently installed MozillaFirebird, and I won't be looking back anytime soon. I suggest you give it a try. Also, check out MozillaThunderbird for your mail needs.
http://mozilla.org/products/firebird/
http://mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
I doubt you will even read my comment but I'm going to have to agree with you on this. I took a class in college that dealt with UI design and the the fundamental lesson we learned was that manuals are bad. If you design something and the user can not operate it without turning to a manual, then you've failed.
I don't see why this is much different with OS's. However, I actually enjoy sitting down and trying to learn something new. Something that may not be completely intuitive. It often gives me a sense of accomplishment and I feel it contributes to my overall understanding of how things work. I'm also not your joe-user either.
Not trying to be funny here, but aren't cell phones tracking devices anyways? 80% of the time when someone calls my cell, they ask "Where are you" or "What are you doing?"
Not all that different than a "real" tracking system if you ask me.
this sure will help me keep one hand free while looking at these 1600x1200 "pictures."