Agreed. I've heard so many people singing the praises of the Dualshock, and I can't for the life of me understand why. What Nintendo gets about controller design that no one else seems to is this: I can play better and react faster when I can feel the difference in the buttons. Be it convex vs. concave as on SNES, different sizes as on N64, or totally different shapes (bean, anybody?) on GameCube. The point is that I don't have to waste precious seconds looking for the difference between "circle" and "square".
The other all-important thing that Nintendo nailed that I feel Sony fell-short on is the ergonomic design of the thing. It's like a glove. The wings curve with your palms and are the perfect size for a tight, tense grip. Likewise, the buttons (save for the bastard Z) are all exactly where they feel they should be. In contrast to what Sony and MS are putting out (Xbox 360's is a bit better), Nintendo's controllers are simply a pleasure to use.
Nintendo's original controller design did not include a Z-button. Developers didn't very well like this change, so it was included as a last-minute addition (and it shows).
For the record, the entire Math department at my school (Temple University) is set up on Suse and there are a few computer labs around campus with RHEL boxes. All of the main computer labs are about 2/3 Windows 1/3 Mac.
Moreover, it's painfully obvious that for the bottom and side images the front was simply mirrored. You can tell from the lighting, bevels, and not to mention the lack of any way to open the battey case.
Christian burial has nothing to do with when the soul leaves the body, but rather when it returns. The idea is that at the time of the second coming, all souls not condemned will return to their resurrected bodies and ascend directly to heaven. That's why burial is a required practice, and cremation was banned until Vatican II.
Good advice. I've only touched the stuff twice since that experience, but I'm planning on laying off completely for awhile. I don't take any vitamins, and it's quite possible that it might relate to that -- I take awful care of myself (diet consisting mostly of pepsi and cafeteria trash). Maybe I'll look into supplements. What I'm interested in is the idea of it being a learned change. The experience was extremely intense and terrifying, so it is a possibility that I got kicked into a mild state of post-trauma something or other. Thanks for the suggestions. If nothing else, it's at least an interesting problem to try to figure out from the inside, even if it does fuck my life up a bit.
I recently (4ish months ago) started smoking pot (age 18 at the time). It took awhile to get the THC flowing, or maybe my technique right, I don't know. Either way, it took a few times before I got high. That worked just fine for awhile. Then, two months ago, I got REALLY high. I don't know why this experience was so much different, but it was, and it's been the same way all of two times I've smoked since then. The problem is that ever since that experience two months ago, I haven't felt the same. At all. For awhile I had thought I had somehow suffered some kind of minor brain damage, because of how fucked up things felt. My attention was shot. My memory was shot. I couldn't focus -- and I don't mean the usual "oh, too distracted" couldn't focus. I mean I was no longer mentally capable of zoning in. It was a very real and very scary phenomenon.
Since then I've managed to adapt to this altered state of mind, and I'm getting along decently, but I can still tell that something is distinctly amiss whenever I really focus on it. I know for a fact that others have gone through a similar transition, although most have simply adapted and forgotten about it. The thing is, either only a very small percentage of people are susceptible to this, or only a very small percentage actually notice it. I don't know which. The lack of any sort of medical documentation on such a phenomenon is the disturbing thing. I've been looking for an explanation for two months now, and I've come up blank. There are a few very rare medical papers describing cases of a "cannabis psychosis" which seems to roughly emulate what I experienced, but all of these are decades old and seem to have gone nowhere. So what's the deal? I'm not sure if I'll ever find out.
With the assumption being that after enough trial and error, eventually we arrive at a point where all explanations fully predict observations. At this point, if we have not arrived at "truth", then we have at least arrived at something so practical as to make "truth" irrelevant.
God created man in His image, so unless the universal standard for perfection includes "suboptimal eye", either God is not perfect, or man was not created in His image and therefore the bible is not accurate (neither answer being acceptable to a creationist).
Or it could be that most people simply live out their lives -- focusing on things they can enjoy without worrying about, instead of bothering with things that are largely out of their (individual) control. This is not me, nor is it many of the/. crowd. But it is most. I could choose to criticize this sort of mass disinterest and probably with good cause, but, I myself remembering a simpler time when I didn't obsess over keeping the world running straight, can't honestly place blame. It seems that it's better to just be happy, even if it is simplistic or delusional.
Indeed, there have been countless iterations of different UIs throughout the history of graphical computing. Linux alone has dozens of disparate DEs and WMs. Fluxbox, FVWM, Window Maker, Enlightenment DR16, XFCE, KDE, and Gnome are among the most popular and most current and stable examples. Keep in mind, of course, that the 'nix desktop is experiencing a huge evolution right now, with projects such as ToPaZ (storyboard) and Luminocity, Appeal with Plasma, SymphonyOS'Mezzo desktop, and Enlightenment DR17.
Don't be ignorant. Examining the behavior of animals that can be thoroughly experimented on is integral to neurological and psychological research. Unless you're about to volunteer yourself for the kind of stuff we can do to lab rats, I suggest you pipe down.
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Agreed. I've heard so many people singing the praises of the Dualshock, and I can't for the life of me understand why. What Nintendo gets about controller design that no one else seems to is this: I can play better and react faster when I can feel the difference in the buttons. Be it convex vs. concave as on SNES, different sizes as on N64, or totally different shapes (bean, anybody?) on GameCube. The point is that I don't have to waste precious seconds looking for the difference between "circle" and "square".
The other all-important thing that Nintendo nailed that I feel Sony fell-short on is the ergonomic design of the thing. It's like a glove. The wings curve with your palms and are the perfect size for a tight, tense grip. Likewise, the buttons (save for the bastard Z) are all exactly where they feel they should be. In contrast to what Sony and MS are putting out (Xbox 360's is a bit better), Nintendo's controllers are simply a pleasure to use.
Nintendo's original controller design did not include a Z-button. Developers didn't very well like this change, so it was included as a last-minute addition (and it shows).
Luminocity became AIGL. As far as I understand it, we now have XGL, XeGL, EXA, and AIGL all offering different acceleration methods.
For the record, the entire Math department at my school (Temple University) is set up on Suse and there are a few computer labs around campus with RHEL boxes. All of the main computer labs are about 2/3 Windows 1/3 Mac.
Moreover, it's painfully obvious that for the bottom and side images the front was simply mirrored. You can tell from the lighting, bevels, and not to mention the lack of any way to open the battey case.
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Christian burial has nothing to do with when the soul leaves the body, but rather when it returns. The idea is that at the time of the second coming, all souls not condemned will return to their resurrected bodies and ascend directly to heaven. That's why burial is a required practice, and cremation was banned until Vatican II.
Good advice. I've only touched the stuff twice since that experience, but I'm planning on laying off completely for awhile. I don't take any vitamins, and it's quite possible that it might relate to that -- I take awful care of myself (diet consisting mostly of pepsi and cafeteria trash). Maybe I'll look into supplements. What I'm interested in is the idea of it being a learned change. The experience was extremely intense and terrifying, so it is a possibility that I got kicked into a mild state of post-trauma something or other. Thanks for the suggestions. If nothing else, it's at least an interesting problem to try to figure out from the inside, even if it does fuck my life up a bit.
I recently (4ish months ago) started smoking pot (age 18 at the time). It took awhile to get the THC flowing, or maybe my technique right, I don't know. Either way, it took a few times before I got high. That worked just fine for awhile.
Then, two months ago, I got REALLY high. I don't know why this experience was so much different, but it was, and it's been the same way all of two times I've smoked since then. The problem is that ever since that experience two months ago, I haven't felt the same. At all. For awhile I had thought I had somehow suffered some kind of minor brain damage, because of how fucked up things felt. My attention was shot. My memory was shot. I couldn't focus -- and I don't mean the usual "oh, too distracted" couldn't focus. I mean I was no longer mentally capable of zoning in. It was a very real and very scary phenomenon.
Since then I've managed to adapt to this altered state of mind, and I'm getting along decently, but I can still tell that something is distinctly amiss whenever I really focus on it. I know for a fact that others have gone through a similar transition, although most have simply adapted and forgotten about it. The thing is, either only a very small percentage of people are susceptible to this, or only a very small percentage actually notice it. I don't know which. The lack of any sort of medical documentation on such a phenomenon is the disturbing thing. I've been looking for an explanation for two months now, and I've come up blank. There are a few very rare medical papers describing cases of a "cannabis psychosis" which seems to roughly emulate what I experienced, but all of these are decades old and seem to have gone nowhere. So what's the deal? I'm not sure if I'll ever find out.
Correction: Windows doesn't walk on a 486, it crawls.
With the assumption being that after enough trial and error, eventually we arrive at a point where all explanations fully predict observations. At this point, if we have not arrived at "truth", then we have at least arrived at something so practical as to make "truth" irrelevant.
God created man in His image, so unless the universal standard for perfection includes "suboptimal eye", either God is not perfect, or man was not created in His image and therefore the bible is not accurate (neither answer being acceptable to a creationist).
Or it could be that most people simply live out their lives -- focusing on things they can enjoy without worrying about, instead of bothering with things that are largely out of their (individual) control. This is not me, nor is it many of the /. crowd. But it is most. I could choose to criticize this sort of mass disinterest and probably with good cause, but, I myself remembering a simpler time when I didn't obsess over keeping the world running straight, can't honestly place blame. It seems that it's better to just be happy, even if it is simplistic or delusional.
Indeed, there have been countless iterations of different UIs throughout the history of graphical computing. Linux alone has dozens of disparate DEs and WMs. Fluxbox, FVWM, Window Maker, Enlightenment DR16, XFCE, KDE, and Gnome are among the most popular and most current and stable examples. Keep in mind, of course, that the 'nix desktop is experiencing a huge evolution right now, with projects such as ToPaZ (storyboard) and Luminocity, Appeal with Plasma, SymphonyOS' Mezzo desktop, and Enlightenment DR17.
Enlightenment.org died a few weeks ago and the owner has gone missing since, so for the time being enlightenment.sourceforge.net is the main site.
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Don't be ignorant. Examining the behavior of animals that can be thoroughly experimented on is integral to neurological and psychological research. Unless you're about to volunteer yourself for the kind of stuff we can do to lab rats, I suggest you pipe down.
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You know this is Slashdot, right?
Not just theoretically, but in practice.
To be fair (and anal), DivX refers to the codec. DIVX was the system you're referring to.