Does this include dialog boxes, too...seems like it could be unwieldy and I prefer to leave it up to the developer like it currently is (users still have task mgr).
window to ever raise itself and grab the keyboard input without my permission
This has been done. In Win7 (and I assume Vista) the app just flashes in the task bar when they attempt to raise focus. Visual Studio is the only app that I can think of that will regain focus and that is only when a debugger detaches after an application finishes running.
About as weird as the idea that Sabbath means not operating an elevator,
I would guess that stems from elevators originally being manually operated by a professional and so it is still considered work. I wonder if they are allowed to make ice cubes on the Sabbath...
Sorry to reply to myself, but I would also like to point out that PS3 does allow this (at least with some games and DLC), but they are much more restrictive on requiring activating and deactivating content that would make the currently well received Steam DRM much less well received by making it more cumbersome to use.
How would Valve prevent users' friends from suddenly all becoming "family"? I suppose they could allow only one person to be playing at a time, which might still be better than purchasing a title multiple times, but it would be a hassle for families with multiple computers and would still be prone to abuse by "friend families".
because the software splashed the license on the screen and would not let him proceed without indicating acceptance
I prefer to simply amend the terms before I agree/click-through (web EULAs are trivial). Just wait until they try to come at me with a terms violation and they find out they owe me millions.
The only games that are peaceful are flight and driving simulators.
I bought that Train simulator game during the Steam Summer Sale just so I could simulate derailing one at a very high speed. Although maybe that's because I was raised with all those evil and violent video games. Lol
Obviously, he didn't grow up in the 8-bit or 16-bit era, where every game involved you killing everything within sight - either with guns, or swords that have the ability to shoot.
You're right. The example that was hot on my brain was for items that had free "super saver shipping", requiring $25 minimum purchase. The main purchase, a chemex coffee pot, was available at multiple sellers and the one I went with would not have been my first choice, but they also sold the filters for it (by themselves less than $25).
There is also some value to be had with only dealing with one company regarding worst-case scenario deliveries or lack of delivery (this has never happened to me from a Marketplace deal, but the thought lingers). Although, I suppose you could argue the opposite if you were looking for supply chain redundancy.
I do consider cost, but if it's in the ballpark, I buy from the highest rated reseller that's closest to me (decreass shipping time). At no time do I buy from a low-rated seller.
I do the same and would add that there are also situations where I'll look to buy multiple items from the same seller to keep shipping times and costs to a minimum....so "keeping your shelves stocked" also plays a role (i.e. having sell orders, in place).
It is of course hard to point to any one thing, but one key difference is that Texas essentially has its own independent power grid with multiple link redundancy for overages. It evolved that way to reduce federal oversight from FERC.
Hand harvesting of fruit and vegetable crops accounts for 50% of total production costs.
You should have also pointed out why, according to your link, it accounts for a number as high as 50%:
They found that progress in harvest mechanization stalled after 1980, both because of the large supply of farmworkers, many of them illegal, and because of an anti-mechanization policy pursued by the federal government since the Carter Administration. The authors argue that this slowing of progress in harvest mechanization has undermined the competitive position of American farmers and allowed foreign countries to leap ahead of the United States in developing new mechanical harvesting technologies.
Some of us eat stuff other than wheat and corn.
Okay, now I am certainly convinced you didn't read your own article and simply searched for a statistic....Table 3 lists about 50 other food items that widely use mechanized or labor-aid harvesting systems (and I did not see wheat on that list).
What I do think is good is the umps themselves reviewing footage, their call, and what the computer says during the off season.
I agree that umps and their errors are part of the game and I agree with the umps reviewing their calls (I would say post-game, though, instead of post-season), but I would like to take it one step further and give them a per game bonus and subtract from it for every blown call they make.
I would also like to see those statistics published, just like the players', whose stats are based on those calls. Then, we would have hard numbers to yell at the umps and we could stop with the more generalized insults we are forced to use (okay, okay maybe not stop, but at least lessen). Lol
Geez, somebody is a little upset. If you calm down and have a conversation maybe people will take you a little more seriously than when you are smearing poop on windows at your little protests...I never said let's all go live in anarchy. Having a strong central federal government dictate those terms is not the only option, as you put forth.
unless YOUR GOVERNMENT can step in and break up the racket...and then there is more WHARGARBBBLE in which you blame the sickness on the patient, and say we should just kill the patient and hand ourselves over to the sickness
You mean the same oligarchy that our federal government has empowered and foisted upon us. The sickness and rot is being caused by our federal government and just like a gangrenous infection, needs to be cut off in order to save the parts that are still healthy.
when does economic history ever inform your beliefs, rather than quasi-religious faith in ideas that never have worked?
As opposed to your Keynesian economic theories that have never worked on their own, cannot work without centrally planned totalitarianism, and are causing a worldwide crash and burn, yes, capitalism does historically have much more to show for itself by empowering entrepreneurship and bringing us towards the classless society that scares the hell out of your oligarch that you empower and all others that depend on class-baiting for their power.
Have a good life. I hope someday you grow up and run a business; maybe you'll learn something more than you did playing crappy movie director and wondering why the man consistently keeps you and your loser friends down.
the solution to thieves creeping in a broken window is not to fix the window,
No, but neither is stealing my window to fix his, just like neither is creating a federal Good Neighbor fund overseen by a cabinet level position and an entire agency. The real solution is for him to fix his own damned window. Sorry Bob, that sucks...maybe some of your real good neighbors will help you get back on your feet.
the difference is the government is suppose to be accountable to you and take your rights into account, while a corporation most emphatically cares about nothing except making more money, be damned your rights
Making more money and making happy customers go hand in hand. What incentive is there for the government? That their boss might get fired in 4 years time?
and you wish to replace the only thing that exists to protect you, however imperfectly: your government, and shift all power to the entities actually infecting your government and taking away your rights, the oligarchy?
This is a strawman argument to the OP and it is where our premises obviously differ, as the very same could be said about giving the same government that has already sold us to corporations even more power (and when taken in this light, your hyperbolic examples are even more fitting). What's that? Your government would be nice and neat and just hasn't been tried, yet--this sounds suspiciously like the no true scotsman fallacy being called on capitalists in the posts above. I believe in personal responsibility, liberty, and sovereignty and do not wish to give any more of that away, whether to government or corporate oligarchs. How about we decentralize the power to limit the span of the corruption, as was the original intent (which I emphatically agree with you, will not be gained by sitting on asses)? Welcome to Texas.
Seems like a step backwards
to function keys. Yuck. Why can't Metro use on-screen buttons?
For the same exact reason that almost every non-touchscreen application has little icons to click with the mouse or shortcut keys to use without moving your hands from the keyboard. Frankly, I viewed the removal of shortcuts from touch interfaces as the step backwards.
I've never heard of children taunted for being slower than their peers at reading. Normally the situation is reversed.
It's only reversed when they raise their hand and tell the teacher they are done and ask for a pop quiz on the subject. Playing dumb, in order to fit in, is a lot easier than playing smart.
I gotcha, locked System apps and all that...thought you were talking about Google's decision to not use USB Mass Storage in the latest Nexus, using MTP, instead.
Google has also been trying to increase their brand presence in Android, which could be another motivating factor for the purchase (in addition to their IP portfolio). I'm afraid you're right that they might lock down their new devices even further, all in the name of security and to protect their brand image.
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it's just like you see on TV.
I'm still waiting for it to separate from the continental US, so that we can use it for a penal colony.
Right-click the taskbar. Click "Show windows side-by-side".
I just did this when I had about 40 windows open...I was not happy. Lol. At least cascade restored the sizes.
I'll stick with windows-key + left and right arrows.
or hide itself from the window browser.
Does this include dialog boxes, too...seems like it could be unwieldy and I prefer to leave it up to the developer like it currently is (users still have task mgr).
window to ever raise itself and grab the keyboard input without my permission
This has been done. In Win7 (and I assume Vista) the app just flashes in the task bar when they attempt to raise focus. Visual Studio is the only app that I can think of that will regain focus and that is only when a debugger detaches after an application finishes running.
About as weird as the idea that Sabbath means not operating an elevator,
I would guess that stems from elevators originally being manually operated by a professional and so it is still considered work. I wonder if they are allowed to make ice cubes on the Sabbath...
Didn't they already do this?
Wow! They might as well say that no programmers are allowed to play our game. They also allegedly screwed over Richard Garriott pretty badly, too.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I would also like to point out that PS3 does allow this (at least with some games and DLC), but they are much more restrictive on requiring activating and deactivating content that would make the currently well received Steam DRM much less well received by making it more cumbersome to use.
How would Valve prevent users' friends from suddenly all becoming "family"? I suppose they could allow only one person to be playing at a time, which might still be better than purchasing a title multiple times, but it would be a hassle for families with multiple computers and would still be prone to abuse by "friend families".
because the software splashed the license on the screen and would not let him proceed without indicating acceptance
I prefer to simply amend the terms before I agree/click-through (web EULAs are trivial). Just wait until they try to come at me with a terms violation and they find out they owe me millions.
The only games that are peaceful are flight and driving simulators.
I bought that Train simulator game during the Steam Summer Sale just so I could simulate derailing one at a very high speed. Although maybe that's because I was raised with all those evil and violent video games. Lol
Obviously, he didn't grow up in the 8-bit or 16-bit era, where every game involved you killing everything within sight - either with guns, or swords that have the ability to shoot.
This taught me to shoot at dogs that laugh at me.
You're right. The example that was hot on my brain was for items that had free "super saver shipping", requiring $25 minimum purchase. The main purchase, a chemex coffee pot, was available at multiple sellers and the one I went with would not have been my first choice, but they also sold the filters for it (by themselves less than $25).
There is also some value to be had with only dealing with one company regarding worst-case scenario deliveries or lack of delivery (this has never happened to me from a Marketplace deal, but the thought lingers). Although, I suppose you could argue the opposite if you were looking for supply chain redundancy.
I do consider cost, but if it's in the ballpark, I buy from the highest rated reseller that's closest to me (decreass shipping time). At no time do I buy from a low-rated seller.
I do the same and would add that there are also situations where I'll look to buy multiple items from the same seller to keep shipping times and costs to a minimum....so "keeping your shelves stocked" also plays a role (i.e. having sell orders, in place).
This was in the fall of 2012. Huh??? That's a few months in the future.
Southern hemisphere?
It is of course hard to point to any one thing, but one key difference is that Texas essentially has its own independent power grid with multiple link redundancy for overages. It evolved that way to reduce federal oversight from FERC.
Hand harvesting of fruit and vegetable crops accounts for 50% of total production costs.
You should have also pointed out why, according to your link, it accounts for a number as high as 50%:
Some of us eat stuff other than wheat and corn.
Okay, now I am certainly convinced you didn't read your own article and simply searched for a statistic....Table 3 lists about 50 other food items that widely use mechanized or labor-aid harvesting systems (and I did not see wheat on that list).
How does one "meltdown" a centrifuge?
1. Build a visual basic GUI.
2. Click "Meltdown" button.
How does one "meltdown" a centrifuge?
1. Build giant electro-arc blast furnace.
2. Place centrifuge inside.
Why not? Surely Amazon can advertise it as "andoid kindle" if they wish.
Am I missing something? Trademark infringement seems like it would stop them.
(Do the older black-and-white kindles have android software?)
Linux kernel, but no Android.
can be played with 1 stick/bat and 1 ball between dozens of kids Let's not forget the bad ass milk container glove.
And ghost-man-on-second if you don't have enough kids.
What I do think is good is the umps themselves reviewing footage, their call, and what the computer says during the off season.
I agree that umps and their errors are part of the game and I agree with the umps reviewing their calls (I would say post-game, though, instead of post-season), but I would like to take it one step further and give them a per game bonus and subtract from it for every blown call they make.
I would also like to see those statistics published, just like the players', whose stats are based on those calls. Then, we would have hard numbers to yell at the umps and we could stop with the more generalized insults we are forced to use (okay, okay maybe not stop, but at least lessen). Lol
unless YOUR GOVERNMENT can step in and break up the racket ...and then there is more WHARGARBBBLE in which you blame the sickness on the patient, and say we should just kill the patient and hand ourselves over to the sickness
You mean the same oligarchy that our federal government has empowered and foisted upon us. The sickness and rot is being caused by our federal government and just like a gangrenous infection, needs to be cut off in order to save the parts that are still healthy.
when does economic history ever inform your beliefs, rather than quasi-religious faith in ideas that never have worked?
As opposed to your Keynesian economic theories that have never worked on their own, cannot work without centrally planned totalitarianism, and are causing a worldwide crash and burn, yes, capitalism does historically have much more to show for itself by empowering entrepreneurship and bringing us towards the classless society that scares the hell out of your oligarch that you empower and all others that depend on class-baiting for their power.
Have a good life. I hope someday you grow up and run a business; maybe you'll learn something more than you did playing crappy movie director and wondering why the man consistently keeps you and your loser friends down.
the solution to thieves creeping in a broken window is not to fix the window,
No, but neither is stealing my window to fix his, just like neither is creating a federal Good Neighbor fund overseen by a cabinet level position and an entire agency. The real solution is for him to fix his own damned window. Sorry Bob, that sucks...maybe some of your real good neighbors will help you get back on your feet.
the difference is the government is suppose to be accountable to you and take your rights into account, while a corporation most emphatically cares about nothing except making more money, be damned your rights
Making more money and making happy customers go hand in hand. What incentive is there for the government? That their boss might get fired in 4 years time?
and you wish to replace the only thing that exists to protect you, however imperfectly: your government, and shift all power to the entities actually infecting your government and taking away your rights, the oligarchy?
This is a strawman argument to the OP and it is where our premises obviously differ, as the very same could be said about giving the same government that has already sold us to corporations even more power (and when taken in this light, your hyperbolic examples are even more fitting). What's that? Your government would be nice and neat and just hasn't been tried, yet--this sounds suspiciously like the no true scotsman fallacy being called on capitalists in the posts above. I believe in personal responsibility, liberty, and sovereignty and do not wish to give any more of that away, whether to government or corporate oligarchs. How about we decentralize the power to limit the span of the corruption, as was the original intent (which I emphatically agree with you, will not be gained by sitting on asses)? Welcome to Texas.
Seems like a step backwards to function keys. Yuck. Why can't Metro use on-screen buttons?
For the same exact reason that almost every non-touchscreen application has little icons to click with the mouse or shortcut keys to use without moving your hands from the keyboard. Frankly, I viewed the removal of shortcuts from touch interfaces as the step backwards.
I've never heard of children taunted for being slower than their peers at reading. Normally the situation is reversed.
It's only reversed when they raise their hand and tell the teacher they are done and ask for a pop quiz on the subject. Playing dumb, in order to fit in, is a lot easier than playing smart.
I gotcha, locked System apps and all that...thought you were talking about Google's decision to not use USB Mass Storage in the latest Nexus, using MTP, instead.
Google has also been trying to increase their brand presence in Android, which could be another motivating factor for the purchase (in addition to their IP portfolio). I'm afraid you're right that they might lock down their new devices even further, all in the name of security and to protect their brand image.