Of course you can't get anything done without tactile feedback. Our whole phisiology has been evolved for tactile feedback and our brain has gotten very good at interpreting it over the past few million years.
So, how do we get any work done with a mouse? It doesn't provide tactile feedback, yet somehow we still manage to move the pointer where we want it to go.
A challenging puzzle game that can provide hours of brain-bending entertainment. Linux has a similar program called "emacs" where you have to guess strange combinations of keystrokes, and get rewarded with an odd text adventure called "man".
I really hate this idea. If there is a story to tell, then it should get told. Keeping a show going for so long is a purely profit driven paradigm.
Regardless of profit motive, the show is still entertaining, and better than most things on TV. I'd rather have it around than not. On the flip-side of the coin, it's annoying when a series is cut short when it has plenty of life in it. The UK Office was a good example of this - as is Arrested Development, which I crave the remaining episodes of (it was written to have another season, but the network demanded it be wrapped up).
"The Office" and "What Not to Wear" are two other examples.
The Office? WTF? It's on par with the British version. In some ways it exceeds it, because it has managed to sustain itself with many more episodes, while the British version was a very short run - it's much easier to reach heights when you can pack it all into a short series.
The US version of The Office is also great because it doesn't just mimic the British show - it is well translated to the American paradigm. America has its own unique business culture, which The Office reflects very well.
Occam's razor leads me to conclude that the Seinfeld/Gates ad campaign was a failure, not a step in some grand plan.
I don't think Occam's razor has ever applied to Microsoft. Things that look like genius strategic moves turn out to be blind luck, while things that are absolute disasters emerge from what appears to be their most insightful thinking.
Well, I just fired up a game of Asteroids, and the spaceship didn't seem to care which way it was pointing. As long as it didn't get hit by an asteroid.
I was recently sent an internet. I'd like to keep this internet safe for a decade or more. Being a technology expert, I thought you'd be the best person to ask. What storage solution do I need; a dump-truck or a semi-trailer?
If you want archival photos, you don't want color prints. You want color separations recorded on silver halide monochrome film. That's not cheap at all. A 5x7" print is not going to store all the data in your original images, anyway.
I wouldn't recommend that for anything except totally out-of-focus or blank pictures. And if you're a decent photographer, you don't take many of those - perhaps 2% at most. Historians find even the most mundane poorly composed or grainy photos to be of great value. You never know what will be of value in the future. People will pay dearly love to get outtakes from the early careers of famous photographers. And things which seem poorly composed at the time may seem like genius in the future.
Culling the worst of my photos would be an insignificant reduction in data storage. It makes a lot more sense to be equipped for large amounts of storage. Especially as file sizes are going up as resolutions and bit-depths increase, and RAW is becoming the preferred storage format.
An upside-down triangle? What does that even mean? I didn't know triangles had a "right " way up. A triangle is simply a triangle, whatever its orientation.
Uhhh... it's often impossible to prove a negative. His claim is impossible to disprove, because he provides no specifics to make his claim disprovable. He doesn't give any names, or the name of the school.
It sounds like you don't even have a basic education in logic and reasoning. Can you disprove that I had sex with a world-famous supermodel on December 3rd, if I don't tell you what that supermodel's name is?
Furthermore, you claim I'm guilty of something for being skeptical about unsupported claims. Would you be "guilty" if you didn't believe somebody who told you that space aliens are invading the Earth in three days, without providing any evidence?
With this level of ignorance, you are a threat to yourself and others. I suggest you stop reading slashdot and go back to school until you can learn basic logic and survival skills. This is pretty important stuff to understand.
But don't you get the feeling this is all completely fabricated, and the teacher doesn't actually exist? It's all set up to make Ken look like the hero.
I agree, there is no verification that it actually happened. It's not very plausible - a woman threatens a student and says Linux is illegal, and then turns around and starts using Linux a few days later? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. What's more astounding is the utter lack of skepticism on slashdot and other sites - everybody just believed this, because they wanted to believe in a fairytale anti-Linux dragon that could be easily slain by a noble knight of the FOSS round-table.
Where is the fact checking on this one? If it actually happened, there's at least a local newspaper story in it.
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Of course you can't get anything done without tactile feedback. Our whole phisiology has been evolved for tactile feedback and our brain has gotten very good at interpreting it over the past few million years.
So, how do we get any work done with a mouse? It doesn't provide tactile feedback, yet somehow we still manage to move the pointer where we want it to go.
A challenging puzzle game that can provide hours of brain-bending entertainment. Linux has a similar program called "emacs" where you have to guess strange combinations of keystrokes, and get rewarded with an odd text adventure called "man".
Not at the file sizes you get on typical torrents. Also, they have been re-compressed from already compressed sources, not from the original footage.
I really hate this idea. If there is a story to tell, then it should get told. Keeping a show going for so long is a purely profit driven paradigm.
Regardless of profit motive, the show is still entertaining, and better than most things on TV. I'd rather have it around than not. On the flip-side of the coin, it's annoying when a series is cut short when it has plenty of life in it. The UK Office was a good example of this - as is Arrested Development, which I crave the remaining episodes of (it was written to have another season, but the network demanded it be wrapped up).
If a nice big one ever hits my property, the first thing I'd do is secure it and shop the meteorite to perspective buyers.
Are those the same people who collect the works of Escher?
Which is a poor ripoff of Steptoe and Son.
I think that's the point, genius. (Except for the "poor" part. It's just different.)
Utterly and profoundly terrible as well as completely unfunny come to mind as a equally valid descriptions of the US version
On what basis? If you don't find the US Office funny, then I doubt you have much of a sense of humor.
"The Office" and "What Not to Wear" are two other examples.
The Office? WTF? It's on par with the British version. In some ways it exceeds it, because it has managed to sustain itself with many more episodes, while the British version was a very short run - it's much easier to reach heights when you can pack it all into a short series.
The US version of The Office is also great because it doesn't just mimic the British show - it is well translated to the American paradigm. America has its own unique business culture, which The Office reflects very well.
Occam's razor leads me to conclude that the Seinfeld/Gates ad campaign was a failure, not a step in some grand plan.
I don't think Occam's razor has ever applied to Microsoft. Things that look like genius strategic moves turn out to be blind luck, while things that are absolute disasters emerge from what appears to be their most insightful thinking.
Hey dummy, that should be; "Ever herd of a grammar Nazi?"
Were you just trying to troll, or were you genuinely trying to make a point?
Neither. It was just a "slashdot moment." If you can't post pedantic and irrelevant non-sequiturs here, then where can you?
Well, I just fired up a game of Asteroids, and the spaceship didn't seem to care which way it was pointing. As long as it didn't get hit by an asteroid.
But Australia's in the southern hemisphere. Doesn't that make everything upside-down, and therefore Tasmania the correct way up?
But those "HD goodness" bittorrents are highly compressed, and look (and sound) nowhere near as good as Blu-Ray/HD-DVD content.
Dear Sen. Stevens,
I was recently sent an internet. I'd like to keep this internet safe for a decade or more. Being a technology expert, I thought you'd be the best person to ask. What storage solution do I need; a dump-truck or a semi-trailer?
Warm regards,
S. Palin
I was shooting for "~1, nitpicking geometry".
If you want archival photos, you don't want color prints. You want color separations recorded on silver halide monochrome film. That's not cheap at all. A 5x7" print is not going to store all the data in your original images, anyway.
I wouldn't recommend that for anything except totally out-of-focus or blank pictures. And if you're a decent photographer, you don't take many of those - perhaps 2% at most. Historians find even the most mundane poorly composed or grainy photos to be of great value. You never know what will be of value in the future. People will pay dearly love to get outtakes from the early careers of famous photographers. And things which seem poorly composed at the time may seem like genius in the future.
Culling the worst of my photos would be an insignificant reduction in data storage. It makes a lot more sense to be equipped for large amounts of storage. Especially as file sizes are going up as resolutions and bit-depths increase, and RAW is becoming the preferred storage format.
An upside-down triangle? What does that even mean? I didn't know triangles had a "right " way up. A triangle is simply a triangle, whatever its orientation.
Uhhh... it's often impossible to prove a negative. His claim is impossible to disprove, because he provides no specifics to make his claim disprovable. He doesn't give any names, or the name of the school.
It sounds like you don't even have a basic education in logic and reasoning. Can you disprove that I had sex with a world-famous supermodel on December 3rd, if I don't tell you what that supermodel's name is?
Furthermore, you claim I'm guilty of something for being skeptical about unsupported claims. Would you be "guilty" if you didn't believe somebody who told you that space aliens are invading the Earth in three days, without providing any evidence?
With this level of ignorance, you are a threat to yourself and others. I suggest you stop reading slashdot and go back to school until you can learn basic logic and survival skills. This is pretty important stuff to understand.
What the fuck? It's the duty of a person making a claim to prove it, not of others to disprove it.
I'm "guilty" for not automatically believing a story that has no corroborating evidence whatsoever? That doesn't make any sense.
But don't you get the feeling this is all completely fabricated, and the teacher doesn't actually exist? It's all set up to make Ken look like the hero.
I agree, there is no verification that it actually happened. It's not very plausible - a woman threatens a student and says Linux is illegal, and then turns around and starts using Linux a few days later? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. What's more astounding is the utter lack of skepticism on slashdot and other sites - everybody just believed this, because they wanted to believe in a fairytale anti-Linux dragon that could be easily slain by a noble knight of the FOSS round-table.
Where is the fact checking on this one? If it actually happened, there's at least a local newspaper story in it.
Okay, Sir. We'll just help you out by deleting all those pesky empty files and perform a wipe of your free space afterwards.
Isn't that exactly what you'd want them to do? It doesn't get much sweeter than that - the police destroying incriminating evidence against you.
How do you know it's a "he"? What's with the sexism?