That's so depressing - my school was actually from 9:00-3:00, with a proper 15min recess where we could do pretty much whatever we wanted unsupervised, and a 40 min. lunch the same; we didn't have a cafeteria, we had to bring bagged lunches, and you ate them outside. If you were so much as seen indoors during recess/lunch, you had better have had a permission slip. As to homework, I would get home by 4:30, and be done before dinner at 6, giving my 4-5 hours of free creative time before bed in which I did all sorts of things (build things, program my computer, play video games, read, whatever).
While I don't deny that advertising probably affects me, it doesn't to the degree that you suggest.
>>What kind of computer do you use? What kind >>of portable media player? I guarantee that >>you chose them because of advertising.
No, I make all of my major purchases based on careful research and review of the options. I will spend hours and hours online comparing competing products to find the one that offers the best set of features/performance for the lowest price. As to food products, similar idea; I make a list of things I need for the meals I will cook before I go to the store, then I choose the brand for that product based purely on ingredients, nutritional value, and price. Why should I care about the mascot on the box?
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure a router uses a different encryption key for each client. I don't think fellow users of an encrypted hotspot can read your data.
The two are not really that different. If you can read C code, you should be able to read C++, so long as you are familiar with basic object oriented concepts (classes, inheritance, encapsulations, public vs. private, etc.) If not, you can probably find a short primer online (maybe 5 pages) that can explain all you need to know in order to at least get the gist of the code.
It's kind of strange, isn't it? Sure, with Steam you can move your games from PC to PC, but it really doesn't solve the whole "what if the servers are not around in 10 years" issue. Yet, Steam is such a convenient package that I use it. Good execution, I guess.
It's a sushi restaurant. For the most part, you order your food in six-piece portions. Thus, anyone can order a meal to the size of their liking. And while it is your right to do whatever you wish with the food you ordered, the owner also has the right to ban you from the premises if he doesn't like what you choose to do.
I imagine that the problem the owner is having is that people come in hungry, order six rolls (36 mouthfulls doesn't sound like that much), and then he has to throw half of them away. Meanwhile, tuna are going extinct.
Street view is already HD in that the photos are at least 720p (though the concept of vertical resolution loses its meaning in spherical panoramas). Also, at least in Canada, Street View automatically detects faces and license plates and censors them.
The money supply doesn't have to change. The other alternative is that prices fluctuate based on how much gold/person there is. As populations grow, prices would deflate; as populations shrink, prices would inflate. As long as one of prices or the money supply is elastic, the system will work.
Your IP is still showing up in the swarm for whatever file they are monitoring. Plus, if the legal copyright holders seed to you, they KNOW what was inside the encrypted stream. The only way around this is through a proxy, and you have to trust the proxy not to give up your details if the authorities come a-knocking.
I don't understand why people are upset about this. Linux isn't being treated any lesser here; in fact, this is the same strategy they have on Windows. If you stick an nVidia card into an XP machine with no drivers, you get VESA which you use to go to nvidia.com to download the real drivers. Sure, Vista/7 ships with drivers, and so could Linux if the GPL didn't prohibit it. Besides, Nouveau is better than nv, so the driver is redundant.
This decision has no impact on games or on people using 3D software as the parent has suggested in his comment, since the nv driver had no 3D capability anyways. Development is continuing on nVidia's high quality 3D driver. There is no reason to vote with you wallet.
What a closed-minded and overly general statement!
I certainly agree that often a keyboard-only approach and minimal screen "wastage" is great - I am an emacs fan after all. However, there are always exceptions and if we don't explore new ideas we won't find better ways of doing things. How can you call it an automatic giant failure when you haven't even tried it yet.
Your complaint about not using all available screen space for what you want to see doesn't even make sense in this context! Why would you want a single bubble/code fragment to take up the entire screen? That's contrary to the point! The idea here is to be able to quickly trace a complex program by seeing only the code that represents the function being called at any point, rather than the whole irrelevant file. And while there should surely be a keyboard method to navigate the bubbles (arrow keys would work marvelously here), a mouse is an excellent way to navigate a large 2D surface.
No, it's not the "usual money-making-trough-actually-not-healing-but-making-addicted-scheme."
You take the anti-malaria drugs for a few months while getting bitten by mosquitos with real malaria. After a few months, you stop taking the drugs, because your body has used that time to develop an immunity to the parasites. From that point on, you are immune to malaria for the rest of your life, with no further drug costs.
Well, if MS doesn't include their AV software with the OS, the situation will be different. Users will still have to pick a product, and not just use the default one.
Also, I can't really feel to sorry for the AV providers. For years, people have been clamoring for Microsoft to improve security. They tried some fundamental architecture changes with Vista, knowing it would break backwards compatibility. That's what everyone wanted, right? Well, turns out it was a huge PR shit-storm. Now they are creating some free AV software; as long as it's not included with the OS, I hope all lawsuits against it fail. If we are going to start suing companies for providing good, free software, then I personally am starting a lawsuit against the Mozilla corporation. If you build a business plan on repairing another company's inadequacies, you're going to have to deal with the reality that that company might fix those problems itself.
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That's so depressing - my school was actually from 9:00-3:00, with a proper 15min recess where we could do pretty much whatever we wanted unsupervised, and a 40 min. lunch the same; we didn't have a cafeteria, we had to bring bagged lunches, and you ate them outside. If you were so much as seen indoors during recess/lunch, you had better have had a permission slip. As to homework, I would get home by 4:30, and be done before dinner at 6, giving my 4-5 hours of free creative time before bed in which I did all sorts of things (build things, program my computer, play video games, read, whatever).
It's a problem that he will speak the truth even though it may be politically inconvenient? Seems like a bonus qualification to me.
While I don't deny that advertising probably affects me, it doesn't to the degree that you suggest.
>>What kind of computer do you use? What kind
>>of portable media player? I guarantee that
>>you chose them because of advertising.
No, I make all of my major purchases based on careful research and review of the options. I will spend hours and hours online comparing competing products to find the one that offers the best set of features/performance for the lowest price. As to food products, similar idea; I make a list of things I need for the meals I will cook before I go to the store, then I choose the brand for that product based purely on ingredients, nutritional value, and price. Why should I care about the mascot on the box?
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure a router uses a different encryption key for each client. I don't think fellow users of an encrypted hotspot can read your data.
The two are not really that different. If you can read C code, you should be able to read C++, so long as you are familiar with basic object oriented concepts (classes, inheritance, encapsulations, public vs. private, etc.) If not, you can probably find a short primer online (maybe 5 pages) that can explain all you need to know in order to at least get the gist of the code.
Same here.
It's kind of strange, isn't it? Sure, with Steam you can move your games from PC to PC, but it really doesn't solve the whole "what if the servers are not around in 10 years" issue. Yet, Steam is such a convenient package that I use it. Good execution, I guess.
RTFA?
The took them from the rim of the cornea of the unaffected eye, or from unaffected portions if both eyes were damaged.
It's a sushi restaurant. For the most part, you order your food in six-piece portions. Thus, anyone can order a meal to the size of their liking. And while it is your right to do whatever you wish with the food you ordered, the owner also has the right to ban you from the premises if he doesn't like what you choose to do.
I imagine that the problem the owner is having is that people come in hungry, order six rolls (36 mouthfulls doesn't sound like that much), and then he has to throw half of them away. Meanwhile, tuna are going extinct.
Street view is already HD in that the photos are at least 720p (though the concept of vertical resolution loses its meaning in spherical panoramas). Also, at least in Canada, Street View automatically detects faces and license plates and censors them.
Firefox actually uses the least memory of all modern browsers once you've got tabs open (ie: you're using it): http://cybernetnews.com/browser-comparison-internet-explorer-firefox-chrome-safari-opera/
Even straight after launch, it's competitive.
The money supply doesn't have to change. The other alternative is that prices fluctuate based on how much gold/person there is. As populations grow, prices would deflate; as populations shrink, prices would inflate. As long as one of prices or the money supply is elastic, the system will work.
Too bad that doesn't help in the slightest.
Your IP is still showing up in the swarm for whatever file they are monitoring. Plus, if the legal copyright holders seed to you, they KNOW what was inside the encrypted stream. The only way around this is through a proxy, and you have to trust the proxy not to give up your details if the authorities come a-knocking.
I don't understand why people are upset about this. Linux isn't being treated any lesser here; in fact, this is the same strategy they have on Windows. If you stick an nVidia card into an XP machine with no drivers, you get VESA which you use to go to nvidia.com to download the real drivers. Sure, Vista/7 ships with drivers, and so could Linux if the GPL didn't prohibit it. Besides, Nouveau is better than nv, so the driver is redundant.
This decision has no impact on games or on people using 3D software as the parent has suggested in his comment, since the nv driver had no 3D capability anyways. Development is continuing on nVidia's high quality 3D driver. There is no reason to vote with you wallet.
What a closed-minded and overly general statement!
I certainly agree that often a keyboard-only approach and minimal screen "wastage" is great - I am an emacs fan after all. However, there are always exceptions and if we don't explore new ideas we won't find better ways of doing things. How can you call it an automatic giant failure when you haven't even tried it yet.
Your complaint about not using all available screen space for what you want to see doesn't even make sense in this context! Why would you want a single bubble/code fragment to take up the entire screen? That's contrary to the point! The idea here is to be able to quickly trace a complex program by seeing only the code that represents the function being called at any point, rather than the whole irrelevant file. And while there should surely be a keyboard method to navigate the bubbles (arrow keys would work marvelously here), a mouse is an excellent way to navigate a large 2D surface.
No, it's not the "usual money-making-trough-actually-not-healing-but-making-addicted-scheme."
You take the anti-malaria drugs for a few months while getting bitten by mosquitos with real malaria. After a few months, you stop taking the drugs, because your body has used that time to develop an immunity to the parasites. From that point on, you are immune to malaria for the rest of your life, with no further drug costs.
Hands down the best front end for mplayer, IMHO.
Is accurate geography really important in a satirical take on uninformed stereotypes?
Parity calculation sounds like another good use for GPGPU.
Well, if MS doesn't include their AV software with the OS, the situation will be different. Users will still have to pick a product, and not just use the default one.
Also, I can't really feel to sorry for the AV providers. For years, people have been clamoring for Microsoft to improve security. They tried some fundamental architecture changes with Vista, knowing it would break backwards compatibility. That's what everyone wanted, right? Well, turns out it was a huge PR shit-storm. Now they are creating some free AV software; as long as it's not included with the OS, I hope all lawsuits against it fail. If we are going to start suing companies for providing good, free software, then I personally am starting a lawsuit against the Mozilla corporation. If you build a business plan on repairing another company's inadequacies, you're going to have to deal with the reality that that company might fix those problems itself.
So your standard $50 DVD player can dim the lights in your living room when a movie starts?
That's just one example of hundreds of little features that become trivial when everything in your house (not just bulbs) has a data connection.
With the release of the SWF specs, say hello to OpenVG + Gnash + Gallium3D for hardware accelerated, open-source, vector goodness!
(and goodbye to pegged CPU's)
One third of the US is NOT in prison. One percent is. Still a lot, but you are way off.
Only three more comics until xkcd.com/404 isn't a 404 anymore!
Man, I am too much of a geek!
Yup. I've got an '88 Integra RS. Nice 80's style boxy design with flip-up headlights :)
Not if you're the shop owner, and people don't buy stuff anymore because everyone's got a replicator.
Just sayin'