I did not choose my mate based on her acceptance of the CLI lifestyle. We have no children yet, but when we do whether they are introduced to Windows or Linux computers first is going to be a protracted and difficult battle.
Some recent ThinkPads have face recognition as well. I recently purchased this one, and it has this feature. For those of you that are interested, it recognizes me with or without glasses, right after waking up and right before stepping out for New Years' Eve. We tried fooling it with a 4x6 photo held close to the web cam, and it didn't work. YMMV.
Tennis is also a "damned game," but fans of the sport know it can be a venue for people to do amazing, humbling things. I don't play Guitar Hero, so I wouldn't appreciate the performance in the Best Buy. I expect that as a GH fan, the author had the same experience that millions of tennis fans have had watching Roger dominate the men's tour for the last half-decade. Think about the last time you were wowed at a concert, or at an art museum. Think about touring one of Europe's beautiful cathedrals. There's a reason that they build them that big, and that beautiful. The architecture, and the art all around you, helps people find God. Tennis and Guitar Hero can be art too, and can have the same effect if you know what you're seeing.
Maybe I didn't examine the cabinets closely enough, but all the "food" in the slideshow picture was either coffee or items you'd use to flavor coffee. I know the old joke about programmers being machines that turn caffeine into code, but...
The irony is that it's the same snobs who brought us sprawling gated communities that are pushing the move to more walkable residential areas.
It's not the same snobs, its their children. Seeing the mistakes that the previous generation made planning their communities, this generation will make exciting and different mistakes that their children will rail against. In the next generation of yuppie communities, I'm hoping for residential communities on top of underground tunnels filled with shops and services.
I've bought quite a few things at Target's website, and I'm stunned that it's unusable with screen readers. There's little or no dynamic content, and none that couldn't be easily done by showing/hiding DIVs with CSS. Granted it's graphics-intensive, but there are still descriptions of products and other stuff that should make it usable for VI people using screen readers.
So I went to target.com in Lynx, which is our quick and dirty check for SEO and screen reader usability (we do other checks before we finalize designs). And I was stunned I had to hit PGDN 6(!) times before I got through the navigational garbage and got to any of the content on the main page. Target's site is apparently not designed to provide an optimal exprience to anyone outside of someone running IE6/7 on Windows XP and a modern PC. Screen readers, scrapers, search engines, text-only browsers, and mobile users do not appear to be welcome. To boot, in FireFox 1.5 on Linux I was unable to use some of the nav elements because they were hidden behind the Flash content.
Target ought to flog whoever designed their website. If it only works properly in modern IE browsers, then it's alienating maybe 20% of their consumers. More if you consider mobile users and screen readers that can't make use of that terribly designed site.
Thoughts of removing [Microsoft] being akin to getting rid of desk chairs. It simply will not happen.
You're more on the money with that comment than I think you were intending. Have you seen the roman-style office chairs that some speciality office supply stores sell? How about the chairs that are built around a yoga ball? I would never get one of these chairs. They look strange and uncomfortable to me, and I like my chair just fine. A lot of office workers look at Linux (or to a lesser extent, Apple) and have the same kind of reaction. To many office workers, Windows and its posse are familiar and comfortable, just like my chair. And no matter how good for my back the roman chair may be, you'll have to pry my old chair off of my cold, dead behind.
Actually, a previous/. post I made shows up on the second page of Google results when you search for my name. I believe it's the first or second one that's actually related to this partiuclar instance of Jeremy DeGroot.
Don't mess with us? Is this guy that scared of change, that he responds to a new controller paradigm with the same response ghetto white kids use with people who insult their freestyling? If he doesn't like the motion-sensors, he can tell people that play his game to turn the controller sideways and use the cross or attach the nuncuck peripheral. This guy's just spewing FUD.
I think it's great that the government is backing this kind of study, and I think the the high marks a lot of packages received will really be a boon to the OSS movement. I think the part of TFA that excites me the most though, is this:
Coverity evaluated 15m lines of open source code with Stamford University's Computer Science Department. The report has identified bugs that can corrupt a machine's memory space, memory leaks, buffer overruns and crashes. Coverity said it would now engage with open source developers to improve code, and identify potential reasons for why some projects have more bugs than others.
If they're going to take their comments back to the communities that develop the software, then this could give the development communities a lot to work on and improve, and that could give us some greatly improved software in a year or two's time. I think work like this is the real strength of Open Source, and I hope to see more of it in the future.
I agree with the parent. Applications are designed for people to be able to pop in and out of with relative ease. For people who use vi all the time, its keyboard commands are no problem and make them feel powerful and productive (and they are). But I find myself fighting to do the simplest things when I have to use it, things that I have no problem doing in my native environment. Microsoft Office has conditioned people to expect a lot of clear icons and easily intelligible commands that will let them do the things they want to do with the software without any kind of a learning curve.
I don't know about you guys, but I've never played video games on my family's main TV (main tv == the newest most expensive one). My Nintendos have lived in the basement, my bedroom, and now my dorm room, but never in the living room where the niceest TV is. It's always been attached to an older one. I bet most Revolutions will be in a similar situation. I doubt that many Revolutions will be attached to HDTVs.
Yeah, but he cheated by using a semicolon. He should really only get credit for doing it in two.
It's my feeling that the visual style ought to suit the mood of the game. Lighting, graphical style, music selections, etc should all complement the atmosphere that the game is trying to create. Metroid Prime would have been a VERY different experience had they gone with cel shading, for instance. Everything in Metroid was, to me, done just right and worked together ver well. On the other hand, Mario Tennis should not be photorealistic. It's a fun, goofy game, and the visuals should support that motif.
As for Zelda? The franchise has never firmly come down on the side of a gritty serious atmosphere a la the Prince of Persia franchise, but it's also never committed to being totally mirthful either. The motif changes from game to game, and even within some games in the series. I thought the Wind Waker looked very crisp and artistically appealing (disclaimer: I never played Wind Waker as college has seriously cut into my gaming), and I think that this new Zelda looks just as good. It sounds like the graphical choice was made to support the style and the atmosphere, which along with gameplay is what the experience is really all about. I plan to play through the Wind Waker eventually, and I'm sure I'll pick up this game at some point too.
IANAL, but I have done some work in the past with non-profit groups wanting to develop for-profit arms to support their main goals. While it's true that there's no reason a non-profit foundation can't turn a profit, it gets tricky as the profitable arm gets larger. It's important that the books of the profitable arm be kept separate from the nonprofit arm, or else the nonprofit gets in trouble. Also, there are certain regulations assosciated with the kind of commercial activity the Mozilla Foundation seems to want to get into with its products that favor corporations. I think this is pretty standard practice for non-profits with large commercial aspirations (that do not necessarily involve getting rich and attracting private investment). Goodwill for instance is a non-profit corporation that does not have private investment that I am aware of, nor does it have people at the top getting rich.
Here's hoping that you're right. I doubled in economics and CS because I am interested in economics, but also in the application of technology (most notably programming techniques) to the problems presented by economics. Computer science is a huge bore for me. Theory of Computation and Compiler design were two of the courses that interested me the least.
How much would Kinko's or OfficeMax or some other commercial copy center charge for this kind of service? It would doubtless be more expensive than having an employer do it for you, but it might be reasonably cost effective if you only need one copy. If I were to try and print 400 double-sided pages on my school's printers, that would run me $28, plus another $2 or so to bind it, so it might beat doing it at a university as well (an important concern for those of us turning in theses).
South Florida is so notorious that some experts attributed a short-term decline in global spam after last year's hurricanes to the assumption that the storms disrupted spammers' operations.
Seriously though, just painting the side of a standard case is such a cop-out. I demand an ultra high-end gamer system shaped like the Death Star or Chewbacca's head. The optical drive could be his mouth, and he could even roar every time I inserted a disc.
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You should do both. Choosing the right algorithms is crucial, no doubt about it. But if you've got a massive database application, that 5% can represent a huge amount of work and be worth the trouble. A little bit of extra performance can, in many cases, go a long, long way towards adding to the value of the software. Both endeavors are intelligent in many (if not most) cases. Performance is important in software, and any little bit you can squeeze out will likely be a big deal.
I'd say go to a university, and take a few business courses along with your network administration courses. If you can make sound business cases for why you need equipment or personnel, your professional life will be so much easier. Also, should you ever decide to do a start-up, the business knowledge may very well prove invaluable. And as the parent said, it broadens your thinking and helps you grow as a person. Take some art or philosphy courses too, mabye. You'll discover things that you never knew you were interested in and be a more interesting person for it.
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I did not choose my mate based on her acceptance of the CLI lifestyle. We have no children yet, but when we do whether they are introduced to Windows or Linux computers first is going to be a protracted and difficult battle.
It would be even more heartening to point out that last week he won Iowa, which is just as white.
Some recent ThinkPads have face recognition as well. I recently purchased this one, and it has this feature. For those of you that are interested, it recognizes me with or without glasses, right after waking up and right before stepping out for New Years' Eve. We tried fooling it with a 4x6 photo held close to the web cam, and it didn't work. YMMV.
But TFA reminded me of this piece.
Tennis is also a "damned game," but fans of the sport know it can be a venue for people to do amazing, humbling things. I don't play Guitar Hero, so I wouldn't appreciate the performance in the Best Buy. I expect that as a GH fan, the author had the same experience that millions of tennis fans have had watching Roger dominate the men's tour for the last half-decade. Think about the last time you were wowed at a concert, or at an art museum. Think about touring one of Europe's beautiful cathedrals. There's a reason that they build them that big, and that beautiful. The architecture, and the art all around you, helps people find God. Tennis and Guitar Hero can be art too, and can have the same effect if you know what you're seeing.
Maybe I didn't examine the cabinets closely enough, but all the "food" in the slideshow picture was either coffee or items you'd use to flavor coffee. I know the old joke about programmers being machines that turn caffeine into code, but...
The irony is that it's the same snobs who brought us sprawling gated communities that are pushing the move to more walkable residential areas.
It's not the same snobs, its their children. Seeing the mistakes that the previous generation made planning their communities, this generation will make exciting and different mistakes that their children will rail against. In the next generation of yuppie communities, I'm hoping for residential communities on top of underground tunnels filled with shops and services.
I've bought quite a few things at Target's website, and I'm stunned that it's unusable with screen readers. There's little or no dynamic content, and none that couldn't be easily done by showing/hiding DIVs with CSS. Granted it's graphics-intensive, but there are still descriptions of products and other stuff that should make it usable for VI people using screen readers.
So I went to target.com in Lynx, which is our quick and dirty check for SEO and screen reader usability (we do other checks before we finalize designs). And I was stunned I had to hit PGDN 6(!) times before I got through the navigational garbage and got to any of the content on the main page. Target's site is apparently not designed to provide an optimal exprience to anyone outside of someone running IE6/7 on Windows XP and a modern PC. Screen readers, scrapers, search engines, text-only browsers, and mobile users do not appear to be welcome. To boot, in FireFox 1.5 on Linux I was unable to use some of the nav elements because they were hidden behind the Flash content.
Target ought to flog whoever designed their website. If it only works properly in modern IE browsers, then it's alienating maybe 20% of their consumers. More if you consider mobile users and screen readers that can't make use of that terribly designed site.
You're more on the money with that comment than I think you were intending. Have you seen the roman-style office chairs that some speciality office supply stores sell? How about the chairs that are built around a yoga ball? I would never get one of these chairs. They look strange and uncomfortable to me, and I like my chair just fine. A lot of office workers look at Linux (or to a lesser extent, Apple) and have the same kind of reaction. To many office workers, Windows and its posse are familiar and comfortable, just like my chair. And no matter how good for my back the roman chair may be, you'll have to pry my old chair off of my cold, dead behind.
Actually, didn't some of the DARPA grand challenege competitors run on Linux? If so, it's been successfully driving for some time already.
Double-shit.
/. post I made shows up on the second page of Google results when you search for my name. I believe it's the first or second one that's actually related to this partiuclar instance of Jeremy DeGroot.
Actually, a previous
Don't mess with us? Is this guy that scared of change, that he responds to a new controller paradigm with the same response ghetto white kids use with people who insult their freestyling? If he doesn't like the motion-sensors, he can tell people that play his game to turn the controller sideways and use the cross or attach the nuncuck peripheral. This guy's just spewing FUD.
If this came from who I think it did, your IS ain't in any better shape than mine, buddy. :-p
Funny you should say that. Have you been informed of all the dangers of water?
Dihydrogen Monoxide
I agree with the parent. Applications are designed for people to be able to pop in and out of with relative ease. For people who use vi all the time, its keyboard commands are no problem and make them feel powerful and productive (and they are). But I find myself fighting to do the simplest things when I have to use it, things that I have no problem doing in my native environment. Microsoft Office has conditioned people to expect a lot of clear icons and easily intelligible commands that will let them do the things they want to do with the software without any kind of a learning curve.
I don't know about you guys, but I've never played video games on my family's main TV (main tv == the newest most expensive one). My Nintendos have lived in the basement, my bedroom, and now my dorm room, but never in the living room where the niceest TV is. It's always been attached to an older one. I bet most Revolutions will be in a similar situation. I doubt that many Revolutions will be attached to HDTVs.
Are they sure it wasn't the mouse equivalent of "Hey baby, are you a parking ticket? Cause you have 'fine' written all over you!"
Yeah, but he cheated by using a semicolon. He should really only get credit for doing it in two.
It's my feeling that the visual style ought to suit the mood of the game. Lighting, graphical style, music selections, etc should all complement the atmosphere that the game is trying to create. Metroid Prime would have been a VERY different experience had they gone with cel shading, for instance. Everything in Metroid was, to me, done just right and worked together ver well. On the other hand, Mario Tennis should not be photorealistic. It's a fun, goofy game, and the visuals should support that motif.
As for Zelda? The franchise has never firmly come down on the side of a gritty serious atmosphere a la the Prince of Persia franchise, but it's also never committed to being totally mirthful either. The motif changes from game to game, and even within some games in the series. I thought the Wind Waker looked very crisp and artistically appealing (disclaimer: I never played Wind Waker as college has seriously cut into my gaming), and I think that this new Zelda looks just as good. It sounds like the graphical choice was made to support the style and the atmosphere, which along with gameplay is what the experience is really all about. I plan to play through the Wind Waker eventually, and I'm sure I'll pick up this game at some point too.
IANAL, but I have done some work in the past with non-profit groups wanting to develop for-profit arms to support their main goals. While it's true that there's no reason a non-profit foundation can't turn a profit, it gets tricky as the profitable arm gets larger. It's important that the books of the profitable arm be kept separate from the nonprofit arm, or else the nonprofit gets in trouble. Also, there are certain regulations assosciated with the kind of commercial activity the Mozilla Foundation seems to want to get into with its products that favor corporations. I think this is pretty standard practice for non-profits with large commercial aspirations (that do not necessarily involve getting rich and attracting private investment). Goodwill for instance is a non-profit corporation that does not have private investment that I am aware of, nor does it have people at the top getting rich.
Here's hoping that you're right. I doubled in economics and CS because I am interested in economics, but also in the application of technology (most notably programming techniques) to the problems presented by economics. Computer science is a huge bore for me. Theory of Computation and Compiler design were two of the courses that interested me the least.
How much would Kinko's or OfficeMax or some other commercial copy center charge for this kind of service? It would doubtless be more expensive than having an employer do it for you, but it might be reasonably cost effective if you only need one copy. If I were to try and print 400 double-sided pages on my school's printers, that would run me $28, plus another $2 or so to bind it, so it might beat doing it at a university as well (an important concern for those of us turning in theses).
There is a just and loving god after all!
Just you and Cory Doctorow
Seriously though, just painting the side of a standard case is such a cop-out. I demand an ultra high-end gamer system shaped like the Death Star or Chewbacca's head. The optical drive could be his mouth, and he could even roar every time I inserted a disc.
You should do both. Choosing the right algorithms is crucial, no doubt about it. But if you've got a massive database application, that 5% can represent a huge amount of work and be worth the trouble. A little bit of extra performance can, in many cases, go a long, long way towards adding to the value of the software. Both endeavors are intelligent in many (if not most) cases. Performance is important in software, and any little bit you can squeeze out will likely be a big deal.
I'd say go to a university, and take a few business courses along with your network administration courses. If you can make sound business cases for why you need equipment or personnel, your professional life will be so much easier. Also, should you ever decide to do a start-up, the business knowledge may very well prove invaluable. And as the parent said, it broadens your thinking and helps you grow as a person. Take some art or philosphy courses too, mabye. You'll discover things that you never knew you were interested in and be a more interesting person for it.