I guess the first book of the 5 part trilogy was meant as a comedy, however the complete 'trilogy' wasn't meant as one in my opinion. Though there are plenty of funny bits in the books, the complete work wasn't really funny (although I do think it was quite good..) , especially with all the characters being dead in the end, earth destroyed etc etc
Douglas' style was somewhat like that of Terry Pratchett. Even serious topics can be told using a humorous/sarcastic undertone...
70% of the people who used it are considering it.
Since, only 22.5% (Somewhere between 20-25% in the graph) of the people actually used it, a mere 15.75% of the people interviewed have used it and are positive. So those '70%' are actually 788 people out of the 5000 people interviewed....
Not really something you can base a forecast on.....
In their vista-review, 70% have used vista and of these people, and about 20% are (moderately) positive.... this means 14% used vista and were 'happy' , which is 700 out of the 5000 people.
700 comes awfully near the 788....
Based on this research I predict that Windows 7 will be just a big a failure as vista is.
There are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
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c.1225, "failure, failure to act," from O.Fr. defaute, from M.L. defalta "a deficiency or failure," from L. dis- "away" + fallere "to be wanting." The financial sense is first recorded 1858; the computing sense is from 1966.
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How I see it, all the word 'default' means is the state an object is in if you don't mess with it. e.g. the default position of a football is on the centre of the playing field, until one of the players kicks it. They didn't need computer science for that.
I disagree with "you should be able to access all of its content, regardless of your playing skill." . Because, just as you said, you paid for the GAME. Not for a level-viewer. If the game is to difficult for you, than that is too bad, you get what you paid for.
Although the mistake is easy to make, I was implying that I wrote them all myself, yes.
Having to explain a joke (even a bad one) is a terrible thing...
How would you know what jesus feels, knows or wants from us Atheists? Let the man speak for himself, you are not his mother! He didn't die so YOU could go and tell other people what to do in HIS name.
PS. You do know that it was god who created Lucifer,right? And that place he resides, whatyamacallit, oh, right: hell.... and all those other not so nice things? I think god knows perfectly well what he's doing, being almighty and all and definitely won't need your help...
People complain that this Google project does not offer the same amount of features/sections as Sourceforge and thus must be worse.
How often is it not that half of the sections on Sourceforge are empty (Documents is a nice example)? Resulting in completely confused visitors...
Then are those that say it doesn't offer a project page, while most people using sourceforge do not keep their project pages on sourceforge either.
As I see it, this Google service offers exactly what I've been looking for recently: a quick and simple method to maintain my small projects online without any application/approval periods.
Actually, they appear to be targeting the 'little' projects; people who merely want a repository for their projects with a small bugtracker. The project pages clearly show only three tabs: 'description', 'issues' and 'source' in contrast to SourceForge where you have a whole jungle of sections.
Did they modify the design of the green model ??
They design at the homepage of olpc shows the screen standing on a standard that can fold nicely into the back, thus enabling it for e-book use. A video showed the laptop to be detached from the screen (usb I guess).... I serliously wand that model (INCLUDING sling windup option !)
However, seeing the pics at the link from slashdot it seems to be very different.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess the first book of the 5 part trilogy was meant as a comedy, however the complete 'trilogy' wasn't meant as one in my opinion. Though there are plenty of funny bits in the books, the complete work wasn't really funny (although I do think it was quite good..) , especially with all the characters being dead in the end, earth destroyed etc etc Douglas' style was somewhat like that of Terry Pratchett. Even serious topics can be told using a humorous/sarcastic undertone...
70% of the people who used it are considering it. Since, only 22.5% (Somewhere between 20-25% in the graph) of the people actually used it, a mere 15.75% of the people interviewed have used it and are positive. So those '70%' are actually 788 people out of the 5000 people interviewed.... Not really something you can base a forecast on..... In their vista-review, 70% have used vista and of these people, and about 20% are (moderately) positive .... this means 14% used vista and were 'happy' , which is 700 out of the 5000 people.
700 comes awfully near the 788 ....
Based on this research I predict that Windows 7 will be just a big a failure as vista is.
There are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
You are sharing your important data with a third party, however, the unimportant data should be destroyed?
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=default
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c.1225, "failure, failure to act," from O.Fr. defaute, from M.L. defalta "a deficiency or failure," from L. dis- "away" + fallere "to be wanting." The financial sense is first recorded 1858; the computing sense is from 1966.
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How I see it, all the word 'default' means is the state an object is in if you don't mess with it. e.g. the default position of a football is on the centre of the playing field, until one of the players kicks it. They didn't need computer science for that.
Please keep your rants to your blog.
I disagree with "you should be able to access all of its content, regardless of your playing skill." . Because, just as you said, you paid for the GAME. Not for a level-viewer. If the game is to difficult for you, than that is too bad, you get what you paid for.
You always measure width in square meters?
So, no more Chinese hopping-zombie/vampire movies anymore ? ;_;
Although the mistake is easy to make, I was implying that I wrote them all myself, yes. Having to explain a joke (even a bad one) is a terrible thing...
My hand still hurts.
How would you know what jesus feels, knows or wants from us Atheists? Let the man speak for himself, you are not his mother! He didn't die so YOU could go and tell other people what to do in HIS name.
... and all those other not so nice things? I think god knows perfectly well what he's doing, being almighty and all and definitely won't need your help...
PS.
You do know that it was god who created Lucifer,right? And that place he resides, whatyamacallit, oh, right: hell.
you got me.
You want to feed them fish , OLPC is trying to teach the coming generation how to fish.
It's mentioned at least 3 times in this topic.
:)
A great IDE, and forget about the 1.0rc2, the nightly builds are much better
People complain that this Google project does not offer the same amount of features/sections as Sourceforge and thus must be worse. How often is it not that half of the sections on Sourceforge are empty (Documents is a nice example)? Resulting in completely confused visitors... Then are those that say it doesn't offer a project page, while most people using sourceforge do not keep their project pages on sourceforge either. As I see it, this Google service offers exactly what I've been looking for recently: a quick and simple method to maintain my small projects online without any application/approval periods.
Actually, they appear to be targeting the 'little' projects; people who merely want a repository for their projects with a small bugtracker. The project pages clearly show only three tabs: 'description', 'issues' and 'source' in contrast to SourceForge where you have a whole jungle of sections.
First time I have even heard about these ads...
died today. -- Queen
You mean the ambulances and firetrucks that would run me over after I left the crime scene ?
What is a piston?
and that encryption will really help next time they sell their data to another group of nigerian scammers ....
" ... since it mistakenly sold private data on 163,000 people to Nigerian criminals last year."
This is a joke, right ?
Just wondering, but this (the whole net-neutrality thing) would only be applicable to the US, right ?
it was funny...damn funny ! X-D
WHY?!?!
Did they modify the design of the green model ?? They design at the homepage of olpc shows the screen standing on a standard that can fold nicely into the back, thus enabling it for e-book use. A video showed the laptop to be detached from the screen (usb I guess) .... I serliously wand that model (INCLUDING sling windup option !)
However, seeing the pics at the link from slashdot it seems to be very different.