I think "because everyone is there" is a huge factor. You can find pretty much anyone and communicate easily. Reaching such a large volume of people would be extremely clunky without FB.
I think the difference seen here is purely academical -- Wine lets Windows applications run on the hardware as-is, just reimplementing the DLL functions.
It's your computer. It does what you tell it to do (*).
But he probably didn't tell his computer to track him with like buttons on third party sites. It's something you have to explicitly block, and that's the problem.
The main reason we don't do this directly is it implies transforming your terminal from a text listing to a picture, and that eats much more memory and processing time.
We probably have that power available. Slower machines could use classic terminals.
And once again, there exists as many downsides to caffeine too. There's just too much money to be made in the coffee industry. Caffeine is a vasodilator (decreasing blood flow to your brain), increases inflammation[citation needed], destroys cells in hippocampus[citation needed], weakens your sleep, etc. And technically caffeine is a toxic alkaloid, so. We could just set up a study called "having a couple cups of coffee found to be nice and relaxing".
Wouldn't it be awesome to have the ability to display images in the console? For example, I could type "look niceboobs.jpeg" and it would display a thumbnail of the image right below the prompt.
If you don't know where things are, you're fumbling, whether it's commands or GUI menus.
I'd argue that it's not the same really. If you come from total darkness, you can usually figure out the basic functionality of GUI apps by just poking around, while the command line requires much more memorization and actually reading documentation. The command prompt you get is basically just a "tabula rasa", offering no clues.
That's very true, most of the proper infrastructure for that is just missing.
And of those that are in place, many of the same things are broken from time to time. These three, for example...
- The network manager thingy for Wifi is flaky. Shows wrong information about the state of the connection. I've seen it pop up two network key dialogs with different GUI decoration over each other. Connecting is slow.
- Writing a DVD often fails. The checksum does not match or some misleading error message is shown. The backend log shows growisofs telling something completely different.
- The automatic codec installer of the movie player fails.
Therefore, I think the real question is, "If someone connects to a swarm and only gets an incomplete file (or not even a byte of it), are they liable in any way?
Well, in that case you would still be trying to participate in illegal file sharing. Kind of throwing a rock in a window of a jewelery store to get some loot, but the rock not even breaking the glass.
Many of these games are crap, but there are some really good ones out there.
A couple of years ago, my jaw dropped when I saw that Machinarium was created using Flash. Before that, I didn't expect to Flash to be able to handle such complex scripting, remembering the state of things in different game screens, and even savegames. That game added some coolness points for Flash perceived by me. For some things, it's a nice artistic environment, but of course the wrong tool for things like restaurant menus.
I would happily install some of the big ones (Slashdot, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) as standalone applications. Especially the ones that use a lot of AJAX or Flash would benefit a lot -- at least I'm sick and tired of the sluggish bubblegum.
Slashdot Mirror
I think "because everyone is there" is a huge factor. You can find pretty much anyone and communicate easily. Reaching such a large volume of people would be extremely clunky without FB.
Blizzard does not agree with my choice of OS and therefore bans my account.
Oh come on. It's a Windows game, just set up a Windows machine for games. Life is too short for fighting over something like this.
I think the difference seen here is purely academical -- Wine lets Windows applications run on the hardware as-is, just reimplementing the DLL functions.
A button tailored for marketers to "want" different products.
I'm sure they are looking in to ways to phase it out.
If I remember correctly, initially it wasn't hidden behind a menu, so in a way they have already taken a step in that direction.
It's your computer. It does what you tell it to do (*).
But he probably didn't tell his computer to track him with like buttons on third party sites. It's something you have to explicitly block, and that's the problem.
Pirate Bay would still hold its place as the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.
The main reason we don't do this directly is it implies transforming your terminal from a text listing to a picture, and that eats much more memory and processing time.
We probably have that power available. Slower machines could use classic terminals.
And once again, there exists as many downsides to caffeine too. There's just too much money to be made in the coffee industry. Caffeine is a vasodilator (decreasing blood flow to your brain), increases inflammation[citation needed], destroys cells in hippocampus[citation needed], weakens your sleep, etc. And technically caffeine is a toxic alkaloid, so. We could just set up a study called "having a couple cups of coffee found to be nice and relaxing".
It's possible. Drinking coffee is fun, and by the way we found this upside of it, cool, let's publish it.
Actually, neither do I.
Wouldn't it be awesome to have the ability to display images in the console? For example, I could type "look niceboobs.jpeg" and it would display a thumbnail of the image right below the prompt.
If you don't know where things are, you're fumbling, whether it's commands or GUI menus.
I'd argue that it's not the same really. If you come from total darkness, you can usually figure out the basic functionality of GUI apps by just poking around, while the command line requires much more memorization and actually reading documentation. The command prompt you get is basically just a "tabula rasa", offering no clues.
That's very true, most of the proper infrastructure for that is just missing.
And of those that are in place, many of the same things are broken from time to time. These three, for example...
- The network manager thingy for Wifi is flaky. Shows wrong information about the state of the connection. I've seen it pop up two network key dialogs with different GUI decoration over each other. Connecting is slow.
- Writing a DVD often fails. The checksum does not match or some misleading error message is shown. The backend log shows growisofs telling something completely different.
- The automatic codec installer of the movie player fails.
Start the project yourself.
Hey, at least he warned that he's stupid (just like me). ;)
Awesome lyrics!
This could be a topic to which the Betteridge's Law of Headlines might not obviously apply?
Therefore, I think the real question is, "If someone connects to a swarm and only gets an incomplete file (or not even a byte of it), are they liable in any way?
Well, in that case you would still be trying to participate in illegal file sharing. Kind of throwing a rock in a window of a jewelery store to get some loot, but the rock not even breaking the glass.
Many of these games are crap, but there are some really good ones out there.
A couple of years ago, my jaw dropped when I saw that Machinarium was created using Flash. Before that, I didn't expect to Flash to be able to handle such complex scripting, remembering the state of things in different game screens, and even savegames. That game added some coolness points for Flash perceived by me. For some things, it's a nice artistic environment, but of course the wrong tool for things like restaurant menus.
I would happily install some of the big ones (Slashdot, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) as standalone applications. Especially the ones that use a lot of AJAX or Flash would benefit a lot -- at least I'm sick and tired of the sluggish bubblegum.
These days the web is pretty much unusable with Lynx or Links. Only some very select sites can be viewed reasonably.
So businesses shouldn't use Firefox, Chrome, Linux (except for Ubuntu LTS versions), etc.?
Correct. That's why Firefox has its Extended Support Release, too.
I presume though that changing the default shell in Windows is a bit of a hack, just like virtual desktops -- possible but they break things.
What's the fascination with slideshows anyways? Who pushes for those and how do they push for those?
Slide Show Dobb.