Imagine if instead of an "I agree" checkbox there would be a really hard quiz which tests whether you have actually read and understood the complete text.:)
That is indeed quite interesting. I figure that as a normal person the proper way to act is simply to not give a shit about EULAs if you want to live a normal life. Corporate world is a bit different, then.
Alike many others, my first-hand personal motivation for HTML5 replacing Flash was the sucky video playback performance. I was hoping for some hackers to finally create a clean and lightweight replacement, but these implementations turned out to be even slower and they lack professional quality in general. And, at the same time Adobe has improved Flash by adding VDPAU acceleration.
To add a nice mini troll, I have even started to feel that sometimes Flash is actually a more sane way to create multimedia-rich content for the web than the hacky HTML AJAX stack.
I think it was late 90s when in Finland we had this TV show involving a talking dog, "Galilei", to which kids could make phone calls and they solved some puzzles while the dog's facial expressions matched the actor's. Kinda cool. They thanked Silicon Graphics in the ending credits.:)
I'm tired of hearing about new "breakthroughs". I dont wanna hear about it until its product on the shelf, that I can use, otherwise its just vaporware
What would be interesting is that if there was a website which after announcements like this wouldn't forget it after couple of days (like I do) but would actually start monitoring it patiently and every now and then report where the idea is going.
Most of the time, people buy mini-itx because they don't want to see the computer. They want to hide them. If
They wanted nice cases, they would have bought ATX cases.
But then again, there is not enough nice cases in the ATX selection either. Just allotta conservative black boxes...
Laptop is the solution while sitting, but if you're laying on the bed you'd still need some kind of holder to have it floating in front of your head. I've actually been planning setting up such a system before too. That would be fun.
But would this actually be cost-effective enough to be used inside, say, a ketchup bottle? Maybe there has already been slippery coatings available but that kind of solutions have been too expensive or cumbersome to implement in such a simple one-time-use package?
I dearly want to love Ubuntu on the desktop, but after 9.10 they switched to Unity and it makes me sick to my stomach to use that crap interface. Gnome 2 was rock solid and a very functional interface. I might look at Ubuntu again once they solve all the problems with Unity, or Gnome3 is fully usable.
Except that they won't. This sounds kind of pessimistic, but it seems that year after year there is something different broken in Ubuntu.
Exactly. These are pretty much the same reasoning I have regarding OSX/Win.
I currently use Windows 7 and Ubuntu. But recently I have started wondering if I should drop Ubuntu in favor of Mac. Strong desktop, good command line - best of both worlds. It seems that Linux world never reaches a point where there is no broken drivers, buggy applications, some completely missing parts, stable desktop environment... It's just not solid enough.
At the times when Half-Life 2 source was leaked, the cracker said that along spectating the development process he actually made some small changes to the code. Is it possible that some of these made their way to the final product or if there is even some hidden malicious code included? Paranoid, but interesting.
It would be fantastic if all of that time (100M hrs?!?!) was recaptured into some meaningful or valuable effort. Even if it was a stupid game maybe having that effort stored into stirring pots of rice for hungry children in the 3rd world would be a good use of time.
Maybe someone with some ideas to improve developing countries can do their job better if they can take a relaxing break of Angry Birds every now and then. It is always a good practice to turn things around in your head.
To many people, "too hard" is the correct difficulty: it weeds out the weak. If you can't man up and deal with a challenging game, you are not a true gamer!
Fuck you.;) I think it's the same that applies to hot food, it has to have just the right amount of flame to give you nice opponent. So the same for games, the game has to have the right amount of challenge but not be totally daunting.
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It could be as well that he is just observing things and doesn't have any particular opinion about them.
Imagine if instead of an "I agree" checkbox there would be a really hard quiz which tests whether you have actually read and understood the complete text. :)
That is indeed quite interesting. I figure that as a normal person the proper way to act is simply to not give a shit about EULAs if you want to live a normal life. Corporate world is a bit different, then.
They are a joke and no one takes them seriously, for example: I have agreed to EULAs that told my not to do drugs.
What kind of software was that? Maybe some medical application that wants the user to be sharp?
Alike many others, my first-hand personal motivation for HTML5 replacing Flash was the sucky video playback performance. I was hoping for some hackers to finally create a clean and lightweight replacement, but these implementations turned out to be even slower and they lack professional quality in general. And, at the same time Adobe has improved Flash by adding VDPAU acceleration.
To add a nice mini troll, I have even started to feel that sometimes Flash is actually a more sane way to create multimedia-rich content for the web than the hacky HTML AJAX stack.
I think it was late 90s when in Finland we had this TV show involving a talking dog, "Galilei", to which kids could make phone calls and they solved some puzzles while the dog's facial expressions matched the actor's. Kinda cool. They thanked Silicon Graphics in the ending credits. :)
Toy Soldiers, obviously...
I'm tired of hearing about new "breakthroughs". I dont wanna hear about it until its product on the shelf, that I can use, otherwise its just vaporware
What would be interesting is that if there was a website which after announcements like this wouldn't forget it after couple of days (like I do) but would actually start monitoring it patiently and every now and then report where the idea is going.
Yes, I also think that it's possible that VIA finally got their shit together with these boards.
Most of the time, people buy mini-itx because they don't want to see the computer. They want to hide them. If They wanted nice cases, they would have bought ATX cases.
But then again, there is not enough nice cases in the ATX selection either. Just allotta conservative black boxes...
Notion Ink Adam has the nice reflective Pixel Qi color display.
Laptop is the solution while sitting, but if you're laying on the bed you'd still need some kind of holder to have it floating in front of your head. I've actually been planning setting up such a system before too. That would be fun.
But would this actually be cost-effective enough to be used inside, say, a ketchup bottle? Maybe there has already been slippery coatings available but that kind of solutions have been too expensive or cumbersome to implement in such a simple one-time-use package?
It is a Facebook-type social network, whose key feature is its distributed design and that you retain control and ownership for everything you post.
I agree that that is actually a good solution.
I dearly want to love Ubuntu on the desktop, but after 9.10 they switched to Unity and it makes me sick to my stomach to use that crap interface. Gnome 2 was rock solid and a very functional interface. I might look at Ubuntu again once they solve all the problems with Unity, or Gnome3 is fully usable.
Except that they won't. This sounds kind of pessimistic, but it seems that year after year there is something different broken in Ubuntu.
This is an excellent game. It should work on netbooks too, as it's so low-spec. :)
There is no real replacement for Office 2010, if you need it.
Exactly. These are pretty much the same reasoning I have regarding OSX/Win.
I currently use Windows 7 and Ubuntu. But recently I have started wondering if I should drop Ubuntu in favor of Mac. Strong desktop, good command line - best of both worlds. It seems that Linux world never reaches a point where there is no broken drivers, buggy applications, some completely missing parts, stable desktop environment... It's just not solid enough.
At the times when Half-Life 2 source was leaked, the cracker said that along spectating the development process he actually made some small changes to the code. Is it possible that some of these made their way to the final product or if there is even some hidden malicious code included? Paranoid, but interesting.
Ah, that's correct sir.
But he probably commented the part in parenthesis.
It would be fantastic if all of that time (100M hrs?!?!) was recaptured into some meaningful or valuable effort. Even if it was a stupid game maybe having that effort stored into stirring pots of rice for hungry children in the 3rd world would be a good use of time.
Maybe someone with some ideas to improve developing countries can do their job better if they can take a relaxing break of Angry Birds every now and then. It is always a good practice to turn things around in your head.
To many people, "too hard" is the correct difficulty: it weeds out the weak. If you can't man up and deal with a challenging game, you are not a true gamer!
Fuck you. ;) I think it's the same that applies to hot food, it has to have just the right amount of flame to give you nice opponent. So the same for games, the game has to have the right amount of challenge but not be totally daunting.