Doing any sort of graphics work you want as much screen space as possible. Even a passive 800x600 (or 600x800) display would be enough to move most of the standard PhotoShop clutter out of the way. If it could light up on mouse activity then so much the better. Heck, make it an upscaled DS clone with the second screen pressure sensitive and I'd be in heaven.
1. Employee A brings dog to work, improving their morale. (productivity +X) 2. Employee B doesn't like dogs, is distracted and annoyed. (productivity -Y) 3. ??? 4. Profit?
Your analogy is not entirely unlike a young player jumping from Halo(2) to a more complex PC FPS, I'd say. Although instead of a car company of some sort sponsoring their equipment it is generally their parents.
Welcome to English, language of the damned, in which abstract concepts are considered things and therefor nouns; the word 'tool' can be used to describe both 'object oriented programming' and 'violence' with equal accuracy; and almost nobody understands the correct function of a semi-colon.
Perhaps that was the reasoning behind it, but you can get around that with a simple redesign of the tray. That extra 1cm on the outside pushes the total disk area from about 355.3cm^2 to about 417cm^2. The few cents per drive that changing the tray adds would be more than made up for by the added capacity IMHO.
Why Beige... Why did you feel the need to go from being a person to a low grade slashtroll when faced with verifiable facts correcting a small peice of your posting? Kids these days...
All I'm saying is that I think it would make people more willing to listen if one side or the other would just stop bitch-slapping the bill of rights every chance they get in one form or another. Circling back to the grandparent:
"...they are more easily controlled by their gov't, because as long as you give them their precious little guns, they will vote for you and not complain about anything else..."
Do you not see how this would become a complete non-issue if certain key players stopped trying to disarm the populace on a regular basis?
I would like to point out that if BOTH the major parties would respect ALL of the people's constitutionally protected rights then perhaps some of us wouldn't feel the need to stock up for Civil War 2.
So what you're saying is that they should ditch the powered armor and any halfway cool weapons?
Please don't hold up Starship Troopers as a positive example for Halo to follow. Having recently played the game should not inhibit one from enjoying the movie.
I know this wasn't rated funny, but it should have been. The advantage of posting a scaled (and compressed) image is that one doesn't need to worry about what sort of connection the audience has. Not everybody has a broadband connection and the vast majority do not have that $2499 display you speak of. More people have dialup than have their monitors cranked up to 1600x1200 or above. One might also take into consideration that having to wait 5 minutes for a picture is a heck of a lot more annoying than being forced to view it at only 1200x900.
Please, don't be a jerk; save the super high resolution images for printing. The picture is none the worse for not being able to zoom in and count individual nose hairs.
You keep going on about this live mule noise issue, but it is by far your weakest argument. Even at it's loudest a live mule isn't going to be as loud as BigDog is whenever it moves. If you're leaving your mule (live or robot) miles away from the target anyway then what do you care if it grunts, whines, or sings show tunes as long as nobody kills it, steals it, or plants an IED on it? Here's the kicker, how far from where you think the enemy might be would you leave the 2 stroke robo-mule? The sound of a 2 stroke engine is very distinctive and easy to pick out, so let's say 5 miles. That's five miles from enemy presence, not your target, otherwise you're just announcing your presence to anybody wanting to set an ambush.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of military robots as much as the next person. In 20 years they might have something really cool to show for all this research. Let's not confuse this particular version with something that would actually be practical in the field though, ok? Wake me up when an ATV can't do all the robot's tricks faster, better, and cheaper.
Perhaps we should get rid of all the horse police instead, make them use motorcycles... Or we could continue to use the best transportation for the task at hand.
First: Yes, an untrained mule may be spooked be gunfire. On the other hand people have been training horses to go into battle for thousands years. Worst case scenario your packmule runs from behind cover and gets shot (assuming the enemy would bother shooting at fleeing livestock in the middle of a fight).
Second: Mating calls from a mule? Mules are sterile, do they even make mating calls? Better question: Do they make mating calls LOUDER THAN A 2-STROKE ENGINE?!?
Third: Poop stinks, gotta give you that. So does gasoline though. Don't know enough about tracking dogs, their abilities, or their use in militaries around the world to guess how much of an issue this is.
Fourth: If the gas tank runs dry the machine DOES TOO die. The fact that you can send out a retrieval team later to recover it is of little help to the people in the group it was attached to. This thing is designed to operate in areas where conventional ground vehicles can't go, which means no gas trucks go there either. Also, if your robot mule dies for some reason you can't cook and eat it.
Last year during a bit of a financial low point I tried AOL for a month. On canceling, aside from the expected extra time added to my trial, they also offered to price match my local ISP at $15, no strings mentioned. Guess that they raised the lower price as well as the suckers' price.
While I agree that the current 3/6/10/13/17/18 scheme is broken, I do not think that adding more categories is the answer. If you want better distrobution of the categories just redistribute them and be done with it. Is there really a good reason to have only a one year gap between the highest and second highest rating?
Maybe I'll be modded troll for this, who knows, but I do not think that the AO rating will be taken seriously (by gamers at least) untill M is dropped far enough to make a real difference.
To anybody who would disagree, I have a question: If a person isn't mature enough to safely play an M rated video game then how can they possibly be mature enough to drive a real car on real roads with real people's lives at stake? Certainly more deaths are caused each year by 16 year old drivers than by 16 year old gamers. So why aren't you out crusading against that right now?
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Doing any sort of graphics work you want as much screen space as possible. Even a passive 800x600 (or 600x800) display would be enough to move most of the standard PhotoShop clutter out of the way. If it could light up on mouse activity then so much the better. Heck, make it an upscaled DS clone with the second screen pressure sensitive and I'd be in heaven.
Ya' know, you're right, "addons.mozilla.org" does sound rather questionable.
Oooh, ooh! Can it have a 0 to 3 bit transparency channel or maybe even a true 32 bit pallet? That would make my day, truly.
Ironicly, that wouldn't be too far from it's real world price.
1. Employee A brings dog to work, improving their morale. (productivity +X)
2. Employee B doesn't like dogs, is distracted and annoyed. (productivity -Y)
3. ???
4. Profit?
Your analogy is not entirely unlike a young player jumping from Halo(2) to a more complex PC FPS, I'd say. Although instead of a car company of some sort sponsoring their equipment it is generally their parents.
Or you could pronounce it MAh Net.
Welcome to English, language of the damned, in which abstract concepts are considered things and therefor nouns; the word 'tool' can be used to describe both 'object oriented programming' and 'violence' with equal accuracy; and almost nobody understands the correct function of a semi-colon.
Start showing up at work drunk and see how long it takes you to get fired. Unproductive employees have a way of becoming ex-employees.
I think he was making a reference to the recently used programs list in WinXP.
Perhaps that was the reasoning behind it, but you can get around that with a simple redesign of the tray. That extra 1cm on the outside pushes the total disk area from about 355.3cm^2 to about 417cm^2. The few cents per drive that changing the tray adds would be more than made up for by the added capacity IMHO.
Why Beige... Why did you feel the need to go from being a person to a low grade slashtroll when faced with verifiable facts correcting a small peice of your posting? Kids these days...
I might... then again I might also buy car insurance if it wasn't required. I'm helpful like that.
All I'm saying is that I think it would make people more willing to listen if one side or the other would just stop bitch-slapping the bill of rights every chance they get in one form or another. Circling back to the grandparent:
"...they are more easily controlled by their gov't, because as long as you give them their precious little guns, they will vote for you and not complain about anything else..."
Do you not see how this would become a complete non-issue if certain key players stopped trying to disarm the populace on a regular basis?
I would like to point out that if BOTH the major parties would respect ALL of the people's constitutionally protected rights then perhaps some of us wouldn't feel the need to stock up for Civil War 2.
So what you're saying is that they should ditch the powered armor and any halfway cool weapons?
Please don't hold up Starship Troopers as a positive example for Halo to follow. Having recently played the game should not inhibit one from enjoying the movie.
I know this wasn't rated funny, but it should have been. The advantage of posting a scaled (and compressed) image is that one doesn't need to worry about what sort of connection the audience has. Not everybody has a broadband connection and the vast majority do not have that $2499 display you speak of. More people have dialup than have their monitors cranked up to 1600x1200 or above. One might also take into consideration that having to wait 5 minutes for a picture is a heck of a lot more annoying than being forced to view it at only 1200x900.
Please, don't be a jerk; save the super high resolution images for printing. The picture is none the worse for not being able to zoom in and count individual nose hairs.
-Fluffy the attack kitty
Its not just computers that beep and whir. Nightvision, cameras, radios, GPS, even the occasional rifle scope beeps and whirs.
Yeah, maybe, but who bothers searching past page 3 these days?
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You keep going on about this live mule noise issue, but it is by far your weakest argument. Even at it's loudest a live mule isn't going to be as loud as BigDog is whenever it moves. If you're leaving your mule (live or robot) miles away from the target anyway then what do you care if it grunts, whines, or sings show tunes as long as nobody kills it, steals it, or plants an IED on it? Here's the kicker, how far from where you think the enemy might be would you leave the 2 stroke robo-mule? The sound of a 2 stroke engine is very distinctive and easy to pick out, so let's say 5 miles. That's five miles from enemy presence, not your target, otherwise you're just announcing your presence to anybody wanting to set an ambush.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of military robots as much as the next person. In 20 years they might have something really cool to show for all this research. Let's not confuse this particular version with something that would actually be practical in the field though, ok? Wake me up when an ATV can't do all the robot's tricks faster, better, and cheaper.
Perhaps we should get rid of all the horse police instead, make them use motorcycles... Or we could continue to use the best transportation for the task at hand.
First: Yes, an untrained mule may be spooked be gunfire. On the other hand people have been training horses to go into battle for thousands years. Worst case scenario your packmule runs from behind cover and gets shot (assuming the enemy would bother shooting at fleeing livestock in the middle of a fight).
Second: Mating calls from a mule? Mules are sterile, do they even make mating calls? Better question: Do they make mating calls LOUDER THAN A 2-STROKE ENGINE?!?
Third: Poop stinks, gotta give you that. So does gasoline though. Don't know enough about tracking dogs, their abilities, or their use in militaries around the world to guess how much of an issue this is.
Fourth: If the gas tank runs dry the machine DOES TOO die. The fact that you can send out a retrieval team later to recover it is of little help to the people in the group it was attached to. This thing is designed to operate in areas where conventional ground vehicles can't go, which means no gas trucks go there either. Also, if your robot mule dies for some reason you can't cook and eat it.
*looks* Oh, my appologies. Somehow missed that it was a reply. >_>
Not that I disagree, mind you, but that was rather off-topic and flamebait.
Last year during a bit of a financial low point I tried AOL for a month. On canceling, aside from the expected extra time added to my trial, they also offered to price match my local ISP at $15, no strings mentioned. Guess that they raised the lower price as well as the suckers' price.
While I agree that the current 3/6/10/13/17/18 scheme is broken, I do not think that adding more categories is the answer. If you want better distrobution of the categories just redistribute them and be done with it. Is there really a good reason to have only a one year gap between the highest and second highest rating?
Maybe I'll be modded troll for this, who knows, but I do not think that the AO rating will be taken seriously (by gamers at least) untill M is dropped far enough to make a real difference.
To anybody who would disagree, I have a question: If a person isn't mature enough to safely play an M rated video game then how can they possibly be mature enough to drive a real car on real roads with real people's lives at stake? Certainly more deaths are caused each year by 16 year old drivers than by 16 year old gamers. So why aren't you out crusading against that right now?