You can do this exact thing with built in macros! Look at Decursive (A mod that "assists" in removing of debuffs)...you tap one button, it selects the correct spell, rank, and target in the raid. You hit it again, it scan the raid again and repeats for the next target that can be cured. If that isn't botting, why is this?
When a single player or group of players has obsene amounts of gold, then can control the economy to an insane degree. I have seen farmers buy out EVERY type of a paticular item (Often a widely needed tradeskill item, such as arcanite), and place them all up several minutes later with a massive price increase. Since they take way too much time to farm by yourself (Mainly because any attempts to do such will be met by an opposite-faction farmer incapacitating you while they steal the resource), people suck it up and pay their price.
Kidding aside, I agree. Even though I never saw plants as amazing before, Biology certainly made me appreciate them at a much deeper level. I remember the first time that photosynthesis was taught in some degree of detail (Light Reactions, Calvin Cycle, etc...nothing very advanced, this was Highschool Bio), I was amazed at how something so complex could be occuring every second in an apparently motionless object. Astronomy always fascinated me, but once again, it never really came to terms until I read some more about it. If nothing else, the pure scale took me by awe. To not beable to see planets orbiting this very sun, and to understand that there are trillians of other galaxies, containing a nearly infinate number of stars boggles the mind.
Then they switch to a 2px image. If you filter by a completely transparent image, they make it close to the colour of the background, etc. This doesn't even count the tons of ways that this could be done serverside with a small amount of effort. I'd rather have a feature like this that I can disable at will than something that I can't easily.
I can't find the origional post, but this seems very similar to it. Also, during a short period when Thottbot was under maintance (I recall it having an alliance/horde and realm selection area on the temporary homepage), it directed you to gold/item sales for that realm. Just because there aren't any ads doesn't mean no harm is being done. By putting the player base "to work", they can gain data on what mobs are the most effecient to farm for [insert epic item here], or which areas have the highest concentration of [insert resource here (Bastard arcanite farmers)]. Although it also assists the entire population of WoW, it certainly would serve the IGE's purpose as well. IANAKOTSOGF (I am not anyone knowlegable on the subject of gold farming), but this certainly makes sence from most perspectives that I see it from.
There are bookmarklet's specifically for this purpose. I don't think 2 clicks is much of a pain =P. On the other hand, I agree. They need to offer the shows in a decent format, and let the users download them without custom javascript being run by the user.
I think most people's issues from using mice is that they grip them too hard or pound on the buttons, perhaps a slim design like this one will get people used to the idea of simply resting their hand on a mouse and tapping the buttons rather then putting the mouse in a death grip.
I completely agree. I purchased the Razer Diamondback a few months ago (Excellent mouse imo), and I was slightly dissapointed by its size when it arrived. With my massive bear-paws (Let's just say I have rather large hands), it fealt extremely awkward...until I got used to letting my hand rest on it very gently and not gripping the edges. Many mice, especially the "tilted erganomic ones" (Where there is a large indent on the left side for the thumb, and the entire mouse is tilted on an angle) got me into the habit of holding the mouse extremely tightly. Now that I've broken that habit, my wrist feels much more relaxed, and less strained after long sessions of use.
Most people who install Thunderbird themselves are the type that would understand how the encryption works, and decide if they want to enable it. Although it would be great, I doubt that it would have a massive effect (Unless Thunderbird goes more mainstream, which is possible, since it is gaining features and popularity). The greatest push would come from three sources:
ISP's web-mail: Many users don't even know desktop clients exist. They just click the "Email" link on their ISP-set homepage, and go wherever it takes them.
Free web-mail: Similar to the above group; less tech-savy, newer users, and those that switch computers/locations often prefer webmail, but would not understand encryption.
Outlook/OutlookExpress(Shudder): For those that use a desktop client, but do not tinker with it, default encryption with Outlook/OutlookExpress would cause a fairly large jump in encryption use.
Unfortunately, all of these only feature a minute-possibility of actually occuring. The most likely I can see, would be Google enabling encryption between GMAIL clients, or something similar.
Indeed, my watch does the same thing. Only problem is that I spend most of my time indoors, and between buildings that are built like Faraday Cages and all the interferance, it rarely recieves a signal.
I can't agree more. Even though I recieved defective RAM, the motherboard took 6 weeks to arrive, and I had to exchange my CPU (I recieved one with the box already cut open...go figure); installing Windows was the biggest pain in the ass of it all. Since I bought a SATA drive, and SATA was rather new at the time, very little information was available for installing it. It took a good 2 hours to discover that Windows needed additional files on a floppy to detect a SATA drive, then even longer to find the files, since there was no archive specifically for a floppy. After guessing which files to place on the floppy (The instructions wanted you to make 3 floppies, none of which worked in the Windows installer), and much trial and error, I finally managed to get the installation to continue.
Even more irritating in some ways was the formatting process. Linux installers format the drives surprisingly quickly; unlike the Windows installer. To format my 120 GB drive, it took over an hour (Indeed, I formatted a laptop hard drive recently, only 40 GB, and it took 45+ minutes). There's something wrong when I can leave the room, watch several TV shows, and come back before it finishes formatting.
Don't even get me started on the Command Line. 90%+ of programs don't even support command line arguments for basic operations, and those that do often require that you download a "command-line version" of the program, with no GUI (God forbid I want to operate it through the command line sometimes, but through the GUI other times). And I completely agree; it is utterly insane for people to complain about having to occasionally use the command line, no matter how illogical it is in many programs.
Do we even have accurate statistics of how many systems are overheating? It seems that the majority of these cases fall under a few main issues:
Placing the "power brick" (It truely is the size of a brick) on carpeting or in a cramped space; causing it to overheat.
Having the system in a poorly ventilated AV rack, or extremely closed off cabinet.
Sitting the system on top of other equipment, or placing other equipment on top of the system.
If it is actually a widespread manufacturing flaw, then certainly M$ should be blamed for rushing it out for the Holiday '05 season. From most of what I've heard, however, the majority of the problems are caused by poor placement or ventilation. I'm sure there are some actually defective consoles, as is to be expected with any launch, but to be claiming that there is a design flaw that causes overheating is insane. I find it strange that the basic system is "sufficient" for the vast majority of cases, but utterly useless in others.
Related to the story, how the hell did this make it through the strict (Sarcasm) editorial control on/.? The summary is as long as the article, and the photos are a joke. For all that can be gathered from those photos, it could be a PC case (Or CPU) fan painted black and taped onto the side of the console!
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how were they smelling it? They would have to breath only stored air, since there would be no other source of it. If there were holes large enough for dust to enter the suit, than air would beable to escape. I don't know much specific-wise about the lunar missions, but could someone clue me in?
You 100% correct. No matter what the corporation, their major goal is profit (Or in some cases, making decisions that will insure long-term profit; aka vendor lockin, which may be a major goal of a company, but that in turn leads to long-term profit). However, the line blurs when you consider how they make their profit. Sure Google's motive of "Do no evil" might be to ensure a good company reputation, but it makes (almost) everyone happy. Google gets plenty of news [and/.] time, more traffic viewing their ads, and more companies aware of their advertising. Customers get a product that is superior than many of the alternatives. In this case, both the company and the customers "win". The creation of plain superior or innovative software would generally fall into this category as well.
When a company takes other routes; we get Microsoft and the *AA type businesses. Instead of profiting by keeping the customer happy with their products; they misinform the public, have a team of laywers larger than their other employees, and cheat/lie/steal/backstab anything in the way of an extra half-of-a-percent on their earnings reports. Instead of innovating as time changes, they stop everyone from innovating as time changes. Instead of creating a superior product; they sue the compitition into submission, prevent people from switching from their software, or use one of the other dozen techniques we see often the topic of discussion on/.
A corporation, per say, is not either good or evil. It's motive is the same weather it is loved or loathed by the public: Profit, and this is a good thing. Without companies constantly trying to out-do eachother to make higher profits, industries would be devoid of innovation. On the flip side, the method a company uses to generate profit can be very helpful or harmful to the customers. It is no surprise that people doubt Microsoft's intentions, since they have shown again-and-again that they will do anything to bolster profits, no matter what it does to the customers.
If memory serves, entrapment can only be done by law enforcement. There's a different term for non-Police relatetd incidents, but I can't recall its name.
Same experiance here. It starts out fairly low in memory usage, but after I leave it open for a few days, it starts to hog memory; even if I close all the tabs but one. I wonder if there's some leaks in the tab code, or something similar.
That seems rather odd, depending upon when you went to your university. It is common to use "^" for exponents above squared and cubed on the majority of calculators I've handled, and it is extremely common on any HTML page (Apparently the sup element is not well-known.
The Constitution enumerates 17 powers that are always to be controlled by congress. However, you're forgetting the 18th Clause:
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
This is why the government has even been able to exist for 200+ years, not for any other reason. Specific guidelines become outdated, and therefore new guidelines must be established. Also, you're forgetting the restrictions in Section 9, which includes the Writ of Habeas Corpus (You are unable to be held without trial for an unreasonable amount of time), Ex Post Facto (Punishing a person for something they did before a law against it was established), and a few other various clauses.
In this case you are correct, however. Regulating free speech to this degree (Although I agree that there has to be some control: Screaming "FIRE!" in a crowed movie theater should be punished) does nothing but restrict the people that the Constitution is meant to protect.
Well they have to be approved by the senate as well, although it's arguable how much good that really does if the president's party also has a senate majority.
You've only listed the actual software that Google makes. When it comes to their online apps (Google Suggest, Google Maps, etc), they are always cross browser (And therefore cross platform).
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You can do this exact thing with built in macros! Look at Decursive (A mod that "assists" in removing of debuffs)...you tap one button, it selects the correct spell, rank, and target in the raid. You hit it again, it scan the raid again and repeats for the next target that can be cured. If that isn't botting, why is this?
When a single player or group of players has obsene amounts of gold, then can control the economy to an insane degree. I have seen farmers buy out EVERY type of a paticular item (Often a widely needed tradeskill item, such as arcanite), and place them all up several minutes later with a massive price increase. Since they take way too much time to farm by yourself (Mainly because any attempts to do such will be met by an opposite-faction farmer incapacitating you while they steal the resource), people suck it up and pay their price.
If you can do MC or BWL with 5 people, you need to be held as a WoW God.
Just wait till you get the mammal section ;).
Kidding aside, I agree. Even though I never saw plants as amazing before, Biology certainly made me appreciate them at a much deeper level. I remember the first time that photosynthesis was taught in some degree of detail (Light Reactions, Calvin Cycle, etc...nothing very advanced, this was Highschool Bio), I was amazed at how something so complex could be occuring every second in an apparently motionless object. Astronomy always fascinated me, but once again, it never really came to terms until I read some more about it. If nothing else, the pure scale took me by awe. To not beable to see planets orbiting this very sun, and to understand that there are trillians of other galaxies, containing a nearly infinate number of stars boggles the mind.
Then they switch to a 2px image. If you filter by a completely transparent image, they make it close to the colour of the background, etc. This doesn't even count the tons of ways that this could be done serverside with a small amount of effort. I'd rather have a feature like this that I can disable at will than something that I can't easily.
I can't find the origional post, but this seems very similar to it. Also, during a short period when Thottbot was under maintance (I recall it having an alliance/horde and realm selection area on the temporary homepage), it directed you to gold/item sales for that realm. Just because there aren't any ads doesn't mean no harm is being done. By putting the player base "to work", they can gain data on what mobs are the most effecient to farm for [insert epic item here], or which areas have the highest concentration of [insert resource here (Bastard arcanite farmers)]. Although it also assists the entire population of WoW, it certainly would serve the IGE's purpose as well. IANAKOTSOGF (I am not anyone knowlegable on the subject of gold farming), but this certainly makes sence from most perspectives that I see it from.
Because we all use sensitive documents as mousepads. ;)
There are bookmarklet's specifically for this purpose. I don't think 2 clicks is much of a pain =P. On the other hand, I agree. They need to offer the shows in a decent format, and let the users download them without custom javascript being run by the user.
I completely agree. I purchased the Razer Diamondback a few months ago (Excellent mouse imo), and I was slightly dissapointed by its size when it arrived. With my massive bear-paws (Let's just say I have rather large hands), it fealt extremely awkward...until I got used to letting my hand rest on it very gently and not gripping the edges. Many mice, especially the "tilted erganomic ones" (Where there is a large indent on the left side for the thumb, and the entire mouse is tilted on an angle) got me into the habit of holding the mouse extremely tightly. Now that I've broken that habit, my wrist feels much more relaxed, and less strained after long sessions of use.
Most people who install Thunderbird themselves are the type that would understand how the encryption works, and decide if they want to enable it. Although it would be great, I doubt that it would have a massive effect (Unless Thunderbird goes more mainstream, which is possible, since it is gaining features and popularity). The greatest push would come from three sources:
Unfortunately, all of these only feature a minute-possibility of actually occuring. The most likely I can see, would be Google enabling encryption between GMAIL clients, or something similar.
Indeed, my watch does the same thing. Only problem is that I spend most of my time indoors, and between buildings that are built like Faraday Cages and all the interferance, it rarely recieves a signal.
I can't agree more. Even though I recieved defective RAM, the motherboard took 6 weeks to arrive, and I had to exchange my CPU (I recieved one with the box already cut open...go figure); installing Windows was the biggest pain in the ass of it all. Since I bought a SATA drive, and SATA was rather new at the time, very little information was available for installing it. It took a good 2 hours to discover that Windows needed additional files on a floppy to detect a SATA drive, then even longer to find the files, since there was no archive specifically for a floppy. After guessing which files to place on the floppy (The instructions wanted you to make 3 floppies, none of which worked in the Windows installer), and much trial and error, I finally managed to get the installation to continue.
Even more irritating in some ways was the formatting process. Linux installers format the drives surprisingly quickly; unlike the Windows installer. To format my 120 GB drive, it took over an hour (Indeed, I formatted a laptop hard drive recently, only 40 GB, and it took 45+ minutes). There's something wrong when I can leave the room, watch several TV shows, and come back before it finishes formatting.
Don't even get me started on the Command Line. 90%+ of programs don't even support command line arguments for basic operations, and those that do often require that you download a "command-line version" of the program, with no GUI (God forbid I want to operate it through the command line sometimes, but through the GUI other times). And I completely agree; it is utterly insane for people to complain about having to occasionally use the command line, no matter how illogical it is in many programs.
Why do I have a feeling it wasn't from typing? ;)
Do we even have accurate statistics of how many systems are overheating? It seems that the majority of these cases fall under a few main issues:
If it is actually a widespread manufacturing flaw, then certainly M$ should be blamed for rushing it out for the Holiday '05 season. From most of what I've heard, however, the majority of the problems are caused by poor placement or ventilation. I'm sure there are some actually defective consoles, as is to be expected with any launch, but to be claiming that there is a design flaw that causes overheating is insane. I find it strange that the basic system is "sufficient" for the vast majority of cases, but utterly useless in others.
Related to the story, how the hell did this make it through the strict (Sarcasm) editorial control on /.? The summary is as long as the article, and the photos are a joke. For all that can be gathered from those photos, it could be a PC case (Or CPU) fan painted black and taped onto the side of the console!
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how were they smelling it? They would have to breath only stored air, since there would be no other source of it. If there were holes large enough for dust to enter the suit, than air would beable to escape. I don't know much specific-wise about the lunar missions, but could someone clue me in?
You 100% correct. No matter what the corporation, their major goal is profit (Or in some cases, making decisions that will insure long-term profit; aka vendor lockin, which may be a major goal of a company, but that in turn leads to long-term profit). However, the line blurs when you consider how they make their profit. Sure Google's motive of "Do no evil" might be to ensure a good company reputation, but it makes (almost) everyone happy. Google gets plenty of news [and /.] time, more traffic viewing their ads, and more companies aware of their advertising. Customers get a product that is superior than many of the alternatives. In this case, both the company and the customers "win". The creation of plain superior or innovative software would generally fall into this category as well.
When a company takes other routes; we get Microsoft and the *AA type businesses. Instead of profiting by keeping the customer happy with their products; they misinform the public, have a team of laywers larger than their other employees, and cheat/lie/steal/backstab anything in the way of an extra half-of-a-percent on their earnings reports. Instead of innovating as time changes, they stop everyone from innovating as time changes. Instead of creating a superior product; they sue the compitition into submission, prevent people from switching from their software, or use one of the other dozen techniques we see often the topic of discussion on /.
A corporation, per say, is not either good or evil. It's motive is the same weather it is loved or loathed by the public: Profit, and this is a good thing. Without companies constantly trying to out-do eachother to make higher profits, industries would be devoid of innovation. On the flip side, the method a company uses to generate profit can be very helpful or harmful to the customers. It is no surprise that people doubt Microsoft's intentions, since they have shown again-and-again that they will do anything to bolster profits, no matter what it does to the customers.
Sounds like a bout of Circular Logic to me.
If memory serves, entrapment can only be done by law enforcement. There's a different term for non-Police relatetd incidents, but I can't recall its name.
Same experiance here. It starts out fairly low in memory usage, but after I leave it open for a few days, it starts to hog memory; even if I close all the tabs but one. I wonder if there's some leaks in the tab code, or something similar.
Am I the only person that sees the irony of this based upon his username?
The next story posted was indeed Breezy Badger's release.
That seems rather odd, depending upon when you went to your university. It is common to use "^" for exponents above squared and cubed on the majority of calculators I've handled, and it is extremely common on any HTML page (Apparently the sup element is not well-known.
The Constitution enumerates 17 powers that are always to be controlled by congress. However, you're forgetting the 18th Clause:
This is why the government has even been able to exist for 200+ years, not for any other reason. Specific guidelines become outdated, and therefore new guidelines must be established. Also, you're forgetting the restrictions in Section 9, which includes the Writ of Habeas Corpus (You are unable to be held without trial for an unreasonable amount of time), Ex Post Facto (Punishing a person for something they did before a law against it was established), and a few other various clauses.
In this case you are correct, however. Regulating free speech to this degree (Although I agree that there has to be some control: Screaming "FIRE!" in a crowed movie theater should be punished) does nothing but restrict the people that the Constitution is meant to protect.
Well they have to be approved by the senate as well, although it's arguable how much good that really does if the president's party also has a senate majority.
You've only listed the actual software that Google makes. When it comes to their online apps (Google Suggest, Google Maps, etc), they are always cross browser (And therefore cross platform).