Password confirmation is a good thing. Even the best typist still makes mistakes.
What's annoying, though, is a second "email confirmation" box. God, I hate those things. Email addresses are shown in plain text, and if I don't get a confirmation email, that's a good hint I entered it wrong.
But the worst of them all was the idiotic Windows XP wifi connection screen. It had you enter the wifi password twice--to connect, not to change it.
This used to be a neat and handy trick, but it's been ages since I've registered for a site that allows it. I've taken to using email aliases on Google Apps.
Why? Amazon's been doing this since day one with the Kindle app. This article is anything but news, as people (including Amazon) have been sidestepping in-app purchases for ages.
And a sledgehammer is also an amazingly efficient way of cracking a walnut. "All their other faults" is a nice way of glossing over glossing over the fact that the cons of a walled garden outweigh the pros.
That's rather subjective, isn't it? I would imagine that Apple's "walled garden" approach works just fine for most of its users. You do see a lot of complaining, but keep in mind that people are more likely to go to a forum to complain than to say everything's great.
For myself, as an iOS user, I have only been miffed with Apple's policies three times. The first was MyWi, but that is probably due more to the carrier; the second was Swype, but now that Siri's out I pretty much use voice dictation for my phone, and I can type surprisingly fast on my iPad; the third was when they wouldn't give Sparrow the push email privilege.
I did jailbreak my phone at one point. There were some neat things in Cydia, but many of them were surprisingly expensive. I wound up reverting to standard iOS for a couple reasons, but one of them was that those same neato tools (I only installed two or three of them) absolutely killed my battery life.
What's particularly disturbing to me is that my bank has the most draconian password requirements, which make my bank password one of the weakest that I use. Joy.
This is not to mention that players don't necessarily play as themselves. I mean, lezbeonest here, I'm sure I'm not the only male who didn't play FemShep straight.
This. I don't care a whole lot about romance options in games, but if I do "pursue" them, I've never "gone after" a male NPC. I don't think it's homophobia or anything, it's just that I have no interest in doing it, especially when pursuing an in-game romance with an NPC doesn't have any benefits.
Mandatory corporate upgrade? I haven't heard of any corporations that are moving all of their users to Windows 8, but I guess they may exist. It's my understanding that corps like to wait it out and make sure that everything works before moving over (thus why many are only now moving to Windows 7).
For myself, I bought Windows 8 because it was less than a third of the cost of Windows 7, and Internet hyperbole aside, it behaves basically the same way as Windows 7 in all the ways that actually matter. I actually prefer it over 7 (if you care enough to know why, it's in my posting history...somewhere...).
He wasn't facing decades in jail. He was facing the possibility of decades in jail. He didn't even fight. I don't know him, and I don't know enough of the particulars of this case to definitively say whether he acted cowardly or not, but on the surface, it does look that way. Regardless, my heart goes out to his friends and family. Coward or not, suicide is one of the most selfish actions an individual can take. Even if your life sucks at the moment, you are more than your own life, and suicide hurts those who care about you far more than it hurts yourself.
A petition is not, nor should it be, a voting mechanism. It is not a poll, but a way to demonstrate if a large enough number of people care about an issue. Once enough people sign a petition, then you set up a vote.
I'm going to be honest, but I'll probably be modded into oblivion, and/or called a shill.
I bought a Nexus 7 because I wanted a tablet, I didn't want to spend $329 on an iPad mini, and Jelly Bean was supposed to fix the lag issues. I wound up returning it for a variety of reasons, but one of them was that the UI performance felt about on-par with a first-generation iPad (which I also sold, though for different reasons). I really wanted to like it. For all I know as someone who doesn't use Android, Jelly Bean is a massive improvement in this area. For all of the things Android does well, its UI performance and subjective responsiveness are still not on the level of iOS.
Do you know why Microsoft only releases patches once a month for its operating systems? Because corporate environments can become violently ill when something is updated without it being tested first.
I don't use Firefox, and I know it's popular to bash its rapid release schedule for some reason, but...
Firefox 14.0: June 26, 2012 Firefox 15.0: August 28, 2012 Firefox 16.0: October 9, 2012 Firefox 17.0: November 20, 2012 Firefox 18.0: January 8, 2013 Firefox 19.0: February 19, 2013 Firefox 20.0: March 26, 2013
Average is well over a month for each major version number. Granted, 13.0 came out less than a month before 14.0, but that was several versions ago, and is the only version in 2012 that had such a short lifetime. Mozilla doesn't ship new major versions that fast. There are point releases, but not as many as you'd think (only 1 or 2 per release).
I don't see why people are upset about Firefox's release schedule. It's similar to Chrome's, which seems to largely get a pass. Then again, Chrome does silent updates. I assume (hope) Firefox does the same--is this not the case? If not, then that could get annoying.
While cat is superfluous there, structuring the command in that way can make what's happening more obvious to the novice. Personally, grep's argument handling has always seemed backwards to me. I tend to think of it as "search this file for this pattern" (grep ), not "search for this pattern in this file" (grep ), so when I was first using Linux, I often used cat | grep because I kept getting the command wrong.
I have a 64GB SSD and a 1TB platter drive. The platter drive is there simply for gaming. With games taking tens of gigabytes these days (the new Max Payne is 30GB!), you have to get a large and expensive SSD in order to store more than a couple at the same time. Sure, you could delete and re-download, but we're talking huge downloads and added wear on the SSD.
Furthermore, as others have pointed out, an SSD isn't nearly as beneficial for sequential reads, which is what most gaming IO consists of. My load times in Skyrim are less than 5 seconds for the longest ones, and only about 2 seconds for short ones (quick loads in the same area are nearly instantaneous).
Out of curiosity, what are you using all that RAM for? I have 8GB in my gaming rig, and the reason it's so "low" is that I've never seen it use over 6GB at any given time. Unfortunately, Windows sees that 75% use as "really low", despite having 2GB free, so it often minimizes my game in order to urge me to turn it off. Because I can't find a way to disable that warning, I'll upgrade to 24GB as soon as I can find quality memory for $50 (really should have taken advantage of that Black Friday sale...).
Honest question here: Assuming you're an American, how would the US switching to the metric system enhance your life? Most people don't run around doing dimensional analysis, and people who have grown up with the current system don't have trouble with it. If you like the metric system, there's nothing stopping you from using it. For my own way of thinking, we have a lot of bigger problems to tackle before we spend money switching everything over to metric. Such a switch would have short-term negative effects (due to confusion and misunderstanding of how different units relate to each other), and I just don't see there being much benefit for the average person in the long-term.
Are we running the same Steam? I've been using it for years, and never encountered anything just described. It's quick and gets out of the way as soon as I tell it I want to play a game. In fact, my only irritation is that it has to install the DirectX runtime or VC RED (whichever it is) for each new game, but I sort of understand why it's doing that, and it only happens once.
I did it once, and actually watched all the way through. Before the second Evangelion movie came out in the US, it was only available as a cam version with fansubs. Once it came out in the US, I bought the DVD and deleted the crappy cam.
I have two 7950s and notice it. The game will just randomly slow down for a few frames, then go back to running smooth as silk. It's annoying and distracting, but it's also one of those things that isn't nearly so common or noticeable when you're just running one card. Had I known of the issue when I bought them, I would have gone with nVidia.
I may have to look more carefully, then--I've not noticed any improvement to Skyrim since installing the betas last week, but that was also the same time I started heavily experimenting with graphics improvement mods.
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Password confirmation is a good thing. Even the best typist still makes mistakes.
What's annoying, though, is a second "email confirmation" box. God, I hate those things. Email addresses are shown in plain text, and if I don't get a confirmation email, that's a good hint I entered it wrong.
But the worst of them all was the idiotic Windows XP wifi connection screen. It had you enter the wifi password twice--to connect, not to change it.
This used to be a neat and handy trick, but it's been ages since I've registered for a site that allows it. I've taken to using email aliases on Google Apps.
Why? Amazon's been doing this since day one with the Kindle app. This article is anything but news, as people (including Amazon) have been sidestepping in-app purchases for ages.
And a sledgehammer is also an amazingly efficient way of cracking a walnut. "All their other faults" is a nice way of glossing over glossing over the fact that the cons of a walled garden outweigh the pros.
That's rather subjective, isn't it? I would imagine that Apple's "walled garden" approach works just fine for most of its users. You do see a lot of complaining, but keep in mind that people are more likely to go to a forum to complain than to say everything's great.
For myself, as an iOS user, I have only been miffed with Apple's policies three times. The first was MyWi, but that is probably due more to the carrier; the second was Swype, but now that Siri's out I pretty much use voice dictation for my phone, and I can type surprisingly fast on my iPad; the third was when they wouldn't give Sparrow the push email privilege.
I did jailbreak my phone at one point. There were some neat things in Cydia, but many of them were surprisingly expensive. I wound up reverting to standard iOS for a couple reasons, but one of them was that those same neato tools (I only installed two or three of them) absolutely killed my battery life.
You know, mallard, stifftail, goldeneye...
Okay, fine, it's a type of dynamic typing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
What's particularly disturbing to me is that my bank has the most draconian password requirements, which make my bank password one of the weakest that I use. Joy.
Actually, it was a long time ago.
This is not to mention that players don't necessarily play as themselves. I mean, lezbeonest here, I'm sure I'm not the only male who didn't play FemShep straight.
This. I don't care a whole lot about romance options in games, but if I do "pursue" them, I've never "gone after" a male NPC. I don't think it's homophobia or anything, it's just that I have no interest in doing it, especially when pursuing an in-game romance with an NPC doesn't have any benefits.
Mandatory corporate upgrade? I haven't heard of any corporations that are moving all of their users to Windows 8, but I guess they may exist. It's my understanding that corps like to wait it out and make sure that everything works before moving over (thus why many are only now moving to Windows 7).
For myself, I bought Windows 8 because it was less than a third of the cost of Windows 7, and Internet hyperbole aside, it behaves basically the same way as Windows 7 in all the ways that actually matter. I actually prefer it over 7 (if you care enough to know why, it's in my posting history...somewhere...).
He wasn't facing decades in jail. He was facing the possibility of decades in jail. He didn't even fight. I don't know him, and I don't know enough of the particulars of this case to definitively say whether he acted cowardly or not, but on the surface, it does look that way. Regardless, my heart goes out to his friends and family. Coward or not, suicide is one of the most selfish actions an individual can take. Even if your life sucks at the moment, you are more than your own life, and suicide hurts those who care about you far more than it hurts yourself.
A petition is not, nor should it be, a voting mechanism. It is not a poll, but a way to demonstrate if a large enough number of people care about an issue. Once enough people sign a petition, then you set up a vote.
Probably because the mods read the entire post in context.
I'm going to be honest, but I'll probably be modded into oblivion, and/or called a shill.
I bought a Nexus 7 because I wanted a tablet, I didn't want to spend $329 on an iPad mini, and Jelly Bean was supposed to fix the lag issues. I wound up returning it for a variety of reasons, but one of them was that the UI performance felt about on-par with a first-generation iPad (which I also sold, though for different reasons). I really wanted to like it. For all I know as someone who doesn't use Android, Jelly Bean is a massive improvement in this area. For all of the things Android does well, its UI performance and subjective responsiveness are still not on the level of iOS.
Yeah, I worded that like an idiot, didn't I?
Do you know why Microsoft only releases patches once a month for its operating systems? Because corporate environments can become violently ill when something is updated without it being tested first.
I don't use Firefox, and I know it's popular to bash its rapid release schedule for some reason, but...
Firefox 14.0: June 26, 2012
Firefox 15.0: August 28, 2012
Firefox 16.0: October 9, 2012
Firefox 17.0: November 20, 2012
Firefox 18.0: January 8, 2013
Firefox 19.0: February 19, 2013
Firefox 20.0: March 26, 2013
Average is well over a month for each major version number. Granted, 13.0 came out less than a month before 14.0, but that was several versions ago, and is the only version in 2012 that had such a short lifetime. Mozilla doesn't ship new major versions that fast. There are point releases, but not as many as you'd think (only 1 or 2 per release).
I don't see why people are upset about Firefox's release schedule. It's similar to Chrome's, which seems to largely get a pass. Then again, Chrome does silent updates. I assume (hope) Firefox does the same--is this not the case? If not, then that could get annoying.
While cat is superfluous there, structuring the command in that way can make what's happening more obvious to the novice. Personally, grep's argument handling has always seemed backwards to me. I tend to think of it as "search this file for this pattern" (grep ), not "search for this pattern in this file" (grep ), so when I was first using Linux, I often used cat | grep because I kept getting the command wrong.
I have a 64GB SSD and a 1TB platter drive. The platter drive is there simply for gaming. With games taking tens of gigabytes these days (the new Max Payne is 30GB!), you have to get a large and expensive SSD in order to store more than a couple at the same time. Sure, you could delete and re-download, but we're talking huge downloads and added wear on the SSD.
Furthermore, as others have pointed out, an SSD isn't nearly as beneficial for sequential reads, which is what most gaming IO consists of. My load times in Skyrim are less than 5 seconds for the longest ones, and only about 2 seconds for short ones (quick loads in the same area are nearly instantaneous).
Out of curiosity, what are you using all that RAM for? I have 8GB in my gaming rig, and the reason it's so "low" is that I've never seen it use over 6GB at any given time. Unfortunately, Windows sees that 75% use as "really low", despite having 2GB free, so it often minimizes my game in order to urge me to turn it off. Because I can't find a way to disable that warning, I'll upgrade to 24GB as soon as I can find quality memory for $50 (really should have taken advantage of that Black Friday sale...).
Steam's "Big Screen" mode is actually pretty good. I won't be surprised if that's what the SteamBox winds up running.
It's entirely possible that a Surface tablet was around to compare/contrast how the software runs on the different platforms.
Honest question here: Assuming you're an American, how would the US switching to the metric system enhance your life? Most people don't run around doing dimensional analysis, and people who have grown up with the current system don't have trouble with it. If you like the metric system, there's nothing stopping you from using it. For my own way of thinking, we have a lot of bigger problems to tackle before we spend money switching everything over to metric. Such a switch would have short-term negative effects (due to confusion and misunderstanding of how different units relate to each other), and I just don't see there being much benefit for the average person in the long-term.
Are we running the same Steam? I've been using it for years, and never encountered anything just described. It's quick and gets out of the way as soon as I tell it I want to play a game. In fact, my only irritation is that it has to install the DirectX runtime or VC RED (whichever it is) for each new game, but I sort of understand why it's doing that, and it only happens once.
I did it once, and actually watched all the way through. Before the second Evangelion movie came out in the US, it was only available as a cam version with fansubs. Once it came out in the US, I bought the DVD and deleted the crappy cam.
I have two 7950s and notice it. The game will just randomly slow down for a few frames, then go back to running smooth as silk. It's annoying and distracting, but it's also one of those things that isn't nearly so common or noticeable when you're just running one card. Had I known of the issue when I bought them, I would have gone with nVidia.
I may have to look more carefully, then--I've not noticed any improvement to Skyrim since installing the betas last week, but that was also the same time I started heavily experimenting with graphics improvement mods.