I realize that. And today only, I can earn "The April Fool"... I don't know, I've always had the "collect-them-all" mentality, especially with things that don't really matter.
I have to disagree with you slightly. I recently replaced all links to IE with Firefox on my parents' computer, and I chose Firefox for a reason: learning curve.
I'm going to divide all computer users into three categories:
* Power users who know how things work * Adventurous users who might try changing their setups * Normal users who go with default settings and never try to customise
The concept of software customisation is fairly new, and everyone from the third category is still adapting to it. Changing your computer's background is one thing, but changing the way your web-browser acts is another thing altogether. It ventures into the realm of programming, with which the third category is unfamiliar. They're simetimes even scared of technology, because they would have no way of recovering from their mistakes.
How does that relate to Opera? Opera has too much customization. The default installation has too many buttons. It has this strange toolbar that appears below the address bar with top 10 and bookmarks. The side panel has notes, transfers, and links. Even though to groups 1 and 2 this seems normal, to group 3 it's too much to learn, when there is a simpler alternative around the corner: Firefox. It's very similar to IE, its features are much more hidden, and it doesn't give off an aura of complexity.
In order to get Opera to the same state, someone needs to spend about 5 minutes customising it. But here's the paradox: group 3 users never bother with customisations, and it just doesn't happen. Opera developers don't care, because they realise that people are slowly migrating to groups 1 and 2. But group 3 is still better off with Firefox.
You know, I used to think that everyone who said that was being sarcastic and was merely making fun of the government... Until I watched a couple of press releases by the government and realised that these things are actually said.
One of the reasons I really like Dells is that all of their keyboards so far have identical key sizes and attachment strategies. That enabled me to remap the keys on both of the Dells I own with no almost no problems whatsoever. (The Inspiron had a TrackPoint mouse, so I actually had to cut off a piece of the keys.)
In contrast, I've not yet seen a non-laptop keyboard that would let me remap the keys with such an ease. Instead of popping them, I always have to unscrew the bottom; and invariably the letters F and J have a different attachment strategy. I usually have to shave off a bit of the plastic to get them to remap correctly.
So remapping obviously won't work on those split "Natural" keyboards, but I can't use them anyway. So far I've remapped 4 normal and 2 laptop keyboards. The median remap time for normal keyboards is about 20-30 minutes, which is well worth the $100-$200 that I save by not bying a Dvorak-only layout. Even if the keys on the keyboards are sized slightly differently, I failed to notice it in any significant way (unless I tried to feel the keys instead of pressing it).
So to all who want to try Dvorak, I suggest remapping the keys to buying a special keyboard, especially if popping off the keys is as easy as it is on a Dell laptop.
I use Quick Launch (and equivalents) quite a bit, for following applications:
AIM - no file associations; too lazy to type WinKey+R -> AIM -> Enter Opera and Firefox, eMule and uTorrent - same Word - when I have to type up my homework, I start from scratch Visual Studio - it's easier to go File -> Recent Workspaces than C:\...\Project.dsw XMPlay (plays music) - I don't want to alter the playlist by opening a music file
I use the Desktop for my most frequently-played games.
So see, there are uses for both. However, I dislike it when installers automatically stick folders into the Start Menu without asking.:-)
From what I know, there are only four differences between the two:
* Registers are decorated with %, and numbers with $ * The addressing is in form offset(base) and not [base+offset] * Ambiguous commands are resolved using a suffix (movl instead of mov dword) * The order of operands is swapped
Granted, AT&T syntax is used very infrequently (I've used both), but is there really a benefit to not learning it?
Do VMMs really trap to the host OS?
The reason I ask is that I recently discovered Red Pill which raised the following question:
Since programs inside VMM indicate that the IDT is located at the address 0xFF......, doesn't that mean that it is VMM's own IDT, completely separate from host OS's IDT? (This implies that VMM has a driver that runs at Ring-0 privilege, among other things.)
If my assumption is correct, then virtual machines are actually faster than suspected, and only the switch from VMM back to host OS is somewhat slow, requiring a change of IDT, GDT, and LDT.
I've never been able to find the following feature in OO, and I'm wondering if it's just in front of my nose:
MS Word has the following "views": Normal, Print Layout, and 2 others that I never use. Print layout lets you see pages with a little bit of border, so you can see exactly the margins of the printed text. In contrast, Normal just shows text without borders - which still page-wraps at my page widths, but isn't as distracting for me as is the Print layout.
Does OO have this feature?
This is exactly my M.O. - I couldn't've stated it better myself. Instead of feeling guilty about downloading pirated software, I treat all downloads as "extended trial editions". Out of all the games that I own, the ones I like the best I always end up buying - sometimes months or ever years after I first play them. (Granted, by that time the money no longer goes to the developer/publisher, but my econ class taught me that like karma, money magically keeps the economy going.) And honestly, if I didn't have access to cracked versions, I wouldn't even play those games until they dropped in prices dramatically. (Me being a grad student and all...)
The added benefit is that pirated games don't need to occupy my CD slots to be played.
That, unfortunately, is the design of the current education system. Notice that you're already not allowed to talk back to your teachers (often) until you're in college. This is just one more step towards some abstract crazy ideal.
I haven't purchased any music in the past 4 years, and don't intent to. Pandora.com, DI.fm and ETN.fm keep me happy 90% of the time. If not, many of my favourite artists release their music online for free anyway.
Why don't they just ban housing. That's where most child abuse takes place.
Because those who do abuse children are in denial about doing so and instead believe themselves to be good characters. To maintain their "good character" self-image, they support legislation that would help them maintain their good-character self-image. I mean, if you're in denial about something, what's a better way to cope with it than preventing others from doing so? Projection is a powerful self-defense mechanism.
Remember, lots of people in the US (who mostly live in hotter climates) still believe that beating is a good child-rearing technique. Why would they vote for something (or someone) that (who) would make them recognise their own fallacies? Politicians recognise this and use this to keep themselves in office; that's why they pass such bills.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ()
(Function names do not have $ in front of them. $str_replace is treated like a string variable that contains the name of a function you wish to call, similar to C's function pointers.)
I, for one, am in favour of place-shifting. I learned that trick a couple of years ago - it was tough, and the classes at the teleportation school cost me a pretty penny, but it sure beats the morning commute!
It's all forced upon you, just as much as the story of any movie is forced upon you.
Forced is a strong word. The story is a given; most games will gain nothing from giving you the ability to change your past, retroactively. (Even in real life, the only time you can change your past is when you write an embellished autobiography, i.e. when you write your own story.) Games must have some basis in order to be playable - they must limit your actions and focus on tasks that advance the game instead of letting you wander around aimlessly and get bored.
That's why games will never be "fully" interactive - there will be some consequence to every one of your actions, and some consequences will take longer to unravel (i.e. be cinematics) than others.
I myself was actually going to mention Dreamfall. It was the opposite for me: as great as TLJ was, by the end it lost most of its coherence and just became tedious. Dreamfall, on the other hand, was never as interactive as TLJ, but it was also non-stop. Not for a moment did I lose touch with the game, and the ending was just the climax that the game needed. Never mind what is disclosed in the first few minutes; the way that everything came together was just magnificent.
I recall having a similar experience at the end of Tribunal (expansion to Morrowind). The first half of the quest was more or less boring, but the very ending, and the resolution thereof, was inspired.
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I realize that. And today only, I can earn "The April Fool"... I don't know, I've always had the "collect-them-all" mentality, especially with things that don't really matter.
To be honest, government websites in the US aren't that much better, in terms of browser cross-compatibility.
I have to disagree with you slightly. I recently replaced all links to IE with Firefox on my parents' computer, and I chose Firefox for a reason: learning curve.
I'm going to divide all computer users into three categories:
* Power users who know how things work
* Adventurous users who might try changing their setups
* Normal users who go with default settings and never try to customise
The concept of software customisation is fairly new, and everyone from the third category is still adapting to it. Changing your computer's background is one thing, but changing the way your web-browser acts is another thing altogether. It ventures into the realm of programming, with which the third category is unfamiliar. They're simetimes even scared of technology, because they would have no way of recovering from their mistakes.
How does that relate to Opera? Opera has too much customization. The default installation has too many buttons. It has this strange toolbar that appears below the address bar with top 10 and bookmarks. The side panel has notes, transfers, and links. Even though to groups 1 and 2 this seems normal, to group 3 it's too much to learn, when there is a simpler alternative around the corner: Firefox. It's very similar to IE, its features are much more hidden, and it doesn't give off an aura of complexity.
In order to get Opera to the same state, someone needs to spend about 5 minutes customising it. But here's the paradox: group 3 users never bother with customisations, and it just doesn't happen. Opera developers don't care, because they realise that people are slowly migrating to groups 1 and 2. But group 3 is still better off with Firefox.
You know, I used to think that everyone who said that was being sarcastic and was merely making fun of the government... Until I watched a couple of press releases by the government and realised that these things are actually said.
And that really freaked me out.
My recommendation is University of Washington. UCSB has two major shortcomings:
* it is much too easy to be distracted by the closeness of the beach
* the prevalence of alhoholism in Santa Barbara is staggeringly high
But on the other hand, I know nothing of University of Washington. Good luck!
One of the reasons I really like Dells is that all of their keyboards so far have identical key sizes and attachment strategies. That enabled me to remap the keys on both of the Dells I own with no almost no problems whatsoever. (The Inspiron had a TrackPoint mouse, so I actually had to cut off a piece of the keys.)
In contrast, I've not yet seen a non-laptop keyboard that would let me remap the keys with such an ease. Instead of popping them, I always have to unscrew the bottom; and invariably the letters F and J have a different attachment strategy. I usually have to shave off a bit of the plastic to get them to remap correctly.
So remapping obviously won't work on those split "Natural" keyboards, but I can't use them anyway. So far I've remapped 4 normal and 2 laptop keyboards. The median remap time for normal keyboards is about 20-30 minutes, which is well worth the $100-$200 that I save by not bying a Dvorak-only layout. Even if the keys on the keyboards are sized slightly differently, I failed to notice it in any significant way (unless I tried to feel the keys instead of pressing it).
So to all who want to try Dvorak, I suggest remapping the keys to buying a special keyboard, especially if popping off the keys is as easy as it is on a Dell laptop.
The plural of virus is viruses. The following link has a thorough explanation of the word's Latin roots.
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http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.h
I use Quick Launch (and equivalents) quite a bit, for following applications:
:-)
AIM - no file associations; too lazy to type WinKey+R -> AIM -> Enter
Opera and Firefox, eMule and uTorrent - same
Word - when I have to type up my homework, I start from scratch
Visual Studio - it's easier to go File -> Recent Workspaces than C:\...\Project.dsw
XMPlay (plays music) - I don't want to alter the playlist by opening a music file
I use the Desktop for my most frequently-played games.
So see, there are uses for both. However, I dislike it when installers automatically stick folders into the Start Menu without asking.
What's wrong with AT&T syntax?
From what I know, there are only four differences between the two:
* Registers are decorated with %, and numbers with $
* The addressing is in form offset(base) and not [base+offset]
* Ambiguous commands are resolved using a suffix (movl instead of mov dword)
* The order of operands is swapped
Granted, AT&T syntax is used very infrequently (I've used both), but is there really a benefit to not learning it?
Do VMMs really trap to the host OS? The reason I ask is that I recently discovered Red Pill which raised the following question: Since programs inside VMM indicate that the IDT is located at the address 0xFF......, doesn't that mean that it is VMM's own IDT, completely separate from host OS's IDT? (This implies that VMM has a driver that runs at Ring-0 privilege, among other things.) If my assumption is correct, then virtual machines are actually faster than suspected, and only the switch from VMM back to host OS is somewhat slow, requiring a change of IDT, GDT, and LDT.
I've never been able to find the following feature in OO, and I'm wondering if it's just in front of my nose: MS Word has the following "views": Normal, Print Layout, and 2 others that I never use. Print layout lets you see pages with a little bit of border, so you can see exactly the margins of the printed text. In contrast, Normal just shows text without borders - which still page-wraps at my page widths, but isn't as distracting for me as is the Print layout. Does OO have this feature?
This is exactly my M.O. - I couldn't've stated it better myself. Instead of feeling guilty about downloading pirated software, I treat all downloads as "extended trial editions". Out of all the games that I own, the ones I like the best I always end up buying - sometimes months or ever years after I first play them. (Granted, by that time the money no longer goes to the developer/publisher, but my econ class taught me that like karma, money magically keeps the economy going.) And honestly, if I didn't have access to cracked versions, I wouldn't even play those games until they dropped in prices dramatically. (Me being a grad student and all...)
The added benefit is that pirated games don't need to occupy my CD slots to be played.
Sounds like thoughtcrime to me.
"Yes, we know you didn't distribute the copyrighted material, but you were thinking about doing it!"
I haven't laughed that hard for at least a month. Thanks, mate!
But only the Epsilon get those jobs. I'm happy to be a Beta. I'm glad I'm not an Alpha.
That, unfortunately, is the design of the current education system. Notice that you're already not allowed to talk back to your teachers (often) until you're in college. This is just one more step towards some abstract crazy ideal.
I haven't purchased any music in the past 4 years, and don't intent to. Pandora.com, DI.fm and ETN.fm keep me happy 90% of the time. If not, many of my favourite artists release their music online for free anyway.
*looks outside*
It's cloudy tonight.
*crawls back into bed*
Maybe next time.
I read that as "Spanish Religion Goes Entirely Open Source", and spent the next few seconds wondering about the implication of this transition.
Remember, lots of people in the US (who mostly live in hotter climates) still believe that beating is a good child-rearing technique. Why would they vote for something (or someone) that (who) would make them recognise their own fallacies? Politicians recognise this and use this to keep themselves in office; that's why they pass such bills.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ()
(Function names do not have $ in front of them. $str_replace is treated like a string variable that contains the name of a function you wish to call, similar to C's function pointers.)
I, for one, am in favour of place-shifting. I learned that trick a couple of years ago - it was tough, and the classes at the teleportation school cost me a pretty penny, but it sure beats the morning commute!
That's why games will never be "fully" interactive - there will be some consequence to every one of your actions, and some consequences will take longer to unravel (i.e. be cinematics) than others.
I don't have a point either, though.
I myself was actually going to mention Dreamfall. It was the opposite for me: as great as TLJ was, by the end it lost most of its coherence and just became tedious. Dreamfall, on the other hand, was never as interactive as TLJ, but it was also non-stop. Not for a moment did I lose touch with the game, and the ending was just the climax that the game needed. Never mind what is disclosed in the first few minutes; the way that everything came together was just magnificent.
I recall having a similar experience at the end of Tribunal (expansion to Morrowind). The first half of the quest was more or less boring, but the very ending, and the resolution thereof, was inspired.