Bah, living without a lung actually isn't that bad. I can still sprint well, I just don't have the endurance to do it for very long. And I played trumpet for eight years.
You've got this company saying they will give you the IDE, free, to develop games on their platform. Possibly free training thrown in.
Which is part of my point. If they give you good documentation on how to use it, and it mostly works, for the developers as well as the users, then I find it hard to characterize that as a nightmare of incompatibility.
Having a bunch of different players try out incompatible, competing approaches is key to the process of the collective coming up with something really good to settle down on as a standard. Open vs non-open is a slightly different issue, but if using Direct3D was really all that horrible, would it still have as widespread support from developers? Note that methods that remained too closed did, in fact, die off (GLIDE).
I also need at least two serial ports, preferably three.
And what's more, one of them can't be USB-attached, it has to be real. LIRC with the Packard Bell remote. Not quite sure what I'm going to do if I'm looking for a new computer and can't find one with any real ports.
For the other two ports, those $20 USB adapters work... although it feels kinda like a ripoff. "Let's make the motherboard cheaper by leaving off some connectors... then make you buy crappier versions of them for more money than it would have cost to just put them onboard in the first place."
1. I was diagnosed with asperger's about ten years ago
But what he found is that he is really good at talking about and explaining the processes and logic behind all that stuff
2. whoa, that's totally me
He's been able to leverage that ability to "talk about work" into a very high paying career, serving as "resident guru" for companies doing software development. He doesn't do any real work, he just helps the regular developers understand how best to do their work.
3. holy ****, I hadn't gotten around to thinking that people might be willing to hire for this skill alone. please do tell me more, my email's in my profile.
"The test conducted by ABC News used depleted uranium, which is harmless but when shielded replicates the signature of the enriched uranium used in nuclear bombs."
If you can't, you don't know anything about climate dynamics
No, it just shows that you know how to use Google.
First poster did not claim that positively answering those questions makes one an expert... merely that not answering them makes one definitely not an expert. Get yer logic straight.
Sorry, man, but I've got to say s/who's/whose/ ! If you really are british then SHAME! I expect people from America to casually fuck up their grammar/spelling from time to time (insert extra apostrophes, etc), but I was hoping to be able to hold y'all to a higher standard. (And I'm from Texas, so I can reasonably complain about people here screwing up the language.)
and MacOS X in a small package is the main reason for buying the Mini in the first place.
Beware the "is". Perhaps that was your main reason, but it wouldn't be mine. Don't make a universal out of something obviously not universal. The title of this story alone should clue you in to that.
errrr make that the strong variant of atheism. strong atheism has absolutely nothing to do with science. I could write more, but it's late and my brain is tired.
Well, one could argue that Occam's razor favors atheism
If we use the definition of "one should not make more assumptions than needed", then atheism gets kicked out the door right along with religion.
religion: "I assume that a god definitely exists, and thus s/he/it created some amoeba." atheism: "I assume that a god definitely does not exist, and thus could not have been responsible for the creation of some amoeba." science: "I do not assume anything about the existence or non-existence of any gods, but instead try to understand how the amoeba came about via random chemical reactions I have reason to suspect were going on at the time."
Napster's service uses Microsoft's Janus technology to enable DRM protected music files 'bought' through subscription services to be transferred from a PC to a portable music player.
Digital restrictions management doesn't "enable" transferring files to an external device, USB or Firewire does. DRM prevents you from doing it under circumstances where you could otherwise.
He was contained. His power and danger was very limited. They recognized this. Bush and company didn't.
No, it's worse than that. They did realize it, then when they decided to invade, they simply turned around and said the other thing. Colin Powell on 24.feb.2001:
"The sanctions exist... for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction.... And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
The start menu doesn't keep track of my most commonly used apps.
That's the very first godawful thing I turn off when I'm forced to use an XP machine. Then it's the shitty oversized blue-n-orange window borders, the "web view" control panel etc folder views, the task bar icon grouping (damnit! don't keep changing how the icons are arranged on it! it slows me down!), and the background. Oh, and mouse shadows and all the menu/list/etc animations have to go too. Please see here.
My Computer isn't on the start menu.
screw that, [windows key]+E or a shortcut bar explorer icon!
There's no tab completion on the command line.
As others have mentioned, Tweak UI.
One more annoying thing, not that it makes much of a practical difference, the license for XP (and Win2K >= SP3...) says that M$FT is allowed to lookit what programs you have installed and screw with them in order to guarantee WiMP DRM security.
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bullshit
Bah, living without a lung actually isn't that bad. I can still sprint well, I just don't have the endurance to do it for very long. And I played trumpet for eight years.
You've got this company saying they will give you the IDE, free, to develop games on their platform. Possibly free training thrown in.
Which is part of my point. If they give you good documentation on how to use it, and it mostly works, for the developers as well as the users, then I find it hard to characterize that as a nightmare of incompatibility.
bash-2.05b# cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
a nce.desktop a ng e+xml
WTF!!!!! my ram apparently has all sorts of weird llamas in it!
Meta Galactic Llamas
1984 Llamasoft
application/vnd.llamagraphics.life-bal
application/vnd.llamagraphics.life-balance.exch
LLAMA
1983 Llamasoft
etc, etc, repeated dozens of times of course.
Having a bunch of different players try out incompatible, competing approaches is key to the process of the collective coming up with something really good to settle down on as a standard. Open vs non-open is a slightly different issue, but if using Direct3D was really all that horrible, would it still have as widespread support from developers? Note that methods that remained too closed did, in fact, die off (GLIDE).
flight tracking via gpsd
IIRC, yes. there might have been a version released there without all the swastikas 'n' stuff, I can't quite remember.
I also need at least two serial ports, preferably three.
And what's more, one of them can't be USB-attached, it has to be real. LIRC with the Packard Bell remote. Not quite sure what I'm going to do if I'm looking for a new computer and can't find one with any real ports.
For the other two ports, those $20 USB adapters work... although it feels kinda like a ripoff. "Let's make the motherboard cheaper by leaving off some connectors... then make you buy crappier versions of them for more money than it would have cost to just put them onboard in the first place."
1. I was diagnosed with asperger's about ten years ago
But what he found is that he is really good at talking about and explaining the processes and logic behind all that stuff
2. whoa, that's totally me
He's been able to leverage that ability to "talk about work" into a very high paying career, serving as "resident guru" for companies doing software development. He doesn't do any real work, he just helps the regular developers understand how best to do their work.
3. holy ****, I hadn't gotten around to thinking that people might be willing to hire for this skill alone. please do tell me more, my email's in my profile.
from the link:
"The test conducted by ABC News used depleted uranium, which is harmless but when shielded replicates the signature of the enriched uranium used in nuclear bombs."
it would still be extremely hard to transport it to a place were it could be of any use for them
Nope, you're wrong. ABC successfully smuggled uranium into the US a second year in a row. After that you can stick it on a truck, or just detonate it in the harbor...
If you can't, you don't know anything about climate dynamics
No, it just shows that you know how to use Google.
First poster did not claim that positively answering those questions makes one an expert... merely that not answering them makes one definitely not an expert. Get yer logic straight.
okey doke then :)
:)
I assure you there is much worse grammar than that minor faux pas 'round these parts...
Haha, I don't doubt that for a minute.
Arab oil family who's son died
Sorry, man, but I've got to say s/who's/whose/ ! If you really are british then SHAME! I expect people from America to casually fuck up their grammar/spelling from time to time (insert extra apostrophes, etc), but I was hoping to be able to hold y'all to a higher standard. (And I'm from Texas, so I can reasonably complain about people here screwing up the language.)
and MacOS X in a small package is the main reason for buying the Mini in the first place.
Beware the "is". Perhaps that was your main reason, but it wouldn't be mine. Don't make a universal out of something obviously not universal. The title of this story alone should clue you in to that.
we're not expecting them to care, we're expecting them to not bitch at us for it.
errrr make that the strong variant of atheism. strong atheism has absolutely nothing to do with science. I could write more, but it's late and my brain is tired.
Well, one could argue that Occam's razor favors atheism
If we use the definition of "one should not make more assumptions than needed", then atheism gets kicked out the door right along with religion.
religion: "I assume that a god definitely exists, and thus s/he/it created some amoeba."
atheism: "I assume that a god definitely does not exist, and thus could not have been responsible for the creation of some amoeba."
science: "I do not assume anything about the existence or non-existence of any gods, but instead try to understand how the amoeba came about via random chemical reactions I have reason to suspect were going on at the time."
something you have, something you are, something you know
Napster's service uses Microsoft's Janus technology to enable DRM protected music files 'bought' through subscription services to be transferred from a PC to a portable music player.
Digital restrictions management doesn't "enable" transferring files to an external device, USB or Firewire does. DRM prevents you from doing it under circumstances where you could otherwise.
CTHULHU WILL EAT YOUR SOUL
He was contained. His power and danger was very limited. They recognized this. Bush and company didn't.
... for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. ... And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
No, it's worse than that. They did realize it, then when they decided to invade, they simply turned around and said the other thing. Colin Powell on 24.feb.2001:
"The sanctions exist
The start menu doesn't keep track of my most commonly used apps.
That's the very first godawful thing I turn off when I'm forced to use an XP machine. Then it's the shitty oversized blue-n-orange window borders, the "web view" control panel etc folder views, the task bar icon grouping (damnit! don't keep changing how the icons are arranged on it! it slows me down!), and the background. Oh, and mouse shadows and all the menu/list/etc animations have to go too. Please see here.
My Computer isn't on the start menu.
screw that, [windows key]+E or a shortcut bar explorer icon!
There's no tab completion on the command line.
As others have mentioned, Tweak UI.
One more annoying thing, not that it makes much of a practical difference, the license for XP (and Win2K >= SP3...) says that M$FT is allowed to lookit what programs you have installed and screw with them in order to guarantee WiMP DRM security.
'Cept Linux users don't get hot booth babes at the trade shows.
Discounting Ceren Ercen (she was BSD not Tux), there's still a few left... linuxworld 2001
i already addressed this