It's pretty unreasonable to obligate someone to make something available in every format every individual requests, because that places undue burden on the copyright holders and distributors.
However, it is pretty reasonable to be allowed to convert the data into a format that is more accessible to you yourself. We already have intermediate copies and conversions made in the process of playing something, so why not copy something over the net with the net effect of changing the format of original? Or what about when the net effect is to repair the original?
Maybe it would end up being legally acceptable if it weren't for the masses of people who just leech.
There are about 41253 square degrees in a sphere so one could subdivide a simple solid until it has around this number of faces to get an even distribution of directions. That wouldn't include roll though - 360 degrees of roll makes it about 14 million angles.
Hate yourself more for your failures, and show some humility.
It doesn't work like that, at least for me. Love yourself more. There's a difference between loving oneself and trying really hard to think of oneself highly. If you love yourself you'll accept your shortcomings, and find it more easy to examine and learn from them.
I'd rather somebody say something obvious, if it were true. To a child it may be less obvious, and there have been countless times growing up where I've wondered why people didn't just point something out. And once someone knows something is obvious (because other people are constantly talking about it), then they can take it one step further and maybe reach something less obvious more quickly.
I agree with you on the moderation. I find myself using +1 Insightful for a post I believe is true, and +1 Interesting for a post I don't think is true but which raises a point. There's always some information about the moderator in a moderation, because terms such as 'insightful' and 'interesting' depend upon the opinion of the moderator.
He means look at every single wall socket in your house and the vast majority will not have an accompanying ethernet socket, meaning you can't just plug it into the socket you never use at the top of the stairs or something.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mojave_Experiment#Reception "Participants weren't asked to work with peripheral devices (such as printers or scanners), nor were they asked about compatibility with older software or hardware.[4] Participants did not have an opportunity to try the software themselves[2], but were only demonstrated certain features by a salesman."
So while calling it Mojave prevented the bad hype from geeks, they still showed it to people in a very limited capacity that didn't actually show any of the things that were being criticized. Mojave proved very little, and this video is sort of analogous to that.
With as much certainty as the Mojave Experiment provided us with, this video demonstrates that Linux and KDE are indeed desktop ready and 100% compatible With windows. It's only when you tell users that it's not Windows that they start believing the M£ propaganda and claim that all of a sudden they can't run GTA4.
Grouping by application isn't quite as helpful as grouping by task, as often an application is in use for more than one task simultaneously. I've found a good solution to this to be virtual desktops. I prefer Gnome's implementation of this, particularly the thumbnails always being visible on the panel, and the ability to make the window list only show the windows on the current desktop - preventing things unrelated to my task from distracting me.
For example: I might have an IDE open with a browser window viewing API documentation, and a couple of terminal windows. At the same time I've got some messenger windows and IRC open, some browser windows of articles being discussed on IRC, or screenshots of games. I might also have another chat window open with my boss and and another browser logged into our FTP server, and a few local folder windows open.
I use the virtual desktops to group things by task, letting me first choose the task, then cycle through its associated windows with Alt-Tab (or whatever key combination I bind it to).
The're putting the captcha in the wrong place. Instead of having one centralized captcha which can be cracked to allow clients to send mail, the captcha systems should be distributed among the users and must be passed for the mail to be received. Signed whitelisted mail can bypass it.
What I mean is, every user who isn't too lazy comes up with their own captcha. Then if it gets broken they come up with a new one and delete the spam that got through.
Lastly, before you start filling out The Form for this, the idea won't work for the lazy, the stupid, nor will it work standalone without the support of other good ideas. 1: People who aren't willing to change things will never get their spam to change from present to blocked, though circumstances may coincide with some of the things they desire and keep them happy enough. 2: People who are stupid can pay you or I £5 a go to think up a new captcha for them, provided "as is, with no warranty, express or implied." 3: "Nanos Gigantum Humeris Insidentes" doesn't have its own Wikipedia page for nothing;)
The form neglects to provide a "We don't _have_ any laser cannons" field. Therefore, blasting the spammers with our laser cannons will solve the problem of spam.
Positive or no effect, probably more likely to be the latter. But it's still not so bad: From the summary, 10% of colleges look, 38% of whom say it has a negative effect. Meaning 3.8% of colleges admit that profiles have a negative effect on them.
if it's just a Warcraft II clone, cleanroom implementation, then I think renaming it would have solved the problem
It was and they renamed it to Stratagus. They also expanded on the design (gameplay-wise) to avoid any more troubles, which I think is fair because it does take considerable effort to come up with balanced, original gameplay.
You don't even need AdBlock if you have NoScript, and using NoScript is much fairer on individual sites.
With scripts disabled totally for a domain, you don't see any ads. If you enable javscript for the domain of the site you're visiting, then you still don't get pop-over ads because they always come from an another domain. This way you get the functionality of the site to work and actually help them out by preventing a third party from messing up the user experience of their site (only for you, but it's a start).
Still, I've no idea why they don't just make static images and count the requests for specific referers, and also count the times that they've been linked through. I still saw ads when they did this kind of thing, though I would've used adblock to kill that damn monkey and anything that made a noise. Nowadays we should have things like per-tab muting and a visual indication of which tab is making sound.
When the people who would never buy something can't even accidentally click on an advert (because they block them), the total number of clicks is decreased. However, the total number of purchases doesn't really change, so a click then has a higher chance of resulting in a purchase.
But if Clive Sinclair was not in a position to be able to distribute the existing stock then its value when sold like that doesn't matter. It's better to take a smaller but tangible sum of money probably somewhere near the same order of magnitude to be able to stay in business with the things that are working well for you. If someone thinks they can make more from something than you think you can, then it's probably wise to sell it to them for more than you think you could have made with it.
In my experience things have always been best quality when mid-priced though. I've bought cheap running shoes which didn't fall apart but were uncomfortable, Nike ones which fell apart because they were made of a material that decays over time, and finally Hi-Tec which have always been robustly built and not that expensive. And the clothes I buy are just clothes - I don't seek out the cheapest or the most expensive, but I go back to places where I've found ones that fit me well (they're often either a little too wide or short for me) and are made of material that feels comfortable.
When I started out building myself PCs I tried to get the cheapest parts, but then when I stopped being a student and got a job I realized I could pay more and get stuff that's comfortably faster or bigger. That said, my cheap K6-2 system still runs today, though it has been made obsolete by my old dell latitude laptop which makes as good a server at 1/6 of the power consumption.
I bought an Apple Keyboard recently because I like to try out interesting looking peripherals every once in a while. I can handle the keys being flat and the enter key being small - that's all fine with me, I bought it because it was different. But while the body is quite stiff and heavy, the key mechanisms themselves are pretty cheap feeling - the keys all rock from side to side, and some keys only have one spring under it when they really should have two or more. The rocking is made worse by the fact that they're flat - normal slightly concave keys will still cup your fingertip when they rock slightly, but with the flat ones you can feel the slope.
I know that a keyboard isn't necessarily representative of the whole shebang, but it gives the impression that nowadays the extra money is going more toward design than engineering.
What's ugly about useit.com? It's quite symmetrical and the main colours are pleasant and complementary. Also, margins line up consistently, and nothing looks out of place or mis-proportioned.
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gollito cares an unknown but nonzero amount.
Awwwwww! It's so wickle!
*ahem*
Anyway...
You haven't only just heard of it? What kind of rock have you been living under? One with lots of memes underneath?
It's pretty unreasonable to obligate someone to make something available in every format every individual requests, because that places undue burden on the copyright holders and distributors.
However, it is pretty reasonable to be allowed to convert the data into a format that is more accessible to you yourself. We already have intermediate copies and conversions made in the process of playing something, so why not copy something over the net with the net effect of changing the format of original? Or what about when the net effect is to repair the original?
Maybe it would end up being legally acceptable if it weren't for the masses of people who just leech.
There are about 41253 square degrees in a sphere so one could subdivide a simple solid until it has around this number of faces to get an even distribution of directions. That wouldn't include roll though - 360 degrees of roll makes it about 14 million angles.
*Undoing a wrong number in the moderation process*
Hate yourself more for your failures, and show some humility.
It doesn't work like that, at least for me. Love yourself more. There's a difference between loving oneself and trying really hard to think of oneself highly. If you love yourself you'll accept your shortcomings, and find it more easy to examine and learn from them.
I'd rather somebody say something obvious, if it were true. To a child it may be less obvious, and there have been countless times growing up where I've wondered why people didn't just point something out. And once someone knows something is obvious (because other people are constantly talking about it), then they can take it one step further and maybe reach something less obvious more quickly.
I agree with you on the moderation. I find myself using +1 Insightful for a post I believe is true, and +1 Interesting for a post I don't think is true but which raises a point. There's always some information about the moderator in a moderation, because terms such as 'insightful' and 'interesting' depend upon the opinion of the moderator.
Do they have a decal of a fan with a decal of a fan on it? And do they have it right on their fan?
Maybe they're like the NN equivalent of an AC on SD or something.
He means look at every single wall socket in your house and the vast majority will not have an accompanying ethernet socket, meaning you can't just plug it into the socket you never use at the top of the stairs or something.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mojave_Experiment#Reception
"Participants weren't asked to work with peripheral devices (such as printers or scanners), nor were they asked about compatibility with older software or hardware.[4] Participants did not have an opportunity to try the software themselves[2], but were only demonstrated certain features by a salesman."
So while calling it Mojave prevented the bad hype from geeks, they still showed it to people in a very limited capacity that didn't actually show any of the things that were being criticized. Mojave proved very little, and this video is sort of analogous to that.
With as much certainty as the Mojave Experiment provided us with, this video demonstrates that Linux and KDE are indeed desktop ready and 100% compatible With windows. It's only when you tell users that it's not Windows that they start believing the M£ propaganda and claim that all of a sudden they can't run GTA4.
Best of the two maybe, but not best overall.
Grouping by application isn't quite as helpful as grouping by task, as often an application is in use for more than one task simultaneously. I've found a good solution to this to be virtual desktops. I prefer Gnome's implementation of this, particularly the thumbnails always being visible on the panel, and the ability to make the window list only show the windows on the current desktop - preventing things unrelated to my task from distracting me.
For example:
I might have an IDE open with a browser window viewing API documentation, and a couple of terminal windows. At the same time I've got some messenger windows and IRC open, some browser windows of articles being discussed on IRC, or screenshots of games. I might also have another chat window open with my boss and and another browser logged into our FTP server, and a few local folder windows open.
I use the virtual desktops to group things by task, letting me first choose the task, then cycle through its associated windows with Alt-Tab (or whatever key combination I bind it to).
There's probably a downside I don't see.
The're putting the captcha in the wrong place. Instead of having one centralized captcha which can be cracked to allow clients to send mail, the captcha systems should be distributed among the users and must be passed for the mail to be received. Signed whitelisted mail can bypass it.
What I mean is, every user who isn't too lazy comes up with their own captcha. Then if it gets broken they come up with a new one and delete the spam that got through.
Lastly, before you start filling out The Form for this, the idea won't work for the lazy, the stupid, nor will it work standalone without the support of other good ideas. ;)
1: People who aren't willing to change things will never get their spam to change from present to blocked, though circumstances may coincide with some of the things they desire and keep them happy enough.
2: People who are stupid can pay you or I £5 a go to think up a new captcha for them, provided "as is, with no warranty, express or implied."
3: "Nanos Gigantum Humeris Insidentes" doesn't have its own Wikipedia page for nothing
The form neglects to provide a "We don't _have_ any laser cannons" field. Therefore, blasting the spammers with our laser cannons will solve the problem of spam.
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Positive or no effect, probably more likely to be the latter. But it's still not so bad: From the summary, 10% of colleges look, 38% of whom say it has a negative effect. Meaning 3.8% of colleges admit that profiles have a negative effect on them.
if it's just a Warcraft II clone, cleanroom implementation, then I think renaming it would have solved the problem
It was and they renamed it to Stratagus. They also expanded on the design (gameplay-wise) to avoid any more troubles, which I think is fair because it does take considerable effort to come up with balanced, original gameplay.
You don't even need AdBlock if you have NoScript, and using NoScript is much fairer on individual sites.
With scripts disabled totally for a domain, you don't see any ads. If you enable javscript for the domain of the site you're visiting, then you still don't get pop-over ads because they always come from an another domain. This way you get the functionality of the site to work and actually help them out by preventing a third party from messing up the user experience of their site (only for you, but it's a start).
Still, I've no idea why they don't just make static images and count the requests for specific referers, and also count the times that they've been linked through. I still saw ads when they did this kind of thing, though I would've used adblock to kill that damn monkey and anything that made a noise. Nowadays we should have things like per-tab muting and a visual indication of which tab is making sound.
When the people who would never buy something can't even accidentally click on an advert (because they block them), the total number of clicks is decreased. However, the total number of purchases doesn't really change, so a click then has a higher chance of resulting in a purchase.
But if Clive Sinclair was not in a position to be able to distribute the existing stock then its value when sold like that doesn't matter. It's better to take a smaller but tangible sum of money probably somewhere near the same order of magnitude to be able to stay in business with the things that are working well for you. If someone thinks they can make more from something than you think you can, then it's probably wise to sell it to them for more than you think you could have made with it.
In my experience things have always been best quality when mid-priced though. I've bought cheap running shoes which didn't fall apart but were uncomfortable, Nike ones which fell apart because they were made of a material that decays over time, and finally Hi-Tec which have always been robustly built and not that expensive. And the clothes I buy are just clothes - I don't seek out the cheapest or the most expensive, but I go back to places where I've found ones that fit me well (they're often either a little too wide or short for me) and are made of material that feels comfortable.
When I started out building myself PCs I tried to get the cheapest parts, but then when I stopped being a student and got a job I realized I could pay more and get stuff that's comfortably faster or bigger. That said, my cheap K6-2 system still runs today, though it has been made obsolete by my old dell latitude laptop which makes as good a server at 1/6 of the power consumption.
I bought an Apple Keyboard recently because I like to try out interesting looking peripherals every once in a while. I can handle the keys being flat and the enter key being small - that's all fine with me, I bought it because it was different. But while the body is quite stiff and heavy, the key mechanisms themselves are pretty cheap feeling - the keys all rock from side to side, and some keys only have one spring under it when they really should have two or more. The rocking is made worse by the fact that they're flat - normal slightly concave keys will still cup your fingertip when they rock slightly, but with the flat ones you can feel the slope.
I know that a keyboard isn't necessarily representative of the whole shebang, but it gives the impression that nowadays the extra money is going more toward design than engineering.
What's ugly about useit.com? It's quite symmetrical and the main colours are pleasant and complementary. Also, margins line up consistently, and nothing looks out of place or mis-proportioned.