I imagine seeing a ship off in the distance with a Microsoft Windows logo flag flapping in the wind. A cool breeze from the East and the sails go up. The pirates raise their colors and proceed to bombard the ship with cannon balls. They pull aside the ailing ship to seize their booty while off in the distance they see an armada of Microsoft ships coming their way. They act quickly, taking everything they can manage before re-boarding their ship and setting sail.
I'm trying to be careful how I word this, but... Why the hell does anyone care if Jim-Bob wants to prod his sheep? Do you think that someone else doing it will force you to do it? Is it because you think animals should be protected from people and there MUST be a state law specifically stating that? I can't see myself getting all worked up that a state hasn't passed such a law and that it's somehow a rampant problem anywhere that a law must be drafted immediately.
I'd might even go so far as to say that I'm curious (not really) how often this happens to determine if spending that legislation time worrying about the 0.02% (random guess) of people in the state that participate in such actions.
How does one get a job as a power user of an desktop environment?
Usually when I use my PC I'm looking to do things other than tweak the interface the entire time. If someone wants to pay me to "power use" a desktop, I'm game.
There are quite a few... off the top of my head though, I can name two (Fallen Earth, Darkfall) Most of them are smaller titles. I have speculated that this is because people tend to want direction when they play and people that play with them want them to fit in a role. (I'm a Cleric, I must heal...) I've been playing Rift and noticed a lot of disgruntled people whine and cry when the cleric that joins the group is not a healer or the warrior is not a tank.
I happen to like app tabs. The name sucks, but the functionality of putting commonly used tabs off to the side with only their icon cleans up some space on the tab bar. It's best if you don't think of it as an app tab, but a "stored" tab.
I think they meant that it's not like Walmart, Amazon... (The post can be read in many ways, but if you read it as if it were spoken and rhetorical it makes sense.)
Having some aspects of a Democracy does not make you one. I stated this above, but it's equivalent to "Having some aspects of a male does not make you male."
The problem I have is that some people outright call the US a democracy because we have certain aspects of Democracy in our Republic.
But there's a distinction between 'democratic' and 'democracy' like there's a distinction between 'feminine' and 'female'. Just because we act democratic does not make us a democracy.
It's not about lifetime concerns... some SSDs have a slow write time which can be very apparent in normal everyday operation. Granted, I only noticed it when I was fooling around and disabled write caching (platters were also slow, but SSD plain locks the PC for the entire write operation it seems...)
But does it still hard lock/freeze the whole PC when running a 'Fullscreen Windowed' (no titlebar) 3D game if I open Chrome? I somehow doubt it's going to only freeze up one tab.;)
(For the record, Chrome is the only browser that does this, Minefield/Firefox and IE do not.)
I refuse to buy it because of EA though. The last Dragon Age I had to sign into their servers to use the equipment that was supposed to come with the game. (Collector's Edition "perks".)
If/When Bioware splits ties with EA, then I will resume purchasing Bioware games.
Drawing a simple line from (x,y)-(x1,y1) can be rather tedious in JavaScript. You either need to have an image of a diagonal line to manipulate or use Canvas which is only just being implemented now.
While it's possible to do it now, it's been dead simple to do in Flash for over a decade.
Not the sole provider really, but they are the only ones that have an editor that I'm aware of that allows for animated SVG. They are merely making sure that Adobe is the name you go to for the time being to develop said content. Drawing SVG by hand (in code) is not fun.;)
If they don't improve that software, they are no better off than Microsoft was with IE. It's defacto right now, but if they don't stay up with the latest standards they'll be replaced.
I love it's "hodge-podge" though... because that's what makes it so great to work with. It just feels like there are no limits when coding. I've always loved the C-Syntax languages, but I always felt confined working with them until I learned how to use Javascript.
You could do jQuery in Actionscript, but I feel jQuery was mainly a workaround to working with the DOM. (jQuery has some nice additions for dealing with Arrays and Collections as well) AS never needed that since it always dealt with SVG and raw data, but the side features that come with jQuery I find missing when working with AS.
Slashdot Mirror
A quick search net me: http://glacialflame.com/
It's a work in progress, but considering that HTML5 isn't standard or ubiquitous... I find it interesting that they've done so much in such time.
Apparently his dog works in my office!
Personally, I kind of expected to see something other than text.
There were no code examples (just explanations of the code), no images for comparison, nothing but a wall of text.
Not sure how you read "0.02% of the people in the state" to mean "1/3 of the population of the state"...
I imagine seeing a ship off in the distance with a Microsoft Windows logo flag flapping in the wind. A cool breeze from the East and the sails go up. The pirates raise their colors and proceed to bombard the ship with cannon balls. They pull aside the ailing ship to seize their booty while off in the distance they see an armada of Microsoft ships coming their way. They act quickly, taking everything they can manage before re-boarding their ship and setting sail.
I'm trying to be careful how I word this, but... Why the hell does anyone care if Jim-Bob wants to prod his sheep? Do you think that someone else doing it will force you to do it? Is it because you think animals should be protected from people and there MUST be a state law specifically stating that? I can't see myself getting all worked up that a state hasn't passed such a law and that it's somehow a rampant problem anywhere that a law must be drafted immediately.
I'd might even go so far as to say that I'm curious (not really) how often this happens to determine if spending that legislation time worrying about the 0.02% (random guess) of people in the state that participate in such actions.
Off-Topic, I know... but I have yet to find the entertainment value in the whole Charlie Sheen debacle. Why must people continue bringing it up?
How does one get a job as a power user of an desktop environment?
Usually when I use my PC I'm looking to do things other than tweak the interface the entire time. If someone wants to pay me to "power use" a desktop, I'm game.
There are quite a few... off the top of my head though, I can name two (Fallen Earth, Darkfall) Most of them are smaller titles. I have speculated that this is because people tend to want direction when they play and people that play with them want them to fit in a role. (I'm a Cleric, I must heal...) I've been playing Rift and noticed a lot of disgruntled people whine and cry when the cleric that joins the group is not a healer or the warrior is not a tank.
For one, they let me keep the menu bar...
You want me to open my adblock settings?
I happen to like app tabs. The name sucks, but the functionality of putting commonly used tabs off to the side with only their icon cleans up some space on the tab bar. It's best if you don't think of it as an app tab, but a "stored" tab.
I think they meant that it's not like Walmart, Amazon... (The post can be read in many ways, but if you read it as if it were spoken and rhetorical it makes sense.)
Having some aspects of a Democracy does not make you one. I stated this above, but it's equivalent to "Having some aspects of a male does not make you male."
The problem I have is that some people outright call the US a democracy because we have certain aspects of Democracy in our Republic.
But there's a distinction between 'democratic' and 'democracy' like there's a distinction between 'feminine' and 'female'. Just because we act democratic does not make us a democracy.
It's still in there from when it was added in 1954.
I just noticed it in Rift recently, so maybe it's just a conflict between some call they make and Chrome...
There's a "workaround"? (I have not tried this, but I just searched for it...)
http://www.wagnerdanda.me/2010/08/how-to-fix-google-chrome-problems-with-ssd-move-cache-to-ramdisk/
Of course, if you have a spinning disk, that would work as well.
It's not about lifetime concerns... some SSDs have a slow write time which can be very apparent in normal everyday operation. Granted, I only noticed it when I was fooling around and disabled write caching (platters were also slow, but SSD plain locks the PC for the entire write operation it seems...)
But does it still hard lock/freeze the whole PC when running a 'Fullscreen Windowed' (no titlebar) 3D game if I open Chrome? I somehow doubt it's going to only freeze up one tab. ;)
(For the record, Chrome is the only browser that does this, Minefield/Firefox and IE do not.)
I refuse to buy it because of EA though. The last Dragon Age I had to sign into their servers to use the equipment that was supposed to come with the game. (Collector's Edition "perks".)
If/When Bioware splits ties with EA, then I will resume purchasing Bioware games.
Drawing a simple line from (x,y)-(x1,y1) can be rather tedious in JavaScript. You either need to have an image of a diagonal line to manipulate or use Canvas which is only just being implemented now.
While it's possible to do it now, it's been dead simple to do in Flash for over a decade.
Not the sole provider really, but they are the only ones that have an editor that I'm aware of that allows for animated SVG. They are merely making sure that Adobe is the name you go to for the time being to develop said content. Drawing SVG by hand (in code) is not fun. ;)
If they don't improve that software, they are no better off than Microsoft was with IE. It's defacto right now, but if they don't stay up with the latest standards they'll be replaced.
I love it's "hodge-podge" though... because that's what makes it so great to work with. It just feels like there are no limits when coding. I've always loved the C-Syntax languages, but I always felt confined working with them until I learned how to use Javascript.
You could do jQuery in Actionscript, but I feel jQuery was mainly a workaround to working with the DOM. (jQuery has some nice additions for dealing with Arrays and Collections as well) AS never needed that since it always dealt with SVG and raw data, but the side features that come with jQuery I find missing when working with AS.