Have you ever actually tasted a condom? They're not particularly pleasant. And the "flavoured" ones are either unusable as an actual condom, or cause allergic reactions in enough people to not be worth the trouble.
Not to mention the fact that putting the thing on and taking it off afterwards are instant romance-killers. Just when you're getting all worked up and ready to dive in, you have to stop, fumble around looking for the damn things, then spend a solid 30 seconds messing with it because your dick is ever so slightly fatter than the average dick, then when you're all done and dusted, you have to take it off and clean yourself up.
Whereas the alternative is, more or less, get all hot and bothered, get down to it, then roll over panting and sweating. If you're doing it right.
That's without even considering the "It feels better" argument. Still, unless you don't mind having kids or seeing your dick fall off 3 weeks later, they're a necessary evil.
Presumably, they're relying on the fact that you're very rarely within range of just ONE transmitter. I'm going to assume that the following maths are bad, but if 1Megawatt gives you 6miliwatts from 4.1Km away, then is it unreasonable to assume that if you're 2.05Km from that same transmitter, you could get 12millwatts? And getting back to the first point, what if there's more than one transmitter nearby? Cellphone stations, radio towers, TV transmitters and so on - it's bound to all add up in some way. No doubt this technology would be completely useless for those who are in the country or less "dense" areas, but for the people who live in or near the City, it could probably reach that figure with ease.
Or a different way to look at it - right now, there's a lot of "potential" energy floating around that's just going to waste. Technology like this could make use of it and when distributed on a large scale could feasibly save the economy a hell of a lot of money.
This is obviously Sony's answer to the lost battle with the PSP Homebrew and Hacking Communities which have cost many thousands of lost sales with custom firmwares.
How on earth does this have anything to do with the PSP hacking? How does this affect that at all, aside from being yet another revision to hack? The lack of UMD drive is completely irrelevant, bluetooth is irrelevant and having 16GB of onboard flash memory is only going to benefit the hackers if and when they figure out a way to install custom firmware on this.
However, the PSP-3000, right this second CANNOT be hacked or flashed with custom firmware. It's close, recent developments have allowed all PSP-2000s to be temporarily flashed, but as I said this is recent (maybe a couple of weeks? Although the exploit is still only about 3 months old). Sony didn't have to come up with an "answer", they already had one and it took until recently for them to hack it. This summary is useless.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've been on a site and thought "Hey, this is a small, independent little site that I want to support, I'll just whitelist it for future visits", only to find that they've got that godawful "intellitext" stuff. I wouldn't mind it so much, but literally as soon as you rollover some of the highlighted text, your entire screen is taken over by an incredibly obtrusive ad. And the site quickly gets removed from the whitelist. If a site is careful about the ads it uses and is respectful to those who visit, I'm willing to whitelist it and face the ads, but if it takes the piss (popups, noisy flash ads and, most of all - intellitext), I don't give it a chance. I'm probably in the minority, though.
Well to be perfectly technically correct, all of the "parallel" time lines exist along side each other. According to string theory, each and every possibility actually does exist as a separate universe, even when those universes somehow collide to create a new universe, all 3 universes will still exist separately. It just makes more interesting TV when we "fix" the broken ones (I believe there was a good episode of TNG that highlighted this quite well, it's the one where Worf keeps jumping from universe to universe and eventually they all start to collide - "proof", at least in the Star Trek science, that there are many, many alternate universes and not just one continuous one that occasionally gets screwed up).
Anyway, what I'm basically saying is if you take all this stuff seriously enough to complain that the new film messes with the universe too much, you can at least take solace in the fact that technically the universe you're so fond of still exists. We just wont see it ever again. Except maybe in MMO form.
More than likely, but surely reading out the ENTIRE menu bar would be counter-productive after the first or second time? Would it not make sense to only read out what's being highlighted? If you do that, then it doesn't matter if it's a ribbon or a menu, you just hover over what you think might be relevant and see what it says. Sure, the Ribbon relies a bit more on recognising icons and such, but is it really harder to pick apart different icons than to pick apart rows of text? I genuinely don't know how it affects those who have a severe visual impairment, I'm just speculating I guess.
I've got Karma TOO burn! Plus, I know how slashdot works. Wait for an article to pop up from kdawson, then post "This article is nonsense!" or even "Kdawson sucks!". You'll have plenty of +1 informatives.
Sound like cheating? Not really, usually the article IS nonsense.
Failures? Vista is the only thing in that list that's actually been released. And there's no such thing as "Office 2009". We're going from 2007 to 2010, buddy.
When I look at the UI, it instantly reminds me of Word97. To be honest, that's about my only complaint - it looks old. I genuinely prefer the Office ribbon, but that's for my own personal reasons (See above if you're really that interested) and I don't really have any practical issue with the current design.
Difficult for the Visually impaired? How so? I actually have an eyesight problem myself, it's nothing MAJOR in the sense that I can't do everyday tasks (I can't, I just can't see clearly very far). I blow up the font a little bit and I'm all right and for me, personally, the ribbon interface that people seem to hate so much is a godsend. I can easily tell what every button does without squinting, but then again, I never feel the need to use an on-screen reader or whatever. However my first inclination is that the ribbon interface isn't at fault for "breaking" them, but rather the on-screen reader programs just haven't been updated to handle the new interface.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that it IS a reboot. If the reboot isn't successful, they'll probably not do much else with it, but if it IS a nice success, then they'll have established a fanbase that'll hopefully allow them to explore once again all of those areas that made star trek so special. And I can't think of a better way to Reboot something than to give a thoroughly enjoyable experience for the masses.
You've not seen the new film, have you? It's pretty much 20mins of backstory, then almost pure action until the very end. Not a bad way to reboot the franchise if you ask me.
My desktop can run it just fine, but that's not surprising considering it's a Quad-core Intel (i.e. fairly new and somewhat high-end). What IS surprising is that my lowly little HP laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo can also run it, straight out of the box. Apparently laptops (And HP laptops in particular) are some of the least likely to run this technology as (word has it) half of the time, the Virtualisation options are not present in the BIOS, or if they are, they're disabled by default and in some rare instances, enabling them doesn't actually enable it (Forcing you to flash a specific BIOS version where it actually works).
Then again, Microsoft has said time and time again that this isn't meant for home users and is strictly for businesses that need to run legacy apps - in other words, anyone likely to run it probably has or employs someone that knows just enough about technology to know if this stuff is going to work or not.
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Hot...cold...hot...cold....together, I call them hold.
Pretty sure having it on their CV means they can effectively write their own pay cheque in terms of job opportunities.
Anyone else want to cyber with me?
Have you ever actually tasted a condom? They're not particularly pleasant. And the "flavoured" ones are either unusable as an actual condom, or cause allergic reactions in enough people to not be worth the trouble.
One better? Surely that's at least 63 better.
Not to mention the fact that putting the thing on and taking it off afterwards are instant romance-killers. Just when you're getting all worked up and ready to dive in, you have to stop, fumble around looking for the damn things, then spend a solid 30 seconds messing with it because your dick is ever so slightly fatter than the average dick, then when you're all done and dusted, you have to take it off and clean yourself up.
Whereas the alternative is, more or less, get all hot and bothered, get down to it, then roll over panting and sweating. If you're doing it right.
That's without even considering the "It feels better" argument.
Still, unless you don't mind having kids or seeing your dick fall off 3 weeks later, they're a necessary evil.
Presumably, they're relying on the fact that you're very rarely within range of just ONE transmitter. I'm going to assume that the following maths are bad, but if 1Megawatt gives you 6miliwatts from 4.1Km away, then is it unreasonable to assume that if you're 2.05Km from that same transmitter, you could get 12millwatts?
And getting back to the first point, what if there's more than one transmitter nearby? Cellphone stations, radio towers, TV transmitters and so on - it's bound to all add up in some way. No doubt this technology would be completely useless for those who are in the country or less "dense" areas, but for the people who live in or near the City, it could probably reach that figure with ease.
Or a different way to look at it - right now, there's a lot of "potential" energy floating around that's just going to waste. Technology like this could make use of it and when distributed on a large scale could feasibly save the economy a hell of a lot of money.
Isn't that what people said about Nikola Tesla?
Surely that's just the same question?
How on earth does this have anything to do with the PSP hacking? How does this affect that at all, aside from being yet another revision to hack?
The lack of UMD drive is completely irrelevant, bluetooth is irrelevant and having 16GB of onboard flash memory is only going to benefit the hackers if and when they figure out a way to install custom firmware on this.
However, the PSP-3000, right this second CANNOT be hacked or flashed with custom firmware. It's close, recent developments have allowed all PSP-2000s to be temporarily flashed, but as I said this is recent (maybe a couple of weeks? Although the exploit is still only about 3 months old). Sony didn't have to come up with an "answer", they already had one and it took until recently for them to hack it. This summary is useless.
One word: kdawson.
S-E don't have that argument because they released Chrono Cross all by themselves.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've been on a site and thought "Hey, this is a small, independent little site that I want to support, I'll just whitelist it for future visits", only to find that they've got that godawful "intellitext" stuff. I wouldn't mind it so much, but literally as soon as you rollover some of the highlighted text, your entire screen is taken over by an incredibly obtrusive ad. And the site quickly gets removed from the whitelist.
If a site is careful about the ads it uses and is respectful to those who visit, I'm willing to whitelist it and face the ads, but if it takes the piss (popups, noisy flash ads and, most of all - intellitext), I don't give it a chance.
I'm probably in the minority, though.
Well to be perfectly technically correct, all of the "parallel" time lines exist along side each other. According to string theory, each and every possibility actually does exist as a separate universe, even when those universes somehow collide to create a new universe, all 3 universes will still exist separately. It just makes more interesting TV when we "fix" the broken ones (I believe there was a good episode of TNG that highlighted this quite well, it's the one where Worf keeps jumping from universe to universe and eventually they all start to collide - "proof", at least in the Star Trek science, that there are many, many alternate universes and not just one continuous one that occasionally gets screwed up).
Anyway, what I'm basically saying is if you take all this stuff seriously enough to complain that the new film messes with the universe too much, you can at least take solace in the fact that technically the universe you're so fond of still exists. We just wont see it ever again. Except maybe in MMO form.
More than likely, but surely reading out the ENTIRE menu bar would be counter-productive after the first or second time? Would it not make sense to only read out what's being highlighted? If you do that, then it doesn't matter if it's a ribbon or a menu, you just hover over what you think might be relevant and see what it says. Sure, the Ribbon relies a bit more on recognising icons and such, but is it really harder to pick apart different icons than to pick apart rows of text?
I genuinely don't know how it affects those who have a severe visual impairment, I'm just speculating I guess.
I've got Karma TOO burn!
Plus, I know how slashdot works. Wait for an article to pop up from kdawson, then post "This article is nonsense!" or even "Kdawson sucks!". You'll have plenty of +1 informatives.
Sound like cheating? Not really, usually the article IS nonsense.
Failures? Vista is the only thing in that list that's actually been released. And there's no such thing as "Office 2009". We're going from 2007 to 2010, buddy.
When I look at the UI, it instantly reminds me of Word97. To be honest, that's about my only complaint - it looks old. I genuinely prefer the Office ribbon, but that's for my own personal reasons (See above if you're really that interested) and I don't really have any practical issue with the current design.
(I can't, I just can't see clearly very far) should have been (I can, I just can't see clearly very far)
Difficult for the Visually impaired? How so?
I actually have an eyesight problem myself, it's nothing MAJOR in the sense that I can't do everyday tasks (I can't, I just can't see clearly very far). I blow up the font a little bit and I'm all right and for me, personally, the ribbon interface that people seem to hate so much is a godsend. I can easily tell what every button does without squinting, but then again, I never feel the need to use an on-screen reader or whatever. However my first inclination is that the ribbon interface isn't at fault for "breaking" them, but rather the on-screen reader programs just haven't been updated to handle the new interface.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that it IS a reboot. If the reboot isn't successful, they'll probably not do much else with it, but if it IS a nice success, then they'll have established a fanbase that'll hopefully allow them to explore once again all of those areas that made star trek so special. And I can't think of a better way to Reboot something than to give a thoroughly enjoyable experience for the masses.
You've not seen the new film, have you? It's pretty much 20mins of backstory, then almost pure action until the very end. Not a bad way to reboot the franchise if you ask me.
My desktop can run it just fine, but that's not surprising considering it's a Quad-core Intel (i.e. fairly new and somewhat high-end). What IS surprising is that my lowly little HP laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo can also run it, straight out of the box.
Apparently laptops (And HP laptops in particular) are some of the least likely to run this technology as (word has it) half of the time, the Virtualisation options are not present in the BIOS, or if they are, they're disabled by default and in some rare instances, enabling them doesn't actually enable it (Forcing you to flash a specific BIOS version where it actually works).
Then again, Microsoft has said time and time again that this isn't meant for home users and is strictly for businesses that need to run legacy apps - in other words, anyone likely to run it probably has or employs someone that knows just enough about technology to know if this stuff is going to work or not.
How's that going to stop nefarious scripts running?
"And we still have our guns ;)"
Yeah, how's that working out for you?