I have. It's probably one of those things I can get used to, but I've always been a desktop/mouse guy, and the trackpoint was much more natural to me than the touchpad. I'm also a touch typist, and I had gotten used to not having to move my hands from the keys to play with the GUI. It all boils down to simple preference.
I don't even know if I can write down what suspicious behavior could be defined as.
That's the problem right there. Computers are quite capable of flawlessly interpreting speech, faces, handwriting, gestures, behaviors, you name it . . . as long as we can unambiguously define how to do so.
It's really quite simple. You can have anything delivered, worldwide (in areas with sufficient infrastructure) within 24 hours, often quicker for a (relatively) reasonable price. The faster something gets somewhere offers diminishing returns but exponential increases in cost. Sub-orbital ballistics can theoretically get anything anywhere in about 90 minutes, but at hideously outrageous cost (and in the real world, prep time wipes out any time advantage unless you have the craft & payload on standby at all times . . . like nukes.)
Information, on the other hand, travels at the speed of light--limited only by the bandwidth of what you're sending, and it's dirt cheap to do so. So the options are basically:
-Pay $ to get a reconstructable model now
-Pay $$ to get the actual item tomorrow
or
-Pay $$$,$$$,$$$+ to get it in under 3 hours.
So, from the perspective of FedEx, how many situations actually warrant such a rapid physical shipment knowing it's going to be so hideously expensive for the near future? Is there any real possibility of recouping costs of even seriously investigating such an idea?
(the answer's "not yet, maybe in a couple of decades")
Perhaps one of the more legally-minded folks here will know: Does this sound like a strategic lawsuit against public participation? Do SLAPP-back rules apply even when it's not about a public issue?
In any event, I hope Video Professor gets their a$$es handed to them.
. . . and there's usually a big drop in box office receipts between a PG-13 movie and an R movie. Why? Audience. If you have to ID people to get them in the door, then you're gonna have fewer people coming through the door. Cutting out anyone 18 is a huge part of the market to slice off. The same is true for games.
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I was going to mention Metroid, but I think you're right. I think most who are Metroid fans probably already bought a Wii.
If we all would just ignore this nutjob, he'd eventually go away.
Why in the world would we want that? God forbid he actually does go away and leave room for someone vaguely rational to carry the torch who might actually be capable of doing damage.
Long term basic research is getting harder to fund and you need buzz words like "string theory", "nano technology", "Quantum", and "Intelligent Design" to get any funding from the current Government.
Quantum "theory" is the devil's science. True Christians(tm) would never fund such evil "studies." In your arrogance, you may ask "is it a wave?" "is it a particle?" "maybe it's both until I observe it!" The correct answer, of course, is "neither heathen! It's God's will!"
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to catch up on the 700 Club.
The site is a bad egg that is up to no good in the hood!
Copyrights are protected by law. Trackers and checksums pointing to outside sources of copyrighted material are not illegal in Sweden. Yes, they encourage copyright violations. This may be "bad" in the moral sense (depending on your morals, I tend to side more with Trent Reznor myself).
Now, hacking a legitimate (in the legal sense) website is very much illegal and I certainly feel it's immoral. If my next door neighbor put a giant arrow in his yard pointing to my house proclaiming "STEAL FROM THIS GUY!" I'm still not allowed to go burn his house down.
If these predictions are correct (which they probably aren't) how do these products stay "commercial"?
For mostly the same reasons I just bought lunch at the cafe downstairs. The salad I'm eating is fully "open source" and I have plenty of know-how and experience to make my own salads by growing the component vegetables in my garden and bring in my own lunches for little if any money.
For my money, I get "ready to eat" convenience taking only a few minutes of my time and full product support--if it's not to my liking, I can take it back and get it fixed.
Open Source != written by anti-commerce hippies. The software may be free, but there's plenty of money to be had providing and supporting solutions.
The first step in figuring out how to manage excess heat is to determine how much heat we're dealing with. I have no idea how much heat this engine pumps into the craft compared to other conventional thrusters. It's quite possible that it's in the same ballpark and easily dealt with by existing techniques.
This whole "controversy" makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone can take BSD code, change it however they desire, and they don't have to give anything back if they don't want to. That's the whole *point* of the BSD license. The altered code can then be used in a closed source proprietary product if desired.
If a developer would like to make changes to BSD software but wants *their* contribution to be GPLed, more power to them.
It'll be a slow transition, but in my experience, companies are beginning to realize what ugly hacks a lot of their excel solutions really are and are moving to more solid server-side databases and apps. It's happening very slowly, but excel is really falling out of favor for its "applications."
The ugliest macro-infested & crosslinked to multiple workbooks ExHell files I've seen ultimately always get tossed out once they break. More often than not, whoever created it has long since left, crucial files have gone missing and it's nearly impossible to tell what kind of crack they were smoking when they put the thing together in the first place and it's amazing the beast ever worked at all.
I sincerely hope that Wii FPS and other shooter games like the upcoming resident evil will support the gamecube controller in addition to the remote.
I never got in to FPS shooters for precisely the reason of controllers. How many d*mn buttons are really necessary, and how much is the result of uncreative control schemes? Metroid got it mostly right in my opinion but I had a few qualms (primarilly, the grapple beam was a little awkward, I found myself having to yank back the nunchuck several times to get it to register)
Much of the Wii's appeal to casual gamers is the pick-up and play remote vs some "thing" with a zillion buttons.
I like the Wii, and I love Nintendo, but the wii mote is not my first choice for shooters. Others may love it. That's why I want CHOICE.
Can't argue with you there. There's no reason a developer shouldn't add the option to use a classic controller if the player so desires.
Rumor has it that Moffat will be taking over from RTD after season 5. They're having a 1 year hiatus between season 4 and 5 and RTD is expected to move on to something else. I agree, I've loved each and every episode penned by Moffat and Blink was perhaps the best one.
Santa Cruz was to collect UNIX royalties for SVR5 for Novell and keep a portion for themselves
My understanding as that they were to collect UNIX royalties for Novell and hand them all to Novell *then* Novell would pay them their cut. (Which of course they never did, so Novell is demanding *all* royalties ever collected by SCO.)
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And considerably lower in performance than the T20 he's replacing.
I have. It's probably one of those things I can get used to, but I've always been a desktop/mouse guy, and the trackpoint was much more natural to me than the touchpad. I'm also a touch typist, and I had gotten used to not having to move my hands from the keys to play with the GUI. It all boils down to simple preference.
There's one thing I don't like about them--no trackpoint. I *haaaaaaaaaaaate* touchpads.
That's the problem right there. Computers are quite capable of flawlessly interpreting speech, faces, handwriting, gestures, behaviors, you name it . . . as long as we can unambiguously define how to do so.
It's really quite simple. You can have anything delivered, worldwide (in areas with sufficient infrastructure) within 24 hours, often quicker for a (relatively) reasonable price. The faster something gets somewhere offers diminishing returns but exponential increases in cost. Sub-orbital ballistics can theoretically get anything anywhere in about 90 minutes, but at hideously outrageous cost (and in the real world, prep time wipes out any time advantage unless you have the craft & payload on standby at all times . . . like nukes.)
Information, on the other hand, travels at the speed of light--limited only by the bandwidth of what you're sending, and it's dirt cheap to do so. So the options are basically:
-Pay $ to get a reconstructable model now-Pay $$ to get the actual item tomorrow or
-Pay $$$,$$$,$$$+ to get it in under 3 hours.
So, from the perspective of FedEx, how many situations actually warrant such a rapid physical shipment knowing it's going to be so hideously expensive for the near future? Is there any real possibility of recouping costs of even seriously investigating such an idea?
(the answer's "not yet, maybe in a couple of decades")
I think Samus should hook up with Link. They'd have so much to talk about.
Wouldn't GE/NBC be the parent company of the Universal holdings after Vivendi sold 80% to them in 2004?/p.
. . . so it "can" explain (mathematically) the outcome of quantum level observations using the many worlds theory. But is it falsifiable?
Perhaps one of the more legally-minded folks here will know: Does this sound like a strategic lawsuit against public participation? Do SLAPP-back rules apply even when it's not about a public issue?
In any event, I hope Video Professor gets their a$$es handed to them.
. . . and there's usually a big drop in box office receipts between a PG-13 movie and an R movie. Why? Audience. If you have to ID people to get them in the door, then you're gonna have fewer people coming through the door. Cutting out anyone 18 is a huge part of the market to slice off. The same is true for games.
I was going to mention Metroid, but I think you're right. I think most who are Metroid fans probably already bought a Wii.
Why in the world would we want that? God forbid he actually does go away and leave room for someone vaguely rational to carry the torch who might actually be capable of doing damage.
Quantum "theory" is the devil's science. True Christians(tm) would never fund such evil "studies." In your arrogance, you may ask "is it a wave?" "is it a particle?" "maybe it's both until I observe it!" The correct answer, of course, is "neither heathen! It's God's will!"
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to catch up on the 700 Club.
Oh, don't think that'll stop 'em. There have been plenty of cases of the RIAA sending letters to people who've never violated their copyrights.
Copyrights are protected by law. Trackers and checksums pointing to outside sources of copyrighted material are not illegal in Sweden. Yes, they encourage copyright violations. This may be "bad" in the moral sense (depending on your morals, I tend to side more with Trent Reznor myself).
Now, hacking a legitimate (in the legal sense) website is very much illegal and I certainly feel it's immoral. If my next door neighbor put a giant arrow in his yard pointing to my house proclaiming "STEAL FROM THIS GUY!" I'm still not allowed to go burn his house down.
For mostly the same reasons I just bought lunch at the cafe downstairs. The salad I'm eating is fully "open source" and I have plenty of know-how and experience to make my own salads by growing the component vegetables in my garden and bring in my own lunches for little if any money.
For my money, I get "ready to eat" convenience taking only a few minutes of my time and full product support--if it's not to my liking, I can take it back and get it fixed.
Open Source != written by anti-commerce hippies. The software may be free, but there's plenty of money to be had providing and supporting solutions.
Well, with two monitors I can't think of a reason to do SLI since you can have each card powering one whole monitor.
The first step in figuring out how to manage excess heat is to determine how much heat we're dealing with. I have no idea how much heat this engine pumps into the craft compared to other conventional thrusters. It's quite possible that it's in the same ballpark and easily dealt with by existing techniques.
This whole "controversy" makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone can take BSD code, change it however they desire, and they don't have to give anything back if they don't want to. That's the whole *point* of the BSD license. The altered code can then be used in a closed source proprietary product if desired.
If a developer would like to make changes to BSD software but wants *their* contribution to be GPLed, more power to them.
It'll be a slow transition, but in my experience, companies are beginning to realize what ugly hacks a lot of their excel solutions really are and are moving to more solid server-side databases and apps. It's happening very slowly, but excel is really falling out of favor for its "applications."
The ugliest macro-infested & crosslinked to multiple workbooks ExHell files I've seen ultimately always get tossed out once they break. More often than not, whoever created it has long since left, crucial files have gone missing and it's nearly impossible to tell what kind of crack they were smoking when they put the thing together in the first place and it's amazing the beast ever worked at all.
I never got in to FPS shooters for precisely the reason of controllers. How many d*mn buttons are really necessary, and how much is the result of uncreative control schemes? Metroid got it mostly right in my opinion but I had a few qualms (primarilly, the grapple beam was a little awkward, I found myself having to yank back the nunchuck several times to get it to register)
Much of the Wii's appeal to casual gamers is the pick-up and play remote vs some "thing" with a zillion buttons.
Can't argue with you there. There's no reason a developer shouldn't add the option to use a classic controller if the player so desires.
I have a call for you from the cotton lobby on line 1 . . .
Rumor has it that Moffat will be taking over from RTD after season 5. They're having a 1 year hiatus between season 4 and 5 and RTD is expected to move on to something else. I agree, I've loved each and every episode penned by Moffat and Blink was perhaps the best one.
My understanding as that they were to collect UNIX royalties for Novell and hand them all to Novell *then* Novell would pay them their cut. (Which of course they never did, so Novell is demanding *all* royalties ever collected by SCO.)
Sure they do. They just need a case first.