I used to use handhelds a lot, often with the folding external keyboards, but I stopped when I couldn't read PDFs easily.
Specifically, the smallest I could go is a (screen) size where I can read a PDF in portrait orientation with decent enough resolution to read the text, big enough font size to not strain my eyes, and big enough screen size that I don't have to scroll back and forth to read each line.
Also important is that I don't want to spend a dozen clicks to get it into a readable format either. That's a software issue, but still important.
Mod parent up! With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and from Bill Clinton's foundation, we can garner enough government support to purchase enough million-dollar laptops for the many uneducated, starving anorexic supermodels in L.A.!
A single vote really is very insignificant, when you compare it to all the other ways that one can involve oneself in the community and in the advancement of social goals.
That paper about boarding efficiency suggests the WilMA (Windows/Inside, Middle, Aisle) order of boarding as the most efficient.
While it may be the most theoretically efficient, I doubt that families/small groups (who theoretically will sit in the same row) will want to split up and board separately for the benefit of the theoretical ideal.
Try walking into a bank and withdrawing $38B without any sort of evidence that you own/control that money.
- RG>
Re:With no disrespect to the ReactOS developers...
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It's hard to hit a moving target.
I know plenty of people who use the "Windows Classic" skin on XP, because that's what they're used to.
When MS updates its software, there are two types of changes, with different audiences: minor to moderate performance/security upgrades (which require most people to upgrade in order to still communicate with each other, i.e. MSO), and major interface upgrades, to cater to the magpies that will only buy the new version if it is shinier than the previous one.
Unfortunately, these interface "upgrades" require a certain degree of re-learning the same software. I would suspect that ReactOS, like OpenOffice.org, aims to cater to those people who want to be compatible with the rest of the world (who run the "updated" version), but who don't want to learn a new interface every time Microsoft chooses to impose a new one....or at least, the software can fork, and dev-users can CHOOSE how they want to interact with their software.
I think it is discriminatory to post this story on Slashdot: any comments from your "average" MySpace user will likely get modded "-1 Incomprehensible".
This, bear in mind, is the breadbasket of America, an area that produces roughly half the world's cereals
The article seems to imply that we should prevent (or at least fear) a Yellowstone eruption because of the implications for the world food supply. Instead, this should be used as an argument to end the US's oppressive food/foreign policy.
This "half of the world" would produce their own cereals if the U.S. didn't shove its agrifood down their throats.
I can't stand Crook's misuse of the word "myself" in the video. I bet his lawyers had him put it in to make him sound smarter, though it had the opposite effect:
I: Subject. The person who is doing the action. I went to the doctor's office; Sally and I went to the doctor's office. Me: Object. The person who is receiving the action. The doctor came to me; the doctor came to Sally and me. Myself: Reflexive. When you are the receiver of an action you are doing. Nobody else can do something to yourself--THIS IS NOT JUST A FANCY FORM OF "ME"! I touched myself while I was sitting by myself; Sally injured herself.
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. If it weren't so late, I'd have used examples from the video.
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You know, there was a day when you didn't need good PR and good ads to have a good reputation. You just had to do a good job.
- RG>
I used to use handhelds a lot, often with the folding external keyboards, but I stopped when I couldn't read PDFs easily.
Specifically, the smallest I could go is a (screen) size where I can read a PDF in portrait orientation with decent enough resolution to read the text, big enough font size to not strain my eyes, and big enough screen size that I don't have to scroll back and forth to read each line.
Also important is that I don't want to spend a dozen clicks to get it into a readable format either. That's a software issue, but still important.
- RG>
Mod parent up! With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and from Bill Clinton's foundation, we can garner enough government support to purchase enough million-dollar laptops for the many uneducated, starving anorexic supermodels in L.A.!
- RG>
If you appreciate us Humornauts, then why would you want to mark us -1?
- RG>
Yes, we certainly don't want another international incident between those two countries!
Now let's never speak of it again.
- RG>
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the "f2f" protocol. Can you provide a link to the specifications?
- RG>
Yeah, but the alternative is Capitalists making money on drugs.
- RG>
Dear Sir,
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We consciously omitted those references, as we had a "gut feeling" that Slashdot readers were not sufficiently "detail-oriented" to RTFA.
Sincerely,
Voting is only the smallest step up from apathy.
A single vote really is very insignificant, when you compare it to all the other ways that one can involve oneself in the community and in the advancement of social goals.
- RG>
It's also why there are so many goddamn things to vote for in the U.S., too.
Bread and circuses.
- RG>
That paper about boarding efficiency suggests the WilMA (Windows/Inside, Middle, Aisle) order of boarding as the most efficient.
While it may be the most theoretically efficient, I doubt that families/small groups (who theoretically will sit in the same row) will want to split up and board separately for the benefit of the theoretical ideal.
- RG>
These guys have it all backwards--Slashdotters are supposed to crash their computers, not the other way around!
- RG>
Why not?
This guy had a little fun at Football's expense, and you don't see much gasping about it.
- RG>
Try walking into a bank and withdrawing $38B without any sort of evidence that you own/control that money.
- RG>
It's hard to hit a moving target.
...or at least, the software can fork, and dev-users can CHOOSE how they want to interact with their software.
I know plenty of people who use the "Windows Classic" skin on XP, because that's what they're used to.
When MS updates its software, there are two types of changes, with different audiences: minor to moderate performance/security upgrades (which require most people to upgrade in order to still communicate with each other, i.e. MSO), and major interface upgrades, to cater to the magpies that will only buy the new version if it is shinier than the previous one.
Unfortunately, these interface "upgrades" require a certain degree of re-learning the same software. I would suspect that ReactOS, like OpenOffice.org, aims to cater to those people who want to be compatible with the rest of the world (who run the "updated" version), but who don't want to learn a new interface every time Microsoft chooses to impose a new one.
- RG>
I think it is discriminatory to post this story on Slashdot: any comments from your "average" MySpace user will likely get modded "-1 Incomprehensible".
- RG>
I think it's more like breaking into someone's home and rearranging the furniture.
It's a nuisance, but not irreparable.
- RG>
What if they found the cure four years from now?
- RG>
...you agree not to mod me down for being First Post!
- RG>
Oh, goodness. They've already got a think tank?
Next, the robots will be pushing for the right to vote!
We're doomed!
- RG>
The article seems to imply that we should prevent (or at least fear) a Yellowstone eruption because of the implications for the world food supply. Instead, this should be used as an argument to end the US's oppressive food/foreign policy.
This "half of the world" would produce their own cereals if the U.S. didn't shove its agrifood down their throats.
- RG>
Better than our chances of being alive to witness what happens after it.
- RG>
Because it's a cycle, duh!
- RG>
I can't stand Crook's misuse of the word "myself" in the video. I bet his lawyers had him put it in to make him sound smarter, though it had the opposite effect:
I: Subject. The person who is doing the action. I went to the doctor's office; Sally and I went to the doctor's office.
Me: Object. The person who is receiving the action. The doctor came to me; the doctor came to Sally and me.
Myself: Reflexive. When you are the receiver of an action you are doing. Nobody else can do something to yourself--THIS IS NOT JUST A FANCY FORM OF "ME"! I touched myself while I was sitting by myself; Sally injured herself.
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. If it weren't so late, I'd have used examples from the video.
- RG>
When I visit a foreign country, I like to bring things that will help me embrace the whole cultural experience.
That's why whenever I visit the U.S., I make sure to bring along a TV.
- RG>