People have tried to get away with this kind of fascist bullshit in the name of security forever, it's just ramped up in the last 10 years. It's just especially hard to swallow when it's so blatant. Did no one at this school district have any 2nd thoughts about the impropriety of this? No one?
To go even further, it's not necessarily WHERE the beef is from, but what they eat while they're there. Beef from Argentina is more likely to be grass-fed than corn-fed, as is common in the US (although more Argentinian ranchers are turning to feed lots and corn because of money issues). Grass-fed beef has a lot of advantages, but economy of scale isn't one of them.
If you're just wanting to play around with similar data, you might have luck with national elevation data (NED) in 10m or 30m grids. You can then display and explore these in ESRI's free ArcReader. It's limited though. Just useful for displaying and simple map making, basically.
Most of my family and friends are not techies or geeks. They only use their computer for email, web/facebook and passing pics around. These are the same people asking me if a $400 laptop Black Friday deal from Wal-Mart would work to replace their (aging) desktop and they won't listen to me when I tell them to get a used one for $50 on e-bay. I'd tell every single one of them to get a ChromeOS net appliance if it were available.
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You are essentially getting less than what you would get with a standard distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.
We on/. often forget on there are many people who NEED less.
It's scratching a different itch, although I'm a little skeptical that anyone's seriously itching hard for a minimal OS capable of running only a web browser.
Sounds like the perfect system for my grandma and anyone else who likes their computer, but mainly uses it for web, email, an occasional doc or spreadsheet, and organizing photos.
They're putting the windmills in post-cleanup, big boy. Sites have to be cleaned up, but people don't necessarily want to build on them. This is using the sites after they've been cleaned.
I'm not one for the holy wars and I hate to sound like I'm defending Microsoft, but if this happened in Windows, people would be at their door with pitchforks and torches. For sure, no one would be admonishing the users.
I agree with the author that games are not immersive by simply being FP. I've never played a game where I forgot I was playing a game. That, for me, would be the total immersion for which FP perspective strives. In fact, I kind of find "immersion" being touted as a major factor in why I should buy a game annoying (hello, Fallout 3). No matter what, I will never forget I'm sitting in my easy chair playing my console or at my desk looking at my 20" monitor. There's just way too much between me and the action and in my peripheral vision.
I think the guys at Insomniac Games do a really good job of mixing humor with action. Ratchet and Clank is 1 of my all time favorite series on the Playstation.
I don't know how to fix my car. I don't know how to fix my tv. I don't even know how to fix a lawn mower. If any of those break beyond something minor, someone else has to fix it for me. The computer is in the same niche for the vast majority of computer users.
Their (the --AA) cause isn't to win hearts and minds, it's to throw enough shit at the walls that eventually some of it sticks. It's been an effective strategy thus far.
Yeah, phrases like "complete and utter failure" don't really help
Read the news release concerning this event from the U.S. Northern Command and NORAD. They did not use the word "failure" at all. Just your standard, dry, government news release.
I estimate that Questhelper alone is used by 10-20% of the WoW player base. I think there would be more grumbling than you think.
Not if they just implement features identical to QH or Carbonite. Off the top of my head, they've done it to Outfitter, Scrolling Combat Text and added a way to monitor your threat (of course, that's nowhere near as good as Omen).
I used your addon for a while, but not after I found Carbonite. If those guys quit making Carbonite (or you quit making QH), I'll just play without a quest helping type mod and alt tab to Wowhead (or thott, etc), like I did for the 1st 3 years of playing this game. Hell, with my dual monitor setup, I don't even have to alt tab. All I really need is a coords mod and one of the database websites.
Its kind of funny because I wasn't trolling. Look at those 36 features. They're fine additions, but I'd rather read how MS is spending more time/energy addressing fundamental problems in Windows like security. 8 of those 36 features are about WMP, for god's sake.
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According to the Go Daddy commercials, that is.
"You're not against security are you, ya Commie?"
People have tried to get away with this kind of fascist bullshit in the name of security forever, it's just ramped up in the last 10 years. It's just especially hard to swallow when it's so blatant. Did no one at this school district have any 2nd thoughts about the impropriety of this? No one?
To go even further, it's not necessarily WHERE the beef is from, but what they eat while they're there. Beef from Argentina is more likely to be grass-fed than corn-fed, as is common in the US (although more Argentinian ranchers are turning to feed lots and corn because of money issues). Grass-fed beef has a lot of advantages, but economy of scale isn't one of them.
If you're just wanting to play around with similar data, you might have luck with national elevation data (NED) in 10m or 30m grids. You can then display and explore these in ESRI's free ArcReader. It's limited though. Just useful for displaying and simple map making, basically.
You are essentially getting less than what you would get with a standard distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.
We on /. often forget on there are many people who NEED less.
It's scratching a different itch, although I'm a little skeptical that anyone's seriously itching hard for a minimal OS capable of running only a web browser.
Sounds like the perfect system for my grandma and anyone else who likes their computer, but mainly uses it for web, email, an occasional doc or spreadsheet, and organizing photos.
Lemme guess: Home, Ultimate, Pro, Pro-er, and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
They're putting the windmills in post-cleanup, big boy. Sites have to be cleaned up, but people don't necessarily want to build on them. This is using the sites after they've been cleaned.
I'm not one for the holy wars and I hate to sound like I'm defending Microsoft, but if this happened in Windows, people would be at their door with pitchforks and torches. For sure, no one would be admonishing the users.
See ya, karma. :(
Printing a pub on the basis of spurious statistical relationships is poor science.
No. Next question.
I agree with the author that games are not immersive by simply being FP. I've never played a game where I forgot I was playing a game. That, for me, would be the total immersion for which FP perspective strives. In fact, I kind of find "immersion" being touted as a major factor in why I should buy a game annoying (hello, Fallout 3). No matter what, I will never forget I'm sitting in my easy chair playing my console or at my desk looking at my 20" monitor. There's just way too much between me and the action and in my peripheral vision.
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I think the guys at Insomniac Games do a really good job of mixing humor with action. Ratchet and Clank is 1 of my all time favorite series on the Playstation.
I guess that's fair, in a country that "trivializes thinking."
People who aren't into computers beyond surfing/email/photos don't make that distinction and never will.
I don't know how to fix my car. I don't know how to fix my tv. I don't even know how to fix a lawn mower. If any of those break beyond something minor, someone else has to fix it for me. The computer is in the same niche for the vast majority of computer users.
I live in Florida and this place F'ing sucks.
Their (the --AA) cause isn't to win hearts and minds, it's to throw enough shit at the walls that eventually some of it sticks. It's been an effective strategy thus far.
Yeah, phrases like "complete and utter failure" don't really help
Read the news release concerning this event from the U.S. Northern Command and NORAD. They did not use the word "failure" at all. Just your standard, dry, government news release.
Maybe you should have used one of those to find the right thread to reply to. :p
I estimate that Questhelper alone is used by 10-20% of the WoW player base. I think there would be more grumbling than you think.
Not if they just implement features identical to QH or Carbonite. Off the top of my head, they've done it to Outfitter, Scrolling Combat Text and added a way to monitor your threat (of course, that's nowhere near as good as Omen).
I used your addon for a while, but not after I found Carbonite. If those guys quit making Carbonite (or you quit making QH), I'll just play without a quest helping type mod and alt tab to Wowhead (or thott, etc), like I did for the 1st 3 years of playing this game. Hell, with my dual monitor setup, I don't even have to alt tab. All I really need is a coords mod and one of the database websites.
Its kind of funny because I wasn't trolling. Look at those 36 features. They're fine additions, but I'd rather read how MS is spending more time/energy addressing fundamental problems in Windows like security. 8 of those 36 features are about WMP, for god's sake.
Let me know when security is one of those features.
Great. This discussion is about the American croc, not the American alligator. I even spelled out the scientific name in my original post for you.