I actually liked Unity very much, but in it's latest installment it became a sluggish PITA, so I started looking for alternatives. After using lxde-dekstop on the existing Ubuntu for a bit. Then I scratched that and started to build a complete custom install on the basis of the ubuntu minimal install CD.
So now I use lightdm, awesome wm with xcompmgr for basic drop shadows, Ambiance themes, Faenza icons and everything Ubuntu has to offer in the way of clear, smooth font display. Only gnome-settings-manager and gnome-keyring are left from Gnome Desktop.
This is the snappiest, fastest and most usable desktop environment I've worked with so far. I use it on my work notebook, with two 90 degree tilted external displays, and everything works without a hitch, even switching from rotated displays to the notebook screen and back (thanks to xrandr -o and disper).
It's geeky and a bit of a learning curve if you want to customize, but I'd definitely recommend giving it a try.
(And - on a DE unrelated note - if you work with code everyday tilting your display and seeing the code over the full _length_ of your monitor is like a breath of fresh air.;))
The pottery bowl represents probably about 0.0001% of the items that were available during its given century of origin. Most of the other items from that specific time frame are not known to us anymore. As soon as the obscure game is the only game known from its time, it will be notable. Which probably needs some milleniae to pass and knowledge about our civilization to disappear almost completely, before the game is rediscovered. But not necessarily.
Its not primarily about age, its about how much is known about a decade/century/era in general. If 2000 years pass and about all computer games from the 80s are still known by then, the obscure game will still be... well, obscure. And only marginally more notable than it is today.
Well, it sure doesn't affect quality per se. But does it matter if a carpenter knows how to handle his tools or not? Yes it does. Is a carpenter with a high hammering speed more likely to be proficient with his tools than a slow one? Most definitely. So does hammering speed matter for carpenters? Overall it surely does, yes.
First, it's not a bug. It's a feature that doesn't exist that he would like to exist. There is a difference between a bug and a feature request.
Technically true, but completely irrelevant for how the application is perceived by the users. Though many developers do make that distinction (I know I do, more often than not) the question if they're doing themselves a favor by this is a valid one. As far as general user perception goes a feature not working correctly and a feature completely missing is equivalent.
PC games have definitely become cheaper. I remember in the 90s paying £40 for some games (I paid £44.99 for Warcraft II as it was the cheapest I could find it at on release!), usually though they were around the £29.99 mark with the odd £34.99 game. At the start of this century they seemed to all pretty much go up to £34.99 as standard, but in recent years the trend has reversed, and £24.99 seems to be common for new releases, sometimes even lower - £22.99 or so.
For whatever reason the UK seems to be special in this case, computer game prices there are way lower than in the rest of Europe. So much so that some publishers ask Amazon.co.uk to not ship certain games to the continent (at least they did this in some cases last year). Anyway, when I buy new games I buy in the UK, it's way cheaper than in Germany e.g.
Now, back to the topic in question. So I own a company. I pay for the computer. I pay for the internet connection, electricity, desk, and even for the time you are there, supposed to be working. And I can't check on you ? Does that strike anyone else as utterly ridiculous ?
If your employees are so highly motivated that you need to watch over their shoulders to check they do their job, you've got a whole other set of problems that no surveillance in the world will solve for you.
Once more, with feeling: it's not blood, it's pixels. It's not a real scream from the pixels you just interacted with. It's make believe. Deal with it.
What local knowledge? No one use GPS to navigate to local places. We use GPS to go places we have no knowledge of.
Or so one would think. But just because you use it that way doesn't mean that other people don't almost exclusively rely on their GPS units now, regardless of how well they (should) know their current location and destination. And sadly those people exist, as far as I could observe.
GPS is used for new routes. It's new knowledge. Nobody uses Sat-Nav repeatedly for the same destination.
Uh-huh. Meanwhile, here on earth, people happily use their nav units to drive around their little hometowns, traveling from well-known destination to well-known destination, because they got so used to it that they don't have a fucking clue how to drive without the damn thing switched on anymore.
I read the GP's post, got interested and read up on the situation on various news sites, now couldn't agree more with parent. Don't mod everything informative just because it's well written, dammit.
It's a total waste of money buying in because the sort of people who'll follow everyone and care about the number of followers they have are generally idiots
So is it really a waste then? Presuming that someone who pays to get followers is trying to sell something in turn, this might not be such a waste. Sure, the followers would be idiots. And fool... money... soon to part - I guess you see what I'm getting at.
Being a big fan of the old Fallout games, I still don't get how a game being "just Oblivion with guns" can be considered a bad thing. I mean Oblivion was just what, the most successful CRPG of the last half decade?
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This.
I actually liked Unity very much, but in it's latest installment it became a sluggish PITA, so I started looking for alternatives. After using lxde-dekstop on the existing Ubuntu for a bit. Then I scratched that and started to build a complete custom install on the basis of the ubuntu minimal install CD.
So now I use lightdm, awesome wm with xcompmgr for basic drop shadows, Ambiance themes, Faenza icons and everything Ubuntu has to offer in the way of clear, smooth font display. Only gnome-settings-manager and gnome-keyring are left from Gnome Desktop.
This is the snappiest, fastest and most usable desktop environment I've worked with so far. I use it on my work notebook, with two 90 degree tilted external displays, and everything works without a hitch, even switching from rotated displays to the notebook screen and back (thanks to xrandr -o and disper).
It's geeky and a bit of a learning curve if you want to customize, but I'd definitely recommend giving it a try.
(And - on a DE unrelated note - if you work with code everyday tilting your display and seeing the code over the full _length_ of your monitor is like a breath of fresh air. ;))
The pottery bowl represents probably about 0.0001% of the items that were available during its given century of origin. Most of the other items from that specific time frame are not known to us anymore. As soon as the obscure game is the only game known from its time, it will be notable. Which probably needs some milleniae to pass and knowledge about our civilization to disappear almost completely, before the game is rediscovered. But not necessarily.
Its not primarily about age, its about how much is known about a decade/century/era in general. If 2000 years pass and about all computer games from the 80s are still known by then, the obscure game will still be ... well, obscure. And only marginally more notable than it is today.
Well, it sure doesn't affect quality per se. But does it matter if a carpenter knows how to handle his tools or not? Yes it does. Is a carpenter with a high hammering speed more likely to be proficient with his tools than a slow one? Most definitely. So does hammering speed matter for carpenters? Overall it surely does, yes.
Programming and typing speed? Very much the same.
First, it's not a bug. It's a feature that doesn't exist that he would like to exist. There is a difference between a bug and a feature request.
Technically true, but completely irrelevant for how the application is perceived by the users. Though many developers do make that distinction (I know I do, more often than not) the question if they're doing themselves a favor by this is a valid one. As far as general user perception goes a feature not working correctly and a feature completely missing is equivalent.
PC games have definitely become cheaper. I remember in the 90s paying £40 for some games (I paid £44.99 for Warcraft II as it was the cheapest I could find it at on release!), usually though they were around the £29.99 mark with the odd £34.99 game. At the start of this century they seemed to all pretty much go up to £34.99 as standard, but in recent years the trend has reversed, and £24.99 seems to be common for new releases, sometimes even lower - £22.99 or so.
For whatever reason the UK seems to be special in this case, computer game prices there are way lower than in the rest of Europe. So much so that some publishers ask Amazon.co.uk to not ship certain games to the continent (at least they did this in some cases last year). Anyway, when I buy new games I buy in the UK, it's way cheaper than in Germany e.g.
The next report will be that he is living in his mom's basement . . .
Playing a Night Elf Communist?
Now, back to the topic in question. So I own a company. I pay for the computer. I pay for the internet connection, electricity, desk, and even for the time you are there, supposed to be working. And I can't check on you ? Does that strike anyone else as utterly ridiculous ?
If your employees are so highly motivated that you need to watch over their shoulders to check they do their job, you've got a whole other set of problems that no surveillance in the world will solve for you.
Once more, with feeling: it's not blood, it's pixels. It's not a real scream from the pixels you just interacted with. It's make believe. Deal with it.
Alternative chaches welcome, Coral Cache just showed the site down notice, too.
http://xkcd.com/702/
Well ...
... maybe not.
if(mainType == 11) { subType = 9; break; }
[...]
testp.cpp (subtract 3 from mainType since that seemed like a pattern):
Umm... no.
Naked tall blue Elvis Ewoks.
Priscilla? Is that you?
What local knowledge? No one use GPS to navigate to local places. We use GPS to go places we have no knowledge of.
Or so one would think. But just because you use it that way doesn't mean that other people don't almost exclusively rely on their GPS units now, regardless of how well they (should) know their current location and destination. And sadly those people exist, as far as I could observe.
GPS is used for new routes. It's new knowledge. Nobody uses Sat-Nav repeatedly for the same destination.
Uh-huh. Meanwhile, here on earth, people happily use their nav units to drive around their little hometowns, traveling from well-known destination to well-known destination, because they got so used to it that they don't have a fucking clue how to drive without the damn thing switched on anymore.
But I wouldn't call any parent that got their kids to read a lot a bad one, would you?
Of course not, at least I know I wouldn't. Reading is a lot more stimulating for the brain than watching TV or movies.
I read the GP's post, got interested and read up on the situation on various news sites, now couldn't agree more with parent. Don't mod everything informative just because it's well written, dammit.
As a hint, by "resistance", "A force that tends to oppose or retard motion." was meant.
Anyone else read that as "A force that tends to oppose a retard motion"?
... 100% with you, bro!!
It's a total waste of money buying in because the sort of people who'll follow everyone and care about the number of followers they have are generally idiots
So is it really a waste then? Presuming that someone who pays to get followers is trying to sell something in turn, this might not be such a waste. Sure, the followers would be idiots. And fool ... money ... soon to part - I guess you see what I'm getting at.
Probably stating the obvious, but Google's search has filter options for explicit content, too.
Because a netbook is a limited notebook?
YMBNH.
I take it the developers have plenty of gum.
Is the swap partition encrypted too? Encrypting home without swap is not exactly sensible...
Fallout 3 was just "Oblivion with guns".
Being a big fan of the old Fallout games, I still don't get how a game being "just Oblivion with guns" can be considered a bad thing. I mean Oblivion was just what, the most successful CRPG of the last half decade?
It's harder to discard tons of paper than to change a number on a digital medium or in memory.