but my 17" screen can display three 80 column windows with only a 2/3 inch overlap between two of them. This means I can have multiple views open on a single screen, reducing eye movement while retaining efficiency and information availability.
Anybody using a 24" screen for a single full-screen text window either has visual disabilities or mental ones.
An excellent start. Let me add * Elite * Speedball 2 * Llamatron * Baldur's Gate * Max Payne * Battle Isle * Duke Nukem 3D * Paradroid * Nethack/Angband (pick one; nobody ever picks both) * Unreal Tournament
Unlike yours, the original list appears to have been created by people under 25. And a strange focus on sequels - * Outrun far more impressive for its time than Outrun 2006 (but Pitstop II was better) * Shogun: Total War was groundbreaking; Rome is merely a pretty derivative * Civ 2 remains the best in the series (subjective, I know) * BF1942 lacks the graphical splendour of BF2, but was far more innovative and had the only thing that matters : Gameplay.
Bad set design, bad wardrobe, overblown visuals I'm astounded. Some of the costumes were dodgy, but the set design and the visuals have been influential on most sci-fi (and many non sci-fi) films since.
Hell, let me quote William Gibson,
"About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the "look" of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! With time, as I got over that, I started to take a certain delight in the way the film began to affect the way the world looked. Club fashions, at first, then rock videos, finally even architecture. Amazing! A science fiction movie affecting reality!" Bad set design? hmm.
The events involving Murdoch are surreal and unbelievable. But the City is (when it's awake) very real. It's populated by real people, leading real lives - indeed that's what makes the film so very interesting, that the Strangers are trying to work out why real people lead the lives they do.
I thought the film showed Murdoch's attempts to deal with the surreal and unbelievable situation he was in pretty well. It was as strange to him as to the audience, and his confusion meant that as a viewer I could let him do the worrying and enjoy the film.
It's not as good as Blade Runner, even on the presentation of a coherent living city, but it's still a very compelling movie.
But the great thing about Deckard is that he always shoots first. It's a part of him, a bit like the way he only kills the female replicants and the way he forces himself onto Rachel.
It makes him an infinitely more interesting character, and helps set the mood and tension of the film.
My phone has three main dimensions. Height, width and depth. The iPhone has only 2/3 the depth - very nice. It's also 20% higher and twice as wide.
Which phone do you think fits more comfortably and discretely in my pocket?
Oh, and yes - my phone does have built-in wifi, 3G support (sorry, are modern communication protocols beyond the iPhone?), the Opera web browser (is that a real one?), a full qwerty keyboard, 2 weeks standby time, and sadly only 7.7 hours talk time.
Btw, if GPS is a pocket calculator feature that requires glasses to use, you must carry a magnifying glass around to read your email on your phone. Shit, I can (and do) use Putty on my phone in 80x25 character resolution and I only have a tiny screen on it.
There are phones out there with better features than the iPhone that are smaller. This is why so many people aren't very crazy over it. The Apple PR comparison does nothing to sell the phone to such people - it merely confirms the initial impression that Apple are marketing an overly expensive hyped up product that is at best comparable to other products in the market.
Bold highlighting draws the eye. It interrupts the flow of the text by saying "these words are more important; read them first" instead of allowing the reader to parse the sentence as a whole.
Readability and comprehension thus drop. It takes longer to read and understand the point, rather than the intention of simplifying things.
Then again, I don't have a degree in English. Ask an expert.
I suspect that may be due to a considerable difference between the unfettered slaughter of millions with no comeback in a virtual environment, and the very upfront and personal slaughter of people you know in front of you, with full 3D sound, realistic graphics and wet and distressingly bubbling blood effects.
The question you should be posing is how come so many Palestinian children grow up as heavily armed violent militia members when they don't have computer games to play.
And yet, in all 400 novels I have at home, only 3 have words in bold - and they're all Pratchett.
Most people have no problem applying appropriate emphasis to a sentence written in a standard font. If you feel that highlighting is required to help the reader understand your message then you should consider rewriting it to give greater initial clarity instead.
I concur. I am typing this on my new laptop that arrived yesterday. It has the same CPU as a Macbook Pro, same RAM, similar Intel chipset, a faster larger hard disk (7200RPM not 5400), a better screen (17" widescreen 1920x1200), a digital TV tuner and a better graphics card.
It cost 300USD less than the Macbook Pro would have.
Sorry, but the OS just doesn't justify that difference. Especially when I went from bare disk to "World of Warcraft running on Linux" in exactly three hours yesterday.
In fairness to Technos (and despite his reply to your post) I was also told by serving military personnel in the 80s that NATO ammunition could be fired from Russian firearms, but not vice-versa, and that this was due to intentional design by the Russians.
Of course, that was hearsay at the time, and obviously has no validity now.:)
Of course, the punishment for failing to do so is less than the punishment for running a major crime ring.
Conversely, the punishment for failing to do so is very draconian when there isn't actually encryption in use, the police just mistakenly think there is and you get prosecuted for failing to provide a key that doesn't exist. Or has been lost. Or destroyed.
Must admit, that was my initial thought too. Aren't there laws now against computerised DoS attacks? Isn't the PBX a computer? Calculate the cost to the company (hint: over $100k is a good start) and get federal law enforcement in on it. Highlight that you've followed all sane and sensible procedures to get them to stop, and insist that they be prosecuted for malicious computer damage.
Also launch a civil suit under the same rules; claim the $100k+ in damages.
Doesn't take too many companies doing that to put them out of business and/or behind bars.
But then go and read Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Which will teach you how to engineer software, and not just write it.
Code Complete is great, but it's also behind the times. That doesn't make it wrong, and it is still very valuable, but best practices have gone beyond it.
I've found the difference primarily lies between whether you're writing academic code that you have the time to get right, and for which specifications never change, or whether you're writing code in the real world, where the project is already late (before it's started - every fucking time - don't look at me, look at the marketing department) and where the specifications never change more than forty times a day. Most days.
I'm not disagreeing with you; pragmatically I know which development approach is less risky overall in the environments I work in.
What I am trying to do is illustrate the bias sentiment against Arabs in British culture. And one only has to look at the British policies I mentioned earlier to see that evident bias. Please allow me to assure you that an anti-Arab bias does not exist in the general British public.
I strongly suspect that at Governmental level there's no institutional racism as such either. The war in Iraq was not motivated by religious or racial factors..
I do agree it was wrong and resent being represented by this particular UK government. Unfortunately, legally changing it is proving tricky.
his murder of thousands of his own people with banned poison gas? Bought from the US and the UK.
More likely you're just ignoring the facts because they don't meet your socialist worldview. Oh, so you're going to pretend that Saddam wasn't complying with UN resolutions on WMD? Show me the fucking WMD. Until and unless you do, that was was illegal, and has considerably destabilised the world.
maybe because they're doing most of the destabilizing of the world? So why invade Iraq, which was secular, and is now rife with sectarian violence. Oh, of course - oil.
perhaps you need to have a look into the 7/7 bus bombings A protest against the war in Iraq. Which should not have happened. Which the majority of people in the UK didn't want to happen. No, they should not have killed themselves and other people in the manner they did. However, from their perspective, what other option did they have? The government acted against the wishes of the public, and despite 64% of the voting public voting against them they're still in power.
THAT is your future, coward. If he's a coward for being hesitant to engage in illegal violence for financial gain then count me in.
As someone that was educated in British schools, I'm very curious about where you formed these opinions.
I don't think arabs are animals, and I don't know anybody in the UK that does. I don't know anybody that thinks their blood has any different value to that of other people.
If you think that's a common viewpoint then it seems to me that someone is teaching you very badly. The people around me are very tolerant and accepting of other cultures. Are you?
Incidentally, no, we weren't taught much about Palestine at school. Then again, we weren't taught much about Irish politics either, despite the school being damaged by Irish bombs while I was there. Perhaps you'd like to build a case that all British people hate the Irish? It would be equally flawed, but don't let that stop you spreading hatred and misinformation.
Except that in that case, there should have been video footage. The fact that it strangely isn't available becomes far from a moot point, and instead an exacerbating one.
Ubiquitous CCTV, until the police do something illegal.
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but my 17" screen can display three 80 column windows with only a 2/3 inch overlap between two of them. This means I can have multiple views open on a single screen, reducing eye movement while retaining efficiency and information availability.
Anybody using a 24" screen for a single full-screen text window either has visual disabilities or mental ones.
An excellent start. Let me add
* Elite
* Speedball 2
* Llamatron
* Baldur's Gate
* Max Payne
* Battle Isle
* Duke Nukem 3D
* Paradroid
* Nethack/Angband (pick one; nobody ever picks both)
* Unreal Tournament
Unlike yours, the original list appears to have been created by people under 25. And a strange focus on sequels -
* Outrun far more impressive for its time than Outrun 2006 (but Pitstop II was better)
* Shogun: Total War was groundbreaking; Rome is merely a pretty derivative
* Civ 2 remains the best in the series (subjective, I know)
* BF1942 lacks the graphical splendour of BF2, but was far more innovative and had the only thing that matters : Gameplay.
I'll stop now too..
Hell, let me quote William Gibson, "About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the "look" of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! With time, as I got over that, I started to take a certain delight in the way the film began to affect the way the world looked. Club fashions, at first, then rock videos, finally even architecture. Amazing! A science fiction movie affecting reality!" Bad set design? hmm.
The events involving Murdoch are surreal and unbelievable. But the City is (when it's awake) very real. It's populated by real people, leading real lives - indeed that's what makes the film so very interesting, that the Strangers are trying to work out why real people lead the lives they do.
I thought the film showed Murdoch's attempts to deal with the surreal and unbelievable situation he was in pretty well. It was as strange to him as to the audience, and his confusion meant that as a viewer I could let him do the worrying and enjoy the film.
It's not as good as Blade Runner, even on the presentation of a coherent living city, but it's still a very compelling movie.
But the great thing about Deckard is that he always shoots first. It's a part of him, a bit like the way he only kills the female replicants and the way he forces himself onto Rachel.
It makes him an infinitely more interesting character, and helps set the mood and tension of the film.
I didn't say the marketing wouldn't work.
first site I went to: http://phones4u.co.uk/shop/shop_contract_details.
Nokia N95 for free. Sure, you're tied into a (very) expensive 18 month contract. But most people don't worry about that..
I'm sure you could find more sensible contracts, but compared to $600 AND a long term expensive contract? Please.
My phone has three main dimensions. Height, width and depth. The iPhone has only 2/3 the depth - very nice. It's also 20% higher and twice as wide.
Which phone do you think fits more comfortably and discretely in my pocket?
Oh, and yes - my phone does have built-in wifi, 3G support (sorry, are modern communication protocols beyond the iPhone?), the Opera web browser (is that a real one?), a full qwerty keyboard, 2 weeks standby time, and sadly only 7.7 hours talk time.
Btw, if GPS is a pocket calculator feature that requires glasses to use, you must carry a magnifying glass around to read your email on your phone. Shit, I can (and do) use Putty on my phone in 80x25 character resolution and I only have a tiny screen on it.
There are phones out there with better features than the iPhone that are smaller. This is why so many people aren't very crazy over it. The Apple PR comparison does nothing to sell the phone to such people - it merely confirms the initial impression that Apple are marketing an overly expensive hyped up product that is at best comparable to other products in the market.
Bold highlighting draws the eye. It interrupts the flow of the text by saying "these words are more important; read them first" instead of allowing the reader to parse the sentence as a whole.
Readability and comprehension thus drop. It takes longer to read and understand the point, rather than the intention of simplifying things.
Then again, I don't have a degree in English. Ask an expert.
I suspect that may be due to a considerable difference between the unfettered slaughter of millions with no comeback in a virtual environment, and the very upfront and personal slaughter of people you know in front of you, with full 3D sound, realistic graphics and wet and distressingly bubbling blood effects.
The question you should be posing is how come so many Palestinian children grow up as heavily armed violent militia members when they don't have computer games to play.
And yet, in all 400 novels I have at home, only 3 have words in bold - and they're all Pratchett.
Most people have no problem applying appropriate emphasis to a sentence written in a standard font. If you feel that highlighting is required to help the reader understand your message then you should consider rewriting it to give greater initial clarity instead.
I concur. I am typing this on my new laptop that arrived yesterday. It has the same CPU as a Macbook Pro, same RAM, similar Intel chipset, a faster larger hard disk (7200RPM not 5400), a better screen (17" widescreen 1920x1200), a digital TV tuner and a better graphics card.
It cost 300USD less than the Macbook Pro would have.
Sorry, but the OS just doesn't justify that difference. Especially when I went from bare disk to "World of Warcraft running on Linux" in exactly three hours yesterday.
They're fucked then, if they're reading this Slashdot comments page.
In fairness to Technos (and despite his reply to your post) I was also told by serving military personnel in the 80s that NATO ammunition could be fired from Russian firearms, but not vice-versa, and that this was due to intentional design by the Russians.
Of course, that was hearsay at the time, and obviously has no validity now.
In the UK, yes.
Of course, the punishment for failing to do so is less than the punishment for running a major crime ring.
Conversely, the punishment for failing to do so is very draconian when there isn't actually encryption in use, the police just mistakenly think there is and you get prosecuted for failing to provide a key that doesn't exist. Or has been lost. Or destroyed.
Sadly under the terms of the European Arrest Warrant legislation, pretty much everyone in Europe is now fucked if the Germans choose to get arsey.
Must admit, that was my initial thought too. Aren't there laws now against computerised DoS attacks? Isn't the PBX a computer? Calculate the cost to the company (hint: over $100k is a good start) and get federal law enforcement in on it. Highlight that you've followed all sane and sensible procedures to get them to stop, and insist that they be prosecuted for malicious computer damage.
Also launch a civil suit under the same rules; claim the $100k+ in damages.
Doesn't take too many companies doing that to put them out of business and/or behind bars.
But then go and read Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Which will teach you how to engineer software, and not just write it.
Code Complete is great, but it's also behind the times. That doesn't make it wrong, and it is still very valuable, but best practices have gone beyond it.
Why settle for less than the best practices.
I've found the difference primarily lies between whether you're writing academic code that you have the time to get right, and for which specifications never change, or whether you're writing code in the real world, where the project is already late (before it's started - every fucking time - don't look at me, look at the marketing department) and where the specifications never change more than forty times a day. Most days.
I'm not disagreeing with you; pragmatically I know which development approach is less risky overall in the environments I work in.
I strongly suspect that at Governmental level there's no institutional racism as such either. The war in Iraq was not motivated by religious or racial factors..
I do agree it was wrong and resent being represented by this particular UK government. Unfortunately, legally changing it is proving tricky.
As someone that was educated in British schools, I'm very curious about where you formed these opinions.
I don't think arabs are animals, and I don't know anybody in the UK that does. I don't know anybody that thinks their blood has any different value to that of other people.
If you think that's a common viewpoint then it seems to me that someone is teaching you very badly. The people around me are very tolerant and accepting of other cultures. Are you?
Incidentally, no, we weren't taught much about Palestine at school. Then again, we weren't taught much about Irish politics either, despite the school being damaged by Irish bombs while I was there. Perhaps you'd like to build a case that all British people hate the Irish? It would be equally flawed, but don't let that stop you spreading hatred and misinformation.
I find 40 minutes on DDR followed by a couple of hours on the Wii leaves me needing a shower
Except that in that case, there should have been video footage. The fact that it strangely isn't available becomes far from a moot point, and instead an exacerbating one.
Ubiquitous CCTV, until the police do something illegal.
You try telling a policeman that it's perfectly reasonable to hold a public protest outside the legislative chamber of a democracy.