Additionally, there is still the problem of content creation - which game studio has the time and resources to generate that much actual game content nowadays, not just pre-rendered ultra-HD cutscenes or music? MGS4 is a pretty good example. It takes an immense amount of work to create a game with that much detail that it fills up a Bluray disk.
Most of that space could be filled up with procedurally generated environments, but that's just the same "more of the good old stuff" philosophy that Sony's been following with the PS3. Once you max out one factor (horsepower), the highest possible output becomes dependent on other factors.
No, this happens when you give someone *nix and don't teach them about the differences and alternatives in user software.
Getting hardware and drivers working is an issue best transferred to the next "PC guy".
I also shoot exclusively RAW, but until very recently I only had a single 4GB card. When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, I took ~14GB worth of pictures with that card. Since I had my Asus EeePC 900 and a 2.5"-120GB-USB-Disk with me, I just moved all images to the HD every night.
For organisation... someone else said it already. SD cards should be considered somewhat unsafe storage. There's no reason for me to have several of them, except old cards that I didn't throw away yet, because they're still functional - but I don't carry them with me, I just store them somewhere - empty.
You mean with real keys, like any old non-touchscreen phone? Next thing you say that office applications should be client binaries, not run off the web!;-) The only new thing would be the phone saying the number you just pressed, but you kinda already have that, too - DTMF tones.
Further I fail to see how the point and click method of configuration is better than editing a text file than can be searched, backed up and version controlled.
Then you're not looking hard enough. In fact, you must be not looking at all to not see the obvious benefits of nicely-layouted GUIs. I'm fairly sure you've heard the term "user interface design", so why are you ignoring what dozens of highly intelligent people have been teaching for decades? Besides: Just having a GUI for editing config files doesn't take away your favourite way of editing them or whatever you wish.
How about putting a little work into understanding and using a Linux distribution.
Nothing against that, but every learning curve has its optimum steepness. Before you can learn to properly edit config files, you first need to:
be aware of their existance (!)
know their location
know how to start a usable text editor as superuser
All of which are non-obvious things for first-time Linux users, IMO. And you still wonder why Linux distributions aren't more popular than they currently are?:-/
No, it's not - the computer is running an algorithm designed by at least one nerd. By designing that algorithm, not the computer, but the programmer beat the other player, by using his intelligence for writing a program that plays for him.
As long as computers cannot think for themselves, no computer will beat a human player, but a human-designed algorithm will. Humans beat humans (using technology).
Simple: we don't. Future generations of 10.000 years will probably have the means to detect radioactive sites from the other end of the galaxy. And mabye they'll even have the means to dispose of them quickly and safely. So why warn them?
We should be more concerned about how to warn people in the more near future, like 200-500 years...
He probably meant the bending. I have some old magazines where the paper literally breaks off when you bend it too much, like in the way you have to do it to put it on a flatbed scanner and get a readable inner side.
Here's what I do when scanning books or magazines: I get a scanner that has a very slim margin between the scannable surface and the edge of the device, so I can place my magazines with the inner side on the device edge. This way, you don't need to bend the paper nearly as much as with pressing both pages on a large scan area. Downside: you can only scan one page at a time.
I always wondered why some extensions got disabled from one minor bugfix release to the next. Has the underlying API been changed so much, that the extension really isn't going to work anymore or is the extension's author just being a bit restrictive with the "max. version allowed" setting?
In Soviet Russia wifi-register.su That sequence of characters is a very clever and funny combination of current news with an old meme. Congratulations!
I wonder if we will ever have widespread end-to-end encryption for all of our private communication, so that "service providers" cannot mess with our actual message and/or data stream. I guess there will always be someone making a profit by preventing this on a legal level, sadly. When will the "mindless consumer" finally wake up and kick the government that allows all this?
I have read most of these books and fully agree. Alan Dix, however, has stated during a talk that I visited two years back that "Human-Computer Interaction" should actually be rewritten. I also recommend Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think", if you're a beginner. It doesn't go into great detail, tho.
...that we'll see fancy newspapers like in the Harry Potter movies eventually?;-)
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I have used a lot of input devices in the last decade. Most of them were mice, but I also have used trackballs, touchpads, trackpoints, touchscreens and drawing tablets of varying sizes. After thorough testing, I came to the conclusion that most people using a trackball think it's more precise because they can move their thumb with higher accuracy than they can move their whole hand. In fact they were true. Until I tried switched the mouse acceleration off altogether. Suddenly, the mouse movement became linear and predictable, even with fast movements. The mouse speed slider suddenly made a whole lot more sense, since it now allowed for a linear increase in precision, just by making the mouse slower. In effect I have to move hand farther on the table, but I don't care, as I have a big enough surface for my mouse.
At this point, muscle memory and basic hand-eye coordination kick back in. You can hit even small buttons on the other side of the screen without much guessing where the pointer's going to be after your wrist flick. No need to reposition the cursor after a fast movement, because you overshot the target. Using the mouse has become even more precise than using a pen tablet, although the tablet offers more natural movements for graphics work and other tasks.
I'd even guess that using a trackball would benefit from deactivating mouse acceleration, but the mouse is my ultimate input weapon. When I see other people using my computer, they initially feel weird about my mouse but catch on pretty quickly. I even realized that they're working faster than on their own computers.
Unfortunately, not every mouse driver supports using a linear acceleration curve. Logitech's drivers allow to completely deactivate it. Ironically, Windows' mouse-control-panel checkbox "Increase pointer precision" actually does the opposite for me, while activated. The most awful mouse acceleration curve for me is the default one in Mac OS X, because you can't simply change it - you have to hack into some resources or use additional programs to set a linear curve.
After all, it's just a matter of personal preference. I'm not going to rant about people who use something different than a mouse. All I want to say is "try it for yourself".
I could imagine that a lot of people would pry the things open and fix/hack the hell out of it... People are even repairing laptop battery cells, so why not repair the notebook itself? For that price, you can as well have a go at it before throwing it away.
Forget what I just said. I had a closer look on the photos from TFA and saw it has a headphone and mic jack. Still, there is no mention of the sound chip used in the device - I suppose it'll be AC'97.
We all take a sound system for granted, but I don't see it anywhere, which makes me wonder: will it have sound? According to Wikipedia, it has a built-in camera, but there are no speakers visible anywhere. I wouldn't mind if it has a headphone jack only, but... No sound at all is a showstopper for me, no matter how awesome the rest of the device may be.
Just because YOU don't need or use these functions doesn't mean others shouldn't either. What you are saying is that everyone, who wants a mobile phone, a radio/music player, an organizer, a digital camera or even a mobile office suite should get a device for each of these functions. Last time I looked, my jeans didn't have more than three pockets. People like you are the reason why the gadget market is the way it is, all over the world - except for Japan. So stop ranting about "people's obsession with fancy-ass gadgets" when you obviously are obsessed with "I don't like it, so nobody should have it".
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I cancelled my Last.fm account immediately after I read this article. Fu** them for this.
I shouldn't have done this from the start. I feel stupid. I should've seen something like this coming.
Additionally, there is still the problem of content creation - which game studio has the time and resources to generate that much actual game content nowadays, not just pre-rendered ultra-HD cutscenes or music? MGS4 is a pretty good example. It takes an immense amount of work to create a game with that much detail that it fills up a Bluray disk.
Most of that space could be filled up with procedurally generated environments, but that's just the same "more of the good old stuff" philosophy that Sony's been following with the PS3. Once you max out one factor (horsepower), the highest possible output becomes dependent on other factors.
No, this happens when you give someone *nix and don't teach them about the differences and alternatives in user software. Getting hardware and drivers working is an issue best transferred to the next "PC guy".
I also shoot exclusively RAW, but until very recently I only had a single 4GB card. When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, I took ~14GB worth of pictures with that card. Since I had my Asus EeePC 900 and a 2.5"-120GB-USB-Disk with me, I just moved all images to the HD every night.
For organisation... someone else said it already. SD cards should be considered somewhat unsafe storage. There's no reason for me to have several of them, except old cards that I didn't throw away yet, because they're still functional - but I don't carry them with me, I just store them somewhere - empty.
You mean with real keys, like any old non-touchscreen phone? Next thing you say that office applications should be client binaries, not run off the web! ;-)
The only new thing would be the phone saying the number you just pressed, but you kinda already have that, too - DTMF tones.
I guess you could just
I think that's a bit better than getting malware to do that job for you and then having to remove that stuff, too.
Further I fail to see how the point and click method of configuration is better than editing a text file than can be searched, backed up and version controlled.
Then you're not looking hard enough. In fact, you must be not looking at all to not see the obvious benefits of nicely-layouted GUIs. I'm fairly sure you've heard the term "user interface design", so why are you ignoring what dozens of highly intelligent people have been teaching for decades? Besides: Just having a GUI for editing config files doesn't take away your favourite way of editing them or whatever you wish.
How about putting a little work into understanding and using a Linux distribution.
Nothing against that, but every learning curve has its optimum steepness. Before you can learn to properly edit config files, you first need to:
All of which are non-obvious things for first-time Linux users, IMO. And you still wonder why Linux distributions aren't more popular than they currently are? :-/
"new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet."
They aren't able to gain "normal" access to the internet already! Hail the Great Chinese Firewall.
After reading the title, I imagined the scammers literally surfing on the stormy waves. Most of us could tolerate their deaths, I guess.
No, it's not - the computer is running an algorithm designed by at least one nerd. By designing that algorithm, not the computer, but the programmer beat the other player, by using his intelligence for writing a program that plays for him.
As long as computers cannot think for themselves, no computer will beat a human player, but a human-designed algorithm will. Humans beat humans (using technology).
Simple: we don't. Future generations of 10.000 years will probably have the means to detect radioactive sites from the other end of the galaxy. And mabye they'll even have the means to dispose of them quickly and safely. So why warn them? We should be more concerned about how to warn people in the more near future, like 200-500 years...
He probably meant the bending. I have some old magazines where the paper literally breaks off when you bend it too much, like in the way you have to do it to put it on a flatbed scanner and get a readable inner side. Here's what I do when scanning books or magazines: I get a scanner that has a very slim margin between the scannable surface and the edge of the device, so I can place my magazines with the inner side on the device edge. This way, you don't need to bend the paper nearly as much as with pressing both pages on a large scan area. Downside: you can only scan one page at a time.
I always wondered why some extensions got disabled from one minor bugfix release to the next. Has the underlying API been changed so much, that the extension really isn't going to work anymore or is the extension's author just being a bit restrictive with the "max. version allowed" setting?
I wonder if we will ever have widespread end-to-end encryption for all of our private communication, so that "service providers" cannot mess with our actual message and/or data stream. I guess there will always be someone making a profit by preventing this on a legal level, sadly. When will the "mindless consumer" finally wake up and kick the government that allows all this?
I have read most of these books and fully agree. Alan Dix, however, has stated during a talk that I visited two years back that "Human-Computer Interaction" should actually be rewritten. I also recommend Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think", if you're a beginner. It doesn't go into great detail, tho.
I once read that Asia Carrera was the RL-model for the woman in "Unreal 2" and that she played UT'99.
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." What?
Someone gets the point - and has a proof, too.
...that we'll see fancy newspapers like in the Harry Potter movies eventually? ;-)
I have used a lot of input devices in the last decade. Most of them were mice, but I also have used trackballs, touchpads, trackpoints, touchscreens and drawing tablets of varying sizes. After thorough testing, I came to the conclusion that most people using a trackball think it's more precise because they can move their thumb with higher accuracy than they can move their whole hand. In fact they were true. Until I tried switched the mouse acceleration off altogether. Suddenly, the mouse movement became linear and predictable, even with fast movements. The mouse speed slider suddenly made a whole lot more sense, since it now allowed for a linear increase in precision, just by making the mouse slower. In effect I have to move hand farther on the table, but I don't care, as I have a big enough surface for my mouse.
At this point, muscle memory and basic hand-eye coordination kick back in. You can hit even small buttons on the other side of the screen without much guessing where the pointer's going to be after your wrist flick. No need to reposition the cursor after a fast movement, because you overshot the target. Using the mouse has become even more precise than using a pen tablet, although the tablet offers more natural movements for graphics work and other tasks.
I'd even guess that using a trackball would benefit from deactivating mouse acceleration, but the mouse is my ultimate input weapon. When I see other people using my computer, they initially feel weird about my mouse but catch on pretty quickly. I even realized that they're working faster than on their own computers.
Unfortunately, not every mouse driver supports using a linear acceleration curve. Logitech's drivers allow to completely deactivate it. Ironically, Windows' mouse-control-panel checkbox "Increase pointer precision" actually does the opposite for me, while activated. The most awful mouse acceleration curve for me is the default one in Mac OS X, because you can't simply change it - you have to hack into some resources or use additional programs to set a linear curve.
After all, it's just a matter of personal preference. I'm not going to rant about people who use something different than a mouse. All I want to say is "try it for yourself".
I could imagine that a lot of people would pry the things open and fix/hack the hell out of it... People are even repairing laptop battery cells, so why not repair the notebook itself? For that price, you can as well have a go at it before throwing it away.
Forget what I just said. I had a closer look on the photos from TFA and saw it has a headphone and mic jack. Still, there is no mention of the sound chip used in the device - I suppose it'll be AC'97.
We all take a sound system for granted, but I don't see it anywhere, which makes me wonder: will it have sound? According to Wikipedia, it has a built-in camera, but there are no speakers visible anywhere. I wouldn't mind if it has a headphone jack only, but... No sound at all is a showstopper for me, no matter how awesome the rest of the device may be.
Just because YOU don't need or use these functions doesn't mean others shouldn't either. What you are saying is that everyone, who wants a mobile phone, a radio/music player, an organizer, a digital camera or even a mobile office suite should get a device for each of these functions. Last time I looked, my jeans didn't have more than three pockets. People like you are the reason why the gadget market is the way it is, all over the world - except for Japan. So stop ranting about "people's obsession with fancy-ass gadgets" when you obviously are obsessed with "I don't like it, so nobody should have it".