Season 10 already has 7 epsiodes. It's just they stop each season half way through to let the animator's wrists recover - this is the first episode after the break.
Like a lot of people on here, I ran out and bought HL2 when it first came out. I had my reservations about steam but wanted to give them a fair shot. That's what I did, and that's why I'm never buying another one of their products again.
You would have thought that the whole SWG thing would have given people a heads up about how publishers think of their players and made everyone stear well clear of anything where the game could be yanked out from under their feet.
Take a look at this graph (the stats used are genuine).
I have seen the pattern one more than one site, for what it's worth. Amazing really, as a 2:1 ratio of smart to stupid is *way* above my expectation of humanity.
Integrating PDF into apps is a must? Seriously? It took me less than 10 secs on google to find three different free solutions that would add a printer able to create PDF's... but you're with Microsoft on this one... lets lock everyone down to one format that only runs on windows, instead of using PDF which is available on lots of OS'es.
Not to mention that Microsoft are now not talking about integrating PDF (which would be good) but rather integrating a *competitor* to PDF, owned by Microsoft. This point seems to have slipped by this discussion without anyone noticing it, but it's very important to anyone who doesn't use windows.
Yeah but if you remember correctly Microsoft DID add the ability for Microsoft Office 2007 to save in native PDF format.
Adobe tossed a fit, Microsoft removed the feature.
Why should consumers suffer from Adobe being a spoiled brat? We are considering their rights here, as is necessary from the point of view of regulating a monopoly dominated market (the market of pre-installed document readers, on which Microsoft exerts monopolist influence - or will do if they ever release a functional replacement for PDF) - not the rights of Microsoft.
I am pleased to see that Microsoft did make an attempt to approach Adobe, and it even seems to have been in good faith (Java prior example notwithstanding) - but that doesn't change the core issue. If this happens users will be hurt.
What is good for Adobe in this case is good for us.
PDF is a standard that Linux and OS X are well brought into. While I worry about my documents turning up mangled if I send them as an OO.o produced.doc file if I send them as a PDF I know it's going to work. Likewise a lot of people send me PDF... if they start sending me MS-PDF-Ripoff files I'm probably not going to be able to read them and I certainly won't be able to write them with any degree of confidence.
While I'm happy to see Adobe get a competitor this is a clear case where MS will be able to use their monopoly (Office and Windows) to overnight destroy an existing market. While any other company should be allowed a fair go, in this case it is in everyones interest to:
Force MS to comply with the PDF standard or Force MS to only do this if their new standard is genuinly open (with no usage restrictions) or Not distribute a product in this space.
My website contains things like a guide to optimising animations on Linux rather than, say, a guide to breeding monkeys videotaping the results and raking in a fortune on selling the results because if I go for job interviews guess what one of the things they look at is?
Anything on the internet that has your real name on it is probably fair game, and because this is not limited to the internet we all self-censor all the time at home and at work. It's part of being an effective human being - if you always follow every impulse you have then no one would want to be around you. Part of the reason the internet has been so popular is because people *don't* have to put their real name to everything they do and can let out some of their being a jerk with few repercussions.
Also required blood to be sampled and only one life form to be detected in the room before it allows you to play your DNA proteced version of "Stars Wars IV - Remix 92 - The Jedi Beat The Terrorists (2020 release)".
Is that it's becomming less of a end and more of a means, and an almost invisible means at that (no stupid plugins!).
I turned on free tagging on my website to set up categories (for use with Drupal Views to get a view-content-by-category system) and all of a sudden noticed that the tag input box had a find as you type feature to match against existing tags/categories.
Highly useful, very unobtrusive and just a regualar part of the system getting on with it's job with a gracefull fallback if client side scripting isn't available. 10/10.
Linux already has a decent GUI tool for wireless networking, nm-applet being rather more slick at handling mixed wired/wireless and roaming environments than OS X.
It was however mostly polished after the last round of distro releases and so it'll probably be in more of the next generation released in the autumn.
While their video does show (some) of the things that the 3D desktop can do, it's actually *far* smoother in real life. Possibly they recorded it on a machine that was too slow to run the app and xvidcap at the same time.
Up to this point it's been a bit of a pain in the backside to set up but now distros are integrating it the next batch of releases should make it trivial.
Compiz and co are really slick and I find it rather amusing that everyeone *except* the world's biggest software company has managed to get their next generation desktop released prior to 2007.
Drucker once wrote that you should seek to staff an organisation based on the strengths you could find, not the lack of weakness, because that way led to (at best) being average.
Who cares if your R&D department cant remember to pay their bills? If they are good enough it'll be cheaper to hire someone to handle all that tedious interfacing with the real world while they prove that P=NP and engrave the steps onto the back of an atom using a method they developed in the bath.
In fact the business world *already* does this. The reason I have a purchasing department and a finance department and a contracts department is because I, as an engineer, am more valuable when I can forget about problems which are more efficiently dealt with by someone else.
Now I tend to pay my bills mostly on time, because it's the lazy option. I can even see how this might be a valid test for someone who was going to work in commercial or administration. But for most staff? Work out what the job needs to be sucessful and then ignore the other flaws - after all, managing flawed but brilliant people is why you have middle management and a HR department, employing their strengths to make you money.
The worse thing that could come down the pike for Linux is for Apple to get into the server OS market. Give the best of the *nix world with a friendly and intuitive face.
Apple are *in* the server market and no one really seems to have noticed. It's one of the places where, for everything except trivial uses, you can 100% guarentee skilled staff (or an incipient disaster) so systems which are designed around making educated people more productive (flexible shell/scripting environments) will always come out 'best'.
In the server market OS X competes as a 'proper' unix box, using unix tools... but running on expensive hardware per flop (even a few percent means a lot when you are running razor thin margins) and with only one hardware supplier. What possible advantage can it have there, since no one can seriously suggest that web pages look slicker when served from Apple Brand Apache, right?
Curiously enough I know a reasonable number of people who have moved *from* OS X to Linux. Since the original wave of migrations to OS X (which was non-trivial) the state of things like WPA support, wireless roaming and general desktop tidyness and responsiveness has improved that a lot of the original reasons to migrate have gone. I'm seeing several hundred unique users per day on a tiny, unpublicised, backwater of the internet by OS X users... looking at Linux install guides.
Once you move away from Microsoft Apps and other junk to things in open formats... what's to keep you on any one platform? If all of your data is on web services or in open document format files moving is trivial. In the long run this means that the important step is the migration away from crap, where you go is not another platform but another pool of platforms where you can make your choices as and when they gain some feature that you really want.
...and a penatagram to use for the sacrifice
Personally I hope that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD _never_ get cracked, or at least if they do it's never ported to Windows in an easy to use fashion. It's hard to think of any other way to get the formats dropped faster.
So this version will actually let me punch internet trolls in the face remotley?
I suppose you could say that if they are using Internet Explorer no further punishment is really necessary. Tell you what, I'll meet you half way - if it's detected that Flash is installed the face-punching module can be turned off and replaced with an endless loop of Joanna Smith's Video Blog Installment 19 (My Trip To Blackpool) instead. Do we have a deal?
On a related note in a tainted and statistically useless sample (ie, mostly Slashdot users) even Mac users can be tempted from Safari it seems - so why everyone assumes that on the release of IE 7 Firefox market share is going to die I have no idea.
Inkscape is king, or try one of the several other (Free, free) vector drawing packages available.
You can easily bolt together page elements and then create copies to drop anywhere on your mockup, and group select to alter attributes accross many elements. It can also import raster (bitmap) graphics to show where photos etc would go on the page.
Output is as.png or.svg, easily convertible to pdf or whatever you need really. You can also use it to create frames and then animate them with the command line tool animate to show functionality that wouldn't work well as a static image like so.
He doubtless would have been a fine, upstanding member of society without the capacity to hurt a single hair on anyone's heads.
Criminal law should not be a knee jerk response to any one event but rather a disspassionate evaluation of deterrent, punishment, rehabilitation and public safety (based on logic and evidence!) made in order to maximise the net gain to society. That is how just laws are written and the biggest benefit is gathered.
Slashdot Mirror
I found a bug (feature?) last night which allows limited fingerprinting and surfing analysis in Firefox by looking at the way it grabs .ico files.
Details here.
Season 10 already has 7 epsiodes. It's just they stop each season half way through to let the animator's wrists recover - this is the first episode after the break.
Like a lot of people on here, I ran out and bought HL2 when it first came out. I had my reservations about steam but wanted to give them a fair shot. That's what I did, and that's why I'm never buying another one of their products again.
You would have thought that the whole SWG thing would have given people a heads up about how publishers think of their players and made everyone stear well clear of anything where the game could be yanked out from under their feet.
Take a look at this graph (the stats used are genuine).
I have seen the pattern one more than one site, for what it's worth. Amazing really, as a 2:1 ratio of smart to stupid is *way* above my expectation of humanity.
Why do you think Vista's release cycle is so long already?
Integrating PDF into apps is a must? Seriously? It took me less than 10 secs on google to find three different free solutions that would add a printer able to create PDF's... but you're with Microsoft on this one... lets lock everyone down to one format that only runs on windows, instead of using PDF which is available on lots of OS'es.
Not to mention that Microsoft are now not talking about integrating PDF (which would be good) but rather integrating a *competitor* to PDF, owned by Microsoft. This point seems to have slipped by this discussion without anyone noticing it, but it's very important to anyone who doesn't use windows.
Yeah but if you remember correctly Microsoft DID add the ability for Microsoft Office 2007 to save in native PDF format.
Adobe tossed a fit, Microsoft removed the feature.
Why should consumers suffer from Adobe being a spoiled brat? We are considering their rights here, as is necessary from the point of view of regulating a monopoly dominated market (the market of pre-installed document readers, on which Microsoft exerts monopolist influence - or will do if they ever release a functional replacement for PDF) - not the rights of Microsoft.
I am pleased to see that Microsoft did make an attempt to approach Adobe, and it even seems to have been in good faith (Java prior example notwithstanding) - but that doesn't change the core issue. If this happens users will be hurt.
What is good for Adobe in this case is good for us.
.doc file if I send them as a PDF I know it's going to work. Likewise a lot of people send me PDF... if they start sending me MS-PDF-Ripoff files I'm probably not going to be able to read them and I certainly won't be able to write them with any degree of confidence.
PDF is a standard that Linux and OS X are well brought into. While I worry about my documents turning up mangled if I send them as an OO.o produced
While I'm happy to see Adobe get a competitor this is a clear case where MS will be able to use their monopoly (Office and Windows) to overnight destroy an existing market. While any other company should be allowed a fair go, in this case it is in everyones interest to:
Force MS to comply with the PDF standard or
Force MS to only do this if their new standard is genuinly open (with no usage restrictions) or
Not distribute a product in this space.
My website contains things like a guide to optimising animations on Linux rather than, say, a guide to breeding monkeys videotaping the results and raking in a fortune on selling the results because if I go for job interviews guess what one of the things they look at is?
Anything on the internet that has your real name on it is probably fair game, and because this is not limited to the internet we all self-censor all the time at home and at work. It's part of being an effective human being - if you always follow every impulse you have then no one would want to be around you. Part of the reason the internet has been so popular is because people *don't* have to put their real name to everything they do and can let out some of their being a jerk with few repercussions.
It is also charity ware. The website asks for donations to a charity that helps children in Uganda.
Why don't they let the developers do the design? What's *not* intuitative about
>_
?!
DNA proteced version of "Stars Wars IV - Remix 92 - The Jedi Beat The Terrorists (2020 release)".
Um, aren't the rebels the terrorists?
That whooshing sound you can hear? It's not the millenium falcon my friend, it's the sound of the joke going over your head.
Also required blood to be sampled and only one life form to be detected in the room before it allows you to play your DNA proteced version of "Stars Wars IV - Remix 92 - The Jedi Beat The Terrorists (2020 release)".
Is that it's becomming less of a end and more of a means, and an almost invisible means at that (no stupid plugins!).
I turned on free tagging on my website to set up categories (for use with Drupal Views to get a view-content-by-category system) and all of a sudden noticed that the tag input box had a find as you type feature to match against existing tags/categories.
Highly useful, very unobtrusive and just a regualar part of the system getting on with it's job with a gracefull fallback if client side scripting isn't available. 10/10.
Maybe they can take a leaf out of the USB camp's book and call them Video Disc High Definition and Video Disk Full Definition.
Amazing, who would have though that both Sony Stock and Sony Executives would accelarate at the same rate on their way down.
Like decent GUI tools for wireless networking!
Linux already has a decent GUI tool for wireless networking, nm-applet being rather more slick at handling mixed wired/wireless and roaming environments than OS X.
It was however mostly polished after the last round of distro releases and so it'll probably be in more of the next generation released in the autumn.
While their video does show (some) of the things that the 3D desktop can do, it's actually *far* smoother in real life. Possibly they recorded it on a machine that was too slow to run the app and xvidcap at the same time.
Up to this point it's been a bit of a pain in the backside to set up but now distros are integrating it the next batch of releases should make it trivial.
Compiz and co are really slick and I find it rather amusing that everyeone *except* the world's biggest software company has managed to get their next generation desktop released prior to 2007.
Drucker once wrote that you should seek to staff an organisation based on the strengths you could find, not the lack of weakness, because that way led to (at best) being average.
Who cares if your R&D department cant remember to pay their bills? If they are good enough it'll be cheaper to hire someone to handle all that tedious interfacing with the real world while they prove that P=NP and engrave the steps onto the back of an atom using a method they developed in the bath.
In fact the business world *already* does this. The reason I have a purchasing department and a finance department and a contracts department is because I, as an engineer, am more valuable when I can forget about problems which are more efficiently dealt with by someone else.
Now I tend to pay my bills mostly on time, because it's the lazy option. I can even see how this might be a valid test for someone who was going to work in commercial or administration. But for most staff? Work out what the job needs to be sucessful and then ignore the other flaws - after all, managing flawed but brilliant people is why you have middle management and a HR department, employing their strengths to make you money.
The worse thing that could come down the pike for Linux is for Apple to get into the server OS market. Give the best of the *nix world with a friendly and intuitive face.
Apple are *in* the server market and no one really seems to have noticed. It's one of the places where, for everything except trivial uses, you can 100% guarentee skilled staff (or an incipient disaster) so systems which are designed around making educated people more productive (flexible shell/scripting environments) will always come out 'best'.
In the server market OS X competes as a 'proper' unix box, using unix tools... but running on expensive hardware per flop (even a few percent means a lot when you are running razor thin margins) and with only one hardware supplier. What possible advantage can it have there, since no one can seriously suggest that web pages look slicker when served from Apple Brand Apache, right?
Curiously enough I know a reasonable number of people who have moved *from* OS X to Linux. Since the original wave of migrations to OS X (which was non-trivial) the state of things like WPA support, wireless roaming and general desktop tidyness and responsiveness has improved that a lot of the original reasons to migrate have gone. I'm seeing several hundred unique users per day on a tiny, unpublicised, backwater of the internet by OS X users... looking at Linux install guides.
Once you move away from Microsoft Apps and other junk to things in open formats... what's to keep you on any one platform? If all of your data is on web services or in open document format files moving is trivial. In the long run this means that the important step is the migration away from crap, where you go is not another platform but another pool of platforms where you can make your choices as and when they gain some feature that you really want.
...and a penatagram to use for the sacrifice Personally I hope that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD _never_ get cracked, or at least if they do it's never ported to Windows in an easy to use fashion. It's hard to think of any other way to get the formats dropped faster.
listen to your feedback
So this version will actually let me punch internet trolls in the face remotley?
I suppose you could say that if they are using Internet Explorer no further punishment is really necessary. Tell you what, I'll meet you half way - if it's detected that Flash is installed the face-punching module can be turned off and replaced with an endless loop of Joanna Smith's Video Blog Installment 19 (My Trip To Blackpool) instead. Do we have a deal?
On a related note in a tainted and statistically useless sample (ie, mostly Slashdot users) even Mac users can be tempted from Safari it seems - so why everyone assumes that on the release of IE 7 Firefox market share is going to die I have no idea.
Inkscape is king, or try one of the several other (Free, free) vector drawing packages available.
.png or .svg, easily convertible to pdf or whatever you need really. You can also use it to create frames and then animate them with the command line tool animate to show functionality that wouldn't work well as a static image like so.
You can easily bolt together page elements and then create copies to drop anywhere on your mockup, and group select to alter attributes accross many elements. It can also import raster (bitmap) graphics to show where photos etc would go on the page.
Output is as
He doubtless would have been a fine, upstanding member of society without the capacity to hurt a single hair on anyone's heads.
Criminal law should not be a knee jerk response to any one event but rather a disspassionate evaluation of deterrent, punishment, rehabilitation and public safety (based on logic and evidence!) made in order to maximise the net gain to society. That is how just laws are written and the biggest benefit is gathered.