It is for me. Its never been done right.
I agree almost entirely... but it was done right once, just once, by Goldeneye on the N64 which had a perfectly balanced controller and control system to the point where I really don't believe it would have played better with a mouse. This makes it even harder to understand why the system has sucked so badly for every single other FPS I've ever played with a joypad (and there have been many) and consequently been forced to shelve after a few levels.
One of the things in my job description is that I need to "Maintain a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems". So yes, reading/. is part of some people's jobs ^_^
"Otherwise, why even post it? To show off his great coding ability?"
How about to exemplify a solution to a problem? To show another coder how I had gone about dealing with a problem I had come across so they could read it, understand it, and implement the ideas in the solution they were looking for help with. I agree that not tying a licence to the posted code was a mistake on the part of the poster, but if the orihinal source they Ctrl+c'd from had a licence attached, that leaves both the forum poster and anyone else who copies from the forum up the creek, no?
I might add to that that I didn't really use my extra workspaces much until they were on a cube - so in my case it really did add productivity straight off!
My point exactly. Shaking your phone isn't neccesaryl more productive, neither is removing the buttons from your phone, or any of thousands of other innovations that occur every year, but they are COOL. As CmdrTaco said in the summary "What a bizarrely fun idea".The example of a desktop cube adds a new perspective (quite literally!) and emotive involvement to the user experience which is valuable, if not as easily quantifiable as productivity.
Also, I would say that, while it may not initially be more productive, adding levels of interaction with technology beyond what we are used to is a fairly new science; it's potential to increase productivity has yet to be explored fully. In time, as we get more used to the varying ways in which we interact with our technology, it's more than reasonable to expect things like this to be refined to increase productivity as a whole.
You could quite easily say "I don't get how putting 4 workspaces on a cube is functionally superior to just having a little display in my toolbar" yet compiz/beryl are incredibly popular, for some reason...
I think a more valid counter argument would be that the difference between opening up a medicine and opening up a KISS track is huge. If the pharma company can keep the sole rights to a medicine for 25 / 50 / 75/1,000,000 years then they could feasibly profiteer from human suffering for that long by keeping a monopoly on e.g. an AIDS cure if one were discovered. This is why the legal rights are nowhere near as long as they are for a tune.
Is such a command present in Windows
You could use regedit.exe to insert / update / delete regisrty keys from the command line if you wanted to
or Unix
GUI apps under "real" *nix environments (e.g. Linux) are nearly always front ends for CLI programs anyway. All changes can made via command line, and if you look in any forums 99.9999% of advice is given out as CLI procedures because they are much more universal than an individuals desktop GUI which can vary widely.
Sorry mate, not to be a typical know-it-all-have-to-be-right geek, but I just tried this on a fresh install of Win XP with a DVD made by our in house media bod, which he assures me is not "encrypted" in any way and... No sir, it didn't like it.
Firstly, I said nothing about the relative merits of the iPhone.
I do know, however, that as someone who consistently takes an active and carefully considered role in making sure I get caught up by advertising as little as possible, I find it a very difficult job. Despite having aligned myself thusly long ago, and having read quite a bit about the psychology of marketing I still find myself occasionally buying things out of irrational impulses that only later I am able to directly attribute to marketing tactics having dug their filthy claws in. I dread to think how often I would be buying this crap if I weren't putting so much effort into not buying it.
Are you not insulting people by assuming they can't resist such sales pitches?
Unfortunately I don't think (s)he is - the psychology of targeting subliminal desires for the sake of encouraging rabid consumerism is one of the most highly funded sciences. It has been studied for decades by dedicated scientists and IMHO the average consumer has a fight on their hands to overcome this kind of targeting, always supposing they are both conscious of it and willing to fight it in the first place. It may be a given to you or I but there are a LOT of stupid and/or non-politcally motivated people in the world.
...why BSD has any hope of success where Linux has failed? In this context, "failing" and "not gaining market share" are the same thing.
Erm. How about OSX? I'd call that a fairly successful BSD desktop derivative?! The licencing issues clearly give a leg up since, as Apple did, one could pump money into making something from BSD without it neccessarily disappearing into a "free" black hole. If you're competing against one of the richest companies in the world, most would say it's going to take a bit of cash to make progress at any kind of rate. "Linux", on the other hand, isn't throwing cash at the contest, but has made astounding headway considering. That's not failure; that's determination, innovation and enthusiasm working as hard as it can against not inconsiderable odds.
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It is for me. Its never been done right.
I agree almost entirely... but it was done right once, just once, by Goldeneye on the N64 which had a perfectly balanced controller and control system to the point where I really don't believe it would have played better with a mouse. This makes it even harder to understand why the system has sucked so badly for every single other FPS I've ever played with a joypad (and there have been many) and consequently been forced to shelve after a few levels.
One of the things in my job description is that I need to "Maintain a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems". So yes, reading /. is part of some people's jobs ^_^
I saw it as
EEEPC
EE E PC
2 Es, E, PC. Es E PC
Easy Peasy..?
"Otherwise, why even post it? To show off his great coding ability?"
How about to exemplify a solution to a problem? To show another coder how I had gone about dealing with a problem I had come across so they could read it, understand it, and implement the ideas in the solution they were looking for help with. I agree that not tying a licence to the posted code was a mistake on the part of the poster, but if the orihinal source they Ctrl+c'd from had a licence attached, that leaves both the forum poster and anyone else who copies from the forum up the creek, no?
I might add to that that I didn't really use my extra workspaces much until they were on a cube - so in my case it really did add productivity straight off!
My point exactly. Shaking your phone isn't neccesaryl more productive, neither is removing the buttons from your phone, or any of thousands of other innovations that occur every year, but they are COOL. As CmdrTaco said in the summary "What a bizarrely fun idea".The example of a desktop cube adds a new perspective (quite literally!) and emotive involvement to the user experience which is valuable, if not as easily quantifiable as productivity.
Also, I would say that, while it may not initially be more productive, adding levels of interaction with technology beyond what we are used to is a fairly new science; it's potential to increase productivity has yet to be explored fully. In time, as we get more used to the varying ways in which we interact with our technology, it's more than reasonable to expect things like this to be refined to increase productivity as a whole.
You could quite easily say "I don't get how putting 4 workspaces on a cube is functionally superior to just having a little display in my toolbar" yet compiz/beryl are incredibly popular, for some reason...
All true, but you can't deny that this is a pretty cool tactile feedback mechanism! More of these great ideas please!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_RrKnTEZk
Just playing devil's advocate within the context of the thread, numbnuts.
...Except that what one pays for is to see the articles early, before the opinions have been posted....
I think a more valid counter argument would be that the difference between opening up a medicine and opening up a KISS track is huge. If the pharma company can keep the sole rights to a medicine for 25 / 50 / 75 /1,000,000 years then they could feasibly profiteer from human suffering for that long by keeping a monopoly on e.g. an AIDS cure if one were discovered. This is why the legal rights are nowhere near as long as they are for a tune.
bearing in mind this news piece is 24 hours old, has wikileaks been slashdotted or have the authorities been involved??
Is such a command present in Windows You could use regedit.exe to insert / update / delete regisrty keys from the command line if you wanted to or Unix GUI apps under "real" *nix environments (e.g. Linux) are nearly always front ends for CLI programs anyway. All changes can made via command line, and if you look in any forums 99.9999% of advice is given out as CLI procedures because they are much more universal than an individuals desktop GUI which can vary widely.
Er, old school adventure games were not static screens.
It depends how old school you're going, no? "Adventure" was pretty static...
Sorry mate, not to be a typical know-it-all-have-to-be-right geek, but I just tried this on a fresh install of Win XP with a DVD made by our in house media bod, which he assures me is not "encrypted" in any way and... No sir, it didn't like it.
Media player is perfectly capable of playing DVDs Erm. No it isn't, not out of the box on an unmodified Windows XP install.
...and taxes will go up...
no, there will always be n00bs... :-S
affected / effected than / then PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF....!
Firstly, I said nothing about the relative merits of the iPhone.
I do know, however, that as someone who consistently takes an active and carefully considered role in making sure I get caught up by advertising as little as possible, I find it a very difficult job. Despite having aligned myself thusly long ago, and having read quite a bit about the psychology of marketing I still find myself occasionally buying things out of irrational impulses that only later I am able to directly attribute to marketing tactics having dug their filthy claws in. I dread to think how often I would be buying this crap if I weren't putting so much effort into not buying it.
Are you not insulting people by assuming they can't resist such sales pitches?
Unfortunately I don't think (s)he is - the psychology of targeting subliminal desires for the sake of encouraging rabid consumerism is one of the most highly funded sciences. It has been studied for decades by dedicated scientists and IMHO the average consumer has a fight on their hands to overcome this kind of targeting, always supposing they are both conscious of it and willing to fight it in the first place. It may be a given to you or I but there are a LOT of stupid and/or non-politcally motivated people in the world.
"If IE had been a really awful browser..."
ummm... define "really awful"?
...why BSD has any hope of success where Linux has failed?
In this context, "failing" and "not gaining market share" are the same thing.
Erm. How about OSX? I'd call that a fairly successful BSD desktop derivative?! The licencing issues clearly give a leg up since, as Apple did, one could pump money into making something from BSD without it neccessarily disappearing into a "free" black hole. If you're competing against one of the richest companies in the world, most would say it's going to take a bit of cash to make progress at any kind of rate. "Linux", on the other hand, isn't throwing cash at the contest, but has made astounding headway considering. That's not failure; that's determination, innovation and enthusiasm working as hard as it can against not inconsiderable odds.
Update your drivers.