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Not to condone piracy or anything, but there are a plethora of SNES emulators available on the Nintendo DS. Some of these (such as snesDS or SNEmulDS) do have fully working games that run on the DS. The real problem here is that most of these emulators have stop being updated so compatibility issues aren't being resolved.

You've just hit on one of the few major obstacles to both adopting Linux as a "daily use" OS as well as getting these problems fixed. The typical linux-user response will likely be some snarky variation on an obscure command line sequence that will automagically fix your problem while condescendingly pointing out how much of a noob you are for not having either known it, or taken 45 minutes that you didn't have to go find/discover the solution yourself. Things like this that don't often bother developers (who know how to fix things like this quickly) are actually major obstacles to most users since they seem such a trivial fix, and since it's a relatively easy problem to fall into.

I can't think of anything to fix the ISP issue (which would be a deal breaker for me) but as far as screen resolution goes, might check out

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=842847

and the site linked at

http://ubuntutip.googlepages.com/nodisplay

to see about resetting your screen res.

I got into Computer Science at 35, my friend. Now, with 12 years in the business, I'm flying high. It's never too late. Just be comprehensive in what you learn and you'll do fine. Free Java Lectures

What is unbelievable is that Americans criticize fundamentalism in Muslim countries but they do not see the bigotry in their own culture.

Really?! It would be unbelievable to me if Americans weren't just as flawed as everyone else in the world. Humans all have the same problems, I think, especially in large numbers.

I thought the Dover thing put this issue of evolution in school to rest. Read a concise (though admittedly incomplete) definition of science and how it applies to various "arguments" against evolution.

What is unbelievable is that Americans criticize fundamentalism in Muslim countries but they do not see the bigotry in their own culture.

Really?! It would be unbelievable to me if Americans weren't just as flawed as everyone else in the world. Humans all have the same problems, I think, especially in large numbers.

I thought the Dover thing put this issue of evolution in school to rest. Read a concise (though admittedly incomplete) definition of science and how it applies to various "arguments" against evolution.

In all the companies I have worked for, they were either getting away from C or never had gotten near it. So unless you want to be stuck in some real time systems world--I would recommend Java. I have a free website to help you learn: Free Java Lectures

Updated version of the code, azw-0.2.zip, is here: http://skochinsky.googlepages.com/azw-0.2.zip.

Code is here:
http://skochinsky.googlepages.com/azw-0.1.zip

Mirror:
http://rapidshare.com/files/76138900/azw-0.1.zip.html

Add your own!

Link to the author's reverse engineering blog and script description:

Here.

Link to just the scripts Here.

Anonymous to avoid KarmaWhoring(TM)

I made an animation of the google deer driveby.

Behold: http://hikaricore.googlepages.com/pwned4.gif

Inspired by Johnny Lee's stuff, I pulled some old code out over a year ago and turned it into a decent engine that handles multiple screens and head tracking (TrackIR) to achieve the motion parallax effect. Like with all 3D effects, it needs to be seen but the following videos give you a good idea.

Have a look at these demo videos and you can even download a demo:

My first test
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=X8PevTuEWlg

More accurate tracking
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1hu6GLmf0

Multi screen study
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdtPz2V_vY

Engine complete
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=ku76aHq3pps
Download Demo
http://vandinther.googlepages.com/virtualwindow

The ONLY accurate statement you can make is that all facts were once theories.

Nuh uh.

Facts can be suggested by hypotheses, but they do not become facts until they fit the following definition: a fact is an empirically evident observation that is repeatable and reproducible.

A theory is a model based on facts, restricted to a well-defined problem domain, that generates testable predictions.

A theory is a model, a model that exists only in our understanding. The only way in which this model is tied to the real world, outside of human consciousness, is by its foundation on facts...so fact and theory are distinct by definition. Read this for more.

I looked through several comprehensive lists of mods to find all of the ones that sounded like things I wanted and which would play nice together, and dumped them all in at once, so I'm not entirely certain which one added the regional quests, but I think it was the super-famous and certainly must-have Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul (OOO). It may have been an improved landscapes mod that I use, though.

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul

A meta-list of Oblivion mod lists

Unique Landscapes -- Scroll down to Section 2 for download links for completed landscape areas. I use all of them, and it's made it much more fun to run around new areas rather than just fast-traveling everywhere.

The two most common failure modes for CFLs are the small high voltage capacitors used for limiting current to the tube, and the switching transistors for generating the high frequency high voltage. Those parts are expensive and are probably the ones that get skimped on. There's actually quite a bit of circuitry in every CFL that could be of interest to an impoveri...I mean frugal experimenter when the components are good, like said high voltage transistors and capacitors, and transformer cores. One guy even built most of a small ham transmitter out of the parts: http://mjrainey.googlepages.com/dasderelicht

I wonder how much it differs from the astronomic device that its the Maya calendar

http://tzolkinhaab.googlepages.com/

They made units from the repetitive motions of objects in the sky, and developed correlations expresing all using a calendar based in the mcd factor of all the periods

>The fact that 2 millennia ago some were able to make a calculator to predict eclipses is astounding...

Not so amazing, considering that the Mayas did something somehow more sophisticated for the same purpose
http://tzolkinhaab.googlepages.com/eclipses_dresden

>taking into consideration the religious beliefs and the gullibility of the masses on those times.

Ancient cultures wherent driven by the say of the most part of the society (some will say the same of modern politics) but by the enligthment level of the rulers (you see why president bush jr its a bad signal of the present)

Not to mention all the non occidental knowledge lost by cultural extermination

For example... the little idea of the Maya astronomy we have today is only because their calendar was designed on numerical data from countless nocturnal observations
http://tzolkinhaab.googlepages.com/

Haven'tt you heard of jsMSX?

Emulators in JS are pretty intense.

Gnome used to be my favorite window manager, until I realized that the focus model is totally wrong, and there is no way to fix it. It lies in this principle,

No window should ever steal focus ... ever. Don't even do it if the computer will blow up, or the world will end, if I fail to respond.

If you are trying to maximize your computing efficiency, focus stealing is your worst enemy. It's entire purpose is to slow you down.

Focus stealing breaks flow and can also be a security issue. Let's say you are typing away in a text editor and some other application decides it needs you to make a decision in the form of a pop-up window. Just as you are hitting enter in your text editor, the window pops-up, grabs your return keystroke and accepts it as your answer, doing whatever the default action is. Or the case where you are typing a password and a dialog steals focus and you type part of your password out in plain sight into the dialog.

A lot of this can be blamed on Windows for having a really shitty focus model, which everyone else tries to emulate in order to appeal to mouse-driven Windows users, I guess. I have noticed that Vista has a slightly improved focus over XP, but still very wrong. This focus model is the same attitude that gets you the Windows update manager that bugs you every 10 minutes by stealing focus, or worse, automatically rebooting while you aren't even at the machine (this is simply unforgivable).

Unfortunately, if you switch to a reasonable focus model, you will break poorly designed applications that are used to the broken focus models (OpenOffice, Matlab, any IDE, to name a few). These are applications that use a lot of pop-ups that don't "disable" the main window, which is when it is ok. For example, save dialogs are just fine for pop-ups: you can't have the main window in focus, so the change in focus to the dialog is natural and doesn't have a negative effect (it's not actually focus stealing).

However, pop-up text-searching is always absolutely wrong, for reasons beyond focus stealing too*. You will find that removing focus stealing will (correctly) not give these search boxes focus, which really breaks things for these applications. (Firefox wins here, maintaining its fairly good usability, with the integrated, incremental search bar.)

KDE does actually have a setting that can strictly stop focus stealing, in the form of a sliding bar. This works most of the time, but it's not perfect. New windows do in fact steal focus for a few milliseconds. This is enough to occasionally steal a keystroke, but I can live with it for now.

At work, I only get to choose between Gnome and KDE, so some other window manager out there may get this 100% right and I haven't explored it. At home I use IceWM, which also has a broken, unfixable focus model. However, the software I use at home is better behaved, making it less of an issue.

* Side rant here. For seasoned Emacs users, the incremental search function is frequently used for navigation (see item 4). If I need to move the point by more than a few characters or words, I start a text search (C-s, C-r) and type some text at the point I want to go. I do this all the time without even thinking about it. This doesn't work in a pop-up text search, even ignoring the fact that the aren't incremental either. When you bring it up, usually ctrl+f, there is always a delay to the window coming up. If I start typing my search right away, as I am used to in Emacs, it will go into my document rather than the search box. I find this incredibly annoying. I shouldn't be waiting for the computer like that.

I wonder if Lewis Carroll's nude photographs of Beatrice Hatch (age 7) are also banned in the UK.

http://photographyoflewiscarroll.googlepages.com/

It got 100/100, but still failed the test on a number of small points...
http://amigaowb.googlepages.com/screenshot2.png

Is the make and model data already included in jpeg's file header? See here

There's also a Javascipt version that's much more light-weight. I found a Java version as well, but it requires that the user compile the sources before it can even be used.

the thing I carry around all the time with me, despite my cellphone, is my EeePC. So, while not as nice as the Kindle, my solution is

EeePC + FBReader/PDF reader + eeerotate = instant ebook reader

Since I already use the computer for other things, my "Eeebook" costs me zilch and I don't have to lug around yet another device that I have to charge with yet another charger, etc...

Bad form to reply to my own post, I know. Oldbar is kind of out of date. Old location bar may be a better bet.

Also, more info here. With instructions.

Jon Smirl and David Reveman lobbied for a new xorg server built on OpenGL. It got little support from the community especially from Red Hat and Novell. Personally I think this was one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of OSS. We could have had a modern xorg server replacement which rivaled Apple and Microsoft. Now we have the main xorg branch floundering from lack of interest and developers. Not to say there hasn't been progress made but no one can argue that xorg has the resources available to compete.

Ironically someone who argued against X on OpenGL now is working on his own xorg server replacement. Good luck to him and I hope he has better support.

Try this (or, if you're brave, this), and compare speeds with JIT on/off, and Opera, Safari (nightly), or whatever other decent browser you're interested in.

I haven't had *stability* issues with FF3.1 so much as it falling over itself and limping to the finish line every time it has to run something intensive like this.

Try this (or, if you're brave, this), and compare speeds with JIT on/off, and Opera, Safari (nightly), or whatever other decent browser you're interested in.

I haven't had *stability* issues with FF3.1 so much as it falling over itself and limping to the finish line every time it has to run something intensive like this.

Nothing to contribute to a game programming team?
Sure, if by that you mean you won't be the lead programmer on Blizzard's next project.

I did a year of CS (switched to graphic design), in the first semester I did a basic console-based RPG type game with a map editor (think LORD 2 or Nethack only much smaller in scope).
In the second semester I picked up a little DirectX and upgraded the graphics, then a little later I made it into an isometric engine and added animation, lighting and stuff like that (Screenshot).
Sure, it might not look like much and it might not be Far Cry 2 but I think a small independent developer might still find some use for me, and that's only a semester's worth of OOP, intro to C, some data structures and some DirectX tutorials.

A guy wrote an article just on this in the IEEE Software magazine. Looking at the graph, roughly 10% of the source code is white space and 22% are comments. See http://elis.share.googlepages.com/IEEE.Software.M.Vol.25.No.4.torrent

I installed the beta, enabled jit in about:config for both options, and i get the same performance in the raytracer here http://mark.webster.googlepages.com/jsrt-anim.html

javascript.options.jit.chrome
and
javascript.options.jit.content

what gives?

Thanks, heh! For a minute I thought I had an original idea but it turns out there other other (better but slower) js raytracers out there. Humm :)

Webkit is great. If you're running that you might actually see some animation here (10fps+ in Safari nightly here). I wonder if the demoscene guys are insane enough to write demos for browsers?

Well, javascript-wise, maybe not. I've spent the last week doing some extensive testing on pure javascript performance (not DOM-tree manipulation, etc) using a little raytracer I hacked up overnight.

Opera is noticably above average, in this respect. More importantly, however, you might note that the Firefoxes are absolutely, hideously bad at memory management. When rendering a big scene here, Safari will do it in a fraction of the time using 60mb of RAM, whereas Firefox 3.1beta's memory usage spirals out of control and into swap space. And the JIT compiler is way broken still :)

Anyway, here are some figures (only meaningful when comparing different browsers on the same box):

IE 7.0.5730.13 -- 10.1 seconds
Firefox 2.0.0.17 -- 9.9 seconds
Safari (win32) 3.1.1 -- 5.9 seconds
Opera 9.60 -- 3.6 seconds
Firefox 3.1b2pre (no JIT) -- 2.8 seconds
Safari (win32) 2008-10-15 -- 1.0 seconds
Google Chrome 0.2.149.30 -- 0.8 seconds
Firefox 3.1b2pre (JIT) -- anywhere between 0.6-35.0 seconds

Fippypopulosa

Ummm...I'm a high school teacher (in Canada)...been using and teaching linux for YEARS...
Have a looksee at my latest blog for my students, if you like ;-)
http://queryandresponse.googlepages.com/

Not a good plan, unless your doctor measures your cock like this.

NSFW, duh.

Let's make sure not to mention the elephant in the room...

Personally, I can only vouch for the content on one site: Free Java Lectures: Two Semesters of College-Level Java for free.

OTOH, as someone else pointed out, WTC 7 was NOT hit by a plane, and IT imploded right after its new owner was overheard on a cell phone by several people and a television news crew saying the words 'pull it', which is construction industry jargon for 'ignite the explosives'.

You claim not to be a truther, but you sure are distorting this event just like troothers love to. In fact, this is a novel distortion. I've never before seen someone claim it was overheard just before the collapse, a detail calculated to make it sound RILLY RILLY ZOMG SUSPICIOUS!!!!1!.

The actual genesis of this bit of troother idiocy was this: during a 2002 (note: NOT ON 9/11, ACTUALLY MONTHS LATER) TV interview, Daniel Silverstein said:

"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse."

From this simple, innocent statement, the troothers have constructed a pack of lies claiming this means Silverstein ordered the building to be destroyed. They have repeatedly altered this quote or omitted parts of it to make it sound like he actively ordered the building to be destroyed. They have invented out of whole cloth a novel meaning for the verb 'pull' which is not actually used in the construction industry. (It is never used to mean 'blew the building up with explosives', which is what the wackos want you to believe.) Not to mention that in full context, the word is being used to describe getting firefighters out of a dangerous situation and letting nature take its course, and it was the fire department which made the choice, not Silverstein. So on and so forth.

See http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/larrysilverstein's%22pullit%22quote for the full deconstruction of troother lies about this interview.

Stop shooting the messenger. I'm merely relaying what the conspiracy theories state.

Maybe we'll stop shooting you if you stop sounding like a troother rather than a mere 'messenger'.

Screenshot (new window)

  So far I can't get it to load a page. I am running this on a machine with user restrictions (I'm at work), but I did install it with adminstrator priveledges (I'm the admin).

  We'll see how this goes.

My unofficial transcript of video:

Larry: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling my that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire. I said, 'You know we've had such terrible loss of life, the smartest thing to do is pull it.' Uh, and they made that decision, to pull, and we watched the building collapse."

I don't think there is enough context to decide whether:
it = building
it = the attempt to put out the fire

Supporting the pulled building links:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/silverstein_pullit.html
http://11syyskuu.blogspot.com/2006/02/destruction-of-wtc-7.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58h0LjdMry0
(in this video you can hear explosions before it comes down, but perhaps not loud enough to cause the collapse?)

Supporting fires:
http://911guide.googlepages.com/danielnigro

What I'd like to see is a full video of the simulated collapse superimposed on a video of the actual collapse and see how well they match up. I have a hard time believing that the fire dept (or someone from the dept) wouldn't admit that they had brought the building down.

> I have been involved in developing code for simulating cosmic-ray acceleration in expanding supernova remnants, this in Python.

Well, Python is a different game than Java or C#, which both have a much better JIT-compiler.

I mainly program in C++ (real-time data processing), but I feel hard-pressed to believe, that Java has to be severely slower than C++ in numeric computations. The Java implementations of FFT and LinPack suggest, that comparable performance should be possible. The SciMark 2.0 should also be more up to par, when you replace the synchronized Random in the benchmark with a Java implemented Mersenne Twister.

I'd call this karmawhoring, but seeing as the editors didn't even bother linking to claimed list at 'waxy.org'... lists of Siggraph papers have been kept by Tim Rowley and Ke-Sen Huang for years. You can find this year's list at:
http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/sig2008.html

And an overview of all years at:
http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/

This also includes lists of papers presented at other events such as Eurographics.

For even more fun, visit the papers' authors sites; they often also publish papers at seemingly unrelated events that contain some interesting computer graphics gems.

I'd call this karmawhoring, but seeing as the editors didn't even bother linking to claimed list at 'waxy.org'... lists of Siggraph papers have been kept by Tim Rowley and Ke-Sen Huang for years. You can find this year's list at:
http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/sig2008.html

And an overview of all years at:
http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/

This also includes lists of papers presented at other events such as Eurographics.

For even more fun, visit the papers' authors sites; they often also publish papers at seemingly unrelated events that contain some interesting computer graphics gems.

From a site slashdotted on another post today:

A solution using rsync + a smart trick with hardlinks to provide changes history.
He also uses loopback filesystems to save the backup on windows servers keeping file permissions/ownership. Definetely worth taking a look:

http://ttsiodras.googlepages.com/backup.html

this sounds like a very good solution. Okay, it would still be a pain over a slow connection if you need to restore, but assuming your provider's backup can be used as a starting point, it should be fine ;)

This paper and many other interesting papers are being presented at Siggraph 2008 (a Computer Graphics conference) in August.
Here is one list of Siggraph 2008 papers: http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/sig2008.html

For a logo that represents a product (even an Free one), you may be right. People do have to think that they will have if for their lives, and that's something. You can't do it for impulse, it has to be a matured decision.

That's why I got a GNU tattoo. It's not about the GNU system, but about the whole Free Software movement. It won't die. Even if 30 years from now I'm completely away from the scene, or it's still an important part of my life, and it represents important ideals for me.

I'm also considering a Quake III logo. Yes, it's dated. I hardly play it anymore. But it represents something for me. Memories, friends, a great period of my life, etc.

I think lyx is a great tool to write documents more than 10 pages long. MS Word can get very tricky with figure handling. A couple of years ago when I was writing my PhD thesis, I started off with MS Word and then switched to Lyx because of the hassles word was presenting. I was very satisfied with the quality of the document: http://v.hegadekatte.googlepages.com/Hegadekatte_2006_PhD-Thesis.pdf. I have hence encouraged my students to use lyx and all have been happy with their switch.

I already know I am going to be raked over the coals here so I am providing the warnings upfront: the link bellow (1) goes to my own site (2) contains a list of books with links to Amazon and (3) is a work in progress and has jacked-up CSS.

If you're offended by any of the above, don't click. But just in case anyone's interested, here's a link to MY PERSONAL take on books that have helped me become a better (I would even dare say, good) programmer. Since I work in the financial industry, the are links to some good financial books as well.

http://ed.markovich.googlepages.com/important_books_for_programmers.html

-Ed

Besides the fact that the demolitions were completely obvious,

Only to people who haven't bothered to seriously examine films of real demolitions and compare their features with film of the 9/11 events.

and the presence of molten steel for weeks afterward completely indicates incendiaries,

1. There was no molten steel for weeks afterwards. This is a lie spread by the 9/11 conspiracy theory movement. The fire was hot enough to melt aluminum, and also hot enough to severely weaken exposed structural steel, but it was not hot enough to actually melt steel.

2. If there was molten metal of any type, how would that prove incendiaries? Incendiaries are small devices which ignite fires in other material. Even if we assume that fires on 9/11 were started by incendiaries, the incendiaries themselves would not be responsible for the heat required to melt any molten metal found in the ruins; rather, the burning of fuel ignited by incendiaries would be responsible for that, meaning that the metal would be molten regardless of the origin of the fire. But we do not need incendiaries to explain why fires started on 9/11 because GIANT AIRLINERS CRASHED INTO WTC 1 AND WTC 2, DUMBASS.

the put-options and stock market chicanery are well well documented,

And have been shown to be ordinary stock market transactions, not chicanery. Once more, you believe lies spread by the troothers. The entire 9/11 'truth' movement is a farce.

and the owner of the buildings was even quoted directly, "I was talking to the fire Marshall, and I said, 'We've had such a terrible loss of life, maybe the best idea is just to pull it.' So that's what we did, we made the decision to pull."

You are repeating a conspirawacko-edited version of the quote designed to make it sound more suspicious. Please see this link for an accurate transcription of the quote:

http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/larrysilverstein's%22pullit%22quote

"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse."

Note that 'THEY' (as in the fire department) made the decision. Not Larry Silverstein. And in this context 'pull' clearly means 'pull out', as in get firefighting personnel out, stop all efforts to fight the fire, and just let the building collapse, rather than kill more firemen in a lost cause.

Pull being a well known demolition term meaning "Bring the building down",

More conspiracy loon BS. See:

http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/is%22pullusedbydemolitionsprostomean%22demol

and then watching video of the WTC7 coming down... combined with the fact that news sources including the BBC somehow knew it was going to collapse ahead of time..

Yet another carbon copy conspiracy loon lie. Seriously, every last one of these supposedly damning points has been debunked years ago, yet you assholes keep repeating them again and again and again. I've seen them brought up and shot down dozens of times at the JREF message boards (www.randi.org, but the message boards seem to be down at the moment). If you want the answer to this one, search the JREF forums once they're up, or browse the wtc7lies site (I'm sure he's covered it somewhere in there, he demolishes all the standard WTC 7 talking points).

At the very least there is clearly complicity and fore-knowledge and a cover up regarding WTC7.

No, there isn't.

It doesn't really stand to reason that the other rather incre