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Its really about dubya trying to hide anything that shows what a dumbass he is.

Sorry, but all of those screenshots look damn ugly. I like to use systems that look elegant or at least don't look bad. CLI looks elegant (and is hard to make look bad), GUIs are too easy to make ugly, but they can be really nice if some effort is put into their outlook. If I have to stare at something all the time I do work, I'd rather stare at something nice.

Of course, it's a matter of taste, but this is my desktop (which I find good-looking)

Full alpha.

Using this code:
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Include this javascript file to your page.

This was possibly taken from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnginfo.htm

I use MS, and I'm fairly random.

I probably don't know the name of any software that runs on Linux, no.* I'm sure they're there, though. If I used Linux, I'm sure I could find word processors, spreadsheets, calculators, media players, IM clients, FTP clients, notation programs, audio editing programs, graphics programs, a Livejournal client and so on. I'm also sure that if I went to Belgium I would be able to buy food there, even though I do not know the name of any Belgian shops at this time.

There are some specific titles I do want, though. There's no World of Warcraft, at least yet. There's no Europa Universalis, Victoria, Baldur's Gate, Civ3 (or Civ2, IIRC), Knights of the Old Republic or, I think, Half-Life. You can, with fiddling and inconvenience, run Starcraft, but I'm supposed to start my car by turning the key. I'm not supposed to kick the exhaust pipe and prod the spark plugs, keep a close look on the engine while driving to make sure it doesn't suddenly drive me into a cliff, and when I stop turn the engine components off by hand.

For all I know, I can emulate Windows on Linux and run any Windows software I want. (Actually, that Starcraft thing was a Windows emulator, wasn't it...) My computer isn't as young as it was, say, six months ago, though, and slow enough as it is running these things on the OS they were written for.

*On second thought; OpenOffice, Opera, Neverwinter Nights.

I know what you mean.

I live in a very and I mean VERY densly populated part of Manhattan. I started taking RF spectrum graphs and wireless mapping logs over 3 years ago..

You'll be floored by the ammount of spectral noise and almost exponential explosion of access points and other garbage on the band on this map

Here

Nothing a for-loop and wget can't handle. (Don't ask how I got the idea. Hint: image-intensive content...).

The bloat problem as I see it is that disk/memory now appear to now be so plentiful that many developers think nothing of throwing Mb's of GFX and FMV into a game usually at the expense of gameplay. Am I the only person who remembers when programmers were taught to implement functionality/gameplay first and worry about tarting the user interface up later?? What happened?

The very active C64 development scene is one place where I don't think dust has ever had a chance to settle.... amazing stuff. If you have a S60 mobile then I recommend checking out Hannu Viitala's excellent Frodo S60 port of Frodo works suprisingly well on a Nokia 3650 :-)

Wow - that old?

You had ample opportunity to sample the pleasures of this game in a form called a "text adventure" at a much younger age. Soft Porn, the game Leisure Suit Larry was based on, came out WAAAY back in 1981 (you can also find references to it on Al Lowe's site, but this one had history).

Unfortunately for me, the only thing available at that age was Custer's Revenge, and my mom wouldn't let me rent it, so I got a late start on sexual discovery. Fortunately for me, a friend down the street was adept at stealing his dad's Playboys - if it weren't for that, I woulda been just like the bible thumping white suburbanites that create these inane rules.

here.

those benchmarks don't look too impressive to me, and the hugeass heatsink/fan combo is still there! not to mention that it requires *two* molexes?

Nvidia is really starting to fall behind...

True.

It may sound weird, but there were even wooden airplanes. Beechcraft used to build airplanes out of plywood.

I recommend an excellent Princeton Architectural Press book called "Bent Ply", check it out;

Bent Ply

And about the parent. Well, the case doesn't look that good to be frank. I mean, the lines don't match, there are too much branches and stuff. And it's almost an insult to mix and match plastic and wood. If you want to make something out of wood, start from the scratch. A good example can be found from here (lots of pictures, text in Finnish);

Wooden Handmade Case

The case is made out of Finnish plywood (birch), which is also used in the famous chairs by Alvar Aalto. Like this one, for example, dating back more than seventy years to the early thirties;

Paimio Chair

Anyways, I like the idea of wooden cases. And not only from the aesthetic viewpoint. The resonance is radically different in wooden cases than in metallic ones. Instead of nasty "brrr", it's more like "mmmm", which is always a good sign :)

Yes but u gota have plug-ins to fade between songs and no gaps in between songs.

Plugins for gapless output and crossfading, among other things.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world it didn't exist.
-Verbal Kint / Keyser Soze

SECRET SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES.

I have done extensive research on recognizing cheaters in Counter-Strike. I have a web page that lists many sure signs of a cheater.

Using this list you can't have any false positives. So don't bother replying with the usual "I use all of those things and I never cheat" because if you do that, not only are you a cheater, you are also a liar.

you still have to buy games

Nokia would have down better to bundle it with an archive CD of compatible Series 60 software from somwhere like my-symbian.

I run a C64 emulator on my N-Gage (bottom of the page). I've probably got about 50 games on there already and I'll be loading it up with a few hundred more today. Much more interesting than Tomb Raider XII: Yet Another Legend is Born.

it's VIEWING them in DOS that gets tricky.

Not with this little viewer.

AssemblyTV: http://www.assemblytv.net/

Some pics: Mbnet.fi

well let's take another one down too..

pictures from the event

oh, nd "Selaa kuvia aikajarjestyksessa" is "forward", cinda.. ;)

Mikrobitti (A Finnish computer magazine) has it's own Assembly 2003 site partly translated to English.

Pictures from the party can be seen here (Finnish only). There is not very much stuff yet, but there should be more soon. :)

Mikrobitti (A Finnish computer magazine) has it's own Assembly 2003 site partly translated to English.

Pictures from the party can be seen here (Finnish only). There is not very much stuff yet, but there should be more soon. :)

who needs an ipaq when you can emulate c64 on your phone?

now since the rick dangerous for c64 from c64.com had cheats i finally saw the ending screen.. the levels felt much more longer on pc though, maybe because of not having those cheats and playing again and again drove you insane.

Tho color is a lot more tolerable if the saturation is reduced. Here is a comparsion The original color is the 100% saturated one.

Those of us that only have 1024*768 screen resolutions hate that wasted junk at the top.

Then why do you use any other browser than Opera?

Here's one.

Those are the same document. And apparently the same position. CSS2 magic...

I did that (convert it to nicer format that is). Ogg media stream container, mpeg4 video using mencoder+libavcodec (2pass, high quality, 4 motion vectors per macroblock, bitrate 800 kbit), Ogg Vorbis audio (quality 1). Result is a 58MB big file. Obviously there is quality loss (the original was 141MB), and mencoder seems not to encode all frames, making it a bit skippy at times (this also probably explains the small size).

It is good quality IMHO (good enough for me to dump the original), and the audio is in sync (the original file has two audio streams, but mplayer ignores the shorter one, for this encoding I decoded both streams to raw pcm, concatenated the streams and encoded the one stream). If you don't like it, don't use it.

Oh, and I had to split it in two since I don't have enough webspace in one spot for 58 megs. Either play them consecutively or join them with ogmcat(1) found in the ogmtools .

File 1, 39MB
File 2, 19MB

You can still share with a little less fear thanks to PeerGuard which allows you to block selected IP's from connecting to you.
The program comes with IP's from the RIAA and MPAA preinstalled, but you can always add your own.

The UI-bloat can be cut down. Look at this picture, and compare it with this.

And yes, I have registered my copy, so no ad-banner.

Nice.

However, if you want to read slashdot on your phone or PDA then I (very biasedly) recommend using Avantslash which provides you with all the content and non of the other rubbish.

Works pretty well through Googles HTML->WAP convertor too. If you've got a WAP browser installed, then click here to see it.

Pictureof opera's small screen rendering from Opera 7 beta, showing http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=45764&cid=4730 693

There weren't a lot of pilots who could have been killed by jet fuel in WWII, were there? Perhaps the more generic term 'aviation fuel' would have been more accurate?

How about about Rocket Fuel then? The Messerschmitt 163 Komet ran on two very volatile substances that were explosive when mixed, with very predictable results for the life expectancy of pilots.

here is a picture

I never said gif or png were lossy formats. I know exactly how both formats work in practise. I just pointed out to the parent that just because gif only uses 256 colors at most, it is not lossy.

There are valid reasons to go with .GIF. It has a 1-bit transparency channel and can be animated.

Png has a full alpha-channel. It can do a lot better than just "completely transparent" and "completely opaque"

It decompresses quicker, on an image heavy site that's really important.

Have you ever made any comparsions? Photos are usually a lot larger when compressed as gif, instead of jpeg. And you only get 256 colors.

I made a quick sample page here there you can see, that when the JPEG is saved a quality setting 80, the image is pretty damn close to the original, while the file size is almost 1/4 of that of gif. And I chose a picture that had as little "real life" colors as possible, so that the gif wouldn't look too crappy.

Actually I'd like to claim making slashbot a cliche. After all, didn't "All your base are belong to us" become a cliche only after people did something like this.

I would just like to say this.

Here you go

Here's a rare nude picture

here's one

I've got your first post right here

AC's everywhere think this of you.

MAME on cell phones would be nice

Here it is:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/

Probably won't be long before it's available for other Symbian phones as well, like the Nokia 7650 or Ericssony P800.

A totally working version of DOOM in your mobile phone and even in color!

(actually there's even two versions, Hannu Viitala's CDoom (open source) and a commercial version by Wildpalm)

It has also other great games like Terra Force

But wait, this is not all :-) Communicator can also run games from ZX Spectrum (freeware)! If this is not the ultimate gaming phone, I don't know what is.

I'm still waiting for the first games, which support multiplayer-modes. Unfortunately this may require the GPRS version of Comminicator, which hopefully is out quite soon..

Ville

ps. I'm no way connected to Nokia or Wildpalm..

It'll take this "cluster of brains" 2 years to develop an EULA for their results. It'll be so hard to understand, that only 2 people (and all lab mice) can read and understand it.

Matrix II teaser in divx5.0

This is not official release of this teaser. Just something I made 'cause I have no life.

Get it here

maybe this will do in the mean time...

It's already ported for this phone. I've play on my Nokia 9210 phone, and it's supposed to work on a lot of EPOC/SymbianOS device. You can see screenshot here and here too.

It's already ported for this phone. I've play on my Nokia 9210 phone, and it's supposed to work on a lot of EPOC/SymbianOS device. You can see screenshot here and here too.

It's already ported for this phone. I've play on my Nokia 9210 phone, and it's supposed to work on a lot of EPOC/SymbianOS device. You can see screenshot here and here too.

Do those spammers eat SPAM while in prison?

Just wondering...