After the game is finished, the system displays a scoreboard, followed by the images you just tagged. Just roll over the image and you'll see your partner's guesses (it's the title attribute of the img tag).
They should make it more clear, but I guess that's what the 'beta' stands for.:)
As a non-native English speaker, this game has allowed me to learn new words, and how people from other cultures see a same image. I see hands where others see labor, that kind of think.
If you haven't tried it, try it: you'll learn things about how people perceive pictures. And if your random partner has the same thinking schemes than you, you'll get points!
Google points worth nothing, but that's Google points. Yeah.
Teaching cinema, music, arts in general and science can be hard without access to media. In my area of study (social sciences, sorry), medias have been useful to show things that would have been expensive/dangerous/difficult to see in real life.
Media != Flashy shiny. Using the right tool for the right job seems a good thing to me.
If slashdot, digg and friends were to link to printable versions, how long would it take for those sites either to remove the print version or to put their ads there?
Isn't Google Earth using Qt (and OpenGL, of course)? It would make the Wine step completely useless, since Qt works natively on Linux. And so does OpenGL.
I believe it's using Qt, at least in its OS X version, because when Google Earth beta for Mac was issued a few months ago, there were lots of complains that it just didn't "feel" like a Mac app, and the reason for this was it was using Qt instead of one of Apple's toolkits.
I think the GP refers to the fact that the MacBooks that were shown in January were actually prototypes. Or maybe he was just trolling and that I bit:)
Carts used to cost money, that's a fact, but OTOH, piracy was uncommon. When the CD media came, it was cheaper to produce, but (no stats here, just a wild guess) one can assume that what they won by going CD, they lost it because of the support being so easily duplicable.
That's probably why Nintendo never came with a CD console and when they did, those were these tiny CD's (DVD's?).
Firefox takes about a second and a half to render a 1000-comment Slashdot page
Off-topic, I know, but you'll get my eternal respect and I'll mark you as an official./ friend if you tell me how you manage to display 1000 comments on one single slashdot page.
My user page says: Comment Limit (only display this many comments, for best results, set this to a low number and sort by score) If set above 100, then it is ignored and 50 is used instead.
I just _hate_ the way./ limits the number of comments on one page: the actual page 2 after I read the comments on page 1 is usually very different from the page 2 I want to see, due to the hundreds of comments submitted in between.
It also annoys me when, like now, I'm stuck on expensive dialup in an hotel room and have to establish a new connection just to read the rest of the messages.
The Wine project website used to have a good explination as to why they do it, and to answer these claims. Problem is, I can't seem to locate it at the moment.
There is a MS Fonts repository at sourceforge, i.e. they redistribute the files under the old license, like the one you are describing.
I believe that one of the usual fonts misses, though (Tahoma, IIRC), because it was released later, and so never with the gentle license.
It's a good transition solution, but I really think that we (slashdotters) should launch a project aiming at redesigning Tahoma, Georgia, Verdana, Mono, Comic, Courier New, Impact, Arial, Arial Black, Lucida and Trebuchet. It wouldn't be exactly the same fonts, but their properties (size, spacing, kerning) and looks would be equivalents to those they clone, so that interchanging them with MS's ones wouldn't break any documents / web pages.
...install Microsoft core fonts or your desktop will look ugly.
Of course, the legality of installing Microsoft fonts if you haven't a Windows license is doubtful.
I'm surprised that there aren't successful attempts at designing MS compatible fonts. What would it take? It sure would help Free Software desktops if there was a free (speech) version of Arial, Verdana and friends available. Why wouldn't the open source model work for fonts design?
Slashdot Mirror
After the game is finished, the system displays a scoreboard, followed by the images you just tagged. Just roll over the image and you'll see your partner's guesses (it's the title attribute of the img tag).
:)
They should make it more clear, but I guess that's what the 'beta' stands for.
As a non-native English speaker, this game has allowed me to learn new words, and how people from other cultures see a same image. I see hands where others see labor, that kind of think.
If you haven't tried it, try it: you'll learn things about how people perceive pictures. And if your random partner has the same thinking schemes than you, you'll get points!
Google points worth nothing, but that's Google points. Yeah.
Or give her the very promising Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux, which is to Gentoo what Ubuntu is for Debian.
It comes preinstalled with everything you can imagine, is KDE-based (other DE's are available) and has XGL goodness. Still very young though, so YMMV.
Teaching cinema, music, arts in general and science can be hard without access to media. In my area of study (social sciences, sorry), medias have been useful to show things that would have been expensive/dangerous/difficult to see in real life. Media != Flashy shiny. Using the right tool for the right job seems a good thing to me.
If slashdot, digg and friends were to link to printable versions, how long would it take for those sites either to remove the print version or to put their ads there?
Q, an emulator based on QEMU is already working on MacIntels. From their News page : As I understand it, virtualization IS planned in Q, and is already a reality in QEMU, albeit it is a closed-source add-on.
Your method has been known for causing planes to crash on weird tropical island. I think it is flawed.
Isn't Google Earth using Qt (and OpenGL, of course)? It would make the Wine step completely useless, since Qt works natively on Linux. And so does OpenGL.
I believe it's using Qt, at least in its OS X version, because when Google Earth beta for Mac was issued a few months ago, there were lots of complains that it just didn't "feel" like a Mac app, and the reason for this was it was using Qt instead of one of Apple's toolkits.
Virtual Private Servers are probably the answer for small budget coders. You can found pretty good VPS services at $50 a month.
I think the GP refers to the fact that the MacBooks that were shown in January were actually prototypes. Or maybe he was just trolling and that I bit :)
Glad to see you're finally back, Desmond. So, how was your little trip around the world?
Carts used to cost money, that's a fact, but OTOH, piracy was uncommon. When the CD media came, it was cheaper to produce, but (no stats here, just a wild guess) one can assume that what they won by going CD, they lost it because of the support being so easily duplicable.
That's probably why Nintendo never came with a CD console and when they did, those were these tiny CD's (DVD's?).
Probably those Kromaggs for the Sci-Fi show Sliders just slid on Earth Prime.
Can't believe you forgot:
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Firefox takes about a second and a half to render a 1000-comment Slashdot page
./ friend if you tell me how you manage to display 1000 comments on one single slashdot page.
./ limits the number of comments on one page: the actual page 2 after I read the comments on page 1 is usually very different from the page 2 I want to see, due to the hundreds of comments submitted in between.
Off-topic, I know, but you'll get my eternal respect and I'll mark you as an official
My user page says:
Comment Limit (only display this many comments, for best results, set this to a low number and sort by score) If set above 100, then it is ignored and 50 is used instead.
I just _hate_ the way
It also annoys me when, like now, I'm stuck on expensive dialup in an hotel room and have to establish a new connection just to read the rest of the messages.
The Wine project website used to have a good explination as to why they do it, and to answer these claims. Problem is, I can't seem to locate it at the moment.
http://www.winehq.com/
The whole point of transparencies in 24-bit PNG's is _alpha_ transparency, something you can't achieve with 256-colors (8-bit) PNG's.
From http://www.centos.org: Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor's Legal Department Targets www.centos.org Website Content
Read the full release
But Barbie and Ken have broken up a few days ago.
The times they are a-changin'
Mandatory Spaceballs quote...
1. Light speed
2. Ridiculous speed
3. Ludicrous speed
There is a MS Fonts repository at sourceforge, i.e. they redistribute the files under the old license, like the one you are describing. I believe that one of the usual fonts misses, though (Tahoma, IIRC), because it was released later, and so never with the gentle license.
It's a good transition solution, but I really think that we (slashdotters) should launch a project aiming at redesigning Tahoma, Georgia, Verdana, Mono, Comic, Courier New, Impact, Arial, Arial Black, Lucida and Trebuchet. It wouldn't be exactly the same fonts, but their properties (size, spacing, kerning) and looks would be equivalents to those they clone, so that interchanging them with MS's ones wouldn't break any documents / web pages.
Of course, those new fonts would be GPL'd.
...install Microsoft core fonts or your desktop will look ugly.
Of course, the legality of installing Microsoft fonts if you haven't a Windows license is doubtful.
I'm surprised that there aren't successful attempts at designing MS compatible fonts. What would it take? It sure would help Free Software desktops if there was a free (speech) version of Arial, Verdana and friends available. Why wouldn't the open source model work for fonts design?
For binaries newsgroups (and binaries only), I've found GrabIt to be very nice and free. It _seems_ adware/spyware free too.
For P2P apps, maybe Shareaza should be part of the list. They have a very strict policy about ad/spy-wares (and it's GPL licensed).
Your UID is smaller than mine. So you do it. I'll join. :-)