Yup. I had the same problem. That is one of the things I will be rue-ing ubuntu about for a while. If I remember correctly, the drive was set up like this:
Because I couldn't use gparted as it would fail, I learned the magic of TestDisk combined with your standard ntfsprogs in the command line. In the end I managed to get JUST enough space to shrink the NTFS image and stick it into a file on / root. Resize boot. Then copy the image back in the new place. Then use TestDisk to make windows bootable again in it's new position.
I think a lot of this will come down to execution. This game will have larger hurdles than a war movie because because it's a game about war. A game. Something made to have fun with. I'm sure there are probably people worrying that a game will trivialize the war because it is a game. Not even edutainment (gasp).o
What the hell? Bush had his honeymoon period, too. But you have to remember to look at it in relative terms. Think of how his reception was when he got into office. Obama didn't get in with a slim majority and complaints of unfair counting casting a shadow over him. Republicans generally have a honeymoon period too, it's just the last one to have a real one was before the Clinton administration.
People who compare the beginning of the Bush presidency to the beginning of the Obama and complaining about how they are different are comparing apples to oranges. They are different. But that doesn't mean they won't end the same way.
Right now, most people, including people in foreign countries, are cautiously optomistic about Obama. They want to see if he manages something with the economy. Even Iran is an itty bitty bit more open right now. But if things continue the way they are for the next two years, it is entirely possible people will start viewing Obama as the next Bush. But that will take time.
Simple. When people hear re-imagened on a Nintendo console for a horror franchise from the PS side, they think of the Resident Evil remake which was incredible. Marketing really, using someone elses success as a spring board for your own.
I would assume that the vehicle would tumble instead of crush. Maybe even tumble over the bus is designed right. Tumbling can actually be safer for the occupants. I wouldn't say so much for the by-stander people on the sidewalk who get hit by the pinball.
Nexuiz development started as a Quake modification in the summer of 2001 by Lee Vermeulen. Soon afterward the project moved to the DarkPlaces Quake engine created by Forest Hale, who later also joined the project.
From there, it looks like it basically only has had added effects and general graphical upgrades. I hope that helps explain it's roots and why it looks like a quake clone.
If you're wonder why a project is the way it is, you're best off searching the about page of the actual site or looking for it on wikipedia. You're much more likely to get group think by just saying what you did on slashdot.
Re:I hear lots of negative criticism about Linux.
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Snob syndrome appears everywhere. In the case of windows users, they don't realize have it. It usually comes in the form of "why isn't linux more like windows," which is a sharp pointy double edged sword.
A lot of Windows-ishness has already seeped into Linux for better or worse because it is what programmers generally know. But I wouldn't want Linux to actually become a plain Windows clone. I use Linux because I like Linux. I don't use Linux because I dislike Windows.
Analogy time (please close ears): Many bug reports from ex-windows users can sound like American's asking why there aren't more burger joints in France and ignore the local cuisine. It's can be impolite and they don't even realize they are doing it. Even worse, they way they say it is grating.
For a while, Apple had the best of the best in laptop. Now...I don't think so so much. Particularly the MacBook Pro line has had issues that should never have existed.
You haven't tried 2.6 then. It has floating windows much like Photoshop Mac does and drops menubars for the non main window. On my computer, the two palette title bars are smaller and the do not disappear behind your image click it. These are huge changes. Since gtk stands for the gimp toolkit, these things should be coming to your standard gtk.
The window manager is also going to support application based window management much like Mac OS X. (If you don't believe me, look at the metacity gconf settings.) For this to happen, better windows management has to happen. Or that my be wishful thinking.:-p
I have news for you: Ariel and Verdana are not always guaranteed to be available. People may even enlarge them or shrink them on your web page without your permission. Fonts are something you have to plan for when making web pages, though many nowadays don't. I HATE authors forcing font sizes smaller than I am comfortable with.
I think the modern poster mostly lamenting a haphazard implementation for a feature he wasn't even sure he wanted in the first place.
Alsa mixer has dmix which needlessly duplicates the functionality that is is esound and pulseaudio.
Alsa has become bloated. If pulseaudio actually takes off, Alsa should most likely be gutted back to being ultra simple and actually be reworked to be linux style again. (devices are a simple file)
Many people will be just using pulseaudio as an esound replacement in programs that don't support the new APIs which makes he mental jumble of what is doing what more complicated.
I am sure there is a fear that pulseaudio will be the buggy zombie mess that esound ended up being. Pulseaudio was a buggy mess itself for a long long time (when it was polypaudio).
I'm sure there are still a fair enough people who don't care about audio settings per app because most important apps include their own volume bar. It's not totally dissimilar to the argument whether an IME/keyboard layout settings should be global to all windows/applications ore just restricted to to the current window. Mac OS X has flip-flopped on that one but has a preference.
In conclusion: It would be nice if every part of the chain wasn't trying to duplicate the same functionality complicating an already convoluted pipeline. One zombie daemon is better than two.
I don't know. The usage in science and math is a good indicator that we are slowly moving to metric in the US...though it may still take another 50 years if it happens naturally.
Think of it this way: Metric tools will eventually be cheaper than ISA because of the laws of mass production. Many things like imported cars use metric sized bolts and screws. What's this? A racing game that uses km because of a lazy translation? Hey, my shoe size is also listed in metric! All of these little things that you don't notice are slowly piling into a mountain because of economic concerns of large corporations.
The US population is (very) slowly getting less scared of the metric whether you realize it not. Wouldn't it be crazy if congress passed a bill like the digital TV one to cut parts costs for mechanics and other industries instead of half-@ssing it?
Particularly the auto play of music files when hovered. If you are prepared for it, it's okay. But I usually don't have icons shown on my desktop and that particular day I decided to clean up my download folder of mp3s by moving them all to the desktop. (mv ~/Downloads/*.mp3 ~/Desktop ) Because of some gconf problems I tried resetting my whole gconf folder so my desktop was back.
AGH! The agony! My computer keeps randomly playing mp3s when I didn't want it too! For the whole day I would wonder for about 5 seconds where a sound was coming from until I realized it was music.
Acid2 tests aspects of HTML markup, CSS 2.1 styling, PNG images, and data URIs. It should render correctly on any application that follows the World Wide Web Consortium and Internet Engineering Task Force specifications for these technologies. The idea is that if both web sites and web browsers follow agreed-upon industry standards, then any web site will work the same in any web browser.
It's a test, nothing more nothing less.
The World Wide Web Consortium, also known as the W3C for short, is known for their definitions of CSS and HTML standards. That's the connection. Hope it helped.
Just a note because I don't think I was clear enough about the link. Scroll down and notice that apple is selling both versions of the iPod shuffle. Even more intriguing, they are filling different pricing brackets. $50 vs $80 which sounds very similar to the original iPod Shuffle pricing. The people who want the cheapest iPod would still be going for the earlier revision so the headphone argument is mostly moot for those people anyway.
This is a head scratcher, because Apple tends to know better than this. Maybe they will make an adapter with the volume controls and button for $29 or so, so people can use their own cans.
Which is likely why Apple is still offering the old iPod Shuffle at least until 3rd party headphones start coming out. If things truly go awful, they can always back track too.:-p
Thanks for replying again, quickOnTheUptake. I'm just trying to gauge how possible it would be for TomTom to just use ext2/3 as it's main storage and have a FAT partition (unreadable for the device because it would lack the drivers) that auto-runs a ext driver install when connected to a Windows PC.
Say I format a floppy on a Windows machine using FAT and it has some long file names on it. Do I have to pay a royalty to Microsoft for for the privilege of owning the floppy or for the privilege of reading the floppy on my Linux machine sitting right next to it?
The lesson of the parent parent poster is that better is all in the eye of the beholder. The old TV's had such a warm feeling. That warm feeling turned into the gaussian blur filter during love-at-first-sight scenes...
Could you give some numbers please. I have no idea if you're comparing against the old aac bit rate of kbit/s or the newish bit rate of 256kbit/s or if you are a whore for lossless audio (flaac etc...). I assume 254kbit/s is pretty average even for torrents, but I may be wrong.
Huh? I think this is actually a clash of the slashdot zealots personally. There is always software for backing things up regardless if the software is closed source and the company doesn't include an official means.
iTunes backs up your data anyway and a firmware flash will restore the system software. I seriously think the only point real of your post was that Android is open source and iPhone is not.
Re:One word - ads
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Or my personal favorite- they shove the show to one side of the screen to make room for the ads. If they don't respect their own programming, why should I watch it?
I agree with you there. When I started getting interested in reading credits at the end of a program, that was exactly when cable companies started squishing the picture for advertisements. The credits aren't even readable on an SD set. Now I can't easily see if I was right on guessing the voice actor in this cartoon or try to remember the name of the cute blond on that beach without running to a computer.
I agree with you. Just wanted to point out making NES games would probably be much easier nowadays. Compilers have become very good so the developers could probably move up from assembly to C. This doesn't change the fact though that many early NES games only had two programmers etc.
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Yup. I had the same problem. That is one of the things I will be rue-ing ubuntu about for a while. If I remember correctly, the drive was set up like this:
1 - boot (ext2)
2 - windows/shared (ntfs)
3 - / root
Because I couldn't use gparted as it would fail, I learned the magic of TestDisk combined with your standard ntfsprogs in the command line. In the end I managed to get JUST enough space to shrink the NTFS image and stick it into a file on / root. Resize boot. Then copy the image back in the new place. Then use TestDisk to make windows bootable again in it's new position.
It was a horrible few hours of work.
I think a lot of this will come down to execution. This game will have larger hurdles than a war movie because because it's a game about war. A game. Something made to have fun with. I'm sure there are probably people worrying that a game will trivialize the war because it is a game. Not even edutainment (gasp).o
What the hell? Bush had his honeymoon period, too. But you have to remember to look at it in relative terms. Think of how his reception was when he got into office. Obama didn't get in with a slim majority and complaints of unfair counting casting a shadow over him. Republicans generally have a honeymoon period too, it's just the last one to have a real one was before the Clinton administration.
People who compare the beginning of the Bush presidency to the beginning of the Obama and complaining about how they are different are comparing apples to oranges. They are different. But that doesn't mean they won't end the same way.
Right now, most people, including people in foreign countries, are cautiously optomistic about Obama. They want to see if he manages something with the economy. Even Iran is an itty bitty bit more open right now. But if things continue the way they are for the next two years, it is entirely possible people will start viewing Obama as the next Bush. But that will take time.
Simple. When people hear re-imagened on a Nintendo console for a horror franchise from the PS side, they think of the Resident Evil remake which was incredible. Marketing really, using someone elses success as a spring board for your own.
I would assume that the vehicle would tumble instead of crush. Maybe even tumble over the bus is designed right. Tumbling can actually be safer for the occupants. I wouldn't say so much for the by-stander people on the sidewalk who get hit by the pinball.
Nexuiz development started as a Quake modification in the summer of 2001 by Lee Vermeulen. Soon afterward the project moved to the DarkPlaces Quake engine created by Forest Hale, who later also joined the project.
From there, it looks like it basically only has had added effects and general graphical upgrades. I hope that helps explain it's roots and why it looks like a quake clone.
If you're wonder why a project is the way it is, you're best off searching the about page of the actual site or looking for it on wikipedia. You're much more likely to get group think by just saying what you did on slashdot.
Snob syndrome appears everywhere. In the case of windows users, they don't realize have it. It usually comes in the form of "why isn't linux more like windows," which is a sharp pointy double edged sword.
A lot of Windows-ishness has already seeped into Linux for better or worse because it is what programmers generally know. But I wouldn't want Linux to actually become a plain Windows clone. I use Linux because I like Linux. I don't use Linux because I dislike Windows.
Analogy time (please close ears): Many bug reports from ex-windows users can sound like American's asking why there aren't more burger joints in France and ignore the local cuisine. It's can be impolite and they don't even realize they are doing it. Even worse, they way they say it is grating.
For a while, Apple had the best of the best in laptop. Now...I don't think so so much. Particularly the MacBook Pro line has had issues that should never have existed.
You haven't tried 2.6 then. It has floating windows much like Photoshop Mac does and drops menubars for the non main window. On my computer, the two palette title bars are smaller and the do not disappear behind your image click it. These are huge changes. Since gtk stands for the gimp toolkit, these things should be coming to your standard gtk.
The window manager is also going to support application based window management much like Mac OS X. (If you don't believe me, look at the metacity gconf settings.) For this to happen, better windows management has to happen. Or that my be wishful thinking. :-p
I have news for you: Ariel and Verdana are not always guaranteed to be available. People may even enlarge them or shrink them on your web page without your permission. Fonts are something you have to plan for when making web pages, though many nowadays don't. I HATE authors forcing font sizes smaller than I am comfortable with.
In conclusion: It would be nice if every part of the chain wasn't trying to duplicate the same functionality complicating an already convoluted pipeline. One zombie daemon is better than two.
I don't know. The usage in science and math is a good indicator that we are slowly moving to metric in the US...though it may still take another 50 years if it happens naturally.
Think of it this way: Metric tools will eventually be cheaper than ISA because of the laws of mass production. Many things like imported cars use metric sized bolts and screws. What's this? A racing game that uses km because of a lazy translation? Hey, my shoe size is also listed in metric! All of these little things that you don't notice are slowly piling into a mountain because of economic concerns of large corporations.
The US population is (very) slowly getting less scared of the metric whether you realize it not. Wouldn't it be crazy if congress passed a bill like the digital TV one to cut parts costs for mechanics and other industries instead of half-@ssing it?
Particularly the auto play of music files when hovered. If you are prepared for it, it's okay. But I usually don't have icons shown on my desktop and that particular day I decided to clean up my download folder of mp3s by moving them all to the desktop. (mv ~/Downloads/*.mp3 ~/Desktop
) Because of some gconf problems I tried resetting my whole gconf folder so my desktop was back.
AGH! The agony! My computer keeps randomly playing mp3s when I didn't want it too! For the whole day I would wonder for about 5 seconds where a sound was coming from until I realized it was music.
Acid2 tests aspects of HTML markup, CSS 2.1 styling, PNG images, and data URIs. It should render correctly on any application that follows the World Wide Web Consortium and Internet Engineering Task Force specifications for these technologies. The idea is that if both web sites and web browsers follow agreed-upon industry standards, then any web site will work the same in any web browser.
It's a test, nothing more nothing less. The World Wide Web Consortium, also known as the W3C for short, is known for their definitions of CSS and HTML standards. That's the connection. Hope it helped.
Just a note because I don't think I was clear enough about the link. Scroll down and notice that apple is selling both versions of the iPod shuffle. Even more intriguing, they are filling different pricing brackets. $50 vs $80 which sounds very similar to the original iPod Shuffle pricing. The people who want the cheapest iPod would still be going for the earlier revision so the headphone argument is mostly moot for those people anyway.
This is a head scratcher, because Apple tends to know better than this. Maybe they will make an adapter with the volume controls and button for $29 or so, so people can use their own cans.
Which is likely why Apple is still offering the old iPod Shuffle at least until 3rd party headphones start coming out. If things truly go awful, they can always back track too. :-p
http://store.apple.com/us/tab?node=home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_shuffle&tcid=tg_tabcontroller&tab=1
Thanks for replying again, quickOnTheUptake. I'm just trying to gauge how possible it would be for TomTom to just use ext2/3 as it's main storage and have a FAT partition (unreadable for the device because it would lack the drivers) that auto-runs a ext driver install when connected to a Windows PC.
Say I format a floppy on a Windows machine using FAT and it has some long file names on it. Do I have to pay a royalty to Microsoft for for the privilege of owning the floppy or for the privilege of reading the floppy on my Linux machine sitting right next to it?
Can someone explain to me if this suit is over the driver or the FAT formatted storage?
The lesson of the parent parent poster is that better is all in the eye of the beholder. The old TV's had such a warm feeling. That warm feeling turned into the gaussian blur filter during love-at-first-sight scenes...
Could you give some numbers please. I have no idea if you're comparing against the old aac bit rate of kbit/s or the newish bit rate of 256kbit/s or if you are a whore for lossless audio (flaac etc...). I assume 254kbit/s is pretty average even for torrents, but I may be wrong.
Huh? I think this is actually a clash of the slashdot zealots personally. There is always software for backing things up regardless if the software is closed source and the company doesn't include an official means.
Norton Ghost anyone (Windows)
CarbonCopyCloaner (Mac OS X)
iBackup (iPhone)
iTunes backs up your data anyway and a firmware flash will restore the system software. I seriously think the only point real of your post was that Android is open source and iPhone is not.
Or my personal favorite- they shove the show to one side of the screen to make room for the ads. If they don't respect their own programming, why should I watch it?
I agree with you there. When I started getting interested in reading credits at the end of a program, that was exactly when cable companies started squishing the picture for advertisements. The credits aren't even readable on an SD set. Now I can't easily see if I was right on guessing the voice actor in this cartoon or try to remember the name of the cute blond on that beach without running to a computer.
Hmm...All of my personal programming with the NES was with assembly. You're right though. It would need a special C compiler to work well. Dunno.
I agree with you. Just wanted to point out making NES games would probably be much easier nowadays. Compilers have become very good so the developers could probably move up from assembly to C. This doesn't change the fact though that many early NES games only had two programmers etc.