I don't think it's all that weird. For example, is a bug that corrupts one's filesystem less critical than a bug that allows unauthorized access? Is a root escalation bug more important than a bug that prevents one's video card from working? They all need to be fixed, but I don't think security implications entitle such bugs to special treatment.
That was my fault for misreading the question. SmartTabs is probably best for a "tabs everywhere" approach that degrades gracefully on other editors, regardless of tab width.
Every other editor has an easy space vs. tab indentation setting, yet the supposedly advanced and powerful emacs still can't seem to get this straight. Ornery emacs users, feel free to tell me about your ctrl-u number meta-x butterfly-set-indent-tab incantation if I'm missing something;-P
Try putting:
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
in your.emacs file.
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Perhaps it means the new sky can be enjoyed only until Microsoft decides to pull the plug on its servers.
It all boiled down to Sega of America competing with Sega of Japan. SoA had become very successful with the Genesis in the US and weren't eager to part with it, hence the 32X. SoJ, however, was leading the way in the arcade with polygonal titles like Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. So just when the two needed to pull together at the end of the "16-bit" era, infighting brought them both down instead.
The Dual Shock was eventually made a pack-in, which helped its market penetration considerably. Even then, I can find only one PS1 title that actually required it. For Sony and Microsoft's new motion controllers in today's market, the situation gets more grim. Given multi-million dollar budgets and years of development time needed to bring a so-called "AAA" game to market, I think developers will continue to aim their biggest titles at the widest userbase in the hope of recouping those costs. That'll leave motion control to low-budget, low-risk titles that'll fail to make an impact.
Perhaps, like analog sticks, motion control will get better acceptance once it becomes standard during the next console cycle. But that's hard to imagine right now given 3rd parties' lackluster support for it.
Whatever its technical merits, this just isn't going to work in the market. Game-specific console add-ons tend to work (e.g. balance boards, plastic instruments, etc.) whereas general purpose ones do not. This is because game developers are forced to either target the add-on with specific titles that take advantage of it, which relegates them to a small subset of the console's total base; or they tack-on support which rarely works well and doesn't help sell the add-on.
If Microsoft were serious, they'd release an X-Box 3 with motion-only support so developers can count on it and develop accordingly. But they're not, they won't, and it won't sell.
ThinkPads also sport a 3-button trackpoint, which is very handy when running X11. In addition, it's not hard to find ones with compatible video and wireless cards.
Sadly, the version I had stopped working with newer versions of xmame, and now xmame seems to have pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth. Well, from a development standpoint. Anyone know what happened there?
xmame, along with AdvanceMAME, DosMAME and others, were wiped out by the big graphics subsystem overhaul that came with MAME 0.105, as I recall. These days, it's been superceded by SDLMAME which should work most anywhere with SDL installed.
PNG could also place torrent data in non-image file chunks which regular viewers would ignore. That's the method I was expecting, but it doesn't look that way from the screenshots.
I was going to suggest the same thing. Although I keep a mouse hooked up for cursor-intensive tasks, a Trackpoint is ideal for times when the bulk of one's work is at the keyboard. As you say, it's the difference between moving one's whole right arm a foot to the right versus extending an index finger about an inch. It adds up to a lot less strain over a long day's work, in my experience.
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Because Microsoft's wasn't compliant with the specification.
If the Mac OS is to become a system purely for the consumption of apps written by other people, what system will those apps be written on?
"Write Once, Run on a Very Specific Virtual Machine Version Which We'll Download For You Automatically" doesn't sound quite so appealing.
I don't think it's all that weird. For example, is a bug that corrupts one's filesystem less critical than a bug that allows unauthorized access? Is a root escalation bug more important than a bug that prevents one's video card from working? They all need to be fixed, but I don't think security implications entitle such bugs to special treatment.
That was my fault for misreading the question. SmartTabs is probably best for a "tabs everywhere" approach that degrades gracefully on other editors, regardless of tab width.
Try putting:
in your .emacs file.
Perhaps it means the new sky can be enjoyed only until Microsoft decides to pull the plug on its servers.
There's no newline at the end of the text. Try using "echo -n" over it.
That'd be a helluva coincidence.
I had the same idea, though, and got the same result.
It all boiled down to Sega of America competing with Sega of Japan. SoA had become very successful with the Genesis in the US and weren't eager to part with it, hence the 32X. SoJ, however, was leading the way in the arcade with polygonal titles like Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. So just when the two needed to pull together at the end of the "16-bit" era, infighting brought them both down instead.
The Dual Shock was eventually made a pack-in, which helped its market penetration considerably. Even then, I can find only one PS1 title that actually required it. For Sony and Microsoft's new motion controllers in today's market, the situation gets more grim. Given multi-million dollar budgets and years of development time needed to bring a so-called "AAA" game to market, I think developers will continue to aim their biggest titles at the widest userbase in the hope of recouping those costs. That'll leave motion control to low-budget, low-risk titles that'll fail to make an impact.
Perhaps, like analog sticks, motion control will get better acceptance once it becomes standard during the next console cycle. But that's hard to imagine right now given 3rd parties' lackluster support for it.
Whatever its technical merits, this just isn't going to work in the market. Game-specific console add-ons tend to work (e.g. balance boards, plastic instruments, etc.) whereas general purpose ones do not. This is because game developers are forced to either target the add-on with specific titles that take advantage of it, which relegates them to a small subset of the console's total base; or they tack-on support which rarely works well and doesn't help sell the add-on.
If Microsoft were serious, they'd release an X-Box 3 with motion-only support so developers can count on it and develop accordingly. But they're not, they won't, and it won't sell.
Amusingly, I just installed Ubuntu on a brand new Mac Mini a couple of days ago because I wanted a small, quiet box to work on.
As always, people's definitions of what's required to "get shit done" may vary.
IE8 (and possibly IE7) handles PNG transparency just fine. IE6 did not. But if people are still using IE6, that's the least of their problems.
Enabling Firefox's master password causes it to encrypt one's saved passwords and form data.
ThinkPads also sport a 3-button trackpoint, which is very handy when running X11. In addition, it's not hard to find ones with compatible video and wireless cards.
To make a computer from scratch, one must first create the universe.
It runs in MAME under the name "Pleiads" because that's what comes up on the screen.
xmame, along with AdvanceMAME, DosMAME and others, were wiped out by the big graphics subsystem overhaul that came with MAME 0.105, as I recall. These days, it's been superceded by SDLMAME which should work most anywhere with SDL installed.
Moodle is GPLv2, so the plugin must be GPLv2 also or it won't be compatible with the existing software.
PNGCrush doesn't destroy non-image data chunks; it simply doesn't attempt to compress them.
PNG could also place torrent data in non-image file chunks which regular viewers would ignore. That's the method I was expecting, but it doesn't look that way from the screenshots.
I was going to suggest the same thing. Although I keep a mouse hooked up for cursor-intensive tasks, a Trackpoint is ideal for times when the bulk of one's work is at the keyboard. As you say, it's the difference between moving one's whole right arm a foot to the right versus extending an index finger about an inch. It adds up to a lot less strain over a long day's work, in my experience.
Firefox 3.5b4 was released on 04/24/2009 11:07:00 PM, according to the checksum dates. Enjoy.
But if review scores don't correlate to sales, do they really matter?