WMP is not too bad, and it's interface may be better than Quicktime's, but locking to WMV is a sin. I use Media Player Classic on Windows to do all my video, but I hardly ever do streaming. On Mac and Linux however, your statement isn't true... WMP is crappy and Quicktime rocks.
But then for a novice user, for the most part that I have seen, they have less trouble using Quicktime (It's real-time searching in video is a lot better and faster than WMP).
Also the memory problem is mostly due to half of WMP actually embedded in the windows kernel, making it seem fast and small. (Only joking... but then again, I'm not)
Truly, with the video iPod pushing MP4 and Quicktime being at the core I think with Apple's steady and inexorable increase it would be wise to choose the right choice.
1. horde-kronolith http://www.horde.org/kronolith/ (horde suite is quite comprehensive and easy to set up) 2. webcalendar http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php 3. MediaWiki with calendar plugin (a little bit tricky to set up, and not as great to use as previous two)
Basically the shared feature of horde is pretty powerfull with a good rights-system. They also alow calendars to be exported etc.
I played Elite on my 64, BBC, Amiga and PC... only got to "Dangerous" status. I also played Freelancer to death.
But all of the above pales in comparrison to "X2 : The Threat".
Screw "recent"... this only matters for multiplayer games... where you at least want to play along with your win32 friends while the game "lasts"
No, single player games can be ported long after the original and still be good.
IMHO X2 is all that Elite ever should have been. Perhaps it does not have the sorta-randomly generated star maps Elite had, but at least it was well thought out and tweakable to it's very core.
It is all Elite was and much more. Own a whole squadron of fighters and 'program' them to do tasks, like protect your main battle cruiser (which you are in) and you can even own trading stations/mines/shipyards and play around on markets...
tsk, tsk.
I advise all you Linux guys to give this game a try... it's truly impressive.
For long hours of working I recommend the Razer Diamondback simply because of low wrist strain.
(A close second and much cheaper option is the Logitech MX 310)
You do not want cordless... too heavy. (and batteries are a pain)
You do not want a mouse (or keyboard for that matter) which is elevated. This excludes Logitech MX 5 and 7 series mice as well as most microsoft ones. The shaped-like-your-palm mouse is just a crock. Avoid carpal tunnel syndrome now. (I was starting to show symptoms with my MX510, until I exchanged it for a MX310 and later a Razer)
You got problems? Some zealot marked mine as flamebait!
Come on! It may be a sore point, but it's the truth.
Sure one *could* write maintainable perl code (I'd like to think I have), but in large projects no-one has the same style (namind, coding, indenting)... leading to a mess even with some forced guidelines and averagely good coders.
In python even novice programmers write best practice code.
Look, I love programming, and am a very good C/C++ programmer, but even I have to admit to flaws in what I like. And even though I love writing complex clear code, even I have to admit that some other language may be better suited.
Thus to come back to the point: It's sometimes good practice to choose another language.
Not having the tools, features and gimmicks does not stop it from being best practice.
Best practice is needed in Perl just to make it as manageable for large projects as Python. Python does not need best practice since it is:
1) Always readable by default. 2) Has only one way of doing it.
Perl may be a fun hobby-toy (which is faster than Python in string manipulation) used for quick scripts (which it is admittedly brilliant at). But I would still use Python for serious work.
The real reason why I used Copernic over GDS 1 and 2 is that GDS just plainly does not want to install because I run NOD32 antivirus. Tough luck I say... NOD32 is good software... perhaps it's knows something of GDS that I dont? Hmm....;)
Even though you are a troll, this got me to think some more, and I can add:
Yes, they have a right to profit. They also had the right to give the software away for free and without restriction... that would have been cool but stupid. They exercised that right... live with it! Somehow you have the misguided impression that you can infringe on companies rights, but individuals' rights are sacred? That's called hypocrisy.
Open Source has the same misconceptions... it's not about stealing software... It's about giving it away.
Besides, you don't need to actually buy the Sony software to play on the pirate site... you only need to download a specific patch. This patch was provided for free since it is covered by a licence.
The way they choose to distribute their software and how much they ask for it is protected by that licence. They provide what they provide because the users agree to adhere to those rights.
If people keep on stealing like this, then innovators will have no incentive to create new cool software. Perhaps Sony can weather this one, but it will set a precedent which smaller MMORPG creators will not be able to survive. Most attempts at open source games suck since they did not have the capital to do it properly. This does not mean they must steal the artwork to save money and thus have a product that looks more professional. I'm not saying they should give it up... I'm just saying that perhaps the OSS model for creating games are wrong and should be looked at.
It is 'illegal' because it is unlawful. Whether it's morally correct, that is debatable... but not now and not here.
Just creating a new game world is not enough. They spent loads of time and money creating the graphics and protocol, on which these other people are piggy-backing.
Sure these people must still own the legal copy of the game, but this is subsidised by the fact that by playing the legal game on the real server builds a client base. So this argument is invalid.
Not only is it illegal, but it does have a (long-term) financial impact on Sony.
Thus is it wrong with the letter and the spirit of the law.
For one thing Apple is about the OS, and not the hardware. For me OS X run on Darwin, not on PowerPC.
Sure it's not compatible and programs need to be recompiled, but the spirit of Apple will transfer flawlessly.
As a long time user of Both Wintel and Apple machines, I will finally be able to ditch my Windows PC for lack of Power in my Mac to play games.
As for this article... they guy is needlesly pessimistic. I WANT Mac apps. I prefer them. This transition will only scare the windows programmers and not the mac ones. MORE people will be using Macs than ever!
An inacurate and biased example just to make my point is that a predictive text inputter can (on the Motorola) to write 'zoological' press 1665* (It will autocomplete the entire word on 'zool')
Also problems like 'me' and 'of' being both the 6-3 combo is solved by just adding a # at the end of one of the two to cycle through all the possibilities.
Exactly, pricing is directly related to efficiency in which SMSes are handled. It's tradition because earlier networks (analogue) did not support SMSes well, and thus not many people used it, thus it's not really a viable popular form of communication, and thus prices are steep.
Having the capability and really using it is different. It's not reliable and prevalent since people don't use it. People don't use it because it's not prevalent and reliale.
Here we never had any other system than GSM, and EVERYONE texts. Every major cellphone company has several prime SMS packages. Some people don't even use their phones for voice!
I've been to the States... Blackberry devices and pagers are more prevalent than SMSers.
Sure that may change, but until they don't at least have kids whom are 2nd generation SMSers (Their parents gre up with SMSes!) then they connot judge the technology.
I for one could never really use it well... the predictive text imput came after I moved to a Nokia 9110 (Then 9210 then P800).
Firstly, the morse code they used was the final optimised product. It basically uses huffman-like compression for english only. Thus texting other languages using morse would not be so efficient.
Secondly they used TAP method which is outdated and inefficient. Predictive text input is much faster. Also, the US is not the big SMS country. It hardly has GSM! More people still use outdated devices like pagers.
Thirdly they also tested the transport medium. An SMS may be relayed faster via different networks (sometimes immediate) and can be re-read if something was missed (unless ticker-tape is used). This is not fair, as for very long distance morse messages one can have intermediaries as well which would lengthen the process considerably.
Fourthly, most people cannot send morsecode while receiving it, thus also making asynchronous conversation slower. (And you cannot receive morse from multiple sources sil
I've recently been to Japan and had the rare privelege seeing a teenage school-girl on a Train sitting and texting on two phones at the same time! Beat that!
Water has always been more amazing that what people have thought. The fact is that very little is still fully understood about water and that there is much mystery still surrounding it and much research still being put into it.
For instance homeopathy for medicine, whether you believe it or not, have at least confirmed the 'memory' property of water.
Then there is also the case of highly pure (ultrapure) water being able to disolve (corrode) stainless steen and even glass.
We cannot claim something to be suddenly amazing about water until we find it to be mundane first.;)
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Check these sites out:
http://www.freebyte.com/cad/cad.htm
http://www.pure-mac.com/cad.html
The package I like to use is QCad:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/
Even though it's source is GPLed, I think there is a fee for commercial use ($28 which is pretty much free)
Give it a try...
WMP is not too bad, and it's interface may be better than Quicktime's, but locking to WMV is a sin. I use Media Player Classic on Windows to do all my video, but I hardly ever do streaming. On Mac and Linux however, your statement isn't true... WMP is crappy and Quicktime rocks.
But then for a novice user, for the most part that I have seen, they have less trouble using Quicktime (It's real-time searching in video is a lot better and faster than WMP).
Also the memory problem is mostly due to half of WMP actually embedded in the windows kernel, making it seem fast and small. (Only joking... but then again, I'm not)
Truly, with the video iPod pushing MP4 and Quicktime being at the core I think with Apple's steady and inexorable increase it would be wise to choose the right choice.
But not when you are running on a G3...
Then you should look at faster and slightly better software (but not as well-integrated sometimes):
Graphics Converter
IView Media Pro
AcdSee
On PC:
Picassa
Paint Shop Pro
IrfanView
XNView
(Both the last two are good with Total Commander)
On Mac:
AcdSee
I View Media Pro
Graphics Converter (can edit as well)
Aperture
In order of preference:
1. horde-kronolith http://www.horde.org/kronolith/ (horde suite is quite comprehensive and easy to set up)
2. webcalendar http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
3. MediaWiki with calendar plugin (a little bit tricky to set up, and not as great to use as previous two)
Basically the shared feature of horde is pretty powerfull with a good rights-system. They also alow calendars to be exported etc.
Check them out.
I doubt this will help Mac OS X more than Linux.
I for one find OpenOffice for Mac OS X running in X11 unusable.
Only native UI ports will be any good on Mac.
OpenOffice is my preferred Office app on Windows and Linux, but, sadly, MS Office for Mac is still best.
Hmm.. not the vcersion I had.
But then at least you can alter the AI to suit your needs. (Lotsa AI replacement modules to be found to do all sorta menial tasks.)
Then again, I liked the combat of Elite I more than any of the others... perhaps that is because it was the most unrealistic of them all?
I would ram people if I had a stronger shield...
Hehe...
I played Elite on my 64, BBC, Amiga and PC... only got to "Dangerous" status. I also played Freelancer to death.
But all of the above pales in comparrison to "X2 : The Threat".
Screw "recent"... this only matters for multiplayer games... where you at least want to play along with your win32 friends while the game "lasts"
No, single player games can be ported long after the original and still be good.
IMHO X2 is all that Elite ever should have been. Perhaps it does not have the sorta-randomly generated star maps Elite had, but at least it was well thought out and tweakable to it's very core.
It is all Elite was and much more. Own a whole squadron of fighters and 'program' them to do tasks, like protect your main battle cruiser (which you are in) and you can even own trading stations/mines/shipyards and play around on markets...
tsk, tsk.
I advise all you Linux guys to give this game a try... it's truly impressive.
For long hours of working I recommend the Razer Diamondback simply because of low wrist strain.
(A close second and much cheaper option is the Logitech MX 310)
You do not want cordless... too heavy. (and batteries are a pain)
You do not want a mouse (or keyboard for that matter) which is elevated. This excludes Logitech MX 5 and 7 series mice as well as most microsoft ones. The shaped-like-your-palm mouse is just a crock. Avoid carpal tunnel syndrome now. (I was starting to show symptoms with my MX510, until I exchanged it for a MX310 and later a Razer)
Also see some more on this matter:
http://slashdot.org/~Domini/journal/59224
You got problems? Some zealot marked mine as flamebait!
Come on! It may be a sore point, but it's the truth.
Sure one *could* write maintainable perl code (I'd like to think I have), but in large projects no-one has the same style (namind, coding, indenting)... leading to a mess even with some forced guidelines and averagely good coders.
In python even novice programmers write best practice code.
Look, I love programming, and am a very good C/C++ programmer, but even I have to admit to flaws in what I like. And even though I love writing complex clear code, even I have to admit that some other language may be better suited.
Thus to come back to the point: It's sometimes good practice to choose another language.
Not having the tools, features and gimmicks does not stop it from being best practice.
Best practice is needed in Perl just to make it as manageable for large projects as Python. Python does not need best practice since it is:
1) Always readable by default.
2) Has only one way of doing it.
Perl may be a fun hobby-toy (which is faster than Python in string manipulation) used for quick scripts (which it is admittedly brilliant at). But I would still use Python for serious work.
As I recall it worked pretty well on my old iBook G3... 1 video stream and 2 audio streams with about 4 clients...
I'm sure this will be taken pretty quick. ;)
Firstly, it does not open even simple office 2000 spreadsheets...
See: http://marius.e.co.za/BreakOO.xls
Secondly, there is no native version for OS X... (face it... X11 sucks)
But I am watching expectantly for the day I can just barely use it to interact with other platforms.
The real reason why I used Copernic over GDS 1 and 2 is that GDS just plainly does not want to install because I run NOD32 antivirus. Tough luck I say... NOD32 is good software... perhaps it's knows something of GDS that I dont? Hmm.... ;)
Even though you are a troll, this got me to think some more, and I can add:
Yes, they have a right to profit. They also had the right to give the software away for free and without restriction... that would have been cool but stupid. They exercised that right... live with it! Somehow you have the misguided impression that you can infringe on companies rights, but individuals' rights are sacred? That's called hypocrisy.
Open Source has the same misconceptions... it's not about stealing software... It's about giving it away.
Besides, you don't need to actually buy the Sony software to play on the pirate site... you only need to download a specific patch. This patch was provided for free since it is covered by a licence.
The way they choose to distribute their software and how much they ask for it is protected by that licence. They provide what they provide because the users agree to adhere to those rights.
If people keep on stealing like this, then innovators will have no incentive to create new cool software. Perhaps Sony can weather this one, but it will set a precedent which smaller MMORPG creators will not be able to survive. Most attempts at open source games suck since they did not have the capital to do it properly. This does not mean they must steal the artwork to save money and thus have a product that looks more professional. I'm not saying they should give it up... I'm just saying that perhaps the OSS model for creating games are wrong and should be looked at.
It is 'illegal' because it is unlawful. Whether it's morally correct, that is debatable... but not now and not here.
Just creating a new game world is not enough. They spent loads of time and money creating the graphics and protocol, on which these other people are piggy-backing.
Sure these people must still own the legal copy of the game, but this is subsidised by the fact that by playing the legal game on the real server builds a client base. So this argument is invalid.
Not only is it illegal, but it does have a (long-term) financial impact on Sony.
Thus is it wrong with the letter and the spirit of the law.
You also need to eat properly, exercise and have an overdeveloped sense of vengeance.
For one thing Apple is about the OS, and not the hardware. For me OS X run on Darwin, not on PowerPC.
Sure it's not compatible and programs need to be recompiled, but the spirit of Apple will transfer flawlessly.
As a long time user of Both Wintel and Apple machines, I will finally be able to ditch my Windows PC for lack of Power in my Mac to play games.
As for this article... they guy is needlesly pessimistic. I WANT Mac apps. I prefer them. This transition will only scare the windows programmers and not the mac ones. MORE people will be using Macs than ever!
Tsk. This article is a lot of FUD!
Predictive text input is much better than that...
Imagine a fluent predictive text inputter...
An inacurate and biased example just to make my point is that a predictive text inputter can (on the Motorola) to write 'zoological' press 1665* (It will autocomplete the entire word on 'zool')
Also problems like 'me' and 'of' being both the 6-3 combo is solved by just adding a # at the end of one of the two to cycle through all the possibilities.
Cellphones are practically faster than keyboards!
Exactly, pricing is directly related to efficiency in which SMSes are handled. It's tradition because earlier networks (analogue) did not support SMSes well, and thus not many people used it, thus it's not really a viable popular form of communication, and thus prices are steep.
Having the capability and really using it is different. It's not reliable and prevalent since people don't use it. People don't use it because it's not prevalent and reliale.
Here we never had any other system than GSM, and EVERYONE texts. Every major cellphone company has several prime SMS packages. Some people don't even use their phones for voice!
I've been to the States... Blackberry devices and pagers are more prevalent than SMSers.
Sure that may change, but until they don't at least have kids whom are 2nd generation SMSers (Their parents gre up with SMSes!) then they connot judge the technology.
I for one could never really use it well... the predictive text imput came after I moved to a Nokia 9110 (Then 9210 then P800).
Firstly, the morse code they used was the final optimised product. It basically uses huffman-like compression for english only. Thus texting other languages using morse would not be so efficient.
Secondly they used TAP method which is outdated and inefficient. Predictive text input is much faster. Also, the US is not the big SMS country. It hardly has GSM! More people still use outdated devices like pagers.
Thirdly they also tested the transport medium. An SMS may be relayed faster via different networks (sometimes immediate) and can be re-read if something was missed (unless ticker-tape is used). This is not fair, as for very long distance morse messages one can have intermediaries as well which would lengthen the process considerably.
Fourthly, most people cannot send morsecode while receiving it, thus also making asynchronous conversation slower. (And you cannot receive morse from multiple sources sil
I've recently been to Japan and had the rare privelege seeing a teenage school-girl on a Train sitting and texting on two phones at the same time! Beat that!
Yup. Agreed. In my opinion 7 samurai was much more inspirational and was a very good movie to boot. (magnificent 7, 3 amigos, etc...) ;)
Water has always been more amazing that what people have thought. The fact is that very little is still fully understood about water and that there is much mystery still surrounding it and much research still being put into it.
;)
For instance homeopathy for medicine, whether you believe it or not, have at least confirmed the 'memory' property of water.
Then there is also the case of highly pure (ultrapure) water being able to disolve (corrode) stainless steen and even glass.
We cannot claim something to be suddenly amazing about water until we find it to be mundane first.