My sucking at this and other FPS games is what lead me to becoming a programmer. Hex editing binaries, cheat patches, etc. led me to open source and hacking.
So yeah these are old news now, but there is some serious nostalgia for some us.
The one main advantage is the end of ac-dc adapters aka wall warts. This would get rid of each device needing its own proprietary power connector. I have a power strip of these just to recharge my own gadgets -- phone, gba, camera, etc.
Not sure I am keen on the potential healh affects though.
I am 28. It fits easily in my blue jean pocket. The screen is a wee small but damn bright and clear. The sound (via headphones) is really impressive. Was playing metroid on it the first day and was in love.
Yeah, its small. But I played for over an hour the other night, holding the right shoulder button through Toularian (Mother brain land) almost the whole time.
No regrets. No AA batteries to replace.
Why not buy the DS? Never buy the first edition of a Nintendo product -- they always come out with a better version in 6 months to a year. Compare the original GBA to the new SP. The DS is currently molded like a kid's toy, but I expect that to change. For now I have a large library of GBA titles available to me. When a new, improved DS comes out I can give the micro to my wife (-:
I have one. Great player. However the radio was a huge disappointment. I get the local NPR affiliate but not my favorite local music station. General poor reception from the FM.
I thumb through Linux mag / Journal and the like but never buy them. Same goes for 2600. Never bought an issue, read plenty of them.
I have two subscriptions: Cooks Illustrated and Eating Well.
Cooks is bar none the best foody mag out there for recipes and approaches. They do crazy things like prepare each recipe 50+ different ways looking for the best technique. Really saves on the "hmm, maybe I will use this instead" kind of thing because often they have.
Eating Well is admittedly a little biased to the left. But they do have interesting articles about health, green living, green agriculture, genetically modified foods, etc. Plus they often have interesting menu ideas.
Think about this for a minute. People saying "man, I bought plenty of ps1 games for my ps2" probably bought them at a used game store. So no licensee received any money. Killing backwards compatibility means people HAVE to buy games new, from licensees. This makes the game people more money and it makes Microsoft more money. All Microsoft has to do is recreate their success with Halo on some new game and the mindless masses will buy the system just to play it.
Ok, let's take a look at the practical side of this.
I pop in a new card. If my distro kernel (and this is mostly aimed at people using distro kernels) supports it the driver is already there it just may take some config, i.e. sound cards and the like.
Otherwise I need a new kernel. Debian's woody release defaults to a 2.2 kernel but has the option of 2.4. Many newbies install the 2.2 and then have non-supported hardware. A project like this won't help them.
The real problem here is the Linux kernel changes often enough and the hardware supported changes often enough that you need to go and grab the latest code to use the latest stuff.
This works on Windows and OS X because the kernel is know and has not changed recently. Every WinXP user has the same kernel and driver needs.
All I see this project helping with are the people with closed source drivers which the user's distro may not have shipped. But even then, only if the kernel versions match -- and they usually don't.
*OR* I see it being a boon to someone like Lindows (aka Linsprire). They could run this server and guarantee that drivers exist for new hardware when users run the Lindows kernel.
actually, I have known a couple of guitar playing computer people who claim that guitar playing + keyboard use equals no carpal tunnel. Seems the different type of bending helped them.
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O'Reilly recently started acting as their distributor. No Starch handles the actual content.
I just don't buy the online thing. Been a GC owner since the platinum box came out.
I own a NES and a SNES, and have owned a genesis (mmm Altered Beast). I go back over and over to play these games.
What happens when the online server dies? When the players move on? These games are fun for a month or 6 and then dead. I do not own many GC games but I play and love all of them (well, except Robotech....). I will probably come back to Pikmin or Metroid: Prime in 10 years. Will you try to play one of the online games then?
As the old saying goes, whatever happened to nostalgia.
My main OSS project is a window manager. How do you unit test that? It is nearly impossible without writing your own test X server and the like. Just not worth it.
We write or bring in small programs which test how we handle applications or events. But it is still really hard to test the whole thing.
One of the issues here is Java's coding standards. They want you to use:
myCoolMethod()
instead of the C norm:
my_cool_method()
so you have to remember which word is capitalized. Not that I find this to be any real problem in languages like C++ or Python where there are similar conventions. (I am not a Java hacker)
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Actually, if you look at the mail thread linked in the summary, they *ARE* doing this on Windows.
Someone looking at the setup noticed some Ghostscript files being changed so he mailed the gs-devel list asking for ideas.
I logged in, but for some reason I lost my session and became anonymous again.
My sucking at this and other FPS games is what lead me to becoming a programmer. Hex editing binaries, cheat patches, etc. led me to open source and hacking.
So yeah these are old news now, but there is some serious nostalgia for some us.
The book stores are glutted with D&D books. My read is they are just trying to move 'em. At least the couple here near me seem to have this problem.
The one main advantage is the end of ac-dc adapters aka wall warts. This would get rid of each device needing its own proprietary power connector. I have a power strip of these just to recharge my own gadgets -- phone, gba, camera, etc.
Not sure I am keen on the potential healh affects though.
I am 28. It fits easily in my blue jean pocket. The screen is a wee small but damn bright and clear. The sound (via headphones) is really impressive. Was playing metroid on it the first day and was in love.
Yeah, its small. But I played for over an hour the other night, holding the right shoulder button through Toularian (Mother brain land) almost the whole time.
No regrets. No AA batteries to replace.
Why not buy the DS? Never buy the first edition of a Nintendo product -- they always come out with a better version in 6 months to a year. Compare the original GBA to the new SP. The DS is currently molded like a kid's toy, but I expect that to change. For now I have a large library of GBA titles available to me. When a new, improved DS comes out I can give the micro to my wife (-:
ok, I'll take the bait.
Back in the day, emacs was rather slow to load. Poeple tended to start one instance of it and never leave it.
C-x f, open file. Edit to hearts content.
C-x w, save the file
C-x k, close the close
later, rinse, repeat. Throw in a few C-x b to switch buffers for added spice.
Besides, once emacs is open you have a nice shell environment, network tools, etc.
Has filters for lots of doc types, you can write more.
http://www.namazu.org/
Ideas on some form of database / directory / foo? Clearly SQL is a well trodden path, but is it the "best" choice?
we do ship bstyleconvert for any old styles you have lying around.
I have one. Great player. However the radio was a huge disappointment. I get the local NPR affiliate but not my favorite local music station. General poor reception from the FM.
When I first looked at the comments this was my fortune:
It's hard to be humble when you're perfect.
Think that may relate to this issue, as others have commented on personality conflicts.
I thumb through Linux mag / Journal and the like but never buy them. Same goes for 2600. Never bought an issue, read plenty of them.
I have two subscriptions: Cooks Illustrated and Eating Well.
Cooks is bar none the best foody mag out there for recipes and approaches. They do crazy things like prepare each recipe 50+ different ways looking for the best technique. Really saves on the "hmm, maybe I will use this instead" kind of thing because often they have.
Eating Well is admittedly a little biased to the left. But they do have interesting articles about health, green living, green agriculture, genetically modified foods, etc. Plus they often have interesting menu ideas.
Think about this for a minute. People saying "man, I bought plenty of ps1 games for my ps2" probably bought them at a used game store. So no licensee received any money. Killing backwards compatibility means people HAVE to buy games new, from licensees. This makes the game people more money and it makes Microsoft more money. All Microsoft has to do is recreate their success with Halo on some new game and the mindless masses will buy the system just to play it.
specify it as part of the query. For instance, Active Directory users bind as login@domain.
Ok, let's take a look at the practical side of this.
I pop in a new card. If my distro kernel (and this is mostly aimed at people using distro kernels) supports it the driver is already there it just may take some config, i.e. sound cards and the like.
Otherwise I need a new kernel. Debian's woody release defaults to a 2.2 kernel but has the option of 2.4. Many newbies install the 2.2 and then have non-supported hardware. A project like this won't help them.
The real problem here is the Linux kernel changes often enough and the hardware supported changes often enough that you need to go and grab the latest code to use the latest stuff.
This works on Windows and OS X because the kernel is know and has not changed recently. Every WinXP user has the same kernel and driver needs.
All I see this project helping with are the people with closed source drivers which the user's distro may not have shipped. But even then, only if the kernel versions match -- and they usually don't.
*OR* I see it being a boon to someone like Lindows (aka Linsprire). They could run this server and guarantee that drivers exist for new hardware when users run the Lindows kernel.
actually, I have known a couple of guitar playing computer people who claim that guitar playing + keyboard use equals no carpal tunnel. Seems the different type of bending helped them.
O'Reilly recently started acting as their distributor. No Starch handles the actual content.
mozilla's mail client already has bayes filtering in it. Does a pretty good job for the people I know using it.
I just don't buy the online thing. Been a GC owner since the platinum box came out.
....). I will probably come back to Pikmin or Metroid: Prime in 10 years. Will you try to play one of the online games then?
I own a NES and a SNES, and have owned a genesis (mmm Altered Beast). I go back over and over to play these games.
What happens when the online server dies? When the players move on? These games are fun for a month or 6 and then dead. I do not own many GC games but I play and love all of them (well, except Robotech
As the old saying goes, whatever happened to nostalgia.
as I understand it, Guiness in Ireland is like 3% due to very high alacohol taxes. They ship the high test stuff to the US (and maybe elsewhere).
yeah, Util.cc and to some degree the rest of lib/ is easy. I tend to think more about the wm (which is where we have most of the problems).
......
This kinds of pushes me to try testing more of the lib though
My main OSS project is a window manager. How do you unit test that? It is nearly impossible without writing your own test X server and the like. Just not worth it.
We write or bring in small programs which test how we handle applications or events. But it is still really hard to test the whole thing.
Raster and crew had this working in their eshell (Enlightenment 17 / 18 / whatever).
It understood things like * or *.so as well as a few commands. Was fairly impressive.
One of the issues here is Java's coding standards. They want you to use:
myCoolMethod()
instead of the C norm:
my_cool_method()
so you have to remember which word is capitalized. Not that I find this to be any real problem in languages like C++ or Python where there are similar conventions. (I am not a Java hacker)