Thank you for the concise and thoughtful comments. I'm glad to see your attitude toward a competitor is constructive and even positive. It really adds credence to the whole "two major DE's foster healthy competition in the open source world."
I ran the game with everything high at 1680x1050 and it looks awesome, very playable, no lag.
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2GB OCZ Platinum 800MHz
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The 15 FPS was on "an nVidia 8600 card." I am quite sure the same is true in Vista (where DX10 features incur a huge performance penalty).
If you set it wrap tabs to multiple lines, and use the MDI-style "close button in the top right of the screen," this isn't such a problem. The limitation generally exists in the amount of information my brain can hold.
Opera has certainly had the "reopen closed tabs" option for a while now.
I never realized how much I needed it until I had it. Accidentally close the wrong page or wnat to check one last thing before you did? Hit Ctrl-Z and there it is. Close something half an hour ago and have a new reason to look at it? Click the trashcan icon it's right there.
From the linked wiki page: "CPU clock speed: 433 Mhz"
400 mhz is workable, but is definitely a little closer to the too slow category than 700.
That said, I ran a Linux-based media pc in my living room on an old Celeron 400 mhz. Surely the Geode will do better clock for clock than the Celeron did (it did drop some frames in high-motion scenes, but not too many).
It doesn't defy anything IMO. We only get around half the energy from the gas as usable mechanical force (in theory). The rest is waste heat.
This simply uses the heat otherwise wasted by a regular otto cycle engine. BMW already has a way of doing the same that's conceptually simpler to understand. Although theirs is more mechanically complex and seems to lend itself to inefficiencies.
Actually, pretty much all the combinations you mention already exist:
Autogyros
Gyroplanes (lift with rotors, cruise with wings) (link)
Gyrodynes (lift off with rotors, cruise like an autogyro) (link)
Sam
Re:Now corrects barrel distortion!
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And you seem to be missing the point:
I don't even know what "HLS, HSV, CIE LAB" are, and you are correct, I don't use many layers.
Like probably 99% of gimp users.
Works great for me, and anyone else I've ever shown it to. Honestly, they're just excited to get a relatively featureful photo editor for free. As am I.
I know David Weber is not ever going to win any awards for "great literature," but dang it if the man's books (especially the Dahak series) aren't a lot of fun to read.
Sam
Now corrects barrel distortion!
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Probably the most useful thing in this new release is the barrel distortion correction abilities and red eye tools. I haven't gotten to play with it yet, but I hope it enables setting/saving lens parameters for different cameras.
This will definitely streamline my photo editing, as I had to go to panotools and hugin to correct the barrel distortion in my point-and-shoot cameras, but the gimp for color correction, cropping, etc. The improved color menu layout and cropping tools will be great (I always hated that alternate-diagonals cropping system it had before).
The 16 bit color and CMYK, I couldn't give half a crap about. I mean, what proportion of gimp users need that stuff anyway? One percent? Half a percent? I think most gimp detractors just like panning something for the sake of it.
The specification is for board layout and standard port placement, case layout, etc.
Manufacturers can put whatever they want on the boards, sheesh. It's got a standardized backplane, just stick a new IO shield in your standard DTX case for one that's got optical outs and TV tuner built in and you're all set.
The real motivation's simply manufacturing: they can make exactly four of these boards on a standard manufacturing panel: less waste, less price.
Sam
This is the worst idea I've seen in a long time. Just imagine the situation each weekday morning as half the tower's population is queuing up to leave.
It's not just like waiting for an elevator. This thing can't stop partway and take on more cars. You're looking at a full trip down then back up for each car that leaves. One car at a time. Not only that, but I can hardly imagine it will travel even close to the speed as an express elevator.
I foresee a lot of people getting sick of this thing and just parking elsewhere. On the plus side, that's a hell of a nice freight elevator when you need to move in/out. You could drive a forklift right from the ground floor to the apartment door.
Or Bostonned. You know, for stories where a ridiculous overreaction occurs and the authorities act not as if they've made a mistake, but the innocent party has done something, "we're just not sure what we can charge him with."
I am from the south (though not currently there), and I'll concur. There's a poem about it by a fellow named Dickey. I don't particularly like the style, but this photo really reminds me of it and the creepy, almost hopelessness of doing battle with kudzu. I tried to post it, but slashdot doesn't seem to allow poetry. You can view it here.
By the way, kudzu vines can literally grow 1ft/day from an established taproot, and each taproot can throw out 30 vines in a year and weigh in at several hundred pounds. There are stories of little old ladies' houses being completely covered as they couldn't keep up with removing the crap.
Thankfully it is nearly sterile and almost always spreads vegetatively. God help us if it ever becomes easily bird-disseminated.
Sam
The lameness filter doesn't like linebreaks so here is some breakless Shakespeare Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others KING HENRY IV
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock And furious close of civil butchery
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, March all one way and be no more opposed Against acquaintance, kindred and allies: The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are impressed and engaged to fight, Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. But this our purpose now is twelve month old, And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go: Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland, What yesternight our council did decree In forwarding this dear expedience. WESTMORELAND My liege, this haste was hot in question,
And many limits of the charge set down But yesternight: when all athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;
Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken, A thousand of his people butchered; Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,
Such beastly shameless transformation, By those Welshwomen done as may not be Without much shame retold or spoken of. KING HENRY IV
It seems then that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the Holy Land. WESTMORELAND This match'd with other did, my gracious lord; For more uneven and unwelcome news Came from the north and thus it did import: On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That ever-valiant and approved Scot, At Holmedon met, Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour, As by discharge of their artillery, And shape of likelihood, the news was told; For he that brought them, in the very heat And pride of their contention did take horse, Uncertain of the issue any way. KING HENRY IV Here is a dear, a true industrious friend, Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.
Stain'd with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours; And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
The Earl of Douglas is discomfited: Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
On Holmedon's
That's funny, because filling out the form for a hunting license requires you to give them your social security number.
Why? So they can check to see if you're a deadbeat dad in some state.
If that's not flagrant abuse of what's already an effective national ID [number], I don't know what is. I'm not even a father at all, but when I asked the reason they wanted my SSN and that's what they told me, I felt violated.
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Dare I say it? +1 Justin Timberlake!
Thank you for the concise and thoughtful comments. I'm glad to see your attitude toward a competitor is constructive and even positive. It really adds credence to the whole "two major DE's foster healthy competition in the open source world."
Sam
Shrimp with claws do exist, you know.
Sam
Sam
If you set it wrap tabs to multiple lines, and use the MDI-style "close button in the top right of the screen," this isn't such a problem. The limitation generally exists in the amount of information my brain can hold.
Sam
Tools->Folder Options->View, "Hide file extensions for known types". This should be on by default.
Oh, now THERE'S a great idea if I ever saw one.
Sam
Opera has certainly had the "reopen closed tabs" option for a while now.
I never realized how much I needed it until I had it. Accidentally close the wrong page or wnat to check one last thing before you did? Hit Ctrl-Z and there it is. Close something half an hour ago and have a new reason to look at it? Click the trashcan icon it's right there.
What a great feature.
Sam
From the linked wiki page:
"CPU clock speed: 433 Mhz"
400 mhz is workable, but is definitely a little closer to the too slow category than 700.
That said, I ran a Linux-based media pc in my living room on an old Celeron 400 mhz. Surely the Geode will do better clock for clock than the Celeron did (it did drop some frames in high-motion scenes, but not too many).
It doesn't defy anything IMO. We only get around half the energy from the gas as usable mechanical force (in theory). The rest is waste heat.
This simply uses the heat otherwise wasted by a regular otto cycle engine. BMW already has a way of doing the same that's conceptually simpler to understand. Although theirs is more mechanically complex and seems to lend itself to inefficiencies.
Sam
Actually, pretty much all the combinations you mention already exist:
Autogyros
Gyroplanes (lift with rotors, cruise with wings) (link)
Gyrodynes (lift off with rotors, cruise like an autogyro) (link)
Sam
And you seem to be missing the point:
I don't even know what "HLS, HSV, CIE LAB" are, and you are correct, I don't use many layers.
Like probably 99% of gimp users.
Works great for me, and anyone else I've ever shown it to. Honestly, they're just excited to get a relatively featureful photo editor for free. As am I.
Sam
I know David Weber is not ever going to win any awards for "great literature," but dang it if the man's books (especially the Dahak series) aren't a lot of fun to read.
Sam
Probably the most useful thing in this new release is the barrel distortion correction abilities and red eye tools. I haven't gotten to play with it yet, but I hope it enables setting/saving lens parameters for different cameras.
This will definitely streamline my photo editing, as I had to go to panotools and hugin to correct the barrel distortion in my point-and-shoot cameras, but the gimp for color correction, cropping, etc. The improved color menu layout and cropping tools will be great (I always hated that alternate-diagonals cropping system it had before).
The 16 bit color and CMYK, I couldn't give half a crap about. I mean, what proportion of gimp users need that stuff anyway? One percent? Half a percent? I think most gimp detractors just like panning something for the sake of it.
Signed,
A GIMP user for years.
The specification is for board layout and standard port placement, case layout, etc. Manufacturers can put whatever they want on the boards, sheesh. It's got a standardized backplane, just stick a new IO shield in your standard DTX case for one that's got optical outs and TV tuner built in and you're all set. The real motivation's simply manufacturing: they can make exactly four of these boards on a standard manufacturing panel: less waste, less price. Sam
This is the worst idea I've seen in a long time. Just imagine the situation each weekday morning as half the tower's population is queuing up to leave.
It's not just like waiting for an elevator. This thing can't stop partway and take on more cars. You're looking at a full trip down then back up for each car that leaves. One car at a time. Not only that, but I can hardly imagine it will travel even close to the speed as an express elevator.
I foresee a lot of people getting sick of this thing and just parking elsewhere. On the plus side, that's a hell of a nice freight elevator when you need to move in/out. You could drive a forklift right from the ground floor to the apartment door.
Sam
Well, Stallman proves himself useful to Redhat! "I'm sorry sir, but our company makes no such product as this 'Linux.' We sell GNU/Linux." Heh.
I have, many times in the form of CDs direct from the artist and from their own personal websites (after checking RIAAradar just to be sure).
Sam
I propose a new tag: Bostoned
Or Bostonned. You know, for stories where a ridiculous overreaction occurs and the authorities act not as if they've made a mistake, but the innocent party has done something, "we're just not sure what we can charge him with."
Land of the Free? Home of the Brave?
Whoops, forgot to take out the erm... filler.
I am from the south (though not currently there), and I'll concur. There's a poem about it by a fellow named Dickey. I don't particularly like the style, but this photo really reminds me of it and the creepy, almost hopelessness of doing battle with kudzu. I tried to post it, but slashdot doesn't seem to allow poetry. You can view it here.
By the way, kudzu vines can literally grow 1ft/day from an established taproot, and each taproot can throw out 30 vines in a year and weigh in at several hundred pounds. There are stories of little old ladies' houses being completely covered as they couldn't keep up with removing the crap.
Thankfully it is nearly sterile and almost always spreads vegetatively. God help us if it ever becomes easily bird-disseminated.
Sam
The lameness filter doesn't like linebreaks so here is some breakless Shakespeare Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others KING HENRY IV So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock And furious close of civil butchery Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, March all one way and be no more opposed Against acquaintance, kindred and allies: The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are impressed and engaged to fight, Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. But this our purpose now is twelve month old, And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go: Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland, What yesternight our council did decree In forwarding this dear expedience. WESTMORELAND My liege, this haste was hot in question, And many limits of the charge set down But yesternight: when all athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news; Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower, Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken, A thousand of his people butchered; Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse, Such beastly shameless transformation, By those Welshwomen done as may not be Without much shame retold or spoken of. KING HENRY IV It seems then that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the Holy Land. WESTMORELAND This match'd with other did, my gracious lord; For more uneven and unwelcome news Came from the north and thus it did import: On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That ever-valiant and approved Scot, At Holmedon met, Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour, As by discharge of their artillery, And shape of likelihood, the news was told; For he that brought them, in the very heat And pride of their contention did take horse, Uncertain of the issue any way. KING HENRY IV Here is a dear, a true industrious friend, Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse. Stain'd with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours; And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news. The Earl of Douglas is discomfited: Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see On Holmedon's
Actually, there're already much smaller (maybe cellphone sized?) turbines on the way:
MIT Turbine on a chip
Sam
That's funny, because filling out the form for a hunting license requires you to give them your social security number.
Why? So they can check to see if you're a deadbeat dad in some state.
If that's not flagrant abuse of what's already an effective national ID [number], I don't know what is. I'm not even a father at all, but when I asked the reason they wanted my SSN and that's what they told me, I felt violated.
Sam
Sounds like a good time.
Sam
Hi, In your link, the photo of the sign for the model plant says: 29.4% net peak efficiency Sam
Clearly your bank is superior to mine.
Sam