Sony Japan didn't release it today, they announced it. It will be released in Japan around August 9th, and no date has been given for the US.
Sony's handheld president Masanobu Yoshida will hold a press conference in Sanfrancisco Friday announcing a new PDA (almost certainly this one) for the US.
It depends on what kind of 'DJ' you're talking about. If you're talking about the DJ in the yellow pages doing weddings and barmitzvas, very few of them use vinyl. Why? A lot of reasons. CDs are cheaper, top 40 singles and compilations are easier to get, and since they usually have to lug out all their own equipment anyway, they have no compelling reason to want to use wax.
If you're talking about club DJs (dance music, not hiphop/top 40), then you're wrong. There are two reasons why they all use records. Any respectable club out there will have technic sl-1200 turntables and a pioneer djm?00 mixer. A lot also have the cd systems as well, but they will _always_ have the turntables. Also, and maybe more importantly, most underground dance music only comes out on vinyl.
a lot of people read CNN online. I do occasionally, but I could certainly live without it.
Re:Wine's maturity as a product isn't quite enough
on
Fun With Wine
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I read these stories of people doing absolutely astonishing things using WINE, but what the rest of us (who only have a need to touch WINE when there is something that they Must Have that isn't available for Linux-- in my case, it was the FightAIDS@Home distributed-computing client) really need is a good, central repository of "How to get Program X to work under WINE" mini-tutorials.
I was interested in your FightAIDS@Home cause, and looked up their website, but was really turned off by this excerpt of their webpage:
Entropia, a for-profit corporation, believes in "profit with a purpose". Like oxygen, profit is necessary to survive and grow, but it is not the reason for existence. Occasionally, Entropia's software will run commercial tasks on your computer, which in turn allows us to support this and other non-profit causes, like FightAIDSatHome. Entropia will continue to invest significantly in human and technological resources to drive the science of distributed computing toward ever-greater knowledge, understanding, and exploration of science, technology, and the arts.
What exactly is included in "commercial tasks." It seems to me that if I'm donating *my* spare computer cycles, and *my* electricity, you shouldn't take advantage of that by profiting from it. Oh well...
If you wan't to get into underground 'dance music' (my preferred term for the genre, although it rules out downtempo and the like), you gotta shop records!
Groovetech has thousands of audio/video broadcasts archived from the sets of many big and small name DJs. They also keep a healthy selection of vinyl that you can sample and purchase.
Tweekin Records is my favorite place to shop for vinyl. They're based out of San Francisco, update their site w/new records weekly, and have MP3 audio samples of all their records.
Satellite Records, based out of NYC, is another good place to preview and order records. All their samples are in real audio.
Why would beatmatching be any harder with an mp3 than with a CD? It's not. Especially considering professional CD players that play CD and mp3s (and emulate scratching).
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after playing with the reason modifer for a couple minutes, I noticed this bug (yes I already sent out an email):
I altered the "reason modifier" in my user preferences such that Funny comments got rated -1. The modifer is being applied correctly to "Funny" comments, but the comments are not being sorted correctly. That is, a +4 Funny shows up above a +5 Interesting. It seems to me the comments are being sorted and *then* the modifier is being applied, but I would think it should be done the other way around.
I noticed in the "Comments" section of the user preferences there is now a "Reason Modifier" section. This is great! I can finally ignore all the +5 Funny comments.
I don't understand why they can't just limit the server for use of the students of CU (hey, and maybe CSU too:).
I've tried logging in to that server countless times under the colorado.edu domain and have gotten rejected due to too many users logged in at ocne. You'd think they'd give some priority to their students.
...The street price for the unit is about US$200. You can find out more about it at its website. Here's a picture for your viewing enjoyment...
Final Thoughts and Impressions
At $150 street price, this thing is a no-brainer. Despite some of my gripes, it does what its supposed to do and does it well. I highly recommend it...
What's changed between Multplayer Test 1 and the latest test? Below you'll find some of the more notable changes.
1) Hud
- On the compass, Engineers can see which direction their dynamite objectives are in the world.
- You'll see a shield icon in the lower left, above your health letting you know when you're invulnerable (when you first reinforce and when revived by a medic)
- Messages have been moved around
- Assorted changes
2) Beach
- The Axis team will no longer have the option to spawn in the forward bunker. They can deny the Allies this spawn position by taking the flag from them and returning it to a "null" state.
- Dynamiting objectives has been tightened up. It's always best to plant the dynamite if you see the dynamite icon. If you hear the "Dynamite planted.." message, your objective will be destroyed.
3) Weapons
- MG42's take more damage
- Ammo count modified for many weapons (depending on class as well)
- Flamethrower's damage tweaked and movement speed reduced
4) Classes
- When revived by a medic, you revive with the amount of ammo you passed out with
- Medic's now get 10 revives. Good for altered max lives games as well as Stopwatch matches
- LT's can no longer pick up the Soldier specific weapons
- Engineers now get 8 grenades and another clip
- Engineers must now arm the dynamite they place. When you toss out a dynamite, you will automatically switch to the pliers.
5) Networking
- WolfMP is now using full TA networking.
6) Stopwatch Mode
- Stopwatch mode can be played in one of two ways. ABBA, or ABAB. We recommend playing in ABBA mode as this allows both sides a chance to set the clock.
- Stopwatch is played in two rounds. Which round you are in is displayed on the HUD, atop the Stopwatch icon. Try to beat the other teams' time!
7) Max Lives
- Added max number of lives/reinforcements. When this is set, you will only get as many lives/reinforcements as set by the Server. Once you are out of lives/reinforcements, you will only be able to follow the view of other team members. Once a team is out of lives/reinforcements, the round, or match will end.
- We suggest only running with max lives changed during Tourney Mode.
- We suggest playing with an unlimited number of lives during net play.
- Setting max lives to a different value can produce some hectic and frantic gameplay. We suggest practicing safe max lives with only those you know.
8) Tourney Mode
- When playing under this mode, there is an infinite warm-up time.
- Once all players in the game decide that the match should start, someone can callvote for "Match Start", if passed, the game will begin.
- Optionally, you can set the minimum number of clients for this mode. This option can be found on the Advance Server Setup screen. Once this number of people have joined the server, the game will automatically force a Match Start, allowing 20 more seconds before the game begins.
- Once the game begins, you will not be able to switch teams.
- If a player tries to connect with this enabled and the game is outside of the warmup phase, they will only be able to join as a spectator.
- This mode can not be played with one person.
- If two people are playing in this mode and one leaves, or joins the Spectators, the game will stop and the match will have to be re-started.
- You can set this mode to be played with all gametypes and settings.
- This is the preferred on-line method to play with Max Lives.
9) Other
- You no longer "time-out" to the Reinforcement Queue. You must tap out. If you are "dismembered beyond repair", you will automatically enter the reinforcement queue.
- If friendly-fire is enabled on your server, when killed by a team mate, the complaint system will pop up. If you vote yes, the team mate responsible for your death will have a complaint filed against them. Once they hit the server's setting for number of complaints until kicked, they will be kicked.
- There is a 30 second delay before you can join a different team as well as the chance of being caught in the middle of a deployment. So maximum time before being able to join another team is 30 seconds +max reinforcement time for the team on the specific level. This is default behavior. By setting Tourney Mode to "Yes", no team switching is allowed. Switching teams for an ill-effect is frowned upon.
- Spectators are now listed on the team/score panel.
- Map_restart functions just as warmup mode.
- Spectators can only talk to each other, not to the Axis or Allied teams.
- There is now a callvote menu option. Voting that is in progress will be displayed on-screen.
- Various quickchats moved around.
10) Resetting to Defaults
If you run into a situation where your config becomes trashed, or you don't like the settings you've created, run WolfMP with the following option:
"wolfmp safe"
This will set all settings to their default values.
John B. Challinor II APR - Director, Public Relations at ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI optimizes its drivers on many different levels, including the application level, the game engine level, the API level, and the operating system level. That is, some optimizations work only on specific games, while others work only on specific game engines or only on specific operating systems. In the case of Quake III and Quake III Arena, we were able to achieve certain optimizations specifically for that game, as we do for other popular games. Our engineering team is committed to providing the best visual experience for the user in all applications, with the optimal combination of high frame rates, image quality, and stability."
If they're lowering the quality of the textures they're not really 'commited to providing the best visual experience' are they?
> a/s/l
5/Robot/California.
> Wanna Cyber?
I have been asked that question more than 100,000 times since 1995.
> do you do any drugs?
Only the legal ones.
> i thought you said you smoke marijuana.
Yes I try to smoke marijuana as often as possible, do you? I am always on the Web.
"...on October 14th, 1996, Matthias Ettrich delivered his famous newsgroup posting (also HTMLized), and spawned a new era in the history of desktop environments. I think that a simple look at www.kde.org and all its related sites will show everybody just what has happened in the last five years. Congratulations to KDE, and here's to future growth and success!"
Here is another Dell Dimension 4300 I've been looking at over the weekend. I know its got some unappealing features, and I hate having to purchase a machine pre-installed with anything MS, but at $900 after rebates, plus a free palm m100.. its pretty tempting.
Its funny how there are about a half dozen different ways to approach the same model machine (through the 'Small Business', 'Home User', 'Higher Education' profiles) and each one can give you its own benefits and gripes.
This release does not include anything of use to end users. It is a technology preview release of the development platform
only. It is also not yet fully parallel installable with GNOME
1.
Damn, KDE users are getting all sorts of new toys to play with, was hoping Gnome was gonna give me some too.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Sony Japan didn't release it today, they announced it. It will be released in Japan around August 9th, and no date has been given for the US. Sony's handheld president Masanobu Yoshida will hold a press conference in Sanfrancisco Friday announcing a new PDA (almost certainly this one) for the US.
What about an equilateral triangle?
In addition to that answer:
If you're talking about club DJs (dance music, not hiphop/top 40), then you're wrong. There are two reasons why they all use records. Any respectable club out there will have technic sl-1200 turntables and a pioneer djm?00 mixer. A lot also have the cd systems as well, but they will _always_ have the turntables. Also, and maybe more importantly, most underground dance music only comes out on vinyl.
Use Phoenix Technology's handy user feedback page and let them know what you think of them bullying our open source project:
a lot of people read CNN online. I do occasionally, but I could certainly live without it.
I was interested in your FightAIDS@Home cause, and looked up their website, but was really turned off by this excerpt of their webpage:
What exactly is included in "commercial tasks." It seems to me that if I'm donating *my* spare computer cycles, and *my* electricity, you shouldn't take advantage of that by profiting from it. Oh well...
Groovetech has thousands of audio/video broadcasts archived from the sets of many big and small name DJs. They also keep a healthy selection of vinyl that you can sample and purchase.
Tweekin Records is my favorite place to shop for vinyl. They're based out of San Francisco, update their site w/new records weekly, and have MP3 audio samples of all their records.
Satellite Records, based out of NYC, is another good place to preview and order records. All their samples are in real audio.
Why would beatmatching be any harder with an mp3 than with a CD? It's not. Especially considering professional CD players that play CD and mp3s (and emulate scratching).
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Just because there aren't enough title guesses in the comment section:
Attack of the Jones!!
very sorry.
preferences -> comments -> anonymous modifier.
I believe it has the same effect.
after playing with the reason modifer for a couple minutes, I noticed this bug (yes I already sent out an email):
I altered the "reason modifier" in my user preferences such that Funny comments got rated -1. The modifer is being applied correctly to "Funny" comments, but the comments are not being sorted correctly. That is, a +4 Funny shows up above a +5 Interesting. It seems to me the comments are being sorted and *then* the modifier is being applied, but I would think it should be done the other way around.
My comment viewing settings are:
Threshold = 2, nested, and highest score first.
I noticed in the "Comments" section of the user preferences there is now a "Reason Modifier" section. This is great! I can finally ignore all the +5 Funny comments.
I don't understand why they can't just limit the server for use of the students of CU (hey, and maybe CSU too :).
I've tried logging in to that server countless times under the colorado.edu domain and have gotten rejected due to too many users logged in at ocne. You'd think they'd give some priority to their students.
Final Thoughts and Impressions
At $150 street price, this thing is a no-brainer. Despite some of my gripes, it does what its supposed to do and does it well. I highly recommend it...
Well which is it, $150 or $200?
Marcelinux?
What's changed between Multplayer Test 1 and the latest test? Below you'll find some of the more notable changes.
1) Hud
- On the compass, Engineers can see which direction their dynamite objectives are in the world.
- You'll see a shield icon in the lower left, above your health letting you know when you're invulnerable (when you first reinforce and when revived by a medic)
- Messages have been moved around
- Assorted changes
2) Beach
- The Axis team will no longer have the option to spawn in the forward bunker. They can deny the Allies this spawn position by taking the flag from them and returning it to a "null" state.
- Dynamiting objectives has been tightened up. It's always best to plant the dynamite if you see the dynamite icon. If you hear the "Dynamite planted.." message, your objective will be destroyed.
3) Weapons
- MG42's take more damage
- Ammo count modified for many weapons (depending on class as well)
- Flamethrower's damage tweaked and movement speed reduced
4) Classes
- When revived by a medic, you revive with the amount of ammo you passed out with
- Medic's now get 10 revives. Good for altered max lives games as well as Stopwatch matches
- LT's can no longer pick up the Soldier specific weapons
- Engineers now get 8 grenades and another clip
- Engineers must now arm the dynamite they place. When you toss out a dynamite, you will automatically switch to the pliers.
5) Networking
- WolfMP is now using full TA networking.
6) Stopwatch Mode
- Stopwatch mode can be played in one of two ways. ABBA, or ABAB. We recommend playing in ABBA mode as this allows both sides a chance to set the clock.
- Stopwatch is played in two rounds. Which round you are in is displayed on the HUD, atop the Stopwatch icon. Try to beat the other teams' time!
7) Max Lives
- Added max number of lives/reinforcements. When this is set, you will only get as many lives/reinforcements as set by the Server. Once you are out of lives/reinforcements, you will only be able to follow the view of other team members. Once a team is out of lives/reinforcements, the round, or match will end.
- We suggest only running with max lives changed during Tourney Mode.
- We suggest playing with an unlimited number of lives during net play.
- Setting max lives to a different value can produce some hectic and frantic gameplay. We suggest practicing safe max lives with only those you know.
8) Tourney Mode
- When playing under this mode, there is an infinite warm-up time.
- Once all players in the game decide that the match should start, someone can callvote for "Match Start", if passed, the game will begin.
- Optionally, you can set the minimum number of clients for this mode. This option can be found on the Advance Server Setup screen. Once this number of people have joined the server, the game will automatically force a Match Start, allowing 20 more seconds before the game begins.
- Once the game begins, you will not be able to switch teams.
- If a player tries to connect with this enabled and the game is outside of the warmup phase, they will only be able to join as a spectator.
- This mode can not be played with one person.
- If two people are playing in this mode and one leaves, or joins the Spectators, the game will stop and the match will have to be re-started.
- You can set this mode to be played with all gametypes and settings.
- This is the preferred on-line method to play with Max Lives.
9) Other
- You no longer "time-out" to the Reinforcement Queue. You must tap out. If you are "dismembered beyond repair", you will automatically enter the reinforcement queue.
- If friendly-fire is enabled on your server, when killed by a team mate, the complaint system will pop up. If you vote yes, the team mate responsible for your death will have a complaint filed against them. Once they hit the server's setting for number of complaints until kicked, they will be kicked.
- There is a 30 second delay before you can join a different team as well as the chance of being caught in the middle of a deployment. So maximum time before being able to join another team is 30 seconds +max reinforcement time for the team on the specific level. This is default behavior. By setting Tourney Mode to "Yes", no team switching is allowed. Switching teams for an ill-effect is frowned upon.
- Spectators are now listed on the team/score panel.
- Map_restart functions just as warmup mode.
- Spectators can only talk to each other, not to the Axis or Allied teams.
- There is now a callvote menu option. Voting that is in progress will be displayed on-screen.
- Various quickchats moved around.
10) Resetting to Defaults
If you run into a situation where your config becomes trashed, or you don't like the settings you've created, run WolfMP with the following option:
"wolfmp safe"
This will set all settings to their default values.
John B. Challinor II APR - Director, Public Relations at ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI optimizes its drivers on many different levels, including the application level, the game engine level, the API level, and the operating system level. That is, some optimizations work only on specific games, while others work only on specific game engines or only on specific operating systems. In the case of Quake III and Quake III Arena, we were able to achieve certain optimizations specifically for that game, as we do for other popular games. Our engineering team is committed to providing the best visual experience for the user in all applications, with the optimal combination of high frame rates, image quality, and stability."
If they're lowering the quality of the textures they're not really 'commited to providing the best visual experience' are they?
acm
> a/s/l
5/Robot/California.
> Wanna Cyber?
I have been asked that question more than 100,000 times since 1995.
> do you do any drugs?
Only the legal ones.
> i thought you said you smoke marijuana.
Yes I try to smoke marijuana as often as possible, do you? I am always on the Web.
You know, i posted this BEFORE the KDE topic was posted..
Anandtech has a good review that compares all the latest p4's and athlon xp's. Check it out here.
"...on October 14th, 1996, Matthias Ettrich delivered his famous newsgroup posting (also HTMLized), and spawned a new era in the history of desktop environments. I think that a simple look at www.kde.org and all its related sites will show everybody just what has happened in the last five years. Congratulations to KDE, and here's to future growth and success!"
Taken from dot.kde.org
Its funny how there are about a half dozen different ways to approach the same model machine (through the 'Small Business', 'Home User', 'Higher Education' profiles) and each one can give you its own benefits and gripes.
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Damn, KDE users are getting all sorts of new toys to play with, was hoping Gnome was gonna give me some too. :)
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