A lot of airports I've been to have got a unidirectional double-door tunnel only wide enough for one person to pass, but with far enough between the doors to allow bringing hand luggage without trouble. This kind of exits can usually be found right before the baggage claim area.
It's not fool-proof, because it relies on the exiting passengers to alert if someone tries to enter the wrong way, but seeing as you need help from two leaving passengers, and it's virtually impossible to enter while someone leaves, it's still a good security measure at a very low cost, without causing any hassle for the passengers, and without the theatrics...
There's a similar system in use for at least some of the parking lots in my home city. You pay by sending an sms with your registration number. When there's 15 minutes left of your parking time, you'll receive a reminder via sms; by replying to that sms you can then prolong the parking period. Totally awesome:)
Things like foundation documents, constitutions, etc., seems to be generally ignored these days. Consider the FRA-law in Sweden, the PATRIOT act in the US... The examples are numerous. These days I'm generally more surprised if people keep to their ideals. Then again, I'm a cynic.
The reason is that OSI approves pretty much every license on earth. The FSF has nothing to do with OSI (if they did, I would lose all respect for the FSF, considering the crap licenses accepted by OSI)...
Yeah, those pesky bastards in Germany doing business with unfriendly nations, while the glorious Ronald 'Iran-Contra' Reagan did not at all organise weapons shipments to Iran. Not all all. No sir...
Try to sign up for Couch Surfing; with a bit of luck there's an active local community where you live. For instance, here in Tampere, Finland (a large city by Finnish measures, but a very small city anyway; 200 000 inhabitants) we have a very lively community, with one or several meetings every week.
The meetings touch lots of different subjects; since there's usually a lot of immigrants or foreign exchange students participating, there's been cooking evenings with food from all over the world, there's been language groups; both Finnish for those who want to learn the weird language spoken here -- personally I've given up long ago and other languages, there's been film events, there are usually weekly sauna, there's hiking trips, etc.
Then there's of course also the original idea behind Couch Surfing; letting travellers crash at your sofa for a night or two, and doing the same while you travel. A great way not only to get away a bit cheaper when travelling, but also to make new contacts and to get help to see more than the normal tourists do when travelling to other cities or countries.
No way a new gen is released anytime soon... I mean, there hasn't even been ONE final fantasy release on the next gen consoles... PS2 had 3.
Between 2-4 depending on how you count... Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XII. But FFXI was online, and FFX-2 was so shitty that it doesn't deserve mentioning... But to be fair, I'll say 2.5.
ZFS ins't BSD licensed; it's licensed using the (non-GPL compatible) CDDL. If it had been BSD licensed, I suspect it would've been supported in the Linux kernel a long time ago already...
You know, at these sizes, a smaller display, with retained pixel count, means *more* expensive, not less. Higher DPI, you know, trickier to manufacture.
Patent free, better sound quality/smaller files (usually either/or, but sometimes both at the same time), guaranteed DRM-free. I buy all my music and rip it to Ogg FLAC (and transcode to Ogg Vorbis for portable use). I haven't checked on Pirate Bay... Let's turn the question around: What good is AAC? Is it the possibility for DRM you love or the patent encumberance?
The Samsung YP-U[123] (BTW, don't import one from the US; the US firmware has no support for Ogg Vorbis) devices seems to be quite easy to get hold of all over Europe; I bet you can find that one in Italy as well. But I'd recommend trying to find a Cowon iAudio instead (possibly by ordering it online). Less bugs in the Ogg Vorbis support plus support for Ogg FLAC.
Yes, and most channels still broadcast SD, which brings us around full circle again to my original question (but if the remaining HD-material is what you're using your TV for, fine, I have got the answer I wanted). And most stuff on TV is crap anyway, except for BBC Food. Best... Channel... Ever!
If you re-read my message, you'll note that I don't question that in any way. I question why you'd need an HDTV at all if you only use SD-material on it... (Oh, and you're either buying waaay to expensive DVD's, or are lucky to find very cheap BD's; at least here I can usually find DVD's for 5â if I wait a few months after the release, but the cheapest BD's, even a year after release, at 20â).
What's the point with an HDTV if the only things you have connected to it are a DVD-player and a Wii? Neither of them provides an HD-signal (and don't waste your breath on upscaling).
scummvm has had support for Sam'n'Max for ages. Easiest way to play it is to copy all the files onto your computer and point scummvm at them (start scummvm, select "Add game...", point it at the directory where the samnmax.000 file is located
(if I'm not all mistaken, all the files you really need are samnmax.000, samnmax.001, samnmax.c26, and monster.sou).
Good luck!
At least I'm still happily playing games on my PS2, and it was released 2000. The big advantage of a console is that the game houses have a fixed platform to develop for. They don't need to worry about NVidia vs ATI, amount of RAM installed, OS-version, libraries installed, etc. They know the limitations from the start, and they can optimise for that hardware.
Yes, they do. As a simple test, make a normal phone call in an area with full coverage. Then make another phone call with really bad coverage (try an elevator, a parking garage or similar). You'll notice that the phone gets hotter when the coverage is bad.
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Yup, you take notes using a stylus (search for the word stylus on the page and you'll find it).
A lot of airports I've been to have got a unidirectional double-door tunnel only wide enough for one person to pass, but with far enough between the doors to allow bringing hand luggage without trouble. This kind of exits can usually be found right before the baggage claim area.
It's not fool-proof, because it relies on the exiting passengers to alert if someone tries to enter the wrong way, but seeing as you need help from two leaving passengers, and it's virtually impossible to enter while someone leaves, it's still a good security measure at a very low cost, without causing any hassle for the passengers, and without the theatrics...
You could always put that kind of explanations in a separate NOTES file though.
There's a similar system in use for at least some of the parking lots in my home city. You pay by sending an sms with your registration number. When there's 15 minutes left of your parking time, you'll receive a reminder via sms; by replying to that sms you can then prolong the parking period. Totally awesome :)
Things like foundation documents, constitutions, etc., seems to be generally ignored these days. Consider the FRA-law in Sweden, the PATRIOT act in the US... The examples are numerous. These days I'm generally more surprised if people keep to their ideals. Then again, I'm a cynic.
The reason is that OSI approves pretty much every license on earth. The FSF has nothing to do with OSI (if they did, I would lose all respect for the FSF, considering the crap licenses accepted by OSI)...
Yeah, those pesky bastards in Germany doing business with unfriendly nations, while the glorious Ronald 'Iran-Contra' Reagan did not at all organise weapons shipments to Iran. Not all all. No sir...
Try to sign up for Couch Surfing; with a bit of luck there's an active local community where you live. For instance, here in Tampere, Finland (a large city by Finnish measures, but a very small city anyway; 200 000 inhabitants) we have a very lively community, with one or several meetings every week.
The meetings touch lots of different subjects; since there's usually a lot of immigrants or foreign exchange students participating, there's been cooking evenings with food from all over the world, there's been language groups; both Finnish for those who want to learn the weird language spoken here -- personally I've given up long ago and other languages, there's been film events, there are usually weekly sauna, there's hiking trips, etc.
Then there's of course also the original idea behind Couch Surfing; letting travellers crash at your sofa for a night or two, and doing the same while you travel. A great way not only to get away a bit cheaper when travelling, but also to make new contacts and to get help to see more than the normal tourists do when travelling to other cities or countries.
Just my 2Â.
Between 2-4 depending on how you count... Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XII. But FFXI was online, and FFX-2 was so shitty that it doesn't deserve mentioning... But to be fair, I'll say 2.5.
ZFS ins't BSD licensed; it's licensed using the (non-GPL compatible) CDDL. If it had been BSD licensed, I suspect it would've been supported in the Linux kernel a long time ago already...
You know, at these sizes, a smaller display, with retained pixel count, means *more* expensive, not less. Higher DPI, you know, trickier to manufacture.
Don't forget FreeCol! Even more fun, IMHO.
At high enough bitrate even MP3's sound ok. It's at lower bitrates you should be able to tell the difference.
Patent free, better sound quality/smaller files (usually either/or, but sometimes both at the same time), guaranteed DRM-free. I buy all my music and rip it to Ogg FLAC (and transcode to Ogg Vorbis for portable use). I haven't checked on Pirate Bay... Let's turn the question around: What good is AAC? Is it the possibility for DRM you love or the patent encumberance?
The Samsung YP-U[123] (BTW, don't import one from the US; the US firmware has no support for Ogg Vorbis) devices seems to be quite easy to get hold of all over Europe; I bet you can find that one in Italy as well. But I'd recommend trying to find a Cowon iAudio instead (possibly by ordering it online). Less bugs in the Ogg Vorbis support plus support for Ogg FLAC.
Yes, and most channels still broadcast SD, which brings us around full circle again to my original question (but if the remaining HD-material is what you're using your TV for, fine, I have got the answer I wanted). And most stuff on TV is crap anyway, except for BBC Food. Best... Channel... Ever!
If you re-read my message, you'll note that I don't question that in any way. I question why you'd need an HDTV at all if you only use SD-material on it... (Oh, and you're either buying waaay to expensive DVD's, or are lucky to find very cheap BD's; at least here I can usually find DVD's for 5â if I wait a few months after the release, but the cheapest BD's, even a year after release, at 20â).
What's the point with an HDTV if the only things you have connected to it are a DVD-player and a Wii? Neither of them provides an HD-signal (and don't waste your breath on upscaling).
scummvm has had support for Sam'n'Max for ages. Easiest way to play it is to copy all the files onto your computer and point scummvm at them (start scummvm, select "Add game...", point it at the directory where the samnmax.000 file is located (if I'm not all mistaken, all the files you really need are samnmax.000, samnmax.001, samnmax.c26, and monster.sou). Good luck!
Nope. There are three different SMS formats; 7-bit (160 characters), 8-bit (140 characters), and utf-16 (up to 70 characters).
Wow, this is interesting. I better blog about it...
At least I'm still happily playing games on my PS2, and it was released 2000. The big advantage of a console is that the game houses have a fixed platform to develop for. They don't need to worry about NVidia vs ATI, amount of RAM installed, OS-version, libraries installed, etc. They know the limitations from the start, and they can optimise for that hardware.
Maybe in the same way Microsoft managed to forget 1902 versions between Windows 98 and 2000?
Yes, they do. As a simple test, make a normal phone call in an area with full coverage. Then make another phone call with really bad coverage (try an elevator, a parking garage or similar). You'll notice that the phone gets hotter when the coverage is bad.
Selling devices that include FM-transmitters are illegal in several European countries, so it's not surprising.