True enough, I guess the thing is that whilst the volume of these things is mostly air the interesting bit is the non-air bit.. most of the world is water, after all, and you hear relatively little news from there.
Umm.. no, I think this would be a bad thing from the perspective of MS, and hence through market manipulation the OEM suppliers.
If this happened then people may consider Linux to actually be a viable alternative to the Windows preinstalled on this machines. Personally I don't think Linux is getting there quite yet, for home use games and such are just too influential for Linux to stand a chance (And yes, I've played Nethack.. almost finished it.. nowhere near KotOR).
Businesses in themselves won't be swayed until they can run Linux and interoperate with others, via virious MS Word readers, PDF viewers and so forth.
I actually think Linux is getting there, but then I realise someone has to write something to replace legacy pap like Lotus Notes (Which I am forced to use, alas) and I despaire.. can anyone ever write anything so cohesive yet annoying without being paid for their pain?
...very well, I shall correct you. Try this page. The page you pointed at was ActiveState's funky IDE thing, ActivePerl is availably for no cost (And is actually pretty much just normal Perl with a funky different package management system so it'll work sanely in Windows).
I hate to disagree (Who am I kidding, I read Slashdot!), in most Vampire/Werewolf games they're meant to keep it a secret but it's all shoot-outs in the subway and werewolves running around everywhere yelling "Blood!".
Note that this is mot a complaint about the White Wolf rulesystem or setting (Mage and Mummy are two of my favourite RPGs, I also enjoy most of the others.. not Changeling though, seemed slightly watery), just a comment on some of the LARP Vampire games I've seen.. and been involved in.
I shall now go and atone for my sins, I may be gone some time.
Nope, any true geek would know gold is very valuable stuff. You can melt it down and use it to get extra bragging rights by being the only person in the neighbourhood who's lawnmower has gold-plated connectors (For better conductivity, naturally, which is so important in those more overgrown areas).
I feel relieved when someone like Bond looks at a large 4-digit LED display, the odds are it'll stop when it reaches 00:02, and the bomb will be defused and the world will be saved.
I'd prefer it if I got a few of his cast-off girls, though. I hear they're normally in pretty good conditition and with very little wear, except Honor Blackman.
I think on the whole with 'scrap parts' it'd probably be easier to build something to 'power your Casio' than to act as a reliable watchspring.. after all, the oscillation frequency of the timing crystal won't change.
On the other hand (Slight pun intended) it'd be easier to jury rig a cunning waterwheel mechanism to wind your existing spring-watch than charge your existing electronic gizmo.
Nah, the ThinkGeek stuff is normally too far below the radar of popular culture to even register on this kind of thing.
There's little point doing a retrospective if readers just read and go 'Uh?', even if it's about 'Forgotten Tech' you want a majority of readers to occasionally go 'Ah, I remember those.. those were the days!'.
Wow, I remember the Transformer watches. A friend of mine had one, I seem to remember being very sorry for accidentally breaking it whilst trying to transform it.
Thinking back though, considering how cunning some of the Transformers were the watch one was hardly impressive. If I recall the head flipped out of the top of the watch, the two arms just pulled from the sides (They did include some of the cover though so weren't spindly little efforts, this was a real Man's Transformer watch), and the bottom of the watch just kind of swung down on spindly little efforts to become the legs (Okay, the bottom half was less manly.. more Kate Moss in snowboots).
Ah, fond memories of breaking other people's toys! Not like now, of course, where I'm paid to break other people's toys.. well, that's the upshot anyway.
What seems to happen with me occasionally with certain words, I'll just misread it on the initial glance and suddenly I seem unable to actually 'see' the word.
Possibly the silliest example was whilst playing Scrabble with my younger brother, he was in a bad position and ended up putting down 'stone'.. my brain just couldn't read it for some odd reason, and I ended up demanding to know what the hell a 'stoh-nee' was.
He found this amusing, for some odd reason.
Yes, this is horribly off-topic for the main topic, but this is Slashdot where side-topics can get a life of their own and be pretty much as interesting.
I'd say that if you're on about the graphics subsystem of DirectX then OpenGL is pretty much at the same level if.. and only if.. you are willing to use the standardised extensions.
If you're not using these expect slowness, if you're using the non-standardised vendor-specific extensions then expect more speed but more difficulty in making it work across the board.
I'd say a recent and rather more successful innovative input device is the Eyetoy.
Sure at heart it's a cheap'n'nasty USB camera, but it's something that hadn't been used to control games before and which a rather large number of people actually seem to consider fun, at least more fun than rapid eyebrow twitching.
True enough, but since Google is only selling 10-15% of their stocks (at least according to the article) a hostile takeover isn't possible no matter how much money is thrown about.
A friendly over-the-counter takeover, now that's another matter..
Isn't the point of evolution to become MORE advanced? I mean, Janeway and Paris turned into freaking LIZARDS!
Having seen too many episodes of Voyager I'd say lizards would be a definite step up for most of the crew. Fair enough on the other two points, though.
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Reading what he says he wanted this partition for, it sounds like he's right. All of your points for NTFS being superior to FAT32 are correct in general, but in this particular case are not convincing.
The partition is meant to be a mirror of his MP3 player, and I'd hope he has his collection burnt to CD/DVD somewhere. Journaling isn't that major here, data loss isn't too great a risk compared to having to use a FS which isn't an exact mirror of his player's. If there's hardware failure then hit the shiny pile of CDs and copy them back, no biggie.
The metadata is already in the ID tags of his MP3s, and in a way that his player can understand. Why would he want NTFS adding extra metadata which'd get lost when he moved the data across? Performance is secondary to practicality here, and very much so, he's after something which is like his player and not an optimised MP3 retreival system.
You're right about database algorithms being very fast and offering many nice features, but in this case the features are not only not useful but they're a positive hinderance. His player will only sync with a FAT32 partition, no matter how many nifty bells and whistles NTFS offers it's still a FAT32 partition his player wants. Windows will not let him create this, not merely advise against it but not allow it, and as such I view this as a flaw.
Note that I'm not generally a Microsoft-basher in any sense.. I actually quite like Windows 2000/XP despitie this being a less-than-popular view here, but in this case there is a definite and unwarranted stupid restriction.
Ah, you made the mistake of thinking Slashdot was unbiased professional journalism? It's a common mistake, keep reading it and the symptoms will go away though.
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Ah yes, but having the DUI limit at almost twice the lethal dose makes it so much easier to spot them.
Nah. he's have to get his dad to help with that. His dad is l33t, or so I hear.
True enough, I guess the thing is that whilst the volume of these things is mostly air the interesting bit is the non-air bit.. most of the world is water, after all, and you hear relatively little news from there.
Umm.. no, I think this would be a bad thing from the perspective of MS, and hence through market manipulation the OEM suppliers.
If this happened then people may consider Linux to actually be a viable alternative to the Windows preinstalled on this machines. Personally I don't think Linux is getting there quite yet, for home use games and such are just too influential for Linux to stand a chance (And yes, I've played Nethack.. almost finished it.. nowhere near KotOR).
Businesses in themselves won't be swayed until they can run Linux and interoperate with others, via virious MS Word readers, PDF viewers and so forth.
I actually think Linux is getting there, but then I realise someone has to write something to replace legacy pap like Lotus Notes (Which I am forced to use, alas) and I despaire.. can anyone ever write anything so cohesive yet annoying without being paid for their pain?
A British computer scientist, you say? Why not try Tim Berners-Lee and his recent knighthood?
...very well, I shall correct you. Try this page. The page you pointed at was ActiveState's funky IDE thing, ActivePerl is availably for no cost (And is actually pretty much just normal Perl with a funky different package management system so it'll work sanely in Windows).
I hate to disagree (Who am I kidding, I read Slashdot!), in most Vampire/Werewolf games they're meant to keep it a secret but it's all shoot-outs in the subway and werewolves running around everywhere yelling "Blood!".
Note that this is mot a complaint about the White Wolf rulesystem or setting (Mage and Mummy are two of my favourite RPGs, I also enjoy most of the others.. not Changeling though, seemed slightly watery), just a comment on some of the LARP Vampire games I've seen.. and been involved in.
I shall now go and atone for my sins, I may be gone some time.
Nope, any true geek would know gold is very valuable stuff. You can melt it down and use it to get extra bragging rights by being the only person in the neighbourhood who's lawnmower has gold-plated connectors (For better conductivity, naturally, which is so important in those more overgrown areas).
That's no Discman, that's a spacestation.. or at least a playstation..
I feel relieved when someone like Bond looks at a large 4-digit LED display, the odds are it'll stop when it reaches 00:02, and the bomb will be defused and the world will be saved.
I'd prefer it if I got a few of his cast-off girls, though. I hear they're normally in pretty good conditition and with very little wear, except Honor Blackman.
I think on the whole with 'scrap parts' it'd probably be easier to build something to 'power your Casio' than to act as a reliable watchspring.. after all, the oscillation frequency of the timing crystal won't change.
On the other hand (Slight pun intended) it'd be easier to jury rig a cunning waterwheel mechanism to wind your existing spring-watch than charge your existing electronic gizmo.
Nah, the ThinkGeek stuff is normally too far below the radar of popular culture to even register on this kind of thing.
There's little point doing a retrospective if readers just read and go 'Uh?', even if it's about 'Forgotten Tech' you want a majority of readers to occasionally go 'Ah, I remember those.. those were the days!'.
Wow, I remember the Transformer watches. A friend of mine had one, I seem to remember being very sorry for accidentally breaking it whilst trying to transform it.
Thinking back though, considering how cunning some of the Transformers were the watch one was hardly impressive. If I recall the head flipped out of the top of the watch, the two arms just pulled from the sides (They did include some of the cover though so weren't spindly little efforts, this was a real Man's Transformer watch), and the bottom of the watch just kind of swung down on spindly little efforts to become the legs (Okay, the bottom half was less manly.. more Kate Moss in snowboots).
Ah, fond memories of breaking other people's toys! Not like now, of course, where I'm paid to break other people's toys.. well, that's the upshot anyway.
What seems to happen with me occasionally with certain words, I'll just misread it on the initial glance and suddenly I seem unable to actually 'see' the word.
Possibly the silliest example was whilst playing Scrabble with my younger brother, he was in a bad position and ended up putting down 'stone'.. my brain just couldn't read it for some odd reason, and I ended up demanding to know what the hell a 'stoh-nee' was.
He found this amusing, for some odd reason.
Yes, this is horribly off-topic for the main topic, but this is Slashdot where side-topics can get a life of their own and be pretty much as interesting.
Aerogel is not made of air, it's a bizarre form of silicon dioxide, which is actually the same chemical that quartz is comprised of.
Although they're evidently slightly lapsed as they seem free on the first Sunday of the week.
I'd say that if you're on about the graphics subsystem of DirectX then OpenGL is pretty much at the same level if.. and only if.. you are willing to use the standardised extensions. If you're not using these expect slowness, if you're using the non-standardised vendor-specific extensions then expect more speed but more difficulty in making it work across the board.
The question should really be 'Why should you build a GPS system with the express design that a foreign military can jam it?'.
I'd say a recent and rather more successful innovative input device is the Eyetoy.
Sure at heart it's a cheap'n'nasty USB camera, but it's something that hadn't been used to control games before and which a rather large number of people actually seem to consider fun, at least more fun than rapid eyebrow twitching.
We're actually talking about the guy, Linus, not the kernel or the OS.. the fact that the acticle randomly calls him Linux is somewhat bizarre.
The proper name is GNU/Linus
True enough, but since Google is only selling 10-15% of their stocks (at least according to the article) a hostile takeover isn't possible no matter how much money is thrown about.
A friendly over-the-counter takeover, now that's another matter..
Isn't the point of evolution to become MORE advanced? I mean, Janeway and Paris turned into freaking LIZARDS!
Having seen too many episodes of Voyager I'd say lizards would be a definite step up for most of the crew. Fair enough on the other two points, though.
Reading what he says he wanted this partition for, it sounds like he's right. All of your points for NTFS being superior to FAT32 are correct in general, but in this particular case are not convincing.
The partition is meant to be a mirror of his MP3 player, and I'd hope he has his collection burnt to CD/DVD somewhere. Journaling isn't that major here, data loss isn't too great a risk compared to having to use a FS which isn't an exact mirror of his player's. If there's hardware failure then hit the shiny pile of CDs and copy them back, no biggie.
The metadata is already in the ID tags of his MP3s, and in a way that his player can understand. Why would he want NTFS adding extra metadata which'd get lost when he moved the data across? Performance is secondary to practicality here, and very much so, he's after something which is like his player and not an optimised MP3 retreival system.
You're right about database algorithms being very fast and offering many nice features, but in this case the features are not only not useful but they're a positive hinderance. His player will only sync with a FAT32 partition, no matter how many nifty bells and whistles NTFS offers it's still a FAT32 partition his player wants. Windows will not let him create this, not merely advise against it but not allow it, and as such I view this as a flaw.
Note that I'm not generally a Microsoft-basher in any sense.. I actually quite like Windows 2000/XP despitie this being a less-than-popular view here, but in this case there is a definite and unwarranted stupid restriction.
Ah, you made the mistake of thinking Slashdot was unbiased professional journalism? It's a common mistake, keep reading it and the symptoms will go away though.