I use ghostscript and openoffice.org for all PDF creation tasks. And I think most (if not all) free PDF creation software are based on ghostscript?? Ghostscript can read Postscript and convert to a huge number of different image formats and printers formats (well, not really needed on windows)
And some other nominations: The GIMP cygwin Einstein (http://games.flowix.com)
Two interesting versioning scheme that I think of:
TeX 3: Updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.1415926 (Directly copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)
SmallEiffel (predecessor of SmartEiffel, which used a boring versioning scheme): Version numbering uses negative numbers. The first distributed version was numbered -0.99 ("minus 0.99"), the second one -0.98, the third -0.97, and so on. Version number 0.0 should be an opportunity for celebration:-) (Directly copied from http://pauillac.inria.fr/cdrom/www/SmallEiffel/man/SmallEiffelFAQ.html#Q02 )
I don't know what's the point of this finding. Do they think 2.5 hours is too fast or too slow?
This seems pretty fast for me. Most bloggers are not in 1st person contact of the event. It is understandable that they will not know the event before the media talks about that. They will also not immediate login their blog immediately to write their post. They can even write a post several days later!
It would be more interesting to study the fastest of the blog posts, say 5%, and see whether they beat the media.
1) Eye catching: before you buy a game, you don't know the gameplay. Therefore they advertise the graphics 2) Promotion: high demand on graphic card is becoming a selling point. If the display is so slow that only mid-to-highend display card are supported, it'd be a glory for the game to be used for benchmarking. 3) Reuse: Gameplay and storyline can hardly be reused, graphics easily 4) Bloating the game: make it seems more money-worthy and make it more difficult to BT
Then 0.19 is not actually released (no one use rc kernel, right?). We can only say it was not born in the right time.
BTW, since btrfs came from oracle, and it performs so poorly with sqlite and postgresql, I would be interested its performance with Oracle's own databases... oracle, Berkeley db, mysql... It would be interesting to see it runs well with Oracle RDBMS, but funny if it takes months to create the database (unitl 0.20 is out??)
Actually, since VirtualBox a desktop product, I think don't think Oracle has much interest in it. Oracle has never owned / marketed any successful desktop product. VirtualBox is actually the product that I worried most in it's recent acquires. I hope they will open-source the currently proprietary parts of the software if they are not interested.
Maybe Oracle's next target will be Citrix... then it will own and merge all major Xen based VM solutions.
(BTW, I don't think they will kill mysql. Instead, I think it will add several % to its market share by including mysql, or say that several more TB of data on the planet are stored in Oracle databases.)
It is the tradition of Oracle to distribute software with all functionality (including those separately licensed expensively) and let the user to make sure they don't use unlicensed features.
It's nice to see computer equipment which is backward compatible to 45 years ago.
The bad thing is that hardware and software for handling the data has very poor backward compatibility... I have piles of floppy disk, MD which I don't have any device to read. Hope that libraries, labs etc keeps the devices to read ancient tapes, disks or whatever.
I worked with a VB program and would gave this workaround if I found it.
One (and only one!) of the user always faced a hanging problem when saving the form (after filling in > 100 fields!!). Spent a lot of time but did not found the cause. Eventually it was found that although the 'Save' button dimmed all buttons on the form, the OnClick event could be triggered using keyboard! And the function is not re-entrant. Obviously the user was double-clicking the Enter button. If I've witnessed how him used the program, I might have suggested him to "stop typing so fast"
Actually I've faced "sequence gets out of sync" in Oracle 8i once upon a time. The database crashed and the sysadmin recovered it. Afterwards, when a sequence was used, and ORA-600 error occurred. When preparing for submitting a service request, I noted that one parameter of the ORA-600 was incrementing each time I used the sequence. I then compared that value with the data generated with the sequence, and found that the parameter is slightly smaller. I selected several more NEXTVAL, the parameter caught up with the data and eventually the error message disappeared. The DB then ran healthily for several more months before it was scrapped.
I don't know what it got out-of-sync with. I also don't know whether it was caused by the restoration. It's not easy to corrupt an oracle db and start it up.
As a supplementary, in Oracle, a sequence is only for generating unique values. It does not guarantee to be contiguous nor imply anything on sequence of events.
I think all rights are transferred to the record companies before anything is published. Is it the artists' offspring who receive the royalty, or the industry groups?
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In football (or soccer) games, I try to score (or lose?) as many own goals as possible.
For games which compensate the time for picking the ball / showing the replay, etc, it seems to take forever to complete a game.
I use ghostscript and openoffice.org for all PDF creation tasks. And I think most (if not all) free PDF creation software are based on ghostscript??
Ghostscript can read Postscript and convert to a huge number of different image formats and printers formats (well, not really needed on windows)
And some other nominations:
The GIMP
cygwin
Einstein (http://games.flowix.com)
... It effectively halves the capacity of my spindles...
Then why not simply burn two copies with no recovery data?
Another common constant is the Golden Ratio, 1.618... (or 0.618...?) But it may be too common and too high profile
Two interesting versioning scheme that I think of:
:-) (Directly copied from http://pauillac.inria.fr/cdrom/www/SmallEiffel/man/SmallEiffelFAQ.html#Q02 )
TeX 3: Updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.1415926 (Directly copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)
SmallEiffel (predecessor of SmartEiffel, which used a boring versioning scheme): Version numbering uses negative numbers. The first distributed version was numbered -0.99 ("minus 0.99"), the second one -0.98, the third -0.97, and so on. Version number 0.0 should be an opportunity for celebration
I don't know what's the point of this finding. Do they think 2.5 hours is too fast or too slow?
This seems pretty fast for me. Most bloggers are not in 1st person contact of the event. It is understandable that they will not know the event before the media talks about that. They will also not immediate login their blog immediately to write their post. They can even write a post several days later!
It would be more interesting to study the fastest of the blog posts, say 5%, and see whether they beat the media.
Nowadays most games are either RTS and FPS. The most important factor is speed. Gamers simply don't have the time to admire any humor.
1) Eye catching: before you buy a game, you don't know the gameplay. Therefore they advertise the graphics
2) Promotion: high demand on graphic card is becoming a selling point. If the display is so slow that only mid-to-highend display card are supported, it'd be a glory for the game to be used for benchmarking.
3) Reuse: Gameplay and storyline can hardly be reused, graphics easily
4) Bloating the game: make it seems more money-worthy and make it more difficult to BT
Then 0.19 is not actually released (no one use rc kernel, right?). We can only say it was not born in the right time.
BTW, since btrfs came from oracle, and it performs so poorly with sqlite and postgresql, I would be interested its performance with Oracle's own databases... oracle, Berkeley db, mysql... It would be interesting to see it runs well with Oracle RDBMS, but funny if it takes months to create the database (unitl 0.20 is out??)
We already had the best story about vapourware game: Duke Nukem For Never
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/05/07/0146233/Duke-Nukem-For-Never
No one can beat them
Actually, since VirtualBox a desktop product, I think don't think Oracle has much interest in it. Oracle has never owned / marketed any successful desktop product. VirtualBox is actually the product that I worried most in it's recent acquires. I hope they will open-source the currently proprietary parts of the software if they are not interested.
Maybe Oracle's next target will be Citrix... then it will own and merge all major Xen based VM solutions.
(BTW, I don't think they will kill mysql. Instead, I think it will add several % to its market share by including mysql, or say that several more TB of data on the planet are stored in Oracle databases.)
supernova:nova = 1000000:1
And things between wasn't discovered?
The universe is wonderful.
This looks like a subset of a previous story:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/04/06/0344206/Strange-Glitches-In-Games?art_pos=1
Unless you are disallowed to score > 72% without salary...
It is the tradition of Oracle to distribute software with all functionality (including those separately licensed expensively) and let the user to make sure they don't use unlicensed features.
It's nice to see computer equipment which is backward compatible to 45 years ago.
The bad thing is that hardware and software for handling the data has very poor backward compatibility... I have piles of floppy disk, MD which I don't have any device to read. Hope that libraries, labs etc keeps the devices to read ancient tapes, disks or whatever.
So the next will be release candidate?
Wondering how many RC will they make...
So they bought DVDs without verifying that they could be played?
Completely waste of fuel...
b) Stop the users typing so fast.
I worked with a VB program and would gave this workaround if I found it.
One (and only one!) of the user always faced a hanging problem when saving the form (after filling in > 100 fields!!). Spent a lot of time but did not found the cause. Eventually it was found that although the 'Save' button dimmed all buttons on the form, the OnClick event could be triggered using keyboard! And the function is not re-entrant. Obviously the user was double-clicking the Enter button. If I've witnessed how him used the program, I might have suggested him to "stop typing so fast"
And on one of the computers I use, I need to move the mouse around for Restaurant City (a facebook flash game) to move.
Actually I've faced "sequence gets out of sync" in Oracle 8i once upon a time. The database crashed and the sysadmin recovered it. Afterwards, when a sequence was used, and ORA-600 error occurred. When preparing for submitting a service request, I noted that one parameter of the ORA-600 was incrementing each time I used the sequence. I then compared that value with the data generated with the sequence, and found that the parameter is slightly smaller. I selected several more NEXTVAL, the parameter caught up with the data and eventually the error message disappeared. The DB then ran healthily for several more months before it was scrapped.
I don't know what it got out-of-sync with. I also don't know whether it was caused by the restoration. It's not easy to corrupt an oracle db and start it up.
As a supplementary, in Oracle, a sequence is only for generating unique values. It does not guarantee to be contiguous nor imply anything on sequence of events.
If this thing will kill voicemail, email would have killed phones already
The newsworthy part is that the less tested and less stable filesystem in beta (or alpha?) can complete the tests.
I think all rights are transferred to the record companies before anything is published. Is it the artists' offspring who receive the royalty, or the industry groups?
1) Make every Apple staff buy an iPhone
2) Make every Apple staff buy as much 3rd-party iPhone App as possible
3) Request refund
4) ???
5) Profit!