This could cause issues with any controls that perform different functions when dragged or clicked.
There are a number of controls that do respond on a simple mousedown event (such as menus), so it's would be just a matter of redefining which controls are necessary to wait for a mouseup, which would then necessitate users remembering which is which.
That's solved fairly trivially by requiring the card to be removed from the machine before the requested cash is dispensed. Thats how many ATMs in Australia do it.
I seem to remember reading in the book that the decision for recreating Neanderthals actually started from the idea of using them for medical testing, as the Neanderthals are pretty close to human in regards to physiology...
Ah, here is the relevant passage:
'The Neanderthal experiment was conceived in order to create the euphemistically entitled "medical test vessels", living creatures that were as close as possible to humans without actually being human within the context of the law. The experiment was an unparalleled success - and failure. The Neanderthal was everything that could be hoped for. A close cousin but not human, physiologically almost identical - and legally with less rights than a dormouse. But sadly for Goliath, even the hardiest of medical technicians balked at experiments conducted upon intelligent and speaking entities, so the first batch of Neanderthals were trained instead as "expendable combat units", a project that was shelved as soon as the lack of aggressive instincts in the Neanderthals was noted. They were subsequently released into the community as cheap labour and became a celebrated tax write-off. It was Homo sapiens at his least sapient.'
Gerhard VON SQUID - Neanderthals Back after a Short Absence
From "Something Rotten" by Jasper Fforde. (Goliath being the megacorp that cloned the 'thals).
Also highly recommended is the "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy by Robert J Sawyer (although it's pretty much straight scifi, not comedic like Fforde's books).
If you can still get your hands on one, the HiEbook (by some Korean manufacturer) is fairly decent device. I've been using mine for 10 months now, and my friend and his wife have theirs for at least twice as long. It's mainly designed just for reading ebooks, and is about A6 in size.
It can use html, doc (if you have MS Word to autoconvert) and its own format. Upload via small USB cable with (windows only) software; or via a card reader if you get a SmartMedia card for it (only up to 128MB though).
It also has some minimal PDA functions, although the CPU is underpowered, and the touch screen a little insensitive. It can, however, play mp3s through the headphone port; and has an inbuilt microphone for voice recording (can't vouch for the quality, never used it).
It comes with a few apps such as text/draw memo (no graphiti input), calendar, address, schedule; and 4 games: othello, omok, sokoban and puzzle. There is a version of minesweeper available, and my friend is wrighting Taipei for it.
It also has a decent backlight (which unfortunately has a soft whine, so there are contraindications for using it in a quiet room), and a nice pleather holder with wrist strap; and if you do get one, use the strap, as the screen can crack if you drop it from a metre or so.
Pros:
Decent sized (touch-)screen
Doesn't require proprietary formats
3 font sizes
Pretty pleather holder
Pretty green backlight
SDK available
Charge lasts quite a while if just reading without backlight
Cons:
Backlight whines slightly
Contrast changes when environment is hot (have to jump to system to change it)
Hard to find (there were only 2 left in my small city when I got mine)
Overall, although the design is a few years old now, it's the best ebook reader I've managed to find that doesn't have bad DRM. (I really wanted the sony LibrIe when I read about it, mmm e-ink, but the DRM was horrible so I didn't bother spending all that money.)
For a lossless codec, try HuffYUV; its a damn sight better than uncompressed frames, though still quite huge compared to any lossy format; mostly its good for intermediate editing.
The distinction between a planet-moon and binary planet system is usually the common centre of mutual orbit. If it resides in one body, that body is the planet, and the other a moon, however if it lies between them, in space, then it is a binary planet system.
You have completed the six step program. Microsoft is now dead! Have a nice day!
Since we have '6 GOTO 5' how can we complete this six step program? Oh, wait I forgot, Linux is so fast it can complete an infinite loop in 5 seconds:)
I did the exact same thing, the Honor Harrington series is the best martial space books I've read in a while, and I urge people to read through On Basilisk Station at Baen
(btw, There are 9 novels and 3 short stories of it now:)
The world is spherical; God(s) hasn't(haven't) been shown to exist; A 4 minute old foetus is not a human, a 9 month old foetus is, in between is shades of grey.
Apparently SDL is also quite good. I've been organising a rewrite of the old classic C64 (and other platforms) game Wizball and my friend has started on it.
I told him he should check out SDL and he loves it, it's quite easy to use, and I'm looking forward to learning C to help him:)
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This could cause issues with any controls that perform different functions when dragged or clicked.
There are a number of controls that do respond on a simple mousedown event (such as menus), so it's would be just a matter of redefining which controls are necessary to wait for a mouseup, which would then necessitate users remembering which is which.
That's solved fairly trivially by requiring the card to be removed from the machine before the requested cash is dispensed.
Thats how many ATMs in Australia do it.
I'm fine with that as long as we can call real kittens 'land-fish' (a la Stephen Colbert)
Sean Williams.
(Then of course, there's Peter Hamilton, Vernor Vinge, Stephen Baxter, Iain M. Banks...)
I seem to remember reading in the book that the decision for recreating Neanderthals actually started from the idea of using them for medical testing, as the Neanderthals are pretty close to human in regards to physiology...
Ah, here is the relevant passage:
From "Something Rotten" by Jasper Fforde. (Goliath being the megacorp that cloned the 'thals).
Also highly recommended is the "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy by Robert J Sawyer (although it's pretty much straight scifi, not comedic like Fforde's books).
If you can still get your hands on one, the HiEbook (by some Korean manufacturer) is fairly decent device. I've been using mine for 10 months now, and my friend and his wife have theirs for at least twice as long. It's mainly designed just for reading ebooks, and is about A6 in size.
It can use html, doc (if you have MS Word to autoconvert) and its own format. Upload via small USB cable with (windows only) software; or via a card reader if you get a SmartMedia card for it (only up to 128MB though).
It also has some minimal PDA functions, although the CPU is underpowered, and the touch screen a little insensitive. It can, however, play mp3s through the headphone port; and has an inbuilt microphone for voice recording (can't vouch for the quality, never used it).
It comes with a few apps such as text/draw memo (no graphiti input), calendar, address, schedule; and 4 games: othello, omok, sokoban and puzzle. There is a version of minesweeper available, and my friend is wrighting Taipei for it.
It also has a decent backlight (which unfortunately has a soft whine, so there are contraindications for using it in a quiet room), and a nice pleather holder with wrist strap; and if you do get one, use the strap, as the screen can crack if you drop it from a metre or so.
Pros:
Cons:
Overall, although the design is a few years old now, it's the best ebook reader I've managed to find that doesn't have bad DRM. (I really wanted the sony LibrIe when I read about it, mmm e-ink, but the DRM was horrible so I didn't bother spending all that money.)
For a lossless codec, try HuffYUV; its a damn sight better than uncompressed frames, though still quite huge compared to any lossy format; mostly its good for intermediate editing.
Nah, I know many virgins who aren't system administrators.
Because magnetic induction or contact friction will reduce the kinetic energy of the bob each swing, whereas optical methods won't.
The distinction between a planet-moon and binary planet system is usually the common centre of mutual orbit. If it resides in one body, that body is the planet, and the other a moon, however if it lies between them, in space, then it is a binary planet system.
F12 -> Deselect "Enable plug-ins"
Tomacco!
Except many stars may not have planets around them.
Why would you need sight holes in glass?
David Brin wrote Earth, not OSC.
You can't patent file formats? Well maybe not unless you are
Microsoft.
Virtualdub had to remove asf importing because of that very reason.
But terrabit is a perfectly cromulent word, just like unpossible. :)
Step 5) Play Tux Racer
:)
Step 6) Repeat step 5
You have completed the six step program. Microsoft is now dead! Have a nice day!
Since we have '6 GOTO 5' how can we complete this six step program?
Oh, wait I forgot, Linux is so fast it can complete an infinite loop in 5 seconds
I did the exact same thing, the Honor Harrington series is the best martial space books I've read in a while, and I urge people to read through On Basilisk Station at Baen
:)
(btw, There are 9 novels and 3 short stories of it now
The world is spherical; God(s) hasn't(haven't) been shown to exist; A 4 minute old foetus is not a human, a 9 month old foetus is, in between is shades of grey.
Absolutes don't always exist.
It is quite a shock to see something central to daily life appear on /.
:)
I have the honour of working on the Cerenkov reconstruction routines, in Fortran no less
I think this says it nicely :)
Apparently SDL is also quite good. I've been organising a rewrite of the old classic C64 (and other platforms) game Wizball and my friend has started on it. :)
I told him he should check out SDL and he loves it, it's quite easy to use, and I'm looking forward to learning C to help him
I didn't think it was possible, but this both sucks and blows.
Yes, but if A is orthogonal to B, and B is orthogonal to C; it does not automatically follow that A is orthogonal to C.