I never used an ad-blocker, but their advertising was so intrusive that an ad-blocker was a necessity to be able to read their news on a netbook with a small screen.
Why does this promise of a sequel merit a Slashdot article?
Maybe it can be considered a decent niche game, but nothing major.
I received it bundled with my Gamecube, but I gave up after 3 hours of play: I was bored.
The cool part: the "insanity" concept. Nothing new but it worked rather well.
The bad part: which zombie size do you want today? S/M/L? Because that is the only monster you will see for hours. Ahhh, another room full of: 3 Small zombies, 2 medium ones and one big one. Woah, exciting...
Anyway, if you liked Eternal Darkness, probably you should consider playing Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy).
Once, I installed a Linux box acting as an Appletalk/NFS/FTP/Samba server for a company doing video/audio productions. The processor was a Cyrix P166, more than enough to saturate the coaxial ethernet. So I decided to underclock the processor a lot (I think something around the half of its original speed). After two years, the company called me. During a storm, lightning hit their electrical grid and fried one of the HD in the server. When I opened it, I discovered that not only was the HD dead, but the CPU fan had failed for about 1 year (this is an estimation done using the amount of dust on it). Still the heat dissipator was keeping the CPU cool enough! Thanks to underclocking!
Given the level of your school, I think you should introduce the students to some (semi-) formal methods of designing web sites beside introducing the technologies (DB, CSS,...).
This is clearly too late: it just seems a move to get some attention for two families of GPU that did not receive much attention.
If VIA and XGI really believe in Open Source, they should give out the source and all needed documentation BEFORE the chipset hits the market, not after months or years.
This means having Linux/BSD/Else drivers ready when the chipset is finally available for the end user.
I know of no religion that has both saturday and sunday as a holy day:)
Anyway, you could do as in Italy, where the voting is sometimes spread on 3 days (saturday, sunday, monday).
As for the free time: maybe I live in a utopia, but I need no more than 2 minutes to vote here in Switzerland. A lot of people go to curch/for a walk/for a travel, and before doing that they go voting. We get all the voting forms at home, we can send them by mail, or we can go to the voting booth. Along with the voting material we get a letter with some barcode on it: if you vote by mail, you send it along, otherwise you bring it with you. You enter, the read the data via a cheap bar-code reader, eventually check an ID, and you can vote.
And, before someone objects, Switzerland is a lot smaller than the USA, but the process is VERY scalable (think of trees:)
I think the car is ugly, but this is something else. The fact that Smart did a massive marketing campaign elevated the crappy car to coolness status.
It was always presented as a cool urban car for the cool 30-35 years old, and the marketing had a certain success in planting this idea into the europeans' mind.
As for the review of your magazine, I can only agree 100% (see my original post).
I live in Switzerland and had the possibility to test drive one of the two seats model.
Positive points: - looks cool - each passenger has a lot of room (really)
Negative points: - automatic shift is very slow, it is dangerous and reduces confort (it brakes the car during the shift) - the vertical construction implies rather hard suspensions, with reduced confort (you feel every bump in the road in your spine) - noisy inside - pricy
In Europe you can find lots of small cars that have a comparable MPG (or better km/l), have 4 seats and are cheaper.
To sum it up, coolness factor aside, I would not reccomend it.
I use Cygwin to run under Windows a rather complex apllication that is developed under Linux. Everything goes well, but there are some small thing to notice:
- the performance usually is comparable to that on Unix. Sometimes I get the impression that the network operations are a bit slower (just an impression, but it repeats itself)
- some libraries/applications may need shared memory: configuring the ipc-daemon (or cygsrv), which provide IPC share memory, is sometimes rather tricky. Once they are configured, they work without problems.
- sometimes you get a weird remap error when trying to link or load some libraries. There you have to use the rebaseall utility, which will fix the conflicting addresses
- Cygwin comes with X windows, which can greatly simplify your life.
- The default Cygwin shell is ugly and lacks many capabilities: it is better to install rxvt (which does not need to have X installed) to have a very Unix compatible terminal.
In Carl Sagan's novel "Contact", the message was encoded in the digits of Pi. Sadly they produced an horrible movie out of an excellent book, and they left out this idea, which was the ray of hope at the end of the story.
That is not a problem. As you may guess every district counts its own votes and sends the result to the central election office. It is rather easy to parallelize!
I really cannot understand why this craze about voting machines: what is wrong with using pen and paper?
I do not see any problem, it works without a glitch almost in the whole Europe.
Here in Switzerland we vote at least 10 times a year with pen and paper and we do not have to deal with horrors like the 2000 USA election or all this voting machine discussion.
There is a great book about the technical details of Formula 1 cars (it even explains the meaning of all the buttons on the steering whell:)
It written by the RAI's (Italian TV) technical commentator for the F1 championship. I can only suggest it for the people interested in all the technological details about the F1 cars: it sports lot of beautiful color drawings and diagrams, showing really every small part of the cars.
Here you can find a very good short guide to LaTeX. It is not comprehensive, but it can get you started fast, and contains all the basic to intermediate material you need to typeset technical documents. It is used widely at my university.
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Data structures in functional languages behave exactly in this way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional#Examples_of_purely_functional_data_structures
I use an ad-blocker and the main reason is Ars!
I never used an ad-blocker, but their advertising was so intrusive that an ad-blocker was a necessity to be able to read their news on a netbook with a small screen.
You have two options:
The first: be the BOFH and laugh at the stupid users, who do not read/understand the error.
The second: be the smart programmer and anticipate user errors.
This means that for typical user errors you should provide a concise description of the problem and a text explaining how to correct the problem.
Example:
"The date you entered is wrong." should be "The date you entered cannot be parsed. Please provide the date in the format YYYY/MM/DD, e.g. 2009/12/12".
Of course, if an error pops up multiple time a day, it may be that the software is not very intuitive.
After reading the review, I miss an important point.
How does this game compare to Shen Mue? It seems that Yakuza is its direct descendant.
They both have combat, asian city blocks to explore and minigames.
They also seem to share a plot-driven approach.
More in general, I feel that reviews should position a game, by comparing it to the more similar alternatives.
Why does this promise of a sequel merit a Slashdot article?
Maybe it can be considered a decent niche game, but nothing major.
I received it bundled with my Gamecube, but I gave up after 3 hours of play: I was bored.
The cool part: the "insanity" concept. Nothing new but it worked rather well.
The bad part: which zombie size do you want today? S/M/L? Because that is the only monster you will see for hours. Ahhh, another room full of: 3 Small zombies, 2 medium ones and one big one. Woah, exciting...
Anyway, if you liked Eternal Darkness, probably you should consider playing Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy).
Really, this could impact the future of PS3 much more than the delay or Blue Ray/HD DVD madness.
Firefox 1.5 has one of the coolest features you can imagine: SVG.
Everything is well integrated with XUL/Javascript.
This opens the door to many applications that were not possible before without resorting to Java/Flash/ActiveX/...
Think of a Gantt chart editor in your browser.
Think of a graphical editor in your browser.
Think of a CAD in your browser.
SVG has the potential to move the kind of operations you can perform in a browser to the next level.
Once, I installed a Linux box acting as an Appletalk/NFS/FTP/Samba server for a company doing video/audio productions.
The processor was a Cyrix P166, more than enough to saturate the coaxial ethernet.
So I decided to underclock the processor a lot (I think something around the half of its original speed).
After two years, the company called me. During a storm, lightning hit their electrical grid and fried one of the HD in the server. When I opened it, I discovered that not only was the HD dead, but the CPU fan had failed for about 1 year (this is an estimation done using the amount of dust on it). Still the heat dissipator was keeping the CPU cool enough!
Thanks to underclocking!
Given the level of your school, I think you should introduce the students to some (semi-) formal methods of designing web sites beside introducing the technologies (DB, CSS, ...).
My suggestions are:
WebML and WebRatio
Additionally (shameless plug), you could introduce some special cases of web design such as the one described here and implemented here.
This is clearly too late: it just seems a move to get some attention for two families of GPU that did not receive much attention.
If VIA and XGI really believe in Open Source, they should give out the source and all needed documentation BEFORE the chipset hits the market, not after months or years.
This means having Linux/BSD/Else drivers ready when the chipset is finally available for the end user.
Download CPUBurn here.
Run x instances, where x is the number of CPUs in your machine.
As easy as that.
Simple answer.
Option 1:
direct download -> 5$
Option 2:
torrent download -> 3$
Option 3:
DVD by mail -> 15$
You can obtain a cheaper price if you use Bittorrent, since you pay a part of the distribution costs (with your bandwidth).
If we really need to compress our images even more, why not push the JPEG 2000 standard, which has even more impressive results?
I know of no religion that has both saturday and sunday as a holy day :)
:)
Anyway, you could do as in Italy, where the voting is sometimes spread on 3 days (saturday, sunday, monday).
As for the free time: maybe I live in a utopia, but I need no more than 2 minutes to vote here in Switzerland. A lot of people go to curch/for a walk/for a travel, and before doing that they go voting.
We get all the voting forms at home, we can send them by mail, or we can go to the voting booth. Along with the voting material we get a letter with some barcode on it: if you vote by mail, you send it along, otherwise you bring it with you.
You enter, the read the data via a cheap bar-code reader, eventually check an ID, and you can vote.
And, before someone objects, Switzerland is a lot smaller than the USA, but the process is VERY scalable (think of trees
And mind you we vote 6/7 times every year!
The USA could begin by making people vote on Saturday and Sunday. Many countries vote on these days: people tend to have more time during the weekend.
A unified voting procedure also helps: just as an example you can then use national television to illustrate the voting procedure.
The coolness factor is only a product of the marketing pressure, nothing else.
The car is crappy and ugly for me, but the marketing department of Smart was able to position it in the cool section.
About the coolness.
I think the car is ugly, but this is something else.
The fact that Smart did a massive marketing campaign elevated the crappy car to coolness status.
It was always presented as a cool urban car for the cool 30-35 years old, and the marketing had a certain success in planting this idea into the europeans' mind.
As for the review of your magazine, I can only agree 100% (see my original post).
I am not informed about the diesel, but for normal engines you could look at the Suzuki Alto 1.1.
It's 4.7 l/100km vs the 4.7 l/100km of the smart fortwo coupe 37kW.
Or the Daihatsu Cuore which sports a 4.6 l/100 km.
I live in Switzerland and had the possibility to test drive one of the two seats model.
Positive points:
- looks cool
- each passenger has a lot of room (really)
Negative points:
- automatic shift is very slow, it is dangerous and reduces confort (it brakes the car during the shift)
- the vertical construction implies rather hard suspensions, with reduced confort (you feel every bump in the road in your spine)
- noisy inside
- pricy
In Europe you can find lots of small cars that have a comparable MPG (or better km/l), have 4 seats and are cheaper.
To sum it up, coolness factor aside, I would not reccomend it.
I use Cygwin to run under Windows a rather complex apllication that is developed under Linux.
Everything goes well, but there are some small thing to notice:
- the performance usually is comparable to that on Unix. Sometimes I get the impression that the network operations are a bit slower (just an impression, but it repeats itself)
- some libraries/applications may need shared memory: configuring the ipc-daemon (or cygsrv), which provide IPC share memory, is sometimes rather tricky. Once they are configured, they work without problems.
- sometimes you get a weird remap error when trying to link or load some libraries. There you have to use the rebaseall utility, which will fix the conflicting addresses
- Cygwin comes with X windows, which can greatly simplify your life.
- The default Cygwin shell is ugly and lacks many capabilities: it is better to install rxvt (which does not need to have X installed) to have a very Unix compatible terminal.
It goes even better!
In Carl Sagan's novel "Contact", the message was encoded in the digits of Pi.
Sadly they produced an horrible movie out of an excellent book, and they left out this idea, which was the ray of hope at the end of the story.
That is not a problem.
As you may guess every district counts its own votes and sends the result to the central election office.
It is rather easy to parallelize!
I really cannot understand why this craze about voting machines: what is wrong with using pen and paper?
I do not see any problem, it works without a glitch almost in the whole Europe.
Here in Switzerland we vote at least 10 times a year with pen and paper and we do not have to deal with horrors like the 2000 USA election or all this voting machine discussion.
Why bother with electronic voting machines?
There is a great book about the technical details of Formula 1 cars (it even explains the meaning of all the buttons on the steering whell :)
It written by the RAI's (Italian TV) technical commentator for the F1 championship.
I can only suggest it for the people interested in all the technological details about the F1 cars: it sports lot of beautiful color drawings and diagrams, showing really every small part of the cars.
Title: Formula One 2001: Technical Analysis
by Giorgio Piola
Here
you can find a very good short guide to LaTeX. It is not comprehensive, but it can get you started fast, and contains all the basic to intermediate material you need to typeset technical documents. It is used widely at my university.