Nah, that's a sop to the automobile industry, it just makes people buy new cars. Just tax gas until its $10/gallon, people will start conserving, I promise you that!
If they really *need* that hummer to drive their kids to soccer practice, they'll keep doing it.
DST is not free, it costs valuable daylight time after work.
But what I really begrudge is the lack of daylight in the winter. When DST shifts, it kills the fall frizbee season dead, because people can't get from work to the frisbee field and have any daylight to play. And you just know nobody will ever play before work.
Outdoor recreation after work is infinately more valuable to me than oil. If we want to save oil, we'll stop driving (and yes, I bike, thank you very much).
Why not use USB? Because fucktards designed the USB jack to be rectangular, and you have to look up its ass everytime to figure out which side that little plastic spacer is on. That's crappy and prone to breakage.
I'm not a wizard, but boy I sure liked "Dr Who". I've tried some other tables (none that you list), and they just couldn't hold a candle to the good Doctor. Has anyone else ever played it? Did you think it exceptional?
Along with the 2 movies we received recently I've got a DVD next to the TV we've been meaning to watch for 3 months.
If you're the jerk holding onto their one copy of Battlestar Galactica, return the damn thing already!!! Sheesh! I've been waiting on that for three months!
The only sort of application that a typical user (i.e. a non-developer) uses that's actually capable of maxing the CPU is, say, video editing, or a high-performance game.
Lets not forget the age-old benchmark suite: Dragging or resizing windows overlapping other windows. Xterm has no ghosting and only takes 5% cpu when I wiggle the mouse at max speed. Xterm is a highly optimized application. Firefox visibly lags and has recognizable garbage in the framebuffer before it refreshes, and it takes 70% cpu.
Its ironic that basic window manager ops continue to lag 2ghz systems.
I kinda still don't get it. I mean, I've looked at a lot of apps that were underpowered, but from a software standpoint it was impossible (or prohibitively expensive) to rewrite them to take advantage of multiple cpus. (I'm THINKING OF YOU, Allegro Common Lisp!).
Therefore I'd rather have one super-duper chip that runs 150% faster than an average chip, than two average chips. (regardless of whether the two average chips are on the same physical chip, or plugged into different sockets on the mobo). Is the 150% faster super-duper chip not possible with the same resources as the two-on-one chip?
I cut up an old beachtowel and taped swatches of it to all the sheer sides of the insides of my case that were easily accessible. It cut the noise considerably. At the time (2003) slashdotters scoffed, saying the towel would generate lint which would lead to the destruction of my precious AMD K6-3-based-motherboard, but its 2005 and the computer's still going strong.
"potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free..."
Wow, that's a lot of songs on a single CD, they've got to be very well compressed. Oooh, baby, lets hear that 0x7A song again. Its got a great beat and easy to dance to!
Last episode Starbuck performed the following feats:
1) Single-handedly took out 6 cylon raiders while defending her rookie wingman 2) crashed into a moon with (what luck!) a gas pressure of ~1 atmosphere and 1 gravity 3) happened to have a parachute that worked on that moon 4) found a crippled but basically intact crashed cylon raider (same had fallen from space, apperantly). Found it while on foot. Well crawling, really, she had a broken ankle. 5) Repaired same cylon raider using tape and scraps of flight suit. 5b) repaired hull breach and found source of breathable O2 in cylon raider, using same materials as above. 6) learned to fly cylon raider (which is machine/biotech, never designed for humans to fly). 7) peering through a porthole and operating controls never laid out for a human, manages to not only beat, but humiliate Apollo (in battle-worthy human-designed ship) in dogfight. Think "greetings" scene in Top Gun.
Compared to all that, waterskiiing over a shark is childsplay.
what's wrong with 800x600 for FPSers? The most popular FPSer currently is Halo 2, which runs on craptastic TVs, which are, what, 320x200 ?
8 bit propritary code ... hm ...
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Archon to be Revived
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The game is not open source because it contains some of the original 8-bit code
So, let me get this straight, they want to develop a new archon, but gosh darn it, we can't because we've got this legacy 8 bit code?!
Gentlemen, this game is mind-numbingly straightforward to code. We're talking IJKL controls moving sprites around the screen. Throw out the 20 year old code. Then open it up. Do or do not, there is no try!
I have the cheaper still 1740, and it mostly works. Every now and again some program can't print (e.g. The Gimp), but its mostly trivial to print to file and then print using lp. $130 after rebate at best buy (not on sale), toner carts $89 at same, carts last "3000" pages (really more like 1500 in my non-scientific guess).
Arr! Barrier to entry: not high, says I!
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Actually, after RTFA, I disagree. I think the purpose of releasing a SDK is to foster new innovations.
I donno, they sound pretty desperate to me. Any legal feature joe hacker dreams up will be easily cloned by their competitors.
Now if they create some illegal features, and are allowed to distribute them without tivo's knowlege or consent, that's something the cable companies won't easily be wanting to clone. Y'know, features associated with parrots, wooden legs, and X-marks-the-spot maps? Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.
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just advocating that the government fuck us in the ass with another oppressive tax.
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Not us, just you! I only bike, remember?
I hold up the other end of a typical USB cable as an example of a good design. I haven't found any way to screw that up yet.
Nah, that's a sop to the automobile industry, it just makes people buy new cars. Just tax gas until its $10/gallon, people will start conserving, I promise you that!
If they really *need* that hummer to drive their kids to soccer practice, they'll keep doing it.
DST is not free, it costs valuable daylight time after work.
But what I really begrudge is the lack of daylight in the winter. When DST shifts, it kills the fall frizbee season dead, because people can't get from work to the frisbee field and have any daylight to play. And you just know nobody will ever play before work.
Outdoor recreation after work is infinately more valuable to me than oil. If we want to save oil, we'll stop driving (and yes, I bike, thank you very much).
Why not use USB? Because fucktards designed the USB jack to be rectangular, and you have to look up its ass everytime to figure out which side that little plastic spacer is on. That's crappy and prone to breakage.
(sweetly:) Next question please?
int main (void)
;
{
for (int i=0; 1; i++)
}
I'm not a wizard, but boy I sure liked "Dr Who". I've tried some other tables (none that you list), and they just couldn't hold a candle to the good Doctor. Has anyone else ever played it? Did you think it exceptional?
Along with the 2 movies we received recently I've got a DVD next to the TV we've been meaning to watch for 3 months.
If you're the jerk holding onto their one copy of Battlestar Galactica, return the damn thing already!!! Sheesh! I've been waiting on that for three months!
Its not ad-free. Anything in Real format is itself an advertisement for Real. I'm not buyin'!
Lets not forget the age-old benchmark suite: Dragging or resizing windows overlapping other windows. Xterm has no ghosting and only takes 5% cpu when I wiggle the mouse at max speed. Xterm is a highly optimized application. Firefox visibly lags and has recognizable garbage in the framebuffer before it refreshes, and it takes 70% cpu.
Its ironic that basic window manager ops continue to lag 2ghz systems.
I kinda still don't get it. I mean, I've looked at a lot of apps that were underpowered, but from a software standpoint it was impossible (or prohibitively expensive) to rewrite them to take advantage of multiple cpus. (I'm THINKING OF YOU, Allegro Common Lisp!).
Therefore I'd rather have one super-duper chip that runs 150% faster than an average chip, than two average chips. (regardless of whether the two average chips are on the same physical chip, or plugged into different sockets on the mobo). Is the 150% faster super-duper chip not possible with the same resources as the two-on-one chip?
I imagine there are tons of people like me who can't watch the show, but would love to be able to.
They're called "friends". We watch the show freely and legally at our "friends" house, and there's nothing illegal about it.
Yeah, what's with that?
What I don't understand is why window.open() is in the api at all. Or rather why there isn't a checkbox in the prefs:
window.open is no-op, except for these specifically white-listed sites:...
OLD TOWEL!
I cut up an old beachtowel and taped swatches of it to all the sheer sides of the insides of my case that were easily accessible. It cut the noise considerably. At the time (2003) slashdotters scoffed, saying the towel would generate lint which would lead to the destruction of my precious AMD K6-3-based-motherboard, but its 2005 and the computer's still going strong.
Seriously good idea. I mean, with all these car theives, what incentive is there to buy a car? At some point all the cars become collective property.
Wow, that's a lot of songs on a single CD, they've got to be very well compressed. Oooh, baby, lets hear that 0x7A song again. Its got a great beat and easy to dance to!
It's like no cheese I've ever tasted, lad.
Too bad the show just jumped the shark!
Last episode Starbuck performed the following feats:
1) Single-handedly took out 6 cylon raiders while defending her rookie wingman
2) crashed into a moon with (what luck!) a gas pressure of ~1 atmosphere and 1 gravity
3) happened to have a parachute that worked on that moon
4) found a crippled but basically intact crashed cylon raider (same had fallen from space, apperantly). Found it while on foot. Well crawling, really, she had a broken ankle.
5) Repaired same cylon raider using tape and scraps of flight suit.
5b) repaired hull breach and found source of breathable O2 in cylon raider, using same materials as above.
6) learned to fly cylon raider (which is machine/biotech, never designed for humans to fly).
7) peering through a porthole and operating controls never laid out for a human, manages to not only beat, but humiliate Apollo (in battle-worthy human-designed ship) in dogfight. Think "greetings" scene in Top Gun.
Compared to all that, waterskiiing over a shark is childsplay.
what's wrong with 800x600 for FPSers? The most popular FPSer currently is Halo 2, which runs on craptastic TVs, which are, what, 320x200 ?
The game is not open source because it contains some of the original 8-bit code
So, let me get this straight, they want to develop a new archon, but gosh darn it, we can't because we've got this legacy 8 bit code?!
Gentlemen, this game is mind-numbingly straightforward to code. We're talking IJKL controls moving sprites around the screen. Throw out the 20 year old code. Then open it up. Do or do not, there is no try!
I have the cheaper still 1740, and it mostly works. Every now and again some program can't print (e.g. The Gimp), but its mostly trivial to print to file and then print using lp. $130 after rebate at best buy (not on sale), toner carts $89 at same, carts last "3000" pages (really more like 1500 in my non-scientific guess).
Actually, after RTFA, I disagree. I think the purpose of releasing a SDK is to foster new innovations.
I donno, they sound pretty desperate to me. Any legal feature joe hacker dreams up will be easily cloned by their competitors.
Now if they create some illegal features, and are allowed to distribute them without tivo's knowlege or consent, that's something the cable companies won't easily be wanting to clone. Y'know, features associated with parrots, wooden legs, and X-marks-the-spot maps? Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.
Where's the spacebar? Dude, if I can't hit the spacebar reliably with my FOREHEAD, then I'm not interested!
No wait, isn't this just an ad for video games? And maybe I'm just jaded, but they don't make any of them sound compelling at all. Meh.