It apparently has little or no support for non-latin scripts, which seems to be one reason it's not released more widely.
I'd be surprised if simple things like diacritics weren't supported though.
I suppose future versions will probably do better, but unfortunately the leaked designs for the kindle v2 suggests they've discarded the "funky-but-comfy" design philosophy for something completely generic.
I find that I tend to prefer the reflections on glossy screens. In a non-dark environment, there's usually dimly visible reflection of something, no matter how you nudge it, but after a while I just stop noticing them. My brain seems much better at this sort of mental "filtering out" when the reflections are coherent images, whereas the indistinct glare and reduced contrast from a matte screen never really seem to go away.
Another difference seems to be that anti-reflection coatings work much better with glossy screens (are they even possible with matte screens?).
I must admit I have no idea what you're saying/implying (what is a "Snap"?), but it seems fairly clear that this is just a convenient way for people with an internet connection, but no wifi access, to get their wii online.
There are two jacks on back: "internet", and "LAN". You plug your existing internet router into the "internet" jack, then plug in your PC (which presumably was previously plugged directly into the internet router) to the "LAN" jack.
So your PC presumably continues to work more or less as before, but now you have wifi access to your internet router as well. I've no idea how the extra layer will interact with typical setups, but presumably they've thought about that and tested it. [The switch on the back says "router/bridge/auto", so there's a slight bit of control over how the layering is done.]
Since I'm in exactly this situation -- I have a wii and an internet router with only one jack for a PC, so my wii isn't online -- I'm looking forward to this product. It seems cheap and convenient.
Not to mention the idiocy of suggesting that everyone actually agrees on anything.
I'm an American, but I know a lot of very smart foreigners working in the U.S. on H1-B's who make normal U.S. wages, and who are as good or better than their U.S. "competition". Given what I've seen, the constant whining on slashdot about H1-Bs has always seemed petty.
If you start adding stops in between the two end points, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what the top speed is, the average speed will suck badly.
Sure adding a lot of stops will lower the average speed noticeably, but the effect of 1 or 2 needn't be that bad.
High speed electric trains can accelerate very, very quickly (the N700 Shinkansen, for instance, can accelerate to 270km/h in only a few minutes), and on a well-managed system, the stop time can be very short (e.g., less than 1 minute at a minor station).
Indeed one of the cool things about trains is that the impact of additional stops is pretty minor, especially when compared to an airplane (where even a single extra stop obviously has an enormous effect on average speed).
When my son saw it, naturally (for a three year old) he charged straight towards it with his arms out, laughing. The pheasant looked pretty surprised and eventually bolted for the nearest bush. Hilariously, it just stuck it's head in while it's body and legs remained flat on the floor, completely exposed.
Possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Perhaps the rest of the peasants were on the other side of the bush.... waiting....
NTFS-3G works pretty well. I'm not sure FAT32 is really necessary any more.
FAT may suck, but it's the only thing understood by a lot of embedded software like BIOSes, device firmware, etc...
Indeed, for that reason it seems like FAT may very well be more useful than NTFS. FAT will probably stay around for quite a while as a "braindead, but simple and widespread" exchange format, but the only excuse for NTFS is windows.
Just as far as chronology goes there are many more primitive religions that Christianity pretty much every major religion other than Islam is older than Christianity
Er, but he made no mention of "chronology", and "older than" is certainly not synonymous with "more primitive than".
In defence of the Awesome bar, I only used it for about an hour before dismissing it, but I reckon 1 hour is enough...
Not necessarily. I used the FF2 simple address-bar matching heavily, so FF3's "enhancements" really screwed up my habits; moreever, it was a lot slower than FF2's matching. I found it quite annoying.
After a few weeks, though, I got used to the FF3 behavior, and indeed it does seem a lot more useful on average than FF2's simple functionality (it's still slower, but recently I bought a faster machine anyway...). It can take some time to get over your old habits though.
Geez... the gtk+ toolkit, and the other assorted infrastructure libraries, are some of the main strengths of gnome. Even if the gnome project as a whole is kind of wacky, it's got some technically pretty solid underpinnings.
Remove those, and what's left, besides the comical leadership?
Such cynicism is necessary, though, for the greater good of the country. The terrorists from the Middle East want to kill all Americans.
If we were to do nasty things to only "the terrorists," well fine, they probably deserve it.
However, the general population of the countries this manual is aimed at are not terrorists. They are average people. The vast majority of them are not going to attack the U.S., and are largely concerned with getting on with their own lives peacefully.
If this manual is advocating using such tactics generally, then it is almost certainly going to cause far more problems than it solves, by giving the general populace a reason to hate us.
I think the residents of Madrid and London would disagree there.
Er, well the point is not that terrorists can't attack train systems, nor that doing so doesn't scare people, but that such attacks don't have the insane "effectiveness multiplier" that attacks against airliners (in the 9/11 style) can have.
That's because the opportunity for collateral damage is far less (a disrupted commuter schedule is damned annoying, but it's not really the same as taking out a skyscraper), and a major train accident is far more survivable for the passengers.
Trains are more vulnerable to trackside bombs (or track damage), but obviously that has no relationship to "kill switches" or TSA-style security theater.
Hey, they obviously left out cars and trains here.
I guess you're kidding, but... what would would be point with a train, really?
The reason why planes are extra-dangerous is that they make great guided missles: they can be flown just about anywhere, and can cause huge amounts of damage when they hit.
Trains... can't. Sure they're big, but they are simply suck as a missile -- they can't really hit anything important except for other trains. They are also relatively slow and easily disabled by other means (becaue the train's direction "control" is external to the train, via switches).
So trains are unattractive for would-be terrorists (you can bomb a passenger train, but it's more or less the same as bombing a crowded restaurant), and not a major problem for similar reasons.
Cars are sort of in-between in terms of danger (car bombs are, after all, a perennial favorite of terrorists), but obviously kill-switches for cars would be a silly idea (because they're not centrally controlled and rigidly scheduled, you'd never know to throw it until it was too late).
in short, Git has already won and expect it to be the biggest source code versioning system in less than two years from now.
Indeed. Hg had an early boost from large organizations (e.g. sun), apparently because of it's better windows support at the time, but it seems clear that git has the majority of mindshare these days, especially in the FOSS world.
Here's a graph of scm system on usage on debian which made the rounds recently (note this is based on "popcon" statistics, which measure use of each tool). The top two descending lines are CVS and SVN; the third-from-the-top ascending line is git; the rest of the lines inclucde hg, bzr, darcs, etc. This data obviously isn't perfect, but it seems pretty much reflect the trends that I've observed.
So that leaves what, exactly? An inherent disdain for the platform itself, which is suicidal for a game company to ignore the #1 platform in the market.
I get the feeling that in Capcom's case, they were simply too gullible, and got caught up in Sony's hype for the PS3 (Capcom management has never been particularly bright).
They thought the PS3 was going to be the only system that mattered, so by the time it became apparent that the Wii was kicking the PS3's ass, Capcom already had a bunch of games in development which assumed super high-powered graphics and bog-standard controllers.
It will probably not happen in South Korea, which is almost as Christian-centric as the US is.
The U.S. is overwhelmingly Christian, whereas South Korea is more or less evenly split between Buddhists and Christians (and probably more "non-believers" than either of those groups).
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It's the same shit, so why does mindless news incite anger and "sheeple" references when being sold to doesn't?
Well if there's one thing that's been constant about slashdot over the years, it's that people love to whine about the stories. They still read them and comment of course.
As he notes, the story first tries to show that many important ideas are invented simultaneously by multiple parties... but then completely fails to ask the obvious question: If such ideas' "time has come", so to speak, why are we granting a legal monopoly to someone who has no intention of developing them?
Absolutely... Guillermo del Toro is an excellent director, and Pan's Labyrinth made it very clear he knows how to do fantasy justice (Pan's Labyrinth was one of the best fantasy pictures in a long time).
I think del Toro is arguably a better director than for the Hobbit than Peter Jackson actually -- Jackson sort of had the "epic scope" thing of the LotR down pretty well, but the Hobbit is smaller, more intimate, and more whimsical story, and could do with del Toro's deft touch.
I had sort of given up hope for the Hobbit with all the crap going on, but now I'm psyched!
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Does it support non-English texts?
It apparently has little or no support for non-latin scripts, which seems to be one reason it's not released more widely.
I'd be surprised if simple things like diacritics weren't supported though.
I suppose future versions will probably do better, but unfortunately the leaked designs for the kindle v2 suggests they've discarded the "funky-but-comfy" design philosophy for something completely generic.
I find that I tend to prefer the reflections on glossy screens. In a non-dark environment, there's usually dimly visible reflection of something, no matter how you nudge it, but after a while I just stop noticing them. My brain seems much better at this sort of mental "filtering out" when the reflections are coherent images, whereas the indistinct glare and reduced contrast from a matte screen never really seem to go away.
Another difference seems to be that anti-reflection coatings work much better with glossy screens (are they even possible with matte screens?).
I've also found that not dozing off while being questioned is a plus.
What about running the world's largest particle collider while the the janitor and his pet chihuahua are inside?
Filmed in slow motion of course.
A: "Wut?"
Why on earth does itunes need its own USB driver in the first place?!?
What does it do that can't be done using the standard USB driver?
I must admit I have no idea what you're saying/implying (what is a "Snap"?), but it seems fairly clear that this is just a convenient way for people with an internet connection, but no wifi access, to get their wii online.
There are two jacks on back: "internet", and "LAN". You plug your existing internet router into the "internet" jack, then plug in your PC (which presumably was previously plugged directly into the internet router) to the "LAN" jack.
So your PC presumably continues to work more or less as before, but now you have wifi access to your internet router as well. I've no idea how the extra layer will interact with typical setups, but presumably they've thought about that and tested it. [The switch on the back says "router/bridge/auto", so there's a slight bit of control over how the layering is done.]
Since I'm in exactly this situation -- I have a wii and an internet router with only one jack for a PC, so my wii isn't online -- I'm looking forward to this product. It seems cheap and convenient.
Not to mention the idiocy of suggesting that everyone actually agrees on anything.
I'm an American, but I know a lot of very smart foreigners working in the U.S. on H1-B's who make normal U.S. wages, and who are as good or better than their U.S. "competition". Given what I've seen, the constant whining on slashdot about H1-Bs has always seemed petty.
If you start adding stops in between the two end points, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what the top speed is, the average speed will suck badly.
Sure adding a lot of stops will lower the average speed noticeably, but the effect of 1 or 2 needn't be that bad.
High speed electric trains can accelerate very, very quickly (the N700 Shinkansen, for instance, can accelerate to 270km/h in only a few minutes), and on a well-managed system, the stop time can be very short (e.g., less than 1 minute at a minor station).
Indeed one of the cool things about trains is that the impact of additional stops is pretty minor, especially when compared to an airplane (where even a single extra stop obviously has an enormous effect on average speed).
Too many programmers think that they can do art.
Too many artists think they can do art too..
When my son saw it, naturally (for a three year old) he charged straight towards it with his arms out, laughing. The pheasant looked pretty surprised and eventually bolted for the nearest bush. Hilariously, it just stuck it's head in while it's body and legs remained flat on the floor, completely exposed. Possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Perhaps the rest of the peasants were on the other side of the bush.... waiting....
NTFS-3G works pretty well. I'm not sure FAT32 is really necessary any more.
FAT may suck, but it's the only thing understood by a lot of embedded software like BIOSes, device firmware, etc...
Indeed, for that reason it seems like FAT may very well be more useful than NTFS. FAT will probably stay around for quite a while as a "braindead, but simple and widespread" exchange format, but the only excuse for NTFS is windows.
Just as far as chronology goes there are many more primitive religions that Christianity pretty much every major religion other than Islam is older than Christianity
Er, but he made no mention of "chronology", and "older than" is certainly not synonymous with "more primitive than".
In defence of the Awesome bar, I only used it for about an hour before dismissing it, but I reckon 1 hour is enough...
Not necessarily. I used the FF2 simple address-bar matching heavily, so FF3's "enhancements" really screwed up my habits; moreever, it was a lot slower than FF2's matching. I found it quite annoying.
After a few weeks, though, I got used to the FF3 behavior, and indeed it does seem a lot more useful on average than FF2's simple functionality (it's still slower, but recently I bought a faster machine anyway...). It can take some time to get over your old habits though.
Geez... the gtk+ toolkit, and the other assorted infrastructure libraries, are some of the main strengths of gnome. Even if the gnome project as a whole is kind of wacky, it's got some technically pretty solid underpinnings.
Remove those, and what's left, besides the comical leadership?
If we were to do nasty things to only "the terrorists," well fine, they probably deserve it.
However, the general population of the countries this manual is aimed at are not terrorists. They are average people. The vast majority of them are not going to attack the U.S., and are largely concerned with getting on with their own lives peacefully.
If this manual is advocating using such tactics generally, then it is almost certainly going to cause far more problems than it solves, by giving the general populace a reason to hate us.
Er, well the point is not that terrorists can't attack train systems, nor that doing so doesn't scare people, but that such attacks don't have the insane "effectiveness multiplier" that attacks against airliners (in the 9/11 style) can have.
That's because the opportunity for collateral damage is far less (a disrupted commuter schedule is damned annoying, but it's not really the same as taking out a skyscraper), and a major train accident is far more survivable for the passengers.
Trains are more vulnerable to trackside bombs (or track damage), but obviously that has no relationship to "kill switches" or TSA-style security theater.
I guess you're kidding, but ... what would would be point with a train, really?
The reason why planes are extra-dangerous is that they make great guided missles: they can be flown just about anywhere, and can cause huge amounts of damage when they hit.
Trains... can't. Sure they're big, but they are simply suck as a missile -- they can't really hit anything important except for other trains. They are also relatively slow and easily disabled by other means (becaue the train's direction "control" is external to the train, via switches).
So trains are unattractive for would-be terrorists (you can bomb a passenger train, but it's more or less the same as bombing a crowded restaurant), and not a major problem for similar reasons.
Cars are sort of in-between in terms of danger (car bombs are, after all, a perennial favorite of terrorists), but obviously kill-switches for cars would be a silly idea (because they're not centrally controlled and rigidly scheduled, you'd never know to throw it until it was too late).
Indeed. Hg had an early boost from large organizations (e.g. sun), apparently because of it's better windows support at the time, but it seems clear that git has the majority of mindshare these days, especially in the FOSS world.
Here's a graph of scm system on usage on debian which made the rounds recently (note this is based on "popcon" statistics, which measure use of each tool). The top two descending lines are CVS and SVN; the third-from-the-top ascending line is git; the rest of the lines inclucde hg, bzr, darcs, etc. This data obviously isn't perfect, but it seems pretty much reflect the trends that I've observed.
I get the feeling that in Capcom's case, they were simply too gullible, and got caught up in Sony's hype for the PS3 (Capcom management has never been particularly bright).
They thought the PS3 was going to be the only system that mattered, so by the time it became apparent that the Wii was kicking the PS3's ass, Capcom already had a bunch of games in development which assumed super high-powered graphics and bog-standard controllers.
The U.S. is overwhelmingly Christian, whereas South Korea is more or less evenly split between Buddhists and Christians (and probably more "non-believers" than either of those groups).
Well if there's one thing that's been constant about slashdot over the years, it's that people love to whine about the stories. They still read them and comment of course.
There's an rather insightful comment by Mike Masnick at techdirt.com about this New Yorker story.
As he notes, the story first tries to show that many important ideas are invented simultaneously by multiple parties ... but then completely fails to ask the obvious question: If such ideas' "time has come", so to speak, why are we granting a legal monopoly to someone who has no intention of developing them?
Absolutely... Guillermo del Toro is an excellent director, and Pan's Labyrinth made it very clear he knows how to do fantasy justice (Pan's Labyrinth was one of the best fantasy pictures in a long time).
I think del Toro is arguably a better director than for the Hobbit than Peter Jackson actually -- Jackson sort of had the "epic scope" thing of the LotR down pretty well, but the Hobbit is smaller, more intimate, and more whimsical story, and could do with del Toro's deft touch.
I had sort of given up hope for the Hobbit with all the crap going on, but now I'm psyched!
Ah... but it might drive them away!
A bit of privacy and a hot cup of joe... Who could ask for more?