I've noticed a trend with a bit of the spam i've been getting recently: Random HTML.
The following is an example:
<Aegf>Bigger</gorR>><feakj> feet today!<alefa>
I have to admit, its rather effective in tricking many spam filters. Most spam filters can't tell the difference between real and fake HTML. Additionally, most HTML rendering engines automatically skip the false HTML, and still show the spam message.
First, (and the hardest). Don't buy a bag that looks "too much" like a laptop bag. Why? because the bag is going to scream: "I'm a small, expensive laptop, I want you to steal me!.
Secondly, (the easiest). Don't buy a bag with a computing name brand on the bag (IBM, Dell, etc). And try to stay away from companies that are obviously laptop bag manufacturers (Tagrus, etc). Why? because the bag is going to scream: "I'm a small, expensive laptop, I want you to steal me!.
In conclusion: Draw as little attention to your bag as possible, and make your bag doesn't stick out from the crowd either.
Roads are actually more efficient; every mile of road can carry 30,000 cars per day, however every mile of light rail line can carry only 10,000 people per day.
Clearly you haven't spent enough time in places like New York City, or London. The amount of traffic on the Metro Infrastructure is far greater than what the roads and highways carry.
Think about it, your average 11 car train (NYC) carrys about 1000 people. Keeping that in mind, and how there is a new train every 5 to 7 minutes means that there is anywhere from 12,000 to 5,400 thousand people, per hour, per train line, and per direction
Add in all the other major train lines, Long Island RailRoad, and Metro North, you can easily see how the entire system carries millions of people per day easily.
And in closing, Turok is just another FPS, with the exact same control as all the rest. You cannot aim, or move quickly but precisely with a gamepad -- nor can you press nearly as many buttons for complicated games. But there aren't complex and detailed games for the console, that's not their market.
Erm, wrong.
Clearly you've ever played Metriod Prime for the Nintendo GameCube.
Metriod Prime is a first person shooter thats pretty much unlike anyother. The attention to detail is amazing, and the game delivers quite a sophisticated game play. The game's free flowing motion and fluidity beats the pants off of your average FPS from the gods at id and Epic.
Being that Metriod is one of Nintendo's most valorized franchises, there was no way Nintendo would allow the game to be anything less than near perfection (especially when the last Metriod game was released ~6-7 years ago.)
They say that by removing GNOME, the business is given less of a choice, and somehow that is supposed to be better.
So you remove the KDE/GNOME issue. But now add the LSB/UnitedLinux issue. Whats the point ? I think the KDE/GNOME issue is much smaller than choosing between LSB/UnitedLinux
Additionally LSB is already backed by Redhat, Mandrake, Novell/SuSE and many others, *AND* Debian itself is a participant of the LSB project (its even on LSB's front page
As a non-debian user... I keep looking at UserLinux and wondering "Whats in it for us non debian using majority?"
Additionally, Bruce has yet to respond to this comment
I'm not going to deny it, I for one think that UserLinux is going to fail, and rightly so.
I'm tired of people saying "XYZ country has had that for years! United States sucks!". 99% of the time they are comparing apples to oranges and they don't have their facts right.
I'd just like to add:
Especially when the United States invented the bloody cell phone.
I can personally vouch that they usually have new technologies two or three _years_ before America.
I'll tell you why that is so...
First, compare the size of Hong Kong (Tiwan, Japan, South Korea, etc) to the size of the United States. Obviously it is going to be easier to deploy technologies in smaller countries.
Lastly, (to counter your China size claim). The USA has had a very large land line telecom system for quite sometime. Therefore there isn't such a huge need to jump to mobile phones left and right. (I just visited India, and depending on where you live, it might just be easier to get a mobile phone over a landline phone due to cost of installation and such. I'm 100% sure this applies to China, and many other second/third world countries.)
I'm tired of people saying "XYZ country has had that for years! United States sucks!". 99% of the time they are comparing apples to oranges and they don't have their facts right.
I like Konq because it shows you don't need hundreds of developers, millions of dollars, and AOL's backing to do something amazing
br
Also, a big win for Konq is Apple's acceptance of it over,Moz.
Isn't that what Apple usually does? Dragging the rest of the world forward. e.g. firewire, usb.
To some extent that is true, however the manner in which apple decided to drop the floppy makes anyone think about things.
Instead of providing a simple usb key chain, as the floppy replacement. Apple opted to give everyone CD/DVD burners and such. While that too is a fine idea, a media burner's ease-of-use is nothing compare to how easy it is to use a usb key chain....
The weird thing is Apple *still* hasn't picked up on the usb key chain thing either...
In the USA, having bucket loads of bandwidth is easy and cheap. However I suppose that isn't the case in China.
Wifi makes it real easy for one to steal another's bandwidth. (Especially with WEP...). While in the USA this isn't such a big problem (yet), it might be a bigger on in China where bandwidth isn't as cheap nor plentiful.
While China is a communist gov't that doesn't care for freedom of speeh blah blah blah blah. It does need to look out for its own people. I for one see this only has a preemptive measure against what might be a serious problem in the future (especially for China's high population density).
ROFL! For those of you that don't know, phoxix is a TROLL.
I have maxed out my karma ages ago. This is of no concern to me.
Nintendo does NOT hold a patent on the d-pad. Nor does anyone else. If anyone tells you otherwise, ask them to cite the USPTO # or equivalent. They will not be able to, because such a patent does not exist.
What's the U.S. patent number? It's not listed in the embossed text on the back of my NES controllers, just "Nintendo controller, model no. NES-004, made in Japan", and I don't have my original NES packaging. I need to know the number in order to know when it was filed.
(Tepples grabs a PS1 controller.) The PS1 digital pad is actually one piece of plastic, not four like on the WonderSwan. When it's under the player's thumb, the "break" between the four raised portions of the pad feels more like a recessed area than a break because the size of the average player's thumb fills in the gap.
I believe the "breaks" are all one needs to avoid this patent.
Then how exactly did Sega get away with a + shaped D-pad on the Dreamcast controller? I'm too lazy to take apart my Dreamcast controller at the moment. If you're referring to the fact that the cross juts out from a disc hidden under the plastic housing of the controller, that can't be it. I've taken apart a Super NES controller, an N64 controller, and a Game Boy Advance system, and Nintendo D-pads jut out from discs as well. However, I can see that there are small sloped faces on the inside corners of the plastic of the Dreamcast D-pad. Does that have anything to do with it?
I don't remember too well. Either in some old edition of "EGM" or "Next Generation", one of the editors specifically spells out why the DreamCast controller doesn't violate Nintendo's patent.
I would just like to add: This has to be the one of the most annoying patents in video gaming ever. I've played with too many irratating and badly designed "directional circles", heh:^)
Sunny Dubey
For those of you that don't know, Nintendo holds an infamous patent on the D-PAD. (The directional pad). This is the reason, why only on Nintendo gaming pads will you find a prefect cross as the D-PAD. Other systmes will include clumsy circles (X-BOX) or individual buttons (Playstation).
Keeping this in mind.... its rather interesting to see that the iQue doesn't have the D-PAD.........
Sunny Dubey
PS: Some of you might be thinking: "Hey, the Sega dreamcast had a D-PAD just like the Nintendo ones!". Which isn't true, you just have to flip open the controller to see why that is so.
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Simple, RealPlayer may be free but RealServer is expensive.
t ml?src=010604realhome_1_2_2_1_1_1
Sorry, but I forgot to add that you can various basic (nicely featured) editions of their software for free, at the following link:
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/free_trial.h
Sunny Dubey
Simple, RealPlayer may be free but RealServer is expensive.
False
You can visit their site, and download Helix(TM) Universal Server Basic for free.
It has a fair amount of features and such. My friends and I used it on linux to stream live television at one point.
Sunny Dubey
I've noticed a trend with a bit of the spam i've been getting recently: Random HTML.
The following is an example:
<Aegf>Bigger</gorR>><feakj> feet today!<alefa>
I have to admit, its rather effective in tricking many spam filters. Most spam filters can't tell the difference between real and fake HTML. Additionally, most HTML rendering engines automatically skip the false HTML, and still show the spam message.
Sunny Dubey
I respect his choice for whatever software he wants, thats for sure.
But he doesn't offer any real nor insightful reason for why he chooses GNOME over KDE.
You can take his post, and replace GNOME with KDE and KDE with GNOME. The post still says the same thing. See how pointless his post is ?
Sunny Dubey
I can't believe people ask this question over and over again
...
Apple's Ipod uses dedicated MP3 decoder and controller chip from PortalPlayer
You can read all about the innards at: Inside The Apple Ipod Design Triumph
I'm not even an Ipod fan and I know this
Sunny Dubey
First, (and the hardest). Don't buy a bag that looks "too much" like a laptop bag. Why? because the bag is going to scream: "I'm a small, expensive laptop, I want you to steal me!.
Secondly, (the easiest). Don't buy a bag with a computing name brand on the bag (IBM, Dell, etc). And try to stay away from companies that are obviously laptop bag manufacturers (Tagrus, etc). Why? because the bag is going to scream: "I'm a small, expensive laptop, I want you to steal me!.
In conclusion: Draw as little attention to your bag as possible, and make your bag doesn't stick out from the crowd either.
Sunny Dubey
Roads are actually more efficient; every mile of road can carry 30,000 cars per day, however every mile of light rail line can carry only 10,000 people per day.
Clearly you haven't spent enough time in places like New York City, or London. The amount of traffic on the Metro Infrastructure is far greater than what the roads and highways carry.
Think about it, your average 11 car train (NYC) carrys about 1000 people. Keeping that in mind, and how there is a new train every 5 to 7 minutes means that there is anywhere from 12,000 to 5,400 thousand people, per hour, per train line, and per direction
Add in all the other major train lines, Long Island RailRoad, and Metro North, you can easily see how the entire system carries millions of people per day easily.
Sunny Dubey
Suppose Larry had used his considerable brainpower to make an interpreted version of C or C++, instead of making a completely new language?
Thats simple.
You would end up getting stupid things like CSH
And from that you get: Csh Programming Considered Harmful
And in closing, Turok is just another FPS, with the exact same control as all the rest. You cannot aim, or move quickly but precisely with a gamepad -- nor can you press nearly as many buttons for complicated games. But there aren't complex and detailed games for the console, that's not their market.
Erm, wrong.
Clearly you've ever played Metriod Prime for the Nintendo GameCube.
Metriod Prime is a first person shooter thats pretty much unlike anyother. The attention to detail is amazing, and the game delivers quite a sophisticated game play. The game's free flowing motion and fluidity beats the pants off of your average FPS from the gods at id and Epic.
Being that Metriod is one of Nintendo's most valorized franchises, there was no way Nintendo would allow the game to be anything less than near perfection (especially when the last Metriod game was released ~6-7 years ago.)
Sunny Dubey
sorry mates,
I messed the two up. I mean to say UserLinux and NOT UnitedLinux
Sunny Dubey
They say that by removing GNOME, the business is given less of a choice, and somehow that is supposed to be better.
... I keep looking at UserLinux and wondering "Whats in it for us non debian using majority?"
So you remove the KDE/GNOME issue. But now add the LSB/UnitedLinux issue. Whats the point ? I think the KDE/GNOME issue is much smaller than choosing between LSB/UnitedLinux
Additionally LSB is already backed by Redhat, Mandrake, Novell/SuSE and many others, *AND* Debian itself is a participant of the LSB project (its even on LSB's front page
As a non-debian user
Additionally, Bruce has yet to respond to this comment
I'm not going to deny it, I for one think that UserLinux is going to fail, and rightly so.
Sunny Dubey
No joke
Clearly I was wrong about this, and I for one don't wish to slander someone's name for no reason.
Sunny Dubey
Isn't Xandros the company that took all the "Help --> About" dialog boxes of KDE apps, and replace the author's names with their own?
If this is true, then I'm rather disgusted.
Sunny Dubey
I'm tired of people saying "XYZ country has had that for years! United States sucks!". 99% of the time they are comparing apples to oranges and they don't have their facts right.
I'd just like to add:
Especially when the United States invented the bloody cell phone.
Sunny Dubey
I can personally vouch that they usually have new technologies two or three _years_ before America.
...
I'll tell you why that is so
First, compare the size of Hong Kong (Tiwan, Japan, South Korea, etc) to the size of the United States. Obviously it is going to be easier to deploy technologies in smaller countries.
Lastly, (to counter your China size claim). The USA has had a very large land line telecom system for quite sometime. Therefore there isn't such a huge need to jump to mobile phones left and right. (I just visited India, and depending on where you live, it might just be easier to get a mobile phone over a landline phone due to cost of installation and such. I'm 100% sure this applies to China, and many other second/third world countries.)
I'm tired of people saying "XYZ country has had that for years! United States sucks!". 99% of the time they are comparing apples to oranges and they don't have their facts right.
Sunny Dubey
I like Konq because it shows you don't need hundreds of developers, millions of dollars, and AOL's backing to do something amazing
br Also, a big win for Konq is Apple's acceptance of it over,Moz.
the n and g aren't that close to each other ....
I'll bite too ...
...
RPMs also are widely regarded as sucking.
Why must all the RPM distros (and RPM itself) suffer from the stupidity of previous Redhat releases ?
Last I checked, Mandrake and SuSe had some pretty solid packaging policies. No idea from the Redhat/Fedora/Crap camp
Sunny Dubey
Isn't that what Apple usually does? Dragging the rest of the world forward. e.g. firewire, usb.
....
...
To some extent that is true, however the manner in which apple decided to drop the floppy makes anyone think about things.
Instead of providing a simple usb key chain, as the floppy replacement. Apple opted to give everyone CD/DVD burners and such. While that too is a fine idea, a media burner's ease-of-use is nothing compare to how easy it is to use a usb key chain
The weird thing is Apple *still* hasn't picked up on the usb key chain thing either
Sunny Dubey
Is anyone else wondering why people complain loudly about spam ...
...
but they pretty much feed the problem via these wifi hotspots ?
I think it would be pretty cool if wifi routers came with port 25 disabled by default
Sunny Dubey
Think about it
...). While in the USA this isn't such a big problem (yet), it might be a bigger on in China where bandwidth isn't as cheap nor plentiful.
In the USA, having bucket loads of bandwidth is easy and cheap. However I suppose that isn't the case in China.
Wifi makes it real easy for one to steal another's bandwidth. (Especially with WEP
While China is a communist gov't that doesn't care for freedom of speeh blah blah blah blah. It does need to look out for its own people. I for one see this only has a preemptive measure against what might be a serious problem in the future (especially for China's high population density).
Sunny Dubey
The subject pretty much says it all ...
Read this or this for more info.
Death to ESD/ARTS today!! (and maybe even JACK, if we can low enough latency).
Sunny Dubey
ROFL! For those of you that don't know, phoxix is a TROLL.
T O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=4&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =186&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=nintendo&s2=direct ional&OS=nintendo+AND+directional&RS=nintendo+AND+ directional
I have maxed out my karma ages ago. This is of no concern to me.
Nintendo does NOT hold a patent on the d-pad. Nor does anyone else. If anyone tells you otherwise, ask them to cite the USPTO # or equivalent. They will not be able to, because such a patent does not exist.
Read the very first sentence of this patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
Sunny Dubey
What's the U.S. patent number? It's not listed in the embossed text on the back of my NES controllers, just "Nintendo controller, model no. NES-004, made in Japan", and I don't have my original NES packaging. I need to know the number in order to know when it was filed.
T O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=4&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =186&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=nintendo&s2=direct ional&OS=nintendo+AND+directional&RS=nintendo+AND+ directional
:^)
Sunny Dubey
Though, I'm not sure of the exact patent number, but the following I *think* is it: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
(Tepples grabs a PS1 controller.) The PS1 digital pad is actually one piece of plastic, not four like on the WonderSwan. When it's under the player's thumb, the "break" between the four raised portions of the pad feels more like a recessed area than a break because the size of the average player's thumb fills in the gap.
I believe the "breaks" are all one needs to avoid this patent.
Then how exactly did Sega get away with a + shaped D-pad on the Dreamcast controller? I'm too lazy to take apart my Dreamcast controller at the moment. If you're referring to the fact that the cross juts out from a disc hidden under the plastic housing of the controller, that can't be it. I've taken apart a Super NES controller, an N64 controller, and a Game Boy Advance system, and Nintendo D-pads jut out from discs as well. However, I can see that there are small sloped faces on the inside corners of the plastic of the Dreamcast D-pad. Does that have anything to do with it?
I don't remember too well. Either in some old edition of "EGM" or "Next Generation", one of the editors specifically spells out why the DreamCast controller doesn't violate Nintendo's patent.
I would just like to add: This has to be the one of the most annoying patents in video gaming ever. I've played with too many irratating and badly designed "directional circles", heh
For those of you that don't know, Nintendo holds an infamous patent on the D-PAD. (The directional pad). This is the reason, why only on Nintendo gaming pads will you find a prefect cross as the D-PAD. Other systmes will include clumsy circles (X-BOX) or individual buttons (Playstation).
.... its rather interesting to see that the iQue doesn't have the D-PAD .........
Keeping this in mind
Sunny Dubey
PS: Some of you might be thinking: "Hey, the Sega dreamcast had a D-PAD just like the Nintendo ones!". Which isn't true, you just have to flip open the controller to see why that is so.