Well, perhaps they don't dim as well, but for many people, I doubt it's much of an issue. The place I live has dimmers in every room, but 99% of the time, it's either all on or all off. Yet I still can't use CFL, even at 100%, without buzzing and flickering. Any dimmable CFL would be welcome for me.
Woah, I didn't know these existed. My apartment is also all dimmers, we tried using normal CFL but they buzz and flicker annoying, it was a showstopper. I scoured the local big box hardware store but I couldn't find anything that seemed to work with dimmers. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll try a specialty store. Hey Izchak...
I admit, things are a bit slow now, but when the "Cards of Fury" expansion comes out next month, with two new suits, I guarantee there's going to be tons of people coming back.
Yeah, I can't help but think that anyone who thought the unrestricted version would make more is rather naive. To me, it's more of a decision of conscious for the developer, as to where you want to be on the greed/altruism scale.
The result of this study is rather unsurprising to me. What is suprising is that this fairly trivial piece of software, created entirely for the purposes of this experiment, earned its author $34,075 in one year. Wow. And there was probably a good deal more money to be made if it always ran in restricted functionality mode.
Now, granted, he has an established company, so he probably has some good connections with download sites and magazines to get his program included, but that's a tidy sum for "a couple of days" of work.
The summary actually says he's not a "DRM fan" but it's interrupted by the awkwardly placed "potential bias" disclaimer. Editors, you can just put that at the end of the summary, no need to jam it in the middle of a sentence where it destroys the flow.
The joke isn't making fun of Hungary, it's making fun of the politicians and media figures who make these sorts of stupid mistakes and yet seem unrepentant (or even proud) of their ignorance.
Then you might want to try Carcassone: Hunters and Gatherers. As the name implies, it's very similiar (it's its own stand alone game, not an add-on) but the scoring is a bit more uniform. River segments and forests are scored immediately on completion, river systems and fields are scored at end of game based on the amount of game in them.
The article title makes it sound like Nintendo and Microsoft are suing each other, instead of both being sued by a third party. How about something like "Company sues Nintendo, Microsoft over Controller Patent"?
This would be very impressive if they could actually process, identify and match non-contrived real world features (i.e. faces, text, people), but this is just barcodes. Barcodes are DESIGNED to be easily recognized and processed by computers and to be highly tolerant of noise and corruption. Sure, this sounds like a nifty app, but to call it image recognition is very misleading.
I don't have a position supporting either side, but I feel I should correct a point of yours...
Hezbollah had been making rocket attacks on Israeli cities before the Israelis began their bombing campaign (and later invasion) of south Lebanaon. I refer you to a timeline of the current crisis. They did escalate their attacks after the Israeli response.
Beyond the scope of the current conflict, Hezbollah has been firing rockets at Israeli on and off for some time now; for example, see this story from Dec. 2005 regarding a rocket strike from Lebanon on the town of Kiryat Shmona.
But really, if you want to try to say "who started it", you'll be going back decades and centuries. You can't view this incident in isolation, it's all part of the long history of conflict between many parties in the Middle East.
Same here. I've been very happy with it. The V270 is specifically aimed at laptop users that already have Bluetooth, so it doesn't come with a dongle. Just the mouse itself and a cute little zippered neoprene bag to protect it when travelling. Probably non-coincidentally, it was also the cheapest wireless I could find at Microcenter.
It's small enough to be easy to travel with, but still a good size for a normal person's hand; it's not one of these tiny micro mice you often see aimed at travellers. It's a no-frills mouse, for sure - two buttons and a scroll wheel, that's it--but what else do you really need, anyway.
The battery life is quite good, I've gotten over 2 months on a pair of regular old AA alkaline batteries, using it as my primary mouse for regular 40 hour weeks. There's a manual on-off switch that I usually use, but it also has an idle power saving mode, so it doesn't seem to hurt it much if I forgot to shut it off before I leave for the night.
It's an optical mouse, so it works while on a variety of non-mousepad surfaces, which is very handy when travelling. I do use mousepad at my desk, though; mostly for the wrist-rest. I haven't noticed any latency issues, I played through most of Half-Life 2 on it and never noticed any lag from it.
No real problems using in it Linux; occasionally, when I first boot up, it won't detect, but turning it on and off fixes that. I'd buy another one in a second.
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Well, perhaps they don't dim as well, but for many people, I doubt it's much of an issue. The place I live has dimmers in every room, but 99% of the time, it's either all on or all off. Yet I still can't use CFL, even at 100%, without buzzing and flickering. Any dimmable CFL would be welcome for me.
Woah, I didn't know these existed. My apartment is also all dimmers, we tried using normal CFL but they buzz and flicker annoying, it was a showstopper. I scoured the local big box hardware store but I couldn't find anything that seemed to work with dimmers. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll try a specialty store. Hey Izchak...
I admit, things are a bit slow now, but when the "Cards of Fury" expansion comes out next month, with two new suits, I guarantee there's going to be tons of people coming back.
See if you can figure out which company the "anonymous submitter" works for. Taking all bets!
I don't take Microsoft's "Shared Source" license seriously, and I won't until they start releasing under an OSI approved license.
It's a long stretch between "volunteered for the armed forces" and "wants to be fighting a guerrila war in Iraq".
Remember Kurtz was the villian.
Um. I suggest you watch the film again.
Here's SmartDoc, the actual program used in this experiment, and a screenshot It certainly looks pretty basic.
Yeah, I can't help but think that anyone who thought the unrestricted version would make more is rather naive. To me, it's more of a decision of conscious for the developer, as to where you want to be on the greed/altruism scale.
The result of this study is rather unsurprising to me. What is suprising is that this fairly trivial piece of software, created entirely for the purposes of this experiment, earned its author $34,075 in one year. Wow. And there was probably a good deal more money to be made if it always ran in restricted functionality mode.
Now, granted, he has an established company, so he probably has some good connections with download sites and magazines to get his program included, but that's a tidy sum for "a couple of days" of work.
Actually, Ubuntu has printscreen mapped to take a screen shot by default. It wouldn't surprise me if that were the Gnome default.
Oh really? I assume that's for Series 2 TiVos. That's disappointing, the Series 1 is wonderful for hacking.
I hope that Tivo get's taken to court. It would be a triumph for open source efforts.
Er, TiVo's one of the good guys, they release their source in compliance with the GPL.
The summary actually says he's not a "DRM fan" but it's interrupted by the awkwardly placed "potential bias" disclaimer. Editors, you can just put that at the end of the summary, no need to jam it in the middle of a sentence where it destroys the flow.
The joke isn't making fun of Hungary, it's making fun of the politicians and media figures who make these sorts of stupid mistakes and yet seem unrepentant (or even proud) of their ignorance.
Steven Colbert's whole show is a satire on self-important self-style media 'pundits'.
Then you might want to try Carcassone: Hunters and Gatherers. As the name implies, it's very similiar (it's its own stand alone game, not an add-on) but the scoring is a bit more uniform. River segments and forests are scored immediately on completion, river systems and fields are scored at end of game based on the amount of game in them.
That's why you get a central build server that runs the proper tests there and emails out failed results to the team.
The article title makes it sound like Nintendo and Microsoft are suing each other, instead of both being sued by a third party. How about something like "Company sues Nintendo, Microsoft over Controller Patent"?
Yes, Java doesn't support raw strings. Oops. So using a liberally-licensed library to get around it is overkill?
For example, the regex defined here:becomes simply "foo.bar.regex", just like a standard properties file.
This would be very impressive if they could actually process, identify and match non-contrived real world features (i.e. faces, text, people), but this is just barcodes. Barcodes are DESIGNED to be easily recognized and processed by computers and to be highly tolerant of noise and corruption. Sure, this sounds like a nifty app, but to call it image recognition is very misleading.
That's ridiculous, they don't need to break in if you leave the doors unlocked for them!
I don't have a position supporting either side, but I feel I should correct a point of yours...
Hezbollah had been making rocket attacks on Israeli cities before the Israelis began their bombing campaign (and later invasion) of south Lebanaon. I refer you to a timeline of the current crisis. They did escalate their attacks after the Israeli response.
Beyond the scope of the current conflict, Hezbollah has been firing rockets at Israeli on and off for some time now; for example, see this story from Dec. 2005 regarding a rocket strike from Lebanon on the town of Kiryat Shmona.
But really, if you want to try to say "who started it", you'll be going back decades and centuries. You can't view this incident in isolation, it's all part of the long history of conflict between many parties in the Middle East.
Same here. I've been very happy with it. The V270 is specifically aimed at laptop users that already have Bluetooth, so it doesn't come with a dongle. Just the mouse itself and a cute little zippered neoprene bag to protect it when travelling. Probably non-coincidentally, it was also the cheapest wireless I could find at Microcenter.
It's small enough to be easy to travel with, but still a good size for a normal person's hand; it's not one of these tiny micro mice you often see aimed at travellers. It's a no-frills mouse, for sure - two buttons and a scroll wheel, that's it--but what else do you really need, anyway.
The battery life is quite good, I've gotten over 2 months on a pair of regular old AA alkaline batteries, using it as my primary mouse for regular 40 hour weeks. There's a manual on-off switch that I usually use, but it also has an idle power saving mode, so it doesn't seem to hurt it much if I forgot to shut it off before I leave for the night.
It's an optical mouse, so it works while on a variety of non-mousepad surfaces, which is very handy when travelling. I do use mousepad at my desk, though; mostly for the wrist-rest. I haven't noticed any latency issues, I played through most of Half-Life 2 on it and never noticed any lag from it.
No real problems using in it Linux; occasionally, when I first boot up, it won't detect, but turning it on and off fixes that. I'd buy another one in a second.