Whether or not that's true, I can't say. But it should be easier to revamp the X driver model without impacting the rest of the code now that it's all been properly modularized.
You could probably whip up some sort of plugin that automatically puts a tag on pages like that that says something like "Warning: This page has not been updated in over 3 months. It has likely been abadoned and the contents may be obselete"
I agree, you can't just open up a wiki and say "ok guys, go at it" and expect to get a reasonably organized site. You need someone - an individual or at most a small focused group - to create a baseline structure, a template to be followed. Over time the community can decide to modify them but there needs to at least be a precident to start from.
Java first came out in 1996. A state of the art Pentium PC back then was around 200 Mhz. Since then Java has only gotten faster, and a 400Mhz MIPS CPU is faster than a P2 400 Mhz back in the day.
Maybe 400Mhz seems really slow today, but it's still got plenty of power. Java was in fact designed for appliances and it runs in plenty of devices today with much slower chips (your cellphone, for example). You've got a pretty myopic view of things if you really don't think a 400Mhz processor can run Java.
Perhaps in a perfect world Linden could subtract the possessions and property that he obtained through this bug and still allow him to withdraw his legitimate holdings.
But he knew what he was doing, and he knew he was taking a risk. Anyone who plays any online game knows that account termination is always on the table as an ultimate form of punishment. He accepted the risk and went ahead anyway. If he had legit holdings, he could have liquidated them before starting this scam.
Bragg copied the URL for a legitimate auction, then swapped in the ID number for land not yet up for sale publicly, so there would be no minimum bid and few, if any, competing bidders.
Cute, and clever, but he knew he was taking a risk and should be prepare to deal with the consequences of putting real money down on a dodgy trick.
It's your/choice/ of operating system that's irrevelant. We all still need one, but it matters less what you choose. Which would be a win for Linux, as it is the cheapest and one of the most ubiquitous.
I agree. As much as I enjoy high technology, there's also something satisfying about a completely self-sufficient product; even if the bombs started dropping tomorrow, the EMP killed all the circuits and all the oil dried up, they're still as useful and usable as today.
We're getting to the point, though, where the cost of a player isn't that significant. I saw something interesting at Border's the other day; they're now selling audiobooks pre-loaded on a small MP3 player. They're called Playaway and they come with headphones and batteries included. It's a bit more expensive, but audiobooks always were overpriced, and it's really not that much of a difference in price. There are some faults - the battery life isn't quite enough for a full book and the audio quality is about what you'd expect - but the technology will improve, as it always does.
It's not hard to imagine a future where all media has its own integrated playback unit.
On a related note, what's the law regarding retention of stuff like DNA data, fingerprints, etc? For example, if my next door neighbor got murdered, I might get asked to provide my fingerprints to rule me out as a subject. I might be willing to do this (provided I'm not actually guilty) but what happens afterwards?
Are there restrictions for situations like this that only allow the authorities to use such data for only a specific case? Or does my data get permanently entered in a general database, to be automatically scanned for any and every crime in the future?
I'm not against cooperating with the police, but if it's the later, I'd be extremely wary of volunteering for such things.
I think you're confused, SpaceOrb is no older than 1996, 1997 more likely. I remember because it came out after Quake; they got American McGee to give it a hardy endorsement, if I remember correctly.
DSL - Nintendo DS Lite (Nintendo DS) DS - Nintendo DS PSP - Sony PlayStation Portable PS2 - Sony PlayStation 2 GBASP - Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP (Game Boy Advance) GBM - Nintendo Game Boy Micro (Game Boy Advance) Xbox360 - Microsoft Xbox 360 GC - Nintendo Game Cube GBA - Nintendo Game Boy Advance
The original clockspeed was 2.66GHz. Just thought I'd highlight that fact since it was nonsensically omitted from the summary and I haven't seen anyone else mentioning it.
I mean, c'mon, how many people know what the original speed of the conveniently named Pentium D 805 is off the top of their heads anyway?
When asked the unexpected vacation, Bret McDanel said "It's was all I ever wanted," then excused himself, saying he had to "get away". When asked what he meant by this, he indicated he desire to have some time spent alone.
This is just ridiculous. If you're going to make an accurate model of a human character, of course you're going to have to start with a naked form and build up from there.
I can understand people getting offended at "Hot Coffee", which was explicitly sexual, but this is just silly. People are naked beneath their clothing. It's true! Take-Two showed more no skin than you'd see in the world normally, but they made the horrible sin of starting from anatomically correct base. You might as well ban mannequins.
amaroK is not bad, and it's the nicest thing I've seen on linux by far, but it still has some problems. The biggest one is that it is just not reliable for me. Sometimes it just up and quits with no explanation. Sometimes it gets wedged in some way such that it just stops playing, and won't start up again until you restart it.
I rarely can get through a whole day without having one of these happening, so I usually just go back to mpg123.
There's also some annoyances with the UI; for example, you can't browse your collection by album art. It doesn't show the cover in the UI until you start playing it. There's also the stupid little wave animation that the player EQ does when it's idle. I find it very irritating and distracting, just bugs the shit out of me. I do like having the EQ when I am actually playing, though. Someone thought they were being pretty cute and clever, but I wish there was just an option to turn that off.
Yes, I meant to imply shread all those sort of material, but it didn't sound pithy enough.
The point still stands; it's not going to take you much longer to shread that stuff than it normally does to just throw it in the trash. Shredding documents with identifying information is one reasonable step to take that won't have a major effect on your social life or personal development.
I found some technical information about XMBC's DVD player core. They do appear to be using libDVDnav, but there's no mention if they're using Ötvös Attila patch. They might have done it on their own; they were apparently were trying that approach previously in XMBP.
Regardless, I'm sure they've had to make some additional changes and modifications to fit XMBC's architecure and the Xbox's contraints. Hopefully they have pushed some of those back upstream when applicable.
Hmm... just two months ago, Xbox Media Center came out with their new DVD-player core, including menus. XBMC is built around MPlayer, I wonder if they sent some code back to the MPlayer guys for that (or perhaps vice versa)?
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Whether or not that's true, I can't say. But it should be easier to revamp the X driver model without impacting the rest of the code now that it's all been properly modularized.
You could probably whip up some sort of plugin that automatically puts a tag on pages like that that says something like "Warning: This page has not been updated in over 3 months. It has likely been abadoned and the contents may be obselete"
I agree, you can't just open up a wiki and say "ok guys, go at it" and expect to get a reasonably organized site. You need someone - an individual or at most a small focused group - to create a baseline structure, a template to be followed. Over time the community can decide to modify them but there needs to at least be a precident to start from.
Java first came out in 1996. A state of the art Pentium PC back then was around 200 Mhz. Since then Java has only gotten faster, and a 400Mhz MIPS CPU is faster than a P2 400 Mhz back in the day.
Maybe 400Mhz seems really slow today, but it's still got plenty of power. Java was in fact designed for appliances and it runs in plenty of devices today with much slower chips (your cellphone, for example). You've got a pretty myopic view of things if you really don't think a 400Mhz processor can run Java.
Perhaps in a perfect world Linden could subtract the possessions and property that he obtained through this bug and still allow him to withdraw his legitimate holdings.
But he knew what he was doing, and he knew he was taking a risk. Anyone who plays any online game knows that account termination is always on the table as an ultimate form of punishment. He accepted the risk and went ahead anyway. If he had legit holdings, he could have liquidated them before starting this scam.
Bragg copied the URL for a legitimate auction, then swapped in the ID number for land not yet up for sale publicly, so there would be no minimum bid and few, if any, competing bidders.
Cute, and clever, but he knew he was taking a risk and should be prepare to deal with the consequences of putting real money down on a dodgy trick.
It's your /choice/ of operating system that's irrevelant. We all still need one, but it matters less what you choose. Which would be a win for Linux, as it is the cheapest and one of the most ubiquitous.
Merrill Lynch now owes you a dollar!
I agree. As much as I enjoy high technology, there's also something satisfying about a completely self-sufficient product; even if the bombs started dropping tomorrow, the EMP killed all the circuits and all the oil dried up, they're still as useful and usable as today.
We're getting to the point, though, where the cost of a player isn't that significant. I saw something interesting at Border's the other day; they're now selling audiobooks pre-loaded on a small MP3 player. They're called Playaway and they come with headphones and batteries included. It's a bit more expensive, but audiobooks always were overpriced, and it's really not that much of a difference in price. There are some faults - the battery life isn't quite enough for a full book and the audio quality is about what you'd expect - but the technology will improve, as it always does.
It's not hard to imagine a future where all media has its own integrated playback unit.
On a related note, what's the law regarding retention of stuff like DNA data, fingerprints, etc? For example, if my next door neighbor got murdered, I might get asked to provide my fingerprints to rule me out as a subject. I might be willing to do this (provided I'm not actually guilty) but what happens afterwards?
Are there restrictions for situations like this that only allow the authorities to use such data for only a specific case? Or does my data get permanently entered in a general database, to be automatically scanned for any and every crime in the future?
I'm not against cooperating with the police, but if it's the later, I'd be extremely wary of volunteering for such things.
I think you're confused, SpaceOrb is no older than 1996, 1997 more likely. I remember because it came out after Quake; they got American McGee to give it a hardy endorsement, if I remember correctly.
DSL - Nintendo DS Lite (Nintendo DS)
DS - Nintendo DS
PSP - Sony PlayStation Portable
PS2 - Sony PlayStation 2
GBASP - Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP (Game Boy Advance)
GBM - Nintendo Game Boy Micro (Game Boy Advance)
Xbox360 - Microsoft Xbox 360
GC - Nintendo Game Cube
GBA - Nintendo Game Boy Advance
The original clockspeed was 2.66GHz. Just thought I'd highlight that fact since it was nonsensically omitted from the summary and I haven't seen anyone else mentioning it.
I mean, c'mon, how many people know what the original speed of the conveniently named Pentium D 805 is off the top of their heads anyway?
I wonder how many slashdotters know what "IPO" even means.
Just about all the ones that were alive during the first dot-com boom...
When asked the unexpected vacation, Bret McDanel said "It's was all I ever wanted," then excused himself, saying he had to "get away". When asked what he meant by this, he indicated he desire to have some time spent alone.
Oops, that should be Bethesda, not Take-Two. I made the mistake of assuming Thompson at least knew which company he was railing against.
This is just ridiculous. If you're going to make an accurate model of a human character, of course you're going to have to start with a naked form and build up from there.
I can understand people getting offended at "Hot Coffee", which was explicitly sexual, but this is just silly. People are naked beneath their clothing. It's true! Take-Two showed more no skin than you'd see in the world normally, but they made the horrible sin of starting from anatomically correct base. You might as well ban mannequins.
amaroK is not bad, and it's the nicest thing I've seen on linux by far, but it still has some problems. The biggest one is that it is just not reliable for me. Sometimes it just up and quits with no explanation. Sometimes it gets wedged in some way such that it just stops playing, and won't start up again until you restart it.
I rarely can get through a whole day without having one of these happening, so I usually just go back to mpg123.
There's also some annoyances with the UI; for example, you can't browse your collection by album art. It doesn't show the cover in the UI until you start playing it. There's also the stupid little wave animation that the player EQ does when it's idle. I find it very irritating and distracting, just bugs the shit out of me. I do like having the EQ when I am actually playing, though. Someone thought they were being pretty cute and clever, but I wish there was just an option to turn that off.
Section 5.3 of the Debian Java FAQ sums up the present licensing issues that prevent Debian from including Sun Java.
Wow, $100 to put your job in serious jeopardy. And still no takers?
Yes, I meant to imply shread all those sort of material, but it didn't sound pithy enough.
The point still stands; it's not going to take you much longer to shread that stuff than it normally does to just throw it in the trash. Shredding documents with identifying information is one reasonable step to take that won't have a major effect on your social life or personal development.
You know, you can enjoy an interesting, enriching life and shred your ATM receipts.
I found some technical information about XMBC's DVD player core. They do appear to be using libDVDnav, but there's no mention if they're using Ötvös Attila patch. They might have done it on their own; they were apparently were trying that approach previously in XMBP.
Regardless, I'm sure they've had to make some additional changes and modifications to fit XMBC's architecure and the Xbox's contraints. Hopefully they have pushed some of those back upstream when applicable.
From the number of mispellings and awkward phrasings, I'm guessing this article was written by a non-native English speaker.
Hmm... just two months ago, Xbox Media Center came out with their new DVD-player core, including menus. XBMC is built around MPlayer, I wonder if they sent some code back to the MPlayer guys for that (or perhaps vice versa)?