They looked sooo lame. They claimed they could "sneek up on you", but the noise heard was deafening. They weren't very fast. In the demo the operators had full view of the actual field they we're driving (probably helps with navigation). They also didn't say anything of what would happen if some insurgent/freedom warrior started putting rounds into this thing...
Then you see the BigDog mule or even the Phoenix (yes I know it has no brain) and can only laugh at the pathetic SWORDS 'robot'.
>SCO has a chance for a comeback because it is not their products that caused its downfall
BWAHAHAHAH!
You sir, are deluded.
I can only conclude that you haven't read their SEC filings for the last six years or so, where they admit that their products are not competitive. They're not competitive because their products SUCK.
Slipstreaming solves a different problem (new installs). A slipstreamed installation media is pretty useless (as far as I know) when I go to person B to update his/hers ancient installation. I just want to able to run program X from a CD/DVD/USB-memory and have the system fully up to date, preferably within a single reboot.
MS should really just put up a patch-OS-DVD torrent and keep it updated in such a way that new additions doesn't completely rewrite the structure (so a torrent update goes quickly). Would be a bit of work for them initially, but it would deliver something useful to their customers. Ah, well. Guess they're to busy marketing Vista.
In particular, Nautilus will now queue up long file transfer operations and display them in a single window rather than spawning a separate window for each file transfer operation.
Please tell me this means that file operations will actually queue to be run in sequence, saving us from disk and cache trashing slowing things down? With "run", "pause", "cancel" on each individual transfer? Pretty please?
Contrary to the title, this doesn't seem to be the actual SimCity source code. I'm interested in source code like this, but I want the 'original', not something that has been mashed up and modified by a middleman. This is as useful for historical insight a klingon version of the new testament.
Happened across these guys a few days ago while hunting for a clue on what LCD to get in the 22-24" range. I was very impressed by their deep analysis of different monitors; actual measurements of color gamut, response times (ghosting), etc. Good shit. Yes, you'll have to 'suffer' their english. Big deal.
The first thing I learned was that it's like that old saying of "Fast, Good, Cheap -- Pick two", only with "colors, response, ergonomics". Secondly: It's hell to actually be able to know what the hell monitor you're getting since producers swap in different quality panels under the exact same model. Typically the good panels go out in the first batch (which reviewers will get), and then if there's high demand, or in other territories, they'll put in the cheaper panels instead. Their flippant attitude about it makes me not want to buy a monitor at all. Maybe with Dell this isn't a problem, but on the other hand, they're not cheap, as measured globally.
>Consider swapping to and from a flash device or a series of flash devices.
Good performance. Gets expensive though. $7000 for nine Mtron 16GB Solid State Drives alone, then you need very high end RAID cards to cope with the throughput.
Won't somebody think of the lawyers?! If EMI reduce funding to the RIAA and IFPI, then lawyers are going to earn less, so surely reducing funding ought to be illegal?
What if everyone stopped funding their lawyers, how would they make a living? It's not like they could just go do non-evil stuff. They shouldn't have to!
This reducing of funding of lawyers must be stopped or a whole industry will go under! I propose a new special interest group, something like the Lawyer's Industry Ass. of Reduction Stoppage, or NAMBLA.
Maybe the device should have a movable weight in it that would move in one direction as you make progress in your book, shifting the devices COG/balance. This way you'd get a feel for "where you are" even if it wouldn't be exactly the same feeling as with a real book.
The only way I'd ever buy one of these is if it nicely renders unDRM'ed PDFs and features good bookmarking (not just files, but page and line too). If the idea is a device that will only work with some DRMed format, then it'll have the same future as an ATRAC-only music player, which is to say... None.
No, I didn't RTFA, I'm just naturally pessimistic about these devices because everyone seems to be out to sell a service and 'give away a device'.
What about Dushku, is she wed to Fox too? 'Tru Calling' and 'Nurses' (what happened to that?) were both on Fox, and now this.
Fox is a retarded network for something which _will_ take time to grow mainstream, just the sort of shows that Whedon writes. I just can't understand why Whedon (and Minear?! Tim, wth?!) would go for this. Oh sure, the money. But what about all the pain and suffering that comes with it?
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They looked sooo lame. They claimed they could "sneek up on you", but the noise heard was deafening. They weren't very fast. In the demo the operators had full view of the actual field they we're driving (probably helps with navigation). They also didn't say anything of what would happen if some insurgent/freedom warrior started putting rounds into this thing... Then you see the BigDog mule or even the Phoenix (yes I know it has no brain) and can only laugh at the pathetic SWORDS 'robot'.
I hope his mother at least had the decency to take pay for the sex she had with his father that resulted in his conception. That free stuff is nasty!
>SCO has a chance for a comeback because it is not their products that caused its downfall
BWAHAHAHAH!
You sir, are deluded.
I can only conclude that you haven't read their SEC filings for the last six years or so, where they admit that their products are not competitive. They're not competitive because their products SUCK.
A fairly important distinction, as anyone with Cable or ADSL will know.
I can assure you, when Novell is awarded the money SCOXQ.PK owe them, there will be none there.
>Fortunately for us, compiler researchers say you're wrong.
Historically, Compiler Researchers have always been too optimistic about their optimizations. You can ask them, I'm sure many will agree.
Your whole system 3x faster by changing compiler? You never can. There isn't that much performance hidden in there.
Slipstreaming solves a different problem (new installs). A slipstreamed installation media is pretty useless (as far as I know) when I go to person B to update his/hers ancient installation. I just want to able to run program X from a CD/DVD/USB-memory and have the system fully up to date, preferably within a single reboot.
MS should really just put up a patch-OS-DVD torrent and keep it updated in such a way that new additions doesn't completely rewrite the structure (so a torrent update goes quickly). Would be a bit of work for them initially, but it would deliver something useful to their customers. Ah, well. Guess they're to busy marketing Vista.
Promises, promises.
Please tell me this means that file operations will actually queue to be run in sequence, saving us from disk and cache trashing slowing things down? With "run", "pause", "cancel" on each individual transfer? Pretty please?
A bit more DYI but cool.
A Zero Point Module (ZPM) should handle that easily, but I guess it's a bit chicken and egg what with needing gate technology to get the ZPMs...
>It looks like they're actually interested in getting some folks hacking on it.
I'm sure it'd help if it wasn't a frankensteinian mix of c, python and c++ then.
I'd take the pure c or 6502 assembly version (I assume the C64 version wasn't written in BASIC) over that any day.
Secondly, I never expressed any such "goal of open source", don't know what kind of never-logic land you got that from.
Contrary to the title, this doesn't seem to be the actual SimCity source code. I'm interested in source code like this, but I want the 'original', not something that has been mashed up and modified by a middleman. This is as useful for historical insight a klingon version of the new testament.
Ordered 2007-11-17, said to be shipped by 2007-11-30. Still haven't seen a sign of them.
Typically when I order from something like amazon or thinkgeek or jinx it takes two weeks, tops.
Happened across these guys a few days ago while hunting for a clue on what LCD to get in the 22-24" range. I was very impressed by their deep analysis of different monitors; actual measurements of color gamut, response times (ghosting), etc. Good shit. Yes, you'll have to 'suffer' their english. Big deal.
The first thing I learned was that it's like that old saying of "Fast, Good, Cheap -- Pick two", only with "colors, response, ergonomics". Secondly: It's hell to actually be able to know what the hell monitor you're getting since producers swap in different quality panels under the exact same model. Typically the good panels go out in the first batch (which reviewers will get), and then if there's high demand, or in other territories, they'll put in the cheaper panels instead. Their flippant attitude about it makes me not want to buy a monitor at all. Maybe with Dell this isn't a problem, but on the other hand, they're not cheap, as measured globally.
>Consider swapping to and from a flash device or a series of flash devices.
Good performance. Gets expensive though. $7000 for nine Mtron 16GB Solid State Drives alone, then you need very high end RAID cards to cope with the throughput.
You could just tell them about 2007 TU24 instead:
Approximate diameter: 319 meters (H=20.131)
Closest Earth approach: 1.44 LD at 0826 UTC on 29 Jan.
He's also reported as saying "it's obvious" who is the killer :-\
Don't think giving him that much attention would be good, but how about one section for just "Some Analcyst says.." stories? That would be great.
Slay radio rules (stream)
I use a Danko track as a ring-tone in my phone. A bit retarded really, it's so good I don't want to pick up :-)
Won't somebody think of the lawyers?! If EMI reduce funding to the RIAA and IFPI, then lawyers are going to earn less, so surely reducing funding ought to be illegal?
What if everyone stopped funding their lawyers, how would they make a living? It's not like they could just go do non-evil stuff. They shouldn't have to!
This reducing of funding of lawyers must be stopped or a whole industry will go under! I propose a new special interest group, something like the Lawyer's Industry Ass. of Reduction Stoppage, or NAMBLA.
Maybe the device should have a movable weight in it that would move in one direction as you make progress in your book, shifting the devices COG/balance. This way you'd get a feel for "where you are" even if it wouldn't be exactly the same feeling as with a real book.
The only way I'd ever buy one of these is if it nicely renders unDRM'ed PDFs and features good bookmarking (not just files, but page and line too). If the idea is a device that will only work with some DRMed format, then it'll have the same future as an ATRAC-only music player, which is to say... None.
No, I didn't RTFA, I'm just naturally pessimistic about these devices because everyone seems to be out to sell a service and 'give away a device'.
What about Dushku, is she wed to Fox too? 'Tru Calling' and 'Nurses' (what happened to that?) were both on Fox, and now this.
Fox is a retarded network for something which _will_ take time to grow mainstream, just the sort of shows that Whedon writes. I just can't understand why Whedon (and Minear?! Tim, wth?!) would go for this. Oh sure, the money. But what about all the pain and suffering that comes with it?
How about some videos, complete with size comparison against a 15.4"'er.... Note the funny 'hey, a USB-memory just works on linux, huh?!' stuff in there. Hilarious if it weren't so sad.