that Europe won't recieve everything 4-12 months later than Japan and the US? Still waiting for SSB:B...
You guys can have an accelerated release schedule as soon as you all agree to speak one common language. Translating a game's language resources into 2 or 3 additional languages takes some additional time.
I regularly get a bunch of e-mails from an automated bot over which I have no control. For some reason the e-mail bot gives all sent mail the same subject line although the message contents varies. So GMail automatically decides to group these e-mails into few conversations
What's particularly interesting (and infuriating) about this behavior is that RFC 822 proscribes specific headers that indicate that an Internet email message is related to another email message, yet Gmail ignores these and gloms conversations together based apparently solely on the Subject. They do the same thing in Google Groups with NNTP messages, as far as I can tell.
If they would fix that, and tweak their POP3 interface so that messages I've already archived via the web interface stop inhabiting my Inbox when I check my account from my mobile phone, I'd be much happier with the Gmail service.
the processor isn't designed for general purpose computing like a 18-wheeler isn't designed for grocery shopping; you could do it but that's not what it's designed for so it's not the best idea
Also, the company that sells the trucks doesn't want a flood of owner-operators to threaten their relationships with established freighting companies, so they rig the rig so that the trailer doors are welded shut, preventing you from putting anything inside, and the engine is restricted to first gear only.
Do people still keep stuff in "/home/username". Ya'd think that after all of the very public worms, viruses, malware, and phoning-home that people would learn to make their own "/var/user_files/.super_sekrit" folder(if not regularly back up and/or encrypt their important data).
How many people own our first album? crowd cheers loudly How many people own 'Kill 'em All'? Crowd goes nuts and erupts They're the same fucking album, assholes!
I guess 'No Life 'Til Leather' has been retroactively made to not count. Is this because: 1. James was too drunk at the time to remember recording it; 2. Original bassist Ron McGovney shows up to demand royalties any time someone mentions it; 3. Despite having all the necessary characteristics of an album, 'Leather' was self-produced and distributed, and therefore merely a 'demo tape', as opposed to a major-label-supported 'album'?
I still want to know what he is going to change? I haven't really been able to figure out much of what he plan's to change?
He's going to change the laws of basic grammar, so that your fetish for ending declarative sentences with question marks will no longer be considered a valid reason to mock and ridicule.
If I'm interpreting this announcement correctly, this is pretty much the same thing as the "Nintendo Channel" that launched on Wii a couple of weeks ago, except all the advertorial content is in High Definition. And you have to pay for it.
The modern fax machine was introduced in the mid-1970s.
And the modern e-mail service was not introduced in the mid-1980s (I'm counting not only college kids with an account on the one VAX on campus, but also nascent online services for home users, like BIX and CompuServe.)
How about creating a router that can determine which packets take precedence?
Shh, don't let the "Net Neutrality" zealots hear you suggest that.
Remember, giving preferential treatment to some packets over others is okay when some set of morally arbitrary conditions is met, but worse than communism when another random set of conditions is met.
"Considering our components editor paid £50 for a single gigabyte of bulky storage just a couple of years ago, the inexorable march and miniaturisation of USB storage is plain to see."
In this case, I'm sure "bulky" is defined as "almost LARGER than a disposable lighter".
I honestly don't see how people who measure their computer experience in decades -- you know, the entire Slashdot community -- would find any aspect of this adver-story to be interesting or noteworthy. The neo-est neophyte among us remembers the days when a 4" Zip drive cartridge held a mere 100MB; the grayest and beardiest greybeards can recall a time when a hard drive held at most 20MB, and required the space, power, and ventilation of a residential clothes dryer.
Are the editors on a "half-day Fridays" schedule for the summer? Happy weekend, y'all.
Where is compassion without christianity or judaism I ask you?
I dunno, let me hop in my TARDIS and pop over to an alternate universe where Judeo-Christian religion has never existed and see if there's any compassion there...
The FCC are talking about providing free, nationwide wireless internet.. Damn them to hell!
All together now, Slashdotters: "This is free as in gratis, not free as in libre!"
Actually, it's not even gratis, either, if our tax dollars pay the salaries of the FCC Professional Prudes tasked with ensuring that this wireless network doesn't allow people to use words like "shit" or "motherfucker" or "semprini" if they so wish to.
1. How is "the average person" determined? 2. Which community's standards apply to content on a global network? The physical community where the content is uploaded/hosted/accessed? A virtual community? Which virtual community? 3. What is the legal definition of "prurient iterest"? 4. What comprises "patently offensive"? 5. Who gets to decide whether the work has any serious value?
Unless all those questions have sensible answers, obscenity laws are bullshit.
What I really want to use is the old PC or PC-XT keyboard - buckling spring but even heavier and better built than the Model M. However the electronics are different. I think I saw an adapter on sale for $100 somewhere but that's a bit steep.
The Linux kernel can be compiled with a driver that supports communication with an XT-style keyboard over the parallel port. You'll have to jury-rig an adapter and maybe keep a USB keyboard handy in case you need to go into the BIOS (and maybe find a computer that still has a parallel port, depending), but it's a cheaper alternative than paying $100 for a microcontroller-based protocol translator device.
Not a moment too soon. About 10 years later than it should have been, actually.
plug and play
Was more a marketing ploy than a usable feature in Win95. It was nice that hardware manufacturers started letting me assign the IRQs for my COM ports via the drivers instead of having to open the case and move jumpers around, but the technology wasn't really mature until Win98 SE.
functional networking
Had as much to do with Ethernet hardware becoming affordable, and with the growth of The Internet, as with OS improvements. It was very smart of Microsoft to include a free TCP/IP stack in Win95 -- starting up Trumpet WinSock before browsing the web in Win3.1 was a nuisance. And one of the nails in OS/2's coffin was that there was no TCP/IP in the base version of Warp; a user had to spend $100 extra on "Warp Connect" to get a net connection.
Direct X
Anyone who remembers how awful games were under Win3.1, or how inconsistent they were under DOS, should be grateful for DX.
gateway to 32-bit computing
Again, about a decade too late. The first 386-powered 32-bit PCs came out in 1986 -- why were Microsoft OS users stuck with mostly 16-bit code for the next 9 years?
Without birth records or a child / parents to ask, how do you determine the age of a person in a drawing?
Unless the artist drew it on this date in 1990 or earlier, the drawing is underage, I guess...?
What if a pornographist creates a work of prurient fiction involving characters who are chronologically adults, but suffer from glandular conditions that give them the appearance of permanent prepubescence? Would that be illegal?
People don't use AutoCad because they like the company behind it, they use it because they've decided it's the best tool for the job.
Or, perhaps, the only tool for the job.
AutoCad is practically synonymous with "computer drafting software". The products that compete with it in the market are so rare that by comparison, The GIMP looks ready to steal Photoshop's market away.
The system will employ the dual indoor-and-sunlight displays, which was pioneered by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen.
IIRC, the OLPC XO-1's pioneering screen was kept low-cost by using a standard, inexpensive LCD matrix as already manufactured for portable DVD players, but with a custom-made filter that transmits hue (R, G, or B only) and intensity when backlit, and intensity only when not. It seems logical that the XO-2 would use the same technology in its two screens.
a flat, two-screen continuous surface for use in tablet mode.
Good luck getting either the display or the touch surface to be flat or continuous, when by necessity there will be bezel edges and a hinge separating the screens.
ounger children will be able to use simple keyboards to get going, and older children will be able to switch between keyboards customized for applications as well as for multiple languages
Wasn't Negroponte just last week critical of Sugar developers for using OLPC as a test bed for experimental HCI concepts, instead of remaining focused on the core goal of education?
And now he wants to implement a whole new modal control system, one that even Art Lebedev Studios concedes is still impractical, within the next two years?
Not to mention the goddamn Osborne Effect. How many potential buyers of XO-1 laptops are being dissuaded by his announcement today that a better XO-2 model is just around the corner?
Nick Negroponte has always been a better dreamer than a doer. It's not a bad way to be when you run a media research lab, but when you're trying to build and sell a real-world commercial product, you need to leave the logistics in the hands of those more interested in and capable of them.
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that Europe won't recieve everything 4-12 months later than Japan and the US? Still waiting for SSB:B...
You guys can have an accelerated release schedule as soon as you all agree to speak one common language. Translating a game's language resources into 2 or 3 additional languages takes some additional time.
May I suggest Esperanto?
I regularly get a bunch of e-mails from an automated bot over which I have no control. For some reason the e-mail bot gives all sent mail the same subject line although the message contents varies. So GMail automatically decides to group these e-mails into few conversations
What's particularly interesting (and infuriating) about this behavior is that RFC 822 proscribes specific headers that indicate that an Internet email message is related to another email message, yet Gmail ignores these and gloms conversations together based apparently solely on the Subject. They do the same thing in Google Groups with NNTP messages, as far as I can tell.
If they would fix that, and tweak their POP3 interface so that messages I've already archived via the web interface stop inhabiting my Inbox when I check my account from my mobile phone, I'd be much happier with the Gmail service.
the processor isn't designed for general purpose computing like a 18-wheeler isn't designed for grocery shopping; you could do it but that's not what it's designed for so it's not the best idea
Also, the company that sells the trucks doesn't want a flood of owner-operators to threaten their relationships with established freighting companies, so they rig the rig so that the trailer doors are welded shut, preventing you from putting anything inside, and the engine is restricted to first gear only.
Do people still keep stuff in "/home/username". Ya'd think that after all of the very public worms, viruses, malware, and phoning-home that people would learn to make their own "/var/user_files/.super_sekrit" folder(if not regularly back up and/or encrypt their important data).
I guess 'No Life 'Til Leather' has been retroactively made to not count. Is this because:
1. James was too drunk at the time to remember recording it;
2. Original bassist Ron McGovney shows up to demand royalties any time someone mentions it;
3. Despite having all the necessary characteristics of an album, 'Leather' was self-produced and distributed, and therefore merely a 'demo tape', as opposed to a major-label-supported 'album'?
I still want to know what he is going to change? I haven't really been able to figure out much of what he plan's to change?
He's going to change the laws of basic grammar, so that your fetish for ending declarative sentences with question marks will no longer be considered a valid reason to mock and ridicule.
Good news for you, bad news for me.
If I'm interpreting this announcement correctly, this is pretty much the same thing as the "Nintendo Channel" that launched on Wii a couple of weeks ago, except all the advertorial content is in High Definition. And you have to pay for it.
Who qares?
"RMS Titanic"...? Oh, you must be referring to the GNU/Hurd kernel.
Then you either need to organize your quests better as to group all the traveling together, or simply skip those quests.
Because if there's one thing I like doing better with a game than solving a Traveling Salesman problem within it, it's not playing the game at all.
The modern fax machine was introduced in the mid-1970s.
And the modern e-mail service was not introduced in the mid-1980s (I'm counting not only college kids with an account on the one VAX on campus, but also nascent online services for home users, like BIX and CompuServe.)
When your parts come back different to your spec, try to get a refund.
That's a business problem, not an engineering problem.
How about creating a router that can determine which packets take precedence?
Shh, don't let the "Net Neutrality" zealots hear you suggest that.
Remember, giving preferential treatment to some packets over others is okay when some set of morally arbitrary conditions is met, but worse than communism when another random set of conditions is met.
Bloody repeats. Wasn't it only a year or two ago that we went through the following cycle?:
- IE6 not standards compliant
- Slashdot posts article complaining
- IE7 standards compliant but not by default
- Slashdot posts article complaining
- IE7 standards compliant by default
- Slashdot... posts article complaining
"Considering our components editor paid £50 for a single gigabyte of bulky storage just a couple of years ago, the inexorable march and miniaturisation of USB storage is plain to see."
In this case, I'm sure "bulky" is defined as "almost LARGER than a disposable lighter".
I honestly don't see how people who measure their computer experience in decades -- you know, the entire Slashdot community -- would find any aspect of this adver-story to be interesting or noteworthy. The neo-est neophyte among us remembers the days when a 4" Zip drive cartridge held a mere 100MB; the grayest and beardiest greybeards can recall a time when a hard drive held at most 20MB, and required the space, power, and ventilation of a residential clothes dryer.
Are the editors on a "half-day Fridays" schedule for the summer? Happy weekend, y'all.
Where is compassion without christianity or judaism I ask you?
I dunno, let me hop in my TARDIS and pop over to an alternate universe where Judeo-Christian religion has never existed and see if there's any compassion there...
The FCC are talking about providing free, nationwide wireless internet.. Damn them to hell!
All together now, Slashdotters: "This is free as in gratis, not free as in libre!"
Actually, it's not even gratis, either, if our tax dollars pay the salaries of the FCC Professional Prudes tasked with ensuring that this wireless network doesn't allow people to use words like "shit" or "motherfucker" or "semprini" if they so wish to.
Clear legal meaning? Really?
1. How is "the average person" determined?
2. Which community's standards apply to content on a global network? The physical community where the content is uploaded/hosted/accessed? A virtual community? Which virtual community?
3. What is the legal definition of "prurient iterest"?
4. What comprises "patently offensive"?
5. Who gets to decide whether the work has any serious value?
Unless all those questions have sensible answers, obscenity laws are bullshit.
I am a drummer with 20 years experience and it's exactly the same motions and training.
Really? These games teach people the proper wrist action to play drums? Dynamics? Paradiddles? The multiple-bounce roll? ANY rudiments at all? No?
You've got the prickish attitude down, but I think you need to go back to drum school before you can call yourself a drummer.
What I really want to use is the old PC or PC-XT keyboard - buckling spring but even heavier and better built than the Model M. However the electronics are different. I think I saw an adapter on sale for $100 somewhere but that's a bit steep.
The Linux kernel can be compiled with a driver that supports communication with an XT-style keyboard over the parallel port. You'll have to jury-rig an adapter and maybe keep a USB keyboard handy in case you need to go into the BIOS (and maybe find a computer that still has a parallel port, depending), but it's a cheaper alternative than paying $100 for a microcontroller-based protocol translator device.
Two comments above you as I read this, someone provided the following code snippet as exemplary Python code: Yes, one can write incomprehensible code in *any* language, but apparently Python doesn't make it *too* difficult.
The death (slowly) of DOS
Not a moment too soon. About 10 years later than it should have been, actually.
plug and play
Was more a marketing ploy than a usable feature in Win95. It was nice that hardware manufacturers started letting me assign the IRQs for my COM ports via the drivers instead of having to open the case and move jumpers around, but the technology wasn't really mature until Win98 SE.
functional networking
Had as much to do with Ethernet hardware becoming affordable, and with the growth of The Internet, as with OS improvements. It was very smart of Microsoft to include a free TCP/IP stack in Win95 -- starting up Trumpet WinSock before browsing the web in Win3.1 was a nuisance. And one of the nails in OS/2's coffin was that there was no TCP/IP in the base version of Warp; a user had to spend $100 extra on "Warp Connect" to get a net connection.
Direct X
Anyone who remembers how awful games were under Win3.1, or how inconsistent they were under DOS, should be grateful for DX.
gateway to 32-bit computing
Again, about a decade too late. The first 386-powered 32-bit PCs came out in 1986 -- why were Microsoft OS users stuck with mostly 16-bit code for the next 9 years?
Without birth records or a child / parents to ask, how do you determine the age of a person in a drawing?
Unless the artist drew it on this date in 1990 or earlier, the drawing is underage, I guess...?
What if a pornographist creates a work of prurient fiction involving characters who are chronologically adults, but suffer from glandular conditions that give them the appearance of permanent prepubescence? Would that be illegal?
Fiction MUST NOT be criminalizable.
once FLOSS gets a start in an area, it appears to attain supremacy within about five to ten years.
Going by that rule, 2008 *must* be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!
People don't use AutoCad because they like the company behind it, they use it because they've decided it's the best tool for the job.
Or, perhaps, the only tool for the job.
AutoCad is practically synonymous with "computer drafting software". The products that compete with it in the market are so rare that by comparison, The GIMP looks ready to steal Photoshop's market away.
The system will employ the dual indoor-and-sunlight displays, which was pioneered by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen.
IIRC, the OLPC XO-1's pioneering screen was kept low-cost by using a standard, inexpensive LCD matrix as already manufactured for portable DVD players, but with a custom-made filter that transmits hue (R, G, or B only) and intensity when backlit, and intensity only when not. It seems logical that the XO-2 would use the same technology in its two screens.
a flat, two-screen continuous surface for use in tablet mode.
Good luck getting either the display or the touch surface to be flat or continuous, when by necessity there will be bezel edges and a hinge separating the screens.
ounger children will be able to use simple keyboards to get going, and older children will be able to switch between keyboards customized for applications as well as for multiple languages
Wasn't Negroponte just last week critical of Sugar developers for using OLPC as a test bed for experimental HCI concepts, instead of remaining focused on the core goal of education?
And now he wants to implement a whole new modal control system, one that even Art Lebedev Studios concedes is still impractical, within the next two years?
Not to mention the goddamn Osborne Effect. How many potential buyers of XO-1 laptops are being dissuaded by his announcement today that a better XO-2 model is just around the corner?
Nick Negroponte has always been a better dreamer than a doer. It's not a bad way to be when you run a media research lab, but when you're trying to build and sell a real-world commercial product, you need to leave the logistics in the hands of those more interested in and capable of them.