We are well on the road to a Hitchhiker's Guide or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. This is absolutely the right direction for low-cost ubiquitous computing.
My takeaway from this has been that Creative cards on Vista are technically capable of supporting advanced, proprietary audio features, but not legally allowed to support these features without... licensing fees?
Marginally off-topic I suppose; not related to the Eee PC at all.
When I was in high school, I considered ASUS the market leader in PC components: excellent quality, good price point. I always bought an ASUS motherboard at upgrade time. But around the turn of the millennium, their products started getting worse and worse: poor stability and interoperability, barely competitive on price. Nowadays I stay away from them completely. Note that I'm speaking exclusively of motherboards; I don't believe I've ever used any of their other products.
I suppose the turning point coincides with an increased focus on non-motherboard components. Maybe that's the answer: their focus and business plan expanded, to the detriment of their flagship product line?
So we can celebrate Pi Day again in July. Why limit yourself to one day celebrating with pie? This is the best holiday ever, because when the world comes together to share their varied numeric and date formatting standards, we also share a some delicious pie!
The law must make room for marketing and distribution negotiations. If the author cannot afford to market and distribute his work, then no-one receives value from it. That's the point of this whole discussion, right? Encourage creative work and maximize its value for the creator and for the public.
Well... loading up Twilight Princess to hit a buffer overflow before you can boot the machine or switch between Wii games and media library is damn inconvenient.
I haven't used one myself, but down near the bottom of that page they show that the keys themselves are reversed. You don't have to reverse your fingers, pinkie index, like you do by shifting your hand on a standard keyboard; your index types J, middle K, ring L. I can believe that the brain easily mirrors finger movements in this way.
Space bar as a held-down modifier key gives me pause, and I don't think I'd want to code or do administrative work on this. But I can see value in it for a lot of people. Consider running 10-key and a full keyboard without shifting your hand. I can see some fun possibilities for gaming...
Vehicle registration is a service? The value provided by vehicle registration is that you can drive legally. And who made it illegal to drive without registering your vehicle?
Not to mention, when was the last time you got service at the DMV?
for %f in (*.avi) do ffmpeg -i "%f" -target dvd -aspect 16x9 "%~dpnf.mpg"
The tilde syntax allows you to do some real fun stuff with file paths. Assuming that %f refers to a file, %~dpnxf gives fully-qualified drive + path + filename + extension. Leave off the x, you leave off the extension. Doesn't matter if %f uses absolute or relative syntax. See the help page for 'for' in c:\windows\help\ntcmds.chm for further details.
Window's for allows you to do some really wild stuff, using batshit crazy syntax.
Disable UAC immediately. It's MORE annoying than you think. It really does do crap like...
Here's a fun one: log on to a Vista machine as an administrator. Drag-n-drop a file from a network share (say, on your dev machine) to a subdirectory of Program Files. You get this exciting sequence of dialogs:
"These files have the same name", choose "Copy and Replace", "Don't Copy", or "Copy and Rename". Overall, an improvement over XP's dialog -- but HUGE.
Since Program Files has very restrictive permissions, "You will need elevated privileges to do this. [Continue] [Cancel]". This dialog is completely extraneous and without merit.
"Do you consent to elevate to perform this Administrative operation? [Consent] [Cancel]" If you were logged in as a standard user, you would have to type an administrator's password at this point. An admin user under Vista runs as a standard user until elevation is required, then encounters a slightly different UAC dialog. Logging in as admin just saves typing the password many times.
"You can't copy from a network share into Program Files." The operation fails. So copy to your desktop or some other user folder, then to Program Files. Then click through the first three dialogs again.
Vista heralds a wondrous new age of development for Windows. You heard it here first. Possibly also you just heard it here last.
The 'size' of the universe is an ill-defined question. We can only observe what's in our past light cone, and it is *that* universe which suffers from a budget shortfall of matter/energy.
I find your turn of phrase here compelling. Evidentally, some part of the universe simply has not yet been observed and recorded. Perhaps the missing bits merely live 'behind our eyes', so to speak.
But 20 cents is expressed as $0.20 and it would be correct int saying if you had $0.20 in change being returned to you, the cashier gave you 20 cents change.
That's right, you would say that you got "20 cents" in change. You would not say "point 20 cents" or "point 2 cents".
Similarly, given $0.002, you ought to say "point 2 cents" or "point zero zero 2 dollars" - never "point zero zero 2 cents" as Verizon reps did repeatedly.
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According to an interview with Michael Ansel BG&E2 will release on PS3 and XBox 360.
We are well on the road to a Hitchhiker's Guide or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. This is absolutely the right direction for low-cost ubiquitous computing.
My takeaway from this has been that Creative cards on Vista are technically capable of supporting advanced, proprietary audio features, but not legally allowed to support these features without... licensing fees?
Marginally off-topic I suppose; not related to the Eee PC at all.
When I was in high school, I considered ASUS the market leader in PC components: excellent quality, good price point. I always bought an ASUS motherboard at upgrade time. But around the turn of the millennium, their products started getting worse and worse: poor stability and interoperability, barely competitive on price. Nowadays I stay away from them completely. Note that I'm speaking exclusively of motherboards; I don't believe I've ever used any of their other products.
I suppose the turning point coincides with an increased focus on non-motherboard components. Maybe that's the answer: their focus and business plan expanded, to the detriment of their flagship product line?
So we can celebrate Pi Day again in July. Why limit yourself to one day celebrating with pie? This is the best holiday ever, because when the world comes together to share their varied numeric and date formatting standards, we also share a some delicious pie!
Thank you transcendental holiday!
I'm trying to come up with ways to celebrate e...
The law must make room for marketing and distribution negotiations. If the author cannot afford to market and distribute his work, then no-one receives value from it. That's the point of this whole discussion, right? Encourage creative work and maximize its value for the creator and for the public.
Well... loading up Twilight Princess to hit a buffer overflow before you can boot the machine or switch between Wii games and media library is damn inconvenient.
I read GP's use of ad-supported as "draws most new users in with ads" -- as opposed to "draws most new users in by word of mouth."
In fact I suspect that a site drawing revenue from hosted ads will provide a better service than a site drawing revenue from user subscriptions.
By having a number of not-quite-ready or buggy features that just missed the integration window for inclusion in Vista, perhaps.
That's no moon!
The letter s at the end of the word doesn't matter unless it's there to pluralize.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have a house, that's the Jones's house.
Yeah, big lose for citizens on all that stuff DARPA did...
Also the MSDN library.
So send them a gift, "completely unrelated" to obtaining the music. Cash wrapped in heavy paper works fine.
But not quite as popular as Deuterium Sulfide (DS)
I haven't used one myself, but down near the bottom of that page they show that the keys themselves are reversed. You don't have to reverse your fingers, pinkie index, like you do by shifting your hand on a standard keyboard; your index types J, middle K, ring L. I can believe that the brain easily mirrors finger movements in this way.
Space bar as a held-down modifier key gives me pause, and I don't think I'd want to code or do administrative work on this. But I can see value in it for a lot of people. Consider running 10-key and a full keyboard without shifting your hand. I can see some fun possibilities for gaming...
Your geek license has been revoked.
You can have it back after you pick up the Firefly DVD set.
Flying Lab is in charge of support.
You can't force someone to sell if they don't want to and don't need the money.
Vehicle registration is a service? The value provided by vehicle registration is that you can drive legally. And who made it illegal to drive without registering your vehicle?
Not to mention, when was the last time you got service at the DMV?
The tilde syntax allows you to do some real fun stuff with file paths. Assuming that %f refers to a file, %~dpnxf gives fully-qualified drive + path + filename + extension. Leave off the x, you leave off the extension. Doesn't matter if %f uses absolute or relative syntax. See the help page for 'for' in c:\windows\help\ntcmds.chm for further details.
Window's for allows you to do some really wild stuff, using batshit crazy syntax.
Here's a fun one: log on to a Vista machine as an administrator. Drag-n-drop a file from a network share (say, on your dev machine) to a subdirectory of Program Files. You get this exciting sequence of dialogs:
Vista heralds a wondrous new age of development for Windows. You heard it here first. Possibly also you just heard it here last.
I find your turn of phrase here compelling. Evidentally, some part of the universe simply has not yet been observed and recorded. Perhaps the missing bits merely live 'behind our eyes', so to speak.
The activation process calls home, and if the key has be used more than X times, it prompts you to call.
That's right, you would say that you got "20 cents" in change. You would not say "point 20 cents" or "point 2 cents".
Similarly, given $0.002, you ought to say "point 2 cents" or "point zero zero 2 dollars" - never "point zero zero 2 cents" as Verizon reps did repeatedly.