Halo was made by a mac game maker called Bungie and had already been demoed prior to microsoft buying them out. Not a microsoft in house game, however they had the good sense to notice a good game. Also note the XBOX hasn't made microsoft any money, so in one way it is a large failure. This is easier to see now that microsoft reports on the earning of its divisions.
Errr.. The last pixar movie was under water
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The water effects were unbeleiveable. More difficult than it appears, but thats the point. Your not supposed to think about what your seeing.
I think Nemo sold quite a few tickets as well.. More the "Lion King" for petes sake.
First off, this is hardly news. They're going to keep doing this. If the RIAA gets lucky with lobbying the price of swapping will increase and they're hoping to make it less worth it. The RIAA will continue to defend its member companies. Whether or not its good business practice is a question, but people are giving away their members stuff for free (Yeah I know copywrite is only temporary.. look up ASCAP for the artists/composers lobby)
Its the terminology is what gets me. When I was in middle school I used to copy apple//e games from friends (I'm not to proud of this looking back). But back then it wasn't swapping/sharing/trading it was pirating because you got to keep your copy. I don't see how this is different, except for instead of doing it privately with your friends you let anyone anywhere copy off you.
For what its worth... I installed mandrake 10.0. First linux install in a while. Didn't have any trouble. Only thing that bugs me is that it claims bringing up eth0 failed on boot when the ethernet clearly works. That and it wanted to install apache 2.0 by default, not the 1.x..x series.
I tested the machine's hardware with knoplix live boot first. Worked very well.
In our ada code constraint errors are handled by the exception handling. Also note that a lot of our messages/values are comming from hardware from external hardware, so we have little control over what we're getting, so read in the message into unconstrained types and then convert. We test each potential incomming message against max/min theoretically posibly values. So we think we have most of it handled.
I'm not saying I'm against the idea of SPARK, it just seems to duplicate all the testing we do. If I have a procedure that returns a float from 1.0 to 5.0 I don't need to test if its going to kick back a 6.0.
I've been using ada for a little while now. Its actually a good language, with many features that provided self checking code. SPARK seems a bit excessive.
For example ada already had constrained types (x:integer range 0..15) . If x goes above 15 or under 0 during runtime you get a constraint error.
The ada compiler checks alot of things during compile time that I've never seen before.
If the program wanted to change system files it would have to ask for the root password, but because it only erased the files under/user/my_name direcotry it wouldn't need to ask for a password.
It also makes life confusing for developers. I ended up using java for a little app that I could have done under KDE/GNOME. I had a hard time figuring out if you write using QT would it work under gnome? Or vice versa. Even if it does work do I have to test with both???
If you were new to linux it would be very confusing. KDE/GNone Gnuatalis..
Some guy in cincinatti not getting excellent fuel econmomy in first 1000 miles. This is when an engine hasn't even been broken in...This is news
I have a deisel which gets good millage (not as good as the epa test, but NOONE gets the epa millage, it allows you to kinda compare car to car). Hybrids especially the toyota which turns its gas engine off at stops in city driving will get better city than highway.
These hybrid owners are relegious about monitoring there gas millage, to the point of obsesion. Google for milage and you'll see.
Here is one site guys site that shows things aren't as bad as they would appear Prius . If you search you'll see details about millage.
If I remember correctly the compression faxes use are based on the premise that its a text page is mostly white. Its much easier to tell when you could watch the fax come out (rolls of thermal paper... do they still have those?) Faxes of "cover sheets" would always come through quickly while pages with more stuff on them came through more slowly.
I remeber stories of crooked contracters trying to prevent other bids by tieing up the fax machines by sending the "black fax"
Because of open source software nature, people can look at how (algorithms). Closed source, no idea how they implimented it. I wonder when linux is going to get hit with a patent lawsuit that makes the SCO look a nice sunny day.
Most software is made up of very small components put together to create functionality. (loops/ branches| arrays, queues, trees) Its very hard to define something as patentable because by its nature everything in software can be broken down into something that isn't new.
I would have thought little companies would have iritated the big boys (microsoft / apple) to force the governments hand to stop this mess (since companies tend to have the ear of our fine electorate). It really stiffles inovation.
Those tables they set up with books music , watches videos. They have all sorts of stuff. When I was there, they were selling movies that weren't out in theaters yet. Shrink wrapped and everything.
In the mid 1990s parked my GTI in the West 12 th with out of state plates. I was staying at a friends young and naive. Only thing I left in the car was the "Matt pack" in the front seat and a small bag of dirty laundry out of site in the hatch. The Mattpack was a 5 pound lead acid battery with some electronics and LEDs on top for charging and current/voltage control.. About the size of a soda can but square and black. The top contained custom electronics job by Matt Kahn electicrical engineer extrodinare.
Who would want this? Its big its heavy and useless to anyone but me (It powered a flash for my camera.)
Stolen.
So were the dirty clothes.
Basically if your not carefull or tie stuff down in NY it will be stolen. I got over it but I still miss New York
what about the right of those who create content to decide how content can be used for a limited time as copyright law allows. What about artists rights to be appropriately compensated for those ideas if the creators don't want to give their content away for free?
Copywrite keeps wrongly getting extending for longer and longer time. however copyright is important idea. GNU is based on the rights copywrite gives.
Its a question of scale. Noone ever got sued for making mix tapes for personal use. People have gotten in trouble for bootlegging, which is mainly what pnp is used for these day. PNP and "file sharing" is so out of control the government now feels compelled to act. You can thank all those pirates on P2P networks for that.
Don't forget the rights of those who create things.
Its been commented on before that use a plastic bag. Its been a "funny" comment but in fact They make waterproof plastic bags that you can put and use the camera in. These bags aren't cheap (about 100$) although cheaper than a full hardshell case. There not just plasic bags because the have some glass/plastic you attach the lens to so you can shoot with the camera in the bag. It seems perfect for your use.
As for the dark conditions get a bright lens (f1.8 to f2.8) and/or use 400 or 800 iso film.
check adorama for other makes/models but here is an example
Hopefull currency flucuations will make us workers more competetive. If the dollar starts loosing its value, us workers become cheaper. The higher value Euro has helped US exports slightly. However it will make stuff we import more expensive. And low skill jobs are unlikely to comeback to the US anytime soon.
Currency values seem out of wack. The big mac index doesn't lie. Of course they don't consume many big macs in india for other reasons....
The ibook can't drive an external monitor at greater resolution than the internal lcd (1024x768) one, unless you do some open firmware hack. Odd for a machine with lots of video ram. There is a chance it won't work with the new machines, or that apple will break your ability to use the change you made with an os update. So far apple hasn't done anything that devious.
This is purely a business move by apple. They're DRM is pretty light. Everyone has known that you can burn a cd then rip it back. Even easier you can record anything going to the speaker as an mp3 using some freely available software.
Jobs is quoted as saying the his PHds said you can't make a DRM that stops piracy completely.
However apple needs music to resell. To allow software the strips the DRM would likely irk those big music companies that sell apple the songs it needs to sell. And with other DRMed formats apple probably needed DRM to open the store in the first place.
Thank goodness apple gave us emacs so we can search binary files to find that email address. I pulled up a couple tunes and searched and...there it was.
This means that the itunes server is adding this to every song that is downloaded.. Talk about overhead.
This page shows how its done... You can figure out if the cap is a winner before buying.. Although you'll look a little odd doing it as the article points out..
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And make sure the deposit is enough to cover whatever a RIAA/MPAA lawsuit cost you.
And hope they don't do anything worse..
Halo was made by a mac game maker called Bungie and had already been demoed prior to microsoft buying them out. Not a microsoft in house game, however they had the good sense to notice a good game. Also note the XBOX hasn't made microsoft any money, so in one way it is a large failure. This is easier to see now that microsoft reports on the earning of its divisions.
The water effects were unbeleiveable. More difficult than it appears, but thats the point. Your not supposed to think about what your seeing.
I think Nemo sold quite a few tickets as well.. More the "Lion King" for petes sake.
First off, this is hardly news. They're going to keep doing this. If the RIAA gets lucky with lobbying the price of swapping will increase and they're hoping to make it less worth it. The RIAA will continue to defend its member companies. Whether or not its good business practice is a question, but people are giving away their members stuff for free (Yeah I know copywrite is only temporary.. look up ASCAP for the artists/composers lobby)
//e games from friends (I'm not to proud of this looking back). But back then it wasn't swapping/sharing/trading it was pirating because you got to keep your copy. I don't see how this is different, except for instead of doing it privately with your friends you let anyone anywhere copy off you.
Its the terminology is what gets me. When I was in middle school I used to copy apple
For what its worth...
I installed mandrake 10.0. First linux install in a while. Didn't have any trouble. Only thing that bugs me is that it claims bringing up eth0 failed on boot when the ethernet clearly works. That and it wanted to install apache 2.0 by default, not the 1.x..x series.
I tested the machine's hardware with knoplix live boot first. Worked very well.
replying to an AC....
In our ada code constraint errors are handled by the exception handling. Also note that a lot of our messages/values are comming from hardware from external hardware, so we have little control over what we're getting, so read in the message into unconstrained types and then convert. We test each potential incomming message against max/min theoretically posibly values. So we think we have most of it handled.
I'm not saying I'm against the idea of SPARK, it just seems to duplicate all the testing we do. If I have a procedure that returns a float from 1.0 to 5.0 I don't need to test if its going to kick back a 6.0.
I've been using ada for a little while now. Its actually a good language, with many features that provided self checking code. SPARK seems a bit excessive.
:integer range 0..15) . If x goes above 15 or under 0 during runtime you get a constraint error.
For example ada already had constrained types (x
The ada compiler checks alot of things during compile time that I've never seen before.
The program would run as the current user.
/user/my_name direcotry it wouldn't need to ask for a password.
If the program wanted to change system files it would have to ask for the root password, but because it only erased the files under
It also makes life confusing for developers. I ended up using java for a little app that I could have done under KDE/GNOME. I had a hard time figuring out if you write using QT would it work under gnome? Or vice versa. Even if it does work do I have to test with both???
If you were new to linux it would be very confusing. KDE/GNone Gnuatalis..
As desktop managers go they both need help.
Some guy in cincinatti not getting excellent fuel econmomy in first 1000 miles. This is when an engine hasn't even been broken in...This is news
I have a deisel which gets good millage (not as good as the epa test, but NOONE gets the epa millage, it allows you to kinda compare car to car). Hybrids especially the toyota which turns its gas engine off at stops in city driving will get better city than highway.
These hybrid owners are relegious about monitoring there gas millage, to the point of obsesion. Google for milage and you'll see.
Here is one site guys site that shows things aren't as bad as they would appear Prius . If you search you'll see details about millage.
If I remember correctly the compression faxes use are based on the premise that its a text page is mostly white. Its much easier to tell when you could watch the fax come out (rolls of thermal paper... do they still have those?) Faxes of "cover sheets" would always come through quickly while pages with more stuff on them came through more slowly.
I remeber stories of crooked contracters trying to prevent other bids by tieing up the fax machines by sending the "black fax"
Except these studies never seem to take into effect the downtime comercial software has due to viruses/ spyware etc. They're never accurate.
Because of open source software nature, people can look at how (algorithms). Closed source, no idea how they implimented it. I wonder when linux is going to get hit with a patent lawsuit that makes the SCO look a nice sunny day.
Most software is made up of very small components put together to create functionality. (loops/ branches| arrays, queues, trees) Its very hard to define something as patentable because by its nature everything in software can be broken down into something that isn't new.
I would have thought little companies would have iritated the big boys (microsoft / apple) to force the governments hand to stop this mess (since companies tend to have the ear of our fine electorate). It really stiffles inovation.
I use the itunes store. Burn Cds which seem to work anywhere I have access to a cd player (ie on my work computer).
Those tables they set up with books music , watches videos. They have all sorts of stuff. When I was there, they were selling movies that weren't out in theaters yet. Shrink wrapped and everything.
In the mid 1990s parked my GTI in the West 12 th with out of state plates. I was staying at a friends young and naive. Only thing I left in the car was the "Matt pack" in the front seat and a small bag of dirty laundry out of site in the hatch. The Mattpack was a 5 pound lead acid battery with some electronics and LEDs on top for charging and current/voltage control.. About the size of a soda can but square and black. The top contained custom electronics job by Matt Kahn electicrical engineer extrodinare.
Who would want this? Its big its heavy and useless to anyone but me (It powered a flash for my camera.)
Stolen.
So were the dirty clothes.
Basically if your not carefull or tie stuff down in NY it will be stolen. I got over it but I still miss New York
what about the right of those who create content to decide how content can be used for a limited time as copyright law allows. What about artists rights to be appropriately compensated for those ideas if the creators don't want to give their content away for free?
Copywrite keeps wrongly getting extending for longer and longer time. however copyright is important idea. GNU is based on the rights copywrite gives.
Its a question of scale. Noone ever got sued for making mix tapes for personal use. People have gotten in trouble for bootlegging, which is mainly what pnp is used for these day. PNP and "file sharing" is so out of control the government now feels compelled to act. You can thank all those pirates on P2P networks for that.
Don't forget the rights of those who create things.
Be carefull what you wish for...
Its been commented on before that use a plastic bag. Its been a "funny" comment but in fact
They make waterproof plastic bags that you can put and use the camera in. These bags aren't cheap (about 100$) although cheaper than a full hardshell case. There not just plasic bags because the have some glass/plastic you attach the lens to so you can shoot with the camera in the bag. It seems perfect for your use.
As for the dark conditions get a bright lens (f1.8 to f2.8) and/or use 400 or 800 iso film.
check adorama for other makes/models but here is an example
http://www.waterproofcases.net/ziplock.html
Hopefull currency flucuations will make us workers more competetive. If the dollar starts loosing its value, us workers become cheaper. The higher value Euro has helped US exports slightly. However it will make stuff we import more expensive. And low skill jobs are unlikely to comeback to the US anytime soon.
Currency values seem out of wack. The big mac index doesn't lie. Of course they don't consume many big macs in india for other reasons....
see http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/.. For the original email this was posted from.. No wonder it was done anon...
The ibook can't drive an external monitor at greater resolution than the internal lcd (1024x768) one, unless you do some open firmware hack. Odd for a machine with lots of video ram. There is a chance it won't work with the new machines, or that apple will break your ability to use the change you made with an os update. So far apple hasn't done anything that devious.
This is purely a business move by apple. They're DRM is pretty light. Everyone has known that you can burn a cd then rip it back. Even easier you can record anything going to the speaker as an mp3 using some freely available software.
Jobs is quoted as saying the his PHds said you can't make a DRM that stops piracy completely.
However apple needs music to resell. To allow software the strips the DRM would likely irk those big music companies that sell apple the songs it needs to sell. And with other DRMed formats apple probably needed DRM to open the store in the first place.
Thank goodness apple gave us emacs so we can search binary files to find that email address. I pulled up a couple tunes and searched and...there it was.
This means that the itunes server is adding this to every song that is downloaded.. Talk about overhead.
This page shows how its done... You can figure out if the cap is a winner before buying.. Although you'll look a little odd doing it as the article points out..