There was a link about the McDonald's lady posted in/. comments a while ago. She only sued to cover medical expenses (25K due to her _third-degree_ burns, skin grafts, etc), and the jury awarded her a lot more. There are photos of what happened to her, and they are gruesome. This was no "oochy! that's hot!" case.
I grew up playing games on the family's Kaypro II (then 286, 386...), and they all required the use of the wonderful keypad. My favorite was the PC version of spacewar, which required the use of all nine keys in order to use all of the functions. My hands still easily fit over the 8,4,6, and 2 keys. I can navigate around any document using home, end, pageup and pagedown. I play quake with no less than 13 seperate keys (with my left hand, even), including seperate keys for every single weapon. The only drawback is that I use my thumb for both backwards and jump, so that combination is a little tough.
I certainly don't like having the keypad quite so far away from the main keyboard, but I don't agree with his assertion that having the arrows where you expect them to beis better than the HORRIBLE hjkl deal. I mean, what is up? Why is up to the side of down? that makes no sense! I also don't like the inverted-T deal, because the up and down keys are too close together.
Is there any way to enable the keypad in linux? Mine never works
I was in a store that had a touch-screen monitor that printed out coupons. I noticed that when people used it the hourglass was the same for windows 3.1. So I touched the screen in the upper-left where the close button was... and the computer exited to DOS. It was funny watching people go up to the coupon machine that only said
Wow. If I searched around my acres of 5.25" disks at home, I think I would still find my old copy of Stunt Driver. That game was extremely cool. It used polygon-based 3d graphics to let you do loop-d-loops and corkscrews and stuff. It was also completely customizable, so you could make the breaks better, or the road slicker. This was a truely 360-degree game.
Someone needs to write a plugin that can allow DJs to use mp3s under linux. Features needed are things like pitch control and jumping forward and back in time. I don't know how bad the latency is, but there are existing plugins for WinAmp.
"In fact, it's unclear exactly how users of HTML-enabled e-mail readers can protect themselves from such viruses."
Um, how about ASKING the user if they REALLY want to send all of those emails??? Web pages can't do any real damage by themselves (except by replicating), unless of course they use java to do something nasty.
Of course this begs the question, who _needs_ html email? I mean, do you actually spend hours designing a page to send to someone? HTML emails are big downloads and irritating. Email readers should only look at basic tags (a la slashdot), and not "embed" tags.
Oh, I'm sorry, the users _requested_ that feature bloat for IE 5.0! How silly of me!
the client is set up so that it does work for shorter contests before it does RC5. Mine is cracking RC5, so does that mean there are no other contests at the moment?
Properly coded OpenGL applications take advantage of any hardware you have. Carmack has said that even Quake1 takes advantage of T&L, as long as the drivers are written
Why? Because of it's T&L engine. The MAXX is two Rage 128's, and the GeForce is two TNT2's AND a T&L engine. So while today's games may be the same speed, since they mostly require high fill-rates, tomorrow's games will run faster on the NVidia chip because they will need higher poly counts.
There is no contest here, despite what the situation looks like now. If you want a video card that will last you at least another year and a half, go with the GeForce.
I'm tired of people ragging on the Blair Witch Project. Heather herself has said that she would've held the camera steadier, but she thought she was just going to see the movie _with_a_group_of_friends on a TV! This was not planned to be a blockbuster, or a flawless film. It's amazing how well it works for what it is.
This isn't the first movie without flaws, but I'm tired of people calling it unworthy of its popularity because of a few stupid mistakes.
Besides, in what horror movie do the kids _not_ go into the house? That's what they do!
except that the actual quality of the dxr2 output to VGA sucks: it is _not_ 720x480, no matter how hard you try, and it _is_ interlaced. It looks like they take the TV signal and convert it back to VGA, instead of taking the straight data. It's a lousy way of doing it, and it looks bad.
You know what? I am just happy that we have an _endorsed_ set of drivers for the dxr2. Read the page again, the instructions are there (search for dxr2, it's on the page). Some drivers are better than no drivers. With this release, and the CSS crack stuff, it should now be relatively easy to write a program that plays encrypted DVDs.
So the drivers aren't quite complete. And it's half-assed. so what? Would you prefer _nothing_? Everyone would love a full driver set, but the linux market is too small to justify development of a kick-ass GTK navigator or something. They released some drivers (ON THEIR OWN CVS!) and are acknowledging them. you can't have everything when your desktop marketshare is so low.
And we _still_ don't have a decent WYSIWYG word processor! It's amazing that this incredibly important area of the software market is ignored. Sure, there are half-assed attempts like Abiword, and gwp, but come on. It just shows you that people only work on what they need, and programmers don't need word processors
According to DeGroof, if a DVD is encoded with 24 fps (_progressive_) data, the _decoder_ does the 3:2 pulldown for interlaced 30fps tv. Everything I see indicates that film dvds _are_ 24 fps progressive.
But I think they're still stored on the disc progressively... There's a reason there are these wildly expensive progressive-output dvd players coming out now. Are they just undoing the interlacing?
If I'm not mistaken, all DVDs are actually encoded as 24 fps 640x480 _progressive_scan_ movies. The dvd player then converts this to 30fps (using 3:2 pulldown... nevermind) _interlaced_ crap-ass NTSC. This is what makes DVDs so cool: they aren't limited by NTSC interlacing or anything like that. If you get a projector and a progressive-scan DVD player (or just usemonitor output, if your computer is fast enough), the output looks better than NTSC. true progressive 640x480 supposedly looks as good or better than a 16mm print, with digital accuracy.
And, with anamorphic DVDs (720x480), you can get even more pixels. DVDs will actually looks better in the future!
(Note: This is what I understand, and it might be wrong. is it?)
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There was a link about the McDonald's lady posted in /. comments a while ago. She only sued to cover medical expenses (25K due to her _third-degree_ burns, skin grafts, etc), and the jury awarded her a lot more. There are photos of what happened to her, and they are gruesome. This was no "oochy! that's hot!" case.
I grew up playing games on the family's Kaypro II (then 286, 386...), and they all required the use of the wonderful keypad. My favorite was the PC version of spacewar, which required the use of all nine keys in order to use all of the functions. My hands still easily fit over the 8,4,6, and 2 keys. I can navigate around any document using home, end, pageup and pagedown.
I play quake with no less than 13 seperate keys (with my left hand, even), including seperate keys for every single weapon. The only drawback is that I use my thumb for both backwards and jump, so that combination is a little tough.
I certainly don't like having the keypad quite so far away from the main keyboard, but I don't agree with his assertion that having the arrows where you expect them to beis better than the HORRIBLE hjkl deal. I mean, what is up? Why is up to the side of down? that makes no sense! I also don't like the inverted-T deal, because the up and down keys are too close together.
Is there any way to enable the keypad in linux? Mine never works
I was in a store that had a touch-screen monitor that printed out coupons. I noticed that when people used it the hourglass was the same for windows 3.1. So I touched the screen in the upper-left where the close button was... and the computer exited to DOS. It was funny watching people go up to the coupon machine that only said
C:\>
And tried to figure out what to do....
Carmack has said that he read Snow Crash and said "I can do 90% of that." Maybe now he will :) Hey John, can I have access to those trapdoors?
Turbo Grafx 16 all the way!
Wow. If I searched around my acres of 5.25" disks at home, I think I would still find my old copy of Stunt Driver. That game was extremely cool. It used polygon-based 3d graphics to let you do loop-d-loops and corkscrews and stuff. It was also completely customizable, so you could make the breaks better, or the road slicker. This was a truely 360-degree game.
E! "We live for this stuff!"
That's because we have none of their awful code to look at!
I already preordered the tin-box windows version. I can't use my TNT very well under linux anyway. Sorry John!
"Linux is a registerred trademark of Linux Torvalds."
That kind of says everything you need to know
My wife cooking so bad, ees TERREEBLE!
Someone needs to write a plugin that can allow DJs to use mp3s under linux. Features needed are things like pitch control and jumping forward and back in time. I don't know how bad the latency is, but there are existing plugins for WinAmp.
"In fact, it's unclear exactly how users of HTML-enabled e-mail readers can protect themselves from such viruses."
Um, how about ASKING the user if they REALLY want to send all of those emails??? Web pages can't do any real damage by themselves (except by replicating), unless of course they use java to do something nasty.
Of course this begs the question, who _needs_ html email? I mean, do you actually spend hours designing a page to send to someone? HTML emails are big downloads and irritating. Email readers should only look at basic tags (a la slashdot), and not "embed" tags.
Oh, I'm sorry, the users _requested_ that feature bloat for IE 5.0! How silly of me!
the client is set up so that it does work for shorter contests before it does RC5. Mine is cracking RC5, so does that mean there are no other contests at the moment?
Can't you guys add a bit on every page that says that no portion of any comment can be taken without link and credit?
It might require that all comments become property of Slashdot, but that's life
Properly coded OpenGL applications take advantage of any hardware you have. Carmack has said that even Quake1 takes advantage of T&L, as long as the drivers are written
Why? Because of it's T&L engine. The MAXX is two Rage 128's, and the GeForce is two TNT2's AND a T&L engine. So while today's games may be the same speed, since they mostly require high fill-rates, tomorrow's games will run faster on the NVidia chip because they will need higher poly counts.
There is no contest here, despite what the situation looks like now. If you want a video card that will last you at least another year and a half, go with the GeForce.
Is it just me or was the following entry missing:
* Linus Torvalds uploads the linux kernel
I mean really, that's a given!
I'm tired of people ragging on the Blair Witch Project. Heather herself has said that she would've held the camera steadier, but she thought she was just going to see the movie _with_a_group_of_friends on a TV! This was not planned to be a blockbuster, or a flawless film. It's amazing how well it works for what it is.
This isn't the first movie without flaws, but I'm tired of people calling it unworthy of its popularity because of a few stupid mistakes.
Besides, in what horror movie do the kids _not_ go into the house? That's what they do!
except that the actual quality of the dxr2 output to VGA sucks: it is _not_ 720x480, no matter how hard you try, and it _is_ interlaced. It looks like they take the TV signal and convert it back to VGA, instead of taking the straight data. It's a lousy way of doing it, and it looks bad.
You know what? I am just happy that we have an _endorsed_ set of drivers for the dxr2. Read the page again, the instructions are there (search for dxr2, it's on the page). Some drivers are better than no drivers. With this release, and the CSS crack stuff, it should now be relatively easy to write a program that plays encrypted DVDs.
So the drivers aren't quite complete. And it's half-assed. so what? Would you prefer _nothing_? Everyone would love a full driver set, but the linux market is too small to justify development of a kick-ass GTK navigator or something. They released some drivers (ON THEIR OWN CVS!) and are acknowledging them. you can't have everything when your desktop marketshare is so low.
And we _still_ don't have a decent WYSIWYG word processor! It's amazing that this incredibly important area of the software market is ignored. Sure, there are half-assed attempts like Abiword, and gwp, but come on. It just shows you that people only work on what they need, and programmers don't need word processors
I can't find the particular article you are referring to, but I found the following posts which seem to indicate that film dvds _are_ progressive:
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According to DeGroof, if a DVD is encoded with 24 fps (_progressive_) data, the _decoder_ does the 3:2 pulldown for interlaced 30fps tv. Everything I see indicates that film dvds _are_ 24 fps progressive.
But I think they're still stored on the disc progressively... There's a reason there are these wildly expensive progressive-output dvd players coming out now. Are they just undoing the interlacing?
If I'm not mistaken, all DVDs are actually encoded as 24 fps 640x480 _progressive_scan_ movies. The dvd player then converts this to 30fps (using 3:2 pulldown... nevermind) _interlaced_ crap-ass NTSC. This is what makes DVDs so cool: they aren't limited by NTSC interlacing or anything like that. If you get a projector and a progressive-scan DVD player (or just usemonitor output, if your computer is fast enough), the output looks better than NTSC. true progressive 640x480 supposedly looks as good or better than a 16mm print, with digital accuracy.
And, with anamorphic DVDs (720x480), you can get even more pixels. DVDs will actually looks better in the future!
(Note: This is what I understand, and it might be wrong. is it?)