If I were to like shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling, which I don't, I'd want my entire UI to be shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling. I find apps that don't use the default toolkit (in any OS) to really clash with everything else.
Sure MacOS X is pretty, and consistant. It would seem that Apple agrees with me. So why do they make their QuickTime player for Windows so out of place? I like non-destructive configuration options to be be auto applied (like GNOME and Mac OS do), but that style of interface is in total contract with Windows OK, Apply, Cancel system.
I think it was Winamp's fault that all media players now have to have their own skinable widget set. I wish this exploit would do something to stop the madness, but I fear not.
I think your point was: you can use a pair of bolt cutters to get into your own shed you lost the key to. Just as you should be able to use a program to decrypt and remove the MacroVision bit from DVDs you own.
I was talking with CmdrTaco and Keith Packard along wtih a few of the other XFree86 people. They were all going on about heating the bedrooms with Alphas in the winter. And telling other Alpha related stories. Then Keith looks at me and asked if I have an Alpha. I never felt so inadequate as a geek. So a couple months later I did pick up a dual 21164 (EV56) based machine. Sure enough it did keep my bedroom warm, that is when it wasn't tripping the circut breaker. So I moved it to the server room at work, where it sits now still hosting my websites.
Video quality-wise the PS2 isn't bad, especially combined with a componet video out cable. Feature-wise the original 1.x software was very poor. The 2.x that came with the remote plus dongle package was a marked improvement. The 3.x that comes with the HDD has mostly cosmetic changes. Since my stand-alone DVD player crapped out (1800 laser hours according to the service menu) I've just been using the PS2. I'm happy enough with it that I haven't started looking for a new DVD player yet.
The Xbox DVD player on the other hand has features galore. But even with the componet video cable has a very flat and grainly looking picture. Also the I've seen the subtitles freeze on more than one DVD that uses bitmapped titles. Not to mention that it deals very poorly with any sort of scratch. I don't use the Xbox to play DVDs anymore.
Sega GT Online is doing well? I got it the day it came out. Played it once, and never put it in my Xbox again. It was just Sega GT 2002 with an online componet (poorly) grafted on. I had my fill of Xbox Sega GT a month after I got that game too.
Now Sega GT for the Dreamcast. There was a fun game. They took all my favorite features out of the game for the 2002 version.
I got the Euro import of Shenmue 2 for the Dreamcast. I copied my save game to my computer where there was a program that would alter the region bit in the file, then uploaded it back to my memory card. Then I was able to have part two make use of my old save.
Sure you get your bag stolen at the begining of the second part, but you get it back. All that is really missing is your cash. All your collectables are still there. Plus you get the moves scroll filled in a bit more.
I was really fearing that they would release the thrid part and use the same English voice actors. After hearing the original Japanese voices (the Euro version was only subtitled) the American ones make me want to puncture my ear drums. Especially the kids, like finger nails on a chalk board.
I can't play Resident Evil because of the controls. But Shenmu has the same controls, yet I play it fine. The difference is in Shenmu the camera is almost always centered behind your back. So up does usually mean walk away from the camera, left turns left, and right turns right. Even down does a quick 180 like in RE. But because Resident Evil started with the prerendered backdrops they had fixed room cameras. Though one would think that a fixed camera like that would lead better to a camera-relative control scheme.
I've played games where the stick direction was the direction of movement on screen relative to the camera. I remember thinking as the camera slowly panned and my thumb adjusted the angle of the stick, how odd such a compensation was, but how natural it felt. Now if the camera would have just snapped to a different angle I couldn't have delt with it.
Phantasy Star Online wasn't too bad when it came to player controlled cameras. A quick flick of the left trigger would re-center the camera behind the charater's back. It became so natural feeling (perhaps because of how often I had to do it) that when I was playing another game later with a poor computer controlled camera I kept finding myself pulling the trigger trying to fix it.
I'm guessing the violation of the LSB deals with the default system libs. Where does Debian put the 64-bit libs? Where does the LSB say to put them?
I think the LSB says to put them in/lib64, which I find totally broken. Sure it allows for a 64-bit install to be built on top of an already existing 32-bit install. But what about when 128-bit processors come out? Will we have a/lib,/lib64, and/lib128? How about when there is no longer need for 32-bit support? The/lib directory would be deprecated, so the/lib64 would exist alone?
What should have been done is on 64-bit distros which wish to offer 32-bit backward compatiblity, the default 64-bit libs should be in/lib and the compatibility libs should have been moved to/lib32. The dynamic linker shouldn't have any problem figuring out what libs are needed, and load the right ones.
So what road did Debian take? If they have the default system libs in/lib, hear's to them, forget the LSB, it is broken.
Do they change the IP of your DNS server? That's the only case where this would matter. Verisign doesn't control the data served from your DNS server. This change only covers the registration of new domains (they will become active in 5 minutes instead the next day). Or changes to your registration (like DNS servers).
You can lower the recommened caching timeouts on your own DNS server. So if your ISP changes the IP of your web server other's DNS servers will request the data from your's again sooner. But of course this can place a higher load on your DNS server.
I know in Japan they were giving the discs away with Prius test drives (that may have been mentioned in the previous/. article). I'll have to ask my brother who's a salesman at a local dealer. Maybe he can snag me a copy or two if they have them there.
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If I were to like shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling, which I don't, I'd want my entire UI to be shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling. I find apps that don't use the default toolkit (in any OS) to really clash with everything else.
Sure MacOS X is pretty, and consistant. It would seem that Apple agrees with me. So why do they make their QuickTime player for Windows so out of place? I like non-destructive configuration options to be be auto applied (like GNOME and Mac OS do), but that style of interface is in total contract with Windows OK, Apply, Cancel system.
I think it was Winamp's fault that all media players now have to have their own skinable widget set. I wish this exploit would do something to stop the madness, but I fear not.
I think your point was: you can use a pair of bolt cutters to get into your own shed you lost the key to. Just as you should be able to use a program to decrypt and remove the MacroVision bit from DVDs you own.
I was talking with CmdrTaco and Keith Packard along wtih a few of the other XFree86 people. They were all going on about heating the bedrooms with Alphas in the winter. And telling other Alpha related stories. Then Keith looks at me and asked if I have an Alpha. I never felt so inadequate as a geek. So a couple months later I did pick up a dual 21164 (EV56) based machine. Sure enough it did keep my bedroom warm, that is when it wasn't tripping the circut breaker. So I moved it to the server room at work, where it sits now still hosting my websites.
In the PS2 DVD player mode there is a sharpness setting. It defaults to 0, but -2 is actually no processing. See if that makes a difference.
Video quality-wise the PS2 isn't bad, especially combined with a componet video out cable. Feature-wise the original 1.x software was very poor. The 2.x that came with the remote plus dongle package was a marked improvement. The 3.x that comes with the HDD has mostly cosmetic changes. Since my stand-alone DVD player crapped out (1800 laser hours according to the service menu) I've just been using the PS2. I'm happy enough with it that I haven't started looking for a new DVD player yet.
The Xbox DVD player on the other hand has features galore. But even with the componet video cable has a very flat and grainly looking picture. Also the I've seen the subtitles freeze on more than one DVD that uses bitmapped titles. Not to mention that it deals very poorly with any sort of scratch. I don't use the Xbox to play DVDs anymore.
It beat DCC (Digital Compact Cassette).
Here's your headline, "SCO sues Autozone."
Mine was customized for Maryland in the same way.
Never put salt in your eyes.
Put salt in your eyes.
Always put salt in your eyes.
Sega GT Online is doing well? I got it the day it came out. Played it once, and never put it in my Xbox again. It was just Sega GT 2002 with an online componet (poorly) grafted on. I had my fill of Xbox Sega GT a month after I got that game too.
Now Sega GT for the Dreamcast. There was a fun game. They took all my favorite features out of the game for the 2002 version.
I got the Euro import of Shenmue 2 for the Dreamcast. I copied my save game to my computer where there was a program that would alter the region bit in the file, then uploaded it back to my memory card. Then I was able to have part two make use of my old save.
Sure you get your bag stolen at the begining of the second part, but you get it back. All that is really missing is your cash. All your collectables are still there. Plus you get the moves scroll filled in a bit more.
I was really fearing that they would release the thrid part and use the same English voice actors. After hearing the original Japanese voices (the Euro version was only subtitled) the American ones make me want to puncture my ear drums. Especially the kids, like finger nails on a chalk board.
Do you know that spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom?
I can't play Resident Evil because of the controls. But Shenmu has the same controls, yet I play it fine. The difference is in Shenmu the camera is almost always centered behind your back. So up does usually mean walk away from the camera, left turns left, and right turns right. Even down does a quick 180 like in RE. But because Resident Evil started with the prerendered backdrops they had fixed room cameras. Though one would think that a fixed camera like that would lead better to a camera-relative control scheme.
I've played games where the stick direction was the direction of movement on screen relative to the camera. I remember thinking as the camera slowly panned and my thumb adjusted the angle of the stick, how odd such a compensation was, but how natural it felt. Now if the camera would have just snapped to a different angle I couldn't have delt with it.
Phantasy Star Online wasn't too bad when it came to player controlled cameras. A quick flick of the left trigger would re-center the camera behind the charater's back. It became so natural feeling (perhaps because of how often I had to do it) that when I was playing another game later with a poor computer controlled camera I kept finding myself pulling the trigger trying to fix it.
I'm guessing the violation of the LSB deals with the default system libs. Where does Debian put the 64-bit libs? Where does the LSB say to put them?
/lib64, which I find totally broken. Sure it allows for a 64-bit install to be built on top of an already existing 32-bit install. But what about when 128-bit processors come out? Will we have a /lib, /lib64, and /lib128? How about when there is no longer need for 32-bit support? The /lib directory would be deprecated, so the /lib64 would exist alone?
/lib and the compatibility libs should have been moved to /lib32. The dynamic linker shouldn't have any problem figuring out what libs are needed, and load the right ones.
/lib, hear's to them, forget the LSB, it is broken.
I think the LSB says to put them in
What should have been done is on 64-bit distros which wish to offer 32-bit backward compatiblity, the default 64-bit libs should be in
So what road did Debian take? If they have the default system libs in
Or update 23 or 25 times a day, so it always hits on a different minute mark.
But the MR2 was called the Coupe MR in France.
'Cause you know they got the metric system.
They was also no No Go in Mexico, and nothing about Licking of Wax Tadpole in China.
Every time I see SFU, my brain adds a T. STFU.
In the same vein, I use LiveJournal as my RSS/Atom reader.
Do they change the IP of your DNS server? That's the only case where this would matter. Verisign doesn't control the data served from your DNS server. This change only covers the registration of new domains (they will become active in 5 minutes instead the next day). Or changes to your registration (like DNS servers).
You can lower the recommened caching timeouts on your own DNS server. So if your ISP changes the IP of your web server other's DNS servers will request the data from your's again sooner. But of course this can place a higher load on your DNS server.
Technically they are POSIX regex anchors. So any program that speaks regex will have similar functionality.
^ goes to the first non-whitespace character. 0 (zero) goes to the first charater on the line.
So if you have a indented line, ^ will take you after the indent. Where the 0 would take you to the space or tab that starts the line.
Those are actually Emacs commands. vi would be ^ for the start of a line, and $ for the end.
/. A real vi mode would be welcome in input widgets.
I too often find myself hitting Esc and then typing vi commands in text boxes, like here on
I know in Japan they were giving the discs away with Prius test drives (that may have been mentioned in the previous /. article). I'll have to ask my brother who's a salesman at a local dealer. Maybe he can snag me a copy or two if they have them there.
How are they going to do a monochrome version of this logo? It relies on the two different colors and the gradient to make the actual design.
A basic rule for design is that a logo should still be recognizable in silhouette.
That was indeed server push for the fish cam. Only worked with Netscape. I don't think Mozilla even supports multipart mime.
I tested with one of the links provided here. It is just a 302 byte JPEG sent 1 byte per second. So max tracking time is 5 minutes.