The specifications page lists the device as running Linux, and has WMA in the list of Supported Formats under audio/video playback and audio recording. From what I've heard on here, I thought this was all but impossible. Confirmations?
Does it seem to anyone else that the gameplay in Return to Castle Wolfenstein seems - or is - Quake 3 all over again, with different weapons? Quake 3 is fun in its own respect, but slapping a World War 2 mod on top of it and marketing it as something brand new is pushing it a little, methinks.
Of course my gameplay has been slightly limited - I certainly haven't logged more than a few hours at most - but I can't help but compare it to the superbly executed (and free) Day of Defeat. I guess it has more to do with realistic damage than anything else; I like the (generally) one shot one kill rules of DoD, and it seems silly that in Wolfenstein I have to shoot you with a Thompson or MP40 many times before you go down.
Anyone else care to confirm or deny my suspicions and thoughts?
He said that the shoot turned out to be one of the worst of Jackson's career. "We had horrendous weather and all kinds of problems in the production... At one point, production had to be stopped when they were shooting in Queenstown, because there was so much torrential rainfall that the entire crew had to help sandbag the town so that it wouldn't be washed away."
I'd think the ruins of a town washed away would make an excellent set, but hey. Whatever works.
My Dell Latitude C600 is both very light and contains a relatively long-lasting battery. I've gotten 4 hours or more out of it at times, doing pretty normal stuff the whole time - wireless Internet, MP3 listening, DivX viewing, etc. etc.
Linus Torvalds: I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.
This philsophy above all others, it seems to me, has kept Linux competitive, developed, and effective. The fact that this sort of stance is impossible to take - or is it? thoughts welcomed - in the business world prove the viability of free software.
Dell sells laptops that come with an 802.11 internal mini-PCI card and antenna built into the machine, leaving the PCMCIA port open for your wired network card. This is what I use at school here - wired in the dorm room, where there is no wireless coverage, and wireless at class.
I don't know if any other notebook manufacturers make use of this mini-PCI slot, but it's quite useful. I'd look into getting one adapter in mini-PCI, and the other via PCMCIA.
Is it just me, or does the United States make up the vast majority of the UN peacekeeping force?
Canada's assistance to us in "wildfires, floods, ice storms, and earthquakes" doesn't even compare, in the least little bit, to what we have done for foreign natural disasters. Not one bit - so don't bring that into the argument.
Last to help in World War II? Perhaps that's because World War II was none of our fucking business until Japan decided to bomb us? Someone mentioned above that WWII was basically part two of the European Civil War, with part one being World War One, which is basically correct.
Your attitude will lead you to a life of confused hatred of all things around you. If you weren't posting such obviously misconstrued information and attacking personally someone for the thoughts he or she put forth, I probably would have just modded you down for your trolling.
Cheers,
levine
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Paper Phones
Posted by michael on Friday March 09, @11:51AM
from the dog-ate-my-phone dept.
Fuzzy_Damnit! writes: "Whoa! Paper phone!"
Link is here. Seems eerily familiar... I sense a conspiracy!
All of your reasons are good ones, but to the best of my knowledge the EFF and protesters aren't trying to turn Dmitry into a "poster-boy". As you suggest, they're trying very hard to get him released so he can go home, and at the moment the best way to go about that is to bring to light the inherent flaws in the DMCA. If Dmitry was a poster-boy, the protesters wouldn't be carrying signs saying "Free Dmitry" and citing the DMCA as the reason he's unjustly imprisoned, they'd be carrying signs that say "Repeal the DMCA" and citing Dmitry as a reason it's unjust.
I think the question on everybody's mind is if Chandra Levy was kidnapped and murdered via stone arrowhead to the back, will this frozen iceman provide any forensic clues as to identify the assailant?
Hopefully the Washington Post and other major news outlets will be quick to draw conclusions.
The "Big L shaped Enter Key" means that the \ backspace key is forced either to the top row on the right side of =, making the Backspace key smaller, or next to the right shift key, making it smaller. I use the right shift key exclusively, so that needs to be the size it is, and of course everybody uses backspace a fair deal, so that needs to be the size that it is.
Therefore: Big Enter Key == devil.
Q.E.D. And I can't believe someone as storied as you come off being in the history of computers would _prefer_ the big enter key to the smaller one.
RoadRunner is a service offered by Time Warner Cable (now AOL Time Warner), not AT&T. That is, unless they've merged as well to form AT& AOL Time Warner T.
Why, praytell would you have a RCA DirecTV receiver on top of your computer? And what's that cable that seems to be running from the HU Authentication card to the back of your machine?
When storm clouds are brewing overhead and lightning is striking all around you, how's about turning off and unplugging your computer from every place it connects to the wall? No process is worth so much that its clock cycles are more important than the thousands of dollars you've invested in your computer[s].
If an mp3 search engine gets axed (or a file-trading service has its hands tied) it doesn't slow the people who use IRC or FTP.
With Napster now pretty much out of the picture, there has been a huge jump in the amount of traffic on the efnet channels that release albums on a regular basis. #mp3hqdcc saw many hundreds of additional users in the past 3 months. Looks like the college kids are wising up and going straight to the source.
My local NPR station seems to pretty technologically adept, as they have a shoutcast stream availiable here. The program will air at 7PM EDT, which is in roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes from time of posting.
http://152.2.63.108:8000/listen.pls for the goatsex weary.
I'm assuming this is a typo, because 130 wpm would be something along the lines of just slamming your open palm on the keyboard over and over. The fastest typist in the world hits 138 WPM, and that's on a Dvorak keyboard.
As for the rest of your post: hear, hear! I totally agree.
You could look at this another way; now, all of the bored teenagers on IRC have no way to prove that they cracked momandpop.net, nor is their most revered accomplishment set in the annuls of history, so page-defacings decline.
I mean, it is nothing more than a big "Lookie what I did" ego-trip. I know - I've seen the people that do it.
I mean, I can see your points, but here's the thing: I never said anywhere that things should be difficult, and you never addressed any of my points aside from making vague and generalized personal comments. The purpose of these little devices is to make things easier, right? Then why bog down a simplifying product with all of this crud? Let's cut it down to this, and agree to disagree: the market for the "Pocket PC" is business. That's been proven. Business users demand simplicity, productivity, and reliability. Based on these things, Palm has it in the bag. This is also proven. The issue that this article discusses is one that we've deviated from, and this has continued for too long.
I don't need any storage space to store MP3s, video, or Flash files because Palm can't do anything with them
Wrong, on most counts. There are several MP3 players for the Palm OS, and video is possible.
I don't need storage space for DoomCE, Mame-CE, NES or Gameboy emulators, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, SQL Server, Windows Media Player, etc., because a Palm couldn't handle such apps.
Let me ask you a better question: what the hell are you doing running Doom, MAME, NES Emulators, SQL servers, and Media Player on a device that is, by definition, a Personal Information Manager? If you want to do these things, buy a laptop. The purpose of the handheld PC is NOT multimedia.
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The specifications page lists the device as running Linux, and has WMA in the list of Supported Formats under audio/video playback and audio recording. From what I've heard on here, I thought this was all but impossible. Confirmations?
Cheers,
levine
Watch out for those I tags, there, Chris.
Cheers,
levine
Does it seem to anyone else that the gameplay in Return to Castle Wolfenstein seems - or is - Quake 3 all over again, with different weapons? Quake 3 is fun in its own respect, but slapping a World War 2 mod on top of it and marketing it as something brand new is pushing it a little, methinks.
Of course my gameplay has been slightly limited - I certainly haven't logged more than a few hours at most - but I can't help but compare it to the superbly executed (and free) Day of Defeat. I guess it has more to do with realistic damage than anything else; I like the (generally) one shot one kill rules of DoD, and it seems silly that in Wolfenstein I have to shoot you with a Thompson or MP40 many times before you go down.
Anyone else care to confirm or deny my suspicions and thoughts?
Cheers,
levine
He said that the shoot turned out to be one of the worst of Jackson's career. "We had horrendous weather and all kinds of problems in the production... At one point, production had to be stopped when they were shooting in Queenstown, because there was so much torrential rainfall that the entire crew had to help sandbag the town so that it wouldn't be washed away."
I'd think the ruins of a town washed away would make an excellent set, but hey. Whatever works.
Cheers,
levine
My Dell Latitude C600 is both very light and contains a relatively long-lasting battery. I've gotten 4 hours or more out of it at times, doing pretty normal stuff the whole time - wireless Internet, MP3 listening, DivX viewing, etc. etc.
Cheers,
levine
Linus Torvalds: I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.
This philsophy above all others, it seems to me, has kept Linux competitive, developed, and effective. The fact that this sort of stance is impossible to take - or is it? thoughts welcomed - in the business world prove the viability of free software.
Cheers,
levine
Dell sells laptops that come with an 802.11 internal mini-PCI card and antenna built into the machine, leaving the PCMCIA port open for your wired network card. This is what I use at school here - wired in the dorm room, where there is no wireless coverage, and wireless at class.
I don't know if any other notebook manufacturers make use of this mini-PCI slot, but it's quite useful. I'd look into getting one adapter in mini-PCI, and the other via PCMCIA.
Cheers,
levine
Is it just me, or does the United States make up the vast majority of the UN peacekeeping force?
Canada's assistance to us in "wildfires, floods, ice storms, and earthquakes" doesn't even compare, in the least little bit, to what we have done for foreign natural disasters. Not one bit - so don't bring that into the argument.
Last to help in World War II? Perhaps that's because World War II was none of our fucking business until Japan decided to bomb us? Someone mentioned above that WWII was basically part two of the European Civil War, with part one being World War One, which is basically correct.
Your attitude will lead you to a life of confused hatred of all things around you. If you weren't posting such obviously misconstrued information and attacking personally someone for the thoughts he or she put forth, I probably would have just modded you down for your trolling.
Cheers,
levine
Paper Phones
Posted by michael on Friday March 09, @11:51AM
from the dog-ate-my-phone dept.
Fuzzy_Damnit! writes: "Whoa! Paper phone!"
Link is here. Seems eerily familiar... I sense a conspiracy!
Cheers,
levine
You hated The Mummy 2 because you didn't understand it was a spoof of itself...
You hated Planet of the Apes because it didn't live up to the original...
You hated Snatch because you couldn't keep up with it...
You liked Monkeybone and Down To Earth...
And now you're singing the praises of RUSH HOUR 2?!?!
Slashdot, or more specifically Katz, seem to defy description at times.
Cheers,
levine
All of your reasons are good ones, but to the best of my knowledge the EFF and protesters aren't trying to turn Dmitry into a "poster-boy". As you suggest, they're trying very hard to get him released so he can go home, and at the moment the best way to go about that is to bring to light the inherent flaws in the DMCA. If Dmitry was a poster-boy, the protesters wouldn't be carrying signs saying "Free Dmitry" and citing the DMCA as the reason he's unjustly imprisoned, they'd be carrying signs that say "Repeal the DMCA" and citing Dmitry as a reason it's unjust.
Cheers,
levine
I think the question on everybody's mind is if Chandra Levy was kidnapped and murdered via stone arrowhead to the back, will this frozen iceman provide any forensic clues as to identify the assailant?
Hopefully the Washington Post and other major news outlets will be quick to draw conclusions.
Cheers,
levine
from the how-I-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-like-coconut s dept.
Apparently Earhart never had a piece of outhouse wash up on shore to help her escape.
Ooh, jaded allusions to two seperate movies in this post. I'm impressed - Michael, keep up your good work.
Cheers,
levine
The "Big L shaped Enter Key" means that the \ backspace key is forced either to the top row on the right side of =, making the Backspace key smaller, or next to the right shift key, making it smaller. I use the right shift key exclusively, so that needs to be the size it is, and of course everybody uses backspace a fair deal, so that needs to be the size that it is.
Therefore: Big Enter Key == devil.
Q.E.D. And I can't believe someone as storied as you come off being in the history of computers would _prefer_ the big enter key to the smaller one.
Cheers,
levine
...AT&T RoadRunner (their cable modem service)...
RoadRunner is a service offered by Time Warner Cable (now AOL Time Warner), not AT&T. That is, unless they've merged as well to form AT& AOL Time Warner T.
Cheers,
levine
Why, praytell would you have a RCA DirecTV receiver on top of your computer? And what's that cable that seems to be running from the HU Authentication card to the back of your machine?
;)
Hmmmmm....
Cheers,
levine
When storm clouds are brewing overhead and lightning is striking all around you, how's about turning off and unplugging your computer from every place it connects to the wall? No process is worth so much that its clock cycles are more important than the thousands of dollars you've invested in your computer[s].
Cheers,
levine
If an mp3 search engine gets axed (or a file-trading service has its hands tied) it doesn't slow the people who use IRC or FTP.
With Napster now pretty much out of the picture, there has been a huge jump in the amount of traffic on the efnet channels that release albums on a regular basis. #mp3hqdcc saw many hundreds of additional users in the past 3 months. Looks like the college kids are wising up and going straight to the source.
Cheers,
levine
My local NPR station seems to pretty technologically adept, as they have a shoutcast stream availiable here. The program will air at 7PM EDT, which is in roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes from time of posting.
http://152.2.63.108:8000/listen.pls for the goatsex weary.
Cheers,
levine
> from the fiction dept.
I wasn't aware Slashdot had one-word, non-hyphenated departments anymore!
Cheers,
levine
I'm assuming this is a typo, because 130 wpm would be something along the lines of just slamming your open palm on the keyboard over and over. The fastest typist in the world hits 138 WPM, and that's on a Dvorak keyboard.
As for the rest of your post: hear, hear! I totally agree.
Cheers,
levine
How many plugins have you seen that fail (crash or fail to complete the operation) when you try them on a large image?
;)
Erm. None, really. Based on the architecture of the file system, I think plugins would be an interesting and, most importantly, plausible concept.
No one wants to take a risk of widespread data corruption or data loss.
You've obviously never seen the Linux zealots running the -dev releases of Debian. Sheesh! Talk about trashing a system sometimes...
Cheers,
levine
You could look at this another way; now, all of the bored teenagers on IRC have no way to prove that they cracked momandpop.net, nor is their most revered accomplishment set in the annuls of history, so page-defacings decline.
I mean, it is nothing more than a big "Lookie what I did" ego-trip. I know - I've seen the people that do it.
Cheers,
levine
Hm. No.
I mean, I can see your points, but here's the thing: I never said anywhere that things should be difficult, and you never addressed any of my points aside from making vague and generalized personal comments. The purpose of these little devices is to make things easier, right? Then why bog down a simplifying product with all of this crud? Let's cut it down to this, and agree to disagree: the market for the "Pocket PC" is business. That's been proven. Business users demand simplicity, productivity, and reliability. Based on these things, Palm has it in the bag. This is also proven. The issue that this article discusses is one that we've deviated from, and this has continued for too long.
Cheers,
levine
I don't need any storage space to store MP3s, video, or Flash files because Palm can't do anything with them
Wrong, on most counts. There are several MP3 players for the Palm OS, and video is possible.
I don't need storage space for DoomCE, Mame-CE, NES or Gameboy emulators, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, SQL Server, Windows Media Player, etc., because a Palm couldn't handle such apps.
Let me ask you a better question: what the hell are you doing running Doom, MAME, NES Emulators, SQL servers, and Media Player on a device that is, by definition, a Personal Information Manager? If you want to do these things, buy a laptop. The purpose of the handheld PC is NOT multimedia.
Cheers,
levine