I see other postings talking about having to strain your eyes to look at the screen when turning your head, etc.
Yeah, but apparently none of them have used it. You don't really move your head that much as it's very sensible. This takes getting used to but it really doesn't affect eye strain. And the sensibility can be finely tuned, too.
Well, to be fair, there is a very noticeable difference between both approaches. Both the higher resolution and refresh rate make using it more comfortable. I'm also not sure if any of the webcam alternatives offer the enhanced mode (which is definatly the way to go for the games that support it) that TrackIR has.
Additionally, I'm not really sure if I'd come to the same conclusion regarding wether to get TrackIR 3 or TrackIR 3 Pro. I have the non-pro version, am absolutely happy. So you may just save $30 that way. There have also been quite a bunch of rebates in the past so you may get TrackIR 3 for well below $100.
I bought it mainly just because I was curious to see how it worked. It certainly takes some getting used to but now I wouldn't want to play any flying games without it.
The "german rap scene" ????
Hitler must be spinning in his lake of fire!
OMG!!!1 Germany might have evolved in the past 50 years! How could that HAPPEN?
But yes, you are right, Hitler and Abe Lincoln have started and underground street dance group to protest the general straying-off-path of their offspring.
And for the record. I have never heard of that band so I can't really agree on them being "one of the top bands in the german rap scene". Whatever.
As much as I like the game for it's gameplay - the pc version is messy.
When I read this WineX release I thought "Fine. Now when does GTA3 work on WinXP without problems?";) (Maybe they fixed it with a patch by now but there were a lot of issues)
Anyways, what I was trying to say was: Maybe GTA3 isn't the best candidate for reasonable benchmarks.
Then again, I generally like it when authors have the guts to kill off their main characters. Much better than leaving things hanging in my opinion.
I agree. Nothing is more boring than a completely unfitting happy-end.
I always considered the whole series to have a rather dark subtext so it's only fitting to also have a dark ending. I rather think that "So long and thanks for all the fish" doesnt fit as neatly with the rest of the series.
Then again, this all boils down to taste so I just shut up.
But the TV series is nice in this regard because it doesnt contain the last two books.
I personally would pay - but not until I'm told how many pages I'm using.
You know, seeing your low user number one could be tempted to say something like "given that you've been reading/. for quite a while now (3-4 years I'd guess) you might just pay $5 for the heck of it and find out for yourself".
For example if we had an international internet law with consistant regulations, we wouldn't see such cases as the topic we are discussing about.
I admire your optimism. If previous examples of legislation getting propagated internationally are any indication we're likely in for more trouble than less. I think every recent legal stupidity performed in the US (software patents, DMCA, SSSCA/DCPwhatever) got introduced to the EU (although I admit I'm not up to date as to what actually happened to these). The only slight chance that may be left is that to the best of my knowledge, no european country has the sort of extreme lobbying and legal bribery present in the US.
Justice has to abide to rules, otherwise it's just a powergame. And the German Railway is doing exactly that.
Well, after having read a bit more on the issue I'm likened to agree with posters who suggested that this might actually just be the opening act of another bunch of nuclear waste transports. This makes it more of a political than a legal problem and as such might even provide a better legal base for the defense of "Radikal".
And I didnt want to tell you what to think or not to think. It's just that I find public lamenting of a given fact (describing how to stop trains is apparently illegal in germany) rather boring. And I find it annoying on a personal level to bring arguments into a discussion that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
There has never been any other real power in humanity than that of the individual.
I beg to differ on a sociological level but that really doesnt belong here;).
Deutsche Bahn - wasn't that the "Deutsche Reichbahn" half a century ago, who used deported Jews and Eastern Europeans to build their railroads for nothing?
1.) Is Godwin's law applicable here? 2.) Try to find one big german company existing for more than 50 years that didnt profit from slave workers. Or international companies with german subsidiaries, for that matter.
I know that this doesnt make it any better but falling back to crying "Nazi!" in an argument about a company that for the most of the time was actually government controlled and is suing people over something that is clearly illegal in germany only weakens your point.
Complain about the law. Write your MdB. Point out the fact that banning information about sabotaging rail tracks is pretty stupid as any half-witted radical could probably come up with at least one way to do it himself. But dont fall back on the "ah, they've always been fascists anyway" rhetoric.
If only I could give back my German citizenship. Anybody wants to have it for 1,- Euro? For 50 cents?? For a quarter???
Just get the citizenship of another country. AFAIK noone forces you to keep it. But I doubt that it's a tradeable item.
But I'd seriously be interested which other country you'd choose.
As the parent seems to have been modded into oblivion I may try to clarify that. Like him, I own a JB6000 which does indeed let you change the batteries. This was actually one of the main reasons I bought it as I was planning for a >20h flight which definately required changing batteries and other offers with "proprietary" batteries would have required me to shell out an additional ~$50 for a replacement battery.
And NiMH batteries are actually quite decent in general. They loose approximately 1.5% of their charge per day (Lithium-based batteries are indeed better in that regard)
As far as the usage duration of the Archos is concerned I'm quite content with it. I dont think it runs for 8 hours but I think the original ads a year ago only claimed 4 hours, IIRC.
Either way I dont understand why/. keeps pushing the Creative stuff when the Nomad's so far have all been SDMI-compliant, i.e. dont let you copy from the device (though it seems that this is different for this one).
I can heavily recommend the Jukebox as well. I got one in February and so far haven't had any problems with it.
It's slightly smaller and weighing less than the Nomad, with the batteries making up for a good deal of the weight.
Batteries are also another important plus about the Jukebox with only the minor annoyance of the stupid lids. But it uses regular NiMH AA batteries so you can buy the comparably cheap batteries yourself instead of buying some expensive battery pack.
The 4 batteries usually last for at least 4 hours, though I found it seems to heavily depend on the battery quality (and on the mA, of course).
The only nitpick I have is that their website is shoddy scripted crap.
That still doesn't explain why you don't completely block UDP access to a Webserver (and whilst under attack you could probably survive without Ping and traceroutes also)?
What does this mean for airplanes and boats? Aren't they supposed to know when this is going to happen so they can either a)change their route that day or b) delay their departures?
I seriously hope so! I'll be returning from Oz in mid-march and would definatly disapprove of being torn apart in mid-air by a rotten, russian space station.
(Actually though, I'll be heading in the other direction.;)
Help me with more I am to tired to think right now
The obvious...
NISH - Not Insecure SHell.
:)
Btw, I fail to see why he's bothered if people confuse him as being responsible for a product that doesnt suck (I'm not saying SSH suchks, I'm just saying I'm pretty much happy with OpenSSH^h^h^hNISH). I could think of worse publicity...
like going after dumb trade-marks.;)
Dont mistake me. I'm not saying that America is generally uninteresting to live in. I just get a little irritated by statements like "the best...whatever... in the world". While judging the quality of life over the whole history of the U.S. might be a bit out of scope I still want to mention a couple of things that led me to believe that it's not the best choice...
The one major thing annoying the hell out of me about american culture is it's damn hypocrisy. Any variation of "free" is probably contained in every second general statement about the US (e.g. "the land of the free" etc.) yet you have to invent wet-t-shirt-contests because you're not allowed to show nipples in public. Everyone's talking about how nice the first amendment is but you can't say "Fuck" on TV.
Admittedly this relates a lot to the present. But to get back in history and to answer you're other question; before (note: 'before' not 'while') WWII I'd most definatly have prefered to be in Europe. Actually not really sure where exactly, though;).
Also, as already mentioned above, I dont believe in the american notion of "freedom". I've seen great parts of Europe (well, I live here) and I've seen parts of the US and I cant see where, in day-to-day live, you have more freedom in the US than in most any western-european country.
This is not a mere legislative matter. Just because your constitution says you may say anything and bear arms doesnt mean you're more free than anyone else.
E.g.: so I dont have a gun, which doesnt bother me (much to the contrary, actually) but I don't get arrested for D&D when I totter home drunk (or shot, for that matter;).
This is just on top of my hat and I didn't even get into things like the influence of education on freedom and quality of life.
This is not meant inflammatory but I'm really irritated by this statement: Is the United States still the best choice of a place to live for safety, freedom, and quality of life?
Do you really mean that? What led you to believe that this ever was the case?
I really have trouble grasping this US sense of patriotism.
The business model relies on a web server-based lookup, based on the handle that the plastic cat reads. If they have the dawnings of a clue, then their server won't care what the client is.
This might actually be the reason for their actions in the first place.
From the other article:
When they sent the letter (Aug. 30), my software did not touch the DCNV servers to look up:Cues.
It might have bugged them that someone was writing software for their hardware that just looked up ISBN#s on amazon instead of their server (and in general leave the coice of servers to the coder/user). This would indeed seem to be a threat to their business model, although IMHO a minor one due to the above mentioned blinking 12:00 syndrome.
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But seriously folks, there's many a time I'd like to check recent emails when I'm out and about, or perhaps find the nearest cinema or restaurant when in a distant on business. With my GSM WAP phone that's easy.
Serously, that sounds as if you never tried to use it.;) If I'd really need to check my mail regulary while outside, I'd buy a PDA.
WAP aint that bad as an idea and as a protocol but currently both the gateways and in part the phones suck terribly. I dont see myself as the average WAP-mobile user but I for myself can say that I dont use it anymore.
> They are not talking about banning file sharing.
Of course. That's exactly the thing they're talking about. Just because Napster made the decision to only support searching for mp3s (which I quite frankly, dont understand) doesnt make it anything but file sharing.
While I may agree with you that Napster is currently mainly used to trade copyrighted work it'd be dangerous to support banning them. Because if you look at it you really can never be sure that "the internet" isnt mainly used to trade copyrighted material... and pr0n... and copyrighted pr0n...
So you start prosecuting services that index mp3 files. What would you recommend next? I personally have a problem with gif files and think that altavista should be sued for making it easier for people to share them...
Seriously though, I would contact my congressman, if I had one.
> It's not a generic service that is used for anything the customer desires.
Well, what is then?
Is it not generic because it restricts searches to files ending with ".mp3"? Would they be protected if they just put every kind of file in their indices and let you specify the extension? At which point do search engines as a whole become "generic" enough to be protected from prosecution?
> This together makes WAP that much faster and better suited for use over a wireless connection than HTML.
Yeah. And if there would be devices/browser software that would fully support it and gateways that wouldnt suck it might actually someday be usable. Just sad that by that time the devices probably dont need to rely on the slow GSM connections anymore and the displays and processors should be big enough to support normal HTML rendering.
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I see other postings talking about having to strain your eyes to look at the screen when turning your head, etc.
Yeah, but apparently none of them have used it. You don't really move your head that much as it's very sensible. This takes getting used to but it really doesn't affect eye strain. And the sensibility can be finely tuned, too.
Well, to be fair, there is a very noticeable difference between both approaches. Both the higher resolution and refresh rate make using it more comfortable. I'm also not sure if any of the webcam alternatives offer the enhanced mode (which is definatly the way to go for the games that support it) that TrackIR has.
Additionally, I'm not really sure if I'd come to the same conclusion regarding wether to get TrackIR 3 or TrackIR 3 Pro. I have the non-pro version, am absolutely happy. So you may just save $30 that way. There have also been quite a bunch of rebates in the past so you may get TrackIR 3 for well below $100.
I bought it mainly just because I was curious to see how it worked. It certainly takes some getting used to but now I wouldn't want to play any flying games without it.
Then again, you're not German, so that might be the reason.
I thought my being annoyed with the unimaginative reference to Hitler was enough of a hint that I am. My bad.
The "german rap scene" ????
Hitler must be spinning in his lake of fire!
OMG!!!1 Germany might have evolved in the past 50 years! How could that HAPPEN?
But yes, you are right, Hitler and Abe Lincoln have started and underground street dance group to protest the general straying-off-path of their offspring.
And for the record. I have never heard of that band so I can't really agree on them being "one of the top bands in the german rap scene". Whatever.
Somebody did some benchmarks, and WineX is really really SLOW.
I believe you, since you capitalized the word "slow".
GTA3 is already a very system-intensive game.
;) (Maybe they fixed it with a patch by now but there were a lot of issues)
And I still dont know why.
As much as I like the game for it's gameplay - the pc version is messy.
When I read this WineX release I thought "Fine. Now when does GTA3 work on WinXP without problems?"
Anyways, what I was trying to say was: Maybe GTA3 isn't the best candidate for reasonable benchmarks.
Then again, I generally like it when authors have the guts to kill off their main characters. Much better than leaving things hanging in my opinion.
I agree. Nothing is more boring than a completely unfitting happy-end.
I always considered the whole series to have a rather dark subtext so it's only fitting to also have a dark ending. I rather think that "So long and thanks for all the fish" doesnt fit as neatly with the rest of the series.
Then again, this all boils down to taste so I just shut up.
But the TV series is nice in this regard because it doesnt contain the last two books.
I personally would pay - but not until I'm told how many pages I'm using.
/. for quite a while now (3-4 years I'd guess) you might just pay $5 for the heck of it and find out for yourself".
;).
You know, seeing your low user number one could be tempted to say something like "given that you've been reading
Just a thought, though
For example if we had an international internet law with consistant regulations, we wouldn't see such cases as the topic we are discussing about.
;).
I admire your optimism. If previous examples of legislation getting propagated internationally are any indication we're likely in for more trouble than less. I think every recent legal stupidity performed in the US (software patents, DMCA, SSSCA/DCPwhatever) got introduced to the EU (although I admit I'm not up to date as to what actually happened to these). The only slight chance that may be left is that to the best of my knowledge, no european country has the sort of extreme lobbying and legal bribery present in the US.
Justice has to abide to rules, otherwise it's just a powergame. And the German Railway is doing exactly that.
Well, after having read a bit more on the issue I'm likened to agree with posters who suggested that this might actually just be the opening act of another bunch of nuclear waste transports. This makes it more of a political than a legal problem and as such might even provide a better legal base for the defense of "Radikal".
And I didnt want to tell you what to think or not to think. It's just that I find public lamenting of a given fact (describing how to stop trains is apparently illegal in germany) rather boring. And I find it annoying on a personal level to bring arguments into a discussion that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
There has never been any other real power in humanity than that of the individual.
I beg to differ on a sociological level but that really doesnt belong here
Deutsche Bahn - wasn't that the "Deutsche Reichbahn" half a century ago, who used deported Jews and Eastern Europeans to build their railroads for nothing?
1.) Is Godwin's law applicable here?
2.) Try to find one big german company existing for more than 50 years that didnt profit from slave workers. Or international companies with german subsidiaries, for that matter.
I know that this doesnt make it any better but falling back to crying "Nazi!" in an argument about a company that for the most of the time was actually government controlled and is suing people over something that is clearly illegal in germany only weakens your point.
Complain about the law. Write your MdB. Point out the fact that banning information about sabotaging rail tracks is pretty stupid as any half-witted radical could probably come up with at least one way to do it himself. But dont fall back on the "ah, they've always been fascists anyway" rhetoric.
If only I could give back my German citizenship. Anybody wants to have it for 1,- Euro? For 50 cents?? For a quarter???
Just get the citizenship of another country. AFAIK noone forces you to keep it. But I doubt that it's a tradeable item.
But I'd seriously be interested which other country you'd choose.
stereotyping germans as people who look away when evil is done is insulting
But nevertheless appropriate as far as stereotypes go.
Of course, being as it is this stereotype holds true for pretty much all the people in the world. We are a bunch of egoistic cowards after all.
As the parent seems to have been modded into oblivion I may try to clarify that. Like him, I own a JB6000 which does indeed let you change the batteries. This was actually one of the main reasons I bought it as I was planning for a >20h flight which definately required changing batteries and other offers with "proprietary" batteries would have required me to shell out an additional ~$50 for a replacement battery.
/. keeps pushing the Creative stuff when the Nomad's so far have all been SDMI-compliant, i.e. dont let you copy from the device (though it seems that this is different for this one).
And NiMH batteries are actually quite decent in general. They loose approximately 1.5% of their charge per day (Lithium-based batteries are indeed better in that regard)
As far as the usage duration of the Archos is concerned I'm quite content with it. I dont think it runs for 8 hours but I think the original ads a year ago only claimed 4 hours, IIRC.
Either way I dont understand why
I don't want toys.
:)
Maybe it's me but I consider "powerful development and test machines" to be toys.
I can heavily recommend the Jukebox as well. I got one in February and so far haven't had any problems with it.
It's slightly smaller and weighing less than the Nomad, with the batteries making up for a good deal of the weight.
Batteries are also another important plus about the Jukebox with only the minor annoyance of the stupid lids. But it uses regular NiMH AA batteries so you can buy the comparably cheap batteries yourself instead of buying some expensive battery pack.
The 4 batteries usually last for at least 4 hours, though I found it seems to heavily depend on the battery quality (and on the mA, of course).
The only nitpick I have is that their website is shoddy scripted crap.
That still doesn't explain why you don't completely block UDP access to a Webserver (and whilst under attack you could probably survive without Ping and traceroutes also)?
What does this mean for airplanes and boats? Aren't they supposed to know when this is going to happen so they can either a)change their route that day or b) delay their departures?
;)
I seriously hope so! I'll be returning from Oz in mid-march and would definatly disapprove of being torn apart in mid-air by a rotten, russian space station.
(Actually though, I'll be heading in the other direction.
Help me with more I am to tired to think right now
;)
The obvious...
NISH - Not Insecure SHell.
:)
Btw, I fail to see why he's bothered if people confuse him as being responsible for a product that doesnt suck (I'm not saying SSH suchks, I'm just saying I'm pretty much happy with OpenSSH^h^h^hNISH). I could think of worse publicity...
like going after dumb trade-marks.
Clearly this would make one believe that it has been consistently a good place to live
I'm not saying its not a good place. I was bothered by calling it the "best" place.
Dont mistake me. I'm not saying that America is generally uninteresting to live in. I just get a little irritated by statements like "the best ...whatever... in the world". While judging the quality of life over the whole history of the U.S. might be a bit out of scope I still want to mention a couple of things that led me to believe that it's not the best choice...
;).
;).
;)
The one major thing annoying the hell out of me about american culture is it's damn hypocrisy. Any variation of "free" is probably contained in every second general statement about the US (e.g. "the land of the free" etc.) yet you have to invent wet-t-shirt-contests because you're not allowed to show nipples in public. Everyone's talking about how nice the first amendment is but you can't say "Fuck" on TV.
Admittedly this relates a lot to the present. But to get back in history and to answer you're other question; before (note: 'before' not 'while') WWII I'd most definatly have prefered to be in Europe. Actually not really sure where exactly, though
Also, as already mentioned above, I dont believe in the american notion of "freedom". I've seen great parts of Europe (well, I live here) and I've seen parts of the US and I cant see where, in day-to-day live, you have more freedom in the US than in most any western-european country.
This is not a mere legislative matter. Just because your constitution says you may say anything and bear arms doesnt mean you're more free than anyone else.
E.g.: so I dont have a gun, which doesnt bother me (much to the contrary, actually) but I don't get arrested for D&D when I totter home drunk (or shot, for that matter
This is just on top of my hat and I didn't even get into things like the influence of education on freedom and quality of life.
And I wanna go home...
This is not meant inflammatory but I'm really irritated by this statement: Is the United States still the best choice of a place to live for safety, freedom, and quality of life?
Do you really mean that? What led you to believe that this ever was the case?
I really have trouble grasping this US sense of patriotism.
Seriously, I'm just curious...
The business model relies on a web server-based lookup, based on the handle that the plastic cat reads. If they have the dawnings of a clue, then their server won't care what the client is.
:Cues.
This might actually be the reason for their actions in the first place.
From the other article:
When they sent the letter (Aug. 30), my software did not touch the DCNV servers to look up
It might have bugged them that someone was writing software for their hardware that just looked up ISBN#s on amazon instead of their server (and in general leave the coice of servers to the coder/user). This would indeed seem to be a threat to their business model, although IMHO a minor one due to the above mentioned blinking 12:00 syndrome.
Serously, that sounds as if you never tried to use it.
If I'd really need to check my mail regulary while outside, I'd buy a PDA.
WAP aint that bad as an idea and as a protocol but currently both the gateways and in part the phones suck terribly.
I dont see myself as the average WAP-mobile user but I for myself can say that I dont use it anymore.
> They are not talking about banning file sharing.
Of course. That's exactly the thing they're talking about.
Just because Napster made the decision to only support searching for mp3s (which I quite frankly, dont understand) doesnt make it anything but file sharing.
While I may agree with you that Napster is currently mainly used to trade copyrighted work it'd be dangerous to support banning them. Because if you look at it you really can never be sure that "the internet" isnt mainly used to trade copyrighted material... and pr0n... and copyrighted pr0n...
So you start prosecuting services that index mp3 files. What would you recommend next? I personally have a problem with gif files and think that altavista should be sued for making it easier for people to share them...
Seriously though, I would contact my congressman, if I had one.
> It's not a generic service that is used for anything the customer desires.
Well, what is then?
Is it not generic because it restricts searches to files ending with ".mp3"? Would they be protected if they just put every kind of file in their indices and let you specify the extension? At which point do search engines as a whole become "generic" enough to be protected from prosecution?
> This together makes WAP that much faster and better suited for use over a wireless connection than HTML.
Yeah. And if there would be devices/browser software that would fully support it and gateways that wouldnt suck it might actually someday be usable.
Just sad that by that time the devices probably dont need to rely on the slow GSM connections anymore and the displays and processors should be big enough to support normal HTML rendering.