I mean, come on, odds are he got the escort with 100k miles on it for next to nothing (say, a thousand bucks), he spent maybe another thousand bucks in supplies and spent a month (fulltime) tops working on it.
If he gets 7K (I think he's gonna get at least 20K anyways, star wars, word of mouth and all that) by this quick seat-of-the-pants calculation, he could have made a good 5K with a month of work, which while not good enough to retire, is not exactly bad pay either, also considering the fun he had while making it (and driving the 880 miles to show it off).
Well, in Europe (Italy to be more precise), where I'm originally from, there are *extremely* strict rules that define what is street legal and what is not (for example, most kit cars are not legal despite the fact that they've been tested, because you're building it yourself, so you can't, say, use the crash tests from a different one, because the manufacturer is different).
Something like this would probably be laughed at before even starting the application process;)
Just curious, what are exactly the regulations that define street-worthiness in the USA? I'm thinking about things like
- safety (if I want to install an impaling device on the front of the car, am I allowed to? or what about the always fun side-mounted scythe blades?)
- safety (if I want to install a 10 foot tall flagpole that will make my car 99% flip over in a turn when there's wind, can I do it?)
- safety (if I take my average car, install a couple thousand pounds worth of 'mods' and its braking distance shoots up fourfold, is it a problem?)
- safety (what about being able to evade an accident? if my 'mods' make my car drive like a barge in a river, is that ok?)
- safety (what about if sharp pieces of my 'mod' become unglued when going over a bump at speed, take off, and shatter the windshield of whomever is following me?)
- safety (what about seatbelts? what if it rolls over?)
I don't want to spoil the fun, but really, if a car doesn't pass *all* of the above (and more) IMHO it shouldn't be classified as 'road worthy' regardless of how cool it looks...
just my 2c
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IIRC you had to revis the maps if you wanted the players underwater to show up: this, again IIRC, was frowned upon, since it was possible only with glquake, and people without hardware acceleration couldn't do it, so you had quite an advantage being able to stand around pools and shooting rockets at people underwater...
it's been a long time, so I'm not 100% sure I'm remembering things correctly.
also consider that most of the time, people that are interested in such frame rates, are also *very* interested in having detailed high-resolution frames of the event at 'interesting' times.
This probably means having to shoot images of around 4-6 megapixels, and I really don't see any way of doing that at the speed needed for this kind of application.
The only way might be exactly what the poster of the topic didn't grasp: have a camera that can take 100-1000 pictures at a 1Mpics/sec frame rate and store them in ultra-fast local memory, and transfer them out at leisure, with a good triggering setup, 100-1000 microseconds worth of data might just be enough for certain applications.
Definitely... I'm completely deaf in one ear (some weird bug tailed on my measles when I was a kid and fried the connection between my ear and my brain) and you don't know how much I'd give to be able to finally hear from both ears again.
Hearing from one ear only sucks (well, better than to be deaf obviously!) because it precludes all sorts of careers (cops, pilots,...) due to the fact that you can't know where a sound is coming from and because it's impossible to do the 'trick' to 'focus' on what a person is saying and ignoring the background noise...
This doesn't necessarily mean anything... if you read the article it also says that due to the ice-age rebound some areas go up 1/4 of an inch a year.
If you were in an area that goes up only, say, 1/10th of an inch a year, your 'the level of the sea hasn't changed' observation would mean that the sea level has, in fact, gone up 2 inches (let's assume you were a kid 20 years ago)
Change quantities as needed, I haven't made this in a while, so YMMV. This is an 'original' recipe, which I'm going to GPL here;)
1 cup rice (best rice 'Baldo', impossible to find here in North America, second best 'Arborio' very easy to find in the 'ethnic' section of the supermarket) stay away from instant rice for this 2-4 cups of broth (depends from a lot of factors) 1 tbsp (or thereabouts) of butter or olive oil 1-2 cup(s) (total) of cheese(s) cubed in very small cubes, the more the cheese, the cheesier the result (no, really;) seasoning to taste (usually 1tsp of a mix of herbs with oregano)
Have the broth ready and warm in a pot next to the pot you'll make the risotto in.
Put the butter/oil in a pot (non-stick) and melt it, then dump the rice in and fry it for a few minutes, the objective is to enhance the flavour, not really to cook it. Keep the heat to 3/4 I'd say.
After the frying is done, pour about a ladle (1/2 cup to a cup) of hot broth in the pot on top of the rice, and stir things around with a wooden spoon. During this phase of the preparation keep stirring at least every 30 seconds to a minute.
When the rice gets 'drier' (i.e. the broth you put in evaporated/got absorbed) add another ladle of broth, and keep going for about 12-14 minutes (can't be precise, it depends from the rice that you're using, trial and error is key here).
Don't ever 'drown' the rice, otherwise the temperature will go down and it won't taste as good: add about 1/2 cup of broth at a time tops.
About a minute or two before the time is up when the rice is moist but there's no broth floating around, you dump in all the chopped cheese and the herbs: stir vigorously for the remaining minute of cooking in order to mix things well and to get the cheese to melt. The consistency of the risotto will differ depending on how long you'll cook the cheese (obviously) for a mix of soft/hard cheeses, I'd say a minute is a good place to start.
Now turn off the stove and *immediately* cover the pot with a damp cloth, and leave it alone for about two to three minutes (this enhances the flavour quite a bit).
Take out and serve: if done right the rice will basically melt in your mouth with a subtle taste of cheese and herbs (consistency similar to sort of chunky mashed potatoes), every time I made this dish it was always a hit, and it's not hard at all once you've tried it a few times for yourself. You really have to get the timing right for the rice that you use and your stove/cheese combination, but once you nail that, you can cook this basically with your eyes closed.
The article at anand's says that ATI has abandoned their previous 'unified' drivers and that the drivers for R300 are 'brand new' and that this could create compatibility issues with older games and so on...
Now, if there's somebody here that knows more, what exactly does 'unified' mean in technical terms (not marketspeak)? How can a 'unified' driver work for vastly different cards like GeForce1 (basic T&L) GeForce3/4 (shaders and so on) and NV30 (FP pipeline)?
I don't see much that can be 'unified' in those architectures, and even less between the DX_8.1_and_lower and DX_9_and_higher parts, given the jump from integer to FP pipelines.
So, is the claim of 'unified' drivers purely marketspeak (and maybe it's just a collection of 'workarounds' for specific game problems) or is there a technical case to be made for them?
ditto, I've been using rxvt for like 10 years (no kidding) and ee from the command line is really useful (also as an image displayer for gnus since sometimes inline image display doesn't work as well as I'd like).
And what about elm? It's a really nice commandline mailer, I haven't used it for a looooong time, but sometimes it's useful to fire it up to look at your inbox without having to launch emacs.
Not including netscape 4.7x is a really boneheaded move: while I do use galeon for my daily browsing, there are sites that don't work in anything but netscape 4.x or IE (notably, my public library site, their horrible java appplet doesn't work in anything but ns 4.7 on linux)
Fvwm2, while something I haven't used on my *user* desktop for at least 5 years, is useful for when you want a *quick* login (i.e. you're logging in as root to fix something like the X configuration and you don't want to wait forever for gnome/kde to load up)
I could go on and on (doh, I already have!) but these choices don't look that great, at least from the perspective of an 'old' unix person, what next, removing TeX for OpenOffice?
Since we're talking about the 'war on drugs' here, I'm wondering exactly *when* the idea of a 'war on drugs' started exactly.
I mean, when did a government (of any type, anywhere) start trying to control the citizen's access to a then desirable substance 'for the good of the country/kingdom/fiefdom/whatever'
I can think of many examples where this has been done so the 'government' could make money off taxes on the substance that was being smuggled in, but I can't quite find any decent resource that would tell me that, for example, it was King Foozle in some_year that used his power to ban chocolate (for example) in his kingdom.
The only thing approaching the 'war on drugs' that I can think about is the 'war on proscribed texts' by various religious entities (Catholic Church during the middle ages for example), but that's about it.
I tried RC1 and hated that the panel at the top was fixed! Since the dawn of time all my desktop environments have had the panel to the *left* of the screen, why is it that in Gnome 2.0 I have to have it stuck at the top ala Mac?
Another *MAJOR* point that will prevent me from 'upgrading' to 2.0 is that there doesn't seem to be any way to have my favorite focus mode: sloppy with 200ms autoraise: there is 'focus follows mouse' but I wasn't able to get autoraise to work (and anyways having half the focus prefs under the gnome config, and half under the sawfish config is kind of lame).
I also had several other problems with RC1 (preferences not saving, gconfd not being stopped when logging out (maybe related to the first)) but they might be related to my config.
Personally these RC1 and RC2 felt more like an alpha than an RC, so if the above are fixed (moveable top panel, sloppy+autoraise) I will probably try gnome 2.2 (or whatever the name of the 'bugfix' release is).
BTW, if there IS a way in RC1/RC2 to get the focus behaviour and to move the panel from the top to the left, I'm all ears!
When living in Europe Japanese-versions of the manuals were more or less always included and I enjoyed looking at the funny pics;)
The localized manuals were also very funny (for different reasons) they were usually so badly translated to be comical, some (honest, I didn't make these up) examples are:
'joystick' translated as 'rod of command'
'drivers' (as in printer drivers) sometimes translated with 'car pilots'
'server' (as in network server) sometimes translated with 'whom who serves'
and so on and on... it's funny though when you read stuff like 'plug the rod of command in and don't forget to install the car pilot in your computer'
Personally sometimes I don't mind if/. reports stuff slightly out of date, after all I come here mostly for the discussion, not really for the news themselves (at least most of the time)
'normal' phone service is blackout-resistant, this for sure isn't. This and the lack of 911 kind of severely hamper people who might want it as their *only* phone.
But getting it for long distance (keep the phone for local calls and to get DSL) seems really good...
Lately I wanted to check out the new version of Gnome, I went to www.gnome.org and the download page sent me to Ximian where the only option is to download the 'Ximian Desktop'.
I do *not* want 'Ximian Desktop' (which seems to want to do all sorts of stuff to my system, come on, asking users to su and do a lynx | sh is absolutely ridiculous, and the 'manual install' option is barely more acceptable 'run this executable as root') I just want a bunch of precompiled packages that I can inspect and install as needed: even better if instead of 'packages' you provided bare.tgz files.
I understand the need to minimize dependency hell (see the latest kde, which I wasn't able to install on my redhat 7.1 box) but at the same time there must be a third option besides 'use the source' and 'let Ximian's installer hijack^H^H^H^H^H^Hupgrade your machine'
/me is nostalgic about the good old Slackware days where everything was distributed as tgz archives.
I really don't think so: it's more a question of budget, if you think that a budget of $500M/$1B is acceptable, I don't see many 'stories' unfeasible for technological reasons alone.
There *are* a lot of stories that are unfeasible for other reasons (scope) one of the best known IMHO is the Foundation Trilogy, while technologically would be fairly expensive due to all the CG shots, making it in a movie that's not 16 hours long and is still nearly as good as the books would be quite an undertaking.
well, it's the exact translation in very proper Italian of the notice in English;) (kudos to Google for translating it so well, and not just doing a quick'n'dirty babelfish-like job).
Excuse me, but not having PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports is totally ridiculous: come on, I have a great old keyboard (first-gen MS natural, with the 'bigger' keys) that works perfectly and is not manifactured anymore and a great Logi mouse (forget the model, not manifactured anymore either) and I would have to throw them away just to use this M/B? No way!
And let's not even talk about my laserjet printer (which works *great* but is, obviously, parallel).
And what's the deal with no gameport connector (for MIDI)? Why should I pay twice for the onboard sound and for a creative card to hook up my MIDI gear? Not to mention some people that have hundreds of $$ invested in non-USB HOTAS setups.
I don't like backwards compatibility at all costs, and I like the idea of having some firewire ports and some extra USB ones (even if IMHO USB hubs are a much better idea, I can connect/disconnect things on my desk instead of having to crawl behind the computer) but removing things like keyboard/mouse connectors and parallel ports goes really too far.
If the unit can store 224 gigs and transfer 80gigs/sec, it means that it theoretically takes nearly 4 seconds to transfer all of its data.
If it contains 27 human genomes, I find it hard to believe that it can transfer 100 human genomes/sec (4x) it should be able to transfer 6.5 human genomes/sec (1/4)
Methinks whomever wrote this press release instead of pressing the '/' key on their calculators pressed '*'
I wouldn't be if I were you: these games load slowly (way too slowly) and seem to come from people who have a console/pc mindset (i.e. the fact that you have to sit through splash screens, that when you leave the game and return you have to start from scratch, etc. etc.).
Given all the extremely high quality free/shareware games already available for palm on palmgear and freewarepalm I really doubt that the entrance of a 'big player' will make that big of a difference.
The games load fairly slowly (10-15 seconds, maybe they're doing some precalculation or something) and you have to sit through slowly fading in/out Sega/Smilebit splash screens (come on, seeing it once should be enough!)
Triangle looks cute, like some old MSX Konami game, but as soon as I selected (out of curiosity) 'quit game' from the menu, I got a 'fatal exception' and had to *hardware* reset -> game deinstalled.
The other game seems definitely addictive, and it hasn't crashed yet, so I think I'm going to keep it for now: the rotation of the square is a bit choppy, but the user interface is really cool. Sucks that, unlike most palm games, if you switch to some other application and you re-enter the game, it just starts from scratch instead of remembering where you were.
I don't want to flame, but from the tone of the article it seems that the main aim of the company was to be bought out and generate a good return for the original investors.
The buyout didn't happen, and the lack of a 'plan B' caused the company to fold.
no, I mean to have the choice to have an *additional* 50c *explicitly* added to your order (i.e. that shows up on your bill) for the only purpose of being given to a specified referrer.
Sort of like Amazon mantaining a list of sites you like to sponsor, and to make it easy to make a micro-payment to them (say, you add 50c to your order, amazon takes 5c commission, and gives 45c to the site).
I'm sure people wouldn't mind giving 50c now and then to sites they like if it was as easy as ticking a checkbox on the Amazon order page...
there are *many* sites that do the Amazon program, and it's way too cumbersome to get it to work, after all, 99% of the time I'm accessing one of these sites, I'm not accessing it because I want to buy something from Amazon!
When I do want to buy something, I usually don't go through these sites, I go to Amazon directly, and do searches there and do my ordering.
More than once, I went to Amazon via a site-sponsored link, only to 'lose' the sponsoring after a few searches and various browsing.
It would be much easier if Amazon offered the opportunity to create a 'list' of sites you want to support (i.e., assume your sponsored links go to a page on Amazon that adds your site to my list) and that it would give you the opportunity to add, say, 50 cents per-site (choosing which ones of course) to your order during the checkout process.
In this way Amazon would deal with the micropayment crap, you would get your money, and I wouldn't have to remember which site has a sponsored link whenever I want to order something. Plus giving you 50c out of a $50 order is absolutely not a big deal, but if a lot of people did it (and if you make it easy enough, they *will*) it would be pretty good money for you.
Since you are a member of the Amazon referrals (and a fellow vegan;) why don't you float this idea to Amazon and see what happens?
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I mean, come on, odds are he got the escort with 100k miles on it for next to nothing (say, a thousand bucks), he spent maybe another thousand bucks in supplies and spent a month (fulltime) tops working on it.
If he gets 7K (I think he's gonna get at least 20K anyways, star wars, word of mouth and all that) by this quick seat-of-the-pants calculation, he could have made a good 5K with a month of work, which while not good enough to retire, is not exactly bad pay either, also considering the fun he had while making it (and driving the 880 miles to show it off).
Well, in Europe (Italy to be more precise), where I'm originally from, there are *extremely* strict rules that define what is street legal and what is not (for example, most kit cars are not legal despite the fact that they've been tested, because you're building it yourself, so you can't, say, use the crash tests from a different one, because the manufacturer is different).
;)
Something like this would probably be laughed at before even starting the application process
Just curious, what are exactly the regulations that define street-worthiness in the USA? I'm thinking about things like
- safety (if I want to install an impaling device on the front of the car, am I allowed to? or what about the always fun side-mounted scythe blades?)
- safety (if I want to install a 10 foot tall flagpole that will make my car 99% flip over in a turn when there's wind, can I do it?)
- safety (if I take my average car, install a couple thousand pounds worth of 'mods' and its braking distance shoots up fourfold, is it a problem?)
- safety (what about being able to evade an accident? if my 'mods' make my car drive like a barge in a river, is that ok?)
- safety (what about if sharp pieces of my 'mod' become unglued when going over a bump at speed, take off, and shatter the windshield of whomever is following me?)
- safety (what about seatbelts? what if it rolls over?)
I don't want to spoil the fun, but really, if a car doesn't pass *all* of the above (and more) IMHO it shouldn't be classified as 'road worthy' regardless of how cool it looks...
just my 2c
IIRC you had to revis the maps if you wanted the players underwater to show up: this, again IIRC, was frowned upon, since it was possible only with glquake, and people without hardware acceleration couldn't do it, so you had quite an advantage being able to stand around pools and shooting rockets at people underwater...
it's been a long time, so I'm not 100% sure I'm remembering things correctly.
also consider that most of the time, people that are interested in such frame rates, are also *very* interested in having detailed high-resolution frames of the event at 'interesting' times.
This probably means having to shoot images of around 4-6 megapixels, and I really don't see any way of doing that at the speed needed for this kind of application.
The only way might be exactly what the poster of the topic didn't grasp: have a camera that can take 100-1000 pictures at a 1Mpics/sec frame rate and store them in ultra-fast local memory, and transfer them out at leisure, with a good triggering setup, 100-1000 microseconds worth of data might just be enough for certain applications.
Definitely... I'm completely deaf in one ear (some weird bug tailed on my measles when I was a kid and fried the connection between my ear and my brain) and you don't know how much I'd give to be able to finally hear from both ears again.
...) due to the fact that you can't know where a sound is coming from and because it's impossible to do the 'trick' to 'focus' on what a person is saying and ignoring the background noise...
Hearing from one ear only sucks (well, better than to be deaf obviously!) because it precludes all sorts of careers (cops, pilots,
This doesn't necessarily mean anything... if you read the article it also says that due to the ice-age rebound some areas go up 1/4 of an inch a year.
If you were in an area that goes up only, say, 1/10th of an inch a year, your 'the level of the sea hasn't changed' observation would mean that the sea level has, in fact, gone up 2 inches (let's assume you were a kid 20 years ago)
Change quantities as needed, I haven't made this in a while, so YMMV. This is an 'original' recipe, which I'm going to GPL here ;)
;)
1 cup rice (best rice 'Baldo', impossible to find here in North America, second best 'Arborio' very easy to find in the 'ethnic' section of the supermarket) stay away from instant rice for this
2-4 cups of broth (depends from a lot of factors)
1 tbsp (or thereabouts) of butter or olive oil
1-2 cup(s) (total) of cheese(s) cubed in very small cubes, the more the cheese, the cheesier the result (no, really
seasoning to taste (usually 1tsp of a mix of herbs with oregano)
Have the broth ready and warm in a pot next to the pot you'll make the risotto in.
Put the butter/oil in a pot (non-stick) and melt it, then dump the rice in and fry it for a few minutes, the objective is to enhance the flavour, not really to cook it. Keep the heat to 3/4 I'd say.
After the frying is done, pour about a ladle (1/2 cup to a cup) of hot broth in the pot on top of the rice, and stir things around with a wooden spoon. During this phase of the preparation keep stirring at least every 30 seconds to a minute.
When the rice gets 'drier' (i.e. the broth you put in evaporated/got absorbed) add another ladle of broth, and keep going for about 12-14 minutes (can't be precise, it depends from the rice that you're using, trial and error is key here).
Don't ever 'drown' the rice, otherwise the temperature will go down and it won't taste as good: add about 1/2 cup of broth at a time tops.
About a minute or two before the time is up when the rice is moist but there's no broth floating around, you dump in all the chopped cheese and the herbs: stir vigorously for the remaining minute of cooking in order to mix things well and to get the cheese to melt. The consistency of the risotto will differ depending on how long you'll cook the cheese (obviously) for a mix of soft/hard cheeses, I'd say a minute is a good place to start.
Now turn off the stove and *immediately* cover the pot with a damp cloth, and leave it alone for about two to three minutes (this enhances the flavour quite a bit).
Take out and serve: if done right the rice will basically melt in your mouth with a subtle taste of cheese and herbs (consistency similar to sort of chunky mashed potatoes), every time I made this dish it was always a hit, and it's not hard at all once you've tried it a few times for yourself. You really have to get the timing right for the rice that you use and your stove/cheese combination, but once you nail that, you can cook this basically with your eyes closed.
The article at anand's says that ATI has abandoned their previous 'unified' drivers and that the drivers for R300 are 'brand new' and that this could create compatibility issues with older games and so on...
Now, if there's somebody here that knows more, what exactly does 'unified' mean in technical terms (not marketspeak)? How can a 'unified' driver work for vastly different cards like GeForce1 (basic T&L) GeForce3/4 (shaders and so on) and NV30 (FP pipeline)?
I don't see much that can be 'unified' in those architectures, and even less between the DX_8.1_and_lower and DX_9_and_higher parts, given the jump from integer to FP pipelines.
So, is the claim of 'unified' drivers purely marketspeak (and maybe it's just a collection of 'workarounds' for specific game problems) or is there a technical case to be made for them?
ditto, I've been using rxvt for like 10 years (no kidding) and ee from the command line is really useful (also as an image displayer for gnus since sometimes inline image display doesn't work as well as I'd like).
And what about elm? It's a really nice commandline mailer, I haven't used it for a looooong time, but sometimes it's useful to fire it up to look at your inbox without having to launch emacs.
Not including netscape 4.7x is a really boneheaded move: while I do use galeon for my daily browsing, there are sites that don't work in anything but netscape 4.x or IE (notably, my public library site, their horrible java appplet doesn't work in anything but ns 4.7 on linux)
Fvwm2, while something I haven't used on my *user* desktop for at least 5 years, is useful for when you want a *quick* login (i.e. you're logging in as root to fix something like the X configuration and you don't want to wait forever for gnome/kde to load up)
I could go on and on (doh, I already have!) but these choices don't look that great, at least from the perspective of an 'old' unix person, what next, removing TeX for OpenOffice?
Since we're talking about the 'war on drugs' here, I'm wondering exactly *when* the idea of a 'war on drugs' started exactly.
I mean, when did a government (of any type, anywhere) start trying to control the citizen's access to a then desirable substance 'for the good of the country/kingdom/fiefdom/whatever'
I can think of many examples where this has been done so the 'government' could make money off taxes on the substance that was being smuggled in, but I can't quite find any decent resource that would tell me that, for example, it was King Foozle in some_year that used his power to ban chocolate (for example) in his kingdom.
The only thing approaching the 'war on drugs' that I can think about is the 'war on proscribed texts' by various religious entities (Catholic Church during the middle ages for example), but that's about it.
Anybody?
I tried RC1 and hated that the panel at the top was fixed! Since the dawn of time all my desktop environments have had the panel to the *left* of the screen, why is it that in Gnome 2.0 I have to have it stuck at the top ala Mac?
Another *MAJOR* point that will prevent me from 'upgrading' to 2.0 is that there doesn't seem to be any way to have my favorite focus mode: sloppy with 200ms autoraise: there is 'focus follows mouse' but I wasn't able to get autoraise to work (and anyways having half the focus prefs under the gnome config, and half under the sawfish config is kind of lame).
I also had several other problems with RC1 (preferences not saving, gconfd not being stopped when logging out (maybe related to the first)) but they might be related to my config.
Personally these RC1 and RC2 felt more like an alpha than an RC, so if the above are fixed (moveable top panel, sloppy+autoraise) I will probably try gnome 2.2 (or whatever the name of the 'bugfix' release is).
BTW, if there IS a way in RC1/RC2 to get the focus behaviour and to move the panel from the top to the left, I'm all ears!
When living in Europe Japanese-versions of the manuals were more or less always included and I enjoyed looking at the funny pics ;)
The localized manuals were also very funny (for different reasons) they were usually so badly translated to be comical, some (honest, I didn't make these up) examples are:
'joystick' translated as 'rod of command'
'drivers' (as in printer drivers) sometimes translated with 'car pilots'
'server' (as in network server) sometimes translated with 'whom who serves'
and so on and on... it's funny though when you read stuff like 'plug the rod of command in and don't forget to install the car pilot in your computer'
hmmmmm, methinks your math is flaky
40b$ / 281mpeople = 142 $/person
i.e. MS has enough money to give everybody in the US 142 bucks...
Personally sometimes I don't mind if /. reports stuff slightly out of date, after all I come here mostly for the discussion, not really for the news themselves (at least most of the time)
'normal' phone service is blackout-resistant, this for sure isn't. This and the lack of 911 kind of severely hamper people who might want it as their *only* phone.
But getting it for long distance (keep the phone for local calls and to get DSL) seems really good...
Lately I wanted to check out the new version of Gnome, I went to www.gnome.org and the download page sent me to Ximian where the only option is to download the 'Ximian Desktop'.
.tgz files.
I do *not* want 'Ximian Desktop' (which seems to want to do all sorts of stuff to my system, come on, asking users to su and do a lynx | sh is absolutely ridiculous, and the 'manual install' option is barely more acceptable 'run this executable as root') I just want a bunch of precompiled packages that I can inspect and install as needed: even better if instead of 'packages' you provided bare
I understand the need to minimize dependency hell (see the latest kde, which I wasn't able to install on my redhat 7.1 box) but at the same time there must be a third option besides 'use the source' and 'let Ximian's installer hijack^H^H^H^H^H^Hupgrade your machine'
/me is nostalgic about the good old Slackware days where everything was distributed as tgz archives.
I really don't think so: it's more a question of budget, if you think that a budget of $500M/$1B is acceptable, I don't see many 'stories' unfeasible for technological reasons alone.
There *are* a lot of stories that are unfeasible for other reasons (scope) one of the best known IMHO is the Foundation Trilogy, while technologically would be fairly expensive due to all the CG shots, making it in a movie that's not 16 hours long and is still nearly as good as the books would be quite an undertaking.
well, it's the exact translation in very proper Italian of the notice in English ;) (kudos to Google for translating it so well, and not just doing a quick'n'dirty babelfish-like job).
Excuse me, but not having PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports is totally ridiculous: come on, I have a great old keyboard (first-gen MS natural, with the 'bigger' keys) that works perfectly and is not manifactured anymore and a great Logi mouse (forget the model, not manifactured anymore either) and I would have to throw them away just to use this M/B? No way!
And let's not even talk about my laserjet printer (which works *great* but is, obviously, parallel).
And what's the deal with no gameport connector (for MIDI)? Why should I pay twice for the onboard sound and for a creative card to hook up my MIDI gear? Not to mention some people that have hundreds of $$ invested in non-USB HOTAS setups.
I don't like backwards compatibility at all costs, and I like the idea of having some firewire ports and some extra USB ones (even if IMHO USB hubs are a much better idea, I can connect/disconnect things on my desk instead of having to crawl behind the computer) but removing things like keyboard/mouse connectors and parallel ports goes really too far.
I find it wrong, the numbers don't add up...
If the unit can store 224 gigs and transfer 80gigs/sec, it means that it theoretically takes nearly 4 seconds to transfer all of its data.
If it contains 27 human genomes, I find it hard to believe that it can transfer 100 human genomes/sec (4x) it should be able to transfer 6.5 human genomes/sec (1/4)
Methinks whomever wrote this press release instead of pressing the '/' key on their calculators pressed '*'
I wouldn't be if I were you: these games load slowly (way too slowly) and seem to come from people who have a console/pc mindset (i.e. the fact that you have to sit through splash screens, that when you leave the game and return you have to start from scratch, etc. etc.).
Given all the extremely high quality free/shareware games already available for palm on palmgear and freewarepalm I really doubt that the entrance of a 'big player' will make that big of a difference.
Note: I have an oldish Palm iiic.
The games load fairly slowly (10-15 seconds, maybe they're doing some precalculation or something) and you have to sit through slowly fading in/out Sega/Smilebit splash screens (come on, seeing it once should be enough!)
Triangle looks cute, like some old MSX Konami game, but as soon as I selected (out of curiosity) 'quit game' from the menu, I got a 'fatal exception' and had to *hardware* reset -> game deinstalled.
The other game seems definitely addictive, and it hasn't crashed yet, so I think I'm going to keep it for now: the rotation of the square is a bit choppy, but the user interface is really cool. Sucks that, unlike most palm games, if you switch to some other application and you re-enter the game, it just starts from scratch instead of remembering where you were.
I don't want to flame, but from the tone of the article it seems that the main aim of the company was to be bought out and generate a good return for the original investors.
The buyout didn't happen, and the lack of a 'plan B' caused the company to fold.
no, I mean to have the choice to have an *additional* 50c *explicitly* added to your order (i.e. that shows up on your bill) for the only purpose of being given to a specified referrer.
Sort of like Amazon mantaining a list of sites you like to sponsor, and to make it easy to make a micro-payment to them (say, you add 50c to your order, amazon takes 5c commission, and gives 45c to the site).
I'm sure people wouldn't mind giving 50c now and then to sites they like if it was as easy as ticking a checkbox on the Amazon order page...
Regarding the Amazon thing:
;) why don't you float this idea to Amazon and see what happens?
there are *many* sites that do the Amazon program, and it's way too cumbersome to get it to work, after all, 99% of the time I'm accessing one of these sites, I'm not accessing it because I want to buy something from Amazon!
When I do want to buy something, I usually don't go through these sites, I go to Amazon directly, and do searches there and do my ordering.
More than once, I went to Amazon via a site-sponsored link, only to 'lose' the sponsoring after a few searches and various browsing.
It would be much easier if Amazon offered the opportunity to create a 'list' of sites you want to support (i.e., assume your sponsored links go to a page on Amazon that adds your site to my list) and that it would give you the opportunity to add, say, 50 cents per-site (choosing which ones of course) to your order during the checkout process.
In this way Amazon would deal with the micropayment crap, you would get your money, and I wouldn't have to remember which site has a sponsored link whenever I want to order something. Plus giving you 50c out of a $50 order is absolutely not a big deal, but if a lot of people did it (and if you make it easy enough, they *will*) it would be pretty good money for you.
Since you are a member of the Amazon referrals (and a fellow vegan