A friend of mine once told us a story about how the (Australian) air force uses lost floating shipping containers for target practice. That is, when they encounter these floating shipping containers, they fire on them to blow them up / clear the floating hazard.
Is there any truth to this or is it just an old wives tale?
or even hourlong TV shows shortened by stripping out the commercials
Don't you mean 'or even 40 minute long TV shows that would usually be drawn out to an hour with commercials'
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An alternate interface that is just begging to be created is a SOAP interface to IMDB. Amazon has an excellent SOAP/Web Services interface; you would think they could transfer some of that knowledge to make a similarly useful interface to query IMDB using modern standards.
here is a magnet URI for those people using the Azureus bittorrent client:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5B7JAZWZUV6O45M67UXHMXLNVOLP 3I DA
With the magnet URI you don't need the torrent file. Simply copy it to the clipboard and in Azureus, go to File->Open->Location (ctrl-L) and paste the magnet URI.
It seemed quite sluggish to me as well when I tried it, however when I ran it in DGA mode (need to be root and then run kohan --dga), it ran much smoother.
It is a hardware cursor problem..
Another reader suggested that you could use '-x -f' on the command line so try that and you may not need DGA
Partly on topic, partly off - I was wondering if there has been any progression in the last 10 or so years with computer generated speech.
My amiga 500 back in 1988 came with a speech program. Now, 10 years down the road I have yet to hear ANY computer generated speech that is mildly better or more realistic.
Frankly, all computer generated speech that I have heard sounds quite terrible. Is there any development going on in this are to make it a bit more human-like?
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A friend of mine once told us a story about how the (Australian) air force uses lost floating shipping containers for target practice. That is, when they encounter these floating shipping containers, they fire on them to blow them up / clear the floating hazard.
Is there any truth to this or is it just an old wives tale?
or even hourlong TV shows shortened by stripping out the commercials
Don't you mean 'or even 40 minute long TV shows that would usually be drawn out to an hour with commercials'
An alternate interface that is just begging to be created is a SOAP interface to IMDB. Amazon has an excellent SOAP/Web Services interface; you would think they could transfer some of that knowledge to make a similarly useful interface to query IMDB using modern standards.
here is a magnet URI for those people using the Azureus bittorrent client:
P 3I DA
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5B7JAZWZUV6O45M67UXHMXLNVOL
With the magnet URI you don't need the torrent file. Simply copy it to the clipboard and in Azureus, go to File->Open->Location (ctrl-L) and paste the magnet URI.
Wolfenstein Enemy territory would be an ideal game.. It should run with no difficulties on your machines and it is also free..
A quick google search turned up this URL, for example, to download from..
grab from here
to have crooks, social deviants, malcontents and crackers from messing with our lifestyles and our livelihoods.
Now that's gotta be the most fitting description of Microsoft that i've ever heard!
ends up on an episode of CSI: Miami :)
Redhat 7.3 only comes packaged with Mozilla 0.9.2 according to the release notes. Isn't that a bit old? I would have expected 0.9.9 at least!
Yes, but the problem is that Jurgen started at yENC. That doesn't leave much room for improvement! There's only zENC left.
If he started at aENC, he'd have a whole alphabet of versions to improve his software.
It seemed quite sluggish to me as well when I tried it, however when I ran it in DGA mode (need to be root and then run kohan --dga), it ran much smoother.
It is a hardware cursor problem..
Another reader suggested that you could use '-x -f' on the command line so try that and you may not need DGA
Partly on topic, partly off - I was wondering if there has been any progression in the last 10 or so years with computer generated speech.
My amiga 500 back in 1988 came with a speech program. Now, 10 years down the road I have yet to hear ANY computer generated speech that is mildly better or more realistic.
Frankly, all computer generated speech that I have heard sounds quite terrible. Is there any development going on in this are to make it a bit more human-like?
although not '100% pure java' , I was wondering
if Apple has any plans of providing Java APIs
to programmers.
i'd love to write some 'native' MacOSX apps but
would like to program in my preferred language -
ie: Java.