We play DOOM at work every afternoon. DOOM, not Quake. We might sometimes play Counterstrike, but most of the guys at work don't want to learn anything new, so we stick to the stuff everyone knows and loves, and that stuff is DOOM.
You are perpetuating serious nonsense yourself. There is nothing wrong with ASF, but there are *stupid* pirate groups everywhere who have no sense of how to use it. Most ASF's were made from already-bad MPEG-1 files (that's two lossy compressions in a row!), and with a complete inability to adjust software settings. While the MPEG-1's were 1/4th of NTSC/PAL resolution, the idiots recompressed them to a laughably low resolution of 320x200, stripped the framerate from the original 29.97/25 to 15, and generally messed everything else up as well. Oh, and they forgot to check that little box that says "click here for better quality!! do it! do it now!1 damn!!"
There have been a few good ASF releases, but nowadays they're making "DivX;-)" releases from DVD rips. Only God knows why it's called that, because it has nothing to do with the recently-deceased divx "pay-per-view DVD" format. DivXes are gaining lots of acceptance, because it's essentially the same technology as MPEG-4 ASF's, but with a brand new name!
I wrote a CGI script with XEmacs elisp. It's not too fast, but it works. Unfortunately I needed to make wrapper shell script because I can't put #!/usr/local/bin/xemacs -blahblahblah in front of a elisp file...
Lies, lies... Nokia makes lots of dual-band GSM phones. The 6150 and 3210 come to mind.
Dual-band GSM means it can do GSM900 and GSM1800. If you're talking about compatibility with GSM and american standards, that's not dual-band, it's something else.
I don't use the mouse at home much. I've configured icewm (also windowmaker) to switch virtual screens with alt-1/2/3/4/5 and use alt-tab to switch windows. But when I'm elsewhere and have to deal with icky windows applications, and start getting cramps, especially shoulder pain, I just switch the mouse to the left side until the right side is ok again. It's not that bad, you get used to using the mouse in the other hand pretty quickly, and giving your better arm the chance to rest every once in a while helps greatly in preventing any syndromes..
Before some smart guy comes in and says that of course Realplayer accesses something all the time... I meant, they access the same URL at real.com every other minute, not the stream provider.
I don't know what it's doing but Realplayer is generating and accessing a lot of typoed URLs with a space in between. They show up in my squid error log and many sites under my proxy generate these errors about once every other minute. Other versions don't generate bad URLs but still access something every other minute.
I've had wet dreams of getting a replacement for SQL*Plus that worked just like the MySQL command line client. You know, *PROPER* ReadLine command history, tablename completion and all that.
UK TV is a better resolution than US, of course, and so are UK (Region 2 DVD)'s.
when idiots start telling that american TV has a much higher framerate (29.97 versus 25), think about this: What good will it do when all the movies are made in 35mm, 24 frames per second format anyway?
I was amazed at the cellular service in iceland. Not only have they 2 operators in a 220k people country, but the connection is really good even in the middle of nowhere--take a 100-person village, and walk 5 kilometers into the wilderness, and you still have a clear, good connection. Wow.
There are other good reasons, too. For example some people, like students, might move many times, or switch cities or whatever. With a cell phone, you don't have to change your phone number or pay any fees to the operator. And school kids (12-18 years) just love to send text messages to each other in class.
We had an analogic cell phone system in Finland ages ago, the first wave, ARP came in 1977. It was manually switched meaning you "dialed" and someone on the other end asked you where you want to connect. The 80's were dominated by the more advanced, automatic NMT that is still alive and kicking, especially in the wilderness. They're shutting it down now, though, since GSM900/1800 coverage is nowadays pretty good and NMT use has decreased so much.
When the hand-held sized cell phones appeared in the 90's, the pager devices very quickly disappeared, which was right.
I was there. It was yesterday and yes, Transmeta did come up several times... the first question out of the audience after Linus spoke was "what does Transmeta do?" Some crazy woman wanted to ask Linus something: She started talking about how information technology could be used for monitoring people and stealing their freedom. THEN she started claiming that in the '50's 3 million people had been implanted with a MICROCHIP (a microchip in the 50's!) and that just last week she spoke with a colonel who had refused a microchip. Then she furiously went on saying that soon all babies will be implanted and in the future it will be possible to remotely read anyone's thoughts with such a chip. At this point the audience was laughing their asses off. To this Linus simply replied, "well that was kind of an UFO talk, but.. I can' really reveal what Transmeta is doing (laughter from audience), but anyways, I think information technology will actually help people gain more freedom' Later on someone was talking about how technology can help us to talk to old or sick people who can no longer talk, to which Linus replied 'talking to the dead, you mean?'. Then one of the panelists said 'Now I REALLY want to know what Transmeta is doing'
That laptop+DVD idea is great, but at least last time I flew they didn't allow you to use even CD players and you could use your laptop only if you disconnected your CD-ROM. I seriously doubt they would allow DVD drives, either. I don't really know why this is so but that's how it was.
Try to remember that they're not Macs, they're Apple I's and II's. The Mac came in 84 and was based on Motorola 68000 while the Apple II's were based on 6502. I can't remember off the top of my head what the I was using as a processor.
(Happy owner of an IIGS and a whole crapload of programming manuals, including the real gem "Programming the 6502" from Sybex, printed '78.. also got bunches of SCSI cards, turbo card, Z80 card and whatnot..)
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We play DOOM at work every afternoon. DOOM, not Quake. We might sometimes play Counterstrike, but most of the guys at work don't want to learn anything new, so we stick to the stuff everyone knows and loves, and that stuff is DOOM.
You are perpetuating serious nonsense yourself. There is nothing wrong with ASF, but there are *stupid* pirate groups everywhere who have no sense of how to use it. Most ASF's were made from already-bad MPEG-1 files (that's two lossy compressions in a row!), and with a complete inability to adjust software settings. While the MPEG-1's were 1/4th of NTSC/PAL resolution, the idiots recompressed them to a laughably low resolution of 320x200, stripped the framerate from the original 29.97/25 to 15, and generally messed everything else up as well. Oh, and they forgot to check that little box that says "click here for better quality!! do it! do it now!1 damn!!"
;-)" releases from DVD rips. Only God knows why it's called that, because it has nothing to do with the recently-deceased divx "pay-per-view DVD" format. DivXes are gaining lots of acceptance, because it's essentially the same technology as MPEG-4 ASF's, but with a brand new name!
There have been a few good ASF releases, but nowadays they're making "DivX
I wrote a CGI script with XEmacs elisp. It's not too fast, but it works. Unfortunately I needed to make wrapper shell script because I can't put #!/usr/local/bin/xemacs -blahblahblah in front of a elisp file...
Lies, lies...
Nokia makes lots of dual-band GSM phones. The 6150 and 3210 come to mind.
Dual-band GSM means it can do GSM900 and GSM1800. If you're talking about compatibility with GSM and american standards, that's not dual-band, it's something else.
If you don't know what a 14 year old needs a cell phone for, you never had any friends when you were 14.
Actually all European DVD's I have seen have AC3 5.1 audio.
I don't use the mouse at home much. I've configured icewm (also windowmaker) to switch virtual screens with alt-1/2/3/4/5 and use alt-tab to switch windows. But when I'm elsewhere and have to deal with icky windows applications, and start getting cramps, especially shoulder pain, I just switch the mouse to the left side until the right side is ok again. It's not that bad, you get used to using the mouse in the other hand pretty quickly, and giving your better arm the chance to rest every once in a while helps greatly in preventing any syndromes..
What's line noise? )"#U)#")#%MERF)#"R"#)"#)R"#))#)R#+++ATH0 NO CARRIER
I agree, I found from MUD's what I lost in the BBS world. Try telnet delphine.org sometime or goto www.delphine.org...
Go to the damn store and buy one then. What's keeping you?
Before some smart guy comes in and says that of course Realplayer accesses something all the time... I meant, they access the same URL at real.com every other minute, not the stream provider.
I don't know what it's doing but Realplayer is generating and accessing a lot of typoed URLs with a space in between. They show up in my squid error log and many sites under my proxy generate these errors about once every other minute. Other versions don't generate bad URLs but still access something every other minute.
Wrong story, dear.
I've understood that the Sigma Legends/Realmagic Hollywood+ uses the same chip as the Dxr2. Any luck of using these drivers with the H+?
I've had wet dreams of getting a replacement for SQL*Plus that worked just like the MySQL command line client. You know, *PROPER* ReadLine command history, tablename completion and all that.
I find it extremely amusing that a 17-year old would need to be "protected" from seeing bare titties. Or 15-year old, or 13, or 5 or 0 or...
And don't start quoting any Fraudian psychology or permanent trauma crap.
UK TV is a better resolution than US, of course, and so are UK (Region 2 DVD)'s.
when idiots start telling that american TV has a much higher framerate (29.97 versus 25), think about this: What good will it do when all the movies are made in 35mm, 24 frames per second format anyway?
I was amazed at the cellular service in iceland. Not only have they 2 operators in a 220k people country, but the connection is really good even in the middle of nowhere--take a 100-person village, and walk 5 kilometers into the wilderness, and you still have a clear, good connection. Wow.
There are other good reasons, too. For example some people, like students, might move many times, or switch cities or whatever. With a cell phone, you don't have to change your phone number or pay any fees to the operator. And school kids (12-18 years) just love to send text messages to each other in class.
We had an analogic cell phone system in Finland ages ago, the first wave, ARP came in 1977. It was manually switched meaning you "dialed" and someone on the other end asked you where you want to connect. The 80's were dominated by the more advanced, automatic NMT that is still alive and kicking, especially in the wilderness. They're shutting it down now, though, since GSM900/1800 coverage is nowadays pretty good and NMT use has decreased so much.
When the hand-held sized cell phones appeared in the 90's, the pager devices very quickly disappeared, which was right.
I was there. It was yesterday and yes, Transmeta did come up several times... the first question out of the audience after Linus spoke was "what does Transmeta do?"
Some crazy woman wanted to ask Linus something: She started talking about how information technology could be used for monitoring people and stealing their freedom. THEN she started claiming that in the '50's 3 million people had been implanted with a MICROCHIP (a microchip in the 50's!) and that just last week she spoke with a colonel who had refused a microchip. Then she furiously went on saying that soon all babies will be implanted and in the future it will be possible to remotely read anyone's thoughts with such a chip. At this point the audience was laughing their asses off. To this Linus simply replied, "well that was kind of an UFO talk, but.. I can' really reveal what Transmeta is doing (laughter from audience), but anyways, I think information technology will actually help people gain more freedom'
Later on someone was talking about how technology can help us to talk to old or sick people who can no longer talk, to which Linus replied 'talking to the dead, you mean?'. Then one of the panelists said 'Now I REALLY want to know what Transmeta is doing'
I've been saying this for ages but nobody believes me.
That laptop+DVD idea is great, but at least last time I flew they didn't allow you to use even CD players and you could use your laptop only if you disconnected your CD-ROM. I seriously doubt they would allow DVD drives, either.
I don't really know why this is so but that's how it was.
Doh, ok so there was a Mac for sale too, now that I actually read the article.. blah blah, anyway they're too modern to bother with anyway :=)
Try to remember that they're not Macs, they're Apple I's and II's. The Mac came in 84 and was based on Motorola 68000 while the Apple II's were based on 6502. I can't remember off the top of my head what the I was using as a processor.
(Happy owner of an IIGS and a whole crapload of programming manuals, including the real gem "Programming the 6502" from Sybex, printed '78.. also got bunches of SCSI cards, turbo card, Z80 card and whatnot..)