They do not suggest charging money for the ads currently on craiglist. What is suggested is allowing companies to place an ad (textual, banner, or otherwise, who knows) at the top of all the different pages, which get tens of millions of views per day.
The smallest biplane ever flown is the Bumble Bee II, designed and built by Robert H Starr of Tempe, Arizona, USA. The plane was 2.69-m (8-ft 10-in) long, with a wingspan of 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in). On May 8, 1988 after flying to a height of 120 m (400 ft) the Bumble Bee II crashed and was totally destroyed. The pilot suffered serious injuries, but went on to make a full recovery.
That was one guy almost 20 years ago. If these professional aircraft designers cant get this thing to work, I bet Burt Rutan can.
Or maybe those people were developers who wanted a foot in the door while waiting for development positions to open up? That is how a friend of mine got to be the PBX admin at a web hosting company, he worked tech support for a year waiting for the company to decide to commit to asterisk, then boom, promotion.
The X11 installation is the exact same as any other.pkg installer. Continue, Continue, Agree, Continue, Continue, done. The problem lies in it being hidden on the DVD instead of available from the website like it was with Panther.
As to startup time, that is only if you are starting X11 from scratch. If it is already running, which mine always is, then the startup time is pretty good.
But I will agree on integration. Lack of 'email to', a Mac-style menu, and the Win9X theme all make it really hurt to use after getting used to the slick interface of other OS X apps.
I am going to continue using X11 + OOo until NeoOffice is ready (or until the/. effect ends, if its ready today).
Not really, just willing to put the time into working out where and when to farm. Any random Joe can *MACRO* 4G/hr, just a stupid bot that runs in circles and kills/loots whatever is in the way with a super thick safety margin.
Removing 30k farmers from WoW removed 30M gold. That is an average of 1000 gold each (and most would have been below the average). 1000 gold takes about 50 hours to farm, give or take 50% depending on the farmer. This breaks down to each banned account costing the farm[er/ing company]:
$ 30 for a WoW account key $120 for the lost gold itself $ 50 for 2 people * $1/hr * 25 hours to level up a character $ 50 for 50 hours to farm the gold ---- $250 total
Obviously the $/hr rate is an overestimate, but the gold exchange rate and cost of a WoW key make up the majority of this estimate. At a minimum the total is $160.
So, this is a net hit to the farming companies of $250 * 30k = $7.5M.
All in all, a sizable blow. Unfortunately it will really only hurt the solo farmers, the guys doing it for a few extra bucks from their home. For a very large farming operation this is only a setback of about 2 weeks (100 man hours per banning) in terms of profit.
Google betas end when the product is ready to *SELL*. Google search is non-beta because its available in the google search utility, a rackable document indexing doohickey.
None of that information is secret. Your SSN, Address, and Name are all public information, the subject of numerous public records that anyone patient enough can pay $.10 per copy to get. Or just visit the appropriate county records website.
Various H.264 decoders list PC system requirements as low as a P3 800MHZ. Assuming there is overhead there for the OS and such, it is feasible that someone will get a working H.264 decoder to run on a dual core 250MHz (overclocked from 200) ARM with a few extra slower cores for a little video processing.
"just another version of windows" is right. Binary compatibility means it can run Win32 binaries. It doesnt mean all the drivers and APIs are available. There are many perfectly good Win32 applications written for Win9x that wont run on WinNT/2k/XP, despite having the same binary executable format. It is only going to get worse with Vista.
Every new version of windows supports less old windows software. Every new version of cedega supports more old (and new) windows software. These trends will cross some day.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Components from the 80s and 90s have been combined and miniaturized so many times in the last 5-15 years. Nintendo could easily produce a console today the size of an original game boy that had a multi-purpose slot that accepted NES, GB, SNES, GBA, and N64 games and used a nice simple usb connection for controllers (for which adapters can and have been made to use the original controllers). It would cost MAYBE $100 in components (I could build such a system around a GP2X handheld console for $300, and thats including an unneccessary 3.5" QVGA LCD).
Will it ever happen? No. Not from Nintendo anyways. But give it a few more years. As the patents on the original hardware run out there will be more knockoffs like we have recently seen for the NES. An all-in-one console that doesnt rely on enmulation could happen.
If you think Oblivion and Morrowind (and BG and BG2 and all the other great non-linear RPGs) have too little story then you are playing them too linearly. Yes, if you play the main quest of Morrowind and finish the game in 20 hours then you will encounter less story than in an equivalent 20 hours of FF play. But that isnt how the game is supposed to work. I have spent THOUSANDS of hours on Morrowind, and never even beaten the game. There are *BOOKS* of backstory in the game. Entire villages full of vocal and interactive characters that you never encounterd if you played the linear way. Hundreds of quests, thousands of lines of dialog.
The link that SHOULD be included in every future GP2X news item is Here. An avid member of the GP2X community has written an amazing review of pretty much everything the GP2X can do at present with the included software, many homebrew applications, and various linux applications. It covers native games[1], homebrew linux games, emulators running many consoles up to the SNES/PSX era, and media applications. It includes pictures and screenshots of the unit doing its various things. Also included is a *VIDEO* of the unit in action, showing just how well it emulates various systems at present[2] and runs various ported games (ultima 7 and duke nukem 3d are shown. not shown is a nice working Quake 1 port).
Read the review. Watch the video. Then buy a GP2X since you will be convinced. I ordered mine yesterday and plan to use it primarily as a media player[3] but also as a gaming console via emulators and native games.
[1] - Commercial developers are porting GBA and other similar-requirement games directly to the GP2X, they boot directly into the game software with no OS. Check out screenshots and videos of Payback for the GBA and then imagine the same game at 2x the resolution with 4xAA and network support.
[2] - Most available emulators are ports of existing emulators written for x86 Linux. This means they need new emulation cores written in ARM asm to run well, and they need massive changes to utilize the GP2X's dual core ARM architecture.
[3] - The GP2X can decode divx, among other codecs. It can output to a TV at 720p HD, an amazing feature for a handheld media player, or just display at QVGA on the internal lcd. I have a 4GB SD card to fill with movies to watch on the go, and plan to put a 400GB external USB hard drive under the seat in my car to house my movie/mp3 collection to play through this device.
The MK2 version of the hardware just came out in the last month, as well as a massive firmware update, which fixes pretty much every problem you had. Actually, the second revision of the MK1 fixed most of them.
Get a GP2X. A handheld console that looks kinda like a fat PSP, is based on a MagicEyes System-On-a-Chip that includes two 250MHz ARM cores (among other things like a usb host, frame processor, etc), runs Linux, and emulates just about every pre-PSX console at or near full speed*.
* - NES, Atari, GB(C), SMS, etc all run GREAT. SNES emulator requires 1-2 frameskip so far. PSX emulator requires more. All are improving very quickly as the emulation cores are tuned to the architecture, and neither of the Big Two make heavy use of the second core yet.
I had to learn to 12x12 in the 3rd grade, same year I learned to write in cursive. I did not learn how to do long multiplication until the 5th grade. This was in the Montgomery County Tennessee school system, approx 15 years ago. I know many people who had to learn 20x20, but I am not sure how long it was before they learned long multiplication.
Which "what they did", and which "they" are you referring to? Many people, including the staffs of thepiratebay.org and piratbyran.org, say that they did not break the law by hosting a tracker.
Tell that to the hundreds of authors who publish on lulu.com (a print-on-demand print/digital media publishing company, very sweet business model and great for new authors) for the cost of the paper plus ten cents or some other trivial amount. For the most part you ARE paying for the paper, the ink, and the cost of getting the physical book to the store. This is why I can get better fiction from a $1/mo e-zine than fro0m a $7/mo magazine, AND the authors of said fiction make more of my $1 than they do from my $7.
Of course, from 0x0 to 9x9 is required to do long multiplication, but what I am talking about here is teachers forcing children to memorize up to 20x20 YEARS before they learn to actually do multiplication.
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They do not suggest charging money for the ads currently on craiglist. What is suggested is allowing companies to place an ad (textual, banner, or otherwise, who knows) at the top of all the different pages, which get tens of millions of views per day.
That was one guy almost 20 years ago. If these professional aircraft designers cant get this thing to work, I bet Burt Rutan can.
Or maybe those people were developers who wanted a foot in the door while waiting for development positions to open up? That is how a friend of mine got to be the PBX admin at a web hosting company, he worked tech support for a year waiting for the company to decide to commit to asterisk, then boom, promotion.
Err, I have PLed a warrior 1-60 using a 60 druid in just under 3 days played, and im not really that good.
The X11 installation is the exact same as any other .pkg installer. Continue, Continue, Agree, Continue, Continue, done. The problem lies in it being hidden on the DVD instead of available from the website like it was with Panther.
/. effect ends, if its ready today).
As to startup time, that is only if you are starting X11 from scratch. If it is already running, which mine always is, then the startup time is pretty good.
But I will agree on integration. Lack of 'email to', a Mac-style menu, and the Win9X theme all make it really hurt to use after getting used to the slick interface of other OS X apps.
I am going to continue using X11 + OOo until NeoOffice is ready (or until the
Not really, just willing to put the time into working out where and when to farm. Any random Joe can *MACRO* 4G/hr, just a stupid bot that runs in circles and kills/loots whatever is in the way with a super thick safety margin.
Youre right, I did double count it, cut off the last $50 from that list... Total range is from $160 to $200, still the same ballpark.
As to motive, you are of course right.
Removing 30k farmers from WoW removed 30M gold. That is an average of 1000 gold each (and most would have been below the average). 1000 gold takes about 50 hours to farm, give or take 50% depending on the farmer. This breaks down to each banned account costing the farm[er/ing company]:
$ 30 for a WoW account key
$120 for the lost gold itself
$ 50 for 2 people * $1/hr * 25 hours to level up a character
$ 50 for 50 hours to farm the gold
----
$250 total
Obviously the $/hr rate is an overestimate, but the gold exchange rate and cost of a WoW key make up the majority of this estimate. At a minimum the total is $160.
So, this is a net hit to the farming companies of $250 * 30k = $7.5M.
All in all, a sizable blow. Unfortunately it will really only hurt the solo farmers, the guys doing it for a few extra bucks from their home. For a very large farming operation this is only a setback of about 2 weeks (100 man hours per banning) in terms of profit.
Google betas end when the product is ready to *SELL*. Google search is non-beta because its available in the google search utility, a rackable document indexing doohickey.
You've still got one of the best public libraries in the south.
None of that information is secret. Your SSN, Address, and Name are all public information, the subject of numerous public records that anyone patient enough can pay $.10 per copy to get. Or just visit the appropriate county records website.
Various H.264 decoders list PC system requirements as low as a P3 800MHZ. Assuming there is overhead there for the OS and such, it is feasible that someone will get a working H.264 decoder to run on a dual core 250MHz (overclocked from 200) ARM with a few extra slower cores for a little video processing.
"just another version of windows" is right. Binary compatibility means it can run Win32 binaries. It doesnt mean all the drivers and APIs are available. There are many perfectly good Win32 applications written for Win9x that wont run on WinNT/2k/XP, despite having the same binary executable format. It is only going to get worse with Vista.
Every new version of windows supports less old windows software. Every new version of cedega supports more old (and new) windows software. These trends will cross some day.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Components from the 80s and 90s have been combined and miniaturized so many times in the last 5-15 years. Nintendo could easily produce a console today the size of an original game boy that had a multi-purpose slot that accepted NES, GB, SNES, GBA, and N64 games and used a nice simple usb connection for controllers (for which adapters can and have been made to use the original controllers). It would cost MAYBE $100 in components (I could build such a system around a GP2X handheld console for $300, and thats including an unneccessary 3.5" QVGA LCD).
Will it ever happen? No. Not from Nintendo anyways. But give it a few more years. As the patents on the original hardware run out there will be more knockoffs like we have recently seen for the NES. An all-in-one console that doesnt rely on enmulation could happen.
If you think Oblivion and Morrowind (and BG and BG2 and all the other great non-linear RPGs) have too little story then you are playing them too linearly. Yes, if you play the main quest of Morrowind and finish the game in 20 hours then you will encounter less story than in an equivalent 20 hours of FF play. But that isnt how the game is supposed to work. I have spent THOUSANDS of hours on Morrowind, and never even beaten the game. There are *BOOKS* of backstory in the game. Entire villages full of vocal and interactive characters that you never encounterd if you played the linear way. Hundreds of quests, thousands of lines of dialog.
The link that SHOULD be included in every future GP2X news item is Here. An avid member of the GP2X community has written an amazing review of pretty much everything the GP2X can do at present with the included software, many homebrew applications, and various linux applications. It covers native games[1], homebrew linux games, emulators running many consoles up to the SNES/PSX era, and media applications. It includes pictures and screenshots of the unit doing its various things. Also included is a *VIDEO* of the unit in action, showing just how well it emulates various systems at present[2] and runs various ported games (ultima 7 and duke nukem 3d are shown. not shown is a nice working Quake 1 port).
Read the review. Watch the video. Then buy a GP2X since you will be convinced. I ordered mine yesterday and plan to use it primarily as a media player[3] but also as a gaming console via emulators and native games.
[1] - Commercial developers are porting GBA and other similar-requirement games directly to the GP2X, they boot directly into the game software with no OS. Check out screenshots and videos of Payback for the GBA and then imagine the same game at 2x the resolution with 4xAA and network support.
[2] - Most available emulators are ports of existing emulators written for x86 Linux. This means they need new emulation cores written in ARM asm to run well, and they need massive changes to utilize the GP2X's dual core ARM architecture.
[3] - The GP2X can decode divx, among other codecs. It can output to a TV at 720p HD, an amazing feature for a handheld media player, or just display at QVGA on the internal lcd. I have a 4GB SD card to fill with movies to watch on the go, and plan to put a 400GB external USB hard drive under the seat in my car to house my movie/mp3 collection to play through this device.
The MK2 version of the hardware just came out in the last month, as well as a massive firmware update, which fixes pretty much every problem you had. Actually, the second revision of the MK1 fixed most of them.
Get a GP2X. A handheld console that looks kinda like a fat PSP, is based on a MagicEyes System-On-a-Chip that includes two 250MHz ARM cores (among other things like a usb host, frame processor, etc), runs Linux, and emulates just about every pre-PSX console at or near full speed*.
* - NES, Atari, GB(C), SMS, etc all run GREAT. SNES emulator requires 1-2 frameskip so far. PSX emulator requires more. All are improving very quickly as the emulation cores are tuned to the architecture, and neither of the Big Two make heavy use of the second core yet.
I had to learn to 12x12 in the 3rd grade, same year I learned to write in cursive. I did not learn how to do long multiplication until the 5th grade. This was in the Montgomery County Tennessee school system, approx 15 years ago. I know many people who had to learn 20x20, but I am not sure how long it was before they learned long multiplication.
I say "tomato", you say it wrong.
of course, because thats what M and mega- mean, 1000000 of something.
Which "what they did", and which "they" are you referring to? Many people, including the staffs of thepiratebay.org and piratbyran.org, say that they did not break the law by hosting a tracker.
Tell that to the hundreds of authors who publish on lulu.com (a print-on-demand print/digital media publishing company, very sweet business model and great for new authors) for the cost of the paper plus ten cents or some other trivial amount. For the most part you ARE paying for the paper, the ink, and the cost of getting the physical book to the store. This is why I can get better fiction from a $1/mo e-zine than fro0m a $7/mo magazine, AND the authors of said fiction make more of my $1 than they do from my $7.
maybe we will get a log out button in lite mode. I hate using /. on semi-public machines since I have to manually delete my cookies to log out.
Of course, from 0x0 to 9x9 is required to do long multiplication, but what I am talking about here is teachers forcing children to memorize up to 20x20 YEARS before they learn to actually do multiplication.