I'm surprised that a l33t hax0r such as this article's author hadn't found that one. In any event, if you're using gedit it's because you like your shiny gnome GUI. No other special reason for gedit. It's a good reason though: that's why I use gedit. However, if you want to use your keyboard, you should be using a terminal.
I agree with others that taking your camcorder into a movie theater is pretty stupid, and quite clearly illegal: the alarmist tone of the story is unwarranted.
However, anyone who downloads digital copies of movies (like me, terrible person that I am) knows that the vast majority are DVD/CD rips. Anything done with a camcorder is crappy quality (particularly the sound).
These shoddy captures don't hurt the cinema business. Most of the time a cinema customer is there to go to the cinema rather than to see a movie. If they were actually just interested in seeing the movie they would rent the DVD and save some money.
If anything, the proliferation of useless quality rips is helpful to those selling relatively high quality DVD products. A lot of people will get turned right off shared movies on the basis of seeing a couple of lemons.
Downloading/compiling fresh libs for each game you download is more a consequence of the "by programmers, for programmers" nature of the kind of things you're dealing with than it is inherent in the platform.
You'll notice that when commerical games based on OpenGL/SDL/OpenAL/whatever are released, they generally include a.so in the package for anything at all unusual that they use. That's just the same as in windows games that use anything other than DirectX.
I'm tired of this, I really am. When will guys like this admit that everyone else works for a living too? No, games are not always very simple. Thanks buddy, we know.
All this "Life is so hard! My industry is so cruel!" is just attention grabbing to get readers to an otherwise rather dry review article on the elements of commercial game production.
In other news, games are unimportant. All but a very few games are played by practically no one, and those that do play it throw it away after a couple-dozen hours. Where did this conception that making games was so exciting and dramatic come from? Just because so many other areas of software development are even more mind-numbing doesn't make gamedev automatically interesting!
Design me a new spoon. Design me a spoon that will be sold across the world, used by millions on a daily basis for years of their life. Design me a brilliant spoon, and I will be impressed.
Just imagine if the ABI was stable. If, as proponents of the idea imagine, many manufacturers had jumped in and written wonderful drivers for the 2.4 kernel, then where would we be now?
Rather than moving swiftly on to the 2.6 kernel as the community in general (including commercial distributors) is doing, we would have hordes of people saying "That's all very well, but I need [blah] driver! I'm staying with 2.4!". All those people stuck on 2.4 would want all their new features from 2.6, so 2.4 couldn't be stabilised without pissing off a whole bunch of people, XFS style.
So yes, we sacrifice binary compatibility. But it's well worth it. The fact is that for almost all types of hardware there is something available that does the job well with linux. Incompatible hardware is a migration issue, not a fundamental problem.
All of that aside, it's rather a good way of levelling the playing field with a competitor who vets third party drivers before digitally signing them. The only way for the free software community to do the same is to force drivers into the open.
Although it's a very valuable motivator to have a learner able to create GUIs just like they use everyday with a few clicks, I fear for the long term education of the individual.
Someone who cut their teeth on VB is likely to look at the first steps into C and think "What? I don't want to write command-line programs!". They're not even going to learn what compilation is. I'd say that VB misrepresents computer programming in general to a beginner.
VB is okay for what it's designed for: quick 'n' dirty win32 RAD, but I would question the wisdom of its use as a stepping stone to any other programming. Better to start with real basics and build from there.
I think that a lot of people who don't live with CCTV (and haven't seen all the British fly on the wall docus about its use) misunderstand the practice.
Typically, CCTV takes one of two forms:
Video streams that go into temp storage and are never watched unless a crime is reported. My secondary school had this: smoked-glass domes that were wired straight to VCRs. All they ever did was provide something to make rude gestures at.
Big 'ole banks of monitors that are watched by someone in a control room who coordinates people on the streets. The obvious example is Oxford Street - plain-clothes police in the crowds, with a CCTV operator guiding them in to pickpockets.
In either sense, it's not really surveillance in the way the one usually thinks of it. The cameras are there, but practically all of the footage never gets watched. Your movements aren't tracked. As for voyeurism, if you do something in a public place then it's probably pretty public anyway. I'm not a proponent of the "But if you've got nothing to hide" point of view, I just don't think that CCTV as it's mostly used in the UK is an invasion of privacy. There is a difference between being watched and being monitored/tracked. British citizens in public places may be almost constantly watched, but they're certainly not monitored.
Now, a massive face-tracking database, that would be different. But that's not an issue of direct surveillance, that's a question of how data is linked together and used by powerful organisations. In reality, most of those cameras are not linked together in some kind of all-powerful network across the country. A very significant proportion are in fact operated by private companies on their own premises: not by Big Brother at all.
You must recognise the distinction between proving the existance of GW and observing them. Observing them is what the LIGO project (your link) attempts, in the process developing some great tech. Hopefully, the LISA project actually will detect them.
As for simply proving their existence, they're part & parcel of general relativity, which most people seem to believe. Observational verification of this part of GR came decades ago, when Hulse & Taylor detected a decay in the orbit of a pulsar-neutron star binary system that was consistent with the predictions of GR to a good precision.
A pulsar-pulsar system is great, because it allows more data to be gathered about the orbit of the system, to investigate gravitational radiation further. Remember, with this kind of astronomy you can't just look at the system and watch it go round. It's from the periodic radiation of the pulsars that one can determine the characteristics of the system. Two pulsars instead of one (neutron stars don't tell you much) means twice the data: w00t!
Although a lot of people will tell you that you can't go wrong with a regular PCI winTV card, beware some of the more recent ones if you're a linux user. They use a new connexant chipset that is not supported by the well known and stable bttv driver, but only the very raw cx88 driver. cx88 requires v4l2 in your kernel, which means patching a 2.4, or using a 2.6.
I'm about to head home having gotten one of these for xmas, and anticipate some long hours getting it working:-/
When code is licensed under the GNU General Public License or GPL (as is Linux), the license effectively eliminates any financial rewards anyone -- whether an individual or a corporation -- might hope to gain from improving upon it.
Oops! It looks like IBM and Redhat were just charities after all...
But seriously, does this stink of someone that's lapped up the FUD to anyone else?
I (physics undergrad) use a biro and a pad of budget paper for notetaking.
My computer is a big, completely unportable hunk of steel. It suits me fine. Laptops are useful for group work on campus though - it allows you to create an ad-hoc office anywhere. If funds permitted, I would like a laptop too, but my geekness demands that my computer be built with my own two hands.
Here is the important part - I have two friends, one with a Clie, and one with an iPaq. They don't use them. They were carried around for around a month, and then ditched. They use them in their rooms for reading documents in bed. I save money, using xpdf instead:-)
The sales pitch sounds nice, but the programme's pretty boring. They don't actually sleep on the island or anything, they just try to do neat little examples, like making shampoo out of seaweed or building a music instrument.
This idea really only holds truly-true for cpus and gpus, but still...
Plot a graph of price against performance (ie benchmark, not ghz), and buy in the elbow of the curve. I got my athlon 1800+ a month ago, because the 1700 was only £5 cheaper, but the 1900 was £10 more expensive.
Any product that is so much of a commodity as a cpu will have a fairly continuous release schedule - I believe that it's better to choose a product from the range today, when you need it, than it is to wait until some magic date to buy top of the range.
Of course, that's PCs. As for macs, just buy whatever Steve says is the future;-)
I work as a tech in a UK school where we've already got a couple of "interactive whiteboards", looking at getting a lot more (we're talking every classroom).
They're not really as much fun in the toy sense as you'd imagine, but they're really reliable in my experience, so they keep me happy.
The thing to keep in mind is that you're going to need your £x000 projector to go with it if you want to use it like a massive touchscreen.
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In fact, google.sg was still up. Don't ask me why.
Ctrl-L gets you a lovely autocomplet0r text box.
I'm surprised that a l33t hax0r such as this article's author hadn't found that one. In any event, if you're using gedit it's because you like your shiny gnome GUI. No other special reason for gedit. It's a good reason though: that's why I use gedit. However, if you want to use your keyboard, you should be using a terminal.
However, anyone who downloads digital copies of movies (like me, terrible person that I am) knows that the vast majority are DVD/CD rips. Anything done with a camcorder is crappy quality (particularly the sound).
These shoddy captures don't hurt the cinema business. Most of the time a cinema customer is there to go to the cinema rather than to see a movie. If they were actually just interested in seeing the movie they would rent the DVD and save some money.
If anything, the proliferation of useless quality rips is helpful to those selling relatively high quality DVD products. A lot of people will get turned right off shared movies on the basis of seeing a couple of lemons.
Downloading/compiling fresh libs for each game you download is more a consequence of the "by programmers, for programmers" nature of the kind of things you're dealing with than it is inherent in the platform.
.so in the package for anything at all unusual that they use. That's just the same as in windows games that use anything other than DirectX.
You'll notice that when commerical games based on OpenGL/SDL/OpenAL/whatever are released, they generally include a
Your Epic example is invalid. The UT200x ports were done by Ryan Gordon, who is ex-loki.
He's also worked on ports of America's Army, Postal 2, Serious Sam, Medal of Honor: Allied assault.
I'm tired of this, I really am. When will guys like this admit that everyone else works for a living too? No, games are not always very simple. Thanks buddy, we know.
All this "Life is so hard! My industry is so cruel!" is just attention grabbing to get readers to an otherwise rather dry review article on the elements of commercial game production.
In other news, games are unimportant. All but a very few games are played by practically no one, and those that do play it throw it away after a couple-dozen hours. Where did this conception that making games was so exciting and dramatic come from? Just because so many other areas of software development are even more mind-numbing doesn't make gamedev automatically interesting!
Design me a new spoon. Design me a spoon that will be sold across the world, used by millions on a daily basis for years of their life. Design me a brilliant spoon, and I will be impressed.
Just imagine if the ABI was stable. If, as proponents of the idea imagine, many manufacturers had jumped in and written wonderful drivers for the 2.4 kernel, then where would we be now?
Rather than moving swiftly on to the 2.6 kernel as the community in general (including commercial distributors) is doing, we would have hordes of people saying "That's all very well, but I need [blah] driver! I'm staying with 2.4!". All those people stuck on 2.4 would want all their new features from 2.6, so 2.4 couldn't be stabilised without pissing off a whole bunch of people, XFS style.
So yes, we sacrifice binary compatibility. But it's well worth it. The fact is that for almost all types of hardware there is something available that does the job well with linux. Incompatible hardware is a migration issue, not a fundamental problem.
All of that aside, it's rather a good way of levelling the playing field with a competitor who vets third party drivers before digitally signing them. The only way for the free software community to do the same is to force drivers into the open.
Although it's a very valuable motivator to have a learner able to create GUIs just like they use everyday with a few clicks, I fear for the long term education of the individual.
Someone who cut their teeth on VB is likely to look at the first steps into C and think "What? I don't want to write command-line programs!". They're not even going to learn what compilation is. I'd say that VB misrepresents computer programming in general to a beginner.
VB is okay for what it's designed for: quick 'n' dirty win32 RAD, but I would question the wisdom of its use as a stepping stone to any other programming. Better to start with real basics and build from there.
I think that a lot of people who don't live with CCTV (and haven't seen all the British fly on the wall docus about its use) misunderstand the practice.
Typically, CCTV takes one of two forms:
In either sense, it's not really surveillance in the way the one usually thinks of it. The cameras are there, but practically all of the footage never gets watched. Your movements aren't tracked. As for voyeurism, if you do something in a public place then it's probably pretty public anyway. I'm not a proponent of the "But if you've got nothing to hide" point of view, I just don't think that CCTV as it's mostly used in the UK is an invasion of privacy. There is a difference between being watched and being monitored/tracked. British citizens in public places may be almost constantly watched, but they're certainly not monitored.
Now, a massive face-tracking database, that would be different. But that's not an issue of direct surveillance, that's a question of how data is linked together and used by powerful organisations. In reality, most of those cameras are not linked together in some kind of all-powerful network across the country. A very significant proportion are in fact operated by private companies on their own premises: not by Big Brother at all.
It's not "York University". York University is in Canada. The department in question is part of "The University of York".
Might seem petty, but it's a bit like calling MIT the Technology Institute of Massachusetts.
Today's August 1st? My clocks must have been running faster than I thought...
You must recognise the distinction between proving the existance of GW and observing them. Observing them is what the LIGO project (your link) attempts, in the process developing some great tech. Hopefully, the LISA project actually will detect them.
As for simply proving their existence, they're part & parcel of general relativity, which most people seem to believe. Observational verification of this part of GR came decades ago, when Hulse & Taylor detected a decay in the orbit of a pulsar-neutron star binary system that was consistent with the predictions of GR to a good precision.
A pulsar-pulsar system is great, because it allows more data to be gathered about the orbit of the system, to investigate gravitational radiation further. Remember, with this kind of astronomy you can't just look at the system and watch it go round. It's from the periodic radiation of the pulsars that one can determine the characteristics of the system. Two pulsars instead of one (neutron stars don't tell you much) means twice the data: w00t!
Although a lot of people will tell you that you can't go wrong with a regular PCI winTV card, beware some of the more recent ones if you're a linux user. They use a new connexant chipset that is not supported by the well known and stable bttv driver, but only the very raw cx88 driver. cx88 requires v4l2 in your kernel, which means patching a 2.4, or using a 2.6.
:-/
I'm about to head home having gotten one of these for xmas, and anticipate some long hours getting it working
Oops! It looks like IBM and Redhat were just charities after all...
But seriously, does this stink of someone that's lapped up the FUD to anyone else?
2. No palm - use your head.
I (physics undergrad) use a biro and a pad of budget paper for notetaking.
My computer is a big, completely unportable hunk of steel. It suits me fine. Laptops are useful for group work on campus though - it allows you to create an ad-hoc office anywhere. If funds permitted, I would like a laptop too, but my geekness demands that my computer be built with my own two hands.
Here is the important part - I have two friends, one with a Clie, and one with an iPaq. They don't use them. They were carried around for around a month, and then ditched. They use them in their rooms for reading documents in bed. I save money, using xpdf instead :-)
The sales pitch sounds nice, but the programme's pretty boring. They don't actually sleep on the island or anything, they just try to do neat little examples, like making shampoo out of seaweed or building a music instrument.
Plot a graph of price against performance (ie benchmark, not ghz), and buy in the elbow of the curve. I got my athlon 1800+ a month ago, because the 1700 was only £5 cheaper, but the 1900 was £10 more expensive.
Any product that is so much of a commodity as a cpu will have a fairly continuous release schedule - I believe that it's better to choose a product from the range today, when you need it, than it is to wait until some magic date to buy top of the range.
Of course, that's PCs. As for macs, just buy whatever Steve says is the future ;-)
Recent versions of Winamp play oggs.
"The flexCD is non-toxic and may be used with food items."
Holy crap! You mean I should have been washing my hands after using rigid discs?
I work as a tech in a UK school where we've already got a couple of "interactive whiteboards", looking at getting a lot more (we're talking every classroom).
They're not really as much fun in the toy sense as you'd imagine, but they're really reliable in my experience, so they keep me happy.
The thing to keep in mind is that you're going to need your £x000 projector to go with it if you want to use it like a massive touchscreen.
- quite
seriously...