Actually, according to correspondance I've had with support at Gmail, they are working on adding mail forwarding to Gmail. So #1 will not be a vaild complaint soon.
Keep in mind that Gmail is still in the testing stages, and I'm sure the developers are swamped with bug fixes that they need to fix before they begin adding new features. I have already discovered and reported numerous bugs and received messages from gmail support that they have been forwarded to the appropriate developers. They will likely offer a way to download your emails in the future, I can't see what they would stand to lose from adding a feature like that.
I've seen one of these in action demoed at my school here in Canada by a robotics shop. I don't believe they are self-balancing with gyros, and iirc, the programming was done in BASIC Stamp. I was pretty underwhelmed by the whole thing, especially considering the hefty price tag.
Yeah, great idea. Then it can automatically download exploits instead of going through the trouble of tricking the user in to visiting an exploit site:)
I get the impression that the majority of KDE developers are from Europe. In the majority of European languages, workds with a hard 'k' sound are usually spelled with a k, and not with a c. For example in Polish, names like Canada are spelled Kanada. This can probably account for a lot of the K names in KDE. It might look weird to people in North America, but probably not so much to those in Europe.
Care to explain why encrypting your partitions with a USB token required was completely impractical and a pain in the ass? Specifically, what problems and inconveniences did you run in to with this setup? I'm just curious..
Exactly. I'm working for a semiconductor company right now as a student, and they *only* hire new graduates who have done an internship there. Why? because it's a cheap way for them to determine if you are suited for the jobs they have, without taking a big risk. Basically they sign you for a 4 month internship contract, and at the end of the 4 months they evaluate your performance. If you did a good job, they will ask to you to work full time. If not, they move on to the next intern, no big loss to them.
Notepad has (or had? haven't used it in ages since I started with Vim) a file size limitation. It just simply refuses to open files above a certain size (64kB or something like that).
QNX already lets you specify which scheduling algorithm to use for a thread. It allows you to choose FIFO, Round-Robin, or Sporadic scheduling. I believe you can add your own as well, but I don't have my reference book here to check for sure.
Repeat the first 15-30 seconds of the song over and over again. These are particularily annoying because you may initially flag a song as good if you preview the first bit of it, only to find out later that it's a spoofed version.
The point is not so much that Gimp does not mix in with the other apps, but rather the fact that its palletes can take focus (since they are just regular windows in X). Most other apps with palletes do not allow the pallete to take the focus.
Gimp 2.0 for Linux still does not solve the whole palettes issue that the other poster was talking about, so I doubt simplying installing it on a different OS is going to make it any better. The issue here is with X11 and its focus model, which afaik does not have support for the "floaters" that the other poster mentioned.
Actually, here in Vancouver BC, the city is planning to do just that. Their parking meters are already on a wireless network and have been for some time. Essentially they are planning to have them work such that you will call up a number on your cell phone, and it will bill you your parking time. When your time is about to expire, the system will call you and ask if you want to renew.
I was surprised to learn that the meters are already networked, and the infrastructure is already in place. In fact, right now the parking attendants carry around PDA-type devices that monitor the status of all the meters so they can easily find out who has not topped up lately.
Incidentally, the whole pay by phone thing is being implemented because as of late many people have been tampering with the meter coin slots by putting in a piece of paper or something else to block the coin slot. Then when a customer goes to pay for parking, they drop their coin in but it never goes in all the way and thus they don't get parking time. The crook then comes by with a thin magnet and pulls out the coin. Apparently the jamming in of the paper or whatever it is they are using tends to damage or break the meters leading to costly repairs.
Instead of continuing to waste money on repairing meters, the city has decided to go for this wireless pay system, which I think is a good idea.
Yes. Try asking any of the dozens of embedded systems tool makers how they created their design environments based on Eclipse, which you apparently consider a non-platform. It's just as much of a platform as Mozilla/XUL.
For anyone who doesn't get this joke, it's about a "song" John Cage uh.. wrote.. called 4'33" which is just 4:33 of silence. There was a lawsuit regarding the piece when another composer made a song that was one minute of silence. I think there was a/. story regarding this, but I couldn't find it.
I have a HP ScanJet 5p SCSI scanner that plays Ode To Joy. You have to set the SCSI ID to 0 (or 1? Can't remember off hand) and then hold the scan button while powering it up. The motors in the scanner then play ode to joy. I have an ogg recording of it here.
It really depends on the road you are travelling. Here in BC, most highways have plenty of intersections with lights that are green by default for the major routes, and red for the cross streets until someone pulls up to the intersection. On most of these roads, you do have to stop fairly often. Chances are if you go faster, you'll just make it to the next red light before the people you left behind. In this case driving fast does not equate to less time spent in travel.
The majority of people drive to work along arterial routes. The cross-roads are usually a red light until someone pulls up to the intersection anyway, so the chance of you getting a bonus green light are quite slim, while anyone speeding along the arterial route (which is usually everyone) will just slow you down.
I had an eBay auction for Visual Studio.Net Student Edition in its original shrink-wrapped package including everything. Microsoft had my auction shut down because apparently it was against the EULA to resell it. However, I'd never even opened the box nor installed the software, so I don't see how the EULA would even apply to me since I was never a "user" of the software and never agreed to their damn license. I guess eBay just does whatever Microsoft says to avoid any kind of trouble from the m..
Honestly my favorite 2D side-scrollers would have to be the Metal Slug series of games. The graphics are absolutely gorgeous, the game is hillarious at many points (I just love when your character becomes super fat from eating too much, then stabs the enemy with a fork!), and the game play is just downright fun. Not to mention the world interaction, I'm always finding new stuff to blow up, and new ways to blow things up every time I play through the games. The bosses are some of the most original I've seen in platform games (I love the big chomper thing that eats the tower you are climbing).
While it looks like this article is about console games, remember that Metal Slug was on the Neo-Geo console as well as in the arcade:D
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Actually, according to correspondance I've had with support at Gmail, they are working on adding mail forwarding to Gmail. So #1 will not be a vaild complaint soon.
Keep in mind that Gmail is still in the testing stages, and I'm sure the developers are swamped with bug fixes that they need to fix before they begin adding new features. I have already discovered and reported numerous bugs and received messages from gmail support that they have been forwarded to the appropriate developers. They will likely offer a way to download your emails in the future, I can't see what they would stand to lose from adding a feature like that.
I've seen one of these in action demoed at my school here in Canada by a robotics shop. I don't believe they are self-balancing with gyros, and iirc, the programming was done in BASIC Stamp. I was pretty underwhelmed by the whole thing, especially considering the hefty price tag.
Yeah, great idea. Then it can automatically download exploits instead of going through the trouble of tricking the user in to visiting an exploit site :)
I get the impression that the majority of KDE developers are from Europe. In the majority of European languages, workds with a hard 'k' sound are usually spelled with a k, and not with a c. For example in Polish, names like Canada are spelled Kanada. This can probably account for a lot of the K names in KDE. It might look weird to people in North America, but probably not so much to those in Europe.
I'm feeling generous. Your gmail invite is on the way. Please send soul soon by cheque or paypal ;)
Exactly! SimCity has the solution... Just replace all your roads with railroads! No traffic :)
Care to explain why encrypting your partitions with a USB token required was completely impractical and a pain in the ass? Specifically, what problems and inconveniences did you run in to with this setup? I'm just curious..
Exactly. I'm working for a semiconductor company right now as a student, and they *only* hire new graduates who have done an internship there. Why? because it's a cheap way for them to determine if you are suited for the jobs they have, without taking a big risk. Basically they sign you for a 4 month internship contract, and at the end of the 4 months they evaluate your performance. If you did a good job, they will ask to you to work full time. If not, they move on to the next intern, no big loss to them.
Notepad has (or had? haven't used it in ages since I started with Vim) a file size limitation. It just simply refuses to open files above a certain size (64kB or something like that).
Actually, I'm reverse Polish, you insensitive clod!
QNX already lets you specify which scheduling algorithm to use for a thread. It allows you to choose FIFO, Round-Robin, or Sporadic scheduling. I believe you can add your own as well, but I don't have my reference book here to check for sure.
You forgot one:
Repeat the first 15-30 seconds of the song over and over again. These are particularily annoying because you may initially flag a song as good if you preview the first bit of it, only to find out later that it's a spoofed version.
The point is not so much that Gimp does not mix in with the other apps, but rather the fact that its palletes can take focus (since they are just regular windows in X). Most other apps with palletes do not allow the pallete to take the focus.
Gimp 2.0 for Linux still does not solve the whole palettes issue that the other poster was talking about, so I doubt simplying installing it on a different OS is going to make it any better. The issue here is with X11 and its focus model, which afaik does not have support for the "floaters" that the other poster mentioned.
Or reading slashdot.
Hm.. looks like it's time to take a drive through Yaletown ;)
Well, it was on the news for several nights in a row. They might not have been entirely accurate as to how the thieves were pulling the coins out.
Actually, here in Vancouver BC, the city is planning to do just that. Their parking meters are already on a wireless network and have been for some time. Essentially they are planning to have them work such that you will call up a number on your cell phone, and it will bill you your parking time. When your time is about to expire, the system will call you and ask if you want to renew.
I was surprised to learn that the meters are already networked, and the infrastructure is already in place. In fact, right now the parking attendants carry around PDA-type devices that monitor the status of all the meters so they can easily find out who has not topped up lately.
Incidentally, the whole pay by phone thing is being implemented because as of late many people have been tampering with the meter coin slots by putting in a piece of paper or something else to block the coin slot. Then when a customer goes to pay for parking, they drop their coin in but it never goes in all the way and thus they don't get parking time. The crook then comes by with a thin magnet and pulls out the coin. Apparently the jamming in of the paper or whatever it is they are using tends to damage or break the meters leading to costly repairs.
Instead of continuing to waste money on repairing meters, the city has decided to go for this wireless pay system, which I think is a good idea.
Yes. Try asking any of the dozens of embedded systems tool makers how they created their design environments based on Eclipse, which you apparently consider a non-platform. It's just as much of a platform as Mozilla/XUL.
For anyone who doesn't get this joke, it's about a "song" John Cage uh.. wrote.. called 4'33" which is just 4:33 of silence. There was a lawsuit /. story regarding this, but I couldn't find it.
regarding the piece when another composer made a song that was one minute of silence. I think there was a
I have a HP ScanJet 5p SCSI scanner that plays Ode To Joy. You have to set the SCSI ID to 0 (or 1? Can't remember off hand) and then hold the scan button while powering it up. The motors in the scanner then play ode to joy. I have an ogg recording of it here.
It really depends on the road you are travelling. Here in BC, most highways have plenty of intersections with lights that are green by default for the major routes, and red for the cross streets until someone pulls up to the intersection. On most of these roads, you do have to stop fairly often. Chances are if you go faster, you'll just make it to the next red light before the people you left behind. In this case driving fast does not equate to less time spent in travel.
The majority of people drive to work along arterial routes. The cross-roads are usually a red light until someone pulls up to the intersection anyway, so the chance of you getting a bonus green light are quite slim, while anyone speeding along the arterial route (which is usually everyone) will just slow you down.
I had an eBay auction for Visual Studio .Net Student Edition in its original shrink-wrapped package including everything. Microsoft had my auction shut down because apparently it was against the EULA to resell it. However, I'd never even opened the box nor installed the software, so I don't see how the EULA would even apply to me since I was never a "user" of the software and never agreed to their damn license. I guess eBay just does whatever Microsoft says to avoid any kind of trouble from the m..
Honestly my favorite 2D side-scrollers would have to be the Metal Slug series of games. The graphics are absolutely gorgeous, the game is hillarious at many points (I just love when your character becomes super fat from eating too much, then stabs the enemy with a fork!), and the game play is just downright fun. Not to mention the world interaction, I'm always finding new stuff to blow up, and new ways to blow things up every time I play through the games. The bosses are some of the most original I've seen in platform games (I love the big chomper thing that eats the tower you are climbing).
:D
While it looks like this article is about console games, remember that Metal Slug was on the Neo-Geo console as well as in the arcade