In fact, that games is The Curse of Monkey Island. If your character steps off the dock in the town and falls in the water, his face will begin to turn ever-darker shades of blue. If you remain under water for around 10 minutes, you will die. Of course, this doesn't really happen in regular gameplay, but I discovered it when I didn't bother to pause my game when going for dinner.
It's an odd thought, controlling a software program with an outboard piece of hardware but if you think about it, it makes sense.
Funny, I do this every day with my keyboard and mouse.. but maybe I'm just weird and haven't developed a telepathic link with my computer like the rest of the/. crowd.
"This is not only to do the basic tasks, but also to do other, more sophisticated tasks, which are essential to our well being, such as getting out of the house, meeting new people and having genuine control over our daily living."
Does that mean most slashdot readers can be considered disabled too? Sweet! Much easier to find parking now:p
When the article quotes Steve Ballmer as "What's good for the local industry in every country is good for Microsoft" the author must have got it backwards. What Steve Ballmer REALLY said is "What's good for Microsoft is good for the local industry in every country."
I seem to recall thousands of businesses not using it going out of business last year too. What's your point?
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The software is compiled optimized for your hardware. Typically such systems run 20-30% faster than their binary equivelents, based on some casual benchmarking I and a few others have done.
I'd really like to see some thorough benchmarks to back up this claim, preferably on a variety of hardware/architectures. I have yet to see any factual evidence that convincingly proves software compiled on my, or any other end-user's, system is any faster than pre-built binary packages compiled for i686. So any links to some benchmarks?
It just goes to show: they just don't build them like they used to. What good is the damn handheld if it leaks battery acid all over you? I think I'll pass on this one.
a long time ago. I rememeber one episode where a villain used all sorts of sound devices, one of which was a noise cancelling device that he used to move about undetected. He would activate the device which would emit anti-noise to the noise that he made while moving, making him move silently. I doubt that the technology is up to this level quite yet, but hey, it might be possible in the future.
This can easily be done, you just have to make sure that more people use software like Clip2 Reflector that makes Gnutella more scaleable. I could easily see Morpheus creating there own version of Reflector that's bolted onto a Gnutella client so that unsuspecting broadband users will turn their computers into "superpeers".
Too bad that according to this page Clip2 reflector seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
In three years games will look like Final Fantasy ? So you mean we'll have crappy 8-bit low-res NES graphics again ? And I had just finished reading that article about human evolution stopping...
DAT's are still very widely used in the audio recording field due to their superior quality and track capacity over standard analog tape recorders. Many studios utilize DAT's for recording, and DAT recorders are quite commonly used by musicians to record band practices etc.
Both Echo Audio and Aardvark Pro Audio make a wide range of audio cards with a variety of features. Both companies have a good reputation among pro audio enthusiasts for their high quality products.
In the future windows will be able to control...
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not only computers and laptops... but also television sets, parking meters, telephones, cars, bird cages, cheese graters, battleships and pants.
Pants?
That's right, digital pants, or as we like to call them.. smarty pants..
You should try using KDE/Konqueror and the AudioCD KIO slave. Basically what this lets you do is type "audiocd://" in to the Location Bar in konqueror and open a file-view representation of the tracks on your audio CD. This is somewhat similar to the way Windows represents things, but with one major difference. You have the option of viewing the tracks as either standard CD audio, MP3, or Ogg Vorbis (depending on which codecs you have installed). Viewing them as either MP3 of Ogg allows the files to be dragged to any other folder where they are automatically encoded and copied. I don't think it gets much easier than this.
With so many electronic devices such as computers, monitors, stereo amplifiers, guitar amplifiers, and various external computer peripherals this room generates enough thermal energy to keep it warm even in the winter. I don't think I've ever had to turn on the heating here.
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Is it just me, or do none of these monitors seem to be displaying a GAME? They all look like just the standard windows desktop to me... hmm.. someone must be using the Half-Life mass-crash cheat:D
Dave: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the car doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Sally were planning to leave me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed, my university did the same thing a few weeks ago, though I always just use mutt from home and IMAP to their server.
In fact, that games is The Curse of Monkey Island. If your character steps off the dock in the town and falls in the water, his face will begin to turn ever-darker shades of blue. If you remain under water for around 10 minutes, you will die. Of course, this doesn't really happen in regular gameplay, but I discovered it when I didn't bother to pause my game when going for dinner.
Please tell me where I can buy this $1 MP3 player
If you took the 15 seconds it takes to glance at the damn article you'd notice that you can also use this as a standard optical mouse on a surface.
It's an odd thought, controlling a software program with an outboard piece of hardware but if you think about it, it makes sense.
Funny, I do this every day with my keyboard and mouse.. but maybe I'm just weird and haven't developed a telepathic link with my computer like the rest of the /. crowd.
Reason software? You mean like this product from Propellerheads?
I don't think I'm in much of a position to demand any salary :P I'd take any fair amount ;)
"This is not only to do the basic tasks, but also to do other, more sophisticated tasks, which are essential to our well being, such as getting out of the house, meeting new people and having genuine control over our daily living."
:p
Does that mean most slashdot readers can be considered disabled too? Sweet! Much easier to find parking now
----[ Begin Quote ]----
:D
So you are telling me that you prefer:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$var="Hello World";
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html>\n";
print "<body>\n";
print "$var\n";
print "</body>\n";
print "</html>\n";
Over this?
<?php $var="Hello World"; ?>
<html>
<body>
<?php print "$var\n"; ?>
</body>
</html>
----[ End Quote ]----
Actually no, I prefer this:
<html>
<body>
[- Execute('hello.epl') -]
</body>
</html>
EmbPerl is your friend
Unless of course you are using any architecture other than i386.
When the article quotes Steve Ballmer as "What's good for the local industry in every country is good for Microsoft" the author must have got it backwards. What Steve Ballmer REALLY said is "What's good for Microsoft is good for the local industry in every country."
I seem to recall thousands of businesses not using it going out of business last year too. What's your point?
I'd really like to see some thorough benchmarks to back up this claim, preferably on a variety of hardware/architectures. I have yet to see any factual evidence that convincingly proves software compiled on my, or any other end-user's, system is any faster than pre-built binary packages compiled for i686. So any links to some benchmarks?
It just goes to show: they just don't build them like they used to. What good is the damn handheld if it leaks battery acid all over you? I think I'll pass on this one.
a long time ago. I rememeber one episode where a villain used all sorts of sound devices, one of which was a noise cancelling device that he used to move about undetected. He would activate the device which would emit anti-noise to the noise that he made while moving, making him move silently. I doubt that the technology is up to this level quite yet, but hey, it might be possible in the future.
Your feeble OSX is no match for the power of Slashdot...
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to slashdot a website is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
This can easily be done, you just have to make sure that more people use software like Clip2 Reflector that makes Gnutella more scaleable. I could easily see Morpheus creating there own version of Reflector that's bolted onto a Gnutella client so that unsuspecting broadband users will turn their computers into "superpeers".
Too bad that according to this page Clip2 reflector seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
In three years games will look like Final Fantasy ? So you mean we'll have crappy 8-bit low-res NES graphics again ? And I had just finished reading that article about human evolution stopping...
DAT's are still very widely used in the audio recording field due to their superior quality and track capacity over standard analog tape recorders. Many studios utilize DAT's for recording, and DAT recorders are quite commonly used by musicians to record band practices etc.
Both Echo Audio and Aardvark Pro Audio make a wide range of audio cards with a variety of features. Both companies have a good reputation among pro audio enthusiasts for their high quality products.
not only computers and laptops... but also television sets, parking meters, telephones, cars, bird cages, cheese graters, battleships and pants.
Pants?
That's right, digital pants, or as we like to call them.. smarty pants..
"Behind the Scenes at Microsoft" by
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
You should try using KDE/Konqueror and the AudioCD KIO slave. Basically what this lets you do is type "audiocd://" in to the Location Bar in konqueror and open a file-view representation of the tracks on your audio CD. This is somewhat similar to the way Windows represents things, but with one major difference. You have the option of viewing the tracks as either standard CD audio, MP3, or Ogg Vorbis (depending on which codecs you have installed). Viewing them as either MP3 of Ogg allows the files to be dragged to any other folder where they are automatically encoded and copied. I don't think it gets much easier than this.
With so many electronic devices such as computers, monitors, stereo amplifiers, guitar amplifiers, and various external computer peripherals this room generates enough thermal energy to keep it warm even in the winter. I don't think I've ever had to turn on the heating here.
Is it just me, or do none of these monitors seem to be displaying a GAME? They all look like just the standard windows desktop to me... hmm.. someone must be using the Half-Life mass-crash cheat :D
Dave: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the car doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Sally were planning to leave me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.