I went from Jaguar to XBox Prime (the massive world-eating colossus), and skipped the original Playstation. On the 360, the R2 is where your trigger/index finger naturally goes for the 'trigger' function, and the bumper (R1) is 'demoted'.
That's ergonomically correcter for large non-asian hands I would think.
Frankly, if I could get a controller with identical ergos to the XBox 'slim' (aka current 360), same battery charger, but with a switch on the back for 'PS3/XBox' so I could use it with either console, that would be ideal. Perhaps have OLED sigils on the buttons that would switch between XYAB and XTrCirSq and X/PS3 button.
I just looked at my honky 360 controller, and the D-pad looks the same as in TFA. It's a disc with 4 cardinal 'ridges' in the shape of a + and the whole thing moves. Does it now rotate like a paddle or something? I don't play a lot of scrollers/platformers or fighting games.
Incidentally, the PS3 controller sucks. Its left analog controller is in the wrong place, it's too small, and it doesn't have removable battery so when it runs low I can't just slap in the alternate battery I have in the charge cradle. This has been an issue with Fallout 3 lately (yeah yeah I'm late. I'm surprised they never fixed the PS3 lockup and slowness bugs though:( ). Also, most games seem to have the 'trigger' controls backward, they map to the 'bumper' (what PS3 stupidly calls 'R1' or 'L1') and not to the proper trigger ('R2' or 'L2'). That's fucking retarded.
Folks who do opensource NAS care, as ZFS on OpenSolaris is currently superior to anything else in the open sphere, and most if not all of the closed.
But as a Solaris admin, I would much prefer to see a more aggressive improvement of stock Solaris, particularly when it comes to package and patch management.. Nobody here ever did anything with OSol, but watched it to see what would be coming down the pike for Solaris 11..
That said, I'm sure Nexenta and Illumos will fully fork, and presumably if there are enough disgruntled-with-Sunacle devs who want to hack on it in their spare time, then they can make a go of it..
We had a Storagetek silo like the one on display at my current corp, but spec'd out with LTO3 or LTO4.. I'm thinking NSA had one just like it but 10+ years earlier (and with older tape tech of course)..
My employer snoops IM traffic. To avoid that, I rock the OTR encryption in Pidgin, which is interoperable with Adium and Trillian, and works across all supported services (except possibly for Skype).
Empathy does not support OTR, and is opposed to it philosophically, so IMO it's useless.
I have to say, at a completely anecdotal level, this shit is absolutely driving a significant migration off of Sun/Solaris and onto Linux with HP/Dell x86 hardware. We're looking at consolidating several hundred SPARC/Solaris boxes onto a significantly smaller number of modern multicore commodity boxes.
I'd been nagging to start on this for the last 3-3.5 years, but it's finally getting traction. Ironically, OpenSolaris would likely have been a better option, but nobody here's got faith in that platform. Just when ZFS was gettin' real good too!:/
But he called the requirements 'too prescriptive.' Instead of setting efficiency targets and letting engineers decide how they can best meet them, the amendments specify types of cooling systems that companies should use."
This makes perfect sense if: * the government is fucking stupid * the government wants to control you
Because if the legislation merely specified the end state (X reduction in Y), then more and smarter people would be able to find granular and custom solutions, it would be in their best interest to do so. But instead, it's idiot diktat from above, with no consideration of X-order consequences, and you get that either by stupid hubristic ego or by a desire to extend power and control. I actually lean towards the former, as most pols are lawyers and the lawyers that had any brains get paid more than pols.
BTW, same thing with stupid CAFE mandates. If you want to reduce CO2/smog/imported oil/etc, just jack up the gasoline tax $5-6/gal. That allows folks the freedom to adapt in the way most amenable to their individual needs: less driving for families who need 8mpg monstrosities, higher mileage cars for those who can buy them, mass transit or trip rationalization for those who can't.
Hrm, I recall having gotten one version of Songbird's iTunes library plugin to handle my copied-over library on Linux, but a subsequent change broke it, and it was never formally supported in Linux anyway.
The only thing I care about in a Linux-based 'iTunes replacement' would be actually supporting a legacy iTunes fileset, preferably over NFS/SMB/Appletalk. I almost got Rhythmbox to do it, but it kept hanging as it tried to rescan all the media files. Songbird worked for a little while and then stopped.
Perhaps, but then again, in an industry with static pricing, the only thing you have left to maintain profit margins is to "improve productivity", aka fire people. And, if any CEO reduces margin when he had the opportunity to either fire people or raise prices, he's just signed his own resignation.
Unless we are to start establishing mandatory profit margin caps per industry, perhaps via some sort of government profit oversight board? With that, you'll find capital goes to those businesses the government deems worthy of investment (high margins) and flees businesses that don't. OR, the government caps profit margins (say, 5% for all businesses) and watch capital flee _any_ risk investment (such as, say, startups or 'creative'-based enterprises).
All taxes levied against corporations are passed onto either customers or employees. FACT.
So, this 10% is actually a tax on programmers' customers, or against the employees' salaries/benefits or even employment.. 10 programmer group hit with 10% tax, either raise your prices 10% to compensate (pass along) or fire 1 employee and spread their load across the remaining 9.
Guess what? In a recessionary environment, the former (raise prices) isn't gonna fly, so time to cut staff.
Should be much quicker than any RS232 ports.. It advertises OSX compatibility so presumably there are linux drivers for it or something like it? Likely a rather long shot though, RS232 and a long coffee break or two are likely your best bets:/
If the host has ethernet connectivity, perhaps rsh would be better than serial as it'd likely be faster than any pre-16550 UART.. Many's the time I passed dump or dd over rsh on a crossover ethernet link to useful effect..
(actually, back when I was using rsh it would have been token-ring, but the idea's the same..)
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I went from Jaguar to XBox Prime (the massive world-eating colossus), and skipped the original Playstation. On the 360, the R2 is where your trigger/index finger naturally goes for the 'trigger' function, and the bumper (R1) is 'demoted'.
That's ergonomically correcter for large non-asian hands I would think.
Frankly, if I could get a controller with identical ergos to the XBox 'slim' (aka current 360), same battery charger, but with a switch on the back for 'PS3/XBox' so I could use it with either console, that would be ideal. Perhaps have OLED sigils on the buttons that would switch between XYAB and XTrCirSq and X/PS3 button.
I just looked at my honky 360 controller, and the D-pad looks the same as in TFA. It's a disc with 4 cardinal 'ridges' in the shape of a + and the whole thing moves. Does it now rotate like a paddle or something? I don't play a lot of scrollers/platformers or fighting games.
Incidentally, the PS3 controller sucks. Its left analog controller is in the wrong place, it's too small, and it doesn't have removable battery so when it runs low I can't just slap in the alternate battery I have in the charge cradle. This has been an issue with Fallout 3 lately (yeah yeah I'm late. I'm surprised they never fixed the PS3 lockup and slowness bugs though :( ). Also, most games seem to have the 'trigger' controls backward, they map to the 'bumper' (what PS3 stupidly calls 'R1' or 'L1') and not to the proper trigger ('R2' or 'L2'). That's fucking retarded.
Folks who do opensource NAS care, as ZFS on OpenSolaris is currently superior to anything else in the open sphere, and most if not all of the closed.
But as a Solaris admin, I would much prefer to see a more aggressive improvement of stock Solaris, particularly when it comes to package and patch management.. Nobody here ever did anything with OSol, but watched it to see what would be coming down the pike for Solaris 11..
That said, I'm sure Nexenta and Illumos will fully fork, and presumably if there are enough disgruntled-with-Sunacle devs who want to hack on it in their spare time, then they can make a go of it..
A FaceTime plugin for Pidgin/Adium would be very cool.
I wonder if there's an opensource project to create and manage extended attributes on supporting filesystems?
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes
But you're likely to get better results from having filenames be a field in a DB, and let all the metadata live in other DB fields..
ps: here's a CPAN entry that manipulates extended attributes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ExtAttr/lib/File/ExtAttr.pm
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Very cool museum, I think I even saw Brian Kernighan there talking to what looked like young VC types.. Here's some pics I snapped..
http://www.thoughtcrime.com/NSA%20Museum/Site/NSA%20Museum%20visit.html
We had a Storagetek silo like the one on display at my current corp, but spec'd out with LTO3 or LTO4.. I'm thinking NSA had one just like it but 10+ years earlier (and with older tape tech of course)..
Just put in a federal hybrid allowance into the ISTEA legislation that funds interstate highways (and HOV lanes)..
Of course, 10th Amendment, but we did pay for those roads with federal taxes, or else they wouldn't be subject to ISTEA..
They probably fixed 'em by now.
Probably.
Most people who live in most countries are citizens rather than subjects.
You're welcome.
My employer snoops IM traffic. To avoid that, I rock the OTR encryption in Pidgin, which is interoperable with Adium and Trillian, and works across all supported services (except possibly for Skype).
Empathy does not support OTR, and is opposed to it philosophically, so IMO it's useless.
Will the new underwear recycle urine and feces for desert warriors?
"He will know your ways, as if born to them..."
... It's just BIG BONED!
I have to say, at a completely anecdotal level, this shit is absolutely driving a significant migration off of Sun/Solaris and onto Linux with HP/Dell x86 hardware. We're looking at consolidating several hundred SPARC/Solaris boxes onto a significantly smaller number of modern multicore commodity boxes.
I'd been nagging to start on this for the last 3-3.5 years, but it's finally getting traction. Ironically, OpenSolaris would likely have been a better option, but nobody here's got faith in that platform. Just when ZFS was gettin' real good too! :/
Thanks, Larry!!
http://matlabmadness.ytmnd.com/
Who knows, I might find use for some of it someday..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k
Why can't THAT black man be president?!
Allen/Honore 2012
But he called the requirements 'too prescriptive.' Instead of setting efficiency targets and letting engineers decide how they can best meet them, the amendments specify types of cooling systems that companies should use."
This makes perfect sense if:
* the government is fucking stupid
* the government wants to control you
Because if the legislation merely specified the end state (X reduction in Y), then more and smarter people would be able to find granular and custom solutions, it would be in their best interest to do so. But instead, it's idiot diktat from above, with no consideration of X-order consequences, and you get that either by stupid hubristic ego or by a desire to extend power and control. I actually lean towards the former, as most pols are lawyers and the lawyers that had any brains get paid more than pols.
BTW, same thing with stupid CAFE mandates. If you want to reduce CO2/smog/imported oil/etc, just jack up the gasoline tax $5-6/gal. That allows folks the freedom to adapt in the way most amenable to their individual needs: less driving for families who need 8mpg monstrosities, higher mileage cars for those who can buy them, mass transit or trip rationalization for those who can't.
Hrm, I recall having gotten one version of Songbird's iTunes library plugin to handle my copied-over library on Linux, but a subsequent change broke it, and it was never formally supported in Linux anyway.
The only thing I care about in a Linux-based 'iTunes replacement' would be actually supporting a legacy iTunes fileset, preferably over NFS/SMB/Appletalk. I almost got Rhythmbox to do it, but it kept hanging as it tried to rescan all the media files. Songbird worked for a little while and then stopped.
Meh.
"You fucked up! You trusted us!"
- Otter
Perhaps, but then again, in an industry with static pricing, the only thing you have left to maintain profit margins is to "improve productivity", aka fire people. And, if any CEO reduces margin when he had the opportunity to either fire people or raise prices, he's just signed his own resignation.
Unless we are to start establishing mandatory profit margin caps per industry, perhaps via some sort of government profit oversight board? With that, you'll find capital goes to those businesses the government deems worthy of investment (high margins) and flees businesses that don't. OR, the government caps profit margins (say, 5% for all businesses) and watch capital flee _any_ risk investment (such as, say, startups or 'creative'-based enterprises).
That will end well.
All taxes levied against corporations are passed onto either customers or employees. FACT.
So, this 10% is actually a tax on programmers' customers, or against the employees' salaries/benefits or even employment.. 10 programmer group hit with 10% tax, either raise your prices 10% to compensate (pass along) or fire 1 employee and spread their load across the remaining 9.
Guess what? In a recessionary environment, the former (raise prices) isn't gonna fly, so time to cut staff.
This could be helpful if it has linux drivers?
http://www.iofast.com/product_info.php/products_id/3949
Should be much quicker than any RS232 ports.. It advertises OSX compatibility so presumably there are linux drivers for it or something like it? Likely a rather long shot though, RS232 and a long coffee break or two are likely your best bets :/
If the host has ethernet connectivity, perhaps rsh would be better than serial as it'd likely be faster than any pre-16550 UART.. Many's the time I passed dump or dd over rsh on a crossover ethernet link to useful effect..
(actually, back when I was using rsh it would have been token-ring, but the idea's the same..)
I think you mean ENmantled?