I thought they only ever made 1 movie, and it was good.
Wouldn't this technically qualify as a second? I sure hope they don't dirty the concept with some crazy machine war, or an oddly pointless death of Neo's love interest.
Taking apart Gorrilas, Nibbles, and some GWbasic programs are what really fast-forwarded my understanding of programming. The fact that they were just sitting there in C:\DOS - for FREE! - was like finding treasure!
I'm going to show my wife this tonight and let her marvel at the wonders that came with DOS 6:)
Bigger explosions, wider buildings, bigger sons, floating gorillas, smarter computer... Man I spent hours on that in Elementary.
If kids are expecting a reset button in real life because of video games they need more parenting time and a lot less Halo. Being unable to tell the difference between expectations and rewards in video games and real life means there's something seriously missing from their early education.
That goes for everything: movies, friends, even the internet. Parents don't even have to be experts, just caring enough to teach what to get out of an experience. Not to say it would be awesome to one day school my teenager in their favourite FPS, but that's a different tale.:)
Does this depend on the version of the GPL? I thought you were allowed to hold-on to your source code except in cases where you provide a product with GPL'ed code in it (and in later versions a service with GPL'ed code), only then are you required to provide source access to those people on request. What the buyer does with it is after that doesn't apply.
Am I right in thinking there's no problem removing the source code and charging for a sale, but the authors would then (and only then) be required to provide the buyer with source?
Doesn't make it legal. There's still copyright on Abandonware, the idea though is that the original authors will make no/cannot make an attempt to litigate, hence it being "abandoned". The classification doesn't usually come from the author, but people who find great software that's (typically) no longer available, then make an effort to keep distribution of that software alive.
I thought the Doctor only visited badly-designed World War 2 earth sets?
At least that's my memory of 80's era Who. I'm so glad he finally went to the future and kidnapped someone with set design/CGI skills.
-Matt
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If I don't buy a palm-sized AppleTV, Steve Jobs may crush me with it. Seriously, billion-dollar company and that's the best picture they'd allow?
Although in all honesty, why are we talking AppleTV? Mac mini's are a little more expensive, but that (+boxee) has been my awesome set-top box for over a year now.
If I could get that anywhere in Alberta (Canada) I'd sleep with it's foul-smelling, unibrow-ed best friend on the off chance it'd hang-out with me more.
Heck, considering Telus/Shaw's *up to 1mbit* = 300kbit marketing crap I'd even stay and cuddle, then buy it dinner the next night.
Same reason I keep a note pad next to the keyboard when programming: I'm faster when I can glance at something instead of switching windows.
I do hope in the next 500 years though they come-up with something better though. Pinch and move a-la iPad is neat, but I still can't fit everything I need into one spot.
People hear me fine on my Jawbone. I've opened the window while driving and talked in a DC with no problems on their end. Clear as day.
My issue is even at Max volume _I_ still can't hear what people are saying. I've got good hearing, but at best I'm straining to hear a whisper amongst the roar of my jet-engine-powered Dells.
Is there a super volume button I'm missing or something I can do on my iPhone/Blackberry? I've got the unit set to max volume as far as I can tell.
I think that's hilarious and in a true 1980's movie fashion the police would bungle stealing it back, fess-up to getting caught, the commissioner would step-in, and everyone would have a good laugh....Or, in 2000's fashion he'll be marked as a terrorist and in the cross hairs of watch-list databases for the next decade.
Don't screw with the cops man, at best it's a College frat gone bad. However technically right you may be this is playing with fire while surrounded by dynamite.
...but there's a half-dozen carrier-neutral SIP/IAX2 apps on iTunes, and even more free apps purpose-built by companies offering VoIP over wifi/3G. I use one to connect to an Asterisk server and get great integration with my office PBX that is effectively a high-quality wifi phone.
The announcement here was that Skype feels it solved problems inherent with changing latency of 3G to the point you can walk around and have a decent phone call. That's huge if it works because service quality where I am can change block-by-block. I'm sure they'll have an Android version of this too in no-time if that's the case.
Apple is "Evil to the core(tm)". By choosing their products and harsh requirements for software reliability I'm forcing vendors to jump through hoops to sell me something. Maybe that's the trade-off for a device that just works.
I've been playing around with VoIP on 3G using the SIP client from Acrobits and it's fairly reliable on low-bandwidth codecs in most areas around here. Bad reception does affect VoIP calls more than cell calls, but overall this covers about 90% of places where I talk outside of the car.
Then again, if there was better prices on airtime maybe I'd be less inclined to go 100% VoIP. Canadian carriers offer unlimited incoming minutes for $15/mo, but after the upper cap on packages they can't do better than 3 cents/minute for outbound? So long as pricing is designed to deter cell phone use I'm going to continue migrating away as fast as possible.
I am very curious about the technical details of Skype's service. What Codec are they using for their VoIP traffic? Is it GSM/g.729 for the low-bandwidth, or something proprietary they cooked-up? I'd love to see what they considered a reasonable call quality trade-off for 3G service limitiations.
...and 20 years from now you'll retire and he'll be the one with the PS8:)
The circle of life. I remember my mom upgrading her home PC (lawyer + WordPerfect = revolutionary then) back when I was scrounging family member's office throw-aways. Now she's got a 4 year old dell laptop compared to a dozen racks of 2U's.
For all the complaining I'm glad she didn't just buy me a system though, I'd never have learned the insides (and the programming using them) without her.
Nuts to fat finger keyboards, there are automated software controls in the industry that caught-on to the sale and snowballed this individual's mistake into something really big. The issue wasn't just in this guy's mistake, but the fact that potentially billions of dollars changed hands because of a trust relationship these systems have with market indicators.
Not that there's anything wrong with that: on a good day this could protect big firms from being the guy caught holding the bill, but I think we've discovered where the next upgrade in broker software might be:)
610's also have a myriad of different versions out now too, and only the older ones tend to fully support DD-WRT from my last experience.
If you're lucky you can identify them by the coloring on the box. Blue/Light blue = older model, blue/any other colour = new.
Hope this helps. The 610N and 310N's are otherwise awesome as DD-WRT enabled routers, older versions even allowed for the largest of DD-WRT packages including a VPN setup I use to bridge a couple small office networks very reliably!
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I thought they only ever made 1 movie, and it was good.
Wouldn't this technically qualify as a second? I sure hope they don't dirty the concept with some crazy machine war, or an oddly pointless death of Neo's love interest.
-Matt
Taking apart Gorrilas, Nibbles, and some GWbasic programs are what really fast-forwarded my understanding of programming. The fact that they were just sitting there in C:\DOS - for FREE! - was like finding treasure!
I'm going to show my wife this tonight and let her marvel at the wonders that came with DOS 6 :)
Bigger explosions, wider buildings, bigger sons, floating gorillas, smarter computer... Man I spent hours on that in Elementary.
-Matt
If kids are expecting a reset button in real life because of video games they need more parenting time and a lot less Halo. Being unable to tell the difference between expectations and rewards in video games and real life means there's something seriously missing from their early education.
That goes for everything: movies, friends, even the internet. Parents don't even have to be experts, just caring enough to teach what to get out of an experience. Not to say it would be awesome to one day school my teenager in their favourite FPS, but that's a different tale. :)
-Matt
Does this depend on the version of the GPL? I thought you were allowed to hold-on to your source code except in cases where you provide a product with GPL'ed code in it (and in later versions a service with GPL'ed code), only then are you required to provide source access to those people on request. What the buyer does with it is after that doesn't apply.
Am I right in thinking there's no problem removing the source code and charging for a sale, but the authors would then (and only then) be required to provide the buyer with source?
-Matt
Doesn't make it legal. There's still copyright on Abandonware, the idea though is that the original authors will make no/cannot make an attempt to litigate, hence it being "abandoned". The classification doesn't usually come from the author, but people who find great software that's (typically) no longer available, then make an effort to keep distribution of that software alive.
Don't just take my word for it: Wikipedia on Abandonware.
-Matt
It's worse than you think. I got the 825 instead of the 655 and now I can't get voice to work.
And don't get me started about where to put the USB key for a firmware upgrade.
-Matt
First Spielberg/Chrichton makes movie Raptors 6ft tall before they find real ones, now female lizards can spontaneously reproduce?
Someone should be asking those guys about their reality-altering machine.
-Matt
I thought the Doctor only visited badly-designed World War 2 earth sets?
At least that's my memory of 80's era Who. I'm so glad he finally went to the future and kidnapped someone with set design/CGI skills.
-Matt
If I don't buy a palm-sized AppleTV, Steve Jobs may crush me with it. Seriously, billion-dollar company and that's the best picture they'd allow?
Although in all honesty, why are we talking AppleTV? Mac mini's are a little more expensive, but that (+boxee) has been my awesome set-top box for over a year now.
-Matt
If I could get that anywhere in Alberta (Canada) I'd sleep with it's foul-smelling, unibrow-ed best friend on the off chance it'd hang-out with me more.
Heck, considering Telus/Shaw's *up to 1mbit* = 300kbit marketing crap I'd even stay and cuddle, then buy it dinner the next night.
-Matt
How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!
Now, where'd I put that mullet...
Shhh, if Jobs finds-out you know the game-changing "camera" feature of the iPad 2.0gs some poor guy in China's going to get axed.
Really, a whole 15 seconds (and about as many words) for the $75 collector's edition?
I know we grew-up with it, but there's never going to be anything new until we STOP paying for the same old stuff.
-Matt
Same reason I keep a note pad next to the keyboard when programming: I'm faster when I can glance at something instead of switching windows.
I do hope in the next 500 years though they come-up with something better though. Pinch and move a-la iPad is neat, but I still can't fit everything I need into one spot.
-Matt
When disaster strikes, solve problems on your own and belittle those around you!
Actually, educational games are great. Number munchers changed my life: multiply or die.
-Matt
People hear me fine on my Jawbone. I've opened the window while driving and talked in a DC with no problems on their end. Clear as day.
My issue is even at Max volume _I_ still can't hear what people are saying. I've got good hearing, but at best I'm straining to hear a whisper amongst the roar of my jet-engine-powered Dells.
Is there a super volume button I'm missing or something I can do on my iPhone/Blackberry? I've got the unit set to max volume as far as I can tell.
-Matt
And borrowed Mike Myers to read the statement.
Seriously, does anybody inside the RIAA even believe this is about compensation anymore? It's courtroom theater paid for by the Taxpayer.
-Matt
I think that's hilarious and in a true 1980's movie fashion the police would bungle stealing it back, fess-up to getting caught, the commissioner would step-in, and everyone would have a good laugh. ...Or, in 2000's fashion he'll be marked as a terrorist and in the cross hairs of watch-list databases for the next decade.
Don't screw with the cops man, at best it's a College frat gone bad. However technically right you may be this is playing with fire while surrounded by dynamite.
-Matt
this will limit the bandwidth-use of the chattier people I know... :)
-Matt
...but there's a half-dozen carrier-neutral SIP/IAX2 apps on iTunes, and even more free apps purpose-built by companies offering VoIP over wifi/3G. I use one to connect to an Asterisk server and get great integration with my office PBX that is effectively a high-quality wifi phone.
The announcement here was that Skype feels it solved problems inherent with changing latency of 3G to the point you can walk around and have a decent phone call. That's huge if it works because service quality where I am can change block-by-block. I'm sure they'll have an Android version of this too in no-time if that's the case.
Apple is "Evil to the core(tm)". By choosing their products and harsh requirements for software reliability I'm forcing vendors to jump through hoops to sell me something. Maybe that's the trade-off for a device that just works.
-Matt
I've been playing around with VoIP on 3G using the SIP client from Acrobits and it's fairly reliable on low-bandwidth codecs in most areas around here. Bad reception does affect VoIP calls more than cell calls, but overall this covers about 90% of places where I talk outside of the car.
Then again, if there was better prices on airtime maybe I'd be less inclined to go 100% VoIP. Canadian carriers offer unlimited incoming minutes for $15/mo, but after the upper cap on packages they can't do better than 3 cents/minute for outbound? So long as pricing is designed to deter cell phone use I'm going to continue migrating away as fast as possible.
I am very curious about the technical details of Skype's service. What Codec are they using for their VoIP traffic? Is it GSM/g.729 for the low-bandwidth, or something proprietary they cooked-up? I'd love to see what they considered a reasonable call quality trade-off for 3G service limitiations.
-Matt
...and 20 years from now you'll retire and he'll be the one with the PS8 :)
The circle of life. I remember my mom upgrading her home PC (lawyer + WordPerfect = revolutionary then) back when I was scrounging family member's office throw-aways. Now she's got a 4 year old dell laptop compared to a dozen racks of 2U's.
For all the complaining I'm glad she didn't just buy me a system though, I'd never have learned the insides (and the programming using them) without her.
-Matt
CBC Story about software controls for selling on the market: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/05/06/tsx-markets.html
Nuts to fat finger keyboards, there are automated software controls in the industry that caught-on to the sale and snowballed this individual's mistake into something really big. The issue wasn't just in this guy's mistake, but the fact that potentially billions of dollars changed hands because of a trust relationship these systems have with market indicators.
Not that there's anything wrong with that: on a good day this could protect big firms from being the guy caught holding the bill, but I think we've discovered where the next upgrade in broker software might be :)
-Matt
Long term benefits would be regrowing parts of the head, supposedly including areas of the brain you'd lose from trauma.
Your point brings-up a good question though: how much of your brain can you replace before you're no-longer you?
Spiritual arguments aside, of course.
-Matt
610's also have a myriad of different versions out now too, and only the older ones tend to fully support DD-WRT from my last experience.
If you're lucky you can identify them by the coloring on the box. Blue/Light blue = older model, blue/any other colour = new.
Hope this helps. The 610N and 310N's are otherwise awesome as DD-WRT enabled routers, older versions even allowed for the largest of DD-WRT packages including a VPN setup I use to bridge a couple small office networks very reliably!
-Matt