Try getting a good adventure game like the old Lucasarts point-and-click adventures
There are actually more new point-and-click adventure games released than you probably think. Their biggest difference from the 2D classics are that most of them are rendered with beautiful 3D graphics even though they often have a fixed camera position to emulate the 2D-adventure style of play.
Zafara and Zimbra come pretty close, interface wise, but they are more like web-based MS Outlook-replacements than simple E-mail clients. They are also not simple free hosted webmail, you (or your admin) will have to maintain your own server or pay for them to host it.
Everybody use it because everybody else use it, because it's so incredibly easy to get started with and most of them don't even know what the word "proprietary" means.
Often, the only way to get answers to your questions on the internet is to claim things about the subject you know are wrong. Then heaps of people will jump on you to tell you what is correct.
Well, UK has only 17.5% VAT and the British pound is still very very weak so I think I will still get the best deals from there. Not long ago a pound cost over 16 SEK. A year ago it was around 10 SEK but is now up to 11,5 SEK.
The biggest problem is that British stores (and eBay sellers) are usually unwilling to ship anything larger than a DVD outside of the UK for some strange reason, claiming "too high P&P" even if I'm the one paying it...:P That's why I usually have to buy hardware from other EU countries.
I will now argue that my home brew "mess" is very simple and clean and it will take any person with decent shell, Ruby and SQL knowledge a VERY short time to get a FULL understanding of. Even my bosses know and appreciate that.
So, we already have the import, data cleaning, normalization and lots of aggregated tables in place and it's working fine. We don't want to change that. What we need is only a web interface that is easy for the non-technical managers and marketers to use. I can provide special tables and views for Mondrian in any way that it wants. No problem, except that it's helluva messy to set up. Unless you restart from scratch using the whole Pentaho stack, maybe.
When you have paid your tax and all of your obligatory (those that you must be either stupid or too poor to not have) insurances I bet that the Swedes have a larger % of their salary left after their taxes and insurances are paid. As a Swede I pay around 29% in tax and I'm OK with that as long as I can rely on reasonable public services like health care and yearly limits on how much I have to pay for medicine, should I need it.
I'd really like to see a lower VAT though. 25% (except for food and books) is ridiculous and makes everything so much more expensive to buy. I order almost everything on the Internet from the UK, Germany or the north-eastern European countries.
At work I have built a large data warehouse pretty much from scratch with PostgreSQL and SQL-files, controlled by a set of Ruby scripts. It's simple, powerful, extremely flexible and plenty fast. It imports data from various sources (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, CSV files on a remote SSH server, XML, custom logfiles, etc) with some HEAVY data cleaning and normalization.
On top of that we have lots of autogenerated PDF-reports and a custom built report tool for all kinds of data.
Recently it was decided that we need a way for managers to generate "cubes" for quick generation of custom, one-off reports on all kinds of dimension of the data. After looking around a bit we settled with Mondrian, which is a part of the Pentaho suite.
O. M. F. G. What a mess.
It consists of a deep directory hierarchy with config files and duplicated jar files sprinkled all over. To do simple things like adding a database you have to edit a whole bunch of XML config files in various directories and I even had to copy a jar file from one directory to another. There is plenty of documentation but it's disorganized, overly verbose in the simple areas and overly terse (or nonexistent) in the moderately advanced areas.
After editing a config file you have to go through its web interface and press one "clean cache" button and one "reload config" button. Then you have to restart the app server and log in again to see your changes. They don't provide any commandline tools to do this. When starting out and building your new cubes there will be a lot of trial-and-error experimentation as the XML schema is somewhat archaic and underdocumented. When asking them on IRC for a way to automate this it took me a lot of explaining WHY I wanted to do this so often before they even attempted to answer. The answer involved copying and modifying.properties files in WEB-INF directories and writing a script that run curl on various URLs...
Seemingly they themselves already set up their datawarehouse and cubes long time ago and have totally forgotten about the experience for NEW users that have to do all this from scratch...
Anyone know about a decent alternative to Mondrian?
They are still releasing new games for the PS2 so don't expect them to kill the PS3 just yet...
Also, they won't even begin to phase it out before the PS4 is released.
I agree. I still subscribe to Linux Journal and although too much (IMHO) of it is directed at semi-newbies they still have interesting articles every now and then. In Linux Journal you still occasionally get to see FVWM2 and TWM window borders on the screenshots where they are showing new programs. That gives a lot of confidence.:)
Linux has VA-API, the one true standard for hardware accelerated video decoding on Linux. Adobe should just use that and not struggle with the various proprietary vendor-specific APIs (VDPAU, XvBA, etc).
You're not doing it good enough. You also need to rotate the screenshot by 180 degrees and go into screen preferences and rotate the screen 180 degrees. That way it looks normal but the mouse pointer is upside down and when you move the mouse the pointer goes in the opposite direction.
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Try getting a good adventure game like the old Lucasarts point-and-click adventures
There are actually more new point-and-click adventure games released than you probably think. Their biggest difference from the 2D classics are that most of them are rendered with beautiful 3D graphics even though they often have a fixed camera position to emulate the 2D-adventure style of play.
Try browsing around at Adventuregamers or MobyGames for a while.
Some examples:
Also don't forget that with ScummVM you can play LOTS of those classic 2D adventures that you never had a chance to play when you were younger. :)
You should tattoo pi * 1337%
Zafara and Zimbra come pretty close, interface wise, but they are more like web-based MS Outlook-replacements than simple E-mail clients. They are also not simple free hosted webmail, you (or your admin) will have to maintain your own server or pay for them to host it.
All valid C code is also valid Objective-C code as Objective-C is a superset of C with Smalltalk-like features on top.
That is just sick! Corruption, I see no other possible reason.
Everybody use it because everybody else use it, because it's so incredibly easy to get started with and most of them don't even know what the word "proprietary" means.
Damn, I just wasted my last mod point. Never before has a "flamebait" moderation been so proper...
Don't sabatage the system!
Often, the only way to get answers to your questions on the internet is to claim things about the subject you know are wrong. Then heaps of people will jump on you to tell you what is correct.
No, prejudice is more like saying that all people named Ralph use stupid fonts.
Well, UK has only 17.5% VAT and the British pound is still very very weak so I think I will still get the best deals from there. Not long ago a pound cost over 16 SEK. A year ago it was around 10 SEK but is now up to 11,5 SEK.
The biggest problem is that British stores (and eBay sellers) are usually unwilling to ship anything larger than a DVD outside of the UK for some strange reason, claiming "too high P&P" even if I'm the one paying it... :P That's why I usually have to buy hardware from other EU countries.
I will keep that in mind! Do you know about any good Belgian online stores for electronics? A price comparison site maybe?
I will now argue that my home brew "mess" is very simple and clean and it will take any person with decent shell, Ruby and SQL knowledge a VERY short time to get a FULL understanding of. Even my bosses know and appreciate that.
So, we already have the import, data cleaning, normalization and lots of aggregated tables in place and it's working fine. We don't want to change that. What we need is only a web interface that is easy for the non-technical managers and marketers to use. I can provide special tables and views for Mondrian in any way that it wants. No problem, except that it's helluva messy to set up. Unless you restart from scratch using the whole Pentaho stack, maybe.
When you have paid your tax and all of your obligatory (those that you must be either stupid or too poor to not have) insurances I bet that the Swedes have a larger % of their salary left after their taxes and insurances are paid. As a Swede I pay around 29% in tax and I'm OK with that as long as I can rely on reasonable public services like health care and yearly limits on how much I have to pay for medicine, should I need it.
I'd really like to see a lower VAT though. 25% (except for food and books) is ridiculous and makes everything so much more expensive to buy. I order almost everything on the Internet from the UK, Germany or the north-eastern European countries.
I totally agree.
.properties files in WEB-INF directories and writing a script that run curl on various URLs...
At work I have built a large data warehouse pretty much from scratch with PostgreSQL and SQL-files, controlled by a set of Ruby scripts. It's simple, powerful, extremely flexible and plenty fast. It imports data from various sources (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, CSV files on a remote SSH server, XML, custom logfiles, etc) with some HEAVY data cleaning and normalization. On top of that we have lots of autogenerated PDF-reports and a custom built report tool for all kinds of data.
Recently it was decided that we need a way for managers to generate "cubes" for quick generation of custom, one-off reports on all kinds of dimension of the data. After looking around a bit we settled with Mondrian, which is a part of the Pentaho suite.
O. M. F. G. What a mess.
It consists of a deep directory hierarchy with config files and duplicated jar files sprinkled all over. To do simple things like adding a database you have to edit a whole bunch of XML config files in various directories and I even had to copy a jar file from one directory to another. There is plenty of documentation but it's disorganized, overly verbose in the simple areas and overly terse (or nonexistent) in the moderately advanced areas.
After editing a config file you have to go through its web interface and press one "clean cache" button and one "reload config" button. Then you have to restart the app server and log in again to see your changes. They don't provide any commandline tools to do this. When starting out and building your new cubes there will be a lot of trial-and-error experimentation as the XML schema is somewhat archaic and underdocumented. When asking them on IRC for a way to automate this it took me a lot of explaining WHY I wanted to do this so often before they even attempted to answer. The answer involved copying and modifying
Seemingly they themselves already set up their datawarehouse and cubes long time ago and have totally forgotten about the experience for NEW users that have to do all this from scratch...
Anyone know about a decent alternative to Mondrian?
Like this?
I got sick of FPS shooters sometime around Quake II.
They are still releasing new games for the PS2 so don't expect them to kill the PS3 just yet... Also, they won't even begin to phase it out before the PS4 is released.
I agree. I still subscribe to Linux Journal and although too much (IMHO) of it is directed at semi-newbies they still have interesting articles every now and then. In Linux Journal you still occasionally get to see FVWM2 and TWM window borders on the screenshots where they are showing new programs. That gives a lot of confidence. :)
I miss the Sysadmin magazine. RIP.
Well, you seem to be very successful at war science at least, always making more efficient and innovative weapons.
I'm sure you can't get it up get it up get it up anyway...
Linux has VA-API, the one true standard for hardware accelerated video decoding on Linux. Adobe should just use that and not struggle with the various proprietary vendor-specific APIs (VDPAU, XvBA, etc).
You're not doing it good enough. You also need to rotate the screenshot by 180 degrees and go into screen preferences and rotate the screen 180 degrees. That way it looks normal but the mouse pointer is upside down and when you move the mouse the pointer goes in the opposite direction.
Head tracking is also an option. Skip to 2:28 if you are impatient. It only works for one person at a time though...
New as in april 30th, 2010 even...