Nothing beats a music game for multiplayer fun if you have two insert controller type here: DDR, Singstar, Donkey Konga, Guitar Hero, Drum Mania etc.
For more traditional gameplay I'm not sure if there are any recent non-racing/fighting/sport games that are good for casual multiplayer fun.. For retro games there are tons of them though. Bubble Bobble, Gauntlet, Worms, etc.
You forgot Mah-Jong! The most entertaining board/tile game you can play IMHO. It's a 4-player game but you can play it on three (skip one wind and have more tiles on the wall instead) or even two (each one play as two players).
It's very easy to learn how to play, the hardest part is calculating the points after each round but you have a cheat-sheet and a calculator for that.:)
FFMpeg now has support for all major formats except those from Real, including WMV3. The latest MPlayer and the beta builds of VLC both natively support WMV3 now because of this, and the code is LGPL. They also support the most common Quicktime codecs (h.264 and svq3). The patents remain though...
It only requires users of Internet Explorer 5-6 having JavaScript enabled. With Explorer v7 being pushed out, the amount of IE 5-6-users without JavaScript will drop significantly over the next year. I don't know what hacks are required to make IEv7 compliant but hopefully they are few enough to be worked around in a managable way, not the horror that is IEv6.
Besides, these days it's almost impossible to have a good experience on the web with JavaScript turned off. It all depends on your target users.
From the list: background-image | PNG alpha transparency (IE5.5+)
Note that by default it only enables transparency on images ending with "-trans.png". You can change that by setting IE7_PNG_SUFFIX to something else before loading IE7, like IE7_PNG_SUFFIX = ".png"; to enable transparency for all.png images (can be slow if you have lots of them).
I was dreading the inevitable process of trying to get a new CSS design working in IE 6; but hopefully now I don't have to:)
Actually, IE7 is THE solution. Don't confuse it with Internet Explorer v7. IE7 is the best tool a modern web developer can have. It's a JavaScript library that automatically convert standards compliant modern CSS to IE 5+6 workarounds so you can code your pages using clean W3C-compliant CSS2+3 and XHTML and your pages will work fine in IE 6, IE 5.5 and even IE 5.0. It's magic!
permanently delete all your porn if you are looking for the traditional christian daddy's-girl type.
shave the beard or style it.
Buy some new, clean, clothes unless you're looking for a punk/hippie/alternative girl.
without words or logos unless you're looking for a geeky girl.
Ask out pretty girls or just go to parties/clubs/concerts and be social.
Avoid the use of the words woot, pwnd, and 'leet' in any casual conversation. Now that's a very good idea.:)
Do not admit to your unhealthy infatuation of a sci-fi or fantasy series of books or movies unless you're looking for a girl who also like [insert hobby here].
Let's say the average person dump 2 hg of poo every day, this means that with a population of 300 million, America produces 60 million kilos of poo every day, or 21,9 billion kilos of poo each year. That's a lot of poo.
The Pirate Party is a global movement! It started in Sweden but is becoming the first global party ever! The goal is to have an official Pirate Party in each EU country when the EU election takes place in 2009. It's not limited to Europe though, parties are forming in Brazil, Australia, USA, Canada and many other countries outside of Europe.
This is a list of the current Pirate Parties that have their own homepage:
Pirate Party International is a forming umbrella organisation where all official Pirate Parties are members. On the forums you can try to get in touch with other persons in your country and get support in starting up a Pirate Party in your country.
The history of The Pirate Party has just begun, we haven't even finished the first chapter yet...
Not to mention...I love how it's 'infected' by DRM when it's MS whereas where it's Apple they're protecting themself.
Bullshit. You read what you want to read. In both Apple and Microsoft stories, posts where DRM is mentioned most are against it and few are OK with it. The fact that you are allowed to burn CDs with Apple's implementation make a few percent more accept it but they are still in minority, at least here on Slashdot.
As much as a Vim-fan I am (I really am!), I really want to see something like TextMate for Linux! It's hard to describe what makes TextMate so great, take a look at the Screecasts on the homepage and on the Ruby on Rails homepage to get an idea...
I use Ubuntu almost full-time but I still have my G4 iBook which I use when I'm coding, just because of TextMate. Before TextMate I used to be a die-hard Vim-fan and I know my way around it pretty well.
If you search the mailing lists you will find results of experiments by Sasada showing VERY fast execution on examples using code the JIT compiler supports so far.
The language itself isn't slow, the current interpreter is.
The solution is YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) which will be the official Ruby VM in v2.0. Ruby 2.0 (thanks to YARV) will have JIT and a superfast optimizer. You can get a (very buggy) pre-beta version from SVN right now. Benchmarks show that it will be about as fast as Java and.NET in most situations. Slower in some situations, faster in some.
I have a player capable of playing both, but simply don't have the time or the inclination to convert my library from mp3 to ogg.
Good. You should never convert from a lossy format to another, the sound quality will always be noticably worse than going straight to the destination format. Keep your MP3s as-is, but when you rip a new CD, rip to OGG/Vorbis instead.
Personally I archive backups of my CDs to a single FLAC with internal cuesheet for easy splitting and an embedded "cdrdao read-toc".toc-file for easy burning complete with index-points and original CD-text. That way I can restore an EXACT copy of the original CD whenever I want. Player support for FLAC with cuesheets isn't very good yet, that's why I also have OGGs for listening.
It isn't truly gapless, AFAIK they have to analyze the audio and find out how much at the end of the song is digital silence and start the next song there and they won't always make a right guess. LAME has a non-standard extension to the format to fix this though, basically they add an internal tag saying where the last frame the track REALLY ends, but not many players support this, especially not the ones based on the reference implementation.
IIRC, MP3-frames are 1/30 seconds but CD-frames are 1/75 seconds in duration and MP3 doesn't have sub-frame positioning like Vorbis and most other modern formats. That's why it's "non-gapless by design".
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I have yet to see a site that lets you meaningfully search or filter by tags.
Cheggit Out!
Well, it has less space than a Nomad. And it will run LAME...
By that definition G5 Macs don't exist...
Here you are.
Nothing beats a music game for multiplayer fun if you have two insert controller type here: DDR, Singstar, Donkey Konga, Guitar Hero, Drum Mania etc.
For more traditional gameplay I'm not sure if there are any recent non-racing/fighting/sport games that are good for casual multiplayer fun.. For retro games there are tons of them though. Bubble Bobble, Gauntlet, Worms, etc.
You forgot Mah-Jong! The most entertaining board/tile game you can play IMHO. It's a 4-player game but you can play it on three (skip one wind and have more tiles on the wall instead) or even two (each one play as two players).
:)
It's very easy to learn how to play, the hardest part is calculating the points after each round but you have a cheat-sheet and a calculator for that.
FFMpeg now has support for all major formats except those from Real, including WMV3. The latest MPlayer and the beta builds of VLC both natively support WMV3 now because of this, and the code is LGPL. They also support the most common Quicktime codecs (h.264 and svq3). The patents remain though...
It only requires users of Internet Explorer 5-6 having JavaScript enabled. With Explorer v7 being pushed out, the amount of IE 5-6-users without JavaScript will drop significantly over the next year. I don't know what hacks are required to make IEv7 compliant but hopefully they are few enough to be worked around in a managable way, not the horror that is IEv6.
Besides, these days it's almost impossible to have a good experience on the web with JavaScript turned off. It all depends on your target users.
That's ext4, not Reiser4.
From the list:
.png images (can be slow if you have lots of them).
background-image | PNG alpha transparency (IE5.5+)
Note that by default it only enables transparency on images ending with "-trans.png". You can change that by setting IE7_PNG_SUFFIX to something else before loading IE7, like IE7_PNG_SUFFIX = ".png"; to enable transparency for all
Actually, IE7 is THE solution. Don't confuse it with Internet Explorer v7. IE7 is the best tool a modern web developer can have. It's a JavaScript library that automatically convert standards compliant modern CSS to IE 5+6 workarounds so you can code your pages using clean W3C-compliant CSS2+3 and XHTML and your pages will work fine in IE 6, IE 5.5 and even IE 5.0. It's magic!
Here is the list of all IE-bugs it fixes.
Comb your hair
:)
or style it in some way.
permanently delete all your porn
if you are looking for the traditional christian daddy's-girl type.
shave the beard
or style it.
Buy some new, clean, clothes
unless you're looking for a punk/hippie/alternative girl.
without words or logos
unless you're looking for a geeky girl.
Ask out pretty girls
or just go to parties/clubs/concerts and be social.
Avoid the use of the words woot, pwnd, and 'leet' in any casual conversation.
Now that's a very good idea.
Do not admit to your unhealthy infatuation of a sci-fi or fantasy series of books or movies
unless you're looking for a girl who also like [insert hobby here].
Let's say the average person dump 2 hg of poo every day, this means that with a population of 300 million, America produces 60 million kilos of poo every day, or 21,9 billion kilos of poo each year. That's a lot of poo.
This is a list of the current Pirate Parties that have their own homepage:
Pirate Party International is a forming umbrella organisation where all official Pirate Parties are members. On the forums you can try to get in touch with other persons in your country and get support in starting up a Pirate Party in your country.
The history of The Pirate Party has just begun, we haven't even finished the first chapter yet...
Bullshit. You read what you want to read. In both Apple and Microsoft stories, posts where DRM is mentioned most are against it and few are OK with it. The fact that you are allowed to burn CDs with Apple's implementation make a few percent more accept it but they are still in minority, at least here on Slashdot.
IKEA, Volvo, Ericsson, MySQL, The Pirate Bay, ABBA and meatballs.
As much as a Vim-fan I am (I really am!), I really want to see something like TextMate for Linux! It's hard to describe what makes TextMate so great, take a look at the Screecasts on the homepage and on the Ruby on Rails homepage to get an idea...
I use Ubuntu almost full-time but I still have my G4 iBook which I use when I'm coding, just because of TextMate. Before TextMate I used to be a die-hard Vim-fan and I know my way around it pretty well.
":" is a function. You can rewrite it as this:
I don't doubt your numbers at all but you should try it again later when YARV has JIT compilation. Current YARV is still interpreted.
If you search the mailing lists you will find results of experiments by Sasada showing VERY fast execution on examples using code the JIT compiler supports so far.
The language itself isn't slow, the current interpreter is.
.NET in most situations. Slower in some situations, faster in some.
The solution is YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) which will be the official Ruby VM in v2.0. Ruby 2.0 (thanks to YARV) will have JIT and a superfast optimizer. You can get a (very buggy) pre-beta version from SVN right now. Benchmarks show that it will be about as fast as Java and
Or maybe this... :)
Good. You should never convert from a lossy format to another, the sound quality will always be noticably worse than going straight to the destination format. Keep your MP3s as-is, but when you rip a new CD, rip to OGG/Vorbis instead.
Personally I archive backups of my CDs to a single FLAC with internal cuesheet for easy splitting and an embedded "cdrdao read-toc"
It isn't truly gapless, AFAIK they have to analyze the audio and find out how much at the end of the song is digital silence and start the next song there and they won't always make a right guess. LAME has a non-standard extension to the format to fix this though, basically they add an internal tag saying where the last frame the track REALLY ends, but not many players support this, especially not the ones based on the reference implementation.
IIRC, MP3-frames are 1/30 seconds but CD-frames are 1/75 seconds in duration and MP3 doesn't have sub-frame positioning like Vorbis and most other modern formats. That's why it's "non-gapless by design".