Considering license fees, and the retailer mark up, most companies would only gross about $10 per console game that retails for $50. Maybe $20 if it's a PC title since no licensing fees to the console maker have to be paid.
Opening MacGimp for the first time was like stepping out onto the surface of an alien planet - and the gravitational pull was different too. Menus were attached to windows instead of being in the menu bar. In fact, there was one menu bar on the tools palette and another on the canvas window. Weird!
What? It's displaying menus inside of other windows just like every other operating system? That's just weird!
In all seriousness, Gimp does have issues with look and feel being inconsistent with whatever target OS it's built for. However, that's no excuse for not cleaning up the UI and making it consistent with the target OS, NOT whatever the windowing toolset requires.
Ironically, I remember an old version of Quicktime for windows where the opposite menu problem occured. Quicktime had a main window and then a weird little floating menu bar. Same kind of issue where cross platform UI's just don't look right.
I've already seen these kind of advertisements used on websites. They are not like pop-up ads at all. Here is the difference:
A popup ad requires you to first, close the window to see the web page, or for that matter ANYTHING that may have been underneath it on your desktop. These can also appear in such rapid succession that you have no access to your computer for several seconds as you frustratingly try to close them all.
However, a transparent pop-up embedded in the webpage itself is not as much of a problem. It is contained within the browser window, so there is a clear seperation between the website, and anything else on your computer's desktop.
If you don't like website's that use advertising that's fine. Avoid them, or find some Mozilla tool to block them. For most people however, this is much less obtrusive than standard IE popups.
It might be useful if some languages had an optional method of hinting that an object should be garbage collected soon. This would help in languages like Java where you get a huge amount of data stored and then all at once the disk thrashes as it GC everything. For some algorithms, it would be nice to tell Java ahead of time that you're done with the object and you're not going to reference it anymore. The nice thing is though, it wouldn't be a requirement, so you wouldn't have to worry about deleting an object still in use by mistake. I wonder how efficient this would be.
All other forms of non-local commerce are tax free anyway. There is no national sales tax, so why should there be a tax on anything related to the internet? We are already heavily taxed on our income, why do they keep increasing the burden?
Wrong! If everything was written in asmembly the resulting code would be such a mess, it's likely that it would run several magnitudes slower than something written in Java. 99% of the time, slowdowns are a result of poor algorithms, NOT compiler types.
You forget that this country was mostly established by Christians. Christians don't just assert the existence of God, they believe it. To Christians, it's illogical to say that the pledge is unconstitutional for saying a fact (that God exists).
Someone convince me that the average computer literate person can setup windows filesharing between linux and windows in under an hour (using redhat or whatever), without having to download some additional program.
and would require years to complete using current processors.
That's why I gave up on RC5-72. Even if computers continue to double every 2 years, it would still take much over a couple decades before they ever complete the contest. The extra burden it would put on CPU's must amount to several hundreds of thousands of dollars in power consumption. Hardly worth it for a $10,000 price to one individual.
Now, unless someone spends the money to build a custome RC5 decryption hardware using massively parallel programmable gate array logic chips or similar this will never be completed.
I think we get the point, encryption is hard to break.
I would be happy enough if most linux distros would do a good job of installing drivers correctly.
I install mandrake, try to do something with OpenGL, it starts using software drivers. The amount of time I've already spent trying to fix it amounts to about 2 hours. I'm guessing most people won't have the patiences to even get to the point where I am now.
Why isn't there something like an OpenUsability group that does nothing but focus on the usability of GNU software? Where aren't there any open yet CONSISTENT standards for GUI design. Linux still has a long way to go before I would recommend it for casual use.
It is possible to take layer by layer off of the chip and reconstruct how the individual transistors are connected. I remember reading in an article somewhere how this is done in industry to reverse engineer products. I'm sure there is some private key that is inside the intel chip itself.
It's a problem with the fonts themselves! I've seen these ugly jagged fonts on so many linux distros, but I've never seen the equialent on windows. How is it they can get away with using such a font that looks terrible with Anti-aliasing turned off?
Tahoma and Trebuchet fonts on Windows look good at any size. Why can't there be a similar font for X windows?
I've always wondered if it was feasible to create clean desalinated water as a by-product of a nuclear power plant. Since turbines need to be powered by steam anyway, why can't they find a way to recycle this water? I guess too many people would be waay to paranoid about such an idea though.
Most desalination is done with reverse osmosis anyway. It's much more energy efficient than distillation.
That's silly. How do you define "use". Sure, I bought that $10,000 plasma TV from out of state, but I don't actually use it. It just hangs on my wall. No need to charge me that $825 in sales tax! (hypothetically speaking).
Really, if you take a vacation out of state, buy souvenirs, are you really going to waste the time itemizing and reporting those on your state tax forms?
If it's simply weight that they guy is adding to the camera, to make sudden changes in momentum more difficult, than why not just duct table a large chunk of metal to the side of your camera? I believe it would have the same effect.
The fact that this little project made it to slashdot is kind of sad.
Anyone who has even skimmed over the constitution can realize that taxing goods from other states is unconstitutional. The constitution clearly says that states shall impose no tarriffs on goods imported or exported to other states.
If you have ever read the federalist papers, they make it clear that imposing tariffs (taxes) on interstate commerce would be a bad idea, which is why that clause was added to the constitution.
So, constitutionally speaking, states can't do this. But, given the power of the state and federal governments the constitution doesn't seem to mean much anymore does it?
The media has to be based on platinum? According to who?
Dust has never a problem with CDs, I don't see how increasing data densities will change this.
CD's have lots of vibration, that's why there is active filtering mechanisms that componsate to move the laser around. The same thing could be done with the electronc beam within a few wavelengths of light or less.
I don't remember any of IOmega's products ever being very reliable, it's not fair to compare new CD technologies to them.
I made a 3D file manager in Java once. It was kind of cool although it never seemed to be a very usable tool. It's more of an artistic project if anything.
Why does it seem that NASA is so obsessed with finding life on other planets? Not just complex lifeforms, but really simple cellular life. What ever happened to the focus of exploration and manned missions? Finding life should not be NASA's #1 mission, there are other interesting scientific aspects about space exploration that don't involve finding life.
You better have a car power adapter for those high performance laptops, or the battery will only last about half an hour. I've never been able to watch an entire DVD without the laptop power dying.
Even then, you have to seriously worry about it burning your lap due to the heat disappation!
Not necessarily. Embedded systems are typically running Pentiums or slower CPU's. Just looking at the size of this board, it looks almost the same size as a PC104 form factor. If via could develop to that spec there may be a market for a very high performance embedded system. Their processors could also be designed for much lower power specs if you aren't as concerned with performance (run at quarter speed or lower).
Also, if you could purchase an embedded system for only $100 that would be a pretty good deal. Most embedded systems go for much more than a standard PC because they are not as much of a commodity.
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Considering license fees, and the retailer mark up, most companies would only gross about $10 per console game that retails for $50. Maybe $20 if it's a PC title since no licensing fees to the console maker have to be paid.
What? It's displaying menus inside of other windows just like every other operating system? That's just weird!
In all seriousness, Gimp does have issues with look and feel being inconsistent with whatever target OS it's built for. However, that's no excuse for not cleaning up the UI and making it consistent with the target OS, NOT whatever the windowing toolset requires.
Ironically, I remember an old version of Quicktime for windows where the opposite menu problem occured. Quicktime had a main window and then a weird little floating menu bar. Same kind of issue where cross platform UI's just don't look right.
So if you were to buy 1 gig at those prices it would cost: $1,048,576.
Prices sure have come down huh?
I've already seen these kind of advertisements used on websites. They are not like pop-up ads at all. Here is the difference:
A popup ad requires you to first, close the window to see the web page, or for that matter ANYTHING that may have been underneath it on your desktop. These can also appear in such rapid succession that you have no access to your computer for several seconds as you frustratingly try to close them all.
However, a transparent pop-up embedded in the webpage itself is not as much of a problem. It is contained within the browser window, so there is a clear seperation between the website, and anything else on your computer's desktop.
If you don't like website's that use advertising that's fine. Avoid them, or find some Mozilla tool to block them. For most people however, this is much less obtrusive than standard IE popups.
It might be useful if some languages had an optional method of hinting that an object should be garbage collected soon. This would help in languages like Java where you get a huge amount of data stored and then all at once the disk thrashes as it GC everything. For some algorithms, it would be nice to tell Java ahead of time that you're done with the object and you're not going to reference it anymore. The nice thing is though, it wouldn't be a requirement, so you wouldn't have to worry about deleting an object still in use by mistake. I wonder how efficient this would be.
All other forms of non-local commerce are tax free anyway. There is no national sales tax, so why should there be a tax on anything related to the internet? We are already heavily taxed on our income, why do they keep increasing the burden?
Fair? I think not.
The phone network shouldn't have been taxed to begin with.
Wrong! If everything was written in asmembly the resulting code would be such a mess, it's likely that it would run several magnitudes slower than something written in Java. 99% of the time, slowdowns are a result of poor algorithms, NOT compiler types.
You forget that this country was mostly established by Christians. Christians don't just assert the existence of God, they believe it. To Christians, it's illogical to say that the pledge is unconstitutional for saying a fact (that God exists).
Or you could use FLAC and reduce the wav file size by 50% with loseless compression.
Good idea. Change the subject and hope no one will notice Linux's weaknesses.
forget children and old people!
Someone convince me that the average computer literate person can setup windows filesharing between linux and windows in under an hour (using redhat or whatever), without having to download some additional program.
and would require years to complete using current processors.
That's why I gave up on RC5-72. Even if computers continue to double every 2 years, it would still take much over a couple decades before they ever complete the contest. The extra burden it would put on CPU's must amount to several hundreds of thousands of dollars in power consumption. Hardly worth it for a $10,000 price to one individual.
Now, unless someone spends the money to build a custome RC5 decryption hardware using massively parallel programmable gate array logic chips or similar this will never be completed.
I think we get the point, encryption is hard to break.
I would be happy enough if most linux distros would do a good job of installing drivers correctly.
I install mandrake, try to do something with OpenGL, it starts using software drivers. The amount of time I've already spent trying to fix it amounts to about 2 hours. I'm guessing most people won't have the patiences to even get to the point where I am now.
Why isn't there something like an OpenUsability group that does nothing but focus on the usability of GNU software? Where aren't there any open yet CONSISTENT standards for GUI design. Linux still has a long way to go before I would recommend it for casual use.
It is possible to take layer by layer off of the chip and reconstruct how the individual transistors are connected. I remember reading in an article somewhere how this is done in industry to reverse engineer products. I'm sure there is some private key that is inside the intel chip itself.
It's a problem with the fonts themselves! I've seen these ugly jagged fonts on so many linux distros, but I've never seen the equialent on windows. How is it they can get away with using such a font that looks terrible with Anti-aliasing turned off?
Tahoma and Trebuchet fonts on Windows look good at any size. Why can't there be a similar font for X windows?
I've always wondered if it was feasible to create clean desalinated water as a by-product of a nuclear power plant. Since turbines need to be powered by steam anyway, why can't they find a way to recycle this water? I guess too many people would be waay to paranoid about such an idea though.
Most desalination is done with reverse osmosis anyway. It's much more energy efficient than distillation.
That's silly. How do you define "use". Sure, I bought that $10,000 plasma TV from out of state, but I don't actually use it. It just hangs on my wall. No need to charge me that $825 in sales tax! (hypothetically speaking).
Really, if you take a vacation out of state, buy souvenirs, are you really going to waste the time itemizing and reporting those on your state tax forms?
If it's simply weight that they guy is adding to the camera, to make sudden changes in momentum more difficult, than why not just duct table a large chunk of metal to the side of your camera? I believe it would have the same effect.
The fact that this little project made it to slashdot is kind of sad.
Anyone who has even skimmed over the constitution can realize that taxing goods from other states is unconstitutional. The constitution clearly says that states shall impose no tarriffs on goods imported or exported to other states.
If you have ever read the federalist papers, they make it clear that imposing tariffs (taxes) on interstate commerce would be a bad idea, which is why that clause was added to the constitution.
So, constitutionally speaking, states can't do this. But, given the power of the state and federal governments the constitution doesn't seem to mean much anymore does it?
Wow, did you make up most of that?
The media has to be based on platinum? According to who?
Dust has never a problem with CDs, I don't see how increasing data densities will change this.
CD's have lots of vibration, that's why there is active filtering mechanisms that componsate to move the laser around. The same thing could be done with the electronc beam within a few wavelengths of light or less.
I don't remember any of IOmega's products ever being very reliable, it's not fair to compare new CD technologies to them.
I made a 3D file manager in Java once. It was kind of cool although it never seemed to be a very usable tool. It's more of an artistic project if anything.
Check out the screenhsots
Now why didn't I make the front page of slashdot?
Why does it seem that NASA is so obsessed with finding life on other planets? Not just complex lifeforms, but really simple cellular life. What ever happened to the focus of exploration and manned missions? Finding life should not be NASA's #1 mission, there are other interesting scientific aspects about space exploration that don't involve finding life.
You better have a car power adapter for those high performance laptops, or the battery will only last about half an hour. I've never been able to watch an entire DVD without the laptop power dying.
Even then, you have to seriously worry about it burning your lap due to the heat disappation!
Not necessarily. Embedded systems are typically running Pentiums or slower CPU's. Just looking at the size of this board, it looks almost the same size as a PC104 form factor. If via could develop to that spec there may be a market for a very high performance embedded system. Their processors could also be designed for much lower power specs if you aren't as concerned with performance (run at quarter speed or lower).
Also, if you could purchase an embedded system for only $100 that would be a pretty good deal. Most embedded systems go for much more than a standard PC because they are not as much of a commodity.