I hope their gonna switch to 2.6.4 cuz last time I checked, they were using 2.6.1 and acpi for that is still broken. For some reason, the acpi people don't even support 2.6.3 any more...
When was the last time you checked? FCtest has been using 2.6.4 for a few months now.
If they didn't have to risk $50 a pop on a new and innovative title they might not like.
You know, very few games cost $50 a pop these days. I just picked up Battlefield: Vietnam for $29.99 at target (it's on sale right now, it normally sells for $39.99). While I was there, I saw that UT2k4 was $39.99 as well.
The only games that are $49.99 are the games that are practically guarranteed to be big sellers.
Plus, most games out these days have a demo. Anyone who spends $50 on a game they never heard of is an idiot.
That's a very good question, and I've never seen an answer. I would also like the idea of multiple pointers, but my guess is that Windows or X couldn't deal with it.
Sort of. There are programs that can handle multiple mice (in fact that RagDoll Kung Fu game can use up to 6), and you can use a mouse and a tablet at the same time. XP aparently doesn't mind having multiple mice plugged in, but only one can control the cursor.
Re:Now they just need to make ambidexterous people
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The device is an interesting idea, now they just need to engineer the people who can use it efficiently.
I think you could pick it up with practice. Think of playing the guitar. Right handed people don't have too much trouble learning a right handed guitar (where your left hand actually needs to be more agile than your right).
I'm ambidexterous, so it's not a huge problem for me, but I think even someone who is predominately right handed could learn to use a mouse with great accuracy with his left hand.
Another example: the trackpad. Nearly everyone I've met can use a trackpad accurately with both hands, even their thumbs.
Why do I ponder this? Because Apple isn't making profits off $0.99 per song because they have to pay for the micropayments to the credit card companies, the large cut to the RIAA, the cut to the record label, the hosting fees, and finally, the artist.
First of all, Apple gets 40% of that 99 cents.. who says they're not making a profit? Apple? Yeah, just like the guys in TJ swear that you're getting such a good deal on that necklace, that their kids are going to have to skip dinner just to pay for it.
Apple can afford to drop the price to 88 cents but why bother? They've already convinced everyone that they're doing everyone a public service and "breaking even" at 99 cents. I wonder how much of that 40 cents goes to paying the bandwidth of the quicktime trailers site as well.
The only thing that the article says is marketing crap about how "it's as convenient as paper". Nothing about how the actual image is created on the paper. There's quite a difference in how our brains process reflected vs. projected light.
E-Ink is ink on paper. Ink is painted on the paper, and then the ink is manipulated electronically. It's reflected light.
I'll explain that right after you explain why you're using iChat on your mission-critical server that needs five-nines availability.
Right, because a reboot isn't an inconvenience or anything. Having to close all running apps, stop what you're doing, and then set everything back up the way you had it.
My linux box has been up for 211 days, and it's fully up-to-date.
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is it, at last, possible to simply draw lines or arcs ? It is pretty useful, so why do they snub such functionalities ?
This has always been possible. To draw a line, select a paintbrush or a pencil. Click on the start of the line, shift-click on the end of the line.
To draw a circle, use the circle selection tool, and then go to edit->stroke. To draw an arc, just draw the circle on a new layer, and erase the part you don't want.
I wouldn't say the problem doesn't exist -- every time a link takes me to an article at the LA Times, Chicago Sun, Telegraph or any other paper that requires me to remember some crazy new userid or to go through a lengthy registration process, there's a problem, usually solved by my deciding it's not worth it.
My browser, just like all the other browsers out there, has a nifty little feature which remembers my logins.
If mozilla ever gets that roaming profile idea, then passport is completely useless.
It's easy enough to brand "eco-friendly" lumber to make sure you aren't buying mouse made from clearcut timber.
That reminds me of fretboards. For some reason I can't think of the wood, but there's a dark hardwood from Hawaii that is prized fretboard wood. It's rare because it's illegal to cut down the tree, you can only harvest the wood from trees that have fallen over by natural causes.
If anyone can remember the name of the wood, I'd appreciate it.
My brother has a custom guitar with this fretboard. The wood for the fretboard cost more than the rest of the guitar.
Then some bright boy came up with the idea of white boxes. Then the natural corollary, the black box. Then Apple came out with the iMac and suddenly we had six new colors.
Actually, Sun and SGI were making purple machines long before Apple switched from beige.
So, what does a vitamin cartel do anyway? Do they price fix Iron suppliments or something? Or do they beat up the small iron works for trademark violation?
Of course this may break any number of pages that require the HTTP_REFER header...
I would argue that those pages are already broken. It says right in the spec that HTTP_REFERER is for statistic purposes only, and to not rely on it being present.
even without scrolling your editor up a couple pages to find out; papszEnvironment would likewise tell a Win32 devotee that it was a Pointer to an Array of Pointers to Zero-terminated Strings.
No it wouldn't. It would tell a win32 devotee that it started out that way.. it may not be that way now.
Look at how many "lp" variables are in the win32 headers.
Hungarian Notation is the most horrible concept ever because it always ends up lying. I bet that's why MS is so slow to fix buffer overflows.. in order to change a variable from an int to a long is an arduous process.
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It used the 2.6.4pre's as well. FCtest had like 6 different kernel releases since 2.6.3, each with a -2004xxxx daytag.
But do we really need Yet Another Linux Distro?
As far as I can see, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware and probably others are already
Two of those distros are younger than RedHat (fedora).
Plus none of those offer SELinux out of the box (which FCTest2 does), none of those offer xorg instead of XFree86 (which FCTest2 does).
I hope their gonna switch to 2.6.4 cuz last time I checked, they were using 2.6.1 and acpi for that is still broken. For some reason, the acpi people don't even support 2.6.3 any more...
When was the last time you checked? FCtest has been using 2.6.4 for a few months now.
I'm going to cut and paste your comment into the next MS patent article.
If they didn't have to risk $50 a pop on a new and innovative title they might not like.
You know, very few games cost $50 a pop these days. I just picked up Battlefield: Vietnam for $29.99 at target (it's on sale right now, it normally sells for $39.99). While I was there, I saw that UT2k4 was $39.99 as well.
The only games that are $49.99 are the games that are practically guarranteed to be big sellers.
Plus, most games out these days have a demo. Anyone who spends $50 on a game they never heard of is an idiot.
That's a very good question, and I've never seen an answer. I would also like the idea of multiple pointers, but my guess is that Windows or X couldn't deal with it.
Sort of. There are programs that can handle multiple mice (in fact that RagDoll Kung Fu game can use up to 6), and you can use a mouse and a tablet at the same time. XP aparently doesn't mind having multiple mice plugged in, but only one can control the cursor.
The device is an interesting idea, now they just need to engineer the people who can use it efficiently.
I think you could pick it up with practice. Think of playing the guitar. Right handed people don't have too much trouble learning a right handed guitar (where your left hand actually needs to be more agile than your right).
I'm ambidexterous, so it's not a huge problem for me, but I think even someone who is predominately right handed could learn to use a mouse with great accuracy with his left hand.
Another example: the trackpad. Nearly everyone I've met can use a trackpad accurately with both hands, even their thumbs.
The iPod doesn't "have DRM" any more than your Dell thing does.
The inability to copy songs off the iPod without 3rd party software is a form of DRM.
However, since my computer "knew" that it was not authorized after a few hours, it must have checked with Apple at some point.
Why aren't people up in arms about this? This seems to me to be a serious privacy violation.
So that is my suggestion. Microsoft should do everything by mime.
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Why do I ponder this? Because Apple isn't making profits off $0.99 per song because they have to pay for the micropayments to the credit card companies, the large cut to the RIAA, the cut to the record label, the hosting fees, and finally, the artist.
First of all, Apple gets 40% of that 99 cents.. who says they're not making a profit? Apple? Yeah, just like the guys in TJ swear that you're getting such a good deal on that necklace, that their kids are going to have to skip dinner just to pay for it.
Apple can afford to drop the price to 88 cents but why bother? They've already convinced everyone that they're doing everyone a public service and "breaking even" at 99 cents. I wonder how much of that 40 cents goes to paying the bandwidth of the quicktime trailers site as well.
If you live in a state where Wal-Mart has a physical store location you MUST pay sales tax. At 7% sales tax, the song will cost 95 cents.
Um, iTMS requires sales tax too.. so a song off of apple's music store costs $1.06 here.
They build their mega-sized websites and put all the smaller websites in the neighborhood out of business.
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.don't you spend a good portion of your day looking at your 72DPI monitor?
Not quite. Your monitor isn't showing 72 dpi unless you're at 640x480. My 19 inch at 1280x1024 is 116 dpi.
The only thing that the article says is marketing crap about how "it's as convenient as paper". Nothing about how the actual image is created on the paper. There's quite a difference in how our brains process reflected vs. projected light.
E-Ink is ink on paper. Ink is painted on the paper, and then the ink is manipulated electronically. It's reflected light.
Source? My 667MHz G4 powerbook (OS X 10.3.3) gets a higher score than my 2.4GHz P4 desktop (Redhat 7.3).
Actually, I think it mostly has to do with the piss poor performance of the mach kernel.
My P4 2.4 ghz with RedHat 9 gets more than double the score of my dual 1ghz G4 with Jaguar. It even beats a G5 with panther by 500 points.
Looking at the results closely, the bottlenecks are horrible fork() performance, and extremely slow file IO.
I bet if you put a 2.4 kernel on that P4 you'll see your unixbench score skyrocket.
I'll explain that right after you explain why you're using iChat on your mission-critical server that needs five-nines availability.
Right, because a reboot isn't an inconvenience or anything. Having to close all running apps, stop what you're doing, and then set everything back up the way you had it.
My linux box has been up for 211 days, and it's fully up-to-date.
is it, at last, possible to simply draw lines or arcs ? It is pretty useful, so why do they snub such functionalities ?
This has always been possible. To draw a line, select a paintbrush or a pencil. Click on the start of the line, shift-click on the end of the line.
To draw a circle, use the circle selection tool, and then go to edit->stroke. To draw an arc, just draw the circle on a new layer, and erase the part you don't want.
Last time I checked, MacOS X was at least as "Unix-Based" (darwin) as Linux, if not more...
Then why does OSX do so poorly on UnixBench?
I wouldn't say the problem doesn't exist -- every time a link takes me to an article at the LA Times, Chicago Sun, Telegraph or any other paper that requires me to remember some crazy new userid or to go through a lengthy registration process, there's a problem, usually solved by my deciding it's not worth it.
My browser, just like all the other browsers out there, has a nifty little feature which remembers my logins.
If mozilla ever gets that roaming profile idea, then passport is completely useless.
It's easy enough to brand "eco-friendly" lumber to make sure you aren't buying mouse made from clearcut timber.
That reminds me of fretboards. For some reason I can't think of the wood, but there's a dark hardwood from Hawaii that is prized fretboard wood. It's rare because it's illegal to cut down the tree, you can only harvest the wood from trees that have fallen over by natural causes.
If anyone can remember the name of the wood, I'd appreciate it.
My brother has a custom guitar with this fretboard. The wood for the fretboard cost more than the rest of the guitar.
Then some bright boy came up with the idea of white boxes. Then the natural corollary, the black box. Then Apple came out with the iMac and suddenly we had six new colors.
Actually, Sun and SGI were making purple machines long before Apple switched from beige.
So, what does a vitamin cartel do anyway? Do they price fix Iron suppliments or something? Or do they beat up the small iron works for trademark violation?
They horde all the flintstones chewables.
Of course this may break any number of pages that require the HTTP_REFER header...
I would argue that those pages are already broken. It says right in the spec that HTTP_REFERER is for statistic purposes only, and to not rely on it being present.
IE6 blocks HTTP_REFERER in some secure modes.
even without scrolling your editor up a couple pages to find out; papszEnvironment would likewise tell a Win32 devotee that it was a Pointer to an Array of Pointers to Zero-terminated Strings.
No it wouldn't. It would tell a win32 devotee that it started out that way.. it may not be that way now.
Look at how many "lp" variables are in the win32 headers.
Hungarian Notation is the most horrible concept ever because it always ends up lying. I bet that's why MS is so slow to fix buffer overflows.. in order to change a variable from an int to a long is an arduous process.