3" DVDs wouldn't work in 98% of the players out there.
I think you got that number backwards. 3" DVDs wouldn't work in 2% of the players out there. The only players that can't handle 3" DVDs are slot loading.
On that note though, I recently was stuck in a mechanics shop for an hour and a half (literally) waiting for my car battery to be replaced.
Um. You do know those things are user-servicable, right? I expect you drive all over town looking for a Full-Service gas station so you don't have to squeegee your own windshield as well?
Your right, it was still in Intel's favour since GGC started out on Intel and has more optimisations for it than PPC.
No. GCC started out on VAX. It wasn't ported to intel until 1989 (after it has already been ported to MIPS and Sparc)
The focus on optimizing GCC didn't happen until recently.
The PPC optimizations in GCC are every bit as mature as the x86 optimizations. Probably even more so since there are 10 different x86 targets to optimize for, and only 2 for PPC.
Regardless, GCC has always been about correctness and portability rather than speed.
I've noticed that only people without such knowledge think it's not useful.
No.. we just think that it's something that should've been learned in highschool. Algorithms and data structures is as basic as you can get, it's on par with algebra.
The problem with CS today is that it is so dumbed down. It's taught by people who never challenge anything they learn. Tell your teacher that an insertion sort is faster than a quiksort and they'll say that you are wrong and that quiksort is the fastest sort. Rule #1 in CS used to be that nothing could ever be called the fastest, best, or most optimized. That rule no longer exists.
But it does affect game play. You're playing teams with real stats. Someone who's into football will already know how certain players play and can adjust their lineups accordingly.
If you just made up player names and stats you'd have to memorize hundreds of random statistics just to get the same feel for the team as you already do.
I get the feeling that many people here have never played Madden. They all seem to miss the fact that teams *aren't* evenly matched, and that players *aren't* all equal.
oh no! What will I do? I won't be able to buy a crappy MadCatz controller for the xbox360!
I don't think it's a bad move on MS's part. 3rd party accessories have always been awful. It's especially frustrating when you want to go buy an xbox live headset and all the 1st party versions are sold out and the only thing left is a really horrible speakerphone made by Bob's Bargain XBox Stuff.
Crappy 3rd party accessories reflect badly on the console as a whole. A little bit of quality assurance is a good thing.
I think that's actually the cause of us not having DST.
Supposedly having an extra hour of daylight after you get home from work conserves energy because you won't have to turn on the lights. In Arizona, an extra hour of daylight after work means the AC is working hard for an extra hour.
In fact, now that AC is common, they should redo the studies. I think having lights on or off is a drop in the bucket compared to turning the AC up for an extra hour.
I recently built a computer for home (AMD64), and was disappointed in the noise level.
Mine was too.. it turned out that the stock cpu fan didn't really fit tightly enough. If you put your finger on the heatsink the noise stops completely.. it's because the sound is the heatsink/fan rattling.
The AMD64 fans have a little lever that is used to clamp it down, I was able to tweak it so it was tighter.. elminitated all noise, now there's just a very very quiet "whoosh" sound.
Well I just compared Comis Sans MS in OpenOffice to the font used on Penny Arcade. They have some similarities, but they seem to be different fonts, and in my opinion the PA one is definitely the better.
No, they're identical. The difference you are seeing is caused by the hinting. Don't forget that gabe draws it *huge*. Compare it with a 60pt comic sans that's been rasterized and *then* scaled down.
but it's HTTP itself that doesn't provide a mechanism for logging out users, it's not Apache's fault.
It's actually the browser's fault. You are never really "logged in". The browser sends your username and password in the headers of *every* request for the appropriate basepath.
A "logout" would be browser side, just stop attaching the username/pass to the header.
I suppose you could put something in the protocol where apache would reply with a "login expired" or something... but it's really up to the browser.
OS X's drag and drop is superior IMHO. Try dragging a file onto an app in XP to open in... eh sorry, no go. I do this in OSX all the time, for example, usually HTML files open in Safari, but sometimes I want to open them in a text editor, I simply drag the HTML file onto TextEdit! Tada!
Except of course when it doesn't work. Try dragging a file called "README" onto textedit or safari.. it doesn't work. You have to launch textedit or safari and then do an Open. Even worse, drag that README file onto an open safari window and safari will "download" it to your desktop.
I find it ironic that you have to add.txt to text files for OSX.
Upper left is the apple menu, upper right is spotlight. Lower right is usually *some* window's resize handle. That leaves lower left. Of course you get the dock popping up whenever you hit the bottom of the screen.
Magic zones of the screen are unintuitive and often get in the way (always accidentally triggered). Especially when dealing with a large, multi-window app like photoshop or flash studio. The dock haunts my ability to shrink a maximized window.
God I wish. But focus follows mouse can *never* work on OSX.. because the menubar is outside the window. As you're going to the top of the screen, the menubar will switch out.
I never understood the point of putting the menubar at the very top. People say things like "the edge of the screen is infinitely wide/tall" but it's just not true, and if they'd watch others open a menu (you can't watch yourself because the act of paying attention changes how you do things), they'd see they were wrong.
"Throw" your mouse to the top of the screen. Either you'll "throw" it too hard, you'll abruptly stop the mouse, causing the pointer to literally bounce off the top of the screen (because of the jerking stop of the physical mouse). Or you'll throw it too soft, and the mouse won't make it to the top.
I've always had to put just as much thought and carefulness opening any OSX menu as any linux or windows menu. Except the linux menu is much closer to my current cursor, so I don't have to zip across a mile of screen.
The literal obscurity of the menubar in OSX is directly responsible to the over population of toolbars in apple apps. Look at how cluttered Mail.app's toolbar is (don't even get me started on the fact that the open/close drawer icon is on the opposite side of the window). Apple is turning the toolbar into a menubar.
Now imagine having to fold 5 or more folders. Since Expose can show you all your windows with one action it wins hands down.
If you have 5 or more folders open, expose will not be faster.. because the windows will be so small that you can't tell which one is which just by looking at them (and expose can never seem to put windows in the same places), so you'll have to mouse over each window, pause, wait for the tooltip, continue on.
In 2 years, when Apple adds fold'n'drop windows to 10.5, everyone will be saying how much more productive they are and how innovative apple is.
Small screen? Sure its small. But as said elsewhere in this thread, plug it into your tv. Bam. portable movies.
That would look like crap. The newest iPod's resolution is 160x128. I doubt the iPod has the processing power to decode video at a higher resolution than that (and I don't see why Apple would encode high-res video in the first place if they'd just end up having to downsample for iPod playback).
"A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an "undercover agent," saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency's headquarters in Langley and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee.
Amazing that Fred Rustmann knew that considering the fact that he has been retired from the CIA since 1990.
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Regardless of the ongoing investigation, his quotes could cut either way
True, which is why he clarified it today.
"In an interview Friday, Wilson said his comment was meant to reflect that his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand."
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Use the circle selection tool, then select Selection -> Stroke.
There's also Howard Gardner's eight types of intelligence.
There are only 2 types of intelligence.
Book smarts and street smarts.
They are also inversely related.
3" DVDs wouldn't work in 98% of the players out there.
I think you got that number backwards. 3" DVDs wouldn't work in 2% of the players out there. The only players that can't handle 3" DVDs are slot loading.
On that note though, I recently was stuck in a mechanics shop for an hour and a half (literally) waiting for my car battery to be replaced.
Um. You do know those things are user-servicable, right? I expect you drive all over town looking for a Full-Service gas station so you don't have to squeegee your own windshield as well?
Your right, it was still in Intel's favour since GGC started out on Intel and has more optimisations for it than PPC.
No. GCC started out on VAX. It wasn't ported to intel until 1989 (after it has already been ported to MIPS and Sparc)
The focus on optimizing GCC didn't happen until recently.
The PPC optimizations in GCC are every bit as mature as the x86 optimizations. Probably even more so since there are 10 different x86 targets to optimize for, and only 2 for PPC.
Regardless, GCC has always been about correctness and portability rather than speed.
I've noticed that only people without such knowledge think it's not useful.
No.. we just think that it's something that should've been learned in highschool. Algorithms and data structures is as basic as you can get, it's on par with algebra.
The problem with CS today is that it is so dumbed down. It's taught by people who never challenge anything they learn. Tell your teacher that an insertion sort is faster than a quiksort and they'll say that you are wrong and that quiksort is the fastest sort. Rule #1 in CS used to be that nothing could ever be called the fastest, best, or most optimized. That rule no longer exists.
Who cares? This doesn't affect game play
But it does affect game play. You're playing teams with real stats. Someone who's into football will already know how certain players play and can adjust their lineups accordingly.
If you just made up player names and stats you'd have to memorize hundreds of random statistics just to get the same feel for the team as you already do.
I get the feeling that many people here have never played Madden. They all seem to miss the fact that teams *aren't* evenly matched, and that players *aren't* all equal.
it's like the Dragon Book, but that's probably before your time.
I was really sad to see the new Compilers book no longer has a dragon on it.
The dragon book is the only textbook I still have from college.
david cross rules.
oh no! What will I do? I won't be able to buy a crappy MadCatz controller for the xbox360!
I don't think it's a bad move on MS's part. 3rd party accessories have always been awful. It's especially frustrating when you want to go buy an xbox live headset and all the 1st party versions are sold out and the only thing left is a really horrible speakerphone made by Bob's Bargain XBox Stuff.
Crappy 3rd party accessories reflect badly on the console as a whole. A little bit of quality assurance is a good thing.
The heat sucks but hey it's a tradeoff.
I think that's actually the cause of us not having DST.
Supposedly having an extra hour of daylight after you get home from work conserves energy because you won't have to turn on the lights. In Arizona, an extra hour of daylight after work means the AC is working hard for an extra hour.
In fact, now that AC is common, they should redo the studies. I think having lights on or off is a drop in the bucket compared to turning the AC up for an extra hour.
the Playstation was released in 1995 and is still sold in stores, so it has a "10 year lifecycle"
No, it has a 10 year lifespan. It's lifecycle ended when the PS2 was released.
Sony is literally saying that the PS3 is going to be it for the next 10 years. PS4 will be due in 2016
For anyone who is thinking of grabbing the OS X version, please note that like OpenOffice, InkScape is using X11 to render its display.
Well, if Apple didn't make it damn-near impossible for C and C++ apps to use Aqua, then maybe more cross-platform apps would use it.
As it is, you'll have to rewrite a good chunk of Inkscape in ObjC in order to use Aqua.
I recently built a computer for home (AMD64), and was disappointed in the noise level.
Mine was too.. it turned out that the stock cpu fan didn't really fit tightly enough. If you put your finger on the heatsink the noise stops completely.. it's because the sound is the heatsink/fan rattling.
The AMD64 fans have a little lever that is used to clamp it down, I was able to tweak it so it was tighter.. elminitated all noise, now there's just a very very quiet "whoosh" sound.
Well I just compared Comis Sans MS in OpenOffice to the font used on Penny Arcade. They have some similarities, but they seem to be different fonts, and in my opinion the PA one is definitely the better.
No, they're identical. The difference you are seeing is caused by the hinting. Don't forget that gabe draws it *huge*. Compare it with a 60pt comic sans that's been rasterized and *then* scaled down.
but it's HTTP itself that doesn't provide a mechanism for logging out users, it's not Apache's fault.
It's actually the browser's fault. You are never really "logged in". The browser sends your username and password in the headers of *every* request for the appropriate basepath.
A "logout" would be browser side, just stop attaching the username/pass to the header.
I suppose you could put something in the protocol where apache would reply with a "login expired" or something... but it's really up to the browser.
What's worse is that some people actually use Comic Sans to letter comic books.
Penny Arcade uses comic sans.. it's a shame.
Then again, Penny Arcade is also drawn in photoshop instead of illustrator. Talk about wrong tool for the job.
Sounds like you hate acroread more than PDFs.
OS X's drag and drop is superior IMHO. Try dragging a file onto an app in XP to open in... eh sorry, no go.
.txt to text files for OSX.
I do this in OSX all the time, for example, usually HTML files open in Safari, but sometimes I want to open them in a text editor, I simply drag the HTML file onto TextEdit! Tada!
Except of course when it doesn't work. Try dragging a file called "README" onto textedit or safari.. it doesn't work. You have to launch textedit or safari and then do an Open. Even worse, drag that README file onto an open safari window and safari will "download" it to your desktop.
I find it ironic that you have to add
Bind your expose to you your window corners.
Arg. I hate that idea. Which corner?
Upper left is the apple menu, upper right is spotlight. Lower right is usually *some* window's resize handle. That leaves lower left. Of course you get the dock popping up whenever you hit the bottom of the screen.
Magic zones of the screen are unintuitive and often get in the way (always accidentally triggered). Especially when dealing with a large, multi-window app like photoshop or flash studio. The dock haunts my ability to shrink a maximized window.
How about focus follows mouse?
God I wish. But focus follows mouse can *never* work on OSX.. because the menubar is outside the window. As you're going to the top of the screen, the menubar will switch out.
I never understood the point of putting the menubar at the very top. People say things like "the edge of the screen is infinitely wide/tall" but it's just not true, and if they'd watch others open a menu (you can't watch yourself because the act of paying attention changes how you do things), they'd see they were wrong.
"Throw" your mouse to the top of the screen. Either you'll "throw" it too hard, you'll abruptly stop the mouse, causing the pointer to literally bounce off the top of the screen (because of the jerking stop of the physical mouse). Or you'll throw it too soft, and the mouse won't make it to the top.
I've always had to put just as much thought and carefulness opening any OSX menu as any linux or windows menu. Except the linux menu is much closer to my current cursor, so I don't have to zip across a mile of screen.
The literal obscurity of the menubar in OSX is directly responsible to the over population of toolbars in apple apps. Look at how cluttered Mail.app's toolbar is (don't even get me started on the fact that the open/close drawer icon is on the opposite side of the window). Apple is turning the toolbar into a menubar.
Now imagine having to fold 5 or more folders. Since Expose can show you all your windows with one action it wins hands down.
If you have 5 or more folders open, expose will not be faster.. because the windows will be so small that you can't tell which one is which just by looking at them (and expose can never seem to put windows in the same places), so you'll have to mouse over each window, pause, wait for the tooltip, continue on.
In 2 years, when Apple adds fold'n'drop windows to 10.5, everyone will be saying how much more productive they are and how innovative apple is.
Small screen? Sure its small. But as said elsewhere in this thread, plug it into your tv. Bam. portable movies.
That would look like crap. The newest iPod's resolution is 160x128. I doubt the iPod has the processing power to decode video at a higher resolution than that (and I don't see why Apple would encode high-res video in the first place if they'd just end up having to downsample for iPod playback).
160x128. I get better resolution on my Palm.
"A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an "undercover agent," saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency's headquarters in Langley and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee.
Amazing that Fred Rustmann knew that considering the fact that he has been retired from the CIA since 1990.
Regardless of the ongoing investigation, his quotes could cut either way
True, which is why he clarified it today.
"In an interview Friday, Wilson said his comment was meant to reflect that his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand."