I sure as hell want a smaller iPod, and TBH the iPod mini still seems too large to me - the difference doesn't appear to be all that big, although I'd like to see it in a store to be able to judge better. Anyway, as some people above have noted, we certainly haven't reached the point where smaller is not better - IMO. Of course you're right in noting that obviously the optimal size is different for everyone. Most flash players are just about right, both in terms of size and usability. I don't need a huge display and games on my MP3 player, I also don't need a clock.
On the other hand, again I agree with you the law of diminishing returns applies: not only in physical size, but also in capacity. I use my current (mini-CD based) player about 2 to 3 hours a day, and it's per-disk capacity of about 240 mb annoys the heck out of me. But still, I have no use for the 15 to 40 gb current HD players offer me - I'd rather have one gigabyte and the ability to move stuff to and from the player easily, especially if that means smaller player size - so I can stuff it into my pants pocket instead of into the jacket's - and of course, a lower price. At 250 bucks, which should be less than 250 Euros to me, but knowing Apple will be more like 300, the iPod mini really doesn't seem to be what I need, as much as I had hoped it to be.
For a desktop (or otherwise interactive, like my media box) system, it really made a major perceived improvement in performance (while *actual* performance wasn't affected; it was just about priorities and scheduling, making it "feel" more responsive).
It doesn't just "feel" more responsive, it is more responsive! It's a matter of definition, but I'd certainly call that an improvement of performance. Taking from the article (or comp.sci classes), while the throughput remains equal - I suppose it's even reduced - the latency is lower, too. Performance is both factors, not just the former.
Well, one of the original reasons for attacking Iraq was that they allegedly had both WMD and the ability to use them against Western countries. Not nuclear weapons, though.
What does "disallow" mean in this context? Other have said, and this seems to be only sensible, that you can't retro-actively relicense a piece of code. If you've given source code out under the GPL, you gave anyone who wants it a license to redistribute the code. You can't just revoke that license. I bet SCO would be happy if you could, though.
Humour aside, www.slashdot.org isn't a web page, http://slashdot.org/index.pl is. Of course, web browser and web server URL rewriting rules make the difference negligible.
I'm not really into this stuff, so I apologize if I miss anything obvious. However, the technology he claims to have used is PHP, a (self-?) modified traceroute and GraphViz. No Java seems to be involved, which would explain why it only takes a day to map it out.;)
IIRC, Hans Reiser said in an interview some time ago that versioning is on his (very long) list of things to implement in ReiserFS when it's done - so he's with you there, saying this should be part of the file system. I sure think it'd have interesting applications!
Actually, I didn't employ a provincial definition of "available", I was just wrong.;) I thought the CL-x series (I think that's what they're called) currently available per import had 320x240 displays like the 5x00 series - apparently I was wrong, which is why I denoted the statement with an "If I recall correctly".
The upcoming model I was thinking of is the Zaurus 6000 which isn't available as of yet, not even per import. It's got a 640x480, but apparently it's not the first Zaurus to sport one.
Actually, the 5x00 series Zaurus models all have a resolution of 320x240 - IIRC that's goes for all Zaurus models available. The upcoming 6000 does have a 640x480 screen.
Win2K's version of NTFS supports directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the computer. For example, if the directory D:\SYMLINK specified C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:\SYMLINK\DRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS. Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Win2K. Unfortunately, Win2K comes with no tools for creating junctions - you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes the linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my own junction-creating tool: Junction. Junction not only allows you to create NTFS junctions, it allows you to see if files or directories are actually reparse points. Reparse points are the mechanism on which NTFS junctions are based, and they are used by Win2K's Remote Storage Service (RSS), as well as volume mount points.
Free download available. Sysinternals rock. Note that I've never tried Junction - I just remembered reading about it when browsing the tools page in the past. Of course, this might be just as broken as SUBST is for you, but then again it sounds like a pretty low-level function.
Great. So you'll get Half-Life 1 as a free bundle. A game everyone who is even remotely interested in FPS has already played to death. That certainly includes everyone who is willing to pay the premium price for a newly introduced graphics card. And what's more, the games' engine is by now so outdated, you might as well use Minesweeper to test your new graphics card's abilities.
The vast majority of servers will be caught by the white-list. The very few who are smart/dumb enough to register on it can easily be handled by the blacklist - and, since assumedly the whitelist registration contains contact information, possibly be held responsible for their spamming.
Pronounciation is hardly a good argument. English spelling does not correlate with English pronounciation in many, many cases - no matter whether you're referring to US or British spelling and speech. And that's not taking into account the various wacky accents both of the regions have brought up. Take it from a student of phonology who had an exam about it a week ago.;)
Bram does have his picture up, it's on the donation page where he asks people to support him. I assume it's a fairly effective means of showing that there is a real person behind the software, trying to make a living.
Huh? Where are those $500,000 from? He said "several thousand dollars", not several hundreds of thousand. That's 2 orders of magnitude off. Not that I'm saying his numbers are correct, I have absolutely no idea (nor interest).
I used to have a second monitor, a 15" one, run from an old PCI card. This was actually quite some time ago, like 4 to 6 years ago. Windows 95B support for two monitors was really quite good as long as you used 2 video cards, current OS don't improve on it by a great deal AFAIK. Anyway, after half a year or so, I decided it really just was a waste of (real world) desktop space and binned the 15" CRT. I did use it for what you say (minus the cheating tools) - I had ICQ open there, and sometimes other auxiliary software. (Incidently, ICQ was a pain because it had a bug remembering window placing on a second display.) So I could read instant messages when I was full-screen gaming at the same time. But that's it really. Sure, I had some system monitor running keeping me completely up-to-date on such pressing issues such as free hard disk space, CPU utilisation and free memory. Not that any of that information was particularily useful, especially in gaming... I do remember playing BG or something like that and being stuck, I had a walkthrough on the second screen, or a guide when generating characters.
At the same time, I had to disable the screen in some games, since they couldn't handle keeping the mouse "prisoned" on the second display. IIRC Half-Life was especially cranky about it - I think it only worked if the auxiliary display was logically to the right of the primary, which sucked because mine was physically to the left. I suppose many but apparently not all games have fixed such issues with multi-head graphics cards becoming more readily available.
Now I'm using a single display. I'm still seeing all incoming IM messages because Miranda IM has a neat plugin that will pop up systray hint boxes that even make it through to full-screen games. That might actually be a bug, but it's a great one. And I have a lot of room to store burned CDs I never use where the 15" CRT used to stand.;)
Would I mind having another display? No, especially not if both were LCDs. I'd probably use them more than back then, because support is better and I might find a use or two in programming and other work-ish stuff. But I'm not feeling very limited without an auxiliary display either. Certainly not enough to be willing to shell out money for one.
...any very high-quality, very high-resolution images yet? I want to, um, memorise it so that I can't be tricked. In fact, why not print a few, let's say, thousands of it on my color laser printer - memorising is so much easier if you don't have to stare at a computer screen!
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I sure as hell want a smaller iPod, and TBH the iPod mini still seems too large to me - the difference doesn't appear to be all that big, although I'd like to see it in a store to be able to judge better. Anyway, as some people above have noted, we certainly haven't reached the point where smaller is not better - IMO. Of course you're right in noting that obviously the optimal size is different for everyone. Most flash players are just about right, both in terms of size and usability. I don't need a huge display and games on my MP3 player, I also don't need a clock.
On the other hand, again I agree with you the law of diminishing returns applies: not only in physical size, but also in capacity. I use my current (mini-CD based) player about 2 to 3 hours a day, and it's per-disk capacity of about 240 mb annoys the heck out of me. But still, I have no use for the 15 to 40 gb current HD players offer me - I'd rather have one gigabyte and the ability to move stuff to and from the player easily, especially if that means smaller player size - so I can stuff it into my pants pocket instead of into the jacket's - and of course, a lower price. At 250 bucks, which should be less than 250 Euros to me, but knowing Apple will be more like 300, the iPod mini really doesn't seem to be what I need, as much as I had hoped it to be.
Well, one of the original reasons for attacking Iraq was that they allegedly had both WMD and the ability to use them against Western countries. Not nuclear weapons, though.
Sue him for copyright infringement! ;)
Oh my god, so that's what NTKnow's headline "goto's considered non-harmful" is imitating. LOL!
Thanks!
Just FYI, Germany is the biggest Western European country and we've got about 80 million people here, so your number is a bit off.
What does "disallow" mean in this context? Other have said, and this seems to be only sensible, that you can't retro-actively relicense a piece of code. If you've given source code out under the GPL, you gave anyone who wants it a license to redistribute the code. You can't just revoke that license. I bet SCO would be happy if you could, though.
Yep, as someone above pointed out - of course, maybe the Warp Pipe author meant "not at all like" when he said "much like". :P
Humour aside, www.slashdot.org isn't a web page, http://slashdot.org/index.pl is. Of course, web browser and web server URL rewriting rules make the difference negligible.
I'm not really into this stuff, so I apologize if I miss anything obvious. However, the technology he claims to have used is PHP, a (self-?) modified traceroute and GraphViz. No Java seems to be involved, which would explain why it only takes a day to map it out. ;)
Verbing weirds language!
I've been using ICQ for years, I get 1 "spim" per month, max. So, basically, none at all. Maybe being invisible most of the time helps.
IIRC, Hans Reiser said in an interview some time ago that versioning is on his (very long) list of things to implement in ReiserFS when it's done - so he's with you there, saying this should be part of the file system. I sure think it'd have interesting applications!
Actually, I didn't employ a provincial definition of "available", I was just wrong. ;) I thought the CL-x series (I think that's what they're called) currently available per import had 320x240 displays like the 5x00 series - apparently I was wrong, which is why I denoted the statement with an "If I recall correctly".
The upcoming model I was thinking of is the Zaurus 6000 which isn't available as of yet, not even per import. It's got a 640x480, but apparently it's not the first Zaurus to sport one.
Actually, the 5x00 series Zaurus models all have a resolution of 320x240 - IIRC that's goes for all Zaurus models available. The upcoming 6000 does have a 640x480 screen.
Free download available. Sysinternals rock. Note that I've never tried Junction - I just remembered reading about it when browsing the tools page in the past. Of course, this might be just as broken as SUBST is for you, but then again it sounds like a pretty low-level function.
Great. So you'll get Half-Life 1 as a free bundle. A game everyone who is even remotely interested in FPS has already played to death. That certainly includes everyone who is willing to pay the premium price for a newly introduced graphics card. And what's more, the games' engine is by now so outdated, you might as well use Minesweeper to test your new graphics card's abilities.
The vast majority of servers will be caught by the white-list. The very few who are smart/dumb enough to register on it can easily be handled by the blacklist - and, since assumedly the whitelist registration contains contact information, possibly be held responsible for their spamming.
Well, then there's at least some chance of a positive outcome!
Pronounciation is hardly a good argument. English spelling does not correlate with English pronounciation in many, many cases - no matter whether you're referring to US or British spelling and speech. And that's not taking into account the various wacky accents both of the regions have brought up. Take it from a student of phonology who had an exam about it a week ago. ;)
Bram does have his picture up, it's on the donation page where he asks people to support him. I assume it's a fairly effective means of showing that there is a real person behind the software, trying to make a living.
Looks normal in Opera 7.20/Win32, and resizes just fine.
Huh? Where are those $500,000 from? He said "several thousand dollars", not several hundreds of thousand. That's 2 orders of magnitude off. Not that I'm saying his numbers are correct, I have absolutely no idea (nor interest).
I used to have a second monitor, a 15" one, run from an old PCI card. This was actually quite some time ago, like 4 to 6 years ago. Windows 95B support for two monitors was really quite good as long as you used 2 video cards, current OS don't improve on it by a great deal AFAIK. Anyway, after half a year or so, I decided it really just was a waste of (real world) desktop space and binned the 15" CRT.
;)
I did use it for what you say (minus the cheating tools) - I had ICQ open there, and sometimes other auxiliary software. (Incidently, ICQ was a pain because it had a bug remembering window placing on a second display.) So I could read instant messages when I was full-screen gaming at the same time. But that's it really. Sure, I had some system monitor running keeping me completely up-to-date on such pressing issues such as free hard disk space, CPU utilisation and free memory. Not that any of that information was particularily useful, especially in gaming... I do remember playing BG or something like that and being stuck, I had a walkthrough on the second screen, or a guide when generating characters.
At the same time, I had to disable the screen in some games, since they couldn't handle keeping the mouse "prisoned" on the second display. IIRC Half-Life was especially cranky about it - I think it only worked if the auxiliary display was logically to the right of the primary, which sucked because mine was physically to the left. I suppose many but apparently not all games have fixed such issues with multi-head graphics cards becoming more readily available.
Now I'm using a single display. I'm still seeing all incoming IM messages because Miranda IM has a neat plugin that will pop up systray hint boxes that even make it through to full-screen games. That might actually be a bug, but it's a great one. And I have a lot of room to store burned CDs I never use where the 15" CRT used to stand.
Would I mind having another display? No, especially not if both were LCDs. I'd probably use them more than back then, because support is better and I might find a use or two in programming and other work-ish stuff. But I'm not feeling very limited without an auxiliary display either. Certainly not enough to be willing to shell out money for one.
...any very high-quality, very high-resolution images yet? I want to, um, memorise it so that I can't be tricked. In fact, why not print a few, let's say, thousands of it on my color laser printer - memorising is so much easier if you don't have to stare at a computer screen!