I'm a 23 year old programmer, and I already have bad carpal tunnel in my right arm, and sorta bad in my left. I was so bad that I'd get tingling and a dull pain in my wrist after 15 minutes of computer use.
I say "had" because sometime around March I bought one of the 3M Ergonomic Mice. It was the best $50 I ever spent. The mouse is shaped like a joystick and has 3 buttons. It was hard to aim at first, but after a week I was back to 90% accuracy. (100% after 2 weeks). After adjusting I can play FPS games at my old skill level.
I started a new job in May, and I used an old-style mouse. After a month the pain came back, and I got my employer to purchase me one for work.
I can now use a computer all day, and have no pain at all in my wrist! I now look forward to a lifetime of happy mousing!
I just drove from Detroit to Minneapolis. I compared the directions Mapquest gave to Google's. Google's directions were 50 miles longer, but 15 minutes quicker. This shouldn't be possible because the roads it chose differently have the same speed limit.
I love Google's interface for exploring the maps, but for printing Mapquest still wins. Mapquest uses pictures indicating the highways and turns. Mapquest also keeps the distance in seperate columns. Much easier to read when you're flying down the highway at 80mph.
You'd think hardware manufacturers would make dev kits that make it easy to make games. That way games could be produced faster, hence cheaper.
I remember talk of Nintendo's kit that they used to build Wind Waker and FF:Crystal Chronicles. They were supposed to be able to build games in under a year with it. Anyone know if it is working?
Also, the recently resigned Nintendo president set up some sort of fund to help pay for games:
Where did all the blood go? Characters need to explode with blood like water balloons! They need to bleed whenever I'm looking at them! And the blood should stay there.
These computers all look nice, but I'm dissappointed that every one of them has legacy ports on them.
They can get rid of serial, ps/2, and parallel at the very least. I like how some of them are using slimline cd/dvd drives. Anything to make them smaller.
The smller machines usually have 1 pci slot. I wish they dumped that and dropped in an agp slot instead. Everything I used pci for in the past is now being done with usb. I can live without it now.
I got the linux demo from gamer's hell at like 150k/s.
Its a pretty fun game, except that every time I get killed and respawn, the mouse is all screwed up so the screen spins like mad. Also when I try to quit the game just hangs there and I have to manually kill it.
I'll try it again in a week or so, hopefully those issues will be sorted out quickly.
Now if somebody will please tell me how to detect the eject button in software, I will try to make an AmigaOS-like implementation for Linux. I also need to know how to detect that a disc was inserted.
Well, I wrote a program the detects when a disc was inserted (even what
type of media). It's at http://ericlathrop.com/cdde/
The hard part is the eject button. At this point I'm fairly convinced that there actually is no way to detect when the eject button was pressed. What linux does is when you mount a CD it locks the CDROM drive tray so the button is unresponsive. Windows leaves it unlocked which has the unfortunate side-effect of having the filesystem being ripped out from under you. I'm guessing that Windows just polls the CDROM drive while it's in use, and if it gets a "My tray is open" message it goes into damage control mode and sends a bunch of I/O errors to any programs using anything that was on the CD.
I think all it would take to make it work like this in linux is a kernel patch that:
makes the CDROM driver not lock the tray
forcibly unmounts whatever filesystem was mounted from the CD
sends out I/O errors to any programs using the now unmounted part of the filesystem
Sure programs would crash at first, but they'd get patched eventually and we'd all get a OS that listens to us when we push the button.
I went over to secondlife.com to see if it mentioned anything about linux support and the page goes into a redirection loop. I guess they only viewed their page in IE.
Like sharing linux ISO's, movie trailers, or the censored penny-arcade strip. Plus more people will let you download stuff from them if you are sharing stuff as well.
Umm, the Verizon case isn't about whether or not file-sharing programs are illegal. Its about some people who committed copyright infringement, and the RIAA wants their names. This decision doesn't change anything for the Verizon case.
I know that personally when trying out a new open source app, that if I can't figure out how to make it do what I want within, say, 30 seconds, I discard it and head back over to freshmeat to find something else.
In the last hour I discovered that internet radio rocks. I always knew it was there, but I never tried searching to hard because sites like mp3.com turned me off with all the hoops you have to jump through, (cookies, registration) or software incompatability (i.e. you're not running windows).
Reading these posts I compiled a list of sites that work under my strict conditions: xmms, mozilla, no cookies, no logins, no cost.
Here's my list:
epitonic.com
cdbaby.com
soundclick.com
artistlaunch.com
If you know of more please let me know.
Slashdot Mirror
Summary of workaround for WinXP:
start->run->gpedit.msc
Navigate to:
Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Application Compatibility -> Prevent access to 16-bit applications
Select "enable".
I'm a 23 year old programmer, and I already have bad carpal tunnel in my right arm, and sorta bad in my left. I was so bad that I'd get tingling and a dull pain in my wrist after 15 minutes of computer use.
I say "had" because sometime around March I bought one of the 3M Ergonomic Mice. It was the best $50 I ever spent. The mouse is shaped like a joystick and has 3 buttons. It was hard to aim at first, but after a week I was back to 90% accuracy. (100% after 2 weeks). After adjusting I can play FPS games at my old skill level.
I started a new job in May, and I used an old-style mouse. After a month the pain came back, and I got my employer to purchase me one for work.
I can now use a computer all day, and have no pain at all in my wrist! I now look forward to a lifetime of happy mousing!
We usually play some Texas Hold'em or Euchre depending on the number of people around.
(I know it's beta)
I just drove from Detroit to Minneapolis. I compared the directions Mapquest gave to Google's. Google's directions were 50 miles longer, but 15 minutes quicker. This shouldn't be possible because the roads it chose differently have the same speed limit.
I love Google's interface for exploring the maps, but for printing Mapquest still wins. Mapquest uses pictures indicating the highways and turns. Mapquest also keeps the distance in seperate columns. Much easier to read when you're flying down the highway at 80mph.
Headline should read:
'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled!
Archive.org's Election 2004 section has nice quality videos of all the debates. You can get them at fairly high speeds, too.
You'd think hardware manufacturers would make dev kits that make it easy to make games. That way games could be produced faster, hence cheaper.
I remember talk of Nintendo's kit that they used to build Wind Waker and FF:Crystal Chronicles. They were supposed to be able to build games in under a year with it. Anyone know if it is working?
Also, the recently resigned Nintendo president set up some sort of fund to help pay for games:
As reported last year, Yamauchi-san announced plans to establish a game development fund in Japan. Thereby, Yamauchi-san will invest venture capital into budding game developers and related visionaries.
If they ever do decide to release the Phantom (not likely), all this negative press is likely to harm sales similar to what happened with the N-Gage.
Where did all the blood go? Characters need to explode with blood like water balloons! They need to bleed whenever I'm looking at them! And the blood should stay there.
These computers all look nice, but I'm dissappointed that every one of them has legacy ports on them.
They can get rid of serial, ps/2, and parallel at the very least. I like how some of them are using slimline cd/dvd drives. Anything to make them smaller.
The smller machines usually have 1 pci slot. I wish they dumped that and dropped in an agp slot instead. Everything I used pci for in the past is now being done with usb. I can live without it now.
Some of the things you mentioned are in there, namely data, time, and sliders (range). The last link details it.
Thanks a million! I'm running LFS, not gentoo. I always wondered what DGA did. It was always commented on every linux box I've seen.
I got the linux demo from gamer's hell at like 150k/s. Its a pretty fun game, except that every time I get killed and respawn, the mouse is all screwed up so the screen spins like mad. Also when I try to quit the game just hangs there and I have to manually kill it. I'll try it again in a week or so, hopefully those issues will be sorted out quickly.
Well, I wrote a program the detects when a disc was inserted (even what type of media). It's at http://ericlathrop.com/cdde/
The hard part is the eject button. At this point I'm fairly convinced that there actually is no way to detect when the eject button was pressed. What linux does is when you mount a CD it locks the CDROM drive tray so the button is unresponsive. Windows leaves it unlocked which has the unfortunate side-effect of having the filesystem being ripped out from under you. I'm guessing that Windows just polls the CDROM drive while it's in use, and if it gets a "My tray is open" message it goes into damage control mode and sends a bunch of I/O errors to any programs using anything that was on the CD.
I think all it would take to make it work like this in linux is a kernel patch that:
Sure programs would crash at first, but they'd get patched eventually and we'd all get a OS that listens to us when we push the button.
I went over to secondlife.com to see if it mentioned anything about linux support and the page goes into a redirection loop. I guess they only viewed their page in IE.
Well, what about a five part trilogy? That's exactly what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is.
Like sharing linux ISO's, movie trailers, or the censored penny-arcade strip. Plus more people will let you download stuff from them if you are sharing stuff as well.
Umm, the Verizon case isn't about whether or not file-sharing programs are illegal. Its about some people who committed copyright infringement, and the RIAA wants their names. This decision doesn't change anything for the Verizon case.
Definitely.
I know that personally when trying out a new open source app, that if I can't figure out how to make it do what I want within, say, 30 seconds, I discard it and head back over to freshmeat to find something else.
What's she up to now?
In the last hour I discovered that internet radio rocks. I always knew it was there, but I never tried searching to hard because sites like mp3.com turned me off with all the hoops you have to jump through, (cookies, registration) or software incompatability (i.e. you're not running windows). Reading these posts I compiled a list of sites that work under my strict conditions: xmms, mozilla, no cookies, no logins, no cost. Here's my list: epitonic.com cdbaby.com soundclick.com artistlaunch.com If you know of more please let me know.