Close, it's a GNOME less featured crappy version of K3b.
One of the major inefficiencies of having GNOME and KDE as dueling implementations is the poor copies of best in class Linux software they each make of each other. Of course, some of us just install the best from each project instead, and end up with a nice setup.
Oh noes! Over time I get better contrast, faster refresh, and they expect me to PAY FOR IT? The HORROR! This is how the market works.. With commodities it tends to happen that until the market is saturated, prices tend to stay the same, but features get added. Same in the car market, same in computer market, same everywhere.
It's called magnatune. http://www.magnatune.com/
All popular formats are available: MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC and AAC. Play your music on any platform: Windows, Mac and Linux. No copy protection (DRM), ever. You can listen to all the music for free in high or low quality mp3 format with commercial type announcements of what you are listening to. Redownloading is allowed if you provided your email address on purpose. Of course, they don't have "boy-band-of-the-month", but to me that's a feature. If you are into hard rock/metal, electronica, new age, or classical it's definitely worth a look. For pop, not so much, but I'm not really into most of that anyway. For live music, there's lots of free stuff on http://www.archive.org/details/etree to keep you busy for a while. If you're tastes are slightly off the beaten track, there's lots of choices for what you want. For getting overproduced RIAA dreck, you're stuck with iTunes, Amazon, or cd's at the moment..
See rock meet glass. See glass break. Break glass break ! Have you eve tried to break a modern car window? I have, and: 1) it's not easy. It takes a LOT of force to crack the window. 2) You get little pieces of glass with shard edges EVERYWHERE. They're not long jagged pieces like you would get from a non-laminated glass, but they can still cut you up pretty well.
It is possible with the right kind of tools (heavy blow, small area) to crack the window without blasting pieces everywhere, but with a simple rock, that result is not likely.
Shattering a window with a small child in the car is better then letting them cook, but still not a very safe thing to do.
Here's best instructable ever I've ever seen, happens to be on the subject of "How to Make Art".
My wife is a painter and loved it. Be sure to read the alt tags... http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-art./
Excerpt:
A breif history:
Western art has a rich history, arguably dating back to ancient Greece. Of course, since visual artists historically have toiled with their hands, Greeks viewed painters and sculptors as we would today view cabinet makers; skilled laborers. In an attempt to get laid more, eat better and party with the Popes, artists in the renaissance reinterpreted the role of visual artists in antiquity to elevate their position in society. From here, western visual art was kind of like a snowball rolling down a hill of loosely packed snow. In short, it started an avalanch of rationalism that eventually landed upon abstract expressionism (think of a canvas painted white with a slash in it). Three hours later, when we finally dug Jackson Pollock out from under ten feet of packed snow, he was somehow still alive, but very pale and slightly braindead. We now called him Andy Warhol. He, along with a number of other avalanch survivors, created postmodern art. This lead Marshal McLuhan to proclaim:
"Art is anything that you can get away with."
This will be our working definition of art.
Not necessarily.. It is also possible to change settings on a router using UPnP using a malicious flash script... See http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/flash-upnp-attack-faq for details. Most home routers have UPnP turned on, so you're not safe just because you have a good password. I would assume that most 3com gear does not have UPnP, so it is quite likely that you specifically are safe. Of course, anyone with a security clue has been saying UPnP is a BAD idea for a long time, but it used to be client side malware people were worried about, not well formed flash on any webpage...
Yes, the grandparent is complaining that OSS only processes and sends information around! Would only that OSS made my computer crap out ducks singing opera, and fly me to the moon! Seriously though, the strength of OSS is providing better environments to create OSS. Most OSS developers are nerds who are making tools for nerds, which means we end up with a lot of powerful "expert interfaces" and very little end user polish. There's Nothing interesting about the iPhone except end user polish, the very thing coders tend to suck at. So if shiny and shallow interfaces are the criteria, OSS sucks.
You want windows 2000.. Still the best OS for resource constrained users, I own a few copies I use for virtual machines. Much lighter and more responsive then XP, yet has a real kernel unlike 95. The only real benefit to XP is the user switching functionality. If you only have one user on a desktop, or are using VM technology, 2000 still seems preferable to me... Of course, will have to switch my VM's over to something else eventually, since: "All Windows 2000 support including security updates will be terminated on July 13, 2010". Until then, Windows 2000 is the best windows available.. Not that that's saying much;-)
The interesting thing is that his review is lower then the norm on metacritic, but not by all that much.
IGN and EGM, other big reviewers gave it a 70 and 72. 1up, which often has good reviews but inflated scores, gave it a 75.
No reviewers I would consider at all "respectable" gave it higher ratings then that, and many lower.
Gamepro, Gamespy, and Edge Magazine all gave it the SAME score as the GameSpot reviewer.
See the Metacritic page for more details.
From GameSpy:
For everything cool that the game does, from the heightened tension of breaking into a prison to a shootout in a Tokyo nightclub to some amazing chase sequences, it shoots itself in the foot with a terrible cover system, artificial incompetence, and a multiplayer mode that sums up everything that's half-baked about the experience.
From GamePro:
Sure, the gritty atmosphere and balls out gunplay offers up some thrills, and yes the multiplayer options hold some potential but the hard-boiled noir tone and interesting amalgam of varied ideas never truly comes together to form the cohesive action thriller that the game aspires to be.
I'd recommend letting Olimex do it for you.
Spark fun sells nice programmer/dev boards for PICs.
This one has a built in programmer for $27.95, or
This one for $15.95 does not.
Of course, you only need one programmer for multiple projects.
Both the above have serial port and power supply built in, and space for putting your own components in.
If you don't need a serial port, and are comfortable with voltage regulators or have a good bench supply, you need basically nothing in support hardware (besides a programmer), just a proto-board.
My guess? They've been building out the hardware (nothing unusually great in there) for a long time before the software was done, and want to be able to keep working on it until launch day. Therefore, they needed to download the firmware to everyone's cell at the last minute. This would overwhelm AT&T's sucky data network, so apple had you update it through itunes on your own internet connection.
Joel Spolsky is somewhat of a blow hard, but he has some excellent articles.
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code is one of them. It's the absolute bare minimum list of things you REALLY need in a development project.
The Joel Test
1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12. Do you do hallway usability testing?
Read the article for details
The market that is willing to spend $600 on a PS3 is the same market who probably has a HD TV. The market that would rather spend $250 on a game machine is the one that is likely to only have a standard def tv(mine can't even do 480p, 480i only) They really are pointing at different markets.
In a recent report, it was discovered that toilet paper is used by terrorists during training. Free yourselves from the potential dangers of terrorism by burning all your TP!
Yes, I have tried it. However, I don't work in the graphics or numerical space much, and when I do I use pre-optimized libraries like BLAS and ATLAS. I've mostly tried coding things like sorting, searching, parsing and such routines in assembly, with little to no gains. In the programming spaces I work in, researching better algortihms always pays off over better implementations, so that's how I spend my optimization time. For most other people this is true also. There are subsets of programming such as graphics and numerical programming where you will see large benifits to optimizing the implementation even once you have chosen the correct algorithm, but they are definatly not the majority of programs.
That being said, I do program in assembly for program and memory size reasons on microcontrollers, calculators, pdas and such. Significant savings can be had that way. But for general speed reasons, compilers are close enough to what the average programmer would do, such that assembly is usually not a productive use of your time.
Really? According to the shootout, regular expressions are much faster on Ruby then C++ or java.
Most of my web programming spends its time either in database lookup or regex processing, so ruby seems to not be such a bad fit... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.ph p?test=regexdna&lang=all
True, since they can always start with the compiler output, and are thus will at least do no worse. The more interesting question is if a person with only passing familiarity with assembly can do better then the compiler, and the answer to that is usually no these days.
For the cost diferential, you can have redundancy with a few live spares, a testing environment, etc. Like everything else in the biz though, it depends how much in house experience and responsibility you want, versus having someone else to blame. Commodity routers like this unfortunatly don't have the capabilities to reach the high end where the in house expertice is more common. Unfortunatly for these people, exactly what seperates this new router from LEAF, freesco, openwall and the like I'm not sure. This market knitch seems rather full already, but perhaps they can polish the system more then others...
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They're in FreeBSD.
There's more to free unix then Linux you know..
Close, it's a GNOME less featured crappy version of K3b.
One of the major inefficiencies of having GNOME and KDE as dueling implementations is the poor copies of best in class Linux software they each make of each other. Of course, some of us just install the best from each project instead, and end up with a nice setup.
Oh noes! Over time I get better contrast, faster refresh, and they expect me to PAY FOR IT? The HORROR!
This is how the market works.. With commodities it tends to happen that until the market is saturated, prices tend to stay the same, but features get added. Same in the car market, same in computer market, same everywhere.
http://www.magnatune.com/ All popular formats are available: MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC and AAC. Play your music on any platform: Windows, Mac and Linux. No copy protection (DRM), ever. You can listen to all the music for free in high or low quality mp3 format with commercial type announcements of what you are listening to.
Redownloading is allowed if you provided your email address on purpose.
Of course, they don't have "boy-band-of-the-month", but to me that's a feature.
If you are into hard rock/metal, electronica, new age, or classical it's definitely worth a look.
For pop, not so much, but I'm not really into most of that anyway.
For live music, there's lots of free stuff on http://www.archive.org/details/etree to keep you busy for a while.
If you're tastes are slightly off the beaten track, there's lots of choices for what you want. For getting overproduced RIAA dreck, you're stuck with iTunes, Amazon, or cd's at the moment..
I have, and:
1) it's not easy. It takes a LOT of force to crack the window.
2) You get little pieces of glass with shard edges EVERYWHERE. They're not long jagged pieces like you would get from a non-laminated glass, but they can still cut you up pretty well.
It is possible with the right kind of tools (heavy blow, small area) to crack the window without blasting pieces everywhere, but with a simple rock, that result is not likely.
Shattering a window with a small child in the car is better then letting them cook, but still not a very safe thing to do.
My wife is a painter and loved it. Be sure to read the alt tags...
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-art./
Excerpt: A breif history: Western art has a rich history, arguably dating back to ancient Greece. Of course, since visual artists historically have toiled with their hands, Greeks viewed painters and sculptors as we would today view cabinet makers; skilled laborers. In an attempt to get laid more, eat better and party with the Popes, artists in the renaissance reinterpreted the role of visual artists in antiquity to elevate their position in society. From here, western visual art was kind of like a snowball rolling down a hill of loosely packed snow. In short, it started an avalanch of rationalism that eventually landed upon abstract expressionism (think of a canvas painted white with a slash in it). Three hours later, when we finally dug Jackson Pollock out from under ten feet of packed snow, he was somehow still alive, but very pale and slightly braindead. We now called him Andy Warhol. He, along with a number of other avalanch survivors, created postmodern art. This lead Marshal McLuhan to proclaim: "Art is anything that you can get away with." This will be our working definition of art.
Not necessarily..
It is also possible to change settings on a router using UPnP using a malicious flash script...
See http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/flash-upnp-attack-faq for details.
Most home routers have UPnP turned on, so you're not safe just because you have a good password.
I would assume that most 3com gear does not have UPnP, so it is quite likely that you specifically are safe.
Of course, anyone with a security clue has been saying UPnP is a BAD idea for a long time, but it used to be client side malware people were worried about, not well formed flash on any webpage...
Yes, the grandparent is complaining that OSS only processes and sends information around! Would only that OSS made my computer crap out ducks singing opera, and fly me to the moon!
Seriously though, the strength of OSS is providing better environments to create OSS. Most OSS developers are nerds who are making tools for nerds, which means we end up with a lot of powerful "expert interfaces" and very little end user polish.
There's Nothing interesting about the iPhone except end user polish, the very thing coders tend to suck at. So if shiny and shallow interfaces are the criteria, OSS sucks.
You want windows 2000.. Still the best OS for resource constrained users, I own a few copies I use for virtual machines. Much lighter and more responsive then XP, yet has a real kernel unlike 95. ;-)
The only real benefit to XP is the user switching functionality. If you only have one user on a desktop, or are using VM technology, 2000 still seems preferable to me...
Of course, will have to switch my VM's over to something else eventually, since: "All Windows 2000 support including security updates will be terminated on July 13, 2010".
Until then, Windows 2000 is the best windows available.. Not that that's saying much
No reviewers I would consider at all "respectable" gave it higher ratings then that, and many lower. Gamepro, Gamespy, and Edge Magazine all gave it the SAME score as the GameSpot reviewer.
See the Metacritic page for more details.
From GameSpy:
From GamePro:
Spark fun sells nice programmer/dev boards for PICs.
This one has a built in programmer for $27.95, or
This one for $15.95 does not.
Of course, you only need one programmer for multiple projects.
Both the above have serial port and power supply built in, and space for putting your own components in. If you don't need a serial port, and are comfortable with voltage regulators or have a good bench supply, you need basically nothing in support hardware (besides a programmer), just a proto-board.
My guess? They've been building out the hardware (nothing unusually great in there) for a long time before the software was done, and want to be able to keep working on it until launch day. Therefore, they needed to download the firmware to everyone's cell at the last minute. This would overwhelm AT&T's sucky data network, so apple had you update it through itunes on your own internet connection.
The Joel Test
1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12. Do you do hallway usability testing?
Read the article for details
Seems a little cold around here here to be April 1 already....
The market that is willing to spend $600 on a PS3 is the same market who probably has a HD TV. The market that would rather spend $250 on a game machine is the one that is likely to only have a standard def tv(mine can't even do 480p, 480i only)
They really are pointing at different markets.
Unfortunatly, it's swapped out in multiples of 4kB. If you have one byte of used code and 4095 bytes of unused code, it stays in memory anyway.
Congradulations, you invented second life.
Guess what kind of backlight most LCD's have?
Cold cathode fluorescents, just like the ones you use everywehere else, only smaller.
Yes, skype can traverse NAT, but cannot be a supernode for others when it is behind NAT. That is what your parent post was saying.
In a recent report, it was discovered that toilet paper is used by terrorists during training.
Free yourselves from the potential dangers of terrorism by burning all your TP!
Yes, I have tried it. However, I don't work in the graphics or numerical space much, and when I do I use pre-optimized libraries like BLAS and ATLAS. I've mostly tried coding things like sorting, searching, parsing and such routines in assembly, with little to no gains.
In the programming spaces I work in, researching better algortihms always pays off over better implementations, so that's how I spend my optimization time. For most other people this is true also.
There are subsets of programming such as graphics and numerical programming where you will see large benifits to optimizing the implementation even once you have chosen the correct algorithm, but they are definatly not the majority of programs.
That being said, I do program in assembly for program and memory size reasons on microcontrollers, calculators, pdas and such. Significant savings can be had that way. But for general speed reasons, compilers are close enough to what the average programmer would do, such that assembly is usually not a productive use of your time.
Really? According to the shootout, regular expressions are much faster on Ruby then C++ or java.h p?test=regexdna&lang=all
Most of my web programming spends its time either in database lookup or regex processing, so ruby seems to not be such a bad fit...
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.p
True, since they can always start with the compiler output, and are thus will at least do no worse.
The more interesting question is if a person with only passing familiarity with assembly can do better then the compiler, and the answer to that is usually no these days.
For the cost diferential, you can have redundancy with a few live spares, a testing environment, etc.
Like everything else in the biz though, it depends how much in house experience and responsibility you want, versus having someone else to blame.
Commodity routers like this unfortunatly don't have the capabilities to reach the high end where the in house expertice is more common.
Unfortunatly for these people, exactly what seperates this new router from LEAF, freesco, openwall and the like I'm not sure. This market knitch seems rather full already, but perhaps they can polish the system more then others...
They also aren't $400!