I'm actually curious, and this is an actual question (not a troll), so I'll ask again: is the reason that we don't hear so much of nasa's successes because they're so common that they're not news worthy, or because there aren't any?
with any luck future devices won't be crippled with silly formats no one uses.
Going by the summary alone, I'd think that sony had supported MP3 and were now taking the intelligent route of dropping it (no other format was mentioned)... Curse you, editors; making me RTFM to find out what it was about >:(
It seems that every couple of weeks we hear that NASA or one of the other space organisations has managed to screw something up -- one wonders; is this because they have so many other successes that they're not news worthy, or because they have no successes at all?
jpeg2000 can get regular jpeg quality in sometimes 1/10th of the filesize; and has a lossless mode should that be wanted, in which it's lossless is about half the filesize of lossless.png. It's patented, but the people who've got the patent are saying they won't charge people to use it.
btlaunchmanycurses, downloading 15 files in small chunks: ~30MB
btdownloadcurses, downloading a single file in 4MB chunks: ~300MB
Based off numbers like that, and other random probing, I'd think that number of currently downloading chunks * chunk size is much more of a consideration than the GUI
All the replies so far seem to be talking about how the posters have been affected by gaming - so how come whenever a story comes up linking too much gaming with something bad we all jump on the "all sane people can keep games and reality separate" argument?
The jesusonic runs embedded linux and has linux software, assniffer works on linux, as do several other tools. Loads of nullsoft's misc software is only windows-only because only windows needs it (eg screen res changer - X has it built in), and most of the stuff is open source should you feel like porting parts of it - doing a windows port of major software is necessary due to it being the most popular platform, but he and nullsoft seem to be quite happy to do cross platform wherever it's feasable to do so
Which reminds me - WTF is up with tux racer? Q3A runs fine, Blender runs fine, everything that requests acceleration gets it.. apart from tux racer, which is still at 1FPS or so, wha?
Re:LOL, "familiarize new users"
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please don't reply to the parent post with how you know a newbie who used knoppix to try out linux; every rule has exceptions.
Sounds a lot like "Please don't argue against me, I know I'm wrong"
If I were to say I knew *a* newbie who used knoppix I may be proving your point, but in my case I've found that the *majority* of knoppix users are newbies - a majority is rarely the exception side in the rule vs exception debate
Re:LOL, "familiarize new users"
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And all the people who know said nerd, or have seen said nerd's screen and been curious; and people on various forums who've heard about linux but don't want to do risky partitioning and such. 90%+ of people who I know who've used knoppix could be considered noobs who'd be interested in this. Your statement reeks of your parent's basement:P
If you knew how they code stuff as simple as games, would you still trust them with a whole OS?
(Not that I'm saying MS internal code is bad - it's just that shame is a plausible reason to hide it; hell, even if it was good overall they'd still take a reputation hit for a single bug)
Re:The answer is simpler than that...
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I'm sure there's a joke about distributed networking and elves... but it's 6:30am and I have yet to sleep, so I'll just hope my notice reminds someone else to post it:|
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I'm actually curious, and this is an actual question (not a troll), so I'll ask again: is the reason that we don't hear so much of nasa's successes because they're so common that they're not news worthy, or because there aren't any?
with any luck future devices won't be crippled with silly formats no one uses.
Going by the summary alone, I'd think that sony had supported MP3 and were now taking the intelligent route of dropping it (no other format was mentioned)... Curse you, editors; making me RTFM to find out what it was about >:(
It seems that every couple of weeks we hear that NASA or one of the other space organisations has managed to screw something up -- one wonders; is this because they have so many other successes that they're not news worthy, or because they have no successes at all?
Is it a criminal offence to break or attempt to break the copy protection (rot26) on digital content such as this post?
It seems that most of these products being advertised are the big business equivalent of covering your server in go-faster stripes...
jpeg2000 can get regular jpeg quality in sometimes 1/10th of the filesize; and has a lossless mode should that be wanted, in which it's lossless is about half the filesize of lossless .png. It's patented, but the people who've got the patent are saying they won't charge people to use it.
If sites switched to better compressed image formats, they'd be more resistant to the slashdot effect :)
btdownloadcurses, downloading a single file in 4MB chunks: ~300MB
Based off numbers like that, and other random probing, I'd think that number of currently downloading chunks * chunk size is much more of a consideration than the GUI
The point isn't that each node has it's own individual tracker optionally available, but each node is part of a distributed net of trackers
All the replies so far seem to be talking about how the posters have been affected by gaming - so how come whenever a story comes up linking too much gaming with something bad we all jump on the "all sane people can keep games and reality separate" argument?
No, you need a vacation -- from slashdot. Come back when you're a nerd :P
a b - a pair of cameras in some storage place, and you can get them to point at eachother :D
With the exception of the latest games, my 200MHz desktop is still doing all I need quite happily...
The jesusonic runs embedded linux and has linux software, assniffer works on linux, as do several other tools. Loads of nullsoft's misc software is only windows-only because only windows needs it (eg screen res changer - X has it built in), and most of the stuff is open source should you feel like porting parts of it - doing a windows port of major software is necessary due to it being the most popular platform, but he and nullsoft seem to be quite happy to do cross platform wherever it's feasable to do so
Which, now that I think of it, could have several different meanings o_O
One thinks you haven't spent enough time on slashdot - the "OS" part of the name obviously expands to "Cock Operating System"
Which reminds me - WTF is up with tux racer? Q3A runs fine, Blender runs fine, everything that requests acceleration gets it.. apart from tux racer, which is still at 1FPS or so, wha?
Sounds a lot like "Please don't argue against me, I know I'm wrong"
If I were to say I knew *a* newbie who used knoppix I may be proving your point, but in my case I've found that the *majority* of knoppix users are newbies - a majority is rarely the exception side in the rule vs exception debate
And all the people who know said nerd, or have seen said nerd's screen and been curious; and people on various forums who've heard about linux but don't want to do risky partitioning and such. 90%+ of people who I know who've used knoppix could be considered noobs who'd be interested in this. Your statement reeks of your parent's basement :P
It's an FPS - you shoot things. What features does any FPS have that could be considered new?
(Yes, despite all the news, I still think of quake as the game...)
If you knew how they code stuff as simple as games, would you still trust them with a whole OS?
(Not that I'm saying MS internal code is bad - it's just that shame is a plausible reason to hide it; hell, even if it was good overall they'd still take a reputation hit for a single bug)
I'm sure there's a joke about distributed networking and elves... but it's 6:30am and I have yet to sleep, so I'll just hope my notice reminds someone else to post it :|
Also, it doesn't block out incorrectly spelled rude words, eg "fuking" :)
1) typing in "arses " autocompletes with "of fire" XD :0
2) It autocompletes whole phrases