I've gotten used to playing games with the xbox controller. It works great for playing any emulator and I've used it with GTA:VC for the PC and Midnight Club 2 for PC also (not to mention on the Xbox). All you need is an xbox controller, an xbox extension cable, and a usb cable. Strip the cover off the extension and usb cables and match up all the wires. The xbox has one extra wire that won't match up with the usb but other than that it's a pretty straightforward hack.
Once you have the cable made, you just have to locate the driver for the xbox controller (I had a hard time finding it... can't think of the link right now - anyone want to post it here?) and voila! A usb xbox controller. If you've got a memory card for the xbox i think it shows up as a removeable drive since the xbox controller has a usb hub built-in.
Of course, you could probably save some $ and pick up some el cheapo PC controller... but it's not quite as cool as using an xbox controller to play some mario kart 64 on your PC.
The idea behind Expose is to handle your program switching graphically as opposed to with text (although text labels are still shown). With some people, they're more quick to recognize items based on their color and shape rather than a text label. Expose takes this idea and applies it to the desktop. Move your mouse in a certain corner or press a key combination and all active windows are shrunk down to a size where they can all be displayed, still showing the content within the program (Quartz Extreme rocks). Move your mouse into another corner and all of the windows within the active application (i.e. your 15 Safari windows only) shrink down to a size where you can see all of them. Move to another corner and all windows fly away and you have instant access to whatever's on your desktop. It is truly something to experience rather than read about. After using it for 30 seconds you will wish Windows could do it.
As far as the 'order' of the windows, instead of following a specific order of "which one opened first?", Expose appears to move the windows based more on their current size and position than anything else. This makes the experience more visually pleasing IMO than keeping a strict order and moving and sizing windows based on that.
Please note:
The iPods do support the "sound check" feature from iTunes, but that does not == on-the-fly normalization (if that's in fact what the Zen does). To use the sound check feature in iTunes, you have to first set the preference and then let it go through your music library applying the sound check tags (or however it's done) so that way the iPod will simply read the settings when the sound check setting is enabled.
How can this be considered a PowerBook killer when it has no DVD-R option, and EXTERNAL DVD/CD-RW drives as the only possibility for burning cd's?
Sure it looks small and light, but the 12" PowerBook has a hell of a lot crammed into it's small package, which is more than I can say for this Dell.
If that's the case maybe the Architect was watching the previous Neo's reactions and up until that point, they had all been so similar that they look like the same image?
Anyone else notice how in the 1st movie, in the scene where Smith & Neo meet for the first time and Neo is being interrogated by the Agents, the shot is zooming in on what appears to be a screen with a white border around it almost as if it was from the perspective of someone (*cough* Architect?) watching this happen on screen. Go back and watch the scene to see it for yourself.
Expensive AND Impractical?? Where do I sign up? I might be able to finally one-up all of those 'ballers' with their giant SUV's and bling-bling 24" rims! HOLLA!
And for all you VW fans out there:
That Prius hybrid rally car may have participated and finished the rally race... But look who won(note: the author realizes that these cars may not have raced in the same rally, not to detract from the point).
"Golf TDI Wins SCCA ProRally Championship"
(production class... straight from the showroom floor plus the required modifications to participate in the SCCA ProRally) For those of you who may not know, this is the first diesel engine ever to win the SCCA ProRally production class. This special TDI ran on new biodiesel fuel that is made from regular diesel and renewable diesel fuel distilled from soybeans (Motorsportvorex.com).
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I've gotten used to playing games with the xbox controller. It works great for playing any emulator and I've used it with GTA:VC for the PC and Midnight Club 2 for PC also (not to mention on the Xbox). All you need is an xbox controller, an xbox extension cable, and a usb cable. Strip the cover off the extension and usb cables and match up all the wires. The xbox has one extra wire that won't match up with the usb but other than that it's a pretty straightforward hack.
Once you have the cable made, you just have to locate the driver for the xbox controller (I had a hard time finding it... can't think of the link right now - anyone want to post it here?) and voila! A usb xbox controller. If you've got a memory card for the xbox i think it shows up as a removeable drive since the xbox controller has a usb hub built-in.
Of course, you could probably save some $ and pick up some el cheapo PC controller... but it's not quite as cool as using an xbox controller to play some mario kart 64 on your PC.
The idea behind Expose is to handle your program switching graphically as opposed to with text (although text labels are still shown). With some people, they're more quick to recognize items based on their color and shape rather than a text label. Expose takes this idea and applies it to the desktop. Move your mouse in a certain corner or press a key combination and all active windows are shrunk down to a size where they can all be displayed, still showing the content within the program (Quartz Extreme rocks). Move your mouse into another corner and all of the windows within the active application (i.e. your 15 Safari windows only) shrink down to a size where you can see all of them. Move to another corner and all windows fly away and you have instant access to whatever's on your desktop. It is truly something to experience rather than read about. After using it for 30 seconds you will wish Windows could do it.
As far as the 'order' of the windows, instead of following a specific order of "which one opened first?", Expose appears to move the windows based more on their current size and position than anything else. This makes the experience more visually pleasing IMO than keeping a strict order and moving and sizing windows based on that.
Please note:
The iPods do support the "sound check" feature from iTunes, but that does not == on-the-fly normalization (if that's in fact what the Zen does). To use the sound check feature in iTunes, you have to first set the preference and then let it go through your music library applying the sound check tags (or however it's done) so that way the iPod will simply read the settings when the sound check setting is enabled.
Not exactly on-the-fly, though..
"Thanks to the VDSA (Video Software Dealers Association)...."
Silly me, I would have thought the acronym for Video Software Dealers Association would have been VSDA. Great job, Slashdot editors!
How can this be considered a PowerBook killer when it has no DVD-R option, and EXTERNAL DVD/CD-RW drives as the only possibility for burning cd's? Sure it looks small and light, but the 12" PowerBook has a hell of a lot crammed into it's small package, which is more than I can say for this Dell.
Exactly. Since a hole in the wing is such a minor thing, and all.
If that's the case maybe the Architect was watching the previous Neo's reactions and up until that point, they had all been so similar that they look like the same image?
Anyone else notice how in the 1st movie, in the scene where Smith & Neo meet for the first time and Neo is being interrogated by the Agents, the shot is zooming in on what appears to be a screen with a white border around it almost as if it was from the perspective of someone (*cough* Architect?) watching this happen on screen. Go back and watch the scene to see it for yourself.
Oreillynet.com is certainly gonna pay for their bandwidth today! Yay for a /.'ed 49MB movie still downloading at 150KB/sec.
Their network admin should be proud.
So, what you're saying is that Europe uses the techno-named Symbian OS and we here in the USA came up with BREW? Nice! Bottoms up!
Expensive AND Impractical?? Where do I sign up?
I might be able to finally one-up all of those 'ballers' with their giant SUV's and bling-bling 24" rims! HOLLA!
Here's a pic of the VW TDI throwing up some dirt at the Rim of the World rally in Palmdale, CA
And for all you VW fans out there: That Prius hybrid rally car may have participated and finished the rally race... But look who won(note: the author realizes that these cars may not have raced in the same rally, not to detract from the point).
"Golf TDI Wins SCCA ProRally Championship" (production class... straight from the showroom floor plus the required modifications to participate in the SCCA ProRally) For those of you who may not know, this is the first diesel engine ever to win the SCCA ProRally production class. This special TDI ran on new biodiesel fuel that is made from regular diesel and renewable diesel fuel distilled from soybeans (Motorsportvorex.com).