Also read Peter F. Hamiltons 'The Night's Dawn' trilogy. Very good science fiction, with space battles from two to two hundred ships (using orbital mechanics, no less!) and ground battles from two persons to two million (including orbital support).
I have felt[0] the computer illiteracy of the general population in my area (Greece). And I have spent at least 10 hours trying to correctly set up TV-out on an NVidia card - and failed[1]. The rest however was a breeze. But then again, this probably shows how much I value my time:-/
[0] head, meet wall. [1] TV-out works correctly, but will under no circumstances remove the black border around the picture.
I did. apt-get install mythtv (and myth-weather, and myth-video, etc). The only problem I had was that I live in Greece and had to write a screen-scraper to get TV-guide information. Worked flawlessly the first time.
No, it's funnier when you realize that Graffe is an EverQuest site; puts all those 'Oh, *that's* why we lost you for the last X months' comments in perspective.
Keep in mind that heart, intestines and movement muscles are made of separate types of muscle tissue. This baby had only defective smooth muscles, or it's intestines, therefore if it recovers from the surgery it should not have any problems besides the side-effects of the immunosuppresant drugs.
Ermm... You *did* know that on Linux and most *BSD's a context switch between two processes is faster than a context switch between two threads (of the same process) in Windows.
The real reason that X11 is seen as slow or laggy is that window resizing/moving leaves a trail of damaged window contents that are momentarily visible to the user. Solving this problem is non-trivial, as it requires either global transactional-like synchronization or aggresive buffering, like the recent reseach into translucent windows has required.
(-1, Uninformed) Bzzzzt. The X11 protocol is asynchronous and chached, meaning that 1) several-to-many operations are usually aggregated to one message to the X server and 2) on a HT or dual-cpu machine the client and server can run concurrently.
High contrast ratios are absolutely essential for film/movies, because a) black is blacker and b) you can display much more detailed shadows because they are no longer just black regions on the screen.
I'm the (proud?) owner of a P800 for the last year.
Opera over GPRS is *great*, but some sites will not look good on that small a screen no matter what you do. The handwriting recognition is very good to excellent depending on the size of letters you usually write. The built-in email client is good but nothing special, as it is built as an extension to the SMS tools, however it handles multiple receivers and attachments very good. The calendaring and addressbook tools are of high quality.
The touch-screen is from high quality materials but it can and will be scratched eventually by the stylus. I have cut transparency film and used it as a screen protector, but it will have too many scratches after a week (and no, I'm not writing novels on the thing, neither do I have a heavy hand).
Other negatives are the support: 15 Euros for an OS upgrade (which will wipe out your settings/files) and 44 Euros for replacing the front door! Also, the P800 will need backing up to a PC here and now; I had my contact list (and only my contact list) erased twice by a bug in the OS. Pity that they can't SyncML all the files from the phone..
All in all I would not recommend the P800 for the use the original author described.
Ahhh, yes, but the beauty of the Eclipse way is the discoverability: you can learn just-in-time.
I find that after a time I use autocompletion a lot simply because pressing ctrl-space on unique prefixes is faster than typing the whole thing out by hand (and get the ultra-annoying typo once in a while).
Operator overloading... makes your code harder to understand and less maintainable for everyone else.
The problem is that lots of people don't understand that in C++ you actually extend the language to handle your problem domain better. This is the reason why you will almost always need more time reading the code of a C++ library than f.e. one written in Java. However, writing such language extensions the right way is hard, and these features of the language are supposed to make programming easier, right?
Contrast may matter a bit, but 350:1 is enough. Remember that 8-bit per channel video limits the output anyway. I smell marketing.
Remember that the 350:1 is a linear comparison, whereas the eye perceives brightness using a logarithmic-lice scale; this is the reason why gamma correction seems to enhance an image better than contrast adjustment.
IANAGL, but I have a friend whou is. You have to understand that precedent in court does not count as much here in Greece as in the US. This has good and bad side-effects: the good is that a judge's vedrict is not a law (and really, if it is, how do you cancel it?), and the bad is that bad laws have to get all the way to the lawmakers to get cancelled or amended, which takes time.
And don't get me started on the police, they're a joke...
Humm... I have a multimedia keyboard on the PS/2 port and some keys make the kernel print a message and not forwading the keypress to X. Should I send info to you?
OnTopic: I'm hoping they've fixed BTTV support, module works just fine on 2.6.0, causes a modprobe segfault and OOPS on 2.6.2 (and will kill init when compiled in....). Yeah, I have an old Miro PCTV card.....
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I never understood how some people cannot tell the difference between these two. They actually sound different!
Ummm... No. Appeals are made by all medium-to-large corporations that lose a case. Just for the principle of it.
Also read Peter F. Hamiltons 'The Night's Dawn' trilogy. Very good science fiction, with space battles from two to two hundred ships (using orbital mechanics, no less!) and ground battles from two persons to two million (including orbital support).
Interpsersed in 3600 pages.
Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.
I have felt[0] the computer illiteracy of the general population in my area (Greece). And I have spent at least 10 hours trying to correctly set up TV-out on an NVidia card - and failed[1]. The rest however was a breeze. But then again, this probably shows how much I value my time :-/
[0] head, meet wall.
[1] TV-out works correctly, but will under no circumstances remove the black border around the picture.
I did. apt-get install mythtv (and myth-weather, and myth-video, etc). The only problem I had was that I live in Greece and had to write a screen-scraper to get TV-guide information. Worked flawlessly the first time.
No, it's funnier when you realize that Graffe is an EverQuest site; puts all those 'Oh, *that's* why we lost you for the last X months' comments in perspective.
Keep in mind that heart, intestines and movement muscles are made of separate types of muscle tissue. This baby had only defective smooth muscles, or it's intestines, therefore if it recovers from the surgery it should not have any problems besides the side-effects of the immunosuppresant drugs.
Ermm... You *did* know that on Linux and most *BSD's a context switch between two processes is faster than a context switch between two threads (of the same process) in Windows.
The real reason that X11 is seen as slow or laggy is that window resizing/moving leaves a trail of damaged window contents that are momentarily visible to the user. Solving this problem is non-trivial, as it requires either global transactional-like synchronization or aggresive buffering, like the recent reseach into translucent windows has required.
(-1, Uninformed) Bzzzzt. The X11 protocol is asynchronous and chached, meaning that 1) several-to-many operations are usually aggregated to one message to the X server and 2) on a HT or dual-cpu machine the client and server can run concurrently.
It's about US$19000. And Greece will no longer offer cheap holidays - prices have been steadily rising since we've changed to the euro.
*chuckle* Well here in Greece, I am considered well off with my 16k Euros/Yr (Gross)...
High contrast ratios are absolutely essential for film/movies, because a) black is blacker and b) you can display much more detailed shadows because they are no longer just black regions on the screen.
I'm the (proud?) owner of a P800 for the last year.
Opera over GPRS is *great*, but some sites will not look good on that small a screen no matter what you do. The handwriting recognition is very good to excellent depending on the size of letters you usually write. The built-in email client is good but nothing special, as it is built as an extension to the SMS tools, however it handles multiple receivers and attachments very good. The calendaring and addressbook tools are of high quality.
The touch-screen is from high quality materials but it can and will be scratched eventually by the stylus. I have cut transparency film and used it as a screen protector, but it will have too many scratches after a week (and no, I'm not writing novels on the thing, neither do I have a heavy hand).
Other negatives are the support: 15 Euros for an OS upgrade (which will wipe out your settings/files) and 44 Euros for replacing the front door! Also, the P800 will need backing up to a PC here and now; I had my contact list (and only my contact list) erased twice by a bug in the OS. Pity that they can't SyncML all the files from the phone..
All in all I would not recommend the P800 for the use the original author described.
Ahhh, yes, but the beauty of the Eclipse way is the discoverability: you can learn just-in-time.
I find that after a time I use autocompletion a lot simply because pressing ctrl-space on unique prefixes is faster than typing the whole thing out by hand (and get the ultra-annoying typo once in a while).
Remember that the 350:1 is a linear comparison, whereas the eye perceives brightness using a logarithmic-lice scale; this is the reason why gamma correction seems to enhance an image better than contrast adjustment.
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog -- Steve Taylor, 1998
Oh please....
1) Open Mozilla Mail.
2) Select a message
3) Press '1' (or '2' up to '5').
4) Profit!
At the time of writing, Audacity 1.1.99pre3 is in Debian sid(unstable).
IANAGL, but I have a friend whou is. You have to understand that precedent in court does not count as much here in Greece as in the US. This has good and bad side-effects: the good is that a judge's vedrict is not a law (and really, if it is, how do you cancel it?), and the bad is that bad laws have to get all the way to the lawmakers to get cancelled or amended, which takes time.
And don't get me started on the police, they're a joke...
Actually they say that for them, XP has worked very well, except for the non-coding bits.
Duh.
Humm... I have a multimedia keyboard on the PS/2 port and some keys make the kernel print a message and not forwading the keypress to X. Should I send info to you?
....). Yeah, I have an old Miro PCTV card.....
OnTopic: I'm hoping they've fixed BTTV support, module works just fine on 2.6.0, causes a modprobe segfault and OOPS on 2.6.2 (and will kill init when compiled in
It's a strange attractor.....
Will you accept 'It enhances your curves'?
This is off-topic, But I've said this and no harm has come, mainly because of the delivery.