I heard somewhere that NASA is using Python for some stuff. Good choice.
You mean this:
"NASA is using Python to implement a CAD/CAE/PDM repository and
model management, integration, and transformation system which will be
the core infrastructure for its next generation collaborative
engineering environment. We chose Python because it provides maximum
productivity, code that's clear and easy to maintain, strong and
extensive (and growing!) libraries, and excellent capabilities for
integration with other applications on any platform. All of these
characteristics are essential for building efficient, flexible,
scalable, and well-integrated systems, which is exactly what we need.
Python has met or exceeded every requirement we've had," said Steve
Waterbury, Software Group Leader, NASA
STEP Testbed.
Who said anything about paying for it? The good thing about this piece of news is that we'll *finally* get DVD-quality DivX rips of the movies on Kazaa.
When was the last time you played a game that was genuinly new and exciting, that could keep your attention for days without getting repetative.
A couple of weeks ago, Metroid Fusion. That game just crushes everything else in the immersion department.
Interestingly, most people say Metroid Prime is the innovative one of the two new Metroid games (because it's in 3D, I assume). To me it does though only feel like a tedious rehash of Super Metroid.
Now Metroid Fusion features some of the best interactive storytelling ever featured in a game, and, behold, the game actually gets better the more times you play through it.
Anyone else feel like innovation in the FPS genre has stagnated since the introduction of Counter-Strike?
Yes. Good thing Doom 3 is coming soon. Perhaps it won't be the most innovative game ever, but it'll probably help inspire other developers to take us away from the awful amount of crappy FPS games with the "realistic" theme.
PNG is lossless by definition. (GIF is also lossless, although only when the source image has 256 or less colors.)
The definition of lossless is that if you take an uncompressed bitmap, compress it with the compression method, and then decompress it, you'll get a file that is identical to the source bitmap, bit by bit. PNG is based on a general-purpose compression method, IIRC the same one that's used in.zip files, so you can (!) use PNG to compress executable files or audio files or whatever, if you just feed them into the encoder as raw images. PNG packs by patterns in the byte structure, and no data is lost.
This is not the case for JPEG. JPEG doesn't compress by the data bits, but reformats the image as an approximation of the source image, based on the redundancy of color values as they appear in the rendered image. A JPEG image cannot be decompressed to an image identical to the source it was generated from. Therefore, JPEG is lossy.
Italy will tax also every music or video recording support (cdr, dvdr, videotapes...) often doubling it's actual street price. it's a tribute of 0.33$ for each hour of music recordable on a cdr, 1$ every 4.7Gb on recordable dvd...
And despite consumers having paid extra money for the stuff, "unauthorized" copying will be as illegal as ever, in fact yet easier to pursue thanks to the EUCD, and made impossible in many cases due to technology restrictions. Sigh.
The formal name of the browser should be (and probably is) Mozilla Firebird or even Mozilla Firebird Browser.
That makes a clear difference from a stand-alone Firebird. Of course, people will say Firebird for ease and comfort, but that's how we do with everything else already.
Who says Microsoft Internet Explorer and not just Internet Explorer or even Explorer? See.
For MIDI composing, I use Cakewalk (Home Studio, old version), paired with a standard Audigy and a couple of free soundfonts in the 100MB range. I'm not quite getting "professional" quality out of it all the time, but it works amazingly well for my needs. See, I'm usually not interested in playing around with sounds, but rather in harmonization and achieving high levels of polyphonic complexity.
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Nah. It says 2010, but M$ claims that it's written in octal later on...
It's totally up to Microsoft to determine how to license their software, and whom to license it to.
Well, not entirely. While I'm not familiar with American law, I doubt they're allowed to, for example, discriminate people depending on their sex or skin color.
Can you imagine the endless possibilities of fun in this? Just imagine two developers disagreeing about a piece of text, then fighting for minutes, one guy typing frenetically to outperform the other guy's continuous backspacing:)
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I had this problem too, it seems that you can fix it by creating a new profile, then deleting the default profile so there's only one left.
I heard somewhere that NASA is using Python for some stuff. Good choice.
You mean this:
"NASA is using Python to implement a CAD/CAE/PDM repository and model management, integration, and transformation system which will be the core infrastructure for its next generation collaborative engineering environment. We chose Python because it provides maximum productivity, code that's clear and easy to maintain, strong and extensive (and growing!) libraries, and excellent capabilities for integration with other applications on any platform. All of these characteristics are essential for building efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated systems, which is exactly what we need. Python has met or exceeded every requirement we've had," said Steve Waterbury, Software Group Leader, NASA STEP Testbed.
From http://www.python.org/Quotes.html.
Back before IRC was the 50,000+ user behemoth that it's become
/me refrains from Dr. Evil joke
There are way over one million IRC users today.
...I thought it was some lame attempt at an Al Gore pun.
when I typed about:mozilla into IE all I got was this blue screen...
...of death?
What the...? That's awful, Stephen King was one of my favorite authors, I can't believe he's gone already :(
Weird that this hasn't come up on anyu news sites too, I mean, this SHOULD freaking have some news value. Damnit I hate mainstream media.
Who said anything about paying for it? The good thing about this piece of news is that we'll *finally* get DVD-quality DivX rips of the movies on Kazaa.
When was the last time you played a game that was genuinly new and exciting, that could keep your attention for days without getting repetative.
A couple of weeks ago, Metroid Fusion. That game just crushes everything else in the immersion department.
Interestingly, most people say Metroid Prime is the innovative one of the two new Metroid games (because it's in 3D, I assume). To me it does though only feel like a tedious rehash of Super Metroid.
Now Metroid Fusion features some of the best interactive storytelling ever featured in a game, and, behold, the game actually gets better the more times you play through it.
It's in Windows NT with MSVC installed, so I'd guess it's the same with a 9x installation of MSVC.
Not to bash Microsoft in general, but the dialog in this screenshot demonstrates incredibly retarded user interface design.
"OK" to terminate the application.
"Cancel" to debug it.
???
And this isn't new either, AFAIK the same dialog has been around since the Windows 9x days.
The NT kernel has gotten much better starting with Win2K and even more so with XP
Sure, but that does not compensate for Windows 98!
So now they are above the law, and can cause a computer to become unstable and crash
Does that mean we can sue Microsoft?
Anyone else feel like innovation in the FPS genre has stagnated since the introduction of Counter-Strike?
Yes. Good thing Doom 3 is coming soon. Perhaps it won't be the most innovative game ever, but it'll probably help inspire other developers to take us away from the awful amount of crappy FPS games with the "realistic" theme.
PNG is lossless by definition. (GIF is also lossless, although only when the source image has 256 or less colors.)
.zip files, so you can (!) use PNG to compress executable files or audio files or whatever, if you just feed them into the encoder as raw images. PNG packs by patterns in the byte structure, and no data is lost.
The definition of lossless is that if you take an uncompressed bitmap, compress it with the compression method, and then decompress it, you'll get a file that is identical to the source bitmap, bit by bit. PNG is based on a general-purpose compression method, IIRC the same one that's used in
This is not the case for JPEG. JPEG doesn't compress by the data bits, but reformats the image as an approximation of the source image, based on the redundancy of color values as they appear in the rendered image. A JPEG image cannot be decompressed to an image identical to the source it was generated from. Therefore, JPEG is lossy.
I am concerned that when all of this is said and done, only users of a Microsoft OS will not receive spam. ;-)
That makes sense, actually. What if the "solution" would be to only accept and forward messages with a valid DRM certification?
Italy will tax also every music or video recording support (cdr, dvdr, videotapes...) often doubling it's actual street price. it's a tribute of 0.33$ for each hour of music recordable on a cdr, 1$ every 4.7Gb on recordable dvd...
And despite consumers having paid extra money for the stuff, "unauthorized" copying will be as illegal as ever, in fact yet easier to pursue thanks to the EUCD, and made impossible in many cases due to technology restrictions. Sigh.
The formal name of the browser should be (and probably is) Mozilla Firebird or even Mozilla Firebird Browser.
That makes a clear difference from a stand-alone Firebird. Of course, people will say Firebird for ease and comfort, but that's how we do with everything else already.
Who says Microsoft Internet Explorer and not just Internet Explorer or even Explorer? See.
Do gamma ray bursts cause mass extinctions? Without question, the answer is probably yes or no, according to the experts.
Heh
I'm not getting one before I can play Doom 3 on it. Allright, allright, let's not demand resolutions higher than 1024x768, but at least I want 4xFSAA.
For MIDI composing, I use Cakewalk (Home Studio, old version), paired with a standard Audigy and a couple of free soundfonts in the 100MB range. I'm not quite getting "professional" quality out of it all the time, but it works amazingly well for my needs. See, I'm usually not interested in playing around with sounds, but rather in harmonization and achieving high levels of polyphonic complexity.
Nah. It says 2010, but M$ claims that it's written in octal later on...
I guess as an alternative, you could write in Beatnik and use only curses... :)
You'll probably be standing there with a program that solves world poverty.
It's totally up to Microsoft to determine how to license their software, and whom to license it to.
Well, not entirely. While I'm not familiar with American law, I doubt they're allowed to, for example, discriminate people depending on their sex or skin color.
Though this is offtopic, I know.
Can you imagine the endless possibilities of fun in this? Just imagine two developers disagreeing about a piece of text, then fighting for minutes, one guy typing frenetically to outperform the other guy's continuous backspacing :)