Tablet, stationary: Clash of Clans Tablet, mobile: Ingress With friends in Steam: Killing Floor (Linux), Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Alien Swarm Solo in Steam: Star Conflict, War Thunder Would play if had more time: Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Linux)
I have loads of Humble bundles bought, waiting to be discovered. They have been a great catalyst to release more games on Linux.
Game types are mostly co-operative FPS shooters with friends, tower defence with tablet, flying with planes or full 6 degrees freedom when solo. A mouse is a pretty essential controller in most games.
Linux smartphones may have been abandoned by the Elop-led Nokia, but a new company called Jolla has hired the devteam and is working on releasing a Meego-phone this year (2012).
You can check driver availability to about any laptop, even if it doesn't have linux preinstalled: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
My personal choice would be Asus Eee PC 901. Enough CPU and SSD-drives which are more tolerant to shaking and movement, in addition of being fast. To play DVDs, an external drive would be needed: http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=2585..commenting in the order that the device is supposed to work with Linux.
So this is a nice demo of augmented reality, then. Seeing things that aren't physical objects, but imposed on a real landscape. Pretty nice to also tell that it was CGI during the event.
Certificates are used to increase trust, self-signed certificates are pretty useless in that sense.
However, as was pointed out earlier, the big problem is that Firefox hasn't imported CACert root certificate in it's trusted database yet.
www.cacert.org offers a distributed verification system and service for making your own certificates using their own root certificate.
You basically need to find 3 members who validate your ID documents and place trust that you really are who you claim to be, and thus can be governmentally held responsible for any online actions you choose to do with the certificates you create. Hence the added trust. Validation can also be done via a trusted 3rd party, such as a bank manager or a notary.
Other thing that will save loads of bandwidth and improve end user quality at the same time: multicast. For instance, the modern broadcast media companies that do TV / radio / concerts, could well set up streams that are relayed only once as to as many hops as there are subscribers, and copied at the final router to each subscriber.
At present corporations seem to be defined by their shareholder-generating value. Should it really be this way? I mean, can't the shareholders see value in the company doing things right for the surrounding society (including the shareholders) even for less profit?
I know there are smaller businesses run by families and individuals who don't have responsibility to shareholders, thus not inclined to maximise profit at the cost of humanitarian actions. Is there a theory that explains why shareholder-corporations should always be psychopathic members of society, besides the already "taken-for-granted" profit maximising?
US law is enforceable in US, that's why they should go after spammers first. Yes, some use infected machines or rogue ISPs on offshore servers but the spammers are effectively living in the US. With cash and hardware the government could confiscate.
It's just that there isn't a lobbyist driving that war (the answer to everything? right..), instead *IAA folks are very keen to preserve their flawed business model of charging for the same acquired item multiple times during it's lifetime and extending copyright to non-realistic lenghts, while developing protection that cripples legitimate use so that it actually encourages piracy.
Like a previous poster said, this will be just more corporate mongering on people's rights and tax dollars that could have been spent better.
These are recordings from a 4-man quartet competition in feb 2005. The quartet consists of three 2nd bass singers and one 1st tenor. (And yes, we did win a prize:)
OFDM was originally developed for the military, then after a while found it's way to civilian use. Has a fair share of applications (basically anywhere to reduce signal reflection errors over RF transmissions), and I'm surprised that a company managed to patent this.
Then again, with what I've read about the patent-fee funded US patent office, it's a very ugly case of "follow the money". After all, they're supposed to be controlling the companies that are keeping them alive.
From reading the article, it seems like the substance used to draw electrons from glucose is a catalyst-type substance, therefore not depleting in the reaction and these could be useful for years without maintenance.
If the substance was a reactant, Ghost in the shell -type high level maintenance would be taking it's first steps.
If the voltage was higher, AIs independent, energy resources low and Asimov's laws of robotics not in use, we could even see some Matrix-style battery usage;)
I'd reckon some of them might be MMORPG players. That stuff can take you in pretty bad, I've seen. Like skipping school and grieving over the limited hours in day one can stay awake and online.
Growing up is what these kids need, and hopefully they'll get more out of their mandatory military service when they aren't so tied to virtual worlds anymore. (Or join the army's cyberdefence department by then)
Although the magnetic field has a great effect in blocking solar wind, I still suspect the particles in the atmosphere would absorb some of the charged particles in solar wind.
A physics student with a little spare time could probably calculate relative efficiencies of atmospheric and magnetic blocking.
Seems simple enough - when talking about a subject, you tend to stay on topic and repeat key elements throughout your speech.
Classical music in particular has built a lot on themes and theme variations. The composer invents a pattern, then implements it throughout his/her piece. Even in music school we've learned of ABA or ABACA structures in music, and I can't think of a pop tune that doesn't have a chorus section in it.
Now, if semantics can be succesfully applied to music, I'll be impressed. There already exist a set of rules for moving the base note of a chord around. Bad translation would be "General bass"
One point to think of, regarding "How many of you Slashdotters have used the backwards compatibility on Playstation 2's" is that, well, actually making use of PS2's backwards compatibility is most likely quite rare, but when it was a *new* console it meant that the console immediately had 100x the games of any competitor.
I've had good experience with a friend who owns only a PS2, and she likes to play a lot of PS1 games as well (namely Final Fantasy series 7, 5 and 1-2-3)
Breaking backwards compatibility seems to be in line with the previous slashdot article on M$ losing the API war
More interestingly, that's an another open port for new worms to exploit. How convenient to infect the user's machine automatically, just by applying the latest "patch"
There have been previous attempts as well, for instance Samuli Torssonen's Star Wreck
Began with Deluxeanimation, but quickly evolved into rendered battles and live-acting with a bluescreen. The humour factor is comparable to Exeter. (e.g. the quest to cause the most noise in a rockconcert gets disturbed by the Korg)
Part 6 is being filmed and post-processed even now.
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Tablet, stationary: Clash of Clans
Tablet, mobile: Ingress
With friends in Steam: Killing Floor (Linux), Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Alien Swarm
Solo in Steam: Star Conflict, War Thunder
Would play if had more time: Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Linux)
I have loads of Humble bundles bought, waiting to be discovered. They have been a great catalyst to release more games on Linux.
Game types are mostly co-operative FPS shooters with friends, tower defence with tablet, flying with planes or full 6 degrees freedom when solo. A mouse is a pretty essential controller in most games.
Linux smartphones may have been abandoned by the Elop-led Nokia, but a new company called Jolla has hired the devteam and is working on releasing a Meego-phone this year (2012).
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/17/0053229/meego-startup-jolla-signs-phone-deal
A list of mini-laptops with comparisons:
http://www.mbnet.fi/tuoteseuranta/index.aspx?rrid=1
Availability was scarce in verkkokauppa:
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/?page=http://www.verkkokauppa.com/main.php?path=tietokoneet%2Fkannettavat&title=Tietokoneet+/+Kannettavat&search=1&cat1=Tietokoneet&cat2=Kannettavat&cat3=Linux
Some sell Acer aspire one: http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/171402
Here's Asus:
http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/164709
Lenovo T61 is pricier:
http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/81991
MSI wind:
http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/79914
You can check driver availability to about any laptop, even if it doesn't have linux preinstalled:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
My personal choice would be Asus Eee PC 901. Enough CPU and SSD-drives which are more tolerant to shaking and movement, in addition of being fast. ..commenting in the order that the device is supposed to work with Linux.
To play DVDs, an external drive would be needed:
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=2585
DVD-drive compatibility chart:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=dvd
..and chinese manufacturers have been known to make a multitude of device models, of which not nearly all get Microsoft's WHQL testing and bug-fixing.
It wouldn't be at all surprising if the Olympic games' machines used chinese brand (cheaper) devices.
So this is a nice demo of augmented reality, then. Seeing things that aren't physical objects, but imposed on a real landscape. Pretty nice to also tell that it was CGI during the event.
Some more exploration of augmented realities in daily life can be found in the anime series Denno Coil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
Certificates are used to increase trust, self-signed certificates are pretty useless in that sense.
However, as was pointed out earlier, the big problem is that Firefox hasn't imported CACert root certificate in it's trusted database yet.
www.cacert.org offers a distributed verification system and service for making your own certificates using their own root certificate.
You basically need to find 3 members who validate your ID documents and place trust that you really are who you claim to be, and thus can be governmentally held responsible for any online actions you choose to do with the certificates you create. Hence the added trust. Validation can also be done via a trusted 3rd party, such as a bank manager or a notary.
Other thing that will save loads of bandwidth and improve end user quality at the same time: multicast. For instance, the modern broadcast media companies that do TV / radio / concerts, could well set up streams that are relayed only once as to as many hops as there are subscribers, and copied at the final router to each subscriber.
Well, actually that has been tried too. Makes some tunes even more listenable than their original high-pitched performers version ;)
http://www.dictionaraoke.org/
There are quite a few people nowadays, who have grown up with NES systems in their time, keeping the music alive in various forms. For instance:
..and as a side mention:
Minibosses
Redefined - Nintendo A Cappella
All Your Bass A Cappella
http://www.pressplayontape.com/
At present corporations seem to be defined by their shareholder-generating value. Should it really be this way? I mean, can't the shareholders see value in the company doing things right for the surrounding society (including the shareholders) even for less profit?
I know there are smaller businesses run by families and individuals who don't have responsibility to shareholders, thus not inclined to maximise profit at the cost of humanitarian actions. Is there a theory that explains why shareholder-corporations should always be psychopathic members of society, besides the already "taken-for-granted" profit maximising?
US law is enforceable in US, that's why they should go after spammers first. Yes, some use infected machines or rogue ISPs on offshore servers but the spammers are effectively living in the US. With cash and hardware the government could confiscate.
It's just that there isn't a lobbyist driving that war (the answer to everything? right..), instead *IAA folks are very keen to preserve their flawed business model of charging for the same acquired item multiple times during it's lifetime and extending copyright to non-realistic lenghts, while developing protection that cripples legitimate use so that it actually encourages piracy.
Like a previous poster said, this will be just more corporate mongering on people's rights and tax dollars that could have been spent better.
Valid and calmly presented points which could wake some people up. Please give the poster more visibility.
Done that, and music ensued:
:)
All Your Bass does Ghostbusters
All Your Bass does Super Mario Bros 1 + 3
These are recordings from a 4-man quartet competition in feb 2005. The quartet consists of three 2nd bass singers and one 1st tenor. (And yes, we did win a prize
OFDM was originally developed for the military, then after a while found it's way to civilian use. Has a fair share of applications (basically anywhere to reduce signal reflection errors over RF transmissions), and I'm surprised that a company managed to patent this.
Then again, with what I've read about the patent-fee funded US patent office, it's a very ugly case of "follow the money". After all, they're supposed to be controlling the companies that are keeping them alive.
From reading the article, it seems like the substance used to draw electrons from glucose is a catalyst-type substance, therefore not depleting in the reaction and these could be useful for years without maintenance.
;)
If the substance was a reactant, Ghost in the shell -type high level maintenance would be taking it's first steps.
If the voltage was higher, AIs independent, energy resources low and Asimov's laws of robotics not in use, we could even see some Matrix-style battery usage
I'd reckon some of them might be MMORPG players. That stuff can take you in pretty bad, I've seen. Like skipping school and grieving over the limited hours in day one can stay awake and online.
Growing up is what these kids need, and hopefully they'll get more out of their mandatory military service when they aren't so tied to virtual worlds anymore. (Or join the army's cyberdefence department by then)
Although the magnetic field has a great effect in blocking solar wind, I still suspect the particles in the atmosphere would absorb some of the charged particles in solar wind.
A physics student with a little spare time could probably calculate relative efficiencies of atmospheric and magnetic blocking.
Seems simple enough - when talking about a subject, you tend to stay on topic and repeat key elements throughout your speech.
Classical music in particular has built a lot on themes and theme variations. The composer invents a pattern, then implements it throughout his/her piece. Even in music school we've learned of ABA or ABACA structures in music, and I can't think of a pop tune that doesn't have a chorus section in it.
Now, if semantics can be succesfully applied to music, I'll be impressed. There already exist a set of rules for moving the base note of a chord around. Bad translation would be "General bass"
One point to think of, regarding "How many of you Slashdotters have used the backwards compatibility on Playstation 2's" is that, well, actually making use of PS2's backwards compatibility is most likely quite rare, but when it was a *new* console it meant that the console immediately had 100x the games of any competitor.
I've had good experience with a friend who owns only a PS2, and she likes to play a lot of PS1 games as well (namely Final Fantasy series 7, 5 and 1-2-3)
Breaking backwards compatibility seems to be in line with the previous slashdot article on M$ losing the API war
About the original article - seems antispammers just took a hint. Spammers have long been insiltrating antispammer forums, since:
- The forums and news servers are pretty open
- Easy news on how to develop circumventation for the latest filter techniques
- Annoying the anti-spammers
About time the antispammers got a chance to snap them on the wrists. >:)F-Secure detects it, since yesterday. There's a removal tool there too.
Bagle description
We had an argument with the public transportation department (ytv) in the beginning of the year when "travel cards" were taken into use.
The tracking info was previously put in store for months, now it isn't permanently recorded.
Complain to your decisionmakers, it worked before.
Just in case you want to be prepared:
The instruction manual to japanese toilets
More interestingly, that's an another open port for new worms to exploit. How convenient to infect the user's machine automatically, just by applying the latest "patch"
Security by obscurity or what this time..
There have been previous attempts as well, for instance Samuli Torssonen's Star Wreck
Began with Deluxeanimation, but quickly evolved into rendered battles and live-acting with a bluescreen. The humour factor is comparable to Exeter. (e.g. the quest to cause the most noise in a rockconcert gets disturbed by the Korg)
Part 6 is being filmed and post-processed even now.