Probably because memory stick is expensive, or at least it was last time I looked at anything that used it. The Sony hardware that uses it is also generally over priced for what you're getting. I think that has a lot to do with it.
For the record I bitch about the XD cards my camera takes all the time.
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Maybe it's more accurate to say that most of the large scale Maya deployments are on Linux. You know, at realstudiosdoingrealwork.
The proliferation of windows-first/only plugins is pretty obviously a sign of the small scale of studios using Maya on windows. If Autodesk were to drop the Linux version of Maya we'll probably be seeing a lot of the big studios, if not all of them, dropping Maya.
Oh man, I really needed a good pick-me-up after seeing Serenity (SPOILER: SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDOR!!!!). Nothing like an idiot moral absolutist to give me a laugh. Adults in the real world? Give me a fucking break. Children believe in absolutes because they are explained things in tidy little packages (presumeably so that they can understand?), by the time you grow up you should have long since realised that there is no such thing. And REAL life is all about taking what isn't "yours", as much as ownership can even be considered a "real" concept.
Like so many things, it can all come down to a nice analogy about lions in Africa. If a lion chases down a zebra and kills it, whose life is it taking? Surely not its own.
I am really curious where you so-called "adults" come up with this concept that absolutes are somehow the grown up way of thinking. Seriously, where do you get such ridiculous ideas?
I think it should go the other way too. Stealing should also include receipt of product/service in exchange for payment. In fact, "steal" should mean any transfer of goods or services. As an example I am stealing my cable internet service for the "already low price" of 54.99$/month.
Compare the money you spend to buy her word and the time you spend teaching her to open it and write "blah blah blah" with the time and money it takes to teach her to use any basic text editor? Not that I'm coming out in favour of LaTeX, since that shit is way too much work to learn (I'd have to open a new tab, read some words, etc). But can we please come up with some examples where using a word processor at least makes sense, or at the least stop using microsoft word as a stand-in for any and all word processors, since 200$ is a lot of fucking money to spend to do any of the things I've seen suggested here.
They should use VI for writing a memo. Why the fuck would you need anything more than basic text to write a fucking memo? You definitely don't need to be paying hundreds of dollars to do it.
Most people just want to send messages to their friends. Think SMS.
Most people should just have a cell phone and learn to type with their thumbs if that is true. Which would probably be a Good Thing(tm) since it'd mean fewer idiots trying to make every computer interface usable without any training by all three people who haven't used one before.
Not to mention that Miyazaki and Lasseter go way back. Studio Ghibli even made a documentary them. Nausicaa.net describes it as a thank you gift for John Lasseter for his help with the North American release of Spirited Away that was later published at the request of the Studio Ghibli staff. Here's their synopsis.
So what you're really saying is that you had to create a work around so that his teacher wouldn't know that he cheated by having you do his work for him? God bless america!
I think one thing most people have missed in this whole debate is that Nintendo
has said they will have a "shell" that the new "freehand style" controller will
slide into to accommodate more traditional types of games.
IGN has created a mock up of what this might look like, which is basically a Wavebird with a hole cut
out in the middle to put the wand into. Hopefully this will actually be similar
to what Nintendo ends up releasing. And, again hopefully, they will have the s
ense to at the least pack one of these "shells" in with the console if not inclu
de one with each extra controller.
Assuming that a setup like this will be widely available, which something sim
ilar is almost assuredly going to be available in some form, I can't see what th
e problem would be.
Take Madden for instance, which is being widely cited as a game that somehow
"won't work" on Revolution. You'd have most of the standard controls available
on any console (though still probably not the analog stick buttons of PS2/3 and
the XBoxes) but you'll also have full tilt and rotation control.
Just the first things to come to mind would be mapping the left/right juke mo
ves to a tilt of the controller in the desired direction. If Nintendo's claims
as to the precision of the 3D tracking are accurate we could even see the abilit
y to do a quick tilt to one side and then back in the opposite direction to fake
one way and then go the other. How about tilting the controller back to do the
pull up juke move that was introduced this year? Or tilt it forward to do the
truck move while running? Stiff arm could be controlled by a horizontal twist t
oward the defender.
I don't see how a game like GTA wouldn't work just as well in this scenario a
nd I'm sure there will be many opportunities to take advantage of the tilt contr
ols if it ever comes to the platform.
That's not to claim that Nintendo is going to make the right decisions here,
since recently they've missed some pretty obvious opportunities (like shedding t
he "kiddie" image by putting out some hardcore first-party M-rated games to star
t with). But it's definitely too early to write them off, especially without se
eing what the final controller landscape is going to look like.
And of course, as we've seen with the DS, not all games will need or be best
suited to using the unique features of the system. For these games the Wavebird
-like shell will be more than adequate. So long as Nintendo makes the right cho
ices regarding accessability to the multiple control setups and can keep up a st
eady stream of first, second, and third party titles that take advantage of each
they'll do very well in this next generation, even if they don't reclaim the to
p spot. Unfortunately it's been the quantity of titles (regardless of quality)
that has been their biggest stumbling block the last ten years, and that was wit
h a single, standardized controller.
Oh, I see what you mean. In Firefox and Opera if you hit enter/shift-enter after using / it will activate a hyperlink if the word is part of the link. Though in Firefox you can manually set focus (might be a shortcut too?) to the find search box and it will let you use enter/shift-enter to go forward and backward.
But I'd really like to see something more along the lines of how a VI where you hit enter to complete the search string and then n/N to go forward and back. Even Konqueror, which uses HJKL for scrolling like VI, doesn't support this. Though I guess Konq and Firefox are open source, so I should probably stop whining and implement it myself or something.:\
Anyway, I suspect that if they make a boxing game for the Revolution (with a glove where you can slip the controller into the a slit/pouch, connected through the extension port), it'll work perfectly. And then I can finally actually knock out Mike Tyson.
They might put out a glove you can slide the controller into, but it won't use the expansion port. That is going to be used for an electric shock addon to simulate your ear being bitten off while fighting mike tyson.
Seriously though, how long would it take to alter this habit? It took less than a week to switch to gesture and less than two to stop looking for the back or forward button. Not clicking an X should be easy.
GP was referring to the Adobe patent that they sued Macromedia over, and won, a number of years ago. Here's an article about it, and another. The lawsuit was the reason for the UI change between Flash 5 and MX.
Slackware packages (slackpacks) are just gzipped tarballs with the files in a directory structure where they will be when installed, with an additional/install directory containing a file with a description of the file (for use with graphical installer tools). Then a set of utilities (installpkg, upgradepkg, removepkg) are used for managing the packages for easy installation and removal.
From what I understand, having not used it (though I plan to try it out this week), the Slack-based Vector Linux integrates some form of dependancy checking and apt-get-like functionality.
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For the record I bitch about the XD cards my camera takes all the time.
Does it run on Linux?
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The proliferation of windows-first/only plugins is pretty obviously a sign of the small scale of studios using Maya on windows. If Autodesk were to drop the Linux version of Maya we'll probably be seeing a lot of the big studios, if not all of them, dropping Maya.
Not if you give away the discs with free shipping.
Like so many things, it can all come down to a nice analogy about lions in Africa. If a lion chases down a zebra and kills it, whose life is it taking? Surely not its own.
I am really curious where you so-called "adults" come up with this concept that absolutes are somehow the grown up way of thinking. Seriously, where do you get such ridiculous ideas?
I think it should go the other way too. Stealing should also include receipt of product/service in exchange for payment. In fact, "steal" should mean any transfer of goods or services. As an example I am stealing my cable internet service for the "already low price" of 54.99$/month.
Compare the money you spend to buy her word and the time you spend teaching her to open it and write "blah blah blah" with the time and money it takes to teach her to use any basic text editor? Not that I'm coming out in favour of LaTeX, since that shit is way too much work to learn (I'd have to open a new tab, read some words, etc). But can we please come up with some examples where using a word processor at least makes sense, or at the least stop using microsoft word as a stand-in for any and all word processors, since 200$ is a lot of fucking money to spend to do any of the things I've seen suggested here.
They should use VI for writing a memo. Why the fuck would you need anything more than basic text to write a fucking memo? You definitely don't need to be paying hundreds of dollars to do it.
Most people should just have a cell phone and learn to type with their thumbs if that is true. Which would probably be a Good Thing(tm) since it'd mean fewer idiots trying to make every computer interface usable without any training by all three people who haven't used one before.
That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard! Why would /. want an editor that would actually read the submissions?!?!
Yeah, but only once every other year if the EPA gets its way.
It could be both! Or maybe neither and my alternative counter-theory that it is due to the decline of ninjas that is at fault.
You forgot inferior sounding!
RIAA is just supporting global warming.
Not to mention that Miyazaki and Lasseter go way back. Studio Ghibli even made a documentary them. Nausicaa.net describes it as a thank you gift for John Lasseter for his help with the North American release of Spirited Away that was later published at the request of the Studio Ghibli staff. Here's their synopsis.
So what you're really saying is that you had to create a work around so that his teacher wouldn't know that he cheated by having you do his work for him? God bless america!
IGN has created a mock up of what this might look like, which is basically a Wavebird with a hole cut out in the middle to put the wand into. Hopefully this will actually be similar to what Nintendo ends up releasing. And, again hopefully, they will have the s ense to at the least pack one of these "shells" in with the console if not inclu de one with each extra controller.
Assuming that a setup like this will be widely available, which something sim ilar is almost assuredly going to be available in some form, I can't see what th e problem would be.
Take Madden for instance, which is being widely cited as a game that somehow "won't work" on Revolution. You'd have most of the standard controls available on any console (though still probably not the analog stick buttons of PS2/3 and the XBoxes) but you'll also have full tilt and rotation control.
Just the first things to come to mind would be mapping the left/right juke mo ves to a tilt of the controller in the desired direction. If Nintendo's claims as to the precision of the 3D tracking are accurate we could even see the abilit y to do a quick tilt to one side and then back in the opposite direction to fake one way and then go the other. How about tilting the controller back to do the pull up juke move that was introduced this year? Or tilt it forward to do the truck move while running? Stiff arm could be controlled by a horizontal twist t oward the defender.
I don't see how a game like GTA wouldn't work just as well in this scenario a nd I'm sure there will be many opportunities to take advantage of the tilt contr ols if it ever comes to the platform.
That's not to claim that Nintendo is going to make the right decisions here, since recently they've missed some pretty obvious opportunities (like shedding t he "kiddie" image by putting out some hardcore first-party M-rated games to star t with). But it's definitely too early to write them off, especially without se eing what the final controller landscape is going to look like.
And of course, as we've seen with the DS, not all games will need or be best suited to using the unique features of the system. For these games the Wavebird -like shell will be more than adequate. So long as Nintendo makes the right cho ices regarding accessability to the multiple control setups and can keep up a st eady stream of first, second, and third party titles that take advantage of each they'll do very well in this next generation, even if they don't reclaim the to p spot. Unfortunately it's been the quantity of titles (regardless of quality) that has been their biggest stumbling block the last ten years, and that was wit h a single, standardized controller.
But I'd really like to see something more along the lines of how a VI where you hit enter to complete the search string and then n/N to go forward and back. Even Konqueror, which uses HJKL for scrolling like VI, doesn't support this. Though I guess Konq and Firefox are open source, so I should probably stop whining and implement it myself or something. :\
They might put out a glove you can slide the controller into, but it won't use the expansion port. That is going to be used for an electric shock addon to simulate your ear being bitten off while fighting mike tyson.
For forward/backward in history? Opera and Firefox both use backspace for back and shift-backspace for forward. At least on Linux.
You can also use / to get to the find bar. But then it's really annoying that you can't use n/N to step through the found instances...
Seriously though, how long would it take to alter this habit? It took less than a week to switch to gesture and less than two to stop looking for the back or forward button. Not clicking an X should be easy.
GP was referring to the Adobe patent that they sued Macromedia over, and won, a number of years ago. Here's an article about it, and another. The lawsuit was the reason for the UI change between Flash 5 and MX.
From what I understand, having not used it (though I plan to try it out this week), the Slack-based Vector Linux integrates some form of dependancy checking and apt-get-like functionality.