Google Chrome, Google Earth, Mozilla Web Browser. The individual OOo applications are (were?) called OpenOffice.org Writer, OpenOffice.org Calc, etc. The suite is (was?) called OpenOffice.org, which, I agree (and apparently so does The Document Foundation) that this is a bit confusing.
But they're not called Google.com Chrome, or Mozilla.org Web Browser. The.org on the end of OpenOffice's official name is, you have to admit, somewhat an ugly wart.
Othman: "Well, good, now I'm the Ambassador to Aliens. Sure, it's a useless title, but it's still a title, meaning I'm getting extra pay from the UN, and I get a say on the way things are run. Not much of a say, but still, extra pay and recognition for doing nothing? Now THAT'S a cushy job, I say! Guess I can take it easy from here on out. I mean, it's not like I'm going to have to do anything about..."
Does anyone understand WHY the writer of this article can't play the game left handed? I read through the FA multiple times (yes, I know - hard to believe), but I don't see any explanation of what specifically the game requires that cannot be done by a left handed user. Any further clarification would be welcome.
I'm just taking a stab in the dark here, but knowing the DS, chances are what happened with this game is that it requires one hand on the stylus and one hand on the D-pad at all times (sure, it's worse than "one hand on stylus and press D-pad or face buttons once in a while", but it's certainly better than "both hands on D-pad and face buttons AND be able to switch to the stylus quickly"... the DS Viewtiful Joe game, I'm looking at you...). That is, this particular player plays with the stylus naturally in the left hand, but the D-pad is also naturally in the left hand, which throws them off.
The thing is, this problem, all in all, is uncommon among DS games with that control scheme. Most games I've seen like that also allow the face buttons (A/X/B/Y) to act like the D-pad (they're arranged in a cross shape, too) for just this sort of occasion, or at the very least have it as an in-game option. Nintendo themselves are very good at that, for instance, even with games using the Wiimote (you generally set what hand your player uses)*, so I'm sort of writing this off as a short-sighted decision by this developer, and nothing at all to raise this much ruckus about.
I've always been curious as to exactly how the copyright holders expect the content providers to determine if any given piece of content is copyrighted or authorized. Is there an algorithm that can distinguish between an original copyrighted work and a fair-use derivative for audio or video?
To which these particular copyright holders would respond, "what fair-use?".
Why should people be trustworthy to a company they can't trust and would fire them with no notice for trumped up reasons all so some manager can get better office furniture or an executive can get a bigger bonus?
And if the employee does that when leaving the company under his or her own volition to pursue better career opportunities? TFA says nothing about being fired, just leaving the job.
Airships make more sense for transporting cargo than people. They let you bypass the bottleneck of a port and let you take the cargo directly to its destination.
Until we get lots of airships all contending for airspace directly at the destination...
I don't want a "range", developed with "partners". MS has repeated that mistake so often now, expecting different results every time. isn't there a witty saying that defines insanity this way?
That seems to have worked for MS's entire corporate lifespan up to this point. And despite gains in the world of not-Windows, Windows is still the dominant OS for numerous consumer applications, and that was made under the "range of options developed with partners" theory. A relatively recent surge of interest in a paradigm different from what got them their umpteen hojillions of dollars in the first place is precisely the thing that good businesspeople would NOT panic and change their entire company's philosophy over.
Granted, yes, Microsoft is most likely best off changing this philosophy soon anyway, but from a business standpoint, that doesn't seem altogether too insane.
So MIT is spending how much money on reinventing the pigeon??
I'm picturing a few pigeons on the line when this microplane perches on it. The pigeons look over at this mechanical oddity with reserved curiosity. Then an artificially-generated voice from the plane states "PAY NO ATTENTION TO ME. I AM A NORMAL PIGEON. I DEFECATE ON CARS AND THE HEADS OF PEOPLE. COO. COO". The pigeons, satisfied with the answer, go about their business.
After they fly off, the plane's voice kicks back in. "HEH HEH HEH. SUCKERS".
Maybe Google would've done better with it (or could do better with it NOW) if they scaled back their expectations massively and made it the ADP3? I mean, the ADP2 (unlocked MyTouch) is getting woefully outdated in terms of modern Android development. Plus, the N1 already IS largely an ADP (not entirely, but largely).
They really should get a Froyo-capable and higher-powered ADP3 for developers soon anyway, come to think of it. A lower-production line of N1s could do the trick nicely.
I thought most of the time just a hash of the password was transmitted, which would not allow this as the hash changes in multiples places when you change a specific location of the original password...
Almost, but using a straight, in-seuqence, string comparison, stop-at-first-difference method, you could work out the hash and check for a collision from there.
Okay, yes, that might be absurdly slow with today's computational power, but it's not quite foolproof.
Go ahead, let them cheat. They'll be paying for it once they get a job based on their "degree" and suddenly realize they don't know fuckall about what they're doing.
This is an idea I agree with in theory, except that it assumes their incompetence gets found out early enough to avoid real-world damage to innocent parties. That is to say, sure, they'll be paying for it, but everyone else might, too. For instance, in the case of a building engineer, I can only HOPE they get found out before the structurally unsound houses they design get built. Or that the braindead network administrator's lack of decent security knowledge is discovered and dealt with before the network turns into someone else's botnet.
'While genocide and other pressing problems relentlessly advance,' remarked contest finalist Daniel Meyerowitz to Wired.com, 'it would seem that Project 10^100 does not.'
Wow. I love that quote. While it may be true and relevant, at face value, it's perfectly smug and smartass. I've gotta remember to use quotes like that in day-to-day life...
"While genocide and other pressing problems relentlessly advance, it would seem that my order at Taco Bob's does not."
"While the plans and schemes of terrorist organizations relentlessly advance, it would seem that this line at the DMV does not."
"While the oil spill in the gulf relentlessly advances, it would seem that, due in large part to the ladies nearby, my love life does not."
Weren't you paying attention to AT&T's advertising? They may have a crappy network, but they DO offer more bars in more places. Must be trying to diversify.
They've confirmed a linux client. Those enthusiasts within the Phoronix community even managed to get the unreleased Steam Linux client running up to a partially drawn UI That seems rather confirmed to me.
Who is this "they" that have "confirmed" a Linux client? I don't see any references to Valve being the ones "confirming" this. I don't even see the word "Valve" in that statement. Is this just an enthusiast website "confirming" this?
But if they were separate hyphenated commands then they'd tab complete!/laziness
git cherry-<TAB>
That turns up git cherry-pick, at least with my install of zsh on Linux and OS X. And if I just do git cher<TAB>, I even get descriptions of both the cherry and cherry-pick commands.
So it'll just be a matter of time before this gets integrated with most distros' packages of most shells, I say.
So, basically they're working on an advanced (or, if you feel you must call it this way, "overcomplicated") version of MIT's Random Hall Laundry Server? Are we going to see an advanced version of the Bathroom Server next?
Franchise? What franchise? Kid Icarus isn't a franchise! They only ever made the one game! A sequel 30 years after the original is kind of pushing it, people. New ideas, new ideas...*sigh*.
If the U.S. President was kidnapped, I would hope we wouldn't have to resort to sending a plumber and his brother to rescue him.
If the U.S. President were kidnapped by a giant fire-breathing turtle and a bunch of angry-looking mushroom people, I think we'd want, nay, need an equally absurd solution to the problem. So, send in the jumping plumbers!
Or, for that matter, the DS. Sega DID make an actually quite good GBA port of Chu Chu Rocket it a while ago, and ever since the DS came out, I've been left wondering why they never made a version for it. Seems a perfect fit with the stylus.
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Google Chrome, Google Earth, Mozilla Web Browser. The individual OOo applications are (were?) called OpenOffice.org Writer, OpenOffice.org Calc, etc. The suite is (was?) called OpenOffice.org, which, I agree (and apparently so does The Document Foundation) that this is a bit confusing.
But they're not called Google.com Chrome, or Mozilla.org Web Browser. The .org on the end of OpenOffice's official name is, you have to admit, somewhat an ugly wart.
Othman: "Well, good, now I'm the Ambassador to Aliens. Sure, it's a useless title, but it's still a title, meaning I'm getting extra pay from the UN, and I get a say on the way things are run. Not much of a say, but still, extra pay and recognition for doing nothing? Now THAT'S a cushy job, I say! Guess I can take it easy from here on out. I mean, it's not like I'm going to have to do anything about..."
(looks outside, flying saucers start landing)
Othman: "Aw, son of a..."
Does anyone understand WHY the writer of this article can't play the game left handed? I read through the FA multiple times (yes, I know - hard to believe), but I don't see any explanation of what specifically the game requires that cannot be done by a left handed user. Any further clarification would be welcome.
I'm just taking a stab in the dark here, but knowing the DS, chances are what happened with this game is that it requires one hand on the stylus and one hand on the D-pad at all times (sure, it's worse than "one hand on stylus and press D-pad or face buttons once in a while", but it's certainly better than "both hands on D-pad and face buttons AND be able to switch to the stylus quickly"... the DS Viewtiful Joe game, I'm looking at you...). That is, this particular player plays with the stylus naturally in the left hand, but the D-pad is also naturally in the left hand, which throws them off.
The thing is, this problem, all in all, is uncommon among DS games with that control scheme. Most games I've seen like that also allow the face buttons (A/X/B/Y) to act like the D-pad (they're arranged in a cross shape, too) for just this sort of occasion, or at the very least have it as an in-game option. Nintendo themselves are very good at that, for instance, even with games using the Wiimote (you generally set what hand your player uses)*, so I'm sort of writing this off as a short-sighted decision by this developer, and nothing at all to raise this much ruckus about.
*: Besides Twilight Princess, of course.
I've always been curious as to exactly how the copyright holders expect the content providers to determine if any given piece of content is copyrighted or authorized. Is there an algorithm that can distinguish between an original copyrighted work and a fair-use derivative for audio or video?
To which these particular copyright holders would respond, "what fair-use?".
Why should people be trustworthy to a company they can't trust and would fire them with no notice for trumped up reasons all so some manager can get better office furniture or an executive can get a bigger bonus?
And if the employee does that when leaving the company under his or her own volition to pursue better career opportunities? TFA says nothing about being fired, just leaving the job.
Nah, a few tall-nuts in the escape route would've stalled them long enough to get better defenses in place.
Airships make more sense for transporting cargo than people. They let you bypass the bottleneck of a port and let you take the cargo directly to its destination.
Until we get lots of airships all contending for airspace directly at the destination...
'Essentially, we've given Facebook a voice.'
He then added, 'But it creeps us out how the only thing it says is "kill me... kill me... kill me..." all day long.'
I don't want a "range", developed with "partners". MS has repeated that mistake so often now, expecting different results every time. isn't there a witty saying that defines insanity this way?
That seems to have worked for MS's entire corporate lifespan up to this point. And despite gains in the world of not-Windows, Windows is still the dominant OS for numerous consumer applications, and that was made under the "range of options developed with partners" theory. A relatively recent surge of interest in a paradigm different from what got them their umpteen hojillions of dollars in the first place is precisely the thing that good businesspeople would NOT panic and change their entire company's philosophy over.
Granted, yes, Microsoft is most likely best off changing this philosophy soon anyway, but from a business standpoint, that doesn't seem altogether too insane.
But at least the Sprint apps are full-featured and not trial only.
For now.
So MIT is spending how much money on reinventing the pigeon??
I'm picturing a few pigeons on the line when this microplane perches on it. The pigeons look over at this mechanical oddity with reserved curiosity. Then an artificially-generated voice from the plane states "PAY NO ATTENTION TO ME. I AM A NORMAL PIGEON. I DEFECATE ON CARS AND THE HEADS OF PEOPLE. COO. COO". The pigeons, satisfied with the answer, go about their business.
After they fly off, the plane's voice kicks back in. "HEH HEH HEH. SUCKERS".
Maybe Google would've done better with it (or could do better with it NOW) if they scaled back their expectations massively and made it the ADP3? I mean, the ADP2 (unlocked MyTouch) is getting woefully outdated in terms of modern Android development. Plus, the N1 already IS largely an ADP (not entirely, but largely).
They really should get a Froyo-capable and higher-powered ADP3 for developers soon anyway, come to think of it. A lower-production line of N1s could do the trick nicely.
I thought most of the time just a hash of the password was transmitted, which would not allow this as the hash changes in multiples places when you change a specific location of the original password...
Almost, but using a straight, in-seuqence, string comparison, stop-at-first-difference method, you could work out the hash and check for a collision from there.
Okay, yes, that might be absurdly slow with today's computational power, but it's not quite foolproof.
What about the months of testing they did on the unit before they um, I dont know, RELEASED it?
They did plenty of hard marketing and artistic testing and research before they released it. Give them SOME credit, geez.
Go ahead, let them cheat. They'll be paying for it once they get a job based on their "degree" and suddenly realize they don't know fuckall about what they're doing.
This is an idea I agree with in theory, except that it assumes their incompetence gets found out early enough to avoid real-world damage to innocent parties. That is to say, sure, they'll be paying for it, but everyone else might, too. For instance, in the case of a building engineer, I can only HOPE they get found out before the structurally unsound houses they design get built. Or that the braindead network administrator's lack of decent security knowledge is discovered and dealt with before the network turns into someone else's botnet.
'While genocide and other pressing problems relentlessly advance,' remarked contest finalist Daniel Meyerowitz to Wired.com, 'it would seem that Project 10^100 does not.'
Wow. I love that quote. While it may be true and relevant, at face value, it's perfectly smug and smartass. I've gotta remember to use quotes like that in day-to-day life...
"While genocide and other pressing problems relentlessly advance, it would seem that my order at Taco Bob's does not."
"While the plans and schemes of terrorist organizations relentlessly advance, it would seem that this line at the DMV does not."
"While the oil spill in the gulf relentlessly advances, it would seem that, due in large part to the ladies nearby, my love life does not."
Not to mention CowboyNeal being appointed to every non-elected post in the country...
Weren't you paying attention to AT&T's advertising? They may have a crappy network, but they DO offer more bars in more places. Must be trying to diversify.
Not to mention the littering tickets you'd rack up from the walls of solid light you'd keep leaving behind you...
They've confirmed a linux client.
Those enthusiasts within the Phoronix community even managed to get the unreleased Steam Linux client running up to a partially drawn UI
That seems rather confirmed to me.
Who is this "they" that have "confirmed" a Linux client? I don't see any references to Valve being the ones "confirming" this. I don't even see the word "Valve" in that statement. Is this just an enthusiast website "confirming" this?
But if they were separate hyphenated commands then they'd tab complete! /laziness
git cherry-<TAB>
That turns up git cherry-pick, at least with my install of zsh on Linux and OS X. And if I just do git cher<TAB>, I even get descriptions of both the cherry and cherry-pick commands.
So it'll just be a matter of time before this gets integrated with most distros' packages of most shells, I say.
So, basically they're working on an advanced (or, if you feel you must call it this way, "overcomplicated") version of MIT's Random Hall Laundry Server? Are we going to see an advanced version of the Bathroom Server next?
Franchise? What franchise? Kid Icarus isn't a franchise! They only ever made the one game! A sequel 30 years after the original is kind of pushing it, people. New ideas, new ideas...*sigh*.
Two. There was a Game Boy game.
Still, though...
If the U.S. President was kidnapped, I would hope we wouldn't have to resort to sending a plumber and his brother to rescue him.
If the U.S. President were kidnapped by a giant fire-breathing turtle and a bunch of angry-looking mushroom people, I think we'd want, nay, need an equally absurd solution to the problem. So, send in the jumping plumbers!
Or, for that matter, the DS. Sega DID make an actually quite good GBA port of Chu Chu Rocket it a while ago, and ever since the DS came out, I've been left wondering why they never made a version for it. Seems a perfect fit with the stylus.