Now if only my pc was fast enough to run the Eclipse IDE at a usable speed. Plus somehow, certain Java Swing components on 1.4.x are able to crash my up to date ATI Radeon 7500 drivers on Window XP. Nothing else does.
I have Eclipse installed, and this all shows much promise, but is may be a while before it's of great use to me. It's great to see that they're working on a GUI editor. Swing has a steeper than necessary learning curve.
Nobody has ever mass produced a memory technology that wasn't relatively flat in shape. If a cubic centimeter can hold a gigabyte or 2^33 bits, a single layer can probably hold 2^(33*2/3) bits or 256 kb, not taking into account the shape of the cells. If they somehow manage to stack say, 32 layers of this, they'll get 8mb, which is much more realistic and still pretty good for a square centimeter of non-volatile memory.
Quote from the GPL: Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
As long as any GPL'd source that is modified is rereleased under the GPL, which may very well be none, the worst violation I see is forgetting to include a link to the source code provided by whoever gave them the binaries, which is required if you make redistribute a unmodified binary-only version of a GPL'd program.
They'll probably try to block p2p in general by demanding that ISP's block incoming connections and udp packets on consumer level internet accounts. Businesses would be made exempt by some means. P2P would still be possible, to some extent, but existing protocols will no longer work.
It's very unlikely that they'd succeed but that's what they're probably shooting for.
Parents want to use the home pc whenever they want and don't want kids using it unattended. Kids want to play games whenever they want. So the only logical answer is to get a console for the kids to play when the parents don't want them on the PC.
Scenario two:
You don't own and don't want a PC.
Scenario three:
The games you want won't run on, or aren't available for your PC.
In all other situations I can think of, you already have a PC, and all you get from shelling out $99 for a game cube or much more for another console is the ability to buy all your games for $20 more than the regular price.
If they had used any other rechargeable (or throw away) batteries, it would not have costed $99 over 18 months to replace them. Instead, like all other Apple technology, they chose something so proprietary that you can't buy one anywhere else if you don't like the price.
On the bright side, I saw an MP3 CD player at WalMart for only $29.99. It doesn't hold tens of thousands of songs like an iPod, but getting 200 or more songs per CD really isn't bad at all.
But what about "NES Dragon Warrior IV" vs "NES Final Fantasy III"? FF3, although not released in the US, has graphics and gameplay comparable to the SNES versions of FF that were also not released in the US.
They're spending over $2000 per kid for laptops, the most overpriced, proprietary brand of laptop at that. Though it's a BSD, it's not running on an x86 so Wine is not an option, and the skills they learn will not help them on 95% of systems out there. And they're not even getting any sort of academic discount, either that or someone's leeching the funding to buy themselves a private resort.
While working for the shareware distributer RocketDownload I had to review a similar game, but it didn't involve headbands or other forms of input. Just a random number generator moving something that you're supposed to try to control with your mind. Give it long enough and it'll always arrive somewhere. What a crappy day that was.
With a headband to control it through slight muscle movements, that sounds like a great way to impress your friends. Too bad it never took off.
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The page says it supports both. I actually haven't messed with SWT yet, having known very little about it before today.
Now if only my pc was fast enough to run the Eclipse IDE at a usable speed. Plus somehow, certain Java Swing components on 1.4.x are able to crash my up to date ATI Radeon 7500 drivers on Window XP. Nothing else does.
I have Eclipse installed, and this all shows much promise, but is may be a while before it's of great use to me. It's great to see that they're working on a GUI editor. Swing has a steeper than necessary learning curve.
Nobody has ever mass produced a memory technology that wasn't relatively flat in shape. If a cubic centimeter can hold a gigabyte or 2^33 bits, a single layer can probably hold 2^(33*2/3) bits or 256 kb, not taking into account the shape of the cells. If they somehow manage to stack say, 32 layers of this, they'll get 8mb, which is much more realistic and still pretty good for a square centimeter of non-volatile memory.
Build a spam/virus relay server:
1) Install any windows.
2) Connect to internet.
3) Like most people, never patch.
Quote from the GPL:
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
As long as any GPL'd source that is modified is rereleased under the GPL, which may very well be none, the worst violation I see is forgetting to include a link to the source code provided by whoever gave them the binaries, which is required if you make redistribute a unmodified binary-only version of a GPL'd program.
Someone has a lot of time on their hands and an amazing interest in playing board games based on video games, when they already own the video games.
I came up with that figure while shopping for games at WalMart recently, after noticing that some of the $50 playstation II games had $30 PC versions.
Referral logs are a valuable tool for webmasters. For one, it'll tell you which search phrases are getting you the most hits.
With any luck, this will be the best Christmas EVER!!!
They only have to block incoming connections to break most p2p. Most tcp client-server protocols would be completely unaffected.
They'll probably try to block p2p in general by demanding that ISP's block incoming connections and udp packets on consumer level internet accounts. Businesses would be made exempt by some means. P2P would still be possible, to some extent, but existing protocols will no longer work.
It's very unlikely that they'd succeed but that's what they're probably shooting for.
I bet you'd have a lot of fun with this:h tml
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http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.
Some 2 word anagrams for "Tony Blair, MP"
AMPLY BRITON
PALMY BRITON
LIBYAN TROMP
MARBLY PINTO
NOTARY BLIMP
LIMBO PANTRY
NOBLY ARMPIT
If I search for all anagrams, I get thousands of matches.
No. ARIA is what you get when you rotate the letters in RIAA one to the right.
Are people pirating by other means and lots of linux users switching ISPs because BitTorrent is getting blocked.
Scenario one:
Parents want to use the home pc whenever they want and don't want kids using it unattended.
Kids want to play games whenever they want.
So the only logical answer is to get a console for the kids to play when the parents don't want them on the PC.
Scenario two:
You don't own and don't want a PC.
Scenario three:
The games you want won't run on, or aren't available for your PC.
In all other situations I can think of, you already have a PC, and all you get from shelling out $99 for a game cube or much more for another console is the ability to buy all your games for $20 more than the regular price.
If they had used any other rechargeable (or throw away) batteries, it would not have costed $99 over 18 months to replace them. Instead, like all other Apple technology, they chose something so proprietary that you can't buy one anywhere else if you don't like the price.
On the bright side, I saw an MP3 CD player at WalMart for only $29.99. It doesn't hold tens of thousands of songs like an iPod, but getting 200 or more songs per CD really isn't bad at all.
Take a cool semi-new open technology. Make it incompatible with standard implentations. And call it innovation.
It's heartwarming to see open source beating Microsoft to all the cool new DESKTOP technologies.
But what about "NES Dragon Warrior IV" vs "NES Final Fantasy III"? FF3, although not released in the US, has graphics and gameplay comparable to the SNES versions of FF that were also not released in the US.
Final Fantasy III was pretty awesome for an NES game. Too bad it was never released in the U.S.
I bet they chose aluminum to help them forget.
They're spending over $2000 per kid for laptops, the most overpriced, proprietary brand of laptop at that. Though it's a BSD, it's not running on an x86 so Wine is not an option, and the skills they learn will not help them on 95% of systems out there. And they're not even getting any sort of academic discount, either that or someone's leeching the funding to buy themselves a private resort.
Might the Konqueror browser be affected by this?
While working for the shareware distributer RocketDownload I had to review a similar game, but it didn't involve headbands or other forms of input. Just a random number generator moving something that you're supposed to try to control with your mind. Give it long enough and it'll always arrive somewhere. What a crappy day that was.
With a headband to control it through slight muscle movements, that sounds like a great way to impress your friends. Too bad it never took off.
The Lik-Sang link leads to a noleech image.
Dragging the link to the address bar or copying and pasting the url should work for most people.
Damn I hate the 20 second wait on the "Post Comment" form. If you submit too soon, you have to go back and the countdown starts over.
Thanks for the tip. The old freecraft page didn't say much about the project being alive under another name.