This is listed on their FAQ page as one of the programs supporting MusicXML. Sure, it's only one way at the moment (convert musicXML to Lilypond) but I'm sure that can change.
As part of the application you fill out, you give them info on your PC - their goal for the Beta is to get testing on a wider variety of system, from their minimum requirements up to a brand-spankin-new maxed out system.
Along with that, they also ask stuff about gaming habits, etc.
Your best bet is to be truthful, and hope random selection goes in your favor - if you want to be risky, fill out info you may think is less likely to be commonly entered and see if you can get fewer people in your "bracket" of CPU power and playing habits. I'd go with option A though:P
Or just use a publicly-known account and screw with their stats: Username/password both "Mailinator" (I used mailinator.com to sign up for it in the first place:P)
We had problems like this in one of my college classes (4th year no less) - the prof did up his framework code for the assignments using MetroWerks Code Warrior on the windows boxes, which is apparently quite lax on the case-sensitive side of things for package names and directory names, among other things.
When we got the assignment (the first 2 in fact) they just wouldn't compile as-is on the unix boxes we usually worked from. Pissed a lot of us off because we had to fix the problems:(
This isn't much of an issue as far as OpenOffice's format is concerned. The.xs? files are simple zips containing a half dozen or so xml files, which lay beyond the scope of this pending patent.
On the other hand, isn't this almost what the situation was back in the good old days of HTML3 and 4?
You can also consider consoles to augment the PCs: many have great multiplayer support, and on a LAN they rock. Just remember that console or PC, it has to be in a locked cabnets and thus is a pain to change out games), or you can kiss your investment goodbye. (Even with locked cabnets we lost games all the time, usually to brute force attacks, but sometimes to "could you switch this game/distraction created" events).
The solution to this is not have CDRom drives in the machines. Get some licenses for something like Alcohol (or even just pick up Daemon tools, but it's not as user friendly) and host the cloned images on a net share on the server. If you can make it unable to list the directory contents but still allow read access to the files (I'm thinking unix or ftp permissions here) that will prevent blatant file transferring of the images.
Then just let people know that the icon in the lower right is the CD switcher. Only install the games on enough machines you have licenses for of course, and then either prevent installers from running (my old Uni had a prog called UnInstallShield that prevented InstallShield from running) or artificially lock down the free space on the games partition to 300-400mb or so, to prevent "extra" installs.
When I was at college (University of Victoria, BC) they had it spelled out very well. For internal traffic, there was no limit. It would go as fast as it could, and no traffic caps.
For external traffic, if you went over 1GB up or 1GB down, you were capped at 56k speed to the outside world until midnight.
1GB a day is about a sustained 10k/s stream, and that's what I capped my irc server to. Only problems I had with it nerfing me before about 11pm were when I was downloading lots - twice I managed to hit the cap before I got up at 7 for class:P
Nonono... College isn't cutting short gaming time - College was always about 10 hours a day of free time for me. It's the job while you're in college that will cut down your gaming time. As does the job by itself after college.
Mrs. Sweeney just completed her certification in Technology Applications through TATC. This certifies her to teach Digital Graphics, Web Design, Video Production, Desktop Publishing, and Multimedia.
But it does not, I notice, certify her on general computer use.
"If they are allowed to experiment and do things on the computers that the teachers have not specifically given them permission to do, we would never get any computer education accomplished."
No, if they are allowed to experiment and do things ANYWHERE that they have not been given specific permission to do, it's called learning. Why should computers be any different?
What happens when your path is very very long? Do you have lots of buttons? Do you stretch the window, or squeeze the buttons so they're unreadable?
One of the screen shots has little black triangles to the left and right of the path buttons that I can only assume are for scrolling left and right. Kinda like what happens in some other apps that have too many tabs to be displayed on a line. (Of course, I'm thinking of many, many windows applications' preferences dialogs)
Believe it or not, it does work. Ask yourself how many times you feel the need to go anywhere other than back to the root, or one or two directories up the tree.
It alleges that EchoStar violated a patent related to features including a method for recording one program while playing back another.
So as prior art did they list the PC?
I'm sure I've managed to rip CDs to the hard drive as the same time I'm playing music. Sure it's audio vs video, but it amounts to the same thing don't it?
Plus, I'm not entirely sure it's valid on the non-obvious point. Not having looked at the details I would say to implement it one could just ensure that the input and output subsections are separated, and then treat them individually. Each end has enough of a memory cache to hold a few (10?) seconds of video, and the hard drive takes turns emptying the input buffer and filling the output buffer from different sections (files) on the disk.
There's two problems here - one in front of the TV, and one behind.
If you're only using one TV, I greatly recommend you get a multi-RCA switcher, and plug all the consoles into it, and it into the TV. Then just make sure your cables are neat and the switcher is moderately easy to get to to switch to a different console.
As for controller woes, I might suggest a shelving unit (maybe a smallish bookcase). Each console gets a shelf and then lay down the law about rolling controllers up and putting them on the shelf when done. Otherwise go cordless, as others have suggested. Another thing that would greatly help is color-coding the controllers - get a couple pieces of colored tape (or paint or something) and stick some on both ends of the cord. So the first player controller gets a piece of red on the console side of the cord and the controller side of the cord. This makes finding the right controller oh so much easier than tracing the tangle.
Maybe/Maybe not an issue with the various cordless models, if they have a visible switch (for switching broadcast channels) on the top I wouldn't bother, but if it's on the back or inside (like my Firestorm PC gamepad, in between the batteries) then stick something on the front.
It' s making an iframe that loads the applet, and just does its own thing - by loading in the iframe it can call back to their host, rather than yours:P
Someone should let him know that he needs to make his server parse.html files through PHP, 'cause he's got a PHP header that isn't being sent - oh yeah and better html please.
if I recall correctly, the plan for Longhorn is to be able to do ANYTHING from commandline. If it can be tweaked in a GUI, there's a shell command that will do the same thing.
And speaking of Baen books, give Lois McMaster Bujold a read - her Vorkosigan series is one of the most entertaining things I've read in quite a while. Good sci-fi that relies on the characters and plot to drive the story (as opposed to the tech)
Mythic is an adjective, used to describe anything of a fantastic nature, or anything derived from fable or lore. -a also is a suffix typically denoting oxide, Alumina, Silica, etc.
Good points. I have a book called Encyclopedia Mythica that is (more or less) one big glossary on the various mythologies - Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Arthurian, etc.
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Apparently (halfway down the screen on my monitor) Bombay is now called Mumbai.
I only ask because I'm curious.
This is listed on their FAQ page as one of the programs supporting MusicXML. Sure, it's only one way at the moment (convert musicXML to Lilypond) but I'm sure that can change.
As part of the application you fill out, you give them info on your PC - their goal for the Beta is to get testing on a wider variety of system, from their minimum requirements up to a brand-spankin-new maxed out system.
Along with that, they also ask stuff about gaming habits, etc.
Your best bet is to be truthful, and hope random selection goes in your favor - if you want to be risky, fill out info you may think is less likely to be commonly entered and see if you can get fewer people in your "bracket" of CPU power and playing habits. I'd go with option A though :P
Or just use a publicly-known account and screw with their stats: Username/password both "Mailinator" (I used mailinator.com to sign up for it in the first place :P)
When we got the assignment (the first 2 in fact) they just wouldn't compile as-is on the unix boxes we usually worked from. Pissed a lot of us off because we had to fix the problems :(
Says it will be initially available for Windows and Linux (Sorry Mac users, you'll need to wait).
On the other hand, isn't this almost what the situation was back in the good old days of HTML3 and 4?
You can also consider consoles to augment the PCs: many have great multiplayer support, and on a LAN they rock. Just remember that console or PC, it has to be in a locked cabnets and thus is a pain to change out games), or you can kiss your investment goodbye. (Even with locked cabnets we lost games all the time, usually to brute force attacks, but sometimes to "could you switch this game/distraction created" events). The solution to this is not have CDRom drives in the machines. Get some licenses for something like Alcohol (or even just pick up Daemon tools, but it's not as user friendly) and host the cloned images on a net share on the server. If you can make it unable to list the directory contents but still allow read access to the files (I'm thinking unix or ftp permissions here) that will prevent blatant file transferring of the images. Then just let people know that the icon in the lower right is the CD switcher. Only install the games on enough machines you have licenses for of course, and then either prevent installers from running (my old Uni had a prog called UnInstallShield that prevented InstallShield from running) or artificially lock down the free space on the games partition to 300-400mb or so, to prevent "extra" installs.
Not a haiku, needs two more syllables to match the 5/7/5 format. red/sand/be/tween/my toes,/summ/er/va/ca/tion/in out/er/space/___/___
For external traffic, if you went over 1GB up or 1GB down, you were capped at 56k speed to the outside world until midnight.
1GB a day is about a sustained 10k/s stream, and that's what I capped my irc server to. Only problems I had with it nerfing me before about 11pm were when I was downloading lots - twice I managed to hit the cap before I got up at 7 for class :P
Well, if being verbose would bring it to 2000 pages, I'd say 745 is concise. It depends on the depth of your topic.
I have a shoutcast stream that I'm receiving. On the one end, I'm receiving the data and dumping it to disk or memory as a read buffer.
On the other end, I'm decoding the buffer from mp3 to raw waveform before piping it out to the sound card.
And there is a huge difference between dealing with a readable medium (a CD) and a broadcast stream (live TV/Radio).
And when I'm treating the readable media as a sequential input stream (as when ripping audio tracks in order) I think they're pretty similar...
Nonono... College isn't cutting short gaming time - College was always about 10 hours a day of free time for me. It's the job while you're in college that will cut down your gaming time. As does the job by itself after college.
But it does not, I notice, certify her on general computer use.
No, if they are allowed to experiment and do things ANYWHERE that they have not been given specific permission to do, it's called learning. Why should computers be any different?
One of the screen shots has little black triangles to the left and right of the path buttons that I can only assume are for scrolling left and right. Kinda like what happens in some other apps that have too many tabs to be displayed on a line. (Of course, I'm thinking of many, many windows applications' preferences dialogs)
Believe it or not, it does work. Ask yourself how many times you feel the need to go anywhere other than back to the root, or one or two directories up the tree.
So as prior art did they list the PC?
I'm sure I've managed to rip CDs to the hard drive as the same time I'm playing music. Sure it's audio vs video, but it amounts to the same thing don't it?
Plus, I'm not entirely sure it's valid on the non-obvious point. Not having looked at the details I would say to implement it one could just ensure that the input and output subsections are separated, and then treat them individually. Each end has enough of a memory cache to hold a few (10?) seconds of video, and the hard drive takes turns emptying the input buffer and filling the output buffer from different sections (files) on the disk.
If you're only using one TV, I greatly recommend you get a multi-RCA switcher, and plug all the consoles into it, and it into the TV. Then just make sure your cables are neat and the switcher is moderately easy to get to to switch to a different console.
As for controller woes, I might suggest a shelving unit (maybe a smallish bookcase). Each console gets a shelf and then lay down the law about rolling controllers up and putting them on the shelf when done. Otherwise go cordless, as others have suggested. Another thing that would greatly help is color-coding the controllers - get a couple pieces of colored tape (or paint or something) and stick some on both ends of the cord. So the first player controller gets a piece of red on the console side of the cord and the controller side of the cord. This makes finding the right controller oh so much easier than tracing the tangle.
Maybe/Maybe not an issue with the various cordless models, if they have a visible switch (for switching broadcast channels) on the top I wouldn't bother, but if it's on the back or inside (like my Firestorm PC gamepad, in between the batteries) then stick something on the front.
Hmm... I'm running XP pro, Athlon XP 2500+, 512 ram, Firebird 0.7, and I have no problems...
Here's the code:
:P
.html files through PHP, 'cause he's got a PHP header that isn't being sent - oh yeah and better html please.
<!-- try IFRAME, else use LAYER -->
<IFRAME SRC="http://www.jlcooke.ca/psearch/dmd5l.html" SCROLLING="NO" FRAMEBORDER="0" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="32">
<LAYER SRC="http://www.jlcooke.ca/psearch/dmd5l.html" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="32" CLIP="0,0,100,32"></LAYER>
</IFRAME>
It' s making an iframe that loads the applet, and just does its own thing - by loading in the iframe it can call back to their host, rather than yours
Someone should let him know that he needs to make his server parse
if I recall correctly, the plan for Longhorn is to be able to do ANYTHING from commandline. If it can be tweaked in a GUI, there's a shell command that will do the same thing.
I, on the other hand, have realized that people use the Lord to do their work.
And speaking of Baen books, give Lois McMaster Bujold a read - her Vorkosigan series is one of the most entertaining things I've read in quite a while. Good sci-fi that relies on the characters and plot to drive the story (as opposed to the tech)
Mythic is an adjective, used to describe anything of a fantastic nature, or anything derived from fable or lore. -a also is a suffix typically denoting oxide, Alumina, Silica, etc.
Good points. I have a book called Encyclopedia Mythica that is (more or less) one big glossary on the various mythologies - Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Arthurian, etc.