Is anybody else shrugging their shoulders and asking the same question of: What the hell is the point in wasting DNS space for such a half-assed crap idea?
Yep, good ole Opera 6 on my Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. I personally used the OpenZaurus distribution with the exported Opera browser from the last sharp firmware release for my model.
But yeah it worked great at the time for any website I visited to be presented just like the computer version of opera and the other web browsers and the zoom features were fairly decent. Of course back then websites weren't so web 2.0 crazy either since majority of the content wasn't drastically dynamically manipulated in javascript like current slashdot is today. So, I'm not sure how well it would work on websites of today.
On a side note the last time I used my SL-5500 it had a screen refresh problem as it slowly updated and it was like watching a badly flickering CRT monitor update, except you could see the lines of the display redraw at like 8 FPS and it just made me think that it was dying so I just stopped using it all together.
I am getting the same thing. Is it just me or is slashdot slowly turning into a web 2.0 turd like sourceforge has become? It isn't anymore functional than static HTML (of which I prefer) and it actually puts me off. Shit is ending up in places where it doesn't belong like as you have pointed out the firehorse is now merged into my user page.:(
'Meat' Printer: ~$2 million dollars from digikey Wang Frame: $1.89 at wal-mart (sizes may vary) Special Sauce: 2 minutes? Doctor's visit: $200 thousand dollars
Scaring the shit out of your woman in the middle of the night with your new found creation called "beast": Priceless...
Weasel Boy... what a fitting name for such a terrible suggestion. Not to mention no IT, no network for your macs. So you prefer a bunch of stand alone macs instead of a network infrastructure where information can be passed around easily and maintainable compared to say USB keys or DVD+Rs handed around? No internet either that is IT's work field.
Your suggestion would definitely get rid of the problem of employees wasting their time away web surfing or posting on slashdot instead of working...
I'm wondering what all was ripped out in order to make it possible to be released under GPL. Such as for example is all the EAX stuff not there? See OpenAL for example of where Creative has binary only releases of several versions of OpenAL so that their version of the library can have access to all the features on the card while the actual open sourced code base is lacking a lot.
Speaking of which is the open sourced OpenAL library still even maintained anymore? Because I see more and more game engine developers moving away from OpenAL (its pretty much outdated these days and ugly to work with) like on Torque game engine and going with libraries like FMOD.
How would you know? It seems to be that all other broadcast corps are in the same bed of being as much one-sided Liberal and bias as possible to push for their own agenda to the general public. You could say they're Socialists.
Realistically based off of history. This means that a lot worse copyright laws like the DMCA will get passed that the media Mafia has been pushing for and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. One prediction is that in the next four years by downloading that MP3 you've gotten yourself a speedy pass to possible two to ten year prison sentence because 'copyright infringement is far worse than bank robbery or killing somebody!'
How about the patent system? That'll get gamed too just like the copyright will continue to be and we could possibly see something along the lines of: Oh, so you infriged on so&so's patent. We'll take your home, car, and even your dog as punishment and just several months of jail time. That'll be enough for now until we find more cases of infrigement. Have a good day!
In all seriousness, its going to get a lot more stressful and almost dangerous for us open source and fair rights exercising citizens in the coming few years. Land of the free with reserved parking for the VIPs!
Maybe because of the fact that gun control has never kept guns away from criminals at all period. It has only restricted and prevented the public from defending themselves at all by disarming them and making it illegal for them to even have the possibility of being able to arm and defend themselves. In every single case of gun control or out right ban on guns the criminals still managed to have guns no matter what. Well gee I wonder why maybe because it has something to do with the fact that they are criminals and will do anything to get a hold of a weapon if they so do desire one.
Your logic of control is flawed, but nothing more than an illusion. There will always be crazies out there who just don't give a shit and take any innocent bystander with them. So the only reasonable and responsible thing to do is simply be prepared and learn how to defend yourself with or without a weapon. That is just life out here in the real world and not your idealistic stupidly of "oh we'll just take all weapons away and everything will be a OK...". It never works out that way throughout history it has shown time and time again.
Just hope that your significant other doesn't get a new 'friend' that has enough sense to use the single user mode backdoor in Linux to gain root access and reset the password as possible on default installations of various distributions. But of course that can easily be corrected by using an encrypted partition, that requires root password in order to mount, of which where all the goodies should be stored.;)
If that is the case then how did the open source projects come to exist in the first place? Matter of observation I saw a boom in open source projects after the dotcom bubble burst and even open source projects that existed before the collapse even got even more contributions after that. I certainly saw better progress from kernel development to KDE maturity.
Yeah I know... I know... You were just showing the other side of the ever fake coin.;)
That's the flaw in your logic, it isn't their lines! It is our lines, the public's, because they laid them with our tax dollars. Just what the hell did you think the billions of dollars were meant to be used for? Just because they control the lines doesn't mean they actually own or much less actually paid for them.
The really sad part is that we've been taxed twice for those lines. The first time the tax dollars the government gave them (or was it loaned, but we apparently haven't collected on that) and the second time in our service bill for using those lines.
Yet when the progress bar is gone it doesn't necessarily mean the transfer is complete, might be half-way done.
Realistically its the Windows machine that is being slow to do the file transfers. I once did a test with two AMD 600MHz K6-3's running Debian sarge 3.1 each with an IDE drive (40GB 7200 WD drives) and used samba to transfer files between them to see what would happen (normally use rsync) and it finished copying ~1,200 small (~2KByte to ~90KB) source code files (various old projects that I was too lazy to archive up first) in just 20 seconds. On Windows to Windows machine (WinXP SP2 on both, ad-hoc / non-active directory, both using 160 GB SATA 7200 WD drives) it took ~6 minutes. Seriously what the fuck is Microsoft doing in their code base, just copying one byte at a time?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
... but I always felt this joke should be written as "There are 1 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.". Sorry about that, carry on.
Yet another break through in technology that we won't see for a long time and some how that is news worthy. But of course by the time we might actually see this new technology in commercial use somebody will claim 50-90% efficiency and yet again won't see any possible commercial availability for years to come.
Yes my post's subject's acronym doesn't exist and no I have no idea how to pronounce it.:P
C language doesn't do exceptions for example and another one is that in Linux kernel module development they suggest to use goto in their coding style for cases like when you have mutliple exit points in a function and need to do some cleaning before returning. Doing anything else would just add code bloat and then the compiler would have to waste time optimizing it all down to Esentially a goto / jump instruction.
Punkbuster (Made by EA, hmm) is a terribly buggy and resource intensive program that is ineffectual at BEST.
Punkbuster is made by Evenbalance which isn't related to Electronic Arts. Now EA Games does license Punkbuster from Evenbalance to use in various games and the same goes for Activision and ID Software.
Now the part about it being buggy and resource intensive I can testify that is definitely true. Even a monster of a machine like mine using an ASUS Maximus Extreme, Q6600, 2GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM, and GeForce 8600 GTS it'll choke on games like Call of Duty 4 whenever Punkbuster does screen captures that get uploaded to the server for analysis at an interval (some every two minutes) which can make a difference between you successfully killing a player or getting choked and they kill you instead. I have heard there are a few tricks to get around that in CoD4 such as forcing the game into multiple threaded mode by configuring the graphics setting Dual-Video Cards to true even though you only have a single card with one GPU processor.
Another bad thing with Punkbuster is that if your pb client is even slightly out of date with updates such you were gaming all night and then fourteen hours later once you've woken up and decided to play the game again on the exact same server and there was an update, well you'll get kicked off with in a minute due to some communication error with your pb client of which the only fix is to manually update the pb client by running the pbsetup utility. Talk about annoying...
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Is anybody else shrugging their shoulders and asking the same question of: What the hell is the point in wasting DNS space for such a half-assed crap idea?
And I thought I was stuck in the stone age using an Athlon XP 1700+ with 1.5GB DDR RAM and a dual 1GHz Pentium III 1GB SDRAM server.
Mine says "Two cars in every pot and a chicken in every garage."
That's not what I had in mind for a thanks giving...
Yep, good ole Opera 6 on my Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. I personally used the OpenZaurus distribution with the exported Opera browser from the last sharp firmware release for my model.
But yeah it worked great at the time for any website I visited to be presented just like the computer version of opera and the other web browsers and the zoom features were fairly decent. Of course back then websites weren't so web 2.0 crazy either since majority of the content wasn't drastically dynamically manipulated in javascript like current slashdot is today. So, I'm not sure how well it would work on websites of today.
On a side note the last time I used my SL-5500 it had a screen refresh problem as it slowly updated and it was like watching a badly flickering CRT monitor update, except you could see the lines of the display redraw at like 8 FPS and it just made me think that it was dying so I just stopped using it all together.
I am getting the same thing. Is it just me or is slashdot slowly turning into a web 2.0 turd like sourceforge has become? It isn't anymore functional than static HTML (of which I prefer) and it actually puts me off. Shit is ending up in places where it doesn't belong like as you have pointed out the firehorse is now merged into my user page. :(
Don't you mean assisted suicide? Because you cannot charge a dead body with crime of committing suicide....
Or can you?
'Meat' Printer: ~$2 million dollars from digikey
Wang Frame: $1.89 at wal-mart (sizes may vary)
Special Sauce: 2 minutes?
Doctor's visit: $200 thousand dollars
Scaring the shit out of your woman in the middle of the night with your new found creation called "beast": Priceless...
OLS 2.0 Full Speed
OLS 2.0 Hi-Speed
"Original OLS"
OLS Universal Host Controller
OLS Enhanced Host Controller
Wait... What were we talking about again?
Weasel Boy... what a fitting name for such a terrible suggestion. Not to mention no IT, no network for your macs. So you prefer a bunch of stand alone macs instead of a network infrastructure where information can be passed around easily and maintainable compared to say USB keys or DVD+Rs handed around? No internet either that is IT's work field.
Your suggestion would definitely get rid of the problem of employees wasting their time away web surfing or posting on slashdot instead of working...
I'm wondering what all was ripped out in order to make it possible to be released under GPL. Such as for example is all the EAX stuff not there? See OpenAL for example of where Creative has binary only releases of several versions of OpenAL so that their version of the library can have access to all the features on the card while the actual open sourced code base is lacking a lot. Speaking of which is the open sourced OpenAL library still even maintained anymore? Because I see more and more game engine developers moving away from OpenAL (its pretty much outdated these days and ugly to work with) like on Torque game engine and going with libraries like FMOD.
I prefer the american version: Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
:)
How would you know? It seems to be that all other broadcast corps are in the same bed of being as much one-sided Liberal and bias as possible to push for their own agenda to the general public. You could say they're Socialists.
Realistically based off of history. This means that a lot worse copyright laws like the DMCA will get passed that the media Mafia has been pushing for and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. One prediction is that in the next four years by downloading that MP3 you've gotten yourself a speedy pass to possible two to ten year prison sentence because 'copyright infringement is far worse than bank robbery or killing somebody!'
How about the patent system? That'll get gamed too just like the copyright will continue to be and we could possibly see something along the lines of: Oh, so you infriged on so&so's patent. We'll take your home, car, and even your dog as punishment and just several months of jail time. That'll be enough for now until we find more cases of infrigement. Have a good day!
In all seriousness, its going to get a lot more stressful and almost dangerous for us open source and fair rights exercising citizens in the coming few years. Land of the free with reserved parking for the VIPs!
You mean shield harmonics?
Maybe because of the fact that gun control has never kept guns away from criminals at all period. It has only restricted and prevented the public from defending themselves at all by disarming them and making it illegal for them to even have the possibility of being able to arm and defend themselves. In every single case of gun control or out right ban on guns the criminals still managed to have guns no matter what. Well gee I wonder why maybe because it has something to do with the fact that they are criminals and will do anything to get a hold of a weapon if they so do desire one.
Your logic of control is flawed, but nothing more than an illusion. There will always be crazies out there who just don't give a shit and take any innocent bystander with them. So the only reasonable and responsible thing to do is simply be prepared and learn how to defend yourself with or without a weapon. That is just life out here in the real world and not your idealistic stupidly of "oh we'll just take all weapons away and everything will be a OK...". It never works out that way throughout history it has shown time and time again.
Just hope that your significant other doesn't get a new 'friend' that has enough sense to use the single user mode backdoor in Linux to gain root access and reset the password as possible on default installations of various distributions. But of course that can easily be corrected by using an encrypted partition, that requires root password in order to mount, of which where all the goodies should be stored. ;)
If that is the case then how did the open source projects come to exist in the first place? Matter of observation I saw a boom in open source projects after the dotcom bubble burst and even open source projects that existed before the collapse even got even more contributions after that. I certainly saw better progress from kernel development to KDE maturity.
Yeah I know... I know... You were just showing the other side of the ever fake coin. ;)
That's the flaw in your logic, it isn't their lines! It is our lines, the public's, because they laid them with our tax dollars. Just what the hell did you think the billions of dollars were meant to be used for? Just because they control the lines doesn't mean they actually own or much less actually paid for them.
The really sad part is that we've been taxed twice for those lines. The first time the tax dollars the government gave them (or was it loaned, but we apparently haven't collected on that) and the second time in our service bill for using those lines.
You've overclocked Celerons? Say it isn't so....
Yet when the progress bar is gone it doesn't necessarily mean the transfer is complete, might be half-way done.
Realistically its the Windows machine that is being slow to do the file transfers. I once did a test with two AMD 600MHz K6-3's running Debian sarge 3.1 each with an IDE drive (40GB 7200 WD drives) and used samba to transfer files between them to see what would happen (normally use rsync) and it finished copying ~1,200 small (~2KByte to ~90KB) source code files (various old projects that I was too lazy to archive up first) in just 20 seconds. On Windows to Windows machine (WinXP SP2 on both, ad-hoc / non-active directory, both using 160 GB SATA 7200 WD drives) it took ~6 minutes. Seriously what the fuck is Microsoft doing in their code base, just copying one byte at a time?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
... but I always felt this joke should be written as "There are 1 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.". Sorry about that, carry on.
Wow, you absolutely just failed.... FAIL!!!
10 is two in binary!
Yet another break through in technology that we won't see for a long time and some how that is news worthy. But of course by the time we might actually see this new technology in commercial use somebody will claim 50-90% efficiency and yet again won't see any possible commercial availability for years to come.
Yes my post's subject's acronym doesn't exist and no I have no idea how to pronounce it. :P
Check out GPUReview.com and look at the compare cards option that should give you an idea.
C language doesn't do exceptions for example and another one is that in Linux kernel module development they suggest to use goto in their coding style for cases like when you have mutliple exit points in a function and need to do some cleaning before returning. Doing anything else would just add code bloat and then the compiler would have to waste time optimizing it all down to Esentially a goto / jump instruction.
- Coding Style Reference
Punkbuster (Made by EA, hmm) is a terribly buggy and resource intensive program that is ineffectual at BEST.
Punkbuster is made by Evenbalance which isn't related to Electronic Arts. Now EA Games does license Punkbuster from Evenbalance to use in various games and the same goes for Activision and ID Software.
Now the part about it being buggy and resource intensive I can testify that is definitely true. Even a monster of a machine like mine using an ASUS Maximus Extreme, Q6600, 2GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM, and GeForce 8600 GTS it'll choke on games like Call of Duty 4 whenever Punkbuster does screen captures that get uploaded to the server for analysis at an interval (some every two minutes) which can make a difference between you successfully killing a player or getting choked and they kill you instead. I have heard there are a few tricks to get around that in CoD4 such as forcing the game into multiple threaded mode by configuring the graphics setting Dual-Video Cards to true even though you only have a single card with one GPU processor.
Another bad thing with Punkbuster is that if your pb client is even slightly out of date with updates such you were gaming all night and then fourteen hours later once you've woken up and decided to play the game again on the exact same server and there was an update, well you'll get kicked off with in a minute due to some communication error with your pb client of which the only fix is to manually update the pb client by running the pbsetup utility. Talk about annoying...