...at work. We use it to aggregate millions of dumped events every day, and while it may be missing features that are common in RDBMSes or use brute force rather than special magic, the fact is that we can point it at a cluster of machines and get aggregated stuff out with a lot less computational overhead than if we used anything else. It's not an RDBMS, and we don't use it as one, and therefore don't give a rat's ass if it's any good as one -- it does one thing, and it does it at a good price/scalability/performance/modifiability/ease-of-use multiratio. (And at the risk of being redundant: Photoshop is a crap word-processor, but the problem there isn't Photoshop, it's the fucktard who uses it to write letters.)
Good point -- after all, TV is irrelevant because you can't upload anything, and nobody goes to the movies any more because it's not full of crappy 30 second videos of no-talent morons doing something stupid. You must be some kind of genius!
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It's not just "pass" and "fail", though -- there's a significant difference between "doesn't quite pull it off, but makes a reasonable stab at it" (like FF), and "throws up all over the monitor" (like IE)...
I'm a Photoshop user, and have been for years; the only vector program I've ever used was an ancient version of Corel draw. Even so, I just downloaded (without incident) Acrylic, installed it, took a couple of minutes fathoming out the interface, and had a play.
My verdict after 20 minutes? Pretty good. The functionality seems to be all there (although there's always room for more), and the only thing I can see that's crying out for a little love is the UI -- changing stroke widths, etc., is accomplished through some sort of strange "analogue digital display" (like counters on old tape decks) rather than sliders, the indication of which tool is selected is a little non-obvious, and it all feels a bit like whoever wrote the code for some part of the app also did the UI giving it no coherent feel.
In summary, I'm not sure who's lamer -- the guy who wrote the review, or Slashdot for linking to it. I'm going to give it a thorough going over tomorrow, and shall post my own damned review...
I was wondering the same thing -- it doesn't look very sturdy at all, and I can imagine it's going to be very annoying moving the sticks about every time you catch them at a funny angle and detatch them from the keys. I also suspect that -- due to the extra force required to press the keys because of the length of the linkages -- you're going to do a lot more damage to your thumbs than you would have done to your pinkies.
From the headline I was expecting some sort cool hack, but "I stuck some sticks to it with tape" is lame. Is this really the best/. can come up with these days?
But it is funny, you insensitive clod! In North Korea, only old people are funny! In Soviet Russia you aren't funny, funny is you! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! But does it run Linux? (In other words, "funny" is subjective, and doesn't seem to be a requirement.)
Assuming, however, it isn't funny, at least mod it "off topic" and not "redundant"!
Who on earth modded this "redundant"? I'm guessing it was either someone not old enough to remember the whole "Al Gore invented the internet" thing, or someone who didn't read the post properly and missed the last line. Either way, they're fucktards; can someone mod it funny, please?
It got modded down because its not even mildly funny.
It made me chuckle. Remember, "funny" is not an absolute; just look at Pauly Shore! (On second thoughts, don't; it might make you ill.)
It is, in the strictest sense, Redundant.
Tell me, which sense of redundant means "not funny"? Granted, none of the mod options really express the notion of "unfunny", and I suppose you could stretch a point by saying the comment wasn't needed, but that applies equally to 99.999% of the comments on/.
I'd always assumed "Redundant" was to be used when someone's repeated a comment that's already been made; as the comment in question was the first reply to the first post it in no way matches the criteria.
Which leads to "I was going to, but the damned thing was gone before I got a chance".
Sure, the/. "policy" is to not mirror stuff, but there are quite a few people (myself included) with space and bandwidth to spare, so perhaps we can set up a list of people who'll mirror big content that editors (or people who are submitting things) can refer to and give us a couple of minutes headstart so that the mirroring process isn't defeated by the fact that by the time someone wants to mirror it it's too late.
Which is then followed by the compulsory "but mirrordot doesn't cache everything, including this movie, which you'd known if you'd followed your own advice and checked mirrordot, you asshat" post.
Unless whoever translated it in to English got hopelessly confused, they are cracking down on pirated/illegally imported titles and not banning the games outright. The list probably covers the most popular titles falling in to these categories; presumably if they spot Sims 2 it's more likely than not an illicit copy and worthy of further scrutiny.
In other words, they're doing nothing that would be considered unusual in the US or Europe.
I second that. If only this had appeared earlier -- I just used up my last mod point this morning!
/. is going to the dogs -- countless old or repeated stories, pointing to press releases and calling them news, a total lack of grammar and spelling skills when posting stories, and an almost pathological desire to finish them with some sort of unwarranted barbed comment are bad enough, but if you also factor in mods who obviously haven't RTFA and need a serious beating with the clue stick it's a pretty sad state of affairs. AOL may have just been denied Usenet access, but they couldn't hold a candle to the people on/. who should know better!
I only got MCE "by accident" on my new laptop, and I have to say that in terms of out-of-the-box experience, ease of use, integration of features, etc., it beats any other PVR software I've used in the past by a long way.
In terms of DRM, burning stuff to DVD, etc., it's pretty much idiot proof -- pick something you've recorded, select "Make CD/DVD", add any other stuff you want to put on the disk, wait about 20 minutes, and you're done. Stick it in any DVD player and it works perfectly, with a nice menu to select what file you want to watch, etc. (The only shortcoming is that it's not too good at working out what will fit; sometimes it'll warn that you've put too much stuff on there, and other times it'll start muxing and then fail with an unhelpful error message.)
Pausing/rewinding live TV is also a breeze; whenever you switch channels it automatically starts buffering video. Tapping rewind takes you back about 10 seconds, holding it takes you to the start of the current show; fast forward skips about 25 seconds, just the right amount of time to avoid commercials -- I've taken to waiting about 10 minutes after something starts, zipping back to the beginning, and skipping all the commercials. Advertisers may hate it, but screw 'em!:)
In addition to the PVR/TV stuff the picture slideshow is nice, and the touchup tools (red-eye removal, automatic cropping, etc.) are impressive. Sure, it's no Photoshop, but for the average user it's more than adequate, and all works through the "10-ft interface". Watching videos (it has limited support for DivX/XviD, but could do with more up-to-date codecs) is a breeze, and the MP3/WMA player is also pretty sweet (although if you have a lot of MP3s navigation can be a bit irritating, and although it uses WMP10 to do the actual playing, not all visualisations work properly.)
There are also a few nifty added extras available -- an RSS reader, alarm clock, etc. -- and I suspect a lot of third-party vendors are going to step in and fill in the gaps.
I was fully prepared to hate it, but I now very rarely use my actual TV for viewing. If it had a better grasp of anamorphic 16:9 broadcasts (it assumes everything is 4:3 -- my laptop has a 16:10 screen and the picture can be stretched to compensate, but burning DVDs from 16:9 video can result in much strangeness), and was aware of digital terrestrial TV here in the UK (I have a choice of regular TV, analogue or digital cable, or satellite, none of which have quite the right lineup of channels for the TV guide, and it's completely oblivious to the "interactive" features of my set-top box) it would be perfect, but even with those little niggles it's one of the best things to come out of Redmond in many a long year...
It's been done to death -- FarCry, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Hidden & Dangerous 2, blah, blah. Ducking for cover, sneaking about, etc., is all part of the fun, but there's still a load of lunatic leaping-up-and-down action going on as it does make you harder to hit -- A Good Thing in any FPS.
Frankly if realism is your bag join the Army, rob a bank, or move to West Virginia and say you're gay -- all sure fire ways of getting people to shoot at you...:)
Man, what a bunch of ass-hats. If faking a screenshot in such a crude fashion wasn't bad enough, they couldn't even be bothered to do it properly. (Unless they've gone back to the original DOOM 2d-sprite on 3d-background way of doing things? After all, retro is k3wL!!1!11!!1!ONE!!!ONE!)
Slashdot Mirror
...at work. We use it to aggregate millions of dumped events every day, and while it may be missing features that are common in RDBMSes or use brute force rather than special magic, the fact is that we can point it at a cluster of machines and get aggregated stuff out with a lot less computational overhead than if we used anything else. It's not an RDBMS, and we don't use it as one, and therefore don't give a rat's ass if it's any good as one -- it does one thing, and it does it at a good price/scalability/performance/modifiability/ease-of-use multiratio. (And at the risk of being redundant: Photoshop is a crap word-processor, but the problem there isn't Photoshop, it's the fucktard who uses it to write letters.)
It must be your lucky day -- consider yourselves invited!
Good point -- after all, TV is irrelevant because you can't upload anything, and nobody goes to the movies any more because it's not full of crappy 30 second videos of no-talent morons doing something stupid. You must be some kind of genius!
It's not just "pass" and "fail", though -- there's a significant difference between "doesn't quite pull it off, but makes a reasonable stab at it" (like FF), and "throws up all over the monitor" (like IE)...
I'm a Photoshop user, and have been for years; the only vector program I've ever used was an ancient version of Corel draw. Even so, I just downloaded (without incident) Acrylic, installed it, took a couple of minutes fathoming out the interface, and had a play.
My verdict after 20 minutes? Pretty good. The functionality seems to be all there (although there's always room for more), and the only thing I can see that's crying out for a little love is the UI -- changing stroke widths, etc., is accomplished through some sort of strange "analogue digital display" (like counters on old tape decks) rather than sliders, the indication of which tool is selected is a little non-obvious, and it all feels a bit like whoever wrote the code for some part of the app also did the UI giving it no coherent feel.
In summary, I'm not sure who's lamer -- the guy who wrote the review, or Slashdot for linking to it. I'm going to give it a thorough going over tomorrow, and shall post my own damned review...
I was wondering the same thing -- it doesn't look very sturdy at all, and I can imagine it's going to be very annoying moving the sticks about every time you catch them at a funny angle and detatch them from the keys. I also suspect that -- due to the extra force required to press the keys because of the length of the linkages -- you're going to do a lot more damage to your thumbs than you would have done to your pinkies.
/. can come up with these days?
From the headline I was expecting some sort cool hack, but "I stuck some sticks to it with tape" is lame. Is this really the best
And what about the 96,172 people running XP or 2000 but not using NTFS? Surely some mistake?
But it is funny, you insensitive clod! In North Korea, only old people are funny! In Soviet Russia you aren't funny, funny is you! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! But does it run Linux? (In other words, "funny" is subjective, and doesn't seem to be a requirement.)
Assuming, however, it isn't funny, at least mod it "off topic" and not "redundant"!
Who on earth modded this "redundant"? I'm guessing it was either someone not old enough to remember the whole "Al Gore invented the internet" thing, or someone who didn't read the post properly and missed the last line. Either way, they're fucktards; can someone mod it funny, please?
But that's why it's funny!
It got modded down because its not even mildly funny.
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It made me chuckle. Remember, "funny" is not an absolute; just look at Pauly Shore! (On second thoughts, don't; it might make you ill.)
It is, in the strictest sense, Redundant.
Tell me, which sense of redundant means "not funny"? Granted, none of the mod options really express the notion of "unfunny", and I suppose you could stretch a point by saying the comment wasn't needed, but that applies equally to 99.999% of the comments on
I'd always assumed "Redundant" was to be used when someone's repeated a comment that's already been made; as the comment in question was the first reply to the first post it in no way matches the criteria.
Which leads to "I was going to, but the damned thing was gone before I got a chance".
/. "policy" is to not mirror stuff, but there are quite a few people (myself included) with space and bandwidth to spare, so perhaps we can set up a list of people who'll mirror big content that editors (or people who are submitting things) can refer to and give us a couple of minutes headstart so that the mirroring process isn't defeated by the fact that by the time someone wants to mirror it it's too late.
Sure, the
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Which is then followed by the compulsory "but mirrordot doesn't cache everything, including this movie, which you'd known if you'd followed your own advice and checked mirrordot, you asshat" post.
Hey, that's ME! Only owned the darned thing for a weeks, and already it's famous...
I get a particularly apt rendering bug when looking at the page using FireFox. A grab can be seen here.
These people seem to be selling something remarkably similar.
Unless whoever translated it in to English got hopelessly confused, they are cracking down on pirated/illegally imported titles and not banning the games outright. The list probably covers the most popular titles falling in to these categories; presumably if they spot Sims 2 it's more likely than not an illicit copy and worthy of further scrutiny.
In other words, they're doing nothing that would be considered unusual in the US or Europe.
I second that. If only this had appeared earlier -- I just used up my last mod point this morning!
/. is going to the dogs -- countless old or repeated stories, pointing to press releases and calling them news, a total lack of grammar and spelling skills when posting stories, and an almost pathological desire to finish them with some sort of unwarranted barbed comment are bad enough, but if you also factor in mods who obviously haven't RTFA and need a serious beating with the clue stick it's a pretty sad state of affairs. AOL may have just been denied Usenet access, but they couldn't hold a candle to the people on /. who should know better!
[ Yeah, yeah, -1: Flamebait/Troll for me. BFD! ]
Who needs another version? Why not play the original online?
Iapetus is American?
I only got MCE "by accident" on my new laptop, and I have to say that in terms of out-of-the-box experience, ease of use, integration of features, etc., it beats any other PVR software I've used in the past by a long way.
:)
In terms of DRM, burning stuff to DVD, etc., it's pretty much idiot proof -- pick something you've recorded, select "Make CD/DVD", add any other stuff you want to put on the disk, wait about 20 minutes, and you're done. Stick it in any DVD player and it works perfectly, with a nice menu to select what file you want to watch, etc. (The only shortcoming is that it's not too good at working out what will fit; sometimes it'll warn that you've put too much stuff on there, and other times it'll start muxing and then fail with an unhelpful error message.)
Pausing/rewinding live TV is also a breeze; whenever you switch channels it automatically starts buffering video. Tapping rewind takes you back about 10 seconds, holding it takes you to the start of the current show; fast forward skips about 25 seconds, just the right amount of time to avoid commercials -- I've taken to waiting about 10 minutes after something starts, zipping back to the beginning, and skipping all the commercials. Advertisers may hate it, but screw 'em!
In addition to the PVR/TV stuff the picture slideshow is nice, and the touchup tools (red-eye removal, automatic cropping, etc.) are impressive. Sure, it's no Photoshop, but for the average user it's more than adequate, and all works through the "10-ft interface". Watching videos (it has limited support for DivX/XviD, but could do with more up-to-date codecs) is a breeze, and the MP3/WMA player is also pretty sweet (although if you have a lot of MP3s navigation can be a bit irritating, and although it uses WMP10 to do the actual playing, not all visualisations work properly.)
There are also a few nifty added extras available -- an RSS reader, alarm clock, etc. -- and I suspect a lot of third-party vendors are going to step in and fill in the gaps.
I was fully prepared to hate it, but I now very rarely use my actual TV for viewing. If it had a better grasp of anamorphic 16:9 broadcasts (it assumes everything is 4:3 -- my laptop has a 16:10 screen and the picture can be stretched to compensate, but burning DVDs from 16:9 video can result in much strangeness), and was aware of digital terrestrial TV here in the UK (I have a choice of regular TV, analogue or digital cable, or satellite, none of which have quite the right lineup of channels for the TV guide, and it's completely oblivious to the "interactive" features of my set-top box) it would be perfect, but even with those little niggles it's one of the best things to come out of Redmond in many a long year...
It's been done to death -- FarCry, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Hidden & Dangerous 2, blah, blah. Ducking for cover, sneaking about, etc., is all part of the fun, but there's still a load of lunatic leaping-up-and-down action going on as it does make you harder to hit -- A Good Thing in any FPS.
:)
Frankly if realism is your bag join the Army, rob a bank, or move to West Virginia and say you're gay -- all sure fire ways of getting people to shoot at you...
The game is pretty cool...
But it ain't PacMan, which answers "Why is Pac-Mondrian attracting more art types than gaming types?"
You need to take Google lessons! Here they are.
(Google for quake iv forum screenshots scan -- couldn't be simpler!)
Man, what a bunch of ass-hats. If faking a screenshot in such a crude fashion wasn't bad enough, they couldn't even be bothered to do it properly. (Unless they've gone back to the original DOOM 2d-sprite on 3d-background way of doing things? After all, retro is k3wL!!1!11!!1!ONE!!!ONE!)