Tramiel's great hit, the C64, was also responsible for getting me into music in the first place. People like Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway got me hooked, and I still use C64 sounds today via plugins like QuadraSID.
++ for this. There were two factors that got me interested in electronic music, Rob Hubbard and Depeche Mode. Of the two, I'd have to say Hubbard was a greater influence (and I'm a huge DM fan).
Seconded. If you're feeling lazy, ION-based nettops can be had quite cheaply - pros: small, quiet; cons: limited expandability (usually space for only a single 2.5" hard drive). I personally got a nettop from Asus that includes a slot-loading DVD-drive and an IR-remote, combined with a 2TB external hard drive and XBMC things have been peachy, it will happily play back everything I've thrown at it. Although ION doesn't support hardware decoding of MPEG4 ASP (i.e. DivX/XviD), so I suppose if one has 1080p content in that format ION would struggle with it; in practice though, all HD video seems to be encoded with MPEG4 AVC (H.264), which ION supports just fine.
Look, the point I was trying to make is that many people seem to think is that Apple is being the victim here, always being pestered by those nasty FRAND patent holders. But the situation is not that black and white. Case in point, Nokia vs Apple. When the lawsuits became public, there was much whining about how Apple was being mistreated. But it turns out there had been negotiations (that is, they had to pay more for their unwillingness to contribute other patents to the pool in return) for quite a while, and basically Apple wanted to use said FRAND patents without giving anything back. They have no patents on actual hardware (LTE perhaps, but not something they researched themselves as you stated), just some bullshit software patents. Which they refuse to share. And Apple was right? Perhaps, but they still ended up paying Nokia quite a bit.
Given the all out patent armaggeddon that Apple is participating at the moment (do I really need to dig up the quotes from saint jobs?), I'm quite confident that had they more relevant patents WRT actual telephony they most certainly would use them. But hey, if you feel you've received +1 inches on your iPenis, good for you.
This is simply because they don't have any FRANDable patents, only elementary stuff like round corners and slide-to-unlock (neither of which should have been granted).
I'm not surprised at all that Jericho got canceled. The show could have been great, but quickly turned into a post-apocalyptic O.C. Shame really, the premise had some potential.
his first three were good though (bad boys, the rock, armageddon)
Sorry, I don't know what you are smoking but evidently it's some good shit. Bad boys and The rock, maybe, but Armageddon, seriously? That is the film equivalent of lobotomy - you either need one to enjoy it, or watching it will give you one.
Calling it a mod would really downplay the effort; while it does require Dungeon Siege to run (which you can either seek used or *cough*PB*cough*), the level of detail is astounding. They've even expanded the plot, very tastefully though. Personally, I was very very pleased when I tried it for the first time, cast "cure poison" and my character shouts "An Nox!" (not as in audio, that would be annoying). After all these years, I remember most of the syllables. Which is kinda sad, I know, but I digress. I can't comment on the PC graphics as I used to play it on a C128 (compared to C64 one got the music also instead of bare fx, which was great).
+1 for Ultima V. Check out Lazarus if you already haven't; while it isn't quite as good as the original (where is my cloth map and Book of Lore?) it's a worthy remake.
That's odd, I regularly watch the flash-based versions of The Daily Show and Colbert on my Transformer (the original one, so Tegra 2) and it seems to play them just fine, fullscreen also. Then again, the version of Android that Asus ships is pretty much plain vanilla, I don't know how much "enhancements" Sony has added to it.
Anecdotes are not data, but personally, I've bought way more from the Market than I would have imagined. Yes, pirating is very trivial, but getting the app from the market is more convenient and if it's a € or two, it's a no-brainer. And I'm a filthy pirate (arrrr), I regularly download tv shows I'm not able to get otherwise, and try-before-you-buy games on the Xbox (unless it's a title I'm sure I'll get, like Skyrim, but believe it or not, I do buy the games I end up playing)
Regarding KDE 4 though, the changes between 3 and 4 were much more fundamental than between Gnome 2 and 3. That is not to say that KDE 4 was not a mess initially, it certainly was; I personally switched around 4.2, and it was seemingly functional then but very much not ready. But now at 4.8 it rocks, kwin is really fast nowadays. The only thing I'm missing from 3.x is the ability to drag-and-drop file(s) from Ark to Konsole and have them extracted there, but with all the new features that is a minor irritation.
Oh they'll get around eventually. Notifications in iOS 5, for example, could be said to be heavily influenced by another mobile OS. But when Apple finally apes those things, you can bet they'll be revolutionary and magical.
Oh, and before someone inevitably starts to flame me for dissing Windows, that was certainly not my intention; my point is, in any given application of even moderate complexity, there are some (usually trivial, but still) tasks that have to be done. So one has to either to reinvent the wheel (always a bad idea), or rely on the environment or external libraries to take care of them, which the various Windows APIs do, up to a point - but there are some tasks for which external libraries are needed. And there are many OSS libs for such tasks, some with enough permissive licenses to be used with closed source software as well. But still, apart from the core libraries, Windows binaries tend to be statically linked. As such, they will take more time to load themselves, instead of having only to use a shared library (which might already be in memory - hell, even utilized at the moment by a different program). I do realize this is a double-edged sword when it comes to Linux, not more than once I've had to hunt for a version x.y of libfoo when trying a proprietary program. But when it comes to startup times, when using only programs designed to run on a given DE, splash screens are pretty much a non-issue.
IIRC KDE3 had a style guide requesting that splash screens would be all inside the application window. I always thought that was a brilliant idea.
While that indeed is a good idea, I've also found that within KDE (this was certainly true with latter versions of KDE 3, but now with KDE 4.8 there's not much of a difference either, on contemporary hardware) that most, if not all, applications launch themselves pretty much instantly once the desktop has loaded itself. People keep complaining about the "bloat" in KDE, but the system is very modular; and while kdelibs is undoubtedly big, once it is in memory, it is shared by so many programs that the amount of loading needed for a single application is quite insignificant. The problem is, once you start to use programs that require other frameworks (GTK and such), initial load times are much worse; and with Windows, the situation is even worse.
Sorry, I think that a bit got lost in the translation. I don't mean the about-inch-thick pieces fried quickly for each side, but you know stick a big piece of meat in an oven for many hours (or a barbeque, if you will) at low heat.
Actually, I was really surprised by that news. Not the fact that the law was changed, but the fact that it existed in the first place. And the "oh won't somebody think of the horses"-response. Here horses are used for some meat products. Mind you though, I don't think they're bred for it, like cows and especially pigs, but at some point they get old and, well, you get the drift. And why not? It's really tasty, I find some horse steaks to be far better than beef. And horse salami rocks.
Plenty of pirates only pirate because they have no legal option to acquire the content. Sometimes its not available on DVD/Blu-Ray (or digital stream/download) in their country. Sometimes its a TV show that has yet to be picked up by any local TV network (or where the local network is 3 seasons
behind or something).
I hate it when people reply with "this", but... THIS. I follow some US series. Yes, some of them are shown on the local networks, many seasons behind. Some of them are not. I could get them from by ordering a cable package - but then I'd have to pay for several channels I'd never watch, and still be some six months behind. As a filthy pirate, I can get an episode in HD with surround audio the next day, with no ads. So the pirated product is superior. But if I could for example buy a season of a series for a reasonable price and get the episodes in "real time", I would. Case in point, ever since subscribing to Spotify I haven't downloaded a single album, hell, a track even. So instead of hunting downloaders the media companies should focus on new ways for digital distribution. Yes, I'd like a pony with that.
On Android I've found EzPDF to be quite good. It costs a few dollars, but handles annotations very well. You can use DropBox to sync files between the tablet and your PC, it is free unless you're planning on storing over 1GB of data. No recommendations for metadata though.
Regarding ConnectBot, there's a special version for the Transformer with physical tab key support (essential really). I don't have the URL right now, but you should be able to find it from the apps home page at code.google.com
Fluxbox does this, ditto for KWin nowadays. Although I personally find myself using the feature very seldom, just with a browser every now and then (one tab for misc browsing, one for documentation and one for work).
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Tramiel's great hit, the C64, was also responsible for getting me into music in the first place. People like Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway got me hooked, and I still use C64 sounds today via plugins like QuadraSID.
++ for this. There were two factors that got me interested in electronic music, Rob Hubbard and Depeche Mode. Of the two, I'd have to say Hubbard was a greater influence (and I'm a huge DM fan).
Seconded. If you're feeling lazy, ION-based nettops can be had quite cheaply - pros: small, quiet; cons: limited expandability (usually space for only a single 2.5" hard drive). I personally got a nettop from Asus that includes a slot-loading DVD-drive and an IR-remote, combined with a 2TB external hard drive and XBMC things have been peachy, it will happily play back everything I've thrown at it. Although ION doesn't support hardware decoding of MPEG4 ASP (i.e. DivX/XviD), so I suppose if one has 1080p content in that format ION would struggle with it; in practice though, all HD video seems to be encoded with MPEG4 AVC (H.264), which ION supports just fine.
Given the all out patent armaggeddon that Apple is participating at the moment (do I really need to dig up the quotes from saint jobs?), I'm quite confident that had they more relevant patents WRT actual telephony they most certainly would use them. But hey, if you feel you've received +1 inches on your iPenis, good for you.
But when it comes to mobile telephony, they've invented fuck all.
This is simply because they don't have any FRANDable patents, only elementary stuff like round corners and slide-to-unlock (neither of which should have been granted).
I'm not surprised at all that Jericho got canceled. The show could have been great, but quickly turned into a post-apocalyptic O.C. Shame really, the premise had some potential.
his first three were good though (bad boys, the rock, armageddon)
Sorry, I don't know what you are smoking but evidently it's some good shit. Bad boys and The rock, maybe, but Armageddon, seriously? That is the film equivalent of lobotomy - you either need one to enjoy it, or watching it will give you one.
You might want to check out the OP. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Calling it a mod would really downplay the effort; while it does require Dungeon Siege to run (which you can either seek used or *cough*PB*cough*), the level of detail is astounding. They've even expanded the plot, very tastefully though. Personally, I was very very pleased when I tried it for the first time, cast "cure poison" and my character shouts "An Nox!" (not as in audio, that would be annoying). After all these years, I remember most of the syllables. Which is kinda sad, I know, but I digress. I can't comment on the PC graphics as I used to play it on a C128 (compared to C64 one got the music also instead of bare fx, which was great).
+1 for Ultima V. Check out Lazarus if you already haven't; while it isn't quite as good as the original (where is my cloth map and Book of Lore?) it's a worthy remake.
That's odd, I regularly watch the flash-based versions of The Daily Show and Colbert on my Transformer (the original one, so Tegra 2) and it seems to play them just fine, fullscreen also. Then again, the version of Android that Asus ships is pretty much plain vanilla, I don't know how much "enhancements" Sony has added to it.
Anecdotes are not data, but personally, I've bought way more from the Market than I would have imagined. Yes, pirating is very trivial, but getting the app from the market is more convenient and if it's a € or two, it's a no-brainer. And I'm a filthy pirate (arrrr), I regularly download tv shows I'm not able to get otherwise, and try-before-you-buy games on the Xbox (unless it's a title I'm sure I'll get, like Skyrim, but believe it or not, I do buy the games I end up playing)
Regarding KDE 4 though, the changes between 3 and 4 were much more fundamental than between Gnome 2 and 3. That is not to say that KDE 4 was not a mess initially, it certainly was; I personally switched around 4.2, and it was seemingly functional then but very much not ready. But now at 4.8 it rocks, kwin is really fast nowadays. The only thing I'm missing from 3.x is the ability to drag-and-drop file(s) from Ark to Konsole and have them extracted there, but with all the new features that is a minor irritation.
But also it's not true that ObjC is not cross platform. It's on iOS and also the Mac. That's two very distinct platforms.
Yes, very distinct
Oh they'll get around eventually. Notifications in iOS 5, for example, could be said to be heavily influenced by another mobile OS. But when Apple finally apes those things, you can bet they'll be revolutionary and magical.
Oh, and before someone inevitably starts to flame me for dissing Windows, that was certainly not my intention; my point is, in any given application of even moderate complexity, there are some (usually trivial, but still) tasks that have to be done. So one has to either to reinvent the wheel (always a bad idea), or rely on the environment or external libraries to take care of them, which the various Windows APIs do, up to a point - but there are some tasks for which external libraries are needed. And there are many OSS libs for such tasks, some with enough permissive licenses to be used with closed source software as well. But still, apart from the core libraries, Windows binaries tend to be statically linked. As such, they will take more time to load themselves, instead of having only to use a shared library (which might already be in memory - hell, even utilized at the moment by a different program). I do realize this is a double-edged sword when it comes to Linux, not more than once I've had to hunt for a version x.y of libfoo when trying a proprietary program. But when it comes to startup times, when using only programs designed to run on a given DE, splash screens are pretty much a non-issue.
IIRC KDE3 had a style guide requesting that splash screens would be all inside the application window. I always thought that was a brilliant idea.
While that indeed is a good idea, I've also found that within KDE (this was certainly true with latter versions of KDE 3, but now with KDE 4.8 there's not much of a difference either, on contemporary hardware) that most, if not all, applications launch themselves pretty much instantly once the desktop has loaded itself. People keep complaining about the "bloat" in KDE, but the system is very modular; and while kdelibs is undoubtedly big, once it is in memory, it is shared by so many programs that the amount of loading needed for a single application is quite insignificant. The problem is, once you start to use programs that require other frameworks (GTK and such), initial load times are much worse; and with Windows, the situation is even worse.
Sorry, I think that a bit got lost in the translation. I don't mean the about-inch-thick pieces fried quickly for each side, but you know stick a big piece of meat in an oven for many hours (or a barbeque, if you will) at low heat.
Actually, I was really surprised by that news. Not the fact that the law was changed, but the fact that it existed in the first place. And the "oh won't somebody think of the horses"-response. Here horses are used for some meat products. Mind you though, I don't think they're bred for it, like cows and especially pigs, but at some point they get old and, well, you get the drift. And why not? It's really tasty, I find some horse steaks to be far better than beef. And horse salami rocks.
Plenty of pirates only pirate because they have no legal option to acquire the content. Sometimes its not available on DVD/Blu-Ray (or digital stream/download) in their country. Sometimes its a TV show that has yet to be picked up by any local TV network (or where the local network is 3 seasons behind or something).
I hate it when people reply with "this", but... THIS. I follow some US series. Yes, some of them are shown on the local networks, many seasons behind. Some of them are not. I could get them from by ordering a cable package - but then I'd have to pay for several channels I'd never watch, and still be some six months behind. As a filthy pirate, I can get an episode in HD with surround audio the next day, with no ads. So the pirated product is superior. But if I could for example buy a season of a series for a reasonable price and get the episodes in "real time", I would. Case in point, ever since subscribing to Spotify I haven't downloaded a single album, hell, a track even. So instead of hunting downloaders the media companies should focus on new ways for digital distribution. Yes, I'd like a pony with that.
It is here at least (Elisa customer myself). But no matter, the block is trivially cirmuvented.
On Android I've found EzPDF to be quite good. It costs a few dollars, but handles annotations very well. You can use DropBox to sync files between the tablet and your PC, it is free unless you're planning on storing over 1GB of data. No recommendations for metadata though.
Regarding ConnectBot, there's a special version for the Transformer with physical tab key support (essential really). I don't have the URL right now, but you should be able to find it from the apps home page at code.google.com
Fluxbox does this, ditto for KWin nowadays. Although I personally find myself using the feature very seldom, just with a browser every now and then (one tab for misc browsing, one for documentation and one for work).