You might get it to work with drivers from kX Project. Back in the day before I could afford a proper sound card those drivers were terrific, allowing (relatively) low latency recording with consumer hardware.
I know I would have bought one ages ago if I could figure out how to make it work with one of my computers.
Google "Wii vga adapter", there are several. You'll need to have a tv at your disposal somewhere though to be able to switch the Wii to use 480p output. As for otherwise interacting with your computers, I've had tons of fun with cwiid, I'm sure similiar programs exist for Windows as well if you are so inclined.
But isn't that equal to <body onload="function1()">, which is quite different than executing a function once the DOM tree has been parsed; the latter happens before all content, such as images, have been loaded. Which is very handy if you, for example, wish to hide some images.
I've been struggling with this as I've been writing a library for internal use and personal amusement. (I don't pretend to have invented this stuff, well not the WebKit and IE portions anyway, they're shamelessly ripped from around the web. For internal use, that's ok, right?)
Suppose you want to execute doStuff() once the DOM is ready. With Gecko/Presto it's quite straightforward:
It gets a bit trickier with WebKit-based browsers:
var _timer = setInterval(function() {
if (/loaded|complete/.test(document.readyState)) {
clearInterval(_timer);
doStuff();
}
}, 50);
And then, as always, we have IE. I've seen some hacks that utilize document.write for this - in my opinion, it is an abomination that should not have existed in the first place. So some more creativity is needed:
Seriously. It works, but is ugly as hell. If anyone would know a more elegant solution, I'm all ears. IE has improved, especially in the CSS department, but when it comes to DOM, there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Oh? My 1000HE routinely gets 7 hours, more if I drop the brightness and/or use less WLAN or BT. While not exactly iPad specs it's not so far either. And while the aspect ratio of 16:10 is not completely ideal for TV/movies, it's certainly better than 4:3 - running a MythTV frontend on it is just great, watching crappy series you've recorded while hungover without having to leave your bed is just great.
Or you could simply change your distribution. "pacman -S nvidia" has always worked for me in Arch. I'm willing to bet this applies to many other distributions as well.
Sure, external sound cards and drives are an option - but I plan to attach mine to the back of the TV with the included VESA mount kit so I prefer to have as few external devices as possible. Naturally this isn't an option for people with wall-mounted TVs, so it depends on your setup.
Yes, ION-based nettops seem very ideal as MythTV frontends, I just ordered an Asus EB1501. I did consider the Revo as well, but S/PDIF out and an integrated DVD drive were among my requirements - if you don't need them then certainly the Revo (or similiar nettops, there are many models to choose from) fit the bill. VDPAU on ION offers hardware accelerated MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 AVC, so playing back even 1080p material shouldn't be an issue. ION doesn't support MPEG 4 ASP (XviD/DivX), but there's hardly a need for it; even my way-older-than-ancient PIII@700 MHz laptop will happily play those.
You clearly have never played Super Mario Galaxy. I keep hearing how Mario 64 supposedly was revolutionary, but Galaxy is IMHO the first platformer that's truly 3D (as in the game mechanics, not presentation). And while I can understand that some people don't like platformers, you got to hand it to Nintendo - what they do, they do very well. Better than all the other studios, in some genres.
Actually, yes, it is so awful. In my opinion, which I think I'm entitled to. Apart from external hard drives (the kind with external power supplies), printers and other peripherals that are not meant to be portable, I mostly use USB with my trustworthy and tiny memory stick. It's attached to my keychain and conveniently available when I need it. Needing that extra dongle (or worse, having it attached to the stick) would be very inconvenient.
But if reading/. has taught me anything, arguing with you about anything Apple does is a pointless exercise in futility.
Connectivity - yes, you can get USB or SD! (provided that you want to purchase and carry extra dongles), and let us not forget that it's the ultimate platform for portable video (provided that your movie collection is in 4:3 format... hell I wouldn't be surprised to see a whole new selection of previously widescreen titles in iTunes, "perfected" for the iPad)
A quick googling didn't turn up any sales figures for N900 (which is the only device at the moment running Maemo that is also a phone), but I doubt they're significant - the device went on sale in December in most places, and supplies have been scarce. I don't know the metric Nokia uses for defining a smartphone, but I recon it's based on whether a phone runs S40 (low-end, cheap models) or Symbian/S60 (aka smartphones). Given that they sold ~50 million phones in the previous quarter, and given how common S60 in various versions is in Nokia phones currenlty, I find this reasonable.
Now you may argue that S60 phones are not smartphones, and I'll admit the platform certainly shows it's age and should probably be replaced with Maemo on all high-end devices. The latest version (S60v5, aka the touchscreen version) really has a "lipstick-on-a-pig"-feel to it. But from very early on it has offered many features associated with smartphones (and not found on iPhone), like multitasking and installing applications from anywhere. Hell, it even had a Webkit-based browser before iPhone was released. As to why this is not being reported more, Apple is the media darling, and Nokia has been really boring as of late. N900 has sparked some media interest though.
Where did the parent mention Gimp? In my experience, the professionals always use Photoshop, but many casual users (at least those who don't know to use Bittorrent) seem to use Paint.NET - for those people Krita is worthy alternative. It even supports CMYK, something that Gimp still (AFAIK) doesn't. Yes, it might take some relearning, but let's face it, most people simply crop images or do some light retouching, one will learn to do that in minutes with any program.
So I guess the question remains, why would the average consumer choose a Linux netbook, given that they will need to learn to do things slightly differently? Currently the consumer will most likely go with Windows, but when comparing a 300 netbook on x86 running Windows 7 + the price of applications (let's face it, the average consumer is either law-abiding or oblivious to file sharing) to a 100 netbook on ARM, which includes all sorts of applications with many more downloadable for free, the latter may be very tempting. Most people are not gamers, they couldn't give a flying fuck about running $LATEST_AND_GREATEST_FPS.
(Yes, I'm aware the 100 ARM netbook doesn't exist yet. It's only a matter of time IMHO)
For the love of $DEITY, leave Asimov alone. Not everyone likes his writing style, personally I find some of his work outstanding, but that's beside the point. I don't think his works would ever translate well to the big screen, something like "The gods themselves" would be nothing short of impossible to film; and the efforts so far yielded horrible results.
I'll just ignore "I, Robot", or "Hardwired" as it actually should be called, it didn't even try to adapt the novel (which would be hard, given it is a collection of short stories). But my favourite short story by Asimov, "The Bicentennial Man", was adapted into an over-the-top emo crapfest with Robin-fucking-Williams in the lead role. I mean, seriously, Robin-fucking-Williams. The original short story is IMHO a very good contemplation into what defines a human, where to draw the distinction between a machine and a living being; and the movie adaptation? All emotion (and badly done), no thought. No depth whatsoever. Starring, you know who. If you haven't seen the film, don't; I know I was scarred for life having read the short story beforehand.
And now we have the Foundation trilogy in the works, naturally as a trilogy of movies (it seems every movie has to be made into a trilogy nowadays). First of all, it could be, perhaps, made into a decent miniseries. Again I don't think Asimov's work is very adaptable, but a miniseries would be much better as the actual three books are more a collection of stories than three separate entities. But to add insult to injury, the man behind the project is none other than Roland Emmerich, known for works of high art such as Independence Day and 2012.
Now, if the Foundation films turn out to be great, I'll be first to admit my prejudice. And I know I'll see them; at least rent them, if not in the theatre. But I'll grab the lube beforehand, as I'm sure it will be another assrape by Hollywood. So, no, please no Asimov. There are other authors much better suited for film (although I'm sure they would get the Hollywood treatment as well).
One other note... Webkit and Gecko have different priorities in other ways too: for example, correct behavior of CSS selectors in the face of DOM mutations is a top priority for Gecko (and hence behavior is correctin all the cases I know of) and is not for Webkit (and hence the behavior is not correct in various cases; "for now we will just worry about the common case, since it's a lot trickier to get the second case right" as the Webkit code comments say).
Webkit has a 100/100 Acid3 [wikipedia.org] score and Firefox only 96/100
Neither of these assertions are mutually exclusive. If I understand the GP correct, he is saying Webkit doesn't always work correctly when the DOM is dynamically manipulated. I can believe this; although most of my headaches are caused by IE, Webkit has sometimes caused some very strange issues, for example (this was a few years back, I sure hope it has been fixed since) it was impossible to select radio buttons that had been created with document.createElement. And no browser engine is without bugs or implements every standard correctly, there are issues with Gecko as well. And Presto. My point is, even though Acid* tests are a reasonable indicator for standards compliance, they don't guarantee bugfree operation under every circumstance.
This can be frustrating, granted. But there's a way to improve this a lot. While I do think this process should be automated (perhaps every time FF is automatically updated?) it's certainly doable - some googling will give you GUI tools for it as well (for Windows anyway), and you can find a FF addon from the comments on that page. Mind you though, on my work work laptop (C2D, 4GB RAM, Win XP) I've never had the need to do this, it always seems snappy enough, but it made a world of difference on my ancient desktop (Athlon XP 2600+, 1GB RAM, Linux). And I'm willing to put up with the occasional DB cleanup because I've really come to like the "awesome bar", I hardly ever use bookmarks anymore.
IE8 is certainly a step in the right direction, and I will be so happy when IE6 finally eats flaming death; but there are still glaring omissions. Not that any browser is a model citizen in this regard, but IE is definitely worst. Now I'm aware that it is possible to work your way around the differences, I just finished a library to be used internally that emulates W3C-compliant DOM events in IE; but I'd rather spend my time doing actual development than working around browser bugs (which 99% of the time are caused by various incarnations of IE).
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You might get it to work with drivers from kX Project. Back in the day before I could afford a proper sound card those drivers were terrific, allowing (relatively) low latency recording with consumer hardware.
I didn't, and I find it hard to believe that a space station started as a game.
I know I would have bought one ages ago if I could figure out how to make it work with one of my computers.
Google "Wii vga adapter", there are several. You'll need to have a tv at your disposal somewhere though to be able to switch the Wii to use 480p output. As for otherwise interacting with your computers, I've had tons of fun with cwiid, I'm sure similiar programs exist for Windows as well if you are so inclined.
document.attachEvent('onload',function1);
But isn't that equal to <body onload="function1()">, which is quite different than executing a function once the DOM tree has been parsed; the latter happens before all content, such as images, have been loaded. Which is very handy if you, for example, wish to hide some images.
I've been struggling with this as I've been writing a library for internal use and personal amusement. (I don't pretend to have invented this stuff, well not the WebKit and IE portions anyway, they're shamelessly ripped from around the web. For internal use, that's ok, right?)
Suppose you want to execute doStuff() once the DOM is ready. With Gecko/Presto it's quite straightforward:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", doStuff, false);
It gets a bit trickier with WebKit-based browsers:
var _timer = setInterval(function() { if (/loaded|complete/.test(document.readyState)) { clearInterval(_timer); doStuff(); } }, 50);
And then, as always, we have IE. I've seen some hacks that utilize document.write for this - in my opinion, it is an abomination that should not have existed in the first place. So some more creativity is needed:
(function() { try { document.documentElement.doScroll("left"); doStuff(); } catch (e) { setTimeout(arguments.callee, 50); } })();
Seriously. It works, but is ugly as hell. If anyone would know a more elegant solution, I'm all ears. IE has improved, especially in the CSS department, but when it comes to DOM, there's still a lot of room for improvement.
(Of course, LLVM didn't originate at Apple, but you get my point...)
Well, neither did CUPS, and WebKit would certainly not be where it is now were it not for KHTML...
Yeah, it really sucks we need Lake Forest Nearshore Bathymetry.
Oh? My 1000HE routinely gets 7 hours, more if I drop the brightness and/or use less WLAN or BT. While not exactly iPad specs it's not so far either. And while the aspect ratio of 16:10 is not completely ideal for TV/movies, it's certainly better than 4:3 - running a MythTV frontend on it is just great, watching crappy series you've recorded while hungover without having to leave your bed is just great.
Hey now, Starship Troopers was brilliant. I really don't get how people don't understand that it's satire, how obvious do you have to be?
Or you could simply change your distribution. "pacman -S nvidia" has always worked for me in Arch. I'm willing to bet this applies to many other distributions as well.
Sure, external sound cards and drives are an option - but I plan to attach mine to the back of the TV with the included VESA mount kit so I prefer to have as few external devices as possible. Naturally this isn't an option for people with wall-mounted TVs, so it depends on your setup.
Yes, ION-based nettops seem very ideal as MythTV frontends, I just ordered an Asus EB1501. I did consider the Revo as well, but S/PDIF out and an integrated DVD drive were among my requirements - if you don't need them then certainly the Revo (or similiar nettops, there are many models to choose from) fit the bill. VDPAU on ION offers hardware accelerated MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 AVC, so playing back even 1080p material shouldn't be an issue. ION doesn't support MPEG 4 ASP (XviD/DivX), but there's hardly a need for it; even my way-older-than-ancient PIII@700 MHz laptop will happily play those.
You clearly have never played Super Mario Galaxy. I keep hearing how Mario 64 supposedly was revolutionary, but Galaxy is IMHO the first platformer that's truly 3D (as in the game mechanics, not presentation). And while I can understand that some people don't like platformers, you got to hand it to Nintendo - what they do, they do very well. Better than all the other studios, in some genres.
Didn't look at the site, but an easy way to trigger IE specific stuff (by version) is conditional comments.
Actually, yes, it is so awful. In my opinion, which I think I'm entitled to. Apart from external hard drives (the kind with external power supplies), printers and other peripherals that are not meant to be portable, I mostly use USB with my trustworthy and tiny memory stick. It's attached to my keychain and conveniently available when I need it. Needing that extra dongle (or worse, having it attached to the stick) would be very inconvenient.
But if reading /. has taught me anything, arguing with you about anything Apple does is a pointless exercise in futility.
Connectivity - yes, you can get USB or SD! (provided that you want to purchase and carry extra dongles), and let us not forget that it's the ultimate platform for portable video (provided that your movie collection is in 4:3 format... hell I wouldn't be surprised to see a whole new selection of previously widescreen titles in iTunes, "perfected" for the iPad)
A quick googling didn't turn up any sales figures for N900 (which is the only device at the moment running Maemo that is also a phone), but I doubt they're significant - the device went on sale in December in most places, and supplies have been scarce. I don't know the metric Nokia uses for defining a smartphone, but I recon it's based on whether a phone runs S40 (low-end, cheap models) or Symbian/S60 (aka smartphones). Given that they sold ~50 million phones in the previous quarter, and given how common S60 in various versions is in Nokia phones currenlty, I find this reasonable.
Now you may argue that S60 phones are not smartphones, and I'll admit the platform certainly shows it's age and should probably be replaced with Maemo on all high-end devices. The latest version (S60v5, aka the touchscreen version) really has a "lipstick-on-a-pig"-feel to it. But from very early on it has offered many features associated with smartphones (and not found on iPhone), like multitasking and installing applications from anywhere. Hell, it even had a Webkit-based browser before iPhone was released. As to why this is not being reported more, Apple is the media darling, and Nokia has been really boring as of late. N900 has sparked some media interest though.
Yes, only 21 million of them were sold in the last quarter. (hint: USA != world)
Don't know about users, how about processes?
(slashdot ate my euro symbol, insert currency symbol of choice before/after the prices in the above comment)
Where did the parent mention Gimp? In my experience, the professionals always use Photoshop, but many casual users (at least those who don't know to use Bittorrent) seem to use Paint.NET - for those people Krita is worthy alternative. It even supports CMYK, something that Gimp still (AFAIK) doesn't. Yes, it might take some relearning, but let's face it, most people simply crop images or do some light retouching, one will learn to do that in minutes with any program.
So I guess the question remains, why would the average consumer choose a Linux netbook, given that they will need to learn to do things slightly differently? Currently the consumer will most likely go with Windows, but when comparing a 300 netbook on x86 running Windows 7 + the price of applications (let's face it, the average consumer is either law-abiding or oblivious to file sharing) to a 100 netbook on ARM, which includes all sorts of applications with many more downloadable for free, the latter may be very tempting. Most people are not gamers, they couldn't give a flying fuck about running $LATEST_AND_GREATEST_FPS.
(Yes, I'm aware the 100 ARM netbook doesn't exist yet. It's only a matter of time IMHO)
For the love of $DEITY, leave Asimov alone. Not everyone likes his writing style, personally I find some of his work outstanding, but that's beside the point. I don't think his works would ever translate well to the big screen, something like "The gods themselves" would be nothing short of impossible to film; and the efforts so far yielded horrible results.
I'll just ignore "I, Robot", or "Hardwired" as it actually should be called, it didn't even try to adapt the novel (which would be hard, given it is a collection of short stories). But my favourite short story by Asimov, "The Bicentennial Man", was adapted into an over-the-top emo crapfest with Robin-fucking-Williams in the lead role. I mean, seriously, Robin-fucking-Williams. The original short story is IMHO a very good contemplation into what defines a human, where to draw the distinction between a machine and a living being; and the movie adaptation? All emotion (and badly done), no thought. No depth whatsoever. Starring, you know who. If you haven't seen the film, don't; I know I was scarred for life having read the short story beforehand.
And now we have the Foundation trilogy in the works, naturally as a trilogy of movies (it seems every movie has to be made into a trilogy nowadays). First of all, it could be, perhaps, made into a decent miniseries. Again I don't think Asimov's work is very adaptable, but a miniseries would be much better as the actual three books are more a collection of stories than three separate entities. But to add insult to injury, the man behind the project is none other than Roland Emmerich, known for works of high art such as Independence Day and 2012.
Now, if the Foundation films turn out to be great, I'll be first to admit my prejudice. And I know I'll see them; at least rent them, if not in the theatre. But I'll grab the lube beforehand, as I'm sure it will be another assrape by Hollywood. So, no, please no Asimov. There are other authors much better suited for film (although I'm sure they would get the Hollywood treatment as well).
One other note... Webkit and Gecko have different priorities in other ways too: for example, correct behavior of CSS selectors in the face of DOM mutations is a top priority for Gecko (and hence behavior is correctin all the cases I know of) and is not for Webkit (and hence the behavior is not correct in various cases; "for now we will just worry about the common case, since it's a lot trickier to get the second case right" as the Webkit code comments say).
Webkit has a 100/100 Acid3 [wikipedia.org] score and Firefox only 96/100
Neither of these assertions are mutually exclusive. If I understand the GP correct, he is saying Webkit doesn't always work correctly when the DOM is dynamically manipulated. I can believe this; although most of my headaches are caused by IE, Webkit has sometimes caused some very strange issues, for example (this was a few years back, I sure hope it has been fixed since) it was impossible to select radio buttons that had been created with document.createElement. And no browser engine is without bugs or implements every standard correctly, there are issues with Gecko as well. And Presto. My point is, even though Acid* tests are a reasonable indicator for standards compliance, they don't guarantee bugfree operation under every circumstance.
This can be frustrating, granted. But there's a way to improve this a lot. While I do think this process should be automated (perhaps every time FF is automatically updated?) it's certainly doable - some googling will give you GUI tools for it as well (for Windows anyway), and you can find a FF addon from the comments on that page. Mind you though, on my work work laptop (C2D, 4GB RAM, Win XP) I've never had the need to do this, it always seems snappy enough, but it made a world of difference on my ancient desktop (Athlon XP 2600+, 1GB RAM, Linux). And I'm willing to put up with the occasional DB cleanup because I've really come to like the "awesome bar", I hardly ever use bookmarks anymore.
IE8 is certainly a step in the right direction, and I will be so happy when IE6 finally eats flaming death; but there are still glaring omissions. Not that any browser is a model citizen in this regard, but IE is definitely worst. Now I'm aware that it is possible to work your way around the differences, I just finished a library to be used internally that emulates W3C-compliant DOM events in IE; but I'd rather spend my time doing actual development than working around browser bugs (which 99% of the time are caused by various incarnations of IE).
Thank you so much sir! You win two, no three, internets!