I'm not well versed on it, but check Wikipedia for information on haptics. I remember seeing a pen-like control device at the SIGGRAPH conference this year, that would track your movements with it in 3D space. Combined with force feedback, they described future implementations of this as incredible tools for surgeons, which I suppose it could be. Fun for 3D desktops and games, too.
Hmmm, so in a player like most iRivers, which have optical outputs, would the DAC not come into account and therefore uphold what I orignally thought? I assume it needn't use it to convert to analog, in that case.
I've been listening to iPod fanboys rant about their players' 'superior sound quality' for years. I always replied that the player doesn't really affect the quality of the sound, it's all about the headphones/speakers and recording/compression. Was I wrong? If it's just playing a digital file (which will never wear like a record, and will always be read identically), could one player actually output noticeably different sound than another?
My guess is that even if it could, it wouldn't be by very much. Certainly not enough to influence your purchasing decision, eh?
The GameBoy used to get 2D Mario games, but they've since moved to calling them 'Wario Land'. One of them does exist on the GBA. Damn good series, too, that first Wario Land game I linked to is one of my favorites on a portable.
Also, I've always enjoyed more of good things, so I don't mind sequels or ports/remakes one bit.
Well, you're open source iPod is here (and kind of here, eh?). The PS2 got a Linux kit, and many handheld devices (such as cell phones) use embedded Linux. There is a LOT of effort being put into using open source software on such devices, I could see if being put to cameras.
There are at least 565 different digital media players out there, why is it people only know about the iPod? I'm sure dozens of those have replaceable batteries (most of the flash ones use AA/AAA), and hundreds are 'good'.
Indeed, using Opera on Debian Sid, I get the 'unsupported operating system' error only when the user agent is set to IE. Opera users: press F12 to change it to Mozilla, for this site.
I shop at Amazon frequently, because of their huge inventory. I've never needed to contact customer service, so I suppose I too am a happy Amazon customer.
Anyway, most people are not. Their ResellerRating is not only below average, but their customer service rating is under 5. I understand that RR isn't perfectly accurate for a number of reasons, but those 540 reviewers' opinions should be counted.
Something to remember: design quality is subjective. For that reason, you can't really tout it in any case. Just as a cool ass tower case mod may look better than a little shuttle PC, a bulky CRT may not necessarily be visually unpleasing.
Whenever a/. article is posted about some nifty little DIY project that can save you from spending a few hundred dollars on a consumer model or whatever, the value of one's time always comes into question. How much money are you saving if the project takes X hours of your time?
I think the deal is similar here. In the end you're getting a free portable music player (I believe they offer TVs and such, too, right?), but you have to sign up for free trials and things like that. You also have to shamelessly whore yourself out to your friends and family, to rope them into the scheme. Then there's the whole personal information thing the parent mentioned. After months of your own ridiculous marketing, is it really worth it?
Well, if you'd like to simplify this device into a 'box with a handle and a color LCD', you could do just the same for the iMac... Obviously, looks are subjective; it doesn't matter what the submiter thinks so you, nor what you think to him.
I believe IE's default homepage is msn.com, and therefore the page millions of people see when they open their browser. They could simply advertise it on that...
Sourceforge's Top Downloads
eMule, the top project, has 80 million downloads. Gaim, for all its awesomeness, has about 5 million. I'm not farmiliar with how they track these statistics, but I assume that is for all versions over its entire lifetime. As with the FF downloads, this is easily skewed by people downloading it more than once, or from a different source.
From what I understand, it wasn't a major graphical overhaul. You can find an official feature plan here. It looks like KHTML, the Kicker, and the PIM suite (plus Kopete) got the big additions.
According to Kevin Rose at one of the links: "Ok, this is pretty crazy.. I happen to get my hands on a copy of the US Congress "Cybersecurity for the homeland" report. The report is set to release on Monday. Its completely unclassified, so I dont think there is any danger in releasing it early. Anyhow, enjoy."
I've installed Sarge three times with this new installer, it is indeed a vast improvement upon the previous. I find it simple enough to use, but I don't think... what's his face... 'Joe User' would. Partitioning in particular is difficult (as always), and this area is particular well represented and aided by a graphical interface (see: HardDrake). It seems that they may as well adopt an 'easier' graphical installed, and enjoy the recent success of Ubuntu and MEPIS. I believe Novell binded YAST to be used only with the SUSE project when it opened it up, but Anaconda must be viable. Could the next version use it?
I'm thinking lack of usage. Especially during the aKadamy, KMail seems to have sapped up all the available attention. KDE's whole PIM suite is evolving so rapidly, it's obviously being doted upon by the geek community.
Outside of that afformentioned community, it seems Outlook/Express is absolutely dominant. Personally, I like Opera's M2.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 998,000 for sherman austin"
Looks like a lot, eh? Lots of people have been improperly persecuted for speeking freely in the United States, but we the people generally reform the system in their favor. THAT'S the difference.
Well, XFCE is supposed to have all the awesome lightweightedness of something like IceWM or Fluxbox, but since it's built with GTK, look cool. I tried the new version yesterday, and was impressed with its looks. However I didn't find it to be noticeably faster than KDE, once it starts up (startup time is next to nill).
You could always use something like MetaTheme, or an equivalent (check kde-look.org), to have GTK widgets drawn with QT. Seems like a convoluted solution, but it really works quite well.
Many people's problem with wired mice is that the cord will sort of pull on the mouse, distorting the desired path of movement. A wired pad, and unwired mouse, would fix this. I agree with you, though, it seems like a convoluted solution to a minor issue.
To clarify, Anaconda is Red Hat's installer... Check the Wikipedia article here. Note that the article actually mentions Progeny, as well as a Gentoo distro using the installer. The inspiration for the name was pretty cool, as well. Some other child of the grand-parent implied that Anaconda was 'Gnome based', and I believe they meant GTK...
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I'm not well versed on it, but check Wikipedia for information on haptics. I remember seeing a pen-like control device at the SIGGRAPH conference this year, that would track your movements with it in 3D space. Combined with force feedback, they described future implementations of this as incredible tools for surgeons, which I suppose it could be. Fun for 3D desktops and games, too.
Hmmm, so in a player like most iRivers, which have optical outputs, would the DAC not come into account and therefore uphold what I orignally thought? I assume it needn't use it to convert to analog, in that case.
I've been listening to iPod fanboys rant about their players' 'superior sound quality' for years. I always replied that the player doesn't really affect the quality of the sound, it's all about the headphones/speakers and recording/compression. Was I wrong? If it's just playing a digital file (which will never wear like a record, and will always be read identically), could one player actually output noticeably different sound than another?
My guess is that even if it could, it wouldn't be by very much. Certainly not enough to influence your purchasing decision, eh?
The GameBoy used to get 2D Mario games, but they've since moved to calling them 'Wario Land'. One of them does exist on the GBA. Damn good series, too, that first Wario Land game I linked to is one of my favorites on a portable. Also, I've always enjoyed more of good things, so I don't mind sequels or ports/remakes one bit.
Well, you're open source iPod is here (and kind of here, eh?). The PS2 got a Linux kit, and many handheld devices (such as cell phones) use embedded Linux. There is a LOT of effort being put into using open source software on such devices, I could see if being put to cameras.
Sounds like you want the headlines... try an RSS news ticker?
There are at least 565 different digital media players out there, why is it people only know about the iPod? I'm sure dozens of those have replaceable batteries (most of the flash ones use AA/AAA), and hundreds are 'good'.
Indeed, using Opera on Debian Sid, I get the 'unsupported operating system' error only when the user agent is set to IE. Opera users: press F12 to change it to Mozilla, for this site.
I shop at Amazon frequently, because of their huge inventory. I've never needed to contact customer service, so I suppose I too am a happy Amazon customer.
Anyway, most people are not. Their ResellerRating is not only below average, but their customer service rating is under 5. I understand that RR isn't perfectly accurate for a number of reasons, but those 540 reviewers' opinions should be counted.
Something to remember: design quality is subjective. For that reason, you can't really tout it in any case. Just as a cool ass tower case mod may look better than a little shuttle PC, a bulky CRT may not necessarily be visually unpleasing.
Whenever a /. article is posted about some nifty little DIY project that can save you from spending a few hundred dollars on a consumer model or whatever, the value of one's time always comes into question. How much money are you saving if the project takes X hours of your time?
I think the deal is similar here. In the end you're getting a free portable music player (I believe they offer TVs and such, too, right?), but you have to sign up for free trials and things like that. You also have to shamelessly whore yourself out to your friends and family, to rope them into the scheme. Then there's the whole personal information thing the parent mentioned. After months of your own ridiculous marketing, is it really worth it?
Well, if you'd like to simplify this device into a 'box with a handle and a color LCD', you could do just the same for the iMac... Obviously, looks are subjective; it doesn't matter what the submiter thinks so you, nor what you think to him.
I believe IE's default homepage is msn.com, and therefore the page millions of people see when they open their browser. They could simply advertise it on that...
Sourceforge's Top Downloads eMule, the top project, has 80 million downloads. Gaim, for all its awesomeness, has about 5 million. I'm not farmiliar with how they track these statistics, but I assume that is for all versions over its entire lifetime. As with the FF downloads, this is easily skewed by people downloading it more than once, or from a different source.
From what I understand, it wasn't a major graphical overhaul. You can find an official feature plan here. It looks like KHTML, the Kicker, and the PIM suite (plus Kopete) got the big additions.
According to Kevin Rose at one of the links: "Ok, this is pretty crazy.. I happen to get my hands on a copy of the US Congress "Cybersecurity for the homeland" report. The report is set to release on Monday. Its completely unclassified, so I dont think there is any danger in releasing it early. Anyhow, enjoy."
Indeed, I believe it uses KSVG to do that. In fact, you can use SVG icon themes in KDE, which look fantastic.
Also, the best of the Internet's public domain releases at the Archive.
I've installed Sarge three times with this new installer, it is indeed a vast improvement upon the previous. I find it simple enough to use, but I don't think... what's his face... 'Joe User' would. Partitioning in particular is difficult (as always), and this area is particular well represented and aided by a graphical interface (see: HardDrake). It seems that they may as well adopt an 'easier' graphical installed, and enjoy the recent success of Ubuntu and MEPIS. I believe Novell binded YAST to be used only with the SUSE project when it opened it up, but Anaconda must be viable. Could the next version use it?
I'm thinking lack of usage. Especially during the aKadamy, KMail seems to have sapped up all the available attention. KDE's whole PIM suite is evolving so rapidly, it's obviously being doted upon by the geek community.
Outside of that afformentioned community, it seems Outlook/Express is absolutely dominant. Personally, I like Opera's M2.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 998,000 for sherman austin"
Looks like a lot, eh? Lots of people have been improperly persecuted for speeking freely in the United States, but we the people generally reform the system in their favor. THAT'S the difference.
Well, XFCE is supposed to have all the awesome lightweightedness of something like IceWM or Fluxbox, but since it's built with GTK, look cool. I tried the new version yesterday, and was impressed with its looks. However I didn't find it to be noticeably faster than KDE, once it starts up (startup time is next to nill).
You could always use something like MetaTheme, or an equivalent (check kde-look.org), to have GTK widgets drawn with QT. Seems like a convoluted solution, but it really works quite well.
Many people's problem with wired mice is that the cord will sort of pull on the mouse, distorting the desired path of movement. A wired pad, and unwired mouse, would fix this. I agree with you, though, it seems like a convoluted solution to a minor issue.
To clarify, Anaconda is Red Hat's installer... Check the Wikipedia article here. Note that the article actually mentions Progeny, as well as a Gentoo distro using the installer. The inspiration for the name was pretty cool, as well. Some other child of the grand-parent implied that Anaconda was 'Gnome based', and I believe they meant GTK...