Why weren't you expecting it to explode? The tool probably damaged the lithium ion battery pack.
Those things turn into small flamethrowers when nicked with a knife or other pointy object. They're even more dangerous when they're shorted (which soapy water is apt to do to batteries, naturally), although I presume the kid let it dry before poking at it.
It's one of the reasons why most lithium ion batteries come in a hard case (like mobile phone and laptop batteries).
Of course, for the consumer device market, that're not designed to be openable, they often use soft cells (less weight). This is one of the reasons I much prefer my Iriver H140 that has a lithium polymer battery instead. Supposedly, lithium polymer's not supposed to go up in flames when the packaging is compromised.
I believe you mean uncheck 'Enable icon mouseover effects', if you're referring to KDE 3.4. leaving 'show tooltips' on allows things to show that tiny yellow box with the description text in it, instead of the giant bubble that fades in.
I had the unfortunate position of being forced to call in the Victorian state level (Australia, btw) employee relations resolution mob when I was leaving a company a few years ago.
My employer had withheld 4 weeks of pay, even though I was there AND WORKING for the entire month(!) of notice I gave (a month sounds crazy, never signing a contract like that again). They tried to claim they couldn't afford to pay me. i knew that was crap, although they had a history of not paying debtors, they did have assests they could sell, to people who were actually willing to buy them.
Fortunately, in my case, using the state-based resolution system means I didn't have to pay anyone anything to get my money. After my ex-employer stuffed them around for 6 months, they finally drove over, had a chat, quietly offered to write them up for fines, and I got the cheque in the mail.
It was a nice christmas present when it came.:)
Now, all this said, particularly in the initial article poster's situation, it won't hurt him to stick it out. That gives him a much stronger position if he *DOES* get shafted.
Also, i'd be inclined to not worry about doing work outside the job description during that time. They can't hold you to that, particularly if you've got other duties to attend to that you DO have to do.
That said, DO NOT under any circumstances, badmouth your previous employer in any way at any time. That's just asking for trouble, and can come around and bite you in the butt really quick.
Yes, because America is so free of their own criminal descendants, being a former penal colony of England itself. You people have just had 200 more years and a crapload more immigrants from other countries to hide it with.
OGG Vorbis in no way requires a floating point to decode.
case in point: the Iriver H1xx/3xx series mp3 players, using a coldfire cpu (read, fpuless), which play ogg vorbis just fine.
case in point: Tremor, the integer-only ogg decoder, freely available as source.
case in point: rockbox, an opensource firmware that's being adapted for the iriver H1xx series currently, and is on the way to having vorbis playback support (and flac, mp3, and a gameboy emulator:) )
Several people are working on optimising the codecs to run at >100% realtime, and others are poking at the technical issues of supporting audio buffering and playback. There's progress being made bit by bit each day as people have spare time from work/lives/family/whatever. Don't expect it to happen overnight, or next week, but it'll get there, probably sooner rather than later. (one codec is close to approaching 100% atm (flac i think). Tremor (vorbis) has some weird bottleneck and is stuck at 10% or so tho, needs some profiling (kinda hard on the iriver where you can't just run gprof. we don't actually have gdb yet either...:) )
"get an ipod (smaller than an archos crapbox) and a gameboy. use a eprom cart and writer"
This doesn't actually RUN on the archos, the archos is a sh-based cpu running at some pokey little MHz (like 10MHz or something). The iriver has the capability of running at 140MHz (although the best speed for heat/power usage/etc is 96MHz apparently) and uses the same size hard drives as a standard ipod.
It's also possible for it to potentially run on the gmini, since that also has a reasonably beefy processor.
Rockboy already supports gameboy colour games. it just looks like ass because they've only coded support for one-bit of greyscale into the lcd driver (the iriver supports two bits of greyscale).
it's entertaining when you look at it and you get basically a giant black screen with a few clear patches:)
Sure. I cared before then. Mostly because some insane group of nutters over there blew up a whole bunch of their countrymen while attacking a bali resort where my fellow Australians, many Americans, and assorted other westerners were holidaying.
Killing people is such a poor way to change their minds. Hopefully the US government will catch onto this one soon.
"Then if you have to buy a new PC to handle the bloatware, you have to pay $10 to transfer your CD key"
This isn't even REMOTELY true. all you need to do is remember your steam username and password, and reinstall the steam client. There is nothing. NOTHING! about a new pc that will force you to pay to release the cd key from the account.
Whoever told you this is wrong, and clearly needs to reread the part about needing $10 to transfer cd keys to another account (which is what it sounds like you should be referring to, and is a perfectly good idea to protect people from assholes)
The problem here is that offline mode is exceedingly difficult to trigger in this state. offline mode can be triggered if the packets are being lost in the ether (and you get a chance to hit 'cancel' in the 'updating steam' box), or if you let it time out, or there's no net connection at all.
When the steam servers are telling you to bugger off quicker than you can do anything like the above, you're screwed, because the thing is not written to say "steam's broken. play offline y/n?"
Of course, since it probably fails once, kills your 'previously logged in' state, unless you're prescient, you can't subsequently implement any of the above either.
useless.
Programming with this limited level of functionality is pathetic, and shouldn't be considered an acheivement of any kind, and should definently detract from review scores, imho.
Sure. If you ignore the fact that nuclear, coal, and gas power are all based on heating water, forming steam, and driving turbines. What's more, a well designed steam engine can drive heavy-duty stuff (like, say, a train) with surprising efficiency.
very few power generation methods that generate sufficiently useful quantities use something else. (hydro, solar and wind are all i can think of)
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ut2004 uses openal (under linux at least).
did you finish reading my post? I did say that, and offered some interesting info for people who have audigy or emu10k1 cards.
my point was that positional audio doesn't have to be done by openal, although it can cut down on the effort involved, if you haven't built one already.
for what it's worth, no-one implements alsa directly, even doom3 uses libasound to access the alsa devices, as does the hardware accelerated openal on lost.org.uk.
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Crap.
Doom3 does not use openal, and DOES use alsa, and I get 6 speaker positional sound out of it without any problems. Sounds great too:) (thanks TTimo)
That said, for openal-based games, there's already a fast hardware-accelerated emu10k1-based implementation of openal at http://www.lost.org.uk/openal.html
it's been a bit quiet recently, development-wise, but it works nicely with ut2004, and supports everything but earphones at the moment. According to my friends it's also given them a noticable FPS boost, although i haven't benchmarked it myself (mostly because i've got the ut2004 demo only, which it also works with but is a pain to benchmark)
you can even configure it to a non-standard speaker orientation if you're able to understand the math, but it has many pre-rolled configurations that suit common setups.
Generating many orders of magnitude less radioactive waste than current fossil fuel plants, they are inherently better for the environment on a purely objective level.
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste?:)
(and there are some fossil fuel power plants that can be relatively clean, such as natural gas. problem is, they're not anywhere near efficient enough, compared to coal/oil, but good for some uses)
We use the heat generated by the decay of radioactive elements to fuel our generators. We do nothing like smashing atoms into smaller bits.
Except that it's typically the controlled fission of a particular isotope of a particular atom, using a neutron source and a neutron absorbing material, we're forcing the atom to split by deliberately introducing an extra neutron that subsequently releases more neutrons. This isn't natural decay by any standard, it's controlled fission. That said, the term "Atom smashing" is by no means correct, since it requires no 'force' to speak of, we're not talking Mr. Burns' atom smashing plant here:)
Decay is when an atom spontaneously breaks into two separate particles releasing alpha, beta or gamma radiation. It's also when the term 'half life' kicks in outside FPS's, and of course, it's only the waste from a fission reactor that has to undergo millions of years of decay to be safe.
Of course, it's been about 7 years since I studied this in physics, so perhaps they've changed to using reactors that sit around waiting for spontaneous decay to occur.:)
Ahahaha. dude, they already did that 5-6 years ago. It didn't work then, infact all it did was drive a few porn-site operators out of Australia and move their hosting to the US, where it was CHEAPER to host the data (by a reasonable margin, what's more). Just take Abby Winters as a good example (google it yourself). She was pissed that she had to stop paying an Australian company money to host her material, even tho it was more expensive, iirc.
The blacklisting that was supposed to accompany it was a complete joke, what's more, and has failed miserably, a grand total of about 20 sites got reported in the first year or two, and no-one's heard of it since.
Good to see that Australia doesn't have the parents television council or whatever that bunch of whackos they have in the US is making things 'safer' for Australians (yet, *knocks wood*)
Actually, Strictly speaking, it's not FUD, just an exaggeration of the truth.
Pamela Jones most certainly does remove posts she deems a) repulsive (goatse, etc), b) fake (attemts to register a username as Darl, etc) c) inflammatory (trolls, astroturfing, etc)
This is perfectly reasonable, as she maintains, and always HAS maintained, that groklaw is a blog. The simple truth is that she can do what she likes, and you can take HER OPINION with whatever sized grain of salt you like. Of course, she's also good at ferreting out documents, and she's gathered an excellent team who help her make things available to people with disabilities (transcribing non-OCR'ed pdf's, for example)
Now, since you seem to be under the impression that an opinion site shouldn't contain opinions, you might be surprised to learn that she infact does editorialise facts, with her own bias. You can probably ignore all of it, and just use the legal documents link on her site however, and no-one's forcing you to read the comments on her site either.
"I don't think that's exactly the case. HIV is only twenty-five years old, which certainly isn't enough time for genetic evolution to take place (especially considering the relatively slow reporductive rate of humans)."
HIV is most certainly NOT only 25 years old. It's extremely old, they have preserved tissue samples from almost 50 years ago or so that have been found to contain the virus (the subject died in exactly the same way as the first cases presented here) (an english sailor died of a oppertunistic diseases, and after he died, tissue was preserved for later study.)
The event that has made HIV into a new epidemic is massive changes in social morality. Originally, HIV was called the Gay-Related immuno-deficiency syndrome or somesuch, because it was primarily affecting people who were outwardly gay.
Of course, it turned out that these people were just starting to be very broad in their choice of partners, and of course, people were starting to share needles for drug use.
with a bit of mild C knowledge about the equivalence between condition ? expression1 : expression2; and if (condition) expression1; else expression2: you can decipher it to a reasonable degree: #include <stdio.h> main(void) { int c=0; int r=0; for(r=32;r;) { if(++c>31) {// this next line seems weird. // looks like a fancy way of saying c=0, // unless r is 0. c=!r--; printf("\n"); } else { if(c<r) printf(" "); else if(~c&r) printf(" `"); else printf(" #"); } } }
Looks weird, but it does work, prints out a giant text triangle. it's a little small to be a root kit:)
USB-on-the-go is what you want, and no it's not possible with the 1xx series of iriver devices.
The usb dongle is pretty much directly attached to the usb-storage controller in the 1xx series.
You need special hardware and software to control USB-OTG, because the device needs to operate as a host. Firewire on the other hand is another matter, since it's more of a networking system than a host-client type system.
the 3xx series does have this, mind you, although it's not compatible across the board, since several devices make fun assumptions.
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Sadly, our culture is becoming more and more sue-happy.
:)
We, being upstanding citizens of a TV-bred generation, blame America, of course.
ashridah
Why weren't you expecting it to explode?
The tool probably damaged the lithium ion battery pack.
Those things turn into small flamethrowers when nicked with a knife or other pointy object.
They're even more dangerous when they're shorted (which soapy water is apt to do to batteries, naturally), although I presume the kid let it dry before poking at it.
It's one of the reasons why most lithium ion batteries come in a hard case (like mobile phone and laptop batteries).
Of course, for the consumer device market, that're not designed to be openable, they often use soft cells (less weight).
This is one of the reasons I much prefer my Iriver H140 that has a lithium polymer battery instead. Supposedly, lithium polymer's not supposed to go up in flames when the packaging is compromised.
Andrew
I believe you mean uncheck 'Enable icon mouseover effects', if you're referring to KDE 3.4.
leaving 'show tooltips' on allows things to show that tiny yellow box with the description text in it, instead of the giant bubble that fades in.
Andrew
I had the unfortunate position of being forced to call in the Victorian state level (Australia, btw) employee relations resolution mob when I was leaving a company a few years ago.
:)
My employer had withheld 4 weeks of pay, even though I was there AND WORKING for the entire month(!) of notice I gave (a month sounds crazy, never signing a contract like that again). They tried to claim they couldn't afford to pay me. i knew that was crap, although they had a history of not paying debtors, they did have assests they could sell, to people who were actually willing to buy them.
Fortunately, in my case, using the state-based resolution system means I didn't have to pay anyone anything to get my money. After my ex-employer stuffed them around for 6 months, they finally drove over, had a chat, quietly offered to write them up for fines, and I got the cheque in the mail.
It was a nice christmas present when it came.
Now, all this said, particularly in the initial article poster's situation, it won't hurt him to stick it out. That gives him a much stronger position if he *DOES* get shafted.
Also, i'd be inclined to not worry about doing work outside the job description during that time. They can't hold you to that, particularly if you've got other duties to attend to that you DO have to do.
That said, DO NOT under any circumstances, badmouth your previous employer in any way at any time. That's just asking for trouble, and can come around and bite you in the butt really quick.
ashridah
Yes, because America is so free of their own criminal descendants, being a former penal colony of England itself. You people have just had 200 more years and a crapload more immigrants from other countries to hide it with.
ash
i agree. :)
"video killed the radio star" a long time ago
ashridah
i imagine that patent would have expired by now, so that's kinda a moot point :)
ashridah
OGG Vorbis in no way requires a floating point to decode.
:) )
case in point: the Iriver H1xx/3xx series mp3 players, using a coldfire cpu (read, fpuless), which play ogg vorbis just fine.
case in point: Tremor, the integer-only ogg decoder, freely available as source.
case in point: rockbox, an opensource firmware that's being adapted for the iriver H1xx series currently, and is on the way to having vorbis playback support (and flac, mp3, and a gameboy emulator
ashridah
It's coming along.
:) )
Several people are working on optimising the codecs to run at >100% realtime, and others are poking at the technical issues of supporting audio buffering and playback.
There's progress being made bit by bit each day as people have spare time from work/lives/family/whatever.
Don't expect it to happen overnight, or next week, but it'll get there, probably sooner rather than later. (one codec is close to approaching 100% atm (flac i think). Tremor (vorbis) has some weird bottleneck and is stuck at 10% or so tho, needs some profiling (kinda hard on the iriver where you can't just run gprof. we don't actually have gdb yet either...
ashridah
"get an ipod (smaller than an archos crapbox) and a gameboy. use a eprom cart and writer"
This doesn't actually RUN on the archos, the archos is a sh-based cpu running at some pokey little MHz (like 10MHz or something). The iriver has the capability of running at 140MHz (although the best speed for heat/power usage/etc is 96MHz apparently) and uses the same size hard drives as a standard ipod.
It's also possible for it to potentially run on the gmini, since that also has a reasonably beefy processor.
ashridah
Rockboy already supports gameboy colour games. it just looks like ass because they've only coded support for one-bit of greyscale into the lcd driver (the iriver supports two bits of greyscale).
:)
it's entertaining when you look at it and you get basically a giant black screen with a few clear patches
ashridah
Sure. I cared before then. Mostly because some insane group of nutters over there blew up a whole bunch of their countrymen while attacking a bali resort where my fellow Australians, many Americans, and assorted other westerners were holidaying.
Killing people is such a poor way to change their minds.
Hopefully the US government will catch onto this one soon.
ashridah
i did actually already hint that this doesn't work, there's no point in telling me.
:)
i'm just pissed with myself for not making a backup of my clientregistry.blob
Don't spin crap.
"Then if you have to buy a new PC to handle the bloatware, you have to pay $10 to transfer your CD key"
This isn't even REMOTELY true. all you need to do is remember your steam username and password, and reinstall the steam client. There is nothing. NOTHING! about a new pc that will force you to pay to release the cd key from the account.
Whoever told you this is wrong, and clearly needs to reread the part about needing $10 to transfer cd keys to another account (which is what it sounds like you should be referring to, and is a perfectly good idea to protect people from assholes)
The problem here is that offline mode is exceedingly difficult to trigger in this state.
offline mode can be triggered if the packets are being lost in the ether (and you get a chance to hit 'cancel' in the 'updating steam' box), or if you let it time out, or there's no net connection at all.
When the steam servers are telling you to bugger off quicker than you can do anything like the above, you're screwed, because the thing is not written to say "steam's broken. play offline y/n?"
Of course, since it probably fails once, kills your 'previously logged in' state, unless you're prescient, you can't subsequently implement any of the above either.
useless.
Programming with this limited level of functionality is pathetic, and shouldn't be considered an acheivement of any kind, and should definently detract from review scores, imho.
Sure. If you ignore the fact that nuclear, coal, and gas power are all based on heating water, forming steam, and driving turbines. What's more, a well designed steam engine can drive heavy-duty stuff (like, say, a train) with surprising efficiency.
very few power generation methods that generate sufficiently useful quantities use something else. (hydro, solar and wind are all i can think of)
ut2004 uses openal (under linux at least).
did you finish reading my post? I did say that, and offered some interesting info for people who have audigy or emu10k1 cards.
my point was that positional audio doesn't have to be done by openal, although it can cut down on the effort involved, if you haven't built one already.
for what it's worth, no-one implements alsa directly, even doom3 uses libasound to access the alsa devices, as does the hardware accelerated openal on lost.org.uk.
Crap.
:) (thanks TTimo)
Doom3 does not use openal, and DOES use alsa, and I get 6 speaker positional sound out of it without any problems. Sounds great too
That said, for openal-based games, there's already a fast hardware-accelerated emu10k1-based implementation of openal at http://www.lost.org.uk/openal.html
it's been a bit quiet recently, development-wise, but it works nicely with ut2004, and supports everything but earphones at the moment. According to my friends it's also given them a noticable FPS boost, although i haven't benchmarked it myself (mostly because i've got the ut2004 demo only, which it also works with but is a pain to benchmark)
you can even configure it to a non-standard speaker orientation if you're able to understand the math, but it has many pre-rolled configurations that suit common setups.
ashridah
Generating many orders of magnitude less radioactive waste than current fossil fuel plants, they are inherently better for the environment on a purely objective level.
:)
:)
:)
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste?
(and there are some fossil fuel power plants that can be relatively clean, such as natural gas. problem is, they're not anywhere near efficient enough, compared to coal/oil, but good for some uses)
We use the heat generated by the decay of radioactive elements to fuel our generators. We do nothing like smashing atoms into smaller bits.
Except that it's typically the controlled fission of a particular isotope of a particular atom, using a neutron source and a neutron absorbing material, we're forcing the atom to split by deliberately introducing an extra neutron that subsequently releases more neutrons.
This isn't natural decay by any standard, it's controlled fission. That said, the term "Atom smashing" is by no means correct, since it requires no 'force' to speak of, we're not talking Mr. Burns' atom smashing plant here
Decay is when an atom spontaneously breaks into two separate particles releasing alpha, beta or gamma radiation. It's also when the term 'half life' kicks in outside FPS's, and of course, it's only the waste from a fission reactor that has to undergo millions of years of decay to be safe.
Of course, it's been about 7 years since I studied this in physics, so perhaps they've changed to using reactors that sit around waiting for spontaneous decay to occur.
ashridah
Ahahaha.
dude, they already did that 5-6 years ago. It didn't work then, infact all it did was drive a few porn-site operators out of Australia and move their hosting to the US, where it was CHEAPER to host the data (by a reasonable margin, what's more). Just take Abby Winters as a good example (google it yourself). She was pissed that she had to stop paying an Australian company money to host her material, even tho it was more expensive, iirc.
The blacklisting that was supposed to accompany it was a complete joke, what's more, and has failed miserably, a grand total of about 20 sites got reported in the first year or two, and no-one's heard of it since.
Good to see that Australia doesn't have the parents television council or whatever that bunch of whackos they have in the US is making things 'safer' for Australians (yet, *knocks wood*)
ashridah
Actually, Strictly speaking, it's not FUD, just an exaggeration of the truth.
Pamela Jones most certainly does remove posts she deems a) repulsive (goatse, etc), b) fake (attemts to register a username as Darl, etc) c) inflammatory (trolls, astroturfing, etc)
This is perfectly reasonable, as she maintains, and always HAS maintained, that groklaw is a blog.
The simple truth is that she can do what she likes, and you can take HER OPINION with whatever sized grain of salt you like.
Of course, she's also good at ferreting out documents, and she's gathered an excellent team who help her make things available to people with disabilities (transcribing non-OCR'ed pdf's, for example)
Now, since you seem to be under the impression that an opinion site shouldn't contain opinions, you might be surprised to learn that she infact does editorialise facts, with her own bias.
You can probably ignore all of it, and just use the legal documents link on her site however, and no-one's forcing you to read the comments on her site either.
ashridah
"I don't think that's exactly the case. HIV is only twenty-five years old, which certainly isn't enough time for genetic evolution to take place (especially considering the relatively slow reporductive rate of humans)."
HIV is most certainly NOT only 25 years old.
It's extremely old, they have preserved tissue samples from almost 50 years ago or so that have been found to contain the virus (the subject died in exactly the same way as the first cases presented here)
(an english sailor died of a oppertunistic diseases, and after he died, tissue was preserved for later study.)
The event that has made HIV into a new epidemic is massive changes in social morality. Originally, HIV was called the Gay-Related immuno-deficiency syndrome or somesuch, because it was primarily affecting people who were outwardly gay.
Of course, it turned out that these people were just starting to be very broad in their choice of partners, and of course, people were starting to share needles for drug use.
ashridah
with a bit of mild C knowledge about the equivalence between // this next line seems weird.
// looks like a fancy way of saying c=0,
// unless r is 0.
:)
condition ? expression1 : expression2;
and
if (condition)
expression1;
else
expression2:
you can decipher it to a reasonable degree:
#include <stdio.h>
main(void)
{
int c=0;
int r=0;
for(r=32;r;)
{
if(++c>31)
{
c=!r--;
printf("\n");
}
else
{
if(c<r)
printf(" ");
else
if(~c&r)
printf(" `");
else
printf(" #");
}
}
}
Looks weird, but it does work, prints out a giant text triangle. it's a little small to be a root kit
ashridah
press and hold to go up?
new one on me. i just press 'stop' on the remote to go up a directory level.
works fine for me.
ashridah
USB-on-the-go is what you want, and no it's not possible with the 1xx series of iriver devices.
The usb dongle is pretty much directly attached to the usb-storage controller in the 1xx series.
You need special hardware and software to control USB-OTG, because the device needs to operate as a host. Firewire on the other hand is another matter, since it's more of a networking system than a host-client type system.
the 3xx series does have this, mind you, although it's not compatible across the board, since several devices make fun assumptions.
ashridah