N is a very good Lode Runner clone, and one of the best Flash games I've played ever. It has some...issues with collision detection, but overall, it's fantastic.
NANACACRASH!! is THE launcher game, best in its class to be sure.
My favourite Flash TD game is actually over at Candystand
Interestingly, the most recent version of flash I installed on my distro has solved a number of long-standing problems with flash in Linux (Including the one where the right-click menu crashes your browser). If they could reduce the 100% CPU time that Flash seems to so desperately need in Linux, it would actually not be all that bad (though they're not out of the unstable woods yet by any means).
Well I can certainly assure you that that US vendor rep is in the extreme minority. I'm in the middle of the capital of Ohio (arguably the second or third most important state) and the absolute best we can get here is cable and it peaks at about 10-11M (down only. Up is a piddling 512K) on a good day (and those are rare). The fastest DSL that is even offered in the area is 6M down, requires a phone line, and is more expensive than the cable connection.
Even Verizon's FIOS service (available only in the Tri-state area and a small hick-town in Texas) maxes out at 50M. Frankly, I don't know what that bloke did to wind up sitting on an OC-2 for $50/month, but he's really lucky.
You're talking about the electrolyte, I think. The obvious solution to the problem you mention would probably be using a solid conductive polymer rather than the liquid.
The problem with Zune (aside from it's price) is that, like it's older (and nicer-to-use) brother, the Toshiba Gigabeat S (They are, quite literally, the same hardware internally- firmware and DRM are worse in the Zune is all) You can't transfer your music to your player without the software that comes WITH the player (or WMP if you're feeling maschistic- last revision that came over my desk didn't support UMS mode, though I would really hope they had fixed this by now) because neither are actual mp3/vorbic/mpc/wma/flac players- all of your music goes through a process where the tags are stripped, the file is encrypted, and new tags are written in proprietary format (SAT for the Gigabeat series). If you're a linux (or at the time even a Mac user; fixed yet?), you're just out of luck.
Forget subscription services, first let's get a decent player out on the market.
But this assumes that the realms of language and orthography are, in fact, equivalent.
In the reality of my everyday work, it's rather clear that there's a line between what can be said versus what can be written, though the location of this line is evidently not static. It is this inflexibility in the orthographically acceptable form that will forever relegate it to a status less than that of pure language. Compositionally, "ain't" can probably be proven, as can the syntactic parsability of a double-negative. However, if I'm editing an article on the prosodic qualities of Urhobo I would certainly never allow the author the liberty of using either construction.
In this case I define "not much" in two senses, which is perhaps a bit unfair for those who aren't me, but it happens. First, "not much" for the artist can be defined in terms of a percentage of what they receive from their artistic vision for each CD sold (taken lightly, of course) which is historically rather low. Not endorsements, advertising dollars, promotions, and gifts/etc; just albums sold. Second, and more relevant for the people on the butt of mastering the drivel that Spears comes up with and all associated with that process, is the "not much" that is relative to the nine-figure income of the top execs in the industry.
How much money was paid to Britney (or whoever) to spend time in the studio recording an album? How much money was paid to Britney as the "artist?" How much was paid to the studio engineers; the writers of the songs; musicians; the post-production staff; the caterers; the electricity provider? How much was paid for rent; the building, or use, of the stamping plant; the album advertisement? How much was paid to lawyers? With the exception of the lawyers and the electric company, the preponderance of the evidence seems to point to "not much" in all cases. Wasn't it the Red Hot Chili Peppers that released their own album on P2P because their company was charging too much for the CD? And I know I've heard of situations like that more than once. How many times do people that aren't execs in the recording industry have to step forward and say "we're not getting paid much" before the jury of conventional wisdom accepts that "Damn, these people just don't get paid much?"
Think what you want, I guess. At some point, I entered the real world and realized that I didn't have time for games anymore. So I run Linux (which is in no measure difficult- hardware drives software design anymore, not the other way around).and get my work done. At the end of the day, I'd usually rather build some cabinets or a new valve amp than stare at a screen some more.
It is strange to see that Linux is winning and everybody is scared of it. Why? Do you WANT it to be an OS for just geeks? More or less.
First off, I can't speak for everyone, but I can't say it's ever been about winning. It's not about "conquering the desktop" or being "ready for the desktop" Nor is it about being "railroaded" into using Windows. This isn't some petty act of rebellion. It's a simple decision based on needs and desires.
As for your other point:
Until Linux loses the perception that any kid that fancies their self an 3l33t h4x0r can have an awesome clone of Windows for free simply by popping in an Ubuntu CD; until these same kids bother to learn anything about what they're using and not bitch because it's not like Windows in some critically flawed way (from wireless to udev- I've seen it all), I'm all about them staying right the hell away.
It's not elitism to expect the newbies to play by the rules- If they don't want to, they're free to continue their MS piracy campaign. They weren't contributing anything to the codebase or the community. I have no time to waste on petulant children.
Oh, good, let's arrest architects now, too! After all they use Unrealed to make mockups of their buildings to secure investors- they must be plotting something! Help, help, I live in a country that embraces technology with a wavering heart.
From my experience the export to doc function is sketchy due to the fact that Writer doesn't make up its own formatting rules like Word does and has to try to anticipate how Word would do it. Getting Word to put stuff exactly where you want is a trial in patience and, more often than not, futility. A classic example is with outlines. In Word, you try to space it out with just tab stops, letters, and numbers and that damn paperclip pops up (the one you disabled, no less) and says "Hey! You're making an outline! Make it like this!" And before you know it, your outline looks like what Word thinks an outline should look like, not your employer's, your professor's, or your own version of what an outline should look like. Things like that irritate me, so I don't use Word anymore. Same thing applies to lists, paragraphs, block quotes, and probably a whole slew of minor others. Conversely, there's something about Writer that it sometimes has weird random problems with formatting.
Note to Trip MasterMonkey: Exactly how does one "skew' something like memory usage or how much hard disk space is taken up, especially on a statistic that should be relatively constant across multiple machines?
On a related note, the Pentium D's are limited to 800MHz FSB right now because 1066 wasn't stable. I think line noise was the culprit, though I could be wrong.
It would end up in a printer (or tv, or DVD player, or cell phone, or coffee machine, etc.) because that's what it was created to be. The Broadband Processor Architecture was laid out from the start to be an infinitely scaleable and versatile solution for pretty much anything that uses a microprocessor. The "broadband" part refers to the ability of BPA chips to dole out work across networks to take advantage of idle cycles. I'm not sure how well this strategy will or will not work, but they seem to be telling the truth so far. (can you give evidence that they're lying?)
Maybe you've forgotten, but most of the businesses you speak of are in the United States. You can't be blamed for not knowing if you're foreign, but in this country the bottom line is what I like to refer to as "Instant Dollar Amount"; that is, the initial cost required to make money is not as good as instant gratification with less money. Coupled with the fact that most of the citizens know little, if anything, about computers and you have IDA companies that use the same software until someone convinces them they need to "upgrade" to a new version of...the same software.
Why would we pretend at all when they're pretty much the same now. OO Writer is better than Word at this point, as it has all the functionality of word and runs faster too (It was actually better a few versions ago, when it didn't have all the annoying autoformatting enabled by default and actually did outlinesa how the user WANTED). The OO Spreadsheet is about the same as Excel. A new Database app is going into the next version that will probably emulate Access. The presentation software, I will concede MS has done pretty well on. Powerpoint is better than Impress by a fair bit (then again, if you need a slideshow, you're only trying to obscure the fact that you don't know fully what you're talking about IMO). Add the fact that OO is compatible with MS formats, but MS Office can't open the XML documents that OO uses as standard and I'd say that it has more polish, not less. After all, what's under the hood is more important than what it looks like (riced out vs. sleeper cars)
I have used Photoshop. I have used the GIMP. What's the difference? Not a whole lot actually. GIMP includes all the same standard set of basic filters as well as layering functionality and tools. Most of the good graphic designers don't use all the fancy third party plugins: They don't need them, so that's a nonfactor. Functionality is the same and price is a difference of about $700, making Photoshop and investment and GIMP a bit of bandwidth.
The problem of course is that, as TheWordOfB (696275) noted, the Prion is an extremely stable molecule. There is no standard method for destruction. At best there are approved disposal methods http://www.ehrs.upenn.edu/protocols/sa_destruct.ht ml#prions
The protein PrPC which is the normal protein has, at this time, an undefined function as explained here:http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session1/group42/prion_index.htm. The signifigance of artificially creating a prion is that it may now be possible to put the reaction under heavy restriction to see exactly what happens between PrPC and a Prion that causes this metamorphosis.
...then I say bring it on! Hardware copy protection? That's it? That's the genius plan that's going to stop us from doing what we want with our files? Whatever. If we can use paint and pencils to FORCE a 2.0Ghz Processor clock to 3.1Ghz, then I'll be damned if we can't disable some inane hardware function.
If you don't like the general attitude of slashdot, then leave and find a more right-wing rendition of the news. While it's true the comments posted are biased toward each user's individual tastes, the articles linked at the top are usually from a reputable news source. I really have to wonder why you force yourself to endure the cruelty and torture of reading about the faults and problems people find with Corporations and the government. As mentioned in some decrepit old piece of parchment called "The Constitution of the United States of America" we live in a country with relative freedom to choose what we say, like, do, and worship.
As far as the article is concerned, it seems to be wriiten in a manner that conveys some inital misgivings the world may have with Longhorn based on limited data (as Longhorn is still in Alpha). Think of it as prelimiary consumer reports.
I hope IE isn't so important that you can't uninstall it in Longhorn...
The real problem isn't the people you reach on/. that understand the concept of "Open Source". We understand what you're saying and in some cases identify with you. Thw people you should be telling this to are the REST of the world. Mr. John C. Business-Executive, who is used to being rectally reamed by the corporate software machine. You make good points. Now tell someone who needs to know.
Usually, you see sites with different language versions, like in Google, where you choose your language in the Preferences. Not sure if this would work with Orkut though...
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N is a very good Lode Runner clone, and one of the best Flash games I've played ever. It has some...issues with collision detection, but overall, it's fantastic.
NANACACRASH!! is THE launcher game, best in its class to be sure.
My favourite Flash TD game is actually over at Candystand
Also, Gravity Pods: http://www.wickedpissahgames.com/games/gravitypods/GravityPods.swf
Interestingly, the most recent version of flash I installed on my distro has solved a number of long-standing problems with flash in Linux (Including the one where the right-click menu crashes your browser). If they could reduce the 100% CPU time that Flash seems to so desperately need in Linux, it would actually not be all that bad (though they're not out of the unstable woods yet by any means).
Well I can certainly assure you that that US vendor rep is in the extreme minority. I'm in the middle of the capital of Ohio (arguably the second or third most important state) and the absolute best we can get here is cable and it peaks at about 10-11M (down only. Up is a piddling 512K) on a good day (and those are rare). The fastest DSL that is even offered in the area is 6M down, requires a phone line, and is more expensive than the cable connection. Even Verizon's FIOS service (available only in the Tri-state area and a small hick-town in Texas) maxes out at 50M. Frankly, I don't know what that bloke did to wind up sitting on an OC-2 for $50/month, but he's really lucky.
You're talking about the electrolyte, I think. The obvious solution to the problem you mention would probably be using a solid conductive polymer rather than the liquid.
The problem with Zune (aside from it's price) is that, like it's older (and nicer-to-use) brother, the Toshiba Gigabeat S (They are, quite literally, the same hardware internally- firmware and DRM are worse in the Zune is all) You can't transfer your music to your player without the software that comes WITH the player (or WMP if you're feeling maschistic- last revision that came over my desk didn't support UMS mode, though I would really hope they had fixed this by now) because neither are actual mp3/vorbic/mpc/wma/flac players- all of your music goes through a process where the tags are stripped, the file is encrypted, and new tags are written in proprietary format (SAT for the Gigabeat series). If you're a linux (or at the time even a Mac user; fixed yet?), you're just out of luck. Forget subscription services, first let's get a decent player out on the market.
Why does this whole debate remind me of a Wikipedia discussion page?
But this assumes that the realms of language and orthography are, in fact, equivalent. In the reality of my everyday work, it's rather clear that there's a line between what can be said versus what can be written, though the location of this line is evidently not static. It is this inflexibility in the orthographically acceptable form that will forever relegate it to a status less than that of pure language. Compositionally, "ain't" can probably be proven, as can the syntactic parsability of a double-negative. However, if I'm editing an article on the prosodic qualities of Urhobo I would certainly never allow the author the liberty of using either construction.
In this case I define "not much" in two senses, which is perhaps a bit unfair for those who aren't me, but it happens. First, "not much" for the artist can be defined in terms of a percentage of what they receive from their artistic vision for each CD sold (taken lightly, of course) which is historically rather low. Not endorsements, advertising dollars, promotions, and gifts/etc; just albums sold. Second, and more relevant for the people on the butt of mastering the drivel that Spears comes up with and all associated with that process, is the "not much" that is relative to the nine-figure income of the top execs in the industry.
Think what you want, I guess. At some point, I entered the real world and realized that I didn't have time for games anymore. So I run Linux (which is in no measure difficult- hardware drives software design anymore, not the other way around).and get my work done. At the end of the day, I'd usually rather build some cabinets or a new valve amp than stare at a screen some more.
First off, I can't speak for everyone, but I can't say it's ever been about winning. It's not about "conquering the desktop" or being "ready for the desktop" Nor is it about being "railroaded" into using Windows. This isn't some petty act of rebellion. It's a simple decision based on needs and desires.
As for your other point:
Until Linux loses the perception that any kid that fancies their self an 3l33t h4x0r can have an awesome clone of Windows for free simply by popping in an Ubuntu CD; until these same kids bother to learn anything about what they're using and not bitch because it's not like Windows in some critically flawed way (from wireless to udev- I've seen it all), I'm all about them staying right the hell away.
It's not elitism to expect the newbies to play by the rules- If they don't want to, they're free to continue their MS piracy campaign. They weren't contributing anything to the codebase or the community. I have no time to waste on petulant children.
Second this request. I want to sit on my high pedestal and judge his skills.
Oh, good, let's arrest architects now, too! After all they use Unrealed to make mockups of their buildings to secure investors- they must be plotting something! Help, help, I live in a country that embraces technology with a wavering heart.
Right, because it's not like you can buy the entire discography of Green Day for the price of one ticket in the nosebleeds...oh, wait.
You forgot the part about reducing the POWER4 to a single core first. :)
From my experience the export to doc function is sketchy due to the fact that Writer doesn't make up its own formatting rules like Word does and has to try to anticipate how Word would do it. Getting Word to put stuff exactly where you want is a trial in patience and, more often than not, futility. A classic example is with outlines. In Word, you try to space it out with just tab stops, letters, and numbers and that damn paperclip pops up (the one you disabled, no less) and says "Hey! You're making an outline! Make it like this!" And before you know it, your outline looks like what Word thinks an outline should look like, not your employer's, your professor's, or your own version of what an outline should look like. Things like that irritate me, so I don't use Word anymore. Same thing applies to lists, paragraphs, block quotes, and probably a whole slew of minor others. Conversely, there's something about Writer that it sometimes has weird random problems with formatting.
Note to Trip MasterMonkey: Exactly how does one "skew' something like memory usage or how much hard disk space is taken up, especially on a statistic that should be relatively constant across multiple machines?
On a related note, the Pentium D's are limited to 800MHz FSB right now because 1066 wasn't stable. I think line noise was the culprit, though I could be wrong.
My folding stats would certainly improve...
It would end up in a printer (or tv, or DVD player, or cell phone, or coffee machine, etc.) because that's what it was created to be. The Broadband Processor Architecture was laid out from the start to be an infinitely scaleable and versatile solution for pretty much anything that uses a microprocessor. The "broadband" part refers to the ability of BPA chips to dole out work across networks to take advantage of idle cycles. I'm not sure how well this strategy will or will not work, but they seem to be telling the truth so far. (can you give evidence that they're lying?)
Maybe you've forgotten, but most of the businesses you speak of are in the United States. You can't be blamed for not knowing if you're foreign, but in this country the bottom line is what I like to refer to as "Instant Dollar Amount"; that is, the initial cost required to make money is not as good as instant gratification with less money. Coupled with the fact that most of the citizens know little, if anything, about computers and you have IDA companies that use the same software until someone convinces them they need to "upgrade" to a new version of...the same software.
Why would we pretend at all when they're pretty much the same now. OO Writer is better than Word at this point, as it has all the functionality of word and runs faster too (It was actually better a few versions ago, when it didn't have all the annoying autoformatting enabled by default and actually did outlinesa how the user WANTED). The OO Spreadsheet is about the same as Excel. A new Database app is going into the next version that will probably emulate Access. The presentation software, I will concede MS has done pretty well on. Powerpoint is better than Impress by a fair bit (then again, if you need a slideshow, you're only trying to obscure the fact that you don't know fully what you're talking about IMO). Add the fact that OO is compatible with MS formats, but MS Office can't open the XML documents that OO uses as standard and I'd say that it has more polish, not less. After all, what's under the hood is more important than what it looks like (riced out vs. sleeper cars)
I have used Photoshop. I have used the GIMP. What's the difference? Not a whole lot actually. GIMP includes all the same standard set of basic filters as well as layering functionality and tools. Most of the good graphic designers don't use all the fancy third party plugins: They don't need them, so that's a nonfactor. Functionality is the same and price is a difference of about $700, making Photoshop and investment and GIMP a bit of bandwidth.
The problem of course is that, as TheWordOfB (696275) noted, the Prion is an extremely stable molecule. There is no standard method for destruction. At best there are approved disposal methods http://www.ehrs.upenn.edu/protocols/sa_destruct.ht ml#prions
The protein PrPC which is the normal protein has, at this time, an undefined function as explained here:http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs /session1/group42/prion_index.htm. The signifigance of artificially creating a prion is that it may now be possible to put the reaction under heavy restriction to see exactly what happens between PrPC and a Prion that causes this metamorphosis.
...then I say bring it on! Hardware copy protection? That's it? That's the genius plan that's going to stop us from doing what we want with our files? Whatever. If we can use paint and pencils to FORCE a 2.0Ghz Processor clock to 3.1Ghz, then I'll be damned if we can't disable some inane hardware function.
If you don't like the general attitude of slashdot, then leave and find a more right-wing rendition of the news. While it's true the comments posted are biased toward each user's individual tastes, the articles linked at the top are usually from a reputable news source. I really have to wonder why you force yourself to endure the cruelty and torture of reading about the faults and problems people find with Corporations and the government. As mentioned in some decrepit old piece of parchment called "The Constitution of the United States of America" we live in a country with relative freedom to choose what we say, like, do, and worship.
As far as the article is concerned, it seems to be wriiten in a manner that conveys some inital misgivings the world may have with Longhorn based on limited data (as Longhorn is still in Alpha). Think of it as prelimiary consumer reports.
I hope IE isn't so important that you can't uninstall it in Longhorn...
The real problem isn't the people you reach on /. that understand the concept of "Open Source". We understand what you're saying and in some cases identify with you. Thw people you should be telling this to are the REST of the world. Mr. John C. Business-Executive, who is used to being rectally reamed by the corporate software machine. You make good points. Now tell someone who needs to know.
Usually, you see sites with different language versions, like in Google, where you choose your language in the Preferences. Not sure if this would work with Orkut though...