It's a bit more complex than a 404 to detect a dead torrent. The torrent file can exist but if no one is seeding it, then it is effectively dead - no one can download the entire file. There are scripts out there that check that, but usually iirc they are local to the tracker. I'm not sure if the tracker broadcasts this data or not.
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your rebuttal was mostly irrelevant for the following reasons:
1. I stated in the original post that that was my personal set up. Obviously you can turn it on/off at your preference. This was beyond the point.
2. Naturally. But with it turned off, if you're running any number of other programs (or one with many windows ie msn) your taskbar is quickly overpopulated and impossible to use efficiently. That was why they first implemented grouping in the task bar, but it doesn't fix the problem (instead it makes it worse, and as you said, annoying). Tabbed browsing removes the irrelevant (other programs) from being listed with the relevant (webpages).
3. Naturally, but again that wasn't my point. My point was that the additional load of a page in a tabbed browser would be less than the additional load of a page + window resources if the same page were loaded in a new window. Those extra windows ain't free. I actually might be completely wrong here, but from experience using the two setups I find IE to lag more than firefox, when viewing the same number of websites (new windows vs tabs), and switching tabs usually quicker than switching IE windows.
There's more than one way to skin this cat, you could leave the two rows in the same order and just change the bottom frame. There's nothing saying the content of a window has to start directly below it's tab.
Certainly this would create an ugly GUI glitch, so maybe I should think before I post..
I agree 100% with parent, but just wanted to add reason 3 why the article is silly to suggest "Windows XP's taskbar is capable of grouping similar buttons, which effectively tabs a number of IE windows."
When it groups similiar buttons, they're (at least) 2 clicks away (plus if you're like me, if you're stuck in windows, your start menu is autohidden, so it's 2 clicks & a split second wait). Plus, when experiencing ram-withdrawal lag, switching IE windows often becomes a 5-second hard-drive lagathon. Certainly a better PC fixes this but the point is on the same machine firefox's tabbed browsing switches sites on the fly without the lag.
Any author of an article suggesting that the taskbar effectively emulates tabbed browsing has either never used a tabbed browser, or is a microsoft lackey in disguise.
To further back up this point, one only has to look as far as the success of so many email-based worms that require users to download and run attachments.
You can only save the user from themselves for so long if they're that dedicated to self-destruction.
Hi.
My Name is Timothy Roberts, President of the esteemed company Infinium Labs, in the United States of America, under glory of God. We are a company highly successful with video games. Unfortunately our name has been tarnished by the infad^H^H^H^H^Heditors of online magazines.
The effect of these words were to promote our bankers to halt the access to our accounts. Through our business dealings I aforementioned we had secured FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($5000000, or 60000 camels^H^H^H^H^H^Hschoolchildren). Through a gift of God we were given your email address. We require a person whom with we may complete the aforementioned business transaction. For your honour in saving our corporation we will award you 30 percent.
please reply soon.
www.phantom.net
Seriously? That better not be the case every time you want to turn on and connect a controller. It would be worse than a wired controller.
Wired controller -> turn on xbox, use all four
wireless -> turn on xbox, hit button on controller 1, hit button on xbox, hit button on controller 2, hit button on xbox....
Both Xbox 360 and PS3 have wireless controllers. Is this going to work out?
With our regular xboxes we often play system link games where we have 2-3 xboxes in the same/adjoining room. See the potential problem? I'm sure they've thought of something to solve this.. I hope.
psp-linux.org is a fake site owned by a kid who's sole goal is to get people to click on his "Free PSPs" link. First, he lies about making the homebrew hello world app that was released in the last day (hackers hacked in and stole it before they could release it), and knows nothing about anything.
A number of the hacks reported have already been proven false (PSP-stumbler, pnespemu, a lot of the stuff posted on any of the forums). Whenever people insert nop instructions (0x00) followed by a jump and get the PSP to crash they think it's running their code, not just barfing on the bad data.
the PSP Hello World is real, though.
So.. commercial VR tech appears stalled, and developments are as another poster mentioned, around the price of a new ferrari. So.. what are you going to do?
I have fun creating what I call "Poor Man's 3D" experiments. One was in 2600 a couple year's ago. Since then I've been evolving quite a bit. From that article, myself and a friend:
- made a stereo webcam. We took two webcams, made a base that holds them approximately the distance of two "eyes", and wrote some scripts to force them to record in stereo. We made an output script that converted the right/left images to red/blue channels and then combine them into a single video. The result was a 3D video viewable via red-blue goggles.
- we are now working on the bigger update: something better than red/blue goggles. You can buy these cheap LCD screen gizmo's that are connected to playstation controllers (we picked up 6 of them for $30 cdn/ea at FutureShop in the fall). Buy one of those really crappy "VR 3D" toys from ebay (search for "Tunnel Racer"). The crappy screens of the "Tunnel Racer" Game are the same size as the LCDs of the TVs. Two XBoxes running Linux networked and you have yourself homebrew VR:).
Our plan is to wire the stereo camera into the stereo headset and try to navigate experiencing USB 1.1 cheapo webcam lag/blur
It's not done yet.. when it is it'll be all tutorialized and whatnot
we have a pIII 500 box with a 120 gig drive set up as our media server (it has samba set up for access from our xboxes/xbmc and from our room computers too). We have VNC running and use qtorrent so whenever anyone has downloads running, they are accessible by everyone to pause, etc. We play a lot of halo 2 so it's important for anyone to be able to turn off all the downloads without having to have access to all the computers in the house.
You can also use a number of free alternatives to xbox live.
Try XBoxConnect (www.xbconnect.com) or XLink Kai.
It's more of a chat-room-channel sort of idealogy and imho works better than live. People can cheat easier since modded boxes can play on it too but it's usually really obvious (just learn how fast the BR fires and know what's faster and what's not, that's a good indicator.)
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It's a bit more complex than a 404 to detect a dead torrent. The torrent file can exist but if no one is seeding it, then it is effectively dead - no one can download the entire file. There are scripts out there that check that, but usually iirc they are local to the tracker. I'm not sure if the tracker broadcasts this data or not.
Two words: burn victims.
"Chuck E. Cheese founder creates concept for 'arcade', 20 years late"
your rebuttal was mostly irrelevant for the following reasons:
1. I stated in the original post that that was my personal set up. Obviously you can turn it on/off at your preference. This was beyond the point.
2. Naturally. But with it turned off, if you're running any number of other programs (or one with many windows ie msn) your taskbar is quickly overpopulated and impossible to use efficiently. That was why they first implemented grouping in the task bar, but it doesn't fix the problem (instead it makes it worse, and as you said, annoying). Tabbed browsing removes the irrelevant (other programs) from being listed with the relevant (webpages).
3. Naturally, but again that wasn't my point. My point was that the additional load of a page in a tabbed browser would be less than the additional load of a page + window resources if the same page were loaded in a new window. Those extra windows ain't free. I actually might be completely wrong here, but from experience using the two setups I find IE to lag more than firefox, when viewing the same number of websites (new windows vs tabs), and switching tabs usually quicker than switching IE windows.
Do you think before you post?
There's more than one way to skin this cat, you could leave the two rows in the same order and just change the bottom frame. There's nothing saying the content of a window has to start directly below it's tab.
Certainly this would create an ugly GUI glitch, so maybe I should think before I post..
I agree 100% with parent, but just wanted to add reason 3 why the article is silly to suggest "Windows XP's taskbar is capable of grouping similar buttons, which effectively tabs a number of IE windows." When it groups similiar buttons, they're (at least) 2 clicks away (plus if you're like me, if you're stuck in windows, your start menu is autohidden, so it's 2 clicks & a split second wait). Plus, when experiencing ram-withdrawal lag, switching IE windows often becomes a 5-second hard-drive lagathon. Certainly a better PC fixes this but the point is on the same machine firefox's tabbed browsing switches sites on the fly without the lag. Any author of an article suggesting that the taskbar effectively emulates tabbed browsing has either never used a tabbed browser, or is a microsoft lackey in disguise.
To further back up this point, one only has to look as far as the success of so many email-based worms that require users to download and run attachments.
You can only save the user from themselves for so long if they're that dedicated to self-destruction.
let me get this straight. I don't know if this joke is now archaic, but... "micro" "soft".. is releasing a "long" "horn". HAH!
BAAHAHAHAHA!
You made my day. Thanks!
iirc intel started making up words once they figured out they could not trademark/own the number "486".
Hi. My Name is Timothy Roberts, President of the esteemed company Infinium Labs, in the United States of America, under glory of God. We are a company highly successful with video games. Unfortunately our name has been tarnished by the infad^H^H^H^H^Heditors of online magazines. The effect of these words were to promote our bankers to halt the access to our accounts. Through our business dealings I aforementioned we had secured FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($5000000, or 60000 camels^H^H^H^H^H^Hschoolchildren). Through a gift of God we were given your email address. We require a person whom with we may complete the aforementioned business transaction. For your honour in saving our corporation we will award you 30 percent. please reply soon. www.phantom.net
wait.. I'm just finishing a CS degree so this means a lot to me... how much is a fistful exactly? I need to know.
Why do I feel like the PS3 will do that, while the xbox will depend on "best-guess"? :)
Seriously? That better not be the case every time you want to turn on and connect a controller. It would be worse than a wired controller.
Wired controller -> turn on xbox, use all four
wireless -> turn on xbox, hit button on controller 1, hit button on xbox, hit button on controller 2, hit button on xbox....
Right, but when I turn on a wireless controller how will it determine which console it should be connected to if they're both in the piconet?
Both Xbox 360 and PS3 have wireless controllers. Is this going to work out?
With our regular xboxes we often play system link games where we have 2-3 xboxes in the same/adjoining room. See the potential problem? I'm sure they've thought of something to solve this.. I hope.
Uninformed you say? Someone should have informed them of the slashdot effect...
"His promise: Longhorn, malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge (..)"
he said it, not me.
psp-linux.org is a fake site owned by a kid who's sole goal is to get people to click on his "Free PSPs" link. First, he lies about making the homebrew hello world app that was released in the last day (hackers hacked in and stole it before they could release it), and knows nothing about anything.
Check out this forum post:
Essentially proof of his lies
A number of the hacks reported have already been proven false (PSP-stumbler, pnespemu, a lot of the stuff posted on any of the forums). Whenever people insert nop instructions (0x00) followed by a jump and get the PSP to crash they think it's running their code, not just barfing on the bad data. the PSP Hello World is real, though.
So.. commercial VR tech appears stalled, and developments are as another poster mentioned, around the price of a new ferrari. So.. what are you going to do?
:).
I have fun creating what I call "Poor Man's 3D" experiments. One was in 2600 a couple year's ago. Since then I've been evolving quite a bit. From that article, myself and a friend:
- made a stereo webcam. We took two webcams, made a base that holds them approximately the distance of two "eyes", and wrote some scripts to force them to record in stereo. We made an output script that converted the right/left images to red/blue channels and then combine them into a single video. The result was a 3D video viewable via red-blue goggles.
- we are now working on the bigger update: something better than red/blue goggles. You can buy these cheap LCD screen gizmo's that are connected to playstation controllers (we picked up 6 of them for $30 cdn/ea at FutureShop in the fall). Buy one of those really crappy "VR 3D" toys from ebay (search for "Tunnel Racer"). The crappy screens of the "Tunnel Racer" Game are the same size as the LCDs of the TVs. Two XBoxes running Linux networked and you have yourself homebrew VR
Our plan is to wire the stereo camera into the stereo headset and try to navigate experiencing USB 1.1 cheapo webcam lag/blur
It's not done yet.. when it is it'll be all tutorialized and whatnot
it's all about centralization.
we have a pIII 500 box with a 120 gig drive set up as our media server (it has samba set up for access from our xboxes/xbmc and from our room computers too). We have VNC running and use qtorrent so whenever anyone has downloads running, they are accessible by everyone to pause, etc. We play a lot of halo 2 so it's important for anyone to be able to turn off all the downloads without having to have access to all the computers in the house.
As long as I get to play Halo XVIII on my original xbox I won't complain.
I have a DSL connection. It should handle fine unless we're playing xbox online but I'll keep that to the off hours. Gimme a call.
You can also use a number of free alternatives to xbox live.
Try XBoxConnect (www.xbconnect.com) or XLink Kai.
It's more of a chat-room-channel sort of idealogy and imho works better than live. People can cheat easier since modded boxes can play on it too but it's usually really obvious (just learn how fast the BR fires and know what's faster and what's not, that's a good indicator.)