MS has yet to make one web app that gained any real steam. Do they really think they stand a chance of uprooting flicker? I thought they learned their lesson and deiced to just buy people who know what they are doing.
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I do something similar. I collapse the legs on one of my TV trays and it turns in to a lap desk (end of the legs touch the floor and are parallel with my legs if your wondering). Then when I have to go do something I uncollapse the tray and stand it up. When in normal TV tray mode you can still use the laptop normally by just leaning in. It's the best solution for couch laptop use I have found.
Not to start a language war but I strongly suggest that you take a look in to Java. Most people do not realize this but it has it has improving nonstop ever since it was created. With 1.5(in 2004) the language got a major overhaul. With 1.6 (in late 2006) the GUI layer had a lot of it's bugs fixed. Right from the start you did not need to worry about pointer management and garbage collection. Also it has simple, clean and (most importantly) native threading and reflection support.
I'm curious, why is Java a no go?
Yeah that's about right. I just ordered one. Here are my numbers right from the confermation email. But I think the sipping might be for my laptop not the one being donated. It was calculated after I entered my address
Payment Details
Item Price: $399.00 USD
Total Shipping: $24.95 USD
Total: $423.95 USD
Order Description: G1G1 program donation
Nah, Google is the new Apple. This is just one part of his classic formula. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ. For all the Dvorak haters listen to an ep of Twit http://www.twit.tv/ with him. He's not stupid, he is just on an endless quest for numbers. You'll start to like him if you do what I do. Just think of him like the old uncle at the family reunions that just hates everything. "Bah! The Google phone will never work! You damn kids with your Web 2.0!" "Oh uncle Dvorak..."
I was just thinking that. I'm gonna guess they plan on doing that soon. With the Orange Box they just added achievements for the PC. I remember that I noticed a change in the achievement system a few days ofter the games came out too. For those of you that are unaware your achievements are stored online. The change that I noticed was that Portal and HL2 achievements became visible from your Steam page http://steamcommunity.com/. An issue with this is that if you complete an achievement while off line it's not counted. The problem is that saved games are far bigger and used for more frequently. They might just make a "back up this save" option from the save menu.
Didn't you people learn *anything* from the Hot Coffee debacle?
Oh hell yes they did. They basically were able to release an AO game with a M rating. So they got the game out the door on most systems AND did not have to actually cut anything out because they knew the hacking community would find it. I bet the everyone but the legal department is laughing their ass off over at Rockstar right now.
Well that's depressing. I was hoping that I could finally stop mucking around in the xorg config file. At least the tool is a start. Is their any Linux distro that has something like that that works right?
Yeah I've been there. It's why the xorg app in 7.10 makes me happy. Shit like this should not be an issue. I love Linux and all that I can do with it but xorg is still a problem and for no reason that I can see. I remember hearing somewhere that they are planing to include something that prevents this kind of mess in the next release; But I can't remember what it was or where I herd about it. Well anyway...Your gonna need a live CD to at least get a working command line. If it's a 7.10 Ubuntu CD you might be able to run the app from it.
If you hate hearing about/. so much goto http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and set it so you don't have to see those articles. Trolling about how this is a "circle-jerk" is not a solution.
If a playback device manufacturer finds that its devices have been hacked, it can potentially release BD+ code that detects and circumvents the vulnerability. These programs can then be included in all new content releases.
I'm guessing that XP already has some drivers and changes that XO needs that 98 doesn't and that Vista is so heavy to run that it would be more work to take it all out then to just use XP. The funny thing is that they do have Windows CE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_ce that is made for this kind of thing. The only reason I would guess they are not using that is because it looks "too 90's" or something.
Yes
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Can someone tell me why people hate kdawson so much? His posts are a little FUDy but I would rather know bout these things then not.
It's beta it's gonna have problems. Keep in mind that 4000 pages is not a lot at all for Wikipedia and based on how they are getting the pages for it's going to be many obscure things that few people care about. This is because everything interesting is going to be contested or need clean up or something. Also I think it's getting Slashdoted at the moment.
Something I've noticed is that when things are good no one pays attention to what is going on. So after a while greedy people start moving in and taking anything that isn't nailed down. All the people then get pissed and something happens. Be it a revolution or just basic repairs. So as bad as things are now I get the impression that it is just part of the ebb and flow of things. At least there are people out there who are starting to realize these problems now before we have even more work to do to fix it all.
Yes but we advise the majority. How many people do you know who you give advice to? Personally I tell allot of people what to get. We might not matter all at once but once we are burned we hardly give that tech a second chance and we do not advise our friends to get it. So next time some one asks me what cell phone company to switch too I'll be saying "not Verizon" and after 5 or 10 people that might start to matter.
Keep in mind how new this is and how complex a GPU is these days. It's gonna be a mess for a few sometime. What I would like to know is who is more dedicated to making Linux drivers that are (eventually) rock solid? I'm planing to build a new rig soon. Should I go nVidiea because I know they have decent drivers now or ATI because once they get the kinks out it'll be better? I'm sure people are gonna say that ATI is better because they went Open Source. But nVidiea could open up any day now in response to all this and they already have a working code base.
Well people look for different things in art. For most people games are entertainment, a time killer. Like TV is today and books and plays were in years past. Just something interesting to do for now. People like me look for a story, something I can think and talk about. Because of this I love RPGs and I'm currently very into HL2. Other people who play Halo and madden look at games as sport. A way to compete with their friends. The same game can cause two different people to invoke totally different emotions. I doubt that the GP has no emotions when playing but instead that they just don't get attached to the characters. The GP does not feel remorse at killing a innocent character because he/she is more interested in feeling accomplishment at beating the game instead of feeling that the game is real.
Steam is so different than any other DRM that I don't even think of it as DRM. Every other DRM limits the original buyer. In all my time using steam I have never seen it do that. Multiple installs? Ok. Lost CD? Let me download that for you. Playing off line? That's fine, just register once. In fact using steam for me has made things easier. All I need is my login and password and I can play any game I have bought ever anywhere. I felt really crappy the first time I herd about steam but now I love it. It's really a shame that games like Bioshock feel that they need to include their own crappy DRM when they are distributed by Steam.
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MS has yet to make one web app that gained any real steam. Do they really think they stand a chance of uprooting flicker? I thought they learned their lesson and deiced to just buy people who know what they are doing.
I do something similar. I collapse the legs on one of my TV trays and it turns in to a lap desk (end of the legs touch the floor and are parallel with my legs if your wondering). Then when I have to go do something I uncollapse the tray and stand it up. When in normal TV tray mode you can still use the laptop normally by just leaning in. It's the best solution for couch laptop use I have found.
Not to start a language war but I strongly suggest that you take a look in to Java. Most people do not realize this but it has it has improving nonstop ever since it was created. With 1.5(in 2004) the language got a major overhaul. With 1.6 (in late 2006) the GUI layer had a lot of it's bugs fixed. Right from the start you did not need to worry about pointer management and garbage collection. Also it has simple, clean and (most importantly) native threading and reflection support.
I'm curious, why is Java a no go?
Nah, Google is the new Apple. This is just one part of his classic formula. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ. For all the Dvorak haters listen to an ep of Twit http://www.twit.tv/ with him. He's not stupid, he is just on an endless quest for numbers. You'll start to like him if you do what I do. Just think of him like the old uncle at the family reunions that just hates everything. "Bah! The Google phone will never work! You damn kids with your Web 2.0!" "Oh uncle Dvorak..."
I was just thinking that. I'm gonna guess they plan on doing that soon. With the Orange Box they just added achievements for the PC. I remember that I noticed a change in the achievement system a few days ofter the games came out too. For those of you that are unaware your achievements are stored online. The change that I noticed was that Portal and HL2 achievements became visible from your Steam page http://steamcommunity.com/. An issue with this is that if you complete an achievement while off line it's not counted. The problem is that saved games are far bigger and used for more frequently. They might just make a "back up this save" option from the save menu.
Tell them that you COULD send them money but only if they were running just the right operating system...
Well that's depressing. I was hoping that I could finally stop mucking around in the xorg config file. At least the tool is a start. Is their any Linux distro that has something like that that works right?
Yeah I've been there. It's why the xorg app in 7.10 makes me happy. Shit like this should not be an issue. I love Linux and all that I can do with it but xorg is still a problem and for no reason that I can see. I remember hearing somewhere that they are planing to include something that prevents this kind of mess in the next release; But I can't remember what it was or where I herd about it. Well anyway...Your gonna need a live CD to at least get a working command line. If it's a 7.10 Ubuntu CD you might be able to run the app from it.
Something new to 7.10 or gusty gibbon is a xorg configuration utility that should be able to help you out.
If you hate hearing about /. so much goto http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and set it so you don't have to see those articles. Trolling about how this is a "circle-jerk" is not a solution.
I'm guessing that XP already has some drivers and changes that XO needs that 98 doesn't and that Vista is so heavy to run that it would be more work to take it all out then to just use XP. The funny thing is that they do have Windows CE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_ce that is made for this kind of thing. The only reason I would guess they are not using that is because it looks "too 90's" or something.
Yes http://hardware.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome If your logged in that should take you to the preferences page that will let you hide the posts of who ever you want. If it doesn't work you can get to it from Preferences then Homepage.
Can someone tell me why people hate kdawson so much? His posts are a little FUDy but I would rather know bout these things then not.
It's beta it's gonna have problems. Keep in mind that 4000 pages is not a lot at all for Wikipedia and based on how they are getting the pages for it's going to be many obscure things that few people care about. This is because everything interesting is going to be contested or need clean up or something. Also I think it's getting Slashdoted at the moment.
Is that beowulf cluster in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
sorry had to say it....
Something I've noticed is that when things are good no one pays attention to what is going on. So after a while greedy people start moving in and taking anything that isn't nailed down. All the people then get pissed and something happens. Be it a revolution or just basic repairs. So as bad as things are now I get the impression that it is just part of the ebb and flow of things. At least there are people out there who are starting to realize these problems now before we have even more work to do to fix it all.
Keep in mind how new this is and how complex a GPU is these days. It's gonna be a mess for a few sometime. What I would like to know is who is more dedicated to making Linux drivers that are (eventually) rock solid? I'm planing to build a new rig soon. Should I go nVidiea because I know they have decent drivers now or ATI because once they get the kinks out it'll be better? I'm sure people are gonna say that ATI is better because they went Open Source. But nVidiea could open up any day now in response to all this and they already have a working code base.
It makes me wonder if someone can just patent filing a patent and just make the system grind to a halt.
Steam is so different than any other DRM that I don't even think of it as DRM. Every other DRM limits the original buyer. In all my time using steam I have never seen it do that. Multiple installs? Ok. Lost CD? Let me download that for you. Playing off line? That's fine, just register once. In fact using steam for me has made things easier. All I need is my login and password and I can play any game I have bought ever anywhere. I felt really crappy the first time I herd about steam but now I love it. It's really a shame that games like Bioshock feel that they need to include their own crappy DRM when they are distributed by Steam.