Actually the browsers don't do squat, they just shove off the font rendering to the OS, which is supposed to (but doesn't always) know what the dpi is. Browsers, however, are ignorant of this. To demonstrate, create a jpeg at 300dpi and toss it at a browser. The browser displays it as if it were a 72dpi image. Shoot, even Photoshop 5 for Windows doesn't seem to understand that my screen is not 72dpi. But open it in an intelligent graphics app with an intelligent OS (such as GraphicConverter on MacOS) and it will display it at actual size.
Which doesn't help if your font renderer doesn't keep track of the true screen resolution and instead makes you manually adjust the erronously-named control "Font Size". (And then forgets to tell the dialog manager, so half of your apps end up drawing controls outside of the non-resizable window.)
The point is, regardless of what kind of font you use, a sample of 12pt type should look the same at 120dpi as it does at 75dpi. So needing to manually adjust "font size" is stupid. Changing icon, toolbar, and widget size may be necessary, however. (And people laughed when they saw 128px icons in MacOSX)
(incidentally, I run at 1280x1024 on a 17" CRT, 110dpi)
Considering that Sony was the defendant in a major lawsuit that Napster, MP3.com, and 2600.com have used for citing precedent. And now they've taken the part of the plaintiff. Isn't that just discouragingly political? Yesterday's revolutionary is today's establishment.
That's why if I were to ever run for elected office, it would be on the promise that my first official act would be to resign.
Ever read the classic sci-fi story, "The Man With English" by H.L.Gold? About a guy who got in an accident that caused his senses to be reversed (hot/cold, sweet/sour, etc.) When they tried to operate to revert his nerves to normal, he woke up and said, "What smells purple?"
One of the best books I've read recently is "History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to Present" by the Moschovitis Group. "Present" means late 1998, and while the chapters on 1970 on could have been more detailed, there weren't any glaring errors or omissions, and a lot of pre-1965 info that I've often seen ignored.
America writes "color" but the Queen's English is "colour". This is true of a lot of words with an -or ending. I'm not sure why the Colonials decided to be unique on that point, it often causes rancour among the uninformed.
We can credit (or blame) Noah Webster with this, along with "center"/"centre" and "plough"/"plow". He also suggested "tung" and "wimmen", but those didn't catch on. His reasoning was that the old spellings were "artificial and needlessly confusing".
There's a thought, eh? Program some bit of DNA code to do this and you could have an anti-Bigot virus. The ultimate convergence of genetics and memetics. Political warfare would become biological warfare. Would new ideas become outlawed under the Geneva Convention? Psychiatric medicine would take an entirely new turn. Wasn't there some sci-fi story that had "learning pills" in it? You think popular entertainment today is bad? Think of the popular personalities. (Oh, wait... we already have that. They're called "religions")
They should never have changed beauty and truth quarks to bottom and top. I think they lost their charm.
Except then you get someone in there who believes that beauty is truth (and thus, truth is beauty) and the next thing you know there's a singularity in your accelerator. (Not that that would be a bad thing, but...)
Of course, if you've ever seen a physicist at 5am, you'll know that truth is definitely not beauty.
I've always despised the idea of hard-coded paths. What we need is symbolic path references. (Not to be confused with symbolic links, but I don't feel like flipping through my thesaurus.) Instead of putting a file in "/etc" or "/usr/local/etc" (not that packages should be allowed to touch/usr/local). But instead you copy it to, say, "$PKG_DIR_CONFIG" which can be whatever you want. Or better yet, taking a cue from autoconf, "$PKG_PREFIX/$PKG_DIR_CONFIG". And similar variables for binaries, libraries, data, and documentation. Then, not only could a single package be made for almost every distribution, but the installation method can be controlled by the user if the usual install paths aren't desired.
Actually, you could probably do this with the MISC binary format. You define what a.tar.(gz|bz2) file is, and that those files should be "executed" with `tar xzvf $1`. This is how Java works.
I don't think it would be necessary to screw around with the ROM chip. Since everything runs in kernel space, and the system is not multitasking, then all you'd really need to do is port LOADLIN. Just kick that fugly Win32 stuff out of RAM and move linux in.
One potential problem is that executable images are authenticated when loaded. And I'd bet that unsigned games won't be allowed.
As for why anyone would want to run linux on the xbox. Well, you could network it with your Dreamcast running NetBSD, of course!
the presence of a hard drive will allow a game to be patched
Games are stored on the CD in a proprietary format, and executable portions of the image have to be signed. And the article mentions that there are no DLL loads, fixups, or anything like that. So if a game wants to be patchable, it has to rewrite its image in RAM and handle all of the patch loading and storage itself. And if it isn't written with patch loading support in the first place, c'est la vie.
So I start up the applet and, wanting to see what it looks like on the remote end, I tried connecting to localhost instead of my public IP. (http://localhost:8080/C:/DOWNLOAD/) The message I got was "The Proxomitron couldn't find the site named DOWNLOAD Check that the name is correct..."
Heh, almost forgot about that. My filter proxy is already listening on port 8080, so even if I was connected directly to the internet, the applet wouldn't work. Of course, it's trivial to just start the applet with a different port.
And what exactly is the point of the attribute "trustproxies" in the applet tag?
Cube computers aren't as rare as Cobalt (or Apple) would have us believe.
Everex had their StepCube systems out in the early '90s. Spectacular boxes, those were. Tried looking for some info about them and couldn't find squat. Pity, it's my favorite case design so far.
Then there's the Intergraph InterPro series of workstations, one of which is sitting behind me as a monitor stand. Anyone know if Linux has been ported to those things? CLIX, the OS they used, isn't Y2K compliant. (Though I haven't actually turned this one on since 1998.) And I found a picture of this one. http://www.intergraph.com/about/history/wshist.htm (tenth picture, the box in the center, and I have the monitor on the right)
An easier way to do this is to intercept the cookie headers and rewrite them before the browser even sees them. This is what Proxomitron does (among other really nifty filtering type things). I'm sure other proxy based filters can do the same thing, but Proxomitron is the only one that's ShonenWare! (He even names the releases after Naoko Yamano.)
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Actually the browsers don't do squat, they just shove off the font rendering to the OS, which is supposed to (but doesn't always) know what the dpi is. Browsers, however, are ignorant of this. To demonstrate, create a jpeg at 300dpi and toss it at a browser. The browser displays it as if it were a 72dpi image. Shoot, even Photoshop 5 for Windows doesn't seem to understand that my screen is not 72dpi. But open it in an intelligent graphics app with an intelligent OS (such as GraphicConverter on MacOS) and it will display it at actual size.
... and have you ever tried printing a web page?
Which doesn't help if your font renderer doesn't keep track of the true screen resolution and instead makes you manually adjust the erronously-named control "Font Size". (And then forgets to tell the dialog manager, so half of your apps end up drawing controls outside of the non-resizable window.)
The point is, regardless of what kind of font you use, a sample of 12pt type should look the same at 120dpi as it does at 75dpi. So needing to manually adjust "font size" is stupid. Changing icon, toolbar, and widget size may be necessary, however. (And people laughed when they saw 128px icons in MacOSX)
(incidentally, I run at 1280x1024 on a 17" CRT, 110dpi)
Considering that Sony was the defendant in a major lawsuit that Napster, MP3.com, and 2600.com have used for citing precedent. And now they've taken the part of the plaintiff. Isn't that just discouragingly political? Yesterday's revolutionary is today's establishment.
That's why if I were to ever run for elected office, it would be on the promise that my first official act would be to resign.
Ever read the classic sci-fi story, "The Man With English" by H.L.Gold? About a guy who got in an accident that caused his senses to be reversed (hot/cold, sweet/sour, etc.) When they tried to operate to revert his nerves to normal, he woke up and said, "What smells purple?"
One of the best books I've read recently is "History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to Present" by the Moschovitis Group. "Present" means late 1998, and while the chapters on 1970 on could have been more detailed, there weren't any glaring errors or omissions, and a lot of pre-1965 info that I've often seen ignored.
We can credit (or blame) Noah Webster with this, along with "center"/"centre" and "plough"/"plow". He also suggested "tung" and "wimmen", but those didn't catch on. His reasoning was that the old spellings were "artificial and needlessly confusing".
There's a brief history on the Merriam-Webster site.
Not to mention that if you ever get cancer you can save a fortune in medical expenses. Who needs oncology when you can just work overtime?
(god, that was tastless)
Well, may I be the first to say...
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
uh... no, I can't either.
(pass the french onion RAM dip)
Another type of non-volatile RAM tech I read about just recently is the explicit write/erase kind. That's right... EWE-RAM
(I apologise profusely)
There's a thought, eh? Program some bit of DNA code to do this and you could have an anti-Bigot virus. The ultimate convergence of genetics and memetics. Political warfare would become biological warfare. Would new ideas become outlawed under the Geneva Convention? Psychiatric medicine would take an entirely new turn. Wasn't there some sci-fi story that had "learning pills" in it? You think popular entertainment today is bad? Think of the popular personalities. (Oh, wait... we already have that. They're called "religions")
Well, THAT certainly explains a lot!
Now I wonder what ancient, esoteric, black art gave us EBCDIC?
Except then you get someone in there who believes that beauty is truth (and thus, truth is beauty) and the next thing you know there's a singularity in your accelerator. (Not that that would be a bad thing, but...)
Of course, if you've ever seen a physicist at 5am, you'll know that truth is definitely not beauty.
I've always despised the idea of hard-coded paths. What we need is symbolic path references. (Not to be confused with symbolic links, but I don't feel like flipping through my thesaurus.) Instead of putting a file in "/etc" or "/usr/local/etc" (not that packages should be allowed to touch /usr/local). But instead you copy it to, say, "$PKG_DIR_CONFIG" which can be whatever you want. Or better yet, taking a cue from autoconf, "$PKG_PREFIX/$PKG_DIR_CONFIG". And similar variables for binaries, libraries, data, and documentation. Then, not only could a single package be made for almost every distribution, but the installation method can be controlled by the user if the usual install paths aren't desired.
Actually, you could probably do this with the MISC binary format. You define what a .tar.(gz|bz2) file is, and that those files should be "executed" with `tar xzvf $1`. This is how Java works.
Ah... But you forget about our good friend the Dopefish. He snuck into Quake. "The Well of Wishes" level I believe it was.
I don't think it would be necessary to screw around with the ROM chip. Since everything runs in kernel space, and the system is not multitasking, then all you'd really need to do is port LOADLIN. Just kick that fugly Win32 stuff out of RAM and move linux in.
One potential problem is that executable images are authenticated when loaded. And I'd bet that unsigned games won't be allowed.
As for why anyone would want to run linux on the xbox. Well, you could network it with your Dreamcast running NetBSD, of course!
Games are stored on the CD in a proprietary format, and executable portions of the image have to be signed. And the article mentions that there are no DLL loads, fixups, or anything like that. So if a game wants to be patchable, it has to rewrite its image in RAM and handle all of the patch loading and storage itself. And if it isn't written with patch loading support in the first place, c'est la vie.
Does anyone else find it mildly disturbing that whoever took the Mozilla screenshot was doing a search for "Darva Conger"?
So I start up the applet and, wanting to see what it looks like on the remote end, I tried connecting to localhost instead of my public IP. (http://localhost:8080/C:/DOWNLOAD/) The message I got was "The Proxomitron couldn't find the site named DOWNLOAD Check that the name is correct..."
Heh, almost forgot about that. My filter proxy is already listening on port 8080, so even if I was connected directly to the internet, the applet wouldn't work. Of course, it's trivial to just start the applet with a different port.
And what exactly is the point of the attribute "trustproxies" in the applet tag?
... and may a plague of RMS's befall anyone who says it's a bad idea.
(hey, I just realised that my sig is on-topic!)
Take your pick:
certificates
certifications
certifiers
certifies
chiefs
chieftains
clarifications
clarifies
classifications
classifiers
classifies
cliffs
codifications
codifiers
codifies
coniferous
crucifies
deceitfulness
handkerchiefs
kerchiefs
pacifies
pacifism
pacifist
reclassifies
sacrificers
sacrifices
specifications
specifics
specifiers
specifies
I vote for "CLIFS" myself. (Unless someone has a better dictionary.)
Who else, when you saw this, immediately thought of this?
I believe TVT is owned by Interscope, the same parent company of Death Row Records, the home of Dr. Dre who has spoken out against MP3 trading.
Cube computers aren't as rare as Cobalt (or Apple) would have us believe.
m (tenth picture, the box in the center, and I have the monitor on the right)
Everex had their StepCube systems out in the early '90s. Spectacular boxes, those were. Tried looking for some info about them and couldn't find squat. Pity, it's my favorite case design so far.
Then there's the Intergraph InterPro series of workstations, one of which is sitting behind me as a monitor stand. Anyone know if Linux has been ported to those things? CLIX, the OS they used, isn't Y2K compliant. (Though I haven't actually turned this one on since 1998.)
And I found a picture of this one. http://www.intergraph.com/about/history/wshist.ht
An easier way to do this is to intercept the cookie headers and rewrite them before the browser even sees them. This is what Proxomitron does (among other really nifty filtering type things). I'm sure other proxy based filters can do the same thing, but Proxomitron is the only one that's ShonenWare! (He even names the releases after Naoko Yamano.)