Unless a document is digitally signed, ANY format (proprietary or open) is editable.
Like the GP, I would much prefer documents that weren't meant to be edited to be distributed in PDF format*. Although they certainly can be edited, PDF's aren't generally meant to be edited and the format reflects this - and it is actually these "reflections" that make PDF preferable, not the issue of editability (if that's even a word) itself. Examples includes not reflowing pages and the availability of a light-weight reader on every platform I can think of (although PalmOS support is rather poor).
Not reflowing content is a biggie. Image forms done in Word (oh, wait, you don't have to imagine - in many places, it's the norm!). Printing on non-standard page size (A4 vs Letter, for example) completely breaks most of these forms. Scaling is a huge hassle.
*I'd gladly support an open format, but I'm unaware of any that has even a reasonable market penetration and has as much cross-platform support as PDF.
Despite the fanboy, surface thinking mods, your example just doesn't hold water.... However, never ever underestimate the sheer power there is in simply being financially secure.
Doesn't your argument suggest that the financially insecure would be more likely to, well, prostitute themselves? If so, aren't you just underlining the parent's point?
That only gives you a massive BURST transfer rate. Usually, the important figure is the SUSTAINED transfer rate, so unless you have a very long convoy of station wagons...
Adjusting the speed of your DVD or CD drive is the best way to reduce noise. If you're copying a bunch of data, you probably do want it spinning at max speed, but if you are watching a DVD or something similar (where noise is also usually much more annoying), reducing it works VERY well.
I've been using CD Bremse for years, both for CD and DVD drives, with no problems. YMMV. Word of warning: The site is in German (but the program itself is in English). It's not too hard to figure out the site, though. Click on the CD Bremse link and then the version of the program to download - or click on the "Lauffwerksliste" to get a huge compatibility table.
But it shouldn't be. A consumer who thinks a bit further ahead than the current purchase would buy from the smaller company whenever performance (or price/performance or whatever other metric the consumer wishes to use) is even roughly on par.
Sadly, most consumers behave in the exact opposite way... and that's the source of many of the problems in our marketplace.
The point wasn't that Government should develop a vaccine (or do research in general), but that they should FUND it. Which, indeed, they already do.
(And that the result of the publicly funded research should be... public)
Do you really think that rewriting a big,mature commercial application from scratch using another GUI toolkit is somehow easier and cheaper than just hiring Codeweavers (that probably know the WINE codebase much better than almost anyone on this planet) to do the required patches, as Google did?
I think you haven't actually used Picassa or you would know that it fits none of the properties you just described.
Team Lagging
Same as lagging out, but instead of blocking traffic, just increase network latency to players on the opposing team. Not as effective as other mechanisms but VERY hard for Bungie to spot.
Yes, because calculating the average latency for the team the host is playing for (minus the host player, since he is unique) and comparing it with the average latency for the other team is really difficult and couldn't be automated at all. Throw in some correlation calculations and you could get a pretty darn good idea of any latency-boosting taking place.
This is the real importance of the announcement, IMHO.
Remember, WINE is not an emulator. It's a reimplementation of the Windows API (i.e. a "clone"). As such, it's only as good as its weakest component and while WINE is quite good at a lot of programs, there's still a good deal missing.
The reason WINE is so important is two-fold. One, it's another attack vector and if you want to fight the Microsoft monoculture, you need all the attack vectors you can get. Two, it allows more people to switch to linux, even if a mission-critical application isn't natively available. Personally, I would have a really hard time without VirtualDub and despite being FOSS, there's no Linux version and no plan for one (and, no, I don't have the time - and probably the skills - to do it myself).
That said, I don't understand why Google did it this way. It would be so much easier to make a Linux version from scratch (using Qt or GTK+). Don't get me wrong, I'm happy they are doing it this way. I think massive improvements to WINE and the added focus on it are much more valuable than having a Linux native version of Picassa (which really only adds a bit of polish to already existing Linux applications).
You are only partially right about pointing to the water as a source of taste-differences. The main kicker, in my (extensive) experience is the choice of artificial sweeteners and their ratios, which will vary according to local laws and thresholds - and possibly other reasons.
For some (to me) unknown reason, German Diet Coke contains cyclamate (E 952), in addition to the usual acesulfame potassium and aspartame cocktail (and thus tastes like crap). Cyclamate was banned in the US in 1969 after studies found that it caused testicular cancer in mice and despite subsequent studies that found no such relationsships, the FDAs admition of same and repeated attempts by Abott Labs to get it reapproved, it is still banned - and according to Wikipedia, the latest petition is not being actively reviewed by the FDA.
So, while I've also heard the "all the coke syrup comes from the US" reasoning before, it's clearly not the whole story - at least for DIET Coke.
I thought it was fairly well-established that Microsoft has LOST money on the Xbox venture so far. We'll see what happens with the 360, but it's only batting 500 so far. If the PS3 (and, to a much lesser extent, the Wiiiiii) is perpetually delayed or otherwise uncompetitive, Microsoft stands to make a bundle. Time will tell on that score.
Plus, I'm not convinced it's that far from their core compentency (and I'm trying REALLY hard not to make any jokes about Microsoft, OS/Office and compentency - so bear with me). Microsoft has the OS, the DirectX (including input, sound and graphics) as well as an established game studio. To top it off, they've also made hardware (input devices mostly, plenty of them gaming-oriented) and embedded Windows (OS and hardware). I would hardly call combining all that with a bit of hardware from established vendors much outside Microsoft's core compentency.
My IP has been 127.0.0.1 for a really long time now. Ever since I got my first internet connection, actually. That must be why it's such a "nice" number and not those horribly complicated ones other people always seem to have.
"So, what IS the typical holding interval for a DSL ip?"
Anyone who has a router setup as the primary access point will always have the same IP (barring an ISP reset of some kind - or turning off the router for some reason). I've had the same IP for over 2.5 years now and my pathetic Cisco 678 router gets it via DHCP (I know, I checked in CBOS). The router needs to be rebooted every so often (which prompty causes it to reset the NAT table to some pseudo-arbitrary point in the past, disregarding any changes even through "written") and I still get the same address.
DHCP virtually always assign a MAC the same IP address as it was last seen with, providing it has not been taken already. Since IPs are assigned by FILO, that would mean the stack has been completely used. Unless the ISP has an extraordinarily tight supply of addresses (in which case you'd probably do better with a different ISP), that's not likely to happen if you use your computer regularly.
The whole thing is running via "Revver.com". Looks like a Google Video / YouTube et. al. clone. Their tagline is "Revverize your videos. Share them with the world. Make money."
You don't suppose THEY are funding the bandwidth, do you? I mean, they are getting some massive exposure here and in a crowded video-market, that has to be worth something. There was a comparison linked on the/. front page the other day between a whole bunch of sites like this, but Revver.com with all its Revverizing potential was nowhere to be found. This seems like an effective way of getting some attention.
Or maybe not, seeing as how people seemingly believe Mozilla is hosting it all.
This can't possibly surprise anyone
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Viiv was always going to be more marketing that substance.
That said, what did TFA expect it to be? A free lifetime membership to download all the movies you want?
What will matter are ease of installation, looks of final box (mostly out of Intel's hands) and noise... along with costs and a few necessary features, of course.
"If you're not interested in building a game from scratch, have you looked into implementing your game as a mod for some already existing game?"
Mod parent up for suggesting a mod.
Seriously.
Unless you have VERY specific requirements for your game, you should be able to get quite far by creating a mod for an existing game. Now, that could either be a close sourced game or an open sourced game, that's entirely up to you.
Since you stated that your game is never going to make any money anyway, going with a commercial, open source game seems viable. This opens up the possibilities even further. Depending on the type of game you had in mind, Quake3 and Descent2 are both mod'able and both have their source code freely available.
If you don't want to use a commercial open source game, you could use one of the many "free" open source game (feel free to insert the obligatory speech and beer comments here), e.g. Vegastrike ( http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ ).
All that said, you don't NEED the source if you can keep it 100% in the mod realm - and people have done some amazing things with mods!
> I mean, they may have said "Windows Vista will have feature X", but that is hardly a promise.
I think you need to look a few things up in the dictionary.
So, if I borrow some money from you adn say "I'll pay you back tomorrow", then that's hardly a promise, right?
If so, I'd like to borrow some money. I'll pay you back tomorrow, with 100% interest.
I'm absolutely sick and tired of seeing super high quality video in TV ad after TV ad for 3G phones, knowing full well what they are capable of. The audio is almost certainly fake as well, but at least that's within the realm of possibility.
What the heck am I doing on my Palm right now? What is "Grafitti" if not gestures on a pressure sensitive / touch screen?
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Probably the main reason for any fall-off in spam is blocking by the likes of hotmail, yahoo and gmail. I would have to assume that the VAST majority of users have email addresses on major hosts such as the aforementioned.
Another reason is probably that people tend to give up their spam-filled email addresses in favor of new, pristine ones. I know I certainly have a few addresses in this catagory.
Slashdot Mirror
233 deg. C, btw.
I don't think I know the temperature of combustion for any other material...
(Money probably isn't this kind of paper, of course, so YMMV).
Unless a document is digitally signed, ANY format (proprietary or open) is editable.
Like the GP, I would much prefer documents that weren't meant to be edited to be distributed in PDF format*. Although they certainly can be edited, PDF's aren't generally meant to be edited and the format reflects this - and it is actually these "reflections" that make PDF preferable, not the issue of editability (if that's even a word) itself. Examples includes not reflowing pages and the availability of a light-weight reader on every platform I can think of (although PalmOS support is rather poor).
Not reflowing content is a biggie. Image forms done in Word (oh, wait, you don't have to imagine - in many places, it's the norm!). Printing on non-standard page size (A4 vs Letter, for example) completely breaks most of these forms. Scaling is a huge hassle.
*I'd gladly support an open format, but I'm unaware of any that has even a reasonable market penetration and has as much cross-platform support as PDF.
Doesn't your argument suggest that the financially insecure would be more likely to, well, prostitute themselves? If so, aren't you just underlining the parent's point?
That only gives you a massive BURST transfer rate. Usually, the important figure is the SUSTAINED transfer rate, so unless you have a very long convoy of station wagons...
Adjusting the speed of your DVD or CD drive is the best way to reduce noise. If you're copying a bunch of data, you probably do want it spinning at max speed, but if you are watching a DVD or something similar (where noise is also usually much more annoying), reducing it works VERY well.
I've been using CD Bremse for years, both for CD and DVD drives, with no problems. YMMV. Word of warning: The site is in German (but the program itself is in English). It's not too hard to figure out the site, though. Click on the CD Bremse link and then the version of the program to download - or click on the "Lauffwerksliste" to get a huge compatibility table.
But it shouldn't be. A consumer who thinks a bit further ahead than the current purchase would buy from the smaller company whenever performance (or price/performance or whatever other metric the consumer wishes to use) is even roughly on par.
Sadly, most consumers behave in the exact opposite way... and that's the source of many of the problems in our marketplace.
The point wasn't that Government should develop a vaccine (or do research in general), but that they should FUND it. Which, indeed, they already do. (And that the result of the publicly funded research should be... public)
I think you haven't actually used Picassa or you would know that it fits none of the properties you just described.
Same as lagging out, but instead of blocking traffic, just increase network latency to players on the opposing team. Not as effective as other mechanisms but VERY hard for Bungie to spot.
Yes, because calculating the average latency for the team the host is playing for (minus the host player, since he is unique) and comparing it with the average latency for the other team is really difficult and couldn't be automated at all. Throw in some correlation calculations and you could get a pretty darn good idea of any latency-boosting taking place.
This is the real importance of the announcement, IMHO.
Remember, WINE is not an emulator. It's a reimplementation of the Windows API (i.e. a "clone"). As such, it's only as good as its weakest component and while WINE is quite good at a lot of programs, there's still a good deal missing.
The reason WINE is so important is two-fold. One, it's another attack vector and if you want to fight the Microsoft monoculture, you need all the attack vectors you can get. Two, it allows more people to switch to linux, even if a mission-critical application isn't natively available. Personally, I would have a really hard time without VirtualDub and despite being FOSS, there's no Linux version and no plan for one (and, no, I don't have the time - and probably the skills - to do it myself).
That said, I don't understand why Google did it this way. It would be so much easier to make a Linux version from scratch (using Qt or GTK+). Don't get me wrong, I'm happy they are doing it this way. I think massive improvements to WINE and the added focus on it are much more valuable than having a Linux native version of Picassa (which really only adds a bit of polish to already existing Linux applications).
If I had any mod points atm, I'd mod the parent up. It hits the nail squarely on the head (and since it's a nail, using a hammer is fully justified).
You are only partially right about pointing to the water as a source of taste-differences. The main kicker, in my (extensive) experience is the choice of artificial sweeteners and their ratios, which will vary according to local laws and thresholds - and possibly other reasons.
For some (to me) unknown reason, German Diet Coke contains cyclamate (E 952), in addition to the usual acesulfame potassium and aspartame cocktail (and thus tastes like crap). Cyclamate was banned in the US in 1969 after studies found that it caused testicular cancer in mice and despite subsequent studies that found no such relationsships, the FDAs admition of same and repeated attempts by Abott Labs to get it reapproved, it is still banned - and according to Wikipedia, the latest petition is not being actively reviewed by the FDA.
So, while I've also heard the "all the coke syrup comes from the US" reasoning before, it's clearly not the whole story - at least for DIET Coke.
I thought it was fairly well-established that Microsoft has LOST money on the Xbox venture so far. We'll see what happens with the 360, but it's only batting 500 so far. If the PS3 (and, to a much lesser extent, the Wiiiiii) is perpetually delayed or otherwise uncompetitive, Microsoft stands to make a bundle. Time will tell on that score.
Plus, I'm not convinced it's that far from their core compentency (and I'm trying REALLY hard not to make any jokes about Microsoft, OS/Office and compentency - so bear with me). Microsoft has the OS, the DirectX (including input, sound and graphics) as well as an established game studio. To top it off, they've also made hardware (input devices mostly, plenty of them gaming-oriented) and embedded Windows (OS and hardware). I would hardly call combining all that with a bit of hardware from established vendors much outside Microsoft's core compentency.
My IP has been 127.0.0.1 for a really long time now. Ever since I got my first internet connection, actually. That must be why it's such a "nice" number and not those horribly complicated ones other people always seem to have.
"So, what IS the typical holding interval for a DSL ip?"
Anyone who has a router setup as the primary access point will always have the same IP (barring an ISP reset of some kind - or turning off the router for some reason). I've had the same IP for over 2.5 years now and my pathetic Cisco 678 router gets it via DHCP (I know, I checked in CBOS). The router needs to be rebooted every so often (which prompty causes it to reset the NAT table to some pseudo-arbitrary point in the past, disregarding any changes even through "written") and I still get the same address.
DHCP virtually always assign a MAC the same IP address as it was last seen with, providing it has not been taken already. Since IPs are assigned by FILO, that would mean the stack has been completely used. Unless the ISP has an extraordinarily tight supply of addresses (in which case you'd probably do better with a different ISP), that's not likely to happen if you use your computer regularly.
The whole thing is running via "Revver.com". Looks like a Google Video / YouTube et. al. clone. Their tagline is "Revverize your videos. Share them with the world. Make money."
/. front page the other day between a whole bunch of sites like this, but Revver.com with all its Revverizing potential was nowhere to be found. This seems like an effective way of getting some attention.
You don't suppose THEY are funding the bandwidth, do you? I mean, they are getting some massive exposure here and in a crowded video-market, that has to be worth something. There was a comparison linked on the
Or maybe not, seeing as how people seemingly believe Mozilla is hosting it all.
Viiv was always going to be more marketing that substance.
That said, what did TFA expect it to be? A free lifetime membership to download all the movies you want?
What will matter are ease of installation, looks of final box (mostly out of Intel's hands) and noise... along with costs and a few necessary features, of course.
lol, I see Vegastrike recently moved to Ogre...
"If you're not interested in building a game from scratch, have you looked into implementing your game as a mod for some already existing game?"
Mod parent up for suggesting a mod.
Seriously.
Unless you have VERY specific requirements for your game, you should be able to get quite far by creating a mod for an existing game. Now, that could either be a close sourced game or an open sourced game, that's entirely up to you.
Since you stated that your game is never going to make any money anyway, going with a commercial, open source game seems viable. This opens up the possibilities even further. Depending on the type of game you had in mind, Quake3 and Descent2 are both mod'able and both have their source code freely available.
If you don't want to use a commercial open source game, you could use one of the many "free" open source game (feel free to insert the obligatory speech and beer comments here), e.g. Vegastrike ( http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ ).
All that said, you don't NEED the source if you can keep it 100% in the mod realm - and people have done some amazing things with mods!
> I mean, they may have said "Windows Vista will have feature X", but that is hardly a promise. I think you need to look a few things up in the dictionary. So, if I borrow some money from you adn say "I'll pay you back tomorrow", then that's hardly a promise, right? If so, I'd like to borrow some money. I'll pay you back tomorrow, with 100% interest.
Millions and millions of people play these pre-installed MS games. Most of them women in an office setting.
I'm absolutely sick and tired of seeing super high quality video in TV ad after TV ad for 3G phones, knowing full well what they are capable of. The audio is almost certainly fake as well, but at least that's within the realm of possibility.
I didn't say "with", I said "on". Not sure that makes it better... but still ;-)
What the heck am I doing on my Palm right now? What is "Grafitti" if not gestures on a pressure sensitive / touch screen?
Probably the main reason for any fall-off in spam is blocking by the likes of hotmail, yahoo and gmail. I would have to assume that the VAST majority of users have email addresses on major hosts such as the aforementioned. Another reason is probably that people tend to give up their spam-filled email addresses in favor of new, pristine ones. I know I certainly have a few addresses in this catagory.