You pretty much described old "Lemmings" or new "World Of Goo" games. Now, if only someone could come with such a great ideas more frequently...
Yeah, but those games are just example of a renege (strategy), you also have Worms in that genre and maybe the Advance wars games.
However you also have "First Person Shooters" and "Role Playing Games" and "Sport games" genres. Those require different technologies for a successful implementation. Some of them may be require more graphical detail than others and some may require more "algorithmical" power.
I also heat photorealism in video games but for other reasons: 1. I am shortsighted, having a lot of "detail" in the small screen just obliges me to put more attention (and more eye strain). 2. In several of those "photorealistic" games I do not know what to pick/use/click/etc and what not to... (that is related to the AC post on Interactivity). 3. Due to the processing/space limits in computers, the "photorealism" in games is incomplete. No mater how many particles they use for the water, once you get closer to see it, it will always seem unrealistic at a short distance.
The first thing I would recommend you if you want to contribute to Open Source programming is to get the book Beginning Linux Programming to learn about Makefiles and other source project management practices. Learning about SVN, CVS or the like is also a must.
Another option for aerobic exercise: jump rope. Back when I did karate, that was our main aerobic exercise because there's not much else you can do in a 400 sq. ft. room...
I tried Jump rope while doing my PhD but it is very cumbersome to do in "the cube", and it has a learning curve which will frustrate you while you are doing it.
Another exercise is I think called "cross country", (you can see an example of this exercise around second 43 of this video).
If you can install a "game" in your computer (even a laptop that you can take from home) the Yourself!Fitness program may be good for you (the PC/PS2 version of the Wii Fitness Coach program).
This thread is hilarious, I specially like all the "patches" and configuration hacks suggested:
set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false. said one guy... So go to about:config and double click browser.tabs.autoHide to change it. Said the other.. change this setting to false: browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab said a third one...
Those kind of hacks are really a letdown:(. Someone should make an extension that expose all those options (i) grouped in an intuitive way and (ii) explain what can they achieve.
It is like the Windows Registry (or x.org and etc friends) all again! but just for your browser!
Care to elaborate a bit on the world without IP laws? How will musicians, writers, movie studios, news organizations, software companies etc even approach covering the costs of producing their work if the first person who buys it can make infinite number of copies and share them with the whole world?
Easy, people will sell their stuff to such first person at a higher price. As a result, the person buying it won't "share them with the whole world" very easily.
That is how music and art was composed before. Except that, instead of "Record Companies" it was Kings and Queens who commissioned the creation of art.
I like Canon cameras more. The main reason is that the ones I have bought use standard AA batteries.
Honestly I do not understand why to push into proprietary batteries [actually I do, it is only because of greed]. Right now I use my Canon camera with a 8 GB SD card. The camera uses 2 AA batteries and I usually take another 4AA (rechargeables)with me.
Usually I run out of batteries before running out of space, when this happens, I just need to replace the AA batteries, and if the ones I have run out of juice, it is very easy to get a pair of Alkaline AA.
However, my mother had a Casio Xlim which used a non standard battery. Once the battery ran out you had no chance of replacing, you had to wait until you got to wherever you could charge the battery.
Another (separate) problem I see with new compact cameras is that they are removing the viewfinder in order to make bigger screens. That really sucks because turning off the huge screen gives you some more time of battery when you most need it. That is the reason I went for the PS A1000 instead of the A2000
I am very curious on what is the reasoning behind Nintendo's forbidding the use of Open Source... i guess they want to protect their APIs or something.
I would love if any brave enough AC could post more of this info.
It bothers me when people talk about our energy "needs", as though without some particular number of number of Watts, the world ends.
Are they better considered our energy "wants at a given price point"?
When I hear "need", but don't hear a "for what" part soon after, I get suspicious. Was the term "energy needs" a rhetorical device introduced by governments or energy suppliers to distract from the fact that we can live on varying amounts of energy consumption.
If we could harvest energy from hurricanes, we would could obtain lots of energy. The problem is to store such energy in a permanent medium which is easy to transport.
We already know where hurricanes are going to pass, each and every year PEMEX oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuated, and at least 1 hurricane hits the Yucatan peninsula every year.
If wind energy harvesters could be installed in such platforms and the energy stored somewhere safe until transported to the surface, a huge amount of energy could be obtained.
I know this is a lot of speculation (just count the number of "could" words in this message) but maybe using something like hydrogen generators might be the answer...
It sounds to me like you are apologizing for the Iran government's efforts to limit reporting on the demonstrations there. Why would you do that?
It is called perspective, and is useful when trying to make objective decisions. I do not like what the government is doing in Iran any more than you. However I do not think journalists in Iran would be risking more than said, journalists in North Korea or in Mexico (uncovering drug cartels).
Get Slackware, or something else minimalistic, where you're likely to have a marginal amount of memory left after the operating system and residents are loaded in.;)
I do not agree with this, testing on Windows XP vs Ubuntu is good if you want to compare the "standard" out of the box performance. A test when you do a fresh install of BOTH systems and on top of that install the testing app.
What is wrong here IMHO is the title of the story, as it should be "Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance in Windows Vs. Ubuntu" because as you implied, saying tested on "Linux" is a very general claim. That could refer to testing it on the Kernel+GNutils + X.org and nothing else... surely that would improve its performance a bit.
I would really love a portable computer with the size of the Kindle 2 and the screen covering the whole thing.
There are two main problems with notebook form factor right now, one is the screen and the other is the keyboard. The screen is something can't be dramatically modified. However, A lot of the time Keyboard is unnecessary, and when needed a good quality rollable keyboard could be plugged (as well as a mouse) via USB port.
That idea could be further extended by designing the screen in a kind of accordion, such that the borders of the screen rest on the top of the "center" when it is "folded" and when you want to use it you "pull" both screen borders to extend them (something like putting two PSP Go togheter, but instead of showing the control pad, it would expose the other segments of the screen, of course all the segments of the screen should end at the same level).
If you can make a thin laptop, just add on a massive battery and make it as thick as a regular one. I don't care how thin it is, but a laptop that can survive normal use on battery for 8 hours would be an amazing thing.
Depending on what you name "normal use", I think that Eee 1000HE may be enough for you. I have used my for a complete day without needing to plug it to the mains.
I have been using my Eee for a lot more than web-surfing. I can watch video, play games (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=57479) and even composing/playing music (tuxguitar).
The *only* thing I may recommend is upgrading to 2GB RAM (from 1 GB RAM available out of the box), but so far, I haven't done this and is not a real problem.
The plugin moves your tabs to the left (similar position as the history panel, but without replacing the panel, that way you can open other left-panels like scrapbook, history, etc in addition).
Doing this achieves three things: 1. You get more vertical space which usually is limited in today's "wide screen" computer craze. 2. Your tabs get "ordered" in a hierarchy (I like CTRL+clicking on the slashdot stories I want to comment/lose time, they get opened as sub-nodes of the main slashdot page) 3. You can have more tabs opened and see the more of the title (about 30 on a 1024 veritcal res.)
I have found this extension quite useful. The only drawback is that you must get used to move the mouse to the *left* when looking for your tabs, I got used to that after about 1 week of usage.
Slashdot Mirror
Google also said it had teamed up with Adobe, which could mean Google is looking to include the Acrobat.com web-based software suite in some way."
I am thinking more among the lines of Adobe AIR and seamlessly linking the Google OS platform with the AIR API.
You pretty much described old "Lemmings" or new "World Of Goo" games. Now, if only someone could come with such a great ideas more frequently...
Yeah, but those games are just example of a renege (strategy), you also have Worms in that genre and maybe the Advance wars games.
However you also have "First Person Shooters" and "Role Playing Games" and "Sport games" genres. Those require different technologies for a successful implementation. Some of them may be require more graphical detail than others and some may require more "algorithmical" power.
I also heat photorealism in video games but for other reasons:
1. I am shortsighted, having a lot of "detail" in the small screen just obliges me to put more attention (and more eye strain).
2. In several of those "photorealistic" games I do not know what to pick/use/click/etc and what not to... (that is related to the AC post on Interactivity).
3. Due to the processing/space limits in computers, the "photorealism" in games is incomplete. No mater how many particles they use for the water, once you get closer to see it, it will always seem unrealistic at a short distance.
The first thing I would recommend you if you want to contribute to Open Source programming is to get the book Beginning Linux Programming to learn about Makefiles and other source project management practices. Learning about SVN, CVS or the like is also a must.
Another option for aerobic exercise: jump rope. Back when I did karate, that was our main aerobic exercise because there's not much else you can do in a 400 sq. ft. room...
I have a better [IMHO] option, Jumping Jacks (See google images).
I tried Jump rope while doing my PhD but it is very cumbersome to do in "the cube", and it has a learning curve which will frustrate you while you are doing it.
Another exercise is I think called "cross country", (you can see an example of this exercise around second 43 of this video).
If you can install a "game" in your computer (even a laptop that you can take from home) the Yourself!Fitness program may be good for you (the PC/PS2 version of the Wii Fitness Coach program).
Haha
This thread is hilarious, I specially like all the "patches" and configuration hacks suggested:
set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.
said one guy...
So go to about:config and double click browser.tabs.autoHide to change it.
Said the other..
change this setting to false: browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab said a third one...
Those kind of hacks are really a letdown :(. Someone should make an extension that expose all those options (i) grouped in an intuitive way and (ii) explain what can they achieve.
It is like the Windows Registry (or x.org and etc friends) all again! but just for your browser!
. Lots of Open Source projects are in perfectly stable, usable condition when in 0.x status.
Not only that, lots of Open Source projects are unusable, unstable condition when in 4.X condition!
Windows, for instance, was a sick joke in 1.0 and 2.0
IMHO, windows had to go up to "0x58,0x50" to stop being a sick joke.
It can't be that hard to make a dildo sleeve for the wiimote
I saw what you did there!
Bah,
Nothing like a video-game for the Missus
Not that a lot of people here know what that means...
Para todo mal, mezcal!
Para todo bien, tambien!
Salud Carnal!
Aunque yo prefiero el pulque.
Care to elaborate a bit on the world without IP laws? How will musicians, writers, movie studios, news organizations, software companies etc even approach covering the costs of producing their work if the first person who buys it can make infinite number of copies and share them with the whole world?
Easy, people will sell their stuff to such first person at a higher price. As a result, the person buying it won't "share them with the whole world" very easily.
That is how music and art was composed before. Except that, instead of "Record Companies" it was Kings and Queens who commissioned the creation of art.
I like Canon cameras more. The main reason is that the ones I have bought use standard AA batteries.
Honestly I do not understand why to push into proprietary batteries [actually I do, it is only because of greed]. Right now I use my Canon camera with a 8 GB SD card. The camera uses 2 AA batteries and I usually take another 4AA (rechargeables)with me.
Usually I run out of batteries before running out of space, when this happens, I just need to replace the AA batteries, and if the ones I have run out of juice, it is very easy to get a pair of Alkaline AA.
However, my mother had a Casio Xlim which used a non standard battery. Once the battery ran out you had no chance of replacing, you had to wait until you got to wherever you could charge the battery.
Another (separate) problem I see with new compact cameras is that they are removing the viewfinder in order to make bigger screens. That really sucks because turning off the huge screen gives you some more time of battery when you most need it. That is the reason I went for the PS A1000 instead of the A2000
I am very curious on what is the reasoning behind Nintendo's forbidding the use of Open Source... i guess they want to protect their APIs or something.
I would love if any brave enough AC could post more of this info.
It bothers me when people talk about our energy "needs", as though without some particular number of number of Watts, the world ends.
Are they better considered our energy "wants at a given price point"?
When I hear "need", but don't hear a "for what" part soon after, I get suspicious. Was the term "energy needs" a rhetorical device introduced by governments or energy suppliers to distract from the fact that we can live on varying amounts of energy consumption.
You can get an idea of yours here
If we could harvest energy from hurricanes, we would could obtain lots of energy. The problem is to store such energy in a permanent medium which is easy to transport.
We already know where hurricanes are going to pass, each and every year PEMEX oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuated, and at least 1 hurricane hits the Yucatan peninsula every year.
If wind energy harvesters could be installed in such platforms and the energy stored somewhere safe until transported to the surface, a huge amount of energy could be obtained.
I know this is a lot of speculation (just count the number of "could" words in this message) but maybe using something like hydrogen generators might be the answer...
It sounds to me like you are apologizing for the Iran government's efforts to limit reporting on the demonstrations there. Why would you do that?
It is called perspective, and is useful when trying to make objective decisions. I do not like what the government is doing in Iran any more than you. However I do not think journalists in Iran would be risking more than said, journalists in North Korea or in Mexico (uncovering drug cartels).
Maybe it would be an interesting experiment to benchmark a Firefox release compiled with icc?
Get Slackware, or something else minimalistic, where you're likely to have a marginal amount of memory left after the operating system and residents are loaded in. ;)
I do not agree with this, testing on Windows XP vs Ubuntu is good if you want to compare the "standard" out of the box performance. A test when you do a fresh install of BOTH systems and on top of that install the testing app.
What is wrong here IMHO is the title of the story, as it should be "Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance in Windows Vs. Ubuntu" because as you implied, saying tested on "Linux" is a very general claim. That could refer to testing it on the Kernel+GNutils + X.org and nothing else... surely that would improve its performance a bit.
making Iran one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist
If the journalists are being arrested I do not see how that makes Iran a "dangerous" place for a journalist...
Compare that to Mexico where journalists get kidnapped, physically assaulted, killed, and whatnot...
I would really love a portable computer with the size of the Kindle 2 and the screen covering the whole thing.
There are two main problems with notebook form factor right now, one is the screen and the other is the keyboard. The screen is something can't be dramatically modified. However, A lot of the time Keyboard is unnecessary, and when needed a good quality rollable keyboard could be plugged (as well as a mouse) via USB port.
That idea could be further extended by designing the screen in a kind of accordion, such that the borders of the screen rest on the top of the "center" when it is "folded" and when you want to use it you "pull" both screen borders to extend them (something like putting two PSP Go togheter, but instead of showing the control pad, it would expose the other segments of the screen, of course all the segments of the screen should end at the same level).
If you can make a thin laptop, just add on a massive battery and make it as thick as a regular one. I don't care how thin it is, but a laptop that can survive normal use on battery for 8 hours would be an amazing thing.
Depending on what you name "normal use", I think that Eee 1000HE may be enough for you. I have used my for a complete day without needing to plug it to the mains.
I have been using my Eee for a lot more than web-surfing. I can watch video, play games (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=57479) and even composing/playing music (tuxguitar).
The *only* thing I may recommend is upgrading to 2GB RAM (from 1 GB RAM available out of the box), but so far, I haven't done this and is not a real problem.
I recommend re-reading parent post with the Apu Nahasapeemapetilon voice.
On a serious note, this was a very interesting read.
I would recommend you the Treestyle tabs addon for firefox. (see a screenshot)
The plugin moves your tabs to the left (similar position as the history panel, but without replacing the panel, that way you can open other left-panels like scrapbook, history, etc in addition).
Doing this achieves three things:
1. You get more vertical space which usually is limited in today's "wide screen" computer craze.
2. Your tabs get "ordered" in a hierarchy (I like CTRL+clicking on the slashdot stories I want to comment/lose time, they get opened as sub-nodes of the main slashdot page)
3. You can have more tabs opened and see the more of the title (about 30 on a 1024 veritcal res.)
I have found this extension quite useful. The only drawback is that you must get used to move the mouse to the *left* when looking for your tabs, I got used to that after about 1 week of usage.
Re:Pfft. (Score:1, Informative)
So, you watch porn whilst using Photoshop or Final Cut Pro?
LOL only on slashdot
GPL requires that you ship code with the delivery, and that the package is licensed under a GPL acceptable license
According to the GPL you are allowed to :
Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the written offer to provide the Corresponding Source
So no, you do not *need* to ship the code with the object program