Simple equation. UT2k3 needs S3C texture compression support. S3 texture compression is patented and closed source, so no open source drivers can enable it even if they know how, unless S3 changes their mind on this (unlikely). NVidia's Linux drivers provide S3C. That's why no NVidia == no Ut2K 3 in Linux. And if you think that UT2k3 is the only game thatis going to be using S3, you are living in a dream world.
..and is horribly slow under WINE. Not to mention mplayer works in console as well as X, and anything that works with mplayer also works in mencoder.. so guess what, Sorenson -> DivX is now very simple and straightforward.
The simple reason is why not? The FreeBSD and Linux drivers use the same closed source binary driver module, the only difference is in the Kernel hooks (very minor). Truth is there has been a partialy working independant NVidia FreeBSD implimentation for some time now. Most likely NVidia just used that and refined it a bit. Now that they have the kernel hook code working for both Linux and FreeBSD, maintaining them will be relatively simple.
Dunno about this one, but the MUVO actually comes ON a keychain. Its made ot be carried with your keys. If you're losing your keys so much, you're gonna have bigger problems than worrying about chaging songs with your thumb. And why are your thumbs so big anyways? I know my thumb is smaller than the heads of my keys..
Phoenix does this, and alot more that Mozilla doesn't. Phoenix is really on the right track. http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-releas e-notes.html
Yeah, excep tmaybe I dont want big brother to be able to track me wherever I go because I buy a cool looking book about Islam from Amazon. No thanks, I'd stick to my own homebrew solution.
Who is going to run a server on 7k/sec? He is probably asking because he is planning on doing somehting I wanted to do... take a big road trip, and bring the old laptop and digicam. The ability to quickly upload pics to your home from anywhere, combined with some short postings, makes for a nice "live" view of your trip from a website you can give your friends the URL to.
Another possible application is security... you could have your car auto-upload its position (gathered via a cheap GPS unit) along with a snapshot of the driver (via a hidden X10 camera) to a website every half hour or something, from a hidden cheap P133 in the trunk. This would be invaluble if your car ever got stolen.
No matter how much you may feel sometimes that your University is being run like a business (which is pretty much necessary nowadays, with cutbacks to funding), Universitys never have been, nor hopefully will they ever be, out to make a profit. They are publicly funded institutions whose sole purpose is to provide an avenue to educate and teach the public, and hopefully, increase the scientific knowledge of the country as a whole. Any school who cares about nothing but the bottom line is doing a disservice not only to its students but to the community it serves, who in the end, funds its very existance.
This is the main thing that distinguishes a University from a private school, which is out to make a profit, often at the expensive of a good education.
All fuel by definition uses more engery to produce than it stores. Even in the Star Trek era (24th century), the Technical Manual says they only get around 20% efficiency when creating their antimatter. It is the compactness of it that makes it usefull, much like the compactness of energy in cars is more usefull than solar power.
This doesn't tell me anything about the quality of these products. I cant speak for the others, but have you ever looked at the source for PHPNuke? It is a horrendous mess. Not only that, but the thing is routinely riddled with secuirty holes and other bugs. I had the displeasure of running it on my site for awhile, what a mess.
Points #1 and #4 are totally off base. It is very simple to seperate presentation logic from processing logic in PHP. Don't diss the whole language just because 95% of people don't know how to use it properly. you can either go the simple route, and use a special Display class for all your displaying ( easy to modify, easy to swap out for a totally different page), or as I did, you can use PHP's XML/XSLT functionality to totally seperate your logic form display, but having all logic code return XML strings and only at the funal step transform them using XSL.
As for your point $3, see my exmaple above. PHP has a nice OO clas structue, which is great once you've used it for awhile and being to understand how it is "OO Designed for Web Development", not "OO for Application Development", which are two different things.
For one, you'd best not be dissing Moshe, he is 1000x the hacker you will ever be. And for another, who cares if some other crackpot news site reports something first? I see at least 10 stories a week that show up on K5 before slashdot. Doesn't mean they shouldn't get posted here as well.
Perhaps you should tell your friend to go droll over Josh Harnett some more, since a) He obviously got all he knows about Perl harbour from that awfull movie, and b) He missed the whole "It was the Japenese" idea.
Don't even bother with Paypal customer service, they have been stonewalling everyone for years. Try talking to Ebay customer service,... and try to talkyou way up to amore senior Manager or someone else who has the authority to call up the Paypal losers and demand "whats going on here?" Hopefully Ebay doesn't want to risk its reputation going gown the tubes as quickly as Paypal's did a few years back.
That's starange.. I use PC Financial / AMicus Bank (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of CIBC) and their site works fine for me in Mozilla.... doesn't even complain about not being Netscape/IE!. It also works fine in konqueror, though I do need to do some user agent spoofing there.
As a side note, unless you do alot of teller based transactions, I'd suggest you move over to Amicus anyways. You get free unlimited Interac, free unlimited chequing, free web and telephone banking, high intrest savings account (where high intrest is 2%+ with no min. balence), and you can use any CIBC machines.. and the telephone operators are actually nice and polite!
I am posting the same thing here as I posted over at the dot 10 minutes ago. Just a glace at his two Openoffice screenshots showed me this guy is seriously whacked. The second screenshot, which he claimed is "more refined" is clearly much more jagged than the first. A simple look with Xmag sees the only difference between the two is that the second has anti-aliasing turned off. Same with the"results" screenshots at the end.... they look like crap compared to my fonts in KDE, and I did nothing speccial. Just apt-get install msttcorefonts in Debian. There is no anti-aliasing going on at all in these screenshots, they look horrible.
Now, I totally respect people who don;t like anti-aliased fonts. but in KDE (which this article seems to be mainly about) or OpenOffice, disbling anti-aliasing is as easy as unchecking a menu option... if you don't want it, don't use it. What is the point of the whole long process in this article exactly?
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Simple equation. UT2k3 needs S3C texture compression support. S3 texture compression is patented and closed source, so no open source drivers can enable it even if they know how, unless S3 changes their mind on this (unlikely). NVidia's Linux drivers provide S3C. That's why no NVidia == no Ut2K 3 in Linux. And if you think that UT2k3 is the only game thatis going to be using S3, you are living in a dream world.
Yes it *does*, but only under cygwin, and you need an Xserver to run it. BEcause of this it is very sslloooooowwwww
echo "http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ unstable main" >>
apt-get install mplayer-686
apt-get install mencoder-686
..and is horribly slow under WINE. Not to mention mplayer works in console as well as X, and anything that works with mplayer also works in mencoder.. so guess what, Sorenson -> DivX is now very simple and straightforward.
The simple reason is why not? The FreeBSD and Linux drivers use the same closed source binary driver module, the only difference is in the Kernel hooks (very minor). Truth is there has been a partialy working independant NVidia FreeBSD implimentation for some time now. Most likely NVidia just used that and refined it a bit. Now that they have the kernel hook code working for both Linux and FreeBSD, maintaining them will be relatively simple.
They never used to, but the past two releases have done Xinerama beautifully, works perfect under KDE.
Wow it sure is nice,
To be able to read a 2 page long comment.
Especially when it wold only normally be a small paragraph.
Except that the author thought that it wasn't long enough.
So they typed it like this,
And made everyone hate them.
Dunno about this one, but the MUVO actually comes ON a keychain. Its made ot be carried with your keys. If you're losing your keys so much, you're gonna have bigger problems than worrying about chaging songs with your thumb. And why are your thumbs so big anyways? I know my thumb is smaller than the heads of my keys..
Phoenix does this, and alot more that Mozilla doesn't. Phoenix is really on the right track. http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-releas e-notes.html
Yeah, excep tmaybe I dont want big brother to be able to track me wherever I go because I buy a cool looking book about Islam from Amazon. No thanks, I'd stick to my own homebrew solution.
Who is going to run a server on 7k/sec? He is probably asking because he is planning on doing somehting I wanted to do... take a big road trip, and bring the old laptop and digicam. The ability to quickly upload pics to your home from anywhere, combined with some short postings, makes for a nice "live" view of your trip from a website you can give your friends the URL to.
Another possible application is security... you could have your car auto-upload its position (gathered via a cheap GPS unit) along with a snapshot of the driver (via a hidden X10 camera) to a website every half hour or something, from a hidden cheap P133 in the trunk. This would be invaluble if your car ever got stolen.
No matter how much you may feel sometimes that your University is being run like a business (which is pretty much necessary nowadays, with cutbacks to funding), Universitys never have been, nor hopefully will they ever be, out to make a profit. They are publicly funded institutions whose sole purpose is to provide an avenue to educate and teach the public, and hopefully, increase the scientific knowledge of the country as a whole. Any school who cares about nothing but the bottom line is doing a disservice not only to its students but to the community it serves, who in the end, funds its very existance.
This is the main thing that distinguishes a University from a private school, which is out to make a profit, often at the expensive of a good education.
If your XML is generated on the fly, as is mine (and most dynamic content), you wouldn't want to cache it under most circumstances anyways
All fuel by definition uses more engery to produce than it stores. Even in the Star Trek era (24th century), the Technical Manual says they only get around 20% efficiency when creating their antimatter. It is the compactness of it that makes it usefull, much like the compactness of energy in cars is more usefull than solar power.
Warp Drive works by pushing space against itself through the use of warp fields, has nothing to do with matter.
Didn't you take warp field theory 1000 at Starfleet Academy?
... is the unbeatable combination for dealing with WinXP :P
This doesn't tell me anything about the quality of these products. I cant speak for the others, but have you ever looked at the source for PHPNuke? It is a horrendous mess. Not only that, but the thing is routinely riddled with secuirty holes and other bugs. I had the displeasure of running it on my site for awhile, what a mess.
Points #1 and #4 are totally off base. It is very simple to seperate presentation logic from processing logic in PHP. Don't diss the whole language just because 95% of people don't know how to use it properly. you can either go the simple route, and use a special Display class for all your displaying ( easy to modify, easy to swap out for a totally different page), or as I did, you can use PHP's XML/XSLT functionality to totally seperate your logic form display, but having all logic code return XML strings and only at the funal step transform them using XSL.
As for your point $3, see my exmaple above. PHP has a nice OO clas structue, which is great once you've used it for awhile and being to understand how it is "OO Designed for Web Development", not "OO for Application Development", which are two different things.
... So I wouldn't have to be subjected to this foolishness?
For one, you'd best not be dissing Moshe, he is 1000x the hacker you will ever be. And for another, who cares if some other crackpot news site reports something first? I see at least 10 stories a week that show up on K5 before slashdot. Doesn't mean they shouldn't get posted here as well.
Perhaps you should tell your friend to go droll over Josh Harnett some more, since a) He obviously got all he knows about Perl harbour from that awfull movie, and b) He missed the whole "It was the Japenese" idea.
They closed the "Amicus" in the US. PC financial is fine.
Don't even bother with Paypal customer service, they have been stonewalling everyone for years. Try talking to Ebay customer service,... and try to talkyou way up to amore senior Manager or someone else who has the authority to call up the Paypal losers and demand "whats going on here?" Hopefully Ebay doesn't want to risk its reputation going gown the tubes as quickly as Paypal's did a few years back.
That's starange.. I use PC Financial / AMicus Bank (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of CIBC) and their site works fine for me in Mozilla.... doesn't even complain about not being Netscape/IE!. It also works fine in konqueror, though I do need to do some user agent spoofing there.
As a side note, unless you do alot of teller based transactions, I'd suggest you move over to Amicus anyways. You get free unlimited Interac, free unlimited chequing, free web and telephone banking, high intrest savings account (where high intrest is 2%+ with no min. balence), and you can use any CIBC machines.. and the telephone operators are actually nice and polite!
I am posting the same thing here as I posted over at the dot 10 minutes ago. Just a glace at his two Openoffice screenshots showed me this guy is seriously whacked. The second screenshot, which he claimed is "more refined" is clearly much more jagged than the first. A simple look with Xmag sees the only difference between the two is that the second has anti-aliasing turned off. Same with the"results" screenshots at the end.... they look like crap compared to my fonts in KDE, and I did nothing speccial. Just apt-get install msttcorefonts in Debian. There is no anti-aliasing going on at all in these screenshots, they look horrible.
Now, I totally respect people who don;t like anti-aliased fonts. but in KDE (which this article seems to be mainly about) or OpenOffice, disbling anti-aliasing is as easy as unchecking a menu option... if you don't want it, don't use it. What is the point of the whole long process in this article exactly?