This is the solution so that you can use a wireless network - with the advantage of not having to keep wires in supply without physically limiting your movement to a single room - limiting you to that single room after spending loads of money on paint. It's like a wireless remote that comes with a power cable so you won't even need to recharge batteries.
> I mourn the fact that the floodgates have been opened, because I think this will lead to the inevitable decline of the quality of games.
Will lead to? The amount of games I've bought from a given year is inversely proportional with the year number - I keep buying less games. The new fangled games are so incredibly little about gameplay and so much about graphical pointlessness and details that I've just lost all lust in playing those games. The three most recent games played include C&C:TS, Quake 3 and NWN 1. All of these have 3d-ized followups that just cost too much, don't add anything and potentially just reduce game play value.
If somebody would make a decent PC game that ran on Linux (requirement), has good game play, acceptable graphics & slickness and costs around $15-20, I'm a very happy camper. Most games nowaday way overqualify one point and extremely underqualify the other three.
Would you want to risk getting infected on a machine without any known exploits? You should really pick the one with a lot of known exploits... better go with the devil you know! That's actually why the IT department at work forbids using Firefox. It might have unknown exploits.
If I want to listen to the sh-t that's being played on the radio - I turn on the radio. If I want to listen to music, I can not find it on the radio or any such "common" place to get "music". Amazon, stuff like that, exotic stores and I occasionally download "illegal" songs (the song is still the same, you know), copy books front to back & download illegal movies & games since there's no way to get them in real life.
That would refer to Deep Dance music, the Cody & Waite algorithm book (that's out of print and for sale from the original price * 3 and up, for a second hand copy) and games like Grim Fandango or Mafia (and don't give me an obscure webshop that can't ship the game to me - that doesn't help me getting it).
A patent application that starts "Like in the old day of the videogame halls, you have to pay for the time you play" should be recognised by the USPTO as not applicable. The rest won't even bother.
On the other hand...
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That's called not learning from mistakes. Look at the Netherlands for a better example of how to learn from your mistakes:
A long while ago the Netherlands was just plain land and a few bits of dredged up water that now are also called land (and that annoy the **** out of us in most things - whaddayamean, I can't be at -20 feet in my car?). They then dredged up the Noordoostpolder without keeping a water bit between it and the "mainland". The country on the previously shore dried out and the farmers complained. They then dredged up Flevoland and did include the water barrier (look at the map - it's the big "island" in the middle). This worked.
Just look at what you're doing wrong and don't do it wrong next time. Although, given the examples, you could also say that when Americans make a failure, they make one hell of a large failure.
I waited several hours in line on the night before release to be one of the first to use Windows Vista. I must say that Vista is an amazing operating system. It is hands-down the best product that Microsoft has ever put out, and probably the best operating system that the world has ever seen. That's not saying much, is it?
Just a small tidbit: The bits that setting your JPEG encoder to a decent quality should do is cut off high-frequency mess. You use another tool to do that so effectively you're encoding your image as something very much like JPEG, then decoding it and encoding it at "higher quality" which effectively does null with that data, figures out it's a string of 0's and rips them out.
You've been able to set process priority through the Task Manager since at least NT4
Forget CPU sheduling priority, that is indeed old hat. What I saw in this article that really makes me jealous, as a Linux user, is I/O priority. Why have the systems people iterated for decades on CPU scheduling, and sorely neglected scheduling more precious resources like the network and disk? I can "nice" my system backup script, but what difference does it make when it's hogging the disk so much I can hardly load a new application? Dude. As far as I can remember (which is a good few years) the Linux scheduling system allowed IO bound processes to access the CPU quicker because they don't use up their calculation time slices (receiving more quota). Niceing your processes to a high value gives them more quanta per unit.
Linux does this implicitly. Windows does it by assigning numbers to each type of output and raising your process priority accordingly. So if you make a virus scanner that uses the GFX card, plays a sound, pretends to use your joystick & cdrom drive and reads & writes a file to your harddisk, it'll be given top notch priority. Your backup process however...
If you could get the device makers far enough to actually document the devices, to put firmware on the device and not in an exe file and to possibly allow other people to write drivers since their drivers suck / don't run on non-windows OSes?
Theory of relativity tells that you can go faster than the speed of light to your perception - you can even go somewhere 100 light years away and come back without dying - you'll just have aged a lot less than the equivalent people on earth so you'll have to explain your findings to the great-great-great-great-grandchildren of your ex-wife who reported you missing. In some awkward form of inglis that you don't know since you've been away 175 years or so.
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$4 a gallon(!) That's like, about $1.5 less than it's here!
I'm even surprised when people assume that 4.0, 4 and 4.0f are equal. Not to mention long doubles.
This is the solution so that you can use a wireless network - with the advantage of not having to keep wires in supply without physically limiting your movement to a single room - limiting you to that single room after spending loads of money on paint. It's like a wireless remote that comes with a power cable so you won't even need to recharge batteries.
If you'd do that, you'd beat Indiana in defining Pi the most off from the actual value in the Guinness book of Records.
(for the record - they defined it to be 4).
How much does everybody get paid for putting their alarm clock an hour early, $1000?
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> I mourn the fact that the floodgates have been opened, because I think this will lead to the inevitable decline of the quality of games.
Will lead to? The amount of games I've bought from a given year is inversely proportional with the year number - I keep buying less games. The new fangled games are so incredibly little about gameplay and so much about graphical pointlessness and details that I've just lost all lust in playing those games. The three most recent games played include C&C:TS, Quake 3 and NWN 1. All of these have 3d-ized followups that just cost too much, don't add anything and potentially just reduce game play value.
If somebody would make a decent PC game that ran on Linux (requirement), has good game play, acceptable graphics & slickness and costs around $15-20, I'm a very happy camper. Most games nowaday way overqualify one point and extremely underqualify the other three.
> the idea here is to use the Flash to cache small frequently-read files where the hard disk's latency and seek time would be the limiting factor.
What again was disk cache in main memory supposed to do?
This is for small frequently-WRITTEN files.
Keeping people alive isn't as profitable, is it? Capitalism works - for getting money, not for a working world.
You typed: Mile.
Did you mean:
- International mile (1609.344 meters)
- US Survey mile (1609.347 meters)
- Sea mile (1852 meters)
- Scandinavian mile (10000 meters)
- Roman mile (1500 meters)
- Irish mile (2048.256 meters)
- Scottish mile (1807.312 meters)
Or any of the others listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile ?
Same way as yo mamma - you measure how much gravity she creates.
If I want to listen to the sh-t that's being played on the radio - I turn on the radio. If I want to listen to music, I can not find it on the radio or any such "common" place to get "music". Amazon, stuff like that, exotic stores and I occasionally download "illegal" songs (the song is still the same, you know), copy books front to back & download illegal movies & games since there's no way to get them in real life.
That would refer to Deep Dance music, the Cody & Waite algorithm book (that's out of print and for sale from the original price * 3 and up, for a second hand copy) and games like Grim Fandango or Mafia (and don't give me an obscure webshop that can't ship the game to me - that doesn't help me getting it).
A patent application that starts "Like in the old day of the videogame halls, you have to pay for the time you play" should be recognised by the USPTO as not applicable. The rest won't even bother.
On the other hand...
That's called not learning from mistakes. Look at the Netherlands for a better example of how to learn from your mistakes:
A long while ago the Netherlands was just plain land and a few bits of dredged up water that now are also called land (and that annoy the **** out of us in most things - whaddayamean, I can't be at -20 feet in my car?). They then dredged up the Noordoostpolder without keeping a water bit between it and the "mainland". The country on the previously shore dried out and the farmers complained. They then dredged up Flevoland and did include the water barrier (look at the map - it's the big "island" in the middle). This worked.
Just look at what you're doing wrong and don't do it wrong next time. Although, given the examples, you could also say that when Americans make a failure, they make one hell of a large failure.
Also the story of Graham Bell versus the other bloke/gal that invented telephone. Allegedly about 6 hours between each other.
Makes me feel really sorry for the bloke/gal whose name I can't even remember.
It's more annoying with an embedded device that resets every 20 seconds due to a software-triggered brownout.
-> like what's it going to do? physically move a plug with software?
next to that one
ad infinitum
I could tell the device wasn't working without being ballooned off the screen.
Just a small tidbit: The bits that setting your JPEG encoder to a decent quality should do is cut off high-frequency mess. You use another tool to do that so effectively you're encoding your image as something very much like JPEG, then decoding it and encoding it at "higher quality" which effectively does null with that data, figures out it's a string of 0's and rips them out.
Linux does this implicitly. Windows does it by assigning numbers to each type of output and raising your process priority accordingly. So if you make a virus scanner that uses the GFX card, plays a sound, pretends to use your joystick & cdrom drive and reads & writes a file to your harddisk, it'll be given top notch priority. Your backup process however...
If you could get the device makers far enough to actually document the devices, to put firmware on the device and not in an exe file and to possibly allow other people to write drivers since their drivers suck / don't run on non-windows OSes?
Yeah, that'd be a good thing.
I would argue it's less. I've never seen a big network that worked, so I would say it's closer to 0.
Theory of relativity tells that you can go faster than the speed of light to your perception - you can even go somewhere 100 light years away and come back without dying - you'll just have aged a lot less than the equivalent people on earth so you'll have to explain your findings to the great-great-great-great-grandchildren of your ex-wife who reported you missing. In some awkward form of inglis that you don't know since you've been away 175 years or so.
Doc files don't parse as UTF-8. Try application/octet-stream?
Does that mean it's ok if I "sample" 105000 songs on my harddisk for temporary listening over the course of say, uh, 85 years?