The vast majority of images on the web aren't photographs and could easily be vectorized. Need some examples? The Slashdot logo, the stats "medal" icon, the user settings icon in the user info box, the Slashdot TV icon, the Chrome logo in the summary, every single comment's "flag this comment" icon, the friends bubbles...
There's about 700 images on this very page alone that could be vectorized. None of them are actual photographs.
HTML/DOM scrollbars, not native. Not sure how they work (at a low level), but they seem to be "standard" for some sites to use these days for any content that scrolls separately from the overall page itself.
Use range requests to only grab the JPEG headers, and then use further range requests to grab the rest of the data. Use HTTP Keep-Alive and you can avoid some of the inefficiencies of multiple requests... of course, web browsers have been doing HTTP Keep-Alive for years now.
Paid cross licensing in order to make a yellow multimeter? Has the whole world gone insane, or is Slashdot just over-infested with modern-IT people who think in weird terms like that?
With the rampant abuses of the copyright and trademark systems, it's a survival instinct to think like that!
Please shill elsewhere. The only benefit to Lightning is reversibility. In all other aspects, it's no better. No more durable. Hell, it tends to break more often, too (and I am ignoring cheap Chinese crap on both sides because either one fails far too often when you go cheap.)
So... All of the USB phone charges I have ever owned have all been non-standard? Well, they have a regular USB port, and provide more than sufficient amperage to charge anything I own within three hours tops - less if I leave the damned device alone. And they all even came with a microUSB cable that breaks away. Cable even works to connect the devices to a PC for a trickle-charge.
2A chargers with USB plugs are commonplace. If you buy a cheap cable that can't handle 2A, that's your own fault. No one made you buy a crap cable, especially with more-than-capable cables exist.
A Chinese developer did manage to port most of the Android userland atop Windows. It ran a large number of the Android software packages I threw at it, so long as no dependence on NDK/JNI libraries were in place. (Presumably, if the application developer they had the not-made-publicly-available NDK said Chinese developer had to make their port, they could port their native NDK bits to x86/win32.)
I did do a basic teardown of the software, and it's either a very, very, very convincing fake, or a legitimate port. Most of the native command-line tools in a real Android device are present as Win32.exe binaries, and work as intended.
Most of the game machines at Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, FL run on Linux. I seen one crash and learned that the seemingly static and painted graphics around the physical/mechanical slot reels is actually a high definition HUD-style overlay panel - the normally-running machine next to it looked like a regular old mechanical slot machine, with plain old painted symbols on the reels. The crashed unit had it's reels partially obscured by the black background of a Linux kernel text console. Yes, the little windows in the decor that let you see the reels? Nothing more than software saying "make the screen transparent in these areas". The decor itself was also part of the display. I did learn that they were running Fedora Core 4, from the kernel version tag's suffix.
I also learned that most Lowe's stores have nearly 70 computers in the store. No more than three run Windows, if any. They use a modified KDE3 desktop for all the rest. Also, the touch-screen computer kiosk in the paint department is also a Linux machine - usually there's the keyboard attached to it, just hidden under a shelf. If you find the keyboard, you can break the kiosk for about three minutes with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp:) [The kiosk interface software is seemingly a Flash standalone projector started from an.xinitrc or so]
McDonald's also uses Linux for their digital signage in the restaurants. Not the signage that has the prices, mind you, but the HDTVs you see on the same area, or right around the corner from the service desk, that show McD-related trivia, products, and deal-of-the-day. I've seen then screw up at multiple locations - which always leaves the HDTV showing a console login prompt. Kernel version tag says they run Fedora Core 6 on all of 'em.
Also because I don't know anyone else who also owns a copy of the game, a car, is willing to pack up their PC, and come over to my home to play against (or with) me.
or his internal 'pissed off at traffic jams' counter exceeds his 'tolerance' statistic
Except that's not how they're doing things anymore. They're more-or-less simulating that virtual person's commute in the sense of actually simulating the car he drives, it's position on the road, etc. They even threw in random variations in the commute start times. Each auto is being independently simulated to a similar degree as each and every individual unit in an RTS.
If you send 50 Zerglings or 5 Zerglings down a narrow pass, who gets through first and at what speed? The new SimCity doesn't apply some statistical model and show you procedurally-generated local traffic based on the model's result. It actually throws fifty Zerglings down the pass and shows you what happens.
And the alimony payments impede your ability to pay your registar, hosting provider, expensive business-class line so your ISP gives you an IP outside of Spamhaus's greylisted dynamic ranges, etc.
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Only if you believe it takes more than tape runtime to convert a tape to DVD. Get one of those cheap VHS-to-DVD dubbing machines.
The vast majority of images on the web aren't photographs and could easily be vectorized. Need some examples? The Slashdot logo, the stats "medal" icon, the user settings icon in the user info box, the Slashdot TV icon, the Chrome logo in the summary, every single comment's "flag this comment" icon, the friends bubbles...
There's about 700 images on this very page alone that could be vectorized. None of them are actual photographs.
So draw us a better UI... and don't just say "Internet Explorer 9!"...
Look here for the Chrome "IT Administrator" installer that will install to %ProgramFiles%.
HTML/DOM scrollbars, not native. Not sure how they work (at a low level), but they seem to be "standard" for some sites to use these days for any content that scrolls separately from the overall page itself.
Use range requests to only grab the JPEG headers, and then use further range requests to grab the rest of the data. Use HTTP Keep-Alive and you can avoid some of the inefficiencies of multiple requests... of course, web browsers have been doing HTTP Keep-Alive for years now.
All the while using hundreds of times the system resources as the original implementations.
Paid cross licensing in order to make a yellow multimeter? Has the whole world gone insane, or is Slashdot just over-infested with modern-IT people who think in weird terms like that?
With the rampant abuses of the copyright and trademark systems, it's a survival instinct to think like that!
Please shill elsewhere. The only benefit to Lightning is reversibility. In all other aspects, it's no better. No more durable. Hell, it tends to break more often, too (and I am ignoring cheap Chinese crap on both sides because either one fails far too often when you go cheap.)
So... All of the USB phone charges I have ever owned have all been non-standard? Well, they have a regular USB port, and provide more than sufficient amperage to charge anything I own within three hours tops - less if I leave the damned device alone. And they all even came with a microUSB cable that breaks away. Cable even works to connect the devices to a PC for a trickle-charge.
2A chargers with USB plugs are commonplace. If you buy a cheap cable that can't handle 2A, that's your own fault. No one made you buy a crap cable, especially with more-than-capable cables exist.
I use Mediacom you insensitive clod!
A Chinese developer did manage to port most of the Android userland atop Windows. It ran a large number of the Android software packages I threw at it, so long as no dependence on NDK/JNI libraries were in place. (Presumably, if the application developer they had the not-made-publicly-available NDK said Chinese developer had to make their port, they could port their native NDK bits to x86/win32.)
I did do a basic teardown of the software, and it's either a very, very, very convincing fake, or a legitimate port. Most of the native command-line tools in a real Android device are present as Win32 .exe binaries, and work as intended.
You can always use Iceweasel.
According to John Ussher, the age of the Universe, as it currently stands, is 6,018 years, with Creation having occurred in 4004 BCE.
I, however, am an Atheist and the evidence for a 13.7ba Universe are sufficient for me.
Most of the game machines at Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, FL run on Linux. I seen one crash and learned that the seemingly static and painted graphics around the physical/mechanical slot reels is actually a high definition HUD-style overlay panel - the normally-running machine next to it looked like a regular old mechanical slot machine, with plain old painted symbols on the reels. The crashed unit had it's reels partially obscured by the black background of a Linux kernel text console. Yes, the little windows in the decor that let you see the reels? Nothing more than software saying "make the screen transparent in these areas". The decor itself was also part of the display. I did learn that they were running Fedora Core 4, from the kernel version tag's suffix.
I also learned that most Lowe's stores have nearly 70 computers in the store. No more than three run Windows, if any. They use a modified KDE3 desktop for all the rest. Also, the touch-screen computer kiosk in the paint department is also a Linux machine - usually there's the keyboard attached to it, just hidden under a shelf. If you find the keyboard, you can break the kiosk for about three minutes with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp :) [The kiosk interface software is seemingly a Flash standalone projector started from an .xinitrc or so]
McDonald's also uses Linux for their digital signage in the restaurants. Not the signage that has the prices, mind you, but the HDTVs you see on the same area, or right around the corner from the service desk, that show McD-related trivia, products, and deal-of-the-day. I've seen then screw up at multiple locations - which always leaves the HDTV showing a console login prompt. Kernel version tag says they run Fedora Core 6 on all of 'em.
Very true.
But even though it's a digital system, it's logically circuit-switched. Part of this is to also move to the packet-switched domain.
If you're going to reply to something, can you make sure your reply isn't in a quote block?
Nope, there is a "party mode", however.
Also because I don't know anyone else who also owns a copy of the game, a car, is willing to pack up their PC, and come over to my home to play against (or with) me.
Yep, they did! Their solution? A pre-activated save file.
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or his internal 'pissed off at traffic jams' counter exceeds his 'tolerance' statistic
Except that's not how they're doing things anymore. They're more-or-less simulating that virtual person's commute in the sense of actually simulating the car he drives, it's position on the road, etc. They even threw in random variations in the commute start times. Each auto is being independently simulated to a similar degree as each and every individual unit in an RTS.
If you send 50 Zerglings or 5 Zerglings down a narrow pass, who gets through first and at what speed? The new SimCity doesn't apply some statistical model and show you procedurally-generated local traffic based on the model's result. It actually throws fifty Zerglings down the pass and shows you what happens.
And the alimony payments impede your ability to pay your registar, hosting provider, expensive business-class line so your ISP gives you an IP outside of Spamhaus's greylisted dynamic ranges, etc.