I did this as well, and I actually love it.
But even when my fingers "forget" and jump to where ESC usually is, it is there.
I use vim a lot and was very worried about the lack of ESC. But it's been a non-issue for me -- surprisingly.
Everybody always claimed the iPod was way too expensive, yet it kept selling even in the presence of other lower-priced competitors.
With this thing, you get a full iPod and more, so the price isn't THAT unreasonable. ($100 difference between 4 and 8 GB is a bit much tho... the Nano's difference is only $50)
There's quite a bit of strategy to this game. Balancing how many guys you have placed on the board at any time, whether you claim fields or not, how you can sabotage other players' cities to make them unfinishable, how you can insert yourself into/onto things that other players already own, etc...
I agree there's not the depth of Settlers, but this is a great game.
This is a great game, and it's fun for 2 players or as many as 5 (you can get a sixth color in an expansion) -- plus it only takes 45 mins or so to play. The rules are simple enough that you can bring this out at a party and get a game going quickly.
Another great game along these lines from Germany is Alhambra. Of course, Settlers of Catan is a classic too.
Isn't that just based off the current selection? I'm talking about exporting 100 songs and have it give recommendations based on the collection, not the individual settings. Just because I like Keane doesn't mean I'm going to like Beck.... and that could be deduced by the other selections in the list...
It would be awesome if I could export a playlist from iTunes and upload it to a site and have it make recommendations based on that, rather than having to manually type in artists & songs. Anyone know of any services that accept that kind of input?
The channel bandwidths all overlap, but every fifth starts a new piece... So 1, 6, and 11 are all completely disjoint bandwidths and will not interfere with one another. If you use 8 and 6 in the same area, they will interfere.
We had a constant that we defined to be the number of leap seconds since 1970. It would be nice if this was broadcast by GPS somehow, but it's not. So, we just had to make the manual adjustment.
I worked with GPS software last summer and the leap seconds did cause a problem. GPS transmits time as second offsets from the first day of the week, in addition to the week number, and the year.
Well, UNIX time is calculated as the number of seconds since 1970. When you convert GPS time to UNIX time, you have a 12 second difference (or is it now 13?). This is a really big deal in the GPS world and caused us many headaches.
I can understand this difference complicates software, but you cant redefine the second just because it's inconvenient.
But, on the other hand, if software problems are the motivating concern, why are they trying to change daylight savings time -- do they understand how many embedded systems (let alone desktops and servers) are gonna have the wrong time!?
I love my PowerBook. I bought it about 3 weeks ago and it's awesome. I was a staunch Gentoo user, and I still have a fondness of it. But, I got sick of having to spend a lot of time making things work. Can't say how long it took to get dual display to work right in KDE (and I still never figured out the blank virtual terminals I got due to the nvidia driver! grrrr)
Things just work in Mac, and I haven't sacrificed any usability. The prompt works great.
My profs are all switched from Linux to Mac OSX, and I will recommend to everyone I know to do the same. Hackers or beginners alike. It's an awesome OS. Can't wait for Tiger! Grr.
I switched without the iPod (I have a Zen). I just bought a PowerBook and I LOVE it. My profs all seemed to be Apple freaks, so I made the blind jump and I couldn't be happier. I'll give my experience & advice if anyone's curious....
The ECE dept here at Univ Texas-Austin just opened a newly $1.5 million remodeled lab for the Wireless Networking & Communications Group.
Austin is moving up the ladder in WiFi. Here's the WNCG webpage: WNCG.
And the top quote, and this is a GEM! I am not making this up! Search and you'll find it yourself...
To write Samizdat, I worked with (and quoted) many individuals directly or indirectly familiar with Linux development. AdTI will continue to interview people within the open source profession about open source.
It would be skewed and bias to only quote people that are anti-Linux or anti-open source. I have done this for years, and will continue to do so, regardless of what a source thinks of my theories. [Emphasis mine]
There should be a penalty for fishing expeditions like this. "Can we get away with patenting this idea? How about this one?" Eventually, you should lose patent credibility in the same way a litiguous citizen can be lawfully "penalized" for repeated stupid lawsuits.
Here it is: create a program that calculates the checksum of the movie, so you can "verify" it. Then the primary purpose of the program isn't to DeCSS it anymore. But you have to be able to DeCSS it to get the checksum on the movie and not just the encrypted data.
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I did this as well, and I actually love it. But even when my fingers "forget" and jump to where ESC usually is, it is there. I use vim a lot and was very worried about the lack of ESC. But it's been a non-issue for me -- surprisingly.
Everybody always claimed the iPod was way too expensive, yet it kept selling even in the presence of other lower-priced competitors. With this thing, you get a full iPod and more, so the price isn't THAT unreasonable. ($100 difference between 4 and 8 GB is a bit much tho... the Nano's difference is only $50)
You can change it, but you'll probably never see it! haha... ive seen mine only once in the 18 months I've owned my PB.
I agree there's not the depth of Settlers, but this is a great game.
This is a great game, and it's fun for 2 players or as many as 5 (you can get a sixth color in an expansion) -- plus it only takes 45 mins or so to play. The rules are simple enough that you can bring this out at a party and get a game going quickly. Another great game along these lines from Germany is Alhambra. Of course, Settlers of Catan is a classic too.
Isn't that just based off the current selection? I'm talking about exporting 100 songs and have it give recommendations based on the collection, not the individual settings. Just because I like Keane doesn't mean I'm going to like Beck.... and that could be deduced by the other selections in the list...
It would be awesome if I could export a playlist from iTunes and upload it to a site and have it make recommendations based on that, rather than having to manually type in artists & songs. Anyone know of any services that accept that kind of input?
The channel bandwidths all overlap, but every fifth starts a new piece... So 1, 6, and 11 are all completely disjoint bandwidths and will not interfere with one another. If you use 8 and 6 in the same area, they will interfere.
Hands down best Windows software ever.
Use statistics to construct what an "average" program looks like, and see what it does. :)
We had a constant that we defined to be the number of leap seconds since 1970. It would be nice if this was broadcast by GPS somehow, but it's not. So, we just had to make the manual adjustment.
yes, UNIX time does include leap seconds (see my post about 5 posts earlier about GPS time & UNIX timestamps)
Well, UNIX time is calculated as the number of seconds since 1970. When you convert GPS time to UNIX time, you have a 12 second difference (or is it now 13?). This is a really big deal in the GPS world and caused us many headaches.
I can understand this difference complicates software, but you cant redefine the second just because it's inconvenient.
But, on the other hand, if software problems are the motivating concern, why are they trying to change daylight savings time -- do they understand how many embedded systems (let alone desktops and servers) are gonna have the wrong time!?
Apple couldn't afford him. No one on the planet could!
I love my PowerBook. I bought it about 3 weeks ago and it's awesome. I was a staunch Gentoo user, and I still have a fondness of it. But, I got sick of having to spend a lot of time making things work. Can't say how long it took to get dual display to work right in KDE (and I still never figured out the blank virtual terminals I got due to the nvidia driver! grrrr) Things just work in Mac, and I haven't sacrificed any usability. The prompt works great. My profs are all switched from Linux to Mac OSX, and I will recommend to everyone I know to do the same. Hackers or beginners alike. It's an awesome OS. Can't wait for Tiger! Grr.
I switched without the iPod (I have a Zen). I just bought a PowerBook and I LOVE it. My profs all seemed to be Apple freaks, so I made the blind jump and I couldn't be happier. I'll give my experience & advice if anyone's curious....
That address is downtown Austin, and I'll run by there to see if it's just a mailstop. Anyone already checked for this?
Anybody have the address to the Linux 2.4 code?
Can't we just say 0.4 TB? It's only a matter of time...
The ECE dept here at Univ Texas-Austin just opened a newly $1.5 million remodeled lab for the Wireless Networking & Communications Group. Austin is moving up the ladder in WiFi. Here's the WNCG webpage: WNCG.
There should be a penalty for fishing expeditions like this. "Can we get away with patenting this idea? How about this one?" Eventually, you should lose patent credibility in the same way a litiguous citizen can be lawfully "penalized" for repeated stupid lawsuits.
Here it is: create a program that calculates the checksum of the movie, so you can "verify" it. Then the primary purpose of the program isn't to DeCSS it anymore. But you have to be able to DeCSS it to get the checksum on the movie and not just the encrypted data.