Wow, I had completely forgotten about the existence of Techdirt. Fortunately, samzenpus and an anonymous reader are here to let us know about this "science" story. If you want detailed info on the previous story about Mexico and ACTA, you won't find that at the linked site either. Posted from different "dept."s on each site though. Editors in full effect!
Slightly different, I installed the Nook application from the Android Market, which is only available in the US. When abroad, I changed my US SIM for my UK SIM and Nook erased itself. It could be some kind of coincidental bug, but that's my impression of what happened.
Ministry of Sound is still one of the better clubs in London, especially with the closure of Matter, so they are still providing a venue for shows, clubs, raves, etc. The better promoters prefer Fabric as it's not as "corporate" as the others. The brand itself has been diluted to worthlessness. You can get MoS branded alarm clocks and iPod docks FFS. The label, while being the biggest indie label in the world, just churns out compilations - The Annual, Best of Happy Hardcore volume 40 etc. The company does still release credible records, but they are all on imprints like Hed Kandi and particularly Data Records. Eric Prydz is at the top of his game, and Example is riding high in the charts. Palumbo is a businessman, and that he would jump on the opportunity to screw a few more pennies out of file-sharers doesn't surprise me in the least.
My house is at the end of the road from the exchange, about 400 yards. My phone line is at the end of a loop taking in my surrounding streets, and I have 6.5km of copper between me and the exchange. I couldn't get any service at all before the introduction of Rate Adaptive DSL, and then only poor service at best. At the time, "HomeChoice" offered the best DSL deals, but wouldn't sign me up because the package also included TV over IP, and they couldn't guarantee enough bandwidth for the TV. They would not sign me up to a package without TV because I wouldn't be able to upgrade to a TV package in the future. I ended up with Bulldog and the worst broadband experience I've had in any country, until Virgin (Cable & Wireless at the time) laid fibre. Now I have 50MB Unlimited, no TV, no phone line.
Every now and then I get an unsolicited phone call offering to "upgrade" me. The conversation goes like this: "Will it be faster?" "No." "Will it be cheaper?" "You will get a discount of £5 for the next 3 months." "And then?" "The discount is only for 3 months." "Is it still unlimited?" "We don't offer your particular package any more, but it is our current 'Unlimited' package." "Does your current 'Unlimited' package have a 'Fair Use' policy? My present package does not." "There is a 'Fair Use' allowance on all our packages." "Not on my current package. £15 is not enough to bribe me into letting you start charging me arbitrarily for exceeding your bandwidth caps. I will keep my current package."
There is effectively no choice. Virgin could charge what they want and I'd have to suck it up. At some point they will find a way to get me onto a package with 'Fair Use' limits.
What I really want is a symmetrical connection. Virgin don't offer it, and BT's infrastructure won't support it.
My exchange is unbundled and it's a slap in the face walking past it every morning. I'd like the choice of Be, or some of the other ISPs that people recommend. The best telephone service I ever had was from TalkTalk, who wouldn't offer me broadband for the reasons stated in the article.
Most informed people I know agree that BT is a disgrace and should probably be broken up.
Official Skype clients are available on many platforms, but not all carriers, and the reason is to do with the implementation. In the US the partner carrier is Verizon, and in the UK and Australia (at least) it's the "3" network.
"3" actually provide Skype clients for a lot of platforms including Symbian and Android - they officially support the HTC Desire and that client runs happily on my Nexus One - but only when I'm on my home "3" network, and the client will not launch if Wi-Fi is on. I have "3" network SIMs for the UK and Italy, but the app only works in the UK, and here's why:
Basically, the officially supported Skype clients are placing a voice call to a magic number and the carrier connects to Skype at the back end. This prevents latency and the horrendous bandwidth usage of Skype on the cell network.
The client will not work on the "3" network in a different country because the "magic number" is hard-coded into the app, so a different build of the app is required for each network. Hence I cannot use my Skype app out of network.
Last I checked, the more widely available official "Skype Mobile" app only supported text IM and was just a rebranded iSkoot.
Hence the writer refuses to sell the rights to the sequel saying: "I cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure". I love that quote.
It's purely a software problem. You will trade these problems for a different known set of software problems under Windows, starting with the OS;)
It's been a while, but as I recall the emulators would not show multiple HID's when multiple devices with identical USB hardware ID's were connected. I think I mailed Richard Bannister about this at the time, but I may just have thought about it. It should be an easy fix, but consistent identification of Player 1 and Player 2 will be down to chance.
I have a huge basket of controllers and adapters, but end up using the PS2 controllers most of the time. The layout is ideal for NES, SNES, Master System and TG/PCE. It's not too bad for N64, Neo Geo, MD/Genesis, and obviously perfect for PSX.
This ars thread seems to suggest that the Bluetooth stack received the necessary overhaul in Snow Leopard for Sixaxis support. Certainly, it was filed as a bug with Apple since a few years ago, and would have had more consequences than just the Sony compatibility. I'm now motivated to check that out, as I think it's the neatest solution.
For computer gaming as opposed to console gaming, I still have my original Cruisers from the 80's, which says a lot about their build quality (2x neons and a translucent:) I love the adjustable tension, and they're micro-switched as opposed to leaves. I have a couple of Competition Pro's, but other people get more excited about them than I do, I think because so many people had them themselves. They're not bad. Occasionally I'll dig out my Konix Speedking (the short stick is the best for "waggling"), and I have a soft spot for my QuickShot IX (the trackball that wasn't, and the only QuickShot product that wasn't absolute crap).
The beauty of all of these is that they use the Atari DB-9 standard. For legacy computer gaming, you just want a bunch of Atari adapters.
The original is always the best. I bought all the adapters I need from Lik-Sang before Sony shut them down, but there must be other retailers. Probably a bunch of original controllers plus adapters will cost less than any fancy "Arcade" stick anyway. For convenience' sake, a PS2 controller covers almost all bases. Points to note if you are on a Mac: Most emulators (i.e. Richard Bannister's stuff) won't enumerate multiple identical adapters. Neither will the various joypad-to-keypress utilities I tried that I forget the name of. I have a 4-way PS2-USB adapter that doesn't get around this either. Perhaps buying different adapters will help, unless as is likely, they are the same guts inside. Finally, PS3 Bluetooth controllers simply wouldn't work on OS X due to a limitation of the OS X Bluetooth stack. It is possible to get them to work cabled over USB. This may be different in Snow Leopard, but I wasted so long trying to help code around it I swore I would never go back to it.
Absolutely right. Last week I returned to my hometown of London with my American wife, and within minutes of stepping off the Tube saw a guy waving his finger in the face of a policeman shouting words along the lines of "You're out of order. Do your f'ing job properly." I turned to my wife and said "It's good to be home". I have no idea what the situation was, and who was in the right, but we both agreed that in the US this kind of reprimanding of a public servant would be cut short with use of force.
Flamebait? Sheer fanboyism! Android bug 3434 is a showstopper. Audio is critical for telephony and the media functionality expected of a smart phone, and Android's basis in Linux is only highlighting the sorry state of Linux audio. Hopefully this may spur Google to develop something along the lines of CoreAudio that could be used in Linux as well as just Android and rid us of the ALSA, Jack, OSS, etc. mess that represents the worst of Linux.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I live near Heathrow in London, and the best weather so far this year was while the airports had grounded flights due to the Icelandic volcanic ash. Many of my friends commented on the coincidence.
Casio produced a MIDI 'guitar' in the '80s that had six strings that ran from the bridge to the end of the fretboard. That is, only over the pickup area for strumming. The fretboard itself was switches. There's a picture of one on this page. I'm guessing the game controllers will be something like this.
Actually there could be inherent illegality, if I remember correctly. No one seems to have mentioned this but: KisMac (the OS X port) is no longer hosted in Germany as it is illegal under StGB Section 202c. Specifically, the production and distribution of security software is illegal. Surely the use of it cannot be a loophole in the law?
I've come to the conclusion that this is mostly for show. Best case estimates of success for any of the proposed solutions have been incredibly low. Repeated failures are changing the problem conditions with each attempt. BP has to appear to be trying absolutely everything (and I suppose they are), but I think there is an executive acceptance that nothing before the relief wells kick in (August!) is going to make a dent in the flow of escaping oil and gas. The ROV operators and everyone with a real job to do are doing amazing, admirable work, but I just feel that this is all futile. We are down to real basic mechanical approaches. No technological solutions exist, none have been developed as there is no demand, as the oil companies have not invested in disaster management technology. Unproven response measures like the dispersants have been at best useless, and increasingly appear to have had an overall negative effect on the situation. We seriously don't have any bright ideas about dealing with this, and it's already too late.
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Wow, I had completely forgotten about the existence of Techdirt.
Fortunately, samzenpus and an anonymous reader are here to let us know about this "science" story.
If you want detailed info on the previous story about Mexico and ACTA, you won't find that at the linked site either.
Posted from different "dept."s on each site though. Editors in full effect!
Slightly different, I installed the Nook application from the Android Market, which is only available in the US.
When abroad, I changed my US SIM for my UK SIM and Nook erased itself.
It could be some kind of coincidental bug, but that's my impression of what happened.
Ministry of Sound is still one of the better clubs in London, especially with the closure of Matter, so they are still providing a venue for shows, clubs, raves, etc. The better promoters prefer Fabric as it's not as "corporate" as the others.
The brand itself has been diluted to worthlessness. You can get MoS branded alarm clocks and iPod docks FFS.
The label, while being the biggest indie label in the world, just churns out compilations - The Annual, Best of Happy Hardcore volume 40 etc.
The company does still release credible records, but they are all on imprints like Hed Kandi and particularly Data Records. Eric Prydz is at the top of his game, and Example is riding high in the charts.
Palumbo is a businessman, and that he would jump on the opportunity to screw a few more pennies out of file-sharers doesn't surprise me in the least.
Lol Cubase a real DAW.
Keep posting anonymously.
Posting through Tor you may well be leaking to Wikileaks anyway.
That was how they got started.
Do you know who runs your exit node?
My house is at the end of the road from the exchange, about 400 yards.
My phone line is at the end of a loop taking in my surrounding streets, and I have 6.5km of copper between me and the exchange.
I couldn't get any service at all before the introduction of Rate Adaptive DSL, and then only poor service at best.
At the time, "HomeChoice" offered the best DSL deals, but wouldn't sign me up because the package also included TV over IP, and they couldn't guarantee enough bandwidth for the TV. They would not sign me up to a package without TV because I wouldn't be able to upgrade to a TV package in the future.
I ended up with Bulldog and the worst broadband experience I've had in any country, until Virgin (Cable & Wireless at the time) laid fibre.
Now I have 50MB Unlimited, no TV, no phone line.
Every now and then I get an unsolicited phone call offering to "upgrade" me. The conversation goes like this:
"Will it be faster?"
"No."
"Will it be cheaper?"
"You will get a discount of £5 for the next 3 months."
"And then?"
"The discount is only for 3 months."
"Is it still unlimited?"
"We don't offer your particular package any more, but it is our current 'Unlimited' package."
"Does your current 'Unlimited' package have a 'Fair Use' policy? My present package does not."
"There is a 'Fair Use' allowance on all our packages."
"Not on my current package. £15 is not enough to bribe me into letting you start charging me arbitrarily for exceeding your bandwidth caps. I will keep my current package."
There is effectively no choice. Virgin could charge what they want and I'd have to suck it up. At some point they will find a way to get me onto a package with 'Fair Use' limits.
What I really want is a symmetrical connection. Virgin don't offer it, and BT's infrastructure won't support it.
My exchange is unbundled and it's a slap in the face walking past it every morning. I'd like the choice of Be, or some of the other ISPs that people recommend.
The best telephone service I ever had was from TalkTalk, who wouldn't offer me broadband for the reasons stated in the article.
Most informed people I know agree that BT is a disgrace and should probably be broken up.
I am not convinved by this proposal.
Official Skype clients are available on many platforms, but not all carriers, and the reason is to do with the implementation.
In the US the partner carrier is Verizon, and in the UK and Australia (at least) it's the "3" network.
"3" actually provide Skype clients for a lot of platforms including Symbian and Android - they officially support the HTC Desire and that client runs happily on my Nexus One - but only when I'm on my home "3" network, and the client will not launch if Wi-Fi is on.
I have "3" network SIMs for the UK and Italy, but the app only works in the UK, and here's why:
Basically, the officially supported Skype clients are placing a voice call to a magic number and the carrier connects to Skype at the back end. This prevents latency and the horrendous bandwidth usage of Skype on the cell network.
The client will not work on the "3" network in a different country because the "magic number" is hard-coded into the app, so a different build of the app is required for each network. Hence I cannot use my Skype app out of network.
Last I checked, the more widely available official "Skype Mobile" app only supported text IM and was just a rebranded iSkoot.
Hence the writer refuses to sell the rights to the sequel saying:
"I cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure".
I love that quote.
It's purely a software problem. You will trade these problems for a different known set of software problems under Windows, starting with the OS ;)
It's been a while, but as I recall the emulators would not show multiple HID's when multiple devices with identical USB hardware ID's were connected.
I think I mailed Richard Bannister about this at the time, but I may just have thought about it.
It should be an easy fix, but consistent identification of Player 1 and Player 2 will be down to chance.
I have a huge basket of controllers and adapters, but end up using the PS2 controllers most of the time.
The layout is ideal for NES, SNES, Master System and TG/PCE. It's not too bad for N64, Neo Geo, MD/Genesis, and obviously perfect for PSX.
This ars thread seems to suggest that the Bluetooth stack received the necessary overhaul in Snow Leopard for Sixaxis support.
Certainly, it was filed as a bug with Apple since a few years ago, and would have had more consequences than just the Sony compatibility.
I'm now motivated to check that out, as I think it's the neatest solution.
For computer gaming as opposed to console gaming, I still have my original Cruisers from the 80's, which says a lot about their build quality (2x neons and a translucent :)
I love the adjustable tension, and they're micro-switched as opposed to leaves.
I have a couple of Competition Pro's, but other people get more excited about them than I do, I think because so many people had them themselves. They're not bad.
Occasionally I'll dig out my Konix Speedking (the short stick is the best for "waggling"), and I have a soft spot for my QuickShot IX (the trackball that wasn't, and the only QuickShot product that wasn't absolute crap).
The beauty of all of these is that they use the Atari DB-9 standard. For legacy computer gaming, you just want a bunch of Atari adapters.
The original is always the best.
I bought all the adapters I need from Lik-Sang before Sony shut them down, but there must be other retailers.
Probably a bunch of original controllers plus adapters will cost less than any fancy "Arcade" stick anyway.
For convenience' sake, a PS2 controller covers almost all bases.
Points to note if you are on a Mac:
Most emulators (i.e. Richard Bannister's stuff) won't enumerate multiple identical adapters. Neither will the various joypad-to-keypress utilities I tried that I forget the name of.
I have a 4-way PS2-USB adapter that doesn't get around this either. Perhaps buying different adapters will help, unless as is likely, they are the same guts inside.
Finally, PS3 Bluetooth controllers simply wouldn't work on OS X due to a limitation of the OS X Bluetooth stack. It is possible to get them to work cabled over USB.
This may be different in Snow Leopard, but I wasted so long trying to help code around it I swore I would never go back to it.
I was.
I was cashed out the day before my 18th birthday.
See: COBOL
Steam quit unexpectedly.
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.
Yes, this message does pop up after the 30,818KB download.
Actually yes. Vehicles fitted with an SRS airbag should be held at 9 and 3.
WTF?
Absolutely right. Last week I returned to my hometown of London with my American wife, and within minutes of stepping off the Tube saw a guy waving his finger in the face of a policeman shouting words along the lines of "You're out of order. Do your f'ing job properly."
I turned to my wife and said "It's good to be home".
I have no idea what the situation was, and who was in the right, but we both agreed that in the US this kind of reprimanding of a public servant would be cut short with use of force.
Flamebait? Sheer fanboyism! Android bug 3434 is a showstopper.
Audio is critical for telephony and the media functionality expected of a smart phone, and Android's basis in Linux is only highlighting the sorry state of Linux audio.
Hopefully this may spur Google to develop something along the lines of CoreAudio that could be used in Linux as well as just Android and rid us of the ALSA, Jack, OSS, etc. mess that represents the worst of Linux.
After another 36 hours spent wrestling the Android audio APIs he will admit defeat.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I live near Heathrow in London, and the best weather so far this year was while the airports had grounded flights due to the Icelandic volcanic ash. Many of my friends commented on the coincidence.
Casio produced a MIDI 'guitar' in the '80s that had six strings that ran from the bridge to the end of the fretboard.
That is, only over the pickup area for strumming. The fretboard itself was switches.
There's a picture of one on this page.
I'm guessing the game controllers will be something like this.
Actually there could be inherent illegality, if I remember correctly.
No one seems to have mentioned this but:
KisMac (the OS X port) is no longer hosted in Germany as it is illegal under StGB Section 202c.
Specifically, the production and distribution of security software is illegal.
Surely the use of it cannot be a loophole in the law?
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I've come to the conclusion that this is mostly for show.
Best case estimates of success for any of the proposed solutions have been incredibly low.
Repeated failures are changing the problem conditions with each attempt.
BP has to appear to be trying absolutely everything (and I suppose they are), but I think there is an executive acceptance that nothing before the relief wells kick in (August!) is going to make a dent in the flow of escaping oil and gas.
The ROV operators and everyone with a real job to do are doing amazing, admirable work, but I just feel that this is all futile.
We are down to real basic mechanical approaches.
No technological solutions exist, none have been developed as there is no demand, as the oil companies have not invested in disaster management technology. Unproven response measures like the dispersants have been at best useless, and increasingly appear to have had an overall negative effect on the situation.
We seriously don't have any bright ideas about dealing with this, and it's already too late.
The EU is not a country. The union does not recognise software patents.