My biggest complaint about this would be the marks highlighters make on the laptop screen when I'm studying for a test...
Seriously, though, as big and heavy as they are, marking up your books so you can study effectively is something that isn't possible (that I know of) with an eBook or PDF. Until this happens, as much as I want to, I can't see replacing dead tree books with my Palm Pilot.
Many years ago (maybe 7 or 8?) I played a game that I could have sworn Epic put out, but I don't see it on the Epic Classic Games site. Maybe some of the folks here remember it.
I don't remember a whole lot, other than it was a 2D side-scrolling game where you were a wizard, and were collecting little lightning bolts and things. The only other thing I remember is that we spent hours on that game passing time on 12 hour midnight shifts as airmen in an Air Force network operations center...:)
StarOffice happens to fall under our existing contract for Sun anyway. But it is excellent support.
We are still, unfortunately, stuck with SO5.2 (I know, and I'm working on it...), but we have gotten custom patches from Sun 3 times in the last 6 months for SO dealing with MS Word documents. I'd like to see MS provide patches for Word because it's not bringing up a Word Perfect file up correctly...
For most large companies, it's not about free or not free, it's about dedicated support. From a company standpoint, they would rather shell out money for the non-free version if they can call someone on the phone and get an answer. Sure, the free version may have mailing lists and USENET, but a company can't rely on that, and they can't point fingers when something goes wrong.
That's the same reason a lot of companies will pay through the nose for RedHat Enterprise---not because it does more, but because they have a single place to call when something goes wrong.
I haven't played this game for years---I had the original GalCiv on OS/2. Does anyone know how this compares to the original? Is it a port with updated graphics? Is it completely different in all but the name?
Haven't had any problems so far. Used whatever is cheap from Home Depot. Pine, maybe? Not treated, and I don't do anything to it. I'm in Southern California, but I always keep the room cool, so I haven't had any problems with sap or moisture.
But, if you're worried about it, find just about any old PC case, and there will be plastic guides for the full-length cards on the opposite end of the case from the slots. While these aren't as deep as the slots in the blocks of wood, they are enough to keep the cards from falling over. They also normally have screw holes for mounting.
I haven't found any decent method for storing most of those, but for expansion cards, I've been taking a length of 1x3 and cutting 3/8" deep slots in it with a circular saw, about 1" apart. The width of the sawblade is just right for the cards. Then, glue or clamp this to the edge of a shelf.
All the cards stand up in the slots, and the faces are all clearly visible so you know what kind of card it is. I've been grouping mine (video, sound, IO), and then in each category I split them by their bus type (AGP, PCI, ISA, etc.).
It's been working great for me for a while. The setup costs just a couple bucks, and that's if you don't have the 1x3 scraps laying around.
It's a fair statement. This is Slashdot, comprised of IT workers and teenage geeks. Neither of which are known for their abilities to attract and keep women.
I can promise to give you all the money in my bank account, but that doesn't mean you'll get rich off of it.
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Seriously, I've been using LaTeX for papers for a long time, and have yet to find a format that is as easy to use (all you need is a text editor, files are in ASCII, etc.) and that produces professionally typeset output. However, I believe the real question is: does it fit your needs? If so, then it is worth learning.
Based on Perl, Apache, MySQL and Linux, the site gets 200,000 page views a day.
Except for today, when we line it up for a good Slashdotting.
To be more on topic, I wonder how much of this is chosen by the PHBs ("I've heard a lot about this Linux, maybe we should use it for this next big project.") and how much is chosen by the admins without PHB approval ("Well, we need this project up on a server, and we have this old PII-400 laying around, let's just throw Linux on it, fire up Apache and mod_perl and then take an early lunch."). I know that when I was in the Air Force, I saw the latter happen much more often than the former.
I used a dvorak layout for about a week, and was starting to get decent at it, and then tried to edit something in vi. Have you ever tried to move around using H, J, K and L in a dvorak layout?!
It was either dvorak or vi, and vi won by a landslide.
I've actually been looking at Sun's new entry level servers, the v210 and v240 servers.
The v210 starts at $2,995US, and the large configuration, with 2 1Ghz UltraSparc IIIi processors, 2GB of RAM, 2 36GB 10,000RPM SCSI-III drives, and 4 10/100/1000 network intarfaces comes in at $5,795US. I've seen comparible x86-based servers for more than that.
But what about the rest of us? I haven't checked for a Windows version of iTunes, but I don't think one exists, and I'm certain there isn't a version for the Linux machines I'm running at the house.
Also, a buck a song still seems a bit much to me. So, it looks like I don't have a choice but to wait until some large music company realizes it could make a killing selling MP3/OGG/[your favorite format here] (and why not host several formats to choose from---storage is cheap) tracks at a quarter a download.
I'm guessing that is going to happen shortly after that AC guy looses his fixation on Natalie Portman and hot grits...
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Not for me you don't! My first thought was:
Feh.
But XML markup is the worst!
My biggest complaint about this would be the marks highlighters make on the laptop screen when I'm studying for a test...
Seriously, though, as big and heavy as they are, marking up your books so you can study effectively is something that isn't possible (that I know of) with an eBook or PDF. Until this happens, as much as I want to, I can't see replacing dead tree books with my Palm Pilot.
I agree. I'm a big supporter of light. I use PWM. All keyboard shortcuts. No cute GUI stuff. And very fast...
But at "11 metres long" and with "16 user operated levers", not to mention two steps going from one side to the other, multiball is going to suck.
Us /. users may have an unfair advantage over people new to computers here. Removing unneeded letters is how we fit everything into DOS 8.3 filenames!
Natalie Portman gets herself into a gritsy---er, I mean gritty situation.
Many years ago (maybe 7 or 8?) I played a game that I could have sworn Epic put out, but I don't see it on the Epic Classic Games site. Maybe some of the folks here remember it.
:)
I don't remember a whole lot, other than it was a 2D side-scrolling game where you were a wizard, and were collecting little lightning bolts and things. The only other thing I remember is that we spent hours on that game passing time on 12 hour midnight shifts as airmen in an Air Force network operations center...
StarOffice happens to fall under our existing contract for Sun anyway. But it is excellent support.
We are still, unfortunately, stuck with SO5.2 (I know, and I'm working on it...), but we have gotten custom patches from Sun 3 times in the last 6 months for SO dealing with MS Word documents. I'd like to see MS provide patches for Word because it's not bringing up a Word Perfect file up correctly...
For most large companies, it's not about free or not free, it's about dedicated support. From a company standpoint, they would rather shell out money for the non-free version if they can call someone on the phone and get an answer. Sure, the free version may have mailing lists and USENET, but a company can't rely on that, and they can't point fingers when something goes wrong.
That's the same reason a lot of companies will pay through the nose for RedHat Enterprise---not because it does more, but because they have a single place to call when something goes wrong.
I haven't played this game for years---I had the original GalCiv on OS/2. Does anyone know how this compares to the original? Is it a port with updated graphics? Is it completely different in all but the name?
Haven't had any problems so far. Used whatever is cheap from Home Depot. Pine, maybe? Not treated, and I don't do anything to it. I'm in Southern California, but I always keep the room cool, so I haven't had any problems with sap or moisture.
But, if you're worried about it, find just about any old PC case, and there will be plastic guides for the full-length cards on the opposite end of the case from the slots. While these aren't as deep as the slots in the blocks of wood, they are enough to keep the cards from falling over. They also normally have screw holes for mounting.
I haven't found any decent method for storing most of those, but for expansion cards, I've been taking a length of 1x3 and cutting 3/8" deep slots in it with a circular saw, about 1" apart. The width of the sawblade is just right for the cards. Then, glue or clamp this to the edge of a shelf.
All the cards stand up in the slots, and the faces are all clearly visible so you know what kind of card it is. I've been grouping mine (video, sound, IO), and then in each category I split them by their bus type (AGP, PCI, ISA, etc.).
It's been working great for me for a while. The setup costs just a couple bucks, and that's if you don't have the 1x3 scraps laying around.
It's a fair statement. This is Slashdot, comprised of IT workers and teenage geeks. Neither of which are known for their abilities to attract and keep women.
I can promise to give you all the money in my bank account, but that doesn't mean you'll get rich off of it.
For the love of god, we will give your our women and our money, but make it stop!
I won't have to bring up X to edit photos in the Gimp!
And you must not forget:
8. No client shall be distributed without gaping security holes
I'm going to have to see at least 3 years of Apocalypses and Exegesis before I can make an informed decision about this language...
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Seriously, I've been using LaTeX for papers for a long time, and have yet to find a format that is as easy to use (all you need is a text editor, files are in ASCII, etc.) and that produces professionally typeset output. However, I believe the real question is: does it fit your needs? If so, then it is worth learning.
Except for today, when we line it up for a good Slashdotting.
To be more on topic, I wonder how much of this is chosen by the PHBs ("I've heard a lot about this Linux, maybe we should use it for this next big project.") and how much is chosen by the admins without PHB approval ("Well, we need this project up on a server, and we have this old PII-400 laying around, let's just throw Linux on it, fire up Apache and mod_perl and then take an early lunch."). I know that when I was in the Air Force, I saw the latter happen much more often than the former.
To add to that, LaTeX does have changebar support:
LaTeX Changebars
It even comes with a script to diff two LaTeX documents and add the changebars for you. ASCII wins again!
You think that's bad. Wait until the RIAA finds out they cracked into the school district computer and downloaded an MP3 file...
I used a dvorak layout for about a week, and was starting to get decent at it, and then tried to edit something in vi. Have you ever tried to move around using H, J, K and L in a dvorak layout?!
It was either dvorak or vi, and vi won by a landslide.
I've actually been looking at Sun's new entry level servers, the v210 and v240 servers.
The v210 starts at $2,995US, and the large configuration, with 2 1Ghz UltraSparc IIIi processors, 2GB of RAM, 2 36GB 10,000RPM SCSI-III drives, and 4 10/100/1000 network intarfaces comes in at $5,795US. I've seen comparible x86-based servers for more than that.
But what about the rest of us? I haven't checked for a Windows version of iTunes, but I don't think one exists, and I'm certain there isn't a version for the Linux machines I'm running at the house.
Also, a buck a song still seems a bit much to me. So, it looks like I don't have a choice but to wait until some large music company realizes it could make a killing selling MP3/OGG/[your favorite format here] (and why not host several formats to choose from---storage is cheap) tracks at a quarter a download.
I'm guessing that is going to happen shortly after that AC guy looses his fixation on Natalie Portman and hot grits...