Firebird a subproject of Mozilla is a light weight version of Mozilla seems a lot better bet to me.
While I'm posting this from Firebird, it hasn't had an revision in a little bit, while Mozilla has gotten a few fixes. I've hit webpages that Firebird doesn't handle properly but Mozilla does. I'll be happy when the component breakdown happens, so Firebird stays up to date.
but it is very sobering and unpleasant when your code is taken over by people you don't approve of, taken in directions you object to
But you always have the right to refuse changes you don't like. The only way the above can happen is if you're not willing to run your own codebase (CVS repository or whatever) and restrict changes to those you've vetted. But you have the right to do this, and the ability to do so at any time.
No, I said if they want to make a game based on someone elses copyright etc then do it legally.
Exactly how many RTS games are there? More than I've got fingers and toes, at the very least. What makes Freecraft more of a copy than Warcraft is a copy of Dune 2?
--Eccles, proudly (and apparently solely) boycotting Blizzard/Vivendi since the BnetD thugishness...
I think actually, people are a lot fussier about digital resolution. Pixelation is more distracting than graininess.
Exactly. Our eyes are designed* to find patterns, connections, edges, etc. The edge of a pixel is a sharp edge, so we notice it. Grain is an overall blur, and thus does not trigger feature recognition.
A similar idea in audio for the hearing impaired is to aid their comprehension by adding a certain amount of noise to the incoming sound when in a noisy atmosphere. That prevents the person's auditory system from picking up significant features from quieter sounds, such as a person speaking at another table in a restaurant.
The 7000 lumen JVC DLP projector that gets used for this stuff costs about $225K before you put a lens on it....and a couple of years ago, a DVD writer was ~$5000. Is there any reason to believe reasonably large-scale production of projectors like these wouldn't drop that price considerably?
a) search with the standard windows search which ought to let you get *.jpg and look at each one (she probably has thousands) until you find it...or go to Details view, sort by date, and look only at the most recent. Or even better, use the advanced search options that allow you to look for files only modified in the last day.
The only bad thing is the time it takes that search to run -- a relational system should be better performance-wise.
The heart of Windows' problem, however, is generally not the system they have in place; it's the thousands of programs that ignore that system, and thus the need for Windows to allow for those that ignore it. So files aren't always put into the reasonable places, and users don't learn how they're supposed to use the system. Also, drive letters are *still* the core naming convention, and the equivalent of Unix-style ~eccles is C:\Documents and Settings\Eccles\My Documents, which strains shortcuts and File Open/Save dialogs.
In more than ten years, I've never not worked for an "exception." (I once worked evenings for a few weeks to get a project done, but I've never worked weekends.)
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...and due to sonic booms, it is a ceiling for the speed of commercial aviation over inhabited areas.
These days, either you have a job that works your ass off, or you have no job.
Simply not true, and I do software development. I and my fellow programmers work ~40 hours a week, and have been for years. We're not hiring at the moment, but we're not firing either. And I work for a private firm, not the gov't.
You have to wonder though. For Verisign, domain names were worth $100/year or thereabouts. If one gets misappropriated, is their liability much more than that? Can I really be held liable for $100 million for mishandling something someone bought from me for so little?
Interesting points. You are right. Some people focus directly on the money, and the music comes second.
Perhaps. But, think of some artist you like who has become rich off of their musical abilities. Do you think they would have been able to devote the time and energy to developing their music if not for the potential payout? Do you think those who helped fund that development would have done so if not for that same potential payout?
I'd really like to do this, but I would rather watch the recorded stuff on a real TV (TV is 36", monitor is 19"). I don't believe the ATI TV card nor the hauppuge does that, does it?
Generally a TV-out connection is a feature of your video card, not the video capture card. If you don't need super-whizzy 3-D graphics, you can get a card with TV-out reasonably cheaply; just check the Flex doesn't have TV-out already, has room for a video card as well as the capture one, and that you can disable the on-board video I assume such a PC has.
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Cellular will win out, because it can be metered.
So can local calls (and broadband), but neither my local phone service nor my cable modem provider do so.
Companies want to be able to charge per byte (or Kbyte).
And customers hate it. If another company can undercut the price of metered service with unmetered, the metering company will lose business.
I don't know about you but I'll take that over goatse.cx or tubgirl any day...
Firebird a subproject of Mozilla is a light weight version of Mozilla seems a lot better bet to me.
While I'm posting this from Firebird, it hasn't had an revision in a little bit, while Mozilla has gotten a few fixes. I've hit webpages that Firebird doesn't handle properly but Mozilla does. I'll be happy when the component breakdown happens, so Firebird stays up to date.
but it is very sobering and unpleasant when your code is taken over by people you don't approve of, taken in directions you object to
But you always have the right to refuse changes you don't like. The only way the above can happen is if you're not willing to run your own codebase (CVS repository or whatever) and restrict changes to those you've vetted. But you have the right to do this, and the ability to do so at any time.
No, I said if they want to make a game based on someone elses copyright etc then do it legally.
Exactly how many RTS games are there? More than I've got fingers and toes, at the very least. What makes Freecraft more of a copy than Warcraft is a copy of Dune 2?
--Eccles, proudly (and apparently solely) boycotting Blizzard/Vivendi since the BnetD thugishness...
I think actually, people are a lot fussier about digital resolution. Pixelation is more distracting than graininess.
Exactly. Our eyes are designed* to find patterns, connections, edges, etc. The edge of a pixel is a sharp edge, so we notice it. Grain is an overall blur, and thus does not trigger feature recognition.
A similar idea in audio for the hearing impaired is to aid their comprehension by adding a certain amount of noise to the incoming sound when in a noisy atmosphere. That prevents the person's auditory system from picking up significant features from quieter sounds, such as a person speaking at another table in a restaurant.
* By evolution or by God, take your pick
I still haven't seen the whole movie since I was shuttling my preschooler in and out of the theatre to skip the scary parts.
:-)
Sheesh. I just clutch the kid over my chest and put my hands over his ears for the duration of the scene.
Or are you the one wanting to skip the scary parts?
The 7000 lumen JVC DLP projector that gets used for this stuff costs about $225K before you put a lens on it. ...and a couple of years ago, a DVD writer was ~$5000. Is there any reason to believe reasonably large-scale production of projectors like these wouldn't drop that price considerably?
The G5 cost almost half as much as the G5 [...] Moderation is a waste of time.
True, since there's no "-1, Confused" option...
...or (C) Scott Adams was the anonymous reader who submitted the story.
a) search with the standard windows search which ought to let you get *.jpg and look at each one (she probably has thousands) until you find it ...or go to Details view, sort by date, and look only at the most recent. Or even better, use the advanced search options that allow you to look for files only modified in the last day.
The only bad thing is the time it takes that search to run -- a relational system should be better performance-wise.
The heart of Windows' problem, however, is generally not the system they have in place; it's
the thousands of programs that ignore that system, and thus the need for Windows to allow for those that ignore it. So files aren't always put into the reasonable places, and users don't learn how they're supposed to use the system. Also, drive letters are *still* the core naming convention, and the equivalent of Unix-style ~eccles is C:\Documents and Settings\Eccles\My Documents, which strains shortcuts and File Open/Save dialogs.
Come on, people, try to have some self-control! Was 5 naked people at once really not enough?
If you have multiple images open, you can quickly switch between the tabs to get a "flip-book" animation-like effect.
Err, not that I would know anything about that sort of thing...
There's more to this than meets the eye, surely.
You may be right, but don't call me Shirley.
What I REALLY wonder about is all the idiots buying SCO stock, and why it's still hovering around $10 as opposed to the 1 cent it's really worth.
You buy and sell stocks not based on what you think they're worth, but based on what you think everyone else thinks they're worth.
So go with the Tiger Direct machine, it has a 12 gig drive and an AGP slot. Tiger Direct sells a Radeon 7000 for $20 after rebate.
I just saw at Sam's Club the GC with Starfox and a memory stick for $148
I have a pre-owned GC with Super Mario Sunshine on order from gamestop.com: $90.
In more than ten years, I've never not worked for an "exception." (I once worked evenings for a few weeks to get a project done, but I've never worked weekends.)
...and due to sonic booms, it is a ceiling for the speed of commercial aviation over inhabited areas.
These days, either you have a job that works your ass off, or you have no job.
Simply not true, and I do software development. I and my fellow programmers work ~40 hours a week, and have been for years. We're not hiring at the moment, but we're not firing either. And I work for a private firm, not the gov't.
This works best if you can convince several of your coworkers to go along.
Or if you can hook in some nigh-incomprehensible spaghetti logic into the code. "Job security through obscurity!"
You have to wonder though. For Verisign, domain names were worth $100/year or thereabouts. If one gets misappropriated, is their liability much more than that? Can I really be held liable for $100 million for mishandling something someone bought from me for so little?
Interesting points. You are right. Some people focus directly on the money, and the music comes second.
Perhaps. But, think of some artist you like who has become rich off of their musical abilities. Do you think they would have been able to devote the time and energy to developing their music if not for the potential payout? Do you think those who helped fund that development would have done so if not for that same potential payout?
But when we rent movies, he's a good kid and he usually wants to rent a game and knows what game he wants etc etc.
Is there any Netflix equivalent for games?
64K of RAM? You spoiled brat! I remember programming my VIC20
Yes, but the 64K was a move *up*. I was programming before there were Vic 20s... I only missed punch cards in college by a year.
I'd really like to do this, but I would rather watch the recorded stuff on a real TV (TV is 36", monitor is 19"). I don't believe the ATI TV card nor the hauppuge does that, does it?
Generally a TV-out connection is a feature of your video card, not the video capture card. If you don't need super-whizzy 3-D graphics, you can get a card with TV-out reasonably cheaply; just check the Flex doesn't have TV-out already, has room for a video card as well as the capture one, and that you can disable the on-board video I assume such a PC has.