My X41 tablet running GNU/Linux with the 8-cell battery (actually makes it much easier to hold in slate/portrait mode) lasts about 5 hours on battery with automatic CPU scaling on. It scales the clock speed down to 600Mhz when not in use, such as when you're reading =). I'm not sure if/how this works in Windows, but I'd be surprised if it didn't have a similar feature. Not because I any sort of faith in Windows, but because I don't see IBM/Lenovo putting in features that aren't usable from Windows.
Beleive me, the swivelling screen makes jaws drop. It also doesn't have that ugly sealing ridge around the edge of the top screen that most thinkpads do.
Just to clarify, since the parent post might have been misleading, there IS support for the tablet under GNU/Linux. I'm quite happy with my X41 tablet running gentoo (had to install from a knoppix live-USB though), the thinkpad buttons and screen rotation work fine, and support for high precision tablet coordinates and pressure sensitivity work great in GIMP, Inkscape and Xournal (minus pressure since Xournal doesn't use that). Hibernation with Suspend2 seems to work fine too.
What isn't really available, and I'm sure this is what the parent post was talking about, is handwriting recognition software. AFAIK there isn't really any available for GNU/Linux (please reply if I'm wrong here). I knew this when I bought the system, but I really couldn't care less. Handwriting on a computer sounds like a waste of time to me (unless you can't type), I wanted the tablet for drawing =).
PS. Not linux-related, but the pen on the X41 tablet doesn't have an eraser, this isn't a big deal for me, but you might want to find out whether the X60 tablet's pen has one if you're used to having them on other wacom tablets.
The inverse of a function f(x) is f^-1(x) and is defined such that f^-1(f(x)) == x, not one.
1/x is the inverse of a number, as the division function is the inverse of the multiplication function. The thing about invsqrt is that it is ambiguous whether they mean inv(sqrt) or sqrt^-1.
(though then how do you prevent the player from killing 27,416,318 bunnies at the first level by locking the controller in a tight turn for a week, then breezing through the rest?) Why should they stop you from doing that? As far as I understood, the whole point of his thesis was to let the player choose their own difficulty by giving them choices as to where to go or what activities to do. If the player has more fun hanging around in the first level for a week, why shouldn't they be able to do that? The main point is for the player to have fun, after all.
So five to ten years from now various versions of today's Linux enter the public domain and Microsoft is free to take them closed source and commercialize them? Sounds good to me.
Yes, but by then the linux will be 5-10 years out of date. All the newer improvements will still be in copyright.
'Ninety percent of violent cases start with verbal aggression,' Van der Vorst said. 'With our system, the police can respond a lot quicker to a violent situation.'
Yes, in fact, they can even arrive at the scene before the violent situation errupts! Oh wait, didn't they already do a movie about that?
It hasn't for the DS, why do you think you need to flash your DS firmware before it will accept wireless download homebrew? Because the firmware is required to _skip_ the signature check. For the DS at least, it has never been figured out.
GUI isn't alone. Off the top of my head: Jay-peg instead of J.P.E.G. Scuzzy instead of S.C.S.I. Wine instead of W.I.N.E. Ram and rom instead of R.A.M. and R.O.M. Guh-noo instead of G.N.U.
People usually only use the letters when it is unpronouncable (PCMCIA) or the official pronounciation is just too silly (Ping for PNG anyone?)
That having been said, I also find Gooey to be a little odd.
the first official statement from Nintendo when ask if the Wii a GameCube 1.5...
The answer is YES, they didn't want to spend ANY money to develop a new gaming platform to keep cost down.
Err, actually, that sounds like a NO, but they wanted it to be a YES.
Why does everyone keep pulling out the three laws as if they are some gold standard for AI when Asimov devoted an entire book to showing that they don't work? Read past the first page, people.
Another notable Microsoft application for a patent is the model for "assisting children in authoring stories so you can't accuse Microsoft of not thinking of the children."
Why bother to torture yourself with the headaches presented by Linux gaming? Why should you continually not have the games you want to play? Why settle for half-assed solutions that might or might not run the games you crave so desperately?"
Because my principles are more important to me than the one or two hours it takes to get WoW / Diablo 2 working in wine. Actually, when you take into account the time it takes to reboot, along with the penalty in convenience (can't simply minimize and use linux apps, or listen to my playlists in xmms while playing), I probably save time doing it this way.
Besides, there are good games that install/work perfectly in linux, UT 2004 being one of them. Heck, on linux you don't even need to use the play disk. (Disclaimer: I don't actually know that it is used in windows, but I never needed it, not even during install, and I doubt they would have bothered printing an extra CD for no purpose)
Since good FOSS games are hard to come by, I'd just like to plug ABA Games, they make some real gems. Specifically, if you are at all into space shooters, give rRootage (linux binary here) a try, it's one of my most-often played games, even in the presence of giants like WoW.
There is a line between blogging about the movie and showing trailers on your web site, and marketing licensable items (like shirts). The first two are viral advertising, the latter is, well, marketing something that someone else owns as your own products.
From the fucking article:
Members were encouraged to form regional groups to promote the film and perform activities that would help generate word of mouth, like creating bumper stickers and gift cards to accompany the DVD release.
I don't see any mention of marketing t-shirts as viral advertising.
Why should T-shirts be any different from bumper stickers? They are both licensable and are both worn advertisements. It seems only logical that such a link would be seen as implied.
Now while I generally think of movie executives as dick heads, but to be fare, they put up a lot of money to finance a movie that returned not so much. If they make a few million dollars on this, then good for them. They put up US$39 million dollars in production costs, around US$15 million in advertising costs, and about US$8.5 million in distribution costs. The film made US$38.3 million GROSS at the box office (meaning before the theaters take their cut)
Excuse me, but you aren't showing the whole picture. From the very next paragraph of the article:
While the theatrical release of Serenity met only modest success at the box office, the Browncoats campaign maintained momentum through the DVD release, whose success spurred additional sales of the original Firefly DVD. At one point following the release of Serenity on DVD, both Serenity and Firefly were #1 and #2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list despite the Firefly DVD being over a year old.
Okay, and finally:
Man on the street to another guy: "Excuse me, but do you know what time it is?"
Second guy: "It's three P.M."
First guy: "Thank you... and I really really like your watch... I want to sell it to that guy over there."
Second guy: "What? Excuse me, it is my watch, I paid for it."
First guy (gathers a mob around him): "We don't care. We want it , and we're going to sell it."
No.
Judging by the way you are portraying copyright violation as property theft, you are either being fooled by all of the industry's "intellectual property" bullshit or you are trying to propogate it. The laws governing physical property and the laws governing copyrighted works are completely different.
Even leaving that aside, the situations are completely different, Universal asked for this.
But I still think that showing trailers on your web site is one thing and selling someone else's idea as your own is another.
So what you are telling me is that people sold this merchandise all while telling people that they had created Serenity? Unless that is the case, that opinion is irrelevant to the situation.
Debian didn't refuse to use the name or the logo because they were trademarked. They refused to use the logo because of its copyright license, after which MozCo applied their trademark and refused to let debian use the name.
PS.: There is also another issue at work here (MozCo objecting to unauthorized patches), but this is the one I'm assuming the parent is refering to.
I know the EBGames near me (Angrignon in Montreal) won't take pre-orders for the Wii. When I asked why, they said it was because they had too much trouble with the XB360 launch. Apparently, so many people had come back to return non-working consoles that they didn't have enough more non-reserved consoles to exchange them.
Wii lack of power could turn out to not just into a little less good graphics, but might also turn out to hinder some gameplay innovations, like large crowds.
I don't buy this argument. Gameplay-wise, if you want crowds on weaker hardware all you have to do is simplify each member of the crowd. This worked perfectly well for Pikmin. If it really is gameplay you are thinking about and not just "it looks cool to have 200+ awesome zombies on screen" then I don't think you have anything to worry about.
To be fair though, that was an extreme circumstance, as they decided use panoramic videos _instead of_ still images for your surroundings, but I'd say that was a legitimate use.
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My X41 tablet running GNU/Linux with the 8-cell battery (actually makes it much easier to hold in slate/portrait mode) lasts about 5 hours on battery with automatic CPU scaling on. It scales the clock speed down to 600Mhz when not in use, such as when you're reading =). I'm not sure if/how this works in Windows, but I'd be surprised if it didn't have a similar feature. Not because I any sort of faith in Windows, but because I don't see IBM/Lenovo putting in features that aren't usable from Windows.
Beleive me, the swivelling screen makes jaws drop. It also doesn't have that ugly sealing ridge around the edge of the top screen that most thinkpads do.
Just to clarify, since the parent post might have been misleading, there IS support for the tablet under GNU/Linux. I'm quite happy with my X41 tablet running gentoo (had to install from a knoppix live-USB though), the thinkpad buttons and screen rotation work fine, and support for high precision tablet coordinates and pressure sensitivity work great in GIMP, Inkscape and Xournal (minus pressure since Xournal doesn't use that). Hibernation with Suspend2 seems to work fine too.
What isn't really available, and I'm sure this is what the parent post was talking about, is handwriting recognition software. AFAIK there isn't really any available for GNU/Linux (please reply if I'm wrong here). I knew this when I bought the system, but I really couldn't care less. Handwriting on a computer sounds like a waste of time to me (unless you can't type), I wanted the tablet for drawing =).
PS. Not linux-related, but the pen on the X41 tablet doesn't have an eraser, this isn't a big deal for me, but you might want to find out whether the X60 tablet's pen has one if you're used to having them on other wacom tablets.
I claim prior art!
The inverse of a function f(x) is f^-1(x) and is defined such that f^-1(f(x)) == x, not one.
1/x is the inverse of a number, as the division function is the inverse of the multiplication function. The thing about invsqrt is that it is ambiguous whether they mean inv(sqrt) or sqrt^-1.
Yes. It's True.
It hasn't for the DS, why do you think you need to flash your DS firmware before it will accept wireless download homebrew? Because the firmware is required to _skip_ the signature check. For the DS at least, it has never been figured out.
GUI isn't alone. Off the top of my head:
Jay-peg instead of J.P.E.G.
Scuzzy instead of S.C.S.I.
Wine instead of W.I.N.E.
Ram and rom instead of R.A.M. and R.O.M.
Guh-noo instead of G.N.U.
People usually only use the letters when it is unpronouncable (PCMCIA) or the official pronounciation is just too silly (Ping for PNG anyone?)
That having been said, I also find Gooey to be a little odd.
Why does everyone keep pulling out the three laws as if they are some gold standard for AI when Asimov devoted an entire book to showing that they don't work? Read past the first page, people.
Did anyone else read that as: (with my "")
Another notable Microsoft application for a patent is the model for "assisting children in authoring stories so you can't accuse Microsoft of not thinking of the children."
Besides, there are good games that install/work perfectly in linux, UT 2004 being one of them. Heck, on linux you don't even need to use the play disk. (Disclaimer: I don't actually know that it is used in windows, but I never needed it, not even during install, and I doubt they would have bothered printing an extra CD for no purpose)
Since good FOSS games are hard to come by, I'd just like to plug ABA Games, they make some real gems. Specifically, if you are at all into space shooters, give rRootage (linux binary here) a try, it's one of my most-often played games, even in the presence of giants like WoW.
Why should T-shirts be any different from bumper stickers? They are both licensable and are both worn advertisements. It seems only logical that such a link would be seen as implied.
Excuse me, but you aren't showing the whole picture. From the very next paragraph of the article:
Okay, and finally:
No. Judging by the way you are portraying copyright violation as property theft, you are either being fooled by all of the industry's "intellectual property" bullshit or you are trying to propogate it. The laws governing physical property and the laws governing copyrighted works are completely different.
Even leaving that aside, the situations are completely different, Universal asked for this.
So what you are telling me is that people sold this merchandise all while telling people that they had created Serenity? Unless that is the case, that opinion is irrelevant to the situation.
Erm, that's what I was saying AC didn't get, I got it fine =).
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I don't think you got the GP's joke.
Debian didn't refuse to use the name or the logo because they were trademarked. They refused to use the logo because of its copyright license, after which MozCo applied their trademark and refused to let debian use the name.
PS.: There is also another issue at work here (MozCo objecting to unauthorized patches), but this is the one I'm assuming the parent is refering to.
That would be believable if the word flabby had not been emphasised using italics (or lack thereof).
Not that I'm trying to support the first response to the joke, I found it quite funny. =)
It's a troll when you don't make ANY mention of what ANY of the bugs are.
I know the EBGames near me (Angrignon in Montreal) won't take pre-orders for the Wii. When I asked why, they said it was because they had too much trouble with the XB360 launch. Apparently, so many people had come back to return non-working consoles that they didn't have enough more non-reserved consoles to exchange them.
I am not making this up!
Barring the possibility of failed sarcasm. . .
That's why they would be careful with exactly who they accept, just like they do with their Summer of Code.
Myst 4 had to go to two DVDs.
To be fair though, that was an extreme circumstance, as they decided use panoramic videos _instead of_ still images for your surroundings, but I'd say that was a legitimate use.