The issue people have is not that they have to spend time learning something - it's that they have to spend time learning something that they shouldn't need to know.
Configuring Linux is *so* much harder than Windows - it's irritating that you have to expend all this effort getting Linux to work when Windows proves that it can be done much easier.
Learning is good. Learning unneccesary crap you're not interested in isn't.
Here in the UK, most of the new TVs you see in the shops of any size (24"+) seem to be widescreen nowadays. Widescreen is certainly the way it is going over here now - the Free-to-air digital stuff nowadays is now broadcast in widescreen.
I don't know anybody who has bought a new 4:3 TV in the last few years.
That's it! CmdrTaco is viewing Slashdot on the screen of an iPod running Linux, which is why he never noticed that the story he's about to post was posted a couple of hours ago - the screen is too small to see them!
For viewers in the UK, The Superbowl is being shown on Channel 5, starting at 11:05pm.
I watched it (for the first time) last year, my American fiancee explaining to me how American Football works. Unfortunately I fell asleep at the beginning of the second half - I'll try to do better this time...
I don't think there's any doubt that a large part of Sony's current dominance is due to it coming out much earlier than the other formats (although not completely - otherwise we'd all be playing on Dreamcasts...)
With the next generation, I think the battle will be much closer, and fought much more on who can get the most really kick-ass games out the quickest.
I think Sony will still have a fair advantage from having done so well in this generation, and as usual Microsoft will be at a disadvantage in Japan, but it's definitely going to be close...
The reason that this is useful is that until recently there hasn't been a standard image format for storing HDR files. There are a couple of formats that support floating point, but they're mainly 32bit/channel, which in most cases is overkill.
By providing a format specifically designed for HDR images, and providing a library and viewer for it, they will help enable VFX companies to share their data between companies and applications without reinventing the wheel every time.
Excellent! With current PDA calendar applications, you can tell it to remind you to do something at a particular time, whereas it'd be much more useful if it could remind you to do something in a particular place, or a combination of the two.
I'd like to be able to get it to remind me to do something 30 minutes after I've got home - it'd give me time to take my shoes off, sit down, and relax with a nice cup of tea before it starts to beep at me. It'd also be useful to be able to tell it to remind me to buy some milk when I walk past Tescos on my way home...
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Well there you go. You learn a new thing every day.
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Interesting. A search on the web would indicate that both 'Dom' and 'Don' are in use.
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Dude, that could be any bottle of Champagne. It's not that expensive.
Anyway - don't you mean 'Don' - as in Don Perignon? or is this some American slang for something we don't get over here?
It'd be nice if kdevelop didn't rely on gdb - it often takes 3-4 seconds just to step to the next line fer frick's sake! And that's not even in a big program!
I'm a bit surprised by your comments. 256Mb CF cards are now down to 24p/Mb (£60 from dabs.com), and I wonder how many of these you would need for a two week holiday. I'd imagine the average user would only get through one or two (depending on the size/quality of your photos). For instance, a 3mp picture at normal compression quality on my camera tends to come in at about 600k. I could fit >400 pictures on a single 256Mb CF card.
Even 'fine' quality jpegs are only around 1,200k - giving you 200 pictures/card.
If you're an avid photographer, I'd have thought you could spend the cash on a couple of 1Gb microdrives (£200/each).
I suppose if you want to store all your pictures uncompressed, you're looking at up to about 20Mb/picture, which is when current CF will not suffice, but then solutions to that problem already exist - see The Digital Wallet.
However, I don't think the number of people who will only take photos uncompressed is very high - I think CF works fine for the vast majority.
Perhaps I'm underestimating the number of photos an avid photgrapher would take in two weeks?
Technology loves to be free, but when it can be turned around and used to harm you, you need to think about to whom it is being given freely.
Just a shame that the government didn't think something similar in 1979/80 when it trained and armed a mercenary army in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union once it had lured them into its 'Afghan Trap'...
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The issue people have is not that they have to spend time learning something - it's that they have to spend time learning something that they shouldn't need to know.
Configuring Linux is *so* much harder than Windows - it's irritating that you have to expend all this effort getting Linux to work when Windows proves that it can be done much easier.
Learning is good. Learning unneccesary crap you're not interested in isn't.
I finished downloading it about five minutes before it appeared on Slashdot....
Here in the UK, most of the new TVs you see in the shops of any size (24"+) seem to be widescreen nowadays. Widescreen is certainly the way it is going over here now - the Free-to-air digital stuff nowadays is now broadcast in widescreen.
I don't know anybody who has bought a new 4:3 TV in the last few years.
I want a Yuko Yuko 1200. It'll be fine as long as I make sure there's no Fosters in the fridge.
Man, I can't belive a throwaway comment like that got modded up to 5... Jeebs.
That's it! CmdrTaco is viewing Slashdot on the screen of an iPod running Linux, which is why he never noticed that the story he's about to post was posted a couple of hours ago - the screen is too small to see them!
Man, I'm glad I haven't paid for a subscription...
Masters degrees vary around the world. They all have a large research element, but many have a considerable taught secion as well.
For instance, in the UK the Masters degree is a one-year course, about 2/3 taught and 1/3 research.
The Xbox has a fan - actually, it's quite noisy which can be irritating when you want to watch a DVD on it.
...boat.
or perhaps a sub.
Next, you'll be referring to your car as your PRIC (Personal Ride-In Carriage)...
Either that or you'll be talking about 'monetizing' the damn things. Makes me feel dirty just mentioning the word.
... I fell asleep after the first half!
For viewers in the UK, The Superbowl is being shown on Channel 5, starting at 11:05pm.
I watched it (for the first time) last year, my American fiancee explaining to me how American Football works. Unfortunately I fell asleep at the beginning of the second half - I'll try to do better this time...
I don't think there's any doubt that a large part of Sony's current dominance is due to it coming out much earlier than the other formats (although not completely - otherwise we'd all be playing on Dreamcasts...)
With the next generation, I think the battle will be much closer, and fought much more on who can get the most really kick-ass games out the quickest.
I think Sony will still have a fair advantage from having done so well in this generation, and as usual Microsoft will be at a disadvantage in Japan, but it's definitely going to be close...
The reason that this is useful is that until recently there hasn't been a standard image format for storing HDR files. There are a couple of formats that support floating point, but they're mainly 32bit/channel, which in most cases is overkill.
By providing a format specifically designed for HDR images, and providing a library and viewer for it, they will help enable VFX companies to share their data between companies and applications without reinventing the wheel every time.
Excellent! With current PDA calendar applications, you can tell it to remind you to do something at a particular time, whereas it'd be much more useful if it could remind you to do something in a particular place, or a combination of the two.
I'd like to be able to get it to remind me to do something 30 minutes after I've got home - it'd give me time to take my shoes off, sit down, and relax with a nice cup of tea before it starts to beep at me. It'd also be useful to be able to tell it to remind me to buy some milk when I walk past Tescos on my way home...
Well there you go. You learn a new thing every day.
Interesting. A search on the web would indicate that both 'Dom' and 'Don' are in use.
Dude, that could be any bottle of Champagne. It's not that expensive.
Anyway - don't you mean 'Don' - as in Don Perignon? or is this some American slang for something we don't get over here?
Then why not have a Federal Sales Tax?
2:00am - 5:00am GMT would seem much more reasonable.
What's that you say? that's 6pm - 9pm EST? Shame.
Come on. Move over to the dark side. Use Visual C++!
Amen to that!
It'd be nice if kdevelop didn't rely on gdb - it often takes 3-4 seconds just to step to the next line fer frick's sake! And that's not even in a big program!
I'm a bit surprised by your comments. 256Mb CF cards are now down to 24p/Mb (£60 from dabs.com), and I wonder how many of these you would need for a two week holiday. I'd imagine the average user would only get through one or two (depending on the size/quality of your photos). For instance, a 3mp picture at normal compression quality on my camera tends to come in at about 600k. I could fit >400 pictures on a single 256Mb CF card.
Even 'fine' quality jpegs are only around 1,200k - giving you 200 pictures/card.
If you're an avid photographer, I'd have thought you could spend the cash on a couple of 1Gb microdrives (£200/each).
I suppose if you want to store all your pictures uncompressed, you're looking at up to about 20Mb/picture, which is when current CF will not suffice, but then solutions to that problem already exist - see The Digital Wallet.
However, I don't think the number of people who will only take photos uncompressed is very high - I think CF works fine for the vast majority.
Perhaps I'm underestimating the number of photos an avid photgrapher would take in two weeks?
Technology loves to be free, but when it can be turned around and used to harm you, you need to think about to whom it is being given freely.
Just a shame that the government didn't think something similar in 1979/80 when it trained and armed a mercenary army in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union once it had lured them into its 'Afghan Trap'...
The article claims that he *is* using a Just-In-Time compiler. What makes you think otherwise?