There's plenty of room in a laptop to get in a full transmitter. My USB bluetooth dongle with the USB connector removed looks like it'd easily fit in one of the recesses under my laptop keyboard (an eeePC), and most of the dongle's circuit board is wasted space. Not sure about the storage though. Once they figure that out all they need to do is hide a signal repeater in the bushes outside.
I don't know what Linux world you're referring to, but XGL has been obsoleted by AIGLX for more than a year now... and the 3D part is only used for the 3D effects; all the work of drawing windows is still being done by 2D hardware.
To this day I still have one of those yellow octagonal pipes from the underwater set with a 2-unit-long x bar wedged in the top. I think it's somehow become welded at the molecular level. _Nothing_ I tried will get it out of there.
Another thing I found is that Lego blocks don't handle being left unattended near a fan heater very well.
The PC Showed Open Source Hardware Not Necessary That's true, you don't need open hardware when you have all of Compaq's reverse-engineering resources at your disposal.
SCART is probably the main reason HDTV isn't taking off in Europe (well, apart from the lack of content). When you've already got a VGA-quality RGB signal the cost of upgrading is harder to justify. In the US they've used S-Video since forever.
Some people swear by vinyl, I guess this is the same sort of thing.
If you have to use ctrl there, you'll have to use either ^C or ^Z as well. Better idea to use F2 instead.
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If they're going to write using XML, why not just use HTML? I've done it before, wrote everything in plain text, wrapped a few
tags around it then opened it in MS Word to print. It was easier to concentrate too since I didn't have to spend 10 minutes turning off the UI beforehand.
(and before anyone asks, I was only using Word because I had no choice over which software to print it with at the time... other than IE6)
So I might as well give a mention for Odamex, which is more or less Doom 2 with proper netplay (actually ZDoom with all the non-GPLable bits ripped out). I like Sauer and Nexuiz and all that, but the more features they pile on the more unplayable the framerate gets. I know my 9250's old, but seriously...
If you want to pick on filesystems, you should've made the point that windows is copying more and more features from unix ones as time goes on (hardlinks and mount points in NT2k, symlinks in vista...)
Becuase I have bittorrent installed to download Mandrake, I *MUST* have illegal things on my machine? Depends. Is the OS you're running bittorrent on the product of an illegal monopoly?
Nope, the biggest benefit is that they don't have a 5400rpm motor spinning up and down every time you want to get data out. That and the screen are what drain laptop batteries, the CPU these days is relatively efficient.
In that situation you can still use the task manager and the original windows 3.1 program/file managers. They might've stopped including those two after XP though, I dunno
(what's your CPU heatsink made of?) Copper. Feels like it weighs a ton too, despite being one-third the size of the stock aluminium one. It conducts heat good enough that on cold days I can safely yank the fan and have an almost silent system. Not bad considering it's a P4.
Very clever! Bottom level hardware that with software written by college undergrads. That's sure to move them up the security totem. You're calling the NSA college undergrads?
As someone said above, this is a good thing. While windows is still grinding along with these self-imposed limitations, Linux on the same hardware will fly. Start giving them 64-bit Ubuntu Live DVDs with all the heavy effects turned on and Vista is screwed.
My vote for best linux game goes to Odamex, on the basis that it's the only FPS I can get to run at a smooth framerate on my "obsolete" Pentium 4/radeon 9200 system, and the only online doom port I've seen that Just Works.
Now if only there were any people actually playing on the public servers...
The first thing I do when I'm forced to use windows is turn cleartype off. In doing this I realised the non-cleartype antialiasing option does _nothing at all_. Seriously. You just get jagged bitmap rendering as if you were using windows 95.
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Look on the bright side: 50 years from now, at least the US public will be in uproar over attempts to implement wiretap brain implants...
There's plenty of room in a laptop to get in a full transmitter. My USB bluetooth dongle with the USB connector removed looks like it'd easily fit in one of the recesses under my laptop keyboard (an eeePC), and most of the dongle's circuit board is wasted space. Not sure about the storage though.
Once they figure that out all they need to do is hide a signal repeater in the bushes outside.
I don't know what Linux world you're referring to, but XGL has been obsoleted by AIGLX for more than a year now... and the 3D part is only used for the 3D effects; all the work of drawing windows is still being done by 2D hardware.
Lego itself isn't perfect either.
To this day I still have one of those yellow octagonal pipes from the underwater set with a 2-unit-long x bar wedged in the top. I think it's somehow become welded at the molecular level. _Nothing_ I tried will get it out of there.
Another thing I found is that Lego blocks don't handle being left unattended near a fan heater very well.
SCART is probably the main reason HDTV isn't taking off in Europe (well, apart from the lack of content). When you've already got a VGA-quality RGB signal the cost of upgrading is harder to justify. In the US they've used S-Video since forever.
Some people swear by vinyl, I guess this is the same sort of thing.
If you have to use ctrl there, you'll have to use either ^C or ^Z as well. Better idea to use F2 instead.
tags around it then opened it in MS Word to print. It was easier to concentrate too since I didn't have to spend 10 minutes turning off the UI beforehand.
(and before anyone asks, I was only using Word because I had no choice over which software to print it with at the time... other than IE6)
So I might as well give a mention for Odamex, which is more or less Doom 2 with proper netplay (actually ZDoom with all the non-GPLable bits ripped out). I like Sauer and Nexuiz and all that, but the more features they pile on the more unplayable the framerate gets. I know my 9250's old, but seriously...
If you want to pick on filesystems, you should've made the point that windows is copying more and more features from unix ones as time goes on (hardlinks and mount points in NT2k, symlinks in vista...)
The alternative is to make that functionality part of the driver code. See also: TV-in Macrovision, Winmodems, Softmac wi-fi, ...
That's been dead since 2004 or earlier. The site was still up last time I checked, but the webcam shots are static jpegs.
This is probably completely wrong, but my guess is that they can only do that within Antigua.
On the other hand, the GPL only exists to weaken copyright in the first place since it wouldn't be necessary without it.
Actually they have - there are more people in the middle east fighting the dictatorship now than there ever were when Saddam was the dictator.
Nope, the biggest benefit is that they don't have a 5400rpm motor spinning up and down every time you want to get data out. That and the screen are what drain laptop batteries, the CPU these days is relatively efficient.
In that situation you can still use the task manager and the original windows 3.1 program/file managers. They might've stopped including those two after XP though, I dunno
As someone said above, this is a good thing. While windows is still grinding along with these self-imposed limitations, Linux on the same hardware will fly. Start giving them 64-bit Ubuntu Live DVDs with all the heavy effects turned on and Vista is screwed.
No, that's a link to Roland Piquepaille's splog.
My vote for best linux game goes to Odamex, on the basis that it's the only FPS I can get to run at a smooth framerate on my "obsolete" Pentium 4/radeon 9200 system, and the only online doom port I've seen that Just Works.
Now if only there were any people actually playing on the public servers...
That's more a testament to the poor design of the zune than anything positive.
The first thing I do when I'm forced to use windows is turn cleartype off. In doing this I realised the non-cleartype antialiasing option does _nothing at all_. Seriously. You just get jagged bitmap rendering as if you were using windows 95.
You know, in the 10 years I've had this game (Saturn and N64, I couldn't afford a PC back then), I never knew about that shrink trick.
Haven't found all the secrets in the first level either...