GNOME 2 has been forked as MATE by an Argentinian weeaboo, but it's still in a very early stage without much else than code migration and rebranding going on at the moment. Maybe more contributors will join in and help build a proper infrastructure for the project later, time will tell.
bsnes is an emulator that began development on 2004-10-14. The purpose of this emulator is a bit different from others: it focuses on accuracy, debugging functionality, and clean code.
The emulator does not focus on things that would hinder accuracy. This includes speed and game-specific hacks for compatibility. As a result, the minimum system requirements for bsnes are very high.
The emulator itself was not derived from any existing emulator source code, such as SNES9x. It was written from scratch by myself. Any similarities to other emulators are merely coincidental.
bsnes has some of the features you would expect in every modern emulator like save states, but it's not like you have to use them just because they're there - I don't. As for the games themselves, you could make a rule for yourself to only play games you own a physical copy of, but if you download a game and can't be bothered playing through it, that's most likely a sign that you don't find it worth your time. As for the controller; adapters aren't so expensive you couldn't afford one. I opted for buying a replica USB controller instead, as they can be had for about $10 in most electronics stores around where I live, and look and feel exactly like the real thing except they obviously don't have the SNES logo on them. That controller coupled with bsnes (and its 99.9% accure emulation) feels exactly like the real experience back in the days, except games don't look like shit when output to modern displays.
There are programs for making your system run slower in order to be able to play those games on modern hardware. I can't remember any titles right now, but remember using one last year for some Win95-era gaming.
And what's even better is that every phone can be bought without contract, and there are many companies providing sanely priced subscriptions to be used with them. I bought an Android phone, was online with it at all times, looked up stuff on the web whenever there was something I wanted to check out while on the go, and I always paid around 40 NOK (~$7) a month. Now that I'm not living in Norway I opted for a dumb phone to avoid having all my living expenses eaten up by large phone bills.
I've never used a photo organizer for anything but personal pictures, and recognize that different people have different needs. What you want is definitely not too much to ask for, but then again I don't feel like the application is ready for widespread use in its current state.
>Why just limit this to JPEGs? People have a lot of images from a lot of different
sources. It's foolish just to restrict an image manager just to one class of images
or a very narrow use case.
I completely agree with this, even though it may not have seemed so from what I wrote. The intended meaning was that I think it is a good idea to focus on developing features, rather than just dropping in support for all kinds of obscure formats, before the project is useful enough in itself. At that point adding in support for absolutely everything should be easily doable using their respective libraries.
Looking at Shotwell's dependencies, I can't actually see any image libraries in the list, but it depends on libwebkit. That seems like a really weird thing to do, unless it's for the functionality to publish to Facebook and other online sites.
As I wrote, at the current state the project seems like it still has a ways to go, and putting Shutwell in a distro as the default image organizer seems like a stupid thing to do for the time being. On the bright side, this will probably fuel development.
I would assume the purpose of the application is to handle the user's own photo library, and how many digital cameras store photos in the PNG format? The software's initial release happened less than a year ago, and I respect their decision to focus on developing useful features instead of just adding support for every obscure format. Raws, on another hand...
Ran the thing over here, and it seems to work fine. Going fullscreen and back doesn't cause any problems, so I that might be a problem with old libraries on the current Ubuntu. It does however not seem like there's any way to zoom into pictures, and having separated date and event views would indeed be good, but being able to do background imports is at least one feature improvement over F-Spot. The application doesn't feel bloated either.
Let's just hope Shotwell will improve at a steady pace, because it'd be good to finally get rid of F-Spot. They might want to make it able to import F-Spot libraries to ease migration, like most web browsers are doing.
Japanese use domestic anonymous software almost exclusively. After Winny came Share, attempting to solve the security issues of its predecessor, but Share's security system was cracked by some anti-file sharing organisation. Currently under heavy development is perfect dark, but there aren't many regular users of this software yet.
Banjo Kazooie had a glaring flaw where you had to collect all 100 notes in a level on one life. I thought that was brilliant, raising the difficulty level way up! It took hours, but I still thought it was well worth the time once I got all 100 of them.
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Is this an attempt at a joke, or are you just unable to read?
GNOME 2 has been forked as MATE by an Argentinian weeaboo, but it's still in a very early stage without much else than code migration and rebranding going on at the moment. Maybe more contributors will join in and help build a proper infrastructure for the project later, time will tell.
Although in reality it's more like GNOME 3: ???
Try setting keyword.URL's value in about:config to "http://www.google.com/search?q=".
This is about making a game engine to ease development with WebGL, not the shit-flying-in-your-face kind of 3D.
So when exactly did Apple put 68K and PowerPC emulation into the iPad?
Not when accessing a misspelled domain name, but being the first connection to a new server, SSH would ask if it should add the keys to known_hosts.
That's horrible, on my subscription I pay $0.18/MB and still think it's too much.
Except for the MSX ports of the first two games in the series, Dragon Quest has always been on consoles/handhelds.
To quote the author:
bsnes has some of the features you would expect in every modern emulator like save states, but it's not like you have to use them just because they're there - I don't. As for the games themselves, you could make a rule for yourself to only play games you own a physical copy of, but if you download a game and can't be bothered playing through it, that's most likely a sign that you don't find it worth your time. As for the controller; adapters aren't so expensive you couldn't afford one. I opted for buying a replica USB controller instead, as they can be had for about $10 in most electronics stores around where I live, and look and feel exactly like the real thing except they obviously don't have the SNES logo on them. That controller coupled with bsnes (and its 99.9% accure emulation) feels exactly like the real experience back in the days, except games don't look like shit when output to modern displays.
There are programs for making your system run slower in order to be able to play those games on modern hardware. I can't remember any titles right now, but remember using one last year for some Win95-era gaming.
Portal 2 hasn't even been released over here yet, so PS3 owners should know what to expect in advance.
Lastpass is available as a Chrome extension, and works just fine.
Except if you care about securing your passwords, apparently.
It's the same browser as Chromium with a few options being hardcoded instead of being user-selectable. http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam
Perhaps caused by minor hard drive damage caused by relocating the system while under power?
I would assume he's talking about a power failure leaving him without electricity, not a hard drive getting busted up.
No, they were used by the Germans as well as other countries.
And what's even better is that every phone can be bought without contract, and there are many companies providing sanely priced subscriptions to be used with them. I bought an Android phone, was online with it at all times, looked up stuff on the web whenever there was something I wanted to check out while on the go, and I always paid around 40 NOK (~$7) a month. Now that I'm not living in Norway I opted for a dumb phone to avoid having all my living expenses eaten up by large phone bills.
According to PS3-Hacks, only the menu items for trophies, save data, etc were missing, and the hacker has apparently already released an update fixing this bug. http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2011/01/04/ps3-custom-firmware-creator-released-permanently-add-install-pkgs-to-the-xmb/
Did you even read the mail they sent him? Sony were being extremely nice about the whole thing.
I've never used a photo organizer for anything but personal pictures, and recognize that different people have different needs. What you want is definitely not too much to ask for, but then again I don't feel like the application is ready for widespread use in its current state.
>Why just limit this to JPEGs? People have a lot of images from a lot of different sources. It's foolish just to restrict an image manager just to one class of images or a very narrow use case.
I completely agree with this, even though it may not have seemed so from what I wrote. The intended meaning was that I think it is a good idea to focus on developing features, rather than just dropping in support for all kinds of obscure formats, before the project is useful enough in itself. At that point adding in support for absolutely everything should be easily doable using their respective libraries.
Looking at Shotwell's dependencies, I can't actually see any image libraries in the list, but it depends on libwebkit. That seems like a really weird thing to do, unless it's for the functionality to publish to Facebook and other online sites.
As I wrote, at the current state the project seems like it still has a ways to go, and putting Shutwell in a distro as the default image organizer seems like a stupid thing to do for the time being. On the bright side, this will probably fuel development.
I would assume the purpose of the application is to handle the user's own photo library, and how many digital cameras store photos in the PNG format? The software's initial release happened less than a year ago, and I respect their decision to focus on developing useful features instead of just adding support for every obscure format. Raws, on another hand...
Ran the thing over here, and it seems to work fine. Going fullscreen and back doesn't cause any problems, so I that might be a problem with old libraries on the current Ubuntu. It does however not seem like there's any way to zoom into pictures, and having separated date and event views would indeed be good, but being able to do background imports is at least one feature improvement over F-Spot. The application doesn't feel bloated either.
Let's just hope Shotwell will improve at a steady pace, because it'd be good to finally get rid of F-Spot. They might want to make it able to import F-Spot libraries to ease migration, like most web browsers are doing.
But they do have a pile of great old games which they refuse to put on Virtual Console.
Japanese use domestic anonymous software almost exclusively. After Winny came Share, attempting to solve the security issues of its predecessor, but Share's security system was cracked by some anti-file sharing organisation. Currently under heavy development is perfect dark, but there aren't many regular users of this software yet.