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Re:...And one generation behind on HTML5
In recent years I use Opera, FF and Chrome at the same time, for different sites.
Your statement about NoScript and AdBlock is not well founded. Yes, you will not find plugins with such names for Opera. That is because this functionality in bundled within Opera - just works a bit differently (it happened to be in Opera way before Mozilla provided it).
To turn off scripts of plugins just press F12 and check needed options.
To block execution of scripts on selected site, right click on the page (page itself, not on flash content or other plugins) and go into site preferences. you could set whether use javascript, plugins, sounds and cookies for that page.
As for blocking ads - right click on the page and go into "block content".
(excuse me it the labels are named differently, I use localised version).
The functionality that I miss in Opera is FF plugin called Foxtrick used for Hattick game.
I'm not advocate for Opera, as there are things that irritate me: memory use like hog, 10.X works actually slower than 7.X and 8.X.
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Re:Second Life HypeThere are currently 36,511 users currently logged into SecondLife right now. Somewhat hard to call that 'no one'. That's quite a lot, but it still pales in comparison to many online games.
Soccer sim Hattrick http://www.hattrick.org/ usally has more than that (not right now, it has 13.000 because it's 2 am in Europe but on weekends and Wednesdays, it reaches 50.000 users simultaneously connected).
I don't play it, but according to this site, World of Warcraft reaches 200.000 simultaneous users!!! and for all I know it could reach millions... http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/kirriemuir/12k irriemuir.html
Other games I know of like Magic Online also have 10.000 to 15.000 users online at certain times, and googling showed EVE Online can have 50.000. -
Re:They should have went with....
From a different point of view, they already did.
see http://hattrick.org/ as a very good soccer MMO, or http://www.charazay.com/ for a b-ball equivalent
The most important thing is still the community: you have to give people way to interact beyond the game, else it's only a ten day love and nothing else.
Creating bonds between players creates resident players (I've been playing hattrick for a couple of years and I NEVER thought about quitting, even after sore defeats.) -
Hattrick
There is really good free football game. That sound like little like that. You shoud have a look . I have played it sometime and I'm loving it.
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Hattrick
My favorite game is a online soccer management game, Hattrick.
They have the right model: playing it is absolutely free and will remain free. Besides that, you can become "supporter", for about 20 Euro per year. Supporter gives you some extras - a guestbook and logo at your team's page, very handy bookmarks, lots of statistics - but nothing that will help you with the game. Supporter is fun, but doesn't give an advantage inside the game.
Hattrick has about 150,000 players and is expanding rapidly. Around 10%, perhaps a bit more, are supporter. This is enough for them to make a small profit.
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Hattrick.org
Another quite popular Football (soccer) game.
Actually I think it's the largest online game of that kind right now. I enjoy it. Give it a try.
Find it here: Hattrick.org
The best thing about it is that it runs in real time, a week in the game is a week real-time. Two matches a week (cup/training and series) and a 14 week long season. Finally a game that I can play that doesn't require me to be logged in 3-4 times/day.
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Web games
Who needs to download games, there are lots of good free online games. I play Hattrick, a soccer manager game.
It's much easier to play these during work too, and it's automatically networked multiplayer
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Re:EMI just did the same with the new Robbie WilliYeah?
Can I make(or get) an
If this is the case I'd love to buy the new format. I don't mind copy protection, but I and _NOT_ the record companies should decide when and where I listen to the music I bought.
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I agree but......what about the music that we already bought. I want the CD. I enjoy it, but I also want my mp3/ogg/whatever. Since they copy-protect their cd's, will they make "my" music downloadable for me for free, or do I have to pay again to download music that I already bought once?
I think it's great that they listen to us customers, but I'm not convinced yet.
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But but but...This weekend I bought a CD. It was copy-controlled and as such unplayable on my Linux-machine. It had some windows-player that was supposed to play the cd if I had put it in a Win-machine. But naturally it wouldn't let me create mp3's from it.
My question (that's actually related to this topic) is, "What should I use the portable mp3-player for?".
Since all record companies are doing their best to prevent me from transfering my legally purchased music to this player, what is it good for?
Won't the mp3-players be as useless as a betamax-player for the general public, as the copy-controlled cd's becomes more and more common?
That raises another interesting question. How long will Sony or any other large company that makes mp3-players stand for this? If people can't use the players then they won't buy it, which would hurt Sony's sales.
I'm sure someone can write some insightful comments about this.
Oh, and I returned the CD. I'm not buying broken products. And I made sure that the store understood that the failed sale was due to the record companies bad customer policy.
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Re:The Big Red Button...I have a similar story. The manager of a company where I was hired brought his two children (4 and 6) to work one day. To show them some cool things he brought them into the server room and they promptly ran off and turned the key to all SUN's they could find the moment he turned his head away.
I think it took a full 20 seconds from shutdown to a techie with a high pulse entered the room.
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Historical turningpoint?I just thought about someone saying that somewere, when you look back in history, you can see some historical turningpoint where tings just went wrong or right.
One small such point is when IBM gave out the specs to their hardware for PC allowing everyone to clone it, while Apple did not.
This could be such a point. Maybe in 10 years we'll look back at this and ask ourselves "Why the heck did MS XML-enable their Office app, releasing the hold that they had"
Only time will tell I guess.
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Re:Not everyone is a Linux experthttp://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/
The little box on the left "What's that site running". Type in your URL or (public) IP there and see for yourself.
It's fairly accurate.
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Re:I'm still waiting on PHPThis is what we do actually. I should have been more clear about it. Thanks for pointing it out though.
And as someone noticed bewow, this is a known problem with solaris.
It was a while since I tinkered with it. It is solaris after all, it's solid as a rock.
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RIAA likes mp3?Taken from RIAA's site, once I got in.
What is your stand on MP3?
This is one of those urban myths like alligators in the toilet. MP3 is just a technology and the technology itself never did anything wrong! There are lots of legal MP3s from great artists on many, many online sites. The problem is that some people use MP3 to take one copy of an album and make that copy available on the Internet for hundreds of thousands of people. That's not fair. If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail.
So why do they go out of their way to make sure I can't rip my CD^H^H "blank shiny CD-lookalike disc" to mp3 or other format?
Wankers.
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Re:Napster?!?Not quite true if I remember correctly. There was something called Wrapster that "wrapped" software, images and movies as mp3's to allow napster to find it.
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Re:Silent running...
"The problem with this is that pedestrians keep stepping off the pavement (sidewalk) right in front of me (as in, someone did it yesterday)."
"I know you are supposed to actually look before you cross the road, but people just don't."
Don't worry. Darwin will take care of this. Always has always will.
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Addictive web-game
One highly addictive webgame is HatTrick, a soccer manager game. It bases it success (constantly 1500 users logged in) on a very strong community and a stable continuity.
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Re:Suggestion
I dont think so since sourceforge is for open source development and last time I checked they had atleast some portions of their code closed to prevent people from cheating.
I could be wrong though and I'm sure someone will point that out if so. Perhaps you could have some parts closed even on sourceforge.
Soccer manager: Hattrick
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I did this.
While I was still in school I did just this. I set up a few filters that would put their email on hold for 3 days (or something) unless they sent another mail with a password. If noone responded within 3 days the email wouldn't reach me.
You wouldnt believe how many ppl mailed me back telling me I was an insensitive bastard and a lot of other things.
I applied this policy to everyone (even mailinglists I'm afraid) but since this was a one time mailing, unless they didnt send the pwd and got put on the white-list, I figured ppl wouldnt mind.
Anyhow, spam mails dissapeared during my little experiment, unfortunatly so did a few email-friends.
.haeger
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Re:To pay or not to pay...
"Windows has this Add/Remove program feature, how about extending this to Add/Remove/Pay."
I think that feature already exists. Isn't it called passport?
You install some shareware and MS uses your credit-card to pay for it?
OK, bad joke. Ill go stand in the corner now.
.haeger
Play Soccer: Hattrick
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dot-coms?
Isnt this just another company that goes belly-up because they weren't making money in the first place? I believe that most companies (dot-coms) crashed because they thought that a nasdaq ticker would be some kind of miracle cure that would make money for them.
There are a few linux companes that does quite well and will continue to do so. Many hasn't gone public, and have no plans to do so, since they don't need money to expand or whatever.
First make money, then go public. You have a much better chance then.
But then, what the hell do I know?
.haeger
Soccer on the web: Hattrick
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Re:I totally agree...
"which would certainly increase their user base."
Are you suggesting that MS needs a larger user base? Surely you must be joking.
Football on the web: Hattrick
Cure cancer: Join team 249
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You get what you pay for?
When I buy something I expect it to be functional, secure, nice and shiny. Hell, I spent money on the damn thing. Ofcause you/they should be responsible for the things you/they sell.
Open source or closed, if I spend money on it then they would have to give me my money back if it doesn't perform as it should.
.haeger
Football on the web? Hattrick is good fun.
Cancer is not fun. Help here. Join Team Sweden (249) and show that you care.