Excellent. One annoying feature down, it's amazing they don't put config options for things like this in a place where people can find it (ie, not typing about:config or opening.js files)
Your response did motivate me to search for another fix to another major annoying Firefox feature, the fact it doesn't show failed URLs, and I found this extension that fixes it: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/showfail edurl
That's going to be immediately installed on all my machines.
Now, if only we can get more companies to make their pages Firefox compatible. CSC, Strayer University (eCollege.com), I'm looking at you two.
And it still doesn't save the URL in the address bar as soon as you open a new window. ARGH! Makes fark.com viewing horrible, as each link opens in a new window. And if the server is down, the URL isn't saved, so you have no idea what URL you were looking at when you get a timeout error.
Anyhow, I still use it. Even though it's not supported by my company (can't do any intranet work with it), nor is it supported by my college for online courses. Crap, that's all I do, no wonder I still use IE a lot:D
Anyway, 25 million down, how far can this ball go?
People being celebrated for their intelligence and wit, and not their looks or physical attributes. Are we still in America? What happened here?
Anyone remember the episode of Sliders where Quinn (sp) was on the game show of extremely high level math and science questions (while throwing a ball). The perfect world for geeks:D
NEAR... far... wherever you are, I believe that your circuitry will go on Once more you ping at our door, and you're in our hearts, and our hearts will go on
You're here, there's nothing we fear, And I know that you're watching those pesky aliens from afar You'll stay forever this way, because the funding for this project, just went astray
We have a classroom environment in which we have 6 of these SmartBoards. They're so so, we really haven't put them to a lot of use. They work great, when properly configured. But, even when configured, the boundary lines usually go astray after awhile.
For example, we have the smart board in the center of the class, flanking it are two very large projector screens on the wall. They're two different sizes, so the image on the smart board is magnified to fit the projection. Well, the problem is that when you start drawing a box on the Smartboard, it'll fit on the smart board, but will start going outside the scope of the projection. A 2"x2" box appears 12"x12" on the smart board sometimes, sometimes it's smaller, it goes all over the place.
A straight line isn't always a straight line. A straight line drawn on the Smartboard will end up looking like a line at a 15* slope on the projection, so the whole image/text is askew.
And the eraser? Well, it works so-so. it doesn't always erase what's on the 'clipboard'. You can erase all the ink, but you constantly have to step back to look at the projection to see if there's still stuff in memory that wasn't erased, then feel around the board to try and erase it all.
Other than that, it works great... except it's hard, for an instructor, to have the steps in his mind of: pick up the black pen, write, put the pen back into the black slot, pick up the blue pen, write... etc. You have the urge write in black, then write in blue, then back in black, without putting the pens back in their respective slots, and that makes everything funny:)
The one problem I have with this is that it'll make it even easier for underhanded businesses to rip off their customers. AMD and Intel are already fighting that battle, where businesses sell overclocked CPUs to their customers, insisting that it's a 1.2Ghz instead of a 900Mhz@1.2Ghz. Now, how are we to know? How can we be sure that the 1.4Ghz we buy is really a 1.4Ghz and not just a 1Ghz that'll work at 1.4 (with lots of arctic silver and HSFs)
It's sad, just as Thief was tossed aside like an old toy, so has the name 'Ultima'. It used to mean a wonderous world of adventure, then it just turned into a moneypot. Richard Garriot was a genious of his own right. I remember watching a special on him about 6 years ago, where he designed his own house. Everything was in a medieval tone, and the place was filled with hidden passages and secret doors. This guy wasn't just in it for the money, he truely loved his work... then big bad EA came and gobbled him up, and spit him out like so many other companies.
Sigh
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If anyone has seen the Metal Gear: Solid Snake for Playstation, it revolved around this plot. Even had the DARPA Chief in it. Very interesting how fantasy and games now preceed real life by only a few years and months.
Well, besides that N64 has a controller that only a youth could use (and does use). Each has a different target audience, and different games for that audience. N64 is targeted towards pre-teens, has cutesy colors, cutesy games, that are sure not to offend many people. DreamCast is targeted for older teenagers and some adults, with more provocative games that cover a wide area of subjects. PSX and DC pretty much have the same target audience, though I think PSX tries to go for the more adult audience, that wants to sit and involve themselves into a game.
DC is selling in America, not in Japan. The Japanese don't want it for some reason. So Sega of Japan is dropping support. In the states, though, people are buying DC's up like crazy, so Sega of America will continue to support it.
There are many sites that try to be too general. Like, a website community for the elderly, or for mothers. Well, when you get that general, there are 2000+ other sites that gearing for the same audience. You have to specialize in a single field, that doesn't rely on age, and have it be one where people want to check frequently for more information or help. One that I like to participate in is for Ford Ranger owners. A site where anyone of any age or sex can just talk about trucks, speed, modifications, cops, etc. You want to keep visiting because you want to see what the newest products are, and the newest trends to incorporate on.
You have to create a community based around something that people have pride in, rather it be their vehicles, their computers (hardocp), their homes, their stereos, etc. Regular 'teen hangout' communities are dying by the wayside because they just throw a thousand people into the mix and let them bleah on forever.
Well, not that I question it, just trying to see it from eBay's point of view. I don't think that this is such a serious case that everyone is blowing it up to be. Some manager does a sql query, and sees a bunch of records 0'd out, and believes that it could have been caused by a system error.
Because I use eBay regularly, there are things I need from it, so I had yes to:
Listing Confirmations
Bid Notices
Outbid Notices
User Agreement Changes
Privacy Policy Changes
and Daily Status Reminders
Geez, as slashdotters that are worried about TOS and privacy policies, I'm surprised that it seems so many of you set "Privacy Policy Changes" and "User Agreement Changes" to NO! Maybe the management thought that something really was in error, because people either want to hear about their auction updates, or they want to hear about corporate changes that affect them. Someone not wanting to hear anything is a bit odd, I must say.
besides the anonymous users, mobile users, and unresolveable IPs. But VisualRoute has been out for awhile, and has been able to trace a map across the world to find out where the IP is located. Works pretty well too.
A blank computer? Isn't this the same as saying "What would you rather install, Windows or Linux"? Or maybe you meant any CD to load into a computer running his OS of choice, which would include games, etc?
That reports that SiS has been using partial-frame skipping in it's onboard video chipsets. While true that most serious buyers wouldn't buy such a mobo with an onboard video chipset, it does raise questions about SiS cheating at benchmarks to raise their value and reputation.
Or you could just go out and buy a 1Ghz TBird, and just let it gather dust in your box while you browse the web, like all the neighbors. But if you're a true geek, you don't want to be like the neighbors.
You want a machine that people will look at and say "WTF?!". You explain to them that it runs at 1Ghz. They say "So what, I just bought a 1Ghz TBird". "Well, yeah, but this CPU is only rated at 600Mhz." Then you show them the stacked peltiers, then 120mm card coolers, hard drive coolers, blue orb on the video card, then smack them in the head with a huge "I 0wn eWe" sticker.
On par, a Duron is probably 90% of the speed of it's equal speed Athlon brother, on the same mobo. But it's a great bargain to pick up a 600mhz Duron for $50 and easily overclock it to 900+Mhz with another $50 of cooling supplies. That's what makes you a geek, taking slow equipment and kicking faster machine's asses in frame rates.
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Excellent. One annoying feature down, it's amazing they don't put config options for things like this in a place where people can find it (ie, not typing about:config or opening
Your response did motivate me to search for another fix to another major annoying Firefox feature, the fact it doesn't show failed URLs, and I found this extension that fixes it:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/showfai
That's going to be immediately installed on all my machines.
Now, if only we can get more companies to make their pages Firefox compatible. CSC, Strayer University (eCollege.com), I'm looking at you two.
And it still doesn't save the URL in the address bar as soon as you open a new window. ARGH! Makes fark.com viewing horrible, as each link opens in a new window. And if the server is down, the URL isn't saved, so you have no idea what URL you were looking at when you get a timeout error.
:D
Anyhow, I still use it. Even though it's not supported by my company (can't do any intranet work with it), nor is it supported by my college for online courses. Crap, that's all I do, no wonder I still use IE a lot
Anyway, 25 million down, how far can this ball go?
And don't forget the Dept of Defense's Training Program: DCITP
People being celebrated for their intelligence and wit, and not their looks or physical attributes. Are we still in America? What happened here?
:D
Anyone remember the episode of Sliders where Quinn (sp) was on the game show of extremely high level math and science questions (while throwing a ball). The perfect world for geeks
NEAR ... far ... wherever you are,
I believe that your circuitry will go on
Once more you ping at our door,
and you're in our hearts, and our hearts will go on
You're here, there's nothing we fear,
And I know that you're watching those pesky aliens from afar
You'll stay forever this way,
because the funding for this project, just went astray
We have a classroom environment in which we have 6 of these SmartBoards. They're so so, we really haven't put them to a lot of use. They work great, when properly configured. But, even when configured, the boundary lines usually go astray after awhile.
... except it's hard, for an instructor, to have the steps in his mind of: pick up the black pen, write, put the pen back into the black slot, pick up the blue pen, write ... etc. You have the urge write in black, then write in blue, then back in black, without putting the pens back in their respective slots, and that makes everything funny :)
For example, we have the smart board in the center of the class, flanking it are two very large projector screens on the wall. They're two different sizes, so the image on the smart board is magnified to fit the projection. Well, the problem is that when you start drawing a box on the Smartboard, it'll fit on the smart board, but will start going outside the scope of the projection. A 2"x2" box appears 12"x12" on the smart board sometimes, sometimes it's smaller, it goes all over the place.
A straight line isn't always a straight line. A straight line drawn on the Smartboard will end up looking like a line at a 15* slope on the projection, so the whole image/text is askew.
And the eraser? Well, it works so-so. it doesn't always erase what's on the 'clipboard'. You can erase all the ink, but you constantly have to step back to look at the projection to see if there's still stuff in memory that wasn't erased, then feel around the board to try and erase it all.
Other than that, it works great
Just my experience...
The one problem I have with this is that it'll make it even easier for underhanded businesses to rip off their customers. AMD and Intel are already fighting that battle, where businesses sell overclocked CPUs to their customers, insisting that it's a 1.2Ghz instead of a 900Mhz@1.2Ghz. Now, how are we to know? How can we be sure that the 1.4Ghz we buy is really a 1.4Ghz and not just a 1Ghz that'll work at 1.4 (with lots of arctic silver and HSFs)
It looks like WebVan has been doomed to failure for months, thanks to their CEO (who gets out with a measly $375k a year).
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http://forum.fuckedcompany.com/fc/phparchives/sea
http://www.whowouldyoukill.com/sesamestreet.html Looks like everyone wants the bird dead on there :)
http://www.thesatyr.com/main.cfm?include=detail&st oryid=9430
They're dying left and right, hehe
I had read the message wrong, my bad. :D
Too many dot-com flop stories
It's sad, just as Thief was tossed aside like an old toy, so has the name 'Ultima'. It used to mean a wonderous world of adventure, then it just turned into a moneypot. Richard Garriot was a genious of his own right. I remember watching a special on him about 6 years ago, where he designed his own house. Everything was in a medieval tone, and the place was filled with hidden passages and secret doors. This guy wasn't just in it for the money, he truely loved his work... then big bad EA came and gobbled him up, and spit him out like so many other companies.
Sigh
If anyone has seen the Metal Gear: Solid Snake for Playstation, it revolved around this plot. Even had the DARPA Chief in it. Very interesting how fantasy and games now preceed real life by only a few years and months.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/09/22432
Well, besides that N64 has a controller that only a youth could use (and does use). Each has a different target audience, and different games for that audience. N64 is targeted towards pre-teens, has cutesy colors, cutesy games, that are sure not to offend many people. DreamCast is targeted for older teenagers and some adults, with more provocative games that cover a wide area of subjects. PSX and DC pretty much have the same target audience, though I think PSX tries to go for the more adult audience, that wants to sit and involve themselves into a game.
DC is selling in America, not in Japan. The Japanese don't want it for some reason. So Sega of Japan is dropping support. In the states, though, people are buying DC's up like crazy, so Sega of America will continue to support it.
Discovery Online has John Draper in their Hall of Fame. Gives some general information about him.
There's more information about him, EasyWriter, and his work at WebCrunchers.
There are many sites that try to be too general. Like, a website community for the elderly, or for mothers. Well, when you get that general, there are 2000+ other sites that gearing for the same audience. You have to specialize in a single field, that doesn't rely on age, and have it be one where people want to check frequently for more information or help. One that I like to participate in is for Ford Ranger owners. A site where anyone of any age or sex can just talk about trucks, speed, modifications, cops, etc. You want to keep visiting because you want to see what the newest products are, and the newest trends to incorporate on.
You have to create a community based around something that people have pride in, rather it be their vehicles, their computers (hardocp), their homes, their stereos, etc. Regular 'teen hangout' communities are dying by the wayside because they just throw a thousand people into the mix and let them bleah on forever.
Well, not that I question it, just trying to see it from eBay's point of view. I don't think that this is such a serious case that everyone is blowing it up to be. Some manager does a sql query, and sees a bunch of records 0'd out, and believes that it could have been caused by a system error.
Because I use eBay regularly, there are things I need from it, so I had yes to:
Listing Confirmations
Bid Notices
Outbid Notices
User Agreement Changes
Privacy Policy Changes
and Daily Status Reminders
Geez, as slashdotters that are worried about TOS and privacy policies, I'm surprised that it seems so many of you set "Privacy Policy Changes" and "User Agreement Changes" to NO! Maybe the management thought that something really was in error, because people either want to hear about their auction updates, or they want to hear about corporate changes that affect them. Someone not wanting to hear anything is a bit odd, I must say.
besides the anonymous users, mobile users, and unresolveable IPs. But VisualRoute has been out for awhile, and has been able to trace a map across the world to find out where the IP is located. Works pretty well too.
A blank computer? Isn't this the same as saying "What would you rather install, Windows or Linux"? Or maybe you meant any CD to load into a computer running his OS of choice, which would include games, etc?
Just found this link: http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_sis_ski pframes/
That reports that SiS has been using partial-frame skipping in it's onboard video chipsets. While true that most serious buyers wouldn't buy such a mobo with an onboard video chipset, it does raise questions about SiS cheating at benchmarks to raise their value and reputation.
Or you could just go out and buy a 1Ghz TBird, and just let it gather dust in your box while you browse the web, like all the neighbors. But if you're a true geek, you don't want to be like the neighbors.
You want a machine that people will look at and say "WTF?!". You explain to them that it runs at 1Ghz. They say "So what, I just bought a 1Ghz TBird". "Well, yeah, but this CPU is only rated at 600Mhz." Then you show them the stacked peltiers, then 120mm card coolers, hard drive coolers, blue orb on the video card, then smack them in the head with a huge "I 0wn eWe" sticker.
It's not trouble, it's satisfaction.
On par, a Duron is probably 90% of the speed of it's equal speed Athlon brother, on the same mobo. But it's a great bargain to pick up a 600mhz Duron for $50 and easily overclock it to 900+Mhz with another $50 of cooling supplies. That's what makes you a geek, taking slow equipment and kicking faster machine's asses in frame rates.