The "scare tactic for the next election" thing strikes me as a bit funny, too. He's got three years to go, and I doubt hyping bioterrorism until Nov 2004 will be extremely effective with the public. And remember, GHW Bush was very popular coming out of the Gulf War, and did that get him another term?
if i remember correctly
this acronym bugs the shit out of me too. I don't know why. maybe it's because I would typically use "as I recall" in its place.
Hrm, guess that means that every company that ships a newsreader or programs like this should be under investigation right now.
Trafficking a circumvention device, right?
Not to mention what they could do to C|Net for LINKING to these implements of mass destruction!
Gorilla, you've made a great point I haven't seen anywhere else.
I just picked up "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes" at a meatspace Barnes and Noble for US$5.99. That's 259 pages. Every three pages has 6 normal strips and 1 full-page Sunday strip. That makes roughly 604 comics in the book. 5.99/604==$.0099.
I realize that's not assigning any extra value to the Sunday strip but it's also not counting the intangibles like being able to hold the book and read in on the plane, and as you said owning it forever and being able to resell it.
Online media needs to realize that, believe it or not, it does have to obey the same economic principles as everyone else.
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, one were to realize that he/she may have left the dnet client running on one or more PCs he/she was administering at a previous place of employment.
What would be the proper way for that person to cover his/her ass?
You misunderstood me. I meant I have 256 MB total, 35 of which is being taken up by Moz. But I'm still using 148 total. But that's only with Moz, AIM, the distributed.net client, and Norton AV plus some misc TSRs. I wonder, does Win98 suck that much?
Actually, I was referring to the bizarre documentation, not the pre-loading of code. I love Mozilla (I'm using it now, and I have been for at least a year), but 1) One does not typically see options like that show up in the install program, and 2) since apparently that option had to be set so that it could make the right startup link, I would expect the option to be better documented, and referred to in a consistent manner.
Quick launch (AKA "turbo") merely preloads mozilla at startup so when you start mozilla for the first time it seems faster. In reality this is just an illusion, don't let it placate you, demand a better solution!
Heheh, yeah. "You there! Mozilla developers! I demand faster code! Post-haste! Rapidement! NOW!" If only it worked that way.
I am completely sympathetic to their situation, but still, it's little details like this that make me remember that this is a volunteer effort and not a professional project.
why they called it Quick Launch in the program and Turbo Mode in the release notes is beyond me.
But I rebooted and shore nuff, Windows took forever to load, I'm down 34 megs of RAM (out of 256), and starting up mozilla is just like hitting CTRL-N for a new window.
The true test will be whether or not it effects my Quake game.
The Win32 installer is giving me a checkbox "When possible, use Quick Launch for faster startup times"
Anyone know what this does? A seach of mozilla.org turned up nothing. Having to choose stuff like this inside the installer pisses me off, because I can't get to the help yet to find out what the fsck it does.
I mean, hey, I'm all about faster startups (ahem), but if it's an opt-in kind of thing rather than opt-out (and the fact than some people apparently wouldn't want it), that makes me kinda nervous.
* On Windows, you can now permanently delete your Imported IE Favorites folder.
I'm a bookmark control-freak, and this bug irritated me to no end.
P.S. Can we declare all "Konq/Galleon/Opera/IE/NCSA Mosaic/Lynx/fuckall is better than Moz" posts to be redundant right off the bat, unless they're discussing features specific to this build?
We've heard it all before, guys, now let us read our SlashMeat in peace.
Just so you know the guy's not completely smoking crack (from the RIT website, he even gives a link from his page): Rit Dye is manufactured and guaranteed primarily for tinting and dyeing washable textile fabrics. It is, however, effective for coloring many types of vinyl or plastic articles, such as jewelry (simulated pearls), buttons, rivets, and eyeglass frames, etc.
So there you go. But there are definitely paints much better suited to the task.
Considering what their routers cost, I'm surprised Cisco doesn't give you a dedicated journaling drive. Guess they don't fail often enough to justify anything that elaborate
Hard drives fail too often to justify anything that elaborate.
Maybe this time they won't have you kill off Hitler in only the 3rd of 6 misssions.
And hopefully they'll keep all the german sound bites for when the guards die, etc. "Schutzstaffel!" Bang! "Mein Leiben!"
That was my sole reason for owning a Soundblaster.
One more thing I notice right away from the screenshots is that they've gone and made the world all dark and depressing like Doom and Quake was. Wolf3D was kinda cool in that all the rooms were brightly lit, of course that was cause there was only one brightness level throughout the game...
No room for individual artistic talent (in their minds) because you can do something exactly the same, over and over, and another person can sit down and make the exact same thing, in every way identical.
What's funny is that Roy Lichtenstein actually addressed this in the 1960s...
See Image Duplicator.
I may have been 14 at the time, but I really felt that Nintendo created some characters you could get attached to in that RPG. I mean, I actually cared about Marin, and when you returned the ghost to his home he said "Boo hoo, boo hoo, nostalgia," and the ending just made me say "woah. that was cool."
Ok, like I said, I was maybe 14 at the time;-)
But there were definitely a few in-jokes scattered around. Like putting Will Wright in. And, of course, the swarm of chickens.
You can criticize Nintendo for not going with a optical or other format for their games
I sure wouldn't. Having to stick a CD player on the back would make it a lot bulkier and decrease the battery life.
Although having it double as a CD player (or even VCDs or -dare I say?- DVDs?) would be kinda cool, I think backwards compatibility with old Gameboy games is a nice touch. I still have fond memories of playing that Legend of Zelda game where he gets stuck on the island...
Actually, it just occurred to me that what would be *really* cool would be if Nintendo released "memory stick"-type cartridges that you could load with mp3s. Now THAT I would put down $100 for!
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it was supposed to be
"the geek shall inherit the earth"
I'll contact Jesus about this ASAP.
The "scare tactic for the next election" thing strikes me as a bit funny, too. He's got three years to go, and I doubt hyping bioterrorism until Nov 2004 will be extremely effective with the public. And remember, GHW Bush was very popular coming out of the Gulf War, and did that get him another term?
if i remember correctly
this acronym bugs the shit out of me too. I don't know why. maybe it's because I would typically use "as I recall" in its place.
Hrm, guess that means that every company that ships a newsreader or programs like this should be under investigation right now.
Trafficking a circumvention device, right?
Not to mention what they could do to C|Net for LINKING to these implements of mass destruction!
Benefit also gets props for doing a track like Warp to World 6-9 and for doing the PE remix for Napster last year.
Is "Nerdcore Hiphop" a real genre yet? (Are 2 Skinnee J's considered hiphop?)
again, probably no connection, but draw whatever conclusions you like.
I just picked up "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes" at a meatspace Barnes and Noble for US$5.99. That's 259 pages. Every three pages has 6 normal strips and 1 full-page Sunday strip. That makes roughly 604 comics in the book. 5.99/604==$.0099.
I realize that's not assigning any extra value to the Sunday strip but it's also not counting the intangibles like being able to hold the book and read in on the plane, and as you said owning it forever and being able to resell it.
Online media needs to realize that, believe it or not, it does have to obey the same economic principles as everyone else.
What would be the proper way for that person to cover his/her ass?
Actually, I wasn't being completely serious. But it would be great if they did.
that'll scare em for sure. china needs most favored nation status so that they can export all their goods to the US.
You misunderstood me. I meant I have 256 MB total, 35 of which is being taken up by Moz. But I'm still using 148 total. But that's only with Moz, AIM, the distributed.net client, and Norton AV plus some misc TSRs. I wonder, does Win98 suck that much?
Actually, I was referring to the bizarre documentation, not the pre-loading of code. I love Mozilla (I'm using it now, and I have been for at least a year), but 1) One does not typically see options like that show up in the install program, and 2) since apparently that option had to be set so that it could make the right startup link, I would expect the option to be better documented, and referred to in a consistent manner.
Heheh, yeah. "You there! Mozilla developers! I demand faster code! Post-haste! Rapidement! NOW!" If only it worked that way.
I am completely sympathetic to their situation, but still, it's little details like this that make me remember that this is a volunteer effort and not a professional project.
But I rebooted and shore nuff, Windows took forever to load, I'm down 34 megs of RAM (out of 256), and starting up mozilla is just like hitting CTRL-N for a new window.
The true test will be whether or not it effects my Quake game.
Thanks again for all the responses. Cheers.
Anyone know what this does? A seach of mozilla.org turned up nothing. Having to choose stuff like this inside the installer pisses me off, because I can't get to the help yet to find out what the fsck it does.
I mean, hey, I'm all about faster startups (ahem), but if it's an opt-in kind of thing rather than opt-out (and the fact than some people apparently wouldn't want it), that makes me kinda nervous.
I'm a bookmark control-freak, and this bug irritated me to no end.
P.S. Can we declare all "Konq/Galleon/Opera/IE/NCSA Mosaic/Lynx/fuckall is better than Moz" posts to be redundant right off the bat, unless they're discussing features specific to this build?
We've heard it all before, guys, now let us read our SlashMeat in peace.
Thanks.
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Have you got anything without spam?
Rit Dye is manufactured and guaranteed primarily for tinting and dyeing washable textile fabrics. It is, however, effective for coloring many types of vinyl or plastic articles, such as jewelry (simulated pearls), buttons, rivets, and eyeglass frames, etc.
So there you go. But there are definitely paints much better suited to the task.
Maybe there IS room for MSFT in the game market!
Hard drives fail too often to justify anything that elaborate.
And hopefully they'll keep all the german sound bites for when the guards die, etc. "Schutzstaffel!" Bang! "Mein Leiben!"
That was my sole reason for owning a Soundblaster.
One more thing I notice right away from the screenshots is that they've gone and made the world all dark and depressing like Doom and Quake was. Wolf3D was kinda cool in that all the rooms were brightly lit, of course that was cause there was only one brightness level throughout the game...
What's funny is that Roy Lichtenstein actually addressed this in the 1960s...
See Image Duplicator.
maybe you should've gone to MIT? Their standards seem MUCH more relaxed:
http://fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu/
"The home of iconoclasm on the MIT web."
Ok, like I said, I was maybe 14 at the time ;-)
But there were definitely a few in-jokes scattered around. Like putting Will Wright in. And, of course, the swarm of chickens.
I sure wouldn't. Having to stick a CD player on the back would make it a lot bulkier and decrease the battery life.
Although having it double as a CD player (or even VCDs or -dare I say?- DVDs?) would be kinda cool, I think backwards compatibility with old Gameboy games is a nice touch. I still have fond memories of playing that Legend of Zelda game where he gets stuck on the island...
Actually, it just occurred to me that what would be *really* cool would be if Nintendo released "memory stick"-type cartridges that you could load with mp3s. Now THAT I would put down $100 for!