I've only been reading about the exact same crap for the past few years on slashdot. Is there anything more to this site than "is open source software ready yet?" Duplicate stories of stuff actually worth talking about is one thing, but hasn't this topic been covered way too many times for even moderately interesting discussion?
Talk about selective reading. Let's try looking over what PFI_Optix wrote again, eh?
Why I don't...use Linux as my primary OS: Because documentation is weak, support is nonexistent, and the interfaces--until recently--have not been nearly as intuitive as Windows and Mac OS. The biggest problem is documentation and support. I know dozens of people who have installed Linux, played with it some, and found themselves unable to do what they want to do and unable to find out how. They can't even find out how to get help inside the OS, and the only support they can get is via community forums, which are notorious for not answering tough or oft-repeated questions. Windows puts a "Help and support" link right in the start menu, making it a lot more user-friendly in that sense...use OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office: Let's start with an example. In OOo, start a blank document. Do the same in Word. Now let's change both pages to landscape format.
OOo: Click file...hmm...no "page setup". Let's try properties. Nope. How about printer settings...not there either. Okay, try the help index. Type "landscape" and choose the "landscape and portrait" section. It says go to Format -> Styles and Formatting, then create a new style, set it as landscape, name it, and save it. I notice as I go into the format menu that there's a "Page" option which lets me set the document to landscape like I want about as quickly as Word does.
I went through this very process when a user asked me how to do that when we switched to OpenOffice. Now, OOo *has* an easy-to-use landscape option, but it's not where Word puts it and it's not in the documentation when you type "landscape".
Are you sure it's wise to talk about the valuation of the Canadian dollar versus the US dollar? As an American living in Montreal, I can tell you the US dollar sucks right now.
Don't forget that Internet Explorer isn't a moving target. Firefox is in constant development and releases are being made at fairly regular intervals, thus there are bound to be bugs. Has Internet Explorer seen any development in the last few years other than just bugfixes (not including IE7)?
to your user.js file in your profile. It gets rid of that annoying 10 second (sometimes more) wait you often see when you maximize your browser window from a long rest. Not sure it's necessary on Linux, but on Windows I've found it to be truly great.
Of course, only use it if you can spare the memory.
LiteOn DVD burners have a major problem with DVD-R media, in my experience. I have to verify EVERYTHING I burn with my remaining DVD-R media. All the +R stuff I get works the first time, and it's not even TY, just RICOHJPN (which is admittedly not too bad). So either you are using -R media, your drive is bad, or your media is iffy (hard to believe for TY).
William Langewiesche in his _American Ground_ set of Atlantic Magazine articles (Aug-Oct 2002) writes that it wasn't so much the jet fuel that caused the collapse of the towers, but all the paper inside them. It's been a while since I've read the articles, so I don't remember all the particulars, but dig them up if you are interested in the scenario.
I usually buy Riteks too. Sure, there are better buys, but for the money these are pretty good. I only buy +R, because they can be bitset to DVD-ROM, bypassing all those problems that some people have with their standalone players not playing DVD+R or DVD-R.
It would be funny if we battled Ashcroft with kindness. Instead of making him go through the trouble of getting court orders and warrants and all that stuff that gets in the way of fighting TERRORISTS, why don't we all just send our IM conversations and weblogs and cookie recipes and emails to our penile growth supplement supplier to him. Get the whole tech community to send all this information in both electronic and physical form to the good ol' DOJ. I was thinking about getting some new carpeting for my room, maybe I should send some color samples to Ashcroft and see what he thinks would fit best.
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Eeek, just seconds after posting this I got a nosedive of 491.9.
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Good job. My numbers seem to indicate the same:
593.5148.6
and the nose-dive distance of:
491.8
Check out this altered version of the game:
Penguin batting
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An understandable concern, but if you read the webpage I linked to it specifically states that Spyware Blaster doesn't run in the background. Spyware Guard does which is why I don't use it -- I also don't like having too many processes running in the background.
I'd like to add Spywareblaster to this list also. It, from what I understand, prevents the installation of most of these spyware and adware programs. I like to use Adaware, Search and Destroy, and Spyware Blaster together. All free too.
Spyware Blaster
I tried it in Netcaptor which is based on Internet Explorer--the page opened and the error message popped up, but Netcaptor kept on chugging. It's really a great browser. Offtopic, but when is Mozilla/Firebird going to incorporate something similar to Captorgroups. And don't even mention that multiple bookmarks on startup, that's not the same thing. Captorgroups are much more versatile.
I agree that RPG's require a large variety of weapons/skills/characters and blah blah. An often overlooked console RPG that in my opinion blew many out of the water was Star Ocean: The Second Story. The story of the game was pretty boring and typical, but hell. There was so much to do! The item creation, while simple, provided many hours of enjoyment. Some of the best items could only be made through metallurgy, blacksmithing, etc. Alchemy could either be totally useless or essential depending on one's playing style.
Also, Star Ocean actually had FUN combat. You know the kind where you can actually have fun? Morrowind is often hyped as the greatest CRPG, but I personally found it absolutely lifeless. Characters were stagnant. They didn't have schedules. Hell, even Ultima 5 had NPC schedules, and that was released in 1988 or so. Morrowind's combat was absolutely beyond horribly boring. Yeah, blah, some people say role-playing is what Morrowind is about but hell...at least make role-playing fun. What if I want to role-play a fighter? Sorry, extreme boredom in that department. Morrowind could have been good and I was one of the most eager to look forward to it. Hmm, I think this turned into a Morrowind rant. Star Ocean's combat, on the other hand, was real-time or semi-real time, involved using lots of different items, required skill at certain points in the game, and was FUN! Hell, it had some of the hardest bosses ever in any game... although there are somewhat cheap ways to beat them, but even so it takes 15 minutes to do so. The only other game that had hard bosses like that was Final Fantasy 5 (Omega and Shinryu, I don't even bother with them).
What a rant this is. Generally, when I think of a great CRPG, I point to Ultima 7. It's combat lacked, but in every other regard it beats all CRPGs since. Sure, certain games do minor things better, but Ultima 7 overall ruled. Star Ocean is simply the best console RPG for those who like tweaking and combat and pure fun. The secret dungeon was a blast. Hmm, I could go for Star Ocean with a dungeon where the enemies scaled in strength. Now that would be fun. Reach floor 100 and boom. Great game.
I agree. I actually found a newer game called Divine Divinity that is pretty good and probably the most Ultima 7-ish RPG released in the last 10 years. It doesn't have NPC schedules and a party, though, setting it back quite a ways. Still, if you are interested in decent modern RPGs, Divine Divinity is pretty damned good.
What's the fun in that? One time I got Serpent Isle to work with BOTH sound and music in DOS. I'm probably one of just a handful of people that accomplished this massive feat. Heh, when I walked by girls at school, I could feel their eyes gleaming in awe. They called me the Serpent Master...
Actually, what I think would be a great idea is if I could visit http://bsd.slashdot.org for all the stories (not just BSD stories) and have them themed to the reddish BSD style. Similarly, going to http://apple.slashdot.org would depict that AQUA themed Slashdot with all the stories. Or maybe it would just be easier to set up a preference option...
Strange, a girl at my school was asking around whether I wanted any free oscilloscopes (I have no idea as to their quality). Whether they are still available or not, I don't know, but I could look into it.
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I've only been reading about the exact same crap for the past few years on slashdot. Is there anything more to this site than "is open source software ready yet?" Duplicate stories of stuff actually worth talking about is one thing, but hasn't this topic been covered way too many times for even moderately interesting discussion?
Talk about selective reading. Let's try looking over what PFI_Optix wrote again, eh?
Why I don't...use Linux as my primary OS: Because documentation is weak, support is nonexistent, and the interfaces--until recently--have not been nearly as intuitive as Windows and Mac OS. The biggest problem is documentation and support. I know dozens of people who have installed Linux, played with it some, and found themselves unable to do what they want to do and unable to find out how. They can't even find out how to get help inside the OS, and the only support they can get is via community forums, which are notorious for not answering tough or oft-repeated questions. Windows puts a "Help and support" link right in the start menu, making it a lot more user-friendly in that sense. ..use OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office: Let's start with an example. In OOo, start a blank document. Do the same in Word. Now let's change both pages to landscape format.
Word: Click file, choose Page setup, click landscape, click OK. Done.
OOo: Click file...hmm...no "page setup". Let's try properties. Nope. How about printer settings...not there either. Okay, try the help index. Type "landscape" and choose the "landscape and portrait" section. It says go to Format -> Styles and Formatting, then create a new style, set it as landscape, name it, and save it. I notice as I go into the format menu that there's a "Page" option which lets me set the document to landscape like I want about as quickly as Word does.
I went through this very process when a user asked me how to do that when we switched to OpenOffice. Now, OOo *has* an easy-to-use landscape option, but it's not where Word puts it and it's not in the documentation when you type "landscape".
Are you sure it's wise to talk about the valuation of the Canadian dollar versus the US dollar? As an American living in Montreal, I can tell you the US dollar sucks right now.
Don't forget that Internet Explorer isn't a moving target. Firefox is in constant development and releases are being made at fairly regular intervals, thus there are bound to be bugs. Has Internet Explorer seen any development in the last few years other than just bugfixes (not including IE7)?
Don't forget to add
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", false);
to your user.js file in your profile. It gets rid of that annoying 10 second (sometimes more) wait you often see when you maximize your browser window from a long rest. Not sure it's necessary on Linux, but on Windows I've found it to be truly great.
Of course, only use it if you can spare the memory.
LiteOn DVD burners have a major problem with DVD-R media, in my experience. I have to verify EVERYTHING I burn with my remaining DVD-R media. All the +R stuff I get works the first time, and it's not even TY, just RICOHJPN (which is admittedly not too bad). So either you are using -R media, your drive is bad, or your media is iffy (hard to believe for TY).
William Langewiesche in his _American Ground_ set of Atlantic Magazine articles (Aug-Oct 2002) writes that it wasn't so much the jet fuel that caused the collapse of the towers, but all the paper inside them. It's been a while since I've read the articles, so I don't remember all the particulars, but dig them up if you are interested in the scenario.
Heh...I actually own that movie.
I usually buy Riteks too. Sure, there are better buys, but for the money these are pretty good. I only buy +R, because they can be bitset to DVD-ROM, bypassing all those problems that some people have with their standalone players not playing DVD+R or DVD-R.
I had the same problem too until I removed my old profile and let firefox create a new one. The googlebar works as normal.
It would be funny if we battled Ashcroft with kindness. Instead of making him go through the trouble of getting court orders and warrants and all that stuff that gets in the way of fighting TERRORISTS, why don't we all just send our IM conversations and weblogs and cookie recipes and emails to our penile growth supplement supplier to him. Get the whole tech community to send all this information in both electronic and physical form to the good ol' DOJ. I was thinking about getting some new carpeting for my room, maybe I should send some color samples to Ashcroft and see what he thinks would fit best.
Ok, I should really stop playing this...
492.5
492.5 nosedive
Eeek, just seconds after posting this I got a nosedive of 491.9.
Good job. My numbers seem to indicate the same: 593.5 148.6 and the nose-dive distance of: 491.8 Check out this altered version of the game: Penguin batting
593 148.6 I'm gonna see if I can top these. H
An understandable concern, but if you read the webpage I linked to it specifically states that Spyware Blaster doesn't run in the background. Spyware Guard does which is why I don't use it -- I also don't like having too many processes running in the background.
I'd like to add Spywareblaster to this list also. It, from what I understand, prevents the installation of most of these spyware and adware programs. I like to use Adaware, Search and Destroy, and Spyware Blaster together. All free too. Spyware Blaster
I tried it in Netcaptor which is based on Internet Explorer--the page opened and the error message popped up, but Netcaptor kept on chugging. It's really a great browser. Offtopic, but when is Mozilla/Firebird going to incorporate something similar to Captorgroups. And don't even mention that multiple bookmarks on startup, that's not the same thing. Captorgroups are much more versatile.
Are they going to call it fuligan?
I agree that RPG's require a large variety of weapons/skills/characters and blah blah. An often overlooked console RPG that in my opinion blew many out of the water was Star Ocean: The Second Story. The story of the game was pretty boring and typical, but hell. There was so much to do! The item creation, while simple, provided many hours of enjoyment. Some of the best items could only be made through metallurgy, blacksmithing, etc. Alchemy could either be totally useless or essential depending on one's playing style.
Also, Star Ocean actually had FUN combat. You know the kind where you can actually have fun? Morrowind is often hyped as the greatest CRPG, but I personally found it absolutely lifeless. Characters were stagnant. They didn't have schedules. Hell, even Ultima 5 had NPC schedules, and that was released in 1988 or so. Morrowind's combat was absolutely beyond horribly boring. Yeah, blah, some people say role-playing is what Morrowind is about but hell...at least make role-playing fun. What if I want to role-play a fighter? Sorry, extreme boredom in that department. Morrowind could have been good and I was one of the most eager to look forward to it. Hmm, I think this turned into a Morrowind rant. Star Ocean's combat, on the other hand, was real-time or semi-real time, involved using lots of different items, required skill at certain points in the game, and was FUN! Hell, it had some of the hardest bosses ever in any game... although there are somewhat cheap ways to beat them, but even so it takes 15 minutes to do so. The only other game that had hard bosses like that was Final Fantasy 5 (Omega and Shinryu, I don't even bother with them).
What a rant this is. Generally, when I think of a great CRPG, I point to Ultima 7. It's combat lacked, but in every other regard it beats all CRPGs since. Sure, certain games do minor things better, but Ultima 7 overall ruled. Star Ocean is simply the best console RPG for those who like tweaking and combat and pure fun. The secret dungeon was a blast. Hmm, I could go for Star Ocean with a dungeon where the enemies scaled in strength. Now that would be fun. Reach floor 100 and boom. Great game.
I agree. I actually found a newer game called Divine Divinity that is pretty good and probably the most Ultima 7-ish RPG released in the last 10 years. It doesn't have NPC schedules and a party, though, setting it back quite a ways. Still, if you are interested in decent modern RPGs, Divine Divinity is pretty damned good.
What's the fun in that? One time I got Serpent Isle to work with BOTH sound and music in DOS. I'm probably one of just a handful of people that accomplished this massive feat. Heh, when I walked by girls at school, I could feel their eyes gleaming in awe. They called me the Serpent Master...
Ooohhh, a counter. *Reloads website*
Actually, what I think would be a great idea is if I could visit http://bsd.slashdot.org for all the stories (not just BSD stories) and have them themed to the reddish BSD style. Similarly, going to http://apple.slashdot.org would depict that AQUA themed Slashdot with all the stories. Or maybe it would just be easier to set up a preference option...
Strange, a girl at my school was asking around whether I wanted any free oscilloscopes (I have no idea as to their quality). Whether they are still available or not, I don't know, but I could look into it.