I should have a right to control what I want to view / download in my computer. Nowhere did I sign an agreement saying "You must read all our ads if you want to browse this website".
If you like the ads, click them and be happy, just don't force us to download junk. I skip ads while watching TV, I'd like to do the same for my web experience.
You're right when you say you don't get damage feedback. You can't tell when you fire and with the sounds, it feels like I'm throwing little pebbles at best.
A suggestion to the guy who wrote it, put some kind of flash that looks like a weapon has been fired, and put a "hit" animation to tell the monsters are being hit.
Also, for the love of God, do the same in reverse. I can barely tell that the monsters are shooting at me. The only indication is the health. In addition, are the monsters firing at me or just staring me down ?
Sorry, but it needs lots of work before you can charge money for it.
Not only are not all (nor most) Christians part or in agreement with the "Christian Coalition" but many of us are not even considered Christians by them !!! I'm Catholic BTW, and I'm sick of fundamentalist fanatics calling the us sons of Satan or the Pope the antichrist. Why don't they tell Pat Robertson to get off TV for a while and travel like the Pope to places like Cuba & Israel. Not asking for contributions but for peace, freedom and forgivenes..
Microsoft Corp. has hired Ralph Reed, a senior consultant to George Bush's campaign for the U.S. presidency, to lobby Bush regarding the government's antitrust case
And my oh my, watch the language, Mr. Reed wouldn't approve.
If GWB tries to make the Microsoft prosecution into an election issue, that is nothing but a loser for him.
Why would that be a loser cause. I'm all for the anti-trust lawsuit, but I get the feeling the average person either doesn't care/understand the issue or they're upset the Government is opposing the greatests and most innovative source of technology, Mickeysoft.
Not only that, but I can already see a debate where Bush might bring up the problemns in the stock market and blame it on Clinton. And Al Gore, well, he'll do anything for votes (see Elian case) so he might agree with Bush.
We should clone one of our founding fathers for this election, the current choices are pathetic !
Bush has expressed many times his opposition against the governments action against MS. Now, we see one of his top guys works for MS.
Is there a law against this, or is it still legal to influence presidential candidates this way ?
The more and more big business "invests" in politicians, the less the rest of us , the "poor masses" have a voice. We need campaing finance reform !!!
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... if you thought that you have to write your own event loop. AWT nor Swing expects you to write an event loop like you had to do with (non-Motif) X apps !!! What where you doing ?!?!?!?!
I have mixed feeling about this product. I like the interface and it's very easy to use, but this program is hell to setup.
First, it requires Windows 98 SE. Yes, not only Win98 but it has to be SE. Some people have made it work with 98 and the latests drivers, but a lot of us couldn't.
Secondly, Windows 98 has a 2 Gig file size limit. They somehow work around this and make it 4 Gigs. 4 Gigs is the equivalent of about 18 minutes of DV. To get around this, they have a nice feature to capture in "preview" quality and then when you output to tape it recaptures. But man, it's really annoying to have that file size limit.
Lastly, Windows 98 is just the plain OS for this type of work. I have a fairly decent machine (128 MEGS of RAM, 400 PII, 20Gig disk UDMA, 13 Gig disk, TNT card, etc) and I have problems capturing video. Pinnacle recommeds that you run nothing while capturing video. They even go as far as to recommend turning off CD autoplay , powersave, networking, and even the little time app that runs in the taskbar.
With some of these conditions, they should have developed their own OS just tailored to the needs of their app.
I don't know about MacOS, but I've heard good reviews of the DV magazines about editing on G3s. And yes, stay away from the iMacs, plus the program that comes with the DV iMac has severe limitations and it's a pain to use.
Dude, could you just save us some time and post links to what you're talking about. I found mozillazine/chrome via google but the site seems to be down (or I can't get to it from here).
As far as alphanumeric, that's such a generic word I can't find it using google or any other search engine.
thankyouthankyouthankyou !!! When I went to that directory originally, I forgot to check the file size and assumed it was the "smart" installer. Thanks again !
... I can't install this at work because the stupid installer doesn't have options for proxy settings.
I agree that there are cases where you would want to use these installers (like slow modem connections) , but why in the world don't we also have the option of downloading the whole file !??!?!
As for this only being a pre-release version, fine, but "smart download" has been around for a while and you'd think they should have added this "feature" by now. There's no excuse for not having a netscape6-full-install.exe file that we can just download !
I don't see the difference between some software and hardware patents. Obviously something stupid like 1-click shopping is one extreme, but what makes complicated software inventions unworthy of patents.
Example, why would a patent of a specific image procession/vision machine that checks for impurities in bottles or coke cans be any different from a more pure software implementation (with just a regular digital camera as the only hardware) ???
There are more examples, but I'd like to know how people are drawing distinction between soft and hard technologies, I don't see the big difference in a lot of cases. Specially if you see programs as abstract machines that can be done in both hardware and software.
Not to mention all the bogus patents (sliding year windows for Y2K fixes, one click shopping, etc) that have been floating around lately. Well, here's hopin..
But why not take it a step further and just not grant patents for ridiculus stuff like the things just mentioned ??? Specifically, why should something as simple as 1-click shopping be awarded a patent for 5, 2, 1 years or even 1 month !!! STOP the insanity !!!
Colour choice: go for contrast any time. I prefer dark backgrounds with light text, too, and find (for example) standard M$loth-produced black-on-bright-white painful to think about.
You've made the right decision, but for some reason, it seems most "designers" do not seem to want to do this. We went over this issue in my User Interface grad course, dark backgrounds with light text are better for the human eye(it's been proven), but people want to imitate paper for some reason !!!
There need to be changes to the patent system, but the most obvious reform he fails to mention is the not to give patents out for obvious and simplitic "ideas" like one click shopping.
Having a 2-3 year patent on something like 1-click shopping is still ridiculous and totally unacceptable. If this individual was honest about patent reform he would;
Not have sued Barnes & Nobles for using one-click shopping.
Hardware is very important for AI, but I think DEEP BLUE is a bad example of "machine intelligence" since it's really, at the core, a brute force algorithm (mostly) chess playing machine.
Brute Force != Intelligence , if it was, then the problem of real AI would have been solved already.
> I think vi is actually one of the main reasons > for Unix's decline in the market > vs NT and Netware.
Please get a clue !!! What in the world does vi have to do with competition between Unix and NT or Netware ?!?!?! It's just an editor !!!! vi is a good tool for those of us who can use it. Just because you are not equipped to learn it, doesn't mean it's a bad tool.
As far as the title of your post "The creator of VI is talking about extinction", yeah he is so what's your problem. I think Bill Joy has demonstrated way more than enough intelligence to be granted attention. You just demonstrated the opposite.
Not only is Windows bloated but it also doesn't manage the space very well. I edit digial videos at home ( I need this hard drive now !) and a real pain for me is that Win98 has a 4 Gig file size limit that doesn't let me record more than 18 minutes of DV !!!
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It's a joke !!! Hello ??!?!? Hello ?!?!?!
C'mon people, loosen up a bit !
I should have a right to control what I want to view / download in my computer. Nowhere did I sign an agreement saying "You must read all our ads if you want to browse this website".
If you like the ads, click them and be happy, just don't force us to download junk. I skip ads while watching TV, I'd like to do the same for my web experience.
You're right when you say you don't get damage feedback. You can't tell when you fire and with the sounds, it feels like I'm throwing little pebbles at best.
A suggestion to the guy who wrote it, put some kind of flash that looks like a weapon has been fired, and put a "hit" animation to tell the monsters are being hit.
Also, for the love of God, do the same in reverse. I can barely tell that the monsters are shooting at me. The only indication is the health. In addition, are the monsters firing at me or just staring me down ?
Sorry, but it needs lots of work before you can charge money for it.
Amen !
Not only are not all (nor most) Christians part or in agreement with the "Christian Coalition" but many of us are not even considered Christians by them !!! I'm Catholic BTW, and I'm sick of fundamentalist fanatics calling the us sons of Satan or the Pope the antichrist. Why don't they tell Pat Robertson to get off TV for a while and travel like the Pope to places like Cuba & Israel. Not asking for contributions but for peace, freedom and forgivenes..
Darn, this topic really hits a nerve with me !
I didn't know Ralph Nader was a "founding father" !!! ;)
Some of use want to edit 30 to 1 hour videos and keep them in a single file. Most programs don't save clips as single files, there in one file.
Microsoft Corp. has hired Ralph Reed, a senior consultant to George Bush's campaign
for the U.S. presidency, to lobby Bush regarding the government's antitrust case
And my oh my, watch the language, Mr. Reed wouldn't approve.
If GWB tries to make the Microsoft prosecution into an election issue, that is nothing but a loser for him.
Why would that be a loser cause. I'm all for the anti-trust lawsuit, but I get the feeling the average person either doesn't care/understand the issue or they're upset the Government is opposing the greatests and most innovative source of technology, Mickeysoft.
Not only that, but I can already see a debate where Bush might bring up the problemns in the stock market and blame it on Clinton. And Al Gore, well, he'll do anything for votes (see Elian case) so he might agree with Bush.
We should clone one of our founding fathers for this election, the current choices are pathetic !
Bush has expressed many times his opposition against the governments action against MS. Now, we see one of his top guys works for MS.
Is there a law against this, or is it still legal to influence presidential candidates this way ?
The more and more big business "invests" in politicians, the less the rest of us , the "poor masses" have a voice. We need campaing finance reform !!!
... if you thought that you have to write your own event loop. AWT nor Swing expects you to write an event loop like you had to do with (non-Motif) X apps !!! What where you doing ?!?!?!?!
The card I bought doesn't support Windows NT or 2000. Windows NT may support larger file sizes but it sucks for multimedia and lacks hardware drivers.
Windows 2000 improves a lot over NT, but it's still not supported by most DV programs/cards I've checked.
Windows ME is supposed to be great for video editing, but judging by the piece of crap it's based on (Win98) it should also be a pain.
My only hope is that BeOS gets some decent DV software soon ! It at least recognizes my card.
Yes, I've used Linux, I also didn't recommend it for this type of work if you read my post.
Last time I checked, firewire support in Linux was not too great, plus I haven't found any DV Linux software.
I use a fairly inexpensive product called StudioDV from Pinnacle Systems.
I have mixed feeling about this product. I like the interface and it's very easy to use, but this program is hell to setup.
First, it requires Windows 98 SE. Yes, not only Win98 but it has to be SE. Some people have made it work with 98 and the latests drivers, but a lot of us couldn't.
Secondly, Windows 98 has a 2 Gig file size limit. They somehow work around this and make it 4 Gigs. 4 Gigs is the equivalent of about 18 minutes of DV. To get around this, they have a nice feature to capture in "preview" quality and then when you output to tape it recaptures. But man, it's really annoying to have that file size limit.
Lastly, Windows 98 is just the plain OS for this type of work. I have a fairly decent machine (128 MEGS of RAM, 400 PII, 20Gig disk UDMA, 13 Gig disk, TNT card, etc) and I have problems capturing video. Pinnacle recommeds that you run nothing while capturing video. They even go as far as to recommend turning off CD autoplay , powersave, networking, and even the little time app that runs in the taskbar.
With some of these conditions, they should have developed their own OS just tailored to the needs of their app.
I don't know about MacOS, but I've heard good reviews of the DV magazines about editing on G3s. And yes, stay away from the iMacs, plus the program that comes with the DV iMac has severe limitations and it's a pain to use.
Dude, could you just save us some time and post links to what you're talking about. I found mozillazine/chrome via google but the site seems to be down (or I can't get to it from here).
:)
As far as alphanumeric, that's such a generic word I can't find it using google or any other search engine.
PLEASE USE LINKS !!!! Thanks
thankyouthankyouthankyou !!!
When I went to that directory originally, I forgot to check the file size and assumed it was the "smart" installer.
Thanks again !
... I can't install this at work because the stupid installer doesn't have options for proxy settings.
I agree that there are cases where you would want to use these installers (like slow modem connections) , but why in the world don't we also have the option of downloading the whole file !??!?!
As for this only being a pre-release version, fine, but "smart download" has been around for a while and you'd think they should have added this "feature" by now. There's no excuse for not having a netscape6-full-install.exe file that we can just download !
grrr...
How am I supposed to download this thing behind our firewall ??? I downloaded the "smart" download program but it doesn't have proxy settings !!!
I also went to the ftp sites at netscape, but all they have visible is the smart update installer. NOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!
Help !
I don't see the difference between some software and hardware patents. Obviously something stupid like 1-click shopping is one extreme, but what makes complicated software inventions unworthy of patents.
Example, why would a patent of a specific image procession/vision machine that checks for impurities in bottles or coke cans be any different from a more pure software implementation (with just a regular digital camera as the only hardware) ???
There are more examples, but I'd like to know how people are drawing distinction between soft and hard technologies, I don't see the big difference in a lot of cases. Specially if you see programs as abstract machines that can be done in both hardware and software.
Not to mention all the bogus patents (sliding year windows for Y2K fixes, one click shopping, etc) that have been floating around lately. Well, here's hopin..
But why not take it a step further and just not grant patents for ridiculus stuff like the things just mentioned ??? Specifically, why should something as simple as 1-click shopping be awarded a patent for 5, 2, 1 years or even 1 month !!!
STOP the insanity !!!
Colour choice: go for contrast any time. I prefer dark backgrounds with light text, too, and find (for example) standard M$loth-produced black-on-bright-white painful to think about.
You've made the right decision, but for some reason, it seems most "designers" do not seem to want to do this. We went over this issue in my User Interface grad course, dark backgrounds with light text are better for the human eye(it's been proven), but people want to imitate paper for some reason !!!BTW - Good advice in all the other areas.
There need to be changes to the patent system, but the most obvious reform he fails to mention is the not to give patents out for obvious and simplitic "ideas" like one click shopping.
Having a 2-3 year patent on something like 1-click shopping is still ridiculous and totally unacceptable. If this individual was honest about patent reform he would;
Not have sued Barnes & Nobles for using one-click shopping.
Give up this absurd patent.
Please Mr. Bezos get a clue !
Hardware is very important for AI, but I think DEEP BLUE is a bad example of "machine intelligence" since it's really, at the core, a brute force algorithm (mostly) chess playing machine.
Brute Force != Intelligence , if it was, then the problem of real AI would have been solved already.
Huh ... you obviously don't know who Bill Joy is, or his other contributions to the computer world.
Please get educated.
> I think vi is actually one of the main reasons
> for Unix's decline in the market
> vs NT and Netware.
Please get a clue !!! What in the world does vi have to do with competition between Unix and NT or Netware ?!?!?! It's just an editor !!!!
vi is a good tool for those of us who can use it. Just because you are not equipped to learn it, doesn't mean it's a bad tool.
As far as the title of your post "The creator of VI is talking about extinction", yeah he is so what's your problem. I think Bill Joy has demonstrated way more than enough intelligence to be granted attention. You just demonstrated the opposite.
Not only is Windows bloated but it also doesn't manage the space very well.
:(
I edit digial videos at home ( I need this hard drive now !) and a real pain for me is that Win98 has a 4 Gig file size limit that doesn't let me record more than 18 minutes of DV !!!
I wish Linux had good DV + firewire support