I could tell people "I use Mozilla" and most people would look at me like i was speaking greek (except the greeks, they'd look at me like i was speaking inuit).
Now I tell people i use Mozilla, and Some of them actually know what it is, or have heard of it. Not to mention that since there is a 1.X release out, i can confidently install it on a friends or clients machine without a lot of worry of weird crashes and bugs.
Once Mozillas spam filtering becomes easy and useful, I can see myself converting a LOT more people a lot more easily than i already have. So far i've converted about 25 diehard IE users... and i wonder how many they have converted.
I remember standing in my crip and hearing a certain beatles song... from the phase where they were using a lot of symphonic crescendos etc.. and thinking "wow what an amazing sound" or somehting.. being impressed with the sound...
through my whole life - i've remained obsessed with sound... I can mark a lot of really important events in my life by what the background noise or music was at that very point.
Physisist Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara (try saying that 3 times fast)
This seems like a horribly racist (r at least culturalist byline for a story. Not everyone here is a whitebread american male, in fact, i'm willing to bet that at least 50% of people on here have No Problem at all saying the name at all. Maybe i'm just hypersensitive. I dunno.
Its not in disagreement, but in response to a subtle troll + mod whoring. The shooting down of multiplayer games is a sure way (or was 6 months ago) for 5 mod points. It could be under a topic of space missions to mars or a new form of DNA decoding - if someone posts "I hate multiplayer games; why aren't there more single player games", they would be marked +5 insightful. People are mainly getting bored of hearing this over and over again, and are moving on now.
This is a huge difference than simply disagreeing. Because i don't. In fact, i love a good single player game. If nothing else - it should be modded nown as redundant. And why kick dirt on a few mod that is REALLY amazing. The Natural Selection guys have outdone all expectations, and have created a completely Addictive and Envigorating game. Forget disagreement.
this is a Troll and should be marked as such. The first 2 games are mods for what is the most popular multiplayer game Ever - and therefore its really quite normal that you see multiplayer mods for such. As far as doom 3 - its a single player game, with a little bit of multiplayer thrown in, but the focus is really going to be single.
This post is as foolish as saying "imagine a beowolf cluster of these"... yes i know complaining about multiplayer overpowering single player was a really popular thing to say 2 Years Ago, when quake 3 came out, but in the last year a LOT of great single player games have happened.
This was a tough choice - to mod the 4 down to 3, or to post, hoping people read, agree, and mark down to -1, where it belongs.
Actually, years ago, Unreal Alpha was leaked, from a lan party in toronto where it was given its first official showing. God the trillof hooking up a network cable and watching that massive directory flow through, with hundreds of maps - most highly unfinished - many not enve in the final version of unreal. Those were they days.. when it was all too new to worry about piracy.. I did buy unreal the Day it came out - drove 100km to do so.
Not to mention there was that unreal pre-alpha that was leaked... one map i beleive.. 4 rooms, and you could shoot floating eye prites out of your self by right clicking - to demonstrate the dynamic lighting. It had some sort of message in it,, it don't remember.. like "good luck guys on the new game!" or something off like that.
Anyway, too much unreal history. Just wanted to state that technically, he could be right.
Yeah i tried from linux as well and had no luck - of course i could have messed around alittle longer and possibly got somehting... in this case the windows solution works quite nicely.
well - i use gordian knot to get most of everything set up - use it to set up a good size for everything, once i hace the ogg file ready to import.. i use oggmachine to extract the ogg from the vobs, and oggmux to synch it in to the.avi file. Its really simple, and i've never had to mess with anything to get perfect sync every time.
Don't quote me on this, but i Swear gordian knot has options for adding more than one audio track.. I really don't know how it works, since i've never used it... But i do have a few anime avis that have subtitles you can turn off or on. The problem with them is they suffer from bad ORC encoding.. and often words get jumbled.
inre: incredible quality - well i meant the sound quality - it sounds vastly superior... Although with the smaller file size, you can queeze out a bit more vid quality as well, of course.
If you are still getting problems with audio sync.. send me an icq message - 441 541 and i'll see if i can help figure out why you're getting such weird problems.
What about divx's recorded using ogg vorbis sound...
It would be a real blessing if the thing handled.ogm's as far well as.avi's. The last few divx movies i have encoded have been ogm.. not only is the sound Way better, but the quality is really incredible. This would be a Huge factor in me buying on of these things.. Since every divx i make from now on i will try to make ogm, and the thing would really be obsolete without that for me:(
Even if voting is down the block, people are Incredibly lazy. If voting was as convenient as reading Slashdot, maybe more people would do it. Think about it.. if you had to walk down the street and stand in line to read slashdot, would you? But if you can do it from home, while you're at your computer anyway, why not? Now reverse the situation.
To say it wouldn't change anything seems incredibly myopic in my opinion. It might just change Everything.... The only thing that scares me is the socio-economic hurdle it sets up.. the people who can afford computers can vote more easily than the people who can't.. I guess this sin't much different than now, where the people who can afford cars to get to voting stations are much more likely to vote than those that can't drive there.
Tats a smart idea- if only stallone wasn't so old now - isn't Superman perpetually young or somehting like that? A young Stallone could fit the Superman role perfectly while keeping the Clark Kent straight-man cover very well.
While it may seem like a great idea at first, this is a pretty dangerous concept. Doesn't anyone remember 2001, when HAL decided to get rid of his problems by eliminating all the people around him? Right when these computers realize they are fine until people start making demands on them, we're in deep trouble.
an example: This new computer sees that whenever Sally opens up her word processor, the sound driver crashes.. after struggling to figure out why the driver crashes, with no avail, the computer realizes that the problem is solved if Sally isn't around anymore to open up word processors.
I wish i didn't have to add a "this is humour" tag at the bottom of this, but here it is.
There are only a few stories to be told. One of the largest - the main story - goes something like this.
1. Hero is confronted with unbeatable challenge / unsurmountable odds.
2. Hero experiences personal growth/enlightenment
3. Hero overcomes challenge / odds.
The matrix? Star Wars? Lord of the Rings? There is nothing wrong with the recycling of ideas in film or books or anything. Its part of human nature.. there are only so many ideas.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a book that explores this very idea. Its worth checking out.
A very cool/funny hoax. The post says "Now it crunch a workunit within 50 minutes!!!" and "my new farm will end the seti.germany-threat forever!" I completely dig this, terribly funny... but shouldn't/. put this under the "Its funny. Laugh." category? You don't have to know too much about the way computers work to know that replacing your power suppy with a bigger beefier one will in no noticable way effect your processing power.
The only way i could see this as a serious Slashdot headline would be to post it on April first.
In my opinion, this is a bit myopic and shouldn't be given such a high score.
We're talking about people who think it's OK to kill thousands of civilians and actively seek to do so. This isn't just "misguided," it's just plain wrong, but these people have all but been programmed to think this way.
I'm not trying to start something nasty here, but there have been over a thousand Civilian deaths in Afganistan so far, and some reports say up to three thousand.
You keep mentioning "these people" and how they all deserve death for "cheering" others death... Do you, in retrospect, also deserve death for cheering their death? One has to be very careful not to become just what they are fighting agasint.
Not to mention, if the US armies sweep across the globe, killing all leaders that bush sees as "evil", we're going to make a lot more people hate us.. childen whos parents have died in anti-terrorist operations, civilians that got in the way.. etc. Its a perfect way to ensure future terrorists. Personally I'd like to know real reasons on why the USA is so hated by so many people across the globe, and don't tell me its becasue "they hate our freedom", its a wonder every time i see GWB say that with a straight face.
I think this whole issue is a Lot more complex than having a simple "kill them all" solution. If we are supposed to be the most advanced and cultured society in the history of the earth, i'm sure we can do better than that.
I may be modded down for this by some who think a second opinion is a bad thing, but i can't help but post this here. This is what i feel and i beleive its valid.
By inferior do you mean "won't freeze all activity while a mouse button is held down" or "has its own protected memory" or some other strange parralel universe definition of the word?
I don't agree with the site at all - it complains that people can set their own icon sizes, and that people may, god forbid, set their icons too large and waste space. Thats fine with me. When i set up my parent with OS X and gave her larger icons, she was very happy, since it was difficult for her to see and understand small icons.
It seems a lot of people don't like OS X because its not )S 9.10... I for one am glad apple broke with some of their old methods and adopted a better way. Its the first Mac OS I have found useable at all, and I can now use a mac as happily as i use my BSD and windows boxen.
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First of all - sorry about your roomie. I've lost those close to me from addiction as well. But want to know something terribly sad? Almost everything is addictive. There have been people who have eaten themselves to death with food addcitons. Adreneline junkes have often pushed their need for thrills to fatal levels. Once i even say somebodies fanscination with books drive him away from family, friends, and eventaully all normal life.
Everything is horrible, at a certain level. People should be taught to recognize when they reach unacceptable levels of any activity. And if they are lucky, they will have friends that will intervene when their behavior becomes dangerous.
As far as violent online games - you're wrong. For many people, its about skill. I met my future wife in a game of quake, over 3 years ago. We have a sharing, loving relationship, and still play together. Its not a "sickass violent porno", but as a challenge to eachother, a test of skills. Its also incredibly good as a part of conflict resolution. Some of the cooler, more interesting people i know i have met in violent online games. I've never seen any of them at all violent in real life.
As far you you telling the doom devs they are sick, and you hate them... Its your right to hate whomever you want. But you can't make a judgement call on people you don't know for what they choose to do with their time. I do wonder if some of your haterd at others is really misplaced hate for yourself when you did nothing (or didn't do enough) to help your roomie who was obviously an addictive personality, lost in a game addiction, so similar to so many peoples television addiction.
Doesn't anybody remember quake 1??? Don't you remember what would happen if you tried to use the lightning underwater? I mean, this is pretty amazing...Can the whirlpool process the gibs easily or will they clog it up?
I hope people remember that to use the unterwater lightning to their advantage, there should be at least 2 other people in there with them.
So there are 17 in the USA, interesting. As far as i can tell there are none in Canada at all? Can anyone verify this? What about the rest of the world? Would lucas make sure a deal about 17 theatres?
I'm very curious. Does someone have a master list of digital theatres worldwide?
Microsoft says the same thing. Does this make it true? No
If anything, this is a really good sign for the ever maturing linux operating system. Of Course sun would want to move people away from an open source, free operating system, over to their 'paid for' one. And if they can't do that by simply saing "don't use linux, use solaris", it makes a lot of sense for their marketers to simply say "don't use linux, its bad... and scary". It still cuts out a potential threat to them.
I figure if IBM says that IBM is ready for linux, i will trust that a lot more than solaris saying IMB isn't ready for linux.
Not that i have anything agasint sun, or solaris.. i respect sun and what its doen, and been through.. i just question the reasoning for this 'article'.
Along the same lines, this may be valuable to a lot of people out there. Painfuly obvious to others.
I signed up for a new email address the other day, since my old one was Way too spam infected. Within 2 hours of changing the new email address to my primary ICQ email address (no joke) i had spam. 5 hours later i had about 10 spam in my mail inbox. That was 2 days ago. I took my email address out of icq, and changed it back to my old one. I've seen no spam since.
The moral is, if you use icq, or any program like it i assume, have a "spam me" email address you use for it, in case you ever do need to retreive a password or what not. Since i've taken my new address out of icq, i've seen no spam, this is a Good Thing.
Taco proposes marriage on valentines day, 12 hours later, hes posting stories on slashdot, rather than out spening a romantic evening with his new fiancee.
This, my frineds, is the alpha geek. Aspire to this, and learn from the master.
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I could tell people "I use Mozilla" and most people would look at me like i was speaking greek (except the greeks, they'd look at me like i was speaking inuit).
Now I tell people i use Mozilla, and Some of them actually know what it is, or have heard of it. Not to mention that since there is a 1.X release out, i can confidently install it on a friends or clients machine without a lot of worry of weird crashes and bugs.
Once Mozillas spam filtering becomes easy and useful, I can see myself converting a LOT more people a lot more easily than i already have. So far i've converted about 25 diehard IE users... and i wonder how many they have converted.
I remember standing in my crip and hearing a certain beatles song... from the phase where they were using a lot of symphonic crescendos etc.. and thinking "wow what an amazing sound" or somehting.. being impressed with the sound...
through my whole life - i've remained obsessed with sound... I can mark a lot of really important events in my life by what the background noise or music was at that very point.
Physisist Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara (try saying that 3 times fast)
This seems like a horribly racist (r at least culturalist byline for a story. Not everyone here is a whitebread american male, in fact, i'm willing to bet that at least 50% of people on here have No Problem at all saying the name at all. Maybe i'm just hypersensitive. I dunno.
And i see "Scientists Attempting to Create Simple Life Form, so of course, the first thing that pops in to my mind is
"Oh my god they are trying to clone George W Bush!"
Its not in disagreement, but in response to a subtle troll + mod whoring. The shooting down of multiplayer games is a sure way (or was 6 months ago) for 5 mod points. It could be under a topic of space missions to mars or a new form of DNA decoding - if someone posts "I hate multiplayer games; why aren't there more single player games", they would be marked +5 insightful. People are mainly getting bored of hearing this over and over again, and are moving on now.
This is a huge difference than simply disagreeing. Because i don't. In fact, i love a good single player game. If nothing else - it should be modded nown as redundant. And why kick dirt on a few mod that is REALLY amazing. The Natural Selection guys have outdone all expectations, and have created a completely Addictive and Envigorating game. Forget disagreement.
this is a Troll and should be marked as such. The first 2 games are mods for what is the most popular multiplayer game Ever - and therefore its really quite normal that you see multiplayer mods for such. As far as doom 3 - its a single player game, with a little bit of multiplayer thrown in, but the focus is really going to be single.
This post is as foolish as saying "imagine a beowolf cluster of these"... yes i know complaining about multiplayer overpowering single player was a really popular thing to say 2 Years Ago, when quake 3 came out, but in the last year a LOT of great single player games have happened.
This was a tough choice - to mod the 4 down to 3, or to post, hoping people read, agree, and mark down to -1, where it belongs.
Actually, years ago, Unreal Alpha was leaked, from a lan party in toronto where it was given its first official showing. God the trillof hooking up a network cable and watching that massive directory flow through, with hundreds of maps - most highly unfinished - many not enve in the final version of unreal. Those were they days.. when it was all too new to worry about piracy.. I did buy unreal the Day it came out - drove 100km to do so.
Not to mention there was that unreal pre-alpha that was leaked... one map i beleive.. 4 rooms, and you could shoot floating eye prites out of your self by right clicking - to demonstrate the dynamic lighting. It had some sort of message in it,, it don't remember.. like "good luck guys on the new game!" or something off like that.
Anyway, too much unreal history. Just wanted to state that technically, he could be right.
Yeah i tried from linux as well and had no luck - of course i could have messed around alittle longer and possibly got somehting... in this case the windows solution works quite nicely.
well - i use gordian knot to get most of everything set up - use it to set up a good size for everything, once i hace the ogg file ready to import.. i use oggmachine to extract the ogg from the vobs, and oggmux to synch it in to the .avi file. Its really simple, and i've never had to mess with anything to get perfect sync every time.
Don't quote me on this, but i Swear gordian knot has options for adding more than one audio track.. I really don't know how it works, since i've never used it... But i do have a few anime avis that have subtitles you can turn off or on. The problem with them is they suffer from bad ORC encoding.. and often words get jumbled.
inre: incredible quality - well i meant the sound quality - it sounds vastly superior... Although with the smaller file size, you can queeze out a bit more vid quality as well, of course.
If you are still getting problems with audio sync.. send me an icq message - 441 541 and i'll see if i can help figure out why you're getting such weird problems.
What about divx's recorded using ogg vorbis sound...
.ogm's as far well as .avi's. The last few divx movies i have encoded have been ogm.. not only is the sound Way better, but the quality is really incredible. This would be a Huge factor in me buying on of these things.. Since every divx i make from now on i will try to make ogm, and the thing would really be obsolete without that for me :(
It would be a real blessing if the thing handled
I think you're wrong.
Even if voting is down the block, people are Incredibly lazy. If voting was as convenient as reading Slashdot, maybe more people would do it. Think about it.. if you had to walk down the street and stand in line to read slashdot, would you? But if you can do it from home, while you're at your computer anyway, why not? Now reverse the situation.
To say it wouldn't change anything seems incredibly myopic in my opinion. It might just change Everything.... The only thing that scares me is the socio-economic hurdle it sets up.. the people who can afford computers can vote more easily than the people who can't.. I guess this sin't much different than now, where the people who can afford cars to get to voting stations are much more likely to vote than those that can't drive there.
Tats a smart idea- if only stallone wasn't so old now - isn't Superman perpetually young or somehting like that? A young Stallone could fit the Superman role perfectly while keeping the Clark Kent straight-man cover very well.
Good idea.
Now we will be able to Slashdot the Space Shuttle. Personally, i hope it won't crash.
While it may seem like a great idea at first, this is a pretty dangerous concept. Doesn't anyone remember 2001, when HAL decided to get rid of his problems by eliminating all the people around him? Right when these computers realize they are fine until people start making demands on them, we're in deep trouble.
an example: This new computer sees that whenever Sally opens up her word processor, the sound driver crashes.. after struggling to figure out why the driver crashes, with no avail, the computer realizes that the problem is solved if Sally isn't around anymore to open up word processors.
I wish i didn't have to add a "this is humour" tag at the bottom of this, but here it is.
There are only a few stories to be told. One of the largest - the main story - goes something like this.
1. Hero is confronted with unbeatable challenge / unsurmountable odds.
2. Hero experiences personal growth/enlightenment
3. Hero overcomes challenge / odds.
The matrix? Star Wars? Lord of the Rings? There is nothing wrong with the recycling of ideas in film or books or anything. Its part of human nature.. there are only so many ideas.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a book that explores this very idea. Its worth checking out.
A very cool/funny hoax. The post says "Now it crunch a workunit within 50 minutes!!!" and "my new farm will end the seti.germany-threat forever!" I completely dig this, terribly funny... but shouldn't /. put this under the "Its funny. Laugh." category? You don't have to know too much about the way computers work to know that replacing your power suppy with a bigger beefier one will in no noticable way effect your processing power.
The only way i could see this as a serious Slashdot headline would be to post it on April first.
In my opinion, this is a bit myopic and shouldn't be given such a high score.
We're talking about people who think it's OK to kill thousands of civilians and actively seek to do so. This isn't just "misguided," it's just plain wrong, but these people have all but been programmed to think this way.
I'm not trying to start something nasty here, but there have been over a thousand Civilian deaths in Afganistan so far, and some reports say up to three thousand.
You keep mentioning "these people" and how they all deserve death for "cheering" others death... Do you, in retrospect, also deserve death for cheering their death? One has to be very careful not to become just what they are fighting agasint.
Not to mention, if the US armies sweep across the globe, killing all leaders that bush sees as "evil", we're going to make a lot more people hate us.. childen whos parents have died in anti-terrorist operations, civilians that got in the way.. etc. Its a perfect way to ensure future terrorists. Personally I'd like to know real reasons on why the USA is so hated by so many people across the globe, and don't tell me its becasue "they hate our freedom", its a wonder every time i see GWB say that with a straight face.
I think this whole issue is a Lot more complex than having a simple "kill them all" solution. If we are supposed to be the most advanced and cultured society in the history of the earth, i'm sure we can do better than that.
I may be modded down for this by some who think a second opinion is a bad thing, but i can't help but post this here. This is what i feel and i beleive its valid.
By inferior do you mean "won't freeze all activity while a mouse button is held down" or "has its own protected memory" or some other strange parralel universe definition of the word?
I don't agree with the site at all - it complains that people can set their own icon sizes, and that people may, god forbid, set their icons too large and waste space. Thats fine with me. When i set up my parent with OS X and gave her larger icons, she was very happy, since it was difficult for her to see and understand small icons.
It seems a lot of people don't like OS X because its not )S 9.10... I for one am glad apple broke with some of their old methods and adopted a better way. Its the first Mac OS I have found useable at all, and I can now use a mac as happily as i use my BSD and windows boxen.
The Customizing mozilla page is also very useful. You can change nearly everything from there.
Customizing Mozilla
First of all - sorry about your roomie. I've lost those close to me from addiction as well. But want to know something terribly sad? Almost everything is addictive. There have been people who have eaten themselves to death with food addcitons. Adreneline junkes have often pushed their need for thrills to fatal levels. Once i even say somebodies fanscination with books drive him away from family, friends, and eventaully all normal life.
Everything is horrible, at a certain level. People should be taught to recognize when they reach unacceptable levels of any activity. And if they are lucky, they will have friends that will intervene when their behavior becomes dangerous.
As far as violent online games - you're wrong. For many people, its about skill. I met my future wife in a game of quake, over 3 years ago. We have a sharing, loving relationship, and still play together. Its not a "sickass violent porno", but as a challenge to eachother, a test of skills. Its also incredibly good as a part of conflict resolution. Some of the cooler, more interesting people i know i have met in violent online games. I've never seen any of them at all violent in real life.
As far you you telling the doom devs they are sick, and you hate them... Its your right to hate whomever you want. But you can't make a judgement call on people you don't know for what they choose to do with their time. I do wonder if some of your haterd at others is really misplaced hate for yourself when you did nothing (or didn't do enough) to help your roomie who was obviously an addictive personality, lost in a game addiction, so similar to so many peoples television addiction.
Doesn't anybody remember quake 1??? Don't you remember what would happen if you tried to use the lightning underwater? I mean, this is pretty amazing.. .Can the whirlpool process the gibs easily or will they clog it up?
I hope people remember that to use the unterwater lightning to their advantage, there should be at least 2 other people in there with them.
So there are 17 in the USA, interesting. As far as i can tell there are none in Canada at all? Can anyone verify this? What about the rest of the world? Would lucas make sure a deal about 17 theatres?
I'm very curious. Does someone have a master list of digital theatres worldwide?
Microsoft says the same thing. Does this make it true? No
If anything, this is a really good sign for the ever maturing linux operating system. Of Course sun would want to move people away from an open source, free operating system, over to their 'paid for' one. And if they can't do that by simply saing "don't use linux, use solaris", it makes a lot of sense for their marketers to simply say "don't use linux, its bad... and scary". It still cuts out a potential threat to them.
I figure if IBM says that IBM is ready for linux, i will trust that a lot more than solaris saying IMB isn't ready for linux.
Not that i have anything agasint sun, or solaris.. i respect sun and what its doen, and been through.. i just question the reasoning for this 'article'.
Along the same lines, this may be valuable to a lot of people out there. Painfuly obvious to others.
I signed up for a new email address the other day, since my old one was Way too spam infected. Within 2 hours of changing the new email address to my primary ICQ email address (no joke) i had spam. 5 hours later i had about 10 spam in my mail inbox. That was 2 days ago. I took my email address out of icq, and changed it back to my old one. I've seen no spam since.
The moral is, if you use icq, or any program like it i assume, have a "spam me" email address you use for it, in case you ever do need to retreive a password or what not. Since i've taken my new address out of icq, i've seen no spam, this is a Good Thing.
Taco proposes marriage on valentines day, 12 hours later, hes posting stories on slashdot, rather than out spening a romantic evening with his new fiancee.
This, my frineds, is the alpha geek. Aspire to this, and learn from the master.