If xkcd makes a comic about a quantum entangled romance, I would be really, really, bored and unsurprised. Because they've already made enough comics about romance and I miss the good old classics.
Why the negative tone? I'm glad to hear that even XP will come with IE8. Do you know what the alternative is? IE6. IE6 is old and useless, the less people use it the better. For web developers it's better not to have to support IE6 anymore. It doesn't even support transparent PNGs, you know? So yay for IE8 instead of IE6 in Windows. Even if I don't use nor like it, the fact that it gets shoved on everyone's PC instead of IE6 is good.
If I'd be attacked by a virus, my concern would be my personal files, not the OS files. An OS can be reinstalled, personal files not. In non-root mode, ANY program can access my personal files, email them, upload them, delete them, mutilate them, etc... I think the only thing that can protect against that is to only run executables and scripts that come from a source you know is safe. But if the repositories would be hacked, then even that source isn't safe!
And I've been thinking that RTS would also be very interesting, there is even a more huge difference between a human opponent and a computer opponent: with a computer opponent you abuse his AI (e.g. building walls because the PC is so dumb to attack walls with his ranged units instead of your gatherers), while against a human opponent your tactic is really dependent on who it is:)
They chose prisoner's dilemma as game, instead of a first person shooter! I mean, PC gaming doesn't really make me think about things simpler than tic-tac-toe. I thought this was going to be about playing versus a bot or a human in a FPS game, which would have been much more interesting. There you really place yourself in the mind of the opponent: "he's heading towards the center of deck 16, he'll probably jump down and take the shield belt there now", or the psychology of someone who keeps dying, or who just got a killing spree. Or if it's bots: "yep, he's following that same preprogrammed path again". Probably the results of the MRI scans will be similar.
Yes, that's crossed the line. Not just google does it. I know this article is about Mac, but I don't have a Mac. I do come into contact with Windows regularly. Half of the apps you install on Windows, have their own background application for updates. That's stupid. What Windows (and appearantly Mac too, right?) need, is a package management system, like Linux, where the user can, with one simple command, update all his software at once, without needing to run annoying background applications that auto check for updates all the time.
EDIT: Ok, so I DID see the popup. I just thought popup meant a new browser window, not some dynamic thing floating on the same page. So yeah, I see them. Nothing adblock can't handle.
The site http://www.adimpact.com/ tells me "did you see the popup? refresh to see it again". Well, I don't see it. There is no popup. And Adblock marks nothing in red on that site, so the popup just doesn't work. This in SeaMonkey browser.
There should be Windows-Distros. Each distro has its own set of software installed, and the manufacturor chooses which distro's of Windows he offers. E.g. a manufactorer can create a distro with firefox and one with chrome, and let the user choose which distro he wants. I think a distro with IE (as long as there also exist others to choose from), or with multiple browsers (including or not including IE amongst them), should also be allowed. This can be applied to other software too, e.g. a distro of Windows with Audacity, Gimp, OpenOffice,... preinstalled.
The only thing I liked about KDE 4 was the graphical effects, e.g. the look of the alt+tab, composite desktop, etc... I wish that the KDE guys had made KDE 3.5 with the KDE 4 graphics, but not touched everything else with weird downgrades of once productive functionality. If they had done that (just update the graphics and using the new Qt), they'd have had less work and thus a release in time, and I would have been a LOT happier with the release to not see all my productivity broken by it.
I've used KDE 4.1 for a month. Then I switched back to KDE 3.5, and was the happiest guy in the world to have my good old desktop back! I use Kate a lot for programming C++ and Actionscript projects. In KDE 3.5, Kate rocks. In KDE 4.1, they have, on purpose (by design) ruined the search function of Kate (no whole word option, it doesn't search for the same word in the different open documents), making it unusable for programming (especially refactoring). They have totally made the file managers unusable. No proper working tree. Konqueror can have a tree, but it has the most annoying horizontal autoscroll thing ever (again by design), and you can't drag anything to it. The unzip tool (Ark) is a joke (I've never seen it working). No possibility to have two rows in your taskbar. I *need* to have one row that acts as quick launch for programs, and another row that has the buttons of open windows, one for every window, and only the windows on the current desktop of the multi desktops. Terribly annoying behaviour in file managers and file open/save dialogs, it's so extremely hard, almost an annoying computer game, to select multiple files. Anything from dragging a rectangle around multiple files, to using ctrl + clicking, are all not working properly due to various reasons (such as when beginning to drag the rectangle, it thinks you want to drag 1 file, instead of dragging something around rectangles). Filenames in such lists are clickable everywhere, instead of only on the text of the name, and are in a very wide column by default, which is a second cause for making it hard to drag a rectangle around multiple files. The non-SVG cards in the card games are rescaled in a terribly ugly way, and the SVG card decks all have an ugly design.
But the productivity loss with kate and the file managers is still the worse of all, KDE has become unproductive as hell for me, and I use KDE 3.5 as long as possible.
I've got nothing but good memories of FS version 5.0, played on a 386 computer. I've seen Flight Simulator X in action recently and it looked fantastic. This is one of the things of MS that are actually good, what a shame to see it go. If they contract FS out, that's not the same...
I suppose it's reasonable to assume there will be new consoles then, given the durations of the past console generations. Of course, nothing is certain and it can always be that the current console iteration will take longer than 5 years.
I had a 500GB Seagate drive in an external enclosure. I always bought Seagate drives, because in the past I've seen 2 Maxtor drives fail and no Seagate ones. Anyway, after a while the external closure didn't work anymore, and the disk made clicking spinup sounds all the time (trouble with the controller of the enclosure maybe, it happened both with USB and eSata). So I moved the drive inside my PC and it's been working without problems for almost a year in there now. I hope it keeps doing so.
What's the problem of using the proprietary NVidia driver? I don't use Ubunty, nor Debian (but Archlinux), and of course I use the proprietary NVidia driver. It rocks! It works! I can play DirectX 9 games released in 2008, in Wine! What has this got to do with being novice or not?
Tomb Raider is one of those games where you have the "key" puzzles. You have no idea why some puzzle doesn't work, and there's a HUGE world out there, where anywhere in there the piece needed for this puzzle can be. And then the search begins.... Sometimes that can be frustrating, but on the other hand it can also be very rewarding.
What? The Blizzard that made Diablo, WarCraft, WarCraft II and StarCraft? Is it related to Guitar Hero and Call of Duty now? Nooo, how can this be, what did I miss? Where is the small company that made brilliant games, gone? *sobs*
Hey, you actually got a very nice reply from EA Thailand explaining you why they didn't provide the English locale there. Someone actually read your mail and manually typed a reply explaining the situation, and quite honest too. No auto-generated mail. This gets my respect.
Maybe that is because of the DRM, even if you buy the game, you still have to pirate it to be able to play a clean version (clean meaning without DRM restrictions of course).
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Maybe if you make a beowulf cluster of them.
If xkcd makes a comic about a quantum entangled romance, I would be really, really, bored and unsurprised. Because they've already made enough comics about romance and I miss the good old classics.
Ok, by non-root mode I meant my user. Which is what I'm running as, and who launches the script or executable. Who did you think I mean by non-root?
Why the negative tone? I'm glad to hear that even XP will come with IE8. Do you know what the alternative is? IE6. IE6 is old and useless, the less people use it the better. For web developers it's better not to have to support IE6 anymore. It doesn't even support transparent PNGs, you know? So yay for IE8 instead of IE6 in Windows. Even if I don't use nor like it, the fact that it gets shoved on everyone's PC instead of IE6 is good.
If I'd be attacked by a virus, my concern would be my personal files, not the OS files. An OS can be reinstalled, personal files not. In non-root mode, ANY program can access my personal files, email them, upload them, delete them, mutilate them, etc... I think the only thing that can protect against that is to only run executables and scripts that come from a source you know is safe. But if the repositories would be hacked, then even that source isn't safe!
The Mayan calender ends in 2012, not 2010!
And I've been thinking that RTS would also be very interesting, there is even a more huge difference between a human opponent and a computer opponent: with a computer opponent you abuse his AI (e.g. building walls because the PC is so dumb to attack walls with his ranged units instead of your gatherers), while against a human opponent your tactic is really dependent on who it is :)
They chose prisoner's dilemma as game, instead of a first person shooter! I mean, PC gaming doesn't really make me think about things simpler than tic-tac-toe. I thought this was going to be about playing versus a bot or a human in a FPS game, which would have been much more interesting. There you really place yourself in the mind of the opponent: "he's heading towards the center of deck 16, he'll probably jump down and take the shield belt there now", or the psychology of someone who keeps dying, or who just got a killing spree. Or if it's bots: "yep, he's following that same preprogrammed path again". Probably the results of the MRI scans will be similar.
Yes, that's crossed the line. Not just google does it. I know this article is about Mac, but I don't have a Mac. I do come into contact with Windows regularly. Half of the apps you install on Windows, have their own background application for updates. That's stupid. What Windows (and appearantly Mac too, right?) need, is a package management system, like Linux, where the user can, with one simple command, update all his software at once, without needing to run annoying background applications that auto check for updates all the time.
EDIT: Ok, so I DID see the popup. I just thought popup meant a new browser window, not some dynamic thing floating on the same page. So yeah, I see them. Nothing adblock can't handle.
The site http://www.adimpact.com/ tells me "did you see the popup? refresh to see it again". Well, I don't see it. There is no popup. And Adblock marks nothing in red on that site, so the popup just doesn't work. This in SeaMonkey browser.
There should be Windows-Distros. Each distro has its own set of software installed, and the manufacturor chooses which distro's of Windows he offers. E.g. a manufactorer can create a distro with firefox and one with chrome, and let the user choose which distro he wants. I think a distro with IE (as long as there also exist others to choose from), or with multiple browsers (including or not including IE amongst them), should also be allowed. This can be applied to other software too, e.g. a distro of Windows with Audacity, Gimp, OpenOffice, ... preinstalled.
KDE 3.5 kicks gnome's ass! Linus should do like me, go back to KE 3.5. I was able to do it thanks to KDEmod! Thanks, KDEmod guys!
The only thing I liked about KDE 4 was the graphical effects, e.g. the look of the alt+tab, composite desktop, etc... I wish that the KDE guys had made KDE 3.5 with the KDE 4 graphics, but not touched everything else with weird downgrades of once productive functionality. If they had done that (just update the graphics and using the new Qt), they'd have had less work and thus a release in time, and I would have been a LOT happier with the release to not see all my productivity broken by it.
I've used KDE 4.1 for a month. Then I switched back to KDE 3.5, and was the happiest guy in the world to have my good old desktop back! I use Kate a lot for programming C++ and Actionscript projects. In KDE 3.5, Kate rocks. In KDE 4.1, they have, on purpose (by design) ruined the search function of Kate (no whole word option, it doesn't search for the same word in the different open documents), making it unusable for programming (especially refactoring). They have totally made the file managers unusable. No proper working tree. Konqueror can have a tree, but it has the most annoying horizontal autoscroll thing ever (again by design), and you can't drag anything to it. The unzip tool (Ark) is a joke (I've never seen it working). No possibility to have two rows in your taskbar. I *need* to have one row that acts as quick launch for programs, and another row that has the buttons of open windows, one for every window, and only the windows on the current desktop of the multi desktops. Terribly annoying behaviour in file managers and file open/save dialogs, it's so extremely hard, almost an annoying computer game, to select multiple files. Anything from dragging a rectangle around multiple files, to using ctrl + clicking, are all not working properly due to various reasons (such as when beginning to drag the rectangle, it thinks you want to drag 1 file, instead of dragging something around rectangles). Filenames in such lists are clickable everywhere, instead of only on the text of the name, and are in a very wide column by default, which is a second cause for making it hard to drag a rectangle around multiple files. The non-SVG cards in the card games are rescaled in a terribly ugly way, and the SVG card decks all have an ugly design.
But the productivity loss with kate and the file managers is still the worse of all, KDE has become unproductive as hell for me, and I use KDE 3.5 as long as possible.
I've got nothing but good memories of FS version 5.0, played on a 386 computer. I've seen Flight Simulator X in action recently and it looked fantastic. This is one of the things of MS that are actually good, what a shame to see it go. If they contract FS out, that's not the same...
I suppose it's reasonable to assume there will be new consoles then, given the durations of the past console generations. Of course, nothing is certain and it can always be that the current console iteration will take longer than 5 years.
I had a 500GB Seagate drive in an external enclosure. I always bought Seagate drives, because in the past I've seen 2 Maxtor drives fail and no Seagate ones. Anyway, after a while the external closure didn't work anymore, and the disk made clicking spinup sounds all the time (trouble with the controller of the enclosure maybe, it happened both with USB and eSata). So I moved the drive inside my PC and it's been working without problems for almost a year in there now. I hope it keeps doing so.
What's the problem of using the proprietary NVidia driver? I don't use Ubunty, nor Debian (but Archlinux), and of course I use the proprietary NVidia driver. It rocks! It works! I can play DirectX 9 games released in 2008, in Wine! What has this got to do with being novice or not?
Tomb Raider is one of those games where you have the "key" puzzles. You have no idea why some puzzle doesn't work, and there's a HUGE world out there, where anywhere in there the piece needed for this puzzle can be. And then the search begins.... Sometimes that can be frustrating, but on the other hand it can also be very rewarding.
If the reversal of the magnetic poles happens so often and yet there still is life on this planet, why would it kill us?
What? The Blizzard that made Diablo, WarCraft, WarCraft II and StarCraft? Is it related to Guitar Hero and Call of Duty now? Nooo, how can this be, what did I miss? Where is the small company that made brilliant games, gone? *sobs*
Oh gee, you slashdotted a bash.org quote, look at the score of that quote rising now!
Hey, you actually got a very nice reply from EA Thailand explaining you why they didn't provide the English locale there. Someone actually read your mail and manually typed a reply explaining the situation, and quite honest too. No auto-generated mail. This gets my respect.
Maybe that is because of the DRM, even if you buy the game, you still have to pirate it to be able to play a clean version (clean meaning without DRM restrictions of course).