I forget that every slashdot reader takes everything ever posted as LITERAL =)
It was an EXAMPLE............ then again, since you don't know if any new technology will come out in the next 5 years that will blow Moore's law out of the water. So I could be right. =P
I'd say not.. in several years time, the average laptop / home PC will be able to crank out the work that the distributed project did in a week or so... meaning in a few years, an individual will be able to decrypt RC5-64 data in a realistic timeframe for (mis)use.
That's the point.... is RC5-64 (effectively) safe today? It sure the heck is.. this project proved that! Will it be safe in 5 years? Heck no, and that was the point.
IT's quite good... I don't think it's as full of features as Eudora, but if you want "simple" a mail client that can turn off HTML content in recieved messages, do plain or formatted sending, deal with multiple accts, it works well.
The "junk mail" filter is pretty darn good out of the box, and you can "train" it further by hitting the "JUNK" ubtton for messages that are spam.
I siwtched over to it from Eudora, and I'm very happy after a few weeks with it.
They are making it like Warcraft / most RTS games where you all "gather" in a waiting room, then start the server. Big deal....
DOOM3 is a SINGLE PLAYER game... anything they say about MP is probably invalid as it's leaving thier mouths... id knows damn well that there will be MP gaming in DOOM 3, but they aren't thinking about it now.
Besides, if you want multiplayer gaming with the DOOM 3 engine, one could always play Quake 4, which is in the works as well.
the first account you created does have root privs. You, as you pointed out, cannot run the 'su' command under OS X by default. You CAN use the 'sudo' command. You then use your "normal" password, because your first acct. has admin privs, and allows you to run sudo commands as root.
This information is avaliable on many, many, manmy websites, including Apple's.
As for why lots of "modern" UIs use Windows style menubars: Windows uses them because they can't design a good GUI. KDE and the lot use them because they want to make it as easy as possible for Windows users to switch over.
Huh? I recently got a TiBook at home, and a new G4 at work, IE5.5 was preloaded and set up as the default browser on both of them. (this quickly changed, because the one and only time I used IE on either machine was to go to mozilla.org)
IE is on, and has been on all shipping Macs for several years now.. both OS 9 and OS X.
I love cooking, and I love eating. What is your take on how often / how much to eat? There's the traditional "3 meals a day" we all grew up with, and various other toughts on the subject like the "six small meals a day" and "one huge meal in the AM, and just a few snacks the rest of the day"
What's your take... how often do you eat a day, or do you not "plan" eating, and just eat whenever hungry or at non-structured intervals?
Your interest in science as related to food is obvious, but are you a geek for other things as well?? What other technology / science to you follow, and are you a Slashdotter by any chance (or will you become one now??
You can choose which browser you tell servers you are (OPera, IE, a bunch of Netscapes) and by default, this is IE 5 (because so many stupid site builders check for IE only and won;t let you in of you don't have it).
Go to Quick Preferences in the File menu and change Idenfiy As... to whatever you want.
2. you neat at LEAST 60fps at all times, and every human eye is different, so your flicker rate and mine are different (and other things like beer and pot (both of which gamers may consume) changes it as well) A harcore, skilled gamer can definitely notice the difference between 50 and 60 fps.
DOOM III was demoed on a Mac (one of many articles on it) a while ago, and at least one member of the id staff uses a Mac for most / all their work.... AFAIK, it will be a close to simultaneous release for Mac/ PC like most id games.
From reading the comments, it's recoverable, or worst-case, a "duh" to make sure it never happens again.
So why don't the socially responsible, smart, "we told you so" of slashdot go fix it?
There has to be a few of you with the brains, proximity, and free time to help out..... save the taxpayers some $$, show that the geek community cares, get involved in the political process ("gee Mr. Mayor, talk to us before you do something stupid like this again, we may not save your ass next time!") and get good karma (the REAL stuff, not your silly post mods =)
Or are you like most folks who find it all too easy to bitch from the sidelines how the game is getting played?
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http://www.eskimospy.com/contentPages/phone.html It prints, if you use your back button, you go to the page you were on before. It's easy to write a text search in Flash.
The Quake3 mods are far superior to the inept Half-Life mods which use
Umm, Counter-Strike ?? by far THE most played mod EVER. The mod that was so popular, Valve sold it retail. The mod that is so "lame" Sierra is releasing Conidtion Zero, a Single Player game based on it. Guess those half-life mods suck.
(as the article states, the Half-Life engine, which, in turn uses the Q1 engine)
Half-Life is based on the Quake II enginge, not the Quake engine... if you are going to bitch about something, at least have a clue on the subject =)
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HTML is not consistant, Web BROWSERS are consistant... but that is another issue all together =)
I agree that Flash inherits som "usablility issues" if your goal is REPLACING a "normal" HTML page... but for applications that require animtaion (and by require, I do mean *require*, not those godawful 'skip intro' pile of crap every throws up in front of their sites because little Johnny leanred how to make a button in Flash =) and / or do things a normal web page can't do ( there are web-based apps I develop that are impossible to do in DHTML ) in which case you are losing the "this is a web page" metaphor anyway, and getting into "this is software.. it just happens to be deployed in your browser."
Two reasons: Good software takes time to make, and the fact that people need to eat.
Flash is a simply AMAZING authoring and development envirnonment. And before the typical folks who never used flash, never seen GOOD flash done on the web jump on the "Flash suxorz, flash is always stle over substance, flash sux! Flash is unusable" bandwagon start moaning, USE Flash, and develop some quality stuff with it. It's not hard... but like with most things, it's really easy to create crap with it... If I write a well formatted but crappy novel with OpenOffice, does OSS software sucks, and OpenOffice is "style over substance"? No, it means I can't write.
Anyway, back to the point. It takes time to develop software, and if you need to eat, you can either work on your software and charge for it (what macromedia does) or work on it in the time you are not making sure you can eat (what msot OSS software folks do)
The "problem" is that with a tool as comlplex and powerful as Flash, it takes a loooong time to create, and so the X number of months the for-profit guys turn thiers out in, it can (and most likely will) take X number of years for the OSS version to come out.
Obviously there are exception, and every case is different, but the volume of programming, and the various types of programming ( vector based drawing, type, actionScript compiler, timeline animation system, etc..) involved in creating a "Flash-alike" enviroment is a rather huge undertaking.
$500 is dirt cheap for something that can create the type of multimedia web and stand-alone applications that Flash is cabable of in a small ammount of time... I'm seeing Flash 5 selling for $400, or if you plan out what you want to to ahead of time, DL the 30 day trial... you can get 4 - 5 big projects done in a month =)
Re:Flash is Style over Substance -- no, it's not
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For every bad example of Flash usablility, I can show you 1,000 or more HTML usablility nightmares. So is HTML bad? No. Bad designers are bad. Unfortunately, Macromedia did such a good job at making thier tool taht even taltntless clods can create contnet.
Much like the way Slashdot made it so easy for cluless people to post.
Having worked in many an office where the sheep (ooops, I mean "users") don't know a thing about computers, security, operating systems, virii, or basically anything other than "When you need to make a bullet list, do this:..."
It doesn't take ANY user intervention. If the default action in IE is to excecute code, which, by golly, it is, then 99.999999999999999 percent of windows users will execute the code.
Users will ALWAYS hit return at a dialoge box. Windows trained them to do so. In this case it points out how shitty M$ is at UI / Security.
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I forget that every slashdot reader takes everything ever posted as LITERAL =)
It was an EXAMPLE............ then again, since you don't know if any new technology will come out in the next 5 years that will blow Moore's law out of the water. So I could be right. =P
I'd say not.. in several years time, the average laptop / home PC will be able to crank out the work that the distributed project did in a week or so... meaning in a few years, an individual will be able to decrypt RC5-64 data in a realistic timeframe for (mis)use.
That's the point.... is RC5-64 (effectively) safe today? It sure the heck is.. this project proved that! Will it be safe in 5 years? Heck no, and that was the point.
UT2003 != Open Source
Therefore, it has no place on an open source software sampler CD. READ... then post =)
Besides, even if it was, if you want to showcase games, UT2k3 (which is just UT with a Quake3 lookalike engine) is *not* what I'd choose!!!
Maybe it was the questions, but I was really looking forward to a good, long read....
I'm being selfish, but damnit, I wanted PAGES of answers!!!! =)
IT's quite good... I don't think it's as full of features as Eudora, but if you want "simple" a mail client that can turn off HTML content in recieved messages, do plain or formatted sending, deal with multiple accts, it works well.
The "junk mail" filter is pretty darn good out of the box, and you can "train" it further by hitting the "JUNK" ubtton for messages that are spam.
I siwtched over to it from Eudora, and I'm very happy after a few weeks with it.
Last time I checked, that was a singleplayer game that they threw a few LAN maps into at the last minute.... the rest is history.
An article all about this that makes one wonder why this story was posted at all.
They are making it like Warcraft / most RTS games where you all "gather" in a waiting room, then start the server. Big deal....
DOOM3 is a SINGLE PLAYER game... anything they say about MP is probably invalid as it's leaving thier mouths... id knows damn well that there will be MP gaming in DOOM 3, but they aren't thinking about it now.
Besides, if you want multiplayer gaming with the DOOM 3 engine, one could always play Quake 4, which is in the works as well.
the first account you created does have root privs. You, as you pointed out, cannot run the 'su' command under OS X by default. You CAN use the 'sudo' command. You then use your "normal" password, because your first acct. has admin privs, and allows you to run sudo commands as root.
This information is avaliable on many, many, manmy websites, including Apple's.
As for why lots of "modern" UIs use Windows style menubars: Windows uses them because they can't design a good GUI. KDE and the lot use them because they want to make it as easy as possible for Windows users to switch over.
ahhh.. I gets it now =)
Huh? I recently got a TiBook at home, and a new G4 at work, IE5.5 was preloaded and set up as the default browser on both of them. (this quickly changed, because the one and only time I used IE on either machine was to go to mozilla.org)
IE is on, and has been on all shipping Macs for several years now.. both OS 9 and OS X.
I love cooking, and I love eating. What is your take on how often / how much to eat? There's the traditional "3 meals a day" we all grew up with, and various other toughts on the subject like the "six small meals a day" and "one huge meal in the AM, and just a few snacks the rest of the day"
What's your take... how often do you eat a day, or do you not "plan" eating, and just eat whenever hungry or at non-structured intervals?
Your interest in science as related to food is obvious, but are you a geek for other things as well?? What other technology / science to you follow, and are you a Slashdotter by any chance (or will you become one now??
This is covered in the book, as well as in epsiode EA1B12, the tomato sauce one.
Good question, but we only have 10, so let's ask something he hasen't covered.
You can choose which browser you tell servers you are (OPera, IE, a bunch of Netscapes) and by default, this is IE 5 (because so many stupid site builders check for IE only and won;t let you in of you don't have it).
Go to Quick Preferences in the File menu and change Idenfiy As... to whatever you want.
HTH
1. I dunno. =)
2. you neat at LEAST 60fps at all times, and every human eye is different, so your flicker rate and mine are different (and other things like beer and pot (both of which gamers may consume) changes it as well) A harcore, skilled gamer can definitely notice the difference between 50 and 60 fps.
DOOM III was demoed on a Mac (one of many articles on it) a while ago, and at least one member of the id staff uses a Mac for most / all their work.... AFAIK, it will be a close to simultaneous release for Mac/ PC like most id games.
id only does OpenGL stuff. (They do use DirectX for sound on the PC versions, but graphics are ALWAYS OpenGL.)
HTH
From reading the comments, it's recoverable, or worst-case, a "duh" to make sure it never happens again.
So why don't the socially responsible, smart, "we told you so" of slashdot go fix it?
There has to be a few of you with the brains, proximity, and free time to help out..... save the taxpayers some $$, show that the geek community cares, get involved in the political process ("gee Mr. Mayor, talk to us before you do something stupid like this again, we may not save your ass next time!") and get good karma (the REAL stuff, not your silly post mods =)
Or are you like most folks who find it all too easy to bitch from the sidelines how the game is getting played?
http://www.eskimospy.com/contentPages/phone.html
It prints, if you use your back button, you go to the page you were on before. It's easy to write a text search in Flash.
Have a nice day
The Quake3 mods are far superior to the inept Half-Life mods which use
Umm, Counter-Strike ?? by far THE most played mod EVER. The mod that was so popular, Valve sold it retail. The mod that is so "lame" Sierra is releasing Conidtion Zero, a Single Player game based on it. Guess those half-life mods suck.
(as the article states, the Half-Life engine, which, in turn uses the Q1 engine)
Half-Life is based on the Quake II enginge, not the Quake engine... if you are going to bitch about something, at least have a clue on the subject =)
HTML is not consistant, Web BROWSERS are consistant... but that is another issue all together =)
I agree that Flash inherits som "usablility issues" if your goal is REPLACING a "normal" HTML page... but for applications that require animtaion (and by require, I do mean *require*, not those godawful 'skip intro' pile of crap every throws up in front of their sites because little Johnny leanred how to make a button in Flash =) and / or do things a normal web page can't do ( there are web-based apps I develop that are impossible to do in DHTML ) in which case you are losing the "this is a web page" metaphor anyway, and getting into "this is software.. it just happens to be deployed in your browser."
Two reasons: Good software takes time to make, and the fact that people need to eat.
Flash is a simply AMAZING authoring and development envirnonment. And before the typical folks who never used flash, never seen GOOD flash done on the web jump on the "Flash suxorz, flash is always stle over substance, flash sux! Flash is unusable" bandwagon start moaning, USE Flash, and develop some quality stuff with it. It's not hard... but like with most things, it's really easy to create crap with it... If I write a well formatted but crappy novel with OpenOffice, does OSS software sucks, and OpenOffice is "style over substance"? No, it means I can't write.
Anyway, back to the point. It takes time to develop software, and if you need to eat, you can either work on your software and charge for it (what macromedia does) or work on it in the time you are not making sure you can eat (what msot OSS software folks do)
The "problem" is that with a tool as comlplex and powerful as Flash, it takes a loooong time to create, and so the X number of months the for-profit guys turn thiers out in, it can (and most likely will) take X number of years for the OSS version to come out.
Obviously there are exception, and every case is different, but the volume of programming, and the various types of programming ( vector based drawing, type, actionScript compiler, timeline animation system, etc..) involved in creating a "Flash-alike" enviroment is a rather huge undertaking.
$500 is dirt cheap for something that can create the type of multimedia web and stand-alone applications that Flash is cabable of in a small ammount of time... I'm seeing Flash 5 selling for $400, or if you plan out what you want to to ahead of time, DL the 30 day trial... you can get 4 - 5 big projects done in a month =)
For every bad example of Flash usablility, I can show you 1,000 or more HTML usablility nightmares. So is HTML bad? No. Bad designers are bad. Unfortunately, Macromedia did such a good job at making thier tool taht even taltntless clods can create contnet.
Much like the way Slashdot made it so easy for cluless people to post.
That's stupid designers, not Flash. Change the tags to width=100% height=100% and you have vector art scaled to your screen that looks great.
Just like you can fix a TABLE to be a bad width (like width=1600), does that mean HTML sucks?
Having worked in many an office where the sheep (ooops, I mean "users") don't know a thing about computers, security, operating systems, virii, or basically anything other than "When you need to make a bullet list, do this:..."
It doesn't take ANY user intervention. If the default action in IE is to excecute code, which, by golly, it is, then 99.999999999999999 percent of windows users will execute the code.
Users will ALWAYS hit return at a dialoge box. Windows trained them to do so. In this case it points out how shitty M$ is at UI / Security.
C'est la Vie.