If yahoo gets bought and compartmentalized, then people will still have access to the big dirty internet. They may even start a new, non-purchaseable web directory and set of services. I know I'd chip in some time to making a free yahoo if the big one went away.
The MPAA gives this film two thumbs up! They're encouraging all directors working under their studios to make quick edits and confusing camera work. having a good memory means you have been decrypting their efforts in your head! confiscate the head!!
Just for reference, an article on the Pokemon seizure incident is located here - it has a realvideo clip of the problem scene.
I can't find the animated gif I first saw, but it was alternating blue and red, and consisted of two small circles arranged horizontally of one color, surrounded by a background of the other- and the colors swapped several times per second.
And I'm sure we all remember the warnings on the first page of the Nintendo game manuals stating that if you have epilepsy, that the flashing used in some games _could_ cause a problem for you. But the problem really pretty much depended on a pre-existing condition. I'm sure there would've been a huge backlash if there had been any games released to the public that caused seizures in any significant percentage of the populace.
(BTW, although I don't have any nintendo game manuals anymore, the Playstation game manuals contain a similar warning. The symptoms, though, aren't depression (??? where did that come from?) - they're involuntary twitching, disorientation, loss of muscle control, etc.)
eah i feel like a dork.. i loaded this page, then took the dog for a walk, and came back to read this post modded up to +3 Informative with no replies and i didn't see that other people had already called him on it.
and, just for completeness' sake, we should mention the Pokemon seizure episode that sent something like 500 kids to the hospital in Japan. Alternating flashing colors in that episode of the cartoon tv show caused the seizures old video games don't. A short time after the cartoon was released, btw, somewhere on the net someone put up an animated gif with alternating colors, like in the cartoon, and I couldn't stare at it for very long without feeling incredibly sick to my stomach - scary stuff!
If you replaced the ABC station identification spot with one that contained the proper flashing colors, you could really pull a number on a hell of a lot of people.
There's nothing special about the flashing in 80s video games that causes epilepsy more than now! That's a complete load of crap. Doesn't anyone think that if there was any truth to this "graphics flashing at a particular frequency" at all, that we'd all be very familiar with its effects by now (eg, it would be exploited six ways to sunday- daredevils would stare at flashing screens to intentionally go into seizure, armies would accompany their attacks with flashing of this frequency, etc)?
And the second paragraph - the cheesy graphics require dangerous imagination to be used? How did people ever survive when they had to exercise their imagination by reading books!?
Maybe your brother became depressed because he sat around playing games all day, instead of doing healthy things like socializing and getting exercise. Lack of those two things is far more likely to cause depression than video games.
how much are they paying you to spend that kind of time doing a job? if you think it's worth it, consider this instead - would you take their dollar-per-hour amount to willingly end your life one hour sooner? every hour you spend on the job is an hour lost, an hour that could've been spent making or doing something worthwhile, not just building another dot-com product. there's no amount of money that makes those hours make sense.
work 20 hours a week and make something good of your life.
hi. i'm plugging my php-based forum system, too. unfortunately, my server's down due to ISP wackiness right now, but when it comes back up, check out the Fojar Communication System. it's incredibly quick to set up, comes with _tonnes_ of examples, is pretty flexible in how you arrange comments (it'd be an ideal replacement for things like zdnet's tlakback..), and it's got a nifty admin tool.
Hi. Excellent post. Our team is currently writing a couple of games for simultaneous shareware release on Win32, Linus, and Mac. (We're using the handy SDL toolkit.)
I'm actually not sure if I agree with your first assertion. We're not going to release the source to our gaming engine, but I think it probably wouldn't matter all that much if we did, because the important parts of what we're releasing is the data that runs the engine. If gamers wanted to modify the engine, it wouldn't give them access to the extra levels and game packs we're making. That's the meaty part of what we're selling, really, the creative part. The engine is just the playback routine for the data.
Why does this very comment always come up whenever anyone mentions GUI-anything!!
Say you have just downloaded 100 pics off your digital camera, and they're named pic00001.jpg through pic00100.jpg - and say you have a GUI filemanager with thumbnail display of graphics... tell me, how is your CLI going to help you pick out the 10 pictures you took of your dog faster than I can point and click on the 10 icons with a little picture of my dog inside them?
Tab-completion only works when you have files with dissimilar names.
Grep only works on text files.
Ls only works if you don't need to preview your files in any way - I guarantee you it's faster for me to double-click on 20 different mp3s to hear the first few seconds than it is for you to type (including tab-completion) mpg123 St[tab]n[tab]*beep*[ctrl-D]G[tab]-Girl[tab][enter] . Same goes for images.
Not to mention being able to select many files with vastly different names (such that wildcard globbing wouldn't work) and manipulate them - there's another operation where GUI filemanagers are a definite plus.
i don't think english will lose its dominance any time soon, really. what's happening with english's widespread use is that american culture is both being pushed on foreigners, and indeed foreigners are also pulling on american culture - we want to sell it to them and they want to buy it. the language comes part and parcel with this.
when the roman empire was growing, there was a definite push from rome to spread the use of latin (and speed the adoption of roman ways into local culture), but as it grew in power and as people began to realize that their towns would be better off joining with the romans (say, for protection against the neighbors they'd been squabbling with for decades), they would stand to gain more from joining up with the romans and learning a bit of latin.
This AC has a point - if not conforming was so easy, why wouldn't everyone be a nonconformist?
This never-ending series of Hellmouth articles really demonstrates how deeply the victim-culture has ingrained itself in our ways of thinking. "I did something someone stronger than me didn't approve of, and they beat me for it!" If you don't want to face the consequences of a situation, why on earth would you put yourself into that situation?
God, these people are such whiners and self-serving assholes, it's no wonder they got beat up as children (eg, "I'm so smart, I can out-smartass all the jocks put together!")
or, think about it. every time you make a credit card purchase of some pants, the store has the size of the pants filed away with your credit card number. they can use the number to get your personal information if they want, and can then sell your pant size to marketers.
then what happens?
THEY SEND YOU ADVERTISING PRE-FORMATTED WITH YOUR PANT SIZE!
actually, public domain means that there are absolutely no restrictions on the work. code placed into the public domain has no copyright attached to it, no license, no concept of ownership. so you could download every public domain program and offer it as your own. you just can't take the original back out of public domain.
I'd love to take over the project, but I've got a handful of my own (not counting "finding a job";) ):
First and foremost, The Mutton Kombat Project. To even get started on this, I'm working on an as-yet-unreleased game for Linus/SVGALib; as a way to build my luaC svgalib bindings. Interesting stuff... I just wish I was getting paid for it!!
Glad to hear that at least _someone_ cares about making computers more functional, not just more complicated.
Hi. I've compiled KDE and QT from source, compiling QT with -fno-exceptions, and although they're stable and all, they're dreadfully slow drawing windows and rendering lots of icons and widgets, and starting up any KDE program makes my computer think for a noticeable length of time before acting on the request.
What on earth can I do to make the software more usable? I've asked on dot.kde.org and no one gave any helpful replies, so I thought I'd ask here. I'd really like to get Konq running at a good speed, because I hate using netscape (ugly fonts [no, i won't do that stupid mozfonts hack, because those were no better than what I see right now], crashy crashy syndrome, bad HTML capabilities).
this is exactly right. And you'd think Jon Katz would be acutely aware of it. Everyone remember when he was trying to get linux going on his laptop or whatever, and his dog ate his modem and we had wave after wave of articles announcing "Well, I installed the CD disc into the CD-ROM drive and turned back on my computer, but I had put the disc in upside down..." and then _finally_ he got it running?
Even today, JK suffers incredible abuse at the hands of people on slashdot who don't think he belongs here. Browse _any_ article, not just JK ones, at -1, and you'll see JK flames up the yin-yang. He's a running gag on slashdot. And he still says nerds are the persecuted class?
in Rambus, and then donate your new wealth to the EFF...
after buying a new car;)
But seriously, why don't more people take advantage of an opportunity to invest in companies that do well financially, and then turn around and donate the wealth to causes that fight them?
What a way to stick it to the less-socially-conscious shareholders, eh?
We're not enough people to make a difference! Talk to your friends, get them pumped about the kind of tricks the music industry is trying to play with their wallets, do whatever it takes to get them to care, and then tell them how they can contact their representatives, too. And get them to pass it on.
And above all, SEND REAL MAIL! This point is repeated in every article about contacting our reps, but it's worth repeating again...
REAL MAIL IS THE BEST WAY TO SHOW THEM YOU CARE
If 1/10th of us write a letter, and we get our girlfriends/boyfriends to write letters, and they get one friend of theirs to write a letter, that's worth more than every one of us sending 10 emails from our various email accounts.
No, despite the billion uses for Linux, how compact and trimmed you can get it, etc etc, QNX still has a very valuable place in the computer world.
It's NOT LINUX!!
It's good to have choice. That's why we have a bazillion window managers and theming skinnable apps that give you a billion ways to dump core. >:(
But aside from the bland "choice is good" mantra, QNX has definite good qualities of its own - it's very lightweight, very fast, has a decent GUI system going for it (despite not having DND, which I deem a semi-serious flaw, but one that could be tackled), and it could teach other people a thing or two yet with the way it does stuff. And even if it doesn't even have anything to teach, it's still a potentially very useful OS to run on one's computer. Time will tell. Time and apps.
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If yahoo gets bought and compartmentalized, then people will still have access to the big dirty internet. They may even start a new, non-purchaseable web directory and set of services. I know I'd chip in some time to making a free yahoo if the big one went away.
Steve
STALIN LOOKS WORRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
won't you jump on my finger like georgewashington
THE GATES IS BETTER THAN THE LINUS
SUX0RB0ToZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Do not attempt to manufactore with the linus!!!!!!!!!!
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It sux0r-b0t0rzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Join byxnet THAT IS MANERO-NET 2000
Also, suck a llama's smelly ass
TEH SALSHDOT SUKX0R-B0T0RZ!!!!!
The MPAA gives this film two thumbs up! They're encouraging all directors working under their studios to make quick edits and confusing camera work. having a good memory means you have been decrypting their efforts in your head! confiscate the head!!
I can't find the animated gif I first saw, but it was alternating blue and red, and consisted of two small circles arranged horizontally of one color, surrounded by a background of the other- and the colors swapped several times per second.
And I'm sure we all remember the warnings on the first page of the Nintendo game manuals stating that if you have epilepsy, that the flashing used in some games _could_ cause a problem for you. But the problem really pretty much depended on a pre-existing condition. I'm sure there would've been a huge backlash if there had been any games released to the public that caused seizures in any significant percentage of the populace.
(BTW, although I don't have any nintendo game manuals anymore, the Playstation game manuals contain a similar warning. The symptoms, though, aren't depression (??? where did that come from?) - they're involuntary twitching, disorientation, loss of muscle control, etc.)
and, just for completeness' sake, we should mention the Pokemon seizure episode that sent something like 500 kids to the hospital in Japan. Alternating flashing colors in that episode of the cartoon tv show caused the seizures old video games don't. A short time after the cartoon was released, btw, somewhere on the net someone put up an animated gif with alternating colors, like in the cartoon, and I couldn't stare at it for very long without feeling incredibly sick to my stomach - scary stuff!
If you replaced the ABC station identification spot with one that contained the proper flashing colors, you could really pull a number on a hell of a lot of people.
And the second paragraph - the cheesy graphics require dangerous imagination to be used? How did people ever survive when they had to exercise their imagination by reading books!?
Maybe your brother became depressed because he sat around playing games all day, instead of doing healthy things like socializing and getting exercise. Lack of those two things is far more likely to cause depression than video games.
This is ridiculous.
work 20 hours a week and make something good of your life.
I'm actually not sure if I agree with your first assertion. We're not going to release the source to our gaming engine, but I think it probably wouldn't matter all that much if we did, because the important parts of what we're releasing is the data that runs the engine. If gamers wanted to modify the engine, it wouldn't give them access to the extra levels and game packs we're making. That's the meaty part of what we're selling, really, the creative part. The engine is just the playback routine for the data.
But we do expect to be paid, of course :)
Say you have just downloaded 100 pics off your digital camera, and they're named pic00001.jpg through pic00100.jpg - and say you have a GUI filemanager with thumbnail display of graphics... tell me, how is your CLI going to help you pick out the 10 pictures you took of your dog faster than I can point and click on the 10 icons with a little picture of my dog inside them?
Tab-completion only works when you have files with dissimilar names.
Grep only works on text files.
Ls only works if you don't need to preview your files in any way - I guarantee you it's faster for me to double-click on 20 different mp3s to hear the first few seconds than it is for you to type (including tab-completion) mpg123 St[tab]n[tab]*beep*[ctrl-D]G[tab]-Girl[tab][enter] . Same goes for images.
Not to mention being able to select many files with vastly different names (such that wildcard globbing wouldn't work) and manipulate them - there's another operation where GUI filemanagers are a definite plus.
when the roman empire was growing, there was a definite push from rome to spread the use of latin (and speed the adoption of roman ways into local culture), but as it grew in power and as people began to realize that their towns would be better off joining with the romans (say, for protection against the neighbors they'd been squabbling with for decades), they would stand to gain more from joining up with the romans and learning a bit of latin.
i think english is here to stay for a while...
This never-ending series of Hellmouth articles really demonstrates how deeply the victim-culture has ingrained itself in our ways of thinking. "I did something someone stronger than me didn't approve of, and they beat me for it!" If you don't want to face the consequences of a situation, why on earth would you put yourself into that situation?
God, these people are such whiners and self-serving assholes, it's no wonder they got beat up as children (eg, "I'm so smart, I can out-smartass all the jocks put together!")
then what happens?
THEY SEND YOU ADVERTISING PRE-FORMATTED WITH YOUR PANT SIZE!
so what?
actually, public domain means that there are absolutely no restrictions on the work. code placed into the public domain has no copyright attached to it, no license, no concept of ownership. so you could download every public domain program and offer it as your own. you just can't take the original back out of public domain.
First and foremost, The Mutton Kombat Project. To even get started on this, I'm working on an as-yet-unreleased game for Linus/SVGALib; as a way to build my luaC svgalib bindings. Interesting stuff... I just wish I was getting paid for it!!
Glad to hear that at least _someone_ cares about making computers more functional, not just more complicated.
Thanks,
Steve
The point of a file manager is that it makes simple tasks easier© If you can eye-ball 5 different pictures out of 40 similarly named ones ¥say, just off a digital camera, drag them to a floppy disk, and take the disk with you, that's going to be faster than loading a viewer for your pictures, or even a thumbnail-display program, because the command-line completion won't work quite as well when all the files share similar names©
And no one is saying the command line will go away! I use it, too© I just changed the optimization commands for my KDE source tree with a one-liner find+perl command© The command line was extremely handy! But I'm glad that I have graphical file managers, as well, because I sometimes like to move parts of my directory structure around relative to others, while still being able to see the big picture; eg, how everything is organized altogether© Just Use the right tools for the job , for christ's sake©
What on earth can I do to make the software more usable? I've asked on dot.kde.org and no one gave any helpful replies, so I thought I'd ask here. I'd really like to get Konq running at a good speed, because I hate using netscape (ugly fonts [no, i won't do that stupid mozfonts hack, because those were no better than what I see right now], crashy crashy syndrome, bad HTML capabilities).
Thanks for any help,
Steve
this is exactly right. And you'd think Jon Katz would be acutely aware of it. Everyone remember when he was trying to get linux going on his laptop or whatever, and his dog ate his modem and we had wave after wave of articles announcing "Well, I installed the CD disc into the CD-ROM drive and turned back on my computer, but I had put the disc in upside down..." and then _finally_ he got it running?
Even today, JK suffers incredible abuse at the hands of people on slashdot who don't think he belongs here. Browse _any_ article, not just JK ones, at -1, and you'll see JK flames up the yin-yang. He's a running gag on slashdot. And he still says nerds are the persecuted class?
What a bunch of crap.
after buying a new car ;)
But seriously, why don't more people take advantage of an opportunity to invest in companies that do well financially, and then turn around and donate the wealth to causes that fight them?
What a way to stick it to the less-socially-conscious shareholders, eh?
(btw, Pokey's back)
Good stuff - strong encryption all the way baby!
Now where's my tempest-foiling encrypted X display? ;)
And above all, SEND REAL MAIL! This point is repeated in every article about contacting our reps, but it's worth repeating again...
REAL MAIL IS THE BEST WAY TO SHOW THEM YOU CARE
If 1/10th of us write a letter, and we get our girlfriends/boyfriends to write letters, and they get one friend of theirs to write a letter, that's worth more than every one of us sending 10 emails from our various email accounts.
GAIN EVERLASTING LIFE
It's NOT LINUX!!
It's good to have choice. That's why we have a bazillion window managers and theming skinnable apps that give you a billion ways to dump core. >:(
But aside from the bland "choice is good" mantra, QNX has definite good qualities of its own - it's very lightweight, very fast, has a decent GUI system going for it (despite not having DND, which I deem a semi-serious flaw, but one that could be tackled), and it could teach other people a thing or two yet with the way it does stuff. And even if it doesn't even have anything to teach, it's still a potentially very useful OS to run on one's computer. Time will tell. Time and apps.
Don't dump on it (yet).
GAIN EVERLASTING LIFE!