Birdris is a free DOS game by Andrew Bird (who does not seem to have a web site) from 1996 that does the same thing. According to the readme, the author's score was 24 lines at the time of release.
* auto-switch to "list" view whenever opened, regardless of the last view setting
* auto-sort the "details" view by name, regardless of the last sort setting
* auto-switch to top of list in "details" view - that may arguably the correct behavior but when opening files in the same directory from the same application I want the dialog to remember the scrollbar position to make going over a long list of files and opening some of them less annoying.
Is there any open source (or at least free) software that can fix these problems? Is there any software that fixes the last one?
At least Microsoft figured out by now how to make file dialogs resizable so we can see more than 6 or 12 files at the same time.
So the public can observe the proceedings, as long as nobody tells anybody else?
A secret simply cannot be contained this way. It sounds like they're relying on people to be honest - the data isn't even watermarked individually in each person's brain - so how can they really be surprised?
It sounds like they don't have a problem with the entire population of Canada being present (barring physical restrictions) but for some reason replicating the information later is bad.
Come on! If you don't want information to get out, restrict access to it. The story here is not that what happened; it's the broken security itself.
P.S. Let me get this straight: If I attend the proceedings, I'm not allowed to tell anybody? Even a spouse? Or am I only allowed to tell people I meet in person? Is it legal to send snail mail regarding the experience? email? send it to a mailing list? Is it OK as long as I don't do this for a living?
The whole thing seems to be based on the distinction between members of the press and non-publicators. This distinction is arbitrary and archaic.
My gf has been egging me to get rid of the TIVO and go with the cable company offering for a while now. She wants the ability to watch one show while recording another, and the ability to use the DVR with Hi-Def programming.
TiVo invested a huge amount in usability design and testing. Cable boxes are rushed to market so the cable companies can say they have them too, but when you figure out how slow and unintuitive the interface is you'll be sorry.
Just thinking about the stupid Cox Cable DVR makes my skin crawl, so I won't bother you with specifics.
I hate ads - when I lived in the (SF) bay area and my only option was a company that displayed a random banner ad for at least three seconds whenever you changed the channel I decided to just do without TV altogether. But what TiVo's doing doesn't really hurt you - they're just showing you stuff when you FF through commercials anyway. It's not like they're blocking the actual show (if they've made a mistake like that once it won't happen again). So who cares? The real content is still there.
P.S. I don't know how much hi-defness is actually retained when you save hi-def content. anyone?
DRM is the cornerstone of iTunes acceptance among the music industry. Without DRM, there is no way iTunes would even exist.
Or perhaps... iTunes is the cornerstone of DRM acceptance among the music industry, and without iTunes, DRM may not exist (or at least seem like such a good idea any more?)
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It just means that they believe they can track any copyright infringement, regardless of the encryption and privacy features of future P2P tools or any legal problems (EULA for P2P clients / connections).
Where such shows deviate from reality is the unrealistic speed at which the actors are able to identify, apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators. In the real world, (unlike television, where the crime must be solved by the end of the family hour), crimes are solved with slow, deliberate and methodical steps.
Great. Now the criminals know they probably won't be caught. Good job!
Instead of messing with all that, I stopped by the Cox office and they gave us a new cable box for free and the extra DVR functionality for an extra ten dollars a month over what he had already been paying. He's not going to notice a big difference between that and Tivo, so it's definitely "good enough".
But only because he's never used a TiVo.
I own a TiVo, and hate hate hate using Cox's DVR, which has horrible usability issues, even apart from the response times (over a second for basic operations).
As a random example - if you view a list and press page-down, you're now at the TOP of the next page. Pressing page-down again brings you to the bottom of the page and another press to the top of the next page.
TiVo practically always does exactly what I expect when I press a button, and the layout is so convenient that I never have to look at the remote.
I would gladly buy TiVo's UI people a round of drinks, but could get violent if I ever met Cox's DVR's developers (it looks like they have no UI people and let the programmers do it).
Wow! I mean, what are the odds?
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They both were in a room, you say? That is a good fact!
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Sonic the Hedgehog collection does the same annoying thing where you have to play Sonic 1 to unlock, say, Comics Zone or some of the other "bonus" games on the disk. How irritating! Either put those games on the disk or don't, but making me win Sonic 2 10 times before I can play them? Moronic.
It's actually worse than that, I'm afraid. Let's check gamefaqs:
Blue Sphere: Play Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 3d Blast 20 times each. Flicky: Play Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 30 times. Knuckles in Sonic 2: Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic Spinball 20 times each. Ristar: Play Blue Sphere, Knuckles in Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and Knuckles, and Flicky 30 times each. Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Play Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles 20 times each.
So if you want to get to those games, you're in for a half-hour of select-game, start-game, exit-game, wait-until-the-count-is-auto-saved. That's right, you wait a couple of extra seconds when switching games so the system will be able to keep track of how close you are to unlocking the bonus stuff.
The Atari Anthology emulation may be nice...
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but the menus you had to navigate to get to the games made no sense. The games are represented as stars in constellations - seemingly a 2D menu - which you can only navigate as a 1D menu (prev/next). And doing well on one game unlocks stuff for other games - the developers expect you to treat the games as a whole, not just dive into the ones you like and ignore the others.
I loved Activision Anthology but I hate the Atari one. It's certainly not due to the emulation quality. It may be the games, but I suspect it's the way the material is presented. Perfect emulation isn't everything - you need to avoid ruining the experience.
Seriously, I look at this as a corrolary to the article posted yesterday. And I think Woody says it best: this is nothing but shameless franchise whoring.
Not every game has to be innovative. It's DDR for a platform that had no DDR game before. It's still a good game. Kids (and others) will get a kick out of the inclusion of familiar and loved characters.
Nintendo's happy, Konami's happy, gamers are happy.
If the game does not appeal to you, it's a pretty good clue you're not the intended audience. Go back to playing manhunt - that's bound to make the world a happier place.
Of course, with all the exercise he gets (Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Baseball, Mario Trout Fishing-xTreme), you think he'd be in better shape. Just what IS his diet anyway?
as long as they don't limit it to one type of media. That is, if they want to do this for games, also do it for movies, books, TV, newspapers, etc.
Since only games are targeted, this is either a case of "let's ban what we didn't grow up with" or "let's target one industry that doesn't contribute anything to our campaigns - that ought to teach 'em".
Given just how mangled Fellowship of the Ring was in terms of the original characters and meaning of the book, I can only assume that UKlG has never read Lord of the Rings. Boyens' presence was a guarantee that the characters would be unrecognisable and that the story would be reduced to a shallow and meaningless shadow of its former self.
If you think FOTR was mangled, just wait until His Dark Materials hits the big screen. (A BBC article about the changes can be found here).
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Its cool, but it sounds like a real potential for darwin awards ("damn, ill get you. Just another round..." *splash*)
A *splash* may or may not result in a Darwin award. I think the word you were looking for was *splat*.
Birdris is a free DOS game by Andrew Bird (who does not seem to have a web site) from 1996 that does the same thing. According to the readme, the author's score was 24 lines at the time of release.
According to Andrew Lack, President of Sony Music, "P2P stands for piracy to pornography." Which P are you planning to use, MPAA?
* auto-switch to "list" view whenever opened, regardless of the last view setting
* auto-sort the "details" view by name, regardless of the last sort setting
* auto-switch to top of list in "details" view - that may arguably the correct behavior but when opening files in the same directory from the same application I want the dialog to remember the scrollbar position to make going over a long list of files and opening some of them less annoying.
Is there any open source (or at least free) software that can fix these problems? Is there any software that fixes the last one?
At least Microsoft figured out by now how to make file dialogs resizable so we can see more than 6 or 12 files at the same time.
Even if he had sent only 10 million emails overall, not per day, that's still less than five minutes per offense.
How about a fine of $1 per offense? Do you think that's too harsh?
So the public can observe the proceedings, as long as nobody tells anybody else?
A secret simply cannot be contained this way. It sounds like they're relying on people to be honest - the data isn't even watermarked individually in each person's brain - so how can they really be surprised?
It sounds like they don't have a problem with the entire population of Canada being present (barring physical restrictions) but for some reason replicating the information later is bad.
Come on! If you don't want information to get out, restrict access to it. The story here is not that what happened; it's the broken security itself.
P.S. Let me get this straight: If I attend the proceedings, I'm not allowed to tell anybody? Even a spouse? Or am I only allowed to tell people I meet in person? Is it legal to send snail mail regarding the experience? email? send it to a mailing list? Is it OK as long as I don't do this for a living?
The whole thing seems to be based on the distinction between members of the press and non-publicators. This distinction is arbitrary and archaic.
My gf has been egging me to get rid of the TIVO and go with the cable company offering for a while now. She wants the ability to watch one show while recording another, and the ability to use the DVR with Hi-Def programming.
TiVo invested a huge amount in usability design and testing. Cable boxes are rushed to market so the cable companies can say they have them too, but when you figure out how slow and unintuitive the interface is you'll be sorry.
Just thinking about the stupid Cox Cable DVR makes my skin crawl, so I won't bother you with specifics.
I hate ads - when I lived in the (SF) bay area and my only option was a company that displayed a random banner ad for at least three seconds whenever you changed the channel I decided to just do without TV altogether. But what TiVo's doing doesn't really hurt you - they're just showing you stuff when you FF through commercials anyway. It's not like they're blocking the actual show (if they've made a mistake like that once it won't happen again). So who cares? The real content is still there.
P.S. I don't know how much hi-defness is actually retained when you save hi-def content. anyone?
DRM is the cornerstone of iTunes acceptance among the music industry. Without DRM, there is no way iTunes would even exist.
Or perhaps... iTunes is the cornerstone of DRM acceptance among the music industry, and without iTunes, DRM may not exist (or at least seem like such a good idea any more?)
Cause it comes down to this...who decides what's "harmful"?
Members of the Censorship Vendor Alliance, of course. After all, censorware vendors are making the same decisions for schools and libraries.
It's a wonderful thing to have a senator believe everything you want, isn't it?
It holds, like, 8 of them.
It just means that they believe they can track any copyright infringement, regardless of the encryption and privacy features of future P2P tools or any legal problems (EULA for P2P clients / connections).
If you're interested in board games, you could view a list of Games By Rating.
How many games in the top 100 have you even heard of?
Sounds just like what the xbox was missing.
Where such shows deviate from reality is the unrealistic speed at which the actors are able to identify, apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators. In the real world, (unlike television, where the crime must be solved by the end of the family hour), crimes are solved with slow, deliberate and methodical steps.
Great. Now the criminals know they probably won't be caught. Good job!
This deal is going to last 5475 days
Hello? Have you ever heard of leap years?
Some geek you are.
Instead of messing with all that, I stopped by the Cox office and they gave us a new cable box for free and the extra DVR functionality for an extra ten dollars a month over what he had already been paying. He's not going to notice a big difference between that and Tivo, so it's definitely "good enough".
But only because he's never used a TiVo.
I own a TiVo, and hate hate hate using Cox's DVR, which has horrible usability issues, even apart from the response times (over a second for basic operations).
As a random example - if you view a list and press page-down, you're now at the TOP of the next page. Pressing page-down again brings you to the bottom of the page and another press to the top of the next page.
TiVo practically always does exactly what I expect when I press a button, and the layout is so convenient that I never have to look at the remote.
I would gladly buy TiVo's UI people a round of drinks, but could get violent if I ever met Cox's DVR's developers (it looks like they have no UI people and let the programmers do it).
They both were in a room, you say? That is a good fact!
Sonic the Hedgehog collection does the same annoying thing where you have to play Sonic 1 to unlock, say, Comics Zone or some of the other "bonus" games on the disk. How irritating! Either put those games on the disk or don't, but making me win Sonic 2 10 times before I can play them? Moronic.
It's actually worse than that, I'm afraid. Let's check gamefaqs:
Blue Sphere: Play Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 3d Blast 20 times each.
Flicky: Play Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 30 times.
Knuckles in Sonic 2: Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic Spinball 20 times each.
Ristar: Play Blue Sphere, Knuckles in Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and Knuckles, and Flicky 30 times each.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Play Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles 20 times each.
So if you want to get to those games, you're in for a half-hour of select-game, start-game, exit-game, wait-until-the-count-is-auto-saved. That's right, you wait a couple of extra seconds when switching games so the system will be able to keep track of how close you are to unlocking the bonus stuff.
but the menus you had to navigate to get to the games made no sense. The games are represented as stars in constellations - seemingly a 2D menu - which you can only navigate as a 1D menu (prev/next). And doing well on one game unlocks stuff for other games - the developers expect you to treat the games as a whole, not just dive into the ones you like and ignore the others.
I loved Activision Anthology but I hate the Atari one. It's certainly not due to the emulation quality. It may be the games, but I suspect it's the way the material is presented. Perfect emulation isn't everything - you need to avoid ruining the experience.
Seriously, I look at this as a corrolary to the article posted yesterday. And I think Woody says it best: this is nothing but shameless franchise whoring.
Not every game has to be innovative. It's DDR for a platform that had no DDR game before. It's still a good game. Kids (and others) will get a kick out of the inclusion of familiar and loved characters.
Nintendo's happy, Konami's happy, gamers are happy.
If the game does not appeal to you, it's a pretty good clue you're not the intended audience. Go back to playing manhunt - that's bound to make the world a happier place.
Of course, with all the exercise he gets (Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Baseball, Mario Trout Fishing-xTreme), you think he'd be in better shape. Just what IS his diet anyway?
Yoshi's cookies.
as long as they don't limit it to one type of media. That is, if they want to do this for games, also do it for movies, books, TV, newspapers, etc.
Since only games are targeted, this is either a case of "let's ban what we didn't grow up with" or "let's target one industry that doesn't contribute anything to our campaigns - that ought to teach 'em".
Given just how mangled Fellowship of the Ring was in terms of the original characters and meaning of the book, I can only assume that UKlG has never read Lord of the Rings. Boyens' presence was a guarantee that the characters would be unrecognisable and that the story would be reduced to a shallow and meaningless shadow of its former self.
If you think FOTR was mangled, just wait until His Dark Materials hits the big screen. (A BBC article about the changes can be found here).
If this story gets more than 50 comments, please kill me now.
Oh yes, the old "something is of no use for me, so it must hold no value to anybody else".
This is such a horrid mindset, and one so common today, that I could not resist the need to bring you one comment closer to your death.
for new projects, C is a non-starter.
Not into embedded development, are you?