You should have chosen a different subject line more indictive of your content. Such as "Wikipedia Refuses to Work With My Proxy", or even better "My Proxy Refuses to Work With Wikipedia".
Seriously though, which proxy software are you using? I've used quite a few and I'm currently using Squid, and I've never seen the User-Agent dropped from requests. It's not generally a good idea since sites sometimes serve different content for different browsers (which makes a lot of sense concerning mobile devices).
I own the PS2 version, and the camera is totally controllable through the use of the second joystick. You can also switch to a distance perspective and first person perspective using the L2 and the R2 buttons.
MLDonkey is written in OCaml, and Morpheus in Visual C++. I doubt they copied any of code (since it obviously wouldn't compile or anything). They may have referenced MLDonkey, but that's an entirely different (and probably legal) situation.
Besides, many programs are doing the multi-network thing lately. Shareaza pops to mind as well.
I gave several examples. The example you're referring to - GBA ports - is about graphics specifically. I was saying that people still buy GBA games and play them on the big screen, even though the graphics "suck" compared to an X-Box.
Concerning backwards compatibility: Final Fantasy 1 through 9 (plus Tactics) is my primary backwards compatibility reason right now. Throw in Parasite Eve and a bunch of other discs, and it's awesome. I don't - and never have - owned a Playstation One, and I doubt I'd have had the chance to play any of these games since I didn't jump into console systems until recently.
And throwing out the format for the sake of inventing a format? I don't get it. Sony is doing this (supposedly) with the PSP and I don't like it there. I love the fact my PS2 plays my DVDs. When I travel, I bring the PS2 and folders of all my stuff - PS1 and PS2 games, as well as movies. Maybe I'm one of the rare people that doesn't want to pop the cash for three devices when this one suits me fine.
P.S.: The three devices referes to a PS1, PS2 and DVD Player - not a GC, XBox and PS2:-)
If you don't have a current-gen Xbox when the next-gen is released, you're not going to go out and buy old Xbox games. They'll be too blocky, or too low-res.
Really? That's interesting. I actually buy my games based on whether or not they're fun, and usually graphics have little to do with raw fun. Amplitude is probably one of the most played games in my collection - my entire family (and they're numerous) played it over the Christmas break and got hooked. I still play the "old" Final Fantasy games from the PS1, including the Chronicles and Anthology packs.
Shiny graphics and cool textures are neat and all, but they don't make the game. Halo is the perfect example. I looked forward to the PC release for a long time, and was quite interested in how good it would look on my Radeon 9800 PRO card. Then I got the game. Yeah, looks great - except you fight the same 4 bad guys through the entire game, your guy runs at about 1 meter per second, and halfway through the game they tell you to turn around and (slowly) walk back to the start! If I had bought an X-Box for Halo I would've felt totally ripped off. It should have the tagline "Pixel Shaders Evolved", not "Combat Evolved".
For more examples of fun over graphics, look at the GameCube and Gameboy Advance titles. The GBA has the graphics of the SNES, yet people are buying Gameboy Players to use them on the big screen.
So to me it appears that backwards compatibility is fairly important to people; we find good games, and there's no reason to throw them out when the next system comes along. You'll pry Final Fantasy Tactics, Frequency and Amplitude (and even XCOM for the PC) from my cold dead hands.
I've made the run in the last year from Toronto to Tokyo via Vancouver about six times, and I've never had to take out batteries at the Vancouver airport. They're usually so quick at the checkpoints there that I have lots of time to run out and smoke.
And in Toronto, this "first passenger being searched" doesn't sound right and I've never seen it myself. I personally get searched a lot since I'm young and travelling alone, but there's no specific ordering to who they search.
Many of my devices (laptop, PDAs, etc) have 802.11 and bluetooth and only "blast" these frequencies when the convenient wireless switch is in the ON position.
I've never had problems with my cell phones, even though one has a Japanese user interface, and the only place I've travelled that checked my shoes is Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Looking respectable is a good hint, although I find it much more easy if you look all scared and naive, like you're on your first flight. They treat you a little better than. Alternatively, act like a complete asshole. That's worked sometimes:-)
Lemme get this straight... This program installs a hook into IE that intercepts URLs and checks suspicous ones against a CGI script. Isn't that spyware?
And that's not a patch - call it an addon or a plugin.
No, I agree - it's called "Prologue" for a reason. My point was that there is competetive racing in the Prologue edition, and the 1UP review of Prologue says that there aren't.
I bought this last week and wrote about it, and the 1UP review has some bullshit that would lead me to believe they haven't played the game at all.
For example they say there's no playing against AI racers in the demo. Um, no. Three of the five maps have optional AI racers that can be turned on via the Options menu. Even if you don't read Japanese, it's pretty easy to just test out the different options.
Try out Second Life and you'll find that there aren't many kids playing. The game focuses on object and property creation, group cooperation and even scripting using the built-in language.
I'm not saying that kids are too dumb for this; I'm saying that the kids which Second Life would appeal too probably aren't the type to steal a credit card. This is just a guess though based on the fact that when I was a kid I would've loved to play this. And I wouldn't have stolen a credit card:-)
Cool. Again though, I still don't think I have a need for this. Any games I play do mixing themselves (and probably always will) via SDL_Mix I believe. But it's nice to know that ALSA will do it.
It does sound like a lot of your problems are distribution related - I strongly recommend Debian. There are policies in place for most of your gripes that packagers must adhere to so you'll find that most things do just work out of the box. Even printing should work (though I admit, the last time I printed anything except a test page was like five years ago).
As for me trying something else (heh), I don't have a choice with the OS at the moment - this machine is a spanking new Japanese VAIO, which has piss-poor Linux support at the moment. During the Christmas break I plan on putting Debian on it, not sure how that'll work out.
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Seriously though, which proxy software are you using? I've used quite a few and I'm currently using Squid, and I've never seen the User-Agent dropped from requests. It's not generally a good idea since sites sometimes serve different content for different browsers (which makes a lot of sense concerning mobile devices).
I own the PS2 version, and the camera is totally controllable through the use of the second joystick. You can also switch to a distance perspective and first person perspective using the L2 and the R2 buttons.
I stand corrected. Although another reply implies that they're actually bundling the binary and interfacing with it. Hmmm.
Whoah, nice find. I'm too scared to install Morpheus myself :-)
No Amplitude? I've seen entire families get hooked on that. Mine included.
Besides, many programs are doing the multi-network thing lately. Shareaza pops to mind as well.
Maybe the bots filter the word spam.
It was branched a while ago for 1.6. The source you downloaded was the trunk, which will eventually branch and become 1.7a, b, etc.
I do. Since I use both apps open all day on my system, it makes more sense to load one big bloated binary than two :-)
I think he was making that argument in sarcasm, and using it against the outsourcing movement.
Concerning backwards compatibility: Final Fantasy 1 through 9 (plus Tactics) is my primary backwards compatibility reason right now. Throw in Parasite Eve and a bunch of other discs, and it's awesome. I don't - and never have - owned a Playstation One, and I doubt I'd have had the chance to play any of these games since I didn't jump into console systems until recently.
And throwing out the format for the sake of inventing a format? I don't get it. Sony is doing this (supposedly) with the PSP and I don't like it there. I love the fact my PS2 plays my DVDs. When I travel, I bring the PS2 and folders of all my stuff - PS1 and PS2 games, as well as movies. Maybe I'm one of the rare people that doesn't want to pop the cash for three devices when this one suits me fine.
P.S.: The three devices referes to a PS1, PS2 and DVD Player - not a GC, XBox and PS2 :-)
Really? That's interesting. I actually buy my games based on whether or not they're fun, and usually graphics have little to do with raw fun. Amplitude is probably one of the most played games in my collection - my entire family (and they're numerous) played it over the Christmas break and got hooked. I still play the "old" Final Fantasy games from the PS1, including the Chronicles and Anthology packs.
Shiny graphics and cool textures are neat and all, but they don't make the game. Halo is the perfect example. I looked forward to the PC release for a long time, and was quite interested in how good it would look on my Radeon 9800 PRO card. Then I got the game. Yeah, looks great - except you fight the same 4 bad guys through the entire game, your guy runs at about 1 meter per second, and halfway through the game they tell you to turn around and (slowly) walk back to the start! If I had bought an X-Box for Halo I would've felt totally ripped off. It should have the tagline "Pixel Shaders Evolved", not "Combat Evolved".
For more examples of fun over graphics, look at the GameCube and Gameboy Advance titles. The GBA has the graphics of the SNES, yet people are buying Gameboy Players to use them on the big screen.
So to me it appears that backwards compatibility is fairly important to people; we find good games, and there's no reason to throw them out when the next system comes along. You'll pry Final Fantasy Tactics, Frequency and Amplitude (and even XCOM for the PC) from my cold dead hands.
No; from what I know it's available to MSDN Universal subscribers and BetaPlace members.
Coalescent can easily stand on its own in my opinion. There are ties to his other works, but nothing that would prevent you "getting" the whole thing.
Sometimes I feel like screaming at the stupid fuckers, "What? The hijackers were white???" ;-)
And in Toronto, this "first passenger being searched" doesn't sound right and I've never seen it myself. I personally get searched a lot since I'm young and travelling alone, but there's no specific ordering to who they search.
Many of my devices (laptop, PDAs, etc) have 802.11 and bluetooth and only "blast" these frequencies when the convenient wireless switch is in the ON position.
I've never had problems with my cell phones, even though one has a Japanese user interface, and the only place I've travelled that checked my shoes is Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Looking respectable is a good hint, although I find it much more easy if you look all scared and naive, like you're on your first flight. They treat you a little better than. Alternatively, act like a complete asshole. That's worked sometimes :-)
And that's not a patch - call it an addon or a plugin.
If it's OSX you can use MPlayer + DeCSS and ignore region encodings altogether.
No, I agree - it's called "Prologue" for a reason. My point was that there is competetive racing in the Prologue edition, and the 1UP review of Prologue says that there aren't.
For example they say there's no playing against AI racers in the demo. Um, no. Three of the five maps have optional AI racers that can be turned on via the Options menu. Even if you don't read Japanese, it's pretty easy to just test out the different options.
Well... Yes, yes you can. I was thinking though that it'd be easy to programatically enforce it on SecondLife objects.
I'm not saying that kids are too dumb for this; I'm saying that the kids which Second Life would appeal too probably aren't the type to steal a credit card. This is just a guess though based on the fact that when I was a kid I would've loved to play this. And I wouldn't have stolen a credit card :-)
For example, I can sell a wall clock that's an original piece and cannot be copied, or I can sell a chair that can be copied and modified.
Unfortunately there's no way to impose the GPL on SecondLife objects yet :-)
Cool. Again though, I still don't think I have a need for this. Any games I play do mixing themselves (and probably always will) via SDL_Mix I believe. But it's nice to know that ALSA will do it.
As for me trying something else (heh), I don't have a choice with the OS at the moment - this machine is a spanking new Japanese VAIO, which has piss-poor Linux support at the moment. During the Christmas break I plan on putting Debian on it, not sure how that'll work out.