You know, this comment is such crap. If you want to know why Netscape lost the browser war, go back and use the 4.x series. They were horrible. Where as Internet Explorer would render the page on the fly, Netscape 4.x would wait for ages. Additionally, it would love to leave rogue processes running in the background and the only indication that there was a problem was that the current browser window wouldn't render past the first few lines of HTML. By that time, Netscape was Netscape's own worse enemy. I knew scores of die hard 'liberal' software thinkers that were forced to recommend IE over Netscape, just because Netscape blew. Now, I am not saying that the big M's monopolistic practices didn't affect Netscape, but don't defend crap software by citing the horrors of Microsoft.
As of 1800 GMT, Dennis' movement was wobbling which is usually indicitive of strengthening. Additionally, the latest model runs that we meteorologist hold so near and dear to our hearts has the forecasted track going further east than what is presently shown on the hurricane forecast maps (mainly due to said models showing something called a trough gaining strength over the south central gulf states). So, as of right now, they probably won't need to worry, but better safe than sorry.
Something else to think about, 'worse case scenario' wise. What if the browser share that Firefox has eroded from IE were Opera users switching to Firefox. So, IE's user base hasn't gone down at all. Doubtful, I am sure, but something to think about....
Think that's bad? Wait for the word processor called "Alphabet". From what I hear, they'll get Sesame Street characters to perform the same function as Clippy.
I would like to second the parent's comments on SVG. I am extremely pumped this spec to be included by default in the next version of Firefox.
I would like to add another use to the list, though. Having an SVG canvas to use for XUL apps will be a blast to play around with. As a weather nerd, I can't wait to create XUL web apps with a GIS backend that uses SVG to describe the map and weather data. Combining the XUL widgets with a vector based canvas area will be quite the combination.
That said, I believe quite a few of these new extensions will come in handy when starting to program for these things. I, for one, welcome our new Javascript extension overlords...
...and just when it's getting good, her dad ran into the room, punched me in the face, asked her for some money, and then ducked out. It's just like the tabloids say.
Hell, it would have been nice to know this in advance...
As it was, got out of work about 0800Z Sunday morning and as I was driving home, thought I saw the most bizarre clouds. When I pulled into the driveway, there were these flashes that moved from west to east in the night sky. Since I live next to a small airfield, I assumed it was the lights from there, but when I looked in that direction, they were turned off. So, drove about 20 minutes west of the big city (damn that light) and was treated to a show that words cannot describe. This being my first aurora event, I had didn't know what to expect. I sat and watched for 45 minutes as the sky literally danced. About 30 minutes in, the aurora moved to right above my head and turned into a completely different show with different bands shooting out above me.
To anyone who hasn't witnessed an aurora, take the time to travel someplace that you can view them. It is totally worth the trip.
Judging by the POES Auroral Activity graphic, things are firing up again. Damn my luck that thundershowers are moving in to cloud things up....
So, how about that Firefox "feature" that keeps dynamically grabbing RAM as new images are displayed (at least that is where I am seeing it). Being a weather guy with my image looper adding new images every 5 minutes (and deleting the oldest one; the memory still isn't given up), I hate to see my browser using 500MB of RAM after a couple of hours. I was able to fix it with an entry in about:config called browser.cache.memory.capacity, but it would be nice to know if it is fixed by default since we will be rolling out Firefox on a bunch of desktops where I work in a few months.
Dude, if you are going to rip someone's lyrics, at least give the source. This fine song is called The End of an Act from the Team America World Police soundtrack. Highly recommend it if you want to laugh your ass off.
"Looks like the Free/Open Source Software movement is very close to closing up one of the most noticeable software gaps remaining from its glorious efforts."
Could someone please explain to me what in the hell this line means? It could be that it is only 6:30 in the morning, but the way I read this line, it makes it out that the FOSS is responsible for the causing gap that they just closed. Anyone else? I would have thought Microsoft is responsible, but maybe I am missing something here......
I will preface this with I am a game nerd so I usually follow these launches with incredible interest. That said, this one was rather a dud here as you could still pick one up about 30 minutes ago.
This morning, the Best Buy stores here (of which there are two) started their day at 8:01 a.m. Seems they expected demand to be extremely high for this and planned accordingly. I have a friend that still works for one of the stores and he mentioned there was a line when he got in about 7 and it was about 10 long. I thought about being apart of that, but it has been raining all day and I had no interest in getting drenched.
This afternoon, I went to Gamestop to pickup a used Gameboy Advanced game and the store had about 5 that I could see, but they were set aside for pre-orders. The games, on the other hand, lined a section of shelves and their selection was good. I was surprised they hadn't been picked up yet, but the clerk said after the initial rush, things had really slacked off. Having the systems pre-ordered, I guess people weren't too motivated to get them right away.
Now, jump to about 30 minutes ago. I went to the Buy to pickup an actual Gameboy Advanced as a gift, and was shocked to see over 150 sitting on a table at the front of the store. Along with that, there was another 10 back in a special sales area just for the PSP. Boy, was I glad I didn't get in line this morning. Along these lines, they sounded like they were actually out of games, as a person was asking for one (which I couldn't hear) and they had to go into the back room to see if there were any drop shipments.
After all was said and done, I was surprised. I actually stood in line for a Gamecube some years back, and they sold out of those (now, they only had around 40 of those, mind you), so to see that many on the shelf after the media blitz that Sony put out kind of floored me.
Here's to hoping they are there tomorrow when I get my next paycheck....
"The only ones that have been met with shock or disapproval are Zelda II and Wind Waker."
It is important to note that Zelda II wasn't developed by Miyamoto but by another team entirely. He just gave them a general idea and let them run with it. Interestingly, he considers Link to the Past as the real sequal to the first.
As for Wind Waker, it boggles my mind the backlash that games receives. I loved it (not as much as OoT, but still a lot). In fact, you remove the cel shading, OoT and TWW are extremely similar, down to how the attack system works and one uses tools such as the hook shot. To be honest, I loved that fact that I was playing a live cartoon. I can't think of any other game that can make that claim!
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Netscape has been hit by the Microsoft Monopoly
You know, this comment is such crap. If you want to know why Netscape lost the browser war, go back and use the 4.x series. They were horrible. Where as Internet Explorer would render the page on the fly, Netscape 4.x would wait for ages. Additionally, it would love to leave rogue processes running in the background and the only indication that there was a problem was that the current browser window wouldn't render past the first few lines of HTML. By that time, Netscape was Netscape's own worse enemy. I knew scores of die hard 'liberal' software thinkers that were forced to recommend IE over Netscape, just because Netscape blew. Now, I am not saying that the big M's monopolistic practices didn't affect Netscape, but don't defend crap software by citing the horrors of Microsoft.
As of 1800 GMT, Dennis' movement was wobbling which is usually indicitive of strengthening. Additionally, the latest model runs that we meteorologist hold so near and dear to our hearts has the forecasted track going further east than what is presently shown on the hurricane forecast maps (mainly due to said models showing something called a trough gaining strength over the south central gulf states). So, as of right now, they probably won't need to worry, but better safe than sorry.
Something else to think about, 'worse case scenario' wise. What if the browser share that Firefox has eroded from IE were Opera users switching to Firefox. So, IE's user base hasn't gone down at all. Doubtful, I am sure, but something to think about....
Think that's bad? Wait for the word processor called "Alphabet". From what I hear, they'll get Sesame Street characters to perform the same function as Clippy.
Apparently being a nerd is now in?
Let me check my messages.....
0. Nope, still the status quo here!
I would like to second the parent's comments on SVG. I am extremely pumped this spec to be included by default in the next version of Firefox.
I would like to add another use to the list, though. Having an SVG canvas to use for XUL apps will be a blast to play around with. As a weather nerd, I can't wait to create XUL web apps with a GIS backend that uses SVG to describe the map and weather data. Combining the XUL widgets with a vector based canvas area will be quite the combination.
That said, I believe quite a few of these new extensions will come in handy when starting to program for these things. I, for one, welcome our new Javascript extension overlords...
...and just when it's getting good, her dad ran into the room, punched me in the face, asked her for some money, and then ducked out. It's just like the tabloids say.
No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night....
From what I have been able to gather online, it isn't a cam rip but actually a work print. This is significant for two reasons.
1) The quality will be better than a cam.
2) Workprints are usually only available to those within the industry which means someone close to the studio leaked this out.
Workprints are usually pretty hard to get, hence why you don't hear about them in the leaked movie news very often.
All said, though, go see it in the theatre. I went to the 12:01 showing last night and it was awesome. Truly awesome.
Is anyone else wishing we would see something new?
If they're fun to play, who gives a crap?
What are you talking about? Once the building went up, the property values became more powerful than you could possibly imagine...
Hell, it would have been nice to know this in advance...
As it was, got out of work about 0800Z Sunday morning and as I was driving home, thought I saw the most bizarre clouds. When I pulled into the driveway, there were these flashes that moved from west to east in the night sky. Since I live next to a small airfield, I assumed it was the lights from there, but when I looked in that direction, they were turned off. So, drove about 20 minutes west of the big city (damn that light) and was treated to a show that words cannot describe. This being my first aurora event, I had didn't know what to expect. I sat and watched for 45 minutes as the sky literally danced. About 30 minutes in, the aurora moved to right above my head and turned into a completely different show with different bands shooting out above me.
To anyone who hasn't witnessed an aurora, take the time to travel someplace that you can view them. It is totally worth the trip.
Judging by the POES Auroral Activity graphic, things are firing up again. Damn my luck that thundershowers are moving in to cloud things up....
So, how about that Firefox "feature" that keeps dynamically grabbing RAM as new images are displayed (at least that is where I am seeing it). Being a weather guy with my image looper adding new images every 5 minutes (and deleting the oldest one; the memory still isn't given up), I hate to see my browser using 500MB of RAM after a couple of hours. I was able to fix it with an entry in about:config called browser.cache.memory.capacity, but it would be nice to know if it is fixed by default since we will be rolling out Firefox on a bunch of desktops where I work in a few months.
LOL! Very nice.....
" The degree to which you remember the names of the Autobot characters is, well, frightening."
;-).....
The degree to which you know how many were correct is equally as disturbing
Dude, if you are going to rip someone's lyrics, at least give the source. This fine song is called The End of an Act from the Team America World Police soundtrack. Highly recommend it if you want to laugh your ass off.
So, based on that resume, we can expect the following:
This will be the most incredible movie, EVER!
" As someone who until recently did all his FPS gaming on consoles, I have to say I prefer a dual-analog controller over a mouse and keyboard."
You do realize that your console FPS is taking up some of the slack your joystick introduces by doing a little auto aiming for you, right?
"Looks like the Free/Open Source Software movement is very close to closing up one of the most noticeable software gaps remaining from its glorious efforts."
Could someone please explain to me what in the hell this line means? It could be that it is only 6:30 in the morning, but the way I read this line, it makes it out that the FOSS is responsible for the causing gap that they just closed. Anyone else? I would have thought Microsoft is responsible, but maybe I am missing something here......
...she can't go to college until she's a level 25 high school student.
Greatings from Omaha, Nebraska.
I will preface this with I am a game nerd so I usually follow these launches with incredible interest. That said, this one was rather a dud here as you could still pick one up about 30 minutes ago.
This morning, the Best Buy stores here (of which there are two) started their day at 8:01 a.m. Seems they expected demand to be extremely high for this and planned accordingly. I have a friend that still works for one of the stores and he mentioned there was a line when he got in about 7 and it was about 10 long. I thought about being apart of that, but it has been raining all day and I had no interest in getting drenched.
This afternoon, I went to Gamestop to pickup a used Gameboy Advanced game and the store had about 5 that I could see, but they were set aside for pre-orders. The games, on the other hand, lined a section of shelves and their selection was good. I was surprised they hadn't been picked up yet, but the clerk said after the initial rush, things had really slacked off. Having the systems pre-ordered, I guess people weren't too motivated to get them right away.
Now, jump to about 30 minutes ago. I went to the Buy to pickup an actual Gameboy Advanced as a gift, and was shocked to see over 150 sitting on a table at the front of the store. Along with that, there was another 10 back in a special sales area just for the PSP. Boy, was I glad I didn't get in line this morning. Along these lines, they sounded like they were actually out of games, as a person was asking for one (which I couldn't hear) and they had to go into the back room to see if there were any drop shipments.
After all was said and done, I was surprised. I actually stood in line for a Gamecube some years back, and they sold out of those (now, they only had around 40 of those, mind you), so to see that many on the shelf after the media blitz that Sony put out kind of floored me.
Here's to hoping they are there tomorrow when I get my next paycheck....
"The only ones that have been met with shock or disapproval are Zelda II and Wind Waker."
It is important to note that Zelda II wasn't developed by Miyamoto but by another team entirely. He just gave them a general idea and let them run with it. Interestingly, he considers Link to the Past as the real sequal to the first.
As for Wind Waker, it boggles my mind the backlash that games receives. I loved it (not as much as OoT, but still a lot). In fact, you remove the cel shading, OoT and TWW are extremely similar, down to how the attack system works and one uses tools such as the hook shot. To be honest, I loved that fact that I was playing a live cartoon. I can't think of any other game that can make that claim!
I would love to know how they will extend "DON'T DO IT!" out to 30 minutes.
Yeah, Gabe doing battle with a life size PSP/DS using a cardboard tube will make for a *REAL* useful review.....
Exxccccelent. Soon, the final pieces for KDE Klippy will be complete and we will rule the KHelpCenter together! Just imagine it:
I see you are trying to compile the latest Linux kernel. Would you like help with:
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!