Re:Does it work properly/completely with Opera yet
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I do that for years now, all without using one bit of XmlHttpRequest. I'm not saying that GMail doesn't use it, but I'm saying that you don't need it to refresh content of a page without refeshing the page itself.
And what do you use? An applet? Until I discovered XmlHttpRequest, I didn't think it was possible to communicate with the server sans page refresh unless you opened up a connection with an applet.
I was pretty excited when I heard about XmlHttpRequest, but if there is an alternative, I'd like to know about that as well to see which is better.
Even more interesting is that the tabs do have a selected state, but the programmer/designer labeled the body tags wrong. If you can edit the CSS (I used a Firefox extension to do so), you can see that if you rename the body class to the proper name, the designers had intended for there to be a selected state (the tabs should be white when selected). I'd expect to see this corrected very shortly.
It also looks like they used the Sliding Doors technique. Very cool!
One other note - I found it interesting that Firefox displays the page optimized for 800x600 whereas IE 6.0 has a liquid layout that spans the whole screen.
Am I missing a joke or are you saying that sitting on a toilet for too long will give you hemorrhoids?
Indeed, that is the case. Sitting on the toilet too long will increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids, according to most medical info.
Sitting anywhere for extended periods of time increases your risk of hemorrhoids. So if you're trying to hurry up on the toilet so you can get back to your desk chair, you're not helping the situation.
However, straining while on the toilet is probably the quickest way to get hemorrhoids. The ideal solution is to get plenty of fiber (a fiber supplement such as Metamucil does wonders) so that you don't need to strain on the toilet. A nice side effect is that your bathroom trips are nice and quick, so you can get back to slash^H^H^H^H^Hwork.
other than prettier graphics what's the diffrence between doom and ut2004. I played doom and heritic head to head over phone lines 10 years ago. Now I play head to head on line. prettier graphics is about the only diffrence. I still run around a limited environment with a gun and shoot other people.
Hoo boy - what a gross over-simplication. There is sooo much more to UT2004 than deathmatch gameplay. Onslaught, for example, combines balanced vehicles with a great objective that can only be accomplished through teamwork (assuming similar skill levels). You still have a first person perspective and a gun, but it's the well-balanced team games and vehicles that make UT2004 shine.
Comparing Doom to UT2004 is like comparing Pitfall to Super Mario 64. After all, you're still just running around and jumping.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that no one old enough to play the old Zeldas, when they were new, hates the art style. This is why, contrary to popular perception, the Gamecube is not so much the console for kids (that's the PS2, in my book), but the console for Old Fogey gamers who remember things like gameplay.
Seconded! From my experience reading newsgroups and talking with various people, Nintendo seems to have that odd niche of the market which includes very young kids and adults that grew up on Nintendo. The 12-18 year-olds seem to be the only ones that have the perception that Nintendo is just for kids.
If you grew up on Zelda, then you might just realize that the original Link was a chubby little kid. Maybe the graphics just weren't good enough to show that clearly at the time;-)
If you or anyone can sensibly, and without "an act of god", explain those questions then I will personally eat the entire Ark when it is excavated. That's right, I will fly to Turkey, climb the mountain and eat the whole Ark. I'll send photos to SlashDot as proof.
(..emphasis mine..)
I think that anything in the Bible is allowed to skirt that restraint. Now, I think that the Bible is as foolish as any other religious document, but trying to disprove Noah's story on the basis of science and logic is pointless.
Yeah, it's impossible for Noah to round up all of the insects by himself, but when you've got an all powerful deity at your disposal... well, anything goes. The real sticky situation with the Ark story is not the ability to gather the animals or the lack of geological evidence - it's the genetic diversity amongst the animals that walked away from the Ark. There simply isn't enough time since the Ark landed to generate the variations in humans or any other animal that we see today.
Again, give me a call (find it on the website from my user ID) and I will be happy to introduce you to what life can be like in the sciences and medicine. Oh, and why do folks like me work this hard? Because we want to make a difference and often it is only through dedication and hard work that this can happen.
I should not dignify this with a response, but.... At any rate, you have no idea of what our workflows are do you? Then why do you feel you can comment on something which you know nothing about?
I'm just a wee bit skeptical of people that like to wave their penises around by saying how much they work. 80-90 hours is about as high as I've ever seen someone claim to work. My point was that it seems as though you're including slashdot time (and most likely lunch, commute, etc.) into your all-so-impressive 80-90 hours a week.
Look at what you are missing. There is a whole world out there and it moves even when you do not.
You mean like posting on slashdot?
Efficiency of work and play combined with disciplined time management.
Ah, I see... so since you work and play at the same time (slashdot while at work), you're really not working the whole time then, are ya? Do you also do your gaming at "work"?
80-90 hours a week... I don't buy it. And if it were actually true, then you have some serious life management issues. As you said yourself, there's a whole world out there. Why spend 80-90 hours of it at "work"?
For instance, my work takes up most of my time (80-90 hours/week) so I really don't have much time or interest in playing games
Perhaps if you didn't post on slashdot while you were "working", you wouldn't need to "work" 80-90 hours a week. I'm hardly awake 80-90 hours a week!
How do you have time to eat and bathe, let alone play games?
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Since adult stability is rooted in childhood stability, those of us fortunate enough to have had happy childhoods are unable to legally recall our [sic] them, speak about them in many cases, and relate to those of our own generation (or children, for that matter).
Since I was raised in an era of 70-year copyrights, I wasn't too bothered by them. But now with the proposition of perpetual copyrights and DMCA, I am very selective about what I will watch and what software I will use, because I know that by doing so my psyche will be altered and I generally want the ability to reflect back upon my experiences in the future. Before I allow myself to go to a movie (the few times that I do), I ask myself the question, "am I willing to never see this movie again after today?" because I do not want to be held in blackmail by the content producer.
I think I missed your point - are you saying that the nGage is actually good and the iPod is not, but marketing only makes us think this is the case?
Is there a nicer-designed, compact MP3 hard drive player than the iPod? Is there a worse portable video game system than the nGage (in the same price range)?
Yeah, but what about a delete button? I figured I had to be missing something. I just got Tivo for Christmas and that's the one thing that stuck out like a sore thumb. Shouldn't I be able to delete with one button if I realize that I'm watching a re-run or just a program I'm not interested in?
Not sure what they're fitting for these guys, but there are a number of amputees out there running road races. A couple of months ago I was passed on the run in the Hawaii Ironman by a guy with a prosthetic leg.
Was he a partial leg amputee, or was it the entire leg (up to the hip)? If it's below the knee, then you can get a basic springy shin-foot prosthetic that does very well for runners... but if you have to do the entire leg, it gets a bit more difficult.
One of the leg amputees in the segment had to wear a harness around his waist that the prosthetic could attach to. Another was more fortunate and had a good length of thigh that he could attach to. In both cases, I think the operation of the knee was the difficult part (and where the micro-processors were constantly making adjustments).
I was just watching some news program (60 Minutes, 20/20 or the like) about recent Iraqi war veterans that have lost limbs in combat. Since their medical expenses are covered by the government, they were being fitted with the best prosthetics available (containing micro-processors that make adjustments based on the user's movements).
What surprised me was that although the legs did seem to work fairly well for walking, there's still a lot of room for improvement (climbing stairs was very difficult and running was out of the question). Advancements in robotics like this could be a great step forward for prosthetic limbs.
How soon before robotic limbs become so efficient that people are voluntarily amputating their legs for the better robotic counterparts?
Quake 2 Expert CTF was the ultimate multi-player game. I was addicted to that for a good solid 2 years at least. I'm talkin' 2-4 hours a day. No other multi-player experience had as fast action with the grappling hook and the regenerating weapons & health. Quake 3 just couldn't compete.
How easy is it to use as a J2EE web development environment? Right now I'm working on my first J2EE project and we're using Sun One/NetBeans because of its built-in development web server.
Is it easy or even possible to set run J2EE web applications from a development environment on your own PC?
Have you tried the new Google toolbar with pop-up blocker? I've tried about a half a dozen pop-up blockers and they all failed in some respect (either blocked legitimate scripting or didn't block all pop-ups).
No pop-up has gotten through in 2 weeks of using the new Google toolbar and every site that relies on Javascript for navigation still works.
Are you telling me that I'm going to have to go down to city hall to use online voting?? Seems like the main advantage of voting over the Internet (for military personnel or others outside the country) was just made moot by your idea.
Another fabulous Sci-Fi book with a similar theme: Circuit of Heaven. I haven't read a lot of Sci-Fi books, but this one was just mesmerizing. It's a quick read, but really gets you thinking for a while after you put it down.
It's a similar idea in that you can upload your "soul" into a virtual reality world called the "bin" (this was before The Matrix, mind you). The plot centers around the spiritual implications of living forever in the virtual world... and what happens if you never die. The conflicts center around the main character who is one of the remaining hold-outs for going into the bin for good. I highly recommend it and it looks like a number of Amazon reviewers do as well.
I'm still in search of the best Pocket PC for gaming... the Casio E-125 and EM-500 had excellent directional pads and buttons, but were not *quite* fast enough for all of the NES games.
I'm not a happy owner of a Dell Axim. They've had their share of problems with the D-pad, but I only had to return one (postage paid) to get one with a perfect D-pad. Now, by perfect I mean it goes in every direction equally... but it's not quite as good as the Casios. It's actually a little bit *too* sensitive now, so walking in all directions in a game like Zelda, you sometimes end up moving around like a drunk person if you don't keep your thumb in the exact position (diagonally is the hardest).
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I do that for years now, all without using one bit of XmlHttpRequest. I'm not saying that GMail doesn't use it, but I'm saying that you don't need it to refresh content of a page without refeshing the page itself.
And what do you use? An applet? Until I discovered XmlHttpRequest, I didn't think it was possible to communicate with the server sans page refresh unless you opened up a connection with an applet.
I was pretty excited when I heard about XmlHttpRequest, but if there is an alternative, I'd like to know about that as well to see which is better.
Even more interesting is that the tabs do have a selected state, but the programmer/designer labeled the body tags wrong. If you can edit the CSS (I used a Firefox extension to do so), you can see that if you rename the body class to the proper name, the designers had intended for there to be a selected state (the tabs should be white when selected). I'd expect to see this corrected very shortly.
It also looks like they used the Sliding Doors technique. Very cool!
One other note - I found it interesting that Firefox displays the page optimized for 800x600 whereas IE 6.0 has a liquid layout that spans the whole screen.
And you would've missed that question on the Java Cert exam. System.gc() is only a suggestion. You can never force garbage collection.
Am I missing a joke or are you saying that sitting on a toilet for too long will give you hemorrhoids?
Indeed, that is the case. Sitting on the toilet too long will increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids, according to most medical info.
Sitting anywhere for extended periods of time increases your risk of hemorrhoids. So if you're trying to hurry up on the toilet so you can get back to your desk chair, you're not helping the situation.
However, straining while on the toilet is probably the quickest way to get hemorrhoids. The ideal solution is to get plenty of fiber (a fiber supplement such as Metamucil does wonders) so that you don't need to strain on the toilet. A nice side effect is that your bathroom trips are nice and quick, so you can get back to slash^H^H^H^H^Hwork.
other than prettier graphics what's the diffrence between doom and ut2004. I played doom and heritic head to head over phone lines 10 years ago. Now I play head to head on line. prettier graphics is about the only diffrence. I still run around a limited environment with a gun and shoot other people.
Hoo boy - what a gross over-simplication. There is sooo much more to UT2004 than deathmatch gameplay. Onslaught, for example, combines balanced vehicles with a great objective that can only be accomplished through teamwork (assuming similar skill levels). You still have a first person perspective and a gun, but it's the well-balanced team games and vehicles that make UT2004 shine.
Comparing Doom to UT2004 is like comparing Pitfall to Super Mario 64. After all, you're still just running around and jumping.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that no one old enough to play the old Zeldas, when they were new, hates the art style. This is why, contrary to popular perception, the Gamecube is not so much the console for kids (that's the PS2, in my book), but the console for Old Fogey gamers who remember things like gameplay.
;-)
Seconded! From my experience reading newsgroups and talking with various people, Nintendo seems to have that odd niche of the market which includes very young kids and adults that grew up on Nintendo. The 12-18 year-olds seem to be the only ones that have the perception that Nintendo is just for kids.
If you grew up on Zelda, then you might just realize that the original Link was a chubby little kid. Maybe the graphics just weren't good enough to show that clearly at the time
If you or anyone can sensibly, and without "an act of god", explain those questions then I will personally eat the entire Ark when it is excavated. That's right, I will fly to Turkey, climb the mountain and eat the whole Ark. I'll send photos to SlashDot as proof.
... well, anything goes. The real sticky situation with the Ark story is not the ability to gather the animals or the lack of geological evidence - it's the genetic diversity amongst the animals that walked away from the Ark. There simply isn't enough time since the Ark landed to generate the variations in humans or any other animal that we see today.
(..emphasis mine..)
I think that anything in the Bible is allowed to skirt that restraint. Now, I think that the Bible is as foolish as any other religious document, but trying to disprove Noah's story on the basis of science and logic is pointless.
Yeah, it's impossible for Noah to round up all of the insects by himself, but when you've got an all powerful deity at your disposal
Again, give me a call (find it on the website from my user ID) and I will be happy to introduce you to what life can be like in the sciences and medicine. Oh, and why do folks like me work this hard? Because we want to make a difference and often it is only through dedication and hard work that this can happen.
I stand corrected.
I should not dignify this with a response, but.... At any rate, you have no idea of what our workflows are do you? Then why do you feel you can comment on something which you know nothing about?
... so since you work and play at the same time (slashdot while at work), you're really not working the whole time then, are ya? Do you also do your gaming at "work"?
... I don't buy it. And if it were actually true, then you have some serious life management issues. As you said yourself, there's a whole world out there. Why spend 80-90 hours of it at "work"?
I'm just a wee bit skeptical of people that like to wave their penises around by saying how much they work. 80-90 hours is about as high as I've ever seen someone claim to work. My point was that it seems as though you're including slashdot time (and most likely lunch, commute, etc.) into your all-so-impressive 80-90 hours a week.
Look at what you are missing. There is a whole world out there and it moves even when you do not.
You mean like posting on slashdot?
Efficiency of work and play combined with disciplined time management.
Ah, I see
80-90 hours a week
For instance, my work takes up most of my time (80-90 hours/week) so I really don't have much time or interest in playing games
Perhaps if you didn't post on slashdot while you were "working", you wouldn't need to "work" 80-90 hours a week. I'm hardly awake 80-90 hours a week!
How do you have time to eat and bathe, let alone play games?
Since adult stability is rooted in childhood stability, those of us fortunate enough to have had happy childhoods are unable to legally recall our [sic] them, speak about them in many cases, and relate to those of our own generation (or children, for that matter).
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Since I was raised in an era of 70-year copyrights, I wasn't too bothered by them. But now with the proposition of perpetual copyrights and DMCA, I am very selective about what I will watch and what software I will use, because I know that by doing so my psyche will be altered and I generally want the ability to reflect back upon my experiences in the future. Before I allow myself to go to a movie (the few times that I do), I ask myself the question, "am I willing to never see this movie again after today?" because I do not want to be held in blackmail by the content producer.
Dude, you have some serious issues
I think I missed your point - are you saying that the nGage is actually good and the iPod is not, but marketing only makes us think this is the case?
Is there a nicer-designed, compact MP3 hard drive player than the iPod? Is there a worse portable video game system than the nGage (in the same price range)?
Yeah, but what about a delete button? I figured I had to be missing something. I just got Tivo for Christmas and that's the one thing that stuck out like a sore thumb. Shouldn't I be able to delete with one button if I realize that I'm watching a re-run or just a program I'm not interested in?
Not sure what they're fitting for these guys, but there are a number of amputees out there running road races. A couple of months ago I was passed on the run in the Hawaii Ironman by a guy with a prosthetic leg.
... but if you have to do the entire leg, it gets a bit more difficult.
Was he a partial leg amputee, or was it the entire leg (up to the hip)? If it's below the knee, then you can get a basic springy shin-foot prosthetic that does very well for runners
One of the leg amputees in the segment had to wear a harness around his waist that the prosthetic could attach to. Another was more fortunate and had a good length of thigh that he could attach to. In both cases, I think the operation of the knee was the difficult part (and where the micro-processors were constantly making adjustments).
I was just watching some news program (60 Minutes, 20/20 or the like) about recent Iraqi war veterans that have lost limbs in combat. Since their medical expenses are covered by the government, they were being fitted with the best prosthetics available (containing micro-processors that make adjustments based on the user's movements).
What surprised me was that although the legs did seem to work fairly well for walking, there's still a lot of room for improvement (climbing stairs was very difficult and running was out of the question). Advancements in robotics like this could be a great step forward for prosthetic limbs.
How soon before robotic limbs become so efficient that people are voluntarily amputating their legs for the better robotic counterparts?
Java is not "JAVA" ... it is not an acronym, just a name for a language.
Quake 2 Expert CTF was the ultimate multi-player game. I was addicted to that for a good solid 2 years at least. I'm talkin' 2-4 hours a day. No other multi-player experience had as fast action with the grappling hook and the regenerating weapons & health. Quake 3 just couldn't compete.
Galstaff, you have entered the door to the North. You are now by yourself, standing in a dark room. The pungent stench of mildew eminates from the wet dungeon walls ... "Where are the cheetos??"
How easy is it to use as a J2EE web development environment? Right now I'm working on my first J2EE project and we're using Sun One/NetBeans because of its built-in development web server.
Is it easy or even possible to set run J2EE web applications from a development environment on your own PC?
I would've included who said it, but there wasn't enough space in the sig limit - credit goes to Terry Pratchett.
Have you tried the new Google toolbar with pop-up blocker? I've tried about a half a dozen pop-up blockers and they all failed in some respect (either blocked legitimate scripting or didn't block all pop-ups).
No pop-up has gotten through in 2 weeks of using the new Google toolbar and every site that relies on Javascript for navigation still works.
Are you telling me that I'm going to have to go down to city hall to use online voting?? Seems like the main advantage of voting over the Internet (for military personnel or others outside the country) was just made moot by your idea.
Another fabulous Sci-Fi book with a similar theme: Circuit of Heaven. I haven't read a lot of Sci-Fi books, but this one was just mesmerizing. It's a quick read, but really gets you thinking for a while after you put it down.
... and what happens if you never die. The conflicts center around the main character who is one of the remaining hold-outs for going into the bin for good. I highly recommend it and it looks like a number of Amazon reviewers do as well.
It's a similar idea in that you can upload your "soul" into a virtual reality world called the "bin" (this was before The Matrix, mind you). The plot centers around the spiritual implications of living forever in the virtual world
I'm still in search of the best Pocket PC for gaming ... the Casio E-125 and EM-500 had excellent directional pads and buttons, but were not *quite* fast enough for all of the NES games.
... but it's not quite as good as the Casios. It's actually a little bit *too* sensitive now, so walking in all directions in a game like Zelda, you sometimes end up moving around like a drunk person if you don't keep your thumb in the exact position (diagonally is the hardest).
I'm not a happy owner of a Dell Axim. They've had their share of problems with the D-pad, but I only had to return one (postage paid) to get one with a perfect D-pad. Now, by perfect I mean it goes in every direction equally
Yeah ... well, it's really more about watching the girl while she's having sex with you.
I only got to do it while staying for a week at a cottage in the Carribean when there was a mirror on the door - it's pretty good stuff.