I understand what you're saying but I would wager that well over 50% of the firefox installations are on Windows machines. Remember - MS Windows has over a 90% share of the entire OS market. I know that a large portion of that market are extremely stupid people who wouldnt know a browser from their own ass, but there are a lot of smart people who do use windows you. I know, hard to believe:P
I have a "measely" 9600 pro, and it handles CS Source beautifully. 1280x1024, graphics turned up all the way, and it is absolutely fine, in fact it's great, easily 60+ FPS. It's a beautiful engine, I cant wait for HL2 to come out, and am confident it will be JUST FINE THANK YOU VERY MUCH since it's the same engine. Even though obviously not all of the advanced features are being used in CS, most of those are CPU intensive anyways as opposed to graphics card. I'm thinking particularly of the physics engine here.
Ok, local debates. Who watches those, I mean seriously. Ok even say 10,000 people. Whoopee. And it doesnt include the dems and repubs - at least the main candidates anyways.
A big difference between the 50-60 million who watch the televised debates. If a third party was on one of the televised debates with the two "real" candidates, and the debate was seen by 50-60 million people, I would say it would have a huge impact. You dont think so? Come on.
I would say the third party's vote would increas significantly. Especially after several election cycles of this... say 12 years from now, if every election third party's were included in the debate and people got used to it and started gaining confidence in them, then they would actually have a real chance of winning.
He was a third party - the first republican to hold office.
But the grandparent still has a point. When was the last time a third party won? Lincoln... ok that's over 150 years ago.:)
Ya know if the media would only give the third party's as much coverage as the main two, and the main presidential debates actually included third party's, then I think a third party would actually have a decent chance of winning.
As is now, voting for one is more of a statment than actually hoping they're going to win. Gotta love the US.
I'm going to assume you've either heard of http://del.icio.us and dont like it, or you've been living under a rock for the past few months. Delicious isnt everything youre looking for I'm sure but it is pretty neat. It's been around for almost a year but just in the past month it has gotten insanely popular.
Now it doesnt sync your bookmarks with your browsers, instead it's an online place to store your bookmarks. What many people think is the best thing about it, including myself, is that you dont organize your bookmarks into folders. Instead you give them tags, and each bookmark can have more than one tag. A tag is basically just a category.
So for example if you're a web develper such as myself and you find something on javascript that just tickles you pink, then you click your little bookmarklet to add a post to delicious (there are many third party tools available as well), then tag it as "web dev javascript" or however you want (that's what I'd do)
At this point I only have about ~50 bookmarks so its not too handy yet but it will be. If I want to see all bookmarks on development, I can just type in "dev". If I want web development, I can type "web dev". If I want to see just javascript thigns, I can type "web dev javascript" or just "javascript". It's really cool because your bookmarks can fall under an unlimited number of categories, rather than the old structure of trying to figure out the one specific place you want to put this bookmark.
The other good thing is obviously you can access it from any computer on the internet, and not just the ones you normally use. I have already found this aspect of it very useful.
It's also a cool way to see what people are interested in that day. delicious/popular shows the top 20 or so links that have been added each day. If you want to see what other people have found that's interesting on javascript for example, you can just go to delicious/tag/javascript and it will show the last ~100 links that have been added to the site and tagged with "javascript". And each link it shows will also show how many other people have that same link bookmarked, so it's easy to find the popular things in any category.
I recommend it if you haven't checked it out already.:)
Wow that sounds horrible. I dont think I've ever seen a computer come default that poorly. Was this from from no-name company or was it someone big like HP or Dell? I'm curious to know so that next time I'm asked for purchasing recommendations, I can add another item to my "Avoid these companies at all costs" list.:)
Pudge, posting anti-Kerry stories??? Oh, how I could never have predicted that one!
Ya know, even if he did use a cheat sheet, like it would really make any difference. It was probably just a list of some points he didnt want to forget to go over.
While many people are claiming "it was a pen", well, it sure doenst look like a damn pen. But who gives a flying fuck. Kerry beat the shit out of Bush in the debate because Bush is a horrible speaker who can't say anything meaningful unless it's written for him or he has a speaker in his ear.
Yah I am curious what the hell is going on also. I think it looks horrible. The summaries generally shouldnt be more than 3 or 4 sentences, which fits perfectly into a paragraph. This story is only 5 sentences long, yet 3 paragraphs. Yah that makes sense:P
yeah. or maybe you caught up and read the news that this is the official multiplayer demo, and the one everyone's been playing was the beta. There are a lot of differences, like an actual opening rather than just the sky. there's a lot of tweaks they did, maybe you didn't notice cuz you were to busy dismissing the story before you read it.
Actually, I stand behind my original post. The official multi player demo was released on September 29, at least that's the date it was released on filerush.com and the date that I grabbed it, which means it may have been officially released even earlier.
This story was posted October 4. That's 5 days later. Hence my last week comment. I was just joking around anyways. It just seems like sometimes slashdot is WAY behind on things.:)
I agree with what you're saying, it should just be in the tools menu, "check for firefox updates" or something. But, it doesnt really matter too much, because firefox checks automatically every couple days anyways and if it finds anything it lets you know. Doing it the way described in the story is only if you want the update immediately and firefox hasnt automatically checked for it yet. Not the biggest deal really.
I played the original demo for probably 2 months and then bought the full version. The main reason I played and bought the game was for Onslaught. I loved Torlan and all of the ONS levels in the full retial package range from pretty good to damn sweet... EXCEPT for Primeval. This map is just a piece of crap. It seriously feels like it is someone's first ever map, made by Billy (age 7)
The past few months I was actually playing the demo more than the retail version because I love Torlan so much and just wanted to play that for a while. But now the old demo doesnt work anymore with their master servers, you have to run the new demo, this totally sucks because I do NOT want to play Primeval. Everytime I was on the retail version and this map came up, I would change servers. I'm actually really pissed at them for including such a horrible map.
Other than that, it's cool they released a new demo with all their updates up til this point.
Ok, looking at the screenshot, I liked the really simple and clean interface you've designed... HOWEVER, I really have a problem with using it. Firefox is about getting RID of the bloat, not adding more to it! Granted, it's only 50K, but that's beside the point. I want firefox to be JUST my web browser, nothing more. If I wanted the kitchen sink I would install Mozilla.
And I actually was going to try using it, but when I clicked the download link it said file not found?? OH well..
Unless I'm mistaken, making something available via BitTorrent does not relieve someone from having to download it. It simply provides a better distribution mechanism for the data, huge as it is.
Yes, exactly right. Of course people would still have to download it, where did the grandparent imply otherwise??? His point was that since the site got obliterated by slashdot and the file is no longer available, if NASA had chosen to use BitTorrent instead, their server would still be alive and the file would be easily downloadable. Oh well, hopefully next time:P
Soulseek is good, if the only thing you're looking for is music.... but without swarming or hashing, its totally useless. I used it quite a bit for ~3 months until I realized that if I started a download, the only way it would finish is if the ENTIRE FILE came from the EXACT SAME USER. That's just not acceptable in today's p2p world.:P
edonkey and bittorrent own soulseek any day of the week.
the software isn't blocked by cd burning software... it conflicts with cd emulation software
HA.... you're joking right? You think this isnt intentional on Maxis' behalf?? Give me a break. I can see why they would say it's just a conflict, so they try not to piss as many people off, but it's funny that anyone would actually buy that excuse. It's intentional and you know it.:P
We're talking Windows here, not Macs. Windows is totally usable on a 450 MHz processor, however, Mac OS X takes up a lot of your processor just looking pretty. I would not recommend OSX on anything less than a 700 G3 (which is what I happen to have), preferrably a 1Ghz G4 or up.
Firefox also isnt really opitmized for OSX so I can imagine it running horribly on your computer, as it does on my G3. It is by far my favorite browser, but I just stick with Safari on the Mac side, since it's a pretty good browser and pretty fast on slower Macs.
I've been using Macs since the System 7 days, and have used every single version that has come out since then, including the small point upgrades in OSX. I am very, very familiar with Macs. I like Macs.
But you know what? I also like Windows! *gasp* In fact, I actually like it better. And I used to be a silly mac boy like you, dissing Windows all the time, making a god damn fool out of myself. I know, hard to believe. Am I going to get burned at the stake now?
I didnt even start using Windows much until 2000 came out, vs my ~10 years of experience on macs.
Windows UI is not bad at all. My main computer is a Windows machine, because actually, over time I've grown to like it more than OSX. I'm sure the fact that it's a 3200+ with radeon9600 and 18" LCD has something to do with it. VS my current 700Mhz G3 12" screen ibook. What it really comes down to is, everything I need to do on a computer, I can do just fine on a Windows machine.
I'm NOT saying that everyone should use Windows, or that Windows is better than Mac OS, or that Macs suck, or anything like that. I like Macs and if you do too, that's great. Whatever gets the job done. I'm just saying that your "experiment" wont prove shit.
I have had a PS2 for years, as have many of my friends, and none of us have had any problems whatsoever. You shouldnt talk like all PS2's are this way. You just got unlucky I guess...:P
Your processor speed it not the biggest bottleneck. I say high quality RAM and a high end graphics card will get you a lot more than a 4Ghz machine. This just seems like a waste of money. Seriously it's more expensive than any of Apple's computers, and that's saying something:)
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I understand what you're saying but I would wager that well over 50% of the firefox installations are on Windows machines. Remember - MS Windows has over a 90% share of the entire OS market. I know that a large portion of that market are extremely stupid people who wouldnt know a browser from their own ass, but there are a lot of smart people who do use windows you. I know, hard to believe :P
Those are the type of people that made me want to commit suicide when I did tech support. :(
I have a "measely" 9600 pro, and it handles CS Source beautifully. 1280x1024, graphics turned up all the way, and it is absolutely fine, in fact it's great, easily 60+ FPS. It's a beautiful engine, I cant wait for HL2 to come out, and am confident it will be JUST FINE THANK YOU VERY MUCH since it's the same engine. Even though obviously not all of the advanced features are being used in CS, most of those are CPU intensive anyways as opposed to graphics card. I'm thinking particularly of the physics engine here.
Ok, local debates. Who watches those, I mean seriously. Ok even say 10,000 people. Whoopee. And it doesnt include the dems and repubs - at least the main candidates anyways.
A big difference between the 50-60 million who watch the televised debates. If a third party was on one of the televised debates with the two "real" candidates, and the debate was seen by 50-60 million people, I would say it would have a huge impact. You dont think so? Come on.
I would say the third party's vote would increas significantly. Especially after several election cycles of this... say 12 years from now, if every election third party's were included in the debate and people got used to it and started gaining confidence in them, then they would actually have a real chance of winning.
He was a third party - the first republican to hold office.
:)
But the grandparent still has a point. When was the last time a third party won? Lincoln... ok that's over 150 years ago.
Ya know if the media would only give the third party's as much coverage as the main two, and the main presidential debates actually included third party's, then I think a third party would actually have a decent chance of winning.
As is now, voting for one is more of a statment than actually hoping they're going to win. Gotta love the US.
I'm going to assume you've either heard of http://del.icio.us and dont like it, or you've been living under a rock for the past few months. Delicious isnt everything youre looking for I'm sure but it is pretty neat. It's been around for almost a year but just in the past month it has gotten insanely popular.
:)
Now it doesnt sync your bookmarks with your browsers, instead it's an online place to store your bookmarks. What many people think is the best thing about it, including myself, is that you dont organize your bookmarks into folders. Instead you give them tags, and each bookmark can have more than one tag. A tag is basically just a category.
So for example if you're a web develper such as myself and you find something on javascript that just tickles you pink, then you click your little bookmarklet to add a post to delicious (there are many third party tools available as well), then tag it as "web dev javascript" or however you want (that's what I'd do)
At this point I only have about ~50 bookmarks so its not too handy yet but it will be. If I want to see all bookmarks on development, I can just type in "dev". If I want web development, I can type "web dev". If I want to see just javascript thigns, I can type "web dev javascript" or just "javascript". It's really cool because your bookmarks can fall under an unlimited number of categories, rather than the old structure of trying to figure out the one specific place you want to put this bookmark.
The other good thing is obviously you can access it from any computer on the internet, and not just the ones you normally use. I have already found this aspect of it very useful.
It's also a cool way to see what people are interested in that day. delicious/popular shows the top 20 or so links that have been added each day. If you want to see what other people have found that's interesting on javascript for example, you can just go to delicious/tag/javascript and it will show the last ~100 links that have been added to the site and tagged with "javascript". And each link it shows will also show how many other people have that same link bookmarked, so it's easy to find the popular things in any category.
I recommend it if you haven't checked it out already.
Wow that sounds horrible. I dont think I've ever seen a computer come default that poorly. Was this from from no-name company or was it someone big like HP or Dell? I'm curious to know so that next time I'm asked for purchasing recommendations, I can add another item to my "Avoid these companies at all costs" list. :)
Pudge, posting anti-Kerry stories??? Oh, how I could never have predicted that one!
Ya know, even if he did use a cheat sheet, like it would really make any difference. It was probably just a list of some points he didnt want to forget to go over.
While many people are claiming "it was a pen", well, it sure doenst look like a damn pen. But who gives a flying fuck. Kerry beat the shit out of Bush in the debate because Bush is a horrible speaker who can't say anything meaningful unless it's written for him or he has a speaker in his ear.
Yah I am curious what the hell is going on also. I think it looks horrible. The summaries generally shouldnt be more than 3 or 4 sentences, which fits perfectly into a paragraph. This story is only 5 sentences long, yet 3 paragraphs. Yah that makes sense :P
yeah. or maybe you caught up and read the news that this is the official multiplayer demo, and the one everyone's been playing was the beta. There are a lot of differences, like an actual opening rather than just the sky. there's a lot of tweaks they did, maybe you didn't notice cuz you were to busy dismissing the story before you read it.
:)
Actually, I stand behind my original post. The official multi player demo was released on September 29, at least that's the date it was released on filerush.com and the date that I grabbed it, which means it may have been officially released even earlier.
This story was posted October 4. That's 5 days later. Hence my last week comment. I was just joking around anyways. It just seems like sometimes slashdot is WAY behind on things.
Did I get transported to last week when this was news???
Depends if youre on linux or windows. On Windows its tools->options. They really should standardize it.
I agree with what you're saying, it should just be in the tools menu, "check for firefox updates" or something. But, it doesnt really matter too much, because firefox checks automatically every couple days anyways and if it finds anything it lets you know. Doing it the way described in the story is only if you want the update immediately and firefox hasnt automatically checked for it yet. Not the biggest deal really.
I'm sorry, but what the hell does opop mean, especially when combined with /. to make one word??
Bill O'Reilly saying something derogatory about anyone is about as novel as shit coming out of my ass.
I know you're not supposed to post comments that don't add anything to the discusson, but this statement just made me crack up. ^___^
I played the original demo for probably 2 months and then bought the full version. The main reason I played and bought the game was for Onslaught. I loved Torlan and all of the ONS levels in the full retial package range from pretty good to damn sweet... EXCEPT for Primeval. This map is just a piece of crap. It seriously feels like it is someone's first ever map, made by Billy (age 7)
The past few months I was actually playing the demo more than the retail version because I love Torlan so much and just wanted to play that for a while. But now the old demo doesnt work anymore with their master servers, you have to run the new demo, this totally sucks because I do NOT want to play Primeval. Everytime I was on the retail version and this map came up, I would change servers. I'm actually really pissed at them for including such a horrible map.
Other than that, it's cool they released a new demo with all their updates up til this point.
Ok, looking at the screenshot, I liked the really simple and clean interface you've designed... HOWEVER, I really have a problem with using it. Firefox is about getting RID of the bloat, not adding more to it! Granted, it's only 50K, but that's beside the point. I want firefox to be JUST my web browser, nothing more. If I wanted the kitchen sink I would install Mozilla.
And I actually was going to try using it, but when I clicked the download link it said file not found?? OH well..
Unless I'm mistaken, making something available via BitTorrent does not relieve someone from having to download it. It simply provides a better distribution mechanism for the data, huge as it is.
:P
Yes, exactly right. Of course people would still have to download it, where did the grandparent imply otherwise??? His point was that since the site got obliterated by slashdot and the file is no longer available, if NASA had chosen to use BitTorrent instead, their server would still be alive and the file would be easily downloadable. Oh well, hopefully next time
Does anyone else find the fact that almost a third of this post is commentary?
:)
Yes, in fact, I did find the fact that almost a third (actually almost half) of the post was commentary. And...?
Soulseek is good, if the only thing you're looking for is music.... but without swarming or hashing, its totally useless. I used it quite a bit for ~3 months until I realized that if I started a download, the only way it would finish is if the ENTIRE FILE came from the EXACT SAME USER. That's just not acceptable in today's p2p world. :P
edonkey and bittorrent own soulseek any day of the week.
the software isn't blocked by cd burning software... it conflicts with cd emulation software
:P
HA.... you're joking right? You think this isnt intentional on Maxis' behalf?? Give me a break. I can see why they would say it's just a conflict, so they try not to piss as many people off, but it's funny that anyone would actually buy that excuse. It's intentional and you know it.
Firefox runs like a dog on my 450Mhz G3 OS X box
We're talking Windows here, not Macs. Windows is totally usable on a 450 MHz processor, however, Mac OS X takes up a lot of your processor just looking pretty. I would not recommend OSX on anything less than a 700 G3 (which is what I happen to have), preferrably a 1Ghz G4 or up.
Firefox also isnt really opitmized for OSX so I can imagine it running horribly on your computer, as it does on my G3. It is by far my favorite browser, but I just stick with Safari on the Mac side, since it's a pretty good browser and pretty fast on slower Macs.
I've been using Macs since the System 7 days, and have used every single version that has come out since then, including the small point upgrades in OSX. I am very, very familiar with Macs. I like Macs.
But you know what? I also like Windows! *gasp* In fact, I actually like it better. And I used to be a silly mac boy like you, dissing Windows all the time, making a god damn fool out of myself. I know, hard to believe. Am I going to get burned at the stake now?
I didnt even start using Windows much until 2000 came out, vs my ~10 years of experience on macs.
Windows UI is not bad at all. My main computer is a Windows machine, because actually, over time I've grown to like it more than OSX. I'm sure the fact that it's a 3200+ with radeon9600 and 18" LCD has something to do with it. VS my current 700Mhz G3 12" screen ibook. What it really comes down to is, everything I need to do on a computer, I can do just fine on a Windows machine.
I'm NOT saying that everyone should use Windows, or that Windows is better than Mac OS, or that Macs suck, or anything like that. I like Macs and if you do too, that's great. Whatever gets the job done. I'm just saying that your "experiment" wont prove shit.
I have had a PS2 for years, as have many of my friends, and none of us have had any problems whatsoever. You shouldnt talk like all PS2's are this way. You just got unlucky I guess... :P
Your processor speed it not the biggest bottleneck. I say high quality RAM and a high end graphics card will get you a lot more than a 4Ghz machine. This just seems like a waste of money. Seriously it's more expensive than any of Apple's computers, and that's saying something :)