I think it's less that, than what the fellow that posted (Score is 5 from the front page of this new bit) that wrote Age of Empires. Hardly any of these game companies (and in many other industries) refuse to admit there is a single thing wrong with their programs. So, each of them live in their own little snow globes, pretty much oblivious to the outside world. They build layer upon layer of obfuscation, hoping some kid out there doesn't figure a way to weasle through it all. It doesn't seem like a viable way to live, but they manage. If something's found, just throw another layer of sand on your head.
Just what I've been trying to drive to this audience since this YRO section started. Throw in a little mention of EMail censorship (spam) and you have it wrapped up.
So, a business sector must operate how you would like them? Let's face it, just about every ISP here in the US is identical. I live in a town of about 15,000 people and there are three ISPs. The only thing telling them apart are things like price, customer service, etc.
So people offer other perks to their business plans to attract more people. Despite what one may wish for the Internet, there is a large market of people who want to surf ebay for potted plants and send grandma an email without catching three popup windows of five porn banner ads each. (That's happened to me when visiting a site to get info on some video game.)
You want to filter your incoming mail server so it caters to your wishes (no spam). These customers want to filther their connection so they don't have to put up with lame crap like this. The porn industry does itself a great disservice in public opinion when you see them registerring domains that are just mistyped versions of legitimate kid-related or other sites, dolts that think they can slap a million porn banner ads on their home page to get you to learn the cheat code to some games, etc.
...new business for the sole purpose of taking perfectly good usable items(but now illegal) and breaking them down into parts to be re-used!!
What? Lumberjacks need to eat too. If you recycle that book's paper, that only means several lumberjacks go hungry because the new book being made isn't using their services. Recycling should be outlawed.
I suppose this whole thing falls apart since all elements basically recycle themselves around the planet. So dammit, we need to import new atoms from asteroids and such.
They have no need to dictate how/where an item is sold within the store. How would GroceryStoreX feel if Kleenex up and decided "You must place our tissues up front, and GenericBrand Facial Tissues in the back of the store." It's not their place, so it is no workaround to do this.
Now, businesses often give bonuses, incentives, etc if a store places their product prominently over another. That's fine, as long as it is mutual between both sides.
Bah, uptimes with any service like this are basically translated to, "If we're down, there's a 99.9% chance it's not our fault so you can't use it against us."
More noteworthy, especially concerning issues of domain ownership on Slashdot over the years, is the new domain registration section:
C. New Domain Name Registration
1. The customer who registers for services is the legal owner of any domain name registered.
2. Page Creators reserves the right to seize any domain name at any time for the following reasons:
a. Placing dispute with customer's credit card institution on any payment debited by Page Creators; and
b. Violation of any provision of this service agreement.
Heh, so cross them in any way and your domain is theirs.
You say multihead there in XFree86 4.0.2, does that include those single G400 cards with multihead on it? It'd be wonderful to throw out one of these cards I currently use.:)
Yes, I've done that. They allege the domain does not exist. So, I am unable to know when it was last updated, created, expired, etc. That's why I said a "dated whois database." Perhaps one just a month old, to see what the information used to be in there for this domain.
It would be interesting to see what they would do if you were to send a personal check for the balance of $0.00. See if in a month or two the check is cashed through your bank.
Is there any way to find out when a specific domain expired? Perhaps a dated whois database? I have a client which apparently allowed their domain to expire. I'd like to know when it was due to expire, if that is indeed the cause. Now, if NSI just up and deleted it from their database or something stupid, that would be a whole other story. Either way, I sure hope they can repurchase their name. It shows up on all the registrar databases as available...
Any discussion of the popular vote is meaningless. You see, there were some men ages ago (late 18th century) that could forsee candidates only campaigning in densely populated areas. Thus, if you take the big cities and states, you would win the popular vote and the less populated areas would basically be meaningless.
USA Today had a map of the United States of America by county, and it was colored by county for either Gore or Bush. It clearly showed this was Gore's strategy. He owned Chicago, for instance, by pretty much the rest of the state of Illinois was all for Bush. Even in California, Gore only won the coastal counties, Bush taking the majority of land mass. These were enough to put him over the top in those states. If popular vote mattered, you can guarantee these would be the only areas that got any attention, Nebraska, the Dakotas, etc would be completely meaningless because they do not have enough popular votes to contribute to an election. So, to make sure EACH STATE matters a bit, the founders put in this thing called the electoral college.
Popular vote counts matter as much as total yardage in a football game. Even if one side has 300 net yards vs 200, the one with the more actual points wins. It is interesting that in the other close elections (1876 or so, 1960), the losers bowed out (without taking it to courts) and won a term or two later. The question in this election is, will this hurt AlGore's chances at an election in the future? Nobody likes a cry baby.:)
what makes you think that this alliance is solely, or even primarily, aimed at out-marketing GNOME?
GNOME's sole existence is to outmarket KDE. It was started from day one with this purpose. They will do so forever, or until KDE is collapsed. Should GNOME collapse, people will not stop bitching about KDE's evils. Therefore, every step KDE makes will just be further reason to hate them. There is no other way around it for these wackos. There can be only one desktop used by all users! Viva la resistance!!
I have not heard anything about a port of Half Life to linux.
I have. They have said since they announced TF2 nothing short of basically, "No way in the world will we port to Linux or allow anyone else to." Search around LinuxGames.com or any of the half life (.net,.com,.org) sites for magazine interviews. It's unfortunate, as HalfLife is a great little game. I'd guess they might have made some sort of deal with Microsoft for insider information on Windows and they do not want to piss them off. But I'm a conspiracy nut.
The prefix "inter" means "between." So if KDE now accepts GTK pixmap themes, that's half of a "between." What's the state of the other half? Does Gtk/GNOME allow importing KDE 1.x or 2.x pixmap-only themes?
Or are you using the new-fangled, hippie American liberal meaning, that one side (extra chromasome extreme right-wingers) must conform to the other side no matter what? That kind of cooperation always has intrigued me...
Blasphemer! Everyone knows rule #14.2 is, "Though shalt not say anything that could possibly be construed by someone under the influence of caffeine or other substance as negative to any software with "GNU" in it's name. So, to put it plain and simply, KDE is evil. KDE doesn't have "GNU" in its name, so when Miguel tells lies, that is OK.
Of course, for years people have whined on Slashdot, "Why don't the KDE people accept GTK themes? Those bastards!" Now, I'm sure that will just change to people whining that KDE doesn't take C coded themes as well, without any work or extra compiling on the user's end. I mean, it's right there in libgnomesomethingorother.so. It couldn't be that hard.
Well, KDE's 1.x HTML widget has already been used in quite a few projects. The Gtk HTML widget used its code I know, and just a few days ago ViewML thing for embedded systems was announced. Of course, expect an even better HTML engine as KDE 2 comes rolling along.
Let me tell ya, I've been around for a while, and one thing I know as a fact is once one technology is implemented, all previous technologies are laid to rest. Take storage media. First there was graffiti on cave walls, later came paper. Today, who writes on cave walls anymore? If you do, you'll probably be arrested for destroying some fungus' ecosystem thanks to crazy liberals.
Or take KDE. There is not a single Linux system in the world that does not use it. It was invented, and now text consoles are all gone. A few people squabble wanting GNOME to be the one GUI for Linux. It just will not happen now that KDE is. I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years, laws are past to make text consoles and GNOME illegal or something as well. Some scientists with bowties will go on Larry King and say how some oddball amoeba lives off the pixels of your monitor and to not use graphics will kill them. You think these ilcomputerate Americans will second guess a guy with a bowtie??
So, speech recognition is coming. Do not fight it. Or I will have you arrested. Oh, and crazy liberals piss me off.
It takes you thirteen seconds to come up with the "specific usability goals" thought. This guy asks you for specifics (ie the menu in panel thing). You come back with more rants. If you have nothing more than "I want something different. I don't know what, just different, and usable. Now get to work all you hackers," then you have nothing to contribute to the world.
You do not have to be a grand poobah programmer to come up with a specific idea for a "usable" interface. Programmers can at times be good at doing things, but sometimes not so good on the artistic end of things. If there is something in another window manager/program, say, "I like this part of XYZ." If there is something in KDE you detest with regard to usability, say "Could you change this so it behaves like so?" So please, come up with constructive ideas and not the same ol' "KDE will end the world" arguments. Heh, one Slashdotter once came up with the idea that KDE should conduct some newbie usability laboratory. Sure it's not feasible, but it is at least an idea.:)
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Probably because some other joker already cut/paste this message in. Sure this one may be by one of the guys that actually did it, but this is Slashdot where first posting gets all the credit.:)
I'll do you one better by eating a turkey sandwich and drinking a glass of milk while brosing Slashdot right now!! I'd cook a rat as well, but they don't seem to think my apartment is messy enough...
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I think it's less that, than what the fellow that posted (Score is 5 from the front page of this new bit) that wrote Age of Empires. Hardly any of these game companies (and in many other industries) refuse to admit there is a single thing wrong with their programs. So, each of them live in their own little snow globes, pretty much oblivious to the outside world. They build layer upon layer of obfuscation, hoping some kid out there doesn't figure a way to weasle through it all. It doesn't seem like a viable way to live, but they manage. If something's found, just throw another layer of sand on your head.
ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu.
/pub/linux/ALPHA/wine/development
Wine source has always been on your standard sunsite (later metalab) linux mirrors.
Am I the only one who hasn't read these books?
/cheer
Just what I've been trying to drive to this audience since this YRO section started. Throw in a little mention of EMail censorship (spam) and you have it wrapped up.
So, a business sector must operate how you would like them? Let's face it, just about every ISP here in the US is identical. I live in a town of about 15,000 people and there are three ISPs. The only thing telling them apart are things like price, customer service, etc.
So people offer other perks to their business plans to attract more people. Despite what one may wish for the Internet, there is a large market of people who want to surf ebay for potted plants and send grandma an email without catching three popup windows of five porn banner ads each. (That's happened to me when visiting a site to get info on some video game.)
You want to filter your incoming mail server so it caters to your wishes (no spam). These customers want to filther their connection so they don't have to put up with lame crap like this. The porn industry does itself a great disservice in public opinion when you see them registerring domains that are just mistyped versions of legitimate kid-related or other sites, dolts that think they can slap a million porn banner ads on their home page to get you to learn the cheat code to some games, etc.
...new business for the sole purpose of taking perfectly good usable items(but now illegal) and breaking them down into parts to be re-used!!
What? Lumberjacks need to eat too. If you recycle that book's paper, that only means several lumberjacks go hungry because the new book being made isn't using their services. Recycling should be outlawed.
I suppose this whole thing falls apart since all elements basically recycle themselves around the planet. So dammit, we need to import new atoms from asteroids and such.
They have no need to dictate how/where an item is sold within the store. How would GroceryStoreX feel if Kleenex up and decided "You must place our tissues up front, and GenericBrand Facial Tissues in the back of the store." It's not their place, so it is no workaround to do this.
Now, businesses often give bonuses, incentives, etc if a store places their product prominently over another. That's fine, as long as it is mutual between both sides.
Bah, uptimes with any service like this are basically translated to, "If we're down, there's a 99.9% chance it's not our fault so you can't use it against us."
More noteworthy, especially concerning issues of domain ownership on Slashdot over the years, is the new domain registration section:
C. New Domain Name Registration
1. The customer who registers for services is the legal owner of any domain name registered.
2. Page Creators reserves the right to seize any domain name at any time for the following reasons:
a. Placing dispute with customer's credit card institution on any payment debited by Page Creators; and
b. Violation of any provision of this service agreement.
Heh, so cross them in any way and your domain is theirs.
You say multihead there in XFree86 4.0.2, does that include those single G400 cards with multihead on it? It'd be wonderful to throw out one of these cards I currently use. :)
Don't forget search:// .. and which search engine it goes to is configurable.
Yes, I've done that. They allege the domain does not exist. So, I am unable to know when it was last updated, created, expired, etc. That's why I said a "dated whois database." Perhaps one just a month old, to see what the information used to be in there for this domain.
It would be interesting to see what they would do if you were to send a personal check for the balance of $0.00. See if in a month or two the check is cashed through your bank.
Is there any way to find out when a specific domain expired? Perhaps a dated whois database? I have a client which apparently allowed their domain to expire. I'd like to know when it was due to expire, if that is indeed the cause. Now, if NSI just up and deleted it from their database or something stupid, that would be a whole other story. Either way, I sure hope they can repurchase their name. It shows up on all the registrar databases as available...
Any discussion of the popular vote is meaningless. You see, there were some men ages ago (late 18th century) that could forsee candidates only campaigning in densely populated areas. Thus, if you take the big cities and states, you would win the popular vote and the less populated areas would basically be meaningless.
:)
USA Today had a map of the United States of America by county, and it was colored by county for either Gore or Bush. It clearly showed this was Gore's strategy. He owned Chicago, for instance, by pretty much the rest of the state of Illinois was all for Bush. Even in California, Gore only won the coastal counties, Bush taking the majority of land mass. These were enough to put him over the top in those states. If popular vote mattered, you can guarantee these would be the only areas that got any attention, Nebraska, the Dakotas, etc would be completely meaningless because they do not have enough popular votes to contribute to an election. So, to make sure EACH STATE matters a bit, the founders put in this thing called the electoral college.
Popular vote counts matter as much as total yardage in a football game. Even if one side has 300 net yards vs 200, the one with the more actual points wins. It is interesting that in the other close elections (1876 or so, 1960), the losers bowed out (without taking it to courts) and won a term or two later. The question in this election is, will this hurt AlGore's chances at an election in the future? Nobody likes a cry baby.
what makes you think that this alliance is solely, or even primarily, aimed at out-marketing GNOME?
GNOME's sole existence is to outmarket KDE. It was started from day one with this purpose. They will do so forever, or until KDE is collapsed. Should GNOME collapse, people will not stop bitching about KDE's evils. Therefore, every step KDE makes will just be further reason to hate them. There is no other way around it for these wackos. There can be only one desktop used by all users! Viva la resistance!!
Let's just say the person doesn't keep up on Qt news. 2.1 is the shipping version (no, it does not use the kernel version numbering system).
I have not heard anything about a port of Half Life to linux.
.com, .org) sites for magazine interviews. It's unfortunate, as HalfLife is a great little game. I'd guess they might have made some sort of deal with Microsoft for insider information on Windows and they do not want to piss them off. But I'm a conspiracy nut.
I have. They have said since they announced TF2 nothing short of basically, "No way in the world will we port to Linux or allow anyone else to." Search around LinuxGames.com or any of the half life (.net,
The prefix "inter" means "between." So if KDE now accepts GTK pixmap themes, that's half of a "between." What's the state of the other half? Does Gtk/GNOME allow importing KDE 1.x or 2.x pixmap-only themes?
Or are you using the new-fangled, hippie American liberal meaning, that one side (extra chromasome extreme right-wingers) must conform to the other side no matter what? That kind of cooperation always has intrigued me...
Blasphemer! Everyone knows rule #14.2 is, "Though shalt not say anything that could possibly be construed by someone under the influence of caffeine or other substance as negative to any software with "GNU" in it's name. So, to put it plain and simply, KDE is evil. KDE doesn't have "GNU" in its name, so when Miguel tells lies, that is OK.
Of course, for years people have whined on Slashdot, "Why don't the KDE people accept GTK themes? Those bastards!" Now, I'm sure that will just change to people whining that KDE doesn't take C coded themes as well, without any work or extra compiling on the user's end. I mean, it's right there in libgnomesomethingorother.so. It couldn't be that hard.
It never ends here...
The GNOME/KDE would be a good start.
Well, KDE's 1.x HTML widget has already been used in quite a few projects. The Gtk HTML widget used its code I know, and just a few days ago ViewML thing for embedded systems was announced. Of course, expect an even better HTML engine as KDE 2 comes rolling along.
Let me tell ya, I've been around for a while, and one thing I know as a fact is once one technology is implemented, all previous technologies are laid to rest. Take storage media. First there was graffiti on cave walls, later came paper. Today, who writes on cave walls anymore? If you do, you'll probably be arrested for destroying some fungus' ecosystem thanks to crazy liberals.
Or take KDE. There is not a single Linux system in the world that does not use it. It was invented, and now text consoles are all gone. A few people squabble wanting GNOME to be the one GUI for Linux. It just will not happen now that KDE is. I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years, laws are past to make text consoles and GNOME illegal or something as well. Some scientists with bowties will go on Larry King and say how some oddball amoeba lives off the pixels of your monitor and to not use graphics will kill them. You think these ilcomputerate Americans will second guess a guy with a bowtie??
So, speech recognition is coming. Do not fight it. Or I will have you arrested. Oh, and crazy liberals piss me off.
It takes you thirteen seconds to come up with the "specific usability goals" thought. This guy asks you for specifics (ie the menu in panel thing). You come back with more rants. If you have nothing more than "I want something different. I don't know what, just different, and usable. Now get to work all you hackers," then you have nothing to contribute to the world.
:)
You do not have to be a grand poobah programmer to come up with a specific idea for a "usable" interface. Programmers can at times be good at doing things, but sometimes not so good on the artistic end of things. If there is something in another window manager/program, say, "I like this part of XYZ." If there is something in KDE you detest with regard to usability, say "Could you change this so it behaves like so?" So please, come up with constructive ideas and not the same ol' "KDE will end the world" arguments. Heh, one Slashdotter once came up with the idea that KDE should conduct some newbie usability laboratory. Sure it's not feasible, but it is at least an idea.
Probably because some other joker already cut/paste this message in. Sure this one may be by one of the guys that actually did it, but this is Slashdot where first posting gets all the credit. :)
So start a Society for the Ethical Treatment of Insects. Then you can sue PETA when their mean, nasty animals eat an insect.
I'll do you one better by eating a turkey sandwich and drinking a glass of milk while brosing Slashdot right now!! I'd cook a rat as well, but they don't seem to think my apartment is messy enough...