I mean that properties are somehow leaking out of their context. If you think you know a better way to express it, then don't bicker but say how! It's like this:
The h1 is displayed with the preceding div's CSS properties. The page in question validates with the W3C validator and is displayed as intended by Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.
I can see two problems on my own little page experiment: (1) a div element is extended one element beyond its closing tag, and (2) no support for CSS2.1:before pseudoclass. Oh, why bother. I'm not paid for that stuff, so fuck IE. The only reason to use it is to get some laughs. It even tagged an Apache2 404 error page as a phishing site.
[...] second only to the 1337chix0rs clan with their "check for boobs" pre-screening exam.
If you want to join, you'll have to send in a picture of yourself to prove that you have breasts and look good? Hell, I'll start a guild right now! Free porn!
Yeah, that's pretty neat, but still Grip offers more options, like playlist generation, name formatting or the possibility to change track names and stuff in case CDDB is wrong. KAudioCreator is on the right track, but right now it still doesn't "feel" as comfortable as Grip did. I don't really know what it is, but I don't like it quite as much.
Note that I said "gnome", not "g*". I'm perfectly fine with much of the GTK+/GLib stuff, it's just the huge Blob Of Stuff that comes with Gnome applications. Gimp, Ethereal and others are fine, they're only using the GTK toolkit which does little else than paint widgets. They don't depend on gconf or other ominous things.
If the energy of flamewars could be put to use, we would have FTL travel and a starbase at Alpha Centauri, but we wouldn't care becasue transcendence would be just a year down the road.
Also, I just noticed that my system has again become impure, so I guess I'll have to refine my rules to allow some things...
Seriously, ARTS is the reason why I don't use any KDE-based media player (except for AmaroK, which I don't use because of a nasty DB error that keeps it from building a collection). It's also the reason why no KDE application can use sound notifications. I need the device for XMMS.
KDevelop keeps krashing.
Did I mention that Kontact often segfaults when I terminate the X session?
I'm surprised to see Gowdin mentioned only once until now...
Fact (at least for me) is that I don't even allow any packages with "gnome" in the name to be installed on my system, simply for the fact that I always had more troble with the Gnome internals than the programs were useful. The biggest PITA was that, no matter what I did, some part of Gnome always fried my keymap, so that the AltGr key became unuseable. With KDE, it was relatively easy to set it up in a way that just shut down KDE's keymap mangling.
Also, I really don't see the "it's easier/simpler than KDE" point. It's not like KDE was the GUI equivalent of a CLI, it's just that the complexity is there when you need it.
And yes, I really don't like Gnome. Never did. The only great program depending on it was Grip (best CD ripper. Ever.), and I miss that a bit. If you like it, use it. I don't, so I don't.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is a must-read, IMO. It raises some points about war that hold true even on today's tiny scale (who started it? why is it still going on? what the hell are we fighting for?)
Vinge rocks! I can also recommend "Across Realtime" and "A Fire Upon The Deep". Both books cover the topic of extreme technological advance up to the point of transcendence, but they are radically different in scope.
In South Korea, I already read a dozen of newspaper articles reporting a death of a game addict, usually saying "a guy died of heart attack while playing online games for a week without sleep, eating nothing".
There are at least two things to say about that.
First thing, who says that either of those newspapers is writing about a real thing? For all it's worth, they could make that stuff up on end, everywhere on this planet. There's no such thing as reliable news, unless you've seen it yourself and even then it's subjective at best.
Second thing, if someone is playing online games for a week without sleep or eating something, they have a drug problem! There are very few people who could manage without sleep for a week, especially when they don't eat. It's very easy: your sugar level drops, you get drowsy, you fall unconscious, get to a hospital, get IVs. End of story. So either blame it on the drugs, stupidity or a shitty medical system, but don't blame it on games.
everyone wearing a suit in hot enough conditions has issues. Hell, yes! I can't concentrate because it's 30C and I'm sweating like a pig, but damn do I look sharp! Short sleeves do have their advantages, even if it's only helping you deodorant keep operating for those extra 30 minutes.
Fuck suits. I'm not saying that you should come to work in the least stinking rag that was lying on your bedroom floor, but there's quite some choice in "casual" clothing that doesn't make you look like a turd while still being comfortable. You wanna wear your Armani to work? Fine, if you need to compensate for something be my guest. But don't make me suffer. I happen to like what I'm wearing, I don't stink and I don't look like the minimum wage you're paying me. So STFU.
Most fun experience: a trade show in a rather badly ventilated location. It was 30C outside and certainly not too much cooler inside. Just about everyone was wearing suits. It stank like a frickin' cattle pen! Those freaks didn't even take their jackets off. I still don't know what they did hope to communicate. Was it their ability to breathe pure sweat vapor? The incredible resistance to dehydration? It certainly wasn't their ability to do the practical thing and take their damn jackets off. What did I think? I thought that I certainly wouldn't want to do business with some stinkting guy sweating silently in his booth, and what the hell must their offices be like?
Are you aware that slashdot is indeed a blog? It may be a big and recognized one, and it might be older than the slew of iname emo blogs, but it's still just a fucking blog! Calling slashdot "somewhat unbiased" doesn't quite cut it, either. Whether or not CmdrTaco is a crybaby doesn't matter, the article is one of the few first-hand items here, it's gaming related and it's about an issue relevant to some people.
Well, I can't RTFA due to some other people trying to do so, but a good test setup usually includes a "clean" primary power supply for fairness as was already suggested and then some fun add-ons to simulate controlled SNAFUs like bursts, surges and very short interruptions of up to, say, 100ms.
Have the browser keep the cache and history files encrypted with PGP/GPG and actually have the investigators do some work. It wouldn't even have to be an overengineered, certified security level. Just f**k with the guys a little to keep them on their toes.;-)
I did rename the movie files on June 22 and it made the server browser a lot more stable, even in 1.0. Even with playing from a DVD image (copy control takes less time that way), that's not a solution since the time needed to start the game is a lot longer than the time needed to try via the builtin server. ASE might be fine and dandy if the server you're trying to join tends to have a slot or two open, but is completely unuseable if the server has a few dozen or so people grabbing slots like they'd be getting out of fashion soon.
The sad thing with ASE is that it takes days to start the game and when it's loaded, the server is usually full again. I'm trying to play on the registered german servers which is some kind of lottery. The best tactic is to pick a server, filter by its full name and then try to join until it either works or you're sick and tired. It usually takes far less than a second for a slot to be filled after someone leaves and up to 20 minutes to join the server your friends are on.
Why there is no queue to join servers is beyond me. They wanted to have a topseller. They got one. But still, they decided to implement the most frustrating system to join games they could imagine.
Not to mention that they didn't get the Linux server out the door because EA was trying to ship a broken version while DICE had a working one which of course didn't help DICE to fix the bug. Of course, that didn't help to get the number of working servers up. Not to mention the broken 1.01 patch that had to be reverted. EA was suddenly offering a 1.0 Linux server that didn't officially exist before.
Oh well, at least you have some time to recover after joining a server because it takes forever to load the map and the first five minutes of a round are best spent in an unspawned state to wait for all textures to be loaded unless you like seeing every motion in triplicate, which is most fun when trying to fly a jet.
Yeah, that's some kind of braindead thinking I'll never understand. Why would anyone encode those stupid useless bars into the movie? All that does is swallowing an amazing amount of bandwidth.
So, instead of just terminating the subscription as they said they would in the first letter, they got a collection agency to pay USD 12 up front? That's great. My answer would be something like:
Hello, thank you for paying my subscription, but my original intention was to terminate the subscription by default, as your customer "Wired Magazine" suggested in a letter (copy attached). I didn't intend to refresh my subscription and I still don't, so try to get your money back from your customer. Regards, Me.
Otherwise, it's just the same fraudulent scare tactic that seems to have become quite popular. Just don't give in as long as you have any proof that you're right (correspondence, conditions at the time of latest subscription renewal, etc.). Show the CA that they're being used in a criminal scheme and they'll get quite angry with their original customer.
If something looks bland, that probably means that it's finally being used for something other than just being decorative? I mean, it's not like the average can opener had variable transparency and a shitload of useless LEDs stuck to it... One of the best applications I use in Windows (other than games) is Daemon Tools which is basically a system tray icon, a standard MFC load widget and some configuration scerens. Best. Interface. Ever.
I can appreciate a certain blandness, it allows me to actually see what I'm doing. Damn, my pencil is playing Amazing Grace again.
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I mean that properties are somehow leaking out of their context. If you think you know a better way to express it, then don't bicker but say how! It's like this:
<div class="c1">
...
</div>
<div class="c1"> <h1>Heading</h1> </div>
The h1 is displayed with the preceding div's CSS properties. The page in question validates with the W3C validator and is displayed as intended by Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.
I can see two problems on my own little page experiment: (1) a div element is extended one element beyond its closing tag, and (2) no support for CSS2.1 :before pseudoclass. Oh, why bother. I'm not paid for that stuff, so fuck IE. The only reason to use it is to get some laughs. It even tagged an Apache2 404 error page as a phishing site.
Beta or not, there's no excuse for that.
I think they're offering Jets'n'Guns too... That's a good one, even though it's rather short.
So get down on your knees and begin to pray that the town blows awaaaaay!
Now, this would've been interesting or informative if you would have provided a link to that PDF. Pretty please?
If you want to join, you'll have to send in a picture of yourself to prove that you have breasts and look good? Hell, I'll start a guild right now! Free porn!
What's easier to type? "gimp" or "Photoshop"? "xine" oder "Media Player"? If you're talking about menus: we have icons now. Welcome to the 1980s.
but does he listen? No. Do I care? No. Does MS care? No. Even Opera most likely doesn't care.
To quote Lewis Black: Why the fuck open your mouth?
Yeah, that's pretty neat, but still Grip offers more options, like playlist generation, name formatting or the possibility to change track names and stuff in case CDDB is wrong. KAudioCreator is on the right track, but right now it still doesn't "feel" as comfortable as Grip did. I don't really know what it is, but I don't like it quite as much.
Note that I said "gnome", not "g*". I'm perfectly fine with much of the GTK+/GLib stuff, it's just the huge Blob Of Stuff that comes with Gnome applications. Gimp, Ethereal and others are fine, they're only using the GTK toolkit which does little else than paint widgets. They don't depend on gconf or other ominous things.
If the energy of flamewars could be put to use, we would have FTL travel and a starbase at Alpha Centauri, but we wouldn't care becasue transcendence would be just a year down the road.
Also, I just noticed that my system has again become impure, so I guess I'll have to refine my rules to allow some things...
Seriously, ARTS is the reason why I don't use any KDE-based media player (except for AmaroK, which I don't use because of a nasty DB error that keeps it from building a collection). It's also the reason why no KDE application can use sound notifications. I need the device for XMMS.
KDevelop keeps krashing.
Did I mention that Kontact often segfaults when I terminate the X session?
I'm surprised to see Gowdin mentioned only once until now...
Fact (at least for me) is that I don't even allow any packages with "gnome" in the name to be installed on my system, simply for the fact that I always had more troble with the Gnome internals than the programs were useful. The biggest PITA was that, no matter what I did, some part of Gnome always fried my keymap, so that the AltGr key became unuseable. With KDE, it was relatively easy to set it up in a way that just shut down KDE's keymap mangling.
Also, I really don't see the "it's easier/simpler than KDE" point. It's not like KDE was the GUI equivalent of a CLI, it's just that the complexity is there when you need it.
And yes, I really don't like Gnome. Never did. The only great program depending on it was Grip (best CD ripper. Ever.), and I miss that a bit. If you like it, use it. I don't, so I don't.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is a must-read, IMO. It raises some points about war that hold true even on today's tiny scale (who started it? why is it still going on? what the hell are we fighting for?)
Vinge rocks! I can also recommend "Across Realtime" and "A Fire Upon The Deep". Both books cover the topic of extreme technological advance up to the point of transcendence, but they are radically different in scope.
There are at least two things to say about that.
First thing, who says that either of those newspapers is writing about a real thing? For all it's worth, they could make that stuff up on end, everywhere on this planet. There's no such thing as reliable news, unless you've seen it yourself and even then it's subjective at best.
Second thing, if someone is playing online games for a week without sleep or eating something, they have a drug problem! There are very few people who could manage without sleep for a week, especially when they don't eat. It's very easy: your sugar level drops, you get drowsy, you fall unconscious, get to a hospital, get IVs. End of story. So either blame it on the drugs, stupidity or a shitty medical system, but don't blame it on games.
everyone wearing a suit in hot enough conditions has issues. Hell, yes! I can't concentrate because it's 30C and I'm sweating like a pig, but damn do I look sharp! Short sleeves do have their advantages, even if it's only helping you deodorant keep operating for those extra 30 minutes.
Fuck suits. I'm not saying that you should come to work in the least stinking rag that was lying on your bedroom floor, but there's quite some choice in "casual" clothing that doesn't make you look like a turd while still being comfortable. You wanna wear your Armani to work? Fine, if you need to compensate for something be my guest. But don't make me suffer. I happen to like what I'm wearing, I don't stink and I don't look like the minimum wage you're paying me. So STFU.
Most fun experience: a trade show in a rather badly ventilated location. It was 30C outside and certainly not too much cooler inside. Just about everyone was wearing suits. It stank like a frickin' cattle pen! Those freaks didn't even take their jackets off. I still don't know what they did hope to communicate. Was it their ability to breathe pure sweat vapor? The incredible resistance to dehydration? It certainly wasn't their ability to do the practical thing and take their damn jackets off. What did I think? I thought that I certainly wouldn't want to do business with some stinkting guy sweating silently in his booth, and what the hell must their offices be like?
Are you aware that slashdot is indeed a blog? It may be a big and recognized one, and it might be older than the slew of iname emo blogs, but it's still just a fucking blog! Calling slashdot "somewhat unbiased" doesn't quite cut it, either. Whether or not CmdrTaco is a crybaby doesn't matter, the article is one of the few first-hand items here, it's gaming related and it's about an issue relevant to some people.
So cry me a fucking river, too.
Well, I can't RTFA due to some other people trying to do so, but a good test setup usually includes a "clean" primary power supply for fairness as was already suggested and then some fun add-ons to simulate controlled SNAFUs like bursts, surges and very short interruptions of up to, say, 100ms.
Have the browser keep the cache and history files encrypted with PGP/GPG and actually have the investigators do some work. It wouldn't even have to be an overengineered, certified security level. Just f**k with the guys a little to keep them on their toes. ;-)
Of course, you could just encrypt the whole disk.
I did rename the movie files on June 22 and it made the server browser a lot more stable, even in 1.0. Even with playing from a DVD image (copy control takes less time that way), that's not a solution since the time needed to start the game is a lot longer than the time needed to try via the builtin server. ASE might be fine and dandy if the server you're trying to join tends to have a slot or two open, but is completely unuseable if the server has a few dozen or so people grabbing slots like they'd be getting out of fashion soon.
ASE doesn't help.
The sad thing with ASE is that it takes days to start the game and when it's loaded, the server is usually full again. I'm trying to play on the registered german servers which is some kind of lottery. The best tactic is to pick a server, filter by its full name and then try to join until it either works or you're sick and tired. It usually takes far less than a second for a slot to be filled after someone leaves and up to 20 minutes to join the server your friends are on.
Why there is no queue to join servers is beyond me. They wanted to have a topseller. They got one. But still, they decided to implement the most frustrating system to join games they could imagine.
Not to mention that they didn't get the Linux server out the door because EA was trying to ship a broken version while DICE had a working one which of course didn't help DICE to fix the bug. Of course, that didn't help to get the number of working servers up. Not to mention the broken 1.01 patch that had to be reverted. EA was suddenly offering a 1.0 Linux server that didn't officially exist before.
Oh well, at least you have some time to recover after joining a server because it takes forever to load the map and the first five minutes of a round are best spent in an unspawned state to wait for all textures to be loaded unless you like seeing every motion in triplicate, which is most fun when trying to fly a jet.
Yeah, that's some kind of braindead thinking I'll never understand. Why would anyone encode those stupid useless bars into the movie? All that does is swallowing an amazing amount of bandwidth.
Why not give those people a good ol' public whipping?
So, instead of just terminating the subscription as they said they would in the first letter, they got a collection agency to pay USD 12 up front? That's great. My answer would be something like:
Otherwise, it's just the same fraudulent scare tactic that seems to have become quite popular. Just don't give in as long as you have any proof that you're right (correspondence, conditions at the time of latest subscription renewal, etc.). Show the CA that they're being used in a criminal scheme and they'll get quite angry with their original customer.
If something looks bland, that probably means that it's finally being used for something other than just being decorative? I mean, it's not like the average can opener had variable transparency and a shitload of useless LEDs stuck to it... One of the best applications I use in Windows (other than games) is Daemon Tools which is basically a system tray icon, a standard MFC load widget and some configuration scerens. Best. Interface. Ever.
I can appreciate a certain blandness, it allows me to actually see what I'm doing. Damn, my pencil is playing Amazing Grace again.