I was checking out Mr. Welte's website, and noticed something interesting: Many of the documented cases on the site are of his enforcing compliance with the GPL for netfilter/iptables. This is interesting because the site also mentions that he is chairman of that project.
I'm interested to know how serious he is about stopping GPL violations made against other projects/products.
I know I'm not the only one who won't use Firefox over Mozilla due to its incredibly annoying download manager "feature". I haven't found any way of making it use the IE/Mozilla style one-window-per-download system.
If it wasn't for this, I'd probably give Firefox/Thunderbird another try as a replacement to the Mozilla Suite 1.7 that I currently use.
Well, this sucks. I originally read the topic as "Mozilla Foundation's Failure, and it sounds like I wasn't far off.
Firefox has a lot of "features" that I don't like, such as the terribly unfriendly download manager that you can't turn off (I prefer single windows per download, with prompts asking me what to do first, thanks!). I use Firefox at work because I only need an MSIE alternative, but at home I use the browser and mail/newsgroup components of Mozilla all the time (almost never close them in fact); I have to say that I prefer Mozilla in general.
It really, REALLY rubs me the wrong way when people claim that science has "proved" something, as anyone who is a scientist will tell you is not possible under the Scientific Method.
Noone is going to pay for TV downloads when they can get them for free, and it's now too late to stop them from being available for free. Even if they could, you can still get them for free using an old TV and an antenna - so why pay for them?
What they (the TV networks) need to do is offer *free* downloads or streaming playback of shows that they make money off of in the same way as on broadcast: advertisements. Why can't they let companies buy ad space in streaming TV shows and then let viewers watch for free, just like with TV?
The Chino center will use natural gas as a feedstock, to use the extensive natural gas infrastructure that is already in place. "Natural gas is an established, very efficient way to make hydrogen," he said.
So, really, we'll just be trading one non-renewable natural resource (petroleum) for another (natural gas)?
TECHNICIAN: Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days, but now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well spent. We're about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the revolutionary Computonian Law of Probability, this machine will tell us the precise location of the three remaining Golden Tickets.
(He punches computer buttons; reads the card it emits)
It says, "I won't tell. That would be cheating." I am now telling the computer that, if it will tell me the correct answer, I will gladly share with it the grand prize.
(Pushes buttons; reads card)
He says, "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?"
I am now telling the computer exactly what he can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!
Hey, Why build something you can repair when you could just buy a 10 pack of disposables. Sure, it might be *less* wasteful to build a new one from scratch, but it just seems such a sign of the times. Maybe they could get Gillette to sponsor the project.
Yeah, then they could call it the "Stubble" space telescope.
Actually most people do care about not getting spyware/adware and popups all over their systems. I've fixed several computers belonging to neighbours and family members in the last few months, and installed Firefox or Mozilla on most of them to help prevent a recurrence of the malware infestations I had to deal with.
Don't worry - cosmic rays are a great source of super-powers such as stretchiness, spontaneous combustion, invisibility, and...and...Things.
I'm surprised noone else caught the Fantastic Four reference in the "from the...department" line of the summary - it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the phrase "cosmic rays"!
Just because an insane thing happened (9/11), does the whole world have to go insane?
I think it's more along the lines of the U.S. government and corporations using the constantly news-media-fanned flames of mass hysteria to push their own agendas, which normally would be met with much resistance by the people (who, reasonably, don't want to give up their freedoms without sufficient cause). I don't know which is the worst:
- The government and corporations taking advantage of the sheeple's ignorance and mass hysteria, - The media stoking the hysteria to keep people watching the news instead of pro wrestling and reality shows, or - The fact that people really are stupid enough to buy into all these scare tactics used by the government, corporations, and the news media to take advantage of us.
I've heard multiple people recently talk about how they're afraid to fly or work in the air transportation industry because of "all the terrorists in airports and on airplanes these days."
God, finally someone who sees Creative exactly the way I do. Nothing Creative has created has been special ever since they entered the PCI sound card market by buying Ensoniq and re-labeling their cards. Whatever you may be able to say in defense of their hardware, the fact still remains that their tech support and overall customer relations are a joke, as are their drivers and other supporting software. Absolutely the ONLY thing Creative has over anyone else is EAX, and EAX won't save Creative any more than Glide saved 3dfx or any more than nVidia's refusing to conform to the standard DirectX 9 shader rendering path will save it. Why the hell won't these companies learn that you can't retain dominance over their niche of the hardware market by strongarming software developers into using their proprietary technologies?
OpenAL is kind of a joke too, from the looks of it, as it seems to be largely controlled by nVidia and Creative.
I should mention that I have an Audigy 2, but that I use the kX Project drivers http://www.kxproject.com/ instead of the official Creative ones because I can have direct control over what's going on in the DSP on the card. If it wasn't for kX, I'd probably have an nForce motherboard like my roommate (AC3-encoded 5.1 output anyone?).
I don't know if they've solved this problem, but the early-generation USB tuner I have (Hauppage WinTV PVR USB) buffers quite a bit of data, making things like playing consoles through it effectively impossible.
I used wifibox for a while after Sveasoft went off the deep end, but wifibox seems to be all but dead now. I've since returned to using the official Linksys firmware, as I didn't use most of the special features provided by the custom firmware anyways...
As I have said before, one of the things that sets PCs apart from console gaming is the fact that PCs have for a long time now been free of the limitations of low-resolution NTSC/PAL/S-Video/whatever display modes. Sure, it sounds good to play your favorite PC game on your 35" TV instead of your 19" monitor, but your 19" monitor is probably capable of at least 4 times the horizontal and vertical resolution and much higher framerates.
Maybe when CRTs are long gone and everyone watches sitcoms on plasma TVs and projectors (not to be confused with rear-projection TVs) will it be worth playing PC games on a TV instead of a monitor. Even most of those that I've seen can't do the 1280x960 res that my 17" Samsung can do at 85Hz without problems and with crystal clarity.
The exception to this is older games which run in 640x480 (or lower), which would be playable and actually tend to look rather nice on TVs due to the automatic full scene anti-aliasing they provide;)
Can anyone point me to a summary of the differences between Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird? I'm currently using Mozilla and am interested in finding out whether one of the other two Mozilla-related packages is better-suited to my needs.
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I managed to dig up some screenshots here: http://www.legolas.org/pcgen/docs/
:)
The timing of this announcement is very auspicious, as my roommate and I were talking just last night about starting a d20 Star Wars campaign
Sigh...YADA (Yet Another Duplicate Article)
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This was already posted on
I was checking out Mr. Welte's website, and noticed something interesting: Many of the documented cases on the site are of his enforcing compliance with the GPL for netfilter/iptables. This is interesting because the site also mentions that he is chairman of that project.
I'm interested to know how serious he is about stopping GPL violations made against other projects/products.
I know I'm not the only one who won't use Firefox over Mozilla due to its incredibly annoying download manager "feature". I haven't found any way of making it use the IE/Mozilla style one-window-per-download system.
If it wasn't for this, I'd probably give Firefox/Thunderbird another try as a replacement to the Mozilla Suite 1.7 that I currently use.
Well, this sucks. I originally read the topic as "Mozilla Foundation's Failure, and it sounds like I wasn't far off.
Firefox has a lot of "features" that I don't like, such as the terribly unfriendly download manager that you can't turn off (I prefer single windows per download, with prompts asking me what to do first, thanks!). I use Firefox at work because I only need an MSIE alternative, but at home I use the browser and mail/newsgroup components of Mozilla all the time (almost never close them in fact); I have to say that I prefer Mozilla in general.
It really, REALLY rubs me the wrong way when people claim that science has "proved" something, as anyone who is a scientist will tell you is not possible under the Scientific Method.
Noone is going to pay for TV downloads when they can get them for free, and it's now too late to stop them from being available for free. Even if they could, you can still get them for free using an old TV and an antenna - so why pay for them?
What they (the TV networks) need to do is offer *free* downloads or streaming playback of shows that they make money off of in the same way as on broadcast: advertisements. Why can't they let companies buy ad space in streaming TV shows and then let viewers watch for free, just like with TV?
Someone should start an e-mail campaign to tell these people that we won't stand for stupid asshole tactics like this.
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They have an email address posted on their web site: mailto:support@ultracade.com
Someone else has posted personal info on the author of the site: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140128&
Oh my God, his name appears next to an EA logo on a race car: http://www.davidrfoley.com/Personal%20Web%20Page_
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I stopped being lazy though and just dug up the actual proxy address from the script and entered it directly in Firefox...
I'm a long-time fan of PA, and I noticed both of you are married. Do you have any advice for your fellow gamers on how to find mates?
Actually most people do care about not getting spyware/adware and popups all over their systems. I've fixed several computers belonging to neighbours and family members in the last few months, and installed Firefox or Mozilla on most of them to help prevent a recurrence of the malware infestations I had to deal with.
Don't worry - cosmic rays are a great source of super-powers such as stretchiness, spontaneous combustion, invisibility, and...and...Things.
I'm surprised noone else caught the Fantastic Four reference in the "from the...department" line of the summary - it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the phrase "cosmic rays"!
Are they retiring Alvin now, or when the new DSV is finished? The article doesn't seem to say.
Just because an insane thing happened (9/11), does the whole world have to go insane?
I think it's more along the lines of the U.S. government and corporations using the constantly news-media-fanned flames of mass hysteria to push their own agendas, which normally would be met with much resistance by the people (who, reasonably, don't want to give up their freedoms without sufficient cause). I don't know which is the worst:
- The government and corporations taking advantage of the sheeple's ignorance and mass hysteria,
- The media stoking the hysteria to keep people watching the news instead of pro wrestling and reality shows, or
- The fact that people really are stupid enough to buy into all these scare tactics used by the government, corporations, and the news media to take advantage of us.
I've heard multiple people recently talk about how they're afraid to fly or work in the air transportation industry because of "all the terrorists in airports and on airplanes these days."
"Fuck you,fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, fuck you, I'm out."
I've been tempted to do that one at work, since I'm about to leave a fast food job for a much better paying software development job.
God, finally someone who sees Creative exactly the way I do. Nothing Creative has created has been special ever since they entered the PCI sound card market by buying Ensoniq and re-labeling their cards. Whatever you may be able to say in defense of their hardware, the fact still remains that their tech support and overall customer relations are a joke, as are their drivers and other supporting software. Absolutely the ONLY thing Creative has over anyone else is EAX, and EAX won't save Creative any more than Glide saved 3dfx or any more than nVidia's refusing to conform to the standard DirectX 9 shader rendering path will save it. Why the hell won't these companies learn that you can't retain dominance over their niche of the hardware market by strongarming software developers into using their proprietary technologies?
OpenAL is kind of a joke too, from the looks of it, as it seems to be largely controlled by nVidia and Creative.
I should mention that I have an Audigy 2, but that I use the kX Project drivers http://www.kxproject.com/ instead of the official Creative ones because I can have direct control over what's going on in the DSP on the card. If it wasn't for kX, I'd probably have an nForce motherboard like my roommate (AC3-encoded 5.1 output anyone?).
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-0
"It's not my fault your world orbits a ball of fire!"
I don't know if they've solved this problem, but the early-generation USB tuner I have (Hauppage WinTV PVR USB) buffers quite a bit of data, making things like playing consoles through it effectively impossible.
I used wifibox for a while after Sveasoft went off the deep end, but wifibox seems to be all but dead now. I've since returned to using the official Linksys firmware, as I didn't use most of the special features provided by the custom firmware anyways...
As I have said before, one of the things that sets PCs apart from console gaming is the fact that PCs have for a long time now been free of the limitations of low-resolution NTSC/PAL/S-Video/whatever display modes. Sure, it sounds good to play your favorite PC game on your 35" TV instead of your 19" monitor, but your 19" monitor is probably capable of at least 4 times the horizontal and vertical resolution and much higher framerates.
;)
Maybe when CRTs are long gone and everyone watches sitcoms on plasma TVs and projectors (not to be confused with rear-projection TVs) will it be worth playing PC games on a TV instead of a monitor. Even most of those that I've seen can't do the 1280x960 res that my 17" Samsung can do at 85Hz without problems and with crystal clarity.
The exception to this is older games which run in 640x480 (or lower), which would be playable and actually tend to look rather nice on TVs due to the automatic full scene anti-aliasing they provide
*puts on flame-retardant suit*
Can anyone point me to a summary of the differences between Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird? I'm currently using Mozilla and am interested in finding out whether one of the other two Mozilla-related packages is better-suited to my needs.
Sweet, I'm the guy that changes the fryer oil each week at Taco Bell - maybe I can make a few extra bucks selling the used oil to my fellow geeks ;p