I agree that people want polygons, but a question that has been on my mind for about the past year is why we can't have some good old 2d gameplay displayed in 3d?
The main example that comes to mind is Donkey Kong Country. DKC was essentially a 2d sprite-based platformer, but all the sprites had been rendered from raytraced 3D models which looked beautiful, and it was tremendously successful. Why can't/don't we do this realtime today??
One can't forget Wesnoth under the strategy section!
Medieval (humans, elves, orcs), turn-based, hexagonal strategy with some really nice graphics. (Some Freeciv people have commented in forums that freeciv should strive to look as nice as Wesnoth.)
I've been playing this game for a few weeks now, and it has a very nice feel to it, a long single-player campaign (multiple campaigns coming soon, apparently) and is lots of fun multiplayer.
I find that it is as good as any of the commercial ones (I am virus free).
Have I got some AV software for you! It's only one batch file, and it's open-source too! Here it is:
ECHO No viruses found.
Seriously tho, I have seen lesser software (for sake of not starting a flame-war, I won't mention any names) miss viruses, which gives end-users a false sense of security. Then they bring their computers to me and say "It's not working right, but I know I don't have any viruses. My software says so."
On top of that, when I do find viruses on their computer with commercial anti-virus software, they occasionally accuse me of lying... "Well, it SAID it didn't have any viruses, so you must be wrong. Did you put a virus in there young man?"
I know free software is nice, but viruses & worms are one area where it's worth your $50. (at least to me it is.) If my OpenOffice or Mozilla doesn't work right, I'm not gonna be picking viruses out of my network for the next few days.
Or press Ctrl+L to put focus on the location bar & select the contents.
I use a keyword for google, so it takes me 4 keystrokes (Ctrl+l "g ") and no hand travel to do a search.
I've never installed the google bar because I can't imagine it being < 4 keystrokes (and not using the mouse.) That, and I can also set up additional keywords (like "ig" for images.google.com).
I live in northcentral Wisconsin, and I happened to have been driving last night at about 2am (*ahem*....) when I saw something extremely similar to these fireballs. The one I saw was relatively slow-moving (about a 2-second display,) and appeared in the eastern sky. Extremely large (approx 10x usual meteorite size) and blueish in color, it traveled in a nearly vertical line from about 70 degrees to below the tree line. (15 degrees?) I never saw it burn out. It left no vapor trail, and I immediately slowed my vehicle & rolled down my window, but heard no sound.
Perhaps these things are happening over a larger range than previously thought?
I don't know what the google bar does, since I've never tried it, but if what you want is quick access to a google search, mozilla has a neat feature called Bookmark Keywords.
Do this:
1: Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
2: File -> New -> Bookmark
3: set Location to "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s"
4: set Keyword to "goo"
You can now search google directly by typing "goo my search words" into the location bar. (The %s is replaced by the rest of the text you type in the location bar.)
This is incredibly useful for many sites (such as a "dict" keyword to search dictionary.com, etc.)
While most web browsers were indeed designed to browse the web, mozilla was designed to not be limited to browsing the web. Each component of the mozilla browser (UI, rendering engine, javascript engine, etc) was created independantly of the other components. In fact, the glue that binds them together (xpcom) is itself a standalone component.
One of these components is a user interface language called XUL, or Cross-platform User-interface Language. Mozilla-the-browser (or Seamonkey) uses this language for all of it's UI, but don't make the standard assumption that mozilla == mozilla-the-browser. Seamonkey is merely the union of all of the modular subcomponents.
A user interface that was designed with XUL and Javascript can be indistinguishable from that of the Windows, Mac, X, or even Star Trek interfaces. (Assuming of course that it's well-written.) There need not be the slightest hint that you are not using a native interface. In the case of new appliances such as this, they are trying to create their own native interface; something unique to their box.
The advantage to using mozilla technologies for the UI is that the UI is not only easy to implement (it's xml-based), but it's inherently cross-platform. If they wish the next generation to be based on MS-Windows, and the one after that to be based on OS-X, and the one after that on HP-UX, they can do so with absolutely no effort. 0 UI redesign/porting effort. And even an extremely computer-literate person would never know the difference.
I personally expect and hope to see many more companies using this technology in the future. So in short, when you hear "mozilla-based user interface", please do not assume that it is an html-based user interface being displayed in Seamonkey. More likely than not, your assumption will be incorrect.
The simplest thing to try would be a new profile. If profile data gets corrupted, weird things like this can happen.
Run mozilla from the run dialog (or command prompt) with the -profilemanager option. Create a new profile, and try your mail with that.
If that doesn't work, get a bugzilla account & file a bug like everyone else:)
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Please, no comparisons to Linux, but I've often wondered why the BSD's (FreeBSD in particular, since you mentioned you use it frequently) haven't taken off in the commercial sector more than they have...
Or has it, and I'm just blind??
Any _useful_ comments?
(No, this is NOT lighter fluid for a flame war...)
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OnStar came standard on the Beagle, but they modded it to work with their laptop.
I agree that people want polygons, but a question that has been on my mind for about the past year is why we can't have some good old 2d gameplay displayed in 3d?
The main example that comes to mind is Donkey Kong Country. DKC was essentially a 2d sprite-based platformer, but all the sprites had been rendered from raytraced 3D models which looked beautiful, and it was tremendously successful. Why can't/don't we do this realtime today??
One can't forget Wesnoth under the strategy section!
Medieval (humans, elves, orcs), turn-based, hexagonal strategy with some really nice graphics. (Some Freeciv people have commented in forums that freeciv should strive to look as nice as Wesnoth.)
I've been playing this game for a few weeks now, and it has a very nice feel to it, a long single-player campaign (multiple campaigns coming soon, apparently) and is lots of fun multiplayer.
ECHO No viruses found.
Seriously tho, I have seen lesser software (for sake of not starting a flame-war, I won't mention any names) miss viruses, which gives end-users a false sense of security. Then they bring their computers to me and say "It's not working right, but I know I don't have any viruses. My software says so."
On top of that, when I do find viruses on their computer with commercial anti-virus software, they occasionally accuse me of lying
I know free software is nice, but viruses & worms are one area where it's worth your $50. (at least to me it is.) If my OpenOffice or Mozilla doesn't work right, I'm not gonna be picking viruses out of my network for the next few days.
It must be true, I read it on the internet!
Adobe's SVG Site
Corel's SVG Viewer
Mozilla's SVG Implementation
(note: it's not turned on in mozilla.org builds, but you can download older versions with SVG turned on, or build mozilla yourself).
Or, implement it yourself
Or press Ctrl+L to put focus on the location bar & select the contents.
I use a keyword for google, so it takes me 4 keystrokes (Ctrl+l "g ") and no hand travel to do a search.
I've never installed the google bar because I can't imagine it being < 4 keystrokes (and not using the mouse.) That, and I can also set up additional keywords (like "ig" for images.google.com).
I live in northcentral Wisconsin, and I happened to have been driving last night at about 2am (*ahem* ....) when I saw something extremely similar to these fireballs. The one I saw was relatively slow-moving (about a 2-second display,) and appeared in the eastern sky. Extremely large (approx 10x usual meteorite size) and blueish in color, it traveled in a nearly vertical line from about 70 degrees to below the tree line. (15 degrees?) I never saw it burn out. It left no vapor trail, and I immediately slowed my vehicle & rolled down my window, but heard no sound.
Perhaps these things are happening over a larger range than previously thought?
I don't know what the google bar does, since I've never tried it, but if what you want is quick access to a google search, mozilla has a neat feature called Bookmark Keywords.
Do this:
1: Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
2: File -> New -> Bookmark
3: set Location to "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s"
4: set Keyword to "goo"
You can now search google directly by typing "goo my search words" into the location bar. (The %s is replaced by the rest of the text you type in the location bar.)
This is incredibly useful for many sites (such as a "dict" keyword to search dictionary.com, etc.)
While most web browsers were indeed designed to browse the web, mozilla was designed to not be limited to browsing the web. Each component of the mozilla browser (UI, rendering engine, javascript engine, etc) was created independantly of the other components. In fact, the glue that binds them together (xpcom) is itself a standalone component.
One of these components is a user interface language called XUL, or Cross-platform User-interface Language. Mozilla-the-browser (or Seamonkey) uses this language for all of it's UI, but don't make the standard assumption that mozilla == mozilla-the-browser. Seamonkey is merely the union of all of the modular subcomponents.
A user interface that was designed with XUL and Javascript can be indistinguishable from that of the Windows, Mac, X, or even Star Trek interfaces. (Assuming of course that it's well-written.) There need not be the slightest hint that you are not using a native interface. In the case of new appliances such as this, they are trying to create their own native interface; something unique to their box.
The advantage to using mozilla technologies for the UI is that the UI is not only easy to implement (it's xml-based), but it's inherently cross-platform. If they wish the next generation to be based on MS-Windows, and the one after that to be based on OS-X, and the one after that on HP-UX, they can do so with absolutely no effort. 0 UI redesign/porting effort. And even an extremely computer-literate person would never know the difference.
I personally expect and hope to see many more companies using this technology in the future. So in short, when you hear "mozilla-based user interface", please do not assume that it is an html-based user interface being displayed in Seamonkey. More likely than not, your assumption will be incorrect.
You just gotta write software without any errors. Every good open-source programmer knows this.
(j/k)
The simplest thing to try would be a new profile. If profile data gets corrupted, weird things like this can happen.
:)
Run mozilla from the run dialog (or command prompt) with the -profilemanager option. Create a new profile, and try your mail with that.
If that doesn't work, get a bugzilla account & file a bug like everyone else
Please, no comparisons to Linux, but I've often wondered why the BSD's (FreeBSD in particular, since you mentioned you use it frequently) haven't taken off in the commercial sector more than they have ...
...)
Or has it, and I'm just blind??
Any _useful_ comments?
(No, this is NOT lighter fluid for a flame war