Do you imagine everyone outside of Europe and America as poor, stupid, starving darkies who need good white folk like you to put their priorities straight?
um, yes. look at history and the basic evolution of technology and answer your own question.
WTF, i cannot believe that MSIE chokes on a simple transparent.png file. the.png format kicks ass all over.gif formats (alpha channel, etc), AND is an open standard while.gif is not (the compression scheme, LZH, is owned by Unisys).
users want alpha transparency, which allows one to do nifty effects like drop-shadows and anti-aliasing against any background, but the poor suckers stuck using MSIE are still locked in the dark ages of GIF-style binary transparency. (and it's implemented in such a way that any palette index that isn't completely opaque is treated as completely transparent--depending on your image, say goodbye to most of it! To make up for that, MSIE doesn't support 32-bit RGBA transparency at all. what a pile of fucking shit.)
of course, mozilla displays.png files in all their fantastic splendor. that's because mozilla is 100% world wide web consortium compliant, while MSIE is only about 65% compliant.
i've been doing some speed tests lately, with and without cache. mozilla, using the same hardware, now renders pages faster than MSIE 5.x or 6.x.
so, the only thing that makes MSIE better than mozilla is, well, MSIE can render non-compliant web pages better.
it is a fine day, to see that the world can make a product that shines brighter than the richest company in the world. hahaha, i laugh at you microsoft.
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as a young teen in the early eighties, the vic-20's were on display with some great games that were loaded up with a cassette drive. i'd simply take the game cassette tape, purchase a new cassette at the store, wonder over to the stereo dept and tape to tape copy games and apps. woohoo!
I've read the smaller paperback, but when i was in Grenwich, i purchased the large, illustrated version. The illustriations are amazing, and I recommend you check out this one.
If anyone is interested in accuracy in time keeping, a trip to the Royal Observatory in Grenwich is a must for you. You can see Huygens' parabolic pendulum located there.
Get to know about John Harrison, who made the first 'accurate' timekeeper, for use at sea to measure longitude. See Harrisons first accurate time peices of the world, H1 thru H4, where H1-H3 still ticks today.
A must is to stand on the prime meridian of the world, which represents 0 degree longitude, also located there. At night, a green laser can be seen streaking across the sky marking the zero parallel.
From the interview:
itwales.com: 'Open source' means software is owned by everyone, and anyone can contribute to it. Is the sharing of ideas important to you? Was choosing to work within the free software community an ethical decision?
Alan: Technically the software is still owned by the person who wrote it, but that is more of a credit thing - which is important in the community. For me it wasn't really an ethical decision, it's simply the right way to do engineering. You don't build reliable bridges by refusing to let anyone see the plans.
There is a real problem in both the US and Western Europe today with people trying to own and control ideas, but that is something bigger than just software or free software. Ironically it is having the same effects on free software as other things - all the great innovation is moving to Eastern Europe, India and South America.
i couldn't agree more. it's about time someone was able to put this into just a few sentences.
i wish Alan would write a book using the above as his thesis.
GO Alan, you rock!
not a troll here. just read a little more.
i never liked kde 1. when kde 2 came out, i was very impressed. but after using it for 2 months, i've gone back to ximian gnome.
you know what? it's not kde that is blah, it is QT that makes kde blah. kde is a very well put together framework of a desktop, but building it on top of QT just ruined it.
this reminds me of the amiga days. i found it hard to go from the soft, warm looking amiga desktop to the cold, filmy ibm win 3.1 desktop.
i also find it hard to go from a colorful, crispy gnome desktop to a boring, blah kde desktop (i know about kde-look.org, been there, downloaded all kinds of icons, brackgrounds, etc.)
look, if i go out and buy Cakewalk Pro Audio, make a #1 hit song, should the Cakewalk people say that I cannot have rights to my song and not sell it?
if i purchase Adobe Photoshop, can i not sell any images i create with it? or are the images only there for me to enjoy personally.... um.
i don't exactly like the fact that some rich newb can purchase a character more powerful than the one i've built with hard work.
BUT, i think online items, real estate, etc will be a very real future of virtual, real-time applications.
if worse comes to worse, i suppose MMORPG companies can always insist that all auctions of game items must be done on their own game auction web site. that way, they could make a small percentage of the sales.
first of all, this article was NOT written by security focus.
this article was written by the same idiot that always writes a bunch of misguided FUD about Linux.
I forget his name now, and the site is down.
don't believe me? read all the other stories this author has written. it's all in the wininformant page. and it is ALL FUD and misinformation.
the fact that a slashdot editor posted this drivel on slashdot tells me a LOT about slashdot editors....
Microsoft is not a company to just go off and create new software from scratch if they can obtain it elsewhere for cheap.
i couldn't have said this better myself, except you should have left off the 'elsewhere for cheap' part.
here's microsoft's own homemade company plan:
1. obtain technology, using whatever means necessary (if it's an illegal way, request to speak with Bill in a private meeting, he might be interested).
2. once new technology is obtained, close it up and cloud it up with a bunch of bloaty code.
3. give millions to other companies to 'influence' them to adopt this technology for their products, further locking the technology into some sort of twisted 'standard'.
but wait, let me ask you a few questions:
does all this mean that the obtained technology is the the best solution to any problem?
NO
does this mean that if a better technology becomes available, then it has a chance to become the standard?
heheh, NO (isn't it beautiful?)
does this benefit the customer in any way, shape or form?
NO
i refuse to support corporations who practice bad business ethics.
where would science be today if Isaac Newton or Einstein failed to share their discoveries to other scientists?
open source mimics evolution in computing science. it's just a matter of time before Gates and his anti-customer business practices cease to exist.
if you want a shot at winning a 'coveted' gold penguin, i suggest you sit in the front row of the Golden Penguin Bowl (that's right, take a Press seat). Mr. Petreley will select at least 1 (usually 2) volunteers per team, and he usually selects from the first row.
that's how i got mine, yay!
oh ya, this doesn't apply to dumbasses, at least know yer shit.
i hope so! i just put an order thru an hour ago for POSTAL.
by the way, Loki must be selling like mad because their mysql/php shopping cart engine was crawling. it took over 5 minutes just for the web page to process my credit card and give me a receipt.
oh, and Loki? i'm really sorry to see you go. thank you for really putting out an honest effort in bringing a gaming community to the linux platform.
it will enventually get there, i think you're just before your time....
heeheehee, i remember this same argument when people contemplated playing games on the then new windows 95. people were saying, 'duh, everyone knows that hardcore gamers play all their games in DOS, so playing them on win95 is rediculous.'.
...and look how that has changed.
myself, and most of my friends only keep a windows parition around for games, nothing more. if games were available on linux instead, then i woulnd't have a need for windows at all.
plus, i'm tired of rebooting into windows just to play a game, then rebooting back to linux to be productive. sheesh.
here's some important information regarding government jobs:
if you get hired by a government agency, don't go blasting in there knocking out every task in sight. you'll piss off the other employees who enjoy 'being lazy' for a living.
most people who have government jobs try to do as little as possible, while making the books look like they do to much.
i lost work working for a government branch this way. i was fired for being too motivated.
the whole point of a company being at fault of a faulty product is if there's been actual damage done.
has someone been killed? has there been a huge monetary loss because the software company is directly responsible for a blatant defect?
this also raises the question: how much time can pass before the software company is no longer responsible?
when a particular software product is released, and there are no known vulnerabilities at the time of release, then the software company shouldn't be held responsible for future findings, unless those findings are blatant mistakes.
holy crap! and i have 2 mod points left! it's too bad the parent of this post can't be modded to a +6 or +7, because that post would have my points easy.
I can't imagine having to constantly pick up and drop down a mouse when I wanted to do circle around someone
what the hell are you talking about? if your circle strafe takes more mouse movement than pad before you score a kill, then you need to turn your mouse sensitivity up.
a good project management application is important for any development team. usually, these are hard to come by unless you plunk down $10,000 or more, although these come with a gazillion features that you probably won't end up using.
In more detail, Mexico City officially has 25 million people, but there are 5 million or more native Americans who live in Mexico city, but aren't "officially" there.
wow, in contrast to Los Angeles, which only has 5 million people, but you'd swear there were 25 million or more native Mexicans who aren't 'officially' there.
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Do you imagine everyone outside of Europe and America as poor, stupid, starving darkies who need good white folk like you to put their priorities straight?
um, yes. look at history and the basic evolution of technology and answer your own question.
WTF, i cannot believe that MSIE chokes on a simple transparent .png file. the .png format kicks ass all over .gif formats (alpha channel, etc), AND is an open standard while .gif is not (the compression scheme, LZH, is owned by Unisys).
.png files in all their fantastic splendor. that's because mozilla is 100% world wide web consortium compliant, while MSIE is only about 65% compliant.
users want alpha transparency, which allows one to do nifty effects like drop-shadows and anti-aliasing against any background, but the poor suckers stuck using MSIE are still locked in the dark ages of GIF-style binary transparency. (and it's implemented in such a way that any palette index that isn't completely opaque is treated as completely transparent--depending on your image, say goodbye to most of it! To make up for that, MSIE doesn't support 32-bit RGBA transparency at all. what a pile of fucking shit.)
of course, mozilla displays
i've been doing some speed tests lately, with and without cache. mozilla, using the same hardware, now renders pages faster than MSIE 5.x or 6.x.
so, the only thing that makes MSIE better than mozilla is, well, MSIE can render non-compliant web pages better.
it is a fine day, to see that the world can make a product that shines brighter than the richest company in the world. hahaha, i laugh at you microsoft.
as a young teen in the early eighties, the vic-20's were on display with some great games that were loaded up with a cassette drive.
i'd simply take the game cassette tape, purchase a new cassette at the store, wonder over to the stereo dept and tape to tape copy games and apps. woohoo!
I've read the smaller paperback, but when i was in Grenwich, i purchased the large, illustrated version. The illustriations are amazing, and I recommend you check out this one.
If anyone is interested in accuracy in time keeping, a trip to the Royal Observatory in Grenwich is a must for you. You can see Huygens' parabolic pendulum located there.
Get to know about John Harrison, who made the first 'accurate' timekeeper, for use at sea to measure longitude. See Harrisons first accurate time peices of the world, H1 thru H4, where H1-H3 still ticks today.
A must is to stand on the prime meridian of the world, which represents 0 degree longitude, also located there. At night, a green laser can be seen streaking across the sky marking the zero parallel.
Check out the Royal Observatory, you won't regret it!
All the article says is that Windows Media Player does a CDDB lookup when it plays a CD, and caches the result.
ya well, i don't mind my CD's requesting CDDB info... how many pr0n audio CD's do i have anyway?
video? oh wait.
From the interview:
itwales.com: 'Open source' means software is owned by everyone, and anyone can contribute to it. Is the sharing of ideas important to you? Was choosing to work within the free software community an ethical decision?
Alan: Technically the software is still owned by the person who wrote it, but that is more of a credit thing - which is important in the community. For me it wasn't really an ethical decision, it's simply the right way to do engineering. You don't build reliable bridges by refusing to let anyone see the plans.
There is a real problem in both the US and Western Europe today with people trying to own and control ideas, but that is something bigger than just software or free software. Ironically it is having the same effects on free software as other things - all the great innovation is moving to Eastern Europe, India and South America.
i couldn't agree more. it's about time someone was able to put this into just a few sentences.
i wish Alan would write a book using the above as his thesis.
GO Alan, you rock!
i've done a lot of work with glade (GTK) and python, but have zero experience with Qt.
maybe i just don't like the widgets or something...
anyways, when kde3 is final, i will download and check out for sure.
not a troll here. just read a little more.
i never liked kde 1. when kde 2 came out, i was very impressed. but after using it for 2 months, i've gone back to ximian gnome.
you know what? it's not kde that is blah, it is QT that makes kde blah. kde is a very well put together framework of a desktop, but building it on top of QT just ruined it.
this reminds me of the amiga days. i found it hard to go from the soft, warm looking amiga desktop to the cold, filmy ibm win 3.1 desktop.
i also find it hard to go from a colorful, crispy gnome desktop to a boring, blah kde desktop (i know about kde-look.org, been there, downloaded all kinds of icons, brackgrounds, etc.)
BUT IT'S NOT KDE THAT IS MY PROBLEM, IT IS QT!
qt, well, just sucks.
look, if i go out and buy Cakewalk Pro Audio, make a #1 hit song, should the Cakewalk people say that I cannot have rights to my song and not sell it?
if i purchase Adobe Photoshop, can i not sell any images i create with it? or are the images only there for me to enjoy personally.... um.
i don't exactly like the fact that some rich newb can purchase a character more powerful than the one i've built with hard work.
BUT, i think online items, real estate, etc will be a very real future of virtual, real-time applications.
if worse comes to worse, i suppose MMORPG companies can always insist that all auctions of game items must be done on their own game auction web site. that way, they could make a small percentage of the sales.
since mozilla 0.9.6, a gdkxft-mozilla package has been available that gives mozilla anti-aliased fonts (that look terrific, better than konqueror).
however, a newer gdkxft-mozilla package has not been released since, so i've stayed with an older mozilla and an older galeon.
does anyone know how to get gdkxft-mozilla working with moz0.9.8 and galeon1.0.3??
first of all, this article was NOT written by security focus.
this article was written by the same idiot that always writes a bunch of misguided FUD about Linux.
I forget his name now, and the site is down.
don't believe me? read all the other stories this author has written. it's all in the wininformant page. and it is ALL FUD and misinformation.
the fact that a slashdot editor posted this drivel on slashdot tells me a LOT about slashdot editors....
Microsoft is not a company to just go off and create new software from scratch if they can obtain it elsewhere for cheap.
i couldn't have said this better myself, except you should have left off the 'elsewhere for cheap' part.
here's microsoft's own homemade company plan:
1. obtain technology, using whatever means necessary (if it's an illegal way, request to speak with Bill in a private meeting, he might be interested).
2. once new technology is obtained, close it up and cloud it up with a bunch of bloaty code.
3. give millions to other companies to 'influence' them to adopt this technology for their products, further locking the technology into some sort of twisted 'standard'.
but wait, let me ask you a few questions:
does all this mean that the obtained technology is the the best solution to any problem?
NO
does this mean that if a better technology becomes available, then it has a chance to become the standard?
heheh, NO (isn't it beautiful?)
does this benefit the customer in any way, shape or form?
NO
i refuse to support corporations who practice bad business ethics.
where would science be today if Isaac Newton or Einstein failed to share their discoveries to other scientists?
open source mimics evolution in computing science. it's just a matter of time before Gates and his anti-customer business practices cease to exist.
if you want a shot at winning a 'coveted' gold penguin, i suggest you sit in the front row of the Golden Penguin Bowl (that's right, take a Press seat). Mr. Petreley will select at least 1 (usually 2) volunteers per team, and he usually selects from the first row.
that's how i got mine, yay!
oh ya, this doesn't apply to dumbasses, at least know yer shit.
what's important is a flat fee for unlimited gameplay. i don't mind paying one fee and playing as long as i like.
if it ever gets to be pay by the hour or some other rediculous payment method, that's when i'll bitch and moan.
i hope so! i just put an order thru an hour ago for POSTAL.
by the way, Loki must be selling like mad because their mysql/php shopping cart engine was crawling. it took over 5 minutes just for the web page to process my credit card and give me a receipt.
oh, and Loki? i'm really sorry to see you go. thank you for really putting out an honest effort in bringing a gaming community to the linux platform.
it will enventually get there, i think you're just before your time....
gosh, i can't figure out which is better: AOL suing netscape, or Crips and Bloods shooting each other in the street!
it's a win/win situation for me either way.
heeheehee, i remember this same argument when people contemplated playing games on the then new windows 95. people were saying, 'duh, everyone knows that hardcore gamers play all their games in DOS, so playing them on win95 is rediculous.'.
...and look how that has changed.
myself, and most of my friends only keep a windows parition around for games, nothing more. if games were available on linux instead, then i woulnd't have a need for windows at all.
plus, i'm tired of rebooting into windows just to play a game, then rebooting back to linux to be productive. sheesh.
let's go back to pre America, 1776. i'll bet you were the one running around in town saying, 'Why not drink English tea?'.
looser.
here's some important information regarding government jobs:
if you get hired by a government agency, don't go blasting in there knocking out every task in sight. you'll piss off the other employees who enjoy 'being lazy' for a living.
most people who have government jobs try to do as little as possible, while making the books look like they do to much.
i lost work working for a government branch this way. i was fired for being too motivated.
the whole point of a company being at fault of a faulty product is if there's been actual damage done.
has someone been killed? has there been a huge monetary loss because the software company is directly responsible for a blatant defect?
this also raises the question: how much time can pass before the software company is no longer responsible?
when a particular software product is released, and there are no known vulnerabilities at the time of release, then the software company shouldn't be held responsible for future findings, unless those findings are blatant mistakes.
holy crap! and i have 2 mod points left! it's too bad the parent of this post can't be modded to a +6 or +7, because that post would have my points easy.
I can't imagine having to constantly pick up and drop down a mouse when I wanted to do circle around someone
what the hell are you talking about? if your circle strafe takes more mouse movement than pad before you score a kill, then you need to turn your mouse sensitivity up.
a good project management application is important for any development team. usually, these are hard to come by unless you plunk down $10,000 or more, although these come with a gazillion features that you probably won't end up using.
i discovered a new tool on sourceforge which is an open project written in php.
i'm impressed with it. the code is also well documented.
the homepage can be found here.
i recommend checking out the screenshots as well.
In more detail, Mexico City officially has 25 million people, but there are 5 million or more native Americans who live in Mexico city, but aren't "officially" there.
wow, in contrast to Los Angeles, which only has 5 million people, but you'd swear there were 25 million or more native Mexicans who aren't 'officially' there.