...instead of buying a book in one discrete transaction, you could subscribe to a book, with the expectation that an author will continually add to it. This would be more suitable for nonfiction than novels, but it's also possible that a novelist might decide to rewrite an ending, or change something in the middle of the story. Finally they can "special-editionalise" the Star War novels too!
(Yes, editionalise is a real word, my Kindle says so)
Sometime open-source software don't have to be "free" (as in bear).
It is good that some companies/users consider "giving back" to the project by funding development. It is common to hear complains that something is not working and no one is willing to fix it, rare is it for the same people to contribute money to hire developers to fix those problem. Problems don't just magically disappear because it is "open-source", someone still need to do the hard work.
A developer can be motivated by they own interests or money, don't really matter, the main thing is that they produce good code.
Imagine individual/government/company spend just a small portion of their annual software/license budget to fund open-source developments, projects like OpenOffice will greatly benefit from this sort of support.
The audacity and seeming ease of the attack once again demonstrated that all it takes is a small group of determined individuals to create such damages and chaos. Forget about WMD, shock&awe bombs... with no war declared and no shot fired, this is TERROR that strike at the whole country all at once. How can anyone, anywhere, ever feel safe again?
Ben Goodger is "just" the lead developer, not to take anything from his contributions to the Firefox project, but the project will go on even when he work for another employer or "turn evil" as some seems to think.
The open source model is not a dictatorship, especially on a large project like mozilla/firefox, not one single person has complete control over everything.
The news of Mr Goodger change of employer is no more shocking than programmers from different countries/companies contribute code to various open source projects. There is no "hidden agenda" or "conflict of interest".
Anyone that has concern about this, become a developer: http://www.mozilla.org/developer/
Where are the Changelog? From the website, you only know there is a new version for these three apps, but there is not description of what has been changed since the last version?
I remember that for every release there used to be a link to the Changelog with details on all the new changes since the last minor update (eg v1.6.1 to v1.6.2). Is the new site/design just too "user friendly"?
(After some browsing I did find a link to an *external* website with change details, but can't find it again now... @_@)
Seems pretty pointless... anyone can come up with all sort of result base on their method of measuring. eg which protocol are you using? (eg http, ftp?) where are your source and destination hosts? time and duration of your test, etc.
Webwasher from http://www.webwasher.com/ has been doing it for years. It acts as a proxy between your browser (any browser) and the internet. It do pattern matching and image size matching then remove those elements from webpages before your browser get them.
BTW For Mozilla/Firebird, the adblock extension is a more flexible solution then the "Block images from server" feature, as it can do pattern matching base on URL, more info from here: http://adblock.mozdev.org/
FYI the second screenshot looks just like the standard Mozilla Composer "Publish Settings" screen. Of course Nvu's lead developer Daniel Glazman is the Module owner of Mozilla Composer (see his CV for details. For those who are interested NOW, just download a copy of Mozilla 1.5 and try out the much improved Composer. Hopefully we can see more improvement in Nvu and Composer with Lindows' sponsorship.
Hate to sound so negative but canceling it is probably a good thing. Take a look at the game feature and you can see that this time around they are trying to make FT into some kind of fighting game (with story, maybe). I best remember FT as an *adventure* game with a great story... it probably for the best that they don't ruin it.
However maybe they can reuse the current gamess assets (designs, models, textures) and make it into a 3D adventure game, like Monkey Island or Sam & Max...
An ideal education is one you will enjoy...
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How to Become a PHB?
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· Score: 5, Insightful
... because if you base your choice on "current" trends by the time you graduate they will probably be outdated. In Uni I have seen many who only reason to enrol in CS/IT is because of "the money", they have no real interest/passion for the subject. In my option these people will never be good developer/manager.
My advise is to select those areas/subjects you enjoy and worry about the job market later.
The rule is quite simple. You need to "trick" a/. editor to repost a recent/. story. The shorter the interval between original and the repost, the higher your score. Also you got bonus points if it is the same editor and/or under the same headline.
And if you have posted in the original story you can try to repost your comments to see if you get the same score or even the same modifier!
I suggest you post the iso images on slashdot (once your hardware stop smoking). That is clearly the best way to preserve these information for all time, since clearly/. itself cannot be/.'ed, right? Plus a/. editor secretly told me that they are keen to give back to the communities for all the sites they/.'ed over the year.
To prevent user confusion, you may as well submit your story again, using the *exact* words of Jon-Erik Hexum. Why?/. is also known to *ahem* mirror their own stories from time to time.
Yours,
How can there be no users...
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The End Of Minix?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I figure at the very least the XFree86 people are still using it to test xterm right?;-)
http://www.doom9.org contains lots of information and tools to work with AC3 plus DVD, MP3 etc. The tools are mainly for expert users as they are mostly commandline only. Althought some of them come with GUI wrappers, I am not sure if they are much help as they are perfect examples of GUI from hell (no offends!). They will get the job done if you are willing to commit quite a bit of time.
Of course if you don't have a good decoder/speakers don't waste your time on AC3.
Other great LucasArts games from around that time:
Day of the Tentacle Sam & Max Hit the Road The Dig Full Throttle
Both "Day of the Tentacle" and "Sam & Max Hit the Road" first came out in floppies (yes floppies kids!) with CD-ROM versions with full voices a few years later.
DoT features characters from the original Maniac Mansion game from the 80s (which also spawned a short-lived TV show in the 90s, one of the joke in the game is about the characters not getting royalties from the show;-). A not so secret bonus in the game is that you can play the original MM by using one of the computer in the mansion!
S&M probably got the strangest story line in any game, EVER. It got a talking dog and rabbit, bigfoots and giraffe-neck girl, circuit freaks and country-singer. And it all make senses in the end!
S&M also features some cool mini-games like the "whack-a-mole" (or rabbit:-) and "dress up paper dolls", the latter one is also used for copy protection in the original floppy version! The game contains at least one song that is even funnier when actually sang by the voice actors.
Both "Full Throttle" and "The Dig" came out in CD only version.
The Dig is probably one of the most overlooked game from the company. While not as good as the others (slower pacing, may hard logical-type puzzles that are not very well integrated into the story), it is unique in that it has a serious storyline with a lot less jokes and gigs than the others. The art direction is a lot more realistic than even darker game like Full Throttle.
The game is about a big asteroid that is going to hit Earth and a team of astronauts is going to set off a bomb to "deflect" it. And that was back in 1995 before films like "Armageddon"! It got some amazing (for the time) pre-rendered 3d cut scenes and probably the first LucasArts game to have a "celebrity" voice actor - Robert Patrick from T2 and later X-Files. He did a good job.
Full Throttle features the now familiar "full screen" game mode. No more list of verbs or icons on screen. When you right click on the objects/persons a context sensitive menu (in the form of a coin) popup. This provides a very cinematic feel of a good action movie.
The game also features a rock theme song (music & lyrics), a mix of 3d objects (vehicles, rotating signs, etc) and 2d backgrounds. FT is also the first LucasArts game to have action sequence (that highway game in S&M doesn't count;-). There was quite a debug about that at the time.
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Oh yeah, as joked about in Curse of the Monkey Island, you can't die in a LucasArts Adventure game!
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Ahh the memories. Until I start typing this, I didn't even know that I still remember so much about all these games. It is a sure sign that these are classics, are will remain so in my mind forever. Thanks LucasArts, and here is to more good adventures games in the future.
This is their entire claim as recorded in the minute:
Microsoft believes they have patent rights relating to the ARB_vertex_program extension.
Not much to go on really. What is interesting is the members' reactions (especially NVIDIA's):
IBM thinks it's premature to vote on this without seeing the MS license terms. NVIDIA wants to vote it in at this meeting. SGI thinks if we can't deal with IP claims, we might as well all go home.
It seems crazy to "vote it in" (as in agreeing?) with so little information. Unless you are in really deep with MS;-)
I think one of the best and easiest way to support Free Software is to buy a box set (or "retail version" if you like) of your favourite Free Software (distros, apps, games).
Sure you can download an iso and burn as many copies as you like, and sure you "don't need no stinking manual". But by buying retail version you are saying directly to the developers, publishers and retailers that you use their software and like it enough to buy a copy. (And you can write it off as business software purchases when you file your tax;-)
Plus your box set is great for lending out to friends & newbies (much more impressive than your blank CD-R). Or put it beside your computer at work (and let anyone borrow it), to subtly promote Free Software without being an anti-M$ nazis about it.
Slashdot Mirror
...instead of buying a book in one discrete transaction, you could subscribe to a book, with the expectation that an author will continually add to it. This would be more suitable for nonfiction than novels, but it's also possible that a novelist might decide to rewrite an ending, or change something in the middle of the story. Finally they can "special-editionalise" the Star War novels too!(Yes, editionalise is a real word, my Kindle says so)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094074/
Sometime open-source software don't have to be "free" (as in bear).
It is good that some companies/users consider "giving back" to the project by funding development. It is common to hear complains that something is not working and no one is willing to fix it, rare is it for the same people to contribute money to hire developers to fix those problem. Problems don't just magically disappear because it is "open-source", someone still need to do the hard work.
A developer can be motivated by they own interests or money, don't really matter, the main thing is that they produce good code.
Imagine individual/government/company spend just a small portion of their annual software/license budget to fund open-source developments, projects like OpenOffice will greatly benefit from this sort of support.
The audacity and seeming ease of the attack once again demonstrated that all it takes is a small group of determined individuals to create such damages and chaos. Forget about WMD, shock&awe bombs... with no war declared and no shot fired, this is TERROR that strike at the whole country all at once. How can anyone, anywhere, ever feel safe again?
The latest news directly from the ad-free and registration-free BBC:
n _explosions/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2005/londo
(/. don't allow me to post anonymously...)
Caller: "I can't find My Computer!!! HELP!!"
Helpdesk: "Sir, maybe you should call the police?"
Caller: "What!?"
Ben Goodger is "just" the lead developer, not to take anything from his contributions to the Firefox project, but the project will go on even when he work for another employer or "turn evil" as some seems to think.
The open source model is not a dictatorship, especially on a large project like mozilla/firefox, not one single person has complete control over everything.
The news of Mr Goodger change of employer is no more shocking than programmers from different countries/companies contribute code to various open source projects. There is no "hidden agenda" or "conflict of interest".
Anyone that has concern about this, become a developer: http://www.mozilla.org/developer/
Just in time for DevEdge to be shutdown too...
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http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?articl
Whats up with that?
Where are the Changelog? From the website, you only know there is a new version for these three apps, but there is not description of what has been changed since the last version?
I remember that for every release there used to be a link to the Changelog with details on all the new changes since the last minor update (eg v1.6.1 to v1.6.2). Is the new site/design just too "user friendly"?
(After some browsing I did find a link to an *external* website with change details, but can't find it again now... @_@)
I think except in US, calls to cellphones are usually only charge to the callers. That makes sense...
Seems pretty pointless... anyone can come up with all sort of result base on their method of measuring. eg which protocol are you using? (eg http, ftp?) where are your source and destination hosts? time and duration of your test, etc.
Webwasher from http://www.webwasher.com/ has been doing it for years. It acts as a proxy between your browser (any browser) and the internet. It do pattern matching and image size matching then remove those elements from webpages before your browser get them.
BTW For Mozilla/Firebird, the adblock extension is a more flexible solution then the "Block images from server" feature, as it can do pattern matching base on URL, more info from here: http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Most ISPs are unlikely to support SSH login for users to upload their files, so FTP is still the best option.
FYI the second screenshot looks just like the standard Mozilla Composer "Publish Settings" screen. Of course Nvu's lead developer Daniel Glazman is the Module owner of Mozilla Composer (see his CV for details. For those who are interested NOW, just download a copy of Mozilla 1.5 and try out the much improved Composer. Hopefully we can see more improvement in Nvu and Composer with Lindows' sponsorship.
Hate to sound so negative but canceling it is probably a good thing. Take a look at the game feature and you can see that this time around they are trying to make FT into some kind of fighting game (with story, maybe). I best remember FT as an *adventure* game with a great story... it probably for the best that they don't ruin it.
However maybe they can reuse the current gamess assets (designs, models, textures) and make it into a 3D adventure game, like Monkey Island or Sam & Max...
... because if you base your choice on "current" trends by the time you graduate they will probably be outdated. In Uni I have seen many who only reason to enrol in CS/IT is because of "the money", they have no real interest/passion for the subject. In my option these people will never be good developer/manager.
My advise is to select those areas/subjects you enjoy and worry about the job market later.
The rule is quite simple. You need to "trick" a /. editor to repost a recent /. story. The shorter the interval between original and the repost, the higher your score. Also you got bonus points if it is the same editor and/or under the same headline.
And if you have posted in the original story you can try to repost your comments to see if you get the same score or even the same modifier!
Let the game begin.
Dear archive.org admins,
/. itself cannot be /.'ed, right? Plus a /. editor secretly told me that they are keen to give back to the communities for all the sites they /.'ed over the year.
/. is also known to *ahem* mirror their own stories from time to time.
I suggest you post the iso images on slashdot (once your hardware stop smoking). That is clearly the best way to preserve these information for all time, since clearly
To prevent user confusion, you may as well submit your story again, using the *exact* words of Jon-Erik Hexum. Why?
Yours,
I figure at the very least the XFree86 people are still using it to test xterm right?
BTW Minix homepage: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
At the footer: "Last changed 1996", maybe that is how they get that "no users since 1996" quote.
http://www.doom9.org contains lots of information and tools to work with AC3 plus DVD, MP3 etc. The tools are mainly for expert users as they are mostly commandline only. Althought some of them come with GUI wrappers, I am not sure if they are much help as they are perfect examples of GUI from hell (no offends!). They will get the job done if you are willing to commit quite a bit of time.
Of course if you don't have a good decoder/speakers don't waste your time on AC3.
Other great LucasArts games from around that time:
;-). A not so secret bonus in the game is that you can play the original MM by using one of the computer in the mansion!
:-) and "dress up paper dolls", the latter one is also used for copy protection in the original floppy version! The game contains at least one song that is even funnier when actually sang by the voice actors.
;-). There was quite a debug about that at the time.
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
The Dig
Full Throttle
Both "Day of the Tentacle" and "Sam & Max Hit the Road" first came out in floppies (yes floppies kids!) with CD-ROM versions with full voices a few years later.
DoT features characters from the original Maniac Mansion game from the 80s (which also spawned a short-lived TV show in the 90s, one of the joke in the game is about the characters not getting royalties from the show
S&M probably got the strangest story line in any game, EVER. It got a talking dog and rabbit, bigfoots and giraffe-neck girl, circuit freaks and country-singer. And it all make senses in the end!
S&M also features some cool mini-games like the "whack-a-mole" (or rabbit
Both "Full Throttle" and "The Dig" came out in CD only version.
The Dig is probably one of the most overlooked game from the company. While not as good as the others (slower pacing, may hard logical-type puzzles that are not very well integrated into the story), it is unique in that it has a serious storyline with a lot less jokes and gigs than the others. The art direction is a lot more realistic than even darker game like Full Throttle.
The game is about a big asteroid that is going to hit Earth and a team of astronauts is going to set off a bomb to "deflect" it. And that was back in 1995 before films like "Armageddon"! It got some amazing (for the time) pre-rendered 3d cut scenes and probably the first LucasArts game to have a "celebrity" voice actor - Robert Patrick from T2 and later X-Files. He did a good job.
Full Throttle features the now familiar "full screen" game mode. No more list of verbs or icons on screen. When you right click on the objects/persons a context sensitive menu (in the form of a coin) popup. This provides a very cinematic feel of a good action movie.
The game also features a rock theme song (music & lyrics), a mix of 3d objects (vehicles, rotating signs, etc) and 2d backgrounds. FT is also the first LucasArts game to have action sequence (that highway game in S&M doesn't count
=-=-=
Oh yeah, as joked about in Curse of the Monkey Island, you can't die in a LucasArts Adventure game!
=-=-=
Ahh the memories. Until I start typing this, I didn't even know that I still remember so much about all these games. It is a sure sign that these are classics, are will remain so in my mind forever. Thanks LucasArts, and here is to more good adventures games in the future.
This site has a detailed guide on how to modify the I/O PCB to allow the Pentium 4 motherboard to comply with the keyboard.
Yeah the keyboard is probably the most important, yet often overlooked, part of your computer.
IMHO, some interesting info from netcraft.com:
/. frontpage, and it is still going after ~3hrs. Now that is reliability!
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The site progressive.stream.aol.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/ 1.21 ApacheJServ/1.1 on Solaris 8.
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It is streaming a 24MB videos while being linked on
I think one of the best and easiest way to support Free Software is to buy a box set (or "retail version" if you like) of your favourite Free Software (distros, apps, games).
;-)
Sure you can download an iso and burn as many copies as you like, and sure you "don't need no stinking manual". But by buying retail version you are saying directly to the developers, publishers and retailers that you use their software and like it enough to buy a copy. (And you can write it off as business software purchases when you file your tax
Plus your box set is great for lending out to friends & newbies (much more impressive than your blank CD-R). Or put it beside your computer at work (and let anyone borrow it), to subtly promote Free Software without being an anti-M$ nazis about it.