In case anyone wonders whether the Gabe Newell post again came from his compromised forum account, Steve Gibson at Shacknews has contacted him to verify validity and it is indeed legit.
The original poster doesn't seem to explicitely say one way or another but the context *suggests* he's using FileMaker with a client rather than a web based UI.
Interesting point, AC, although every end-user sample that I looked at on their site seems to be browser-based. (Well, IE is shown with a toolbar plugin, but that doesn't seem like it would be too hard to replicate in pure HTML.)
It's been more than a month since the first news of Download.Ject
Not that it seems to have helped much, but the patch MS claims would have prevented the IIS vulnerability has been out since MS04-011 was released on April 25, 2004. (from detecting and preventing IIS infection)
But will they stay free? I used to use XDrive as a free online storage provider, but then they began requiring payments and held my files hostage unless I paid the fee.
My fault--attempting to undo. I clearly remember modding this as interesting, but just got the notification that my offtopic mod was unfair. I must have scroll-moused to the wrong mod or something.
The Word version is still lame compared to Word Perfect. Try typing in a sentence, then changing one word in the middle to a slightly different font. In Word, all you get is a bar on the right that lists the formatting for the current paragraph, where in Word Perfect you could very quickly catch any problem like this by simply scanning for the the font begin and end tags. To see the format of each element in Word, you still would have to click every single word in the document (and wait for the 2 second lag while the new layout is loaded into the formatting pane).
That was a very simple example, but in a long document that has been touched by many hands there could be any number of small formatting discrepancies that would never be caught until the print run of 20,000 copies came back from the print shop looking like crap.
Even CrossEyes doesn't give you the ability to directly edit the codes in Word, instead popping up a formatting dialog. Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't this make it much clumsier to just move or delete an existing formatting element?
3. Bad buy spoofs Google 4. Oh no! Google cannot make an unrequested incoming connection to me 5. Oh wait, hooray, I can still browse Google because my outbound connection tells the firewall to allow the resulting incoming data as long as it traffic responding to my specific outbound request.
Well, I've done quite a few pages at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders where you donate your proofreading time to clean up text scanned in from books and the the first draft from the computer is usually pretty dang close. I find that it is usually just a matter of cleaning up formatting for things like footnotes and scientific notations.
I second that. My XP 2400, Geforce 3, 768 Mb machine runs it perfectly smoothly on medium settings at 800x600. On high, there's just a touch of 'tearing' if I move the mouse back and forth quickly, but it's not even noticeable when playing. I haven't tried 1024x768. It looks amazing if you can manage to run with the settings up a little.. definitely worth experimenting to get the best balance. It is annoying to have to restart the game when you make changes to graphics settings though.
On the other hand, I tried it at work today on a 3 Ghz Pentium, 1 Gb RAM, Intel 64 Mb card and it looked pretty weak. The shadows were just blocks and the textures were completely flat. Now I just need to figure out a business reason for a new video card.
As for the game, the only reason I'm on here tonight is that I really couldn't take it anymore. The game really gets under your skin. I've played a lot of FPS over the years, but this is the first one that has me spooked enough to keep physically checking behind my office chair because I'm convinced that someone is sneaking up on me. (blame the Klipsch 4.1's for that I guess)
According to this it will be available for $45 at Circuit City this Friday. I would think that other retailers might follow suit. However, I think you're on to something since UT 2004 went for $35 initially and sold very well. On the other hand, every retailer is selling out so it's not like people aren't buying it. Personally, I couldn't wait. I got it last night and it's worth every penny so far.
You might be right. We can't search from inside our corporate NAT, but it's working fine for machines outside the NAT that have IP addresses within the same netblock as the NAT.
Check out the new beta. It definitely looks like their heading for integration. Go to any recent post and there's a reply box that automatically uses your Gmail account. There Slashdot article about this about 2 weeks ago.
Plus it takes only a few seconds to click each link and locate the pricing and demo links. Total research could take less than the time to post on Slashdot and wait for a response. Just going through the Google Directory list he linked to, there's all sorts of information available. The first link shows a product that includes source for a 'recommended' $50/year. Another more expensive one took 2 seconds to find on Google and has the free demo clearly linked at the top right.
They are speculating about the Cortana letters in the ilovebees.com forum for Ladybee777's latest post. The site owner is also expressing exasperation and has even deleted a recent post from a blogger named Cortana.
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Brilliant Penny Arcade link, thanks..
Also, maybe you know this, but there are now nine books in the Ender saga.
How soon we forget.
In case anyone wonders whether the Gabe Newell post again came from his compromised forum account, Steve Gibson at Shacknews has contacted him to verify validity and it is indeed legit.
Check her blog. Actually, now that I go there, it is interesting that she says they're already done filming. Cool!
I just got a couple PS1/PS2/N64 controller to USB adaptors that worked great and noticed that the same place has a Gamecube controller to USB adaptor. I found the place in a recent slashdot post, which I can't seem to find now.
Coal releases more radioactivity that nuclear power anyway.
From this article, "the population effective dose equivalent from coal plants is 100 times that from nuclear plants."
Unless it's just a page listing 10,000 digits of pi.
The original poster doesn't seem to explicitely say one way or another but the context *suggests* he's using FileMaker with a client rather than a web based UI.
Interesting point, AC, although every end-user sample that I looked at on their site seems to be browser-based. (Well, IE is shown with a toolbar plugin, but that doesn't seem like it would be too hard to replicate in pure HTML.)
They're looking for a new Web-based replacement for their existing Web-based application that was built in FileMaker--a web design product.
The grandparent is not suggesting replacing a desktop solution with a Web-based solution,
It's been more than a month since the first news of Download.Ject
Not that it seems to have helped much, but the patch MS claims would have prevented the IIS vulnerability has been out since MS04-011 was released on April 25, 2004. (from detecting and preventing IIS infection)
But will they stay free? I used to use XDrive as a free online storage provider, but then they began requiring payments and held my files hostage unless I paid the fee.
My fault--attempting to undo. I clearly remember modding this as interesting, but just got the notification that my offtopic mod was unfair. I must have scroll-moused to the wrong mod or something.
The Word version is still lame compared to Word Perfect. Try typing in a sentence, then changing one word in the middle to a slightly different font. In Word, all you get is a bar on the right that lists the formatting for the current paragraph, where in Word Perfect you could very quickly catch any problem like this by simply scanning for the the font begin and end tags. To see the format of each element in Word, you still would have to click every single word in the document (and wait for the 2 second lag while the new layout is loaded into the formatting pane).
That was a very simple example, but in a long document that has been touched by many hands there could be any number of small formatting discrepancies that would never be caught until the print run of 20,000 copies came back from the print shop looking like crap.
Compare the screenshot of Reveal Formatting to the screenshot of Reveal codes.
Even CrossEyes doesn't give you the ability to directly edit the codes in Word, instead popping up a formatting dialog. Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't this make it much clumsier to just move or delete an existing formatting element?
3. Bad buy spoofs Google
4. Oh no! Google cannot make an unrequested incoming connection to me
5. Oh wait, hooray, I can still browse Google because my outbound connection tells the firewall to allow the resulting incoming data as long as it traffic responding to my specific outbound request.
Well, I've done quite a few pages at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders where you donate your proofreading time to clean up text scanned in from books and the the first draft from the computer is usually pretty dang close. I find that it is usually just a matter of cleaning up formatting for things like footnotes and scientific notations.
I always remembered it by thinking 'ID's pisspot'.
I second that. My XP 2400, Geforce 3, 768 Mb machine runs it perfectly smoothly on medium settings at 800x600. On high, there's just a touch of 'tearing' if I move the mouse back and forth quickly, but it's not even noticeable when playing. I haven't tried 1024x768. It looks amazing if you can manage to run with the settings up a little.. definitely worth experimenting to get the best balance. It is annoying to have to restart the game when you make changes to graphics settings though.
On the other hand, I tried it at work today on a 3 Ghz Pentium, 1 Gb RAM, Intel 64 Mb card and it looked pretty weak. The shadows were just blocks and the textures were completely flat. Now I just need to figure out a business reason for a new video card.
As for the game, the only reason I'm on here tonight is that I really couldn't take it anymore. The game really gets under your skin. I've played a lot of FPS over the years, but this is the first one that has me spooked enough to keep physically checking behind my office chair because I'm convinced that someone is sneaking up on me. (blame the Klipsch 4.1's for that I guess)
According to this it will be available for $45 at Circuit City this Friday. I would think that other retailers might follow suit. However, I think you're on to something since UT 2004 went for $35 initially and sold very well. On the other hand, every retailer is selling out so it's not like people aren't buying it. Personally, I couldn't wait. I got it last night and it's worth every penny so far.
I already posted this today, but according to Jamie they are working on an XHTML compliant version.
They're working on it.
You might be right. We can't search from inside our corporate NAT, but it's working fine for machines outside the NAT that have IP addresses within the same netblock as the NAT.
Check out the new beta. It definitely looks like their heading for integration. Go to any recent post and there's a reply box that automatically uses your Gmail account. There Slashdot article about this about 2 weeks ago.
Plus it takes only a few seconds to click each link and locate the pricing and demo links. Total research could take less than the time to post on Slashdot and wait for a response. Just going through the Google Directory list he linked to, there's all sorts of information available. The first link shows a product that includes source for a 'recommended' $50/year. Another more expensive one took 2 seconds to find on Google and has the free demo clearly linked at the top right.
They are speculating about the Cortana letters in the ilovebees.com forum for Ladybee777's latest post. The site owner is also expressing exasperation and has even deleted a recent post from a blogger named Cortana.