Ananova has been online and reliable all afternoon (British time).
-Stephen
Re:Star Trek similarities unsurprising.
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Andromeda is based on a concept of Gene Roddenberry's originally intended for the Star Trek universe. It's 300 years after the Federation has fallen.
The Nietzscheans being fallen Vulcans, right?
The similarity between the Nietzscheans and the Vulcans is clear after watching only a few minutes of the first episode of Andromeda. Both races are logical thinkers with superiority complexes. The main difference is that while the Vulcans wouldn't admit to the superiority complex, the Nietzscheans revel in it.
(I wish they hadn't been called "Nietzscheans". But then, I guess it wouldn't be a Roddenberry show if it wasn't a bit silly).
p> I want the ability to filter cookies based on the domain they came from./. cookies - Yes. Doubleclick - No. I want the ability to filter JavaScript based on the domain.
The first browser I saw with those two features was IBrowse 2.x on the Amiga (which I'm using at this very moment, by the way).
(Score: -googolplex, Amiga Fan)
And regarding filtering popup windows: Galeon (and maybe Mozilla too) has a "disable popups" thingy that nixes popup ads in one easy move. To prevent other windows opening (like when you click on a normal HTML link), just drag the link into the same window, if you see what I mean. I'm pretty much in the habit of dragging links instead of clicking on them all the time now. (Lucky for me, that works on both IBrowse and Galeon, so I don't have to remember two different behaviours depending on which box I'm sitting in front of).
Daily Radar UK, which used to be Future Gamer (I think), is still alive and well. Don't know if that's of any interest to former readers of the US site; but it's there if you want it.
every time I see an article about the rising phonix called Amiga, can't help thinking that maybe the Amiga should be left in the past.
Every time I see an article about the Amiga, I can't help wondering how long it'll take for someone to post one of these pointless "just let it rest in peace" comments. And I also can't help wondering if it'll be moderated up to 5.
I've never yet been disappointed.
Just filter Amiga-related news out using your account preferences.
Used to use one at university ('twas my first name translated into another language). By the end of my three-year degree course, I hated it, and decided never to use another nick. Ever since, I've gone by my full name, or just "Stephen".
*Maybe* Marks and Sparks, but since they're mostly a department store with specality food items, I doubt you can 'grocery shop' with them.
Actually, the Marks and Spencer in my town (Reading, Berkshire) has a fairly decent grocery section. Their food is top quality; I do 70-80% of my grocery shopping there.
Don't know if you can buy food from them online, though.
p> The game allowed complete freedom of movement within the environment, and the physics of the game play directly into the puzzles.
Thus the game's world became immersive. It sucked you in. And not in the way that FPSs do; Zelda 64's world was a believable fantasy world of marvels. The kind of place that you could spend hours wandering around, just admiring. I know I did.
Having an appealing world that the player wants to spend days (or, in my case, months) in, in order to see the game through to completion, is vital for a good adventure/puzzle game.
In one puzzles you are expected to hit a target with a flaming arrow to thaw it. Unfortunately you must hit the target while standing on a moving platform. After trying for I don't know how long, I realized that I had a flame shield like spell. I cast it and the heat from that spell activated the switch just as the arrow would have.
Cheater:-) I did that puzzle the hard way. Eventually. It was a well-designed puzzle, that; after a few minutes of going "huh?", it became obvious what to do, and then it was an exercise in timing. Very few of Z64's puzzles seem completely impenetrable.
This game ties for the best game ever written
It's the best game I've ever played. I can't wait for the sequel, Majora's Mask. And if there was any justice in the world, Saria would get her own spin-off game:-)
Rob's posted stories about Pete Townshend before now, which I'm not sure really belong on Slashdot. If he were to create a topic for his own interests (anime, The Who, etc), he could post as many of those stories as he liked, but allow those of us who aren't interested to filter them out.
[emmett] I wonder if you automatically get an Aston Martin and a Walther PPK
[Paul Wright] More like a keyboard and a place to sit: they're responsible for the electronic and computational side of things, not the James Bond stuff.
Now, if MI6 had a web site with a similar offer...
It's for this reason that I want technology to drive for me. I don't drive for a number of reasons. One of them is that it just looks Too Difficult(tm). My reactions are crummy, and I'm not thrilled at the idea of not being allowed to make a mistake. I'm used to being able to make as many mistakes as I like, then reloading from my last saved game. If I make a mistake in a car, I kill myself and my passengers.
No thanks. I'll wait until a computer can do it for me.
So now, any license thats not GPL or GNU is simply weaselly?
I don't think that that's what Roblimo meant. He was talking about semi-open licences that are a lot less open than they first appear. I can't think of any example off the top of my head, but ISTR that Apple's open licence met with some objections by some people.
Roblimo could have said "GPL and LGPL all the way (though BSD, Artistic, MPL etc etc would all have been okay too)", but it shouldn't be necessary to say that. We shouldn't get upset when a Slashdot staffie forgets to mention our favourite licence/distro/operating system/cola brand.
I've been a reader of/. for about 6 months. Normally everyone is honest, direct, and polite. What is up with this "Natalie Portman" thing?
It's been explained in a few other threads, but just in case you missed them, here's what happened:
Humour site Segfault recently had to disable user comments because the system was being abused; a number of people were posting obscene comments about Natalie Portman and Mae Ling Mak. Every story on Segfault ended up with obscene comments attached to it.
Because Segfault no longer allows commenting, the idiots who posted such comments appear to have migrated en masse to this site. At least we have moderators who can do something about this abuse.
-Stephen (who had never even heard of Mae Ling Mak before the Segfault fiasco, and still hasn't got a clue who she is)
One of the Web browsers I use is IBrowse 2 on an Amiga. (I'm aware that I'm encouraging flames by even mentioning the Amiga here, but I'm going to take the chance:-)
IBrowse 2's cookie handling is very good. If you elect to be asked before accepting a cookie, the request that gets popped up give you a number of choices - accept cookie, accept cookie but don't save it, accept all cookies from this server for the rest of the session, reject cookie, reject all cookies from this server for the rest of the session. It's cool because when doubleclick.net (or whoever) sends me a cookie, I can hit "reject all". If Slashdot sends me one, I can safely hit "accept all".
Additionally, IBrowse 2 has a "URL prefs" feature, allowing one to set per-URL preferences, including cookie handling prefs. I can therefore set the brower up to automatically reject all doubleclick.net's cookies without asking, for example (this is a fake example, as I never get anything from doubleclick.net; it's aliased to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file;-)
I use Netscape 4.5 at work, and its cookie handling is primitive in comparison. Since IBrowse and Netscape are the only two browsers I use with any frequencey, I don't know how IBrowse's cookie handling features compare with (for example) MSIE's.
It's possible that all this "junk" DNA still has uses that we haven't seen yet.
The "junk" DNA is a coded message, implanted into the first humans by our creators, passed down through the generations, waiting for us to find it. I reckon that distributed.net will start a project to decode the message.
Kicked from #Perl for asking a question?
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Though I've never visited said IRC channel, and am therefore unfamiliar with its general ethos and atmosphere, I have to say that being kicked for asking a question sounds rather harsh. Was it meant in jest? Is #Perl the Wrong Place for new Perl programmers to go to ask questions?
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Ananova has been online and reliable all afternoon (British time).
-Stephen
Andromeda is based on a concept of Gene Roddenberry's originally intended for the Star Trek universe. It's 300 years after the Federation has fallen.
The Nietzscheans being fallen Vulcans, right?
The similarity between the Nietzscheans and the Vulcans is clear after watching only a few minutes of the first episode of Andromeda. Both races are logical thinkers with superiority complexes. The main difference is that while the Vulcans wouldn't admit to the superiority complex, the Nietzscheans revel in it.
(I wish they hadn't been called "Nietzscheans". But then, I guess it wouldn't be a Roddenberry show if it wasn't a bit silly).
-Stephen
I want the ability to filter JavaScript based on the domain.
The first browser I saw with those two features was IBrowse 2.x on the Amiga (which I'm using at this very moment, by the way).
(Score: -googolplex, Amiga Fan)
And regarding filtering popup windows: Galeon (and maybe Mozilla too) has a "disable popups" thingy that nixes popup ads in one easy move. To prevent other windows opening (like when you click on a normal HTML link), just drag the link into the same window, if you see what I mean. I'm pretty much in the habit of dragging links instead of clicking on them all the time now. (Lucky for me, that works on both IBrowse and Galeon, so I don't have to remember two different behaviours depending on which box I'm sitting in front of).
-Stephen
Daily Radar UK, which used to be Future Gamer (I think), is still alive and well. Don't know if that's of any interest to former readers of the US site; but it's there if you want it.
-Stephen
every time I see an article about the rising phonix called Amiga, can't help thinking that maybe the Amiga should be left in the past.
Every time I see an article about the Amiga, I can't help wondering how long it'll take for someone to post one of these pointless "just let it rest in peace" comments. And I also can't help wondering if it'll be moderated up to 5.
I've never yet been disappointed.
Just filter Amiga-related news out using your account preferences.
-Stephen
Used to use one at university ('twas my first name translated into another language). By the end of my three-year degree course, I hated it, and decided never to use another nick. Ever since, I've gone by my full name, or just "Stephen".
-Stephen
*Maybe* Marks and Sparks, but since they're mostly a department store with specality food items, I doubt you can 'grocery shop' with them.
Actually, the Marks and Spencer in my town (Reading, Berkshire) has a fairly decent grocery section. Their food is top quality; I do 70-80% of my grocery shopping there.
Don't know if you can buy food from them online, though.
-Stephen
Thus the game's world became immersive. It sucked you in. And not in the way that FPSs do; Zelda 64's world was a believable fantasy world of marvels. The kind of place that you could spend hours wandering around, just admiring. I know I did.
Having an appealing world that the player wants to spend days (or, in my case, months) in, in order to see the game through to completion, is vital for a good adventure/puzzle game.
In one puzzles you are expected to hit a target with a flaming arrow to thaw it. Unfortunately you must hit the target while standing on a moving platform. After trying for I don't know how long, I realized that I had a flame shield like spell. I cast it and the heat from that spell activated the switch just as the arrow would have.
Cheater :-) I did that puzzle the hard way. Eventually. It was a well-designed puzzle, that; after a few minutes of going "huh?", it became obvious what to do, and then it was an exercise in timing. Very few of Z64's puzzles seem completely impenetrable.
This game ties for the best game ever written
It's the best game I've ever played. I can't wait for the sequel, Majora's Mask. And if there was any justice in the world, Saria would get her own spin-off game :-)
-Stephen
I would like them to do community service using computers to help people - doing a web site for a senior citizens' group
Using nothing more than COMMAND.COM and DOS Edit. That way, they get to help other people and suffer for their wickedness!
-Stephen
The plans are here.
-Stephen
Rob's posted stories about Pete Townshend before now, which I'm not sure really belong on Slashdot. If he were to create a topic for his own interests (anime, The Who, etc), he could post as many of those stories as he liked, but allow those of us who aren't interested to filter them out.
-Stephen
[emmett]
I wonder if you automatically get an Aston Martin and a Walther PPK
[Paul Wright]
More like a keyboard and a place to sit: they're responsible for the electronic and computational side of things, not the James Bond stuff.
Now, if MI6 had a web site with a similar offer...
-Stephen
New generation, new Gameboy - it's got a nice ring to it
Wouldn't work here in the UK at all - it sounds far too close to "New Labour, New Britain", the Labour Party's slogan :-)
-Stephen (politics and gaming really don't go well together)
Driving is a very complex thing.
It's for this reason that I want technology to drive for me. I don't drive for a number of reasons. One of them is that it just looks Too Difficult(tm). My reactions are crummy, and I'm not thrilled at the idea of not being allowed to make a mistake. I'm used to being able to make as many mistakes as I like, then reloading from my last saved game. If I make a mistake in a car, I kill myself and my passengers.
No thanks. I'll wait until a computer can do it for me.
-Stephen
well if someone was threatening my life
If there were a gadget to prevent murders, they couldn't be threatening your life :-)
-Stephen
So now, any license thats not GPL or GNU is simply weaselly?
I don't think that that's what Roblimo meant. He was talking about semi-open licences that are a lot less open than they first appear. I can't think of any example off the top of my head, but ISTR that Apple's open licence met with some objections by some people.
Roblimo could have said "GPL and LGPL all the way (though BSD, Artistic, MPL etc etc would all have been okay too)", but it shouldn't be necessary to say that. We shouldn't get upset when a Slashdot staffie forgets to mention our favourite licence/distro/operating system/cola brand.
Please let's not have a licence flame war :-)
-Stephen
"Ex-Segfault poster"
-Stephen
I've been a reader of /. for about 6 months. Normally everyone is honest, direct, and polite. What is up with this "Natalie Portman" thing?
It's been explained in a few other threads, but just in case you missed them, here's what happened:
Humour site Segfault recently had to disable user comments because the system was being abused; a number of people were posting obscene comments about Natalie Portman and Mae Ling Mak. Every story on Segfault ended up with obscene comments attached to it.
Because Segfault no longer allows commenting, the idiots who posted such comments appear to have migrated en masse to this site. At least we have moderators who can do something about this abuse.
-Stephen (who had never even heard of Mae Ling Mak before the Segfault fiasco, and still hasn't got a clue who she is)
One of the Web browsers I use is IBrowse 2 on an Amiga. (I'm aware that I'm encouraging flames by even mentioning the Amiga here, but I'm going to take the chance :-)
IBrowse 2's cookie handling is very good. If you elect to be asked before accepting a cookie, the request that gets popped up give you a number of choices - accept cookie, accept cookie but don't save it, accept all cookies from this server for the rest of the session, reject cookie, reject all cookies from this server for the rest of the session. It's cool because when doubleclick.net (or whoever) sends me a cookie, I can hit "reject all". If Slashdot sends me one, I can safely hit "accept all".
Additionally, IBrowse 2 has a "URL prefs" feature, allowing one to set per-URL preferences, including cookie handling prefs. I can therefore set the brower up to automatically reject all doubleclick.net's cookies without asking, for example (this is a fake example, as I never get anything from doubleclick.net; it's aliased to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file ;-)
I use Netscape 4.5 at work, and its cookie handling is primitive in comparison. Since IBrowse and Netscape are the only two browsers I use with any frequencey, I don't know how IBrowse's cookie handling features compare with (for example) MSIE's.
-Stephen
It's possible that all this "junk" DNA still has uses that we haven't seen yet.
The "junk" DNA is a coded message, implanted into the first humans by our creators, passed down through the generations, waiting for us to find it. I reckon that distributed.net will start a project to decode the message.
*has been watching too much Star Trek*
-Stephen
Someone with a grievance against Toys-R-Us registered "toys-r-us.co.uk". Have a look:
http://www.toys-r-us.co.uk/
-Stephen
Sailor Tux?
TUXedo Kamen, surely? :-)
-Stephen
Though I've never visited said IRC channel, and am therefore unfamiliar with its general ethos and atmosphere, I have to say that being kicked for asking a question sounds rather harsh. Was it meant in jest? Is #Perl the Wrong Place for new Perl programmers to go to ask questions?
-Stephen
http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/12062.html -Stephen
If I were a sysadmin, I'd do this too; it'd be cool for me, and give quite a few laughs to the rest of the staff (who would no doubt hate Pokemon):
Stephen: *rebooting server* "Don't log in on 'pikachu', it's dead."
Everyone else: "Hooray!"
"Uh oh, 'charizard' is hosed."
"'nursejoy' just went down..."
-Stephen