I installed it just now, I was pretty clean before -- I use Mozilla not IE, and I run Spybot, and cleaned myself up about Friday, so I should be pretty darn clean.
Ran SpyBot right now. After a full scan in Advance Mode, nothing except a few cookies.
Now, I do notice that RealPlayer uses an embedded Internet Explorer window. So if it got a tracker cookie, that would be a red-flag on AdAware. But, so would going to just about any major website on the planet, so... Are you sure that Ad Aware didn't just report a cookie that Real's website spewed out?
1. They start working heavily with the open source community through Helix, including making a free Linux player that handles real (which, btw, is probably where the people who made the Real Alternative got the material to make the codecs). 2. They remove the bloat and ads from their software as a direct result of people's complaints. Not only that, they let you turn off all their popups. Name 3 other free closed source softwares that allow you to do that. 3. They're working with the Doom9 community, which is probably the biggest internet community about audio/video matters.
And none of this is good enough? Christ, that's as pig-headed as idiots who keep chanting that Linux is just a hobbiest server OS and will never be useful on the desktop.
For the record, I hated Real too, but since they seem to be genuinely giving it a real effort, I figured I'd give them another try. So I downloaded and installed Real 10 just now. Fiding the free download off their website was trivial -- it was in big bold blue letters on the side of their downloads page. Who would have trouble finding *that*? Yah, it's not as big as the big graphic showing their pay version, but hey, they have employees to pay. Get over it.
Install was easy -- It did ask to take over all my media files, but I just turned them off, then went into advanced, and turned on DVD playback for Real -- Real does a much better job on DVDs than WMP, for sure. Only other annoyance during install was they asked me to register. This is not unlike other media players that I use regularly, so I did. A quick click to turn off the popups from their quick-launch app, and I'm done. Not exactly the nightmare of previous Real installations.
So yeah. I can see people complaining about Real because of what they did in the past, but jesus, they're giving it an honest effort here, and remember, any time Real wins, Microsoft LOSES. =)
Uh, worked absolutely fine for me just now. Using Mozilla 1.7 beta. Click on "Download RealPlayer" then "Download Free Realplayer" which is in big *bold* blue underlined stuff on the side. Yes, it's smaller than the graphic to the left, but I can't imagine smoeone not noticing that.
Yes, they're going to try and get you to pay for the full version. I see this as no greater or lesser an annoyance as Trillian bugging me every 10,000 hours or so to buy their full version, or a linux distro demanding I go use bittorrent instead of downloading off their FTP since I didn't buy the official CDs.
Remember, they *are* a business, after all. Not only that, they're a business trying to fight back against Microsoft using antitrust monopoly tactics to kill them. Since they lasted longer than Netscape did, I'd have to say they must be doing something right.
Laws like this make me proud to live in a backwards country such as Canada.
Make room. If Bush 2.0 gets in again I have every intent of booking it to Canada or England as soon as I can, before he starts up the draft to fund the manpower portion of his neo-con wetdream wars. I won't be alone, either.
I'm sure both Canada and England have their problems but at least they aren't being ran by corporations in the background under an increasingly thinly veiled guise of Democractic Republic-ness.
Opening a new tab sends the Referer Header in Mozilla 1.6. I know this because there are quite a few Japanese CG sites I visit that block "foreign" links -- the ones hosted on tripod.co.jp are the worst for this. If I tab-open one of these from my.yahoo.com, it doesn't work, I have to copy the URL and paste into a new window or tab to get it to go.
For those of you getting spammed all to heck by the shitheads from WDHAL (We Don't Have A Life, AKA Gay Niggas Association of America), just follow these steps to fix it:
Click on Preferences on the left hand size (You have registered, right?) Click on "Comments" Set Threshold to "1: Filter most ACs" Hit Save.
Viola, enjoy shithead free browsing. And while you're at it, go say high over at Anti-Slash the jackass losers behind this.
In fact, if you really want to say hi, set up wget to mirror their website, or set up Ping to send pings of 64k bytes to them, 24/7. I'm sure they'll appreciate it as much as we appreciate their visiting us.
Except that MS has said they are only going to support AMD's X86 variant instruction set. So if Intel does something different, they get to write their own desktop OS.:P... Not like MS would ever *lie* or anything. *shrug*.
Yeah, I know. But I wanted to point it out, for 2 reasons:
1. Just in case you were serious. Been hanging out at Portal Of Evil so I've lost my ability to tell when someone's just kidding and when they really do have their head really far up. 2. I wanted to get +5 Insightful.;) Go me!:D
So my learning Java by, ya know, reading a rather thick text tome and tinkering around with the Java SDK + Notepad makes me a idiot, eh? Or learning HTML and CSS by hanging out on htmlhelp.org till I grasped the basic concepts?
Don't knock self-directed book learning. Remember that quite a few geeks, especially younger ones in, say, high school who don't have access to computer classes do just what you're mocking him for doing.
Not to mention that the US of 72 years ago probably didn't have near the educational resources available to them that we do -- what with them recovering from the great depression* and all that, his learning from books might be very impressive indeed, given the era.
* Is my math/memory off? Wasn't Black Friday in 1929, which would put him growing up on the tail end of it all?
I'd point out that Iowa does not equal the national election or anything of the sort. Gehpart won Iowa in the 80s but never made it past the primaries.
So yeah. Maximum size of a GBA game is 256 Megabit, and that's PLENTY for a portable, considering what you can pack into a GBA rom already. *that* is what will really draw people to this console -- at that size you could easily fit any SNES game and if you re-did them, most PSX games.
>>If not, what's going to happen to the Dell users who have all of these +R drives if it turns out that -R wins out in the long run?"
They're going to buy new Dell DVD-RW drives (and, later, Dell DVDB-R and DVDB-RW drives when the blue laser standard goes mainstream). Even if DVD-R wins, the DVD+R drives and media aren't going to go bad overnight. And Dell will be there, with a sale on new drives or new DVD-R drives when they do win. (and I do believe -R will eventually be the one that wins.)
Oh, and a funny reply:
They go to jail for violating the DMCA. Cause you know DVD-R drives are only used for pirating PS2 games and Movies -- the nice lady at the MPAA said so!
This little gem, published in the US by Atlus. Technically it's in the same series as Rhapsody (and by the same people) but it plays more like Final Fantasy Tactics on crack. How much on crack -- the level cap is 9999 and you can beat the game at level 50 or so. Everything past that is for extra stuff past the ending. Stuff like being able to go into randomly generated dungeons that "live" inside your items to power them up, and other neato things like that.
If you liked FFT, FFTA, or Tactics Ogre, you'll like Disgaea.:)
Actually, because people who want real news don't go to CNN? And if you go to a site like takebackthemedia.com, they have plenty of nice, easy to understand explinations as to why, say, locking up a bunch of civilian men, women and children in cages in a Cuba military base without a trial and any hope of one isn't legal according to any law except BushCo's.
I got a *lot* of information on the war from iraqwar.ru, and one of it's English translated mirrors. That site got it's information from various Russian agencies which had a *much* more liberal stance on reporting the news than BushCo's US media.
And yes, it's a trustworthy site. They reported on quite a few things that were simply ignored by CNN or buried, spun, and lied about by FoxNews and other propoganda machines like them.
So they'll start trying Bush and various troops later this year then, eh?
Bush's US used seige tactics against a civilian city of 1 million. That's a war crime according to international law, which states you can't just willy nilly attack civilians.
1. The public can't even spell DDoS, yet alone know what it is. 2. The public has no idea what a email blacklist is, or why they're important for fighting spammers. To them, telling people that one of these sites would elicit a "huh?" response, not a "oh, damn!". 3. The public most likely didn't hear about the spammers pulling this crap, because CNN was too busy showing happy puppies and ignoring real news (like this, the war crimes in Iraq, etc).
So yeah. The spammer's reputations, which are tarnished beyond repair already, are, er, "safe", such as it is.
Yes, it did! I loved the minigames while downloading on my 300 baud modem.;)
It was neat, I started BBSing when 56k modems were out, I was the loser with the 300 baud on a PCjr. After a year or so I got a 386 with a 1200, then a 2400, then a 14400, and right before BBSing in my area "died", I got a 56k.:)
Man I miss all my friends from the old BBSes. Maybe now that I have a static IP I'll make a Telnet WWIV board.:)
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Because I was clean, installed, and I'm STILL clean. So I believe he's mistaken.
I installed it just now, I was pretty clean before -- I use Mozilla not IE, and I run Spybot, and cleaned myself up about Friday, so I should be pretty darn clean.
Ran SpyBot right now. After a full scan in Advance Mode, nothing except a few cookies.
Now, I do notice that RealPlayer uses an embedded Internet Explorer window. So if it got a tracker cookie, that would be a red-flag on AdAware. But, so would going to just about any major website on the planet, so... Are you sure that Ad Aware didn't just report a cookie that Real's website spewed out?
Let me get this straight.
1. They start working heavily with the open source community through Helix, including making a free Linux player that handles real (which, btw, is probably where the people who made the Real Alternative got the material to make the codecs).
2. They remove the bloat and ads from their software as a direct result of people's complaints. Not only that, they let you turn off all their popups. Name 3 other free closed source softwares that allow you to do that.
3. They're working with the Doom9 community, which is probably the biggest internet community about audio/video matters.
And none of this is good enough? Christ, that's as pig-headed as idiots who keep chanting that Linux is just a hobbiest server OS and will never be useful on the desktop.
For the record, I hated Real too, but since they seem to be genuinely giving it a real effort, I figured I'd give them another try. So I downloaded and installed Real 10 just now. Fiding the free download off their website was trivial -- it was in big bold blue letters on the side of their downloads page. Who would have trouble finding *that*? Yah, it's not as big as the big graphic showing their pay version, but hey, they have employees to pay. Get over it.
Install was easy -- It did ask to take over all my media files, but I just turned them off, then went into advanced, and turned on DVD playback for Real -- Real does a much better job on DVDs than WMP, for sure. Only other annoyance during install was they asked me to register. This is not unlike other media players that I use regularly, so I did. A quick click to turn off the popups from their quick-launch app, and I'm done. Not exactly the nightmare of previous Real installations.
So yeah. I can see people complaining about Real because of what they did in the past, but jesus, they're giving it an honest effort here, and remember, any time Real wins, Microsoft LOSES. =)
Uh, worked absolutely fine for me just now. Using Mozilla 1.7 beta. Click on "Download RealPlayer" then "Download Free Realplayer" which is in big *bold* blue underlined stuff on the side. Yes, it's smaller than the graphic to the left, but I can't imagine smoeone not noticing that.
Yes, they're going to try and get you to pay for the full version. I see this as no greater or lesser an annoyance as Trillian bugging me every 10,000 hours or so to buy their full version, or a linux distro demanding I go use bittorrent instead of downloading off their FTP since I didn't buy the official CDs.
Remember, they *are* a business, after all. Not only that, they're a business trying to fight back against Microsoft using antitrust monopoly tactics to kill them. Since they lasted longer than Netscape did, I'd have to say they must be doing something right.
Laws like this make me proud to live in a backwards country such as Canada.
Make room. If Bush 2.0 gets in again I have every intent of booking it to Canada or England as soon as I can, before he starts up the draft to fund the manpower portion of his neo-con wetdream wars. I won't be alone, either.
I'm sure both Canada and England have their problems but at least they aren't being ran by corporations in the background under an increasingly thinly veiled guise of Democractic Republic-ness.
Opening a new tab sends the Referer Header in Mozilla 1.6. I know this because there are quite a few Japanese CG sites I visit that block "foreign" links -- the ones hosted on tripod.co.jp are the worst for this. If I tab-open one of these from my.yahoo.com, it doesn't work, I have to copy the URL and paste into a new window or tab to get it to go.
For those of you getting spammed all to heck by the shitheads from WDHAL (We Don't Have A Life, AKA Gay Niggas Association of America), just follow these steps to fix it:
Click on Preferences on the left hand size (You have registered, right?)
Click on "Comments"
Set Threshold to "1: Filter most ACs"
Hit Save.
Viola, enjoy shithead free browsing. And while you're at it, go say high over at Anti-Slash the jackass losers behind this.
In fact, if you really want to say hi, set up wget to mirror their website, or set up Ping to send pings of 64k bytes to them, 24/7. I'm sure they'll appreciate it as much as we appreciate their visiting us.
Bleh.
Except that MS has said they are only going to support AMD's X86 variant instruction set. So if Intel does something different, they get to write their own desktop OS. :P ... Not like MS would ever *lie* or anything. *shrug*.
>> It's also why we have more than one political party.
We do? Last I looked we have 1 party with 2 faces, that only disagree on very superficial things.
No fair making me spit my pepsi all over my monitor. ;)
Yeah, I know. But I wanted to point it out, for 2 reasons:
;) Go me! :D
1. Just in case you were serious. Been hanging out at Portal Of Evil so I've lost my ability to tell when someone's just kidding and when they really do have their head really far up.
2. I wanted to get +5 Insightful.
So my learning Java by, ya know, reading a rather thick text tome and tinkering around with the Java SDK + Notepad makes me a idiot, eh? Or learning HTML and CSS by hanging out on htmlhelp.org till I grasped the basic concepts?
Don't knock self-directed book learning. Remember that quite a few geeks, especially younger ones in, say, high school who don't have access to computer classes do just what you're mocking him for doing.
Not to mention that the US of 72 years ago probably didn't have near the educational resources available to them that we do -- what with them recovering from the great depression* and all that, his learning from books might be very impressive indeed, given the era.
* Is my math/memory off? Wasn't Black Friday in 1929, which would put him growing up on the tail end of it all?
I'd point out that Iowa does not equal the national election or anything of the sort. Gehpart won Iowa in the 80s but never made it past the primaries.
So yeah. Maximum size of a GBA game is 256 Megabit, and that's PLENTY for a portable, considering what you can pack into a GBA rom already. *that* is what will really draw people to this console -- at that size you could easily fit any SNES game and if you re-did them, most PSX games.
You had me till you said "Cool N-gage". ;)
You mean those Warez^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware security and backup sites were all LYING!? OH MY GOD!!!
*Quickly takes a power drill to several spindles of DVD-Rs*
>>If not, what's going to happen to the Dell users who have all of these +R drives if it turns out that -R wins out in the long run?"
They're going to buy new Dell DVD-RW drives (and, later, Dell DVDB-R and DVDB-RW drives when the blue laser standard goes mainstream). Even if DVD-R wins, the DVD+R drives and media aren't going to go bad overnight. And Dell will be there, with a sale on new drives or new DVD-R drives when they do win. (and I do believe -R will eventually be the one that wins.)
Oh, and a funny reply:
They go to jail for violating the DMCA. Cause you know DVD-R drives are only used for pirating PS2 games and Movies -- the nice lady at the MPAA said so!
This little gem, published in the US by Atlus. Technically it's in the same series as Rhapsody (and by the same people) but it plays more like Final Fantasy Tactics on crack. How much on crack -- the level cap is 9999 and you can beat the game at level 50 or so. Everything past that is for extra stuff past the ending. Stuff like being able to go into randomly generated dungeons that "live" inside your items to power them up, and other neato things like that.
:)
If you liked FFT, FFTA, or Tactics Ogre, you'll like Disgaea.
>>-Ruri said it right: "Baka baka!"
:)
The funny thing is, you got it wrong. If I understand it correctly, Ruri says Baka baaka -- "Everyone's idiotic" or "We're all idiots".
BTW, I *love* Ruri. Easily one of my favorite Anime girls, ever.
The SCO scream:
"What the fuck are they smoking?!"
The Goatse.cx scream:
"Aaah! What the hell?!! My ass hurts just LOOKING at that!"
The Windows BSOD scream:
"Ah well, time for a cigarette."
Actually, because people who want real news don't go to CNN? And if you go to a site like takebackthemedia.com, they have plenty of nice, easy to understand explinations as to why, say, locking up a bunch of civilian men, women and children in cages in a Cuba military base without a trial and any hope of one isn't legal according to any law except BushCo's.
I got a *lot* of information on the war from iraqwar.ru, and one of it's English translated mirrors. That site got it's information from various Russian agencies which had a *much* more liberal stance on reporting the news than BushCo's US media.
And yes, it's a trustworthy site. They reported on quite a few things that were simply ignored by CNN or buried, spun, and lied about by FoxNews and other propoganda machines like them.
So they'll start trying Bush and various troops later this year then, eh?
Bush's US used seige tactics against a civilian city of 1 million. That's a war crime according to international law, which states you can't just willy nilly attack civilians.
IT didn't affect it at all.
1. The public can't even spell DDoS, yet alone know what it is.
2. The public has no idea what a email blacklist is, or why they're important for fighting spammers. To them, telling people that one of these sites would elicit a "huh?" response, not a "oh, damn!".
3. The public most likely didn't hear about the spammers pulling this crap, because CNN was too busy showing happy puppies and ignoring real news (like this, the war crimes in Iraq, etc).
So yeah. The spammer's reputations, which are tarnished beyond repair already, are, er, "safe", such as it is.
Yes, it did! I loved the minigames while downloading on my 300 baud modem. ;)
:)
:)
It was neat, I started BBSing when 56k modems were out, I was the loser with the 300 baud on a PCjr. After a year or so I got a 386 with a 1200, then a 2400, then a 14400, and right before BBSing in my area "died", I got a 56k.
Man I miss all my friends from the old BBSes. Maybe now that I have a static IP I'll make a Telnet WWIV board.