This makes me feel so much better about the working mistakes I have made. I would love to see an interview with whoever clicked on "OK" to trigger this one off...
Also, if you have memory leaks in java, the worst they can do is knock the jre over. I would much rather an application failed in that kind of way than have it fall over and take the OS with it.
The trouble with doing this is that once you have changed the front end from ie you are left with a front end that looks like a real browser and a rendering engine. To be honest IE is a fairly slow and lumpen rendering engine compared to mozilla or opera, so why not just switch to one of those?
This may be slightly OT but there is an absolutely fantastic book called Declare, by Tim Powers that combines the ararat object mentioned in the article with a cold war spy story and other mysterious forces. It is one of the greatest modern fantasy books (if fantasy is the correct term) and I strongly recommend it to anyone.
Why is it anti-human to care about the environment? I could have sworn that the very term "environment" meant something like "place where people live". I would have thought that looking after the environment would be more of a "don't shit where you eat" kind of argument than some kind of bizarre crusade against all humanity. Forgive me if that marks me as some kind of slack jawed halfwit.
Thats why I was wondering whether there were any good older ones around or any site that did a kind of "best version for a given processor type/age of computer" guide for people who want to try different things on an older pc.
If you are recycling an old machine as a linux box of whatever flavour can anyone recommend any sites or documents with guidance as to what would be good distros, windows managers etc to install on older hardware?
I don't know about the rest of the world but every time there is any kind of national poll of the nations favourite books over here in the UK, Lord of the Rings invariably tops the list. It is not purely a geek thing, or at least not in this country, it is a hugely popular book, enjoyed by a lot of people who will never read any other "fantasy" literature.
There are some pretty good open-source Java-OpenGL systems that are starting to be used for some very interesting gaming related stuff- take a look over on games.dev.java.net and the forums there for more information on what is being done now.
Once you have 3d graphics being handled natively through the hardware, you don't have nearly the same problems with speed either- it is a plenty fast language when it's not doing too much screenwork.
Not everyone will want to, or be able to, build the epic trilogy like PJ did. If I was looking for an author to convert to film I would perhaps go for David Gemmell- he is far from my favourite author, but his stories and characters are broadly drawn and very cinematic already and he knows how to tell a story in a single novel, which is quite a valuable skill among fantasy novellists. I can imagine Legend, for example, making a great movie.
As far as I can tell this is exactly the problem California has found itself with - people voting for low taxes and voting to make sure that at least half of their taxes pay for education and that at least half of their taxes pay for policing and that at least half of their taxes pay for dustbins in parks.
That's a very informative list but actually you're pretty much missing the point with some of it.
Image blocking isn't limited by server or anything else, you just say "don't load any images" and it doesnt.
You can also change the page viewing size on opera easily enough but killing the page styles means you get rid of horrible formatting, evil background images and so on. If you switch of stylesheets and images you are left with something fairly close to a text-only browser, which is bound to meet with approval from the "real men use lynx" crowd. This is at a single keystroke/interface switch, no menu or preference exploration required.
I use Opera as a normal browser and I've never run into any of the problems other people here mention with it. I only really use Mozilla for testing pages I have written because it's javascript and DOM testing facilities are fantastic, but I can see how people could love it. Watching people using IE is like watching animals pacing along the wall of a cage completely unaware that the door is open.
Ah. That would explain it. I only ever open them in the plainest of plaintext (and then usually only because they use these random word generator type titles like "deranged carpet ocelot") so I don't see the html versions. I confess to finding random word spam quite funny because it has a kind of bizarre poetic quality to it.
Although this could trick the filter (I have not yet had one of these slip by popfile) I think they may be self defeating as a marketing message because I don't believe that Joe Moron, who is the single exceptionally rich individual who replies to every single spam message, will be as keen to click on a link in a message that just says "crazed banquo weasel archetype gosling park" and so on for the next six lines. It doesn't really have the sales message to explain why the link at the bottom is worth clicking on. The moment it does, the filters pick it up anyways.
The other thing is that Flash is an utter bastard to do anything remotely technical with. It is fine for designers sketching stuff and dragging and dropping movie clips around but having to write any significant amount of Actionscript is a nightmare. You spend half your time trying to work out whether the bugs are in your code or Macromedia's dire runtime which is liberally packed with quirks and undocumented "features" for your debugging pleasure.
In fact, the RIAA should be using the music shared as an example of exactly what they should not be releasing, on account of it will all get shared. They should focus on the artists that don't get shared at all...
"Gentleman, you will recall that we decided to put up our top secret plans to annex Poland online in the form of a pdf with some parts blacked out? I'm afraid I've got some bad news..."
I'm fairly sure that war plans of most sorts are not actually going to get put online before the war in question happens.
The CLR that.Net is built on top of is also JIT based- from what I can tell when they got beaten on by Sun for writing J++ and calling it java they transferred all their microsoft java people over to design the.net virtual machine. The only reason it seems faster is because it is bound deeply to the OS.
A C# executable is pretty much like an executable Jar file in that it invokes the VM and runs in that context.
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I would be surprised- I'm sure I remember them saying that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.
This makes me feel so much better about the working mistakes I have made. I would love to see an interview with whoever clicked on "OK" to trigger this one off...
About time! for too long Mars has been a flat-shaded sphere.
Also, if you have memory leaks in java, the worst they can do is knock the jre over. I would much rather an application failed in that kind of way than have it fall over and take the OS with it.
Java3D is out on linux and osX too now. It is also on it's way to being Open Sourced, apparently.
The trouble with doing this is that once you have changed the front end from ie you are left with a front end that looks like a real browser and a rendering engine. To be honest IE is a fairly slow and lumpen rendering engine compared to mozilla or opera, so why not just switch to one of those?
This may be slightly OT but there is an absolutely fantastic book called Declare, by Tim Powers that combines the ararat object mentioned in the article with a cold war spy story and other mysterious forces. It is one of the greatest modern fantasy books (if fantasy is the correct term) and I strongly recommend it to anyone.
Why is it anti-human to care about the environment? I could have sworn that the very term "environment" meant something like "place where people live". I would have thought that looking after the environment would be more of a "don't shit where you eat" kind of argument than some kind of bizarre crusade against all humanity. Forgive me if that marks me as some kind of slack jawed halfwit.
Thats why I was wondering whether there were any good older ones around or any site that did a kind of "best version for a given processor type/age of computer" guide for people who want to try different things on an older pc.
In my case I think the BSD option will be fine.
If you are recycling an old machine as a linux box of whatever flavour can anyone recommend any sites or documents with guidance as to what would be good distros, windows managers etc to install on older hardware?
I don't know about the rest of the world but every time there is any kind of national poll of the nations favourite books over here in the UK, Lord of the Rings invariably tops the list. It is not purely a geek thing, or at least not in this country, it is a hugely popular book, enjoyed by a lot of people who will never read any other "fantasy" literature.
There are some pretty good open-source Java-OpenGL systems that are starting to be used for some very interesting gaming related stuff- take a look over on games.dev.java.net and the forums there for more information on what is being done now.
Once you have 3d graphics being handled natively through the hardware, you don't have nearly the same problems with speed either- it is a plenty fast language when it's not doing too much screenwork.
Not everyone will want to, or be able to, build the epic trilogy like PJ did. If I was looking for an author to convert to film I would perhaps go for David Gemmell- he is far from my favourite author, but his stories and characters are broadly drawn and very cinematic already and he knows how to tell a story in a single novel, which is quite a valuable skill among fantasy novellists. I can imagine Legend, for example, making a great movie.
As far as I can tell this is exactly the problem California has found itself with - people voting for low taxes and voting to make sure that at least half of their taxes pay for education and that at least half of their taxes pay for policing and that at least half of their taxes pay for dustbins in parks.
That's a very informative list but actually you're pretty much missing the point with some of it.
Image blocking isn't limited by server or anything else, you just say "don't load any images" and it doesnt.
You can also change the page viewing size on opera easily enough but killing the page styles means you get rid of horrible formatting, evil background images and so on. If you switch of stylesheets and images you are left with something fairly close to a text-only browser, which is bound to meet with approval from the "real men use lynx" crowd. This is at a single keystroke/interface switch, no menu or preference exploration required.
I use Opera as a normal browser and I've never run into any of the problems other people here mention with it. I only really use Mozilla for testing pages I have written because it's javascript and DOM testing facilities are fantastic, but I can see how people could love it. Watching people using IE is like watching animals pacing along the wall of a cage completely unaware that the door is open.
Ah. That would explain it. I only ever open them in the plainest of plaintext (and then usually only because they use these random word generator type titles like "deranged carpet ocelot") so I don't see the html versions. I confess to finding random word spam quite funny because it has a kind of bizarre poetic quality to it.
Although this could trick the filter (I have not yet had one of these slip by popfile) I think they may be self defeating as a marketing message because I don't believe that Joe Moron, who is the single exceptionally rich individual who replies to every single spam message, will be as keen to click on a link in a message that just says "crazed banquo weasel archetype gosling park" and so on for the next six lines. It doesn't really have the sales message to explain why the link at the bottom is worth clicking on. The moment it does, the filters pick it up anyways.
The McCarthy which hunts? I'm much more afraid of that McCarthy than the other one, which just sits around watching TV all the time.
The other thing is that Flash is an utter bastard to do anything remotely technical with. It is fine for designers sketching stuff and dragging and dropping movie clips around but having to write any significant amount of Actionscript is a nightmare. You spend half your time trying to work out whether the bugs are in your code or Macromedia's dire runtime which is liberally packed with quirks and undocumented "features" for your debugging pleasure.
In fact, the RIAA should be using the music shared as an example of exactly what they should not be releasing, on account of it will all get shared. They should focus on the artists that don't get shared at all...
Not just in England, but in one quarry in England. I mean, what were the odds of that?
Why is it so utterly inconcievable that the movie could be longer than 3:12 minutes long? What is special about that duration?
Thats a good point:
"Gentleman, you will recall that we decided to put up our top secret plans to annex Poland online in the form of a pdf with some parts blacked out? I'm afraid I've got some bad news..."
I'm fairly sure that war plans of most sorts are not actually going to get put online before the war in question happens.
My understanding was that it is not really intended as a combat weapon, and as a general purpose wilderness survival tool it pretty much rocks.
The CLR that .Net is built on top of is also JIT based- from what I can tell when they got beaten on by Sun for writing J++ and calling it java they transferred all their microsoft java people over to design the .net virtual machine. The only reason it seems faster is because it is bound deeply to the OS.
A C# executable is pretty much like an executable Jar file in that it invokes the VM and runs in that context.