5) Good on-line help that was nested. You didn't have to eyeball pages of "man" output.
My apologies if I'm incorrect about the following. My idea of VMS help was from one 1980s book, with near-complete session logs and remarks, where a cracker "obtained" axx0ss for a VMS machine and spent pages and pages and pages on examining the help system and trying to figure out how to f%$#@k this thing is supposed to be used... =)
Judging from the book, the VMS help system was somewhat similar to the help system found in GNUPLOT - a help system that seemed neat at first glance, but was seriously unfunny to use. =( I personally prefer either a man-style documentation (man, perldoc), or hypertext (info, or any html manual) - topics and subtopics required additional dexterity to navigate.
8) I'll take EDT or LSE over vi any day!
Granted, xemacs needs a second (!) to start up on my PIII-600MHz, but it's the best editor, ever. Argh, I'd personally not get into the Editor War, everyone knows no one can agree on those kinds of opinions... except that, yes, vi sucks.::duck:: =)
...have no right to complain here, I use vim as the editor launched by whatever needs an editor, and xemacs as the operating system, er, editor that is running all the time for general editing.
A Thomson spokesman told NewsForge's Robin Miller that it was a ruse by Ogg Vorbis advocates to get publicity.
Translation: "We changed our license terms, Xiph.org released an open letter showing us how silly this move was, and since we don't exactly love them we would like to use this opportunity to dismiss this letter as childish propaganda AND use it as a smokescreen to avoid tricky questions and move on to easier questions." =)
Yeah, the caption says that they checked what's the highest speed they can get to the POST... If it would have actually booted, that would have been interesting =)
P.S. If I said "NOP NOP NOP," some of you will know what I mean -- but then I'd probably be violating the DMCA.;-)
Posting source code to the crack! Evil! But I will post the compiled code, since DMCA-like laws are not effect in here (but may be in there, so if they are, close your eyes NOW and do appropriate mouse gesture / keypress combo to close the window): EA EA EA. Of course, it can always be argued where the hell this crack needs to be relocated, but no doubt someone will tell...
There is some tax on "music" CD-Rs in Canada, but not on "data" CD-Rs. When I heard this I said, "What!?" So you have the option of paying more for CDs that you will burn your music backups to, and the same for CDs that contain just "ordinary" data.
Finland has similar arrangement, except that it's also for data CD-Rs (but not as much as it's for audio CD-Rs). I heard They also plan (or already do?) get a slice of hard drive prices.
By the way, maybe they should charging media levy in USA too. For audio CDs, the payment should go to RIAA, and for data CDs, to Fraunhofer/Thomson =) =)
Yeah, me too. (I don't do much of music downloads, but I had to get some classical music a while ago. did some searching for other music as well. Tons of.oggs among terabytes of.mp3s! It's starting to Show!)
I've also seen some in LimeWire, as odd as it sounds...
My favorite is Lo-Fi classic - this is just about as clean as themes can get, and definitely should come with Mozilla! Sometimes show this to the (unregistered) Opera users to show how schweet and uncluttered and fast this thing can be. =)
This being Sony, I would *guess* that the MP3 player is upload-only. Once you put an MP3 on the player, you can play it on the MP3 player, or you can delete it.
But I would also *guess* that the "portable MP3 CD player" allows the user to remove the CD from the unit, thus allowing them to "download" the music.
Of course, Sony will probably back down on being nice at some point. Wait until they're hooked and *snap!* trap goes off.
Aliens, Macro wormholes or Gravitionally anomalies may have caused a human manmade object to appear farter from earth than this probe.
Yeah, right. "Scientist discover the 'Sock Cloud'"... That's the real explanation.
There's no foundation in the rumors about a Black Op to create a system to gather odd socks from every washer and dryer in the world to create a superweapon to smother anyone, anywhere, anytime.
No! The socks actually disappear/are abducted to the space and form gigantic clusters lightyears away from us!
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I just downloaded the source, and this patch, a few hours before the slashdotting (woo), but it looks like id's quake source is trying to use Mesalib version *2* (we're up to 4.0.3 now), and is still full of stuff for those damn non-standard 3dfx cards.
Times change, and the source with it... Debian uses QuakeForge version, and it works just fine with X11 software rendering and GLX.
Re:Their price model is BAD too.. $15 a CD?! NUTSO
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So, you pay $15 and you listen to your CD hundreds of times. You pay $15 and you watch your DVD 5 times? 10 times? 20 times? It's an order of magnitude difference.
Personally, I may pay 20 (or whatever) of CD and end listen to one or two songs zillions of times over years. No wonder I was in heaven after finding vgmix.com, remix.overclocked.org and remix.kwed.org =) =)
But DVDs are a different matter. Back in "VHS times", I may have got a movie for about the same price as CD and watched it a couple of times, bleah. But DVDs are different: Previously, I didn't have any joy in owning a crappy-quality video copy of a movie, but DVDs are genuinely joy to buy and add to collections - in case of VHS, I didn't want to pay a full price for letterboxed, low-quality picture with really bad sound! DVDs are nicer to watch, good picture and sound. Over and over. And over. And then again with some weird subtitles. =)
(I've heard some people have seen The Matrix for 20, 40, 60 times... sick! That's sick! I'm perfectly healthy mentally, I've only seen it 15 times. Or something. Haven't counted. Speaking of which, I haven't seen it for a while...)
and I had enough trying to install the Multitude of Modules to get SoapLite.pm installed
Sad to hear that. On my system, it was a matter of apt-get install libsoap-lite-perl. The purpose of maintaining a package in a distribution is to ease the work of others. =)
I didn't bother "learning" it -- that is, I've been using it, and when I really need to, I've used some perl 5 features, but I've learned them as I go (by example), and I know I'm not really using the full capabilites
Yeah, well, same for me, except that I started with perl 5.0xx (with very little Perl 4 before that - didn't do much with it, because the Big Honkin' ManPage was pain to read in DOS!)
I know that for me, Perl 5.6 was not that big of a change. ("Oh, I can use 'use warnings;' instead of '-w'? That's readable! Oh, and 'our ($a, $b, $c)' instead of 'use vars qw($a $b $c)'? Gets better!")
And I know Perl 6 is not going to be a porting nightmare, and will make Perl much more readable in long run. I heard, for example, that the hilariously obscure-sounding scalar(@arr) or unreadable-sounding $#arr+1 will be @arr.length (or something similar) there, which is only positive...
Heres a tip: If you have to have a webpage which explains the function of each icon, your icons are not clear enough
Here's a tip: If you had installed the thing, you'd have noticed the extremely helpful bunch of tooltips that appear very soon if the user doesn't try to do anything in particular. Yes, they have thought of first-time users =)
All right, I'd like to use this smallish opportunity to thank. Just what I had been waiting for (I liked the radial menus in NWN, and now some serious applications of the same thing in "real life"...)
One small bug I noticed with Moz 1.1b for Windows: If I use "open link in new tab", when I go back to the previous tab it thinks I'm selecting text with mouse. Not harmful, but a bit odd...
Oh, and enjoy the vacation while it lasts. I just hope there's no *serious* headache-causing bugs waiting for you to fix when you return =)
7x2 LCD? That's, like, ancient history =) Personally, I read my SMS stuff on a Nokia 9110 (an old model!) and it has a nice half-VGA display and full keyboard. And even the "slightly older generation" phones have good displays that fit reasonable amount of stuff on screen, and the new phones have cool stuff like predictive text input and such... Easy, non-intrusive and relatively cheap form of communication!
(As a side note, to keep this more on-topic: I'm glad I haven't got any SMS spam. I heard people got so annoyed about that that it was completely banned here... =)
Re:What's up With the Populariy of Princess Monono
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...I never, ever forget the sheer joy of pointing out to fellow Foxes that they no longer have the Monopoly in the field of Multiple Tails... =)
you'd do better to pick a month that didnt have the releases of the next star trek and lotr movies, at least with this crowd.
Precisely. =) Of course, at least in here, the movies (especially Big Ones In December) stay in theaters for long time, so I guess it's possible to see them in January.
Isn't the next logical step for the RIAA to sue U.S. airlines for continuing to provide service to countries known to harbor merchants of pirated music?;)
Heh, I heard some people in the Industry were trying to get the customs to take note what people in Helsinki,.fi are bringing home from their (easy and quick) boat trips to Tallinn,.ee - particularly when most of the tourists go to one place that's a widely known market for pirated stuff.
No idea how that's working out, not really, I heard. Not that I personally care, I heard the quality of some videos that my brother's wife's nephew's sister's roommate's father had bought was WAY below laughably horrible =)
I still don't understand... the client is the same in Windows and Linux, code is cross-platform, and the toolset and the client runs in Windows, so you can develop and test the module in Windows and play it in both Windows and Linux. It's not as if you'd install the Linux client that the Windows client would magically disappear!
I understand the need to have the Linux client, but I just don't see how the lack of toolset for Linux would mean more reboots. At worst, it's the same amount of reboots!
Point the first: Internet payment systems are completely broken and lacking. Especially in case of international money transfers without a credit card. Sure, I'd love to pay for ad-free memberships to sites - if I had the possibility. Currently, I don't want to pay huge extra payments to be able to pay.
Point the second: I don't use pop-up killing because I'd object to advertising. I don't, however, like ANNOYING advertising.
Point 2.2: You give my browser a request to show popup, and it can very well ignore it, sometimes it has to due to technological limitations. If you use advertisement technology that I object to and refuse to support, or support incorrectly, that's your problem.
If it depended on me, I'd disable my browser's JS completely, because in 99% of cases, it's for Damn Annoying Use, be it for popups or just other annoying stuff. The remaining 1% regrettably makes me use it...
Hey, it isn't my problem, for example, that GeoCities ad squares show only text "undefined" in them because the ambidextrously fumbling Yahoo!ites haven't tested their JavaScript with Mozilla...
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I saw this a while ago. And laughed. I showed it to my sister (a big Nintendo fan, but not longer than since SNES times). More laughter.
We thought that was bad until we found a videotape with two episodes of Super Mario Bros. Super Show...
Nintendo sure made great games, but Nintendo of America sure employed some marketing people with serious problems =)
My apologies if I'm incorrect about the following. My idea of VMS help was from one 1980s book, with near-complete session logs and remarks, where a cracker "obtained" axx0ss for a VMS machine and spent pages and pages and pages on examining the help system and trying to figure out how to f%$#@k this thing is supposed to be used... =)
Judging from the book, the VMS help system was somewhat similar to the help system found in GNUPLOT - a help system that seemed neat at first glance, but was seriously unfunny to use. =( I personally prefer either a man-style documentation (man, perldoc), or hypertext (info, or any html manual) - topics and subtopics required additional dexterity to navigate.
Granted, xemacs needs a second (!) to start up on my PIII-600MHz, but it's the best editor, ever. Argh, I'd personally not get into the Editor War, everyone knows no one can agree on those kinds of opinions... except that, yes, vi sucks. ::duck:: =)
Translation: "We changed our license terms, Xiph.org released an open letter showing us how silly this move was, and since we don't exactly love them we would like to use this opportunity to dismiss this letter as childish propaganda AND use it as a smokescreen to avoid tricky questions and move on to easier questions." =)
Yeah, the caption says that they checked what's the highest speed they can get to the POST... If it would have actually booted, that would have been interesting =)
Posting source code to the crack! Evil! But I will post the compiled code, since DMCA-like laws are not effect in here (but may be in there, so if they are, close your eyes NOW and do appropriate mouse gesture / keypress combo to close the window): EA EA EA. Of course, it can always be argued where the hell this crack needs to be relocated, but no doubt someone will tell...
Finland has similar arrangement, except that it's also for data CD-Rs (but not as much as it's for audio CD-Rs). I heard They also plan (or already do?) get a slice of hard drive prices.
By the way, maybe they should charging media levy in USA too. For audio CDs, the payment should go to RIAA, and for data CDs, to Fraunhofer/Thomson =) =)
Yeah, me too. (I don't do much of music downloads, but I had to get some classical music a while ago. did some searching for other music as well. Tons of .oggs among terabytes of .mp3s! It's starting to Show!)
I've also seen some in LimeWire, as odd as it sounds...
My favorite is Lo-Fi classic - this is just about as clean as themes can get, and definitely should come with Mozilla! Sometimes show this to the (unregistered) Opera users to show how schweet and uncluttered and fast this thing can be. =)
Remember it from the last time it was posted here. I lllllove it. =)
But I would also *guess* that the "portable MP3 CD player" allows the user to remove the CD from the unit, thus allowing them to "download" the music.
Of course, Sony will probably back down on being nice at some point. Wait until they're hooked and *snap!* trap goes off.
Yeah, right. "Scientist discover the 'Sock Cloud'"... That's the real explanation.
There's no foundation in the rumors about a Black Op to create a system to gather odd socks from every washer and dryer in the world to create a superweapon to smother anyone, anywhere, anytime.
No! The socks actually disappear/are abducted to the space and form gigantic clusters lightyears away from us!
(NOTE: The international standard regarding Bad, Predictable Humor classfies this comment to Category II. It is not recommended to read Slashdot comments with this category of humor more than 5 per story due to risk to the sense of humor. This message may also be illegal according to local humor regulations (justfully so).)
Times change, and the source with it... Debian uses QuakeForge version, and it works just fine with X11 software rendering and GLX.
Personally, I may pay 20 (or whatever) of CD and end listen to one or two songs zillions of times over years. No wonder I was in heaven after finding vgmix.com, remix.overclocked.org and remix.kwed.org =) =)
But DVDs are a different matter. Back in "VHS times", I may have got a movie for about the same price as CD and watched it a couple of times, bleah. But DVDs are different: Previously, I didn't have any joy in owning a crappy-quality video copy of a movie, but DVDs are genuinely joy to buy and add to collections - in case of VHS, I didn't want to pay a full price for letterboxed, low-quality picture with really bad sound! DVDs are nicer to watch, good picture and sound. Over and over. And over. And then again with some weird subtitles. =)
(I've heard some people have seen The Matrix for 20, 40, 60 times... sick! That's sick! I'm perfectly healthy mentally, I've only seen it 15 times. Or something. Haven't counted. Speaking of which, I haven't seen it for a while...)
Sad to hear that. On my system, it was a matter of apt-get install libsoap-lite-perl. The purpose of maintaining a package in a distribution is to ease the work of others. =)
Yeah, well, same for me, except that I started with perl 5.0xx (with very little Perl 4 before that - didn't do much with it, because the Big Honkin' ManPage was pain to read in DOS!)
I know that for me, Perl 5.6 was not that big of a change. ("Oh, I can use 'use warnings;' instead of '-w'? That's readable! Oh, and 'our ($a, $b, $c)' instead of 'use vars qw($a $b $c)'? Gets better!")
And I know Perl 6 is not going to be a porting nightmare, and will make Perl much more readable in long run. I heard, for example, that the hilariously obscure-sounding scalar(@arr) or unreadable-sounding $#arr+1 will be @arr.length (or something similar) there, which is only positive...
Here's a tip: If you had installed the thing, you'd have noticed the extremely helpful bunch of tooltips that appear very soon if the user doesn't try to do anything in particular. Yes, they have thought of first-time users =)
All right, I'd like to use this smallish opportunity to thank. Just what I had been waiting for (I liked the radial menus in NWN, and now some serious applications of the same thing in "real life"...)
One small bug I noticed with Moz 1.1b for Windows: If I use "open link in new tab", when I go back to the previous tab it thinks I'm selecting text with mouse. Not harmful, but a bit odd...
Oh, and enjoy the vacation while it lasts. I just hope there's no *serious* headache-causing bugs waiting for you to fix when you return =)
7x2 LCD? That's, like, ancient history =) Personally, I read my SMS stuff on a Nokia 9110 (an old model!) and it has a nice half-VGA display and full keyboard. And even the "slightly older generation" phones have good displays that fit reasonable amount of stuff on screen, and the new phones have cool stuff like predictive text input and such... Easy, non-intrusive and relatively cheap form of communication!
(As a side note, to keep this more on-topic: I'm glad I haven't got any SMS spam. I heard people got so annoyed about that that it was completely banned here... =)
...I never, ever forget the sheer joy of pointing out to fellow Foxes that they no longer have the Monopoly in the field of Multiple Tails... =)
Precisely. =) Of course, at least in here, the movies (especially Big Ones In December) stay in theaters for long time, so I guess it's possible to see them in January.
Heh, I heard some people in the Industry were trying to get the customs to take note what people in Helsinki, .fi are bringing home from their (easy and quick) boat trips to Tallinn, .ee - particularly when most of the tourists go to one place that's a widely known market for pirated stuff.
No idea how that's working out, not really, I heard. Not that I personally care, I heard the quality of some videos that my brother's wife's nephew's sister's roommate's father had bought was WAY below laughably horrible =)
The recipe above is the key (except that Slashdot messed with the long lines and stuff.
You can read about the security policies at the mozilla site.
Yeah, like the highly, highly successful boo.com... =)
I still don't understand... the client is the same in Windows and Linux, code is cross-platform, and the toolset and the client runs in Windows, so you can develop and test the module in Windows and play it in both Windows and Linux. It's not as if you'd install the Linux client that the Windows client would magically disappear!
I understand the need to have the Linux client, but I just don't see how the lack of toolset for Linux would mean more reboots. At worst, it's the same amount of reboots!
Point the first: Internet payment systems are completely broken and lacking. Especially in case of international money transfers without a credit card. Sure, I'd love to pay for ad-free memberships to sites - if I had the possibility. Currently, I don't want to pay huge extra payments to be able to pay.
Point the second: I don't use pop-up killing because I'd object to advertising. I don't, however, like ANNOYING advertising.
Point 2.2: You give my browser a request to show popup, and it can very well ignore it, sometimes it has to due to technological limitations. If you use advertisement technology that I object to and refuse to support, or support incorrectly, that's your problem.
If it depended on me, I'd disable my browser's JS completely, because in 99% of cases, it's for Damn Annoying Use, be it for popups or just other annoying stuff. The remaining 1% regrettably makes me use it...
Hey, it isn't my problem, for example, that GeoCities ad squares show only text "undefined" in them because the ambidextrously fumbling Yahoo!ites haven't tested their JavaScript with Mozilla...