In my opinion, Halo 1 sucked. It was difficult to play (even more so than most 3d FPS are with those damnable junky controllers that game systems have these days), the graphics sucked, the sound sucked, and the levels sucked even worse. It was like playing Doom 1, trying to imagine it was Doom 3.
I've only seen Halo 2 in play in stores so far, but IMO, it's more of the same. Garbage.
Uh.. Hello, it's Fedora. It's Not Supported, in any way shape or form.
For that matter, it's open source. No one really supports it anyway. (this is not flamebait. trust me, i've never received any useful support from anyone except the users of softwares)
First:
Slashdot is now using banner advertisements that load Java. This came as quite a surprise to me, as my browser suddenly started paging out to disk, and freaked out for almost 5 minutes while it loaded Java, and ran a component that promptly crashed Java. That's just a comment. If anyone in admin cares, please fix it. Java is bad. Still.
Second:
Any suggestions on properly using apt-get to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 or FC3? I finally got apt-get to upgrde from X11 to XORG, and that caused my entire X system to not function.. so, looking for some help with the rest. lol
In the second part of my message, I was expanding upon the nice things of that sort of thing (which reminds me sometime, I need to setup my system so I can actually make use of some of this sort of thing)..
In the first part, though, I'm referring more to web-based services, like I could go and open up some JPG or MID or MP3 or even a rtsp://realmediaplayer.url or whatever those are.. because the file open box isn't going to help me find anything that's referred to on a web server.
ack, someone interrupted me and i hit submit.. oops. Wanted to add, that same machine takes over 3 minutes to boot Windows '98 into a viewable state (and takes another thirty seconds after i can see everything before it starts responding), and 4 minutes with Win XP.
Hmm. My P3/600, 128MB ram, from the point of having the SCSI drives spun up (which happens in the BIOS setup), boots to a console login prompt, then has KDE up and running in about 1.5 minutes if I login immediatly and startx. If I ran something to use a graphical login, it would probably be slightly less. Kernel 2.6.7, Debian kept-mostly-to-the-bleeding edge
Of course, the serious problem with that, is that you can't use the browser from within the KDE file dialog, so you would have to open a seperate browser, find your URL, then copy and paste it into the file dialog box, if you don't know the URL from memory of what you're trying to read.
Something more useful for this type of thing might be the ability to use ftp://user@host/blah/blah/blah to WRITE files.
On the other hand, it's still a farking awkward way to use a GUI.
Why do people (not the parent of this post, but in other replies, and in other threads on this main) have such a hard time believing that it is possible that maybe an actual human reported this?
There are people out there who are completely unreasonable.. (i work in a ghetto area, trust me, it happens to everyone.. some people are never reasonable though) who would take this as a serious threat, and report it.
Just remember, Asscroft wants you to report your fellow citizens when they do strange things.
I had a friend in High School who was on legal hunting ground, off in the middle of nowhere, about 5 miles away from where President Reagan was making an appearance, at an airport, which was surrounded by government owned land, and then after that was public land that could be legally hunted on, and it was legally hunting season.
He chased his quarry, into the government owned land of the airport (where the brush had completely overgrown all possible fencing and signs, and that crap hadn't been taken care of in at least 40 years or more).. and you better believe your ass that the Secret Service was up this man's ass as soon as they found out about a guy with a shotgun chasing a deer on the government's land.
He was questioned for about 20 minutes, and then taken back to his vehicle, and asked to vacate the area until after the President was gone.
I can just see some guy in a black suit, kinda looking like Dan Akroyd from the Blues Brothers, all serious, and responding, in the tone of the "We are on a mission from God.", with:
"We are the Secret Service."
I've actually spoken with Secret Service a couple of times (over the phone), myself initiating contact for business purposes (counterfit money).. At least the people that answer the phones aren't very scary.
Now, THIS post deserves the FLAMEBAIT mod that I was talking about in the previous post.
While her comments were completely uncalled for, and probably at least somewhat deserving of a swing-by the house to check up, what you are saying is absolute insanity.
the whole thing seems rather difficult to implement properly, both in the browser, and in the web code, if you ask me.. I haven't noticed any replies back from Opera on it, but will keep posted...
Linux is nothing without UNIX. People should be appluading that UNIX has finally advanced since 1998.
Yes, Linux is pushing much of that development, but Linux is nowhere near the point that it needs to be to become a full UNIX. Yes, it is UNIX compatible, and will do what 90% of the world requires of a UNIX.. but it is not UNIX.
"THAT's the maharaja? A kid?!" "Maybe he likes OLDER women"
"I spoke with your assistant and managed to secure three seats. However, there might be a *slight* inconvenience as you will be riding on a cargo plane full of live poultry. "
I did send a description of what was happening in the code, and such, to the Opera devs, though I don't think I've received a reply yet (they usually take a few days).. I didn't totally thoroughly look through the code, but most references indicate that z-index only supports absolutely positioned elements, which may have been changed possibly for CSS2.1 ? in which case the 2nd link below may explain the problem in more detail.. apparently setting "fixed" or "relative" doesn't automatically force a stacking order to be created.. is my basic understanding of it. perhaps more forthcoming, as more information is brought in to make it more muddy and confusing?;)
From htmldog.com:
CSS Property: z-index Specifies the order of absolutely positioned boxes in the z-axis. The higher the number, the higher that box will be in the stack.
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I am not anti-mainstream.
But, I have to say:
In my opinion, Halo 1 sucked. It was difficult to play (even more so than most 3d FPS are with those damnable junky controllers that game systems have these days), the graphics sucked, the sound sucked, and the levels sucked even worse. It was like playing Doom 1, trying to imagine it was Doom 3.
I've only seen Halo 2 in play in stores so far, but IMO, it's more of the same. Garbage.
Apparently, the submitter hasn't been paying attention to anything.
ALL modded XBoxes are not allowed on Live. They NEVER have been allowed on Live.
So, they've improved the detection to tell if your box has been modded. It's really a completely Non-story.
This is the most non-story tripe I've seen on slashdot in a long time, and I've seen a LOT of non-story stuff.
Uh.. Hello, it's Fedora. It's Not Supported, in any way shape or form.
For that matter, it's open source. No one really supports it anyway. (this is not flamebait. trust me, i've never received any useful support from anyone except the users of softwares)
First:
Slashdot is now using banner advertisements that load Java. This came as quite a surprise to me, as my browser suddenly started paging out to disk, and freaked out for almost 5 minutes while it loaded Java, and ran a component that promptly crashed Java. That's just a comment. If anyone in admin cares, please fix it. Java is bad. Still.
Second:
Any suggestions on properly using apt-get to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 or FC3? I finally got apt-get to upgrde from X11 to XORG, and that caused my entire X system to not function.. so, looking for some help with the rest. lol
Right.
In the second part of my message, I was expanding upon the nice things of that sort of thing (which reminds me sometime, I need to setup my system so I can actually make use of some of this sort of thing)..
In the first part, though, I'm referring more to web-based services, like I could go and open up some JPG or MID or MP3 or even a rtsp://realmediaplayer.url or whatever those are.. because the file open box isn't going to help me find anything that's referred to on a web server.
ack, someone interrupted me and i hit submit.. oops. Wanted to add, that same machine takes over 3 minutes to boot Windows '98 into a viewable state (and takes another thirty seconds after i can see everything before it starts responding), and 4 minutes with Win XP.
Hmm. My P3/600, 128MB ram, from the point of having the SCSI drives spun up (which happens in the BIOS setup), boots to a console login prompt, then has KDE up and running in about 1.5 minutes if I login immediatly and startx. If I ran something to use a graphical login, it would probably be slightly less. Kernel 2.6.7, Debian kept-mostly-to-the-bleeding edge
Much like how PHP can open a URL as a file.
Of course, the serious problem with that, is that you can't use the browser from within the KDE file dialog, so you would have to open a seperate browser, find your URL, then copy and paste it into the file dialog box, if you don't know the URL from memory of what you're trying to read.
Something more useful for this type of thing might be the ability to use ftp://user@host/blah/blah/blah to WRITE files.
On the other hand, it's still a farking awkward way to use a GUI.
I bet he would've admitted it if he were not in a public hearing. ;)
I dunno about perjury, the only thing that I know of that he is nailed on is adultery, and that's just not a federal impeachment class crime.
Exactly my point. There's tons of people on this thread who refuse to believe that it wasn't from an automated report.
Why do people (not the parent of this post, but in other replies, and in other threads on this main) have such a hard time believing that it is possible that maybe an actual human reported this?
There are people out there who are completely unreasonable.. (i work in a ghetto area, trust me, it happens to everyone.. some people are never reasonable though) who would take this as a serious threat, and report it.
Just remember, Asscroft wants you to report your fellow citizens when they do strange things.
I had a friend in High School who was on legal hunting ground, off in the middle of nowhere, about 5 miles away from where President Reagan was making an appearance, at an airport, which was surrounded by government owned land, and then after that was public land that could be legally hunted on, and it was legally hunting season.
He chased his quarry, into the government owned land of the airport (where the brush had completely overgrown all possible fencing and signs, and that crap hadn't been taken care of in at least 40 years or more).. and you better believe your ass that the Secret Service was up this man's ass as soon as they found out about a guy with a shotgun chasing a deer on the government's land.
He was questioned for about 20 minutes, and then taken back to his vehicle, and asked to vacate the area until after the President was gone.
Not that big a deal, really.
The line that said something like "To God, whom I don't believe in" or some such.. right?
Hmm..
I can just see some guy in a black suit, kinda looking like Dan Akroyd from the Blues Brothers, all serious, and responding, in the tone of the "We are on a mission from God.", with:
"We are the Secret Service."
I've actually spoken with Secret Service a couple of times (over the phone), myself initiating contact for business purposes (counterfit money).. At least the people that answer the phones aren't very scary.
Hmm. Denial of Service, real-world style, on the Secret Service?
Talk about burying people in red tape.. hmm..
*mindboggled*
But, since God is omnipotent, She obviously is aware of all things that happen on LiveJournal.
:)
Yeah..
Out of curiosity, what did Clinton do to deserve impeachment?
Now, THIS post deserves the FLAMEBAIT mod that I was talking about in the previous post.
While her comments were completely uncalled for, and probably at least somewhat deserving of a swing-by the house to check up, what you are saying is absolute insanity.
What moron has given this a Flamebait rating? This is absolute truth.
Or, has truth become Flamebait amongst the geeks?
It's MACH based. MACH is ancient history.
the whole thing seems rather difficult to implement properly, both in the browser, and in the web code, if you ask me.. I haven't noticed any replies back from Opera on it, but will keep posted...
Linux is nothing without UNIX. People should be appluading that UNIX has finally advanced since 1998.
Yes, Linux is pushing much of that development, but Linux is nowhere near the point that it needs to be to become a full UNIX. Yes, it is UNIX compatible, and will do what 90% of the world requires of a UNIX.. but it is not UNIX.
wow, what a moronic post.
UNIX is defined by the Open Group. Period.
Mac OS X is based on a design from the 80's, get with it.
"THAT's the maharaja? A kid?!"
"Maybe he likes OLDER women"
"I spoke with your assistant and managed to secure three seats. However, there might be a *slight* inconvenience as you will be riding on a cargo plane full of live poultry. "
I did send a description of what was happening in the code, and such, to the Opera devs, though I don't think I've received a reply yet (they usually take a few days) .. I didn't totally thoroughly look through the code, but most references indicate that z-index only supports absolutely positioned elements, which may have been changed possibly for CSS2.1 ? in which case the 2nd link below may explain the problem in more detail.. apparently setting "fixed" or "relative" doesn't automatically force a stacking order to be created.. is my basic understanding of it. perhaps more forthcoming, as more information is brought in to make it more muddy and confusing? ;)
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From htmldog.com:
CSS Property: z-index
Specifies the order of absolutely positioned boxes in the z-axis. The higher the number, the higher that box will be in the stack.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2
explains that IE is in fact, incorrect on z-index in some cases