Hmm, does this player give anything that Winamp don't? I couldn't see many differences in the feature list. Does it consume much less memory than Winamp 5 in Winamp 2 mode? However, on a standard system of today, I can't really say Winamp 5 makes the system noticeably more sluggish.
Users can "dial" using a standard 64 connected to the Internet
I guess Internet-connected 64's are considered "standard" among geeks. Personally, I don't even have a clue on how to do it, and don't really care since I have no longer got a C64 either.:-)
I heard Sun and Microsoft are sending material there to help him warm himself, also feeling somewhat guilty to the problems they've caused down there...
One thing I don't really find logical in Windows ( heh, only one??:-) ) is the invention of the registry.
Why did Microsoft make this move? Not only is it "all eggs in one basket" so it becomes unsafe in case it would crash, but it's also hard to clean it when the installer don't do the job to 100%, which it almost never do. Often I simply don't dare to, since it could be spread out in more places than HKCU\Software\Company\blah.
I'm not really interested in Microsoft bashing -- just an answer to why the app settings aren't stored in their respective folders. The OS settings could be stored in a win.ini just like before, or any other file structure that might be faster to navigate (like a hash table).
I think the registry *is* pretty fast and that's one reason, but it still isn't reason enough since the apps could just store in their directories with a similar structure via the standard registry API's. Why in a single multi-Megabyte mess?
I wonder if this one is really going to use them for personal reasons though... Sounds to me like it's just the next logical step in their War against Piracy.
If this is true, I think they assume few will actually use 1 GB and only use it as a "sizeable e-mail account". Since you're supposed to be able to search the mail with something Google-like, I also get the impression it's a big shared space they can increase the size of if needed.
They have a detailed FAQ about it, registered gmail.google.com and even international domains like www.gmail.se (even if it's not even mentioned by Google officially yet), professional terms of use documents, etc. The news about Gmail is also said to have been published by Cnet back in March.
They might have used this special date to gain extra PR from the confusion about it, however I doubt it's a joke.
They're *really* going for trying to fool people if this is a joke. Listing reasonable browser requirements and all (IE 5.5+, Firefox 0.8+, etc with Javascript and cookies enabled, bla bla).
They have a Gmail Privacy Policy as well, that looks just like any other policy after skimming through it.
I'm sitting here, comfortable between the land of DVD-Jon and the land of Linus. Now, if you just excuse me while I go to shop some DVD's with tape (yes, tape) fees added to them to compensate for "lost revenues" from making use of our fair use rights.
I still wonder what revenues they're losing. If they're losing something, they're per definition thinking they'd gain someting otherwise. Oh right, the lost revenues from we not buying multiple albums for use in a car and at home... of course. Yes, that makes a lot of sense.:-P
If you type google ~directory, it will search on words similar to directory as well. Not only directories and so on, but also actual synonymous or semi-synonymous words like listings. Pretty neat and great to catch both singular forms and plural forms in one term.:-)
Has Lucasfilm just let Cartoon Networks use the Star Wars license, or do they include a story George Lucas has actually been involved in? Only milking the cash cow or part of the story? If it's the former, I'll pay as much attention to this as I do to Pokemon.:-P
Check The Official String Theory site if you're confused about all these concepts. When you've done that, you will have gained some answers, but will of course get even more questions.:-)
XNA is seen as Microsoft's coming successor to DirectX. It's basically a media framework that will be common for the PC and the coming Xbox 2, and thought to replace DirectX. Tools that already exist and are used in Xbox game development will become available for Windows developers and vice versa. With over 20 game and middleware developers already showing interest in this coming technology that was very recently announced, things do look a bit brighter for us PC users as companies will likely have an easier time poerting the games for the different platforms.
This will obviously not help Linux gamers much, but I was planning to continue using my Windows PC as a gaming platform anyway.
I originally mailed this letter to an OO mailing list:
I'm sure most users running into dead ends like me simply uninstall the software without giving any comments about the software, so I thought I'd tell you the reasons to why I couldn't use OpenOffice for my intentions, mostly due to (to me) some rather fatal design mistakes or simply bugs.
I was using OO 1.1 on a Windows XP box.
These problems all apply to Calc.
1. Saving as character delimited files with fixed length is a lossy procedure and mangles the files. You will no longer be able to reconstruct table data. There is no warning saying that OO might corrupt files saved like this. It seems like it simply cuts the column width to some predefined maximum length, instead of setting the maximum length at a column-by-column basis. For example, this spreadsheet:
My First Column____My Second One Cell ContentXYZ____1 Cell ContentABC____2 Cell ContentDEF____3
Saved as:
My First ColMy Second One Cell ContentX1 Cell ContentA2 Cell ContentD3
Or something with a similar devastating effect. This is, of course, insane. The solution would be to not crop the columns and instead keep the entire column lengths. With this behavior -- too bad if your application rely on the column names to parse the file, or you just wish to have the column names preserved, which is hardly uncommon.
2. Opening a file from Calc (for example) doesn't necessarily open it in Calc, illogical as it may sound. Actually, it never opens in Calc unless the file extension is a special "open-in-Calc" file extension which doesn't seem to be user configurable. You can't even tell Calc to open all files in Calc if you open them in Calc. The major problem to me is: A file is never of the "open-in-Calc" type in the case of unknown file extensions. It doesn't give the user the to me expected choice of importing these in Calc, but instead opens it in Writer. The workaround can be tedious (constantly renaming the files to.csv back and forth). After much more playing around than I should need to, I found a solution which isn't obvious. You need to pick File -> Open, then "Comma-separated file", and -- this is crucial -- type the file name in the text box by hand. Then click OK. Because OO only displays.CSV and.TXT files, and this is only when it offers you to import a char delimited file. Not.2DA files like I needed to edit in my case. Something else that works is selecting the file with "All files (*.*)" before switching filter, that makes OO hide the files. I also tried the "Import External Data" menu option, but the OK button was always grayed out even after I had picked my file with the file dialog. No dialog box or message in the dialog told me why.
All this could have been fixed by simply offering the user to import a spreadsheet with the "Import Delimited Text As Spreadsheet" dialog if you had picked a file with the "All files (*.*)" open dialog filter (like in Excel). But then they opened in Writer. Even if I opened them in Calc. I have no idea why it even does this, although it seems to be intended behavior since I had this problem in OO 1.0 too. But it beats me what Writer has anything to do with this, and why the application is forcing me to work like this.
3. The "Replace All" feature can't replace everything in a selection. I used a filter, selected some resulting rows, clicked Replace All while having "Only in selection" checked with some text to replace the selected cells with. When I deactivated the filter, a whole lot more than I had selected had been replaced. This seems illogical to me (I recall most other programs taking "selection only" options into account when "replacing all"). It also made it very hard for me to easily replace everything in a selection. Or maybe it was problem #4 below showing up, so even if I had selected row 32, 98, and 132 in sequence in t
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How about this one:
RFC 799 - Internet name domains (September 1981)
"In the long run, it will not be practicable for every internet
host to include all internet hosts in its name-address tables."
And the whole point of a server is to provide....services to other computers, not to provide pretty eye candy for some newbie admin.
:-)
And that's because Windows 2003 Server doesn't use visual styles like XP.
You do know that green isn't a primary color, right?
RGB is the three additive primary colors (and monitors use additive primary colors since they emit light, not subtractive).
XP uses by default in G and B in its color scheme.
Wikipedia article about primary colors
"so why the fuck is it taking them another 2 years to get this on the shelves?"
Because Longhorn is more than a skin.
Yeah, it's actually true, believe it or not...
Hmm, does this player give anything that Winamp don't? I couldn't see many differences in the feature list. Does it consume much less memory than Winamp 5 in Winamp 2 mode? However, on a standard system of today, I can't really say Winamp 5 makes the system noticeably more sluggish.
Users can "dial" using a standard 64 connected to the Internet
:-)
I guess Internet-connected 64's are considered "standard" among geeks. Personally, I don't even have a clue on how to do it, and don't really care since I have no longer got a C64 either.
I heard Sun and Microsoft are sending material there to help him warm himself, also feeling somewhat guilty to the problems they've caused down there...
One thing I don't really find logical in Windows ( heh, only one?? :-) ) is the invention of the registry.
Why did Microsoft make this move? Not only is it "all eggs in one basket" so it becomes unsafe in case it would crash, but it's also hard to clean it when the installer don't do the job to 100%, which it almost never do. Often I simply don't dare to, since it could be spread out in more places than HKCU\Software\Company\blah.
I'm not really interested in Microsoft bashing -- just an answer to why the app settings aren't stored in their respective folders. The OS settings could be stored in a win.ini just like before, or any other file structure that might be faster to navigate (like a hash table).
I think the registry *is* pretty fast and that's one reason, but it still isn't reason enough since the apps could just store in their directories with a similar structure via the standard registry API's. Why in a single multi-Megabyte mess?
/me puts gun to head......
BANG!
Cool, thanks!
Yes, those RIAA employees are creepy!
I wonder if this one is really going to use them for personal reasons though... Sounds to me like it's just the next logical step in their War against Piracy.
If this is true, I think they assume few will actually use 1 GB and only use it as a "sizeable e-mail account". Since you're supposed to be able to search the mail with something Google-like, I also get the impression it's a big shared space they can increase the size of if needed.
They have registered international domain names like this too, like gmail.se. Just checked. :)
They have a detailed FAQ about it, registered gmail.google.com and even international domains like www.gmail.se (even if it's not even mentioned by Google officially yet), professional terms of use documents, etc. The news about Gmail is also said to have been published by Cnet back in March.
They might have used this special date to gain extra PR from the confusion about it, however I doubt it's a joke.
Ah, you woke up a bibibibyte guy! :-O
navigated to their newly registered domain name
Sorry, I got confused -- it wasn't an actual domain name.
I also assumed it was a joke, but then I navigated to their newly registered domain name and FAQ page about it:
:-S
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
They're *really* going for trying to fool people if this is a joke. Listing reasonable browser requirements and all (IE 5.5+, Firefox 0.8+, etc with Javascript and cookies enabled, bla bla).
They have a Gmail Privacy Policy as well, that looks just like any other policy after skimming through it.
Hmmm, well, but if you say so...
I'm sitting here, comfortable between the land of DVD-Jon and the land of Linus. Now, if you just excuse me while I go to shop some DVD's with tape (yes, tape) fees added to them to compensate for "lost revenues" from making use of our fair use rights.
:-P
I still wonder what revenues they're losing. If they're losing something, they're per definition thinking they'd gain someting otherwise. Oh right, the lost revenues from we not buying multiple albums for use in a car and at home... of course. Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
I think that operator was quite lately added too.
:-)
If you type google ~directory, it will search on words similar to directory as well. Not only directories and so on, but also actual synonymous or semi-synonymous words like listings. Pretty neat and great to catch both singular forms and plural forms in one term.
Hah! I used too low resolution (only 1280x1024 :-P) to spot anything more than his left hand. You can't even troll right.
:-P
Yeah, it's the Goatse guy again...
Wow, then I've been missing out. :-)
So I suppose they're supposed to fill the clone war gap between the movie episodes then.
Thanks!
Optionally modifies the browser's User-Agent string to reflect your custom browser name.
Argh... I can understand it if you wish to access a site that thinks it only works with IE when it actually doesn't, but it's stupid to change it if:
1. You make the name "Mozilla Seaturtle" or something else "just for fun".
2. You keep it set to IE's user agent even if you don't need it.
Why? Because Firefox popularity will decrease in statistics and web masters will feel less reasons to support Firefox when checking their access logs.
Well, is it? :-)
:-P
Has Lucasfilm just let Cartoon Networks use the Star Wars license, or do they include a story George Lucas has actually been involved in? Only milking the cash cow or part of the story? If it's the former, I'll pay as much attention to this as I do to Pokemon.
Check The Official String Theory site if you're confused about all these concepts. When you've done that, you will have gained some answers, but will of course get even more questions. :-)
XNA is seen as Microsoft's coming successor to DirectX. It's basically a media framework that will be common for the PC and the coming Xbox 2, and thought to replace DirectX. Tools that already exist and are used in Xbox game development will become available for Windows developers and vice versa. With over 20 game and middleware developers already showing interest in this coming technology that was very recently announced, things do look a bit brighter for us PC users as companies will likely have an easier time poerting the games for the different platforms.
This will obviously not help Linux gamers much, but I was planning to continue using my Windows PC as a gaming platform anyway.
I'm sure most users running into dead ends like me simply uninstall the software without giving any comments about the software, so I thought I'd tell you the reasons to why I couldn't use OpenOffice for my intentions, mostly due to (to me) some rather fatal design mistakes or simply bugs.
I was using OO 1.1 on a Windows XP box.
These problems all apply to Calc.
1. Saving as character delimited files with fixed length is a lossy procedure and mangles the files. You will no longer be able to reconstruct table data. There is no warning saying that OO might corrupt files saved like this. It seems like it simply cuts the column width to some predefined maximum length, instead of setting the maximum length at a column-by-column basis. For example, this spreadsheet:
Saved as:
Or something with a similar devastating effect. This is, of course, insane. The solution would be to not crop the columns and instead keep the entire column lengths. With this behavior -- too bad if your application rely on the column names to parse the file, or you just wish to have the column names preserved, which is hardly uncommon.
.csv back and forth). After much more playing around than I should need to, I found a solution which isn't obvious. You need to pick File -> Open, then "Comma-separated file", and -- this is crucial -- type the file name in the text box by hand. Then click OK. Because OO only displays .CSV and .TXT files, and this is only when it offers you to import a char delimited file. Not .2DA files like I needed to edit in my case. Something else that works is selecting the file with "All files (*.*)" before switching filter, that makes OO hide the files. I also tried the "Import External Data" menu option, but the OK button was always grayed out even after I had picked my file with the file dialog. No dialog box or message in the dialog told me why.
2. Opening a file from Calc (for example) doesn't necessarily open it in Calc, illogical as it may sound. Actually, it never opens in Calc unless the file extension is a special "open-in-Calc" file extension which doesn't seem to be user configurable. You can't even tell Calc to open all files in Calc if you open them in Calc. The major problem to me is: A file is never of the "open-in-Calc" type in the case of unknown file extensions. It doesn't give the user the to me expected choice of importing these in Calc, but instead opens it in Writer. The workaround can be tedious (constantly renaming the files to
All this could have been fixed by simply offering the user to import a spreadsheet with the "Import Delimited Text As Spreadsheet" dialog if you had picked a file with the "All files (*.*)" open dialog filter (like in Excel). But then they opened in Writer. Even if I opened them in Calc. I have no idea why it even does this, although it seems to be intended behavior since I had this problem in OO 1.0 too. But it beats me what Writer has anything to do with this, and why the application is forcing me to work like this.
3. The "Replace All" feature can't replace everything in a selection. I used a filter, selected some resulting rows, clicked Replace All while having "Only in selection" checked with some text to replace the selected cells with. When I deactivated the filter, a whole lot more than I had selected had been replaced. This seems illogical to me (I recall most other programs taking "selection only" options into account when "replacing all"). It also made it very hard for me to easily replace everything in a selection. Or maybe it was problem #4 below showing up, so even if I had selected row 32, 98, and 132 in sequence in t