I just tried out Firebird, but noticed it still doesn't support the mouse wheel properly. You don't seem to be able to scroll up/down after pressing the middle button. Just scroll with the wheel, but that's kinda tedious. I'm aware of the AutoScroll plugin (autoscroll.mozdev.org), but I read that he was looking for others to take over his project and also that 1.4 broke the support although someone had submitted a fix. The problem is that I remember it as a bit buggy, and if he has little time to spend on that project, it could mean I'd have to live without such a basic feature. So I'm sticking to Opera 7.11 for now, for this and other (greater speed and lots other minor features) reasons.
This was an option at least in Phoenix 0.5 which is several months old by now. Are you sure you just didn't notice the option? It was set to "switch to new tab" by default I think. Not that it matters now when you've got it the way you want.:-) But I still think they might just've changed the default.
What's annoying me is that the middle-click on empty area and move the mouse up/down to scroll in the page doesn't work.:-( Sure, scroll up with the *weel* does, but that's tedious IMHO.
I know there's a Mozilla plugin for this functionality but I don't know if that's compatible with 0.6 and I also recall it being a bit buggy. Grr.. You'd think that after this time, they'd at least implemented full scroll wheel support.
The layout engine was first called Raptor, but they later came up with the Gecko code name to include Raptor (that was later changed to NGLayout) and XPFE. Seamonkey is the code name of the Mozilla Application Suite that includes the NGLayout/Gecko engine and is built using the XPCOM architecture. A new project was later started to streamline the browser component: The code name was Phoenix that was changed to Firebird that was clarified to really be Mozilla Firebird that was later simply changed to be Mozilla Browser. Unless you meant the codename. That's Firedbird. Or perhaps it's Mozilla Firebird. Now, the Mozilla Team also started the Minotaur... Sorry, the Thunderbird project. But that's just its fancy code name, chosen to match Firebird. Both has bird and are cars. Pretty nifty, eh. Oh, and it's really called Mozilla Mail. I mean... The actual product name.
Ok, so they can give sites some trouble for unauthorized lyric publications and still have the law on their side. But why do they do it?
By all means, go for artists that use others lyrics/music as a base for their own music, but why do they wish to stop webmasters from listing some lyrics?
I'm actually at least as impressed by those than mechanic dogs, and definitely more than random moving vaccuum cleaners.:-P
The ChatterBox Challenge is a yearly competition where the author of the winning chatter bot receives $1,500. A second place is awarded with $1,000 and a third with $500. Not that bad, and there are 10 judges who asks some questions and try to see how human-like the responses are. There are also 7 categories the bots can compete in -- one of them is of course Functionality, but another is Funniest.
Here are some of the funniest replies the AI:s have given when the judges have been testing them:
Elbot (by Fred Roberts)
User: Can you explain how it feels to be 18 years old? Elbot: I have 100,000 seperate sensations per second. User: That explains it.
Talk-Bot (by Chris Cowart)
User: do you know how to add? Talk-Bot: Why, did you lose the instructions or something?:-) User: smarta$$ Talk-Bot: Well, I know I'm smart so you must be the a$$.
Jabberwacky (by Rollo Carpenter)
Jabberwacky: You misspelled Liar User: I didn't call you a liar Jabberwacky: You called me a liar. User: No I didn't call you a liar. Jabberwacky: Liar. User: I am not a liar. Jabberwacky: Do you want to be a liar? User: No I don't want to be a liar. Jabberwacky: Hypocrite!
Iniaes (by Jeff Watkins)
User: ARE YOU PROGRAMED FOR CYBER? Iniaes: I am programmed to spell it with 2 m's.
Hex (by Jason L Hutchens)
Judge: Have you ever watch American football? Hex: I am most certainly not an American! In fact, I find that quite insulting! I'd rather you accuse me of being a computer! Judge: are you a computer? Hex: Syntax Error in line 10. Core dumped. Please bugger off. Judge: lol Hex: I'm sorry, but I refuse to reply if you're going to be silly.
Inianes, again...
User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR? Iniaes: Sure, I can accept all forms of payment.
... and again
User: HOW DO I WRITE MY OWN BOT? Iniaes: With a pen or pencil. User: THAT IS NOT FUNNY. Iniaes: It seemed pretty funny to me.
This seems to be the author of SHRDLU's home page. Even the source code for SHRDLU (a kind of natural language processor) can be found there, along with a dialog from a demo run.
Yes, and eDonkey even use a hash *as well* as having support for a comment system. So you'd be pretty damn stupid if you still happen to pick the fake file.:-)
You're right, but it's only a question of time before file hashes will be more widely used. They already are in the movie "scene". If there's as much as a "blip" in the file, it's considered completely different from the original. So websites just put up nicely categorized links to various videos with the proper hashes. People click the link and the p2p software starts downloading, avoiding all fakes. The websites aren't sued since all the do is to put up data like:
sig2dat://|File: American Life.mp3|Length:3814072Bytes|UUHash:=1LDYkHDl45Opr Vy27xU1VSp9b33=
Hardly anything illegal in that one. They don't even point directly to a site containing any pirated stuff.
Perhaps more downloads of sig2dat? (part of K++, you know that hacked Kazaa with no spyware)
Or perhaps people will just switch to networks that have used file hashes from the beginning, like eDonkey, etc. RIAA will have a hard time fooling those.
suuuuuuuuure... thaaaaaaat's what she's doing... good call!... and that's exactly how RIAA think. Yeah, suuuure they complain about the price and stuff. They *really* just want those CD's for free and have no morale whatsoever... pirate scum!
Yeah, and what's even more funny is that you're now a hacker if you remix some music according to this CNN article. Time to update my definition of a "hacker", I suppose.
But Dungeon Siege is to Diablo II what Quake was to Doom.
Naah...
Dungeon Siege is to D2 what a retard is to Einstein.
Even Diablo II: The Point & Click Adventure look amazingly complex when compared to the DS Auto-Play System. It's a great sleep pill though and half-way to Progress Quest.
Seriosly, I find DS to lack character and atmosphere. You just kill and get the combat and magic skills distributed for you depending on how you kill the guys, with even the killing more automated than in D2, and with less innovative features like gambling and crafting. But damn, the graphics are totally awesome. Like if that would help.:-P
Ah sorry. I should have been more clear that what I was referring to as the "correct info" was the 1.10 info that is currently posted there, as opposed to the highly incorrect info at diabloii.net. The Arreat Summit holds a tremendous amount of information and statistics otherwise, so I'm sure there are incorrect stats over there, although I can't say I agree that almost every item is incorrect. At least when I've checked items, they've matched what I've got.:-)
I agree with you, and I guess this is where the idea with MMORPG's and a constant income for the game company to continue supporting the game with a dedicated team comes into play.
Blizzard are continuing to ban hackers and recently banned 130k accounts (!) but it doesn't happen that often, and it's actually cool they do it at all since I don't think they earn much money from the game anymore, especially when you take the bandwidth costs for their free servers into account.
Diablo II is a game I think should really benefit from the MMORPG game model.
The skill system will be drastically changed so you'll be able to create new viable character builds with the use of new skill synergy bonuses. The gameplay will also be more challenging and get more random monsters. Ladder characters will be introduced.
IMHO, a patch unlike any scope I've seen before. Thankfully, the patch won't change its its game genre (Action RPG, i.e. "killing everything that moves"), so those of us who bought Diablo II for what it offered back then won't be screwed.
Diablo 2, released years later, was nothing more than more of the same. What a disappointment! It was repetitive and tedious: click-die, click-die, click-die.
D1 was also the same. Could it be the game genre you don't like? All Action RPG's I know is click-die. When they start having more RPG elements, the "Action" part of the genre is usually dropped.
What made it worse is that saving the game doesn't work. You can save anywhere, but you start back in "town," and all the baddies that you've tediously killed are back alive again. For that "feature" alone, I gave up playing after only a week.
Waypoints are saved. The reason to why the game state aren't fully saved (dead monsters coming back to life) is because it doesn't make sense in multiplayer and on-line play. And I have a feeling D2 was always much more geared to this environment than D1.
Much of the stats on diabloii.net for unique items, runewords, set items and skills are all wildly inaccurate. I have so far heard two Blizzard representatives saying they were "WAY wrong" and "ancient data". The leak of information was unintentional and an unfortunate side-effect of a mistake during the web server upgrade process. The leaked patch data seem to be from 1.10 in an early stage of development, likely even before their Quality Assurance team has tested the stuff for balancing, since they are still doing it.
So... Before you complain about the items and runewords being too powerful (there have been some complaints like this) and that the Necro/Druid didn't get their necessary skill changes, remember that much (most?) of the "revealed" data on the diabloii.net site is simply incorrect or missing.
For correct information, check Arreat Summit (official Diablo II information site) and the information that will be released during/after E3 (i.e. May 13 - 16 or shortly after).
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Ok, I might give it another shot then. It was a while since I tried it out and hopefully the annoyances with it has been fixed by now.
I just tried out Firebird, but noticed it still doesn't support the mouse wheel properly. You don't seem to be able to scroll up/down after pressing the middle button. Just scroll with the wheel, but that's kinda tedious. I'm aware of the AutoScroll plugin (autoscroll.mozdev.org), but I read that he was looking for others to take over his project and also that 1.4 broke the support although someone had submitted a fix. The problem is that I remember it as a bit buggy, and if he has little time to spend on that project, it could mean I'd have to live without such a basic feature. So I'm sticking to Opera 7.11 for now, for this and other (greater speed and lots other minor features) reasons.
This was an option at least in Phoenix 0.5 which is several months old by now. Are you sure you just didn't notice the option? It was set to "switch to new tab" by default I think. Not that it matters now when you've got it the way you want. :-) But I still think they might just've changed the default.
:-( Sure, scroll up with the *weel* does, but that's tedious IMHO.
What's annoying me is that the middle-click on empty area and move the mouse up/down to scroll in the page doesn't work.
I know there's a Mozilla plugin for this functionality but I don't know if that's compatible with 0.6 and I also recall it being a bit buggy. Grr.. You'd think that after this time, they'd at least implemented full scroll wheel support.
... and RIAA has this ;-)
You actually believe the published results of a government accident report?
No, it's probably a lie to hide an even more stupid mistake than using the wrong units. Like... uhh...
The layout engine was first called Raptor, but they later came up with the Gecko code name to include Raptor (that was later changed to NGLayout) and XPFE. Seamonkey is the code name of the Mozilla Application Suite that includes the NGLayout/Gecko engine and is built using the XPCOM architecture. A new project was later started to streamline the browser component: The code name was Phoenix that was changed to Firebird that was clarified to really be Mozilla Firebird that was later simply changed to be Mozilla Browser. Unless you meant the codename. That's Firedbird. Or perhaps it's Mozilla Firebird. Now, the Mozilla Team also started the Minotaur... Sorry, the Thunderbird project. But that's just its fancy code name, chosen to match Firebird. Both has bird and are cars. Pretty nifty, eh. Oh, and it's really called Mozilla Mail. I mean... The actual product name.
Ok, so they can give sites some trouble for unauthorized lyric publications and still have the law on their side. But why do they do it?
By all means, go for artists that use others lyrics/music as a base for their own music, but why do they wish to stop webmasters from listing some lyrics?
I'm actually at least as impressed by those than mechanic dogs, and definitely more than random moving vaccuum cleaners. :-P
:-)
... and again
The ChatterBox Challenge is a yearly competition where the author of the winning chatter bot receives $1,500. A second place is awarded with $1,000 and a third with $500. Not that bad, and there are 10 judges who asks some questions and try to see how human-like the responses are. There are also 7 categories the bots can compete in -- one of them is of course Functionality, but another is Funniest.
Here are some of the funniest replies the AI:s have given when the judges have been testing them:
Elbot (by Fred Roberts)
User: Can you explain how it feels to be 18 years old?
Elbot: I have 100,000 seperate sensations per second.
User: That explains it.
Talk-Bot (by Chris Cowart)
User: do you know how to add?
Talk-Bot: Why, did you lose the instructions or something?
User: smarta$$
Talk-Bot: Well, I know I'm smart so you must be the a$$.
Jabberwacky (by Rollo Carpenter)
Jabberwacky: You misspelled Liar
User: I didn't call you a liar
Jabberwacky: You called me a liar.
User: No I didn't call you a liar.
Jabberwacky: Liar.
User: I am not a liar.
Jabberwacky: Do you want to be a liar?
User: No I don't want to be a liar.
Jabberwacky: Hypocrite!
Iniaes (by Jeff Watkins)
User: ARE YOU PROGRAMED FOR CYBER?
Iniaes: I am programmed to spell it with 2 m's.
Hex (by Jason L Hutchens)
Judge: Have you ever watch American football?
Hex: I am most certainly not an American! In fact, I find that quite
insulting! I'd rather you accuse me of being a computer!
Judge: are you a computer?
Hex: Syntax Error in line 10. Core dumped. Please bugger off.
Judge: lol
Hex: I'm sorry, but I refuse to reply if you're going to be silly.
Inianes, again...
User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR?
Iniaes: Sure, I can accept all forms of payment.
User: HOW DO I WRITE MY OWN BOT?
Iniaes: With a pen or pencil.
User: THAT IS NOT FUNNY.
Iniaes: It seemed pretty funny to me.
This seems to be the author of SHRDLU's home page. Even the source code for SHRDLU (a kind of natural language processor) can be found there, along with a dialog from a demo run.
I agree that they fooled parts of their own company.. lol
I saw this in the CNN article:
"Malina Bragg, who helps with MSN's account for Waggener Edstrom, also said last week that the project was real. "
Haha, I like how this always happen at Slashdot. :-) I bet we'll soon have a satellite view of his house with a red arrow pointing at it. ;-)
Then, some week after when the news are catching up, it says how he's become flooded with spam and wish to sue them. Aah, the irony.
Yes, and eDonkey even use a hash *as well* as having support for a comment system. So you'd be pretty damn stupid if you still happen to pick the fake file. :-)
Hmm... *thinks hard*
Perhaps more downloads of sig2dat? (part of K++, you know that hacked Kazaa with no spyware)
Or perhaps people will just switch to networks that have used file hashes from the beginning, like eDonkey, etc. RIAA will have a hard time fooling those.
suuuuuuuuure... thaaaaaaat's what she's doing... good call! ... and that's exactly how RIAA think. Yeah, suuuure they complain about the price and stuff. They *really* just want those CD's for free and have no morale whatsoever... pirate scum!
Yeah, and what's even more funny is that you're now a hacker if you remix some music according to this CNN article. Time to update my definition of a "hacker", I suppose.
GFraizer updated almost all defense rating some months ago -- are you saying he has *still* missed some? *sigh* Oh well... :-)
But Dungeon Siege is to Diablo II what Quake was to Doom.
:-P
Naah...
Dungeon Siege is to D2 what a retard is to Einstein.
Even Diablo II: The Point & Click Adventure look amazingly complex when compared to the DS Auto-Play System. It's a great sleep pill though and half-way to Progress Quest.
Seriosly, I find DS to lack character and atmosphere. You just kill and get the combat and magic skills distributed for you depending on how you kill the guys, with even the killing more automated than in D2, and with less innovative features like gambling and crafting. But damn, the graphics are totally awesome. Like if that would help.
Ah sorry. I should have been more clear that what I was referring to as the "correct info" was the 1.10 info that is currently posted there, as opposed to the highly incorrect info at diabloii.net. The Arreat Summit holds a tremendous amount of information and statistics otherwise, so I'm sure there are incorrect stats over there, although I can't say I agree that almost every item is incorrect. At least when I've checked items, they've matched what I've got. :-)
Does it run on Linux?
Does it? Does it run on Linux???
Yeah. Under Wine.
Check this out:
http://www.latte.ca/D2LOD/
I agree with you, and I guess this is where the idea with MMORPG's and a constant income for the game company to continue supporting the game with a dedicated team comes into play.
Blizzard are continuing to ban hackers and recently banned 130k accounts (!) but it doesn't happen that often, and it's actually cool they do it at all since I don't think they earn much money from the game anymore, especially when you take the bandwidth costs for their free servers into account.
Diablo II is a game I think should really benefit from the MMORPG game model.
The skill system will be drastically changed so you'll be able to create new viable character builds with the use of new skill synergy bonuses. The gameplay will also be more challenging and get more random monsters. Ladder characters will be introduced.
IMHO, a patch unlike any scope I've seen before. Thankfully, the patch won't change its its game genre (Action RPG, i.e. "killing everything that moves"), so those of us who bought Diablo II for what it offered back then won't be screwed.
Diablo 2, released years later, was nothing more than more of the same. What a disappointment! It was repetitive and tedious: click-die, click-die, click-die.
D1 was also the same. Could it be the game genre you don't like? All Action RPG's I know is click-die. When they start having more RPG elements, the "Action" part of the genre is usually dropped.
What made it worse is that saving the game doesn't work. You can save anywhere, but you start back in "town," and all the baddies that you've tediously killed are back alive again. For that "feature" alone, I gave up playing after only a week.
Waypoints are saved. The reason to why the game state aren't fully saved (dead monsters coming back to life) is because it doesn't make sense in multiplayer and on-line play. And I have a feeling D2 was always much more geared to this environment than D1.
I'm not twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the patch, really... I play 1.09 when I feel like, and do other things when I don't feel like it.
Much of the stats on diabloii.net for unique items, runewords, set items and skills are all wildly inaccurate. I have so far heard two Blizzard representatives saying they were "WAY wrong" and "ancient data". The leak of information was unintentional and an unfortunate side-effect of a mistake during the web server upgrade process. The leaked patch data seem to be from 1.10 in an early stage of development, likely even before their Quality Assurance team has tested the stuff for balancing, since they are still doing it.
So... Before you complain about the items and runewords being too powerful (there have been some complaints like this) and that the Necro/Druid didn't get their necessary skill changes, remember that much (most?) of the "revealed" data on the diabloii.net site is simply incorrect or missing.
For correct information, check Arreat Summit (official Diablo II information site) and the information that will be released during/after E3 (i.e. May 13 - 16 or shortly after).