Wouldn't that be considered some sort of 'frame up'?
I mean if i'm hosing legal content, and they come along and inject fake/illegal content then sue me how the hell is that stand up in court? They inject fake content to make it harder for people to find the real content, not to frame the tracker.
I doubt even our (the U.S.) government would hesitate to step on the neck of any company that does that so blatantly.
Even as a locally cached file, on a broadband connection, downloading the extra 10K is typically faster than opening and reading the locally cached file! Please explain to me how 1) downloading a file, 2) opening the file, and 3) reading the file is in any way faster than 1) opening the file and 2) reading the file.
The greater part of the game for me is the social part of it, interacting with people who have come to be my friends over time. We've got members from all over the world and it's really a kick to just have fun.
Yeah, the gaming is obviously a draw, but, at least for me, and for most of the folks I play with, it's not the biggest part. Ahh...
Glorified chat room. IRC with a 3D interface. Blah, blah...
I never understood that. Why do people claim the biggest part of their continued stay in a virtual fantasy world is the "social aspect"? Why continue paying for a game you aren't even really playing anymore?
Do these friends you've made just not exist outside of the game? Or is it that these "friendships" are so tenuous that the game is the only thing that keeps you together?
Boards and shareholders are cowards, if there is no financial incentive to do it, it won't happen. Wow... Wtf? What's the problem with that? Are you implying that businesses should actually switch to Linux, even if it offers no tangible benefit... just because it's Linux?
If Linux's TCO is higher than Windows', what company in their right mind would switch?
If there's no increase in productivity for the same cost, what company in their right mind would switch?
4. DW does not rewrite your code (for the most part). It'll screw up your indentation pretty thoroughly, though, if you make any changes in Design View.
I use DW every day. I am not even conscious of flipping between the 2 views. Some things are done better in Design View and some in Code View. With the exception of inserting objects (like images, tables, etc.) everything is better in Code View.
I despise Dreamweaver 8 when pasting text copied from a Word document. The vast majority of the time, it decides to wrap paragraphs in div tags. If I'm lucky, it merely confuses paragraph breaks for line breaks.
Also, the fact that I can't use it to access files outside of the document root makes it a pretty frustrating tool.
And since it uses God-knows-what rendering engine, what you see in Design View isn't what you're going to see in either IE, Firefox, or Opera. So, other than inserting objects, as I mentioned before, and getting the cursor to the right spot in Code View (although even this is pretty inconsistent), I pretty much ignore Design View.
With no flash on your browser all you get is two coloured bars and two requests to install flash. Huh... With Flash disabled in Firefox and not installed in IE, I can still see the linked strip just fine...
To ignore someone's entire argument (irrespective of its quality) to focus on a grammatical mistake they made in the text is the height of mindless obsessiveness. It serves no instructive purpose and distracts others from the meaningful dialogue that SHOULD be taking place.
I don't understand this... You're assuming that the person doing the correcting has discarded any notion of a discussion in favor of correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. Is that true? Probably not. If the person doing the correcting has nothing to add to the subject matter, but still sees an opening for some quick education, what's the problem?
And it very much does serve an instructive purpose. You pay taxes to the government so that teachers can tell you when you make mistakes. These people are doing that job for free. Everyone should welcome corrections. It's how we humans improve ourselves as a whole.
And the only thing that makes it a distraction is the target's misplaced sense of pride.
I'm gonna start my own kid's show, Darwin Street. It will feature lots of colorful characters doing dangerous, emulatable things. If your kid kills himself doing something he saw on the show, we didn't need him in the gene pool anyway.
Sol now jealous of the precocious, scampy little comet's meteoric rise in popularity and size has become addicted to painkillers and alcohol. Friends close to the star hope to be able to talk the down-and-out celestial body into going to rehab.
That applies here too - web apps will the able to use local data storage, and the browser will be able to keep the entire web app cached. Using that, you only need an internet connection available for the initial setup, which would probably be as simple as clicking a link.
Meet the new desktop app. Just like the old desktop app.
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. ..but it's a testament to the modularity of design that a self-declared novice developer could take the existing GIMP framework and remake it in PS's image.
That's great. Now all we need is an expert UI designer. Hell, at this point I think I'd even settle for a novice UI designer.
Seriously. Enough with the thousands of icon sets and makeovers. FOSS projects like The GIMP need to seriously recruit (or listen to) UI designers.
Side note: it's really scary that a lot of these antivirus programs were web-based, and somehow Windows is perfectly okay having web applications that are capable of deleting files, analyzing the content of local files, accessing the registry.... Really scary. Way to go on that security model thing, Microsoft!
Uhh... That's exactly what ActiveX was created to do (perhaps unfortunately)...
I'd be happy if they just fixed the boot-up on their newer server editions. I can't comment on 7.10, since I haven't tried the server version, but with 6.10 and 7.04, you pretty much can't set up Apache with SSL and a passworded certificate.
During boot, the Apache daemon will start, and it will prompt you to enter the password for the certificate, but Ubuntu just continues to ignorantly spew output to the screen while the boot-up sequence continues.
As to the end of portal, I think it fits in the half-life continuity before the events at Black Mesa in HL1, and probably prior to the incident with Borealis. I base this on the outdoor view of the building at the end of the game.
I disagree with this. If you pay attention to GLaDOS during the fight, she has a couple "insightful" lines, which lead me to believe this is after the Combine invasion:
1) "Are you trying to escape? (laughs) Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here."
2) "All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us... and them."
While I admire The Pirate Bay for taking advantage of Swedish law to freely host torrents, I wonder about the legality of this. How has Swedish law generally treated trademarks and domain names?
Probably none in this case. It seems the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry stopped using IFPI.com nearly a year ago...
I know it's fashionable to get your panties in a damp twist over any security measure in the USA, but you trivialize the real, stone cold horror of life under Soviet communism. You and your parents are obviously pampered westerners, or you would never think to make the comparison.
That's exactly the attitude that will keep you "in line" right up until the day we are as bad as the Soviet Union.
I don't know anyone that has a Wii that is gathering dust, and that includes the one at my Mother's house.
I do. My mother. She wanted one so bad she kept bringing it up. Finally I caved in and bought her one. She was so excited.
She played once that day and hasn't touched it since.
I've played it more than she has and I'm not even that impressed with the system (to be fair, though, I'm not impressed with any of the current systems). It's been over a month since it's been turned on.
The Wii may be a great seller, but I can almost guarantee you that it's nothing more than a novelty item for most of the people who've bought them.
wrong choice of word when i said computing. Isn't a vehicle a tool? Mechanics don't go around dumbing things down.
Because that's the job of engineers, not mechanics...
And what's with stupid generalization that "easier = dumber"? Do you honestly feel that the current key-start engines on cars are "dumber" than the old crank-starts?
Have you ever seen a C programmers' Python code? Or a LISP application ported to Java?
Are you even paying attention? Once again, the guy hired one of the best Ruby programmers out there to do the rewrite. He didn't try to do it himself. Your point is irrelevant.
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A while ago I discovered InfraRecorder thanks to PortableApps.com. It's free as in beer speech.
I mean if i'm hosing legal content, and they come along and inject fake/illegal content then sue me how the hell is that stand up in court? They inject fake content to make it harder for people to find the real content, not to frame the tracker.
I doubt even our (the U.S.) government would hesitate to step on the neck of any company that does that so blatantly.
Yeah, the gaming is obviously a draw, but, at least for me, and for most of the folks I play with, it's not the biggest part. Ahh...
Glorified chat room.
IRC with a 3D interface.
Blah, blah...
I never understood that. Why do people claim the biggest part of their continued stay in a virtual fantasy world is the "social aspect"? Why continue paying for a game you aren't even really playing anymore?
Do these friends you've made just not exist outside of the game? Or is it that these "friendships" are so tenuous that the game is the only thing that keeps you together?
If Linux's TCO is higher than Windows', what company in their right mind would switch?
If there's no increase in productivity for the same cost, what company in their right mind would switch?
Yes, I'm replying to myself, but...
My God, Dreamweaver. If you don't recognize the type of the file I double-clicked on in your Files pane pass it on to the fucking OS!
I despise Dreamweaver 8 when pasting text copied from a Word document. The vast majority of the time, it decides to wrap paragraphs in div tags. If I'm lucky, it merely confuses paragraph breaks for line breaks.
Also, the fact that I can't use it to access files outside of the document root makes it a pretty frustrating tool.
And since it uses God-knows-what rendering engine, what you see in Design View isn't what you're going to see in either IE, Firefox, or Opera. So, other than inserting objects, as I mentioned before, and getting the cursor to the right spot in Code View (although even this is pretty inconsistent), I pretty much ignore Design View.
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I don't understand this... You're assuming that the person doing the correcting has discarded any notion of a discussion in favor of correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. Is that true? Probably not. If the person doing the correcting has nothing to add to the subject matter, but still sees an opening for some quick education, what's the problem?
And it very much does serve an instructive purpose. You pay taxes to the government so that teachers can tell you when you make mistakes. These people are doing that job for free. Everyone should welcome corrections. It's how we humans improve ourselves as a whole.
And the only thing that makes it a distraction is the target's misplaced sense of pride.
Hell, if Earth is ever invaded by Xenomorphs, I'm your man. All I need are individual sheets of printer paper.
Jackass... For Kids!
Meet the new desktop app. Just like the old desktop app.
That's great. Now all we need is an expert UI designer. Hell, at this point I think I'd even settle for a novice UI designer.
Seriously. Enough with the thousands of icon sets and makeovers. FOSS projects like The GIMP need to seriously recruit (or listen to) UI designers.
Uhh... That's exactly what ActiveX was created to do (perhaps unfortunately)...
I'd be happy if they just fixed the boot-up on their newer server editions. I can't comment on 7.10, since I haven't tried the server version, but with 6.10 and 7.04, you pretty much can't set up Apache with SSL and a passworded certificate.
During boot, the Apache daemon will start, and it will prompt you to enter the password for the certificate, but Ubuntu just continues to ignorantly spew output to the screen while the boot-up sequence continues.
That is, frankly, kind of dumb.
I disagree with this. If you pay attention to GLaDOS during the fight, she has a couple "insightful" lines, which lead me to believe this is after the Combine invasion:
1) "Are you trying to escape? (laughs) Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here."
2) "All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us... and them."
Probably none in this case. It seems the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry stopped using IFPI.com nearly a year ago...
October 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20061019060329/http://www.ifpi.com/index.html
March 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20070313223830/http://www.ifpi.com/
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/*/ifpi.com
That's exactly the attitude that will keep you "in line" right up until the day we are as bad as the Soviet Union.
I do. My mother. She wanted one so bad she kept bringing it up. Finally I caved in and bought her one. She was so excited.
She played once that day and hasn't touched it since.
I've played it more than she has and I'm not even that impressed with the system (to be fair, though, I'm not impressed with any of the current systems). It's been over a month since it's been turned on.
The Wii may be a great seller, but I can almost guarantee you that it's nothing more than a novelty item for most of the people who've bought them.
Because that's the job of engineers, not mechanics...
And what's with stupid generalization that "easier = dumber"? Do you honestly feel that the current key-start engines on cars are "dumber" than the old crank-starts?
I don't RTFA, because I'm a nice guy. Reading the article robs others of the opportunity to clarify the story and increase their karma.
Are you even paying attention? Once again, the guy hired one of the best Ruby programmers out there to do the rewrite. He didn't try to do it himself. Your point is irrelevant.
This is one reason for me: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66871
I guess since I was the first to report it, it might not be such a big deal, but that's kind of bad...