And in fact, the poster made a huge leap there. Even the article just refers to it as "Grand Theft Auto":
Back in March, Sandy Wilson was taking care of her three grandsons when a group of men attempted to burglarize her home, pointing a gun at the kids.
The children happened to be playing a video game called Grand Theft Auto at the time.
I suspect it was GTA:VC, since I don't recall that GTA3 had police scanner messages like that (best you'd get, you'd hear radio chatter if you were driving a police car, or if you had a wanted rating.. "suspect last seen in ___".)
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Probably many more IE users accidentily click on ads or click on them and lose interest than firefox users who are much more likely to only click through on an advert if they are interested in buying. (this is a guess we don't breakdown by browser type at the moment)
Your guess holds true with me, at least. When I see an ad, I only click on it if I think it's something that interests me and that I stand a good (50%) chance of buying. Tech stuff appeals to me, as do some t-shirts. So ThinkGeek ads tend to get clickthroughs from me.
Maybe it's just that I've been called in to work late on a Sunday night, that I'm tired, or maybe this is a trend of posting non-news on Slashdot.
Why is this "news" posted on slashdot? Sure, I know this is a big software re-write effort on a pretty major window/desktop system (which I used to use once upon a time, and it was very nice). But when new software is available, doesn't that belong on Freshmeat instead of a site that's about "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? Freshmeat is even part of the same group that runs Slashdot!
E17 is cool, and it's great that it's now available from CVS, but it's not "stuff that matters".
Yeah I saw it maybe... 6 months back
frankly this is old news
good going/.
I remember it from way back, too. But I couldn't find it using the slashdot search. However, this dupe did show up. So this dupe is also less than a month old. Good job, slashdot.
I call bullshit on this thread. (1) I've typically saved more than 2 cars in a garage in 'Vice City', and (2) I've saved my game at Cherry Poppers.
I got my game 3 months after it was released on shelves, so either I have the (1) original version or (2) the "fixed" version you claim to describe. But in neither case have I had a problem with my save games.
Just a thought, but Microsoft does sometimes license commercial software to include in their products. Usually, it's a dumbed-down version of the commercial product, but this has happened before.
Anyone know if this is a legal copy of Sound Forge? So far, it's just a bunch of theory. I don't want to jump to conclusions, here.
Maybe they should stop focusing on "Making the internet better" and make it less cumbersome for their users.
Their last round of commercials doesn't help that image. My personal favorite is the one that implies all the AOL users hate the service. You know the one - long line of AOL users, asking to see the president because they have an idea on "making the internet better". And the line becomes a huge crowd of people outside.
A non-technical friend of mine saw that commercial, and his immediate impression was "Wow, AOL must _really_ suck if everyone hates it that much."
That certainly seems to be the message they're sending with that ad.
I feel really disappointed by this election. As a nation, we've just validated all the (bad) decisions that Bush has made for us in the last 4 years. We've validated the Iraq invasion, etc.
I wish when they re-did ROTJ for the DVD release, someone at ILM noticed that the shadows are completely wrong on the Tatooine segment where Jabba's sail barge moves flys across the dunes.
Of course, I do have some filenames that make sense. I took advantage of the free iTunes from Pepsi (from way back) and used Windows iTunes to grab some songs for my iPod. Those are written like this:
$ ls f49/
Lose Yourself.m4p
However, gtkpod writes the MP3 files with names that aren't the song title.
I've heard that polar explorers can condition themselves to freezing temperatures before an expedition. If I'm desert bound, should I prepare for thirst by drinking less water?
--Nicholas, St. Paul, Minnesota
I've posted on this same topic before (sorry for the dupe), but I wish Sony had gone with a PS1-based system for its first portable PlayStation. I know the technology is a bit dated, but they could have cranked out a PS1-based PSP for tons less than $150 (and they could have done it sooner) and come out with a PS2-based PSP a year later.
There's already a huge library of PS1 games. I loved playing them. Developers know how to write for them. Wouldn't it have been a great idea to create a portable game system that played PS1 games? You could have changed a few minor things to help battery life, and to keep it simple: the controller doesn't support vibration, there is no P2, the memory card is (possibly) internal, and the 640MB CD is replaced by smaller-radius media (Sony is moving to UMD for the PSP.) Use a screen only slightly larger than the GBA's, and now the low-res graphics of the PS1 look pretty good.
All that technology is readily-available (except for the UMD) so I'm sure the price per unit would have been way less than $150.
I'm sure Sony could have made lots of sales on this one. Developers basically get to re-release (almost immediately!) a lot of cool PlayStation games for the portable PS1. I would have gladly shelled out $30 for a PSP re-release of many of the PS1 games I already own (Tomb Raider 1 & 2, Spyro the Dragon, Mort the Chicken, Crash Bandicoot Racing,...)
But of course, I'm no systems designer (and it probably shows.) Though, it seems a design like this might have made serious inroads against the GBA or DS. Even if the PS1 technology is dated.
The Location bar (Bugzilla component Browser:Location Bar) takes user input and converts it into a URL. If the user provides an absolute URL, the browser will get that page. In practice, this is very rare, so the URL bar uses a series of smart parsers to convert the user-typed string to a complete URL and retrieve the guessed page. The details of this URL resolution process are beyond the scope of this document. Suffice to say, this works most of the time.
Internet Keywords supplements the URL bar parsers in some cases. For example, words with spaces will go directly to Internet Keywords. Also, Domain Guessing is replaced by Internet Keywords. For example, "mozilla" will not be expanded to "http://www.mozilla.com"
Internet Keywords is turned via: (pref("keyword.enabled", true), which can be set in Preferences | Navigator | Smart Browsing | Internet Keywords.
If so, the URL bar sends the text to the keyword: protocol handler, which sends the text to the Internet Keyword server, by URL encoding the string at the end of the keyword URL set in: (pref("keyword.URL", )
The server response is displayed as the page, which could be anything, but usually are one of two things:
1. A re-direct to the "correct" page that the server thinks you wanted
2. A page.
I heard a story on NPR a couple of months ago, about how USB flash drives have become so commonplace in Japan that it's really hard to keep selling them. So (at least in Japan) they no longer market the USB drives based on the storage capacity or access speeds - it's about the packaging. A 256MB USB flash drive in the shape of Hello Kitty sells better than any regular 256MB USB flash drive in a boring "thumb drive" shape.
Personally, my favorite is the USB Devil Duckie Drive on ThinkGeek. I'm thinking about getting one as a Christmas present for my mom, who already has a USB flash drive... but not in the shape of a little red duckie with light-up eyes!:-)
The patch for this one is already out. Furthermore, SP2 systems do not have this vulnerability unless Office is installed. SP2 by default has auto-updates enabled. And for Office to be exploited in a SP2 system, the user has to open the file manually.
Whew, that's good to hear. Oh wait, Office is installed on almost every Windows system (including XP.) So most XP-SP2 users will likely have the vulnerability.
Only exploited if the JPG is opened manually? How many pr0n links do you think people will get as a result of this virus?
Will anyone that owns a regular PS2 buy one of these?
I, for one, plan to buy one of the new PStwo systems when it comes out. I'll give my old PS2 away to one of my friends (she doesn't have a DVD player, and is interested in some PS2 games, anyway.) The new PStwo is just plain neat.
Sure, it's basically the same as the original PS2. It has an integrated network port, where I could have just bought a network adapter for the original PS2 (for less than $150.) But damn, I just like the look of the new PStwo.
I suppose it's the same reason people buy new iPods when they come out, even though it's not any better than the iPod they have now. They just look cooler. (Yes, that's a very shallow statement.)
...but only 20 games? The DS has 41 games right now, not to mention all the compatible GB & GBA games right now. Yes, I'm a Nintendo fanboy, but all the hardware in the world isn't going to help you with 20 games at launch.
I'll probably be marked off-topic for this, but I've previously mentioned how I wish Sony had gone with a PS1-based system for its first PlayStation Portable:
There's already a huge library of PS1 games. I loved playing them. Developers know how to write for them. Wouldn't it have been a great idea to create a portable game system that played PS1 games? You could have changed a few minor things to help battery life, and to keep it simple: the controller doesn't support vibration, there is no P2, the memory card is (possibly) internal, and the 640MB CD is replaced by smaller-radius media (Sony is moving to UMD for the PSP.) Use a screen only slightly larger than the GBA's, and now the low-res graphics of the PS1 look pretty good.
I'm sure Sony could have made lots of sales on this one. Developers basically get to re-release (almost immediately!) a lot of cool PlayStation games for the portable PS1. I would have gladly shelled out $30 for a re-release of many of the PS1 games I own (imagine Tomb Raider 1 and 2 with updated graphics using the TR:C engine.)
But of course, I'm no systems designer (and it probably shows.) Though, it seems a design like this might have made serious inroads against the GBA.
I'm a big fan of Firefox. Only bit I don't like is upgrading the software where "installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems."
The beta versions of Mozilla had this problem. Not sure if this is still the case, though. (Back when I ran Windows) I installed each release in a separate (new) directory under C:\Program_Files.
In this case, let's say I installed a version of Firefox under C:\Program_Files\Firefox_0.9.2. When the new version comes out, I dump that in the Trash (or rename the directory) and install the new version in C:\Program_Files\Firefox_0.9.3.
This has several advantages: (1) I know what version I have installed, just by looking at the directory name. Yes, I could check the version by doing "Help - About", but maybe I don't have the browser open. And (2) I'm never installing over top an existing version.
We really don't know from the review how AbiWord handles this at all. It might do a great job or a terrible job; we just don't know. Honestly, I'd rather see a review from someone who is an experienced user of Word, even if they're less technical.
Interesting that you should ask for that. I've been thinking about writing (another) "review" of StarOffice/OpenOffice compared to MS Office. I'm a manager at a large university, and I moved to a Linux desktop about 2 yrs ago. I get lots of Word/Excel/PPT docs from co-workers and other employees, and I'm able to work transparently with those documents.
While there have been many StarOffice (or OpenOffice) "reviews", I don't think any have talked about how transparently you can work with documents, how easily you can import and export docs, and how the imported Word doc may differ under StarOffice/OpenOffice.
Hint: The only issues I've had with imported documents have been with word- and paragraph-wrapping (widow/orphan). If I print out my (imported) copy and bring it to a meeting, a paragraph might start at the top of page 12 for me, but at the bottom of page 11 for someone else who printed it from MS Word.
The point is that with iTunes, you can buy songs from the iTMS. These are encrypted AAC files.. in order for your iPod to play them, iTunes has to write a key to the iPod at the same time it writes the music. But as the OP asked, if you can't sync to the iPod using iTunes via CodeWeavers, there's not much point.
I suspect this ability is there. When the full release is available, I'm going to download the 1-month demo copy of CodeWeavers and try it out. Like many in this thread, iTunes is about the only reason I boot into Windows anymore.
I have read articles about how the new Sony PSP is supposed to incorporate new features, support PS2-quality gameplay, watch movies, and be really cool to use. However, I look at projects like this one and wonder why Sony didn't decide to make a portable PlayStation long ago. Ben Heckendorn certainly proved the concept, and I had this thought at the time:
There's already a huge library of PS1 games. I loved playing them. Developers know how to write for them. Wouldn't it have been a great idea to create a portable game system that played PS1 games? You could have changed a few minor things to help battery life, and to keep it simple: the controller doesn't support vibration, there is no P2, the memory card is (possibly) internal, and the 640MB CD is replaced by smaller-radius media (Sony is moving to UMD for the PSP - but at the time maybe the 150MB CD would have been a good choice.) Use a screen similar to the GB, and now the low-res graphics of the PS1 look pretty good.
I'm sure Sony could have made lots of sales on this one. Developers basically get to re-release a lot of cool PlayStation games for the portable PS1. I would have gladly shelled out $30 for a re-release of many of the PS1 games I own (imagine Tomb Raider 1 & 2 using the TRC engine.)
But of course, I'm no systems designer (and it probably shows.) Maybe the 150MB limit in the smaller-radius CD would have made games impossible. Though, it seems a design like this might have made serious inroads against the GBA.
Make sure that you allow the BBC site to display popups. When you click on their link, javascript will try to open a popup. Mozilla blocked the popup for me until I allowed it. Plays fine!
-jh
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And in fact, the poster made a huge leap there. Even the article just refers to it as "Grand Theft Auto":
I suspect it was GTA:VC, since I don't recall that GTA3 had police scanner messages like that (best you'd get, you'd hear radio chatter if you were driving a police car, or if you had a wanted rating .. "suspect last seen in ___".)
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The primary mirror site is at sourceforge:
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Probably many more IE users accidentily click on ads or click on them and lose interest than firefox users who are much more likely to only click through on an advert if they are interested in buying. (this is a guess we don't breakdown by browser type at the moment)
Your guess holds true with me, at least. When I see an ad, I only click on it if I think it's something that interests me and that I stand a good (50%) chance of buying. Tech stuff appeals to me, as do some t-shirts. So ThinkGeek ads tend to get clickthroughs from me.
Maybe it's just that I've been called in to work late on a Sunday night, that I'm tired, or maybe this is a trend of posting non-news on Slashdot.
Why is this "news" posted on slashdot? Sure, I know this is a big software re-write effort on a pretty major window/desktop system (which I used to use once upon a time, and it was very nice). But when new software is available, doesn't that belong on Freshmeat instead of a site that's about "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? Freshmeat is even part of the same group that runs Slashdot!
E17 is cool, and it's great that it's now available from CVS, but it's not "stuff that matters".
Yeah I saw it maybe... 6 months back frankly this is old news good going /.
I remember it from way back, too. But I couldn't find it using the slashdot search. However, this dupe did show up. So this dupe is also less than a month old. Good job, slashdot.
I call bullshit on this thread. (1) I've typically saved more than 2 cars in a garage in 'Vice City', and (2) I've saved my game at Cherry Poppers.
I got my game 3 months after it was released on shelves, so either I have the (1) original version or (2) the "fixed" version you claim to describe. But in neither case have I had a problem with my save games.
Actually, the GroupWise client for Linux/Macintosh is not in beta. It was released a while ago and the client is up to SP2 already.
Also note that Evolution 2.0 will allow you to connect to a Groupwise server.
-jh
Just a thought, but Microsoft does sometimes license commercial software to include in their products. Usually, it's a dumbed-down version of the commercial product, but this has happened before.
Anyone know if this is a legal copy of Sound Forge? So far, it's just a bunch of theory. I don't want to jump to conclusions, here.
Maybe they should stop focusing on "Making the internet better" and make it less cumbersome for their users.
Their last round of commercials doesn't help that image. My personal favorite is the one that implies all the AOL users hate the service. You know the one - long line of AOL users, asking to see the president because they have an idea on "making the internet better". And the line becomes a huge crowd of people outside.
A non-technical friend of mine saw that commercial, and his immediate impression was "Wow, AOL must _really_ suck if everyone hates it that much." That certainly seems to be the message they're sending with that ad.
I feel really disappointed by this election. As a nation, we've just validated all the (bad) decisions that Bush has made for us in the last 4 years. We've validated the Iraq invasion, etc.
Looks like it's time to get another apology t-shirt: "I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him."
I wish when they re-did ROTJ for the DVD release, someone at ILM noticed that the shadows are completely wrong on the Tatooine segment where Jabba's sail barge moves flys across the dunes.
Look at this photo
Note that on the sail barge, the light source is somewhere forward and to the left.
Look at the dunes in the background. The light source is clearly somewhere behind and to the left.
Well, I suppose Tattooine does have two suns. They're special - one sun only illuminates ships, the other only illuminates natural landscapes. :-)
The OP is correct from a certain point of view - MP3 files written using gtkpod on Linux. That's what I'm using, and this is what I see:
Of course, I do have some filenames that make sense. I took advantage of the free iTunes from Pepsi (from way back) and used Windows iTunes to grab some songs for my iPod. Those are written like this:
However, gtkpod writes the MP3 files with names that aren't the song title.
Here's the article you mentioned:
Ask Adventure
I've heard that polar explorers can condition themselves to freezing temperatures before an expedition. If I'm desert bound, should I prepare for thirst by drinking less water? --Nicholas, St. Paul, Minnesota
I've posted on this same topic before (sorry for the dupe), but I wish Sony had gone with a PS1-based system for its first portable PlayStation. I know the technology is a bit dated, but they could have cranked out a PS1-based PSP for tons less than $150 (and they could have done it sooner) and come out with a PS2-based PSP a year later.
There's already a huge library of PS1 games. I loved playing them. Developers know how to write for them. Wouldn't it have been a great idea to create a portable game system that played PS1 games? You could have changed a few minor things to help battery life, and to keep it simple: the controller doesn't support vibration, there is no P2, the memory card is (possibly) internal, and the 640MB CD is replaced by smaller-radius media (Sony is moving to UMD for the PSP.) Use a screen only slightly larger than the GBA's, and now the low-res graphics of the PS1 look pretty good.
All that technology is readily-available (except for the UMD) so I'm sure the price per unit would have been way less than $150.
I'm sure Sony could have made lots of sales on this one. Developers basically get to re-release (almost immediately!) a lot of cool PlayStation games for the portable PS1. I would have gladly shelled out $30 for a PSP re-release of many of the PS1 games I already own (Tomb Raider 1 & 2, Spyro the Dragon, Mort the Chicken, Crash Bandicoot Racing, ...)
But of course, I'm no systems designer (and it probably shows.) Though, it seems a design like this might have made serious inroads against the GBA or DS. Even if the PS1 technology is dated.
check your browser settings, i seem to remember IE having this ability on its own. and i know i've seen a plugin for moz somewhere.
Perhaps you are thinking of Internet Keywords:
I haven't used it, but it looks interesting.
I heard a story on NPR a couple of months ago, about how USB flash drives have become so commonplace in Japan that it's really hard to keep selling them. So (at least in Japan) they no longer market the USB drives based on the storage capacity or access speeds - it's about the packaging. A 256MB USB flash drive in the shape of Hello Kitty sells better than any regular 256MB USB flash drive in a boring "thumb drive" shape.
Personally, my favorite is the USB Devil Duckie Drive on ThinkGeek. I'm thinking about getting one as a Christmas present for my mom, who already has a USB flash drive ... but not in the shape of a little red duckie with light-up eyes! :-)
The patch for this one is already out. Furthermore, SP2 systems do not have this vulnerability unless Office is installed. SP2 by default has auto-updates enabled. And for Office to be exploited in a SP2 system, the user has to open the file manually.
Whew, that's good to hear. Oh wait, Office is installed on almost every Windows system (including XP.) So most XP-SP2 users will likely have the vulnerability.
Only exploited if the JPG is opened manually? How many pr0n links do you think people will get as a result of this virus?
Will anyone that owns a regular PS2 buy one of these?
I, for one, plan to buy one of the new PStwo systems when it comes out. I'll give my old PS2 away to one of my friends (she doesn't have a DVD player, and is interested in some PS2 games, anyway.) The new PStwo is just plain neat.
Sure, it's basically the same as the original PS2. It has an integrated network port, where I could have just bought a network adapter for the original PS2 (for less than $150.) But damn, I just like the look of the new PStwo.
I suppose it's the same reason people buy new iPods when they come out, even though it's not any better than the iPod they have now. They just look cooler. (Yes, that's a very shallow statement.)
I'll probably be marked off-topic for this, but I've previously mentioned how I wish Sony had gone with a PS1-based system for its first PlayStation Portable:
There's already a huge library of PS1 games. I loved playing them. Developers know how to write for them. Wouldn't it have been a great idea to create a portable game system that played PS1 games? You could have changed a few minor things to help battery life, and to keep it simple: the controller doesn't support vibration, there is no P2, the memory card is (possibly) internal, and the 640MB CD is replaced by smaller-radius media (Sony is moving to UMD for the PSP.) Use a screen only slightly larger than the GBA's, and now the low-res graphics of the PS1 look pretty good.
I'm sure Sony could have made lots of sales on this one. Developers basically get to re-release (almost immediately!) a lot of cool PlayStation games for the portable PS1. I would have gladly shelled out $30 for a re-release of many of the PS1 games I own (imagine Tomb Raider 1 and 2 with updated graphics using the TR:C engine.)
But of course, I'm no systems designer (and it probably shows.) Though, it seems a design like this might have made serious inroads against the GBA.
I'm a big fan of Firefox. Only bit I don't like is upgrading the software where "installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems."
The beta versions of Mozilla had this problem. Not sure if this is still the case, though. (Back when I ran Windows) I installed each release in a separate (new) directory under C:\Program_Files.
In this case, let's say I installed a version of Firefox under C:\Program_Files\Firefox_0.9.2. When the new version comes out, I dump that in the Trash (or rename the directory) and install the new version in C:\Program_Files\Firefox_0.9.3.
This has several advantages: (1) I know what version I have installed, just by looking at the directory name. Yes, I could check the version by doing "Help - About", but maybe I don't have the browser open. And (2) I'm never installing over top an existing version.
Just an idea. Even my mom understands that! :-)
We really don't know from the review how AbiWord handles this at all. It might do a great job or a terrible job; we just don't know. Honestly, I'd rather see a review from someone who is an experienced user of Word, even if they're less technical.
Interesting that you should ask for that. I've been thinking about writing (another) "review" of StarOffice/OpenOffice compared to MS Office. I'm a manager at a large university, and I moved to a Linux desktop about 2 yrs ago. I get lots of Word/Excel/PPT docs from co-workers and other employees, and I'm able to work transparently with those documents.
While there have been many StarOffice (or OpenOffice) "reviews", I don't think any have talked about how transparently you can work with documents, how easily you can import and export docs, and how the imported Word doc may differ under StarOffice/OpenOffice.
Hint: The only issues I've had with imported documents have been with word- and paragraph-wrapping (widow/orphan). If I print out my (imported) copy and bring it to a meeting, a paragraph might start at the top of page 12 for me, but at the bottom of page 11 for someone else who printed it from MS Word.
I got in, but it was veeeeeeeeery slow. Here's a mirror:
hamster mirror
The point is that with iTunes, you can buy songs from the iTMS. These are encrypted AAC files .. in order for your iPod to play them, iTunes has to write a key to the iPod at the same time it writes the music. But as the OP asked, if you can't sync to the iPod using iTunes via CodeWeavers, there's not much point.
I suspect this ability is there. When the full release is available, I'm going to download the 1-month demo copy of CodeWeavers and try it out. Like many in this thread, iTunes is about the only reason I boot into Windows anymore.
-jh
I have read articles about how the new Sony PSP is supposed to incorporate new features, support PS2-quality gameplay, watch movies, and be really cool to use. However, I look at projects like this one and wonder why Sony didn't decide to make a portable PlayStation long ago. Ben Heckendorn certainly proved the concept, and I had this thought at the time:
There's already a huge library of PS1 games. I loved playing them. Developers know how to write for them. Wouldn't it have been a great idea to create a portable game system that played PS1 games? You could have changed a few minor things to help battery life, and to keep it simple: the controller doesn't support vibration, there is no P2, the memory card is (possibly) internal, and the 640MB CD is replaced by smaller-radius media (Sony is moving to UMD for the PSP - but at the time maybe the 150MB CD would have been a good choice.) Use a screen similar to the GB, and now the low-res graphics of the PS1 look pretty good.
I'm sure Sony could have made lots of sales on this one. Developers basically get to re-release a lot of cool PlayStation games for the portable PS1. I would have gladly shelled out $30 for a re-release of many of the PS1 games I own (imagine Tomb Raider 1 & 2 using the TRC engine.)
But of course, I'm no systems designer (and it probably shows.) Maybe the 150MB limit in the smaller-radius CD would have made games impossible. Though, it seems a design like this might have made serious inroads against the GBA.
Make sure that you allow the BBC site to display popups. When you click on their link, javascript will try to open a popup. Mozilla blocked the popup for me until I allowed it. Plays fine! -jh