All of these popup-blocking schemes are doomed to eventual failure. Why? Consider a site that wants to get past Mozilla's popup blocker. Right now most popups are spawned from a new page when it begins loading, so Mozilla blocks these. All a site has to do to get past this is add code to its links that pops up an ad window whenever a link is clicked on, in addition to loading the requested page. This behavior will be indistinguishable to Mozilla to the kind of popups you want, which are also popped up when you click on a link. This is why I am glad Netscape took popup blocking out of their releases - it might go under the radar of most web developers, allowing us Mozilla users to keep blocking popups for at least a while longer.
I didn't have to read the article to figure out that Doom III is the second sequel to Doom (although I did read it before posting, that's how I knew what the game's story was, idiot). However, nowhere in the article does it say that they are intentionally rehashing the story (who read the article now?). Just because it is a sequel doesn't mean they have to recycle the story! There is room for creativity here. The same old stories and monsters are getting kinda old. Wouldn't it be great if Doom III had a totally new direction for the story, and innovative new kinds of monsters? (and by innovative I don't mean "different models and textures").
Man, couldn't they have thought up something a little more original? I mean, mysterious otherworldly monsters coming through portals into a large installation is pure Half-Life! The whole "aliens take over people's bodies and mutate them into gruesome monsters" thing is totally unoriginal as well. No shock value at all left in that anymore. Are there going to be cowering white-lab-coated scientists too? How about small crawling creatures that jump up and try to eat you when you get close?
WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE LITTLE ANIMATED ICONS NEXT TO THE MOUSE POINTER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
This is actually a VERY significant usability feature! Sometimes X applications can be *very* slow to start (StarOffice, Mozilla, etc). What will often happen is newbies will click the Mozilla icon (for example) and nothing will happen. So they click it again. And again, and again. Then suddenly tons of Mozilla windows start opening all over the screen. The flashing icon was put in to solve this usability problem, and it does quite a good job. For the rest of us it is a 10 second trip into KControl to turn it off.
The Dungeon Master mode makes it all worthwhile. The Dungeon Master can control the plot in real-time for you, allowing actual logical storylines to progress and evolve. No more will you have to listen to the NPC say the same stupid thing five times over because that's all he has to say, the dungeon master can take control of him and tell you whatever he wants.
That would be great except that the MS site licenses for universities require you to purchase licenses for every machine on your campus, wether it runs windows or not.
ANTITRUST! ANTITRUST!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, where is the government on this?!? This is exactly what should be illegal when you have a monopoly, and it is exactly what MS is doing!
It probably gives a tiny spurt of speed, just enough to lean you back the other way, then slows you down. That way you could never sustain a speed above 12 MPH. In fact it could keep your center of gravity from ever travelling faster than 12 MPH if it was careful.
You'll be happy to know that KDE 3 comes with an alternate icon set, iKons, in addition to the worked-over original set. Also, several others (slick and crystal come immediately to mind) are available at kde-look.org (a wonderful site that seems to have brought a kde themeing community out of the woodwork).
Here's another idea: Instead of having a plethora of specified taxes on various products going to a multitude of different agencies, why not have a unified sales tax. This allows the government to redistribute the money to different organizations as needed, with a minimum amount of hassle. Oh wait, that's already how it works. I think it's fine then.
What? This system would not be any worse for terrorism than the system we have now. Right now we are dependent on the oil fields that provide the oil (which are currently mostly in areas at high risk for terrorism), large oil refineries to refine that oil (recently the price of gas in CA spiked when one of these went offline), and large power plants to power our cities. If we went to a hydrogen economy, we would reduce our dependence on the oil fields and the refineries could be mostly replaced by hydrogen production stations, while the power plants remained in the same locations. How would this be worse? We wouldn't have one big giant "world hydrogen production center" or even a central US production center for terrorists to attack. Obviously you didn't think before submitting this comment.
So you are in some senses shifting pollution to a different location (and hopefully reducing it through scale).
I think you are underestimating the value of centralizing production of energy. It is not feasible to produce nuclear-powered cars. However, we can get the same effect simply by making hydrogen-powered zero-emission vehicles and producing the hydrogen with nuclear power. The benefit of centralizing energy production is total freedom in how the energy is produced. It also easier, cheaper, and better for the environment to have one big, expensive, highly advanced pollution scrubber at a fossil-fuel powered plant than to have jillions of less-efficient catylitic converters all over the place, and eventually taking up space in landfills.
"The war on terrorism is basically a war of intelligence," Scowcroft said. "Every time they move, every time they get money or spend money, there's a trace, somewhere. What we need to do is get as many of those traces as we can and put them together into a mosaic which will allow us to uncover the al-Qaida network."
So basically, screw privacy and due process, we have evil commie spies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H excuse me, terrorists to ferret out!
CompuServe was doing some of those $400 rebates on new computers some time ago. That's how we got it. Once you've done that, you're locked in for quite some time.
Unfortunately, in the context of a crash/instability, this would put you right back in an inoperable/unstable environment.
Dude, why is everyone so worried about this? Isn't it obvious that you could just have a "memory reset" button? Hmmm, maybe it isn't as obvious as I thought! [rushes off to file a patent]
The possibility of connecting the Commodore 64 to an Ethernet local area network has been a collective dream in the Commodore community for decades. A C64 Ethernet adapter would make it possible to connect the C64 directly to the Internet, making it possible to download software, transfer data to and from the C64, play network games over the Internet; the possibilities are endless.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have been running C64 emulators on our already Internet-connected Pentiums...
This has a very high hack value, but I really don't think that a practical application is going to be networked C64 games over the Internet. If you're going to write a networked game, you're not going to write it for the C64, I mean come on! Even if you were, an emulator would be a much cheaper and easier solution than actual hardware.
What are you talking about? Do you have any idea what Lycoris is? It is XFree86 + KDE + some well-chosen open source apps. What "kernel mods" and "hooks" and "patches" and "API"s are you talking about, specifically? If you're referring to the kernel pre-emption patches, those have already been merged into the 2.5.x tree, and are widely seen as a good thing for Linux.
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Hopefully that's the message Congress will get, after the music-listening public finishes beating them over the head with it...
All of these popup-blocking schemes are doomed to eventual failure. Why? Consider a site that wants to get past Mozilla's popup blocker. Right now most popups are spawned from a new page when it begins loading, so Mozilla blocks these. All a site has to do to get past this is add code to its links that pops up an ad window whenever a link is clicked on, in addition to loading the requested page. This behavior will be indistinguishable to Mozilla to the kind of popups you want, which are also popped up when you click on a link. This is why I am glad Netscape took popup blocking out of their releases - it might go under the radar of most web developers, allowing us Mozilla users to keep blocking popups for at least a while longer.
I'm still disappointed in ID software. One original title is worth a thousand remakes.
I didn't have to read the article to figure out that Doom III is the second sequel to Doom (although I did read it before posting, that's how I knew what the game's story was, idiot). However, nowhere in the article does it say that they are intentionally rehashing the story (who read the article now?). Just because it is a sequel doesn't mean they have to recycle the story! There is room for creativity here. The same old stories and monsters are getting kinda old. Wouldn't it be great if Doom III had a totally new direction for the story, and innovative new kinds of monsters? (and by innovative I don't mean "different models and textures").
Man, couldn't they have thought up something a little more original? I mean, mysterious otherworldly monsters coming through portals into a large installation is pure Half-Life! The whole "aliens take over people's bodies and mutate them into gruesome monsters" thing is totally unoriginal as well. No shock value at all left in that anymore. Are there going to be cowering white-lab-coated scientists too? How about small crawling creatures that jump up and try to eat you when you get close?
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This is actually a VERY significant usability feature! Sometimes X applications can be *very* slow to start (StarOffice, Mozilla, etc). What will often happen is newbies will click the Mozilla icon (for example) and nothing will happen. So they click it again. And again, and again. Then suddenly tons of Mozilla windows start opening all over the screen. The flashing icon was put in to solve this usability problem, and it does quite a good job. For the rest of us it is a 10 second trip into KControl to turn it off.
Well known, perhaps, by people who have never heard of Go.
The Dungeon Master mode makes it all worthwhile. The Dungeon Master can control the plot in real-time for you, allowing actual logical storylines to progress and evolve. No more will you have to listen to the NPC say the same stupid thing five times over because that's all he has to say, the dungeon master can take control of him and tell you whatever he wants.
ANTITRUST! ANTITRUST!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, where is the government on this?!? This is exactly what should be illegal when you have a monopoly, and it is exactly what MS is doing!
It probably gives a tiny spurt of speed, just enough to lean you back the other way, then slows you down. That way you could never sustain a speed above 12 MPH. In fact it could keep your center of gravity from ever travelling faster than 12 MPH if it was careful.
You'll be happy to know that KDE 3 comes with an alternate icon set, iKons, in addition to the worked-over original set. Also, several others (slick and crystal come immediately to mind) are available at kde-look.org (a wonderful site that seems to have brought a kde themeing community out of the woodwork).
Here's another idea: Instead of having a plethora of specified taxes on various products going to a multitude of different agencies, why not have a unified sales tax. This allows the government to redistribute the money to different organizations as needed, with a minimum amount of hassle. Oh wait, that's already how it works. I think it's fine then.
Heh, nobody better tell them that their sites are being served by a daemon...
What? This system would not be any worse for terrorism than the system we have now. Right now we are dependent on the oil fields that provide the oil (which are currently mostly in areas at high risk for terrorism), large oil refineries to refine that oil (recently the price of gas in CA spiked when one of these went offline), and large power plants to power our cities. If we went to a hydrogen economy, we would reduce our dependence on the oil fields and the refineries could be mostly replaced by hydrogen production stations, while the power plants remained in the same locations. How would this be worse? We wouldn't have one big giant "world hydrogen production center" or even a central US production center for terrorists to attack. Obviously you didn't think before submitting this comment.
I think you are underestimating the value of centralizing production of energy. It is not feasible to produce nuclear-powered cars. However, we can get the same effect simply by making hydrogen-powered zero-emission vehicles and producing the hydrogen with nuclear power. The benefit of centralizing energy production is total freedom in how the energy is produced. It also easier, cheaper, and better for the environment to have one big, expensive, highly advanced pollution scrubber at a fossil-fuel powered plant than to have jillions of less-efficient catylitic converters all over the place, and eventually taking up space in landfills.
So basically, screw privacy and due process, we have evil commie spies ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H excuse me, terrorists to ferret out!
CompuServe was doing some of those $400 rebates on new computers some time ago. That's how we got it. Once you've done that, you're locked in for quite some time.
Dude, why is everyone so worried about this? Isn't it obvious that you could just have a "memory reset" button? Hmmm, maybe it isn't as obvious as I thought!
[rushes off to file a patent]
Meanwhile, the rest of us have been running C64 emulators on our already Internet-connected Pentiums...
This has a very high hack value, but I really don't think that a practical application is going to be networked C64 games over the Internet. If you're going to write a networked game, you're not going to write it for the C64, I mean come on! Even if you were, an emulator would be a much cheaper and easier solution than actual hardware.
What are you talking about? Do you have any idea what Lycoris is? It is XFree86 + KDE + some well-chosen open source apps. What "kernel mods" and "hooks" and "patches" and "API"s are you talking about, specifically? If you're referring to the kernel pre-emption patches, those have already been merged into the 2.5.x tree, and are widely seen as a good thing for Linux.