If you want ogg support you don't need to pay big money for the PMP... iriver also sells the H320 and H340 both of which are standard fare HD music players, and both officially support ogg. supposedly reviews say the pmp supports ogg, but the specs for it fail to mention that, perhaps as an accidental ommision?
A) Funnily enough, non of my windows installations screw up their configurations randomly. And Ive been responsable for 150 systems. Just a little point, due to a 'flawed design' to IE an html page can be designed to pop-up and look exactly like a default windows yes/no dialog, however clicking 'no' will perform the same action as clicking yes. Only the little 'X' in the upper right corner is 'safe' to click...* or else you will be 0wned and part of a botnet/etc... Since grandparent is a Helpdesk worker, I'm sure some of the 'random' issues are due to genuine vulnerabilities that are microsoft's fault.
*= this can be done, because popups are allowed to define ever aspect of the popups size, shape, scroll bars, title, etc.. Every display aspect of the popup... Firefox doesn't allow this, so if you turn off popup blocking and surf a bit, you'll find some really funny looking spoofed dialog boxes popping up with yes/no's, but they're easily identified as mozilla windows, and not as say an activex install dialog etc.
Mods on crack... again -- depite the parent being a considered a troll* they mod a contextual reply off topic, to a +5 funny If parent is offtopic, then Grandparent was off topic too...
Note to crack using moderators: karma bonus was used so that people could see parent.
*= in this case it seems** like he's only _considered_ a 'troll' for being a misfit and having 'negative' karma. **= I'm not a subscriber, so I can't see his whole posting history, he might have been a hardcore troll, but lately he doesn't seem to be trying.
It might feel good It might sound a lil somethin but Damn the gaim If it don't mean nuttin What is gaim who got gaim Where's the gaim In life Behind the gaim Behind the gaim I got gaim She got gaim We got gaim They got gaim He got gaim It might feel good It might sound a lil somethin But fuck the gaim If it ain't sayin nuttin
when you have to DL the file over the internet, it becomes much harder, and actually some people are deathly afraid of being caught. The point is EASE of access... if there is no protection, then every john dick and harry out there can make copies for friends, noone has to 'do anything risky' like download a torrent file...
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Leo was (and is) a professional talk radio host. Prior to Tech TV he has 0 years 'television' experience, but something like 20 years* in radio...
*=it was a lot, sure someone will correct me if I'm way off
PS - Most everything on TV is fraudulent to some degree, from the news to "reality" shows. Broadcast networks are run by Machiavellians. The bottom lines are ratings and brand-building; accuracy, honesty and integrity don't enter into it, except as they affect the bottom lines (i.e. PR). that was what made Tech TV's TSS so Completely different from any other show on air. When it was run by Tech TV's execs, they let the show be what it was... they could easily have a 90-minute live format and bring in more viewers to tech tv than any other show. Once the Really Bad Execs from G4 networks 'conned' thier way into being kept by comcast, and the Tech TV execs were canned, the show had no hope of surviving. I can't say for sure that Tech TV's execs were ore weren't machiavellian, but if they were, they were at least Intelligent enough to understand that they couldn't 'improve' on a winning formula like TSS had.
Actually the RIAA killed the radio star. They just pinned the blame on video. It was a setup! Video is innocent! Innocent I say! Free Video! Free Video! Er, wait Video Got off on a technicality, of having better lawyers than the DA, kinda like OJ.
that is so old school. nowadays what you do is you find some clueless customer of some big telco like ATT, you dial thier voice mail number (usually thier number, then an extention), and get thier voicemail, you enter the 'default' password of 1111, or 9999, and proced to change the 'voice mail' message to 'yes, yes yes, i accept charges, yes yes yes' now you go on any phone, and dial as a 'third party billing' and give the computer the number of hacked voice-mail box. badda bing badda boom, someone in kansas just paid for your 24 hour 3-way call beween your friend in japan and that person you know in africa...
the US millitary Already has a working (leg only) exosuit. Right now it's meant as a gear/supply transport platform... The current practical applications would allow a land based party of infantry to carry rations and munitions for miles and miles away without needing any airdrops of supplys or ther currently employed methods for getting goods into terain not accessable by conventional vehicles.
Some possible configurations for the suit on a 'real' battle field include a 'practical' flame thrower. you could load half a ton of propellant onto the back of this suit and have enough burntime to kill 100,000 infantry*.. or you could have a really big power plant on the back to power a tank piercing laser... and it could have low power for soldiers... or you could add a missle battery to it, or you could havs two really heavy gattling guns with about 1,000,000** rounds of ammo... Heck, while were at it let's make it a platform for your own personal Ion cannon! because you know it's not enough to just cut a hole in a tank, it needs to be entirely melted into a pile of volcanic debris!
*= well i'm guessing if they group up for you nicely...
Actually, I tried to duplicate the bug you mentioned, and well, it's not that the bookmark i tried to open didn't open, it just opened REALLY REALLY slowly... it took a full minute to load a/. page from the bookmarks... and 'open in tabs' on my rss feed of slashdot loaded in 15 seconds... (for all 10 tabs) as to the 'coralized' links working, it was only working for 'page 1' of the article for me :
Up until Activision bought the rights, id was indy. Basically, id didn't want to become some huge publisher, which they woulda had to to 'put up' all the damn 'copy protection racket' fees... of course they coulda just pressed unprotected discs or something like people used to in the days before cd-burners were $10 at the local wal-mart*... but then anyone who wanted to could copy it for all their friends, and frankly a lot of people would do that. let's see.. $50 at the store, or $0.01 for a blank CD and burn it off a friend...
*= Okay, maybe not at wal-mart, but froogle has a few obviously cd-r drives have come way down in price... and with dvd-burners becoming even cheaper a lot of places are liquidating old inventory of cd-burners, because they expect for retail demand to dwindle to 'new computer' and 'replacement part' sales...
So they could 'sting' you with a 'sting' wma or wmv like "sting Russians" and then you could be doing hard time in a federal prison that makes sibera look inviting? Note: the song 'russians' is imbedded within the 'official sting.com flash page (macromedia flash player required)
why don't they do something? Well, it's not 'legal' repercussions they're worried about. It's perfectly legal to build a tool to remove someone else's 'perfectly legal' software, you just need to indicate that it's _not_ a virus, and that it's 'legitimate adware' and then ask you if you'd like to 'uninstall' the malware. calling it a virus or a trojan would be something they couldn't do, but as long as they desinguish between a virus and an adware, then they would only need the resource and time to track down all the hundreds of thousands of malware variations, and create a detect and remove prcedure for each of them... something that your a/v company might not want to put so much extra resource into.
nah it's just the usual/. article submission error... the robot's _armor_ will be entirely composed of flowers, which for maximum effect should be highly halucinogenic or some other mind altering effects to enable the robot overlords to more easily enlave humans.
It's irritating when that happens especially when you want to submit a story you KNOW hasn't been on slashdot before, but get rejected only to have one of these "frequent" headliners post "dupes" or an ask slashdot that could have easily been looked up on google. you must be new here... Articles are accepted, rejected and posted as fully autonomously as humanly possible... remember Taco get's paid to play video games all day long, not to actually accept or reject pending articles... when they find someone who's submitting a lot of good articles he get's flagged and sorted to the top, so editors can say 'hrm 2 stories to que for submission acception allright reject the rest..' Once they find the x# of submissions to accept they can just bulk reject submisions. The way/. editors do buisness on the main page is what lead to the popularity of 'journals.' afterall your journal can contain every single rejected article, if you think you've got a good one you can reference it with urls, etc etal. Frankly if/. didn't have journals I wouldn't be using/. anymore... few articles on the main page are worth more than reading the headline*. but with the 'my/amigos' page you can custom build a 'main' page with content from everyone you think has good je's.
*= when you've been here a while you pick up the formula... most articles links read the same.. vanilla press release on new technology X etc etc.. there are occasionally really good RTFA's but usually just the headline is enough.
the guy invented the technology on a par with DVD-rom in 1974... And he had the ideas patented, and no matter how many expensive laywers sony and phillps had, this guy had the idea, and the patents first. And they settled for a cash sum, instead of some royalty.... This guys work could have easily lead to the DVD-movie playback way back in the mid 70s... Were talking before VHS ever had a chance to become popular they coulda had a working DVD-player if they'd actually hired the guy and paid the royalties, and used his technology.
Intel has fab plants overseas, so does AMD, It's nice to see Intel expanding the US plant, but it's also been rumoured that AMD is opening a second US based fab.. (in addition to thier Austin, Tx one) Yeah the dresden Germany fab is thier higher volume fab, but opening a new fab in NY could shift the ballence to made in the usa. I highly doubt this 2b fab upgrade for intel is going to shift margin, most likely it's just required maintenece costs to keep the plant running. Intel's roadmaps from some 2-3 years ago had the 'real' P5's rolling out around now, and that is ultimately where intel dropped the ball. AMD wouldn't even have rabid fanboys in the FPS market if the p5's had been on schedule. Lately all I heard from Intel is multi-core p4's which would shift the performance to intel, at the cost of precious silicon (not that the amd FX uses a small chunk of silicon either.) And yeah intel has generally had better overall design (even the highest end AMDs can get bogged down when trying to multi-task, unless you configure them in a dual processor setup) While intel has had the multi-tasking issue solved from a single processor for quite some time now.
first off the links are for the ipodlinuxinstaller which is based on the actual ipodlinux which is based on the microwindows project. Ipod linux installer seems to be a vanilla "I want cash give me cash so i can port software someone else wrote to your ipod... only i'm not going to actually do that, but when the guys really doing the porting do the work i might pur thier code up here"... project. Basically its a guy whining for cash to buy an ipod, because his free ipod link didn't work.
Who needs play when you have PONG! and technically, it doesn't play ogg. It will play mp3's though. and play a number of games... but ogg support? no... it will make mp3s too, but play oggs? no. Guess they need more people working on it or something.
we all know AC is jealous, he wants $647 a month to read and copy/paste news articles. It sounds to me like roland has a nice little side gig going on whereby he can make loads of 'extra' income just for doing what he likes to do which is read news. oh wait, that sounds like what the slashdot editors are doing too, only people actually do all the submitting FOR them... hey wait! if this roland fellow is evil, then/. must be even worse!! because they don't even RTFAs they just get money for ads and subscriptions just for accepting/rejecting articles and they even let peers moderate dthe resulting discussion GASP you're doing all the work for them!!! damn.
Just have floatation devices built into the wingsuit. Oh and a radio somewhat like a black box has so said ships can find you faster. If you're sane you'd try it over water 1st because you can hit water a lot harder than you can hit the ground... the only (naturally occuring) better shock insulators are powdery snow, or some type of peat bog... That being said if you hit water going fast enough it's like hitting concrete....snow would be like hitting a card house made out of razor blades, and a peat bog would be somewhere below water in terms of hardness (due to all the gasses from the decaying matter that a peat bog is composed of)
why do either of those if you're spending cash, you may as well get the Gravis GamePro USB (around $15 USD) It's shaped like a PSX controller, which makes it somewhat similar to the SNES controller, but allows you to map a few extra buttons... I've noticed the D-pad is a bit more sensative than a standard console d-pad, but it's never been something I couldn't play around. (especially since most emulators will let you use both the keyboard and the joystick inputs) Looks like SNES emulation doesn't have much of anything left to be emulated. I strongly reccomend the super famicom wars game if you can find it. It has a number of gameplay abilities (super tanks, Railroad Guns, fighter-bombers, short range SAMs, and Battleships can both hit AIR and ground units.) none of those features are in any of the GBA releases, Although Neo tanks are kinda like Super tanks (except you can have more than 1, you don't need a special property to convert an infantry into a neo, unlike the 'super tank'... SFC wars only has 3 or 4 railroad missions, but they're still pretty sweet, a lander that can only move via rail and rail connected cities, has 1+/+1 range over a rockets, has a longer move range than a jet fighter. It's pretty damn sweet ^^
(tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, lightweight interface) was pioneered by Opera first. I will give you mouse gestures, but i'm sure someone can cite and earlier example of a program using mouse gestures... lightweight interfaces i'd give some much earlier text-only browser credit for trying to make as light wight an interface as possible, and as far as tabbed broswing goes, the first browser I ever used with tabbed browsing was way back in the true browser wars. When Netscape 1.1 was king of the hill, GNN Global Network Navigator had a bizarro cool interface, you could split the window into more 'panes' or have new 'tabs' (which it didn't call tabs, but had some other nifty name for them) But then AOL bought GNN and proceeded to make the company into nothing... All this from a browser that only used 4 MB of ram... (but then 4 MB of ram cost $125 back then...) Every innovative brower function was pioneered during the era know as the browser wars. there were was many as 151 commercial web browsers available for windows 3.11 concurrently.. It's long since ancient history, Microsoft and Netscape partnered up to quash virtually every browser on the planet by making thier editors output junk HTML that would crash, or simple render a site unusable in competitors browsers... Opera isn't a bad browser but innovative? hardly, it's just a bunch of 'good ideas' that other people had already had for browsers, but they had come into the game too early, and were crushed by the evil empire.
ask and ye shall recieve... click user preferences over on the top left of this screen, from there click on 'comments' then look for "Anonymous Modifier (modifier assigned to anonymous posts)" and set that to -6. All AC posts even those rated +5 funny are now -1 (to you) you can safely browse at 0, and not see any AC posts.
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If you want ogg support you don't need to pay big money for the PMP... iriver also sells the H320 and H340 both of which are standard fare HD music players, and both officially support ogg. supposedly reviews say the pmp supports ogg, but the specs for it fail to mention that, perhaps as an accidental ommision?
A) Funnily enough, non of my windows installations screw up their configurations randomly. And Ive been responsable for 150 systems.
Just a little point, due to a 'flawed design' to IE an html page can be designed to pop-up and look exactly like a default windows yes/no dialog, however clicking 'no' will perform the same action as clicking yes. Only the little 'X' in the upper right corner is 'safe' to click...* or else you will be 0wned and part of a botnet/etc...
Since grandparent is a Helpdesk worker, I'm sure some of the 'random' issues are due to genuine vulnerabilities that are microsoft's fault.
*= this can be done, because popups are allowed to define ever aspect of the popups size, shape, scroll bars, title, etc.. Every display aspect of the popup... Firefox doesn't allow this, so if you turn off popup blocking and surf a bit, you'll find some really funny looking spoofed dialog boxes popping up with yes/no's, but they're easily identified as mozilla windows, and not as say an activex install dialog etc.
Mods on crack... again -- depite the parent being a considered a troll* they mod a contextual reply off topic, to a +5 funny If parent is offtopic, then Grandparent was off topic too...
Note to crack using moderators: karma bonus was used so that people could see parent.
*= in this case it seems** like he's only _considered_ a 'troll' for being a misfit and having 'negative' karma.
**= I'm not a subscriber, so I can't see his whole posting history, he might have been a hardcore troll, but lately he doesn't seem to be trying.
It might feel good
It might sound a lil somethin
but Damn the gaim
If it don't mean nuttin
What is gaim who got gaim
Where's the gaim
In life
Behind the gaim
Behind the gaim
I got gaim
She got gaim
We got gaim
They got gaim
He got gaim
It might feel good
It might sound a lil somethin
But fuck the gaim
If it ain't sayin nuttin
when you have to DL the file over the internet, it becomes much harder, and actually some people are deathly afraid of being caught. The point is EASE of access... if there is no protection, then every john dick and harry out there can make copies for friends, noone has to 'do anything risky' like download a torrent file...
Leo was (and is) a professional talk radio host. Prior to Tech TV he has 0 years 'television' experience, but something like 20 years* in radio...
*=it was a lot, sure someone will correct me if I'm way off
PS - Most everything on TV is fraudulent to some degree, from the news to "reality" shows. Broadcast networks are run by Machiavellians. The bottom lines are ratings and brand-building; accuracy, honesty and integrity don't enter into it, except as they affect the bottom lines (i.e. PR).
that was what made Tech TV's TSS so Completely different from any other show on air.
When it was run by Tech TV's execs, they let the show be what it was... they could easily have a 90-minute live format and bring in more viewers to tech tv than any other show. Once the Really Bad Execs from G4 networks 'conned' thier way into being kept by comcast, and the Tech TV execs were canned, the show had no hope of surviving.
I can't say for sure that Tech TV's execs were ore weren't machiavellian, but if they were, they were at least Intelligent enough to understand that they couldn't 'improve' on a winning formula like TSS had.
Actually the RIAA killed the radio star. They just pinned the blame on video. It was a setup! Video is innocent! Innocent I say!
Free Video!
Free Video!
Er, wait Video Got off on a technicality, of having better lawyers than the DA, kinda like OJ.
that is so old school. nowadays what you do is you find some clueless customer of some big telco like ATT, you dial thier voice mail number (usually thier number, then an extention), and get thier voicemail, you enter the 'default' password of 1111, or 9999, and proced to change the 'voice mail' message to 'yes, yes yes, i accept charges, yes yes yes' now you go on any phone, and dial as a 'third party billing' and give the computer the number of hacked voice-mail box. badda bing badda boom, someone in kansas just paid for your 24 hour 3-way call beween your friend in japan and that person you know in africa...
the US millitary Already has a working (leg only) exosuit. Right now it's meant as a gear/supply transport platform... The current practical applications would allow a land based party of infantry to carry rations and munitions for miles and miles away without needing any airdrops of supplys or ther currently employed methods for getting goods into terain not accessable by conventional vehicles.
Some possible configurations for the suit on a 'real' battle field include a 'practical' flame thrower. you could load half a ton of propellant onto the back of this suit and have enough burntime to kill 100,000 infantry*.. or you could have a really big power plant on the back to power a tank piercing laser... and it could have low power for soldiers... or you could add a missle battery to it, or you could havs two really heavy gattling guns with about 1,000,000** rounds of ammo... Heck, while were at it let's make it a platform for your own personal Ion cannon! because you know it's not enough to just cut a hole in a tank, it needs to be entirely melted into a pile of volcanic debris!
*= well i'm guessing if they group up for you nicely...
**== well a lot anyways.
Actually, I tried to duplicate the bug you mentioned, and well, it's not that the bookmark i tried to open didn't open, it just opened REALLY REALLY slowly... it took a full minute to load a /. page from the bookmarks... and 'open in tabs' on my rss feed of slashdot loaded in 15 seconds... (for all 10 tabs)
as to the 'coralized' links working, it was only working for 'page 1' of the article for me :
Up until Activision bought the rights, id was indy.
Basically, id didn't want to become some huge publisher, which they woulda had to to 'put up' all the damn 'copy protection racket' fees... of course they coulda just pressed unprotected discs or something like people used to in the days before cd-burners were $10 at the local wal-mart*... but then anyone who wanted to could copy it for all their friends, and frankly a lot of people would do that. let's see.. $50 at the store, or $0.01 for a blank CD and burn it off a friend...
*= Okay, maybe not at wal-mart, but froogle has a few obviously cd-r drives have come way down in price... and with dvd-burners becoming even cheaper a lot of places are liquidating old inventory of cd-burners, because they expect for retail demand to dwindle to 'new computer' and 'replacement part' sales...
So they could 'sting' you with a 'sting' wma or wmv like "sting Russians" and then you could be doing hard time in a federal prison that makes sibera look inviting?
Note: the song 'russians' is imbedded within the 'official sting.com flash page (macromedia flash player required)
why don't they do something? Well, it's not 'legal' repercussions they're worried about. It's perfectly legal to build a tool to remove someone else's 'perfectly legal' software, you just need to indicate that it's _not_ a virus, and that it's 'legitimate adware' and then ask you if you'd like to 'uninstall' the malware. calling it a virus or a trojan would be something they couldn't do, but as long as they desinguish between a virus and an adware, then they would only need the resource and time to track down all the hundreds of thousands of malware variations, and create a detect and remove prcedure for each of them... something that your a/v company might not want to put so much extra resource into.
nah it's just the usual /. article submission error... the robot's _armor_ will be entirely composed of flowers, which for maximum effect should be highly halucinogenic or some other mind altering effects to enable the robot overlords to more easily enlave humans.
It's irritating when that happens especially when you want to submit a story you KNOW hasn't been on slashdot before, but get rejected only to have one of these "frequent" headliners post "dupes" or an ask slashdot that could have easily been looked up on google. /. editors do buisness on the main page is what lead to the popularity of 'journals.' afterall your journal can contain every single rejected article, if you think you've got a good one you can reference it with urls, etc etal. Frankly if /. didn't have journals I wouldn't be using /. anymore... few articles on the main page are worth more than reading the headline*. but with the 'my/amigos' page you can custom build a 'main' page with content from everyone you think has good je's.
you must be new here... Articles are accepted, rejected and posted as fully autonomously as humanly possible... remember Taco get's paid to play video games all day long, not to actually accept or reject pending articles...
when they find someone who's submitting a lot of good articles he get's flagged and sorted to the top, so editors can say 'hrm 2 stories to que for submission acception allright reject the rest..'
Once they find the x# of submissions to accept they can just bulk reject submisions. The way
*= when you've been here a while you pick up the formula... most articles links read the same.. vanilla press release on new technology X etc etc.. there are occasionally really good RTFA's but usually just the headline is enough.
the guy invented the technology on a par with DVD-rom in 1974... And he had the ideas patented, and no matter how many expensive laywers sony and phillps had, this guy had the idea, and the patents first. And they settled for a cash sum, instead of some royalty.... This guys work could have easily lead to the DVD-movie playback way back in the mid 70s... Were talking before VHS ever had a chance to become popular they coulda had a working DVD-player if they'd actually hired the guy and paid the royalties, and used his technology.
Intel has fab plants overseas, so does AMD, It's nice to see Intel expanding the US plant, but it's also been rumoured that AMD is opening a second US based fab.. (in addition to thier Austin, Tx one)
Yeah the dresden Germany fab is thier higher volume fab, but opening a new fab in NY could shift the ballence to made in the usa. I highly doubt this 2b fab upgrade for intel is going to shift margin, most likely it's just required maintenece costs to keep the plant running.
Intel's roadmaps from some 2-3 years ago had the 'real' P5's rolling out around now, and that is ultimately where intel dropped the ball.
AMD wouldn't even have rabid fanboys in the FPS market if the p5's had been on schedule. Lately all I heard from Intel is multi-core p4's which would shift the performance to intel, at the cost of precious silicon (not that the amd FX uses a small chunk of silicon either.)
And yeah intel has generally had better overall design (even the highest end AMDs can get bogged down when trying to multi-task, unless you configure them in a dual processor setup) While intel has had the multi-tasking issue solved from a single processor for quite some time now.
first off the links are for the ipodlinuxinstaller which is based on the actual ipodlinux which is based on the microwindows project. Ipod linux installer seems to be a vanilla "I want cash give me cash so i can port software someone else wrote to your ipod... only i'm not going to actually do that, but when the guys really doing the porting do the work i might pur thier code up here"... project.
Basically its a guy whining for cash to buy an ipod, because his free ipod link didn't work.
Who needs play when you have PONG!
and technically, it doesn't play ogg. It will play mp3's though. and play a number of games... but ogg support? no... it will make mp3s too, but play oggs? no. Guess they need more people working on it or something.
we all know AC is jealous, he wants $647 a month to read and copy/paste news articles. /. must be even worse!! because they don't even RTFAs they just get money for ads and subscriptions just for accepting/rejecting articles and they even let peers moderate dthe resulting discussion GASP you're doing all the work for them!!! damn.
It sounds to me like roland has a nice little side gig going on whereby he can make loads of 'extra' income just for doing what he likes to do which is read news. oh wait, that sounds like what the slashdot editors are doing too, only people actually do all the submitting FOR them... hey wait! if this roland fellow is evil, then
Just have floatation devices built into the wingsuit. Oh and a radio somewhat like a black box has so said ships can find you faster.
If you're sane you'd try it over water 1st because you can hit water a lot harder than you can hit the ground... the only (naturally occuring) better shock insulators are powdery snow, or some type of peat bog... That being said if you hit water going fast enough it's like hitting concrete....snow would be like hitting a card house made out of razor blades, and a peat bog would be somewhere below water in terms of hardness (due to all the gasses from the decaying matter that a peat bog is composed of)
Just for you I have a new sig!
why do either of those if you're spending cash, you may as well get the Gravis GamePro USB (around $15 USD) It's shaped like a PSX controller, which makes it somewhat similar to the SNES controller, but allows you to map a few extra buttons... I've noticed the D-pad is a bit more sensative than a standard console d-pad, but it's never been something I couldn't play around. (especially since most emulators will let you use both the keyboard and the joystick inputs) Looks like SNES emulation doesn't have much of anything left to be emulated. I strongly reccomend the super famicom wars game if you can find it. It has a number of gameplay abilities (super tanks, Railroad Guns, fighter-bombers, short range SAMs, and Battleships can both hit AIR and ground units.) none of those features are in any of the GBA releases, Although Neo tanks are kinda like Super tanks (except you can have more than 1, you don't need a special property to convert an infantry into a neo, unlike the 'super tank'...
SFC wars only has 3 or 4 railroad missions, but they're still pretty sweet, a lander that can only move via rail and rail connected cities, has 1+/+1 range over a rockets, has a longer move range than a jet fighter. It's pretty damn sweet ^^
(tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, lightweight interface) was pioneered by Opera first.
I will give you mouse gestures, but i'm sure someone can cite and earlier example of a program using mouse gestures... lightweight interfaces i'd give some much earlier text-only browser credit for trying to make as light wight an interface as possible, and as far as tabbed broswing goes, the first browser I ever used with tabbed browsing was way back in the true browser wars. When Netscape 1.1 was king of the hill, GNN Global Network Navigator had a bizarro cool interface, you could split the window into more 'panes' or have new 'tabs' (which it didn't call tabs, but had some other nifty name for them) But then AOL bought GNN and proceeded to make the company into nothing... All this from a browser that only used 4 MB of ram... (but then 4 MB of ram cost $125 back then...)
Every innovative brower function was pioneered during the era know as the browser wars. there were was many as 151 commercial web browsers available for windows 3.11 concurrently.. It's long since ancient history, Microsoft and Netscape partnered up to quash virtually every browser on the planet by making thier editors output junk HTML that would crash, or simple render a site unusable in competitors browsers...
Opera isn't a bad browser but innovative? hardly, it's just a bunch of 'good ideas' that other people had already had for browsers, but they had come into the game too early, and were crushed by the evil empire.
ask and ye shall recieve... click user preferences over on the top left of this screen, from there click on 'comments' then look for "Anonymous Modifier (modifier assigned to anonymous posts)" and set that to -6. All AC posts even those rated +5 funny are now -1 (to you) you can safely browse at 0, and not see any AC posts.