Firefox is no more secure than Internet Explorer if the user is gullible and if no "anti-phishing" toolbar is running. I can type my personal information and send it to some Pakistani web site in Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, you name it.
There are a countermeasures that people can use already, but with so many options out there -- and not all of them work equally well -- I'm not surprised that eBay is sitting this one out.
To play movies full-screen in Windows Media Player out of the box: ALT-ENTER
To play movies full-screen in QuickTime Player out of the box: CMD-F (and pay $30) (and pay $30 for the next version) (and $30 more for the version after that)
Try telling that to Sony Computer Entertainment, which added a web browser to the PSP 2.0 firmware.
Just because Sony, one of several companies Pineight slavishly follows, adds a web browser doesn't mean that Pineight has to.
Remember that the GNU/Linux OS itself is a knock-off of a successful commercial operating system (UNIX System V). Would you rather have this device run Windows Mobile like a Pocket PC device does?
I would rather not give a shit what OS my handheld gaming device runs. The PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox run games just fine without me caring what OS is underneath.
Better, faster, cheaper. Sometimes you can have two.
True. Pineight games sure are fast and cheap.
KD isn't as fundamentally innovative as some people like to claim. It's a 3-D update to Namco's previous title Pac-Man (called Puckman in Asia) with an extra rule: eating dots gives you the ability to eat bigger dots. Now that the basic game types have been laid out, innovation in single-player gaming has become more evolution than revolution (sorry Nintendo).
Sorry, no. Pac-Man had ghosts, power pills, and various bonuses that added to your goal of increasing your score. In Katamari Damacy you have two enemies: moving objects larger than you (which don't kill you but just knock you around) and stationary objects larger than you (which don't kill you but just stop you). It's a whole different style of gameplay. Still, I look forward to gkatamari, coming in 2008 to a Debian repository near me.
Wow, games from 20 years ago* didn't come from "big corps." Big whoop.
So I get your point. Old games that people cling to zealously came from independent developers. You should be proud of how the more recent games from that list were bought up or grew into "big corps" and promptly sold out, leaving the open source community to suckle at the "big corps" teats for new material.
* BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! THIS IS HOW TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT! WRONG! I CAN REFUTE YOUR POINT! BZZT! HOORAY! I WIN! WRONG!
No, I'mnot. The top listed games are ripoffs of Civilization, any FPS, Puzzle Bobble, Breakout (!!), and emulators to play other games. About the only original game that's worth playing out of that list is Nethack.
Right now the Linux open-source gaming scene has about as much depth as a "500 games in 1" shareware CD from 1991. I'm sure in 14 years you'll have something to instill more pride in prospective users.
I've seen exactly three uses of "open" or "homebrew" development:
1. Needless desktop application functionality, such as a shell or a web browser, on a device that lacks even a keyboard. 2. Emulators to play others' original commercial work on. 3. Knock-offs of successful commercial games. (ObPineightResponse: But they make the games BETTER!)
Why is it that all the innovative games (Katamari Damacy, etc) still come from big corporations? Why hasn't the Linux development community managed to break the mold that other companies have built for it?
Having dealt with both Apple's and HP's support, I would happily pay double the cost to have anyone but HP supporting my hardware. Total outsourced hell. Both Apple and HP do the typical tech support runaround (many tiers of intelligence, vagueness/lying when information isn't available) but Apple's level 1 techs are at least somewhat intelligent.
A better alternative is not to put too much stock into awards like "Game of the Year," and to instead buy games based on your own impressions. After all, much of the appeal of Katamari Damacy is that it's obscure: its title is a trivia question in and of itself. If it goes mainstream, its underground appeal is lost.
I love Katamari Damacy and plan to buy the sequel. However, it was not the game of the year. It was a game where you roll a ball through a Japanese acid trip for 15 or so levels all played on one of three stages. It had fantastic music and it stood out in a year where so many popular games were sequels. Most of the acclaim I see about it is on the order of "This is what games should be," "This is why I hate Madden," "This is going to be remembered forever."
It's a game about rolling a ball. It's very fun. You can finish it in under 10 hours and keep playing just by yourself; its multiplayer is lame. It is a fantastic game, especially for the anti-EA otaku in all of us, but it is not the best game of 2004.
Had you read the article (Wired isn't slashdotted) you would have known that the "wireless" capability being discussed is mobile phones, not 802.11[abgi]. You know, the kind of wireless that works more than 200 feet from your home.
Why would anyone want to "move to W3C standards, etc." when Google does the complete opposite? They write all sorts of branching logic to code to the limitations of IE, Firefox, Safari, and any other browser that matters to them. The whole point that's being made here is that Google is "pushing browsers to the limit" by specifically knocking on their non-standard hooks.
Standard 1: Does it work in IE? Standard 2: Does it work in Mozilla/Firefox? Standard 3 (optional): Does it work in Safari?
I mentioned libraries in my post, which you clearly didn't read before you
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it in part. My point is that people at libraries do not immerse themselves in forums and weblogs to anywhere near the level that you or I can. The web as a medium of discourse remains devoid of working-class people who don't have the liberty to dick around on the web at the library like you or I do during working hours.
Hey, but tell me some more about these little places called libraries. Do they have paperback books? I don't like hardback books. Be sure to use lots of sarcasm. Everybody loves sarcasm. It makes you seem so witty and smart.
Only people with money can get on-line. The vast majority of blogs and forums out there (Slashdot included) are populated entirely by people wealthy enough to afford an Internet connection of some sort. You don't see working-class people at the library updating their politiblogs because OMG did you see what Koz said this morning about the deficit what a total wonk I am totally trackbacking him right now!!!
It isn't. That's why I mentioned Puzzle Bobble before Snood in my post. Snood is basically Puzzle Bobble for Windows with no time limit to fire a bubble at the board. Many people recognize Snood before Puzzle Bobble, though.
I own a $299 Dell. It came with a trial of McAfee Antivirus, after which I plan to use the free AVG Antivirus. It came with McAfee's firewall and Windows' own firewall, which I think are redundant. Pop-up blockers are built in to IE and Firefox now. Ad-Aware is still free, as are many of its competitors. "Backup anti-spyware" software, whatever that is, doesn't have to cost $100.
I grew up in New York, now live in Pittsburgh, and spent time in the mountains of West Virginia this past January. I know how 0 degrees Fahrenheit feels. In the morning, my not-quite-dry hair freezes below 10F.
My point is that the 0-100 scale on Fahrenheit makes sense for humans and temperature: it's uncommon to stray outside it in most of the lower 48 United States. As a human, I appreciate that.
He's comparing a crappy Mac to a crappy Dell. How much quad rendering and Java+++ scripting are you going to do on a Mac that doesn't even support Core Image effects?
The first time Google rolled out this home page, Google stated that they would eventually put ads on it. They already put ads all over Gmail based on the mail you receive, so it's only natural for them to put ads on your home page based on what you view.
As for the stock price -- $300/share for a company that lives and dies by text ads? I'd wait for the correction.
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Firefox is no more secure than Internet Explorer if the user is gullible and if no "anti-phishing" toolbar is running. I can type my personal information and send it to some Pakistani web site in Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, you name it.
There are a countermeasures that people can use already, but with so many options out there -- and not all of them work equally well -- I'm not surprised that eBay is sitting this one out.
To play movies full-screen in Windows Media Player out of the box: ALT-ENTER
To play movies full-screen in QuickTime Player out of the box: CMD-F (and pay $30) (and pay $30 for the next version) (and $30 more for the version after that)
Yeah, Apple's a saint among corporations.
Try telling that to Sony Computer Entertainment, which added a web browser to the PSP 2.0 firmware.
Just because Sony, one of several companies Pineight slavishly follows, adds a web browser doesn't mean that Pineight has to.
Remember that the GNU/Linux OS itself is a knock-off of a successful commercial operating system (UNIX System V). Would you rather have this device run Windows Mobile like a Pocket PC device does?
I would rather not give a shit what OS my handheld gaming device runs. The PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox run games just fine without me caring what OS is underneath.
Better, faster, cheaper. Sometimes you can have two.
True. Pineight games sure are fast and cheap.
KD isn't as fundamentally innovative as some people like to claim. It's a 3-D update to Namco's previous title Pac-Man (called Puckman in Asia) with an extra rule: eating dots gives you the ability to eat bigger dots. Now that the basic game types have been laid out, innovation in single-player gaming has become more evolution than revolution (sorry Nintendo).
Sorry, no. Pac-Man had ghosts, power pills, and various bonuses that added to your goal of increasing your score. In Katamari Damacy you have two enemies: moving objects larger than you (which don't kill you but just knock you around) and stationary objects larger than you (which don't kill you but just stop you). It's a whole different style of gameplay. Still, I look forward to gkatamari, coming in 2008 to a Debian repository near me.
Wow, games from 20 years ago* didn't come from "big corps." Big whoop.
So I get your point. Old games that people cling to zealously came from independent developers. You should be proud of how the more recent games from that list were bought up or grew into "big corps" and promptly sold out, leaving the open source community to suckle at the "big corps" teats for new material.
* BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! WRONG! BZZT! THIS IS HOW TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT! WRONG! I CAN REFUTE YOUR POINT! BZZT! HOORAY! I WIN! WRONG!
No, I'm not. The top listed games are ripoffs of Civilization, any FPS, Puzzle Bobble, Breakout (!!), and emulators to play other games. About the only original game that's worth playing out of that list is Nethack.
Right now the Linux open-source gaming scene has about as much depth as a "500 games in 1" shareware CD from 1991. I'm sure in 14 years you'll have something to instill more pride in prospective users.
I've seen exactly three uses of "open" or "homebrew" development:
1. Needless desktop application functionality, such as a shell or a web browser, on a device that lacks even a keyboard.
2. Emulators to play others' original commercial work on.
3. Knock-offs of successful commercial games. (ObPineightResponse: But they make the games BETTER!)
Why is it that all the innovative games (Katamari Damacy, etc) still come from big corporations? Why hasn't the Linux development community managed to break the mold that other companies have built for it?
I own an iPod M9460LL/A.
Having dealt with both Apple's and HP's support, I would happily pay double the cost to have anyone but HP supporting my hardware. Total outsourced hell. Both Apple and HP do the typical tech support runaround (many tiers of intelligence, vagueness/lying when information isn't available) but Apple's level 1 techs are at least somewhat intelligent.
A better alternative is not to put too much stock into awards like "Game of the Year," and to instead buy games based on your own impressions. After all, much of the appeal of Katamari Damacy is that it's obscure: its title is a trivia question in and of itself. If it goes mainstream, its underground appeal is lost.
I love Katamari Damacy and plan to buy the sequel. However, it was not the game of the year. It was a game where you roll a ball through a Japanese acid trip for 15 or so levels all played on one of three stages. It had fantastic music and it stood out in a year where so many popular games were sequels. Most of the acclaim I see about it is on the order of "This is what games should be," "This is why I hate Madden," "This is going to be remembered forever."
It's a game about rolling a ball. It's very fun. You can finish it in under 10 hours and keep playing just by yourself; its multiplayer is lame. It is a fantastic game, especially for the anti-EA otaku in all of us, but it is not the best game of 2004.
This awards ceremony will honor Katamari Damacy, so it is legitimate.
Had you read the article (Wired isn't slashdotted) you would have known that the "wireless" capability being discussed is mobile phones, not 802.11[abgi]. You know, the kind of wireless that works more than 200 feet from your home.
Why would anyone want to "move to W3C standards, etc." when Google does the complete opposite? They write all sorts of branching logic to code to the limitations of IE, Firefox, Safari, and any other browser that matters to them. The whole point that's being made here is that Google is "pushing browsers to the limit" by specifically knocking on their non-standard hooks.
Standard 1: Does it work in IE?
Standard 2: Does it work in Mozilla/Firefox?
Standard 3 (optional): Does it work in Safari?
Hey, but tell me some more about these little places called libraries. Do they have paperback books? I don't like hardback books. Be sure to use lots of sarcasm. Everybody loves sarcasm. It makes you seem so witty and smart.
Only people with money can get on-line. The vast majority of blogs and forums out there (Slashdot included) are populated entirely by people wealthy enough to afford an Internet connection of some sort. You don't see working-class people at the library updating their politiblogs because OMG did you see what Koz said this morning about the deficit what a total wonk I am totally trackbacking him right now!!!
That sucks. What kind of stupid desktop environment puts big ugly shadows under every bit of text on the desktop?
Puzzle Bobble came first. It was renamed to "Bust A Move" for the U.S. market.
It isn't. That's why I mentioned Puzzle Bobble before Snood in my post. Snood is basically Puzzle Bobble for Windows with no time limit to fire a bubble at the board. Many people recognize Snood before Puzzle Bobble, though.
The most exciting Open Source app is a clone of Puzzle Bobble or Snood? That's not very inspiring.
That's easy. Make a macro.
Slashdotters love to mock businesses' use of VBA in Office documents, but they're a big (and non-free) barrier to adoption of OpenOffice.org.
I own a $299 Dell. It came with a trial of McAfee Antivirus, after which I plan to use the free AVG Antivirus. It came with McAfee's firewall and Windows' own firewall, which I think are redundant. Pop-up blockers are built in to IE and Firefox now. Ad-Aware is still free, as are many of its competitors. "Backup anti-spyware" software, whatever that is, doesn't have to cost $100.
Outstanding FUD, though. You would do a good job selling Norton Antivirus for Mac.
I grew up in New York, now live in Pittsburgh, and spent time in the mountains of West Virginia this past January. I know how 0 degrees Fahrenheit feels. In the morning, my not-quite-dry hair freezes below 10F.
My point is that the 0-100 scale on Fahrenheit makes sense for humans and temperature: it's uncommon to stray outside it in most of the lower 48 United States. As a human, I appreciate that.
I caught one of those super viruses shortly after I installed Microsoft Office. It crashed my whole computer system and reverted me to Papyrus.
He's comparing a crappy Mac to a crappy Dell. How much quad rendering and Java+++ scripting are you going to do on a Mac that doesn't even support Core Image effects?
The first time Google rolled out this home page, Google stated that they would eventually put ads on it. They already put ads all over Gmail based on the mail you receive, so it's only natural for them to put ads on your home page based on what you view.
As for the stock price -- $300/share for a company that lives and dies by text ads? I'd wait for the correction.