For instance, I wanted to destroy a TIE fighter that was zipping around the hanger. Instead of just shooting at it like you would in any other game, I chose to use the force to rip one of the support beams for a walkway right out, and BEND IT in any way I wanted to put in the path of the flying vehicle. This isn't pre-scripted, or one of those things where it's "what you're supposed to do."
Are you sure about that? I did the same thing in the PS3 version. It might not have scripted but it was definitely designed to encourage you to do that. Notice how the tie fighter just happen to fly in a path that would cause them to hit a beam that was moved a little?
SkipStone had tabs back in 2000, in version 0.6, and that was OSS. It was certainly much more tab-like than Opera's implementation back then, which was just a side effect of it being MDI.
The PC as a gaming platform is so tied to Windows that it lost me a few years ago. I still buy titles with native Linux versions, and play the occasional old game in Wine or Dos Box, but I'm not prepared to reboot into Windows to play games.
This seems like something of a propaganda war targeted at those inside Microsoft to try and stop the exodus. Lots of: "Look at me! I used to work at MS, I went to Google, but now I'm back because working at Google really sucks". It's funny that they've all appeared at the same time. It stinks like some kind of campaign.
And since someone driving at 7mph over the speed limit is deemed to be committing a "crime"
Well 7mph above a 30mph speed limit represents a lot of extra energy going into a collision. So those whining motorists unable to keep below the speed limit don't get much sympathy from me. Too many seem to think the roads are their personal playground.
Evolution is observable fact. The theory is as to how it occurs. Scientific theories need to be based on observable facts and be falsifiable. So in no way can the theories of evolution be called bad science unless you're not talking about science at all.
You can hand wave about conspiracies all you like, but science has an easy to follow method, and creationists can introduce any scientific theories they like. They merely need to be scientific.
Now ID is "bad" science as it doesn't put forward any testable theories at all, put in a few testable theories based on facts and you might have something that looks like science. Though they may have some problems getting there.
It sounds to me that a lot of the noise in the ID crowd is to close minds to the facts and replace them with fantasy rather than anything that can be tested.
Isn't that what backups are for? There's a far bigger risk that a bad hard disk or an accidental deletion will wipe out your home directory, than any virus you've managed to download, make executable and run.
I thought the propaganda this week was that nuclear is clean, green and the energy of the future. So why wouldn't everyone want a piece of that action?
"Until that time, the PC platform will remain strong. Consoles need a mouse. It's just silly they don't have them. If M$/$ony will EVER gets some balls and support a mouse, I think you'll see the PC side take a huge hit. I'd rather play on my 65" HD."
Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3 supports a Keyboard and Mouse.
"Linux is too difficult for the average person, they will need outside help. But windows is so easy the average person can handle things themselves, no need for outside help."
Which version of Windows is this? And when is it coming out?
"To the best of my knowledge, Firefox doesn't have a tab recovery feature like IE8. From what I can gather from reading the ACR whitepaper, if a webpage crashes IE8 can potentially handle it by automatically closing/opening the offending tab."
Epiphany, the default browser in GNOME has this feature. It uses the firefox rendering engine (Gecko). It doesn't automatically close the tab but displays a message in the tab instead of the content, giving you the option to try and reload the problem page.
"Atheism is also a religion, because you have to believe that there is no God. There's no proof of either existence or non-existence of a supernatural being."
No it's not, it's a lack of theism. Many religious people seem to find it really difficult to get their head around. Religion and gods have absolutely nothing to do with our lives. We don't sit down every morning and pray to the void. We simply accept reality for what it is and don't see anything in our every day lives that needs a special explanation.
I don't know why it's so difficult to understand. It's not much different to being disinterested in football. You'll have groups of people that are obsessed by it and cannot understand how its not a part of someone elses life.
Surely there's something that's completely irrelevant to your life? Tiddlywinks, Tabletop roleplaying games. As far as most atheists are concerned, religion is just another interest, and only relevant when it tries to force itself on our lives. Imagine how cross you'd get if tiddlywinks players got together and tried to force an hour of daily tiddlywinks playing into national school curriculums.
There's no reason at all that Rhythmbox couldn't do something like that. All it takes is for the device makers to make their database format open. It's a bit disingenuous to somehow suggest this is a fault of Rhythmbox, whereas really its an issue with proprietry lock-in.
In 1997 Netscape had 30 million users and 80% of the market, in 2007 Firefox had 120 million users and 10% of the market (figures from memory). The market is so much bigger now than when Netscape was the big fish in a small pond.
Bluray: Why would I spend hundreds of pounds on a technology that would render my DVD collection (of around 100 DVDs) obsolete with no real gain? Will my TV be compatible?
Your DVDs will still work in the blu-ray player, so why would they be magically obsolete? I've watched plenty of DVDs in my PS3, in fact it's now our main DVD player as the old one was on the verge of dying.
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For instance, I wanted to destroy a TIE fighter that was zipping around the hanger. Instead of just shooting at it like you would in any other game, I chose to use the force to rip one of the support beams for a walkway right out, and BEND IT in any way I wanted to put in the path of the flying vehicle. This isn't pre-scripted, or one of those things where it's "what you're supposed to do."
Are you sure about that? I did the same thing in the PS3 version. It might not have scripted but it was definitely designed to encourage you to do that. Notice how the tie fighter just happen to fly in a path that would cause them to hit a beam that was moved a little?
SkipStone had tabs back in 2000, in version 0.6, and that was OSS. It was certainly much more tab-like than Opera's implementation back then, which was just a side effect of it being MDI.
The Dragon 32 joysticks were analog with a potentiometer.
The PC as a gaming platform is so tied to Windows that it lost me a few years ago. I still buy titles with native Linux versions, and play the occasional old game in Wine or Dos Box, but I'm not prepared to reboot into Windows to play games.
"RMS, at least, seems to think it's an absolute sin that people dare to make money off software; his essays are frightening things."
That's BS, RMS himself has sold GPL software.
The guarantee the GPL offers is the free access to the source of whatever GPL derived software you happen to be using.
This seems like something of a propaganda war targeted at those inside Microsoft to try and stop the exodus. Lots of: "Look at me! I used to work at MS, I went to Google, but now I'm back because working at Google really sucks". It's funny that they've all appeared at the same time. It stinks like some kind of campaign.
I'd love to see the government privatise the roads and hand the maintenance and ownership over to private companies. That'd be fun.
I think they did port it, they just never released the port.
And since someone driving at 7mph over the speed limit is deemed to be committing a "crime"
Well 7mph above a 30mph speed limit represents a lot of extra energy going into a collision. So those whining motorists unable to keep below the speed limit don't get much sympathy from me. Too many seem to think the roads are their personal playground.
Evolution is observable fact. The theory is as to how it occurs. Scientific theories need to be based on observable facts and be falsifiable. So in no way can the theories of evolution be called bad science unless you're not talking about science at all.
You can hand wave about conspiracies all you like, but science has an easy to follow method, and creationists can introduce any scientific theories they like. They merely need to be scientific.
Now ID is "bad" science as it doesn't put forward any testable theories at all, put in a few testable theories based on facts and you might have something that looks like science. Though they may have some problems getting there.
It sounds to me that a lot of the noise in the ID crowd is to close minds to the facts and replace them with fantasy rather than anything that can be tested.
You missed out the ARM version that runs on the Nokia N800.
"Unix for the masses is here, and it's called OS X. Hardy Heron is difficult to use, poorly documented junk."
So did that detect your RAID array and Wireless card when you installed it on your machine?
I like it, what about a slight variation?
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Isn't that what backups are for? There's a far bigger risk that a bad hard disk or an accidental deletion will wipe out your home directory, than any virus you've managed to download, make executable and run.
I thought the propaganda this week was that nuclear is clean, green and the energy of the future. So why wouldn't everyone want a piece of that action?
"That seems fair to me, since they /did/ come up with the idea themselves. I hope OOo does start using it once the patent runs out."
I've not used 2007 yet, so correct me if I've wrong, but it doesn't look like a big jump from the menu in Bluefish that I've been using for years.
"Until that time, the PC platform will remain strong. Consoles need a mouse. It's just silly they don't have them. If M$/$ony will EVER gets some balls and support a mouse, I think you'll see the PC side take a huge hit. I'd rather play on my 65" HD."
Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3 supports a Keyboard and Mouse.
Netscape 6 was based on Mozilla 0.9. So it was used in release software.
"Linux is too difficult for the average person, they will need outside help. But windows is so easy the average person can handle things themselves, no need for outside help."
Which version of Windows is this? And when is it coming out?
"To the best of my knowledge, Firefox doesn't have a tab recovery feature like IE8. From what I can gather from reading the ACR whitepaper, if a webpage crashes IE8 can potentially handle it by automatically closing/opening the offending tab."
Epiphany, the default browser in GNOME has this feature. It uses the firefox rendering engine (Gecko). It doesn't automatically close the tab but displays a message in the tab instead of the content, giving you the option to try and reload the problem page.
"Atheism is also a religion, because you have to believe that there is no God. There's no proof of either existence or non-existence of a supernatural being."
No it's not, it's a lack of theism. Many religious people seem to find it really difficult to get their head around. Religion and gods have absolutely nothing to do with our lives. We don't sit down every morning and pray to the void. We simply accept reality for what it is and don't see anything in our every day lives that needs a special explanation.
I don't know why it's so difficult to understand. It's not much different to being disinterested in football. You'll have groups of people that are obsessed by it and cannot understand how its not a part of someone elses life.
Surely there's something that's completely irrelevant to your life? Tiddlywinks, Tabletop roleplaying games. As far as most atheists are concerned, religion is just another interest, and only relevant when it tries to force itself on our lives. Imagine how cross you'd get if tiddlywinks players got together and tried to force an hour of daily tiddlywinks playing into national school curriculums.
Consumer choice? So I can go into a high street PC store and choose what OS I want on my PC? That's news to me.
There's no reason at all that Rhythmbox couldn't do something like that. All it takes is for the device makers to make their database format open. It's a bit disingenuous to somehow suggest this is a fault of Rhythmbox, whereas really its an issue with proprietry lock-in.
In 1997 Netscape had 30 million users and 80% of the market, in 2007 Firefox had 120 million users and 10% of the market (figures from memory). The market is so much bigger now than when Netscape was the big fish in a small pond.
Bluray: Why would I spend hundreds of pounds on a technology that would render my DVD collection (of around 100 DVDs) obsolete with no real gain? Will my TV be compatible?
Your DVDs will still work in the blu-ray player, so why would they be magically obsolete? I've watched plenty of DVDs in my PS3, in fact it's now our main DVD player as the old one was on the verge of dying.