Come to think of it... Wouldn't it be more practical to start demanding an "auto-mode" (purely computer controlled) built-in into newer vehicles retaining "full manual" mode. Then we can designate the areas (like crowded city centers) where only cars in auto-mode are allowed. Slowly these areas will spread and then when they cover enough area for most of the people to be sufficient, manufacturers may start removing manual controls from the cars. Still - "enthusiast" areas may be preserved like the race tracks are now.
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1. Do no evil. 2. Do no much evil. 3. Do just a little evil. 4. Do at least something good. 5. ??? 6. Profit!
No they are not _far_ less annoying. Actually - they are annoying as hell (I'm talking about "partner" sites) because Firefox' back button lags on IFrames reloading noticeably. And, of course, it takes only several small steps from mono-styled short text messages at the screen side to a honking flash embedded in the middle of the page. First step..., or I'd say second since we already have up to 16 ads per search page, so this step is done.
BTW, while we are at it, would you like to buy a brand new DiMAGE Z2 camera?;)
Free to distribute Free to modify Free from original ideas.
Hmm, it shares one point with commercial games I'm sure! What is it?;)
Is it really that hard to find someone with an original new idea for a game?
Care to provide an example? Care to point the last truly _original_ game (that does not suck)? And last but not least - are you sure that an original game will be more fun than not-so-original but more polished?
Who modded this funny?! The toothpaste "trick" works really well with DVDs (on rented disks, for example; if you bother). Just don't try that with _CD_s, because the "data" layer is on top of the disk and you can damage _that_ while trying to polish "mirror" surface on the bottom. DVDs are two layers of plastic with data surface in-between them - that's the cool thing they've done about them. So - if your DVD disk does not read - put some toothpaste on it (with water), polish it with your _fingers_, don't use abrasive materials, of course. Wash it with the kitchen goo afterwards to remove grease. If successfully done, don't forget to copy the data to the new disk.
Sure! The reason why these drives may have problems these days is 80% because the "laser" diod has lost power. Before you may've had a dust particle on the lens but today it has much higher chance to be blown away during "normal" operation (disks spin at really impressive speeds today, exploding disks are not quite "urban legend").
Don't know about pure "reader" drives (except in standalone players, anybody uses them yet?) but modern burners in my experience tend to gradually go down after ~500 disks (you may not even notice that if not using some testing tools). And that's nothing to be surprised about - you get what you buy - these things work on the edge (why do you think after you burned 10 disks in a row the last ones are so hot?), they are made of cheapest components possible, and they cost $60 for a high-speed DVD burner. OTOH - earlier TEAC drives, like W58E are still going OK around me (maybe done several thousands burns and used as reader all the time). But they costed $150+ (multiply by 2 to account for inflation) and they weigh around a kilo (~2pounds).
That was their decision, wasn't it? And in the year 2005 it does not matter much, does it? They've had to choose what they want more - short-term benefits or long-term benefits. No cheating on Apple's side and clearly they have quite a large technological advantage at the present time.
Personally, I like ObjC. As for Java - there's always talk that it's crappy GUI toolkits that make Java programs feel like VB in tar. Does it _feel_ considerably sleekier on Macs?
I guess if NT4 had USB support it would've still hold a decent marketshare. If you don't play 3d-games on your WinPC then there's really nothing great brought forward since.... 1997 ?!
Developer opinions wanted - is the new XCode 2 included by default? (for free?). How does it compare with Delphi or VS.Net? I _will_ be getting a mac (mini) sooner or later and this is one thing that interests me. BTW - would a G4 1.x GHz w/ 1Gig of RAM be ok for development machine? Also - is it really practical to write Mac GUI apps (business, personal, that kind of stuff) using some high-level language (like Python or Ruby). On MSWin it is - in my opinion - not there yet, despite presense of a myriad of toolkits (maybe _because_ of that).
Because www.sony.com is probably less confusing then sony. Just sony. Or http://sony/ is you like. I bet there would be much, much more jammed namespace then even.com.
Yes! Especially since that Firefox (and Opera, and everything else bar that "blue-E" thingy) support position:fixed CSS. This jerking is worse than animated GIFs;) And it contains exactly nothing useful.
Slashdot Mirror
If I search for "stoned whores" what sites should be considered trusted?
Yes, but does he know how to _eject_ it? :)
64-bitness Microsoft way:
:-(
void* = 64bit
int = 32bit(?)
long = 32bit(!)
long long = 64bit
Good thing it's not "long long long long"
Assholes.
Are we talking top-to-bottom?
Come to think of it... Wouldn't it be more practical to start demanding an "auto-mode" (purely computer controlled) built-in into newer vehicles retaining "full manual" mode. Then we can designate the areas (like crowded city centers) where only cars in auto-mode are allowed. Slowly these areas will spread and then when they cover enough area for most of the people to be sufficient, manufacturers may start removing manual controls from the cars. Still - "enthusiast" areas may be preserved like the race tracks are now.
1. Do no evil.
2. Do no much evil.
3. Do just a little evil.
4. Do at least something good.
5. ???
6. Profit!
No they are not _far_ less annoying. Actually - they are annoying as hell (I'm talking about "partner" sites) because Firefox' back button lags on IFrames reloading noticeably. And, of course, it takes only several small steps from mono-styled short text messages at the screen side to a honking flash embedded in the middle of the page. First step..., or I'd say second since we already have up to 16 ads per search page, so this step is done.
;)
BTW, while we are at it, would you like to buy a brand new DiMAGE Z2 camera?
I'd say they are _gaping_ open!
I must be stupid but what does Macromedia have for "print/press media"?
http://www.macromedia.com/software/
I was under impression that Macromedia is "Web designer" products company.
Or use plush toys for characters.
Care to provide an example? Care to point the last truly _original_ game (that does not suck)? And last but not least - are you sure that an original game will be more fun than not-so-original but more polished?
Yes, it looks good, but does it run under.... Windows?! :-)
Who modded this funny?! The toothpaste "trick" works really well with DVDs (on rented disks, for example; if you bother). Just don't try that with _CD_s, because the "data" layer is on top of the disk and you can damage _that_ while trying to polish "mirror" surface on the bottom. DVDs are two layers of plastic with data surface in-between them - that's the cool thing they've done about them. So - if your DVD disk does not read - put some toothpaste on it (with water), polish it with your _fingers_, don't use abrasive materials, of course. Wash it with the kitchen goo afterwards to remove grease. If successfully done, don't forget to copy the data to the new disk.
Sure! The reason why these drives may have problems these days is 80% because the "laser" diod has lost power. Before you may've had a dust particle on the lens but today it has much higher chance to be blown away during "normal" operation (disks spin at really impressive speeds today, exploding disks are not quite "urban legend").
Don't know about pure "reader" drives (except in standalone players, anybody uses them yet?) but modern burners in my experience tend to gradually go down after ~500 disks (you may not even notice that if not using some testing tools). And that's nothing to be surprised about - you get what you buy - these things work on the edge (why do you think after you burned 10 disks in a row the last ones are so hot?), they are made of cheapest components possible, and they cost $60 for a high-speed DVD burner. OTOH - earlier TEAC drives, like W58E are still going OK around me (maybe done several thousands burns and used as reader all the time). But they costed $150+ (multiply by 2 to account for inflation) and they weigh around a kilo (~2pounds).
BTW, nowadays, I tend to buy Sony/LiteOn.
That was their decision, wasn't it? And in the year 2005 it does not matter much, does it? They've had to choose what they want more - short-term benefits or long-term benefits. No cheating on Apple's side and clearly they have quite a large technological advantage at the present time.
Oh, so you say that all those "Unix shell accounts" traded "you know where" are in fact Windows shell accounts?
Oh, come on! Like there are currently no ISPs prohibiting P2P?!
Personally, I like ObjC. As for Java - there's always talk that it's crappy GUI toolkits that make Java programs feel like VB in tar. Does it _feel_ considerably sleekier on Macs?
I guess if NT4 had USB support it would've still hold a decent marketshare. If you don't play 3d-games on your WinPC then there's really nothing great brought forward since.... 1997 ?!
Developer opinions wanted - is the new XCode 2 included by default? (for free?). How does it compare with Delphi or VS.Net? I _will_ be getting a mac (mini) sooner or later and this is one thing that interests me. BTW - would a G4 1.x GHz w/ 1Gig of RAM be ok for development machine? Also - is it really practical to write Mac GUI apps (business, personal, that kind of stuff) using some high-level language (like Python or Ruby). On MSWin it is - in my opinion - not there yet, despite presense of a myriad of toolkits (maybe _because_ of that).
Because www.sony.com is probably less confusing then sony. Just sony. Or http://sony/ is you like. I bet there would be much, much more jammed namespace then even .com.
"GPL is not done until Linux does not run". Eh?
Yes! Especially since that Firefox (and Opera, and everything else bar that "blue-E" thingy) support position:fixed CSS. This jerking is worse than animated GIFs ;) And it contains exactly nothing useful.
Some URLs for those who don't know yet:
Yahoo Search!
Clusty
MSN Search
Check them out when/if having problems with Google. Second one looks especially interesting. Third one is the best for warez and stuff (amazingly).
Now if we've had an alternative to groups.google.com...