It seems like such a small thing to be annoyed by, but versions under 1.5 of FF and TB generated 2 icons when using a minimize to tray app (like trayit!, for instance).
Quite annoying to have 2 pairs of icons, and one works the other doesn't.
Even wierder is that under XP, sometimes the working icon is first and sometimes it is second. WTF?
Now both just put up one icon.
As I recall from FF on OS X, I think it was a "hidden" debug window or something. Sadly, it wasn't always hidden, if I remember.
My wife has had a PowerBook G4 now for about a year. I bought it for her in January. Since that time, my three dogs have stomped on it repeatedly as my wife has a habit of leaving the notebook opened up on the floor.
I recall not long after the iPod release, came MS Office for the Mac and a C City patron watching a teen with an iPod downloading all the software (MSO, especially) from the machine.
I recall playing with a digital camera and being able to take it home for a while, but before I left, I had a zip file too big for a floppy, and a Zip disk was not available to me, so I put it on the camera's flash memory. It was a free utility, granted, but still I could snag anything I wanted that would fit on the mem card.
Heck, I worked at a SanaPonic plant for a bit, and they removed the floppy drives, but still had the computers networked...(snort).
*wretch, double over, curl up into a little ball and head explodes*
It's as if a billion web users suddenly cried out in pain and terror.
(heavy sarcasm mode =on, tounge glued to cheek) On the bright side, we can re-use a few simple acronym and fsck with everyone's heads: PDF = portable document flash/format PDA = portable document animation PSA = photoshop animation USA = unsual sh*t of adobe....errr....ummm...yeah, that's a good place to stop.
I was IMO a 'hat trick' as d3 nailed the fun factor all over and did it with updated grfx and good sounds.
And the sounds in SS2 are lacking, save for the parrots (snicker) and the sniper rifle have good sounds...the other, well sound hollow. The chain gun sounds OK, but compared to Quake4...damn. Heck, I'd use the chaningun in q4 just to hear it.
But, the killer for SS2 is it is such a console port....ugh! The first two had wide open areas you could use to buy time and snipe, but SS2 you are cooped up and hit invisible walls trying to explore(what is this 1997? Need For Speed the serious sam edition?)
Oh, and the same frikcing voiced for all the characters? c'mon, give me a break, that screams cheap (yeah, $30 game, but still the joke of 'bigger budget' at the beginning).
Of all 3 sam games, this has the least replay value. I can't think of any SS2 level I'd like to do again (maybe "Shaolin Temple"), but have gone back and played "long walk", "elephant atrium", "grand cathedral" and a few others because they were a blast. SS2..meh.
FEAR...played thru on top 3 difficulties...damn what a blast, just not too thrilled about the performance. Like doom3 all over again, like Henry Ford said, "any color you like as long as it's black". (dark, damn dark).
That reminds me, I need to reinstall Descent 3 again, you know, to play games because they're *FUN*.
Sheesh, video cards that can pump out 32Million colors at good frame rates, and what do we get from a lot of games? Shadows and 32Million shades of "night".
Seizure inducing color changes, popups/under and recent DHTML tricks just serve to piss me, and others off.
Having stuff moving (as mentioned before) near text is stupid, IMO, as if there is content to be viewed/read, why the hell would you want to distract your viewership?
Sheesh.
Maybe it is part my problem too, from playing too much Quake3 and being a railgun whore and picking off oponents 3 pixels high with open sights.
Was a bad day today, as I'm no longer employed, but a good day as I saw the 1:30pm showing.
I've gotta say "WOW". Great movie, some real Laugh Out Loud moments, and fantastic action sequences.
The intensity of both action and emotion had my adrenalin levels up to about those of a medium-hard Quake3 deathmatch. Took me about 45mins to get back to a relaxed state of being.
What really sucked (or was a "major bummer", to put it mildly) was the killing off of characters.
Only question: WHAT/WHY TF, Joss?
Going to see it again this weekend with the boy, damned if I don't need a day or two break from that rocket propelled emotional rollercoaster.
We have all seen FOX makes some dumb decisions on shows...
Yeah, like showing the first two part episode, last.
I've seen the original air order that Fox did, and "WTF were these Morons smoking?" does not even begin to describe the stupidity.
Firefly does take a back seat to BattleStar Galactica in my mind, only because BSG is midway through its second season.
A question of better shows is tougher, as FF has more interesting characters and a lot more humor and tighter/"better" stories (because of it being short lived).
BSG, OTOH; decent humor, damn good story(ies) and arcs, very good characters and amazing actors (EJO and MM) and recently some of the most gripping drama I've seen in a while.
Between the two, both have brought me and my son to outbursts of laughter and "yeah!/right on/cool", but BSG so far is the only show where my son and I have been left with awe struck looks, or said "holy shit/daaaaamn/frak/OMG!".
You may be part right about Serenity, I agree, but the one thing that may be its saving grace: knowledge of FF is not a requirement.
Suffice it to say, this friday I will be sadly unemployed on the 30th, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to see Serenity twice if I can.
(once with and w/o the kid. Love my son dearly, but boy talks too much some times...wonder where he gets it from?)
I was very suprised it went so far, after reading this tidbit: The train enters the station. Uniformed police officers appear on the platform and surround me. They must immediately notice my French accent, still strong after living more than 12 years in London.
They handcuff me, hands behind my back, and take my rucksack out of my sight. They explain that this is for my safety, and that they are acting under the authority of the Terrorism Act.
Now, I don't know what London is like, but I'd imagine that there are very few terrorist attacks by the French in recent decades on anyone.
(Tounge firmly in cheek)
Though, maybe they do have a point in arresting him, because of the fear of having their food, wine and women and culture insulted.
I don't get it, why does it seem so many alt-os projects are forever trying to emulate the look and feel of a Windows environment?
IMO, consider what Windows Vista will look like and how much people/users hate change. This could be a boon if Photoshop CS:Vista is too radical a departure from what people know. They'll either stay where they're at, or move to something else (depending on features and ability).
I mean really, if your app is going to look, feel, and function, like a Windows one, why should I use yours??
WTF does acrobat bring IE and Firefox both to their knees. And why cant you cancel it? Why is it allowed to lock up the browser, and every instance of it completely?
What is wrong with that architecture, and why do both IE and Firefox follow the same flawed model? Or is this some windows architectural thing getting involved?
(/dons tinfoil hat)
Nothing wrong with it besides it being a sinister plot by AMD to make their dual-core chips more valuable when PDF viewing will only run on CPU0 and Flash on CPU1.
Muaaahahahahaha (/takes off tinfoil hat)
(defensive geek mode = on)
The models aren't flawed, windows' architecture is fine, you computer is too old and slow because it is more than a month old.
So here's my question, are there Firefly fans out there who didn't watch Buffy or Angel, etc.? Because I really really didn't like those shows and if such an intersection of Buffy non-fans and Firefly fans exists, I'd like to hear from their opinions on Firefly.
Don't see any responses yet, so here goes:
Never watched Buffy (ok, saw the 'original' movie) or Angel, but I did see here on/. a comment that it was a Cowboy Bebop rip-off.
Well, some similarities, but Firefly blows it out of the water, IMO. It is at, and above some of the new BSG series quality.
For instance: BSG is one of the few action/dramas that has made me blurt out various exclamations/explicatives in suprise.
Same with Firefly, heck even the 2 "meh" episodes were excellent (IMO).
The difference, if you have watched any of the BSG, CBB is this (I think): BeBop was story/plot driven, and as most anime has one or two characters that are a waste of time and/or annoying as hell. (liked the datadog, hated the hacker he/she/it?) And in a lot of instances, the characters were just kind of "there", and sometimes you can only take so much O_O and -_- as the maximum expressive range.
Battle Star Galactica, IMO, seems to be a blend of character/plot/story driven, and so far has maintained a level of quality that is superb. Heck, even some of the "meh" characters have gotten better definition and acting over time.
Firefly, OTOH, (from the DVD sequence, i.e. properly not the FOXed-up sequence) took several (unknown to me) actors and established them from the get-go. Without sounding like I'm fawning over the series, I can say that all did an excellent job as their respective characters, bar none. (Edward James Almos quality across the board). Even the two "meh" episodes' plots were acted so well, that it carried the episodes in such a way it was damn good.
Think about it: if something that normally makes you shrug is done so well (acting, directing, writing) it then makes you very interested in seeing it, isn't that kind of amazing?
Here is the kicker: I stayed up until 6am the first sitting *and* thought it kicked ass, even tho I forgot to watch the last two episodes! (last three if you count the fact I was so tired I only recalled about 2 minutes of the 3rd ep. D'oh and then *GLEEE*)
Start there, to see the order, then go to http://versaphile.coms//download directory and click the firefly link.
According to a few message boards these are sanctioned by Joss, to garner interest. (IIRC, YMMV)
But, what do I know, I bought the DVD's after having a friend loan me his, saying "If you don't buy your own set, I'll be damned suprised".
Dude was right.
And I've watched mine 3 times since then.
Hopefully, ArmenTanzarian, that answered your question. Or read straight dope's message board as I did after watching so many times and finding out some of the things I missed (like why the character "River" cut "Jayne").
they are using their classic method of producing superior software by catering to the needs of the user What does this mean?
Not much in english, but if put through enough translators it says something about "using the rhythem meathod during anal sex with the user. Reacharound optional".
Technically feasable, but pointless.
(why, yes I've started drinking already...why do you ask?)
IMO, I would not mind going back to basics 'Windows' wise.
For instance, the media player post 6.4 has been suckage of epic proportions, and yet all it is (my understanding) is a front-end to 6.4.
Gee, a polished turd covering an almost golden egg.
Not much diff, as I've XPlited my installs at work (thx to the boss) or use n-lite.
Use Media Player Classic, in its place.
Then there is Outlook Express (Outbreak Express, Look OUT! Express, etc.) that gets yanked pre/post install.
Gets replaced with Thunderbird (heck, it is taking over where I work slowly, usually with an "oooh, I like that...what program is it?" (SEG)).
Fluff services get turned off (themes diabled, messenger manual and all that), but the most annoying thing is that service packs put things back that I don't want.
But it boils down to making XP like 2000, and it gets harder each update/SP, by design or intentional idiocy on Microsoft's part: Like wireless services are needed *at all times* or networking service and config dies or acts wierd (that was an unplesant suprise).
Hollow victory, it seems to me, but at least Microsoft flinched and complied because it knows which side its bread is buttered on.
like the Entec case I have, the cage where the floppy and two drives mount.
I had an old 4G scsi there and an 8G deskstar, when things got going, or just sat there those disks would get so hot the drives would stop, or make the "click of death". Scary.
Scorched my finger touching it, and the "how to fix" was really simple:
Pushed out the bay cover under the floppy, glued in place (intake), strung a fan using thick plastic coated twist ties (son's toys from Xmas) over the front side of the two drives and a 4mm x 40mm fan that was 7Volted (oppose 12V and 5V rail).
It is not loud, but the cooling is great (no more burned digits).
Even when the fan gets squeaky, take it out, peel back the sticker over the bearing and dip a straightened papercliip into regular engine oil and one or two drops is usually good for a year or so. If the sticker does not re-apply, just use regular tape (just in case the oil drips, don't want it slinging around inside the case).
Even revived an old TNT2 fan that had seized after years of use.
Yeah, I scoffed at first at TFA, but *I* didn't think of it. I just did the same thing I described above with an 80mm fan in the 5 1/4" bay.
(Yeah, Ghetto as hell looking case, but unless the house gets up to 120F inside...everything will be at a decent operating temp)
Slashdot Mirror
And thought of the scene at the gas station when the car drives away.
Buzz: "Sheriff, this is no time to panic!"
Woody: "This is the perfect time to panic.!"
Toy Story was a great movie, filled with the universal truth about men *if* you read between the lines:
The main character, like most boys, was truely happy with a Buzz and a Woody.
It seems like such a small thing to be annoyed by, but versions under
1.5 of FF and TB generated 2 icons when using a minimize to tray app
(like trayit!, for instance).
Quite annoying to have 2 pairs of icons, and one works the other doesn't.
Even wierder is that under XP, sometimes the working icon is first and
sometimes it is second. WTF?
Now both just put up one icon.
As I recall from FF on OS X, I think it was a "hidden" debug window or
something. Sadly, it wasn't always hidden, if I remember.
My wife has had a PowerBook G4 now for about a year. I bought it for her in January. Since that time, my three dogs have stomped on it repeatedly as my wife has a habit of leaving the notebook opened up on the floor.
(I'm gonna burn for this one, I know it)
Dude!! Let the DOGS OUT....
I recall not long after the iPod release, came MS Office for the Mac and a C City
patron watching a teen with an iPod downloading all the software (MSO, especially) from the machine.
I recall playing with a digital camera and being able to take it home for a while, but before I left, I had a zip file too big for a floppy, and a Zip disk was not available to me, so I put it on the camera's flash memory.
It was a free utility, granted, but still I could snag anything I wanted that would fit on the mem card.
Heck, I worked at a SanaPonic plant for a bit, and they removed the floppy drives, but still had the computers networked...(snort).
will bring us more:
- more PDFs on web pages
*coff, sputter*
- more Flash on webpages
*choke, gag*
- more Flash in PDFs
*shudder, twitch*
- more PDFs in Flash
*wretch, double over, curl up into a little ball and head explodes*
It's as if a billion web users suddenly cried out in pain and terror.
(heavy sarcasm mode =on, tounge glued to cheek)
On the bright side, we can re-use a few simple acronym and fsck with everyone's heads:
PDF = portable document flash/format
PDA = portable document animation
PSA = photoshop animation
USA = unsual sh*t of adobe....errr....ummm...yeah, that's a good place to stop.
This line makes me so increadibly mad. Wow, they offered to exchange something that could do damage to my finances...
That feeling you're getting is called "The Quickening".
get some of those Prescott P4's, OC the hell out of the processor and do some folding@home.
After it is done heating the house, just use some Dryer tubing and point it at your sidewalk/drive way....it'll be clear in no time.
Get the whole town in on it and we'll find cures for stuff that doesn't even exist, yet.
Agree with the poster about Descent3.
I was IMO a 'hat trick' as d3 nailed the fun factor all over and did it with updated grfx and good sounds.
And the sounds in SS2 are lacking, save for the parrots (snicker) and the sniper rifle have good sounds...the other, well sound hollow. The chain gun sounds OK, but compared to Quake4...damn. Heck, I'd use the chaningun in q4 just to hear it.
But, the killer for SS2 is it is such a console port....ugh!
The first two had wide open areas you could use to buy time and snipe, but SS2 you are cooped up and hit invisible walls trying to explore(what is this 1997? Need For Speed the serious sam edition?)
Oh, and the same frikcing voiced for all the characters? c'mon, give me a break, that screams cheap (yeah, $30 game, but still the joke of 'bigger budget' at the beginning).
Of all 3 sam games, this has the least replay value. I can't think of any SS2 level I'd like to do again (maybe "Shaolin Temple"), but have gone back and played "long walk", "elephant atrium", "grand cathedral" and a few others because they were a blast. SS2..meh.
FEAR...played thru on top 3 difficulties...damn what a blast, just not too thrilled about the performance. Like doom3 all over again, like Henry Ford said, "any color you like as long as it's black". (dark, damn dark).
That reminds me, I need to reinstall Descent 3 again, you know, to play games because they're *FUN*.
Sheesh, video cards that can pump out 32Million colors at good frame rates, and what do we get from a lot of games? Shadows and 32Million shades of "night".
Sad, but true and at least SS2 is colorful.
So... BBC is going to do an "Adult" show called "Touchwood" with some bi-sexual Captain, his K9 and Company...
And no one has added:
(K9 voice)
Yes, master/mistress (pause) Bow-chicka-bow-wow
(/K9 voice)
....As if I needeed more CD's in my mailbox. At least you could reformat the floppies.
Well, if it does happen maybe Google will push for USB Keys or CDRWs...I'd rather get spammed with those.
Am I the only one who heard the Spanish Soccer Announcer's voice when I saw Google and AOL and thought "GOOOOOOAOL!"?
If it moves, flashes, or makes a sound; KILL IT.
:)
Seizure inducing color changes, popups/under and recent DHTML tricks just serve
to piss me, and others off.
Having stuff moving (as mentioned before) near text is stupid, IMO, as if there
is content to be viewed/read, why the hell would you want to distract your
viewership?
Sheesh.
Maybe it is part my problem too, from playing too much Quake3 and being a railgun whore and picking off oponents 3 pixels high with open sights.
Hey, it moved, so I killed it/you.
Instead of telling someone to visit a website, I can tell them to "Flock This!"
Yeah, they're crazy...crazy like a FireFlocks!
eh, it was that or asking for my email was a "Major Flock up".
Was a bad day today, as I'm no longer employed, but a good day as I saw the
1:30pm showing.
I've gotta say "WOW". Great movie, some real Laugh Out Loud moments, and fantastic action sequences.
The intensity of both action and emotion had my adrenalin levels up to about those of a medium-hard Quake3 deathmatch. Took me about 45mins to get back to a relaxed state of being.
What really sucked (or was a "major bummer", to put it mildly) was the killing off of characters.
Only question: WHAT/WHY TF, Joss?
Going to see it again this weekend with the boy, damned if I don't need a day or two break from that rocket propelled emotional rollercoaster.
We have all seen FOX makes some dumb decisions on shows...
Yeah, like showing the first two part episode, last.
I've seen the original air order that Fox did, and "WTF were these Morons smoking?" does not even begin to describe the stupidity.
Firefly does take a back seat to BattleStar Galactica in my mind, only because
BSG is midway through its second season.
A question of better shows is tougher, as FF has more interesting characters and a lot more humor and tighter/"better" stories (because of it being short lived).
BSG, OTOH; decent humor, damn good story(ies) and arcs, very good characters and amazing actors (EJO and MM) and recently some of the most gripping drama
I've seen in a while.
Between the two, both have brought me and my son to outbursts of laughter and "yeah!/right on/cool", but BSG so far is the only show where my son and I have been left with awe struck looks, or said "holy shit/daaaaamn/frak/OMG!".
You may be part right about Serenity, I agree, but the one thing that may be its saving grace: knowledge of FF is not a requirement.
Suffice it to say, this friday I will be sadly unemployed on the 30th, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to see Serenity twice if I can.
(once with and w/o the kid. Love my son dearly, but boy talks too much some times...wonder where he gets it from?)
I was very suprised it went so far, after reading this tidbit:
The train enters the station. Uniformed police officers appear on the platform and surround me. They must immediately notice my French accent, still strong after living more than 12 years in London.
They handcuff me, hands behind my back, and take my rucksack out of my sight. They explain that this is for my safety, and that they are acting under the authority of the Terrorism Act.
Now, I don't know what London is like, but I'd imagine that there are very few
terrorist attacks by the French in recent decades on anyone.
(Tounge firmly in cheek)
Though, maybe they do have a point in arresting him, because of the fear of having their food, wine and women and culture insulted.
We can't have that, can we?
You're all being way too negative!
True, but it is fun watching opposing batteries of slashdot'ers.
Naturally, with this story there's (Transformers!!!) more that meets the eye.
Good thing the guy didn't shuffle his mortal coil.
IMO, consider what Windows Vista will look like and how much people/users hate change.
This could be a boon if Photoshop CS:Vista is too radical a departure from what people know.
They'll either stay where they're at, or move to something else (depending on features and ability).
Money? Or lack there of.
You sound proud.
So, in the words of Han Solo "Great, kid, don't get cocky".
(sorry, too good to pass up)
(/dons tinfoil hat)
Nothing wrong with it besides it being a sinister plot by AMD to make their dual-core chips more valuable when PDF viewing will only run on CPU0 and Flash on CPU1.
Muaaahahahahaha
(/takes off tinfoil hat)
(defensive geek mode = on)
The models aren't flawed, windows' architecture is fine, you computer is too old and slow because it is more than a month old.
(wink wink, nudge nudge)
Don't see any responses yet, so here goes:
Never watched Buffy (ok, saw the 'original' movie) or Angel, but I did see here on
Well, some similarities, but Firefly blows it out of the water, IMO. It is at, and above some of the new BSG series quality.
For instance: BSG is one of the few action/dramas that has made me blurt out various exclamations/explicatives in suprise.
Same with Firefly, heck even the 2 "meh" episodes were excellent (IMO).
The difference, if you have watched any of the BSG, CBB is this (I think):
BeBop was story/plot driven, and as most anime has one or two characters that are a waste of time and/or annoying as hell. (liked the datadog, hated the hacker he/she/it?) And in a lot of instances, the characters were just kind of "there", and sometimes you can only take so much O_O and -_- as the maximum expressive range.
Battle Star Galactica, IMO, seems to be a blend of character/plot/story driven, and so far has maintained a level of quality that is superb.
Heck, even some of the "meh" characters have gotten better definition and acting over time.
Firefly, OTOH, (from the DVD sequence, i.e. properly not the FOXed-up sequence) took several (unknown to me) actors and established them from the get-go. Without sounding like I'm fawning over the series, I can say that all did an excellent job as their respective characters, bar none. (Edward James Almos quality across the board).
Even the two "meh" episodes' plots were acted so well, that it carried the episodes in such a way it was damn good.
Think about it: if something that normally makes you shrug is done so well (acting, directing, writing) it then makes you very interested in seeing it, isn't that kind of amazing?
Here is the kicker: I stayed up until 6am the first sitting *and* thought it kicked ass, even tho I forgot to watch the last two episodes!
(last three if you count the fact I was so tired I only recalled about 2 minutes of the 3rd ep. D'oh and then *GLEEE*)
URL: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.ph
Start there, to see the order, then go to http://versaphile.coms/
According to a few message boards these are sanctioned by Joss, to garner interest. (IIRC, YMMV)
But, what do I know, I bought the DVD's after having a friend loan me his, saying "If you don't
buy your own set, I'll be damned suprised".
Dude was right.
And I've watched mine 3 times since then.
Hopefully, ArmenTanzarian, that answered your question. Or read straight dope's message board as I did after watching so many times and finding
out some of the things I missed (like why the character "River" cut "Jayne").
Oh, and "Shiney" to all the current fans.
We just have to get the pr0n industry behind Blu-Ray.
(snort + LOL)
BOW-CHICKA-wow-wow
Not much in english, but if put through enough translators it says something about "using the rhythem meathod during anal sex with the user. Reacharound optional".
Technically feasable, but pointless.
(why, yes I've started drinking already...why do you ask?)
IMO, I would not mind going back to basics 'Windows' wise.
For instance, the media player post 6.4 has been suckage of epic proportions, and yet all it is (my understanding) is a front-end to 6.4.
Gee, a polished turd covering an almost golden egg.
Not much diff, as I've XPlited my installs at work (thx to the boss) or use n-lite.
Use Media Player Classic, in its place.
Then there is Outlook Express (Outbreak Express, Look OUT! Express, etc.) that gets yanked pre/post install.
Gets replaced with Thunderbird (heck, it is taking over where I work slowly, usually with an "oooh, I like that...what program is it?" (SEG)).
Fluff services get turned off (themes diabled, messenger manual and all that), but the most annoying thing is that service packs put things back that I don't want.
But it boils down to making XP like 2000, and it gets harder each update/SP, by design or intentional idiocy on Microsoft's part: Like wireless services are needed *at all times* or networking service and config dies or acts wierd (that was an unplesant suprise).
Hollow victory, it seems to me, but at least Microsoft flinched and complied because it knows which side its bread is buttered on.
Nothing comes up.
WAIT! Let me rephrase that!
(accidently clicks submit)
damn.
like the Entec case I have, the cage where the floppy and two drives mount.
I had an old 4G scsi there and an 8G deskstar, when things got going, or just sat there those disks would get so hot the drives would stop, or make the "click of death". Scary.
Scorched my finger touching it, and the "how to fix" was really simple:
Pushed out the bay cover under the floppy, glued in place (intake), strung a fan using thick plastic coated twist ties (son's toys from Xmas) over the front side of the two drives and a 4mm x 40mm fan that was 7Volted (oppose 12V and 5V rail).
It is not loud, but the cooling is great (no more burned digits).
Even when the fan gets squeaky, take it out, peel back the sticker over the bearing and dip a straightened papercliip into regular engine oil and one or two drops is usually good for a year or so. If the sticker does not re-apply, just use regular tape (just in case the oil drips, don't want it slinging around inside the case).
Even revived an old TNT2 fan that had seized after years of use.
Yeah, I scoffed at first at TFA, but *I* didn't think of it. I just did the same thing I described above with an 80mm fan in the 5 1/4" bay.
(Yeah, Ghetto as hell looking case, but unless the house gets up to 120F inside...everything will be at a decent operating temp)