I was just about to post the exact same question. That is the worst website I've ever seen. Nowhere that I saw did they actually say what the product was. They had a faq:
will it play mp3s? no will it play movies? no will it do this? no will it do that? no
thanks, but the very first question in any faq should be, "what the heck is it?"
I doubt there will be a left-handed model. Pretty much every PDA or device like this one has buttons on the left side, which I can't use because I'm holding the device with my right hand because I need to write on it with my left hand.
Tabs are a really bad thing -- they are a totally inconsistant form of window management that is only used in one type of application.
Actually no. Tabs are an implementation of what's called Multiple Document Interface (MDI). It's been around for literally decades. The first time I ever saw it was in Borland Turbo Vision - where you made windowed applications in a dos environment.
Just looking at the applications I have open on my computer right now, here are the ones that use MDI:
Microsoft SQL SErver Enterprise Manager Microsoft Query Analyser Macromedia Fireworks MX Visual Paradigm UML
In each of those applications, I can open a new document inside the existing application. And in each of those applications, I switch between open documents by hitting ctrl-tab.
It's been that way for years and years and years. The only thing new in firefox is the visual element that we call tabs. Everything else is old and in comman usage.
Now I want to use Firefox the way I want to use it.
Dude, you're an idiot. Years ago, seriously, like 20 years ago, somebody came up with what's called multiple document interface (MDI). That's what allows you to have several word documents open inside one instance of word. WordXP I think got rid of this, but every other normal application uses MDI.
And the standard in MDI, for the last several *decades* has been ctrl-tab to switch between documents. Jesus man, I was writting programs in turbo vision in the 80's that uses those key commands.
Now you come along and bitch and whine as if firefox has pulled this out of their ass and you don't like it. Clue: firefox is just making use of mdi. That's all they're doing. The functionality has always been there. The only thing they've added to it was the visual element of tabs.
You look like a complete computer illiterate moron when you say you've never heard of this. And anyway, if you want to "use firefox your way" then all you have to do is open pages in a new window. Nobody is holding a gun to your head making you use tabs.
"Wouldn't it be much more efficient to pump fuel from the tower until the shuttle is at least a few meters off the ground?"
The major problem as another poster pointed out is that the fuel is liquid oxygen, and will tend to break flexible hoses.
The concept though, that you can save a lot of fuel mass at lauch, is valid. Another idea along those same lines is to mount the launch vehicle on rails and use magnets to give it that initial kick. That was how the Orion space plane was launched in A.C.Clarke's book, 2001.
It's true that this is heavily politicized, but don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone who ridicules Gore for this remark is doing so for political reasons.
look closely at what he said:
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
He makes it sound like everyone was just sitting around and then he showed up and said, "hey all you lazy computer nerds, follow my leadership and let's build us an Internet!"
It's a kind of sentiment that geeks are all too familiar with. I spent months staying up late at night, rewriting old web pages to make them validate with the w3c. My boss had no clue what that even meant. He was often heard to say, "as long as it works in internet explorer, that's all that matters." I'm the one who wanted standards compliance. I'm the one who worked for it. I'm the one who made it happen.
And then I see in our quarterly report, "*we* took great steps toward standards compliance"
Who's we?
I think that's the sentiment that a lot of people feel when they hear a politician take credit for something. They just know he doesn't deserve it. What Gore should have said is something along the lines of, "I've always been very supportive of technology initiatives, for example (and then list some)." Don't give me this, "I took the initiative" BS.
And by the way, I think that Gore would have made a great president.
Also expect to see a big change in player movement, with a lot of UT2K4's bounciness dialed down. "You want the player to feel very powerful and free and able to do all kinds of cool stuff -- but it's not so cool when you can't hit the people you're playing against because they're doing [so much jumping around].
ugh. So it's going to be slower. just like every other game out there.
Haven't any of these people played Quake II CPMA or RA or Threewave?? Mobility makes the game more fun, not less. When you have powerful weapons and slow characters, that's called a spamfest. Players hide and just blast people when they walk by. That is physically impossible in quake because the game is so fast. If you get into a safe spot (say, the railgun platform on ctf4) I *will* get up there. You can't stop me. I'm moving too fast. And you don't switch to a close range weapon I *will* kill you. I never had experiences like that in any other game. In halo, in halflife, in UT, in Doom 3. You just pick up whatever weapon you can get and hold down the fire button.
and now I read that the next UT will be more of the same. All FPS games are the same except for Quake III with one of those mods I mentioned.
I'm really happy to see HP giving so much support. I'll definitely remember this the next time someone asks my opinion about what server hardware to buy.
Price range: ~$400 Slate-like Tablet PC (pen-driven) interface 1280x1024 or 1400x1050 resolution (1600x1200 would really be ideal) 802.11b/g wireless networking Has Windows Pocket PC or similar small OS installed, with some games, etc. Set up so that I can Remote Desktop into my Windows PC upstairs
It's a tablet form factor only 800x600 resolution though It's not exactly 802.11. It it more like a dedicated remote desktop. It doesn't have the guts to do much on it's own. Instead, it connects to your desktop and you run the programs there.
50 mod points says it features R2D2 and C3PO. I honestly don't think Lucas can write anything without at least some of the main characters. To me, it's a little sad. It strikes me as a weakness.
What's the point? It's just like every other FPS.
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IMHO, every FPS is just like every other FPS in terms of gameplay. If you've played one then you've played them all. Sure, they keep adding eye candy, but that's about it. Only two FPS games every stood out from the pack in my opinion.
The first one was Quake 3. The thing that made is so different was the speed of it. That game was fast as hell. Particularly in some of the mods, like RA or threewave or CPMA, it felt like you could run like a bat out of hell. The maneuverability made it feel more like kung fu than a firefight. After playing quake for years, I tried to play UT2k3 and I just felt like I was stuck in molasses.
The other unusual game was tribes.
Anyway my point is, RTCW, Doom3, Halo, HF2, they all seemed pretty much the same to me. They're cool. Don't get me wrong (this being Slashdot I'm sure someone will take this the wrong way). All I'm saying is that Quake4 should be a sequel to Quake 3 in terms of gameplay. For the story, yeah you pretty much have to make a sequel to Q2 because Q3 didn't have much of a story. But for the gameplay, they should follow Q3 and make this a game unlike all the others. As it stands, I'm afraid Q4 is going to be YAFPS
As for IE on Unix, isn't it strange that somethig that couldn't possibly be seperated from the Operating System could run with MainWin and a recompile on completely different OSes?
I really, *really* hate to support the eeeevil corporation, but we're all geeks, right? And geeks value truth and accuracy. Right?
Microsoft never said that IE couldn't be seperated from windows. They said that windows couldn't be separated from IE. They said that *windows* was dependent on IE, not that IE was dependant on windows.
In other words, you can use this tire on another car, but you can't use another tire on this car.
I can remember when searching for a page on the internet was like searching for a fish in the ocean
heh, I remember when we had to prepare our gopher searches on punch cards and wait days for machine time to run them, only to find that the research paper we thought we'd found was actually ascii porn with little popup jcl terminal windows selling "CHEEP A5PRIN" (because nobody had invented viagra!). And once you're name got out there, your bitnet account would be so full of spam that you wouldn't even want to use your wyse terminal! But you know what? We were thankful for the opportunity to be on the Internet.
think about getting a whole lot of prerequisites out of the way at a much lower per credit cost
bingo. That's what community colleges are for. You get two years on the cheap, then go to an expensive school for two years, and when you graduate with a BS, nobody is going to care about those first two years.
and I can tell you that the larger issue is the amount of bandwidth used by students. Universities pay by the bit and budgets are tight. The network has two purposes: first, it is there to help with your education. second, it is a recruiting tool - nobody would want to attend a school without network access.
But beyond that, it's an expensive utility and the school really can't afford to open it up 100%. So, they are always looking for some way to justify restricting its use. It's sad that they have basically called you a theif, but don't take it personally. They're just trying to save money. It's wrong and it sucks for you, but that's the bottom line.
Don't worry. college is only four years, and then you can get a good job and a real internet connection. For now, just concentrate on beer and girls
Another idea is to treat them internally (and for the purposes of pagerank weights) as regular links. In other words, forget the fact that 302's are supposed to mean "temporary location" and just think of them as links. That's the way they're being used anyway.
Right now, google is treating 302's the way that the HTTP rfc author's intended them to be treated. Unfortunately, in the real world 302's aren't used this way. Google just needs to adapt itself to the real world. They already do this with other things, for example meta tags. MEta tags are a great idea, put a few keywords in a meta tag so that a search engine knows what the page means, rather than just what it says - but so many people use them to intentionally try and screw up search engines, that google has to ignore them. This is the same sort of issue.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but the fact is that there are millions of species on Earth, and as part of the natural process of evolution hundreds of new ones evolve every year - but the other side of that coin is that hundreds go extinct every year. We have to balance environmentalism with a healthy dose of logic. We can't cry over every extinct species, and we can't preserve them all.
Obviously, I'm not talking about successful species that are hunted to extinction by humans. I know I'm going to get 50 replies from people who swell up with emotion and react to my words rather than thinking about them, who are going to say, "yeah, but humans cause extinctions." I know that. Thanks. My point is that there are millions of species on the planet and extinction and evolution is a natural process that occurs whether humans exist or not.
I just finished reading Bill Bryson's excellent book, A Short History of Nearly Everything. There's a great story about a tiny island off the coast of New Zealand. The first human to ever live on that island was a lighthouse keeper. It turned out, he had a cat. Every few days, the cat would drag the carcass of a dead bird into the house. The lighthouse keeper sent one of these dead birds to a university professor who recognized that it was a new species, never before seen by science. The professor made the trip down to the island, but by the time he got there, the cat had killed every bird on the little island. Apparently, those birds didn't live anywhere else. They've never been seen again. In less than a year, one cat had made an entire species extinct.
Many an environmentalist will tell you that the point of the story is how destructive human beings are. But I think that if you look at this logically, you'll draw a different conclusion. Long before man arrived, that species of bird had failed to evolve a solid foothold in its ecosystem. With all of New Zealand right there, the best that bird could do was live on one tiny island. It's true, that cat wiped them out. But it's also true that, all by itself and without any human influence, that species had dwindled to down to a population tiny enough to be destroyed by one cat. Had the cat not come along, the next hurricane to hit the island would have made them extinct anyway.
So, there are millions of species on our planet, and I think we should study and catalog all of them. But let's also acknowledge the fact that no matter what we do, 99.9% of those species are going to be evolutionary dead ends.
There's no reason why it can't exist. Sneakers is at least within the realm of possibility. It's not like star trek. Sneakers is based on something that could happen.
Take a look at this: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/ 02/sha1 _broken.html
Just last month, our beloved SHA-1, the algorithm in PGP, among other things, was broken.
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Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer
who's fault is that?
I'm from the same area. Here are some pics. Check out the last one, of santa rosa island. The hurricane cut the island in two.
I was just about to post the exact same question. That is the worst website I've ever seen. Nowhere that I saw did they actually say what the product was. They had a faq:
will it play mp3s? no
will it play movies? no
will it do this? no
will it do that? no
thanks, but the very first question in any faq should be, "what the heck is it?"
spoken like a true virgin.
There's no substitute for a real woman
I doubt there will be a left-handed model. Pretty much every PDA or device like this one has buttons on the left side, which I can't use because I'm holding the device with my right hand because I need to write on it with my left hand.
Oh well, sucks to be me I guess.
Tabs are a really bad thing -- they are a totally inconsistant form of window management that is only used in one type of application.
Actually no. Tabs are an implementation of what's called Multiple Document Interface (MDI). It's been around for literally decades. The first time I ever saw it was in Borland Turbo Vision - where you made windowed applications in a dos environment.
Just looking at the applications I have open on my computer right now, here are the ones that use MDI:
Microsoft SQL SErver Enterprise Manager
Microsoft Query Analyser
Macromedia Fireworks MX
Visual Paradigm UML
In each of those applications, I can open a new document inside the existing application. And in each of those applications, I switch between open documents by hitting ctrl-tab.
It's been that way for years and years and years. The only thing new in firefox is the visual element that we call tabs. Everything else is old and in comman usage.
Now I want to use Firefox the way I want to use it.
Dude, you're an idiot. Years ago, seriously, like 20 years ago, somebody came up with what's called multiple document interface (MDI). That's what allows you to have several word documents open inside one instance of word. WordXP I think got rid of this, but every other normal application uses MDI.
And the standard in MDI, for the last several *decades* has been ctrl-tab to switch between documents. Jesus man, I was writting programs in turbo vision in the 80's that uses those key commands.
Now you come along and bitch and whine as if firefox has pulled this out of their ass and you don't like it. Clue: firefox is just making use of mdi. That's all they're doing. The functionality has always been there. The only thing they've added to it was the visual element of tabs.
You look like a complete computer illiterate moron when you say you've never heard of this. And anyway, if you want to "use firefox your way" then all you have to do is open pages in a new window. Nobody is holding a gun to your head making you use tabs.
"Wouldn't it be much more efficient to pump fuel from the tower until the shuttle is at least a few meters off the ground?"
The major problem as another poster pointed out is that the fuel is liquid oxygen, and will tend to break flexible hoses.
The concept though, that you can save a lot of fuel mass at lauch, is valid. Another idea along those same lines is to mount the launch vehicle on rails and use magnets to give it that initial kick. That was how the Orion space plane was launched in A.C.Clarke's book, 2001.
um, so the point of your story is that you haven't been able to enforce the GPL? Great.
It's true that this is heavily politicized, but don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone who ridicules Gore for this remark is doing so for political reasons.
look closely at what he said:
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
He makes it sound like everyone was just sitting around and then he showed up and said, "hey all you lazy computer nerds, follow my leadership and let's build us an Internet!"
It's a kind of sentiment that geeks are all too familiar with. I spent months staying up late at night, rewriting old web pages to make them validate with the w3c. My boss had no clue what that even meant. He was often heard to say, "as long as it works in internet explorer, that's all that matters." I'm the one who wanted standards compliance. I'm the one who worked for it. I'm the one who made it happen.
And then I see in our quarterly report, "*we* took great steps toward standards compliance"
Who's we?
I think that's the sentiment that a lot of people feel when they hear a politician take credit for something. They just know he doesn't deserve it. What Gore should have said is something along the lines of, "I've always been very supportive of technology initiatives, for example (and then list some)." Don't give me this, "I took the initiative" BS.
And by the way, I think that Gore would have made a great president.
Also expect to see a big change in player movement, with a lot of UT2K4's bounciness dialed down. "You want the player to feel very powerful and free and able to do all kinds of cool stuff -- but it's not so cool when you can't hit the people you're playing against because they're doing [so much jumping around].
ugh. So it's going to be slower. just like every other game out there.
Haven't any of these people played Quake II CPMA or RA or Threewave?? Mobility makes the game more fun, not less. When you have powerful weapons and slow characters, that's called a spamfest. Players hide and just blast people when they walk by. That is physically impossible in quake because the game is so fast. If you get into a safe spot (say, the railgun platform on ctf4) I *will* get up there. You can't stop me. I'm moving too fast. And you don't switch to a close range weapon I *will* kill you. I never had experiences like that in any other game. In halo, in halflife, in UT, in Doom 3. You just pick up whatever weapon you can get and hold down the fire button.
and now I read that the next UT will be more of the same. All FPS games are the same except for Quake III with one of those mods I mentioned.
if I'm not mistaken, id has released the quake 1 and 2 engines under the gpl
I'm really happy to see HP giving so much support. I'll definitely remember this the next time someone asks my opinion about what server hardware to buy.
at one stage, there were no porn sites
what did people do back then grandpa?
Price range: ~$400
Slate-like Tablet PC (pen-driven) interface
1280x1024 or 1400x1050 resolution (1600x1200 would really be ideal)
802.11b/g wireless networking
Has Windows Pocket PC or similar small OS installed, with some games, etc.
Set up so that I can Remote Desktop into my Windows PC upstairs
you can get a viewsonic air panel for $499
It's a tablet form factor
only 800x600 resolution though
It's not exactly 802.11. It it more like a dedicated remote desktop. It doesn't have the guts to do much on it's own. Instead, it connects to your desktop and you run the programs there.
"but won't feature the main characters"
50 mod points says it features R2D2 and C3PO. I honestly don't think Lucas can write anything without at least some of the main characters. To me, it's a little sad. It strikes me as a weakness.
IMHO, every FPS is just like every other FPS in terms of gameplay. If you've played one then you've played them all. Sure, they keep adding eye candy, but that's about it. Only two FPS games every stood out from the pack in my opinion.
The first one was Quake 3. The thing that made is so different was the speed of it. That game was fast as hell. Particularly in some of the mods, like RA or threewave or CPMA, it felt like you could run like a bat out of hell. The maneuverability made it feel more like kung fu than a firefight. After playing quake for years, I tried to play UT2k3 and I just felt like I was stuck in molasses.
The other unusual game was tribes.
Anyway my point is, RTCW, Doom3, Halo, HF2, they all seemed pretty much the same to me. They're cool. Don't get me wrong (this being Slashdot I'm sure someone will take this the wrong way). All I'm saying is that Quake4 should be a sequel to Quake 3 in terms of gameplay. For the story, yeah you pretty much have to make a sequel to Q2 because Q3 didn't have much of a story. But for the gameplay, they should follow Q3 and make this a game unlike all the others. As it stands, I'm afraid Q4 is going to be YAFPS
but I'll buy it anyway I guess.
Surely something like a surface-to-air missile system is isolated from the web?
isolated from the web? from the *web*? You don't have a clue what you're talking about. Do you?
As for IE on Unix, isn't it strange that somethig that couldn't possibly be seperated from the Operating System could run with MainWin and a recompile on completely different OSes?
I really, *really* hate to support the eeeevil corporation, but we're all geeks, right? And geeks value truth and accuracy. Right?
Microsoft never said that IE couldn't be seperated from windows. They said that windows couldn't be separated from IE. They said that *windows* was dependent on IE, not that IE was dependant on windows.
In other words, you can use this tire on another car, but you can't use another tire on this car.
I can remember when searching for a page on the internet was like searching for a fish in the ocean
heh, I remember when we had to prepare our gopher searches on punch cards and wait days for machine time to run them, only to find that the research paper we thought we'd found was actually ascii porn with little popup jcl terminal windows selling "CHEEP A5PRIN" (because nobody had invented viagra!). And once you're name got out there, your bitnet account would be so full of spam that you wouldn't even want to use your wyse terminal! But you know what? We were thankful for the opportunity to be on the Internet.
you kids today...
think about getting a whole lot of prerequisites out of the way at a much lower per credit cost
bingo. That's what community colleges are for. You get two years on the cheap, then go to an expensive school for two years, and when you graduate with a BS, nobody is going to care about those first two years.
and I can tell you that the larger issue is the amount of bandwidth used by students. Universities pay by the bit and budgets are tight. The network has two purposes: first, it is there to help with your education. second, it is a recruiting tool - nobody would want to attend a school without network access.
But beyond that, it's an expensive utility and the school really can't afford to open it up 100%. So, they are always looking for some way to justify restricting its use. It's sad that they have basically called you a theif, but don't take it personally. They're just trying to save money. It's wrong and it sucks for you, but that's the bottom line.
Don't worry. college is only four years, and then you can get a good job and a real internet connection. For now, just concentrate on beer and girls
and grades of course.
I like the idea of weighting them down.
Another idea is to treat them internally (and for the purposes of pagerank weights) as regular links. In other words, forget the fact that 302's are supposed to mean "temporary location" and just think of them as links. That's the way they're being used anyway.
Right now, google is treating 302's the way that the HTTP rfc author's intended them to be treated. Unfortunately, in the real world 302's aren't used this way. Google just needs to adapt itself to the real world. They already do this with other things, for example meta tags. MEta tags are a great idea, put a few keywords in a meta tag so that a search engine knows what the page means, rather than just what it says - but so many people use them to intentionally try and screw up search engines, that google has to ignore them. This is the same sort of issue.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but the fact is that there are millions of species on Earth, and as part of the natural process of evolution hundreds of new ones evolve every year - but the other side of that coin is that hundreds go extinct every year. We have to balance environmentalism with a healthy dose of logic. We can't cry over every extinct species, and we can't preserve them all.
Obviously, I'm not talking about successful species that are hunted to extinction by humans. I know I'm going to get 50 replies from people who swell up with emotion and react to my words rather than thinking about them, who are going to say, "yeah, but humans cause extinctions." I know that. Thanks. My point is that there are millions of species on the planet and extinction and evolution is a natural process that occurs whether humans exist or not.
I just finished reading Bill Bryson's excellent book, A Short History of Nearly Everything. There's a great story about a tiny island off the coast of New Zealand. The first human to ever live on that island was a lighthouse keeper. It turned out, he had a cat. Every few days, the cat would drag the carcass of a dead bird into the house. The lighthouse keeper sent one of these dead birds to a university professor who recognized that it was a new species, never before seen by science. The professor made the trip down to the island, but by the time he got there, the cat had killed every bird on the little island. Apparently, those birds didn't live anywhere else. They've never been seen again. In less than a year, one cat had made an entire species extinct.
Many an environmentalist will tell you that the point of the story is how destructive human beings are. But I think that if you look at this logically, you'll draw a different conclusion. Long before man arrived, that species of bird had failed to evolve a solid foothold in its ecosystem. With all of New Zealand right there, the best that bird could do was live on one tiny island. It's true, that cat wiped them out. But it's also true that, all by itself and without any human influence, that species had dwindled to down to a population tiny enough to be destroyed by one cat. Had the cat not come along, the next hurricane to hit the island would have made them extinct anyway.
So, there are millions of species on our planet, and I think we should study and catalog all of them. But let's also acknowledge the fact that no matter what we do, 99.9% of those species are going to be evolutionary dead ends.
But no such math exists.
/ 02/sha1 _broken.html
There's no reason why it can't exist. Sneakers is at least within the realm of possibility. It's not like star trek. Sneakers is based on something that could happen.
Take a look at this:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005
Just last month, our beloved SHA-1, the algorithm in PGP, among other things, was broken.