IMHO, I think it is a big mistake to "break" the back button. Other than hyperlinks, it is the user's oxygen supply, their main source of power over their browsing experience (besides hyperlinks). Whenever you go against the user's expectations (when I click back, go back NOW; when I click on a hyperlink, navigate to the page, do not open extra windows, do not open a mail window, do not use a 0 second redirect).
And HOW, pray tell, are you going to do this, when you distribute the source code? You can't prevent people from modifying your GPL'd source code. Haven't you ever read the GPL?
I know it was probably just a troll, but I'll bite. The award was given for support of the Linux community. Are you saying that the OpenBSD project should be given an award for support of the Linux community? Or are you saying that the OpenBSD project should give an award to the the Free Software Foundation for support of the OpenBSD project? (OpenBSD includes GNU system software, right?)
I wouldn't automatically assume that these are the same guys involved in the Pyramid3D chip.. They could be though.. Anyone have hard info?
It is the same guys. Look in the "Team" section.
Mika Tuomi and Sami Tammilehto are from Future Crew.
Crystal Dreams II was a much better demo then Second Reality.
This has been rehashed a million times in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos, in 1993 that is. I think the basic consensus was that if you are a programmer CD2 was really interesting, but if you just show it to your regular friends/family, it is boring. SR was much more entertaining for regular folks.
Whatever happened to Triton? What happened to Into the Shadows?
Probably the same thing as a million other non-commercial game products. It takes so much more to make a playable game than a demo. (demo as in demoscene not as in gamedemo) Demo programming is fun because of programming against unusual constraints, and you can see and hear the results. What fun is there in figuring out how to read the joystick, or figuring out why it crashes on some computers? (That's a rhetorical question.)
The directors were the actors (and the camera men, and the...). There were three people, they knew everything about the movie. It was shot using a b&w film camera and a video camera.
The movie reminded me of playing make-believe in elementary school, I couldn't really suspend my disbelief because of the close connection between filmmaker and actor.
I used to program a ball bouncing around the screen on my HP 42S. (Not the same language, etc. as the 48GX I think). I once tried to make a 2D shooter on the 131 x 16 pixel screen (yes, that sixteen) (like galaga, kinda) but it just wasn't feasible. Way too slow. I used to use my 42S all the time but ever since the end of High School (calculus AP, physics AP, chemistry AP) I haven't really needed to actualy calculate anything except checkbooks. Even in college.
At the risk of making my post disappear into the noise I will reply to this post instead of making a root level one.
There were at least three virtual reality movies this year. The Matrix, eXistenZ, and the 13th floor. The Matrix kicked ass as everyone knows. eXistenZ was one of those cheaply made independent movies, that covered the same VR/real life confusion premise as every other VR movie in existance (including Total Recall). I haven't bothered seeing the 13th floor because frankly I'm burned out on the whole "what if real life is just a simulation" bit (also covered by Descartes dream argument), the box office results were terrible (I know, I know), and the previews annoyed me. "You can GO there EVEN though it DOESN'T exIST." "What did you do!" "I Turned it Off!" Sounds like a good idea to me. Not only that but "13th floor" not existing is a bad pun, of which I fault much of country music (don't ask). In fact, I do believe that if you look up the Sci-Fi cliche list, that premise is listed as a cliche. If you were to submit a story like that to a science fiction literature publisher they would reject it in two nanoseconds.
Considering how many CDs SuSE comes on, I think their philosophy must be "everything but the kitchen sink." On one hand, you can't really assume that everyone wants to surf the Internet looking for packages to install, waiting to download them (sometimes on a slow modem). There is also the remote possibility someone doesn't have access to the Internet, or not enough to make it practical. Otherwise, why buy a distribution at all when you can download it?
This is the only post you need to read.:) Here's the summary: 1. Half the people are saying that the Slashdot posters are automatically going to criticize Microsoft, no matter what. 2. The other half are saying that AOL is acting like Microsoft. In other words criticizing AOL, not Microsoft as predicted.
AOL is saying that Microsoft is asking for AOLer's passwords. This is completely untrue. Their program is asking for their passwords and not sending them to Microsoft, merely storing the password on their computer. Hell, Netscape Mail (my mail client) asked for my POP password, and I have it saved so I don't have to type it in. Damn them!
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A few weeks ago director Barry Sonnenfield was blaming the internet because of the negative reaction his film "Wild Wild West" was getting
If we were talking about water, then 1M of water is 18g. So 1e15 moles of water would be 2e15g, which is 2e15cm^3 of water. This is 2e12L of water. Or a cube approx 1e5cm on a side, so we're talking about 1 cubic kilometer of water, give or take.
Is this salt or fresh water? Don't forget the deeper the water, the denser it is so you will have to use calculus. Who knew the Internet was so complicated?
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IMHO, I think it is a big mistake to "break" the back button. Other than hyperlinks, it is the user's oxygen supply, their main source of power over their browsing experience (besides hyperlinks). Whenever you go against the user's expectations (when I click back, go back NOW; when I click on a hyperlink, navigate to the page, do not open extra windows, do not open a mail window, do not use a 0 second redirect).
And HOW, pray tell, are you going to do this, when you distribute the source code? You can't prevent people from modifying your GPL'd source code. Haven't you ever read the GPL?
I know it was probably just a troll, but I'll bite. The award was given for support of the Linux community. Are you saying that the OpenBSD project should be given an award for support of the Linux community? Or are you saying that the OpenBSD project should give an award to the the Free Software Foundation for support of the OpenBSD project? (OpenBSD includes GNU system software, right?)
I wouldn't automatically assume that these are the same guys involved in the Pyramid3D chip.. They could be though.. Anyone have hard info?
It is the same guys. Look in the "Team" section.
Mika Tuomi and Sami Tammilehto are from Future Crew.
Crystal Dreams II was a much better demo then Second Reality.
This has been rehashed a million times in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos, in 1993 that is. I think the basic consensus was that if you are a programmer CD2 was really interesting, but if you just show it to your regular friends/family, it is boring. SR was much more entertaining for regular folks.
Whatever happened to Triton? What happened to Into the Shadows?
Probably the same thing as a million other non-commercial game products. It takes so much more to make a playable game than a demo. (demo as in demoscene not as in gamedemo) Demo programming is fun because of programming against unusual constraints, and you can see and hear the results. What fun is there in figuring out how to read the joystick, or figuring out why it crashes on some computers? (That's a rhetorical question.)
Richard-Stallman-as-Marx. Richard Marx!
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here
waiting for GNU
The directors were the actors (and the camera men, and the ...). There were three people, they knew everything about the movie. It was shot using a b&w film camera and a video camera.
The movie reminded me of playing make-believe in elementary school, I couldn't really suspend my disbelief because of the close connection between filmmaker and actor.
I used to program a ball bouncing around the screen on my HP 42S. (Not the same language, etc. as the 48GX I think). I once tried to make a 2D shooter on the 131 x 16 pixel screen (yes, that sixteen) (like galaga, kinda) but it just wasn't feasible. Way too slow.
I used to use my 42S all the time but ever since the end of High School (calculus AP, physics AP, chemistry AP) I haven't really needed to actualy calculate anything except checkbooks. Even in college.
If people are hacking the client just to get good stats, then don't provide stats.
I don't see how that could be considering that the book was published in 1984, and Microsoft had already been producing MS-DOS.
At the risk of making my post disappear into the noise I will reply to this post instead of making a root level one.
There were at least three virtual reality movies this year. The Matrix, eXistenZ, and the 13th floor. The Matrix kicked ass as everyone knows. eXistenZ was one of those cheaply made independent movies, that covered the same VR/real life confusion premise as every other VR movie in existance (including Total Recall). I haven't bothered seeing the 13th floor because frankly I'm burned out on the whole "what if real life is just a simulation" bit (also covered by Descartes dream argument), the box office results were terrible (I know, I know), and the previews annoyed me. "You can GO there EVEN though it DOESN'T exIST." "What did you do!" "I Turned it Off!" Sounds like a good idea to me. Not only that but "13th floor" not existing is a bad pun, of which I fault much of country music (don't ask).
In fact, I do believe that if you look up the Sci-Fi cliche list, that premise is listed as a cliche. If you were to submit a story like that to a science fiction literature publisher they would reject it in two nanoseconds.
Except that the serial numbers on the cash were recorded by the bank (along with your mug shot) when you withdrew the money from the ATM. Try again.
Or 6+ CDs in the case of SuSE.
Considering how many CDs SuSE comes on, I think their philosophy must be "everything but the kitchen sink." On one hand, you can't really assume that everyone wants to surf the Internet looking for packages to install, waiting to download them (sometimes on a slow modem). There is also the remote possibility someone doesn't have access to the Internet, or not enough to make it practical. Otherwise, why buy a distribution at all when you can download it?
This is the only post you need to read. :)
Here's the summary:
1. Half the people are saying that the Slashdot posters are automatically going to criticize Microsoft, no matter what.
2. The other half are saying that AOL is acting like Microsoft. In other words criticizing AOL, not Microsoft as predicted.
AOL is saying that Microsoft is asking for AOLer's passwords. This is completely untrue. Their program is asking for their passwords and not sending them to Microsoft, merely storing the password on their computer. Hell, Netscape Mail (my mail client) asked for my POP password, and I have it saved so I don't have to type it in. Damn them!
A few weeks ago director Barry Sonnenfield was blaming the internet because of the negative reaction his film "Wild Wild West" was getting
As always, blame the messenger.
If we were talking about water, then 1M of water is 18g. So 1e15 moles of water would be 2e15g, which is 2e15cm^3 of water. This is 2e12L of water. Or a cube approx 1e5cm on a side, so we're talking about 1 cubic kilometer of water, give or take.
Is this salt or fresh water? Don't forget the deeper the water, the denser it is so you will have to use calculus. Who knew the Internet was so complicated?
3ffe:1cf8:ff01:0:0:0:0:1
Or in old fashion decimal:
63.254.28.248.255.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1
Muahahahaha!
This is probably old news but if you are having problems with the site try:
http://www.fourmilab.to
instead.