Why do I love IE5? Let me list the ways. Because it has much better bookmark system. The one in Netscape is complete and utter crap. IE handles more HTML and more advanced HTML and its' dirivities (DHTML, CSS). IE also looks better just looking at it, Netscape looks like something out of the early 90's. Netscape font's (especially in Linux) look like crap, half the time the text is all scrunged up and tiny so it's a pain to read. Netscape is incredibly picky on your HTML, IE gives you more leeway. Netscape on Linux crashes at least once a day, if not more. IE crashes maybe once a week. And yes, that is pushing the browsers to the max (ie. having about 5 of them open at the same time) And don't get me started on the lack of plug-in's for Linux. I'd take IE over Netscape (especially for Linux) anyday. Luckily, the rest of Linux kicks ass, so I put up with Netscape when I boot into it : )
Maybe not in the big scheme of things, but it will affect all those MTV drones. I was chatting in on an IRC channel when MTV was playing a rerun of it. And the people in there thought that guy was so cool, and what he was doing was real. They truly believed that's how real "hackers" acted and did there stuff. I had to help set them straight of course. But people belive this crap, that's what's scary.
Well, I guess I get to add this along with running SETI and Distributed. I wonder how many other organizations are considering doing something like this. I think it's a neat idea, and I like the idea of distributed computing. It makes me feel like I'm doing something, even though it's just a really small part.
I very much so agree. I used to use Windows 98 for all of my computing, and while it did crash, it was not near as often as some of the Linux zealots say. And I pushed it. I ran ton's of programs all at the same time, all kinds of stuff. And yes, when X-Windows crashes, I consider it a crash crash because then everything I want to do on the computer doesn't work, it's all X-Windows dependent. And I agree that the Linux zealots don't help at all, no matter how "great" they think they are helping Linux. When I was first hearing about Linux (at Slashdot), and getting interested in trying it out, I was REALLY turned off by all the Linux zealots screaming that all MS products suck for everyone and everything. I mean, how would you respond if I posted, "Linsux bites! Windows is so much better. Ditch your Torbald guy and to Bill Gates!", and all of your computing experiance had been Linux? Yea, I bet you'd really want to try NT I'm not saying that NT is better than Linux, hell, I like Linux more than Win98 now, but you don't persucute someone for using a different OS, especially if your trying to get them to switch.
Not this story excatly, but about 5 days ago or so,/. posted a story alerting it's readers that MTV would be holding the special. And so this was story was created just to give a forum to complain about the show. The original story can be found here
I understand where is coming from though. What's he's saying is if Joe User is surfing the net, and Netscape freezes on him (which has happened to me), he's not going to know what to do. His first reaction will be to reboot (from his Windows days) and that will totally screw his system over. Or even if it just crahses, and you can kill it with nuke, it still won't look favorably on Linux. The end user doesn't know/care if the kernal still works, just if he can surf the net. Or sometimes I'll get spontaniously kicked out to the login screen from Gnome. To a user, it crashed. Sure you dont have to reboot, but whatever you were working on and didn't save, you've got to start over. Yes, there is a differince between a crash and just a buggy app, but it doesnt' really matter if I can't use Linux for what I want to do, does it?
But there will be online gaming by next year. You can already get on the net with it, and from what I've heard, you can download a Sonic add on pack thing already. Sure, at the moment there isn't any network, but that isn't to say there won't be one.
And for the final time, THE DC DOES NOT HAVE WINDOWS CE AS IT'S ONLY OS!!! Every single time a DC story is ever posted on/., tons of ignorant people who hear the word Microsoft automatically think, without even bothering to check, that it means it always run's CE and doesn't/can't run anything else. CE is just one OS that can be used, the developer picks which one he uses. Sega also has their own OS that a developer could also use. It depends entirely on the game what OS it uses. Please get your facts straight before you start spewing off FUD.
The whole reason the DC came with a regular phone modem is because it has the biggest established user base. Lowest Common Denominator. But, as some people have posted in threads above mine, Sega is going to release an ethernet adapter plug-in type thing, so it all works out in the end. As a cable modem user, I am a little bit mad I can't use it right out of the box, but I understand where Sega is coming from. On another note though, it the begining of the "article" it asks how to connect two systems together. I'm not even sure why you would want to do that, that's why there is 4 controller ports on the front. But if you did anyway, the PSX already has a thing that allows you to connect to PSX's together. So I guess it wouldn't be too hard for the DC to do the same thing if Sega really wanted them to do that.
Remember many gamers are used to the DOS days and messing about with all of DOS's annoyances.
That's probally true, but most of them use Windows now with its, IMHO, much easier install program. And then there are the new gamers, who have very little idea what DOS is, and never really messed around with it. While DOS might have had it's annoyances, Windows for the most doesn't, so it will actually be like taking a step backwards to them.
I think it might launch off like Superman: The Escape over at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It uses magnets to rocket off to 100 MPH (world's fastest "coaster") and curves up so you go up to 450 some odd feet. Here's some pictures. Except in the space shuttle's case, it wouldn't stop. Once it reached it's top speed, it would fire it's rockets and go on up. And if the rockets failed, it would just follow the track back down. BTW, that ride is a lot of fun : )
Do you believe the computer gaming industry will continue on it's current path, or will console videogame system eventually equal and/or overtake computer gaming sales? Consoles are becoming more PC like and their power is close to computers. Of course there will always be a market for computer games, but do you see it growing or shrinking?
Hmm, some interesting stuff to talk about with my physics teacher Monday. I remember reading something about number 1, but #2 and #3 are completely new to me. And to the post above this one I'm replying to, the imagainary number thing pissed me off to. For years, all I read was that the square root of -1 could not be done. And then come 10th grade, you can. Argh!
Um, I'm a creationist but I don't believe the earth was created only 6000 years ago. Genisis is not meant to be taken word for word, it's to give an understanding of what happened it the first few "days" of earth. In fact, I'm not sure I know any Christians who think the earth was created only 6,000 years ago. As for the cross, it's to remind us that Jesus died on the cross for us and our sins.
While that is for the most part true, the zealots really do hurt Linux's image. Like the saying, "A few bad apples will ruin the barrel" (or something like that). I know when I really got interested in Linux (mostly from reading/.) I saw how much people bashed MS. And because of that, I wasn't sure if I wanted an OS that might cause me to be an stuck-up *sshole. I've gotten email that said I was a MS b*tch because I asked if IE supported PNG images. Reading and getting things like that doesn't exactly put Linux in a favorable light. But I've also met a lot of helpful people and overall, I'm impressed by the Linux community as a whole.
What are you using? Linux? If so, then they have a RealPlayer 2 for it. If you are using Red Hat or Mandrake, you have to d/l the beta of Real Player, Real Alpha, because the regular Real Player refuses to work on those distributions. I found that out the hard way. And if you aren't suing Linux, RealPlayer 5 should do just as well.
I must be doing something wrong then. I downloaded the.ram file, which gave me the real.rm file: pnm://rvarc001.broadcast.com/events/valinux/maddog _spoof_300.rm
But when I use wget to get it, it tries to think it's from an FTP server.
wget pnm://rvarc001.broadcast.com/events/valinux/maddog _spoof_300.rm --17:57:53-- ftp://pnm:21/%2Frvarc001.broadcast.com/events/vali nux/maddog_spoof_300.rm => `maddog_spoof_300.rm' Connecting to pnm:21... pnm: Host not found
I meant that you could see if they had a Real Player for a Sparc machine. I guess I should have made that clearer. They don't (as far as I know) release their source.
It's a real player file, you know, the program that plays Real Audio and Real Video. I'm not sure if it runs on Sparc, but you can check it at www.real.com.
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Why do I love IE5? Let me list the ways. Because it has much better bookmark system. The one in Netscape is complete and utter crap. IE handles more HTML and more advanced HTML and its' dirivities (DHTML, CSS). IE also looks better just looking at it, Netscape looks like something out of the early 90's. Netscape font's (especially in Linux) look like crap, half the time the text is all scrunged up and tiny so it's a pain to read. Netscape is incredibly picky on your HTML, IE gives you more leeway. Netscape on Linux crashes at least once a day, if not more. IE crashes maybe once a week. And yes, that is pushing the browsers to the max (ie. having about 5 of them open at the same time) And don't get me started on the lack of plug-in's for Linux. I'd take IE over Netscape (especially for Linux) anyday. Luckily, the rest of Linux kicks ass, so I put up with Netscape when I boot into it : )
Someone want to post the real link, or a new link because when I click the link in the article, it gives me a 403 Forbidden error.
Maybe not in the big scheme of things, but it will affect all those MTV drones. I was chatting in on an IRC channel when MTV was playing a rerun of it. And the people in there thought that guy was so cool, and what he was doing was real. They truly believed that's how real "hackers" acted and did there stuff. I had to help set them straight of course. But people belive this crap, that's what's scary.
Well, I guess I get to add this along with running SETI and Distributed. I wonder how many other organizations are considering doing something like this. I think it's a neat idea, and I like the idea of distributed computing. It makes me feel like I'm doing something, even though it's just a really small part.
I hope that everyone who reads this knows, that if you continue reading, you will know who died. So if you don't want to know, don't read any farther.
I very much so agree. I used to use Windows 98 for all of my computing, and while it did crash, it was not near as often as some of the Linux zealots say. And I pushed it. I ran ton's of programs all at the same time, all kinds of stuff. And yes, when X-Windows crashes, I consider it a crash crash because then everything I want to do on the computer doesn't work, it's all X-Windows dependent. And I agree that the Linux zealots don't help at all, no matter how "great" they think they are helping Linux. When I was first hearing about Linux (at Slashdot), and getting interested in trying it out, I was REALLY turned off by all the Linux zealots screaming that all MS products suck for everyone and everything. I mean, how would you respond if I posted, "Linsux bites! Windows is so much better. Ditch your Torbald guy and to Bill Gates!", and all of your computing experiance had been Linux? Yea, I bet you'd really want to try NT I'm not saying that NT is better than Linux, hell, I like Linux more than Win98 now, but you don't persucute someone for using a different OS, especially if your trying to get them to switch.
That was until they made that fake Blair Witch Documentary (or was is sci-fi?) anyway
That was Sci-Fi.
Not this story excatly, but about 5 days ago or so, /. posted a story alerting it's readers that MTV would be holding the special. And so this was story was created just to give a forum to complain about the show. The original story can be found here
I understand where is coming from though. What's he's saying is if Joe User is surfing the net, and Netscape freezes on him (which has happened to me), he's not going to know what to do. His first reaction will be to reboot (from his Windows days) and that will totally screw his system over. Or even if it just crahses, and you can kill it with nuke, it still won't look favorably on Linux. The end user doesn't know/care if the kernal still works, just if he can surf the net. Or sometimes I'll get spontaniously kicked out to the login screen from Gnome. To a user, it crashed. Sure you dont have to reboot, but whatever you were working on and didn't save, you've got to start over. Yes, there is a differince between a crash and just a buggy app, but it doesnt' really matter if I can't use Linux for what I want to do, does it?
But there will be online gaming by next year. You can already get on the net with it, and from what I've heard, you can download a Sonic add on pack thing already. Sure, at the moment there isn't any network, but that isn't to say there won't be one.
And for the final time, THE DC DOES NOT HAVE WINDOWS CE AS IT'S ONLY OS!!! Every single time a DC story is ever posted on /., tons of ignorant people who hear the word Microsoft automatically think, without even bothering to check, that it means it always run's CE and doesn't/can't run anything else. CE is just one OS that can be used, the developer picks which one he uses. Sega also has their own OS that a developer could also use. It depends entirely on the game what OS it uses. Please get your facts straight before you start spewing off FUD.
The whole reason the DC came with a regular phone modem is because it has the biggest established user base. Lowest Common Denominator. But, as some people have posted in threads above mine, Sega is going to release an ethernet adapter plug-in type thing, so it all works out in the end. As a cable modem user, I am a little bit mad I can't use it right out of the box, but I understand where Sega is coming from. On another note though, it the begining of the "article" it asks how to connect two systems together. I'm not even sure why you would want to do that, that's why there is 4 controller ports on the front. But if you did anyway, the PSX already has a thing that allows you to connect to PSX's together. So I guess it wouldn't be too hard for the DC to do the same thing if Sega really wanted them to do that.
Remember many gamers are used to the DOS days and messing about with all of DOS's annoyances.
That's probally true, but most of them use Windows now with its, IMHO, much easier install program. And then there are the new gamers, who have very little idea what DOS is, and never really messed around with it. While DOS might have had it's annoyances, Windows for the most doesn't, so it will actually be like taking a step backwards to them.
I think it might launch off like Superman: The Escape over at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It uses magnets to rocket off to 100 MPH (world's fastest "coaster") and curves up so you go up to 450 some odd feet. Here's some pictures. Except in the space shuttle's case, it wouldn't stop. Once it reached it's top speed, it would fire it's rockets and go on up. And if the rockets failed, it would just follow the track back down. BTW, that ride is a lot of fun : )
Do you believe the computer gaming industry will continue on it's current path, or will console videogame system eventually equal and/or overtake computer gaming sales? Consoles are becoming more PC like and their power is close to computers. Of course there will always be a market for computer games, but do you see it growing or shrinking?
Hmm, some interesting stuff to talk about with my physics teacher Monday. I remember reading something about number 1, but #2 and #3 are completely new to me. And to the post above this one I'm replying to, the imagainary number thing pissed me off to. For years, all I read was that the square root of -1 could not be done. And then come 10th grade, you can. Argh!
Um, I'm a creationist but I don't believe the earth was created only 6000 years ago. Genisis is not meant to be taken word for word, it's to give an understanding of what happened it the first few "days" of earth. In fact, I'm not sure I know any Christians who think the earth was created only 6,000 years ago. As for the cross, it's to remind us that Jesus died on the cross for us and our sins.
Perhaps someone else can recommend to you a book on Creationism?
The first book of the bible would be a good place to start.
While that is for the most part true, the zealots really do hurt Linux's image. Like the saying, "A few bad apples will ruin the barrel" (or something like that). I know when I really got interested in Linux (mostly from reading /.) I saw how much people bashed MS. And because of that, I wasn't sure if I wanted an OS that might cause me to be an stuck-up *sshole. I've gotten email that said I was a MS b*tch because I asked if IE supported PNG images. Reading and getting things like that doesn't exactly put Linux in a favorable light. But I've also met a lot of helpful people and overall, I'm impressed by the Linux community as a whole.
What are you using? Linux? If so, then they have a RealPlayer 2 for it. If you are using Red Hat or Mandrake, you have to d/l the beta of Real Player, Real Alpha, because the regular Real Player refuses to work on those distributions. I found that out the hard way. And if you aren't suing Linux, RealPlayer 5 should do just as well.
And this is what a screenshot will look like : )
I must be doing something wrong then. I downloaded the .ram file, which gave me the real .rm file: pnm://rvarc001.broadcast.com/events/valinux/maddog _spoof_300.rm
g _spoof_300.rm i nux/maddog_spoof_300.rm
But when I use wget to get it, it tries to think it's from an FTP server.
wget pnm://rvarc001.broadcast.com/events/valinux/maddo
--17:57:53-- ftp://pnm:21/%2Frvarc001.broadcast.com/events/val
=> `maddog_spoof_300.rm'
Connecting to pnm:21...
pnm: Host not found
How do I get past that?
I meant that you could see if they had a Real Player for a Sparc machine. I guess I should have made that clearer. They don't (as far as I know) release their source.
It's a real player file, you know, the program that plays Real Audio and Real Video. I'm not sure if it runs on Sparc, but you can check it at www.real.com.
The X-Files is one of the few reasons I watch TV anymore, and now with Scully gone, it'll definitly not be the same X-Files. I miss that show already.