the AI engine for games like NBA live have not improved at all the last couple of years. Not to mention the least that they missed one of their annual releases couple of years ago. given the amount of crazy overtime shifts employees work there, you'd think they would make more adjustments and improvements per release right? unfortunately nba live isnt one of the games they're pushing the most, already knowing that they've established their fan base. good thing though is that sega has been releasing the 2kX series, which should give decent competition.
i'd like to wonder if the nba live team in EA is the same as the nhl or nfl progrmaming folks.
i simply refuse to use IM most of the time now. first, most people now use msn, which has no offline messaging support. when i go online, i dont want people to bother me while i'm doing work. (btw, what's the use of the DND mode if you're busy but dont want people to msg you? why not just go offline?)
then all of a sudden people on my list thought i have blocked them eventhough i just don't use msn anymore.
with all these unlimited long distance plans, i'd much prefer to call the person. takes less time to get the message across, because i just can't stand waiting 7 minutes between each IM response from the person i'm talking to anymore.
just installed deer park alpha 2 yesterday. now you're able to click-drag-reorder tabs. i find it even faster than alpha 1, and alpha 1 is already significantly faster than regular firefox.
now if only they can resolve the annoyance that the menu bar height getting bigger then you move your personal bookmarks up top along side with it. only happens in linux, not windows...
It's Y2K all over again.:) Hopefully the consulting companies will be able to sell the scare and raise the billing rates! Jobs!!!! Jobs!!!!
This is like rediscoving your erection again. In the beginning there were no problems having one. Then it disappeared, seemingly for good. And suddenly it all came back like saussages at a hotdog stand!
since this is a US thing, will the change affect canada as well? (ok, before BC and Ontario become part of the US while Quebec splits off from the rest of Canada?;)
i don't have any problems with alioth 3.4.0 packages. i havent been able to upgrade to 3.4.1 anyway... cant seem to authenticate the pages via apt-get for some reason. how did you get around that?
i havent had much of hardware problems when installing my OS, and these days the hardware autodetection's pretty nice - but a lot of posters here cant seem to get basic things like wifi card and graphics to work properly.
a lot of you would say it's because it's because manufacturers don't release specs, etc.
but EVEN let's say they all do. it still wouldn't justify why it's required to compile in the features into the kernel to get things to work. there are things that are already available like sleep mode on the laptop. the specs are there, the code is there, but it's still too troublesome having to recompile the kernel to get it to work.
it's not as simple as hardware specs. everyone, even fanboys agree that a lot of the problem is with the GUI. wouldn't it be great if there's a module in kcontrol that allows users to click and add in mirrors for upgrading their packages, no matter you're using fedora, mandrake or debian?
if you take a look at the desktop releases, a lot of the "improvements" are in terms of eye candy, but not so much on configuration frontends... right now distros like mandrake and fedora are doing pretty good jobs on these, but wouldnt it be nice to have a unified config setting gui program?
i personally don't have a problem with this, having gotten used to editing everything via the shell, but...
then there's the speed of the gui apps which I can get into for hours...
hong kong -- tiny place and not too easy to find. some interesting architecture. can't tell how polluted the city is, considering how "vibrant" the color of the images are...
Ballmer: "hehe. heh. hehehe. so gates, what do you say we name ourselves microsoft" Gates: "uhh... huh...... uh... cool. micro. soft. huh..." Ballmer: "ya! ya! ya! we would like rule! and we'll get chicks with that name!" Gates: "shut up dumbass! you know what would be a better name? my bung hole" Ballmer: "bungholio!!!!! hee. hee. hehe.. bungholioooooo!! holiooooo!!!!"
You would need to feed in text files for these to work. I haven't found any text editors that have automatic grammar checking on the fly like MSWord though. Would be interesting if someone writes a plugin for gedit, for grammar checking, just like the way they already have automatic spell checking which uses ispell/aspell as the backend.
(heck, they don't even have automatic spell checking [on-the-fly] for kate (or kile) after seeing the feature request in bugs.kde.org for years. It can be quite troublesome when editing large latex documents.)
wouldn't it be nice if there's a better latexOO/doc conversion? One of the biggest problem is with math equations, but isn't mathml also some sort of a standard that shouldn't be that hard to covert into? also there are lots of problems with tables.latex2rtf and some other sharewares are nice, but they don't seem to do the conversion too well...
coincidentally, i just downloaded the nightly build last night after reading all the great stuff about it few weeks ago,and was amazed by the speed improvements. i had a bunch of apps (pdf viewer, thunderbird, licq, multiple konsoles) running while running kde, and the mozilla nightly build started in no more than a second, and page rendering was even faster than firefox. i run firefox mainly as a browser, and i do prefer the UI in firefox, but the mozilla nightly just absolutely wowed me.
Didn't slashdot first begin as what is known as a blog today, with links and his own comments to articles that CmdrTaco found interesting?
not trying to troll here, some say journalism involves research on the topic. sometimes you might just have to RTFA before posting stuff about it? maybe typo-free in what you post? but until this day, you still get false facts from time to time posted in the front page, spelling mistakes, incorrect grammar... (like this very comment!)
perhaps with the more DVD space, packages/software need not to be in their compressed forms as they were on the CD. instead of unpacking them as needed for execution, maybe having them uncompressed in the dvd would save the overhead - especially on older machines...
on a pII and early pIIIs knoppix does seem to crawl quite a bit...
the/. headline makes it looks like there's quite a bit of fued between cox and torvalds, which isnt really the case if you RTFM.
different people have different working styles, no matter whether it's kernel coding, software apps, or ASIC designs. if either group/individuals are too giving to the other group, there can never be enough feedback/ constructive critisisms between them. having yes-men surrounding you isnt the best thing. and it's not like that they're arguing so much they've halted any soft of development progress.
[offtopic] gives me an idea though, maybe when job interviewers start asking me those behavioural questions about "a time when you've had disagreements and a way of resolving them", there's no need to bring up something too dramatic. [/offtopic]
Linux: if i'm writing a paper of a thesis, then it's the kde environment (+ kile + kdvi + kpdf) if i'm writing code, then it's fluxbox (runs lightening fast and doesnt clutter up desktop space) - with multiple xterms (or multiple tabs on konsole, which starts up bit slower if you're not running kde in the background.)
Windows if i'm drawing diagrams, then it's windows2000 (visio 2002) - exports.eps + bounding box very well. maybe sometimes writing code on multiple putty (ssh) sessions.
been running kde 3.4 beta1 for a few weeks now. my personal favorites are the improvements to kdvi and kpdf. things are rendered a lot better in each, and the sidebar page previews really help navigating for us needing to edit long latex documents... too bad the bug that doesnt show >1 images in kdvi on the same page when it's supposed to is still there.
the best thing now is that they're no longer using that hideous keramick theme as the default...
unfortunately, everything in kde is a little too self contained. as in it doesn't launch the 'default' browser (sensible-browser) that you set. there's not even a simple config/dialog where you can choose to run firefox/mozilla instead of konqueror whenever you click on links on other "K" apps.
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As predicted by a fellow poster.
I just installed gDesklets and I have to say it's pretty cool. It's not limited
to gnome and runs fine on my KDE desktop.
mod parent up.
the AI engine for games like NBA live have not improved at all the last couple of years. Not to mention the least that they missed one of their annual releases couple of years ago. given the amount of crazy overtime shifts employees work there, you'd think they would make more adjustments and improvements per release right? unfortunately nba live isnt one of the games they're pushing the most, already knowing that they've established their fan base. good thing though is that sega has been releasing the 2kX series, which should give decent competition.
i'd like to wonder if the nba live team in EA is the same as the nhl or nfl progrmaming folks.
i simply refuse to use IM most of the time now. first, most people now use msn, which has no offline messaging support. when i go online, i dont want people to bother me while i'm doing work. (btw, what's the use of the DND mode if you're busy but dont want people to msg you? why not just go offline?)
then all of a sudden people on my list thought i have blocked them eventhough i just don't use msn anymore.
with all these unlimited long distance plans, i'd much prefer to call the person. takes less time to get the message across, because i just can't stand waiting 7 minutes between each IM response from the person i'm talking to anymore.
just installed deer park alpha 2 yesterday.
now you're able to click-drag-reorder tabs.
i find it even faster than alpha 1,
and alpha 1 is already significantly faster than regular firefox.
now if only they can resolve the annoyance that the menu bar height getting bigger then you move your personal bookmarks up top along side with it. only happens in linux, not windows...
It's Y2K all over again. :)
Hopefully the consulting companies will be able to sell the scare and raise the billing rates!
Jobs!!!! Jobs!!!!
This is like rediscoving your erection again. In the beginning there were no problems having one. Then it disappeared, seemingly for good. And suddenly it all came back like saussages at a hotdog stand!
since this is a US thing, will the change affect canada as well? (ok, before BC and Ontario become part of the US while Quebec splits off from the rest of Canada? ;)
i don't have any problems with alioth 3.4.0 packages. i havent been able to upgrade to 3.4.1 anyway... cant seem to authenticate the pages via apt-get for some reason. how did you get around that?
" but then again that's just an opinion from a little guy.".
;)
no one's going to listen to you if you're a dick
first of all, i'm a debian user.
i havent had much of hardware problems when installing my OS, and these days the hardware autodetection's pretty nice - but a lot of posters here cant seem to get basic things like wifi card and graphics to work properly.
a lot of you would say it's because it's because manufacturers don't release specs, etc.
but EVEN let's say they all do. it still wouldn't justify why it's required to compile in the features into the kernel to get things to work. there are things that are already available like sleep mode on the laptop. the specs are there, the code is there, but it's still too troublesome having to recompile the kernel to get it to work.
it's not as simple as hardware specs. everyone, even fanboys agree that a lot of the problem is with the GUI. wouldn't it be great if there's a module in kcontrol that allows users to click and add in mirrors for upgrading their packages, no matter you're using fedora, mandrake or debian?
if you take a look at the desktop releases, a lot of the "improvements" are in terms of eye candy, but not so much on configuration frontends... right now distros like mandrake and fedora are doing pretty good jobs on these, but wouldnt it be nice to have a unified config setting gui program?
i personally don't have a problem with this, having gotten used to editing everything via the shell, but...
then there's the speed of the gui apps which I can get into for hours...
hong kong -- tiny place and not too easy to find. some interesting architecture. can't tell how polluted the city is, considering how "vibrant" the color of the images are...
Oh, and dump your boy/girlfriend, too
um, why would anyone want to cut off their own hands?
Ballmer: "hehe. heh. hehehe. so gates, what do you say we name ourselves microsoft"
Gates: "uhh... huh...... uh... cool. micro. soft. huh..."
Ballmer: "ya! ya! ya! we would like rule! and we'll get chicks with that name!"
Gates: "shut up dumbass! you know what would be a better name? my bung hole"
Ballmer: "bungholio!!!!! hee. hee. hehe.. bungholioooooo!! holiooooo!!!!"
From the site:
speaking of triumph...
check out triumph in quebec! Bloody hilarious.
There's Queequeg, which is based on wordnet.
You would need to feed in text files for these to work. I haven't found any text editors that have automatic grammar checking on the fly like MSWord though. Would be interesting if someone writes a plugin for gedit, for grammar checking, just like the way they already have automatic spell checking which uses ispell/aspell as the backend.
(heck, they don't even have automatic spell checking [on-the-fly] for kate (or kile) after seeing the feature request in bugs.kde.org for years. It can be quite troublesome when editing large latex documents.)
for those interested, debian packages are now available at ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
wouldn't it be nice if there's a better latexOO/doc conversion? One of the biggest problem is with math equations, but isn't mathml also some sort of a standard that shouldn't be that hard to covert into? also there are lots of problems with tables.latex2rtf and some other sharewares are nice, but they don't seem to do the conversion too well...
coincidentally, i just downloaded the nightly build last night after reading all the great stuff about it few weeks ago,and was amazed by the speed improvements. i had a bunch of apps (pdf viewer, thunderbird, licq, multiple konsoles) running while running kde, and the mozilla nightly build started in no more than a second, and page rendering was even faster than firefox. i run firefox mainly as a browser, and i do prefer the UI in firefox, but the mozilla nightly just absolutely wowed me.
Didn't slashdot first begin as what is known as a blog today, with links and his own comments to articles that CmdrTaco found interesting?
not trying to troll here, some say journalism involves research on the topic. sometimes you might just have to RTFA before posting stuff about it? maybe typo-free in what you post? but until this day, you still get false facts from time to time posted in the front page, spelling mistakes, incorrect grammar... (like this very comment!)
perhaps with the more DVD space, packages/software need not to be in their compressed forms as they were on the CD. instead of unpacking them as needed for execution, maybe having them uncompressed in the dvd would save the overhead - especially on older machines...
on a pII and early pIIIs knoppix does seem to crawl quite a bit...
the /. headline makes it looks like there's quite a bit of fued between cox and torvalds, which isnt really the case if you RTFM.
different people have different working styles, no matter whether it's kernel coding, software apps, or ASIC designs. if either group/individuals are too giving to the other group, there can never be enough feedback/ constructive critisisms between them. having yes-men surrounding you isnt the best thing. and it's not like that they're arguing so much they've halted any soft of development progress.
[offtopic]
gives me an idea though, maybe when job interviewers start asking me those behavioural questions about "a time when you've had disagreements and a way of resolving them", there's no need to bring up something too dramatic.
[/offtopic]
Linux:
if i'm writing a paper of a thesis, then it's the kde environment (+ kile + kdvi + kpdf)
if i'm writing code, then it's fluxbox (runs lightening fast and doesnt clutter up desktop space) - with multiple xterms (or multiple tabs on konsole, which starts up bit slower if you're not running kde in the background.)
Windows
if i'm drawing diagrams, then it's windows2000 (visio 2002) - exports
been running kde 3.4 beta1 for a few weeks now. my personal favorites are the improvements to kdvi and kpdf. things are rendered a lot better in each, and the sidebar page previews really help navigating for us needing to edit long latex documents... too bad the bug that doesnt show >1 images in kdvi on the same page when it's supposed to is still there.
the best thing now is that they're no longer using that hideous keramick theme as the default...
unfortunately, everything in kde is a little too self contained. as in it doesn't launch the 'default' browser (sensible-browser) that you set. there's not even a simple config/dialog where you can choose to run firefox/mozilla instead of konqueror whenever you click on links on other "K" apps.
i just copy the userContent.css file in my profile directory. no need to install adblock nor flash click to play.
no need to install some of these extensions when those features are already in the default browser...