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So is it ok to have turbo buttons on the 3rd party joysticks, and programmable joysticks that let you code a short series of button presses to a single button, but its not ok to let a player use a mouse? What about a trackball? Do they make joysticks with trackballs in place of the analog sticks or anything?
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Huh, its $6.00 more there than at lik-sang, and its still sold-out.
What I want to know, from the hard-core xbox players who think the analog pads are ok, is, would you consider it cheating if people brought a Smart Joy + keyboard + mouse to a halo party? I definately would be tempted to do so if I owned it, since I think it would only be fair to play an FPS the way FPSs are meant to be played.
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True.
I'm really tempted to buy this, and then an xbox, and then halo, just to see how well it actually works.
No, I don't post a lot to bugzilla because searching to find if its been reported already is way too hard, and I don't want to waste time posting dup bugs.
I have trouble getting many people to switch to TB even though they quickly took up FF. The things keeping back these people I know that are now using FF + Outlook are:
1) Buttons work differently, such as the delete button doesn't also close the message if you opened the message in a new Window (These type of problems are solvable with the Buttons! extension)
2) The context menu for Copy To and Move To is very annoying for them to use since they typically have 100s of folders nested across their accounts, and they can't seem to find the folder they want fast enough, where as Outlook will just pop up a little window with a folder tree for Copy/Move operations.
3) The address book contacts editor has most of the useful information on the first tab, but the Company Title and Notes section are on the 2nd and 3rd tab, and users find it annoying to have to use these extra tabs for such common pieces of information, when all the other stuff on the 2nd and 3rd tab is unused. Somehow, they wan't those two fields duplicated onto the main tab for the contacts editor.
4) Having to open the address book in a new window, and the contacts sidebar tab really doesn't help anybody I suggested it to here. Users really seem to wait a contacts folder in their folder list to see the list of contacts.
5) The contacts list is not easily sortable like Outlook and blank fields seem to sort above A forcing them to sort Z-A and scroll down to find the stuff in the middle. I guess they just want A-Z sorting to put blanks after Z.
Make sure you are pasting it right since slashdot inserts random spaces all over the place. http://www.microsoft.com has the same problem as well, as does any block element, span and inline elements show no issue for me. It only effected control+click or middleclick for open-in-new-tab for me, on 1.0RC1 (I don't have 1.0PR anymore)
Of course, the onclick thing is just as bad really, and may be harder to fix, since it can be quite common to have the href="javascript:;" or href="#" and valid non-url-redirecting javascript in the onclick event. Personally, the status bar should just show the contents of the onclick parameter that will execute when clicked, or the href, which ever is really going to be executed. Or at least the words "Javascript Code" in place of the onclick contents.
Change the html from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/"><table><tr><td><a href="http://www.google.com/">http://www.microsoft.com</td></tr></table></a> to <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/"><table><tr><td><a href="http://www.google.com/">http://www.microsoft.com</a></td></tr></table></a>
(sorry, Extrans mode is breaking the last </a> for some reason there)
and you will notice the status bar says microsoft.com, and clicking it goes to microsoft.com, but middle click for a new tab, and you get google, not what the status bar says!
The IntelliMouse Explorer is the one with the righty-only buttons (two thumb buttons on the left), the IntelliMouse Optical has a single button on each side, which by default are mapped to alt+left/right, but I changed that of course. I like the IntelliMouse Optical because it is solid, not funny shaped, works great, has great software, and my two left-handed friends can use them as well.
I don't know which selection you would rather buy from, but every single Logitech mouse there looks too small in the front and too strangely curved. The top 6 MS mice listed there also look really crappy for the same reasons, but below those are some solid shapes including the IntelliMouse Optical.
MS Mice sell very well. In fact I own 4 IntelliMouse Opticals. Wouldn't surprise me if MS just rebranded them, but I've never seen the same thing available from another brand. Most mice are either wireless or curved all stupidly (both very annoying, the second being extremely annoying if left handed, or amidextrious, especially when placed in a computer lab that isn't used by just right handers)
Most antispyware programs seem to be like virus scanners, not just a tool that lets you see *everything* that starts up. I'm more interested in seeing what programs are starting up then I am what silly cookies spybot thinks are bad and what orphaned registry keys it thinks may belong to a long-gone program. For now, the best solution I have found is to bookmark a few common registry keys in regedit, and just google for the.exe name if I don't recognize it.
This is all a dirty compared to just running SpyBot, but if you want to just delete the registry keys and hit the power button, most things won't rewrite themselves to the registry quick enough. Or you could just use safemode to do this.
Windows XP supports all those silly buttons without any extra software having to run in the background. Sure it could be more discriminatory, but it will not ruin anybody's system to clear out those keys. What would be really helpful though is something like just the startup tab of msconfig that also shows things like ShellExecuteHooks and such, but also looks at a repository on microsoft.com to try to determine with md5sums or something what each program is, or at least if its a valid MS process or not.
The -key deletes the entire key and all its values, then the next line will re-create an empty key in its place. Your system will run fine with nothing starting up and nothing hooking the explorer process. I'm sure there are other keys but these 3 are big.
I think this about sums it up. I've never done this in a work-environment, but can easily guess from doing programming in the CS-major-only lab. Man did I hate 1 / 2 when the other guy was a real dumbass and didn't really care. You have to laugh at 3 if you overhear them talking to eachother from a distance. 4a was the best though. How I wish I could have 4a and still be self-employed. Nothing beats writing a huge chunk of code and finding all the bugs simply because another great programmer is looking over your shoulder as you write it while chitchating on the side, and when you go to compile and test it, it runs flawlessly on the first try.
No kidding, parking at all the malls I've ever been too is free too. Where do you have to pay $8 to park other then an amusement park? And $12 per ticket? Its only $7 or so around here, and if you have any sort of expired student ID, its only $5 usually.
The Canon "photo printers" seem very nice. I got a i960 for just over $100 and it has 6 separate color tanks, each one replacable on its own for about $9. My old HP was really a killer with its $35 tricolor cartridge and $30 black cartridge. I always ran out of one color and had to replace the whole thing, and they never lasted long either. I never used to like Canon much, but I think they are definately worth it now. I'm not sure having 2 different shades of magenta and cyan really helps photos look that much better, but being able to replace any single tank of ink for only $9 seems like a real money saver.
You forgot the inability to print colors correctly. Well, the ones I've owned were like that. You want yellow? How about orange instead! Black? naw.. Dark brown is good enough! And it did quite often print onto a stack of 3 pieces of paper , each slighly ahead of the previous one, just enough so it wasted the first two sheets with small lines of color.
I've had a lot of great HP and just recently got a Cannon and the colors are always amazingly close to what I see on-screen.
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So is it ok to have turbo buttons on the 3rd party joysticks, and programmable joysticks that let you code a short series of button presses to a single button, but its not ok to let a player use a mouse? What about a trackball? Do they make joysticks with trackballs in place of the analog sticks or anything?
Huh, its $6.00 more there than at lik-sang, and its still sold-out.
What I want to know, from the hard-core xbox players who think the analog pads are ok, is, would you consider it cheating if people brought a Smart Joy + keyboard + mouse to a halo party? I definately would be tempted to do so if I owned it, since I think it would only be fair to play an FPS the way FPSs are meant to be played.
True.
I'm really tempted to buy this, and then an xbox, and then halo, just to see how well it actually works.
No, I don't post a lot to bugzilla because searching to find if its been reported already is way too hard, and I don't want to waste time posting dup bugs.
Also, the calendar issues too:
6) Nobody wants to leave the calendar window open in order to get alerts.
I have trouble getting many people to switch to TB even though they quickly took up FF. The things keeping back these people I know that are now using FF + Outlook are:
1) Buttons work differently, such as the delete button doesn't also close the message if you opened the message in a new Window (These type of problems are solvable with the Buttons! extension)
2) The context menu for Copy To and Move To is very annoying for them to use since they typically have 100s of folders nested across their accounts, and they can't seem to find the folder they want fast enough, where as Outlook will just pop up a little window with a folder tree for Copy/Move operations.
3) The address book contacts editor has most of the useful information on the first tab, but the Company Title and Notes section are on the 2nd and 3rd tab, and users find it annoying to have to use these extra tabs for such common pieces of information, when all the other stuff on the 2nd and 3rd tab is unused. Somehow, they wan't those two fields duplicated onto the main tab for the contacts editor.
4) Having to open the address book in a new window, and the contacts sidebar tab really doesn't help anybody I suggested it to here. Users really seem to wait a contacts folder in their folder list to see the list of contacts.
5) The contacts list is not easily sortable like Outlook and blank fields seem to sort above A forcing them to sort Z-A and scroll down to find the stuff in the middle. I guess they just want A-Z sorting to put blanks after Z.
*sigh*
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I meant:
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <div><a href="http://www.google.com/">http://www.microsof
Make sure you are pasting it right since slashdot inserts random spaces all over the place.
http://www.microsoft
Of course, the onclick thing is just as bad really, and may be harder to fix, since it can be quite common to have the href="javascript:;" or href="#" and valid non-url-redirecting javascript in the onclick event.
Personally, the status bar should just show the contents of the onclick parameter that will execute when clicked, or the href, which ever is really going to be executed. Or at least the words "Javascript Code" in place of the onclick contents.
Change the html froma href="http://www.google.com/">http://www.microsoft .com</td></tr></table></a> a href="http://www.google.com/">http://www.microsoft .com</a></td></tr></table></a> ;
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/"><table><tr><td><
to
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/"><table><tr><td><
(sorry, Extrans mode is breaking the last </a> for some reason there)
and you will notice the status bar says microsoft.com, and clicking it goes to microsoft.com, but middle click for a new tab, and you get google, not what the status bar says!
http://www.dansdata.com/drivedocks.htm claims up to 60W can be pulled over firewire.
I have to agree with TightVNC - the video driver addon for 1.3 is very good and TightVNC is by far the fastest VNC I've used.
Also coincidental, the Psycho star Janet Leigh that died today was also 77.
The IntelliMouse Explorer is the one with the righty-only buttons (two thumb buttons on the left), the IntelliMouse Optical has a single button on each side, which by default are mapped to alt+left/right, but I changed that of course. I like the IntelliMouse Optical because it is solid, not funny shaped, works great, has great software, and my two left-handed friends can use them as well.
I don't know which selection you would rather buy from, but every single Logitech mouse there looks too small in the front and too strangely curved. The top 6 MS mice listed there also look really crappy for the same reasons, but below those are some solid shapes including the IntelliMouse Optical.
MS Mice sell very well. In fact I own 4 IntelliMouse Opticals. Wouldn't surprise me if MS just rebranded them, but I've never seen the same thing available from another brand. Most mice are either wireless or curved all stupidly (both very annoying, the second being extremely annoying if left handed, or amidextrious, especially when placed in a computer lab that isn't used by just right handers)
Most antispyware programs seem to be like virus scanners, not just a tool that lets you see *everything* that starts up. I'm more interested in seeing what programs are starting up then I am what silly cookies spybot thinks are bad and what orphaned registry keys it thinks may belong to a long-gone program. .exe name if I don't recognize it.
For now, the best solution I have found is to bookmark a few common registry keys in regedit, and just google for the
This is all a dirty compared to just running SpyBot, but if you want to just delete the registry keys and hit the power button, most things won't rewrite themselves to the registry quick enough. Or you could just use safemode to do this.
Windows XP supports all those silly buttons without any extra software having to run in the background.
Sure it could be more discriminatory, but it will not ruin anybody's system to clear out those keys.
What would be really helpful though is something like just the startup tab of msconfig that also shows things like ShellExecuteHooks and such, but also looks at a repository on microsoft.com to try to determine with md5sums or something what each program is, or at least if its a valid MS process or not.
Paste this into a .reg file and run it:
\ Cu rrentVersion\Run]i crosoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Run]c rosoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Run]r osoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run]c rosoft\Windows\Cu rrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks]O CAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks]
REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\M
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mi
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi
[HKEY_L
The -key deletes the entire key and all its values, then the next line will re-create an empty key in its place. Your system will run fine with nothing starting up and nothing hooking the explorer process. I'm sure there are other keys but these 3 are big.
I think this about sums it up. I've never done this in a work-environment, but can easily guess from doing programming in the CS-major-only lab. Man did I hate 1 / 2 when the other guy was a real dumbass and didn't really care. You have to laugh at 3 if you overhear them talking to eachother from a distance. 4a was the best though. How I wish I could have 4a and still be self-employed. Nothing beats writing a huge chunk of code and finding all the bugs simply because another great programmer is looking over your shoulder as you write it while chitchating on the side, and when you go to compile and test it, it runs flawlessly on the first try.
No kidding, parking at all the malls I've ever been too is free too. Where do you have to pay $8 to park other then an amusement park? And $12 per ticket? Its only $7 or so around here, and if you have any sort of expired student ID, its only $5 usually.
My IE6SP1 folder is 45.3 MB, that might not be the full install, but it will install the browser to Win9x/ME/NT/2K/XP
I have an msie302.exe, its only 5.86 MB though.
The Canon "photo printers" seem very nice. I got a i960 for just over $100 and it has 6 separate color tanks, each one replacable on its own for about $9. My old HP was really a killer with its $35 tricolor cartridge and $30 black cartridge. I always ran out of one color and had to replace the whole thing, and they never lasted long either.
I never used to like Canon much, but I think they are definately worth it now. I'm not sure having 2 different shades of magenta and cyan really helps photos look that much better, but being able to replace any single tank of ink for only $9 seems like a real money saver.
You forgot the inability to print colors correctly.
Well, the ones I've owned were like that. You want yellow? How about orange instead! Black? naw.. Dark brown is good enough!
And it did quite often print onto a stack of 3 pieces of paper , each slighly ahead of the previous one, just enough so it wasted the first two sheets with small lines of color.
I've had a lot of great HP and just recently got a Cannon and the colors are always amazingly close to what I see on-screen.
Read my message again. You are just looking at the png without the IE hack or even in a background thats guaranteed to be white.