Quite like the sound of this - I've often been playing full screen games and heard GAIM alert me to a message, and had to switch back to read my messages.
Email and Instant messenging would be nice, as would anything that makes it easier to play games whilst doing my other time wasting activities:)
Imagine being able to walk up to computers in Doom 3, and check your emails - how cool would that be?
"To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard."
Yeah right - and if WMA had been cracked, you'd be rejoicing and singing from the rooftops about how Apple had a more secure format and how it should be the number 1 DRM method.
Did anyone else notice that Gnome is beating KDE hands down in this particular popularity contest? Maybe this means that Debian is used for more serious business use than as a hobbyist DE?
Why is everyone being so negative about this news? What is perhaps the most accomplished open source music player has just gained inital support for the most popular (whether you like it or not) portable music player out there. Good news for anyone with more than a passing interest in open source software.
This is great from an open source / Linux point of view because it gives users yet another reason to switch from a proprietory operating system, and it's also great from a Gnome point of view because it may entice users in and give them a chance to see just how superior the Gnome DE is as a whole. Add the fact that some nice, elegant and most importantly *working* ipod code is now floating about out there in the open source pools, and I can't see how anybody can feel anything but elation at this announcement.
It'll be interesting when the search engine companies cotton on to this fact - being paid to give a specific engine prominent tool bar placement could be a nice little revenue stream for Mozilla.
What about the deep web?
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In my experience Google seems great for searching for popular items, but due to their ranking system if I want to perform an obscure search, my chances of finding anything are slim to none.
Apparently, the "deep web" is the best place to make obscure searches, and I've used turbo10.com to perform searches in this way. It's really interesting to compare the results of two searches between google and turbo10 - google certainly appears to be the quick and easy search engine that grandma can use, but for serious work, I am increasingly finding myself turning to the deep web.
Why is is that companies can be sued over the most minute parts of technology (I'm just waiting for Microsoft to take someone to the cleaners over Wizard patent infringment), yet gaming companies can virtually rip off complete ideas and nobody bats an eyelid?
Consider these, uhh... "coincidences":
Alone in the Dark --> Resident Evil GTA 3 --> Simpsons Hit & Run Crazy Taxi --> Super Taxi Driver Thief --> Just about every stealth first person game since then
In my opinion, the gameplay advances that were *unique* to the original games, and then turn up in games a couple of months later, should be questioned. Maybe if more games companies took the time to think up original concepts, rather than blatantly ripping off the innovations of other games, we'd see a healthier, and more enjoyable games industry.
So it's not okay to speak on a cellphone whilst driving becuase it's distracting, but it is okay to be expected to take a rolling retest and blow down a tube whilst you're driving. How is this any less distracting than talking on a cellphone, particularly if you have to focus on the tube and inserting it into your mouth?
I'd say a major blocker is the fact that AFAIK Star/Open Office offers next to no support for macros - we use a lot of spreadsheets littered with macros, all of which are commented out when you try to open them in Open Offce:(
Are Aimbots more of a myth than reality? I play a lot of Wolfenstein and run a server, and was interested to try one out just to see how it works, and how much easier it makes the game.
I searched and searched and searched some more, and came up blank on p2p networks and on google. Which leads me to the question - how much do Punkbuster stand to gain from publicising the abundence of aimbots which in all reailty are pretty difficult to find?
Looking at this from a newbie's point of view, is this really such a great idea? I mean, at face value, the idea of us living in a utopia where all the differing packaging standards are compatible is nice, but how many "green" Linux users would even understand what a difference is? They would see themselves as using Linux as opposed to Windows, and not abc's Linux as opposed to xyz's Linux or Windows...
Total package compatibility would most likely lead to someone using Red Hat trying to install a debian package, and then getting frustrated, confused and pissed off with the inevitable failure due to the entirely different internals of Debian and Red Hat.
Unfortunately, it is a sad fact of life that Linux distros are deviating from the once common base they shared. An example of this is Mandrake - I used to use Mandrake around versions 6 and 7 and quite often installed Red Hat rpms successfully. However, as those crazy French spend more time tweaking Mandrake in weird and wonderful ways, it becomes further and further removed from Red Hat. Sure, they both use the.rpm standard, but can you imagine trying to install a Mandrake RPM with a *lot* of deps on a Red Hat system?
All of this leads me to conclude that perhaps rather than concentrating on unifying packaging, we should instead focus on making incompatible packaging systems for each major distro. IMHO, it would be much easier for a newbie to distinguish between what will and won't work if they were guaranteed that an rpm would ALWAYS work on Red Hat, and some other kind of package (MPM?) would ALWAYS work on Mandrake....
When your constitution doesn't enable just about anybody to obtain a firearm and then use it at will, then you can lord it over us Brits. Until then, you just enjoy your ghetto paradise and drive-bys, and we'll make do with being fingerprinted as standard when we're arrested for a crime.
It's actually the "why do I give a shit?" argument. I used to live in a town of 6000 and they had 3 cameras up along the high street there. I walked down that street maybe 8 times a week for 3 years, and didn't have my life impacted one iota by the cameras present. In fact, the first week after they were constructed, I'd forgotten they were even there.
You tell me I lost privacy there - surely I also lose privacy on any street in the world I walk down that has anybody else walking down it at the same time. The whole point of public is that it is open to all. I'm also sure I don't need to remind you that public is the opposite of private.
If I'd just committed a double murder, or cleaned out a jeweller's in the heist of the century, then I might actually be worried about cameras monitoring my every move.
As it is, I lead a life that is infinitely more boring than the scenarios listed above, and I am therefore of the opinion that if people want to watch me walking to the store at 10pm to grab a bottle of milk, they are more than welcome. Why should I care who's watching me if I have nothing to hide? And aren't cameras just an extension of any authority watching me? What's next? Policeman on the streets shouldn't look at the public as it is an infringement of civil liberties?
The X-Box may drop to $99, but my Gamecube will still have much better, and more fun in-house and platform exclusive games.
F Zero GX, Viewtiful Joe, Zelda Wind Waker, Super Monkey Ball, Pikmin, Heck - even Luigi's Mansion are all a *lot* more playable than anything I've played that the X-Box has to offer, and my gf manages a branch of EB, so believe me, I've seen a *lot* of games lately...
"Mozilla and Firebird are shitty, clunky browsers. People who know about this bug still prefer to use IE unpatched than switch. That says a lot about how crap those other browsers are."
No, unfortunately, it just says a lot about how retarded people are, yourself included.
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Quite like the sound of this - I've often been playing full screen games and heard GAIM alert me to a message, and had to switch back to read my messages.
:)
Email and Instant messenging would be nice, as would anything that makes it easier to play games whilst doing my other time wasting activities
Imagine being able to walk up to computers in Doom 3, and check your emails - how cool would that be?
Now I can archive years of spam and show my grandkids just how easy it used to be to get
a) Viagra
b) Vicodin
c) A degree
d) A loan
e) Laid
Wonder how much I could sell a gmail account loaded with mp3s for on eBay?
"To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard."
Yeah right - and if WMA had been cracked, you'd be rejoicing and singing from the rooftops about how Apple had a more secure format and how it should be the number 1 DRM method.
Did anyone else notice that Gnome is beating KDE hands down in this particular popularity contest? Maybe this means that Debian is used for more serious business use than as a hobbyist DE?
Why is everyone being so negative about this news? What is perhaps the most accomplished open source music player has just gained inital support for the most popular (whether you like it or not) portable music player out there. Good news for anyone with more than a passing interest in open source software.
This is great from an open source / Linux point of view because it gives users yet another reason to switch from a proprietory operating system, and it's also great from a Gnome point of view because it may entice users in and give them a chance to see just how superior the Gnome DE is as a whole. Add the fact that some nice, elegant and most importantly *working* ipod code is now floating about out there in the open source pools, and I can't see how anybody can feel anything but elation at this announcement.
It'll be interesting when the search engine companies cotton on to this fact - being paid to give a specific engine prominent tool bar placement could be a nice little revenue stream for Mozilla.
In my experience Google seems great for searching for popular items, but due to their ranking system if I want to perform an obscure search, my chances of finding anything are slim to none.
Apparently, the "deep web" is the best place to make obscure searches, and I've used turbo10.com to perform searches in this way. It's really interesting to compare the results of two searches between google and turbo10 - google certainly appears to be the quick and easy search engine that grandma can use, but for serious work, I am increasingly finding myself turning to the deep web.
Am I the only one that doesn't see the point in running for election to rule over something that you don't really rule over at all?
And I don't need to waste money on a Game Boy Advance!
Well you kinda sorta do - those Gameboy Advance cartridges tend only to fit into Gameboy Advances.
Why is is that companies can be sued over the most minute parts of technology (I'm just waiting for Microsoft to take someone to the cleaners over Wizard patent infringment), yet gaming companies can virtually rip off complete ideas and nobody bats an eyelid?
Consider these, uhh... "coincidences":
Alone in the Dark --> Resident Evil
GTA 3 --> Simpsons Hit & Run
Crazy Taxi --> Super Taxi Driver
Thief --> Just about every stealth first person game since then
In my opinion, the gameplay advances that were *unique* to the original games, and then turn up in games a couple of months later, should be questioned. Maybe if more games companies took the time to think up original concepts, rather than blatantly ripping off the innovations of other games, we'd see a healthier, and more enjoyable games industry.
... The Amiga version was better
So it's not okay to speak on a cellphone whilst driving becuase it's distracting, but it is okay to be expected to take a rolling retest and blow down a tube whilst you're driving. How is this any less distracting than talking on a cellphone, particularly if you have to focus on the tube and inserting it into your mouth?
> I could go on, but you should get the point by now.
That you're a Solaris fan-boy?
I'd say a major blocker is the fact that AFAIK Star/Open Office offers next to no support for macros - we use a lot of spreadsheets littered with macros, all of which are commented out when you try to open them in Open Offce :(
Are Aimbots more of a myth than reality? I play a lot of Wolfenstein and run a server, and was interested to try one out just to see how it works, and how much easier it makes the game.
I searched and searched and searched some more, and came up blank on p2p networks and on google. Which leads me to the question - how much do Punkbuster stand to gain from publicising the abundence of aimbots which in all reailty are pretty difficult to find?
Too bad they didn't open source it - KDE could really use the help...
Looking at this from a newbie's point of view, is this really such a great idea? I mean, at face value, the idea of us living in a utopia where all the differing packaging standards are compatible is nice, but how many "green" Linux users would even understand what a difference is? They would see themselves as using Linux as opposed to Windows, and not abc's Linux as opposed to xyz's Linux or Windows...
.rpm standard, but can you imagine trying to install a Mandrake RPM with a *lot* of deps on a Red Hat system?
Total package compatibility would most likely lead to someone using Red Hat trying to install a debian package, and then getting frustrated, confused and pissed off with the inevitable failure due to the entirely different internals of Debian and Red Hat.
Unfortunately, it is a sad fact of life that Linux distros are deviating from the once common base they shared. An example of this is Mandrake - I used to use Mandrake around versions 6 and 7 and quite often installed Red Hat rpms successfully. However, as those crazy French spend more time tweaking Mandrake in weird and wonderful ways, it becomes further and further removed from Red Hat. Sure, they both use the
All of this leads me to conclude that perhaps rather than concentrating on unifying packaging, we should instead focus on making incompatible packaging systems for each major distro. IMHO, it would be much easier for a newbie to distinguish between what will and won't work if they were guaranteed that an rpm would ALWAYS work on Red Hat, and some other kind of package (MPM?) would ALWAYS work on Mandrake....
When your constitution doesn't enable just about anybody to obtain a firearm and then use it at will, then you can lord it over us Brits. Until then, you just enjoy your ghetto paradise and drive-bys, and we'll make do with being fingerprinted as standard when we're arrested for a crime.
It's actually the "why do I give a shit?" argument. I used to live in a town of 6000 and they had 3 cameras up along the high street there. I walked down that street maybe 8 times a week for 3 years, and didn't have my life impacted one iota by the cameras present. In fact, the first week after they were constructed, I'd forgotten they were even there.
You tell me I lost privacy there - surely I also lose privacy on any street in the world I walk down that has anybody else walking down it at the same time. The whole point of public is that it is open to all. I'm also sure I don't need to remind you that public is the opposite of private.
If I'd just committed a double murder, or cleaned out a jeweller's in the heist of the century, then I might actually be worried about cameras monitoring my every move.
As it is, I lead a life that is infinitely more boring than the scenarios listed above, and I am therefore of the opinion that if people want to watch me walking to the store at 10pm to grab a bottle of milk, they are more than welcome. Why should I care who's watching me if I have nothing to hide? And aren't cameras just an extension of any authority watching me? What's next? Policeman on the streets shouldn't look at the public as it is an infringement of civil liberties?
If you're so sure of that, why did you post as AC? Scared of being exposed and modded down as the troll you really are?
The X-Box may drop to $99, but my Gamecube will still have much better, and more fun in-house and platform exclusive games.
F Zero GX, Viewtiful Joe, Zelda Wind Waker, Super Monkey Ball, Pikmin, Heck - even Luigi's Mansion are all a *lot* more playable than anything I've played that the X-Box has to offer, and my gf manages a branch of EB, so believe me, I've seen a *lot* of games lately...
So *that's* what this is all about - steroids.
"Mozilla and Firebird are shitty, clunky browsers. People who know about this bug still prefer to use IE unpatched than switch. That says a lot about how crap those other browsers are."
No, unfortunately, it just says a lot about how retarded people are, yourself included.