Looks like the idiot that designed nintendo.com has never heard of Mozilla.
Placing something like "This site looks better with random piece of shit browser at random stupid resolution" is one thing, but completely blocking out customers/users is just moronic.
The thing I don't get with nintendo.com, is that it lists Safari as a supported browser due to the fact that it's an Apple product. It's been out for like 6 months to a year or something. Mozilla's existed for over 5 years or whatever, and Netscape 6.x and higher (which is supported) is based on it.
Yes, I'm aware of the whole fake user agent string trick, but I shouldn't have to do that. And also, I don't want every other site I visit thinking I'm a dimwit Internet Explorer user.
SCi has filed a law suit against Grand Theft Auto publisher, Rockstar Games.
SCi claims parts of GTA contain ideas and concepts - such as pedestrian death by motor vehicle - originally developed by the company in their Carmegeddon System V software, have been illegaly incorporated in to Rockstar Games' products.
SCi has revoked Rockstar's IBSL (Innocent Bystander Squishing License) and has also sent letters to over 1,000 GTA owners warning them of the possible copyright infringement.
Enlightenment rocks. XP is the best Windows version so far, but it's still crap as.
It's way too user friendly and slow.
I need to be in control of my OS. I can do that with BSD:)
Yes, RedHat is a pathetic distro, and I was only using it as a performance comparison. It is one of the most bloated and insecure Linux distros around.
XP would be nice on a 1ghz, 512mb RAM, 20gb HDD, 64mb display card system.
Even though BeOS may not be the most user friendly and feature rich operating system around, it was one of the most advanced OSes of its' time. It's still a great little OS that is excellent for multimedia development.
BeOS can play BeOS talking blues.mp3 louder than all my other operating systems:)
rofl. I'm using XP right now. been using it for 3 days. it the slowest OS I've ever used. even slower than KDE 2.2_2 on RedHat Linux, which is REALLY slow. Mostly because Linux can suck my balls:) FreeBSD and BeOS ownz you.
That is not a generic winmodem driver, it is a Lucent chipset driver. I actually use this driver and it works fine, but it doesn't help any non-Lucent users.
I actually have been trying to get my Lucent winmodem to dial with FreeBSD 4.3. I successfully got the modules etc. to install and I have a dial tone, but the dial tone stops after a while and I get an engaged (busy) tone.
I am aware of BSD focusing on the server market.
But some home users do like to run BSD.
On the subject of why don't I just buy a hardware modem. Well, one example of hardware modems being just as useless as winmodems, is, when I first switched to Linux, I bought a hardware modem, thinking I would have it up and running in no time. But I discovered that the hardware modem I bought, was not Linux compatible. The wonderful, works with anything, hardware modem still required drivers.
Another reason why I'm stuck with a winmodem, is because I have no choice. I have no USB or serial port for a good external modem.
I'm not going to waste my time and money (that I don't have) buying a whole new machine when there could be drivers being developed.
I completely understand why most of you would think it's a stupid idea, because most of you have the wonderful choice of using a highspeed broadband connection that uses PPPoE or DHCP.
But not all of us have that choice, we are stuck with dialup and pathetic winmodems.
A few years back, Linux was no where near close to becoming a decent desktop PC OS, but now it's alot better, which means Windows users are switching to it, and bringing their winmodems along for the ride. As we saw Linux become more popular, we saw the winmodem problem get worse.
BSD will most likely become more popular, and until we all live in a high speed future where everyone has a T1 line, we're going to have winmodems.
A BSD winmodem project doesn't concern BDS users with broadband or a nice modem that works with any OS, it concerns winmodem users that are considering BSD. I'm not saying we should just start a BSD winmodem project right now, but it's something we should think about.
I am happy using Linux with my winmodem. yes, it does suck my CPU dry, but it's all I've got.
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Placing something like "This site looks better with random piece of shit browser at random stupid resolution" is one thing, but completely blocking out customers/users is just moronic. The thing I don't get with nintendo.com, is that it lists Safari as a supported browser due to the fact that it's an Apple product. It's been out for like 6 months to a year or something. Mozilla's existed for over 5 years or whatever, and Netscape 6.x and higher (which is supported) is based on it.
Yes, I'm aware of the whole fake user agent string trick, but I shouldn't have to do that. And also, I don't want every other site I visit thinking I'm a dimwit Internet Explorer user.
SCi claims parts of GTA contain ideas and concepts - such as pedestrian death by motor vehicle - originally developed by the company in their Carmegeddon System V software, have been illegaly incorporated in to Rockstar Games' products.
SCi has revoked Rockstar's IBSL (Innocent Bystander Squishing License) and has also sent letters to over 1,000 GTA owners warning them of the possible copyright infringement.
stop saying 'PS/2'. makes it look like you're talking about the PS/2 protocol. say PS2 :P
Shows how fscked up our govt. is. Lets blame it on John Howard.
Enlightenment rocks. XP is the best Windows version so far, but it's still crap as. It's way too user friendly and slow. I need to be in control of my OS. I can do that with BSD :)
Yes, RedHat is a pathetic distro, and I was only using it as a performance comparison. It is one of the most bloated and insecure Linux distros around.
XP would be nice on a 1ghz, 512mb RAM, 20gb HDD, 64mb display card system.
I disagree. The XP Luna GUI is much slower than even KDE 2.2_2.
Even though BeOS may not be the most user friendly and feature rich operating system around, it was one of the most advanced OSes of its' time. It's still a great little OS that is excellent for multimedia development. BeOS can play BeOS talking blues.mp3 louder than all my other operating systems :)
rofl. I'm using XP right now. been using it for 3 days. it the slowest OS I've ever used. even slower than KDE 2.2_2 on RedHat Linux, which is REALLY slow. Mostly because Linux can suck my balls :) FreeBSD and BeOS ownz you.
That is not a generic winmodem driver, it is a Lucent chipset driver. I actually use this driver and it works fine, but it doesn't help any non-Lucent users.
I actually have been trying to get my Lucent winmodem to dial with FreeBSD 4.3. I successfully got the modules etc. to install and I have a dial tone, but the dial tone stops after a while and I get an engaged (busy) tone.
I am aware of BSD focusing on the server market. But some home users do like to run BSD. On the subject of why don't I just buy a hardware modem. Well, one example of hardware modems being just as useless as winmodems, is, when I first switched to Linux, I bought a hardware modem, thinking I would have it up and running in no time. But I discovered that the hardware modem I bought, was not Linux compatible. The wonderful, works with anything, hardware modem still required drivers. Another reason why I'm stuck with a winmodem, is because I have no choice. I have no USB or serial port for a good external modem. I'm not going to waste my time and money (that I don't have) buying a whole new machine when there could be drivers being developed. I completely understand why most of you would think it's a stupid idea, because most of you have the wonderful choice of using a highspeed broadband connection that uses PPPoE or DHCP. But not all of us have that choice, we are stuck with dialup and pathetic winmodems. A few years back, Linux was no where near close to becoming a decent desktop PC OS, but now it's alot better, which means Windows users are switching to it, and bringing their winmodems along for the ride. As we saw Linux become more popular, we saw the winmodem problem get worse. BSD will most likely become more popular, and until we all live in a high speed future where everyone has a T1 line, we're going to have winmodems. A BSD winmodem project doesn't concern BDS users with broadband or a nice modem that works with any OS, it concerns winmodem users that are considering BSD. I'm not saying we should just start a BSD winmodem project right now, but it's something we should think about. I am happy using Linux with my winmodem. yes, it does suck my CPU dry, but it's all I've got.
Hey LB :)
.NET and XP and all their other world domination tools might not do the job they were created to do, take over the computer industry.
They're worried