Last time I checked, PortableMonopoly.com had nothing to do with board games or anything remotely related to the Monopoly trademark. Also, at last glance, "monopoly" was a common English word. How the hell can Hasbro enforce this? Is the trademark on the word "Monopoly" any more legit than the trademark on the word Windows? And if so, does it justify this strong-arm action outside of the realm of board games?
Around campus, I *never* hear anyone talking about the X-Box. It's always "Hey did you check out for PS2?" If somebody mentions the X-Box, everyone basically laughs. I think this is pretty telling of the popularity of the X-Box overall. For the most part, there's just more talk and interest surrounding the Playstation consoles right now.
I know. I don't visit them, but there's also a lot more commercial content than before, and at new levels of annoyance. It's just worrying that someday it may become 99% commercial crap, and 1% good content.
Me- I just go without and save a lot of time that would have been wasted watching what is for the most part drivel.
The problem is, the internet isn't supposed to *BE* drivel! The internet is (was?) a beautiful thing, and the commercialization is turning much of it into drivel. You can't say the same thing about TV, really. TV was not created in universities, fueled by academic thoughts and humor, and later "corrupted."
I spend most of my gaming time playing classic games that are by no means realistic. But they are FUN. Those old Atari arcade games are a blast, and platformers like Sonic, etc. really rock my world. If I want realism, I'll go outside and look up at the marvelously rendered clouds in the sky. I play my games to have fun, period.
I tried a radeon card once, but prompty returned it because there were no drivers, and only after a while did they finally appear.
I have a Radeon gathering dust for similar reasons. Its capabilities are much beyond the (now fairly crappy) GeForce 2 MX I'm using currently, but the drivers just aren't there for the Radeon. I spent days (yes, days) getting DRI working properly with the Radeon, and what did I find?
Tribes 2 (my then-main 3D game) ran at a whopping 5fps indoors and around 2 outdoors. Not acceptable.
If I started X, then exited, and started X once more at any time afterwards, the system would die. Not just the graphics, the entire freakin' system. It died so fast, nothing even made it into the logs. Sorry, but even Windows would offer better stability than that.
Random crashes. I used to have such problems with the NV drivers, but they've been gone for a loooong time.
I'd prefer NVidia's drivers were open source (some fixes just take far too long), but they do a good job so far. Considering this is a desktop-oriented company supporting an OS with such an insanely small portion of the desktop market, I'm very pleased. Everybody should stop bitching about NVidia, and praise them for investing their resources in making things possible for us. As long as they do a good job, we should support them (yes, including with dollars).
Pretty stupid that it doesn't recognize Mozilla as being >= Netscape 4.x. You'd expect a bit more from these guys, seeing as they have a Java/Linux handheld out and all.
It would have been better if you kept the basic Star Office suite free, and offered some corporate-targeted optional add-ons (that private users and small companies don't need) at a price.
Err, that's basically what they do. OpenOffice has the core functionality of StarOffice, and for me and others I know, it is more than sufficient for work, term papers, etc. If you want to do fancy corporate collaboration and all that nonsense, then yes paying for StarOffice is probably a good way to go (hey, still cheaper than MS Office...).
People, please stop bitching about it and go help out the OpenOffice project. If you don't like what Sun's doing, fine. OpenOffice works well, and because it's open source (wow!) it can be extended and improved. Put those keystrokes to good use.:)
<TWOCENTS>FWIW, I do think it's pretty lame that Sun is obviously using the free StarOffice to try to get people to use its OS... But that's business. It's better than a lot of the BS that Microsoft pulls. </TWOCENTS>
... are a pain in the rear. From time to time, the web proxy will just... die. No data from my box can go out on port 80 to any sites for a good 10-30 minutes. This is in addition to the usual crap with their gateways, which cause stalls in ALL data transfers at random intervals, for a solid 30-70 seconds.
Ironically, that gateway problem stalls my large file downloads and makes it near impossible to view streaming media at any level of enjoyability... The two biggest features flaunted by broadband services like Comcast.
Anyway, sorry for the OT rant.:P
Perhaps vim for Windows
would be a better choice. I haven't tried "WinVi" but when I'm forced to suffer in a Windows environment from time to time, it's nice to just use vim. It's consistent with what I run on my home machines after all.:)
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the coolest project of all... Nethack-Palm Porting Project
And for those like me who have Psion handhelds, the coolest of all would be NetHack for Psion.:) Runs great on my Revo, and is a nice way to kill time like during math classes.
I'm just 4 weeks from the end of the semester, with a high A average, and here you bastards go releasing another version of NetHack... *sigh* Better kiss my GPA goodbye.:)
Here's a good starting point for cutting down on your spam: Add "offers" and "deals" to whatever you use for e-mail filtering (in the client, procmail, etc.). Doing this eliminated 90% of the spam I get, and considering I get around 10-15 spam messages per hour in just one of my e-mail accounts, that's not a bad start.
I work in a computer lab with around 30 Pentium systems that don't have CD-ROM drives at all, so boot floppies are the only way for us. And for a simple network troubleshooting disk, for example, why bother with a CD (and the potential for wasted space) when you can put your kernel and drivers all on one floppy?
On a similar note, I'd like to mention vsound. This is a handy utility that wraps itself around a program when you run it, intercepting the sound calls and recording them to a.wav file. This way you can snag those undownloadable streams, or grab music from a Flash video playing in your browser, etc. Very handy:)
The 5 year, $50 million grant also wants to look at bending light around the uniform to create some sort of invisibility.
IANAS (I Am Not A Scientist), so correct me if I'm wrong... But if you're bending light around a person, that means THEY can't see the light either. Right?
If so, this approach would be limited to situations where vision is not necessary, perhaps holding a hidden position until it is time to move out. Or maybe they would use some sort of devices to allow a soldier to "see" things outside the normal human visual spectrum, thus allowing them to see something despite not being able to see the normally visible light.
Not really a new feature, it's been in there for the last version or two. But yes, that's one of the major reasons I use Mozilla over say, Opera. Its pop-up controls are way better.
I just fired up this new release, and I must say I'm impressed. Every one of the recent releases has sped things up by around 50% (just my own visual approximation) in the interface. There used to be perceptible delays in switching sidebar tabs, opening new browser tabs, etc. which have now been eliminated. Kudos to the Mozilla team! Now all I have to do is get that TrueType font rendering working.;)
Most Palm-based handhelds can use modems via infrared, or add-on modules. Handspring can use modems and ethernet cards (including wireless) that plug into the Springboard port on Visor handhelds. I believe Sony's Clie has some methods of using the internet and networks as well.
PocketPCs such as the iPaq can also use various types of modems and LAN cards. They also have access to various wireless internet services and LAN technologies, just like the Palms do.
I realize you disclaimed your lack of knowledge on this subject, but that was ALL your post was about. Basically it's just mocking other handhelds because of limitations you think are there, but are not. Instead of posting a lengthy pseudo-flame like this, next time just click over to Google and do a damn search or something. Research instead of rant.
Yeah, it'd just be nice if DRI worked better.:) DRI with my Radeon was so flaky, any speed benefits of it over my crusty ol' GeForce 2 MX were lost. Crashes, hang-ups, graphical glitches...
DRI is an excellent idea, but its implementation at the moment leaves quite a bit to be desired. If I had the coding talent, I would try to help contribute and improve it... Alas, I cannot.
I'm not sure of the primary source for the O(1) patch, but Red Hat has a download site for it. It would be helpful if when people recommend patches and such, they would provide a link.;)
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Last time I checked, PortableMonopoly.com had nothing to do with board games or anything remotely related to the Monopoly trademark. Also, at last glance, "monopoly" was a common English word. How the hell can Hasbro enforce this? Is the trademark on the word "Monopoly" any more legit than the trademark on the word Windows? And if so, does it justify this strong-arm action outside of the realm of board games?
Bleh
Around campus, I *never* hear anyone talking about the X-Box. It's always "Hey did you check out for PS2?" If somebody mentions the X-Box, everyone basically laughs. I think this is pretty telling of the popularity of the X-Box overall. For the most part, there's just more talk and interest surrounding the Playstation consoles right now.
I know. I don't visit them, but there's also a lot more commercial content than before, and at new levels of annoyance. It's just worrying that someday it may become 99% commercial crap, and 1% good content.
Me- I just go without and save a lot of time that would have been wasted watching what is for the most part drivel.
The problem is, the internet isn't supposed to *BE* drivel! The internet is (was?) a beautiful thing, and the commercialization is turning much of it into drivel. You can't say the same thing about TV, really. TV was not created in universities, fueled by academic thoughts and humor, and later "corrupted."
I spend most of my gaming time playing classic games that are by no means realistic. But they are FUN . Those old Atari arcade games are a blast, and platformers like Sonic, etc. really rock my world. If I want realism, I'll go outside and look up at the marvelously rendered clouds in the sky. I play my games to have fun, period.
It sounds like, if you don't gouge people for money in return for your software, you can't reverse engineer the protocol?
Okay, well I'll just write my code in a pseudo-code form, and sell it for 50 along with a little utility to convert it into C code.
I tried a radeon card once, but prompty returned it because there were no drivers, and only after a while did they finally appear.
I have a Radeon gathering dust for similar reasons. Its capabilities are much beyond the (now fairly crappy) GeForce 2 MX I'm using currently, but the drivers just aren't there for the Radeon. I spent days (yes, days) getting DRI working properly with the Radeon, and what did I find?
I'd prefer NVidia's drivers were open source (some fixes just take far too long), but they do a good job so far. Considering this is a desktop-oriented company supporting an OS with such an insanely small portion of the desktop market, I'm very pleased. Everybody should stop bitching about NVidia, and praise them for investing their resources in making things possible for us. As long as they do a good job, we should support them (yes, including with dollars).
I'm shocked. I thought slashdot has been doing this for ages.
Where on earth would you get that idea?Pretty stupid that it doesn't recognize Mozilla as being >= Netscape 4.x. You'd expect a bit more from these guys, seeing as they have a Java/Linux handheld out and all.
Say what you want about the Simms - it's definatly an involved game.
Yeah, but it's kinda out-dated. The Dimms is more advanced. :)
Err, that's basically what they do. OpenOffice has the core functionality of StarOffice, and for me and others I know, it is more than sufficient for work, term papers, etc. If you want to do fancy corporate collaboration and all that nonsense, then yes paying for StarOffice is probably a good way to go (hey, still cheaper than MS Office...).
People, please stop bitching about it and go help out the OpenOffice project. If you don't like what Sun's doing, fine. OpenOffice works well, and because it's open source (wow!) it can be extended and improved. Put those keystrokes to good use. :)
<TWOCENTS>FWIW, I do think it's pretty lame that Sun is obviously using the free StarOffice to try to get people to use its OS... But that's business. It's better than a lot of the BS that Microsoft pulls. </TWOCENTS>
... are a pain in the rear. From time to time, the web proxy will just... die. No data from my box can go out on port 80 to any sites for a good 10-30 minutes. This is in addition to the usual crap with their gateways, which cause stalls in ALL data transfers at random intervals, for a solid 30-70 seconds. Ironically, that gateway problem stalls my large file downloads and makes it near impossible to view streaming media at any level of enjoyability... The two biggest features flaunted by broadband services like Comcast. Anyway, sorry for the OT rant. :P
Perhaps vim for Windows would be a better choice. I haven't tried "WinVi" but when I'm forced to suffer in a Windows environment from time to time, it's nice to just use vim. It's consistent with what I run on my home machines after all. :)
the coolest project of all... Nethack-Palm Porting Project
And for those like me who have Psion handhelds, the coolest of all would be NetHack for Psion. :) Runs great on my Revo, and is a nice way to kill time like during math classes.
I'm just 4 weeks from the end of the semester, with a high A average, and here you bastards go releasing another version of NetHack... *sigh* Better kiss my GPA goodbye. :)
Here's a good starting point for cutting down on your spam: Add "offers" and "deals" to whatever you use for e-mail filtering (in the client, procmail, etc.). Doing this eliminated 90% of the spam I get, and considering I get around 10-15 spam messages per hour in just one of my e-mail accounts, that's not a bad start.
I work in a computer lab with around 30 Pentium systems that don't have CD-ROM drives at all, so boot floppies are the only way for us. And for a simple network troubleshooting disk, for example, why bother with a CD (and the potential for wasted space) when you can put your kernel and drivers all on one floppy?
Just get one of these babies and you'll no longer have a problem with laptop theft.
On a similar note, I'd like to mention vsound. This is a handy utility that wraps itself around a program when you run it, intercepting the sound calls and recording them to a .wav file. This way you can snag those undownloadable streams, or grab music from a Flash video playing in your browser, etc. Very handy :)
The 5 year, $50 million grant also wants to look at bending light around the uniform to create some sort of invisibility.
IANAS (I Am Not A Scientist), so correct me if I'm wrong... But if you're bending light around a person, that means THEY can't see the light either. Right?
If so, this approach would be limited to situations where vision is not necessary, perhaps holding a hidden position until it is time to move out. Or maybe they would use some sort of devices to allow a soldier to "see" things outside the normal human visual spectrum, thus allowing them to see something despite not being able to see the normally visible light.
Just my 2 :)
Not really a new feature, it's been in there for the last version or two. But yes, that's one of the major reasons I use Mozilla over say, Opera. Its pop-up controls are way better.
I just fired up this new release, and I must say I'm impressed. Every one of the recent releases has sped things up by around 50% (just my own visual approximation) in the interface. There used to be perceptible delays in switching sidebar tabs, opening new browser tabs, etc. which have now been eliminated. Kudos to the Mozilla team! Now all I have to do is get that TrueType font rendering working. ;)
Most Palm-based handhelds can use modems via infrared, or add-on modules. Handspring can use modems and ethernet cards (including wireless) that plug into the Springboard port on Visor handhelds. I believe Sony's Clie has some methods of using the internet and networks as well.
PocketPCs such as the iPaq can also use various types of modems and LAN cards. They also have access to various wireless internet services and LAN technologies, just like the Palms do.
I realize you disclaimed your lack of knowledge on this subject, but that was ALL your post was about. Basically it's just mocking other handhelds because of limitations you think are there, but are not. Instead of posting a lengthy pseudo-flame like this, next time just click over to Google and do a damn search or something. Research instead of rant.
Yeah, it'd just be nice if DRI worked better. :) DRI with my Radeon was so flaky, any speed benefits of it over my crusty ol' GeForce 2 MX were lost. Crashes, hang-ups, graphical glitches...
DRI is an excellent idea, but its implementation at the moment leaves quite a bit to be desired. If I had the coding talent, I would try to help contribute and improve it... Alas, I cannot.
I'm not sure of the primary source for the O(1) patch, but Red Hat has a download site for it. It would be helpful if when people recommend patches and such, they would provide a link. ;)