The whole point of the iPod service (as explained in the installer) is to disable other programs' access to your iPod while iTunes is installed. Textbook evil.
Or maybe, just maybe, the fact that OpenGL support on ATi cards has been historically rubbish hasn't endeared id to them?
I'd imagine Nvidia are keener to push this, given that it's a direct advert for their products. id gain nothing from doing press releases for nVidia, except maybe the ire of those poor, poor Radeon users convinced that they've won the Gaming Wars (whatever those were).
So, ID cards are bad because they might be used in a situation in which the police grossly violate your basic rights of peaceful assembly? The problem in your hypothetical situation is not the card.
The same could be said for having an Orwellian state in general. It is good practice not to pass laws which can be used wrongly.
There is no such thing as a "liberatarian". You don't even seem to know what you're on about. Libertarians (note the lack of an A in the middle there), which is who I suspect you were trying to comment on, are in favour of as little regulation on their lives as possible, and vote Republican because (a) Grover Norquist's a Republican and (b) they're hardly going to win by themselves.
As far as libertarians are concerned, government is for international security and little else. It's not too hard to both hate the gubmint and also be a warmongering, jingoistic harpy, as shown by US talk radio.
The short term? "Indefinitely" is short term now, huh?
Anyway, they aren't war criminals. They're suspected terrorists. The war on terror isn't a war by any specific definition of any law in any country. Legislation that allows people to be held indefinitely without charge essentially legalises kidnapping.
- Chris
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Oh god, the moderators got it wrong again. VLC can't circumvent your drive's firmware, which is the only way to get rid of region-coding on all drives. CSS isn't the same as region coding.
I don't want to see the sexy ladies all pixelated from being auto-resized. that just ruins the illusion
This actually bears replying to. I'm all for the image being resized using something cleverer than nearest neighbour. pr0n in particular suffers because of the lack of a high-quality resize, but it would be great to have at any rate.
Except he's wrong. What the parent was going on about is the way IIS -always- ignored usual HTTP handshaking protocol when dealing with IE, saving it a couple of acknowledgements. It's bad enough with Slashbots running around all over the place without people trying to be smart about it.
This is so not working. I'm trying to lose karma on this thread and I'm up 4 already. Can someone mod this offtopic please?
Why does that make sense? Seriously? There are very few occasions I can think of when I have needed to see an image created at a stupidly-high resolution (i.e. above 800x600) in my browser window at full size. Is there a single example you can give me which would show me why it is more convenient to have to scroll to get to the bottom of a large image than to just get the whole thing at about 80% of full-size? I really don't get why people hate this feature, it's literally the best thing added to Mozilla since the Firebird split.
Right. And who, exactly, is *forcing* you to upgrade your browser?
Stick with Netscape 3. So it won't display modern pages properly - tough. At least it's fast. In order to make it a better browser, and easier to hack in the future, its requirements have increased. Firebird loads faster on my machine (by about thirty seconds, if memory serves) now than Netscape did in 1996 on whatever mechanical adding device I was using to access the web at the time. It's also a far more capable application.
Computer parts are cheaper than groceries. If you want to get your money's worth out of parts that should quite rightly be put to better use elsewhere than a modern desktop machine then that's fine, but whining about it when upgrading costs less than a night on the tiles is silly. Intel conspiracies my foot.
Auto image resizing just makes images opened in windows by themselves resize to fit the window if too big. Left-clicking will return to image to its true size. What the hell is this "thumbnail" nonsense? Aren't you aware that clicking the image will restore it?
Firebird? Galeon? Epiphany? Is software meant to stay usable on a P-266 for its entire lifetime?
Go buy a packet of Raisin Wheats, dude. They're giving away Athlon XPs in every packet just now. Oh, and they actually changed the formula of the cereal from wheat-wrapped raisins to sticks of special edible DDR RAM because it's cheaper to produce.
I agree. It destroys my browsing experience utterly. i can't believe they added such a terrible, terribly feature.
Oh no, wait! it's actually brilliant! You're one of these people who thinks having close buttons on window managers when there are perfectly handy menus and shortcuts is an abomination which should be off by default, aren't you?
- Chris (what's it like not to have excellent karma, again?)
Yeah, but take those figures and then think about other things you need to be an amateur / professional musician. How much is a decent guitar, even if you only want to dick around in your garage with it?
Having said that, I don't care if it crashes quitting. That's the one time it doesn't matter if an app crashes. Still my default browser, and likely will remain to be for a long time to go.
Minimum font size was removed because some sites use small fonts as spacers and having a minimum set for that broke said sites badly. Apparently. Anyway, you've got a font zoom haven't you?
- Chris
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Webcore renders in a similar way to Gecko. If you absolutely must know how it renders in Safari though, get a Knoppix CD and check with Konqueror.
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All Apple machines use US keyboards anyway. This is why UK customers have email addresses like toomuchmoney"mac.com .
- Chris
One would assume it was meant humourously. Anyway, all open source users hate America: ask Dave Winer.
- Chris
Errr, how are western Europeans any worse off than Americans?
Seriously, don't you think the childish "you're just jealous" defense has something to do with it as well?
- Chris
The whole point of the iPod service (as explained in the installer) is to disable other programs' access to your iPod while iTunes is installed. Textbook evil.
- Chris
Or maybe, just maybe, the fact that OpenGL support on ATi cards has been historically rubbish hasn't endeared id to them?
I'd imagine Nvidia are keener to push this, given that it's a direct advert for their products. id gain nothing from doing press releases for nVidia, except maybe the ire of those poor, poor Radeon users convinced that they've won the Gaming Wars (whatever those were).
- Chris
What, hasn't anyone got a sense of humour around here?
+5 funny you clowns.
- Chris
Works flawlessly with full analogue and rumble on ePSXe / 1964 / MAME / anything else, is dirt cheap and fits in with my transparent green PSX pad.
Linky
- Chris
So, ID cards are bad because they might be used in a situation in which the police grossly violate your basic rights of peaceful assembly? The problem in your hypothetical situation is not the card.
The same could be said for having an Orwellian state in general. It is good practice not to pass laws which can be used wrongly.
- Chris
There is no such thing as a "liberatarian". You don't even seem to know what you're on about. Libertarians (note the lack of an A in the middle there), which is who I suspect you were trying to comment on, are in favour of as little regulation on their lives as possible, and vote Republican because (a) Grover Norquist's a Republican and (b) they're hardly going to win by themselves.
As far as libertarians are concerned, government is for international security and little else. It's not too hard to both hate the gubmint and also be a warmongering, jingoistic harpy, as shown by US talk radio.
- Chris
The short term? "Indefinitely" is short term now, huh?
Anyway, they aren't war criminals. They're suspected terrorists. The war on terror isn't a war by any specific definition of any law in any country. Legislation that allows people to be held indefinitely without charge essentially legalises kidnapping.
- Chris
Oh god, the moderators got it wrong again. VLC can't circumvent your drive's firmware, which is the only way to get rid of region-coding on all drives. CSS isn't the same as region coding.
- Chris
I don't want to see the sexy ladies all pixelated from being auto-resized. that just ruins the illusion
This actually bears replying to. I'm all for the image being resized using something cleverer than nearest neighbour. pr0n in particular suffers because of the lack of a high-quality resize, but it would be great to have at any rate.
- Chris
Still looks like a map to me. I can read the important text.
Whereas if I turn OFF image resizing, I can't even see the store!
Well, that's a useability improvement.
- Chris
Except he's wrong. What the parent was going on about is the way IIS -always- ignored usual HTTP handshaking protocol when dealing with IE, saving it a couple of acknowledgements. It's bad enough with Slashbots running around all over the place without people trying to be smart about it.
This is so not working. I'm trying to lose karma on this thread and I'm up 4 already. Can someone mod this offtopic please?
- Chris
Why does that make sense? Seriously? There are very few occasions I can think of when I have needed to see an image created at a stupidly-high resolution (i.e. above 800x600) in my browser window at full size. Is there a single example you can give me which would show me why it is more convenient to have to scroll to get to the bottom of a large image than to just get the whole thing at about 80% of full-size? I really don't get why people hate this feature, it's literally the best thing added to Mozilla since the Firebird split.
- Chris
Right. And who, exactly, is *forcing* you to upgrade your browser?
Stick with Netscape 3. So it won't display modern pages properly - tough. At least it's fast. In order to make it a better browser, and easier to hack in the future, its requirements have increased. Firebird loads faster on my machine (by about thirty seconds, if memory serves) now than Netscape did in 1996 on whatever mechanical adding device I was using to access the web at the time. It's also a far more capable application.
Computer parts are cheaper than groceries. If you want to get your money's worth out of parts that should quite rightly be put to better use elsewhere than a modern desktop machine then that's fine, but whining about it when upgrading costs less than a night on the tiles is silly. Intel conspiracies my foot.
- Chris
I'm sorry, what?
No, seriously... what?
Auto image resizing just makes images opened in windows by themselves resize to fit the window if too big. Left-clicking will return to image to its true size. What the hell is this "thumbnail" nonsense? Aren't you aware that clicking the image will restore it?
- Chris
Firebird? Galeon? Epiphany? Is software meant to stay usable on a P-266 for its entire lifetime?
Go buy a packet of Raisin Wheats, dude. They're giving away Athlon XPs in every packet just now. Oh, and they actually changed the formula of the cereal from wheat-wrapped raisins to sticks of special edible DDR RAM because it's cheaper to produce.
- Chris
I agree. It destroys my browsing experience utterly. i can't believe they added such a terrible, terribly feature.
Oh no, wait! it's actually brilliant! You're one of these people who thinks having close buttons on window managers when there are perfectly handy menus and shortcuts is an abomination which should be off by default, aren't you?
- Chris (what's it like not to have excellent karma, again?)
Yeah, but take those figures and then think about other things you need to be an amateur / professional musician. How much is a decent guitar, even if you only want to dick around in your garage with it?
- CHris
Mod parent up.
- Chris
Indeed.
Having said that, I don't care if it crashes quitting. That's the one time it doesn't matter if an app crashes. Still my default browser, and likely will remain to be for a long time to go.
- Chris
Minimum font size was removed because some sites use small fonts as spacers and having a minimum set for that broke said sites badly. Apparently. Anyway, you've got a font zoom haven't you?
- Chris
Webcore renders in a similar way to Gecko. If you absolutely must know how it renders in Safari though, get a Knoppix CD and check with Konqueror.
- Chris
Blame Noah Webster. Absolute bastard that he is.
- Chris