Yeah. And whoever heard of information on the internet?
Research? Bullshit, The only research are google searches.
Obviously you've never used FirstSearch to search the "over one million three-hundred thousand entries gleaned from essay collections, dissertations, monographs and over 6,000 journals" available in the MLA Bibliography Database. Have you tried EBSCO to search all the databases it provides access to?
A library inventory should contain books, periodicals, and articles of note.
This statement reminds me of one of the internet's fundamental problems: accessing desired information. What good is an enormous distributed repository of information if there exist no tools to locate worthwhile content? The books, periodicals, and articles of note in your library are worthless without effective methods of searching them. Computers provide those methods, which are far better than what was available before.
Sun is a company with one foot in the grave and their is no real debate about this. Dont get me wrong Solaris is rock stable and has its uses, but its doomed.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to realize this. Red ink flows like a river of blood...
You forgot the best part...the clippings jump from where you clicked them toward your menu bar, and are gone from where you originally clipped them! Ugh, I feel a bit of web development envy...
Seriously, it's amazing they not only had the foresight to include this functionality, but also were able to somehow make it intuitive and *gasp* not annoying! When you mention a menu bar following you as you scroll down and clippings that jump across the screen toward it, you run the very real risk of annoying the crap out of your user. The fact that that isn't the case is commendable. (And yes, I verified this worked in IE 5.1 Mac and Mozilla 1.1!) All that, and functionality to boot.
Interesting idea, although it's too bad that, according to the FAQ:
URLs with a query string are not prefetched.
This really limits how useful this feature might be. I can imagine reading a multiple page article, and on page one of that article, the link tag prefetches page two while I'm reading page one, for quick access to the next page. Unfortunately, the URLs to most articles on the web contain query strings (a query string is the question mark (?) that preceeds a bunch of variables in a URL.)
Actually, I've found that once I turn on Mozilla's "Quick Launch" feature - which keeps it in memory at all times, like Windows does with Internet Explorer - it launches quite a bit faster than IE 5.5. BTW: I'm not only counting the time it takes the browser window to appear, but also the time it takes before I'm able to click in the location bar and start browsing. IE features a very irritating lag. Maybe I should install some more RAM in this laptop...
Oddly enough, though, I could launch Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and make a ham sandwich in the time it takes ICQ and AIM to launch. Talk about bloat...
You should actually read the article you claimed to have read and at least state where this PS2 stuff is coming from. Journalism here is not the problem. Illiteracy is;-)
No...you should read the original post. The Slashdot article states that the mod chips are for the Playstation 2 (Hence "PS/2" (sic) in the Slashdot article title.) The actual article from the CBC News site correctly states nothing about the Playstation 2. The Slashdot reprint completely screwed up the original article - the poster was referring to that.
Minor correction: MSIE for Windows hasn't gotten alpha channel right; MSIE 5 for the Mac has near-perfect PNG support (including alpha channels, gamma support, progressive display, etc...) and is highly regarded (along w/Netscape 6/Mozilla) when it comes to proper implementation of the PNG format.
I have no idea about all the.mac rumors...but I am amused by some of what's going on at the expo. I love Apple and all...but Steve Jobs's cultlike ability to make everything into a whiz-bang feature sometimes awes me. This is direct a quote as I can relay, when describing the new chat program, iChat:
"He sent me a menu using a link within the chat window! You can actually send a URL within the chat window! And clicking on the URL actually takes you to the website!"
...check out The Underdogs. It's a game site dedicated mostly to those games of yesteryear that went largely unnoticed (sometimes for good reason.) They have hundreds (if not thousands) of games available for download (if the game is abandonware), as well as maps, manuals, etc... Some of them are fairly recent (but the archive goes back to the early 80s.)
On topic: if you use the select menu on the left-hand side of the page that says "Search by Theme" you can choose "Design Tool". This takes you to a list of construction set games.
It's funny that you mention standards, and then deride the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, which is a far more W3C-standards-compliant (here's a breakdown of CSS capabilities for most modern browsers) than IE 5, 5.x, and 6 for Windows. Netscape 6/Mozilla's even better.
I thought I'd take some time to address the claim of Windows Internet Explorer dominance (even if off-topic), since I see it often.
It's been my experience that Microsoft's Macintosh projects are far better than their Windows counterparts.
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Anyone notice that the excitement you feel toward some sort of gaming opportunity peaks at a certain point? For the most part, I'm as excited about Game X coming in Q4 2002 as I was for Game Y in 1998. Warcraft III looks great, but my enthusiasm toward it is a pale shadow of my excitement at picking up Shining Force/Shining Force 2 for the Genesis, or Phantasy Star IV. Is this just the way of things as technology advances - excitement levels off, even as the capabilities of games improve? Am I simply a nostalgic twit? Or can revolutionary games actually make a gamer more interested in gaming as a whole, than he/she was 4 years ago?
If so, what are the games that accomplish this? Are there any game revolutions any more? I remember Doom, and then Duke Nukem changing the way I thought about action games, and FF2 changing the way I thought about RPGs, with Daggerfall later obliterating that standard (even though its complexity was maddening at times.) Games are looking more beautiful and more realistic all the time...but in my experience this isn't enough by itself. Are games generally getting better, or worse? Is GTA3 a game that "ups the gaming ante," so to speak? Neverwinter Nights? What are some others?
I don't think Ozzy Osbourne would be the best advocate for the rights of the music consumer, since his new CDs feature Key2Audio copy protection., a decision that he himself reportedly approved.
SonyEricsson P800? The only hangup seems to be the relatively small hard drive. But it's got a digital camera, color screen, stylus, cell phone, xhtml-compatible web browser, PDA, etc... Check out the 3D animations, if you can get the plugin.
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Sun is a company with one foot in the grave and their is no real debate about this. Dont get me wrong Solaris is rock stable and has its uses, but its doomed.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to realize this. Red ink flows like a river of blood...
You forgot the best part...the clippings jump from where you clicked them toward your menu bar, and are gone from where you originally clipped them! Ugh, I feel a bit of web development envy...
Seriously, it's amazing they not only had the foresight to include this functionality, but also were able to somehow make it intuitive and *gasp* not annoying! When you mention a menu bar following you as you scroll down and clippings that jump across the screen toward it, you run the very real risk of annoying the crap out of your user. The fact that that isn't the case is commendable. (And yes, I verified this worked in IE 5.1 Mac and Mozilla 1.1!) All that, and functionality to boot.
Interesting idea, at least.
Actually, I've found that once I turn on Mozilla's "Quick Launch" feature - which keeps it in memory at all times, like Windows does with Internet Explorer - it launches quite a bit faster than IE 5.5. BTW: I'm not only counting the time it takes the browser window to appear, but also the time it takes before I'm able to click in the location bar and start browsing. IE features a very irritating lag. Maybe I should install some more RAM in this laptop...
Oddly enough, though, I could launch Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and make a ham sandwich in the time it takes ICQ and AIM to launch. Talk about bloat...
I'll take up the challenge. Guy Kawasaki is a very cool guy...I fondly remember his often belligerent Mac Evangelism mailing list...
There are Windows look-and-feel UNIX themes?
Umm...the original poster was describing the recording of music. And in the music industry, everyone does use the Apple Macintosh instead of Windows.
Minor correction: MSIE for Windows hasn't gotten alpha channel right; MSIE 5 for the Mac has near-perfect PNG support (including alpha channels, gamma support, progressive display, etc...) and is highly regarded (along w/Netscape 6/Mozilla) when it comes to proper implementation of the PNG format.
(And yes, it uses libpng).
Steve just started babbling about how the "world has changed" and "Yahoo charges for POP email" and "iDrive is out of busines...so...".
.NET, though. :-)
He did get in a few jabs at
And the price is...$99 as reported.
I have no idea about all the .mac rumors...but I am amused by some of what's going on at the expo. I love Apple and all...but Steve Jobs's cultlike ability to make everything into a whiz-bang feature sometimes awes me. This is direct a quote as I can relay, when describing the new chat program, iChat:
:-)
"He sent me a menu using a link within the chat window! You can actually send a URL within the chat window! And clicking on the URL actually takes you to the website!"
Wow...really?!
...check out The Underdogs. It's a game site dedicated mostly to those games of yesteryear that went largely unnoticed (sometimes for good reason.) They have hundreds (if not thousands) of games available for download (if the game is abandonware), as well as maps, manuals, etc... Some of them are fairly recent (but the archive goes back to the early 80s.)
On topic: if you use the select menu on the left-hand side of the page that says "Search by Theme" you can choose "Design Tool". This takes you to a list of construction set games.
It's funny that you mention standards, and then deride the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, which is a far more W3C-standards-compliant (here's a breakdown of CSS capabilities for most modern browsers) than IE 5, 5.x, and 6 for Windows. Netscape 6/Mozilla's even better.
I thought I'd take some time to address the claim of Windows Internet Explorer dominance (even if off-topic), since I see it often.
It's been my experience that Microsoft's Macintosh projects are far better than their Windows counterparts.
Anyone notice that the excitement you feel toward some sort of gaming opportunity peaks at a certain point? For the most part, I'm as excited about Game X coming in Q4 2002 as I was for Game Y in 1998. Warcraft III looks great, but my enthusiasm toward it is a pale shadow of my excitement at picking up Shining Force/Shining Force 2 for the Genesis, or Phantasy Star IV. Is this just the way of things as technology advances - excitement levels off, even as the capabilities of games improve? Am I simply a nostalgic twit? Or can revolutionary games actually make a gamer more interested in gaming as a whole, than he/she was 4 years ago?
If so, what are the games that accomplish this? Are there any game revolutions any more? I remember Doom, and then Duke Nukem changing the way I thought about action games, and FF2 changing the way I thought about RPGs, with Daggerfall later obliterating that standard (even though its complexity was maddening at times.) Games are looking more beautiful and more realistic all the time...but in my experience this isn't enough by itself. Are games generally getting better, or worse? Is GTA3 a game that "ups the gaming ante," so to speak? Neverwinter Nights? What are some others?
I don't think Ozzy Osbourne would be the best advocate for the rights of the music consumer, since his new CDs feature Key2Audio copy protection., a decision that he himself reportedly approved.
SonyEricsson P800? The only hangup seems to be the relatively small hard drive. But it's got a digital camera, color screen, stylus, cell phone, xhtml-compatible web browser, PDA, etc... Check out the 3D animations, if you can get the plugin.