PNG's greatest misfeature is that it does not support animation. For that, we have the latecoming, and much more narrowly supported, MNG. That'd be awesome to have too, but if MS can't even support PNG in IE, I don't have much hope for MNG.
Speaking of that... Anyone happen to know the current status of mng support in mozilla and its offspring? I was a little annoyed at its removal as I had a couple mngs up as examples of sprite animation. Not a big deal to change, but I was still sad to see it go.
>> Like highschool its 90% bullshit.
That's code for:
"I think I'm really smart, but I haven't done that well academically. Therefore, school must have been bullshit."
Sure. Basic math, science, and writing skills are a complete waste of time, as are history and the social sciences. Right. You were ready for the real world right out of middle school!
I have to pull a bullshit on your call of bullshit. In theory I totally agree with you about the importance of general education. But I have to side with the parent on this. The reason is because in many, possibly even most cases, highschool isn't actually going to teach any of this. My own was so busy catering to the slowest kids in the class that we never made much progress, and never, ever, got into the actual reasons for the facts presented to us for memorization. I think the most depressing example is science classes. Almost anyone in the US should have had three or four years of high school science education. After getting out, how many of them could actually sit down and give a real explanation of potential weakness in an experimental design? It's one of the most basic parts of science, and yet one that's almost always neglected in favor of rote memorisation and blind trust. Instead of having the tools to demand to actually see the data involved in any study, the population at large can at best beg an equally ill-informed reporter to sound it out for them. And no, I didn't do badly in highschool. I finished with an A average, which included skipping constantly and sleeping in class. I'm willing to concede that my own highschool may have been one of the worse examples, but from what I've seen it appears to be more a case of severity of problem rather than lack of it in other schools.
Hey, don't lump all the OSS community in with this guy. If you havn't noticed, the vast majority of the people here are in the process of calling him nine kinds of idiot.
Why would it be better for it to run linux? would you get more functionality? Possibly, but would you use it?
For me, the reason is just that I'm used to writing for Linux. Having the same, or nearly the same libraries on both my desktop and pda is just a nice timesaver.
I don't think they'd do nearly as well. Not for any lack of intelligence, but soley for the fact that humans have been breeding dogs for a very long time, specifically for their ability to figure out what we're telling them. It seems like most cultures on the other hand, have valued the cats aloofness and independance far more than their ability to understand what we're telling them. Though as a cat owner, I too am not going to be too quick to discount the idea that its just what they want me to believe so I'll leave them alone.
And before you say "you can compile that support in yourself", let me say to you: get lost! I'm sick to death of having to locate some retard's package of some frigging codec just to watch a movie in sub-standard quality than I can get with Windows Media Player (on my dual boot machine).
You don't have to install extra codecs to watch XviD, DivX 3,4, and 5 and mpeg2 on windows media player? All of those should be supported by default by any non crippled xine or mplayer install.
I mean, how bloody difficult could it be? But NOOOO, I have to go ALT-TAB'ing to find that other window.
I think the idea is that if one is playing full screen he won't want the view interupdted by buttons and that keyboard/joystick/remotecontroll use is going to be preferred.
Do you want your chemotherapy to have the level of refinement of the Debian installer?
Good point, bad example. Cancer runs very heavily in my family, and I'd be thrilled to find that chemotherapy had advanced 'to' the point of the debian installer. As grateful as I am for what has been acomplished in the field of cancer research, as far as treatment goes I'd say we're still in the level of grunting and smashing.
Urgh, somehow I didn't notice this post! I missed the renaming of current.exe to ac2game.dat, and somehow didn't even notice the faq on the client page. I eventually found out by searching the ags board.
It's working for me now using 2.60 and the redhat 9 allegro-4.1.11-1.i386.rpm from the client page, converted by alien to a deb and installed on Debian Unstable. It's not hanging x for me when run as a window, but I'm a bit too nervous to try full screen untill I can afford to have x crash around me.
This is the first time I've used AGS, so I'm hoping someone better informed might leap in to point out what I'm doing wrong. I ran the linux config program, then with current.exe from no-action in the same directory I tried./ags and got "Main game file not found. This may be from a different AGS version, or the file may have got corrupted.".
I just put a bit of begging in on that topic. I was only able to get through the intro with wine as well, but what I saw really made me want to see the rest. Anyone given this a shot with WineX?
Then don't use these widgets. Use any of hundreds of Swing look and feels
Hundreds? Have a link handy? Is there anything like kde-look.org out there for swing look and feels? I havn't looked into Java in a couple of years, but never saw more than a handfull that were more than minor color changes. With the whole.net Vs. Java debate I've been thinking about taking another dive into Java, and a nicer look would go a long way to making that more pleasent for me.
If you havn't discovered it yet, I have to quickly plug the dreamcast homebrew scene. dcemulation.com is a good repository for most of projects out there. And while it takes a bit of sifting, there's some really amazing programs out there. The nes and master system emus have easily made the dreamcast my most used console. The availability of sdl makes it very fun to write for as well.
Why wouldn't solitaire or minesweeper count? They may not have amazing whiz bang graphics but they're fun and most people enjoy them regardless of gaming background.
If say Linux/OSX was the #1 Joe Consumer OS then it would have virus like this.
OK, would you tell me how an operating system that's not giving the user write priviliages to anything other than their home directory would have the same amount of viruses as one where by default the user has write privliages to everything composing the operating system?
Of course some OEMs would have shipped with it! An OEM that just happened to have compatible hardware. Driver support wasn't that great, but I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill to suggest the only way it'd work on anything is if the computer was specially designed for it. Back in the day I just threw it onto an off the shelf dell and it worked fine.
Same here - I think mine was the second edition as well. I actually still have it around as well. It's really amazing to take a look sometimes, and see how far things have advanced in such a relitivly small time as far as intallation, hardware detection, and above all window managers have evolved.
I think people like this are also going to be the prime canidaate for not going for a theoretical anti-aging treatment. Usually they also seem to somewhat go along with the whole "Ifin' it weren't good enough fer my pappy, it aint good enough fer me!" ideal. Most of them would balk at any significant change in their lives, even the prospect of seeing it not end.
As someone recently transplanted to Montana, I can testify that this is very much a regional thing - even within the same country. The majority of the people here have children in their very early twenties or late teens, and often do so as soon as they're biologically able to carry a child to term. Heck, I know two sixteen year olds who've been trying to have a kid for about a year now. And, sad to say, they're not that much of an exception around here.
I'm in the opposite boat - I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to die. It seems like life has endless variety in experience, and that the older I get the more I enjoy it and love watching as things around me change.
The mouse winner played the Free Radical game. This is _NOT_ Healthy living.
I very strongly agree that this shouldn't be looked at as a normal "diet", in the sense of cutting down on the sweets and increasing the vegies. Too often people here caloric restriction and they think restricting the cake instead of restricting an animal nearly to the point of starvation.
I'm not sure I'd classify it as a free radical game though. The end results seem so much different than treatments modeled on theories highlighting free radical damage. My guess is that this is certainly a part, but not the most significant one.
There are people out there that count their calories so closely they can perdict a 5yr added life bonus by decreasing the amount of waste products metabolism produces. Many are now suffering from delbitating illness like Osteoporosis.
Again, I mostly but not entirly agree. I read the crsociety's mailing list, though I don't actually participate in caloric restriction myself. It seems like the people suffering from Osteoporosis are mostly only in those at the most extreame levels, and are a very small minority in the group of people attempting this. But of those that are, their restriction is severe enough that I'd guess the amount of life added would be closer to fifteen or twenty than five. Though that's making the assumption that primates will gain the same levels of effect as rodents, and that nothing has went wrong in the way the people are working at it. Early studies do seem to point that it would be effective, but given how many variables exist in human life compared to a monkey in a cage, I do worry a bit over if other drugs might be altering the results in people trying it - especially since we don't really understand the mechanisim of action yet.
So yes, Science does hold the answers to everything. It's not a miracle, it's _science_. We're a machine, we can be maintained like one.
And on this I strongly agree as well. I think too many people overly romanticise the human body, when they instead could be getting regular checkups to monitor their condition and take action to attempt to fix themselves if a potential problem becomes apparent.
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Oh, just saw a post below and apparently there is one almost like that. Well, I'm impressed!
A mozilla/firefox plugin that checked against an autogenerated file from their site could be a fun project sometime too.
PNG's greatest misfeature is that it does not support animation. For that, we have the latecoming, and much more narrowly supported, MNG. That'd be awesome to have too, but if MS can't even support PNG in IE, I don't have much hope for MNG.
Speaking of that... Anyone happen to know the current status of mng support in mozilla and its offspring? I was a little annoyed at its removal as I had a couple mngs up as examples of sprite animation. Not a big deal to change, but I was still sad to see it go.
At this point all that needs to happen is for IE to provide tabbed browsing
Full png support would be nice too. OK, low blow, but that's been bugging me for years.
>> Like highschool its 90% bullshit. That's code for: "I think I'm really smart, but I haven't done that well academically. Therefore, school must have been bullshit." Sure. Basic math, science, and writing skills are a complete waste of time, as are history and the social sciences. Right. You were ready for the real world right out of middle school!
I have to pull a bullshit on your call of bullshit. In theory I totally agree with you about the importance of general education. But I have to side with the parent on this. The reason is because in many, possibly even most cases, highschool isn't actually going to teach any of this. My own was so busy catering to the slowest kids in the class that we never made much progress, and never, ever, got into the actual reasons for the facts presented to us for memorization. I think the most depressing example is science classes. Almost anyone in the US should have had three or four years of high school science education. After getting out, how many of them could actually sit down and give a real explanation of potential weakness in an experimental design? It's one of the most basic parts of science, and yet one that's almost always neglected in favor of rote memorisation and blind trust. Instead of having the tools to demand to actually see the data involved in any study, the population at large can at best beg an equally ill-informed reporter to sound it out for them. And no, I didn't do badly in highschool. I finished with an A average, which included skipping constantly and sleeping in class. I'm willing to concede that my own highschool may have been one of the worse examples, but from what I've seen it appears to be more a case of severity of problem rather than lack of it in other schools.
Hey, don't lump all the OSS community in with this guy. If you havn't noticed, the vast majority of the people here are in the process of calling him nine kinds of idiot.
Why would it be better for it to run linux? would you get more functionality? Possibly, but would you use it?
For me, the reason is just that I'm used to writing for Linux. Having the same, or nearly the same libraries on both my desktop and pda is just a nice timesaver.
I don't think they'd do nearly as well. Not for any lack of intelligence, but soley for the fact that humans have been breeding dogs for a very long time, specifically for their ability to figure out what we're telling them. It seems like most cultures on the other hand, have valued the cats aloofness and independance far more than their ability to understand what we're telling them. Though as a cat owner, I too am not going to be too quick to discount the idea that its just what they want me to believe so I'll leave them alone.
And before you say "you can compile that support in yourself", let me say to you: get lost! I'm sick to death of having to locate some retard's package of some frigging codec just to watch a movie in sub-standard quality than I can get with Windows Media Player (on my dual boot machine).
You don't have to install extra codecs to watch XviD, DivX 3,4, and 5 and mpeg2 on windows media player? All of those should be supported by default by any non crippled xine or mplayer install.
I mean, how bloody difficult could it be? But NOOOO, I have to go ALT-TAB'ing to find that other window.
I think the idea is that if one is playing full screen he won't want the view interupdted by buttons and that keyboard/joystick/remotecontroll use is going to be preferred.
Even more funny since, as I recall, Aibos are powered by WindowsCE. Microsoft, a pro-puppy company if ever there was one.
Do you want your chemotherapy to have the level of refinement of the Debian installer?
Good point, bad example. Cancer runs very heavily in my family, and I'd be thrilled to find that chemotherapy had advanced 'to' the point of the debian installer. As grateful as I am for what has been acomplished in the field of cancer research, as far as treatment goes I'd say we're still in the level of grunting and smashing.
Urgh, somehow I didn't notice this post! I missed the renaming of current.exe to ac2game.dat, and somehow didn't even notice the faq on the client page. I eventually found out by searching the ags board. It's working for me now using 2.60 and the redhat 9 allegro-4.1.11-1.i386.rpm from the client page, converted by alien to a deb and installed on Debian Unstable. It's not hanging x for me when run as a window, but I'm a bit too nervous to try full screen untill I can afford to have x crash around me.
This is the first time I've used AGS, so I'm hoping someone better informed might leap in to point out what I'm doing wrong. I ran the linux config program, then with current.exe from no-action in the same directory I tried ./ags and got "Main game file not found. This may be from a different AGS version, or the file may have got corrupted.".
I just put a bit of begging in on that topic. I was only able to get through the intro with wine as well, but what I saw really made me want to see the rest. Anyone given this a shot with WineX?
Then don't use these widgets. Use any of hundreds of Swing look and feels
.net Vs. Java debate I've been thinking about taking another dive into Java, and a nicer look would go a long way to making that more pleasent for me.
Hundreds? Have a link handy? Is there anything like kde-look.org out there for swing look and feels? I havn't looked into Java in a couple of years, but never saw more than a handfull that were more than minor color changes. With the whole
If you havn't discovered it yet, I have to quickly plug the dreamcast homebrew scene. dcemulation.com is a good repository for most of projects out there. And while it takes a bit of sifting, there's some really amazing programs out there. The nes and master system emus have easily made the dreamcast my most used console. The availability of sdl makes it very fun to write for as well.
Why wouldn't solitaire or minesweeper count? They may not have amazing whiz bang graphics but they're fun and most people enjoy them regardless of gaming background.
If say Linux/OSX was the #1 Joe Consumer OS then it would have virus like this.
OK, would you tell me how an operating system that's not giving the user write priviliages to anything other than their home directory would have the same amount of viruses as one where by default the user has write privliages to everything composing the operating system?
Of course some OEMs would have shipped with it! An OEM that just happened to have compatible hardware. Driver support wasn't that great, but I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill to suggest the only way it'd work on anything is if the computer was specially designed for it. Back in the day I just threw it onto an off the shelf dell and it worked fine.
Same here - I think mine was the second edition as well. I actually still have it around as well. It's really amazing to take a look sometimes, and see how far things have advanced in such a relitivly small time as far as intallation, hardware detection, and above all window managers have evolved.
I think people like this are also going to be the prime canidaate for not going for a theoretical anti-aging treatment. Usually they also seem to somewhat go along with the whole "Ifin' it weren't good enough fer my pappy, it aint good enough fer me!" ideal. Most of them would balk at any significant change in their lives, even the prospect of seeing it not end.
As someone recently transplanted to Montana, I can testify that this is very much a regional thing - even within the same country. The majority of the people here have children in their very early twenties or late teens, and often do so as soon as they're biologically able to carry a child to term. Heck, I know two sixteen year olds who've been trying to have a kid for about a year now. And, sad to say, they're not that much of an exception around here.
I'm in the opposite boat - I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to die. It seems like life has endless variety in experience, and that the older I get the more I enjoy it and love watching as things around me change.
The mouse winner played the Free Radical game. This is _NOT_ Healthy living.
I very strongly agree that this shouldn't be looked at as a normal "diet", in the sense of cutting down on the sweets and increasing the vegies. Too often people here caloric restriction and they think restricting the cake instead of restricting an animal nearly to the point of starvation.
I'm not sure I'd classify it as a free radical game though. The end results seem so much different than treatments modeled on theories highlighting free radical damage. My guess is that this is certainly a part, but not the most significant one.
There are people out there that count their calories so closely they can perdict a 5yr added life bonus by decreasing the amount of waste products metabolism produces. Many are now suffering from delbitating illness like Osteoporosis.
Again, I mostly but not entirly agree. I read the crsociety's mailing list, though I don't actually participate in caloric restriction myself. It seems like the people suffering from Osteoporosis are mostly only in those at the most extreame levels, and are a very small minority in the group of people attempting this. But of those that are, their restriction is severe enough that I'd guess the amount of life added would be closer to fifteen or twenty than five. Though that's making the assumption that primates will gain the same levels of effect as rodents, and that nothing has went wrong in the way the people are working at it. Early studies do seem to point that it would be effective, but given how many variables exist in human life compared to a monkey in a cage, I do worry a bit over if other drugs might be altering the results in people trying it - especially since we don't really understand the mechanisim of action yet.
So yes, Science does hold the answers to everything. It's not a miracle, it's _science_. We're a machine, we can be maintained like one.
And on this I strongly agree as well. I think too many people overly romanticise the human body, when they instead could be getting regular checkups to monitor their condition and take action to attempt to fix themselves if a potential problem becomes apparent.
I know, imagine. Suggesting not only reading, but dull history at that. An obvious nut.