Flock had me skeptical from the screenshots (ugly and useless), but having actually used it, it's pretty gosh darn neat. The Shelf is an incredible killer feature. I've tried out a few similar extensions for Firefox, but none did it as smoothly and intuitively as Flock has. All it needs is a few hardcore snippet-management-tools, and it'll be my new favorite research program.
Likewise, the blog editor falls under the "pretty neat" status. The formatting gets eaten by Wordpress.com's post-parser (to filter out nasty javascript and other malicious evil), but that isn't a major downer, as it does tend to exhibit some weirdness like underline remaining after deleting a link. The WYSIWYG-editor part of it definately needs some work to be up to par with the rest of the browser.
Overall, I've been seriously impressed. For being a the first public release of a browser, it's feature-filled and non-crashy. This must be attributed to it being based on Firefox. All it needs is a few months of polish and I can unconditionally accept it as my new primary browser. As is, I'm giving the idea serious thought.
P.S.: I didn't use the del.icio.us integration, as I didn't really use the service much before. But now that it's seamlessly integrated into the browser, I'll try it out again.
Blizzard hasn't made any copies since the launch. It became exceedingly hard to find in some areas weeks before PA even started chirping about the problems.
Penny Arcade has been incredibly influential in the past, especially when running the "Child's Play" drive, but this particular time they were with the curve, not leading it.
I thought that too... until I tried to print my schedule and it froze up.
That said, it's good enough that I use it for my calendaring. But isn't anywhere near as polished as Firebird and Thunderbird.
Phil Kline is also notorious for harassing abortion clinics and any others who do not agree with his brand of politics. For being an Attorney General, he doesn't have a whole lot of respect for the law. Sort-of like Ashcroft, but worse.
And yes, I do live in Kansas and some of the elected-officials' actions here drive me batty. And the conservatives on the state board-of-education just gained a majority again, so we may be seeing a return of the Evolution hubbub. Meanwhile the state congress can't decide on how to give education extra money, so they get nothing. It's bi-partisan stupidity, except instead of being between Dems and Republicans it's between the Conservative and Moderate wings of the Republican Party.
The shellblock.xpi works to patch the 0.9.1 release. The only difference between 0.9.2 and 0.9.1 is that one of the preferences is a different value by default. So, if you have 0.9.1 already, there is no need to download the 0.9.2 release. You can just patch it using the.xpi link on mozillazine.
BTW, for all those interested, Wired ran a list of what went wrong for each team. It reads very comically, but a lot of these things are very "DUH!" after you've gone through the first time. I forsee a lot better results, as teams will have that much more practice. Hopefully some will come up with some more general solutions, rather than brute-force processing the terrain around the known area of the route.
Ever since the first few releases, people have been bugging Mike about releasing Shareaza as an open-source client. I guess he finally caved in. Now to use Shareaza to download... linux distros. Lots of... linux distros!
That would probably be the first to create a net increase in energy using fusion. Either that, or those fusion scientists are pretty good fakers over the last few decades.
Differences in language structure will lead to different patterns of thought.
A speaker's native language has a serious effect on their development of world-view.
Studies (Berlin & Kay, 1969) have shown that people perceive differences in color differently based on their language, satisfying tenet 1. Tenet 2 is generally believed to be unable to be proven or disproven using methods that anyone can think of right now.
Now, differences in thought are often more evidently reflected by differences in language, for it is language that often transmits thought. For example, the Tobrianders of Papua New Guinea think and speak in a non-linear matter. While many of us have been trained since birth to connect the dots, often in books of numbered dot diagrams, they emphasize patterns over linearity. By losing this language, we also lose, to some extent, their unique pattern of thought.
This uses the same vulnerability as before. Which means that if you were hit by but recovered from blaster, you'll be safe from this one. That said, this is a more virulent form, and will screw over unprotected networks even faster. But it won't be nearly as damaging as the original. This is just an example of an anti-virus software producer hyping up a virus to sell their product.
Quite frankly, I'd like to see you sum up complex philosophies in a two-hour movie, complete with action, plot, and Neo's lengthy dialogue. The Matrix isn't an end-all in philosophy. It's simply a springboard for interesting philosophy discussion. For example, what would you choose, meeting your destiny by sucumbing to fate and gaining the freedom of superpowers, or rejecting that destiny, retaining free will, but living a mundane existence? And there's quite a multitude of views on whether Cypher's really right or not. It's a supplement, not a replacement.
Deus Ex was an unbelievably good game. And it affected me a lot, some in good ways, some in bad. Suprisingly enough, it helped exercise my problem solving skills a lot. I also now unconsciously look for ventilation ducts everywhere I go.
It also raises some interesting questions about how much power a government should have. It includes a government that has imposed strict military control after a terrorist organization called the NSF played out a series of terrorist attacks. I don't want to spoil it by saying what's revealed past the first mission, but regardless, it scarily predicted a lot of the government's response to the terrorist attacks on New York.
The only people who I've met that haven't liked Deus Ex either haven't played past the first mission (which is IMHO the worst in the entire game) or haven't found a playing style that suits them yet (I personally became a Trinity/stealth-ninja/sniper).
If you want a recruitment tool, try Knoppix. If you don't know, it's essentially a Linux distro that boots cleanly off of a CD, with no install required. An easy way to nudge people onto using Linux is to just hand out Knoppix CDs at school. It's about in the technical range that most highschoolers can understand.
It's all a question of where the money goes to. Right now, WineX users pay some money so that their games can run on Linux. If a game developer ports their game to linux, they can get a taste of that money.
And with the Dreamcast comparison, Bleemcast was very poor and only supported a few games. On the other hand, PS2's backwards compatibility DID convince several users of the PSX to upgrade, knowing that they could do so and still enjoy their old games
Some aspects of an engine have a large likelyhood of affecting gameplay. For example, once Quake was developed and you had the ability to aim vertically, and that changed gameplay quite a bit. While we haven't really had revolutions in gameplay quite that dramatic since, Doom III does offer new lighting technology, which can obviously be used to heighten suspense. It also has an effect on how objects could be seen.
So, to succinctly answer your question, an engine can have a very large effect on the gameplay. It's just that we haven't made any huge steps towards reality recently that affect gameplay in any way. And if you don't like the same-old gameplay that exists today, I suggest you play a fantastic game called Deus Ex. And Half-Life 2 will likely be revealed at E3.
I think you're a bit confused about how the ways are going. At any given time, they're developing several different specs for wireless communication. Some of these, such as the publicized 802.11a, b, and g are hardware-side, meaning they have to deal with the way these things are actually transmitted. Others are more software-side, meaning they have to do with encrypting data and whatnot. Furthermore, all of these (except for a few earlier strange circumstances such as 802.11a) are backwards compatible.
In short, the hardware you buy today WILL be usable in a year or two. It just won't be the fastest, bestest thing on the market. Think of it as Moore's Law translated to wireless communication.
Rumors say that the 2 minute, 40 second trailer will be released Thursday on the official Matrix website. Luckily, rumors about Matrix stuff usually tend to be correct. Warner Brothers really knows how to use the grassroots fanbase.
The existence of another GTA game has been known ever since the Rockstar Games financial conference call. Furthermore, Rockstar Games has put out GTA games for the last two years around that time of the year. There's no reason to suspect that they wouldn't put out another one.
Also, Rockstar Games' webserver was slaughtered when they released the original GTA for free, so the "slashdotted" nature of the site speaks nothing about the truth of this news. Shacknews also is quite reputable.
Hate them for hurting consumers, or like them because the Patriot act is totalitarian? Well that looks like a draw. I'll have to go to my backup.
It's a monday, and mondays are... mondays. We haven't had any scapegoat stories so far today, so I guess this'll be it.
So, in response, I believe that the crimes that Paypal has committed to the online community are grave enough to warrant actions of this sort. They got what was coming to them. Go USA.
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Flock had me skeptical from the screenshots (ugly and useless), but having actually used it, it's pretty gosh darn neat. The Shelf is an incredible killer feature. I've tried out a few similar extensions for Firefox, but none did it as smoothly and intuitively as Flock has. All it needs is a few hardcore snippet-management-tools, and it'll be my new favorite research program.
Likewise, the blog editor falls under the "pretty neat" status. The formatting gets eaten by Wordpress.com's post-parser (to filter out nasty javascript and other malicious evil), but that isn't a major downer, as it does tend to exhibit some weirdness like underline remaining after deleting a link. The WYSIWYG-editor part of it definately needs some work to be up to par with the rest of the browser.
Overall, I've been seriously impressed. For being a the first public release of a browser, it's feature-filled and non-crashy. This must be attributed to it being based on Firefox. All it needs is a few months of polish and I can unconditionally accept it as my new primary browser. As is, I'm giving the idea serious thought.
P.S.: I didn't use the del.icio.us integration, as I didn't really use the service much before. But now that it's seamlessly integrated into the browser, I'll try it out again.
For a second there I thought we were going to possibly talk about the chimerical future of torrents. *sigh*
Blizzard hasn't made any copies since the launch. It became exceedingly hard to find in some areas weeks before PA even started chirping about the problems.
Penny Arcade has been incredibly influential in the past, especially when running the "Child's Play" drive, but this particular time they were with the curve, not leading it.
I thought that too... until I tried to print my schedule and it froze up. That said, it's good enough that I use it for my calendaring. But isn't anywhere near as polished as Firebird and Thunderbird.
Phil Kline is also notorious for harassing abortion clinics and any others who do not agree with his brand of politics. For being an Attorney General, he doesn't have a whole lot of respect for the law. Sort-of like Ashcroft, but worse.
And yes, I do live in Kansas and some of the elected-officials' actions here drive me batty. And the conservatives on the state board-of-education just gained a majority again, so we may be seeing a return of the Evolution hubbub. Meanwhile the state congress can't decide on how to give education extra money, so they get nothing. It's bi-partisan stupidity, except instead of being between Dems and Republicans it's between the Conservative and Moderate wings of the Republican Party.
And here's an even more direct link that so you can all download the trailer to your computer. http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/batmanbegins/te aser/teaser_hi_a.mov
Now will this increase the slashdotting, or decrease it?
The shellblock.xpi works to patch the 0.9.1 release. The only difference between 0.9.2 and 0.9.1 is that one of the preferences is a different value by default. So, if you have 0.9.1 already, there is no need to download the 0.9.2 release. You can just patch it using the .xpi link on mozillazine.
BTW, for all those interested, Wired ran a list of what went wrong for each team. It reads very comically, but a lot of these things are very "DUH!" after you've gone through the first time. I forsee a lot better results, as teams will have that much more practice. Hopefully some will come up with some more general solutions, rather than brute-force processing the terrain around the known area of the route.
Ever since the first few releases, people have been bugging Mike about releasing Shareaza as an open-source client. I guess he finally caved in. Now to use Shareaza to download... linux distros. Lots of ... linux distros!
That would probably be the first to create a net increase in energy using fusion. Either that, or those fusion scientists are pretty good fakers over the last few decades.
According to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis:
Studies (Berlin & Kay, 1969) have shown that people perceive differences in color differently based on their language, satisfying tenet 1. Tenet 2 is generally believed to be unable to be proven or disproven using methods that anyone can think of right now.
Now, differences in thought are often more evidently reflected by differences in language, for it is language that often transmits thought. For example, the Tobrianders of Papua New Guinea think and speak in a non-linear matter. While many of us have been trained since birth to connect the dots, often in books of numbered dot diagrams, they emphasize patterns over linearity. By losing this language, we also lose, to some extent, their unique pattern of thought.
Dozens of comments were posted before either the editor or the posters bothered to actually read the article. Oops!
Actually, the first fully official version of Knoppix 3.4 is slated to come out at CeBit (March 18-24), as per Klaus Knopper's mailing list message.
This uses the same vulnerability as before. Which means that if you were hit by but recovered from blaster, you'll be safe from this one. That said, this is a more virulent form, and will screw over unprotected networks even faster. But it won't be nearly as damaging as the original. This is just an example of an anti-virus software producer hyping up a virus to sell their product.
Quite frankly, I'd like to see you sum up complex philosophies in a two-hour movie, complete with action, plot, and Neo's lengthy dialogue. The Matrix isn't an end-all in philosophy. It's simply a springboard for interesting philosophy discussion. For example, what would you choose, meeting your destiny by sucumbing to fate and gaining the freedom of superpowers, or rejecting that destiny, retaining free will, but living a mundane existence? And there's quite a multitude of views on whether Cypher's really right or not. It's a supplement, not a replacement.
Deus Ex was an unbelievably good game. And it affected me a lot, some in good ways, some in bad. Suprisingly enough, it helped exercise my problem solving skills a lot. I also now unconsciously look for ventilation ducts everywhere I go.
It also raises some interesting questions about how much power a government should have. It includes a government that has imposed strict military control after a terrorist organization called the NSF played out a series of terrorist attacks. I don't want to spoil it by saying what's revealed past the first mission, but regardless, it scarily predicted a lot of the government's response to the terrorist attacks on New York.
The only people who I've met that haven't liked Deus Ex either haven't played past the first mission (which is IMHO the worst in the entire game) or haven't found a playing style that suits them yet (I personally became a Trinity/stealth-ninja/sniper).
If you want a recruitment tool, try Knoppix. If you don't know, it's essentially a Linux distro that boots cleanly off of a CD, with no install required. An easy way to nudge people onto using Linux is to just hand out Knoppix CDs at school. It's about in the technical range that most highschoolers can understand.
It's all a question of where the money goes to. Right now, WineX users pay some money so that their games can run on Linux. If a game developer ports their game to linux, they can get a taste of that money.
And with the Dreamcast comparison, Bleemcast was very poor and only supported a few games. On the other hand, PS2's backwards compatibility DID convince several users of the PSX to upgrade, knowing that they could do so and still enjoy their old games
Some aspects of an engine have a large likelyhood of affecting gameplay. For example, once Quake was developed and you had the ability to aim vertically, and that changed gameplay quite a bit. While we haven't really had revolutions in gameplay quite that dramatic since, Doom III does offer new lighting technology, which can obviously be used to heighten suspense. It also has an effect on how objects could be seen.
So, to succinctly answer your question, an engine can have a very large effect on the gameplay. It's just that we haven't made any huge steps towards reality recently that affect gameplay in any way. And if you don't like the same-old gameplay that exists today, I suggest you play a fantastic game called Deus Ex. And Half-Life 2 will likely be revealed at E3.
I think you're a bit confused about how the ways are going. At any given time, they're developing several different specs for wireless communication. Some of these, such as the publicized 802.11a, b, and g are hardware-side, meaning they have to deal with the way these things are actually transmitted. Others are more software-side, meaning they have to do with encrypting data and whatnot. Furthermore, all of these (except for a few earlier strange circumstances such as 802.11a) are backwards compatible.
In short, the hardware you buy today WILL be usable in a year or two. It just won't be the fastest, bestest thing on the market. Think of it as Moore's Law translated to wireless communication.
They had better make a standard for the naming of all these standards, or else my head is going to start spinning.
Rumors say that the 2 minute, 40 second trailer will be released Thursday on the official Matrix website. Luckily, rumors about Matrix stuff usually tend to be correct. Warner Brothers really knows how to use the grassroots fanbase.
The existence of another GTA game has been known ever since the Rockstar Games financial conference call. Furthermore, Rockstar Games has put out GTA games for the last two years around that time of the year. There's no reason to suspect that they wouldn't put out another one.
Also, Rockstar Games' webserver was slaughtered when they released the original GTA for free, so the "slashdotted" nature of the site speaks nothing about the truth of this news. Shacknews also is quite reputable.
Hate them for hurting consumers, or like them because the Patriot act is totalitarian? Well that looks like a draw. I'll have to go to my backup.
It's a monday, and mondays are... mondays. We haven't had any scapegoat stories so far today, so I guess this'll be it.
So, in response, I believe that the crimes that Paypal has committed to the online community are grave enough to warrant actions of this sort. They got what was coming to them. Go USA.
Apparently it's reliable enough for the Department of Defense.