I can't possibly believe that an Apocalypse Now director's cut would be bad. This is Francis Fucking Coppola we're talking about here. He's one of the best film editors there is. I have yet to see Redux, but I know it's been wildly acclaimed, and I know it's Coppola. Maybe you didn't like it as much - maybe the pacing is different - but that doesn't make it bad.
Non-porn movies. Old Kung fu flicks. Anime. Especially anime. Good anime undefiled by american voice acting, month before they're released here. Oooooh, nifty!
It looks somewhat interesting - I personally think X11 sucks ass, so any alternative looks interesting - but something about the project really bothers me. I can't find their interface guidelines anywhere.
Now see, the thing that annoys me the most with X11 is the disparate behaviors of common widgets and dialogs. Every toolkit and software author seems to have it's personal take on the matter, and it can become pretty confusing at times. And when I read that Fresco intends to be highly configurable, I hope as hell that they're not making the same damn mistake, and are leaving that kind of power solely in the hands of the user.
Err... Native APIs for their relative OS's, that is. Carbon isn't a Windows API, but you knew that already. ^^
Re:candy cruncher file sizes...
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Brian Hook Interview
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The windows version is coded for DirectX/Direct3D or whatever. The Mac version is coded for Carbon. Both of those are native Windows APIs. Their Linux port is made in SDL, and is probably statically linked, as opposed to the other two.
You will notice that W3C standards are called "recommendation". They're not supposed to be enforced in any way. This License, however, seems to me more like a contract. By making your patented technlogy into a W3C standard you agree that you lose the right to collect royalties for this technology in areas covered by the standard. The patent holder relinquishes his rights willingly, and this license is there to make sure that the patent holder doesn't change it's mind once the standard is everywhere, like it happened with the LZW algorithm and GIFs. It is as enforceable as any contract, I would guess, although I don't really how enforceable contracts are in the first place. Depends on your lawyers, I suppose;)
GIFs aren't patented. A compression algorithm used in GIFs is (the LZW algorithm). The GIMP (and perhaps other graphic manipulation software) allow you to create uncompressed GIFs, which are perfectly legal.
I don't think gif is a standard anyway, nor has it ever been one.
That's about the stupidest thing I've seen today (not counting usual Slashdot trolling). This is a license that applies to standards developped by the W3C. It prevents the big companies that participate in W3C workgroups to claim ownership of standards that they developped/helped develop. It says nothing about anything that isn't a W3C standard.
MS Word uses an MDI... which means that you can close all the documents you want without closing the app itself. MDI is pretty much a mix between the Mac's document centric model and Window's application centric model
Yeah, or Mac's application centric model and Windows document centric model. Depends which way you look at it, I guess. Windows only allow you to have a program opened if it has a document, so it's document centric. But on the Mac, the application is largely hidden, giving focus to the document - that's also document centric to me, only in a different way.
You got your facts backwards. Structural HTML + CSS presentation is the best way to combine nice presentation (for conforming browsers) with backwards compatibility and accessibility.
There's a group named Turing Machine... I can't say for sure it's relevant, I only know one song and it's lyricless, but maybe their other songs have lyrics... damnit, Amazon, why have you engulfed CDNOW?
It's hard to identify the worse of Linux. Linux apps tend to be chockfull of feature and very useful, but they are all so badly designed it's a pain to use them. There doesn't seem to be any Interface Design Guidelines for X11, and so apps will have wildly varying behaviors for similar tasks, making it hard to judge an app's GUI.
As for Windows... well, you'd have to check a thousand apps before you even set on a scale. There's no telling the abysmal pieces of VB shit that may lie around in wait of a poor reviewer.
I don't know who Mr Roger is, but Mr Nice Guy is Jackie Chan. It's another movie about a cook that kicks ass. Not very good, either - but then it's directed by Sammo Hung, waddya expect?
I tend to disagree. I have downloaded an extensive collection of 70's prog mp3s from Kazaa/Napster. More than a hundred Gentle Giant MP3s. Lots of King Crimson, Camel, Genesis, PFM and their ilk. And let's not forget AuralMoon and all those other prog rock radio stations:P
Oh, yeah, and I'd like to see how well Safari fares with all those crappily implemented DHTML menus floating around the 'net. The problem with JavaScript isn't with respecting the W3C standards, it's with dealing with all that crappy code that doesn't follow the standard, but since it works in version X of browser Y, it's good enough for everybody
As long as the big two browsers support broken JS, the smaller browsers will have to support it as well, lest they lose what little market share they already have
... There's no telling how many tests where done, but whose results we won't get to see until they have fixed the bugs. Let's see some tests from an independant third party. I bet Safari won't get "Perfect except for that W3C draft thing which no browser except Mozilla support, test that seems like it was put in there just so Safari would fail it, and the test will look more neutral".
Don't like their STL? Use STLPort! Bonus points if you can compile it under Windows using their incredibly sucky installation instructions, which sorta... stop in the middle of the process.
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Yes... no
I mean, yes, the GM is pretty damn important, but a good group is what makes the game. A good GM with a bunch of bad players won't have a good time, although the players might. A bunch of good players with a bad GM might have a reasonably good time interacting with each other but as a whole won't have much enjoyment. And a single bad player can make hell for everyone.
The best is to have players and GM that fit together, with about the same level of experience/expertise, and the same tastes. Monty Haul campaigns are fine, as long as everybody loves Monty Haul campaigns. Same goes for munchkins.
And, well, sincerly, the only reason to play D&D 3rd is because it's the best hack'n'slash munchkining game ever. If I want to roleplay, I'll pick Tribe 8, RoleMaster, Shadowrun, or an Anime-level Sengoku campaign with BESM rules, any day of the week.
Tip: you can download a bit of anime from Kazaa, and a fuckload of Anime on Hotline. Hotline is harder for beginners though, as it usually involves trading. Once you got some trading material though, it's Chrismas all year long. I got around a hundred gigs of Anime lying around, all of it gotten in less than a year... all was nice until my ISP started enforcing download limits:(
That's "The Great War". "The war to end all wars" is also correct, even though it's a pretty damn ridiculous name for WWI - unless they hoped to eradicate war by wiping each other out for no reason whatsoever
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I can't possibly believe that an Apocalypse Now director's cut would be bad. This is Francis Fucking Coppola we're talking about here. He's one of the best film editors there is. I have yet to see Redux, but I know it's been wildly acclaimed, and I know it's Coppola. Maybe you didn't like it as much - maybe the pacing is different - but that doesn't make it bad.
Non-porn movies. Old Kung fu flicks. Anime. Especially anime. Good anime undefiled by american voice acting, month before they're released here. Oooooh, nifty!
He's probably an open-source developper
Documentation? Help files?!?!
It looks somewhat interesting - I personally think X11 sucks ass, so any alternative looks interesting - but something about the project really bothers me. I can't find their interface guidelines anywhere.
Now see, the thing that annoys me the most with X11 is the disparate behaviors of common widgets and dialogs. Every toolkit and software author seems to have it's personal take on the matter, and it can become pretty confusing at times. And when I read that Fresco intends to be highly configurable, I hope as hell that they're not making the same damn mistake, and are leaving that kind of power solely in the hands of the user.
Err... Native APIs for their relative OS's, that is. Carbon isn't a Windows API, but you knew that already. ^^
The windows version is coded for DirectX/Direct3D or whatever. The Mac version is coded for Carbon. Both of those are native Windows APIs. Their Linux port is made in SDL, and is probably statically linked, as opposed to the other two.
I'm not 100% sure, but I remember them saying he was the architect to the Glide API. Wouldn't that be designing and not implementing?
/me is stupid. I closed the page and now it's slashdotted.
You will notice that W3C standards are called "recommendation". They're not supposed to be enforced in any way. This License, however, seems to me more like a contract. By making your patented technlogy into a W3C standard you agree that you lose the right to collect royalties for this technology in areas covered by the standard. The patent holder relinquishes his rights willingly, and this license is there to make sure that the patent holder doesn't change it's mind once the standard is everywhere, like it happened with the LZW algorithm and GIFs. It is as enforceable as any contract, I would guess, although I don't really how enforceable contracts are in the first place. Depends on your lawyers, I suppose ;)
GIFs aren't patented. A compression algorithm used in GIFs is (the LZW algorithm). The GIMP (and perhaps other graphic manipulation software) allow you to create uncompressed GIFs, which are perfectly legal.
I don't think gif is a standard anyway, nor has it ever been one.
Try this validator then. Doesn't validate, of course.
That's about the stupidest thing I've seen today (not counting usual Slashdot trolling). This is a license that applies to standards developped by the W3C. It prevents the big companies that participate in W3C workgroups to claim ownership of standards that they developped/helped develop. It says nothing about anything that isn't a W3C standard.
MS Word uses an MDI... which means that you can close all the documents you want without closing the app itself. MDI is pretty much a mix between the Mac's document centric model and Window's application centric model
Yeah, or Mac's application centric model and Windows document centric model. Depends which way you look at it, I guess. Windows only allow you to have a program opened if it has a document, so it's document centric. But on the Mac, the application is largely hidden, giving focus to the document - that's also document centric to me, only in a different way.
You got your facts backwards. Structural HTML + CSS presentation is the best way to combine nice presentation (for conforming browsers) with backwards compatibility and accessibility.
There's a group named Turing Machine... I can't say for sure it's relevant, I only know one song and it's lyricless, but maybe their other songs have lyrics... damnit, Amazon, why have you engulfed CDNOW?
Plus, trees get knocked over quite often; hurricanes, theunderstorms, gales, snow, etc.
Are "theunderstorms" linked to theunderdogs in any way? ;)
It's hard to identify the worse of Linux. Linux apps tend to be chockfull of feature and very useful, but they are all so badly designed it's a pain to use them. There doesn't seem to be any Interface Design Guidelines for X11, and so apps will have wildly varying behaviors for similar tasks, making it hard to judge an app's GUI.
As for Windows... well, you'd have to check a thousand apps before you even set on a scale. There's no telling the abysmal pieces of VB shit that may lie around in wait of a poor reviewer.
I don't know who Mr Roger is, but Mr Nice Guy is Jackie Chan. It's another movie about a cook that kicks ass. Not very good, either - but then it's directed by Sammo Hung, waddya expect?
No 70's prog shared on the net?
I tend to disagree. I have downloaded an extensive collection of 70's prog mp3s from Kazaa/Napster. More than a hundred Gentle Giant MP3s. Lots of King Crimson, Camel, Genesis, PFM and their ilk. And let's not forget AuralMoon and all those other prog rock radio stations :P
Oh, yeah, and I'd like to see how well Safari fares with all those crappily implemented DHTML menus floating around the 'net. The problem with JavaScript isn't with respecting the W3C standards, it's with dealing with all that crappy code that doesn't follow the standard, but since it works in version X of browser Y, it's good enough for everybody
As long as the big two browsers support broken JS, the smaller browsers will have to support it as well, lest they lose what little market share they already have
... There's no telling how many tests where done, but whose results we won't get to see until they have fixed the bugs. Let's see some tests from an independant third party. I bet Safari won't get "Perfect except for that W3C draft thing which no browser except Mozilla support, test that seems like it was put in there just so Safari would fail it, and the test will look more neutral".
Nothing more than propaganda, I say
So, Sun is lagging behind in terms of technology, but can catch up by firing their staff?
Don't like their STL? Use STLPort! Bonus points if you can compile it under Windows using their incredibly sucky installation instructions, which sorta ... stop in the middle of the process.
Yes... no
I mean, yes, the GM is pretty damn important, but a good group is what makes the game. A good GM with a bunch of bad players won't have a good time, although the players might. A bunch of good players with a bad GM might have a reasonably good time interacting with each other but as a whole won't have much enjoyment. And a single bad player can make hell for everyone.
The best is to have players and GM that fit together, with about the same level of experience/expertise, and the same tastes. Monty Haul campaigns are fine, as long as everybody loves Monty Haul campaigns. Same goes for munchkins.
And, well, sincerly, the only reason to play D&D 3rd is because it's the best hack'n'slash munchkining game ever. If I want to roleplay, I'll pick Tribe 8, RoleMaster, Shadowrun, or an Anime-level Sengoku campaign with BESM rules, any day of the week.
Okay, I'm done whoring :P
Tip: you can download a bit of anime from Kazaa, and a fuckload of Anime on Hotline. Hotline is harder for beginners though, as it usually involves trading. Once you got some trading material though, it's Chrismas all year long. I got around a hundred gigs of Anime lying around, all of it gotten in less than a year... all was nice until my ISP started enforcing download limits :(
That's "The Great War". "The war to end all wars" is also correct, even though it's a pretty damn ridiculous name for WWI - unless they hoped to eradicate war by wiping each other out for no reason whatsoever