last time I checked:
- spam is creating new interesting ways to have software filter information(I filter everything not from someone in my address book into an unknown senders folder)
- pop-up ads are spawning a new generation of browsers which allow by site disabling of scripting
- small sites are still best reached by word of mouth or cross-linking (just like independant music or small magazines)
nothing unusually here just the garden variety scare-mongering to get attention
but you can't mount onto a directory with files already in it. I want to mount my d: as my home dir (like I'm used in linux) but I can't. If I try to do it before I create the account it creates another directory with a.1 suffixed. Anyone know how to get round this (with a domain that is).
According to one review U2 has only 10-15 hours of gameplay. For who I wonder? I don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't design games that take uber-players 30-40 hours to finish if they played non-stop because the average person would never finish the game at all.
If you think that this game is too short then you need to get out more and spend less time playing computer games. I've been playing it for about 2 weeks now and I think I'm about 3/4 of the way through. I know people that finished it in a few days. Where's the fun in that? Take a break.
I thought it was fun, the way you could give orders to marines in some missions, the banter between the characters (especially Dr.Myers) and the fact that the characters on the ship had actually stories that you could talk to them about that didn't impact on the main plot(AFAIK so far), and if you got bored you could just walk away while they where talking instead of being stuck there.
I for one enjoyed the spiders ("Oh great now they're giant killer MUTANT spiders"), reminded me of StarShip Troopers actually.
Actually my experience has shown that even the most inexperienced users can become especially resourceful and demonstrate remarkable problem solving skills when faced with a file that they cannot delete. Unfortunately more often then not they are system critical files;-)
"..."If you can't delete it," they think, "it must be because UNIX was patched to make it so I can't delete this critical system resource."..."
It doesn't matter why people do it. The fact of the matter is that they do and they will continue doing it for whatever reason they have. What are the consequences and how is society at whole affected?
More articles by tech geeks trying to devine peoples motives. We need to find some sociology geeks to study this stuff cause they can actually ask the right questions to get the important answers.
While discussing global warming etc I feel obliged to mis-quote George Carlin...
'The planet is fine, its the people that are fscked. The planet has been though much worse than us. Solar flares, tectonic plate movements, asteroids smashing into it, iceages, reversal of the magnetic poles... and we think we are going to bring the whole thing down with some plastic bags? The planet can take care of itself. Ask those people at Krakatoa or at Pompei frozen in volcanic ash if they feel like a threat to the planet today. The planet is fine and will be here long after us. It will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.'
Actually I like the idea that they will be fleeing from sentinels or something in the Neb(akanesez... whatever) when one of them gets a deja-vu and realises that they are all still in the matrix.
If you want harmless compare it to a Ford Explorer. People will say 'don't worry about it, it'll flip over and hit Saturn instead. No way it will make it here';-)
We already have this on windows, linux and mac. Its called VMware and VirtualPC respectively. I run all my P2P spy-ware in a VM so it can't touch my system.
>The first is to provide a system in which a user >can trust stuff and allow it to run with sensitive >information (eg, user data) and provide a sandbox >where they can run stuff that they don't trust and >know it won't do anything of consequence.
Which is exactly why the *Mozilla Project* should be the *Gecko Project*. That should be all they are working on. The XUL thing is molasses coating.
They should focus on the renderer and the interface people should be documenting the API and providing simple examples with various toolkits on various platforms on how to implement Gecko in different ways.
Maybe with all the work that went into XUL going into documentation and support we would have as many native win32 and OSX clients as Linux clients that embed mozilla.
Of course the naming scheme should be of a feline nature. Cat people are, of course,;-) smarter than dog people (and smell better) so of course they would want to use a mac. Its a smart choice.
Of course by the time I can afford to buy my ibook they'll probably have run out of cool wildcats and I'll get OSX-Scrawny Alley Cat
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last time I checked:
- spam is creating new interesting ways to have software filter information(I filter everything not from someone in my address book into an unknown senders folder)
- pop-up ads are spawning a new generation of browsers which allow by site disabling of scripting
- small sites are still best reached by word of mouth or cross-linking (just like independant music or small magazines)
nothing unusually here just the garden variety scare-mongering to get attention
but you can't mount onto a directory with files already in it. I want to mount my d: as my home dir (like I'm used in linux) but I can't. If I try to do it before I create the account it creates another directory with a .1 suffixed. Anyone know how to get round this (with a domain that is).
According to one review U2 has only 10-15 hours of gameplay. For who I wonder? I don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't design games that take uber-players 30-40 hours to finish if they played non-stop because the average person would never finish the game at all.
If you think that this game is too short then you need to get out more and spend less time playing computer games. I've been playing it for about 2 weeks now and I think I'm about 3/4 of the way through. I know people that finished it in a few days. Where's the fun in that? Take a break.
I thought it was fun, the way you could give orders to marines in some missions, the banter between the characters (especially Dr.Myers) and the fact that the characters on the ship had actually stories that you could talk to them about that didn't impact on the main plot(AFAIK so far), and if you got bored you could just walk away while they where talking instead of being stuck there.
I for one enjoyed the spiders ("Oh great now they're giant killer MUTANT spiders"), reminded me of StarShip Troopers actually.
So if I go to a "mom&pop" pc shop and they sell me an Athlon system that they put together themselves with a Zalman fan is that retail or OEM?
Actually my experience has shown that even the most inexperienced users can become especially resourceful and demonstrate remarkable problem solving skills when faced with a file that they cannot delete. Unfortunately more often then not they are system critical files ;-)
"..."If you can't delete it," they think, "it must be because UNIX was patched to make it so I can't delete this critical system resource."..."
It doesn't matter why people do it. The fact of the matter is that they do and they will continue doing it for whatever reason they have. What are the consequences and how is society at whole affected?
More articles by tech geeks trying to devine peoples motives. We need to find some sociology geeks to study this stuff cause they can actually ask the right questions to get the important answers.
I'm imagining a giant hamster wheel, attached to a generator, with a picture of Natalie Portman at one end.
While discussing global warming etc I feel obliged to mis-quote George Carlin...
'The planet is fine, its the people that are fscked. The planet has been though much worse than us. Solar flares, tectonic plate movements, asteroids smashing into it, iceages, reversal of the magnetic poles... and we think we are going to bring the whole thing down with some plastic bags? The planet can take care of itself. Ask those people at Krakatoa or at Pompei frozen in volcanic ash if they feel like a threat to the planet today. The planet is fine and will be here long after us. It will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.'
about damn time I got some recognition ;-)
#2 ???
#3 profit!!!
yeah I know but its only karma
Actually I like the idea that they will be fleeing from sentinels or something in the Neb(akanesez... whatever) when one of them gets a deja-vu and realises that they are all still in the matrix.
How about a machine that will let you stab someone in the head over the internet?
(shamelessly stolen from bash.org)
yeah, now we can slashdot each other ;-)
If you want harmless compare it to a Ford Explorer. People will say 'don't worry about it, it'll flip over and hit Saturn instead. No way it will make it here' ;-)
More good work from MS's 'does it compile?' quality assurance program
by the way
www.your-website-is-down.com
We already have this on windows, linux and mac. Its called VMware and VirtualPC respectively. I run all my P2P spy-ware in a VM so it can't touch my system.
>The first is to provide a system in which a user
>can trust stuff and allow it to run with sensitive
>information (eg, user data) and provide a sandbox
>where they can run stuff that they don't trust and
>know it won't do anything of consequence.
when I first heard of this... wtf, they are called chips damn it!!!! stupid americans...
>>Mozilla isn't meant to be an end-user browser,
Which is exactly why the *Mozilla Project* should be the *Gecko Project*. That should be all they are working on. The XUL thing is molasses coating.
They should focus on the renderer and the interface people should be documenting the API and providing simple examples with various toolkits on various platforms on how to implement Gecko in different ways.
Maybe with all the work that went into XUL going into documentation and support we would have as many native win32 and OSX clients as Linux clients that embed mozilla.
>>Hold the phone, I thought CmdrTaco was a guy!
;-)
Most guys do.
So are the gnome or kde people going to start jumping up and down about the common Galaxy theme? ;-)
only the smelly dog people will buy them of course ;-)
Of course the naming scheme should be of a feline nature. Cat people are, of course, ;-) smarter than dog people (and smell better) so of course they would want to use a mac. Its a smart choice.
Of course by the time I can afford to buy my ibook they'll probably have run out of cool wildcats and I'll get OSX-Scrawny Alley Cat
stupid slashcode took out my cough tags around safari, should have used preview....