There is no way in hell i'd ever go back to doing that, i currently have about 400 bookmarks automatically synced between machines/OSes, any solution to firefoxy bloat would have to give me a way to manage these or it's not what i'd call a solution. to each his own though.
I'd say at least 80% of the moaning about gimp usability is ex-photoshoppers. I'd say it's just a symptom of an actual real life problem with gimp; it's not easy to configure. Imagine how much better it would be if there was a menu option somewhere that basically said "imitate photoshop" (for the ex-photoshoppers) and a couple other layouts that are more like other application styles. I don't even know what all this arguing is about really, people struggle with different things, why not give a couple of choices?
You can, you just have to pay for the bandwidth you're using, a 1 meg pipe costs about 300 wholesale so a 1.5 will be 450 a month if you're going to flood it. go talk to an isp i'm sure they'll be able to hook you up with something.
You are correct of course, but you have failed to take a long term view. If ms were allowed to take control of web standards web development would get really hard. MS hate the web, they hate the thought that people could just, for example, develop and online text editor that is as functional (probably a long way off, but they still don't like it) as word that is platform agnostic and could allow people to just use any platform they want to access it. Why do you think ie development was so stunted while firefox was not around? Not because they didn't want to drop a couple hundred thousand a year on improving it that's for sure. IE is still the unofficial standard, but we require an "official" one so that microsoft doesn't fuck it up for everyone.
heh, you can load wow on a linux box, it's just hard, what they should do is pre-install the trial version in wine on a box that runs wow very well, i'd be interested to know how well that thing would sell.
You're assuming that they have no idea what they're doing, despite having worked on a web browser for years. Bookmarks are *not* perfectly fine, the bookmark system in firefox is completely borked and needs re-writing and instead of trying to reinvent the wheel why not farm it out to a lightweight database that has been proven to work? I *really want* changes to the way bookmarks work, i currently have several hundred bookmarks on my computer, some kind of tagging and searching deal would be really nice.
Just because it seems like they're blindly changing stuff doesn't mean they don't have some good reasons, just because they make changes doesn't mean you have to upgrade. It seems obvious you're more concerned with things staying the same than you are with new features so why not just stick with what you have already?
Eh, it's a trade off, at that zoom you couldn't micro at all and would have to go in to a real zoom to be able to do anything, meaning being able to keep it in at nice close view would be more useful for speed of response. Also, it already depends on computer power, try winning on a p300:) anyway i'm sure they could just find a nice.5 zoom that lets you see more without killing lower specced machines
It's difficult to play multiplayer warcraft 3 without going through battlenet as even though the game is hosted by the game creator, you cannot directly connect to that player without setting up some kind of vpn, packet forwarder (to make the server look like it's on the local network) or a cracked version of the game and a pirate bnet server
Which is why they won't attack, and just sit on their patents and look threatening, hoping to make it look like a bad proposition to take up software that may cease to exist shortly. It didn't work too well last time with sco but i'm sure with the right marketing they can produce enough fud for it to significantly affect OSS takeup.
You're missing one minor point, now that nintendo are allowing non-family oriented games (finally) onto their machine it makes it a lot easier for different types of publishers to grab a slice of the pie. While i doubt they will be able to outsell first party games, they will be able to do stuff like gta rippoffs and shooters that nintendo won't touch with a barge pole, which will give them a nice edge.
I think you're being a little optomistic in thinking that the US doesn't want to control what people can do. Given enough time i'd pretty much expect the internet to become the christianet if it was just up to the US.
Instead I think the entire thing should be organised by Yukoslavia, not because they'll be neutral about it, but because they never get a turn at having way too much power.
Actually you can still do a man in the middle attack but i think it's pretty obvious, ie a popup warns you that the cert is from an untrusted party or something.
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I know python, c, c++ vbscript and javascript. I did try and learn java once, that didn't last long though. Relax man, its a joke.
Java never made anything easier for anyone and you know it.
Yeah, except it sounds to me like it's gonna be months of work to get the death knight. I'll pass thanks.
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Heh, good luck with that, there's already plenty of common mistakes being inducted in to the language. You might as well give up now.
I don't know where you get that one from, intel have open sourced the drivers for their graphics chips. I suppose they could have done it in an unfriendly way.
There is no way in hell i'd ever go back to doing that, i currently have about 400 bookmarks automatically synced between machines/OSes, any solution to firefoxy bloat would have to give me a way to manage these or it's not what i'd call a solution. to each his own though.
I'd say at least 80% of the moaning about gimp usability is ex-photoshoppers. I'd say it's just a symptom of an actual real life problem with gimp; it's not easy to configure. Imagine how much better it would be if there was a menu option somewhere that basically said "imitate photoshop" (for the ex-photoshoppers) and a couple other layouts that are more like other application styles. I don't even know what all this arguing is about really, people struggle with different things, why not give a couple of choices?
You can, you just have to pay for the bandwidth you're using, a 1 meg pipe costs about 300 wholesale so a 1.5 will be 450 a month if you're going to flood it. go talk to an isp i'm sure they'll be able to hook you up with something.
You are correct of course, but you have failed to take a long term view. If ms were allowed to take control of web standards web development would get really hard. MS hate the web, they hate the thought that people could just, for example, develop and online text editor that is as functional (probably a long way off, but they still don't like it) as word that is platform agnostic and could allow people to just use any platform they want to access it. Why do you think ie development was so stunted while firefox was not around? Not because they didn't want to drop a couple hundred thousand a year on improving it that's for sure. IE is still the unofficial standard, but we require an "official" one so that microsoft doesn't fuck it up for everyone.
heh, you can load wow on a linux box, it's just hard, what they should do is pre-install the trial version in wine on a box that runs wow very well, i'd be interested to know how well that thing would sell.
It's not too bad, with a couple find/replaces you can get plain text :)
People boardgames for hours a day, you just need it high enough to get your legs under if you're going to be using it for any extended periods.
You're assuming that they have no idea what they're doing, despite having worked on a web browser for years. Bookmarks are *not* perfectly fine, the bookmark system in firefox is completely borked and needs re-writing and instead of trying to reinvent the wheel why not farm it out to a lightweight database that has been proven to work? I *really want* changes to the way bookmarks work, i currently have several hundred bookmarks on my computer, some kind of tagging and searching deal would be really nice.
Just because it seems like they're blindly changing stuff doesn't mean they don't have some good reasons, just because they make changes doesn't mean you have to upgrade. It seems obvious you're more concerned with things staying the same than you are with new features so why not just stick with what you have already?
Eh, it's a trade off, at that zoom you couldn't micro at all and would have to go in to a real zoom to be able to do anything, meaning being able to keep it in at nice close view would be more useful for speed of response. Also, it already depends on computer power, try winning on a p300 :) anyway i'm sure they could just find a nice .5 zoom that lets you see more without killing lower specced machines
It's difficult to play multiplayer warcraft 3 without going through battlenet as even though the game is hosted by the game creator, you cannot directly connect to that player without setting up some kind of vpn, packet forwarder (to make the server look like it's on the local network) or a cracked version of the game and a pirate bnet server
Which is why they won't attack, and just sit on their patents and look threatening, hoping to make it look like a bad proposition to take up software that may cease to exist shortly. It didn't work too well last time with sco but i'm sure with the right marketing they can produce enough fud for it to significantly affect OSS takeup.
You're missing one minor point, now that nintendo are allowing non-family oriented games (finally) onto their machine it makes it a lot easier for different types of publishers to grab a slice of the pie. While i doubt they will be able to outsell first party games, they will be able to do stuff like gta rippoffs and shooters that nintendo won't touch with a barge pole, which will give them a nice edge.
They're probably going to release it for one of the download services on one of the new consoles.
Correct, it would require moving in another dimension
360 hddvd player is already hacked.
Yeah sorry I just picked a country at random that has no real global power, please feel free to substitute in another country of your choice
I think you're being a little optomistic in thinking that the US doesn't want to control what people can do. Given enough time i'd pretty much expect the internet to become the christianet if it was just up to the US.
Instead I think the entire thing should be organised by Yukoslavia, not because they'll be neutral about it, but because they never get a turn at having way too much power.
Very true, however my guess is that there will be some more progress on the ati linux drivers pushed by the guys at amd, just call it a hunch.
Actually you can still do a man in the middle attack but i think it's pretty obvious, ie a popup warns you that the cert is from an untrusted party or something.