Not bad for a game by Microsoft (and Big Huge Games.)
oh come off it you nerd. Show me an open source game even a fraction as good & playable & even as fast as (ancient, still not matched by open source gurus of game design) Age of Empires (i'm talking old school here) and i'll eat my shorts. Microsoft makes some good shit. Open Source games suck dick, except for sokoban. of course all u karma whoring fake-linux-using lusers are going to mod me to shit for saying it, but i have spoken truth.
It's a citizen's civic duty to ignore bad laws and challenge the evil within the system. You can disagree, but you'll never see change unless somebody takes a stand. Civil disobedience gave Rosa Parks a seat on the bus just like everybody else, and, FAR MORE IMPORTANTLY, it empowered every single black person in America to do the same. Ideas aren't property, even though the RIAA/MPAA wish to uphold the regime; copyright has its (limited) uses, but that doesn't make it morally imperative for every single citizen to follow along blindly.
It's good that you're thinking about the issue, but the fact is that downloading music isn't wrong - it might be illegal, depending on local laws (I live in Canada, different rules apply here) but it isn't wrong. That's an opinion. Follow your own best judgement.
your use of the singular personal pronoun "I" excludes everybody else. Please be more sensitive.
note: instructing a wide group of readers is generally more effective when one uses real-world examples. The real world is not populated by gender-neutral people, nor can one teach eg. gynecology using neutral language. There are many many many examples like these where stifling the author's expression impairs the author's ability to convey the concepts effectively.
try the Flash Click-to-Play extension. (click link to install in Mozilla/Firefox) It's solved my Flash problem completely:) I'd still like to castrate the perpetrators of Flash adverts with a grapefruit spoon, but now I have to actively press a button to be assaulted by it. The interactivity brings its own form of frustration relief when I'm forced to use the Flash.
On topic: of all the things this world needs least, I'd have to say that Flash development tools of any kind, regardless of source, are topping the list. Flash stinks. Flash is greedy, obnoxious, and yet people persist in manufacturing entire Flash websites! Seriously, if Laila Ali didn't use it, i wouldn't even have the shitty player installed. This isn't a good development for Linux at all. Nobody wins except for Macromedia.
X is a single-threaded client/server application which provides windowing services and network transparency.
Since the terms 'client' and 'server' tend to be redefined every year or two by the Xfree team, nobody else really knows which is which any more. X interfaces directly with video drivers and also with the window managers. The problems are fairly numerous and unfortunately difficult to fix: Single-threaded X is forced to share its timeslice with every client (?) program, which leads even people like Linus to complain about GUI latencies on 4-way systems with top of the line hardware. Not so cool. Kernel 2.6 contains some hacks to kludge around this problem, but the underlying issue still hasn't (yet) been addressed. Considering Xfree's Design by Committee creed, it never will be fixed. You might say that X is rotten by design. You might more accurately state that X is 1980 technology, and wasn't meant to do the things that modern users expect as a matter of course (eg. 3D low latency, non-stuttering graphics). There isn't an elegant solution aside from ditching X entirely.
From the other end, the Xfree API is a big mess of kludges. Extensions have proven an excellent tactic to obfuscate and uglify code.
my sysadmin has Win98SE on a 128mb usb drive, and it comes in handy all the time. plus it has room for about a thousand good programs. i've seen win98 with full GUI fit in 4.6mb, and NTFS4DOS allows you to read/write NTFS partitions easily&safely. you don't even need a 64mb drive.
the JCP is NOT design by committee. the JCP is basically a suggestion box, and Sun decides what gets in, what gets ignored, & what's tossed out entirely. That's the strength of Sun's leadership; otherwise, we'd have another Xfree86 - a true example of committee design, and an excellent counter to Raymond's soapbox stunt.
Other points: ESR points to Red Hat's share price, compares it favourably to Sun's share price, and completely neglects to notice the correlation between the Number of Shares and Share Prices. Also, please note that there is nothing to stop anybody from implementing a superior version of Java and giving that away for free, opening it up under the GPL, and leaving Sun to do whatever they like.
Hell, why doesn't ESR just write his own Java? Open source methodology is superior to Sun's approach, and will inevitably lead to a much finer, more useful, and most of all a FREER product. At least that's what ESR says.
ironically, I rather like the video codec itself; the Real container format is noisome, and I'll never use it, but if they gave me a VFW RealVideo codec and an easy way to mux it with AAC into MP4, I'd give it some good use.
Oh, and I'll never ever install the RealOne player. Ever. MediaPlayerClassic is by far the better choice.
try remapping your "My Documents" to your special folder. It takes three mouse clicks and a line of text, or you can copy/paste the text and add a mouse click. Ain't so hard.
Honestly, I laugh at the clowns who think it's trivial to just comment out some "cruft" and spend a weekend recompiling KDE - or the kernel, with the new vulnerabilities always being discovered - and then copy over the.rc files and a handful of scripts (from about fifty locations, 'cuz nothing is in one place) then tar all that user data for backup before popping in that new kernel (cuz sometimes you just can't trust your funky filesystem). Some of those clowns then come here and whine about My Documents being in the wrong spot, when it's exactly one right-click away. Argh. Not that I'm pointing a finger, but I've been reading some of those posts here lately and i'm way overdue for a rant. Thanks.
Apple is king of the world!! Apple is no longer licking the scurrilous hindquarters of the filthy establishment, nO!!! instead, Apple will one day throw away the chains of digital restriction which they have temporarily foisted upon the paying consumer (whose selfish ideals are those of the capitalist mongrel) and once again embrace true freedom with the rushing sound of a water over the brink, and carry, sweep away with us all of the rubble of Walmart in it too!!!!! APPLE IS KING!!!!
Pirates of the Caribbean: well, it's about pirates. It's got swords and battles and skeletons and treasure! Most of all, Kiera Knightley's involved. Elf: it was so funny the kids beside me peed themselves, and I was laughing so hard I didn't even notice at first. It's got levels of humour for ANYbody in the audience. Will Ferrell. Fun. Funny.
it might be insane, but I'll get filthy rich if this thing goes through. cheap CDR's from the US will be easy to sell, and I'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
yeah right. i tried it too, but as this post tells all you illiterate morons too lazy to read prior posts, the new Internet Explorer 6SP1 isn't even vulnerable. Whoever posted this story sure tried hard, though..
the sad thing is, it's really the only incentive to switch to Linux from my perspective.. the only thing I don't have on Windows is a good email client. i've tried Eudora, OE, Outlook (all versions) and MozillaMail, Thunderbird. Heck even Foxmail. They all suck. I really do wish somebody would take the time to port Evo to the platform of the common man.
as long as it's a voluntary certification, this idea has a couple good points.. the consumer can see another sticker on the box, plus they get somebody to sue when it goes all wrong. the other side is that open source gets left out in the cold. oops.
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Not bad for a game by Microsoft (and Big Huge Games.)
oh come off it you nerd. Show me an open source game even a fraction as good & playable & even as fast as (ancient, still not matched by open source gurus of game design) Age of Empires (i'm talking old school here) and i'll eat my shorts.
Microsoft makes some good shit. Open Source games suck dick, except for sokoban.
of course all u karma whoring fake-linux-using lusers are going to mod me to shit for saying it, but i have spoken truth.
failed.
It's a citizen's civic duty to ignore bad laws and challenge the evil within the system.
You can disagree, but you'll never see change unless somebody takes a stand. Civil disobedience gave Rosa Parks a seat on the bus just like everybody else, and, FAR MORE IMPORTANTLY, it empowered every single black person in America to do the same.
Ideas aren't property, even though the RIAA/MPAA wish to uphold the regime; copyright has its (limited) uses, but that doesn't make it morally imperative for every single citizen to follow along blindly.
It's good that you're thinking about the issue, but the fact is that downloading music isn't wrong - it might be illegal, depending on local laws (I live in Canada, different rules apply here) but it isn't wrong. That's an opinion. Follow your own best judgement.
your use of the singular personal pronoun "I" excludes everybody else. Please be more sensitive.
note: instructing a wide group of readers is generally more effective when one uses real-world examples. The real world is not populated by gender-neutral people, nor can one teach eg. gynecology using neutral language. There are many many many examples like these where stifling the author's expression impairs the author's ability to convey the concepts effectively.
Jesus CHRIST leave it alone.
He did.
And the sad truth of it is that these pictures, no matter how deep, will never compare to the inimitable Goatse.
*nostalgic sigh*
try this instead!! :D
it worked for me
The link should install Flash Click-to-Play if you're using Mozilla or Firefox.
try the Flash Click-to-Play extension. (click link to install in Mozilla/Firefox) It's solved my Flash problem completely :) I'd still like to castrate the perpetrators of Flash adverts with a grapefruit spoon, but now I have to actively press a button to be assaulted by it. The interactivity brings its own form of frustration relief when I'm forced to use the Flash.
On topic: of all the things this world needs least, I'd have to say that Flash development tools of any kind, regardless of source, are topping the list. Flash stinks. Flash is greedy, obnoxious, and yet people persist in manufacturing entire Flash websites!
Seriously, if Laila Ali didn't use it, i wouldn't even have the shitty player installed.
This isn't a good development for Linux at all. Nobody wins except for Macromedia.
Xfree86 sucks my huge hairy ballsack and that's the real reason it's being blocked. Just a theory, of course, but it makes a whole lotta sense..
X is a single-threaded client/server application which provides windowing services and network transparency.
Since the terms 'client' and 'server' tend to be redefined every year or two by the Xfree team, nobody else really knows which is which any more. X interfaces directly with video drivers and also with the window managers.
The problems are fairly numerous and unfortunately difficult to fix:
Single-threaded X is forced to share its timeslice with every client (?) program, which leads even people like Linus to complain about GUI latencies on 4-way systems with top of the line hardware. Not so cool. Kernel 2.6 contains some hacks to kludge around this problem, but the underlying issue still hasn't (yet) been addressed. Considering Xfree's Design by Committee creed, it never will be fixed. You might say that X is rotten by design. You might more accurately state that X is 1980 technology, and wasn't meant to do the things that modern users expect as a matter of course (eg. 3D low latency, non-stuttering graphics). There isn't an elegant solution aside from ditching X entirely.
From the other end, the Xfree API is a big mess of kludges. Extensions have proven an excellent tactic to obfuscate and uglify code.
my sysadmin has Win98SE on a 128mb usb drive, and it comes in handy all the time. plus it has room for about a thousand good programs.
i've seen win98 with full GUI fit in 4.6mb, and NTFS4DOS allows you to read/write NTFS partitions easily&safely. you don't even need a 64mb drive.
i pity you, f00. check out Henry Raddick and learn the fine art of literary appreciation. Exempli gratia:
the JCP is NOT design by committee. the JCP is basically a suggestion box, and Sun decides what gets in, what gets ignored, & what's tossed out entirely. That's the strength of Sun's leadership; otherwise, we'd have another Xfree86 - a true example of committee design, and an excellent counter to Raymond's soapbox stunt.
Other points: ESR points to Red Hat's share price, compares it favourably to Sun's share price, and completely neglects to notice the correlation between the Number of Shares and Share Prices.
Also, please note that there is nothing to stop anybody from implementing a superior version of Java and giving that away for free, opening it up under the GPL, and leaving Sun to do whatever they like.
Hell, why doesn't ESR just write his own Java?
Open source methodology is superior to Sun's approach, and will inevitably lead to a much finer, more useful, and most of all a FREER product. At least that's what ESR says.
ironically, I rather like the video codec itself; the Real container format is noisome, and I'll never use it, but if they gave me a VFW RealVideo codec and an easy way to mux it with AAC into MP4, I'd give it some good use.
Oh, and I'll never ever install the RealOne player. Ever. MediaPlayerClassic is by far the better choice.
try remapping your "My Documents" to your special folder. It takes three mouse clicks and a line of text, or you can copy/paste the text and add a mouse click. Ain't so hard.
.rc files and a handful of scripts (from about fifty locations, 'cuz nothing is in one place) then tar all that user data for backup before popping in that new kernel (cuz sometimes you just can't trust your funky filesystem). Some of those clowns then come here and whine about My Documents being in the wrong spot, when it's exactly one right-click away. Argh. Not that I'm pointing a finger, but I've been reading some of those posts here lately and i'm way overdue for a rant. Thanks.
Honestly, I laugh at the clowns who think it's trivial to just comment out some "cruft" and spend a weekend recompiling KDE - or the kernel, with the new vulnerabilities always being discovered - and then copy over the
makes the teeth look bad too. That's why i choose - the coffee enema!!
too bad your open-source spell-checker missed that one - it's actually dependent. Parent's basement. Unhealthy fear of light, etc.
..or you could just put it through my cat a couple times. That seems to take care of the most sensitive bits.
no, they're powered by FastTrack technology - it puts iTunes to shame, really. It's the specialist deal of them all.
Apple is king of the world!! Apple is no longer licking the scurrilous hindquarters of the filthy establishment, nO!!! instead, Apple will one day throw away the chains of digital restriction which they have temporarily foisted upon the paying consumer (whose selfish ideals are those of the capitalist mongrel) and once again embrace true freedom with the rushing sound of a water over the brink, and carry, sweep away with us all of the rubble of Walmart in it too!!!!! APPLE IS KING!!!!
Pirates of the Caribbean: well, it's about pirates. It's got swords and battles and skeletons and treasure! Most of all, Kiera Knightley's involved.
Elf: it was so funny the kids beside me peed themselves, and I was laughing so hard I didn't even notice at first. It's got levels of humour for ANYbody in the audience. Will Ferrell. Fun. Funny.
it might be insane, but I'll get filthy rich if this thing goes through. cheap CDR's from the US will be easy to sell, and I'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
:)
see, not everybody loses
yeah right. i tried it too, but as this post tells all you illiterate morons too lazy to read prior posts, the new Internet Explorer 6SP1 isn't even vulnerable. Whoever posted this story sure tried hard, though..
too bad the US still doesn't know the true meaning of "freedom from terror" either. sigh.
the sad thing is, it's really the only incentive to switch to Linux from my perspective.. the only thing I don't have on Windows is a good email client. i've tried Eudora, OE, Outlook (all versions) and MozillaMail, Thunderbird. Heck even Foxmail. They all suck. I really do wish somebody would take the time to port Evo to the platform of the common man.
as long as it's a voluntary certification, this idea has a couple good points.. the consumer can see another sticker on the box, plus they get somebody to sue when it goes all wrong.
the other side is that open source gets left out in the cold. oops.