Unless you fall in the 1/3 of the world's population who live in left-driving countries. Although technically, I believe you can drive on any side you like in India...
If you notice I said you don't have to use MFC to get decent toolbars... It just helps. MFC comes with full source code so you can work out how it's done. Firefox's toolbars are so clunky, it just stands out as an amateur Windows application. I'm just suggesting that they could be done much better. Of course I get shouted down, that's the usual way around here. I'm clearly a heretic... We'll see about security...
It's a matter of course? How obnoxious. You're trying to make me feel stupid over this. Nice way to behave. That's going to make me feel better about Firefox, isn't it? Not!
Right click the toolbar, pick customise, and put whatever you want wherever you want.
Yes, I already tried that, not being stupid. It doesn't do what I want though. I already told you how I set up my toolbars in IE. Try to duplicate that in Firefox 0.8. Oops, you can't.
and kill the Google bar because the address bar duplicates its function.
No. No, it doesn't. The Google bar does much more than just a search box.
I'm a long time Microsoft user and supporter. Have that. OK, so I tried Firefox out. There had been a lot of hype, so I thought, ok then, set me up. It's not as bloated or as Windows-unfriendly as Mozilla. It looks reasonably nice (although I prefer the look of IE). Tabbed browsing is the unique selling point. It rocks. Technically, under Windows you just open new windows and pick them from the task bar. It's not that, it's the middle click to open a link in the background. That's the cool bit. It's like '&' on a unix command line... It's just a simple thing that revolutionises browsing. Props. There seem to be some interesting extensions. I get the feeling that they don't do anything you couldn't do in IE, but they have been developed for Firefox, so what can one say? Now on to the downsides (from an IE user):- 1) Ctrl-O wants to open a local file. Won't open a URL. Aargh. 2) The downloads window is fucked beyond all belief. I guess this will be fixed for 0.9... I hope... 3) The toolbars. Where to start? Basically on IE I have a nice little setup. Google toolbar needs a whole row because of the search word buttons. Above that I have a small toolbar containing Back/Forward/Stop/Refresh/Home/History. Right of that is the menu File/Edit/View/Favourites/Tools/Help. Then I have space for a huge URL bar. Let's have a look at Firefox... The menu bar takes a whole row, and it's a deep row for no apparent reason. Then I have a row with my buttons, URL bar and search bar. Too high, again. And then a Google bar, about 8 pixels higher than it should be... OK it's only one bar higher than it should be (plus the extra height of each bar) but it's annoying and if I want to enable a bookmark bar, maybe to put bookmarklets (or whatever they're called) on there then it's another whole row. Plus of course the tab bar... What's the deal here? My vertical space is more limited than my horizontal space... Sort it out! MFC has had docking toolbars, including menu bars, for aeons. Oh but you freaks probably didn't use MFC, did you? You thought you would be clever. And now I can't rearrange my toolbars how I want. Well, that's progress for you... (BTW I know MFC isn't for everyone, heck not even for me, but you could at least look at the source and figure out how to do decent docking toolbars...) 4) There were some other things. Anyway, I hope it gets better... At this point all that needs to happen is for IE to provide tabbed browsing, and Firefox pretty much becomes irrelevant overnight... The extensions are sorta nice but most of the ones I use are just to make it more like IE. Linky is about the only one that's really cool, and I bet you could do that with IE. Just calling it like I see it...
That's an um, interesting opinion. The government had no say in the matter. Morgan was fired because he fucked up. He should have been given the boot years ago, but he always seemed to get away with everything. The government were entirely in the right in this case. I'm as anti-war as the next guy, but those pictures should never have been published.
Mod parent up. We managed to get clear of Titus/Interplay a while back. But there's a special place in hell reserved for the Caen brothers. I love French people in general, but I make an exception for those fuckers.
I don't know that it's really DirectX that's the key. The Xbox hardware is just really easy to develop for. DirectX on the Xbox is similar to the PC API, but there are some significant differences. To use the hardware efficiently you need to take advantage of the fact that you're working on a known hardware configuration. UMA is one obvious difference. Also you don't need to check caps bits or HRESULTs because you know everything will just work. The Xbox is a dream to develop for compared to the PS2. The GC has a lovely bit of 3D hardware but it can be a pain to get the most out of it. The Xbox has loads of memory and the best sound hardware by far. Of course, when I say "loads of memory", 64 megs is not a lot these days. But the other consoles have a lot less.
Well, what you can do is, while you're waiting to respawn you start whining about their spawn camping. If you whine enough they sometimes stop to whine back. If you time it right you can be half way to somewhere else before they realise what's going on. Also realise that a spawn camper isn't taking or defending flags. I don't think spawn camping is necessarily bad. Most people will whine about it, then turn around and do it to the other team as "punishment" anyway. Another thing, most games allow you to choose your spawn point. If you have only one spawn point left, and it is getting 0wned, then you're probably about to lose anyway... Get over it.
That, or the fact that most cars have 2/3rd of their weight at the front... Special effect folks and stunt drivers usually stick around 500 lbs of sandbags in the trunk to achieve that fly-flat (crash)-land-flat effect.
The angular momentum of Galileo's rest mass just increased...
You appear to have missed the point. Who decides what is a "fair price"? And what is it, for Windows? The things you mention may be taken into consideration when making a choice, but to say you have "no choice" is just ridiculous. I'm sure Mac users would chuckle if you told them they had "no choice".
I most enjoyed reading that, thanks;-) To the Linux-lovers... Yes I have tried Linux before, that's why I find it funny (in a sort of observational comedy sort of way). And I'll probably try it again, no matter how much you flame me...
"And "overcharging" is a laugh. If it's too much, don't freaking buy it. Simple, eh?"
This is what I don't understand. I am not a North American, but I don't see how this works. If A makes an offer X to B, and B accepts it, we have a contract (there must be valuable consideration, but that's not important right now). If A subsequently sends him an invoice for X+C, we have "overcharging". Maybe they would get away with it here and there, accidents happen, but if it starts occurring on a regular basis it's criminal fraud, right? And yet people are saying Microsoft "overcharged" customers. Surely they don't mean in the criminal sense. Presumably someone had to come up with some approximate figure to stick on the "real" price tag. And why don't we know that figure? You know, if someone from Free software were ever slapped for undercharging, you bet I'd be laughing manaically for several minutes. Cuh... I dunno. Anyway, so is "overcharged" overloaded in the antitrust scope?
It sounds like there's not enough competition between your laywers to push the costs down. But you have millions of the fuckers! Perhaps a recently laid off IT worker would have luck in the legal "profession". It's an old lament that our (UK) legal system is always becoming Americanis^hzed. A bit ironic since you nicked it off us in the first place... But anyway yeah, it's stupid here too.
I haven't played POPSoT yet (must buy it) except for a demo at ECTS (it was pretty much finished). They're quite different games. Our control system is fundamentally different. But you're not the first to point out the similarity... I do have genuine respect for Ubisoft. I've just completed Beyond Good and Evil. It's a wonderful game, sadly overlooked by the buying public. It's now selling for half price and you'd have to be mad not to snap up a copy. In the current arena of tired sequels and franchises, I don't see that we're so much in competition with Ubi etc. We're all trying to use a game to tell a story. There's room for more than one story, and there are different ways of telling them. The problem at the moment is this: When asked, punters say they want more imaginative stuff. More exploration. More thinking, etc. But they go out and buy the most awful stuff. Because it's been marketed to the max by the publishers, and because there's bugger all else on the shelves. And that's because publishers have become so risk-averse, their bread and butter is the sequelfest you see before you. To their credit, our publisher SCi took a chance on us. But it's an absolute nightmare trying to get original stuff published these days. Oops, sorry for the rant;-)
What are you like?! We made something cool, it's finally finished and we want to big it up a bit. Where's the harm in that? Disclaimer: Toby's my boss. But cut him some slack!
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Unless you fall in the 1/3 of the world's population who live in left-driving countries.
Although technically, I believe you can drive on any side you like in India...
It would be nice, but it's hardly a unique selling point.
If you notice I said you don't have to use MFC to get decent toolbars... It just helps. MFC comes with full source code so you can work out how it's done.
Firefox's toolbars are so clunky, it just stands out as an amateur Windows application. I'm just suggesting that they could be done much better. Of course I get shouted down, that's the usual way around here. I'm clearly a heretic...
We'll see about security...
Thanks, but someone else already suggested that. Doesn't work.
Yeah, that works, but it's still annoying as i'm used to Ctrl-O.
No, none of the other "tips" were helpful at all.
Of course you can.
It's a matter of course? How obnoxious. You're trying to make me feel stupid over this. Nice way to behave. That's going to make me feel better about Firefox, isn't it? Not!
Right click the toolbar, pick customise, and put whatever you want wherever you want.
Yes, I already tried that, not being stupid. It doesn't do what I want though. I already told you how I set up my toolbars in IE. Try to duplicate that in Firefox 0.8. Oops, you can't.
and kill the Google bar because the address bar duplicates its function.
No. No, it doesn't. The Google bar does much more than just a search box.
I'm a long time Microsoft user and supporter. Have that.
OK, so I tried Firefox out. There had been a lot of hype, so I thought, ok then, set me up.
It's not as bloated or as Windows-unfriendly as Mozilla. It looks reasonably nice (although I prefer the look of IE).
Tabbed browsing is the unique selling point. It rocks. Technically, under Windows you just open new windows and pick them from the task bar. It's not that, it's the middle click to open a link in the background. That's the cool bit. It's like '&' on a unix command line... It's just a simple thing that revolutionises browsing. Props.
There seem to be some interesting extensions. I get the feeling that they don't do anything you couldn't do in IE, but they have been developed for Firefox, so what can one say?
Now on to the downsides (from an IE user):-
1) Ctrl-O wants to open a local file. Won't open a URL. Aargh.
2) The downloads window is fucked beyond all belief. I guess this will be fixed for 0.9... I hope...
3) The toolbars. Where to start? Basically on IE I have a nice little setup. Google toolbar needs a whole row because of the search word buttons. Above that I have a small toolbar containing Back/Forward/Stop/Refresh/Home/History. Right of that is the menu File/Edit/View/Favourites/Tools/Help. Then I have space for a huge URL bar. Let's have a look at Firefox... The menu bar takes a whole row, and it's a deep row for no apparent reason. Then I have a row with my buttons, URL bar and search bar. Too high, again. And then a Google bar, about 8 pixels higher than it should be... OK it's only one bar higher than it should be (plus the extra height of each bar) but it's annoying and if I want to enable a bookmark bar, maybe to put bookmarklets (or whatever they're called) on there then it's another whole row. Plus of course the tab bar... What's the deal here? My vertical space is more limited than my horizontal space... Sort it out! MFC has had docking toolbars, including menu bars, for aeons. Oh but you freaks probably didn't use MFC, did you? You thought you would be clever. And now I can't rearrange my toolbars how I want. Well, that's progress for you... (BTW I know MFC isn't for everyone, heck not even for me, but you could at least look at the source and figure out how to do decent docking toolbars...)
4) There were some other things.
Anyway, I hope it gets better... At this point all that needs to happen is for IE to provide tabbed browsing, and Firefox pretty much becomes irrelevant overnight... The extensions are sorta nice but most of the ones I use are just to make it more like IE. Linky is about the only one that's really cool, and I bet you could do that with IE.
Just calling it like I see it...
"works to use his position to spew propaganda"
That's his perfect right. Feel free to produce a rebuttal.
56 million was from the 1971 census, it's around 60 million now.
That's an um, interesting opinion. The government had no say in the matter. Morgan was fired because he fucked up. He should have been given the boot years ago, but he always seemed to get away with everything.
The government were entirely in the right in this case. I'm as anti-war as the next guy, but those pictures should never have been published.
That's a MAC-10, not an Uzi.
Mod parent up. We managed to get clear of Titus/Interplay a while back. But there's a special place in hell reserved for the Caen brothers. I love French people in general, but I make an exception for those fuckers.
I don't know that it's really DirectX that's the key. The Xbox hardware is just really easy to develop for. DirectX on the Xbox is similar to the PC API, but there are some significant differences. To use the hardware efficiently you need to take advantage of the fact that you're working on a known hardware configuration. UMA is one obvious difference. Also you don't need to check caps bits or HRESULTs because you know everything will just work.
The Xbox is a dream to develop for compared to the PS2. The GC has a lovely bit of 3D hardware but it can be a pain to get the most out of it. The Xbox has loads of memory and the best sound hardware by far.
Of course, when I say "loads of memory", 64 megs is not a lot these days. But the other consoles have a lot less.
Well, what you can do is, while you're waiting to respawn you start whining about their spawn camping. If you whine enough they sometimes stop to whine back. If you time it right you can be half way to somewhere else before they realise what's going on.
Also realise that a spawn camper isn't taking or defending flags.
I don't think spawn camping is necessarily bad. Most people will whine about it, then turn around and do it to the other team as "punishment" anyway.
Another thing, most games allow you to choose your spawn point. If you have only one spawn point left, and it is getting 0wned, then you're probably about to lose anyway... Get over it.
Oh the irony. Your submissions were ignored because they would have been dupes of this article from the 20th April. You were only 3 days late...
That, or the fact that most cars have 2/3rd of their weight at the front... Special effect folks and stunt drivers usually stick around 500 lbs of sandbags in the trunk to achieve that fly-flat (crash)-land-flat effect.
The angular momentum of Galileo's rest mass just increased...
You appear to have missed the point. Who decides what is a "fair price"? And what is it, for Windows? The things you mention may be taken into consideration when making a choice, but to say you have "no choice" is just ridiculous. I'm sure Mac users would chuckle if you told them they had "no choice".
I most enjoyed reading that, thanks ;-)
To the Linux-lovers... Yes I have tried Linux before, that's why I find it funny (in a sort of observational comedy sort of way). And I'll probably try it again, no matter how much you flame me...
"And "overcharging" is a laugh. If it's too much, don't freaking buy it. Simple, eh?"
This is what I don't understand. I am not a North American, but I don't see how this works. If A makes an offer X to B, and B accepts it, we have a contract (there must be valuable consideration, but that's not important right now). If A subsequently sends him an invoice for X+C, we have "overcharging". Maybe they would get away with it here and there, accidents happen, but if it starts occurring on a regular basis it's criminal fraud, right? And yet people are saying Microsoft "overcharged" customers. Surely they don't mean in the criminal sense. Presumably someone had to come up with some approximate figure to stick on the "real" price tag. And why don't we know that figure?
You know, if someone from Free software were ever slapped for undercharging, you bet I'd be laughing manaically for several minutes.
Cuh... I dunno. Anyway, so is "overcharged" overloaded in the antitrust scope?
It sounds like there's not enough competition between your laywers to push the costs down. But you have millions of the fuckers! Perhaps a recently laid off IT worker would have luck in the legal "profession".
It's an old lament that our (UK) legal system is always becoming Americanis^hzed. A bit ironic since you nicked it off us in the first place... But anyway yeah, it's stupid here too.
I haven't played POPSoT yet (must buy it) except for a demo at ECTS (it was pretty much finished). They're quite different games. Our control system is fundamentally different. But you're not the first to point out the similarity... ;-)
I do have genuine respect for Ubisoft. I've just completed Beyond Good and Evil. It's a wonderful game, sadly overlooked by the buying public. It's now selling for half price and you'd have to be mad not to snap up a copy.
In the current arena of tired sequels and franchises, I don't see that we're so much in competition with Ubi etc. We're all trying to use a game to tell a story. There's room for more than one story, and there are different ways of telling them.
The problem at the moment is this: When asked, punters say they want more imaginative stuff. More exploration. More thinking, etc. But they go out and buy the most awful stuff. Because it's been marketed to the max by the publishers, and because there's bugger all else on the shelves. And that's because publishers have become so risk-averse, their bread and butter is the sequelfest you see before you.
To their credit, our publisher SCi took a chance on us. But it's an absolute nightmare trying to get original stuff published these days.
Oops, sorry for the rant
What are you like?! We made something cool, it's finally finished and we want to big it up a bit. Where's the harm in that?
Disclaimer: Toby's my boss. But cut him some slack!
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