Well assuming the house costs $400,000, the analogy here would be that ongoing rates on the house are $40,000/month. Whoever thinks that rates so expensive would be okay for a house is on crack.
Well in Swing terminology, "lightweight" means rendered by Java, on the canvas, whereas "heavyweight" means rendered by dropping a real widget on the screen. Although admittedly, in some cases (e.g. menu items and tooltips which end up needing to appear slightly outside the canvas) the heavyweight widgets are still drawn in Java.
My guess is that they named them like this because the heavyweight widgets consume WM resources, whereas the lightweight widgets do not (the heavyweight widgets take longer to display if they haven't been created already, too, which is probably why Swing can react slightly faster than AWT could, it doesn't have to wait for the WM to allocate a widget every time you pop up a menu.)
Hey, that's fine by me, but like I said, they shouldn't expect me to buy it and rent it. I was fine with paying a few bucks every month to play Ragnarok Online, because they didn't take $100 out of my wallet for a box and a CD.
I don't see what's wrong with PS2X actually. If it's based on the PS2, then they should keep that thing going.
Because simply everyone is going to have problems if there is another PSX on the market. Consumers will be confused, game magazines and all websites will have to change all their abbreviations, and it will be a complete fucking nightmare.
That aside, I wouldn't be too worried. By the time the PSX is out, the PS3 should be near enough that nobody cares, and the Xbox 2 will be even better than Just Another Shitty PlayStation [TM].
No shit. Charging $100 for a box and then $10-20 each month for further entertainment is like selling you a house and then charging you rent once you already own it. I vote with my wallet, but not every consumer seems to care. MMORPGs which follow the Ragnarok Online payment scheme have my respect, as they charge only the monthly fee. Likewise, Guild Wars has my respect, as they will charge only the box fee.
If you would take the time to actually read my comment, rather than reading as much as necessary in order to make an attack, you would see that I didn't make any mention of mass murder, rape nor torture in my comment, and that your sick little mind merely inserted these as they're probably the sorts of things your mind likes to see.:-)
And whereas disabled access to sites might be important, I would argue that these days, mobile access to sites is more important. And the vast majority of mobile devices cope with real, strict XHTML far better than they cope with atrocities like HTML 3.2.
What's funny is, when Mozilla were sitting on the name Phoenix, and then Firebird, they at least had the decency to change their name, even though the products which they had the same name as were different types of software.
Apple, though, will probably never change the name from the one they have stolen. Yet, Apple are not evil. Apparently.
And DHTML is just a wank term composed of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and whatever else the person wants it to mean at the time they say it. It has no features in and of itself.
That's why we now separate the information from the presentation. If you don't want to see the pretty presentation, there is a nice icon in the bottom left of Firefox that can turn it off. Enjoy.
As for HTML 3.2, it stinks, though ironically for precisely the same reason that you seem to hate the later ones... idiots using <font> tags and other atrocities which go against the idea of conveying information.
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Well their Dashboard-alike support (Active Desktop) is pretty broken already, so I guess if they just leave it the way it is, everyone should be happy.:-(
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I think you meant to say, "If only Google had given Mozilla users the Google toolbar, instead of being filthy Microsoft-humping sluts."
"Imagine a browser that can run a native lightweight UI"
If it's native, wouldn't that be heavyweight? I thought lightweight was the exact opposite of native.:-/
At any rate, I'm pretty sure that you can interact with XUL via Java instead of JavaScript, if you really don't want to deal with JavaScript.
And at the point where you're writing purely XUL + Java, I don't see how writing XAML + C# makes life any easier. If anything, it's learning two more languages than the average developer already knows (most people already know Java.)
If putting stores within 2-3 miles of each other always results in higher revenue, then it makes perfect sense to tile the entire planet with Starbucks stores 2 miles apart.
It would also have the benefit that even in the middle of the Sahara desert you could walk on over to Starbucks and get a bad-tasting, but still coffee, coffee.
Nope. $250K of that $300K is the cost of all the development tools that have to be installed on the computers in order to develop Windows software. Granted, they make the development tools... but sometimes you just have to declare the "true cost" to the taxman, know what I'm saying?:-)
But I don't run it with root privileges. My point was that I don't want it having access to my root *directory*. So usually I configure it to make E: bind to/opt/winedisk. But then WineX removes my binding and replaces it with one to/.
I don't use p2p, and it's overwritten my config quite a few times. And the reason I can't do that with the ISO mounts is that I need to mount more than one disk in some cases, and when WineX is overwriting my configuration to set it back to one disk, it doesn't help.:-/
As for not running it in root... I'm sure it's dependency hell trying to build a chroot setup, and even if I got it working, it would still be breaking from the clean Gentoo install. Maybe if I could convince the ebuild maintainer to have WineX install in a chrooted configuration...
In regards to PGP v. S/Mime... As long as it's user friendly, most really won't care about the specifics. I use S/Mime, because support is built into my mail client.
I use PGP because support seems to be built into my mail client (KMail.) S/MIME might be there too but I wouldn't know because it's too user unfriendly to use. This user doesn't want to have to go and nag a certificate authority just to get a key. And I certainly don't trust some faceless corporation who claim to be trustworthy. I would rather keep communications personal, like they are supposed to be.:-/
The overwriting is annoying me too. I'm trying to stop WineX getting access to my root directory, but it won't have a bar of it. I wouldn't mind being able to add ISO mounts to its configuration too, for CD-less playing.:-/
Speaking of Diablo II and Cedega (whoa, this is on-topic!)...
Is it possible to get Direct3D working with Diablo II under Cedega? It works with no issues at all in standard DirectDraw mode, but trying to use the VidTest app to set it to Direct3D causes X to hang every time without a fail on my system.
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Well assuming the house costs $400,000, the analogy here would be that ongoing rates on the house are $40,000/month. Whoever thinks that rates so expensive would be okay for a house is on crack.
Well in Swing terminology, "lightweight" means rendered by Java, on the canvas, whereas "heavyweight" means rendered by dropping a real widget on the screen. Although admittedly, in some cases (e.g. menu items and tooltips which end up needing to appear slightly outside the canvas) the heavyweight widgets are still drawn in Java.
My guess is that they named them like this because the heavyweight widgets consume WM resources, whereas the lightweight widgets do not (the heavyweight widgets take longer to display if they haven't been created already, too, which is probably why Swing can react slightly faster than AWT could, it doesn't have to wait for the WM to allocate a widget every time you pop up a menu.)
Hey, that's fine by me, but like I said, they shouldn't expect me to buy it and rent it. I was fine with paying a few bucks every month to play Ragnarok Online, because they didn't take $100 out of my wallet for a box and a CD.
Pretty much any game costs $100 in Australian money. But either way, it's like buying the house and then being told you still have to rent, forever.
I don't see what's wrong with PS2X actually. If it's based on the PS2, then they should keep that thing going.
Because simply everyone is going to have problems if there is another PSX on the market. Consumers will be confused, game magazines and all websites will have to change all their abbreviations, and it will be a complete fucking nightmare.
That aside, I wouldn't be too worried. By the time the PSX is out, the PS3 should be near enough that nobody cares, and the Xbox 2 will be even better than Just Another Shitty PlayStation [TM].
No shit. Charging $100 for a box and then $10-20 each month for further entertainment is like selling you a house and then charging you rent once you already own it. I vote with my wallet, but not every consumer seems to care. MMORPGs which follow the Ragnarok Online payment scheme have my respect, as they charge only the monthly fee. Likewise, Guild Wars has my respect, as they will charge only the box fee.
But as far as Sony goes, fuck them in the eye.
It's not pedantic if you read between the lines.
If you would take the time to actually read my comment, rather than reading as much as necessary in order to make an attack, you would see that I didn't make any mention of mass murder, rape nor torture in my comment, and that your sick little mind merely inserted these as they're probably the sorts of things your mind likes to see. :-)
And whereas disabled access to sites might be important, I would argue that these days, mobile access to sites is more important. And the vast majority of mobile devices cope with real, strict XHTML far better than they cope with atrocities like HTML 3.2.
What's funny is, when Mozilla were sitting on the name Phoenix, and then Firebird, they at least had the decency to change their name, even though the products which they had the same name as were different types of software.
Apple, though, will probably never change the name from the one they have stolen. Yet, Apple are not evil. Apparently.
And DHTML is just a wank term composed of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and whatever else the person wants it to mean at the time they say it. It has no features in and of itself.
That's why we now separate the information from the presentation. If you don't want to see the pretty presentation, there is a nice icon in the bottom left of Firefox that can turn it off. Enjoy.
As for HTML 3.2, it stinks, though ironically for precisely the same reason that you seem to hate the later ones... idiots using <font> tags and other atrocities which go against the idea of conveying information.
Well their Dashboard-alike support (Active Desktop) is pretty broken already, so I guess if they just leave it the way it is, everyone should be happy. :-(
I think you meant to say, "If only Google had given Mozilla users the Google toolbar, instead of being filthy Microsoft-humping sluts."
"Imagine a browser that can run a native lightweight UI"
If it's native, wouldn't that be heavyweight? I thought lightweight was the exact opposite of native. :-/
At any rate, I'm pretty sure that you can interact with XUL via Java instead of JavaScript, if you really don't want to deal with JavaScript.
And at the point where you're writing purely XUL + Java, I don't see how writing XAML + C# makes life any easier. If anything, it's learning two more languages than the average developer already knows (most people already know Java.)
I remember having to refuse to use a work intranet site once because of bugs like this. The IT team eventually caved and fixed the damn thing.
Exactly. Whereas if the GBA had to run Windows, we would be totally furious.
If putting stores within 2-3 miles of each other always results in higher revenue, then it makes perfect sense to tile the entire planet with Starbucks stores 2 miles apart.
It would also have the benefit that even in the middle of the Sahara desert you could walk on over to Starbucks and get a bad-tasting, but still coffee, coffee.
Maybe nobody will buy it, but I reckon everyone will pirate it!
Nope. $250K of that $300K is the cost of all the development tools that have to be installed on the computers in order to develop Windows software. Granted, they make the development tools... but sometimes you just have to declare the "true cost" to the taxman, know what I'm saying? :-)
But I don't run it with root privileges. My point was that I don't want it having access to my root *directory*. So usually I configure it to make E: bind to /opt/winedisk. But then WineX removes my binding and replaces it with one to /.
I don't use p2p, and it's overwritten my config quite a few times. And the reason I can't do that with the ISO mounts is that I need to mount more than one disk in some cases, and when WineX is overwriting my configuration to set it back to one disk, it doesn't help. :-/
As for not running it in root... I'm sure it's dependency hell trying to build a chroot setup, and even if I got it working, it would still be breaking from the clean Gentoo install. Maybe if I could convince the ebuild maintainer to have WineX install in a chrooted configuration...
It's a Radeon 9600XT. Transgaming have noted occasional issues with the Radeon so I figured it would be somehow related to this.
I won't post the config file because the damn thing is huge. :-)
If you're not on NVIDIA, I will submit this issue to TransGaming support I think.
In regards to PGP v. S/Mime... As long as it's user friendly, most really won't care about the specifics. I use S/Mime, because support is built into my mail client.
I use PGP because support seems to be built into my mail client (KMail.) S/MIME might be there too but I wouldn't know because it's too user unfriendly to use. This user doesn't want to have to go and nag a certificate authority just to get a key. And I certainly don't trust some faceless corporation who claim to be trustworthy. I would rather keep communications personal, like they are supposed to be. :-/
The overwriting is annoying me too. I'm trying to stop WineX getting access to my root directory, but it won't have a bar of it. I wouldn't mind being able to add ISO mounts to its configuration too, for CD-less playing. :-/
Speaking of Diablo II and Cedega (whoa, this is on-topic!)...
Is it possible to get Direct3D working with Diablo II under Cedega? It works with no issues at all in standard DirectDraw mode, but trying to use the VidTest app to set it to Direct3D causes X to hang every time without a fail on my system.
But on the bright side with Gentoo, "emerge cedega" would have got WineX working without a hitch. :-/