That really left me shaking my head in the Star Wars game. Here I am some first level nobody, and who comes to rescue me from jail? HAN SOLO!! Right...
Star Wars Galaxies originally started you off directly on one of the major planets (I think you had choices of Corellia, Tatooine, or Naboo) with no involvement from the major characters.
Unfortunately, SOE added in the new tutorial area in one of their many SWG redesigns.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Given the context, I expect "gloating" or "crowing" or "celebrating" would've been a better fit.
Signed, Your eight-grade English teacher
Main Entry: preen Function:
verb Etymology:
Middle English prenen, alteration of proynen, prunen, from Anglo-French puroindre, proindre, from pur- thoroughly + uindre, oindre to anoint, rub, from Latin unguere -- more at purchase, ointment Date:
14th century
transitive verb ... 3: to pride or congratulate (oneself) for achievement
Just because TF2 and Fallout3 are on consoles in addition to PC doesn't make the PC platform dead.
There's an additional note for TF2:
The PC version is the only one that receives new content. The Xbox 360 version is supposed to get some of this at some unspecified later date. The PS3 version... well, don't ever expect it to be upgraded.
According to the latest steam hardware survey data released (June 2007) 60% of all surveyed systems were using winXP still, even a year after win7's launch
First of all, the latest Steam hardware survey is June 2009, and Vista has a combined 34.76% (32 + 64) on the Steam Hardware Survey two years after coming out.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... umm... you won't get fooled again, or something like that.
The quote from Mr. Bush is "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. If fool me, you can't get fooled again!" Although I prefer the embroidered version.
If Microsoft wanted an OSI-approved open source license, the shortest distance between point A and point B would be to go ahead and use the GPL. That's easier and less expensive than paying your legal team to draft an entirely new license.
You should have told this to the developers of Apache, Python, Perl*, and PHP about this revelation! After all, none of them use the GPL, but all of them have their own OSI-approved licenses...
Like it or not, the GPL is not a one-size-fits-all license.
* Perl is dual-licensed, but I included it on this list anyway, because its Artistic license is OSI-approved.
Write some C for christ sake, or hell, even a Java SE app.
How is that going to get them more eyeballs to sell to their advertisers?
The corollary to that is what exactly does it offer to users?
I have this great application that allows me to drag and drop things ("applications") where I want them on the screen. It's called "Windows" and if you don't like it, there's several similar applications called "OSX," "GNOME," and "KDE" that do the same thing.
Right now, my chain goes: Operating System -> Windowing System -> Application or Operating System -> Windowing System -> Virtual Machine -> Application Google Wave is several abstractions farther down the chain: Operating System -> Windowing System -> Browser -> Virtual Machine -> Google Wave -> Application
Each step along the chain takes a performance hit.
But capitalism is also unsane. Tired of patents, get rid of capitalism and try something that will really solve our problems: a Resource Based Economy.
Yeah, if your only exposure with it was on a fed contract, I can see why it might not seem like the bee's knees, but imo it's very underappreciated in the OSS community and a far better technical solution.
Actually, I presently work with a state government, and as such, they wanted to go with weather.gov rather than a commercial service.
It looks like the senior developers never did push the new version to production, as the weather stuff is still broken there.
And, as a random side note, I administer/develop the site, it's LAMP, and I use Eclipse/PDT for all development and the Oxygen XML editor plugin for XSLT, which drives the frontend templating outside the wiki and forums. You know, just in case any one was wondering...
I've always wondered why you've used XSLT. Having used it at work (with Visual Studio), I can't stand it; I guess it didn't help that we were using especially horrid XML coming from the federal government's weather.gov web services.
I'm lazy. My Windows menu (formerly Start menu) has my default Internet browser at the top, and that's what I usually use to launch it, rather than hunting for it on my Desktop or All Programs menu.
It's a known location that's in the same spot regardless of whether I'm using XP at work or Vista/7 at home.
Not too long ago a number of European countries (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Andorra and Belgium, possibly more) at least partially gave up their banking secrecy after being pressured by the US, because the US wanted that information to fight fraud. Now Belgium is asking for information and suddenly privacy becomes an insurmountable issue.
The reason this is an issue is that there's already a treaty in place to deal with Yahoo through government channels, but it's being ignored.
Make no mistake, if this happened in a US court, Yahoo would probably be required to turn over the information requested.
I was going to point out that NoScript was near the top of the recommended add-ons page, but now I see that is no longer there at all! You have to search for it. Adblock Plus still tops the list, however.
NoScript got buried after the incident with it fucking around with AdBlock's settings, then once that was discovered and pointed out, them adding an AdBlock filter set to bypass blocking on NoScript's author's site.
As far as I know, it does neither any more, but it pissed off a lot of users, myself included, and its author's reputation went through the floor.
This is no different than Windows prevent iPod from syncing with WMP.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft isn't going to go out of its way to implement the iPod's arbitrary interface. I don't use WMP, but I bet it works with devices that appear as USB disks! And yes, you can set an iPod to appear as a USB disk, but it still uses what looks like a completely random disk layout.
Did I mention I received an iPod as part of my brother's estate after he passed away, and that I hate the iTunes interface? I've never put any music on it because every program I've found to put music on the iPod (iTunes, Winamp, etc...) makes me put it in some asinine Music Library rather than using this filing system I call a Hierarchical Directory Structure that my 17,050 music files (60.8GB) are already in?
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Star Wars Galaxies originally started you off directly on one of the major planets (I think you had choices of Corellia, Tatooine, or Naboo) with no involvement from the major characters.
Unfortunately, SOE added in the new tutorial area in one of their many SWG redesigns.
Main Entry:
preen
Function:
verb
Etymology:
Middle English prenen, alteration of proynen, prunen, from Anglo-French puroindre, proindre, from pur- thoroughly + uindre, oindre to anoint, rub, from Latin unguere -- more at purchase, ointment
Date:
14th century
transitive verb
...
3: to pride or congratulate (oneself) for achievement
Signed,
Merriam-Webster
I don't believe you!
Now excuse me while I head out to Wal-Mart...
There's an additional note for TF2:
The PC version is the only one that receives new content. The Xbox 360 version is supposed to get some of this at some unspecified later date. The PS3 version... well, don't ever expect it to be upgraded.
First of all, the latest Steam hardware survey is June 2009, and Vista has a combined 34.76% (32 + 64) on the Steam Hardware Survey two years after coming out.
The quote from Mr. Bush is "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. If fool me, you can't get fooled again!" Although I prefer the embroidered version.
You should have told this to the developers of Apache, Python, Perl*, and PHP about this revelation! After all, none of them use the GPL, but all of them have their own OSI-approved licenses...
Like it or not, the GPL is not a one-size-fits-all license.
* Perl is dual-licensed, but I included it on this list anyway, because its Artistic license is OSI-approved.
The corollary to that is what exactly does it offer to users?
I have this great application that allows me to drag and drop things ("applications") where I want them on the screen. It's called "Windows" and if you don't like it, there's several similar applications called "OSX," "GNOME," and "KDE" that do the same thing.
Right now, my chain goes:
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Application
or
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Virtual Machine -> Application
Google Wave is several abstractions farther down the chain:
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Browser -> Virtual Machine -> Google Wave -> Application
Each step along the chain takes a performance hit.
We require more Vespene gas!
The scheme was broken anyway.
The first version of Windows NT was named Windows NT 3.1, and was soon followed by 3.5/3.51.
Isn't that what the America's Army games do? All 3 of them?
You know, I would have said that about Team Fortress 2... but after a decade or so, that was actually released!
Because all Netscape-based browsers have had their user agent string start with Mozilla?
Like, my Firefox 3.5.1 copy's version string... "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1"
Actually, I presently work with a state government, and as such, they wanted to go with weather.gov rather than a commercial service.
It looks like the senior developers never did push the new version to production, as the weather stuff is still broken there.
I've always wondered why you've used XSLT. Having used it at work (with Visual Studio), I can't stand it; I guess it didn't help that we were using especially horrid XML coming from the federal government's weather.gov web services.
I'm lazy. My Windows menu (formerly Start menu) has my default Internet browser at the top, and that's what I usually use to launch it, rather than hunting for it on my Desktop or All Programs menu.
It's a known location that's in the same spot regardless of whether I'm using XP at work or Vista/7 at home.
The reason this is an issue is that there's already a treaty in place to deal with Yahoo through government channels, but it's being ignored.
Make no mistake, if this happened in a US court, Yahoo would probably be required to turn over the information requested.
How exactly do you refuse to "go to a country to play" on the Internet?
Program your Internet site's routers to block all traffic from IPs whose Geolocation shows as from said country?
Because Geolocation software is NEVER wrong. Just ask my friend in Mexico (read: West Virginia).
Obligatory xkcd link
Really? I have a iPod Color 80GB and it came with a CD with iTunes on it.
iTunes is also the only way to install firmware updates to it...
*whoosh*
Go... er... science forbid that you actually get the reference.
NoScript got buried after the incident with it fucking around with AdBlock's settings, then once that was discovered and pointed out, them adding an AdBlock filter set to bypass blocking on NoScript's author's site.
As far as I know, it does neither any more, but it pissed off a lot of users, myself included, and its author's reputation went through the floor.
Empirical evidence.
You have eyes, I suggest you use them.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft isn't going to go out of its way to implement the iPod's arbitrary interface. I don't use WMP, but I bet it works with devices that appear as USB disks! And yes, you can set an iPod to appear as a USB disk, but it still uses what looks like a completely random disk layout.
Did I mention I received an iPod as part of my brother's estate after he passed away, and that I hate the iTunes interface? I've never put any music on it because every program I've found to put music on the iPod (iTunes, Winamp, etc...) makes me put it in some asinine Music Library rather than using this filing system I call a Hierarchical Directory Structure that my 17,050 music files (60.8GB) are already in?