I've only tried wine with various installations of Redhat Linux.. various versions of wine too, including WineX. This was a year ago, and maybe things have changed since, but I remember wine being a joke of a technology. I could not get it working right with absolutely anything. The funniest was, as luck would have it, with a Blizzard product, Starcraft, which apparently was one of the easier applications to get working. Well, I managed to get everything working except the mouse. It's hard to play Starcraft without a mouse. There was something fatally wrong with each and every software I used, no matter how simple, except for Windows solitaire. Maybe getting that working was just a delusion. Admittedly, my hardware was not completely standard, but with absolutely nothing working right, it's ridiculous. I do remember one thing though. Wine was pleasantly fast. Unfortunately, that doesn't quite fit the bill.
You're right, things did flip flop before IE 5 and Netscape 6, and I went through all that too. At first was the wrong choice of words.. I chose a later starting point:)
Who uses Windows 95/98 still? And not many manually download and install IE upgrades these days.. all automated updates now.
As for the non sequitur comment, yeah, that was a typo. Must control fingers better when posting on/.
I do remember how dramatic Netscape 6's shift towards standards compliance was. I just decided not to acknowledge my entire history of browser choices. I probably should word things more carefully, else someone might get misinformed down the road.
Hope you enjoyed your food.
Wouldn't software companies engage in widespread theft of each other's hard work? No, they wouldn't, because this is already covered by copyright law.
Compare this to the end of the movie Reservoir Dogs to discover why this would never work. Who's going to drop their gun first? Let's say Microsoft decides to be the frontrunner for this idea and opens up Windows source code. Lots of companies would then steal whatever code they needed and NOT open up their source. In America, laws often don't matter when you can get away with ignoring them, AND make money off it.
And just in case you thought I was being funny about the Laser Tag for cellphones, it's already being developed for the PalmOS by Tech Center Labs and PenreeSoft, mentioned on this little geek.com posting:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002june/bpd2002 0628015175.htm
(geek.com.. is that the Shelbyville of/. ?)
None really. It should have been a reply to the comment's parent. No one's perfect, and it still has plenty of useful info about Mozilla 1.2!
And just so this post isn't useless, I'll mention more things I've noticed with Mozilla since I'm switching from IE 1.2.. Mozilla made me manually install a flash plugin. That's annoying. I saw ugly bugs with Mozilla Mail's ability to move a folder, and you can't move more than one folder at once. The help is still incomplete. Shouldn't it be a beta release if it's not at least that much polished up? It locked up once..had to end task mozilla.exe to reboot the computer. No spellchecker.. I think there's one in Communicator..I forget. Those are the significant problems so far, but I'll tough it out and maybe just switch to Linux down the road. I wonder if that version has the same bugs?
Even if a network is engineered perfectly, someone could maliciously or accidentally physically harm it and cause down time. Having a second, perhaps lower-end, backup network, when you have people's lives at stake (missing prescription information could quickly cause a fatality)..it's a necessity, especially for a hospital with such a good reputation. Plus, the telecomm industry giants such as Cisco are just DYING for more business, so this could also help the economy:)
So now we have a security system that encourages tresspassing? I'd think GPS information can't be THAT accurate, so there might very well be a thief with a PDA outside your window, stealing your corporate secrets.
The main reason why I have never loaded Netscape as my default browser.. well, at first IE was simply better. Then it was because Windows is unstable enough as it is.. why would I want to have two browsers loaded? (IE forces itself into memory of course).. XP seems stable enough now though, and with Netscape's little "web development" menu, that somehow convinced me IE was better. Now it seems Netscape is coming out with new features and IE is outright stagnant. I think Netscape's CSS compliance has always been better as well, plus IE always made it a pain to clear the cache.. any Java developer probably has the same experience... that tabbed browsing feature is pretty nice as well, allowing you to have more than one page as your homepage... load up as many pages as you're interested in, then go Edit->Preferences->Use Current Group. During this post, I have already set Mozilla 1.2 as my default browser, and found out that Mozilla mail and address book happily imports MS Outlook address, mail, and settings.. It appears in the Tools menu when you open a mail or address book window, then allows you to siphon settings from both Outlook and Outlook Express, and Eudora.. The biggest hardship is redoing my message filtering rules.. I couldn't find any way to import that. It's a pain but not too bad. I guess it's just a matter of thinking things through.
I want it? While shipping out hard drives pre installed with Linux is a way of saving a user time, sparing the internet's bandwidth, and making their hard drive a more attractive product, they'd accomplish all these goals twenty-fold if they filled up the rest of that 40GB baby with free pr0n! Then we'd really want it. Can you imagine how much fun the hard drive manufacturing business could be?
The problem with judging Spirited Away alongside this year's stock of American films is the lack of knowledge of the symbolism/references in the anime which are foreign and unrecognized in American culture. I hope the judges do their homework, which may enable them to realize the full brilliance of the movie. Also, Spirited Away helps us familiarize ourselves a bit more with the mentality of Japanese society. While it may be as magical as Alice in Wonderland there are plenty of differences between Alice's Wonderland and Chihiro's Wonderland. I, for one, appreciated seeing a "spirit house", let alone the huge, very important bathhouse operation.
It's gotta be weird to call up the cable company and say you want your hobbit hole to have a broadband connection. Good luck telling them your address. "Just drive through the woods, over the grass field. I'm three hills down on the right." Are those vans good for offroading?
What about this defense?
Umm, Your Honor? I had this worm/virus that I saw infecting my installation of Kazaa, forcing my computer to download lots of popular software via P2P networking. I deleted the files when I noticed this. Shouldn't happen again, unless I conveniently get that virus when need be...
I see in the article it talks about people trying to "outwit" the profiler, with someone searching around Amazon.com for stuff on politics and computers so it wouldn't think he's a pregnant, gay man. While this may provide for a better story, Amazon does allow you to see what it's using to profile you, and you can uncheck a box that basically says "Use this product to profile me" so he could remove the parenting book from the pool of data used to judge him.
What can I do with it? Store it for safekeeping in case of a terrible car accident which leaves me without my memory? No problem! A quick hard reboot with disc inserted (yuck) and I'm better?
I wouldn't joke about the prospect of this helping with amnesia. Remember the movie "Memento"? Excellent movie about a guy who only remembers up to the point of his injury. If it was normal for people to have these "auxiliary memory" systems, especially when they advance to a point where simulated memories are almost as intuitive to access as real memories, this could revolutionize the adaptability of a human to this situation. Much better than tattooing everything on your body anyway. And in case anyone is wondering, there are people out there that actually have only short term memory, and they don't "learn to cope with it".. they're disabled.. their life is pretty much over. This also can help with Alzheimer's disease, which is much more frequent and I think a much bigger problem. If society learned to use these systems as second nature, the unfortunate would still be able to recall many images their brain loses track of.. I'm sure it's not nearly good enough, but I bet they'd take it rather than leave it.
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So do you have to find the red pill to leave the game?
I've only tried wine with various installations of Redhat Linux .. various versions of wine too, including WineX. This was a year ago, and maybe things have changed since, but I remember wine being a joke of a technology. I could not get it working right with absolutely anything. The funniest was, as luck would have it, with a Blizzard product, Starcraft, which apparently was one of the easier applications to get working. Well, I managed to get everything working except the mouse. It's hard to play Starcraft without a mouse. There was something fatally wrong with each and every software I used, no matter how simple, except for Windows solitaire. Maybe getting that working was just a delusion. Admittedly, my hardware was not completely standard, but with absolutely nothing working right, it's ridiculous. I do remember one thing though. Wine was pleasantly fast. Unfortunately, that doesn't quite fit the bill.
You're right, things did flip flop before IE 5 and Netscape 6, and I went through all that too. At first was the wrong choice of words.. I chose a later starting point :)
Who uses Windows 95/98 still? And not many manually download and install IE upgrades these days.. all automated updates now.
As for the non sequitur comment, yeah, that was a typo. Must control fingers better when posting on /.
I do remember how dramatic Netscape 6's shift towards standards compliance was. I just decided not to acknowledge my entire history of browser choices. I probably should word things more carefully, else someone might get misinformed down the road.
Hope you enjoyed your food.
Wouldn't software companies engage in widespread theft of each other's hard work? No, they wouldn't, because this is already covered by copyright law.
Compare this to the end of the movie Reservoir Dogs to discover why this would never work. Who's going to drop their gun first? Let's say Microsoft decides to be the frontrunner for this idea and opens up Windows source code. Lots of companies would then steal whatever code they needed and NOT open up their source. In America, laws often don't matter when you can get away with ignoring them, AND make money off it.And just in case you thought I was being funny about the Laser Tag for cellphones, it's already being developed for the PalmOS by Tech Center Labs and PenreeSoft, mentioned on this little geek.com posting: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002june/bpd2002 0628015175.htm
(geek.com.. is that the Shelbyville of /. ?)
And you thought Tetris was impressive. These new cellphones have built-in Laser Tag!
I loathe the day when I flip open my mobile phone and see the blue screen of death.
None really. It should have been a reply to the comment's parent. No one's perfect, and it still has plenty of useful info about Mozilla 1.2! And just so this post isn't useless, I'll mention more things I've noticed with Mozilla since I'm switching from IE 1.2 .. Mozilla made me manually install a flash plugin. That's annoying. I saw ugly bugs with Mozilla Mail's ability to move a folder, and you can't move more than one folder at once. The help is still incomplete. Shouldn't it be a beta release if it's not at least that much polished up? It locked up once..had to end task mozilla.exe to reboot the computer. No spellchecker.. I think there's one in Communicator..I forget. Those are the significant problems so far, but I'll tough it out and maybe just switch to Linux down the road. I wonder if that version has the same bugs?
Even if a network is engineered perfectly, someone could maliciously or accidentally physically harm it and cause down time. Having a second, perhaps lower-end, backup network, when you have people's lives at stake (missing prescription information could quickly cause a fatality) ..it's a necessity, especially for a hospital with such a good reputation. Plus, the telecomm industry giants such as Cisco are just DYING for more business, so this could also help the economy :)
So now we have a security system that encourages tresspassing? I'd think GPS information can't be THAT accurate, so there might very well be a thief with a PDA outside your window, stealing your corporate secrets.
The main reason why I have never loaded Netscape as my default browser.. well, at first IE was simply better. Then it was because Windows is unstable enough as it is.. why would I want to have two browsers loaded? (IE forces itself into memory of course).. XP seems stable enough now though, and with Netscape's little "web development" menu, that somehow convinced me IE was better. Now it seems Netscape is coming out with new features and IE is outright stagnant. I think Netscape's CSS compliance has always been better as well, plus IE always made it a pain to clear the cache.. any Java developer probably has the same experience... that tabbed browsing feature is pretty nice as well, allowing you to have more than one page as your homepage... load up as many pages as you're interested in, then go Edit->Preferences->Use Current Group. During this post, I have already set Mozilla 1.2 as my default browser, and found out that Mozilla mail and address book happily imports MS Outlook address, mail, and settings.. It appears in the Tools menu when you open a mail or address book window, then allows you to siphon settings from both Outlook and Outlook Express, and Eudora.. The biggest hardship is redoing my message filtering rules.. I couldn't find any way to import that. It's a pain but not too bad. I guess it's just a matter of thinking things through.
You want it.
I want it? While shipping out hard drives pre installed with Linux is a way of saving a user time, sparing the internet's bandwidth, and making their hard drive a more attractive product, they'd accomplish all these goals twenty-fold if they filled up the rest of that 40GB baby with free pr0n! Then we'd really want it. Can you imagine how much fun the hard drive manufacturing business could be?Rumor has it, doctors will soon be rendering a patient's internal organs with ASCII art.
The problem with judging Spirited Away alongside this year's stock of American films is the lack of knowledge of the symbolism/references in the anime which are foreign and unrecognized in American culture. I hope the judges do their homework, which may enable them to realize the full brilliance of the movie. Also, Spirited Away helps us familiarize ourselves a bit more with the mentality of Japanese society. While it may be as magical as Alice in Wonderland there are plenty of differences between Alice's Wonderland and Chihiro's Wonderland. I, for one, appreciated seeing a "spirit house", let alone the huge, very important bathhouse operation.
It's gotta be weird to call up the cable company and say you want your hobbit hole to have a broadband connection. Good luck telling them your address. "Just drive through the woods, over the grass field. I'm three hills down on the right." Are those vans good for offroading?
What about this defense? Umm, Your Honor? I had this worm/virus that I saw infecting my installation of Kazaa, forcing my computer to download lots of popular software via P2P networking. I deleted the files when I noticed this. Shouldn't happen again, unless I conveniently get that virus when need be...
I see in the article it talks about people trying to "outwit" the profiler, with someone searching around Amazon.com for stuff on politics and computers so it wouldn't think he's a pregnant, gay man. While this may provide for a better story, Amazon does allow you to see what it's using to profile you, and you can uncheck a box that basically says "Use this product to profile me" so he could remove the parenting book from the pool of data used to judge him.
What can I do with it? Store it for safekeeping in case of a terrible car accident which leaves me without my memory? No problem! A quick hard reboot with disc inserted (yuck) and I'm better?
I wouldn't joke about the prospect of this helping with amnesia. Remember the movie "Memento"? Excellent movie about a guy who only remembers up to the point of his injury. If it was normal for people to have these "auxiliary memory" systems, especially when they advance to a point where simulated memories are almost as intuitive to access as real memories, this could revolutionize the adaptability of a human to this situation. Much better than tattooing everything on your body anyway. And in case anyone is wondering, there are people out there that actually have only short term memory, and they don't "learn to cope with it".. they're disabled.. their life is pretty much over. This also can help with Alzheimer's disease, which is much more frequent and I think a much bigger problem. If society learned to use these systems as second nature, the unfortunate would still be able to recall many images their brain loses track of.. I'm sure it's not nearly good enough, but I bet they'd take it rather than leave it.