"Of course you'll still need to use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object if you want to support IE6 and older."
Which means that browser type checking will need to remain pretty much for the forseable future. Inclusion of XMLHTTPRequest now is nice, but in practical terms its perfectly meaningless.
I couldn't agree more. A buddy of mine got a DS about 6 months ago and at the time I mocked him for it. Especially when he expressed interest in Nintendogs. Fast forward to December 25th. I open a gift from my wife, and it's a DS, only now I'm thrilled, because I got her one for Christmas too (although neither asked the other for one). Two days later I bought Nintendogs out of jealousy from watching her play the copy I bought her.
That, coupled with the amazingly fun and convenient wireless play on Mario Kart DS, and this system has me. I'm looking forward to the Revolution now, after originally expecting to go with the PS3 when it's released.
Maybe this will mean less people buy the game. I was thrilled with ESPN NFL2k5 last year. It was arguably as much fun as Madden '05, and only cost $20. When I heard about the EA exclusivity with the NFL I decided not to buy another Madden title until there was competition again. This flop serves two purposes. It will hopefully diminish the number of people who buy the title, ultimately leading to a lower revenue to both EA and the NFL, and secondly it shows that a lack of competition leads to a lack in quality.
That said, EA has been turning out some great titles lately. Burnout 3 for Xbox, and Battlefield 2 for the PC are just great.
I didn't really mean the price thing as a gripe so much as a wish-out-loud. It seems like everything else that people have been wishing-out-loud for in Apples products have actually become reality. As an example I cited the intel cpu, multi-button mouse, *nix based OS, etc...
In retrospect maybe I should have left it off the list, cause alot of folks seem to have taken offense. But I like to dream.
Well... non-sequitors aside, I haven't had that experience lately. Of course, I say this as I type this reply on an old Dell notebook running Fedora Core 3: I dont have too many A/V problems here, and I'm sorry that you are frustrated by yours.
I really dont have those problems on my gaming machines at home either. They run Windows 2k, and all of them actually boot in fairly good fashion. I don't have A/V or firewalls on the machines themselves, I kill off unnecessary autoloading systray apps in the registry, and I don't run apps prone to automagically installing software for me. So things are good.
My main point was that I'd like to be able to have my cake and eat it. Gimme all the lovely lickable stuff that Apple's bringing down the pipe, and don't charge me an arm and a leg.
First they move to a *nix based OS, then switch to Intel processors, then they add a mouse with multi-buttons and scroll, and now no spooky DRM at the hardware level.
I'm finding it harder every day to resist... Now if they'd only do something about the price.
I've been logging and reporting these attacks since last October (when I first started using BFD). I'm figuring they've been going on for a long long time. A simple install of APF and BFD will keep you from having too much trouble though. That and making sure noone is using easy to guess passwords.
While it may be nice for around the house, it wouldn't replace XM or Sirius. I got XM when I bought a new Accord a couple months back. It's terrific. I drive 10 miles to/from work and regularly much farther on the weekends. I dont have to worry about loosing stations or reception problems (except under tunnels). WiFi radio isn't suitable for this. Not to mention, if there were that much wireless coverage, what a waste of bandwidth it would be.
No doubt. Posted right in the middle of the US lunch hours no less.
Re:Its only the bad things we head about?
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As others will likely point out, they certainly are within their legal rights to do what they like where patches are concerned. But you're missing a crucial distinction between Must and Ought.
It is not required that Apple play nice with the way they release patches. That is to say there is not 'must' apart from the requirement that they make them available. But there's alot of 'ought' that comes into play when you use OSS code. This is basically a niceness test that says, in effect, if you use this code to make money, great, but you 'ought' to give back in such a way that we can make use of as well.
Having said all that I feel a bit bad about even responding to an obvious troll. There's very little 'insight' in your comment.
To read through an entire book, all you need to is start from the beginning. When you get to the last page it will display, search for a result found on that page, then continue the process. I just read the first 15 or so pages of Finnegans Wake this way. I'd continue further, but I value my sanity.
If I read correctly, this is because they only scanned works found in Harvard's library.
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* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
Agreed.
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
I'm not sure about this being a problem. I just now tried it on this Gnome 2.8 system and it doesn't seem to generate an action until the mouse button is released. I can click drag through any level of menus and across menus just fine.
* No window snapping
I thought this was in there, though not on by default. I personally don't like snapping windows, so I've never tried to turn it on. I could be wrong.
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
I'd like to see something like this too.
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
Interesting feature gripe. Never thought about it, myself.
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Gedit works fine for me. What features are you missing? For real work I use the Zend IDE. I rarely use the builtins, so unless it were on par with the ZDE (seamless SFTP, code highlighting, yadda yadda) it would be a non-issue.
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
Did you mean to say that Epiphany/Galeon aren't as complete as Konqueror? Last time I checked, Firefox had nothing specific to do with KDE. (Incidentally, I use FF on Gnome)
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
The new file open is kinda nice in alot of respects. For example, I love the ability to quickly drag folders into the left shortcut box for quick access.
I have to say - I've had sortof the opposite experience than you in many ways. I try KDE again about once each year, and each time I'm annoyed by the same aspects (over-widgety feel of everything, too many hard angles, the ugly phony-LED clock, etc). I realize alot of this stuff can be changed, but the general flavor of the desktop doesn't match my less-is-more attitude.
I've been using gnome now for about five years, and I love most things about it (I dont love spatial nautilus) -- but maybe its because that I'm a former Blackbox user. (talk about simplicity!)
To each his own. Kudos to the gnome team on another fine, timely release.
OS/2 Warp was goodness in the extreme. (Bugs aside). I ran it for a while trying to stay away from Windows and knowing that someting would drag me away from DOS eventually. The interface and capabilities of OS/2 made me a bit giddy I recall. I still have rather bizarre memories of decentered happieness while running it. Weird.
Of course my memories from around that same time of running early slackware linux are even better. It was on a 386 linux box with 5MB memory that I first saw the (then new) WWW in Mosaic on X. Windows couldn't grant me that pleasure at that time. (Trumpet winsock my ass)
Witness a _great_ decline of PC gaming quality during the move away from DOS games.
Initially this was certainly true. But I also remember the years of forever tweaking QEMM on special DOS boot disks to get just enough of those drivers loaded above the 640k mark to play some new DOS based game too. Certainly the move away from DOS was painful at first. (Personally I didn't do it until Windows 95 was long into its lifecycle, and after I had given up on OS/2 Warp and the early incarnations of Slackware). But you can't seriously be suggesting that the 640k memory limit days were better than the state of PC gaming now. Not just from a graphics point of view, but in terms of ease of installation and use.
Are you referring to game play? I know there were some fun DOS based games. Even network games (albeit via direct modem link). Command HQ was one of my favorites and I still have it on a disk around here somewhere. But as much as I loved that game it doesn't even remotely compare to modern Turn Based or Realtime strategy games like Rome: Total War or Rise of Nations. Certainly these wouldn't be possible on DOS.
Specialized platforms dont compete either. I'll take my PC over my Xbox any day. Sure it costs more in terms of hardware upgrades. But my overall computing experience is benefitted by these as well. When I boot into my 64-bit gentoo linux setup, I marval at the snappy response and the fun of working in a system that can really take advantage of the power of this computer.
I guess in sum, our font memories of games of our youth notwithstanding, things are actually getting better. And while there may be an *ideal* platform for gaming that has yet to be found, the imperfect Windows2k setup has somehow managed to keep me from running linux on this machine full time, even with a perfectly good xbox to my right. I'd love it if I could run these games on linux like I run them on W2k. I've been paying Transgaming my subscription fee for a loooong time to help with their efforts. But until we're there, I'll have to bow to my gaming megacompany overlords, and respect the distance PC gaming has come -- on Windows -- since the good old days of DOS.
I was very pleasently suprised by the great job Sega did with NFL 2K5, and with a $20 price tag it was an unbeatable choice. Unbeatable unless you are EA games protecting your Madden franchise. When I heard they bought exclusive rights I was pretty annoyed. This sort of practice is completely understandable from the prospective of the company seeking to keep market share. But as a customer it still pisses me off. I'm thinking I'll not be buying any sports games for quite a few years.
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"Of course you'll still need to use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object if you want to support IE6 and older."
Which means that browser type checking will need to remain pretty much for the forseable future. Inclusion of XMLHTTPRequest now is nice, but in practical terms its perfectly meaningless.
I couldn't agree more. A buddy of mine got a DS about 6 months ago and at the time I mocked him for it. Especially when he expressed interest in Nintendogs. Fast forward to December 25th. I open a gift from my wife, and it's a DS, only now I'm thrilled, because I got her one for Christmas too (although neither asked the other for one). Two days later I bought Nintendogs out of jealousy from watching her play the copy I bought her.
That, coupled with the amazingly fun and convenient wireless play on Mario Kart DS, and this system has me. I'm looking forward to the Revolution now, after originally expecting to go with the PS3 when it's released.
Nintendo is doing very good things.
Welcome to BS day on Slashdot. Although by 2025 they may well have a 6 gHz laptop with 2TB of disk space to take along.
Maybe this will mean less people buy the game. I was thrilled with ESPN NFL2k5 last year. It was arguably as much fun as Madden '05, and only cost $20. When I heard about the EA exclusivity with the NFL I decided not to buy another Madden title until there was competition again. This flop serves two purposes. It will hopefully diminish the number of people who buy the title, ultimately leading to a lower revenue to both EA and the NFL, and secondly it shows that a lack of competition leads to a lack in quality.
That said, EA has been turning out some great titles lately. Burnout 3 for Xbox, and Battlefield 2 for the PC are just great.
No doubt... I read this like three times to make sure I had it right.
I didn't really mean the price thing as a gripe so much as a wish-out-loud. It seems like everything else that people have been wishing-out-loud for in Apples products have actually become reality. As an example I cited the intel cpu, multi-button mouse, *nix based OS, etc...
In retrospect maybe I should have left it off the list, cause alot of folks seem to have taken offense. But I like to dream.
Well... non-sequitors aside, I haven't had that experience lately. Of course, I say this as I type this reply on an old Dell notebook running Fedora Core 3: I dont have too many A/V problems here, and I'm sorry that you are frustrated by yours.
I really dont have those problems on my gaming machines at home either. They run Windows 2k, and all of them actually boot in fairly good fashion. I don't have A/V or firewalls on the machines themselves, I kill off unnecessary autoloading systray apps in the registry, and I don't run apps prone to automagically installing software for me. So things are good.
My main point was that I'd like to be able to have my cake and eat it. Gimme all the lovely lickable stuff that Apple's bringing down the pipe, and don't charge me an arm and a leg.
That would be really nice.
First they move to a *nix based OS, then switch to Intel processors, then they add a mouse with multi-buttons and scroll, and now no spooky DRM at the hardware level.
I'm finding it harder every day to resist... Now if they'd only do something about the price.
No worries, it'll be announced again right here on Slashdot within 24 hours. I can hardly wait!
After two and a half years, this launch made my hair stand on end again. All the best to the crew and their families.
Man, what it must be like to ride one of those things.
I've been logging and reporting these attacks since last October (when I first started using BFD). I'm figuring they've been going on for a long long time. A simple install of APF and BFD will keep you from having too much trouble though. That and making sure noone is using easy to guess passwords.
APF and BFD can be got here: RFX Networks.
While it may be nice for around the house, it wouldn't replace XM or Sirius. I got XM when I bought a new Accord a couple months back. It's terrific. I drive 10 miles to/from work and regularly much farther on the weekends. I dont have to worry about loosing stations or reception problems (except under tunnels). WiFi radio isn't suitable for this. Not to mention, if there were that much wireless coverage, what a waste of bandwidth it would be.
Some of us are in different time zones you insensitive clod.
Note the 's' in 'hours.' Not that I'm not an insensitive clod, I just figured the average slashdotter smart enough to figure it out on her own.
No doubt. Posted right in the middle of the US lunch hours no less.
As others will likely point out, they certainly are within their legal rights to do what they like where patches are concerned. But you're missing a crucial distinction between Must and Ought.
It is not required that Apple play nice with the way they release patches. That is to say there is not 'must' apart from the requirement that they make them available. But there's alot of 'ought' that comes into play when you use OSS code. This is basically a niceness test that says, in effect, if you use this code to make money, great, but you 'ought' to give back in such a way that we can make use of as well.
Having said all that I feel a bit bad about even responding to an obvious troll. There's very little 'insight' in your comment.
adds highly anticipated features including tabbed messaging and logging
I've been using this for quite a while, though. It's called Gaim.
To read through an entire book, all you need to is start from the beginning. When you get to the last page it will display, search for a result found on that page, then continue the process. I just read the first 15 or so pages of Finnegans Wake this way. I'd continue further, but I value my sanity.
If I read correctly, this is because they only scanned works found in Harvard's library.
* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
Agreed.
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
I'm not sure about this being a problem. I just now tried it on this Gnome 2.8 system and it doesn't seem to generate an action until the mouse button is released. I can click drag through any level of menus and across menus just fine.
* No window snapping
I thought this was in there, though not on by default. I personally don't like snapping windows, so I've never tried to turn it on. I could be wrong.
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
I'd like to see something like this too.
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
Interesting feature gripe. Never thought about it, myself.
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Gedit works fine for me. What features are you missing? For real work I use the Zend IDE. I rarely use the builtins, so unless it were on par with the ZDE (seamless SFTP, code highlighting, yadda yadda) it would be a non-issue.
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
Did you mean to say that Epiphany/Galeon aren't as complete as Konqueror? Last time I checked, Firefox had nothing specific to do with KDE. (Incidentally, I use FF on Gnome)
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
The new file open is kinda nice in alot of respects. For example, I love the ability to quickly drag folders into the left shortcut box for quick access.
I have to say - I've had sortof the opposite experience than you in many ways. I try KDE again about once each year, and each time I'm annoyed by the same aspects (over-widgety feel of everything, too many hard angles, the ugly phony-LED clock, etc). I realize alot of this stuff can be changed, but the general flavor of the desktop doesn't match my less-is-more attitude.
I've been using gnome now for about five years, and I love most things about it (I dont love spatial nautilus) -- but maybe its because that I'm a former Blackbox user. (talk about simplicity!)
To each his own. Kudos to the gnome team on another fine, timely release.
It depends on if the husband is home.
I think They Might be Giants defined what it was to be a star fairly well.
"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
a giagantic nuclear furnace..."
OS/2 Warp was goodness in the extreme. (Bugs aside). I ran it for a while trying to stay away from Windows and knowing that someting would drag me away from DOS eventually. The interface and capabilities of OS/2 made me a bit giddy I recall. I still have rather bizarre memories of decentered happieness while running it. Weird.
Of course my memories from around that same time of running early slackware linux are even better. It was on a 386 linux box with 5MB memory that I first saw the (then new) WWW in Mosaic on X. Windows couldn't grant me that pleasure at that time. (Trumpet winsock my ass)
Witness a _great_ decline of PC gaming quality during the move away from DOS games.
Initially this was certainly true. But I also remember the years of forever tweaking QEMM on special DOS boot disks to get just enough of those drivers loaded above the 640k mark to play some new DOS based game too. Certainly the move away from DOS was painful at first. (Personally I didn't do it until Windows 95 was long into its lifecycle, and after I had given up on OS/2 Warp and the early incarnations of Slackware). But you can't seriously be suggesting that the 640k memory limit days were better than the state of PC gaming now. Not just from a graphics point of view, but in terms of ease of installation and use.
Are you referring to game play? I know there were some fun DOS based games. Even network games (albeit via direct modem link). Command HQ was one of my favorites and I still have it on a disk around here somewhere. But as much as I loved that game it doesn't even remotely compare to modern Turn Based or Realtime strategy games like Rome: Total War or Rise of Nations. Certainly these wouldn't be possible on DOS.
Specialized platforms dont compete either. I'll take my PC over my Xbox any day. Sure it costs more in terms of hardware upgrades. But my overall computing experience is benefitted by these as well. When I boot into my 64-bit gentoo linux setup, I marval at the snappy response and the fun of working in a system that can really take advantage of the power of this computer.
I guess in sum, our font memories of games of our youth notwithstanding, things are actually getting better. And while there may be an *ideal* platform for gaming that has yet to be found, the imperfect Windows2k setup has somehow managed to keep me from running linux on this machine full time, even with a perfectly good xbox to my right. I'd love it if I could run these games on linux like I run them on W2k. I've been paying Transgaming my subscription fee for a loooong time to help with their efforts. But until we're there, I'll have to bow to my gaming megacompany overlords, and respect the distance PC gaming has come -- on Windows -- since the good old days of DOS.
I was very pleasently suprised by the great job Sega did with NFL 2K5, and with a $20 price tag it was an unbeatable choice. Unbeatable unless you are EA games protecting your Madden franchise. When I heard they bought exclusive rights I was pretty annoyed. This sort of practice is completely understandable from the prospective of the company seeking to keep market share. But as a customer it still pisses me off. I'm thinking I'll not be buying any sports games for quite a few years.
And if I have to ask, does that mean I am one?