This is one of the places where Gentoo really shines. Using RedHat 9 on my lappy, finding a recent version of Mozilla with XFT/GTK2 support was a right royal pain.
Using Gentoo the ebuild compiles XFT/GTK2 support by default:)
This is no joke. Battles have been lost because the size and location of the forces were betrayed by such things as an intercepted order for toilet paper.
#2. No menu editing. Again, it's a Gnome problem, and is due to be fixed in the next Gnome (2.6), I believe. Unfortunately I just read a mailing list posting indicating that they while they were fixing the menu architecture, they weren't all that concerned with providing editing capability. I'm not certain I understand what's going on here though, as I wish RH would just support the same menu-editing functionality found in Ximian Desktop 2. It's not great, but at least it's possible.
Actually Gnome 2.4 does - just not very good.
Point nautilus at applications:/// and voila
After making changes, issue a killall gnome-panel to restart the panel and there are the changes:)
Not very user friendly, but it works
Why is it that we can post the directions for how to properly murder someone or build a bomb (In fact, this seems to be the topic of most movies made today), yet we are barred from posting DVD-copying code?
It doesn't cost big corps a single cent if you murder somone or build a bomb.
However, if you post code to copy a DVD then it hurts their bottom line.
What sickens me is that DVD-copying code (your words) is misleading. DVD-Reading code is more appropriate. The DVD has to be read and decrypted to be shown in your DVD player. This is the primary useage of the decss code. The fact that the same code can be used to save the DVD to an mpeg or divx file is used by the legal people just to screw you and me. If the DVD makers released a DVD player freely available on every platform I'd use that and stay legal. But they don't so I flaunt the law
Would you feel the same way if the messages popped up via the Messenger windows service instead?
Then, it's NOT on the internet, it's YOUR computer telling you that it's unoptimised. Some people may see the add, but when they're own computer says it........
Both my parents have Masters Degrees in Maths and yet both have been suckered in by these fake ad's. Somehow I don't think that they'll ever need "Special Education" classes.
However, they may need to take a class which allows them to understand the difference an advertisment on the web and a real computer error message.
It's also elitest attitudes like yours that really piss the average user off. Try helping your fellow man instead of dissing them!
Try doing transparency with png's in IE. They sort of support png but transparency was clearly too much for the IE programmers. That's why everybody still uses transparent gifs
Actually it's quite simple provided a client uses IE5.5 or higher.
I suggest reading a workaround to get transparent PNG's to work under IE.
Developers have to work around different OS versions, OS's, etc all the time. It's not that much work to code against IE on Windows - afer all web developers coding against W3C standards do it all the time!
Glitches in other browsers MAY recieve attention, but it WILL work in IE.
I bitched to my bank (First Direct - UK) about their online banking. You had to dial into their service AND us IE on windows. IE on mac - forget it.
6 months later I can use any gecko based browser (mozilla, firebird, galleon, k-melon) or IE and use their service without having to dial into their network.
Banks listen when even 5% of their customers complain. After all, money is money.
You are missing the point.:-) If Microsoft has their way, there will only be one browser. Detection and customizing your web page for more than one browser will be moot.
As opposed to developing a windows application where you have to work around windows versions, service packs and library versions installed? For example, a client requirement was to make an applications title bar flash when a query was completed. I had to write code to support Win9x,WinME+NT4 and Win2K+XP.
It's one company with one product, but many versions you have to code against. So it's sure as hell not moot.
As a web designer, this worries me. How am I supposed to test my sites from here on out? Before it was as easy as loading up said site into IE 6 or IE 5 or what have you and seeing if the layout was as it should be. What now?
The way that I read it is that you can still do this. It's just that IE 7 ships with Windows xxx and isn't available for previous MS OS's.
Just because a new browser is shipped with a new OS doesn't mean web developers have to do anything more or anything less - provided that HTTP_USER_AGENT string still informs us of the browser version.
This "cheat" affected image quality which is how it was first noticed. ATI quickly released new drivers which improved the image quality back to how it should look. And there wasn't any decrease in speed from the "cheating drivers". So in this instance nVidia are worse as they have yet to release a fixed driver or even admit what they did was wrong.
All IHV's provide per game "hints" to the driver of how to work for a give game as well as "hints" of how to work with an unknown game. But this is usually only for making the game work faster on their hardware - without sacrificing IQ - or working around game bugs with their driver.
Maybe everyone should take PowerVR's approach of exposing every driver hint through the registry in english language instead of hiding it in the driver itself.
You mean the stellar performace of a game that won't be available till the end of the year at the earliest?
By that time newer, faster cards will have been released. If you intend to buy a new card now then look at what games you currently play as the market will certainly change when DOOM 3 hits the shelves.
Try using Refresh Force which directly alters the windows monitor information in the registry and removes every mode but the one you specify for each resolution. This allows games to run in any screen size at the requested refresh rate and not cause them to choke or crash. It's worked fine on all my cards so far (GeForces, Radeons, Kyros)
Besides, this is more of a windows quirk than a driver thing as MS requires the driver to behave like this to pass it's WHQL tests.
You picked a bad argument there Bruce.
Mozilla or any other OSS program is able to display GIF's - what they cannot do is create GIF's without a license.
But I still agree that software patents are a bad idea.
During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
Some keyboards were "click-less" and someone wrote a program to send a "click" out of the PC speaker making it more useable for most people. Why couldn't someone take the same approach and install sound FX units into each X-Wing/TIE Figher so that pilots could "hear" where craft were and what they were doing?
We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
What you were seeing was tracers. Modern day armies use similar things
The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
Of course you've seen the real thing
In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
StarWars II was the new series - IV-VI were the old ones. As to R2D2, look at how far computers have come since conception. I really can't even to think about what they will be capable of by the time we've started to colonise the galaxy.
Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
AFAIK, all creatures on Earth breath it as well - even the fish in the sea. They are as "alien" to us as we are to them.
When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction. Well, just whack a prism or similar at the point where the beams join and blamo - it could work. And as it's transparent, you didn't see it in the movie.
The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them. Why does it have to be air? You do know that NASA space suits are very well insulated to stop there astronuts from freezing right?
Why does a movie have to be scientifically accurate? It's supposed to entertain you dammit. And little kiddies who you want to protect have vivid imaginations - something which you appear to have lost. Their imagination is often their freedom which you want to remove.
Outlaw inaccurate science fiction movies? Then there would be NO SF movies! Heck, whilst we're here let's outlaw ALL fiction because as it's fiction it can't possibly be true.
As to the kids, you could have told them that Star Wars is not a true story. I take it that you've already old them that Santa doesn't exist either and mythical persons don't bring presents.
Your talking about borrowing good ideas from other things and amalgamating them into one thing.
So whats wrong with that? How many times do you buy a CD to find only 2 decent tracks? How many times have you seen a movie and it's been *yawn* seen it before except when this guy like ya know.
The Matrix doesn't bring many new idea's to the world of movies - it borrows heavily from many others.
But what it does do well it bring the majority of the good ideas into one well written story with a vast holywood budjet.
You may say that Keanu can't act - I say that they tailored the movie around him. I cite Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampyre for another example of a movie working to an actors strong points - it's his best ever movie by far. Then again we have Top Gun, Days Of Thunder or Cocktail. No contest really.
I personally think the Matrix is cheese, it doesn't have a strong message, and is a little too melodramatic... in music, in story, in the overal mood of the movie. CHEESE..and not even real cheese, like cheeze in a can.
Why does a movie have to provide a message? The only message that the Matrix can say is the same as the WWE which is "Don't try this at home!"
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This is one of the places where Gentoo really shines. Using RedHat 9 on my lappy, finding a recent version of Mozilla with XFT/GTK2 support was a right royal pain.
:)
Using Gentoo the ebuild compiles XFT/GTK2 support by default
It's really hard to know what updates to provide without seeing a list of software packages installed
That's the nice thing about Gentoo. I recieve the full software tree everything I emerge sync so only *I* know what I have installed.
Kodak have been pretty inovative over the years. But they're also sueing Sony over patent infringement.
Would you die loving or hating this?
This is no joke. Battles have been lost because the size and location of the forces were betrayed by such things as an intercepted order for toilet paper.
Uh - the troops were caught short?
BTW - that was a joke
So every UK news site and tabloid papers talking about "Bush Statevisit to England" wasn't news because it was talking about future events?
Pfffft
I question your definition of "news" But can you guess which one of your statements is an anti-MS statement just because it's MS?
#2. No menu editing. Again, it's a Gnome problem, and is due to be fixed in the next Gnome (2.6), I believe. Unfortunately I just read a mailing list posting indicating that they while they were fixing the menu architecture, they weren't all that concerned with providing editing capability. I'm not certain I understand what's going on here though, as I wish RH would just support the same menu-editing functionality found in Ximian Desktop 2. It's not great, but at least it's possible.
:)
Not very user friendly, but it works
Actually Gnome 2.4 does - just not very good. Point nautilus at applications:/// and voila After making changes, issue a killall gnome-panel to restart the panel and there are the changes
Easily
Why is it that we can post the directions for how to properly murder someone or build a bomb (In fact, this seems to be the topic of most movies made today), yet we are barred from posting DVD-copying code?
It doesn't cost big corps a single cent if you murder somone or build a bomb. However, if you post code to copy a DVD then it hurts their bottom line.
What sickens me is that DVD-copying code (your words) is misleading. DVD-Reading code is more appropriate. The DVD has to be read and decrypted to be shown in your DVD player. This is the primary useage of the decss code. The fact that the same code can be used to save the DVD to an mpeg or divx file is used by the legal people just to screw you and me. If the DVD makers released a DVD player freely available on every platform I'd use that and stay legal. But they don't so I flaunt the law
Would you feel the same way if the messages popped up via the Messenger windows service instead?
........
Then, it's NOT on the internet, it's YOUR computer telling you that it's unoptimised. Some people may see the add, but when they're own computer says it
Yeah, the special education class.
I can't believe this got modded as funny.
Both my parents have Masters Degrees in Maths and yet both have been suckered in by these fake ad's. Somehow I don't think that they'll ever need "Special Education" classes.
However, they may need to take a class which allows them to understand the difference an advertisment on the web and a real computer error message.
It's also elitest attitudes like yours that really piss the average user off. Try helping your fellow man instead of dissing them!
Try doing transparency with png's in IE. They sort of support png but transparency was clearly too much for the IE programmers. That's why everybody still uses transparent gifs
Actually it's quite simple provided a client uses IE5.5 or higher.
I suggest reading a workaround to get transparent PNG's to work under IE.
Developers have to work around different OS versions, OS's, etc all the time. It's not that much work to code against IE on Windows - afer all web developers coding against W3C standards do it all the time!
Glitches in other browsers MAY recieve attention, but it WILL work in IE.
I bitched to my bank (First Direct - UK) about their online banking. You had to dial into their service AND us IE on windows. IE on mac - forget it.
6 months later I can use any gecko based browser (mozilla, firebird, galleon, k-melon) or IE and use their service without having to dial into their network.
Banks listen when even 5% of their customers complain. After all, money is money.
You are missing the point. :-) If Microsoft has their way, there will only be one browser. Detection and customizing your web page for more than one browser will be moot.
As opposed to developing a windows application where you have to work around windows versions, service packs and library versions installed? For example, a client requirement was to make an applications title bar flash when a query was completed. I had to write code to support Win9x,WinME+NT4 and Win2K+XP.
It's one company with one product, but many versions you have to code against. So it's sure as hell not moot.
As a web designer, this worries me. How am I supposed to test my sites from here on out? Before it was as easy as loading up said site into IE 6 or IE 5 or what have you and seeing if the layout was as it should be. What now?
The way that I read it is that you can still do this. It's just that IE 7 ships with Windows xxx and isn't available for previous MS OS's.
Just because a new browser is shipped with a new OS doesn't mean web developers have to do anything more or anything less - provided that HTTP_USER_AGENT string still informs us of the browser version.
Whats the problem?
This "cheat" affected image quality which is how it was first noticed. ATI quickly released new drivers which improved the image quality back to how it should look. And there wasn't any decrease in speed from the "cheating drivers". So in this instance nVidia are worse as they have yet to release a fixed driver or even admit what they did was wrong.
All IHV's provide per game "hints" to the driver of how to work for a give game as well as "hints" of how to work with an unknown game. But this is usually only for making the game work faster on their hardware - without sacrificing IQ - or working around game bugs with their driver.
Maybe everyone should take PowerVR's approach of exposing every driver hint through the registry in english language instead of hiding it in the driver itself.
You mean the stellar performace of a game that won't be available till the end of the year at the earliest?
By that time newer, faster cards will have been released. If you intend to buy a new card now then look at what games you currently play as the market will certainly change when DOOM 3 hits the shelves.
Try using Refresh Force which directly alters the windows monitor information in the registry and removes every mode but the one you specify for each resolution. This allows games to run in any screen size at the requested refresh rate and not cause them to choke or crash. It's worked fine on all my cards so far (GeForces, Radeons, Kyros)
Besides, this is more of a windows quirk than a driver thing as MS requires the driver to behave like this to pass it's WHQL tests.
Open Source benchmarks are a bad idea because Closed Source drivers can still be used which may or may not contain these "cheats".
Better to have open source drivers so we can inspect the driver for cheating/optimisations.
Infact, open source them all if the hard numbers are that important!
These will be popular among the geeks, but the Mac masses will stick to boxes from Cupertino.
You mean there are Mac users who aren't geeks?
You picked a bad argument there Bruce.
Mozilla or any other OSS program is able to display GIF's - what they cannot do is create GIF's without a license.
But I still agree that software patents are a bad idea.
Maybe you didn't check the author credited at the reg story
Rise of the Spam Zombies
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
I can arrange a rep to pop around and give you a personal demonstration :p
You're a troll, but I'll bite.
During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
Some keyboards were "click-less" and someone wrote a program to send a "click" out of the PC speaker making it more useable for most people. Why couldn't someone take the same approach and install sound FX units into each X-Wing/TIE Figher so that pilots could "hear" where craft were and what they were doing?
We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
What you were seeing was tracers. Modern day armies use similar things
The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
Of course you've seen the real thing
In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
StarWars II was the new series - IV-VI were the old ones. As to R2D2, look at how far computers have come since conception. I really can't even to think about what they will be capable of by the time we've started to colonise the galaxy.
Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
AFAIK, all creatures on Earth breath it as well - even the fish in the sea. They are as "alien" to us as we are to them.
When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
Well, just whack a prism or similar at the point where the beams join and blamo - it could work. And as it's transparent, you didn't see it in the movie.
The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
Why does it have to be air? You do know that NASA space suits are very well insulated to stop there astronuts from freezing right?
Why does a movie have to be scientifically accurate? It's supposed to entertain you dammit. And little kiddies who you want to protect have vivid imaginations - something which you appear to have lost. Their imagination is often their freedom which you want to remove.
Outlaw inaccurate science fiction movies? Then there would be NO SF movies! Heck, whilst we're here let's outlaw ALL fiction because as it's fiction it can't possibly be true.
As to the kids, you could have told them that Star Wars is not a true story. I take it that you've already old them that Santa doesn't exist either and mythical persons don't bring presents.
I'll bite: Carrie-Anne Moss without a tight leather catsuit, perhaps?
;)
I'll just bite Carrie-Anne Moss with or without the tight leather catsuit
I'll bite.
Your talking about borrowing good ideas from other things and amalgamating them into one thing.
So whats wrong with that? How many times do you buy a CD to find only 2 decent tracks? How many times have you seen a movie and it's been *yawn* seen it before except when this guy like ya know.
The Matrix doesn't bring many new idea's to the world of movies - it borrows heavily from many others.
But what it does do well it bring the majority of the good ideas into one well written story with a vast holywood budjet.
You may say that Keanu can't act - I say that they tailored the movie around him. I cite Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampyre for another example of a movie working to an actors strong points - it's his best ever movie by far. Then again we have Top Gun, Days Of Thunder or Cocktail. No contest really.
I personally think the Matrix is cheese, it doesn't have a strong message, and is a little too melodramatic... in music, in story, in the overal mood of the movie. CHEESE..and not even real cheese, like cheeze in a can.
Why does a movie have to provide a message? The only message that the Matrix can say is the same as the WWE which is "Don't try this at home!"