maybe, but by the time you added controls for gears, cutch, indicators etc that controller is going to be very complicated, and likely not easier at all.
they did this on scrapheap challenge (uk equivalent of junkyard wars) too, bit they had to fight each other, theirs seem like a bit of a kludge compared to this one though:)
There is nothing in this article to suggest that the actual code of the site is non standards compliant, just that it deals out a different one to opera that is badly laid out, the code may be fine and perfectly compliant but it will still look wrong.
They keep complaining about piracy of music through things like kazaa, but the only way they have tried to combat it is through stuff like spreading worms on the p2p networks. I dont think they reallise that there are no satisfactorary ways of actually legallly paying for and downloading tracks. Most of the ones I have seen are poor. If a decent scheme was started, im sure at least some people would be willing to pay.
Yes, Google gives me great serch results is nice and lightweight etc etc, but most people will switch in a second if another engine emerges that provides better results. just as long as they dont mess up on the interface, people will quickly migrate.
As far as i can see, nobody is ever really going to want to spend huge amounts of time playing games on something like a mobile phone or pda, therefore huge, complex games are generally out of the question.
A simple, addictive game like snood(not that i have played it) is exactly what people will be looking for on these kind of devices.
Games on mobile phones are never very likely to rival those on things like gameboy advance, so keeping them simple seems the best option. Because of this i could see small developers selling a game (or at least the concept) to someone like nokia for their phones, and getting pretty rich in the process
I think that RPM, or at least the GUI tools that surround it needs some major work before mandrake, or any other similar distro can really appeal to newbies.
I was a newbie to linux mysef not all that long ago (i still dont feel quite confortable enough in it although linux is growing on me), and when i downloaded software from the internet, double clicked the rpm, and it worked, it was fine, but this was too rare.
All too often it would fail to install and show me a huge list of dependancies. Average Joe User will not be able to cope with this, will not have a clue what is going on, and will wish he was in windows.
The default method of installing things must be able to install cleanly and without these problems before linux distros like mandrake will be able to truly appeal to the masses.
(im not saying there arent better ways, i don't know, but rpm seems the default and therefore will be the only thing that average joe uses).
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maybe, but by the time you added controls for gears, cutch, indicators etc that controller is going to be very complicated, and likely not easier at all.
they did this on scrapheap challenge (uk equivalent of junkyard wars) too, bit they had to fight each other, theirs seem like a bit of a kludge compared to this one though :)
were there as many typos in that program as there were in your post?, must have taken u forever to get it to compile!
thats some flippin impressive maths! :p
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IMHO a company is foolish not to check their code to some extent before it is released, in which case these should be easy to spot.
This of course is a major advantage to open source, you can check for yourself if you are paranoid.
Ultimately though, i think programmers have to be trusted to some extent, and so it will be impossible to completely get rid of this kind of thing.
FP!
There is nothing in this article to suggest that the actual code of the site is non standards compliant,
just that it deals out a different one to opera that is badly laid out, the code may be fine and perfectly compliant but it will still look wrong.
I dont see your logic there, u need an ipod to run it on, Apple still get the money.
They keep complaining about piracy of music through things like kazaa, but the only way they have tried to combat it is through stuff like spreading worms on the p2p networks.
I dont think they reallise that there are no satisfactorary ways of actually legallly paying for and downloading tracks. Most of the ones I have seen are poor. If a decent scheme was started, im sure at least some people would be willing to pay.
Yes, Google gives me great serch results is nice and lightweight etc etc, but most people will switch in a second if another engine emerges that provides better results. just as long as they dont mess up on the interface, people will quickly migrate.
Its not as if it is inconvenient to switch.
i was expecting some kind of calender script :)
As far as i can see, nobody is ever really going to want to spend huge amounts of time playing games on something like a mobile phone or pda, therefore huge, complex games are generally out of the question.
A simple, addictive game like snood(not that i have played it) is exactly what people will be looking for on these kind of devices.
Games on mobile phones are never very likely to rival those on things like gameboy advance, so keeping them simple seems the best option. Because of this i could see small developers selling a game (or at least the concept) to someone like nokia for their phones, and getting pretty rich in the process
RIAA trying to scare us again?
I think that RPM, or at least the GUI tools that surround it needs some major work before mandrake, or any other similar distro can really appeal to newbies.
I was a newbie to linux mysef not all that long ago (i still dont feel quite confortable enough in it although linux is growing on me), and when i downloaded software from the internet, double clicked the rpm, and it worked, it was fine, but this was too rare.
All too often it would fail to install and show me a huge list of dependancies. Average Joe User will not be able to cope with this, will not have a clue what is going on, and will wish he was in windows.
The default method of installing things must be able to install cleanly and without these problems before linux distros like mandrake will be able to truly appeal to the masses.
(im not saying there arent better ways, i don't know, but rpm seems the default and therefore will be the only thing that average joe uses).