Wonder how much of windows is real code vs patched.
There is no real difference between a patch and "fresh" code. There is code rut, certainly, but any upgrade to a software product is merely a coherent compilation of additional code, or patches, if you will.
So you need stuff hanging on your wall to start conversations now? Really, you could have saved your money and printed out a fake certificate instead of feeding this stupid industry, and *still* had a conversation starter.
"Other companies may talk of game machines, but we've always referred to 'computer entertainment,' even in our press materials. It's entertainment and also a computer. That's what's important."
Yes, because PS1 and PS2 are fabulous as computers.
And this:
"People probably won't be able to understand the difference between PS3 and Xbox 360 if the spec charts are just lined up," apparently.
"However, at E3, a suitable number of people said that they were glad they came and saw rather than just looking at the specs. When the PS3 is actually released, this will spread and people will come to understand."
But what did they get to see? I didn't go to E3, but from what I've read it seems Sony mostly showed pre-rendered footage.
Come on, this is pretty nerdy. And I for one enjoyed seeing the pics. For me, this is more interesting than that story about the Quark boss leaving, or that story about the FCC.
If you don't like the story, don't read it. I avoid Slashdot like the plague on 1. april, but I don't complain about it. Well, not much anyway.
But it doesn't mean anything unless you can tell us how many hours they work per week. The bit about voice actors demanding residuals on sold copies, however, is big. The argument goes, that if they get residuals, then why shouldn't the programmers, the artists, the script writers etc. also not get this? This could cost EA and the others a lot of money.
Even if it doesn't affect you, or the parent poster directly, censorship is and should be a thorn in the eye of any freedom loving person. Have some empathy with the chinese people who have to suffer the wrath of the government.
It just seems to me that the/. crowd always says that no nation can make laws to control the Internet, but then gets annoyed when a country does make a law that controls the Internet inside their country.
Why the hell should we not be annoyed about that? If it can happen in one country, it can happen in others.
People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics.
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I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the record industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So, what happened to ban on profanity?
I have just written a letter to the RIAA outlining my proposal. Suing pirates one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention pirates use the fact that they're being sued to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of pirates would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected pirates to a hotline, similar to TIPS. Once we know the size of the problem, the police and other law enforcement agencies will be forced to take piracy seriously. They have fought the War on Drugs with skill, so why not the War on Piracy?
I think George Orwell wrote a book about you.
This evening, my daughters asked me. "Why do the other kids laugh at us?"
Parallell importing/grey imports are strictly for the hard core gamers. There is no chance this will hurt Sonys sales target when the PSP is eventually released in Europe. Going after the importers is just stupid, because they are getting the units out to the innovators, and they can often make or break a product.
It's just daft of Sony to wait so long before they release it in Europe. As long as Sony is unable to satisfy the demand, someone else will supply the goods. Sony can cry foul all they want for all the good it will do them.
You mean MSN, don't you? Because this is an indexing thing, not anything that goes on a web server. FYI, Microsoft IIS is quite capable of running Python, so this should work without any problems at all.
Definitely a hazard - so it's extremely important to run it in test mode and see what's being indexed before you go live. I had to edit my config file *extensively* to weed out stuff that didn't need to there.:)
It's incredibly easy, even if you don't know any Python at all. All you have to do is edit the config.xml file, upload the python script and the config file (plus an url list if you want) and type python/your_path/sitemap_gen.py --config=/your_path/config.xml, and you're done.
This article looks like a big ad, but anyhow... I currently have three monitors on my desk, two LCDs (17" (left) & 19" (center)) and one CRT (24" (right)). It took a while to get used to, but now I can work without them. When programming, I edit the code in the center screen, test it in either right or left and have other assorted tools in the free screen. For me, this is the perfect setup and makes me more productive than working on just one or two screens.:)
the exclusive deals that EA has inked with football is utterly deplorable and should be called what it is: a monopoly tactic.
Sorry I disagree with you here. The NFL owns and continues to own those rights, they've only licensed it to EA. So the blame lies exclusively on the NFL's shoulders. EA's mission is to make money through making games, not just making games, and this just solidifies their position in the football games market. Does it suck for gamers? Yes, but it's the NFL's fault.
You're absolutely right there. It's not like EA has scored a deal on football games in general.
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Ocean did this a lot. I don't remember which issue, but Retro Gamer had a talk with the coder at Ocean responsible for the mini games (which was quite an impressive feat at the time). In those days, the mini games made sense, since loading times was 10+ minutes.
IE didn't just become "good enough" -- it became f**king great, and was heaps better than Netscape at the time. If Netscape kept getting better with every releases instead of increasingly worse, IE wouldn't have attained 90+% market share as fast as it did.
I agree 100% with parent, but just wanted to add reason 3 why the article is silly to suggest "Windows XP's taskbar is capable of grouping similar buttons, which effectively tabs a number of IE windows." When it groups similiar buttons, they're (at least) 2 clicks away (plus if you're like me, if you're stuck in windows, your start menu is autohidden, so it's 2 clicks & a split second wait). Plus, when experiencing ram-withdrawal lag, switching IE windows often becomes a 5-second hard-drive lagathon. Certainly a better PC fixes this but the point is on the same machine firefox's tabbed browsing switches sites on the fly without the lag. Any author of an article suggesting that the taskbar effectively emulates tabbed browsing has either never used a tabbed browser, or is a microsoft lackey in disguise.
Your argument is flawed for the following reasons:
1. The start menu is not autohidden by default. And if it is hidden, it easy to change this by right clicking on the start menu and select properties.
2. IE windows are grouped if there are more than a certain number of instances, but this is easily changed too. Actually, I find this "feature" quite annyoing, so I have this switched off for all applications. It's not tabbing per se, it's grouping.
3. Firefox doesn't prevent RAM shortage. If you're low on RAM, even the mighty Firefox will stumble.
But you're right in that the start menu doesn't emulate tabbed browsing. It's a collection of runnings apps, nothing more. Microsoft could of course make it into a tabbed menu system, but what would be the point?
In 1996 I was working at a movie theater, it was the summer that Independance Day came out. Siskel and Ebert gave it 2 thumbs down, a few days later it went on to have the biggest opening in history.
The next week, they actually felt like they had to justify their negative rating on the show.
In retrospect the movie was only OK, but I couldn't care less for Ebert's opinion of any film.
Why should this reflect poorly on Ebert? Independence Day was a terrible movie (with a *lot* worse acting and dialogue than any Star Wars movie), but it provided good entertainment value never the less. Ebert gave it the thumbs down and stuck to it apparently. That's pretty decent, if you ask me.
4 stars is reserved for the best of the best movies in the history of cinema; Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (I'd say) even the original Star Wars.
But it's all relative, see. What's so good about Saving Private Ryan? The story is lame and the acting is barely okay-ish. All that sets it apart from other films of its ilk is the cinematic (and quite good) opening sequence.
Raiders is undeniably a great movie, but better than Sith? Frankly, they're impossible to compare.
For SITH to score 3.5 stars is completely unwarrented. It's a 2 star picture at best -- which is not that bad.
Says you. I'd have given it four stars. But that's IMHO. That doesn't mean I think it's wrong that you would give it two stars, but neither opinion is hardly objective.
The Syberia games are awesome, and so is the Broken Sword game that was released some time ago.
But I still miss the big releases, like when Sierra and Lucasarts (and before that, Infocom, Level 9 and the other text adventure houses) reigned supreme. You could count on Sierra releasing new games on an almost per month basis, so while we have a few releases now, it's nothing like it used to be.
But yeah, I agree with you. Too many equate the adventure genre with Lucasarts and the defunct Sierra, and thus thinks the genre is dead. I find justadventure.com to be a good source of information on new adventure games, as well the IF scene and the yearly IF competition.
And I did buy Syberia 2 (and Broken Sword). Wish more people would do the same.
That also made absolutely no sense. First, why would they keep a rogue, ne'er-do-well (romantic speak for lazy slacker whose prolly not a stranger to death sticks) as a tag along leaving the planet with the queen of the entire planet?!?!?
She was not the queen in ep. 2, only a senator. And Jar Jar was a high ranking general from the same planet. It still jars, but not to the degree you stipulate.
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There is no real difference between a patch and "fresh" code. There is code rut, certainly, but any upgrade to a software product is merely a coherent compilation of additional code, or patches, if you will.
But, does 2.6.12 really break the new ATI drivers? That`s kinda wacky...
So you need stuff hanging on your wall to start conversations now? Really, you could have saved your money and printed out a fake certificate instead of feeding this stupid industry, and *still* had a conversation starter.
And it did spark a huge debate which ended with the international agreement that no nation on earth can claim sovereignty on any celestial body.
And this:
But what did they get to see? I didn't go to E3, but from what I've read it seems Sony mostly showed pre-rendered footage.If you don't like the story, don't read it. I avoid Slashdot like the plague on 1. april, but I don't complain about it. Well, not much anyway.
But it doesn't mean anything unless you can tell us how many hours they work per week. The bit about voice actors demanding residuals on sold copies, however, is big. The argument goes, that if they get residuals, then why shouldn't the programmers, the artists, the script writers etc. also not get this? This could cost EA and the others a lot of money.
Obviously. ;)
He didn't mention it, but I'm bet he's sending money back to Spain to support his ailing mother too.
It's just daft of Sony to wait so long before they release it in Europe. As long as Sony is unable to satisfy the demand, someone else will supply the goods. Sony can cry foul all they want for all the good it will do them.
You mean MSN, don't you? Because this is an indexing thing, not anything that goes on a web server. FYI, Microsoft IIS is quite capable of running Python, so this should work without any problems at all.
Definitely a hazard - so it's extremely important to run it in test mode and see what's being indexed before you go live. I had to edit my config file *extensively* to weed out stuff that didn't need to there. :)
It's incredibly easy, even if you don't know any Python at all. All you have to do is edit the config.xml file, upload the python script and the config file (plus an url list if you want) and type python /your_path/sitemap_gen.py --config=/your_path/config.xml, and you're done.
This article looks like a big ad, but anyhow... I currently have three monitors on my desk, two LCDs (17" (left) & 19" (center)) and one CRT (24" (right)). It took a while to get used to, but now I can work without them. When programming, I edit the code in the center screen, test it in either right or left and have other assorted tools in the free screen. For me, this is the perfect setup and makes me more productive than working on just one or two screens. :)
Ocean did this a lot. I don't remember which issue, but Retro Gamer had a talk with the coder at Ocean responsible for the mini games (which was quite an impressive feat at the time). In those days, the mini games made sense, since loading times was 10+ minutes.
IE didn't just become "good enough" -- it became f**king great, and was heaps better than Netscape at the time. If Netscape kept getting better with every releases instead of increasingly worse, IE wouldn't have attained 90+% market share as fast as it did.
1. The start menu is not autohidden by default. And if it is hidden, it easy to change this by right clicking on the start menu and select properties.
2. IE windows are grouped if there are more than a certain number of instances, but this is easily changed too. Actually, I find this "feature" quite annyoing, so I have this switched off for all applications. It's not tabbing per se, it's grouping.
3. Firefox doesn't prevent RAM shortage. If you're low on RAM, even the mighty Firefox will stumble.
But you're right in that the start menu doesn't emulate tabbed browsing. It's a collection of runnings apps, nothing more. Microsoft could of course make it into a tabbed menu system, but what would be the point?
Raiders is undeniably a great movie, but better than Sith? Frankly, they're impossible to compare.
Says you. I'd have given it four stars. But that's IMHO. That doesn't mean I think it's wrong that you would give it two stars, but neither opinion is hardly objective.Bravo. Yours is the first intelligent post in this thread so far.
But I still miss the big releases, like when Sierra and Lucasarts (and before that, Infocom, Level 9 and the other text adventure houses) reigned supreme. You could count on Sierra releasing new games on an almost per month basis, so while we have a few releases now, it's nothing like it used to be.
But yeah, I agree with you. Too many equate the adventure genre with Lucasarts and the defunct Sierra, and thus thinks the genre is dead. I find justadventure.com to be a good source of information on new adventure games, as well the IF scene and the yearly IF competition.
And I did buy Syberia 2 (and Broken Sword). Wish more people would do the same.
It's also wrong. Anakin didn't kill Padme.