Re:IMDb is a complete waste of time!
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IMDb Turns 15
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I can not think of many single sites that can kill as much time as IMDb
Yeah, not many. Wikipedia definately can.
15 years too many?
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IMDb Turns 15
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I don't know about others but I've really come to dislike imdb. 1. The design is terrible. I find it unappealing. (not that this is a necessity, but it would be nice to see a facelift). I think it's the choice of font. 2. The layout is terrible. There are no borders to show logical divisions in the content. It still feels like an online list of data circa 1990. 2. Too many ads, in too obtrusive places 3. A9 box right by the search box. At least use some integration between the two like Wikipedia does with google. Don't try to sucker users into using A9 when clearly this isn't what they want. 4. Required to register to even *look* at the discussions. 5. Trivia and other user contributed stuff is always redundant and filled with grammatical errors. 6. ?
I really like: du -sh * Probably best to put this in your.bash_profile file (or equivilant): alias diskusage=`du -sh * && du -sh.[A-Za-z]*` (I know this can be shortened with regular expressions, but I've never looked into it)
Anyway, if need be, pipe that to a "sort"-on-steroids and you can see where your disk space is getting eaten up.
You can hack the installation file to include whatever profile you want. This means you can make your own default installation file with extensions, settings, etc.
Understandably, the concept of multiplayer turn based strategy games is difficult to feasibly implement. There have been strides towards hotseat or online play. Even turnless play.
What is the future of online gaming with regards to the civ series? Will it be expanded or phased out. If phased out, why? If expanded, what plans are in place to enhance the online experience.
Allow me to present my own thoughts on the matter. Instead of pitting online players against one another where the TBS problems inherently lie, place them all on the same team. Instead of advisors as in Civ III, allow players to take on command of one aspect of the civilization. For example, minister of defence, minister of finance, minister of science and education, etc. Surely the game can be made complicated enough for one of these duties to be a challenging job in itself. Consider also how interconnected team mates will be on each other (It's hard to build a navy if the finance department won't spring for an increased budget). Allow one (or several players depending on government type) to be in charge of deciding policy. If a player doesn't adhere to policy or if a player is ready to retire (after a few hours of playing), open up an election and let a newly joined player (or one already with a job - ready for a change) run a campaign of sorts for that position (perhaps simulate the election results based on past performance or lack thereof in previous games). Allow the players to have chats with one another which would simulate a parliament of sorts where policy makers can have discussions with the leaders in those specific fields. This will allow a game of civilization to be reasonably played from beginning to end without the problems TBS presents to multiplayered environments. Players will come in and out at all times as new ones put in bids to be elected for vacant positions.
Just one of several ideas that could be used to utilize the virtually empty MMOTBS market.
pop-up blocker, mouse gestures, etc, built in; no need to download/trust/install extensions from god knows who You're stretching the truth here. Pop-up blocker is also inherent with no need for an extension. Mouse gestures - this is true, but a lot of users out there don't like them. I play around with mouse when I am touching it, the rest of the time, I navigate with keyboard shortcuts. Extensions can be trusted if you install them off of updates.mozilla.org.
changing settings, you don't need to close and re-open it every bloody time This is true in Firefox too. Only updated extensions and themes need to be restarted. All those settings take effect immediately.
built-in IRC client, built-in email client, built-in bit torrent client Most people are not interested in an IRC or bit torrent client. Of course an extension is always available if they do. Bottom line is Firefox does not include these things because the choice is left up to the user. Through Firefox, I can choose whether or not I want this extra functionality at the cost of system resources.
highly-configurable thru gui, not through text file hacks True of Firefox too. Right-click the toolbars and see how many different buttons you can put in or take out.
produced by an actual company with an actual interest in quality moreso than freedom/clunky-breakiness Firefox is backed by a non-profit organization and not a big corporation (that should be reason enough right there). Firefox developers are also dedicated to quality and promote freedom with it (you CAN have both). Clunky-breakiness I attribute to user error and it isn't fair to label Firefox as such.
Basically, it comes "out of the box" ready to go and requires much, much, much less dicking around with to get it Just The Way I Like. This is really important to actual users, believe it or not. No, this is only true for power users such as yourself who needs your mouse gestures, your bittorrent client, your IRC. This is not what most users want. Users don't want to see terms they don't understand. They want a browser that allows them to surf the web.
No, I mean I look at a tab for a while, I hit ctrl+w, I look at a tab, ctrl+w, look at a tab, ctrl+w - Oh wait, that wasn't a tab at all! Now I have to fire up firefox again.
Similarly, I always forget how many tabs I have open. Then I get into a string of Ctrl+Ws to close tabs and I accidentally hit ctrl+w when I have no other tabs open. Firefox of course closes and I have to open it up again.
I've never filed a bug report, but if others find that annoying, maybe I would. Would be nice for me if ctrl+w to close firefox would prompt for confirmation.
All they have to do if their extension still works is tweak a version field at addons.mozilla.org (or wherever their extension checks for updates) and Firefox will allow the extension to run.
I haven't made any extensions before, but from what little I know, doesn't that mean I can unzip the installed extension, find the file, add 1.5 to the list, rezip and go?
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before but I noticed wrapping your words in asterisks like *this* causes your words to be bolded. I wonder what other undocumented features there are out there.
Hey, is there any browser that denies all requests to read cookies except if you are actually visiting that domain at that particular time? Or extensions to accomplish this?
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I can not think of many single sites that can kill as much time as IMDb
Yeah, not many. Wikipedia definately can.
I don't know about others but I've really come to dislike imdb.
1. The design is terrible. I find it unappealing. (not that this is a necessity, but it would be nice to see a facelift). I think it's the choice of font.
2. The layout is terrible. There are no borders to show logical divisions in the content. It still feels like an online list of data circa 1990.
2. Too many ads, in too obtrusive places
3. A9 box right by the search box. At least use some integration between the two like Wikipedia does with google. Don't try to sucker users into using A9 when clearly this isn't what they want.
4. Required to register to even *look* at the discussions.
5. Trivia and other user contributed stuff is always redundant and filled with grammatical errors.
6. ?
You must be new here. This is slashdot. Who the hell reads TFA? Slashdot comments that do not touch on ideological issues. Now THAT would be huge!
I really like: .bash_profile file (or equivilant): .[A-Za-z]*`
du -sh *
Probably best to put this in your
alias diskusage=`du -sh * && du -sh
(I know this can be shortened with regular expressions, but I've never looked into it)
Anyway, if need be, pipe that to a "sort"-on-steroids and you can see where your disk space is getting eaten up.
You can hack the installation file to include whatever profile you want. This means you can make your own default installation file with extensions, settings, etc.
Understandably, the concept of multiplayer turn based strategy games is difficult to feasibly implement. There have been strides towards hotseat or online play. Even turnless play.
What is the future of online gaming with regards to the civ series? Will it be expanded or phased out. If phased out, why? If expanded, what plans are in place to enhance the online experience.
Allow me to present my own thoughts on the matter. Instead of pitting online players against one another where the TBS problems inherently lie, place them all on the same team. Instead of advisors as in Civ III, allow players to take on command of one aspect of the civilization. For example, minister of defence, minister of finance, minister of science and education, etc. Surely the game can be made complicated enough for one of these duties to be a challenging job in itself. Consider also how interconnected team mates will be on each other (It's hard to build a navy if the finance department won't spring for an increased budget). Allow one (or several players depending on government type) to be in charge of deciding policy. If a player doesn't adhere to policy or if a player is ready to retire (after a few hours of playing), open up an election and let a newly joined player (or one already with a job - ready for a change) run a campaign of sorts for that position (perhaps simulate the election results based on past performance or lack thereof in previous games). Allow the players to have chats with one another which would simulate a parliament of sorts where policy makers can have discussions with the leaders in those specific fields. This will allow a game of civilization to be reasonably played from beginning to end without the problems TBS presents to multiplayered environments. Players will come in and out at all times as new ones put in bids to be elected for vacant positions.
Just one of several ideas that could be used to utilize the virtually empty MMOTBS market.
Yeah, that's the script and I noticed that too. Hopefully, an update will resolve this.
This is possible with a greasemonkey script in Firefox. It's great!
Right, so you associate IE's "maturity" with positive connotations and deny the negative.
Lest you should get lost in ambiguous language, could you please explain what is meant when you say a software product is "more mature"?
pop-up blocker, mouse gestures, etc, built in; no need to download/trust/install extensions from god knows who
You're stretching the truth here. Pop-up blocker is also inherent with no need for an extension. Mouse gestures - this is true, but a lot of users out there don't like them. I play around with mouse when I am touching it, the rest of the time, I navigate with keyboard shortcuts. Extensions can be trusted if you install them off of updates.mozilla.org.
changing settings, you don't need to close and re-open it every bloody time
This is true in Firefox too. Only updated extensions and themes need to be restarted. All those settings take effect immediately.
built-in IRC client, built-in email client, built-in bit torrent client
Most people are not interested in an IRC or bit torrent client. Of course an extension is always available if they do. Bottom line is Firefox does not include these things because the choice is left up to the user. Through Firefox, I can choose whether or not I want this extra functionality at the cost of system resources.
highly-configurable thru gui, not through text file hacks
True of Firefox too. Right-click the toolbars and see how many different buttons you can put in or take out.
produced by an actual company with an actual interest in quality moreso than freedom/clunky-breakiness
Firefox is backed by a non-profit organization and not a big corporation (that should be reason enough right there). Firefox developers are also dedicated to quality and promote freedom with it (you CAN have both). Clunky-breakiness I attribute to user error and it isn't fair to label Firefox as such.
Basically, it comes "out of the box" ready to go and requires much, much, much less dicking around with to get it Just The Way I Like. This is really important to actual users, believe it or not.
No, this is only true for power users such as yourself who needs your mouse gestures, your bittorrent client, your IRC. This is not what most users want. Users don't want to see terms they don't understand. They want a browser that allows them to surf the web.
No, I mean I look at a tab for a while, I hit ctrl+w, I look at a tab, ctrl+w, look at a tab, ctrl+w - Oh wait, that wasn't a tab at all! Now I have to fire up firefox again.
Similarly, I always forget how many tabs I have open. Then I get into a string of Ctrl+Ws to close tabs and I accidentally hit ctrl+w when I have no other tabs open. Firefox of course closes and I have to open it up again.
I've never filed a bug report, but if others find that annoying, maybe I would. Would be nice for me if ctrl+w to close firefox would prompt for confirmation.
I see, sounds like a bug report should be sent to the developer. No extension should be required to be installed as root.
All they have to do if their extension still works is tweak a version field at addons.mozilla.org (or wherever their extension checks for updates) and Firefox will allow the extension to run.
I haven't made any extensions before, but from what little I know, doesn't that mean I can unzip the installed extension, find the file, add 1.5 to the list, rezip and go?
uh, so um, why are we using root to install/update the extension?
I use gentoo and haven't lost an extension once.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before but I noticed wrapping your words in asterisks like *this* causes your words to be bolded. I wonder what other undocumented features there are out there.
Ha! Begging for Gmail invites! That's so 2004.
On the subject of handwriting, it's cool how these manuscripts match the handwriting on my Einstein poster.
No, I mean if I'm visiting slashdot.org only my slashdot cookie can be read and osdn.org should not be allowed to retrieve their cookie.
Hey, is there any browser that denies all requests to read cookies except if you are actually visiting that domain at that particular time? Or extensions to accomplish this?
Ha! Yeah, if we ignore web standards, then the terrorists have already won!
Parents simply assume all games are designed for children. The folks in the government seem to assume the same thing.
Why should Microsoft get all that money? Didn't he cause problems for many others as well?
Already using one of those. I'm talking about one that a user can understand.
But I see anybrowser does have such a button.