The port is very faithful to the console versions. My favorite part is the "Please do not turn off the system" message when saving. I was just about to hit that big 'ol power button, too!
My matte Macbook Pro took a trip off of my couch armrest one night and the screen got busted. I decided to go with a glossy replacement screen. Honestly, I love the way it looks. I have no regrets (except for kicking it off the couch).
A specific example was the Welchia (a "fix" for Blaster that unfortunately had many of the same symptoms): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia I remember Welchia being a lot more trouble than it was worth due to it's excessive attempts to spread itself.
What drives me nuts is that Microsoft Office tries to open web links on its own before delegating them to your actual browser. At work our intranet pages will redirect you to a login screen if you are not logged in (based on a cookie). As a result, if you click on an intranet link in an Office document, Office (or IE I guess) tries to navigate to the page, but lacks the cookie so it gets redirected to the login screen. It then launches firefox with the URL of the login screen (and no referrer, so the login screen doesn't know where you came from).
What I find to be completely ridiculous is that this "feature" seems to serve no purpose. If I click on a link to a.doc file, Word will launch Firefox, which will then download it and launch Word, even though I know from my experience above that Word/MSFT is making their own GET beforehand. If you're going to be making HTTP GETs yourself, why not go all the way?
Which is embedded in the profile hug application request. It is positioned at negative 5000 pixels, so small chance of it showing anything. The php in question usually serves nothing, but some days when I view facebook.com/reqs.php my browser is redirected to http://74.86.142.202/~bydoss/facebook.php , which displays Facebook in an iframe along with banner ads as I mentioned. When you directly navigate to the url it does nothing, I assume there must be some post parameters.
I am only assuming the iframe serves up the code to hijack the browser- unfortunately I was using Safari and was unable to trace any url/post parameters as I might have been able to with firebug (but the facebook.php url was shown in the address bar). The fact that the ip address would imply that it's related.
I know I can tell my friends to get rid of the app, but what about all the other people who have it?
The Profile Hug application embeds an iframe in its request notification that sometimes (but not always) redirects the user to an external site that then shows facebook in an iframe along with advertisements. Facebook has yet to do anything about this app (though I have notified them).
For those who don't know how Facebook works, basically when one person installs an app, the app will pester them to request their friends also install it. A friend of mine installed it, which sent me a request that appears on a very long list of other such requests I've ignored. When I view my requests page, there is now a (sometimes) malicious iframe that will hijack my browser window, even though I have not installed any app.
I liked the theme Soule composed for Natural Selection (the Half-Life mod), especially the end-of-round theme (about a minute in to "ambient1") http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/audio/
You mean like the "jog dials" Sony is oh-so-fond of? The fact that they stuck those things wherever they could, including their palm pilot variants, cd players, and pretty much everything else excpet the play station. leads me to believe they probably patented it.
Michael Lynn? As long as these guys didn't decompile proprietary software and put the source code in a power point presentation, I think that there's not much of a comparison.
Google complies with the DMCA, which requires it censor certain search results (for example, "kazaalite" http://www.google.com/search?q=kazaalite will display a notice at the bottom indicating search results were removed).
Admittedly, it doesn't go as far as China's censorship, but this is a slippery slope. Why is censorship there "evil", but censorship here is not? Google is complying with the law. Yes, I think it's a bad law. But since when is obeying the law evil? Why is it up to Google to crusade against government policy? Are they some kind of political super-hero?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh why can't people actually take the time to look up the facts of this case? If I have to explain this one more time...
McDonalds coffee was not "too hot". It was just right. It's just that most people appearently don't know coffee is supposed to be served hot. Despite the usual attitude of holding people responsible for their own ignorance, here you blame McDonalds for not telling people that coffee is hot.
The RPG Xenosaga featured orchestrated music, performed by the London Philaharmonic Orchestra, right in the game, and it was great. The choice for music use in the game was very different though, it was primarily used for cutscenes while the actual dungeon crawl moments were mostly sound effects and ambience.
In the end I kind of liked it, especially after Xenosaga 2 brought back cheesy electronic bgm for the environments, it left me begging for silence.
I've played Myst III too, and if anything deserves a mention for orchestrated soundtrack, I'd say it's Xenosaga.
Any libraries the binary links with need to be in 32 bit format. Essentially, you need to maintain two installs of your distro, a 64 bit install, and a 32 bit install. It can get a bit complicated, or you can just do stuff like install a whole 32 bit distro to a big chroot and run stuff there.
Take a browser that lets you change the user agent. I am using k-meleon.
When I view: https://adwords.google.co.uk/support/bin/an swer.py ?answer=9653&topic=65 and pass user agent: Googlebot/2.1
I see the title EXACTLY as it appears in the cache, with the keyword spam: traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?
They are checking the user agent, and spamming the title with keywords for only search agents to pick up. But when a regular UA views the page, they report the regular title.
I additionally tried this with Yahoo! Slurp and MSNbot but they did not produce the keyword spam. Looks like google is only doing this for themselves.
Unfortunately my work pc is windows. C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts is far too long to type, and echo will put the literal apostrophe's in the file. Not to mention windows seems to ignore my hosts file most of the time which has lead me to print it out and read it off the wall when I need an internal DNS.
So I guess I'll just have to continue posting on Slashdot to describe my problems until a better solution can be found.
In K-Meleon I see "www.p?ypal.com", see the "Looking up www.xn--pypal-4ve.com...", then have "www.p?ypal.com" in the address bar after it loads. Not too convincing here.
I had Russ Nelson as a professor at Clarkson University. As far as looks go, it was a little disheveled, like he had just gotten up and had to run off because he was late for class (at 1pm), along with an old t-shirt and pants that were probably the same pair as class two days before.
In the end, it was like university camouflage. He blended seemlessly with all the comp sci majors.
I often wonder if there was any reason to include deathmatch in the release of Doom3, considering it was broken and useless. I think waiting until it was done (or more done) was probably a good idea. Don't forget that hl2 was done a month before it hit the store shelves, so this was probably not a 2 week effort.
That doesn't match the element + animal theme. Maybe something like "Rockllama". But then it would probably get renamed 5 times and in the end you'd be stuck with "Puddlebunny". So maybe that isn't such a great theme.
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Should have used the preview button, I meant no one has mentioned Metroid Prime's controls in relation to other FPS.
You know what would probably make a great console FPS controller? A DDR mat. That would be pretty awesome.
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I notice no one has mentioned Metroid Prime. I have to admit, it's the only console fps I played (not all of it but a bit), and I thought the controls were pretty awful. Mainly because they inhibited moving and looking at the same time I guess.
I personally thought Halo was pretty hard on PC with a mouse/keyboard combo. Was the difficulty increased for the PC version or were the XBox controls just that good?
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The port is very faithful to the console versions. My favorite part is the "Please do not turn off the system" message when saving. I was just about to hit that big 'ol power button, too!
My matte Macbook Pro took a trip off of my couch armrest one night and the screen got busted. I decided to go with a glossy replacement screen. Honestly, I love the way it looks. I have no regrets (except for kicking it off the couch).
A specific example was the Welchia (a "fix" for Blaster that unfortunately had many of the same symptoms):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia
I remember Welchia being a lot more trouble than it was worth due to it's excessive attempts to spread itself.
Ditto for Windows Desktop Search.
.doc file, Word will launch Firefox, which will then download it and launch Word, even though I know from my experience above that Word/MSFT is making their own GET beforehand. If you're going to be making HTTP GETs yourself, why not go all the way?
What drives me nuts is that Microsoft Office tries to open web links on its own before delegating them to your actual browser. At work our intranet pages will redirect you to a login screen if you are not logged in (based on a cookie). As a result, if you click on an intranet link in an Office document, Office (or IE I guess) tries to navigate to the page, but lacks the cookie so it gets redirected to the login screen. It then launches firefox with the URL of the login screen (and no referrer, so the login screen doesn't know where you came from).
What I find to be completely ridiculous is that this "feature" seems to serve no purpose. If I click on a link to a
My request page (facebook.com/reqs.php) contains this iframe:
<iframe src="http://74.86.142.202/~bydoss/facebook/profilehug/rx.php" width="0" height="0" style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;"></iframe>
Which is embedded in the profile hug application request. It is positioned at negative 5000 pixels, so small chance of it showing anything. The php in question usually serves nothing, but some days when I view facebook.com/reqs.php my browser is redirected to http://74.86.142.202/~bydoss/facebook.php , which displays Facebook in an iframe along with banner ads as I mentioned. When you directly navigate to the url it does nothing, I assume there must be some post parameters.
I am only assuming the iframe serves up the code to hijack the browser- unfortunately I was using Safari and was unable to trace any url/post parameters as I might have been able to with firebug (but the facebook.php url was shown in the address bar). The fact that the ip address would imply that it's related.
I know I can tell my friends to get rid of the app, but what about all the other people who have it?
The Profile Hug application embeds an iframe in its request notification that sometimes (but not always) redirects the user to an external site that then shows facebook in an iframe along with advertisements. Facebook has yet to do anything about this app (though I have notified them).
For those who don't know how Facebook works, basically when one person installs an app, the app will pester them to request their friends also install it. A friend of mine installed it, which sent me a request that appears on a very long list of other such requests I've ignored. When I view my requests page, there is now a (sometimes) malicious iframe that will hijack my browser window, even though I have not installed any app.
OCRemix was mentioned in another thread (a great site), it's worth noting that Jeremy Soule himself contributed a remix of Final Fantasy 6's main theme.
I liked the theme Soule composed for Natural Selection (the Half-Life mod), especially the end-of-round theme (about a minute in to "ambient1") http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/audio/
You mean like the "jog dials" Sony is oh-so-fond of? The fact that they stuck those things wherever they could, including their palm pilot variants, cd players, and pretty much everything else excpet the play station. leads me to believe they probably patented it.
Michael Lynn? As long as these guys didn't decompile proprietary software and put the source code in a power point presentation, I think that there's not much of a comparison.
Google complies with the DMCA, which requires it censor certain search results (for example, "kazaalite" http://www.google.com/search?q=kazaalite will display a notice at the bottom indicating search results were removed).
Admittedly, it doesn't go as far as China's censorship, but this is a slippery slope. Why is censorship there "evil", but censorship here is not? Google is complying with the law. Yes, I think it's a bad law. But since when is obeying the law evil? Why is it up to Google to crusade against government policy? Are they some kind of political super-hero?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh why can't people actually take the time to look up the facts of this case? If I have to explain this one more time...
Actually, I'm not going to explain it. You can see it here:
http://stellaawards.com/stella.html
McDonalds coffee was not "too hot". It was just right. It's just that most people appearently don't know coffee is supposed to be served hot. Despite the usual attitude of holding people responsible for their own ignorance, here you blame McDonalds for not telling people that coffee is hot.
The RPG Xenosaga featured orchestrated music, performed by the London Philaharmonic Orchestra, right in the game, and it was great. The choice for music use in the game was very different though, it was primarily used for cutscenes while the actual dungeon crawl moments were mostly sound effects and ambience.
In the end I kind of liked it, especially after Xenosaga 2 brought back cheesy electronic bgm for the environments, it left me begging for silence.
I've played Myst III too, and if anything deserves a mention for orchestrated soundtrack, I'd say it's Xenosaga.
Any libraries the binary links with need to be in 32 bit format. Essentially, you need to maintain two installs of your distro, a 64 bit install, and a 32 bit install. It can get a bit complicated, or you can just do stuff like install a whole 32 bit distro to a big chroot and run stuff there.
No, it's far more sinister.
n swer.py ?answer=9653&topic=65
Take a browser that lets you change the user agent. I am using k-meleon.
When I view:
https://adwords.google.co.uk/support/bin/a
and pass user agent:
Googlebot/2.1
I see the title EXACTLY as it appears in the cache, with the keyword spam:
traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic
Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool?
They are checking the user agent, and spamming the title with keywords for only search agents to pick up. But when a regular UA views the page, they report the regular title.
I additionally tried this with Yahoo! Slurp and MSNbot but they did not produce the keyword spam. Looks like google is only doing this for themselves.
I find it very ironic that if I go to http://www.google.us/ here in the states, I get redirected to http://www.google.com/.
.us, would you get double redirected?
If you were in a foreign country and went to
echo '0.0.0.0 slashdot.org' >> /etc/hosts
Unfortunately my work pc is windows. C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts is far too long to type, and echo will put the literal apostrophe's in the file. Not to mention windows seems to ignore my hosts file most of the time which has lead me to print it out and read it off the wall when I need an internal DNS.
So I guess I'll just have to continue posting on Slashdot to describe my problems until a better solution can be found.
In K-Meleon I see "www.p?ypal.com", see the "Looking up www.xn--pypal-4ve.com...", then have "www.p?ypal.com" in the address bar after it loads.
Not too convincing here.
I had Russ Nelson as a professor at Clarkson University. As far as looks go, it was a little disheveled, like he had just gotten up and had to run off because he was late for class (at 1pm), along with an old t-shirt and pants that were probably the same pair as class two days before.
In the end, it was like university camouflage. He blended seemlessly with all the comp sci majors.
If anyone asks why you have those [i]'s in your post, you can just tell them that having the two "Submit" and "Preview" buttons confused you.
I often wonder if there was any reason to include deathmatch in the release of Doom3, considering it was broken and useless. I think waiting until it was done (or more done) was probably a good idea. Don't forget that hl2 was done a month before it hit the store shelves, so this was probably not a 2 week effort.
A {
color: inherit;
}
One would think this little bit of css wouldn't be too difficult to support. One would not be a microsoft employee.
Or, it looks like it was intended to go in a sidebar on ie... which is where it goes.
That doesn't match the element + animal theme. Maybe something like "Rockllama". But then it would probably get renamed 5 times and in the end you'd be stuck with "Puddlebunny". So maybe that isn't such a great theme.
Should have used the preview button, I meant no one has mentioned Metroid Prime's controls in relation to other FPS.
You know what would probably make a great console FPS controller? A DDR mat. That would be pretty awesome.
I notice no one has mentioned Metroid Prime. I have to admit, it's the only console fps I played (not all of it but a bit), and I thought the controls were pretty awful. Mainly because they inhibited moving and looking at the same time I guess.
I personally thought Halo was pretty hard on PC with a mouse/keyboard combo. Was the difficulty increased for the PC version or were the XBox controls just that good?