IBM gave Netscape Communications (back before they were bought by AOL) lots and lots of money. They setup agreements specifically so that Netscape 2's codebase with extensions to Javascript and plugins would be released for OS/2 in 1997. It was fairly comparable to Netscape 3.0 on Windows at the time. BeOS never got a browser that was any good until Opera put out a port. It never really became a popular one.
As for the moderation, I'm sure meta-moderation will clear that up. Net+ sucked ass. The community, not the company, were the ones who managed to get a browser for their OS that wasn't crappy.
Net+ was the worst browser! It was like Opera v2, or the brower from IBM that came with OS/2. The entire point of it was to go get a better browser. The only problem was that there never was a good browser, since there was no might like IBM's to get Netscape to port over to the OS (back before Mozilla had enough strength to stand on its own).
No CSS, HTML 3.2 barely, no JS.. While I don't like JS (I leave most of it off it Mozilla), a lot of sites (ab)use it to perform basic things that should be done at a lower layer, like browser redirects and URL construction. Net+ was impossible to use on anything other that Be's HTML documentation.
You're right about the networking and most of the rest. I'd love to have this as a box in front of my TV, using only USB, powered firewire, 100Mbps networking, and DVI/Svideo.
I don't recall the EB guys hounding me to sign some sort of contract when I bought my Xbox. In fact, I don't recall any sort of contract in the box with it that I signed.
The closest thing I could find was the ABOUT XBOX in the dashboard, which talks about how the softvare on the Xbox is protected by copyright law. Since I have no intention of pirating the Xbox dashboard, I think I'm legal.
Plus, once I own something, it's mine. As I've said before, I could rip off the top of my Xbox, put all my night soil in there, and grow flowers from the rich loam. Microsoft can't say anything to me about the use of it, because I own it.
How me filling out the same forms online as in the Real World (TM) will somehow make the government know things it wouldn't otherwise know, in a Vast Communist Conspiracy To Rule The World And Keep The Working Man Down!
The rampant knee-jerk paranoia on this site by certain people is just disgusting.
"but other than that - I found the plot confusing, and that the characters were not developed enough. "
You haven't seen the restranslation. The original one was really, really shitty. You had to either get a fansub or know a bit of japanese to really enjoy it. The new retranslation that Pioneer has released is great. It's like a whole new movie!
I NEVER noticed how all the guys in the fighting games I play are MUSCLE BOUND!
I am as shocked as you are to find this blanant sexism in Street Fighter, Soulcalibur, Dead or Alive, and others!
Since I, for one, am not a Ninja Master with HUGE MUSCLES, I know I must be as shamed playing these games as the women who do not have huge DDD chests are when playing Tomb Raider! Because video games are meant to remind us of our own painful realities, right?
If you pay a company money, and it won't work out of the box, get a refund. Then pirate it.
If their anti-piracy measures increase the amount of piracy, they will reconsider them. After all, if you want to pay them money, they should give you software that works.
I think a lot of the releases is the last year have started to cross the threshold between easy-copy-discouraging of casual warezing, towards the point where their attempts to stop the 10% who will always steal are forcing the 80% who might or might not steal will have to steal, and the 10% who never steal will find something else to do.
Saskatoon is cheap to live in compared to Toronto or Vancouver, but only a little under what you'd see in Calgary.
With proper budgeting, I can have a nice apartment for 450$ plus 150$ a month for food, with utilities all included in my rent. Unlimited internet access is another 40$ on top of that (home user, cable modem), or 99$ (SOHO -- static IPs and allowed to run services). Very handy when you have to live on minimum wage for a bit between jobs (min wage is 6.35$ per hour).
Note: all dollar values in Canadian. Multiple by.57 to convert to US dollar amounts.
If you wanted to move your university education to Canada, you'd pay about $500 per class registration fee + 50$ to 200$ (or more) for books per class, 5 classes a term, 3 terms a year. Based on your $36,000 Canadian a year to have a house, you could easily attend university while living a decent life in a nice part of town with nice things for that much money.
One thing you notice when you cross the border a lot is that while "big" things cost different (TVs, computer parts, etc), "little" things tend to cost the same (bag of chips, candy bar). You also notice the artificial price controls on things (books are often cheaper in Canada even after the conversion, DVDs cost the exact same dollar amount despite the value difference, most CDs are within the same dollar amount).
The absolute best of both worlds is to live in Canada while drawing income from the US, becuse the US has a hugely inflated costs of living. Canadians are really, really cheap to employ compared to local people, and (on the Canadian side) you'll make more than you're likely to make locally:)
Go ahead. But if I were living on 1,700$ USD a month just for rent, I'd seriously consider moving so somewhere cheaper and using the money I saved from not living in a money pit towards things I cared about, like retirement:)
It seems to have reduced the amount of thrashing for me.
Start - Settings - Control Panel - System.
Go to advanced. Click Performance. Go to Advanced, set memory usage to System Cache (rather than programs). On my work system, it's stopped over aggresively swapping programs to disk when I minimize them.
"Many informed people believe the X-Box may well be a Palladium trial balloon and a test bed for emerging Microsoft DRM technology. "
And many people who can add one and one to make two realize that the video game industry is a great cash cow that anyone can get into. Whether you're a third or first party developer, you too can ching-ching-ring in the yearly Gift-mas shopping seasons in ways that pro-business-tax-break 3-year buying cycles won't.
If that's not enough to clarify their already fairly-clear motives, here's a simplified business model for you: 1) Create a console that's hard to make unlicenced 3rd party games for. 2) Rake in the dough from 3rd-party developers while making a profit on the consoles after a (short) loss leader period used to drive early adoption and valuable market share. 3) PROFIT!
Nintendo did it, Sony did it, Sega did it, Microsoft wants to do it. Why? They already publish PC games, but the console market is BIGGER than the PC market by a fair bit. If they can rake money in by publishing various titles on their Xbox, as well as rake money in from everyone else who publishes titles for their Xbox (rather than the smaller cut they get if they jush published their MS games for Sony or Nintendo), they'll do it. The reason they can do it is because they're big enough to push through the loss-leader time period (larger for them than most because of the design of the console) to get to the sweet, rich money part. Sega only stopped being a first-party developer because they couldn't bankroll the next-gen console they were working on after the Dreamcast (as well as Dreamcast licence fees drying up).
Palladium and DRM might have some resemblance to the technology used in the Xbox because Microsoft wanted to make extra-double sure that people wouldn't write unlicenced (and thus, no $$ for Microsoft) games for their Xbox platform even though it was built on PC-hardware roots. Get it? Use-limiting technology looks similar. In this case, though, it's not some grand plot by the Beast at Redmond which most/bots like to repeat over and over and over again.
Wether MS is going to do something like jam the Xbox and some PVR software together to make some unholy alliance of crap has yet to be seen. Chances are they'll maybe come out with YetAnotherDongle that you can buy separately (after all, a PVR for console price + dongle price may be cheaper than a TiVo + subscription yet), since they don't seem too keen on forcing people to buy features in their console they might not use (DVD playback) just yet.
And that also assumes that MS is going to come out with another console in some years time. Since the sweet spot for most consoles is about 3-4 years after release (in terms of gross profits), expect to see this resovled in 2006 when they'll annouce real plans about a potential succesor (if they make one).
Hinting at things, even strongly hinting at things, will never beat actually coming out and saying something. Especially online! Emoticons change the meaning of a sentence entirely!:)
"From my point of view, I think you had a few too many dependants." if you ignore the have/had problem (oops), seems straightforward to me. "From my point of view" as in "as I see it" as in how I would react in that situation. If I'd said, "I think you need to do this entirely different, CaptainCarrot" then I would be (presumably) telling you how to live you life. But maybe you always take suggestions as presumptions, because that's how you are. Another thing I can't tell online because I can't see your body posture.
In your reply, you seemed to be speaking from a bad position, saying that life was nothing but strife and pain (IE: "it's not easy going" and such repeated a few times). Based on that, I assumed you were having problems, and suggested a solution. After all, if there's no problem, why bring it up like that?
I'll chock it up to human nature. Everyone tends to exagerate, especially online. If you say you're not having problems, I have no other way (nor inclination) to verify it. I think I'll take your word for it:)
I'm glad you're choosing parenting over purchasing your children. Doing more with less is something a lot of young people just don't understand; hopefully your young people will understand it.
As for a Hyundai being a hardship... where does that come from? Of course you should live within your means. Maybe you've gone through some financial equivalent of velocitization living in silicon valley -- I don't look down on someone because they drive a practical vehicle (or a non-BMW). It's logical, after all! Needs and wants always have to be balanced. It's called living within one's means:)
By your (US Federal) standards, I've only not been in poverty for about 6 months of my life, and am just now climbing back out from a pit in which I lived at half that amount (not the most fun, I must say).
And as for your last paragraph: wake up. You were complaining about a situation which you can change through direct action on your part. I can see informing people about a social issue, or explaining a position, but whining about something you can change is a waste of your time and mine. If you can change it, you shouldn't be wasting your breath talking about how it's not changing on its own. Right? If you aren't happy in your situation, change it!
Your entire post seems to make a bunch of assumptions about how I'm looking down on you because you're not a trillionaire, even if it's tangental to my reply.
Are you a single parent? If not, (why) isn't the wife/husband working as well?
From my point of view, I think you had a few too many dependants. I'm working right now such that I save 50% of what I earn to support myself when I go through university (the equivalent of 1 dependant). More than that would require a pay increase. If I had the pay increase you describe as being "a non-living wage," I could support 3 people -- assuming we all lived in Canada wher I live now.
Your situation is different because you are living in a very expensive area. Perhaps you need to find alternate work in another part of the country where inflation is not so rampant, or find an employer which is willing to match your monetary needs. There is so much you can do to improve your situation.
And don't say that reclocating is too damaging to children, because I've been to 27 non-post-secondary instutions in my life. Children will adapt to one move, especially if their home life will stabilize because of it.
Interesting. Tack another one up to not using Windows very often:)
Is there a way to tune the aggresiveness of Windows' swaping? I often find that even with 512mb of RAM, it will swap out too agressively (I will have ~300mb free ram, and the HD will be pegging along mightily swapping in Visual Studio), resulting in a performance loss. It performs as well with 256mb of RAM in it because of how it likes to swap applications out.
It preserves an outside set of plugins, and does not reget from the server if the local version is newer.
#!/bin/sh # newmoz.sh cd ~/moz/ wget -t 2 -T 40 ftp.mozilla.org//pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozill a-i686-pc-linu x-gnu.tar.gz; # This will re-extract Mozilla regardless of if you downloaded a new version. rm -rf mozilla; tar xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz; rm -rf mozilla/plugins/ # links in external plugins automatically (keep your Java and flashplugins easily!). ln -s ~/plugins mozilla/plugins
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IBM gave Netscape Communications (back before they were bought by AOL) lots and lots of money. They setup agreements specifically so that Netscape 2's codebase with extensions to Javascript and plugins would be released for OS/2 in 1997. It was fairly comparable to Netscape 3.0 on Windows at the time. BeOS never got a browser that was any good until Opera put out a port. It never really became a popular one.
As for the moderation, I'm sure meta-moderation will clear that up. Net+ sucked ass. The community, not the company, were the ones who managed to get a browser for their OS that wasn't crappy.
Pick one.
I pick correct, because I like having things done right the first time. It reduces the amount of crap I have to put up with.
Net+ was the worst browser! It was like Opera v2, or the brower from IBM that came with OS/2. The entire point of it was to go get a better browser. The only problem was that there never was a good browser, since there was no might like IBM's to get Netscape to port over to the OS (back before Mozilla had enough strength to stand on its own).
No CSS, HTML 3.2 barely, no JS.. While I don't like JS (I leave most of it off it Mozilla), a lot of sites (ab)use it to perform basic things that should be done at a lower layer, like browser redirects and URL construction. Net+ was impossible to use on anything other that Be's HTML documentation.
I guess not.
" Plug-in for PC cards (PCMCIA): the slot is on the top."
You're right about the networking and most of the rest. I'd love to have this as a box in front of my TV, using only USB, powered firewire, 100Mbps networking, and DVI/Svideo.
Why the bear went over the mountain.
The answer is to see what he could see.
If you do not understand the zen of running Linux an whatever you want to after a little effort, then do not comment.
I don't recall the EB guys hounding me to sign some sort of contract when I bought my Xbox. In fact, I don't recall any sort of contract in the box with it that I signed.
The closest thing I could find was the ABOUT XBOX in the dashboard, which talks about how the softvare on the Xbox is protected by copyright law. Since I have no intention of pirating the Xbox dashboard, I think I'm legal.
Plus, once I own something, it's mine. As I've said before, I could rip off the top of my Xbox, put all my night soil in there, and grow flowers from the rich loam. Microsoft can't say anything to me about the use of it, because I own it.
How me filling out the same forms online as in the Real World (TM) will somehow make the government know things it wouldn't otherwise know, in a Vast Communist Conspiracy To Rule The World And Keep The Working Man Down!
The rampant knee-jerk paranoia on this site by certain people is just disgusting.
"but other than that - I found the plot confusing, and that the characters were not developed enough. "
You haven't seen the restranslation. The original one was really, really shitty. You had to either get a fansub or know a bit of japanese to really enjoy it. The new retranslation that Pioneer has released is great. It's like a whole new movie!
I NEVER noticed how all the guys in the fighting games I play are MUSCLE BOUND!
I am as shocked as you are to find this blanant sexism in Street Fighter, Soulcalibur, Dead or Alive, and others!
Since I, for one, am not a Ninja Master with HUGE MUSCLES, I know I must be as shamed playing these games as the women who do not have huge DDD chests are when playing Tomb Raider! Because video games are meant to remind us of our own painful realities, right?
Guys?
If you pay a company money, and it won't work out of the box, get a refund. Then pirate it.
If their anti-piracy measures increase the amount of piracy, they will reconsider them. After all, if you want to pay them money, they should give you software that works.
I think a lot of the releases is the last year have started to cross the threshold between easy-copy-discouraging of casual warezing, towards the point where their attempts to stop the 10% who will always steal are forcing the 80% who might or might not steal will have to steal, and the 10% who never steal will find something else to do.
"Hacked by Chinese!"
Saskatoon is cheap to live in compared to Toronto or Vancouver, but only a little under what you'd see in Calgary.
.57 to convert to US dollar amounts.
:)
With proper budgeting, I can have a nice apartment for 450$ plus 150$ a month for food, with utilities all included in my rent. Unlimited internet access is another 40$ on top of that (home user, cable modem), or 99$ (SOHO -- static IPs and allowed to run services). Very handy when you have to live on minimum wage for a bit between jobs (min wage is 6.35$ per hour).
Note: all dollar values in Canadian. Multiple by
If you wanted to move your university education to Canada, you'd pay about $500 per class registration fee + 50$ to 200$ (or more) for books per class, 5 classes a term, 3 terms a year. Based on your $36,000 Canadian a year to have a house, you could easily attend university while living a decent life in a nice part of town with nice things for that much money.
One thing you notice when you cross the border a lot is that while "big" things cost different (TVs, computer parts, etc), "little" things tend to cost the same (bag of chips, candy bar). You also notice the artificial price controls on things (books are often cheaper in Canada even after the conversion, DVDs cost the exact same dollar amount despite the value difference, most CDs are within the same dollar amount).
The absolute best of both worlds is to live in Canada while drawing income from the US, becuse the US has a hugely inflated costs of living. Canadians are really, really cheap to employ compared to local people, and (on the Canadian side) you'll make more than you're likely to make locally
Go ahead. But if I were living on 1,700$ USD a month just for rent, I'd seriously consider moving so somewhere cheaper and using the money I saved from not living in a money pit towards things I cared about, like retirement :)
That you pay $1,200 USD for a single bedroom appt? Where I am, $700 US rents you a house (4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms) next to the university.
I know it's human nature to find patterns in random data, but this seems just a wee bit far fetched to me.
Chances are s/he just wanted to say that s/he's god, and because of that has power over life and death (with no way for them to stop s/he).
Sometimes a nutjob is just a nutjob.
It seems to have reduced the amount of thrashing for me.
Start - Settings - Control Panel - System.
Go to advanced. Click Performance. Go to Advanced, set memory usage to System Cache (rather than programs). On my work system, it's stopped over aggresively swapping programs to disk when I minimize them.
"Many informed people believe the X-Box may well be a Palladium trial balloon and a test bed for emerging Microsoft DRM technology. "
/bots like to repeat over and over and over again.
And many people who can add one and one to make two realize that the video game industry is a great cash cow that anyone can get into. Whether you're a third or first party developer, you too can ching-ching-ring in the yearly Gift-mas shopping seasons in ways that pro-business-tax-break 3-year buying cycles won't.
If that's not enough to clarify their already fairly-clear motives, here's a simplified business model for you:
1) Create a console that's hard to make unlicenced 3rd party games for.
2) Rake in the dough from 3rd-party developers while making a profit on the consoles after a (short) loss leader period used to drive early adoption and valuable market share.
3) PROFIT!
Nintendo did it, Sony did it, Sega did it, Microsoft wants to do it. Why? They already publish PC games, but the console market is BIGGER than the PC market by a fair bit. If they can rake money in by publishing various titles on their Xbox, as well as rake money in from everyone else who publishes titles for their Xbox (rather than the smaller cut they get if they jush published their MS games for Sony or Nintendo), they'll do it. The reason they can do it is because they're big enough to push through the loss-leader time period (larger for them than most because of the design of the console) to get to the sweet, rich money part. Sega only stopped being a first-party developer because they couldn't bankroll the next-gen console they were working on after the Dreamcast (as well as Dreamcast licence fees drying up).
Palladium and DRM might have some resemblance to the technology used in the Xbox because Microsoft wanted to make extra-double sure that people wouldn't write unlicenced (and thus, no $$ for Microsoft) games for their Xbox platform even though it was built on PC-hardware roots. Get it? Use-limiting technology looks similar. In this case, though, it's not some grand plot by the Beast at Redmond which most
Wether MS is going to do something like jam the Xbox and some PVR software together to make some unholy alliance of crap has yet to be seen. Chances are they'll maybe come out with YetAnotherDongle that you can buy separately (after all, a PVR for console price + dongle price may be cheaper than a TiVo + subscription yet), since they don't seem too keen on forcing people to buy features in their console they might not use (DVD playback) just yet.
And that also assumes that MS is going to come out with another console in some years time. Since the sweet spot for most consoles is about 3-4 years after release (in terms of gross profits), expect to see this resovled in 2006 when they'll annouce real plans about a potential succesor (if they make one).
The TurboExpress, which was a portable version of NEC's TG16.
Hinting at things, even strongly hinting at things, will never beat actually coming out and saying something. Especially online! Emoticons change the meaning of a sentence entirely! :)
:)
"From my point of view, I think you had a few too many dependants." if you ignore the have/had problem (oops), seems straightforward to me. "From my point of view" as in "as I see it" as in how I would react in that situation. If I'd said, "I think you need to do this entirely different, CaptainCarrot" then I would be (presumably) telling you how to live you life. But maybe you always take suggestions as presumptions, because that's how you are. Another thing I can't tell online because I can't see your body posture.
In your reply, you seemed to be speaking from a bad position, saying that life was nothing but strife and pain (IE: "it's not easy going" and such repeated a few times). Based on that, I assumed you were having problems, and suggested a solution. After all, if there's no problem, why bring it up like that?
I'll chock it up to human nature. Everyone tends to exagerate, especially online. If you say you're not having problems, I have no other way (nor inclination) to verify it. I think I'll take your word for it
I'm glad you're choosing parenting over purchasing your children. Doing more with less is something a lot of young people just don't understand; hopefully your young people will understand it.
:)
As for a Hyundai being a hardship... where does that come from? Of course you should live within your means. Maybe you've gone through some financial equivalent of velocitization living in silicon valley -- I don't look down on someone because they drive a practical vehicle (or a non-BMW). It's logical, after all! Needs and wants always have to be balanced. It's called living within one's means
By your (US Federal) standards, I've only not been in poverty for about 6 months of my life, and am just now climbing back out from a pit in which I lived at half that amount (not the most fun, I must say).
And as for your last paragraph: wake up. You were complaining about a situation which you can change through direct action on your part. I can see informing people about a social issue, or explaining a position, but whining about something you can change is a waste of your time and mine. If you can change it, you shouldn't be wasting your breath talking about how it's not changing on its own. Right? If you aren't happy in your situation, change it!
Your entire post seems to make a bunch of assumptions about how I'm looking down on you because you're not a trillionaire, even if it's tangental to my reply.
The BBC took the load just fine, and now take a larger load daily!
Are you a single parent? If not, (why) isn't the wife/husband working as well?
From my point of view, I think you had a few too many dependants. I'm working right now such that I save 50% of what I earn to support myself when I go through university (the equivalent of 1 dependant). More than that would require a pay increase. If I had the pay increase you describe as being "a non-living wage," I could support 3 people -- assuming we all lived in Canada wher I live now.
Your situation is different because you are living in a very expensive area. Perhaps you need to find alternate work in another part of the country where inflation is not so rampant, or find an employer which is willing to match your monetary needs. There is so much you can do to improve your situation.
And don't say that reclocating is too damaging to children, because I've been to 27 non-post-secondary instutions in my life. Children will adapt to one move, especially if their home life will stabilize because of it.
Interesting. Tack another one up to not using Windows very often :)
Is there a way to tune the aggresiveness of Windows' swaping? I often find that even with 512mb of RAM, it will swap out too agressively (I will have ~300mb free ram, and the HD will be pegging along mightily swapping in Visual Studio), resulting in a performance loss. It performs as well with 256mb of RAM in it because of how it likes to swap applications out.
It preserves an outside set of plugins, and does not reget from the server if the local version is newer.
l a-i686-pc-linu
#!/bin/sh
# newmoz.sh
cd ~/moz/
wget -t 2 -T 40 ftp.mozilla.org//pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozil
x-gnu.tar.gz;
# This will re-extract Mozilla regardless of if you downloaded a new version.
rm -rf mozilla;
tar xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz;
rm -rf mozilla/plugins/
# links in external plugins automatically (keep your Java and flashplugins easily!).
ln -s ~/plugins mozilla/plugins
XHTML 1.1, 1.0 strict, CSS 1, 2, 3 strict.
Oh, you'll also need an entire quirks engine that mimics IE 5. Good luck!