"games have been accepted by the young and largely rejected by the old"
Bull Shit! My parents used to have 42 tournaments at their house when I was a child in the '70's. That is a game. My grandmother was the best dominoes player I ever met. That is a game. I will bet your grand parent and great grand parent played charades. That is a game. Football is a game (both american and what we call soccer.) So is basketball, baseball, and hockey. OK so each generation comes up with new games. Big freaking deal! It is a fact that each generation is shocking to the previous. My parents danced gitterbugs and listened to jazz music. It was appaling behavior to their parents. Children today pierce their body and tatto their skin. I consider this largely juvenile behavior. Big Deal!
"funny how everyone here likes the free community wireless idea as long as it doesnt include them sharing out their WiFi
its like leechers and downloads, take take take but screw anyone who does the same to you"
Funny, I know a person who intentionally leaves his wifi at home open so if any of his neighbors want to use it they can. Personally I think it is a stupid idea, because if someone uses it for a nefarious purpose (terrorism, kiddy porn, etc) it his hardware they will seize. I told him this, and he said "they cant do that, I'm running an ISP." Of course that would make him an unlicensed utility and they would still seize his property. If he beat the case he would get it all back, but that would not stop them from seizing his computers. A lot of people just don't understand that what they will do is determined when the police knock on your door, and what they can do is determined when the case goes to court.
" I just visited the Acid2 test page in the Internet Explorer 7 beta, and it looks exactly the same as it does in FireFox. Am I doing something"
No FierFox fails the Acid2 test as well. In fact, for those of you running Opera, Konqueror, or Safari, do any of them pass?
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"As long as we're no longer trying to send up cargo along with personnel"
We are sending cargo. We sent a gyroscope the size of a washing machine this trip. The truth is, there is no other launch vehicle on the planet capable of boosting all the remaining pieces of the intenational space station into orbit. If the shuttle cannot complete its its missions, the space station cannot be completed.
"AMD made very cheap, inferior processors for years."
AMD made the first 100 MHZ 486 DX4 chips. This was at a time when the Pentium 75 was just entering the market and the 486 DX4 100 was both faster and cheaper. Throughout their history, AMD has always been able to deliver superior performance at slower clock speeds than Intel. They have also been cheaper to purchase. Whle I have always considered AMD CPU's to be economical, I also consider them to be superior chips to anything Intel produces.
" The company I work for uses a proprietary billing system with an open-source back-end interface to our customer database. "
When I used to work in a corporate environment, I worked in a mixed proprietary and OSS environment. I almost never had a problem justifying the $100,000.00 investment in proprietary sofware that would have a user base of 10,000 users and improve productivity of those users by 5%. When I wanted a $500.00 application to improve the productivity of a single developer by 20%, I almost never got the money approved. My experience is that enterprise apps tend to be proprietary, but productivity apps for the desktop end up being OSS.
"While you should put the bulk of the processing server side. Javascripting is still needed to keep the interface working smoothly and un annoying"
Right! Web applications should be thought of as three tiered client server appications. As such, any processing you can do client side, should be done there. It makes no sense to wait until the data has been sent to the server to throw an error for a required field. The client knows whether the field is NULL or not. Why should I make the sever process this. Besides, passing processing off to the client makes the entire application more robust. There is only one server, but there is an unlimited amount of procsessing distributed among the clients.
" Make it sexy, make it funny, or bury a clue important to the gameplay in it."
I have been saying this for years, and it will probably fall on deaf ears again, but I think the gamming industry is missing a bet with the lack of product placement. Instead of drinking a power drink to resore hit points, you should be drinking a "Refreshing Diet Coke!" If you need a better weapon, it should be a Smith and Wesson! I am sure companies would pay to have their products included as items in MMORP if they were only approached with the idea.
"No, I'm sorry, but deliberately misunderstanding the difference between a copyright license and a change to copyright laws, is trolling."
You response got my attention so I went back and read the definitions out of the FAQ. Here is what it says:
Flamebait -- Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage. If someone is not-so-subtly picking a fight (racial insults are a dead giveaway), it's Flamebait.
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
It looks like I may actually have had the definitions backwards. I always thought of flamebait as someone baiting a flamed response, not just flaming another person. On the other hand I saw troll as a large brutish mythical creature that attacks anything it sees. By this definition, it is more like trolling for alligators. Dragging your bait through the waters and waiting for something to bite. I stand corrected.
"Dvorak himself should have a perminant -10 Troll moderation tattoed to his forehead."
He is not really a troll. He just publishes flamebait. It is not like anything he publishes is offensive in itself. It is just lacking in insight and is intended to create controversy. As such, it really is not that different from a lot of the posts here on/.
"Meanwhile, some dubious theory from the Internet will be swallowed hook, line and sinker nine times out of 10."
I agree. I have many relatives who are online but not really technology savvy. Not a month goes by that I do not get CC'ed on some ridiculous email. I always go look it up on Snopes and do a reply to all with a link the Snopes article discrediting it. The thing that really gets me though, is a couple of times a year I will get one of these from someone who knows better. When I call them on it, I usually get the same response, "Well I figured better safe than sorry." Some how they just do not understand that by forwarding unsubstantiated false information they are perpetuating the problem.
" Not based on content added/unlocked by modders of course!"
You know I do not understand how a game in which you intentionally break the law and murder people is rated "M", but as soon as you add siulated sex between consenting adults it is rated "A". Not to mention that from the clips I've seen it is poory simulated sex at that.
"That is why in the early 1980s the soft drink manufacturers started to put corn syrup in your Coke instead of cane sugar."
That is also why Pepsi won the Pepsi challenge. They still use cane sugar. While not all people can taste the difference between corn sugar and cane sugar, those who can overwhelmingly prefer cane sugar. Thus Pepsi beats Coke hands down.
" I still outfit every computer i build with a floppy."
I never put floppies on computers anymore. I have a bootable CD I use for recovery and other emergency boot opertions. To me a floppy drive is just something else to break.
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Yeah, but will it run Linux?
Bull Shit! My parents used to have 42 tournaments at their house when I was a child in the '70's. That is a game. My grandmother was the best dominoes player I ever met. That is a game. I will bet your grand parent and great grand parent played charades. That is a game. Football is a game (both american and what we call soccer.) So is basketball, baseball, and hockey. OK so each generation comes up with new games. Big freaking deal! It is a fact that each generation is shocking to the previous. My parents danced gitterbugs and listened to jazz music. It was appaling behavior to their parents. Children today pierce their body and tatto their skin. I consider this largely juvenile behavior. Big Deal!
Funny, I know a person who intentionally leaves his wifi at home open so if any of his neighbors want to use it they can. Personally I think it is a stupid idea, because if someone uses it for a nefarious purpose (terrorism, kiddy porn, etc) it his hardware they will seize. I told him this, and he said "they cant do that, I'm running an ISP." Of course that would make him an unlicensed utility and they would still seize his property. If he beat the case he would get it all back, but that would not stop them from seizing his computers. A lot of people just don't understand that what they will do is determined when the police knock on your door, and what they can do is determined when the case goes to court.
This is easy. I want what makes my life easier, and I want you to have what makes my life easier.
No FierFox fails the Acid2 test as well. In fact, for those of you running Opera, Konqueror, or Safari, do any of them pass?
We are sending cargo. We sent a gyroscope the size of a washing machine this trip. The truth is, there is no other launch vehicle on the planet capable of boosting all the remaining pieces of the intenational space station into orbit. If the shuttle cannot complete its its missions, the space station cannot be completed.
Without wanting to sound like a drunk, I prefer my free wifi in bars. Goose Island in Chicago and Two Rows in the DFW Metropex are two great examples.
AMD made the first 100 MHZ 486 DX4 chips. This was at a time when the Pentium 75 was just entering the market and the 486 DX4 100 was both faster and cheaper. Throughout their history, AMD has always been able to deliver superior performance at slower clock speeds than Intel. They have also been cheaper to purchase. Whle I have always considered AMD CPU's to be economical, I also consider them to be superior chips to anything Intel produces.
Actually the review sounded more like an add for Crazy Browser to me.
When I used to work in a corporate environment, I worked in a mixed proprietary and OSS environment. I almost never had a problem justifying the $100,000.00 investment in proprietary sofware that would have a user base of 10,000 users and improve productivity of those users by 5%. When I wanted a $500.00 application to improve the productivity of a single developer by 20%, I almost never got the money approved. My experience is that enterprise apps tend to be proprietary, but productivity apps for the desktop end up being OSS.
Right! Web applications should be thought of as three tiered client server appications. As such, any processing you can do client side, should be done there. It makes no sense to wait until the data has been sent to the server to throw an error for a required field. The client knows whether the field is NULL or not. Why should I make the sever process this. Besides, passing processing off to the client makes the entire application more robust. There is only one server, but there is an unlimited amount of procsessing distributed among the clients.
Here is the test device.
I have been saying this for years, and it will probably fall on deaf ears again, but I think the gamming industry is missing a bet with the lack of product placement. Instead of drinking a power drink to resore hit points, you should be drinking a "Refreshing Diet Coke!" If you need a better weapon, it should be a Smith and Wesson! I am sure companies would pay to have their products included as items in MMORP if they were only approached with the idea.
You response got my attention so I went back and read the definitions out of the FAQ. Here is what it says:
It looks like I may actually have had the definitions backwards. I always thought of flamebait as someone baiting a flamed response, not just flaming another person. On the other hand I saw troll as a large brutish mythical creature that attacks anything it sees. By this definition, it is more like trolling for alligators. Dragging your bait through the waters and waiting for something to bite. I stand corrected.
He is not really a troll. He just publishes flamebait. It is not like anything he publishes is offensive in itself. It is just lacking in insight and is intended to create controversy. As such, it really is not that different from a lot of the posts here on /.
I agree. I have many relatives who are online but not really technology savvy. Not a month goes by that I do not get CC'ed on some ridiculous email. I always go look it up on Snopes and do a reply to all with a link the Snopes article discrediting it. The thing that really gets me though, is a couple of times a year I will get one of these from someone who knows better. When I call them on it, I usually get the same response, "Well I figured better safe than sorry." Some how they just do not understand that by forwarding unsubstantiated false information they are perpetuating the problem.
You know I do not understand how a game in which you intentionally break the law and murder people is rated "M", but as soon as you add siulated sex between consenting adults it is rated "A". Not to mention that from the clips I've seen it is poory simulated sex at that.
hat about biodiesel? That is what Willie uses.
That is also why Pepsi won the Pepsi challenge. They still use cane sugar. While not all people can taste the difference between corn sugar and cane sugar, those who can overwhelmingly prefer cane sugar. Thus Pepsi beats Coke hands down.
Maybe people who have lives, but these are geeks and nerds we are talking about.
Somehow I do not think face recognition is important to the p0rn industry.
Do I hear an Oil for TLD scandal brewing?
Not just that, but IBM is as much a business services company as anything else theese days.
I stilll have an unopened box of Memorex 8" Floppies on the shelf above my desk. It is kind of homage to a time gone by.
I never put floppies on computers anymore. I have a bootable CD I use for recovery and other emergency boot opertions. To me a floppy drive is just something else to break.