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Oh my god get out.
I can work a scram myself. The skill training is pretty minor, so I'm not sure what your beef is. They're handy, cause it keeps the other ship from warping away while you kill it. But I think you mean scam, and frankly, scams are half the fun of Eve. I've been subject to a few, it's just part of the experience. As to the IRS angle, you can't really address a taxable income issue where the taxation would be on illegal funds, as CCP does NOT sanction selling time cards for real life currency except through their licensed dealers. If we're going to try to enforce that, I'd like to see all the illegal gambling income from last year reported as well. While we're at it, I'd like a unicorn and the power of flight.
Your only salient point is the concern of cheating. Fact is, game developers SHOULD play their games, they SHOULD participate in the community. As far as I'm concerned, a game developer can run an alliance or rule the known universe as long as CCP is ensuring the guy/gal isn't cheating. I want devs interested in the game, improving mechanics, finding problems, sitting through the system lag. I want them invested in the project. The problem is tracking their activity, and generally one of trust. If I'm CCP, I'd have clear policies denoting real-life consequences for employee in-game misconduct. A dev doing what this dev did has opened a Pandora's Box of paranoia and a chorus of players claiming every victory/loss is a result of developer intervention and player misconduct. If I found one of my devs cheating in-game, I'd can them outright. Their head would only marginally account for the potential damage to the community's trust and the changes in both meta-game and in-game politics and social order, not to mention the massive number of issues it creates for game masters and other devs who play fair and have fun.
Also, I just can't help myself: -Spaces come after commas, not before as in "That grammar nazi is awesome, isn't he?" -Without is one word as in "Without grammar nazis, the whole world would exist in chaos." -"As in" in your context is a sentence continuance not a start, as in this usage right here. -Time card requires an article to address it, as in "That grammar nazi has a time card." -"can also" negates the need for "as well" -Where denotes a place, were denotes a state of being, example: "Where is that grammar nazi? We were going to give him a hug for improving our writing by an order of magnitude!" -Thing is not think -There as in "He's over there with the grammar nazi.", They're as in "They're being grammar nazis.", Their as in "Their grammar nazi is the best grammar nazi in the whole world."
I don't claim writing perfection, but I do claim due diligence in ensuring I did my best. The parent does not demonstrate this effort. Shun the non believer!
If they were cattle, it'd be a render ranch. Render farm implies a soil metaphor to me. Every machine I add to my render farm is arable soil, waiting to be planted with precious digital seed to yield my crop of rendered data. A ranching metaphor is much harder to construct.
Or you could use XPlay from MediaFour (the folks that brought you MacDrive forever and three days ago) to do the same thing three years ago when the 2G was hot shit. Seriously, did you ever even bother to look? Did you know MacDrive or MacOpener existed? I kid you not, sir, you can read and write Mac formatted disks on your PC TODAY, right this very instant in fact. I have done these magiks myself. This would not be new technology, just a possibly free incarnation of it.
Irrelevant to the statement "That's the CS3 Beta, you idiot. It's not running under emulation on Intel, it's native code, universal binary. It's also not out yet."
They tested both. Had you said "The article shows CS2 slower on nearly all tests", kudos. Instead, you were an idiot.
Obviously it would be a complete waste of your brain to realize those exist on Windows and OS X as well. Terminals are pretty easy to come by, OS X has one, PuTTY is nice and free on Windows, Firefox is on all three now, so I'd call that a tabbed browser, Thunderbird is as robust as I've ever needed an IMAP mail client to be, I've got rsync and mysql on my Powerbook, and I've installed them on my XP desktop before, though they were both casualties of the last format.
If you're comfortable with Linux, that's your choice, but you haven't mentioned a single thing that necessitates the use of desktop linux if you didn't want it. Expressing a preference is one thing, making it seem like a forgone conclusion is quite another.
I find my OS relatively removed from my productivity, after certain settling-in pains. Once I've got my OS customized to my liking, it's irrelevant which one I'm using for day to day work. I can code just as efficiently on Windows as OSX as Linux. Now that my most used apps (Firefox and Thunderbird) are tri-platform mostly-identical, as long as I can launch them and find a terminal with vim, the world is my oyster. If I need something advanced, I've never had any trouble getting it installed, ie: Apache on Windows, MySQL on OSX, recompiling PHP under Linux...whatever. I get the job done.
You've just written inline javascript. window.open is a javascript method. Loading the target module would break strict doctype compliance, which is either fine or not fine, depending on your personal stance. I prefer to have the strict doctype and figure out a better way, myself.
It's worth noting, though, that target="_blank" is deprecated in XHTML strict. If you're trying to write strictly compliant web pages (that is, XHTML 1.0 Strict/1.1), there's no answer except javascript for firing off a new window.
That said, I like the idea of NO popups of ANY sort without authorization. As long as Firefox clues me in that it stopped a popup so I can approve the site, I'm in. Though, I'd like to see a "one time" authorization. As in, I'm on some website I don't intend to be at again, I need to see one popup to complete some task, and that's it. I don't want it on my whitelist, I just want to see the one popup. Sort of like a firewall. Do I want to allow this: once, always, not this time, never.
This software lets you map hot corners on your trackpad, as well as scroll alleys. I've got a nice right click set up in the lower left corner, which works great for me. Several friends of mine use the scroll alley features, though it drives me nuts. I've been using it for several months on my Powerbook and it has changed my mousing experience entirely. I've got hotcorners for doing expose tasks like show all windows, etc. You can set them to do about anything you like.
I don't know where we found the plans back in the day, but a friend and I built our own controller deck for our emulator cabinet using Microsoft Sidewinder Pro gamepads with gameport connections. These were the ones you could daisy chain together, up to four on one gameport. So we used two, cracked them open and soldered all the controls we ordered from happcontrols.com to the proper contacts on the board. We just used some particle board and laid out button and controller positions exactly how we wanted them. This worked out quite well because the sidewinder pads had boatloads of buttons and since they were gameport, they just worked. No USB woes. We also got a custom software interface up and running, a little buggy, but it allowed us to leave the machine unattended in our dorm lounge and people played whatever they liked without having access to the Windows explorer. Yes, we used Windows. It was easier that way.
Plans for the future that never got done included:
Adding an external gameport onto the daisy chain that poked out the side of the cabinet to allow for connection of another controller deck for four player action
Building external interfaces for connecting our favorite classic controllers to the system. Things like NES slots, SNES slots, Genesis slots, etc.
Lighted marquee. Never got to that.
Painting the cabinet! Yeah. The construction was the fun part.
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Um. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107 Slashdot History 101.
Oh my god get out.
I can work a scram myself. The skill training is pretty minor, so I'm not sure what your beef is. They're handy, cause it keeps the other ship from warping away while you kill it. But I think you mean scam, and frankly, scams are half the fun of Eve. I've been subject to a few, it's just part of the experience. As to the IRS angle, you can't really address a taxable income issue where the taxation would be on illegal funds, as CCP does NOT sanction selling time cards for real life currency except through their licensed dealers. If we're going to try to enforce that, I'd like to see all the illegal gambling income from last year reported as well. While we're at it, I'd like a unicorn and the power of flight.
Your only salient point is the concern of cheating. Fact is, game developers SHOULD play their games, they SHOULD participate in the community. As far as I'm concerned, a game developer can run an alliance or rule the known universe as long as CCP is ensuring the guy/gal isn't cheating. I want devs interested in the game, improving mechanics, finding problems, sitting through the system lag. I want them invested in the project. The problem is tracking their activity, and generally one of trust. If I'm CCP, I'd have clear policies denoting real-life consequences for employee in-game misconduct. A dev doing what this dev did has opened a Pandora's Box of paranoia and a chorus of players claiming every victory/loss is a result of developer intervention and player misconduct. If I found one of my devs cheating in-game, I'd can them outright. Their head would only marginally account for the potential damage to the community's trust and the changes in both meta-game and in-game politics and social order, not to mention the massive number of issues it creates for game masters and other devs who play fair and have fun.
Also, I just can't help myself:
-Spaces come after commas, not before as in "That grammar nazi is awesome, isn't he?"
-Without is one word as in "Without grammar nazis, the whole world would exist in chaos."
-"As in" in your context is a sentence continuance not a start, as in this usage right here.
-Time card requires an article to address it, as in "That grammar nazi has a time card."
-"can also" negates the need for "as well"
-Where denotes a place, were denotes a state of being, example: "Where is that grammar nazi? We were going to give him a hug for improving our writing by an order of magnitude!"
-Thing is not think
-There as in "He's over there with the grammar nazi.", They're as in "They're being grammar nazis.", Their as in "Their grammar nazi is the best grammar nazi in the whole world."
I don't claim writing perfection, but I do claim due diligence in ensuring I did my best. The parent does not demonstrate this effort. Shun the non believer!
"I hate the word farm, computers aren't cattle"
If they were cattle, it'd be a render ranch. Render farm implies a soil metaphor to me. Every machine I add to my render farm is arable soil, waiting to be planted with precious digital seed to yield my crop of rendered data. A ranching metaphor is much harder to construct.
Or you could use XPlay from MediaFour (the folks that brought you MacDrive forever and three days ago) to do the same thing three years ago when the 2G was hot shit. Seriously, did you ever even bother to look? Did you know MacDrive or MacOpener existed? I kid you not, sir, you can read and write Mac formatted disks on your PC TODAY, right this very instant in fact. I have done these magiks myself. This would not be new technology, just a possibly free incarnation of it.
Irrelevant to the statement "That's the CS3 Beta, you idiot. It's not running under emulation on Intel, it's native code, universal binary. It's also not out yet." They tested both. Had you said "The article shows CS2 slower on nearly all tests", kudos. Instead, you were an idiot.
RTFA troll. They test BOTH CS3 and CS2 on Mac Pro Quads and G5 Quads.
Jesus, is the title really all you looked at?
Obviously it would be a complete waste of your brain to realize those exist on Windows and OS X as well. Terminals are pretty easy to come by, OS X has one, PuTTY is nice and free on Windows, Firefox is on all three now, so I'd call that a tabbed browser, Thunderbird is as robust as I've ever needed an IMAP mail client to be, I've got rsync and mysql on my Powerbook, and I've installed them on my XP desktop before, though they were both casualties of the last format.
If you're comfortable with Linux, that's your choice, but you haven't mentioned a single thing that necessitates the use of desktop linux if you didn't want it. Expressing a preference is one thing, making it seem like a forgone conclusion is quite another.
I find my OS relatively removed from my productivity, after certain settling-in pains. Once I've got my OS customized to my liking, it's irrelevant which one I'm using for day to day work. I can code just as efficiently on Windows as OSX as Linux. Now that my most used apps (Firefox and Thunderbird) are tri-platform mostly-identical, as long as I can launch them and find a terminal with vim, the world is my oyster. If I need something advanced, I've never had any trouble getting it installed, ie: Apache on Windows, MySQL on OSX, recompiling PHP under Linux...whatever. I get the job done.
You've just written inline javascript. window.open is a javascript method. Loading the target module would break strict doctype compliance, which is either fine or not fine, depending on your personal stance. I prefer to have the strict doctype and figure out a better way, myself.
It's worth noting, though, that target="_blank" is deprecated in XHTML strict. If you're trying to write strictly compliant web pages (that is, XHTML 1.0 Strict/1.1), there's no answer except javascript for firing off a new window.
That said, I like the idea of NO popups of ANY sort without authorization. As long as Firefox clues me in that it stopped a popup so I can approve the site, I'm in. Though, I'd like to see a "one time" authorization. As in, I'm on some website I don't intend to be at again, I need to see one popup to complete some task, and that's it. I don't want it on my whitelist, I just want to see the one popup. Sort of like a firewall. Do I want to allow this: once, always, not this time, never.
You're looking for the software called Sidetrack.
This software lets you map hot corners on your trackpad, as well as scroll alleys. I've got a nice right click set up in the lower left corner, which works great for me. Several friends of mine use the scroll alley features, though it drives me nuts. I've been using it for several months on my Powerbook and it has changed my mousing experience entirely. I've got hotcorners for doing expose tasks like show all windows, etc. You can set them to do about anything you like.
Enjoy that.
Plans for the future that never got done included:
This Guy makes some crazy pumpkins, including a Jack-o-Carrie with pumping blood.
My Own Creation is, literally, the Pumpkin King.