The first time I viewed it Firefox blocked a popup (as can be seen from the linked image) but on subsequent visits there were no popups, they're only triggered if you don't have a cookie from the site... my guess is that you've added them to the whitelist of sites which are allowed to open popups.
http://img100.exs.cx/img100/7242/untitled0lx.png
The only thing i've found which still sucessfully opens pop-ups in Firefox is the GNAA's Last Measure...
But then we have to ask ourselves how much of this theoretical $1M was used to develop a new engine or purchasing the rights to use one developed by another company? Now think how much the game would cost to develop if there was a game engine free to use and all they had to do was customise it to fit the specific requirements of that game... That $1M game might now only cost $500K to develop, in which case the number of units need to be sold for it to make a profit is halved, that or they could still spend the full $1M and use the extra money to hire more artists/writers/mappers and such meaning the finished game is larger, more interesting and of a very high level of polish. Either way the developers wins, and there is the potential for the gaming public to win too.
Here's an old adage for you: Every tool has a job, and there's a job for every tool.
mySQL may not be appropriate in a mission-critical situation, but that does not make it bad for all situations; if you need speed in prescedence of everything else then mySQL is probably the right tool for the job. If you need data integrity, ACID compliance etc then PostgrSQL, Oracle etc are the right tool for the job.
Outright saying one or the other is a POS only makes you look stupud.
Say i'm developing a webpage, it validates with the W3C validator and I want to make sure it renders correctly in IE as well as gecko based browsers; this would mean I could load the page up in Netscape, view it with the gecko rendering engine, followed by IE. I'd then modify the CSS so that it renders reasonably in IE then switch back to gecko to ensure it still works correctly with it. This would mean less clutter for me when testing on Windows as it means I don't need Firefox & multiple instances of IE on my taskbar; instead there'd just be Netscape containing a bunch of tabs.
I hate any form of excess clutter in my desktop environment/window manager.
Cleaning up Spyware from friends and family's PCs (as well as friends of friends, friends of family etc etc etc), reinstalling Windows and all associated programs (FF, Spybot, oo.o etc) when things are too borked too salvage. Setting up small home networks. Freelance website development. Generic 'computer stuff'... allsorts of junk.
I do, and alot of people I know do; There are many excellent titles available for the GC and it's classification in certain circles as a console for kiddies is unwarrented and frankly incorrect. The majority of people I know who own Gamecubes are 20somethings, partly because as an agegroup we remember the haydays of Sega and Nintendo and partly because we're not drawn to the perception of having a console for 'mature' gamers with 'mature' games; we realise the marketing as such is infact aimed at 13-16 year old boys primerilly. Violence does not make a mature game, silly amounts of needless gore does not make a mature game...
What about Jabber? Or did you mean IM Client, in which case what about gaim; sure it's not perfect but it is constantly improving (mostly thanks to the 3week release schedule)?
I would, however, be very interested in a IM client made by the Moz developers.
The thing is that with HL2 you do not simply get the Single-player game, in a few months there'll be hundreds of fan-created mods available as well as the ones done by Valve (DoD:S and CS:S). In terms of value for money the £20 I spent on HL1 has given me more hours of enjoyment than anything, ever. Between the excellent single-player game and the mods I play I must have spent thousands of hours with it and all idications are that I'll be saying the same thing in another 6years when HL3 is released.
Eh, I was dissapointed to find that HL: S was a literal port of HL with no updated models, textures or anything. Granted, it does benefit from the Source engines lighting but that's the only difference I spotted when quickly playing through the start sequence.
I get it intermittantly when playing FPSs (maybe once every 3 months or so), just take a break and make a coffee, go for a jog or do something away from the computer, return in a couple of hours and you'll probably be fine.
https://update.mozilla.org/update/firefox/en-US.rd f
I believe, i'm sure you can change the en-US to whatever your localisation is. (On an unrelated not I'm actually British... I wonder if there's a en-UK version? I can't check right now as the mozilla site's dead.)
I've done two automatic updates (both from 0.10.1) and both worked fine... eventually, but this was before this/. article was published so mozilla's servers are probably being hammered right now; give it a few hours and try again.
That analogy is flawed though; it is very realistically possible for a single person to do the markup and CSS for a complex and large website doing all of your markup in a text editor, especially with scripting langages such as php which allow you to have a templating system throughout. Good analogy otherwise though.
I'm 99% sure eMacs does that, but most text editors can do the syntax highlighting; personally i prefer not to have the drop-down things when i'm typing and I certainly wouldn't trust Dreamweaver or whatever to upload everything to my webserver automagically... give me Filezilla or any good ftp client anyday.
(insert text editor of choice) is all you ever need to design a website, i've never used a wysiwyg application for creating my websites because there's no need to; you have far greater control of what's going on when you're doing the markup and CSS by hand than you ever will with Dreamweaver/Frontpage/whatever. Additionally you can make sure that only the attributes needed are specified; i've lost track of the number of site's i've had to overhaul which were originally made in these wysiwsy applications and wading through the crap it puts in is soul-destroying.
I think he was reffering to the fact that IE does not support PNG Alpha Transparency, instead he's used two images; the original one and one which has been lightened to give the impression of transparency. When you think about it though it's kind of pointless because IE still won't display it properly...
Actually, yes it does. It takes some time (when compared to Opera and Firefox) to move onto the next slide but it's fully functional; I have a presentation to do for one of my uni modules and I was not looking forward to doing it in Powerpoint, it now looks like I wont have too. This makes me very happy.
We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States."
Care to explain what that article says; I can't be arsed to find an annonymous american proxy just for this.
> > I can build a comperable PC for ~1/3-1/2 the price of a mac and have all these benefits....
>This is all a matter of having the time to do such things.
Well, including removing everything from it's pacakging (often a daunting task in itself...) and being painstakingly careful i'd say it takes ~35-40 minutes to build a working PC from it's respective parts and boot it up to ensure everything is working fine... Installing the base OS (whether windows/linux/BSD) is another ~30-45 minutes, configuring everything so it's ready for use can take anywhere from 30minutes (linux) to 1.5-2hours (windows). So in essence you're doubling/tripling the price you could pay for the benefit od a preinstalled OS, i'm sorry but as much as my ego would love to say otherwise 4 hours of my time is not worth ~£700...
I'm not a PC zealot, I love the PowerPC architecture but macs are simply overpriced for what you get... you pay for the branding and nothing more.
You do realise that, shock horror, you can run a PC without windows? And every argument you made for macs can be made about Linux and the BSDs, right? So essentially you're paying for the apple logo, nothing more; I can build a comperable PC for ~1/3-1/2 the price of a mac and have all these benefits....
Slashdot Mirror
The only thing i've found which still sucessfully opens pop-ups in Firefox is the GNAA's Last Measure...
But then we have to ask ourselves how much of this theoretical $1M was used to develop a new engine or purchasing the rights to use one developed by another company? Now think how much the game would cost to develop if there was a game engine free to use and all they had to do was customise it to fit the specific requirements of that game... That $1M game might now only cost $500K to develop, in which case the number of units need to be sold for it to make a profit is halved, that or they could still spend the full $1M and use the extra money to hire more artists/writers/mappers and such meaning the finished game is larger, more interesting and of a very high level of polish. Either way the developers wins, and there is the potential for the gaming public to win too.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Sit The Fuck Down? Shut The Fucker Down (referring to the comprimised machine?
mySQL may not be appropriate in a mission-critical situation, but that does not make it bad for all situations; if you need speed in prescedence of everything else then mySQL is probably the right tool for the job. If you need data integrity, ACID compliance etc then PostgrSQL, Oracle etc are the right tool for the job.
Outright saying one or the other is a POS only makes you look stupud.
Say i'm developing a webpage, it validates with the W3C validator and I want to make sure it renders correctly in IE as well as gecko based browsers; this would mean I could load the page up in Netscape, view it with the gecko rendering engine, followed by IE. I'd then modify the CSS so that it renders reasonably in IE then switch back to gecko to ensure it still works correctly with it. This would mean less clutter for me when testing on Windows as it means I don't need Firefox & multiple instances of IE on my taskbar; instead there'd just be Netscape containing a bunch of tabs.
I hate any form of excess clutter in my desktop environment/window manager.
Cleaning up Spyware from friends and family's PCs (as well as friends of friends, friends of family etc etc etc), reinstalling Windows and all associated programs (FF, Spybot, oo.o etc) when things are too borked too salvage. Setting up small home networks. Freelance website development. Generic 'computer stuff'... allsorts of junk.
I do, and alot of people I know do; There are many excellent titles available for the GC and it's classification in certain circles as a console for kiddies is unwarrented and frankly incorrect. The majority of people I know who own Gamecubes are 20somethings, partly because as an agegroup we remember the haydays of Sega and Nintendo and partly because we're not drawn to the perception of having a console for 'mature' gamers with 'mature' games; we realise the marketing as such is infact aimed at 13-16 year old boys primerilly. Violence does not make a mature game, silly amounts of needless gore does not make a mature game...
I would, however, be very interested in a IM client made by the Moz developers.
The thing is that with HL2 you do not simply get the Single-player game, in a few months there'll be hundreds of fan-created mods available as well as the ones done by Valve (DoD:S and CS:S). In terms of value for money the £20 I spent on HL1 has given me more hours of enjoyment than anything, ever. Between the excellent single-player game and the mods I play I must have spent thousands of hours with it and all idications are that I'll be saying the same thing in another 6years when HL3 is released.
Eh, I was dissapointed to find that HL: S was a literal port of HL with no updated models, textures or anything. Granted, it does benefit from the Source engines lighting but that's the only difference I spotted when quickly playing through the start sequence.
I get it intermittantly when playing FPSs (maybe once every 3 months or so), just take a break and make a coffee, go for a jog or do something away from the computer, return in a couple of hours and you'll probably be fine.
https://update.mozilla.org/update/firefox/en-US.rd f
I believe, i'm sure you can change the en-US to whatever your localisation is. (On an unrelated not I'm actually British... I wonder if there's a en-UK version? I can't check right now as the mozilla site's dead.)
I've done two automatic updates (both from 0.10.1) and both worked fine... eventually, but this was before this /. article was published so mozilla's servers are probably being hammered right now; give it a few hours and try again.
That analogy is flawed though; it is very realistically possible for a single person to do the markup and CSS for a complex and large website doing all of your markup in a text editor, especially with scripting langages such as php which allow you to have a templating system throughout. Good analogy otherwise though.
I'm 99% sure eMacs does that, but most text editors can do the syntax highlighting; personally i prefer not to have the drop-down things when i'm typing and I certainly wouldn't trust Dreamweaver or whatever to upload everything to my webserver automagically... give me Filezilla or any good ftp client anyday.
(insert text editor of choice) is all you ever need to design a website, i've never used a wysiwyg application for creating my websites because there's no need to; you have far greater control of what's going on when you're doing the markup and CSS by hand than you ever will with Dreamweaver/Frontpage/whatever. Additionally you can make sure that only the attributes needed are specified; i've lost track of the number of site's i've had to overhaul which were originally made in these wysiwsy applications and wading through the crap it puts in is soul-destroying.
Works perfectly in IE6.
I think he was reffering to the fact that IE does not support PNG Alpha Transparency, instead he's used two images; the original one and one which has been lightened to give the impression of transparency. When you think about it though it's kind of pointless because IE still won't display it properly...
Actually, yes it does. It takes some time (when compared to Opera and Firefox) to move onto the next slide but it's fully functional; I have a presentation to do for one of my uni modules and I was not looking forward to doing it in Powerpoint, it now looks like I wont have too. This makes me very happy.
We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States." Care to explain what that article says; I can't be arsed to find an annonymous american proxy just for this.
Even if that was supposed to be ironic (which I doubt) it was the most retarded comment i've ever seen on /. and that's going some.
> > I can build a comperable PC for ~1/3-1/2 the price of a mac and have all these benefits.... >This is all a matter of having the time to do such things. Well, including removing everything from it's pacakging (often a daunting task in itself...) and being painstakingly careful i'd say it takes ~35-40 minutes to build a working PC from it's respective parts and boot it up to ensure everything is working fine... Installing the base OS (whether windows/linux/BSD) is another ~30-45 minutes, configuring everything so it's ready for use can take anywhere from 30minutes (linux) to 1.5-2hours (windows). So in essence you're doubling/tripling the price you could pay for the benefit od a preinstalled OS, i'm sorry but as much as my ego would love to say otherwise 4 hours of my time is not worth ~£700... I'm not a PC zealot, I love the PowerPC architecture but macs are simply overpriced for what you get... you pay for the branding and nothing more.
You do realise that, shock horror, you can run a PC without windows? And every argument you made for macs can be made about Linux and the BSDs, right? So essentially you're paying for the apple logo, nothing more; I can build a comperable PC for ~1/3-1/2 the price of a mac and have all these benefits....
And you seem to have trouble distinguishing between a joke and a serious comment.