I have no printer, and shun paper as hell. My schedule, mail, papers, work, everything is on a computer. Work? *cough* Well, I promise you I work less than 2 days a week;). And even my mother does her groceries from home and she's not extremly computer-literate.
I meant the javaplugin available from Sun. Quite nice if you're developing applets for a closed group (as I am). It's available for IE, and Netscape and is very good to have. And atleast my IE6 asked me if I wanted to download the plugin when it encountered an applet written with JDK1.3. I agree with you on the Flash/Quicktime/Plugin vs Java discussion, but I'm afraid I've gone from being a longtime linux-zealot to actually defending MS (damn that w2k;)) so I trigger easily when people rack down on IE "just because"; you have my apologies.
IE do ask you if you want to download a javaplugin if the applet is made with a later JDK. That's at least less work than it is to install the javaplugin on Netscape, so I don't see why you should go bashing IE specifically?
Right click the application while holding shift. Choose "Run as...", enter the user you want it to run as (administrator in this case), enter password. *Presto*.
It was actually a while since I tried the latest Mozilla build, so I downloaded it (0.81) and tried. It sure looks and feels better than NS6 (especially the UI) but it still takes 40-80% more time than IE6 Beta Preview 1 to load and display a page. Sorry, but it's not that great yet. (Tests highly informal).
Every other browser, especially Netscape, out there basically does this too. The few good ones that doesn't are Lynx, Amya, Galleon and so on. The reason you're redirected has been stated many times over, and by people not from MS. If you hate it that much, just change it? (Or delete the bookmarks, as I do, since I have no use for them.)
IE might be a good browser, but I'm not going to drive a car with a locked hood that says 'Sponsored by Scientology', or something.
But I bet you'll use an OS and apps you have no clue how they work and look in src, just because it's open source? Have you gone through the kernel and your apps line by line? Didn't think so. And the "Sponsored by Scientology", I didn't get all... in what way is IE more "sponsored" than for example Netscape or Konq? They all come from a company or group that releases a browser for free, all saying basically "NO WARANTEE".
What was your point on my comparison? I compared a beta browser to a non-beta; yepp. So? I could have compared IE5.5 to the lastest konq release if you want to? I would say the same things. And yes, Konq does render nicely, and has lots of little nice features, but it crashes for example on http://tvprogram.nu which I use > 10 days a day to see what's on TV. It's also crashed repeatdly on other sites. And I'm sorry, but a browser I can't use for my everyday work, isn't a good browser in my book.
And yes it possible that Konq is more integrated, for which I applaud them! In all fairness I think KDE2 is the only sensible desktop project on Linux. I've used Linux since 93, but nowadays I'm older, and wants stuff done, and have no energy for fighting my OS at every step. Win2k does everything I want (including emacs, a nice prompt and Counter-Strike) while being just as stable as my Linux, and having a much nicer GUI (== more consistent).
When IE6 comes out in, like a year from now, it will be the browser we should have had four years ago.
Well the problem is that there's still no other browser that is even close to being what we should have had 4 years ago. Netscape/Mozilla is a total mess. What's the point of having 10MBps of bandwidth when the browser takes several seconds to render a page. Not to mention the fact that Netscape is far worse on adhering to standards and adding it's own little tags.
Lynx and w3m, etc, may or may not be more standardcompliant, but I'm sorry, I don't want a text-only browser. Konqueror is, admittely quite ok, but has a far way to go, it still crashes on quite a lot of pages. IE6 on the other hand, which I'm running right now, renders quick as lightning, hasn't crashed on me once, and has lots of nifty little features. Yes, ok, I does take up 12MB of ram, but virtually no CPU time, and it's still a lot less than Netscape ever did on my Linux (where it also crashes all the time). (And don't give me "it's builtin to the operating system" - I don't care, in a modern OS internet SHOULD be tightly integrated. It's the Right Thing (TM) in my opinion).
As my hostname contains the following information; Where i study, and therefore which town and country and more importantly it also contains my whereabouts down to my roomnumber, so I'm not that hard to track based on it, I find it rather relevant.
Exactly what stability and security problems does Mandrake have? I installed Mandrake for the first time some week ago, totally wiping my old Red Hat. I've been using Linux since 93, running Slackware, Debian, Stampede, Red Hat and now Mandrake. And I must say that that the most stable distribution I've had is Mandrake till date. (RH & Slackware gave me frequent problems and X crashes and incompatibilities). It's also the one distribution easiest to secure down, at least outwards. So I would say it's not only for the desktop user.
Yeah, and we have polar bears on our streets too. I live in Sweden (albeit the south of sweden) and I've seen something like 5 days of snow this year. Which sucks because I really like snow. But forty below? Yeah right:) Not until you get to the very north of Scandinavia.
One our our ministers, I'm afraid her name has fallen out of my mind, publicly said she had downloaded mp3s from napster, burned them on a CD, and burned a copy to a friend. They investigated a possible indictment on her, but the case was dropped, since Swedens' fair use laws covers quite alot. So if you want your CDs burned, I charge 2$ a piece;).
I've read alot of comments either promoting classic books or e-books, but I haven't seen anyone mentioning the real reason why books are superior to humans. Humans acts on information from their five primary senses; eyes, nose, ears, touch and taste. And we learn by these things. As everyone knows a sound, a smell or the touch of something can bring back a flood of memories.
And here is where the e-book fails. Every book looks the same, smells the same and feels the same. This makes it alot harder for the brain to associate to and remember what we read. And it's really boring too. The first thing I do when I get a book, is smelling and touching it. Seriously. It's as important for me that the book "feels" right as the content is. All in all, the good old book is alot better for humans than any currently existing e-book.
You consider HL-CS to be the most popular action game on the net
You offer no data to bolster your belief of a certain game's popularity
It is, check Gamespys' stats: www.gamespy.com.
Half Life was made by Sierra
Sierra has a long history of selling proprietary software
A group of individuals decided to make a mod/mission pack to Half Life
Sierra gave these individuals permissionto do so
The whole point was that lone, non-corporate groups could make engines, but not gameplay, which Counter-Strike obviously proves is false, since the only thing in it that's Sierras' is the engine.
The individuals sold their creation for profit
Sierra also profited from the sales
Actually it's Sierra who sell the retail version of Counterstrike. So, well, yeah they sold their creation for money, but not until Sierra looked at it and said "woah, this is good, we can sell it". And if the poor volunteers get money, that's fine by me.
GPL'd code is far easier to reverse engineer than binaries are.
Well since you don't have to reverse engineer them, sure.
Cheating would be far easier with an open-source game, especially if the characters are stored client-side.
If they're stupid enough to have the characters stored client-side, I think they have bigger problems than that their code is GPL'd. Everything lies in good design. A closed binary can be more secure than a GPL'd and vice versa, all depending on how well thoughout security measures, protocols and serverside coding are. Open or closed source shouldn't change how secure it is, because then it's just bad design.
I would say Stars!, an excellent strategy game from 96 or so. There's a shareware version available with should be quite big enough for your needs. Actually I could recommend Stars! to everyone, the only shareware I've ever registered. Got an 8 player game running right now and it rocks:). "Kill your neighbourraces, exploit planets, be all you can be."
Well, I guess there's at least one company with hackers of their own. Incredibly beautiful hack, especially the hackeresque text "Game Over" in the end. All in all, a hack worthy to become classic.
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All of the above
I have no printer, and shun paper as hell. My schedule, mail, papers, work, everything is on a computer. Work? *cough* Well, I promise you I work less than 2 days a week ;). And even my mother does her groceries from home and she's not extremly computer-literate.
I meant the javaplugin available from Sun. Quite nice if you're developing applets for a closed group (as I am). It's available for IE, and Netscape and is very good to have. And atleast my IE6 asked me if I wanted to download the plugin when it encountered an applet written with JDK1.3. I agree with you on the Flash/Quicktime/Plugin vs Java discussion, but I'm afraid I've gone from being a longtime linux-zealot to actually defending MS (damn that w2k ;)) so I trigger easily when people rack down on IE "just because"; you have my apologies.
IE do ask you if you want to download a javaplugin if the applet is made with a later JDK. That's at least less work than it is to install the javaplugin on Netscape, so I don't see why you should go bashing IE specifically?
Right click the application while holding shift. Choose "Run as...", enter the user you want it to run as (administrator in this case), enter password. *Presto*.
It was actually a while since I tried the latest Mozilla build, so I downloaded it (0.81) and tried. It sure looks and feels better than NS6 (especially the UI) but it still takes 40-80% more time than IE6 Beta Preview 1 to load and display a page. Sorry, but it's not that great yet. (Tests highly informal).
Every other browser, especially Netscape, out there basically does this too. The few good ones that doesn't are Lynx, Amya, Galleon and so on. The reason you're redirected has been stated many times over, and by people not from MS. If you hate it that much, just change it? (Or delete the bookmarks, as I do, since I have no use for them.)
... in what way is IE more "sponsored" than for example Netscape or Konq? They all come from a company or group that releases a browser for free, all saying basically "NO WARANTEE".
IE might be a good browser, but I'm not going to drive a car with a locked hood that says 'Sponsored by Scientology', or something.
But I bet you'll use an OS and apps you have no clue how they work and look in src, just because it's open source? Have you gone through the kernel and your apps line by line? Didn't think so. And the "Sponsored by Scientology", I didn't get all
What was your point on my comparison? I compared a beta browser to a non-beta; yepp. So? I could have compared IE5.5 to the lastest konq release if you want to? I would say the same things. And yes, Konq does render nicely, and has lots of little nice features, but it crashes for example on http://tvprogram.nu which I use > 10 days a day to see what's on TV. It's also crashed repeatdly on other sites. And I'm sorry, but a browser I can't use for my everyday work, isn't a good browser in my book.
And yes it possible that Konq is more integrated, for which I applaud them! In all fairness I think KDE2 is the only sensible desktop project on Linux. I've used Linux since 93, but nowadays I'm older, and wants stuff done, and have no energy for fighting my OS at every step. Win2k does everything I want (including emacs, a nice prompt and Counter-Strike) while being just as stable as my Linux, and having a much nicer GUI (== more consistent).
When IE6 comes out in, like a year from now, it will be the browser we should have had four years ago.
Well the problem is that there's still no other browser that is even close to being what we should have had 4 years ago. Netscape/Mozilla is a total mess. What's the point of having 10MBps of bandwidth when the browser takes several seconds to render a page. Not to mention the fact that Netscape is far worse on adhering to standards and adding it's own little tags.
Lynx and w3m, etc, may or may not be more standardcompliant, but I'm sorry, I don't want a text-only browser. Konqueror is, admittely quite ok, but has a far way to go, it still crashes on quite a lot of pages. IE6 on the other hand, which I'm running right now, renders quick as lightning, hasn't crashed on me once, and has lots of nifty little features. Yes, ok, I does take up 12MB of ram, but virtually no CPU time, and it's still a lot less than Netscape ever did on my Linux (where it also crashes all the time). (And don't give me "it's builtin to the operating system" - I don't care, in a modern OS internet SHOULD be tightly integrated. It's the Right Thing (TM) in my opinion).
Not if you clear your cookies first :) *doh*
It's clearly stated that they must answer at the same time.
There's 50% chance that Player3's guess is wrong, so you only win 50% of the time (or less).
Hoho...you've got some good points, but man, what a troll. You must have a smile a mile wide, seeing how you're modded up and replied to.
:))
(And I'm not a linux zealot. Well not anymore, running w2k anyway
You're sure you're not from Sweden? =)
It's not often I say this. But some people REALLY needs to get out more. And coming from me, that's serious :).
As my hostname contains the following information; Where i study, and therefore which town and country and more importantly it also contains my whereabouts down to my roomnumber, so I'm not that hard to track based on it, I find it rather relevant.
Exactly what stability and security problems does Mandrake have? I installed Mandrake for the first time some week ago, totally wiping my old Red Hat. I've been using Linux since 93, running Slackware, Debian, Stampede, Red Hat and now Mandrake. And I must say that that the most stable distribution I've had is Mandrake till date. (RH & Slackware gave me frequent problems and X crashes and incompatibilities). It's also the one distribution easiest to secure down, at least outwards. So I would say it's not only for the desktop user.
Yeah, and we have polar bears on our streets too. I live in Sweden (albeit the south of sweden) and I've seen something like 5 days of snow this year. Which sucks because I really like snow. But forty below? Yeah right :) Not until you get to the very north of Scandinavia.
Hehe...that was one way of reading the sentence, yes :)
One our our ministers, I'm afraid her name has fallen out of my mind, publicly said she had downloaded mp3s from napster, burned them on a CD, and burned a copy to a friend. They investigated a possible indictment on her, but the case was dropped, since Swedens' fair use laws covers quite alot. So if you want your CDs burned, I charge 2$ a piece ;).
And here is where the e-book fails. Every book looks the same, smells the same and feels the same. This makes it alot harder for the brain to associate to and remember what we read. And it's really boring too. The first thing I do when I get a book, is smelling and touching it. Seriously. It's as important for me that the book "feels" right as the content is. All in all, the good old book is alot better for humans than any currently existing e-book.
You believe OSS will work for games
Nothing to really counter here...
You consider HL-CS to be the most popular action game on the net
You offer no data to bolster your belief of a certain game's popularity
It is, check Gamespys' stats: www.gamespy.com.
Half Life was made by Sierra
Sierra has a long history of selling proprietary software
A group of individuals decided to make a mod/mission pack to Half Life
Sierra gave these individuals permissionto do so
The whole point was that lone, non-corporate groups could make engines, but not gameplay, which Counter-Strike obviously proves is false, since the only thing in it that's Sierras' is the engine.
The individuals sold their creation for profit
Sierra also profited from the sales
Actually it's Sierra who sell the retail version of Counterstrike. So, well, yeah they sold their creation for money, but not until Sierra looked at it and said "woah, this is good, we can sell it". And if the poor volunteers get money, that's fine by me.
GPL'd code is far easier to reverse engineer than binaries are.
Well since you don't have to reverse engineer them, sure.
Cheating would be far easier with an open-source game, especially if the characters are stored client-side.
If they're stupid enough to have the characters stored client-side, I think they have bigger problems than that their code is GPL'd. Everything lies in good design. A closed binary can be more secure than a GPL'd and vice versa, all depending on how well thoughout security measures, protocols and serverside coding are. Open or closed source shouldn't change how secure it is, because then it's just bad design.
I would say Stars!, an excellent strategy game from 96 or so. There's a shareware version available with should be quite big enough for your needs. Actually I could recommend Stars! to everyone, the only shareware I've ever registered. Got an 8 player game running right now and it rocks :). "Kill your neighbourraces, exploit planets, be all you can be."
Well, I guess there's at least one company with hackers of their own. Incredibly beautiful hack, especially the hackeresque text "Game Over" in the end. All in all, a hack worthy to become classic.