MSN is the number one IM client for young people here, and through most of Europe.
MSN here is both a noun - "Give me your MSN" and somewhat less frequently a verb - "I will MSN you"
But it refers to the IM service. Almost nobody I know uses the web site for anything productive.
And this is why the current "slowdown" of adoption doesn't matter. Firefox has reached that ~10%. Other browsers (Safari + Opera + Konqueror) have maybe 5%.
Which means that IE is down to 85%, and web developers can no longer create IE-only web sites, and apply pressure at Microsoft to be more standards compliant.
Which caused the come of IE7, which has fixes for many of the reasons we web developers hate IE, such as CSS, the box model and the PNG problems you are talking about.
So - it's ok that the adoption rate doesn't increase. The microsoft 99% dominance on the browser market is broken, probably forever, and now we can once again experience that development in web standards that has been away since Netscape was crushed by MS.
So - you're looking at the wrong place. Firefox has already succeded. It created better web browsing for everyone.
Will Civ 1-3 ever be open sourced?
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Seriously - you need to decide once and for all whether windows sucks or blows!
Cause doing both at the same time doesn't make any sense!
Oh yeah?
Googlefight probably won't be so cocky after a good slashdotting!
Will it be on by default or easily configurable in FC5?
Haven't managed to find any info on that...
Right... And you figured noone else would be 'leet' enough to figure it out? ;-)
... worst... hack... ever!
Well, many of their other famous works were mainly done in JavaScript...
It was done in a zing!
The Firebird name was taken, so they got a new suffix with the Firesomething random animal generator.
ok, I'm off to RTFA...
Well yeah, but that'd be stooping to the same level as those guys...
Better just joke about it on Slashdot and feel good about yourself!
... so now machines are both better than men in bed, and better at knowing how the women feel?
Guys, we're becoming extinct here...
(this is actually the first time I play this game, let me know how I'm doing!)
3a. Patent algorithm.
3b. Sue everybody that looks 83% happy or 9% disgusted
That joke is like a million years old...
A quick google shows:
577 000 occurences of it on the web
Well, consider that once, their entire population was imprisoned...
... so I just have to do it...
Of course Microsoft wants two standards, after all - double standards has always been their thing!
Thank you... thank you... I'll be here all week....
Exactly!
And for that, you need the book Man For Dummies
And of course my favorite: sextofp.eu
Finally, every slashdotter's first-posting skills will come in handy!
A particularly funny case of which is the word infart which means drive-in.
Come on, can't you see the humor in an Anonymous Coward offering help?
Well, if this insensitive clod joke was modded informative, I can see why these people may actually have a case...
The link seems to crash my Firefox...
A bug to be reported, or what is happening?
That's because nerds would keep rushing towards, not from Hurricane Xena, and we wouldn't want that, would we? ;-)
Also, during a trip to Europe, Steve was overheard screaming: "I'm gonna f*cking MSN that guy! I've done it before, and I'll go it again!"
MSN is the number one IM client for young people here, and through most of Europe. MSN here is both a noun - "Give me your MSN" and somewhat less frequently a verb - "I will MSN you"
But it refers to the IM service. Almost nobody I know uses the web site for anything productive.
Well, we can slashdot it pretty good!
And this is why the current "slowdown" of adoption doesn't matter.
Firefox has reached that ~10%.
Other browsers (Safari + Opera + Konqueror) have maybe 5%.
Which means that IE is down to 85%, and web developers can no longer create IE-only web sites, and apply pressure at Microsoft to be more standards compliant.
Which caused the come of IE7, which has fixes for many of the reasons we web developers hate IE, such as CSS, the box model and the PNG problems you are talking about.
So - it's ok that the adoption rate doesn't increase. The microsoft 99% dominance on the browser market is broken, probably forever, and now we can once again experience that development in web standards that has been away since Netscape was crushed by MS.
So - you're looking at the wrong place.
Firefox has already succeded. It created better web browsing for everyone.
Some game producers, mainly id software usually release the source code for older versions of their games, have you ever thought of doing the same?
What are your reasons for/against? How do you feel about current free software Civ "clones" like FreeCiv?