Opera 7.54 (linux) dies when opening opera_die1.html
I found it funny he didn't include the shitload of perfectly valid HTML code that's known to crash IE; but still, he has a point. A browser shouldn't crash when fed malformed data.
Myself, I much prefer to play a decent single player game than an online game populated by dickhead TKers, wallhack cheaters and pathetic teenagers who have nothing better to do with their lives than to constantly be honing their "mad-skilz" in order to make it impossible for casual players to last more than 5 seconds per round.
Counterstrike (the game) is incredibly fun. What ruins it is, just like you said, the hordes of retarded kids (and no-so-young-adults) and the "l33t" culture that grew arround it like a fungus.
DOD is as much fun as Counterstrike, and, atleast for the time being, it's not as, errr, "corrupted". You might want to try it if you haven't already.
My thoughts exactly. Doom 3 is the same mindless, simple shooter it has been sold to us over and over again.
And i love that shooter:)
It's a damn fine game, it's just people were expecting the second coming of Christ or something. Great graphics, great atmosphere, long enough and lost of action. I wonder how well HL2 will do; my guess is better from everything i've seen from it, but it has also been hyped up to heavens and back.
That only applies to soccer, trust me:) I've been to Brazil a lot of times and always been treated great. I extend the same courtesy to Brazilians visiting Argentina.
If leaders had to wait until all the facts are available, we would never have any action. For one, those who oppose those leaders would simply conceal some facts, and render those leaders incapable of action. Strong leaders take action on educated (as informed as possible) guesses.
Thing is, they didn't even do that. To this day, i don't know if the Bush administration started a war because Irak was harboring terrorists, WMD, or simply because Hussein is "evil", if not all of the above. I say this because all of these explanations were given, and only the last one was found to be true - and even then, they bypassed UN decisions.
I don't get tired of repeating this, because people tend to forget you're literally invading and bombing the shit of a country that never meant a threat to the USA in the first place (military, economically it can be discussed). Military decisions based on incomplete (or simply bogus) facts are not a sign of a decisive leader, never mind a responsable one.
No, as you can tell i'm no Bush fan; hell, i'm not even American. Just... dunno, i don't want to point fingers, i don't even know you, but i have the distant feeling some American citizens take those "small wars" too ligthly. Roger Waters had it right, it's the bravery of being out of range indeed.
Anyway, i don't think i'll be posting on this subject again. Posts become too... flammeable:)
Laugh at will, but Colossus chess 4 used to beat me constantly on my C64; it had a surprisingly good AI for the time. No match for a grandmaster, enough to frustate an amateur player.
Much agreed. Every empire falls overtime, and the USA is generating way too much animosity all over the world. Some people over USA (some i know quite a few more centered than that) like to beleive events like 9/11 happened in a vaccum and foraigners are "jealous of the USA for their freedom".
"Indymedia has not clear how and why a server outside American jurisdiction no can be requised by American autorithies."
Sorry, make that: "Indymedia can't understand how and why a server outside American jurisdiction can be requised by American autorithies.". I need more caffeine.
Translated (roughly, so pardon any mistakes) from the News section of the Indymedia homepage:
"In the morning of Thursday 7 of October, American autorities delivered a federal order to Rackspace (Indymedias' provider, with offices in London and USA), requiring the surrender off Indymedias' web servers to the demmanding agency. According to what was said to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they couldn't give Indymedia more information respecting the order". ISPs have received orders to stand quiet in similar situtations in which orders were given not to keep the involved parts informed on what was going on.
Indymedia has not clear how and why a server outside American jurisdiction no can be requised by American autorithies.
At the same time, an aditional server was disconnected at Rackspace; that server provided streaming radio for some emitters, BLAG (linux distribution), and quite a few more sites.
In the last months numerous attacks to independant media have been seen being perpetrated by the USA federal government. In August, the secret service used a jurisdictional requirement in an attempt to disband New Yorks' CMI before the RNC, attempting to obtain IP registers in USA and Holland. The past month the FCC dismantled several American radio emtitters. Two weeks earlier the FBI requested that Indymedia deleted a story on the Nantes CMI who had the picture of some Swedish secret police officer and CMI volunteers were visited by the FBI to inquire on the same issue. Meanwhile, Indymedia and other organizations had success with their victories against, f.ex., Diebold and the Patriot Act. Today, nevertheless, American authorities have disconnected CMIs all oer the world.
The list of affected CMIs include: Italy, Brasil, Uruguay, England, Andorra, Polonia, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille , Euskal Herria (País vasco), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen Belgrado, Portugal, Praga, Galicia..."
This was the same argument that Maddox exposed in his site. I love Maddox; most of the time he is insigthful and bitter, but he's wrong this time.
You didn't knew the man before the accident. You didn't knew how he was after the accident. This isn't a sympathy call; you simply don't know what happened through his mind. But the fact that he cared to open a foundation to help people with his problem is something to be very respectful of. Personally, i don't think he thought his foundation would be of any help to him in his lifetime.
Hm. You can't help everyone at the time. It's a fact, you can't be everywhere and help everyone, you only have two hands. Why he started the foundation, well, your guess is as good as mine, but instead of sitting on all his publicity money (and the one he made before), he decided to help someone else. He in the process? Of course. But yet, he did his part. He should get, at the very least, the benefit of doubt. Don't call the man selfish because you didn't knew if he cared about a disease before hand. You know you don't for quite a few aswell.
Think of that before bashing someone whose legacy will help a lot of people in the future.
It's a great gesture. A great idea. Just misguided if you ask me. We all would be better served if players donated one month of the CoH subscription fee to his charity.
I was thinking something similar: "Gee, that's nice, but it would've been nicer if the tribute was outside a friggin' game". Don't get me wrong; like you, i found it a great gesture. It just feels... dunno... lazy.
So do i. I have a second-gen Minidisc player i've been using for a while now and it beats any MP3 player, specially in portability and battery life. Newer Minidiscs can record above 1X, so my main complain with them has vanished.
Thing is, Sony tried to restrict them so much they killed the format. We could have Minidiscs replacing floppies right now, or we could upload MP3s directly instead of having to re-encode them in ATRAC. It's a crying shame, it's a nice little device.
BTW, i hacked a line-in in my car stereo and i plug my portable player in it when i want to listen to Minidiscs while driving. Just a thought, i don't think Minidisc car stereos are readily availabe now.
Why is 90% of MMO games (notablyu MMORPGs) are about wizards, elves, spells, warriors and assorted fantasy? City of heroes was a notable exception, but it seems like every new game is a copycat of the one before it.
Something like the Fallout series translated to an online game would be quite nice.
I missed the last debate, but something i caught reading a transcript and sounded alarms in my head was Bush saying (and i quote):
"...So I tried diplomacy, went to the United Nations. But as we learned in the same report I quoted, Saddam Hussein was gaming the oil-for-food program to get rid of sanctions. He was trying to get rid of sanctions for a reason: He wanted to restart his weapons programs.
We all thought there was weapons there, Robin. My opponent thought there was weapons there. That's why he called him a grave threat.
I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons, and we've got an intelligence group together to figure out why.
But Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.
And my opponent's plans lead me to conclude that Saddam Hussein would still be in power, and the world would be more dangerous."
So, in few words, first it was about terrorists, then about WMD, since there were no terorrists there, and now there's no WMD, it's all about Sadaam being an evil, dangerous man. Which is not something i disagree with, but it begs the question: why the fuck did the Bush administration was so eager to rush into war with Iraq - so much that they bypassed the UN completely? To this day, just like you, i have no idea.
Oil? I thought it was far fetched back then. Now i don't know.
What scares me is that so many people over the USA not only accept this, but embraces and defends this actions.
Steam is still pretty new... did you really expect them to have a large library of games by now? For now, Steam is pretty much a proof-of-concept. Their next step is probably to get other companies to use Steam to distribute their game.
Somehow i have this feeling each major publisher/developer will attempt to introduce it's own version of an online delivery system. It would be pretty nice to have an unified system, but i don't think it's happening.
Still, i can see how it can become interesting to pay a subscription for the comodity of downloading games (not for me, but still) if the game library is big enough. Steams' is not.
Pun aside, this is a point. The only reason people is so interested in Steam is Half-life 2; otherwise, all you can download from Steam is HL and assorted mods. The integrated server browser is nice, but hardly anything we haven't seen before (and even better done).
So, if the choice is so limited, why even bother? It'd like be going to a supermarket and paying to use a cart than only lets you bring home 10 products. If Steam let me download any game i wanted, make sure it stays patched and assures me i'd be able to play it no matter what (even if i cancelled my subscription), i would consider it. But no thanks.
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Opera 7.54 (linux) dies when opening opera_die1.html
I found it funny he didn't include the shitload of perfectly valid HTML code that's known to crash IE; but still, he has a point. A browser shouldn't crash when fed malformed data.
Myself, I much prefer to play a decent single player game than an online game populated by dickhead TKers, wallhack cheaters and pathetic teenagers who have nothing better to do with their lives than to constantly be honing their "mad-skilz" in order to make it impossible for casual players to last more than 5 seconds per round.
Counterstrike (the game) is incredibly fun. What ruins it is, just like you said, the hordes of retarded kids (and no-so-young-adults) and the "l33t" culture that grew arround it like a fungus.
DOD is as much fun as Counterstrike, and, atleast for the time being, it's not as, errr, "corrupted". You might want to try it if you haven't already.
My thoughts exactly. Doom 3 is the same mindless, simple shooter it has been sold to us over and over again.
:)
And i love that shooter
It's a damn fine game, it's just people were expecting the second coming of Christ or something. Great graphics, great atmosphere, long enough and lost of action. I wonder how well HL2 will do; my guess is better from everything i've seen from it, but it has also been hyped up to heavens and back.
Nah. I'm not that lucky.
Ohh look, the sky is blue! And my water is wet!
That only applies to soccer, trust me :) I've been to Brazil a lot of times and always been treated great. I extend the same courtesy to Brazilians visiting Argentina.
I just got to see this (thank you God for the miracle of BT). Priceless, i'll have to keep an eye on Jon Stewart. He was great.
Now we'll see if the game lives up to the hype it has been subjected to. Doom 3 suffered much from this (don't look at me, i loved it).
True. The man completely fucked StarWars, but still has a number of remarkable films on his resume. I personally *love* the Indiana Jones series.
"George Lucas is receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. I will make no other comment."
Oh, c'mon, don't like that. You'll get yours too, eventually!
If leaders had to wait until all the facts are available, we would never have any action. For one, those who oppose those leaders would simply conceal some facts, and render those leaders incapable of action. Strong leaders take action on educated (as informed as possible) guesses.
:)
Thing is, they didn't even do that. To this day, i don't know if the Bush administration started a war because Irak was harboring terrorists, WMD, or simply because Hussein is "evil", if not all of the above. I say this because all of these explanations were given, and only the last one was found to be true - and even then, they bypassed UN decisions.
I don't get tired of repeating this, because people tend to forget you're literally invading and bombing the shit of a country that never meant a threat to the USA in the first place (military, economically it can be discussed). Military decisions based on incomplete (or simply bogus) facts are not a sign of a decisive leader, never mind a responsable one.
No, as you can tell i'm no Bush fan; hell, i'm not even American. Just... dunno, i don't want to point fingers, i don't even know you, but i have the distant feeling some American citizens take those "small wars" too ligthly. Roger Waters had it right, it's the bravery of being out of range indeed.
Anyway, i don't think i'll be posting on this subject again. Posts become too... flammeable
Laugh at will, but Colossus chess 4 used to beat me constantly on my C64; it had a surprisingly good AI for the time. No match for a grandmaster, enough to frustate an amateur player.
:(
I miss my C64
Much agreed. Every empire falls overtime, and the USA is generating way too much animosity all over the world. Some people over USA (some i know quite a few more centered than that) like to beleive events like 9/11 happened in a vaccum and foraigners are "jealous of the USA for their freedom".
"Indymedia has not clear how and why a server outside American jurisdiction no can be requised by American autorithies."
Sorry, make that: "Indymedia can't understand how and why a server outside American jurisdiction can be requised by American autorithies.". I need more caffeine.
Translated (roughly, so pardon any mistakes) from the News section of the Indymedia homepage:
"In the morning of Thursday 7 of October, American autorities delivered a federal order to Rackspace (Indymedias' provider, with offices in London and USA), requiring the surrender off Indymedias' web servers to the demmanding agency. According to what was said to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they couldn't give Indymedia more information respecting the order". ISPs have received orders to stand quiet in similar situtations in which orders were given not to keep the involved parts informed on what was going on.
Indymedia has not clear how and why a server outside American jurisdiction no can be requised by American autorithies.
At the same time, an aditional server was disconnected at Rackspace; that server provided streaming radio for some emitters, BLAG (linux distribution), and quite a few more sites.
In the last months numerous attacks to independant media have been seen being perpetrated by the USA federal government. In August, the secret service used a jurisdictional requirement in an attempt to disband New Yorks' CMI before the RNC, attempting to obtain IP registers in USA and Holland. The past month the FCC dismantled several American radio emtitters. Two weeks earlier the FBI requested that Indymedia deleted a story on the Nantes CMI who had the picture of some Swedish secret police officer and CMI volunteers were visited by the FBI to inquire on the same issue. Meanwhile, Indymedia and other organizations had success with their victories against, f.ex., Diebold and the Patriot Act. Today, nevertheless, American authorities have disconnected CMIs all oer the world.
The list of affected CMIs include:
Italy, Brasil, Uruguay, England, Andorra, Polonia, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille , Euskal Herria (País vasco), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen Belgrado, Portugal, Praga, Galicia..."
This was the same argument that Maddox exposed in his site. I love Maddox; most of the time he is insigthful and bitter, but he's wrong this time.
You didn't knew the man before the accident. You didn't knew how he was after the accident. This isn't a sympathy call; you simply don't know what happened through his mind. But the fact that he cared to open a foundation to help people with his problem is something to be very respectful of. Personally, i don't think he thought his foundation would be of any help to him in his lifetime.
Hm. You can't help everyone at the time. It's a fact, you can't be everywhere and help everyone, you only have two hands. Why he started the foundation, well, your guess is as good as mine, but instead of sitting on all his publicity money (and the one he made before), he decided to help someone else. He in the process? Of course. But yet, he did his part. He should get, at the very least, the benefit of doubt. Don't call the man selfish because you didn't knew if he cared about a disease before hand. You know you don't for quite a few aswell.
Think of that before bashing someone whose legacy will help a lot of people in the future.
It's a great gesture. A great idea. Just misguided if you ask me. We all would be better served if players donated one month of the CoH subscription fee to his charity.
I was thinking something similar: "Gee, that's nice, but it would've been nicer if the tribute was outside a friggin' game". Don't get me wrong; like you, i found it a great gesture. It just feels... dunno... lazy.
So do i. I have a second-gen Minidisc player i've been using for a while now and it beats any MP3 player, specially in portability and battery life. Newer Minidiscs can record above 1X, so my main complain with them has vanished.
Thing is, Sony tried to restrict them so much they killed the format. We could have Minidiscs replacing floppies right now, or we could upload MP3s directly instead of having to re-encode them in ATRAC. It's a crying shame, it's a nice little device.
BTW, i hacked a line-in in my car stereo and i plug my portable player in it when i want to listen to Minidiscs while driving. Just a thought, i don't think Minidisc car stereos are readily availabe now.
Why is 90% of MMO games (notablyu MMORPGs) are about wizards, elves, spells, warriors and assorted fantasy? City of heroes was a notable exception, but it seems like every new game is a copycat of the one before it.
Something like the Fallout series translated to an online game would be quite nice.
Very interesting. Do you have a link? Not that i don't trust you, i just want to read more about it.
I missed the last debate, but something i caught reading a transcript and sounded alarms in my head was Bush saying (and i quote):
"...So I tried diplomacy, went to the United Nations. But as we learned in the same report I quoted, Saddam Hussein was gaming the oil-for-food program to get rid of sanctions. He was trying to get rid of sanctions for a reason: He wanted to restart his weapons programs.
We all thought there was weapons there, Robin. My opponent thought there was weapons there. That's why he called him a grave threat.
I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons, and we've got an intelligence group together to figure out why.
But Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.
And my opponent's plans lead me to conclude that Saddam Hussein would still be in power, and the world would be more dangerous."
So, in few words, first it was about terrorists, then about WMD, since there were no terorrists there, and now there's no WMD, it's all about Sadaam being an evil, dangerous man. Which is not something i disagree with, but it begs the question: why the fuck did the Bush administration was so eager to rush into war with Iraq - so much that they bypassed the UN completely? To this day, just like you, i have no idea.
Oil? I thought it was far fetched back then. Now i don't know.
What scares me is that so many people over the USA not only accept this, but embraces and defends this actions.
Steam is still pretty new... did you really expect them to have a large library of games by now? For now, Steam is pretty much a proof-of-concept. Their next step is probably to get other companies to use Steam to distribute their game. Somehow i have this feeling each major publisher/developer will attempt to introduce it's own version of an online delivery system. It would be pretty nice to have an unified system, but i don't think it's happening. Still, i can see how it can become interesting to pay a subscription for the comodity of downloading games (not for me, but still) if the game library is big enough. Steams' is not.
I just can't help myself; go over to the hall of fame.
:)
Nerds are funny
Pun aside, this is a point. The only reason people is so interested in Steam is Half-life 2; otherwise, all you can download from Steam is HL and assorted mods. The integrated server browser is nice, but hardly anything we haven't seen before (and even better done).
So, if the choice is so limited, why even bother? It'd like be going to a supermarket and paying to use a cart than only lets you bring home 10 products. If Steam let me download any game i wanted, make sure it stays patched and assures me i'd be able to play it no matter what (even if i cancelled my subscription), i would consider it. But no thanks.
You heartless bastard... :)