Why not roll a small Linux distro (something really titiny, like DSL, or picolinux, write a script to back up to thumb drive, then reboot the machine and wipe it? Push that image to every machine via network.
EE would be pretty great if the experts got paid to share, but that's not the case. And so, if you're not going to be going there to post your own expertisse, it's a lot more worth it to simply check the google cache (as detailed in a rather recent 2600.) Because if the only people who are getting paid are the site admins, then I'm not paying for the "expertisse."
2: Also, catastrophic ice ages have obviously happened before. Who cares if humans get wiped out? That doesn't mean the planet is uninhabitable for the species that exist after the fact and those that will eventually adapt for later.
TMNT were entirely different types of characters, honestly. Parents might have worried their kids would grow up to be barbarians, but Bratz dolls teach girls how to be materialistic, airheaded zombies more than any toy I can recall. TMNT might have been karate-ing everybody, but at least they were upstanding, righteous turtles. The toys now are worse than ever at not being anything more than vessels to make the next gen of kids into mindless aliens.
There was an official plugin for iTunes made back when the program and iPods were quite young, and the plugin didn't come built-in with an install. It allowed bi-directional syncing, but the plugin was eventually dropped.
This kind of crap will never be news. People who find this information important without a doubt will find it handy, but to the folks here at/. and like sites, it's just feeding a needless fire. Yes, we collectively hate Microsoft. I don't particularly care for them either - but at the same time, -every- OS releases patches, frequently. Some of them may break things. Some of them may fix things. No OS is spared from the same kind of crap that happens to any other OS, so why does everyone have to put MS on the dart board every time they want to patch the OS tons of people use? I'm not sticking up for them by all means- it's tiring to hear, though. I would probably get replies of "then you should leave!" or something witty in retort, but maybe I'm not the only one that feels this way, about MS news in general. It's truly no different than when a patch comes out for our beloved Linux kernel or some far fetched news about an OS X patch is released- it will just become an ass kissing fest instead of a crucification ceremony.
I remember when photobucket was a terrible looking hub for low bandwidth image hosting, with a limited account size, and the only snazzy thing about the website was that you can make it look black or grey instead of that miserable brown. Imagine what the websites will look like in another 10 years after the dot com boom rises after this one's fall!
An app market place in iTunes or on the website? It might be proprietary measures, but if there's some good development on the device that doesn't resort to nuking or changing firmware, it'll still draw a group of respectably stable programs. And then profit can be shared between developer and Apple, or something.
I feel for most of your qualms about firefox 2. I had so many gripes with this release that I've gone back to 1.5 on windows. Once I get off my arse and make a whole new profile for an independent FF1.5 install on linux I have to get to that too.
But to be on topic, does anyone realise that tabbed browsing still sucks bigtime in firefox? For a browser that so supposedly popularized the idea, it handles it like crap. If I tell a stock firefox install to use tabbed browsing, it opens a new window on links that should open in new tabs. When I click a link in an external app, even in the stock install's single window mode, it opens a new window. It's like firefox either ignores the setting or does it when it wants to only on conditions it feels are right. I have been using an extension to make the tabbed browsing work the same way it has been doing it in opera for years, and IE7, which is supposed to be competing with both. Come on, Mozilla. Get it together.
I sympathize with not having more than one person to play with on a team in the first NWN. Playing alone with one idiotic bot friend is kinda lame. The game was exceptionally fun as a multiplayer game, though. You could pick up where you left off online or off, alone or with friends. Also I think one of the control schemes was wasd..
Having an easy to use interface has nothing to do with how nice it looks. I don't know where you began to think I associated them. A good interface very well -can- be easy to use, but I meant it differently, because it came off that you relied on the looks of the program, and I felt you were saying "well, if it doesn't blend in, it's not worth it."
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been, but there was definite misinterpretation.
That can be understandable, and maybe distracting, I understand. I suppose that sort of thing is relative to the user, but I'd much rather have programs that get the job done than look pretty. Function over form.
There's nothing wrong with those things at all. They're just not part of the default OS X gui. Granted you made that point a bit in mentioning motor memory, but it's really just a different set of interface standards. Two consistencies are better than none, which I have seen. And no, I'm not talking about Windows, despite the opportunity for it to be brought up.
There's nothing ridiculous about what he's saying? Novell isn't adding any MS code to the codebases Novell has affiliation with. There's no reason to go OMG NOVELL WENT TO A PARTY WITH MICROSOFT, AND NOVELL WEARS ABERCROMBIE, YOU'RE NOT COOL IF YOU WEAR ABERCROMBIE ANYMORE.
I believe you're misunderstanding of the situation. Novell and Microsoft buddying up isn't necessarily the best plan, but that is just an extremist RMS-level move you're suggesting. I'm so very glad you posted what you did as AC.
Games should be franchised, doomed to be rehashed over and over again until everyone except the die hards are the last men standing? Blizzard may have a great relationship with their customers, I won't argue that. But they're like EA for fantasy games.
But you don't need worderfect anymore. - Well, not that you should -need- it, but what happened to the wordperfect guys? Heard anything new from them in a while?
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Why not roll a small Linux distro (something really titiny, like DSL, or picolinux, write a script to back up to thumb drive, then reboot the machine and wipe it? Push that image to every machine via network.
EE would be pretty great if the experts got paid to share, but that's not the case. And so, if you're not going to be going there to post your own expertisse, it's a lot more worth it to simply check the google cache (as detailed in a rather recent 2600.) Because if the only people who are getting paid are the site admins, then I'm not paying for the "expertisse."
Oh boy, the one day I wish I had mod points to use.
I would like to suggest two ideas for you:
1: Don't be so serious. This is slashdot.
2: Also, catastrophic ice ages have obviously happened before. Who cares if humans get wiped out? That doesn't mean the planet is uninhabitable for the species that exist after the fact and those that will eventually adapt for later.
TMNT were entirely different types of characters, honestly. Parents might have worried their kids would grow up to be barbarians, but Bratz dolls teach girls how to be materialistic, airheaded zombies more than any toy I can recall. TMNT might have been karate-ing everybody, but at least they were upstanding, righteous turtles. The toys now are worse than ever at not being anything more than vessels to make the next gen of kids into mindless aliens.
There was an official plugin for iTunes made back when the program and iPods were quite young, and the plugin didn't come built-in with an install. It allowed bi-directional syncing, but the plugin was eventually dropped.
How did they manage to fit that potty-mouthed bignose in that little circuit, letalone -four clones- of him?
Oh.. I read "Qbert".
Why not just get parallels and run your linux install with it in coherence? Problem solved?
This kind of crap will never be news. People who find this information important without a doubt will find it handy, but to the folks here at /. and like sites, it's just feeding a needless fire. Yes, we collectively hate Microsoft. I don't particularly care for them either - but at the same time, -every- OS releases patches, frequently. Some of them may break things. Some of them may fix things. No OS is spared from the same kind of crap that happens to any other OS, so why does everyone have to put MS on the dart board every time they want to patch the OS tons of people use? I'm not sticking up for them by all means- it's tiring to hear, though. I would probably get replies of "then you should leave!" or something witty in retort, but maybe I'm not the only one that feels this way, about MS news in general. It's truly no different than when a patch comes out for our beloved Linux kernel or some far fetched news about an OS X patch is released- it will just become an ass kissing fest instead of a crucification ceremony.
I remember when photobucket was a terrible looking hub for low bandwidth image hosting, with a limited account size, and the only snazzy thing about the website was that you can make it look black or grey instead of that miserable brown. Imagine what the websites will look like in another 10 years after the dot com boom rises after this one's fall!
GTK has been working in windows for years, now.
An app market place in iTunes or on the website? It might be proprietary measures, but if there's some good development on the device that doesn't resort to nuking or changing firmware, it'll still draw a group of respectably stable programs. And then profit can be shared between developer and Apple, or something.
Seriously, what university? I want some free google stuff.. (No, really)
I feel for most of your qualms about firefox 2. I had so many gripes with this release that I've gone back to 1.5 on windows. Once I get off my arse and make a whole new profile for an independent FF1.5 install on linux I have to get to that too.
But to be on topic, does anyone realise that tabbed browsing still sucks bigtime in firefox? For a browser that so supposedly popularized the idea, it handles it like crap. If I tell a stock firefox install to use tabbed browsing, it opens a new window on links that should open in new tabs. When I click a link in an external app, even in the stock install's single window mode, it opens a new window. It's like firefox either ignores the setting or does it when it wants to only on conditions it feels are right. I have been using an extension to make the tabbed browsing work the same way it has been doing it in opera for years, and IE7, which is supposed to be competing with both. Come on, Mozilla. Get it together.
I sympathize with not having more than one person to play with on a team in the first NWN. Playing alone with one idiotic bot friend is kinda lame. The game was exceptionally fun as a multiplayer game, though. You could pick up where you left off online or off, alone or with friends. Also I think one of the control schemes was wasd..
Having an easy to use interface has nothing to do with how nice it looks. I don't know where you began to think I associated them. A good interface very well -can- be easy to use, but I meant it differently, because it came off that you relied on the looks of the program, and I felt you were saying "well, if it doesn't blend in, it's not worth it."
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been, but there was definite misinterpretation.
That can be understandable, and maybe distracting, I understand. I suppose that sort of thing is relative to the user, but I'd much rather have programs that get the job done than look pretty. Function over form.
There's nothing wrong with those things at all. They're just not part of the default OS X gui. Granted you made that point a bit in mentioning motor memory, but it's really just a different set of interface standards. Two consistencies are better than none, which I have seen. And no, I'm not talking about Windows, despite the opportunity for it to be brought up.
There's nothing ridiculous about what he's saying? Novell isn't adding any MS code to the codebases Novell has affiliation with. There's no reason to go OMG NOVELL WENT TO A PARTY WITH MICROSOFT, AND NOVELL WEARS ABERCROMBIE, YOU'RE NOT COOL IF YOU WEAR ABERCROMBIE ANYMORE.
I believe you're misunderstanding of the situation. Novell and Microsoft buddying up isn't necessarily the best plan, but that is just an extremist RMS-level move you're suggesting. I'm so very glad you posted what you did as AC.
Games should be franchised, doomed to be rehashed over and over again until everyone except the die hards are the last men standing? Blizzard may have a great relationship with their customers, I won't argue that. But they're like EA for fantasy games.
But you don't need worderfect anymore. - Well, not that you should -need- it, but what happened to the wordperfect guys? Heard anything new from them in a while?
- In before UNIX time, RMS, pirate beards, etc (Just kidding)
Parasite Eve involved mitochondria taking over the body, not necessarily an ancient virus.
It's all that crappy emo music that's hitting it big. The guys are becoming even more fragile than us nerds! (And scoring twice the women, still)