If you want simple, you can't have those two. If you want to customize and configure, you have to accept some complexity. You have to be willing to make choices.
Are you telling me that "more power" has to be equal to "more checkboxes in a dialog" or "more command line switches"? If you are, you're missing the WHOLE POINT!
Take Firefox, for example. It has options, advanced options,and advanced tabs in the advanced options. But that was NOT what I was talking about. It's this whole apt-get / recompiling business.
Apt-get NEEDS THE INTERNET. What if I'm over a 33.6K connection but I have a DVD drive? Huh?
Linux needs standards as how apps interact with each other and the environment, so someone can make an EASY PLUGIN to configure all that stuff. But guess what, you can't. People in here have talked about how Debian is superior to Redhat, and how Redhat improved over the years... I don't want Debian or Redhat, or Brand-X... i want LINUX. I want a configure tool that is compatible with not redhat, or debian, or whatever... but ALL OF THEM JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE LINUX. I want to pull a CD which says "Linux compatible", insert it into the drive bay, so it will use the STANDARD procedures as said in the OFFICIAL LINUX SPECIFICATIONS (which don't exist so far), so that i won't EVEN NOTICE what the heck the program's doing.
You talk to me about the pros and cons of the different Linux flavors... but I want ONE WAY OF LINUX. No matter how customizable it is. Say all you want of self-organization and how the beauty of free contribution, whatever, but right now you can't give me a "compatible with Linux" stamped CD that when I insert it in whatever Linux flavor i have and no matter how customized i have it, the program will INSTALL AND RUN with ZERO problems.
Can you give me that? If you can't, then you're just realizing the problem. Linux doesn't have "operating specifications". It has "how-to"'s, which in other words, tell you "how-to" get around the incompatibilities.
You forget that it's the standards which make the WWW a much cleaner web than 10 years ago, with all those proprietary extensions and workarounds that people use for compatibility. I'm just saying that if Linux uses standards (low-level standards I mean), the upper levels won't have to worry. And we wouldn't have this whole configure/recompile/apt-get mess to simply install and run my mp3 player app or something.
That's right. All slashdotters should be 11. That way they wouldn't spend so much time thinking about why they can't get a g/f, but rather on learning and having fun about it:)
Like FF6 I admit it, it's not as old as "adventure", but it had good graphics and an awesome story.
OK my choice would be:
a) Project Firestart for the C64 (survival horror) b) Aliens for the C64 (muahahahahah) c) Summer games series for the C64 d) Eye of the Beholder I and II for the IBM PC e) Prince of Persia for the IBM PC
You know, I miss the versatility that videogames had in the past. I'm considered blessed if I can find a copy of "Zone of the Enders" for the PS2 in my hometown.
I'm not speaking of unix specifically, but of Linux. But I hope this enlightens anyone.
Linux isn't friendly for:
* Installing apps * Guiding the Joe user to a friendly painless installation of the OS itself * customizing * configuring in other words... everything.
As many linux fans that there are here, the only *great* thing that Linux has, is its security and stability. Everything else is more or less, a mess. The apps, they're great! But only AFTER you manage to intall and configure them.
And on the other side, we have a wonderful MS Windows in which everything (BUT security and stability) is great, but security and stability is a mess. I admit it, Linux infrastructure is very well thought... but the rest? The problem is that Linux (or unix for that matter) was made "by nerds, for nerds". Windows was made "by executives, for Joe users". What we need is an OS made "by nerds, for Joe users".
And that means not rejecting as "blasphemy" everything that MS Windows has. There are many good points in windows, but (i'm generalizing, but this is my impression) linuxers are too busy defending their "way of life" against the competition, that they can't improve it. They have formed themselves a mindset saying "Linux is perfect. We don't need no stinking windows thingies. Anyone who says so has been too much in contact with the evil windows, and must be deprogrammed". If someone dares say "but..." he's just rejected as some microsoft borg slave.
And they've repeated this lie so many times that they've ended up believing it. They make this whole bunch of "user-friendliness" *patches* for Linux, so they can believe that it's good the way it is.
Well, guess what. It isn't. Give me a Linux with the user-friendliness of windows (and I DON'T mean the GUI - i mean the versatility, plug-n-play, ability to easily install new apps without the./configure-make-make install and recompilation pain, etc etc etc.
What I mean is: Linux (as a whole) is a good set of implementations. What it needs is a good set of standards, and ONLY THEN, develop good implementations of these.
Want an example? We have KDE, QT (is that spelled right?), and I forgot if there was any other. So there are apps compatible with QT that can't run on KDE, and viceversa.
Maybe you guys haven't still seen the big picture, but what I see of Linux development is more or less this:
a) Some guy makes a good thingy for Linux. b) Many guys follow him c) Another guy makes another good thingy that does the same than the first one, but it's incompatible. d) Many guys follow him. e) GOTO a)
From a religious perspective, compare with Roman Catholicism and protestantism. Roman Catholicism would be Windows (one pope called Bill Gates who dictates what is true and what isn't) and Linux would be the protestant denominations incompatible with each other. Some survive, some die... etc.
Sociologically, protestant denominations are very similar to Linux implementations. They share one very limited creed (the Bible / the Linux Kernel), but how that applies in their lives (the implementations) vary. SO MUCH that they can't be united (I remember the SCUMMVM team - or was it another? - splitting because a guy liked one editor, and the other guy liked another editor. And they argued so much about this that the whole dev team dissolved.
Linux needs a "pope". Or a government council (like the W3C) which says which way apps will interact with each other, with the kernel, and with the hardware.
Let me rephrase it: Linux needs STANDARDS. Linux needs something like "a W3C" government which publishes a standard, uniformed API of doing things. Like what the w3c did with the DOM (and so we can prevent things like the "browser wars" happening in Linux.
One of the reasons WinXP flourished is that it had a standard way of doing things. Make them compatible with the API (even if its security is as solid as a gruyere cheese), and they r
"Todd: We knew we had a bigger problem than just enabling the firewall. And so at that point, I sent out a mail to everyone in the division saying, "This is what we're going to do. We're going to take a little bit more time to do it. And if you want to submit a security feature, you should do so, and then show up at this room." Well, the next day, it was standing room only, and everyone had a security feature that they wanted to check in. It went all the way down from things like the new Bluetooth stack, to the new Windows Media Player, to the new Group Policy stuff, and on, and on, and on, and on."
it's been 6 months from SP2 and it still goes on... and on.. and on... and on.... (energizer bunny appears) and on... and on...
ZSNES News Dec 25th, 2004 - _Demo_ We are releasing the new ZSNES version 1.40 today. We hope you will enjoy it!
Merry Christmas
The ZSNES Team
------------
What's new:
DOS Only:
* - Fixed cublic spline interpolation. It should actually save the option now! [pagefault] * - Fixed other various DOS sound bugs. [Nach, pagefault] * - Fixed a frameskipping bug. [pagefault]
Linux/SDL/POSIX Only:
* - Updated icon. [cdbsi] * - Updated Linux video code to Windows Version. [pagefault] * - Fixed problems with nVidia cards. [Diablo-D3] * - Fixed audio problems with broken drivers. [Diablo-D3] * - Added 48khz sound support. [pagefault] * - Updated joystick input support. [theoddone33, Sander] * - Fixed Savestate incrementor, this caused some crashes. [pagefault] * - Cleaned up the Linux Autoconfigure [Diablo-D3] * - Added a couple of things for the start of BeOS compatibility. [theoddone33] * - Fixed 16->32bpp LUT Related bug. [kode54] * - Added hardcoded alt-enter fullscreen toggle. [theoddone33] * - Added dialog for why the video mode couldn't be set. [theoddone33] * - Added Circle buffer patch (savestate fix). [zinx] * - Fixed problem with man page when installing (when man1 directory doesn't exist). [hpsolo] * - Fixed cmd line sound quality. [pagefault] * - Fixed zlib and libpng issues. [theoddone33, pagefault] * - Updated libpng Version checking [theoddone33] * - Added -lm to acinclude.m4 so AC_TRY_RUN doesn't return negative on some systems looking for libpng. [theoddone33] * - Overhauled Makefile. [theoddone33] * - Fixed install target, -D should not be used. [theoddone33] * - Added the name of the start address to the error message, when mprotect fails. [theoddone33] * - Update config.sub. This allows configuration on 64bit targets, and requires autogen.sh to be rerun. [theoddone33] * - Added HQ2X filter! [MaxSt, pagefault, zinx] * - Snapshots now use the full ROM file name. [Nach] * - Prefixed Snapshots with leading zeroes. [Nach] * - Renamed Linux Version to SDL. [pagefault]
Windows Only:
* - Updated icon with Windows XP compliancy. [cdbsi] * - Added new disable screensaver code. [pagefault] * - Added a CPU utilization fix. [kode54, pagefault] * - Added 48khz sound support, updated sound code, and fixed sound bugs. [pagefault, Nach, ipher, StatMat] * - Fixed a couple of input bugs, such as one concerning the 5th joystick and another that made the mouse get stuck in an endless loop. [pagefault] * - Removed alternate timer. [pagefault] * - Fixed Netplay freezing bug. [pagefault] * - Many new video features, including (but not limited to): HQ2X, HQ3X and HQ4X graphic filters, support for hi-res and D modes in 32bpp windowed mode (now default), new aspect ratio code for scaling, and the KitchenSync (usable only via the commandline). [MaxSt, pagefault, Darkfalz] * - Fixes for video code errors, such as those that occured when alt-tabbing in fullscreen, MMX interpolation fixes, and blitter fixes. [pagefault, zsKnight] * - Snapshots are now numbered and use the full ROM file name. [Nach] * - Renamed Windows version to Win32. [pagefault] * - Win32 port can now also be compiled with MinGW (but we won't support it till the next release). [Nach]
All Ports:
* - Added multiple timing tweaks, fixed various emulation bugs, and many other technical updates, including (but not limited to): SPC core updates (with improved sound decoding), safer memory allocation in certain areas, HIRQ and VIRQ fixes, color add/sub and color bleeding fixes, HDMA improvements, sprite priority and flickering fixes. Many more games work:D. [pagefault, _Demo_, Nach, TRAC, Overload, theoddone33] * - Overhauled a lot of code, such as checksum calculation and mirroring code. Overhauled and added much better EHi/Hi/Lo ROM code, improved reset vector, changed much hard coding to variables. Fi
While I don't know the validity of this particular offer just beware that the only losers are the guys on the bottom row. Just make sure that isn't you.
And that ain't gonna happen. Sooner or later you will end up in the bottom row. Why?
Because your success depends on the pyramid growing. And the pyramid CAN'T GROW FOREVER. At an geometric growth rate, it requires less than 30 generations to reach the world population. It's like a 30 bit number, but this time bits are base 10 or 12.
This means that sooner or later, the pyramid will experience the so-called "bubble effect". Soon the ones at the bottom will stop generating revenue for you, and this means you'll stop generating revenue for the ones above you, and the pyramid collapses (meaning that the base will always disappear). Then the pyramid becomes VERY narrow and it's like it's started again.
These pyramid schemes are always fraudulent because they promise you an impossible success. It's impossible because the base growth can't be maintained. It happened with Amway, Scientology, and major bible cults. In the end, the base always suffers the worst consequences. And if you were at the base, you'll be again.
The fraud in this case is that you don't get the free ipod INSTANTLY. You need to prove your worth. And that means submitting LOTS of e-mails to spammers. And those aren't even IN the pyramid. They're above it.
And don't tell me that the ad isn't deceptive. Hiding the nasty details in fine print, ON PURPOSE, is one of the greatest frauds in marketing.
In general, the pyramid scheme is evil, because your earnings depend on how many people you abuse or cause to be abused .
I hate Microsoft Windows as much as the next guy, but Outlook has them beat. If only it worked on Linux.
This is the problem with Linux programmers. Many want to reinvent the wheel, instead of trying formulas that are already known to work (see the GIMP vs Photoshop debate on yesterday's story).
See the example of Openoffice.org vs. MS Word. Openoffice was made to replace Microsoft Office. If there were as many Linux clones of windows software, sharing the user interface but not the internals, Linux wouldn't feel as alien as it does for common windows users.
And don't say that copying the user interface would be violating intelectual property. See the precedent in the Apple vs. Microsoft case regarding the GUI named "Windows".
So, why don't people do it? Why won't Linux programmers make "a better Photoshop than Photoshop", or in this case "A better Outlook than Outlook"?
Quoting a sitepoint.com article: "Good designers copy. Great designers steal."
While chinese religious sites are classified as illegal along with porn sites... commercial spammers using chinese computers enjoy all the commodities.
The whole chinese internet is upside down.:-/ what can anybody do about it?
Gimp runs on unix flavors, bsd, linux, mac, and Windows. Why would we ever want to dump support for all those other OS's many of the gimp developers themselves use.
Ever heard of MONO, the software that lets you run.NET apps for Linux? Anyway, what use is having a software that runs everywhere, if its clumsy interface reduces productivity to a mere 20 or 10%?
And if you like the GIMP so much, why not make a "photoshop-like UI plugin" for it?
Microsoft gets punished for distributing an actually good software with Windows.
I use media player to view AVI files. I don't like having to instal quicktime or Real, to view a video file which was written in a proprietary format. Quicktime messes up my windows settings, and Realplayer, well...:-/
So in this case, what should i do? Yay, or boo? (Not that I'm in favor of Microsoft). Anyway, I do support the judges' decision.
If the AOL employee disobeyed orders or substracted information so that the company would in fact not respect the privacy policy, then the employee did commit a crime. Call it fraud, negligence to fulfill contract...
What, like it mattered in the afterlife? "Oh, look! Your parents found out that you're gay! To think that I was letting you in heaven".
Anyway there's this saying... if God knows it, let the world know.
Besides, you COULD write in your will that you want your Yahoo account wiped or something... like giving some lawyer your ID & PW and specify that when you die he'll cancel your account for you.
In my will I have specified who to mail, my forum accounts, and their respective passwords.
But frankly I'd like Yahoo to provide a "virtual funeral" service, and mail my contacts with the news of my passing away. Obviously this would require a "death password" or something, that I'd keep in my real-life will.
Frankly, with all this online virtual stuff, I think it's about time the internet has obituaries or something. How is it that you have an identity on the internet but there isn't a way to "die" there?
Imagine a town where people wouldn't die but just go missing with nobody knowing where they went, expecting that they'd come back a year later with "sorry guys i got married" or something.
It's this lack of acknowledgment that bothers me. I know, anonimity, blah blah....
but couldn't people have a local service in their city that would set up a "global ID" account, linked to their real accounts or something?
Frankly, with sci-fi so ahead of us in the "cyber" terms, (GITS, Matrix, Neuromancer, etc) how couldn't people think about this *little* detail?
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* customizing
* configuring
If you want simple, you can't have those two. If you want to customize and configure, you have to accept some complexity. You have to be willing to make choices.
Are you telling me that "more power" has to be equal to "more checkboxes in a dialog" or "more command line switches"? If you are, you're missing the WHOLE POINT!
Take Firefox, for example. It has options, advanced options,and advanced tabs in the advanced options. But that was NOT what I was talking about. It's this whole apt-get / recompiling business.
Apt-get NEEDS THE INTERNET. What if I'm over a 33.6K connection but I have a DVD drive? Huh?
Linux needs standards as how apps interact with each other and the environment, so someone can make an EASY PLUGIN to configure all that stuff. But guess what, you can't. People in here have talked about how Debian is superior to Redhat, and how Redhat improved over the years... I don't want Debian or Redhat, or Brand-X... i want LINUX. I want a configure tool that is compatible with not redhat, or debian, or whatever... but ALL OF THEM JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE LINUX. I want to pull a CD which says "Linux compatible", insert it into the drive bay, so it will use the STANDARD procedures as said in the OFFICIAL LINUX SPECIFICATIONS (which don't exist so far), so that i won't EVEN NOTICE what the heck the program's doing.
You talk to me about the pros and cons of the different Linux flavors... but I want ONE WAY OF LINUX. No matter how customizable it is. Say all you want of self-organization and how the beauty of free contribution, whatever, but right now you can't give me a "compatible with Linux" stamped CD that when I insert it in whatever Linux flavor i have and no matter how customized i have it, the program will INSTALL AND RUN with ZERO problems.
Can you give me that? If you can't, then you're just realizing the problem. Linux doesn't have "operating specifications". It has "how-to"'s, which in other words, tell you "how-to" get around the incompatibilities.
You forget that it's the standards which make the WWW a much cleaner web than 10 years ago, with all those proprietary extensions and workarounds that people use for compatibility. I'm just saying that if Linux uses standards (low-level standards I mean), the upper levels won't have to worry. And we wouldn't have this whole configure/recompile/apt-get mess to simply install and run my mp3 player app or something.
That's right. All slashdotters should be 11. That way they wouldn't spend so much time thinking about why they can't get a g/f, but rather on learning and having fun about it :)
Like FF6 I admit it, it's not as old as "adventure", but it had good graphics and an awesome story.
OK my choice would be:
a) Project Firestart for the C64 (survival horror)
b) Aliens for the C64 (muahahahahah)
c) Summer games series for the C64
d) Eye of the Beholder I and II for the IBM PC
e) Prince of Persia for the IBM PC
You know, I miss the versatility that videogames had in the past. I'm considered blessed if I can find a copy of "Zone of the Enders" for the PS2 in my hometown.
I'm not speaking of unix specifically, but of Linux. But I hope this enlightens anyone.
./configure-make-make install and recompilation pain, etc etc etc.
Linux isn't friendly for:
* Installing apps
* Guiding the Joe user to a friendly painless installation of the OS itself
* customizing
* configuring
in other words... everything.
As many linux fans that there are here, the only *great* thing that Linux has, is its security and stability. Everything else is more or less, a mess. The apps, they're great! But only AFTER you manage to intall and configure them.
And on the other side, we have a wonderful MS Windows in which everything (BUT security and stability) is great, but security and stability is a mess. I admit it, Linux infrastructure is very well thought... but the rest? The problem is that Linux (or unix for that matter) was made "by nerds, for nerds". Windows was made "by executives, for Joe users". What we need is an OS made "by nerds, for Joe users".
And that means not rejecting as "blasphemy" everything that MS Windows has. There are many good points in windows, but (i'm generalizing, but this is my impression) linuxers are too busy defending their "way of life" against the competition, that they can't improve it. They have formed themselves a mindset saying "Linux is perfect. We don't need no stinking windows thingies. Anyone who says so has been too much in contact with the evil windows, and must be deprogrammed". If someone dares say "but..." he's just rejected as some microsoft borg slave.
And they've repeated this lie so many times that they've ended up believing it. They make this whole bunch of "user-friendliness" *patches* for Linux, so they can believe that it's good the way it is.
Well, guess what. It isn't. Give me a Linux with the user-friendliness of windows (and I DON'T mean the GUI - i mean the versatility, plug-n-play, ability to easily install new apps without the
What I mean is:
Linux (as a whole) is a good set of implementations. What it needs is a good set of standards, and ONLY THEN, develop good implementations of these.
Want an example? We have KDE, QT (is that spelled right?), and I forgot if there was any other.
So there are apps compatible with QT that can't run on KDE, and viceversa.
Maybe you guys haven't still seen the big picture, but what I see of Linux development is more or less this:
a) Some guy makes a good thingy for Linux.
b) Many guys follow him
c) Another guy makes another good thingy that does the same than the first one, but it's incompatible.
d) Many guys follow him.
e) GOTO a)
From a religious perspective, compare with Roman Catholicism and protestantism. Roman Catholicism would be Windows (one pope called Bill Gates who dictates what is true and what isn't) and Linux would be the protestant denominations incompatible with each other. Some survive, some die... etc.
Sociologically, protestant denominations are very similar to Linux implementations. They share one very limited creed (the Bible / the Linux Kernel), but how that applies in their lives (the implementations) vary. SO MUCH that they can't be united (I remember the SCUMMVM team - or was it another? - splitting because a guy liked one editor, and the other guy liked another editor. And they argued so much about this that the whole dev team dissolved.
Linux needs a "pope". Or a government council (like the W3C) which says which way apps will interact with each other, with the kernel, and with the hardware.
Let me rephrase it: Linux needs STANDARDS. Linux needs something like "a W3C" government which publishes a standard, uniformed API of doing things. Like what the w3c did with the DOM (and so we can prevent things like the "browser wars" happening in Linux.
One of the reasons WinXP flourished is that it had a standard way of doing things. Make them compatible with the API (even if its security is as solid as a gruyere cheese), and they r
"Todd: We knew we had a bigger problem than just enabling the firewall. And so at that point, I sent out a mail to everyone in the division saying, "This is what we're going to do. We're going to take a little bit more time to do it. And if you want to submit a security feature, you should do so, and then show up at this room." Well, the next day, it was standing room only, and everyone had a security feature that they wanted to check in. It went all the way down from things like the new Bluetooth stack, to the new Windows Media Player, to the new Group Policy stuff, and on, and on, and on, and on."
it's been 6 months from SP2 and it still goes on... and on.. and on... and on.... (energizer bunny appears) and on... and on...
found another article discussing the asteroid that isn't slashdotted.
Asteroids can be slashdotted? Hmm... that's a new one.
*goes down and changes his save-the-earth-from-the-asteroid plans*
call me so i can bring my dice and check if it's worth worrying.
Thank you.
Taken from the official site:
:D. [pagefault, _Demo_, Nach, TRAC, Overload, theoddone33]
ZSNES News
Dec 25th, 2004 - _Demo_
We are releasing the new ZSNES version 1.40 today. We hope you will enjoy it!
Merry Christmas
The ZSNES Team
------------
What's new:
DOS Only:
* - Fixed cublic spline interpolation. It should actually save the option now! [pagefault]
* - Fixed other various DOS sound bugs. [Nach, pagefault]
* - Fixed a frameskipping bug. [pagefault]
Linux/SDL/POSIX Only:
* - Updated icon. [cdbsi]
* - Updated Linux video code to Windows Version. [pagefault]
* - Fixed problems with nVidia cards. [Diablo-D3]
* - Fixed audio problems with broken drivers. [Diablo-D3]
* - Added 48khz sound support. [pagefault]
* - Updated joystick input support. [theoddone33, Sander]
* - Fixed Savestate incrementor, this caused some crashes. [pagefault]
* - Cleaned up the Linux Autoconfigure [Diablo-D3]
* - Added a couple of things for the start of BeOS compatibility. [theoddone33]
* - Fixed 16->32bpp LUT Related bug. [kode54]
* - Added hardcoded alt-enter fullscreen toggle. [theoddone33]
* - Added dialog for why the video mode couldn't be set. [theoddone33]
* - Added Circle buffer patch (savestate fix). [zinx]
* - Fixed problem with man page when installing (when man1 directory doesn't exist). [hpsolo]
* - Fixed cmd line sound quality. [pagefault]
* - Fixed zlib and libpng issues. [theoddone33, pagefault]
* - Updated libpng Version checking [theoddone33]
* - Added -lm to acinclude.m4 so AC_TRY_RUN doesn't return negative on some systems looking for libpng. [theoddone33]
* - Overhauled Makefile. [theoddone33]
* - Fixed install target, -D should not be used. [theoddone33]
* - Added the name of the start address to the error message, when mprotect fails. [theoddone33]
* - Update config.sub. This allows configuration on 64bit targets, and requires autogen.sh to be rerun. [theoddone33]
* - Added HQ2X filter! [MaxSt, pagefault, zinx]
* - Snapshots now use the full ROM file name. [Nach]
* - Prefixed Snapshots with leading zeroes. [Nach]
* - Renamed Linux Version to SDL. [pagefault]
Windows Only:
* - Updated icon with Windows XP compliancy. [cdbsi]
* - Added new disable screensaver code. [pagefault]
* - Added a CPU utilization fix. [kode54, pagefault]
* - Added 48khz sound support, updated sound code, and fixed sound bugs. [pagefault, Nach, ipher, StatMat]
* - Fixed a couple of input bugs, such as one concerning the 5th joystick and another that made the mouse get stuck in an endless loop. [pagefault]
* - Removed alternate timer. [pagefault]
* - Fixed Netplay freezing bug. [pagefault]
* - Many new video features, including (but not limited to): HQ2X, HQ3X and HQ4X graphic filters, support for hi-res and D modes in 32bpp windowed mode (now default), new aspect ratio code for scaling, and the KitchenSync (usable only via the commandline). [MaxSt, pagefault, Darkfalz]
* - Fixes for video code errors, such as those that occured when alt-tabbing in fullscreen, MMX interpolation fixes, and blitter fixes. [pagefault, zsKnight]
* - Snapshots are now numbered and use the full ROM file name. [Nach]
* - Renamed Windows version to Win32. [pagefault]
* - Win32 port can now also be compiled with MinGW (but we won't support it till the next release). [Nach]
All Ports:
* - Added multiple timing tweaks, fixed various emulation bugs, and many other technical updates, including (but not limited to): SPC core updates (with improved sound decoding), safer memory allocation in certain areas, HIRQ and VIRQ fixes, color add/sub and color bleeding fixes, HDMA improvements, sprite priority and flickering fixes. Many more games work
* - Overhauled a lot of code, such as checksum calculation and mirroring code. Overhauled and added much better EHi/Hi/Lo ROM code, improved reset vector, changed much hard coding to variables. Fi
While I don't know the validity of this particular offer just beware that the only losers are the guys on the bottom row. Just make sure that isn't you.
And that ain't gonna happen. Sooner or later you will end up in the bottom row. Why?
Because your success depends on the pyramid growing. And the pyramid CAN'T GROW FOREVER. At an geometric growth rate, it requires less than 30 generations to reach the world population. It's like a 30 bit number, but this time bits are base 10 or 12.
This means that sooner or later, the pyramid will experience the so-called "bubble effect". Soon the ones at the bottom will stop generating revenue for you, and this means you'll stop generating revenue for the ones above you, and the pyramid collapses (meaning that the base will always disappear). Then the pyramid becomes VERY narrow and it's like it's started again.
These pyramid schemes are always fraudulent because they promise you an impossible success. It's impossible because the base growth can't be maintained. It happened with Amway, Scientology, and major bible cults. In the end, the base always suffers the worst consequences. And if you were at the base, you'll be again.
The fraud in this case is that you don't get the free ipod INSTANTLY. You need to prove your worth. And that means submitting LOTS of e-mails to spammers. And those aren't even IN the pyramid. They're above it.
And don't tell me that the ad isn't deceptive. Hiding the nasty details in fine print, ON PURPOSE, is one of the greatest frauds in marketing.
In general, the pyramid scheme is evil, because your earnings depend on how many people you abuse or cause to be abused .
Among the things I read:
1) The company isn't responsible if you're not ellegible for the free ipod list.
2) The company doesn't guarantee that if you're ellegible, it will send you the free ipod.
3) The company doesn't guarantee that when they send it, it will arrive.
In other words, the company doesn't guarantee A THING.
It's a scam. Just a SPAM frontend.
Well, there's an OBVIOUS advantage over real life.
There are LOGS. In online games, the game designers can be the All-Seeing gods who make justice.
I remember the old times when we had to dial-up to connect to a computer BBS and play the games.
I was always beaten by this kind of abusers who were just making fun of others. What fun is playing a game that doesn't let you have a good time?
I hate Microsoft Windows as much as the next guy, but Outlook has them beat. If only it worked on Linux.
This is the problem with Linux programmers. Many want to reinvent the wheel, instead of trying formulas that are already known to work (see the GIMP vs Photoshop debate on yesterday's story).
See the example of Openoffice.org vs. MS Word. Openoffice was made to replace Microsoft Office. If there were as many Linux clones of windows software, sharing the user interface but not the internals, Linux wouldn't feel as alien as it does for common windows users.
And don't say that copying the user interface would be violating intelectual property. See the precedent in the Apple vs. Microsoft case regarding the GUI named "Windows".
So, why don't people do it? Why won't Linux programmers make "a better Photoshop than Photoshop", or in this case "A better Outlook than Outlook"?
Quoting a sitepoint.com article: "Good designers copy. Great designers steal."
While chinese religious sites are classified as illegal along with porn sites... commercial spammers using chinese computers enjoy all the commodities.
:-/ what can anybody do about it?
The whole chinese internet is upside down.
Asteroids may be closer than they appear.
Gimp runs on unix flavors, bsd, linux, mac, and Windows. Why would we ever want to dump support for all those other OS's many of the gimp developers themselves use.
.NET apps for Linux? Anyway, what use is having a software that runs everywhere, if its clumsy interface reduces productivity to a mere 20 or 10%?
Ever heard of MONO, the software that lets you run
And if you like the GIMP so much, why not make a "photoshop-like UI plugin" for it?
Microsoft gets punished for distributing an actually good software with Windows.
:-/
I use media player to view AVI files. I don't like having to instal quicktime or Real, to view a video file which was written in a proprietary format. Quicktime messes up my windows settings, and Realplayer, well...
So in this case, what should i do? Yay, or boo? (Not that I'm in favor of Microsoft). Anyway, I do support the judges' decision.
If it indeed works as an anonymizer, what prevents its users from scanning/cracking web servers?
Sounds like a volunteer, not a slave. Distinction, he's not being forced.
:-P
That's not being a volunteer. That's being a masochist. No wonder they were offered a psychologist (see first page of the article)
and say:
;-)
"Pretend you participated in a Microsoft Project about a secure open-source version of WinXP and they fired you.
See ya next year when you have the product."
If the AOL employee disobeyed orders or substracted information so that the company would in fact not respect the privacy policy, then the employee did commit a crime. Call it fraud, negligence to fulfill contract...
Hmmmm maybe the people should sue AOL instead.
Why should my privacy die with me ?
What, like it mattered in the afterlife? "Oh, look! Your parents found out that you're gay! To think that I was letting you in heaven".
Anyway there's this saying... if God knows it, let the world know.
Besides, you COULD write in your will that you want your Yahoo account wiped or something... like giving some lawyer your ID & PW and specify that when you die he'll cancel your account for you.
In my will I have specified who to mail, my forum accounts, and their respective passwords.
But frankly I'd like Yahoo to provide a "virtual funeral" service, and mail my contacts with the news of my passing away. Obviously this would require a "death password" or something, that I'd keep in my real-life will.
Frankly, with all this online virtual stuff, I think it's about time the internet has obituaries or something. How is it that you have an identity on the internet but there isn't a way to "die" there?
Imagine a town where people wouldn't die but just go missing with nobody knowing where they went, expecting that they'd come back a year later with "sorry guys i got married" or something.
It's this lack of acknowledgment that bothers me. I know, anonimity, blah blah....
but couldn't people have a local service in their city that would set up a "global ID" account, linked to their real accounts or something?
Frankly, with sci-fi so ahead of us in the "cyber" terms, (GITS, Matrix, Neuromancer, etc) how couldn't people think about this *little* detail?
I live in a daylight saving time zone, but am sometimes working in a NON-daylight saving time zone.
:-S
You think that's chaotic? Think about the President of Mexico trying to change daylight saving from 7 to 5 months!
Hopefully he didn't have the legal attributes to do so (whew).
It's much more practical. Ends up this "15-days for payment and 14-days for two week periods" discrepancy.
Considering some cultures had 12 30-day months + 5 days, i follow the same approach.
Make 13 months of 28 days each. 28*13= 364.
The LAST (13th) month will be 29 days, and 30 on leap years. (These extra 2 days will be declared "end of year" vacation).
This has the advantage that your monthly salary can ALWAYS be calculated as 4x a weekly salary.