2) The new "Chat History" window and browser is useless. With it I can see the first line of a conversation that I had with someone, but I can't seem to get any deeper than that. Granted, there may be something simple that I am missing, as I have been concentrating the most on my primary problem,, which is...
Just double click on that first line, and you'll see the rest of that conversation. I really like the new chat history, really makes it easy to find things!
Miranda seamlessly imports contact lists from Y!,ICQ and MSN.
So does Trillian
Miranda can run it all in a single nice window.
So does Trillian
Miranda has fully customisable skins and icons.
So does Trillian.
Miranda has no adverts, ever.
Neither does Trillian (both free and pro)
Miranda has plug-ins galore...
Trillian has plenty of plugins, and most of them are actually useful. The whole list of Miranda's plugins is not only scary, but a vast majority of them are completely mundane.
Miranda is totally free, is open source, and simply is better than Trillian, and even Gaim.
Trillian also has a totally free version. Granted it's not open source, but why should we hold that against them? They've also been known to help out: when the folks at Trillian figured out a bug with the Yahoo! IM connection stuff, they sent the fix to the folks at gaim.
If you really want to compare things, the 'out of the box' experience in Trillian is far superior to that of Miranda. I recall spending an hour on Miranda a couple of months ago to get it to look/work just right, and it still ended up looking ugly as sin. On the other hand, all I need to do is install Trillian, and a vast majority of these 'plugins' that Miranda needs are already built in.
I wish there'd be a stretch of at least a year before I see another Star Wars game. Frankly, I'm getting sick of LucasArts pasting the Star Wars license on every genre under the sun...it's getting pathetic. Then they go and cancel the other games they had that weren't Star Wars licenses: Full Throttle 2 and Sam and Max 2. I mean Nintendo milks their Mario franchise too, but they still churn out other really great games at the same time!
What really pisses me off is network browsing. In the original Panther release they fixed this: you could click on the Networks tab, see the computer on the network you want to access, and immediately see the folders on there.
Then they go and for some reason disable that (it was the number 1 most useful 'upgrade' in Panther), to what was there before: you'd see the computer on the network, and you'd have to mount any folder you want to access...it's really annoying. They have that in the Tiger beta...hope they keep it.
If Microsoft came out with an MP3 player that didn't support music bought off the iTunes music store, people here would raise hell and complain about how "M$" (it's MS people...M$ just makes you sound like a whiny kid) is evil.
And I have to say this: it's a fast bugger. It takes less than a second top open up the window and display the results, and if you narrow it down (say you change it from Everything to Emails), the results are basically immediate. Google DS isn't anywhere near as smooth as this. It seems to search everything: emails, attachments, PDFs, folders and all hard discs. Its great.
I dont care for the toolbar (I use Firefox anyway), but the little taskbar search button is quite handy. I just type, and see the results right there. This gets a thumbs up from me, whereas I didn't much care for GDS or Copernic.
I really think Sony missed the boat on this one. Short battery life, load times and the outrageous price of the 'value' pack (which you basically need to play games), really hurt the PSP in my opinion. I'll probably end up getting it eventually, but not anytime soon.
Most of my portable gaming is done on planes, and my trips take between 18-30 hours. Now i've played about 8 hours of my DS without having to charge, and the LED indicating low battery life hasn't popped on yet. Granted the DS probably won't last the whole trip, but 90 minuts / 3 hours for ridge racer? BS!
I mean, think about it. We all know AOL's been working on a new version of Netscape. We all know it has tabbed browsing and all that jazz. We all know it also uses the IE engine to display sites, depends on what the user chooses...
That article is extremely vague. I mean, only a stupid company would be working on two different browsers at the same time. Oh wait...I forgot that Mozilla has about 3...
The excuse that it's being cancelled because it won't be out in time for the GameCube is kind of...lame. A game can always be ported (sure, it might take some time, but it can be) to a next generation console. Or heck, to a PC. Or something. It sounds that there could have been some problems with the development/concepts of the game that couldn't be resolved...
Besides, who decided to make this game for the GameCube in the first place? Don't get me wrong, I love my 'Cube, but you're developing a game for a niche market, and hence should try to get that game to be available to the largest install-base available. The PS2 or PC spring to mind...but GameCube?
First to stop Half-Life2 from loading an entire map every time you start. The loading times are bad enough when there's actually a REASON to load the level
Which would make you wonder why Valve put that there in the first place. "OH LOOK! WE HAVE NICE FLASHY MENU! WEEEEEEEEEEE!" It doesnt seem to reduce loading times for when you actually load your save, so whats the point?
I'm on an Athlon 3200 and I've never had a loading time longer than twenty seconds (not counting the startup). Sounds like more of a system issue to me.
I'm on an Athlon 2200+, 1 gig ram and Radeon 9700 Pro. The processor isnt the fastest in the word, but it's still a relatively beefy system.
I'm getting sick and tired of all this big name directors putting their names on novels that they didn't right. Sure, you directed it, but the novel is by H.G. Wells. Stanley Kubrick's worse. It's not 'a film by Stanley Kubrick', its called "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining". People immediately start associating the story with the director, completely bypassing the creative genius' who came up with the stories in the first place.
Uhh...you need to remember that Nintendo makes money from every individual game sold for its portables. Those cartridges are proprietary stuff that Nintendo makes money off. Plus all the sales Nintendo's own games make them.
What's really stopping Linux is the million and one different distributions, with the thousand and one different way of packaging programs, and the utmost reliance on the terminal to do stuff that can easily be done in a GUI.
Try watching Fox News, and say, CBC News, and watch the different world histories the two sources create. You can't just point to China and blame it for these things when the same things are going on in the same country as you.
And just a note, Taiwan isn't an official soccer time. It's not a member of FIFA (the governing soccer body). Even Palestine is a member.
Come to think of it, why doesn't the US attack itself?
(X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction
(X) No human rights (Patriot Act)
(X) Unstable, Irresponsible leadership
(X) Inhumane treatment of its people (Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Patriot Act)
(X) Government oppression and censorship (Patriot Act, FCC)
Slashdot Mirror
Just double click on that first line, and you'll see the rest of that conversation. I really like the new chat history, really makes it easy to find things!
So does Trillian
Miranda can run it all in a single nice window.
So does Trillian
Miranda has fully customisable skins and icons.
So does Trillian.
Miranda has no adverts, ever.
Neither does Trillian (both free and pro)
Miranda has plug-ins galore...
Trillian has plenty of plugins, and most of them are actually useful. The whole list of Miranda's plugins is not only scary, but a vast majority of them are completely mundane.
Miranda is totally free, is open source, and simply is better than Trillian, and even Gaim.
Trillian also has a totally free version. Granted it's not open source, but why should we hold that against them? They've also been known to help out: when the folks at Trillian figured out a bug with the Yahoo! IM connection stuff, they sent the fix to the folks at gaim.
If you really want to compare things, the 'out of the box' experience in Trillian is far superior to that of Miranda. I recall spending an hour on Miranda a couple of months ago to get it to look/work just right, and it still ended up looking ugly as sin. On the other hand, all I need to do is install Trillian, and a vast majority of these 'plugins' that Miranda needs are already built in.
I wish there'd be a stretch of at least a year before I see another Star Wars game. Frankly, I'm getting sick of LucasArts pasting the Star Wars license on every genre under the sun...it's getting pathetic. Then they go and cancel the other games they had that weren't Star Wars licenses: Full Throttle 2 and Sam and Max 2. I mean Nintendo milks their Mario franchise too, but they still churn out other really great games at the same time!
In two weeks time, expect Funcom to release this statement: "Oops! We meant 1/1/2005! The keys are like, right next to each other!"
Then they go and for some reason disable that (it was the number 1 most useful 'upgrade' in Panther), to what was there before: you'd see the computer on the network, and you'd have to mount any folder you want to access...it's really annoying. They have that in the Tiger beta...hope they keep it.
If Microsoft came out with an MP3 player that didn't support music bought off the iTunes music store, people here would raise hell and complain about how "M$" (it's MS people...M$ just makes you sound like a whiny kid) is evil.
I dont care for the toolbar (I use Firefox anyway), but the little taskbar search button is quite handy. I just type, and see the results right there. This gets a thumbs up from me, whereas I didn't much care for GDS or Copernic.
You forget that Dashboard is a complete and utter copy of Konfabulator.
Most of my portable gaming is done on planes, and my trips take between 18-30 hours. Now i've played about 8 hours of my DS without having to charge, and the LED indicating low battery life hasn't popped on yet. Granted the DS probably won't last the whole trip, but 90 minuts / 3 hours for ridge racer? BS!
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That article is extremely vague. I mean, only a stupid company would be working on two different browsers at the same time. Oh wait...I forgot that Mozilla has about 3...
Copernic already does everything this does, for free. It also searches web history, and supports Firefox.
Uhh. Tell that to mission critical websites. Sites like eBay, Amazon and so on. They'll lose 90% of their customers right there.
He may not have been that much of a programmer, but he gave us the mouse...
"Slashdot."
Follow your rules ;).
Besides, who decided to make this game for the GameCube in the first place? Don't get me wrong, I love my 'Cube, but you're developing a game for a niche market, and hence should try to get that game to be available to the largest install-base available. The PS2 or PC spring to mind...but GameCube?
Which would make you wonder why Valve put that there in the first place. "OH LOOK! WE HAVE NICE FLASHY MENU! WEEEEEEEEEEE!" It doesnt seem to reduce loading times for when you actually load your save, so whats the point?
I'm on an Athlon 3200 and I've never had a loading time longer than twenty seconds (not counting the startup). Sounds like more of a system issue to me. I'm on an Athlon 2200+, 1 gig ram and Radeon 9700 Pro. The processor isnt the fastest in the word, but it's still a relatively beefy system.
I'm getting sick and tired of all this big name directors putting their names on novels that they didn't right. Sure, you directed it, but the novel is by H.G. Wells. Stanley Kubrick's worse. It's not 'a film by Stanley Kubrick', its called "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining". People immediately start associating the story with the director, completely bypassing the creative genius' who came up with the stories in the first place.
Heh. Check it. It was originally done in January 2000 and the weight reset time has been updated last year to be 30 hours.
Uhh...you need to remember that Nintendo makes money from every individual game sold for its portables. Those cartridges are proprietary stuff that Nintendo makes money off. Plus all the sales Nintendo's own games make them.
It doesn't explain HOW much this happens. This is also an issue in the Windows version (it still happens to me even with the latest patches).
Regardless of those issues this game has one major drawback: 'Loading..'
Once again, these issues are also present in Windows. It takes ages to load, sometimes up to 2 minutes...
What's really stopping Linux is the million and one different distributions, with the thousand and one different way of packaging programs, and the utmost reliance on the terminal to do stuff that can easily be done in a GUI.
And just a note, Taiwan isn't an official soccer time. It's not a member of FIFA (the governing soccer body). Even Palestine is a member.
(X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction
(X) No human rights (Patriot Act)
(X) Unstable, Irresponsible leadership
(X) Inhumane treatment of its people (Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Patriot Act)
(X) Government oppression and censorship (Patriot Act, FCC)