Im not exactly sure if this is what you want, but if you have a Mac and Macromedia Director then you can go here
That may not be of any help at all, but it might work. I have not use Director, nor do I know its limitations, so, it may not work. I dont even know if that little script can do what you want it to do.
But even one million is an accomplishment, as most of those peoples use Firefox. Not all SP2 users use IE. Some use Firefox. I know at least half a dozen who I "converted"
Is to go to one of the Open House budget meetings that are going on. That way you can explain that they dont need to pay 600 dollars per pc for office, when they can spend 0 dollars getting OpenOffice, and that it has more/better features. I would stay away from Linux pushing for now, as the councilor probably never heard of any os other then macs os. Even if you say its free, there is all the cost of re-training everone to use Linux instead. Keep with Windows OS programs
If you cant get to any of those, get in contact with the councilor doing the budget (he ran in Toronto East, and his last name starts with an S, sorry im not more specific).
Burn the cd listed for him here, and give it away to every city councilor available:
No, no, you got it wrong this is what they should say:
From the Book of Mozilla 7:15 "And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror."
Is that in the server pages where they looked at the launch behaviour. They mentioned that the WoW servers were really maxxed out. Granted its true, they had the fastest selling PC game ever. It probably exceeded their expectations by a massive amount. However, after playing Diablo II on launch week/month online, they seem to have done a really good job getting everything stable again. Playing DII online was almost not worth it it was so biggy. Lag, warping, random server disconnects (loosing all character progess), etc. abounded. To simply have it put, WoW did much better then Blizzard did in the past. Granted it was far from perfect, but when did a MOORPG NOT have launch problems?
EverQuest II was different, they particularly had some hard-core adopters, a few first timers, journalists, and a few other people upgrading who played EQ before. Its hard to overload the servers when no-one is playing on them in the first place. This may be an exageration (and indeed it is) but as the article suggested, the RP servers were more crowded. This may be because all the RP'ers on EQ just wanted to migrate to EQII and get a head start. Either Sony overcompensated for the server thing expecting a massive launch that never happened, or no-one cared. Its like Tribes II, more people play Tribes one now then play Tribes II.
The launch is important, but not critical, I dont remember LucasArts giving free game extensions to SWG players who got shut out on launch day. Though Blizzard giving free extensions was already covered by slashdot, its commendable and unexpected. Did not Anarchy Online give a free month to subscribers who signed up originally and then dropped out because the fixed the game?
You know, if you ever got one of those "search bars" or "desktop utilities" bundled with some software, you know that thats practically what you have to go through to uninstall them. I downloaded a LimeWire clone that was suppsed to have no spyware, it got 25 hits on my firewall from programs it installed, and spybot/adaware found about 70 other spyware entries.
It infected my browser, taskbar, desktop, start menu, and stuff would pop up at random times like when I started downloading anything ("download manager").
Well, because your IP is being blasted around to trackers and users everwhere unhidden, the RIAA could track you that way. But the most effective way would be to just go after trackers themselves.
Various trackers a while ago came under a flood of DOS attacks. We dont know who, but that they did. 100MBS connections were maxxed out in minutes. The RIAA/MPAA could do something like this similar to Lycos (now scrapped) anti-spam screensaver. Just call it an "anti-piracy screensaver" and say that by using it you lower the cost of movies as they dont need to compensate for piracy in the price as much (note: I dont actually think that they would give a deal, let alone drop prices if it was effective).
For example, the MPAA/RIAA gets a few thousand people to download the screensaver, suddenly the Pirates Cove tracker goes way overloaded and you suddenly cant get listings for people anymore. Eventually they would be able to get around it (changing DNS/IP addresses and such), but not before it knocked thousands of people off their download.
Effective? Yes, legal? Probably not, but its not the goal to crash the server, only to "increase the cost of doing buisness". As far as I know TPC does not have advertisements (though its been a while since i have been there), so they would need to rely increasingly on donations and such.
Add Remove programs -> spyware program -> uninstall window -> im sure i want to uninstall -> i dont want to reconcider -> i dont want to provide a reason for uninstalling -> im still really sure i want to uninstall -> yes i know some features maybe deactivated -> i dont want to install any companion programs -> i dont want to have programs from your sponsors installed either -> i dont want to have more msn smilies -> why do i need to go to a website to uninstall? -> i still want to uninsall reason: i hate spyware -> uninstall -> please wait while you download the uninstaller -> program uninstalled successfully, 5 more programs installed by uninstaller
Best of all, Consumer Reports is available in your local library for free.
I am always skeptical of a review where the reviewer at the end says "thanks thermaltake for providing this product", and just before that was a great review explaining how great the product was, overlooking how the thing weighs 800 grams and if you move your case with that hsf on will break your mobo.
I've seen review sites post pictures of sealed boxes just to show that their chip was not specially selected for a cpu review. Anandtech is usually a reliable site for reviews, as with any user done review on tech sites. Tomshardwareguide is biased towards Intel and nVidia (at least historiclaly). Even 3dmark03 benchmarks are "optimized" for nVidia cards, though this is less of a concern now with product patches available.
No, its because its an open standard as opposed to a proprietary format. Which is shocking to see in a retail, mass-market product, which happens to be the "Fastest Selling PC Game of All Time".
Not have earthquake warnings? If you build your state on a major fault line, you deserve what you get. Sure its all warm and everything, but you can get that in Florida, only thet have hurricanes instead.
Moral of the story: Move from California to Toronto, no hurricanes/tornados/earthquakes. Just remember to buy a jacket before you leave home.
And thats an indie football game (american football to you europeans/australians) that is supposed to be coming out eventually. It has all the NFL rule sets, the CFL, and lets you customize the rules as well. It may not look good, and you need to creat every single CFL team yourself (liscensing is expensive) but so far it is looking good. I didn't see it on those lists, but it was previewed back in PC Gamer a while ago.
I just hope it plays better then Madden. Actually, anything plays better then Madden. According to my brother, Madden 2005 is now "real football" where ESPN Football 2005 is "football lite". Somehow I doubt that EA actually tried to upgrade their games beyond a new GM mode and a few graphical upgrades again, new rosters etc. Reminds me of the NHL series. Just but NHL 2000 in a bargin bin and download the updated rosters. All you need.
Wait, this post went on a major tangent, back on subject, Indie games are great. If you havn't already (which you probably have) play Torus Trooper (google it) my favourite current indie/freeware game.
I almost passed out when I read that Blizzard is leting you edit WoW using XML.
Congrats, more proof Blizzard is one of the most innovative companies around. If only other games/programs let you customize it this much through some (not so) simple XML editing.
It does not change the fact that it still really, really sucks. A while back it was having trouble rendering pages in Firefox, then they fixed that. Then they say not to install windows updates because it might break compability. The online quiz part of it sucks (its really, really to go over the alloted time), the anouncement page is buggy (listings from november 11 show up in the "past 7 days of anouncments" section. The web forum that it has built in really is crap, the part where you can find email addresses to email someone is confusing and just poorly coded.
I can't wait until all my courses start using blackboard next semester. This is so exciting
Maybe they realize that trying to solicit money from people in Scarberia (aka Scarborough) is not a worthwhile endevour. Though since moving down town, I have yet to get a single call from a telemarketer. In Scarborough I got about 4 telemarketer calls a year. So, to me, the whole telemarketer thing is way overrated.
What is the deal with the police department calling you? The only calls I got from the police was when they did their automated security bulliten thing that they send out over the phone system to warn people about purse snatchers and such.
I tend to think though that the telemarketing situation is rather overblown. If you hate them that much, just get that 70 dollar radio shack box that you plug into your phone that kills automated dialer phone calls. It probably works better then a do not call list, and costs much less money. After all, the dnc list will come out of taxpayer money, which we pay too much of already.
It has some value. Academically, it shows what can be done with open source tools
As previously mentioned, pen and paper is the ultimate in open source. You can modify your pen without breaking the liscense, decompile it, recompile it, change it, mod it, refil it, upgrade it, and no-one will care.
Paper is also the uultimate in open source. Its been around for a few thousand years so there is no patent on paper anymore. You can find how it works by just looking at it. Its a flat surface where people write on using the open-source device above called a pen.
You don't even need to use comercial software to get the boards printed. Just make a nice board, go down to your local Office Place/Stables/Buisness Depot and ask them to run you off a few thousand copies of your board game. Made with the pen/paper. Multiple colours of pen may be used. Or even paint, which can be manufactured using ground up plants and rock. Its been around for even longer then paper or pen has.
But more importantly, if you want to modify the content, you know you won't have to buy any software to do it.
I never knew. So those new question cards for Trivial Pursuit, my new Monopoly land deed prices and community chest cards, and that board game I made back in grade 3 (using OSS materials known as pen/paper) was all done using software? Im shocked.
Does not windows come with a built in word processor (Wordpad/Notepad), an image editor (msPaint), and printing drivers so that you can use your printer to run off copies of the game?
I dont know about you, but I have not had a charity call me up asking for money. And even if they did, I probably wouldnt give them money. Why? Because there is no way to know that that person is legit or not. At least with fundraisers and door-to-door people, who can at least present proof of ID.
And if the Heart and Stroke foundation or Variety Village called me up just as I was sitting down to dinner, it is quite unlikely that I would buy anything from them, as they just royally pissed me off. I might give it to the Salvation Army instead, or the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Thats what happens when FPS junkies try AD&D games, no matter how much the rules are modified. The new ruleset us a shock to the system, though you can eventually get into the game, it does take a bit longer then expected. At least for me it did.
Slashdot Mirror
Im not exactly sure if this is what you want, but if you have a Mac and Macromedia Director then you can go here
That may not be of any help at all, but it might work. I have not use Director, nor do I know its limitations, so, it may not work. I dont even know if that little script can do what you want it to do.
Several tens of millions.
But even one million is an accomplishment, as most of those peoples use Firefox. Not all SP2 users use IE. Some use Firefox. I know at least half a dozen who I "converted"
Is to go to one of the Open House budget meetings that are going on. That way you can explain that they dont need to pay 600 dollars per pc for office, when they can spend 0 dollars getting OpenOffice, and that it has more/better features. I would stay away from Linux pushing for now, as the councilor probably never heard of any os other then macs os. Even if you say its free, there is all the cost of re-training everone to use Linux instead. Keep with Windows OS programs
If you cant get to any of those, get in contact with the councilor doing the budget (he ran in Toronto East, and his last name starts with an S, sorry im not more specific).
Burn the cd listed for him here, and give it away to every city councilor available:
The Open Cd 2 as listed on Slashdot previously.
No, no, you got it wrong this is what they should say:
From the Book of Mozilla 7:15 "And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror."
Is that in the server pages where they looked at the launch behaviour. They mentioned that the WoW servers were really maxxed out. Granted its true, they had the fastest selling PC game ever. It probably exceeded their expectations by a massive amount. However, after playing Diablo II on launch week/month online, they seem to have done a really good job getting everything stable again. Playing DII online was almost not worth it it was so biggy. Lag, warping, random server disconnects (loosing all character progess), etc. abounded. To simply have it put, WoW did much better then Blizzard did in the past. Granted it was far from perfect, but when did a MOORPG NOT have launch problems?
EverQuest II was different, they particularly had some hard-core adopters, a few first timers, journalists, and a few other people upgrading who played EQ before. Its hard to overload the servers when no-one is playing on them in the first place. This may be an exageration (and indeed it is) but as the article suggested, the RP servers were more crowded. This may be because all the RP'ers on EQ just wanted to migrate to EQII and get a head start. Either Sony overcompensated for the server thing expecting a massive launch that never happened, or no-one cared. Its like Tribes II, more people play Tribes one now then play Tribes II.
The launch is important, but not critical, I dont remember LucasArts giving free game extensions to SWG players who got shut out on launch day. Though Blizzard giving free extensions was already covered by slashdot, its commendable and unexpected. Did not Anarchy Online give a free month to subscribers who signed up originally and then dropped out because the fixed the game?
This kind of story falls under the "Asinine" category on fark.
You know, if you ever got one of those "search bars" or "desktop utilities" bundled with some software, you know that thats practically what you have to go through to uninstall them. I downloaded a LimeWire clone that was suppsed to have no spyware, it got 25 hits on my firewall from programs it installed, and spybot/adaware found about 70 other spyware entries.
It infected my browser, taskbar, desktop, start menu, and stuff would pop up at random times like when I started downloading anything ("download manager").
Well, because your IP is being blasted around to trackers and users everwhere unhidden, the RIAA could track you that way. But the most effective way would be to just go after trackers themselves.
Various trackers a while ago came under a flood of DOS attacks. We dont know who, but that they did. 100MBS connections were maxxed out in minutes. The RIAA/MPAA could do something like this similar to Lycos (now scrapped) anti-spam screensaver. Just call it an "anti-piracy screensaver" and say that by using it you lower the cost of movies as they dont need to compensate for piracy in the price as much (note: I dont actually think that they would give a deal, let alone drop prices if it was effective).
For example, the MPAA/RIAA gets a few thousand people to download the screensaver, suddenly the Pirates Cove tracker goes way overloaded and you suddenly cant get listings for people anymore. Eventually they would be able to get around it (changing DNS/IP addresses and such), but not before it knocked thousands of people off their download.
Effective? Yes, legal? Probably not, but its not the goal to crash the server, only to "increase the cost of doing buisness". As far as I know TPC does not have advertisements (though its been a while since i have been there), so they would need to rely increasingly on donations and such.
Just google it
New steps to uninstall:
Add Remove programs -> spyware program -> uninstall window -> im sure i want to uninstall -> i dont want to reconcider -> i dont want to provide a reason for uninstalling -> im still really sure i want to uninstall -> yes i know some features maybe deactivated -> i dont want to install any companion programs -> i dont want to have programs from your sponsors installed either -> i dont want to have more msn smilies -> why do i need to go to a website to uninstall? -> i still want to uninsall reason: i hate spyware -> uninstall -> please wait while you download the uninstaller -> program uninstalled successfully, 5 more programs installed by uninstaller
Note: not a cache above, but a pr0n site.
Best of all, Consumer Reports is available in your local library for free.
I am always skeptical of a review where the reviewer at the end says "thanks thermaltake for providing this product", and just before that was a great review explaining how great the product was, overlooking how the thing weighs 800 grams and if you move your case with that hsf on will break your mobo.
I've seen review sites post pictures of sealed boxes just to show that their chip was not specially selected for a cpu review. Anandtech is usually a reliable site for reviews, as with any user done review on tech sites. Tomshardwareguide is biased towards Intel and nVidia (at least historiclaly). Even 3dmark03 benchmarks are "optimized" for nVidia cards, though this is less of a concern now with product patches available.
No, its because its an open standard as opposed to a proprietary format. Which is shocking to see in a retail, mass-market product, which happens to be the "Fastest Selling PC Game of All Time".
Not have earthquake warnings? If you build your state on a major fault line, you deserve what you get. Sure its all warm and everything, but you can get that in Florida, only thet have hurricanes instead.
Moral of the story: Move from California to Toronto, no hurricanes/tornados/earthquakes. Just remember to buy a jacket before you leave home.
And thats an indie football game (american football to you europeans/australians) that is supposed to be coming out eventually. It has all the NFL rule sets, the CFL, and lets you customize the rules as well. It may not look good, and you need to creat every single CFL team yourself (liscensing is expensive) but so far it is looking good. I didn't see it on those lists, but it was previewed back in PC Gamer a while ago.
I just hope it plays better then Madden. Actually, anything plays better then Madden. According to my brother, Madden 2005 is now "real football" where ESPN Football 2005 is "football lite". Somehow I doubt that EA actually tried to upgrade their games beyond a new GM mode and a few graphical upgrades again, new rosters etc. Reminds me of the NHL series. Just but NHL 2000 in a bargin bin and download the updated rosters. All you need.
Wait, this post went on a major tangent, back on subject, Indie games are great. If you havn't already (which you probably have) play Torus Trooper (google it) my favourite current indie/freeware game.
I almost passed out when I read that Blizzard is leting you edit WoW using XML.
Congrats, more proof Blizzard is one of the most innovative companies around. If only other games/programs let you customize it this much through some (not so) simple XML editing.
I think it uses J2EE.
It does not change the fact that it still really, really sucks. A while back it was having trouble rendering pages in Firefox, then they fixed that. Then they say not to install windows updates because it might break compability. The online quiz part of it sucks (its really, really to go over the alloted time), the anouncement page is buggy (listings from november 11 show up in the "past 7 days of anouncments" section. The web forum that it has built in really is crap, the part where you can find email addresses to email someone is confusing and just poorly coded.
I can't wait until all my courses start using blackboard next semester. This is so exciting
Maybe they realize that trying to solicit money from people in Scarberia (aka Scarborough) is not a worthwhile endevour. Though since moving down town, I have yet to get a single call from a telemarketer. In Scarborough I got about 4 telemarketer calls a year. So, to me, the whole telemarketer thing is way overrated.
What is the deal with the police department calling you? The only calls I got from the police was when they did their automated security bulliten thing that they send out over the phone system to warn people about purse snatchers and such.
I tend to think though that the telemarketing situation is rather overblown. If you hate them that much, just get that 70 dollar radio shack box that you plug into your phone that kills automated dialer phone calls. It probably works better then a do not call list, and costs much less money. After all, the dnc list will come out of taxpayer money, which we pay too much of already.
It has some value. Academically, it shows what can be done with open source tools
As previously mentioned, pen and paper is the ultimate in open source. You can modify your pen without breaking the liscense, decompile it, recompile it, change it, mod it, refil it, upgrade it, and no-one will care.
Paper is also the uultimate in open source. Its been around for a few thousand years so there is no patent on paper anymore. You can find how it works by just looking at it. Its a flat surface where people write on using the open-source device above called a pen.
You don't even need to use comercial software to get the boards printed. Just make a nice board, go down to your local Office Place/Stables/Buisness Depot and ask them to run you off a few thousand copies of your board game. Made with the pen/paper. Multiple colours of pen may be used. Or even paint, which can be manufactured using ground up plants and rock. Its been around for even longer then paper or pen has.
But more importantly, if you want to modify the content, you know you won't have to buy any software to do it.
I never knew. So those new question cards for Trivial Pursuit, my new Monopoly land deed prices and community chest cards, and that board game I made back in grade 3 (using OSS materials known as pen/paper) was all done using software? Im shocked.
Does not windows come with a built in word processor (Wordpad/Notepad), an image editor (msPaint), and printing drivers so that you can use your printer to run off copies of the game?
I dont know about you, but I have not had a charity call me up asking for money. And even if they did, I probably wouldnt give them money. Why? Because there is no way to know that that person is legit or not. At least with fundraisers and door-to-door people, who can at least present proof of ID.
And if the Heart and Stroke foundation or Variety Village called me up just as I was sitting down to dinner, it is quite unlikely that I would buy anything from them, as they just royally pissed me off. I might give it to the Salvation Army instead, or the Daily Bread Food Bank.
No Hand Counting of Electronic Votes
I never knew you couldn't count electronic votes by hand. Especially considering there is nothing to hold in the first place.
And foreign governments too!
IU have FF 1.0/w2k, and I could't get it too work. So much for a vulnerability.
/.'d as we speak, it just takes a lot of patience.
Oh yea, the site takes forever to load now as its being
Thats what happens when FPS junkies try AD&D games, no matter how much the rules are modified. The new ruleset us a shock to the system, though you can eventually get into the game, it does take a bit longer then expected. At least for me it did.