Well, I'm assuming the submitter linked to Positech Games' website for a reason...so I downloaded and installed the demo using WINE, and it seemed to work nicely.
When I run Democracy.exe, it makes some very cool noises, violently freezes up, stops responding to all my input, and then forces me to 'killall wine' and start over fresh after a while.
Not a bad start really, but you might want to simulate stupid politicians, taxes, and some oppressive patent laws, too. ; )
Then release a Dictator.exe that can't even be pkill'd!!
I'm using Fedora Core 4 (with Xorg) on my Dell 600M laptop.
It has a Mobility Radeon 9000 and I haven't had any trouble using it (hardware accelerated) with the default Fedora drivers. OpenGL is a little slower than with ATI's drivers, but it's not enough to make games look bad.
I couldn't believe Wikipedia could do this to us. The idea, of anyone being able to edit anything, is more important than the possiblity of Tiger Wood's page being replaced with "oMFg!! tIgeR WOODs sux". The only reason I have ever contributed to the site was because I am so amazed that it works. Yes, I have had my user page replaced with porn as a Troll's revenge for cleaning up vandalism, and egomanics have rolled back changes that I made.
But it *always* gets fixed, very quickly. It's easy to imagine vandalism sitting undetected until it's "found", but that isn't the way it works. As soon as changes are submitted to an article, all the information (# of bytes changes, user or anonymous, article name, and a link to the last diff) is output on an IRC channel anyone can join. Using CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, a handy java program, makes it even better. Trolls are blacklisted, shared between peers on the network, and shown in bright red. All you have to so is watch it for a while, wait for an anonymous user to make a big change (always to the same articles, Bush, Homosexuality, Anus, etc.) and...you click the link and roll it back. That simple. People do this all the time, which is why there is so little vandalism that survives.
At any rate, this article is totally 100% bogus. This is off the Wikipedia Announcements page:
Numerous news outlets are quoting a Reuters report that Jimmy Wales has stated that there will be a "freeze" on editing. This statement has not been corroborated by any of the Wikimedia board, nor by any present at the Wikimania conference. General agreement among long-time Wikipedians is that Jimbo has been misleadingly quoted, and that the report is a giant steaming pile.
Makes me feel better. ; )
To all the doubters, Wikipedia works, and millions of people love it. If vandalism bothers you, download Cryptoderk's program and get to work.
"An ENTIRE Death Star, and only THREE bathrooms..."
Yes....yeeeees..... ; )
By the way, offtopic, but if anyone wants to totally spoil the new Harry Potter book for themselves, read page 606 here. (Don't say I didn't warn you!)
Fubon Securities settles stock trading error in timely fashion.
Under the fundamental principle of not affecting the local stock market, Fubon Securities today smoothly unloaded all NT$7.7 billion worth of shares it mistakenly purchased yesterday for a client by inadvertently keying in an incorrect figure, with its own dealer department absorbing some NT$5 billion worth of the shares unloaded. The company will properly adjust its shareholding positions based on market conditions.
Fubon Securities said that immediately after the undesirable error occurred, the company activated its crisis management system and sold off NT$800 million worth of shares yesterday. The firms crisis-handling panel, under the principle of minimizing any possible impact on the local bourse, smoothly unloaded all remaining positions in mistakenly purchased shares today, with some NT$5 billion worth of stock certificates in 230 issues taken over by the firms own dealer department. Judging from todays performance in the local stock market, the massive corrective operation did not in any way have negative impact on the bourse.
As investors are concerned about the impact of this event on the earnings performances of both Fubon Securities and Fubon Financial, Fubon Securities reports that total losses ensuing from the stock-unloading operation did not exceed NT$470 million and were equivalent to the firms total pretax earnings recorded in the first five months of the year. If including the increased earnings in June caused by an upturn in stock turnover, Fubon Securities earnings for the first half of the year will still surpass those of some other local brokerage houses. The firm is still guardedly optimistic about its overall earnings record for the full year, based on prospects for the economy in the second half of the year.
Of course, all those numbers are in Taiwan dollars...
I just feel sorry for the woman who lost her job because some idiot forgot to make a big, red "WARNING" page in software that important.
Where is clippy when you need him?! "Hi, it looks like your trying to buy a quarter billion dollars of stock! Can I help? I suggest MSFT instead."
Yes, the memory error doesn't seem to matter. Just click okay and ignore it. And for some reason, you need to set the zoom to be higher than zero. Don't ask me why, but that seems to be the problem.
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At first Opera annoyed me, but over time I've really come to depend on it. It can do a few things the other browsers can only dream of.
- It renders Slashdot fast and correctly!
- The popup blocker *really* *works*!! Seriously. Firefox has been letting extra-evil ones through lately. Visit drudgereport.com for examples.;- )
- I has something called "spatial browsing" that makes keyboard surfing possible. I hold down shift, and the arrow keys navigate through links based on their location on the screen. Firefox can't do this at all.
- Mouse gestures let me surf faster and with less effort. Firefox has a plugin, but Opera actually invented it.
- The rewind button doesn't just go back a page, it goes back the last significantly different place I was.The fast-forward button works even when you haven't gone back yet. It reads the page and detects where to go. Firefox has nothing like this. I'm not sure how I lived without it. If I press fast forward while I'm looking at an image, it goes to the next image in the directory! Weird.
- It lets you turn http referers off. Slashdot has absolutely no idea what page sent me here...
- It has IRC built in. That's cool, but I don't use it much.
- The mail client is the best I've ever seen. It's checks and sends from all 5 of my accounts, with Mailbox Oneness never before achieved by mortals.
- The download manager is excellent. Quick-download is handy.
- Literally every single part of the interface can be customized by editing the INI files. I've made mine look almost exactly like the KDE browser, Konqueror.
- Pressing F12 lets me change my settings rapidly. You have to see this one to really like it. No more messy settings boxes. Sometimes you just want to turn javascript off for a few seconds.
- Deleting cookies isn't a big deal. I click "Tools->Delete Private Data" and click okay. That clears history, cookies, etc all at once. Why can't Firefox do that?
- It uses a *huge* amount of RAM. Right now it's using 51MB! This sounds bad until you try it; the speed is amazing. Firefox worrys too much about memory and runs slower as a result. Firefox isn't slow, it just isn't this fast.
- I've tried lots of password-remembering thingies, but the Wand is the only one that's really appealed to me. I just press ctrl-enter and it fills forms in and submits them. It's great for things like forums, where I couldn't care less if my password is stored on my disk.
- It can do cool tricks, like let you move tabs between windows. I hate tabs anyway, though, so I never use this. ; )
- If you accidentally close a window, it keeps a list of recently closed windows, so you can reopen it! Very nice. What are the Firefox developers waiting for?
- If Opera or Windows crashes, when you reload Opera, it can restore all your windows just the way they were. This is unspeakably cool.
- One of my favorites is that it lets you associate letters with search engines. I type "g whatever I want" into the address bar, and it automatically searches Google. If I type "e something"' it searches eBay! Cool, eh? Who needs the Google bar? Actually, it has that too. It has search bars for 14 different engines.
- It has support for user stylesheets. This is very impressive. I can't do it justice trying to explain it here. It's cool.
- You can save "sessions" and open them up later...windows, settings, everything...perfectly intact.
I could go on all day, but I won't. I just love really love this browser!
That said, it takes some effort to get it configured so it doesn't suck, and is probably way beyond the masses. Firefox is halfway decent (but buggy...), and most people (read: "lusers") should be using that.
Oh, and don't whine about gmail support. Opera supports Ajax fully, and there is no reason why gmail shouldn't work, and it used to. Blame google for forcing Opera users to use the crappy basic HTML interface. That's not Opera's fault.
Okay, so NASA spends $15 billion of our money each year, and the Pentagon spends another $20 billion on satellites and rockets. It costs a billion to launch a shuttle, and there used to be four launches a year, before they started losing things so often. They even canceled development of the X-33, and sold it for scrap metal, after spending 912 million dollars on it.
But we can't afford to spend a measly $4 million to maintain three projects that are still returning useful, interesting data, and haven't disappeared behind Mars or killed anyone?
I guess they have PHBs at NASA too! Maybe it's just about PR...making things look good to the average guy on the street, who thinks going to Mars is way cooler.
(I have to admit, the headline "Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination" made me wonder the Aliens had finally taked over ISS...)
Here's an interesting article about it on the Scotsman.
It says, Similarly, researchers in Tokyo are developing a camouflage fabric that uses a comparable principle where the background is projected on to light-reflecting beads in the material. Such systems are, however, dependent on the viewer from which the object is being concealed being in the right position.
I see no mention of Photoshop, but it does say it could be used by surgeons and pilots. Sounds pretty cool to me.
Well, that actually requires a special viewfinder, so it's not quite as cool, but it sure *looks* awesome. Better than the "spot the spaceship" pic, anyway.
Whoever this ChipGuy fellow is, he sure hates Tivo! Not only is this story a dupe, but ChipGuy submitted both of them. I wonder how many were rejected. ; )
Ultracade's trademark application includes the copyrighted MAME logo. Even is MAME doesn't own their own trademark, which is upsurd, the logo is illegal to reproduce.
Isn't that enough reason to deny Ultracade the trademark? This is just like the guy that tried to steal the Linux trademark from Linus.
You don't have the system hooks turned on.And, yes, a batch file can destroy your computer. Think "format/s c:" here.
Everybody seems to miss this:
1) Open AntiSpyware's main window
2) Click on "real time protection"
3) Then click on each of the 3 agents...Internet (9 checkpoints), System (25 checkpoints), and Application (25 checkpoints)
4) Enable *all* of the checkpoints...they are Win32 system hooks...
5) Try installing some spyware. ; ) It won't work.
Also, don't fool yourself, antivirus software does not protect against spyware.
Heh...I always get a kick out of people trying to get others modded down.
The link *does* work, you just can't load all of the pages on the archived site. As soon as you go somewhere that isn't archived, it trys to load the real one, which doesn't exist anymore.
You are completely right, though. I'm sick of reading all the negative reviews of AntiSpyware compared to all the others. Hello? Whoever's writing these reviews? It doesn't matter if it doesn't "find" a piece of spyware. It *prevents* spyware from ever installing in the first place. Right now, it has 59 Win32 system hooks installed on my computer, and believe me, nothing is getting past. I have it pop up twice a day just to warn me when I try to run my DOS games...it detects the.bat files.
It's quite good, and it also does not change your IE homepage to be msn.com. I know, because mine is still about:blank, the way I set it. Just click no when it asks...sheesh.
Give it a shot, turn on the system hooks, and you might be impressed.
Considering how most American slashdotters (myself included) consider the DMCA to be a violation of our rights, I hope everyone will understand the urgency of my plight...I need somewhere to post this cheat code...
left-right-left-left-B-A-left-down-trigger-left-B
I can only hope Slashdot has the resources to protect my free speech.;-)
Really, though...the DMCA sucks, but I can't see cheat codes being a violation while game makers keep putting them in on purpose. Aren't they the ones writing code to do different things when we enter the codes in? What next, prison time for opening an easter egg in Word?
Here's a link to the archived site, before it was taken down.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not saying I disagree, but I do hope you've taken precautions to prevent her from finding this post! ;)
I agree, this is pretty stupid. The whole exchange of emails is here:
a _lawye.html
http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/2005/09/cutting_
Well, I'm assuming the submitter linked to Positech Games' website for a reason...so I downloaded and installed the demo using WINE, and it seemed to work nicely.
When I run Democracy.exe, it makes some very cool noises, violently freezes up, stops responding to all my input, and then forces me to 'killall wine' and start over fresh after a while.
Not a bad start really, but you might want to simulate stupid politicians, taxes, and some oppressive patent laws, too. ; )
Then release a Dictator.exe that can't even be pkill'd!!
I'm using Fedora Core 4 (with Xorg) on my Dell 600M laptop.
It has a Mobility Radeon 9000 and I haven't had any trouble using it (hardware accelerated) with the default Fedora drivers. OpenGL is a little slower than with ATI's drivers, but it's not enough to make games look bad.
Where is the '+1 Disturbing' moderation?...
My laptop looks different now.
But it *always* gets fixed, very quickly. It's easy to imagine vandalism sitting undetected until it's "found", but that isn't the way it works. As soon as changes are submitted to an article, all the information (# of bytes changes, user or anonymous, article name, and a link to the last diff) is output on an IRC channel anyone can join. Using CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, a handy java program, makes it even better. Trolls are blacklisted, shared between peers on the network, and shown in bright red. All you have to so is watch it for a while, wait for an anonymous user to make a big change (always to the same articles, Bush, Homosexuality, Anus, etc.) and...you click the link and roll it back. That simple. People do this all the time, which is why there is so little vandalism that survives.
At any rate, this article is totally 100% bogus. This is off the Wikipedia Announcements page:
Makes me feel better. ; )
To all the doubters, Wikipedia works, and millions of people love it. If vandalism bothers you, download Cryptoderk's program and get to work.
"An ENTIRE Death Star, and only THREE bathrooms..."
Yes....yeeeees..... ; )
By the way, offtopic, but if anyone wants to totally spoil the new Harry Potter book for themselves, read page 606 here. (Don't say I didn't warn you!)
The cnet article claims the company plans to keep the shares.
Not so. Here's the official press release.
Fubon Securities settles stock trading error in timely fashion.
Under the fundamental principle of not affecting the local stock market, Fubon Securities today smoothly unloaded all NT$7.7 billion worth of shares it mistakenly purchased yesterday for a client by inadvertently keying in an incorrect figure, with its own dealer department absorbing some NT$5 billion worth of the shares unloaded. The company will properly adjust its shareholding positions based on market conditions.
Fubon Securities said that immediately after the undesirable error occurred, the company activated its crisis management system and sold off NT$800 million worth of shares yesterday. The firms crisis-handling panel, under the principle of minimizing any possible impact on the local bourse, smoothly unloaded all remaining positions in mistakenly purchased shares today, with some NT$5 billion worth of stock certificates in 230 issues taken over by the firms own dealer department. Judging from todays performance in the local stock market, the massive corrective operation did not in any way have negative impact on the bourse.
As investors are concerned about the impact of this event on the earnings performances of both Fubon Securities and Fubon Financial, Fubon Securities reports that total losses ensuing from the stock-unloading operation did not exceed NT$470 million and were equivalent to the firms total pretax earnings recorded in the first five months of the year. If including the increased earnings in June caused by an upturn in stock turnover, Fubon Securities earnings for the first half of the year will still surpass those of some other local brokerage houses. The firm is still guardedly optimistic about its overall earnings record for the full year, based on prospects for the economy in the second half of the year.
Of course, all those numbers are in Taiwan dollars...
I just feel sorry for the woman who lost her job because some idiot forgot to make a big, red "WARNING" page in software that important.
Where is clippy when you need him?! "Hi, it looks like your trying to buy a quarter billion dollars of stock! Can I help? I suggest MSFT instead."
Yes, the memory error doesn't seem to matter. Just click okay and ignore it. And for some reason, you need to set the zoom to be higher than zero. Don't ask me why, but that seems to be the problem.
It does work, I tried it.
Okay, here's a mirror, but it only has 2000MB of bandwidth. It could also get taken down, but I doubt it, considering that the file is GPL'd.
p
http://mars.walagata.com/w/gmerge/gMerge-win32.zi
Or even better, the actual gMerge executable for Windows, with a nice interface.
p
I can't believe they left this online...someone ought to post a mirror quick.
http://images.levinux.org/storage/gMerge-win32.zi
At first Opera annoyed me, but over time I've really come to depend on it. It can do a few things the other browsers can only dream of.
;- )
- It renders Slashdot fast and correctly!
- The popup blocker *really* *works*!! Seriously. Firefox has been letting extra-evil ones through lately. Visit drudgereport.com for examples.
- I has something called "spatial browsing" that makes keyboard surfing possible. I hold down shift, and the arrow keys navigate through links based on their location on the screen. Firefox can't do this at all.
- Mouse gestures let me surf faster and with less effort. Firefox has a plugin, but Opera actually invented it.
- The rewind button doesn't just go back a page, it goes back the last significantly different place I was.The fast-forward button works even when you haven't gone back yet. It reads the page and detects where to go. Firefox has nothing like this. I'm not sure how I lived without it. If I press fast forward while I'm looking at an image, it goes to the next image in the directory! Weird.
- It lets you turn http referers off. Slashdot has absolutely no idea what page sent me here...
- It has IRC built in. That's cool, but I don't use it much.
- The mail client is the best I've ever seen. It's checks and sends from all 5 of my accounts, with Mailbox Oneness never before achieved by mortals.
- The download manager is excellent. Quick-download is handy.
- Literally every single part of the interface can be customized by editing the INI files. I've made mine look almost exactly like the KDE browser, Konqueror.
- Pressing F12 lets me change my settings rapidly. You have to see this one to really like it. No more messy settings boxes. Sometimes you just want to turn javascript off for a few seconds.
- Deleting cookies isn't a big deal. I click "Tools->Delete Private Data" and click okay. That clears history, cookies, etc all at once. Why can't Firefox do that?
- It uses a *huge* amount of RAM. Right now it's using 51MB! This sounds bad until you try it; the speed is amazing. Firefox worrys too much about memory and runs slower as a result. Firefox isn't slow, it just isn't this fast.
- I've tried lots of password-remembering thingies, but the Wand is the only one that's really appealed to me. I just press ctrl-enter and it fills forms in and submits them. It's great for things like forums, where I couldn't care less if my password is stored on my disk.
- It can do cool tricks, like let you move tabs between windows. I hate tabs anyway, though, so I never use this. ; )
- If you accidentally close a window, it keeps a list of recently closed windows, so you can reopen it! Very nice. What are the Firefox developers waiting for?
- If Opera or Windows crashes, when you reload Opera, it can restore all your windows just the way they were. This is unspeakably cool.
- One of my favorites is that it lets you associate letters with search engines. I type "g whatever I want" into the address bar, and it automatically searches Google. If I type "e something"' it searches eBay! Cool, eh? Who needs the Google bar? Actually, it has that too. It has search bars for 14 different engines.
- It has support for user stylesheets. This is very impressive. I can't do it justice trying to explain it here. It's cool.
- You can save "sessions" and open them up later...windows, settings, everything...perfectly intact.
- Loading PDFs doesn't lock up Opera. Firefox literally becomes unresponsive.
I could go on all day, but I won't. I just love really love this browser!
That said, it takes some effort to get it configured so it doesn't suck, and is probably way beyond the masses. Firefox is halfway decent (but buggy...), and most people (read: "lusers") should be using that.
Oh, and don't whine about gmail support. Opera supports Ajax fully, and there is no reason why gmail shouldn't work, and it used to. Blame google for forcing Opera users to use the crappy basic HTML interface. That's not Opera's fault.
Okay, so NASA spends $15 billion of our money each year, and the Pentagon spends another $20 billion on satellites and rockets. It costs a billion to launch a shuttle, and there used to be four launches a year, before they started losing things so often. They even canceled development of the X-33, and sold it for scrap metal, after spending 912 million dollars on it.
But we can't afford to spend a measly $4 million to maintain three projects that are still returning useful, interesting data, and haven't disappeared behind Mars or killed anyone?
I guess they have PHBs at NASA too! Maybe it's just about PR...making things look good to the average guy on the street, who thinks going to Mars is way cooler.
(I have to admit, the headline "Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination" made me wonder the Aliens had finally taked over ISS...)
Here's an interesting article about it on the Scotsman.
It says, Similarly, researchers in Tokyo are developing a camouflage fabric that uses a comparable principle where the background is projected on to light-reflecting beads in the material. Such systems are, however, dependent on the viewer from which the object is being concealed being in the right position.
I see no mention of Photoshop, but it does say it could be used by surgeons and pilots. Sounds pretty cool to me.
It is not a 'magic cloak,' however.
Like this?
Well, that actually requires a special viewfinder, so it's not quite as cool, but it sure *looks* awesome. Better than the "spot the spaceship" pic, anyway.
How long til I can buy this stuff at Walmart?
The page is 7.3MB, so I think that is very, very unlikely.
I saved a 6.3MB zip file of the whole thing, though...I just have no bandwidth to host it. ; )
Whoever this ChipGuy fellow is, he sure hates Tivo! Not only is this story a dupe, but ChipGuy submitted both of them. I wonder how many were rejected. ; )
Here's the original.
Ultracade's trademark application includes the copyrighted MAME logo. Even is MAME doesn't own their own trademark, which is upsurd, the logo is illegal to reproduce.
Isn't that enough reason to deny Ultracade the trademark? This is just like the guy that tried to steal the Linux trademark from Linus.
...we live on Earth!
You don't have the system hooks turned on.And, yes, a batch file can destroy your computer. Think "format /s c:" here.
Everybody seems to miss this:
1) Open AntiSpyware's main window
2) Click on "real time protection"
3) Then click on each of the 3 agents...Internet (9 checkpoints), System (25 checkpoints), and Application (25 checkpoints)
4) Enable *all* of the checkpoints...they are Win32 system hooks...
5) Try installing some spyware. ; ) It won't work.
Also, don't fool yourself, antivirus software does not protect against spyware.
Heh...I always get a kick out of people trying to get others modded down.
The link *does* work, you just can't load all of the pages on the archived site. As soon as you go somewhere that isn't archived, it trys to load the real one, which doesn't exist anymore.
Well, I can see you're very excited about this!
.bat files.
You are completely right, though. I'm sick of reading all the negative reviews of AntiSpyware compared to all the others. Hello? Whoever's writing these reviews? It doesn't matter if it doesn't "find" a piece of spyware. It *prevents* spyware from ever installing in the first place. Right now, it has 59 Win32 system hooks installed on my computer, and believe me, nothing is getting past. I have it pop up twice a day just to warn me when I try to run my DOS games...it detects the
It's quite good, and it also does not change your IE homepage to be msn.com. I know, because mine is still about:blank, the way I set it. Just click no when it asks...sheesh.
Give it a shot, turn on the system hooks, and you might be impressed.
From the Slashdot article:
This might ultimately affect the legality of cheat devices like the Game Shark and even the mere sharing of cheats or exploits.
The other article might not make upsurd claims like that, but this one does!
Considering how most American slashdotters (myself included) consider the DMCA to be a violation of our rights, I hope everyone will understand the urgency of my plight...I need somewhere to post this cheat code...
;-)
left-right-left-left-B-A-left-down-trigger-left-B
I can only hope Slashdot has the resources to protect my free speech.
Really, though...the DMCA sucks, but I can't see cheat codes being a violation while game makers keep putting them in on purpose. Aren't they the ones writing code to do different things when we enter the codes in? What next, prison time for opening an easter egg in Word?
Here's a link to the archived site, before it was taken down.