Wikipedia says that Ben Goodger started working for google after Firefox became such a big hit. Google was alreay the default search engine before Goodger was a Google employee.
Oh, and has anyone thought that maybe, just maybe, Google gets to be the default search engine because they host the default homepage?
chances are you go visit a half-dozen sites regulary. When you mistype one of these (for example, you type www.slashdoty.org), it redirects you.
Unless, of course, you are holding down an override key, similar to firewalls and pop-up blockers.
So if I actually wanted to go to slashdoty.org, I'd hold down the shift key, and it doesn't redirect me.
The extention would just keep track of the most visited sites and create redirects for them.
You can manually add and remove sites from the list, and it will redirect you to them.
At least, that's one way it could work. The trouble with this system is that we've already got something for the most commonly visited sites - it's called the bookmarks toolbar.
No, I think I'm using the proprietary drivers. They are called, from ati.com, ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version 8.24.8 And they seem to work fine to me, although an above poster said they only work on some distros. Next time I screw something up and need to reformat, I will try the drivers on Kubuntu, and see what happens.
Thank you for your suggestion. We at 3D Realms pride ourselves on taking into account suggestions made by fans. Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that Duke Nukem Forever will not be shipping with support for the referenced PhysX Dedicated Processor, because Infinium Labs' "Phantom" Console, our primary release platform, will not include such a card.
It is possible that a future port to Windows x128 will include support for the card. Please expect 15-20 year delays while we add support for the processor.
someone please, PLEASE, tell me why no one likes ATI in Linux?
I have used the ATI out-of-the-box radeon drivers in SuSE, it was pretty much as easy to install as it was in windows. And UT2004 (the only linux game I own) seemed to run just as well as it did in Windows.
All you have to do is wait a couple years, and you can pick up that $500 card for $80. Depending on your last card, this should about double your performance. Besides, it's a seller's market in video cards today. It's changed a lot since gamers were a niche. Now EVERYONE plays games, and the video card companies know this, so of course they take advantage of it.
That is a fine idea, and all, but if you are actively trying to recruit people, chances are they won't be using adblock. Therefore, your new users will be turned off by ads.
Oh, and (I suspect you already know this and were joking) people have to actually click the ads in order for you to make money off them.
So, yeah, relevent text ads are the name of the game. Perhaps it would be a good idea to go so far as to offer incentives to users who click the ads on a regular basis (IE: You click 10 ads and get one page view ad-free).
What's the point to this whole thing? I mean, arn't they fooling enough people in the status quo? Now, they have to pay people to act like they work for a bank, and have them on call 24/7. The same stupid people are going to believe this (why would your bank email you asking you to call them?), so now the phishers will be losing money by paying actors, and not really getting enough extra to cover the cost.
Maybe it's me, but this makes no sense from a buisness standpoint.
For what it's worth, I agree with you that the show is bad. But, you are still a fucking moron troll who completely missed the point of the show. BSG is bad because nothing happens. The episodes simply move too slowly. The acting is solid, the CGI fantastic, and not, as you say, poorly put toghether. If you're complaining about a lack of action, you're watching the wrong show. BSG is about people-people interactions, not fist-fights.
What the show needs to do in order to be better, is take an approach like Farscape or Firefly (or even B5, to some extent) used: Lay down the whole fucking story, give some hints as to what is going to happen, and then make EVERY SINGLE EPISODE have something to do with the main storyline.
The problem is, too many episodes give the impression that the creators have no idea what is going to happen next. appart from, maybe, finding earth, but that's about it. Really, the episodes that have something to do with the main story are good (perhaps great), but the random episodes pretty much feel like "terrorist of the week" (you know, that thing we all hate Enterprise for, only substitute "alien" with "terrorist").
That's my thoughts, anyway. This being/., and full of fanboys, I'll hit -1 and a dozen freaks in a few minutes, but oh well.
I believe it works like this:
RA1: Solviet Campaign --> CnC-->Tiberiun Sun-->CnC3
RA1: Allied Campaign --> RA2/Yuri's Revenge
The two campaigns in RA1 esentially follow two paralell universes. I believe wikipedia has a good article on the CnC universe connections here
You are pretty much alone in the world. Most fans of the series prefer the classic universe, and the ESPECIALLY like the side bar, no unit upgrades, and the ability to have huge battles. As has been said, Generals, with its unit upgrades, complex tech trees, etc, felt like a Warcraft rip-off.
You just said that 64megs of memory ought to be enough for anyone, in so many words.
Video might go upto 1024x768x32-bitx100FPS but will not exceed that
Right. Tell that to any gamer running @ 1280x1024. Higher resolutions will always be in demand. Games will continue to have better and better textures, more units, bigger and more maps. I wouldn't be supprised to see 1TB games in the next 10 years. You make a good point, but just don't put finite limits on things which are likely to change quickly.
The "good" products which MS has "made" are actually licensed technology:
-The hardware
-Age of Empires
-Halo
-Flight Simulator
Good techs by MS are either games or hardware. Any office product is bound to be crap. Someone come up with an example of a version of Windows or Office that works great, please.
The whole point of my using Windows is that I'm running everything as root. Without root, half the games I play don't run (GTA and Quake spring to mind).
If I can't play games, I might as well stop dual-booting and go 100% to Linux.
Heh. I guess this is just more evidance that Windows wasn't built with user sanity in mind.
Slashdot Mirror
it's a mutually benificial relationship. Google gets free users from searches, and Mozilla saves a buttload on bandwith.
Oh, and has anyone thought that maybe, just maybe, Google gets to be the default search engine because they host the default homepage?
Anyway, in case of slashdotting, here's a rapidshare downloadable (better than google video) mirror
A quick google search would have done as much try "rbi game 6"
When you mistype one of these (for example, you type www.slashdoty.org), it redirects you.
Unless, of course, you are holding down an override key, similar to firewalls and pop-up blockers.
So if I actually wanted to go to slashdoty.org, I'd hold down the shift key, and it doesn't redirect me.
The extention would just keep track of the most visited sites and create redirects for them.
You can manually add and remove sites from the list, and it will redirect you to them.
At least, that's one way it could work. The trouble with this system is that we've already got something for the most commonly visited sites - it's called the bookmarks toolbar.
No, I think I'm using the proprietary drivers.
They are called, from ati.com, ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version 8.24.8
And they seem to work fine to me, although an above poster said they only work on some distros. Next time I screw something up and need to reformat, I will try the drivers on Kubuntu, and see what happens.
#2: Thanks to you posting on /. to inform everyone about this, some troll will have registered the site to go to goatse.
Thank you for your suggestion. We at 3D Realms pride ourselves on taking into account suggestions made by fans.
Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that Duke Nukem Forever will not be shipping with support for the referenced PhysX Dedicated Processor, because Infinium Labs' "Phantom" Console, our primary release platform, will not include such a card.
It is possible that a future port to Windows x128 will include support for the card. Please expect 15-20 year delays while we add support for the processor.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
3D Realms.
I mean, gamecube/snes/nes/n64.nintendo.com don't work. Only revolution.nintendo.com does.
But you do raise some very interesting points.
I have used the ATI out-of-the-box radeon drivers in SuSE, it was pretty much as easy to install as it was in windows. And UT2004 (the only linux game I own) seemed to run just as well as it did in Windows.
So what am I missing that everyone hates so much?
All you have to do is wait a couple years, and you can pick up that $500 card for $80. Depending on your last card, this should about double your performance. Besides, it's a seller's market in video cards today. It's changed a lot since gamers were a niche. Now EVERYONE plays games, and the video card companies know this, so of course they take advantage of it.
Oh, and (I suspect you already know this and were joking) people have to actually click the ads in order for you to make money off them.
So, yeah, relevent text ads are the name of the game.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to go so far as to offer incentives to users who click the ads on a regular basis (IE: You click 10 ads and get one page view ad-free).
I mean, arn't they fooling enough people in the status quo? Now, they have to pay people to act like they work for a bank, and have them on call 24/7.
The same stupid people are going to believe this (why would your bank email you asking you to call them?), so now the phishers will be losing money by paying actors, and not really getting enough extra to cover the cost.
Maybe it's me, but this makes no sense from a buisness standpoint.
43.8% for Microsoft vs. 44.0%
Netcraft confirms it...Windows is dying.
Until next month when MS is at 44.0% again.
Try the head.
But, you are still a fucking moron troll who completely missed the point of the show.
BSG is bad because nothing happens. The episodes simply move too slowly. The acting is solid, the CGI fantastic, and not, as you say, poorly put toghether. If you're complaining about a lack of action, you're watching the wrong show. BSG is about people-people interactions, not fist-fights.
What the show needs to do in order to be better, is take an approach like Farscape or Firefly (or even B5, to some extent) used: Lay down the whole fucking story, give some hints as to what is going to happen, and then make EVERY SINGLE EPISODE have something to do with the main storyline.
The problem is, too many episodes give the impression that the creators have no idea what is going to happen next.
appart from, maybe, finding earth, but that's about it.
Really, the episodes that have something to do with the main story are good (perhaps great), but the random episodes pretty much feel like "terrorist of the week" (you know, that thing we all hate Enterprise for, only substitute "alien" with "terrorist").
That's my thoughts, anyway. This being /., and full of fanboys, I'll hit -1 and a dozen freaks in a few minutes, but oh well.
I believe it works like this:
RA1: Solviet Campaign --> CnC-->Tiberiun Sun-->CnC3
RA1: Allied Campaign --> RA2/Yuri's Revenge
The two campaigns in RA1 esentially follow two paralell universes. I believe wikipedia has a good article on the CnC universe connections here
Most fans of the series prefer the classic universe, and the ESPECIALLY like the side bar, no unit upgrades, and the ability to have huge battles.
As has been said, Generals, with its unit upgrades, complex tech trees, etc, felt like a Warcraft rip-off.
CnC games are about simplicity. Generals was not.
Mod me troll, but the SAGE engine kind-of seems to suck. I mean, generals got old after a couple weeks, unlike previous CnC games.
When I want gameplay, I go for RA2: Yuri's Revenge with the deezire mod. Now THAT'S fun.
Video might go upto 1024x768x32-bitx100FPS but will not exceed that
Right. Tell that to any gamer running @ 1280x1024. Higher resolutions will always be in demand. Games will continue to have better and better textures, more units, bigger and more maps. I wouldn't be supprised to see 1TB games in the next 10 years.
You make a good point, but just don't put finite limits on things which are likely to change quickly.
-The hardware
-Age of Empires
-Halo
-Flight Simulator
Good techs by MS are either games or hardware. Any office product is bound to be crap.
Someone come up with an example of a version of Windows or Office that works great, please.
Netcraft is dead!
But, only an intelecutally curious man wants to learn how to fish.
...
Boy, did I just mangle that or what?
The iDisk?
Nah, it's much closer too the as-of-yet-not-announced Yahoo!Webdrive!
If I can't play games, I might as well stop dual-booting and go 100% to Linux.
Heh. I guess this is just more evidance that Windows wasn't built with user sanity in mind.