If all I can do with it is see the perfectly-rendered sweat rolling down the forehead of the Exclusively-EA-Branded Linebacker in front of me, with all the control in the world being nothing but a pair of awkwardly placed sticks, what the hell do I care? I will be buying a PS3 solely because the PS2 controller is the only one with actually intuitive control schemes, because of the symmetrical placement of the sticks. But mostly I can look forward to more sports games, more driving games, more awkward TPS (that's third person shooter) games, or on the PS3, lots of badly-written and acted "RPGs" with stories on rails.
Oh yeah, fighting games and platformers too. Right now I amuse myself with platformers the most, but I keep going back to play Alpha Centauri.
Give me Civilization 5 with a wireless mouse+keyboard interface on one of these, or a Total War title, and we'll talk. As it is, I doubt the next gen consoles will even have VGA outputs (and no, third party scan converters don't count).
> Same for Windows - try using Ctrl-C Ctrl-V on Windows Emacs or XEmacs for instance
Sure, you had to pick one of the most NON-STANDARD applications whose existence predates Windows itself. Incidentally, with CUA-mode on Xemacs, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and even Ctrl-X work just like they would in Notepad (the Ctrl-X thing involves timeouts when there's a selection I think).
> No web browser by default will just copy an image by ctrl+c'ing it, you would have to save it first from the server it sits on dude.
How quaint. Konquerer makes no such distinction. Why should it? It's not on a remote server, it's displaying right in front of you. I don't care where the file is located, I care where the image is.
> Actually, this is a very good test at the security of the system, and one that I believe we should welcome. The more of these contests we have, the more security bugs that will be found and then promptly patched.
I used to do general support for... well, doesn't matter, really... anyway, while resolving some problem, there's these kids crying in the background, your usual whiny-kids-while-youre-on-the-phone problem, so I sort of forgave her general unpleasantness. Then I heard her say "hold on" then yell to them "don't make me get the spoon!" after which I heard this scared little voice say "no mommy we'll be good".
I wanted to hang up or put her on permanent park (that's hold), but I figured that'd just piss her off and she'd beat the kids harder, so I swallowed my disgust and was as diplomatic as I could be. I hated humanity a little more every day on that job.
I'm constantly shifting positions and adjusting my chair, angle to the mouse, leg positions, etc and I've noticed the more I do so, the less strain I feel anywhere. Funny thing is, I don't do this on purpose. I'm just naturally really fidgety. I drive my girlfriend nuts with it, but I guess adult ADD really is good for something!
> Only problem is that your microscope has to be really good.
And that you can't encode one rod onto another rod, since you've used up all the available resolution of the medium. Possibly you could compress all the information from one planet onto a materially-perfect rod a couple meters long at atomic resolution. I'll bet you the algorithm behind that compression scheme would never fit though.
End-users will just click the "Download Latest version" and they'll get whatever the newest version is, without worrying about numbers.
End-users who actually care to update their kernel for some specific reason like needing the compatibility for a device driver or to fix a specific bug are indeed going to worry about the numbers. Yes, I'm talking about sysadmins, which I am one of, but I haven't been roped into doing developer type work with the kernel in years. I don't generally compile linux kernels or poke into the source, I just like the vendor to give me a clear picture of which kernel is from what date. This scheme might actually help since it seems likely to create more fine-grained selection points to backport patches from (which redhat will do as long as there's a support schedule for that kernel version). I still think the whole thing's silly and a date-based numbering scheme with a -CURRENT and -STABLE branch would serve linux far better, but there are some upsides to it. Oh dear, time to be accused of BSD zealotry again...
Personally, I think that something like darcs is ideal for something that takes so many patches as a kernel. Something like darcs, I have to stress -- not only is darcs not quite ready for prime time (it's memory hungry when there's a lot of diffs), having to replicate the entire VC tree using forward diffs from a baseline that's over a decade old is probably not ideal. It's also a little too confident in its patch merging scheme, and can get stuck in computationally undecideable traps instead of bailing and calling it a conflict. Still, it's a beautiful VC scheme.... hmmm, I think I've rambled enough for one post:)
Yeah, but for that to work, I'd have to add every member of the list as a contact. I want to whitelist a label, and that label is based on the To: line, not a From: line.
I suppose they're busier with the interface -- I see they added a fallback "plain HTML" mode for nonsupported browsers. Still, those tags they rave about aren't seeing much usefulness if I can't base other actions like whitelisting off of them.
"Not spam" does not whitelist senders. It moves messages. Maybe I'm missing something.
I really should have just posted AC, having gotten three replies that went:
1) google radiates golden benefince, you suck for criticizing them
2) see that "not spam" button? the shiny one? don't lick it, click it! good boy!
3) Use another email client, you're not firewalled or anything, and you configure this client everywhere you go, right? Aren't I clever for knowing about its existence?
My blood pressure really cannot stand slashdot these days.
... and some oh-so-insightful shithead that comes on and waggles his finger and clucks at someone making a complaint, adding nothing but their righteous prattle to the conversation.
I use gmail as my primary email. Good enough for you?
Sadly, I think if they added screaming and blood and gore to the shooters, gamers would eat it right up. Even if they somehow managed to portray the destroyed lives of the survivors, I think we'd end up with a generation of Genghis Khans who enjoyed hearing the lamentations of the women (or was that Conan the Barbarian?)
Something really weird: my girlfriend is really sensitive to violence, and cringes at personally violent scenes in movies that involve lots of fisticuffs or up-close violence. I don't mean flinch and say "eww", I mean make a little shriek, curl up, bury her head in my shoulder and grab my arm kind of cringe. It really bothers her, to say the least.
Yet she watches CSI without batting an eye, even when *I* am cringing (more of the flinching kind of cringing though).
> I think the best way to fight spam is through education. Start getting the word out somehow that this guy really isn't from nigeria, that that supplement won't make your penis bigger, etc. Maybe if people stop falling for this shit (and people do, or it would have stopped long ago) lowlifes will stop sending it out.
Not to sound too cynical, but:
1) Stupid people are also resistant to education.
2) There's a sucker born every minute.
Sure, education is great, but I really am not holding my breath.
> Maybe I'm the lucky minority here, or my mail host has some crazy filters I don't know about, but I very, very rarely recieve any type of spam. Now, I don't go handing out my email address either.
Some of us think that's a really sad state of affairs when you can't have a public email address. I mean yes, there's cranks who might send you flames or whatever, but one shouldn't have to be utterly innundated with crap just for letting everyone know their address.
Sadder still is that this sort of secrecy just becoming the norm now.
(no, I don't put my email on my slashdot account, but I like being pseudonymous for other reasons)
Most 419's are sent from UK and Dutch ISP's. I'm not going to block all of.uk and.nl, thankyou. 419's may be hard to catch, but they represent pretty low volume. Not really considered a priority. Phishing is getting to be really bad news. Even if you're not dumb enough to fall for it, I bet you'll look real hard at any real correspondence from your bank. That cloud of suspicion is what the banks hate the most.
And yes, stay way away from OE. The full blown outlook isn't too bad, though it has severe problems all its own, but OE is a non-stop disaster.
gmail's spam filtering annoys the hell out of me: No whitelists. I'm subscribed to a spam discussion list, so it trips spam filters all the time, and I'm constantly having to fish messages out. I don't care that it classifies it as spam, I'm just annoyed at the fact that I cannot ever override its judgement.
> To explain Ruby on Rails, I could say it is a highly integrated model-view-controller type web application framework.
Rails is not really MVC -- The Controller part at any rate, the bane of every struts programmer, is entirely invisible in Rails. I suppose not having to deal with it yourself doesn't make it go away... but really, nearly ANY application can be broken down into MVC parts or otherwise viewed through some MVC lens. The term was never all that meaningful (it only made sense when the controller was implementing low-level stuff like device drivers in smalltalk), but it's almost wholly meaningless for modern web apps.
At any rate, you tend to define look and behavior in the same file in Rails, which makes it rather not MVC. It's there to make programmers productive, not create divisions between coders and web monkey designers. You could template if you wanted to, you just generally don't. It's rather a breath of fresh air, actually.
I stand corrected: there indeed was a flag or function for getting only the client area DC (been so long, I've forgotten it), but it never scribbled over the titlebar or window decorations, it simply clipped the top off, drawing "under" the titlebar so to speak. I guess if I dynamically removed the decorations, it would show up. Tch... GUI programming is just not my bag. Sorry for misleading.:)
> Oh! What a surprise. An uninformed FreeBSD zealot making a random attack on Linux.
I run several flavors of Linux and currently zero of BSD (there's a NetBSD box kicking around here, but it's not mine). I just call them as I see them. I guess Linux has to defend itself against the notion of TIME now, as Linus's numbering scheme is so unimpeachably good, anything that FreeBSD does is zealotry.
So let me get this straight: you think that revving the kernels FASTER is going to make any existing point-in-time version MORE up to date? Golly.
> I was going to suggest you load view-source:chrome://browser/content/browser.xul to see how the chrome does that top part, but their view-source: code seems to be broken.
That doesn't seem to work on firefox either. Comes up blank.
It's not that hard to overwrite any area into the title bar in Windows. Unlike with a unix window manager, the border and titlebar are part of the graphic context of the client. The client area stuff is just a hint, and in fact if you leave out the hint, you'll scribble over the title bar. Common mistake I used to make when I was learning delphi.
It still probably requires a hack to the core, but it's not too hard.
The "ux" suffix was going around for unix clones at the time (HP-UX and DGUX to name two). Changing one letter of his name to make another "ux" was a pun that some roguish FTP admin made when he didn't like the name Linus checked his code in as: Freax. Linus liked it and it stuck.
Wow, Mentifex, we missed you! Our favorite crank is back! You'll have to forgive some of the mods, they're new here and haven't recognized your trolls for what they are.
You sorta tied it in to the story this time instead of just pasting in your usual spamming boilerplate, good job!
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If all I can do with it is see the perfectly-rendered sweat rolling down the forehead of the Exclusively-EA-Branded Linebacker in front of me, with all the control in the world being nothing but a pair of awkwardly placed sticks, what the hell do I care? I will be buying a PS3 solely because the PS2 controller is the only one with actually intuitive control schemes, because of the symmetrical placement of the sticks. But mostly I can look forward to more sports games, more driving games, more awkward TPS (that's third person shooter) games, or on the PS3, lots of badly-written and acted "RPGs" with stories on rails.
Oh yeah, fighting games and platformers too. Right now I amuse myself with platformers the most, but I keep going back to play Alpha Centauri.
Give me Civilization 5 with a wireless mouse+keyboard interface on one of these, or a Total War title, and we'll talk. As it is, I doubt the next gen consoles will even have VGA outputs (and no, third party scan converters don't count).
> Same for Windows - try using Ctrl-C Ctrl-V on Windows Emacs or XEmacs for instance
Sure, you had to pick one of the most NON-STANDARD applications whose existence predates Windows itself. Incidentally, with CUA-mode on Xemacs, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and even Ctrl-X work just like they would in Notepad (the Ctrl-X thing involves timeouts when there's a selection I think).
> No web browser by default will just copy an image by ctrl+c'ing it, you would have to save it first from the server it sits on dude.
How quaint. Konquerer makes no such distinction. Why should it? It's not on a remote server, it's displaying right in front of you. I don't care where the file is located, I care where the image is.
> Well Sun does have this idiotic habit of meaning Redhat when they say Linux. I consider that FUD
You keep using that TLA. I do not think it means what you think it means.
> Actually, this is a very good test at the security of the system, and one that I believe we should welcome. The more of these contests we have, the more security bugs that will be found and then promptly patched.
t ests
Bruce Schneier begs to differ: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#con
It's focused on crypto, but the principle applies to any system.
I used to do general support for ... well, doesn't matter, really ... anyway, while resolving some problem, there's these kids crying in the background, your usual whiny-kids-while-youre-on-the-phone problem, so I sort of forgave her general unpleasantness. Then I heard her say "hold on" then yell to them "don't make me get the spoon!" after which I heard this scared little voice say "no mommy we'll be good".
I wanted to hang up or put her on permanent park (that's hold), but I figured that'd just piss her off and she'd beat the kids harder, so I swallowed my disgust and was as diplomatic as I could be. I hated humanity a little more every day on that job.
I'm constantly shifting positions and adjusting my chair, angle to the mouse, leg positions, etc and I've noticed the more I do so, the less strain I feel anywhere. Funny thing is, I don't do this on purpose. I'm just naturally really fidgety. I drive my girlfriend nuts with it, but I guess adult ADD really is good for something!
> Only problem is that your microscope has to be really good.
And that you can't encode one rod onto another rod, since you've used up all the available resolution of the medium. Possibly you could compress all the information from one planet onto a materially-perfect rod a couple meters long at atomic resolution. I'll bet you the algorithm behind that compression scheme would never fit though.
End-users will just click the "Download Latest version" and they'll get whatever the newest version is, without worrying about numbers.
... hmmm, I think I've rambled enough for one post :)
End-users who actually care to update their kernel for some specific reason like needing the compatibility for a device driver or to fix a specific bug are indeed going to worry about the numbers. Yes, I'm talking about sysadmins, which I am one of, but I haven't been roped into doing developer type work with the kernel in years. I don't generally compile linux kernels or poke into the source, I just like the vendor to give me a clear picture of which kernel is from what date. This scheme might actually help since it seems likely to create more fine-grained selection points to backport patches from (which redhat will do as long as there's a support schedule for that kernel version). I still think the whole thing's silly and a date-based numbering scheme with a -CURRENT and -STABLE branch would serve linux far better, but there are some upsides to it. Oh dear, time to be accused of BSD zealotry again...
Personally, I think that something like darcs is ideal for something that takes so many patches as a kernel. Something like darcs, I have to stress -- not only is darcs not quite ready for prime time (it's memory hungry when there's a lot of diffs), having to replicate the entire VC tree using forward diffs from a baseline that's over a decade old is probably not ideal. It's also a little too confident in its patch merging scheme, and can get stuck in computationally undecideable traps instead of bailing and calling it a conflict. Still, it's a beautiful VC scheme.
Yeah, but for that to work, I'd have to add every member of the list as a contact. I want to whitelist a label, and that label is based on the To: line, not a From: line.
I suppose they're busier with the interface -- I see they added a fallback "plain HTML" mode for nonsupported browsers. Still, those tags they rave about aren't seeing much usefulness if I can't base other actions like whitelisting off of them.
"Not spam" does not whitelist senders. It moves messages. Maybe I'm missing something.
I really should have just posted AC, having gotten three replies that went:
1) google radiates golden benefince, you suck for criticizing them
2) see that "not spam" button? the shiny one? don't lick it, click it! good boy!
3) Use another email client, you're not firewalled or anything, and you configure this client everywhere you go, right? Aren't I clever for knowing about its existence?
My blood pressure really cannot stand slashdot these days.
... and some oh-so-insightful shithead that comes on and waggles his finger and clucks at someone making a complaint, adding nothing but their righteous prattle to the conversation.
I use gmail as my primary email. Good enough for you?
Sadly, I think if they added screaming and blood and gore to the shooters, gamers would eat it right up. Even if they somehow managed to portray the destroyed lives of the survivors, I think we'd end up with a generation of Genghis Khans who enjoyed hearing the lamentations of the women (or was that Conan the Barbarian?)
Something really weird: my girlfriend is really sensitive to violence, and cringes at personally violent scenes in movies that involve lots of fisticuffs or up-close violence. I don't mean flinch and say "eww", I mean make a little shriek, curl up, bury her head in my shoulder and grab my arm kind of cringe. It really bothers her, to say the least.
Yet she watches CSI without batting an eye, even when *I* am cringing (more of the flinching kind of cringing though).
> I think the best way to fight spam is through education. Start getting the word out somehow that this guy really isn't from nigeria, that that supplement won't make your penis bigger, etc. Maybe if people stop falling for this shit (and people do, or it would have stopped long ago) lowlifes will stop sending it out.
Not to sound too cynical, but:
1) Stupid people are also resistant to education.
2) There's a sucker born every minute.
Sure, education is great, but I really am not holding my breath.
> Maybe I'm the lucky minority here, or my mail host has some crazy filters I don't know about, but I very, very rarely recieve any type of spam. Now, I don't go handing out my email address either.
Some of us think that's a really sad state of affairs when you can't have a public email address. I mean yes, there's cranks who might send you flames or whatever, but one shouldn't have to be utterly innundated with crap just for letting everyone know their address.
Sadder still is that this sort of secrecy just becoming the norm now.
(no, I don't put my email on my slashdot account, but I like being pseudonymous for other reasons)
Most 419's are sent from UK and Dutch ISP's. I'm not going to block all of .uk and .nl, thankyou. 419's may be hard to catch, but they represent pretty low volume. Not really considered a priority. Phishing is getting to be really bad news. Even if you're not dumb enough to fall for it, I bet you'll look real hard at any real correspondence from your bank. That cloud of suspicion is what the banks hate the most.
And yes, stay way away from OE. The full blown outlook isn't too bad, though it has severe problems all its own, but OE is a non-stop disaster.
gmail's spam filtering annoys the hell out of me: No whitelists. I'm subscribed to a spam discussion list, so it trips spam filters all the time, and I'm constantly having to fish messages out. I don't care that it classifies it as spam, I'm just annoyed at the fact that I cannot ever override its judgement.
Hey everyone, Alanis reads slashdot!
> To explain Ruby on Rails, I could say it is a highly integrated model-view-controller type web application framework.
... but really, nearly ANY application can be broken down into MVC parts or otherwise viewed through some MVC lens. The term was never all that meaningful (it only made sense when the controller was implementing low-level stuff like device drivers in smalltalk), but it's almost wholly meaningless for modern web apps.
Rails is not really MVC -- The Controller part at any rate, the bane of every struts programmer, is entirely invisible in Rails. I suppose not having to deal with it yourself doesn't make it go away
At any rate, you tend to define look and behavior in the same file in Rails, which makes it rather not MVC. It's there to make programmers productive, not create divisions between coders and web monkey designers. You could template if you wanted to, you just generally don't. It's rather a breath of fresh air, actually.
I stand corrected: there indeed was a flag or function for getting only the client area DC (been so long, I've forgotten it), but it never scribbled over the titlebar or window decorations, it simply clipped the top off, drawing "under" the titlebar so to speak. I guess if I dynamically removed the decorations, it would show up. Tch ... GUI programming is just not my bag. Sorry for misleading. :)
> Oh! What a surprise. An uninformed FreeBSD zealot making a random attack on Linux.
I run several flavors of Linux and currently zero of BSD (there's a NetBSD box kicking around here, but it's not mine). I just call them as I see them. I guess Linux has to defend itself against the notion of TIME now, as Linus's numbering scheme is so unimpeachably good, anything that FreeBSD does is zealotry.
So let me get this straight: you think that revving the kernels FASTER is going to make any existing point-in-time version MORE up to date? Golly.
> I was going to suggest you load view-source:chrome://browser/content/browser.xul to see how the chrome does that top part, but their view-source: code seems to be broken.
That doesn't seem to work on firefox either. Comes up blank.
It's not that hard to overwrite any area into the title bar in Windows. Unlike with a unix window manager, the border and titlebar are part of the graphic context of the client. The client area stuff is just a hint, and in fact if you leave out the hint, you'll scribble over the title bar. Common mistake I used to make when I was learning delphi.
It still probably requires a hack to the core, but it's not too hard.
The "ux" suffix was going around for unix clones at the time (HP-UX and DGUX to name two). Changing one letter of his name to make another "ux" was a pun that some roguish FTP admin made when he didn't like the name Linus checked his code in as: Freax. Linus liked it and it stuck.
Wow, Mentifex, we missed you! Our favorite crank is back! You'll have to forgive some of the mods, they're new here and haven't recognized your trolls for what they are.
You sorta tied it in to the story this time instead of just pasting in your usual spamming boilerplate, good job!