Please, at least change the alarmist title... come on/. is becoming El Reg's mirror, or what? and no, Microsoft is in no way patenting 911, 999. It does not have anything to do with telephone numbers...
From what I saw, i think Google interface is better, for example, for the first search, the results page in Yahoo! start with some ads, while Google begins with "Web definitions for computer".
I searched also for Inmortum for a specific obscure term (it was my brother's rock band name =oP) and I found 2 different pages. (sorry they are in spanish). For the sake of information, the page by Google is closer to what I would like to find when looking for "Inmortum" (as it has some information about the music scene in the state where the group was), while Yahoo's page is an essay from a guy that was also in the band and chose the name as his pseudonim.
Well, I think when I have more time I would like to make more tests with this page. I know it is quite simple as having 2 windows opened but, it is quite useful when searching some other things.
Well, to close I would like to add that I searched for (I could not resist... sorry) Google Sucks and Yahoo Sucks. That yield cool results, for the Google sucks, Google throws (as first link) a page with the title A Complete Waste of Time:: Why Google sucks, sadly, it is from 2003 while Yahoo links you to GoogleWatch.
When searching Yahoo Sucks, both pages direct to www.scubatampa.com/yahoo.html.
That was an interesting point. For what you state here, and some other things I have been reading, it seems Google is not as good with their "Clients" as it is with their users.
Now, that is sad, because I can see it quite similar to other companies monopolistic practices. Of course, I know there are other web page search engines but being google the most used, I guess people want advertise there, and Google knowing it, can ignore their advertisers claims...
I hope that does not go bad to goole, as I can think some other company (MS, Y!, AV, etc) could get a better "Ad revenew scheme" that really attracts advertisers (here, I think M$ has a better posibility to do that as they have lot$ of ca$h to $pend)
Man, i do not completely agree with you. For me, the Ninja Gaiden series, the Contra series, the Double Dragon series, gosh even P.O.W. (Prisioner of War, does anyone remember this? I played in an arcade and even TODAY I enjoy playing it and I remember the music from the 1st scenario), the Castelvania series.
Well, I think we have a pattern here, with only these franchises we have like 30 games, not to talk about other geners. What Nintendo had was a forced monopoly (which, I think, was quite good) for the NES. And the games where really good.
Today it's all about superficially good looking graphics. Gameplay and fun went the way of the dodo.
Look, I really want to play a game today (from PS1, N64 generation until today), which after 20 years or more, I can play again and enjoy it, (like I enjoy the Ninja Gaiden Series from NES, or Chrono Trigger from SNES), even the new Final Fantasy games (I like RPG) from the FF8 are not as good as the first ones, after I finished FF8, I get soooo tired that I didnt wanted to play it, you see, there are quite linear. After I played Morrowind (XBox) for quite some time, I got bored... maybe it is me that I have grew up, but I thing most game developers today does not care about game Design...
You see, one of the main problems is with game Categories, today, people divide games in 5 or 6 different categories (RPG, Adventure, RTS, FPS-3rdPS, Stealth, Simulators) and that is all... so, when they start a game they HAVE to design it as one of those and after that, they add one or two "innovative" things... that is, because the Game market has become like the Hollywood market (sadly for Gamedevs it does not pay like that... ) .
I want to comment that I know they are some exceptions to what I said, I remember playing a game called "Hogs Of War" (by Infogrames now Atari Inc.) for the PlayStation, it was kind like the Worms game, it was really innovative, and I could spend a lot of time playing with some friends. It was turn based. I really recommend to play it and you will see you will have a really good time. And, it is a game you surely will play for a long time.
Well, although I have not read TFA, just from the title and summary I think, if someone does not want the current Kernel they could always make a fork and start producing another sripped version, without all the "new things" available in the last ones.
I find interesting that there has not been a kernel fork in all these years, although I guess it is difficult to maintain a project like that, so that is why the big projects are not forked (OpenOffice, FireFox, Linux Kernel, mmm any other?).
Although I am a google fan, I have been using for quite some time the Map24 page after someone in/. pointed at it. I find it quite useful and the interface is pretty cool (Real time map find using Java or No Java option.
I find it quite useful to look for places in Europe when going to a conference or vacations, that and the HostelWorld are pretty cool pages, now, there is something I have seen no Map page do, that is, to add Bus line information to the maps, I know in some countrys it would be rather difficult but, in UK, there is Arriva, MerseyTravel and other companies whose lines and journeys are very well defined, now, if someone adds that functionality it will be THE map web page I will use =o).
Try producing a file that resolves to the same MD5, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, and SHA-256 hashes as another given file. Damn near impossible.
What about a genetic algorithm which produces several variations of a file, then makes each one of the hashes and selects the file which hashes are closer in byte distance (dont remember the exact term for that) to their corresponding hashes.
Shure it will take some time but, it is a nice research project =o)
First of all, let me tell you, I think you should let game reviews for other web pages, personally I like Metacritic
a lot.
Secondly, although I have not played the game, after reading some user reviews from the above page I found someone who stated:
the no blood thing is terrible for a game like this. This is an Adult game so why no blood?
I can just say come on! why the heck there is no blood??
Also, if the bad guys spawn in predetermined places, as the same reviewer states "kind of like the first Super Mario Bros. [...], you know exactly when and where to move the second time around ( either dying and spawning over or just playing the game a second time all together )" So, maybe the replayability levelfor this game is low, but anyway I a fan of the Hitman series, lets see if there is a new Hitman sequel and, how is it going.
Sorry, but I tried that PDF reader some time ago, although it is good for simple pdf's It tends to crash a lot, it also wont show correctly some other PDF's (I think the ones that does not contain normal characters. Etc etc,
It is good overall but, no, it cant replace Adobe's PDF reader , but maybe xpdf
is quite useful also.
"Chess? Cor, that game's just ancient. You should be playing Super-hyper Chess 2005, it's got cool 3D pieces, seven hundred different pieces, two-hundred new rules, every piece has 'hit-points' now and there's fifty types of board."
No, it is simply called Tactics Arena Online Sure, you do not have Check Mate, but I think it is a quite balanced game and of course you can say it is an improvement/clone of original Chess.
Interesting story, some time ago I posted a/. poll asking if you used AdBlock or any other ad blocker to read SlashDot, I think it was rejected but I thought it would be interesting to see how many people blocks the ads, thinking that Free Software advocates should know it is the way/. uses to survive
Yeah, thats quite true, not to flamebait but I think that kind of reasoning would be ok for a Micro$oftnian approach, abusing of its monopolistic power, so, apple could just make one of each kind of add-ons and marchet it as "original apple with seal of quality" to fsck the others.
I applaud apple for not doing it, and, I think it is the differenc between a good and a bad arse company
Ensure that people leave their clients running by giving low-share-ratio users a "Very Long Wait" a la Netflix.
That is a nice idea, but I am pretty sure, some people will ask "why should I need to waste my bandwidth when I have payed to get the vide, I only want to see it.
What would be needed, is some kind of "tray icon" program that stays sharing the video while the ppl is doing something else, that way the normal Joe-Six-Pack will not care, and even if he closes his window, he will still be sharing (at least while watching the video??)
Image may be scaled down and subject to copyright.
That is from the frame that images.google.com adds when you click in one of its thumbnails.
Also from Google images FAQ Are there any copyright restrictions associated with the images?
The images identified by the Google Image Search service may be protected by copyrights. Although you can locate and access the images through our service, we cannot grant you any rights to use them for any purpose other than viewing them on the web. Accordingly, if you would like to use any images you have found through our service, we advise you to contact the site owner to obtain the requisite permissions.
What i want to show is, Google can continue claiming what is has always claimed (as some people said before on/., he is violating copyright now), that Google is only an indexing service and is not affiliated by ANY means to the information it indexes, shows, finds, etc etc.
So, in this way, they can get free of any kind of legal attempt to shut down their service. Now, it would be nice to see a real battle between Google and the RIAA, MPAA when they ask google to put down all the pirated^W unproper videos and images.
You don't use an OS that you don't like, and if that's not true (e.g. you're forced to use a pre-installed OS), then you probably wouldn't know any better alternative if you've been using only one OS.
If a Linux-only user said Windows is better, or vice versa, what does that mean? How does he come to this conclusion? The most credible answers should be from Multi-OS users.
It's only bloated if you have a problem with sacrificing ~100 MB of hard drive space.
That's not the only issue. Bloated programs use more system memory. Loading a huge program will often knock good chunks of your other running tasks into swap memory, or at the very least flush out part of your cached I/O buffers. This can cause a significant hit to your overall system responsiveness, especially on machines without boatloads of physical RAM.
I know you thats only a flamebait but... [begin quote] Try this if you are at a Windows/Office box: 1. open foo.ppt 2. open bar.ppt 3. close the foo.ppt window with the X in the upper right hand corner of the window. 4. poof! both windows disappear. [end quote]
No, it does not happens, it after having done that bar.ppt continues on its own window.
One really cool thing about the 7.0 version of Adobe Readers is that they can be extended with Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions [adobe.com] to add features that are normally only available when you buy Adobe Acrobat. Of course, Reader Extensions costs something. But what's great is that given the right "pixie dust", Linux is no longer a platform for just viewing PDFs, but it can do PDF Collaboration and forms routing just like its Windows and Macintosh counterparts.
I have been using the new version for a week and much more impressed with it than I was with version 5.
Here are the things I like:
* Uses GTK. I am not GTK fanboy (I prefer GNUStep), but at least it is better than that awful interface the previous versions had.
* Mozilla plugin that works just like it does on the popular legacy operating system still floating around out there.
* It is basically a tar file, no hidden toolbars to install for you.
* Way snappier than the previous version.
* No more having to mess with numlock to get pgup/pgdn working.
* Has preference settings for a MUA a web browser and several other apps you can launch for various functions (e.g., I open a PDF in Firefox and click the email button to see it open a new compose window in Thunderbird with the PDF I am viewing in Firefox already attached. Sweet!)
Things I don't like:
* The went to that blasted MDI. I want every flipping document to open in its own window. Is that so hard? Is it too much to ask?
* The OK button in all the dialogs is squished, quite annoying.
* You must manually include it in your menu. It should at least hit the majors (GNOME, KDE).
IP, much like technology, grows at an extremely rapid rate.
That is an interesting point. Software patents should only last for a year (more or less). And, if for any reason, some technology becomes standard the patent must belong to the government. Or, something like that.
Ok, now besides "brand Recognition" why would I want to pay someone $1500 to upload my work to a web page in the Internet?, why not only upload it to my home in the Uni and then publish it in places like Citeseer or even something like ACM's DL.
I think (like some others in this thread) its only a matter of brand recognition and commerce, but if you have a good paper about any subject AND it is on the Internet, it will surely be published.
Slashdot Mirror
make to compile
make install to finish installation
Nice for you, fortunately I just have to tell Firefox "Open with default Win32 application" to install it.
Microsoft patents 911
/. is becoming El Reg's mirror, or what? and no, Microsoft is in no way patenting 911, 999. It does not have anything to do with telephone numbers...
Please, at least change the alarmist title... come on
I would mod you not funny but Interesting & | informative, I went to that page and searched for some terms, from the most common (what is a computer?) to more specific information like utility theory derivatives economy exchange market buyer seller.
:: Why Google sucks, sadly, it is from 2003 while Yahoo links you to GoogleWatch.
From what I saw, i think Google interface is better, for example, for the first search, the results page in Yahoo! start with some ads, while Google begins with "Web definitions for computer".
I searched also for Inmortum for a specific obscure term (it was my brother's rock band name =oP) and I found 2 different pages. (sorry they are in spanish).
For the sake of information, the page by Google is closer to what I would like to find when looking for "Inmortum" (as it has some information about the music scene in the state where the group was), while Yahoo's page is an essay from a guy that was also in the band and chose the name as his pseudonim.
Well, I think when I have more time I would like to make more tests with this page. I know it is quite simple as having 2 windows opened but, it is quite useful when searching some other things.
Well, to close I would like to add that I searched for (I could not resist... sorry) Google Sucks and Yahoo Sucks. That yield cool results, for the Google sucks, Google throws (as first link) a page with the title A Complete Waste of Time
When searching Yahoo Sucks, both pages direct to www.scubatampa.com/yahoo.html.
That was an interesting point. For what you state here, and some other things I have been reading, it seems Google is not as good with their "Clients" as it is with their users.
Now, that is sad, because I can see it quite similar to other companies monopolistic practices. Of course, I know there are other web page search engines but being google the most used, I guess people want advertise there, and Google knowing it, can ignore their advertisers claims...
I hope that does not go bad to goole, as I can think some other company (MS, Y!, AV, etc) could get a better "Ad revenew scheme" that really attracts advertisers (here, I think M$ has a better posibility to do that as they have lot$ of ca$h to $pend)
Cool, would you mind to explain in detail this ATCO CIF format? (or better, a link) is this information available online?? (free?)
Mario and Zelda made the NES
Man, i do not completely agree with you. For me, the Ninja Gaiden series, the Contra series, the Double Dragon series, gosh even P.O.W. (Prisioner of War, does anyone remember this? I played in an arcade and even TODAY I enjoy playing it and I remember the music from the 1st scenario), the Castelvania series.
Well, I think we have a pattern here, with only these franchises we have like 30 games, not to talk about other geners. What Nintendo had was a forced monopoly (which, I think, was quite good) for the NES. And the games where really good.
Today it's all about superficially good looking graphics. Gameplay and fun went the way of the dodo.
Look, I really want to play a game today (from PS1, N64 generation until today), which after 20 years or more, I can play again and enjoy it, (like I enjoy the Ninja Gaiden Series from NES, or Chrono Trigger from SNES), even the new Final Fantasy games (I like RPG) from the FF8 are not as good as the first ones, after I finished FF8, I get soooo tired that I didnt wanted to play it, you see, there are quite linear. After I played Morrowind (XBox) for quite some time, I got bored... maybe it is me that I have grew up, but I thing most game developers today does not care about game Design...
You see, one of the main problems is with game Categories, today, people divide games in 5 or 6 different categories (RPG, Adventure, RTS, FPS-3rdPS, Stealth, Simulators) and that is all... so, when they start a game they HAVE to design it as one of those and after that, they add one or two "innovative" things... that is, because the Game market has become like the Hollywood market (sadly for Gamedevs it does not pay like that... ) .
I want to comment that I know they are some exceptions to what I said, I remember playing a game called "Hogs Of War" (by Infogrames now Atari Inc.) for the PlayStation, it was kind like the Worms game, it was really innovative, and I could spend a lot of time playing with some friends. It was turn based. I really recommend to play it and you will see you will have a really good time. And, it is a game you surely will play for a long time.
Well, although I have not read TFA, just from the title and summary I think, if someone does not want the current Kernel they could always make a fork and start producing another sripped version, without all the "new things" available in the last ones.
I find interesting that there has not been a kernel fork in all these years, although I guess it is difficult to maintain a project like that, so that is why the big projects are not forked (OpenOffice, FireFox, Linux Kernel, mmm any other?).
Although I am a google fan, I have been using for quite some time the Map24 page after someone in /. pointed at it. I find it quite useful and the interface is pretty cool (Real time map find using Java or No Java option.
I find it quite useful to look for places in Europe when going to a conference or vacations, that and the HostelWorld are pretty cool pages, now, there is something I have seen no Map page do, that is, to add Bus line information to the maps, I know in some countrys it would be rather difficult but, in UK, there is Arriva, MerseyTravel and other companies whose lines and journeys are very well defined, now, if someone adds that functionality it will be THE map web page I will use =o).
Try producing a file that resolves to the same MD5, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, and SHA-256 hashes as another given file. Damn near impossible.
What about a genetic algorithm which produces several variations of a file, then makes each one of the hashes and selects the file which hashes are closer in byte distance (dont remember the exact term for that) to their corresponding hashes.
Shure it will take some time but, it is a nice research project =o)
First of all, let me tell you, I think you should let game reviews for other web pages, personally I like Metacritic a lot.
Secondly, although I have not played the game, after reading some user reviews from the above page I found someone who stated:
the no blood thing is terrible for a game like this. This is an Adult game so why no blood?
I can just say come on! why the heck there is no blood??
Also, if the bad guys spawn in predetermined places, as the same reviewer states "kind of like the first Super Mario Bros. [...], you know exactly when and where to move the second time around ( either dying and spawning over or just playing the game a second time all together )"
So, maybe the replayability levelfor this game is low, but anyway I a fan of the Hitman series, lets see if there is a new Hitman sequel and, how is it going.
Sorry, but I tried that PDF reader some time ago, although it is good for simple pdf's It tends to crash a lot, it also wont show correctly some other PDF's (I think the ones that does not contain normal characters. Etc etc,
It is good overall but, no, it cant replace Adobe's PDF reader , but maybe xpdf is quite useful also.
"Chess? Cor, that game's just ancient. You should be playing Super-hyper Chess 2005, it's got cool 3D pieces, seven hundred different pieces, two-hundred new rules, every piece has 'hit-points' now and there's fifty types of board."
No, it is simply called Tactics Arena Online Sure, you do not have Check Mate, but I think it is a quite balanced game and of course you can say it is an improvement/clone of original Chess.
Interesting story, some time ago I posted a /. poll asking if you used AdBlock or any other ad blocker to read SlashDot, I think it was rejected but I thought it would be interesting to see how many people blocks the ads, thinking that Free Software advocates should know it is the way /. uses to survive
Yeah, thats quite true, not to flamebait but I think that kind of reasoning would be ok for a Micro$oftnian approach, abusing of its monopolistic power, so, apple could just make one of each kind of add-ons and marchet it as "original apple with seal of quality" to fsck the others.
I applaud apple for not doing it, and, I think it is the differenc between a good and a bad arse company
So it seems DPM is only a "data-mover", so it will need to be combined with another technology, after some research i found this:
StoreAge Networking Technologies announced that it will be developing enhanced solutions to support Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
The full article is: here
Ensure that people leave their clients running by giving low-share-ratio users a "Very Long Wait" a la Netflix.
That is a nice idea, but I am pretty sure, some people will ask "why should I need to waste my bandwidth when I have payed to get the vide, I only want to see it.
What would be needed, is some kind of "tray icon" program that stays sharing the video while the ppl is doing something else, that way the normal Joe-Six-Pack will not care, and even if he closes his window, he will still be sharing (at least while watching the video??)
Image may be scaled down and subject to copyright.
/., he is violating copyright now), that Google is only an indexing service and is not affiliated by ANY means to the information it indexes, shows, finds, etc etc.
That is from the frame that images.google.com adds when you click in one of its thumbnails.
Also from Google images FAQ
Are there any copyright restrictions associated with the images?
The images identified by the Google Image Search service may be protected by copyrights. Although you can locate and access the images through our service, we cannot grant you any rights to use them for any purpose other than viewing them on the web. Accordingly, if you would like to use any images you have found through our service, we advise you to contact the site owner to obtain the requisite permissions.
What i want to show is, Google can continue claiming what is has always claimed (as some people said before on
So, in this way, they can get free of any kind of legal attempt to shut down their service. Now, it would be nice to see a real battle between Google and the RIAA, MPAA when they ask google to put down all the pirated^W unproper videos and images.
You don't use an OS that you don't like, and if that's not true (e.g. you're forced to use a pre-installed OS), then you probably wouldn't know any better alternative if you've been using only one OS.
If a Linux-only user said Windows is better, or vice versa, what does that mean? How does he come to this conclusion? The most credible answers should be from Multi-OS users.
It's only bloated if you have a problem with sacrificing ~100 MB of hard drive space.
That's not the only issue. Bloated programs use more system memory. Loading a huge program will often knock good chunks of your other running tasks into swap memory, or at the very least flush out part of your cached I/O buffers. This can cause a significant hit to your overall system responsiveness, especially on machines without boatloads of physical RAM.
I know you thats only a flamebait but ...
[begin quote]
Try this if you are at a Windows/Office box:
1. open foo.ppt
2. open bar.ppt
3. close the foo.ppt window with the X in the upper right hand corner of the window.
4. poof! both windows disappear.
[end quote]
No, it does not happens, it after having done that bar.ppt continues on its own window.
One really cool thing about the 7.0 version of Adobe Readers is that they can be extended with Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions [adobe.com] to add features that are normally only available when you buy Adobe Acrobat. Of course, Reader Extensions costs something. But what's great is that given the right "pixie dust", Linux is no longer a platform for just viewing PDFs, but it can do PDF Collaboration and forms routing just like its Windows and Macintosh counterparts.
For the impatent:
e nu/
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/
I have been using the new version for a week and much more impressed with it than I was with version 5.
Here are the things I like:
* Uses GTK. I am not GTK fanboy (I prefer GNUStep), but at least it is better than that awful interface the previous versions had.
* Mozilla plugin that works just like it does on the popular legacy operating system still floating around out there.
* It is basically a tar file, no hidden toolbars to install for you.
* Way snappier than the previous version.
* No more having to mess with numlock to get pgup/pgdn working.
* Has preference settings for a MUA a web browser and several other apps you can launch for various functions (e.g., I open a PDF in Firefox and click the email button to see it open a new compose window in Thunderbird with the PDF I am viewing in Firefox already attached. Sweet!)
Things I don't like:
* The went to that blasted MDI. I want every flipping document to open in its own window. Is that so hard? Is it too much to ask?
* The OK button in all the dialogs is squished, quite annoying.
* You must manually include it in your menu. It should at least hit the majors (GNOME, KDE).
IP, much like technology, grows at an extremely rapid rate.
That is an interesting point. Software patents should only last for a year (more or less). And, if for any reason, some technology becomes standard the patent must belong to the government. Or, something like that.
Ok, now besides "brand Recognition" why would I want to pay someone $1500 to upload my work to a web page in the Internet?, why not only upload it to my home in the Uni and then publish it in places like Citeseer or even something like ACM's DL.
I think (like some others in this thread) its only a matter of brand recognition and commerce, but if you have a good paper about any subject AND it is on the Internet, it will surely be published.