Or if you really must buy a major label CD, please support your fair use rights and goto www.half.com or a similar site and buy the CD used. Then, go see the act live when they come on tour in your area!
By the way, most of the attacks seem to be coming from universities like Harvard, Emory, etc... You'd think they would have something better to do with their time.
Well, it's not like the college students at Harvard or Emory are doing the DDoS, it's the people (aka some pimply faced low-lifes still living in their parents basements without a job) who hacked into the Harvard/Emory machines that are the cause of the problem. It's also the fault of the Harvard/Emory admins for not noticing and not doing something to stop said attacks.
That is an absolute load of CRAP. It's a freakin' game. I tried to play UO a few times, and every single time I stopped...
Why? Because it took TOO GODDAMN LONG to get anything done. If you wanted to actually go out and enjoy what the world had to offer, you had to spend a goddamn month of your time wasting away in your computer room just to get halfway there.
The fun part of the game is playing it, period. It doesn't matter what your style is, as long as you have fun playing it. If you play from the beginning and enjoy it, great. If you start somewhere in the middle and enjoy it, great. That's all that matters.
You whiny assholes who are complaining this ruins the "value" of your character? Give me a freaking break. It's a goddamn video game. Most of the games you have to agree NOT to sell your characters anyway, so the value is essentially 0 no matter how much time you put into it. You play the game. You have fun. That's all that matters.
This is a GREAT idea. For somebody like me who simply DOES NOT have the time to build a level 50 character in Everquest (I hate to say this, but I have a fucking job) and would like to actually SEE the world (I did enjoy playing it afterall) this is a GREAT option, far more cost effective than buying this shit on Ebay, and not only that it's happens under controlled circumstances so that EA can do what ever they need to keep the economy from going off balance.
This is good, if not for any other reason than the fact that the current Microsoft C# compiler is a step backwards in terms of error reporting technology. The compiler FREQUENTLY reports the wrong, or completely non-existent (and unrealated) errors. You forget a ; or a " somewhere, and you're getting errors everywhere BUT the spot where the error actually occurred.
You can NOT teach first year programming students with such a tool PERIOD.
Netscape 7.0 is based off the extremely stable Mozilla 1.0 branch and pounded on for months to make it even more stable.
Mozilla 1.1 is more cutting edge and therefore has a few cute new features but will definitely have a lower MTBF.
In other words its horses for courses. Either take the features, or take the stability.
Not entirely true. While I don't have any good examples on hand (I've been using Mozilla 1.1x for awhile now), myself and my two friends both found the 1.0 release of Mozilla to be buggier than both the 1.1 and RC2 releases!
Sadly, I can't remember back that far what the exact problems were, so nobody will believe me anyway...
Sorry, but in this case I have to pull out my free market cap. The correct price for an entertainment product is whatever the customer is willing to pay.
Sorry, but the correct price is where supply meets demand. Any price other than at that intersection and you are either getting ripped off or getting a sweet deal.
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You'd think. But then again you'd think the people in Cuba or the people in Iraq would have a long time ago either kicked their dictators out or moved to new countries.
Oh wait, it's not so easy changing the habits of a lot of people is it? There are a *LOT* of people on this planet who just accept things the way they are and deal with it. They don't try and strive for something better (either because they can't, or likely they just don't realize they can). It's called the status quo, and it's always been up to the few visionaries to change the status quo for the better.
Unfortunately, in this case Lilo isn't the visionairy.
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Maybe your global/onotices are popping up in your server status window or something. I've got two friends who sit on OPN with me all day. They never see the global/onotices because they don't go to the active window. I do. Lilo has been/onoticing people for stupid things for a VERY long time now.
From what I understand (I spoke with lilo about this maybe a month ago, so things may have changed), OPN/PDPC/Freenode is looking to become, as the name applies, sort of a hub that would encompass all other IRC networks that serve opensource projects. Think of it all as one big ass relay-bot, that would simplify IRC to the point where different networks are somewhat transparent. Freenode would still continue to run it's own IRC servers as part of this larger network, so you could either be on the Freenode IRC network, an independent IRC network (non-Freenode), or the larger "supernetwork".
So what? We can do that now. We can do that with a staff of volunteers. And, in fact, I still have no idea what this buys us.
Face it: The fact is Lilo wants to be paid to sit on his ass chatting on IRC all day. I'm sorry, but I would much rather send my money to USEFULL projects such as Debian or KDE. Why should I pay some jackass to sit on irc all day long when community volunteers have been able to keep other IRC networks up and running for over a decade now?
If they're going to offer the software, without it being installed, why FreeDOS and not Linux? Is anyone actually going to use FreeDOS?
No, and that's the point. They don't have to support it. Linux is big, complicated, sometimes quite painfull to use. Dell most likely does not have the expertise in their call center to handle the influx of support calls a linux installation would cause, so I think this is a very smart move.
They could, however, partner with a company like Mandrake or Red Hat in the future. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Problem is, even with the party line "call Red Hat for help", they'll still be getting a large volume of Linux calls that they probably don't want right now. Maybe when the economy gets a little better.
I personally would not think any Mozilla-developed technology would be suitable for embedded applications where factors like speed, simplicity, and size rule the roost.
Why not? Mozilla has a complete HTML rendering engine, a JavaScript engine, a complete near complete GUI implementation, XML support, and a component system that supports JavaScript, C++, and even Perl, Python, and Ruby with the appropriate plugins. All this comes in a package that is about 11 megabytes in size and uses 20-50mb of ram (ram's cheap these days).
I dare you to find a suite of similar technologies that are freely available, and provide all of the above (AND MORE!) in such a compact package. My guess is you won't.
Let's say you are researching cars for a new car purchase. One day, you may go to Toyota's website and bring up a preview of their new Celica. Because it's a 3D model generated from the original Cad data, you would be able to zoom in, view it, and see the car in all its glory, even down to the smallest of details.
That, is a GOOD use of 3D technology on the web.
But, then there are the bad uses. Have any of you actually watched the movies? Let's use one in particular as an example: Jurassic Park. Do you remember the web manager on the computers when the annoying brat girl was trying to restore security within the compound? Zooming around in a 3D world trying to find the information you need? Give me a freaking break! We as a species can barely even understand information organized in a 2 dimensional plane, not to even talk about 3. Every interface I've seen that tries to throw some 3D interface on top of something has just been plain BAD.
Still, you could use 3D for some good stuff. Using 3D to add nifty graphical flourishes and to speed up the rendering of PDF/Flash like graphics are another good use for 3D. Hell, maybe one day we'll even have a 3D (say a toolbar) that you can drag around, and then pull and push it in 3D. Might be a good way to zoom in and zoom out while scrolling around a 3D view, but to think that the entire computer interface can be written in 3D is stupid.
So where does that leave us? Well, we can do the 3D now with Java, or ActiveX or something similar. It's not the ideal solution, but nothing ever is.
So let's develop a new 3D format. Oh wait, graphics capabilities are changing faster than our microprocessors. By the time they come up with something decent, I can all but guarantee it'll be obsolete.
And bandwidth? Hah! Do they even realize how much bandwidth even a small scene could potentially takeup? Most of the world is STILL running over dialup!
Quite frankly, I think it's just NOT practical, which is why we haven't seen it yet. In all honesty, why can't they just make OpenGL a standard interface for JavaScript? Imagine if your browser window was an OpenGL view, and you could control that with javascript? Who needs flash anyway?:)
A $199.99 MAME machine? And being that it'd be compiled running Linux I could actually customize it to my own liking without having to pay 10gs for a development box?
Honestly, what's the big deal? We all know about it already. It's not like they released the regular edition now and surprised us with the expanded edition a month later. We KNOW and HAVE KNOWN for awhile now they are going to release the expanded edition later in the year. The fact that they've been VERY upfront about this has been a breath of fresh air.
Honestly, if you really can't wait, there's this thing called a VIDEO RENTAL STORE! Go rent it (but please, rent from something OTHER than Blockbuster if at all possible).
The problem isn't the drill, or at least it never was for me. Sure, the drill is uncomfortable, afterall the dentist is generally pushing the thing around violently inside your tooth. That's annoying. It's the nerves that are the problem! First of all, there's the shot of novocaine (which is quite traumatic in and of itself). Then there's the drilling. Oops we hit the nerve (like the laser will never do the same thing?) and the novocaine wasn't as strong as we'd have liked. Time to do another shot of novocaine RIGHT DOWN THE CENTER OF YOUR NOW OPEN TOOTH (yes I did go through that). HOLY FUCK THAT HURT. I can't feel anything now.
Admittedly, these record labels run along the more extreme vein. However, if you are into heavy/angry music, the bands you can find through these labels produce albums FAR better than the dreck you'll find getting shoved at us through the major labels.
As poot_rootbeer said, perhaps you should try some alternate sources of music for better quality artists!:)
Well, you know one now. I am a web developer and I do 90% of my work with Mozilla (even though we ONLY have to support IE where I work). If it works in Mozilla, there's a good chance it will work in IE, Opera, and just about any other browser you can throw at it. It makes my job easier, it makes me more productive, and that makes my work that much more imrpessive. It gives me an edge over my fellow coworkers who are too stubborn to do the same.
Porting a web page from Mozilla to IE is a lot easier than from IE to Mozilla.
I used the Mozilla gesture stuff for awhile, but had to turn it off.
The default gestures are absolutely terribly chosen. The single biggest one was for moving back and forth in the history. I quite frequently go to highlight a piece of a web page to copy it, only the find Mozilla decided I REALLY wanted to go back (or forward) to a previous page.
Bad bad bad! Now, of course, there are ways to avoid having that happen, but they all involve extra work (either by taking extra steps while copying the text, or by mucking around in the menus to change/and or stop certain features). That, imho is a big impediment to getting the gesture support actually used by the community. The default install should come with a set of gestures that DON'T interfere with the things you already do on a daily basis (yet are still easy to use and remember).
When that day comes, I'm sure I'll use gestures again and many other people will probably do the same.
For the folks telling me "99% of all gamers are men, so we don't want girls in our club", according to the IDSA, 40% of all console game sales were to women.
That doesn't mean much without giving it some context. 90% of the games I owned (until I graduated from H.S. and got a real job anyway) were purchased by my Mother or my Grandmother. Now how does that skew those statistics?
I have a webcam. I put it on the floor so I can watch my dog all day while I'm at work. I do it because it helps me keep an eye on her, it's fun, other people like it too, and it hurts nobody.
When I have kids (God permitting), I may consider putting the webcam on the baby's crib. It would be fun, other people would like it, it would be a good way to keep an eye on the baby when nobody is with him/her for whatever reason, and it would hurt nobody.
Once that kid starts moving around, and growing up into a person, I would *NEVER* subject my children to that kind of oversight. I can imagine it would be VERY detrimental to their social life. Children need to live lives seperate from their parents. God knows there are things I've done (and still do) that my parents don't need to know. I'm sure my kids will do the same, and I don't want know about it (as long as they aren't hurting themselves or others).
You *NEED* some privacy in your life. I will NEVER vote for somebody who supports making something like this mandatory (and I hope my stubborn side will continue to keep this true, even as I grow old and raise kids of my own).
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No, I'm not a programmer, I swear!
Bryan
Or if you really must buy a major label CD, please support your fair use rights and goto www.half.com or a similar site and buy the CD used. Then, go see the act live when they come on tour in your area!
Well, it's not like the college students at Harvard or Emory are doing the DDoS, it's the people (aka some pimply faced low-lifes still living in their parents basements without a job) who hacked into the Harvard/Emory machines that are the cause of the problem. It's also the fault of the Harvard/Emory admins for not noticing and not doing something to stop said attacks.
That is an absolute load of CRAP. It's a freakin' game. I tried to play UO a few times, and every single time I stopped...
Why? Because it took TOO GODDAMN LONG to get anything done. If you wanted to actually go out and enjoy what the world had to offer, you had to spend a goddamn month of your time wasting away in your computer room just to get halfway there.
The fun part of the game is playing it, period. It doesn't matter what your style is, as long as you have fun playing it. If you play from the beginning and enjoy it, great. If you start somewhere in the middle and enjoy it, great. That's all that matters.
You whiny assholes who are complaining this ruins the "value" of your character? Give me a freaking break. It's a goddamn video game. Most of the games you have to agree NOT to sell your characters anyway, so the value is essentially 0 no matter how much time you put into it. You play the game. You have fun. That's all that matters.
This is a GREAT idea. For somebody like me who simply DOES NOT have the time to build a level 50 character in Everquest (I hate to say this, but I have a fucking job) and would like to actually SEE the world (I did enjoy playing it afterall) this is a GREAT option, far more cost effective than buying this shit on Ebay, and not only that it's happens under controlled circumstances so that EA can do what ever they need to keep the economy from going off balance.
Bryan
I have no idea where that space came from. Here's a better link: missing ;
This is good, if not for any other reason than the fact that the current Microsoft C# compiler is a step backwards in terms of error reporting technology. The compiler FREQUENTLY reports the wrong, or completely non-existent (and unrealated) errors. You forget a ; or a " somewhere, and you're getting errors everywhere BUT the spot where the error actually occurred.
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You can NOT teach first year programming students with such a tool PERIOD.
I've said it before, I'm sure I'll say it again:
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Bryan
Netscape 7.0 is based off the extremely stable Mozilla 1.0 branch and pounded on for months to make it even more stable.
Mozilla 1.1 is more cutting edge and therefore has a few cute new features but will definitely have a lower MTBF.
In other words its horses for courses. Either take the features, or take the stability.
Not entirely true. While I don't have any good examples on hand (I've been using Mozilla 1.1x for awhile now), myself and my two friends both found the 1.0 release of Mozilla to be buggier than both the 1.1 and RC2 releases!
Sadly, I can't remember back that far what the exact problems were, so nobody will believe me anyway...
Not in all languages (Pascal and VB come to mind).
Sorry, but the correct price is where supply meets demand. Any price other than at that intersection and you are either getting ripped off or getting a sweet deal.
How do I mark a section of text (say lines 20->25) and then automatically indent them 5 tab spaces (or maybe take a tab space out of the beginning)?
Bryan
You'd think. But then again you'd think the people in Cuba or the people in Iraq would have a long time ago either kicked their dictators out or moved to new countries.
Oh wait, it's not so easy changing the habits of a lot of people is it? There are a *LOT* of people on this planet who just accept things the way they are and deal with it. They don't try and strive for something better (either because they can't, or likely they just don't realize they can). It's called the status quo, and it's always been up to the few visionaries to change the status quo for the better.
Unfortunately, in this case Lilo isn't the visionairy.
Huh?
/onotices are popping up in your server status window or something. I've got two friends who sit on OPN with me all day. They never see the global /onotices because they don't go to the active window. I do. Lilo has been /onoticing people for stupid things for a VERY long time now.
Maybe your global
So what? We can do that now. We can do that with a staff of volunteers. And, in fact, I still have no idea what this buys us.
Face it: The fact is Lilo wants to be paid to sit on his ass chatting on IRC all day. I'm sorry, but I would much rather send my money to USEFULL projects such as Debian or KDE . Why should I pay some jackass to sit on irc all day long when community volunteers have been able to keep other IRC networks up and running for over a decade now?
Give me a break and somebody get him a REAL job.
No, and that's the point. They don't have to support it. Linux is big, complicated, sometimes quite painfull to use. Dell most likely does not have the expertise in their call center to handle the influx of support calls a linux installation would cause, so I think this is a very smart move.
They could, however, partner with a company like Mandrake or Red Hat in the future. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Problem is, even with the party line "call Red Hat for help", they'll still be getting a large volume of Linux calls that they probably don't want right now. Maybe when the economy gets a little better.
Why not? Mozilla has a complete HTML rendering engine, a JavaScript engine, a complete near complete GUI implementation, XML support, and a component system that supports JavaScript, C++, and even Perl, Python, and Ruby with the appropriate plugins. All this comes in a package that is about 11 megabytes in size and uses 20-50mb of ram (ram's cheap these days).
I dare you to find a suite of similar technologies that are freely available, and provide all of the above (AND MORE!) in such a compact package. My guess is you won't.
Bryan
I can see a good use for 3D graphics on the web.
:)
Let's say you are researching cars for a new car purchase. One day, you may go to Toyota's website and bring up a preview of their new Celica. Because it's a 3D model generated from the original Cad data, you would be able to zoom in, view it, and see the car in all its glory, even down to the smallest of details.
That, is a GOOD use of 3D technology on the web.
But, then there are the bad uses. Have any of you actually watched the movies? Let's use one in particular as an example: Jurassic Park. Do you remember the web manager on the computers when the annoying brat girl was trying to restore security within the compound? Zooming around in a 3D world trying to find the information you need? Give me a freaking break! We as a species can barely even understand information organized in a 2 dimensional plane, not to even talk about 3. Every interface I've seen that tries to throw some 3D interface on top of something has just been plain BAD.
Still, you could use 3D for some good stuff. Using 3D to add nifty graphical flourishes and to speed up the rendering of PDF/Flash like graphics are another good use for 3D. Hell, maybe one day we'll even have a 3D (say a toolbar) that you can drag around, and then pull and push it in 3D. Might be a good way to zoom in and zoom out while scrolling around a 3D view, but to think that the entire computer interface can be written in 3D is stupid.
So where does that leave us? Well, we can do the 3D now with Java, or ActiveX or something similar. It's not the ideal solution, but nothing ever is.
So let's develop a new 3D format. Oh wait, graphics capabilities are changing faster than our microprocessors. By the time they come up with something decent, I can all but guarantee it'll be obsolete.
And bandwidth? Hah! Do they even realize how much bandwidth even a small scene could potentially takeup? Most of the world is STILL running over dialup!
Quite frankly, I think it's just NOT practical, which is why we haven't seen it yet. In all honesty, why can't they just make OpenGL a standard interface for JavaScript? Imagine if your browser window was an OpenGL view, and you could control that with javascript? Who needs flash anyway?
Bryan
My money is on Michael.
A $199.99 MAME machine? And being that it'd be compiled running Linux I could actually customize it to my own liking without having to pay 10gs for a development box?
Sounds like a good enough reason for me.
Honestly, what's the big deal? We all know about it already. It's not like they released the regular edition now and surprised us with the expanded edition a month later. We KNOW and HAVE KNOWN for awhile now they are going to release the expanded edition later in the year. The fact that they've been VERY upfront about this has been a breath of fresh air.
Honestly, if you really can't wait, there's this thing called a VIDEO RENTAL STORE! Go rent it (but please, rent from something OTHER than Blockbuster if at all possible).
The problem isn't the drill, or at least it never was for me. Sure, the drill is uncomfortable, afterall the dentist is generally pushing the thing around violently inside your tooth. That's annoying. It's the nerves that are the problem! First of all, there's the shot of novocaine (which is quite traumatic in and of itself). Then there's the drilling. Oops we hit the nerve (like the laser will never do the same thing?) and the novocaine wasn't as strong as we'd have liked. Time to do another shot of novocaine RIGHT DOWN THE CENTER OF YOUR NOW OPEN TOOTH (yes I did go through that). HOLY FUCK THAT HURT. I can't feel anything now.
Drill or no drill, it's the nerve stupid!
Century Media Records
IPECAC Records
Relapse/Release Records
Road Runner Records
Nothing Records
Kool Arrow Records
Admittedly, these record labels run along the more extreme vein. However, if you are into heavy/angry music, the bands you can find through these labels produce albums FAR better than the dreck you'll find getting shoved at us through the major labels.
As poot_rootbeer said, perhaps you should try some alternate sources of music for better quality artists! :)
Bryan
Well, you know one now. I am a web developer and I do 90% of my work with Mozilla (even though we ONLY have to support IE where I work). If it works in Mozilla, there's a good chance it will work in IE, Opera, and just about any other browser you can throw at it. It makes my job easier, it makes me more productive, and that makes my work that much more imrpessive. It gives me an edge over my fellow coworkers who are too stubborn to do the same.
Porting a web page from Mozilla to IE is a lot easier than from IE to Mozilla.
I used the Mozilla gesture stuff for awhile, but had to turn it off.
The default gestures are absolutely terribly chosen. The single biggest one was for moving back and forth in the history. I quite frequently go to highlight a piece of a web page to copy it, only the find Mozilla decided I REALLY wanted to go back (or forward) to a previous page.
Bad bad bad! Now, of course, there are ways to avoid having that happen, but they all involve extra work (either by taking extra steps while copying the text, or by mucking around in the menus to change/and or stop certain features). That, imho is a big impediment to getting the gesture support actually used by the community. The default install should come with a set of gestures that DON'T interfere with the things you already do on a daily basis (yet are still easy to use and remember).
When that day comes, I'm sure I'll use gestures again and many other people will probably do the same.
That doesn't mean much without giving it some context. 90% of the games I owned (until I graduated from H.S. and got a real job anyway) were purchased by my Mother or my Grandmother. Now how does that skew those statistics?
I have a webcam. I put it on the floor so I can watch my dog all day while I'm at work. I do it because it helps me keep an eye on her, it's fun, other people like it too, and it hurts nobody.
When I have kids (God permitting), I may consider putting the webcam on the baby's crib. It would be fun, other people would like it, it would be a good way to keep an eye on the baby when nobody is with him/her for whatever reason, and it would hurt nobody.
Once that kid starts moving around, and growing up into a person, I would *NEVER* subject my children to that kind of oversight. I can imagine it would be VERY detrimental to their social life. Children need to live lives seperate from their parents. God knows there are things I've done (and still do) that my parents don't need to know. I'm sure my kids will do the same, and I don't want know about it (as long as they aren't hurting themselves or others).
You *NEED* some privacy in your life. I will NEVER vote for somebody who supports making something like this mandatory (and I hope my stubborn side will continue to keep this true, even as I grow old and raise kids of my own).
Bryan