Actually, the purpose of Facebook is to not only find friends, but to allow you to communicate with them more easily.
Facebook's core feature is the 'news feed', which basically shows what your friends have been doing on facebook, or what they've set their status to be, a little like twitter. Here's a snippet from mine:
Guy A started playing a game: Mass Effect Girl A misses Guy A. Girl B left the group The American Sandwich Society. Guy B and Guy C are now friends. Girl C is no longer listed as single.
It also allows you to create events and invite people, allowing them to RSVP through facebook. Considering it has everyone's information, it's also a very, very handy way to have up-to-date contact information, notifying me of address changes, cell phone numbers, and the like. As a college student, everyone I know uses facebook, making it a valuable networking tool.
Supposedly Google suddenly started complaining about Vista's integrated search four days after Microsoft complained to the FTC about Google's acquisition of Doubleclick.
It seems to be a "Oh yeah? Well fuck you!" move.
I assume to get it on as many machines as possible. This also isn't the only new feature in the March 23rd update, other things - like background downloading - will also be implemented.
Oh and I absolutely have no idea why it takes 7.3GB of diskspace. Because it copies the entire DVD image onto the machine, should you ever want to install a feature and not have the Windows disc on hand.
This is not true, you need to have Burning Crusade installed as well as having your account upgraded. Installation of BC adds 2.2 gigs of content onto a vanilla WoW 2.0 install.
Oh dear god, how I agree. Monsters are one thing, but ghosts you can't escape from, appear randomly, and they give you a camera for a weapon? Jesus monkey christ.
I had nightmares about Fatal Frame 2.
I wait until their PC is toally virus/adware ridden and they call me in to help. That's when the now will you believe me when I advise Firefox starts to work. Admittedly this is a slow, user by user, transfer but once converted they never return.
At least, until "Do you want to upgrade to IE 7?" pops up on their machine, and sets it as their default browser.
1. Google is building some sort of stupid AIM functionality into their client.
2. AOL will realize that staying a closed network will cause them to go the way of the dodo, and the best way to keep their users is open up an XMPP (Jabber) gateway. Not a transport mind you, a full-blown gateway that makes it transparent, allowing AOL to use their existing OSCAR protocol in-house while talking to the Jabber network.
If this occurs, and Microsoft stops being so damn obsessed with SIP/SIMPLE (which I bet is how they're communicating with Yahoo), we can finally have interoperable instant messaging.
I picked up GW this past October or so, and I could never really get into it.
Aside from the lack of a Mac version (which is my main desktop), Guild Wars seems to PVP focused and simple. WoW seems like a world, where raids on XR just happen because you're waiting for your other guildies to come online and do that next instance.
Even PVP, which has its strongpoints, is focused around what you bring with you to the fight. In WoW, attributes given to you through hardcore play are nerfed a bit for pvp combat. Even then, there is no 'deathmatch' in WoW (Gurubashi Arena aside), and most of the battlegrounds are team based. CTF, Capture and Hold, and the weird Battlefield 2 style feel of Alterac Valley.
I remember when tech websites were clamoring over the latest Fedora release as much as they're clamoring over Ubuntu now. Red Hat almost got it right, except for one thing.
Fix your package manager!
I am sick of downloading packages from weird websites, version conflicts, and typing this stupid and overly long command into the shell over and over, hoping - nay, praying - that RPM won't spit out another conflict error this time. YUM seems tacked on, and I've never gotten it to work properly.
I switched to Ubuntu, even though it had less polish and was so deep in development, simply because application management actually worked, and things were in a logical order (supported, unsupported, universe, multiverse).
Maybe it's not practical, maybe I'm talking out of my ass having not used a Red Hat operating system since Fedora Core 3, but it's the only thing that prevents me from using Fedora at home or on a server, and the only thing that prevents me from recommending it to friends.
This is essentially the Miller test with "...for minors." added to the end of everything.
And I find both to be unconstitutional pieces of shit. These aren't children playing GTA! These are 14-17 year old teenage males here! And by god, if they want to play it, the government has no right barring them from doing so. What's next, arrest teens for swearing? Speaking out on marajuana legalization?
Violent games do not harm your health or wellbeing, unlike alcohol and drugs. What the hell is the purpose of banning them?
When the OOo team put out version 2.0.1, the only way I could see to upgrade was to do a full reinstall. Now with Firefox, it was a little annoying downloading 5 MB versions every few weeks, until the 1.5 release came with a good autoupdate system.
OpenOffice is what, 80-90 MB? There is no way I can download something that size - especially on dialup - just to fix a single security issue. The OOo team needs to invest in a decent, enterprise-grade network patching system ASAP.
Yeah, it seems so. Due to Sun's recent announcement of the Java Distribution License, Sun Java as been all nicely packaged up for Ubuntu, and it's available in multiverse.
For what it's worth, I think that the JDK is also available, as sun-java5-jdk.
If you've seen the CGI movies to any of Blizzard's games, you know that their ability to create 3D animation is astounding. Not only that, but it seems to only improve with time. I honestly believe they could be the 'Pixar' of mature content films.
Why would they go for live action if they're so talented at this?
I'm about to take the AP Computer Science exam in oh... 7 hours (I should sleep). Now the thing is, I'm a terrible programmer and took this to learn. And Collegeboard regulations have made Java the language over C++ since 2002.
I've never, ever learned a language aside from Java, and I'll probably program everything I make in Java, simply out of familiarity. Undoubtedly, many of my fellow CS AP students taking the exam tomorrow will probably end up doing the same.
Anywho, back to the point of this post. It seems to me that Sun pretty much owns the upcoming generation of programmers at this point. Why, oh why would they want to open-source it - when they see this gravy train slowly making its way down the track?
Uh, Google's motto isn't even "Do no evil", it's "Don't be evil."
Besides, they're only allowing the government to access their index, they fought to keep user searches off limits. I'd say that's pretty much within their motto to me, especially when their competitors didn't even try.
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What about the examples provided, such as a notification when you get a new email, or caller ID information shown on your TV?
While I may not be one to care for interactive TV, I must say that event notification is a pretty nifty feature. When I'm watching a DVD on my Xbox 360, and a friend comes online, a small bubble appears to notify me of the fact. It's unobtrusive and useful, though it isn't the best idea when I'm in the middle of a movie.
However, if this was television, and I was channel surfing, the idea suddenly becomes brilliant. Caller ID info, or the subject line of a new email while I'm watching the news or commercials come on? Brilliantly cool.
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Actually, the purpose of Facebook is to not only find friends, but to allow you to communicate with them more easily.
Facebook's core feature is the 'news feed', which basically shows what your friends have been doing on facebook, or what they've set their status to be, a little like twitter. Here's a snippet from mine:
Guy A started playing a game: Mass Effect
Girl A misses Guy A.
Girl B left the group The American Sandwich Society.
Guy B and Guy C are now friends.
Girl C is no longer listed as single.
It also allows you to create events and invite people, allowing them to RSVP through facebook. Considering it has everyone's information, it's also a very, very handy way to have up-to-date contact information, notifying me of address changes, cell phone numbers, and the like. As a college student, everyone I know uses facebook, making it a valuable networking tool.
Supposedly Google suddenly started complaining about Vista's integrated search four days after Microsoft complained to the FTC about Google's acquisition of Doubleclick. It seems to be a "Oh yeah? Well fuck you!" move.
I assume to get it on as many machines as possible. This also isn't the only new feature in the March 23rd update, other things - like background downloading - will also be implemented.
That is the best /. comment I have ever read in my life.
This is not true, you need to have Burning Crusade installed as well as having your account upgraded. Installation of BC adds 2.2 gigs of content onto a vanilla WoW 2.0 install.
Oh dear god, how I agree. Monsters are one thing, but ghosts you can't escape from, appear randomly, and they give you a camera for a weapon? Jesus monkey christ. I had nightmares about Fatal Frame 2.
At least, until "Do you want to upgrade to IE 7?" pops up on their machine, and sets it as their default browser.
AIM is federating with Google Talk. This can mean one of two things.
1. Google is building some sort of stupid AIM functionality into their client.
2. AOL will realize that staying a closed network will cause them to go the way of the dodo, and the best way to keep their users is open up an XMPP (Jabber) gateway. Not a transport mind you, a full-blown gateway that makes it transparent, allowing AOL to use their existing OSCAR protocol in-house while talking to the Jabber network.
If this occurs, and Microsoft stops being so damn obsessed with SIP/SIMPLE (which I bet is how they're communicating with Yahoo), we can finally have interoperable instant messaging.
I picked up GW this past October or so, and I could never really get into it. Aside from the lack of a Mac version (which is my main desktop), Guild Wars seems to PVP focused and simple. WoW seems like a world, where raids on XR just happen because you're waiting for your other guildies to come online and do that next instance. Even PVP, which has its strongpoints, is focused around what you bring with you to the fight. In WoW, attributes given to you through hardcore play are nerfed a bit for pvp combat. Even then, there is no 'deathmatch' in WoW (Gurubashi Arena aside), and most of the battlegrounds are team based. CTF, Capture and Hold, and the weird Battlefield 2 style feel of Alterac Valley.
Fix your package manager!
I am sick of downloading packages from weird websites, version conflicts, and typing this stupid and overly long command into the shell over and over, hoping - nay, praying - that RPM won't spit out another conflict error this time. YUM seems tacked on, and I've never gotten it to work properly.
I switched to Ubuntu, even though it had less polish and was so deep in development, simply because application management actually worked, and things were in a logical order (supported, unsupported, universe, multiverse).
Maybe it's not practical, maybe I'm talking out of my ass having not used a Red Hat operating system since Fedora Core 3, but it's the only thing that prevents me from using Fedora at home or on a server, and the only thing that prevents me from recommending it to friends.
Well actually, according to this, GNU/Hurd uses ELF instead of Mach-O, I guess that's an effort to maintain compatbility with existing software.
And I find both to be unconstitutional pieces of shit. These aren't children playing GTA! These are 14-17 year old teenage males here! And by god, if they want to play it, the government has no right barring them from doing so. What's next, arrest teens for swearing? Speaking out on marajuana legalization?
Violent games do not harm your health or wellbeing, unlike alcohol and drugs. What the hell is the purpose of banning them?
Here's my problem.
How will they patch it?
When the OOo team put out version 2.0.1, the only way I could see to upgrade was to do a full reinstall. Now with Firefox, it was a little annoying downloading 5 MB versions every few weeks, until the 1.5 release came with a good autoupdate system.
OpenOffice is what, 80-90 MB? There is no way I can download something that size - especially on dialup - just to fix a single security issue. The OOo team needs to invest in a decent, enterprise-grade network patching system ASAP.
Personally, If I had a time machine, trying to save myself 20 bucks would be the last thing on my mind.
Is this post a replicant? Or do I have to wait for the next one?
For what it's worth, I think that the JDK is also available, as sun-java5-jdk.
By U.S. law, even a disconnected phone line is able to dial 911.
This comment may be worthless, but I'm just throwing my support to Jason's design.
If you've seen the CGI movies to any of Blizzard's games, you know that their ability to create 3D animation is astounding. Not only that, but it seems to only improve with time. I honestly believe they could be the 'Pixar' of mature content films.
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Why would they go for live action if they're so talented at this?
(Though it isn't my favorite, this is their introduction to Diablo II: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=869465555
I'm about to take the AP Computer Science exam in oh... 7 hours (I should sleep). Now the thing is, I'm a terrible programmer and took this to learn. And Collegeboard regulations have made Java the language over C++ since 2002.
I've never, ever learned a language aside from Java, and I'll probably program everything I make in Java, simply out of familiarity. Undoubtedly, many of my fellow CS AP students taking the exam tomorrow will probably end up doing the same.
Anywho, back to the point of this post. It seems to me that Sun pretty much owns the upcoming generation of programmers at this point. Why, oh why would they want to open-source it - when they see this gravy train slowly making its way down the track?
It is a game, after all.
Uh, Google's motto isn't even "Do no evil", it's "Don't be evil." Besides, they're only allowing the government to access their index, they fought to keep user searches off limits. I'd say that's pretty much within their motto to me, especially when their competitors didn't even try.
What about the examples provided, such as a notification when you get a new email, or caller ID information shown on your TV?
While I may not be one to care for interactive TV, I must say that event notification is a pretty nifty feature. When I'm watching a DVD on my Xbox 360, and a friend comes online, a small bubble appears to notify me of the fact. It's unobtrusive and useful, though it isn't the best idea when I'm in the middle of a movie.
However, if this was television, and I was channel surfing, the idea suddenly becomes brilliant. Caller ID info, or the subject line of a new email while I'm watching the news or commercials come on? Brilliantly cool.