Maybe I'm blind and there is a way to switch back to the old tabbing system? This one blows though IMO so someone please enlighten me! Or do I just revert to 1.5?
Um, gee, I dunno, you could take advantage of Firefox's legendary "extension" system and install something insanely useful such as, oh, Tab Mix Plus Options, which not only fixes your specific problems but includes a boatload of other features, all in one handy extension?
Oh, but wait, that would require adding something that's not included "out of the box". My bad.
Anyone who compares the Lynx to the 2600 is sadly uninformed. One of the many ways in which the Lynx was far superior was that it was the first hand-held console to sport hardware-supported 3D graphics, albeit somewhat crudely (filled polygons, no textures), as well as a massive amount of hardware-supported sprite manipulation including scaling, distortion, etc. which were combined with the hardware-rendered polygons for great effect. In fact, it was the first "home" video game system to support hardware-based 3D graphics, period -- even predating the original Playstation by five years, which debuted in '94 in Japan ('95 in US, Europe) . It was also the first hand-held system to have color LCD (sorry, Gameboy). It even had a math coprocessor, something unheardof for a consumer gaming console in '89, let alone in a hand-held unit.
I could go on, thus revealing the nostalgic fanboy that I am -- eh, too late -- but suffice it to say that the Lynx was as far above the 2600 as the XBox is above the Super NES. Yeah, that's right, I said it! Let the flame wars begin!:)
While some of the more "mundane" hardware may have been rebranded, the Microsoft Sidewinder was most definitely not rebranded hardware, and it came out about six years before the XBox. The Sidewinder flight stick was manufactured exclusively for Microsoft. Sure, it didn't hold up too well in comparison to Logitech's legendary Wingman series of flight sticks from the 90's, nevermind the high-end gear from Thrustmaster, but it hardly counts as "rebranded"... unless you also count the various components manufactured by companies other than Microsoft for the XBox and XBox 360 as "rebranded", which is rather absurd since they're not made for anyone else.
I think we need a user profile tag on Slashdot, one that indicates whether you've actually done any IT work beyond your parent's basement. If not, you're barred from commenting on stories like this.
Nonsense. While I found the rest of your post quite informative (I'm not an IT professional, just a website designer), there will always be far greater numbers of personal/home users than IT pros, therefore this decision and others like it by Microsoft affect far greater numbers of non-professionals.
Of course, there's always the argument that IT pros are the ones called in to pick up the pieces if/when stuff like this hits the fan, but it still affects everyone involved -- the majority of which are decidedly not IT pros. Just sayin'.
Star Trek usually makes it something humans or another race with similar technology gaining huge jumps in short times.
As if that doesn't happen in real life? Have you been paying attention at all in the past decade? Nevermind advances in genetics, astronomic understanding, and physics over the past decade, as well as the jet engine revolution in aircraft in the late 40s/early 50s, the 60s jump in space travel, the sudden dominance of armed helicopters on the battlefield in the late 60s, ad infinitum. These things happen all the frickin' time. If anything, technological progress as depicted in the "Star Trek" universe is too damned slow.
I've been toying with an idea for a new ST series incorporating Section 31 (to some extent), but I'll keep it to myself till I get some good stuff written.
Please let us know when you do, and provide a URL. Thanks in advance.
rtechie, I agree with every aspect of your post, save one.
Much better that we expose children to relentless violence such that they grow up to be nice healthy soldiers, wife-beaters, and axe murderers.
I'm hoping that I read that wrong, and that you don't actually equate soldiers with "wife-beaters and axe murderers". Unless the soldiers in your country are directly attacking its own civilians, do you honestly believe that your nation would be better off with no military at all, with absolutely no way to repell invasions or defend its borders? Remember, whether the soldiers in your country are forced conscripts or volunteers, either way they ARE your own countrymen, your own children, parents, and brothers. Unless you live in a country where ordinary people routinely prey upon others physically, I highly doubt that your soldiers are your enemy.
Now, the wife-beaters and axe murderers on the other hand...
If we really want the country to be able to defend itself, put infantry weapons in every person's closet and we'll have that force for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Now there's an interesting idea. Let's follow this line of reasoning. My suggestion: Make it strictly voluntary. Anyone can choose not to participate in recieving weapons who doesn't want them. A recipient must be a legal, fully emancipated adult citizen. Nobody with any violent criminal background can recieve one (eg. speeding tickets don't matter, criminal assault does). To receive a firearm, one must agree to be trained by a military instructor experienced in its proper use, safe handling, maintenance, etc.; only after the training will you be allowed to take possession of the firearm. There is no personal up-front cost, other than the time required for the training in proper use/safe handling of the firearm. Ammunition is at your expense. As with any other firearm in your possession, you WILL be held fully responsible for its use.
Most importantly, this absolutely must be strictly voluntary. There should be no compulsory reception of the firearm, nor should anyone be punishied in any way for choosing not to receive one.
Of course there are more possibilities here, like voluntary tactical training and contingencies for optionally reporting to military command in the event of an invasion (as opposed to defending the area around your residence), but you get the idea. On a broader level, what it really boils down to is permitting properly trained citizens to become properly armed soldiers in times of domestic conflict (ie. invasion). This is only one possible means of achieving that; I'm sure there are countless others.
Oh really? Do you drive your own vehicle OR make use of public transportation? Thank the department of transportation for keeping up the roads, signs, signals, ad infinitum, however imperfect they may be in your area. Has your country repelled an invasion recently, or perhaps not been invaded in your lifetime? Thank the military. Do you make any use of the postal service? I could go on all day but you get my point.
While I fully agree with your earlier assessment that the government is "out of control" (this online gambling law is a perfect example), and I'd like to add that it's a bloated, overpowered juggernaut that is about 100x the size it should be, it does provide basic services which all of us make use of daily. Regardless of one's opinion of the current administration, to claim that state and local governments are "not actually doing anything on [your] behalf" is utterly absurd.
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In the comment "If storytelling and character development mean as much to you as framerate... etc.", the mere mention of frame rates implies that this game would be playable on a computer where frame rates can get above meager NTSC rates.
What, you've never seen framerates drop in a console game? Hell, even as far back as the Sega Genesis, I played an F-117 sim that would routinely tank into a slideshow -- mostly cuz the hardware wasn't designed to render a 3D landscape. Modern consoles still have games that occasionally try to push the hardware too far, and framerate suffers. Some things just never change.
I'm sure there's WWII games where you played on the German side.
Name one. Just one.
Panzer General, dammit! My God, how young ARE you people that you've forgotten one of the most highly praised (and damned entertaining) WWII games of the early 90's? And IIRC, if you executed your strategy well, you even had a chance to invade Washington DC by war's end. If that doesn't qualify to be among "WWII games where you played on the German side" then nothing does.
While there are certainly times when a parent can intervene, a (for instance) six month old baby does not understand 'quiet'.
If we were talking only about infants, then yes, you'd be 100% correct. However...
Almost all children are noisy, it's almost a fact of their existence. There's nothing the child can do about it, and there's (frequently) not much the parent can do, either.
That is simply not true. Once a child learns to speak and is able to communicate effectively, say around age 3 and above, there absolutely is something the parent can do about it, by teaching the child some basic manners. We've all seen both good AND bad examples of this; some small children are well-behaved, they say 'please' and 'thank you' and don't throw screaming tantrums in public, while others are little Tasmanian Devils. I'm not saying it's easy to raise a well-behaved child, but it's certainly possible, we've all seen the proof from time to time, and I for one tend to be quite impressed by it.
Unlikely. From the top of crazylaws.com's main page:
This website is part of the GetAmused.com Humor Network
Some of the oddball laws on that page may just happen to be true, but it's a joke page. No reliable sources are cited for anything listed. You're supposed to laugh at it, not use it as a damned reference.
Right. Let's ban disabled people too, because those damn wheelchairs are so huge! I mean, they take up all the gap between tables and it's difficult to walk around them.
You are confusing behavior with a condition. One is voluntary, the other is not.
Be that as it may, the vast majority of people here in the U.S. believe that child pornography is far worse than any adult pornography, therefore it should be seen as an afront to commonly held morals to take resources away from child pornography investigation for the sake of investigating adult pornography. It's the equivalent of saying "child porn is less important to investigate than adult porn".
Tell me again how anyone believes this makes any sense in any way whatsoever? Whether one is liberal or conservative or anywhere in between, this is idiotic. But, apparently, nobody here in the U.S. gives a rat's ass, as I seem to be the only one bitching about it.
In London, we call those "Phoneboxes". You can get any perversion you want from the adverts in those.
<sigh> Why is all sex equated with "perversion"? Unless maybe you're talking about two unspeakably ugly people...
All joking aside, it is precisely this attitude that seeking out sex is a "perverted" thing to do, that provides the incentive and the ammunition for folks like US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to make consensual adult imagery illegal, taking away resources from child pornography investigation units to go after adult pornography. And that was a year ago. How it doesn't create more of an uproar still baffles me.
Getting back to the current topic, keep in mind that much "violent" pornography is acted, not real violence. Here in the States, we call porn with real violence "snuff" films, and they are already illegal here as they depict real, intentional violence against the actors for the sake of creating the film.
Parent is a troll. People with depression lack ANY motivation to improve their lives. Depression makes people stay 'in their place' not out of contentment, but out of complete apathy to do anything else.
I call bullshit. Perhaps in a time of depression in your life, it meant apathy and inertia, but that doesn't apply to everyone -- we're all different. Depression is not always about apathy, it's sometimes about feeling like complete and utter crap for no rational reason, which does not always equate with "do nothing". I've fought quite a few bouts of severe depression in my life, many of which peripherally involved mental excersizes in finding the least painful method of self-extermination. And yet, paradoxically, those periods produced what I consider some of my most creative endeavers (I'm an artist and programmer by hobby, with occasional fits of writing). Over the past year or so, my life has been pretty stable, and perhaps coincidentally (though I doubt that), I've also been at my least creative. I strongly doubt that is mere coincidence.
Depression also is not something that "makes people stay 'in their place'" as you put it. Quite the contrary, my most turbulant and nomadic experiences have been exactly during times of personal depression. Only when there is no depression do I find any stability, or as you'd put it, stay in my place.
Just as I believe that most modern psychology is bullshit, so do I believe that the same solutions for personal demons do not hold true for all people. Everyone's a little different, and one person's solution may be another person's problem. We're not all the same. Stability is an important factor in life for some; for others, it's a personal hell. Neither is "right" or "wrong", just different.
Ah, we finally hit that nerve. In spite of the/. Collective's iconoclastic, challange-authority, question-everything attitude (which I happen to agree with), there is still one revered pantheon which must remain sacrosanct. Max Threshold, how dare you presume that scientists are human and are therefore susceptable to greed and pride?! Sacrilage! Heresy, I say! They can do no wrong!
And hence, poor Max, your Flamebating.
Look, I'm as much a science junkie as the next guy, and I firmly believe that understanding the way the universe works is critical to our survival, but this hero worship has got to stop. Scientists are human, they sometimes make mistakes, they sometimes excersize bad judgement, and yes, they sometimes do the wrong thing. It happens, deal with it. Personally, I think the greatest scientists are (were?) those who did it not for a paycheck, but for curiosity. The Galileos, the Darwins, the Einsteins, et al, were not concerned with monetary gain or fame. They simply wanted to know why some aspect of the universe works the way it does, and so they investigated, poked, prodded, theorized, crunched numbers, threw out disproved theories and came up with new ones, all for the sole purpose of understanding. Now, I'm not saying that all researchers who are getting paid for their efforts are corrupt, that would be an absurd statement. But let's be realistic, scientists are human, and when humans get involved, well... look at the world around you. It ain't perfect, and neither are the scientists. To all the many scientific researchers who genuinely want to know the truth, who want to understand why things happen, I wish them the best of luck. To all the rest, the freeloaders and leachers, well, YOU guys should be flipping burgers and scraping hard for rent money, not conducting research.
For what exactly does Blizzard use torrents? No trolling, really, I've never heard of this. Their products are all for sale on store shelves, so it makes no sense to me that they'd even consider torrents for distribution. Please clarify. Thanks in advance.
your government is -- forgive my terminology -- stupid enough to fabricate a belief that we'll attack Austrailia for not doing what we say.
You seem to be under the impression that the only source of power and coersion the U.S. has over other governments is military force. Please read up on economics when you have the chance, even a layman's understanding of economic workings will suffice. The bottom line is this: "If you want to do business with us, then you'll pass laws that protect OUR economic interests, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it". Military strength is not the only method used by the United States to exert the will of its paid-for-by-corporate-interests officials.
NOTE: It is not unpatriotic to question or criticize one's government. Quite the contrary, it is unpatriotic to NOT do so.
Ease up a little. Better to admit a mistake too late, than not at all, at least it shows some level of thought and self-critical thinking. Look at all the Republicans who *still* think they made the right choice in voting for Bush -- THEY'RE the ones you should be bitching at, not the ones who admit their mistake.
The value of any currency is merely an agreement. It's only worth something if everyone agrees it's worth something. Which in itself makes it astounding that modern economies function at all...
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Oh wait, I'm still using Firefox anyway. Nevermind.
Oh, but wait, that would require adding something that's not included "out of the box". My bad.
I'm sure you'll be Troll in no time, but I shall always fondly remember you as Funny.
Anyone who compares the Lynx to the 2600 is sadly uninformed. One of the many ways in which the Lynx was far superior was that it was the first hand-held console to sport hardware-supported 3D graphics, albeit somewhat crudely (filled polygons, no textures), as well as a massive amount of hardware-supported sprite manipulation including scaling, distortion, etc. which were combined with the hardware-rendered polygons for great effect. In fact, it was the first "home" video game system to support hardware-based 3D graphics, period -- even predating the original Playstation by five years, which debuted in '94 in Japan ('95 in US, Europe) . It was also the first hand-held system to have color LCD (sorry, Gameboy). It even had a math coprocessor, something unheardof for a consumer gaming console in '89, let alone in a hand-held unit.
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I could go on, thus revealing the nostalgic fanboy that I am -- eh, too late -- but suffice it to say that the Lynx was as far above the 2600 as the XBox is above the Super NES. Yeah, that's right, I said it! Let the flame wars begin!
While some of the more "mundane" hardware may have been rebranded, the Microsoft Sidewinder was most definitely not rebranded hardware, and it came out about six years before the XBox. The Sidewinder flight stick was manufactured exclusively for Microsoft. Sure, it didn't hold up too well in comparison to Logitech's legendary Wingman series of flight sticks from the 90's, nevermind the high-end gear from Thrustmaster, but it hardly counts as "rebranded"... unless you also count the various components manufactured by companies other than Microsoft for the XBox and XBox 360 as "rebranded", which is rather absurd since they're not made for anyone else.
So yes, the article is mistaken in that respect.
Of course, there's always the argument that IT pros are the ones called in to pick up the pieces if/when stuff like this hits the fan, but it still affects everyone involved -- the majority of which are decidedly not IT pros. Just sayin'.
Now, the wife-beaters and axe murderers on the other hand...
Most importantly, this absolutely must be strictly voluntary. There should be no compulsory reception of the firearm, nor should anyone be punishied in any way for choosing not to receive one.
Of course there are more possibilities here, like voluntary tactical training and contingencies for optionally reporting to military command in the event of an invasion (as opposed to defending the area around your residence), but you get the idea. On a broader level, what it really boils down to is permitting properly trained citizens to become properly armed soldiers in times of domestic conflict (ie. invasion). This is only one possible means of achieving that; I'm sure there are countless others.
While I fully agree with your earlier assessment that the government is "out of control" (this online gambling law is a perfect example), and I'd like to add that it's a bloated, overpowered juggernaut that is about 100x the size it should be, it does provide basic services which all of us make use of daily. Regardless of one's opinion of the current administration, to claim that state and local governments are "not actually doing anything on [your] behalf" is utterly absurd.
Panzer General, dammit! My God, how young ARE you people that you've forgotten one of the most highly praised (and damned entertaining) WWII games of the early 90's? And IIRC, if you executed your strategy well, you even had a chance to invade Washington DC by war's end. If that doesn't qualify to be among "WWII games where you played on the German side" then nothing does.
That is simply not true. Once a child learns to speak and is able to communicate effectively, say around age 3 and above, there absolutely is something the parent can do about it, by teaching the child some basic manners. We've all seen both good AND bad examples of this; some small children are well-behaved, they say 'please' and 'thank you' and don't throw screaming tantrums in public, while others are little Tasmanian Devils. I'm not saying it's easy to raise a well-behaved child, but it's certainly possible, we've all seen the proof from time to time, and I for one tend to be quite impressed by it.
Be that as it may, the vast majority of people here in the U.S. believe that child pornography is far worse than any adult pornography, therefore it should be seen as an afront to commonly held morals to take resources away from child pornography investigation for the sake of investigating adult pornography. It's the equivalent of saying "child porn is less important to investigate than adult porn".
Tell me again how anyone believes this makes any sense in any way whatsoever? Whether one is liberal or conservative or anywhere in between, this is idiotic. But, apparently, nobody here in the U.S. gives a rat's ass, as I seem to be the only one bitching about it.
I give up.
All joking aside, it is precisely this attitude that seeking out sex is a "perverted" thing to do, that provides the incentive and the ammunition for folks like US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to make consensual adult imagery illegal, taking away resources from child pornography investigation units to go after adult pornography. And that was a year ago. How it doesn't create more of an uproar still baffles me.
Getting back to the current topic, keep in mind that much "violent" pornography is acted, not real violence. Here in the States, we call porn with real violence "snuff" films, and they are already illegal here as they depict real, intentional violence against the actors for the sake of creating the film.
Depression also is not something that "makes people stay 'in their place'" as you put it. Quite the contrary, my most turbulant and nomadic experiences have been exactly during times of personal depression. Only when there is no depression do I find any stability, or as you'd put it, stay in my place.
Just as I believe that most modern psychology is bullshit, so do I believe that the same solutions for personal demons do not hold true for all people. Everyone's a little different, and one person's solution may be another person's problem. We're not all the same. Stability is an important factor in life for some; for others, it's a personal hell. Neither is "right" or "wrong", just different.
Ah, we finally hit that nerve. In spite of the /. Collective's iconoclastic, challange-authority, question-everything attitude (which I happen to agree with), there is still one revered pantheon which must remain sacrosanct. Max Threshold, how dare you presume that scientists are human and are therefore susceptable to greed and pride?! Sacrilage! Heresy, I say! They can do no wrong!
And hence, poor Max, your Flamebating.
Look, I'm as much a science junkie as the next guy, and I firmly believe that understanding the way the universe works is critical to our survival, but this hero worship has got to stop. Scientists are human, they sometimes make mistakes, they sometimes excersize bad judgement, and yes, they sometimes do the wrong thing. It happens, deal with it. Personally, I think the greatest scientists are (were?) those who did it not for a paycheck, but for curiosity. The Galileos, the Darwins, the Einsteins, et al, were not concerned with monetary gain or fame. They simply wanted to know why some aspect of the universe works the way it does, and so they investigated, poked, prodded, theorized, crunched numbers, threw out disproved theories and came up with new ones, all for the sole purpose of understanding. Now, I'm not saying that all researchers who are getting paid for their efforts are corrupt, that would be an absurd statement. But let's be realistic, scientists are human, and when humans get involved, well... look at the world around you. It ain't perfect, and neither are the scientists. To all the many scientific researchers who genuinely want to know the truth, who want to understand why things happen, I wish them the best of luck. To all the rest, the freeloaders and leachers, well, YOU guys should be flipping burgers and scraping hard for rent money, not conducting research.
For what exactly does Blizzard use torrents? No trolling, really, I've never heard of this. Their products are all for sale on store shelves, so it makes no sense to me that they'd even consider torrents for distribution. Please clarify. Thanks in advance.
NOTE: It is not unpatriotic to question or criticize one's government. Quite the contrary, it is unpatriotic to NOT do so.
Ease up a little. Better to admit a mistake too late, than not at all, at least it shows some level of thought and self-critical thinking. Look at all the Republicans who *still* think they made the right choice in voting for Bush -- THEY'RE the ones you should be bitching at, not the ones who admit their mistake.
The value of any currency is merely an agreement. It's only worth something if everyone agrees it's worth something. Which in itself makes it astounding that modern economies function at all...