ME: yo, you should put a picture up on that auction, lots of people on slashdot think you are a fraud
Baybuy1: nope not at all
Baybuy1: and ill only sell if my reserves met
ME: but why no picture?
Baybuy1: if not real how would i know names of all those games??
Baybuy1: no scanner or dig camera:-(
ME: why are you selling?
Baybuy1: just want to need money
So what do we learn from this? Apparently there aren't any sites with lists of tons of old games out there. And he really wants to need money???
I suggested going to kinko's to use a scanner, he said he wouldn't be able to before it ended... 4 days, no kinko's hmmmm
If you haven't yet, go check out ForumZilla with Netscape 6. There isn't a whole lot to read with it yet, we're working on that, but it should give you a taste of what is out there and what is possible with the mozilla platform.
If you are still unsure about Mozilla (or NS6 for that matter), try installing ForumZilla and read that MozillaZine article and it's comments in it. Compare that experience to reading it on the web and maybe it will change your mind.
There are a lot of really cool things you can do with Mozilla and ForumZilla is just the begining.
That comment is about 6 months old. I can tell you personally that mozilla has come a long way in the last 6 months. oh yeah.. and it says "released" browsers. Last time I checked NS6 wasn't out yet.
Does anyone believe you can ship a bug free product? These are bugs, they aren't in-your-face non-standards-compliant decisions by Netscape to say fuck you to the w3c. This isn't a matter of Netscape saying we value shopping over standards. This is a product with bugs, like all other products of this size.
I think it is safe to say that the Mozilla organizationis making a serious effort to be standards compliant and to support as many of the standards as they can. Is it easy, no. Will it be perfect, not yet. I don't think, however, that some open bugs herald the downfall of Mozilla.
Wait till 6.1 or Mozilla 1.0 or whatever and watch it improve. It is still far more compliant than IE - and will remain so.
Mozilla is definatly a good thing even if you think it's too slow. AOL is funding this massivly large open source project and in the course paying for the development of tools (BugZilla, TinderBox, lxr, bonsai) that can benefit all OSS.
For a long time I felt AOL was the evil empire, but they really have raised themselves a few notches in my book.
are test preparation services like Kaplan and the like. I don't think it is wring to study for the SAT or GRE or LSAT, however I know from personal experience that these services don't care at all about what the client knows. Their whole thing is bringing up the score so that person can get into med school or law school. In addition, people who don't want to or can't afford to take the class are faced with an artificially inflated median. (I didn't take test prep for the LSAT because I figured I wouldn't want to go to law school if I wasn't able to command logic)
I don't know about you, but it doesn't make me happy to know that my doctors may have gotten into med school based on their ability to take a test prep course rather than their normal abilities. (yes I know that standardized tests aren't true measurements of knowledge etc. but it is the way it is).
To me, that is a lot worse than using lecture notes. I bet more people could honestly say they use lecture notes in addition to class or to find out about a class than people who could honestly say they use Napster only for non-copyrighted works and isn't "fair use" what it is all about?
After all students are paying for those lectures in the first place.
on our descendant's collective faces when they open up this time capsule, build a CD-reader and proceed to read 1 billion messages of HOT GRITS!, FIRST POST!, and NATALIE PORTMAN!
that is really a speech Courtney Love gave. It provides an excellent artist POV to this whole thing. As well as an explaination as to how RIAA got this slipped in.
my guess is that the game will be a package that you have to install on your computer like any program. This isn't the kind of thing that you open a web page and your browser reformats, you have to give implicit cosent to install a package, and then you still have to load or run that package.
The main reason for doing this and a good reason at that is to demonstrate to all those who haven't quite grasped it yet that mozilla is not just a browser. I have spent time trying to talk about the great things you can do with XUL with people and all they talk abotu is how we don;t need another languages to skin with, newsflash, XUL is much much much more than a skinning language.
I guarantee that in the coming weeks and months, you will begin to see more and more mozilla based applications come out. I would say that a good portion of what can be done on the desktop can be done in mozilla.
That said, any project that forces people to recognize that what we have here trancends the realm of browser is "a good thing."
Oh yeah, all it takes is a ZillaGL module and you could play quake too!
I really fail to realize how making people use SSH is fuking them over. Using telnet outside of a secured system is STUPID! there is no other description that fits. If you HAVE to use telnet, generate some SKeys and use a challenge password.
No one said anything about "the children" this is teaching people good internet practices and protecting network integrity.
what are you doing then? I mean really, I think promoting secure connections is one of the best things a university can do. Hell, they should teach you password security in grade school. Do yuo have any idea how much money is lost every year and how many people get fucked because no one ever taught them why it is really worth it for them to pick a good password and use SSH?
"I don't have anything on my account, why would anyone want my passsword!"
When I worked on tech support people forgot their passwords in under 60 seconds! I used to say that if we used retinal scanners, people would go on vacation and lose their eyeballs!
I can see this now, "I jsut went away for a few days and now I can't remmember how to type!"
What is the answer to that? "Ok let me reset your cadence."?
Slashdot Mirror
What? Men can't see these extra colors? Damn, too bad there aren't any women capable of doing anything out there!
Tony
not trying to be an asshole but you gotta start changing perceptions somewhere.
ME: yo, you should put a picture up on that auction, lots of people on slashdot think you are a fraud :-(
Baybuy1: nope not at all
Baybuy1: and ill only sell if my reserves met
ME: but why no picture?
Baybuy1: if not real how would i know names of all those games??
Baybuy1: no scanner or dig camera
ME: why are you selling?
Baybuy1: just want to need money
So what do we learn from this? Apparently there aren't any sites with lists of tons of old games out there. And he really wants to need money???
I suggested going to kinko's to use a scanner, he said he wouldn't be able to before it ended... 4 days, no kinko's hmmmm
tony
Tony
Even better, lets put these in all the monkeys and have them try to find intelligent life outside the solar system.
Do I even need to mention Beowulf clusters?
tony
Tony
Maybe they'll write a song about it: "Slashdot set my house on fire"
It could be a duet with Hemos.
Tony
Tony
There are a lot of really cool things you can do with Mozilla and ForumZilla is just the begining.
Tony
Tony
I think it is safe to say that the Mozilla organizationis making a serious effort to be standards compliant and to support as many of the standards as they can. Is it easy, no. Will it be perfect, not yet. I don't think, however, that some open bugs herald the downfall of Mozilla.
Wait till 6.1 or Mozilla 1.0 or whatever and watch it improve. It is still far more compliant than IE - and will remain so.
Tony
For a long time I felt AOL was the evil empire, but they really have raised themselves a few notches in my book.
Tony
Please moderate this up I wrongfully moderated it down on accident. At least put it at +2 where it was when I mistakenly marked it down. Thanks
They are just going to allow RedHat as an OPTION on all their mainframes and servers. Tony
I don't know about you, but it doesn't make me happy to know that my doctors may have gotten into med school based on their ability to take a test prep course rather than their normal abilities. (yes I know that standardized tests aren't true measurements of knowledge etc. but it is the way it is).
To me, that is a lot worse than using lecture notes. I bet more people could honestly say they use lecture notes in addition to class or to find out about a class than people who could honestly say they use Napster only for non-copyrighted works and isn't "fair use" what it is all about?
After all students are paying for those lectures in the first place.
Tony
Tony
on our descendant's collective faces when they open up this time capsule, build a CD-reader and proceed to read 1 billion messages of HOT GRITS!, FIRST POST!, and NATALIE PORTMAN!
the article is here
Courtney Love made a pretty interesting speech recently. click the link to check it out. Tony
in order to run things from the chrome level (aka with write proviledges) you need to install it as a package
tony
I guarantee that in the coming weeks and months, you will begin to see more and more mozilla based applications come out. I would say that a good portion of what can be done on the desktop can be done in mozilla.
That said, any project that forces people to recognize that what we have here trancends the realm of browser is "a good thing."
Oh yeah, all it takes is a ZillaGL module and you could play quake too!
Tony
No one said anything about "the children" this is teaching people good internet practices and protecting network integrity.
tony
what are you doing then? I mean really, I think promoting secure connections is one of the best things a university can do. Hell, they should teach you password security in grade school. Do yuo have any idea how much money is lost every year and how many people get fucked because no one ever taught them why it is really worth it for them to pick a good password and use SSH?
"I don't have anything on my account, why would anyone want my passsword!"
tony
I can see this now, "I jsut went away for a few days and now I can't remmember how to type!"
What is the answer to that? "Ok let me reset your cadence."?
I can't type and I rarely do things the same way twice, I wonder if this would still work for me.