How about making it so you can order the things on the right? As it is now, they're just in a random order.
You can. Click on the up or down arrow on the upper right of the box, and it will move up or down one slot. If you reload the page it will repeat the last command, moving the box one more slot up or down. It is somewhat tedious when you have nineteen sidebar boxes activated, though.
Maybe another way to handle this in the configuration screen would be to have, instead of the checkboxes, a series of pull down menus that each corrispond to a position on the side. That way the user could directly select the order. Another plus to this approach would be that you could have all Dust Puppies on the side:-)
I did encounter a couple of problems. First, for some reason the "CmdrTaco's Links" box doesn't appear when you select it. Second, it is easy to munge the ordering of the boxes. When you reload the page, if you don't watch the url it will repeat the last command and send the last sidebar box adjusted up or down another slot. Easy to fix, though, it is somewhat tedious to get everything in the order you want when you have nineteen sidebar boxes selected.
The only big suggestion I have is to revamp the preferences interface, the checkboxes could be replaced with a series of pulldown menus so that the user could directly select the ordering of the sidebar boxes. There would be the added benifit that one could have multiple Dust Puppies all the way down the side of the page!
All of the documentation that Be would require to support the PMG3's exists in the form of MkLinux. JLG is just pissed off that Apple bought NeXT instead of Be, hence the FUD.
I am getting sick and tired about hearing how evil Apple has been to Be regarding the G3 specs. There are two open source OS's that run on Apple's G3's which Be could derive the required specs from. JLG is just pissed off that Apple won't bend over backwards to help him compete with them.
The law also criminalizes the distribution of software that makes forging email possible. Software like sendmail, for example, while probably not an intended target of the law, would be illegal under it.
Thanks for your reply. I have to say that yours is absolutely the best java implimentation of Tetris that I have come across. Anyway, as far as I know, the only legitimate beef they have with you is your use of the "Tetris" trademark. It is interesting that they feel they own the right to the look and feel in such a broad sence that your "Colors" game infringes. It is pretty clear that they are overstepping the bounds of common sense. Of course, I am not a lawyer.
If you look on the www.tetris.com site, click on "the company" then "piracy", Then click on "Tetris is a copyrighted game -- what does this mean to me" they have the following quote:
The protected expression of the TETRIS games is the concept of a "brick" or "block" game in which differently-shaped Tetranimoes, each including four cells (or even some other number), fall from the top of the screen and are arranged by the player to complete horizontal lines. Later versions of TETRIS, whether created by Elorg or others, are derivative works. These may not be made, used or distributed without the consent of the Tetris Company.
This, in effect, says that anyone who distributes anything remotely like tetris is a pirate. Could this be grounds for a libel suit against them? I guess you would have to prove that they are knowingly damaging the reputations of freeware authors by calling them "pirates". Or something. Anyway, I Am Not A Lawyer.
www.rotaru.com is down. This site had excelent java versions of Tetris and Pentix. Aparantly the maintainer of the site got a "cease and desist" letter.
If you go to the site there is a vague explanation.
IANAL, but I don't think that that clause is legally enforceable.
In any case, there is at least one other clear use for the emulator that wouldn't be illegal: N64 software development. I would imagine that it would be usefull even to Nintendo's in house developers (that is, assuming they don't already have their own emulator)
Now this is interesting. Well, not really, it's the typical narrow mindset of homosexuals in general.
Starting with a broad, bigoted generalization is a great way to flag yourself as a dumbass.
This guy implies he's openminded and thinks for himself, yet is so closeminded that he can't fathom people actually coming to the conclusion that they oppose homosexuality of their own accord, by their own reasoning.
People don't form bigoted views on their own, they are tought by people like Falwell. A good example of this process is what hapened in the south with white laborers who identified with the black slaves more then with the slaves' masters. The white laborers were treated little better then the slaves, and they, and of course the slaves as well, were getting adgitated. So the masters pitted the white laborers against the slaves by breading fear and hatred, and soon enough a revolutionary coelation between black slaves and white laborers was imposible due to the bigotry.
It's not POSSIBLE that anyone has either been gay and is no longer, has read up on the subject in both spiritual and scientific texts, or has possibly just sat down and thought about it and now opposes the lifestyle
The ex-gay movement is a sham and nothing more. The largest ex-gay ministry, "Exodus", was founded by two men who ended up falling in love with each other and leaving the ministry. They have detailed how they were responsible (when they were running the program) for falsifing studys that touted how successful the program was. For more information, rent the documentary "One Nation Under God", it details theirs' and others' stories. Furthermore, you could check out the website Anything That Moves for a Bisexual perspective on the whole ex-gay thing. The basic gist of it is that those who are held up as "success stories" of the ex-gay movment are most likely really bi, therefore it is unremarkable that they are able to function in a heterosexual monogamous relationship. People who are totally homosexual, on the other hand, simply can't be "cured", or even made to look cured in the long term.
I swear, talking to gays is like talking to irrational children.
This would be another one of those "dumbass flag" thingies I was talking about earlier.
I oppose homosexuality because not only does it contradict biblical values, but because my brother is a psycholgist and my other brother and father are doctors, and i've seen/heard of the evidence of it's destructiveness
Why do you care what I do in my bedroom? How can that posibly dammage you? Do you believe that God erred in making me bisexual? Are you aware that pretty much all of the professional psychologist and psychietrist(sp?) orgainizations have universally condemned the concept that homosexuality and bisexuality are diseases, or for that matter even, in themselves destructive? Are you even listening to yourself talk?
OH MY CHEESE, I'M THINKING FOR MYSELF BASED ON INFORMATION AND ARRIVING AT A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION THAN YOU.
Oh my cheese? Huh? What the h e double hockey sticks is that supposed to mean? Oh yeah your really thinking for yourself. Open up your eyes, and you will see that you are being manipulated by those in power so that you pick on gays instead of realizing what a looser you are.
I won't say anything about teletubbies, i dno't know anything about it. But i can't help but think cmdrtaco, whom i'd respected till now, is furthering an agenda of his.
Well, it's his website, he can do what he wants. It's called freedom, and if you try to take it away from us, there will be h e double hockey sticks to pay.
The point is that there is so much sin in the world that it is ridiculous to single out homosexuality.
I reject the idea that homosexuality is a sin. God made me bisexual, and did not do so in error, as I'm sure you'll agree. It would be a sin for me to not accept who I am.
If you say that it is ok to be queer, but not to "be a man who lies with another man" or whatever, then I say horsehockey! It has been shown time and time again that the relivent portions of The Bible that get quoted all the time are either simply not relivent within context, or are mis-translated, probably deliberately by Falwell like people who wanted to exert their power over other people, or use homosexuals as a scapegoat to focus their followers attention.
Actually, from what I understand, Islam doesn't condemn Jews or Christians, and actually holds them in a sort of respectful position as kind of "sister faiths", since all three religions were "revealed" by the same God (according to Islam), who is called "Allah" under Islam.
Of course, different Islamic people and governments may have different policies in that department, but it is they who are in violation of Islam, not the Christians.
Islam does call for pollythiests to be put to death, however, especially if the pollythiest in question converted from one of the "revealed" faiths.
This is all from memory of a high school class nine years ago, so I may be a bit off on the particulars.
Falwell is just like Hitler. If he were to come to power under similar circumstances, he would be just as bad.
I don't have a problem with people believing that I am a sinfull person for being bisexual, but it is necessary to forcefully speak out against people (like Falwell) who want the goverment to use it's power to eliminate "devient" speach and behaivior. It is people like Falwell who are directly responsible for inciting the hatefull attacks on gays, lesbians, and bisexual people.
For the record, I don't believe in so called "hate crime" legislation, I think it is unconstitutional to punish thought and speach. Fortunately, there are already laws against assult and murder, and a "hate crimes" law wouldn't make a difference in the case against the killers of Mathiew Shepard, since they are already facing death.
My philosophy on this is informed by the Bob Dylan song "Only a Pawn in Their Game", to summerize, the song is about the killing of Medgar Evers', who was a black civil rights leader. The song makes the point that the gunmen were not the only ones responsible, as they were raised from birth to hate blacks, and were simply used as a political tool in the hands of those in power. While I don't think Shepard's killers should go unpunished, I think we need to condemn (through forcefull speach, since we can't bring the law down on speach) those who were using them as a tool.
Ultimatly it is the thirst for power, the desire to pronounce ones will over other people, that leads to this evil. Even members of oppressed groups are not immune (or even less prone) to this mindset, one only has to look at how the Palistinens are treated by the Isrealies to see this. There was an incident recently where a gay Mardi Gras group denied membership to several people, simply because they were bisexual, and not gay.
"Will" of "Will and Grace" has the wooden computer in his office. You are right, sitcom characters have a disturbing lack of cash flow problems. There are very few exceptions, "Rosanne" comes to mind.
He should just put a sticker on his machine that says "iMac", and forcefully insist that it actually is an iMac, even when the installation techs tell him it isn't.
IANAL, but defending IP to avoid loosing it only applies to trademarks, not to copyrights or patents.
I don't recall reading anything about Apple suing Ardi for their Executor product. Considering that Connectix, like Ardi, has used none of Sony's or Apple's (respectivly) intelectual property, they would be laughed out of court.
The transcript would look something like this:
Sony: They copied our playstation! That's not nice! Whaaaaaaa!
Judge: Now Sony, you need to learn to share. Go apologize to Connectix right now or you'll have to stay in during recess!
Of course, your "vile thievery" comment gives away your post for the troll that it is.
I'm pretty sure that the Mitsubishi is 20" viewable even though they call it a 22" monitor, which puts it in the same category with other 21" monitors. There seems to be a trend in the monitor industry to play games with the specs. Even dot pitch is being flubbed with, Hitachi states the horizontal dot pitch (which is often.21 or.22 mm instead of the diagonal dot pitch that most other companys state (which, for a monitor with a horizontal dot pitch of.22 mm would be about.26 mm) Also the maximum resolution on that Viewsonic monitor is 1920 x 1440, not 1600 x 1200. see http://www.viewsonic.com/prod/DATA SHTS/PT795.HTM
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How about making it so you can order the things on the right? As it is now, they're just in a random order.
:-)
You can. Click on the up or down arrow on the upper right of the box, and it will move up or down one slot. If you reload the page it will repeat the last command, moving the box one more slot up or down. It is somewhat tedious when you have nineteen sidebar boxes activated, though.
Maybe another way to handle this in the configuration screen would be to have, instead of the checkboxes, a series of pull down menus that each corrispond to a position on the side. That way the user could directly select the order. Another plus to this approach would be that you could have all Dust Puppies on the side
Now I've got Dust Puppy right at the top!
I did encounter a couple of problems. First, for some reason the "CmdrTaco's Links" box doesn't appear when you select it. Second, it is easy to munge the ordering of the boxes. When you reload the page, if you don't watch the url it will repeat the last command and send the last sidebar box adjusted up or down another slot. Easy to fix, though, it is somewhat tedious to get everything in the order you want when you have nineteen sidebar boxes selected.
The only big suggestion I have is to revamp the preferences interface, the checkboxes could be replaced with a series of pulldown menus so that the user could directly select the ordering of the sidebar boxes. There would be the added benifit that one could have multiple Dust Puppies all the way down the side of the page!
Or you could simply view the HTML source, find the filename, and download it directly
Or you could just scroll down and click on on of the "Download this movie" links.
All of the documentation that Be would require to support the PMG3's exists in the form of MkLinux. JLG is just pissed off that Apple bought NeXT instead of Be, hence the FUD.
I am getting sick and tired about hearing how evil Apple has been to Be regarding the G3 specs. There are two open source OS's that run on Apple's G3's which Be could derive the required specs from. JLG is just pissed off that Apple won't bend over backwards to help him compete with them.
The law also criminalizes the distribution of software that makes forging email possible. Software like sendmail, for example, while probably not an intended target of the law, would be illegal under it.
Thanks for your reply. I have to say that yours is absolutely the best java implimentation of Tetris that I have come across. Anyway, as far as I know, the only legitimate beef they have with you is your use of the "Tetris" trademark. It is interesting that they feel they own the right to the look and feel in such a broad sence that your "Colors" game infringes. It is pretty clear that they are overstepping the bounds of common sense. Of course, I am not a lawyer.
If you look on the www.tetris.com site, click on "the company" then "piracy", Then click on "Tetris is a copyrighted game -- what does this mean to me" they have the following quote:
The protected expression of the TETRIS games is the concept of a "brick" or "block" game in which differently-shaped Tetranimoes, each including four cells (or even some other number), fall from the top of the screen and are arranged by the player to complete horizontal lines. Later versions of TETRIS, whether created by Elorg or others, are derivative works. These may not be made, used or distributed without the consent of the Tetris Company.
This, in effect, says that anyone who distributes anything remotely like tetris is a pirate. Could this be grounds for a libel suit against them? I guess you would have to prove that they are knowingly damaging the reputations of freeware authors by calling them "pirates". Or something. Anyway, I Am Not A Lawyer.
Well, an emulator for those who don't want to pay Nintendo for one. duh.
www.rotaru.com is down. This site had excelent java versions of Tetris and Pentix. Aparantly the maintainer of the site got a "cease and desist" letter.
If you go to the site there is a vague explanation.
And besides, there is the trouble of trademark dilution, so they have to object to all unlicenced use.
In the case of Tetris, I think that horse escapted from the barn a long time ago...
IANAL, but I don't think that that clause is legally enforceable.
In any case, there is at least one other clear use for the emulator that wouldn't be illegal: N64 software development. I would imagine that it would be usefull even to Nintendo's in house developers (that is, assuming they don't already have their own emulator)
The only thing I have to say is... I couldn't of said it better myself!
OK, lets disect this, shall we?
Now this is interesting. Well, not really, it's the typical narrow mindset of homosexuals in general.
Starting with a broad, bigoted generalization is a great way to flag yourself as a dumbass.
This guy implies he's openminded and thinks for himself, yet is so closeminded that he can't fathom people actually coming to the conclusion that they oppose homosexuality of their own accord, by their own reasoning.
People don't form bigoted views on their own, they are tought by people like Falwell. A good example of this process is what hapened in the south with white laborers who identified with the black slaves more then with the slaves' masters. The white laborers were treated little better then the slaves, and they, and of course the slaves as well, were getting adgitated. So the masters pitted the white laborers against the slaves by breading fear and hatred, and soon enough a revolutionary coelation between black slaves and white laborers was imposible due to the bigotry.
It's not POSSIBLE that anyone has either been gay and is no longer, has read up on the subject in both spiritual and scientific texts, or has possibly just sat down and thought about it and now opposes the lifestyle
The ex-gay movement is a sham and nothing more. The largest ex-gay ministry, "Exodus", was founded by two men who ended up falling in love with each other and leaving the ministry. They have detailed how they were responsible (when they were running the program) for falsifing studys that touted how successful the program was. For more information, rent the documentary "One Nation Under God", it details theirs' and others' stories. Furthermore, you could check out the website Anything That Moves for a Bisexual perspective on the whole ex-gay thing. The basic gist of it is that those who are held up as "success stories" of the ex-gay movment are most likely really bi, therefore it is unremarkable that they are able to function in a heterosexual monogamous relationship. People who are totally homosexual, on the other hand, simply can't be "cured", or even made to look cured in the long term.
I swear, talking to gays is like talking to irrational children.
This would be another one of those "dumbass flag" thingies I was talking about earlier.
I oppose homosexuality because not only does it contradict biblical values, but because my brother is a psycholgist and my other brother and father are doctors, and i've seen/heard of the evidence of it's destructiveness
Why do you care what I do in my bedroom? How can that posibly dammage you? Do you believe that God erred in making me bisexual? Are you aware that pretty much all of the professional psychologist and psychietrist(sp?) orgainizations have universally condemned the concept that homosexuality and bisexuality are diseases, or for that matter even, in themselves destructive? Are you even listening to yourself talk?
OH MY CHEESE, I'M THINKING FOR MYSELF BASED
ON INFORMATION AND ARRIVING AT A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION THAN YOU.
Oh my cheese? Huh? What the h e double hockey sticks is that supposed to mean? Oh yeah your really thinking for yourself. Open up your eyes, and you will see that you are being manipulated by those in power so that you pick on gays instead of realizing what a looser you are.
I won't say anything about teletubbies, i dno't know anything about it. But i can't help but think cmdrtaco, whom i'd respected till now, is furthering an agenda of his.
Well, it's his website, he can do what he wants. It's called freedom, and if you try to take it away from us, there will be h e double hockey sticks to pay.
The point is that there is so much sin in the world that it is ridiculous to single out homosexuality.
:)
I reject the idea that homosexuality is a sin. God made me bisexual, and did not do so in error, as I'm sure you'll agree. It would be a sin for me to not accept who I am.
If you say that it is ok to be queer, but not to "be a man who lies with another man" or whatever, then I say horsehockey! It has been shown time and time again that the relivent portions of The Bible that get quoted all the time are either simply not relivent within context, or are mis-translated, probably deliberately by Falwell like people who wanted to exert their power over other people, or use homosexuals as a scapegoat to focus their followers attention.
See my previous post on Falwell for more info.
I just can't shut up, I guess.
Actually, from what I understand, Islam doesn't condemn Jews or Christians, and actually holds them in a sort of respectful position as kind of "sister faiths", since all three religions were "revealed" by the same God (according to Islam), who is called "Allah" under Islam.
Of course, different Islamic people and governments may have different policies in that department, but it is they who are in violation of Islam, not the Christians.
Islam does call for pollythiests to be put to death, however, especially if the pollythiest in question converted from one of the "revealed" faiths.
This is all from memory of a high school class nine years ago, so I may be a bit off on the particulars.
Falwell is just like Hitler. If he were to come to power under similar circumstances, he would be just as bad.
I don't have a problem with people believing that I am a sinfull person for being bisexual, but it is necessary to forcefully speak out against people (like Falwell) who want the goverment to use it's power to eliminate "devient" speach and behaivior. It is people like Falwell who are directly responsible for inciting the hatefull attacks on gays, lesbians, and bisexual people.
For the record, I don't believe in so called "hate crime" legislation, I think it is unconstitutional to punish thought and speach. Fortunately, there are already laws against assult and murder, and a "hate crimes" law wouldn't make a difference in the case against the killers of Mathiew Shepard, since they are already facing death.
My philosophy on this is informed by the Bob Dylan song "Only a Pawn in Their Game", to summerize, the song is about the killing of Medgar Evers', who was a black civil rights leader. The song makes the point that the gunmen were not the only ones responsible, as they were raised from birth to hate blacks, and were simply used as a political tool in the hands of those in power. While I don't think Shepard's killers should go unpunished, I think we need to condemn (through forcefull speach, since we can't bring the law down on speach) those who were using them as a tool.
Ultimatly it is the thirst for power, the desire to pronounce ones will over other people, that leads to this evil. Even members of oppressed groups are not immune (or even less prone) to this mindset, one only has to look at how the Palistinens are treated by the Isrealies to see this. There was an incident recently where a gay Mardi Gras group denied membership to several people, simply because they were bisexual, and not gay.
Anyway, I'm rambling, so I'll shut up now.
either that or they really meant 5000 platters.
"Will" of "Will and Grace" has the wooden computer in his office. You are right, sitcom characters have a disturbing lack of cash flow problems. There are very few exceptions, "Rosanne" comes to mind.
There is at least one company selling rackmount Macs, they take off the shelf Apple equipment and put them in their own cases.
There used to be one in an arcade where I lived and now it is gone. :(
He should just put a sticker on his machine that says "iMac", and forcefully insist that it actually is an iMac, even when the installation techs tell him it isn't.
Please remain calm.
IANAL, but defending IP to avoid loosing it only applies to trademarks, not to copyrights or patents.
I don't recall reading anything about Apple suing Ardi for their Executor product. Considering that Connectix, like Ardi, has used none of Sony's or Apple's (respectivly) intelectual property, they would be laughed out of court.
The transcript would look something like this:
Sony: They copied our playstation! That's not
nice! Whaaaaaaa!
Judge: Now Sony, you need to learn to share. Go
apologize to Connectix right now or you'll
have to stay in during recess!
Of course, your "vile thievery" comment gives away your post for the troll that it is.
I'm pretty sure that the Mitsubishi is 20" viewable even though they call it a 22" monitor, which puts it in the same category with other 21" monitors. There seems to be a trend in the monitor industry to play games with the specs. Even dot pitch is being flubbed with, Hitachi states the horizontal dot pitch (which is often .21 or .22 mm instead of the diagonal dot pitch that most other companys state (which, for a monitor with a horizontal dot pitch of .22 mm would be about .26 mm) Also the maximum resolution on that Viewsonic monitor is 1920 x 1440, not 1600 x 1200. see http://www.viewsonic.com/prod/DATA SHTS/PT795.HTM