I think people find pop-ups so irritating because they require effort to get rid of (ie. dragging the mouse and clicking on the X or whatever).
Given that we're used to short interruption based advertisments I think if the pop-ups disappeared by themselves after, say, 5 secs, they would be far less irksome.
Whilst the trailer for FF had some truly fantastic animation, I thought the voice acting and script was a tad on the dodgy side (although the whole `fire in the hole' thing was nicely reminicent of CS).
So I'd rather watch a Japanese dub with subtitles, lipsync or no-lipsync: I can justify any script weaknesses as too-literal translation and I'll have no clue as to the quality of the voice acting so I'll just assume it's good:)
Oxford University isn't that flush for cash: it provides a superb, individual, education for anyone who can pass the enterance criteria without charging any more than any other UK Uni.
Now, say I'm Alan Gay and I receive a letter from the MPAA throwing around legalese and veiled threats. What should I do? I've no idea of the legal situation? Inform all the relevant parties then pull the page pending further investigation.
I might not think the page is illegal, I might not even like the MPAA's tactics, but if I leave the page up, putting the University on the line because of my views, I run a possible risk (I don't know the legal status) of the University loosing lots of money to the detrement of the students, who are the guys who'd (eventually) have to pick up the bill. Maybe via American-style fees and hence destroy the `free education for all' ethos which is one of the corner stones of the British welfare state. It would have been irresponsible for Alan to act in any other way.
The University IMO should have been far more communicative and 'mailed the guy early on: the whole embarrasing fiasco over the spoof deCSS on the page perhaps could have been avoided. As for Alan's comments on spoofing being irresponsible, I think he's just embarrased and looking for a target:p
My views are my own and do not represent those of Balliol College, Oxford University, The Elite Project or anyone else!
I hear the guys at the Galileo Project: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh0780/ have been working on something similar for sometime, using neat continuous physics. It'd be great if they could get it up and people could add their own ships etc. Flend [apologies about repeat post, forgot password]
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Yeah, even though it's a not-for-profit venture, it's kinda prohibitive for students and the like:( I think it's really the slice that the venue takes which hikes the price up.
Maybe the next conference should take place in a field somewhere?:p
>The Good: > * The truth is that Linux suffers from >a dearth of real usable applications. This is >changing rapidly, but at the moment, the lack of >apps is the truth for most purposes.
I'm not sure this is really true, as a statement. Perhaps Linux suffers from a dearth of office apps, but as a fairly `typical' programmer sort, I never use such things. As a student, the glut of free (in both senses) excellent programming tools, text editors and similar apps makes Linux the choice on apps alone.
Perhaps for the majority of the great unwashed this is true, but do we really Linux to be a mainstream operating system?
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Is it not significant the new experimental kernel series 2.5 is being launched just as the `stable' 2.4 series finally becomes stable?
:)
Maybe even number kernels should only be declared stable when they have an experimental branch
Saying that, I've not had many problems with 2.4, bar terribly IDE performance on my hpt370 controller.
Hmmm, an Elite game which uses fractal planets?
What about, for example, Frontier: Elite2 which pretty much pioneered planet wide fractal terrain gen in a commercial game and ran on a 386.
Or, its sequel, Frontier: First Encounters which added texturing to make everything look a million times more ugle.
Or any of the recent fan-made clones, Millenium3 http:://m3fe.com or even The Eternal Project http://compsoc.net/~flend/tep/.
I think people find pop-ups so irritating because they require effort to get rid of (ie. dragging the mouse and clicking on the X or whatever).
Given that we're used to short interruption based advertisments I think if the pop-ups disappeared by themselves after, say, 5 secs, they would be far less irksome.
Whilst the trailer for FF had some truly fantastic animation, I thought the voice acting and script was a tad on the dodgy side (although the whole `fire in the hole' thing was nicely reminicent of CS).
:)
So I'd rather watch a Japanese dub with subtitles, lipsync or no-lipsync: I can justify any script weaknesses as too-literal translation and I'll have no clue as to the quality of the voice acting so I'll just assume it's good
Oxford University isn't that flush for cash: it provides a superb, individual, education for anyone who can pass the enterance criteria without charging any more than any other UK Uni.
Now, say I'm Alan Gay and I receive a letter from the MPAA throwing around legalese and veiled threats. What should I do? I've no idea of the legal situation? Inform all the relevant parties then pull the page pending further investigation.
I might not think the page is illegal, I might not even like the MPAA's tactics, but if I leave the page up, putting the University on the line because of my views, I run a possible risk (I don't know the legal status) of the University loosing lots of money to the detrement of the students, who are the guys who'd (eventually) have to pick up the bill. Maybe via American-style fees and hence destroy the `free education for all' ethos which is one of the corner stones of the British welfare state. It would have been irresponsible for Alan to act in any other way.
The University IMO should have been far more communicative and 'mailed the guy early on: the whole embarrasing fiasco over the spoof deCSS on the page perhaps could have been avoided. As for Alan's comments on spoofing being irresponsible, I think he's just embarrased and looking for a target :p
My views are my own and do not represent those of Balliol College, Oxford University, The Elite Project or anyone else!
I hear the guys at the Galileo Project: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh0780/ have been working on something similar for sometime, using neat continuous physics. It'd be great if they could get it up and people could add their own ships etc. Flend [apologies about repeat post, forgot password]
I would prefer a Misoto.
Yeah, even though it's a not-for-profit :(
:p
venture, it's kinda prohibitive for students
and the like
I think it's really the slice that the venue
takes which hikes the price up.
Maybe the next conference should take place in
a field somewhere?
Personally I find XEmacs a wonderful IDE, far better than the RHIDE for DOS.
Anyway, if you want games, why not help us out on The Elite Project at http://compsoc.net/~flend/tep/tep.html or another OS project?
>The Good:
> * The truth is that Linux suffers from >a dearth of real usable applications. This is >changing rapidly, but at the moment, the lack of >apps is the truth for most purposes.
I'm not sure this is really true, as a statement. Perhaps Linux suffers from a dearth of office apps, but as a fairly `typical' programmer sort, I never use such things. As a student, the glut of free (in both senses) excellent programming tools, text editors and similar apps makes Linux the choice on apps alone.
Perhaps for the majority of the great unwashed this is true, but do we really Linux to be a mainstream operating system?
For a scary game try System Shock...blows DOOM
away on that front IMO. DOS only unfortunately.
Is a reasonable game API for X. Ports exist to DirectX and DOS, making it useful for cross-platform work.
However, we really need a good fast low-level graphics API, I hope GGI will provide this.
www.talula.demon.co.uk for details on allegro
Tom
WC4 was the worst game I've ever played.
It was _so_ bad. I wish I could have turned the
game off and watched the cutscenes.
Play Elite instead.
I think you're right...I imagine MS will go with they're own Window Manager but rewriting X would be slightly pointless, no?