It's okay. Apparently today Wizards of the Coast announced that they are suing SquareEnix over FF's use of tabs in games as well. WotC argues that when they bought TSR, they acquired the rights to different sections (referred to as "tabs" internally) for different parts of the DND character sheet.
Avid players of FF will note that since FF1, the UI for the character information has also divided the data into sections that they refer to as "tabs" internally as well. SquareEnix has been infringing on their patent since 1987.
I'm glad someone's finally taking a stand against SquareEnix!
It seems to be common to misuse FF as the FireFox abbreviation. Indeed, I can produce countless IRC logs of instances when users bash each other for using incorrect abbreviations.
Often, the FF acronym is associated with Final Fantasy, (FFVI was released in America as FFIII for anyone who doesn't get the reference).
The Konqueror browser I'm typing this from has 18 open tabs and has been open for probably about a week or two. It's consuming 475MB of virtual memory and 116MB of resident memory, but I have had a *lot* more tabs open in the past. I can rarely keep Firefox going for more than 24 hours or so, and it gobbles up memory at an astronomical rate (even 1.5.0.6).
My Firefox (CVS trunk build, so technically unstable) has been running for about a week also. It has approximately 30 tabs (and was running over 50 two days ago). The memory management is much better in the "unstable" versions of Firefox.
Even with all my tabs open, and 15 installed extensions, it consumes 275MB virtual memory and 120 resident memory.
But I haven't used the "stable" version of Firefox for months, so I can't comment on that.
You've obviously never studied a foreign language....
I'm studying modern Greek right now and, let me tell you, there's a *huge* difference between "O filos mou kai ego" (My friend and I) and (in Latin instead of Greek letters) "Emena kai ton filo mou" (Me in my friend).
In Greek, especially, as "O filos mou kai ego mathenoume" and "Emena kai ton filo mou mathenoume" mean completely different things, but rely on the same principle of having correct object/subject. The difference here is that in the first, "My friend and I study," uses the subject form, while the second, "We study my friend and me," uses the object forms of the same words!
Also, the Mozilla Firefox trunk build (3.0) has an automagical speel cheeker.
I'm using it now, and it's not bad. Recognized "Mozilla" "Firefox" "speel" "automagical" and "cheeker" as errors.
That's true, but the fact that they're even aware of a license that was created for the purpose of distributing man pages and wiki's and the likes tells you something.
I'm still rather annoyed with my Programming teacher who made us use the VB IDE. While The language alone was not IMO that great, the IDE caused bulky code that was hell to work with in plain text form. Yes it was, erm, "prettier," but for beginning students, if they ever want to get an idea of what real debugging is like, it's best to give them a simple text editor so they can learn the language for what it is and not have to rely on the IDE's "features" in order to do what they need to do.
To sum it up, I had a much better time learning C++ with vi than VB through an IDE, however some students like to learn the IDE. I suggest you let the student choose what to use.
I have to thank my brother for turning me onto this band
He always believed that it was more support to go visit a band in concert and honestly, Pearl Jam has always been one of my favorite bands since I was introduced to them. I have a friend who has a band who shares this whole concept of making their music available, and they ended up opening for Sublime one time. It's a Good Thing (TM) some mainstream bands are taking a stand against RIAA.
"I hope that fair use copies of CDs are made legal in the legislation as well. It would be crazy to allow people to create a copy of their music for their iPod, but not for their car CD player. I guess if this isn't allowed, I can just create an MP3 CD for my car, since that would be format shifting, and my car CD player plays MP3s fine
Now, I'm not an expert on Australian law, but I don't believe CD to CD is "format shifting."
No, not a troll. If the US has allowed us to rip CD's to MP3's, how come we here in the erroneously termed Land of the Free can't even listen to said MP3's!
Wonder if Australia has more sane software patent laws...
I believe CUNT (Citizens United Negating Technology) from GTA:Liberty City Stories already gives us a decent disclaimer, and this was from the fictional year of 1998...
In 10th grade, I took Trigonometry (senior class) and we got to use graphing calculators. Instantly, I figured out how to do BASIC on them (through trial and error) in order to solve my problems and to use on tests. The calculator programs I wrote were much more error-free than my brain:)
Nevertheless, I began expanding my programming and wrote a simple RPG game engineand GUI for the TI and did some work on a game. The engine took into account armor class, weapons, the six basic DND stats, and more. The GUI for the battle scenes showed your and up to four enemies' stats and was made so you simply press a button to attack, defend, etc.
This experience lead me to take a C++ and VB6 programming class at my school, which (honestly) sucks! I learn more through online courses than through the class. We're one of only two schools in my district that even have a programming class and the teacher doesn't even know what she's talking about. I tend to be the one to teach new concepts to friends. Also, she's pushing VB6 instead of C++, which IMO is a horrible, bloated language.
Yes, I've used Linux for over a year as my primary OS. Yes, I have a website on a home server. Yes, I hacked through the school's firewall using ssh created a nerfed user that my friends could use to do it also. Yes, I'm a geek.
In conclusion, it's NOT the geeks that are at fault! The calculators help students to program! I'm in twelth grade, and the programming classes in high school SUCK! We need better teachers if students want to program.
Verizon DSL is half the cost for 12x the speed, and maintains a more stable connection (no kicks), but my parents aren't about to let go of their security blanket...though I don't know if "security" is the right term.
This concept of habit is also the same reason they won't make a complete switch to Linux and OOo. They claim to like M$ Word, Windoze and of course AOL and Quickbooks -- Non-compatible software that they pay extra for to M$ Intuit and AOL. It's not worth it, honestly.
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Nevermind, someone beat me to this by 15 minutes...
Oh, this is too easy...
Don't you mean [Cancel] [Continue]?
Silly backwards Firefox logic....
A +5 Redundant Mod for no reason? Please?! C'mon
It's okay. Apparently today Wizards of the Coast announced that they are suing SquareEnix over FF's use of tabs in games as well. WotC argues that when they bought TSR, they acquired the rights to different sections (referred to as "tabs" internally) for different parts of the DND character sheet.
Avid players of FF will note that since FF1, the UI for the character information has also divided the data into sections that they refer to as "tabs" internally as well. SquareEnix has been infringing on their patent since 1987.
I'm glad someone's finally taking a stand against SquareEnix!
Wait, you have problems finding these?
And you're using Slashdot?!
Mod Parent Up!
It seems to be common to misuse FF as the FireFox abbreviation. Indeed, I can produce countless IRC logs of instances when users bash each other for using incorrect abbreviations.
Often, the FF acronym is associated with Final Fantasy, (FFVI was released in America as FFIII for anyone who doesn't get the reference).
For the record, the proper abbreviation is Fx.
Bad example...
The Konqueror browser I'm typing this from has 18 open tabs and has been open for probably about a week or two. It's consuming 475MB of virtual memory and 116MB of resident memory, but I have had a *lot* more tabs open in the past. I can rarely keep Firefox going for more than 24 hours or so, and it gobbles up memory at an astronomical rate (even 1.5.0.6).
My Firefox (CVS trunk build, so technically unstable) has been running for about a week also. It has approximately 30 tabs (and was running over 50 two days ago). The memory management is much better in the "unstable" versions of Firefox.
Even with all my tabs open, and 15 installed extensions, it consumes 275MB virtual memory and 120 resident memory.
But I haven't used the "stable" version of Firefox for months, so I can't comment on that.
You've obviously never studied a foreign language....
I'm studying modern Greek right now and, let me tell you, there's a *huge* difference between "O filos mou kai ego" (My friend and I) and (in Latin instead of Greek letters) "Emena kai ton filo mou" (Me in my friend).
In Greek, especially, as "O filos mou kai ego mathenoume" and "Emena kai ton filo mou mathenoume" mean completely different things, but rely on the same principle of having correct object/subject. The difference here is that in the first, "My friend and I study," uses the subject form, while the second, "We study my friend and me," uses the object forms of the same words!
Y'know you have a point... I changed it, thanks
/me thinks it's about time to choose a new one anyway...
Hey, why not have the best of both worlds?
Also, the Mozilla Firefox trunk build (3.0) has an automagical speel cheeker. I'm using it now, and it's not bad. Recognized "Mozilla" "Firefox" "speel" "automagical" and "cheeker" as errors.
That's true, but the fact that they're even aware of a license that was created for the purpose of distributing man pages and wiki's and the likes tells you something.
I graduated from High School about a week ago....
I'm still rather annoyed with my Programming teacher who made us use the VB IDE. While The language alone was not IMO that great, the IDE caused bulky code that was hell to work with in plain text form. Yes it was, erm, "prettier," but for beginning students, if they ever want to get an idea of what real debugging is like, it's best to give them a simple text editor so they can learn the language for what it is and not have to rely on the IDE's "features" in order to do what they need to do.
To sum it up, I had a much better time learning C++ with vi than VB through an IDE, however some students like to learn the IDE. I suggest you let the student choose what to use.
I have to thank my brother for turning me onto this band
He always believed that it was more support to go visit a band in concert and honestly, Pearl Jam has always been one of my favorite bands since I was introduced to them. I have a friend who has a band who shares this whole concept of making their music available, and they ended up opening for Sublime one time. It's a Good Thing (TM) some mainstream bands are taking a stand against RIAA.
"I hope that fair use copies of CDs are made legal in the legislation as well. It would be crazy to allow people to create a copy of their music for their iPod, but not for their car CD player. I guess if this isn't allowed, I can just create an MP3 CD for my car, since that would be format shifting, and my car CD player plays MP3s fine
Now, I'm not an expert on Australian law, but I don't believe CD to CD is "format shifting."
Hmm...my MP3 Player is a PSP...so unless it's online, I should probably say no.
But wait! I can put text documents (or html docs, or even pdf docs) and after a slight hack involving GTA, I can read them fine!
In fact, I tend to use my MP3 Player to read /. at school
Does it run on Linux?
No, not a troll. If the US has allowed us to rip CD's to MP3's, how come we here in the erroneously termed Land of the Free can't even listen to said MP3's!
Wonder if Australia has more sane software patent laws...
...been waiting a while to say that. FTFA: The easiest way to follow this tutorial is to use a command line client/SSH client (like PuTTY for Windows)
I believe CUNT (Citizens United Negating Technology) from GTA:Liberty City Stories already gives us a decent disclaimer, and this was from the fictional year of 1998...
Their site can be found at http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/
"by Anonymous Coward"
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Aren't the majority of these features pretty easy to implement using bash scripts?
rtorrent for Linux!
Errr... I'm a twelth grader in high school
In 10th grade, I took Trigonometry (senior class) and we got to use graphing calculators. Instantly, I figured out how to do BASIC on them (through trial and error) in order to solve my problems and to use on tests. The calculator programs I wrote were much more error-free than my brain :)
Nevertheless, I began expanding my programming and wrote a simple RPG game engineand GUI for the TI and did some work on a game. The engine took into account armor class, weapons, the six basic DND stats, and more. The GUI for the battle scenes showed your and up to four enemies' stats and was made so you simply press a button to attack, defend, etc.
This experience lead me to take a C++ and VB6 programming class at my school, which (honestly) sucks! I learn more through online courses than through the class. We're one of only two schools in my district that even have a programming class and the teacher doesn't even know what she's talking about. I tend to be the one to teach new concepts to friends. Also, she's pushing VB6 instead of C++, which IMO is a horrible, bloated language.
Yes, I've used Linux for over a year as my primary OS. Yes, I have a website on a home server. Yes, I hacked through the school's firewall using ssh created a nerfed user that my friends could use to do it also. Yes, I'm a geek.
In conclusion, it's NOT the geeks that are at fault! The calculators help students to program! I'm in twelth grade, and the programming classes in high school SUCK! We need better teachers if students want to program.
If we get enough people doing this, maybe we can slashdot AOL's e-mail servers. I think it would be a suitable punishment.
Verizon DSL is half the cost for 12x the speed, and maintains a more stable connection (no kicks), but my parents aren't about to let go of their security blanket...though I don't know if "security" is the right term.
This concept of habit is also the same reason they won't make a complete switch to Linux and OOo. They claim to like M$ Word, Windoze and of course AOL and Quickbooks -- Non-compatible software that they pay extra for to M$ Intuit and AOL. It's not worth it, honestly.