In case no-one sees it because it was posted by an AC, IEtab is the plug-in you're looking for. It basically allows you to use the IE rendering engine inside of Firefox, and works pretty well.
Completely agree, "To Far Away Times" is a masterpiece. The first time I heard it a friend mine, a badass piano player, was playing the song and it was so damn moving.
"that problem can be partly overcome with.zip and compression tools -- some, ironically, even supplied by Microsoft itself" ???
Come on, that's the most worthless statement I've heard in like a month. What the fuck was the point of that little jab? Microsoft makes compression tools... that can be used to compress something that Microsoft doesn't like! And some compression tools... run on WINDOWS, a Microsoft PRODUCT even! Holy crap they must be so pissed at themselves right now for going along with that whole compression thing. How blind could they have been!?
In other news, people can use their brains to think of shit they don't wanna think about! They don't want to think about it and yet their brains are being used to think of it anyway! That's just so ironic...
Not that people at Slashdot read the article, but I did, and it had something REALLY interesting that I haven't seen anyone mention:
FTFA:
One quote frequently attributed to the Microsoft chairman is that "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
However, Gates has long denied ever saying it, and no evidence has ever surfaced to show that he did. In 1996, when Gates was writing a syndicated newspaper column, a reader asked about the quote, and he replied, "No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things," he wrote, "but not that."
Perhaps he never said it at all? But then what would anti-Microsoft Slashdotters use as their trump card every time Bill Gates is mentioned???
It's just unfortunate that although this might ban the offending person, there's nothing stopping them from making another trial account and starting all over again, which is why I don't bother. I have never seen the same username spam about gold twice on my server, and that's because they don't have to use the same one.
The idea the GP had was fantastic, an option to ignore messages from trial accounts, but I imagine Blizzard would never implement this for fear of it damaging the "community."
I remember Killer Instinct Gold was one of the 60 fps ones, and that also came out pretty early. But most games were in fact 30 fps, which was fine for most people at the time.
I see your point here, but what I'm trying to emphasize here is that by the defective product being a keyboard, it's not going to be a software issue, it's going to be something physically wrong with the keyboard. Either the keyboard was abused by the user or something is broken about it that shouldn't be. In the first case, it probably shouldn't be replaced, depending on how the warranty treats this, but in the second case it should. But in either case, it shouldn't be dismissed because the user is running Linux.
I've had friends that abuse the kind of policies you're talking about here, but I don't think this keyboard issue is an example of that. If HP thinks it is, then they should have a more logical reason than blaming Linux.
There are some instances where software could screw up your hardware, such as overclocking a motherboard with the BIOS or overclocking a video card using various software programs.
But this is a keyboard. To think that installing Linux would mess up the keyboard in any permanent way is just insane. Unless she changed the keyboard layout to Dvorak or something, HP is just being greedy, and also stupid to think that the price of a keyboard outweighs the cost of the bad press they're receiving for this.
They deserve a Golden Hourglass award for 'extreme waste of time.' Not that I ever expect much of anything from the Slashdot editors, but having this comment is just stupid. If someone were to get some Linux distro working on a much weaker box than we're used to seeing it on, it wouldn't be labeled an "extreme waste of time." When a Linux distro is compacted enough to conveniently fit on a flash drive, it's not an extreme waste of time (though yes I get how something like this is definitely more useful). But this, because it's Windows, has to be an extreme waste of time.
It's a pretty big achievement, I think, to get WinXP to run on such a crappy setup, even more so because it IS Windows, which we're used to seeing require much more in terms of resources than a comparable Linux package. Maybe someone will figure out how to get WinXP running on their crappy but not-as-crappy box by reading this article.
Yeah, same here, it sounds like. Once I beat the 2nd boss, he just kind of froze there, and didn't explode into lots of goodies. It was truly sad...
But your strategy is a good one, and is probably the only way of defeating him. When I played the game, I was trying to just charge in and wasn't getting anywhere either, then I tried keeping my dots in an outer ring and it became incredibly simple to beat.
No power on Slashdot so great as the need to correct others' mistakes.
Ok, to actually be helpful here instead of being the 16th person to say 15 isn't prime (seriously, you should all be marked redundant) maybe the parent was thinking of 2^(2^n)+1, which is a Fermat Prime. Unfortunately, not even Fermat Primes are actually prime, Fermat just thought they were when he discovered them.
At least that's one sorta-good thing for the PS3, finally Instead of Sony's previous statement that they'll just let developers go nuts with whatever multiplayer service they want, they at least have a central location.
Not that this change will really sway anyone here to get a PS3 after all. Holes that deep are not easy to dig out of...
A great idea, but think about the kind of people that would use an additional search engine like that... I bet they don't use IE unless they're forced to, already.
For this to work, google needs to incorporate this into their main search engine, so that websites MUST be standards compliant or probably never make it to the first page of results. I don't think google would do this, unfortunately, must it'd be cool if they did. And if they can make one for the blind, they can surely make one for overall standards compliance.
But really, this is still a great idea, and it'd still help with whatever percentage (somewhere around 20% or something?) of users that don't use IE. That still may be enough to get website makers to start doing the right thing.
Regardless of whether or not insurance companies are actually raising your premium because of statistics or because they want some compensation back (is there any way to really tell?) insurance companies aren't there to be your friend when you're in need, they're there to make money. If you are in an accident, they really could not give a damn if it was your fault or not, all they care about is "oh, this is a reason to increase your premium dramatically, and there isn't a thing you can do about it."
My mother's car was scraped (while it was parked and she wasn't even in it) by some stupid young woman who didn't know how to pull out of a parking spot, and she suffered the consequences by being unable to switch to a different insurance company with better rates, because despite the police report saying she was not at fault it was still considered an accident. Fortunately her premiums didn't rise, but then she hasn't ever been at fault for an accident nor gotten a ticket for anything in decades of driving.
Recently I too was the victim of some idiot who I suppose didn't look out his rear view mirror when backing out of a parking spot and rammed into the side of my car. You think I reported that to the insurance company? Hell no, I'm a 21yo male college kid, what the hell do you think would have happened to my premium, despite the fact the car was parked and I wasn't in it? I'm willing to bet it would have been worth paying for all by myself without the help of the person at fault, when compared to the long-term rape the insurance company would put me through despite my clean driving history.
You talk about insurance companies as if they exist to be fair to people. Wake up, car insurance is required in the US by state law in (I believe this is correct) almost every single state, minus maybe three. Purchasing Microsoft software isn't the law in any state. And honestly, if you ask my (perhaps wildly unpopular to/.er's) opinion, insurance companies are more evil than MS. There, I said it.
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A solution looking for a problem.
If you're like me and have no idea what H-1B is, wikipedia has you covered:
"The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States... It allows U.S. employers to employ foreign guest workers in specialty occupations."
Oh it sounds like a great idea now, technology able to reveal previously undiscovered connections.
But then they'll finish it, call it the Intersect, and it'll accidentally get downloaded into the brain of a computer repair tech. Then what?
In case no-one sees it because it was posted by an AC, IEtab is the plug-in you're looking for. It basically allows you to use the IE rendering engine inside of Firefox, and works pretty well.
Completely agree, "To Far Away Times" is a masterpiece. The first time I heard it a friend mine, a badass piano player, was playing the song and it was so damn moving.
If you can't trust Pirate Bay, who can you trust?
Ok, I know we bash Microsoft all the time, but...
.zip and compression tools -- some, ironically, even supplied by Microsoft itself" ???
"that problem can be partly overcome with
Come on, that's the most worthless statement I've heard in like a month. What the fuck was the point of that little jab? Microsoft makes compression tools... that can be used to compress something that Microsoft doesn't like! And some compression tools... run on WINDOWS, a Microsoft PRODUCT even! Holy crap they must be so pissed at themselves right now for going along with that whole compression thing. How blind could they have been!?
In other news, people can use their brains to think of shit they don't wanna think about! They don't want to think about it and yet their brains are being used to think of it anyway! That's just so ironic...
FTFA:
Perhaps he never said it at all? But then what would anti-Microsoft Slashdotters use as their trump card every time Bill Gates is mentioned???
It's just unfortunate that although this might ban the offending person, there's nothing stopping them from making another trial account and starting all over again, which is why I don't bother. I have never seen the same username spam about gold twice on my server, and that's because they don't have to use the same one.
The idea the GP had was fantastic, an option to ignore messages from trial accounts, but I imagine Blizzard would never implement this for fear of it damaging the "community."
I remember Killer Instinct Gold was one of the 60 fps ones, and that also came out pretty early. But most games were in fact 30 fps, which was fine for most people at the time.
I see your point here, but what I'm trying to emphasize here is that by the defective product being a keyboard, it's not going to be a software issue, it's going to be something physically wrong with the keyboard. Either the keyboard was abused by the user or something is broken about it that shouldn't be. In the first case, it probably shouldn't be replaced, depending on how the warranty treats this, but in the second case it should. But in either case, it shouldn't be dismissed because the user is running Linux.
I've had friends that abuse the kind of policies you're talking about here, but I don't think this keyboard issue is an example of that. If HP thinks it is, then they should have a more logical reason than blaming Linux.
There are some instances where software could screw up your hardware, such as overclocking a motherboard with the BIOS or overclocking a video card using various software programs.
But this is a keyboard. To think that installing Linux would mess up the keyboard in any permanent way is just insane. Unless she changed the keyboard layout to Dvorak or something, HP is just being greedy, and also stupid to think that the price of a keyboard outweighs the cost of the bad press they're receiving for this.
Wow, wouldn't you be red in the face if the sun didn't rise tomorrow...
It's a pretty big achievement, I think, to get WinXP to run on such a crappy setup, even more so because it IS Windows, which we're used to seeing require much more in terms of resources than a comparable Linux package. Maybe someone will figure out how to get WinXP running on their crappy but not-as-crappy box by reading this article.
+1 Funny
Yeah, same here, it sounds like. Once I beat the 2nd boss, he just kind of froze there, and didn't explode into lots of goodies. It was truly sad...
But your strategy is a good one, and is probably the only way of defeating him. When I played the game, I was trying to just charge in and wasn't getting anywhere either, then I tried keeping my dots in an outer ring and it became incredibly simple to beat.
No power on Slashdot so great as the need to correct others' mistakes.
Ok, to actually be helpful here instead of being the 16th person to say 15 isn't prime (seriously, you should all be marked redundant) maybe the parent was thinking of 2^(2^n)+1, which is a Fermat Prime. Unfortunately, not even Fermat Primes are actually prime, Fermat just thought they were when he discovered them.
Or maybe this way the developers can't make the n00b mistake of only testing their games on HDTV's instead of on Standard ones.
Or at least I hope that's the reason, otherwise they're even stupider...
At least that's one sorta-good thing for the PS3, finally Instead of Sony's previous statement that they'll just let developers go nuts with whatever multiplayer service they want, they at least have a central location.
Not that this change will really sway anyone here to get a PS3 after all. Holes that deep are not easy to dig out of...
Ok, anyone who refers a movie as horrible as "The Core" for physics demonstrations deserves to be shot.
I mean, come on, unobtainium???
Oh, if I had mod points, I'd so mod you "Insightful."
But I don't...
A great idea, but think about the kind of people that would use an additional search engine like that... I bet they don't use IE unless they're forced to, already.
For this to work, google needs to incorporate this into their main search engine, so that websites MUST be standards compliant or probably never make it to the first page of results. I don't think google would do this, unfortunately, must it'd be cool if they did. And if they can make one for the blind, they can surely make one for overall standards compliance.
But really, this is still a great idea, and it'd still help with whatever percentage (somewhere around 20% or something?) of users that don't use IE. That still may be enough to get website makers to start doing the right thing.
Ha, reminds me of debugging in Visual Studio and having a bad memory address be 0xbaadf00d
That was hilarious the first time I saw it...
Although it is a file-sharing program, of all the ones I've used, Limewire is the one that actively DISCOURAGES copyright infringement the MOST.
I guess the RIAA couldn't go very long without finding another way to annoy the crap out of everyone...
Regardless of whether or not insurance companies are actually raising your premium because of statistics or because they want some compensation back (is there any way to really tell?) insurance companies aren't there to be your friend when you're in need, they're there to make money. If you are in an accident, they really could not give a damn if it was your fault or not, all they care about is "oh, this is a reason to increase your premium dramatically, and there isn't a thing you can do about it."
/.er's) opinion, insurance companies are more evil than MS. There, I said it.
My mother's car was scraped (while it was parked and she wasn't even in it) by some stupid young woman who didn't know how to pull out of a parking spot, and she suffered the consequences by being unable to switch to a different insurance company with better rates, because despite the police report saying she was not at fault it was still considered an accident. Fortunately her premiums didn't rise, but then she hasn't ever been at fault for an accident nor gotten a ticket for anything in decades of driving.
Recently I too was the victim of some idiot who I suppose didn't look out his rear view mirror when backing out of a parking spot and rammed into the side of my car. You think I reported that to the insurance company? Hell no, I'm a 21yo male college kid, what the hell do you think would have happened to my premium, despite the fact the car was parked and I wasn't in it? I'm willing to bet it would have been worth paying for all by myself without the help of the person at fault, when compared to the long-term rape the insurance company would put me through despite my clean driving history.
You talk about insurance companies as if they exist to be fair to people. Wake up, car insurance is required in the US by state law in (I believe this is correct) almost every single state, minus maybe three. Purchasing Microsoft software isn't the law in any state. And honestly, if you ask my (perhaps wildly unpopular to