There is another extension that allows you to install extensions backwards from your current version - it's called MR Tech Local Install. It also lets you install extensions from your local disk so that you can keep a directory full of your favorite extension xpi files and install them at a moment's notice without having to search Mozilla's addon pages.
Saying "OSS Commercial Software" is like saying "ATM Machine" or "PIN Number" -- the final word in the phrase is already represented in the original acronym.
- Automated Teller Machine Machine
- Personal Identification Number Number
- Open Source Software Commercial Software
How about this instead:
- Commercial OSS
People already look down at us for being nerds. Let's at least try not to sound like nincompoops to boot.
Well said! I don't think there's any game that a kid needs the privacy of his/her own room to enjoy. If he/she does, maybe he/she shouldn't be playing that kind of game. In regards to the studies, I think there's an old saying that goes very well here: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I actually HAVE to devote time out of my day each day to recreation, or my mind does not get the right mix of "pain and pleasure" so to speak, and it burns out - FAST. Two to three days without recreation will find me staring off into space, completely incapable of any sort of complex thought processes. It's been said before, but it bears repeating... Everything in moderation. We saw what prohibition did to alcohol. Let's not make video games a forbidden fruit that the kids might get up in the middle of the night to play after the parents have gone to bed. The effects of that scenario would be even worse than anything this "study" covered.
Libertarians unite! Seriously, if you want two pizzas, I'll buy you one as well. That was a very well-written paragraph, and I couldn't have said it any better myself.
I beg to differ. I've installed many a current Linux distribution on machines matching that spec. The fact that the big, graphics-intensive ones won't install shouldn't limit you. For example, Debian is extremely efficient at running on ancient hardware, and a desktop environment with small resource usage would keep those resources free for the programs and kernel. I recently installed DamnSmallLinux on a machine with a 166MHz proc and 32MB of RAM. Ran like a dream. Even got Doom running on it.
I run Kubuntu at home and Kanotix on my laptop, but I really wish that people would stop assuming that the only Linux distributions around are the big ones. Choose a distro that suits the hardware. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
WHAT???
You pay the equivalent of a month's unlimited Internet access on the ground for 11 hours of access in the air? Stop doing that! By paying a ridiculous fee like that, you are telling the airlines it's OK to charge that much. Vote with your wallet!
...above 500 GHz by cryogenically "freezing" the circuit to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit (4.5 Kelvins).
How long before I can get a kit like that for my P4?
Fahrenheit -451, eh? Sounds familiar. I wonder if that's the temperature at which paper is fragile enough to break into millions of tiny pieces, T-1000 style.
I agree with this comment entirely. It's nonsensical to do raw number crunching on a mobile platform. Instead, you should be tunneling into a server with some real horsepower with SSH or a VPN, and then possibly connecting the GUI as well. RDP and VNC can both be tunneled through SSH. Once you're done doing all of the number crunching, then you can transfer the data back over. If the client needs the data crunched on-site, tell them to buy their own server rack.
Hah! The germs in my fraternity house are beginning to use rudimentary speech like grunts. Course, they're pretty small still, so it's kinda like chirps. Regardless, nothing is worse than squatting on a grunting/chirping john.
Pax: "I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself."
Here's my own personal contribution:
Emo Kid: "I hate my dad. Nobody understands me. I'd kill myself but then I wouldn't be able to write songs about killing myself. Does my hair look ok? I dunno. I think it might be too short because I can still see out of one eye. I think my jeans are too loose."
Hm, while we're talking about beta/not released, etc, let's make a "maiden voyage" comparison with a very relevant quote:
"...when the New York office of the White Star Line was informed that Titanic was in trouble, White Star Line Vice President P.A.S. Franklin announced 'We place absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe the boat is unsinkable.'"
Source: http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/unsinkable. htm
A geek flexing his mental muscles is still a geek; girls will still put him in the friend zone.
Geeks don't have to be socially/relationally undesirable. The problem that many geeks have is they don't get out enough to gain the social intelligence necessary to avoid the occasional faux pas that labels them as "odd" for the remainder of the conversation. I have a few theories on why geeks have a hard time in social situations:
1) Geeks spend a lot of time interacting with people online, which is different from face to face communication in two very real ways. First, there are no facial expressions or body language online, and most people have learned to compensate for that with more descriptive "speech" that outlines both the concept and the speaker's feelings on the matter. Emoticons are pretty useful, actually. The effect of this is that geeks are often accustomed to being aware of the other party's feelings without having to read facial expressions or body language, so when they end up in a real conversation, they completely discard the visual inputs from the other party, and thus miss out on some very important cues as to what they are feeling. I've been insulted, harassed, annoyed, and generally made uncomfortable by many a geek. They weren't trying to be annoying; they just didn't know how to read my reactions to their behavior. Second, E-Mail and IM are very different from regular speech in that there is a *backspace button*. When you're talking to someone in person and you say something stupid or insulting, you're SOL. But online, you have that trusty backspace key. People who are used to having the ability to review their communication before transmission sometimes have trouble communicating face to face because we often form sentences as we're speaking them. Communicating on the fly is much more difficult than "buffered" communication like E-Mail and IM. Geeks are disadvantaged in face to face communication because they don't get enough practice at this more difficult form of communication.
2) It seems to me that a lot of geeks are quite concerned with what other people think about them. I am a firm believer that most of the malware out there was written by geeks who were trying to prove themselves in attempt to gain acceptance. However, this desire to be accepted often leads to *trying* to be accepted, which is ok in the geek world where you have to pass some kind of test, but in the real world, if people see you trying too hard, it kind of gives you a "pathetic" reputation. Instead of trying to fit in, geeks can learn a lot about what is acceptable and what is not by just shutting up and listening to other people talk. People love to talk, so if a geek can use his few words to encourage others to talk about themselves, he/she will accomplish two feats: a) making the other person feel good because someone is interested in them, and b) collecting data on social speaking and mannerism norms.
I won't claim to be 100% socialite and 100% geek - it's more like a balanced mix of the two that allows me to enjoy the best of both worlds.
You make good points, but you missed a few things. First of all, GAIM should try to support the features that the native client supports. It's designed to be a total replacement solution, so intentionally leaving features out is a no-no. However, GAIM is a plugin-based program, so if the dev team wants to keep the focus of the development on the core functionality and leave it up to the community to develop a file transfer plugin, that would be OK too.
Next, the idea of a native client supporting more than one network goes completely against the business model that they developed the program to follow:
1) Make free IM product
2) Make it easy to use
3) Put ad support in
4) Charge for ad space
5) Profit!
If they allowed their client to connect to other networks, they destroy their switching costs. Can you imagine what would happen if a complimentary copy of Jasc Paint Shop Pro came with your Adobe Photoshop? Sure, most people would stick with Photoshop, but some people might switch, which would steal Adobe's business. To conclude, interoperability is not in the best interests of the companies who operate the networks, unless they merge.
To solve your problem, you and your friends should set up an SFTP server and use that for file transfers. If your friends get all whiny about you not being able to receive files, just tell them that you'll be the one shaking your head when they get a virus.
"If you can't figure this out, you're not good enough to be part of our club."
That is exactly the mentality that is keeping Linux off the desktop. The problems that most people have are far from insurmountable if they are given the right kind of guidance - the real hurdle that's holding back Linux on the desktop is these elitists who won't offer that kind of guidance because they do see Linux as a trial by fire. As long as that's the case, this powerful, versatile operataing system will remain in a constant state of obscurity, pushed aside by inferior operating systems with more supportive, friendly and helpful experts backing them.
You're definitely right. The scene in Eurotrip that depicts nudity in european advertising is not completely made up. Europeans are much more accustomed to nudity, and I imagine that a US version of Maxim would not sell as well in the UK because of this. For goodness sakes people, just because there's boobies doesn't mean there's spyware. There's a big difference, and if these people are redflagging Maxim, they're obviously just another NetNanny. Move along, nothing to see here.
It's unfortunate that what you've said is so true. I believe that many Linux users gain an elitist mentality and don't feel like passing their knowledge on to newbies. I've been in the newbie seat before, and I can tell you that in most cases, talking to an IRC room full of Linux gurus is one of the most painful things a newbie can do. The only reason I got to where I am now is because I was very tenacious about learning and when I was refused help, I went elsewhere. Incidentally, the forums at knoppix.net and the #kanotix room on irc.freenode.net are both excellent sources for newbies. I gained much of my knowledge through those places and try to contribute back as often as possible.
I don't think I've ever seen this many Score:5 Funny comments on any given/. article ever. More serious note:
I find the whole DNF saga tragic. They're trying to create the ultimate game, but the longer they wait, the more spectacular it will have to be in order to be considered a) worth the wait and... b) better than whatever else is out at the time. 3D Realms had their time, but the electronic entertainment industry is one of the most competitive out there, and firms like 3D Realms just don't stand a chance of survival unless they can produce quality product on a consistent basis. I have the feeling that they're reworking their game every time some new trendy concept becomes popular. For example, how much you wanna bet that one of the "start from scratch" moments was when bullet-time got huge? Remember Max Payne and how revolutionary it was? I'd be willing to wager that 3D Realms has an Achilles' Heel, and that is a propensity to go chasing after whatever is popular rather than trying to set their own trends.
3D Realms: Take a hint from Rockstar and create a new game. Create a game no one has played before. Bring elements into the game that are truly unique. At this point, with all the time and money you have invested in the project, it's too late to make anything mediocre. Be creative and think outside the box, because if you copycat, people will call you on it, and you will lose everything.
No, GHz really is of very little importance. Take a look at the benchmark differences between AMD and Intel chips. AMD's Athlon XP chips did more work per clock cycle than any Pentium 4 processor of the same vintage. Next, look at Intel's offerings compared amongst themselves. A 3GHz Pentium 4 and a 3GHz Celeron are also drastically different. A 1.8GHz Opteron will spank a 2GHz Athlon XP any day.
Differences in work done per clock cycle don't just apply to the PowerPC architecture. I know you were probably just trying to be funny/cute, but the fact remains that once CPUs started hitting the hundreds of MHz, the performance gap grew and people began to notice how architecture efficiency really played a part in performance. It's even more true today than it was then.
Exploiting^H^H^H^H^Hring the ATI/AMD Rumor
Sorry, but this is just Intel taking advantage of the rumor to try and get nVidia pissed at AMD. Until I hear this directly from AMD, I will consider it FUD.
All well and good, but the benchmarks were not the headline. The GHz was the headline, which is about as useful as a Porsche ad saying "The new Carerra 911 is faster because it's red!" If they really want to get my attention, the headline needs to read "Gaming box trounces closest competitor by X% CPU performance!"
4GHz means virtually nothing to me these days. All it says is that the CPU is cycling at 4 billion times per second, but it doesn't say how much work is being done per cycle. Comparing GHz is apples and oranges. Real life testing is where it's at. Give me hard data.
Well, all this talk of truce and peace offerings reminds me of a story once told of the Greek army giving a peace offering to the city of Troy... For the full story, you'll have to RTFI (Read The F*cking Iliad)
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There is another extension that allows you to install extensions backwards from your current version - it's called MR Tech Local Install. It also lets you install extensions from your local disk so that you can keep a directory full of your favorite extension xpi files and install them at a moment's notice without having to search Mozilla's addon pages.
Saying "OSS Commercial Software" is like saying "ATM Machine" or "PIN Number" -- the final word in the phrase is already represented in the original acronym.
- Automated Teller Machine Machine
- Personal Identification Number Number
- Open Source Software Commercial Software
How about this instead:
- Commercial OSS
People already look down at us for being nerds. Let's at least try not to sound like nincompoops to boot.
Well said! I don't think there's any game that a kid needs the privacy of his/her own room to enjoy. If he/she does, maybe he/she shouldn't be playing that kind of game.
In regards to the studies, I think there's an old saying that goes very well here:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I actually HAVE to devote time out of my day each day to recreation, or my mind does not get the right mix of "pain and pleasure" so to speak, and it burns out - FAST. Two to three days without recreation will find me staring off into space, completely incapable of any sort of complex thought processes. It's been said before, but it bears repeating...
Everything in moderation. We saw what prohibition did to alcohol. Let's not make video games a forbidden fruit that the kids might get up in the middle of the night to play after the parents have gone to bed. The effects of that scenario would be even worse than anything this "study" covered.
Libertarians unite! Seriously, if you want two pizzas, I'll buy you one as well. That was a very well-written paragraph, and I couldn't have said it any better myself.
I beg to differ. I've installed many a current Linux distribution on machines matching that spec. The fact that the big, graphics-intensive ones won't install shouldn't limit you. For example, Debian is extremely efficient at running on ancient hardware, and a desktop environment with small resource usage would keep those resources free for the programs and kernel. I recently installed DamnSmallLinux on a machine with a 166MHz proc and 32MB of RAM. Ran like a dream. Even got Doom running on it.
I run Kubuntu at home and Kanotix on my laptop, but I really wish that people would stop assuming that the only Linux distributions around are the big ones. Choose a distro that suits the hardware. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
WHAT??? You pay the equivalent of a month's unlimited Internet access on the ground for 11 hours of access in the air? Stop doing that! By paying a ridiculous fee like that, you are telling the airlines it's OK to charge that much. Vote with your wallet!
Fahrenheit -451, eh? Sounds familiar. I wonder if that's the temperature at which paper is fragile enough to break into millions of tiny pieces, T-1000 style.
I was 19 when I graduated. It's not uncommon. Dumb lawsuit - hope it gets laughed out of court.
I agree with this comment entirely. It's nonsensical to do raw number crunching on a mobile platform. Instead, you should be tunneling into a server with some real horsepower with SSH or a VPN, and then possibly connecting the GUI as well. RDP and VNC can both be tunneled through SSH. Once you're done doing all of the number crunching, then you can transfer the data back over. If the client needs the data crunched on-site, tell them to buy their own server rack.
Hah! The germs in my fraternity house are beginning to use rudimentary speech like grunts. Course, they're pretty small still, so it's kinda like chirps. Regardless, nothing is worse than squatting on a grunting/chirping john.
New Clowns... Same Old Circus.
Hm, while we're talking about beta/not released, etc, let's make a "maiden voyage" comparison with a very relevant quote:. htm
"...when the New York office of the White Star Line was informed that Titanic was in trouble, White Star Line Vice President P.A.S. Franklin announced 'We place absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe the boat is unsinkable.'"
Source: http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/unsinkable
1) Geeks spend a lot of time interacting with people online, which is different from face to face communication in two very real ways. First, there are no facial expressions or body language online, and most people have learned to compensate for that with more descriptive "speech" that outlines both the concept and the speaker's feelings on the matter. Emoticons are pretty useful, actually. The effect of this is that geeks are often accustomed to being aware of the other party's feelings without having to read facial expressions or body language, so when they end up in a real conversation, they completely discard the visual inputs from the other party, and thus miss out on some very important cues as to what they are feeling. I've been insulted, harassed, annoyed, and generally made uncomfortable by many a geek. They weren't trying to be annoying; they just didn't know how to read my reactions to their behavior. Second, E-Mail and IM are very different from regular speech in that there is a *backspace button*. When you're talking to someone in person and you say something stupid or insulting, you're SOL. But online, you have that trusty backspace key. People who are used to having the ability to review their communication before transmission sometimes have trouble communicating face to face because we often form sentences as we're speaking them. Communicating on the fly is much more difficult than "buffered" communication like E-Mail and IM. Geeks are disadvantaged in face to face communication because they don't get enough practice at this more difficult form of communication.
2) It seems to me that a lot of geeks are quite concerned with what other people think about them. I am a firm believer that most of the malware out there was written by geeks who were trying to prove themselves in attempt to gain acceptance. However, this desire to be accepted often leads to *trying* to be accepted, which is ok in the geek world where you have to pass some kind of test, but in the real world, if people see you trying too hard, it kind of gives you a "pathetic" reputation. Instead of trying to fit in, geeks can learn a lot about what is acceptable and what is not by just shutting up and listening to other people talk. People love to talk, so if a geek can use his few words to encourage others to talk about themselves, he/she will accomplish two feats: a) making the other person feel good because someone is interested in them, and b) collecting data on social speaking and mannerism norms.
I won't claim to be 100% socialite and 100% geek - it's more like a balanced mix of the two that allows me to enjoy the best of both worlds.
You make good points, but you missed a few things.
First of all, GAIM should try to support the features that the native client supports. It's designed to be a total replacement solution, so intentionally leaving features out is a no-no. However, GAIM is a plugin-based program, so if the dev team wants to keep the focus of the development on the core functionality and leave it up to the community to develop a file transfer plugin, that would be OK too.
Next, the idea of a native client supporting more than one network goes completely against the business model that they developed the program to follow:
1) Make free IM product
2) Make it easy to use
3) Put ad support in
4) Charge for ad space
5) Profit!
If they allowed their client to connect to other networks, they destroy their switching costs. Can you imagine what would happen if a complimentary copy of Jasc Paint Shop Pro came with your Adobe Photoshop? Sure, most people would stick with Photoshop, but some people might switch, which would steal Adobe's business. To conclude, interoperability is not in the best interests of the companies who operate the networks, unless they merge.
To solve your problem, you and your friends should set up an SFTP server and use that for file transfers. If your friends get all whiny about you not being able to receive files, just tell them that you'll be the one shaking your head when they get a virus.
You're definitely right. The scene in Eurotrip that depicts nudity in european advertising is not completely made up. Europeans are much more accustomed to nudity, and I imagine that a US version of Maxim would not sell as well in the UK because of this. For goodness sakes people, just because there's boobies doesn't mean there's spyware. There's a big difference, and if these people are redflagging Maxim, they're obviously just another NetNanny. Move along, nothing to see here.
Produced != Developed. Remedy Entertainment made the game. Production is a different story.
It's unfortunate that what you've said is so true. I believe that many Linux users gain an elitist mentality and don't feel like passing their knowledge on to newbies. I've been in the newbie seat before, and I can tell you that in most cases, talking to an IRC room full of Linux gurus is one of the most painful things a newbie can do. The only reason I got to where I am now is because I was very tenacious about learning and when I was refused help, I went elsewhere. Incidentally, the forums at knoppix.net and the #kanotix room on irc.freenode.net are both excellent sources for newbies. I gained much of my knowledge through those places and try to contribute back as often as possible.
I don't think I've ever seen this many Score:5 Funny comments on any given /. article ever.
More serious note:
I find the whole DNF saga tragic. They're trying to create the ultimate game, but the longer they wait, the more spectacular it will have to be in order to be considered
a) worth the wait and...
b) better than whatever else is out at the time.
3D Realms had their time, but the electronic entertainment industry is one of the most competitive out there, and firms like 3D Realms just don't stand a chance of survival unless they can produce quality product on a consistent basis. I have the feeling that they're reworking their game every time some new trendy concept becomes popular. For example, how much you wanna bet that one of the "start from scratch" moments was when bullet-time got huge? Remember Max Payne and how revolutionary it was? I'd be willing to wager that 3D Realms has an Achilles' Heel, and that is a propensity to go chasing after whatever is popular rather than trying to set their own trends.
3D Realms: Take a hint from Rockstar and create a new game. Create a game no one has played before. Bring elements into the game that are truly unique. At this point, with all the time and money you have invested in the project, it's too late to make anything mediocre. Be creative and think outside the box, because if you copycat, people will call you on it, and you will lose everything.
No, GHz really is of very little importance. Take a look at the benchmark differences between AMD and Intel chips. AMD's Athlon XP chips did more work per clock cycle than any Pentium 4 processor of the same vintage. Next, look at Intel's offerings compared amongst themselves. A 3GHz Pentium 4 and a 3GHz Celeron are also drastically different. A 1.8GHz Opteron will spank a 2GHz Athlon XP any day.
Differences in work done per clock cycle don't just apply to the PowerPC architecture. I know you were probably just trying to be funny/cute, but the fact remains that once CPUs started hitting the hundreds of MHz, the performance gap grew and people began to notice how architecture efficiency really played a part in performance. It's even more true today than it was then.
Exploiting^H^H^H^H^Hring the ATI/AMD Rumor
Sorry, but this is just Intel taking advantage of the rumor to try and get nVidia pissed at AMD. Until I hear this directly from AMD, I will consider it FUD.
4GHz means virtually nothing to me these days. All it says is that the CPU is cycling at 4 billion times per second, but it doesn't say how much work is being done per cycle. Comparing GHz is apples and oranges. Real life testing is where it's at. Give me hard data.
Well, all this talk of truce and peace offerings reminds me of a story once told of the Greek army giving a peace offering to the city of Troy... For the full story, you'll have to RTFI (Read The F*cking Iliad)