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messed up the image link, I'm new here..Should register so I can edit I suppose >.>

Here is the url that should have been where it says "tinypic.com" :

http://i5.tinypic.com/14kjwo3.jpg

Actually in FFXI currency has been exiting the system faster thna it is generated for quite some time. The auction house tax changes were for reasons other than removing currency from cirulation. (As an example, bazaar sales taxes were reduced in certain zones to encourage AFK players to set their mule at that place to reduce populaion in another more crowded zone)

Now a majority of FFXI's player base however, thinking they know everything there is to know about economic in a virtual world by reading allakhazam, think that the price of the uber1337 sword of doom+1 that they "need" is determined solely by how much gil in total exists on their server.

Whats been happening in FFXI is the gilsellers hoard up a large quantity of an in demand item (removing product from circulation) and then use multiple characters to purchase their own item at the auction house to set a new higher (much higher) price before selling the hoard of goodies off. At the same time, they drop the price on tems legit players use to make money in an atempt to increase demand for their "product".

The buyers are mostly buying these hoarded items, so the gilseller gets back the gil they sold, and makes back the auction house fee and then some since in addition to gil buyers legit players who have been farming for monthes will shell out for these items also.

The result is the purchasing power of legit players goes down and the gilseller and gilbuyers purchasing power goes up up and away...Until Square-Enix deletes the next batch, which knocks the momentum out of it and halts the process.

Theres also the whole itty bitty supply of 3 of something everyone needs (an item required for one popular job class) being either a very rare drop or sold once per real life day through an NPC vendor, resulting in a huge gulf between supply and demand, to consider.

All that goes over a lot of folks heads and they rant about how there "is to much gilz, $E should do something! R thay in bed with the gilsellerz??!!11"

Actually in FFXI currency has been exiting the system faster thna it is generated for quite some time. The auction house tax changes were for reasons other than removing currency from cirulation. (As an example, bazaar sales taxes were reduced in certain zones to encourage AFK players to set their mule at that place to reduce populaion in another more crowded zone)

Now a majority of FFXI's player base however, thinking they know everything there is to know about economic in a virtual world by reading allakhazam, think that the price of the uber1337 sword of doom+1 that they "need" is determined solely by how much gil in total exists on their server.

Whats been happening in FFXI is the gilsellers hoard up a large quantity of an in demand item (removing product from circulation) and then use multiple characters to purchase their own item at the auction house to set a new higher (much higher) price before selling the hoard of goodies off. At the same time, they drop the price on tems legit players use to make money in an atempt to increase demand for their "product".

The buyers are mostly buying these hoarded items, so the gilseller gets back the gil they sold, and makes back the auction house fee and then some since in addition to gil buyers legit players who have been farming for monthes will shell out for these items also.

The result is the purchasing power of legit players goes down and the gilseller and gilbuyers purchasing power goes up up and away...Until Square-Enix deletes the next batch, which knocks the momentum out of it and halts the process.

Theres also the whole itty bitty supply of 3 of something everyone needs (an item required for one popular job class) being either a very rare drop or sold once per real life day through an NPC vendor, resulting in a huge gulf between supply and demand, to consider.

All that goes over a lot of folks heads and they rant about how there "is to much gilz, $E should do something! R thay in bed with the gilsellerz??!!11"

So why don't people use Photobucket or Snapfish or Snapzilla or VillagePhotos or Zoto or TinyPic or SmugMug or Greatest Journal or...

My personal favorite DeviantArt?

There's not much of a story here except that if you commit to one hosting service, you run the risk of them being complete jerks with your content choice.

Well this is one of the scariest things i've ever had to witness on my process list in recent times...

I think a screenshot is the best way to show you the differences between your design and the current /. and what I mean. I use 16/Arial as my default webpage font, not an uncommon setting, and while I think your design is more attractive (good contast) it doesn't respect my choice in standard fonts.

Tinypic.com has resized the screenshot so the image is smaller than my actual screen resolution, but I think the distant viewpoint really shows up what I mean (notice the top half is still legible).

Another thing I dislike about your design is the styling of the /. slogan which isn't very nice...(sorry :S)

Guess all those who said they were gonna wait for Vanguard because they hate SOE got owned

http://tinypic.com/ilzxx4.jpg

What are their UI people smoking? Or did they hire some Opera UI people?

If they had hired Opera UI developers then IE7 would have the most powerful and customizable browser UI to be found on any platform.

Back on the topic of IE7, I found I adjusted to the UI given 10 minutes of use.... but it's hopelessly lacking in features. My first reaction after closing a tab my accident was to goto Edit -> Undo. Well they've naffed that up that possibility haven't they.

My concern isn't that the UI will be a mess at release but rather as 3rd party addons and such become available, and MS themselves incorporate new features and functionality, that IE will become increasingly cluttered and chaotic. Hopefully they will only be bathing in their own stew dinner.

Microsoft seem to have gone a notch past crazy and started throwing random and drastic UI changes into all their software. I've tried Vista (build 5365) and prefer Luna, i've looked at the new Office screenshots and have my doubts, and i've tried IE7 and, with the exception of a few 'neat' features, prefer IE6.

Fortunately I have almost a year to get used to alternatives to MS products...

I used to have a Socket 478 motherboard with a P4 2.4GHZ CPU (Northwood) in it. Then I looked at the "Mother of All CPU Charts" (2004 & 2005) and saw how high a Northwood chip still is on those charts. Now I have a 3.4GHZ (Northwood) cpu in my motherboard.

And so far my rough benchmark with DVD Shrink bears out those charts. Copying a DVD with all the quality settings checked used to take 2 and half hours. Now it takes a little less than an hour and a half.

It's amazing for a cpu that's 4 or 5 years old to be as fast as stuff that's still being released. Processor speeds have really stalled in the last few years.

Of course it's beta, Google and other freeware developers are appreciated for releasing beta products to the general public, but it does work, as this screenshot shows. A beta version is by definition a product in which some features are buggy or incomplete or even not implemented. This feature, however incomplete, does work, and I'm positive Google will continue to improve the criteria for automatically detecting appointments to add - it's not an easy thing to guess every way an appointment could be written. In the meantime it's good to see that functionality at all! I have to agree with you that it's slightly surprising it's able to pull apart an e-mail to find a date reference but doesn't yet work with Outlook appointments, but not every developer will think the same way. Also, we are the serious testing for this product, that's why it says 'beta'!

Works fine for me (and I actually got the image right this time!)

You're probably right, though, their recognition criteria will probably become more elaborate as the service becomes more established.

PS: I uploaded a screenshot of this working: here ya go. Pretty slick, non?

Why, as a matter of fact....

http://i2.tinypic.com/t5lguq.jpg

You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. We blow our noses at you, so-called GNOME Foundation, you and all your silly developers.
Furthermore, since you like feet so much, we have decided to change your logo to this
Now, go away, or we shall taunt you a second time-a!

Here's a mirror, in case slashdot gets slashdotted

http://i2.tinypic.com/soxvgp.gif

Sweet beautiful dialup. This was about a year ago.

Here is my configuration. It's Opera 9.0 TP2, with just a few mods. I use the Breeze Simplified skin. I disabled the sidebar _toggle_ (A thin strip down the left hand side, but F4 toggles the sidebar anyway so I don't use it). The actual sidebar is hidden by default. I've added everything you see to the status bar too, none of it lost me any pixelage (I think this is a great example of how customizable Opera is).

I don't see how anyone can say the Opera UI is not very customizable unless they haven't spent half an hour playing around with it. On the other hand after months of use I still find new ways of doing things occasionally. To the right you can see is how I prefer my Fox, the two browsers are pretty much on par with each other in terms of screen real estate.

As you can see from task manager though, Opera' virtual and peak memory footprint is _larger_ than Firefox, I made comment on this yesterday

Yeah, any reason not to just use perhaps a toned down version of the pages color, in a simple bar like what's already used?

Something like this (I cut n pasted a demo bar into a screen of the site)

http://i1.tinypic.com/miki74.png

I agree -- the line graph fails to further the purpose of the article, which is to compare the speeds of different cards. It makes no sense to do it this way sense the lines don't connect anything meaningful.

Something like this bar chart, made using data from the original graph, would probably be clearer.

...you will never be forgotten: http://tinypic.com/e83ngl.jpg

Tell that to the Dutch.

A lot of commentary I've read about the Hurricane Katrina disaster has shown total ignorance of how the dutch people have overcome their problems with sinking land and rising sea levels. Over half of the Netherlands is under Sea level ( as you can see here) and the Dutch haven't just build a massive defense system against flooding, but have continued to push back the shoreline and claim more land from the sea. They claimed 1650 Km^2 back in the 1930s!

To say that New Orleans is a city that should be left flooded and forgotten just because it happens to be below sea level is nonsensical, as the Dutch have almost an entire country (and one of the richest countries in the world) operating from below Sea level with a far larger border with the Sea to protect against.
All it takes is a little innovative engineering.

Of course apple can threaten Linux on Intel.

I think they can

Would anyone be surprised if the images appear on T-Shirts (ala Zero Wing)? Flash animations?

It's okay to take that picture down now (NSFW).

Worlds of Warcraft mods unable to stop surly "pirate clan"

10:09pm: Popular weblog provider Xanga's "featured content" is a front-page link to psychologically disturbed anorexic scumbags.

Good to know information providers have their users' best interests at heart.

Nicely done? This doesn't even take any skill. It's not hard to doctor an image consisting of solid background colors and system default fonts. Another example.

This was not an impressive scam by any measure. Just goes to show how dumb people are.

Here are a couple of really high res images (cached) of the front and back of the new E1060 cell phone:

Front

Back

Here are a couple of really high res images (cached) of the front and back of the new E1060 cell phone:

Front

Back

Still there for me. Perhaps you changed something in settings?

I used the Abu Ghraib search for my pumpkin design a week ago.

I know that most of us would rather host our own websites, but for the majority out there, they use Blogger or some other free site. The only problem I've found with them is that you can't upload pictures, which is where the whole photo-blog idea fits in. I say, use TinyPic just like tinyURL.com for whenever I need to add a photo to a blog entry. (like this one from a camera phone). Basically, you can upload a normal file-sized picture, and they'll host it.

...won't let me enable the port I need to play Doom 1!

For those who just want to see the final picture of the case quickly go here.