Not to mention the geography and geology of the location. Reflections off large underground rock formations and "liquifaction" are a couple of the more serious problems during an earthquake.
But only 73,000 users, comScore projects, considered ending their relationship with Yahoo by visiting the page (https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete-user) that actually cancels their Yahoo accounts, which can include e-mail and other services. That was fewer, even, than the month before, when 114,000 users went to the page.
I believe that both of these numbers should be added together to show the total number of people unhappy enough about the changes to consider closing their account -- since there was plenty of warning and not everyone would have waited for the, say, last day of POP3 access to close their account. So lets say almost 200,000 people felt like walking away after the changes. I wish I could piss away that many customers without caring.
For what it's worth, I ended my relationship with Yahoo. I learnt ages ago that an email address with no POP3 access is of no use to me. Add to that the fact that I used to receive 30-odd peices of spam to my Yahoo account each day and there was no value left in the service. I now use sneakemail, spamcop and my private ISP account that never gets posted anywhere. I've had one spam come through on the alias I used for "GoogleGroups" since I posted something about 3 weeks ago. That alias is currently queuing messages at the sneakemail server...
It's not specifically the 2D graphics, it's the fact that you're interacting with the game on a 2D screen with typically at best 2.5 degrees of control (2 analogue axies plus shoulder buttons). Here's something I wrote on the subject recently:
So I finally got around to playing two Saturn games I bought a while ago. First up I found Nights into Dreams -- a brand new, never used, 3D controller bundle. It wasn't cheap, but it was new. It's a fun game, I'm really gaining some respect for Sonic Team. Particularly enjoyable is that while it's a 3D graphical environment, it only requires 2D of interaction - up, down, forward, back. Makes it playable. Similarly, the other game, Panzer Dragoon is, at heart, a forward-scrolling shooter in the style of Space Harrier or Afterburner, but with a full 3D environment. You're always moving forward so you only have to control up, down, left and right. You can turn to the side and behind you, but it's playable because you don't have to judge that impossible third degree of freedom. In contrast, Sonic Adventure is as much of a pain as Mario 64. I can never land a jump where I want and I'm always falling off the edge of stuff or going in the wrong direction. Only Gauntlet Legends has provided me with a fun 3D 3rd-person world, and that's because you can't jump, can't fall off the edge of stuff and the camera is pre-programed based on your location on the map, not on the direction you're facing or moving.
Funnily enough, living in a country that's totally metric (Australia), I don't need keep up to date with recent kludges applied to an outdated measurement system. Anyway, you can convert any distance measurement to any other distance measurement but it still doesn't mean that one is defined in terms of the other.
If it was in True Lies then it must be true? I thought that a nuclear weapon was two halves of a suitably-processed radioactive material that was rammed together by conventional explosive -- giving it the mass and energy it needs for a runaway reaction. (Hence the term "critical mass".) Surely a stranglet would contain enough energy to at least set off the conventional explosive if not the nuclear material directly.
If you need any info on the SubLogic versions of Flight Simulator I have have the original C64 and Atari XL/XE versions of it. Manuals and everything if you need dates or developer's names or whatever.
I've been using Litestep as primary shell for my Win98 (first just 98, then 98SE) PC and also my Win95C PC (which I don't use anymore) for, ooo, maybe 3 or 4 years now. I often cite it as a way of making Windows (9x) far more stable, though I've found even greater stability can be gained using an old version of TraySaver as well as Litestep. I'm not on my right PC at the moment, so I can't tell you exactly what version. Once you've replaced Explorer with Litestep, added Traysaver and use Mozilla instead of IE system stability increases at least ten-fold. If you use Explorer as the file manager it still crashes, but it doesn't take the whole machine with it. I can't remember the last time I had a fatal BSOD, although I do occasionally get Blue Screens Of A Really Tired Feeling. Often I don't actually know what's crashed after them, but rnaapp is the most likely one.
However, I can not vouch for anything about Win9x, I've only just got an XP machine to play with and all I've done is change it back to the classic Win98 UI. If I could find a utility to slightly fade all windows that don't currently have the focus, that'd be enought for me for now.
Hey, the second set of five were supposed to feel like a repeat of the first five because that's what was happening to the world until our heroes were victorious.
If you're using any service that includes a "free/bonus" email address of your mobile phone number @ someserver.com then you're lucky you haven't been spammed before. Same problem with ICQ email. Base ten, no letters, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to auto-generate a couple of million probably-valid addresses.
You can only safely forward email to a mobile phone if your service never uses the temping #@telco.com format, even "internally". My ISP is also my mobile phone provider and they go directly from my private email address to their SMS server without an extra email-2-SMS gateway. A private address I have masked by sneakemail and filtered by spamcop. (I can also cap the number of SMSes sent per 24 hours.)
They're out of sync by more than a couple of minutes. It's supposed to be; Program ends -- ads -- maybe news break -- ads -- program starts. So when Program A on Channel X runs 2 minutes into Program B on Channel Y it's because X is running 5-7 minutes late.
Since getting cable, I've had great success pushing my VCR's clock one or two minutes ahead. Cable programs start ON TIME!, but often finish anywhere from 15 to 5 minutes before the hour. It's just the odd BBC thing, and of course commerical Free-To-Air, that runs over. Not that I watch much commerical FTA anymore (Just Buffy, Angel, Charmed and Stargate).
Not that I actually read the story or anything (G-d forbid) but based on the summary, I'd be happy to pay US$250 a year to have all my TV without ads. No product placements either. I've got my credit card handy.
The most exciting part of your day is handling the live sample bottles of E-coli.
Is that the new Gaultier fragrance?
Seriously, thanks to Infectious Awarables I'm sure there's someone at the last place I worked that thinks Ebola is a clothing designer that does men's ties.
The web ruined multimedia. Director, Authorware -- gems. A team of people all specialising in stuff like 2D or 3D graphics, sound, video, intructional design -- all great.
Then came Flash and with it every little shit with a pirate copy and the ability to convince other people to give them money.
To me, multimedia is about content. To everyone else it seems to be about designing a new GUI for every damn website. And if it's not flash, it's Fireworks and it's auto generating javascript rollovers.
As a multimedia developer I wish Flash had never been written. I also disable animated gifs, videos and midi background music. You say fancy, I say annoying.
I'm a big fan of the X-33 (I have a model on my desk at work and it's my Winamp skin) and I thought GWB was more or less responsible for the cancellation of the X-33, not NASA. Either way, it's a damn shame.
Why are you so against change? You deny not only the evolution of language but also social attitudes. I built a sentence in the most socially sentive and least clumsy way I could. I believe it's the most common way of structuring the ideas I wished to express and it was, on the whole, unambigous. I think I even spelt everything right, which happens infrequently.
Additionally, "He" is not gender-neutral. It never was. Historically it implied or even promoted exclusion of just over 50% of the population.
Finally, please don't compare my socially progressive structure to the mis-use of the apostrophe. Just don't.
You just don't want to have to fork out another few hundred dollars or be left behind:)
I gave up on PC gaming way back in '96. I'd just spent A$2,500 on a very particular new PC before it even before it arrived in my house it didn't meet the minimum specifications of new games already on the shelves. It never supported Direct X properly and I bought a playstation. It wasn't until about 6 months ago that my friends started buying games consoles, so I've been more or less locked out of the majority of social gaming all this time. Now, however, we've all got DCs and N64s, with the odd PSX and there's some really interesting stuff happening again, from MAMED to Super Smash Brothers.
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Not to mention the geography and geology of the location. Reflections off large underground rock formations and "liquifaction" are a couple of the more serious problems during an earthquake.
For what it's worth, I ended my relationship with Yahoo. I learnt ages ago that an email address with no POP3 access is of no use to me. Add to that the fact that I used to receive 30-odd peices of spam to my Yahoo account each day and there was no value left in the service. I now use sneakemail, spamcop and my private ISP account that never gets posted anywhere. I've had one spam come through on the alias I used for "GoogleGroups" since I posted something about 3 weeks ago. That alias is currently queuing messages at the sneakemail server...
And every single one of them read it and they all lived happily ever after. Now, for the next fairy tale...
Actually, it just says it's not a free repair. Of course they'll help, but get your credit card out.
Funnily enough, living in a country that's totally metric (Australia), I don't need keep up to date with recent kludges applied to an outdated measurement system. Anyway, you can convert any distance measurement to any other distance measurement but it still doesn't mean that one is defined in terms of the other.
Uh, a mile is 5,280 feet. 1 Mile == 1,609.2655 meters, hardly a "defined in terms of", much more a later conversion.
Don't need stranglets for that.
If it was in True Lies then it must be true? I thought that a nuclear weapon was two halves of a suitably-processed radioactive material that was rammed together by conventional explosive -- giving it the mass and energy it needs for a runaway reaction. (Hence the term "critical mass".) Surely a stranglet would contain enough energy to at least set off the conventional explosive if not the nuclear material directly.
Since when is a mile defined in terms of meters? You must work at NASA.
They weren't earthquakes -- they were explosions that can be picked up by earthquake monitoring equipment.
Just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's not illegal or unethical.
If you need any info on the SubLogic versions of Flight Simulator I have have the original C64 and Atari XL/XE versions of it. Manuals and everything if you need dates or developer's names or whatever.
However, I can not vouch for anything about Win9x, I've only just got an XP machine to play with and all I've done is change it back to the classic Win98 UI. If I could find a utility to slightly fade all windows that don't currently have the focus, that'd be enought for me for now.
Or something.
You can only safely forward email to a mobile phone if your service never uses the temping #@telco.com format, even "internally". My ISP is also my mobile phone provider and they go directly from my private email address to their SMS server without an extra email-2-SMS gateway. A private address I have masked by sneakemail and filtered by spamcop. (I can also cap the number of SMSes sent per 24 hours.)
Since getting cable, I've had great success pushing my VCR's clock one or two minutes ahead. Cable programs start ON TIME!, but often finish anywhere from 15 to 5 minutes before the hour. It's just the odd BBC thing, and of course commerical Free-To-Air, that runs over. Not that I watch much commerical FTA anymore (Just Buffy, Angel, Charmed and Stargate).
Not that I actually read the story or anything (G-d forbid) but based on the summary, I'd be happy to pay US$250 a year to have all my TV without ads. No product placements either. I've got my credit card handy.
Seriously, thanks to Infectious Awarables I'm sure there's someone at the last place I worked that thinks Ebola is a clothing designer that does men's ties.
Then came Flash and with it every little shit with a pirate copy and the ability to convince other people to give them money.
To me, multimedia is about content. To everyone else it seems to be about designing a new GUI for every damn website. And if it's not flash, it's Fireworks and it's auto generating javascript rollovers.
As a multimedia developer I wish Flash had never been written. I also disable animated gifs, videos and midi background music. You say fancy, I say annoying.
I'm a big fan of the X-33 (I have a model on my desk at work and it's my Winamp skin) and I thought GWB was more or less responsible for the cancellation of the X-33, not NASA. Either way, it's a damn shame.
Additionally, "He" is not gender-neutral. It never was. Historically it implied or even promoted exclusion of just over 50% of the population.
Finally, please don't compare my socially progressive structure to the mis-use of the apostrophe. Just don't.
I gave up on PC gaming way back in '96. I'd just spent A$2,500 on a very particular new PC before it even before it arrived in my house it didn't meet the minimum specifications of new games already on the shelves. It never supported Direct X properly and I bought a playstation. It wasn't until about 6 months ago that my friends started buying games consoles, so I've been more or less locked out of the majority of social gaming all this time. Now, however, we've all got DCs and N64s, with the odd PSX and there's some really interesting stuff happening again, from MAMED to Super Smash Brothers.