it makes sense to keep the horizontal rather than vertical
Maybe to you it does - to each their own. Personally, I find that widescreen monitors have a huge excess of horizontal space, which is virtually useless except when watching video. I've even moved my taskbar to the side of the screen, so I can more easily see the list of windows I have open.
Any application of clever "Fixed that for you" jokes will be "heartily applauded".
Indeed. The obvious quick-fix for that would be to divide the total royalties up between all of the contributors, but that too opens up significant loopholes.
Want to use a Britney sample in your new hip-hop album? Just sling together a little bonus track for the end of the album, using 99 other samples from 99 "close friends", then you only need pay Britney 0.2% royalties for her sample.
I really don't think Cory has thought this one through; it reeks of naivete 2.0.
Most of the sites that support themselves through advertising could disappear tomorrow, and no one would miss them
But what about all of the sites which currently fail to support themselves through advertising, but are promising the investors that they will be able to do so real soon now? If they were to disappear tomorrow, the web would suddenly be a very empty place.
I get the blank space. I think it only happens when you expand a previously collapsed comment, and then only sometimes. It isn't too annoying, although I did wonder why it was there the first few times I saw it.
Actually that's the delay before a cascading sub-menu of the start menu will appear, when hovering over it with the mouse. The GP was talking about a delay in opening the start menu itself. Check it for yourself, unless there's something very wrong with your machine the start menu will appear instantaneously (unless you've just booted, of course, in which case it can take about a minute!) The summary of the Knowledge Base article you linked to was very badly worded though, so I can see how the confusion arose.
They talk about how they stayed interested in such a lengthy, unpaid project
Really? I would have thought they would want to maintain interest, rather than trying to stop it. I also love the question the interviewer asks about half-way through TFA: -
Now that the game is released, do you feel vilified?
Seems like an odd thing to ask the poor guys after seven years of work. Perhaps he meant vindicated?
. If the NSA needs to wiretap the whole of the US because they can't break into a Hotmail account, you know they've got problems.
Leaving aside generic Slashdot-brand Microsoft-hating, why should a Hotmail account be particularly easy to break into? Besides, I'm sure Microsoft would quite happily co-operate with any investigation, providing the NSA access to a suspected terrorist's account on demand, thereby circumventing the need for any "breaking in".
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm certainly no expert - but isn't shooting down an airliner full of civilian passengers over an extremely densely populated urban area quite a tough call to make? Is it not possible the fighter jet could be tailing the airliner whilst awaiting orders as to its next move? Would this not imply that the situation could indeed be far from "under control"?
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Wee over the top - good advice.
Female terrorists? Yeah, right!
So why don't they just take a leak already?
To be fair, it's highly unlikely he watched all of it.
What a surprise that the first link to be slashdotted is the one purporting to contain pictures of naked people.
Personally, I didn't click on that link at all.
tl;dr
So?
it makes sense to keep the horizontal rather than vertical
Maybe to you it does - to each their own. Personally, I find that widescreen monitors have a huge excess of horizontal space, which is virtually useless except when watching video. I've even moved my taskbar to the side of the screen, so I can more easily see the list of windows I have open.
Any application of clever "Fixed that for you" jokes will be "heartily applauded".
Fixed that for you.
Indeed. The obvious quick-fix for that would be to divide the total royalties up between all of the contributors, but that too opens up significant loopholes.
Want to use a Britney sample in your new hip-hop album? Just sling together a little bonus track for the end of the album, using 99 other samples from 99 "close friends", then you only need pay Britney 0.2% royalties for her sample.
I really don't think Cory has thought this one through; it reeks of naivete 2.0.
If they're hot and never take their pants off, what's the problem?
If they never take their pants off, what's the point?
Hi, I'm a zombifying parasite. You may remember me from such insects as cockroaches and grasshoppers.
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Most of the sites that support themselves through advertising could disappear tomorrow, and no one would miss them
But what about all of the sites which currently fail to support themselves through advertising, but are promising the investors that they will be able to do so real soon now? If they were to disappear tomorrow, the web would suddenly be a very empty place.
I get the blank space. I think it only happens when you expand a previously collapsed comment, and then only sometimes. It isn't too annoying, although I did wonder why it was there the first few times I saw it.
Makes sense - God is indistinguishable from magic too.
Subscription-free, minus the pictures and maps.
Subscription-free, with the pictures and maps.
Gundam (to a greater or lesser extent, depends on which of the hundred or so versions you're talking about)
That's what you get when you put the Japanese agriculture ministry in charge of such things.
Actually that's the delay before a cascading sub-menu of the start menu will appear, when hovering over it with the mouse. The GP was talking about a delay in opening the start menu itself. Check it for yourself, unless there's something very wrong with your machine the start menu will appear instantaneously (unless you've just booted, of course, in which case it can take about a minute!) The summary of the Knowledge Base article you linked to was very badly worded though, so I can see how the confusion arose.
Because swearing in an email is nowhere near as much fun.
They talk about how they stayed interested in such a lengthy, unpaid project
Really? I would have thought they would want to maintain interest, rather than trying to stop it. I also love the question the interviewer asks about half-way through TFA: -
Now that the game is released, do you feel vilified?
Seems like an odd thing to ask the poor guys after seven years of work. Perhaps he meant vindicated?
. If the NSA needs to wiretap the whole of the US because they can't break into a Hotmail account, you know they've got problems.
Leaving aside generic Slashdot-brand Microsoft-hating, why should a Hotmail account be particularly easy to break into? Besides, I'm sure Microsoft would quite happily co-operate with any investigation, providing the NSA access to a suspected terrorist's account on demand, thereby circumventing the need for any "breaking in".
EPILOGUE
Well, they sure made a hash out of that!
Entire cast laughs loudly
Cast freezes in place, credits roll
Now for the positives:
(A) At least there is a right-click.
Only a Mac fan could point out a right mouse button as a feature (no offence!)
That's she said.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm certainly no expert - but isn't shooting down an airliner full of civilian passengers over an extremely densely populated urban area quite a tough call to make? Is it not possible the fighter jet could be tailing the airliner whilst awaiting orders as to its next move? Would this not imply that the situation could indeed be far from "under control"?