Referring to the U.S. Attorney's Office and the IRS's CID is like siccing both the Klingons and the Romulans on Prenda, except that the Romulans have a somewhat better grasp of due process than IRS CID.
It's one thing to get a driver/pilot to fly one of these well, it's another to get them to keep them in an air-worthy condition.
Having worked at a service station and seen how people treat their cars, the thought of them flying overhead scares me.
Flying cars do have a place; but it's with those who can afford the infrastructure to keep both them and the pilots in top condition- the military, emergency response, and professional car services.
That's assuming that there's anything worth opening. According to a quote form an "ex-3D Realms employee" on The Duke List, not that much ever got done:
Entire maps would be done from the ground up, almost to beta quality, and then thrown out simply because no one would make decisions early on in the process. (Read up on Valve's 'orange box' method of design -- that's how you make games)
Another example of [redacted] is the fact that there was one part of one map that was being worked on before I started working there. Nineteen months later and the same designer was still working on the same part of that same map... I'm not blaming the designer, it wasn't his fault.
Which version were you using, exactly (beta, 3.0, 3.0.1)?
For me, the awesomebar searches titles and URLS, returns both, and searches the full length of each.
You might also want to check whether one of the extensions/themes you were using was monkeying with it.
I'd settle for being able to uninstall it, period.
If it was an application and not a Windows component, Windows would be more secure, and I'd be more likely to use IE as it would be there by choice.
Actually, MS are promising greater support for the W3C standards, so if your site works well in Firefox/Opera/Safari/other, it should work OK in IE8.
The only people who should have problems are the developers that design sites to exclusively work in IE6/7, and rightly so.
That might be fine for intranet sites where all your staff are forced to use IE, but for internet sites where the demand for standards-compliant browsers is only going to grow, that hasn't really fixed anything.
Also, eventually IE 9 or 10 will drop support for 6 and 7, and you'll have to fix your pages anyway.
IMO, MS lost its direction when they became entirely marketing/business/lawyer driven instead of engineering driven. If they dumped the power hungry upper echelons (Balmer I'm looking at you) and started actually making engineering decisions (maybe even sound ones) they could turn things around.
Good engineering isn't enough. I've seen a lot of software and hardware with brilliant engineering, but with no thought whatsoever given to aesthetics, usability, or the actual wants and needs of the customer.
Until Microsoft decide to focus on shipping products that their customers desire over focusing on their stakeholders, their brand will continue to suffer.
The big problems with games today are development times and costs. The largest chunk of those is in creation of the assets: levels, models, textures, and the like. With ever increasing levels of realism, the problems will only get worse.
This is the main reason why Valve is pushing user made content as well as episodic content. That way they can get smaller, cheaper, games out more often. It'll be interesting to see how Episode 2 will turn out (and how long it'll take them to release it). It's three small games (TF2 will have five maps, Portal about 20, and EP2 is about eight hours), for about the price of one, with Valve promising to release more content later.
Add in user created content and it's not a bad deal, and certainly better than micro payments, but it I can't help but feel a little cheated when they act like they're counting on it.
No. If anything, Google could publish a set of guidelines for web designers. They could then use their clout to declare flash-based websites profane, standards compliance a necessity, and in general promote common sense design principles. It would work, too. No company would want to know that their google ranking was hurt by the fact that they weren't w3c compliant. Google wouldn't even have to tweak the algorithms in order to make it work. I don't know why they haven't done that already. Ranking sites that are MSIE only (ie: those that use embraced and extended markup, or are hacked specifically for IE compatibility) lower, they'll essentially bitch slap Microsoft, and drive users away form their products.
I lost a 1GB flash card in my PDA because it locked up while I was writing to it, and I made the mistake of re-booting. Working at a major electronics retailer, I saw countless people who had fried their MP3 player or pen drive by pulling it out/powering it down without dismounting it first.
Would you really want a 32GB drive that could suffer the same fate it you had to reboot after a BSOD?
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Also, we should just get rid of the ignition keys for cars, since some of them can be hot wired. On an unrelated note, whereabouts is you car?
What happened to using Lithium?
Referring to the U.S. Attorney's Office and the IRS's CID is like siccing both the Klingons and the Romulans on Prenda, except that the Romulans have a somewhat better grasp of due process than IRS CID.
Prenda Law certainly won't live long and prosper
It's one thing to get a driver/pilot to fly one of these well, it's another to get them to keep them in an air-worthy condition. Having worked at a service station and seen how people treat their cars, the thought of them flying overhead scares me. Flying cars do have a place; but it's with those who can afford the infrastructure to keep both them and the pilots in top condition- the military, emergency response, and professional car services.
Then they really are the real small furry creatures.
every water molecule fleetingly interacts with its four nearest neighbors, forming a tetrahedron
So that's why I haven't cured cancer yet- I didn't realized the tetrahedrons in water need to have five points!
There've been calls to open-source the game.
That's assuming that there's anything worth opening. According to a quote form an "ex-3D Realms employee" on The Duke List, not that much ever got done:
Entire maps would be done from the ground up, almost to beta quality, and then thrown out simply because no one would make decisions early on in the process. (Read up on Valve's 'orange box' method of design -- that's how you make games) Another example of [redacted] is the fact that there was one part of one map that was being worked on before I started working there. Nineteen months later and the same designer was still working on the same part of that same map... I'm not blaming the designer, it wasn't his fault.
Which version were you using, exactly (beta, 3.0, 3.0.1)? For me, the awesomebar searches titles and URLS, returns both, and searches the full length of each. You might also want to check whether one of the extensions/themes you were using was monkeying with it.
The difference is that Firefox doesn't prompt you to restart every five minutes when you tell it 'later'.
I'd settle for being able to uninstall it, period. If it was an application and not a Windows component, Windows would be more secure, and I'd be more likely to use IE as it would be there by choice.
Actually, MS are promising greater support for the W3C standards, so if your site works well in Firefox/Opera/Safari/other, it should work OK in IE8. The only people who should have problems are the developers that design sites to exclusively work in IE6/7, and rightly so.
If they're on Alpha Centauri and you have a really good telescope, about four.
That might be fine for intranet sites where all your staff are forced to use IE, but for internet sites where the demand for standards-compliant browsers is only going to grow, that hasn't really fixed anything. Also, eventually IE 9 or 10 will drop support for 6 and 7, and you'll have to fix your pages anyway.
Until Microsoft decide to focus on shipping products that their customers desire over focusing on their stakeholders, their brand will continue to suffer.
The big problems with games today are development times and costs. The largest chunk of those is in creation of the assets: levels, models, textures, and the like. With ever increasing levels of realism, the problems will only get worse. This is the main reason why Valve is pushing user made content as well as episodic content. That way they can get smaller, cheaper, games out more often. It'll be interesting to see how Episode 2 will turn out (and how long it'll take them to release it). It's three small games (TF2 will have five maps, Portal about 20, and EP2 is about eight hours), for about the price of one, with Valve promising to release more content later. Add in user created content and it's not a bad deal, and certainly better than micro payments, but it I can't help but feel a little cheated when they act like they're counting on it.
I lost a 1GB flash card in my PDA because it locked up while I was writing to it, and I made the mistake of re-booting. Working at a major electronics retailer, I saw countless people who had fried their MP3 player or pen drive by pulling it out/powering it down without dismounting it first. Would you really want a 32GB drive that could suffer the same fate it you had to reboot after a BSOD?