Is there any good reason why ISPs dont add openNic to their DNS servers? Do they have anything to lose by doing so, or anything to gain by not doing so?
The problem with blocking pop-ups is that you actually want to see some of them. Quite a few websites now have 'legit' popup windows, and without them the site is almost entirely useless. I had popups disabled in galeon, and it took me a while to realise that is why the bt.com/broadband site appeared to be crap. I do like the idea of being able to block popups, but if sites continue to use popups for things like inputting data then it seems that it is going to be just as annoying having to change settings for certain sites as it is to have to close those unwanted ad windows Also, pop-unders.. do they actually pop under in anything other than IE? I have been using mozilla and galeon and have never seen a pop-under - just lots of pop-overs which makes me think that the pop under ads are infact popping up over instead. I just wondered that because the article says that pop unders may be used instead of pop-ups.
But, thats just normal advertising.. people now expect to get 'personalised' adverts. You wont get many 20 year old women buying viagra, and you wont get many 70 year old men buying the ${MOST_POPULAR_BOYBAND} CD. With a load of sound beaming toys stuck in a town center, the advertisers could splurt different ad's out to the people who are most likely to obey them, all at the same time.
Of course, they would need some clever way to quickly identify which person is most likely to buy what, but thats for someone else to work out.
Good programmers will not depend on something like this to get their code working, but it will still be a great tool for them to make sure they didnt mess up somewhere in the last 9hours of solid coding. Its probably kind of like wearing seatbelts, you dont need them to be able to drive but if something goes wrong they come in quite handy.
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I think Nokia have decided people dont want 'normal' tones anymore. I used to have a nokia 6150, it had about 6 non-musicy ringtones out of 20. then a nokia 8210, with 4 normal out of about 30. Now I have a nokia 6310, and it only had 2 normal ones out of 35.
Looks like the future is annoying everyone nearby with your horrible sounding rendition of a popular 80s song - or so Nokia seem to think.
Actually, in the same episode I seem to remember Homer making some comment about the asteroid will probably just fall apart in the Earths atmosphere and be too small to cause any real damage anyway - and he was right. As the Simpsons is always true to real life, we can probably expect this one to do just that.. right? - I didnt see any mention of anything like that on the BBC page though/
eh? if you change 1.5hrs (which I said) into minutes, you get 90mins. You say 40 + 40, which is 80mins. We both used words like about and around to indicate our values are not exact. What are you on about? all your post proves is you dont know how many minutes are in an hour;)
A new virus has been released which is spreading through a network of cats. When your cat goes out hunting it is likely to be infected. The virus rewrites part of the cats brain to add a 'trgger' which will force the cat, when it spots a computer, to attempt to delete information from the computer. Within seconds most of the text on the screen will be deleted, and if the cat is not removed it may eventually erase all data from your hard drive, network drive, and any other drive currently accessible. It is also possible for the keyboard to become damaged beyond repair.
Why should it be CEST? If they decided to give time in CET rather than CEST, theres nothing wrong with that. Stop confusing people:). At least they didnt put it in beats/swatch format time.
7pm CET would be 6pm GMT... but its 17:00, according to the article "...Ebone network will be shut down tomorrow, Friday 14th of June at 1700 CET....". So thats 5pm CET, which means 4pm GMT. About 1.5hours to go.
Maybe the poster of the story needs to read up on the 24-hr clock;)
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Right.. I am 23, and I doubt I would be able to fit in one of them.
It looks kind of fun though, not quite a good as the one mentioned in the article, but still nice (for little people). Quite scary the way they mention risk of death though.
Does anyone know if the sci-fi channel on sky in the UK has anything to do with this magical channel which is offering new seasons of Stargate and Farscape? A quick (well, long, thanks to the stupid crashing digibox;) ) look over the next week of whats on my sci-fi channel and theres no stargate, and only old farscape.
I agree that most people will probably just go and install their downloaded/friends version of windows, but I dont dont that is what is being pondered over here. The thing is, why bother to replace the winmodem with a slightly more expensive hardware modem so that it is compatible with Linux (read 'non-windows OSs') and then just go and stick in a graphics card which will probably work, but not properly supported?
What are these usernames with @fileshare? @kazaa is pretty obvious, and there used to be @morpheus, but I have never seen the fileshare one. Anyone know what client that is?
...Like the typewriter described in the article. The TV will still be a big box looking like a TV, but the MEMS thingy will be projecting the image onto the screen... so, it will look like a TV, work like a TV, but the insides will be pretty much empty apart from the MEMS and some tuning electrics.
Well, this copy protection thing seems to be doing a good job so far then... I would have thought this got more people downloading mp3s and never buying the CD from fear that their CD drive would be broken, or their audio CD player may have problems with it. Personally, the only things I have which are capable of playing CDs are my PC and this portable thingy that also plays mp3s and VCDs, so I guess thats likely to not be able to play them either. How does probably halving the number of devices which can play CDs help sell more CDs?
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... kept our Smith Coronas and waited for our friendly postal carrier to knock on the door and announce, "You've got mail.".
I dont know why exactly, but if Mr or Misses postperson came up to me and said that, I would want to shoot them.
Is there any good reason why ISPs dont add openNic to their DNS servers? Do they have anything to lose by doing so, or anything to gain by not doing so?
The problem with blocking pop-ups is that you actually want to see some of them. Quite a few websites now have 'legit' popup windows, and without them the site is almost entirely useless. I had popups disabled in galeon, and it took me a while to realise that is why the bt.com/broadband site appeared to be crap. I do like the idea of being able to block popups, but if sites continue to use popups for things like inputting data then it seems that it is going to be just as annoying having to change settings for certain sites as it is to have to close those unwanted ad windows
Also, pop-unders.. do they actually pop under in anything other than IE? I have been using mozilla and galeon and have never seen a pop-under - just lots of pop-overs which makes me think that the pop under ads are infact popping up over instead. I just wondered that because the article says that pop unders may be used instead of pop-ups.
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But, thats just normal advertising.. people now expect to get 'personalised' adverts. You wont get many 20 year old women buying viagra, and you wont get many 70 year old men buying the ${MOST_POPULAR_BOYBAND} CD. With a load of sound beaming toys stuck in a town center, the advertisers could splurt different ad's out to the people who are most likely to obey them, all at the same time.
Of course, they would need some clever way to quickly identify which person is most likely to buy what, but thats for someone else to work out.
Good programmers will not depend on something like this to get their code working, but it will still be a great tool for them to make sure they didnt mess up somewhere in the last 9hours of solid coding. Its probably kind of like wearing seatbelts, you dont need them to be able to drive but if something goes wrong they come in quite handy.
I think Nokia have decided people dont want 'normal' tones anymore. I used to have a nokia 6150, it had about 6 non-musicy ringtones out of 20. then a nokia 8210, with 4 normal out of about 30. Now I have a nokia 6310, and it only had 2 normal ones out of 35.
Looks like the future is annoying everyone nearby with your horrible sounding rendition of a popular 80s song - or so Nokia seem to think.
Maybe they have a non-smoking car? and why not, non smoking pubs exist - which I find very strange.
Actually, in the same episode I seem to remember Homer making some comment about the asteroid will probably just fall apart in the Earths atmosphere and be too small to cause any real damage anyway - and he was right. As the Simpsons is always true to real life, we can probably expect this one to do just that.. right? - I didnt see any mention of anything like that on the BBC page though/
yes, i know thats meant to be 'do fish sleep', not fishes :P
Do fishes sleep? I have never seen a sleeping fish. If they do sleep, how do they manage to stop themselves floating and looking dead?
Even more games here on the lindows site. All free to click-n-run warehouse members, whatever that means.
eh? ;)
if you change 1.5hrs (which I said) into minutes, you get 90mins. You say 40 + 40, which is 80mins. We both used words like about and around to indicate our values are not exact. What are you on about? all your post proves is you dont know how many minutes are in an hour
A new virus has been released which is spreading through a network of cats. When your cat goes out hunting it is likely to be infected. The virus rewrites part of the cats brain to add a 'trgger' which will force the cat, when it spots a computer, to attempt to delete information from the computer. Within seconds most of the text on the screen will be deleted, and if the cat is not removed it may eventually erase all data from your hard drive, network drive, and any other drive currently accessible. It is also possible for the keyboard to become damaged beyond repair.
Why should it be CEST? If they decided to give time in CET rather than CEST, theres nothing wrong with that. Stop confusing people :). At least they didnt put it in beats/swatch format time.
7pm CET would be 6pm GMT... but its 17:00, according to the article "...Ebone network will be shut down tomorrow, Friday 14th of June at 1700 CET....". So thats 5pm CET, which means 4pm GMT. About 1.5hours to go.
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Maybe the poster of the story needs to read up on the 24-hr clock
eh? how did that image get onto the files owned by group 4421: http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
Ages: 3 yrs. & up Right.. I am 23, and I doubt I would be able to fit in one of them.
It looks kind of fun though, not quite a good as the one mentioned in the article, but still nice (for little people). Quite scary the way they mention risk of death though.
Does anyone know if the sci-fi channel on sky in the UK has anything to do with this magical channel which is offering new seasons of Stargate and Farscape? A quick (well, long, thanks to the stupid crashing digibox ;) ) look over the next week of whats on my sci-fi channel and theres no stargate, and only old farscape.
I agree that most people will probably just go and install their downloaded/friends version of windows, but I dont dont that is what is being pondered over here. The thing is, why bother to replace the winmodem with a slightly more expensive hardware modem so that it is compatible with Linux (read 'non-windows OSs') and then just go and stick in a graphics card which will probably work, but not properly supported?
What are these usernames with @fileshare? @kazaa is pretty obvious, and there used to be @morpheus, but I have never seen the fileshare one. Anyone know what client that is?
I never noticed this before. its almost amusing...
...Like the typewriter described in the article. The TV will still be a big box looking like a TV, but the MEMS thingy will be projecting the image onto the screen... so, it will look like a TV, work like a TV, but the insides will be pretty much empty apart from the MEMS and some tuning electrics.
Not me...
Well, this copy protection thing seems to be doing a good job so far then...
I would have thought this got more people downloading mp3s and never buying the CD from fear that their CD drive would be broken, or their audio CD player may have problems with it. Personally, the only things I have which are capable of playing CDs are my PC and this portable thingy that also plays mp3s and VCDs, so I guess thats likely to not be able to play them either.
How does probably halving the number of devices which can play CDs help sell more CDs?