I bet that when MS finally release Longhorn, IE7 will come with lots of "new" "innovations" added, which will let people return to the included browser without having to go through the trouble of installing additional software.
I don't know how usable OBOS is though. They don't seem to say on their site, and I really can't be bothered with installing it until it runs Photoshop.;)
Right now it is not usable at all, if you don't count using their released replacement code/apps inside for example, BeOS MAX v3.
As far as I can tell from reading the mailing list and newsletters, there is a lot that has been done, but there is also still a lot of more things to do, before we can download a bootable ISO of OpenBeOS r1.
At ~$300-$400, it's probably too expensive for many potential young buyers. The pricing suggests a target audience of young, working adults, who probably rather buy a nice cellphone and, if they feel the need, a nice mobile gaming device.
When paying a relatively high price, I wish I could add some bucks and buy something like a Palm Zire 71 or Tungsten with mobile phone functionality and decent game controls.
This would give you all devices in one, and a much bigger screen for gaming and apps.
I'm not sure pictorial warnings would be any better. The guys in 102003 A.D. will probably think the gruesome images are irrational warnings of holy ground by the superstitious lowtech people of the 21 century. It's not like 20:th century people heeded warnings in pyramids and such before desacrating them.
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The story tastes *real*
Isn't the whole point of Fantasy telling stories that doesn't seem real?;)
That said, very fine series so far, on par with Erikson's Malazan series mentioned by the grandparent and Donaldson's Covenant series.
Jordan's first five or six books are good reading, but then the series start to stall. Not much happens. I have a like-dislike relationship with Goodkind's books. On one hand they are very captivating, on the other they are pretty naive.
Well, most animated series are still drawn by hand, many of them in South Korea. Others, like Futurama are mostly drawn by hand, but use CG for complex shots such as spaceships in flight. IIRC, there was some hype about Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" being the first animated feature film using this CG combined with hand drawn animations for the ballroom scenes.
Not if you don't base your whole song on one sample. Vanilla Ice (ice ice baby), to name one, got busted because he built the entire song upon a very recognizable riff.
Most talented artists use samples as a part of their own creation, often processed beyond recognition.
I think you underestimate the amount of work biometric companies put down to make their solutions efficient, reliable and secure.
Many systems that use your fingerprints will allow you to store data from several fingers at once. The chances that you cut both you thumbs and index fingers the same day is pretty slim.
Another concept getting common is checking bloodflow, heat signature or other biological properties before accepting your finger.
That was my first thought too, but according to the article, they rely on both pre-recorded data and live data:
These shuttle maps could then be checked against public satellite images; double-checked against data in the Global Positioning System or Internal Navigation System; and triple-checked by radar, infrared or millimeter wave sensors.
But then again, it might bring good old barrage balloons back into fashion.
My point exactly. Most people don't have 475 MB accounts at their email provider, they are lucky to have 20 MB.
Sure, they could always set up their own Linux/BSD box and use it as a local IMAP server, but then the solution of reading the same POP mailbox on a FAT32 disk from both Linux/Win32 sounds easier (and cheaper).
I haven't tried IMAP myself, but have always thought of it as a nice thing. The question is, can you use IMAP if you need to store mail over a long period of time?
In my case, I need to keep mails for up to at least a year, which probably would fill up my IMAP account on the server pretty quickly.
The obvious solution would be using IMAP and saving important mails as text files or similar. This would otoh probably be very tedious in the long run.
My current setup is to leave mail on pop server for 14 days. This way I can save all mail on my local computer and still reach the newer ones from different places.
Siemens C55 (which I happen to own) among other phones can record or download MIDI tunes in 16 channels for polyphonic ringtunes, along the newest phones from most manufacturers (Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Panasonic, etc.). It also have the ability to play wav files that can be either recorded live from the phone or downloaded from the net. You would think wav files in phones would be cool, but there are currently two mayor drawbacks. One, the sound quality is far from good, it is better if you download a pre-recorded wav file, but still sounds like someone speaking in a tin can. Two, wav files use a lot of valuable memory space in the phone. MIDI files are much smaller given the length in time. They also generally sound much better.
If you're going to be so protective of your email address, you might as well ditch it altogether.
I don't know what you read into my post. I am not that protective about my addresses, I am not just using them when not necessary or outright foolish.
But this is the point of having an email address in the first place, isn't it? I could be as protective of it as the parent suggests, except by doing so I would lose much more than I am losing now (in terms of time and net-related costs). But to me, it's not only a matter of give and take: I refuse, on principle, to obfuscate my email address; I refuse to give in to spammers. When people start to hide their email contact information en masse, then spammers have won and email has become usleess.
Point taken. But, is the address you send along your free software the same you use for communicating with family and friends? If not, you are principally using the same means as I do.
I been using Spam assassin for a while now, it is sad to say, but email would be almost unusable with out it.
But how do people get on the spam-lists to begin with? I mean, I have one email address for work and one private. Neither one of these gets more than one spam/month. Ever. The (obvious) reason for this is that I never use these addresses "in public" (web forms, online buying, etc.), for that I have my spam-collector, the Hotmail account, which do recieve a lot of these messages.
But then, I would guess that most people have been warned not to use their "real" mail address for the hazards I mentioned, making them as careful with their addresses as I am with mine. This would contradict my mesures beeing that effective when others still seem to get massive amounts of spam?
Am I just incredibly lucky with my two "real" email addresses?
If you took the same precautions I did, how do you think you got into the spam-generals addressbook?
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I bet that when MS finally release Longhorn, IE7 will come with lots of "new" "innovations" added, which will let people return to the included browser without having to go through the trouble of installing additional software.
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Cool idea, something like this, then?
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I don't know how usable OBOS is though. They don't seem to say on their site, and I really can't be bothered with installing it until it runs Photoshop. ;)
Right now it is not usable at all, if you don't count using their released replacement code/apps inside for example, BeOS MAX v3.
As far as I can tell from reading the mailing list and newsletters, there is a lot that has been done, but there is also still a lot of more things to do, before we can download a bootable ISO of OpenBeOS r1.
At ~$300-$400, it's probably too expensive for many potential young buyers. The pricing suggests a target audience of young, working adults, who probably rather buy a nice cellphone and, if they feel the need, a nice mobile gaming device.
When paying a relatively high price, I wish I could add some bucks and buy something like a Palm Zire 71 or Tungsten with mobile phone functionality and decent game controls.
This would give you all devices in one, and a much bigger screen for gaming and apps.
I'm not sure pictorial warnings would be any better. The guys in 102003 A.D. will probably think the gruesome images are irrational warnings of holy ground by the superstitious lowtech people of the 21 century. It's not like 20:th century people heeded warnings in pyramids and such before desacrating them.
The story tastes *real*
;)
Isn't the whole point of Fantasy telling stories that doesn't seem real?
That said, very fine series so far, on par with Erikson's Malazan series mentioned by the grandparent and Donaldson's Covenant series.
I'd rather define Miranda IM as the geeks solution for IM. At least on the Windows platform.
Then The Gap series probably isn't recommended for you either.
Jordan's first five or six books are good reading, but then the series start to stall. Not much happens. I have a like-dislike relationship with Goodkind's books. On one hand they are very captivating, on the other they are pretty naive.
Now, my suggestions.
Fantasy:
George RR Martin - A song of fire and ice (series)
Stephen Donaldson - The chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (two series, one listed)
Tad Wiliams - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (series)
Stephen Erikson - A tale of the Malazan book of the fallen (series)
Science fiction:
Stephen Donaldson - The Gap series
Peter F Hamilton - Night's Dawn Trilogy
Greg Egan - Diaspora
And all the classic; Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, etc.
A word of warning. Both series by Stephen Donaldson contain main characters whose actions at times might seem offensive/disturbing to many.
Well, most animated series are still drawn by hand, many of them in South Korea. Others, like Futurama are mostly drawn by hand, but use CG for complex shots such as spaceships in flight. IIRC, there was some hype about Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" being the first animated feature film using this CG combined with hand drawn animations for the ballroom scenes.
Not if you don't base your whole song on one sample. Vanilla Ice (ice ice baby), to name one, got busted because he built the entire song upon a very recognizable riff.
Most talented artists use samples as a part of their own creation, often processed beyond recognition.
I think you underestimate the amount of work biometric companies put down to make their solutions efficient, reliable and secure.
Many systems that use your fingerprints will allow you to store data from several fingers at once. The chances that you cut both you thumbs and index fingers the same day is pretty slim.
Another concept getting common is checking bloodflow, heat signature or other biological properties before accepting your finger.
Well, this case will probably settle if "Linux Is Not UniX", once and for all. Not.
That was my first thought too, but according to the article, they rely on both pre-recorded data and live data:
These shuttle maps could then be checked against public satellite images; double-checked against data in the Global Positioning System or Internal Navigation System; and triple-checked by radar, infrared or millimeter wave sensors.
But then again, it might bring good old barrage balloons back into fashion.
My point exactly. Most people don't have 475 MB accounts at their email provider, they are lucky to have 20 MB.
Sure, they could always set up their own Linux/BSD box and use it as a local IMAP server, but then the solution of reading the same POP mailbox on a FAT32 disk from both Linux/Win32 sounds easier (and cheaper).
I haven't tried IMAP myself, but have always thought of it as a nice thing. The question is, can you use IMAP if you need to store mail over a long period of time?
In my case, I need to keep mails for up to at least a year, which probably would fill up my IMAP account on the server pretty quickly.
The obvious solution would be using IMAP and saving important mails as text files or similar. This would otoh probably be very tedious in the long run.
My current setup is to leave mail on pop server for 14 days. This way I can save all mail on my local computer and still reach the newer ones from different places.
Hehe, good point. :)
You know, the primary use of a hammer isn't to "bust heads", mkay?
Siemens C55 (which I happen to own) among other phones can record or download MIDI tunes in 16 channels for polyphonic ringtunes, along the newest phones from most manufacturers (Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Panasonic, etc.). It also have the ability to play wav files that can be either recorded live from the phone or downloaded from the net. You would think wav files in phones would be cool, but there are currently two mayor drawbacks. One, the sound quality is far from good, it is better if you download a pre-recorded wav file, but still sounds like someone speaking in a tin can. Two, wav files use a lot of valuable memory space in the phone. MIDI files are much smaller given the length in time. They also generally sound much better.
Indeed. Never underestimate the impact of marketing when trying to calculate the next "Hit Song".
Might be marketing is an independent variable in their calculations? "Sony is behind this one, Score += 50".
And what about Macromedia Dreamweaver? I always preferred Dreamweaver to frontpage back when I was writing HTML.
Haven't used either for a while though, the scales might be tipping in favour of Frontpage.
If you're going to be so protective of your email address, you might as well ditch it altogether.
I don't know what you read into my post. I am not that protective about my addresses, I am not just using them when not necessary or outright foolish.
But this is the point of having an email address in the first place, isn't it? I could be as protective of it as the parent suggests, except by doing so I would lose much more than I am losing now (in terms of time and net-related costs). But to me, it's not only a matter of give and take: I refuse, on principle, to obfuscate my email address; I refuse to give in to spammers. When people start to hide their email contact information en masse, then spammers have won and email has become usleess.
Point taken. But, is the address you send along your free software the same you use for communicating with family and friends? If not, you are principally using the same means as I do.
I been using Spam assassin for a while now, it is sad to say, but email would be almost unusable with out it.
But how do people get on the spam-lists to begin with? I mean, I have one email address for work and one private. Neither one of these gets more than one spam/month. Ever. The (obvious) reason for this is that I never use these addresses "in public" (web forms, online buying, etc.), for that I have my spam-collector, the Hotmail account, which do recieve a lot of these messages.
But then, I would guess that most people have been warned not to use their "real" mail address for the hazards I mentioned, making them as careful with their addresses as I am with mine. This would contradict my mesures beeing that effective when others still seem to get massive amounts of spam?
Am I just incredibly lucky with my two "real" email addresses?
If you took the same precautions I did, how do you think you got into the spam-generals addressbook?
I have a feeling the number of grandmas using Opera 7 is pretty small, though.
What Edball mentioned is a temporary fix until the patches are released. They will hopefully be more user friendly.
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