WTF are the moderator's playing at calling a 1 point comment overrated?
Anyway to clairfy, when I tried Trillian about 6 months ago I found that none of the names of contacts could be changed like you could in ICQ and MSN. I also had to log into MS Passport to change my name rather than doing it through the menu.
Another problem was not bring able to sort names into groups to easily seperate work and home contacts.
I admit this may have changed now but it was enough to put me off using it.
I was recently asked to design a web page for some friends of mine for a small project.
Due to the fact I was asked when I was drunk I said yes, even though I hadn't written any HTML for 2 years. I used to live with a web designer and the nightly arguments about cross browser compatibility just put me off coding for a while. He used to think that MS was the devil. I thought that the fact is they do have 90% market share so you have to decide how valuable that 10% is.
I'm not making a big thing about cross browser compatibility as I only have IE6 installed and can't be bothered to install anything else. I used to use Netscape religiously until I went on an IE5 course to learn how to support it and realised it was actually a better product. I'm using Homesite and it picks up most of the discrepancies anyway.
I recently got a call about a small problem with the site in Netscape. A part of the site required the Marquee tag. I hunted for some Jscript to fix the problem and found it. A single IE tag was replaced by 15 lines of code. And you wonder why people prefer to code for IE?
Sadly Gloria Foster died in September last year from Diabetes.
http://uk.imdb.com/Name?Foster,+Gloria
Time to start doing this with CDs
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Think about it. Buy a chart CD and then register it on a site and release it. Persuade people to listen to it and then pass it on (Remember kids, copying is bad).
Everyone can then listen to the latest CDs without having to buy them first.
Then sit back and wait to see how long it will be before the RIAA makes giving away your personal property illegal.
Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that every song on Play had been licensed to different commercials, films etc. whereas Moby has said he will not license any of the songs on the new album.
Play was one of a few albums that sold across all boundrys of musical tastes. It was one of the most played albums in my office last year because regardless if we were into metal, dance, garage or blues we all liked it. And hearing it on all the commercials made you realise how many of the songs you did know and like.
By not licensing any of the songs I haven't heard any of them yet, and knowing how unpredictable moby can be I don't fancy taking a risk on the new album until I hear it.
In the UK many of the protected CDs (like the Attack of the Clones soundtrack) have little stickers on the front saying that they won't play in PC's or Macs.
I just want to know where I can write to asking if I can buy a copy to play on my PC at work, or should I just download it of the internet?
Moving the mouse over the link doesn't reveal the address in the bottom bar, either, so the only way I can think of to obtain the address of the item it matches is by right-clicking and selecting 'copy link address', opening a new window and pasting it it (and having a browser that is capable of doing this), then editing the URL so only the target link text remains.
Or you can just cut and paste the address that is listed under description.
You can't even right-lick and open in a new window to do this. If you try, you get "about:blank" which, afaik, means they're using javascript.
Works fine using IE6. Use that all the time when researching on search engines.
At first I thought it was useless, then I remembered the end scene of Pump Up The Volume when Christian Slater hooks up his pirate radio to the back of his jeep and drives around so the FCC can't pinpoint his location.
Get a selection of these IPAQs and mirror illicit content on all of them. Then hide them in the backs of taxis (need to work on a power supply). Host lots of MP3's on them (or a napster style directory).
Watch the RIAA try and shut this network down when no-one knows the physical location of any of the webservers at any one time.
The BBFC demonstrate a very British stupidity - they would prefer 'compromise' I suspect. It's madness.
For example, try calling them the 'British Board of Film Censorship'. It makes them very cross. The 'C' is for 'Classification', they don't censor, merely suggest cuts. However (for the reasons explained above) ignoring their suggestions is foolhardy.
Explaining the fine distinction between 'censor' and 'classifier' in this case is left as an exercise for the reader.
A censor will ban anybody from watching it. If a scene is not suitable for a child to watch then no body can watch it.
A classifier will ony restrict viewing of it. If a scene is not suitable for a child then the child will not be able to watch it but adults still can.
I know what system I would prefer. And you're right about them not enforcing cuts. They just make suggestions to the director on what scenes need to change to achieve a lower certificate. The director then has a choice on wether to make the changes or not.
And just to clarify that it means you have to be that age to see the film regardless if you are with a parent or not. Similar to recently proposed law for sales of video games.
The 18 certificate is the same as an NC17. People may shout that it is censorship but I prefer a certification system where things are restricted to people of a certain age, but left uncut, rather than the current US system where censorship is more prevelant just so more people can see it.
Wow! So my last post is considered flamebait for criticising the editors for perpetutaing the cockup he made originally and acknowledged was a mistake but failed to correct.
Making a mistake like this makes ChrisD human, but recognising the mistake and failing to correct it makes him an arsehole.
But the story is still on the frontpage for people to see. Where's the respect for those who live in different countries where the episode hasn't been shown yet, or for those who taped(Tivo'd)it to watch later.
The story should be pulled off the frontpage immediately, renamed and put in the tv only section if people really want to discuss it.
When asked if it was proud of winning, ALICE replied that "Pride is a human emotion. I can do what you do but I can never feel human emotions as such."
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And here's The Register's take on the story from this morning.
So does it run Java?
I'll get me coat.
Looks like the trolls have got them some mod points to spend.
How the hell am I going to explain that picture to my Sys Admin.
Arseholes.
WTF are the moderator's playing at calling a 1 point comment overrated?
Anyway to clairfy, when I tried Trillian about 6 months ago I found that none of the names of contacts could be changed like you could in ICQ and MSN. I also had to log into MS Passport to change my name rather than doing it through the menu.
Another problem was not bring able to sort names into groups to easily seperate work and home contacts.
I admit this may have changed now but it was enough to put me off using it.
Trillian rocks... combines 3 or 4 different IM into a single, skinnable interface, and even manages to keep up with AOL's shennanigans...
But removes half the functionality of each program. That's why I went back to having 3 different IM progs on my desktop.
I was recently asked to design a web page for some friends of mine for a small project.
Due to the fact I was asked when I was drunk I said yes, even though I hadn't written any HTML for 2 years. I used to live with a web designer and the nightly arguments about cross browser compatibility just put me off coding for a while. He used to think that MS was the devil. I thought that the fact is they do have 90% market share so you have to decide how valuable that 10% is.
I'm not making a big thing about cross browser compatibility as I only have IE6 installed and can't be bothered to install anything else. I used to use Netscape religiously until I went on an IE5 course to learn how to support it and realised it was actually a better product. I'm using Homesite and it picks up most of the discrepancies anyway.
I recently got a call about a small problem with the site in Netscape. A part of the site required the Marquee tag. I hunted for some Jscript to fix the problem and found it. A single IE tag was replaced by 15 lines of code. And you wonder why people prefer to code for IE?
Sadly Gloria Foster died in September last year from Diabetes.
http://uk.imdb.com/Name?Foster,+Gloria
Think about it. Buy a chart CD and then register it on a site and release it. Persuade people to listen to it and then pass it on (Remember kids, copying is bad).
Everyone can then listen to the latest CDs without having to buy them first.
Then sit back and wait to see how long it will be before the RIAA makes giving away your personal property illegal.
Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that every song on Play had been licensed to different commercials, films etc. whereas Moby has said he will not license any of the songs on the new album.
Play was one of a few albums that sold across all boundrys of musical tastes. It was one of the most played albums in my office last year because regardless if we were into metal, dance, garage or blues we all liked it. And hearing it on all the commercials made you realise how many of the songs you did know and like.
By not licensing any of the songs I haven't heard any of them yet, and knowing how unpredictable moby can be I don't fancy taking a risk on the new album until I hear it.
In the UK many of the protected CDs (like the Attack of the Clones soundtrack) have little stickers on the front saying that they won't play in PC's or Macs.
I just want to know where I can write to asking if I can buy a copy to play on my PC at work, or should I just download it of the internet?
Or you can just cut and paste the address that is listed under description.
You can't even right-lick and open in a new window to do this. If you try, you get "about:blank" which, afaik, means they're using javascript.
Works fine using IE6. Use that all the time when researching on search engines.
And the forms seem to cut out incomplete tags even when posting in plain text, which is a bit crap. So that last post didn't make much sense either.
The typo was in the A HREF tag.
That was actually a typo where I missed a = out of the tag.
For some reason previewing html formatted text doesn't convert the links into hyper-text so I didn't notice till after I posted.
AllTheWeb has an adult filter in place by default. This can be turned off, as with many other customisable options.
Having turned it off I got 53,002,546 results for sex.
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Simon
For those who are unable to reach AllTheWeb here is the homepage through the usual Google cache.
With taxes like this being collected to compensate artists for possible copyright violations, does it give us permission to copy the work?
If I have paid money to the artists then I should be allowed to copy what I want. If I am not allowed to copy anything then why should I pay?
At first I thought it was useless, then I remembered the end scene of Pump Up The Volume when Christian Slater hooks up his pirate radio to the back of his jeep and drives around so the FCC can't pinpoint his location.
Get a selection of these IPAQs and mirror illicit content on all of them. Then hide them in the backs of taxis (need to work on a power supply). Host lots of MP3's on them (or a napster style directory).
Watch the RIAA try and shut this network down when no-one knows the physical location of any of the webservers at any one time.
Or people who keep their computers in the bedroom and like to get to sleep at night with the computer left on.
The BBFC demonstrate a very British stupidity - they would prefer 'compromise' I suspect. It's madness.
For example, try calling them the 'British Board of Film Censorship'. It makes them very cross. The 'C' is for 'Classification', they don't censor, merely suggest cuts. However (for the reasons explained above) ignoring their suggestions is foolhardy.
Explaining the fine distinction between 'censor' and 'classifier' in this case is left as an exercise for the reader.
A censor will ban anybody from watching it. If a scene is not suitable for a child to watch then no body can watch it.
A classifier will ony restrict viewing of it. If a scene is not suitable for a child then the child will not be able to watch it but adults still can.
I know what system I would prefer. And you're right about them not enforcing cuts. They just make suggestions to the director on what scenes need to change to achieve a lower certificate. The director then has a choice on wether to make the changes or not.
And just to clarify that it means you have to be that age to see the film regardless if you are with a parent or not. Similar to recently proposed law for sales of video games.
The 18 certificate is the same as an NC17. People may shout that it is censorship but I prefer a certification system where things are restricted to people of a certain age, but left uncut, rather than the current US system where censorship is more prevelant just so more people can see it.
Wow! So my last post is considered flamebait for criticising the editors for perpetutaing the cockup he made originally and acknowledged was a mistake but failed to correct.
Making a mistake like this makes ChrisD human, but recognising the mistake and failing to correct it makes him an arsehole.
But the story is still on the frontpage for people to see. Where's the respect for those who live in different countries where the episode hasn't been shown yet, or for those who taped(Tivo'd)it to watch later.
The story should be pulled off the frontpage immediately, renamed and put in the tv only section if people really want to discuss it.
It's made so your grandma can use it.
My grandma couldn't use it as she doesn't speak Spanish.
This may be another example of Microsoft trying to use it's monopoly... but why is this in the Your Rights Onlne section?
Who's rights are being infringed here? Either use their software and stop whining or go find a new ISP.
When asked if it was proud of winning, ALICE replied that "Pride is a human emotion. I can do what you do but I can never feel human emotions as such."
I think it gives itself away right there.