Put it in your pocket before you go jogging but forget to switch it off?
By the time you come back you've dialed 5 people in Australia, sent 9 obscene SMSs to every person in your address book, lost 17 games of Tetris and taken 92 full colour pictures of your pocket fluff - all while playing your complete Britney Spears MP3 collection. And the battery's gone flat.
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who knew he had played too much Tetris when he strated seeing falling shapes with his eyes closed and tried to slot them into lines - AND STILL LOST!!
One thing I would like is a better way to store those bookmarks that I use frequently and those that I stored as a temporary marker to a page I found interesting for a while and then never visited again. Currenly I have a scratch folder for these items, but I don't see why all bookmarks need to be euqaul - why couldn't we have tags for bookmarks so I could amrk soem as IMPORTANT - KEEP FOREVER and some as TEMP which could then be hidden once I hadn't used them for a certain time and only caled up again when I wanted to see them. It would keep my menu bars more manageable.
We have a mailing list at work for housing, buying & selling items, etc.
Recently sombeody posted a notice for a house for rent. He ran it through the spell checker but forgot to carefully check the corrections the spell checker was offering.
It was the first house people had seen that came with a fitted chicken !
The article gives an example of enlarging the back button as this is most used by users. I think a better improvment would be move the buttons to the right hand side of the screen (you can do this in Firefox!) so they are near the sroll bar which is the widget that I probablyu used second-most-of-all ! In fact, just drag the back button over and it's easy to hit as nothing else is there!
...if you want LinuxWorld to act with integrity, then complain to the companies that are advertising on the LinuxWorld pages and ask what readers will think when their adverts are associated with shoddy reporting. After all, page views doesn't equal sales, and if the advertiers see negative publicity associated with their goods, then maybe they'll put some pressure on LinuxWorld...
.. ever since Star Trek TNG when they took all the OS characters, split them in two (Kirk = Picard+Riker, Spock = Data+Troy, etc.) and turned up their smugness factor by 1000. And then forgot to employ any decent writers with original storylines...
3. Don't be elitist - "You can only enter the club if you're nominated by a current member" - might make you slow to expnad, but I want to join a community where I don't know everybody, and if I can't get in now, then I'll go somewhere I can get in and won't botehr coming back...
4. Don't restrict your site to US/Canadian Zip codes only when there is no reason to make your community non-global...
The big advantage to me is that I can get a hotmail account or two right now - I can't get a Gmail account. And that's the same for 1000's of other users.
So right now, a 2Mb free hotmail account is much more atractive to me than a 1Gb but-you-can't have-one-yet Gmail account !
...seem much more complicated to the casual hijacker..
If this isn't calling out for a Seinfeld standup routine I don't know what is... "The Casual Hijacker".
Well, y'know, i didn't have much else to do on the flight - I'd already read the inflight magazine on the outward leg - so i thought, hey, what the hell, why don't we just fly this darned plane to Cuba! So I grabbed my plastic spoon in one had and the stewardess in the other and next thing I knew, I was landing at havana...
One things I haven't seen mentioned much in the discussions is the different types of book out there and how we use them.
Paperback novels - cheap, small, compact, easy to read in the bath, not too much of a loss if they get creased- stick it in your pocket, lend it to a friend, etc,. Not amny people read more than one or two novels at a time.
Large reference books - pain to cvarry around - never know which volume you'll need, used as a reference not as entertainment, etc. may need a wide raneg fo reference books.
The latter is where I see ebooks being a real useful tool, not for reading, but for lugging arund large amopunts of information in a small space.
GTA3 and Halo may appeal widely across the West, but does Madden really sell that well outside the US? I'd be interested to see a comparison between what sells well in European markets compared to the US and Japanese markets. I think you'd see some sort of mid-way position then.
Action/Sci-Fi doesn't always need special effects. Sci-Fi isn't just laser guns and spaceships and giant sand worms and 3D holographic simulations. The trouble is, everybody wants to be Star Trek these days.
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Put it in your pocket before you go jogging but forget to switch it off?
By the time you come back you've dialed 5 people in Australia, sent 9 obscene SMSs to every person in your address book, lost 17 games of Tetris and taken 92 full colour pictures of your pocket fluff - all while playing your complete Britney Spears MP3 collection. And the battery's gone flat.
Cool!
or as Irish comedian Dave Allen once said:
If I strip naked and sunbathe in my garden and my female neighbour looks over the fence and sees me, I get arrested for indecent exposure.
If my neighbour strips naked and sunbathes in her garden and I look over the fence and see her, I get arrested as a peeping tom !
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who knew he had played too much Tetris when he strated seeing falling shapes with his eyes closed and tried to slot them into lines - AND STILL LOST!!
The point of coffee shops is leaving the office for ten or twenty minutes.
In Europe we call that a coffee break. In the US they call that a vacation!
One thing I would like is a better way to store those bookmarks that I use frequently and those that I stored as a temporary marker to a page I found interesting for a while and then never visited again. Currenly I have a scratch folder for these items, but I don't see why all bookmarks need to be euqaul - why couldn't we have tags for bookmarks so I could amrk soem as IMPORTANT - KEEP FOREVER and some as TEMP which could then be hidden once I hadn't used them for a certain time and only caled up again when I wanted to see them. It would keep my menu bars more manageable.
Recently sombeody posted a notice for a house for rent. He ran it through the spell checker but forgot to carefully check the corrections the spell checker was offering.
It was the first house people had seen that came with a fitted chicken !
Studies have shown that passively sitting around not talking to anyone all day doesn't exactly help your brain keep in shape.
That explains the majority of the posts on Slashdot then.
The article gives an example of enlarging the back button as this is most used by users. I think a better improvment would be move the buttons to the right hand side of the screen (you can do this in Firefox!) so they are near the sroll bar which is the widget that I probablyu used second-most-of-all ! In fact, just drag the back button over and it's easy to hit as nothing else is there!
Nerd or Supermodel ?
Well, I guess what plot there was there is thin enough for a Hollywood production!
Bang! Boom! Bang! Argghhh! Bang! Ouch! Bang! Boom! Bang!
Roll credits...
It's not just China !
.. is one of the doorways. They enlarged it so that the stormtrooper no longer bangs his head on it....
.. ever since Star Trek TNG when they took all the OS characters, split them in two (Kirk = Picard+Riker, Spock = Data+Troy, etc.) and turned up their smugness factor by 1000. And then forgot to employ any decent writers with original storylines...
3. Don't be elitist - "You can only enter the club if you're nominated by a current member" - might make you slow to expnad, but I want to join a community where I don't know everybody, and if I can't get in now, then I'll go somewhere I can get in and won't botehr coming back...
4. Don't restrict your site to US/Canadian Zip codes only when there is no reason to make your community non-global...
The big advantage to me is that I can get a hotmail account or two right now - I can't get a Gmail account. And that's the same for 1000's of other users.
So right now, a 2Mb free hotmail account is much more atractive to me than a 1Gb but-you-can't have-one-yet Gmail account !
...seem much more complicated to the casual hijacker..
If this isn't calling out for a Seinfeld standup routine I don't know what is... "The Casual Hijacker".
Well, y'know, i didn't have much else to do on the flight - I'd already read the inflight magazine on the outward leg - so i thought, hey, what the hell, why don't we just fly this darned plane to Cuba! So I grabbed my plastic spoon in one had and the stewardess in the other and next thing I knew, I was landing at havana...
Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off
It's a 5m long pointy stick for jabbing at theon/off button - yay!!!
One things I haven't seen mentioned much in the discussions is the different types of book out there and how we use them.
Paperback novels - cheap, small, compact, easy to read in the bath, not too much of a loss if they get creased- stick it in your pocket, lend it to a friend, etc,. Not amny people read more than one or two novels at a time.
Large reference books - pain to cvarry around - never know which volume you'll need, used as a reference not as entertainment, etc. may need a wide raneg fo reference books.
The latter is where I see ebooks being a real useful tool, not for reading, but for lugging arund large amopunts of information in a small space.
can't believe Auto Zone wanted to drag them to Tennessee.
You misread it - AutoZone want to drag SCO through Tennessee - tied to the bumper of a pickup....!
But tape is still the most economical way to store large amounts of data - and often the most efficient for long term archive processes.
Because they might be able to prove it !
That'd be a new one!
and so no longer need primitive belief systems.
They may even know why we're here and what comes next
GTA3 and Halo may appeal widely across the West, but does Madden really sell that well outside the US? I'd be interested to see a comparison between what sells well in European markets compared to the US and Japanese markets. I think you'd see some sort of mid-way position then.
Action/Sci-Fi doesn't always need special effects. Sci-Fi isn't just laser guns and spaceships and giant sand worms and 3D holographic simulations. The trouble is, everybody wants to be Star Trek these days.