I don't think it's an issue of just not having alt tags, the design seems to favour browsers that render images and no alternative navigation. One example is the world map, it's an image map with no alternative menu in text, which is pretty poor to say the least. Surely someone from IBM showed their designs off to the committee? Shouldn't it have at this point objections were raised?
I would guess it would be easier to build a data driven text based site from scratch rather than attempt to modify everything that's already in place.
I didn't have any problems with raging in w3m or lynx...
Could you explain what kind of problems you are refering to?
To me google is #1, especially when it comes to the results... and their initiative to keep a cached copy is simply great!
It wasn't myself that was having problems with it, it was one of my colleagues disparaging it shortly after launch, either it's changed or he was full of it. There was a similar comment in NTK, but I never tried myself. As to a preference, both AVtext & Google have their good points. I agree with the caching comment, it's very useful, but I prefer the quote searching on AV, I never quite got the same quality with google. Additionally, there's babelfish, which is frequently useful.
You're probably looking at Mario Kart Advance, which is for the GBA, effectively a portable SNES.
Look for the cube specific stuff, I don't think there is a kart game among them, there is Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon & Luigi screens though.
I thought the 'in a nutshell' books would have been the favoured choice round these parts, but as they tend not to cover buying a house, I guess there is a requirement for something easy to pick up.
Even more OT, I thought the 'for idiots' range was pretty misjudged. If Cliff Claven knows more than you on any given subject, it's time to give up.
I recieved my 'unmetered' (0800 number) NTL CD this week, after a _very_ long wait - it appears that new subscribers to the service were prioritised over existing customers.
Don't think so. I signed up in May, and received a (now useless) disc last week. Way to go NTL.
If it arrived any later, I wouldn't have been here to receive it.
Freeserve has three different deals on the go:-
One is the normal, penny per minute calls service. The second(limited time) is based on Surftime, but is subsidised to be £1 cheaper (£4.99)than BT's version, and the other is the Time Unlimited package which is routed through Energis and is free if you make £10 of calls through their dialer box, otherwise it costs you £10 per month.
I thought there was also the issue of waiting until your local exchange was magically upgraded to support Surftime? IIRC, this is the reason why I opted to go with Freeserve unlimited time over the limited time service. BT couldn't send ET out quick enough to upgrade the exchanges.
To create an array, the researchers paint a series of tiny dots - each dot is a different dye - on an inert backing such as paper, plastic or glass. The array is then scanned with an ordinary flatbed scanner or an inexpensive electronic camera before and after exposure to an odor-producing substance.
"By subtracting the 'before' image from the 'after' image, we obtain the color-change pattern of the odorant," Suslick said. "By comparing that pattern to a library of color fingerprints, we can quickly identify and quantify the chemical compounds present."
scan, wipe, scan, compare.(hoping that the pantone references have not drifted)
That just seems to take too long to get a result compared to a mass spectrometry approach.
What make it better than this?
It just seems like something that sounds cool, but may not be all that practical in the real world.
And this is what I had posted as a reply earlier...
Not everyone has bandwidth enough to allow a million d/ls
That and the fact you can't throttle the number of downloads or bandwidth being used. If you're on dialup it's rather frustrating to find 10 people trying to download over your 56K connection. If I could limit it to 1 person at a time, it might be less frustrating.
As for sharing, it might be a more valid experiment to check out IRC, which is where Napster seems to have it's roots.
A combination of compliant & compatible perhaps?
There may be an alternative answer though. When a story is first posted, there is a manic race to get the first post in a thread. Perhaps our esteemed editors are also in the same position, racing through the submission queue to find that one interesting article, then quickly typing up some copy to go with it?
I promise that I will try my best to leave it behind, even wearing a false beard if there is the slightest possibility of fooling the rain. However, if it happens, don't be surprised.
Tellytubbies, which is what I assume you mean, isn't a movie, but a TV show. I don't understand how you could state that 'it failed utterly', as it keeps my niece occupied when it's on. I would say that it is pretty successful for what it tries to do.
When do you see the Sun God "Ra"? I'm Glaswegian, and (almost)every morning I leave my house to travel to work at 8.20, it rains.
Have you read 'So long, and thanks for all the fish'? Imagine the rain god in it, that's me. Keep your eyes open though, if it stops raining in September, it's because I've moved to Switzerland, and the rain has followed me.
Sega are currently rolling out an ethernet adaptor in Japan, and I would imagine in the US soon if they have any pretensions of standing up against the PS2.
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Does it matter what platform any one of the candidates uses? Is there anyone here so closed minded that the politics of the candidate will take a back seat to the politics of Operating System choice?
Then again, I don't know which candidate is the lesser evil. Perhaps this is the only fair way to call it...
So, what's keeping IBM from releasing hardware based on this technology in 1 to 2 years instead of 10 to 15? Ideas?
I've generally taken the '10-15 years' to mean 'We can make one, but it wouldn't be profitable to make more'
IBM might be able to produce one at great cost for a technical demonstration, but doing it on a regular basis might be beyond the abilities of a production line. Anyway in 10-15 years there me be a faster, more efficient method of information transfer that we haven't thought of yet. Moves from.28 micron to.26 micron seem to require new fabrication plants, how much of a shift in production methods would.26 to.01 require?
Go to haddock.org and follow the katie.com threads.
I would estimate that in this case the WIPO would rule in favour of Penguin, forcing the real Katie to give up her domain.
I might be wrong, but this smacks of capitalistic forces squeezing out the intelligensia who built this network for them in the first place. Is it any wonder that people are looking to FreeNet as as somewhere to escape to?
IIRC, this is the son of Joshua, the previous failed design. Joshua, coincidently the name of the computer in WarGames. What next, the Transmeta HAL9000?
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I don't think it's an issue of just not having alt tags, the design seems to favour browsers that render images and no alternative navigation. One example is the world map, it's an image map with no alternative menu in text, which is pretty poor to say the least. Surely someone from IBM showed their designs off to the committee? Shouldn't it have at this point objections were raised? I would guess it would be easier to build a data driven text based site from scratch rather than attempt to modify everything that's already in place.
I don't know if it was an informer, of if it was the sudden influx of traffic with a referer of slashdot.org perhaps tipped them off...
This is Bugs, very low quality UK TV. Accuracy would not have been a concern. They probably did claim a PC had 10Gig of RAM, and was intelligent.
It's not that good though. The plain text AV is still better than raging, and raging doesn't work with text browsers...
You're probably looking at Mario Kart Advance, which is for the GBA, effectively a portable SNES. Look for the cube specific stuff, I don't think there is a kart game among them, there is Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon & Luigi screens though.
Here. Wireless controllers, online connectivity, Metroid. Could be interesting.
I thought the 'in a nutshell' books would have been the favoured choice round these parts, but as they tend not to cover buying a house, I guess there is a requirement for something easy to pick up. Even more OT, I thought the 'for idiots' range was pretty misjudged. If Cliff Claven knows more than you on any given subject, it's time to give up.
Freeserve has three different deals on the go:- One is the normal, penny per minute calls service. The second(limited time) is based on Surftime, but is subsidised to be £1 cheaper (£4.99)than BT's version, and the other is the Time Unlimited package which is routed through Energis and is free if you make £10 of calls through their dialer box, otherwise it costs you £10 per month.
I thought there was also the issue of waiting until your local exchange was magically upgraded to support Surftime? IIRC, this is the reason why I opted to go with Freeserve unlimited time over the limited time service. BT couldn't send ET out quick enough to upgrade the exchanges.
It just seems like something that sounds cool, but may not be all that practical in the real world.
Napster does share anything you have downloaded, but also shares stuff you are in the process of downloading, which isn't very useful...
A combination of compliant & compatible perhaps?
There may be an alternative answer though. When a story is first posted, there is a manic race to get the first post in a thread. Perhaps our esteemed editors are also in the same position, racing through the submission queue to find that one interesting article, then quickly typing up some copy to go with it?
Were you actually planning on reading the article before speculating wildly?
You must be new round these parts...
I promise that I will try my best to leave it behind, even wearing a false beard if there is the slightest possibility of fooling the rain. However, if it happens, don't be surprised.
When do you see the Sun God "Ra"? I'm Glaswegian, and (almost)every morning I leave my house to travel to work at 8.20, it rains. Have you read 'So long, and thanks for all the fish'? Imagine the rain god in it, that's me. Keep your eyes open though, if it stops raining in September, it's because I've moved to Switzerland, and the rain has followed me.
Sega are currently rolling out an ethernet adaptor in Japan, and I would imagine in the US soon if they have any pretensions of standing up against the PS2.
Does it matter what platform any one of the candidates uses? Is there anyone here so closed minded that the politics of the candidate will take a back seat to the politics of Operating System choice?
Then again, I don't know which candidate is the lesser evil. Perhaps this is the only fair way to call it...
new option should be:- -1 Inciteful.
IBM might be able to produce one at great cost for a technical demonstration, but doing it on a regular basis might be beyond the abilities of a production line. Anyway in 10-15 years there me be a faster, more efficient method of information transfer that we haven't thought of yet. Moves from
Go to haddock.org and follow the katie.com threads.
I would estimate that in this case the WIPO would rule in favour of Penguin, forcing the real Katie to give up her domain. I might be wrong, but this smacks of capitalistic forces squeezing out the intelligensia who built this network for them in the first place. Is it any wonder that people are looking to FreeNet as as somewhere to escape to?
IIRC, this is the son of Joshua, the previous failed design. Joshua, coincidently the name of the computer in WarGames. What next, the Transmeta HAL9000?