I come up with a common name, append it with a number, usually 1-100 and add @aol.com. Like doggy69@aol.com, teddybear23@aol.com. It's funny because some poor sap at AOL is going to be getting all this spam.
Why can't the chinese create their own OS?
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With 1 billion people, you'd think they would be capable of creating their own operating system. They could create a modern operating system instead of using a relic of the past.
The study doesn't make the point against embedding text in a graphical environment. No matter where people look first, the overall impression of a page has a huge influence on whether people come back or not. I see more and more webpages that use flash or Java. And have virtually no useful information to give.
Everyone has experienced net lag and knows intuitively that pictures take a long time to load. So we have gotten used to looking for the text first, then looking at the pictures that may actually be loaded by then. If everyone would just use the ALT tags like they're supposed to, I wouldn't ever look at pictures.
Wonder how small it should be made. If I found a disk that said 'magnify me' and I looked at it at 500x and didn't see anything because I actually needed an electron microscope, I wouldn't take it down to the university and beg for time just to see if there's something there. If the creators are counting on the significance of the object to be retained for 10,000 years, as it sits in a time capsule or clean room, they're mistaken. Besides, if this was the case, all the data encoded on the object could just as easily be stored digitally, along with the equipment needed to read it. Perhaps if it had some text large enough to read, then more text was embedded within those letters, etc, so that a casual observer would realize there is additional information, and would go through the trouble of magnifying and discovering just how much.
It's pretty trivial, you get three or so opposite geosync satelites and a few earth installations all actively looking for anomalies such as these. If the waves are attenuated by the object's physical movement away from us, first-off, the waves would be shifted into a different part of the spectrum, gamma rays being at the extreme, high-frequency end. The time a satellite detects a gamma ray burst and pinpoints its position and transmits a signal to an automatic ground-based telescope, to the time the ground-based telescope swings around and points at the gamma ray burster is six seconds. I just thought i'd share a little background knowledge.
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I come up with a common name, append it with a number, usually 1-100 and add @aol.com. Like doggy69@aol.com, teddybear23@aol.com. It's funny because some poor sap at AOL is going to be getting all this spam.
With 1 billion people, you'd think they would be capable of creating their own operating system. They could create a modern operating system instead of using a relic of the past.
Absolutely nothing. Why you ask? Because Tony Blair is our little bitch!
The study doesn't make the point against embedding text in a graphical environment. No matter where people look first, the overall impression of a page has a huge influence on whether people come back or not. I see more and more webpages that use flash or Java. And have virtually no useful information to give.
Everyone has experienced net lag and knows intuitively that pictures take a long time to load. So we have gotten used to looking for the text first, then looking at the pictures that may actually be loaded by then. If everyone would just use the ALT tags like they're supposed to, I wouldn't ever look at pictures.
Wonder how small it should be made. If I found a disk that said 'magnify me' and I looked at it at 500x and didn't see anything because I actually needed an electron microscope, I wouldn't take it down to the university and beg for time just to see if there's something there. If the creators are counting on the significance of the object to be retained for 10,000 years, as it sits in a time capsule or clean room, they're mistaken. Besides, if this was the case, all the data encoded on the object could just as easily be stored digitally, along with the equipment needed to read it. Perhaps if it had some text large enough to read, then more text was embedded within those letters, etc, so that a casual observer would realize there is additional information, and would go through the trouble of magnifying and discovering just how much.
It's pretty trivial, you get three or so opposite geosync satelites and a few earth installations all actively looking for anomalies such as these. If the waves are attenuated by the object's physical movement away from us, first-off, the waves would be shifted into a different part of the spectrum, gamma rays being at the extreme, high-frequency end. The time a satellite detects a gamma ray burst and pinpoints its position and transmits a signal to an automatic ground-based telescope, to the time the ground-based telescope swings around and points at the gamma ray burster is six seconds. I just thought i'd share a little background knowledge.