Why don't you just give up? The whole world is waiting for you to come up with an idea *on your own* AND *implement it yourselves*.
Bah, even Google doesn't do this. Buy this company, buy that company. At least MS isn't buying a company like Keyhole to do this, like Google is doing with Google Earth. Who's less evil there? Besides, MS had web-based maps since ages ago via terraserver.microsoft.com with a simple address search feature. Granted, not as advanced as Google Maps, just saying you're on thin ice if complaining that companies aren't coming up with own implementations and ideas. MSN Virtual Earth will AFAIK be an own engine implementation, and Google Maps is anything but the first map service to reach the web.
Yes, one might also add that the show has gained such a status that actual music stars don't really want to perform there either. That part was a bit different before, with e.g. ABBA making their debut there with Waterloo, but nowadays it's mostly a freakshow, yes.:-)
In this case, statistics don't lie. Or at least they agree with this report, so in that case it'd lie too.
For example, you'll see that Sweden got their two highest scores from Denmark and Finland and zero points from most others.
This is also commonly happening in eastern europe, and yet an example of it can be seen with Croatia and Serbia & Montenegro.
Voting on your neighbors has happened for a long time in the ESC so it's not news, and it's usually part as just a friendly gesture from the televoters and part because the countries have similar taste in music. Any watcher of this show would've noticed this fairly easily too.
Personally I think most music there suck horribly, and don't take the competition too seriously, although it's a bit annoying when friend voting go overboard and their top scores is given to a country that has some obviously extremely poor song. But then again, maybe it's just me having a culture collision and they honestly found it was good. Europe is so diverse in cultures that it's entirely possible.
It's kind of funny though; at least this time neither France or Germany seemed to get *any* friendship votes from their neighbors.:-)
Please... Supershadow is known to post bogus material.
Mod that down to not confuse readers with scripts Supershadow himself wrote.
His real name is Mickey Suttle, and the only parts of his page that's reasonably authentic is parts he has stolen and assembled from other fansites like TheForce.net. He claims to be a "one of the world's premier documentary filmmakers", but as one might expect, his known for making not a single one on the Internet.
lol, I did an image search on Ballmer and he seems to be kinda Googlebombed in the image search? I couldn't find any Ballmer references in the Addams Family gallery anyway.:-)
unless you're untouchable [piratebay.org] in, say, the netherlands
Pirate Bay is a swedish tracker that happens to have become the world's largest by now, and Sweden will get new laws against these things in July 1st this year. We'll see what happens to that site then.
Can't really see what's more wrong with Opera 8's UI than Firefox's. It does some things differently, yes, but simply having it laid out a bit differently doesn't make it terrible.
The only thing that bothers with with my opera 8 is that it segfaults about one or two times a day.
You may wish to try out the 8.01 preview if you can. That is, if it's already available for your platform. It's in prerelease stage, but already considered more stable than 8.00. You can find links to it on the my.opera.com release forums.
What I like about Opera is that it's speedy, small and slick (at least in Opera 8), even smaller than Firefox, but with more features that don't really get in the way. Bloated UI was a problem in Opera 7, but that's simply not a factor for me anymore.
OK, so that's a good book, but how about good websites for XHTML + CSS authoring? Preferrably with DOM 1+2 documentation too, more accessible than the raw specs at W3C?
I've looked around a bit for this, for a browser neutral site and not something riddled with stuff related to IE extensions.
Is W3Schools among the most thorough? It's at least one spanning several web technologies, but not so sure about the depth of it...
I find it hard to just search for these things on Google as then you're greeted with dozens of sites of highly varying quality.
Do the Mozilla Foundation provide a good resource nowadays for XHTML/CSS/DOM/Javascript development for the Mozilla platform? Last time I checked it seemed to clearly be a work in progress.:-/
Actually, Microsoft has a pretty good web development resource content-wise on MSDN, and something I'm looking for. But one can of course imagine how aimed for IE it is. The documentation barely even *renders* correctly on other browsers >:-(
If you happen to have a bucket of blood, it's kinda cool to put a lot of H2O2 in it and watch. There'll be a violent reaction and the blood will turn into a big white foaming mass.:-)
I read this is because the H2O2 turns into water + oxygen due to enzymes in the blood. I guess that's exactly why it works well to clean wounds too.
I hear the accusation of Kiddy Porn quite a lot about FreeNet, but how does anybody actually know?
Hard to tell exactly what's circulating on the network, yes, but I saw signs of it since it was the first thing I was greeted with after finally finding out the address of a large "a little bit of everything" Freenet portal. Maybe the conclusions were drawn prematurely, but it sure didn't look so with links like "The Blog of a Paedophile", "Illegal child porn", and on and on... Think of a kiddie porn-oriented Yahoo!.
We might've got them over here in Sweden too (?), but in that case I missed them because I neither regularly read noaa.gov or is a fortune teller... or get outside my basement at night often.:-p
Yes, that's another good idea on how they could take things further. Having no special software requirements to check your calendar and more would be great, and possibly expanding a "Gmail Notifier" kind of program to alert on scheduled events. There are already online web-based collaboration systems, but it seems they're commonly not free. But it doesn't seem too far fetched Google could with their market share and AdWords value sustain a free service though.
I think we might see more of these web-based online apps in general in the future and it's only a matter of time when we might even get a subscription-based "online Office", and later on as the next breakthrough, as competition gets tougher, maybe even a free one with as unobstrusive ads as possible to proft enough on it.
There are privacy concerns for it, but I think there's still no doubt a lot of people would use such applications, probably enough to make it a possible service, and usable for not too private or sensitive information.
I agree, or rather that Gmail lack nothing the others have yet. Maybe it's as you say, that we're reaching the limits, but that's what I could've said before Gmail came too. For most purposes free unlimited mail space was earlier unthinkable for me. And that was just one of powerful features they offered. Maybe someone will revolutionize the webmail again? But as it is now, webmail innovation seem to be dead once again. Just random companies trying to ride the Gigabyte wave, and "do it like Gmail", but less innovative and usually just going for easily sold features in the same spirit of the Gigahertz and Gigapixel hype, this time using Gigabytes. *sigh*
What about innovative features? What about trying to beat Gmail so badly that there's not even a question about which service is better? Aim for the stars, not for "hmm, maybe we could give these features many others have by now", like AOL and their Gigabytes. Sure, it's nice of AOL, but why on earth would I switch from another service? Or do they not aim for these users? In that case, why not?
An example of making webmail better would be for more to support DomainKeys. Only Gmail and Yahoo! (that were the pioneers) use it today. Yahoo! showed the right spirit in trying to make a decent OPEN standard against spam, Google showed the right spirit by tagging along, but now what...? It's useful stuff like this they *could* support if they wished to tag along, but nooo... "But we *do* give 1-2 GB space!!12@@ Can't you just SMELL the uniqueness and power of our service!!!11"... *shakes head*
I suppose the ability to get a really cool email name creates demand for a new system.
Well, @aol.com sure isn't one to me. Rather a fine example of a company that ran their trademark into the ground and now tries to improve their reputation...
"Every television series depends on other markets (such as) syndication and international sales to earn back the enormous investment required to produce the comedies and dramas we all enjoy," MPAA Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman said in a statement. "Those markets are substantially hurt when that content is stolen."
Oh, so your DVD recorder secretly assist in international sales when you record a TV show (and possibly give it to friends), and that's why they haven't tried banning DVD recorders yet?
Seriously, that quote is so messed up it isn't even funny. Yeah, right, before DVD came and entire seasons weren't regularly sold in stores, the concept of TV series didn't work. And VHS/DVD recorders are tools of the devil because they let people not assist in "international sales" that "every television series depends on".
It's like they're seriously just trying to piss off people.
So, quick question: Windows has appeared to evolved into a seriously fragmented OS. How many different versions of Windows are there? There is a Mobile, Embedded, Server, Pro, Home, Starter, Handheld......What else?
Oh, and Microsoft......If you cant make Windows more stable, you might want to do something about those error messages that crop up on computers running things like displays at airports. Almost every time I fly these days, at the airport, I see a computer running an information display that has crashed. Either a bluescreen of death (soon to be redscreen AND bluescreen of death in Longhorn), or a fundamental error message. This never looks good to customers and is bad advertising in large traffic areas. One of these days, one of these systems is going to get hacked and something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.
From discussing the Starter Edition limitation, to asking for Windows editions in general, to discussing Windows running on airports and RSOD's on Longhorn. Congratulations, I guess.:-)
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Why don't you just give up? The whole world is waiting for you to come up with an idea *on your own* AND *implement it yourselves*.
Bah, even Google doesn't do this. Buy this company, buy that company. At least MS isn't buying a company like Keyhole to do this, like Google is doing with Google Earth. Who's less evil there? Besides, MS had web-based maps since ages ago via terraserver.microsoft.com with a simple address search feature. Granted, not as advanced as Google Maps, just saying you're on thin ice if complaining that companies aren't coming up with own implementations and ideas. MSN Virtual Earth will AFAIK be an own engine implementation, and Google Maps is anything but the first map service to reach the web.
Not that I'm going to start using "aluminium".
:-)
Not saying you are one, but geeks crying for standards should at least do.
Aluminium is indeed the preferred spelling by IUPAC.
Yes, one might also add that the show has gained such a status that actual music stars don't really want to perform there either. That part was a bit different before, with e.g. ABBA making their debut there with Waterloo, but nowadays it's mostly a freakshow, yes. :-)
It's kind of funny though; at least this time neither France or Germany seemed to get *any* friendship votes from their neighbors. :-)
;-)
Ah, correction, France got some from Andorra.
Just look at the statistics and you'd see the same thing:
:-)
Scoreboard, final
Scoreboard, semi-final
In this case, statistics don't lie. Or at least they agree with this report, so in that case it'd lie too.
For example, you'll see that Sweden got their two highest scores from Denmark and Finland and zero points from most others.
This is also commonly happening in eastern europe, and yet an example of it can be seen with Croatia and Serbia & Montenegro.
Voting on your neighbors has happened for a long time in the ESC so it's not news, and it's usually part as just a friendly gesture from the televoters and part because the countries have similar taste in music. Any watcher of this show would've noticed this fairly easily too.
Personally I think most music there suck horribly, and don't take the competition too seriously, although it's a bit annoying when friend voting go overboard and their top scores is given to a country that has some obviously extremely poor song. But then again, maybe it's just me having a culture collision and they honestly found it was good. Europe is so diverse in cultures that it's entirely possible.
It's kind of funny though; at least this time neither France or Germany seemed to get *any* friendship votes from their neighbors.
Heh, that reminds me of this Flash movie. ;-)
Please... Supershadow is known to post bogus material.
Mod that down to not confuse readers with scripts Supershadow himself wrote.
His real name is Mickey Suttle, and the only parts of his page that's reasonably authentic is parts he has stolen and assembled from other fansites like TheForce.net. He claims to be a "one of the world's premier documentary filmmakers", but as one might expect, his known for making not a single one on the Internet.
Who the heck is Roger Ebert and why should we care what Gary Kurtz believes?
If George Lucas has said "no" more than once even -- it is no.
lol, I did an image search on Ballmer and he seems to be kinda Googlebombed in the image search? I couldn't find any Ballmer references in the Addams Family gallery anyway. :-)
unless you're untouchable [piratebay.org] in, say, the netherlands
Pirate Bay is a swedish tracker that happens to have become the world's largest by now, and Sweden will get new laws against these things in July 1st this year. We'll see what happens to that site then.
Hmm, but we're talking Opera 8 here right?
Can't really see what's more wrong with Opera 8's UI than Firefox's. It does some things differently, yes, but simply having it laid out a bit differently doesn't make it terrible.
The only thing that bothers with with my opera 8 is that it segfaults about one or two times a day.
You may wish to try out the 8.01 preview if you can. That is, if it's already available for your platform. It's in prerelease stage, but already considered more stable than 8.00. You can find links to it on the my.opera.com release forums.
What I like about Opera is that it's speedy, small and slick (at least in Opera 8), even smaller than Firefox, but with more features that don't really get in the way. Bloated UI was a problem in Opera 7, but that's simply not a factor for me anymore.
Why wouldn't he?
He doesn't say "I don't want a fix for this anywhere in the kernel" anywhere. Just that he doesn't think it's a very critical issue.
If someone else does the patch for him, why wouldn't he accept it?
OK, so that's a good book, but how about good websites for XHTML + CSS authoring? Preferrably with DOM 1+2 documentation too, more accessible than the raw specs at W3C?
:-/
I've looked around a bit for this, for a browser neutral site and not something riddled with stuff related to IE extensions.
Is W3Schools among the most thorough? It's at least one spanning several web technologies, but not so sure about the depth of it...
I find it hard to just search for these things on Google as then you're greeted with dozens of sites of highly varying quality.
Do the Mozilla Foundation provide a good resource nowadays for XHTML/CSS/DOM/Javascript development for the Mozilla platform? Last time I checked it seemed to clearly be a work in progress.
Actually, Microsoft has a pretty good web development resource content-wise on MSDN, and something I'm looking for. But one can of course imagine how aimed for IE it is. The documentation barely even *renders* correctly on other browsers >:-(
If you happen to have a bucket of blood, it's kinda cool to put a lot of H2O2 in it and watch. There'll be a violent reaction and the blood will turn into a big white foaming mass. :-)
I read this is because the H2O2 turns into water + oxygen due to enzymes in the blood. I guess that's exactly why it works well to clean wounds too.
I hear the accusation of Kiddy Porn quite a lot about FreeNet, but how does anybody actually know?
Hard to tell exactly what's circulating on the network, yes, but I saw signs of it since it was the first thing I was greeted with after finally finding out the address of a large "a little bit of everything" Freenet portal. Maybe the conclusions were drawn prematurely, but it sure didn't look so with links like "The Blog of a Paedophile", "Illegal child porn", and on and on... Think of a kiddie porn-oriented Yahoo!.
We might've got them over here in Sweden too (?), but in that case I missed them because I neither regularly read noaa.gov or is a fortune teller... or get outside my basement at night often. :-p
I thought they had just mastered the art of throwing themselves at the ground, and missing.
I find it funny the joke is about something far fetched as Java's StringBuilder class and not something about... well, strings.
:-)
But then again -- it's Slashdot.
Yes, that's another good idea on how they could take things further. Having no special software requirements to check your calendar and more would be great, and possibly expanding a "Gmail Notifier" kind of program to alert on scheduled events. There are already online web-based collaboration systems, but it seems they're commonly not free. But it doesn't seem too far fetched Google could with their market share and AdWords value sustain a free service though.
I think we might see more of these web-based online apps in general in the future and it's only a matter of time when we might even get a subscription-based "online Office", and later on as the next breakthrough, as competition gets tougher, maybe even a free one with as unobstrusive ads as possible to proft enough on it.
There are privacy concerns for it, but I think there's still no doubt a lot of people would use such applications, probably enough to make it a possible service, and usable for not too private or sensitive information.
I agree, or rather that Gmail lack nothing the others have yet. Maybe it's as you say, that we're reaching the limits, but that's what I could've said before Gmail came too. For most purposes free unlimited mail space was earlier unthinkable for me. And that was just one of powerful features they offered. Maybe someone will revolutionize the webmail again? But as it is now, webmail innovation seem to be dead once again. Just random companies trying to ride the Gigabyte wave, and "do it like Gmail", but less innovative and usually just going for easily sold features in the same spirit of the Gigahertz and Gigapixel hype, this time using Gigabytes. *sigh*
... *shakes head*
What about innovative features? What about trying to beat Gmail so badly that there's not even a question about which service is better? Aim for the stars, not for "hmm, maybe we could give these features many others have by now", like AOL and their Gigabytes. Sure, it's nice of AOL, but why on earth would I switch from another service? Or do they not aim for these users? In that case, why not?
An example of making webmail better would be for more to support DomainKeys. Only Gmail and Yahoo! (that were the pioneers) use it today. Yahoo! showed the right spirit in trying to make a decent OPEN standard against spam, Google showed the right spirit by tagging along, but now what...? It's useful stuff like this they *could* support if they wished to tag along, but nooo... "But we *do* give 1-2 GB space!!12@@ Can't you just SMELL the uniqueness and power of our service!!!11"
I suppose the ability to get a really cool email name creates demand for a new system.
Well, @aol.com sure isn't one to me. Rather a fine example of a company that ran their trademark into the ground and now tries to improve their reputation...
It all started with a story treatment, handwritten in pencil on a few sheets of lined yellow legal paper.
Which looked something like this, for those of you who haven't seen it...
Here's also a small discussion on how the script evolved.
Yes, I think the only thing we're seeing now is a minor revision to the service, among others dropping the required "movie:" to get the movie results.
"Every television series depends on other markets (such as) syndication and international sales to earn back the enormous investment required to produce the comedies and dramas we all enjoy," MPAA Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman said in a statement. "Those markets are substantially hurt when that content is stolen."
Oh, so your DVD recorder secretly assist in international sales when you record a TV show (and possibly give it to friends), and that's why they haven't tried banning DVD recorders yet?
Seriously, that quote is so messed up it isn't even funny. Yeah, right, before DVD came and entire seasons weren't regularly sold in stores, the concept of TV series didn't work. And VHS/DVD recorders are tools of the devil because they let people not assist in "international sales" that "every television series depends on".
It's like they're seriously just trying to piss off people.
So, quick question: Windows has appeared to evolved into a seriously fragmented OS. How many different versions of Windows are there? There is a Mobile, Embedded, Server, Pro, Home, Starter, Handheld......What else?
:-)
Windows XP Editions and Products
Oh, and Microsoft......If you cant make Windows more stable, you might want to do something about those error messages that crop up on computers running things like displays at airports. Almost every time I fly these days, at the airport, I see a computer running an information display that has crashed. Either a bluescreen of death (soon to be redscreen AND bluescreen of death in Longhorn), or a fundamental error message. This never looks good to customers and is bad advertising in large traffic areas. One of these days, one of these systems is going to get hacked and something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.
From discussing the Starter Edition limitation, to asking for Windows editions in general, to discussing Windows running on airports and RSOD's on Longhorn. Congratulations, I guess.