My main gripe is the time taken for a link to be added. I submitted a client of mine 6 weeks ago, and there's been no sign of them in the results since. Quite frustrating!
It's not hard to rack up photos when you're somewhere interesting. I took 400+ on one day in Spain while visiting the Alhambra and Generalife.
One of the great things about digital photography is being able to take loads of photos and then cull the weaker ones later. It saves you getting home only to discover the two photos you took of AttractionX were blurred or were oddly lit by a flash going off from another camera.
And on the issue of name preference alone (since the blurb asked), I prefer "Creative Zen" to "Apple iPod". I already own an iPod, but I can't remember why I bought it -- it sits in a drawer, unused.
I believe that in the UK, some supermarkets (maybe all?) have "Price per 100g" (where relevant) to allow customers to compare the 825g packet to the 525g packet or brands who don't match sizes (440g vs 400g, etc).
I found it quite useful when I was over there.
From time to time, I will use my phone calculator to check the best deal.
I feel sad that you've contributed this epic and informative (I assume it's informative; I don't know anything about what you're discussing) post without anyone showing any recognition and moderating it positively. I was going to do that for you to brighten your day, but of course, now I've gone and written this reply and eliminated the opportunity of doing that.
I saw this (or one of them) in a courtyard of some backstreets in Berlin last year.
My only concern from the website is that it appears to be mandatory to wear brightly coloured shirts in much the same style as The Wiggles.
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"far more natural"
Sorry, where were the triggers on your mouse again?
I have an xbox (modded, 40+ games on a 250GB drive ready to go instantly). Hook it up to a projector and we have 4-player action straight away for Halo, Unreal, FIFA, NBA, NHL, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I like FPS' with a mouse/kb combo, but console FPS games are adapted to require less accuracy and they're still very effective.
I've never had an Xbox game complain about my computer being out of memory, not having the required video card, or run so slowly that it was unplayable. As others have said, it just works, it's more social and it just fits different needs than PC games.
Back on topic -- I downloaded the new Halo 2 trailer and would recommend that others don't bother -- no gameplay shown, loads of fluff. Waste of time. I do like Halo though, so I'll just wait for the game.
Bali and Madrid occurred because Howard and Aznar supported the US war in Iraq. The Australian embassy in Jakarta was only just recently bombed for the same reason.
I live in Australia and a close friend of my partner's was killed in Bali. I was in Spain during riots in Madrid *against* Spain supporting the war in Iraq.
Those are both directly linked to the US. How did you possibly miss that?
I think everyone's getting off track here. The strength in this question concerns the opportunity to provide for more than the duopoly. As has proven evident, throwing in something about the popular vote just drags it off track.
I really like the preferential system we have in Australia. I can vote for an independent or smaller party (Democrats, Greens, Family First, etc) and still direct my preference to either of the main parties (Labor, Liberal) without fear of my vote being "wasted". i.e., a vote for Nader would only be a vote for Bush if you preferenced Bush after Nader and so on.
Where's the focus? It's all over the place. There's so much potential, but it's just not a clean design. The icons at the top and then the search bar are probably the worst offenders in the above screenshot.
The Mail/Contacts/Calendars/Tasks buttons are just too big. Integrate them a little more and the Inbox folder tree will have more space and less chance of requiring scrollbars, etc.
There are some ideas worth stealing from Outlook, but there are other things worth improving on from a UI perspective.
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Besides I still have an old 75 mhz Pentium sitting at my parent's that gets regular use and has had *nothing* fail except for a module of expansion RAM I threw in there for my dad that died after 3-4 years.
Oh, I'm very sorry to hear about the death of your... oh wait, the RAM died? My condolences. Hope the funeral was well-attended.
I run Windows XP on my laptop, mostly working in CFStudio, Photoshop, Acrobat, running loads of IE windows, some Firefox, playing a bit of UT2004 and so on. My session would also last 2-4+ weeks as I usually just sleep/hibernate my laptop and rarely bother to restart. I would have had maybe one "fail" in the last 6 months. Had to restart today trying to fix some issue with MYOBs InstallShield setup actually.
Might be useful to teach people that they can end process explorer.exe and restart it, or avoid some applications that don't help system stability, watch Task Manager to work out what's dragging the system down, etc. Not everyone is that interested in learning that kind of stuff, but my brother and girlfriend picked it up straight away (neither work in-depth with computers daily). If no one tells people about those sorts of things, they don't exactly learn from XP Start-up tips!
All of their ads saying "iPod, from Apple" tell me otherwise... It's a pretty dominant association. You'd struggle to find a majority who wouldn't know that the iPod and iTMS were products from Apple, IMO.
And John Howard is doing a fantastic job of embarrassing Australia.
I will, at least, give credit to Howard and Blair for being able to do a better than pre-school job at ad-libbing a speech on a given topic.
Footage was shown on Australian television recently (very popular show/time-slot) of Bush looking like an idiot trying to answer a question on indigenous matters in the US (or something similar). It was actually embarrassing to even watch.
"In this case, the U.S. (a country of 200+ million people currently exerting its military dominance in 2 other countries) asked Australia (a country of 20 million people and comparably little world impact) to extradite him."
I appreciate your argument, but it's becoming less simple to turn down requests from the US.
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What about "omit genealogy sites"??
My main gripe is the time taken for a link to be added. I submitted a client of mine 6 weeks ago, and there's been no sign of them in the results since. Quite frustrating!
Kids of that age bracket aren't necessarily too stupid. They start to pick up shocking writing habits in online forums when they're about 14-18:
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It's not hard to rack up photos when you're somewhere interesting. I took 400+ on one day in Spain while visiting the Alhambra and Generalife.
One of the great things about digital photography is being able to take loads of photos and then cull the weaker ones later. It saves you getting home only to discover the two photos you took of AttractionX were blurred or were oddly lit by a flash going off from another camera.
So, this girl that has been downloading... are there photos of her? Huh? Huh?
I wonder if they realise that their site title and footer mention fuelcellworks.com which is domain-parked and not working. Maybe they're confused?
And on the issue of name preference alone (since the blurb asked), I prefer "Creative Zen" to "Apple iPod". I already own an iPod, but I can't remember why I bought it -- it sits in a drawer, unused.
Also revised is the number of paragraphs in the front page blurb for this article! That, however, has been revised upwards!
I believe that in the UK, some supermarkets
(maybe all?) have "Price per 100g" (where relevant) to allow customers to compare the 825g packet to the 525g packet or brands who don't match sizes (440g vs 400g, etc).
I found it quite useful when I was over there.
From time to time, I will use my phone calculator to check the best deal.
I feel sad that you've contributed this epic and informative (I assume it's informative; I don't know anything about what you're discussing) post without anyone showing any recognition and moderating it positively. I was going to do that for you to brighten your day, but of course, now I've gone and written this reply and eliminated the opportunity of doing that.
Sorry!
I saw this (or one of them) in a courtyard of some backstreets in Berlin last year.
My only concern from the website is that it appears to be mandatory to wear brightly coloured shirts in much the same style as The Wiggles.
"far more natural"
Sorry, where were the triggers on your mouse again?
I have an xbox (modded, 40+ games on a 250GB drive ready to go instantly). Hook it up to a projector and we have 4-player action straight away for Halo, Unreal, FIFA, NBA, NHL, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I like FPS' with a mouse/kb combo, but console FPS games are adapted to require less accuracy and they're still very effective.
I've never had an Xbox game complain about my computer being out of memory, not having the required video card, or run so slowly that it was unplayable. As others have said, it just works, it's more social and it just fits different needs than PC games.
Back on topic -- I downloaded the new Halo 2 trailer and would recommend that others don't bother -- no gameplay shown, loads of fluff. Waste of time. I do like Halo though, so I'll just wait for the game.
Visit Beijing, Datong and all the areas around there and you'd understand why that red blob is there!
If you think those are pinstripes, I'd hate to see you in a sewing class! :P
Awesome. I'm going to bust this one out in Scrabble!
Bali and Madrid occurred because Howard and Aznar supported the US war in Iraq. The Australian embassy in Jakarta was only just recently bombed for the same reason.
I live in Australia and a close friend of my partner's was killed in Bali. I was in Spain during riots in Madrid *against* Spain supporting the war in Iraq.
Those are both directly linked to the US. How did you possibly miss that?
I think everyone's getting off track here. The strength in this question concerns the opportunity to provide for more than the duopoly. As has proven evident, throwing in something about the popular vote just drags it off track.
I really like the preferential system we have in Australia. I can vote for an independent or smaller party (Democrats, Greens, Family First, etc) and still direct my preference to either of the main parties (Labor, Liberal) without fear of my vote being "wasted". i.e., a vote for Nader would only be a vote for Bush if you preferenced Bush after Nader and so on.
You're on the ball. It looks so "linux" and when I say that, I mean it looks like it's been designed by programmers:
http://osdir.com/screenshots/index.php?director
Where's the focus? It's all over the place. There's so much potential, but it's just not a clean design. The icons at the top and then the search bar are probably the worst offenders in the above screenshot.
The Mail/Contacts/Calendars/Tasks buttons are just too big. Integrate them a little more and the Inbox folder tree will have more space and less chance of requiring scrollbars, etc.
There are some ideas worth stealing from Outlook, but there are other things worth improving on from a UI perspective.
Besides I still have an old 75 mhz Pentium sitting at my parent's that gets regular use and has had *nothing* fail except for a module of expansion RAM I threw in there for my dad that died after 3-4 years.
Oh, I'm very sorry to hear about the death of your... oh wait, the RAM died? My condolences. Hope the funeral was well-attended.
I run Windows XP on my laptop, mostly working in CFStudio, Photoshop, Acrobat, running loads of IE windows, some Firefox, playing a bit of UT2004 and so on. My session would also last 2-4+ weeks as I usually just sleep/hibernate my laptop and rarely bother to restart. I would have had maybe one "fail" in the last 6 months. Had to restart today trying to fix some issue with MYOBs InstallShield setup actually.
Might be useful to teach people that they can end process explorer.exe and restart it, or avoid some applications that don't help system stability, watch Task Manager to work out what's dragging the system down, etc. Not everyone is that interested in learning that kind of stuff, but my brother and girlfriend picked it up straight away (neither work in-depth with computers daily). If no one tells people about those sorts of things, they don't exactly learn from XP Start-up tips!
All of their ads saying "iPod, from Apple" tell me otherwise... It's a pretty dominant association. You'd struggle to find a majority who wouldn't know that the iPod and iTMS were products from Apple, IMO.
And John Howard is doing a fantastic job of embarrassing Australia.
I will, at least, give credit to Howard and Blair for being able to do a better than pre-school job at ad-libbing a speech on a given topic.
Footage was shown on Australian television recently (very popular show/time-slot) of Bush looking like an idiot trying to answer a question on indigenous matters in the US (or something similar). It was actually embarrassing to even watch.
Well (and I'm sure you can correct me if I'm wrong) but Kerala is known for having some of the best (mandatory?) education in India.
Well said. He is also doing spectacular work of making the people of the USA look like apathetic dimwits for electing him and putting up with it.
He is embarrassing your country on the world stage.
Can I just expand on that sentence of yours:
"In this case, the U.S. (a country of 200+ million people currently exerting its military dominance in 2 other countries) asked Australia (a country of 20 million people and comparably little world impact) to extradite him."
I appreciate your argument, but it's becoming less simple to turn down requests from the US.
Or you're out walking your dog or just happen to be carrying a long stick and it advertises miracle eye treatments and Braille Books.