Then there is that awesome Kabala game. Never seen anything like it since. We had two of them over the years, and all that survived was the black eye-sphere that was turned into a bomb prop in a movie.
Seriously, way too many modern games on all platforms look pretty bad: so many have just about everything in colors that vary little from dark gray. The "muddy look" reigns. Not all games suffer from it, but many do.
"Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not?"
It's not what it was. When they are hemorrhaging so many users a month, they are no longer succeeding at being an ISP. Looks like they are branching out to see if something else works. Like Apple trying out the iPod "experiment".:Their Newton experiment didn't work too well, but this one by golly seems to be paying off.
However, I don't see this helping AOL that much. I don't think that the webmail field is all that lucrative, and it is very crowded with competitors (even including Hotmail) getting better.
"Oh man, has he ever messsed up the FM band. Between allowing so very few to control the FM air waves"
Huh? Clear Channel only controls 8% of radio stations nationwide. Even in markets where they have a lot of stations, like NYC, they still control about 1/4 of the stations in that market.
So few are controlling the FM airwaves? I've got about 20 stations across my FM dial. More being added all the time. Some are pairs (one company owns a country & light jazz, another public radio outfit has a classical & a news, and there are one or two rock stations with two frequencies). Clear Channel controls none of them.
This reminds me of the other phony claims of "media concentration". In the last 25 years, we've seen the national news outlets on TV more than double in number. Only one has been lost/gobbled up.
The Veo Observer is worth checking out. Looks like a one-eyed snakehead, but it does have its own built-in web server, is pretty easy to use, and they offer a wireless one. It has tilt, pan, zoom too.
Not only this, unlike X10, they have never spammed me or put annoying popups on web pages.
"Since Clear Channel is a corporation without a mandate to do public good"
It has exactly such a mandate. It must serve the public, or the public will turn their dial elsewhere to the 92% of radio stations which are not Clear Channel.
"He's 'DESTROYED' radio with monopolies like Clear Channel"
What definition of monopoly are you using? Clear Channel controls less than 8% of radio stations nationwide.
Using this kind of definition, Apple Mac OS has a monopoly on the personal computer desktop.
"He's more concerned about men being "manly" than most straight men I know. Is he hiding something about himself?"
Claiming that anti-homosexual bigots are really secretly homosexuals makes as much sense as claiming that anti-African-American bigots are secretly Black. Tell that to Jesse Helms or Robert Byrd.
"I'm not really referring to that situation. I'm talking about when the code is supposed to do one thing, and Internet Explorer does another"
I definitely see your point here. You will understand if I don't notice such problems if I don't expect the page to be a certain way: for example, if a buggy browser turns a top-of-the page H1 title text green even though the tag says red, and I visit the page, it looks "OK" to me, even though it is making an outrageously wrong interpretation of the HTML instructions.
"That's hardly an example. I'm talking about code"
It is an example of what I have noticed (pages not working well in Firefox/Mozilla). I think the "Webmaster" left out a greater-than or a closing tag. Not "code" as such, but part of HTML.
"The difference is that they don't want to go against what they should do per specification, just to be compatible with broken abandonware"
I don't think HTML is "broken abandonware". However, you are wrong here: they have already done a lot to make "Bad" html look good on the screen. If they were strict specification-nazis, they would not not done all this work so far.
"can you give me an example of a URL that breaks in Firefox?"
On a Windows system, find a graphic file. Any file, like c:\winnt\pyramid.bmp Next, place this file path as an URL. Check the page. It doesn't break, but you will see a pyramid on your screen in MSIE and an ugly no-image in Firefox.
"I hear this a lot from newbie web developers that think that because Internet Explorer does something with broken code, that's the way it's supposed to work"
I'm not talking about my own crappy pages. I'm talking about others' sites. Yes, MSIE is indeed better in this respect if it can take broken HTML and display a good page out of it.
"Every time I have heard this complaint, upon investigation, I have found that Internet Explorer is getting it wrong and the other browser (in this case Firefox) is getting it right"
However, if MSIE is showing a good readable page and Firefox is showing some broken junk on the screen, it is pretty clear which one is getting it right. Obviously, it is the one showing a good page.
"Do you have any concrete examples of Firefox getting things wrong and Internet Explorer getting things right?"
The difference, as I hope I said, is small. Probably less than 1 out of 100 pages that Firefox can't handle. The last one I found was one that Firefox put about 30 blank lines at the beginning (before the content). MSIE started with the content.
Oh, there is also the problem of displaying image files from my own hard disk in IMG tags. MSIE takes the actual image paths with no problem. Firefox displays ugly "bad image" icons. I suspect that this will be fixed soon on the Mozilla side.
They've clearly done a lot of work to make Firefox able to display all web pages, but it does not look like it is quite as much as MS did (and, again, I am referring to real basic HTML, not Java, ActiveX, or other esoteric content).
"About 50% of all folks that ever get an H-1b visa eventually get a green card. I'd guess the value of an H-1b visa to be between"
No, the real value is $0, and therefore it is not corporate welfare. You can't place an arbitrary dollar value on the freedom to seek the best job, just like you can't place on on a freedom of the press, freedom of religion, right to a fair trial, etc.
"Immigration can dilute the value of citizenship if it isn't managed correctly"
Or it can increase it, as has usually been the case. Any time an immigrant comes to this country to do work, they help build the country. They add value to it.
As an American descended from immigrants, I recognize the real value. Oh wait. You won't find a single American who is not also descended from immigrants (except for actual immigrants who ARE immigrants, not descended from them).
The main problem with the H1B program is that there has to be a special program. This should be scrapped in favor of a policy to let in anyone who wants to come here work (along with, of course, much more stringent security screening).
The only downside I see to Firefox is that it has bugs where some pages won't display correctly compared to MSIE (and I'm talking about basic HTML display glitches, not obscure MS-specific ActiveX junk).
Plus side? Built in popup killing. Also, the Firefox folks seem like nicer guys to support than the MS folks.
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Trolls are conservative? That must explain why the cave troll from Lord of the Rings looked a lot like Alexander Haig.
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We can't have hockey's beloved behemoths rust away at rinkside.
Robot-fighting modifications are in order to bring activity to the rinks again. And with their size, they'll blow up real good. I'm sure we could even get Comedy Central to pick up the new "Battle-'Bones" show!
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Does anyone ever thing of hitting the off button on there cable/DSL modem?"
Yeah. I've learned how to read the blinky light patterns to tell when malware is coming down the pipe. As soon as I see it in the queue, I hit the off button!
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In all of Ruffy's 14 years, I never could teach her not to piddle on the rug. Now I have a second chance to housetrain her once and for all.
For one split second, I really did read the title as "Nintendo to drop dead".
Where it fell, I cared not where"
Then there is that awesome Kabala game. Never seen anything like it since. We had two of them over the years, and all that survived was the black eye-sphere that was turned into a bomb prop in a movie.
Seriously, way too many modern games on all platforms look pretty bad: so many have just about everything in colors that vary little from dark gray. The "muddy look" reigns. Not all games suffer from it, but many do.
What about Lawn Darts? They bring the exciting element of severe head trauma risk to the fun of summar yard play!
That is what the videogame revolution has brought us: the ability to run the old 8-bit games from 1988 on our TV but with smaller hardware.
Why not a device that combines the best features of the Newton and the iPod?
You put in your Pink Floyd AAC files, and listen in the little white headphones: "We bone need oh education. Flea don't bead no cough control"....
If I had a billion bucks, 60 Gmail invites, and Tara Banks' private cell phone #, I'd give them to you too! It's the thought that counts.
It's not what it was. When they are hemorrhaging so many users a month, they are no longer succeeding at being an ISP. Looks like they are branching out to see if something else works. Like Apple trying out the iPod "experiment".:Their Newton experiment didn't work too well, but this one by golly seems to be paying off.
However, I don't see this helping AOL that much. I don't think that the webmail field is all that lucrative, and it is very crowded with competitors (even including Hotmail) getting better.
You got it: Definition of propaganda: opinion you don't like.
Definition of biased news: news where people don't have your exact opinions, or where they report stories you don't wnat reported.
Definition of rhetoric: speech you don't like.
Huh? Clear Channel only controls 8% of radio stations nationwide. Even in markets where they have a lot of stations, like NYC, they still control about 1/4 of the stations in that market.
So few are controlling the FM airwaves? I've got about 20 stations across my FM dial. More being added all the time. Some are pairs (one company owns a country & light jazz, another public radio outfit has a classical & a news, and there are one or two rock stations with two frequencies). Clear Channel controls none of them.
This reminds me of the other phony claims of "media concentration". In the last 25 years, we've seen the national news outlets on TV more than double in number. Only one has been lost/gobbled up.
Not only this, unlike X10, they have never spammed me or put annoying popups on web pages.
It has exactly such a mandate. It must serve the public, or the public will turn their dial elsewhere to the 92% of radio stations which are not Clear Channel.
"He's 'DESTROYED' radio with monopolies like Clear Channel" What definition of monopoly are you using? Clear Channel controls less than 8% of radio stations nationwide. Using this kind of definition, Apple Mac OS has a monopoly on the personal computer desktop.
Claiming that anti-homosexual bigots are really secretly homosexuals makes as much sense as claiming that anti-African-American bigots are secretly Black. Tell that to Jesse Helms or Robert Byrd.
I definitely see your point here. You will understand if I don't notice such problems if I don't expect the page to be a certain way: for example, if a buggy browser turns a top-of-the page H1 title text green even though the tag says red, and I visit the page, it looks "OK" to me, even though it is making an outrageously wrong interpretation of the HTML instructions.
"That's hardly an example. I'm talking about code"
It is an example of what I have noticed (pages not working well in Firefox/Mozilla). I think the "Webmaster" left out a greater-than or a closing tag. Not "code" as such, but part of HTML.
"The difference is that they don't want to go against what they should do per specification, just to be compatible with broken abandonware"
I don't think HTML is "broken abandonware". However, you are wrong here: they have already done a lot to make "Bad" html look good on the screen. If they were strict specification-nazis, they would not not done all this work so far.
"can you give me an example of a URL that breaks in Firefox?"
On a Windows system, find a graphic file. Any file, like c:\winnt\pyramid.bmp Next, place this file path as an URL. Check the page. It doesn't break, but you will see a pyramid on your screen in MSIE and an ugly no-image in Firefox.
"I hear this a lot from newbie web developers that think that because Internet Explorer does something with broken code, that's the way it's supposed to work" I'm not talking about my own crappy pages. I'm talking about others' sites. Yes, MSIE is indeed better in this respect if it can take broken HTML and display a good page out of it. "Every time I have heard this complaint, upon investigation, I have found that Internet Explorer is getting it wrong and the other browser (in this case Firefox) is getting it right" However, if MSIE is showing a good readable page and Firefox is showing some broken junk on the screen, it is pretty clear which one is getting it right. Obviously, it is the one showing a good page. "Do you have any concrete examples of Firefox getting things wrong and Internet Explorer getting things right?" The difference, as I hope I said, is small. Probably less than 1 out of 100 pages that Firefox can't handle. The last one I found was one that Firefox put about 30 blank lines at the beginning (before the content). MSIE started with the content. Oh, there is also the problem of displaying image files from my own hard disk in IMG tags. MSIE takes the actual image paths with no problem. Firefox displays ugly "bad image" icons. I suspect that this will be fixed soon on the Mozilla side. They've clearly done a lot of work to make Firefox able to display all web pages, but it does not look like it is quite as much as MS did (and, again, I am referring to real basic HTML, not Java, ActiveX, or other esoteric content).
"About 50% of all folks that ever get an H-1b visa eventually get a green card. I'd guess the value of an H-1b visa to be between" No, the real value is $0, and therefore it is not corporate welfare. You can't place an arbitrary dollar value on the freedom to seek the best job, just like you can't place on on a freedom of the press, freedom of religion, right to a fair trial, etc. "Immigration can dilute the value of citizenship if it isn't managed correctly" Or it can increase it, as has usually been the case. Any time an immigrant comes to this country to do work, they help build the country. They add value to it. As an American descended from immigrants, I recognize the real value. Oh wait. You won't find a single American who is not also descended from immigrants (except for actual immigrants who ARE immigrants, not descended from them). The main problem with the H1B program is that there has to be a special program. This should be scrapped in favor of a policy to let in anyone who wants to come here work (along with, of course, much more stringent security screening).
Apple is one company. Therefore, it is "Apple loves"..."
The only downside I see to Firefox is that it has bugs where some pages won't display correctly compared to MSIE (and I'm talking about basic HTML display glitches, not obscure MS-specific ActiveX junk). Plus side? Built in popup killing. Also, the Firefox folks seem like nicer guys to support than the MS folks.
I'm in charge in Moria!!
We can't have hockey's beloved behemoths rust away at rinkside. Robot-fighting modifications are in order to bring activity to the rinks again. And with their size, they'll blow up real good. I'm sure we could even get Comedy Central to pick up the new "Battle-'Bones" show!
No worries about this happening with the NHL. Pro hockey does not exist OUTSIDE of videogames at this point!
"When Latest windoze worm announced: Does anyone ever thing of hitting the off button on there cable/DSL modem?" Yeah. I've learned how to read the blinky light patterns to tell when malware is coming down the pipe. As soon as I see it in the queue, I hit the off button!