Starship Troopers wasn't technically an adaption though; the screenplay they'd written just had so many similarities it was either buy the rights or get sued.
"i wonder how many of this guys peers, if not himself, were getting stoned in the back of a car listening to "we don't need no education..." and other wonders of pink floyd's "the wall" 25 years ago"
Probably. He smoked pot at Eton and was a member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford a few years later.
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WindowBlinds - which is part of StarDock's object desktop mentioned in the article, but can be bought on its own - does translucent window borders on XP. Or were you after complete window translucency?
"Sometimes I think that if they could devise a way to charge for every single time a DVD (other recorded medium) is *played*, they would try to do so."
Well, not exactly. You implied the title as tooltip was somehow an independent decision, not that it was actually mentioned as a possibility by the W3C.
The link probably disagrees with you: "Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways. For instance, visual browsers frequently display the title as a "tool tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing device pauses over an object)."
IE used to use the alt tag on images on a similar way, which I recall IE fans bitching about Firefox not supporting early on, but I think title is generally considered to be a tooltip.
"Technical limitations of Windows ensure Safari looks shittier even than most other PC applications."
As long as they're insistent using that late-80s brushed steel effect it's going to look like arse whatever. I run Windowblinds, so if they'd just relax and use the normal widgets it would automatically look awesome for me.
That all seems over-complicated. Why not just give away the music and live on the proceeds of t-shirts and compilation sales? Sites like Penny Arcade, PvP or Red vs Blue suggest that sort of model can work for some forms of art. The question is, can it for musicians (who do also have the concert as another revenue stream) and how many can it support.
My prediction is for visually scrambled movies that are descrambled by drugs you have to take just before viewing.
Mind you, I'm still waiting for genetically engineered labrador perma-puppies...
In August 1986 Crash magazine published a parody of their rival Sinclair User which accused them of reviewing games pretty much on the amount of advertising they got. They had to apologise later... but given this was 20 years ago I don't think the concept is all that new.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but I've seen several authors/publishers do the following:
The new author releases his first novel. It's complete, with a beginning, middle and end.
Said novel sells well.
The author's next novel is released. It turns the first book into part one of a trilogy, and has a beginning and a middle.
The final book in the trilogy is released. With the ending for book two.
The author's next book is released. It's part one of a trilogy. It only has a beginning.
Second part of trilogy is released.
Third part of trilogy is released.
Repeat last three steps, sometimes adding more books to the series.
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Savage and immature? Yikes... not that old chestnut. I've lost track of the number of SF stories that have used that cliche. Does he go for the double and give humanity one sole redeeming feature that somehow manages to balance things?
I don't know... given what we started with (a slow, weak, hairless body ill-adapted to an upright posture) I think we're doing rather well. It's not as if we've met anyone else who's doing any better.
It's not a personal attack on you, you know? So why insult me - particularly as you're posting anonymously and your post was moderated as redundant.
There seems to have been some progression by the engineers since the first article (which I missed), so I would class it as an update. And new can refer to something that already exists. As in here's the first version of the doodad, and here's the new version.
This is the *new* Yankees site. It's only been there a couple of weeks. I know things move quickly on the Internet, but to go from ahead of it's time to ordinary in a few weeks is pushing it;)
At a guess, it's probably because they're using some form of revision control and once you've "branded" a release, any changes to it will automatically become the next revision.
Not sure why the fuss is anyway, it's not like they jumped an entire version - they skipped a couple of revisions.
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Starship Troopers wasn't technically an adaption though; the screenplay they'd written just had so many similarities it was either buy the rights or get sued.
Iain (M.) Banks and Alastair Reynolds.
"i wonder how many of this guys peers, if not himself, were getting stoned in the back of a car listening to "we don't need no education..." and other wonders of pink floyd's "the wall" 25 years ago"
Probably. He smoked pot at Eton and was a member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford a few years later.
WindowBlinds - which is part of StarDock's object desktop mentioned in the article, but can be bought on its own - does translucent window borders on XP. Or were you after complete window translucency?
"Sometimes I think that if they could devise a way to charge for every single time a DVD (other recorded medium) is *played*, they would try to do so."
They did try...
Well, not exactly. You implied the title as tooltip was somehow an independent decision, not that it was actually mentioned as a possibility by the W3C.
The link probably disagrees with you: "Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways. For instance, visual browsers frequently display the title as a "tool tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing device pauses over an object)."
IE used to use the alt tag on images on a similar way, which I recall IE fans bitching about Firefox not supporting early on, but I think title is generally considered to be a tooltip.
Yeah. Though that was more of the beta-style bug I was expecting than this other stuff.
"Technical limitations of Windows ensure Safari looks shittier even than most other PC applications."
As long as they're insistent using that late-80s brushed steel effect it's going to look like arse whatever. I run Windowblinds, so if they'd just relax and use the normal widgets it would automatically look awesome for me.
That all seems over-complicated. Why not just give away the music and live on the proceeds of t-shirts and compilation sales? Sites like Penny Arcade, PvP or Red vs Blue suggest that sort of model can work for some forms of art. The question is, can it for musicians (who do also have the concert as another revenue stream) and how many can it support.
My prediction is for visually scrambled movies that are descrambled by drugs you have to take just before viewing. Mind you, I'm still waiting for genetically engineered labrador perma-puppies...
And if Jimmy ran under a bus?
The 360 is apparently sold at a small profit.
Last.fm is UK based. So presumably has to deal with the BPI's abominable licencing.
May I direct your attention this way?
In August 1986 Crash magazine published a parody of their rival Sinclair User which accused them of reviewing games pretty much on the amount of advertising they got. They had to apologise later... but given this was 20 years ago I don't think the concept is all that new.
"Thankfully you apparently have to be averaging 30 miles over the speed limit (so travelling at over 100 mph) to get caught by them."
And didn't change lanes...
I don't know... given what we started with (a slow, weak, hairless body ill-adapted to an upright posture) I think we're doing rather well. It's not as if we've met anyone else who's doing any better.
There seems to have been some progression by the engineers since the first article (which I missed), so I would class it as an update. And new can refer to something that already exists. As in here's the first version of the doodad, and here's the new version.
Are you suggesting that only new news should be on here, and that updates shouldn't be?
http://www.whidbey.com/forward/
This is the *new* Yankees site. It's only been there a couple of weeks. I know things move quickly on the Internet, but to go from ahead of it's time to ordinary in a few weeks is pushing it ;)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312943423/ qid=936739367/sr=1-8/002-4166230 -2313032
Not sure why the fuss is anyway, it's not like they jumped an entire version - they skipped a couple of revisions.