It's not perfect, but I honestly like the simplicity of the Dish DVRs. They work fairly well for me. I don't have problems recording duplicates of shows or anything like that. Fast forward works. 30-second forward and 10-second backward skip buttons out of the box work just fine. The only annoying thing to me is that if you pause, then press forward to go frame-by-frame, the first jump takes you a second or so backward, then you can precede to press forward 30+ times to get back to where you paused and wanted to actually see things frame by frame. Oh well, nothing is perfect. At least it's only $30/month. Oh, the dish works fine in the 60+ mph winds with 1cm sized hail balls we just got a few hours ago in Michigan too.
I'm not sure what the AG can do, but the BBB is entirely useless. It has no power or authority over anything. All it can do is list a business as "bad" which does next to nothing. The BBB is designed more or less to extract money from businesses in exchange for a "good" listing and the listing really doesn't say anything about the business except whether or not they pay into the BBB racket.
I really quite like -some- aspects of M / Mumps / Cache in how it stores data. A large chunk of the healthcare industry still relies on programs which use exclusively this weird non-SQL language for reading and writing to the "database". Think of it as more like a permanent global disk-based array of arrays of data. There are no rows/columns, just an associative array which can contain any level of nested arrays or data, but is always synchronized with the disk.
I'm looking for a trackball ON a mouse. Sorta like he mighty mouse, but much bigger. Also, the thumb and pinky buttons should be wheels as well, at 45 degree angles probably.
Thats all great and stuff, but when will they add exit numbers? It's a pretty basic thing along the lines of labeling road names as far as I'm concerned.
I want to see Guitar Hero combined with Dance Dance Revolution, Donkey Konga, and the microphone, to form a 4-player game based around having an entire band!
I dunno, I bought a 46" 1080p set *just because* I bought a Wii. Sure it only supports 480p and widescreen, but it is a ton better looking than on my old 27" CRT. So maybe if I buy an Xbox someday, I can take advantage of it. They might as well start supporting as high of a resolution as the systems will allow.
Last I checked, Video Downloader was basically spyware for Firefox which logs all videos you want to download by taking you to their website with advertisements to buy other video download products, and the download is proxied through their website, not just ripped directly from the flash file on Google/Youtube's website.
Large scale VB apps with IE embedded into them and lots of custom IE-only html for a networked application might want to implement copy/paste via javascript and custom active-X controls. Nothing you'd really want to let a random internet site have access to.
Where can I opt out of this suit? Please provide some web form or 1-800 # to call the lawyer involved here. I own a Wii and have to say that only a complete idiot could break these things under normal usage. This suite is completely without merit and I don't want to be included in such garbage.
I don't want random people's Miis, I want a way to meet random other people with Wiis, say, a chatroom where you can find other people with Wii's nearby your zipcode, and exchange friend codes if you want. Of course, chatting with a wiimote and nunchuk is a whole separate challenge. I'd like to see a Wii Store download perhaps, which requires a bluetooth keyboard, and lets you chat with people. It would go along with the web browser feature they're supposed to have for download sometime in the future.
I'm really sad that my Mii Parade is always empty. None of my friends can afford a Wii, so I never get to interact with others online. Why the heck isn't there an option to do something like enter your zip code and obtain Mii's from people within a certain radius from you or something?
It's still a MySpace problem then. They allow Quicktime movies and this is a feature of Quicktime movies. Can't ASF/WMV files and Flash both do the same types of things anyway?
To summarize, I think that the situation goes like this: A user places a movie file on their page manually to start with. People visiting that page view the movie which loads a link containing javascript. The javascript modified that MySpace user's profile to include the movie somehow.
Why do you even need a movie for this to happen? Why can javascript just change an entire MySpace page around? It sounds like the entire problem here is that MySpace users get too much customization abilities over their pages. A simple onload="infectuser()" javascript line would seem to me like it could accomplish the same worm effect.
These commercials are all pretty creepy. Definitely not something makes me want to buy it.
On the other hand, I had in the past dismissed several times Red Steel as being probably a dumb game. However, the recent commercials for it with the funny "master" with the white beard making all the wise cracks actually made me reconsider. I'm going to buy that one now, along with Zelda, whenever I get around to picking up a Wii.
I don't know, I don't have a passport, and I've never had one in the past. I've been to quite a few Caribbean islands (for half a day of course) and nobody there (Jamaica, Cayman, Puerto Rico, several non-US Virgin Islands) has ever needed as passport from U.S. citizen on a cruise ship. Same goes for the airports flying to and from Mexico.
Unfortunately, that just shifts the extra padding outside the drawn area of the button, creating some invisible whitespace which takes up that amount of space and still ruins the layout.
Just use button tags and put a p in that, you can style that anyway you want and the HTML is still semantically correct ('this "paragraph" is a button').
That doesn't change anything. For example, a 10pt Tahoma button (input submit, input button, or just button tag) will render with 8 extra horizontal padding and 2 extra vertical padding in IE compared to other browsers. A 20pt button renders with 29x10 extra padding you can't get rid of. Also, text input boxes always have N+1 margin (in pixels) where the default is 0px and means 0px. If you set it to 1px it renders with 1px margin in Firefox and a 2px margin in IE6 and IE7. It's about impossible, still, to design a large entry form that looks the same in IE as other browsers still. Things either have to look tiny and cramped in other browsers, or big and stupid in IE.
It's too bad they couldn't be bothered to add support for CSS opacity then. All the other major browsers have supported that forever, and using filter:alpha(opacity) is getting stupid. Also the <input type="button"> still renders with tons of extra padding you can't get rid of, even with padding: 0px; so buttons still show up super large in IE compared to all the other browsers.
If IE5.5+ supports "filter: alpha(opacity=50);" why couldn't they be bothered to add "opacity: 0.5;" CSS supoprt to IE7. At least they got the Alpha PNGs working good enough now. Also the still renders with tons of extra padding you can't get rid of, even with padding: 0px; so buttons still show up super large in IE compared to all the other browsers.
No, most seem to smell overwhelmingly of strong chemical perfumes that border on nauseating. I particularly hate even being within 2 or 3 stores down from wherever the nail salon is in any mall as well.
I dunno, but when I play musical chairs with various hardware pieces and build myself a new computer with a fresh Windows installation, I never seem to have any trouble just copying the entire folder from Documents and Settings over to the new installation. As long as I install the same programs, things always have worked just fine. Heck, the HKCU part of the registry comes with the user profile as well, so I don't have to re-customize the way I like things.
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It's not perfect, but I honestly like the simplicity of the Dish DVRs. They work fairly well for me. I don't have problems recording duplicates of shows or anything like that. Fast forward works. 30-second forward and 10-second backward skip buttons out of the box work just fine. The only annoying thing to me is that if you pause, then press forward to go frame-by-frame, the first jump takes you a second or so backward, then you can precede to press forward 30+ times to get back to where you paused and wanted to actually see things frame by frame. Oh well, nothing is perfect. At least it's only $30/month. Oh, the dish works fine in the 60+ mph winds with 1cm sized hail balls we just got a few hours ago in Michigan too.
I'm not sure what the AG can do, but the BBB is entirely useless. It has no power or authority over anything. All it can do is list a business as "bad" which does next to nothing. The BBB is designed more or less to extract money from businesses in exchange for a "good" listing and the listing really doesn't say anything about the business except whether or not they pay into the BBB racket.
I really quite like -some- aspects of M / Mumps / Cache in how it stores data. A large chunk of the healthcare industry still relies on programs which use exclusively this weird non-SQL language for reading and writing to the "database". Think of it as more like a permanent global disk-based array of arrays of data. There are no rows/columns, just an associative array which can contain any level of nested arrays or data, but is always synchronized with the disk.
I'm looking for a trackball ON a mouse. Sorta like he mighty mouse, but much bigger.
Also, the thumb and pinky buttons should be wheels as well, at 45 degree angles probably.
Finally! Thanks for the info. They could stand to show them at a few more zoomed out levels, but this is good, finally.
Thats all great and stuff, but when will they add exit numbers? It's a pretty basic thing along the lines of labeling road names as far as I'm concerned.
I want to see Guitar Hero combined with Dance Dance Revolution, Donkey Konga, and the microphone, to form a 4-player game based around having an entire band!
I dunno, I bought a 46" 1080p set *just because* I bought a Wii. Sure it only supports 480p and widescreen, but it is a ton better looking than on my old 27" CRT. So maybe if I buy an Xbox someday, I can take advantage of it. They might as well start supporting as high of a resolution as the systems will allow.
Last I checked, Video Downloader was basically spyware for Firefox which logs all videos you want to download by taking you to their website with advertisements to buy other video download products, and the download is proxied through their website, not just ripped directly from the flash file on Google/Youtube's website.
Large scale VB apps with IE embedded into them and lots of custom IE-only html for a networked application might want to implement copy/paste via javascript and custom active-X controls. Nothing you'd really want to let a random internet site have access to.
Where can I opt out of this suit? Please provide some web form or 1-800 # to call the lawyer involved here. I own a Wii and have to say that only a complete idiot could break these things under normal usage. This suite is completely without merit and I don't want to be included in such garbage.
I don't want random people's Miis, I want a way to meet random other people with Wiis, say, a chatroom where you can find other people with Wii's nearby your zipcode, and exchange friend codes if you want. Of course, chatting with a wiimote and nunchuk is a whole separate challenge.
I'd like to see a Wii Store download perhaps, which requires a bluetooth keyboard, and lets you chat with people. It would go along with the web browser feature they're supposed to have for download sometime in the future.
I'm really sad that my Mii Parade is always empty. None of my friends can afford a Wii, so I never get to interact with others online. Why the heck isn't there an option to do something like enter your zip code and obtain Mii's from people within a certain radius from you or something?
It's still a MySpace problem then.
They allow Quicktime movies and this is a feature of Quicktime movies.
Can't ASF/WMV files and Flash both do the same types of things anyway?
Sounds like MySpace is the problem here.
To summarize, I think that the situation goes like this: A user places a movie file on their page manually to start with. People visiting that page view the movie which loads a link containing javascript. The javascript modified that MySpace user's profile to include the movie somehow.
Why do you even need a movie for this to happen? Why can javascript just change an entire MySpace page around? It sounds like the entire problem here is that MySpace users get too much customization abilities over their pages. A simple onload="infectuser()" javascript line would seem to me like it could accomplish the same worm effect.
These commercials are all pretty creepy. Definitely not something makes me want to buy it.
On the other hand, I had in the past dismissed several times Red Steel as being probably a dumb game. However, the recent commercials for it with the funny "master" with the white beard making all the wise cracks actually made me reconsider. I'm going to buy that one now, along with Zelda, whenever I get around to picking up a Wii.
December 2004 was the last time I traveled in the Caribbean, and I still don't have a passport. Nobody cared then, at any of the islands.
I don't know, I don't have a passport, and I've never had one in the past. I've been to quite a few Caribbean islands (for half a day of course) and nobody there (Jamaica, Cayman, Puerto Rico, several non-US Virgin Islands) has ever needed as passport from U.S. citizen on a cruise ship. Same goes for the airports flying to and from Mexico.
I didn't need a passport to go on a cruise, and I didn't need a passport to fly to Cozumel, Mexico.
Unfortunately, that just shifts the extra padding outside the drawn area of the button, creating some invisible whitespace which takes up that amount of space and still ruins the layout.
That doesn't change anything. For example, a 10pt Tahoma button (input submit, input button, or just button tag) will render with 8 extra horizontal padding and 2 extra vertical padding in IE compared to other browsers. A 20pt button renders with 29x10 extra padding you can't get rid of.
Also, text input boxes always have N+1 margin (in pixels) where the default is 0px and means 0px. If you set it to 1px it renders with 1px margin in Firefox and a 2px margin in IE6 and IE7.
It's about impossible, still, to design a large entry form that looks the same in IE as other browsers still. Things either have to look tiny and cramped in other browsers, or big and stupid in IE.
It's too bad they couldn't be bothered to add support for CSS opacity then. All the other major browsers have supported that forever, and using filter:alpha(opacity) is getting stupid.
Also the <input type="button"> still renders with tons of extra padding you can't get rid of, even with padding: 0px; so buttons still show up super large in IE compared to all the other browsers.
If IE5.5+ supports "filter: alpha(opacity=50);" why couldn't they be bothered to add "opacity: 0.5;" CSS supoprt to IE7. At least they got the Alpha PNGs working good enough now. Also the still renders with tons of extra padding you can't get rid of, even with padding: 0px; so buttons still show up super large in IE compared to all the other browsers.
No, most seem to smell overwhelmingly of strong chemical perfumes that border on nauseating. I particularly hate even being within 2 or 3 stores down from wherever the nail salon is in any mall as well.
I dunno, but when I play musical chairs with various hardware pieces and build myself a new computer with a fresh Windows installation, I never seem to have any trouble just copying the entire folder from Documents and Settings over to the new installation. As long as I install the same programs, things always have worked just fine. Heck, the HKCU part of the registry comes with the user profile as well, so I don't have to re-customize the way I like things.