When I worked for a graphic design company, I was perpetually plagued by the words 'Can you make it look more 3d?'
There was no room for creativity or real design. Sadly, the motivating factor in graphic design isn't to push the boundaries, it's to look like everone else.
What I see when I look at this new format, is a whole new era of popup ads. With Microsoft now requiring you to click 'Ok' before you can play a flash game, or watch a video, there will no doubt be an entire genre of popup ads designed to look just like these windows.
Ad ware will run rampant, as users are clicking OK left, right and center.
For any who are interested, Google.ca is behaving correctly. All search results listed (that I've tried so far) from googlewack.com are working properly and returning 1-1 of 1, or displaying as they should.
I wish I could compare to google.com, but for the past year or so, google.com automatically forwards all canadian IP's to google.ca
The following students have all won Bicycles!
Please report to the broom closet to collect your prize!
Sounds just like that. All the movies you want, but once you've signed in, and proven you're simply stealing, they delete all your files, THEN sue you. It's a clever plan, too bad they got caught.
If you were being sued by the RIAA for $15,000 for stealing music, and you rebuttled by going out and buying every single CD that you had on your HDD for approx $2,000 would they still have a case?
What this gentleman didn't consider is that most of us would prefer to spend $20-$40 on a videogame we would play for weeks, than $20-$40 to go to a movie for 2 hours and have a bag of popcorn.
If you beleive that bar-codes are infringing on your privacy rights, there is a simple solution.
Take a felt tipped marker. Make one of the lines thicker.
The effect this has on Microsoft will be almost nil.. What do they care about what people see in webpages?
The real people to worry should be Quicktime and, Macromedia. See: the people who use/rely on this technology.
So, the RIAA suggests they have a way to PROVE you downloaded the songs, should the MD5 tag be unique..
Ok... good for them. Now all they need is permission to access my harddrive and check.
Let me think about it... No.
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What call center are you calling, that requires you to pay? Dell's technical support is free with the computer.
Dude, I live in Edmonton, and I make $18/hour doing ADSL tech support...
In other news, Hundreds of Millions of people went out today to buy the new Britney Spears CD, Watch the Matrix Revolutions, and wear Nike shoes.
The USB Port;
HDD Size;
Headphone jack;
Battery
All these things will take up a great deal of space, that their design hasn't incorporated. That design looks AWEFULLY hopeful...
While we're at it, we should switch to a 5 digit date for the year. Because you know it's going to be Y2k all over again in the year 9999.
This sentence alone would cost me $0.25
I hate to say I told you so but...
Name a company that can afford to just throw away $50 million, and hates Linux.
When I worked for a graphic design company, I was perpetually plagued by the words 'Can you make it look more 3d?'
There was no room for creativity or real design. Sadly, the motivating factor in graphic design isn't to push the boundaries, it's to look like everone else.
Gimp now Works like Photoshop AND Illustrator.
What I see when I look at this new format, is a whole new era of popup ads. With Microsoft now requiring you to click 'Ok' before you can play a flash game, or watch a video, there will no doubt be an entire genre of popup ads designed to look just like these windows.
Ad ware will run rampant, as users are clicking OK left, right and center.
they're not being sued...yet...
For any who are interested, Google.ca is behaving correctly. All search results listed (that I've tried so far) from googlewack.com are working properly and returning 1-1 of 1, or displaying as they should.
I wish I could compare to google.com, but for the past year or so, google.com automatically forwards all canadian IP's to google.ca
Please report to the broom closet to collect your prize!
Sounds just like that. All the movies you want, but once you've signed in, and proven you're simply stealing, they delete all your files, THEN sue you. It's a clever plan, too bad they got caught.
Valve should sue the RIAA, for not bringing down the filesharing software, that is now being used to distribute their source code illegaly.
If you were being sued by the RIAA for $15,000 for stealing music, and you rebuttled by going out and buying every single CD that you had on your HDD for approx $2,000 would they still have a case?
What this gentleman didn't consider is that most of us would prefer to spend $20-$40 on a videogame we would play for weeks, than $20-$40 to go to a movie for 2 hours and have a bag of popcorn.
Watch it turn out the only people it could recognize were wearing pilot hats, or some other highly recognizeable feature like a beard or moustache.
Meanwhile CNN reports that 69% of all statistics are made up...
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Note: I fully realize that to reach that altitude, they would have to use helium. Grow a sense of humor.
Take a felt tipped marker. Make one of the lines thicker.
Problem Solved!
Did I just violate DMCA?
The effect this has on Microsoft will be almost nil.. What do they care about what people see in webpages?
The real people to worry should be Quicktime and, Macromedia.
See: the people who use/rely on this technology.
So, the RIAA suggests they have a way to PROVE you downloaded the songs, should the MD5 tag be unique..
Ok... good for them. Now all they need is permission to access my harddrive and check.
Let me think about it...
No.
Someone should put a patent on numbers entered sequentially. They'd make a fortune.