Apple won't allow Flash on the iPhone is because it's garish, obnoxious, a battery-life-draining resource hog
I have Flash on my Nokia N800. It has no noticeable effect on battery life.
I use OpenLaszlo to develop auditing software that has earned me a very good living for the past few years. The auditing apps are very utilitarian in use and appearance, despite running on Flash.
So let's say Microsoft doesn't include the new IE in it's next Operating System -- how do you get it?
They could just fix the "Add or Remove Software" applet so it points towards a collection of optional software hosted on a secure server. If you wanted to install IE, you could choose it there and have it installed automatically.
I've got some friends over there at the moment that are, on a daily basis, heckled and abused and wolf whistled (not necessarily a bad thing) and groped and all sorts of crap just while they are randomly walking down the streets of the central city.
I'm living in Perth now, just back from Malaysia.
Are we talking about the same city and state? It's a little boring, but generally friendly place.
What are you doing to attract all those fucktards?
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You took your last vacation in the Islets of Langerhans.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk,
a cad, and weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on an weasel's rump. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a squeaking rat, a mistake of nature and a heavy-metal bagpipe player. You were not born. You were hatched into an unwilling world that rejects the likes of you. You didn't crawl
out of a normal egg, either, but rather a mutant maggot egg rejected by an evil scientist as being below his low standards.
You are jetsam who dreams of becoming flotsam. You won't make it. Your alleged parents abandoned you at birth and then died of shame in recognition of what they had done to an unsuspecting world. They were a bit late.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf
at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut.
Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing.
You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You are a technicolor yawn. And did I mention that you smell?
Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a
nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it ever so much more rapidly.
You are a thick-headed trog. I have seen skeet with more sense than you have. You are a few bricks short of a full load, a few cards short of a full deck, a few bytes short of a core dump, and
a few chromosomes short of a full human. Worse than that, you top-post.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an
ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost
in a land that reality forgot. You are not ANSI compliant. You have a couple of address lines shorted together. You should be promoted to Engineering Manager.
Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to
be read? Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your tantrums and conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001 worth of electricity used to send them? Your life is
one big W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either.
We need to trace your bloodline and terminate all siblings and cousins in order to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes.
The good news is that no normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to go into the sewers in search of your git.
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living
emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a loathsome disease, a drooling inbred cross-eyed toesucker. You make Quakers shout and strike Pentecostals silent. You have a version 1.0 mind in a version 6.04 world. Your mother had to tie a pork chop around your neck just to get your dog to play with you. You think
that http://www.guymacon.com/insult.txt is the name of a rock band.
You believe that P.D.Q. Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived. You would rather read L. Ron Hubbard than Larry Niven. Hee-Haw is too deep for you. You would watch test patterns all day if the other inmates would let you.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool.
IOW, he sent them the message that they need better DRM so he has no choice but to pay in order to play.
I don't think even EA would be that dense.
Spore is still one of the worst rated games on Amazon. Since its release it has been given a rating of only 1 star by more than 50% of its reviewers. The majority of these ratings address problems with the DRM system.
You? nothing. Which is precisely why it's so significant. This is private enterprise, vs. a mandatory government space program.
NASA has invested hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as part of a partnership with SpaceX to develop the first commercially-operated rocket designed to take cargo to the international space station. NASA has also invested in a second company, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia.
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Yep. I'm an Aussie who answered 29 out of 33 correctly, 87.88%, without trying too hard.
One of the kids here (14yrs old) got 100%. Smug little bastard.
Testicles?
Or the body of the guy who tried to remove them from the mammoth?
I have Flash on my Nokia N800. It has no noticeable effect on battery life.
I use OpenLaszlo to develop auditing software that has earned me a very good living for the past few years. The auditing apps are very utilitarian in use and appearance, despite running on Flash.
Microsoft is investigating the minimum requirements for "Windows 7 Capable" computers.
There's a plaice for everything.
We've used Microsoft products before.
It's weird, isn't it?
You'd almost think there was more than one person posting here.
I see you're familiar with Microsoft products then...
Probably on a pair gain line.
The great thing about open source is that if somebody wants something, it generally happens.
Why?
Just install your browser of choice from the repository.
They could just fix the "Add or Remove Software" applet so it points towards a collection of optional software hosted on a secure server. If you wanted to install IE, you could choose it there and have it installed automatically.
Maybe they could call it a "Repository".
You don't need CO.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/23/1016843080716.html
I'm living in Perth now, just back from Malaysia.
Are we talking about the same city and state? It's a little boring, but generally friendly place.
What are you doing to attract all those fucktards?
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You took your last vacation in the Islets of Langerhans.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, and weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on an weasel's rump. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a squeaking rat, a mistake of nature and a heavy-metal bagpipe player. You were not born. You were hatched into an unwilling world that rejects the likes of you. You didn't crawl out of a normal egg, either, but rather a mutant maggot egg rejected by an evil scientist as being below his low standards.
You are jetsam who dreams of becoming flotsam. You won't make it. Your alleged parents abandoned you at birth and then died of shame in recognition of what they had done to an unsuspecting world. They were a bit late.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut.
Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing.
You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You are a technicolor yawn. And did I mention that you smell?
Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it ever so much more rapidly.
You are a thick-headed trog. I have seen skeet with more sense than you have. You are a few bricks short of a full load, a few cards short of a full deck, a few bytes short of a core dump, and a few chromosomes short of a full human. Worse than that, you top-post.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. You are not ANSI compliant. You have a couple of address lines shorted together. You should be promoted to Engineering Manager.
Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be read? Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your tantrums and conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001 worth of electricity used to send them? Your life is one big W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either.
We need to trace your bloodline and terminate all siblings and cousins in order to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes.
The good news is that no normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to go into the sewers in search of your git.
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a loathsome disease, a drooling inbred cross-eyed toesucker. You make Quakers shout and strike Pentecostals silent. You have a version 1.0 mind in a version 6.04 world. Your mother had to tie a pork chop around your neck just to get your dog to play with you. You think that http://www.guymacon.com/insult.txt is the name of a rock band.
You believe that P.D.Q. Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived. You would rather read L. Ron Hubbard than Larry Niven. Hee-Haw is too deep for you. You would watch test patterns all day if the other inmates would let you.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool.
Actually, you're the one who's wrong, and I look forward to seeing your retraction and apology to cheftw.
Xubuntu is the lightweight version of the Ubuntu family, with much smaller hardware requirements and Xfce4 as a DE, not Gnome.
It makes it warmer.
Scrapheap Challenge has done it several times too, including once where they built battle cars to fight in a sumo/jousting style contest.
Even more expensive than that 'cos they've faked the wreckage of a small plane near where the other stuff was found.
The kind of pricks that burst the economic bubble aren't interested in galactic ones.
So this is how the world ends. Not with a bang but with a flatulent belch of ancient methane.
I don't think even EA would be that dense.
Spore is still one of the worst rated games on Amazon. Since its release it has been given a rating of only 1 star by more than 50% of its reviewers. The majority of these ratings address problems with the DRM system.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/drm_is_helping_spore_make_history_as_the_most_pirated_game_ever.php
NASA has invested hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as part of a partnership with SpaceX to develop the first commercially-operated rocket designed to take cargo to the international space station. NASA has also invested in a second company, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2008/08/spacex-strikes.html
Corporate welfare FTW. You've been suckered again...
The OS would be the next most expensive component, if you used Windows.