I'd say a large part of why they bought the 5% was to ensure that they could get some cooperation with AOL to get their IM clients to be able to talk to each other (Without AOL's resistance)
Ah, i think it's just that people who are smarter can figure out how *not* to use the default msn search in ie
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Not true, obviously. There is a lot of cool stuff you can do with dynamic content, and while 90% of it will be generated by the 10% of content creators who are wieners who want to fuck it up for everyone, that doesn't change. I hate to drag out that one example again: look at gmail. Until now i used an email client and laughed at people who used webmail. Now i don't even bother with an email client on a clean install, except to remove any that may be in the default install. There's a lot of apps that can be built through this stuff simply because you have a scripting engine that can do everything you need (Probably that is; if it hasn't been locked down because of fucking ad pushers), by default, on every user. No additional libraries, no muss, no fuss.
Actually, due to what google are doing with the multinetworking aspects of google talk, there has been some talk of the big 3 networks heavily changing their protocols to permanently lock out third party clients. They have, to date, largely ignored them simply due to the cost to users of old client software who would then have to upgrade. I'm not gonna try and support this, just remember it from when i did my origional look around on what gTalk could do.
It really isn't that much better here, where i work (this is following government policy, mind you) you simply are required to know the person you are dealing with's birth date. That is correct, a 6 digit pin that anyone even mildly close to you would know. I can cut off your gas by walking up to you in the street, saying happy birthday and gauging your reaction.
Given Google's stance on projects that abuse their systems so far such as the google filesystem, i'd say they couldn't give a crap if you exercise your rights to download all their scanned books. I think they just expect the majority of people to just use their page and get on with their lives. It's not like most people use a specially crafted page to avoid the ads on the google search.
Hah! The hard part is to get them to stop installing programs! I keep telling her "Smileys are bad! they're like the color red in nature, you wouldn't click on a red back spider." but everytime i turn up there's crap spread 6 ways from sunday (well not really, or else i'd give her a low access account, but you get that).
I wouldn't bet on it, there is currently a lot of development in the shinyness category on linux. Stuff like xgl can make windows look bad, as long as the X.org devs can get the code cleaned up and implimented before longhorn comes out (it will probably be a bit touch and go imho). I still don't use linux on the desktop much but i'm pretty excited by the whole thing at the moment, not just the eye candy but that's a part of it.
2 points:
1. It's a new service, i'd say over 70% of people are asking these questions.
2. I'd say google's support department consists of less than 20 people. You do the math.
That said, with all their crazy targeted advertising junk you'd at least think they could provide targeted answers.
That if you don't make it fully standards compliant you are screwing over disabled people, especially those who use screen readers to browse the web. I don't know what the laws are like where you are but government organisations in Australia MUST make their websites fully compliant with the w3c. I assume you don't have any such laws where you are at the moment (or else standards compliance would probably be part of the contract), so a demonstration of how a non-compliant site sounds in a screen reader compared to a compliant site might be the way to open some eyes. There really is NO excuse in this day and age to be making new yet half-broken sites that don't have the capability to provide the same information to those disadvantaged with poor vision or other disabilites.
The standards are there for a lot more reasons than just making your website look the same in different browsers.
Big companies (id, the ut guys) will simply do d3d renderer for windows and if they're going cross-platform they'll do an openGL renderer at the same time.
It's probably most annoying for small devs who want to do a windows/linux port of their game/software, stuff based on free engines like ogre3d will suffer greatly in the short term.
But really, all it means is people who want to run openGL stuff will turn off aero, which i'm sure most of them would be doing anyways.
Nah, it's just people learning as a whole. At the start it was shell is better, then people realised they could have a fully functional gui that did nearly everything a shell could, so they decided that if we take it to the next level we could produce a gui so good it could do everything with a little bit of clicking. Now people (By people i mean mostly microsoft and apple) are realising that gui is good for some things (simple file manipulation, image manipulation, desktop publishing etc etc), and shells are good for others.
Actually, a lot of less frequent users have cheaper data-limited plans in Aus and a preliminary search shows these types of plans are also quite easy to obtain in the UK, maybe you should do some fucking research before you get on your high horse.
A better one would be: You search your neighbourhood for an unsecured wireless network, you find one and piggyback off it ignoring the dollars that you are causing to flow out of your unwitting host's pockets and into his isp's. I don't really see how anyone can defend this as moral, unless you decide that taking advantage of stupid people is moral.
Just because it's (very) easy to do doesn't make it right.
Hardcore porn (X rated) is only legal in Canberra, The highest allowed rating elsewhere being R which is explained elsewhere in this thread. MA 15+ is the highest rating for video games here, anything that doesn't make this rating is illegal to sell.
We don't actually have freedom of speech laws here. It's generally more of a "Freedom of speech is good, as long as you're not pissing anyone off" kind of thing.
Probably wasn't clear here, I just meant have a quick look for current popular aus bands you might recognise. I realise that there's gonna be a lot of non-australian stuff in there for simply because if it was all australian you'd start to see band names repeating pretty quickly. I would of stripped the list to just aus but
a: I'm lazy and
b: I might catch a band from elsewhere and make myself look dumb
You find people who aren't mind numbed by american style top 40 over here tend to not have a clue what australian bands are doing well in america.
However, Here's a link to the latest top 100 countdown from tripleJ (apparently it's the biggest top 100 countdown in the world, no idea where those numbers come from though)
Maybe there's a few Aussie bands in there you might know Hottest 100 2004
Some of my favorites atm are Jet, Machine gun fellatio, Regurgitator, spiderbait etc etc, have you guys heard of any of these?
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I'd say a large part of why they bought the 5% was to ensure that they could get some cooperation with AOL to get their IM clients to be able to talk to each other (Without AOL's resistance)
Ah, i think it's just that people who are smarter can figure out how *not* to use the default msn search in ie
Not true, obviously. There is a lot of cool stuff you can do with dynamic content, and while 90% of it will be generated by the 10% of content creators who are wieners who want to fuck it up for everyone, that doesn't change. I hate to drag out that one example again: look at gmail. Until now i used an email client and laughed at people who used webmail. Now i don't even bother with an email client on a clean install, except to remove any that may be in the default install. There's a lot of apps that can be built through this stuff simply because you have a scripting engine that can do everything you need (Probably that is; if it hasn't been locked down because of fucking ad pushers), by default, on every user. No additional libraries, no muss, no fuss.
Actually, due to what google are doing with the multinetworking aspects of google talk, there has been some talk of the big 3 networks heavily changing their protocols to permanently lock out third party clients. They have, to date, largely ignored them simply due to the cost to users of old client software who would then have to upgrade. I'm not gonna try and support this, just remember it from when i did my origional look around on what gTalk could do.
AFAIK you just need to change the server url in a text file to allow you to play on other country's servers.
It really isn't that much better here, where i work (this is following government policy, mind you) you simply are required to know the person you are dealing with's birth date. That is correct, a 6 digit pin that anyone even mildly close to you would know. I can cut off your gas by walking up to you in the street, saying happy birthday and gauging your reaction.
Given Google's stance on projects that abuse their systems so far such as the google filesystem, i'd say they couldn't give a crap if you exercise your rights to download all their scanned books. I think they just expect the majority of people to just use their page and get on with their lives. It's not like most people use a specially crafted page to avoid the ads on the google search.
Hah! The hard part is to get them to stop installing programs! I keep telling her "Smileys are bad! they're like the color red in nature, you wouldn't click on a red back spider." but everytime i turn up there's crap spread 6 ways from sunday (well not really, or else i'd give her a low access account, but you get that).
It became popular because
a) it came out at the right time and had pretty good mechanics and gameplay.
b) Everything looked like ass then, remember this was back in the times when unreal 1 was supposed to be *gorgeous* with it's 15 poly models
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It's still being developed anyway under a different name. http://pvpgn.berlios.de/
I wouldn't bet on it, there is currently a lot of development in the shinyness category on linux. Stuff like xgl can make windows look bad, as long as the X.org devs can get the code cleaned up and implimented before longhorn comes out (it will probably be a bit touch and go imho). I still don't use linux on the desktop much but i'm pretty excited by the whole thing at the moment, not just the eye candy but that's a part of it.
Nice post, a little bit light on the bold and capitals though.
2 points:
1. It's a new service, i'd say over 70% of people are asking these questions.
2. I'd say google's support department consists of less than 20 people. You do the math.
That said, with all their crazy targeted advertising junk you'd at least think they could provide targeted answers.
Yeah, cause linux never has driver problems.
That if you don't make it fully standards compliant you are screwing over disabled people, especially those who use screen readers to browse the web. I don't know what the laws are like where you are but government organisations in Australia MUST make their websites fully compliant with the w3c. I assume you don't have any such laws where you are at the moment (or else standards compliance would probably be part of the contract), so a demonstration of how a non-compliant site sounds in a screen reader compared to a compliant site might be the way to open some eyes. There really is NO excuse in this day and age to be making new yet half-broken sites that don't have the capability to provide the same information to those disadvantaged with poor vision or other disabilites.
The standards are there for a lot more reasons than just making your website look the same in different browsers.
Big companies (id, the ut guys) will simply do d3d renderer for windows and if they're going cross-platform they'll do an openGL renderer at the same time.
It's probably most annoying for small devs who want to do a windows/linux port of their game/software, stuff based on free engines like ogre3d will suffer greatly in the short term.
But really, all it means is people who want to run openGL stuff will turn off aero, which i'm sure most of them would be doing anyways.
Nah, it's just people learning as a whole. At the start it was shell is better, then people realised they could have a fully functional gui that did nearly everything a shell could, so they decided that if we take it to the next level we could produce a gui so good it could do everything with a little bit of clicking. Now people (By people i mean mostly microsoft and apple) are realising that gui is good for some things (simple file manipulation, image manipulation, desktop publishing etc etc), and shells are good for others.
Actually, a lot of less frequent users have cheaper data-limited plans in Aus and a preliminary search shows these types of plans are also quite easy to obtain in the UK, maybe you should do some fucking research before you get on your high horse.
A better one would be: You search your neighbourhood for an unsecured wireless network, you find one and piggyback off it ignoring the dollars that you are causing to flow out of your unwitting host's pockets and into his isp's. I don't really see how anyone can defend this as moral, unless you decide that taking advantage of stupid people is moral.
Just because it's (very) easy to do doesn't make it right.
Hardcore porn (X rated) is only legal in Canberra, The highest allowed rating elsewhere being R which is explained elsewhere in this thread. MA 15+ is the highest rating for video games here, anything that doesn't make this rating is illegal to sell.
We don't actually have freedom of speech laws here. It's generally more of a "Freedom of speech is good, as long as you're not pissing anyone off" kind of thing.
yeah, i believe the earlier ones (or just the first one) were top 100 of all time
Probably wasn't clear here, I just meant have a quick look for current popular aus bands you might recognise. I realise that there's gonna be a lot of non-australian stuff in there for simply because if it was all australian you'd start to see band names repeating pretty quickly. I would of stripped the list to just aus but
a: I'm lazy and
b: I might catch a band from elsewhere and make myself look dumb
You find people who aren't mind numbed by american style top 40 over here tend to not have a clue what australian bands are doing well in america.
However, Here's a link to the latest top 100 countdown from tripleJ (apparently it's the biggest top 100 countdown in the world, no idea where those numbers come from though)
Maybe there's a few Aussie bands in there you might know Hottest 100 2004
Some of my favorites atm are Jet, Machine gun fellatio, Regurgitator, spiderbait etc etc, have you guys heard of any of these?