According to President Bush, Arizona DOES have a border with Canada.
That's not what he said. Rather, it's what you got out of reading a transcript of a speech he gave. Arizona is most definitely affected by our porous national borders and by any policies involved in managing those borders.
Spoken like a web designer, rather than a web surfer. Web designers want to give everyone their artistic vision of the web, while web surfers want to extract information from it. The amount of overlap is very small.
Why would you want to allow being able to view images on websites?
A picture is worth a thousand words. Images (can) convey information. I turn animated GIFs off, because rarely does an animated GIF provide more information than a static image does. (Satellite/radar weather is the only counterexample I can think of at the moment.)
Sure images can be used to display advertisements and track your browsing, but it adds to your web experience. It's more visually appealing. The same can be said for flash. Sites built using flash are more visually appealing. They provide more functionality. For example, there's a site where you can upload your photo and see how different hair styles look on you. This is good if you're considering a new hair style, plus it's fun just to play around and give yourself funny hairdos. If you don't have flash, you can't use this site.
But why do you need to use a Flash plugin to do this? Can't the same thing be achieved with a standalone web-disabled Flash viewer and a right-click-save-to-desktop of the SWF? Or, for that matter, server-side processing of the content?
But don't advocate to people not to install it for the sole purpose of protecting them from pop up ads.
I'm not. I'm advocating people not to install Flash because absolutely everything that has ever been done with Flash is either crap or doesn't really require web capability to enjoy.
The appeals court, however, reinstated part of the lawsuit in which Bosley alleged that Kremer is violating a so-called cybersquatting law by allegedly attempting to sell the site to Bosley in exchange for removing the disparaging material.
The thing is, none of the positive applications you mention require Flash as a plugin. You could just as easily have a standalone Flash viewer and just download the SWF to a local drive, only using your web browser for the download.
How can you NOT have flash installed. There are many legit sites that include flash. It provides much more functionality than straight HTML pages. You can include Video and sound. You're not restricted to the page placement limitations of HTML pages. You can create full functional applications with Flash where you cannot do the same with HTML.
This is true - in fact, many people are annoyed that SOE releases so many expansions, as it significantly increases the cost to play.
I guess what I was getting at is that the reason most EQ players stuck with the game for nearly six years is that SOE provided the option for new content. But this was done in a near-vacuum - while there were MMOG offerings that crept up from time to time, none of them really tapped into the same playerbase that EQ had. When WoW and EQ2 were released, players made the choice to stay or quit EQ for different reasons than they did for years previous. There's really not much that SOE can do about that, and I don't see future expansion offerings for EQ reversing the hemorrhage that they have suffered since late last year. The biggest influence on that will actually be what Blizzard does in upcoming months.
With WoW, Blizzard faces the same situation now that EQ did in the past - release new content, or face abandonment in favor of some nonspecific alternative. But until something decidedly better than WoW comes down the pike, they won't have to deal with what EQ is dealing with now, which is essentially abandonment in favor of a particular alternative (WoW or EQ2) regardless of what SOE does.
I have yet to see a web application in Flash that couldn't be implemented in plain HTML with maybe a touch of server-side scripting. So-called Flash "movies" don't count, because those could simply be saved to disk via web browser without involving a plugin, and then could be played back without any online component at all.
Of greatest annoyance are websites with Flash intros lacking a way to get past the intro, or with Flash navigation instead of a simple imagemap. Not everything on the web has to beep, spin, blink, or interact with the user - in fact, it's best if nothing does.
Don't forget that it took EverQuest six years before they did their first server consolidations. The only reason that happened is because of the entry of several new (and arguably better) MMOGs to the market, and I suspect that WoW won't see significant declines in the playerbase at least until the next generation of alternatives creeps up.
Now, if Blizzard releases zero new content from here on out, I can see bad things happening (SOE released numerous expansions for EQ, keeping veteran players interested for years). But they do have additions in the pipe (Battlegrounds, for instance) which should help to keep the hardcore people with multiple level 60 characters playing.
95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive
Considering that "on time" and "satisfactorily", when the deadlines and satisfaction criteria are devised by business executives, are mutually exclusive, I'd expect the number to be even higher.
In a series of court battles where the ??AA want to eliminate *all* P2P, is it really a good thing that Grokster and StreamCast are representing P2P software? What about BitTorrent, for example? While it's P2P and while it's sometimes being used to violate copyrights, it has been used and even endorsed by some entertainment businesses as a necessary part of distribution of software/patches/media. My concern isn't that Grokster or StreamCast suffer, but rather that the entire concept of P2P file transfer is criminalized by association when it actually has real, legitimate, and very important private and commercial uses.
...but between GTA and Tony Hawk Underground, THUG is the more "dangerous" game. Glorifying extreme violence isn't going to create an epidemic of kids bitch-slapping their hoes and having shootouts in the streets, if they wouldn't have without GTA's influence. The kids getting caught up in drugs and gang violence have far more destructive influences than video games to worry about. But THUG, on the other hand, turns vandalism into a sport, by associating it with skateboarding - and kids from otherwise low-risk environments are far more likely to have difficulty directing their own moral compass when it comes to spray-painting graffiti or slashing tires, compared to carjacking or killing people.
Yet nobody ever mentions Tony Hawk Underground, because Grand Theft Auto has raised the bar so far when it comes to shock value.
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According to President Bush, Arizona DOES have a border with Canada.
That's not what he said. Rather, it's what you got out of reading a transcript of a speech he gave. Arizona is most definitely affected by our porous national borders and by any policies involved in managing those borders.
Spoken like a web designer, rather than a web surfer. Web designers want to give everyone their artistic vision of the web, while web surfers want to extract information from it. The amount of overlap is very small.
Why would you want to allow being able to view images on websites?
A picture is worth a thousand words. Images (can) convey information. I turn animated GIFs off, because rarely does an animated GIF provide more information than a static image does. (Satellite/radar weather is the only counterexample I can think of at the moment.)
Sure images can be used to display advertisements and track your browsing, but it adds to your web experience. It's more visually appealing. The same can be said for flash. Sites built using flash are more visually appealing. They provide more functionality. For example, there's a site where you can upload your photo and see how different hair styles look on you. This is good if you're considering a new hair style, plus it's fun just to play around and give yourself funny hairdos. If you don't have flash, you can't use this site.
But why do you need to use a Flash plugin to do this? Can't the same thing be achieved with a standalone web-disabled Flash viewer and a right-click-save-to-desktop of the SWF? Or, for that matter, server-side processing of the content?
But don't advocate to people not to install it for the sole purpose of protecting them from pop up ads.
I'm not. I'm advocating people not to install Flash because absolutely everything that has ever been done with Flash is either crap or doesn't really require web capability to enjoy.
The appeals court, however, reinstated part of the lawsuit in which Bosley alleged that Kremer is violating a so-called cybersquatting law by allegedly attempting to sell the site to Bosley in exchange for removing the disparaging material.
Man shoots self in foot. Film at 11.
The thing is, none of the positive applications you mention require Flash as a plugin. You could just as easily have a standalone Flash viewer and just download the SWF to a local drive, only using your web browser for the download.
How can you NOT have flash installed. There are many legit sites that include flash. It provides much more functionality than straight HTML pages. You can include Video and sound. You're not restricted to the page placement limitations of HTML pages. You can create full functional applications with Flash where you cannot do the same with HTML.
But.... why would you want to?
Note the "Get Firefox" link in the left column.
The only way to pacify MS Word, if you insist upon using "which", is to put the comma before it.
Of course, this is all to say nothing of ending the sentence with a preposition, but that hardly has the impact noted by the parent
This is true - in fact, many people are annoyed that SOE releases so many expansions, as it significantly increases the cost to play.
I guess what I was getting at is that the reason most EQ players stuck with the game for nearly six years is that SOE provided the option for new content. But this was done in a near-vacuum - while there were MMOG offerings that crept up from time to time, none of them really tapped into the same playerbase that EQ had. When WoW and EQ2 were released, players made the choice to stay or quit EQ for different reasons than they did for years previous. There's really not much that SOE can do about that, and I don't see future expansion offerings for EQ reversing the hemorrhage that they have suffered since late last year. The biggest influence on that will actually be what Blizzard does in upcoming months.
With WoW, Blizzard faces the same situation now that EQ did in the past - release new content, or face abandonment in favor of some nonspecific alternative. But until something decidedly better than WoW comes down the pike, they won't have to deal with what EQ is dealing with now, which is essentially abandonment in favor of a particular alternative (WoW or EQ2) regardless of what SOE does.
Flash is fine for some applications.
I have yet to see a web application in Flash that couldn't be implemented in plain HTML with maybe a touch of server-side scripting. So-called Flash "movies" don't count, because those could simply be saved to disk via web browser without involving a plugin, and then could be played back without any online component at all.
Of greatest annoyance are websites with Flash intros lacking a way to get past the intro, or with Flash navigation instead of a simple imagemap. Not everything on the web has to beep, spin, blink, or interact with the user - in fact, it's best if nothing does.
Don't forget that it took EverQuest six years before they did their first server consolidations. The only reason that happened is because of the entry of several new (and arguably better) MMOGs to the market, and I suspect that WoW won't see significant declines in the playerbase at least until the next generation of alternatives creeps up.
Now, if Blizzard releases zero new content from here on out, I can see bad things happening (SOE released numerous expansions for EQ, keeping veteran players interested for years). But they do have additions in the pipe (Battlegrounds, for instance) which should help to keep the hardcore people with multiple level 60 characters playing.
Use one-time pads.
95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive
Considering that "on time" and "satisfactorily", when the deadlines and satisfaction criteria are devised by business executives, are mutually exclusive, I'd expect the number to be even higher.
Dr Who actor Christopher Eccleston has revealed he will not continue in the role, for fears of being typecast.
Now everyone will just remember him as "that jerk who quit Dr. Who after one season because he was afraid of being typecast".
Make that the 18th century.
Who knows?
Just remember to think "nyet" at any suspicious-looking dialog boxes.
Anarchy Online is free for the next almost a year. However, they are embedding advertising in the game world to recoup their costs.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/25
How do you copy and paste verbatim from the linked article, but then spell 'criticism' wrong?
They're just going to reship the units sent back to them without servicing them, so somebody else will get your dead pixels.
What if he issues a DMCA takedown order to Slashdot?
In a series of court battles where the ??AA want to eliminate *all* P2P, is it really a good thing that Grokster and StreamCast are representing P2P software? What about BitTorrent, for example? While it's P2P and while it's sometimes being used to violate copyrights, it has been used and even endorsed by some entertainment businesses as a necessary part of distribution of software/patches/media. My concern isn't that Grokster or StreamCast suffer, but rather that the entire concept of P2P file transfer is criminalized by association when it actually has real, legitimate, and very important private and commercial uses.
...but between GTA and Tony Hawk Underground, THUG is the more "dangerous" game. Glorifying extreme violence isn't going to create an epidemic of kids bitch-slapping their hoes and having shootouts in the streets, if they wouldn't have without GTA's influence. The kids getting caught up in drugs and gang violence have far more destructive influences than video games to worry about. But THUG, on the other hand, turns vandalism into a sport, by associating it with skateboarding - and kids from otherwise low-risk environments are far more likely to have difficulty directing their own moral compass when it comes to spray-painting graffiti or slashing tires, compared to carjacking or killing people.
Yet nobody ever mentions Tony Hawk Underground, because Grand Theft Auto has raised the bar so far when it comes to shock value.
Here come the Chick tracts!
Nooooooooooooooo!!!
Don't forget Fly, OH.
Somebody should have cast a friendship spell on him.