Examples like this do make me wish the FCC had control over Canada. The CRTC only seem to care about Canadian content percentages on our stations, and not about competition, innovation, or anything that makes sense. Maybe if more Canadian shows and artists were GOOD, we wouldn't have to baby them on to the scene with handouts.
I think it would be more easily achieved through software, instead of a pricey hardware adapter. I.e. it should someday be a thing either built in to Windows or the "drivers" for the mouse... Just use some kind of error detection algorithm that eliminates irregular mouse movements, say the person is moving in a straight line towards the ok button on a dialog box, and they deviate more than a certain percentage from the most direct route, the driver will cancel that movement and coninue the movement in that direction until they reach the object. Just integrate that with predictive measurements (i.e. "guide" the mouse towards the close button, the text box, the link, the whatever) and you've got yourself a nice tremor-safe mouse driver!
I for one like the interface of Answers. Dictionary.com had a terrible design, and every time I went there I thought I was on one of those placeholder ad sites - bright blue and bad fonts are a no-no these days, when it's so easy to create a nice looking site even with simple space-saving css or tables or something at least visually appealing.
Apple invented FireWire. They can do what they want with it, and they can consider it a bonus that most of the industry (At least with motherboards) have accepted it as a standardized port. I find FireWire to be more reliable than USB, and just generally cooler. Plus there isn't any confusion on whether to have a 2.0 device plugged in to a 1.1 port!
All reading the article aside..., I didn't even know there was a Tiger release floating around. Now I do. And now I am going to download it. I find if the companies downplay these kinds of things, the less it hurts them. Or maybe that would just show they dont care and people would do it anyway. I dont know...
Frankly I don't think that the people who make these ads are trying to circumvent the protection methods in Firefox and Safari, since those two account for a very very small percentage of the browser market. The more likely explanation is that the advertisers have come up with a way to block the SP2-instigated IE popup blocker, since that was the bane of advertisers since it was added in the Summer. So, now we have a method of popups that is getting around the IE popup blocker, and because of these new methods, is probably getting around Firefox and Safari's blockers as well. The most obviously geeky explanation that FF And Saf are being targeted might not be the right one! They're still better browsers anyway though. Kind of sad to see I cant say "Hey, I can just turn on popup blocking to stop that ad.... oh wait...."
It's stupid really, this digital world. If I buy soemthing for $60 I can't re-sell it? This is why software and EULA's need to be rethinked (See: Lady who is suing software companies over the EULA / opening software etc). If I buy a $60 DVD player, I can re-sell it for $50 to someone, simple as that. I OWN the DVD player, I am not paying anyone for a license of the software. The only licensing that should go on in the industry is between the MLB and EA, or between some movie franchise, and a game developer - NEVER between users and the companies. The company's control over the software should end the moment I hand my money to the cashier at Best Buy. But no, sadly that's not where it ends and we are still controlled by EULAs and we let it happen because we don't care most of the time.
Well you should have just made sure you got the LOGIN and PASSWORD of the account. That's what I did when I bought my copy off of a friend of mine. You aren't paying for the key when you buy a used MMORPG you are paying for the account and who gives a @#$% if it violates Blizzard's EULA, because they are NOT going to care as long as they get their $20 a month somehow, from someone using that account! End of story.
When we refer to the PlayStation2 we say "PS2" its just easy that way. But nobody is going to want the long-winded "Xbox 360" and people will end up calling it the Xbox 3 or something. It just doesnt make sense. However, all that could change. Or M$ could just be screwing themselves over...
This is like saying I need two licenses if I have two Word documents open at once. License agreements have always meant "per CPU" in the sense that a CPU is the main box of your computer. Why on earth is there even a question of "should there be multiple licenses for dual corse". No! It's still only ONE computer.
$35/hr for friends $40/hr for house calls $70/hr is what we charge at work. (CDN$) Apparently, $80/hr is the industry standard. Anyone who says that's expensive has clearly never been to an auto repair shop before (upwards of $100/hr). And to some people, their computers make them more money and are more important than their cars.
And yet NOBODY seems to want to compare the fact that a) we have the same games in Canada and b) we don't have violence on the level of the USA and c) the reason is because we don't let idiots have guns.
Ironically, I just bought a cheap Taiwanese keyboard that had two 7's on it - instead of a 0 on the top number keys, there was a 7! I hear 7's are pretty lucky in Asia, perhaps I've gotten something good? Oh well, it was $9.
On 105% of keyboards, the 4 is next to the 5, so I would imagine it was a typo. Why be monitoring Xserve traffic and PowerMac traffic, then have a completely unrelated product name on the PowerBook G4's site? Logically, since the other GIFs were named properly, shouldnt this one be too?
When you are serving software and media to the world of people who download these things, then you introduce them to an app that will - no, NEEDS - to be reverse-engineered. Just like Kazaa Lite did to Kazaa!
Well where I come from, there's a two lane road on the side of a 6000ft mountain range, and it's the only way to get to where most of our olympic events will be held in 2010. Welcome to Vancouver.... sigh...
Oh and did I mention it is the stretch of road in Canada with the highest deaths every year? Yep, should be fun.
Garage sale signs, and the FOR SALE sign on my car are costing newspapers millions of dollars a year! Online ads for jobs and merchandise for sale in Vancouver are costing the Chicago Tribune MILLIONS each year! How can someone justify something like this... shame on them.
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Examples like this do make me wish the FCC had control over Canada. The CRTC only seem to care about Canadian content percentages on our stations, and not about competition, innovation, or anything that makes sense. Maybe if more Canadian shows and artists were GOOD, we wouldn't have to baby them on to the scene with handouts.
I think it would be more easily achieved through software, instead of a pricey hardware adapter. I.e. it should someday be a thing either built in to Windows or the "drivers" for the mouse... Just use some kind of error detection algorithm that eliminates irregular mouse movements, say the person is moving in a straight line towards the ok button on a dialog box, and they deviate more than a certain percentage from the most direct route, the driver will cancel that movement and coninue the movement in that direction until they reach the object. Just integrate that with predictive measurements (i.e. "guide" the mouse towards the close button, the text box, the link, the whatever) and you've got yourself a nice tremor-safe mouse driver!
I for one like the interface of Answers. Dictionary.com had a terrible design, and every time I went there I thought I was on one of those placeholder ad sites - bright blue and bad fonts are a no-no these days, when it's so easy to create a nice looking site even with simple space-saving css or tables or something at least visually appealing.
All your base are belong to it's a trap!
Apple invented FireWire. They can do what they want with it, and they can consider it a bonus that most of the industry (At least with motherboards) have accepted it as a standardized port. I find FireWire to be more reliable than USB, and just generally cooler. Plus there isn't any confusion on whether to have a 2.0 device plugged in to a 1.1 port!
All reading the article aside..., I didn't even know there was a Tiger release floating around. Now I do. And now I am going to download it. I find if the companies downplay these kinds of things, the less it hurts them. Or maybe that would just show they dont care and people would do it anyway. I dont know...
Frankly I don't think that the people who make these ads are trying to circumvent the protection methods in Firefox and Safari, since those two account for a very very small percentage of the browser market. The more likely explanation is that the advertisers have come up with a way to block the SP2-instigated IE popup blocker, since that was the bane of advertisers since it was added in the Summer. So, now we have a method of popups that is getting around the IE popup blocker, and because of these new methods, is probably getting around Firefox and Safari's blockers as well. The most obviously geeky explanation that FF And Saf are being targeted might not be the right one! They're still better browsers anyway though. Kind of sad to see I cant say "Hey, I can just turn on popup blocking to stop that ad.... oh wait...."
It's stupid really, this digital world. If I buy soemthing for $60 I can't re-sell it? This is why software and EULA's need to be rethinked (See: Lady who is suing software companies over the EULA / opening software etc). If I buy a $60 DVD player, I can re-sell it for $50 to someone, simple as that. I OWN the DVD player, I am not paying anyone for a license of the software. The only licensing that should go on in the industry is between the MLB and EA, or between some movie franchise, and a game developer - NEVER between users and the companies. The company's control over the software should end the moment I hand my money to the cashier at Best Buy. But no, sadly that's not where it ends and we are still controlled by EULAs and we let it happen because we don't care most of the time.
Hey. how can this be true? There aren't any dispatchers in GTA!
Well you should have just made sure you got the LOGIN and PASSWORD of the account. That's what I did when I bought my copy off of a friend of mine. You aren't paying for the key when you buy a used MMORPG you are paying for the account and who gives a @#$% if it violates Blizzard's EULA, because they are NOT going to care as long as they get their $20 a month somehow, from someone using that account! End of story.
When we refer to the PlayStation2 we say "PS2" its just easy that way. But nobody is going to want the long-winded "Xbox 360" and people will end up calling it the Xbox 3 or something. It just doesnt make sense. However, all that could change. Or M$ could just be screwing themselves over...
This is like saying I need two licenses if I have two Word documents open at once. License agreements have always meant "per CPU" in the sense that a CPU is the main box of your computer. Why on earth is there even a question of "should there be multiple licenses for dual corse". No! It's still only ONE computer.
$35/hr for friends
$40/hr for house calls
$70/hr is what we charge at work. (CDN$)
Apparently, $80/hr is the industry standard. Anyone who says that's expensive has clearly never been to an auto repair shop before (upwards of $100/hr). And to some people, their computers make them more money and are more important than their cars.
I'll quote an episode of South Park. "Wait, so parents don't care about violence when there's sexual stuff to be concerned about?"
And yet NOBODY seems to want to compare the fact that a) we have the same games in Canada and b) we don't have violence on the level of the USA and c) the reason is because we don't let idiots have guns.
Duke Nukem Forever boardgame due out soon too... yep... any day now....
Plays best on nVidia(R).
And what about the scroll wheel. I can live without the second button. But the scroll wheel is ESSENTIAL!
Ironically, I just bought a cheap Taiwanese keyboard that had two 7's on it - instead of a 0 on the top number keys, there was a 7! I hear 7's are pretty lucky in Asia, perhaps I've gotten something good? Oh well, it was $9.
On 105% of keyboards, the 4 is next to the 5, so I would imagine it was a typo. Why be monitoring Xserve traffic and PowerMac traffic, then have a completely unrelated product name on the PowerBook G4's site? Logically, since the other GIFs were named properly, shouldnt this one be too?
Does it come with 21" spinners?
1.5 billion dollar scheme bilks American consumers - Wal Mart allegedly is selling crappy items for money!
When you are serving software and media to the world of people who download these things, then you introduce them to an app that will - no, NEEDS - to be reverse-engineered. Just like Kazaa Lite did to Kazaa!
Well where I come from, there's a two lane road on the side of a 6000ft mountain range, and it's the only way to get to where most of our olympic events will be held in 2010. Welcome to Vancouver.... sigh... Oh and did I mention it is the stretch of road in Canada with the highest deaths every year? Yep, should be fun.
Garage sale signs, and the FOR SALE sign on my car are costing newspapers millions of dollars a year! Online ads for jobs and merchandise for sale in Vancouver are costing the Chicago Tribune MILLIONS each year! How can someone justify something like this... shame on them.