There's a small thing I find really annoying with Outlook, OE and Mozilla mail (which I have to use at work). When you set up a mail rule to mark certain messages as "read", the little icon in the task bar still pops up to say that you have "unread" messages when new messages arrive. So you go to your inbox, and of course all the messages are "read" (like you want). In OE, to get the little "unread messages" icon to dissappear, you have to click on a read message, mark it as "unread", click on it again and mark it "read"!
So the program does something like this:
- check mail and find new messages
- pop up the "unread messages" icon
- check rules and mark messages unread
(thus leaving you with a misleading "unread messages" icon)
What they should do is this:
- check mail and find new messages
- check rules and mark messages unread
- pop up the "unread messages" icon if there are still unread messages
But what if you like learning? I love studying stuff and reading and doing little projects all the time - it doesn't mean that I can't relax. Personally I think it's great if you find the world around you so interesting that want to know more and more. You can relax without switching off your brain.
You might think that the US arcade scene is going down hill, but it's probably still ten times better than here in the UK. I moved here from New Zealand when I was ten years old, and even then I could see that the UK take on arcades was very strange. Here in London the arcades are full of crappy novelty games, like snowboarding, horse-racing etc - there are very few games with a joystick. The games are generally 1 pound a play (> US $1.50). It seems the approach here is to offer an experience more like an amusement park ride, for more money, rather than offering low-cost video games that communities will be built around. These novelty games are aimed at the passer-by. Nobody is going to come back each week and master that rubbish horse-riding game.
A few years ago I was out in NZ and Australia and the arcades there are packed with two-player 'versus' games like the SF series, Tekken, Virtua Tennis etc, with loads of people there challenging each other. The games were like NZ 50 cents a game (about 15p UK / 25c US). It's the low-cost, high-volume approach, and seemed to be working very well for the arcade operators cos the arcades were packed.
The company aidworld is looking at ways of making the internet more accessable to developing countries, "Taking the world wide web world wide". Only 2% of the world's population has Internet access, and in developing countries the bandwidth is often very low and unstable, completely unsuitbale for viewing websites created in weatlthy countries where high bandwidth is taken for granted.
They have a very interesting low-bandwidth simulator, where you can find out what it's like to have the type of low-speed connection often found in developing countries (such as 0.3 Kbps).
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There's a small thing I find really annoying with Outlook, OE and Mozilla mail (which I have to use at work). When you set up a mail rule to mark certain messages as "read", the little icon in the task bar still pops up to say that you have "unread" messages when new messages arrive. So you go to your inbox, and of course all the messages are "read" (like you want). In OE, to get the little "unread messages" icon to dissappear, you have to click on a read message, mark it as "unread", click on it again and mark it "read"!
So the program does something like this:
- check mail and find new messages
- pop up the "unread messages" icon
- check rules and mark messages unread
(thus leaving you with a misleading "unread messages" icon)
What they should do is this:
- check mail and find new messages
- check rules and mark messages unread
- pop up the "unread messages" icon if there are still unread messages
The one I remember most is "Attack of the Mutant Camels" on the Amiga.
But what if you like learning? I love studying stuff and reading and doing little projects all the time - it doesn't mean that I can't relax. Personally I think it's great if you find the world around you so interesting that want to know more and more. You can relax without switching off your brain.
You might think that the US arcade scene is going down hill, but it's probably still ten times better than here in the UK. I moved here from New Zealand when I was ten years old, and even then I could see that the UK take on arcades was very strange. Here in London the arcades are full of crappy novelty games, like snowboarding, horse-racing etc - there are very few games with a joystick. The games are generally 1 pound a play (> US $1.50). It seems the approach here is to offer an experience more like an amusement park ride, for more money, rather than offering low-cost video games that communities will be built around. These novelty games are aimed at the passer-by. Nobody is going to come back each week and master that rubbish horse-riding game.
A few years ago I was out in NZ and Australia and the arcades there are packed with two-player 'versus' games like the SF series, Tekken, Virtua Tennis etc, with loads of people there challenging each other. The games were like NZ 50 cents a game (about 15p UK / 25c US). It's the low-cost, high-volume approach, and seemed to be working very well for the arcade operators cos the arcades were packed.
The company aidworld is looking at ways of making the internet more accessable to developing countries, "Taking the world wide web world wide". Only 2% of the world's population has Internet access, and in developing countries the bandwidth is often very low and unstable, completely unsuitbale for viewing websites created in weatlthy countries where high bandwidth is taken for granted.
They have a very interesting low-bandwidth simulator, where you can find out what it's like to have the type of low-speed connection often found in developing countries (such as 0.3 Kbps).