The pictures are all related to the upcoming apple expo in Paris. The first picture is of the conference center where the keynote is going to be held, the second is of the exposition hall where the expo itself will take place, and the third is of an advertisement, announcing the expo. Not all that interesting for most people, but understandable for a mac fan site. A bit more interesting is the circa 1984 picture of the silver apple jacket with built in speakers, further down...
I concur... I travel regularily to Spain (4-5 times a year for the last 3 years) and I have never had anything other than the standard metal detector and x-ray. The only incident I've ever had with security in spain was when they called me into the baggage area to open my suitcase, because they saw something on the xray and wanted me to open it myself, and they were extremely polite the whole time. I've travelled to many other european countries and have never had any sort of rude treatement anywhere. Incidently, the last time I was in Spain and in France, they didn't even ask me for my passport as I boarded the plane.
But for me (I'm Canadian) the worst part about going to the states, and the reason I avoid it if at all possible, is going through customs. I've always found it an unpleasant experience despite never having had any actual problems, even when I'm just connecting in the US; compare this to going to most of europe, where they don't even HAVE customs when you're flying within the EU...
Now, I don't have the statistics to verify this, but as far as I know, despite the ease of travel in Europe vs. the US, it's not any more dangerous, so what's the benefit of all this paranoia? In my opinion, it does a lot more harm than good.
Actually, many (if not most) games feature this type of dynamic soundtrack these days; usually it seems to be two variations, one that's played during combat and one in between the fighting. And speaking of X-Wing, one of the best soundtracks I've heard in recent times is for the game Freelancer; it's one of the only games I've ever played where the soundtrack actually stood out as being well done. I believe all the sounds were in a easily readable format (probably.WAV) so you could browse through them and see how the dynamics soundtracks were put together.
Well, being a relatively poor player, I spent at least half my time dead, watching the game, and the improved physics will definitely make that more entertaining...
But they can screen for ticket transfers when you check in, why do they need to check your id again when boarding your flight? The answer is, they don't; I've flown numerous times for other european countries without having to show id while boarding the plane.
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Well, I seem to recall a movie based on KotOR that did well in the box office and has a large fan base...
I'd say that's just yet another example of a movie not living up to a the game...
According to the article, someone in the chain of command decided that they didn't want this safeguard, and ordered that the password be set to 00000000 and the dials used to enter the password left in that position; in effect, the equivalent of having a blank password so that you don't have to bother entering it.
The story here, then, is not that a bad password was chosen, but that somebody decided to disobey orders by disabling the password, and that the higherups were completely in the dark about it.
also wants you to pay a monthly fee to play CounterStrike (they call it Steam, but if it looks like a porkbarrel and it quacks like a porkbarrel...)
Apologies If I missed the memo, but... when did valve announce they're going to charge a monthly fee to play CounterStrike? They certainly aren't at the moment, and I've never seen any mention of them planning to do so; according to the FAQ, steam is free.
For a while (don't know about now, I haven't logged on in a while) they were updating weekly, on wednesdays, so if they've kept that up an update today is very likely,
College is tough for Larry - he's basically a pathetic loser who occasionally gets out and hits on chicks, but things always go horribly wrong. When a reality TV dating show comes to campus, Larry decides he's going to revitalize his life by winning the contest and proving once and for all that he can live up to the shining example set by his Old Uncle Larry.
Considering how old the orginal Larry would be in the minds of people who played the first games, I suppose this makes sense.
I can't say anything about frontpage, but the latest version of dreamweaver mx (7.0.1) has very good CSS support, and comes with several CSS based page designs. The only glaring issue is the way Dreamweaver's internal HTML renderer handles absolutely positioned content within other content, it seems to treat it all as being relative to the page itself.
Well, the designs do work and most browsers, but many of them rely on various hacks and workarounds to display correctly on all browsers, and even the most standards compliant browsers on the market have bugs. This means that developing cross-platform CSS is a lot more work than it should be.
But the CSS Zen Garden is definitely an amazing ressource, and discovering it was what helped me kick the tables-for-layout habit.
Not only that, the analogy simply doesn't work; I highly doubt there's anyone in the software business who isn't aware of the risks involved in terms of piracy. If you start a business without doing proper market research, you deserve what you get.
This may be true at some places, but I sincerely doubt it's the norm. My provider (sympatico in canada) has a strict (10mb I believe) limit, and if your mailbox fills up beyond that messages will bounce. It's not a big issue for me as it's not the email account I use regularily, but if it was, a 1GB online email account would come in very very handy.
Apple has a relatively constant rate of product updates, with the average for powerbooks being 171 days. This would mean that, chances are in 6 months there will be a new model, which should be G5 based barring any significant hurdles. However, it's generally safer to avoid first generation products, as they typically have bugs that get worked out in the first revision.
All of this to say that, now is really the best time to buy a powerbook, as chances are it will be at least a year before we get bugfree G5 powerbooks... but if you absolutely must wait 6 months, there should be something new by that time.
Actually, Internet Explorer has been left to rot on all platforms. It hasn't been updated in, what, 3 years now? And we won't be getting an update until longhorn, which means that we're going to be suffering from it's lack of standards compliance for a quite a while longer. This may not seem like such a big issue on the surface, but it's actually a huge problem for web developers, who have to rely on all kinds of kludges and hacks to make things work properly on all the platforms.
Yet another example of why monopolies are a Bad Thing.
If any of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out where this text is from, it's from Summoner Geeks. Figured I'd could save someone the trouble I just went through trying to figure it out...
The thing is, it's not a war angainst religious fundamentalism, it's a war against someone else's religious fundamentalism. The only difference between us and them is that they're not us.
While I realise that the issue is more complex than that, I do believe that religious fundamentalism in and of itself is not a real issue for the US.
Why was my original post considered offtopic? I was pointing out that the presence of this obvious april fool's joke on google's website is a good sign that the gmail service ISN'T a joke... how is that not related to the topic at hand?
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The pictures are all related to the upcoming apple expo in Paris. The first picture is of the conference center where the keynote is going to be held, the second is of the exposition hall where the expo itself will take place, and the third is of an advertisement, announcing the expo. Not all that interesting for most people, but understandable for a mac fan site. A bit more interesting is the circa 1984 picture of the silver apple jacket with built in speakers, further down...
I do think the correct spelling is 'psych'... makes a bit more sense, doesn't it?
I concur... I travel regularily to Spain (4-5 times a year for the last 3 years) and I have never had anything other than the standard metal detector and x-ray. The only incident I've ever had with security in spain was when they called me into the baggage area to open my suitcase, because they saw something on the xray and wanted me to open it myself, and they were extremely polite the whole time. I've travelled to many other european countries and have never had any sort of rude treatement anywhere. Incidently, the last time I was in Spain and in France, they didn't even ask me for my passport as I boarded the plane.
But for me (I'm Canadian) the worst part about going to the states, and the reason I avoid it if at all possible, is going through customs. I've always found it an unpleasant experience despite never having had any actual problems, even when I'm just connecting in the US; compare this to going to most of europe, where they don't even HAVE customs when you're flying within the EU...
Now, I don't have the statistics to verify this, but as far as I know, despite the ease of travel in Europe vs. the US, it's not any more dangerous, so what's the benefit of all this paranoia? In my opinion, it does a lot more harm than good.
Actually, many (if not most) games feature this type of dynamic soundtrack these days; usually it seems to be two variations, one that's played during combat and one in between the fighting. And speaking of X-Wing, one of the best soundtracks I've heard in recent times is for the game Freelancer; it's one of the only games I've ever played where the soundtrack actually stood out as being well done. I believe all the sounds were in a easily readable format (probably .WAV) so you could browse through them and see how the dynamics soundtracks were put together.
Well, being a relatively poor player, I spent at least half my time dead, watching the game, and the improved physics will definitely make that more entertaining...
But they can screen for ticket transfers when you check in, why do they need to check your id again when boarding your flight? The answer is, they don't; I've flown numerous times for other european countries without having to show id while boarding the plane.
Well, I seem to recall a movie based on KotOR that did well in the box office and has a large fan base...
I'd say that's just yet another example of a movie not living up to a the game...
But this is the reason why it's called CS:Source and not CS2... I'm sure the counterstrike team are actually working on CS2
You've got it backwards, the lasers and guns were to the right, and that's the direction all the testers went.
According to the article, someone in the chain of command decided that they didn't want this safeguard, and ordered that the password be set to 00000000 and the dials used to enter the password left in that position; in effect, the equivalent of having a blank password so that you don't have to bother entering it.
The story here, then, is not that a bad password was chosen, but that somebody decided to disobey orders by disabling the password, and that the higherups were completely in the dark about it.
actually, monster guitar speakers in space would be pointless. Those would be inside the space station/concert venue...
Could big outer space computers be composed of diodes, triodes, and pentodes, without the glass envelopes?
I'm not sure about computers, but it would make for some wicked guitar amplifiers... The Darkness would approve...
For a while (don't know about now, I haven't logged on in a while) they were updating weekly, on wednesdays, so if they've kept that up an update today is very likely,
I can't say anything about frontpage, but the latest version of dreamweaver mx (7.0.1) has very good CSS support, and comes with several CSS based page designs. The only glaring issue is the way Dreamweaver's internal HTML renderer handles absolutely positioned content within other content, it seems to treat it all as being relative to the page itself.
Well, the designs do work and most browsers, but many of them rely on various hacks and workarounds to display correctly on all browsers, and even the most standards compliant browsers on the market have bugs. This means that developing cross-platform CSS is a lot more work than it should be.
But the CSS Zen Garden is definitely an amazing ressource, and discovering it was what helped me kick the tables-for-layout habit.
Not only that, the analogy simply doesn't work; I highly doubt there's anyone in the software business who isn't aware of the risks involved in terms of piracy. If you start a business without doing proper market research, you deserve what you get.
This may be true at some places, but I sincerely doubt it's the norm. My provider (sympatico in canada) has a strict (10mb I believe) limit, and if your mailbox fills up beyond that messages will bounce. It's not a big issue for me as it's not the email account I use regularily, but if it was, a 1GB online email account would come in very very handy.
Apple has a relatively constant rate of product updates, with the average for powerbooks being 171 days. This would mean that, chances are in 6 months there will be a new model, which should be G5 based barring any significant hurdles. However, it's generally safer to avoid first generation products, as they typically have bugs that get worked out in the first revision.
All of this to say that, now is really the best time to buy a powerbook, as chances are it will be at least a year before we get bugfree G5 powerbooks... but if you absolutely must wait 6 months, there should be something new by that time.
Actually, Internet Explorer has been left to rot on all platforms. It hasn't been updated in, what, 3 years now? And we won't be getting an update until longhorn, which means that we're going to be suffering from it's lack of standards compliance for a quite a while longer. This may not seem like such a big issue on the surface, but it's actually a huge problem for web developers, who have to rely on all kinds of kludges and hacks to make things work properly on all the platforms.
Yet another example of why monopolies are a Bad Thing.
Of course lawyers are going to live this; chances are, at least half the ads are going to be FOR lawyers:
"Hello, have you just gotten into an accident while looking at this billboard? If so, then call us, at..."
The other half of the adds will be for insurance companies.
If any of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out where this text is from, it's from Summoner Geeks.
Figured I'd could save someone the trouble I just went through trying to figure it out...
The thing is, it's not a war angainst religious fundamentalism, it's a war against someone else's religious fundamentalism. The only difference between us and them is that they're not us.
While I realise that the issue is more complex than that, I do believe that religious fundamentalism in and of itself is not a real issue for the US.
Why was my original post considered offtopic? I was pointing out that the presence of this obvious april fool's joke on google's website is a good sign that the gmail service ISN'T a joke... how is that not related to the topic at hand?