That's the problem with this. It's not specifically the internet or websites, it's the lack of training in critical thought and reading. You don't get that from a computer course.
And to be honest, this is about the only thing I find really frustrating with the iTunes/iPod way of doing things.
With Winamp et. al, when you made a random playlist, you added all your songs, and then shuffled it. That playlist stayed the same order from then on. It's that function I miss most in iTunes. I liked having a shuffled playlist that was always in the same order, it suited the way I listened to music (and if I wanted to skip to a particular song, I knew more or less where it was.)
I keep meaning to check out the status of the Winamp iPod plugin. Chalk it up to the list of things I never get around to.
DAB won't get a proper airing until the extortionate price of the recievers comes down. You can get a passable FM receiver for about £5 or less. A DAB radio is going to set you back ten times that amount, if not more.
Why not Evolution? Put simply, the windows port of Evolution is still in the "we're trying to get it to work properly" phase, whereas the others are all the same pretty much across all platforms.
This isn't to say I'm not waiting and hoping for the windows port of Evo, but if they need something there "now" to base their integration on, then they have to choose something thats there.
Another case of the OP really not R'ing TFA. They have not yet banned it, they've just said they plan to, and have done a consultation exercise. The report for that is available on http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-extrem e-porn-3008051/ (pdf link on page.) From that report, most of the concerns either seem to be free speech related, or down to the overly broad definitions they used in their initial proposals.
I repeat: None of this is currently close to becoming law yet.
Actually, one of the bits of unskippable ads that annoys me most on DVD's are the anti-piracy ads themselves. Dear god they're annoying and it might almost be worth getting a pirate copy to avoid the inevitable morality play/condescending lecture.
Seriously, those things don't even have the quaint cheesiness of the old "moral lessons" they used to tack onto the end of kids shows. "Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not. Remember this, do not try to imitate him."
Walkman is to personal stereo as Hoover is to vacuum cleaner. They didn't invent it, but they popularised it to such an extent that their brand name became a generic byword for the item itself. Sellotape in the UK is another one. Usually it's the forst of a thing, or it's the market leader. How many people absently refer to certain own-brand cola drinks as coke? It all happens, but it's nice to see someone get their due from The Man.
Let us be honest, heroes have been nerfed into oblivion in the last few updates for the "City of.." games. Some of the nerfs were warranted, some of them just have the player base scratching their heads and wondering what Cryptic are smoking. Most of this is, again, part and parcel of this kind of game. The two main things that really have people annoyed right now are these.
1) PVP. Originally, there was no PvP in CoH. Many people flocked to it for just this reason, it was a game free of the griefing and gank squads, wher eyou could go on, be a casual player, and still manage to advance your characer, even when surround by level 50's who were all much harder than you. Your fun was not dependent on anyone elses, or on anyone else doing badly. This appealed to a lot of people. Cryptic eventually put PvP in, at first in the form of the areans, which were a waste of time and effort, and even now are mostly empty. Then wholse PvP zones come in, with assorted rationale (and nobdoy has yet come up with a suitable plausible reason for heroes to be slapping heroes. The gank squads in the free-for-all zone appeared within a couple of days of release of CoV. It was also stated early on that at no point, would PvE powersets or balance be altered to fit PvP. This proved an out-and-out lie.
2) Stealth nerfs and quiet devs. As if this wasn't bad enough, a couple of major, game balance affecting changes never made it into the respective patch notes, and the fact they happened had to be pointed out by the players, at which point the devs backpedalled and said "oops." Also, the biggest balance-affecting alteration to powers happened with the CoV release, afte rthe devs had already said they would not mess around with powers in any major fashion in the near to mid-future. The fact they screwed with the way enhancements work rather than the powers themselves smacks to many of sophistry, and so far, those changes have proved vastly unpopular. (Hell, the creator has stated that he has his Vision (tm) for the game, and thateverything else, including what the players want, has had to be a close second to the Almighty Vision (tm). Pretty much the dev team, with a few major exceptions, has come across (rightly or wrongly) as a bunch of high-handed, out-of-touch, crack-smoking aroogant sods (a change is unpopular enoughg to spark 6000+ replies, saying "don't do this," causing people to quit, and disiluusioning everyone else. Do you A) look into it, see what their problemis, and try and fix it.B) look into it, see the problem and ask what peopel think can be done, or C) bring it in anyway as a fait acompli, regardless of opinin or other actions... opinion?
1) Anything with background sounds. Those can be even more annoying that plain flashing ones. Especially when I'm trying to listen to my music.
2) Most ads that are external to the webpages own server, if their servers keep being unavailable or lagging to me. In theory, the rest of the page should render/download already, not wait for a banner ad that's about to time out, but it doesn't always work like this.
3) Anything that tries to look like a dialogue box/yes no thing. Exspecially if it's a link to an ad/spyware installer. Doubly especially if the flash/image is designed so that it's almost an auto-yes. Especially of all if it's an ad that claims to that your pc has malware and you need to download this software if you want to keep your computer safe. Generally find these in popups so they cloak themselves as dialogue boxes. That one should be illegal, as well as just being sneaky.
The trouble with this is that to most law-makers, the idea is that rather than lots of little laws that cover every case, it's better to create one law that covers the worst-case scenario.
That's what laws are, mostly, the absolute worst-case scenario and the way of dealing with it. Which, of necessity, cuts out all those niggling "but if.." situations that a buttload of court-cases seem to be about. that's whjat the DMCA appears to be, the idea that if you are doing any of this behaviour, you must be doing it for the worst of reasons.
Which probably says as much about human nature as it does about any technological fact.
Interestingly, if you're interesting in forwarding "Islam" (or at least the terrorist perversion of same) then Edgeware road is probably the last place you want to do it. From what I recall, it's pretty much the centre of the Islamic community in London, large numbers of mosques, etc.
While I'd imagine that it wasn't aimed directly at being at Edgeware road (just somewhere along that stretch of line) it's still a way of shooting yourself in the foot with regards to your putative supporters.
Upsets people, yes. There is, however, a certain road you go down when you allow the excuse "my religion says I can be scummy at you, and nobody can interfere with my religion."
Aside from the fact that it's impossible to generate a perfect point mass. You can get almost there, or effectively there, but a point mass is impossible to generate in real terms. Zero-dimensional structures are by definition physical ideals.
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That's the problem with this. It's not specifically the internet or websites, it's the lack of training in critical thought and reading. You don't get that from a computer course.
Some versions of parted do speak ntfs. Or at least, they speak enough ntfs to be able to resize an ntfs partition on the fly.
And to be honest, this is about the only thing I find really frustrating with the iTunes/iPod way of doing things.
With Winamp et. al, when you made a random playlist, you added all your songs, and then shuffled it. That playlist stayed the same order from then on. It's that function I miss most in iTunes. I liked having a shuffled playlist that was always in the same order, it suited the way I listened to music (and if I wanted to skip to a particular song, I knew more or less where it was.)
I keep meaning to check out the status of the Winamp iPod plugin. Chalk it up to the list of things I never get around to.
DAB won't get a proper airing until the extortionate price of the recievers comes down. You can get a passable FM receiver for about £5 or less. A DAB radio is going to set you back ten times that amount, if not more.
Why not Evolution? Put simply, the windows port of Evolution is still in the "we're trying to get it to work properly" phase, whereas the others are all the same pretty much across all platforms.
This isn't to say I'm not waiting and hoping for the windows port of Evo, but if they need something there "now" to base their integration on, then they have to choose something thats there.
Slashdotted before we even being. CPU quota exceeded.
Another case of the OP really not R'ing TFA. They have not yet banned it, they've just said they plan to, and have done a consultation exercise. The report for that is available on http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-extrem e-porn-3008051/ (pdf link on page.) From that report, most of the concerns either seem to be free speech related, or down to the overly broad definitions they used in their initial proposals.
I repeat: None of this is currently close to becoming law yet.
and rendered most of it unrecoverable when he tried to fix it himself.
Greetings Professor Falken.
So, the Star Wars lightsaber game isn't going to happen then? :)
Actually, one of the bits of unskippable ads that annoys me most on DVD's are the anti-piracy ads themselves. Dear god they're annoying and it might almost be worth getting a pirate copy to avoid the inevitable morality play/condescending lecture.
Seriously, those things don't even have the quaint cheesiness of the old "moral lessons" they used to tack onto the end of kids shows. "Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not. Remember this, do not try to imitate him."
Walkman is to personal stereo as Hoover is to vacuum cleaner. They didn't invent it, but they popularised it to such an extent that their brand name became a generic byword for the item itself. Sellotape in the UK is another one. Usually it's the forst of a thing, or it's the market leader. How many people absently refer to certain own-brand cola drinks as coke? It all happens, but it's nice to see someone get their due from The Man.
It's great. There's a nice little bit that UK consumer law requires. "Your statutory rights are not affected."
I'd like to see the whole business tested, to be honest.
Let us be honest, heroes have been nerfed into oblivion in the last few updates for the "City of.." games. Some of the nerfs were warranted, some of them just have the player base scratching their heads and wondering what Cryptic are smoking. Most of this is, again, part and parcel of this kind of game. The two main things that really have people annoyed right now are these.
1) PVP. Originally, there was no PvP in CoH. Many people flocked to it for just this reason, it was a game free of the griefing and gank squads, wher eyou could go on, be a casual player, and still manage to advance your characer, even when surround by level 50's who were all much harder than you. Your fun was not dependent on anyone elses, or on anyone else doing badly. This appealed to a lot of people. Cryptic eventually put PvP in, at first in the form of the areans, which were a waste of time and effort, and even now are mostly empty. Then wholse PvP zones come in, with assorted rationale (and nobdoy has yet come up with a suitable plausible reason for heroes to be slapping heroes. The gank squads in the free-for-all zone appeared within a couple of days of release of CoV. It was also stated early on that at no point, would PvE powersets or balance be altered to fit PvP. This proved an out-and-out lie.
2) Stealth nerfs and quiet devs. As if this wasn't bad enough, a couple of major, game balance affecting changes never made it into the respective patch notes, and the fact they happened had to be pointed out by the players, at which point the devs backpedalled and said "oops." Also, the biggest balance-affecting alteration to powers happened with the CoV release, afte rthe devs had already said they would not mess around with powers in any major fashion in the near to mid-future. The fact they screwed with the way enhancements work rather than the powers themselves smacks to many of sophistry, and so far, those changes have proved vastly unpopular. (Hell, the creator has stated that he has his Vision (tm) for the game, and thateverything else, including what the players want, has had to be a close second to the Almighty Vision (tm). Pretty much the dev team, with a few major exceptions, has come across (rightly or wrongly) as a bunch of high-handed, out-of-touch, crack-smoking aroogant sods (a change is unpopular enoughg to spark 6000+ replies, saying "don't do this," causing people to quit, and disiluusioning everyone else. Do you A) look into it, see what their problemis, and try and fix it.B) look into it, see the problem and ask what peopel think can be done, or C) bring it in anyway as a fait acompli, regardless of opinin or other actions... opinion?
Guess whichone cryptic used.
I remember at least one shop having the PC/Sega Megadrive combo over here, in Britain, way way back in the mists of time. Never got one, though.
Ads I block:
1) Anything with background sounds. Those can be even more annoying that plain flashing ones. Especially when I'm trying to listen to my music.
2) Most ads that are external to the webpages own server, if their servers keep being unavailable or lagging to me. In theory, the rest of the page should render/download already, not wait for a banner ad that's about to time out, but it doesn't always work like this.
3) Anything that tries to look like a dialogue box/yes no thing. Exspecially if it's a link to an ad/spyware installer. Doubly especially if the flash/image is designed so that it's almost an auto-yes. Especially of all if it's an ad that claims to that your pc has malware and you need to download this software if you want to keep your computer safe. Generally find these in popups so they cloak themselves as dialogue boxes. That one should be illegal, as well as just being sneaky.
The trouble with this is that to most law-makers, the idea is that rather than lots of little laws that cover every case, it's better to create one law that covers the worst-case scenario.
That's what laws are, mostly, the absolute worst-case scenario and the way of dealing with it. Which, of necessity, cuts out all those niggling "but if.." situations that a buttload of court-cases seem to be about. that's whjat the DMCA appears to be, the idea that if you are doing any of this behaviour, you must be doing it for the worst of reasons.
Which probably says as much about human nature as it does about any technological fact.
or for that classic british bad comedy...
A-L-E-X-E-I-S-A-Y-L-E
Interestingly, if you're interesting in forwarding "Islam" (or at least the terrorist perversion of same) then Edgeware road is probably the last place you want to do it. From what I recall, it's pretty much the centre of the Islamic community in London, large numbers of mosques, etc.
While I'd imagine that it wasn't aimed directly at being at Edgeware road (just somewhere along that stretch of line) it's still a way of shooting yourself in the foot with regards to your putative supporters.
Yup. As spoken by the Cheshire Cat.
"How fine you look when dressed in rage. Your enemies are lucky your condition is not permanent.
You're lucky, too. Red eyes suit so few."
Upsets people, yes. There is, however, a certain road you go down when you allow the excuse "my religion says I can be scummy at you, and nobody can interfere with my religion."
"My religion says I can shoot you in the head."
Not disputing the point, but I dispute the word "fair".
As an ordinary non-student, non-worker-in-certain industries, the price for MS Office is prohibitive for me, as it is for a lot of people.
They charge what they can get away with.
Doesn't work in the uk for some reason.
How do you explain "I had to take 2 years out of work because I had a nervous breakdown and nearly killed myself" to a prospective employer?
Especially when that means that none of your references are available any more.
Aside from the fact that it's impossible to generate a perfect point mass. You can get almost there, or effectively there, but a point mass is impossible to generate in real terms. Zero-dimensional structures are by definition physical ideals.