Yep, the future of the web is looking good, except for IE that is lagging behind. I wonder, why MS wouldn't just get over it and discontinue the development of its monstrous browser. They've lost the browser war, why wouldn't they put their resources elsewhere?
At least IE8 is better than its predecessors and IE9 looks even better, but still..
Simply because they can set the default search to be bing... which will allow them to potentially reap the advertising revenue and search data for other web related projects.
They look at google and get giddy at all that money they could be tapping into.
That and they love the screams web developers make in frustration when dealing with their legacy.
I can vouch for the climbing tendency of spiders. It's kind of like some insects will run at you and attempt to hide beneath your feet. Looking for shelter, spiders I'd assume would be afraid of things like birds... a tiled floor must feel pretty exposed to the elements for them.
I've had a huntsman or two attempt to climb me too:)
The scary thing about huntsman (for people afraid of spiders) that I have found is the further I go north in Australia the bigger they seem to get and the faster they seem to move. Not sure if this is fact or just bad luck on my behalf:)
QLD huntsman seem ungodly fast and large... I just wish they'd stay outside!
Quite a while back I put my foot in a boot whilst wearing no socks only to discover that a large huntsman was under my toes... my instinctive reaction at that moment was to curl my toes up and stomp down.
Spidery crunch. Ugh.
Scared of being bitten and halfway committed... I pushed down for quite a while to ensure the poor little guy was dead:\
If this does start to appear in the US we should put together a defense pack. And a posse to round up the makes-domesticated-turkeys-look-brilliant patent officials responsible for issuing the damned thing in the first place. What's next, the wheel? Actually you're a bit behind the times in that regard... the wheel?
Makes me wonder if aerodynamics and weight were taken into consideration? I'd imagine they'd have to be but heck just looking at those legs... well they're hardly big chunky things now are they.
The apartments where I used to live we had security patrols and security cameras. Even with these deterents four men brazenly walked into the "secure" undercover carpark, broke my steering lock, hotwired and rode my motorbike out and off into the night.
Yes, my bike could probably have been a bit more secure if I'd taken extra precautions but I thought that surveilence would have been a bit of a deterant. Evidently these criminals were aware of the effectiveness of such cameras.
The cameras caught them in the act of course but the video captured is of such poor quality that you couldn't pick someone out of a lineup even tho their faces were captured staring at the cameras.
The same night my bike was stolen a scooter also went missing. Weeks later another motorbike or two got knocked off, even after I had warned the owners of my loss and suggesting they up their security (such as chaining bikes to poles etc etc). There's only so much you can do however and all you really manage to acheive is slowing them down somewhat...:(
Altho there is the chance that these guys thought they were simply dummy cameras... even so the poor quality of them makes you wonder why the hell they even bother. All I can tell you is 4 white blokes stole my bike. That may help in a very few select circumstances... but I never did see my bike again.:(
Yes, it was insured. Thankfully. Now convincing the significant other to allow me to get another bike? You cannot insure that chance unfortunately. I ride the train to work now.
You can go to a bar as designated driver and not drink.
You can go to a bar to play some pool with your mates and not drink.
You can go to a bar and drink non alcoholic beverages.
Just because they know where you are brings no certainty as to whether or not you're a drunkard, just that you're at certain locations regularly. Having said that, people tend to jump to conclusions about what we do after work a little too easily.
I cannot wait until the day Windows 7 is rolled out and all the people with their snide Vista comments begin to proclaim Vista to have been the be-all and end-all of Windows OS' and that Windows 7 is a failure on all counts.
Maybe it's just me but I think you've oversimplified in the other direction from the mudslingers. I mean... did what you describe ever happen to people using Windows ME? I cannot recall any real joy stemming from that windows release, ever.
Maybe you'll be right, maybe you wont - nothing is set in stone. Many of Vistas problems seem to stem from *actual* issues rather then just a deep seeded loathing. Time will tell no doubt... but don't get too smug too soon.
There's 745 people in the USA with my name ( according to this site )... does that mean I have 745 more chances then someone who's only got one person in the country with their name?... or is it a little more "specific" ? Would suck to have any sort of arabian name even if it is more specific...:F for different reasons obviously.
The adverts probably help with keeping the servers paid for with so many people that will no doubt not subscribe to the $10 subscription plan. However who cares about that eh? Who cares if the servers cost money to run? I mean the money I forked out to buy the game... that should cover costs indefinitely for running these game servers right?
When the paid content updates slowly find their way to the players that aren't subscribing... that stuff.. it practically developed itself, right? I mean that didn't cost anything either... as someone not paying a subscription fee for content updates... I deserve 100% not to see adverts.
You don't see any coca cola zombies or any such things, it's done in what I'd consider a very smooth and stylish way. Hell you literally have to walk up to some to even see what the hell they say or are about... from a distance the grime and dirt covering them obscures them quite nicely... not to mention the poor lighting on most of them. It looks like a subway in real life... and funnily enough just like in real life I can ignore them and have been doing so for the most part in-game anyway.
At any rate a lot of the anger seems to be stemming from two types of people: people that haven't actually seen it in-game and people who probably wouldn't have subscribed/bought this game anyway. The few people I know in beta are not concerned, hell I haven't even seen a single friend of mine bring it up as an issue.
Paid subscriptions have the option to disable this?
In practice, it'd be a piece of cake to implement a safeguard against that.
Tinfoil hat?
Need I say more?
Actually yes... if we all adopt a Tin Foil hat approach the resulting reflected beam will quite possibly strike your neighbour in an area not protected by said tin foil hats.
Why does this matter to you? It might hit their tin foil hat rather then yours... resulting in your loss rather then theirs.
With such knowledge at hand we now have advanced warning and have time to prepare. From here on out tin foil hats have become redundant and widespread use of tin foil suits is instead reccomended.
This has been a public service announcement from your friendly tin foil manufacturer, Multix [http://www.multix.com.au/products/alfoil.html]
You have to start worrying (or counting your blessings) when the adverts are accurate enough to start informing you that the hot girls are actually next door! Hang on... you'd probably already know that. Get away from the window.
is Microsoft going to make it accessible only to Windows Vista machines, thereby forcing the entire medical system and any potential clients to upgrade, followed by years of lock-in?
Not at all. It will be web based, and provided you're running Internet Explorer 8 you're fine.
Oh, didn't we mention? IE 8 will be Vista with SP1 only.
Overpopulation isn't an issue anymore? Tell that to china? In my neck of the woods (aus) we're running out of water... and to top it off our growth rate is increasing.
Better yet... such laws should be implemented on our governments decision makers BEFORE anyone else and BEFORE they allow them to come into play. That might make them think twice about some of the decisions they make. Having them directly effected by their decisions might make them act a little more like caring individuals.
I'm willing to bet the 9 that voted against would have sung a different tune had this been the case
I think the thing is... not everyone *cares* about an open source phone? The iphone is as much a fashion accessory as it is a phone... and geeky hip things... well they aren't all that common;) ZOMG. Don't get me wrong, the OpenMoko looks and sounds interesting but until I've seen one and seen what people actually do with it... until then it's just a picture on the internet to me.
The ASP extension has no issues associated... coincidence? Mayaps they'd prefer you to code in something other then php... hrmmmmn. Yes, I am wearing a tin foil hat... why?
Three words: Camera lense filters... that and they could put makeup on more then just a face? Now I'm thinking about this too much, TYVM... where's the tissues?
How do you improve upon brown? WIll it be puke green? Or puke orange?
For shame on you! Do you know how many shades of brown there are? Microsoft haven't scratched the surface of all that is brown yet. I can't wait for the brown revolution of innovation that microsoft intends to squirt at us.
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Yep, the future of the web is looking good, except for IE that is lagging behind. I wonder, why MS wouldn't just get over it and discontinue the development of its monstrous browser. They've lost the browser war, why wouldn't they put their resources elsewhere? At least IE8 is better than its predecessors and IE9 looks even better, but still..
Simply because they can set the default search to be bing... which will allow them to potentially reap the advertising revenue and search data for other web related projects.
They look at google and get giddy at all that money they could be tapping into.
That and they love the screams web developers make in frustration when dealing with their legacy.
Either way I'd think those people would have pirated the software and they'd still be part of a botnet if it had activation or not.
I've had a huntsman or two attempt to climb me too :)
The scary thing about huntsman (for people afraid of spiders) that I have found is the further I go north in Australia the bigger they seem to get and the faster they seem to move. Not sure if this is fact or just bad luck on my behalf :)
QLD huntsman seem ungodly fast and large... I just wish they'd stay outside!
Quite a while back I put my foot in a boot whilst wearing no socks only to discover that a large huntsman was under my toes... my instinctive reaction at that moment was to curl my toes up and stomp down.
Spidery crunch. Ugh.
Scared of being bitten and halfway committed ... I pushed down for quite a while to ensure the poor little guy was dead :\
Good times... good times.
At the time of this post: 49.99 USD = 82.6223 AUD
Perhaps he's not american?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1418165.stm
Makes me wonder if aerodynamics and weight were taken into consideration? I'd imagine they'd have to be but heck just looking at those legs... well they're hardly big chunky things now are they.
The apartments where I used to live we had security patrols and security cameras. Even with these deterents four men brazenly walked into the "secure" undercover carpark, broke my steering lock, hotwired and rode my motorbike out and off into the night.
Yes, my bike could probably have been a bit more secure if I'd taken extra precautions but I thought that surveilence would have been a bit of a deterant. Evidently these criminals were aware of the effectiveness of such cameras.
The cameras caught them in the act of course but the video captured is of such poor quality that you couldn't pick someone out of a lineup even tho their faces were captured staring at the cameras.
The same night my bike was stolen a scooter also went missing. Weeks later another motorbike or two got knocked off, even after I had warned the owners of my loss and suggesting they up their security (such as chaining bikes to poles etc etc). There's only so much you can do however and all you really manage to acheive is slowing them down somewhat... :(
Altho there is the chance that these guys thought they were simply dummy cameras... even so the poor quality of them makes you wonder why the hell they even bother. All I can tell you is 4 white blokes stole my bike. That may help in a very few select circumstances... but I never did see my bike again. :(
Yes, it was insured. Thankfully. Now convincing the significant other to allow me to get another bike? You cannot insure that chance unfortunately. I ride the train to work now.
You can go to a bar as designated driver and not drink.
You can go to a bar to play some pool with your mates and not drink.
You can go to a bar and drink non alcoholic beverages.
Just because they know where you are brings no certainty as to whether or not you're a drunkard, just that you're at certain locations regularly. Having said that, people tend to jump to conclusions about what we do after work a little too easily.
Worse? What happens when you switch ISP from them to another... can you still use their (inferior?) service or are you out in the cold again?
Maybe it's just me but I think you've oversimplified in the other direction from the mudslingers. I mean... did what you describe ever happen to people using Windows ME? I cannot recall any real joy stemming from that windows release, ever.
Maybe you'll be right, maybe you wont - nothing is set in stone. Many of Vistas problems seem to stem from *actual* issues rather then just a deep seeded loathing. Time will tell no doubt... but don't get too smug too soon.
"Weapons of Mass Destruction" (or something similar) used to get an amusing result. Did someone get offended? It now links to wikipedia.
There's 745 people in the USA with my name ( according to this site ) ... does that mean I have 745 more chances then someone who's only got one person in the country with their name? ... or is it a little more "specific" ? Would suck to have any sort of arabian name even if it is more specific... :F for different reasons obviously.
The adverts probably help with keeping the servers paid for with so many people that will no doubt not subscribe to the $10 subscription plan. However who cares about that eh? Who cares if the servers cost money to run? I mean the money I forked out to buy the game... that should cover costs indefinitely for running these game servers right?
When the paid content updates slowly find their way to the players that aren't subscribing... that stuff.. it practically developed itself, right? I mean that didn't cost anything either... as someone not paying a subscription fee for content updates... I deserve 100% not to see adverts.
You don't see any coca cola zombies or any such things, it's done in what I'd consider a very smooth and stylish way. Hell you literally have to walk up to some to even see what the hell they say or are about... from a distance the grime and dirt covering them obscures them quite nicely... not to mention the poor lighting on most of them. It looks like a subway in real life... and funnily enough just like in real life I can ignore them and have been doing so for the most part in-game anyway.
At any rate a lot of the anger seems to be stemming from two types of people: people that haven't actually seen it in-game and people who probably wouldn't have subscribed/bought this game anyway. The few people I know in beta are not concerned, hell I haven't even seen a single friend of mine bring it up as an issue.
Paid subscriptions have the option to disable this?
Actually yes... if we all adopt a Tin Foil hat approach the resulting reflected beam will quite possibly strike your neighbour in an area not protected by said tin foil hats.
Why does this matter to you? It might hit their tin foil hat rather then yours... resulting in your loss rather then theirs.
With such knowledge at hand we now have advanced warning and have time to prepare. From here on out tin foil hats have become redundant and widespread use of tin foil suits is instead reccomended.
This has been a public service announcement from your friendly tin foil manufacturer, Multix [http://www.multix.com.au/products/alfoil.html]
You have to start worrying (or counting your blessings) when the adverts are accurate enough to start informing you that the hot girls are actually next door! Hang on... you'd probably already know that. Get away from the window.
Overpopulation isn't an issue anymore? Tell that to china? In my neck of the woods (aus) we're running out of water... and to top it off our growth rate is increasing.
$30 is pretty commonplace in Australia. Music is a little overpriced here IMHO.
I'm willing to bet the 9 that voted against would have sung a different tune had this been the case
I think the thing is... not everyone *cares* about an open source phone? The iphone is as much a fashion accessory as it is a phone... and geeky hip things... well they aren't all that common ;) ZOMG. Don't get me wrong, the OpenMoko looks and sounds interesting but until I've seen one and seen what people actually do with it... until then it's just a picture on the internet to me.
Depends on what you consider is a website ;) The average myspace website is about 5-10mb ;)
The ASP extension has no issues associated... coincidence? Mayaps they'd prefer you to code in something other then php... hrmmmmn. Yes, I am wearing a tin foil hat... why?
Three words: Camera lense filters... that and they could put makeup on more then just a face? Now I'm thinking about this too much, TYVM... where's the tissues?
For shame on you! Do you know how many shades of brown there are? Microsoft haven't scratched the surface of all that is brown yet. I can't wait for the brown revolution of innovation that microsoft intends to squirt at us.