People laughed at MS's attempts to have things like paperclips, and you go and find something worse?
I don't think they hated the paperclip because it was too cute. It could have been a hot chick for all they care and they probably would have hated just as much.
[Mortal Kombat 2] felt like I was watching Power Rangers.
I hated the Power Rangers show, but I had bought the first Power Rangers movie as a present to someone and watched it afterwards. It was actually pretty good (so good that I was looking forward to the sequel which was awful). It certainly didn't feel like the TV show, and sure enough after checking IMDB, the director had never directed the TV show. You should probably check it out if you get the chance. Make no mistake, it is a kid's movie, but it did have some surprisingly adult qualities to it.
You know, I actually enjoyed the first Mortal Kombat movie (watching its sequel was like puking though). It was funny, have some good action, some good SFX at the time, a good premise, and a fairly decent script (acting was a little over the top, but you knew that's what they had in mind). Oh yeah, they also had a very catchy techno theme song that to this day I still remember. "Mortal Kombat! bum bum bum..."
I pretty sure they're already doing this in the form of America's Army tournaments. People who show up at these tournaments are recruited. Nothing wrong with this IMO. Kind of cool, actually.
You Americans are so obsessed with your toys and you wonder then why some third world lunatic with a grudge plans attacks against you.
You do realize you're on slashdot, right? Try telling slashdotters to stop obsessing over their toys, and they'll probably look at you as if you had asked them to stop breathing.
Actually, I remember reading one of the goals for the America's Army videogame was to be able to identify the top players and to be able to invite them to join the US Army.
The same people who think this is not only cool but necessary are probably those that thought Expose was a new operating system - all because they're not capable of managing their own work.
First, what you find unnecessary may be what someone else finds necessary. Second, I have found Mac OS X's Expose feature to be extremely valuable in making me more productive. You obviously feel differently, but let's look at your statement and sub in "tab browsing" for "Expose":
The same people who think this is not only cool but necessary are probably those that thought
tab browsing was a new web browser - all because they're not capable of managing their own browser windows.
Interesting. Of course, you would have to go on the assumption that anyone with an AOL email is less technically adept than someone without an AOL email. I suppose someone could get away with this in certain markets, but discounting a potential vendor's ability soley based on his email address is simply not good business.
Now, if you had said that the client had evaluated this vendor and that the vendor had left much to be desired, and on top of that he had an AOL email address, then I would be inclined to agree them. I would hope that was case instead.
Tell me about it. I just bought an iBook a few months ago (my first Mac ever since my first computer in '88), and the Mac's version for AOL leaves much to be desired. The single reason I still subscribe to AOL is for their content, a lot of which isn't even accessible on the Mac.
You're probably right that most users will stick with the AOL interface, I do believe there is a significant portion of AOL users that have been begging for this for a long time.
I mentioned this before, but I'll repeat it here. I know for a fact that AOL has been beta testing this for many months now whereas Gmail was announced on March 31. Interesting correlation, but again, most likely not true.
If a client truely ruled out a potential vendor simply because of his email address, the first question I would ask is whether that client is still in business.
I find your ignorance both funny and somewhat insulting. Geeks do use AOL for various reasons. Perhaps they use it to access AOL's content/services/benefits. Or perhaps they use AOL simply because they didn't want to change their email address. AOL has a huge user base. You can't honestly expect all those millions and millions of users to be computer illerate.
You can have AOL for $10 (maybe $14 now, they may have raised prices since) where you have access to everything from the $24 service plan except for being able to dial-up. So, basically with this plan, you'll get all of their content, services and other membership benefits at about half the price.
Don't be so sure. They wouldn't be spending resources developing this service if there wasn't already a demand for it among AOL users. And from what I understand, you actually need to have something running in the background that lets you be connected into the AOL network before you can access your IMAP mail (sounds like an AOL Intranet as best as I can tell).
AOL has been beta testing this for a while now, long before Gmail was announced. Interesting correlation though, but Gmail was not the cause.
Actually, I believe they did this because a significant portion of AOL users wanted to access their AOL mail with their favorite mail client whatever that may be. They tried to appease these people by offering Netscape Mail and then AOL Communicator, but I suppose that wasn't enough. So it probably wasn't competition so much as it was just sheer user demand that this service came about.
Personally, I don't use AOL Mail, but I do know of family members who have had an AOL email address since when AOL was in black in white (94 or 95?).
Can't help you there. I suppose it comes with the terrority. If you use Windows XP, expect to use the Windows XP interface. Personally, I would very much rather have the Mac OSX (Panther) interface in XP. Can't tell you how many times I've pressed F9 while working under Windows.
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People laughed at MS's attempts to have things like paperclips, and you go and find something worse?
I don't think they hated the paperclip because it was too cute. It could have been a hot chick for all they care and they probably would have hated just as much.
why is the fish smiling? his ass is about to get eaten!
Tossing a seafood salad?
Walken is the guy who shoves watches up his ass
"Blue Fish," right?
[Mortal Kombat 2] felt like I was watching Power Rangers.
I hated the Power Rangers show, but I had bought the first Power Rangers movie as a present to someone and watched it afterwards. It was actually pretty good (so good that I was looking forward to the sequel which was awful). It certainly didn't feel like the TV show, and sure enough after checking IMDB, the director had never directed the TV show. You should probably check it out if you get the chance. Make no mistake, it is a kid's movie, but it did have some surprisingly adult qualities to it.
Did he answer yes?
Half the people in my school play it every lunchtime, and whenever else they get the chance.
Half the school??? How big is your high school? How many computers are there available during lunch?
You know, I actually enjoyed the first Mortal Kombat movie (watching its sequel was like puking though). It was funny, have some good action, some good SFX at the time, a good premise, and a fairly decent script (acting was a little over the top, but you knew that's what they had in mind). Oh yeah, they also had a very catchy techno theme song that to this day I still remember. "Mortal Kombat! bum bum bum ..."
I pretty sure they're already doing this in the form of America's Army tournaments. People who show up at these tournaments are recruited. Nothing wrong with this IMO. Kind of cool, actually.
This thing is clearly a chick magnet
Maybe if you filled the cup holders full of chicken feed.
Many of them spawned facing away from the battle, therefore wouldn't see an enemy, hence they ran.
Commander: Soldier! Why did you skedaddled in the mist of battle?!
Soldier: Sir, I didn't see the enemy so I ran, sir!
You Americans are so obsessed with your toys and you wonder then why some third world lunatic with a grudge plans attacks against you.
You do realize you're on slashdot, right? Try telling slashdotters to stop obsessing over their toys, and they'll probably look at you as if you had asked them to stop breathing.
Actually, I remember reading one of the goals for the America's Army videogame was to be able to identify the top players and to be able to invite them to join the US Army.
The Americans have 20000 nuclear bombs, no one is going to invade them, no one is even going to get close to invading and occupying them.
Dude, unless you want America to start using all 20000 nuclear bombs, you'd better pray Americans continue to fund their miltary.
First, what you find unnecessary may be what someone else finds necessary. Second, I have found Mac OS X's Expose feature to be extremely valuable in making me more productive. You obviously feel differently, but let's look at your statement and sub in "tab browsing" for "Expose":
Do you still stand by your statement?
Interesting. Of course, you would have to go on the assumption that anyone with an AOL email is less technically adept than someone without an AOL email. I suppose someone could get away with this in certain markets, but discounting a potential vendor's ability soley based on his email address is simply not good business.
Now, if you had said that the client had evaluated this vendor and that the vendor had left much to be desired, and on top of that he had an AOL email address, then I would be inclined to agree them. I would hope that was case instead.
Tell me about it. I just bought an iBook a few months ago (my first Mac ever since my first computer in '88), and the Mac's version for AOL leaves much to be desired. The single reason I still subscribe to AOL is for their content, a lot of which isn't even accessible on the Mac.
You're probably right that most users will stick with the AOL interface, I do believe there is a significant portion of AOL users that have been begging for this for a long time.
I mentioned this before, but I'll repeat it here. I know for a fact that AOL has been beta testing this for many months now whereas Gmail was announced on March 31. Interesting correlation, but again, most likely not true.
If a client truely ruled out a potential vendor simply because of his email address, the first question I would ask is whether that client is still in business.
I find your ignorance both funny and somewhat insulting. Geeks do use AOL for various reasons. Perhaps they use it to access AOL's content/services/benefits. Or perhaps they use AOL simply because they didn't want to change their email address. AOL has a huge user base. You can't honestly expect all those millions and millions of users to be computer illerate.
You can have AOL for $10 (maybe $14 now, they may have raised prices since) where you have access to everything from the $24 service plan except for being able to dial-up. So, basically with this plan, you'll get all of their content, services and other membership benefits at about half the price.
Don't be so sure. They wouldn't be spending resources developing this service if there wasn't already a demand for it among AOL users. And from what I understand, you actually need to have something running in the background that lets you be connected into the AOL network before you can access your IMAP mail (sounds like an AOL Intranet as best as I can tell).
AOL has been beta testing this for a while now, long before Gmail was announced. Interesting correlation though, but Gmail was not the cause.
Actually, I believe they did this because a significant portion of AOL users wanted to access their AOL mail with their favorite mail client whatever that may be. They tried to appease these people by offering Netscape Mail and then AOL Communicator, but I suppose that wasn't enough. So it probably wasn't competition so much as it was just sheer user demand that this service came about.
Personally, I don't use AOL Mail, but I do know of family members who have had an AOL email address since when AOL was in black in white (94 or 95?).
Can't help you there. I suppose it comes with the terrority. If you use Windows XP, expect to use the Windows XP interface. Personally, I would very much rather have the Mac OSX (Panther) interface in XP. Can't tell you how many times I've pressed F9 while working under Windows.
[RIAA] ended the program because their education had succeeded
Like how the high school bullies would educate the nerd population on the best way to invest their lunch money?