the wording "meeting a stranger online" is weighted to sound like something much worse than it is. if it was just "meeting new people" all of a sudden it doesnt have that creepy ring to it, even though it's essentially the same thing
On the plus side it's in its own section with a design so gaudy I can easily avoid it.
really? have you tried? i looked and it's not in the list of sections you can block in the homepage customization options. I'm sure it'll be fixed eventually, but right now you cant easily avoid it's gaudy design
Last I checked, you downloaded games from other users on Steam, not from Valve directly.
thats not the impression I got downloading the orange box. the little banners saying something along the lines of "content downloading from valve content server 29" certainly implies they're the ones paying for the bandwidth
Copyright infringement is theft, dummy. Try making and selling your own Mickey Mouse cartoon. Try restarting Arrested Development without buying that right. Can Dreamworks come out with Toy Story 3? Can Pixar make the next Shrek? You have no idea what you are talking about.
murder is theft, dummy. try killing your neighbor. try killing your mail main. can you assassinate the president? can your friend shoot you in the face? you have no idea what you are talking about
see what a moron you look like? yes, they are both illegal. no, they are not the same thing
Sadly Australian universities seem to be firmly in MS's pocket. The year before last the IT guys at my uni tried to switch one of the labs over to linux (CentOS), lasted about a fortnight before the lab demonstrators all complained and got it changed back to what they know. I've been messing about with it since high school so I feel it's pretty poor if the "teachers" dont know enough about their area of expertise to use something other than windows
you need to chip that xbox and put xbmc on it., turns the xbox from a somewhat average games box into the most easy to set up, zero-artificial-restriction media center money can buy. streaming content to your tv doesnt get much easier:)
how about this. if a patent is sold, the buyer has a short time limit (say 2-3 years) to get a product to market that utilises the patent, other wise the patent expires and the implementation becomes public domain. if you're not the original inventor and you have no product, then you shouldn't be allowed to sell licences to use the patent either.
VLC is great if you're after cross platform compatibility, but when on OSX I dont think there's a better video player than niceplayer (provided you have the perian codecs installs so qt can play everything). seriously, check it out
1) Don't try to support standards properly.
2) Obey the DOCTYPE, even though many programs and people put it on old pages which aren't going to render properly in a standards-compliant browser
3) Add a new flag that means "Yes, I promise I know about standards".
you missed the 4th one:
4) Add a new flag that means "Yes, I am an idiot and am purposefully ignoring the standards. please render me with the broken engine". that way standard compliant sites aren't forced to ugly up their html with tags only honored by MS products
what are you doing IT if you want to be a manager? you should have done a diploma in management and you'd already be ahead of 90% of the idiots who get into management with no formal management training. it's no wonder there are such strong stereotypes of managers being idiots who cant manage shit
Of course, I like my super-high resolution, bright, glossy Macbook screen...
super high resolution? give me a break! I'm typing this on a black macbook and the low res glossy screen is one of the few things I dont like about it. you can get 12" laptops with more pixels than macbooks, but they dont run osx
I've always thought it'd be a nice compromise to have a DVI-in port on the iMacs. if they had that, I'd go out and pick up a 24" one tommorrow, then a few years down the track when it's getting a bit slow, go pick up a new 24" iMac and use the old one as a second monitor for it
It is actually nicer than it sounds because it saves the backup and each of the changes until it runs out of space
this isn't strictly true. I had time machine running every weekday of november (I keep the backup drive at work), yet I now only have a weekly snapshot for each week of novemeber, but the drive still has 80GB of free space. I'm pretty sure you get the past 24 hours of hourly snapshots, around 30 days of daily snapshots... past that looks to go to weekly snapshots and I havent had it running long enough to see if it eventually drops back to monthly snapshots.
I think you need something like ZFS or MS's shadow copies to get a separate revision every time a file changes. AFAIK we dont have that functionality on OSX yet
I long for the days when you could buy an UNFORMATTED device. The OS would tell you it's unformatted, so you formatted it. Done.
wtf? where on earth are you buying your drives? I've bought 3 hard disks in the past 12 months and they were all either unformatted, or NTFS formatted but blank.
This will never take off in America, not if it's being called a drug. After all, if America embraced this, their "war on drugs" would seem downright hypocritical... but perhaps if we called it a medicine:P
... and who do you think the cause of that is? Apple, run by Jobs who has publicly stated he would love to drop drm, or the labels, who are using drm-free as a bargaining chip to try and force apple into variable price (read: most songs will cost more, some will remain the same, 1 will become cheaper).
it sounds like your confusing Xbox Media Centre with Microsoft's official offering. one of them is a fantastic piece of software that can do nearly anything you want and the other is a crippled piece of crap. the only real flaw in xbmc is it's reliance on the original xbox hardware, which isnt really up to playing back 720p content, but they're in the process of porting to linux apparently
as a counter point, I've got a macbook (and hence a glossy screen) and I'm not at all happy with the screen on it. the vertical viewing angle is all messed up and the colors look washed out unless I tilt the screen way-back, and then everything looks like the flying text in space at the start of starwars. I thought I must have had a bum screen but a friend has the same issues as did all the ones at the apple store. I'm typing this on my pretty much retired 12" powerbook (it's my holidays laptop now) and even though it's only 1024x768 and 4:3 it's a far superior screen, and the color reproduction is so much better than the macbook it's not funny. hopefully the 13" LED backlit panels apple's been recently buying up dont suffer from the same issue.
my 19" CRT has served me faithfully for 7.5 years now. I do need to replace it so, but it's a shame I need to buy a gigantic LCD just to get at least the same resolution the CRT has (native 1600x1200) but that seems to be the way things are now. in the 7.5 years I've had it, I've had at least 3 completely discreet PCs attached to it, each with a number of upgrades. I'd buy a 24" imac in a second if they has a DVI in port, so when the specs on it were shit in comparison to what else became available, I could continue using it as a beautiful 24" 1920x1200 screen.
I found that out when I made recorded a cd for a friend off an old tape he had (I think it was something by the eagles). I was shocked when i put it in my pc and cddb detected it as the correct album and grabbed all the track names. I dont know if I fluked getting all the track gaps in the exact right spots or if there's a far bit of leniency but I thought it was pretty cool
I'll happily concede that in openness and freeness, OO.org is the clear winner, but the GP's stated reason for switching seemed to be that the interface of office2k7 was more different to the previous version than oo.org, and that being different was a bad thing.
personally I really hope that OO.org do adopt something similar to office2k7's ribbons. finding features I havent previously used has never been a simple task for me in oo.org, or any previous version of office, but in office2k7 things seem to be grouped with a little more sanity than previous efforts. office was never the pinnacle of interface design, and OO.org was more or less a crappy copy of that design. sometimes you just have to know when to throw a design out and start over
he learning curve to go from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007 is *WORSE* than switching to OpenOffice, a point we have made very clear to our bosses where I work with regards to our recent switch to OpenOffice.
ahh, but is the return on time spent learning openoffice actually better? vim is a bitch to learn, but once you know you way around it, it'll save you dozens of hours compared to nano (or notepad.exe for the windows folk). did you recommend your work switch to openoffice because it was better in the long term, or because you hate Microsoft?
I dont run a MS operating system so my experience using office2k7 is limited that that in the computer labs, but it sure seemed a lot easier for me to find the features I was looking for compared to older versions.
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the wording "meeting a stranger online" is weighted to sound like something much worse than it is. if it was just "meeting new people" all of a sudden it doesnt have that creepy ring to it, even though it's essentially the same thing
see what a moron you look like? yes, they are both illegal. no, they are not the same thing
Sadly Australian universities seem to be firmly in MS's pocket. The year before last the IT guys at my uni tried to switch one of the labs over to linux (CentOS), lasted about a fortnight before the lab demonstrators all complained and got it changed back to what they know. I've been messing about with it since high school so I feel it's pretty poor if the "teachers" dont know enough about their area of expertise to use something other than windows
you need to chip that xbox and put xbmc on it., turns the xbox from a somewhat average games box into the most easy to set up, zero-artificial-restriction media center money can buy. streaming content to your tv doesnt get much easier :)
how about this. if a patent is sold, the buyer has a short time limit (say 2-3 years) to get a product to market that utilises the patent, other wise the patent expires and the implementation becomes public domain. if you're not the original inventor and you have no product, then you shouldn't be allowed to sell licences to use the patent either.
VLC is great if you're after cross platform compatibility, but when on OSX I dont think there's a better video player than niceplayer (provided you have the perian codecs installs so qt can play everything). seriously, check it out
4) Add a new flag that means "Yes, I am an idiot and am purposefully ignoring the standards. please render me with the broken engine".
that way standard compliant sites aren't forced to ugly up their html with tags only honored by MS products
what are you doing IT if you want to be a manager? you should have done a diploma in management and you'd already be ahead of 90% of the idiots who get into management with no formal management training. it's no wonder there are such strong stereotypes of managers being idiots who cant manage shit
sounds like you'll have your wish very soon... http://netkas.org/?p=46
I've always thought it'd be a nice compromise to have a DVI-in port on the iMacs. if they had that, I'd go out and pick up a 24" one tommorrow, then a few years down the track when it's getting a bit slow, go pick up a new 24" iMac and use the old one as a second monitor for it
I think you need something like ZFS or MS's shadow copies to get a separate revision every time a file changes. AFAIK we dont have that functionality on OSX yet
I have no idea about tablets, does the modbook look anything like what you want?
I cant say I have, but you've cleared things up a bit for me.
This will never take off in America, not if it's being called a drug. After all, if America embraced this, their "war on drugs" would seem downright hypocritical... but perhaps if we called it a medicine :P
it sounds like your confusing Xbox Media Centre with Microsoft's official offering. one of them is a fantastic piece of software that can do nearly anything you want and the other is a crippled piece of crap. the only real flaw in xbmc is it's reliance on the original xbox hardware, which isnt really up to playing back 720p content, but they're in the process of porting to linux apparently
as a counter point, I've got a macbook (and hence a glossy screen) and I'm not at all happy with the screen on it. the vertical viewing angle is all messed up and the colors look washed out unless I tilt the screen way-back, and then everything looks like the flying text in space at the start of starwars. I thought I must have had a bum screen but a friend has the same issues as did all the ones at the apple store. I'm typing this on my pretty much retired 12" powerbook (it's my holidays laptop now) and even though it's only 1024x768 and 4:3 it's a far superior screen, and the color reproduction is so much better than the macbook it's not funny. hopefully the 13" LED backlit panels apple's been recently buying up dont suffer from the same issue.
my 19" CRT has served me faithfully for 7.5 years now. I do need to replace it so, but it's a shame I need to buy a gigantic LCD just to get at least the same resolution the CRT has (native 1600x1200) but that seems to be the way things are now. in the 7.5 years I've had it, I've had at least 3 completely discreet PCs attached to it, each with a number of upgrades. I'd buy a 24" imac in a second if they has a DVI in port, so when the specs on it were shit in comparison to what else became available, I could continue using it as a beautiful 24" 1920x1200 screen.
I found that out when I made recorded a cd for a friend off an old tape he had (I think it was something by the eagles). I was shocked when i put it in my pc and cddb detected it as the correct album and grabbed all the track names. I dont know if I fluked getting all the track gaps in the exact right spots or if there's a far bit of leniency but I thought it was pretty cool
I'll happily concede that in openness and freeness, OO.org is the clear winner, but the GP's stated reason for switching seemed to be that the interface of office2k7 was more different to the previous version than oo.org, and that being different was a bad thing.
personally I really hope that OO.org do adopt something similar to office2k7's ribbons. finding features I havent previously used has never been a simple task for me in oo.org, or any previous version of office, but in office2k7 things seem to be grouped with a little more sanity than previous efforts. office was never the pinnacle of interface design, and OO.org was more or less a crappy copy of that design. sometimes you just have to know when to throw a design out and start over
I dont run a MS operating system so my experience using office2k7 is limited that that in the computer labs, but it sure seemed a lot easier for me to find the features I was looking for compared to older versions.