You still have yet to explain why only a few particular words are considered foul.
Because that is their agreed-upon meaning in the language. After a language has been in use for centuries or millenia asking why certain words have the meaning they do is useless; they just do.
The problem with texting is that, unlike a phone conversation, you have to take your eyes off the road to read the incoming messages. And even if you're touch typing it's still a distraction, possibly a severe one. Your 1st Amendment rights are completely overwhelmed by the risk of hitting a school bus.
One of our new executives brought in a Samsung Sidekick. Yeech. Doesn't Microsoft ever finish an interface ? Every bit as slipshod and haphazard as you might fear.
Pity we have client obligations as regards smartphones, we have at least 10 iPhone sales prospects right here.
Will this thing ever support Flash? Who knows. Apple hasn't said one way or the other. It does integrate very nicely with Google maps though.
Apple hasn't had to say anything, QuickTime supports Flash (through version 7 or so) so the iPhone will run Flash apps. The downside is QT is usually one version behind the mainstream Flash release.
Do you honestly watch Powerpoint presentations on your cell phone? Egads, man!
Well, good point. But Apple has this little program called Keynote that reads & writes.ppt files just fine. Enough better than PowerPoint itself that I use it to recover corrupt presentations. So the ability to view PowerPoint slides is not out of reach for the iPhone. Incidentally, while Apple is (by a standard my employer will insist on) no longer a client for me, I have no compunctions about saying that Keynote blows PowerPoint completely out of the water in every possible respect.
Sounds like you aren't using a USB 2.0 port. 8 mbit in contention with mouse and keyboard sounds about right for a half hour for 512MB. How do non-iPod USB drives perform on that port.
Actually, 10.2 to 10.3 was a major upgrade. 10.3 had major performance improvements, the UI and interface elements settled down some and the Cocoa API picked up some neat new features. 10.3 to 10.4 wasn't much of an upgrade. I use Spotlight regularly (needs work on the UI, but the results are terrific) and Dashboard only rarely. The new APIs in 10.4 are nice, but not essential. The performance boost wasn't much either.
I'm looking forward to 10.5. Something like Time Machine *is* essential. Working, easy automated backups is a dream of mine. I'll make 'em pay for the server space it'll take:-) Faster would be gravy.
Actually, Vista hasn't really been released yet. They just went from Release Candidate to Paid Beta. It doesn't count as "released" until SP1 comes out, and Apple will probably beat that date by a comfortable margin.
All media outlets are biased. A useful source is one that has a known bias so you can allow for it. Ideally you can compare sources with different biases and arrive at something like the truth. This takes effort.
It's way more fun with a good corp. Not all of 'em have schedules and quotas and rules and regs. Lucky Hydra is one of the good kind, I posted a link upthread.
Whatever else may be going on, many European countries have a tradition of much of a company taking summer vacation at the same time. It's mind-boggling to Americans, but it's a way of life over there. I get called to drive 100 miles on a vacation day for a printer jam (and didn't, had trained someone specifically on that particular bizarre jam that can happen to an HP LJ5100 (the one under the bevel between trays 2 and 3) and I'm not walking away from Mom's table because)
For the record, I think CCP screwed up, although there is an element of bad luck in T20 being caught when nobody onsite in management had the stones to fire him - or call Magnus' cell. "Hey boss, I hate to bother you, but should we really fire this guy ?" I believe him when he says (ok, clearly implies) in the dev blog that he would have.
And, if you were in an alliance with a known CCP employee, would you risk your reputation over getting caught ? Wait, out in 0.o that question has a lot of different answers...
If you didn't cancel, check out Lucky Hydra. We're a lowsec mixed pvp/carebear corp located in Earwick near the Minmatar-Caldari border. We've got veterans and newbies, 0.0 and alliance connections and a Ventrilo server. Plus we maintain two PoS.
Here's a good test of how our corp compares to one you may not enjoy: do you want a corp that tells you what to do, or one where one of the explorers announces a hidden belt with good ore in the home system and a half-dozen people head out to get the goodies (I'm heading for the belt as I type this) ? We do structure on the industrial side, mining contracts with other corps where we have a due date and a quantity to deliver. And sometimes we go out and blow people up - especially if they harass our folks.
Message Llaneza, Bayleor or Miss Noir in game. And read the website for application info. Fast actors may get into tonight's op. Just think, Kernite and Jaspet in a 0.6 system...
No, but they used to. I still have a copy of Close Combat 2 for the Mac (System 7 or so), complete with Microsoft logo. And that wasn't the only one they published.
And CCP is based in Iceland, they may well have some sort of double-jeopardy clause in their employment laws. If they've formally handled the case already, then they may not be able to go back and do it. The CEO's blog says he'd have handled it differently if he'd been in the office. The management on duty while the executives were vacationing (local custom) didn't want to fire anyone, so they "handled" it. Improperly. Then the bigwigs swept it under the rug. Then they got outed publicly. And now they have a full-time Internal Affairs person, who was apparently one of the hardliners who wanted t20 fired. They did delete a bunch of employee accounts, so there are holes in some alliance org charts. It's remotely possible that non-BoB alliances will be slightly luckier than usual in the next T2 BPO lottery to help make up for BoB's advantage.
It's going to be a stoopid CCP employee who steps over the line now.
A couple of years ago there was some talk of other ways of connecting to EVE. In-game chat integration with other chat systems, accessing market data and conducting trades or manufacturing from a smartphone or web interface. More ways to get into the EVE 'verse without sitting down at a PC. What's in the works on this front and can you reassure us that it has a higher priority than walking in stations ?
Heck, hook up a Jabber server and wire it into in-game chat. That'd be a good start. Some way, any way, to connect with an existing multi-chat clients like Gaim would be fantastic. I wanna launch Audium and see my EVE channels available and my in-game buddy list.
Follow up question. Is changing skill training from a web interface too much to hope for ?
The portrait generator is fantastic. How about a standalone version ? Or, god help us, put it on the website.
It's a nifty toy in its own right, my mom spent an hour with it. It could see some use making chat avatars. EVE does have a reputation for graphics and this would help spread the word (and maybe bring in enough to cover development and marketing costs).
Yup, join a corp. I'm a director in Lucky Hydra Corp. We're a PvP/Industrial corp with ties to alliances and connections in 0.0 space. We're based in Metropolis near the Minmatar-Gallente border. Message Llaneza, Bayleor or Rowynn (our lead recruiters) in-game and we'll set you up and get you started right.
They've got fairly big iron already as described in this CCP press release from last September. To this player it looks like more of an architecture issue than a raw hardware power issue.
I've been online when concurrent-player records have been set and it's been very playable. It's the fleet actions that suck, and I'd like to see a WoW server handle more than 100 players in a PvP contest.
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Thank you, I didn't want to have to find that strip myself.
You still have yet to explain why only a few particular words are considered foul.
Because that is their agreed-upon meaning in the language. After a language has been in use for centuries or millenia asking why certain words have the meaning they do is useless; they just do.
After perusing this thread, I'm holding out for the MySpace site.
The problem with texting is that, unlike a phone conversation, you have to take your eyes off the road to read the incoming messages. And even if you're touch typing it's still a distraction, possibly a severe one. Your 1st Amendment rights are completely overwhelmed by the risk of hitting a school bus.
WTG Washington.
Cally is not a "tough" woman. She's more the "annoying but quietly enduring" type.
Actually, the bird watching thing seems to be "next". The trainspotting sim is already live.
One of our new executives brought in a Samsung Sidekick. Yeech. Doesn't Microsoft ever finish an interface ? Every bit as slipshod and haphazard as you might fear.
Pity we have client obligations as regards smartphones, we have at least 10 iPhone sales prospects right here.
Will this thing ever support Flash?
.ppt files just fine. Enough better than PowerPoint itself that I use it to recover corrupt presentations. So the ability to view PowerPoint slides is not out of reach for the iPhone. Incidentally, while Apple is (by a standard my employer will insist on) no longer a client for me, I have no compunctions about saying that Keynote blows PowerPoint completely out of the water in every possible respect.
Who knows. Apple hasn't said one way or the other. It does integrate very nicely with Google maps though.
Apple hasn't had to say anything, QuickTime supports Flash (through version 7 or so) so the iPhone will run Flash apps. The downside is QT is usually one version behind the mainstream Flash release.
Do you honestly watch Powerpoint presentations on your cell phone? Egads, man!
Well, good point. But Apple has this little program called Keynote that reads & writes
Sounds like you aren't using a USB 2.0 port. 8 mbit in contention with mouse and keyboard sounds about right for a half hour for 512MB. How do non-iPod USB drives perform on that port.
Actually, 10.2 to 10.3 was a major upgrade. 10.3 had major performance improvements, the UI and interface elements settled down some and the Cocoa API picked up some neat new features. 10.3 to 10.4 wasn't much of an upgrade. I use Spotlight regularly (needs work on the UI, but the results are terrific) and Dashboard only rarely. The new APIs in 10.4 are nice, but not essential. The performance boost wasn't much either.
:-) Faster would be gravy.
I'm looking forward to 10.5. Something like Time Machine *is* essential. Working, easy automated backups is a dream of mine. I'll make 'em pay for the server space it'll take
Actually, Vista hasn't really been released yet. They just went from Release Candidate to Paid Beta. It doesn't count as "released" until SP1 comes out, and Apple will probably beat that date by a comfortable margin.
A displaced fracture to a major bone is a serious injury. Maybe not driving-as-fast-as-you-can serious, but it's worth doing 60 in a 45 zone over.
Now, about that crossbow injury...
But I still think it's because my damn cell phone keeps ringing.
On this one I'm gonna listen to the low 5-digit ID with the Admiral Rickover quote in his .sig. Just sayin'.
Off-topic, but necessary.
All media outlets are biased. A useful source is one that has a known bias so you can allow for it. Ideally you can compare sources with different biases and arrive at something like the truth. This takes effort.
It's way more fun with a good corp. Not all of 'em have schedules and quotas and rules and regs. Lucky Hydra is one of the good kind, I posted a link upthread.
Whatever else may be going on, many European countries have a tradition of much of a company taking summer vacation at the same time. It's mind-boggling to Americans, but it's a way of life over there. I get called to drive 100 miles on a vacation day for a printer jam (and didn't, had trained someone specifically on that particular bizarre jam that can happen to an HP LJ5100 (the one under the bevel between trays 2 and 3) and I'm not walking away from Mom's table because)
For the record, I think CCP screwed up, although there is an element of bad luck in T20 being caught when nobody onsite in management had the stones to fire him - or call Magnus' cell. "Hey boss, I hate to bother you, but should we really fire this guy ?" I believe him when he says (ok, clearly implies) in the dev blog that he would have.
And, if you were in an alliance with a known CCP employee, would you risk your reputation over getting caught ? Wait, out in 0.o that question has a lot of different answers...
If you didn't cancel, check out Lucky Hydra. We're a lowsec mixed pvp/carebear corp located in Earwick near the Minmatar-Caldari border. We've got veterans and newbies, 0.0 and alliance connections and a Ventrilo server. Plus we maintain two PoS.
Here's a good test of how our corp compares to one you may not enjoy: do you want a corp that tells you what to do, or one where one of the explorers announces a hidden belt with good ore in the home system and a half-dozen people head out to get the goodies (I'm heading for the belt as I type this) ? We do structure on the industrial side, mining contracts with other corps where we have a due date and a quantity to deliver. And sometimes we go out and blow people up - especially if they harass our folks.
Message Llaneza, Bayleor or Miss Noir in game. And read the website for application info. Fast actors may get into tonight's op. Just think, Kernite and Jaspet in a 0.6 system...
No, but they used to. I still have a copy of Close Combat 2 for the Mac (System 7 or so), complete with Microsoft logo. And that wasn't the only one they published.
I don't got time for pain. The only pain I have time for is the pain I dish out to fools who don't know what time it is.
And CCP is based in Iceland, they may well have some sort of double-jeopardy clause in their employment laws. If they've formally handled the case already, then they may not be able to go back and do it. The CEO's blog says he'd have handled it differently if he'd been in the office. The management on duty while the executives were vacationing (local custom) didn't want to fire anyone, so they "handled" it. Improperly. Then the bigwigs swept it under the rug. Then they got outed publicly. And now they have a full-time Internal Affairs person, who was apparently one of the hardliners who wanted t20 fired. They did delete a bunch of employee accounts, so there are holes in some alliance org charts. It's remotely possible that non-BoB alliances will be slightly luckier than usual in the next T2 BPO lottery to help make up for BoB's advantage.
It's going to be a stoopid CCP employee who steps over the line now.
A couple of years ago there was some talk of other ways of connecting to EVE. In-game chat integration with other chat systems, accessing market data and conducting trades or manufacturing from a smartphone or web interface. More ways to get into the EVE 'verse without sitting down at a PC. What's in the works on this front and can you reassure us that it has a higher priority than walking in stations ?
Heck, hook up a Jabber server and wire it into in-game chat. That'd be a good start. Some way, any way, to connect with an existing multi-chat clients like Gaim would be fantastic. I wanna launch Audium and see my EVE channels available and my in-game buddy list.
Follow up question. Is changing skill training from a web interface too much to hope for ?
The portrait generator is fantastic. How about a standalone version ? Or, god help us, put it on the website.
It's a nifty toy in its own right, my mom spent an hour with it. It could see some use making chat avatars. EVE does have a reputation for graphics and this would help spread the word (and maybe bring in enough to cover development and marketing costs).
Yup, join a corp. I'm a director in Lucky Hydra Corp. We're a PvP/Industrial corp with ties to alliances and connections in 0.0 space. We're based in Metropolis near the Minmatar-Gallente border. Message Llaneza, Bayleor or Rowynn (our lead recruiters) in-game and we'll set you up and get you started right.
If you're interested in the war situation, I get my news from the EVE Tribune
They've got fairly big iron already as described in this CCP press release from last September. To this player it looks like more of an architecture issue than a raw hardware power issue.
I've been online when concurrent-player records have been set and it's been very playable. It's the fleet actions that suck, and I'd like to see a WoW server handle more than 100 players in a PvP contest.