Some of us still want a flash based music player for music. Especially one that isn't massive or massively expensive. The Nano is simple and what we want Incidentally I rarely see iPod Touches around, lots of Nanos and lots of iPhones. The Touch seems to have the smaller market (neither a phone or a simple music player)
That's just awful, it's generally the only thing I use the internet channel for (excep perhaps when my computer is in deep repair and I need the net to help). I thought it was my ISP when I tried iPlayer on the updated channel last night and the stream wouldn't work.
I can't tell, did they do this deliberately? An update to Flash that makes it harder to view Flash sites, brilliant.
Disclaimer, I gfot an A in an English exam on the book of Hitchhikers, the question on the peper was write about someone who finds himself in events over which he has no control, goodbye Huck Finn, hello Arthur Dent
Irony - Stating one's success in an English exam within a sentence containing several spelling errors.
My sister (who has never read any HHGTTG books) liked the movie even more than I did, which suggests to me that my initially disappointment was largely caused by my outsized expectations.
I had a similar reaction but I realised that one of the problems was that the jokes were the same famous jokes from the radio show, which I had just listened to in anticipation of the film - therefore the punchlines had less punch when you were saying them in your head. Very few comedies make me belly laugh when I already know the joke. In truth I found it to be well directed and acted, just no new jokes.
There are few books I've found to be really funny, and I read 30+ books a year. Douglas Adams' books along with say Catch-22 and maybe Running with Scissors are about the only ones that come to mind.
Humour works better when you can have the jokes delivered with timing. I've found audio books make some books much funnier when it's done well.
Have you tried Pratchett? His are the funniest books I have ever read, well apart from The Profanisaurus Which is similar to Adam's The Meaning of Lif
Even film has it's weaknesses for humour. Film tends to want a narrative to drive things and there often isn't enough time for character development. TV is better. I'd prefer The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Yes Prime Minister, Drop the Dead Donkey, Faulty Towers and Monty Python to most comedy films any day.
Agreed. With the significant exception that is South Park:BLU (many of my friends didn't like the TV series but love the movie), your opinion could be due to your good taste in TV comedy. Might I suggest Spaced? - as it it another example of a TV series that isn't known as well as the films it spawned [Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead] but IMHO being better and funnier.
Not the gp but for what it's worth, I found many if them to be thrilling, not quite sure there were many moments of terror. Perhaps the passages in the early books of the dungeon dimensions but they were often made humorous rather than scary by Pratchett's writing.
Corporate health care? Um.. yeah. Corporate railways? Works fantastically in Britain.
A word of caution - I wouldn't say that on a crowded British train station. People might disagree violently, after all they have nothing to do while they wait for the train that doesn't turn up.
2. DNF is at least 95% done atm. Why would they be showing stuff off if it wouldn't be? Besides Bloussard in his blog mentioned that the check list of undone/buggy stuff for DNF has/had only 24 objectives left. When bug smashing started it had literally thousands of objectives.
http://twitter.com/georgeb3dr/status/1513503306
After 15 years and nothing to show but a teaser video and endless hype you actually believe that?. For gods sake, it's a tweet from someone who would have a reason to lie.
Fact your ass.
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In GNOME you can add a button to the panel which hides all open windows. Ubuntu puts it in the lower left corner (the corner pixel is active by default, as are the other three. Apple and MS are STILL too dumb to figure that one out.).
XP (and possibly earlier) has the same [Show Desktop]. If I remember correctly it is installed by default on the Quicklaunch bar in the lower left corner.
I have already got a system to prevent this. No two signatures are the same. That's how you know my signature is genuine - it doesn't match another signature of mine.
Used to cause a bit of annoyance at the bank when they checked these things.
Correct, security is more a user issue, less an OS issue. Do as the gp states but also don't trust the users to be anything other than stupid. Lock everything that can be locked down even if it may be useful. Very annoying for the users but the only way to be secure. That's why my employer (very large, security conscious) uses and is still rolling out XP for simplicity and application support issues. But the corporate firewall and systems are so locked down that the stupid users are going to have to be more than IT literate to cause any damage.
I think they mean that Flash is already installed on those locked down computers but Silverlight isn't. Therefore all those people sitting at their work computers could watch baseball on flash but not on Silverlight and they don't have the rights to install it. I'm sitting at a very locked down PC and have flash installed, I don't have Silverlight. Although Flash outside of our network is Firewalled - so academic for me.
I think Colber[t] actually pronounces his name as ColberT in private. This is based on me catching him one time on air saying ColberT when there was no comic reason for him to do so.
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Some of us still want a flash based music player for music. Especially one that isn't massive or massively expensive.
The Nano is simple and what we want
Incidentally I rarely see iPod Touches around, lots of Nanos and lots of iPhones. The Touch seems to have the smaller market (neither a phone or a simple music player)
Video still... but iPlayer will become useful. Woo!
Except now iPlayer doesn't work.
From one of TFA -
Great, we can see what 'content' we can't actually view or hear.
Britisher here. I prefer to watch BBC programs on iPlayer on my couch via the TV, rather than my room on the PC or on a little laptop.
It's just a pity that the update prevents iPlayer from working.
That's just awful, it's generally the only thing I use the internet channel for (excep perhaps when my computer is in deep repair and I need the net to help). I thought it was my ISP when I tried iPlayer on the updated channel last night and the stream wouldn't work.
I can't tell, did they do this deliberately? An update to Flash that makes it harder to view Flash sites, brilliant.
Disclaimer, I gfot an A in an English exam on the book of Hitchhikers, the question on the peper was write about someone who finds himself in events over which he has no control, goodbye Huck Finn, hello Arthur Dent
Irony - Stating one's success in an English exam within a sentence containing several spelling errors.
My sister (who has never read any HHGTTG books) liked the movie even more than I did, which suggests to me that my initially disappointment was largely caused by my outsized expectations.
I had a similar reaction but I realised that one of the problems was that the jokes were the same famous jokes from the radio show, which I had just listened to in anticipation of the film - therefore the punchlines had less punch when you were saying them in your head.
Very few comedies make me belly laugh when I already know the joke. In truth I found it to be well directed and acted, just no new jokes.
There are few books I've found to be really funny, and I read 30+ books a year. Douglas Adams' books along with say Catch-22 and maybe Running with Scissors are about the only ones that come to mind.
Humour works better when you can have the jokes delivered with timing. I've found audio books make some books much funnier when it's done well.
Have you tried Pratchett? His are the funniest books I have ever read, well apart from The Profanisaurus Which is similar to Adam's The Meaning of Lif
Even film has it's weaknesses for humour. Film tends to want a narrative to drive things and there often isn't enough time for character development. TV is better. I'd prefer The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Yes Prime Minister, Drop the Dead Donkey, Faulty Towers and Monty Python to most comedy films any day.
Agreed. With the significant exception that is South Park:BLU (many of my friends didn't like the TV series but love the movie), your opinion could be due to your good taste in TV comedy. Might I suggest Spaced? - as it it another example of a TV series that isn't known as well as the films it spawned [Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead] but IMHO being better and funnier.
Not the gp but for what it's worth, I found many if them to be thrilling, not quite sure there were many moments of terror. Perhaps the passages in the early books of the dungeon dimensions but they were often made humorous rather than scary by Pratchett's writing.
Oh wow, I totally forgot about NBA Jam, it was simple and fun. Reboot please, without complicating it.
Yes, reading it again I think I must have been sarcasm immune this morning.
Corporate health care? Um.. yeah. Corporate railways? Works fantastically in Britain.
A word of caution - I wouldn't say that on a crowded British train station. People might disagree violently, after all they have nothing to do while they wait for the train that doesn't turn up.
I hear all the devs have been snapped up by EDS.
A cold chill consumes me at that thought. (Sitting here typing at an EDS implemented system, waiting for it to do something)
2. DNF is at least 95% done atm. Why would they be showing stuff off if it wouldn't be? Besides Bloussard in his blog mentioned that the check list of undone/buggy stuff for DNF has/had only 24 objectives left. When bug smashing started it had literally thousands of objectives. http://twitter.com/georgeb3dr/status/1513503306
After 15 years and nothing to show but a teaser video and endless hype you actually believe that?.
For gods sake, it's a tweet from someone who would have a reason to lie.
Fact your ass.
DNF is comon to athletics also
In GNOME you can add a button to the panel which hides all open windows. Ubuntu puts it in the lower left corner (the corner pixel is active by default, as are the other three. Apple and MS are STILL too dumb to figure that one out.).
XP (and possibly earlier) has the same [Show Desktop]. If I remember correctly it is installed by default on the Quicklaunch bar in the lower left corner.
Same here. And it would have surprised me considering that (half of) the Stones are big Cricket (the sport) fans.
Yeah I was just joking that it was intentional. My handwriting is simply just too poor to replicate it.
Beautiful. Deserves more than +5.
It's going to be hilarious when the LonPen 15 is introduced...
Well, perhaps for those who get the joke.
House selling scams in Britain. I live in that there Britain and hadn't (I think) heard of these scams. Could you enlighten me?
Ps - Your prose might benefit from some paragraphs, your post was interesting but I had to read it three times to understand.
I have already got a system to prevent this.
No two signatures are the same. That's how you know my signature is genuine - it doesn't match another signature of mine.
Used to cause a bit of annoyance at the bank when they checked these things.
Correct, security is more a user issue, less an OS issue. Do as the gp states but also don't trust the users to be anything other than stupid. Lock everything that can be locked down even if it may be useful. Very annoying for the users but the only way to be secure.
That's why my employer (very large, security conscious) uses and is still rolling out XP for simplicity and application support issues. But the corporate firewall and systems are so locked down that the stupid users are going to have to be more than IT literate to cause any damage.
I think they mean that Flash is already installed on those locked down computers but Silverlight isn't. Therefore all those people sitting at their work computers could watch baseball on flash but not on Silverlight and they don't have the rights to install it.
I'm sitting at a very locked down PC and have flash installed, I don't have Silverlight. Although Flash outside of our network is Firewalled - so academic for me.
I think Colber[t] actually pronounces his name as ColberT in private. This is based on me catching him one time on air saying ColberT when there was no comic reason for him to do so.
Some Evidence suggests otherwise.
Hate to burst your bubble - the Euro is worth more than the dollar and has been for a while. Apparently there's a 'financial crisis' going on.