The early years of the internet were plagued with issues on how Flash was used: long Flash intro's to websites, and Flash menu's that would take ages to animate each and every time you clicked on it to name but a couple. But it was also plagued with a vast number of file formats fighting to be the internet streaming app of choice; Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime etc. Some of which were on some platforms but not others; all of which sucked up resources just to play a video on a website. Flash solved this online video problem; a single method for which to deliver streaming media content. A single app that was super easy to install for even the most casual of users. The success of YouTube meant Flash has it's lifeline, and became useful (for me). It's not the perfect solution, and moving into HTML 5 era it will become redundant once more; but it did fill a much needed gap.
What Chrome does well is hide the version number, and not trumpet it about as an important thing. IE and Firefox have jumping up and down shouting the version number out loud attitude.
The problem for Firefox is it's trying to copy Chrome's rapid release of versions numbers, but in advertising the version numbers it has created confusion and uncertainty over if upgrading will break anything.
Well, I'd much more prefer a known cap than something billed as "unlimited" (small print: we can chuck you off whenever we feel like it). Was searching around for a cheap web host recently for my website, and I purposely chose that any site that even mentioned the word "unlimited" would be crossed off my list. I'd rather be restricted but know what my restrictions are than be promised total freedom with a big foot linger overhead ready to stamp me out at any moment.
The caps given here however are totally unreasonable, and don't account for modern internet usage. Why not do 10gig / 25gig / 50gig / 100gig usage plans that all cost different amounts, but you pay for the usage plan that applys to you for that month. Only use 6 gig one month, you pay the lowest amount that month. Use 56gigs and you pay the highest amount that month.
Bandwidth costs money, I see nothing wrong with having to pay more for my usage than some granny checking their e-mail.
I did the exact same thing - though it was because the "Golf" cartridge refused to work. The damn Nintendo sign when loading would be corrupted; cue lots of blowing into the cartridge, and anger with headbutt when it STILL didn't work:'(
That isn't going to attract new users to Linux! Asking them to replace expensive (but well known branded) hardware because it doesn't work. If Linux cost money I wouldn't be trying it. Needing to get new hardware that works for Linux is effectively giving the Operating System a cost.
I know giant strides have been made (and are being made with the recent AMD/ATI announcement); but unfortunately I still seem to have the back luck in the hardware I have
A couple of months ago I partitioned up a chunk of my hard-drive and installed Ubuntu with the full intention of it becoming my primary operating system; pre - orange box the only game I played was known to work via Wine. So I go ahead and install it: but hit a brick wall on 2 things. The first, no matter how much I tried I could not get my monitor refresh rate to 100hz. The nvidia settings would only go upto 85hz, and no amount of xorg.conf editing would work either. So, fair enough I thought; tried to play some music. Ahh, very tiny problem, no Creative X-Fi support at all! No sound = no Linux I'm afraid
Which is incredibly frustrating. The last time I went for a serious attempt to move to Linux I couldn't access the internet because of driver issues with my modem or something similar. It seems every time I give it a go, something new on my machine thwarts my efforts by not working under Linux:(
Here in the UK I actually got an advert from PC World taken off air due to this. The advert showed an image of a progress bar in internet explorer going really fast whilst the voice talked about "faster internet" due to this new faster intel chip. 1 complaint later, (and several months) I got a letter back saying that the complaint was upheld. Thats my little bit done to help protect the average joe. \o/
I loved that part too; the problem when watching this scene is that at the time my text ring tone was that EXACT victory theme. Cue much searching around for my mobile to check the messages, and much confusion when there were no new messages.
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The early years of the internet were plagued with issues on how Flash was used: long Flash intro's to websites, and Flash menu's that would take ages to animate each and every time you clicked on it to name but a couple. But it was also plagued with a vast number of file formats fighting to be the internet streaming app of choice; Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime etc. Some of which were on some platforms but not others; all of which sucked up resources just to play a video on a website. Flash solved this online video problem; a single method for which to deliver streaming media content. A single app that was super easy to install for even the most casual of users. The success of YouTube meant Flash has it's lifeline, and became useful (for me). It's not the perfect solution, and moving into HTML 5 era it will become redundant once more; but it did fill a much needed gap.
What Chrome does well is hide the version number, and not trumpet it about as an important thing. IE and Firefox have jumping up and down shouting the version number out loud attitude. The problem for Firefox is it's trying to copy Chrome's rapid release of versions numbers, but in advertising the version numbers it has created confusion and uncertainty over if upgrading will break anything.
Living is an achievement
Well, I'd much more prefer a known cap than something billed as "unlimited" (small print: we can chuck you off whenever we feel like it). Was searching around for a cheap web host recently for my website, and I purposely chose that any site that even mentioned the word "unlimited" would be crossed off my list. I'd rather be restricted but know what my restrictions are than be promised total freedom with a big foot linger overhead ready to stamp me out at any moment.
The caps given here however are totally unreasonable, and don't account for modern internet usage. Why not do 10gig / 25gig / 50gig / 100gig usage plans that all cost different amounts, but you pay for the usage plan that applys to you for that month. Only use 6 gig one month, you pay the lowest amount that month. Use 56gigs and you pay the highest amount that month.
Bandwidth costs money, I see nothing wrong with having to pay more for my usage than some granny checking their e-mail.
rope, rubber ducky, clamp
I too very much enjoyed The Longest Journey, but the puzzle that required those 3 items was NOT one of the "really really really good puzzles"
I did the exact same thing - though it was because the "Golf" cartridge refused to work. The damn Nintendo sign when loading would be corrupted; cue lots of blowing into the cartridge, and anger with headbutt when it STILL didn't work :'(
That isn't going to attract new users to Linux! Asking them to replace expensive (but well known branded) hardware because it doesn't work. If Linux cost money I wouldn't be trying it. Needing to get new hardware that works for Linux is effectively giving the Operating System a cost.
I know giant strides have been made (and are being made with the recent AMD/ATI announcement); but unfortunately I still seem to have the back luck in the hardware I have
A couple of months ago I partitioned up a chunk of my hard-drive and installed Ubuntu with the full intention of it becoming my primary operating system; pre - orange box the only game I played was known to work via Wine. So I go ahead and install it: but hit a brick wall on 2 things. The first, no matter how much I tried I could not get my monitor refresh rate to 100hz. The nvidia settings would only go upto 85hz, and no amount of xorg.conf editing would work either. So, fair enough I thought; tried to play some music. Ahh, very tiny problem, no Creative X-Fi support at all! No sound = no Linux I'm afraid
:(
Which is incredibly frustrating. The last time I went for a serious attempt to move to Linux I couldn't access the internet because of driver issues with my modem or something similar. It seems every time I give it a go, something new on my machine thwarts my efforts by not working under Linux
Here in the UK I actually got an advert from PC World taken off air due to this. The advert showed an image of a progress bar in internet explorer going really fast whilst the voice talked about "faster internet" due to this new faster intel chip. 1 complaint later, (and several months) I got a letter back saying that the complaint was upheld. Thats my little bit done to help protect the average joe. \o/
I loved that part too; the problem when watching this scene is that at the time my text ring tone was that EXACT victory theme. Cue much searching around for my mobile to check the messages, and much confusion when there were no new messages.
Only RECENTLY? What rock have you been living under for the past 5+ years?