Most of the older 2d games had an actual story! More effort was spent on writing a good story for the game, than was put into grafx and sound. As time has gone on, fewer and fewer games have a really engaging story. They instead rely on explosions and fast paced action to keep people's attention. Games like Kings Quest, Secret of Monkey Island, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Loom, are few and far between. There are the occasional games that have a well written story (Halo) But most are just hack and slash. Now it is all about how realistic the game looks, not how engaging the story is.
Side tabs SUCK!!!! They consume WAY TOO MUCH SPACE! Google did it with iGoogle, and was FLOODED with complaints! I stopped using iGoogle because of the side tabs! Maybe side tabs makes sense if you have 20+ tabs, but when you only have 3 or 4 that whole side is a HUGE waste of space!
I am not a huge FireFox user, but I do use it sometimes. If they totally eliminate normal tabs for side tabs, I will uninstall FireFox.
Hopefully they will consider the ribbon idea, or give users the OPTION to have side or top tabs.
As for grouping, that is the DUMBEST THING EVER!!!! That is the FIRST thing I turn off in Windows, the second being "Hide file extensions for known file types".
USB Flashdrives are inexpensive, useful, stable, and work on most computers. I have a container with 10 or so flashdrives of various sizes from 1 gig to 16 gig.
I do a lot of computer work, so I end up installing lots of software. I use a 16gig flashdrive to store the installers of software that I install often. The reason that I use a flashdrive instead of a DVD or portable HD is because a flashdrive is smaller than both, is not effected if I drop it, and most of those apps are updated regularly, so it is a pain to have to re-burn the whole disk just for 1 or 2 updates. It is also a handy way to quickly transfer files between computers. Also many DVD players have USB ports for displaying pictures, playing music or videos. They also make nice gifts. I have made digital greeting cards and put them onto a flashdrive. I have even made a digital Business card, but my name on the outside, and handed them out as Business Cards. There are soo many uses for those little devices.
However for businesses to use them, that could be a major security risk.
"For the first and only time, something that has "leaked" to the internet has been completely and utterly removed from it. You need to be quicker next time."
Ha ha ha ha ha! It is the top movie on The "Bay's" top 100 list, with over 20,000 seeders.
Once something is put out on the net, it can NEVER be truly removed. It was re-uploaded yesterday.
Sure, Adobe works, at a 33mb file size! I prefer Foxit. IT is only 3.5 mb and it reads EVERY PDF file I throw at it. Even PDF Forms with text fill in areas! http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm Plus it is faster at opening PDF files right in your browser! Adobe often freezes my browser.
You do not need a directory of PDF readers, just one good one!
That is why region codes on DVD's is wrong! If you want to import the Xmas specials, or import the seasons from another country so you can have the original audio track, than you should be able to! The money all goes to the same place anyway!
When Doctor Who first came out, Season 1, I could catch it a week later than the UK on a Canadian channel. However during Season 2 they suddenly stopped airing it. And never properly carried it after that. Then SciFi channel in the US started carrying it... But they did not air it at a normal fixed time and day. They kept jumping it around, AND were playing it out of order also!
I got fed up and started getting it off Torrent sites. I am a HUGE Doctor Who fan, and I live in the US, and I am really REALLY disappointed with how Doctor Who is being presented to the US and Canadian audiences! I have watched every episode of the classic series from Doctor #1 through Doctor #6.
If you want to get your 2 year old a coputer, get the CHEAPEST Refirb you can! The Eee PC and other "NetBooks" often cost MORE than a refurbished laptop, and have 1/3 the power and resources.
Another option is to get a computer that is not portable. Get a desktop, that way when the keyboard is full of PB&J you do not have to try to clean it, you just swap it out for another $2.00 keyboard. A desktop with LCD screen can be had for about the price of the Eee PC. And will have even more power than refurbished laptop!
The best solution... If you already have an existing laptop or desktop, get yourself an updated one, and give the old computer to the youngster. Someone at the age of 2 will not know the difference... And may even be more exited at having Dad's old computer than having a new one.
If employers want to decrease the boot up time, than either leave the machines on 24/7 or in the BIOS Schedule the power on.
However I feel that Boot Time counts as work. If you are a draftsman, you get paid as you set your desk up, tape the paper down, etc. Setup to work counts as work! Employees have no control over the computer gear, the boot up times, or anything of the like.
If they use the logic that boot time does not count as work... Than employers can then not pay you when the network goes down, when your computer stops working, or for any computer/network problem that is outside your control!
However does anyone else feel this may be payback for employees checking personal e-mail, playing games in their browser, ordering personal items online... Basically wasting time on the company dime.
I used to have a computer app that filtered my land line calls. It would receive the caller ID info, and if they were on my black list it would pickup and hangup. If they were on my white list, the computer would play a chime to let me know it was someone "important". And if they were not on either list it would do nothing.
I would love to have another app like this (The original one stopped working on Windows 98, it only worked on W95) but have additional features like requiring people not on either black or white lists to type a code on their phone to prove they are a person and have them, "Ring Through".
I loved Having a Treo as a cellphone for the 3rd party apps, I had a call filter on that. If the caller blocked their ID, Pickup and hangup with a silent ringer. (Black list people got the same treatment).
My screen may be 1440x900 but I run my browser at 1024x768. I do other stuff at the same time. And I do not need a large chunk of my screen to be dedicated to the 3 tabs I have.
I also do not like that the fonts were shrunk to make room for this tab bar on the left. I could not read ANYTHING on my screen. And I missed the "+" to open stories in my RSS feeds.
I did mess with the tabs on the side for a while, and they do more than a tab needs to do. I do not need all that crap in the tab, That is what having another page is for!
I have never seen Google soo far off the mark before. No announcement, no warning nothing! I did not even know about the Beta Test!
"they did admit that this BlueTrack is the best tracking system available today."
I take it the reviewers never used a Wacom Tablet. Granted it does not run on any surface... But it is wireless, never needs batteries, is more accurate than any mouse out there (Yes even gaming mice), And comes with a pet for graphic work as well.
If that is what the content really is... Than if the content is no longer available, or the internet is out, or if the server is down, the player should display an error message "Content not available". Instead loads of people thought they had bad disks. And if they want to have current previews... Why make it something you have to have a disk to access? Why not just have the players themselves just connect to the content?
Sometimes it is amusing to see trailers from 5 years ago.
Personally if I want to see "Previews" I go to Apple's trailer site.
This sounds like a MASSIVE Design Flaw. It is either a flaw with the BluRay standard, or with the way paramount made the BluRay disk. It should ALWAYS default to an error if the online content can't be downloaded...
However DVD's and BluRay do not NEED downloadable content. Just but the G** **MN content on the DISKS!!! Most people keep their DVD's for years! I have a few that are over 10 years old! And NOBODY is going to keep servers up and running forever just because some movies they released have online content.
That is what I do. I tell my domin to forward all e-mail to my GMAIL account. I have my GMAIL account setup to send e-mail as if it was sent from my domain. The person who receives the e-mail message has no idea I sent it with GMAIL, and I have a one stop shop where all my e-mail accounts end up.
In GMAIL check "Settings" than the "Accounts" tab. If you have more than one e-mail address forwarding to your GMAIL account than enable: "Reply from the same address the message was sent to" That way when you reply the "FROM" always matches the addy that the original message was sent "TO".
You can pick one e-mail address to be your main one that will be where you send the most e-mail from, but while in the COMPOSE menu you can always change to one of the other accounts.
BEST of all you are not totally locked into GMAIL. If you decide to use another provider, you just change some settings on your domain, and you never have to notify anybody you e-mail with!
There are self contained WiFi and Ethernet webcams (Most have a mini web server built in). That, a router and a Dynamic IP Name Service ( http://www.dyndns.org/ ) will finish off the bill. Many routers have built in support for some Dynamic IP Name Services. You set the router to forward Port 80 (Or whatever port the webcam ues) to the IP address of the webcam.
Then you just point the computer at the URL and you are seeing still images or streaming video. Most Webcams even support a password system so only those who you want to have access will.
No dedicated computer, software, or anything like that.
If he already had the e-mail address, than they should have let him keep it! If it matched his name, than they should have allowed it, as it was not a curse word but his name.
Personally at that point I probably would have went to GMail or some other free e-mail provider that did not have a curse filter and use that one. Then tell all my family, friends, e-mail contacts that my new e-mail addy was....
If the vids have text on them that display the callers name and/or phone number than it might just encourage people to not be as stupid with emergency calls.
Personally tho, I think that the caller should be sent a bill for the time that they wasted. Hit them in the pocket book! Or better yet just send out the police and arrest these people. That will tell them that pranking or mis-using emergency numbers is a bad idea.
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But people handle money all the time. And many people eat without washing their hands after handling money...
Therefore people will get more cocaine in their system by handling money (Even absorbed into the skin) than from a RedBull.
Also think about kids, they will put anything and EVERYTHING into their mouths.
There is more Cocaine on a US dollar than in 1 ltr of RedBull!
This is just plain stupidity! I mean there are FDA rules on how many rat hairs are allowed in a chocolate bar... (And no it is not none)
You will get higher off of the caffeine than the cocaine!
Most of the older 2d games had an actual story! More effort was spent on writing a good story for the game, than was put into grafx and sound.
As time has gone on, fewer and fewer games have a really engaging story. They instead rely on explosions and fast paced action to keep people's attention.
Games like Kings Quest, Secret of Monkey Island, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Loom, are few and far between. There are the occasional games that have a well written story (Halo) But most are just hack and slash.
Now it is all about how realistic the game looks, not how engaging the story is.
Side tabs SUCK!!!! They consume WAY TOO MUCH SPACE!
Google did it with iGoogle, and was FLOODED with complaints! I stopped using iGoogle because of the side tabs! Maybe side tabs makes sense if you have 20+ tabs, but when you only have 3 or 4 that whole side is a HUGE waste of space!
I am not a huge FireFox user, but I do use it sometimes. If they totally eliminate normal tabs for side tabs, I will uninstall FireFox.
Hopefully they will consider the ribbon idea, or give users the OPTION to have side or top tabs.
As for grouping, that is the DUMBEST THING EVER!!!! That is the FIRST thing I turn off in Windows, the second being "Hide file extensions for known file types".
USB Flashdrives are inexpensive, useful, stable, and work on most computers.
I have a container with 10 or so flashdrives of various sizes from 1 gig to 16 gig.
I do a lot of computer work, so I end up installing lots of software. I use a 16gig flashdrive to store the installers of software that I install often. The reason that I use a flashdrive instead of a DVD or portable HD is because a flashdrive is smaller than both, is not effected if I drop it, and most of those apps are updated regularly, so it is a pain to have to re-burn the whole disk just for 1 or 2 updates.
It is also a handy way to quickly transfer files between computers.
Also many DVD players have USB ports for displaying pictures, playing music or videos.
They also make nice gifts. I have made digital greeting cards and put them onto a flashdrive.
I have even made a digital Business card, but my name on the outside, and handed them out as Business Cards.
There are soo many uses for those little devices.
However for businesses to use them, that could be a major security risk.
"For the first and only time, something that has "leaked" to the internet has been completely and utterly removed from it. You need to be quicker next time."
Ha ha ha ha ha!
It is the top movie on The "Bay's" top 100 list, with over 20,000 seeders.
Once something is put out on the net, it can NEVER be truly removed.
It was re-uploaded yesterday.
Sure, Adobe works, at a 33mb file size!
I prefer Foxit. IT is only 3.5 mb and it reads EVERY PDF file I throw at it. Even PDF Forms with text fill in areas!
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm
Plus it is faster at opening PDF files right in your browser! Adobe often freezes my browser.
You do not need a directory of PDF readers, just one good one!
That is why region codes on DVD's is wrong! If you want to import the Xmas specials, or import the seasons from another country so you can have the original audio track, than you should be able to! The money all goes to the same place anyway!
Yes you in the UK get screwed when it comes to US shows also. You would think that they would want to capture the "global" market a little better...
I wish the BBC would release a REAL BBC channel in the US. There are many other BBC programs that I love to watch.
When Doctor Who first came out, Season 1, I could catch it a week later than the UK on a Canadian channel. However during Season 2 they suddenly stopped airing it. And never properly carried it after that. Then SciFi channel in the US started carrying it... But they did not air it at a normal fixed time and day. They kept jumping it around, AND were playing it out of order also!
I got fed up and started getting it off Torrent sites. I am a HUGE Doctor Who fan, and I live in the US, and I am really REALLY disappointed with how Doctor Who is being presented to the US and Canadian audiences! I have watched every episode of the classic series from Doctor #1 through Doctor #6.
If you want to get your 2 year old a coputer, get the CHEAPEST Refirb you can! The Eee PC and other "NetBooks" often cost MORE than a refurbished laptop, and have 1/3 the power and resources.
Another option is to get a computer that is not portable. Get a desktop, that way when the keyboard is full of PB&J you do not have to try to clean it, you just swap it out for another $2.00 keyboard. A desktop with LCD screen can be had for about the price of the Eee PC. And will have even more power than refurbished laptop!
The best solution... If you already have an existing laptop or desktop, get yourself an updated one, and give the old computer to the youngster. Someone at the age of 2 will not know the difference... And may even be more exited at having Dad's old computer than having a new one.
If employers want to decrease the boot up time, than either leave the machines on 24/7 or in the BIOS Schedule the power on.
However I feel that Boot Time counts as work. If you are a draftsman, you get paid as you set your desk up, tape the paper down, etc. Setup to work counts as work! Employees have no control over the computer gear, the boot up times, or anything of the like.
If they use the logic that boot time does not count as work... Than employers can then not pay you when the network goes down, when your computer stops working, or for any computer/network problem that is outside your control!
However does anyone else feel this may be payback for employees checking personal e-mail, playing games in their browser, ordering personal items online... Basically wasting time on the company dime.
Than software will be able to tell the Anti-Virus "I am not a virus" without the hassle of asking the computer owner what to do...
Just like how software can tell the Windows Firewall to just let them online. It kind of eliminates the whole reason for a firewall!
I used to have a computer app that filtered my land line calls. It would receive the caller ID info, and if they were on my black list it would pickup and hangup. If they were on my white list, the computer would play a chime to let me know it was someone "important". And if they were not on either list it would do nothing.
I would love to have another app like this (The original one stopped working on Windows 98, it only worked on W95) but have additional features like requiring people not on either black or white lists to type a code on their phone to prove they are a person and have them, "Ring Through".
I loved Having a Treo as a cellphone for the 3rd party apps, I had a call filter on that. If the caller blocked their ID, Pickup and hangup with a silent ringer. (Black list people got the same treatment).
No keystrokes, it auto fills PW's! And can be run from a USB flashdrive. Problem Solved.
My screen may be 1440x900 but I run my browser at 1024x768. I do other stuff at the same time. And I do not need a large chunk of my screen to be dedicated to the 3 tabs I have.
I also do not like that the fonts were shrunk to make room for this tab bar on the left. I could not read ANYTHING on my screen. And I missed the "+" to open stories in my RSS feeds.
I did mess with the tabs on the side for a while, and they do more than a tab needs to do. I do not need all that crap in the tab, That is what having another page is for!
I have never seen Google soo far off the mark before. No announcement, no warning nothing! I did not even know about the Beta Test!
"they did admit that this BlueTrack is the best tracking system available today."
I take it the reviewers never used a Wacom Tablet. Granted it does not run on any surface... But it is wireless, never needs batteries, is more accurate than any mouse out there (Yes even gaming mice), And comes with a pet for graphic work as well.
If that is what the content really is... Than if the content is no longer available, or the internet is out, or if the server is down, the player should display an error message "Content not available". Instead loads of people thought they had bad disks.
And if they want to have current previews... Why make it something you have to have a disk to access? Why not just have the players themselves just connect to the content?
Sometimes it is amusing to see trailers from 5 years ago.
Personally if I want to see "Previews" I go to Apple's trailer site.
This sounds like a MASSIVE Design Flaw. It is either a flaw with the BluRay standard, or with the way paramount made the BluRay disk. It should ALWAYS default to an error if the online content can't be downloaded...
However DVD's and BluRay do not NEED downloadable content. Just but the G** **MN content on the DISKS!!! Most people keep their DVD's for years! I have a few that are over 10 years old! And NOBODY is going to keep servers up and running forever just because some movies they released have online content.
That is what I do. I tell my domin to forward all e-mail to my GMAIL account.
I have my GMAIL account setup to send e-mail as if it was sent from my domain. The person who receives the e-mail message has no idea I sent it with GMAIL, and I have a one stop shop where all my e-mail accounts end up.
In GMAIL check "Settings" than the "Accounts" tab.
If you have more than one e-mail address forwarding to your GMAIL account than enable:
"Reply from the same address the message was sent to"
That way when you reply the "FROM" always matches the addy that the original message was sent "TO".
You can pick one e-mail address to be your main one that will be where you send the most e-mail from, but while in the COMPOSE menu you can always change to one of the other accounts.
BEST of all you are not totally locked into GMAIL. If you decide to use another provider, you just change some settings on your domain, and you never have to notify anybody you e-mail with!
There are self contained WiFi and Ethernet webcams (Most have a mini web server built in). That, a router and a Dynamic IP Name Service ( http://www.dyndns.org/ ) will finish off the bill. Many routers have built in support for some Dynamic IP Name Services. You set the router to forward Port 80 (Or whatever port the webcam ues) to the IP address of the webcam. Then you just point the computer at the URL and you are seeing still images or streaming video. Most Webcams even support a password system so only those who you want to have access will. No dedicated computer, software, or anything like that.
Personally I see no need for flash adverts. Adverts should never use flash or any scripts for this very reason.
I just used Tuner Cleaner to revive my old NES back to life...
If he already had the e-mail address, than they should have let him keep it!
If it matched his name, than they should have allowed it, as it was not a curse word but his name.
Personally at that point I probably would have went to GMail or some other free e-mail provider that did not have a curse filter and use that one. Then tell all my family, friends, e-mail contacts that my new e-mail addy was....
Then get Cable instead of DSL Internet.
If the vids have text on them that display the callers name and/or phone number than it might just encourage people to not be as stupid with emergency calls.
Personally tho, I think that the caller should be sent a bill for the time that they wasted. Hit them in the pocket book!
Or better yet just send out the police and arrest these people. That will tell them that pranking or mis-using emergency numbers is a bad idea.