DilPerson: "Gee, Boss, we're an obscure vendor of plumbing piping with the same name phonetically as the devastatingly popular video site. One of these days we're gonna get slammed. Can I have $1000 to set up a couple backup servers?"
Pointy: "Nah. They're looking for videos, not plumbing, right?"
This is actually a fascinating subject. I am not a fan of mashing heavy pixels... there's a minimum physical size below which I just can't get any work done.
So a larger screen can support the same approximate pixel size... with more pixels. Thus a 19" screen wins over a 15" screen any day of the week.
I'd hate to see 1280 pixels across on a 15" screen. **Shudder**
I have to disagree and say that I absolutely notice the holistic gains going from a 15" to a 19" screen size. I couldn't stand a Vertical screen anyway, because much of what I do is comparison of documents side by side.
But I also think the benefits fail above the 20" screen range. Like Cake and Pizza, there is such as thing as overkill. (Not to mention prohibitive costs!)
I'm pretty sure I've seen companies get nasty when people develop cross products to borrow someone else's famous name.
Is the percentage of use of "spam" applied to the unrelated topic of emails *more* than people referring to Spam the meat. If true, I can definitely see how this could weaken a brand image.
There was a case where a Portable Toilet maker tried to make a "Here's Johnny" line of toilets. They were successfully shot down by Johnny Carson's legal team.
I think the usage could have been blocked if the company was (were?) fierce enough at the very dawn of the graphical WWW about 1993. In 2006 it's too late.
I checked The Article, and it didn't put any limits on *type* of games, so here we go!
Set 1: NON-Computer games:
1. Chess. Forget Topalov's Manager. This is the OldSchool game that's changing a little, but still top of my heap.
2. Magic the Gathering. This brilliant invention of Richard Garfield might be nearing the end of it's run, but isn't this post the place to relive glory days? The new Time Spiral game just came out, *reprinting* some Legendary cards (pun intended), the ultimate Comfort experience.
3. Spider class Solitaire games. (You know, the one Micro$oft copied.) Two decks, stack in alternating colors until you can build vertically up in suit from the posted Aces above the Tableau. Head of Spider transfers permitted. (YES, Microsoft, you DO get to deal into the empty hole you worked so hard to create. If I wanted Touch-Move, I'd play Chess, see #1.)
Set 2: Computer Games
1. Mortal Kombat III, in arcades where it's down to a quarter.
2. Ataxx. Now included in MAME. Mushman, here's lookin' at you.
3. Ants. A much smaller second cousin to Magic, built as a software language demo.
4. L.O.R.D. Now implemented on the ICC (Internet Chess Club) as Print, and you don't have to wait until tomorrow after your 25 actions are done.
5. Rotating OldSchool game of the week.
Honorable Mention: When I was 13, I got my start on computers making maze games for the Commodore 128. Poke 53280,0 OldTimer. Maybe you were there.
The earlier Wiki articles on Confirmation Bias are right on the money. I will further emphasize that the user is complaining because of the "excess Steely Dan", which indicates it is a *weaker selection* for his playlist.
If he had liked Slayer, he should have trumped how pleased "his iPod liked him, and gave him his daily dose of Slayer".
What Steve Jobs picked up on, is that true randomness includes clumps. Seeds aside, there simply occur odd mini-patterns in a true random event.
What the user *wants* is "Something Different*. Therefore the best algorithms are ones that *exclude* that same album, and if desired, that same artist, and then shuffle the *remaining* choices.
I have never been a fan of shuffle. I prefer to take some care and design a playlist properly so the order it comes out in is solid, and if I made a mistake and included a song that wears out too easily... just nuke it. It only takes a few button clicks to start in the *second half* of the playlist too.
There are cost saving companies, and there are image conscious companies.
A major technology development is often the marker for an otherwise undefined hardware upgrade policy. Certain types of managers like the "let's get the best for our people" approach, own up to a big dent in the bank account, and then spend... $2500 on a laptop for their execs.
Wide screens are "value marketed" - they are priced at what the sales opportunity will bear, and an image conscious manager will declare "I don't want the tiny Freakin screen!" Add on a high end Core 2, Vista Ultimate, Office Pro, and the high end service contract.... and it DOES become $2500 in Software/Hardware.
Add in a estimated miniumum of $500-$1000 of configuration labor... I already have one report from a beta user that some of the expected legacy software compatibility glitches are occurring.
Plus, isn't this the company that is known for some incredible goofs in its public release versions?
**At a investigative hearing**
"So, the Life support software was running on Windows Vista." "Yes, Sir." "And an outside attacker shut down the whole hospital for two hours because of a microsoft measure meant to stop pirated sales." "Yes, Sir." "But your copy is legal?" "Yes. Here is the purchase receipt, here is the authentication sticker, here is the shrinkwrapped CD." "So how did this happen?" "Because the external attacker tricked the machine into believing it was stolen".
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"It's easy to tell a computer what to do. The hard part of programming is figuring out what the hell the computer should be doing."
My supervisor thinks it's easy to know what a computer should be doing. Then when it emerges that scores of little details have to be correctly linked, it drives him crazy.
I just this summer engaged in two support sessions with Microsoft, which I have to day - brace yourselves - went very well. The price for a home user session *per incident* was something between $35 and $60 (memory fails me, either proves my point.)
One time I didn't like how QuickTime partially drive-by installs itself, and I had made a few registry mistakes trying to remove it. The other time I was innocently using Norton WinDoctor to clean up the registry and it also made some surprising mistakes of its own.
Using a remote-service process, the Microsoft reps spent a total of *seven* hours fixing stuff. Since all standard "IT Guy" rates are MINUMUM $35 an hour, clearly I got "more than my money's worth".
It was nice for me as an end-user, and it was "as little as 7 hours" because I knew a modest amount about computers, enough to help the Rep along the way. A poor helpless NeoPhyte could have burned two more hours.
Clearly, this support was subsidized somewhere else in the Microsoft Empire.
This is the post I shall reply to, one that correctly notices that Copyright, *as it now is*, is not the same Copyright from 1790's.
Copyright now essentially means "you will never see a work created after 1925 enter the public domain, ever." There was a rumor that the prior copyright extension act of 1998 was "the Disney copyright law", because their entire empire risked crumbling to dust in 10 years as their most famous pantheon of characters entered public domain.
Before the digital age, Libraries and "SchoolGround/Work" networks were Good Things, because Exposure is still the key problem for new creative artists. Copying a tape took the full hour necessary to play it, so except for some kid who spent all of October 1984 copying Michael Jackson for every one of his friends, the exposure far outweighed the "purchase damage". Yes, RIAA and friends wailed against copyable tapes, but the force of the public slammed that one through.
Libraries were considered noble. You got to borrow X object for 3 weeks, and I for one so heavily played the daylights out of that rented tape that I had no need to buy it if i had the entire album memorized. "Oops, it's been 6 months, let's rent it again". What new DRM has a THREE WEEK period extendible up to about 5 times??
DRM as currently envisioned of course unduly limits the Fair Use as noted elsewhere. But what these discussions NEED to be about is changing the REVENUE model entirely. Some huge percentage of artists simply wither under the weight of obscurity... even with free promotions, simply being discovered takes time. So accelerated exposure, via the p2p nets,... should be a good thing. I personally like the "distribute the studio tracks as loss leaders, and make it up in concerts" approach. I'd like someone to find a way to make that model work.
The only revenue calculations we should worry about is "the Artist". Someone take a standard "solid" contract, calculate the ACTUAL $ they expect to receive, and begin brainstorming how to meet that figure in other ways. I simply don't know the magic target figure to go after. Not counting a superstar, how much does a "lower B-Midlist" artist make in real dollars per album before tours? I'm thinking about all kinds of alternative funding approaches these days.
Something feels seriously off kilter in these posts. Some remarks:
1. Gender Matters. The risk percentages for Boys vs. Girls are so profound as to force two sets of rules. Quit saying "Children" and pick a gender. After all, it's a portion of the "tender boys" who are beating up other kids on the playground.
2. Parents are local rulers. Kids can only hope they got stuck with semi-rational parents. Kids explore the difference between "X Random thing that has to be right just because Parent Said So" and "Statistical percent of real danger for actually doing this activity". Go on. Talk to Strangers. Mrs. Schnitzelheifer is dying to tell you about her garden.
3. Between 14 and 18 kids go through over 1400 days of nature telling them they are clearly ready for *something*. Better to have a Compromise Introduction to the facts of biology that reduces the pressure cooker factor. "Ooh, Johnny saw a picture of a Naked Woman!! Think of the Children!"
4. I agree that young girls have to be 100 times more careful, but giving *Metropolitan Area and Gender* is better than trying to hide as a cypher. Gender shows up in the first 5 paragraphs anyway, and city slips out the minute people go anywhere near any type of news or sports. "Don't give out your home address" is a better rule, which adults would do well to recall.
5. I had "3/4 unrestricted access" to computers. I believe my parents felt that anything which would later become a serious threat would show up in some kind of suspicious sign. (Only a consummate actor of a kid could blindside you, at which point you're outclassed anyway.) My net career is passing the 15+ year mark, and I know I've been called Naive, but during the "vulnerable" years no predator caught my interest field as being smart enough to bother talking to.
6. Suddenly at Age18 "all bets are off", and there's no substantive difference between 17 and 18 anyway, so it's better to give the kid a "practice year" to blow off steam, but still have enough parental authority to bail them out of the consequences of the law.
I have been a fan of high tech watches for 5 years now. An Austrian company finally perfected the 2nd generation Mp3 watch a couple years back.
I saw some articles that Cell watches are possible in Japan, but not yet possible here, because the more efficient communications protocol in Japan allows a small enough device size in Japan. The US/Euro protocol forces devices just barely too large to make a sensible watch. Some incredible engineer might beat this flaw, but that was the State of the Times last I looked.
I happens to hate cell phones, as "a device to lose." I would jump all over a cell watch and grassroots promote the daylights out of it.
Yahoo has had mail around for a long time, so I've long since ignored Google. I have also ignored yahoo's attempts to add features. I use a weblink on my page to open "regular mail" and it seems to continue working, despite reports of problems other people are contributing.
I use the Trilogy of Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Yahoo Advanced Search, so I'm a customer for life unless they make the mistake of trying to charge.
Some Movie/Book (Contact?) pointed out that the wakeup signal would have been Hitler presenting the Olympics using his new technology, back in the days when he was just a Rabbler. Let's just suppose we give them a 15 year period to figure this out. ("BlieepHHOONK, someone get an antenna, that was a signal").
That means our best shot was the 1950's, when we disposed of that "Ugly War Stuff" and settled down to a nice decade of TV. 1950 + 90 = 2040. They'll have made their minds up long before a random Euro show from 2006 shows up. Take it away, Lucille Ball.
Press Release: Dino De Laurentiis and Microsoft present Zune... the return to Arrakis!
The movie continues the dry multimedia experience that fans of the original 1984 movie came to appreciate. Spice production has resumed when another previously unknown world has been ArrakaFormed to allow reintroduction of the Wurms necessary to the process.
Tagline: It is by Zune Alone I set MS in Motion It is by the DRM that Lawsuits acquire speed, Music acquires Stain, the Stain becomes a warning. It is by Zune Alone I set MS in Motion
The Slashdot Preview word for this post is bastard.
The new one that appeared, is the Microsoft lost lawsuit that now requires you to "click to use this (Flash) control". I also still seem to get some odd results for flash in FireFox 1.5.0.6, though I haven't yet pinpointed them.
When not animated, simple gifs get the job done on pages with modest goals. Many of the free web hosts have file size limits, and uneven support for higher end web tech. Since my planned pages are "all about the info" anyway, I don't need most of that glamorous stuff, and I can now sleep in peace using nice, friendly gifs!
The preview word for this post is entrap, which the Slashcode came up with in honor of Unisys.
I happen to like dark themes. I rejoiced when they replaced the Beige Box with the Black box. I cringed when Majel Barrett started a 40 year tradition of female AI voices for fictional computers. The only reason I don't have an AlienWare PC is because some recent reviews called them on overpricing.
Vista has dark themes? Uh oh. I'd better resist! Meanwhile, the fact that 75% of Apple's products are White has been at least a small part of my decision not to buy.
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Plus, how could they not see this coming?
DilPerson: "Gee, Boss, we're an obscure vendor of plumbing piping with the same name phonetically as the devastatingly popular video site. One of these days we're gonna get slammed. Can I have $1000 to set up a couple backup servers?"
Pointy: "Nah. They're looking for videos, not plumbing, right?"
This is actually a fascinating subject. I am not a fan of mashing heavy pixels ... there's a minimum physical size below which I just can't get any work done.
... with more pixels.
So a larger screen can support the same approximate pixel size
Thus a 19" screen wins over a 15" screen any day of the week.
I'd hate to see 1280 pixels across on a 15" screen. **Shudder**
I have to disagree and say that I absolutely notice the holistic gains going from a 15" to a 19" screen size. I couldn't stand a Vertical screen anyway, because much of what I do is comparison of documents side by side.
But I also think the benefits fail above the 20" screen range. Like Cake and Pizza, there is such as thing as overkill. (Not to mention prohibitive costs!)
I'm pretty sure I've seen companies get nasty when people develop cross products to borrow someone else's famous name.
Is the percentage of use of "spam" applied to the unrelated topic of emails *more* than people referring to Spam the meat. If true, I can definitely see how this could weaken a brand image.
There was a case where a Portable Toilet maker tried to make a "Here's Johnny" line of toilets. They were successfully shot down by Johnny Carson's legal team.
I think the usage could have been blocked if the company was (were?) fierce enough at the very dawn of the graphical WWW about 1993. In 2006 it's too late.
Is this a way to get around the RIAA?
"I downloaded it off of the Alien Broadcast"
I checked The Article, and it didn't put any limits on *type* of games, so here we go!
Set 1: NON-Computer games:
1. Chess. Forget Topalov's Manager. This is the OldSchool game that's changing a little, but still top of my heap.
2. Magic the Gathering. This brilliant invention of Richard Garfield might be nearing the end of it's run, but isn't this post the place to relive glory days? The new Time Spiral game just came out, *reprinting* some Legendary cards (pun intended), the ultimate Comfort experience.
3. Spider class Solitaire games. (You know, the one Micro$oft copied.) Two decks, stack in alternating colors until you can build vertically up in suit from the posted Aces above the Tableau. Head of Spider transfers permitted. (YES, Microsoft, you DO get to deal into the empty hole you worked so hard to create. If I wanted Touch-Move, I'd play Chess, see #1.)
Set 2: Computer Games
1. Mortal Kombat III, in arcades where it's down to a quarter.
2. Ataxx. Now included in MAME. Mushman, here's lookin' at you.
3. Ants. A much smaller second cousin to Magic, built as a software language demo.
4. L.O.R.D. Now implemented on the ICC (Internet Chess Club) as Print, and you don't have to wait until tomorrow after your 25 actions are done.
5. Rotating OldSchool game of the week.
Honorable Mention: When I was 13, I got my start on computers making maze games for the Commodore 128. Poke 53280,0 OldTimer. Maybe you were there.
The earlier Wiki articles on Confirmation Bias are right on the money. I will further emphasize that the user is complaining because of the "excess Steely Dan", which indicates it is a *weaker selection* for his playlist.
If he had liked Slayer, he should have trumped how pleased "his iPod liked him, and gave him his daily dose of Slayer".
What Steve Jobs picked up on, is that true randomness includes clumps. Seeds aside, there simply occur odd mini-patterns in a true random event.
What the user *wants* is "Something Different*. Therefore the best algorithms are ones that *exclude* that same album, and if desired, that same artist, and then shuffle the *remaining* choices.
I have never been a fan of shuffle. I prefer to take some care and design a playlist properly so the order it comes out in is solid, and if I made a mistake and included a song that wears out too easily... just nuke it. It only takes a few button clicks to start in the *second half* of the playlist too.
Sure.
... Did.
Users call for support because Something That Should Not Happen
When I get a couple of test boxes to go dive into the complex world of Linux, lots of things that Should Not Happen, will.
There are cost saving companies, and there are image conscious companies.
... $2500 on a laptop for their execs.
A major technology development is often the marker for an otherwise undefined hardware upgrade policy. Certain types of managers like the "let's get the best for our people" approach, own up to a big dent in the bank account, and then spend
Wide screens are "value marketed" - they are priced at what the sales opportunity will bear, and an image conscious manager will declare "I don't want the tiny Freakin screen!" Add on a high end Core 2, Vista Ultimate, Office Pro, and the high end service contract.... and it DOES become $2500 in Software/Hardware.
Add in a estimated miniumum of $500-$1000 of configuration labor... I already have one report from a beta user that some of the expected legacy software compatibility glitches are occurring.
I'm just as jaded as the rest of y'all, but I am *glad* that the Constitution is George-Resistant.
He's tried to slam through a couple of very dubious amendments recently, particularly on gay civil rights.
They found the missing "a" in Neil Armstrong's speech...
So they used tech to find "One Small Step for *a* man, One Giant Leap for Mankind"
Didn't Slashdot Loudly Yawn that one?
Plus, isn't this the company that is known for some incredible goofs in its public release versions?
**At a investigative hearing**
"So, the Life support software was running on Windows Vista."
"Yes, Sir."
"And an outside attacker shut down the whole hospital for two hours because of a microsoft measure meant to stop pirated sales."
"Yes, Sir."
"But your copy is legal?"
"Yes. Here is the purchase receipt, here is the authentication sticker, here is the shrinkwrapped CD."
"So how did this happen?"
"Because the external attacker tricked the machine into believing it was stolen".
"It's easy to tell a computer what to do. The hard part of programming is figuring out what the hell the computer should be doing."
My supervisor thinks it's easy to know what a computer should be doing. Then when it emerges that scores of little details have to be correctly linked, it drives him crazy.
Scott Adams is a Minor Deity.
I just this summer engaged in two support sessions with Microsoft, which I have to day - brace yourselves - went very well. The price for a home user session *per incident* was something between $35 and $60 (memory fails me, either proves my point.)
One time I didn't like how QuickTime partially drive-by installs itself, and I had made a few registry mistakes trying to remove it. The other time I was innocently using Norton WinDoctor to clean up the registry and it also made some surprising mistakes of its own.
Using a remote-service process, the Microsoft reps spent a total of *seven* hours fixing stuff. Since all standard "IT Guy" rates are MINUMUM $35 an hour, clearly I got "more than my money's worth".
It was nice for me as an end-user, and it was "as little as 7 hours" because I knew a modest amount about computers, enough to help the Rep along the way. A poor helpless NeoPhyte could have burned two more hours.
Clearly, this support was subsidized somewhere else in the Microsoft Empire.
"Is it really okay to subvert ' lifeforms ' like this?"
After all, they are trumpeting speed, but won't the legendary instability of the biological world come into view?
"Ooh, look. My memory mutated. It wasn't intelligently designed."
Will the NCSA get involved because of the infringement on Mosaic?
This is the post I shall reply to, one that correctly notices that Copyright, *as it now is*, is not the same Copyright from 1790's.
... should be a good thing. I personally like the "distribute the studio tracks as loss leaders, and make it up in concerts" approach. I'd like someone to find a way to make that model work.
Copyright now essentially means "you will never see a work created after 1925 enter the public domain, ever." There was a rumor that the prior copyright extension act of 1998 was "the Disney copyright law", because their entire empire risked crumbling to dust in 10 years as their most famous pantheon of characters entered public domain.
Before the digital age, Libraries and "SchoolGround/Work" networks were Good Things, because Exposure is still the key problem for new creative artists. Copying a tape took the full hour necessary to play it, so except for some kid who spent all of October 1984 copying Michael Jackson for every one of his friends, the exposure far outweighed the "purchase damage". Yes, RIAA and friends wailed against copyable tapes, but the force of the public slammed that one through.
Libraries were considered noble. You got to borrow X object for 3 weeks, and I for one so heavily played the daylights out of that rented tape that I had no need to buy it if i had the entire album memorized. "Oops, it's been 6 months, let's rent it again". What new DRM has a THREE WEEK period extendible up to about 5 times??
DRM as currently envisioned of course unduly limits the Fair Use as noted elsewhere. But what these discussions NEED to be about is changing the REVENUE model entirely. Some huge percentage of artists simply wither under the weight of obscurity... even with free promotions, simply being discovered takes time. So accelerated exposure, via the p2p nets,
The only revenue calculations we should worry about is "the Artist". Someone take a standard "solid" contract, calculate the ACTUAL $ they expect to receive, and begin brainstorming how to meet that figure in other ways. I simply don't know the magic target figure to go after. Not counting a superstar, how much does a "lower B-Midlist" artist make in real dollars per album before tours? I'm thinking about all kinds of alternative funding approaches these days.
The Preview Word for this comment is motive.
--TaoPhoenix
Something feels seriously off kilter in these posts. Some remarks:
1. Gender Matters. The risk percentages for Boys vs. Girls are so profound as to force two sets of rules. Quit saying "Children" and pick a gender. After all, it's a portion of the "tender boys" who are beating up other kids on the playground.
2. Parents are local rulers. Kids can only hope they got stuck with semi-rational parents. Kids explore the difference between "X Random thing that has to be right just because Parent Said So" and "Statistical percent of real danger for actually doing this activity". Go on. Talk to Strangers. Mrs. Schnitzelheifer is dying to tell you about her garden.
3. Between 14 and 18 kids go through over 1400 days of nature telling them they are clearly ready for *something*. Better to have a Compromise Introduction to the facts of biology that reduces the pressure cooker factor. "Ooh, Johnny saw a picture of a Naked Woman!! Think of the Children!"
4. I agree that young girls have to be 100 times more careful, but giving *Metropolitan Area and Gender* is better than trying to hide as a cypher. Gender shows up in the first 5 paragraphs anyway, and city slips out the minute people go anywhere near any type of news or sports. "Don't give out your home address" is a better rule, which adults would do well to recall.
5. I had "3/4 unrestricted access" to computers. I believe my parents felt that anything which would later become a serious threat would show up in some kind of suspicious sign. (Only a consummate actor of a kid could blindside you, at which point you're outclassed anyway.) My net career is passing the 15+ year mark, and I know I've been called Naive, but during the "vulnerable" years no predator caught my interest field as being smart enough to bother talking to.
6. Suddenly at Age18 "all bets are off", and there's no substantive difference between 17 and 18 anyway, so it's better to give the kid a "practice year" to blow off steam, but still have enough parental authority to bail them out of the consequences of the law.
I have been a fan of high tech watches for 5 years now. An Austrian company finally perfected the 2nd generation Mp3 watch a couple years back.
I saw some articles that Cell watches are possible in Japan, but not yet possible here, because the more efficient communications protocol in Japan allows a small enough device size in Japan. The US/Euro protocol forces devices just barely too large to make a sensible watch. Some incredible engineer might beat this flaw, but that was the State of the Times last I looked.
I happens to hate cell phones, as "a device to lose." I would jump all over a cell watch and grassroots promote the daylights out of it.
Actually, Jan 2001 was both the last vestiges of the bubble AND before the WTC Attack.
So scroll AHEAD 3 months, and use Jan *2002* vs Jan 2007.
Yahoo has had mail around for a long time, so I've long since ignored Google. I have also ignored yahoo's attempts to add features. I use a weblink on my page to open "regular mail" and it seems to continue working, despite reports of problems other people are contributing.
I use the Trilogy of Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Yahoo Advanced Search, so I'm a customer for life unless they make the mistake of trying to charge.
Some Movie/Book (Contact?) pointed out that the wakeup signal would have been Hitler presenting the Olympics using his new technology, back in the days when he was just a Rabbler. Let's just suppose we give them a 15 year period to figure this out. ("BlieepHHOONK, someone get an antenna, that was a signal").
That means our best shot was the 1950's, when we disposed of that "Ugly War Stuff" and settled down to a nice decade of TV. 1950 + 90 = 2040. They'll have made their minds up long before a random Euro show from 2006 shows up. Take it away, Lucille Ball.
Press Release: Dino De Laurentiis and Microsoft present Zune
The movie continues the dry multimedia experience that fans of the original 1984 movie came to appreciate. Spice production has resumed when another previously unknown world has been ArrakaFormed to allow reintroduction of the Wurms necessary to the process.
Tagline:
It is by Zune Alone I set MS in Motion
It is by the DRM that Lawsuits acquire speed, Music acquires Stain, the Stain becomes a warning.
It is by Zune Alone I set MS in Motion
The Slashdot Preview word for this post is bastard.
The new one that appeared, is the Microsoft lost lawsuit that now requires you to "click to use this (Flash) control". I also still seem to get some odd results for flash in FireFox 1.5.0.6, though I haven't yet pinpointed them.
When not animated, simple gifs get the job done on pages with modest goals. Many of the free web hosts have file size limits, and uneven support for higher end web tech. Since my planned pages are "all about the info" anyway, I don't need most of that glamorous stuff, and I can now sleep in peace using nice, friendly gifs!
The preview word for this post is entrap, which the Slashcode came up with in honor of Unisys.
I happen to like dark themes. I rejoiced when they replaced the Beige Box with the Black box. I cringed when Majel Barrett started a 40 year tradition of female AI voices for fictional computers. The only reason I don't have an AlienWare PC is because some recent reviews called them on overpricing.
Vista has dark themes? Uh oh. I'd better resist! Meanwhile, the fact that 75% of Apple's products are White has been at least a small part of my decision not to buy.
Not posting as an AC...