- Try and educate the ignorant people in China and other (mostly far-Eastern) countries who think horns and tusks have magical powers (I am not optimistic about this, but hey, we have to try).
If people are so stupid to believe that ivory will cure them of whatever, why go to all the effort to sell them actual ivory? It doesn't sound right, nor add up. I'd hazard a guess that we're simply being told that the Ivory is going to the uneducated, but rather it's really going to the highly educated mega-rich.
For me, if you can customise the UI, then I'm happy. And since I can customise the ribbon, I'm happy to use it.
In my support role, years ago, when the ribbon was new, I used to see a lot of hate out there for the ribbon which I put down to the fact that people tend to hate change. But these days, the users that I support have figured out the ribbon, all memorised & customised, all using it daily (in applications not limited to MS) without complaint.
There's always one though... that user(s?) who carries on hating the ribbon is the same user who is too lazy to learn it. Too lazy to spend the time figuring out how to customize it. And are too busy at work for you to teach them, yet somehow find time once a fortnight to complain for hours on end about how much they hate Microsoft because of this or that... It's easier for them to blame someone else for their mistakes. But they couldn't possibly be the problem, it's the new ribbon, that's only been out 5 years now!
Like anything & everything, there are pros and cons. It's all about weighing up what's what, and at the end of the day, knowing your enemy.
My Opa hoarded after the war. His garage was so full of stuff, he even pulled nails out of old railway sleepers then put the nails in a jar, just in case he might need them one day! Upon his passing, even a garage sale didn't put a dent in his collections of nuts, bolts, nails, pop rivets, all in their own jars & labelled up. Now, in reflection on myself, I've been playing Guild Wars for ~6 years and boy have I got stuff! 9 characters with filled storage, all inventory storage slots purchased & full...But I think if I were to pass away with my children inheriting my Guild Wars account, they'd take one look at it, then go back to their Playstation 7's and their Nintendo 512's.
But in saying that, my aunties & uncles spent months reminiscing in that garage, their heart glowing with every new jar of washers opened, that jar summarizing my Opa's character, saving for a rainy day. Like physical items, I think a will & the families should have the last say of what goes to who regarding digital media.
I don't believe that I've ever bought a game for any of my Gameboys that was 99 cents. Heck, even looking at games that are a year or so old are an absolute bargain on Steam (although my laptop is not as portable as a Gameboy).
Nintendo is doomed if it continues to price its games in the traditional sense.
I keep smirking as I read through the comments of/.'ers who state that they'll consider writing their own replacement for iGoogle. Can you guys combine forces, or something, make something really worthy? Call it, iSlash, or something...
iGoogle has been a staple to my internet for quite some time. The little panda & fox wall paper used to cheer me up on shit days, kinda like the day I had when I read on iGoogle that they were nuking iGoogle.
That's exactly like me... Any idea how we're gonna get our RSS fix once iGoogle is gone? I've been looking for alternatives, but haven't had much luck.
Real men build their own PC. Why buy a desktop in store, when you can order all the parts from the cheapest vendor online, then build the computer yourself? Here in Australia, we use;
Spend a couple of hours reading reviews on motherboards, graphics cards etc, then hit up Staticice for the cheapest prices, and then wait a couple of days as all the parts arrive. This is much more fun than any in store bought experience.
You obviously don't have a bus stop outside of your house! Waiting for the bus is great when you've still got one bar of reception from your home wifi.;)
Thanks to Khan Academy, I did do that in my head in about a second!
I know division, whoa...
Khan Academy has been the absolute bees-knees for myself in MASSIVELY improving my maths skills. All the stuff I'd either forgotten from high school due to not using thus losing it, or even the stuff I never could understand, is now all making a lot of sense. Sites like Khan Academy should reaffirm hope in everyone concerned about the future of education.
Most of the games that I buy on Gog.com, GamersGate.com & Steam are between $2 - $10, I couldn't care less about trading them or selling them on. In thinking that I spend hours, if not days playing these cheap games, in comparison to a cup of coffee which costs $3.50, I've got nothing to complain about. Further to this, I still have all my games that I've collected as a kid. In that I've never sold any games in the past, why would I start worrying about doing so now?
Further to this, I've noticed lately that I'm finding myself too lazy to rummage through my box of old floppies & CD's, and instead I'm simply repurchasing my favourite games of yesteryear as a download. Total Annihilation, Constructor, Rise of the Triad... The install, the patches, the compatibility hacks are all automated, meaning that once the game's installed I don't have to fuck with it for 2 hours to get it running on Windows 7 64-bit.
TLDR; I paid the internet $10 to download and install my favourite classic games that I already own cause I'm lazy. But hey, I have games to play, I'm a busy man! I don't have time to rummage through storage boxes!
If the CSIRO had released both Myxomatosis & Calicivirus at the same time, I'm assuming we'd have much less of a rabbit problem here in OZ.
Half doing something can sometimes lead to total failure, as opposed to 100% success rate if done correctly and at full potential.
Get her a copy of Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders.. If she can beat that, she's smarter than me, or at least smarter than me when I was at 10 years old. Note, that if you catch her playing Commander Keen because Zak McKracken was too hard, she'll probably end up failing at life... You know you've definitely lost her if she gets into Duke Nukem, as DN1 leads to DN2, and DN2 leads to Duke 3D, then it's all "Shake it, baby!" and the pixelated pornography and the patch to remove the nipple tassels and the whore headshots.
Not too sure where I'm going with all of this...
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If people are so stupid to believe that ivory will cure them of whatever, why go to all the effort to sell them actual ivory? It doesn't sound right, nor add up. I'd hazard a guess that we're simply being told that the Ivory is going to the uneducated, but rather it's really going to the highly educated mega-rich.
Yummy also means extinct... Here's one example;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_tortoise
Surely you've seen this; The Gillete 3000!
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjEKt5Izwbo
For me, if you can customise the UI, then I'm happy. And since I can customise the ribbon, I'm happy to use it.
In my support role, years ago, when the ribbon was new, I used to see a lot of hate out there for the ribbon which I put down to the fact that people tend to hate change. But these days, the users that I support have figured out the ribbon, all memorised & customised, all using it daily (in applications not limited to MS) without complaint.
There's always one though... that user(s?) who carries on hating the ribbon is the same user who is too lazy to learn it. Too lazy to spend the time figuring out how to customize it. And are too busy at work for you to teach them, yet somehow find time once a fortnight to complain for hours on end about how much they hate Microsoft because of this or that... It's easier for them to blame someone else for their mistakes. But they couldn't possibly be the problem, it's the new ribbon, that's only been out 5 years now!
Like anything & everything, there are pros and cons. It's all about weighing up what's what, and at the end of the day, knowing your enemy.
Glass of water from a lead pipe, with a chaser shot of mercury to cure your ails?
Technology doesn't feed the population. Oil & Phosphate do. Technology just leverages those resources out of the ground, and once they're gone...
How many "Sydney Harbours" is that? Which then translates to how many Olympic sized swimming pools?
My Opa hoarded after the war. His garage was so full of stuff, he even pulled nails out of old railway sleepers then put the nails in a jar, just in case he might need them one day! Upon his passing, even a garage sale didn't put a dent in his collections of nuts, bolts, nails, pop rivets, all in their own jars & labelled up. Now, in reflection on myself, I've been playing Guild Wars for ~6 years and boy have I got stuff! 9 characters with filled storage, all inventory storage slots purchased & full...But I think if I were to pass away with my children inheriting my Guild Wars account, they'd take one look at it, then go back to their Playstation 7's and their Nintendo 512's.
But in saying that, my aunties & uncles spent months reminiscing in that garage, their heart glowing with every new jar of washers opened, that jar summarizing my Opa's character, saving for a rainy day. Like physical items, I think a will & the families should have the last say of what goes to who regarding digital media.
I don't believe that I've ever bought a game for any of my Gameboys that was 99 cents. Heck, even looking at games that are a year or so old are an absolute bargain on Steam (although my laptop is not as portable as a Gameboy).
Nintendo is doomed if it continues to price its games in the traditional sense.
Don't say that... I've just started using it as a temporary measure until I find something that fits the groove that iGoogle is leaving!
I keep smirking as I read through the comments of /.'ers who state that they'll consider writing their own replacement for iGoogle. Can you guys combine forces, or something, make something really worthy? Call it, iSlash, or something...
Me... +1
iGoogle has been a staple to my internet for quite some time. The little panda & fox wall paper used to cheer me up on shit days, kinda like the day I had when I read on iGoogle that they were nuking iGoogle.
That's exactly like me... Any idea how we're gonna get our RSS fix once iGoogle is gone? I've been looking for alternatives, but haven't had much luck.
I'd mod you up, but my mod points currently don't exist. :(
Real men build their own PC. Why buy a desktop in store, when you can order all the parts from the cheapest vendor online, then build the computer yourself? Here in Australia, we use;
http://www.staticice.com.au/
Spend a couple of hours reading reviews on motherboards, graphics cards etc, then hit up Staticice for the cheapest prices, and then wait a couple of days as all the parts arrive. This is much more fun than any in store bought experience.
You obviously don't have a bus stop outside of your house! Waiting for the bus is great when you've still got one bar of reception from your home wifi. ;)
They've already got you. You're clearly unhappy with the service, yet continue to subscribe...
Listen to your subconscious and give up the cable!
U-oh. I assumed 12:01am to be when the nuclear winter settles!
I wonder what the first man on Mars will drink... Coke, Pepsi, or recycled & filtered urine?
Thanks to Khan Academy, I did do that in my head in about a second!
I know division, whoa...
Khan Academy has been the absolute bees-knees for myself in MASSIVELY improving my maths skills. All the stuff I'd either forgotten from high school due to not using thus losing it, or even the stuff I never could understand, is now all making a lot of sense. Sites like Khan Academy should reaffirm hope in everyone concerned about the future of education.
Most of the games that I buy on Gog.com, GamersGate.com & Steam are between $2 - $10, I couldn't care less about trading them or selling them on. In thinking that I spend hours, if not days playing these cheap games, in comparison to a cup of coffee which costs $3.50, I've got nothing to complain about. Further to this, I still have all my games that I've collected as a kid. In that I've never sold any games in the past, why would I start worrying about doing so now?
Further to this, I've noticed lately that I'm finding myself too lazy to rummage through my box of old floppies & CD's, and instead I'm simply repurchasing my favourite games of yesteryear as a download. Total Annihilation, Constructor, Rise of the Triad... The install, the patches, the compatibility hacks are all automated, meaning that once the game's installed I don't have to fuck with it for 2 hours to get it running on Windows 7 64-bit.
TLDR;
I paid the internet $10 to download and install my favourite classic games that I already own cause I'm lazy. But hey, I have games to play, I'm a busy man! I don't have time to rummage through storage boxes!
A gradual approach can sometimes work against you; have a read about the history of rabbits in Australia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia
If the CSIRO had released both Myxomatosis & Calicivirus at the same time, I'm assuming we'd have much less of a rabbit problem here in OZ.
Half doing something can sometimes lead to total failure, as opposed to 100% success rate if done correctly and at full potential.
I recently watched an article on artificial arteries. Here's a hit from a Google search;
http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/05/nanotechnology-creates-artificial-artery-for-clinical-trials/
Interesting stuff.
I still haven't forgiven EA for Spore! If only Spore's DRM had prevented me from playing that horrid title!
Get her a copy of Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders.. If she can beat that, she's smarter than me, or at least smarter than me when I was at 10 years old. Note, that if you catch her playing Commander Keen because Zak McKracken was too hard, she'll probably end up failing at life... You know you've definitely lost her if she gets into Duke Nukem, as DN1 leads to DN2, and DN2 leads to Duke 3D, then it's all "Shake it, baby!" and the pixelated pornography and the patch to remove the nipple tassels and the whore headshots. Not too sure where I'm going with all of this...