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Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 1) 152

"Anything that gets people to raise the awareness of what they post on sites like Facebook. I'm just waiting for the day one of my family members publicly posts their address or phone number without thinking."

And that's different to your address and phone number (including mobiles if you choose) appearing in the phone book that everyone has a copy of IN THEIR HOUSE (or available on the internet)?

I don't disagree with keeping all such info separate, but it's not really difficult for someone who wants to find out about you doing so.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2, Funny) 561

My soon-to-be wife can't get started in the morning without caffeine; she has a dependency on it. That being said, if we suddenly found ourselves low on money, she isn't going to sell our DVD player just so she can go to Starbucks.

I would! mmmm coffeee

Comment Re:nothing against flash (Score 1) 515

My problem with it is that it's hard to determine the difference between useful flash and useless flash.

Until I installed click-to-flash (best plug in EVER) I never knew how many sites use flash to display.. wait for it... HEADINGS! That's right, why use html for TEXT (or god forbid an IMAGE like a jpeg or even gif if you want to have a fancy font) when you can use FLASH? Seriously!

Comment Re:Limey (Score 4, Interesting) 302

Well said. "We may change the terms of service at any time" is a clause that lets companies get away with whatever they want.

I recently noticed, purely by accident but thankfully in time, a bait-and-switch type terms and conditions change for the Woolworths/QANTAS frequent flyer program card. When signing up for the program I checked there was no selling of data to third party sources for advertising etc. Then they changed the conditions to add just that! I immediately rang and cancelled my account (I hate being sent advertising in the mail, not to mention the disgusting waste of resources it represents). But with no actual notification of such changes, via mail, email or otherwise, (I just happened to look at their website on that day) most people would not even know and would probably be shocked to realise the change of terms to include such a bastardly clause after the fact.

Comment Re:PowerPoint makes us stupid (Score 1) 233

Is this not an instance where you should type out your presentation in the speaker notes and have those printed alongside each slide for the "take home" version? ie a report with pictures, rather than pictures of your report. That way you can still have effective slides and an effective presentation to those in attendance, and have adequate information for those who missed out. Or are you just too lazy to write the report, even though you are effectively giving it as a presentation?

Comment Re:It's not a con, it's simple optics (Score 1) 495

Good description.

It also gives me a headache because my eyes try to focus on things in the 'background' that are out of focus and my brain can't figure out why. Eye strain ensures. At least in 2D, you just focus on what's fuzzy and you know it is in the background. Perhaps that comes from years of training (watching 2D pictures) but it's enough for me.

Comment Re:Not sure about the hype (Score 1) 495

Me too. I watched a fair bit of it without the glasses as it was so much BRIGHTER in general, and this was at one of the premier IMAX cinemas in my city. The 3D added nothing to the story in the hatch locations, and since the rest was CG it made little difference to me then either.

All in all I thought the 3D was boring, and really just another annoyance in a long list for probably the worst movie I've ever seen, but that discussion is a slippery slope so I'll restrain myself :D

Comment Re:Missing the point (Score 1) 349

I'm not sure why you said I was missing the point - I totally agree with you! The warnings are more annoying and distractive than helpful. That's what I said in my other post. This thread was criticising the guy who disabled the warning because he didn't want to wear his seatbelt, which really had nothing to do with the warning except to show that it doesn't even work in the intended way (which is to make people wear their seat belts).

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