+1
The worst thing about the Ribbon is that half the time it seems like there's no logic what-so-ever in where items are placed in it, and even worse you can't customize it in any meaningful way.
A good UI should be intuititive to use and allow you to find a feature quickly if you know what it is. In comparison, Google/Help-docs is often the only way to find a newly hidden item in the MS Ribbon that was once easily found in the menus . . .
Exactly my thought.
Some tablets and ebook readers (ie: Nook) include SIM cards to provide data access, but those are specifically set to allow data connections only and nothing else. I find it odd that they couldn't do the same for traffic lights, unless such features don't exist in South African cell networks which are in all likelihood more advanced than the cell networks here . . .
It depends on the context.
Online ads can be beneficial when related to your search terms.
Commercials on broadcast television can occasionally be informative (ie: finding out what new shows are coming out). To be fair though, I've got MythTV and have been routinely skipping commercials for years. Every now and then though, I do let the commercials play, or on occasion even repeat them. That's not to say I'm watching the commercials, just that repeating a commercial break can be productive background sound while working on something else, before getting back to the show (assuming the show itself isn't pure background noise in its own right).
So, while I can see some scenarios where watching/repeating/flagging commercials might make sense, I can't think of any possible use for this service (as described in the summary).
Funny you say that. I just discovered a few days ago that my old university email account just stopped working.
It's been set to forward all messages to gmail since freshman year of college, so I only noticed it was dead after I realized I haven't received an email from facebook in months...
To clarify:
- you are free to get a development kit and create any game you want with it.
- you may even be free to distribute said game in a limited context, but without a MS certificate it will only be playable on development and modded systems.
- If said game was developed with the official MS SDK, the license of that software may expressly prohibit you from distributing products without obtaining a seperate license. The legality of those EULAs are always questionable, but if the game was developed using reverse-engineered tools and libraries (ala Wii homebrew) there are no such restrictions.
- No mainstream retailer will distribute any title rated AO. That's not to say all stores would be opposed
- this is the way game consoles have been (in some form or another) for as long as the industry has existed, and will remain this way until, at a minimum, a time when there is no distinction between PC and game console.
So in other words, the effective legality of selling AO games on any game console comes down to the legality of modding a system to allow homebrew content. It's been ruled that this is legal for phones, but the case for game consoles is less clear (as previously discussed on
Disclaimer: IANAL
The same thing happened to my M$ hotmail account earlier this year. I don't recall what their inactivity timeout was, but it made no sense that it was even triggered given that email is also linked to my active and *paid* M$ Xbox Live account. Supposedly they sent an inactivity warning email first, but of course the secondary email address is one that I use even less often . . .
Inactivity timeouts for some services make sense, but deleting entire email accounts should not be taken as lightly as some companies think they should. Of course, if Yahoo decided to outright delete my account with them that's been inactive for literally years, that I would understand. A few months though
In other words, they want to build the fabled city of Atlantis.
Except without
- the ability to safely sink below the ocean and rise up again at will. For example, to submerge beneath passing tropical storms.
- the ability to travel the seven seas to travel and explore [ok, my idea, not part of the fable, unless you consider below]
- the ability to take off and fly between star systems and/or galaxies [the Stargate variety]
Of course, should tragedy strike and it really does sink (assuming its not designed to do so), then it really would fit the story of the real ancient city of Atlantis (presumably an island that was hit by an earthquake and sank below the ocean) that inspired said fables.
Joking aside, this is a good idea for the future. Particularly for Japan, which suffers from a shortage of stable land, and whose people are already used to commuting between islands. Furthermore, if they can truly make it self-sufficient, then it would serve as a great model to learn how to build future Lunar,Martian,etc. colonies.
Actually, that is an excerpt from TFA. It's still an inflammatory opinion to be in a news article, but in this case the fault is the original article and not the
Not true. There are plenty of people that view certain (ie:headless servers, embedded machines, etc) Linux/Unix systems as a pure shell with no GUI.
Google Docs may not be, but GMail certainly has (at least partial) Exchange support - that's the best method of email sync for old WM6 phone (Disclaimer: My next phone will be Android-based).
The answer is obvious. Dr. Who used his Sonic Screwdriver to modify the phone so that this previously unknown companion of his could talk to her family back in his own time. The odd appearance of the phone was the result of the Doctor's failed attempt to disguise it...
Exactly my first thoughts.
Unfortunately, after not reading TFA (this is
The modern version of the technology is still interesting and worth a watch (there's a video, in addition to the article) - http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/18/old-trick-enhances-modern-3d-video-teleconferencing/
"The ordinance prohibits wireless equipment within 1,500 feet of homes, schools, day care centers, and houses of worship, unless the company can prove absolute need."
Note the last part of that sentence from the summary. In essence, it seems to imply that their just requiring special building permits approved on a case-by-case basis for any new cell tower built in a potentially concerning place. That sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
At the very least, if the process for requesting permits for new towers becomes more cumbersome, perhaps the providers will look more closely at re-using/sharing existing towers in more elaborate ways. If not, we'll have cell towers on every block sooner or later (which isn't good for anybody).
90-95% of the time that's true, but alzheimer's isn't always just an old timers disease. It's called early-onset Alzeimer's disease
Agreed. I did a similar thing with both my Dad and Cousin's computers, switching both to Ubuntu almost two years ago now. I'll add that neither are near me, and I'm physically down there maybe once a year.
In all that time, I've had all of two complaints. One was from my cousin who needed some silly windows-only Sharepoint-like site from her school - solution, I foresaw that and just told her to pay attention when her computer turns on and switch back into Windows for that task. (It's an old machine, so VM is out of the question).
The other was when "my email inbox disappeared" because he somehow changed his homepage. That issue is clearly OS-agnostic.
"But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?"
