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If kids are really that eager to emulate the most base ways of disposing of their fellow humans, then I recommend they all enlist and get themselves to Iraq to be shut and burned. Have FUN !!!
There are sufficient great options out there - JPEG(2000, TGA) and PNG have already been mentioned. I think Microsoft's new proprietary format is only aimed at controlling the market... not at advancing technology or convenience.
Microsoft not only tried to replace MP3s but PDFs and Java. The latter two attempts have quite miserably failed. In the audio section, they've created a good deal of division and disturbance. Many corporate audio providers do use Windows media formats. However, as long as this content is accessible for all platform the problem is one of poor choice rather than actual exclusion. This new attack on the format front may not prove that harmless.
Nah, they're not going to merge. They're just merging some of their services. So they're really converging their services. Funny, Bill Gates talks about it, Apple, Google and Yahoo deliver.
Spymac 3 celebrates its 3rd anniversary in just a week. I feel, and I believe that many others would agree, that Spymac 3 was and still remains their best web site to date.
Spymac 3 was the golden age of the site, I think. It's hard to top perfection, I give them that.
Still, all things must pass.
Frankly, this post seems rather nonsensical. Firstly, it's impossible to top perfection, except in advertising slang. Perfection is, per definitionem untoppable. Secondly, you seem to suggest that something "perfect", needs to pass. That doesn't make sense either. If there was something like 'a perfect website', why would it have 'to pass' ??? Surely, earthly perfection has to pass because on earth all things are transitory. However, the revamp of Spymac isn't owed to the perishability of the former site. It's caused by human volition. However, things perfect don't have to pass by human volition. A perfect match needs never pass due to human design, but only due to nature's course. And then there is perfection not bound by earthly fetters, divine, transcendent. Such perfection needs not pass in eternity. So what's your point, really ? SpM 3 was perfect but it had to end ? Nonsense, utter nonsense.
From the pictures I've seen, I'm underwhelmed. Spymac offers a lot. Email services that are decent, forums like others, only worse. Galleries like others, only worse. Chat like others, only worse. And a few other things... only worse. It's a mish-mash, a concoction of things half-done. Some stuff has potential. There are some good ideas. But instead of working towards excellence, they start working on a new house when the other's still without roof. That's when ppl start to complain about getting rained on - if you'll allow the metaphor. Sure, on a construction site, you can build a number of buildings simultaneously. When, however, you want ppl to move in... you'd better put a roof on top of it. That's what Spymac is to me... no topping, no finish. Skeletal services with mouldy walls... except the email service which is the only one I still use. To be fair... the galleries might be unique in their scope, I'm not sure. However, they're cumbersome to search and browse, IMHO.
Yes, it has occured to me too, more than once, that the Beeps have a (certainly not disinterested) leaning towards M$. But then, heck, the Queen loves Microsoft or at least Bill Gates. All that when Apple's marketshare in the UK is going up... it is, isn't it ?
Studying Classical Civilisation at Swansea University.
Salve Yann! Libenter te accipimus. Ehem, ergo civilisationes classicas perscrutaris. Ego quoque his rebus valde intersum. Permultum gaudeo, ut tandem aliquando aliquocum latine loqui possim. Certe latine intellegere et scribere scis... fortasse etiam graece ? An Romanis an Graecis magis operam das ? Aut ambis tantundem ? Et mihi placet verba nova invenire... spero te multa nobis ad videndum scipturum.
That was one of the things I was thinking; the American flasg in the sea of tranquility should be there... I'm not outrageously sceptic, but these things, convenient lost tapes dont half make you wander
Yeah... if the flag isn't up there, I wonder what kind of excuse they'll come up with. "It was blown away" or "the Russians were there too and stole it" or "it was eaten by some, hitherto unknown, lunar sand worm" or even just "I want to believe"
Looks like the guys over at YouTube are overwhelmingly using Macs. Only one guy seems to be stuck with a PC laptop... however, he's got a remedy for his woes right on the desktop .
See here: http://blackboardforum.com/you-tube-mac-lovers.php.
Yeah, so... Sam scooped me up at Spymac back in May, I think. Haven't had much time to participate here (or there for that matter) recently really, but I think an introduction is in order. Mostly I'd just like to say chapeau to Sam et al. for their great work on iVirtua. You've done well, lads
As for myself, I live in Germany and I'm teaching linguistics and oriental languages at Munster University. I'm not terribly much into games (video ones that is) but as far as computers go, I'm a fervent advocate of the Apple platform. And yes... I'm still waiting for that check from Mr. Jobs for all I've done to sell him more Macs...
Anyways, you all seem to be a jolly bunch here and I'm glad to be a part of iVirtua.
The original major rip-off was done by M$ though. Apple had just developed their GUI with the Desktop metaphore ("inspired" by Xerox, sure) and M$ blatanly copied them, even though explicitely assuring Apple (Steve Jobs) not to use certain features. After that, it was still M$ that would do most of the copying. Can't think of a concrete example of Apple actually coying M$ right now ... but if they did, they took a feature and vastly improved it.
Hasn't been long, I watched a documentary on this on Arte (French/German TV channel). They had lots of interviews with both sceptics and NASA 'sure we went' guys. Interestingly, even one of the guys who was advocating the view that the US went to the moon, in the end, said: "Well, once OWL is ready, we shall see". OWL is the "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope" planned by the ESO in Chile http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/. So, unfortunately, it will still take some time (2016-2017) but then you should be able to actually see the US flag on the moon, as well as other remainders of the Apollo missions.
I wonder though, if existing telescope, like the VLT ones (very large ones) aren't sufficient for that already ?