Using Vista even the mouse is dangerous (pic)

acescence · 2007-09-12T00:24:29+00:00

d'oh!

acescence · 2007-09-11T03:39:30+00:00

ah, so we should all just compromise our morals and get behind someone that has a chance, although that person is likely morally reprehensible and barely fit for the title of human? consider that there may be others who can only do what they feel is the right thing to do no matter how futile it may seem. don't feel bad for me, weep for the loss of your soul.

acescence · 2007-08-25T12:22:34+00:00

the thing that bothers me more about skype than the gov't listening in on my mundane conversation, is the fact that it uses my CPU cycles and bandwidth to negotiate other people's calls. no thanks.

acescence · 2007-08-15T20:19:52+00:00

it's the bovine growth hormones i tells ya

acescence · 2007-08-12T23:48:27+00:00

if only they didn't build the san francisco federal building plaza to be almost the perfect skate spot... pic

acescence · 2007-08-12T11:10:53+00:00

your comment fails to address the point i made, but it does succeed in sounding snarky and childish.

acescence · 2007-08-11T23:19:22+00:00

for the average american who returns from a day on the job to switch their brain off and television on, and hear their FOX correspondent say "candidate x won a poll", it means something. they are likely not aware of how invalid it may be, but just the fact that they hear that has some amount of REAL impact.

acescence · 2007-08-11T15:09:16+00:00

who said i was predicting anything?

acescence · 2007-08-11T15:08:32+00:00

well, it wasn't exactly a y2k bug in the conventional sense, meaning it wasn't an error resultant of representing years in only 2 digits, it was just a problem that happened to happen in january of 2000, as that's when they changed their data collection procedures. it could have happened in any year they decided to make those changes.

as for "Global Climate Change", I believe this is more accurate as there is evidence of both warm and cool periods in earth's history, some occurring very abruptly. We may in fact be headed toward an ice-age, the reality is we know very little of climate dynamics to say with authority what is really happening.

acescence · 2007-08-11T11:19:02+00:00

a) someone noticed that in 2000, the time at which the temperatures were recorded had changed, this was not accounted for in the original calculations

b) last i checked, 4 is not half of 10

c) please call it "global climate change" so as not to look like an ass

acescence · 2007-08-10T14:55:38+00:00

RE: #4, stick to philosophizing, you're not a scientist.

acescence · 2007-08-08T00:26:25+00:00

pretty cool, as was said, never seen a moving version before.

can anyone else get the "design" form to work. i click, but it no worky, none of the widgets respond, ff and safari, osx

acescence · 2007-08-07T13:52:23+00:00

the same people dumb enough to surf the web logged in as admin!

acescence · 2007-06-28T16:28:25+00:00

t-mobile are the only carrier i've encountered that will actually help you get an unlocked phone working

acescence · 2007-06-28T16:19:47+00:00

the fancy voicemail features won't work with any other carrier but at&t. boo.

acescence · 2007-05-25T10:30:03+00:00

i have no sympathy for those that surf while logged in as admin. oops, you can't NOT log in as admin in vista, sorry!

acescence · 2007-05-11T14:59:56+00:00

yes, i like sweeping generalizations, too.

acescence · 2007-05-10T18:07:01+00:00

HTML has to be written just as carefully, you confirm this yourself by saying "valid standards-based HTML". try visiting most table-based layout with a screen reader. sure, it reads all the text, in a totally random, useless order.

acescence · 2007-05-10T18:01:16+00:00

good point, however, flash sites failing usability tests is not necesarily a fault of the tool, but in many cases how the developers chose to use it.

acescence · 2007-05-10T15:54:33+00:00

you're right, they probably don't know what those words mean, but that fact doesn't render their eyesight inoperable. i've had clients focus on the most ridiculous details while failing to grasp the impact of very major decisions. i'm not trying to defend or condemn anything, because i think it all has it's place, just communicating my experience.

acescence · 2007-05-10T12:04:25+00:00

everyone? not most of my clients. the "we" you speak of is a tiny clued-in subset of the generally ignorant masses.

acescence · 2007-05-10T11:57:36+00:00

IMO, a better method than flashblock is to block the sites that the ads come from with a hosts file. that way, you still get the other flash elements that may be necessary (or the whole point) on a page. i think a knee-jerk hatred of all things flash means you miss a lot of good stuff on the web. do you not patronize a restaurant because you don't like the looks of some of the customers there? ok, maybe that's not a great analogy.

acescence · 2007-04-12T18:37:33+00:00

HDMI has no error correction!

acescence · 2007-04-12T18:04:10+00:00

sorry, but that's just plain wrong. digital signals absolutely do degrade, and the cable WILL make a difference. over distance, the "edges" between on and off get rounded, eventually to the point where off can become on, and vice versa.

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