The Dutch?
Now, I may not be a super spy myself, but I wouldn't have figured the dutch would have been the obvious buyers for purloined MI6 information.
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>I could do with an option for creating rollover buttons in iWeb.
I've never used iWeb, but I think we can be pretty sure that anything that relies on :hover behaviour, such as rollover buttons, isn't likely to be on Apple's target list seeing as they see the future as touchscreen devices, such as the iPad, where :hover doesn't exist as such.
> just to fix a problem I can likely avoid with some common sense (don't open PDFs).
Sadly it's not that easy. Safari on iOS 4.01 and earlier (and probably 4.0.2 as well) opens PDF files automatically without prompting so if they are, for example, embedded in a hidden IFRAME on a web page you're visiting then basically as soon as you visit the website you're buggered.
So you really should upgrade to 4.0.2, unless you want to jailbreak your phone/pad, or you want to stay with OS v3.x, in which case you should jailbreak the phone and install PDF Loading Warner from Cydia, which prevents PDFs being loaded without your approval.
If you have applications that have lots of private data (for example, loading up Goodreader with a ton of PDF files), then it can take hours and hours to do a backup each and every time you sync with iTunes. Seems ITunes doesn't understand the concept of differential backups and tries to transfer everything, every time. You would have thought that when they produced a 64Gb device they might have considered there could be a problem with that.
Simple solution, find some alternative software to sync your music, contacts, etc with your iPad and don't use iTunes.
Oh. wait...
Guess you'll just have to keep skipping the backup.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a big problem here?
Is this any different to the endless television adverts they put out? They spend a fortune on TV adverts, £2 million on one advert alone, at least with pay-per-click they are actually spending their money on targetted advertising.
Of course, I'd be curious to know how many of these phrases they are paying for are phrases where their sites are already top of the organic listings.
Jolyon
It happens in all fields, I imagine.
In the world of minerals, for example, mineral species names traditionally (with few exceptions) end in ITE (eg Fluorite, Calcite, Pyrite, etc.) A few hundred new minerals are found each year and are named after various things, places, important people etc.
At one point not long ago, a new mineral was found and they wanted to name it after John S. White, a former curator at the Smithsonian in the US. So some bright spark decided that they could just call it White.
Apparently the formal process went quite far, only stumbling when they got to the part of the physical description where it stated "Color: White is beige"
It's now called Whiteite
... was program a dungeon game into it.
"You are in a twisty cave of passages. Press 1 to go north, press 2 to go east, press 3 to go west, press # to kill the grue."
The idea was that any sales calls for me could get transferred into the dungeon. If they work their way out, it dials to my extension and I'd talk to them.
Sadly I never got time to get more than the first room done, so it was never used! Don't use phone systems any more (anyone want an old ISDN phone exchange?)
Hydrogen is by far the best gas to use in airships, yes it can catch fire and burn, but it's half the density of helium, and MUCH cheaper.
It's perfectly reasonable for a safe hydrogen airship to be built with modern technology. Yeah it could go bang if someone deliberately shot something into it, but if you're looking for something to transport cargo primarily rather than people then it wouldn't be too hard to design some kind of crew escape module (assuming that these things would need a crew at all).
So. if i'm left handed I hold the phone in the right hand and type with my left, I assume? (Because I'm right handed and hold the phone in my left hand and type with my right).
It seems to me that it's actually easier to keep the lower left-hand side of the phone clear if you hold it in your right hand (ie if you're a lefty freak) than for normal people who hold it in the left hand and control it with their right hand.
I suspect there's a lot of deliberate whining going on rather than any serious problem. But then I don't have an iphone 4 yet.
Does anyone else remember the "drive music" 'demo' for the Amiga computer? it made the stepper motor in the 3.5" drive do weird things to make strange tones sort of approximating music.
It was allegedly responsible for many destroyed disk drives, although this may well be mostly rumor as I never actually met anyone who had their computer stuffed via this disk. But then we were all too scared to let it play for more than a second or two.
Jolyon
I know these are complex subjects and the author may not grasp it, but I'll try and explain.
height is up and down.
width is left and right.
When sealevel rises the important factor is height. Anything that isn't high enough goes underwater. A side effect of this is the island width appears to shrink horizontally, because more of the island is going under water.
RIght. Simple so far.
So... The island grows because of sediment and coral growth. Great! Wonderful. That extends the island width, but not the height. Because sediments and corals both accumulate underwater. Eventually stretching the island out a little bit horizontally, but not in one bit adding to the height. In fact, where does that sediment come from? From the high bits of the islands eroding, so they're getting just that little bit shorter.
Consequently, it makes absolutely fuck all difference how WIDE the island is to prevent sea-level from inundating it.
that one of the museums manages to get the whole deal - fuel tank and solid-rocket boosters (suitably cleaned out, of course!), and display it as it was ready for launch, rather than just sat on the ground. It takes off as a rocket and lands as an aircraft, I'd rather it was displayed as the former, to be honest. Of course, that would need a much bigger house :)
The israeli solution to defeat enemy snipers in the Lebanon wasn't to rely on one-shot-one-kill, but to use six-barrel gatling guns on top of armoured personnel carriers, normally designed to shoot down enemy aircraft, and blast the crap out of not only the sniper but anyone and anything that happened to be in the general vicinity.
I doubt the tech planted them - this is more likely scenario:
Tech looks for home-made pr0n on customer PC (which they invariably do)
Tech finds disturbing pics.
Tech needs excuse for how he found said disturbing pics
Tech sets one as wallpaper.
Tech says "oh my eyes!" and reports to manager.
Can you imagine how stupid they would look if their music store downloaded everything as OGG format that's completely incompatible with your ipod/MP3 player?
OGG audio lost (sorry guys), MP3 won, I can't see the outcome being any better in the Theora vs H.264 battle. MP3 won primarily because of hardware support, Theora will lose for exactly the same reason, there's NO hardware support for Theora at all, H.264 is everywhere.
The battle was lost when the HTML5 standard was drafted without specifying the formats that <VIDEO> would need to support (not that Apple and Microsoft would necessarily have implemented it).
In order for Open Source not to look stupid, and not to cause itself even more harm it needs to choose it's battles more carefully. The video format war is lost, it's going to be H.264, and unless Firefox finds some way to support it (be it with a plug-in or whatever), then it risks losing market share. The real battles ahead are against software patents in general - this is something that can (and must) be won to avoid problems such as this in the future.
Jolyon
Flash can't swim, it attracts enemy radar, it attracts sharks, it nudges people when they're trying to browse. Imagine... the fear... when you go to sleep with flash installed on your iPad and think "Oh God, when I wake up, will everyone be dead?" You can't run an operating system like that.
Here you go. US Government funded research and the results for this one particular experiment show results that show one particular aspect of climate change isn't as bad as was feared.
Is it covered up? Are the scientists being condemned by global warming jihadists? No. It's science. They did research and published the results. I'm sure they're not in fear of their jobs for publishing this and I'm sure there wasn't political pressure to make their results fit in better with the big picture.
Perhaps you shouldn't just assume there's a huge conspiracy of climate change people wanting to hide the evidence that it's all a load of crap. Maybe, just maybe, the 90+% of scientists who think we should be worried about it are actually right.
Jolyon (waiting for those thumbs-downs from the clarksontards)