I actually had three different ones. Each had slightly different problems, but by the third I just gave up and waited out the contract.
I loved my OG Droid for approximately the first 6 months of our relationship. Around the 6 month mark, things started to go to hell. It would randomly decide that, no, that call isn't important and I don't need to ring or notify you that you missed it. Also, some text messages it would decide were also not at all important and would dispose of them similarly (by which I mean not get them at all). Couple this with other issues and I couldn't wait to replace the thing.
It now sits, covered in dust, used only occasionally as a second alarm clock. The OG Droid killed my appreciation for Android. I will say, however, that I always appreciated the complete lack of Moto-bs that is foisted on newer versions.
The SuperBowl already takes forever to watch.
I am always dissapointed by the lack of German audio on most American movies, but there certainly are some. Most of the Harry Potter blu-rays have German audio as a choice (though not all, I am really not sure why), so I always watch them in German. You can also find quite a few German movies in the states (then just turn subtitles off). More the classics, though--Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, M (great movie--fritz lang), Metropolis, Nosferatu, Ehe von Maria Braun (horrible movie), Das Boot, etc. And, as said above, there are some German movies on Netflix--I just watch Die Welle recently from streaming.
I was just wondering the same thing--I am definitely a compulsive leg-jiggler.
Indeed. Next up, we need an article about "How to get your friends to look their best when you attempt to take good photos of them." It is amazingly hard to get candid pictures of people. Take the lens cap off of a camera and everyone turns into deer and your camera into a pair of super bright headlights.
But I like my sleep sleep covered in frothy ire!
I too have dark brown eyes and still photic sneeze. I used to wonder if it also had something to do with squinting, as I would generally find myself sneezing after squinting my eyes at the sun, but that doesn't seem very probable.
I have had plenty of people that simply didn't believe that the sun makes me sneeze.
Aha! I was too close. Now I know to stay out of the 2.5-3 foot range of all witches and wizards.
Tried this like 5 times now (in fullscreen) and his head stays quite firmly attached to his body... Must being doing it wrong. Where is my head supposed to be positioned?
I am the same way with my 360 at this point. I turn it on, walk to my kitchen to grab a drink, and talk my way to whatever I feel like doing. At this point, the 360 is probably used more for netflix streaming than games... don't even turn on a controller half the time (why waste batteries when I can just tell my xbox what to do?)
I thought it would wear off after a bit, but it is honestly extremely convenient being able to control it with voice--mostly for the help in multitasking. And multitasking is precisely what it sounds like ME3 is going to be using it for. I really hope this is implemented well.
And risk the horrible squeak-screech noise inherent in all interactions with styrofoam? I think I might rather lose a screw. IKEA furniture is meant to be built without the proper number of screws or wooden pegs, anyway.
I would say that, at least right now, there isn't really... Especially with the resolution issue that ColHapablap points out.
Ultrawidescreen certainly does look pretty though. I saw one at IFA Berlin a couple years ago and was definitely impressed. Doubt that I would have been impressed if they had been playing regular tv on it though.
From the headline, I was initially expecting a video of someone setting fire to a giant pile of saltines. Ritz would have also been acceptable.
This makes more sense.
Me too. Have to love them both, though. Got to see one up close and flying around for the first time after being drilled out from the ice and rebuilt. Was pretty great. [en.wikipedia.org]
Always strikes me how huge the planes are compared to the tiny pilot--you don't really get the sense of scale without seeing them in person.
I would have to agree with you. Sure, according to the article, doing so may make me a troll, but I don't really believe it does.
Based on the description of "troll" in the article, any and all comments are posted by trolls. If I disagree with an article (and comment about how much I disagree), I am trolling the people who agree with the article. If I agree with the article (and comment to tell people that I agree), then I am trolling people that disagree with the article. If I say anything else, it can be described as expressing an opinion (even if that opinion is "random gibberish would be funny here, haha lolz gmawenoaijentoX!1!").
In the end it is just an argument of semantics. I think part of the point made is a poignant one--that "bad" or "mean" people very often don't see their actions as such--but "troll" ceases to be a useful descriptor when it simply means "anyone with an opinion on the internet." (However close to the truth that may be). If that becomes the definition for a troll, then we will simply have to make up another word for "people who are asshats on the internet." (Which is closer to what I would say the actual meaning is). It is a question of tone and being polite vs. rude.
I'll go back to my cave now, before the sun comes up and turns me back into the stuff from which I was made.
[lifehacker.com]
Each time Lifehacker does this, the browsers seem to switch places. I know Chrome has been a bit of a memory hog at points in the past, but that was due to it treating each tab individually (allowing more control over separate tabs). I am rather sad to see it dropping the rank.
Each browser has its good and bad points. Between (fully updated) versions of firefox, chrome, and IE9, there is far less difference than there used to be. My complaint with IE9 is lack of HTML5 and CSS3 support (yes it does support it somewhat, but not to the extent that other browsers do).
I don't use and never suggest people use IE9, because it doesn't have as many of the features that Chrome and Firefox do (and, as a web dev, I actually am as much concerned with CSS3 being supported as HTML5), but it is still vastly better to develop for than IE6, 7, or 8.
Also, not that the stats are necessarily incorrect, but: [w3fools.com]
As others said above, there are still things missing from IE9 in terms of support. It also is pretty lacking in the add-ons/plug-ins communities that Firefox and Chrome have. But there are things missing in Chrome and Firefox as well. IE9 is still missing quite a few CSS3 components--but it is alright.
And it isn't just 6 that gets hate. IE7 and 8 are fully deserving of hate as well, being quite annoying to throw in fixes for... but not quite as bad as IE6.
I am a web developer and I would say that, as a whole, a large amount of the hate stems from us. IE9 is actually considerably (very very very VERY considerably) better from a development point of view than any previous version of internet explorer, but the hate still remains.
The big problem is simply that IE6, 7, and 8 simply did not support things that other browsers did/do. So, when I create a website, I write it in (now) HTML5 and use CSS3, then go back and make sure it still works in IE 7 and 8. Because IE7 and 8 (not that many people even think about 6 in development anymore) simply don't display things the same way sometimes. Thankfully there are fixes for pretty much all issues, but it is still a pain.
Chrome and Firefox are also generally (at least as far as I know) "safer" browsers than IE--specifically IE 7 and 8.
The biggest problem, though, is simply the fact that old versions of IE just won't die. Chrome updates itself without the user even knowing, and Firefox (I don't use it often, so I don't know the update process exactly) also keeps itself pretty well up to date. IE, however, works a bit differently. So you end up with lots of people using IE 7 and 8 even though 9 is out, much much much better and free. Also, Windows XP "isn't compatible" (IIRC) with IE9, so all XP users are capped at IE8.
There is also some hate still around about the whole monopoly thing, with IE shipping with windows.
Supporting IE7 and 8 = more development time (generally).
