zhwang

I was at a high school that laid down a zero-tolerance policy against bullying.

In practice, zero-tolerance turned into a blanket "we don't want to put up with any disruptions" policy.

Provoking an outburst out of a target meant consequences for the victim that could be as bad or worse than the aggressor's.

Well. Suddenly I'm hit by memories of childhood days thinking FrontPage was the best thing ever... and maybe was it Nvu before or after that? (Who remembers Nvu of all things?) And Java applets taken from a book just to have fancy rollover buttons, the obligatory tables-everywhere, soon enough the rise of Flickr, with the following trends of vowel dropping and glossy images everywhere with Trebuchet MS in hand, or maybe using Flash text replacement, and soon enough we're here.

How things change. Here's to another ten years.

If you do a hard refresh it should be fixed. And there's always the option of filtering it `live.com##div.c_htr` :)

I'm not surprised at all. If I recall correctly, there was a link posted a while back about someone breaking some condition in the Google TOS, and thus being locked out of their Google Account, and therefore all their email, documents, and so on.

And that's why I'm trying to make sure I don't become too dependent on any one "cloud" ecosystem.

But while your Macbook's battery is not dead (which I would hopefully presume is for most of the time you're using it), the magnetic connector is quite useful to have. It's got both great form and function. At least, until you come to the unfortunate side effect you've mentioned.

If this is correct, then this matters much, much more than the sensationalism surrounding browsers on WoA being unable to run as desktop apps.

The entire focus of WoA is pretty much Metro-style apps, with Office on the desktop as something on the aside, so why would it matter that another browser can't place itself into the desktop? But if other browsers are actually going to be disadvantaged backend-wise, then that's something to worry about.

Incivility isn't just happening in relation to comments; I'm seeing thoughtful (or somewhat naive, but not inflammatory and certainly not with intent to mislead) comments downvoted on a somewhat regular basis now, simply because they may be wrong, or because many others don't agree with them.

I think it's more of Google practically being ingrained into people's heads as the way to get somewhere on the net. Time and time again I've seen people with MSN or Bing as their homepage, and they'll just search for "google".

Yes, I completely agree. But perhaps you could be smiling, at a nice sunny location. The human element would be there. That's not a "prison mug shot". Plenty of the photos on the site are like that.

But if you're trying to say "Look, you're going to put all these people out of work if this thing passes", i.e. you're pointing out the human element of what the bill could cause, what is an average, uninformed person ("the world", as the website says) going to think when they see a bunch of people making ridiculous poses?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4cbpmNsM1r8635ko1_250.jp...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4es2F2II1r8635ko1_250.jp...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw45rnSi8N1r8635ko1_250.jp...

I very much doubt they'd emphasise.

And it takes nothing more than the mainstream media selectively ignoring the majority to make the whole industry look like asshats.

I'm scrolling down and I find people making funny poses and trying to look cool.

If you're trying to make a political message clear, is this how you want to represent yourself?

But it's also because Google has been making use of its massive amount of ad space to push Chrome, and on top of that taken out ads in actual physical locations too.

Not yet, in fact I haven't heard much on the subject for a while now. Currently, a few of our major ISPs have agreed to a voluntary Interpol blacklist, but that's about it currently. And it seems to be working for its designated purpose well. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/10/19/telstras-filter-has-block...

That icon resembles something from the Adobe suite, and I don't think that's a particularly good idea. It also doesn't make a good first impression.

On a more general note, the situation with menu bars and toolbars on Windows sure is atrocious. Ever since Microsoft's embracement of the ribbon interface for what seems like everything in the world, menu bars and toolbars sure have lacked a lot of love.

And using them, no matter whether it's the native or .NET/Office 2003 (ugh) style, sure make for some not-particularly-nice-on-the-eye interfaces. And I do mean most of the Windows ecosystem in general, not just this app.

Well actually, the N9's been promoted a bit around Australia, as far as I can see. I've been seeing ads for it on public transport, both in buses and at major train stations.

Makes me wonder why they'd be bothering with throwing these advertising dollars around if the N9 ecosystem is pretty much doomed anyway.

I've been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview for a while now as the primary OS on my laptop, and I've been primarily working on the desktop view (well, given that there's essentially not many Metro apps available).

Once I got used to the Start screen I've found it okay to use. I had initial concerns that the constant transition away might be jarring but turns out it's a non-issue. I've also found that the Start menu search in Windows 7 was quite slow, and that in W8 it's actually responsive!

Have you given the new interface a chance?

Firefox 5+ supports CSS3 animations and transforms with the -moz prefix. A quick replace all in pulse.css gets the animation working fine.

Nope. Straight from Gruber himself: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/14/for-realsies

And this is why kudos must be given to Microsoft for not making the distinction between "Developer Preview" and "Beta" more noticeable. Wasn't one of the reasons behind Vista's huge flop being that in the betas, driver support was incredibly lacklustre?

It's not a direct parallel, but this and the fact that companies like Google have completely upturned the definition of "beta", or well, pre-releases in general, seems to show how people come to their final judgement very easily.

I suppose that could be why Apple doesn't release things until they're well and truly ready for the limelight.

Well... maybe not - http://www.istartedsomething.com/20110915/windows-store-to-p...

Then again, a lot of people think the 30% is worth it when compared to implementing your own way of selling things.