When you have to walk several miles to school in the rain with nothing more than a banana or a taro leaf to cover you, Who's idea was it to use a bannana as an umbrella?
What *really* pisses me off about Virgin is that we've been paying for 4mbps for about two years now (Originally with NTL) and in the beginning it was all good. Since Virgin took over however (about a year ago now), due to throttling I never seem to get above 2mbps for more than about 30 mins a day. Additionally they have now decided to upgrade everyone on 4mbps to 8mbps for free. Obviously so that they can put "UP TO 8MBPS ON OUR LOWEST PACKAGE" all over their marketing. I on the other hand would much rather be stuck at 4mbps but actually be able to get full use out of my connection, 8mbps is going to be no advantage to me if I just end up getting throttled twice as fast. But fuck em, I move at the end of next month and there is no chance they are having me back as a customer at my new place. I'd rather fork out the £150 odd to get a BT phone line in my new home than be stuck with their sorry "service" again.
As a relatively young-un here, I highly recommend the Disney Aladdin Activity Center, it's got quite a few memory, logic and spelling minigames within it. It's probably available on abandonware sites now and it's got quite a few interesting educational games with variable difficulty levels. Sit your kid down with the movie, which I virtually guarentee they'll love, and then put this game on for them. Ok the graphics aren't amazing any more but at the age group targeted I doubt that will matter too much.
You may have had a point right up until you used DOOM as an example... It's 15 years old for christ's sake, so damn straight it should run on everything, it even runs on my mp3 player, but you can't exactly claim it's the pinnacle of graphics at this point in time can you? Besides, even DOOM needed a comparatively "fast" computer for the time. Maybe it's time to realise that either you should stick to games from pre-2000 or splash out on a upgrade.
"DivX followed up Tuesday night's earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference. JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster coyly probed Kevin Hell about whether or not we were about to see DivX support on the Xbox 360. The question seemed to catch Hell off guard, and while his initial reaction was enthusiasm, there was something about his tone that suggested that Coster might be onto something.
Here is the exchange verbatim, but in order to appreciate the awkwardness of the exchange, you should really listen to the quote at the 24 minute mark of the presentation and make your own decision as to whether or not you hear a sense of urgency in Hell's response.
Coster - "Just a minor point here, but there was a recent Microsoft (MSFT) conference where I believe their media extender now incorporates the DivX codec on it, is that correct? Can you confirm that and does that mean we're soon going to see Xboxes with DivX on them?
Hell - "Yes! that, uh, we're in discussions with Microsoft on that at this point in time, so I can't go into any great detail on that. Um that is not a certified, that is not a certified or licensed product at this time."
At that point DivX CFO Dan Halvorson jumped in and quickly changed the subject."
From Deeko.com
You mean Carotene, which can lead to a yellowing of the skin, it is not just found in carrots, but also many other vegetables. Unfortunately Carotene gets converted into Vitamin A, too much of which is indeed toxic, so I don't recommend you try this...
[quote]While a number of countries wanting to internationalize Internet control simply want to have more say over policies such as creating domain names in languages other than English[/quote]
Erm... I think you mean they want to have the ability to create domain names using characters outside of the limited subset of the US-ASCII character set.
2) What was the Army going to do if they didn't? Suddenly save the plane to avoid any lawsuits? Did you not read the sentence directly after the one you've quoted?
They were actually unwitting participants in an experiment: the plane was not crippled at all. There was never any intention to crash the aircraft, it was a experiment to see how the stress of impending death affected the soldiers' ability to fill out a form... I'm not sure when such results would actually be useful however...
It may be a type of Hypoglycaemia. I suffer from reactive hypoglycaemia and I find it helps to completely avoid high sugar foods and drinks unless I'm planning on exercising or prepared to crash out for a while afterwards. One can of coke is usually enough to knock me out for an hour or so if I don't do any physical activity soon after drinking it. I find avoiding caffine also helps.
Errr seriously, too much detail... Also what have you got against sitting? Even with an erection you just sit, point it downwards and blast away. None of these pissing on the seat troubles, and I know, I live with 3 female housemates.
The currency is pounds sterling, but most places will accept euro's, at least in London.
Eh? What? Where? Having lived here for 20 odd years now I've never run into a place which accepts euros bar a few tourist shops in London and obviously currency exchange places... Though not to disagree with you entirely, I think of myself as a bit of a baconneseur and I absolutely agree with you, there shouldn't be anything *but* pork in bacon. Leeds has the best I've tried. Oh, also we have a *lot* of stunners (in the summer at least).
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Do some basic research before you act like a prick in future
What *really* pisses me off about Virgin is that we've been paying for 4mbps for about two years now (Originally with NTL) and in the beginning it was all good.
Since Virgin took over however (about a year ago now), due to throttling I never seem to get above 2mbps for more than about 30 mins a day. Additionally they have now decided to upgrade everyone on 4mbps to 8mbps for free. Obviously so that they can put "UP TO 8MBPS ON OUR LOWEST PACKAGE" all over their marketing.
I on the other hand would much rather be stuck at 4mbps but actually be able to get full use out of my connection, 8mbps is going to be no advantage to me if I just end up getting throttled twice as fast.
But fuck em, I move at the end of next month and there is no chance they are having me back as a customer at my new place. I'd rather fork out the £150 odd to get a BT phone line in my new home than be stuck with their sorry "service" again.
As a relatively young-un here, I highly recommend the Disney Aladdin Activity Center, it's got quite a few memory, logic and spelling minigames within it. It's probably available on abandonware sites now and it's got quite a few interesting educational games with variable difficulty levels. Sit your kid down with the movie, which I virtually guarentee they'll love, and then put this game on for them. Ok the graphics aren't amazing any more but at the age group targeted I doubt that will matter too much.
I do! I even tried using it again for nostalgia's sake last year but it seems that sections of the memory have become corrupted.
You may have had a point right up until you used DOOM as an example... It's 15 years old for christ's sake, so damn straight it should run on everything, it even runs on my mp3 player, but you can't exactly claim it's the pinnacle of graphics at this point in time can you? Besides, even DOOM needed a comparatively "fast" computer for the time. Maybe it's time to realise that either you should stick to games from pre-2000 or splash out on a upgrade.
How many people actually hot swap graphics cards anyway?
For all those people saying "know what?" I assume the parent meant known. As in, we would still like an answer. C'mon, was it that hard?
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I suggest that you look at different species of snails and their eyes if you want to imagine how our eyes evolved to the state that they are in now.
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Cancel or Allow?"DivX followed up Tuesday night's earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference. JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster coyly probed Kevin Hell about whether or not we were about to see DivX support on the Xbox 360. The question seemed to catch Hell off guard, and while his initial reaction was enthusiasm, there was something about his tone that suggested that Coster might be onto something. Here is the exchange verbatim, but in order to appreciate the awkwardness of the exchange, you should really listen to the quote at the 24 minute mark of the presentation and make your own decision as to whether or not you hear a sense of urgency in Hell's response. Coster - "Just a minor point here, but there was a recent Microsoft (MSFT) conference where I believe their media extender now incorporates the DivX codec on it, is that correct? Can you confirm that and does that mean we're soon going to see Xboxes with DivX on them? Hell - "Yes! that, uh, we're in discussions with Microsoft on that at this point in time, so I can't go into any great detail on that. Um that is not a certified, that is not a certified or licensed product at this time." At that point DivX CFO Dan Halvorson jumped in and quickly changed the subject." From Deeko.com
You mean Carotene, which can lead to a yellowing of the skin, it is not just found in carrots, but also many other vegetables.
Unfortunately Carotene gets converted into Vitamin A, too much of which is indeed toxic, so I don't recommend you try this...
[quote]While a number of countries wanting to internationalize Internet control simply want to have more say over policies such as creating domain names in languages other than English[/quote]
Erm... I think you mean they want to have the ability to create domain names using characters outside of the limited subset of the US-ASCII character set.
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I'm not sure when such results would actually be useful however...
and a girlfriend...
It may be a type of Hypoglycaemia. I suffer from reactive hypoglycaemia and I find it helps to completely avoid high sugar foods and drinks unless I'm planning on exercising or prepared to crash out for a while afterwards. One can of coke is usually enough to knock me out for an hour or so if I don't do any physical activity soon after drinking it. I find avoiding caffine also helps.
You might like this then. Move over iPhone!
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Sorry, thats a lie: See here an average of around 5.7
Not a native English speaker... Or perhaps he is speaking proper English. We call gas Petrol over here in the UK.
Errr seriously, too much detail... Also what have you got against sitting? Even with an erection you just sit, point it downwards and blast away. None of these pissing on the seat troubles, and I know, I live with 3 female housemates.
Eh? What? Where? Having lived here for 20 odd years now I've never run into a place which accepts euros bar a few tourist shops in London and obviously currency exchange places... Though not to disagree with you entirely, I think of myself as a bit of a baconneseur and I absolutely agree with you, there shouldn't be anything *but* pork in bacon. Leeds has the best I've tried. Oh, also we have a *lot* of stunners (in the summer at least).
Um, yeah, notice how those ads arent hosted on the page itself. It's not their bandwidth which is being used.