The next most likely option is that IDS will be replaced as Conservative leader in the near future, after a successor with a fighting chance of winning an election steps forward.
Thats almost certain. Who to replace him though? Euro friendly Ken Clark? Not a chance. Micheal "face like slapped ham" Portillo, Oliver "I'd rather beg on the streets than send my kids to the local comprehensive" Letwin?
Labour just lost one of their safest seats to a Lib Dem, mostly (according to exit polls) because Tony Blair took us to war and enough people cared to vote against the party
Next election is atleast 2 years away (3 atmost) in which time feelings about the war will have settled and many people will have forgotten. I beleive though that Labour will win, but with a significantly reduced majority - mostly because the Torys havn't a chance of repairing their situation within that time. Blair won't last out the third term however.
I'd wager a hell of a lot of money that neither Bush nor Blair will get another term in office.
Yeah right, Blair is almost guaranteed another term. The other options are: Ian Duncan Smith, or IDS - In Deep Shit (Conservative) who is the "self styled quiet man of politics" (read: boring and dull), and Charles Kennedy (Lib Dems) who hasn't got a hope (although he seems like a nice guy).
Mine was a commadore Vic 20. Its two years older than I am. I still have it infact and it works just as good as the day it was purchased. Even the tape drive and modem for it still work perfectly.
There was a game on the Amiga called ST Bash... a space invaders type game with Atari logos for aliens. IIRC it had a sample from Queens 'Another One Bites the Dust' as the title music.
The C5 for example had a very horrible driving position, I had a go in one once and began to hurt my back. Yeah, but you did goto the Sinclair massage parlour, didn't you?
but how does a 'do it yourself' barcode scanning work ? Is that just for finding out what the price is on something, or are you saying that place actually lets you scan your own groceries and just pay the money at the end ?
A lot of supermarkets in the UK have a handheld barcode scanner which you use to scan items as you put them in your trolly. When you get the the checkout, you hand the scanner over and your recipt is printed and you pay the bill. You may - randomly - be "rescanned", where everything in your trolly (or sometimes just part of it) is scanned.
To use the self scan you have to have the stores loyalty card. So I guess maybe they track the items you purchase, total amounts, maybe even time spent in the store.
I guess it works well as Sainsburys, Tesco, and Safeway have the system... I just wish my local supermarket (Asda) did.
Hmm. I received three emails containing SoBig and looked at them while using Evolution running on Linux. Nothing happened. It didn't propagate. Linux seems more secure to me.
char *translate() {
char *str;
int i;
i = rand() % 5;
switch( i ) {
case 0: str = "What r u wearing?"; break;
case 1: str = "Want 2 cyber?"; break;
case 2: str = "All your base are belong to us"; break;
case 3: str = "I'm a stripper"; break;
case 4: str = "Bill Gates is great:)"; break;
default: str = "lol";
}
return str; }
Can't see it working to well, babelfish has a hard enough job dealing with... generally.. well written websites. How will it handle, "how u 2 day?"?
Surprise: MS releases a computer-like console, everyone trashes it. Sony releases a computer-like console and they're the next god.
Thats probably something to do with MS taking hardware thats been around for 20 something years, fudging it a little and calling it something new. Given that the hardware is essentially the same as a desktop PC I don't see any reason why a XBox shouldn't be compatable with PC games... and vice-versa.
Now with Sony, they've developed new hardware sold it as a console and are now expanding it.
But, not the/. response isn't really all that suprising.
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The next most likely option is that IDS will be replaced as Conservative leader in the near future, after a successor with a fighting chance of winning an election steps forward.
Thats almost certain. Who to replace him though? Euro friendly Ken Clark? Not a chance. Micheal "face like slapped ham" Portillo, Oliver "I'd rather beg on the streets than send my kids to the local comprehensive" Letwin?
Labour just lost one of their safest seats to a Lib Dem, mostly (according to exit polls) because Tony Blair took us to war and enough people cared to vote against the party
Next election is atleast 2 years away (3 atmost) in which time feelings about the war will have settled and many people will have forgotten. I beleive though that Labour will win, but with a significantly reduced majority - mostly because the Torys havn't a chance of repairing their situation within that time.
Blair won't last out the third term however.
I'd wager a hell of a lot of money that neither Bush nor Blair will get another term in office.
Yeah right, Blair is almost guaranteed another term. The other options are: Ian Duncan Smith, or IDS - In Deep Shit (Conservative) who is the "self styled quiet man of politics" (read: boring and dull), and Charles Kennedy (Lib Dems) who hasn't got a hope (although he seems like a nice guy).
It'd take a whole load of apathy to remove Blair.
Mine was a commadore Vic 20. Its two years older than I am. I still have it infact and it works just as good as the day it was purchased. Even the tape drive and modem for it still work perfectly.
Not using it to post on slashdot though?
Why not?
I'm always putting HHG quotes in programs I write (as easter eggs)
SCO to sue MS for anti-competitive behaviour in the litigation market?
It's not like he told a joke that was going to make us burst our sides laughing
:)
How very true
My pr0n my precious precious prOn!
Paedophiles will love it.
Watch kids all day. Hay maybe the cops could use it and track IPs?
The Genuine People Personality software is patented by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, so i'd be careful that they don't sue :)
Don't you mean Sirius Cybernetics cOrporation?
There was a game on the Amiga called ST Bash... a space invaders type game with Atari logos for aliens. IIRC it had a sample from Queens 'Another One Bites the Dust' as the title music.
;-)
Atari scum
The C5 for example had a very horrible driving position, I had a go in one once and began to hurt my back.
Yeah, but you did goto the Sinclair massage parlour, didn't you?
Kneejerk /. forth-order: OOOOOooowwwwww me knee. I'm getting to old for this :(
A lot of supermarkets in the UK have a handheld barcode scanner which you use to scan items as you put them in your trolly. When you get the the checkout, you hand the scanner over and your recipt is printed and you pay the bill. You may - randomly - be "rescanned", where everything in your trolly (or sometimes just part of it) is scanned.
To use the self scan you have to have the stores loyalty card. So I guess maybe they track the items you purchase, total amounts, maybe even time spent in the store.
I guess it works well as Sainsburys, Tesco, and Safeway have the system... I just wish my local supermarket (Asda) did.
That's security through obscurity though...
Hmm well an Amiga + VideoToaster could certainly do a fair bit with ntsc, don't know about 1280x1024 though.
How will it handle, "how u 2 day?"?
Isn't that technically a data (de)compression issue, rather than a translation issue?
What will that become though?
how you to day?
how you two day?
how you too day?
Heres the code!
Can't see it working to well, babelfish has a hard enough job dealing with... generally.. well written websites. How will it handle, "how u 2 day?"?
(Sorry for the bad code... its been a while...)
I wonder if they'll have the same track record as the US with regard to mars missions?
I checked Windows Update today on a lark
Are you using an update of the Avian Carrier standard? Or is there simply a lack of pidgeons in your area?
If its a new standard, can we see some benchmakrs, and comparisons with the Avain system. Also does it support IPv6?
Thanks
And your willing to take MS to court over this are you??
Yeah, I thought so.
I never liked Loser. I wonder why...
He was better at it than you?
Nah, wasn't that 'love, sweet love'?
You'll get plenty of that in your porn ;-)
fuck@you.com must be pretty pissed off by now too.
Noo, thats not fair you're using the SwordMasters insults!
Surprise: MS releases a computer-like console, everyone trashes it. Sony releases a computer-like console and they're the next god.
/. response isn't really all that suprising.
Thats probably something to do with MS taking hardware thats been around for 20 something years, fudging it a little and calling it something new. Given that the hardware is essentially the same as a desktop PC I don't see any reason why a XBox shouldn't be compatable with PC games... and vice-versa.
Now with Sony, they've developed new hardware sold it as a console and are now expanding it.
But, not the