What's worse about the free bundled games is that they're packed OEM-style both on to one disc with a heap of trailler vids, and you don't even get a proper game case for that disc, just a paper+plastic sleeve!
power corrupts, but surely absolute power - that is, abs(power) (yeah, it's vb syntax, so sue me) - can only be a positive thing? how the hell does that work out?:-)
IIRC it's not that you have to "actively defend it" per se (i.e. having to go after everyone who breaches it), but more that you can't get a patent on something and then sit on it for ages until your profitable competitors get rich and then sue.
Nope, the junkyard itself is in the UK (the new series of Scrapheap Challenge is set in a *new* yard in a different location), they just ship the "creations" out to the US for the big "trial" on JYW.
Also, when they introduced Trillian Pro, they gave everyone who had previously donated >= $1 a free license to Pro for a year (I think it's a year's worth of updates, not necessarily a year of using it). Cunning ploy to get us to want to pay for it after a year, certainly, and I'm convinced already:-)
Pro adds the ability to read RSS feeds for you and pop up stuff when there's new news to be read (it alerted me to this/. entry). It also checks for emails and a few other similar nice things. Pro doesn't have IRC, but I prefer mIRC for that anyway.
I don't know about other registrars, but GoDaddy allow you to lock your domain to prevent transfers and ownership-details changes. You have to log-in to their web admin stuff and turn the lock off prior to making any account changes.
Technically pretty simple, but gives me warm fuzzies all the same.
The ASA is a regulatory body in the UK with legal powers to beat the proverbial out of anyone sending/publishing misleading or unfair adverts such as these. (they don't have authority over TV or Radio ads as there's seperate entities looking after those)
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that 45 minute figure assumes that lots of data is being thrown around across it, and that nobody's going to notice you staying in the same place near their building for that length of time, loitering and looking shifty:)
Hold it landscape, slide the screen up to reveal a keyboard, cap on one corner for booze, GPRS and initially unlimited data transfer... et voila, the fliptop:-P
I wouldn't think so - I'm an AOL UK user (see an earlier comment about the horrors of AOL being the only telco-independant unmetered service) and I still "pop up" in AOL's main hostname range and geographic traceroutes think I'm in VA.
Another issue - right now AOL is THEonly dialup ISP in the UK offering any sort of unmetered facility for users on no specific telco (as I currently am, in hall at Reading, stuck with the awfulness of the Student Connect phone system and no LAN access). Everyone else requires you have a BT phone line except for the services from the cable companies (NTL and Telewest) who have their own dialup offerings if you don't want broadband.
Even once us generic-0808 users get pushed off Unmetered and on to the new AOL30 price plan (£15.99 a month for 30 hours then 1p/min) that'll still be cheaper than "free" local-rate dialup. I'd leave AOL if there were any actual competition for my custom.
well, cosmetic surgery is usually classed as being that which alters "how you look"... *G*
(props to Roald Dahl for the original "square sweets that look round" joke)
Any chance he could fix up some of the other creeping horrors in the NexII's firmware (read over the nexiimp3 yahoogroup to get a feel for the outstanding issues) while he's at it?:-)
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grandma is protected
grandma has gone down the stairs
we are here to protect you
from the terrible secret of space
(c'mon, you know I'm right!)
correction: am I entitled to have spares of my own car keys cut in case I lose one?
What's worse about the free bundled games is that they're packed OEM-style both on to one disc with a heap of trailler vids, and you don't even get a proper game case for that disc, just a paper+plastic sleeve!
power corrupts, but surely absolute power - that is, abs(power) (yeah, it's vb syntax, so sue me) - can only be a positive thing? how the hell does that work out? :-)
IIRC it's not that you have to "actively defend it" per se (i.e. having to go after everyone who breaches it), but more that you can't get a patent on something and then sit on it for ages until your profitable competitors get rich and then sue.
and, of course, double kudos for getting it to ride a lego segway :o)
remember, there's a patent for that...
Nope, the junkyard itself is in the UK (the new series of Scrapheap Challenge is set in a *new* yard in a different location), they just ship the "creations" out to the US for the big "trial" on JYW.
Pro adds the ability to read RSS feeds for you and pop up stuff when there's new news to be read (it alerted me to this /. entry). It also checks for emails and a few other similar nice things. Pro doesn't have IRC, but I prefer mIRC for that anyway.
They've choosen to give it away, you say? Could you explain what that's all aboot?
"... and then you go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like 'M$'"!
I don't know about other registrars, but GoDaddy allow you to lock your domain to prevent transfers and ownership-details changes. You have to log-in to their web admin stuff and turn the lock off prior to making any account changes. Technically pretty simple, but gives me warm fuzzies all the same.
The ASA is a regulatory body in the UK with legal powers to beat the proverbial out of anyone sending/publishing misleading or unfair adverts such as these. (they don't have authority over TV or Radio ads as there's seperate entities looking after those)
that 45 minute figure assumes that lots of data is being thrown around across it, and that nobody's going to notice you staying in the same place near their building for that length of time, loitering and looking shifty :)
Some might say that microsoft's faux press is a bigger problem right now... :o)
Hold it landscape, slide the screen up to reveal a keyboard, cap on one corner for booze, GPRS and initially unlimited data transfer... et voila, the fliptop :-P
WTF would we know/care about whatever "CLIM" and "XMLTerm" are? We're *windows* users.
I wouldn't think so - I'm an AOL UK user (see an earlier comment about the horrors of AOL being the only telco-independant unmetered service) and I still "pop up" in AOL's main hostname range and geographic traceroutes think I'm in VA.
Even once us generic-0808 users get pushed off Unmetered and on to the new AOL30 price plan (£15.99 a month for 30 hours then 1p/min) that'll still be cheaper than "free" local-rate dialup. I'd leave AOL if there were any actual competition for my custom.
well, cosmetic surgery is usually classed as being that which alters "how you look"... *G* (props to Roald Dahl for the original "square sweets that look round" joke)
about 5.95 million actually...
Any chance he could fix up some of the other creeping horrors in the NexII's firmware (read over the nexiimp3 yahoogroup to get a feel for the outstanding issues) while he's at it? :-)
but "drake" is a MALE term - surely GNU/Mynduck, no?
Would "The Hottest Certification Since Sliced Bread" be a diploma in making toast?