Don't dismiss the reference as out of hand, or at all trollish. Parsons was turned in to the Thought Police for talking about anti-Party subjects in his sleep. By his own child.
On every street corner, on every petrol forecourt, in every bus stop and in any public building... Remember that from now on, someone is watching. They have a financial incentive to catch you.
The old boss of GCHQ was Director of Personnel and Director of Finance before taking over the top job for the Home Office. Consider; He only has to be a good manager / director, not a good intelligence expert.
Which games? I can't even get Compiz to render properly on my system (8800GTX, 2.4GHz Q6600, 4GB DDR2 RAM). If you can tell me any website anywhere on the internet that will help me get Crysis, Far Cry 2, Wolfenstein, WoW, Mirror's Edge, C&C3, and / or Prototype running on any linux distro, I'll be pretty surprised.
Linking to WINE isn't an option; I don't want to spend 4 hours "fixing" it to get a game to run. If I can't install it and play in under 30 minutes, it's not applicable.
How does buying only your local provider's broadband encourage more ISPs to roll out coverage to your area? It doesn't; You make the most of what you have. Linux gamers play what they can get, I play what I want.
I've played quite a lot of them, actually... Vendetta I didn't like at all, Frets on Fire was good but buggy, Second Life isn't a game, Quake Wars isn't a game I enjoy, I *detest* turn based strategy games, and the rest listed look like they were made in 2001. That's not necessarily a bad thing; I still enjoy Total Annihilation and the first C&C games. It's just that, well, it looks tired and haggard, rough and shoddy. As fun as I'm sure they are (and I'll try any Windows ports I can find) they don't inspire me with the desire to switch. I didn't spend a grand on hardware to play a game which looks like it was developed for the N64.
Thanks for being part of the problem. Linux users won't buy games, so games developers won't develop for Linux, so Linux users won't buy games, so games developers won't develop for Linux...
Maybe when Linux (all distros) has more desktop market share than a Microsoft OS which isn't even released yet they'll begin to care. Until then, please feel free to manually edit your.conf files, fiddle with wireless device "firmware" stripped out of Windows drivers, and live safe in the knowledge that you're intellectually elite compared to the rest of the Wintards (like myself) who are playing the games you can only whinge about.
Horses for courses. Get Windows or a console for gaming. Until there is a unified architecture for 3D rendering on Linux (like DirectX on Windows) you're living in a dream world.
Well that's partly because mobile phones are still considered disposable devices; It's more cost effective to put dev time into supporting the latest device than it is to chew through code for a device 18 months old, which is about to be replaced by the latest "shiny shiny." 5 months to offer updates for a platform with very strict hardware similarities seems pretty decent, really. Should be plenty of time to fix real world bugs, offer some tweaks to performance etc. before moving onto the next devices' software. Considering the issue Sony has just had with it's 3.0 firmware for the PS3, I'm kind of glad there aren't mandatory updates for my device... The choice of ROMs from unofficial channels at least guarantees some real-life experiences and QA before release.
Using drugs is not victimless, at least not in the UK. My National Insurance and Income Tax pays for rehab clinics for Class A users, medical care for users who overdose, and the infrastructure which supports these services. If we could trust people to not do drugs (of any class; A, B, C, Prescription, Over the Counter, Social) to excess, we wouldn't need laws to prevent their consumption. Alcohol while driving, drinking to the point you pass out while crossing the road or start a fight, taking ecstacy and de- or over-hydrating to the point of coma... We have these laws because we can't be trusted to self regulate.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for legalisation of some drugs, but there must be some self-regulation first. Until we can be trusted to take care of ourselves and know our limits, I say keep them controlled.
I'd be a little suspicious the first time he asked me to bring in some bags from the local liposuction clinic and empty them into those bathtubs he ordered...
You can make regular calls! If by regular, you mean "when everyone else is asleep, as long as there is nobody else making a call through your local cell."
Subliminal? I could understand if there were occasional references to a death camp, or the occasional shout of "Schutzstaffel!" in the distance, but every single surface (in the first 4 levels i've played since buying it yesterday) have some reference to the Nazi party somewhere; A Swastika, a Reichsadler (Empire Eagle), a poster of Hitler...
That's not subliminal, that's "WE WON, BITCH. NAZIS ARE YOUR ENEMY!"
They'll be waiting to hear what the then-current Mayor of London will say in the opening speech of the Olympics? Can't be as bad as Blondie's statements in Beijing... WIFF WAFF INDEED!
Did you ever check update your phone? I've had three new radio versions on my device since I got it... A month ago. 3 minutes to install, and I get faster wireless connection, GPS lock, and better call quality in lower signal strength areas.
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Don't dismiss the reference as out of hand, or at all trollish. Parsons was turned in to the Thought Police for talking about anti-Party subjects in his sleep. By his own child.
On every street corner, on every petrol forecourt, in every bus stop and in any public building... Remember that from now on, someone is watching. They have a financial incentive to catch you.
The old boss of GCHQ was Director of Personnel and Director of Finance before taking over the top job for the Home Office. Consider; He only has to be a good manager / director, not a good intelligence expert.
Don't forget that he'll need to re-validate his security credentials at http://confirm.credentials.here.genuine.yourbank.fsdnp4895.imgonnagetyourmoney.com/bankbanksecurity.html
Identity Theft - Mitchell and Webb
Insightful or funny... I think both.
True, I'd always (incorrectly) ascribed pragmatics to grammar. My mistake.
Which games? I can't even get Compiz to render properly on my system (8800GTX, 2.4GHz Q6600, 4GB DDR2 RAM). If you can tell me any website anywhere on the internet that will help me get Crysis, Far Cry 2, Wolfenstein, WoW, Mirror's Edge, C&C3, and / or Prototype running on any linux distro, I'll be pretty surprised.
Linking to WINE isn't an option; I don't want to spend 4 hours "fixing" it to get a game to run. If I can't install it and play in under 30 minutes, it's not applicable.
Best of a bad situation?
How does buying only your local provider's broadband encourage more ISPs to roll out coverage to your area? It doesn't; You make the most of what you have. Linux gamers play what they can get, I play what I want.
I've played quite a lot of them, actually... Vendetta I didn't like at all, Frets on Fire was good but buggy, Second Life isn't a game, Quake Wars isn't a game I enjoy, I *detest* turn based strategy games, and the rest listed look like they were made in 2001. That's not necessarily a bad thing; I still enjoy Total Annihilation and the first C&C games. It's just that, well, it looks tired and haggard, rough and shoddy. As fun as I'm sure they are (and I'll try any Windows ports I can find) they don't inspire me with the desire to switch. I didn't spend a grand on hardware to play a game which looks like it was developed for the N64.
Yeah, I like eye-candy, but that's just me.
Thanks for being part of the problem. Linux users won't buy games, so games developers won't develop for Linux, so Linux users won't buy games, so games developers won't develop for Linux...
.conf files, fiddle with wireless device "firmware" stripped out of Windows drivers, and live safe in the knowledge that you're intellectually elite compared to the rest of the Wintards (like myself) who are playing the games you can only whinge about.
Maybe when Linux (all distros) has more desktop market share than a Microsoft OS which isn't even released yet they'll begin to care. Until then, please feel free to manually edit your
Horses for courses. Get Windows or a console for gaming. Until there is a unified architecture for 3D rendering on Linux (like DirectX on Windows) you're living in a dream world.
Well that's partly because mobile phones are still considered disposable devices; It's more cost effective to put dev time into supporting the latest device than it is to chew through code for a device 18 months old, which is about to be replaced by the latest "shiny shiny." 5 months to offer updates for a platform with very strict hardware similarities seems pretty decent, really. Should be plenty of time to fix real world bugs, offer some tweaks to performance etc. before moving onto the next devices' software. Considering the issue Sony has just had with it's 3.0 firmware for the PS3, I'm kind of glad there aren't mandatory updates for my device... The choice of ROMs from unofficial channels at least guarantees some real-life experiences and QA before release.
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That's so "Grammar Nazi" that I'm invoking Godwin's Law through a degree of separation.
You're doing it wrong! It's Keyhole, Echelon, Einstein, and then you end wi(*&^BFCNO CARRIER
One of the fastest loading big-name websites I've seen in a while... Nothing wrong with tables as far as I'm concerned.
Might be a little Web1.0, but at least they render correctly across all platforms.
Using drugs is not victimless, at least not in the UK. My National Insurance and Income Tax pays for rehab clinics for Class A users, medical care for users who overdose, and the infrastructure which supports these services. If we could trust people to not do drugs (of any class; A, B, C, Prescription, Over the Counter, Social) to excess, we wouldn't need laws to prevent their consumption. Alcohol while driving, drinking to the point you pass out while crossing the road or start a fight, taking ecstacy and de- or over-hydrating to the point of coma... We have these laws because we can't be trusted to self regulate.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for legalisation of some drugs, but there must be some self-regulation first. Until we can be trusted to take care of ourselves and know our limits, I say keep them controlled.
I'd be a little suspicious the first time he asked me to bring in some bags from the local liposuction clinic and empty them into those bathtubs he ordered...
You can make regular calls! If by regular, you mean "when everyone else is asleep, as long as there is nobody else making a call through your local cell."
Subliminal? I could understand if there were occasional references to a death camp, or the occasional shout of "Schutzstaffel!" in the distance, but every single surface (in the first 4 levels i've played since buying it yesterday) have some reference to the Nazi party somewhere; A Swastika, a Reichsadler (Empire Eagle), a poster of Hitler...
That's not subliminal, that's "WE WON, BITCH. NAZIS ARE YOUR ENEMY!"
Too much drool to take him seriously. Plus, he shed on the sofa.
They'll be waiting to hear what the then-current Mayor of London will say in the opening speech of the Olympics? Can't be as bad as Blondie's statements in Beijing... WIFF WAFF INDEED!
... that he didn't use the software himself, and therefore was not bound by the shrink-wrap license? He purchased them for resale only.
I wonder if someone will actually win the speedboat / cruise holiday if they manage to hit Hydrogen...
There usually is, from the mobile operator's website.
Oh, look what I found! Just because the great unwashed don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I know it's after the fact, but new radio ROMs fix a lot of connectivity issues.
Check xda-developers for a newer radio rom for your PPC-6700 (HTC Apache) and PPC-6800 (HTC Titan)
Did you ever check update your phone? I've had three new radio versions on my device since I got it... A month ago. 3 minutes to install, and I get faster wireless connection, GPS lock, and better call quality in lower signal strength areas.
For my device
For your new device (HTC Raphael)