What could possibly go wrong? Lets see... My current phone bill could sky rocket to 3x the amount that it is now, in which case f8ck the cellphones all together... I'll use my old rotary phone.
I'm guessing you missed the Wrath of Khan reference.
CNET has had a large userbase for years, and a lot of those users stick around. Loyalty in users is hard to come by. I used CNET sites almost exclusively for several years, only stopping when I started to rely more on open source products. I still go back there for some things, and even use it as a mirror for my own product.
When that first started it was, in my opinion, the best online gaming service available. For those who don't know you paid for a connection direct to their servers, not the internet, which made it the fastest gaming experience available in the pre broadband era. There were gaming leagues, prizes, admins/judges for all games,and the chatroom system was excellent. I don't think their chatroom system has ever been bettered in fact.
All my best gaming memories come from my time as a Wireplay member. I even made skins for lots of clans who played in the leagues.
There was sort of informal feel to the place too, The staff had a webcam in their office that let you watch them work, and they had a log that they wrote whatever came to mind in, who was off sick, what they'd got up to at the weekend, anything.
I don't recall who bought them out, but sometime during the boom they got taken over, and everything turned to shit, somost of the people I knew quit and moved over to barrysworld leagues. I left shortly after the new owner assraped the chatroom system and wrecked its charm.
Now I find that it exists as some sort of free affair, but it's not the same.
I have a project hosted on Google Project Hosting, and that uses subversion. It's pretty darn good as far as I can tell. It's stable, has a decent base of applications that you can use with it, and there's plenty of documentation out there.
There certainly are plenty of version control systems out there, but, especially when it comes to version control, newer does not mean better automatically.
What matters ultimately is how well liked and widely used they are.
The day after my parents saw that movie my modem was taken away, never to return.
Apparently they were genuinely afraid that I might start a war inadvertently by logging into the wrong computer by mistake.
Ok, so I had, um, well, logged into a mainframe that sort of didn't belong to me, but I was a kid, and this was the eighties, it was still harmless fun back then, more likely to see you employed then arrested. Nowadays for the same thing I'd be sent to prison.
I've had physics teachers that have retold the story as fact
Doesn't matter, fact or not its a useful teaching mechanism. Plus of course the recipient of that knowledge then learns the truth later, which has the effect of reinforcing the basics facts which the original example was used to teach.
Anyway, its a fun story, who cares if its not true? There are so many things for which we don't know the events that discovered them, and people do love a story.
It couldn't be straightened anyway, it wasn't finished before it began to lean, so the upper levels were built to be level with the amount of tilt present at that time.
I'm surprised that its also impossible to leave facebook and have your details deleted
When I'm going to leave it I'll just change the data first to nonsense, leave it for a few weeks to make sure it filters through the system, and then disable my account.
Not that I've ever put any really private stuff there.
I understand this well. I came to England from Australia many moons ago, and was horrified (yes, literally) to discover what passed for fruit here.
What gets marked as a large Melon here is shockingly small, and as for oranges, holy crap. A visit to the US a couple of years ago at least showed me that they don't suffer from this as badly as brits do.
Us refined westerners apparently like our banana's to be within a very small range of size, coloration and shape.
Apparently any banana that fails this test is unable to be sold, so we're forcing the restriction of types.
Or at least, the buyers who choose this stuff are. I guess there is a fear of change, if a whole shipload of banana's isn't wanted when it arrives in port, heads would roll.
The truly interesting part is that the banana companies in S. America still don't see this as a problem. TFA says that in their anual summaries they don't even mention this disease much less list it as a threat.
What, you mean a huge company isn't making a big deal in public about a potential threat to its entire business?
Are foreign students suddenly less a "threat"? What changed?
It may have something to do with hundreds of millions per annum being lost because all those now 'suspect' chinese students that used to go to university in the states have started to go to Europe instead.
Its been great for England, my gosh yes, the extra revenue was seriously needed, but not so great for the US. Last I heard some US Universities were having serious problems trying to make up for the loss of that money.
Oddly enough European society has completely failed to collapse, and we haven't found ourselves dealing with hordes of evil Chinese people plotting to take over our countries.
Personally it helped me learn how to make some really good Chinese meals.
well since you commented on both, you own copyright on mentioning the copyright on the performance of the copyrighted song. I suggest you sue them all for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
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What could possibly go wrong? Lets see... My current phone bill could sky rocket to 3x the amount that it is now, in which case f8ck the cellphones all together... I'll use my old rotary phone.
I'm guessing you missed the Wrath of Khan reference.
We should therefore stop arguing, and accept that theirs is the superior intellect, after all, what could possibly go wrong?
one word, userbase.
CNET has had a large userbase for years, and a lot of those users stick around. Loyalty in users is hard to come by.
I used CNET sites almost exclusively for several years, only stopping when I started to rely more on open source products. I still go back there for some things, and even use it as a mirror for my own product.
that was mentioned as a defunct, rather then failed, venture
No-one ever mentions Wireplay.
When that first started it was, in my opinion, the best online gaming service available. For those who don't know you paid for a connection direct to their servers, not the internet, which made it the fastest gaming experience available in the pre broadband era.
There were gaming leagues, prizes, admins/judges for all games,and the chatroom system was excellent. I don't think their chatroom system has ever been bettered in fact.
All my best gaming memories come from my time as a Wireplay member. I even made skins for lots of clans who played in the leagues.
There was sort of informal feel to the place too, The staff had a webcam in their office that let you watch them work, and they had a log that they wrote whatever came to mind in, who was off sick, what they'd got up to at the weekend, anything.
I don't recall who bought them out, but sometime during the boom they got taken over, and everything turned to shit, somost of the people I knew quit and moved over to barrysworld leagues. I left shortly after the new owner assraped the chatroom system and wrecked its charm.
Now I find that it exists as some sort of free affair, but it's not the same.
I wonder if they defined the surgeons handshake. I'm guessing that would be left out of any official description.
If it's so dead, why do Google use it?
I have a project hosted on Google Project Hosting, and that uses subversion. It's pretty darn good as far as I can tell. It's stable, has a decent base of applications that you can use with it, and there's plenty of documentation out there.
There certainly are plenty of version control systems out there, but, especially when it comes to version control, newer does not mean better automatically.
What matters ultimately is how well liked and widely used they are.
Wikipedia is a good place to look for info on the man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
associating with people widely believed to be mentally ill is unlikely to be seen as a wise move for a person in public office, so I doubt they would.
It's called a Total Pelvic Exenteration, and it's probably the nastiest operation a woman can undergo.
It's only for women though. I assisted on several in my former career, not a fun thing the help with, I can tell you.
The day after my parents saw that movie my modem was taken away, never to return.
Apparently they were genuinely afraid that I might start a war inadvertently by logging into the wrong computer by mistake.
Ok, so I had, um, well, logged into a mainframe that sort of didn't belong to me, but I was a kid, and this was the eighties, it was still harmless fun back then, more likely to see you employed then arrested. Nowadays for the same thing I'd be sent to prison.
Now that's scary.
I've had physics teachers that have retold the story as fact
Doesn't matter, fact or not its a useful teaching mechanism. Plus of course the recipient of that knowledge then learns the truth later, which has the effect of reinforcing the basics facts which the original example was used to teach.
Anyway, its a fun story, who cares if its not true? There are so many things for which we don't know the events that discovered them, and people do love a story.
It couldn't be straightened anyway, it wasn't finished before it began to lean, so the upper levels were built to be level with the amount of tilt present at that time.
So he worked on Ultima Online eh? I guess one of those scripts will have the line "if (lord_british) keepalive;" then.
As soon as I read the summary I immediately thought 'Intergalactic Goatse'.
I need less internets.
I'm surprised that its also impossible to leave facebook and have your details deleted
When I'm going to leave it I'll just change the data first to nonsense, leave it for a few weeks to make sure it filters through the system, and then disable my account.
Not that I've ever put any really private stuff there.
I understand this well. I came to England from Australia many moons ago, and was horrified (yes, literally) to discover what passed for fruit here.
What gets marked as a large Melon here is shockingly small, and as for oranges, holy crap.
A visit to the US a couple of years ago at least showed me that they don't suffer from this as badly as brits do.
Facebook is free, and it's not mandatory.
It should be obvious to anyone with a level of intelligence higher then a chimp that Facebook shares information, it's an information sharing site!
If you don't like it, don't use it.
Us refined westerners apparently like our banana's to be within a very small range of size, coloration and shape.
Apparently any banana that fails this test is unable to be sold, so we're forcing the restriction of types.
Or at least, the buyers who choose this stuff are. I guess there is a fear of change, if a whole shipload of banana's isn't wanted when it arrives in port, heads would roll.
The truly interesting part is that the banana companies in S. America still don't see this as a problem. TFA says that in their anual summaries they don't even mention this disease much less list it as a threat.
What, you mean a huge company isn't making a big deal in public about a potential threat to its entire business?
Go figure...
nope, they were two distinct companies. The english east india company was in direct competition with the dutch one.
I think I'll be happy to miss out on some of those brainwashed chinese kids
I believe the reason for our different views is that you've seen them on tv, and I've lived and worked with them.
Are foreign students suddenly less a "threat"? What changed?
It may have something to do with hundreds of millions per annum being lost because all those now 'suspect' chinese students that used to go to university in the states have started to go to Europe instead.
Its been great for England, my gosh yes, the extra revenue was seriously needed, but not so great for the US. Last I heard some US Universities were having serious problems trying to make up for the loss of that money.
Oddly enough European society has completely failed to collapse, and we haven't found ourselves dealing with hordes of evil Chinese people plotting to take over our countries.
Personally it helped me learn how to make some really good Chinese meals.
You haven't taken into account a sidereal day, which is 86164 seconds
well since you commented on both, you own copyright on mentioning the copyright on the performance of the copyrighted song. I suggest you sue them all for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!