3 Only launched a few months ago and has over 65,000 customers in the UK. That's not bad considering the phones are big, ugly and not the morst reliable things in the world.
It's not quite that bad in England. Most of my "geek" friends have an ICQ as well as an MSN account and some of my friends are starting to move to Jabber. However, it seems that AIM has virtually no market penetration in the UK.
Everyone I know, from geeks to complete retards, hates spam. All of them wish they recieved less. I could deduce from that that they wish for server-side filtering to be enabled. After all, if the filters were disabled, they'd probably be flooded with spam.
Server-side spam filtering is a selling point for ISPs. Do you think they'd use it as a selling point if the majority didn't want it?
I'm getting a lot of those kinds of spam at the moment. Surely the best way to remove them would be to look at the image/text ratio. I never get a non-spam e-mail that's so heavily image laden with no text.
Have you actually seen Doom III and HL2 in action? In HL, you can indeed pick up random objects and chuck them at the enemy. In the released video, you see the guy rip a radiator off the the wall, use it as a shield and then chuck it at a guy on the top of the stairs. A little while later, he blows the legs off a tanker and it drops on a bunch of marines.
Doom III has monsters coming from everywhere, crawling along the walls/pipes, coming out of a panel on the floor, etc.
DOA3 is far too button-masher friendly, which is probably why it's considered an average beat-em-up. I really can't see why you think it's got great depth, Soul Calibur is far superior and Soul Calibur 2 is just amazing.
Cel Damage is a fun game, yes, but it's available on the GC and PS2 anyway.
Err...I move both my XBox and Gamecube around. Being a student, and lots of console owners are students, I move between my home in York, my parents' places and whereever my vacation job is.
Also, I can pack up my Gamecube, stick it and all the cables/controllers in my bag and lug it down my mate's house. It's somewhat trickier with an XBox.
Mech Assault's crap, Midtown Madness isn't that great, SoF and Unreal Tournament2003 are far better played on a PC. I wouldn't exactly call Tetris Worlds a good reason for an XBox.
He said a couple of customers. Blind people online are a very tiny minority and even if all blind people used the internet, they'd still be a tiny minority. Amongst that tiny minority, only a tiny minority would likely buy stuff from the site. Thus, the costs outweigh the potential gain.
One of my housemates was playing the beta around a month ago and it wasn't even close to ready then. I'd have considered it maybe alpha, but there was plenty of stuff that simply didn't exist, such as entire sections of worlds and there didn't seem to be anything interesting to do.
Silly boy, that's because KHTML implements IE-like behaviour in many cases. For example, it tries to support the IE DOM (Such as document.all), which would cause sites which use it to work in KHTML but not Gecko.
In the UK, SMS spam is starting to become a real problem, but it seems people obey the TPS system. Register your number at http://www.tps-online.org.uk and say goodbye to your troubles. I registered my number a little under a year ago and I haven't got any spam since.
Huh? ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machines, since Acorn designed the ARM1 and ARM2. IIRC, Acorn spun off ARM as Advanced RISC Machines on its own without Apple.
My MP3/Ogg collection i getting on for 20GB. Storing all those in FLAC isn't practical, I might as well just grab the CD when I need to convert to another format.
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3 Only launched a few months ago and has over 65,000 customers in the UK. That's not bad considering the phones are big, ugly and not the morst reliable things in the world.
It's not quite that bad in England. Most of my "geek" friends have an ICQ as well as an MSN account and some of my friends are starting to move to Jabber. However, it seems that AIM has virtually no market penetration in the UK.
But thankfully, not everybody does lock the phones. O2 certainly don't.
Everyone I know, from geeks to complete retards, hates spam. All of them wish they recieved less. I could deduce from that that they wish for server-side filtering to be enabled. After all, if the filters were disabled, they'd probably be flooded with spam.
Server-side spam filtering is a selling point for ISPs. Do you think they'd use it as a selling point if the majority didn't want it?
I'm getting a lot of those kinds of spam at the moment. Surely the best way to remove them would be to look at the image/text ratio. I never get a non-spam e-mail that's so heavily image laden with no text.
Then explain how both NVIDIA and ATI cards implement pixel shaders versions 1.0-1.3 (1.2 for the GF3).
Have you actually seen Doom III and HL2 in action? In HL, you can indeed pick up random objects and chuck them at the enemy. In the released video, you see the guy rip a radiator off the the wall, use it as a shield and then chuck it at a guy on the top of the stairs. A little while later, he blows the legs off a tanker and it drops on a bunch of marines.
Doom III has monsters coming from everywhere, crawling along the walls/pipes, coming out of a panel on the floor, etc.
DOA3 is far too button-masher friendly, which is probably why it's considered an average beat-em-up. I really can't see why you think it's got great depth, Soul Calibur is far superior and Soul Calibur 2 is just amazing.
Cel Damage is a fun game, yes, but it's available on the GC and PS2 anyway.
Err...didn't they just use the DX8 shading language? It's a common language everyone supports.
WTF?! Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's an implementation of the Win32 API. Do you hate graphics cards because they have OpenGL "emulators"?
Err...I move both my XBox and Gamecube around. Being a student, and lots of console owners are students, I move between my home in York, my parents' places and whereever my vacation job is.
Also, I can pack up my Gamecube, stick it and all the cables/controllers in my bag and lug it down my mate's house. It's somewhat trickier with an XBox.
Err...they can use WebCore, it's LGPL.
Seeing as IE6 doesn't install on Win95, that's quite an achievement.
Mech Assault's crap, Midtown Madness isn't that great, SoF and Unreal Tournament2003 are far better played on a PC. I wouldn't exactly call Tetris Worlds a good reason for an XBox.
Mozilla has better standards compliance than Opera and Opera's DOM engine is damn slow.
He said a couple of customers. Blind people online are a very tiny minority and even if all blind people used the internet, they'd still be a tiny minority. Amongst that tiny minority, only a tiny minority would likely buy stuff from the site. Thus, the costs outweigh the potential gain.
One of my housemates was playing the beta around a month ago and it wasn't even close to ready then. I'd have considered it maybe alpha, but there was plenty of stuff that simply didn't exist, such as entire sections of worlds and there didn't seem to be anything interesting to do.
Silly boy, that's because KHTML implements IE-like behaviour in many cases. For example, it tries to support the IE DOM (Such as document.all), which would cause sites which use it to work in KHTML but not Gecko.
And you sound like you didn't get my point at all.
Show me a 3GHz Amiga.
In the UK, SMS spam is starting to become a real problem, but it seems people obey the TPS system. Register your number at http://www.tps-online.org.uk and say goodbye to your troubles. I registered my number a little under a year ago and I haven't got any spam since.
Huh? ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machines, since Acorn designed the ARM1 and ARM2. IIRC, Acorn spun off ARM as Advanced RISC Machines on its own without Apple.
My MP3/Ogg collection i getting on for 20GB. Storing all those in FLAC isn't practical, I might as well just grab the CD when I need to convert to another format.
Generics will be in Java 1.5.
Opera's DOM engine is slower than Mozilla's.