That's not how SI units work, you don't just keep prefixing kilo every time you multiply by 1000.
1000 times the base unit of mass in SI is the megagram
I hadn't thought of this like that, but I suppose the difference is that this was an invasion of the personal privacy of individuals, whereas the wikileaks stuff was (largely) an invasion of the privacy of the governments who are supposed to represent us, released openly.
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This post might explain some of the issues? I know I did have problems in some of the early IE9 betas but I later used the cleartype tuner and haven't had any problems with IE9 or Firefox 4 since, fonts look great.
Surely the real cost they're paying here is for the "cloud services", and so the price would be similar whether or not the software behind it is OSS or not? Or is the argument just anti-MS really?
It sounds like there's some saving from a previous move to MS Exchange and the licensing deal from that as well though.
It's starting to look like the platform's shutdown is just a marketing stunt. Good Old Games spokesman Tom Ohle told us that "as the site says, this doesn't mean GOG is dead. We will have more to share in the next couple of days." A NeoGAF poster dug up a Polish business forum, in which CD Projekt co-founder Micha Kiciski purportedly mentions a conference dated for this Wednesday, adding, "we'll post information about this soon on GOG.com (please do not panic after reading the information contained there.)" We'll keep an eye out for more info.
Problem is, if they're selling these unlock cards then the chips can't just be disabled "when it needs more chips in the economy bin and less in the high-end one", they must be using better chips and artificially disabling every single one, or else how would anyone know if the card would work! That I think is the issue here.
Nope, nothing to do with the BBC.. just seems to be reposts of BBC articles, although I couldn't find that one on the news site, don't know why the fuck its linked to that site.
There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis.
But then, as it seems to be in America now, shops will just not stock games with these high ratings to avoid any risk of incurring the fine, effectively the same fate as if it had been banned anyway.
For the record, I and all of my friends (we're 17) play violent video games, but we are capable of distinguishing between real life and the games ourselves.
This tool isn't part of Windows 7, it's just used if you buy the download version of Windows 7 from the MS store. If it was actually part of Windows 7 i think there would have been a much bigger fuss!
Microsoft have said (in the video here and on here) it supports Firefox and Safari (so presumably Chrome) just as well as IE. No mention of Opera but I see no reason as to why it wouldn't work. I think the video mentions that it works on Macs too.
Or, making what was arguably Vista's best and at the same time worst feature (UAC) something that works without making itself so intrusive as to be the first time users desire to disable?!
Funny, since that is one of the things they've done! It's really easy to change the UAC level of annoyance, and at default it doesn't kick in on user initiated actions and is generally much less annoying than in Vista (which in my opinion wasn't that bad anyway!) Try the beta, you might be pleasantly surprised.
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That's not how SI units work, you don't just keep prefixing kilo every time you multiply by 1000. 1000 times the base unit of mass in SI is the megagram
I hadn't thought of this like that, but I suppose the difference is that this was an invasion of the personal privacy of individuals, whereas the wikileaks stuff was (largely) an invasion of the privacy of the governments who are supposed to represent us, released openly.
This post might explain some of the issues? I know I did have problems in some of the early IE9 betas but I later used the cleartype tuner and haven't had any problems with IE9 or Firefox 4 since, fonts look great.
Surely the real cost they're paying here is for the "cloud services", and so the price would be similar whether or not the software behind it is OSS or not? Or is the argument just anti-MS really? It sounds like there's some saving from a previous move to MS Exchange and the licensing deal from that as well though.
It's starting to look like the platform's shutdown is just a marketing stunt. Good Old Games spokesman Tom Ohle told us that "as the site says, this doesn't mean GOG is dead. We will have more to share in the next couple of days." A NeoGAF poster dug up a Polish business forum, in which CD Projekt co-founder Micha Kiciski purportedly mentions a conference dated for this Wednesday, adding, "we'll post information about this soon on GOG.com (please do not panic after reading the information contained there.)" We'll keep an eye out for more info.
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Problem is, if they're selling these unlock cards then the chips can't just be disabled "when it needs more chips in the economy bin and less in the high-end one", they must be using better chips and artificially disabling every single one, or else how would anyone know if the card would work! That I think is the issue here.
Nope, nothing to do with the BBC.. just seems to be reposts of BBC articles, although I couldn't find that one on the news site, don't know why the fuck its linked to that site.
There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars
For the record, I and all of my friends (we're 17) play violent video games, but we are capable of distinguishing between real life and the games ourselves.
This tool isn't part of Windows 7, it's just used if you buy the download version of Windows 7 from the MS store. If it was actually part of Windows 7 i think there would have been a much bigger fuss!
Nooo... http://tvlicensing.metafaq.com/templates/tvlicensing/main/answerPage?_mftvst:answerRef=%24http%3A%2F%2Fapi.transversal.com%2Fmfapi%2Fobjectref%2FEntryStore%2FEntry%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.metafaq.com%2Fmfapi%2FMetafaq%2FClients%2Ftvlicensing%2FModules%2FlicensingInfo%2FTopics%2Fgeneral%3A134832%3A5&_mftvst:moduleID=%24licensingInfo&_mftvst:topicID=%24&id=HS56T6VEPE7PUG02M2572GVV3M
Microsoft have said (in the video here and on here) it supports Firefox and Safari (so presumably Chrome) just as well as IE. No mention of Opera but I see no reason as to why it wouldn't work. I think the video mentions that it works on Macs too.
add xmarks to that too, working fine here, as are all my add-ons, including !
Do you really think Microsoft would re encode every video on the internet into wmv just for this? It's flash. +5 interesting?!
I feel like I'm gonna open a whole can of worms... but why can't you play it if it's on steam?
What's Windows 2003?! And what is it that you can no longer do in 7?
Windows Update on XP and earlier yes, but Microsoft finally made it a separate app for Vista. At least I hope it doesn't still use ActiveX...
If I'm honest, can't say I do remember the closure of Bungie. Nice to see they can still make games when they're closed though (Halo 3: ODST)
Or, making what was arguably Vista's best and at the same time worst feature (UAC) something that works without making itself so intrusive as to be the first time users desire to disable?!
Funny, since that is one of the things they've done! It's really easy to change the UAC level of annoyance, and at default it doesn't kick in on user initiated actions and is generally much less annoying than in Vista (which in my opinion wasn't that bad anyway!) Try the beta, you might be pleasantly surprised.