I wish I had seen your reply when you posted it...
I'm from the UK. In historic terms I am literally your daddy therefore you should stop being an insolent child.
For reference, the UK invades the same countries as you so that you don't invade the UK. Our relationship is slightly uneasy - it is akin to the relationship between Master and Blaster in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome. You are very strong but rather deranged and you need some guidance from the little fellow who is weak but has a far greater thought process.
When you say "Most of the world will be thanking the US in the future when their ass is saved" - do you mean apart from the ones that deposit flying objects into your buildings? Okay, sonny, we need to sit down and have a talk about tolerance. Do you know what tolerance means? Let me explain...
I would happily purchase content but I cannot bear the optical media format - mainly due to the fact that I have a centralised media centre with XBMC running on several devices. If I could purchase a disk, rip it straight to the server and never touch it again that would be great. So far, I can handle DVDs to but the anti-ripping measures of BluRay have so far stopped me from upgrading my viewing experience to HD. Anti-piracy measures are having an adverse effect on my quality of life due to pixelation.
If only I could download content in a format that I could use as I wish. This sounds counter-intuitive as a lack of DRM will make piracy easy right? Well, DRM is not exactly stopping piracy is it?
Now that I have the cash, I will pay for content - but please let me have it in an open digital format, unfettered by warnings. Copying of disks in bulk for sale in mostly cash-sales markets will then soon be a thing of the past. You don't need to look far to see that physical copies of disks are a global problem in Australia , in Indonesia , in the US and in the UK to name just a few.
Sadly I think that it will be swept under the carpet. Murdoch has already replaced the News of the World with a Sunday edition of The Sun so everything is as it was before. The fact that Murdoch also owns the more respectable The Sunday Times means that he has both ends of the market.
What we really need it for Murdoch's hapless son to be put in the frame for something serious only for him to give evidence against his father and bring the whole lot crashing down - including the politicians and police officers who have been paid off over the years.
I know full well that Stratford in London and Stratford-upon-Avon are different places as I live in the latter.
I was bemused and more than a little disappointed on the first day that I moved there not to be able to see the houses of parliament from even the tallest of structures.
Alas, my newly purchased oyster card is of limited use...
Which is next to Scotland and London isn't it? Stratford, where Shakespeare came from, is in London is it not? The UK is such a small country - who can say where these places are - there is literally no way to clarify...
I'm from the UK by the way, before anybody mistakes me for my cousins across the pond.
A company wants to make a certain profit from a title and they ideally do not want to manufacture too many units to do this. However, more units means more players and if the title is a multiplayer, more players is better.
In the case of a person purchasing a title, I know this from my youth, you have to save money to purchase the latest and best title. Those titles out of reach were not purchased and pirate copies were a viable alternative.
These days it is possible to wait for the title to be re-released as a budget title but what is the point of purchasing Black Ops at cut price when everyone has switched to MW3?
Cut the price, make less profit per unit but sell more copies. It's a simple solution. Sell packs of 3 for the price of 2 - anything to bring the price per unit down and break into the demographic who previously couldn't afford to commit to purchase.
Idealistic? Possibly. It is a compromise after all.
I used to think the same - playing PC games is great as you have a keyboard and mouse. However, now that I have less time to devote to gaming, I find being able to acquire a game and play it on the console - knowing that the hardware will be sufficient - is a much better fit for my lifestyle. As a bonus I don't have to upgrade my PC every quarter to meet the requirements of new software.
So he should berate his customer for their internal policies? You must be a marketing manager..
In light of the negative media coverage relating to Google privacy concerns, whether relevant or not, a policy that excludes Google services makes perfect sense to businesses who have sensitive data.
Perhaps she bought it to prevent the dealer from selling it to a child and to obtain evidence for the police to use against the dealer? Why else would she have called the police?
Part of the problem is the fallback to masts owned by other providers as Three has to lease the time. As such, whenever there is a sniff of a Three signal it goes to that mast even if the signal is piss-poor.
When I was on Three, the switch would occur and the signal would be lost completely with no hint of a signal for around 3 minutes. Not good when in the middle of a call. This occurred on two phones so it was not an isolated incident.
They do. But to make the conversion to a gallon you need to know how large the gallon is - 3.79 litres in the US and 4.546 litres in the UK.
Despite going through decimalisation in 1971, the UK still has a mixture of metric and imperial measurements. Fuel stations have to display in litres but when fuel prices make the news, there is always reference to the gallon i.e. "£x per litre, which works out at £x per gallon".
The UK still uses miles rather than kilometres which is why we use car acceleration figures of 0-62 mp/h to give some continuity with the rest of Europe which uses 0-100km/h.
Hutchison 3G is doing the right thing with data but their voice service is dire. I opted for a new carrier after putting up with their miserable service for 2.5 years - I thought it my phone (Nokia E71) but when I got a new one, it was clear that it was the service that was problematical.
If you just want to use a 3G dongle from Hutchison, the charges are more in line with other providers e.g. £15 for 5Gb in a month. Using a phone contract and tethering is not an attractive option for all people.
Europe has higher fuel prices but also more economical vehicles and shorter journeys. Why not take advantage of more economical vehicles now and be ahead of the curve? It will save money and *will* make a difference if more people adopt the same approach.
That is a valid point but it seems a little vacuous to basically say "we live in a big country therefore we must live quite far from work". Living 75 miles from your doctor and complaining about the round trip of 150 miles is a bit lame.
You will understand my lack of sympathy when I explain that I live 6 miles from a city centre (the UKs second city) and I whine when my trip takes more than 30 minutes. It's all relative I suppose.;-)
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She...she didn't tell me she was seeing somebody else... :-(
I wish I had seen your reply when you posted it...
I'm from the UK. In historic terms I am literally your daddy therefore you should stop being an insolent child.
For reference, the UK invades the same countries as you so that you don't invade the UK. Our relationship is slightly uneasy - it is akin to the relationship between Master and Blaster in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome. You are very strong but rather deranged and you need some guidance from the little fellow who is weak but has a far greater thought process.
When you say "Most of the world will be thanking the US in the future when their ass is saved" - do you mean apart from the ones that deposit flying objects into your buildings? Okay, sonny, we need to sit down and have a talk about tolerance. Do you know what tolerance means? Let me explain...
I would happily purchase content but I cannot bear the optical media format - mainly due to the fact that I have a centralised media centre with XBMC running on several devices. If I could purchase a disk, rip it straight to the server and never touch it again that would be great. So far, I can handle DVDs to but the anti-ripping measures of BluRay have so far stopped me from upgrading my viewing experience to HD. Anti-piracy measures are having an adverse effect on my quality of life due to pixelation.
If only I could download content in a format that I could use as I wish. This sounds counter-intuitive as a lack of DRM will make piracy easy right? Well, DRM is not exactly stopping piracy is it?
Now that I have the cash, I will pay for content - but please let me have it in an open digital format, unfettered by warnings. Copying of disks in bulk for sale in mostly cash-sales markets will then soon be a thing of the past. You don't need to look far to see that physical copies of disks are a global problem in Australia , in Indonesia , in the US and in the UK to name just a few.
Chill out why don't you? Get it out of your system - go an invade a country or something...
No pizza delivery during the Games then?
Unfortunately the 10 percent unused feature set is not the same for the 90 percent of users.
Some poor soul somewhere is stuck in a Venn diagram where Open Office/Libre Office have literally no features that they require.
Sadly I think that it will be swept under the carpet. Murdoch has already replaced the News of the World with a Sunday edition of The Sun so everything is as it was before. The fact that Murdoch also owns the more respectable The Sunday Times means that he has both ends of the market.
What we really need it for Murdoch's hapless son to be put in the frame for something serious only for him to give evidence against his father and bring the whole lot crashing down - including the politicians and police officers who have been paid off over the years.
Maybe, maybe not - but one fewer snooping parties cannot be a bad thing can it?
I know full well that Stratford in London and Stratford-upon-Avon are different places as I live in the latter.
I was bemused and more than a little disappointed on the first day that I moved there not to be able to see the houses of parliament from even the tallest of structures.
Alas, my newly purchased oyster card is of limited use...
Yes, it's like trying to make a point without using a simile to simplify the point that you are making to give credence to your argument.
Which is next to Scotland and London isn't it? Stratford, where Shakespeare came from, is in London is it not? The UK is such a small country - who can say where these places are - there is literally no way to clarify...
I'm from the UK by the way, before anybody mistakes me for my cousins across the pond.
There is definitely room for compromise.
A company wants to make a certain profit from a title and they ideally do not want to manufacture too many units to do this. However, more units means more players and if the title is a multiplayer, more players is better.
In the case of a person purchasing a title, I know this from my youth, you have to save money to purchase the latest and best title. Those titles out of reach were not purchased and pirate copies were a viable alternative.
These days it is possible to wait for the title to be re-released as a budget title but what is the point of purchasing Black Ops at cut price when everyone has switched to MW3?
Cut the price, make less profit per unit but sell more copies. It's a simple solution. Sell packs of 3 for the price of 2 - anything to bring the price per unit down and break into the demographic who previously couldn't afford to commit to purchase.
Idealistic? Possibly. It is a compromise after all.
I used to think the same - playing PC games is great as you have a keyboard and mouse. However, now that I have less time to devote to gaming, I find being able to acquire a game and play it on the console - knowing that the hardware will be sufficient - is a much better fit for my lifestyle. As a bonus I don't have to upgrade my PC every quarter to meet the requirements of new software.
It's such a pity that ownership of consoles is limited to one per household...
95 was a revelation. Okay, early plug and play was somewhere between 'magic' and 'a pile of cock' but it was a leap forward in my book.
..that horse may have left the barn years ago.
presumably the body scanners should have detected this?
So he should berate his customer for their internal policies? You must be a marketing manager..
In light of the negative media coverage relating to Google privacy concerns, whether relevant or not, a policy that excludes Google services makes perfect sense to businesses who have sensitive data.
Perhaps she bought it to prevent the dealer from selling it to a child and to obtain evidence for the police to use against the dealer? Why else would she have called the police?
"foreplay allowed.... even for same sex (man-man/woman-woman)" - I'm glad they clarified that...
Part of the problem is the fallback to masts owned by other providers as Three has to lease the time. As such, whenever there is a sniff of a Three signal it goes to that mast even if the signal is piss-poor.
When I was on Three, the switch would occur and the signal would be lost completely with no hint of a signal for around 3 minutes. Not good when in the middle of a call. This occurred on two phones so it was not an isolated incident.
They do. But to make the conversion to a gallon you need to know how large the gallon is - 3.79 litres in the US and 4.546 litres in the UK.
Despite going through decimalisation in 1971, the UK still has a mixture of metric and imperial measurements. Fuel stations have to display in litres but when fuel prices make the news, there is always reference to the gallon i.e. "£x per litre, which works out at £x per gallon".
The UK still uses miles rather than kilometres which is why we use car acceleration figures of 0-62 mp/h to give some continuity with the rest of Europe which uses 0-100km/h.
Hutchison 3G is doing the right thing with data but their voice service is dire. I opted for a new carrier after putting up with their miserable service for 2.5 years - I thought it my phone (Nokia E71) but when I got a new one, it was clear that it was the service that was problematical.
If you just want to use a 3G dongle from Hutchison, the charges are more in line with other providers e.g. £15 for 5Gb in a month. Using a phone contract and tethering is not an attractive option for all people.
There has to be some middle ground surely?
Europe has higher fuel prices but also more economical vehicles and shorter journeys. Why not take advantage of more economical vehicles now and be ahead of the curve? It will save money and *will* make a difference if more people adopt the same approach.
Don't forget that US gallons are, from memory, around 17% smaller than those in the UK. Still around 9 bucks a gallon though which is pretty awful
That is a valid point but it seems a little vacuous to basically say "we live in a big country therefore we must live quite far from work". Living 75 miles from your doctor and complaining about the round trip of 150 miles is a bit lame.
You will understand my lack of sympathy when I explain that I live 6 miles from a city centre (the UKs second city) and I whine when my trip takes more than 30 minutes. It's all relative I suppose. ;-)