If I'm being me, rather than taking on a persona, then it's Erroneous. It's just a word that became a name. I've been Erroneous on BBSs and MUDs for a long, long time.
Where possible I name "characters" after vegetables. I have no idea why.
My Diablo II Barbarian was called "Cabbage" and Paladin "Aubergine".
I've also had a fair few Turnips, Carrots and Parsnips in the past too.
There are other Sarlaccs, but they are less mighty, such as "the Fairly Mighty Sarlacc" and "the Quite Good Sarlacc"
"The Slightly Shitty Sarlacc" was last seen inhabiting the fourteenth hole at "The Golf Course of Carnoustie", digesting golf balls and the fingers of any golfers foolish enough to attempt to retrieve them.
However, in a shock twist the fingers of famed Bounty Hunter Boba Fett escape and go on to enjoy many adventures in order to cash-in on their bizarre popularity among the fanboys.
If we in the UK (and I presume the rest of the EU) order from US companies we already have to pay VAT and other import duties at customs.
Just because it ships from the US retailer without paying that tax at, say $100, doesn't mean that is the end price for us the consumer. As well as paying your retailer in dollars I have to pay my customs in pounds. It's not a simpe one-click purchase and then delivered two weeks later.
This is a procedural change to close the loophole by which many packages get through without duty paid, and to stop the customs warehouses being clogged with unclaimed thinkgeek.com packages, and which will mean, hopefully, that my parcel doesn't wait in customs a week while I arrange to pay additional import fees.
Currently importing from a US retailer is not worth the hassle for me as a consumer. Perhaps this change will make those retailers more attractive to me.
I consider all on-line play to be purely practice for the *real business* of LAN gaming against my friends. I learn maps, learn tactics, and hone my aim.
Playing against cheats is good practice, because in order to be competitive you must become skilled.
I really don't care about my on-line kill/death ratio, because I can't know who's a cheater and who's not, and it's the LAN party that matters.
Quoting [Referring to IIS and Apache]: "(Microsoft has) already been killed by one open-source product. Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance [...]"
According to the Netcraft survey, IIS use has gone from a peak of about 30% market share to their current level of about 30% market share?
Yes, Apache has overtaken IIS. Yes, Apache is now and has been for several years dominant in the web server market. But it is at the expense of almost all the other web server suppliers, not at the expense of IIS which is holding market share admirably. IIS was never dominant in the web server market. It looked briefly like it could be in the late nineties, but IIS use peaked while Apache use continued to grow.
Anyone who honestly thinks IIS was dominant, and has since been "wiped out" is clearly a bit of a loon.
While building an online order-tracking system for our Norwegian Sales Office I added an Easter Egg.
If you search for "norwegian blue" in one of the free-text fields the search results returns as normal, but a new window pops-up with the entire Monty Python parrot sketch script and some images. They sent me to Oslo for three weeks. I had to amuse myself somehow...
[I did something similar with an application we christened "Steel Industry Corporate Knowledge" (SICK) and the restaurant scene with Mr Creosote... but that was a lot less pleasant.]
Obligatory response from someone working in the Sheffield Steel industry:
I assure you that we are still making steel. More of it than ever before. The industry is just using less people to make that steel than ever before, although I haven't seen any robots in the car park yet...
Perhaps you do. Certainly the grammar of your post would lend evidence in support of that.
However, Tad Williams is a succesful novel writer and there are more than enough people in the world who enjoy his novels to make his web site a success. The difference between his succesful novels and his failed web site is the marketing, the format and the medium for delivery of his writing, not the quality.
There were probably 50000 people in the World Trade Centre. Close to a million within a square mile or two. Those buildings have collapsed and tens of thousands of people have died. This is neither a "test", nor a fitting subject for a smiley.
>works in Gotham City, instead of New York--by putting him in Gotham City, the creators afforded themselves the creative license to put buildings in different places, etc.
I always thought Metropolis was New York and Gotham is somewhere around where Chicago should be... that said, with DC comics continuity who knows?
My dad gave me one sage piece of advice that I've taken with me throughout my career...
"Work to live," he said, "don't live to work."
I could earn more in London, it's true. Where I am now, though, I work an 8-hour day and have to travel twenty minutes each way to get there. Weekends are mine, holidays are mine. They've got me forty hours a week and at 5pm I'm out of the door... and I don't even think about work until I come back in. I've got a good enough job to afford a house, a car a wife and Diablo II.
No career is worth sacrificing my lifestyle for, because my lifestyle is the only reason I do the job.
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I don't like to be rude, but... ... this article is a great steaming pile of poo.
Sorry.
> the (right wing) Liberal Party
I know Australia is up-side down, but this is ridiculous.
Did they really name their right-wing party the Liberals?
If I'm being me, rather than taking on a persona, then it's Erroneous. It's just a word that became a name. I've been Erroneous on BBSs and MUDs for a long, long time.
Where possible I name "characters" after vegetables. I have no idea why.
My Diablo II Barbarian was called "Cabbage" and Paladin "Aubergine".
I've also had a fair few Turnips, Carrots and Parsnips in the past too.
This is "the Almighty Sarlacc".
There are other Sarlaccs, but they are less mighty, such as "the Fairly Mighty Sarlacc" and "the Quite Good Sarlacc"
"The Slightly Shitty Sarlacc" was last seen inhabiting the fourteenth hole at "The Golf Course of Carnoustie", digesting golf balls and the fingers of any golfers foolish enough to attempt to retrieve them.
However, in a shock twist the fingers of famed Bounty Hunter Boba Fett escape and go on to enjoy
many adventures in order to cash-in on their bizarre popularity among the fanboys.
Or something.
"You really wanna save those crazy Swedes, huh?"
The researchers obviously didn't play MOO3.
That'll send you to sleep no worriezzzzzzzzzz
"Once you've had Fat you never go back"
- Fat Bastard, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
... such as not having sex with fat people.
If we in the UK (and I presume the rest of the EU) order from US companies we already have to pay VAT and other import duties at customs.
Just because it ships from the US retailer without paying that tax at, say $100, doesn't mean that is the end price for us the consumer. As well as paying your retailer in dollars I have to pay my customs in pounds. It's not a simpe one-click purchase and then delivered two weeks later.
This is a procedural change to close the loophole by which many packages get through without duty paid, and to stop the customs warehouses being clogged with unclaimed thinkgeek.com packages, and which will mean, hopefully, that my parcel doesn't wait in customs a week while I arrange to pay additional import fees.
Currently importing from a US retailer is not worth the hassle for me as a consumer. Perhaps this change will make those retailers more attractive to me.
Well, almost.
The newspaper journalists are only bitter about this because today's newspaper only has yesterday's news.
I consider all on-line play to be purely practice for the *real business* of LAN gaming against my friends. I learn maps, learn tactics, and hone my aim.
Playing against cheats is good practice, because in order to be competitive you must become skilled.
I really don't care about my on-line kill/death ratio, because I can't know who's a cheater and who's not, and it's the LAN party that matters.
Quoting [Referring to IIS and Apache] :
"(Microsoft has) already been killed by one open-source product. Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance [...]"
According to the Netcraft survey, IIS use has gone from a peak of about 30% market share to their current level of about 30% market share?
Yes, Apache has overtaken IIS. Yes, Apache is now and has been for several years dominant in the web server market. But it is at the expense of almost all the other web server suppliers, not at the expense of IIS which is holding market share admirably. IIS was never dominant in the web server market. It looked briefly like it could be in the late nineties, but IIS use peaked while Apache use continued to grow.
Anyone who honestly thinks IIS was dominant, and has since been "wiped out" is clearly a bit of a loon.
While building an online order-tracking system for our Norwegian Sales Office I added an Easter Egg.
If you search for "norwegian blue" in one of the free-text fields the search results returns as normal, but a new window pops-up with the entire Monty Python parrot sketch script and some images.
They sent me to Oslo for three weeks. I had to amuse myself somehow...
[I did something similar with an application we christened "Steel Industry Corporate Knowledge" (SICK) and the restaurant scene with Mr Creosote... but that was a lot less pleasant.]
Asimov never mentioned the secret Directive 4 to obey all executive officers of OCP without regard to the other three directives.
If it's talking cars it should be Michael, not Dave, surely?
Obligatory response from someone working in the Sheffield Steel industry:
I assure you that we are still making steel. More of it than ever before. The industry is just using less people to make that steel than ever before, although I haven't seen any robots in the car park yet...
Perhaps you do. Certainly the grammar of your post would lend evidence in support of that.
However, Tad Williams is a succesful novel writer and there are more than enough people in the world who enjoy his novels to make his web site a success. The difference between his succesful novels and his failed web site is the marketing, the format and the medium for delivery of his writing, not the quality.
>> Mark Hamill could actually *act*
No, Mark Hamill really actually couldn't act at all.
... if they'd planned on calling it "Goldmember in Austin Powers".
Think about it baby, yeah.
IIRC Civilisation was a board game LONG LONG before it got converted to a computer game.
Therefore the use of this is an example of the innovation in commercial software development is a poor choice.
Not that I disagree with the posters sentiments, I'm just being pedantic...
There were probably 50000 people in the World Trade Centre. Close to a million within a square mile or two. Those buildings have collapsed and tens of thousands of people have died. This is neither a "test", nor a fitting subject for a smiley.
There's a simple self test...
Why did you name your product OpenIL?
If the answer is "because it sounds like OpenGL" then you've answered your own question.
>works in Gotham City, instead of New York--by putting him in Gotham City, the creators afforded themselves the creative license to put buildings in different places, etc. I always thought Metropolis was New York and Gotham is somewhere around where Chicago should be... that said, with DC comics continuity who knows?
My dad gave me one sage piece of advice that I've taken with me throughout my career... "Work to live," he said, "don't live to work."
I could earn more in London, it's true. Where I am now, though, I work an 8-hour day and have to travel twenty minutes each way to get there. Weekends are mine, holidays are mine. They've got me forty hours a week and at 5pm I'm out of the door... and I don't even think about work until I come back in. I've got a good enough job to afford a house, a car a wife and Diablo II.
No career is worth sacrificing my lifestyle for, because my lifestyle is the only reason I do the job.