... but I do most of my reading on a Kindle Touch. It's always charged, as it can run for six weeks between charges and there are just less distractions -- plus it's so much easier to read when outside.
I have the Ultimate Edition of Origins -- I got it from Steam. (I really like Steam -- you can use it offline and I never have any problems with playing the games I've bought). However -- DA:O is awful: often the log in lags behind the DLC loading, so it doesn't work first time, so you have to do it again. Very irritating. Also, it clearly means that when EA eventually, inevitably take the authentication servers down, I will lose my DLC and associated saves.
You just have to head over to the Neverwinter Nights forums (now closed) to see what happens in these cases -- all of the Premium Modules for Neverwinter Nights called home when they were launched, and now no-one can play them because Atari took the servers down. Since they took them down without patching the modules so they could still be played, they knew what they were doing and did it cynically.
Are you the scheduling police now? Will you be jumping in to flag all the US stories published at what you decide is out of hours because they may not be of interest to anyone outside the US? Thought not.
Perkins' contribution to comedy, and to broadcasting in general, is acknowledged and appreciated all over the world. Not just in Britain.
No problem with telemarketing? How does that explain my weekly phonecall asking me if I want to subscribe to Jyllandsposten? Or the regular "We're offering an insurance check up"?
People did not give their lives so that citizens could chose between one group of lying scum and another group of lying scum.
People died to give us the vote, not to validate disgusting evil leaders. To associate these two things is to deny their sacrifice.
I chose not to vote because there is nolonger anyone worth voting for - and it makes me ashamed that millions have sacrificed theirselves for it to mean nothing.
I was working at a big broadcasting corporation a few years ago. A senior director, known for his fabulously short fuse, burst into the support office shouting "It doesn't work! Why does nothing bloody work round here?"
I said "What doesn't work?"
"My bloody computer - I have important work to do and it doesn't bloody work. Come and fix it. And I don't want this to happen again."
I looked around at my colleagues, my eyes saying farewell to them, and walked down the hall behind this tall, raving man.
When I got into his office, he pointed at his laptop docking station and said "There. Fix it."
There was no laptop in the docking station. He'd left it at home, and had merely been jabbing the power button on the monitor and swearing.
I pointed out the obvious to him and left, quickly. Six months later, he was gone.
An interstellar war wouldn't start on a misunderstanding?
On the contrary, given the vast cultural differences and shock of the unknown involved, I can't think of a more plausible way for an interstellar war to start.
It's certainly not going to be over resources, as a planet's resouces would be nothing compared to the cost of such an enterprise.
Haldeman tells a convincing story, from a very human viewpoint, of how war changes society and the individuals caught up in it. I especially love how the focus of the book is brought inward, from devastating weapons employed thoughout the campaigns to the climactic battle being fought with just sticks and stones.
Utterly timeless and compelling -- anyone who reads it will be touched by at least one of the ideas it contains.
You are completely right about Nielsen. He is entirely clueless.
I personally have no idea why people hold him to be a usability guru. His book, Designing Web Usability is interesting -- but then it's just a collection of screen grabs of good (and some bad sites).
You only have to look at his website (http://www.useit.com) to realise that he's a fool. I was going to count the number of links in the unrelated jumble of... stuff... on his page but it was just much too depressing.
They've chosen to name themselves in a language that doesn't encompass computers out of sheer pretention. Digita is the feminine singular of the noun "finger". Their new university is actually called "The Technique of the Finger".
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... but I do most of my reading on a Kindle Touch. It's always charged, as it can run for six weeks between charges and there are just less distractions -- plus it's so much easier to read when outside.
I have the Ultimate Edition of Origins -- I got it from Steam. (I really like Steam -- you can use it offline and I never have any problems with playing the games I've bought). However -- DA:O is awful: often the log in lags behind the DLC loading, so it doesn't work first time, so you have to do it again. Very irritating. Also, it clearly means that when EA eventually, inevitably take the authentication servers down, I will lose my DLC and associated saves.
You just have to head over to the Neverwinter Nights forums (now closed) to see what happens in these cases -- all of the Premium Modules for Neverwinter Nights called home when they were launched, and now no-one can play them because Atari took the servers down. Since they took them down without patching the modules so they could still be played, they knew what they were doing and did it cynically.
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... they have nothing for me to read.
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Are you the scheduling police now? Will you be jumping in to flag all the US stories published at what you decide is out of hours because they may not be of interest to anyone outside the US? Thought not.
Perkins' contribution to comedy, and to broadcasting in general, is acknowledged and appreciated all over the world. Not just in Britain.
Wait - That's exactly the same number of people whose records the HM Revenue and Customs department lost.
Quick - someone funnier than me make a connection!
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Thomas Pynchon knows more than he's telling.
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No problem with telemarketing? How does that explain my weekly phonecall asking me if I want to subscribe to Jyllandsposten? Or the regular "We're offering an insurance check up"?
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I am tired of this twisted argument.
People did not give their lives so that citizens could chose between one group of lying scum and another group of lying scum.
People died to give us the vote, not to validate disgusting evil leaders. To associate these two things is to deny their sacrifice.
I chose not to vote because there is nolonger anyone worth voting for - and it makes me ashamed that millions have sacrificed theirselves for it to mean nothing.
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"conventional chemical rockets being far too expensive"
Hilarious that cost should be an issue when it comes to saving the world.
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... you can actually say it.
Cit-i-zen-di-waherr????
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... until he gets killed in a drive-by from MC Hawking.
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I was working at a big broadcasting corporation a few years ago. A senior director, known for his fabulously short fuse, burst into the support office shouting "It doesn't work! Why does nothing bloody work round here?"
I said "What doesn't work?"
"My bloody computer - I have important work to do and it doesn't bloody work. Come and fix it. And I don't want this to happen again."
I looked around at my colleagues, my eyes saying farewell to them, and walked down the hall behind this tall, raving man.
When I got into his office, he pointed at his laptop docking station and said "There. Fix it."
There was no laptop in the docking station. He'd left it at home, and had merely been jabbing the power button on the monitor and swearing.
I pointed out the obvious to him and left, quickly. Six months later, he was gone.
An interstellar war wouldn't start on a misunderstanding?
On the contrary, given the vast cultural differences and shock of the unknown involved, I can't think of a more plausible way for an interstellar war to start.
It's certainly not going to be over resources, as a planet's resouces would be nothing compared to the cost of such an enterprise.
Haldeman tells a convincing story, from a very human viewpoint, of how war changes society and the individuals caught up in it. I especially love how the focus of the book is brought inward, from devastating weapons employed thoughout the campaigns to the climactic battle being fought with just sticks and stones.
Utterly timeless and compelling -- anyone who reads it will be touched by at least one of the ideas it contains.
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None of that is true.
Montini bricks came after Lego by a long way.
The Lego Automatic Binding brick first appeared in 1949. Montini, a Dutch company, not from the UK, began selling compatible bricks in the early 60s.
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Who the hell is marking this crap as insightful?
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You are completely right about Nielsen. He is entirely clueless.
... stuff ... on his page but it was just much too depressing.
I personally have no idea why people hold him to be a usability guru. His book, Designing Web Usability is interesting -- but then it's just a collection of screen grabs of good (and some bad sites).
You only have to look at his website (http://www.useit.com) to realise that he's a fool. I was going to count the number of links in the unrelated jumble of
They've chosen to name themselves in a language that doesn't encompass computers out of sheer pretention. Digita is the feminine singular of the noun "finger". Their new university is actually called "The Technique of the Finger".
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