PlusNet have had been doing badly for the last year. They announced a fair use policy, cancelled it because the monitoring software wasn't ready and reinstated it months later. Their monitoring software invented a 56 day month a few weeks ago that caused many people, myself included, to go overquota and have usage restrictions imposed. Fortunately, it took only a few days to resolve.
I counted twenty people in my car alone coming back from the Pentagon who were using iPods of various types, three people with Powerbooks/MacBook Pros and two people with brand new Macbooks
You're having a laugh! Twenty five people in your car using Apple products? Did you have four elephants in the boot running Windows laptops, as well?
The Cell processor is interesting. Nintendo may dominate the 2006/7 market with cheap hardware, but the PS3 will gradually gain dominance as the price drops and people learn how to write for it.
Police scrap 10,000 staff after the success of their CCTV channel. A police spokesman stated, "We have spent billions of taxpayers money hiring security staff to monitor CCTV footage. The popularity of the CCTV channel indicates that residents have a real interest in their local surroundings. They are our eyes and ears for policing crime."
The police save money and the politicians justify their next pay rise. Responsibility for catching criminals is moved to the public who pay for the privilege. Meanwhile a 15 year old male is mugged and no one is watching it because the world cup is on the other channel. Police operate on a shoe string and cannot justify the expense of checking CCTV footage for small crimes.
*sigh* People wonder why I'm cynical. I wonder why they aren't.
If civilization has deteriorated to the point that the future critters no longer have the technology to detect the danger, maybe a good old fashioned dose of mutation will kick-start them back on the path!
It looks like I can't write that term paper. I can't connect to my word processor.
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The development community is fantastic. I have no urge to buy a Mac at the moment, but I may reconsider. Most companies would stumble when making a major platform jump, but Apple are going strong.
Fantastic! I hope they release a robot with a realistic alternate mode for the consumer market. This could be bigger than...erm.... those stupid robo sapien creatures we got at christmas.
It's better than the stupid auto-transforming Armada Optimus Prime. For those who have never seen it, the trailer transformed by itself and became the legs for Super Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, the mechanism is dog slow, sounds like an aircraft taking off, and is completely dull.
>The researchers were surprised to learn the 3m long dinosaur sported a spectacular feathered crest on its head which may have been brightly coloured."
I'm glad the Xbox 360 is getting some games. It's been hilarious watching the magazines salivate over the launch titles. Imagine Publishing's 360 magazine (UK) launched four months prior to the launch of the console. I bet they were tired of filling the entire mag with previews.
There are other types of discrimination. A former employer claimed their unofficial policy had been, until the year before I started, to hire people who had siblings only. Those who did not have a brother or sister were considered to have fewer social skills.
>This is year 22 of me using a Microsoft OS...virus free. >The most important component for virus protection is the one sitting between the chair and the >keyboard. Everything else (including OS choice) is largely irrelevant.
You fell for Microsoft's viral marketing.
I'd like to mention that a virus checker is no protection if it doesn't recognise the virus. I was using some crappy virus software in 1999. My machine was infected with the WinCIH virus. It destroyed my BIOS and overwrote sections of my hard disk four days before my final paper was due. Fortunately, the paper was only 2500 words and I had a printed copy I could retype. I managed to retrieve the data a few months later, but I had to quickly buy a new motherboard to resurrect the machine. Nowadays I use a decent well-known virus checker and disable BIOS updates. -- Avoid miner viruses by covering the shaft.
Amazon UK also sell select episodes from the first season for DVD players capable of playing region 2. The discs are reasonably cheap at £2.99 and £4.99 respectively.
Data: This one's very sticky. It's hard to ever say that data formats are dead, since some archive somewhere will need to keep buying it. However, it's very hard to actually get new TK cartridges, data-quality cassette tapes, 8-inch floppies, paper tape, optical tape, drum drives, core memory or any other non-PC, non-mainframe memory format of 25 or more years ago.
Any serious data archive will have implemented a plan to move data to a new media format and, in most cases, migrate it to a new file formats. The original media may be stored in some basement (beneath a "beware of the leopard" sign) but it shouldn't be the only method of access.
"He said the overheating problem will be the most common and that this is what I have. (If your console turns off or the screen freezes 90% of the time its an over heating issue"
Balance a bottle of milk on the console. It worked on the ZX81 20 years ago. If it doesn't, hard cheese.
" That's like taking some lossy jpgs, printing them out on paper, laying them down on the floor, taking digital photos of the paper photos, and keeping THOSE lossy jpgs."
Dude, no respectable geek can see their floor space under the pizza boxes.
The HIRA gene is involved in the events necessary for the fertilisation that take place once a sperm enters an egg. Faults in this gene might explain why some couples struggle to get pregnant despite having healthy sperm.
I'm confused. My knee jerk reaction is too blame the parents for everything. Now they say the fault lies with a gene. How dare Slashdot challenge my worldview!
My college flatmate made a game on the Amiga, outdoing several of similar commercial games. (He never sold it but it got him hired at Rockstar).
It must have been a great game. Why not release it for free? The Amiga market has shrunk to a shadow of its former self and there are thousands (or at least a few hundred) who are crying out for new previously unreleased games to play on their machine.
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PlusNet have had been doing badly for the last year. They announced a fair use policy, cancelled it because the monitoring software wasn't ready and reinstated it months later. Their monitoring software invented a 56 day month a few weeks ago that caused many people, myself included, to go overquota and have usage restrictions imposed. Fortunately, it took only a few days to resolve.
A reptile that lived 225 million years ago had triangular-shaped wings like the delta-wings of some jets.
No, some jets have delta-wings like reptiles that lived 225 million years ago.
I hope their security is good. Unified payment systems present a target to hackers.
Does anyone want to make a bet on the likelihood it will be stolen by a guy called Miles Mayhem?
Sorry, I'm an immature adult.
I'm curious, why is everyone promoting it as a new feature for instant messaging? Yahoo Messenger has had voice chat facilities for ages.
I counted twenty people in my car alone coming back from the Pentagon who were using iPods of various types, three people with Powerbooks/MacBook Pros and two people with brand new Macbooks
You're having a laugh! Twenty five people in your car using Apple products? Did you have four elephants in the boot running Windows laptops, as well?
The Cell processor is interesting. Nintendo may dominate the 2006/7 market with cheap hardware, but the PS3 will gradually gain dominance as the price drops and people learn how to write for it.
Police scrap 10,000 staff after the success of their CCTV channel. A police spokesman stated, "We have spent billions of taxpayers money hiring security staff to monitor CCTV footage. The popularity of the CCTV channel indicates that residents have a real interest in their local surroundings. They are our eyes and ears for policing crime."
The police save money and the politicians justify their next pay rise. Responsibility for catching criminals is moved to the public who pay for the privilege. Meanwhile a 15 year old male is mugged and no one is watching it because the world cup is on the other channel. Police operate on a shoe string and cannot justify the expense of checking CCTV footage for small crimes.
*sigh* People wonder why I'm cynical. I wonder why they aren't.
Seriously. It's Noo-Noo without the casing.
Scientists, eh? They'll be getting ideas from Postman Pat.
Never. The ultimate quake setup requires two hands - one on the mouse and other on the keyboard.
If civilization has deteriorated to the point that the future critters no longer have the technology to detect the danger, maybe a good old fashioned dose of mutation will kick-start them back on the path!
Good idea. Three heads are better than one!
It looks like I can't write that term paper. I can't connect to my word processor.
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But can it run.... never mind.
The development community is fantastic. I have no urge to buy a Mac at the moment, but I may reconsider. Most companies would stumble when making a major platform jump, but Apple are going strong.
Fantastic! I hope they release a robot with a realistic alternate mode for the consumer market. This could be bigger than...erm.... those stupid robo sapien creatures we got at christmas.
It's better than the stupid auto-transforming Armada Optimus Prime. For those who have never seen it, the trailer transformed by itself and became the legs for Super Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, the mechanism is dog slow, sounds like an aircraft taking off, and is completely dull.
>The researchers were surprised to learn the 3m long dinosaur sported a spectacular feathered crest on its head which may have been brightly coloured."
Other historians believe it was a mop of black hair
I'm glad the Xbox 360 is getting some games. It's been hilarious watching the magazines salivate over the launch titles. Imagine Publishing's 360 magazine (UK) launched four months prior to the launch of the console. I bet they were tired of filling the entire mag with previews.
There are other types of discrimination. A former employer claimed their unofficial policy had been, until the year before I started, to hire people who had siblings only. Those who did not have a brother or sister were considered to have fewer social skills.
>This is year 22 of me using a Microsoft OS...virus free.
>The most important component for virus protection is the one sitting between the chair and the >keyboard. Everything else (including OS choice) is largely irrelevant.
You fell for Microsoft's viral marketing.
I'd like to mention that a virus checker is no protection if it doesn't recognise the virus. I was using some crappy virus software in 1999. My machine was infected with the WinCIH virus. It destroyed my BIOS and overwrote sections of my hard disk four days before my final paper was due. Fortunately, the paper was only 2500 words and I had a printed copy I could retype. I managed to retrieve the data a few months later, but I had to quickly buy a new motherboard to resurrect the machine. Nowadays I use a decent well-known virus checker and disable BIOS updates.
--
Avoid miner viruses by covering the shaft.
Amazon UK also sell select episodes from the first season for DVD players capable of playing region 2. The discs are reasonably cheap at £2.99 and £4.99 respectively.
Data: This one's very sticky. It's hard to ever say that data formats are dead, since some archive somewhere will need to keep buying it. However, it's very hard to actually get new TK cartridges, data-quality cassette tapes, 8-inch floppies, paper tape, optical tape, drum drives, core memory or any other non-PC, non-mainframe memory format of 25 or more years ago.
Any serious data archive will have implemented a plan to move data to a new media format and, in most cases, migrate it to a new file formats. The original media may be stored in some basement (beneath a "beware of the leopard" sign) but it shouldn't be the only method of access.
"He said the overheating problem will be the most common and that this is what I have. (If your console turns off or the screen freezes 90% of the time its an over heating issue"
Balance a bottle of milk on the console. It worked on the ZX81 20 years ago. If it doesn't, hard cheese.
" That's like taking some lossy jpgs, printing them out on paper, laying them down on the floor, taking digital photos of the paper photos, and keeping THOSE lossy jpgs."
Dude, no respectable geek can see their floor space under the pizza boxes.
The HIRA gene is involved in the events necessary for the fertilisation that take place once a sperm enters an egg. Faults in this gene might explain why some couples struggle to get pregnant despite having healthy sperm .
I'm confused. My knee jerk reaction is too blame the parents for everything. Now they say the fault lies with a gene. How dare Slashdot challenge my worldview!
It must have been a great game. Why not release it for free? The Amiga market has shrunk to a shadow of its former self and there are thousands (or at least a few hundred) who are crying out for new previously unreleased games to play on their machine.
Will Yellowtab raise BeOS from the ashes and inflame public interest in the OS?
Magic-8 says "Don't bet on it".