I never said anything about the charity stuff......if that's how he wants to distribute his wealth then fair play to him for that - shame there aren't a few more multi-billionaires doing the same and embarrasing their governments into doing more in the process.
I stand by the knighthoods-for-services comment though - why do so many prominent businessmen get knighthoods do you think? For making vast profits for their companies? Surely that is what they are paid for. So why?
Theyd be obviously screwed over like the lousy dial-up dogs they are.
Err - last time I looked, most broadband services are on dynamic IP too - unless of course you can afford the premium price they charge for static IPs.
As it happens, I agree with you - I was just being (possibly overly) pedantic about the specific use of the phrase "MP3 player" when describing something that played other formats and thus should have the more generic description
Doctor Fun calls itself a cartoon, rather than a comic.
From the FAQ:
Is Doctor Fun the oldest comic on the Internet?
No. That would be "Where the Buffalo Roam" by Hans Bjordahl. "Where the Buffalo Roam" started in 1991, and had its own Usenet group long before Doctor Fun came along, and is still running on the web.
Was Doctor Fun the first cartoon on the World Wide Web?
There you go! You've got it - Doctor Fun was the first cartoon on the World Wide Web.
Here's the announcement from NCSA. (Of course, that link to the cartoon doesn't go anywhere now.)
I can now upgrade to a 10Mb connection for ~ £50 a month.
Odd - I'm paying £35 for mine. As I recall the £50 price point was for the old 4Mb/s link (now also being upgraded to 10 Mb/s) but I don't remember from the email we got whether the price will drop accordingly, or whether those users get faster upstream speeds for their extra
I think it'll be ~348Kb up, once I'm upgraded to 4Mb down
I've a feeling you'll be getting 256Kb/s (up from 128) as the old 2Mb/s (mine) and 4 Mb/s links are moving from 256 to 384. Still not nearly enough though...
I remember that one (I think - if it was a UK incident)...
If it's the one I'm thinking of, I was rather lucky as the disk also had a virus checker on it, which I happened to run first - it detected the virus and, as a result, I managed to remove it before I even knew it was there...:^D
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Assuming of course that the firewall setup at work allows access to the sites you'd like to visit...
"No, it was theirs. They have the receipt to prove it"
;^D
Try telling that to the record/movie industries...
these are music CDs
A fine statement - but with two minor drawbacks:
One, they are NOT music CDs;
Two, they are NOT music CDs, as you won't find the CD logo on these discs because they don't strictly adhere to the standards for music CDs.
Now technically speaking that's only one drawback, but it was such a big one that I thought it needed mentioning twice...
I did say "so many" rather than "every" - so yes, some awards (like Elton's) can be justified
I never said anything about the charity stuff... ...if that's how he wants to distribute his wealth then fair play to him for that - shame there aren't a few more multi-billionaires doing the same and embarrasing their governments into doing more in the process.
I stand by the knighthoods-for-services comment though - why do so many prominent businessmen get knighthoods do you think? For making vast profits for their companies? Surely that is what they are paid for. So why?
You missed out the word "honourary" - he isn't a "proper" knight.
Anyway - most knighthoods are for services rendered to the governmant of the time...
inaccurate
Just like the WMD claims then?
Nah... it should be the left side of the road! ;^D
None of the IM systems get throught ours - so my guess is "not at all" in our case
Theyd be obviously screwed over like the lousy dial-up dogs they are.
Err - last time I looked, most broadband services are on dynamic IP too - unless of course you can afford the premium price they charge for static IPs.
2 days eh? Care to prove yourself?
A link in reply here will do nicely.
Thanks in advance...
As it happens, I agree with you - I was just being (possibly overly) pedantic about the specific use of the phrase "MP3 player" when describing something that played other formats and thus should have the more generic description
cannot play OGG/FLAC/SHN/APE etc. is not a good MP3 player
[pedant] Why does an MP3 player need to play these? A Digital Audio player maybe... [/pedant]
From the FAQ:
Is Doctor Fun the oldest comic on the Internet?
No. That would be "Where the Buffalo Roam"
by Hans Bjordahl. "Where the Buffalo Roam" started in 1991, and had its
own Usenet group long before Doctor Fun came along, and is still
running on the web.
Was Doctor Fun the first cartoon on the World Wide Web?
There you go! You've got it - Doctor Fun was the first cartoon on the World Wide Web.
Here's the announcement from NCSA. (Of course, that link to the cartoon doesn't go anywhere now.)
I can now upgrade to a 10Mb connection for ~ £50 a month.
Odd - I'm paying £35 for mine. As I recall the £50 price point was for the old 4Mb/s link (now also being upgraded to 10 Mb/s) but I don't remember from the email we got whether the price will drop accordingly, or whether those users get faster upstream speeds for their extra
I think it'll be ~348Kb up, once I'm upgraded to 4Mb down
I've a feeling you'll be getting 256Kb/s (up from 128) as the old 2Mb/s (mine) and 4 Mb/s links are moving from 256 to 384. Still not nearly enough though...
Serious. Same thing with bees too as I recall.
Read it again...
From the summary above:
To render the screen in the GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium
From the TechEd article:
He told APC today that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 memory
I remember that one (I think - if it was a UK incident)...
:^D
If it's the one I'm thinking of, I was rather lucky as the disk also had a virus checker on it, which I happened to run first - it detected the virus and, as a result, I managed to remove it before I even knew it was there...
Standard Windows install size, isn't it?
Oops - that's just Notepad - sorry...
And I'm sure that the post just above mine saying exactly that wasn't there 30 seconds ago...
According to The Register MS still has the Twin Towers in all their finery (but Apple HQ seems not to have been built yet)
That's more powerful than the P3, isn't it?
Firefox was the book/film
Foxfire was the radar system in the MiG-25 Foxbat
MS or Nintendo didn't have actual hardware at their demos, so surely the comment applies to all 3?
And the Xbox display was running on what exactly?