Have to agree on the Battlefield Earth front, I love that book. The copy I have states on the cover "soon to be made into a full length feature film!" which when it did eventually happen absolutely did no justice the book whatsoever.
On a side note, my company's sister company has been told they will have to wait until after the Olympics have finished before BT will enable their FTTC connection.
Even though the exchange is enabled and ready to go (and they are in the building next door to the exchange).
Apparently BT have all their engineers on call in London.
$1500-$2000 for a non gaming laptop is completely overpriced. For an average non techie user (Facebook, email and browsing) you shouldn't need to spend more than $600-$700.
4) There is an obesity epidemic among other mammals, including zoo animals that are on controlled diets.
Not much of an obesity problem with the same breeds of animals in the wild though is there? Zoo animals get fat because they are not living as nature intended. ie. not working for their food / not being hunted for food.
put the price of food up. Not what people want to hear nor really what should be done, but putting up the price of food would make the average person thinner.
In an ideal world we would show restraint and only eat what we needed to, but human nature makes most people eat lots of food when it is cheap and easily available.
If you want to protect your children, don't let them use the internet unsupervised and use a service like OpenDNS to block access to whatever you don't want them to see.
Blocking everyone's connection isn't the answer, and having an opt in scheme is more or less giving the government a list of people who look at porn which is an invasion of privacy.
Obviously not, in much the same way that enforcement agencies monitoring any other illegal content wouldn't be.
Police and civilian IT forensic staff have to witness all kinds of completely illegal images/content on a daily basis and there is no question of any wrongdoing on their part.
I also bought GTA3 on the iPhone and the control system is hideous, I think I played it for about 5 minutes before giving up:).
The only games which play well so far are the ones which have been developed with the touch screens in mind from the ground up or like you say point and click games.
The upgrade cycle to keep up with PC gaming is not what it once was. I am still playing on a PC which is 3-4 years old with new releases and having no issues at all. Obviously I can't run them maxxed out, but they still look good and run smoothly.
I'd say tablets and smartphones will make dedicated mobile gaming platforms (Nintendo DS, PS Vita etc) obsolete but will have very little impact on console and PC sales where gaming is concerned. What he is talking about is casual gaming which although making shitloads of cash is not what the average console and PC gamer would class as gaming.
What smartphone/tablet game companies are doing is tapping into a userbase of people who wouldn't normally play games as they wouldn't buy a device just to play games, but as they have the devicealready they then start to look at what can be done with it.
This is why most of the type of games you find on the iPhone/iPad/Android devices are aimed at killing a few minutes while standing waiting for a bus not taking up hours and hours which is what most traditional gamers want/expect from their games.
My wife is a prime example of the new breed of smartphone/tablet/browser 'gamer'. I have had a PC and various gaming consoles for the last 20 years and she has never shown the slightest bit of interest in gaming as it took up too much time and had to be done at home. Now she plays games like Angry Birds on her smartphone and Facebook.
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Have to agree on the Battlefield Earth front, I love that book. The copy I have states on the cover "soon to be made into a full length feature film!" which when it did eventually happen absolutely did no justice the book whatsoever.
On a side note, my company's sister company has been told they will have to wait until after the Olympics have finished before BT will enable their FTTC connection.
Even though the exchange is enabled and ready to go (and they are in the building next door to the exchange).
Apparently BT have all their engineers on call in London.
Isn't it US comedy films that are filled with fuckwits?
fixed it for you
This relates to something which happened in a country which has no freedom of speech act. Therefore freedom of speech is irrelevant.
I finally gave up on Firefox a few months ago after using it from the first version.
Continually locking up on Google images was the last straw.
Moved over to Chrome and after the initial period of hating it (because it was an unfamiliar program) now love it.
Play multiplayer games at work in scheduled sessions, great for team bonding and de-stressing.
zero fucks were given
I do wonder whether the likes of Murdoch had a hand in that to try and generate new customers for his BSkyB network
You're obviously far more intelligent than me, I haven't a fucking clue what you are talking about.
Jean Michel Jarre is excellent for working to, particularly Oxygene and Equinoxe.
$1500-$2000 for a non gaming laptop is completely overpriced. For an average non techie user (Facebook, email and browsing) you shouldn't need to spend more than $600-$700.
4) There is an obesity epidemic among other mammals, including zoo animals that are on controlled diets.
Not much of an obesity problem with the same breeds of animals in the wild though is there? Zoo animals get fat because they are not living as nature intended. ie. not working for their food / not being hunted for food.
put the price of food up. Not what people want to hear nor really what should be done, but putting up the price of food would make the average person thinner.
In an ideal world we would show restraint and only eat what we needed to, but human nature makes most people eat lots of food when it is cheap and easily available.
If you want to protect your children, don't let them use the internet unsupervised and use a service like OpenDNS to block access to whatever you don't want them to see.
Blocking everyone's connection isn't the answer, and having an opt in scheme is more or less giving the government a list of people who look at porn which is an invasion of privacy.
Shame everything was blurred, maybe switch on autofocus next time eh?
It all depends as to whether he added the code without permission from the higher ups.
I must admit, it sounds to me like he's being turned into a sacrificial offering.
There is censorship and monitoring everywhere, don't fool yourself. Some countries are just more blatent about it.
Obviously not, in much the same way that enforcement agencies monitoring any other illegal content wouldn't be.
Police and civilian IT forensic staff have to witness all kinds of completely illegal images/content on a daily basis and there is no question of any wrongdoing on their part.
But then you knew that anyway.
according to https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm that's one hell of a password :)
I also bought GTA3 on the iPhone and the control system is hideous, I think I played it for about 5 minutes before giving up :).
The only games which play well so far are the ones which have been developed with the touch screens in mind from the ground up or like you say point and click games.
The upgrade cycle to keep up with PC gaming is not what it once was. I am still playing on a PC which is 3-4 years old with new releases and having no issues at all. Obviously I can't run them maxxed out, but they still look good and run smoothly.
I'd say tablets and smartphones will make dedicated mobile gaming platforms (Nintendo DS, PS Vita etc) obsolete but will have very little impact on console and PC sales where gaming is concerned. What he is talking about is casual gaming which although making shitloads of cash is not what the average console and PC gamer would class as gaming. What smartphone/tablet game companies are doing is tapping into a userbase of people who wouldn't normally play games as they wouldn't buy a device just to play games, but as they have the devicealready they then start to look at what can be done with it.
This is why most of the type of games you find on the iPhone/iPad/Android devices are aimed at killing a few minutes while standing waiting for a bus not taking up hours and hours which is what most traditional gamers want/expect from their games.
My wife is a prime example of the new breed of smartphone/tablet/browser 'gamer'. I have had a PC and various gaming consoles for the last 20 years and she has never shown the slightest bit of interest in gaming as it took up too much time and had to be done at home. Now she plays games like Angry Birds on her smartphone and Facebook.
A common misconception. Porn is not illegal in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Internet_pornography http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/faqvideo.htm
now they can lose money even faster!
sure