Microsoft loses money on the X Box hardware and hopes to recoup it on consumers buying licensed software. If you're only going to use it as an X terminal and not buy any games then you *are* hurting Microsoft....
That financial companies share informtaion. I really hate filling in the same information on these credit card forms and then posting it off.
Wouldn't be great if you just got unsoliciated credit cards through the post. You could just choose to use them or not to use them. I like having 20 plus cards in my wallet so I can impress the blondes down my local bar.
Just another example of the sensible use of technology which helps consumers and corporates. Just like those friendly 'Smart Tags' in future versions of XP.
AOL has the right business model. Pay a bit extra and you get reams and reams of added value content.
Salon, I am sure, would appeal to the vast majority of AOL users who are well regarded on the net for their levels of erudition. I myself would consider getting an AOL subscription purely to access the wealth of good writers.
Come on, Steve Case, to the rescue of this net institution...
Well I didn't qualify it by saying that cheap NT/Windows 2000 admins were any good. I am just saying in a recession company's cut costs where they can....
They won't have the money to spend more unix admins when they can get a load of NT/Windows 2000 jockeys for a lot cheaper. And they have to retrain their sales staff and get the consumer to accept an inferior operating system for the puposes of games, browsing and office apps which what the consumer wants.
Anyway MS marketing budget benefits PC makers and the big ones get very advatangeous deals on Windows licenses.
Actually I know all this.,..
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Just trying an experiment to see which types of trolls get modded down the quickest.
Here's my results:
Anti-Linux, pro-microsoft: 10 mins to get -1
Anti-civil liberties: 1hr 30 mins to get to 0
Anti-American: 3hrs to get 0
Obscue Ukanian reference to gays: never modded down
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What about Windows 2000? I think you'll find that a slightly more advanced operating system than the dinosaur junk you're using.
What did humanity get out of it... A few moon rocks and the non-stick frying pan. It was just an excuse for a phallocentric president like Kennedy to get off on his Mooon 'shot'.
The Apollo program was just a secret subsidy to US aeronautics industry. It's no accident that it was built up during the reigns of the most corrupt Presidents that the US ever had, Nixon and LBJ. A hell of lot of goldbricking went on. And it served as distraction from the Vietnam War.
In Old Compton Street, there's a shop called the 'Clone Zone'. When ever I go past it on the way to the Admiral Duncan pub, I see lots of identical looking guys who all have short bleached hair, moustaches and leather caps coming out of it.
It makes be proud to be British to for once the UK having beaten the vaunted scientific elite of the USA .
As a member of the Labour Party (joined May 1997), I find your aspersions cast upon Jack Straw and Keith Vaz nauseauting. I have actually met Jack Straw and while he is tough on crime, he also knows there's a balance to be struck between so-called personal freedoms and the abilty of the police to catch kiddy porn perverts.
Warrants and other such legal niceties like the right to silence merely warn off these people. Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omlette, the eggs being these old fashioned 'rights' and and the omlette being the good of the society.
As for the police, there have been a few miscarriages of justice admittedly but on the whole the good old fashioned Briish bobby is the salt of the earth and I would trust them to make the right decisions. Middle England has nothing to fear from monitoring of their E-mails and where they go on the web.
We in Britain trust our government and any powers that they take are normally reasonable. We elected them. This has been proved through out our long history. In theory the British government has unlimited powers but rarely use them. And the British police are one of the least corrupt in the world.
I think with the amount of kiddy porn, race hate, subversives etc on the net, it's time stop believing that the net can regulate itself and start working with the FBI, Interpol and other law enforcement agencies. I think the powers in RIP act are necessary and unless you have something hide, there's nothing to fear. Are the police going to monitor you surfing Slashdot and the like.
Re:Snatch, and another British movie to see
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If you want to see something in the same vein (ho, ho) as Trainspotting, I would recommend 'Human Traffic'. It's about drug culture in another British provincial city, Cardiff, and is a lot less bleak and anti-drugs as Trainspotting as it deals with Ecstacy rather than heroin. It's the story of a 'lost' weekend and shows a group of friends who have dead end jobs and basically live for the weekend clubbing/partying
The soundtrack is excellent and it contains a guest appearence by Howard Marks, the notorious dope smuggler. As I was involved in the 'rave culture' in the early 90s, the scenes in the movie bought back a certain nostalga.
I don't know if it got a major release in the states but I would recommend trying track it down. Here's another review.
Yeah, it's really funny that the London terminus of the Eurostar train connecting Paris to London is called 'Waterloo' station (Waterloo being the name of the final battle that Napolean lost and ended his rule).
But then again the French have a Paris metro station called 'Stalingrad' which probably offends many Germans.
The French people themselves seem to like consuming USAnian crappy videos, films, food and pop music just as much as the rest of the world. The problem is the political elite who all went to these Grand Ecoles and get brainwashed into how great a culture France is and how naughty these Anglo-Saxons are who have replaced French as the defacto international language.
I like French films myself but they're not very accessible compared to the latest Hollywood special effects blockbusters.
About Paul Johnson From The UK
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He's a British historian who is frequently known as 'Bonkers' Johnson due to the often mad views expressed in his Daily Mail weekly column which takes an extreme Thatcherite view.
His writing style is good but he should be taken with a large pinch of salt as he has gone from being a left winger in the 1960s and 70s (He used to edit the New Statesman which is the socialist's weekly magazine) to an ultra right wing conservative in the 80's and 90's (worships Magaret Thatcher).
He wrote a book published in 1994 called 'Intellectuals' where he looked at the personal lives of Rosseau, Marx, Satre, Tolstoy and showed them up as hypocrites. However he too was guilty of the crime as he preached on about family values in his newspaper columns and was found to be paying prostitutes so he could spank them.
I have been quite disapppointed by the titles avalibale at the moment in the UK. I got mine last week as a package deal with three titles: Ridge Racer V, FIfa 2001 and Fantavision.
Ridge Racer V is a very boring driving game with not that amazing graphics. Fifa 2001 (soccer) is quite fun with two players but isn't the most orginal game and Fantavision hasn't arrived yet due to Dixon's (an UK electonics retailer) incompentence. I rented Time Splitters from Blockbusters and I thought it had pretty graphics but the single player mode was pretty bad although with two players its a good old fashioned bllod bath..
Also I ordered a memory card and a dvd remote and these haven't arrived either.
So at the moment I'm not too impressed by the experience as I can't save any games and using the game controller as a remote is pretty cumbersome.
On the positive side the graphics are pretty smooth and lok good on TV and the DVD playback is also very good. Some of the games coming out next year also look very good
I would advise people in the UK to wait until Spring to buy one when all the acessories are in good quantity and there are wider selection of games.
The UK not having a proper constitution is somewhat negated by the incorporation of the European Human Rights into law here.
But recent legislation such as RIP, Freedom Of Information Bill etc is very scary and shows how much of an elected dictatorship this country has. There are very little checks and balances if you have a whopping great majority like Blair's now or Thtcher's in 1980s. We are basically 'trusting' the politicos not to go to far and relying on archiac customs.
Also any political party with a majority in the house of commons can alter the constitution and if the tories get back in, they could abolish the Scottish parliament just like the GLC.
Actually the odd man out in Europe is the UK (with Ireland) which is based on common law like the USA.
The other are more similar to the French Napoleanic code as Napolean imposed this system on most countries in Europe during his rule.
The most important thing is that the EU law which is more and more involved in IP is based on French law.
Well its a problem that Govt and new Labour in particular got with 'Britain' not the British people themselves.
The problem for the government is that British history is so imperialistic and militaristic. Why couldn't we be nice and meek like the Swiss or Swedish so we wouldn't have any guilt over being a worldpower in the 19th century and could become good 'Europeans'.
I think that report was totally discredited by the Govt, most elements of the media and the general public.
It was produced by some chippy ethnic minority types and some Guardian reading self-hating white liberals.
British is a pretty inclusive term as it means the inhabitants of the island of Britain. English, Scottish and Welsh are more ethnically based terms.
I think that unfortunately if the 'luddites' tried to protest abou this peacefully, then they would have been arrested and jailed as the UK govt at the time outlawed strikes and unions. Therefore they were partly oppressed by state power.
Anyway the mill owners would use whips and other state sanctioned oppressive methods to keep their workers in line. But so long as its private business opressing you then that's OK....
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Microsoft loses money on the X Box hardware and hopes to recoup it on consumers buying licensed software. If you're only going to use it as an X terminal and not buy any games then you *are* hurting Microsoft....
Rubbish. I've ordered it off Amazon a couple of weeks ago for delivery to the UK.
That financial companies share informtaion. I really hate filling in the same information on these credit card forms and then posting it off.
Wouldn't be great if you just got unsoliciated credit cards through the post. You could just choose to use them or not to use them. I like having 20 plus cards in my wallet so I can impress the blondes down my local bar.
Just another example of the sensible use of technology which helps consumers and corporates. Just like those friendly 'Smart Tags' in future versions of XP.
Now I'll be able to get Tux Racer and 36 different versions of solitaire for PS2. Plus all the games people were developing for the Idrema...
I'll never be off my PS2 ever...
AOL has the right business model. Pay a bit extra and you get reams and reams of added value content.
Salon, I am sure, would appeal to the vast majority of AOL users who are well regarded on the net for their levels of erudition. I myself would consider getting an AOL subscription purely to access the wealth of good writers.
Come on, Steve Case, to the rescue of this net institution...
Well I didn't qualify it by saying that cheap NT/Windows 2000 admins were any good. I am just saying in a recession company's cut costs where they can....
They won't have the money to spend more unix admins when they can get a load of NT/Windows 2000 jockeys for a lot cheaper. And they have to retrain their sales staff and get the consumer to accept an inferior operating system for the puposes of games, browsing and office apps which what the consumer wants.
Anyway MS marketing budget benefits PC makers and the big ones get very advatangeous deals on Windows licenses.
Just trying an experiment to see which types of trolls get modded down the quickest. Here's my results: Anti-Linux, pro-microsoft: 10 mins to get -1 Anti-civil liberties: 1hr 30 mins to get to 0 Anti-American: 3hrs to get 0 Obscue Ukanian reference to gays: never modded down
What about Windows 2000? I think you'll find that a slightly more advanced operating system than the dinosaur junk you're using.
What did humanity get out of it... A few moon rocks and the non-stick frying pan. It was just an excuse for a phallocentric president like Kennedy to get off on his Mooon 'shot'. The Apollo program was just a secret subsidy to US aeronautics industry. It's no accident that it was built up during the reigns of the most corrupt Presidents that the US ever had, Nixon and LBJ. A hell of lot of goldbricking went on. And it served as distraction from the Vietnam War.
In Old Compton Street, there's a shop called the 'Clone Zone'. When ever I go past it on the way to the Admiral Duncan pub, I see lots of identical looking guys who all have short bleached hair, moustaches and leather caps coming out of it.
It makes be proud to be British to for once the UK having beaten the vaunted scientific elite of the USA .
As a member of the Labour Party (joined May 1997), I find your aspersions cast upon Jack Straw and Keith Vaz nauseauting. I have actually met Jack Straw and while he is tough on crime, he also knows there's a balance to be struck between so-called personal freedoms and the abilty of the police to catch kiddy porn perverts. Warrants and other such legal niceties like the right to silence merely warn off these people. Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omlette, the eggs being these old fashioned 'rights' and and the omlette being the good of the society. As for the police, there have been a few miscarriages of justice admittedly but on the whole the good old fashioned Briish bobby is the salt of the earth and I would trust them to make the right decisions. Middle England has nothing to fear from monitoring of their E-mails and where they go on the web.
We in Britain trust our government and any powers that they take are normally reasonable. We elected them. This has been proved through out our long history. In theory the British government has unlimited powers but rarely use them. And the British police are one of the least corrupt in the world.
I think with the amount of kiddy porn, race hate, subversives etc on the net, it's time stop believing that the net can regulate itself and start working with the FBI, Interpol and other law enforcement agencies. I think the powers in RIP act are necessary and unless you have something hide, there's nothing to fear. Are the police going to monitor you surfing Slashdot and the like.
The soundtrack is excellent and it contains a guest appearence by Howard Marks, the notorious dope smuggler. As I was involved in the 'rave culture' in the early 90s, the scenes in the movie bought back a certain nostalga.
I don't know if it got a major release in the states but I would recommend trying track it down. Here's another review.
Don't come to the UK as we usually get into them at least two years b4 the yanks arrive.
Yeah, it's really funny that the London terminus of the Eurostar train connecting Paris to London is called 'Waterloo' station (Waterloo being the name of the final battle that Napolean lost and ended his rule). But then again the French have a Paris metro station called 'Stalingrad' which probably offends many Germans. The French people themselves seem to like consuming USAnian crappy videos, films, food and pop music just as much as the rest of the world. The problem is the political elite who all went to these Grand Ecoles and get brainwashed into how great a culture France is and how naughty these Anglo-Saxons are who have replaced French as the defacto international language. I like French films myself but they're not very accessible compared to the latest Hollywood special effects blockbusters.
He's a British historian who is frequently known as 'Bonkers' Johnson due to the often mad views expressed in his Daily Mail weekly column which takes an extreme Thatcherite view.
His writing style is good but he should be taken with a large pinch of salt as he has gone from being a left winger in the 1960s and 70s (He used to edit the New Statesman which is the socialist's weekly magazine) to an ultra right wing conservative in the 80's and 90's (worships Magaret Thatcher).
He wrote a book published in 1994 called 'Intellectuals' where he looked at the personal lives of Rosseau, Marx, Satre, Tolstoy and showed them up as hypocrites. However he too was guilty of the crime as he preached on about family values in his newspaper columns and was found to be paying prostitutes so he could spank them.
I have been quite disapppointed by the titles avalibale at the moment in the UK. I got mine last week as a package deal with three titles: Ridge Racer V, FIfa 2001 and Fantavision. Ridge Racer V is a very boring driving game with not that amazing graphics. Fifa 2001 (soccer) is quite fun with two players but isn't the most orginal game and Fantavision hasn't arrived yet due to Dixon's (an UK electonics retailer) incompentence. I rented Time Splitters from Blockbusters and I thought it had pretty graphics but the single player mode was pretty bad although with two players its a good old fashioned bllod bath.. Also I ordered a memory card and a dvd remote and these haven't arrived either. So at the moment I'm not too impressed by the experience as I can't save any games and using the game controller as a remote is pretty cumbersome. On the positive side the graphics are pretty smooth and lok good on TV and the DVD playback is also very good. Some of the games coming out next year also look very good I would advise people in the UK to wait until Spring to buy one when all the acessories are in good quantity and there are wider selection of games.
The UK not having a proper constitution is somewhat negated by the incorporation of the European Human Rights into law here. But recent legislation such as RIP, Freedom Of Information Bill etc is very scary and shows how much of an elected dictatorship this country has. There are very little checks and balances if you have a whopping great majority like Blair's now or Thtcher's in 1980s. We are basically 'trusting' the politicos not to go to far and relying on archiac customs. Also any political party with a majority in the house of commons can alter the constitution and if the tories get back in, they could abolish the Scottish parliament just like the GLC.
Actually the odd man out in Europe is the UK (with Ireland) which is based on common law like the USA. The other are more similar to the French Napoleanic code as Napolean imposed this system on most countries in Europe during his rule. The most important thing is that the EU law which is more and more involved in IP is based on French law.
Well its a problem that Govt and new Labour in particular got with 'Britain' not the British people themselves.
The problem for the government is that British history is so imperialistic and militaristic. Why couldn't we be nice and meek like the Swiss or Swedish so we wouldn't have any guilt over being a worldpower in the 19th century and could become good 'Europeans'.
I think that report was totally discredited by the Govt, most elements of the media and the general public. It was produced by some chippy ethnic minority types and some Guardian reading self-hating white liberals. British is a pretty inclusive term as it means the inhabitants of the island of Britain. English, Scottish and Welsh are more ethnically based terms.
It's not on the net. It's here in good old England. So there you USAnians...
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
William Blake
Young people + High Disposable Income + Stress = Large amount of drug use especially Coke and MDMA
Any group that has the above tends to have a large minority of drug users for example rock stars, actors, investment bankers and... IT workers.
Excuse me while I go and 'powder' my nose...
I think that unfortunately if the 'luddites' tried to protest abou this peacefully, then they would have been arrested and jailed as the UK govt at the time outlawed strikes and unions. Therefore they were partly oppressed by state power. Anyway the mill owners would use whips and other state sanctioned oppressive methods to keep their workers in line. But so long as its private business opressing you then that's OK....