There are games i like (MMORPGs, strategy / empire building, puzzle, though I haven't played much except WoW for a few years), and games that I don't like (FPSs - the movement makes me feel ill).
I don't think that any imbalance between the numbers of male and female gamers is anything to do with the games themselves, but rather the mindset and cultural expectations of their potential players.
I can't tell my kids from the others in their class without help if they aren't dressed as they were the last time I saw them, but still have a cutoff point in the videos where the face is no longer real.
I have landmarks for the people I know that let me identify them - woe betide me if somebody has a new haircut, or gets new glasses.
Well, speaking as the female half of a two-geek marriage (13+ years so far), I'd suggest that the answer is twofold.
You have been together long enough that you're getting married. I'm assuming that you spent a reasonable proportion of that time living together. (if not, then disregard this post!)
First of all, allow one other space to follow your interests. That also means that, if/when you have kids, you take some responsibility for amusing them so your other half can have some sanity time. Nothe that while they are under 12 months old you can't schedule this time more than a few hours in advance.
Second, talk. This may (and in my case has) meant PMs mid-raid to arrange who was dropping the kids off at school or making the packed lunches. Yell if you need to, but don't hide in a corner. Be honest. Count to ten before making an angry response to anything.
If they had copied the photo, hosted it on their own site, and used it without permission, then that would have been copyright infringement.
What they did, instead, was to link to the photo in its original location. While unethical (leeching), impolite, and potentially costing the photo owner money in the form of bandwidth fees, this is not copyright infringement.
This toy was marketed in the UK for kids aged 4 and up (and yes, the 2.5" bags packaging the components came with a printed warning that they may be dangerous and were not toys).
My 4-year-old loves them, and I spent a while yesterday rounding up all the various bits of the kit and completed models before she got home from school (I was working from home that day), just in case there is an issue with the kits sold here too.
Have you ever seen a toy with a 'small parts' warning that applies at anything over 36 months? Kids at that age still put stuff in their mouths, but I don't want to ban them from playing with all the 'interesting' stuff - they just need supervision.
OK, first off: why is a purely electric vehicle being described as a hybrid?
Second: Why are we still hyping the hybrid cars?
I have had a Prius for a little over two years, and driven over 40k miles. The fuel economy is considerably less than that of a comparable diesel (Audi A3 estate). Yes, the car is safe, and fairly economical for a petrol car, but it's not fantastic. It is exempt from congestion charging as the government are trying to encourage fuel efficiency, but I rarely drive into London. The annual car tax is minimal. However, all in all, it would have been far cheaper to buy a diesel car, whose manufacture would have had less environmental impact, and whose fuel efficiency would be better.
My mother was a programmer / geek many years before I was born. I must have been in my mid-late 20s before I was answering as many techie questions as I asked. I still remember her helping me through my first kernel re-compilation when I was 9 or 10 (should I be ashamed to admit that it was SCO unix?)
Now, at well over 60, she's still geek enough that she's an officer in an end-game raiding guild in WoW.
Now that I have kids of my own, I hope that I'm still keeping up with the latest tech in 30+ years time!
if there was some type of breakdown of the statistics.
Are they specifying whether they were talking about the mothers or fathers of these children determining the sex of the offspring.
Are they talking simply about children carried to term rather than conceptions?
But hey, as an engineer, married to a mathematician, with one child of each sex (that's two, for those who were wondering), why should I have an opinion:D
I take great pleasure in collecting as many £1 notes as I can whenever I'm in Scotland - and then using them sparingly (one per transaction) back in England.
Most cashiers realise that they should accept them, but then have to try to work out what to do with the note - there's nowhere in the cash register for it to go.
She's just retired at the age of 60, having been a programmer for the last 40 years. Started on punched tape, with Marconi, and continually learned new skills from then.
However, whether it'll be possible in another 30 years is anybody's guess.
Also available in Tesco etc - tiny (40ml-ish) shots of espresso laced with guarana, in a self-heating package. Unfortunately, they're also fairly heavily sweetened.
They are useful for keeping in the car as a quick reviver on long journeys.
who is currently approximately the size and shape of a very unfit hippo - with sprog #2 due anytime now - I have to say that you probably couldn't pay me enough to go through this for any reason other than the prospect of the kiddo at the end of it - and I have (so called) easy pregnancies.
Then again, I'm in the lucky position that I can earn enough money via 'normal' channels that the prospect of a few (tens of?) thousands souldn't make me likely to do it - I appreciate that the surrogacy fee is probably a make or break figure for some.
First, complain to their ISP. State clearly in the complaint that their customer is sending unsolicited email, and have not had your permission to mail them. If they are advertising a website hosted by a different ISP then complain to that ISP too.
According to the DPA, they need to have obtained your consent in order to process your data - ask the ISP if they can obtain that proof for you.
Second, post a copy to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings so evidence of their spammishness will be archived for all time.
Thirdly, complain to the information commissioner's office (DPA head)
Incidentally, if their ISP (or indeed the spammer) responds with something like 'you have been unsubscribed' then that means that your original complaint has been passed to the spammer - and that is where the information commissioner's office is likely to get very interested as they are passing your details between businesses with no permission to do so - so complain again about that!
AOHell seem to ahve rolled out their latest and greates software without bothering to actually give their users any indication of what the fancy new buttons do. As a result, the majority seem to use the 'report as spam' button as a delete key.
Judging from the AOL spam reports that I see, well over 90% are reporting mails that are definately non-spam - like their replacement PIN numbers from banks, holiday bookings, personal correspondance, order confirmations and so on.
While it can be interesting to see what a cross section of AOL subscribers get up to in their free time, it is not the best use of my (or any other abuse handler's) time to read about who is going to do what to whom over the weekend.
Of the remaining 10%, most are due to problems with customers (i.e. misconfigured mail servers etc) which have been sorted before the reports start rolling in, or AOL users reporting SMTP bounce messages as spam(!).
There is an European Union directive which comes into effect after the 30th October which gives these 'guidelines' legal backing.
A company advertising via email must be able to provide 'documented proof' of the consent of the sender to receive the email (although the acceptable forms of proofhave not yet been decided). While the act of buying a product from a company may be sufficient proof, any subsequent advertising should only be for similar products to the one(s) originally purchased.
You can find out more info on this at the DTI web site
Yes, I read the article - yes, he's running an open relay - i.e. if you claim to be sending from his domain then it will let anybody send email to anybody else.
Not difficult, not uncommon, but apparently a little beyond your comprehension.
Not only is he a lawyer, but hes a lawyer with an open relay, and he doesn't believe that spammers will 'lie' to get that server to propagate their mail!
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There are games i like (MMORPGs, strategy / empire building, puzzle, though I haven't played much except WoW for a few years), and games that I don't like (FPSs - the movement makes me feel ill).
I don't think that any imbalance between the numbers of male and female gamers is anything to do with the games themselves, but rather the mindset and cultural expectations of their potential players.
Yes, it works.
I can't tell my kids from the others in their class without help if they aren't dressed as they were the last time I saw them, but still have a cutoff point in the videos where the face is no longer real.
I have landmarks for the people I know that let me identify them - woe betide me if somebody has a new haircut, or gets new glasses.
Well, speaking as the female half of a two-geek marriage (13+ years so far), I'd suggest that the answer is twofold.
You have been together long enough that you're getting married. I'm assuming that you spent a reasonable proportion of that time living together. (if not, then disregard this post!)
First of all, allow one other space to follow your interests. That also means that, if/when you have kids, you take some responsibility for amusing them so your other half can have some sanity time. Nothe that while they are under 12 months old you can't schedule this time more than a few hours in advance.
Second, talk. This may (and in my case has) meant PMs mid-raid to arrange who was dropping the kids off at school or making the packed lunches. Yell if you need to, but don't hide in a corner. Be honest. Count to ten before making an angry response to anything.
Oh, and ignore the books - and love each other!
If they had copied the photo, hosted it on their own site, and used it without permission, then that would have been copyright infringement.
What they did, instead, was to link to the photo in its original location. While unethical (leeching), impolite, and potentially costing the photo owner money in the form of bandwidth fees, this is not copyright infringement.
who read the headline as 'Oprah tells EU...'?
This toy was marketed in the UK for kids aged 4 and up (and yes, the 2.5" bags packaging the components came with a printed warning that they may be dangerous and were not toys).
My 4-year-old loves them, and I spent a while yesterday rounding up all the various bits of the kit and completed models before she got home from school (I was working from home that day), just in case there is an issue with the kits sold here too.
Have you ever seen a toy with a 'small parts' warning that applies at anything over 36 months? Kids at that age still put stuff in their mouths, but I don't want to ban them from playing with all the 'interesting' stuff - they just need supervision.
OK, first off: why is a purely electric vehicle being described as a hybrid?
Second: Why are we still hyping the hybrid cars?
I have had a Prius for a little over two years, and driven over 40k miles. The fuel economy is considerably less than that of a comparable diesel (Audi A3 estate). Yes, the car is safe, and fairly economical for a petrol car, but it's not fantastic. It is exempt from congestion charging as the government are trying to encourage fuel efficiency, but I rarely drive into London. The annual car tax is minimal. However, all in all, it would have been far cheaper to buy a diesel car, whose manufacture would have had less environmental impact, and whose fuel efficiency would be better.
My mother was a programmer / geek many years before I was born. I must have been in my mid-late 20s before I was answering as many techie questions as I asked. I still remember her helping me through my first kernel re-compilation when I was 9 or 10 (should I be ashamed to admit that it was SCO unix?)
Now, at well over 60, she's still geek enough that she's an officer in an end-game raiding guild in WoW.
Now that I have kids of my own, I hope that I'm still keeping up with the latest tech in 30+ years time!
So, entering my house, cooking yourself dinner and watching pay-per-view movies on my TV isn't a crime because I forgot to lock the door?
I switched to an electricity supplier who could guarantee that all their supplies come from renewable sources http://www.good-energy.co.uk/
if there was some type of breakdown of the statistics.
:D
Are they specifying whether they were talking about the mothers or fathers of these children determining the sex of the offspring.
Are they talking simply about children carried to term rather than conceptions?
But hey, as an engineer, married to a mathematician, with one child of each sex (that's two, for those who were wondering), why should I have an opinion
I take great pleasure in collecting as many £1 notes as I can whenever I'm in Scotland - and then using them sparingly (one per transaction) back in England.
Most cashiers realise that they should accept them, but then have to try to work out what to do with the note - there's nowhere in the cash register for it to go.
Maybe I'm just evil!
The case I remember was where a woman was told that she couldn't be the mother of her own child.
See http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_838312.html for more details.
She's just retired at the age of 60, having been a programmer for the last 40 years. Started on punched tape, with Marconi, and continually learned new skills from then.
However, whether it'll be possible in another 30 years is anybody's guess.
I hope it is - then I'll still have a job!
Also available in Tesco etc - tiny (40ml-ish) shots of espresso laced with guarana, in a self-heating package. Unfortunately, they're also fairly heavily sweetened.
They are useful for keeping in the car as a quick reviver on long journeys.
... which is disappointing.
Has anybody any opinion on the best of the bunch that do (and are available in / to the UK)?
OK, who else has watched the animation of the 'whole house extrusion' from their website and spotted the glaring mistake?!
who is currently approximately the size and shape of a very unfit hippo - with sprog #2 due anytime now - I have to say that you probably couldn't pay me enough to go through this for any reason other than the prospect of the kiddo at the end of it - and I have (so called) easy pregnancies.
Then again, I'm in the lucky position that I can earn enough money via 'normal' channels that the prospect of a few (tens of?) thousands souldn't make me likely to do it - I appreciate that the surrogacy fee is probably a make or break figure for some.
First, complain to their ISP. State clearly in the complaint that their customer is sending unsolicited email, and have not had your permission to mail them. If they are advertising a website hosted by a different ISP then complain to that ISP too.
According to the DPA, they need to have obtained your consent in order to process your data - ask the ISP if they can obtain that proof for you.
Second, post a copy to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings so evidence of their spammishness will be archived for all time.
Thirdly, complain to the information commissioner's office (DPA head)
Incidentally, if their ISP (or indeed the spammer) responds with something like 'you have been unsubscribed' then that means that your original complaint has been passed to the spammer - and that is where the information commissioner's office is likely to get very interested as they are passing your details between businesses with no permission to do so - so complain again about that!
You can buy 10.x.x.x from me if you like - only $0.01 per IP address
kitchen towels that don't disintegrate when they're wet - work a treat.
...I have to wonder how many of them are real.
AOHell seem to ahve rolled out their latest and greates software without bothering to actually give their users any indication of what the fancy new buttons do. As a result, the majority seem to use the 'report as spam' button as a delete key.
Judging from the AOL spam reports that I see, well over 90% are reporting mails that are definately non-spam - like their replacement PIN numbers from banks, holiday bookings, personal correspondance, order confirmations and so on.
While it can be interesting to see what a cross section of AOL subscribers get up to in their free time, it is not the best use of my (or any other abuse handler's) time to read about who is going to do what to whom over the weekend.
Of the remaining 10%, most are due to problems with customers (i.e. misconfigured mail servers etc) which have been sorted before the reports start rolling in, or AOL users reporting SMTP bounce messages as spam(!).
Aargh!
There is an European Union directive which comes into effect after the 30th October which gives these 'guidelines' legal backing. A company advertising via email must be able to provide 'documented proof' of the consent of the sender to receive the email (although the acceptable forms of proofhave not yet been decided). While the act of buying a product from a company may be sufficient proof, any subsequent advertising should only be for similar products to the one(s) originally purchased. You can find out more info on this at the DTI web site
Hmm, run out of meds?
Yes, I read the article - yes, he's running an open relay - i.e. if you claim to be sending from his domain then it will let anybody send email to anybody else.
Not difficult, not uncommon, but apparently a little beyond your comprehension.
Not only is he a lawyer, but hes a lawyer with an open relay, and he doesn't believe that spammers will 'lie' to get that server to propagate their mail!