Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance really seems to be about right flaming gibberish. WTF is it with the last 10% of that book? I just can't make it through. I feel like I'm sitting in church with the simpsons hearing a lecture about who begat whom for weeks on end.
That book needs to come with a health warning: "If you haven't studied ancient greek philosophy for 15 years, stop reading at page 192. Book may become airborne, or sit next to toilet gathering dust for decades. Aim away from face."
That's not why they stopped showing desperate housewives. It's some sort of agreement they have with 9 and 10, where they all switch to (close to) zero new content for a few weeks at a time to pad out the new episodes of various shows. For the last three weeks, desperate housewives and lost were on hold (the only things resembling big sellers on 7), and all flavours of CSI and Law and Order / NCIS / Simpsons switched to repeats or disappeared on 9 and 10.
They do it at the same time, so you don't switch to watch a new CSI when there's a repeat of Criminal Intent on at the same time.
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So basically, you can't break the thing by touching it, unless you touch it so hard it breaks.
Aw cummon, I'm a graphic designer, so I'm allowed to make all the mac/latte/beret/melbourne jokes I want. Personally I prefer a flat white or short black, and I'm wearing a baseball cap and a "XXXX Broncos black zone" shirt:)
Ah I see... Due to the level of whinging that goes on around here, I figured in the US you needed your SSN to do anything more complicated than buying a litre (quart?/pint?) of milk:)
Because your SSN (like our TFN, or Tax File Number) is your nation ID number. Wether you like it or not, wether it's legal or not, it's still a fact. You guys have it worse than us, we seem to have the TFN for all "official" docs like government, financial institutions etc, and we have our license no for everything else, such as video cards etc. But we're still in databases all over the world, easily indexed by a small number of different "unique enough" keys.
Who needs Joke-e-oke anyway? Get a bunch of blokes pissed and we all turn into a horrible conglomeration of Homer Simpson, Eddie Murphy, Dennis Leary and Dave Chappell already. Who needs a machine to remind you of the correct way to say it?
"Hey, I'm Mr T I'll rip your cock off with my ass"
Too little and way too late. Everybody I know who's even remotely computer literate (and a fair few who aren't really) have had it with real. I wouldn't install it if I had a signed afidavit from the CEO saying it won't call home or resist uninstallation, distills whiskey and prints $100 notes.
Man, I'm so old... I remember when power rangers came out, and I was like 15... I couldn't believe how much of a dodgey b-grade voltron knock-off it was.
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Nah, I'm a big nintendo fanboy, but I'm gonna have to say the PSP is by far a better machine. But frankly, at four times (import) or more than twice (if and when it's released locally in.au) the damn price, it'd sure better be.
I've had a go at both in stores, and I must say I'm _very_ disappointed in the ds. I don't care that it's not as pretty, a flip-top makes up for that. The dual screen is definitely a gimmick though, and the graphics are in no way better than an n64. There's no filtering, and the textures are not perspective-corrected. It's comparable to the old Namco 3d arcade games (think toshinden, ridge-racer) or a slightly souped up ps1.
In summary: a)The PSP costs ways more b)It's a fair sight better c)Nobody, not nobody, not nohow, is going to change their opinions- this story was just flamebait to drive ad revenue.
The memory-mapped IO i'd forgotten about, you're right. Not on the application memory size though, that's simply up to the OS whether it exposes 4k (default) or 2/4mb pages to the applications.
The difference isn't more ram and bigger ints. X86 processors have been able to access >4gb for a very long time now, and even MMX1 was capable of 128bit math. The difference is that in 64bit mode, besides the general advantages (and all games could use better & faster math), it's that you get an assload more registers, the tiny little pockets of ram that sit right in the cpu core and are super-fast.
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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance really seems to be about right flaming gibberish. WTF is it with the last 10% of that book? I just can't make it through. I feel like I'm sitting in church with the simpsons hearing a lecture about who begat whom for weeks on end.
That book needs to come with a health warning: "If you haven't studied ancient greek philosophy for 15 years, stop reading at page 192. Book may become airborne, or sit next to toilet gathering dust for decades. Aim away from face."
This isn't to protect you. This is to slowly get people used to being fingerprinted, so eventually they can fingerprint everyone in the US
Hell no, collusion is always a better business decision, you make more at the expense of the customers. That's why it's (usually) illegal.
The big question is - why oh why doesn't the dickhead australian voiceover bloke use Meters and Kilograms instead of feet and flamin' pounds?
That's not why they stopped showing desperate housewives. It's some sort of agreement they have with 9 and 10, where they all switch to (close to) zero new content for a few weeks at a time to pad out the new episodes of various shows. For the last three weeks, desperate housewives and lost were on hold (the only things resembling big sellers on 7), and all flavours of CSI and Law and Order / NCIS / Simpsons switched to repeats or disappeared on 9 and 10.
They do it at the same time, so you don't switch to watch a new CSI when there's a repeat of Criminal Intent on at the same time.
So basically, you can't break the thing by touching it, unless you touch it so hard it breaks.
Wow, I'm suprised really, seeing how much trolling and FPing you do. Keep up the good work Mr. Coward!
You find it for me mate, and I'll design it away. Deal?
Jebus.
It's not a puma! It's not a puma, at all! /Try the fish, I'll be here all week.
Aw cummon, I'm a graphic designer, so I'm allowed to make all the mac/latte/beret/melbourne jokes I want. :)
Personally I prefer a flat white or short black, and I'm wearing a baseball cap and a "XXXX Broncos black zone" shirt
My boss is ready to buy 5 licenses for Adobe CS2, and I'd love to save him a few grand.
This my friends, is how you get your ass beaten by every beret-wearing latte drinking graphic designer in the building.
Hooray, grey goo!
Ah I see... Due to the level of whinging that goes on around here, I figured in the US you needed your SSN to do anything more complicated than buying a litre (quart?/pint?) of milk :)
Because your SSN (like our TFN, or Tax File Number) is your nation ID number. Wether you like it or not, wether it's legal or not, it's still a fact. You guys have it worse than us, we seem to have the TFN for all "official" docs like government, financial institutions etc, and we have our license no for everything else, such as video cards etc. But we're still in databases all over the world, easily indexed by a small number of different "unique enough" keys.
Either way it's win-win :)
Who needs Joke-e-oke anyway? Get a bunch of blokes pissed and we all turn into a horrible conglomeration of Homer Simpson, Eddie Murphy, Dennis Leary and Dave Chappell already. Who needs a machine to remind you of the correct way to say it?
"Hey, I'm Mr T I'll rip your cock off with my ass"
"And then he said: 'gooni-goo-goo'"
Yeah that's some very funny shit.
Oh, and dude: don't forget to wind your watch!
English motherfucker, do you speak it?
Too little and way too late. Everybody I know who's even remotely computer literate (and a fair few who aren't really) have had it with real. I wouldn't install it if I had a signed afidavit from the CEO saying it won't call home or resist uninstallation, distills whiskey and prints $100 notes.
Man, I'm so old... I remember when power rangers came out, and I was like 15... I couldn't believe how much of a dodgey b-grade voltron knock-off it was.
Nah, I'm a big nintendo fanboy, but I'm gonna have to say the PSP is by far a better machine. But frankly, at four times (import) or more than twice (if and when it's released locally in .au) the damn price, it'd sure better be.
I've had a go at both in stores, and I must say I'm _very_ disappointed in the ds. I don't care that it's not as pretty, a flip-top makes up for that. The dual screen is definitely a gimmick though, and the graphics are in no way better than an n64. There's no filtering, and the textures are not perspective-corrected. It's comparable to the old Namco 3d arcade games (think toshinden, ridge-racer) or a slightly souped up ps1.
In summary:
a)The PSP costs ways more
b)It's a fair sight better
c)Nobody, not nobody, not nohow, is going to change their opinions- this story was just flamebait to drive ad revenue.
It's not the violence (BRING BACK THE BIFF!), but the low-down hits, the finger in the ass, and stuff like that.
:)
Wow, this is so gibberish to any none aussies out there
The memory-mapped IO i'd forgotten about, you're right. Not on the application memory size though, that's simply up to the OS whether it exposes 4k (default) or 2/4mb pages to the applications.
OT I know... but when will Hoppoate be kicked out of the league for life? He's a flamin disgrace that idiot....
Jebus. The supposed techno-elite of slashdot.
The difference isn't more ram and bigger ints. X86 processors have been able to access >4gb for a very long time now, and even MMX1 was capable of 128bit math. The difference is that in 64bit mode, besides the general advantages (and all games could use better & faster math), it's that you get an assload more registers, the tiny little pockets of ram that sit right in the cpu core and are super-fast.