Goes back a lot further than that. Old British one with Jeremy Beadle (much loved and loathed TV host, famous for pranks), Hitler and some random bad guy then same humour bit... Probably old as humour itself really.
A few years ago, a friend of my wife left a cake in a tin on a train at Victoria Station in London (she was a bit ditzy). When she remembered and went back for it she got an ear-full from some police or security folks (I can't remember which) who were considering evacuating the station and blowing it up (the cake, not Victoria station though I would happily let them do the bus staion round the corner).
This good enough for you? The force feedback was primitive but you could feel changes in resistance when turning corners, steering would get soggier when leaving the track. I remember wasting loads of time on this when I was a kid. The date says 1989 but I am sure they were around earlier than that in the UK.
Agreed, the Xbox (or whatever it is going to be called) even made it to the Money Programme in the UK (a serious TV programme) and apparantly MS are spending £500m ($750m approx) on marketing. Why oh why couldn't they spend it on developing the bugger. Then it wouldn't need marketing.
While I can understand your arguement and the logic you use. How do I say this.....erm last time I looked California was still part of the US. It may be the no 6 wealthiest area on Earth but unless I've missed something on the news, there ain't no civil war going on on the other side of the pond.
Are you talking about Menwith Hill (NSA base) near Harrogate, in North Yorkshire? Oddly enough it is not restricted airspace. A British satirist flew over it in a hot air balloon a way back. That caused all sorts of mayhem on the ground, I laughed my head off. Menwith Hill is right next a mainroad and looks like a load of golf balls on plinths, with a load of ariels. Plus the obligatory peace protestors.
I think it is a tax on recordable magnetic media (and its digital equivalents). I couldn't imagine even the European Commision (an unelected bunch of wankers) trying to outlaw pens etc.
What sort of socialism is this? It strikes me more as a tax on copying. What sort of socialism is that? Sounds more like a large corporation protecting its interests.
With all due respect, if someone can write a driver for a piece of hardware, any operating system would be viable. Give it a few weeks, someone will come up with a workaround. It may take some sort of undernet but stuff is around now, it would be so hard to put the cat back in the bag.
ta
I am going to answer this despite it being a bit of a troll.
Please think about what you said. Yes, Europe (Western?) could be described as somewhat socialist area (note small 's'), but what is wrong with that? I can think of any number of European companies that are very successful from a capitalist (note the small 'c') point of view.
BP, Philips, Renault, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Credit Suisse, need I go on?
The European idea (by this I mean Western European) of socialism is not the same as pre CIS Soviet Socialism (note capital 'S'). While capitalism is embraced, the idea of helping society as a whole is not lost (the word socialism is based on the word society). I do not personally have a problem with paying contributions to a national health service I currently have no need for. I may need it in the future and then someone else will be paying for it (but they may need it later and so on). While we are all individuals, we pay the state for oversight and some level of protection. By this I mean terrorism - we had our fair share of this in the UK - and paedophilia (fsckwits) etc. I would love to start a thread on this subject , it would be fun to see all the opposing points of view on offer.
ta
You might as well add the eye, brain, hand combination. Sad but true. An awful lot of human culture is based on copying something that works. Don't mean to take the humour off your post (I thought it was apt), just felt it needed to be extended. How far I do not know. I do however realise I have prior art on my body (well, my parents might).
ta
This is a very grey issue. I have a CD burner attached to my computer but it is currently only used to do backups or act as an extra drive. Now in the future I may copy some of my software, I am allowed to do this in virtually all EULAs (the one copy for backup purposes part), and as far as I know there is no equivalent bit in music CD usage (please correct me if I am wrong). Personally I have no interest in commercially copying my CDs, I only buy what I like. It would be a lot more sensible to place some sort of charge (put it in a trust for artists, bugger the record companies) on the media, along the lines of what a number of countries already do. I am sure that some sort of music/software ratio could be worked out for distribution. I know that this has been said sooo many times before here.
Imagine putting an insurance charge on a gun, incase it was used to kill someone? Same with cars and whatever (insert anything that could kill someone - right down the line to kitchen knives).
The reason that Western governments are 'falling all over China' is because their local corps are trying to drum up business there. I wonder how that punitive lawsuit against a Japanese company (can't remember who - might have been Hitachi) turned out (FYI, their website separated mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This guy from mainland China sued over the insult to the Chinese people. Wonder how it turned out? Settled?) The Chinese market is enormous. Unfortunately it comes down to money in the end. Which is sort of odd for someone from the UK to say (yes we are quite capitalistic here). For some reason I am not very well informed about what is happening in Russia at the moment. Anyone got any links?
I stand corrected (to a point).
I have installed NT and W2K a number of (well, quite a few) times. The first part of the install is very DOS, it even claims to be. Now I admit the actual running of the OS doesn't have that much to do with DOS but the boot section (BOOT.INI etc are DOS files - trust me I've had to edit that one on occasion) so (rightly or wrongly) I associate NT/W2K with DOS based systems. If they had no association with DOS, they wouldn't work this way (I think). I am not sure exactly how long NT has been around. Anyone know?
ta
Sorry didn't qualify myself properly (beer might be a reason), looked up a bit on Echelon, yes, today it is more electronic but as far as I know (limited - they don't exactly advertise, I have to remember slightly drunken conspiracy conversations at college and that is way too long ago) the original agreement was between USA, UK and Oz (can't remember what it was called, UKASA or something) for intelligence sharing. This happened sometime after WW2 (late 50s I think - when the cold war was hotting up (?) somewhat). By the 70s they (NSA et al) monitored international phone calls and started using primitive voice analysis software (yes, I know things were primitive then, but they had a lot of money to throw at this sort of thing - and I am sure a lot of governments are at least a few years ahead of the mainstream tech stuff).
The East Germans monitored all calls made to or from that country (international was easy, there were so few outside lines) and they used even more primitive tech.
Suffice it to say, Echelon is not new. It, and its predecessors have been around for quite a while. Bloody hell, I have a +2:-)
ta
True.
I work for a new IT co (well, the product is starting to mature) it would be really bad if email/webserver was out. Yes, phones would work but email takes thought so can be more accurate. Luckily we have a good firewall and more than competant sysops so, so far we have been lucky.
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Goes back a lot further than that. Old British one with Jeremy Beadle (much loved and loathed TV host, famous for pranks), Hitler and some random bad guy then same humour bit... Probably old as humour itself really.
They are called Analphylactics.
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Don't forget Hong Kong. Extra 3.36%
A few years ago, a friend of my wife left a cake in a tin on a train at Victoria Station in London (she was a bit ditzy). When she remembered and went back for it she got an ear-full from some police or security folks (I can't remember which) who were considering evacuating the station and blowing it up (the cake, not Victoria station though I would happily let them do the bus staion round the corner).
Until Netcraft confirms it I won't believe it either.
I agree. How about .cum
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=H&game_ id=8072
This good enough for you? The force feedback was primitive but you could feel changes in resistance when turning corners, steering would get soggier when leaving the track. I remember wasting loads of time on this when I was a kid. The date says 1989 but I am sure they were around earlier than that in the UK.
I have produced a browser one eighth the size. I will call it Minimo!
Agreed, the Xbox (or whatever it is going to be called) even made it to the Money Programme in the UK (a serious TV programme) and apparantly MS are spending £500m ($750m approx) on marketing. Why oh why couldn't they spend it on developing the bugger. Then it wouldn't need marketing.
While I can understand your arguement and the logic you use. How do I say this.....erm last time I looked California was still part of the US. It may be the no 6 wealthiest area on Earth but unless I've missed something on the news, there ain't no civil war going on on the other side of the pond.
Are you talking about Menwith Hill (NSA base) near Harrogate, in North Yorkshire? Oddly enough it is not restricted airspace. A British satirist flew over it in a hot air balloon a way back. That caused all sorts of mayhem on the ground, I laughed my head off. Menwith Hill is right next a mainroad and looks like a load of golf balls on plinths, with a load of ariels. Plus the obligatory peace protestors.
I think it is a tax on recordable magnetic media (and its digital equivalents). I couldn't imagine even the European Commision (an unelected bunch of wankers) trying to outlaw pens etc.
What sort of socialism is this? It strikes me more as a tax on copying. What sort of socialism is that? Sounds more like a large corporation protecting its interests.
With all due respect, if someone can write a driver for a piece of hardware, any operating system would be viable. Give it a few weeks, someone will come up with a workaround. It may take some sort of undernet but stuff is around now, it would be so hard to put the cat back in the bag.
ta
I am going to answer this despite it being a bit of a troll. Please think about what you said. Yes, Europe (Western?) could be described as somewhat socialist area (note small 's'), but what is wrong with that? I can think of any number of European companies that are very successful from a capitalist (note the small 'c') point of view. BP, Philips, Renault, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Credit Suisse, need I go on? The European idea (by this I mean Western European) of socialism is not the same as pre CIS Soviet Socialism (note capital 'S'). While capitalism is embraced, the idea of helping society as a whole is not lost (the word socialism is based on the word society). I do not personally have a problem with paying contributions to a national health service I currently have no need for. I may need it in the future and then someone else will be paying for it (but they may need it later and so on). While we are all individuals, we pay the state for oversight and some level of protection. By this I mean terrorism - we had our fair share of this in the UK - and paedophilia (fsckwits) etc. I would love to start a thread on this subject , it would be fun to see all the opposing points of view on offer. ta
Agreed, just because you own the hardware doesn't mean you'll abuse it. Try to prove intent, that would be a nightmare.
You might as well add the eye, brain, hand combination. Sad but true. An awful lot of human culture is based on copying something that works. Don't mean to take the humour off your post (I thought it was apt), just felt it needed to be extended. How far I do not know. I do however realise I have prior art on my body (well, my parents might).
ta
This is a very grey issue. I have a CD burner attached to my computer but it is currently only used to do backups or act as an extra drive. Now in the future I may copy some of my software, I am allowed to do this in virtually all EULAs (the one copy for backup purposes part), and as far as I know there is no equivalent bit in music CD usage (please correct me if I am wrong). Personally I have no interest in commercially copying my CDs, I only buy what I like. It would be a lot more sensible to place some sort of charge (put it in a trust for artists, bugger the record companies) on the media, along the lines of what a number of countries already do. I am sure that some sort of music/software ratio could be worked out for distribution. I know that this has been said sooo many times before here.
Imagine putting an insurance charge on a gun, incase it was used to kill someone? Same with cars and whatever (insert anything that could kill someone - right down the line to kitchen knives).
The reason that Western governments are 'falling all over China' is because their local corps are trying to drum up business there. I wonder how that punitive lawsuit against a Japanese company (can't remember who - might have been Hitachi) turned out (FYI, their website separated mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This guy from mainland China sued over the insult to the Chinese people. Wonder how it turned out? Settled?) The Chinese market is enormous. Unfortunately it comes down to money in the end. Which is sort of odd for someone from the UK to say (yes we are quite capitalistic here). For some reason I am not very well informed about what is happening in Russia at the moment. Anyone got any links?
I stand corrected (to a point).
I have installed NT and W2K a number of (well, quite a few) times. The first part of the install is very DOS, it even claims to be. Now I admit the actual running of the OS doesn't have that much to do with DOS but the boot section (BOOT.INI etc are DOS files - trust me I've had to edit that one on occasion) so (rightly or wrongly) I associate NT/W2K with DOS based systems. If they had no association with DOS, they wouldn't work this way (I think). I am not sure exactly how long NT has been around. Anyone know?
ta
Sorry didn't qualify myself properly (beer might be a reason), looked up a bit on Echelon, yes, today it is more electronic but as far as I know (limited - they don't exactly advertise, I have to remember slightly drunken conspiracy conversations at college and that is way too long ago) the original agreement was between USA, UK and Oz (can't remember what it was called, UKASA or something) for intelligence sharing. This happened sometime after WW2 (late 50s I think - when the cold war was hotting up (?) somewhat). By the 70s they (NSA et al) monitored international phone calls and started using primitive voice analysis software (yes, I know things were primitive then, but they had a lot of money to throw at this sort of thing - and I am sure a lot of governments are at least a few years ahead of the mainstream tech stuff). :-)
The East Germans monitored all calls made to or from that country (international was easy, there were so few outside lines) and they used even more primitive tech.
Suffice it to say, Echelon is not new. It, and its predecessors have been around for quite a while. Bloody hell, I have a +2
ta
True.
I work for a new IT co (well, the product is starting to mature) it would be really bad if email/webserver was out. Yes, phones would work but email takes thought so can be more accurate. Luckily we have a good firewall and more than competant sysops so, so far we have been lucky.
I think that is some sort of Germanism (?)
Funny, a lot of my spam comes from Southampton Uni. Maybe I should contact the webmaster there.