Same for Germany and Austria. 5 bucks replacement fee for the whole procedure, including the two letters which will get you the new card and the new PIN.
Still has some interesting things to offer. I was interested in Machinarium anyway. Although World of Goo is unplayable (graphics error causes my displays to flash like strobe lamps). Disappointing, considering dual-monitor setups are common enough to warrant including it during the test phase.
Sounds all too familiar. In the late 90's our school still used GW-BASIC to teach students the basics of programming. And at a later school we had a teacher who could recite her +20 years old teaching material word for word but wasn't even able to insert and format a table in a text document.
Strange. "Scar" (the lead Predator in the AvP movie) was quite easy to relate to, if one has at least a rudimentary understanding of the tribal societies of old. Hell, it's the humans who actually were a distraction from the real story!
True, and Eureka has the advantage of being able to do some episodes with next to no visual effects, allowing them to save up money for more effects-heavy episodes down the road.
For a while they were picking their scripts from the absolute bottom of the barrel, but the show has redeemed itself. But part of the fun are Sanctuary's over-the-top stories and it's rather easy to take that too far.
It didn't help that the whole "enemy of the season" thing became rather boring after a while, leading to the whole Anubis thing and followed by the Space Taliban in their flying toilet seats.
The problem wasn't the human factor per se. A lot of entertaining science fiction stories only need a couple of decent actors and not much more (The Man from Earth, Exam,...). It's the "how", in this case the stories that turn a science fiction show into a third-rate soap opera.
To be fair, Atlantis started out interesting, but the forced changes every season did lead to rather underwhelming later seasons. And while the fact that they had to start out without knowing when they'd find a means of returning was an advantage of the early episodes it was only logical to discover a solution after a while. After all, the discovery of new civilizations and technologies was the core of the Stargate program.
SGU already started out handicapping itself. And no, I mean apart from the soap opera characters and the overdone pop music montage at the end of an episode. Such a huge ship to explore to find means of survival after their unplanned arrival and instead everything progresses at a speed which even a snail would consider comatose? And the already mentioned communication stones (which the writers constantly used as a crutch) further undermined the pretense of the cast being trapped on an out-of-control ship in unknown space. Pretty much the only thing that actually worked in Universe's favor were the aliens, which were different enough to require digital effects instead of costumed actors.
In the end I'm surprised they actually canceled Caprica before Universe, since the latter was practically begging to be put out of its misery.
Isn't that one of the most basic rules? Always assume that a device on your network could become compromised. That's why the gods of microchips and junk food gave us the gift of layered security.
Exactly. It's still the most user-friendly solution. The generic drivers allow you to get the basics done until you can choose for yourself which drivers you want to install. It's been a while since I last used a workstation with Debian instead of Ubuntu, but isn't there even a dialog which asks you whether you want to enable the non-free repository?
Too true, although this sometimes leads to some rather entertaining bugs.
On Windows 7 systems with some Radeon versions and multiple displays the OS will sometimes switch to a garbled mouse pointer. In some cases wiggling the mouse pointer between screens will temporarily fix it, while in other cases it's necessary to enable a cursor trail to get a working cursor again. Only a reboot will lead to a more stable cursor behavior (until the bug occurs again). I've already had to deal with this on several unrelated workstations and while there's a permanent fix for some situations other cases are not so lucky.
It's oversimplified, but still part of the whole madness: They are in business with some Saudi businessmen who support and donate to terrorists on the other side. Therefore US money is used to buy weapons which in turn are used against US soldiers. In other words: They're basically fighting themselves.
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As batshit crazy as the online advertising world is you can bet someone has already been looking into that.
Same for Germany and Austria. 5 bucks replacement fee for the whole procedure, including the two letters which will get you the new card and the new PIN.
IMHO it's actually about the way he's holding the phone.
The bulk of the readers can't reply right now. They've been abducted to be fitted with anal probes.
Still has some interesting things to offer.
I was interested in Machinarium anyway.
Although World of Goo is unplayable (graphics error causes my displays to flash like strobe lamps). Disappointing, considering dual-monitor setups are common enough to warrant including it during the test phase.
It just wouldn't be Microsoft without detection tools that let pirated copies pass and cause trouble to the owners of valid licenses.
Sounds all too familiar.
In the late 90's our school still used GW-BASIC to teach students the basics of programming. And at a later school we had a teacher who could recite her +20 years old teaching material word for word but wasn't even able to insert and format a table in a text document.
Strange. "Scar" (the lead Predator in the AvP movie) was quite easy to relate to, if one has at least a rudimentary understanding of the tribal societies of old. Hell, it's the humans who actually were a distraction from the real story!
I'll give you Futurama, which still has a few things to offer. But Family Guy has deteriorated so much it's almost physically painful to watch.
True, and Eureka has the advantage of being able to do some episodes with next to no visual effects, allowing them to save up money for more effects-heavy episodes down the road.
For a while they were picking their scripts from the absolute bottom of the barrel, but the show has redeemed itself.
But part of the fun are Sanctuary's over-the-top stories and it's rather easy to take that too far.
Wrestling probably still offered better writing and acting than the soap opera drivel in Universe.
They canceled that one a while ago, but just like Universe there are still some unaired episodes left.
It didn't help that the whole "enemy of the season" thing became rather boring after a while, leading to the whole Anubis thing and followed by the Space Taliban in their flying toilet seats.
The problem wasn't the human factor per se. ...). It's the "how", in this case the stories that turn a science fiction show into a third-rate soap opera.
A lot of entertaining science fiction stories only need a couple of decent actors and not much more (The Man from Earth, Exam,
You mean apart from proving that Canadians don't like to do things by halves? ;)
Sam wiped out a sun, Rodney a whole solar system.
To be fair, Atlantis started out interesting, but the forced changes every season did lead to rather underwhelming later seasons.
And while the fact that they had to start out without knowing when they'd find a means of returning was an advantage of the early episodes it was only logical to discover a solution after a while. After all, the discovery of new civilizations and technologies was the core of the Stargate program.
SGU already started out handicapping itself. And no, I mean apart from the soap opera characters and the overdone pop music montage at the end of an episode.
Such a huge ship to explore to find means of survival after their unplanned arrival and instead everything progresses at a speed which even a snail would consider comatose?
And the already mentioned communication stones (which the writers constantly used as a crutch) further undermined the pretense of the cast being trapped on an out-of-control ship in unknown space.
Pretty much the only thing that actually worked in Universe's favor were the aliens, which were different enough to require digital effects instead of costumed actors.
In the end I'm surprised they actually canceled Caprica before Universe, since the latter was practically begging to be put out of its misery.
The fact that said horror show also felt as if written by soap opera writers didn't exactly help either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Isn't that one of the most basic rules?
Always assume that a device on your network could become compromised. That's why the gods of microchips and junk food gave us the gift of layered security.
Exactly. It's still the most user-friendly solution. The generic drivers allow you to get the basics done until you can choose for yourself which drivers you want to install.
It's been a while since I last used a workstation with Debian instead of Ubuntu, but isn't there even a dialog which asks you whether you want to enable the non-free repository?
Too true, although this sometimes leads to some rather entertaining bugs.
On Windows 7 systems with some Radeon versions and multiple displays the OS will sometimes switch to a garbled mouse pointer.
In some cases wiggling the mouse pointer between screens will temporarily fix it, while in other cases it's necessary to enable a cursor trail to get a working cursor again. Only a reboot will lead to a more stable cursor behavior (until the bug occurs again).
I've already had to deal with this on several unrelated workstations and while there's a permanent fix for some situations other cases are not so lucky.
True, neither side of the conflict had a white vest, but in the end it was innocent civilians who had to suffer.
They ran out of sharks again.
It's oversimplified, but still part of the whole madness:
They are in business with some Saudi businessmen who support and donate to terrorists on the other side. Therefore US money is used to buy weapons which in turn are used against US soldiers. In other words: They're basically fighting themselves.