It's the same in all online team games. Take Day of Defeat for example. So many games just end up with snipers in every window killing anyone who moves so they can say "w00t! 10 to 1 k1ll:de4th. I ownz you". It's so boring for everyone else. The few times you get a really good team that works together to capture flags it's so much more fun.
There was a period in DoD where on lots of servers the sniper scope didn't work and it was liek a whole different game.
Meteorite impacts on Mars throw rocks from the surface upwards at greater than Martian escape velocity. The rocks then sail through space for a few million years before some of them bump into Earth.
The initial argument is just a straw man. It's never actually going to happen: a) Too many people on the tube and in area, so without reason to suspect murderer was on tube (which would be a pretty stupid way to get away from a crime scene in London), there is no probable cause for warrant. Magistrates are reasonably independent in these matters. b) The database doesn't store photos, so they can't tell what you look like (you need a photo card, but TfL doesn't keep a copy of your photo, they just stick it to the photocard and give it back to you). Yes, you could combine the database with CCTV footage, but there's no suggestion that that is being done. c) If there is police harrassment, that is an issue with the police force and how they are regulated, not with the evidence they have
I assume you keep your money under your mattress and never use a credit card. If someone really wants to know where you are going, 'They' can pay someone to follow you.
Am I the only one who sees no real problem with this? So they know where you went on the tube. Why is this a massive invasion of my privacy? What evil uses can this information be put to? It allows them to work out more easily the routes people take across London, providing more info for their train scheduling.
How do you get through the barriers if you're jamming the smartcard signals? You have to wave your card at the detector to get the barriers to open in order to get on to the platform. They're only tracking you at entrances and exits.
Why are private companies allowed to provide teaching services? Why not Coca-Cola "Why Pepsi tastes like rat's urine" lessons? Oscar-Meyer promotional periodic tables?
Erm, there are quite a few. My first choice would be Latex+dvipdf. Or print from any application to a PostScript file then use ps2pdf to convert to PDF. I believe Openoffice has an export to PDF option now.
PDF is an open standard, there are many ways to produce content in it for free.
Damn Swedes, always right about everything. Almost everyone I know (UK) uses Messenger (and hotmail). It's preinstalled, "it's Microsoft, it must be good".
"In the United States, Canada and Japan, Microsoft will introduce an unsupervised chat service solely for subscribers,"
"Users in the affected regions will still be able to chat online but must do so through Microsoft Messenger,"
Of course it's about protecting children. Honest. The British press I've seen is latching onto the protecting the children angle to the exclusion of everything else. Bring back Chris Morris.
I've seen many, many people lose work to Word (97/2000) corrupting documents so they won't save properly. Mainly 50-80 page reports with many diagrams and tables, and generally 30 minutes before the deadline. MS clearly don't test their products well enough.
I think his point was not "use some open-source alternative" but "if you write some software for the government, you have to release the source code as well".
The Starcraft siege tank noise and the noise the carrier fighters make when they attack always make me freak out. Generally because it means I've lost *again*.
Erm, yeah, there are lots of people who go round doing that kind of thing. The Office of Fair Trading, the National Weights and Measures Lab, Trading Standards to name but three UK examples.
My experiences of Demon are nightmare like. They were my first ADSL provider, back before the Thus takeover. Back then they were efficient, fast connection and the tech support knew what they were talking about. Their current service is very poor. From my own experience before I left, the experience of my parents and from comments on adslguide, the connection speed is very poor for many subscribers. Demon don't give the same excuse twice in a row for why the connection is bad, alternately blaming "routing trouble" and viruses. Their tech support is clueless, barely able to write an email. Their admin is worse - they lost two letters and a fax from me when I tried to cancel my service.
In many cases for who? I don't know one person who's had a problem with a game they've bought. I know I've never had a problem.
You're kidding right? Almost every game I buy seems to require a patch or ten to get working properly. Take Battlefield 1942, for example. Go look at their support boards for endless examples of the trouble people have getting games working on Windows. Crashes to desktop, random disconnections, crappy netcode.
I don't really buy many games any more on the PC (too busy playing Day of Defeat and Zelda), but the basic procedure seems to be:
Install game
Doesn't work. Try all 'voodoo' fixes suggested by tech support/message boards. Update all drivers/bios etc
Getting a static IP doesn't cost any more with some UK ISPs. Plus.net give you one for free, as do Demon (but then you couldn't pay me enough to use Demon again).
My flexi-time in the UK was 10 - 3:30 core hours, 37.5 hours a week.
AFAIK, US working conditions really suck compared to Europe. There are barely any regulations at all. No minimum holiday requirement (European countries by law specify 20+ days a year), no working time directive (Europe < 48 hours a week). I don't see the point of working personally if you only get 10 days holiday a year on average!
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512/256 adsl:
54kb/s down
0.3kb/s up
I've never seen my upload rate go above 1.5kb/s, whatever and whenever I download. I'm trying to share, dammit, but no one will let me.
It's the same in all online team games. Take Day of Defeat for example. So many games just end up with snipers in every window killing anyone who moves so they can say "w00t! 10 to 1 k1ll:de4th. I ownz you". It's so boring for everyone else. The few times you get a really good team that works together to capture flags it's so much more fun.
There was a period in DoD where on lots of servers the sniper scope didn't work and it was liek a whole different game.
Meteorite impacts on Mars throw rocks from the surface upwards at greater than Martian escape velocity. The rocks then sail through space for a few million years before some of them bump into Earth.
Doctor Who is far too busy making prank phone calls to make a new TV series.
The initial argument is just a straw man. It's never actually going to happen:
a) Too many people on the tube and in area, so without reason to suspect murderer was on tube (which would be a pretty stupid way to get away from a crime scene in London), there is no probable cause for warrant. Magistrates are reasonably independent in these matters.
b) The database doesn't store photos, so they can't tell what you look like (you need a photo card, but TfL doesn't keep a copy of your photo, they just stick it to the photocard and give it back to you). Yes, you could combine the database with CCTV footage, but there's no suggestion that that is being done.
c) If there is police harrassment, that is an issue with the police force and how they are regulated, not with the evidence they have
Linux==kernel
Linux!=user space programs
Hence, your complaints are not about Linux, but about a bunch of programs that run on many other OSs/kernels as well as Linux.
I assume you keep your money under your mattress and never use a credit card.
If someone really wants to know where you are going, 'They' can pay someone to follow you.
Am I the only one who sees no real problem with this? So they know where you went on the tube. Why is this a massive invasion of my privacy? What evil uses can this information be put to?
It allows them to work out more easily the routes people take across London, providing more info for their train scheduling.
How do you get through the barriers if you're jamming the smartcard signals? You have to wave your card at the detector to get the barriers to open in order to get on to the platform. They're only tracking you at entrances and exits.
Why are private companies allowed to provide teaching services? Why not Coca-Cola "Why Pepsi tastes like rat's urine" lessons? Oscar-Meyer promotional periodic tables?
Erm, there are quite a few. My first choice would be Latex+dvipdf. Or print from any application to a PostScript file then use ps2pdf to convert to PDF. I believe Openoffice has an export to PDF option now.
PDF is an open standard, there are many ways to produce content in it for free.
Damn Swedes, always right about everything. Almost everyone I know (UK) uses Messenger (and hotmail). It's preinstalled, "it's Microsoft, it must be good".
"In the United States, Canada and Japan, Microsoft will introduce an unsupervised chat service solely for subscribers,"
"Users in the affected regions will still be able to chat online but must do so through Microsoft Messenger,"
Of course it's about protecting children. Honest. The British press I've seen is latching onto the protecting the children angle to the exclusion of everything else. Bring back Chris Morris.
I've seen many, many people lose work to Word (97/2000) corrupting documents so they won't save properly. Mainly 50-80 page reports with many diagrams and tables, and generally 30 minutes before the deadline.
MS clearly don't test their products well enough.
I think his point was not "use some open-source alternative" but "if you write some software for the government, you have to release the source code as well".
The Starcraft siege tank noise and the noise the carrier fighters make when they attack always make me freak out. Generally because it means I've lost *again*.
People who smoke a lot cost the NHS (UK) more than people who don't smoke. Therefore they should pay more taxation to cover that cost.
IIRC, one Calorie = one thousand calories (lowercase). One of those stupid Imperial system quirks I think.
Maybe we can forgive John Cleese his recent unfunnyness. Fawlty Towers still stands as the funniest British sitcom, nearly 30 years later.
Michael Palin is too busy going round the world in ever stranger ways to work on comedy.
Erm, yeah, there are lots of people who go round doing that kind of thing. The Office of Fair Trading, the National Weights and Measures Lab, Trading Standards to name but three UK examples.
Nearly thirty posts and no Simpsons joke yet? You guys are slipping.
... macamadamia nuts
Mmm
My experiences of Demon are nightmare like. They were my first ADSL provider, back before the Thus takeover. Back then they were efficient, fast connection and the tech support knew what they were talking about.
Their current service is very poor. From my own experience before I left, the experience of my parents and from comments on adslguide, the connection speed is very poor for many subscribers. Demon don't give the same excuse twice in a row for why the connection is bad, alternately blaming "routing trouble" and viruses. Their tech support is clueless, barely able to write an email. Their admin is worse - they lost two letters and a fax from me when I tried to cancel my service.
In many cases for who? I don't know one person who's had a problem with a game they've bought. I know I've never had a problem.
You're kidding right? Almost every game I buy seems to require a patch or ten to get working properly. Take Battlefield 1942, for example. Go look at their support boards for endless examples of the trouble people have getting games working on Windows. Crashes to desktop, random disconnections, crappy netcode.
I don't really buy many games any more on the PC (too busy playing Day of Defeat and Zelda), but the basic procedure seems to be:
Getting a static IP doesn't cost any more with some UK ISPs. Plus.net give you one for free, as do Demon (but then you couldn't pay me enough to use Demon again).
My flexi-time in the UK was 10 - 3:30 core hours, 37.5 hours a week.
AFAIK, US working conditions really suck compared to Europe. There are barely any regulations at all. No minimum holiday requirement (European countries by law specify 20+ days a year), no working time directive (Europe < 48 hours a week). I don't see the point of working personally if you only get 10 days holiday a year on average!