.. the poster actually raises a good point. Many third world countries are rife with disease causing urinary defects in both children and adults. Donating to foreign aid charities would enable the comparitively cheap medicines required to treat such diseases to be supplied to them.
This would increase quality of life and prevent death. So, come on - instead of forking out for that new OLED Digital Camera why not donate a few dollars to charity and help underpriveleged people gain a new lease of life?
And also, DirectX is technologically superior to OpenGL. I'll say this for Microsoft - they really have done themselves proud with their DirectX suite of libraries.
What's the point of continuing with an inferior technology, even if it is more 'open'?
It seems that the new thing is that the first session is already stamped and not finalised, and the rest of the CD is of a suitable form to be burned to. Stamping and burning usually require different materials to make the CD, but they appear to have a hybrid here.
Multi-session CD writes offer a similar functionality. The first widespread use of this was the Kodak PhotoCD - you could put your photos on the same CD again and again until it was full, because it used multi-session.
I wonder how long it'll be before the source code to Windows et al gets in the hands of the wares groups. With Microsoft sharing it with countries like Taiwan and Russia - which aren't exactly under the thumb of the US Government like the UK is - I reckon it won't be long.
It amuses me how so many people speak of this as if high speed Internet access is some sort of undeniable right. Now if water and electricity providers started arbitrarily refusing service, you might have something reasonable to complain about. But Internet access? No way, man.
It may have been paid for by Government money at one point, but it belongs to them now. So you have no say whatsoever. That's just the way it is, get used to it.
It's entirely up to them what they do with their equipment. Sounds like the 'crybabys' are those folks complaining about their lack of broadband Internet access.
I should hope that the geezers who oversee these sort of buyouts would step in and tick them off if that was the case. Google is nice, but it would even better to have some very strong competition.
But then the best thing about Google IMO is the 'Google Groups'. It's often more useful than websites due to less advertising - people don't try to stuff Groups searches to point to their newsgroup adverts.
I hope they don't ruin it. A combination of Alltheweb.com and Google.com gets me pretty much all the wares I need, but oddly they rarely have the same sites.
(If you constantly get rubbish links while searching for files, try including things like "Index of" in your search along with a likely filename. You tend to get 'raw' file listings.)
Nah, not really. I suddenly got a surge of anger just before I was about to type in a possibly insightful post, and out popped that little ball of fury.
... it uses 3G, and is therefore not popular enough to be an immediate serious concern (unlike, for example, hacker attacks on products like Outlook, which are used by millions)
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.. the poster actually raises a good point. Many third world countries are rife with disease causing urinary defects in both children and adults. Donating to foreign aid charities would enable the comparitively cheap medicines required to treat such diseases to be supplied to them.
This would increase quality of life and prevent death. So, come on - instead of forking out for that new OLED Digital Camera why not donate a few dollars to charity and help underpriveleged people gain a new lease of life?
Could somebody please explain what an OLED is, and how is it different from a standard LED?
Is it smaller or brighter or what?
Thanks!
Good artwork on that website. Shame about all the broken links and so on.
But nice to see some intelligent graffiti art amidst all the mindless scrawls.
And also, DirectX is technologically superior to OpenGL. I'll say this for Microsoft - they really have done themselves proud with their DirectX suite of libraries.
What's the point of continuing with an inferior technology, even if it is more 'open'?
Just letting you all know what I think of this story.
GTA1 was a Windows application too, but I could only get the DOS version working under XP.
It seems that the new thing is that the first session is already stamped and not finalised, and the rest of the CD is of a suitable form to be burned to. Stamping and burning usually require different materials to make the CD, but they appear to have a hybrid here.
Multi-session CD writes offer a similar functionality. The first widespread use of this was the Kodak PhotoCD - you could put your photos on the same CD again and again until it was full, because it used multi-session.
I wonder how long it'll be before the source code to Windows et al gets in the hands of the wares groups. With Microsoft sharing it with countries like Taiwan and Russia - which aren't exactly under the thumb of the US Government like the UK is - I reckon it won't be long.
No, I'm on dialup.
It amuses me how so many people speak of this as if high speed Internet access is some sort of undeniable right. Now if water and electricity providers started arbitrarily refusing service, you might have something reasonable to complain about. But Internet access? No way, man.
It may have been paid for by Government money at one point, but it belongs to them now. So you have no say whatsoever. That's just the way it is, get used to it.
It's entirely up to them what they do with their equipment. Sounds like the 'crybabys' are those folks complaining about their lack of broadband Internet access.
So? There are lots of files that, if damaged, would cause your computer to fail upon boot.
They used to be the majority. Seems most have matured a bit and realised how stupidly blinkered they were.
I should hope that the geezers who oversee these sort of buyouts would step in and tick them off if that was the case. Google is nice, but it would even better to have some very strong competition.
.. I dunno.
But then the best thing about Google IMO is the 'Google Groups'. It's often more useful than websites due to less advertising - people don't try to stuff Groups searches to point to their newsgroup adverts.
So
I hope they don't ruin it. A combination of Alltheweb.com and Google.com gets me pretty much all the wares I need, but oddly they rarely have the same sites.
(If you constantly get rubbish links while searching for files, try including things like "Index of" in your search along with a likely filename. You tend to get 'raw' file listings.)
Nah, not really. I suddenly got a surge of anger just before I was about to type in a possibly insightful post, and out popped that little ball of fury.
No.. actually I was already pissed off. Gah, fucking bitch. Deserves to be doused in petrol and forced to juggle flaming torches, the evil slut.
... it uses 3G, and is therefore not popular enough to be an immediate serious concern (unlike, for example, hacker attacks on products like Outlook, which are used by millions)
No, it's a bigger lump than that. I don't think I even noticed yours, sorry.
Okay here are links to all the images, as they've 403'd the index.html:
...)
calendar
research-site
welcome
error
welcome2
error2
error3
flags
junk
research-integrations-ie
reply-account
permission
openmessage
open
newmessage
month
mainpage
junkmail1
(filler material
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Oh, man. The nostalgia! That brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye.
..)
I hope you get FP with Nibbles.bas on the next story (but avoid that awful Money.bas thing please
Bah, slashdotted already. Anyone got a mirror?
Glad it's Ireland and not the UK. Unless they meant Northern Ireland .. which they didn't, I think.
Still, this kind of thing is probably going on in loads of countries, it just happens that they found this one out.
What are you talking about? The massive parallelism of the brain makes it perform computations much faster than fifteen year old electronics.