My machine downloaded a patch last night, and I told it to apply it, and it hung 60% of the way through applying a "Windows Genuine Advantage" update. I hit cancel, that didn't do anything so I left for work this morning not knowing if I have a working machine or not. Thanks Microsoft.
whats so wrong with this guy's life that he'd rather live in an MMORPG?
Life is hard. You can fail, and suffer consequences. World of Warcraft isn't like that, you can never realy fail in any lasting sense. The world is beautiful and rich, filled with magic and other fantasies. That's what's wrong with his life, it isn't as easy as the one that WoW offers.
It's way too obscure for an effective april fools, I'd expect it to degenerate into silly in-jokes towards the end if that were the case. If it is an april fools, then it is a dull and uninteresting one due to the subject matter being so marginal to most peoples lives. If the number had been 41, then the article would have been entirely believable, so just making up an article like this and slipping in 42 as the only joke is a bit rubbish really.
the first two numbers are 1 and 2, but it wasn't until a few years ago that mathematicians conjectured that the third number in the sequence may be 42
Given that the first number is 1 (not prime), I wouldn't expect them all to be prime numbers. Not that I would have expected them to be anyway, although it would have been a curious synchronicity if they had been.
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Seriously, to say noone can "get" online, because someone already "got" is like saying you can't "get" because some has been able to "get" before you. Catch my drift?
Yes, but that doesn't help me. OK, I don't have this problem myself so much nowadays because the queues aren't as bad as they were, but I would regularly get home from work, fire up WoW, and just leave it queueing for an hour while I watched some TV and had my meal. It's fair to say that no-one could get online for that hour unless they had started queueing before that time. Therefore the statement "no-one can get on" is a reasonable one, if not strictly 100% accurate.
Of course you get to take your stuff, but I can see why they only allow A->B migrations, otherwise people would be creating alts and checking out what the auction prices are on the low-pop servers in order to make the most gold. Essentially it *is* a server split.
If you pop the film in and then play with the kid for little while, that time will fly by.
When and for how long you play with your kid should not be dictated by movie studios. If I've been playing with my nieces for a couple of hours, and they want to watch a movie or I want to go do something else, I don't want to have to worry about putting the disc in 2 minutes in advance, or finding something to do that exactly fills that time slot. Also it's mainly the principle that winds me up. Along with making a backup (because the 2.5-year-old insists on putting the disc in herself, fingers everywhere) it's just one more reason to clone the disc.
None of this will matter until there are real consequences to anti-social behavior. That requires a couple things. First, you need the people running the game to care enough to *publicly* boot people for being asshats on a regular basis.
So you favour a game in which the characters are not allowed to behave like real people?
Under copyright law you bought a fixed representation of the copyrighted work, that that gives you certain rights... whether you accept the EULA or not.
I think I'm right in saying that this hasn't actually been decided in a binding-legal-precedent-kind-of-way yet. Of course, one could have sneaked past me. There's also the "in the US/UK/elsewhere" question.
It wasn't possible for Queen to perform Bohemian Rhapsody live without severe compromises. In some cases (the Killers tour, I think) they just put the record on for part of the song, then picked up again when it was possible. In others (Magic), they just skipped the impossible section.
Stolen property has no actual real world value. Yes, you can sell it to anyone foolish enough to pay for it, but for the citizen obeying the law, there will never be a financial attachment to the "value" of stolen property.
Goddammit have they ever dropped the ball on this one! An EXTERNAL HD-DVD DRIVE? FFS, what do you think you are doing, Bill? NOBODY wants a home entertainment box with an EXTERNAL DVD DRIVE!!!!! Sony are so going to kick your ass. AGAIN.
Compressed executables? Boy, that takes me back a bit - the name LZEXE seems to come to mind. Didn't those go out of fashion? I remember reading an article on how it was a dangerous idea because virus scanners wouldn't spot compressed viruses.
You're calling this guy out because something he designed THIRTY YEARS AGO - a computing technology that is STILL IN USE TODAY - wasn't optimised for streaming video?
Maybe the Opera developers need to realise and accept that a lot of web-browser-users are idiots. If they exclude the idiot demographic, then they are always going to be a niche product.
>You might have to switch over to another eprom...
Didn't the OS record which EPROM had registered a * command and automatically page it in? Or did it poll them all when a * command was issued until one responded? You shouldn't have to page in EPROMs to issue * commands.
Yes, it could be abreviated to "*D.1"; "*CAT" was the directory listing, which could be abbreviated all the way down to "*."
I still - very occasionally - hit the "@" key when going for the "*".
One of the unique features of the BBC Micro was that you could boot it up and immediately write code - not just BASIC, which all the 8-bit home micros could do - but ASSEMBLY!
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My machine downloaded a patch last night, and I told it to apply it, and it hung 60% of the way through applying a "Windows Genuine Advantage" update. I hit cancel, that didn't do anything so I left for work this morning not knowing if I have a working machine or not. Thanks Microsoft.
Phil Hibbs.
It's way too obscure for an effective april fools, I'd expect it to degenerate into silly in-jokes towards the end if that were the case. If it is an april fools, then it is a dull and uninteresting one due to the subject matter being so marginal to most peoples lives. If the number had been 41, then the article would have been entirely believable, so just making up an article like this and slipping in 42 as the only joke is a bit rubbish really.
Oh, so it does. It didn't when I last looked.
Yes, but that doesn't help me. OK, I don't have this problem myself so much nowadays because the queues aren't as bad as they were, but I would regularly get home from work, fire up WoW, and just leave it queueing for an hour while I watched some TV and had my meal. It's fair to say that no-one could get online for that hour unless they had started queueing before that time. Therefore the statement "no-one can get on" is a reasonable one, if not strictly 100% accurate.
Someone has already got their own server running, check out xaoswow.com. Never tried it, and I've heard that cheating is rife.
Phil Hibbs.
I have never had to queue after a disconnect, I think it lets you past the queue under certain circumstances.
No-one can *get* online to play it because so many people *got* online a couple of hours ago while I was at work!
Of course you get to take your stuff, but I can see why they only allow A->B migrations, otherwise people would be creating alts and checking out what the auction prices are on the low-pop servers in order to make the most gold. Essentially it *is* a server split.
Just as good as double-glazing. No-one wants to see your mess anyway, and you will only be up and about during the hours of darkness.
So you favour a game in which the characters are not allowed to behave like real people?
You mean this? The text says it was manslaughter, which is fair enough, and that it was overturned, or did you mean a different case?
Fall 2001
Winter 2003-4
I think I'm right in saying that this hasn't actually been decided in a binding-legal-precedent-kind-of-way yet. Of course, one could have sneaked past me. There's also the "in the US/UK/elsewhere" question.
It wasn't possible for Queen to perform Bohemian Rhapsody live without severe compromises. In some cases (the Killers tour, I think) they just put the record on for part of the song, then picked up again when it was possible. In others (Magic), they just skipped the impossible section.
Dungeon Keeper II
Populous II
The Settlers III and IV
Stolen property has no actual real world value. Yes, you can sell it to anyone foolish enough to pay for it, but for the citizen obeying the law, there will never be a financial attachment to the "value" of stolen property.
And yet it is taxable.
Goddammit have they ever dropped the ball on this one! An EXTERNAL HD-DVD DRIVE? FFS, what do you think you are doing, Bill? NOBODY wants a home entertainment box with an EXTERNAL DVD DRIVE!!!!! Sony are so going to kick your ass. AGAIN.
Compressed executables? Boy, that takes me back a bit - the name LZEXE seems to come to mind. Didn't those go out of fashion? I remember reading an article on how it was a dangerous idea because virus scanners wouldn't spot compressed viruses.
You're calling this guy out because something he designed THIRTY YEARS AGO - a computing technology that is STILL IN USE TODAY - wasn't optimised for streaming video?
Maybe the Opera developers need to realise and accept that a lot of web-browser-users are idiots. If they exclude the idiot demographic, then they are always going to be a niche product.
>You might have to switch over to another eprom...
Didn't the OS record which EPROM had registered a * command and automatically page it in? Or did it poll them all when a * command was issued until one responded? You shouldn't have to page in EPROMs to issue * commands.
Yes, it could be abreviated to "*D.1"; "*CAT" was the directory listing, which could be abbreviated all the way down to "*."
I still - very occasionally - hit the "@" key when going for the "*".
One of the unique features of the BBC Micro was that you could boot it up and immediately write code - not just BASIC, which all the 8-bit home micros could do - but ASSEMBLY!