The best part about this is that over time as the bot learns from other marketers and their products it will start marketing back to them with combinations of competitors products. It's like the ultimate in comeback technology
That it was. Cricket has at least evolved into a variety of games that can be far more palatable, such as Indoor Cricket (my favourite) and 20/20 Cricket. I would be less worried about inflicting Cricket on the world than I would be at inflicting (another boring sport) on the world;)
I think perhaps the apparent seriousness of my second statement might have been what confused matters.
Back on topic though, couldn't Sci-Fi writers come up with a solution for terrorism by demolishing all governments and religion and replacing them with one leadership? That might solve the problem, but its still not going to happen.
...Inflicting cricket on half the world (technically only the English are culpable for this)....We accept that foriegners and ex-colonists are inferior so are carefull not to criticise them.... [sic]
I hope you are not inferring that 'foreigners and ex-colonists are inferior' at Cricket. Or do you still consider Australia a Non-foreign Colony and enjoy being beaten at your own game (or at least the English that is)?
Anyway, I believe the solution to all 'differences of opinion' between countries should be played out in Virtual Reality. It is slowly moving this way with the use of remote controlled robots (in surveillance at least) and computer hacking during invasions. We just need to remove the robots and have them dual each other on a virtual field. Pity governments are too retarded and too stubborn to just STFU and try and resolve differences peacefully.
What I first latched onto was the taking water from the river analogy. What if the river flowed from one country through the border into another country? Does this mean the country it flows into was taking the initial countries water? Shouldn't they pay tax? Maybe it should be dammed at the border?
With the current absurdity in River systems in Australia I have started wondering about this.
To me it seems a little pointless to be banning advertising Essay writing services, especially when the google search is for "Essay writing services". Even without the paid ads, the search engine should still provide a list of businesses. Surely they are only taking a moral stance of not profiting from this kind of service rather than really inhibiting people.
Now drivers will have an excuse for driving whilst intoxicated: "I jusht needed *hic* to refuel the car *hic* with another alu.. alu.. anutha tinny *hic* so I could get home"
Well, at least Exchange on SBS 2003 needed the service restarted every day due to the caching in memory of all emails converted to HTML for OWA. I found that to be unbelievable. On the servers that we put out there if they ran for a Week then Exchange would eventually take over all available RAM and the server would run like a dog.
I don't know if Microsoft ever put out a fix for that flaw, but it has been a while since I have installed SBS 2003. It certainly isn't a bug that is exploitable for remote code execution.
I work in a hospital, and they use dictation often for pathology results and all that kind of jazz, so half the time they probably want urinalysis and the other half the time they might want your analysis. I can't imagine the headaches they would have dictating other medical terminology to the system
'Attempted Piracy' reads to me in a similar vein of 'Mostly Harmless'. I wonder if they consider talking or dressing up as a Pirate as 'Attempted Piracy'. There will be mass arrests this September 19.
Well, in any case, I think this counts as Prior Art... Even if they didn't hold a patent for it, as prior art that invalidates said patent. I think MS is just spouting FUD again, nothing meaningful.
Obviously you didn't read the thread leading up to this that mentioned quite specifically that they were discussing Australia. Telstra and Optus provide Cable access, and to some extend TransACT does in the ACT as well. Most people are too dispursed from the centres in order for Cable to be a viable option though.
Most people have the choice of ADSL (up to 1.5Mbps if you are lucky) or Satellite... the other option a lot of people have kept on is ISDN.
The only place where ADSL connection speeds are not a joke are in the Metropolitan centres, or wait - just the major cities. I live less than 100km from a major City (Brisbane) in a large regional centre and I can't get access to anything over 1.5Mbps thanks to Telstra's monopoly (although there are plans in the works to upgrade at least one exchange in this town sometime later this year. Here is hoping. The last time they said this was happening was in 2004).
But back to Phones... out here it is not viable to go Mobile. CDMA is being replaced by NextG (A lame excuse for mobile 'coverage' that just doesn't cover). I am 25 and I rely almost entirely on my Landline and Answering Service. My Mobile is a work mobile, used for people to contact me and for me to contact people in an emergency. I find Mobiles obnoxious and annoying, and prefer to not answer the phone at all. I only wish more people would shut their phones up or ignore them - I think we'd be a happier society.
Consequently, I heard that Australians are one of the worst cultures for abandoning current tasks the moment a phone is heard ringing. At the dinner table when my parents were last over the phone rang and they said "are you going to answer that?"... I said "Why? I'm eating... it can wait". Phones are one of the most intrusive things in our society and I think it accounts for a lot of dissatisfaction and aggravation.
Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archeologists near Mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon-dated in Bonne. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental." The page has been universally condemned by church leaders.
What seems to have really made a difference is the development of language, both spoken and written. Language gives humans a mental handle by which to grip abstract concepts. Human brains have areas devoted to language which seem to be unique to humans - although I'm not sure what to make of parrots who construct situationally appropriate sentences
Parrots use mimicry in their construction of sentence, they do not 'understand' what they are saying anymore than a dog understands that when you say the word 'sit' he needs to place his bum on the ground... This is why in order to initiate 'conversation' from a parrot you usually need to repeat your phrase until it finally figures out what it needs to mimic.
"We'll be back shortly." - Only once they have written some auto-delete-and-ban algorithms that handle all base conversions of the number (with and without punctuation).
The above problems were on a Windows Box. On Linux there was a problem with this converter for use with a Tie-line management system. At least in the end we were able to track down a Serial PCI Card to replace it with. This is not a solution on a Laptop though obviously.
I conclude therefore that it is not the flakiness of Linux USB support, but the flakiness of USB in general, or the flakiness of USB->RS-232 adapters in general.
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The best part about this is that over time as the bot learns from other marketers and their products it will start marketing back to them with combinations of competitors products. It's like the ultimate in comeback technology
/me removes tounge from cheek
;)
That it was. Cricket has at least evolved into a variety of games that can be far more palatable, such as Indoor Cricket (my favourite) and 20/20 Cricket. I would be less worried about inflicting Cricket on the world than I would be at inflicting (another boring sport) on the world
I think perhaps the apparent seriousness of my second statement might have been what confused matters.
Back on topic though, couldn't Sci-Fi writers come up with a solution for terrorism by demolishing all governments and religion and replacing them with one leadership? That might solve the problem, but its still not going to happen.
I hope you are not inferring that 'foreigners and ex-colonists are inferior' at Cricket. Or do you still consider Australia a Non-foreign Colony and enjoy being beaten at your own game (or at least the English that is)?
Anyway, I believe the solution to all 'differences of opinion' between countries should be played out in Virtual Reality. It is slowly moving this way with the use of remote controlled robots (in surveillance at least) and computer hacking during invasions. We just need to remove the robots and have them dual each other on a virtual field. Pity governments are too retarded and too stubborn to just STFU and try and resolve differences peacefully.
What I first latched onto was the taking water from the river analogy. What if the river flowed from one country through the border into another country? Does this mean the country it flows into was taking the initial countries water? Shouldn't they pay tax? Maybe it should be dammed at the border?
With the current absurdity in River systems in Australia I have started wondering about this.
I'm getting a picture of Cube... It won't be long before a wall slides straight through your guests.
At least if its written in Java it can collect its own garbage and clean up the mess it made on the rug.
I thought that Red Dwarf was only 3 Million Years into the Future? Actually, in about 2995 billion years they might have finished the movie...
2010: The year IPv6 makes contact
I always wondered who 'they' were...
To me it seems a little pointless to be banning advertising Essay writing services, especially when the google search is for "Essay writing services". Even without the paid ads, the search engine should still provide a list of businesses. Surely they are only taking a moral stance of not profiting from this kind of service rather than really inhibiting people.
Now drivers will have an excuse for driving whilst intoxicated: "I jusht needed *hic* to refuel the car *hic* with another alu.. alu.. anutha tinny *hic* so I could get home"
You think this "lawsuit" thing isn't brining them publicity. Maybe now everybody will go to their site using this JS hack to see what they play...
:D... Probably not though
Maybe they are doing this whole thing on purpose
Well its either that, or they are giving out free Motor Boats, er, $16,000 at the nearest police station...
Well, at least Exchange on SBS 2003 needed the service restarted every day due to the caching in memory of all emails converted to HTML for OWA. I found that to be unbelievable. On the servers that we put out there if they ran for a Week then Exchange would eventually take over all available RAM and the server would run like a dog.
I don't know if Microsoft ever put out a fix for that flaw, but it has been a while since I have installed SBS 2003. It certainly isn't a bug that is exploitable for remote code execution.
I work in a hospital, and they use dictation often for pathology results and all that kind of jazz, so half the time they probably want urinalysis and the other half the time they might want your analysis. I can't imagine the headaches they would have dictating other medical terminology to the system
I think he pulled it out of his colon
'Attempted Piracy' reads to me in a similar vein of 'Mostly Harmless'. I wonder if they consider talking or dressing up as a Pirate as 'Attempted Piracy'. There will be mass arrests this September 19.
Well, in any case, I think this counts as Prior Art... Even if they didn't hold a patent for it, as prior art that invalidates said patent. I think MS is just spouting FUD again, nothing meaningful.
Or shot on sight for that matter...
I wouldn't worry too much about rappers, they tend to get shot on site anyway. Tupac, Jam Master Jay, need I continue?
Obviously you didn't read the thread leading up to this that mentioned quite specifically that they were discussing Australia. Telstra and Optus provide Cable access, and to some extend TransACT does in the ACT as well. Most people are too dispursed from the centres in order for Cable to be a viable option though.
... the other option a lot of people have kept on is ISDN.
Most people have the choice of ADSL (up to 1.5Mbps if you are lucky) or Satellite
The only place where ADSL connection speeds are not a joke are in the Metropolitan centres, or wait - just the major cities. I live less than 100km from a major City (Brisbane) in a large regional centre and I can't get access to anything over 1.5Mbps thanks to Telstra's monopoly (although there are plans in the works to upgrade at least one exchange in this town sometime later this year. Here is hoping. The last time they said this was happening was in 2004).
But back to Phones... out here it is not viable to go Mobile. CDMA is being replaced by NextG (A lame excuse for mobile 'coverage' that just doesn't cover). I am 25 and I rely almost entirely on my Landline and Answering Service. My Mobile is a work mobile, used for people to contact me and for me to contact people in an emergency. I find Mobiles obnoxious and annoying, and prefer to not answer the phone at all. I only wish more people would shut their phones up or ignore them - I think we'd be a happier society.
Consequently, I heard that Australians are one of the worst cultures for abandoning current tasks the moment a phone is heard ringing. At the dinner table when my parents were last over the phone rang and they said "are you going to answer that?"... I said "Why? I'm eating... it can wait". Phones are one of the most intrusive things in our society and I think it accounts for a lot of dissatisfaction and aggravation.
But enough ranting for now...
I thought it was Forfty Percent of all people know that about statistics?
Be careful... he might CrAx0r your B0xen... hmm... It doesn't have the same kind of ring to it, does it...
Parrots use mimicry in their construction of sentence, they do not 'understand' what they are saying anymore than a dog understands that when you say the word 'sit' he needs to place his bum on the ground... This is why in order to initiate 'conversation' from a parrot you usually need to repeat your phrase until it finally figures out what it needs to mimic.
"We'll be back shortly." - Only once they have written some auto-delete-and-ban algorithms that handle all base conversions of the number (with and without punctuation).
I think their base got pwned.
The above problems were on a Windows Box. On Linux there was a problem with this converter for use with a Tie-line management system. At least in the end we were able to track down a Serial PCI Card to replace it with. This is not a solution on a Laptop though obviously.
I conclude therefore that it is not the flakiness of Linux USB support, but the flakiness of USB in general, or the flakiness of USB->RS-232 adapters in general.