he was nervous, not desperate - if he'd tried to get to me I would've operated the emergency barrier - he was really going nowhere and he saw it pretty quickly. If you know you're already on CCTV before you've really committed a crime (and you've almost certainly GOT a record) then you'd have to be an idiot to go through with it (or commit a WORSE one) - particulalry when someone's given you an easy way out.
no plastic seperator - but we had one of those hydraulic emergency barriers if necessary.
Petty thieves are - almost by definition - stupid, it's better to clue them in to how fucking caught they already are than just go and hide - defusing a vaguely dangerous situation is a lot better than overreacting. If he'd asked, I would have told him that he could have EASILY ripped someone off for FAR more than was in our till with some simple cc fraud - some guy who I shared a house with did it ALL the time.
great article? it's a shit article written by a pants creaming box nerd trying to sound well informed with some regurgitated marketing hype. Why the fuck else would he do game benchmarks? What about the gfx cards he didn't mention, like those from 3Dlabs?
totally boring, totally uninformative - nothing you couldn't surmise yourself after a quick perusal of THG and a couple of price lists.
you know, I always specify ECC for our Win2K workstations, but it rather strikes me that Winders will let the side down LONG before memory errors stop the show. Am I right or what?
No, you don't - you're just not allowed to LIE about where you live, there's no legal compulsion to fill in an electoral roll form - merely one NOT to fill it in incorrectly.
deported to where? Much better not to let them get a foothold in the first place. ID cards are the ultimate fucking personal data nightmare - as it is we can't trust the Electoral Roll, fucking Equifax and fucking Experian to get our data even halfway correct - not to mention that police records have consistently been shown to be up to 50% inaccurate.
not only Bulger, but the Brick Lane/Brixton/Admiral Duncan bomber. CCTV's alright by me - I used to work in a petrol station as a youngster, and when some idiot pulled a knife on me I just had to say to him "you're already on the tape, mate - and I just locked the door". He put the knife away, I let him go.
I have NEVER seen one on the road, yet I see about 50 MX-5s, 30 Porsche 911s, 20 BMW M3s and sundry Ferraris, MGs, Maseratis, Aston Martins, Lotus', a Honda NSX, a shitload of Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV, V, VI and VIIs and a boatload of Subara WRXs when I drive my MAZDA RX-7 to work and back every day.
If you mean Xeon, then you're paying EVEN MORE than Apple charge; if you mean dual Athlon - you'll be building it yourself! (not that it's a bad idea...)
you won't get your 'spare' CPU I'm afraid, MacOSX does a LOT of load balancing to remain responsive under load - and in THAT area it succeeds handsomely. Certainly, MacOSX 10.2.3 is by far the best multitasking OS I've used - even on a 450dualie you can run tens of demanding apps while listening to music skip-free or attending to email without noticeable effects.
not really, the MacOS has a software colour calibration system called 'Colorsync' built in. It's MODERATELY sophisticated, but no match for a hardware calibrator - probably good enough for 70% of colour matching situations. Best part is that it's VERY integrated into the OS, and therefore widely supported by manufacturers.
it DOES prove one thing - that Macs ARE competitive, and that there's more than just Wintel's game in town. This is great news for everyone even remotely interested in computers.
I've been using mplayer under OSX for a little while now; it's feeble - of course - compared with the mighty capabilities of QuickTime, and I've had some problems with resolution switching and fullscreen, but I'm impressed with it all the same. Probably a more useful adjunct to QT Player's abilities is Video Lan Client (vlc), which gives great MPEG playback and good divx decoding, too.
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he was nervous, not desperate - if he'd tried to get to me I would've operated the emergency barrier - he was really going nowhere and he saw it pretty quickly. If you know you're already on CCTV before you've really committed a crime (and you've almost certainly GOT a record) then you'd have to be an idiot to go through with it (or commit a WORSE one) - particulalry when someone's given you an easy way out.
what? with Microslop gearing up to purchase Macromedia?
standard = whatever Bill Gates says
amen
no plastic seperator - but we had one of those hydraulic emergency barriers if necessary.
Petty thieves are - almost by definition - stupid, it's better to clue them in to how fucking caught they already are than just go and hide - defusing a vaguely dangerous situation is a lot better than overreacting. If he'd asked, I would have told him that he could have EASILY ripped someone off for FAR more than was in our till with some simple cc fraud - some guy who I shared a house with did it ALL the time.
great article? it's a shit article written by a pants creaming box nerd trying to sound well informed with some regurgitated marketing hype. Why the fuck else would he do game benchmarks? What about the gfx cards he didn't mention, like those from 3Dlabs?
totally boring, totally uninformative - nothing you couldn't surmise yourself after a quick perusal of THG and a couple of price lists.
oh , fuck off
what you don't know about sgi system architecture can just about fit into the Grand Canyon
you know, I always specify ECC for our Win2K workstations, but it rather strikes me that Winders will let the side down LONG before memory errors stop the show. Am I right or what?
"And you have to register where you live"
No, you don't - you're just not allowed to LIE about where you live, there's no legal compulsion to fill in an electoral roll form - merely one NOT to fill it in incorrectly.
deported to where? Much better not to let them get a foothold in the first place. ID cards are the ultimate fucking personal data nightmare - as it is we can't trust the Electoral Roll, fucking Equifax and fucking Experian to get our data even halfway correct - not to mention that police records have consistently been shown to be up to 50% inaccurate.
not only Bulger, but the Brick Lane/Brixton/Admiral Duncan bomber. CCTV's alright by me - I used to work in a petrol station as a youngster, and when some idiot pulled a knife on me I just had to say to him "you're already on the tape, mate - and I just locked the door". He put the knife away, I let him go.
what, you mean FPS gaymes like Quake III?
I prefer it in 'capture the fag' mode. myself
well MINE has 38911 BASIC bytes... ...and they're FREE!
ONE MILLIBIT? How on Earth would THAT work?
PC people have bad taste by definition - if they saw something as beautifully modded as this iBook, they'd naturally assume that the owner was gay.
...but the various presentations at the mpf indicated that the Opteron will be significantly faster than the 970.
why, you can have ANY colour as long as it's silver
perhaps you missed ny point - why do only Americans buy Corvettes?
Is it because-
a - they're shit cars
b - Americans wouldn'tknow a sports car if they ran over one in a Ford F-150
one of the world's best sports cars?
I have NEVER seen one on the road, yet I see about 50 MX-5s, 30 Porsche 911s, 20 BMW M3s and sundry Ferraris, MGs, Maseratis, Aston Martins, Lotus', a Honda NSX, a shitload of Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV, V, VI and VIIs and a boatload of Subara WRXs when I drive my MAZDA RX-7 to work and back every day.
...yeah, but the extra 400kg is what's gonna cost you the money if you ever happen to accelerate or brake the stupid thing.
Do Americans even do Physics at high school anymore?
dual proc P4?
who makes one of those?
If you mean Xeon, then you're paying EVEN MORE than Apple charge; if you mean dual Athlon - you'll be building it yourself! (not that it's a bad idea...)
you won't get your 'spare' CPU I'm afraid, MacOSX does a LOT of load balancing to remain responsive under load - and in THAT area it succeeds handsomely. Certainly, MacOSX 10.2.3 is by far the best multitasking OS I've used - even on a 450dualie you can run tens of demanding apps while listening to music skip-free or attending to email without noticeable effects.
I just wish Flash player performance was better!
not really, the MacOS has a software colour calibration system called 'Colorsync' built in. It's MODERATELY sophisticated, but no match for a hardware calibrator - probably good enough for 70% of colour matching situations. Best part is that it's VERY integrated into the OS, and therefore widely supported by manufacturers.
It's really quite good.
it DOES prove one thing - that Macs ARE competitive, and that there's more than just Wintel's game in town. This is great news for everyone even remotely interested in computers.
I've been using mplayer under OSX for a little while now; it's feeble - of course - compared with the mighty capabilities of QuickTime, and I've had some problems with resolution switching and fullscreen, but I'm impressed with it all the same. Probably a more useful adjunct to QT Player's abilities is Video Lan Client (vlc), which gives great MPEG playback and good divx decoding, too.
well, that's the 'freedom from Microsoft' tax that us Mac/Palm/Linux/whatever lovers are forced to pay....
yeah, I've got a quality issue with my Clié PEG-SJ30:- Why aren't other manufacturers able to build their PDAs to Sony standards?
It's fucking FLAWLESS.