alas there's nothing really like the old space, pirate, and castle sets
Those castle sets ruled. You could build a Lego castle, complete with the little blokes in Norman era armour; then you could shell them with a Lego Technic trebuchet! All the horrors of seige warfare in Lego form!
I believe Pro Evolution is the non-Asia name for Winning Eleven. It's published by Konami, in the UK at least, and is available for the PS2, PSP, XBox, XBox 360 and PC.
... and the small matter of new missions. All the GTA-III derived games are basically the same; it's the new missions and other challenges that make them fun.
Sorry but FIFA sucks compared to Pro Evolution. FIFA plays like a game designed by people who have only ever seen football on the TV; Pro Evo plays like an actual game of football.
The only good thing about FIFA is the club/player licensing; and that's of no interest to me as it doesn't cover the English lower leagues.
The competition was open to 25 schools in the area around the new offices. Now, to the best of my knowledge, there aren't 25 independent schools around Victoria; so I think it's safe to assume that at least some of the children came from the state sector.
Not that would have been anything wrong with excluding the state sector. If I'd just opened some nice new offices the last thing I'd want is a bunch of trainee mobile phone thieves and dodgy cigarette salesmen running around them.
There's something very wrong with a country when university students can be punished for drinking alcohol. What next? Students who don't say Grace before dinner are to be hanged, drawn and quartered in front of the library?
If they'd had an no booze rule at my old university about three people would have graduated.
Too damn right - even a Hind can be taken down with a single RPG (look at the Russian experience in Afghanistan). Why in BF2 does it take about five anti-tank rockets to down a single bloody Blackhawk?
They should make helocopters much more vunerable, as they were in BF:Vietnam; or introduce Desert Combat style anti-aircraft infantry.
You are absolutely wrong on this issue. Anyone who isn't a complete and total retard knows that you should not have 100 columns on table or use the kind of one-time solution you are implying.
... you were being far too polite in the face of such stupidity.
... there's also the fact that in most countries childrens play areas are not owned and run by fast food firms. Group play is vitally important for a child's social/mental growth - far too important to be entrusted to companies whose only goal is to sell fat filled crap and sugared water. Not that I'm attacking your decision to use the facilities; if it's the only one around then you've got no choice. But it's a pretty bloody sad state of affairs when kids can't even go to a playground without being surrounded by product placement and targetted advertising.
Try an McD in a more rural area and you will have wooden chairs and tables with real plants.
I'll take your word for that. When I'm travelling the last place I want to visit is a McDonald's! I want to eat local food, stuff that's unique to the country/region. Not the same fatty, anodyne, mass-marketed junk that I can get in Liverpool Street station.
That said I did visit McDonald's a lot when I was working in Alkmaar because, predictably enough, it was the only place to eat that was near my office! I really should pick better places to work...
I can't comprehend why anyone would want to spend more time than in a McDonald's than is required to purchase some food. The restaurants are smelly, thick with grease (even the air is greasy) and decked out in the cheapest plastic available.
I am pretty much forced to go to McDonald's once a month (it's the only place open late in London's financial district that does take-outs). The food is better than going hungry (just) but I'd rather starve than actually eat in the "restaurant". I certainly wouldn't spend long enough there to play Mario Kart without a HazMat suit on.
Errr... yes it does. As you stated the phisher has to access the phished account immediately rather than at their leisure. How does that not limit their window of opportunity, bearing in mind that 30 seconds is a lot less time than a few weeks/months?
If the fob's anything like the RSA Secure-Key cards then the code will change every 30 seconds. That dramatically limits the window of opportunity for a thief. Under the current system they can phish for thousands of username/password combinations and use them at their leisure.
If the ships were ready for combat everything that could be stowed, would be stowed. The deck would have been packed with infantry and archers ready to board enemy ships or storm ashore. The Romans were pretty awful sailors (compared to their contemporaries) but they weren't stupid.
Given the extreme range the reflectors would be operating at, the constant motion of the targets and the fact that the targets would be soaking wet (with a constant supply of new water to replace that boiled away) I think the best you could do with a load of mirrors is try to blind the enemy. It requires less time on target, less coordination between mirrors and might actually work.
Yes - because if a Greek city had 10,000 physically fit citizens, and the manufacturing capacity to produce 10,000 pieces of precision shaped/polished metal their first thought would be to get them to line up on the shore and try to aim a tiny reflection at moving, distant targets in the hope they could cause some sodden wood to combust. That makes much more sense than making 10,000 swords and simply slaughtering the Romans as they attempt to disgorge their galleys.
You utter bastard! This is clearly a modern version of Archimedes Elite, the best version of the best game ever. I had plans for this weekend! Now I'm going to have to play this until either my fingertips or eyes start bleeding.
Congratulations! You've provided yet more evidence as to why analogies are considered the idiot's alternative to logic!
You deposit money in the bank because all monetary units of equal value are interchangable, the money is more safe in the bank than under your bed, there is no way of transporting money in electronic form other than using banks and banks will pay you to look after your money. There is also significant legislation that protects your money from fraud and other mis-use whilst deposited in a bank.
Your documents are not interchangable; they contain information that may be extremely valuable to yourself and others. By storing these on a remote server you are most likely consenting to this information being used for marketing purposes. So, in essence, you are paying the web office provider to hold your documents using potentially priceless information.
In addition there is no need to do this as it is trival to move documents (and other files) in electronic form; in fact it's easier than moving a physical copy of the document.
Finally the ownership and security of the documents is going to be covered by a EULA and not consumer friendly legislation. If a bank were to give my money to an unauthorised individual or company then the bank would be liable for the loss. If Google were to send a copy of your diary to everyone with a GMail account it is likely the EULA would preclude any compensation (and depending on the contents of your diary it could be that no-compensation would ever cover the damage done).
I'd add disown to that list - under bash it detaches background jobs from the tty and allows them to continue running after session is closed (like nohup).
Wierd. As the poster below mentions it is hardly extortionately expensive to build with brick; high quality wood is far more expensive. It's strange that the US and Canada, both more wealthy nations than the UK and both with more extreme weather, chose to build with less hardy materials.
There's also the cultural aspect; in the UK the only people who live in wooden houses are those with 400 year old cottages and gypsies. The idea of building a house out of anything other than brick, steel, concrete and stone is laughable. Even internal beams are now steel rather than oak or pine. Wood as a structural material is the preserve of a few radical architects who like to build out of the most "natural" materials possible.
I've never understood that either. Living in London the worst weather we get is 200 days a year of rain, but even so I'd never live in a wooden house. Give me brick or failing that, steel & concrete. Wooden is only one step up from wattle and daub; very rustic but hardly practical in a modern country (too weak, absorbs water, inferior noice insulation, falls over in high winds).
I was born in '77 and have never played Oregon Trail; I think it was more of a US thing. There was a game that came free with the Spectrum+ that seems to be a bit similar. If I remember correctly you controlled an animal (mainly predators, like Lions) and you moved around a grid based representation of the African plains trying to survive. I hated it because I could never find any prey and my animal always starved to death or was shot by poachers (I was only six at the time).
Luckily the poor quality of games did encourage me to play around with Sinclair BASIC - which ultimately lead to me being paid to write code (and, err, read Slashdot) for a living.
In the UK the rear car is always liable in rear-ending incidents. The reason being that you should never be so close to the car in front that you can't stop/take evasive action if it suddenly brakes. Whilst the liability may be different in the US the principle remains the same; if you can't stop in time you shouldn't have been so bloody close!
In my (not so) humble opinion the law should treat tail-gaters as harshly as drunk drivers. There's no excuse for either and both are incredibly dangerous to other road users.
The +2, +2a and +3 were all Amstrad machines. The +3 was a hideous cross between a Speccy and a CPC6128 (though it did have a proper serial port). The last true Spectrum was the 128K+ which was released shortly before the C5 debacle forced the sale of Sinclair Research's computer division.
... and yes, to this day I still refuse to buy anything with an Amstrad logo on it.
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I believe Pro Evolution is the non-Asia name for Winning Eleven. It's published by Konami, in the UK at least, and is available for the PS2, PSP, XBox, XBox 360 and PC.
... and the small matter of new missions. All the GTA-III derived games are basically the same; it's the new missions and other challenges that make them fun.
The only good thing about FIFA is the club/player licensing; and that's of no interest to me as it doesn't cover the English lower leagues.
Not that would have been anything wrong with excluding the state sector. If I'd just opened some nice new offices the last thing I'd want is a bunch of trainee mobile phone thieves and dodgy cigarette salesmen running around them.
If they'd had an no booze rule at my old university about three people would have graduated.
They should make helocopters much more vunerable, as they were in BF:Vietnam; or introduce Desert Combat style anti-aircraft infantry.
As long as the police don't shoot any middle-class British citizens they can act with impunity.
... there's also the fact that in most countries childrens play areas are not owned and run by fast food firms. Group play is vitally important for a child's social/mental growth - far too important to be entrusted to companies whose only goal is to sell fat filled crap and sugared water. Not that I'm attacking your decision to use the facilities; if it's the only one around then you've got no choice. But it's a pretty bloody sad state of affairs when kids can't even go to a playground without being surrounded by product placement and targetted advertising.
That said I did visit McDonald's a lot when I was working in Alkmaar because, predictably enough, it was the only place to eat that was near my office! I really should pick better places to work ...
I am pretty much forced to go to McDonald's once a month (it's the only place open late in London's financial district that does take-outs). The food is better than going hungry (just) but I'd rather starve than actually eat in the "restaurant". I certainly wouldn't spend long enough there to play Mario Kart without a HazMat suit on.
Errr ... yes it does. As you stated the phisher has to access the phished account immediately rather than at their leisure. How does that not limit their window of opportunity, bearing in mind that 30 seconds is a lot less time than a few weeks/months?
If the fob's anything like the RSA Secure-Key cards then the code will change every 30 seconds. That dramatically limits the window of opportunity for a thief. Under the current system they can phish for thousands of username/password combinations and use them at their leisure.
Given the extreme range the reflectors would be operating at, the constant motion of the targets and the fact that the targets would be soaking wet (with a constant supply of new water to replace that boiled away) I think the best you could do with a load of mirrors is try to blind the enemy. It requires less time on target, less coordination between mirrors and might actually work.
Yes - because if a Greek city had 10,000 physically fit citizens, and the manufacturing capacity to produce 10,000 pieces of precision shaped/polished metal their first thought would be to get them to line up on the shore and try to aim a tiny reflection at moving, distant targets in the hope they could cause some sodden wood to combust. That makes much more sense than making 10,000 swords and simply slaughtering the Romans as they attempt to disgorge their galleys.
You utter bastard! This is clearly a modern version of Archimedes Elite, the best version of the best game ever. I had plans for this weekend! Now I'm going to have to play this until either my fingertips or eyes start bleeding.
You deposit money in the bank because all monetary units of equal value are interchangable, the money is more safe in the bank than under your bed, there is no way of transporting money in electronic form other than using banks and banks will pay you to look after your money. There is also significant legislation that protects your money from fraud and other mis-use whilst deposited in a bank.
Your documents are not interchangable; they contain information that may be extremely valuable to yourself and others. By storing these on a remote server you are most likely consenting to this information being used for marketing purposes. So, in essence, you are paying the web office provider to hold your documents using potentially priceless information.
In addition there is no need to do this as it is trival to move documents (and other files) in electronic form; in fact it's easier than moving a physical copy of the document.
Finally the ownership and security of the documents is going to be covered by a EULA and not consumer friendly legislation. If a bank were to give my money to an unauthorised individual or company then the bank would be liable for the loss. If Google were to send a copy of your diary to everyone with a GMail account it is likely the EULA would preclude any compensation (and depending on the contents of your diary it could be that no-compensation would ever cover the damage done).
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The complex task continues to run in the background; though the output will be lost toThere's also the cultural aspect; in the UK the only people who live in wooden houses are those with 400 year old cottages and gypsies. The idea of building a house out of anything other than brick, steel, concrete and stone is laughable. Even internal beams are now steel rather than oak or pine. Wood as a structural material is the preserve of a few radical architects who like to build out of the most "natural" materials possible.
I've never understood that either. Living in London the worst weather we get is 200 days a year of rain, but even so I'd never live in a wooden house. Give me brick or failing that, steel & concrete. Wooden is only one step up from wattle and daub; very rustic but hardly practical in a modern country (too weak, absorbs water, inferior noice insulation, falls over in high winds).
Luckily the poor quality of games did encourage me to play around with Sinclair BASIC - which ultimately lead to me being paid to write code (and, err, read Slashdot) for a living.
In my (not so) humble opinion the law should treat tail-gaters as harshly as drunk drivers. There's no excuse for either and both are incredibly dangerous to other road users.
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