Will this story never die? The 60s band story was first mentioned some 16 years a go and always pops up whenever a cast member shows an interest in doing a fifth series. And that is exactly what I read from the story above. Tony has said both Rowan and himself would love to do another series and he has made no comment on the period in which the series would be set. The Sun "journalist" probably then found the earlier story while looking through the archives and latched on to it.
If a way to play a game isn't patentable, then why should a way to do something in software be patentable?
However, patents expire after 17 (?) years -- much too long for software to be useful, but Scrabble was invented in 1931, so any patents on the game concept are long dead. Copyright on the rules is easy, just paraphrase. The dumb thing was the name, which is trademarked, they can last forever.
It's obvious that the only reason it was posted was the "Until we all have Matrix-esque jacks at the base of our skulls" comment; that made it "news for nerds".
And now there's a postscript "Update: 03/21 02:34 GMT by T: The actual link got dropped -- my fault -- in editing this post; now fixed.". He was "editing" this? How then did he miss/write: "None of the program compared are free"; "UmmRa points out his discusses"; "I have had my share of experience with".
My seven-year-old daughter would get a red "redo" if she submitted this to her second-grade teacher.
Where do you suggest I learn how to read and write? That might be a big gateway into a lot more hindi related things.. Thanks!
I learnt to read Thai ina about three weeks (not much vocabulary, but how to pronounce from the spelling). Thai uses an alphabet based on Inidan (Sanskrit?) forms, so it shouldn't be much harder.
Just thank God Hindi doesn't use an ideographic script (like Chinese, Japanese, Hieroglyphs, etc) where you need to learn a few thousand instead of a few dozen characters to be literate.
You know, it really does no good to say all of that here. Send Google an email about it. Their developers are usually pretty kind if you are good mannored, and will at least reply with something like "We're on that" or "Thanks for your concerns".
I've sent several such, polite, not flames, and possibly got back one or two robot acknowledgments and nothing more. So, this is not generally true. At least bitching about it here is therapeutic.
"Can't get approval to get Win2k anymore" sounded to me more like "Microsoft won't sell Company A a copy of Win2k anymore". This can't happen as easily with free software.
I thought he was referring to "approval" from his own bureaucracy. You can buy legal Win2k, perhaps through 3rd parties. And if MS won't support you, you can do that through third parties too. Of course, you probably can't get patches.
How many large p2p sites do you know of in Australia?... all the leachers will go overseas
According to TFA, most of the P2P networks were using uncapped bandwidth, between users on the same ISP, or same state. Downloading from overseas is going to burn their caps pretty quickly. Or maybe people will revert to sneakernet and have CDR swapmeets.
Or they won't, and will have to endure the cost of calling in folks like me and you to maintain PII's.
That is just fucking absurd. You can run any version of Windows directly on modern hardware (maybe you'd need to format the disks FAT16, or get third part drivers for big disks). Buy a shrinkwrapped Win9x on eBay, throw away the old hardware, install clean and legal on the new.
Uh oh! New machines come with Windows XP - can't get approval to get Win2k any more. And guess what: The good old VB 4 app won't run under XP.
Company A then gets to decide how to spend a wad of cash rebuilding their little document management app from scratch.
Looks to me like they screwed themselves by ruling out using an OS that supports their application -- that's why you choose platforms isn't it -- to support the applications you need; not to "upgrade" at arbitrary times when MS tells you to and break all your mission critical software.
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Pretty funny. Googling turns up a first appearance in 2002, by "egg Troll", including the same typos (eg "abandonded"). It's been posted on/. a few times since.
If I have to deal with telemarketers calling my home again, I will simply have the phone company disconnect my land line, especially with the prospect of 100-150 calls/day. Most people that really need to get ahold of me immediately can use the cell phone or email/IM me anyway.
And why wouldn't they call your cell? They're calling from overseas, they don't care about any laws against it. And pretty quickly they'll be tradng lists of mobile numbes as they do email addresses now, and it's trivial to wardial to find live numbers them anyway.
I see the only viable method being to choke off the money -- they need your credit card number to complete the transaction. Pressure the banks not to do business with them, they're the ones who enable hte whole thing to work.
What would we do if we wouldn't know all the important news in today's papers? What would we do if we wouldn't know how many people were bombed in Israel
I was under the impression that the great majority of Americans, and probably many other countries, get most of their news from TV. That's what's killing newspapers, not online competition.
Personally, I think TV news is a waste of time. I used to read a daily newspaper when I commuted, now I work from home mostly, I only buy the paper on Sundays. I get most of my news from the radio -- far more reliable and up to the minute than TV news, lots of anlysis if you want, especially if you get BBC World via shortwave, relay or online. I catch a news documentary on TV about once a week (mostly BBC again, sometimes PBS.)
Using your ip address to find your locality and serving up neighborhood ads is the only way for this business model to work-- not just advertising pizza hut, but putting pizza hut's local numbers in the ads you see will help.
As always, the porn industry is leading the way in online commerce.
Very recently I've noticed "Adult Friend Finder" ads are doing this -- the ads say "find women in XXX", where X is a suburb near me... after freaking for a moment I realised that's where my ISP was.
You start out with a stock that all other components will be attached to. The guys at Flexilis decided on the Ruger 10 / 22 folding stock from Ramline, but you can use any stock you want. You can even make the BlueSniper without the stock, if you want to be more discrete about scanning Bluetooth devices. The stock just makes the BlueSniper look more menacing, not to mention really fun to hold.
Bluetooth is a short-range protocol. It doesn't transmit but, what, 20 feet at max?
The whole point of TFA is that the "rifle" can connect to bluetooth devices up to 1 km away.
Unfortunately, the gun nuts are all talking about muzzle velocity, flash suppressors, one bullet one kill, etc, and starting brush wars about the 2nd amendment, as is their wont, so no one is actually discussing TFA anyway...
The editors have admittedly been completely bereft of actual editing skills or judgement (for say, at least the last 2 years), but in this case, the style of the story is not a sign of lack of veracity, just playfulness. The writer actually knows how to write and behind the gonzo facade, he seems to have a solid story.
Jackson actually said that it's at least three years away. Somehow this gets translated into "Hobbit Movie in Four Years". Same fanboy wishful thinking as the "New Indiana Jones Movie Going Ahead" story we get every few months when Spielberg or Harrison Ford say something like "Sure we're doing it". There are a million movies in development at any time, and every middling-big movie immediately has sequels planned. Most of these never get further than a press release.
I actually believe that there's a good chance Jackson will make The Hobbit, sometime, but nothing has happened recently to make it any more definite.
I suppose it's about time someone finds the Rendezvous With Rama website again and submits another story how that's coming Real Soon Now.
How many people lived in Darwin in 1941? If the Japs had blockaded, they could have evacuated the place, overland if necessary. I recall the plan was to evacuate northern Australia above the "Brisbane line" if worst came to worst. Anyway, this is rather far from the orignal point I was picking. Whether we could have successfully defended Australia without the US is another question entirely than whether we could have fed ourselves. I tend to think the Japanese were over-extended and could not have held their Asian conquests, especially when the Russians have entered the war against them from Manchuria. Being beholden to Stalin would admittedly have been worse than to Uncle Sam.
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If he had any ads at all on his site, he profited from it.
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And "The BBC has said there are no plans in the pipeline for a new series of hit comedy Blackadder, which ended in 1989".However, patents expire after 17 (?) years -- much too long for software to be useful, but Scrabble was invented in 1931, so any patents on the game concept are long dead. Copyright on the rules is easy, just paraphrase. The dumb thing was the name, which is trademarked, they can last forever.
And now there's a postscript "Update: 03/21 02:34 GMT by T: The actual link got dropped -- my fault -- in editing this post; now fixed.". He was "editing" this? How then did he miss/write: "None of the program compared are free"; "UmmRa points out his discusses"; "I have had my share of experience with".
My seven-year-old daughter would get a red "redo" if she submitted this to her second-grade teacher.
I learnt to read Thai ina about three weeks (not much vocabulary, but how to pronounce from the spelling). Thai uses an alphabet based on Inidan (Sanskrit?) forms, so it shouldn't be much harder.
Just thank God Hindi doesn't use an ideographic script (like Chinese, Japanese, Hieroglyphs, etc) where you need to learn a few thousand instead of a few dozen characters to be literate.
I'm not, so they ignore me.
I've sent several such, polite, not flames, and possibly got back one or two robot acknowledgments and nothing more. So, this is not generally true. At least bitching about it here is therapeutic.
I thought he was referring to "approval" from his own bureaucracy. You can buy legal Win2k, perhaps through 3rd parties. And if MS won't support you, you can do that through third parties too. Of course, you probably can't get patches.
According to TFA, most of the P2P networks were using uncapped bandwidth, between users on the same ISP, or same state. Downloading from overseas is going to burn their caps pretty quickly. Or maybe people will revert to sneakernet and have CDR swapmeets.
That is just fucking absurd. You can run any version of Windows directly on modern hardware (maybe you'd need to format the disks FAT16, or get third part drivers for big disks). Buy a shrinkwrapped Win9x on eBay, throw away the old hardware, install clean and legal on the new.
Looks to me like they screwed themselves by ruling out using an OS that supports their application -- that's why you choose platforms isn't it -- to support the applications you need; not to "upgrade" at arbitrary times when MS tells you to and break all your mission critical software.
I suspect it could be run on Linux with Wine....
FYI: /. a few times since.
Pretty funny. Googling turns up a first appearance in 2002, by "egg Troll", including the same typos (eg "abandonded"). It's been posted on
Calling somone on the phone and asking them for their password is hardly "hacking", even in the loose sense most mainstream news media uses it.
And why wouldn't they call your cell? They're calling from overseas, they don't care about any laws against it. And pretty quickly they'll be tradng lists of mobile numbes as they do email addresses now, and it's trivial to wardial to find live numbers them anyway.
I see the only viable method being to choke off the money -- they need your credit card number to complete the transaction. Pressure the banks not to do business with them, they're the ones who enable hte whole thing to work.
I was under the impression that the great majority of Americans, and probably many other countries, get most of their news from TV. That's what's killing newspapers, not online competition.
Personally, I think TV news is a waste of time. I used to read a daily newspaper when I commuted, now I work from home mostly, I only buy the paper on Sundays. I get most of my news from the radio -- far more reliable and up to the minute than TV news, lots of anlysis if you want, especially if you get BBC World via shortwave, relay or online. I catch a news documentary on TV about once a week (mostly BBC again, sometimes PBS.)
As always, the porn industry is leading the way in online commerce.
Very recently I've noticed "Adult Friend Finder" ads are doing this -- the ads say "find women in XXX", where X is a suburb near me ... after freaking for a moment I realised that's where my ISP was.
Shouldn't that be 1011? (We are being pedantic, after all.)
What's un-physical about changing the magnetic state of parts of your hard disk? It's as physical as carving into a stone tablet.
The whole point of TFA is that the "rifle" can connect to bluetooth devices up to 1 km away.
Unfortunately, the gun nuts are all talking about muzzle velocity, flash suppressors, one bullet one kill, etc, and starting brush wars about the 2nd amendment, as is their wont, so no one is actually discussing TFA anyway...
Or teaching Nebraskans how to sound Lesothan by then.
The editors have admittedly been completely bereft of actual editing skills or judgement (for say, at least the last 2 years), but in this case, the style of the story is not a sign of lack of veracity, just playfulness. The writer actually knows how to write and behind the gonzo facade, he seems to have a solid story.
Long-extinct? Stop motion is alive and well. Heard of Aardman Animations? (Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc).
I actually believe that there's a good chance Jackson will make The Hobbit, sometime, but nothing has happened recently to make it any more definite.
I suppose it's about time someone finds the Rendezvous With Rama website again and submits another story how that's coming Real Soon Now.
It's wet and tropical, how hard can it be?
How many people lived in Darwin in 1941? If the Japs had blockaded, they could have evacuated the place, overland if necessary. I recall the plan was to evacuate northern Australia above the "Brisbane line" if worst came to worst. Anyway, this is rather far from the orignal point I was picking. Whether we could have successfully defended Australia without the US is another question entirely than whether we could have fed ourselves. I tend to think the Japanese were over-extended and could not have held their Asian conquests, especially when the Russians have entered the war against them from Manchuria. Being beholden to Stalin would admittedly have been worse than to Uncle Sam.